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Viviane Garcia stands in her home office with her mastiff, Daisy, the site of a violent armed robbery. Garcia's calm manner and courage during the situation were remarkable.

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Local woman recounts terrifying ordeal during armed robbery BY CAITLIN THOMPSON A brazen armed robbery that ended in a police chase through town on Saturday, September 27 has resulted in charges against a local resident. Viviane Garcia was making supper in her home when she suddenly found herself staring into the muzzle of a sawed-off shotgun and said she thought she was going to die. “I was scared to die that day, the money is nothing,” she said. “I don't care about material things, I care about my family, my life.” Garcia said her nightmare ordeal began the prior Friday evening, when she noticed a beige mini-van parked near the cemetery on Sawmill Road, where she lives and manages the Bella Coola Mini-Storage with her hus-

band, Roger Bigras. She said the vehicle belonged to Nathan Duperron and didn't think much of it at the time. She also wasn't concerned the following day when the 41-year-old Duperron spent the majority of his time in his storage unit at the facility. “On Saturday, he parked his car in front of his storage unit all day,” Garcia said. “Later in the day I was making my supper when I heard a huge voice. I didn't understand at first, I thought someone was playing.” Garcia alleges that when she looked down the hall she found herself staring into the barrel of Duperron's sawedoff shotgun, who was now standing in her office. He screamed at her to come down the hall, threatening to kill her mastiff, Daisy, if the dog didn't stop

barking. Meanwhile Garcia's husband, witnessing what was happening, slipped out the front door to get help from the neighbour. Once Duperron noticed that Garcia's husband had left Viviane said Duperron became enraged. “That was when he got so, so angry,” Garcia told Coast Mountain News. “He started screaming, saying he was going to count to five and if Roger didn't come back he was going to kill me.” Garcia said Duperron starting counting and, sensing an opportunity, she began talking with him, explaining that her husband was ill and that he didn't need him anyways. “I told him about my husband's injury and that he's sick, don't worry about him, I'm here,” Garcia said. “I started asking him what he wanted, why he was doing

this, and then he forgot about counting.” Duperron started demanding money, threatening repeatedly to kill her, all the while holding the shotgun just inches from her chest. Garcia gave him all she had, about $300, but he would not give up, yelling profanities at her and demanding that she give him more money. Duperron locked himself and Viviane in the office and rifled through personal wallets, accusing her of lying. “He kept saying, 'I want money, I'm telling you I want money,'” Garcia said. She tried to placate him, telling him she had given him everything she had. Convinced he was under the influence of drugs, Garcia said she tried to remain calm. She reminded him of the time she had helped him at the

storage unit in the past and kept trying to soothe the situation. “I wasn't sure how it was going to end, he was acting crazy,” she said. “He kept saying 'shut up or I'm gonna kill you.'” Garcia said it was then that Duperron decided he was going to leave in her vehicle and he demanded she go with him. “He walked backwards the whole time with the gun pointing at me. He grabbed his laptop and his gun case and a machete,” said Garcia. “He had the gun against me the whole time. It was the longest time I ever experienced in my whole life. Terrifying.” Once outside, Garica said she managed to convince him that he'd be better off without her. SEE ARMED ON PAGE 3

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Ceremonial mask makes journey for a meaningful visit home By Evangeline Hanuse Representatives from the Seattle Art Museum journeyed to Nuxalk territory and issued an apology during a potlatch held by Hereditary Chief Charles Nelson on September 27, 2014. With them they brought the ceremonial raven forehead mask which had been previously the centre of a controversial Super Bowl wager between the Seattle Art Museum and the Denver Art Museum. Due to the concern of Nuxalk Nation members, the raven mask was withdrawn from the Super Bowl bet. Despite the conflict with the museum, the relationship now moves in a positive direction. Gifts were presented to the Acwsalcta School on behalf of the museum, including art supplies, books and games.

Hereditary Chief Noel Pootlass holds up original raven mask at the Nelson Potlatch. Carver Skip Saunders follows close behind with the replica mask that he carved himself.

There is also open discussion that the mask will be displayed at the school in the future. Using the pictures and dimensions the museum gave to Wally Webber, Skip Saunders was able to carve a

replica of the mask. Elders, hereditary chiefs and community members welcomed both masks and witnessed the past coming together with the present. Historically, masks

and other ceremonial items were confiscated by authorities during the Potlatch Ban in 1885. Anyone taking part in a potlatch was threatened with imprisonment. The original forehead

mask was created around 1880 and it is unclear how it left the Bella Coola Valley. It was donated to the Seattle Art Museum by John H. Hauberg in 1991. In an interview

with Karen Anderson, she stated that “some masks were taken from graves or taken as collateral.” The mystery surrounding how the mask left Bella Coola highlights the importance of the

raven mask coming home. Other Nuxalk masks and items remain in museums and private collections worldwide and their sacredness and importance is not forgotten.

Fire Department makes impressive upgrade The Bella Coola Volunteer Fire Department has just made a fire fighting apparatus upgrade in the form of a truck. It will be used to compliment existing vehicles. The truck has a 500 gallon water capacity and it houses a small generator that can be used to power flood lights. Additionally, it has a foam-making device which will

Chief of the Bella Coola Volunteer Fire Department, Fred Sorensen, standing with upgraded truck.

aid in addressing certain fire-related incidences; foam is used as a fire suppressant to cool flames and coat the fuel while preventing the fire from coming into further contact with oxygen. The truck will soon be re-painted with the department name and telephone number, and staff will soon be trained in the operation of the vehicle.

Armed robbery ends in a police chase through town FROM PAGE 1 “I told him go, go, get in my car and go,” she said. She said Duperron took the bait, demanding she stay in plain view with her hands in the air while he took her vehicle and fled the scene. Within moments Garcia was on the

phone with the police, who were already enroute after receiving the call from her husband. Her 30-year-old son, who had coincidentally been the victim of an armed robbery in his home country of Brazil just three months earlier, was trapped

in another room the entire time listening to the entire scenario play out: the only exit would have required him to cross Duperron’s path. However, by the time he got out the police had arrived. After leaving in Garcia's vehicle, Duperron first headed

east and then reversed back west. He allegedly stopped for a drink at the bar in Bella Coola, where the staff sensed something was wrong and called police. In the meantime, additional RCMP resources were called in from Bella Bella, Williams Lake, Kamloops and

Anahim Lake. Bella Coola RCMP said in a press release Tuesday that Duperron was located a short time after the incident hiding out at the Bella Coola Harbour. When he tried to flee, a police spike belt was deployed. Once the vehicle

stopped he surrendered to police without incident. Nathan Duperron, 41, is facing 13 charges including home invasion, robbery, uttering threats and several other firearms related offences. He has been remanded in custody and is scheduled to

appear in Vancouver Provincial Court on Thursday, October 2. The Bella Coola RCMP are asking anyone with any information regarding any suspicious activity of Duperron prior to the home invasion, please contact the Bella Coola RCMP at 250799-5363.

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RCMPs 'Second Man Award' recognizes 468 women Canada-Wide BY IAN GRAHAM As the wife of an RCMP officer in Fort Liard, Northwest Territories in the early 1970s, Thompson resident Anne Snihor never knew what she might find on the other side when a knock came at the door. "All of a sudden the doorbell would ring at two in the morning and there's a lady that's in labour," she remembers. "I was pretty lucky I was a nurse. So I would hustle her to the nursing station and I'd do the delivery and the next morning I'd phone the doctor in Fort Simpson and she would say I could discharge her. There was another time I had a sick baby that they brought from the bush, probably was about two or three months old but its weight loss was less than it was at birth. It was totally dehydrated. Of course, I couldn't call for a plane to come because those are the days when you didn't have medevacs. I was up all night feeding the baby with an eyedropper, glucose and water, until dawn, until sunrise and I phoned the doctor at Fort Simpson

and he sent the plane for the baby." Other times, the situation wasn't so dire. "One afternoon, the doorbell rang and I opened the door," says Snihor. "It was a young fellow. He had a little bit too much to drink and he was leaning on the door but I didn't know so when I opened the door he fell right in. I couldn't lift him up and I couldn't close the door so what I did is I dressed up my son and wrote a note and told him to go to the schoolhouse and bang on the door and get the school teacher to come and give me a hand because buddy was a little bit too relaxed to get up and I couldn't lift him, he was dead weight and so the school teacher dismissed the class and came and helped my fellow up and took him to the nearest home and the family looked after him." Snihor was one of 24 Manitoba women honoured by the RCMP with a Second Man Award in Winnipeg on Oct. 30, recognizing them for the valuable service they provided their husbands – and the police force – while they were serving

in small and isolated communities from the 1940s to the 1970s. The Second Man Award was created by the RCMP in 2010 and 468 women from across Canada have been recognized for their unpaid service. The impetus for the creation of the award was a pair of books – The Unpaid Second Man by A. Harold Clark of Winnipeg and When the Second Man Was a Woman by Ruth Lee Knight. The women who received it performed detachment duties such as answering phones and searching female prisoners as well as providing medical assistance, putting up visitors, cooking hot meals for visitors and prisoners, shovelling snow and cutting ice from icebergs for water. "What these women did for the RCMP is beyond a simple thank you," said Chief Supt. Scott Kolody, officerin-charge of criminal operations for Manitoba, who presented the awards to the Manitoba women who received them. "They went above and beyond not only to assist their husbands, but to assist the force. The

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women being honoured with this award were crucial liaisons between the RCMP and the people in the communities in which they lived. Their contribution is invaluable and so very much appreciated." "I remember when my husband retired," says Snihor. "In those days, a guy just out of training would be called a first-class constable – so he thanked the firstclass constable, which was me, for helping him out all those years. But, you know, you never thought anything of it because that was just the way of life." She learned of her nomination for the award well in advance of the presentation, but didn't know she would be receiving it until she received a letter the month before the ceremony. "Everybody says, 'Oh, it's an honour, Anne,'" says Snihor. "That someone thought that I deserved it was OK, too." Snihor and her husband Mike met in Thompson in the early 1960s, when she was working here as a nurse, and were married in 1963, after which they began their tour of Manitoba and the territories, which included postings in Dauphin, Churchill, Roblin, Fort Liard and Fort Providence in the Northwest Territories, Haines Junction and Whitehorse in Yukon territory before returning to Manitoba, first to Brandon and then back to where it all began in Thompson. Her duties as the wife of an RCMP officer varied from posting to posting. "In Roblin, we lived in quarters," said Snihor. "The office was over here and your living quarters is just through the door. Friday and Saturday nights, that was in the '60s, they always had to check the liquor licences for wedding dances and barn dances so they'd leave at about 7 o'clock

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after supper and they wouldn't come back until about 2:30, three o'clock in the morning. The office phone was in the kitchen so I answered the phone and took messages and I was taught how to operate the two-way radio in the office, if it was something like a car accident so I knew how to get a hold of them in the car radio." Other times, she had no duties at all. "If you're in a big centre, Yellowknife or Whitehorse, you didn't do anything because, you know, it was a big centre, there were secretaries, stenos and offices and stuff," said Snihor. But in Fort Liard, there was always something to do. The Snihors went there in 1970 for a twoyear posting, though Anne's husband asked for and received a oneyear extension. There was no road into the community, which meant everything had to be brought in by plane or boat, and no vehicles except the RCMP jeep and a couple of snowmobiles, which were relatively new innovations for the Fort Liard detachment, whose officers had relied on dog sleds to get around until just a couple of years before the Snihors arrived. "I remember working [in Thompson] and one of the girls would say. 'Oh, I'm just tired. It's eight hours to drive to Winnipeg,' and I said you should be lucky because I lived in a place where there was no road, I couldn't drive anywhere, so be grateful that you have a road," says Snihor. That sort of isolation brought challenges when it came to running a household. "We had no phones, no TV, mail once a month, we had to order a year's supply of groceries and it came in August by barge and I had to learn to bake bread because if you didn't make it, you didn't have it," Snihor recalls. "The Hudson's

Bay store didn't order bread because the native people made bannock all the time so they had lard, flour sugar and stuff, the basics." "We never had any fresh fruit and vegetables because The Bay, like I said, the native people didn't buy that stuff, they had fish and moose and stuff, and so when the RCMP would be coming to inspect, the RCMP pilots were very good," Snihor says. "They would buy a total of $50 worth of apples, oranges, lettuce, you know, cabbage, cucumbers. Then when the doctor would have clinic days once a month from Fort Simpson, the same thing. He would come with a bunch. I remember there were times where the nurse would cut the head of cabbage in half, give me half and half for herself. The Bay manager was good, he'd order fresh stuff for Christmas and Easter. That's 40 years ago, I remember paying 45 cents for an apple because we had to pay to cover the freight." Sometimes Snihor and the other women in Fort Liard, like the nurses, or the teacher's wife, were ribbed about the difficulties of transporting specially requested food. "The RCMP pilots would say, 'You women. You want ice cream in July and lettuce in February,'" said Snihor. "Ice cream would melt apart and the lettuce would sometimes freeze. The heat wasn't that great in the plane." It also meant her children coveted things that kids in other places would take for granted. "My kids didn't know there was such a thing as whole milk because we had powdered milk and I would just mix it the night before so everything would dissolve," Snihor said. Then, while on holiday, they ordered milk at a restaurant. "They'd come back home and say 'How come we can't have that

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bought milk?'" One of the difficulties in ordering groceries for a year, Snihor remembers, was that you didn't know precisely what you'd need the first time you did it, but whatever you ran out of gave you a clue as to what you should order the next time around. "Whatever you ran out, you knew that you could double and triple the caselots." There was also a need to get the most out of everything. "Before, I used the celery stalk and I chucked the leaves off, I mean, you don't use that," said Snihor. "But there in isolation we'd chop them and we froze them because you know you put them into soup or put them into dressing and stuff. Things like that you took for granted." Treats were rationed out carefully because most of the time, she knew they wouldn't have any around. "I remember reading at night, you know, the kids are in bed and you're reading and I thought, I could just taste an apple. You know, that crunch? I would just taste an apple," she says, remembering the cravings that would pop up. "If the pilots brought us fruit, I wouldn't give an apple to each kid. I'd cut the apple in half so it would last longer." Food played a major role in Snihor's life in Fort Liard, where she didn't just have to cook for her family, but for RCMP officials and employees coming through town and just about anybody else too. "My kitchen was kind of the local restaurant," she said. "I entertained the court parties, the NWT commissioner, the RCMP inspections, the river tourists." The latter group, often Americans, were on their way through via canoe or kayak to see Virginia Falls, a waterfall twice as high as Niagara Falls. SEE

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Countdown to November 15 Local Elections By Joan Sawicki It’s that time again when we need to decide who will chart the direction of both our regional and school districts. If you have been happy with the results of your last decisions, it’s time to reward incumbents with re-election. If things did not turn out as you had hoped, it’s time to re-engage and try again. There have been several changes to the Local Elections Act since 2011, the most significant of which is that we are now electing both CCRD Directors and SD #49 Trustees for four years, rather than three. That makes our task even more important! In order to increase both fairness and accountability, there are also new nomination/candidate requirements in terms of financial disclosures, both by candidates and by campaigns. The first decision for each of us to make is…..Should we run ourselves? For almost all of us, the quick answer is…Are you

crazy? Of course not! But wait - please think about it. If good people who care about our community, who have skills to offer and who have the time and energy to contribute in this manner don’t run, whom are we left with? Your answer is still NO? Fair enough, but you are not yet off the hook. As citizens, we still have the responsibility to pay attention, to think about the issues, to question candidates on their platforms and, above all, to vote on Saturday, November 15. While voting doesn’t guarantee good representation, not voting certainly compromises your right to complain when you get something you didn’t want. So, here’s the drill. All information for potential candidates, voting eligibility etc. is available from the CCRD office. See also their notices in Coast Mountain News and on line. Nominations for both CCRD Directors and SD #49 Trustees close on October 10, 2014. As in previous local

elections, CM News will provide space in this newspaper for candidates to deliver short messages to the community. For CCRD candidates, we invite you to address the questions listed in the sidebar to this article and submit them by October 17th. Your answers will be published in the October 23rd issue. In addition, an All Candidates meeting will be held for CCRD candidates at Lobelco Hall, Wednesday, October 29 at 7:00 p.m. Watch for notices on community bulletin boards and prepare your questions for the candidates. Report on the All Candidates’ meeting will appear in the November 6th issue, along with messages from those SD #49 Trustee candidates who choose to submit copy by October 31st. That’s it. The rest is up to us to make our choices of local elected representatives, choices that will guide the future of our Valley and our Schools for the next four years.

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"They would always stop to report at the office," Snihor says. "I fed them when it was lunch time or supper time and sometimes it was raining and they were all wet so I would give them some of our clothes and put their stuff in the dryer and help them out." Getting meals together could be difficult because there wasn't always a lot of warning that a party would be coming through, and the Snihors couldn't be sure if or when they would arrive. "I remember one time there was a message on the radio that the police plane was coming but the weather was bad so we thought they weren't coming," said Snihor, But suddenly, the silence of the settlement was broken by the sound

of a propeller and she had to come up with a menu quick. "Everything was in cans," said Snihor. "You couldn't run to the store and buy ham and lettuce and stuff so we had bacon in cans so I decided to make pancakes. Eggs were hard to come by, we had powdered eggs for baking but the case of eggs was a delicacy. I thought, 'OK, I'm going to use these eggs, too.'" Unfortunately, she hadn't reckoned on the size of the party. "Usually there's about three people or four," she said. "I looked outside and we had a big RCMP tower. I saw two guys there, I hear two guys talking in the office, then I looked out the window. I see two more guys walking and I thought, 'Oh my gosh, I've got six

or seven people to feed.'" Most of the bread she'd baked was frozen, so she sent her kids out to the nursing station and the schoolhouse to see if she could borrow a few loaves of bread and they came back with enough for toast. Another time, in Fort Providence, which was slightly larger than Fort Liard, Snihor had some of her dessert sent back by the prisoners she'd provided it to. "I fed them what we ate and it was Sunday dinner, and I had apple pie, which was canned apples, and I thought, 'Well, I'll treat them, I'll give them apple pie with ice cream.' When my husband brought the plates back they didn't eat the apple pie. They didn't know what it was. They lived off the land so they didn't know what

apple pie was." Fort Providence, with a population of 600 or 700, was a couple of hours by road from Yellowknife and Snihor said she often found herself guarding prisoners while she and Mike were stationed there. "In those days, the police, you know, my husband's job came first and the family was second," she said. "All of a sudden he said, 'You've got to come to the cells because I need you.' Well the kids are in bed sleeping, so I'd lock the door and walk because we lived in the same compound – it was the constable's quarters, ours and then the office with the cells, and I locked the door, the kids are sleeping and I'm going to guard this fellow. Nobody had phones so you had to go and find

these people to come guard." Sometimes, Snihor's cooking duties even expanded to include other species, like the time her husband volunteered to feed the Roman Catholic priest's dog team while he was on vacation in Paris. "We had a big, big pot on the stove and it was rice, cornmeal and lard and I'd cook that for a good 40 minutes and then it would cool off and then we'd go and feed the dogs in the evening," said Snihor. "We did that for three weeks." Her husband was also pressed into performing some of the priest's other duties while he was away, including a funeral service for an elder who had died the day before the priest went away. "He had his flight so he gave a prayer book

part of a prayer book to read and my husband and the school teacher did the burial," said Snihor. "We were always so close to life and death." On one occasion, the death she was close to her was her own, when Snihor survived the crash of a small plane. "It was a brand-new plane, purchased in November and it was a total write-off," she recalls. "If we would have been a little bit further there we would have been in the mountain range so we were glad we went down when we went down." Snihor walked away from the impact completely unscathed. "No scratch, no bruise, nothing," she said. "That's what you call luck, eh?" Despite spending

just a few years of her husband's RCMP career there, Snihor says she still has a soft spot for Fort Liard and maintains contact with some of the people she knew when they lived there. But when they returned there for a visit in the 1980s, it had changed a lot and was now accessible by road. "We drove back in '86 or '87," says Snihor. "We drove back there and it was kind of sad because things weren't the same like they were." The same priest was still there at that time and he agreed with Snihor's assessment. "He said the RCMP, the women, they don't feed people like you used to," Snihor remembers. "There was no restaurant there yet but he said, no, they don't feed people like you used to."

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Best season yet for Belarko Wildlife Viewing Platform By Ernest Hall The BC Parks Belarko Wildlife Viewing Platform has experienced its best year yet, according to volunteer Joan Sawicki. Speaking from her Tweedsmuir Park home at Stuie just down the road from the platform, Sawicki, who has been helping at the bear viewing station since it opened five seasons ago, reports many different grizzly bears were seen at the station in its month-long operation, with sometimes over 20 different bear sightings in one day. Particularly popular this year were two family groups of sows with three cubs each, one of whom was nicknamed “Lucy” for her red-toned head reminiscent of Hollywood’s Lucille Ball. These two groups were at the site almost daily, many days returning several times, thrilling human visitors from all over BC and the US as well as numerous Europeans, many of whom come to the Bella Coola Valley expressly to see a grizzly bear up close as it forages for salmon in the pristine waters of a wilderness river. Sawicki praised members of the Bella Coola Valley community who brought their guests to the station. Sawicki is not aware of anywhere else in British Columbia where such an experience is possible. While bear-viewing excursions are possible by taking boat tours along the inlets and estuaries all along the BC coast, at the Belarko station, visitors can safely view grizzly bears within a provincial park, free of charge, right next to a paved numbered highway.

Spectators shown waiting patiently in hopes of spotting grizzlies at the Belarko Bear Viewing Platform.

The raised platform elevates human intruders above the river and provides a safe zone behind an electrified fence. Sawicki points out that the arrangement respects the bears in their own habitat - enabling the adults in a family group such as Lucy’s to forage for fish while the little ones wrestle and vocalize, creating a natural opportunity for visitors to stand and watch them “doing what bears do”, sometimes for as long as 30 – 45 minutes. Besides the presence of many bears and visitors, Sawicki says a third highlight of the season was the first-time involvement of Nuxalk staffers Ron Schooner and Curt Edgar who joined local Parks staff and others brought in from other BC Parks regions. The Nuxalk attendants “were able to share their culture and knowledge of their traditional ter-

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What's in a name? By Ernest Hall You might have noticed a recent change on Highway 20: The signs indicating you are on one of several “Circle Routes” in BC have been changed from “Coast Cariboo” to “Discovery Coast”. The new name is really the original name of the Circle Tour that involved ferrying from Vancouver to Nanaimo, driving up the Island, ferrying back to the Mainland at Bella Coola, and driving back to Vancouver via Highways 20, 97 and 99. Without consultation, the government installed the signs 10 years ago, creating a headache for tourism marketers who were confused about which name to use. Now the original name is on the signs. Unfortunately, the Circle Tour has been

essentially severed by the government’s decision to employ the tiny MV Nimpkish on the northern marine link this summer. The Nimpkish simply couldn’t handle the volume of tourists who could have taken the Discovery Coast Circle Tour if the boat had been adequate. Traveler complaints are loud and clear: The Circle Tour needs a larger, more suitable, vessel with a better schedule.

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Visitor complaints about “Nimpkish experience” are no surprise to local critics BY ERNEST HALL Critics of the BC government’s “Nimpkish Solution” to the financial woes of BC Ferries are not at all surprised by traveler responses to the failed 2014 Bella Bella – Bella Coola connector ferry service that replaced the MV Queen of Chilliwack on the Discovery Coast Circle Tour. Says Doug Baker, President of Bella Coola Valley Tourism (BCVT), which conducted a traveler questionnaire this summer: “We’ve known all along that this inferior ferry would not meet the expectations of visitors - even with the amazing hospitality of the crew. The journey is long and expensive and demands a higher quality experience.” (The 16.5-hour journey between Bella Coola and Port Hardy cost $738 for a car and two passengers.) On the BCVT questionnaire, many travelers already booked on the Circle Tour said there was no room on the tiny 16-car vessel and they had to change

their plans drastically. Those who did squeeze on soon discovered they were cramped for nine hours on a boat with uncomfortably low bus-bench seating, little space to stretch their legs, one difficultto-access washroom at the bottom of the steep, narrow stairway to the car deck, constant shuddering and engine noise, and a minimal, complimentary, food service. Many expressed safety concerns. On the questionnaire, many said their “Nimpkish Experience” was redeemed only by the spectacular scenery, the favourable weather, and the efforts of the vessel’s crew who did their best in an embarrassing situation. Many travelers decried the damage being done to the tourism industry and the effect this would have on the obviously struggling economy. Transportation Minister Todd Stone has defended his “Nimpkish Solution”, saying more accurate marketing of the Nimpkish will address traveler complaints by

reducing their expectations. He says the tourism industry is responsible for making the Nimpkish work as the Circle Tour marine link and blames critics for damage being done to the Circle Tour’s reputation. Baker says the government must recognize the years of effort that the Bella Coola Valley and the Chilcotin have already put into marketing the Circle Tour, adding, “We can accommodate many more travellers than the Nimpkish can deliver.” He says: “The Nimpkish doesn't need better marketing: It's already full.” At times, Baker has called the little vessel “a toy in a fjord”. Bella Coola businessman John Morton, who facilitated unfruitful discussions last spring with Tourism Minister Naomi Yamamoto, says: “a properly operated and skillfully marketed connector service, with an adequate vessel, could be successful.” He says government and BC Ferries must “abandon the pretense” that the Nimpkish is suitable. Until then, he

The Nimpkish ferrying passengers on long route. says, “tourism in the region will continue to founder.” A study last January by the Tourism Industry of BC determined the changes then being planned would have a major economic impact on tourism province-wide and that the Discovery Coast Tour was “actually profitable” based on provincial taxes generated. Petrus Rykes, Chair of the Save the Discovery Coast Ferry lobby group, describes the Nimpkish replacement as “a huge blow to our international credibility” and risks “turning this region into a third-world

country”. He fears for the damage done to the reputation of the regional tourism industry by the bad reviews of this summer’s Circle Tour experience. Darla Blake, CCRD (Central Coast Regional District) administrator, says she expected some negative traveler reaction to their Nimpkish experiences, but she is “amazed” by the comments on the BCVT questionnaire. She says, “It is time to stop all the talking and start putting together some strategies to return an appropriate service”. She calls the 2014 ser-

vice “untenable” and hopes government will act to prevent “more damage to our tourism reputation and deepening of the current negative economic impact to our region.” Blake and CCRD Chair Reg Moody attended the September annual convention of the Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) at which mayors and regional districts province-wide unanimously called on government to restore BC Ferries service and fares to 2013 levels. They also told government to conduct a socioeconomic study of the 2013 cutbacks

and to fund ferries as an extension of the highway system. They cited a need to cooperate with communities to develop a long-term ferry strategy. A recently released UBCM study showed BC Ferries’ management decisions have resulted in a $2.3 billion loss to the BC economy over the past 10 years. Following the UBCM Convention, both Blake and Moody described meetings with government ministers as “frustrating”. Transportation Minister Stone dismissed the UBCM study as “irresponsible”, “unrealistic,” “unsubstantial,” and “sensational”. As a consequence of the Minister’s response, the CCRD has initiated preparations for a follow up meeting with government next month beginning with discussions in Bella Coola this week. The BCVT questionnaire data are being analysed by two professional research firms, and the resulting reports are expected soon.

OBITUARIES

Gloria Jean Solhjell “Cookie” November 14, 1944 - September 20, 2014 Gloria lived many years of her life in Bella Coola, B.C. She is predeceased by her parents Gwen and Joseph Gardner, her husband of 25 years Melford and her son Terry. Gloria is survived by her daughters Linda Solhjell (Craig Wittenberg) and Margaret Worthington (Terry), grandsons Kyle and Jesse Gerard, Garret and Brendan Worthington, Great Grandchildren Christian, Ava, Bella Gerard and Patience Wittenberg.

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Dear Valley Residents, Thank you for the overwhelming love, support and prayers given during the days following Hugh's death. The food, cards, visits and financial support has been so appreciated. We are blessed to live in such an amazing community! Thanks again for your support during this difficult time in our lives. Love from Lori and Mathias Conley & the Johnson Family Rest In Peace We did not know that morning What sorrow the day would bring; The bitter grief, the shock severe. To part with one we loved so dear. You bid no one a last farewell, No chance to say goodbye. You were gone before we knew it, Only God knows why.

In 2009 Gloria was diagnosed with multiple myeloma cancer. Thank You to Dr. Pewarchuk, Connie, Sharon and Sharon and Dr. Roy. Gloria amazed them and many others with her outstanding, courageous battle. Gloria was a rare free spirit and very strong woman who always made people smile and laugh. She will be dearly missed by all who had the honour of knowing her.

Hugh Conley August 5, 1971 – September 2, 2014

It broke our hearts to lose you, But you did not go alone, For part of us went with you The day God called you home. will be held Saturday October 11th 1:30pm at the Valley Seniors Center 198 Government Street in Duncan, B.C.

Though your smile is gone forever And your hand we cannot touch, We will never lose the memory Of the one we loved so much.

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2bdrm mobile, with addition on private property. Fenced yard, storage shed. $900/mo (250)989-2100. 3-bdrm., 2 bath., n/s, n/p, f/s, dw, r/r, d/d, working family preferred. (250)398-6278 3bdrm house in down town core, W/D N/S No pets. Looking for long term working renters. R/R utilities included. $1200/mo (250)392-5019 or (250)392-3907 4 Bedroom Home on 28.5 acres available immed. or November 1st. $1200 + utilities. References required. Phone 250-395-3568 evenings or leave a message.

Auto Accessories/Parts

Motorcycles

For Sale or Rent: 3bdrm home in town, 5 appliances included, Nat gas heat, ground level entry, walking distance to schools, library etc. $1200/month or to buy $170,000. Great starter. Looking for a long term renter, utilities included. Phone: (250)392-5019 or (250)3923907.

2006 Yamaha Raven R6 Excellent condition, 16,692 kms. $5500. Also interested in a trade for an excellent condition car of equal value. Call 1-778-267-5309

2012 Cedar Creek ‘Silverback’

Real Estate

Mobile Homes & Parks #19-3001 Mackenzie Ave N

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1999 Mobile Home 3bdrm, 1220 sqft, Washer & Dryer, Dishwasher, Fridge & Stove, Gas fireplace, Fenced yard, 14x70 + large addition & garden shed. $53,000. (250)267-7012 or (250)267-1066 REDUCED - 14x70 mobile, 3 bdrm, Lg Addition, Storage, Garden, Balcony. Info at: PropertyGuys.com #69351 or phone: 250-267-6351

Rentals Apt/Condo for Rent Clean, lakeview, 1bdr. apart. $500/mo. util. incl., n/s, quiet working person preferred, f/s, n/p. r/r 250-398-7361

Duplex / 4 Plex 2bdrm in 4-plex, avail immed. n/g heat/hotwater $825/mo + utilities. (250)305-4946 or (250)392-5221. 3bdr. duplex, full basement, fenced yard, f/s, w/d hook-up, $850/mo. r/r 250-392-7305 or 250-303-1188 3bdrm duplex, N/S N/P in town. $800/mo plus utilities. Avail. immed. (250)392-6218 or cell (250)302-1088 Beautiful spacious 2bd suite in 4-plex. 1 (604)767-1600 www.LivingSpace4Rent.com

Mobile Homes & Pads 2&4 bdrm mobile homes fridge, stove, close to casino. no pets. (250)392-7617

Homes for Rent 1&2 bdrm. houses. F/S natural gas heat. Please call (250)392-7617. 2bdrm, house, for rent in Glendale, recently updated close to schl & Gibralter bus route. Pets neg. n/s, w/d included. $750 plus ult. r/r. Avail immed. 250-398-0790

Impressive 3bdrm upper suite with private deck. In desirable area, close to downtown. Including f/s, w/d, d/w. Pets neg, n/s. $1,200/month. Available immed. 250-267-9686 In Likely Modern year round 1bdr. cottage furnished. Clean well water. Avail immed. $600/mon incl util & satellite tv. 250-790-2226 Large 4bdrm, 2 bath, upstairs of house. Wrap around deck, huge yard. Exc. neighbourhood. Shared w/d. $1200/mon incl util. 250-392-1124 Main ﬂoor of house in hospital area. 3bdrm f/s d/w access to w/d. $1200/mo incl heat/light. Avail. Nov. 1st (250)305-0180 Shop & 2bdrm house, on 146.6 acreage for sale or rent. $1500+/mo 1(250)245-2900

Shared Accommodation

Avanlanche Winter tires, like new, LT275/70R18, $500. (250)392-6236

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Cars - Domestic 2001 Chrysler 300M, awesome car. 168000kms, power everything, sun roof, new tires, mounted studded winters available. 250-989-7953

Cars - Sports & Imports 2001 Hyundai Elantra

1bdrm bsmt suite, f/s d/w, access to laundry, seperate driveway. $700/mo including utilities except phone. n/s n/p r/r (250)398-6290 1 bdrm ground level suite. New fridge, stove & paint. Full bath, washer & dryer. Incl. util, cable, internet & BBQ. No pets & n/s. Prefer single working professional. Nice area. Move in date neg. $700. 250-392-9103 leave message. 3bdrm separate gas/electric heat N/P N/S fenced yard. Child Dev. Centre/Nesika Sch area. $700 +util. (250)3988182 Ground level 2 bdrm suite near hospital. Private entry, cable, wireless internet, F/S, deep freeze, laundry. N/S, N/P, 55+ only. $800/mon incl. util. 250-392-6520 leave mess.

Townhouses Adult oriented town house, quiet neighborhood, 1008 Hubble Rd 2bdrm full bsmt.,recently reno’d, n/p, r/r. Seeking compatible tenants Available after Oct. 4th. 1(250)396-4096

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Off Road Vehicles 158,000 kms $2,000 250-296-3158

2006 Polaris Hawkeye 4x4, 2350 miles, winch, nice reliable machine. $2900. OBO, no trades, cash only. (250)305-2289

2006 Honda Civic Excellent condition, well maintained, highway driven, automatic, a/c, includes winter tires, synthetic oil. 166,000 kms. $8200. 1 (250)243-2380

Motorcycles

2004 CRF 250X New engine & clutch under 10 hrs, New plastic, Digital odometer. Yoshimora exhaust. $3000. (250)305-7365

Hunters & Sportsman Dune Buggy, Roll Bars, Everything New. 5 point harness, New tires, $10,000 spent $7,000. and its yours! (250)398-7779

Recreational/Sale 1986 Ford Travelaire Motorhome. Incl. shower, fridge, a/c. White & grey in colour. Runs well. $5000. 250-3924494

2012 Arctic Fox 25P 4 Season All Weather Coach Queen walk around bed, AC, shower/tub, TV, CD/DVD, built-in stereo system, large solar panel, electric 14’ Carefree awning. 7’ slide with Carefree awning. Like new! $28,000.00 1(250)790-2018

2007 Jeep Wrangler 4x4, Red, 2 door, 3.8 ltr, 6 speed, 94,000 kms, excellent condition. $15,495. O.B.O. (250)267-7926

Asking $47,000. Call (250)305-8494

Converted school bus with toy hauler ﬁts GMC Tracker. 1992 International 360 turbo diesel, 6 speed stand. trans hyd. brakes, compressor and plenty of storage. Runs excellent, new tires. Professionally camperized, queen bed, stove, sink. $16,500 1-250-659-5615 evenings.

2001 Kia MGTIS, 4 door, $1200. obo (250)305-0180

Wanted reliable roommate, nice clean mobile (Must be working or student) shared amenities, furnished. $400 includes util. 150 Mile area 250296-3077 Cell 250-302-2635

Suites, Lower

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29’ 5th Wheel, 3 slides, electric awning, 2 lazy boy chairs, walk around queen bed, fireplace, a/c, 2 TV’s, w/d hookup, central vac, winter pkg. Thru and thru outside storage. Lots of extras. Still in brand new condition. Used very little. A Home away from home!

Travel trailer 1 bdrm + living/kitchen/dining areas. Bright large windows. Pulled easily with small Mazda truck. (250)305-6045

2008 Toyota Tundra 4x4 Auto, minor scratches on body, one owner. All season tires and tonneau cover. 39,000 kms. $25,000. 250-392-6225 or 250-302-2838

Utility Trailers

Trucks & Vans

1994 Chev XCab Pickup 2WD, Aluminum tool box, Premium condition. Reduced to $2500 obo Phone: (250)392-4615

Sport Utility Vehicle

1999 Ford Explorer 177,000 kms, auto start, p/w, p/l, power seat, new stereo, hidden hitch, rear heat controls, extra set of winter tires, 10” sub woofer. $3600.00 obo (250)392-5670

Cable operated telescopic dump system. Lifts up to 12,000 lbs. Made for trailers or trucks. $500. 250-296-9009 Dugan Lake Dump Systems

Boats 14’ Alum boat, 6 hp Johnson motor & trailer. Good condition. $1400 obo 250-392-5974

2001 Dodge 2500 Cummins diesel New brakes, new rad & air to air, new 16” tires, Dry box included. 275,000kims REDUCED PRICE $9500. OBO Call (250)296-4147

Lund Pro V Deluxe 1700 Fishing Boat 115hp Johnson built-in fuel tank. Galvanized trailer with new tires. Asking $7,000. Make an offer! Motivated seller. 250-296-4357 or 250-267-5410

2008 Ford F350 5.4L, 4x4 Crewcab. Very clean. $15,500. MAY TRADE for a low km, clean 6’ box Extra Cab 1/2 or 3/4 ton. 250-392-2001

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