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NEWS BRIEFS Youth pled guilty to arson
Three of the four charged with arson in the Integris Recycling Centre fire have pled guilty. On June 25 in B.C. Provincial Court in Fort St. James, all three of the underaged males charged in the case of the fire which destroyed the recycling centre put forward guilty pleas and were sentenced to a six-month conditional discharge and community service hours. The identities of the three young men can not be released as they were young offenders at the time of the incident. The fourth accused, Cole Godard, is scheduled to appear in court on Sept. 30 this year in Prince George. Godard was an adult at the time of the incident and therefore his name has been released.
Young leaves FSJSS Ken Young, currently the Principal of Fort St. James Secondary School, was the successful applicant for the position of Principal of Nechako Valley Secondary School (NVSS). Young, a Vanderhoof native with a variety of leadership experiences, is “excited for the opportunity to work with the school community as NVSS makes the transition to being a Grade 7-12 school.” Young said he is committed to building on the strengths of the school and collaborating with all stakeholders to make NVSS the very best 7-12 school in the province.
Search for young woman called off
After an exhaustive search effort, Fort St. James RCMP and Search and Rescue Teams have concluded their search for missing woman, Immaculate Basil. Some family and friends were continuing their own search for the young woman, however. Twenty-six year old Immaculate Basil was last seen on the night of June 13, 2013 when she and two other persons were traveling south from a cabin in the Leo Creek area, north of the Tache Reserve. RCMP were advised that Basil was missing on the evening of June 17 and RCMP along with Search and Rescue, initiated an organized ground/air/water search on the morning of June 18. A number of search and rescue (SAR) teams from the surrounding area traveled to assist with the search. Fort St. James SAR, Mackenzie SAR , Burns Lake SAR , Vanderhoof SAR and numerous volunteers from the community and surrounding areas scoured the very dense and thick forest, searching for any sign of Basil. The organized ground search consisted of volunteers on foot, on all terrain vehicles (ATVs) and included the use of an RCMP police dog. An ariel search was conducted by an RCMP fixed wing aircraft, RCMP helicopter and a private helicopter. The search area also included the Tachie River and with the use of a swift water boat, RCMP and volunteers patrolled the rivers bank and any debris pools but nothing was located. On June 21 the RCMP/SAR search was concluded after four continuous days of searching. At that point Basil had been missing for eight days. The search had scoured all relevant areas based on information provided to police. The Fort St. James RCMP said they were very grateful to the Tl’az’ten First Nation for their integral support and assistance with the ground search. Fort St. James RCMP are continuing the missing person investigation with the assistance of the North District Major Crime Unit. Any members of the public with information are encouraged to contact the RCMP or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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Hannelise Inden ducks under the boom of her sailboat as she practices her sailing skills during an introduction to sailing course put on by the Mobile Optimist Sailing School on June 27. The MOSS introduction to sailing program was a short introduction to sailing for youngsters in the area. The MOSS instructors will return at the end of July for a one-week sailing camp as well. The camps delve more deeply into teaching water safety, sailing techniques and leadership to the youth. Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier
Dissension regarding grants Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Councillor Russ Gingrich went on the record for the second time as voting against a grant in aid. Gringrich, who recently voted against a $1,000 grant in aid for the Nak’azdli Band towards their Aboriginal Day celebrations, this time voted against a $3,500 grant in aid for Music on the Mountain (MoM) Society’s annual music and art event. While Councillor Joan Burdeniuk and Councillor Riley Willick both spoke in support of MoM, Gingrich was firm in his disagreement the council give such a large amount of money towards the event. Gingrich said he has spoken to some business owners in the community and doesn’t believe the event brings money into the commu-
nity, while Willick and Burdeniuk both said the event helps increase tourism, livability and their advertising benefits the image of Fort St. James. “They do bring a lot of people into our community,” said Burndeniuk, she also said as a business person in the community she sees it benefitting business. Willick agreed and said he saw local artisans at the market held during the event and spoke of another person he knows who has been making t-shirts for the event, calling it a “trickle-down effect” for start-ups and smaller businesses in the community. Both Willick and Burdeniuk voted in favour of supporting Aboriginal Day and Music on the Mountain for $1,000 and $3,500 respectively, while Gingrich went on the record as opposed. Councillor Birdi was absent from the June 26 meeting.
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Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier There was sweat, a little blood and then at the end, there were even some tears. Ten women from Fort St. James traveled down to Whistler, B.C., to participate in the Tough Mudder 2013. The team was started by Jana Gainor, and while some who originally signed up for the event did not make the final trip, the nine others who joined Gainor all were rewarded for their efforts - with a t-shirt, a headband and a beer, and memories that will last their lives. Lisa Spingle, Renada Walstrom, Ashley Gainor, Alison Moise, Charmaigne Moise, Michelle Boschman, Hannah Phillips, Kim Repko and myself, all took part in the Whistler Tough Mudder 2013. The event is a challenge, not a race, and the obstacles courses are meant to test strength, stamina, mental toughness and teamwork through a 10-12 mile obstacle course designed by British Special Forces. The Whistler event was held at the Olympic Park on Whistler Mountain, and this was the second year the event took place there. Tough Mudder only began in 2010 and in its first year consisted of three Tough Mudders, exclusively in the United States. This year, however, there were 35 events held all over the world, with three in Canada. The Whistler course was aournd 19 km, with the route taking participants up and down a mountain with 20 obstacles to overcome along the way. There were walls, there was snow, mud, feats of strength and challenges which could only be overcome with teamwork. But the hardest thing of all to overcome was fear. In the van on the way down to Whistler, we discussed some of the obstacles, and which ones we were most concerned about, and it was interesting to compare what we had discussed to what we experienced at the event. While the Arctic En-
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Time for clarity at council Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier I believe the last two council meetings have made something abundantly clear: Mayor and council need to update or review their policy around grant in aid. Each week, grant in aid requests come in to council asking for donations for different things, and it has always seemed just a little fickle. Whether a request is granted seemingly depends on so many factors: Who else has applied the same week, whether council knows who you are or what your organization does, whether someone is there to speak to the request should council have any questions and perhaps how the council is feeling and whether they have been discussing the budget recently. While there is a policy in existence around grant in aid, councillors recently asked about what kind of policy there was, so it is clearly not something the mayor and council are all overly familiar with. The policy (available online at: https://fortstjames.civicweb.net) sets out some basic guidelines, outlining the criteria which will apparently be taken into account to assess a grant in aid’s worthiness. Criteria like: “making a specific contribution towards enhancement of the quality of life within the community,” and “travelling outside the community, having attained a recognized level of excellence in areas of recreational, academic or cultural pursuits.” At the June 12 council meeting, it surprised me
when an individual young person came in requesting $1,000 for a personal trip, which while educational, I doubt very much will ever offer any benefit to the community as a whole. The individual was not asked to explain how he was achieving some sort of “recognized level of excellence” to make himself worthy of a grant from the community. What surprised me even more was when council granted the young man $500 for this trip (perhaps thinking by cutting his request in half they were showing restraint), but then at the same meeting granted a team which promotes intercultural exchange within the community, athleticism and travel was given $400 after requesting $1,000. Council then requested the team given the $400 volunteer at Canada Day. I do not believe a request to volunteer was made to the young man walking away with $500 towards a personal trip. The request to volunteer was not at all a bad idea, I only wondered why one grant included a request for volunteer hours and one did not. In my mind it would make more sense for individuals to volunteer than a group, as many community groups are already giving to the well-being of the community and include volunteers simply to make them run - keeping an organization going takes time and effort. At the same meeting I was part of a request for $500 towards materials for a shed which will be part of Stuart Lake Sailing Club infrastructure - infrastructure for a club which is trying to bring mentorship and water safety education to the community. The club infrastructure is on public land
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and is available to all members of the club which is open to the community and very inexpensive to join and is creating activities and infrastructure for the community as a whole (which in my opinion then makes it fit within the “making a specific contribution towards enhancement of the quality of life within the community.”) I found myself speaking up for our request and had to reinforce why we deserved the entire $500, which is a relatively modest request from a club which almost never asks for anything from government. Now, while I am clearly biased in my opinion, does it not seem a slight bit odd an individual can receive $500 for a personal trip to China for little to no benefit to the greater community while a local club creating local infrastructure and operating mainly on volunteer time which will help build and maintain the community has to fight for $500? To be fair, the young man who was given $500 did attend the meeting and promised to educate people he met in China on Fort St. James, but I honestly see it as a very slim hope anyone he meets will be visiting Fort St. James sometime soon. And what about the two motocross racers who once again received a large grant in aid towards their travel costs? This is the second year in a row the pair have gotten funding from the community for their sport, which is great if we can afford it, as both riders have excelled to an exceptionally high level in their sport. However, Councillor Russ Gingrich has spoken out twice at recent meetings against granting money towards Aboriginal Day celebrations and Music on the Mountain based on fiscal constraints, but why then is he voting in
favour of giving $500 each time to individuals in one meeting? The math doesn’t make sense to me, he votes in favour of $1,000 towards three people but votes against $1,000 towards the entire community. While Councillor Gingrich did mention Aboriginal Day was not a municipal event, the $500 towards travel costs for motocross racers went to two young people who do not live within the municipality and therefore do not pay municipal taxes -would his reasoning not then transfer onto them? So if we are concerned about giving money to Nak’azdli for Aboriginal Day because it is not a municipal event, why are we giving money to individuals who live outside the municipality to travel to an event outside the region? It is good to support youth, but what about the youth who do not have the opportunity to travel or participate in expensive sports? I understand being concerned about being too free with taxpayer dollars, and looking at the criteria the applicants need to meet to realize a certain amount of benefit to the greater community which could come from the grant, but is this actually happening and how consistant is it? I would like to see some sort of consistency in choosing where to give money. The grants are an asset which can benefit the community, but they should not be used without some foresight and thoughtfulness, and from the past two and a half years of attending council meetings, I’m not sure I see a lot of this. Perhaps those basic criteria council has in place should be developed further and this could lead to some consistency and clarity.
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The View Hotel was awarded New Business of the Year at the Business Awards on June 20. The event took place at The View Hotel and was put on by the Fort St. James Chamber of Commerce. The event drew a large crowd and also saw awards handed out to The BC Liquor Store, Emily Colombo, and Bare Hands Landscaping and Design. Photo courtesy of the FSJ Chamber of Commerce
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Looking at the big picture Walter Strong Black Press As natural gas pipeline proponents queue up to seek environmental, regulatory, and finally, economic approvals, members of the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako (RDBN) wonder how much the environment and the people of North Central B.C. can sustain. Neil Milne, assistant director of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT) project for TransCanada PipeLines Limited, made a presentation to the RDBN board on June 20, 2013. The proposed 750 Kilometre pipeline would be designed, built, owned and operated by TransCanada. The pipeline would deliver natural gas from extraction fields in North East B.C. to a proposed liquid natural gas facility on Lelu Island, within the District of Port Edward. Progress Energy, a Canadian company wholly owned by Malaysian energy giant Petronas, is footing the bill for the development of the pipeline. It is still early days for the pipeline which has yet to apply for its provincial en-
vironmental assessment. If all assessment hurdles are cleared, project construction would get underway in 2015 and possibly be completed and in service by as early as 2018. During construction, the project would employ 6,000 people in 13 different work camps along the pipeline right-ofway. Once in service, the pipeline itself would not generate much employment - approximately 40 full-time employees could oversee the entire route once it is in operation - but it would generate large royalty and tax revenues. The province could expect to receive up to a quarter billion dollars in gas revenues annually, and regional districts along the right away would divy up between 20 and 25 million dollars annually in tax revenue. Regional District of Bulkely Nechako board members have entertained many visits from energy giants with news of their pipeline proposals. Conversation and questioning around the board table immediately turned to what Taylor Bachrach, RDBN
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director and Smithers mayor, termed ‘the conversation we’re not having.’ “[Regarding] the question of how many of these [pipelines] we could see, the only threshold you mention are the availability of reserves and the ability to generate the power to run the LNG facilities,” said Bachrach. “The other key thresholds are the airsheds that the LNG facilities are in - at what point do you start seeing major human health effects from burning the gas [to run the facility] - and at what point do we cross the threshold regarding carbon emissions?” Another conversation not typically on the table is the loss of timber through the massive clear-cutting required to create pipeline right-of-ways. Although numbers were not immediately available for the PRGT project, TransCanada’s other project - Coastal GasLink - would require the removal of 20 million
dollars worth of harvestable timber along the 50 metre wide right-of-way. In addition to the value of the timber harvested, and perhaps burned due to the remoteness of the pipeline route, there is the potential reduction to provincially mandated annual allowable cuts (AAC). Mills in the region rely on AACs for their supply, but the harvest level determinations are based on available timber, so any healthy timber taken out of a supply area - for whatever reason - can mean a reduced AAC for mill dependent, local economies. Rob MacDougall, RDBN director and Fort St. James mayor, upon quick calculation pointed out that even if only half the timber along the rightof-way were otherwise harvestable, it would represent enough wood supply to run a medium size mill for a year. “There’s a huge competition for timber throughout our timber
supply areas,” MacDougall said. “For forestrybased communities, this is front-and-centre.” Bill Miller, RDBN director and chairperson, elaborated that multiple pipeline proposals each taking different routes from north to west could have a multiplier effect on the amount of timber permanently removed from the working forest supply base.
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From Page 3 Fitness levels aside, the course takes teamwork, and the mental challenges each person struggled with at different times through the event meant each person needed a little help from Two North of 50 team members pose the group at different points, in clean shirts before the event. Rewhich was amazing to watch. nada Walstrom (left) and Alison MoiPeople overcame fears, pain se (right) completed the challenge and fatigue to complete the with their eight fellow teammates. Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier course, and there were some shedding tears of relief at the the town proud, and ran with Fort St. end. Pushing yourself and your team- James emblazoned on their t-shirts mates through the kind of course the right over their hearts. This year 19,000 people had signed event included makes you appreciate what you can accomplish and how re- up for the Whistler Tough Mudder warding pushing yourself past where event and over the 35 events planned for this year, in excess of 460,000 peoyou thought your limits were. The ladies of Fort St. James did ple are expected to take part.
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The old courthouse building may get new life yet. Despite a decision by council to potentially return the building to the province when the lease runs out this year, the building may yet go back to the community. Joyce Helweg of the Fort St. James Community Foundation has stepped forward to stop the municipality from releasing the building. Instead Helweg is proposing a number of groups in the community come together to look at cleaning the building up to make it more usable and then allowing those groups to use it for storage and meeting space. Mayor and council discussed her proposal at the last council meeting and agreed to look into the feasibility of changing the use of the building so it could be kept. Helweg has spoken to the Girl Guides, the Fort St. James Community Arts Council, Fort St. James Rotary Club and the Fort St. James Community Foundation, all of whom are in favour of keeping the building.
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