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RCMP search for accident witnesses Prince George Regional Provincial Traffic Services continue their investigation into a fatal collision that occurred on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013. The crash on Highway 97 South at Woodpecker, B.C. claimed the life of Balwinder Gill. Police would like to speak with anyone who may have seen this crash happen, or came upon the scene after the collision had taken place. If you have any information that may assist in the investigation, you are urged to contact the RCMP at 250 649-4004.
STOP the violence A voluntary program aimed at stopping domestic violence is taking place at the Alternate Justice Centre. The program, called Stop taking it out on your partner (STOP), involve one evening per week for 15 weeks. The program began in January, and will run through to May 17, and is every Friday from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m.. The program is sponsored by the John Howard Society of Northern BC and is led by two qualified an experienced leaders, one male and one female. For more information contact 250-9960003.
Abandoned vehicle leads to search
An abandoned vehicle located near Fort St. James has led to an investigation into a missing Prince George man. Gary Allan Wain, a 61-year-old Prince George resident is believed to have been missing for at least two weeks. On Feb. 1 the Prince George RCMP received a request from Fort St. James RCMP to attempt to locate the owner of an abandoned pickup found around 18 km on the Necoslie Forest Service Road. The vehicle had been there for some time, as it was snowed in and no longer accessible by wheeled vehicle, and officers reached the vehicle by snowmobile in order to investigate further. Prince George RCMP General Duty officers attended the registered owner’s residence on Redwood Street in Prince George to check on his well being, but he was not located. Further checks were made with neighbours, friends and family, all with negative results. As a result of these checks, Prince George RCMP entered into a missing person investigation. Since Friday investigators have attended many locations and spoken to dozens of people, without success. It is believed that Wain has not been seen in the Prince George area in over two weeks. Wain knows
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people throughout northern B.C. including Fraser Lake, Vanderhoof and the Peace River region. Wain is described as: • Caucasian male • 175 cm (5’9”) • 82 kg (181 lbs) • Grey hair • Blue eyes • Moustache • Glasses On the morning of Wednesday Feb. 6, Fort St. James Search & Rescue began to search the rural area outside Fort St. James where Mr. Wain’s vehicle was located. This search is still underway and includes the assistance of the RCMP’s Air Services Section. If you have any information about Garry Allan Wain or where he might be, please contact the RCMP at (250)996-8269 or the nearest RCMP Detachment or Police Force of jurisdiction in your area.
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Sara King #6 aims for the next gate during her second run at the High School Ski and Snowboard Zones at Murray Ridge on Feb. 7. King’s two runs earned her second place overall among the girl snowboarders with a total time of 53.3 seconds. For the full story and more pictures see Page 2. Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier
Tl’azt’en tackles housing deficit
A housing forum was held at the Eugene Joseph School to try and address an over $800,000 housing budget deficit within the Tl’azt’en First Nation. Community members, Chief Ralph Pierre, administrators and some councillors came together to attend the twoday event in Tache, with an attendance on the second day of around 35 people.
Chief Ralph Pierre worked to explain some of the problems the First Nation is struggling with regarding housing costs. Right now, Tl’azt’en reportedly pays around $58,000 per month towards mortgages and insurance for housing on the reserve. However, the band is only able to collect around $32,000 per month from tenants towards these payments because some members are not paying their rent or insurance bills. Over the
course of a year, this means the band is putting out $312,000 per year on housing out of their budget from other areas. “That definitely hurts the bottom line,” said Pierre. He said the band has cut eight positions this year and are planning on further cutbacks to try and address the shortfall. In addition, Pierre said the band is talking to industry to look at some joint venture opportunities which
might help create some income for the community. The band also received a $40,000 grant to explore developing an energy project using wood waste. The housing forum was to try and give the community members an opportunity to become informed on what was going on and to help develop a process and some policies to deal with tenancy issues when residents are not paying their housing costs. Continued on Page 3
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Cameron Ginn Omineca Express A potential hostage situation in Vanderhoof ended peacefully on Monday, Feb. 4, when an armed man was taken into custody by RCMP. At approximately 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, Vanderhoof RCMP, acting on third-hand information of a domestic dispute, attended a home where an intoxicated male was reportedly handling a firearm in the presence of a
woman and numerous children. The Prince George Emergency Response Team (ERT) was deployed to the scene after attempts to communicate with the man proved unsuccessful. “It was the volatility of the situation,” said Sergeant Jason Keays of the Vanderhoof RCMP detachment. “The male was armed, intoxicated and distraught and had the potential to hold the female and several young people hostage.”
At a distance from the home, an ERT negotiator contacted the man by phone and convinced him to disarm and surrender peacefully. The man now faces two counts of pointing a firearm and one count of assault. The incident, despite lasting at least six hours, is not being regarded as a standoff, said Keays. “The reason this took the time that it did is due to the delicate nature of the situation. We would never rush into something as volatile,” said Keays. To help resolve the situation, an undisclosed source
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NOTICE OF SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS for February & March 2013 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 February & March, 2013, are as follows: February 18, 2013 Video-conference March 11, 2013 W.L. McLeod Elementary School, Vanderhoof, BC Designated sites for video-conferencing are: Lakes District Secondary School, Fort St. James Secondary School, Fraser Lake Elementary-Secondary School, and the District Training Centre located in the W.L. McLeod Elementary School. 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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The forum included presentations to educate community, draw prizes to encourage attendance and breakout sessions to brainstorm possible solutions. Residents were educated on some basic home maintenance to help save money down the road, such as replacing furnace filters and replacing bricks in furnaces. “It’s all the little things that add up to be the big things,” said Dan Veller of Fraser Plumbing and Heating, who works for the community on their buildings when needed. Veller said maintaining a furnace properly can allow it to last 20 years, instead of burning out in five. There was also a presentation on how to remove mould safely by wiping it off with a paper towel then washing the area with soap and water and then drying the area. Bleach apparently can react with some moulds and create tox-
ic fumes, so it should not be used. “Look at the little things, we can all do little things to make a difference,” said Veller. While some community members expressed frustration their homes were not being renovated, administrators were trying to explain why the funds are not available for renovations on most homes. “I’m trying to do this balancing act,” said Renada Monk. “If there is no rent collected … then there are no repairs and maintenance.” She said there are amounts owing for the majority of homes in the community. Some who had paid off their home also did not realize there were still insurance costs to be paid for each year. “This is going to be a longterm problem,” said Pierre. But he also said he thinks it could be dealt with in three to five years if action is taken. “I have confidence in this community,” he said.
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Stage set for B.C. senate election Tom Fletcher Black Press Cannon will roar across the Inner Harbour on the morning of Feb. 12 to mark the opening of the 2013 legislature session. Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon will inspect the troops and present her inaugural Throne Speech, setting out the B.C. Liberal government’s goals for the coming year. This ritual will kick off a legislative session that is expected to run until March 14, where the official Parliamentary Calendar shows a three-week break for Easter. Debate is unlikely to resume in April, as the election campaign will be in full roar by then. This means there will be a grand total of 19 sitting days to push through a budget and a raft of legislation. Here’s my unofficial preview. The pre-election budget will be presented Feb. 19 by Finance Minister Michael de Jong. Premier Christy Clark has decreed that it must be balanced, and the government has made extra efforts to armour itself against what will likely be the loudest debate ahead. First, de Jong held a pre-budget meeting of the government’s blue-chip forecast council in public. This provided a visual record of what happens every year, when the finance ministry solicits the same sort of independent advice as most competent democracies, and bases its numbers on that.
Then the finance ministry hired former Bank of Montreal chief economist Tim O’Neill, who will act as an unofficial version of the parliamentary budget officer in Ottawa. Now that we have simultaneous oversight of child welfare and the police, the next step is to extend it to finance bureaucrats. Regardless of party, the government has to produce a three-year set of forecasts to replace the current one. A lot of election energy will go into competing claims about who is better at predicting the future. Another new law to be given high priority is one setting up senate elections, to be run in connection with the May 14 provincial vote. Alberta pioneered this, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent round of senate appointments included Calgary lawyer Doug Black, who won an Alberta senate election held last year. There was no one appointed to replace Gerry St. Germain, who bid an emotional adieu as a Conservative senator for B.C. last year. St. Germain was instrumental in uniting the splintered federal Conservatives, but he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75, having been appointed by Brian Mulroney in 1993 after losing his seat as an MP. Why would this senate reform be so urgent for the B.C. Liberals now? Well, turnout for the 2009 election fell to around 50 per cent, a record low for a provincial vote. If that downward trend is reversed this year, it will be in large part because people are
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still mad enough about the harmonized sales tax and a range of other issues to get off the couch and kick some B.C. Liberal butt. Electing senators remains a popular notion, especially with older, conservative-minded voters in B.C. who identified with the Reform Party. The first-ever senate election looks like the best available shot at boosting turnout among people who are not likely to vote NDP, and who may also be disengaged from provincial politics. And then there is the provincial sales tax bill. Another kick in the slats for the movie business, for one, and don’t hold your breath for NDP leader Adrian Dix to produce a solution in the wake of his recent trip to Tinsel Town. The performance of the governing party and the opposition will be scrutinized as never before. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com tfletcher@blackpress.ca Have an opinion and a burning desire to express it? Write a letter. All letters must be signed and please include a day-time number where you can be reached for verification. Caledonia Courier, Box 1298 Fort St. James, BC VOJ 1P0 Tel: 250-996-8482 Fax: 250-567-2070 e-mail: newsroom@caledoniacourier.com
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M e y e r worked out of remote commuIt has been one year since Dr. nities in northern Paul Stent was left to be the sole Manitoba and physician to the entire community, northern Onand dealing with the fallout could tario before he take a long time yet. came to Fort St. While there are now four phyJames, though sicians in Fort St. James, and he lives in Whisone more physician coming next tler. month and locum physicians as Meyer said well, patients may not see the difhis focus is ference in wait times for awhile on population yet. health, wellness "This is not a short-term affair," and well-being, said Dr. Anthon Meyer, one of the and "the aim newest physicians to begin practic- Dr. Anthon Meyer is one of the new in my personal ing in the community. phsysicians in Fort St. James helping practice is to Instead of just getting through to create a new standard of care in the change outthe backlog, Meyer said the goal is community. comes and not to develop a better system of care, L. Meyer just to touch which looks at a more integrated bodies." approach. In the future, Meyer hopes to help build a "If it's driven in the right direction, it's some- "long-term sustainable practice" and one which thing that will create longevity and a sustainable will show new physicians rural practice is one of service," said Meyer. "It's not about recruiting the most satisfying practices a doctor can have. bodies of physicians just to come and see paPart of improving the health care in the comtients, we've had too much of that. It is about munity will also be keeping patient care closer doing comprehensive disease management and to home. changing outcomes." "I believe in a philosophy of best care is local Meyer has experience specifically in building care," said Meyer, which includes having access the type of care model he is talking about, he was to emergency room care when it is needed. the founder of Amdocs Inc., a company which Then once the care is available, the next step provides physician services to remote communi- is to try and look at chronic disease management. ties, mainly First Nation communities. An example of changing outcomes through
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more comprehensive care Meyer gave was manKathy Marchal, the medical clinic manager, aging the chronic disease diabetes. There are said this type of care has been the goal for years, multiple indicators which can help to monitor but it could not get off the ground because of isdiabetes in patients, and better management by sues with physician retention. looking at all the indicators can help prevent se"It was impossible with one doctor," said rious problems such as blindness, kidney prob- Marchal. She said she feels hopeful this time the lems and heart problems down the road. new physicians are committed to staying in the This type of disease management was not community to help work towards a more holistic possible to do when there was only one doctor approach to patient care. trying to care for the whole community. "I do think that it will make a difference here," With such an overwhelming workload, Mey- said Marchal. er said it is impossible to change disease outMeyer said he expects patients will be able comes, and instead a physician simply refills pre- to see the changes after 18 months or two years, scriptions and deals with immediate symptoms. once the massive backlog has been dealt with "This is not just aspirational, it's reality and and patients are able to get better access to the we are working towards that, but it takes a tre- care they need. mendous intensity," said Meyer. “A WORLD OF OPPORTUNITIES The support staff, all health practitioners WITHIN OUR REGION� and physicians in a community and even 37, 3RD Avenue, PH: 250-692-3195 the greater community itself including inPO Box 820, TF: 800-320-3339 dustry and municipal government have to Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 FX: 250-692-3305 work together to achieve a goal of comprewww.rdbn.bc.ca E-MAIL:inquiries@rdbn.bc.ca hensive patient care, according to Meyer. By doing so, a community can then cre2013 PUBLIC BUDGET ate a significant asset by raising the stanPRESENTATION dard of care. The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako will be So the goal is for the new physicians, presenting its Draft 2013 Budget in the Fort St. along with Dr. Stent, to now build capacJames Council Chambers on Wednesday, ity and eventually create a better system of February 13, 2013 at 7:00 pm. care which will be self-sustaining and will not only benefit the patients but create an Members of the public (both municipal and rural) attractive place for physicians to want to are invited to attend. practice. Please call (250) 692-3195/1-800-320-3339 for further information. "That makes me very, very excited about the prospects to become involved in PUBLIC IS WELCOME a community like this," said Meyer.
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LEFT: Elliot (at right played by Dustin Neufeld) demonstrates his affecton for Barbara (front left played by Raquel Friesen) while her mother Ann Romano looks on. The Music Makers performance “One Day at a Time” ran for two weekends, closing out with a family performance on Sunday, Feb. 3 in the Music Makers Hall. For more photos from the play see the Caledonia Courier Facebook page.
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A Music Makers newcomer stole the show in the latest offering by the theatre group. While I must admit as a reviewer I am biased - given this particular newcomer is my neighbour - but in my opinion, Dustin
Neufeld stole the show as Elliot Newcombe in the recent production of “One Day at a Time.” As the overly amorous admirer of Barbara Romano (played by Raquel Friesen), Neufeld literally lit up the stage with his presence, and it was impossible not to laugh at his comic depiction of the dramatic antics of teen-
age infatuation. The hair-tossing and woeful expressions were fantastic touches and he did an amazing job of bringing the character to life. Barbara was a perfect foil for Elliot, with some great expressions to add hilarity to his shenanigans. But every cast member did a great job, and
there was not one actor on the stage who did not create their own comic element at some point. The play was based on three episodes from the television sitcom of the late 70s, early 80s of the same name, and included a touch of romance, intrigue and family drama, all with a healthy dose of comedy. In all, the cast did
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Marine safety plan Recently, I talked about why we chose Kitimat as the site for Gateway’s marine terminal. I’d like to also 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.
One card. Many services. The new BC Services Card is part of government’s plan to modernize BC’s health care system. It replaces your CareCard, can be combined with your driver’s licence, and also acts as your photo ID. It’s more convenient and more secure, with enhanced features to protect your personal information. And getting yours is easy. Starting February 15, 2013, and for the next five years, you can simply enrol when renewing your driver’s licence. And even if you don’t drive, you can enrol at the nearest location where driver’s licences are issued. To learn more visit: BCServicesCard.ca
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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system, according to risk assessment data, would reduce the already unlikely chance of a grounding incident by a further 80 to 90 per cent. As another Gateway marine safety initiative, we’re introducing landbased radar to B.C.’s North Coast for the first time. This radar system will be bolstered by extra navigational aids such as lights and channel markers. These enhancements aren’t just for Gateway — they are for all vessels on B.C.’s North Coast. Groups who oppose this project use fear tactics. They’d have you believe an oil tanker spill is inevitable. It isn’t. But don’t take my word for it — visit our website and read for yourself about all the work that has gone into making Gateway’s marine operation one of the safest in the world. Then, decide for yourself what’s true.
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Strict marine safety standards will ensure we respect our neighbours above, around and below us.
Although tankers have been safely navigating the north coast and its channels for decades, marine safety remains a top priority for British Columbians. We have been planning the Northern Gateway Project for over a decade, with a particular focus on protecting the environment. We have added specific safety requirements to our marine operations plan to help make the waters of the north coast safer not just for tankers serving the project, but for all marine vessels.
Tankers will reduce speeds in the channels…
Qualified BC Coast Pilots will board and guide all tankers… To prevent spills, all tankers serving the project will be modern and double-hulled, and will be vetted by independent, third party agencies before entering Canadian waters. Once strict safety and environmental standards are met, they will be guided through the Douglas and Principe Channels by qualified BC Coast Pilots.
Tankers travel slowly, but to make sure that marine species and their habitats are respected, tankers will be required to reduce speed as they pass through certain sections of the channels. Even their escort tugboats will have quieter engines to reduce underwater noise.
Powerful tugboats will escort tankers… Additional radar and navigational aids will improve safety for all vessels…
Tugboats have been shown to significantly reduce tanker incidents worldwide. Powerful tugboats that have been specially commissioned for Northern Gateway will assist in the safe arrival and departure of tankers. All tankers will be attended by a close escort tug. In the channels, laden tankers will have two tugs–one tethered at all times. These tugboats will have emergency response equipment on board and will be capable of assisting any marine vessel.
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Discover more about our rigorous marine safety plan and join the conversation at marine.northerngateway.ca.
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Fort icon passes The loss of a Fort St. James icon was felt across the community with the passing of Joe Bob on Feb. 7, 2013. Joe Bob was known throughout the community as a living connection to the past. He could be seen, up until only recently, walking through downtown nearly every day - hat on, walking stick in hand. In honour of the man who will be mourned by people across the community, this is a reprinting of a story about the life of Joe Bob from the Pioneers of Stuart Nechako. The infamous Joe Bob Joe Bob is a man that everyone knows, but not a lot of people know about. Joe Bob Patrick was born in 1926 at Thutade Lake which is around the Kemess mine area. His mother came from Kasan, near Hazelton, while his dad came from the Sekani. “I stayed there (in the Kemess area),” Joe Bob said. “I didn’t go to school. My dad didn’t want me to go to school. I was raised up in the bush. I know how to sign my name, that is all.” Joe Bob and his family lived in a log cabin when he was a boy with his family. “Forty below, 60 below, we would camp outside,” Joe Bob said. “We don’t care. (We have done it) all our lives.” “We made our snowshoes when I was a small kid,” he said. “My mom would make the snowshoes and we would follow our dad when he was trapping and he showed us how to trap. When I was eight or nine years old we would follow my dad and he showed me how to set small little traps. After
one year I would go around and started to set my own traps, I had my own money when I was nine and I bought my own clothes. My dad just taught us how to do it. When we were 18 or 19 years old I knew everything about trapping and hunting in the bush.” “When we go trapping a long time ago we had to break the snow and make a good road and then haul the whole family then we would set the trap one by one, my brother would set a trap and then I would set a trap,” Joe Bob said. “We would make a nice camp, cut lots of wood with an ax. We had no saw, no nothing a long time ago. So early in the morning we started making trail from where we make trap. For a couple of days one guy would go one way, another guy would go the other way and set traps. “We would start on November 1 for trapping and quit about April, then we started trapping for beaver. All the way through we trapped when I was young.” After Joe Bob and his family finished trapping, they would go to the store and buy more groceries for the summer. “We would come back from the store after we sell beaver and go to the cabin and started hunting to make dry meat,” he said. “We would make a big high cache to put all the meat for winter.” Then the cycle would be repeated. “We would fill up that one and start trapping again the same way all the way through the year around Thutade Lake,” he said. He also did a lot of fish-
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ing. “We would make our own hooks with a nail and cut the ice and tie it. A real good catch (would be a) big Dolly Varden that would swallow the whole hook. We would put about 10 hooks and we would have that many in the morning. We would catch big Dolly Varden. Soon as you lift the hook out we threw them. “In the spring time we would make a lot of dry meat and we would go to our cache and open it and eat again. We used to catch salmon on Takla Lake too.” “When we ran out of tea we would use Indian tea out in the bush. We make the tea and it tastes good, and it is good for your insides,” he said. One of the challenges for the family was high water. “In the spring time it was hard,” he said. “When we went back to Bear Lake it was hard, high water. When we walk thorough the big river we move little by little and used a stick to cross the water. We have a big pack, and sometimes we made two trips because we had a big family. We had a long stick for the young guys. My brother and sister would just
hang on to the stick and we would go across the river and we made it across. A strong guy would haul that stick and the rest of us would just hang on the stick and we would make it across. “The only time we would get stuck was high water when we would go across the river. Sometimes we would try to find a big tree that fell over the river and cross the river that way,” he said. Joe Bob said that the youth today don’t follow the old ways that he knows. “Young people wouldn’t even go three miles away (from town),”Joe Bob said. “They don’t know what to do, but me, I know everything. They don’t know how to set traps, how to make the camps. They don’t know how to do anything.” “It was pretty tough a long time ago,” he said. “These people nowadays don’t do it. They just know how to smoke. Me, I don’t smoke nothing. I used to drink a little when I was young, but not much now.” Joe Bob said that he lives all by himself up in the Kemess Mine area now. His brother, Charlie Bob, is in the Babine Lake area now. “It is a big area, right around Thutade Lake, Moose Valley, and Johansson,” he said. “Kemess Mine is inside my trap line.” Joe Bob also worked in sawmills for many years. “I used to work really
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hard around Fort St. James for 24 years in sawmills around here,” he said. “As soon as I finished my job, another guy came to me and gave me a job because I am a fast guy.” Joe Bob would go trapping on Saturday and Sunday when he wasn’t working in the mills. “I trapped and worked in the mill at the same time,” Joe Bob said. Joe Bob has three children. “I have three boys,” Joe Bob said. “They have big families themselves now. Some live in the Yukon, some of them in Burns Lake. I never seen them for about two years now. They don’t work on the trap line at all, as soon as they went to school they stopped.” “Now I get sick and I have to stay around town,” Joe Bob said. What’s wrong, Joe Bob? “I am 86 years old, do you think you are still going to be strong?” Joe Bob asked laughing, leaning over in his chair.
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mentation. The plan will take three to five years to implement, and A Community Wildfire would then be monitored annuProtection Plan (CWPP) ally. was presented to the comOne of the biggest parts munity at an open house on of the plan which can be Jan. 30. moved on right away and The plan was nearly 18 will not require extensive months of work for Crissy funding or additional reBennett and Chad Lantz, sources will be the public who developed the plan, education on "Fire Smart" with consultations with principles for homeownMinistry of Forests Wilders in the area which help fire Protection Branch perreduce the fire risk to strucsonnel and others. tures. The plan is a joint proj"From my perspective ect by the District of Fort … the FireSmart protection St. James and Nak'azdli is critical," said Lantz. He Band, and looked at wildsaid while the area around fire risk to the community, the community could be adrecommending actions and dressed by fuel management initiatives to address this Chad Lantz (left) explains some of the rea- work, which is expensive and risk and education plans soning behind the Community Wildfire Protec- time-consuming, if homefor the public on the risk tion Plan. owners do not deal with isCaledonia Courier as well as to encourage cosues on their own property, operative planning of land use and community in all the planning units the work done outside private public services to minimize the risk. was moderate. property is not effective. Historically, Fort St. James has The Regional District of BulkCommunity member Joanne ley Nechako declined involvement a fire occurrence in the same range Vinnedge attended the open with the plan, but said they were as coastal B.C., which are very spo- house to learn about the wildfire supportive of it in principal. Their radic fire starts, which is good news plan, and to express her concern lack of involvement, however, for the community. recreational values were not After presenting the plan to the being taken into consideration limited the areas examined in the plan to Indian Reserve (IR) Land community, and getting input from with the planning. and parts of the District of Fort St. both Nak'azdli Chief and counSpecifically in the area becil and Fort St. James Mayor and hind Sowchea Bay, Vinnedge James. The goals of the plan were to de- council, the plan will be finalized pointed out the high value of termine the wildfire risk to the com- and submitted back to both councils the trail networks and extensive and then the province before implemunity, recommend actions to mitigate this risk, educate the public about wildfire risk, and encourage cooperative planning of land use and public services to minimize the impacts of wildfires in the future. The plan looked at IR land on Sowchea Road near Sowchea Creek, SixIf you have seen a photograph you would like in the Mile Meadow south of Fort St. James (near the Caledonia Courier Yellowhead Road and call your local community paper at Bridge pit), Nak'azdli Reserve, the District of 250-996-8618 Fort St. James, Williams or stop by to order at Prairie Meadow, and the Lakeshore Realty - 169 Stuart Drive West, Fort St. James Apollo Mill plus a twokilometre buffer around each of these areas. The entire area was then broken up into seven "planning units" which were assessed for their wildfire risks to the infrastructure, using factors like forest types, density, climate zone, slope, structures and historical fire occurrences. With low fire occurrences and less volatile fuel types, the research did not uncover any areas of high concern, according to Lantz. After analysis, the wildfire threat class found around the
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LAND ACT: NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CROWN LAND Take notice that Fehr Game Outfitters has made application to the Province of British Columbia for an Amendment of a Licence of Occupation for hunt camp purposes covering Unsurveyed Crown Land in the vicinity of Kelly Lake (Site 3) and Yuen Lake (Site 4). The File No. assigned to the application is 7403232. Written comments about this application are to be directed to Sharon Dow at the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operation, 1044 5th Avenue, Prince George, BC V2L 5G4 or Sharon.dow@gov.bc.ca. Additional information about the application (including map) can be obtained at the following website: http://www.arfd. gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/viewpost.jsp?PostID=36846 Be advised that any response to this ad may be provided to the public upon request. A hard copy MAP showing the location and extent of the application area may be acquired by calling the land officer named above at 250-565-6542. Be advised that any response to this notice will be part of the public record and is subject to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act.
LAND ACT: NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR CROWN LAND Take notice that Tom and Judy Greenaway of Fort St. James has made application to the Province of British Columbia for a Crown Grant for Agriculture - Extensive purposes covering the Unsurveyed Crown land in the vicinity South of District Lot 1603, Range 5 Coast District, situated on Provincial Crown land located near Fort St. James. The File No. assigned to the application is 7409584. Written comments about this application are to be directed to Ryan Hall, Land Officer, at the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, 1044 5th Ave., Prince George, BC V2L 5G4, or Ryan.Hall@gov.bc.ca Comments will be received until March 22, 2013. Additional information about the application can be obtained at the following website http://www.arfd.gov. bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/viewpost.jsp?PostID=29825. Be advised that any response to this ad may be provided to the public upon request. Be advised that any response to this notice will be part of the public record and is subject to the Freedom of Information and Privacy Act.
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David Hoy students learn some safe practices around snowmobiling as part of a Snowmobile Training Day.
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In a community where snowmobiles are almost like another family vehicle, Principal Craig Hougton at David Hoy decided to use it as a learning opportunity. In what was a first for the entire school district, Houghton developed a snowmobile training day for some of the Grade six and seven students in his school to help give them a foundation in safe riding. With the help of Dave Burgess and Gayle Tencarre, who along with Houghton are in the Fort St. James Snowmobile Club, he developed a program to give students some basics in snowmobile safety and maintenance.
From a pre-trip inspection of the machine and some parts identification, basic operation and safe riding such as following distances and riding on hills, the course offered students a way to approach snowmobiling safely. The eight students in the training were then taken for rides as passengers, given the opportunity to ride with each other, and finally allowed to do some independent riding, in a controlled progression. Houghton’s goal was to give students a foundation and to potentially grow the course. Eventually, he could see teaching students a couple times a year so more had the chance to try it out and then even offering more advanced instruction through a professional to older students in high school so they are prepared for the more mountainous terrain they may eventually find themselves in.
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