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NEWS BRIEFS Strahl resigns as spy watchdog Chuck Strahl, the former MP who was overseeing Canada’s spy agency, has resigned from the post after concerns regarding his lobbying activities. Strahl had recently been in the news for his lobbying work for Enbridge Northern Gateway and others, which Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen said were concerning. Cullen had called for changes to the regulations governing the activities of former MPs and cabinet ministers after Strahl’s lobbying activities came to light. Strahl was appointed as the head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Review Committee, which oversees the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). He had been lobbying for Enbridge Northern Gateway since 2011, and said he had always complied with all relevant rules and regulations. He said he did not want his lobbying work to distract from the work SIRC is doing.

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Break and enter leaves family feeling frustrated Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier There were sounds on the wheelchair ramp at 3 a.m., but when he did not hear anyone at the door, he fell back asleep. Father and husband Steve Boulding had thought his teenage son had answered the door or it was just their neighbour. But the sleeping man’s wife, Lisa Boulding, said the couple was later woken up at 6:30 a.m. by her son, complaining he was cold and the door was wide open. He told her the cats must have had a field day, because their winter coats were scattered all over and the living room was a mess. Boulding knew something sounded funny, so she went downstairs and had a look. It took the family a few moments to realize this was no feline frenzy, - they had been robbed. Someone had pulled the winter coats off the hooks by the door and the contents of Lisa Boulding’s purse were on the floor. The hooded sweatshirts which were underneath the winter coats and a leather coat were all missing.

So was Boulding’s wallet containing her identification, and a number of DVDs. In her wallet had been the family’s rent for the month and the money for shopping she was going to do in Prince George the same day. Only one of Boulding’s three sons was at home the night of the theft, and she was grateful no one had surprised the thief or thieves, but there were some things which were taken which could not be replaced. A special edition Canuck’s sweatshirt given to her for Christmas by her father in law before he passed away had sentimental value. The notebooks she kept track of her sons milestones in, which she had in her purse in order to fill out her son’s medical information when he began university, will be of little use to anyone else. Her original social insurance card she kept with her maiden name on it as a keepsake was gone, and so were her prescription glasses. These are the things Boulding wants back, because not only do they mean a lot to her and her family, but they are of little use to a thief. “I just feel kind of abused,” said Boulding, who said when she spent two years in a wheelchair from the spring of 2011 until August of 2013, she and her hus-

band would go through town to minister to people and always opened their home to people in need. But since her husband has gotten full time work and she is out of her wheelchair and also working again, she said the family has experienced some anger directed at them since they have become busy with work. “It’s just kind of a kick in the pants,” she said. Every noise Boulding hears now, she wonders if someone is in the house. The door was not locked the night of the theft, because the lock did not work properly and only her husband is able to lock it. “It doesn’t feel like home,” she said of being in the home after the theft. Boulding is working on dealing with her anger, but is asking for understanding from the community. She said her hope for the incident is to have the person or persons who took items from her house to return the ones which are sentimental to her, no questions asked. As for the police investigation, ideally she would like to see whoever did it serve community hours if it was a one-time mistake or receive treatment if they are a repeat offender or offenders with a substance abuse problem.

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The Conservation Officer Service in Vanderhoof has received three complaints in the last week regarding dogs chasing deer. Violation tickets can be issued by Cam Hill, the Conservation Officer, or by the RCMP in the amount of $345 or a court accessed penalty of up to $100,000 or one year imprisonment for a first offense where an owner allows his dog to run at large and pursue wildlife. “Dogs are generally able to travel quite freely on the crust of the snow while deer and other ungulates are having a difficult time moving around,” said Hill. “Deer are very vulnerable this time of year as they are becoming weakened by hunger due to their lack of mobility and access to food and pregnant females are particularly sus-

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ceptible to injury or death “Many residents, includdue to dog harassment.” ing those who operate farms In one case, it was deter- and ranches, will not tolerate mined that a dog, or dogs, dogs running at large,” said killed two deer, a young Hill. “Dogs that chase wildWhitetail buck and a doe, in life are also prone to chasing the Sturgeon Point area near livestock and again, a year Vanderhoof. And in Fort St. like this with very icy conJames a doe mule deer had ditions, makes livestock, as to be put down after injuries DaffodilsHC0804.EPS well as wildlife, particularly and constant harassment by vulnerable to serious injury dogs out on the ice of Stuart from falling on ice.” Lake. In the other case, five Hill has seen dogs that lab dogs were seen running have been the gentlest of deer along the Nechako Riv- family pets hunt and kill er west of Vanderhoof. deer just for the pure thrill Although the Wildlife of the chase. If your dog is Act authorizes Hill to put wondering at large, he or she down a dog observed ha- may be a danger to wild and rassing wildlife, he would domestic animals and one prefer not to. day may not come home. “If I have any idea who Anyone who sees or is the owner is I would contact aware of dogs harassing them but in the past I’ve not wildlife is encouraged to been able to find the owners contact the Conservation and have had to put dogs Officer Service at 1-877down.” 952-RAPP(7277). MomGirlHuggingTreeC0804.EPS

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Courier Logging trucks collide on Leo Creek

Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Two logging trucks collided on the Leo Creek Road on Jan. 24, but neither driver was seriously injured. At 8:27 a.m., RCMP received a call from the Stuart Lake Hospital where one of the drivers was being treated for minor injuries. RCMP interviewed the driver, who said he had been driving his loaded logging truck down the Leo Creek

Jan. 17 at 2:09 a.m., RCMP were dispatched to a house on the Tachie Reserve. A male called to report a male at a residence on Lakeshore Drive on the reserve was throwing things around. The man then was said to have grabbed a knife and threatened to kill the complainant and a female in the house. Upon arriving at the residence, RCMP spoke to the suspect’s mom, who reported the suspect had stopped taking his anti-psychotic medication and had been acting out. RCMP then took the suspect into custody under the Mental Health Act and transported him to the Stuart Lake Hospital. The man was then arrested for uttering threats and breach of probation. Also on Jan. 17, RCMP received a report of an ex boyfriend in the home of a residence on Mountain View Road. The man was allegedly refusing to leave and threatening to slash the woman’s tires. Upon arrival, RCMP found the complainant unwilling to provide a statement but RCMP did locate the suspect and arrested him for breach of an undertaking and uttering threats. He has since been released on a promise to appear for a court date on March 17. On Jan. 18 a woman called the RCMP to report that sometime in the early morning, a person or persons had entered her family home and stolen items from the living room. The missing items included her identification, money, DVDs and some hooded sweatshirts. The living room was

Road early on Jan. 24 near the 65 km board when he collided with an unloaded logging truck near a single lane bridge. The driver stated he had been calling his mileage, however there may have been some confusion. The other driver also attended the RCMP but wouldn’t give a statement on the incident. The loaded truck spilled the load of logs and one truck required towing from the scene of the incident.

ABOVE and LEFT: One logging truck ended up on its side and another had some damage to the driver’s side after a collision.

RCMP report a mess and the rear door was left open. There was no physical evidence found at the scene but the RCMP said they are continuing to look for suspects. Jan. 19 at 11:45 a.m., RCMP conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle near Paarens Beach. RCMP stopped the vehicle after a check showed a female was the registered owner of the vehicle, but a male was driving the vehicle alone. The driver told RCMP he did not have a licence, and a check confirmed he had a driving prohibition in effect. The vehicle was then towed and the driver will be facing a charge of driving while prohibited and is scheduled to appear in court on April 7. Jan. 7 at 3:50 p.m., RCMP received a call from the Loonie Bin store reporting a shoplifting. The complainant said while working at the store, two men had come into the store, one staying by the door and one approaching the employee behind the counter. The suspect retreated from behind the counter when another customer approached the counter to pay. The complainant then said the man appeared to pocket some items while looking at a display. RCMP located two suspects and a search of the men located an imitation firearm, pepper spray, a knife and a number of other items which they believe to have been taken from the store. Both men were arrested and RCMP are recommending charges of possession of a prohibited weapon, two counts of possession of a weapon

for a dangerous purpose and six breaches of probation, all against one of the men, and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose against the other. On Jan. 21, a male complainant reported someone has been stealing traps and animals from his keyho trapline in the Leo Creek area over the past month. He also reported some blankets and other items had been taken from his cabin. RCMP are continuing to investigate and anyone with any information related to the complaints should contact the RCMP or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477. On Jan. 25, at 12:05 a.m. RCMP responded to a call to an apartment building on Stuart Drive. Upon arrival, RCMP found several occupants had spilled outside onto the street and were causing a disturbance. RCMP reported the building manager was in

attendance with another person and a male was winding up to hit the manager but the RCMP member intervened to prevent an assault on the manager. The suspect was then arrested for assault. RCMP said the manager then went back into the residence and was attempting to throw someone out of the building. RCMP then arrested the manager for assault on the person being thrown out. The suspect then requested he be allowed to get his heart medication and fell to the ground clutching his chest. RCMP called the ambulance service, who responded to the scene and found no medical concerns on the suspect. No one involved in the incident wanted to proceed with charges. Jan. 26 at 1:28 a.m., a male called to report his girlfriend would be calling police to report he as-

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Enbridge power projects questioned Editor: What do McGregor River and Spakwaniko, Fontoniko and Herrick creeks northeast of Prince George have in common with each other, and with the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines project? They are all sites of run of river power projects proposed by the numbered company 8056587 Canada Ltd., which is a subsidiary of Enbridge Inc. who we know to be the proponent of the pipelines project. News broke of the run of river projects and a power transmission line on December 12. In a Vancouver Sun article Enbridge spokesman Ivan Giesbrecht was quoted as saying “Enbridge has applied for and received an investigative licence to conduct preliminary assessment work at possible project sites in B.C. and Alberta.” Mr. Giesbrecht’s statement warranted checking into when I learned details of the run of river applications on the B.C. government Applications and Reasons for Decision web site. In early January I asked both Enbridge and B.C. government staff for the dates of licence issuance and the name the licences were issued under, for each of the sites. Government staff said licences had not been issued. They confirmed 8056587 Canada Inc. had been sent investigative work offers of tenure on August 15, 2013. They also said as of Jan. 8 the offers had not been signed by the proponent and returned to the government. That certainly dispelled Mr. Giesbrecht’s claim, in my view. On Jan. 10 I received a reply to my questions

from Enbridge’s Director, Public and Aboriginal Engagement, Michele Perret; she wrote: “As you are aware, there are many companies involved in this type of work. We apply for these investigative licenses for competitive reasons, and as such, any specifics related to them are considered proprietary information that we do not discuss publicly. ” Ms. Perret’s reply had me reflecting once again on the Dec. 12 news article; it had also reported Mr. Giesbrecht as saying there is nothing suspicious in its use of a numbered company. “Green energy is a growing sector”, Giesbrecht said, “so it’s prudent to avoid tipping off potential competitors.” To me, both Ms. Perret and Mr. Giesbrecht implied it is Enbridge’s practice to maintain secrecy when it comes to their “green energy” subsidiaries and their activities, and to use numbered companies to do so. That is not the case in the name of another Enbridge subsidiary, Enbridge Hydropower Holdings Inc. That naming convention does not leave potential competitors, or the public for that matter, guessing who is behind it or what their business interests are. The business interests of both 8056587 Canada Inc. and Enbridge Hydropower Holdings Inc. appear to be the same, and I believe it is logical to assume they would have the same potential competitors; yet only 8056587 Canada Inc. exhibits anonymity. Ms. Perret’s reply and Mr. Giesbrecht’s comments do not, in my opinion, sound trustworthy. It was also reported in December that Mr.

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Giesbrecht said the power projects are not being built to power pumps for the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines project. I am not convinced. My suspicions about 8056587 Canada Inc.’s power projects being linked to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines project have been fuelled by the following glaring similarities between the two: • According to both Enbridge and government maps the power transmission line for the run of river projects northeast of Prince George will run along the route of the pipelines, passing by one of the construction camps and pipe stockpile areas. • The power transmission line will connect to BC Hydro’s grid at Bear Lake, the location of a Northern Gateway pipelines project pump station. In addition to the run of river power projects planned by 8056587 Canada Inc. northeast of Prince George, there are also four run of river projects planned in the Terrace -Kitimat area that show similarities to the pipelines project: • The Clore River power project’s tunnel (site of intake) is near the confluence of the Clore and Burnie rivers. So is the eastern portal of the pipelines’ Clore tunnel, work camp, and staging area. • The Clore power project’s tunnel is stated to be 6400 metres long and approximately 3.7 metres in diameter. The pipeline’s Clore tunnel is stated to be 6479 metres in length and 5 metres in diameter. • The power transmission line from the Clore River power project will run east. There is a pipelines pump station proposed for the Houston area,

to the east. • The power transmission lines from the Bolton and McKay creeks’ power projects will join the BC Hydro grid at Highway 37 between Kitimat and Terrace, and from the Williams Creek project southeast of Terrace. There is a pipelines pump station proposed between Terrace and Kitimat. Another similarity regarding all eight run of river power projects and the power transmission line is the date 8056587 Canada Inc. anticipates getting approval for and starting construction, mid-2014, and being operational in 2016. This coincides with the due date of the federal government decision on and Enbridge Northern Gateway’s anticipated start of construction of their pipelines project. A number of interveners in the Enbridge Northern Gateway Joint Review Panel hearings, including the Fort St. James Sustainability Group, questioned and challenged Enbridge on the pipelines’ effects on these Chinook, Sockeye, Chum, and Coho salmon-bearing watercourses, or their associated watersheds, and the marine environment. I cannot help but wonder why Enbridge feels 8056587 Canada Inc. warrants anonymity. The only conclusion I come to is that they wanted to avoid tipping off the public and First Nations of a link to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipelines project. Brenda Gouglas Fort St. James

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OPINION A matter of fact or opinion?

Caledonia Courier Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Sometimes an opinion makes statements so overthe-top I can not hold my tongue (or fingers, as the case may be). With all due respect to my colleague at Black Press, Tom Fletcher, I found this the case with his latest B.C. Views column condemning the advocacy of Neil Young. While the goal may have been to draw attention to the bias of Young’s campaign (which is in support of the Fort Chipewyan First Nation), he really only drew attention to his own bias by being highly selective with his own facts. So I decided if I were to print his opinion, I would have to print my own as well, along with some research as to where I get these “fantasy facts” as Fletcher calls some of them in his piece. First off, I just want to clarify a couple of things I think set the column off on a bit of a wrong foot. First of all, Fletcher immediately attacks Young’s descriptions of the oil sands extraction as looking like a war zone (Hiroshima) and on the oil sands being on their way to looking like the moon as false statements. Well now it’s a stretch to say these statements are blatantly false, because of course they are opinions, so while perhaps it is not Fletcher’s opinion the extractions and resultant denuded landscape looks like a war zone (and granted, Hiroshima involved a different type of damage) or the moon. But exactly what they look like is up for debate, and it is hard to describe a landscape so barren of topsoil and vegetation. It’s certainly not pretty, unless you think a barren area larger than Rhode Island with nothing but tailings ponds and mineral soil is your idea of beautiful. But this is really semantics, and a bit dramatic on Fletcher’s part, with some exclamation points thrown in for extra sensationalism. Anyone who read and looked at the Canadian Geographic cover story of June 2008 (1), will agree the images are startling. While Young used a comparison some found offensive, I challenge Fletcher to find a description more accurate. But then I’m pretty sure Young could

have called it anything and it would have been immediately labelled as “false” and attacked by oil sands supporters even though in reality, an opinion is an opinion, and pretty it up all you want, the oil sands development is not attractive. As for the issue Young brought up regarding reclamation, well, once again, I have to disagree with Fletcher’s characterization of this as a false statement. Reclamation is minima and there are numerous scientific studies cited throughout the literature on the oil sands saying exactly that (2). As of 2008, only 0.2 per cent (not even half a per cent, how’s that for worthy of exclamation!) of the previously mined area had been certified by regulators as “reclaimed” and there were not clear standards requiring a return to a pre-disturbance boreal ecosystem (3). Even after the reclamation standards and assessment process were redone by the Alberta government in 2009, the area actually certified as reclaimed is still very minimal, according to the government’s own graphs (4). The Alberta government has said it is continuing to work on updated regulations and reporting to address some of the issues around reclamation, but it is not yet clear whether this is meaningful change or optics, as creating more categories to put the mines in once they are mined out, does not necessarily mean they will ever attain the lofty goal of productive and healthy ecosystems. The tailings ponds do not yet seem to be addressed in terms of rehabilitation. There is not one single citation I could find of a tailings pond achieving anywhere close to a reclaimed state. The ponds, which are a mixture of the leftover silt-water slurry and unrecoverable hydrocarbons are left to settle out, and it is unclear whether the waste water will eventually be recoverable or releasable back into a watershed system. Settling out of the suspended sediments is estimated at taking anywhere from a few decades to 125150 years, with the different time frames depending the thickness of the sediment, tailings management and more (5). As for the “tar sands oil is going to China and that’s why their air is so bad” statement Fletcher

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attributes to Young, well this is an oversimplification (whether you attribute the oversimplification to Young or Fletcher is up to you). Yes, Young pointed out we want to send the oil to China, or to be more correct, Asia in general, which obviously is being worked on with the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline Project. We are already sending some to Asia as it is, though not as much or as directly as Northern Gateway would allow. But the link between increasing use of fossil fuels in countries with far lower emissions standards such as China is a reality Fletcher chooses not to acknowledge. I would argue Young has a point in attempting to draw attention to the bigger issues at play globally, and our part in contributing to the problem. Increased use of lowerquality fuels is contributing to the problem, whether Fletcher and other naysayers want to admit it or not. While China may just go buy oil from other places, those choices are largely dictated by economics, so were we investing in greener technologies which then became less expensive then the ones based on fossil fuels, well, this would speed up the time frame in which China would be buying those and we would instead be contributing to a solution, not a problem. Look at the transformation Germany has undergone in the past decade by focussing on investing in greener technologies and energy sources. Sure, our economy is not based on the same things Germany’s is, but why could Canada not begin looking forward instead of just continuing to rely on volatile resource industries? Or of course we could choose to refine it to higher standards in Canada before exporting it. But I digress. Back to Mr. Young and Mr. Fletcher (and the myriad of other columnists who used oversimplification to dismiss Young’s argument against continued headlong, unrestrained development of the oil sands. The best part is where Fletcher mentions a past citation by Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation of a study by a local physician. Dr. John O’Connor spent years battling the

massive public relations machine of the oil companies and the Alberta governments while he attempted to have the government study what he thought were the higher than normal incidents of very rare cancers in the Fort Chipewyan First Nation community, downstream of the oil sands tailings ponds, along the Athabasca River. A statistical analysis by the Alberta government did not find a conclusive link, this is true. Health Canada physicians did file complaints against O’Connor, however he was cleared of all of them. But the very report by a Royal Society of Canada expert panel in 2010 which Fletcher cites to dismiss cancer claims also states: “More monitoring focussed on human contaminant exposure is needed to address First Nation and community concerns.”

The report says there is currently no credible evidence of a definitive cancer link, but there are really not much in the way of proper scientific studies period. The very same study also says reclamation is not keeping pace with disturbance. Fletcher seems to summarily dismiss Young’s criticisms of the oil sands simply because he is a celebrity, and yes, as a celebrity, probably Young is presenting the argument in a manner which oversimplifies the situation. However, let’s not bury our heads so firmly in the oil sands we can not reasonably discuss the issues at hand without doing the very things Fletcher accuses Young of doing: using misinformation to get his point across. The oil sands contamination may or may not be the source of the prob-

lem for those suffering from rare cancers in Fort Chipewyan, but without proper long-term study, we won’t really know. Small population sizes and poor monitoring mean questions still remain. And does it not seem a little hypocritical Fletcher summarily dismisses the public relations campaigns opposing the oil sands’ possible environmental and First Nations rights implications as the “American enviro-assault” when he has no issue with the billion-dollar foreign oil companies profiting from the oil sands running their own pro-oil sands campaigns saying the exact opposite? While Young may be arguing too far from one side, it seems so is Mr. Fletcher. What is truly needed is conversation on more sustainable oil sands develop-

ment and ways we could plan to develop more strategically for longer-term benefits and less environmental destruction. But then, this is just my opinion, whether Mr. Fletcher wants to call it “false” or not. Sources: 1) Scar Sands; Curtis Gillespie; Canadian Geographic Magazine; June 2008 2) Oil sands mining and reclamation cause massive loss of peatland and stored carbon; Rebecca C. Rooney, Suzanne E. Bayley, and David W. Schindler; University of Alberta Faculty of Science News. 3) Fact or Fiction: Oil Sand Reclamation; Jennifer Grant, Simon Dyer, Dan Woynillowicz. 4) Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development website; http://environment. alberta.ca/02863.html 5) Prediction of Sedimentation and Consolidation of Fine Tails, W.F. Eckert et al., AIChE Journal.

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Issues in the Middle East may seem not only far away but insurmountable from Fort St. James. But for one Fort St. James resident and her family, the issues hit close to home and she is hoping to help make at least some small difference for those fleeing conflict. Fatima Hatamleh is from Jordan, smack in the middle of the ongoing crises in the Middle East, and she will be giving the proceeds of belly-dancing classes she is teaching to help Syrian refugees. Born to an American mother and Jordanian father, Hatamleh considers Jordan her home, even though she spent many years going back and forth between the United States and Jordan while her father pursued his education in sports psychology in the U.S.. But the family settled in Jordan for good in 1994 where her father became a professor at a university. They lived in Irbid, and Hatamleh’s family still lives there, a town only 40 minutes from the border with Syria, a country experiencing a civil war crisis which has led to an estimated 1.1 million refugees fleeing the country with little more than the clothes on their backs. “Our town specifically, took a huge hit because of the refugees,” said Hatamleh. She left Jordan in 2007, moving to Canada with her

TOP: Fatima Hatamleh models the traditional belly dancer veil in front of a Jordanian flag. BOTTOM: The class of belly dancers with instructor Fatima Hatamleh (second from left). Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier

husband to pursue opportunities here, but the couple returns twice a year to visit family. During their latest visit, she went to the salon where she had been getting her hair cut since she was

a girl, and the couple who owned the salon had been offering to help refugees from Syria by offering free haircuts and helping to care for some of the refugee children during the day. The couple also read

the newspaper from Jordan to keep up with what is going on, however Hatamleh said she stopped reading the news from home after the last story she read reported snipers targeting young children. One young child was shot at his home, but people were not being allowed to leave their homes as the Syrian government was attempting to stop the protests and rioting. Because the child’s parents were not allowed to leave they had to stay in their home with the child’s remains, unable to bury the child for over a week. “It just got a little too much for me,” said Hatamleh. “I feel extremely powerless.” She said other news stories reported the killing of parents in front of young children in order to instil fear in them. “You would think in this day and age stuff like that wouldn’t be happening,” she said. But she also remembers when Syria was a prosperous country, where Jordanians would go to shop for the best fabric, perfume or foods. Her uncle promised to take her shopping in Syria when she was a youngster, if she kept up her grades, and she went there to purchase the fabric for her wedding dress. “I have really good memories of Syria,” she said. Nowadays, she said the border is essentially oneway, with Syrians fleeing to find safety in Jordan and

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other neighbouring countries. “For us it’s just mindblowing.” There are hundreds of thousands of refugees from Syria in Jordan who have come through the official route and are then processed and sent to refugee camps, the largest being Zaatari, which had an estimated population of 144,000 refugees in July of 2013. But many refugees are entering neighbouring countries illegally, and numbers for those not following the legal channels to end up in refugee camps are unknown. Hatamleh said she gets updates on the situation from her friend Nida Yassin who is an internal relations officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Jordan. The problem of the massive influx of refugees also means problems for Jordan, as many jobs are given to desperate refugees for low wages, creating tension with many Jordanians as a result. But Hatamleh said many in the Middle East worry the Syrian crisis creates a distraction from

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Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier Four students from David Hoy Elementary are headed to Mission for the BC Winter Games to play wheelchair basketball. David Goerz, Cole Taylor, Bryan Caldwell and Will Bennison will all be playing on the Zone 7 team. While all four are ablebodied athletes, to fill out the teams able-bodies athletes can participate, as long as a certain number of participants are also wheelchair bound, especially since not many people play wheelchair basketball in the Zone 7 area. Zone 7 encompasses the area west of Fort St. James along Highway 16 and Vanderhoof.

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David and Will both did. The team coach is located in the Lower Mainland, so locally, John Bennison is coaching the Fort St. James players until they go. Eileen Bennison is the team manager and will travel to Mission with the team. The game is played as a four-on-four, with players in specially-designed sport wheelchairs made to be more maneuverable

L-R: Bryan Caldwell, David Goerz, and Cole Taylor are three of the four athletes heading to the B.C. Winter Games in Mission in February. Missing is Will Bennison.

and stable. The special wheelchairs belong to the school district, and David Hoy has sent one down to Vanderhoof, so another team member from there can practice as well. John Bennison said one of the benefits to playing wheelchair basketball is learning what it’s like to be confined to a chair, learning how difficult something like throwing at the baskets becomes from a seated position.

“Until you actually spend some time playing a game in one, you don’t understand how difficult it is to move around in one,” he said. Previously-learned basketball skills go out the window, said Bennison, and the rules governing players change, with dribbling from a chair and throwing at the 10-foot baskets from a chair making new challenges for the players.

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The David Hoy students became involved in the sport after a visit from Nancy Harris, a passionate advocate for the sport of wheelchair basketball

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Over 1,800 participants have registered to take part in the Mission 2014 BC Winter Games which kick off Feb. 20. The 1,344 athletes will be supported by 346 coaches and 156 officials during the four-day event. The athletes are from every corner of the province and have trained to earn a place to represent their zone at the games. Competing in 18 different sports, the athletes range in age from nine to 17 (in able-bodied sports). Athletes with a disability will compete in wheelchair basketball, Special Olympics basketball, para-alpine and para-nordic (cross country ski) events. Volunteers in Mission have been preparing for the past 18 months to host their first-ever BC Games. There will be up to 2,000 volunteers working to ensure the participants have exceptional competition and a firstrate experience with Opening and Closing Ceremonies, special events, and wonderful hospitality. “The future of sport in B.C. is coming to Mission and we are looking forward to seeing these young athletes compete to the best of their ability,” said Kelly Mann, President and CEO of the BC Games Society. “The BC Winter Games are the first step towards na-

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Robbie Burns night Ruth Lloyd Caledonia Courier

The birth of Scottish poet Robert Burns was celebrated Fort St. James style on January 25 with poetry, some Scotch whiskey and dancing. Music on the Mountain Society hosted a night in honour of the famed Scottish poet and lyricist at the Fort St. James branch of the Royal Canadian Legion. The night was kicked off by the presentation of the poem Address to a Haggis in the Scottish dialect by Lionel Conant in his traditional kilt. Haggis is a traditional dish which nowadays may sound more like the subject of a dare because it is made of sheep heart, liver and lungs made into a sausage or liverwurst-like pudding with spices, oatmeal and onion and then simmered in a sausage casing (the original way would have been to encase it in the animal's stomach) for a number of hours. The old-fashioned dish is associ- Lionel Conant delivered an Address to the Hagated with the poet after Burns wrote gis on Robbie Burns night in Fort St. James. the Address to a Haggis in 1787. Caledonia Courier After the requisite poem recitamusicians Raghu Lokanathan and Scott tion, a meal of roast beef, haggis, "neeps and Dunbar performed for the crowd. tatties" (turnips and potatoes), and salad was It didn't take long for the dance floor to served for the event. fill and the night was a testament to the spirit Once the dinner was done, Prince George of Robbie Burns, may his poetry live on.

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Teija MacLaughlin, the girlfriend of seeing someone else. Jackson Playfair accused of threatening The police report alleges MacLaughto kill him, was released on bail in Wash- lin continued to text Playfair over 20 ington State. times after being warned to leave him MacLaughlin, a 25-year-old sports re- alone. porter, pled not guilty to a felony charge Playfair, 19, plays for the Tri-City of harassment with domestic violence Americans in the Western Hockey League during an appearance in Washington and is originally from Fort St. James. court on Jan. 25. FREE EVENTS going on can be MacLaughlin was then released submitted to the Caledonia Courier on $10,000 bail and had to hand online calendar, over her passport and was told she visit: www.caledoniacourier.com and must remain within two Washington counties until her next appear- see the calendar on the bottom right and click on add your event. ance in court on Feb. 12. She is also under a no contact condition with her former boyfriend Playfair. MacLaughlin's trial is set to begin March 10. The charge carries a maximum penalty of up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine if she is found guilty. The young Canadian woman had been arrested in Washington State after she allegedly drove to Washington to see Playfair and threatened his life after learning he was

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