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Marina fence draws attention to MK future Late in 2013 a fence appeared which separated the north and sound end of MK Bay Marina. The move cleared the Haisla-owned portion of the land used at the marina, and the Haisla Business Operations (HBO) is saying they have plans in motion to develop that land, but they are so far mum on what that could mean. “The nation put up the fence along the northern boundary line of its property, IR #2, for two reasons. Number one, we’re going to be developing that area commercially, and we really needed the infrastructure off our land. And secondary, for safety reasons,” said Clarence Nyce, the HBO’s chief executive officer. He can’t yet explain what project they have, but did say they are commecial plans. He said the marina did get a year’s notice before they proceeded to put up the fence. The now-fenced off area was used for boat and camper parking, as well as parking for project contractors and the general public. “We’ve had a long relationship with the regional district and they utilized our land as well as our water system without interruption for 20-plus years. Plus their septic tank currently sits on our land. We’ve been working together on these items for a number of years, so it’s been a workable relationship for a long time,” said Nyce. “But it’s time for us now to implement those business, commercial ideas that we’ve had brewing and stewing, and with many things moving forward in our area we’re taking advantage of these business possibilities.” The Chair of the Regional District of KitimatStikine’s MK Bay Function Committee (the marina is operated by the regional district) said that the fence wasn’t entirely expected, but added that they weren’t surprised either to see it go up. “It’s their ground, they can do whatever they want,” said Ted Ramsey. However none of these developments have silenced a long-standing desire for the Haisla Nation to outright buy the MK Bay Marina. “We have formed partnerships with various joint-venture partners all over the world. One of these joint-venture partnerships, and the nation, made a presentation to the regional district last December (2012) indicating to them we are interested in purchasing the marina, and those discussions continue,” said Nyce. “We’d certainly love to own the marina so we can bring it up to a level it should be at in relation to becoming a destination stop as opposed to a taxpayer’s burden.” He said any possible purchase of the marina would have to make sure to take care of the boating public and recreational boaters. “The question is how do we fund a world-class marina without incurring the cost that typically drag a marina down. And we think we have that answer.” Continued on page 7
Looking down the Douglas Channel through a fence which was put up late in 2013 to divide the Haisla-owned portion of land from Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine owned MK Bay Marina.
The war on pipelines continues In the days leading up to the Joint Review Panel’s decision on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline proposal, the Douglas Channel Watch’s Murray Minchin approached Kitimat Council to continue pressing on them to take a stand against the project. “Despite Enbridge’s claims of magical pipelines which never deteriorate, that last indefinitely, and will be as good as the day they first went into service, there are going to be spills, and the effects will be felt for generations afterward if this project is built,” said Minchin in the closing lines of his presentation. Minchin went through numerous claims of Enbridge as to the safety of the
project, from the dangers of the waters around Kitimat to his opinion on the lapses of the company in detecting spills. Among Minchin’s claims are that there could potentially be 33 million litres of oil spilled from a pipeline based on leak detection methods. (That’s based on fly-overs and alarms which Minchin said wouldn’t trigger under 100,000 litres an hour.) Many of Minchin’s questions and claims that he posed to council had earlier been asked at the Joint Review Panel process. And when we asked the company to respond to the claims in Minchin’s latest presentation they pointed to the past discussions for their answers.
On the issue of the potential 33 million litre spill, we were pointed to a transcript from the JRP hearings when Minchin spoke with Northern Gateway’s Director of Pipelines Barry Callele. Callele says that the 33 million litre scenario only takes into account a single leak-detection system, but they have multiple, overlapping methods which would pick up a leak well before it got that far. Using what’s called a volume balance system he said a 417 metres cubed leak would be required to cause an alarm. (A calculation with an online calculator shows 417 metres cubed equals 417,000 litres.) Minchin also drew ref-
erence to an oil spill near Hardisty, Alberta in 2001 which took 14 hours to find. He then pondered how long it would take Enbridge to find a spill in the Upper Kitimat River, under 20 feet of snow. The company again referred to dialogue at the JRP, where Minchin presented a hypothetical scenario of a spill in the Upper Kitimat. The company responded that an emergency shut down would be implemented “to minimize further release,” and that if the spill was not spotted with conventional visual means, “control measures would be deployed at pre-designated control points to protect sensitive areas.” Continued on page 3
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Weather leads to calls leading up to Christmas December 16 A Chevy Silverado and a Ford F150 collided at the intersection of Haisla Boulevard and Tsimshian Boulevard. The Silverado had been coming down Lahakas and was going to make a left turn at the light. The other vehicle was heading north on Lahakas. The Silverado tried to stop but slid and hit the vehicle. Extensive damage to both vehicles but only minor injuries reported for the Silverado driver. Police describe the weather conditions at the time “horrible.” Due to conditions no charges were pursued. December 18 Police were called to a report of suspicious people going through vehicles on Bulkley Street. The caller said there were two males and one female. RCMP made extensive patrols in the area but the suspects could not be located. A work crew reported beer cans and
Police Beat cigarette butts were found in the stairwell of the unoccupied North Star Inn. The caller also reported two DeWalt drills were stolen. Video surveillance showed three teenagers entering the unlocked lobby. RCMP officers could identify the teenagers and police say they will be following up on this file, but it is still under investigation. An intoxicated male was found on Columbia Avenue after a caller reported the person at around 4:30 p.m. Police took the individual to his mother’s home but with no one answering, he was placed in holding cells until sober. He was given a violation ticket. December 19 Police were handling a report of an intoxicated male who
was kicked out of the BC Liquor Store. Police had found the suspect, who showed signs of intoxication, but a friend of the individual arrived and promised to take care of him. Police were satisfied the friend was sober and could care for him. December 20 A driver of a bus reported that someone passing him on the highway at 4:25 a.m. clipped the mirror of the bus and knocked it off. There were no descriptions of the vehicle. The file is closed as there was not enough evidence to investigate. December 21 A report was phone in at 12:30 a.m. that the caller’s stepfather and her boyfriend were allegedly in a fist fight in a home on Petrel Street. The step father had left by the time the police arrived. Police determined that the four individuals were likely drinking and the
fight began with an argument. The boyfriend did not want to pursue any charges relating to this incident. The step father was contacted and told not to go back to the home, to which he agreed. There were a number of traffic incidents this day. An RCMP member already dealing with a motor vehicle incident on Highway 37S was alerted by a passing motorist of another possible MVI on the hill up from the Kitimat River Bridge. The officer later discovered a Ford Explorer off the road, resting against some trees, about five metres down the bank. Police found the registered owner with the vehicle later on return who said he was uninjured and had lost control on the icy highway. The vehicle was recovered with minor damage, and police found no signs of intoxication. At 2 a.m. a man was located intoxicated
near Haisla Boulevard and Tsimshian Boulevard. He could not provide an address where a sober person could care for him so he was placed in the holding cells until sober. December 22 A caller reported that there was a possible domestic disturbance in her building on Baxter Avenue. Police attended to the suspected unit but there were no signs of injuries or struggle in the unit and the assault report was deemed unfounded. Police are investigating an alleged assault after a female called police to report that her boyfriend was hitting her. The woman was located at the scene provided and was taken to Kitimat General Hospital by paramedics. Meanwhile the RCMP tracked the suspect to a nearby residence and arrested him. He was reportedly intoxicated. When members went
to the hospital to follow up with the woman, staff told officers she had gotten up to use the bathroom and never returned. Police were not able to immediately locate her, and
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Valuations You can read a lot into the 2014 report from BC Assessment about property values. Kitimat, as you may have heard, has led the way for the Northwest with an overall 29.51 per cent increase in its property roll for the year. Looking at an average one-family home, we saw a 26.67 per cent rise in value, from $180,000 to $228,000. When BC Assessment breaks down between commercial and residential, we see commercial values went up only 8.71 per cent. The residential assessment roll rose 27.23 per cent. So basically the value of residential properties in Kitimat skyrocketed but the business properties didn’t see the same. I find that a bit interesting, but not surprising. Early works to LNG export sites and the Kitimat Modernization Project have been the big draws for people coming into town recently. In fact our residential rates rose significantly last year as well, even earlier in all this speculation for the town. The demand for housing has been growing at a pace greater than the town can accommodate or plan for. We know all that, and that’s what we see in the numbers from BC Assessment. But it also points to a potential in our business core. My own interpretation of this is that there is room for growth commercially in this town. The town’s economic development office may have already picked up on that as they will be looking at growing the small business base in the town. (Through the ‘gardening’ concept, which does not mean dirt and trowels.) I feel confident that the business sector has a lot more room as I look to other communities. The town of Smithers, as I’ve written before does many things right when it comes to business, saw their commercial value rise 14.53 per cent. Their residential values only rose 2.96 per cent. The District of Port Edward’s commercial value shot up 91.30 per cent amazingly, against a residential value drop of 4.16 per cent. (I wish I knew enough about that community to explain what happened there.) Even the Village of Hazelton saw their commercial value rise, while residential values dropped. Prince Rupert, with a 8.51 per cent residential value rise, saw it’s commercial value go up 14.84 per cent. So even with our reasonable housing concerns, I have hopes we can at least see continued energy in our commercial base. Cameron Orr
Greenhouse gas trial balloon leaks Recently I described the inevitable demise of B.C.’s “carbon neutral government” scheme, which continues to take millions from hospitals and schools to fund greenhouse gas reduction projects of questionable value. It’s like the AirCare program, a pollution solution that sounded great at the time. AirCare soon found itself chasing diminishing environmental returns, made redundant by new vehicle technology and the financial need to save fuel. Public sector carbon offsets will suffer the same fate, growing as a political liability as their effectiveness declines. All this is separate from B.C.’s carbon tax and greenhouse gas reduction program, another environmental trial balloon that is sinking back to Earth. Former premier Gordon Campbell’s climate goals officially remain in place: 33 per cent greenhouse gas reduction by 2020 and a whopping 80 per cent by 2050. If the gas boom proceeds as
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planned, B.C. domestic emissions will not be down, but up substantially by 2020. New liquefied natural gas export proposals continue to pop up, the latest ones on former industrial sites near Squamish and Campbell River. And with the surge of LNG activity around Kitimat and Prince Rupert already changing the landscape, questions linger about the pollution and greenhouse gas impacts. As she left for the government’s largest ever trade mission to Asia, Premier Christy Clark dismissed a study that estimated the impact of three LNG plants. That study, done by Kitimat environment group Skeena Wild, assumed “direct drive” technology to chill and compress gas for export. It concluded
that three plants would burn two and a half times the amount of natural gas currently used in Metro Vancouver. Clark and Environment Minister Mary Polak relied on the same talking point to reject the study. The technology of powering LNG is still being negotiated, as producers work towards environmental permits, so the total can’t be calculated yet. BC Hydro is predicting little electricity demand for LNG until after 2020, which suggests the early development will either be direct drive, the industry standard and simplest method, or building one or more gasfired power plants in northwest B.C. Even if gas usage is only equivalent to one Lower Mainland, it’s plain to see greenhouse gas emissions are going up. Clark has repeatedly argued that B.C. LNG should get credit for displacing coal in China and elsewhere. I asked Polak if the international community would accept B.C.’s assertion that emissions from our LNG production shouldn’t count. Continued on page 5
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We are the insurance Dear Sir, When I first heard about the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal, I chalked up the opposition to it as being uninformed. After all, we Canadians have an economy that is relatively free, and as a consequence, a company proposing a risky venture, if it is responsible for the consequences of that venture, has a strong incentive to deeply understand the risks of the undertaking. I reasoned, if there exists a good chance of a spill, and Enbridge is liable for the costs in terms of total reparations, they wouldn’t be proposing the pipeline in the first place. I was alarmed to learn about the legal corporate structure of Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership – and as a consequence of that corporate structure and the regulations presently in place, the total liability that the company would accrue if there were ever an accident with the pipeline. Enbridge Northern Gateway will be responsible for only a very small fraction of the cleanup costs, should a large spill occur, and a much, much smaller fraction of the value that would be destroyed in the event of a large spill. In Canada, we don’t have the political and legal institutions to allow Enbridge to make an informed decision about whether or not they should build
Reader’s Write this pipeline. They do not have incentives strong enough to deeply understand the true risks of their own project, because they do not face the true costs of the project. The true costs of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline include all the payments to capital, labour, and land required to undertake the construction, maintenance and operation of the project plus the probability of a spill times the total cost of reversing the resulting damage. If the second part of that equation (relating to the spill) is relatively small, it isn’t something about which we’d be overly concerned. The rub, though, is that both of those numbers (the probability of a disaster, and the total cost of reversing the damage) are incredibly difficult to ascertain, and while the probability could very well be small, the cost, is very likely to be enormous. If Enbridge actually faced that second part of the cost equation, we could all rest a little easier, as they would have a tremendous incentive to investigate both of the values that comprise the second part of that cost equation. Given that they do not have that incentive, it is pru-
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Continued from page 4 “We haven’t said we won’t count them,” Polak replied. “What the premier’s talked about and I’ve talked about is that this whole issue of how one accounts for greenhouse gases in a particular region is one that is constantly evolving. There are regular changes to the international standards for accounting for these things and reporting them. And certainly the ability for one jurisdiction to impact positively on the GHG emissions of another, we think is appropriately considered in how one accounts for these things.” Clark visited the Jiangsu LNG import facility in China that could
dent to question every word of their technical documentation and their media campaign. Because Enbridge is not liable in any significant way for the real costs of their project, they would be able to collect economic profits for the life of the project. Economic profits are different from accounting profits (the difference between total revenue and total costs). They are valuable in the short term because they guide the investment of scarce resources, but their existence in the long run signals, among other things, the capture of public wealth by private enterprise. What’s the value of the economic profits that Enbridge would collect? It is at least what an insurance company would charge Enbridge for the cost of a disaster including restoring the pristine north to its present condition. There isn’t an insurance company in the world willing to write that policy, and if there were, Enbridge couldn’t afford it. So we, the citizens of British Columbia and Canada implicitly hold that contract with Enbridge, we are collectively the insurance company holding the contract without ever collecting premiums. Hannes Edinger, Terrace
be a key export destination. Globe and Mail China correspondent Nathan Vanderklippe covered the premier’s visit. He reports that the gas being imported at Jiangsu isn’t replacing coal. It’s being used in addition to coal in peak demand periods. Clark also visited Japan, another key customer for LNG. The whole world knows why Japan needs new energy sources. It needs to replace production from its disaster-tainted nuclear facilities. Will B.C. LNG be part of the solution to human-induced climate change? On the evidence so far, the answer is no.
The Kitimat Hospital Auxiliary’s Armelle Kennedy (far left) and Jennifer Kean (far right) present the auxiliary’s raffle winners their prizes after their annual fundraiser. Danny DeMedeiros won a grass trimmer while Marjorie Phelps wins tickets for four to Prince George on Via Rail. Other raffle winners Susie Barbosa and Lynn Stevenson were unavailable.
Police beat Continued from page 2 At 7:21 p.m. a caller reported hearing a bang, believing a vehicle may have hit an apartment building on Stikine Street. When police arrived they saw a vehicle had driven between Wedeene Street and Stikine Street and may have hit a gas meter. There were no witnesses to the event. Pacific Northern Gas was called to deal with a gas leak following the incident. Police followed up to a report of a man possibly calling for help near Dyke Road near the wa-
ter treatment plant. A person walking her dogs in the area said there was a man in the area calling for his small dog. Police did not find that person, and the file has been concluded. If you have information about these or any other crimes please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800222-8477 or call the Kitimat RCMP at 250-6327111. Crime Stoppers is anonymous and does not subscribe to call display and calls are not traced. If your information leads to an arrest you may be eligible for a cash reward.
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COMING EVENTS January 23 The Kitimat Fire Mountain Shooting Club’s 2014 annual general meeting is at 7:30 p.m. at the Rod and Gun Club. For more information call 250-632-3151. Ongoing The Kitimat Public Library Mother Goose StoryTime for preschoolers resumes January 20. Please register your pre-schooler in early January. PICKLE BALL. Every Tuesday and Thursday, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Riverlodge. For those aged 50+. Call the Kitimat Seniors’ Centre at 250632-3475 for further information. New church in town, gathering together for a conservative Christian fellowship. Preaching the word of God, singing spiritual songs and hymns. Vision for revival in Kitimat and Canada. Citywide prayer network. Phone Cathy Speitelsbach for more information at 250-632-2211. THE KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD meetings are the first Thursday of every month, held at M.E.S.S. Sewing room. All experience levels welcome. (19+) Call Aileen at 250-632-6225 or Wanda at 250-632-4458. HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Development Center. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings welcome). Come meet other parents and infants over light refreshments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For
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‘All I had was the whistle in my pocket.’ Cold, wet, alone, and stranded in the wild Cameron Orr Despite everything Lou Simoneau lost on December 5, he at least came out of his ordeal with this life. And an amazing story. Simoneau’s overnight adventure began on December 5 in the late afternoon on the Douglas Channel during a return trip to Kitimat from Butedale where he’s a caretaker for the old cannery property. He has taken the winter off and what should have been a fairly short boat trip turned into 20 hours of freezing cold temperatures. What he said he didn’t realize as he left Butedale was just how heavy the weather was on the route back. He said he was near Coste Island when things went south. His diesel engine quit on him, in the middle of rough seas. He called the Coast Guard right away, but it was the last chance he’d get to talk to them before his boat, the 28foot Steel Eagle, struck a rock, and flung him over the rail and into the Douglas Channel. “The boat took off on me and I was all by myself in the water,� he said.
The day of the incident, the Victoria Rescue Coordination Centre reported strong outflow winds and rough seas. In all, the marine search would draw out five ships, plus a cormorant helicopter. But those ships wouldn’t yet be deployed. Simoneau meanwhile, swimming in freezing salt water on a late afternoon in December, worked his way to shore about 50 feet away, even as the waves pulled him in and out. He was able to grab onto a rock eventually, and waited for the next wave toward shore, where he let it carry him to land. Once on stable ground, he took time to wring out his clothing and tried to get back to his boat, which had drifted just around a corner down the shore. But it’d be no use getting back on board, even if he could make it down the steep embankment to the water line where his boat was resting. The hole from hitting the rock was letting water in and the vessel was listing. “No use getting back on that boat because it would sink and you wouldn’t get anywhere.�
Materials-wise he lost a lot on that boat, from car keys to credit cards. “I didn’t even have insurance,� he adds. With his boat no longer any use to him, he had to face time to himself while hoping to get rescued. “It was cold. No fire, no lights, no nothing,� he said. “Just me and my whistle, and no one to whistle to.� He holed up about 30 feet into the bush, which meant he missed some opportunities for rescue when a helicopter scoured the shoreline looking for him. He would have no time to get back to the shore. He slept on-andoff-again through the night, but with no light to read his watch he had no sense of the time. “I was quite confused when I woke up,� he said. When it was daylight, he crawled back to the shore, and again wrung out his clothes. His feet were soaking wet. “Those feet, I couldn’t feel them.� It was when he was back on the shore and visible that rescue came. “I was hoping to see a boat but I seen nothing, but all of a
sudden the plane flew right over me from behind.� The plane didn’t see him right away, but it turned sharply and came back from the other direction, where the pilots on board noticed a gas can along the shore. “They saw me then...they gave me the signal,� he said. The plane would tip its wings to alert him that he was seen. They also threw a flare into the water. “It was almost instant the boat the Gordon Reid showed up.� The Gordon Reid is a Canadian Coast Guard ship. Simoneau, or as he says he’s sometimes known, Butedale Lou, credits some outdoor experience as what helped him survive, but he said he’s never had quite the ordeal as what he survived. “My experience probably saved me. It was not a pretty night but it turned out all right.� He worked for 25 years in the pipeline business and has experience as a rancher, so he said he was used to outdoor sleeping. But he’s quick to point out that’s in a nice, dry sleeping bag. If there had been more snow he could have
MK Bay Continued from page 1 Ramsey says the idea of the Haisla purchasing the marina isn’t a dead issue but it hasn’t gained a lot of traction over the years. “There was always a desire, way back, to team-up on that marina. It’s one of the options that’s still in the works. I just don’t know how it’s going to play out,� he said. “It’s pretty well known they’ve had an interest in it,� he continued.� “They might be developing their side, there’s
Lou Simoneau survived an overnight ordeal on the Douglas Channel after he was knocked off his boat. also buried himself in amazingly good shape can’t stand the cold it. considering. anymore.� But state-of-mind “I’m in pretty good After the winter would also be critical. shape. Deal is if I was he will be returning to He had to forget about younger I’d be a little Butedale, and he said what he had lost on the better. But I’m 69,� he he does have another boat. said. “I’m still paying boat. “After I got caught for it. My feet are still He’ll just hope for in the dark I was wor- numb, my fingers are better seas the next ried about my boat be- all full of needles...I time around. cause I had a lot of stuff in there,� he said. But then he turned his mind away from that. “This is no place for panic. I have to think about surviving here. So I put my mind to it, I’m here to stay,� he said.
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“It seems to plod along then something will change. That interest is always there. I’m just not quite sure how it’s going to work out.� But as for the new developments on the Haisla-side of the marina and the fence, Ramsey said there’s no bitterness about the new divide. “There’s no hard feelings or anything. We respect the Haisla, they’re our neighbours and if they want to develop their piece of property, that’s entirely up to them.�
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he’s ready to leave and find something different for his life and seek out his destiny,” said Kaberry. The human and his elf companion set off on an adventure, with a follower they’re not aware of. “They end up having a follower they don’t know about, which is a girl they’re both in love with,” she said. “She has her own sort of adventure as well.” Kaberry, who originally hails from Australia, said she’s always had creative ideas for stories but it was never a passion she pursued. “This has really been it,” she says of her writing history. “I basically always grew up with stories in my head. I wrote in school and things like that but I was never serious about it.” Putting this story about Titania together just came about
from her desire to create something. “Before long I had this complete story mapped out in my head.” She used Amazon.com’s CreateSpace service to publish the book, which is an on-demand publishing tool, and the book sells through their online store as a physical book or as a Kindle-edition. She says the work is completely creative, in that there weren’t many real-life inspirations which went into crafting her fantasy world. Reviews have been positive, going by Amazon’s reviewing system, and Kaberry said that she’s heard the book is a quick read, despite it’s 450 page length, but any critical acclaim is secondary to her pleasure at just having put a story down in print. “If I’m the only one who ever has a copy that will be good enough,” she said. The book contains illustrations by another Kitimat-area resident, Kristen Caruana. Kaberry and her book have a blog where people can learn more about it at titanianchronicles.blogspot.ca.
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Kitimat’s Nancy Gray, the Kitimat Legion’s Ladies Auxiliary President and Zone Commander for Houston to Haida Gwaii accepts the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Award. She said she was shocked when she was named to received the award. She has been on the ladies auxiliary for 37 years. Submitted.
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Sports & Leisure
Going in is the easy part...
Volunteers in Kitamaat Village hosted a Polar Bear Swim on New Years Day, continuing the tradition of the ‘cleansing’ new year’s bath in the frigid cold waters of the Douglas Channel, this time at the Kitamaat Village marina. Trevor Amos headed up organizing of the event, which you see drew out about 10 ‘dippers’. Cameron Orr
Ice time with Santa Claus
On December 22 the Kitimat Ice Demons hosted some ice time at the rink for the kids, with a skate with the team but, more importantly, a skate with Santa Claus himself, taking a hockey break before his big day.
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IT’S HOCKEY NIGHT IN KITIMAT! Sat., at 8pm & Sun., at 1pm
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GAME AT TAMITIK ARENA • Admission $10 Adults – $5 Seniors/Students/Children • Tickets available at: Dee’s Flowers, Constant Cravings & Tamitik Arena
www.kitimaticedemons.com GET READY FOR THE DEMONS TO FREEZE OUT THE COMPETITION IN THE PLAYOFFS!
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