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Council goes to public on escort services The District of Kitimat is committing to providing the public more information about escort services.

Councillors approved a recommendation that will see a public information meeting held on March 14, which will allow staff to explain the process and limits of administration to the community.

A stack of over 30 letters against the idea of an escort service was included in councillor’s information package. A large portion of them were identically written, indicating an organized letter writing campaign.

The suggested format of the eventual public meeting will be an introduction by District of Kitimat staff about the situation and how the Community Charter governs business licenses.

After that members of the public will be allowed five minutes each for comments, suggestions or questions.

The results of the public meeting will Community be brought to council town meeting at a later meeting and will give that feedback can be applied to an eventual residents a bylaw. chance to give community Within their report opinion on to council, staff noted escort services. that the lack of business licence regulations has not impeded the operation of escort services in communities in the past.

“In operating in a covert and illegal manner, the probability of health and safety issues arising is increased, including risk to underage and vulnerable women, concern of human trafficking and links to organized crime,” the report stated.

At the council meeting on February 25, deputy Chief Administrative Officer Warren Waycheshen said the intention is to have RCMP present at the meeting as well, or at least have information ready at the meeting that had been provided by the local detachment.

Riverlodge has been set as the venue of the event, and will start at 7 p.m.

Among the arguments against escort services made through citizens’ letters were that such businesses are “morally corrupt”, and lower community pride.

Others say that councillors themselves must take a strong opposition to the proposal.

Another letter stated that businesses such as escort services prey on at-risk members of the community.

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Courtney Taylor of the BC Lions gives a team an advantage during a Tug-of-War match. Taylor, as well as Angus Reid and Jabar Westerman, visited Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School today promoting the Lions in the House initiative.

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Animal bylaws given teeth Cameron Orr Amendments to the Kitimat Municipal Code which will crack down harder on problem pet owners will hopefully mean progress on getting mail delivery returned to Farrow Street.

As of February 25, the date of last week’s special meeting of council, mail still was not being delivered to Farrow Street, part of an ongoing issue the mail service was having with a neighbourhood dog.

Service was suspended last November.

A motion following the mail’s suspension called for the municipality to modify their animal control bylaws to ensure resumption of mail delivery.

To that end, a proposed animal control policy was presented to councillors which increases the impoundment fees even further than currently provided.

The District of Kitimat had established with the Kitimat Humane Society that any dogs impounded with multiple infractions over the past 24 months

“... Get your mail carriers to deliver the bloody mail.” would trigger the DoK to consider prosecution through the courts, which would allow them to fine up to $500.

But no dogs were impounded during that time.

“We have not had any issues of any dog running at all since this started, about November,” said deputy Chief Administrative Officer Warren Waycheshen.

The new proposed fees for the Municipal Code will allow the District to fine pet owners higher costs, which will save the District from needing to petition a court to fine higher.

The proposed policy also includes a definition of a dangerous dog. Defining a dangerous dog can allow for other controls, such as muzzling the animal

or securely confining it. It would not mean the dog could be destroyed, because that can only be decided by a provincial court.

In short, the first impoundment of an animal would remain at $30, while the second would increase to $60 from $50. A third impoundment would cost $100 ($75) and a fourth is $300. Mario Feldhoff added an amendment that a fifth impoundment cost an owner $500.

The fine for keeping an excessive number of animals is also proposed to rise to $100 from $50.

Feldhoff reasoned that even though the District hasn’t faced any impoundments recently, these changes could potentially go towards an eventual resumption of mail.

“I want to be able to go to the post office to say that we’ve changed our bylaw, that we’re enforcing our bylaw, we haven’t had a problem since November.

Get your mail carriers to deliver the bloody mail,” he said.

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Continued from page 1 Waycheshen noted at the meeting that the District has offered to either impound the particular dog of issue during mail delivery times, or have a member of the Kitimat Humane Society patrolling the street during delivery, but both options were turned down by the postal service.

Meanwhile other discussion at the meeting suggested giving power to the manager of the Humane Society to issue bylaw infraction tickets, a power that they currently do not have. It could be something that is included in future contract talks, as their contract with the city is expiring in the near future.

Councillors had only moved to discuss the draft changes to the animal control bylaw, so even with Feldhoff’s amendment the policy as a whole has yet to become official.

It will become official once it passes three readings.

“We’ve tried to resolve the issue without success.”

The Sentinel sought comment from Canada Post following these discussions and we received a prepared statement from spokesperson Eugene Knapik.

“Canada post has stopped delivering to this street as a result of a long standing documented dog problem. We’ve tried to resolve the issue without success,” he said.

He added that the decision to stop delivering mail “was not taken lightly, and we regret the impact on our customers.”

He said that until a solution is reached on this issue, residents can continue to pick up their mail at the post office.

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Kitimat Council has followed through on requests from Janet Munro with MeningitisBC.org.

Munro pitched to council for their support in calling for updated vaccination programs for meningitis, a disease of which a particular strand was responsible in the death of her son.

Councillors approved a motion to be sent to the North Central Local Government Association that the province put in place an immunization program called MCV4, which other provinces offer, that protects against the A, C, W-135 and Y strands of meningitis. The motion calls for that to come into effect by April 24, 2014, which is World Meningitis Day. The NCLGA annual general meeting takes place in Quesnel this year, from May 1 to 3.

Motions which as successful with the NCLGA moves on to the Union of B.C. Municipalities, which holds an annual conference bringing together municipalities from all across the province to bring forward their concerns, which are then typically presented to the B.C. government for consideration.

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A public hearing is scheduled for March 18 regarding a proposed amendment to the R3-A Multi-Family Zone.

The zoning amendment process had initially been started in response to a proposed development called Strawberry Estates.

However that plan changed and a bylaw was never adopted.

Now back to the first reading of a bylaw, administration is asking for the bylaw to include detached, duplex and triplex dwellings as permitted buildings in the zone.

As it is now, development permits have to be issued for anything other than apartment or terrace dwellings.

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$200 million for First Nations Cameron Orr A revised benefits agreement will mean up to $200 million for First Nations groups whose traditional territories are along the proposed Pacific Trails Pipeline (PTP) route.

An announcement between PTP, the province, and the First Nations Group Limited Partnership (a partnership of affected First Nations regarding this project) was made Monday morning.

“This agreement secures significant financial and economic benefits for First Nations who play a vital role in one of British Columbia’s leading LNG projects,” Chief Raymond Morris, a member of the FNLP executive committee, said through a media release.

In addition to the $200 million in financial benefits, the agreement will provide business and training opportunities for the First Nations as well.

Fifteen First Nations are included in the deal. Those are the Haisla, Kitselas, Lax Kw’alaams Band, the Wet’suwet’en, Lheidli

T’enneh First Nation, McLeod Lake Indian Band, Metlakatla First Nation, Nadleh Whut’en First Nation, Nak’azdli Band, Nee Tahi Buhn Indian Band, Saik’uz First Nation, Skin Tyee, Stellat’en, Ts’il Kaz Koh and West Moberly.

The PTP proposal is for a 463 km pipeline which will carry natural gas from Summit Lake (55 km north of Prince George) to the proposed Kitimat LNG facility in Kitimat.

“The support of First Nations for our projects continues to be tremendous and we look forward to building on these integral relationships,” said Apache senior vice president Janine McArdle, also president of PTP Management Inc. Chief negotiator for the First Nations partnership Robert Metcs, said the limited partnership (FNLP), which formed in 2008, will disperse the money based on the distance of the pipeline in traditional territories. “[FNLP] was a

commercial entity... formed with more or less a single mandate to negotiate a potential commercial agreement and the First Nations take that agreement and weigh that against the impact that they determine individually, to determine whether they want to accept it,” he explained of the process. “Clearly the 15 decided that they did.”

He said the training and business opportunities are also something that will get worked out largely on an individual basis.

The PTP proposal would be the natural gas delivery method for bringing supply to the propose Kitimat LNG facility, a joint venture of Chevron Canada and Apache Canada. The two-train system is planned to have a capacity of 10 million metric tonnes of LNG per year. An export licence for the project was granted in October 2011.

On the same day as that agreement, Premier Christy Clark also committed $32 million to the FNLP, in order for them to

buy in to a non-equity investment for the pipeline. That commitment came from an amendment to an existing economic partnership agreement for the PTP pipeline.

These deals were all announced during a major two-day LNG conference in Vancouver called Fuelling the Future: Global Opportunities for LNG in BC.

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Housing was another focus of his talk, referring to assessments in town rising close to 50 per cent for some people.

“If this is only the beginning, where are we going to be in terms of housing stock affordability?” he said, adding, “But that we expect to be working with industry to address these industries.”

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Klukas going to Vancouver was to get Kitimat’s name out there. That plan worked. Places like Prince Rupert did not have their own time for a community perspective, despite having two LNG proposals for their community as well.

“Everyone knows Kitimat, of all the communities, is at the forefront,” he said. “We’re looking at three projects...I think they also know we have more availability of land, so we want to keep the people interested.”

The hope for Kitimat is to make sure out of all the proposals in B.C., Kitimat benefits mostly.

“It could be 20 people looking but only three or four get off the ground,” he said. “We want to make sure we’ve got the three or four most likely to succeed coming into here.”

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pect of Poole’s 12 minutes, at times referring specifically to the current proposal from PTI Group.

“This playing out in the community really required public input,” he told LNG stakeholders in Vancouver.

All this ties to the theme that industries need to work with the public, as well as leaving a legacy for the community once their work is done.

“It’s [legacies] something our council has got to start wrapping their head around really quick...what would be good for the community.”

There are aspects to development where questions need to be asked regarding the community as well. Those include things like subdivisions, water treatment upgrades and sewer systems.

“We’d be working with companies to deal with that,” he said. “If they’re going to put that ripple effect and pressure on us we’d be asking for their support.”

Beyond his community perspective, he said the purpose of him and economic development officer Rose

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A development permit was granted to William deHoog, owner of the local Dairy Queen restaurant.

The permit will allow for exterior renovations to the building.

The plans for the new outside will include new sidings, an outdoor eating area and a drive through service.

The pylon sign will also be updated, and include an electronic sign feature.

Public notice was distributed to landowners and nearby businesses however no comment was received.

The Downtown Design Panel also reviewed the application and were happy save for three concerns which are addressed in the permit.

Those include having a refuse enclosure to maintain safety and aesthetics, that the drive through be safe and clear.

Cameron Orr Kitimat’s Chief Administrative Officer had 12 minutes to tell a packed conference room what our community is about and where we’re going.

It’s no small order but he did manage as well as you can in those short minutes, and the primary message to the audience — filled with proponents and stakeholders in the LNG industry — was that Kitimat is open to talking with them, but at the same time companies have to really work with the community and consider its interests as well.

“You can’t just come in, throw your plant up and not have some sort of connection or social licence to the community,” he said.

Poole’s talk was at last week’s Fuelling the Future: Global Opportunities for LNG in BC, and his talk provide a “community perspective”.

Chief Councillor Ellis Ross of the Haisla Nation also provided a perspective, but calls to his office were not immediately returned.

“I touched on things like health services, which in the general sense means if we’re going to have more

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Post proves to be an immovable object I’m always surprised when I hear that mail delivery still isn’t resumed on Farrow Street. This subject came up again at last week’s council meeting.

I am sympathetic to the origins of this whole issue for Canada Post. They work in an industry where people’s pets can be an actual hazard.

Even though the dog in question on that street didn’t physically assault anyone, as far as I’m aware, I know being menaced by dogs can make anyone feel insecure.

But yet here we are five months later and the mail still isn’t being delivered to the street.

Even more, offers from the Kitimat Humane Society have been dismissed by Canada Post. Some very generous offers, I should add.

We’ve heard that the society had offered to patrol Farrow Street during mail delivery times. That was turned down.

We’ve heard that the society had offered to impound the dog during mail delivery hours so the animal in question would not even physically be on the street. That didn’t work either.

So council now will amend their animal control bylaws to give them more power. Fines will go up for impoundments, and new definitions of dangerous dogs will mean more authority to crack down on them.

Now these policies aren’t going to necessarily mean anything to the owners of whichever dog was the original issue for Canada Post, but by that I only mean that the District of Kitimat has received zero dog complaints from that street since mail stopped being delivered.

But as Mario Feldhoff said, these new rules will hopefully give Canada Post the confidence to allow mail service to resume.

The tricky thing about the whole issue is that Canada Post as an organization doesn’t seem to have any clearer an answer as the District does in solving the issue.

They tell us mail has to be picked up until a solution is reached, but we don’t know how that will come about.

Like I said at the beginning, safety in the workplace is important and I don’t begrudge anyone who may have felt unsafe delivering mail on the street.

But to the operation of the Post itself, the Humane Society together with the District had made offers to make delivery on Farrow Street, in effect, safer than any other street in Kitimat in response to their concerns.

At this point it’s time for Canada Post to either accept these new animal control bylaw changes or explain to the town exactly what they want.

The town just can’t keep guessing.

Cameron Orr

OQLF shenanigans are very drôle Under Miscellaneous

The Office Quebecois de la langue français continues to drag down the reputation of the city of Montreal and the province of Quebec with its absurd demands on businesses.

Dubbed the “language poby Allan Hewitson lice” or “the tongue troopers” by ahewitson@telus.net the media, OQLF, has frequently stepped boots deep in language eventually back down, resulting in a de“doggie do” since it was first instituted by Rene Levesque’s Parti Quebe- cision to conduct an internal review on how it handles complaints. cois government in 1977.

“Pastagate” went “viral”, as they This past couple of weeks, emboldened by a six per cent increase in its say on the CBC, with the foolishness budget to an astounding $24.7-million, embarrassing Quebec around the world the troopers have been out and about and initiating as much comment as the trying to bully a number of restaurant equally idiotic process followed by the businesses around Montreal with even Olympic committees in every country more ludicrous demands like orders where Olympics are held, conducting to cover up the On-Off buttons on the witch hunts on use of the rings or even kitchen microwave and the redial button the word ‘olympic’ which may have been in a business’ name for decades. on their public phones.

Ostensibly the purpose of the CharBut the troopers again went over ter for the French language in 1977 was the top by demanding Italian restaurants like Buananotte and steakhouses like to achieve the goal of making French Joe Beef substitute French translations the “normal and everyday language of where there are no French words, and work, instruction, communication, comeven where most French-speaking peo- merce and business” and ensure respect ple, including Quebecers, use words like for French Quebecers’ language rights.

The OQFL was set up to take repasta and calamari (which are of course, Italian in origin) requiring the OQLF to sponsibility carrying out the policy by

“monitoring the linguistic situation in Québec”, promoting the official language, and conducting research.

Its budget in 2006 was $18 million and the new PQ government of Pauline Marois has just jacked it up to $24.7 million.

The waste angers most Canadians but it is the excessive pettiness of the OQFL that remains an embarrassment to Canada and Quebecers.

But, it also has the power to levy significant fines to businesses that don’t toe the line although this recent fracas with restaurants has probably created an opportunity for a more sensible application of the monitoring role.

Diane De Courcy, the minister responsible for Quebec’s Charter of the French Language, announcing the internal review said it was aimed at improving the performance of the Office. She acknowledged the results of “certain enquiries have lent themselves, with reason, to very severe criticism.”

The pasta, on/off/ bifsteak stories just add to the legendary language police reports of threats to toy shops selling talking dolls speaking in English and the pet shop that sold a parrot that was uni-lingually English.

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Cain returned to owner after trial Margaret Speirs A provincial court judge has turned down an application to destroy a dog accused of being dangerous, saying a local government had failed to prove its case.

Cain, a German shepherd, had been kept in the Kitimat-Stikine regional district animal shelter in Thornhill since last April while the regional district sought the destruction order.

But in a ruling Feb. 28, Judge Brian Neal said none of the conditions to declare the dog dangerous had been satisfied.

Cain had not been proven to be a danger to kill or seriously injure a person or another animal

by his actions, said Neal in ordering the dog be returned to owner Paul MacNeil of Thornhill.

“The application to destroy Cain is denied and he is to be released forthwith [to MacNeil],” said Neal, adding that he was not going to make an order of conditions that MacNeil had to follow in order to get the dog back.

The court case began last year but was then adjourned and took up two days of testimony last week.

“I don’t know whether to laugh or cry,” said MacNeil after court and again when he picked up Cain from the Thornhill animal shelter later in the afternoon of Feb. 28.

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Quebec Continued from page 4 I would certainly think that the government of Quebec has many more pertinent issues facing it than having OQFL inspectors harassing restaurateurs about English, Italian, or even Chinese words on the menu. You know, important things like the economy, unemployment, renewed student demonstrations and political corruption, not to mention its seriously crumbling infrastructure.

I haven’t been in Quebec for a

while but I wonder what the French language newspapers do with English language entities like Facebook and Twitter on the internet?

I looked to see; Le Devoir says it’s on Facebook (en anglais!) But Twitter is Tweeter. Translation on the spot.

Many people commenting on the “storm in a teacup” reminded the Quebec government that the word Quebec itself is an Algonquin Indian word. ahewitson@telus.net

Not a bread king but the bread of life For example, I can remember when I was a kid watching Star Trek and they would flip open their phones and talk to each other. Wow, no phone cord! Who would have beRedeemer Lutheran Church lieved that a few decades later most teenagers would be walking around Pastor Clint Magnus with better technology than that in their pockets?

There are all kinds of hard to John 6: 68-69, “Simon Peter answered believe things that are true, and the Him (Jesus), ‘Lord to whom shall we go? passage above tells us of the most imporYou have the words of eternal life, and we tant one, that in Jesus Christ your sins and have believed and come to know that you your guilt can be overcome and you can are the Holy One of God.” personally know God. There are some things in life that are It sounds hard to believe, but that hard to believe, but just because they are does not make it any less true. The incihard to believe does not make them any dent in the verses above happened right less true. after Jesus had fed 5,000 people on a

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boy’s small lunch.

The crowds followed Him wanting more free food, but Jesus told them “no.”

He told them that He wasn’t here to be their bread king, but that He is the bread of life come down from Heaven, that He will grant eternal life to all who would believe on Him as their Savior. As a result, almost everyone walked away.

Of those who remained, Jesus asked, “Do you want to go too?” To which Peter replied, “Lord to whom shall we go, you have the words of eternal life.” Peter got it right. You see, in the larger scope of eternity, our lives on this Earth aren’t even a tick on the clock and then what? Even 90 years goes by in a flash.

If life is just a matter of eating, sleeping, trying to find a bit of happiness and

then you die, well then, I suppose a bread king would be a good thing. But if, as the Bible says, we are granted eternal life in Heaven by believing in God’s Son who died for our sins and rose from the dead for our eternal salvation, well then, a bread king seems rather short sighted doesn’t it?

Friends, what Peter was saying is, “Lord we know who you are, we know what we need, and we know that you alone can bring it; so speak Lord, for we believe and are listening.”

There are many things in this world that are hard for us to believe but they are still true, and this message from Jesus is the most important of them. I pray that this day you would believe in Him and that abundant life will be yours forever.

Amen.

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January’s crime statistics have councillor’s concerned of a trend Cameron Orr Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison presented January’s policing statistics to Kitimat Council, and those stats showed the possibility of higher crime in some areas.

Even though the information is based purely on one month at this point, councillors did show concerns that, if the rate of certain crimes continue, Kitimat may be on its way to exceeding last year’s numbers.

Under ‘person crimes’, there have been three sexual assaults this year, compared to 12 in 2012. There was only one assault with a weapon or assault causing

bodily harm, versus 24 in 2012. There were 10 common assaults this January, compared to 96 in 2012. There are zero robberies this year, against the two last year. And there have been nine threats against a person versus last year’s 53.

In one of the more alarming statistics for councillors was the break and enters against a business are already over half what 2012 saw. This year there are five, against just eight last year.

Residential break and enters stand at one so far against 30 last year.

Vandalism of property is at 16 right now, against 160 last year.

Councillor Corinne Scott noted that even with sexual assaults at three, if that same trend continues the community is looking at three times as many as there were last year.

Harrison agreed something is amiss in the numbers.

“I also share those same concerns,” he said, saying it’s a similar situation with vandalism if those numbers keep up as well.

Harrison, however, had no ready solution or explanation to the relatively high numbers at his presentation during his short presentation.

Council ironing out work camps Councillors have worked to smooth out the wrinkles as they move forward to develop a work camp policy, after confusion reigned.

In particular, councillor Phil Germuth tried to catch up to speed after being away for the prior Committee of the Whole meeting where it was believed that councillors were happy for discussion on work camps to be a part of the open house process of PTI Group, which are seeking to build a work lodge near town.

However that went against Ger-

muth’s intention to discuss a work camp policy separately from existing proposals for town.

No official motions had previously been passed regarding work camp policy, save for a motion that council develop one, which was carried at the February 4 council meeting.

Germuth believed lining up work camp policies with PTI’s proposal would be dangerous for the council.

“By mentioning PTI we’re putting ourselves in a possible conflict,” he said.

“And to wait until we have something

here...public input is what we should have before we develop a policy.”

He said public input is needed because, “We’re not smarter than anyone else.”

Mario Feldhoff preferred to have workshops on camp policy and to take in input from the Advisory Planning Commission ahead of any public meeting, and moved for staff to provide a schedule of process for developing a plan, including a public town hall meeting and workshops.

That motion passed unanimously.

Council makes room for outdoor patio policy Cameron Orr Kitimat Council has adopted a policy to allow patios on public land.

The recommendation came from the Kitimat Downtown Design Guidelines and Official Community Plan encouraging the development of outdoor patios, while the District of Kitimat had no actual policy to refer to.

A report to council notes that most businesses only have open spaces in the “public realm” — that includes public squares, roads and parks.

The issue went before the Advisory Planning Commission and decided to model a potential policy on the City of Nelson.

According to the policy, patios will be permitted as accessories to an adjacent restaurant, coffee shop or licensed establishment.

A 1.6 metre walkway is required to remain to allow pedestrian traffic. As well, no amplified music would be allowed to be played at 9 p.m.

The Downtown Design Panel will have to review applications.

Also, patios are allowed without a panel review, but those can only have up to three kitimat tables and six chairs, with no constructed platform.

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A children’s book which takes on serious issues “I’m always puttering away at it [writing],” she said.

None of those others have so far published but the release of Blowing Bubbles through Aaspirations Publishing has her confident that her name will appear on other books to come.

She finds writing to a student audience is a good fit for her. Working in a school, and also working away at a doctorate, gives her that special insight to that age group.

Her manuscript Blowing Bubbles was in 2006 and 2009 a finalist in the Writer’s Union of Canada’s Writing for Children competition.

Finalizing in that competition gives her manuscript the chance to be picked up by a Canadian publisher.

As an author of other finalist manuscripts, she said she was beginning to feel like the bridesmaid, never the bride, but is very excited to now have a book on shelves.

The book is available through Aaspirations Publishing, or on Amazon.ca.

Cherry said she is encouraging people who read her book to leave reviews behind.

That’s not for sales, but in the hopes that favourable reviews will make getting published in the future easier.

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We’ve heard, loud and clear, from Aboriginal communities in B.C. that they no longer want to be bypassed by economic opportunities created within, near, or around them. With the Gateway Education and Training Fund, we’re doing something about it. We’re showing true commitment to community and workforce development. And the opportunities we’re sponsoring are not exclusive to our proposed project or our industry — they’re regional and cross-sector in nature.

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1. G5-A Forestry transition to R3-A Multi-Family Residential (Phase 5) This change increases subdivision area and creates a new area for multifamily development. It is expected, but not guaranteed, that all or most of the 38 potential units will be purpose-built rental market housing. Phase 5 will be a Development Permit Area. Nearby residents and landowners will be consulted on building design, exterior finishes and landscaping before permits are issued for construction.

2. R2-b two-Family to R1-b one-Family Residential (Phase 1) Existing landowners have agreed to eliminate duplex or legal suite potential.

“Down-zoning” frees up six sewer credits for transfer to the new multi-family zone area (Phase 5).

3. R3-A Multi-Family to R1-A one-Family Residential (Phase 6) Five lots for detached single-family dwellings would replace a multi-family development of up to twelve units. “Down-zoning” frees up seven sewer credits for transfer to the new multi-family zone area (Phase 5).

4. R1-b one-Family to R1-A one-Family Residential (Phases 3 & 4) Minor change of layout will increase visibility of lots with home occupation business potential. Four R1-B lots are proposed, a net loss of two. Two lots in Phase 3 will move to the R1-B Zone from the R1-A Zone. Four lots in Phase 4 will move to the R1-A Zone from the R1-B Zone.

5. R1-b one-Family Residential to R1-A one-Family Residential (Phase 2) Eight lots on Wozney Street move from one single-family zone to another. This change allows lots to be smaller, and reduces home-based business potential but has no impact on subdivision capacity.

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Cameron Orr Inside a colourful, easy to read children’s book, readers are shown the journey of Josh, coming to grips with a grandfather he doesn’t quite understand through circumstances outside anyone’s control.

Kathleen Cherry, a local school counsellor, has just had published her first children’s book, called Blowing Bubbles.

Children and adults were treated to a reading at a book launch even at the Kitimat Public Library on February 23.

Using bubble gum bubbles as the connecting force, the character Josh has to learn to come to grips with his Grandfather George, who has suffered a stroke and is not the same man he used to be.

For Cherry, the book didn’t come from any specific episode in her own life, but is the culmination of her life experience.

“I’m a school counsellor so I do work a lot with books in general when I’m working with kids, and certainly my parents are getting quite elderly...so not any specific issue. More watching the relationship with my kids and also my students,” she said.

The youth and adolescent experience has drawn her in before.

She said she has a few manuscripts, both in children’s book form and chapter books, which deal with things like the teenager experience or one about a 14-year-old autistic person.

RV parking policy reviewed Cameron Orr The District of Kitimat will take a look at whether or not it’s worth it to alter the Municipal Code to relax rules relating to the storage of recreational vehicles.

Councillor Corinne Scott was looking into the existing regulation on RV storage after fielding a phone call from a concerned resident. Scott said that the homeowner who called had received a letter regarding their own RV which is parked on their side yard.

They were concerned because they had no adequate rear yard to store the vehicle, which is what the Municipal Code states.

In addition, storage of any recreational vehicle — to a limit of one — on a rear yard must technically receive Council’s permission if it will be on the property between November 1 and March 31.

“I would like the administration to just review it and come back with their comments,” said Scott.

Her specific motion was for administration to bring back recommendations to allow the parking and storage of one recreational vehicle, as long as it does not obstruct sightlines for traffic.

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allow storage of one RV per residential lot, without requiring a permit on an annual basis.”

Councillor Mario Feldhoff was happy to see a report, however he moved for any discussion to be tabled until a general report was returned. The difference between that and the original motion is that he felt the inclusion of sight lines in the motion made it too specific.

That motion passed unanimously.

Scott added during the discussion that the town’s bylaw enforcement officer only became aware of this issue after being called to the property regarding an unrelated snow clearing issue, which had corrected itself by the time he arrived.

Public broadcaster takes interest in Kitimat CBC Radio is turning their eyes, and microphones, on Kitimat for an upcoming special broadcast.

The public broadcaster is sending two of their reporters into Kitimat on a road-trip assignment, to figure out exactly what’s going on in this town, in a feature called Hype or Hope on Daybreak North.

“Kitimat is at an interesting point in time,” said the CBC’s Leisha Grebinski, who’ll be in Kitimat with colleague Rebecca Zandbergen. “There’s a lot of speculation over development.”

There’s optimism in town, she said, but questions remain like how feasible LNG terminals are, and the impact to the rest of the province.

“A lot is riding on exporting LNG from the North Coast,” she said.

“There’s a lot of hope this is going to bring in a lot of money for the province but there’s always a downside.”

She said that Kitimat as a community is a place many people don’t quite know a lot about.

“Kitimat’s getting a ton of attention,” she said. “It’s at the centre of a re-

ally big conversation.”

The interest applies to the whole province, including to people in the Northeast where natural gas is produced, to organizations like CN Rail which might have impacts from development.

But it’s not just about LNG, but will include the modernization project and the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal.

They’ll be broadcasting their Kitimat-based show from the Constant Cravings coffee shop on Friday, at 6 a.m.

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What could have been for Kitimat For more than a century, plans have been proposed for our town. You do wonder what could have been if some schemes had succeeded. Could our Walter thorne town have become a city of size?

The first mega plan With the original three neighwas proposed in the early 1900s when the Grand Trunk bourhoods, there were changes.

Pacific transcontinental railroad Additional streets were added espewas bantered about between Kiti- cially in Whitesail, or Neighbourmat and Prince Rupert. At that time hood B in Clarence Stein’s origiit was uncertain which port would nal plan. There was an expansion of shopping into Mountainview be chosen as the terminus.

There was a flurry of survey- Square, but clearly there were net ing. The Quadra marine survey losses in population and in the busiexpedition was launched with ex- ness and service sector.

In the 1950s and 60s we did tensive mapping of the channel. have a Kitimat dairy facility which Surveyors like Louis Coste were here gathering data and vastly im- shipped in raw milk from the Bulkproving the information available ley Valley. This was planned as to potential mariners. Likewise on the central facility for the entire the land, surveyors like Clague and northwest, but this plan, like others, Townsend worked feverishly to up- failed. Expansion of the dairy just didn’t happen. It withered away. date the land data.

Much of the original town plan A land company was established, which proposed lots along still remains unbuilt.

Kitimat has been the focus of Kitimat’s Inner Harbour at Minette Bay. Speculators in Vancouver a myriad of development schemes, actually bought lots on the dozens which would have built large neighof streets laid out in our proposed bourhoods and huge industrial railway port city. When Rupert was infrastructure. Some plans proposed included a steel mill, a copchosen, all those plans evaporated.

Kitimat’s next mega project was per smelter, and a larger pulp mill courtesy of Alcan. This project did with four paper machines. This, develop, but what was built was a had they materialized, would likely scaled down version. The original have erased the population decline Kemano Project called for a much of the last three decades.

Some of the other proposlarger power project with 16 generators instead of the eight that were als that we can recall were the oil built, supporting the power needs port of the 1970s, Orenda Pulp and of 12 additional potlines planned to Paper’s proposal of 1991, and of extend up the Kitimat Valley. At course the on-going plans for gravel one point in the early 50s it was export facilities.

Another interesting unbuilt fathought that Kitimat would become cility was the large Elizabeth Arms one of B.C.’s leading centres.

Town planner Clarence Stein’s multi-storey hotel complex of the 1951 report on population esti- 70s which was planned at the curmated 35,000 to 50,000 residents rent site of Tim Horton’s and A&W. would eventually reside in the Despite the erected signs, the hotel town’s ten planned neighbour- was never built. Today, three dehoods. We do know the first three cades later, we are again awaiting a of Stein’s ten planned neighbour- new downtown hotel to materialize hoods, as they were, Nechako (A), near the same original site.

Current industrial expansion Whitesail (B), and Kildala (C); but what about the un-built ones? They plans in Kitimat give the town real were, neighbourhoods D and G in prospects for growth. Perhaps the the vicinity of the new Strawberry unbuilt Kitimat of the past will reMeadows Development, E and F materialize or be reinvented in new around Forest Avenue, H and I be- proposals which would ultimately tween Minette Bay and Robinson see our little town gaining someRidge, and J at the north end of thing more substantial, as in exMinette Bay. What later town plan- panded roads, schools, neighbourners thought could become Imatra hoods, and services. Perhaps the Heights neighbourhood, adjacent to old plans for the unbuilt neighbourthe Kuldo extension area, was to be hoods will need to be resurrected. a municipal airport in Stein’s era; Maybe the town will become an exand what we know as the Haisla panded port city with development Hill Neighbourhood, in the area extending down the channel passed south and below the firehall was to Bish Cove in the west and even Clio Bay in the east. You never know. remain a greenbelt.

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It was set to go where Tim Horton’s and A&W are now. There were a lot of unrealized plans for the town over it’s 60 years.

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A very Kitimat reunion It was an offer no true Kitimatian could refuse: an afternoon in the sun.

Pat Grieve put the wheels in motion in 2007 to bring together Kitimat’s alumni, who were otherwise scattered around the Okanagan area of B.C. Other reunions of ex-Kitimatians was already going on in the Fraser Valley and Vancouver Island. Grieve wanted a reunion of people in her new corner of the world, after moving to the Peachland area in 1993, after 35 years living in the north.

Pat recruited fellow Kitimatians in Penticton, Osoyoos, Summerland and Vernon to get some publicity out about her plan, and she was given ad space in Rio Tinto Alcan’s Ingot magazine.

“Being the sunny Okanagan, it was held outside in Cousins Park,” said Pat, e-mailing the Sentinel from her home.

They had to hold the event on a weekday because parking was non-existant in the town on a weekend.

The efforts of everyone paid off when 114 showed up.

Pat’s careful not to over do it, only holding a reunion every two years, but has seen a steady increase in people stopping by. In 2009 140 people came out, and in 2011, 170 people made the trip.

They moved the venue indoors in 2011, and Pat said they had Rio Tinto Alcan’s Paul Henning scheduled to appear to talk about the modernization project. He unexpectedly couldn’t make the trip, but RTA still provided the hall and food for the event, a huge bonus for the people.

“It is a bit of work but it is so much fun to see people I haven’t even thought of in years.”

“It is not an Alcan reunion, but for anyone who ever lived in Kitimat,” Pat explained.

She said people come to the reunion from 100 Mile House, Castlegar, Kamloops, Nimko Lake, and many other points in the province.

“It is a bit of work but it is so much fun to see people I haven’t even thought of in years,” she said.

“Thank heavens I provide name tags or we would all be lost.”

The 2013 reunion is being set for May 30, and they’ll return to the outdoors venue for the gathering.

As Rio Tinto Alcan was the theme two years ago, this year’s theme is the oil and gas industry. Pat sent an invitation to Kitimat’s Mayor and Council to see if any representative could attend the meeting and speak about the projects and controversies relating to the local energy proposals.

Councillors didn’t specifically commit to sending any one to the reunion — although did leave the option open as schedules allowed — but they did direct the District to forward various promotional items for the event.

Mario Feldhoff said it is valuable to broaden their contact with former residents, as they can be important ambassadors for the community.

Free Elements Dance dancers in Kitimat were able to participate in some ways with the recent Ballet Jorgen performance of Swan Lake.

Shown here are: Madison Hoffos, Bianca Reniero, Paige Bowles, Emily Barron and Tatiana Block. Those professionals in the back are Sarah Koekkoek and Kelan McLaughlin.

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KITIMAT YOUTH SOCCER ASSOCIATION

RegistRation Saturday, March 9 1 to 4 pm at the Clubhouse

Wednesday, March 13

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We will be observing time limits of five minutes per speaker, and after everyone has spoken once, a second five-minute opportunity will be provided. If you wish to provide a Powerpoint or other presentation (which must still comply with the five-minute limit), please email it to one of the addresses below prior to 11:00 am on March 14, 2013. if you have any questions or wish to register for the speakers list, please contact either of the following: Lyle McNish - lmcnish@kitimat.ca - ph: 250-632-8911, or Warren Waycheshen - wwaycheshen@kitimat.ca - ph: 250-632-8915

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Kitimatian off to make good in the world Cameron Orr A local woman now University of B.C. student is saving her nickels to take on a goodwill mission to Thailand.

Sabrina Trigo, whom some may know from her time with the Hospital Auxiliary and the Kitimat Health Advocacy Group (that’s aside from her work in school on student

council), is asking for community support for her work with International Student Volunteers.

That organization promotes sustainable developments and responsible adventures travel, according to their website.

“I always wanted to go abroad and do something like this and thought this was

the perfect opportunity,” said Trigo.

She was first put on to this opportunity by her sorority big sister at Alpha Omicron Pi. That person had done similar work in Costa Rica.

Trigo expects her travel to begin August 2, and she’s already gotten a boost from the District of Kitimat when council ap-

The Battle of Coy coming next week

Cameron Orr For the second year in a row, the Kitimat Ice Demons will be hosting the major Coy Cup tournament here in town.

The five-day tournament will bring in three outside teams in the battle for the cup.

Scheduled to be here are the Terrace River Kings, the Quesnel Kangaroos and the Williams Lake StamA scene from an Kitimat Ice Demons game peders. from this season.

File photo The first day of play is March 12. At 5 p.m. the River Kings will play the Kangaroos, with Kitimat facing the Stampeders at 8 p.m.

Kitimat will play at 8 p.m. each night of the round robin play.

The format means that once the round robin is finished, the last place team will be sent home, while the first place team gets a by to the finals.

That will leave the second and third place team to battle it out for a spot in the final.

The organizers this year are benefitting from the experience of hosting the event just last year in March.

“It’s quite a bit of work but fortunately we did it last year so the majority of the core of our committee is still on board,” said Ice Demons President and head coach Cliff Madsen. “It’s actually gone extremely smooth this time.”

He said they’re hoping for strong turnouts to the games as there were last year and believes the Kitimat games for sure will see large crowds, as well as for the River Kings who may see fans drive in to town.

He said in the regular season, Demons home games saw an average of 700 people, but that’s a number he’d like to see grow over time.

“We’ve had three or four games this year where we at 800, 850 people,” he said. “I still think it’s the only game in town, we should have that place full every night.”

As for how he feels about the team going into the Coy tournament, he’s feeling good, even against some very strong teams.

“We have a few players that are going to be available to us in the Coy that had been injured or away for school,” he said.

He said players joining the roster who weren’t there the entirety or for a portion of the season are Rob Lafferty, Nick Smeader and Wade Masch.

Dave Venman and Corey Finn will be there as well. Both were injured early in the regular season.

Madsen said that Williams Lake will be a team to look out for. The Stampeders recently beat the Smithers Steelheads in a game in the CIHL playoffs. Smithers was a strong team yet Williams Lake found a way to beat them, said Madsen.

Quesnel as well has a full roster and they play a tough game he said.

Terrace’s line up also have three or four players returning who weren’t playing the majority of the season so Madsen said everyone is looking pretty stacked.

proved a $750 travel grant for her program.

The program itself will cost her $2,200 while travel will be about another $1,900, she said.

She’s so far not assigned to any specific project but she expects to go into a small community for a two week stint.

She’s also taking

clothes and shoes with her as well for whatever community she gets assigned to.

She also said that any money she raises above her require-

ments will be given directly to the community she is placed in.

Trigo has donation jars in some businesses in Kitimat and Terrace.

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Creditors and others having claims against the estate of KURT KNOLL, deceased, are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the undersigned Administrator at #200 - 4630 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace, B.C., V8G 1S6 on or before April 24, 2013, after which date the Administrator will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard only to the claims that have been received. Ramona Annette Knoll, Administrator.

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Sujitra’s Suds & Seams in KITIMAT has a position available as

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Auctions Antiques, Furnishings & Collectibles Auction

Sale conducted on behalf of several Estates SALE 1 March 16, 2013 Saturday @ 11:00 am.

Coast Inn of the West Banquet Room, 4620 Lakelse Ave, Terrace, BC ANTIQUES & FURNISHINGS: Couch & loveseat’s, bedroom suites, bunk beds, rocking chairs, dining room suites & china hutch’s, new glass top coffee & end tables, inlaid antique claw foot coffee table, other misc. coffee tables & end tables, antique bar, Victorian chairs, misc. kitchen chairs & occasional chairs, roll top desk, corner hutch, display cabinets, leather Wingback chair & ottoman. There is a supply of misc. antique items, overstuffed recliners.

ANTIQUE HORSE GEAR: There is a very large selection of antique horse gear that includes, sleigh bells, collars, hames etc. NATIVE & TRADITIONAL ART: Large selection of Native Art including hides, drums, facemasks, leather art & clothing, moccasins, paddles, selection of framed painted art & pictures. BANK NOTE & COINS: Large selection of coins collections & Sets, individual coins & bank notes, US, Canadian & other country coins. HOUSEHOLD & MISC COLLECTABLE’S: Dolls, clocks, floor & table lamps, candelabra’s, fiddle & other misc. musical instruments, brass music stand, brass, pewter, wrought iron collectable’s, glassware & vases, Antique horn, swords, display pistol, carvings, oil lamps, watches, jewelry, military medals.

This sale has a large & excellent quantity of new and used items, antiques & collectable’s.

This is a partial listing, so look for future advertising as there are more items to come.

Please view website for pictures of all scheduled sales.

Consignments welcome. If you would like to consign any items contact Mikes Auction.

Condition of Sale. Terms: cash & cheque with identification, sorry no credit cards.

Items are As Is Condition ~ Not responsible for accidents.

There will be a concession on Site.

SALE 2 Antiques, Furnishings & Collectibles Auction. April 20, 2013 Saturday @ 10:00 am.

Francios Lake Hall, Francios Lake, BC. South of Burns Lake, Intersection of Hwy 35 & Colleymount Road.

SALE 3 Industrial Machinery, Equipment & Tool Auction. May 25, 2013 Saturday @ 10:00 am.

Topley Garage, Topley, BC. Intersection of Hwy 16 & Hwy 118 to Granisle.

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Local skaters earn medals From February 15 to 17 the Snow Valley Skating Club hosted the 2013 Cariboo North Central Regional Championships.

One-hundred skaters from Burns Lake, Houston, Vanderhoof, Prince Rupert, Quesnel, Smithers, Terrace, Prince Rupert, Williams Lake and Kitimat participated in the competition.

Snow Valley Skating Club skaters (some shown above in the photo) earned a total of 51

medal points and won the team trophy.

Candace Abercrombie took two bronze medals. Mikaela Carreiro won a gold and two silvers. Mariah Carvalho earned a gold, two silvers and a bronze.

Kendra Brousseau took two bronzes and a silver. Haddassah Hoffman won a gold and a silver. Aliyah Goncalves won a gold and silver. Lena Arlt-Dufresne won a bronze. Ava Galan-

te took a silver. Iris Strike won a bronze. Angela Schmidt took two silvers. Nina Gibaldo took a bronze. Amber Sealy won a gold. Brittany Abercrombie won a silver. Miranda Anderson took a bronze. Christine Ferreira won a bronze, and finally Tayah Pacheco earned a gold medal.

Snow Valley skaters are now looking forward to the Year End Skating Gala which will take place on March 17.

CONTINUING STUDIES

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VIDEO CONFERENCE COURSES All courses below offered in person too!

Looking to upgrade your training without having to travel? Do you like to have a live instructor to listen to? Then UNBC Continuing Studies video conferencing learning solutions are for you! If you are interested in having these sessions streamed into your workplace please contact us for more details. All offerings listed below will be streamed to our regional campuses in Terrace, Quesnel, and Fort St. John. Limited seats are available so please register early to avoid disappointment.

CertiďŹ cate in Mental Health and Addictions In ntrroducttio on to Mentall Healtth and Addic ctio ons

Northe ern Silvic cultu ure Committe tee Winte er Workshop Date: Feb 19 - 20 (Tues & Wed) Time: 8:00am - 4:30pm

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Date: Feb 5 - Mar 6 (Tues, Wed, Thurs) Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Date: Feb 25 (Mon) Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

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Silvvic cultture e Su urveyys for Conttract Adminisstrrattors s

Date: April 2 - 30 (Tues, Wed, Thurs) Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

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Date: May 14 - Jun 11 (Tues, Wed, Thurs) Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm

Date: Feb 27 (Wed) Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

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CertiďŹ cate in Management Excellence & Supervisory Excellence

Date: Mar 12 - 14 (Tues - Thurs) Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

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Time (Thu) 6:00pm - 9:30pm, (Fri & Sat) 8:00am - 5:00pm

UNBC Continuing Studies offers two different management certiďŹ cates, the CertiďŹ cate in Management Excellence for individuals already in a management position and the CertiďŹ cate in Supervisory Excellence designed for individuals who are hoping to move into supervisory positions, or are very new into supervisory positions.

Both certiďŹ cates are workshop-based, and consist of a combination of required core and elective workshops. Individuals will need to complete a total of 140 hours (approximately 20 days) of workshop-based training to complete their certiďŹ cates. This format allows individuals to work at their current jobs while moving forward with this training.

Customized Management CertiďŹ cates If you would like to provide your staff with speciďŹ c learning opportunities while developing their management skills then look no further. UNBC Continuing Studies can work with your organization to develop an industryspeciďŹ c management certiďŹ cate through strategic elective development.

The Rolee of OHS in Pro ojeect Man nag a em ment April 4 - 13 (Thurs, Fri & Sat)

The e Purp pose and d Role e of a Board of Dirrecttors

Date: Apr 8 - 10 (Mon - Wed) Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm

Pro oje ect Managem mentt for Nattura al Resourrce Pro ofess sion nals s Date: Apr 10 - 11 (Wed & Thurs) Time: 8:30am - 4:30pm **In addition, a one day Microsoft Project seminar will be held on April 12, but is available only at the Prince George campus.

Occupational Health and Safety CertiďŹ cate In ntrrod duc ctio on to o OHS Jan 25 - Feb 2 (Fri & Sat)

Time (Fri & Sat) 8:00am - 5:00pm

Pollic cy, Role es & Resp ponsib bilitiies Feb 28 - Mar 9 (Thurs, Fri & Sat) Time (Thu) 6:00pm - 9:30pm, (Fri & Sat) 8:00am - 5:00pm

In ntrrod duc ctio on to o Pro oje ect Manag gement April 4 - 13 (Thurs, Fri & Sat) Time (Thu) 6:00pm - 9:30pm, (Fri & Sat) 8:00am - 5:00pm For a complete list of courses for these certiďŹ cates please visit our website.

Project Management CertiďŹ cate

Date: Feb 26 (Tue) For a complete list of courses for these certiďŹ cates please visit our website.

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If you want to advance your career, UNBC’s CertiďŹ cate in Project Management is your next step. This program is designed with a key principle in mind: exceptional value with high-quality training and education in a conveniently-scheduled nine module program. This program includes important aspects meant to boost your career potential.

Course materials compliant with The Project Management Institute (PMIÂŽ). Modules are scheduled in short intensive sessions two or three days in length, approximately every three weeks. This schedule is meant to minimize interruption to work and personal life and provide time between sessions to integrate learned skills into real-life projects. You will complete your training and be prepared for the PMP Exam in less than one year.

Terrace intake starts February 22, 2013 Information Session: Come out for some snacks and learn more about this exciting new program.

Date: January 31 (Thurs) Time: 3:30pm - 4:00pm & 7:30pm - 8:00pm Location: UNBC Terrace Campus

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