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One man may be facing criminal charges after a bizarre incident took place in Fort St. James over the weekend of Feb. 2. While RCMP were investigating a suspected impaired driver, the suspect’s brother began calling and insisting to be placed with his brother in custody. The man then came to the detachment, again insisting he be put with his brother in custody. When RCMP refused to take the man into custody, he announced to RCMP he was in the possession of drugs, for which the RCMP then took him into custody and searched him, finding no drugs in his possession. The man then reportedly resisted arrest, and one RCMP member sustained a sprained thumb in the incident. RCMP are now recommending charges of resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and causing a disturbance against the man. The man was allegedly under the influence at the time, and was placed in lockup, separately from his brother.
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Court finds fault Snowmobile accident with RCMP search Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Marijuana-related charges against a Fort St. James man were dismissed after a Provincial Court judge ruled most of the evidence in the case inadmissible. Joseph Greco Ricardo Sordini was acquitted after Honourable Judge D.J. O’Byrne found the search the evidence in the case against him was based on was in violation of Sordini’s Charter rights. Sordini was facing charges of production of a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking. According to court documents, RCMP learned a woman serving a conditional sentence was staying with Sordini at his residence, and was subject to curfew checks. According to information put forward in the case, an RCMP member had been investigating Sordini’s activities since 2009, suspecting him of cultivating marijuana, but had not found any conclusive evidence by November of 2010. On Nov. 5, 2010, RCMP entered onto the property to conduct a check on the woman’s curfew for her conditional sentence. During the visit, the RCMP members received permission to look around at some oth-
er aspects of the property, and subsequently discovered some evidence of marijuana cultivation when an RCMP member moved something on the floor with his foot, uncovering “shake” marijuana under some landscaping fabric. The constables then arrested Sordini as well as two women on the property at the time. The judge ruled, however, the case was based on evidence obtained through a “warrantless search” due to the constable using his foot to uncover the evidence and was therefore a violation of Section Eight of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms which provides freedom from unlawful search and seizure. “In my view, these searches constituted serious state misconduct,” said O’Byrne in his ruling. The judge also called the arrests of the two women at the residence “egregious.” “Those arrests are totally without any legal justification and they further demonstrate the absolute flagrant disregard by the police for the Charter rights and freedoms of anybody at the Sordini residence that evening,” he said. A warrant was later obtained to search the outbuildings, however the address of the search was misspelled, using Pinchie Road instead of Pinchi Lake Road, which the judge saw as further indication of a “lack of care and attention to detail” required for a valid search warrant.
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Fort St. James RCMP responded to a snowmobile accident on Sunday, Feb. 10 at 2:25 p.m.. The single snowmobile accident took place near the Fireweed Safe Haven on Stuart Drive, and when police arrived at the scene, they found the male driver of the snowmobile beside his machine showing signs of intoxication. The driver reportedly said the sled tipped sideways while he and a
female passenger were going up a hill and the machine then landed on him. Emergency Health Services then transported the driver to hospital for treatment of injuries to his ribs. The passenger was not injured in the incident. The RCMP are continuing to investigate, and are reminding the public a person can be charged with impaired driving and having a blood alcohol level over 0.08 mg when driving a snowmobile.
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Any of these pipeline projects would contribute to the RDBN annual tax Franca Petrucci of base. Spectra Energy led a delThe Mount Milligan egation to the Jan. 24, 2013 Mine project, expected board meeting of the Re- to be ready for producgional District of Bulkley tion this year, will also Nechako (RDBN). His contribute to the RDBN presentation concerned the tax base. If all four LNG recently announced joint pipelines and the Milligan proposal of Spectra Energy Mine project were up and and the BG Group to build running, the estimated tax a liquid natural gas (LNG) impact for the RDBN, the pipeline from Northeast Stuart Nechako Regional B.C. to Prince Rupert. Hospital District (SNThe proposed pipeline RHD), and the North West would be similar in capac- Regional Hospital District ity to the proposed Trans- (NWRHD) would total canada Coastal Gaslink over $6.2 million. project which is currently If the Enbridge Northworking on its provincial ern Gateway Pipeline environmental assessment. project were to come onThe pipeline would line, then an additional $2 connect shale gas fields in million would drop into the Fort Nelson and Fort RDBN and hospital disSt. John areas to proposed trict coffers for a total of LNG terminals in Prince over $9.5 million per year. Rupert via a pipeline runThese figures, provided ning westward more than to the board of directors of 140 kms north of Burns the RDBN by Hans BerLake. ndorff, Financial AdminThe Spectra BG Group istrator for the RDBN, are proposal is the fourth pro- based on 2012 tax rates posed LNG pipeline that and do not include school would cross RDBN areas. taxes or other provincial A fifth pipeline, the En- property taxes. bridge Northern Gateway Focussing on the Lakes pipeline has also been pro- District, the 2012 tax base posed to transport modi- for the RDBN and the fied bitumen from North- SNRHD combined was ern Alberta to Kitimat, $9 million. The projected B.C. income from all proposed
pipeline projects and the Milligan Mine would provide an additional $8.7 million to the tax base, according to 2012 tax rates. As enticing as a neardoubling of the annual tax base sounds, Bill Miller, RDBN Chair and director of Region Area B, expressed a cautionary note regarding the likelihood of all projects moving forward. Beyond vocal public resistance to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway project, supply and demand will govern which proposed natural gas pipelines get built. “Realistically, we’re not going to see all those lines,” said Miller. “All those players realize that there’s not going to be five pipelines. We may end up with two, or one, or four, but not everybody is going to be there.” Although the Milligan Mine is expected to begin limited operations later this year, of the proposed LNG pipelines, only the Apache Corp. Pacific Trails Pipeline (PTP) has completed all environmental assessments. Initial work has begun in the Terrace and Kitimat areas for PTP, but even that project has neither the long-term LNG contracts
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Independent MLAs have a dream Tom Fletcher Black Press VICTORIA – Imagine a province where party leaders are chosen in an independently supervised vote, with 12-year-olds, dead people and pets prevented from voting. Imagine a province where roving gangs of influence-seekers aren’t allowed to join multiple parties, and the rule is actually enforced. One where corporations and unions have to advertise in their own name instead of financing political parties and then disclosing millions in donations months after the election is over. Imagine a province where elections are held based on audited financial statements, not a collection of election promises that will be dismissed as a work of fiction by the new regime if the incumbent party is defeated. A cat joined the B.C. Liberal Party to support Christy Clark. Adrian Dix won the NDP leadership with the help of bags of $10 bills stapled to new memberships. As parties go to online voting, multiple PIN numbers may be activated from the same phone number or the same address. These and other glaring problems with our party-based political system were highlighted last week in a set of reforms proposed by three independent MLAs. Vicki Huntington broke the party choke-hold on B.C. politics by getting elected as an independent in Delta South in 2009. Bob Simpson was kicked out of the NDP caucus shortly after winning re-election for the party in Cariboo North, because he dared to criticize then-leader Carole James for a lack of policy specifics. They were belatedly joined by Abbotsford South MLA John van Dongen, who quit the B.C. Liberals in an orchestrated move to the B.C. Conservatives, and then quit that party soon after. Van Dongen does not have the credibility of the others to speak on integrity, given his self-serving party antics and his questionable decision to hire his fiancée and pay her one and a half salaries to serve as his constituency
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assistant. Leaving that aside, there are some good ideas in the independents’ reform package. One is to give backbench MLAs a meaningful role in policy-making. Simpson gave the example of Prince George MLA Shirley Bond’s term as education minister, where she had to reverse ministry policies that didn’t make sense in rural school districts. The all-party standing committee on education could have prevented this error, he said, but it didn’t because it never meets. The party voting irregularities described above could be addressed by giving Elections BC authority to supervise party leadership votes, the way it does elections and referenda. There are unknown costs for this, and other problems. For instance, should the Marijuana Party be subject to this, or the Work Less Party, should either one muster enough organization to stage a leadership contest? The independents had high hopes for one fundamental reform, moving B.C.’s set election date from the spring to the fall. This would take a simple amendment. The idea is for the government to table the annual budget, present the audited public accounts for the previous year, then have an election that rests on tested financial statements and initial results for the current forecast. Both the B.C. Liberal Party and the NDP have expressed support for this idea. The independents suggest that this brief three-week legislative session is a good time to do it, so the next government can implement it. I asked Mike de Jong, the B.C. Liberal finance minister and house leader, if he would consider it. He allowed that it is interesting, but it’s not contemplated for the pre-election session. That will be dominated by returning the provincial sales tax, and the usual jousting over untested spending and revenue proposals. Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com tfletcher@blackpress.ca
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FAR LEFT: The Fort Falcon Girls Ski Team with their medals for first place. L-R: Gabriela Willick, Kaitlan Goodwin, Melissa Hilde, Quintanna Paziuk, Ashley Woodley, Mackenzie Moeller, Rylee Flynn, Jazmyn Dionne, and Rebeccah Gauthier. BOTTOM LEFT: Gabriela Willick was the top female skier in the North Zone. Izzy Willick Photos
NEAR LEFT: Ski team coach Sarah Grill prepares Liam Willick for his run during the North Zone Championships. Willick took second place in the boy skiers out of a field of 48. Nicole VanKoughnett
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Sara King from Fort St. James was second overall out of 22 competitors, Brooke Dunkley was sixth, Mackenzie Moeller was seventh and Kaylee Walstrom was 10th. The top six girl skiers, the entire girl snowboard team and Liam Willick and Max Boschman will next be heading to provincial championships in Smithers, set for March 4-6. Last year's girl snowboard team also made it to provincials, the team placing third in the province. The team ranking depends on the top four times from each team. Top individual Results for skiers (boarder results published in last week's Courier) Girl Skiers: First - Gabriela Willick from FSJSS 43.65 sec. Second - Kaitlan Goodwin from FSJSS 44.13 sec. Third - Erica Haugland from Duchess Park 45.26 sec. Boys Skiers: First - Jason Oliemans from Smithers Secondary School 40.31 sec. Second - Liam Willick from FSJSS 40.78 Third - Chris McGauley from College Heights 42.07 sec.
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There was lots of colourful curling action in Fort St. James over the long weekend with the Ladies Curling Bonspiel. LEFT: Tina Auchstetter throws a rock with perfect 80s style. BELOW LEFT: Winner of the A Event Kim Repko’s rink. (LR) Alla Moise, Kim Repko, Michelle Boschman, and Katie Graham. BELOW: Some nerds sweep away the competition. Team photo Jana Gainor Other photos by Ruth Lloyd
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Product development officer is moving on, but will not be forgotten Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier "He's probably our community's biggest ambassador." ~ Emily Colombo, Fort St. James economic development officer Kevin Gedling has made himself known throughout the region. At a going-away event held in his honour, Colombo, described a typical reaction from people she met at different events she has attended outside the community when they find out she's from Fort St. James. She said the common response is: "You're from Fort St. James, do you know Kevin Gedling?" Three years ago, Kevin Gedling was hired by Site Manager Bob Grill to become the Fort St. James National Historic Site Product Development Officer. "We had really good applicants for the position," said Grill. Gedling made an outstanding presentation on how he would increase visitation to the site, and when Grill called to check Gedling's references, his previous employers told him Gedling came with one problem, he was always doing too much, and going outside his job description. "When I heard that, I knew he was the guy," said Grill. When Gedling arrived in Fort St. James, he immediately began travelling to Prince George for events and promotions, because they had identified P.G. as their target market. "He really just became a fixture at everything there was to do in Prince George," said Grill. "I think the mayor said to me: Everywhere I go, there's Kevin." With a small park like the local historic site, Grill said there were few resources to do many of the extra promotion Gedling had in mind. Gedling asked Grill for more manpower to help staff booths at promotional opportunities, but Grill had to tell him there wasn't any extra staff available. But this did not deter
Gedling, instead, Gedling joined Volunteer Prince George and became a board member, then recruited volunteers to help with some of the things he wanted to do to promote the park. "And that surprised me," said Grill. "Kevin has a million ideas all at once, then he tries to work on all of them." One of Gedling's ideas was the implementation of a free admission day for Aboriginal Day to create a community-wide event. There was a lot of background work he had to do in order to get permission to allow free entrance to the park for the day, but eventually, after going through all the necessary channels, Gedling made it happen and created a huge community event. "It was such a successful day, it was worth it," said Grill. Gedling was also instrumental in getting Fort St. James National Historic Site on the map in other places. While the park was doing some unique things when he came, they were not necessarily wellknown. For example, the local site is the only Canada Park with a bed and breakfast program, which offers a truly unique visitor experience. Gedling raised the profile of the bed and breakfast and the site has be-
LEFT: Kev- impression on the park in Gedling itself, he will also be leavbites into ing behind a lot of friends a beef dip. he made in his three years. Colombo had become Gedling always has friends with Gedling ina fun ap- stantly, and he was one proach and of the first people she met when she came to Fort St. a ready James while touring the sense of park. humour. Gedling invited her on BOTTOM: her first hike in the area, Gedling and they have been on a works with some number of snowshoe adventures and hikes since. elders. Bob Grill Colombo said she will miss always having a willing outdoor activity partner. Grill said he will miss chatting with Gedling in the mornings. He said Gedling comes in each morning with new ideas to discuss. This editor will absolutely miss Gedling both come well-known for this socially and as a phenomunusual amenity. enal resource. "Now we're famous," Gedling was always said Grill. incredibly helpful in proAlways wearing his viding great photographs Parks Canada uniform, whenever he could for Gedling was tireless at ex- the paper and wrote press hibition booths promoting releases which read like a the park and their events. fun story instead of an ad. "He's very animated," Gedling will be leavsaid Colombo. "The kids ing at the end of the month are drawn to him." to become the Jasper "He's been a huge con- Field Unit Partnering and tribution … the leading Engagement Officer in force on our tourism com- Jasper National Park. mittee," she said. Gedling should likely But Gedling will not expect visitors during his only be leaving a lasting stay in Jasper.
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FAR LEFT: The hair models and stylists pose for a group shot after the hair show modelling is done. LEFT: Destiny Hunt modelled a “fantasy” hair” design which pushed the boundaries on creative hair possibiities. BOTTOM: (Leftright) Destiny Hunt, stylist Katie Marshall and Sondra Marshall. Katie Marshall showed what can be possible in the art of hair with some of her fantasy hair styles. Left photo Noreen Marshall Right and bottom photos Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier
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LEFT: Murray Ridge provided a scenic backdrop to the beginning of this year’s Poker Ride. Ruth Lloyd Photos
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Poker Ride Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier The trail held up pretty well for this year’s Poker Ride hosted by the Fort St. James Snowmobile Club. While the trail became a bit rough towards the end according to organizers, this is to be expected after 210 snowmobiles tramp along the same track. “Everybody was happy and said the trails were good,” said Wayne Moll. The 70 km route was backwards from what it has been in previous years, making the long rolling section along the highway the beginning instead of the end. While the snow pack was low, the weather helped make up for it, with a beautiful sunny day for participants to stop and socialize along the way.
(Across from the Petrocan Station)
SUNDAY LITURGY: Saturday 7:30 pm & Sunday 10:30 am DAILY MASS: Monday - Friday 9:00 am
A total of 310 poker hands were sold at the event, helping to raise some of the approximately $4,000 per year the club invests in fuel to maintain the extensive trail network in the area. This year a club sled used for trail maintenance needed a new motor, adding nearly $2,500 in extra costs to the club. Ed Hill and Grant Luck donated extensive time to grooming the trails before the ride, which helped to keep the trail in better condition for the event.
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