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Local young crime prevention heroes honoured Grade 6 and 7 students from Sowchea Elementary School in Fort St. James are being honoured with a Ministry of Justice Community Safety and Crime Prevention Award in the Children or Youth Leadership category. These awards recognize groups and citizens who stand up to crime in their communities to improve safety for all British Columbians. After the tragic death of Nolan Alexis on November 4, 2011 in Fort St. James as a result of a motor vehicle accident, grade 6 and 7 students at Sowchea Elementary School organized the “Be Seen Be Safe” project to distribute reflective bracelets to every child in Fort St. James, and in the Nak’azdli, Tl’azten, and Yekoochee First Nations.
Some of the key people who helped in the collaborative creation of the Ripples of the Past interpretive walk in Fort St. James. Elizabeth Gibbs of Egg Plant Studios graphic design, Laura Chernowski from the Fort St. James Chamber of Commerce, Bev Playfair for the District of Fort St. James, and Kevin Gedling from the Fort St. James National Historic Site. Missing are Bob Grill and Keith Playfair. The walk tours visitors through the community, hitting some historical highlights. The walk won a Gold award from Interpretation Canada. Bob Campbell Photo
Local intervenor questions lead to pipeline changes Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Extensive questioning by local intervenor Kelly Izzard led to a new map and changes to the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline. It was Izzard’s original questioning of Northern Gateway engineers which resulted in the creation of a new map showing the potential for a full-bore rupture of the pipeline at the pumping station to reach Stuart Lake, (published in the Caledonia Courier on Oct. 10). In the original project application, a map showing a hypothetical full bore rupture of the pipeline near the pumping station stopped before it showed where Pitka Creek reached Stuart Lake. The Fort St. James Sustainability Group then asked about the map as part of the Northern Gateway Project Joint Review Panel process currently underway which the pipeline must undergo to obtain federal approval. In their response to the information request, Enbridge said the spill would not reach Stuart Lake. “Based on the Northern Gateway’s spill modelling of a full-bore rupture release from the oil pipeline … a worst case scenario spill into Pitka Creek would not extend into Stuart Lake,” was stated in the written re-
sponse given to the group’s information request. Izzard then followed up on the map, questioning Enbridge representatives at a public meeting the company held in 2011, and again followed up with them early this year. The questioning of the first application map resulted in the second map, which showed the potential for a full-bore rupture of the pipeline to indeed reach Stuart Lake via Pitka Creek. The fact the original map did not even show Stuart Lake does not sit well with Izzard, and he is frustrated he had to raise the issue before the company came out with a more accurate depiction of a spill into Pitka Creek. “They didn’t look beyond the neat line of the one to 25,000 scale map,” said Izzard. “It’s a long, convoluted story, but it speaks to transparency and understanding local people’s concerns.” There’s no new information here except that they’re showing what, for whatever reason, they chose not to show.” On Oct. 29, Kandace Kerr of the Fort St. James Sustainability Group in the Prince George hearings for the Joint Review Panel asked Northern Gateway why there have not been any changes to Enbridge’s spill response outlined in the application and if more work was being done to modify spill response, given
a spill could reach Stuart Lake according to this new map. Northern Gateway Engineer Ray Doering’s response was contradictory to what the information request had stated previously. “Ms. Kerr, I think you said initially we indicated a spill would not enter Stuart Lake, that’s not the case. We provided a set of maps in a response to a request for additional information from the Joint Review Panel (JRP) at a particular scale of map and so it’s provided a certain coverage. It didn’t indicate at all that there would not be a spill into the Stuart Lake. The map extent didn’t go that far and that was based on the parameters established by the question initially introduced by the JRP itself,” said Doering during the hearings. Doering did, however, give Izzard credit for the information and questions he and others were bringing forward to the pipeline proponents and the changes which have since been implemented. “Really this is another example of our ongoing engagement … we’re very interested in hearing from communities and -- and what their concerns are … I’d say as a result of discussions - specifically with you Mr. Izzard and with others along the route -that’s really helped us get to where we are now,” said Doering. Continued (with map) on Page 7
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LEFT: A new map showing the potential impact of a hypothetical full bore rupture into Pitka Creek and Necoslie River. The map was produced by Enbridge Nothern Gateway experts after questioning by local intervenor Kelly Izzard. Original maps in their application failed to show potential impacts on Stuart Lake. Enbridge Northern Gateway
NOTICE OF SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS for November & December 2012 The dates and locations of the Regular Board Meetings of the Board of Education of School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) for the months of November & December, 2012, are as follows: November 19, 2012 School Board Office, Vanderhoof, BC December 10, 2012 School Board Office, Vanderhoof, BC These meetings will commence at 6:00 p.m. Members of the public are invited to attend. Darlene Turner Secretary-Treasurer
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Continued from Page 1 It was as a result of local concerns and because of the focus of questioning on the impacts the pipeline could have on the area around Pitka Creek, Stuart River and others, more shutoff valves have been added to the design of the pipeline, and the pump station would be manned instead of only being remotely monitored. There will now be shutoff valves at a tributary to the Necoslie River, at the Necoslie River itself, between the Necoslie River and Stuart River and at the proposed Fort St. James pump station. The additional valves would reduce the maximum full bore rupture volume of oil which could potentially be released from over 5,000 cubic metres to around 2,300 cubic metres, according to Doering.
However, this is still above the stated guideline from Doering which is to get below 2,000 cubic metres maximum release volumes where there are sensitive or important water courses. And even with the additional valves, a full bore rupture still shows the potential for oil to reach Stuart Lake and Stuart River (see above). The newest map was the result of Izzard’s questioning at the Prince George hearings when he was pressing Northern Gateway to look at the potential consequence of a full bore rupture into the Necoslie River. Izzard said he still considers the risk too great, because on the latest map Northern Gateway has produced, a spill on either the Necoslie River or Pitka Creek still has the potential to reach Stuart Lake and Stuart River.
CNC takes a lead Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier The local campus of the College of New Caledonia has received a grant to look at programs for the disenfranchised in the community. The grant will be implemented by a partnership between CNC, Nak’azdli Health Centre, Nak’azdli Alternate Justice Centre, the District of Fort St. James and the United Way and is a five-week pilot project to develop programs to help marginalized people in the community. Initially, the grant will provide $7,000 to help hire coordinators who can then hold meetings with some of the target population, service groups in the community and other stakeholders. The research grant funds will then be used to develop a community plan for longer-term programs to help marginalized people in the community, some who may be struggling with addictions or mental health is-
sues. Ann McCormick, campus supervisor for the local CNC, said the grant is coming at a good time for the community, when some marginalized members of the community are in the forefront. She said the grant was partially inspired by a group of students who went through the CNC Adult Training Program last year, many of whom were from marginalized groups. “We saw the difference that it made,” she said. McCormick described the improvements in each student’s self esteem. She said the grant would look to existing programs within the community and see how they could be added to or what else might help, starting with asking the people they are trying to help. “We need to ask them what it is they need from us,” she said. Should the group be selected for the final stage of the grant, it would provide funding for two
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Power and oppression on a continuum Debbie Rockefeller M.A., R.R.P. Tl’azt’en Health Center The problems of privilege, power, and oppression are ones that were present at our birth -- a birthright that we inherited from previous generations. It is not something that we have to fault ourselves for, but because it does exist we have to make some tough decisions as to how to best deal with this issue so we don’t pass it on to successive generations. For this to occur in a meaningful manner we must make a commitment to listen, respectfully disagree, and engage in meaningful dialogue. To begin any discussion on this topic it would be helpful to understand: (1) that we all have a social location; and (2) how our social locations interact. More to the point, how elements like class, gender, and race intersect to create privilege and power or oppression in our society. In order to understand this, try to imagine our society as a pyramid where at the top of the pyramid there are those who have (dominants) and at the bottom are those don’t have (subordinates). In order to get a full picture of the systems of privilege and oppression in our society, it is important to take all aspects of one’s social locations and human characteristics on a continuum into account. They all affect the impressions we make on others as well as how we view ourselves. You might ask what a continuum is. Picture a long line with two poles or concepts at either end. In between these two poles or concepts are the possible values between them. As you move from one pole to the other you move toward the other concept and have less
ownership of the concept you are moving away from. For the purpose of this article we will be considering continuums based on oppression/anti-oppression and power/privilege where both material and non-material benefits are allocated to parties based on their identities. As individuals we are all differently located or situated along a continuum for many reasons including societal constructions. Therefore, when we begin to consider the oppression/anti-oppression and power/privilege dynamics we can begin to question the myth that we are all created equal and recognise that class, ability, disability, ethnicity, gender, race, sex and so on can create advantages and disadvantages and unequal access to societal resources. For example, consider oppression as occurring on a continuum (see below). You will note there are many ways to oppress others. The continuum demonstrates that oppression, no matter what form it takes, can be harmful. By oppressing others we privilege ourselves. For example, white privilege includes the ability to: (1) not have to educate our children to be aware of systemic racism for their own daily physical protection; (2) be assured that our children will be given curricular materials that testify to the existence of their race; (3) turn on the television or open to the front page of the paper and see people of our race widely represented; (4) believe that people of our color made this country what it is; (5) do well in a challenging situation without being called a credit to our race; and (6) accept employment without the suspicion that we got it because of our race. Male privilege includes: (1) being far less likely to face sexual harassment at work compared to female co-
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Engage in active listening and respect others when they are talking Remember we each have a right to have an opinion Speak from your own experience making use of “I” statements Have an open mind Freely explore other’s ideas, values, and opinions, and examine your personal beliefs and attitudes Realize that when only certain members enjoy societal privileges, it creates inequities Once we all enjoy the same privilege, it is no longer a privilege, but an equal right for all.
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The Oct. 10 edition of the Caledonia Courier published a map produced by Enbridge Northern Gateway depicting a hypothetical spill into Pitka Creek, creating a large oil spill plume into Stuart Lake. I find this possibility, no matter how remote, to be totally unacceptable.
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I do not believe it’s the price of doing business, and I cannot believe it could ever be seen as a trade-off that is in the national interest. I want to know Mr. Rustad, as our MLA, what steps have you taken to ensure that this can never happen? Brenda Gouglas
Excerpt from a phone conversation in response to the letter: Rustad said the conditions Premier Christy Clark laid out, and engagement with First Nations has to take place before he will support Northern Gateway being approved, but he also won't reject it for strictly political reasons. "That is the process that's going through now, that's the science that's being done, those are the questions that are being asked, that's what's being presented next March at the environmental review," he said. "I'm not a scientist with regards to this and so you obviously have to
rely on the professional information that's brought in and we'll see how that process goes." "I live in the area, I live on a lake, now clearly I would not be interested in seeing any project go forward that is going to be a significant risk and that hasn't taken every possible step to mitigate what that potential risk could be." "Having said that, there is no way any project, whether it is Mt. Milligan, whether it is a highway project, whether it is a pipeline project, there is no way any project can
Short Story & Poetry Writing Contests return
The Learning Hub and the College of New Caledonia are pleased to announce that they will again be sponsoring the Fort St. James Literacy Week from Nov. 26-30 this year. Everyone is invited to join in the celebration by picking up a free book to read at the Learning Hub or from the library, by entering one of our contests, or by attending one of our workshops or Family Reading events. Aspiring authours may be interested in en-
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Trucking companies throughout BC require professional drivers, mechanics, dispatchers and operations staff right now, which means that job seekers with experience and/or training may find work within their preferred region. For those considering training prior to joining the workforce, demand for skilled workers in the industry is likely to grow – to 2020 and beyond. “If you have a Class 1 driver’s licence and a clean driver’s abstract, you can probably work anywhere in B.C. and Alberta,” said Gord Palmer, and employment counsellor at the local Fort Outreach office which helps people find employment. “They’re crying for truck drivers, everybody is.” There are a number of reasons for this. For truck drivers, the industry is facing a North America-wide shortage because most are 45 years of age or older and nearing retirement (in fact, in Canada, according to a report by the Canada Trucking Human Resources Council, 58 percent of long-haul truck drivers fall in this age range). Similar shortages exist for other jobs, including diesel engine and heavy duty mechanics. Locally, things have gone from bust to boom, and Palmer said af-
ter the forestry shut down in town in 2007 and 2008, he had people in Fort Outreach looking for work who had 30 years experience doing something, but simply couldn’t find work. Now things have picked up again, and local businesses can not find enough drivers to operate their vehicles. He said some businesses had vehicles sit idle last winter when they could not find the drivers to operate them. Aside from worker shortages, economic growth in the Asia-Pacific Gateway is also driving demand for workers in transportation. This applies not only to companies in the Lower Mainland, but in other regions as well, since the Asia-Pacific “Gateway” is actually made up of an integrated supply chain of airports, seaports, rail and road connections, and border crossings, from Prince Rupert to Surrey, with links supplied by trucking. And, people joining the industry have many career choices. Drivers, for example, may work close to home as pick-up and delivery or short-haul drivers. Those who like the idea of travelling across Canada or North America can become long-haul drivers for an employer or work as owneroperators.
Drivers may haul consumer goods, fuel, logs, heavy-duty equipment, livestock – most of what we purchase or consume spent some time on the road with a commercial truck! If you already have experience as a driver, mechanic or operations worker, most companies advertise jobs on their websites. Or job seakers can look under Careers on www.bctrucking.com, and WorkBC (http://www.workbc.ca/Jobs/) and Working in Canada (http:// www.workingincanada.gc.ca/ choose to Explore Careers by Occupation, then by Region). Within your own community, it may also pay to approach a company you’d like to work for, drop off a résumé and inquire if and when they’ll be hiring. If you’d like to enter the industry but need training, there are also many avenues to explore. Although there is not a standard training course for professional drivers, there are numerous private schools throughout BC that offer programs. For information on transportation trades in BC, including mechanics and other technicians, visit transCDA (http://www.tcda.ca/home). And for information on trucking careers in general, see www.truckingcareers.ca.
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Taba Enterprises, a First Nations-owned company in Fort St. James, has been recognized as Business of the Year by the B.C. Aboriginal Achievement Awards. In 1993, Shawn Julian established and started managing Taba as a simple one-man operation in the forest, felling and bunching trees. At the time entrepreneurial opportunities and skills training programs for First Nations communities were “few and far between,” said Julian. Fortunately, Julian had already acquired plenty of hands-on experience working for his father, Art, who founded Julian Contracting in 1975. Starting with just a feller buncher machine to harvest timber, Julian would soon acquire a grapple skidder to bundle felled trees and haul them to the road where they would be processed, loaded onto trucks and transported to area saw mills. Gradually, Julian started offering trucking services and branching out into the construction business until Taba was doing work for Mount Milligan on a regular basis. Taba Enterprises was incorporated in 1996 and now employs between 40 and 50 people. “We would see a need for something that would help us diversify and that’s why we’ve expanded over the years,” said Julian.
Taba’s trucking and construction business is thriving due to rising demand in the forestry and mining sectors. The company is also involved in road building, road maintenance, silviculture and sewer and water projects. On November 26, Julian will join many other First Nations entrepreneurs from across B.C. at an award ceremony in Vancouver that will be presided over by Premier Christy Clark. “We’re pretty humbled. It’s definitely nice to be recognized,” said Julian. Gladys Michell, who established Selkin Logging Ltd. with her husband, Robert, in 1990, was ecstatic for both Shawn and his father. Selkin, based in Stellat’en First Nation near Fraser Lake, was awarded as Business of the Year in 2010. “You don’t know how happy and proud I am of them,” said Michell. Having been in the logging and trucking business for 23 years, Michell and her husband have experienced both the ups and downs of the B.C. forestry industry. But business is booming again, she said. “We went through some tough times, and we struggled through, and now we’re busy as ever,” said Michell, who nominated both Taba Enterprises and Julian Contracting for the 2012 Business of the Year Award. “It kind of puts a little bit of Vanderhoof and Fort St. James on the map,” she said of the two successful businesses in Fort St. James.
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The talk he will given on the Monday night will cover the basis of healthy child development, why the Dr. Gabor Maté, a physician, author traditional relationship has become and public speaker will be presenting undermined, how children begin to in Fort St. James on Nov. 26 and 27. look to their peers for modelling beDr. Maté is a world-renowned auhaviour and how this can lead to agthor who spent 12 years studying and gression, precocious sexuality, drug working with addicts on Vancouver's use and other problems and how to Downtown Eastside. restore healthy adult-child relationMaté has concluded through his ships, including methods of discipline research the source of addictions is which can bring them closer instead not to be found in genetic code, but of alienating them. instead in early childhood. Jo Anne Alexander, a nurse at the Neurobiology developed at a young local health unit, has been working on age, when reward pathways and emobringing Dr. Maté to Fort St. James tional patterns in the brain are created, for two years. is what Maté's research has led him to "Most of us who work in the health believe are the source of addictive befield here have heard him speak," she haviours. said. "We're pretty excited he's here Looking into the situation and life Author and physician Dr. Gabor Maté will speak now." history of people with addictive be- Nov. 26 and 27 in Fort St. James. The talks will be Nov. 26, from haviours from drugs to shopping, is Gasztonyi Medrez Photo 6-8:30 p.m., and Nov. 27, 9 a.m. - 12 what his research led him to report to p.m., are open to the public and free parent-child relationships. Maté is the cobe the best way to restoring individuals to author of the book Hold on to Your Kids: of charge, but participants should call and healthy behaviours. Why Parents Need to Matter More Than register to reserve a spot by calling Jo Dr. Maté will also be speaking about Peers . Anne at 996-7178 #2323.
For most kids the internet is an important component of their daily activities and they can't imagine their life without internet access. From the time they are up in the morning until they go to bed at night many young people are accessing the internet during their free time. They have access to instant messaging and chatrooms to stay in contact with friends and acquaintances. But what happens when this activity spins out of control and becomes degrading and abusive? Cyberbullying is a new form of bullying. Cyberbullying is defined as bullying that takes place using electronic technology. Electronic bullying can cause deep emotional scars during a time that many of us think should be the best years of our life. So I challenge readers to imagine a world where bullying is not a normal part of childhood. Therefore, in an effort to combat this debilitating problem support Bullying Awareness Week, which runs from November 12 - 17, 2012. This years theme is Stand Up! (to bullying). As a parent you can help to stop cyberbullying. Discuss this important issue with your children and teach them internet safety. More online at: www. caledonia courier.com.
Marine safety plan Last week, in this space, I talked about why we chose Kitimat as the site for Gateway’s marine terminal. This week, I’d like to discuss the various steps we’ve taken to prevent an incident on water, and the measures we’ve put in place to build a comprehensive marine safety plan for Gateway. Safety starts with a tanker acceptance program that’s as stringent as any in existence — and includes an independent review of all tankers, weeks ahead of their scheduled arrival. Tankers mooring at the terminal will be double-hulled and no more than 20 years old, and will be required — by independent third parties, before they enter Gateway’s shipping channels — to show a sound maintenance and operational history. As they approach Kitimat, all vessels will be boarded and guided by B.C. Coast Pilots with expert knowledge of our coastal waters. Simulations conducted in varying weather conditions have shown that the largest tankers can be safely navigated without the help of tugboats. Still, Gateway is adding a tug-escort system as an additional safety measure. The Douglas Channel is already one of the deepest and widest inland waterways on North America’s west coast, and Gateway’s tug-escort
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Serving the community of Fort St. James
Featuring the spirit of the local people
WW II U.S. Army veteran returned to Takla Landing Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier
They were dropped with supplies on the shores of Aishihik Lake, in the Yukon, and from there they built a camp, and set up a weather station. His sons have dreamed of this trip since While they were there in their rough cabins built by hand, the they were young boys. men recorded a temperature of -58.2 degrees Celcius. The radio “He’s such a good storyteller … Mark was limited, and the men could listen to Tokyo Rose at night, a and I for all our lives have been hearing sultry voice the Japanese transmitted over the airwaves trying to these stories,” explained Gary Pooler. convince U.S. men to give up. At 96 years old, they have brought their Water was a precious resource, as it had to be brought up from father, Lee Pooler, back to visit some of the lake, after a hole was chipped open again each time. the remote locations where Pooler was For the rest of his life, Pooler drank only half a cup of coffee stationed as a weatherman in the Second at a time, something his son Gary said his father had learned from World War. the harsh winter in the Yukon. One of those locations was Takla LandIf a man were to take more than half a cup in those cold ing, even more remote in those days, it was and frozen conditions, it would be frozen before he could finreached by float or ski plane. ish it, so a person drank half a cup at a time. Lee Pooler is sharp and alert Even after all the years, he still speaks with sensitivity to and can recall many of the dethe characters in his story. tails of his days as a weatherThough most of the men he speaks of would now have man for the U.S. Army during passed away, Pooler continues to insist “don’t print that” to that time, even if he isn’t as some of the more sensitive parts. mobile, getting around with Like the name of the man in the story about how he had the aid of a walker and his two to slip a note into the hand of the pilot supplying their remote sons to help him. camp on Aishihik Lake in order to have one of the men under From California, Pooler enhis command removed because he was getting mentally unlisted on Jan. 6, 1942, after he stable from the isolated and difficult conditions. received his draft letter in the But after starting out in a few different places, Pooler endmail the day before. ed up at Takla Landing, with three men under him, they took Rumour was, if you enover the weather station from two families Pooler said had listed instead of showing up been running it. on your draft day, men would His crew was housed and fed with Canadian Air Force have more choices in where TOP: L.C. Pooler at the door of a cabin on Takla Landing during the Second World War. men who operated the radio and telephone system. The crew and what they did, so Pooler RIGHT: During a visit to Fort St. James on his way to Takla, Pooler holds a photo of him- was stationed at Takla Landing for almost a year during the enlisted. self in his U.S. Army uniform. BOTTOM: Pooler (front centre) poses with some of the Takla war. During the war, on the Pa- Landing residents who honoured him at a potlatch when he revisited the community in The Canadian men kept the radio going in order to get the cific Coast, pilots fighting to August with his sons. weather information back to Edmonton. TOP and BOTTOM photos courtesy of Gary Pooler, RIGHT photo by Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier keep control of North AmeriWhile in the remote location, the team also offered what can air space desperately medical help they could to the First Nations communities in they created two teams of six men. needed up to date weather information for flying in the wild and With knowledge of everything from cooking to codes, ani- the area, providing medications and what medical expertise they unforgiving north coast and Bering Strait areas. mal husbandry to survival, the men deemed the most apt for the had from their training. Without satellite technology, the system relied on a vast net- job were put on a train, given unmarked gear, so if captured they After Takla Landing, Pooler returned to California, and was work of weathermen, further inland, taking readings and tracking could not be traced immediately to the U.S. Army, and shipped scheduled for reassignment to the Philippines. He was at Merced the weather systems as they moved towards the coast. Air Base in the U.S. when he heard the atomic bomb had been north. For these jobs, the army only selected the most hardy and re“We were prepared for a Japanese invasion of that part of the dropped on Japan and the war was over. silient of men, so they could withstand the long periods with little country,” said Pooler. Pooler returned to his pre-army job at Westinghouse in Calicontact from the outside world and in strenuous conditions. From California to Washington State, then to Vancouver and fornia and later married and had four children. When Pooler was in training, out of 42 weathermen they had Edmonton, Pooler and his fellow weathermen were loaded onto Pooler returned at the end of August of this year to see Takla trained, 12 were specially selected for the job, and from those 12 a plane and flown to the Yukon. Landing with his two sons, and a potlatch was held in his honour.
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