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A PLANNED wood pellet plant here is a crucial part of the equation needed for the development of a value-added forest industry, says one of its proponents. The plant, the planning for which is the subject of an agreement struck last week by forest tenure holder Coast Tsimshian Resources and pellet producer Pinnacle Renewable Energy, would use fibre now considered waste, says Coast Tsimshian chief executive officer Wayne Drury. “As you know, using that part of the [forest] profile has always been a challenge,” said Drury. That's because the percentage of fibre in the area which can't be used in a sawmill to manufacture lumber tends to be higher than elsewhere, creating mountains of residue which then need to be dealt with. “We've always said we've been looking for a way to use that waste. We really need to add value and that's been our objective,” said Drury in explaining the reasoning behind the agreement with Pinnacle, which has six pellet plants in BC, including ones in Houston and Burns Lake. He described the agreement between Coast Tsimshian and Pinnacle as a good fit because one can supply the fibre and the other the manufacturing expertise and both have extensive business experience in the region.
Wood pellets are formed from waste wood by applying pressure which also results in moisture being squeezed out. They are burned in furnaces and stoves in residences and commercial buildings. Drury said Terrace is a logical place for a wood pellet plant because of the availability of fibre, because it would complement Pinnacle's other plants along Hwy16 and because of the closeness to an export facility Pinnacle has opened in Prince Rupert. For now, the favoured location for the plant is the far western end of Coast Tsimshian's Keith Ave. Poirier log yard where it is bounded by Frank St. CN's rail line and Hwy16 run along the northern end of the property, providing easy access either by road or by rail to Pinnacle's Prince Rupert export terminal. “That's where we'd like it to be but the final decision will depend upon an evaluation of it and other locations,” said Drury. The size of the plant, how much fibre it can take in and how much it will produce and its cost has yet to be decided. Drury said Coast Tsimshian and Pinnacle will be looking for additional fibre from other forest companies in the area and that the resulting volume will help establish the mill's output.
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City defends spirit bear trademark By JOSH MASSEY THE CITY of Terrace has spent thousands of dollars in a quietlyfought battle over the past decade defending its decision to trademark several names used to describe the Kermode bear, a creamy whitefurred genetic strain of the black bear which is only found in northwestern B.C. The Kitasoo/Xaisais First Nation and Terrace share the Spirit Bear trademark with Terrace and Terrace has also trademarked Kermode, Kermodei, and Moksgm'ol, the Tsimshian name for the Ker-
mode. Since 2006, the Kitasoo/ Xaixais and the city have successfully challenged three attempts by businesses to use the name Spirit Bear. Terrace has also lost one attempt to oppose a company using the Kermode name. Over the past four years, the city has spent an average of $5,000 opposing trademark infringements on the various Kermode-related trademarks, according to city finance director Ron Bowles. So far this year the city has paid $5,700 in legal fees to defend the trademarks. In 2012 it spent $4,700, said Bowles.
The latest action launched by Terrace and the Kitasoo, whose traditional territory takes in Kitasoo Spirit Bear Conservancy where 120 of the estimated 400800 world population of Kermodes reside, is aimed at Urban Distilleries of Kelowna, a company marketing gin and vodka brands using the name Spirit Bear. The city's 2006 policy says that the Kermode names “should not be used in a manner that denigrates or causes the majesty, uniqueness or integrity of the bear to be called into question.” In filing a court order against
Urban Distilleries, Terrace and Kitasoo officials say they are defending the name Spirit Bear against inappropriate use of the local animal to sell an alcoholic beverage. Terrace first trademarked the names in 2004, and then in 2006 the Kitasoo First Nation council, which represents the Kitasoo and the Xaixais in the village of Klemtu, agreed to mutually trademark the Spirit Bear name with the city and to share the cost of opposing others from infringing on the mark. In April 2012, the two parties worked out an agreement with one business, Spirit Bear Coffee Com-
pany, which will see money based on royalties divided between Terrace and Kitasoo—a 5 per cent cut of royalties. Bowles said that so far the city has not received any payments from the Spirit Bear Coffee company. The trademark challenge Terrace lost in September was to a Nanaimo-based company that produces phytoplankton for energy supplements and beauty products, Canadian Pacific Phytoplankton Ltd, wanting to use the mark Kermode Warrior.
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Pellets would be shipped overseas One potential customer already being talked about is Skeena Sawmills, located right across the highway from the Poirier log yard. “What our goal is to establish something that will benefit the entire area,” said Drury. He did add that the ultimate goal of Coast Tsimshian is to open a sawmill, fleshing out the equation needed to earn revenue from the forest resource and so that it can ship finished products to China instead of raw logs. Formed in the early part of the last decade Coast Tsimshian Resources is owned by the Lax Kw'alaams band of Port Simpson. It gained prominence by buying the majority of the forest tenure once held by Skeena Cellulose, which had been the region's dominant forest industry player until it went out of busi-
ness in the late 1990s. Coast Tsimshian was also one of the first aboriginal-owned forest companies to market logs in China. This isn't the first time Coast Tsimshian has looked for a partner to further its value added aims. In September 2010 it announced a partnership with a Vancouver company called Global Bio-Coal to build a $30 million plant using microwave technology to turn fibre into coal at the Poirier log yard. That partnership ended in late 2011 and Coast Tsimshian has been looking for other opportunities since then. Other companies have also looked at setting up various forms of bio-fuel manufacturing facilities in the Terrace area over the years. That list included Vattenfall, a Swedish energy giant.
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Couple wants quiet A LOCAL couple has told city council that noise from cargo shipping operations across the street from their South Terrace residence has kept them awake half the night for the last year and a half. After attempting to address the issue with the staff at the Canadian Freightways building near the corner of Feeney and Kalum, as well Terrace city staff, Eduino Carreiro petitioned council directly at last month’s council meeting. Carreiro describes the truck activity by his 4531 Feeney residence as “unbelievably noisy”, saying that he and his wife “can’t sleep past 1:30 in the morning.” “Vans show up, lights shine in the window,” he said. “I’ve had bay doors slammed in my face.” Carreiro said that Feeney Ave. has become one of the busiest places in Terrace, and that he thinks the city’s noise bylaw should apply in this case to the commercial operators who work out of a building beside his house in a residential neighbourhood. “It’s taken a physical, emotional, and psychological toll on us... they should be responsible for building some sound and light barriers and show some sense of community accountability,” said Carreiro. In the past, he said, Canadian Freightways had responded for a period of time by parking their trucks on the north side of their building, which lowered the level of noise, however soon this changed, and then another company moved in called Loomis Express, which also has bright and loud night operations.
This presentation by the distressed resident created a debate between council and staff, and tied into the growing theme of how to handle the expansion of busy commercial work in the Keith district. Director of development services David Block said that the particular building has been operating there for several decades and that, even though new building bylaws require buffer zones be set up between new developments and adjacent properties, the city can’t force Loomis Express or the other Feeney Ave. businesses to comply because the building they operate from predates the law. The city’s noise bylaw, which has stipulations mainly for residential zones, according to Block, states that if the use of a property changes then the new building codes would apply, but Block said that doesn’t necessarily include increased activity. Mayor Dave Pernarowski suggested that “more use means a change in activity,” and so the noise bylaw could be interpreted to apply in the case of more delivery trucks and forklifts (the late night operation of which Carreiro said was the main problem). “We don’t have the authority to say what hours they can operate in that zone,” David Block added in his explanation of why cracking down on the noise wasn’t within the city’s power. He added a letter was sent to the company Nov. 5. In the end a motion was passed to have city staff come up with several recommendations about how the noise issue could be resolved.
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CHRISTINA COPLEY, a medical radiography practicum student from the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, demonstrates a brand new x-ray machine now in service at Mills Memorial Hospital. Manufactured by Carestream Health, the machine takes the hospital into the digital age with technicians now being able to review an image immediately after it is taken. The $400,000 cost, including room renovations, was divided between the Northern Health Authority and the North West Regional Hospital District.
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IT’S THE second time in Terrace for the RCMP detachment’s new staff sergeant who took up his post late last month. Staff Sergeant Sid Lecky’s first posting in Terrace was between 2005-2008 when he was a corporal in charge of one of the detachment’s watch patrols. This time, Lecky is the second in command at the detachment behind its commander, Inspector Dana Hart. Lecky is now in charge of the operations in the detachment, over-
seeing the four watches and a few other things, he said. “I enjoyed my time here. I like the outdoors and fishing,” said Lecky about his first assignment here. After leaving Terrace, he was promoted to sergeant and went to Prince George as an advisory non-commissioned officer for the aboriginal policing services throughout the north for about two years. Then he made a lateral move as sergeant to
Mackenzie as detachment commander there for three years before being promoted to staff sergeant and returning here. With more than twice as many officers as Mackenzie, Lecky said working at the Terrace detachment will have “a lot more challenges.” “In theory, 8 to 4 but I don’t think I’ve ever worked that in my life,” Lecky said about his work hours, adding the hours are usually an hour or two longer than
that. He won’t be going out on calls but will be seen around the community quite a bit. “I prefer to get out of the office when I can,”
he said. And with the posting being for five years, Lecky will be around for quite a while. “It’s not a stopover for me,” he said.
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COPPER MOUNTAIN trailer court owners Ken and Rusty Blanes are happy with the new regional district’s mobile home policy. Mobile park owners are responsible to ensure replacement mobile homes are compliant with sewer regulations, building and fire codes, continues the policy. The policy will be reviewed in three years. At the Nov. 22 meeting, trailer park owners Lorna Morrison, Ken Blanes and Ron Townley came to thank the people involved, saying the policy is an example of governments working with people. “Thirteen months ago, one afternoon we were approached by a regional district employee telling us we would be sued if we tried to replace [a nonconforming mobile home],” said Lorna Morrison. “And 13 months later, we’ve come to say thank you,” she said, naming Pellegrino, rural Terrace area director Doug McLeod, city representative Bruce Bidgood and Thornhill director Ted Ramsey, all of whom worked on the policy with the mobile park owners.
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RURAL TRAILER park owners and the regional district have reached an agreement on a policy that will allow people to place mobile homes on vacant pads and to replace mobile homes even if the locations don’t conform with current zoning regulations. The policy eases worries of a shortage of lower cost housing in rural areas should the regional district clamp down on non-conforming mobile home situations. The new Legal Non-conforming Mobile Home Park Policy, adopted at the Nov. 22 regional district board meeting, says that existing “mobile home units will be allowed a one-time replacement if accompanied by a Replacement Declaration and Agreement identifying the structure by unit number and registration number,” and that the Regional District is saved from any liability associated with the replacement unit. Mobile home pads that are vacant “will be allowed to be occupied with a mobile home and further allowed a one-time only replacement...” with the same conditions being satisfied as the existing mobile homes, the policy continues. At the regional district meeting in June of this year, trailer park owners Ken Blanes, who owns Copper Mountain trailer court, and Ron Townley stated their case that if the regional district stopped allowing non-conforming trailers that it would cut down on affordable housing in the area. After that meeting, Regional District of KitimatStikine planner Ted Pellegrino said the regional district was also seeking legal opinions on the Stroshin supreme court decision, which set rules on non-conforming trailers and trailer parks. In that decision, the supreme court had decided that non-conforming mobile homes in a trailer park can’t be replaced if that person moves the current trailer somewhere else. Eight properties, some with more than one lot, were identified locally as having mobile home parks with non-conforming status. Seven are in Thornhill and one is in Jackpine Flats, ranging in size from four pads to 28 identified pads and all but one park contained vacant pads. According to the new policy, replacement mobile homes must conform to building standards, have proper permits and “may be no closer than six metres to the nearest mobile home or addition.” A single-wide can be replaced with another single-wide, and a double-wide may be replaced with a single-wide or double-wide, the policy says.
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Saying thank you to the many people who helped save his life By ANDRÉ CARREL
M
y lights went out early on a Monday in late November. This had happened to me before. About six years ago it happened at highway speed; the car was totaled and my wife Sue and I were lucky to be unhurt. Last spring, while shopping with Sue in a local supermarket, it happened again; I simply keeled over. I regained consciousness after a brief pause, and felt just fine. In both instances, after extensive examination the doctors could find no cause. After this latest incident Sue took me to the emergency ward at Mills Memorial Hospital, but as in previous incidents the medical examination revealed nothing of an unusual nature. Everything was in order, but this time, just as we were leaving the emergency ward, my lights went out again. There is no better place than a hospital emergency room to experience what, on previous occasions, I had flippantly referred to as a Microsoft moment. I was then plastered with sensors and connected to computers with bundles of wires and tubes. Before the day was out the computers recorded two more such heart stopping incidents, one lasting a full 19 seconds. I was fitted with more electronic stuff leaving me so connected that when my heart missed just one single beat a computer would trigger an electric shock to restart my ticker’s ticking. After spending the night in the emergency ward I was transferred by air ambulance to Prince George University Hospital where I was to be fitted with a pacemaker. For three days and nights, first in Terrace and then in Prince George, I was flat on my back, not strapped down but barely able to move, poked by a multitude of needles connected to tubes for oxygen and intravenous drips, and hooked to bundles of wires connecting me to a collection of computers. Whenever my heart missed just one beat I got zapped by a computer. I cannot recall how often I was tasered, but I do remember at 5 a.m. on my second day in Prince George when my heart missed nine beats in a row and the computer responded with a rapid fire barrage. What a way to start the day! For the three days leading up to the operation I could neither eat nor sleep. I had my book with me, but reading under those conditions was rather awkward, and concentrating was near impossible. I had lots of time to think. I set out to count the number of people who had assisted me. I counted the doctors, nurses, paramedics and other care-givers; I added the pilots who flew the air ambulance from Vancouver to take me to Prince George, the ambulance drivers
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who drove me to and from the airports, and the social worker who attended to take care of any worries I may have had. I also added the cleaners and maintenance workers I observed silently performing their jobs. I could only estimate the number of dispatchers, kitchen staff, and lab technicians working out of my sight. And as a retired administrator I could not ignore the many people engaged to coordinate the work being performed by all the front-line workers. I could only guess at the education, training, and skills of the people working on and around me. What I experienced with certainty, however, no guessing involved, was the attention all these people paid to what they were doing, and the attitude they displayed in the performance of their work. What they all had in common was a positive, friendly, and reassuring attitude. Theirs was not artificial commercialized robo-call friendliness. It did not just feel genuine, it was genuine. They honestly did care about me and how I felt. They went out of their way to do anything they could to make me feel as comfortable as possible, and to minimize my concerns, my apprehensions, and my fears. They did not know me, and I had never before met any of the hundreds of people engaged to take
care of me in these critical hours of my life. It is unlikely that I will ever again encounter most of them. Some may argue that all these people were only doing their jobs, doing what they are paid to do. But were they? Did the Mills maintenance workers urgently called up
“They went out of their way to make me feel as comfortable as possible.”
to the emergency ward receive extra pay, or maybe a bonus, for having picked André Carrel up off the emergency ward’s floor? Would the cleaners who kept my station spotless, around the clock, to protect me from possible infections have suffered a cut in pay had I not been there? I cannot think of a single person involved in taking care of me in some manner during that week who earned extra money, or who would have earned less had my heart not had a Microsoft moment in the hospital. With their earnings assured, why were all these people, without exception, so friendly, so positive
and so reassuring? Those who had access to my name used it and introduced themselves by name. I am embarrassed to have to admit that I failed miserably in my efforts to muster the decency to retain their names. The sincerity of their friendliness stood in stark contrast to the demeaning tasks many had to perform. So why did they do it? Where do they get the strength to radiate such positive attitudes in the performance of their work? I gave up counting workers as the count exceeded 100. I decided instead to focus on the budget. I attempted to estimate the cost of the wages and benefits of the people who took care of my needs and wants; the cost of the computers and their programs, and of the many sensors, wires, needles, and tubes connecting me to them. I set out to estimate the cost of the facilities, the furnishings, and all those supplies, from needles to towels, from oxygen to soap. I soon had to give up on that project as well – too much information for my limited brain. What was obvious was that the cost of it all was well beyond my means. Even if I were to set a world record for longevity, the taxes I would be paying as a pensioner for the rest of my life would fall well short of covering the cost of fixing me up.
That is when I decided to shift the focus of my reflections to those who would end up being stuck with paying for the costs I was in the process of piling up: that is you. It bought to mind a remark by the late British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, as she was being interviewed by Women’s Own magazine in October 1987: “There is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first.” I now know with absolute certainty that Maggie Thatcher was wrong. If all I had to rely on was me and my family, their herculean efforts notwithstanding, Sue would be a widow today, and Matthew and Deanna would no longer have their grandpa. Our family savings and all the money my grandchildren could have scraped together by collecting wine bottles would fall far short of covering the costs associated with supplying and installing my pacemaker. That is not to say that my grandchildren will not end up having to make a contribution. They will, particularly so if the current fixation in our political discourse on government programs and the taxes needed to pay for them prevails. With that realization my thoughts turned to the more familiar ground of my interests, my passion for democracy’s philosophy. People in their communities, by whatever definition we choose to apply to the term, form societies of which they are individual members. We are not production or consumption units of an economic system, we are people. We, all of us, have the capacity to find ourselves, wholly unprepared and when we least expect it, in a situation of utter dependence on others, on total strangers albeit members of our society. Philosophically I have held to that belief for many years, and by the time my heart was disconnected from the Taser to run smoothly on cruise control, that belief was anchored in solid rock. I was returning home to Terrace on the overnight bus from Prince George when I concluded that the only possible way I could thank all the people who took care of me, directly and indirectly, was to publicly acknowledge what they had done for me, a total stranger. To you who took care of me, from doctor to cleaner and administrator to researcher, and to all the members of my society who will have the responsibility to pay the full cost of all the goods and services I have benefited from, thank you … from the bottom of my heart. A retired public sector administrator, André Carrel lives in Terrace and is a columnist for The Terrace Standard.
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Speed “I feel the need ... the need for speed.” From Top Gun, the movie. HAVING spent $14 billion on highways over the past decade, the provincial Liberal government is now wondering if it should let people apply a little more pressure on the pedal by embarking on a review of highway speed regulations. Specifically, the province is wondering if speed limits should be increased on long stretches of highway between communities. It’s as if the province is now saying, “Hey, we just spent a wad of cash on asphalt ... now go have some fun.” The real challenge is not in engineering highways so they are safer by widening shoulders, putting in passing lanes, installing plenty of information signs and the like. The real challenge is the person behind the wheel of any vehicle. Ask any police officer who patrols the province’s highways and the answer will be the same – accidents happen from people who think they can drive safely at any speed or by aggressive drivers who are absolutely convinced they need to be someplace 10 minutes faster. Any review by the province needs to consider the human factor before unleashing higher speed limits. In any event, the province seems to have written off northwestern B.C. Only two speed review meetings are scheduled for the north – one in Dawson Creek and the other in Prince George. ESTABLISHED APRIL 27, 1988
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f Oprah had any inkling of how completely her efforts to better my life have failed, she would quit trying. During her TV show’s successful 25-year run, I watched as many episodes as my responsibilities permitted, until she engaged ‘experts’ like Dr. Phil. Gradually I tired of his know-it-all advice for moms, and cures for every form of marital or social dysfunction, to the point where sometimes I accurately predicted what he’d recommend to correct the situation. Since she began her O Magazine some 12 years ago, I’ve been a subscriber, sharing each issue with my daughter and granddaughters to make better use of the magazine’s high cost. I don’t know which articles they look forward to. I skim past fashions with $380 coats, $90 blouses and knee-high $600 boots with stilt heels; wines (off limits for anyone on blood thinners, and breathes there a senior who isn’t on warfarin?); and recipes for party fare or flare. I favour Suze Orman’s financial advice, Martha Beck’s lively pieces on per-
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CLAUDETTE SANDECKI sonal relations, and essays by or feature articles about women who have overcome hardships or survived health threats. They stand out as individuals whose life stories have much to teach as they entertain. Yet issue after issue Oprah’s enthusiasm for improving my life never wavers. Take her May 2011 article, “O’s Guide to Aging Beautifully.” I long ago accepted my fading youthfulness – so long as I am able to safely care for myself; indulge pastimes such as playing piano and walking my dogs; and don’t drool in public, I can overlook my Shar-
pei forehead wrinkles. Keeping my weight in check has been a lifelong battle, as it was for Oprah until she pitched her pilates mat three years ago and loosened her corset strings. But has that deterred Oprah or her editorial team? They never even hiccuped. In January 2011, her index listed “Weight Loss Made Simple: The Only Tip You’ll Ever Need.” Like any dieter, I hoped for an effortless tip. What she doled out was old, tried and true advice – get moving. When she wasn’t advising me on body image or health, she was tackling my home. Throughout 2010, she tried to wear down my defences with one article after another. Her first try, in June, was “De-Clutter Your Life,” perhaps thinking that too much ‘stuff’ was impeding my transformation. While she still had me off balance from that onslaught, in the same issue she followed up with “The Secret of Happiness.” Regularly every three months or so, she prints another decluttering article, perhaps for a different room. In September 2010, she offered me choices, “106
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The Mail Bag Pipeline end run?
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TECHNICIAN WITH old BC Hydro meter and notice warning against its removal and replacement with a smart meter.
Time to stand up to new meters Dear Sir: I thought that the initials B.C. meant owned by the people of B.C. for B.C. But after a recent phone call and a letter from BC Hydro, both stating that I had a choice of three options: 1. Standard meter with radio on. 2. A radio off meter
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one time set up of $100 plus $20 a month 3. Old meter for $35 a month plus electricity. The phone call stated that we had until Dec. 1 to make up our minds. I said to the person on the other end of the telephone line that my choice was to keep my old meter and to not have to pay the $35
monthly charge. She informed me that BC Hydro would shut the electricity off if I didn’t pay. Funny, when California owed BC Hydro, they didn’t shut their power off. Is it just me or does it seem like BC Hydro is fleecing all residents of B.C. We have a new hydro
line going through our northwest B.C. The government in 2009 had it bid out at $395 million. So far, it’s only $746 million and it’s not finished yet. Guess who gets to pay for this overrun. I think that everyone in B.C. should wake up and complain. There has been no study done,
no consulting, and no care for the health of the residents of B.C. There are cities in the USA that have banned smart meters. B.C. residents, stand up and let BC Hydro know we don’t want electromagnetic radiation in our province. Willy Cure, Terrace, B.C.
Dear Sir: A while back a few of us were saying that BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark will get approval for the LNG and then allow Enbridge to slide in alongside. Because of this I switch I am no longer in favour of supporting LNG (of which I strongly supported because of it being the less worse of two evils). FYI, in Alberta, the Alberta Pipefitters Union is up in arms with Enbridge because they will be only hiring 26 people for the Alberta portion of the line. How many jobs in Terrace? Maybe two or three then? We should ask Enbridge’s Janet Holder about this again, see if she is more forthcoming, because you know she does have a pretty good idea as they are likely getting their manpower lists in order. Ask her again. Ask her if bitumen sinks or floats too, just for giggles. Keith Cummings, Telkwa, B.C.
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Small is not only beautiful, it’s necessary
or over half a century, we have been conditioned by the assumption that ‘more is better!’ More money, more employment, more fitness, more health, more cookies, more information! But is ‘more’ really ‘better’? In 1973, a British economist named E.F. Schumacher published Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. This collection of essays championed small technologies that empowered individuals, arguing that work should be meaningful, efficient, and congruent with natural processes. As such, its suggestions created a sharp contrast to most industrial work: repetitive, boring, environmentally destructive, designed to flow most benefits to managerial élites. Further to Schumacher’s theories, growth per se is not necessarily good, and use of natural resources should be accounted for as liquidation of capital, not income, a distinction that takes into consideration the unsustainable processes of using up natural
resources and turning them into waste. Recently, our MP Nathan Cullen hosted a useful public discussion of the implications of energy development projects planned for the northwest. Panel members included three women representing local perspectives, an environmentalist, and a representative of Shell Oil, one of the companies promoting the construction of a liquefied natural gas export facility nearby. Members of the audience questioned these people regarding various concerns. A most interesting question was put to the Shell representative, a woman who made clear to the meeting that Shell felt ultimately responsible to its shareholders. (Loosely paraphrased, she said the company owed shareholders responsible use of their money to earn a return; however, she acknowledged that some shareholders expressed anxiety regarding the climate change implications of oil and gas development.) The man at the microphone
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AL LEHMANN asked her, “Is there any point at which Shell would say that they’ve made enough now— a hundred billion, a trillion?” Though she was a smooth spokesperson, she appeared momentarily flummoxed. She shrugged, then repeated her earlier explanation. A friend recently returned from Africa, where, he said, people living on a dollar a day ap-
peared happier than most North Americans. To me, having only a dollar a day would be terrifying, but his observation is instructive. Humans don’t always need more to be happy. Smallness (as efficiency) has more recently been emphasized in the field of architecture. In the 1990’s in Europe, the CEPHEUS project (Cost Efficient Passive Houses as European Standards) was a demonstration of how houses could apply modern technology and design to use less than 10 Watts of energy per square metre of living space. Designs usually feature passive solar gain—hence the term ‘Passivhaus.’ Thermal bridging (conductive elements in the walls that move heat from a house’s interior to the exterior) is largely eliminated through careful construction, and windows and frames are crafted to lose very little heat. Ventilation systems steal heat from the exiting air to heat the incoming air, limiting heat loss. Simple human metabolism
has been shown to contribute significantly to the ambient temperature in these passive structures; with fewer people in the house, the temperature declines. One such house built in Saskatchewan was heated in winter with a hair dryer! What an energy footprint! If economics is meant to represent something real, that is, the values of real transfers of energy and material among producers and consumers, it’s obvious that economic growth must end sooner or later. Resources all have various limitations in supply; the planet is finite. How do we transition smoothly to a sustainable economy in which we all have enough? Industrial growth produces abundance, but it does so extremely unevenly and causes enormous natural destruction in the process. The political paradigms of left and right may have outlived their usefulness. Now, and in future, we must focus on large and small, and on green and brown. Retired English teacher Al Lehmann lives in Terrace, B.C.
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TErracE WinTEr acTiviTiEs GuidE Kidz Fitness (9+) Cost: FREE Location: Sportsplex Date: Jan 8–Feb 5 Feb 12–Mar 12 Ballet Fit (16+) Dance Express (5-7) Tuesdays @4:00–4:45pm This class is suited to teens and adults with no prior ballet experience who want to Encourage and inspire children freedom Come out of the cold and warm up withthrough our fitnessthe for kids, warm up, cardio, endurance, strength and stretching all games, included. props and music to increase their fitness level, increase mobility and flexibility and move with grace and of movement. We will use Just for the kids! poise. All levels encouraged to participate as the instructor will challenge you at stimulate activate thein curious creative spirit of Parents and are welcome to join if availableand space.
Welcome to the land of “ing” playing, skating, swimming and dancing – everything is possible at Terrace Sportplex this Winter…
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Busy Bees Playtime (3-5) Busy Bees’ qualified and experienced instructor will offer developmentally appropriate fun experiences in an environment of excellence. Our goal is to provide an atmosphere for positive social interactions for all children. OurThe program offers daily creative art Get Out Of Cold… chool activities, water/sand play, playdough. puzzles, table & Into and Thefield Sportsplex This Winter! Bees Playtime top toys,(3-5) trips with swimming and skating. $85.00/$56.00 Monthly registration Please bring indoor shoes and healthy snack! Preschool Busy Bees Wednesday Playtime (3-5) Cost: $85/Monthly registration Monday, & Friday Cost: $85.00/$56.00 Monthly registration GetTuesday Out Of The Cold… Monday, Wednesday & Friday &/OR &Wednesday Thursday “NEW” Monday, & Friday &/OR Tuesday & Thursday “NEW”Winter! & Into Sportsplex The Sportsplex This Location: on: Sportsplex Location: Sportsplex Date: Jan June @ 9 11:00 am Jan-June @9:00–11:00am Date: Preschool Jan-June @9:00–11:00am
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your level. Classes will focus on stretches, strength, coordination and artistry. each child and develop greater body awareness. Dance Express (5-7) Cost: $115/12 - Registration ONLY Cost: $32/8 Ballet Fit (16+) Cost: $40.00/10 Set I - $32.00/8 Set II Cost: $95.00/10 - Registration ONLY Location: Sportplex Location:Sportsplex Sportsplex Location: Location: Skeena School/Dance Room Date: Jan 15–Feb 14 Date: Jan 14–Feb 20 Date: JanFeb 14–Feb Date: Jan 16–Feb 15 19–Mar 6 14 Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 8 – 9:00 pm Wednesdays @8:30–9:30pm Thursdays @4:00–4:45pm FebTuesdays 18–Mar& 13 Fridays @7:15-8:15pm Your little one will develop skills and confidence in this fun and imaginative class. Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 4:30 – 5:15 pm This class is suited to teens and adults with no prior ballet experience who want to inHe/she will have a great time dancing while an introduction to ballet and jazz are presented.
Join for fun and Adventure friendship! Spring Break Camp (6-12)
StayRed active spring(11-14) with our Adventure Leaders! Crossthis Babysitting $70.00/2 OurCost: leaders will teach you all about sports from ball Location: Sportsplex sports, swimming, skating and much more. Date:dance,Feb 16 & 23 Saturdays @9:00–3:15pm Cost: $50/5 This is an excellent way to prepare young adults to Location: Sportsplex be responsible and confident babysitters. Skills Date: 17–March 21safety - Setskills I necessaryMarch for caring for children and are a few March items that24–March will be covered in -this 2 day 28 Set II course. Monday-Friday @1 – 4:00 pm
Get your childkindergarten. ready for(3-5) kindergarten. Busy Bees Playtime Creative Movements (3-4) our child ready for Home Alone (9–12) Shapes, letters andMonthly more willregistration be taught through play, group art activities and circle$25.00/1 Cost: numbers, $85.00/$56.00 Cost: Encourage and inspire children through freedom es, numbers, and more will be taught the through play, group art activities and circle time, letters focusing Monday, on weekly themes. Wednesday & Friday X-tra Basketball/Volleyball Location: Sportsplex Please bring a&/OR snack and indoor shoes. (No“NEW” classesand in December) Tuesday & Thursday of movement. We will use games, props music to Mar 2 focusing on weekly themes. Just Date: can’t get enough of Basketball or Volleyball? Need Location: Sportsplex Saturday @9:00–1:00pm andindoor activateshoes. the curious creative of e bring a stimulate snack (Noand classes in spirit December) Date: and Jan-June(3-4) @9:00–11:00am Creative Movements extra practice Our leaders will organize fun Does your childtime? know how to make emergency calls?
crease their fitness level, increase mobility and flexibility and move with grace and poise. Ballet Fit (16+)
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$95.00/10 - Registration ONLY Skeena School/Dance Room
Taste of Tai Chi Cost: Register drop in @$3.25 a class Location: Sportsplex Date: Jan 8–Feb 5 Feb 12–Mar 12 Tuesdays @10:30-11:30am Tai Chi is recognized as helping you accumulate energy, leaving you feeling refreshed when you finish. The slow dance like speed of Tai Chi creates balance, flexibility and calmness. Tai Chi is very effective at relieving stress
TherapeuticDate: Touch Workshop Jan 16–Feb 15 (16+) Wednesdays @8:30–9:30pm Cost: $30.00/1Fridays – Includes Lunch @7:15-8:15pm This class is suited to teens and adults with no prior ballet experience who want to inLocation: Sportsplex Chair Yoga for Seniors crease their fitness level, increase mobility and flexibility and move with grace and Date: Feb 9 This is a gentle yoga class for everyone. Nopoise. matter what age you are or what Saturday @8:45–3:00pm Touch Workshop (16+) This workshop in Therapeutic Touch will help you how to assist someone as wel condition you are in you can experience the Therapeutic health benefi ts ofLunch yoga. All learn levels Cost: $30.00/1 – Includes Sportsplex yourself. Location: TT is notFeb magic…it is not a “Healing Modality”...it is however a relaxation Date: 9 at your level. encouraged to join as the instructor as will challenge you therapy and a relaxedSaturday body @8:45–3:00pm will begin to heal itself as best it can. This workshop in Therapeutic Touch will help you learn how to assist someone as well Cost: Register/drop in @ $3.25Work with Gary who studied and practiced Therapeutic Touch in the as yourself. TT is not magic…it is not a “Healing Modality”...it is however a relaxation therapy a relaxed body will begin heal itselfas as best lower mainland forand ten years and fivetoyears partit can. of the TT Team at Location: Sportsplex Work with Gary who studied and practiced Therapeutic Touch in the the Royal Columbian Hospital. lower mainland for ten years and five years as part of the TT Team at “NEW” Cost: Location: Date:
Chair Yoga for Seniors Register drop in @$3.25 a class Sportsplex Jan 9–Feb 6 Feb 13–Mar 13 Wednesdays @10:30-11:30am This is a gentle yoga class for everyone. No matter what age you are or what condition you are in you can experience the health benefits of yoga. “NEW” Cost: Location: Date:
Senior Zumba Register drop in @$3.25 a class Sportsplex Jan 11–Feb 8 Feb 15–Mar 15 Fridays @10:30-11:30am This popular class is now available in a modified low impact format, providing accessibility for seniors and those with mobility challenges. Zumba is an exhilarating, effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance fitness-party.
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the Royal Columbian Hospital. Jan 6–Feb 5 Meditation &Meditation Stress& Reduction Stress ReductionClasses Classes (16+)(16+) Feb 12–Mar 12 Cost: Cost: $60.00/6$60.00/6 Sportsplex Mondays & Wednesdays Location: @ 10:30 Location: -11:30 am Sportsplex Date: Jan 28–Mar 11
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Mondays @8:00-9:30pm Janmeditation 28–Mar 11 Learn skills to enhance your physical, mental and spiritual well-being. This is@8:00-9:30pm a journey to self-exploration and discovery. Mondays
These 6 classes will build on each other using tried and true methods. Forever Fit Learn meditation skills to enhance your physical, mental and spiritual each child and develop body Cost: $40.00/10 I -greater $32.00/8 Set II awareness. Get your child ready forSet kindergarten. & Home will learn 1 Aid and andHe/she practical practice ofFire skills andsafety. gameReduce play your for worries both by giving them is aisjourney to self-exploration and discovery. Location: Sportsplex Shapes, numbers, letters and more will be taught through play, group art activities and circle responsible problem solving skills for when they are alone. For anyone looking for a non-impactwell-being. workoutThis this the one for you. Stretching, Seniors Cost: $32/8 These 6 classes will Forever Fit build on each other using tried and true methods. Basketball & Volleyball. Mondays weSaver’s will practice ive Movements (3-4) Each participant receives a Red Cross People Certificate. Date: Jan 14 time, focusing on15–Feb weekly themes. Cost: Register or drop in for $3.25 a class strength, cardio and balance will all be covered. Great way to keep in shape as the Location: Sportsplex Location: Sportsplex Feb 19–Mar 14 Please bringSet a snack indoor shoes. (No Volleyball, Wednesdays Basketball practice. Come out for $40.00/10 I -–and $32.00/8 Set II classes in December) Date: Jan 7–Feb 7 snow falls. Date: Jan 14 Feb 6 Tuesdays & Thursdays @3:30-4:00pm Feb 18–Mar 14 Seniors practice and stay for friends and FUN! Mondays @10:30–11:30am on: Sportsplex Your little one will 18 develop skills13 and confidence in this fun and imaginative class. Creative Movements Cost: Register/drop in for $3.25 &/or Thursdays @1:00-2:00pm Feb –(3-4) Mar Forever Fit Cost: $2/drop in He/she will have a great time while are presented. Cost: $40.00/10 Set Idancing - $32.00/8 Setan II introduction to ballet and jazz Cost: Register or drop in for workout $3.25then a class Jan 15–Feb 14 For anyone looking for a non-impact this is the one for Location: Sportsplex Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 4 - 4:30 pm Join for fun and friendship! Location: Sportsplex you. Stretching, Location: Cassie Hall Gym Location: Sportsplexstrength, cardio and balance will all be covered. Great way to keep in shape as the snow falls. Date: Jan 7–Feb 6 Feb 19–Mar 1415–Feb Date: Jan 14 Date: Jan 7–Feb 7 Family Gym (Walking–5 with Adult) Date: Jan 13 - Feb 5 Family Gym (Walking–5 Feb 19–Marwith 14 Adult) Feb 18–Mar 14 Feb 18–Mar 14 Tuesdays & Thursdays @3:30-4:00pm It’s playtime$2.00 for pre-schoolers and their grown-ups! The Monday & Wednesdays @ 6 - 7:00 pm Cost: drop-in Tuesdays & fee Thursdays @3:30-4:00pm Mondays @10:30–11:30am Tuesdays & Thursdays @10:30 - 11:30 am ittle one will develop skills and confidence inmats, this and imaginative class. playroom isSportsplex full of toys, books, tumblingin balls, &/or Thursdays @1:00-2:00pm Location: Your little one will develop skills and confidence this fun fun and imaginative class. Date: Jan 10–March 14dancing He/she will have a great time while an introduction introduction ballet and jazz are presented. slides and much more for you and your little onetoto e will have a great time dancing while an to ballet and jazz are presented. For anyone looking for a non-impact workout then this is the one for Thursdays @11:30pm–1:30pm Join for fun and friendship! Senior Zumba must remain their children at all you. Stretching, strength, cardio and balance will all be covered. or fun andexplore. friendship! geNeraL It’s playtimeParents for pre-schooler and theirwith grown-ups. This popular class is now available Great in a way modifi ed inlow impact format, to keep shape as the snow falls. providing The playroom is full of riding toys, tumbling mats, balls, slides and more. Family Gym (Walking–5 with Adult) times. Parents for fee their Cost: are responsible $2.00 drop-in fee children and must stay at all times. accessibility for seniors and those with mobility challenges. Zumba is an exhilarating, “NEW” Fusion Pilates Cost: $2/drop-in y Gym (Walking–5 with Adult) Location: Sportsplex Join this new class for strength training with a Pilates twist. effective, easy-to-follow, Latin-inspired, calorie-burning dance fitness-party. Location: Sportsplex Date: drop-in Janfee 10–March 14 Youth $2.00 Cost: Register/drop in @$3.25 This class will focus on strength, balance, posture and Thursdays @11:30pm–1:30pm Get Up and Go Date: JanSundays! 16 – March 13 on: Sportsplex Cost: FREE It’s playtime for pre-schooler and their grown-ups. Location: Sportsplex flexibility. @10:00 am–12:00 pm Thursdays Location: Community Schoolmats, (Clarence The playroomSuwilaawks is full14 of riding toys, tumbling balls, Michiel) slides and more. Jan 10–March Date: Jan 10–Feb 7 Cost: Register or drop-in Date: Jan 13–March 10 children and must stay at all times. Parents are responsible for their ThursdaysSundays @11:30pm–1:30pm Feb 14–Mar 14 Location: Sportsplex @1:00–3:00pm All sorts of sports willand be played asgrown-ups. well as crafts and games. Youth Fridays @10:30-11:30am Date: Jan 6-Feb 5 aytime forYouth pre-schooler their This is for your child to meet new friends and bring old friends out of the cold to our Get Get time Up and Go Sundays! layroom isChristmas full ofprogram. riding toys,1/2 tumbling mats, (6-12) balls, slides and more. Feb 10-Mar 13 Up & Go Cost: FREE Break Day Camps Call the Sportsplex for information. Mondays & Wednesdays @ 5:15 - 6:15 pm Location: Suwilaawks Community Schoolmust (Clarence Michiel) ts are responsible for their children and stay at all times. Get active over themore Christmas break with our Adventure
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Jan 6—Feb 7 Set I (5 weeks) / Feb 10—Mar 14 Set II (5 weeks) Monday
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Leaders! The leaders will teach you all about sports Sundays @1:00–3:00pm Chess Club All sorts sports willdance, be played as well as crafts and games. from ballof sports, swimming, skating, you will h We will offer novice and amateur chess lesson during the This time is for your child to meet new friends and bring old friends out of the cold to our Get on crafts and much more. Choose one or more cold winter months. Open to all age groups. You will p and Gowork Sundays! Up & Go program. days forSportsplex fun, fitness andinformation. friendship! Call the for more learn how to play, read the board and some chess theory FREE Cost: $12/per day on: Suwilaawks Community School (Clarence Michiel) during the last few weeks as well. Chess is the BEST Location: Sportsplex game for the mind and if you want to be more analytical Jan 13–March 10 Date: Dec 23, 24 & 30 then this program is for YOU! Sundays @1:00–3:00pm Various days of the week @1– 4:00 pm Cost: $50/8 - Registration ONLY rts of sports will be played as well as crafts and games. Location: Sportsplex Basketball Camps (9-15) me is for your child to meet new friends and bring old friends out of the Date: Jan cold 14 – to Febour 6 Get Arnie Pelletier with the Senior Basketball teams’ Go program. Tuesdays & Thursdays @ 7 – 8:00 pm assistance will host this basketball skills camp for
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youth. Money raised will go towards The Senior Girls Progress Tennis—Indoors team fundraising. There will be two separate sessions. Kidz Fitness (9+) Progressive tennis focus is on good form, fair play and at Sportsplex. Cost: Register FREE Location: community building. We will be using smaller court Cost:Sportsplex $50/3 Date: Jan 8–Feb 5 dimensions and slower balls. With the weather getting Location: Skeena Feb 12–Mar 12 Middle School wet and cold, we hope that this program will help novice Date:Tuesdays Set @4:00–4:45pm I: Dec.21, 22 & 23rd Ballet Fit (16+) Come out of the cold and warm up with our fitness for kids, warm up, cardio, endurand amateur enjoy 9-11 yrs @ 9:00 am – 12 pm Cost: $95.00/10 - players Registration ONLYthe pleasure of tennis indoors. ance, strength and stretching all included. Location: School/Dance Roomand appropriate sized racket for BringSkeena non-marking shoes 12-15 yrs @ 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Just for the kids! Date: Jan 16–Feb 15 Parents are welcomeSet to join if available space. the player. II: inDec 28, 29 & 30th Wednesdays @8:30–9:30pm @7:15-8:15pm Cost:Fridays$50/8 9-11 yrs @ 9:00 am – 12 pm Dance Express (5-7) This class is suited to teens and adults with no prior ballet experience who want to inCost: $40.00/10 Set I yrs - $32.00/8 Set IIpm – 4:00 pm Location: Cassie Hall Gym 12-15 @ 1:00 crease their fitness level, increase mobility and flexibility and move with grace and Location: Sportsplex Jan 13–Feb 5 poise. Date: Date: Jan 15–Feb 14 Red Feb Cross Babysitting (11-14) 19–Mar 14 Mondays & Wednesdays @ 7 - 8:00 pm Tuesdays & Thursdays @4:00–4:45pm This educational program follows Red Cross Guide Therapeutic Touch Workshop (16+) Cost: $30.00/1 – Includes Lunch Your little one will develop skills and confidence in this fun and imaginative class. to Babysitters Training. We include 1st Aid training, pre- Meditation Sportsplex & Stress Reduction Classes (16+) He/she will have a great time dancing while an introduction to ballet and jazz areLocation: Date: LearnFeb 9 sented.household safety, behaviour management, child meditation skills to enhance your physical, mental Saturday @8:45–3:00pm Join fordevelopment, fun and friendship!and dealing with strangers. We will also and spiritual well-being. Thisyouislearn a journey to selfThis workshop in Therapeutic Touch will help how to assist someone as well TT is not magic…it is not a “Healing Modality”...it is however a relaxation haveBabysitting some fun(11-14) with games and activities that every as yourself. Red Cross exploration and discovery. These 6 classes will build on and a relaxed body will begin to heal itself as best it can. Cost: babysitter $70.00/2 can use. Course includes a certificate upontherapy each other using tried and true methods. Work with Gary who studied and practiced Therapeutic Touch in the Location: Sportsplex lower mainland years and five years as part of the TT Team at Cost: for ten$80/8 Date: completion Feb 16 &of 23 the two days. the Royal Columbian Hospital. @9:00–3:15pm Cost:Saturdays $70/2 Location: Sportsplex This is an excellent way to prepare young adults to Location: Sportsplex Meditation & StressJan Reduction Classes Date: 6–Mar 3 (16+) be responsible and confident babysitters. Skills Cost: $60.00/6 necessary for caring Jan for children Date: 11 &and 12safety skills Mondays @ 8 - 9:30 pm Location: Sportsplex are a few items that will be covered in this 2 day Saturday @ 5 - 8:00 pm Date: Jan 28–Mar 11 course. Mondays @8:00-9:30pmwith Richard & Kelly (16+) Social Dance-Latin Sunday @ 9 - 3:00 pm Learn meditation skills to enhance your physical, mental and spiritual Home Alone (9–12) Dancing with thetostars or just like stars! Richard and Kelly well-being. This is a journey self-exploration and discovery. Cost: $25.00/1 These 6 classes will build other using triedwhich and trueyou methods. offer three setsonofeach lessons, from can choose one Home Alone (9–12) Location: Sportsplex Date: We have Mar 2 combined the At Home Alone program with or all three. Beginners to advance all levels welcome to Saturday @9:00–1:00pm Seniors join for fitness, fun and friends! 1st child Aidknow training children tocalls? help prepare your Does your how tofor make emergency Fit st Aidemergency. and Fire & HomeThis safety. Reduceisyour worries by givingForever them Cost: He/shechild will learn $38/each set - Registration ONLY for1 an course taught over Cost: Register or drop in for $3.25 a class responsible problem solving skills for when they are alone. Location: Sportsplex Location: Sportsplex four hours. Students willPeople learnSaver’s how Certificate. to respond to Each participant receives a Red Cross Date: Date:Jan 7–Feb Jan7 8 - Jan 29 – Jive emergencies and stay safe while at home alone. Feb 18–Mar 14 Feb 5 - Feb 26 – Foxtrot Mondays @10:30–11:30am Cost: $25/1 &/or Thursdays Mar 5 -@1:00-2:00pm Mar 26 – Waltz Location: Sportsplex Wednesdays Beginners 6:45 pm – 7:45 pm Date: Saturday, January 11 @ 9 – 1:00 pm For anyone looking for a non-impact workout then this@ is the one for you. Stretching, strength, cardio and balance will all be covered. Wednesdays Beginners Plus @ 8:00 – 9:00 pm
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Public Skating Schedule Jan 6 – Mar 16, 2014 Monday Toonie Parent & Tot Skate 10:30-11:45am Noon Hour Hockey 11:45-1:00pm Toonie Skate 3:45-4:45pm
Tuesday
Adult Laps 11:45-1:00pm
Wednesday Toonie Parent & Tot Skate 10:30-11:45am Noon Hour Hockey 11:45-1:00pm FREE Skate 3:30-4:30pm
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Adult Laps 11:45-1:00pm
Friday Toonie Parent & Tot Skate 10:30-11:45am Noon Hour Hockey 11:45-1:00pm
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Public Skate 2:30-3:45pm
Family Skate 2:15-3:30pm
***times subject to change without notice-please call***
Winter Wonderland on Ice is back!
December 21 - 24 & 27 - 29 @ Terrace Sportsplex… Special lighting and décor makes it feel like you are skating on an outdoor pond at night. Check the schedule for the Special Toonie skating sessions OR book your own private Winter Wonderland skating party!
ALso see our website for up to dAte info: www.terrace.ca
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TErracE WinTEr acTiviTiEs GuidE CALA Vertical Water Training Aquatic Fitness Instructor Training Join Karl Notargiovanni in the pre-requisite course “CALA Foundations of Vertical Water Training”, and then in the “Group Aqua Fitness Leadership Specialty Training and Certification Course”. These courses are accredited by many international, national, and provincial fitness organizations such as BCRPA and Canfitpro. Cost: Cost is dependent registration date and member status - please call for more information Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Board Room and Main Pool Date: January 29 - 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm January 30 & 31 - 10:00 am - 7:00 pm February 1 & 2 - 9:00 am - 6:00 pm NLS Recertification There are a few spots open if you need to recertify your NLS award. Facilitator will be Wendy Schultenkamper of the Lifesaving Society. Cost: $127.05 Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Pools and Boardroom Date: January 3 & 4 CPR-C Full Course This certification course covers skills needed to recognize and respond to cardiovascular and obstructed airway emergencies in adults, children, and infants. This course also provides training in automated external defibrillator (AED) use. Cost: $75.08 Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Board Room Date: Set I: Saturday, January 11, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Set II: Friday, February 14, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Happy Valentine’s Day! Saturday, February 15, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Sunday, February 23, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Set III:Saturday, March 15, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm * February classes are 2 for the price of 1 to recognize Heart Month CPR-C Recertification Clinics Cost: $49.04 Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Board Room Date: Set I: Wednesday, January 15, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Set II: Wednesday, February 12, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Set III:Wednesday, March 12, 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Water Safety Instructor (WSI) Recertification Clinic This clinic is the first of two scheduled for 2014, and will accommodate those instructors who have been expired for fewer than 2 years, or who will be expiring by the end of March. The next clinic will be in May. Cost: $110.00 Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Board Room and Main Pool Date: Sunday, February 23, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm Red Cross Child Care Emergency First Aid Basic 1-day course offering an overview of first aid and CPR skills with a focus on childhood injuries and illnesses. Cost: $110.00 Location: Aquatic Centre Board Room Date: Set I: Sunday, January 26, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Red Cross Emergency First Aid Basic 1-day course offering an overview of first aid and CPR skills for the workplace or home. $110.00 Cost: Location: Aquatic Centre Board Room Date: Set I: Saturday, February 8, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Bronze Medallion and Bronze Cross Combo Course Bronze Awards teach an understanding of the lifesaving principles embodied in the four components of rescue education - knowledge, judgment, skill and fitness. Lifesavers develop stroke efficiency and endurance in timed swims. Start your Lifeguard Training now! To meet Lifesaving Society requirements as a “combo” course, candidates must take both courses. Pre-requisite: 13 Years or Bronze Star Cost: $355.75 + tax (includes manual) Location: Aquatic Centre Board Room and Main Pool Date: March 17 - 21, Monday - Friday 9:30 am - 3:30 pm Jr. Lifeguard Club The Jr. Lifeguard Club is being totally revamped to ensure consistency and progressive learning. The “New and Improved” JLC will have more hands-on learning for lifesaving and lifeguarding skills and will incorporate water and first aid skills from all of the Lifesaving Society programs. Pre-requisite: Minimum 8 years old, ability to swim 50 m, ability to tread water for 1 minute Cost: $77.00 (not including Waterlog) Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Board Room and Pools Date: January 6 - February 5 Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:45 pm - 5:45 pm
Aqua Shred Kick up your training with Aqua Shred! Getting bored with swimming lengths and then still trying to find time to get to the gym? Then Aqua Shred may be your answer. Aqua Shred combines lane swimming workouts and dry land conditioning to build endurance and strength. Cost: Regular aquatic centre admittance Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Main Pool Date: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, 11:15 am - 12:00 pm
Christmas Special Events
• December 24 - Santa beard making contest! Join us for our 8th annual beard-making contest. 2:30 - 3:30 pm • December 30 - January 3 - 8th annual Winter Olympics! Funniest dive, water walking, noodle races and lots more. Team events, individual events and events for the family.
Healthy New Year - Healthy New You
Train Like/With a Lifeguard Take your fitness training to a new level! This class is designed for lifeguards to practice their skills regularly and to invite anyone interested in thinking about becoming a lifeguard. We encourage anyone 15 and older with reasonable swimming skills - yes, even those looking at coming back into the workforce after having children, or those looking for a career change. This class is still in the design stages but will incorporate some dry land fitness as well as endurance building workouts. For those that are interested in pursuing further training we will be offering a discount off of the package of lifeguard/instructor training if you register for and/or attend all 8 classes. Pre-requisite: Minimum 15 years old, ability to swim 100m, ability to tread water for 2 minutes Cost: $10 drop in or $70 registration Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Pools Date: January 12 - March 9 Sundays 10:30 am - 11:30 am Aquatic Conditioning This aquatic fitness class is sure to be a hit for those that like intense training early in the morning. Water running, cycling and core work are combined to provide a triple threat work out experience! The Triple Threat workout will be alternated with a Navy Seal Boot Camp workout to challenge your body. Cost: $6.00 drop-in or use your fitness tickets or monthly CLASS pass Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Main Pool Date: Mondays, 6:30 am - 7:30 am
Start the New Year off right! JoiN uS at the terrace aquatic ceNtre duriNg the moNth of JaNuarY for a Blood Pressure clinic, fitness & functionality testing, and information or guest speakers on topics such as nutrition, weight and resistance training. Stay tuned! thiNk of the terrace aquatic ceNtre for Your firSt aid NeedS! we have certified red cross first aid instructors and can accommodate all your training needs in emergency and Standard first aid, emergency and Standard child care first aid, cPr (all levels) training and recertification, marine first aid, and occupational first aid Level 1 (ofa) equivalent. classes need a minimum of 6 registered candidates. call today to inquire. Winter Swim Lesson Schedule M on & Wed Jan 6-Feb 5
Program
Early Bird Swim Aquatic *NEW* Conditioning (Fitness) Stretch & Tone (Fitness) Classic Fitness (Sr Fitness) Senior & Rehab Lanes Aqua Shred Noon Hour Lengths Preschool Swim Toddler Pool Only
6:30-9:30am*
Parent Participation 11:00am
11:00am
11:00am
Duck (12-24mths)
5:30pm
11:00am
11:00am
11:00am
5:00pm
10:30am 5:30pm
10:30am
10:00am 11:00am
4:00pm 5:30pm
4:00pm 5:00pm
10:30am 6:00pm
10:00am
4:00pm 5:00pm
Salamander
10:30am 6:00pm
Sunfish
4:30pm
10:30am 5:00pm
10:30am
4:30pm
10:30am 5:00pm
4:30pm
10:30am 5:30pm
Crocodile
11:00am
4:30pm
10:30am 6:00pm
4:30pm
10:30am 5:30pm
Whale
11:00am
4:30pm
10:30am 6:00pm
Swim Kids
4:30pm 5:30pm 4:00pm 5:30pm 4:00pm 5:00pm
5:00pm
10:30am
4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 4:00pm 5:00pm
Swim Kids 4
4:30pm
6:00pm
10:00am
4:30pm
6:00pm
Swim Kids 5
5:00pm
6:00pm
11:00am
5:30pm
6:00pm
Swim Kids 6*
4:30pm
5:45pm
4:30pm
Swim Kids 7*
5:00pm
5:15pm
Swim Kids 8*
5:00pm
5:15pm
Swim Kids 1 Swim Kids 2 Swim Kids 3
Swim Kids 9*
5:15pm
Swim Kids 10*
5:15pm
Jr Lifeguard Club
4:45pm
5:30pm
10:30am
5:30pm
11:00am
5:30pm 5:30pm 5:00pm
Lifesaving Society 4:45pm
Canadian Swim Patrol
5:00pm
Adult Lessons Adult Lessons
8:00pm
9:00am
* Swim Lesson Fees:
Wednesday 6:30-9:30am*
8:00pm
9:00am
Indicates Swim Lessons are 45 minutes
30 minutes
45 minutes *
$49.50
$60.50
January 6 - March 16
Thursday 6:30-8:00am*
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
6:30-9:30am*
8:00-8:50am* 9:30-10:20am
10:30-11:15am
10:30-11:15am
10:30-11:15am
11:15-12:00pm
11:15-12:00pm
11:15-12:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
12:30-2:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
11:30-1:00pm
12:30-2:00pm
1:00-3:00pm
9:30-10:30am 1:00-3:00pm
1:00-3:00pm
3:00-4:00pm
3:00-4:00pm
3:00-4:00pm
1:00-2:00pm
2:00-3:00pm
4:00-6:00pm
10:30-11:30am 5:00-6:30pm
6:00-6:45pm
8:00-8:50pm
6:45-8:00pm
6:45-8:00pm
9:00-10:00pm
9:00-10:00pm
4:00-6:00pm 6:00-6:45pm
9:30-10:30am 1:00-3:00pm 3:00-4:00pm 6:45-8:00pm 10:30-11:30am 5:00-6:30pm 8:00-8:50pm
6:45-8:00pm 9:00-10:00pm
9:00-10:00pm
Free Public Swim
10:00-11:30am
6:45-8:00pm
2:00-4:30pm
3:00-5:00pm 6:00-8:00pm* 6:00-8:00pm*
8:00-9:30pm *Shared Pool
4:30-5:30pm
This schedule is subject to change without notice. For more information contact 250.615.3030
to register cALL Leisure services 250-615-3000 AquAtic centre
4:00pm 5:30pm
9:30-10:20am
3:00-4:00pm
Private Rentals
10:30am 5:30pm 9:00am 10:30am 11:00am 5:00pm 6:00pm
9:30-10:20am
Family Swim
Adult Only Lanes
5:00pm
9:00am 10:30am 11:00am 5:00pm 6:00pm
Sea Otter
8:00-8:50am*
1:00-3:00pm
Children Lessons
Tue & Thu Feb 11-M ar 13
6:30-7:30am*
School Groups
Aqua Mix - PM (Fitness) Everyone Welcome Swim
6:30-8:00am*
9 Lesson Set
No Class Feb 10
5:30pm
Swim and Fitness Schedule Tuesday
M on & Wed Feb 12-M ar 12
Preschool 3-5 years
Wicked Wednesdays Join the aquatic centre staff on Wednesdays during public swim for fun - games, relays or just having the inflatable out. Cost: Regular aquatic centre admittance Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Date: Starting January 8
Monday
Sat Only Jan 11-M ar 8
Starfish (6-12mths) Sea Turtle (24-36 mths)
Lane Swimming Challenge of 2014 The lane swimming challenge for 2014 will be to swim 2014 lengths, which equals 50,350 meters or 1,258.75 km. Swim it once or challenge yourself to swim the distance as many times as possible in 2014. There will be a chart hanging at the aquatic centre for you to keep track of your distances. Cost: Regular aquatic centre admittance Location: Terrace Aquatic Centre Main Pool Date: Starting January 1
Program
Tue & Thu Jan 7-Feb 6
250-615-3030
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Low visibility contributed to fatal helicopter crash
TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD PHOTO
THE CRASHED Bailey Helicopters helicopter viewed from the rear, after having been dug out of the snow. changes Bailey Helicopters, based in Fort St. John, has made since the incident, including suspending its authorization for reducedvisibility flights. It has also enhanced training for its pilots, including controlled flight into terrain avoidance and inadvertent meteorological condition training, put in place tools to enhance pilot decision making as well as implemented a flight data monitoring program. Two pilots were given awards for their work following the crash. The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre
(JRCC) in Victoria issued the awards to White River Helicopters, singling out Kief Khanlarian and Andy Ramsay, who found the wreckage. “While all we can provide is a piece of paper, we hope they find pride in the sincere words from all of our coordinators here who greatly appreciated their assistance during the prosecution of this tragic accident,” said Major James Pierotti of the JRCC when the awards were given. The 2012 crash was the second helicopter accident in a year in the
region in which lives were lost. On July 31, 2011, just after 9 a.m., a VIH Helicopters Ltd. Bell 407 helicopter left Stewart airport with the pilot and two passengers on board. The helicopter flew to a geological exploration site 14 nautical miles north of Stewart. There, the helicopter engaged in manoeuvers that allowed the passengers to view rock formations of interest. Approximately 6 hours later, the wreckage of the aircraft was discovered strewn down the steep mountainside at the exploration site. All three on board were killed. A Transportation Safety Board investigation concluded the helicopter “likely struck the mountain face with its main rotor blades, causing it to crash.” The report also noted that VIH procedures regarding filing flight plans and tracking overdue aircraft were not followed. It also found that “when a company’s actual practice does not follow its written procedure, flight crew and passengers may be at increased risk of injury or death following an accident.”
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Next Terrace River Kings Game FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 VS THE KITIMAT ICE DEMONS Enter to win TWO TICKETS to the next River Kings home game
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13 vs. THE KITIMAT ICE DEMONS and SATURDAY DECEMBER 14 vs. THE PRINCE RUPERT RAMPAGE
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A TRANSPORTATION Safety Board investigation into a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of three people near Terrace last year is citing sudden loss of visibility as well as a lack of instruments and instrument training as the cause of the crash. The Bailey Helicopters’ Eurocopter AS350 crashed onto the back side of Sleeping Beauty Mountain – 11 nautical miles west of Terrace – around 8:40 a.m. June 1, 2012. Company assistant chief pilot Peter Bryant, 44, of Terrace, relief pilot Blake Erickson, 48, of Sicamous, and company aircraft maintenance engineer Arnold Jolobois, 44, of Banff were confirmed dead hours later. Bryant was scheduled to go on leave the next day, and the men were on a final training and familiarization flight before his leave, reads the report, released Dec. 3. Jolobois was on board to assist with the plan to conduct hover-exit training. The weather the day of the flight was cloudy and rainy, with low visibility and mountain peaks obscured by clouds, reads the report, which notes the company was authorized by Transport Canada to fly in reduced-visibility. Neither pilot held an instrument rating nor received any recent instrument flight training, and the helicopter was not equipped for flight in instrument meteorological conditions, which is when pilots flight using instruments instead of visual references due to lack of visibility. Approximately 45 minutes into the flight the helicopter suddenly entered overcast conditions, causing the pilots to “lose visual reference to the ground and become disoriented and lose control,” reads the report. The helicopter went into a downward spiral and collided with the snow-covered terrain. “Research suggests that pilots without instrument flight training who lose sight of the ground will lose control of their aircraft within three minutes,” said the report. The report notes the
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The 100-click limit is commonly referred to as unrealistic on today’s welldesigned highways. Keith Morgan
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Hike those highway speed limits, say a third of BC residents suburban highways and A significant number of 120 on the Coquihalla British Columbians clearly is reasonable. In my don’t buy the safety manexperience, it is not tra that speed kills. speed alone but excesIn fact, according to a sive speed combined new Insights West poll, with over-driving the conducted in partnership weather/road condiwith Black Press, 37 tions that kills. It is also percent of residents (and 39 percent of drivers) More than half of true to say that that dramatic speed differbelieve a higher speed those polled believe entials of traffic is also limit should be posted a major contributor to on our major highways. the province should Currently, 100 km/h is the not bring back photo road carnage. However, while that may be true maximum on most freeradar. on congested urban ways, while 110 km/h is roads it is less so on posted on the Coquihalla Keith Morgan the highway where few Highway and parts of the people are travelling Okanagan connector. below the posted limit and I don’t “The fascinating issue on this question see another 10 km/h hike making for is the gender gap,” said Mario Canseco, major mishaps. Vice President, Public Affairs at Insights Not surprisingly, the online survey of a West. “While half of men in BC would representative provincial sample also like to see a higher speed limit, just shows that a majority of residents one-in-four women concur with this believe that photo radar should not view.” be brought back. More than half of However, it was surprising to see that those polled (53 more than half (55 percent) believe percent) believe the speed limits should be left alone. the province should Another five percent want to see not bring back limits lowered. photo radar, which It’s surprising if you read the newswas introduced in paper letters pages and listen to the the 1990s as a province’s radio talk shows, where the measure to curb 100-click limit is commonly referred to speeding, but as unrealistic on today’s well-designed was abandoned highways. in 2001. As a frequent driver of the network, While almost I have to agree that a 110 limit on the
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half of residents aged 55 (48 percent) would like to see photo radar coming back, support is decidedly lower among residents aged 18-to-34 (36 percent) and 35-to-54 (31 percent). I supported photo radar initially because when used in high-collision locations, elsewhere in the world, it has a remarkable record for reducing death and injuries. It never operated that way in BC and soon became public enemy number one where it was perceived as merely a cash cow for greedy provincial government. Residents were also asked about the quality of British Columbia’s roads and infrastructure. More than seven-in-
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Route through park option for gas pipeline THE COMPANY that wants to build a natural gas pipeline from northeastern B.C. to a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant near Port Edward has identified a route through the Nisga’a Lava Bed Memorial Park in the Nass Valley north of Terrace as one way of getting to the coast. The route is one of four under consideration west of the Cranberry Junction area by TransCanada for its Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Project which would feed the proposed Pacific NorthWest LNG facility owed by Calgary-based Progress Energy on Lelu Island. Speaking last week, TransCanada vice president John Dunn said the company has yet to choose one of the four route options as its pre-
ferred pathway to the coast for its 48-inch diameter pipeline. That will happen by next year when the company submits its route plans for regulatory and environmental approval to the provincial Environmental Assessment Office, he said. In the case of the Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park option, the pipeline would parallel portions of Hwy113, the two-lane highway that bisects the park from the south leading to the four main Nass Valley villages, said Dunn. “Ultimately, should a route proceed through Nisga’a lands it would only be done with the support of the Nisga’a,” he said. The approval of people who live in areas where pipelines are to be built falls under the category of “social
licence,” a term used by Dunn and others to describe the search for broad construction consensus. Dunn said TransCanada has already changed the pipeline route in several locations and has lengthened it to take into account local considerations. From a first proposed length of 750 kilometres, the route is now in the order of 900 kilometres long. “Rerouting of our pipeline takes into the account the impact on First Nations and other stakeholders,” said Dunn. The company has already abandoned a route that would have taken its pipeline through the Khutzeymateen grizzly bear sanctuary. In the matter of the Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park, provincial
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Other developments have affected park The approval was given through votes in the provincial and Nisga’a Lisims governments and by a federal order in council. That removal went hand in hand with a financial agreement between BC Hydro and the Nisga’a providing the latter with a benefits agreement to allow the transmission line to go through Nisga’a treaty lands. Nisga’a Lisims Government chair Kevin McKay said it’s too early for it to come to any conclusion about a pipeline route through the memorial park or any other route through Nisga’a lands for that matter. “Projects and routes will be judged on their individual merits,” said McKay of any industrial development proposed on Nisga’a lands. “We’re very much in the preliminary stages of negotiations with the proponent.” And because the park is included within
Nisga’a lands stemming from the 2000 final land claims treaty signed with the provincial and federal governments, any development must be assessed and environmental impacts considered in accordance with the treaty, said McKay. He also noted the Northwest Transmission Line isn’t the only development affecting the memorial park. A BC Hydro 138kV line was built through the park area just before the area received park status, Hwy113 runs through the park, a small hydro distribution line parallels the highway and a section has been taken out of the park in anticipation of construction of an access road into Gitladamix (New Aiyansh). McKay said the highway has also been formally removed from the park, mainly to ease the requirements around maintenance and upkeep of the road.
YaoRun pays up again YAORUN WOOD Ltd. is back in action again after settling up a debt to the provincial government which led to a seizure of all the logs on their Keith Ave. yard. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Brennan Clarke said the company settled all outstanding payments for stumpage. “The forfeiture was lifted on Thursday, Dec. 5 as YaoRun paid their outstanding obligation,” said Clarke.
Logs in the company yard had been seized Nov. 13 and 22 for non-payment of stumpage. The first time the log yard was shut down by a seizure of logs was in October when YaoRun fell behind by $586,000 for outstanding stumpage. The most recent debt was $150,000 which they settled up this week. The total value of the logs in the yard, which have been accumulated by YaoRun since the spring, is estimated at $2.3 million.
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NDP mount rate petition AN ONLINE petition started by the provincial NDP to protest planned BC Hydro rate hikes has passed the 15,000 mark. In a release last week, NDP leader Adri-
an Dix said more than 15,828 people have signed. The provincial government plan would raise rates by 28 per cent beginning next year.
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Discount store closing THE AMERICAN company which bought Canadian Liquidation World two years ago now says it’s closing its stores in Canada. The move, to take place early next year, would affect the Terrace Liquidation World store located at the Skeena Mall. In a release, Big Lots says it hasn’t achieved its goal of moving the Liquidation World business to a profitable standing.
“We have not been able to gain the necessary traction in the Canadian marketplace that had originally been anticipated,” Big Lots said in its release. The American retailer purchased Liquidation World, which had been in financial distress, in 2011 for $20 million and by assuming debt. Big Lots announced plans to add to the 92 stores Liquidation World had operating
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Symphony orchestra turns 20 THE TERRACE Symphony Orchestra poses after its concert with cellist Michael Kevin Jones, seated third from right, Dec. 1, one of the highlights in its 20 years.
IN ITS 20th year, the Terrace Symphony Orchestra (TSO) thrives, continuing the idea it was founded upon, says its only living founder. Michael Wen, Cal music teacher, says the late Jim Ryan had been thinking about starting the orchestra for years and wanted students to be part of it. “The whole idea to keep it fun is important,” said Wen. “I still think Jim was on the right track: involve students and make it educational for everybody. “The adults in the TSO, their role is also to mentor younger students. That’s how we began and it made a huge difference.” At that time, there was only the Terrace Community Band, which
was adults only. Ryan contacted Wen and Heinz Radek in the spring of 1993 to ask if they wanted to help put the orchestra together. They wanted to have it made up of some key community band members, Radek and his students, anyone else they could think of who played a stringed instrument and other students, said Wen. “Jim had a knack for finding people: ‘so you just moved to town, I hear you play the violin, would you like to join the Terrace Symphony Orchestra?” said Wen. “So a lot of players were recruited by Jim and word of mouth.” Ryan shopped for some music and in fall of 1993, they began
to practice in Wen’s classroom at Thornhill Junior. Most of the members came out of the community band and had never played in a symphony orchestra except for four of them, including Wen, he said. “It was a good learning experience,” said Wen. Ryan conducted and Wen sat in the orchestra to play his french horn and acted as assistant conductor. “Each of us could sit next to our students and help them,” he said, adding that the orchestra’s first concert was shared with the Thornhill Junior band. Within a few years, the orchestra played in the Pacific Northwest Music Festival and played Handel’s Messiah
along with the Northwest Singers. Wen began conducting in about 1999 when Ryan, who was ill, called him about three or four days before a concert to ask him to conduct instead. The orchestra has been invited to play at MusicFest Canada several times but has only gone once in 2005, and won silver, when it was in Richmond and members had the time to go. Gradually, the orchestra began doing a Halloween kids concert, which has become a tradition. Only four of the original members still play in the orchestra and some have had their children in the group. “We often get comments from
adjudicators that [see] students and adults playing together,” said Wen, adding that the adjudicators enjoy hearing the music and can see that everyone is playing in the TSO because they really like what they’re doing and want to make music. Cellist Michael Kevin Jones, who recently visited and played with the orchestra, also commented on it. Wen still takes time to play his french horn as part of the orchestra and then assistant conductor Stacey Zorn conducts. Zorn played flute in school here, went away to get a music degree and returned. For details on the TSO’s 20th anniversary concert, see City Scene page 19.
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THE FOURTH annual SkeenaWild Film Festival (SWFF) announced its winners and that all of the films will be shown in Toronto. The trip comes thanks to “passionate” local support for the works when they were shown in seven communities where more than 600 participants cast their votes for their favourite films and photos. In the five categories, there were more than 150 submissions. The Short Film top three winners are How to Catch a Dog by Quinn Barabash, aka Captain Quinn; Skeena Kite by Graham Genge and Northwest Kayak by Louis Bissonnette. In Feature Films were, Stand, B4 Apres / Nocholas Teichrob Photography; and Fortune Wild, Ben Gulliver / Sitka. In Wild People Photos were Bran-
don Broderick with A self-portrait at the base of Exstew Falls, Graham Genge with Kick Flip and Lida MacLellan with What it’s all about. Wild Places Photos winners were Christopher Gee with Kuldo Log, Ezra Brousseau with Wesach Falls and Derek Flynn with Roche Trails. And Wild Things Photos saw first and second places going to Brandon Broderick with Coyote and Thayer’s Gull and third to Johannes Edinger by Sara Jane Railton with Chinook Salmon. Prizes from sponsors will be awarded at the SkeenaWild holiday party Dec. 19 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. Planning ahead for its fifth annual SWFF, SkeenaWild says it will take the tour to more rural, remote and First Nations communities as well as regional schools and it will be even bigger and bolder.
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DEC. 11 – Green Thumb Garden Society regular monthly meeting is scheduled for 7pm, at the Rich McDaniel Room at the Sportsplex. All members encouraged to attend. DEC. 11 – Christmas Gift Making for children eight and older is 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the library. Free. Register today by calling 6388177 or in person. DEC. 12 – Kermode Friendship Society hosts its 10th annual Community Christmas Dinner at the arena banquet room. Kody Kermode and Santa will be there. There will be two dinners to accommodate as many families as possible. DEC. 14 – The Terrace Public Library hosts its annual Family Christmas Party from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Bring your adult and join us for Christmas fun! Register your family in person or by calling 638-8177. DEC. 15 – Community Christmas Carol Sing from 7 p.m. – 8:15 p.m. at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly. An evening of traditional and contemporary Christmas music. Sing along or listen to various musical groups and enjoy special Christmas readings. A standing reception will follow with food and beverages. Presented by the Terrace Ministerial Association and Churches of Terrace. For more details, contact Lowell Holmquist at 635-2434 or pastorlowell@telus.net. DEC. 15 – Santa Breakfast, including pictures with Santa, is from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Elks Hall (2822 Tetrault St.). Balloon artist Josh will also be there. Hosted by the Elks and Royal Purple. DEC. 15, 16, 17 – Thornhill Fire Department’s Parade of Lights returns at 6 p.m. with lights on the fire engines and carolling in upper and lower Thornhill. Local air cadets will pick up donations for the food bank food drive. There will be live updates on facebook as the carolling takes place. DEC. 18 – Christmas Gift Making si for children eight and older from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the library. Free. Registration begins Dec. 11. Call 638-8177 or come in person. DEC. 19 – Terrace Skating Club invites everyone to its free Come Skate With Us to try out the sport of skating from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the sportsplex. Must have CSA helmet, a pair of gloves and a pair of skates. Fore more, call Rebecca at 635-1895 or see terraceskatingclub. com. DEC. 19-21 – Salvation Army Christmas Hamper distribution is from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Bring the slip from your application form. DEC. 26 – Pacific Northwest Music Festival
committee meeting at 6 p.m. at the Terrace Academy of Music. All ages. Regular monthly meeting to plan the music festival is the second Tuesday of every month, If interested in helping out or for more details, come to the meeting or call Fiona at 635-9089.
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Look Who’s Dropped In! Baby’s Name: Christopher Wilfred Andrew Bush II Date & Time of Birth: Dec 3rd, 2013 @ 9:44 a.m. Weight: 8 lbs. 8 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Candace Davis & Chris Bush “New brother for Dante & Jaydin”
Baby’s Name: Kenny Lloyd Murphy Robinson Jr. Date & Time of Birth: Nov 28th, 2013 @ 10:14 a.m. Weight: 9 lbs. 4 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Lillian & Kenny Robinson “New brother for Mariah & Leana”
Baby’s Name: Celena Sherry Elizabeth Bush Date & Time of Birth: Dec 3rd, 2013 @ 8:31 am Weight: 5 lbs. 9 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Candace Davis & Chris Bush “New sister for Dante & Jaydin”
Baby’s Name: Angelina Vienna Payton Johnson - Good Date & Time of Birth: Nov 27th, 2013 @ 11:59 a.m. Weight: 9 lbs. 13 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Louise Good & Curtis Johnson “New sister for Kayden, Keenan, Jake, Latrell & Deon”
Baby’s Name: Carter John Matos Date & Time of Birth: Dec 1st, 2013 @ 9:12 Weight: 7 lbs. 7 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Chris & Michelle Matos
Baby’s Name: Nathan Maximus McMillan Jr. Date & Time of Birth: Nov 25th, 2013 @ 2:37 Weight: 8 lbs. 1 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Maxine & Nathan McMillan “New brother for Mya & Ava”
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have, so I’ll share some of my recipes. Turtle Squares: “Taste just like Turtles!” 1 pretty tin box with a lid A bunch of cupcake wrapper thingies Several boxes of Turtles Take a turtle and cut off the pokey-out bits to make it a square. Put it in a cupcake wrapper thingie and put it in the box. Repeat. (Make it look nice!) When I hand these around, people say to me, “These taste just like turtles!” When friends, family, and other loved ones say that to you, do what I do: act surprised and pleased. “Oh really? Thank you!” They also say, “Did you make these?” What a question! They are in a pretty tin box, it’s Christmas, duh! (Don’t say “Duh,” it’s not Christmassy.) Of course I made them – I bought some ingredients at a store, but every recipe starts with ingredients from a store: no issue there. You took the ingredients home, put on an apron and made them square.
So when you answer them, say: “Yes, I made them” aloud and just say “square” in your head. Just-missed-it No-bake Cheesecake Find a nice pie plate, glass or ceramic, not ugly aluminum or anything that looks like it contained a store-bought pie. Sprinkle a few graham crackers crumbs on the bottom of the pie plate. (If you are one of those home bakers, like me, who likes to do everything from scratch, buy some graham crackers and crush them yourself. You can use a hammer for this. Wait! Put the cracker in a plastic baggie first, dummy! (Now, don’t start calling yourself names like “dummy.” It will deplete your strength and resolve, and you need all the stamina you can get for your home baking.) Set it out in an obvious place, and put a pie-server beside it on a nice plate – no, on a small stack of dessert plates. When your guests notice it, say: “Oh, you just missed the
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Finished your holiday baking? cheesecake!” If they fail to notice it, say it anyway. You can make any cheesecake this way, even fancy-shmancy ones like “caramel-apple cheesecake” or “pumpkin maple pecan cheesecake” or “New York low-carb Ricotta cheesecake,” or just call it whatever kind your guests like best. Their imagination will do the rest!
www.terracestandard.com This recipe can be held at room temperature for many days. Two weeks is too long – the crumbs tend to get dusty, and the same friends who came by earlier may drop in again, and you might forget that they already missed the cheesecake. Tragic Cookie Exchange Get a large bakery box, suitable for two dozen (or more) home-baked cookies. Tape it closed, but not too tight. On a muddy day, place it under your left front tire and drive over it, forward and backward. Take it inside; allow to dry. Next, take some of the leftover Turtle bits (did you eat them? I didn’t say you could eat them! Now go buy some more Turtles.) When you get back from the store, melt some Turtle bits in a pan, and paint some of this along the box’s edge, as if it oozed out. Throw some graham cracker crumbs (baggie!) against the liquefied chocolate before it dries. Bring this box to your workplace, family or charity Holi-
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day Cookie Swap party. (Now here is where you can customize the recipe – I have tried looking crestfallen, as well as gosh-darnit goofy. Crestfallen results in a higher yield.) Traditional family recipe I once had luncheon at an aunt’s who said the pea soup she was serving was a traditional family recipe. When I helped clear the dishes, I was surprised to see many opened, emptied Habitant brand soup cans. I recounted this to a friend later and she said, “Well, maybe opening cans of Habitant brand WAS her traditional family recipe.” Let’s go with that. I am offering you two versions of a favourite treat, the modern internet online recipe, and the traditional family recipe. Go get 50 ml butter, 1.25 L miniature marshmallows, 2 ml vanilla, 1.5 L Rice Krispies. (Then you need to melt, mix, smooth and chill, probably wash pots and pans.) Go to Copperside and buy some, all ready made.
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■ THORNHILL PUB: FREE pool Wed., Sun., karaoke night Thurs. Live weekend entertainment: Dec. 13-14, 2021, 27-28 Christine and Ed Rule; Dec. 28 UFC; Dec. 31 Christine and Ed Rule. Shuttle service if you need a ride. ■ LEGION BRANCH 13: Meat draws every Sat. – first draw at 4:30 p.m. Steak Night is the first Fri. of each month. ■ GEORGE’S PUB: FREE poker Sun. 1 p.m.-7 p.m. and Wed. 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Karaoke Sun. Live weekend entertainment: Dec. 13, 14 Ride on; Dec. 20, 21 Bad Reputation; Dec. 27, 28 After Hours; Dec. 29 UFC; Dec. 31 Accelerators tickets $15. Shuttle service. ■ MT. LAYTON LOUNGE: Open daily noon-11 p.m. Free pool, darts and shuffleboard. Located at Mt. Layton Hotsprings just off Hwy37 South between Terrace and Kitimat. ■ BEASLEYS MIX: KARAOKE every Fri. night. In the Best Western.
Ecological Restoration” with presenter associate professor Phil Burton, UNBC Northwest Regional Chair, from noon to 1 p.m. Dec. 11 at UNBC campus. Free. For more details, call Alma at 615-5578 or alma.avila@unbc.ca.
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■ PAKORA FUNDRAISER FOR U15 Community Girls Volleyball Team Northern Fusion. One order comes in a brown paper lunch bag with chutney and feeds two people for a set cost. Deadline for ordering is Dec. 13 by 4 p.m. To order, please email kam.siemens@investorsgroup.com, call 615-7926 or text. Please indicate number of bags you want to buy, your contact details and which athlete you ordered from so we can provide you with a time to pick up your order. Pickup will be Dec. 15 at Casa Masala (Hot House) at
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■ THE TERRACE ART Club meets Mondays 7 to 9 p.m. at the art gallery. Bring your own materials. All levels of artists welcome. Make art, chat, observe, knit, weave, etc. Enjoy camaraderie with like-minded folk. For more details, call the gallery or Maureen 635-7622. ■ LIGHT IN MY Life art show opens from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. runs to Dec. 17 at Skeena Diversity Society. Group art show lets Terrace artists celebrate the season of darkness with their interpretation of lighting it up.
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WHAT DOES Mortimer find in the window seat that changes his life? Find out at Arsenic and Old Lace, playing at the McColl Playhouse Dec. 12-14, 19-21.
time to be provided. Pakoras are a favourite snack in India – your favourite veggies dipped in spicy batter and deep fried to make fabulous fritters. Made with chickpea flour – no wheat, gluten-free.
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■ CELEBRATE THE SEASON with Inveraray Music harp, flute and vocal ensembles under the direction of Robin Hollett with special guests Rheann Armes and the Linton family at 7 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Evangelical Free Church. Tickets available at Misty River Books. ■ THE TERRACE SYMPHONY Orchestra celebrates its 20th anniversary! Come celebrate with us at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 21 at Knox United Church. Conductors: Mike Wen and Stacey Zorn. Special guests: Emily Andrews, Elaine Johnson and Classical Act. Enjoy traditional carol singing, readings, seasonal favourites and music from the first concert in 1993. Tickets at Misty River Books. Special invitation to all who were in the TSO that first season when it all began under the baton of Jim Ryan. ■ SOPRANO AMBUR BRAID performs in concert with accompanist Christopher Mokrzewski at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 22 at Knox United Church. Sponsored by Nechako Northcoast Construction. Tickets at Misty River Books and at the door.
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■ TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE presents Arsenic and Old Lace at 8 p.m. Dec. 12-14, 19-21 at the McColl Playhouse. The dark comedy concerns the antics of the Brewster sisters and how their latest plan is confounded when nasty nephew Jonathan appears on the run from the law. Tickets at Uniglobe Travel.
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We lost our best friend, survived by her husband, Jim MacDougall, brother Robert and Marianne Oskey, sister-in-law Christina MaCarthur. Children: Micheal (Janet), Ron (Kim) Ian, Catherine (Aaron) Ippel; Grandchildren Chris Veskaik, (Amanda) Adam MacDougall, Shaune Coburn, Cody MacDougall, Alex MacDougall, Laine Seeley, Caitlyn Seeley, Reagan Ippel, Evie MacDougall, Great granddaughter Hailey Verkaik. Predeceased by brother Walter and brother-in-law John MacDougall. Betty was born in Prince Rupert and attended school and graduated from the Annunciation Catholic School in Prince Rupert. She worked at the Woolworth & forestry office in Prince Rupert. On October 1937, she married Jim MacDougall and started what she considered the most important part of her life, having a husband and family. All of her children were born in Prince Rupert. In 1968 the family moved to Terrace, BC and life continued. As the children grew, Betty went to work at Veritas Catholic School in Terrace for 24 years. She enjoyed gardening all through her life with petunias as her special flower. For relaxation, she knitted everything for her family and for donations. She taught her family through her quiet perseverance to find a positive in each situation. She wanted patience and understanding from everyone. Betty had a great many friends in Terrace, Prince Rupert, and around the Province. She enjoyed travelling to Scotland and meeting long lost relatives and to Rome to see the Pope. She has gone to God in Peace. Thank you to all the friends and family for all your support. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Betty MacDougall Memorial Fund at Northern Savings Credit Union. The funds will go towards a TheraKair air mattress for either Terraceview or Mills Memorial Hospital.
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Frances passed away after a very short but fiercely courageous battle with cancer. She will be lovingly remembered by her husband John; parents Dorothy and Dave MacDonald; son Kevin (Sarah); sisters Barb (Jon); Pat (Andy); Maureen (Manny); brother David (Pat); nieces Colleen, Natalie, Elyse and Steffi; nephews Mitch, Sean and Trevor. Frances will also be lovingly remembered by our Forest Service family and our Family of Friends. She asked that you celebrate her memory in the way she loved; sitting at the dining table, surrounded by people who love each other; enjoying delicious food prepared by family and friends in a room filled with laughter. Raise a glass of wine in toast. Not too big a glass because Fran wasn’t much of a drinker. Fran loved doing crafts and participating in the Skeena Mall Craft Fair. Her sewing skills lay dormant until her grandson Noah arrived. She took great pleasure in sewing receiving blankets and quilts for Noah and Hadley. Fran completed K-12 twice. The first time as a student in New Westminster, B.C. the second as a mom in Terrace, B.C. She volunteered to work with students that needed a little extra help. Along with other parents, she planned school events that enriched the students experience. During her brief stay in hospital, she recognized the quality of care she received was enhanced by the student nurses working alongside the nurse professionals. We are forever grateful to the nurses and doctors who treated her with compassion and respect. They ensured her last days were spent in comfort. Frances was able to die with dignity and minimal pain. To honor Fran’s wishes, there will be no funeral service. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to the charity of your choice.
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The Kitselas First Nation (KFN) Health Department, located in Terrace BC, is seeking a Full Time Interim Early Childhood Educator to join their dynamic health team. This position is Interim to June 2014. ECE works under the direction of the Director of Health in cooperation with staff to provide quality inclusive child care and family support services Qualifications and Skills • Early Childhood Educator Certificate and Infant/Toddler License to Practice • Previous experience working with children in a child care/recreation setting • Valid First Aid/CPR Certificate • Works independently, demonstrating initiative, with limited supervision • Ensure the Infant/Toddler program meets all requirements of the Child Care Licensing Regulations on a daily basis • Plan, carry out, and assess emerging curriculum activities and experiences in harmony with the Kitselas Nation • Adhere and promote the Kitselas’ Child and Family Development Centre’s philosophy and Child Care Licensing Regulation • Cooperate with management and staff to individualize the curriculum and family services • Maintain confidentiality of all information related to the Centre, staff, children and their families • Willingness to participate in work-related courses, seminars and training as required • Computer experience Salary A competitive salary is offered. Further information can be obtained at www.kitselas.com Interested applicants should apply at their earliest convenience with a resume and cover letter to the attention of the Finance Clerk. Please reference “Early Childhood Educatorâ€? and indicate clearly in your cover letter how your experience and qualifications meet the requirements of the position. Deadline: Position open until filled. Please submit Resume with Cover Letter and names of Previous Supervisors for reference to: Carlene Casey, 2225 Gitaus, Terrace, BC V8G 0A9 finance@kitselas.com Tel: 250-635-5084 Fax: 250-635-5335
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Located in the spectacular landscape of northern BC, UNBC is ranked as one of Canada’s best small universities. Our personal environment fosters excellence through teaching and research that directly affects communities in the North and beyond.
GOLDEN STAR requires the following positions: F/T or P/T server. Experience is an asset. Please apply in person with resume at 4606 Lazelle Ave., Terrace. No phone calls please.
School of Nursing
Housekeeper & Front Desk Clerk wanted. Please drop by with your resume to Copper River Motel 4113 Hwy. 16 East. 250 635-6124.
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The Flight Deck Restaurant has an immediate opening for a cook. General kitchen duties as well as good customer service is required. Food safe & a reliable vehicle is a must. 35-40 hours a week. Drop off resume at the restaurant or fax to 250635-4403 attention: Kathleen
WANTED: Button Top Operator, Dangle Head Processor Operator and Mechanic/Welder. Terrace to Bob Quinn. Accommodations provided. Rate negotiable. Call Briela Logging 250 849-5859. Pls. leave msg.
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The University of Northern British Columbia, in conjunction with the School of Nursing, invites applications for the above position at the rank of Assistant Professor at the Terrace regional campus. Primary responsibilities will include: development and delivery of nursing courses, coordinating and teaching nursing laboratory courses and building strong community and health service links with Northern Health for the beneďŹ t of the nursing education, research, and practice development. Active contribution to clinical nursing simulation is also necessary. Close collaboration with rural communities, regional community colleges, health service agencies and their personnel is a strong feature of UNBC in general and the School of Nursing in particular. The position is accountable to the Chair of Nursing at UNBC, works with Nursing staff and faculty in other campuses, and is supported by the Regional Chair of the Northwest UNBC Campus. Minimum education requirement for the position is a Master’s in Nursing or related ďŹ eld. A PhD or substantial progress in a doctoral program is preferred. Relevant teaching and clinical experience in epidemiology, paediatrics, and community or public health nursing is sought but applicants with practice specialization in other areas are welcome to apply. RN registration or eligibility to register with the CRNBC is required. For a complete listing of the duties and qualiďŹ cations of FANU11-13 (T) see www.unbc.ca/hr All qualiďŹ ed candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Northern British Columbia is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from women, aboriginal peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA 3333 UNIVERSITY WAY, PRINCE GEORGE, BC, CANADA V2N 4Z9
DIRECTOR OF LANDS AND RESOURCES Department: Lands & Resources Reporting to: Chief Executive Officer Term: Temporary Full-Time (Jan.31/14) With a Possibility for Long-Term Extension Start Date: Immediately Deadline: Friday, December 13, 2013 JOB SUMMARY The Director of Lands and Resources working under the Chief Executive Officer is responsible for overseeing and managing the establishment, development and operation of the Lands and Resources Department of the Kitselas Government according to the Kitselas Chief and Council vision, mission and strategic objectives and any applicable legislation. MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Oversee and manage the day to day operation of the Lands and Resources departments to ensure the efficient and effective delivery of programs and services to the Kitselas membership, • Implement and manage the development and delivery of programs and services with a lands, natural resource and environmental focus, • Oversee a public relations program to promote understanding of the various resources and acceptance of policies, regulatory changes and management strategies: • Other related duties as assigned. FOR QUALIFICATIONS AND ADDITIONAL INFO GO TO: www.kitselas.com ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS • Criminal Record Check • Valid Drivers’ license • Drivers’ abstract HOW TO APPLY A competitive salary and benefits package is offered. Further information can be obtained at www.kitselas.com. This competition will remain open until filled. However, interested applicants should apply at their earliest convenience with a resume and cover letter to the attention of the Executive Assistant. Please reference “Director of Lands and Resourcesâ€? and indicate clearly in your cover letter how your experience and qualifications meet the requirements of the position. Attn: Carlene Casey Finance Clerk Kitselas First Nation Tel: (250) 635-5084 ext.235 Fax: (250) 635-5335 Email: finance@kitselas.com
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Employment Help Wanted We’re looking for FT/PT HOUSEKEEPERS SERVERS/BAR STAFF DISHWASHERS We offer competitive wages. Please forward your cover letter and resume to: hugh@neheliski.com
Janitorial 5 Light Duty Cleaners Req’d. F/T, Pmt. No exp. req’d. Duties: Sweep, mop, wash & polish floors. Clean furniture and plants. Clean & disinfect bathrooms & elevators. Vacuum carpeting. Supplies areas. Remove trash. Report & store lost or found items. Lang: English. Work at various locations. Apply to Vikramjit, Dhillon Janitorial Service, Terrace, BC. E: d_janitorial@yahoo.ca. Cleaning Supervisor Req’d. F/T, Pmt. 1+yrs. exp. Duties: Supervise and co-ordinate the activities of cleaners. Inspect and ensure that established safety and cleanliness standards are met. Recommend and arrange additional services. Hire, train, and schedule staff. Estimate and optimize budget. May receive payments or perform cleaning duties. Lang: English. Work at various locations. Email Vikramjit, at Dhillon Janitorial Services: d_janitorial@yahoo.com.
Professional/ Management MANAGER Technical Services Pacific Northern Gas Ltd., a subsidiary of AltaGas Ltd., owns and operates natural gas transmission and distribution systems. Reporting to the General Manager Operations, the Manager Technical Services is responsible for PNG’s compressor, corrosion, gas measurement and warehouse functions. The position is located in our Terrace, BC office. Key Responsibilities: Overall management and technical direction of the compression, corrosion, measurement, and warehouse departments - Direct supervision of departmental employees Project management for various capital projects - Provide engineering support to field operations, as required - Responsible for the electrical and instrumentation components of operations and maintenance Duties: Integrity management of entire PNG distribution system as related to; - Compression Station maintenance Transmission Pipeline Inspection scheduling and contracting as required - Annual preparation of investigative dig schedule - Records management for inspections and investigative digs Project management - coordination and management of: - Feasibility studies for potential projects Detailed planning and engineering on approved projects Obtaining regulatory permits as required, i.e. OGC, NEB, MOTH, MOE, Municipal, etc. Coordination of department personnel and contractors as required - Development and execution of contracts for external contractors Budget: Project planning and budgeting through to project management and reporting - Develop annual departmental operations and maintenance budgets - Conduct monthly budget review and variance analysis and provide update to General Manager of Operations Coordination of “Gas Control� PNG’s vehicle fleet management Qualifications: - Professional Engineer designation (P. Eng.) with an operational background in heavy industry. - Minimum of 5 years supervisory experience. Qualified applicants are invited to email their resumes in confidence to the Human Resources Department; careers@png.ca Pacific Northern Gas offers a competitive salary and benefits package in addition to opportunities for personal and professional growth. We thank all applicants for their interest in our organization, but only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted. No agency referrals or telephone inquiries at this time, please.
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AVAILABLE immediately for busy Volvo/Mack/HINO dealership located in KELOWNA, BC. Journeyman or equivelant experienced mechanic. Full time with competitive wages and benefits. Volvo/Mack an asset but will consider other OEM experience as equivelant. Forward resumes to jdiesel1@telus.net. or service@gemmdiesel.com Suitable applicants will be contacted for an interview.
JOURNEYMAN AUTOMOTIVE Service Technician(s) in Hanna Alberta. Hanna Chrysler Ltd. offers competitive wages from $32/hour, negotiable depending on experience. Bright, modern shop. Full-time permanent with benefits. Friendly town just 2 hours from major urban centres. Website: hannachrysler.ca. Fax 403-854-2845; Email: chrysler@telusplanet.net.
GPRC, FAIRVIEW Campus, Alberta needs Power Engineering Instructors. No teaching experience, no problem. Please contact Brian Carreau at 780-835-6631 and/or visit our website: www.gprc.ab.ca
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A full time or part time position is available immediately. The successful applicant should have excellent communication skills and previous experience working with the public. The applicant should be able to multi-task in a fast paced professional environment and be prepared to be trained in all areas of the office operation. Computer experience is an asset. Prior work experience will help determine wage rate.
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Please submit resume and handwritten cover letter to: Park Optometry 4609 park Ave. Terrace, B.C. V8G 1V5
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Cars - Sports & Imports
Thank you to all who apply however only applicants selected for interviews will be contacted.
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We are currently building a parts department and require a motivated individual to assist.
SHOP, FIELD AND CAMP WORK. Must be willing and able to work independently.
Drivers Licence required • Competitive Wages Please Fax resume to 250-692-0043 Or Deliver in Person at: 135 Roumieu Dr. Burns Lake (In the Industrial Site)
The Terrace Campus Child Care Society is currently accepting applications for
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$200.00 - TERRACE YOUTH SOCCER on behalf of our client Joanne Link, sale of A & B 3307 Kenney St. $200.00 - TDCSS - HOT MEAL PROGRAM on behalf of our clients David & Nery Warner sale of 4633 Loen Ave. $200.00 - CASSIE HALL SCHOOL “EXPLORATORY PROGRAM” on behalf of our clients Lucy & Lisa Carrita, sale of 4715 Park Ave. $200.00 - TERRACE PUBLIC LIBRARY on behalf of our clients Donald & Heather Prince, sale of 3620 Aspen Ave. $200.00 - DR. REM LEE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION on behalf of our client Alexandra Anagnostou, sale of 3232 Atwood St. $200.00 - RELAY FOR LIFE on behalf of our client Carol Creek, sale of 3962 Hagen St. $200.00 - HAPPY GANG CENTRE on behalf of our clients Sybil Benzer & Russell Benzer, sale of 4728 Tuck Ave.
! SOLD 3404 MILE PLACE
$499,900 MLS
- Executive View Home, 5 Bedroom, 2.5 Baths, Large Private Yard, Close to K-6 Schools
! SOLD
STING! NEW LI
3962 HAGEN ST
2138 GRANDVIEW DR
- 3 Bed/2 Bath Doublewide located in Copper Mountain, Cheaper than Renting
- Skeena River RV Park, 18 Site RV Campground, Power,Water, Sewer, Skeena River frontage, 1.92 acres
$94,900 MLS
Happy Holidays & Best Wishes for 2014!
$199,900 MLS
#4-5016 PARK AVE
$35,000 MLS
- Super Clean Starter Home, 2 Bed/1 Bath, Updated Flooring & Paint
SHANNON MCALLISTER
DARREN BEAULIEU
cell: 250-615-8993
cell: 250-615-1350
Owner/Managing Broker shannon@terracerealestatecompany.com
5187 GOSSEN
2 bdrm 1 bath home on 2 acres, open concept living. Basement unfinished, easily can turn one of the rooms into a 3rd bdrm. Heat your house with oil, with an above ground tank, be in control of how much you use! This home is warm and cozy, just in need of your finishing touches! Call today.
darren@terracerealestatecompany.com
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2390 HEMLOCK
$172,900 MLS
2369 HEMLOCK ST
$174,900 MLS
2 bedroom, 1 bath potential there for a 3rd bedroom, mobile on land. Open kitchen with lots of counter space and cabinetry. Pellet stove to warm you up this winter.
$379,900 MLS
C2 zoned building with approx 2000 sq ft and approx. 18000 sq ft of land, along with a 2 bedroom/ 2 bath 1997 mobile. Restaurant equipment is included, and ready to operate! Call today for more information, before you miss out!
2607 PEAR STREET SUMMIT SQUARE STRATA CONDOS
2 BEDROOMS - $75,000 MLS 1 BEDROOM - $73,000 MLS 12 UNITS STILL AVAILABLE
Close to town and shopping. On bus route. On-site laundry with security entrance.
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#49 – 4619 QUEENSWAY
$18,900 MLS
- 1984 14 x 66 mobile home - 2 bedrooms - 1 bath - needs work - great potential
4116 HIGHWAY 16E
4513 SCOTT AVE.
- mobile home with addition - 2 bedrooms - 1 bath - part basement - .36 acre lot - immediate occupancy
- great starter home - 1572 sq. ft. - part basement - 2 bedrooms - 2 baths - lots of recent upgrades
$120,000 MLS
$169,900 MLS
4726 DAVIS AVE. 867 MATSON RD
$439,900 MLS
75 acres!! 4 bedrooms, 2 bath rancher situated on acreage. roof was done in the last 2 years, new flooring and updated bathroom... a real must see! Call your agent today to view!
$129,900 MLS
- great investment potential - 936 sq. ft. - 3 bedrooms - carport - 53 x 132 fenced lot - close to shopping
4517 CEDAR CRES.
5213 MOUNTAIN VISTA
- spectacular view home & property - 1715 sq. ft. - full basement - 3 bedrooms - 3 baths - just move in and enjoy
- custom built home - over 3700 sq. ft. of living area - 4 bedrooms - 3 1/2 baths - loads of extras
$595,000 MLS
HELENA SAMZADEH
JIM DUFFY
helena@terracerealestatecompany.com
jimduffy@telus.net
cell: 250-975-1818
cell: 250-615-6279
$596,000 MLS
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D L O S 4532 MERKLEY RD MLS
LOT 8 SINGLEHURST RD. $65,000 MLS
• I have clients looking to • Purchase bare land • In or out of town DAVE MATERI
PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORP
• Three 10 acre forested lots on Fosbery Dr • Seven minute drive to down town Terrace • North of town via North Eby St. VANCE HADLEY
• If you have a home or • Property to sell I am happy • To help find the right Buyer DAVE MATERI
ROSSWOOD $99,000 MLS
LOT #2 FOSBERRY DR. $149,900 MLS
3743 PAQUETTE AVE - $154,900 MLS
2866 SQUIRREL POINT $169,900 MLS
• Beautiful 30 acres • treed and high and dry • easy access for developing LAURIE FORBES
• Downtown Retail space • Call today! • Zoning C1 www.theRteam.ca
D L O S 4908 GAIR AVE MLS
PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORP
548 KALUM LAKE DRIVE MLS
WOODLAND PK ESTATES - $89,900 MLS
• 2 bdrm condo, available now • completely renovated • new flooring, vanity, doors etc. JOHN/SHEILA
4545 LAKELSE $120,000 MLS
• Buyers are waiting for your new listing • Call Dave Materi to discuss • Listing and SELLING your home DAVE MATERI
SUMMIT SQUARE - $84,900 MLS
• 2 Acre Rural Building Lot • Great Mountain Views • Only Minutes To Downtown Terrace RUSTY LJUNGH
LOT 70 KRUMM RD $175,000 MLS • 12 Acres - Easy Access To Highway 37 S • Land Is Treed - Mountain Views • Great Location For A Hobby Farm RUSTY LJUNGH
• Acreage minutes from town • Dream Home Ready • Private and Peaceful www.theRteam.ca
Our realtors contribute from every sale to the BC Children’s Hospital totalling $77,126 to Sept. 30, 2013.
• cozy 3 bdrm starter home • eat in kitchen, rear deck • large landscaped lot JOHN/SHEILA
PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORP
• A Bad day at the Lake always • Beats a Good day at work ! • Winter or Summer family fun DAVE MATERI PERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORP
HIGHWAY 16 HAZELTON MLS
4334 QUEENSWAY DR $219,900 MLS
5121 HALLOCK $359,900 MLS
3207 KALUM ST - $349,900 MLS
• Timber frame home on 59 acres • overlooks Sealy Lake plus Mtn. view • unique custom design LAURIE FORBES
• Full duplex • Good rental investment Recent updates KELLY BULLEID
D L O S 4635 LOEN AVE - $219,900 MLS
• 3bedrooms, Full basement, Ensuite • Vaulted ceilings, Updated kitchen • Feature fireplace SUZANNE GLEASON
4411 THOMAS ST. $239,000 MLS • Treed 15 acres on the Bench • private location with creek subdividable LAURIE FORBES
2048 CHURCHILL $344,900 MLS
• Updated flooring, Dble Garage • Great Neighbourhood • 4 bdrm, 3 bath www.theRteam.ca
• Brand New 3 Bdrm Rancher! • Favored Bench Location • Ensuite,Dble Garage, Sundeck www.theRteam.ca
• 2800 sq ft. & 1800 sq. ft bsmt • great exposure • extra lot included JOHN/SHEILA
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2220 CATT POINT – $349,900 MLS
4944 COOPER DR $379,900 MLS • new kitchen • 4 bedrooms • full basement HANS STACH
• Carefree Living, Open floor Plan • Quality Craftsmanship • Spectacular Mountain Views www.theRteam.ca
#9 4022 YEO $394,900 MLS
5023 KEITH AVE $424,900 MLS • investment opportunity • 1.1 acres / M-1 zoning • 2 bedroom home HANS STACH
• Character Home or Retail • Over 3000 sq feet, 3 floors • Downtown location www.theRteam.ca
3905 WESTVIEW DR. - $479,900 MLS
STRAW’S MACHINE SHOP $499,900 MLS
5230 CENTENNIAL DR. $519,900 MLS
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River Kings looking sharp AS THE Terrace River Kings head into this weekend’s double header at home – Friday night against the Kitimat Ice Demons and Saturday night against the Prince Rupert Rampage – they’re hoping for a repeat of their last home stint. Beating the Smithers Steelheads 5-4 in a shootout on Saturday night and stomping the Houston Luckies 13-2 in the Sunday afternoon game, the team made it a five-game point streak, with one overtime loss and four wins. As of last Friday, they were sitting at fourth in the west with 11 points, just behind the Luckies' 12 points and ahead of the Prince Rupert Rampage's eight. But with games in hand entering the second half of the season – with nine games, they've played the fewest games of any CIHL team – they are well poised to climb up the standings – if they can keep their streak going. “It's a great feeling to win, especially 13 - 2,” said River Kings general manager Ray Hallock, speaking of Sunday's blowout, which, somewhat unsurprisingly, turned into an aggressive affair with 139 penalty minutes given out in total, including seven game misconducts and a misconduct. “Most of that was precipitated by the Houston players,” he said. “But that was Sunday. Saturday was a much more docile game.” The hard-fought 5-4 shootout win against Smithers was the second win in a row for Terrace against the defending champions, the first being last month's 4-1 win in Smithers. “I think Smithers was shocked,” said Hallock. “They were certainly shocked the first time, but even the second time...” But Hallock doesn't anticipate any more teams being surprised at the Kings' turnaround.
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THE TERRACE River Kings celebrate a goal against the Smithers Steelheads Saturday, Nov. 30. “When you have a team like us, Terrace, that has made this turnaround and all of the sudden everybody's talking about us, then of course the competition is stronger because they're forewarned, you're not taking them by surprise,” he said. The difference in the River Kings’ play this year is noticeable, and after a shaky start to the season, it appears they've finally found their footing – and the back of the net. Points are spread all across the team, with no one superstar leading the pack, and both goalies are solid. “There's some really talented players and it's starting to come together,” he said. “We've got a lot of speed, the boys are in shape, the passing has improved. They're just playing their hearts out.” The mostly young team is led
by two new coaches – Rob Findlay and Kevin Legros, both fathers of River Kings' players – who have a different coaching style than longstanding former coach Roger Tooms. “Rob is more willing to let the guys develop their own style of play whilst keeping them within guidelines,” said Hallock. “Whereas Roger was more strict about trying to enforce his standards of play, or make them follow certain routine plays.” But that doesn't mean Tooms shouldn't get credit for the team's recent success. “He was there in the formative years,” said Hallock, noting the team is just now emerging from years of rebuilding and restructuring. “A good percentage of the credit still has to go to Roger... He was a good coach and he put
in some good years coaching this team.” And some of the scrappier members of the team, notably Chris Brown, who had developed a tough reputation in the league over the years, have reined themselves in. “He's just holding himself back and behaving himself great,” said Hallock. “And he's an excellent hockey player. That was always his problem, that he couldn't keep his hands inside his gloves.” Hallock's confident the team's streak will continue. “As far as I can see, if the boys keep this up, there's no reason we can't go all the way to the top this year,” he said. Terrace fans can check out the refreshed team for themselves this weekend, with games Friday and Saturday night at the Sportsplex.
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Volleyball season wraps up CALEDONIA’S SR. Girls and Boys volleyball teams are back from provincials, falling short of the results they were hoping for in the standings but representing the northwest with class and sportsmanship – and holding their own against teams from across the province. The Sr. Girls lost a crucial match to College Heights to put them in the bottom pool of the tournament, and ultimately took 14th overall. “We were close to beating so many of the top contending teams but not quite there in the mental part of the game,” said coach Carmen Didier. “I think the Grade 12s are sad that our team did not have a better placing at provincials but really they are at the beginning stages for a very strong volleyball program in Caledonia.” The Sr. Boys team placed 18 out of 20 with a two and four record. “We played hard every game, we didn’t get blown out in any set, lost close matches,” said Sr. Boys coach Rich Clair, noting standout performances by Cam Netzel and Kai Davies. The team would have benefitted from more competition throughout the regular season. “We actually matched up against most teams when it came to our play at the net, but where we suffered from lack of experience was in the deep defence and back court coverage.” And Keel Haldane had a highlight of the tournament, placing sixth in the spike competition.
Do you have what it takes to be a Nightmare? THE NORTH Coast Nightmares are hungry for fresh meat. Terrace's famed roller derby team is in the midst of signing up new recruits for training sessions beginning in the new year. They're looking for new players – but also refs and volunteers who want to get involved with the sport, which is gaining momentum across the northwest and especially here in Terrace. The team's first home bout, held this summer in Terrace, was a sold-out affair. But in order to host more events – which can happen once the ice is off – the team needs supporting members, especially referees.
Three Nightmares recently took ref training at Prince George’s Sk8fest to better assist local refs. “We can’t host bouts and increase our training without refs,” said Team Captain, Vicky “CrackHer Box” Seland, in a release sent out last week. “Currently, our league brings them to Terrace from around the province. We pay their travel and accommodations as incentive to travel the long distance here. That is not a small expense, but absolutely necessary.” Both men and women are encouraged to become referees – those interested will be invited to join the league, participate in
training, travel, and also condition with the team. It's a no contact, low impact option for people who want to be involved but might not necessarily want to experience the full physical nature of roller derby – a predominately female sport where two teams of five girls on roller skates battle for points on the track with the aggression of hockey minus the full-body padding. For those who want to be derby girls, the eight-week training program will see them learn the basics of the game, participate in skating drills, workouts and freestyle skating under the guidance of Nightmares’ veterans.
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Local badminton players net wins TWO CONSECUTIVE badminton tournaments took place in Terrace two weekends ago, with players from Terrace and Prince Rupert going head to head at Thornhill Jr. Secondary. On Saturday, Nov. 23, the Terrace Junior Badminton Club hosted its annual fall tournament with 23 junior badminton players competing in doubles and singles. In the girls U11 singles, Noella Baerg of Terrace came away with first, with Ruby Jaakkola of Terrace in second. In the girls U13 doubles,
first went to Leah Julseth and Sarah Kroeker of Terrace, with Ruby and Rylee Jaakkloa in second. For boys U11 singles, Carson Vibert of Terrace took first, with Terrace’s Levi Kroeker in second. And for boys U13 singles, Levi Ewald of Terrace came first, with Terrace’s Logan Clunas in second. Jake Blix took the top spot in the boys U16 singles category, with Noah Allison of Prince Rupert in second. And Prince Rupert’s David Armstrong paired up with Terrace’s Carson Vibert to take
first in boys U11 doubles, with Braden Clunas & Levi Kroeker of Terrace in second. Boys U13 doubles saw Levi Ewald and Carson Vibert of Terrace in first, with Terrace’s Logan Clunas and Joshua Brown in second. And the next day, Sunday, Nov. 24, 25 adult badminton players came out for the annual Doubles Tournament. In men’s doubles, Andrew Blix and Jake Blix of Terrace came first, with Prince Rupert’s Julian Callangan and Thai Pham as runners-up. For ladies’ doubles, Prince Rupert’s Lena Ly and Cathy
Young took the top spot, with Terrace’s Mel Denomme and Brianna Weir in second. Prince Rupert’s Lena Ly and Steve Weir took first in the mixed doubles category, with Terrace’s Mel Denomme and Prince Rupert’s Julian Callangan pairing up to earn second. The Terrace Badminton Clubs are fully up and running now into the 2013/2014 season. The juniors are almost at full capacity of 40, a few spaces are left and the adults are looking to encourage anyone to come out and give badminton a try.
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MEN’S DOUBLES winners Jake and Andrew Blix.
‘Best friends’ win gold and silver Sports JADE HEATHFIELD and Angelina Filtziakis, both 11, may go to different schools here in Terrace, but their time training and competing together as members of the Terrace Bluebacks swim club has helped their friendship grow. “We’re best friends,” said Filtziakis, who recently took silver for her age category at the first meet of the season in Prince George Nov. 15 - 17. Heathfield, who only began swimming competitively last year, took gold. And coach Mike Christensen said the girls were neck and neck throughout the competition, and by winning in different races – Filtziakis says her favourite race is the 100 metre breast stroke, with Heathfield’s favourite being the 100 metre back stroke – they helped each other secure their spots
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on the podium. They were also both invited to the Swim BC regional training camp in Kitimat Nov. 30 - Dec. 1 to train with Olympic swimmer Scott Dickens. The rest of the swim team travelled to Prince George for the meet last month – Thomas Christensen, Hazel McDaniel, Pasha Ormerod and Harlene Takhar – had solid results as well. “We had a small team but some great performances,” said Christensen. “Many best times.” It’s usually the older swimmers who attend this meet, he explained, as to why the club travelled with a smaller team. There are also a number of swimmers on the team who aren’t swimming competitively – not yet, at least. Next up, the team is heading to Kitimat this weekend, Dec. 13-15.
n 2006 the government of Alberta banned grizzly bear hunting. Not a moment to soon, according to scientists who estimate there are 760 of the great bears left in that province. In B.C., fewer than one hundred grizzlies are thought to exist in each of the Squamish-Lillooet, South Selkirk, Yahk, and Kettle-Granby regions. Only two dozen grizzlies are estimated to inhabit the Stein-Nahatlatch Valleys, half a dozen is the best estimate for the North Cascades, while only two grizzly have been documented in the Garibaldi-Pitt River area. These alarmingly low numbers of a species that once ranged from Alaska to New Mexico, did not deter the Provincial Government from giving conditional approval to an IPP in the Squamish-Lillooet over the strong objections of wildlife biologists who say the construction attending this project would put serious stress on the recovering grizzly population there. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) – the group that was established in 1977 and charged by the Federal Government to provide a single, scientifically sound classification of wildlife species at risk of extinction when the Species at Risk Act was brought down in 2001 – has issued a special warning concerning grizzly bear populations in southern B.C. and Alberta. The committee solemnly states that the fate of the southern bears turns on whether they can reconnect with more secure populations. Presumably this means more northerly populations of grizzlies.
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TERRACE BLUEBACKS Jade Heathfield and Angelina Filtziakis with their medals.
Tragically, those the additional impact northerly populations of of men who like to kill the big brown bears are them for fun. under considerable presEstimating grizzly sure in their own right, as populations is a lot more COSEWIC itself notes difficult than estimating when it specifically cites the number of seals or the Enbridge Northern polar bears. Doing so Gateway pipeline prowith a high degree of acposal as a significant curacy is simply imposthreat to grizzly populasible. The confidence tions since its proposed levels on past estimates route would cut directly of this province’s bear through medium to high populations are so wide SKEENA ANGLER density areas of grizzly that the authors of such habitat, most of which reports have admitted ROB BROWN is currently inaccessible that they can’t be trustby road. ed. What we do know Since COSEWIC iswith a high degree of sued that warning there accuracy is the number have been eight more bears that are killed. pipeline proposals that Six biologists from will snake through the lands frequented by Simon Fraser University, the University of the northern grizzlies. The latest of these Victoria, and the Raincoast Conservation is a proposal by Pacific Northern Gas for Foundation examined the grizzly statistics a line they hope to run through the Class on grizzly bear mortality in B.C. and pubOne section of the Zymoetz – important lished their findings recently. They found grizzly bear habitat and one of the most that the government targets in its managehighly prized stretches of steelhead water ment units were exceeded by two to 171 on earth. per cent (one to 24 bears) during three Grizzlies have to contend with habitat period over the decade studied. More than destruction due to mining, IPPs, pipelines, 3,500 grizzlies (including more than 1,200 road building, logging, agriculture, ur- females) were killed during the study peribanization and poaching. The bears suffer od. Legally sanctioned trophy hunting took when stocks of salmon decline and climate more than 2,800 of those bears (including change has a significant impact on them – more than 900 females), a whopping 80 as it does us. With all these pressures work- per cent. Other sources of mortality including against their survival, they don’t need ed poaching, shooting of nuisance bears in
Poor bears
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AS LONG as there is enough of a snow base, opening day on Shames Mountain is slated for this Saturday, Dec. 14. The Shames Express Bus will be back again this year, available during the school break and on Saturdays. The bus leaves the west end Copperside at 8 a.m. and returns from the mountain at approximately 4:30 p.m. daily starting Dec. 21 through Jan. 5.
defence of people or property, and road or rail accidents. Putting the ethical and moral issues involved in the shooting of intelligent creatures that pose no significant threat to humans aside, removing three and half thousand long lived creatures that have a low rate of reproduction over a ten year period certainly doesn’t appear to be sustainable. Andrew Wilson of FLNRO responded by saying the government sanctions the kill of 300 grizzlies a year out of a population of 15,000, which is two per cent. Mr. Wilson can be forgiven for defending some of his staff, but he knows as well as I do that the figure of 15,000 bears is sketchy at best and that 300 bears may well represent a much higher percentage of the total population. Ministry biologists and their peers agree that mining, IPPs, pipelines, road building, logging, agriculture, urbanization and poaching reduce bear populations. How can their bosses then argue that grizzly populations remain stable in the dramatic increase of all but one of these activities? Biologists agree that the precautionary principle and biological diversity are fundamental to wise wildlife management. Current grizzly bear management runs counter to both those principles. Managers should err on the side of caution. Given the difficulties surrounding the estimating of grizzly bear populations, and the enormity of the other stresses the animals face, the only wise course is to halt all grizzly bear hunting and, in so doing eliminate one of the greatest threats to their survival.
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City of Terrace defends spirit bear trademark The federal Canadian Trademarks Opposition Board turned down Terrace's attempt to stop the company from using Kermode Warrior as a brand name. The Kitasoo/Xaixais only trademarked Spirit Bear and do not hold the trademark of the other names, said the band's technical advisor Larry Greba. “It's quite a burden, actually, to develop one of these things and protect it,” he said. “If it got into some significant court case people would want to take a second look at that,” Greba added about the costs that Terrace and the Kitasoo/ Xaixais have incurred in defending the bear's good name. The agreement was made when Jack Talstra was mayor and current mayor Dave Pernarowski said he thinks defending the mark is of ongoing importance. “The Spirit Bear is associated with this part of B.C. and the City of Terrace wants to continue to maintain the uniqueness of its trademark,” said the mayor. “Sometimes you have to push a little bit particularly when it's being used on a product that isn't the best representation for a special creature.” According to Greba, “anything associated with alcohol isn't considered an appropriate use of the mark.” Though he acknowledged that it is difficult to keep up with all attempts to use Spirit Bear name. Some companies, such as Urban Distilleries, continue to use the name even if they are denied the official trademark through opposition from Terrace and the Kitasoo. Kitasoo band councillor Douglas Neasloss, who worked for many years as a tour guide, said that both Terrace and the Kitasoo/Xaixais areas have the largest white bear populations in the Northwest. “A lot of them are genetically isolated to certain systems. In this area it's islands. Maybe in Terrace it would be a few rivers they congregate around,” said Neasloss. He said that Spirit Bear is used in fam-
ily names, and that the white bear figures into local legend. “We have the story about the wigyet, which is the raven, he was the creator of the world
and also created the ice age. As the ice started to melt he was flying over and saw a black bear and decided to turn every tenth black bear white and set them on
Prince Royal Island,” he said. The bear was named after a former director of the Royal B.C. Museum, Francis Kermode, who researched
them. And though the city may have trademarked various names for the Kermode bear and has taken action against some entities using
those names without permission, they are used extensively by commercial and other interests locally, including sports teams. Elsewhere, a firm
makes Kermode Wild Berry Wine in southern BC, there's a Kermode Forest Products in New Westminster and there's a Kermodei Construction in Toronto.
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