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Vista Village vexes residents Cameron Orr Residents of the Vista Village trailer park on Columbia Avenue are notably fed up with the owner and landlord of the property who they say has been blocking sales and denying tenant rights. The situation has become so dire that residents have formed a tenants association and have worked continuously with the Kitimat Housing Resource Workers for support. A press release issued last week through the Kitimat Housing Resource Project say the landlord, Lee Ann Wolfin, has been using illegitimate reasons to deny the sale of homes on the property by the residents. Three properties at Vista Village are currently listed for sale through MLS, but some attempts by some home owners to sell have been fruitless. A letter from Vista Village resident Brenda Gordon, which she has allowed to be reported on, notes that there have been two offers on her home, both rejected by the owner for various reasons. “It seems as though she is not happy to have us live in the trailer park, and at the same time she prevents every attempt to sell,” she writes. Gordon said she’s lost out on three separate attempts at sale on her trailer. As of press time our calls to Wolfin had not been returned. At the core of the issue is what is and is not allowed by a landlord of a trailer park in relation to sales. The Kitimat Housing Resource Project in their release claim that the landlord has altered rules for sale at a rapid pace — twice in the past six months — and some of the means to deny sales “is intended to financially exasperate the home owner.” Among those rules at the Vista Village include a need to consult the landlord before listing a home for sale, and for a tenant to provide a full inspection report of the manufactured home. Kitimat Housing Resource Worker Paul LaGace says that through their own investigations those rules are against the Manufactured Home Park Tenancy Act and a landlord would not have jurisdiction on that matter. “There’s literally 100 that are vacant,” said LaGace, who joined a number of Vista Village Trailer Park residents while speaking with media. He said if you look next door, the neighbouring trailer court is entirely full, “It seems, by numbers, that those [Vista Village] could be completely full if they wanted to be,” he added. Continued on page 9

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A Kitimat RCMP-supplied photo of the truck which was involved in the community wide power outage last Thursday. The truck sheered a power pole at 3 a.m. which cut power and resulted in school closures for the day. The driver had fled before police arrived. Police said they were speaking with the registered owner of the vehicle but by press time they had not said whether they had a suspected driver or not. The incident happened just a few hundred metres north of the rail crossing on Haisla Boulevard, towards Rio Tinto Alcan.

Homelessness hidden but real Cameron Orr Homelessness may not be a visible problem in Kitimat but it’s real. If anyone on Kitimat Council had doubts about that, they had the issue hit home when the Kitimat Housing Resource Project workers introduced McLeod Johnson and wife Brenda Mae, a couple living in Kitimat with no home. The pair were working with local housing workers to find temporary lodging. From networking with volunteers at Monday evenings Community Supper Club dinner, the pair were given a tent and eventually given a spot at Radley Park. “You don’t see homelessness in the daytime, but homelessness is still there at night time. You don’t see the people who are wrapped, curled up in the cold, freezing in the night time,” said McLeod in the impromptu appearance at the September 15 council meeting. “You don’t see them hungry, you don’t see them looking for water in the

morning,” he continued. The subject was on the table as Margaret Warcup and Trish Parsons, who work with a sub-committee of the Kitimat Interagency Committee, were speaking to the need for a new plan for shelter in Kitimat. Last year they, with the District of Kitimat operated an emergency extreme weather shelter, which opened on certain days once cold weather criteria was met. At the conclusion of the weather shelter earlier this year, there were a total of six nights where clients came to use the facility, eight total stays by clients, and four clients overall who used the service. That said, Parsons believes the inconsistent nature of the shelter prevented others from using the service. Warcup also said that through consultation with other community agencies they can fairly assume there’s a number of homeless people in Kitimat.

“We can probably identify 15 individuals in Kitimat that are truly homeless,” she said. Nearby shelters, she said, are entirely full, referring to facilities in Terrace and in Smithers. The local need is what they brought to the council meeting, seeking support from councillors. “We are asking the District of Kitimat to help us with this winter. We need a solution in terms of dealing with those that are potentially homeless in Kitimat,” said Warcup. That assistance will come from determining if the community needs a full-time shelter through the winter or if they need to develop some kind of other supportive housing. BC Housing, she said, suggested the extreme weather shelter again but the challenges relating to when it can and can’t open is prohibitive to people who may need to use it. Continued on page 2

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The International Day of Peace was celebrated with great fanfare on September 21 with live music, local and out-oftown performers, and of course the human peace sign which was assembled outside the Riverlodge. Dwight Magee

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Bar walk results in seized cocaine September 15 A bar walk by RCMP at the Kitimat Hotel just before 10 p.m. resulted in the seizure of 1.4 grams of cocaine. Five individuals standing in the common room the drugs were found in were searched but no drugs were found in anyone’s possession. September 16 A window on the southwest side of the Kitimat First Baptist Church was damaged. It was reported to po-

lice at 12:48 p.m. but no suspects are known at this time. At 6:50 p.m. the police responded to a report of a broken window in a camper van parked at the City Centre Motel. Window damaged by a small rock but no suspects at this time. September 17 At 12:30 p.m. the police were called regarding a theft from Shoppers Drug Mart. The complainant told police the alleged thief

Police Beat was attempting to sell stolen perfume on a Kitimat buy and sell page on Facebook. The woman admitted to police the products were stolen but the complainant agreed not to pursue charges if the merchandise was returned, which it was. September 18 A 19-year-old driver lost control

of her pick-up truck near Humphrey Creek Bridge around 3:18 p.m. Police said alcohol was likely a factor in the incident, which resulted in a fractured wrist and a violation ticket. September 19 Police are examining a 1987 Ford F-150 truck for clues after it was reported stolen, and later recovered near the Kitimat River bridge. September 21 A wallet was sto-

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Regional Cullen tables tanker ban bill for North Coast area But that said, as a whole. ate Strait, Dixon En- beyond a mandate he versation,” he said. briefs ValleySkeena-Bulkley “Canada needs an “Everybody has been MP Nathan trance and the Queen believes he has right Canada does need Caught Acting on a tip, the Kitimat RCMP issued a search warrant for a home in the Whitesail neighbourhood and recovered a number of stolen golf clubs. The clubs had been taken from the Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club following the break in of a number of sheds on the property on September 17. On September 24 the police found the clubs in the possession of an 18-year-old, who is now facing charges of break and enter and possession of property obtained by crime. The police are in the process of returning the stolen property and are continuing the investigation in to the theft. Police say if you have any information about the offence, or others, contact the detachment at 250-6327111. Or remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Elections

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Cullen has tabled his private members bill which would, among other things, seek to ban crude oil tankers on the North Coast of B.C. Cullen spoke to the bill in the past weeks but as of September 23 the details were formally presented meaning he could speak to it in greater detail. Cullen said the bill has been specifically crafted so as not to impact other marine traffic, for instance diesel shipments to remote communities, or on the proposed shipments of liquefied natural gas from North Coast ports such as Kitimat. Other parts of the bill would seek to give greater weight by regulatory overseers to projects that add value to products — for instance oil refineries — and would also give communities a greater voice in pipeline reviews, he said. If passed, his Private Members Bill would amend the Canada Shipping Act of 2001. Namely, tankers under the bill would be prohibited in the Hec-

Charlotte Sound. Such a plan would effectively create an oil tanker barrier in the waters between Haida Gwaii and the mainland, including to the top of Vancouver Island. Cullen said the plan isn’t intended to block anything beyond crude oil tankers. “ We ’r e . . . s o m e what surgical about this,” he said. “We’ve been very careful not to impact, say, small diesel shipments to local communities...We don’t want unintended consequences.” Now that the bill is tabled he said it will be sometime in the new year before it gets debated, and he’ll use the time in between to lead a consultation tour through the northwest on the plan. He’ll be in Kitimat on October 15 at the Legion. “I’m very open... to the idea that this is about consultation and trying to engage people,” he said. He also added that the bill isn’t intended to hinder shipments of liquefied natural gas, as addressing that is

Furniture swap Cameron Orr The District of Kitimat has been directed by council to work with local agencies on a community initiative to put furniture in people’s homes. The Child Development Centre, the Tamitik Status of Women and other agencies are working together for the planned Furniture Swap which will connect donators of furniture with people in need. Representing the organizers were Trish Parsons and Margaret Warcup, who said they were requesting money from the District for expenses such as advertising the event, but they’ll be using volunteer labour to collect the furniture and deliver it to people’s homes. As of today it is anticipated the swap will be held on November 8 but a final confirmation has not been made. “The Chamber of Commerce, our part in the process, will be recruiting members of the business community for the donation of vehicles, volunteers,” said Parsons, who is the Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce in Kitimat. “It’s a great way to recycle household items that can be utilized by everyone. It’s a community-wide event, not just a couple of individuals,” she added. Anything not ‘swapped’ in to someone’s home at the end of the event will be stored at the What’s In Store thrift store in Nechako Centre, she said.

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The PeRMISSIve TAx exeMPTIOn BylAw will be considered at the Regular Meeting of Council October 6, 2014, Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Sq. In accordance with Section 227 of the Community Charter, Council will consider providing permissive property tax exemptions for the following properties for the years 2015 to 2019. Property Description

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1. Roll No.00590.020 Lot 2, Block 59, D.L. 6043, Plan 3472; located at 1220 Kingfisher Avenue; owned by Anglican Synod Diocese of Caledonia Public Worship 2. Roll No.00580.000 Block 58, D.L. 6043, Plan 3472; located at 1180 Kingfisher Avenue; owned by Trustees of First United Church Public Worship 3. Roll No.02110.001 To the extent of Class 8 Assessment only: Lot 1, Block 211, PRP14970, D.L. 6033; located at 840 Columbia Avenue; owned by Baptist Union of Canada Public Worship 4. Roll No.01620.200 Lot 2, Block 162, D.L. 6157, Plan 6111; located at 1274 Nalabila Boulevard; owned by Trustees of Presbyterian Church in Canada Public Worship 5. Roll No.00620.010 Parcel A, Block 62, D.L. 6042, 6152, and 6153, Plan 3595; located at 1310 Kingfisher Avenue; owned by Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada Public Worship 6. Roll No.01600.000 Lot A, D.L. 6162, Plan 9134; located at 1332 Lahakas Boulevard; owned by Christian & Missionary Alliance Public Worship 7. Roll No.01070.020 Lot 2, Block 107, D.L. 6153, Plan 3699; located at 1474 Nalabila Boulevard; owned by Redeemer Lutheran Church Public Worship 8. Roll No.00740.020 To the extent of Class 8 Assessment only: Lot 2, Block 74, D.L. 6040, Plan 7019; located at 1760 Nalabila Boulevard; owned by Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp of Prince Rupert Charitable Organization 9. Roll No.00740.011 Lot 1, Block 74, D.L. 6039 and 6040, Plan 3566; and Lot A, Block 74, D.L. 6039 and 6040, Plan 3689; located at 1730 Nalabila Boulevard; owned by Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp of Prince Rupert Public Worship 10. Roll No.00740.010 Lot 1, Block 74, D.L. 6040, Plan 7019; located at 1750 Nalabila Boulevard; owned by Prince George College Lands Ltd Public Worship 11. Roll No.01840.350 Lot A, Block 184, D.L. 6039, 6040, 6041, and 6042, Plan 10662; located at 1730 Nalabila Boulevard; owned by Roman Catholic Episcopal Corp of Prince Rupert Public Worship 12. Roll No.02510.030 Lot 3, Block 251, D.L. 6042, Plan 6188; located at 823 Kuldo Boulevard; owned by President of Lethbridge Stake Public Worship 13. Roll No.01800.050 Lot 3, Block 180, D.L. 6161 and 6168, Plan 9620; located at 134 Baxter Avenue; owned by Trustees of the Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses Church Public Worship 14. Roll No.01840.300 Lot 1, D.L. 6042, Plan 10455; located at 1600 Nalabila Boulevard; owned by Kitimat Sikh Society Public Worship 15. Roll No.02690.100 Lot 1, D.L. 6034, Plan 9389; located at 148 Konigus Street; owned by Greek Orthodox Community Society Public Worship 16. Roll No. 01580.010 Lot 1, Block 158, Plan 5858, D.L. 6158; located at 1103 Tweedsmuir Ave; owned by Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada, British Columbia Public Worship 17. Roll No. 01640.000 D.L.’s 6176 - 6182, & Lot A Plan PRP14247, DL 6167; located at 2000 Kingfisher Avenue; owned by Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club Society Public Recreation Roll No.50616.300 District Lot 6163, Except Plans 3637, 3684 and 5770 Roll No. 50616.600 District Lot 6166 18. Roll No.97000.009 To the extent of that portion of 97000.008 Lot 1, Plan 6790 that is leased; located at 2163 Forest Avenue; owned by BC Hydro & Power Authority and leased to Kitimat Dynamic Gymnastics Club Public Recreation 19. Roll No.50619.701 D.L. 6197, 6198, 6199; Licence number 633898; located at Highway 37, owned by Crown Provincial and leased to Snowflake Community Fair Grounds Society. Public Recreation 20. Roll No.50601.900 To the extent of Class 8 Assessment only: D.L. 6019, Except Plans 3634, 3650, 3826, 4235, 6034, 6424, 8918, 12224, PRP44236 & PRP45574; owned by Alcan Inc; commonly known as Quatsino Soccer Fields Public Recreation 21. Roll No.50604.700 Lot 1, Plan PRP45835, D.L. 6046, 6270; located at 386 Haisla Boulevard; owned by Kitimat Rod & Gun Association Public Recreation 22. Roll No. 10220.000 Lot 1, Block 1022, Plan BCP2854, DL 6025, 6032, 6037; located at 920 Lahakas Boulevard; owned by Northern Health Authority Hospital 23. Roll No. 790.011 To the extent of Class 8 Assessment only: Lot A, Block 79, Plan 6966, Dl 6036, 6045; located at Legion Road; owned by Royal Canadian Legion Pacific #250 (Kitimat Branch) Charitable Organization 24. Roll No. 790.020 To the extent of Class 8 Assessment only: Lot 2, Block 79, Plan 3789, Dl 6036, 6045; located at Legion Road; owned by Royal Canadian Legion Pacific #250 (Kitimat) Charitable Organization 25. Roll No. 290.010 Lot 1, Block 29, Plan 3580, DL 6043; located at 193 Nechako Centre, owned by Kitimat Harvest Ministries International Public Worship 26. Roll No. 1630.000 Block 163, Plan 6095 located at 1352 Alexander Ave Kitimat Valley institute Public Education

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Estimated Taxes 2016

Estimated Taxes 2017

$3,184.52

$3,248.21

$3,313.17

$4,214.17

$4,298.45

$4,384.42

$44,209.69

$45,093.88

$45,995.76

$3,912.23

$3,990.47

$4,070.28

$10,646.21

$10,859.13

$11,076.32

$5,019.51

$5,119.90

$5,222.30

$1,698.70

$1,732.67

$1,767.33

$2,760.07

$2,815.27

$2,871.58

$9,029.81

$9,210.41

$9,394.61

$1,622.15

$1,654.59

$1,687.68

$25,550.04

$26,061.04

$26,582.26

$3,032.47

$3,093.12

$3,154.98

$11,906.12

$12,144.24

$12,387.13

$12,513.54

$12,763.81

$13,019.09

$1,987.61

$2,027.36

$2,067.91

$3,618.82

$3,691.20

$3,765.02

$46,726.51

$47,661.04

$48,614.26

$67.46

$68.81

$70.19

$67.46

$68.81

$70.19

$5,705.09

$5,819.19

$5,935.58

$694.05

$707.93

$722.09

$243.29

$248.16

$253.12

$9,884.54

$10,082.23

$10,283.88

$845.36

$862.27

$879.51

$1,409.79

$1,437.99

$1,466.75

$4,253.27

$4,338.34

$4,425.10

$4,915.81

$5,014.13

$5,114.41

$55,373.65

$56,481.12

$57,610.75

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Piping north Good news for those Kitimatians who don’t much care for that Northern Gateway pipeline plan: Alberta’s new Premier Jim Prentice, who for a short while actually had a gig working on First Nation engagement on behalf of the energy transporter, says the location of Kitimat might prove a big hinderance to the project’s potential development. Specifically, as reported in the Globe and Mail, he said getting First Nations support will be “pretty tough” if Kitimat is still the terminal, and that there are other options than Kitimat. That same report in the Globe referred to the knowledge as well that Enbridge had looked to Prince Rupert in the past before ultimately deciding on Kitimat. But seems there’s a movement to bring Prince Rupert back to the table, now. Even Prentice mentioned the idea in media reports last week. Beyond that though it’s really just a hunch. The company hasn’t said anything about re-jigging their plan to pipe product to Prince Rupert, but it would make sense. Even if the terrain for the pipeline is more challenging, it’s still close enough to us that it wouldn’t, I’d think, be overly challenging to do some more engineering that direction. It beats designing a new path down south, for instance. But really the thing that has me thinking the debate on Prince Rupert is on the horizon is because of that wonderful thing, Twitter. A few times now my feed lit up with a comment from someone on the Enbridge matter, saying that Prince Rupert would make a safer route, as the ocean access is better there than through the Douglas Channel. A few Tweets don’t make a case, but at least one has come from a Twitter account no more than two weeks old. I always suspect that accounts so new, with no profile photo, no bio, are part of some ‘grassroots’ marketing campaign. (The fact that there were eight numbers in the Twitter account name also didn’t alleviate that concern.) Not every reference to Prince Rupert for Enbridge came from someone faceless, but if I had a spider-sense it’d be tingling that the groundwork is being laid for a discussion about that possibility. Even as Leonardo DiCaprio is speaking about climate change at the United Nations, there may be some ‘inception’ type work at play, laying the foundation that Prince Rupert is safer. I don’t know that it is, but consider this my conspiracy theory for the day. Prince Rupert, get ready to be welcomed in to our world. Sincerely, Kitimat. Cameron Orr

CRTC tunes out their real purpose I’ve always been confused about the usefulness of the Canadian Radiotelevision and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). I know what it is supposed to do, but its successes over the years seem to me to be few and far between. Currently, it has a mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasting and telecommunications. Few people understand how it goes about this but most people know that numerous studies show Canadians have some of the highest-cost communications bills in the world, telephone, Internet or serverprovided TV. My personal sense of the CRTC’s reputation suggests a majority of Canadians feel it carries out a bit of a “shill” role for Canada’s major telecommunications organizations, Rogers, Bell, Telus, Shaw, etc. However, its most recent efforts at ensuring more competition and cheaper service for telecommunications customers of these monolithic corporations, to me, falls far short of expectations. I was excited to hear the federal Tories in a throne speech, a year and a half ago, unveil plans to force cable and satellite TV providers to offer consumers cheaper so-called pick-and-pay service options. We’re still waiting, and paying too much.

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Last week the CRTC got around to looking at changes to regulations to encourage “pick and pay” TV but then seemed get distracted by a need to force Internet video operations like Google’s Youtube and Netflix to adopt Canadian content rules. It’s just not very likely to happen, and both American organizations have already rejected demands from the CRTC for confidential Canadian subscriber numbers for their on-line services, citing some competition concerns. No doubt these were concerns about possible back room interference from the big Canadian telecoms, much nonplussed about watching their overpriced bundled satellite services being decimated by thousands of Canadian viewers who are pulling the plug or cutting way back on cable and satellite TV costs in favour of these other lower cost or free entertainment sources. They are moving in droves to smart Internetconnected TV sets and other wireless computer devices to replace cancelled

bundles of unwanted TV programming they are essentially forced to buy to get programming they do want. I have little doubt Rogers and Bell, with respect to Netflix, believe they missed a lucrative boat — nay cruise ship — and would be happy to see the competition have its license pulled. Believe me, they would be through the open door with a copycat replacement service in a heartbeat. The CRTC talks a lot about protecting Canadian culture yet they were completely silent when Rogers pulled the TV deal of the century buying 12 years of NHL hockey rights, unceremoniously dumping other Canadian stations TSN and CBC, along the way. Now, even in pre-season, Canadians are seeing the results; blacked out Canadian games on channels we already pay for, instead of more hockey, as first trumpeted by the NHL and Rogers. By the time this mess gets sorted out I predict the price for hockey coverage will be higher than ever, as Rogers tries to quickly recoup its $5.2 billion investment. I was 10 years with Bell satellite and am in my second year with Telus and for most of these years I subscribed to the NHL Centre Ice package. It was too costly, but to me, worth it. Continued on page 7

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Members of the Haisla Nation Council are seen here with Rupert Potter, Consul-General for the British Consulate-General office in Vancouver; High Commissioner Howard Drake; and Kate Smith, Director Americas, Foreign Commonwealth Office. The Consulate-General office representatives were in Kitamaat Village, speaking to the council about planned developments for the Kitimat area and Douglas Channel. The Haisla Council, in this photo is represented by Chief Councillor Ellis Ross, Deputy Chief Councillor Taylor Cross, Joanne Ross, and Crystal Smith.

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Getting on with the times 2 Peter 3:8-9: “But do not forget this one thing dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping His promises, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.” Time sure flies doesn’t it? And it seems like the busier we get, the faster it goes. Sociologists tell us that today’s average adult does what they call stacking. We pile one thing on top of the other, and try to do them all at once. We can eat a sandwich, type on the laptop, rock the baby with your foot, and have the phone receiver propped between your shoulder and ear all at the same time. No wonder time flies. We humans are bound to linear time. You and I are only able to think in terms of something beginning and ending at a specific point, but God is timeless, in both directions. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. When He spoke creation into existence, he created order, succession of events, and measures of change. In other words He created time. But with God,

there is no past present or future; there is only His timeless presence. Psalm 90:10 tells us, “The length of our days is 70 years or 80, if we have the strength; yet their span is but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.” In the verse above, Peter tells us that with God a day is as a thousand years, and that God is being patient with us, but patient about what? Well, the Bible tells us that when God created everything it was “very good,” in other words perfect. But we rebelled against God to go our own way. But rather than just destroy us and everything He had created, God in His mercy promised us a Savior, and the Bible tells us that, “When the ‘time’ was just right God sent His son into the world. Through Jesus’ sinless life, His atoning death on the cross and resurrection from the grave, You and I can be united

once again in an eternal relationship with God through simple repentance of sin and faith in Jesus as our Savior.” That was the first promise God patiently fulfilled to us, but He has promised another. The next time He intervenes in human history, it will be the end of the world, as we know it. Before He left Jesus said that when the time was right again, according to the Father’s Divine schedule, He would return on the clouds to take believers with Him to heaven. On that day all who believe in Him will be outfitted with eternal bodies that will live outside of the confines of this human timeline forever. He will put and end to our suffering and will wipe away every tear from our eyes. That’s what God is being patient about. He doesn’t want you to perish but wants you would come to Him in repentance and live with Him forever through faith in Jesus. Amen.

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Coleman cautions towns on LNG taxes Kitimat politicians are worried over comments from Minister of Natural Gas Development Rich Coleman, who at last week’s Union of B.C. Municipalities convention warned against communities taxing LNG too high, which to some has been a hint that the province is still considering industrial tax rate caps. Speaking to Black Press reporter Jeff Nagel at the UBCM event, Coleman spoke to the need for taxes “across the stream” to be globally competitive. “They’ll have their mill rate, they’ll have their tax in the municipality. Our concern isn’t that, it’s a concern that what happened in some communities after resources were built, municipalities overtaxed one portion of their tax, which in a lot of cases was pulp mills,” said Coleman. But he was certain Kitimat isn’t going to lose out on taxes. “Kitimat will get lots of tax that will help run its community long term, so would any other community that would get it,” he said. The notion of tax caps has never sat well with the municipal council. Mayor Joanne Monaghan said she’s concerned that if the forthcoming tax rate from the province on LNG projects comes high that the province will try to enforce a competitiveness through a municipal tax cap. “If they tax too much then in order to make it fair for the industries, we are going to have to tax less, then we won’t have the abil-

ity to keep up the infrastructure that will keep the industries happy,” she said. She noted the community has infrastructure needs such as the

Haisla Bridge, which at times has prevented shipments of equipment from crossing. Limits on industrial taxes would prevent upgrades to things

like that. Among those at the UBCM was Councillor Phil Germuth who says such a cap would have a massive impact on the town, yet would

not do much overall for projects because the municipal tax rates are “so small” to a project’s overall tax bill. Germuth is also involved with the North-

west BC Resource Benefits Alliance, and said that group is opposed to a tax cap as well. That said, the Alliance’s framework will include ways for a town

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Funding of $100,000 through the Infrastructure Planning Grant Program was given to the District of Kitimat to assess the capacity and condition of the town’s sewer system. The government says this money is geared towards communities who need to prepare for rapid industrial development. Premier Christy Clark and Ministers Todd Stone, Mary Polak, Coralee Oakes, Shirley Bond, Steve Thomson, and Rich Coleman met with District of Kitimat councillors Phil Germuth, Mary Murphy, Edwin Empinado and Rob Goffinet on September 23 at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Whistler last week. B.C. Government Photo

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in the station to learn the free preview was not available as it hasn’t been paid for. How does that work? I am the one to blame for not majorly chopping my satellite selections like so many others. I’m on the verge, no thanks to the CRTC, which is now scrapping with Netflix really because it is so easily out-competing Rogers, Bell and Telus. The original objective seems to have been forgotten. And, poor old TSN, with no CFL game on a Thursday, screened Sylvester Stallone’s original “Rocky,” and poker. For shame.

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Concert Association kicks off new season with Valdy and Nadina Submitted The Kitimat Concert Association opens their new season with a bang, with performers Valdy and Nadina. Valdy is a Canadian folk legend who is simply one of the best. For his contributions to Canadian culture, Valdy has been awarded the Order of Canada and has received Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medals. As he likes to say, “Pretty wild for an aging hippy, eh?” Valdy is considered a modern master and his music has been a main stay of the folk world for many a year. Nadina Mackie Jackson is one of the world’s leading solo bassoonists. She is currently on faculty at the Glenn Gould School of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Wilfrid Laurier University and the University of Toronto. She has completed seven solo recordings of wide ranging repertoire. Her newest concerto recordings with fellow soloist Guy Few and the Toronto Chamber Orchestra have been released to rave reviews on the MSR Classics label. Performing frequently as a recitalist

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with pianists David Swan and Guy Few (Duo Affinité), more than a dozen new works have been written for her as a soloist. Heard regularly on CBC Radio, NPR and at North American festivals such as Domaine Forget, ScotiaFest, WindFest, Grand River Baroque Festival, Elora Festival and the Ottawa Chamber Festival, Nadina was a featured concerto and recital soloist at both the 2006 and 2007 conferences of the International Double Reed Society. You are probably saying, “What a strange combination.” And you would be right, but that is exactly what makes this concert a winner. Together these two elite performers weave a tapestry of baroque and folk that will enchant you and will leave you smiling. As a last minute addition, Valdy and Nadina have Karel Roessingh on the piano. Karel began his musical career in 1970 and has played with Moody Blues, Powder Blues Band, Jan Arden, The Shirelles and Leslie Gore. This opening show takes place October 4.

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Vista Village Continued from page 1 LaGace and fellow Housing Resource Worker Anne Moyls have worked often on files relating to Vista Village. LaGace said that easily a third of his time is spent on related files, and he said he could even make it a full time job at the current pace of arbitrations and complaints. The residents who volunteered to speak were Jennifer Bresky who lives in the park with fiancee Ron Gutknecht; Diane Keith; Mike Anthony, who will chair the new tenants association at the park, and Marie Turner.

All have lived in the park for various lengths of time, from just over a year, to some over a decade. “I have a buyer for my trailer but she’s blocking the sale,” said Keith. “They’ve already extended this [offer] once. So now I’m waiting for the tenancy branch to come up with a decision. But again, if I lose my buyer, I find another buyer? She’ll do exactly the same thing.” Since we spoke with Keith the buyer had backed out of the sale. A letter provided to the Sentinel by one of the park residents shows the owner

listing a tenant’s responsibilities for a sale, including providing a detailed inspection report. But the law doesn’t allow landlords to ask for that. “These are real estate disclosures being used, and the landlord does not have jurisdication in these area,” read the press release from the Housing Resource Project. Skeena MLA Robin Austin has been made aware of the troubles at Vista Village and has committed his office to assisting homeowners there. “These evictions, as far as I am concerned, are illegal,” he said. “We are going

to help them fill out the forms and paperwork and go through the tenant residency board, because they’re going to have to fight this.” He said this sort of thing is happening all over B.C. “This is happening all over British Columbia where there’s an increase in rent, and of course we’ve seen that dramatically in Kitimat,” he said. “I think the owner is simply trying to take advantage by turfing out people for no good reason, and illegally, to try to jack up the rent.”

NDP leader uses speech at UBCM conference to blast Liberals over report on municipal staff pay Tom Fletcher NDP leader John Horgan used his first speech to the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention to blast the B.C. government for a report criticizing generous wage hikes for municipal staff. “The B.C. Liberals are saying to you, you don’t know how to run a peanut stand,” Horgan told delegates at the Whistler Conference Centre Thursday. Horgan drew applause when he called the report “shoddy,

politically motivated” and an “an insult” to mayors, councillors and regional district directors, purposely leaked before the UBCM meetings to embarrass local politicians heading into their November elections. The Ernst and Young study was released days before the convention by the Canadian Taxpayers’ Federation. It calculated that unionized municipal staff received pay increases of 38 per cent

between 2001 and 2012, twice as much as unionized provincial staff, and ahead of inflation of 23 per cent during the same period. The report also highlighted the escalation of senior municipal staff salaries, with city managers in Vancouver, North Vancouver, Abbotsford and Maple Ridge making more than the $230,000 paid to provincial deputy ministers. Finance Minister Mike de Jong

acknowledged that there are “some gaps in the data” used in the report, which was compiled without the knowledge or participation of local governments. But he said it is a reminder of how the province balanced its budget starting last year. “In our case a big part of that is being very disciplined in negotiations on wage settlements,” de Jong said in an interview. “And if you don’t apply that discipline,

your cost structure can get out of hand pretty quickly.” Horgan praised public education and accused the government of “disrespecting” teachers during their recent strike, promising an NDP government would do better. He praised a study done for the UBCM on the impact of increasing ferry fares, and accused Transportation Minister Todd Stone of replying to it with “a four-page lecture about how things

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DOWNSTAIRS SUITE with 4 Bedrooms UPSTAIRS SUITE with 1 Bedroom REASONABLE RENT NO PETS Please call for more info: 250-632-5504

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Misc. Wanted Private Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 778-281-0030. Local.

CLASSIC/COLLECTOR 1971 300SEL 3.5 Mercedes Benz. 75,000km. Very good condition, always garaged, never driven in winter. Well maintained. Maintenance records, service/parts book. Manuals. Some spare parts. 250-632-6755

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent Hillcrest Place Apartments Bachelor & two bedroom units. No smoking. No pets. Starting at $650 monthly. 250-632-7814 Kitimat

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Sports & Leisure Season begins for Demons With an exhibition game under their belt for the season, the Kitimat Ice Demons are looking forward to an exciting regular season. On September 20 the Demons hosted the Terrace River Kings for that opening exhibition. That warmed up the team for their first regular game of the season, also against Terrace, which we’ll see October 3. There’s been some notable changes to the Central Interior Hockey League this year. Because of the Houston Luckies’ departure from the league, the Kitimat Ice Demons will occupy one spot in a four-team West division vying for only two playoff spots.

“With the [Houston Forest Products] mill closing, [the team] couldn’t get a player commitment this year to field a team,” said CIHL president J.C. Brown in August this year. After the league’s annual general meeting in late May, the now seventeam league will play in one overall division for the regular season but for the purposes of the playoffs, two spots are up for grabs between Rupert, the Terrace River Kings, the Smithers Steelheads and the Kitimat Ice Demons, and two spots can be taken between the eastern teams of the Williams Lake Stampeders, the Quesnel Kangaroos and the Lac La Hache Tomahawks.

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