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Teen killer sentenced By Alicia Bridges Smithers/Interior News
A Burns Lake area teen who murdered his 17-year-old sibling when he was 15 will be released from prison before his 20th birthday under a sentence handed down by the B.C. Supreme Court in Smithers last Tuesday. The 19 year-old, whose name is withheld due to a publication ban, pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder for killing his older sibling with a bat in 2011. The crime took place during a dispute over comments made on social media. The teen had been in custody since he was arrested and charged in 2012, more than two years before last week’s hearing. Supreme Court Justice Marvyn Koenigsberg imposed the maximum
seven-year sentence, including a further six months in custody ending in April next year. The remainder of the sentence will be served in the community under an Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision (IRCS) order, which involves regular treatment and therapy. Justice Koenigsberg handed down her decision after considering the recommendations in a pre-sentence report prepared by a youth probation officer from the provincial Ministry of Children and Family Development. Other exhibits included psychological assessments and a DVD outlining the history of First Nations in the Burns Lake area. The court heard the killer had an abusive and traumatic childhood that led to a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder when he was still a toddler. See MURDER on A3
Full candidates forums coverage There were four chances for voters to get to know their candidates last week, but if you missed out on any of them we have full candidates forums coverage in this issue. Read up on what candidates for Smithers town council, Telkwa village council, and Bulkley Valley School District 54 board had to say on pages A8, A9, A10, and A27.
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RCMP were able to reach a peaceful resolution with a distraught woman in Houston after hours of negotiations Friday. Around 2 a.m. on Oct. 31, Houston RCMP received a call about a distraught woman in a residence in the 2200 block of Tweedie Avenue. Officers on scene believed the individual may also have been in possession of a firearm. Fearing for police and
the public’s safety, the Prince George Emergency Response Team and two negotiators were called to assist Houston RCMP in the situation as police were concerned for the woman’s well-being. According to police, the incident was “very dynamic,” and shortly after noon the woman was safely taken into custody and attended to by medical personnel. RCMP thanked the public for their respect and patience while they were able to bring this this situation to a positive resolution.
Houston RCMP were called to a house on Tweedie Avenue on Oct. 31 regarding a “distraught woman.”
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Murder sentence delivered
From TEEN on Front Crown prosecutor Declan Brennan said the man and his sibling were in and out of foster care placements as children, and that their extended family had experienced trauma “on a scale that is unusual”. However, the teen was said to have shown strong intellectual ability and had been regularly attending school classes since he was placed in custody. Defence lawyer Terry La Liberte said it would be a “sin” to allow the 19-yearold to be placed in an adult prison. He said unlike in other cases, the killer had not shown a pattern of criminal behaviour, and that he had shown remorse. “Prison should be a last resort,” La Liberte told Justice Koenigsberg. Both the crown prosecution and defence lawyers agreed the maximum seven-year sentence served under the IRCS program
was appropriate, however Brennan called for the man to spend more time in prison. Justice Koenigsberg asked youth probation officers to provide more information about the details of the IRCS plan, which would aim to help the man transition into independent living by providing regular support and therapy. A section of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the program is reserved for young people who have committed a violent crime and are suffering from “a mental illnesss or disorder, psychological disorder or an emotional disturbance.” It provides $100,000 in funding annually for ongoing treatment and intensive supervision for a person who shows signs that treatment would reduce their risk of committing the same or similar offence. However, the funding is only available for people in the youth justice system. Because the convicted
man turns 20 in 2015, he would have been transferred to an adult facility if he was still in custody at that time. He would need to be released before his birthday to access the program. If he was sentenced to a further two years or more in custody, he would have been sent to a federal prison. Justice Koenigsberg expressed concern that allowing him to go back into the community too early could set him up for failure, however she agreed with the defence position that he should not be sent to an adult facility. “Is he more at risk in the custodial system for one year or more, or more at risk if he’s living independently in six months?” she said. Ultimately, Justice Koenigsberg deemed the risk to the teen’s ability to reintegrate into the community would be greater if he remained in custody long enough to go to an adult prison.
She said she wanted the convicted teen to have the benefit of the IRCS funding because she believed he had a chance to become a positive person in the community. She crafted the sentence to ensure the man could access the program by ending the custodial portion of the sentence before his 20th birthday. His mother, who was in the courtroom for the duration of the hearing, wept after the sentence was handed down. Having watched the DVD about First Nations communities in the Burns Lake area, Justice Koenigsberg said she believed there were opportunities for him to return to his home town after he was rehabilitated elsewhere. Youth probation officers will present the details of the IRCS plan in March, when the man reappears in B.C. Supreme Court one month before his release.
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Smithers RCMP officers have been trained to use carbines requested by the local detachment in the wake of the Moncton and Ottawa tragedies. As part of her regular presentation at the Town of Smithers council meeting, on Oct. 28 Staff Sgt. Kirsten Marshall said some officers had been trained to use new carbines which are being sent to the detachment. “Particularly in light of some of the more recent events,
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Arena opening delayed again
By Chris Gareau Smithers/Interior News
The opening of the second indoor ice surface in Smithers is delayed further after town council approved another extension at last week’s council meeting. C&M Development was given a monthlong extension in August, bumping the completion date from the end of September to the end of October. A provision for a $500 per day fine was added to incentivize getting the project done by the new deadline. The need to relocate a condenser because of the location of a B.C. Hydro transformer was given as the reason for the initial delay. Now C&M has been given until Dec. 1 to have the arena ready for use.
The fine will not be implemented. The company told council that it expects the work to be done by the second week of November, but wanted the cushion just in case further delays arose. Mayor Taylor Bachrach said the penalty clause now applies for any delay after Dec. 1. He described the two-month delay as reasonable, and touted the fact the project is still on budget. “This is a big project obviously for our community, and council is very happy with how it’s gone so far. It’s gone remarkably smoothly, and I think we have what is going to be a great facility,” said Bachrach. The mayor said there are no major issues with groups who had planned to use the facility, and no revenue is really
being lost by the town. “There’s no real operating costs either. And if you look at our current arena, it’s a subsidized operation,” explained Bachrach.
The opening of the gates in the new Smithers arena boards to the public is delayed again.
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UNBC prof helps combat ebola By Kendra Wong Prince George/Interior News
A UNBC professor is heading to West Africa to help combat the Ebola virus by training and educating local healthcare workers at Ground Zero of the outbreak. On Tuesday, Greg Thomas-Reilly, an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the Prince George campus, flew to Europe for safety training before heading off to Yekepa in northern Liberia. “It’s a moral compulsion, if you will, that this is the right place and right time for me to be there,” said Thomas-Reilly. For the next six months (in six-week rotations), Thomas-Reilly will be part of a team that will be training local healthcare authorities in the area on Ebola prevention, control and protection. “The national healthcare teams in Liberia are doing a tremendous job, but they haven’t had the facility to give them the education
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around how best to respond to a pathogen like Ebola,” he said, adding that he will be teaching them the best ways to protect themselves with personal protective equipment and preventing against cross-contamination. Thomas-Reilly, who joined the university earlier this year, has extensive experience with communicable diseases having worked on HIV in Ethiopia, SARS in Toronto and multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis.
“I have no illusions that I’m going to run in and save the day. I’ve done enough work in different countries to know that there’s a lot of expertise all around the world,” he said. “I just want to be a partner to my colleagues, the health care providers in Liberia, to help tackle this in whatever ways we can.” Thomas-Reilly acknowledged the dangers associated with the trip, but said he won’t be paralyzed with fear.
“With any infectious pathogen, you have to exercise your due diligence and you have to have a certain level of respect which is rooted in a degree of fear, which is tempered with knowledge and evidence and data,” he said. “I wouldn’t want to work with anyone who doesn’t have that element of respect in their work practice.” He believes that Canada should continue to approach the Ebola outbreak from a place of “reasoned thought,” to avoid what he calls “ebolaphobia.” “The risks are quite low in Canada. But the focus needs to be on building capacity around the world so that we come to see that what’s happening in places as far off as West Africa, they have ripple effects,” said Thomas-Reilly. At Northern Health’s latest board meeting, they were briefed on the preparedness plans regarding the Ebola outbreak, as well as the work being done to address rural physician recruitment challenges.
Bulkley Valley’s Rod Taylor seeks Christian Heritage Party leadership By Chris Gareau Telkwa/Interior News
Local Bulkley Valley resident Rod Taylor is hoping to be the new leader of the Christian Heritage Party (CHP) after this week’s triennial convention in Hamilton. Taylor has run as a federal candidate four times in Skeena-Bulkley Valley for the CHP. Taylor also ran for the leadership of the CHP in 2008, losing out to Jim Hnatiuk of Nova Scotia. Taylor became deputy leader of the party. He has since served as western regional director and national development director for the CHP. “I care about the party and the direction we’re going. I believe that God has brought me to this particular time and place to offer myself in that way. It’s a door that He’s opened. I believe in the principals of the party,” said Taylor, explaining why he has chosen to run for the leadership. If Taylor is elected leader, he plans to continue the party’s tradition of running on a platform of “life, family, freedom
and smaller government.” Taylor said that includes promoting stable marriages, public safety, freedom of speech and religion, paying off Canada’s debt, and a stable economy. These principals apply to people of all faiths according to Taylor. “Don’t steal, don’t lie, don’t kill, those are all things we all share as common values. Of course we believe that those came from our creator who made us in His own image. It’s not just laws that we’ve made up, it’s laws that are already in the hearts of men and women put there by God. “In that way I think we can represent guys who certainly believe in freedom of religion for all. God gave us a free will and nobody is forced to believe anything. We want to protect their freedom of speech and religion as much as our own,” said Taylor. The leadership vote will take place on Thursday.
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few days from now, 17 courageous men will put on high heels, ball gowns and mascara to entertain an excited crowd for the third-annual Mz. Judged pageant. This fundraiser for the Northern Society for Domestic Peace is a sure sellout, and the colourful photos and stories amuse us long after the contestants have taken their last curtsey. In 2012 when it was last held, the event raised over $50,000. Plenty of fun to be had. But let’s take a few minutes to have a serious conversation about why this event is necessary. It’s about domestic violence. Predominantly that means violence by men against women. It exists in our small communities, enough so that an entire organization is dedicated to helping the individuals and families affected by it. The contestants strutting their stuff aren’t NSDP staff. Mz Judged is about local men –— including many who occupy prominent roles in our community — saying violence against women is not okay. It’s a powerful statement. NSDP hosts the Mz. Judged pageant in November to coincide with the White Ribbon campaign, the world’s largest movement of men and boys working to end violence against women and girls. November also includes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Recent high-profile cases have put the issue of violence against women in the global spotlight. Last week, within a 48-hour period, the Twitter hashtag #BeenRapedNeverReported was used by over eight million people. It helped women speak publicly, many for the first time, about experiences that they had been too ashamed or afraid to discuss. The United Nations reports that 1 in 3 women have experienced physical or sexual violence, mostly by an intimate partner. The more people tell their stories, the more likely positive change becomes. That is a role NSDP plays in our community: creating a safe space for people to tell their stories when they are ready. The money Mz Judged raises goes directly to the Domestic Peace Program, a holistic counselling service. The program was created in 2010 to work with men, and today two skilled counsellors run it as a full-time service that anyone can access to get help with relationships. It receives no core government funding and has very little overhead. Last year the program saw 18 men and 15 couples on average per month. It’s making a difference. Hats off to this year’s Mz Judged contestants. They are heroes in our eyes. Violence is an issue that affects all of us, directly and indirectly, and this event manages to put it front and center while still having fun. It’s the opening of a conversation we can all have together.
Make the most of Movember
It’s Movember again; a time for all clean-shaven men to put away the razor and embark on a hairraising journey. Although the extra fuzz likely comes in handy in northern B.C. this time of year, let’s not forget that Movember is about more than just moustaches! We know that men in the north aren’t living as long as men in other parts of Canada, and we know that they’re dying of causes that are — in many cases — preventable, such as heart disease, cancer, Michelle Larstone is the chair of the board of and injury. directors of the Northern Society for Domestic Peace So this November, get a
jump on the new year and make some resolutions to improve your health (if you’re a man) or the health of a man in your life! Here are some ideas to get you going: – Get a check-up. – Don’t wait until you’re already sick! Make Movember your annual reminder to go and visit your doctor. Not sure what you need to get checked out at your age? Check out our Men’s Health MANual online at men.northernhealth.ca. – Get up and move. Whether at home or at
work, try to sit less and move more. Walking is the easiest way to get started, and requires the least amount of equipment. Take another guy with you, and help improve his health at the same time! – Set a quit date There’s no better day to quit smoking than today! It’s the single best thing you can do to improve your health! If you’ve been thinking about quitting, but are looking for some help call HealthLinkBC at 8-1-1, or check out quitnow.ca. – Protect your assets
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L ETTERS Attack on parliament not terrorism Editor: I am very concerned about the Harper government’s reaction to last week’s tragedy in Ottawa. I do not agree it was an act of terrorism. I see it as an act of despair from a socially unfit and deranged man. The questions I have is why the well known high percentage of mental patients amidst the homeless population is not addressed and how did he have such easy access to a gun. By enacting more anti-terrorist measures, the Conservatives are using this opportunity to erode further our democratic rights and create the climate of fear necessary for pushing their autocratic views. I count on Canadians to stand up to Mr. Harper’s anti democratic agenda.
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Editor: Two painful wounds have been inflicted upon our nation with the untimely and obscene deaths of WO Patrick Vincent and Cpl. Nathan Cirillo. If we could turn the clock back 23 days to Oct. 19, I suspect Patrick and Nathan would be giving thought to this Remembrance Day; what their regimental roles would be and how they would honour this occasion personally. I’m sure their reflections would include the supreme sacrifice made by Canadians in modern day conflicts, the Korean Police Action, and WW2. On this 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WW1, perhaps WO Vincent and Cpl. Cirillo would have taken the time to read the names of those fallen soldiers on their regimental honour rolls. The thousands who have died in military service to Canada would have been their focus. In the spirit of remembrance, I invite you to focus on a few issues which go to the core of what it means
instead of building yet another monument for bureaucratic empire building. Remember, this is the same school board that has sat on millions of dollars of unused assets for some 10 years now. The old Chandler Park School and the old Quick Elementary School. Voting counts: make sure you know who you should vote for and then make sure you get out and vote. Glenford Emerson Greene Smithers
EATING SWEETS FOR A CAUSE Sixty students in grades 9-12 participated in the BV Christian School’s annual auction. Students bring in food, usually bought with their own money, then bid on them. The school raised more than $4,000 that will be distributed to Broadway Shelter and an organization in Africa dealing with Ebola. Submitted photo
to be a Canadian. Earlier this fall, CNN broadcast a town hall meeting where former President Bill Clinton was a guest of honour. When he was questioned about the threat of ISIS, he responded by saying that world opinion is increasingly polarized with extremism on one side and modernism on the other. As Canadians, we prefer to think of ourselves as a moderate, polite and multicultural nation committed to the ideals of religious freedom and tolerance. Our fallen comrades fought and died for these. To even suggest that terrorist organizations like ISIS represent the Islamic faith is pure nonsense, a perversion of the order and harmony it teaches, and an affront to the core values we espouse as a nation. Tolerance isn’t always easy when there are numerous issues out there that flame our passions. I join with many who have strong views about our environment and what threatens it. But, if our opinions are to have any integrity, surely we have an intellectual if not moral obligation to respect the viewpoint of the Calgary businessman who promotes petroleum exports and wants a pipeline constructed. Remember, extremism, at its root, is a mindset uninformed by or intolerant of differing ideas.
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In contrast to traditional values, some expressions of modernism are potential breeding grounds of intolerance. When I hear youth expressing a desire to “live in the moment,” my reaction is “wonderful, enjoy life and embrace it!” The problem arises when living in the moment becomes a self-indulgent life style divorced from the needs of family, friends, and loved ones. We have our “moments” too and invite you to share in them: our joys and sorrows, our successes and failures, even the pride and woundedness felt by veterans and all who serve in uniform. This is the kind of effort that defines us and shapes Canada. With the dangers of extremism and modernism in mind, teach these examples of caring and tolerance in our schools; model them amongst our friends and families, and make them centrepieces of our marriages. Then, let’s have some real conversations about the “true north strong and
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free.” Wounds have been inflicted upon our nation over the past 100 years. Out of woundedness we have discovered strength and resolve; out of woundedness we continue to find courage; and out of woundedness we have been witness to awesome dimensions of humanity which are the fabric of our nation. To all of you, we pass this torch. To the fallen who have supremely emulated these values, we are forever in your debt. May your rest be eternal and your dwelling places in the paradise of God.
Rev. Doug Campbell Smithers
Changes needed in school board
Editor: Voting Counts! All the voters in the upcoming municipal and school board elections, should be paying attention to what is going on in the upcoming elections. If you own
property, you are going to have to pay for the decisions that are made by those that get elected. That makes the voters responsible to “find out” who is running and what their stand is on how the elected are spending the taxpayer’s money. One thing the taxpayer might be interested in is the school board’s plan to use a “$2 million cash surplus” in the “capital building fund” of our local school board. It is now proposed to use that “$2,000,000 surplus,” to build a $3-4 million “indoor sports emporium” so that the community can “jog indoors in the winter” and other “necessary improvements to life in the north.” You as a taxpayer might want to consider electing a trustee who would be looking at that proposal most carefully. Some people might think that such a “fund” could be used differently: to build classrooms to avoid the potential for mobile classrooms to be constructed all over the high school grounds for instance. I think we’ve just gone through a long teachers’ strike where the teachers were promoting the idea that such money could be used to provide extra aids for special needs students. I’m sure we can all think of more uses,
No treaty negotiation mandate
Editor: Bravo to Linda Pierre who wrote on the issue of physician-assisted suicide in your Oct. 29 issue. She so adequately articulated all aspects of the issue. Our ducks are all in a row for our society to step off the cliff to accept the killing of sickly people: the lack of funds for medicare, lack of palliative care facilities, the extended life expectancy of our population and the shrinking workforce to carry the burden of our growing senior population. The “golden years” are tarnished enough as is with sickness, poverty, loneliness, and loss of independence. Add to that list the guilt feeling of being too much of a burden to society, naturally some would opt for suicide. Thanks Linda Pierre for clearing the muddy waters concerning physicianassisted suicide.
Rod Spooner New Hazelton
Smithers Cemetary looking great Editor: After 40 years of regularly visiting the Smithers Cemetery, I was very pleased to see the improvements to the grounds and the washing of all the headstones on my last visit. Thanks to all of you for a beautiful job well done.
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Gladys Atrill Highlighting her passion working in tourism, Atrill said she checked to make sure her job Eight of the nine candidates with Tourism Smithers would for Smithers town council not be a conflict because she answered questions from did not want to give it up. She members of the media and pointed to her work with large public last Wednesday night organizations and confidence in front of a mostly full Della in town staff when asked about Herman Theatre. The forum budget experience. was the last in a series last Atrill said the stalled Russian week for Smithers and Telkwa cargo ship was an example of councils, and the Bulkley how local governments get Valley School District 54 board involved and are important in of trustees. areas that are jurisdictionally The almost-all-candidates the purview of other levels of forum Wednesday night was government. Balance on what the put on by the Smithers District community wants to gain and Chamber of Commerce. does not to lose was a balance to Topics covered ran the gamut consider with economic growth from downtown safety to in order to maintain quality of food safety, and many things life according to Atrill, who said in between. Candidates were the town’s official community asked questions individually, plan was a chance for residents with the option for rebuttal if to say what they wanted to keep they wanted to comment on or gain. a question asked of another Holding councillors candidate on stage. The media Candidates for Smithers council at Della Herman Theatre Wednesday. accountable when it came to Chris Gareau photo that plan is easy according to panel asked its questions after opening statements. The Ideas included lowering the voting age Atrill, who described municipal public then had a chance to step up John Tunnell to 16 and letting people who live away politicians as the most accessible to the microphone to ask a candidate The first-time candidate said he from home vote in their municipal politicians because of residents’ ability a question on any topic on their mind wanted to see more hospital patients elections. Small business growth could to call them on the phone or stop them before closing remarks. be able to find the services they need in be encouraged by having them pay less on the street to talk. The following is a break down on Smithers in his opening, without giving taxes at first and more later suggested each candidate’s performance at the specifics on how he would accomplish Browne, who said any growth had to be Greg Brown forum in the order of their opening this. He then brought up creating jobs steady and include social license from The first-time candidate spoke of statements: by boosting tourism. residents. family, his love of northern B.C., and When asked about his budget Browne answered the budget his budget experience helping his wife Bill Goodacre experience, Tunnell said his number experience question by pointing to her with her books at Two Sisters Cafe Incumbent candidate Bill Goodacre one job at Canada Safeway Pharmacy six years on a school board, where it is before getting a tough question on was at a conference in Prince Rupert required him to always balance the law to balance the books. She added downtown safety. Brown said safety was on behalf of the town, but did have inventory. When given the chance that social, cultural and economic value not a simple problem to face because chamber president Colin Bateman read to give his view on how far town for the dollar had to be considered at it is a symptom of greater problems. a statement on his behalf at the start of spending should be involved beyond budget time. Browne jumped in on a He saw it as an opportunity to address opening statements. core infrastructure in the wake of the question about big projects like the those deeper issues. He added that more Goodacre’s statement told of his Ranger Park Preschool closing and new arena, saying a library expansion activities at Bovill Square was one way wish to have whoever is elected take reopening, Tunnell said priorities on is important for Smithers educationally to make Main Street feel safer. into account citizen engagement when what needs to be spent had to be made, and economically. She added when she Brown suggested there be a making decisions. He also wrote of but gave no specifics. was on the library board in 2004, an referendum on any library expansion, working with Northern Health to expansion was being talked about then. with the public answering what that deal with the health of the growing Shelley Browne When asked if her work with NDP expansion should look like and how population of seniors in Smithers. A self-described “policy nut”, MP Nathan Cullen would help or much they were willing to invest of Accessibility for people with mobility Browne listed six core priorities in hinder her in cross government work as their tax dollars. A cyclist himself, issues, affordable housing to combat her opening statement: value for tax a councillor, Brown said the advantages Brown said cyclists who break the rules homelessness, and recreation were also dollars, operating within budget, jobs of her experience would outweigh the of the road should have the option topics touched upon in Goodacre’s and the economy, making it easier disadvantages. Advocacy towards the of paying a fine or attending a course statement, which highlighted the work for small businesses to operate in provincial and federal governments is on how to operate a bike as a motor done by Access Smithers and the Smithers, an expanded community important in areas outside the town’s vehicle. upcoming improvements to Chandler airport, affordable housing, accessible authority according to Browne. See SMITHERS on A9 Park field. healthcare, and engaging young voters. By Chris Gareau
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More cell coverage on Highway 16 By Chris Gareau Smithers/Interior News
Drivers on Highway 16 between Telkwa and Houston will soon be able to call a tow truck or a friend for a ride when car trouble arises after a new Telus wireless site is finished being built. Cellular service is expected to come on line by the end of the year. “There are a bunch of reasons why people need to have improved cell service along our provincial highways. The first is obviously personal communications, so people are in touch in today’s modern world. The second is so they can continue to conduct their business as they go about their business, and they should obviously be doing it in an undistracted way with hands free calling. And the third is public
safety, whether it’s weather related or police related or any other reason, it’s important to keep in touch to the maximum possible extent,” said Technology, Innovation and Citizens’ Services Minister Andrew Wilkinson. The wireless site is being built near Barrett Lake. It is anticipated to provide about eight kilometres of coverage north and south of the lake. It will not be known how many homes will get coverage until the site goes live. “Along with making travel safer in the area, these new sites provide coverage for the community of Thornhill for the first time, and the response from residents has been overwhelmingly positive,” said Lance MacDonald, Telus general manager for Northern British Columbia, in a release. “Certainly in smaller centres and
more dispersed populations, if people have the communications that they have come to expect they’re much more likely to live and work where they are. Particularly the young people, if they feel like they’re fully connected they’ll look for employment and a way of life where they are. But if they’re feeling unconnected, there’s the draw of the big city and they’re inclined to go where the communications are,” said Wilkinson. The primary goal according to Telus is to enhance the safety of highway travel. Telus is investing $2.3 million to build the Barrett Lake site and two other sites along Highway 16. The other sites are already built and are between Terrace and Kitwanga, and between Topley and Burns Lake. The three sites are expected to bring a total of 40 kilometres of Highway 16 under wireless coverage. Telus has
connected more than 60 per cent of Highway 16 between Prince Rupert and Prince George. The project is part of the 10year Connecting British Columbia Agreement Telus signed with the province of B.C. in 2011. Under the terms of the agreement, Telus will invest to connect more than 1,700 kilometres of unconnected highways with wireless service. Wilkinson said the provincial government is not spending any money in Telus’s wireless expansion. The minister said the province’s $1 billion, 10-year data, network and communications deal with Telus is why the company is willing to invest in areas that are not profitable. “It gives us the market power to persuade them to do things that they probably otherwise wouldn’t,” explained Wilkinson.
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Duane Mitchell The Moricetown councillor is running on a platform on closer harmony between Smithers and Moricetown, but did not give specifics when asked. He did say he wanted to focus on education. Mitchell added his years of experience in Moricetown and building the Moricetown multiplex were an asset when it came to budgets, what he described as the most important foundation for working on council. Mitchell also said the only way to expand the tax base and bring in more revenue was through growth. A way to make it easier for people to take advantage of business growth was with a canopy over Main Street suggested Mitchell. Another idea he had was to create a mobile app for the town that would help people find where they should bring items for recycling or where they could fix things like lamps that they did not want to throw away. Frank Wray The incumbent councillor said he has come to realize how important it was to balance everyone’s views on council, and said he has voted against his personal views in the interest of upholding what the majority of residents wanted. Wray stressed sufficient and predictable infrastructure
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building and maintenance funding. He also wants to reduce regulatory boundaries for small business and pointed to the six town budgets he has been involved with when asked about budget experience. When asked about big projects like the arena and a possible library expansion, Wray stressed big projects do not happen easily and the town should do what it can afford. Getting bogged down in topics of other governments’ jurisdiction can distract from those projects and other town business said Wray, pointing out councillors are part time employees. Growth has to come steady and not in spurts according to the deputy mayor, who added that while he did not expect to be voting for bike lanes in town, it was something he came to realize made economic sense when it came to maintaining infrastructure. Phil Brienesse The incumbent candidate said he came into the last election with big ideas, but this time around wants to break things down into smaller, achievable goals. Ideas he listed included creating a small business task force, and finding a better way to heat the district pool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save on natural gas bills.
Brienesse said town budgets are very different from running a business, and that there was very little money to work with after spending on the requisites like operations and infrastructure. He said a realistic conversation on infrastructure priorities needed to be had in the community to see of a library expansion should go forward. Brienesse added that while growth was good, the town should not let it become an unmanageable “freight train”. Toby Moisey An interdisciplinary arts centre and chickens in backyards were two of Moisey’s big ideas. Food security was a topic the farmer and musician stressed when given the opportunity. He said feeding ourselves was the first step to putting energy towards others. As for the arts centre, Moisey acknowledged he did not know where the money for it would come and that it would take time to make a reality. Moisey said his budget experience came while at school, where post secondary students scrounge to get by. He added that he wants to work with airlines to keep flights coming in at the airport up similar to what they are at peak tourism season. When public safety came up, Moisey said it was a mental health issue.
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The six Bulkley Valley School District 54 trustee candidates for Smithers/Glentanna/Driftwood and Telkwa/Quick answered questions at a public forum last Monday that included why they wanted to run, public engagement, and even one unexpected query as to what would be done with the logs left over if a sports multiplex was built beside Smithers Secondary School. Roxy Hirshfield was the quickest to log an answer to cutting log question. “If you’re being literal, I don’t know how merchantable the timber is, but if there could be revenue generated from it one thought would be to give it to the aboriginal resources that are required. So since it’s Wet’suwet’en territory one thought is we are having to deal with low graduation rates and some issues that are coming from our First Nations communities. Perhaps they could be allocated to aboriginal education,” responded Smithers/Glentanna/ Driftwood candidate Hirshfield. All trustee candidates agreed when asked that trustees have an obligation to be a clear public voice when issues like inadequate provincial funding have a negative effect on the district. Incumbent Telkwa/Quick candidate Judy McIntosh said voicing that concern should not be done individually. “I find more power and more flexibility in coming together as a board and working out together what it is that
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we want to stand for publicly. We all bring a voice from our communities, we all bring a voice from our work life, we all bring a voice from the kids and parents that we interact with, and together we have a stronger more powerful voice locally,” said McIntosh. Her rival for Telkwa/Quick Billie Jean Beaubien answered the question of the one thing candidates would do to improve education with a promise to encourage more volunteering in schools. “Volunteer hours go a long way in ramping up your character,” said Beaubien, adding it also gives students much sought after work experience.
Smithers/Glentanna/Driftwood incumbent Frank Farrell answered the same question by saying he would focus on getting kids what they needed educationally as soon as possible. “There are great things going, but there need to be improvements. That’s the biggest thing because if we get to them at the earliest possible age, then our great educators and support staff have a better chance at creating better outcomes where we can have a chance at having a 100 per cent graduation rate,” said Farrell. Smithers/Glentanna/Driftwood incumbent Lara Collingwood said it is all about choices in education.
“Focus on choices, specifically for aboriginal students, and lining up kids with something they’re passionate about, something to meet their greatest potential and prepare them for life outside of school,” said Collingwood. Smithers/Glentanna/Driftwood candidate Dawn Hanson said her number one goal would be to improve communication. “I really believe in dialogue and the role dialogue can have. I think that through good, open communication, which is very different from debate or disagreement, that you can set a tone that trickles down from the board through administration, teachers, all the way down to students. And you can set up an openness that can lead to greater collaboration and finding solutions that are going to work for the students,” said Hanson. As for engaging teachers, Hirshfield said each school has its own vision. “I would love as a trustee to be able to go to all the different schools and see the classrooms just to sit and observe and talk to teachers,” said Hirshfield. Beaubien said each school has its own unique niche, and she would get involved by volunteering for things like hot lunch serving to forge relationships. Her Telkwa/Quick competition said she would celebrate teacher successes. “It’s also important to not overstep your bounds as a trustee where you’re going crazy and going to places where people just want to be left alone to do the work. You got to be respectful of that. But interacting with schools: every opportunity that I can get I’m always there,” said McIntosh.
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CDC gathers support for Columbia Drive move
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The Bulkley Child Development Centre is back where it started in its attempt to move into town at the vacant Christian Reformed Church on 1471 Columbia Drive, and executive director Kerri Bassett Kluss is hoping the hundreds who have signed petitions in support will help get it the rezoning it needs. “We had community members from Smithers
team from Northern Health assessment who comes to Smithers. They’ve commented on it being a more inclusive and accessible location.” The petitions will be presented at the rezoning hearing scheduled for Monday’s Smithers council meeting. Councillors and councillor candidates for the Nov. 15 municipal election have been invited to tour the CDC and view the plans for the Columbia Drive property. Bassett Kluss said members of the public are also invited to call
“They’ve commented on it being a more inclusive and accessible location,”
The Christian Reformed Church building at 1471 Columbia Drive where the Bulkley Valley Child Development Centre wants to move sits across from the hospital.
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and Telkwa supporting this move, but we also had other professionals who have been using our organization,” said Bassett Kluss. “Professionals that use the Child Development Centre (CDC) as a location to deliver services such as Sunny Hill Psychology Services from Children’s Hospital is located at our centre, as well as a Northern Health regional assessment network. Our psychologist from that team, she supports the move, as well the pediatrician from Prince George who’s on that
or visit the CDC if they had any questions about the move. The journey to move to Columbia Drive started in February, when Bassett Kluss says the CDC first approached the town to find out what it would take to rezone the property. It is currently zoned P3, which only allows religious buildings on the property. The CDC is trying to rezone the property to public use two (P2), the same designation the town’s advisory planning commission first passed on June 11. A child development centre would have to be
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added to the allowed uses of a P2, which currently allows institution-type uses such as recreational facilities, seniors’ housing, government offices, medical centres, and schools. The original attempt to rezone to P2 became stalled when concerned neighbours petitioned the town to not allow a P2 zoning of the property, located near the
Bulkley Valley District Hospital. Neighbours who spoke at council meetings on the subject said they were in favour of the CDC moving in, but were concerned about the long-term tenancy of the property if the CDC chose to rent or sell the property. The CDC does plan to rent some rooms in the building to help finance its operations.
Council passed a rezoning compromise that placed a covenant that restricted who the CDC could possibly sell the property to in the future. That led to the CDC being unable to secure financing for the major renovations it has planned for the church. The compromise rezoning was rescinded on Sept. 9. See LONG TERM on A12
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This is a long-term plan: Bassett Kluss
From CDC on A11 “That’s what we’re asking council to look at, our original proposal, just for them to make a decision: Do they accept the application or not accept it. We’re just ready for an answer from council,” said Bassett Kluss. “This has been a long process for a simple zoning application. We thought it was simple,” laughed Bassett Kluss. The CDC has been around for 33 years, and has grown to now serve 22 communities according to Bassett Kluss. “We do this with the highest integrity of the community in our minds when we’re planning. When we’re looking at this building, I think what the community was seeing was that we’re investing a lot of money into renovating this building. That’s the assurance that they’re going to get from us, is that we’re going to be there for a while. This is a big investment for our organization... this is a longterm plan for our organization and the community of Smithers,” said Bassett Kluss. “The other key point is the majority of child development centres in the province of B.C. are located in residential settings, like the one on Columbia Drive. We’re providing a community service; we’re not a commercial business. I think that speaks to the work that we do: we’re helping children and families.”
Floor plan for new CDC building on Columbia Drive if rezoning is approved. “Child development centre” (CDC) would be added to the P2 zone definition. CDC would be defined as “a not-for-profit organization that provides government funded pediatric early intervention and family centred programs such as infant development, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, family support, early childhood education as well as other specialized services.” Current permitted P2 principal uses: - assembly, cultural and recreational facilities including but not limited to arena, auditorium, community centre, skating rink, curling rink, tennis court, racquet sports, swimming pool; - golf course;
- campground, RV park; - hospital, personal care centre, intermediate and extended long term care facility, assisted living, rest homes, retirement housing, senior citizens’ housing and receiving homes; - school, college, nursery school, kindergarten; - municipally owned building, government office; - medical centre, voluntary social service organization; - public library, museum, art gallery, tourist information; - cemetery; - fairgrounds, exhibition grounds, circus, providing that for these uses the minimum parcel area shall be 16 hectares; - youth centre, provided that premises licensed for the consumption of alcoholic beverages are not permitted on the same parcel.
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Snowboarder carves way to provincial team By Kendra Wong Smithers/Interior News
For Elise Dube, nothing beats fresh powder on the mountain. “I just love the freedom of snowboarding. It’s so liberating and not to mention fun, and I like going super fast,” said Dube. For the past four years, the 16-year-old has travelled from Burns Lake to Smithers to train with the Smithers Ski and Snowboard Club on Hudson Bay Mountain. But now, Dube will have the chance to carve out the slopes on an international stage. The Lakes District Secondary School student was the only athlete west of Prince George to make the team this season. “I didn’t know it was
a tryout until the end of the day,” admitted Dube. “I got an email back from that, that said I was on the team.” It was Jan Wengelin, head coach of the Smithers Ski and Snowboard Club, that encouraged her to tryout for the team. “I felt like she has the skill to move on somewhere else because it’s hard living in the north and getting that exposure,” said Wengelin. “She is a very skilled rider and she has a really good race head on her when it comes to competitions. She closes out what other people do and she sticks to the task at hand. She’s learning what it means to compete.” Dube has been making the trip to Whistler for dryland training since June and at the end of the
Elise Dube carves out slopes in Chile in the summer.
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summer, travelled to Chile for two and a half weeks for on-snow training and two races where she finished fourth and sixth. In November, the team is also heading to Austria for three weeks of training
and competing on the slopes. But Dube hasn’t always wanted to compete at the provincial level. “It just basically fell into my lap,” she said. Dube began skiing
when she was just two years old. Her parents, both avid skiers and snowboarders who also coach with the high school team, taught her how to ski. It wasn’t until she was 10 years old that she made the switch to snowboarding. “For me, [snowboarding] has always been more fun and also, when I was younger, my feet got cold easily and ski boots were awful so snowboard boots were ideal,” she said. “I just realized I loved it and switched over. Chris Nakonechny, head coach of the provincial team, said Dube has a lot of potential. “She had some good results down [in Chile], definitely good results for her first races. It’s good to see her down there and
racing in those events,” said Nakonechny “It’s a good step into the season when she gets into the North American races.” He noted that Dube’s location could pose a challenge for the young athlete. “She’s pretty far up north and a lot of the events and training camps are in Vancouver or the Whistler area,” said Nakonechny. “There is a lot more travel for her whereas we have some kids who live in Vancouver or Kelowna, it might be a bit of of a journey for someone like Elise.” But Dube isn’t worried. “I’ve always loved experiencing new places and new cultures, it’s been fun,” she said. “I’m so happy I got this experience.” The team’s first race is in January.
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The Smithers Secondary boys’ soccer team dropped their zone tournament after a nail-biting overtime loss against their Terrace rivals last weekend. The Gryphons played back-toback games against Caledonia Senior Secondary on Saturday; the first game ended with a one all draw while the second game went into overtime, with Caledonia getting the win 2-0. “I thought both teams played very well. They played tough soccer over two games back-to-back and neither team left anything out on
the field and Terrace ended up on top,” said Chris Howard, one of the coaches of the Gryphons. “Our guys represented themselves and our school very well.” In the first game, junior Grant Hooper opened the scoring for Smithers Secondary early in the first half. “Terrace had possession and they went to go cross the front of the net. One of the players missed the ball and I had an open shot and took it,” said Hooper, a mid-winger. “I think I played good for my first year of high school soccer.” The Gryponns held the lead for most of the game, but Caledonia fought back and evened it up with just a few
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The Smithers Secondary Gryphons lost the second game of the tournament 2-0 in OT.
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minutes left in the second half. In the second, sudden death game, the two teams went scoreless, resulting
in 10 minutes of overtime play. “Lots of pressure from our strikers Austin Ryan and tremendous defence
by Glyn Doyle and Dylan Delany,” said Howard, adding that Stefan Bichlmaier also had a good game. In overtime, it was Caledonia to strike first, finding the back of the net on a shot from a weird angle. With less than two minutes left, Caledonia sealed the deal with another goal on a breakaway. “Our guys still never quit. They kept coming at Terrace right down to the last of it. Sometimes it just doesn’t go your way,” said Howard. “They defended very well. They defended as a team and they all supported each other and they never stopped playing hard.” Delany was named the Gryphons’
MVP, while Doyle took home the best defensive player of the tournament. “I haven’t played this position before this year. It was something new for me and I felt like I did well,” said Doyle. “Terrace has a very skilled team. We worked hard, but they deserved it in the end.” Terrace will head to provincials, but for the Gryphons, the tournament marks the end of the season. “We’ve got probably about five graduating players and then we have a good young squad of mostly guys who are going into grade 10 and 11 next year, so I expect a very strong team next year,” said Howard.
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Nordic club welcomes new president By Kendra Wong Smithers/Interior News
The Bulkley Valley Cross Country Ski Club is welcoming a new face to its executive ranks. Daryl Wilson has stepped up as the club’s new president for the upcoming season. “I like volunteering. I’ve been with the Smithers Fire Department for 23 years and I’ve lived here all my life. My grandma came in 1927 so community is a big thing to me,” said Wilson, who was a director last year. Though this is his first year as president, Wilson has been involved with the club for many years.
His two daughters joined the jack rabbits program when they were young and his youngest daughter is a senior on the biathlon team.
This year, Wilson hopes to bring some fresh ideas and a new outlook to the table; he would also like to get more parents to come out and help
“Community is a big thing to me,” -Daryl Wilson President of the Bulkley Valley Cross Country Ski Club
“Being a parent up there watching, you may as well help,” said Wilson. “I started doing the waxing for the ski team and the biathlon team. Now I have a new job and I have time to go back on the executive.”
with the club, which is largely volunteerbased. “In the past, we’ve had people who wanted to volunteer, but didn’t want to make the big decisions,” he said. “The board will be
a decision-making body and will delegate the vision and see if certain people can implement it to get our membership involved that way.” The club will continue to offer its annual races, along with a new Northern Tech Cup race in January. The club was founded in the 1980s and is located eight kilometres outside of town at the Wetzin’kwa Community Forest. It has roughly 45 kilometres of trail, a day-use lodge and wax hut. Membership is roughly $600-650 and registration has already begun. The season will tentatively begin on Nov. 15.
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Morgan Monkman (left) and Nadia Maskiewich block against Cedars Christian School during invitationals last Saturday.
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Smithers Secondary’s senior girls’ volleyball team finished in the top five against 15 other teams in the Northwest at a tournament in Prince George over the weekend. The team won five of six games at D.P. Todd Secondary Invitational on Saturday. “I was really happy with how they stepped up against some of the better competition,” said head coach Neal Currie. “We played really well.” The most exciting game was in the quarter finals against College Heights, one of the top
10 AAA teams in the province, where the Gryphons dropped two close sets: the first 25-27 and the second 18-25. “Even though we lost, the girls played so well that it gave them confidence going into their last couple of games,” said Currie. “And we won both of those to finish off the tournament in a great way.” Currie said the team ran systems well. “Defensive systems stepped up and everyone knew what they were doing,” he said. “When we were getting good passes our offence was also running really well.” The team has zones on Nov. 15 and depending on
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the results, could head to provincials at the end of the month. Currie said the tournament was an opportunity to get a better idea of the competition the team could face during provincials. “We were using this more as practice for provincials,” he said. “It’s hard to find competition in the North that will mimic what we’re hoping to face at provincials, so we wanted to get some competition against some higher calibre teams.” He added the girls need to work on serve receiving and expanding on their offensive options.
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Smithers hosts novice tournament By Kendra Wong Smithers/Interior News
More than 140 young hockey players from around the Northwest gathered in Smithers for the annual novice tournament over the weekend. Players aged seven and eight from Kitimat, Vanderhoof, Burns Lake, Prince Rupert, Hazelton, Houston and Fort St. James hit the ice at the civic centre for two full days of hockey.
Smithers dressed two teams: the Aqua North Plumbing and Dan’s Source for Sports this year. Dan’s Source dropped three games on Saturday and tied the final game 8-8 on Sunday morning. “They played really well and the kids had fun,” said Sean McLean, one of the team coaches. He added that the young players took what they learned in practice, such as taking the puck to the boards in their own
end and carrying the puck out of the zone, and improved the second day on the ice. “They played as a team and they remembered what we learned in practice and it really all came together in the last game. It was fun,” he said. Jass Parker, the organizer of this year’s event, said it is a fun tournament where they generally average between 140 to 160 players every year. Players were also awarded medals.
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Learning to live with Type 1 diabetes By Kendra Wong Smithers/Interior News
In September 2013, the Belisle family’s world was turned upside down. Ten-year-old Brianna just returned home from a trip with her grandmother Shirley, when her mother noticed she lost a significant amount of weight. “She lost five pounds and she continued to lose another five pounds in the next week,” said her mother Wanda. “She got really thin. She ran a race and her time was really off and she was really sick and vomiting. With the weight loss, you could see all the bones in her chest and her back. She just got worse and worse.” Doctors ran a series of tests on her and eventually diagnosed Brianna with Type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease where your immune system attacks cells in the
pancreas. After being diagnosed, she spent the next few days in the hospital getting her blood sugar levels back up. “It was shocking. We didn’t know how to start this whole new lifestyle,” said Wanda. “I literally slept with the lights on and in my clothes for the first month because you’re just waiting for something horrible to happen in the middle of the night.” Now, Brianna is learning to live with the disease and must stick to a strict diet. She counts the carbohydrates in everything she eats unless it’s cheese or protein. Until recently, she was taking more than eight insulin injections a day and had to poke her finger 10 times a day to test her blood sugar levels. She recently received an insulin pump so she no longer needs to take injections, but instead
Lyndsay, Peyton, Jason, Shirley and Brianna Belisle after the race in Iceland at the end of August to raise money for diabetes.
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must carry the cellphone-sized pump with her at all times. Wanda and her husband, Jason must also check on Brianna throughout the night to make sure her blood sugar levels are normal. “Every night before she goes to bed she says ‘I’ll see you in the morning,’ like she needs to reassure us’,” said Wanda.
But despite being diagnosed with diabetes, the Walnut Park student continues to stay active with cross-country running, soccer and snowboarding. She hasn’t let the disease hold her back. “She’s my hero. She always has a sense of humour about it. There are days when she is down, but she
never lets it stop her from doing things like being with her friends or doing sports,” said Wanda. Most recently, Brianna participated in the Turkey Trot in Hazelton and completed a race in Iceland with her family a few months ago. Her grandmother Shirley ran the marathon for Brianna
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and raised more than $8,000 for the Canadian Diabetes Association. “It was devastating, I felt so bad for her and her family and there was nothing that we could do. We just had to learn to live with it,” said Shirley. “It takes a long time to come to terms with it, but you have to, you don’t have any choice.” According to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, Brianna is one of 300,000 Canadians living with Type 1 diabetes. November marks diabetes awareness month. Shelley Irvine, a diabetes nurse educator with Northern Health, said people should get their blood sugar levels checked once every three years depending on your age and a number of risk factors. “But the main thing is, there are a million people in Canada who don’t
even know they have it,” said Irvine. “Knowledge is power. The more people know about this disease, the better the chances they can prevent it. If they do have diabetes, they can learn to manage it and have a healthy long life.” On Nov. 25 at 7 p.m. at the Smithers Health Centre there will be a talk on diabetes management for diabetes month. Blood sugar checks will also be available. Residents can also get blood sugar levels checked at the healthy living centre between Tuesday and Thursday. Wanda just wants other parents to be aware of the signs. “The biggest thing is to know the symptoms of Type 1 diabetes — weight loss, thirst and going to the bathroom,” she said. “We just take it one day at a time, even one meal at a time. [Don’t] let diabetes stop you from doing anything.”
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FUTURESHOP GRANT CONNECTS SMITHERS SECONDARY STUDENTS WITH TECHNOLOGY A grant of nearly $20,00 to Smithers Secondary School is going to purchasing 16 iPads, Apple TV, and associated goodies for the Grade 12 Chemistry Class (pictured), as well as equipment for the Robotics class.
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The Smithers family literacy program known as Families Behind Books is pleased to announce that our 17th annual Used Childrens’ Book Drive will begin on Friday, Nov. 14 until Nov. 28. Each year, Families Behind Books collects over 1,000 used children’s books and recycles them in the community. The books are dropped off by families in donation boxes located in elementary schools or at McDonald’s Restaurant. Each child who donates a book receives a book mark with a coupon for a free treat at McDonalds as a small thank you for their gift of sharing. The books are then sorted and cleaned by
volunteers. 400 of the best condition books are placed in Christmas Hampers so that every child receiving a hamper also gets a new book to read. The remaining books are distributed throughout the year in free book boxes located around the community. The boxes can be found in waiting rooms, parenting programs and restaurants. Children may take a book from the box and keep it to build up their home library. Families Behind Books is a community awareness program involving a partnership with McDonalds Restaurant, School District 54, and Smithers Community Learning. Formed in 1998, this partnership is focused on raising the awareness
of parents about the importance of regularly reading with their children. The group works to
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encourage and inform parents through a variety of ways including the annual book drive, the free book
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Photos left to right: Ashleigh Ballevona paints one of the 20 bat boxes. Dan Perlman sands one of the boxes at his property in Telkwa Saturday afternoon.
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Bat boxes fly into town to help gather info By Kendra Wong Smithers/Interior News
A group in the Bulkley Valley has ramped up efforts to find out more about bats in the North by building bat habitats that will be scattered around the region. “We don’t know too much about them. We don’t know where they go in winter, whether they go to the coast, if they go south to Mexico or if they go find some caves in Hazelton,” said Mel Coulson, director with the
Bulkley Valley Naturalists. “They have to go somewhere it doesn’t freeze but we just don’t know where they go.” Last weekend, a dozen people gathered at a property in Telkwa for the second-annual bat building workshop. Participants built, sanded and painted 20 new habitats for bats to use between April and September. The boxes include three nursery chambers that female bats often use when they give birth, and an open bottom that allows
them to fly in and out. People will count the number of bats before and after they have babies to keep track of their breeding success. They will also use the droppings to help identify them. There are currently a few bat boxes in the Bulkley Valley, but the increased numbers will help with the annual bat count in the summer as well. Coulson has two boxes on his property in Quick and said they have attracted more than 200 bats.
Katharine Staiger, an instructor at North West Community College, said Coulson’s roost is of particular interest. “He has a high number and they’ve returned. I found another big bat roost on Babine Lake,” she said. “It’s harder to follow a population of 10 or 12 bats then those bigger populations.” According to Staiger, there is growing concern in Western Canada about a disease called Whitenose Syndrome, a fungal disease that affects bats’ noses, that has killed more
than five million bats in North America. The disease could wipe out entire colonies and since bats only give birth to one baby a year, it could take years to rebuild the population. Though the disease hasn’t reached B.C. yet, Staiger hopes if they have a general understanding of the bats in the area, then they can figure out how the disease could affect populations in the North. “Biologists are concerned about how little they know about
the current status of bats, especially in the western provinces. We are trying to establish some baseline population figures,” said Staiger. “The bat houses give us some visible evidence of bats and we can easily count them as well as determine their species from guano samples.” The province has also set up a bat hotline at 1-855-9BC-BATS that residents can call to identify the types of bats that live in their area. For more information, visit www.bcbats.ca.
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New Northwest Community College president Ken Burt at the Smithers campus last week. By Alicia Bridges Smithers/Interior News
Improving slumping enrolment numbers will be a priority for new Northwest Community College president Ken Burt, who visited the Bulkley Valley for the first time last week. The new executive, who was previously the vice-president of finance and administration at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, started with the NWCC on Oct. 1. Last Thursday he visited campuses in Smithers and Hazelton for the first time. At a meet and greet held at the Hazelton campus, he told teachers, students and local government representatives that improving student numbers would be a priority for him in his new role. Enrolments in the college’s
developmental learning classes, such as computer courses for adult students, have dropped in recent years. Burt believes the slump in enrolments is due to a change in the job market. “I think it has to do with the fact that there is more work available in the communities that we serve,” said Burt. “I haven’t confirmed this by looking at the data, but typically a lot of students, if there is employment in their areas, they will work first and go to school second or go to school part-time.” He said the first step to increasing student numbers would be to identify the cause of the downward trend. “If (lower enrolment numbers) is related to employment then that is good but if you look at the job requirements for the next four years through the B.C. government there is going to be almost a million new jobs opening up in the B.C. economy,” said Burt.
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With job market forecasts predicting more than 600,000 jobs becoming available through the retiring baby-boomer population, Burt said it was important that prospective students looked to the future. “It might be short-sighted for individuals to take a low-paying entry-level job right now, putting their education on hold, because when those new jobs open up over the next four years they won’t have the educational requirements to step into those higher paying salaries.” Those jobs, he said, would become available regardless of whether any new “mega-projects” in the resources industry were approved. “They all require education and training and that’s what we do,” he said. One month into his new role, Burt said it was too early to comment on the issues specific to Hazelton or Smithers campuses.
Mining school celebrates 10 year milestone Mining industry leaders converged on the Northwest Community College in Smithers last Thursday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its School of Exploration and Mining. More than 1,200 students have graduated from the school since it opened in 2004. NWCC president Ken Burt, who travelled from Terrace to attend the event, thanked college partners for helping the college achieve its successes. “Relationships with communities and industry partnerships have been critical to achieving student success by providing the right skills needed by industry and empowering students,” said Burt. Association for Mineral Exploration B.C. president Gavin C. Dirom congratulated the school. “Its 72 per cent job placement rate is evidence that their graduates are ready to help fill the nearly 4,000 positions expected to open in mineral exploration and development in B.C.”
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United Church Christmas Bazaar Saturday, Nov. 8, 2-4 p.m. Church basement. Crafts, Homebaking, cookies by the dozens. $5, includes tea and goodies. Homebased business’ upstairs. Ski Swap Saturday, Nov. 8, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Muheim School. $1 entry for anyone over 15. Drop off gear to sell Friday, Nov. 7, 6-8 p.m. Back Country Horsemen of BC AGM Wednesday, Nov.12, 7 p.m., Smithers Secondary School, Room 401. Info. Eileen 250-847-3165. Christmas Bazaar at the Telkwa Seniors Hall, Saturday, Nov. 15, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. $2 at the door, includes Coffee or Tea and Cookies. Smithers Film Series Sunday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m. at the Roi Theatre, Ida, an orphan raised in a convent and a chain smoking, hard-drinking judge embark on a road trip across the bleak terrain of 1960s Communist Poland. St. Joseph’s Bazaar, in the school gym. Saturday, Nov. 15, 2-4 p.m. Crafts, baking, preserves, Christmas decorations, white elephant table. 5 and under FREE, 6-12, $2, 13 & over $5, includes sandwiches, coffee, tea, juice, dessert and door prizes.
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A public hearing will be held on Monday, November 10th, 2014 beginning at 7:30 pm in the Council Chambers of the Town Hall, 1027 Aldous Street, Smithers, BC. The following bylaws will be considered at the public hearing: 1) Bylaw No. 1761
Zoning Bylaw Text Amendment to permit shipping containers for storage purposes in the C-3 Service Commercial Zone.
This change would apply to all C-3 Zoned properties. 2) Bylaw No. 1754
Zoning Bylaw Amendment to rezone 1471 Columbia Drive (existing Christian Reformed Church) from P-3 Public Use Three to P-2 Public Use Two and add “child development centre” as a permitted principal use in the P-2 Zone.
The purpose of Bylaw No. 1754 is to permit the Bulkley Valley Child Development Centre to relocate to 1471 Columbia Drive (see map):
Pretty pumpkins A couple of brave pretty princesses are curious but unfazed by the haunted house put on by the Telkwa Fire Department Halloween night. Chris Gareau photo
Public Input: Anyone who believes they will be affected by the proposed bylaws are invited to attend the public hearing to present verbal or written submissions to Council for consideration. Written submissions to be considered at the public hearing must be received at the Town Office by 3:30 pm on the day of the public hearing. Additional Information: The proposed bylaws and relevant background information can be viewed at the Town Office, 1027 Aldous Street, Monday through Friday (except holidays), 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, or online at www.smithers.ca. Contact: For further information please contact Alison Watson, Planner, at (250) 847-1600 or awatson@smithers.ca. (Second of two notices)
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The Smithers Snowmobile Association will be holding their Annual General Meeting at 7:30 pm on November 12, 2014 in the Glacier Room at the Hudson Bay Lodge.
Agenda includes: • Presidents Report • Financial Report • Election of Officers Monthly meeting to follow with representation from government officials from Rec Sites & Trails and BC Parks.
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Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman. By Tom Fletcher Black Press
British Gas has signalled a delay in its plans for completion of a major liquefied natural gas project at Prince Rupert until beyond 2020, but Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman says others are staying on schedule. BG Canada president Madeline Whitaker described a “pause on Prince Rupert” in an interview with the Prince Rupert Northern View Wednesday, citing increasing supply of natural gas from the U.S. and elsewhere for the project that was to start construction by 2016. She emphasized that work is continuing. Coleman said Wednesday he hasn’t heard of any other delays in talks with LNG proponents, and he has been invited to visit Malaysia in November to meet with the CEO and board of Petronas about their large-scale plans. “[BG’s] comments are basically relative to their financial statements and they’re just being prudent and looking forward, and that’s what they’ve told me,” Coleman said. “We haven’t seen any slowdown in progress of in any of the project development agreements we’ve been working on with these companies, so at this stage I’m still pretty confident.” BG also has interests in U.S. sites where LNG import terminals are being converted to
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export for new gas reserves extracted from deep shale rock around North America. BG Group reported a 26 per cent drop in third-quarter operating profit this week, mostly from low oil prices and a decline in production from Egypt. BG and its partner Spectra Energy received a federal export permit last year along with three other B.C. LNG project proponents. They announced a development agreement in 2012 to build a pipeline from Spectra’s hub of gas processing operations in northeastern B.C. to an 80-hectare plant site on Ridley Island near Prince Rupert. Two other pipelines have also been proposed to supply gas to terminals at Kitimat. There are currently 18 LNG proposals for B.C., including small-scale operations using existing gas line rights of way to sites near Squamish and Port Alberni. The B.C. government set its LNG production tax rate at 3.5 per cent in legislation introduced last month, down from a possible high of seven per cent. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said a softer international market for gas, a long-term deal to supply Russian pipeline gas to China and falling oil prices have affected the market forecast for LNG. Coleman said proposals for global LNG production currently exceed the anticipated supply, so it’s expected that not all proposals in B.C. will go ahead.
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A HAUNTED HALLOWEEN AT HUDSON Cruella de Vil and a box of Nerds gear up for the Howlin’ Halloween Bash at Hudson Bay Lodge on Friday night. More than 100 people showed up for a night of dancing with performances by High Ball Riot. Prizes were also given out for best costume. Alicia Bridges photo
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The B.C. government has sent out 165,000 cheques to B.C. parents to compensate them for school days lost in the teacher strike in September, accounting for more than half of the students eligible for the $40-a-day payments. The finance ministry reports that nearly 230,000 families have registered for the payments, which cover 13 school days missed in September before a contract was reached and teachers returned to work. Those families represent 295,000 children aged 12 and under enrolled in public school, 97 per cent of the total eligible. Finance Minister Mike de Jong said the first batch of cheques went out Oct. 20. He said with the vast number of applications it’s
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Finance Minister Mike de Jong says 165,000 cheques have been sent to parents to compensate for days lost during the teachers’ strike.
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possible there will be “glitches” due to data entry errors, and some applications are taking longer to verify. “For children who were not in public school last year, for example children now in kindergarten for the first time, it will take a week or two longer to process those cheques,” de Jong said. CTV reported on
one case Wednesday where separated parents both applied for the fund and are in a dispute over which should receive it. Parents and primary caregivers have until the end of January to register for the payments, online at bcparentinfo.ca or by phone at 1-877387-3332 to receive paper application forms.
The payments are not considered taxable income and do not affect benefits such as the B.C. early childhood tax benefit, sales tax credit or federal GST credit. Payments to the eligible students who have registered represent a $15.3 million cost to the provincial treasury, equivalent to payroll savings during the strike.
The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) aims to make Canada a country of discoverers and innovators for the benefit of all Canadians. The agency supports university students in their advanced studies, promotes and supports discovery research, and fosters innovation by encouraging Canadian companies to participate and invest in postsecondary research projects. NSERC researchers are on the vanguard of science, building on Canada’s long tradition of scientific excellence. So what does this mean to the local companies? This means that there are grants available to pay for university professors to do research for a specific problem you have! One of the most popular programs they run is called Engage. Engage Grants are designed to give companies that operate from a Canadian base access to the unique knowledge and expertise available at Canadian universities. These non-repayable grants of up to $25,000 are intended to foster the development of new research partnerships between an academic researcher and a company that have never collaborated before, by supporting short-term research and development projects aimed at addressing a company-specific problem in the natural sciences or engineering fields. The field of natural sciences or engineering is incredibly broad so it is important to reach out to see if you are eligible. The NSERC contact person for the Pacific region is located in Vancouver but is a former Smithers resident. Megan Griffith wants to hear from businesses in the area who would like to take advantage of this program. She can be reached at 604-666-8815 or megan.griffith@nserc-crsng.gc.ca. The University of Northern British Columbia and College of New Caledonia in Prince George are the closest eligible institutions to the Bulkley Valley but companies can use any Allan Stroet, Economic Development Officer eligible institution that fits their needs.
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Lorraine Doiron At the art gallery Oct. 28 to Nov. 26, Leif Ostlund will present his New Works oil paintings, bold and striking. From Prince George, he has an international following; his works hang in many private and corporate collections in North America and Europe. Also, in the mini gallery, Liz-Anna Waugh will present Of Bees and Trees, a melange of colourful works representing an evolution of encaustic styles and techniques. The gallery is super pleased to have raised $11,000 through the recent 6X6 Auction. They want to thank all the volunteers who helped make this a success, the
artists who contributed, the people who bid so generously. Free computer tutoring at Smithers Public Library. Sharpen your skills with email, eBooks, download, upload, surf, spreadsheets, photo albums, Skype, Facebook, Twitter, nothing is left out. Get help with the big stuff or if you just have a question or two. Call the library at 250-847-3043 to book an appointment with Adam, the computer tutor. Speaking of the library don’t forget the Giant Annual book sale at the Legion, Nov. 7, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Nov. 8, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. We will be at the Legion Thursday, Nov. 6 from 3 p.m. setting up if you have
donations to drop off. Attended the allcandidates forum. Was very impressed with the candidates and their answers to questions. Bill Goodacre was not available but his note indicated his interest in accessibility and affordable homes. John Tunnell indicated he was interested in patient care and the need to bring in more tourism that would provide more jobs. Shelley Browne said she was a policy nut and wanted to give back to the community, along with a leaning towards advocacy.Gladys Atrill said she was committed to this community. Greg Brown felt strongly about a diverse economy. Duane Mitchell wanted positive change, unity, and was focused on
youth and education. Frank Wray said he was connected to the Bulkley Valley and hoped to reduce regulatory barriers to businesses. Phil Brienesse wanted to continue to see a vibrant downtown. Toby Moisey would like to see a concert hall for Smithers along with food security, a food system and chickens in our back yards. They all responded to financial questions on budgets, Bovill Square came up often, the library’s need for more space, community consultation, bridging Moricetown with Smithers. If you want to hear what went on go to www.soundcloud.com/ smithersradio and you will find the entire forum there. Also if you want to hear individual interviews, CICK is working on 15 minutes with each candidate, you can listen by going to Smithers Community Radio, click on schedules, look for municipal elections in the list of programs, click on that and you will find dates where interviews have been done. Click on a date to hear the interviews. Closing with: Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best. Marva Collins
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FOR THE BIRDS Brenda Mallory I don’t buy a lot of stuff! I save a bit of money if I think I will need something to keep me going. That is exactly what I did when I thought I would need a car just a bit more modern that my 1994 Ford. Just this week a
friend came down the driveway with a car he figured would be just fine for me. It is a 2002 Buick Century. Imagine that! I suppose I could have gone for something new. It would have to be new and cheap. Like many my age and height getting in and out of a little car is an issue. This car, just fine. I can get in easily. The seats go this way and that or up and down. So far so good. It has a few things I am not used to. Windows that work without a handle. Heat vents that blow warmth in new places. To me anyway. It also has that automatic start feature. I can get
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myself going from the comfort of my home. That I can do without. “You will really like it on a cold day,” I am told. I guess my life is different from most old widows. I can start my car on site. It can warm up while I shovel snow, look after birds and the dogs. I might even have time to bring in a load of wood. Of course all this activity in the morning might include taking snow off the car. There you have it! I will get rid of the gizmos that do things like start the car and open the trunk. A key to start the car, another to open doors and the trunk.
Everything fits in my pocket. No need to make a fashion statement and carry a purse. Actually never had a purse in years. Now you would like to know how much the car cost? Just over $2,000. No debt involved. As I folded my ample self into the car I was thinking about the last time I bought a new car. Back in 1974, I bought a Toyota Land Cruiser. It had all I needed for $5,000. A heater, windows worked with a handle, radio and that was it. Lasted for over 30 years. Hope this new car does the same. Before you rush out and buy a new
car with a bank loan attached look around. You might find a good deal. One thing I know for sure, this Buick has a substantial feel about it and I can guarantee there will be no recall for something not right. I could have all this wrong and the car will not last but at least I did not go into debt. With snow on some of the roads make sure your car new or old has good tires. Buy some lock deicer and a good windshield scraper. Be safe out there. Call me when you have time. The number is 250-846-5095. Email your comments to mallory@bulkley.net.
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TO ALL NOT-FOR- PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS Bulkley Valley Community Foundation Call for Grant Applications 2015 Grant Funding The Bulkley Valley Community Foundation serves local community needs for Topley, Granisle, Houston, Telkwa, Smithers, Hazeltons and the Kitwanga areas. Grant Applications are being accepted from October 1 to November 30, 2014, from Not For Profit Organizations within the service area. Projects must be commenced & completed in 2015. Special Funding is also being granted to organizations providing Education Services in Houston & Area and Special Needs in Smithers & Telkwa. NOTE: Applications will only be accepted via email: bvfoundation@bulkey.net
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he said residents likely did not want to be bothered at the door by a knocking politician looking for input. He suggested members of council meet more people informally, like at a coffee shop. To save money, Zitkauskas had the big idea of working with neighbouring municipalities to pool their resources and make purchases in bulk when possible.
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The Telkwa Community Hall was packed with voters curious to hear what their three mayoral and five of six councillor candidates had to say at the village’s all-candidates forum last Tuesday night. Most questions were directed at the candidates for mayor, who dominated most of the discussion and debate. The following is what the mayoral candidates had to say: Darcy Repen Repen elicited the most passionate responses from his opponents and members of the audience. Defining himself as a non-politician throughout the evening, Repen said he was the candidate of change. He spoke with pages of spending documents accessed through freedom of information requests in hand of rising property taxes and village staff salaries and benefits, which drew a defensive reaction from staff members in the crowd and current councillors. A lack of public engagement in decision making was also a cause Repen said he aims to rectify. He said public meetings in the past had been forums for the village to tell the public what it was doing, not to get feedback. Repen also proposed giving village voters the ability to recall members of council before their four-year term ends. He said as mayor he would only support decisions that had broad support from residents, and added that he would go door to door after being elected to meet people and get their input on what they wanted the village to do. He also said that he would reopen the official community plan because of the lack of effort to get responses from citizens in amending it.
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Telkwa mayoral and councillor candidates at last Tuesday’s forum.
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The issue of creating more water capacity in the village came up often, and Repen said more spending needed to be redirected to building that capacity. “The bridge with council won’t be an issue if council also supports those initiatives if it’s obviously based on community feedback... If council does not respect what people of the town say they want to do, well that’s a tough bridge, because I’m with the people first. I’m with the people who live here and pay taxes, not with council,” said Repen when asked how he would work well with other members of council. Rimas Zitkauskas The current councillor and mayoral candidate said he wants to cut taxes, but the current system of including regional district and provincial taxes on the village tax notices sent out to residents is misleading. Zitkauskas said village taxes cost about $6.50 per day. “[It] gets us water, sewer, garbage pickup, road maintenance, fire protection, first
responder emergency services, flood protection, playgrounds, outdoor sports facilities, people to do the work of conducting and to administer the daily business of our community,” said Zitkauskas, adding the cost could not be bared by the village alone and it needed other levels of government to chip in. When asked about tough decisions, Zitkauskas said the tax level was something he supported to put future councils in a better position. He said the water situation was anticipated four years ago and that he intends to pursue the next round of Build Canada funds to have the provincial and federal governments pay for two thirds of a water infrastructure upgrade. “Keep doing what we’ve been doing,” said Zitkauskas when asked how the village would meet infrastructure growth demands. Acknowledging a lack of public input at town hall meetings, Zitkauskas said the solution was to meet people on their time rather than council’s time, though
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Vicky Rokstad The least combative mayoral candidate of the night, Rokstad said she was a village administrative assistant who knew how to get things done without a personal agenda. The work she listed as wanting to get done included water pipes, streets, sidewalks, and attracting a health facility to the village. She also agreed taxes were too high, and suggested there were ways to spend more pragmatically. Rokstad noticed the lack of public engagement at town halls as well. She said she would have an open-door policy and use social media to reach out to the public. “We are accessible to the public, you just have to pick up the phone,” Rokstad told those gathered. The mayoral candidate spoke of the need to create growth by upgrading infrastructure and offering commercial investment incentives. The former village staff worker became defensive when it came to staff contracts. “A lot of the staff and all the councillors, and contractors are residents also of Telkwa, and they need to be represented as well... We have a wonderful staff at the Village of Telkwa. They really care about Telkwa; They really care about you, don’t make any mistake about that, and they’re not making a fortune,” said Rokstad.
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At the Regular Meeting on Monday, November 10th, 2014, Smithers Town Council will consider adopting “Bylaw No. 1763 - Business License”. The new bylaw includes the following changes: 1. Reduces the maximum penalty amount charged for unpaid business licenses from 100% to 60%. 2. Requires a License of Occupation Agreement for Mobile Restaurants and Mobile Vendors who wish to set up on Town property or public rightof-way. At the meeting on Monday, November 10th, 2014, beginning at 7:30 pm the public will be given an opportunity to present verbal or written submissions to Council regarding the proposed bylaw. The meeting will take place in the Council Chambers of the Town of Smithers Office, 1027 Aldous Street. Written submissions to be considered must be received by no later than 3:30 pm on November 10th, 2014. The proposed bylaw and relevant background information can be viewed at the Town Office, Monday through Friday (except holidays), 8:30 am to 4:30 pm or online at www.smithers.ca. For further information please contact Alison Watson, Planner at (250) 847-1600 or awatson@smithers.ca. Alison Watson, MCIP, RPP Planner
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Smithers residents encouraged to get immunized By Kendra Wong Smithers/Interior News
With the weather quickly dropping and snow climbing down the mountain, the provincial government is urging people to get flu shots early this year. “Getting the influenza shot is the most effective and safest way to protect yourself against the flu each year,” said Taryn Opel, public health nurse with
Northern Health. “Not only are you protecting yourself from the flu, but you’re also protecting those around you who may be at higher risk of contracting the flu.” This week, Northern Health is holding a series of free flu clinics in Smithers for people who are eligible. People who are eligible to receive the shots for free include seniors, Aboriginal people, children between six months and five years of age, and people with
chronic health conditions or compromised immune systems. “We would like to see people get out and get vaccinated,” said Opel, noting that the flu season generally runs from November to April. “What I’ve heard from our medical health officer is that the flu could be on our doorsteps in November easily, so get vaccinated as soon as possible.” People can drop in to the
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The University of British Columbia has moved up in the annual Maclean’s University rankings, jumping to second from third in this year’s results. “It’s a great day for UNBC and it’s a really great day for the entire North in terms of ensuring that we have such a high quality institution for folks in the North to take advantage of,” said Daniel Weeks, president of UNBC. The university ranked second in the primarily undergraduate category, moving up from third where UNBC was tied with the University of Lethbridge in Alberta the previous year. Mount Allison in Sackville, New Brunswick topped the rankings in that category for the eighteenth time in 24 years. UNBC also placed first among the 19 primarily undergraduate universities in library acquisitions, and had top-three results in student awards,
student/faculty ratio and library expenses. Weeks attributed the university’s success to consistency. “The one thing that jumps out at me is really across the board we’re fairly consistent in placing quite well in all the various categories of indicators that Maclean’s uses to create these rankings,” said Weeks. “We’re doing well in just about all the categories which pleases me the most.” He added that in overall reputation, the university isn’t scoring as high, something Weeks hopes to improve on in future rankings. “It tells me that we need to tell the story a little more broadly that the story is going across Canada and internationally as to what an outstanding institution we have right here in Prince George,” he said. UNBC was founded 25 years ago and has more than 4,000 students attending classes at campuses in Prince George, Terrace, Fort St. John and Quesnel. Just under 70 per cent of students are from Northern B.C.
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Smithers Health Unit on Alfred Avenue to receive the shots. The clinic runs on Nov. 6 and 13 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1 p.m.-6 p.m., and on Nov. 7 and 14 from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. and 1 p.m.- 4 p.m. No appointments are necessary. Flu shots can also be obtained at local doctors’ offices and pharmacies. For more information, visit immunizebc.ca or call the Smithers Public Health Unit at 250-847-6400.
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Province to monitor Telkwa caribou herd By Jackie Lieuwen Telkwa/Houston Today
The provincial Telkwa Caribou Management Plan has a $90,000 budget to monitor caribou, predator and human activity in the Telkwa Mountains for 2014 and 2015. Funded by the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation and the province, the plan is still under development and there is no timeline when it will be complete, said Greig Bethel, a spokesperson from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. The Telkwa caribou herd had 270 animals in 1965, but dropped to less than 12 caribou in 1996. After a ministry recovery project the herd was up to over 100 in 2004, but has since dropped again to an estimated 35 in June 2014. Bethel said
ministry staff are still investigating the reasons for the caribou population declines. “Potential factors include increased human presence in alpine environments, predator populations, an increase in lowelevation early-seral (i.e. newer growth) habitat or the cumulative impacts of one or more of these factors,” Bethel said. With the recovery plan still being developed, Bethel says their focus now is on monitoring the number of caribou, humans and wolves, and how they use the Telkwa Mountains. Bethel says caribou are collared with GPS to track movements and make counting easier, and ministry staff will do aerial surveys this fall and winter to count caribou and check on calf survival. They also hope to put GPS collars on wolves this winter to learn more about how much time they spend
The Telkwa Caribou Management Plan has a budget of $90,000 to monitor caribour in the Telkwa Mountains until 2015.
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“The first step is to continue to collect data on levels of adult mortality,” -Greig Bethel Ministry spokesperson Bethel said they are monitoring human
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for recreation on the Telkwa Mountains, Bethel said it is only one option being considered. “Staff are evaluating several management options and are proactively meeting with local recreation user groups to find solutions that will aid the caribou recovery strategy and still allow for recreational opportunities.” They are also evaluating the effectiveness of the current voluntary restrictions, he said. When asked about a predator control plan, Bethel said there are none being considered at this time. “The first step is to continue to collect data on levels of adult mortality and the rate of calf recruitment [survival],” he said, adding that information will inform future management decisions. “The ministry will continue to work to
increase awareness of the herd and the problems they face, as well as to encourage the public to follow voluntary recreational access restrictions for the benefit of caribou,” Bethel said. Part of the management plan being developed is a proposed Wildlife Habitat Area for the Telkwa Caribou, which will regulate logging in a 262,000-hectare area. Of that area, 178,000 hectares are in the Morice Timber Supply Area, and a 40-day public review period for the proposed WHA started last Friday. The District of Houston will send in their input and Bethel said a letter is being sent to stakeholders, First Nations and local governments inviting comment. For updates regarding the Telkwa caribou plan and recovery efforts, see the Facebook page called “Telkwa Caribou Recovery.”
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Chuckanut Drive is a winding, scenic, during my time in the Prius v, which is mostly coastal and historic driving route right in the ballpark. in Washington State. In addition to a standard driving mode, Overlooking Samish Bay and offering the Prius v offers three additional drivspectacular views of the San Juan Islands, ing modes that are selected by pressing this narrow cliff face road was, up until a switch on the centre console. EV is a 1931, a treacherous section of the old pure-electric mode, but its range is limPacific Highway. It was the first road link ited (about 1.5 km) and it only operates The Chuckanut is at speeds up to 40 km/hour. between Vancouver and US cities as far south as San Diego, California. a stretch of road that In ECO mode, fuel consumption is My recent ride along the Chuckanut was by limiting throttle openings demands a cautious, reduced in a Toyota Prius v (for versatility). It’s a and restricting air conditioning use. In relatively new addition to the Prius family, easy on the gas pedal, Power mode the Hybrid Drive System which now includes a smaller Prius C and driving style – just as gives everything it can muster and this a plug-in hybrid version called Prius PHV, a Hybrid does. mode automatically switches on when in addition to the original Prius (a 5-door you stomp on the gas pedal. Bob McHugh hatchback). The Chuckanut is a stretch of road that Before I get to the ride, some background demands a cautious, easy-on-the-gas facts on the car, which will demonstrate pedal driving style – just as a Hybrid why it was a good choice for the drive. does! Scenic splendour is a constant distraction on The wagon-like body of Prius v is a little longer and your right (heading south), but there’s a steep 200 taller than a regular Prius. There’s more room for rear feet drop in some stretches, an unforgiving rock face passengers and there’s an impressive 58 per cent on the left and lots of sharp bends. There are numerincrease in rear cargo space. Its 60/40 split rear seats ous pull-off locations at viewing spots. Larrabee State not only fold flat, they can also slide forward on a rail Park is certainly worth a visit and agood place for a system and the seatbacks can recline. hike or a beach-side picnic. Under the hood, Toyota’s latest Hybrid Synergy Drive South of Colony Creek Bridge the Chuckanut runs system provides propulsion. The gas engine is now through the flat fertile planes of the Skagit Valley. It’s a belt-less 1.8-litre Atkinson-cycle four-cylinder. On a dramatic change in landscape, the sky is suddenly the electric side of the hybrid equation, the inverter, bigger and the road ahead is long and straight as far motor and transaxle are smaller and lighter than the you can see. For an interesting side trip take the Bow previous generation. A nickel-metal hydride battery Hill Road into the charming little village of Bow-Edipack stores the electrical energy. Competitive hybrid son and, further on, this road also takes you to Samish drive systems now use lithium-ion battery technology, Island. but this battery has proven to be very reliable. A recommended stop in Edison is the Breadfarm, A downside to being a bigger Prius, the V is also a where you can buy a hearty Chuckanut Multigrain little heavier, which impacts fuel consumption, but not Loaf. This family run business makes baked goods by much. Using the revised (2015) fuel consumption from scratch and in small batches using old fashioned rating method it gets 5.3 L/100km in the city and 5.8 techniques and organic ingredients. The fresh baked L/100km on the highway. I averaged 5.5 L/100km smells are intoxicating and the taste ... divine!
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An interesting historical footnote, at one time (in the late 19th century, Edison was a community of Utopian Socialists known as the Equality Colony). Not sure if I’ll ever get completely comfortable with the central instrument panel in a Prius. A switch button on the dash that changed kilometres to miles, however, was brilliantly simple and perfect for this trip. My biggest beef with the Prius v was cabin road noise at high speeds. Depending on the highway surface it can be so loud that it’s hard to converse with a front passenger. Bigger and better, the Prius v offers the functionality and versatility of a wagon, for a relatively small price premium. Toyota’s tried and trusted Hybrid Synergy Drive system offers outstanding fuel economy and surprisingly good power, when needed. The Specs – 2014 Toyota Prius v Price: $27,480 to $37,175 Power: 1.8L I4 & 60 kw motor, 134 horsepower (combined). Transmission: CVT automatic Fuel consumption: 4.3/4.8 L/100 km (city/highway)
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Two exhibits close out art gallery year By Chris Gareau Smithers/Interior News
The last exhibition of the year is now up at the Smithers Art Gallery, featuring Leif Ostlund’s New Works (oil paintings) in the main gallery and Liz-Anna Waugh’s Of Bees & Trees (encaustic paintings) in the minigallery. The opening reception was held Saturday night. Leif Ostlund’s brushwork and luminous palette give his paintings a signature striking appearance, almost making you take a step back when you first come face-to-face with them. Born in Prince George, Ostlund has been painting for more than three decades. His mother and his uncle Dave Nehring, who needs
no introduction to art lovers in the Bulkley Valley — both accomplished artists — provided him with a rich, informal training before he went on to attend the Ontario College of Art in Toronto where he graduated with honours and two scholarships. Ostlund has an international following and his works hang in many private collections in North America and Europe. Liz-Anna Waugh is exhibiting a melange of colourful works which represent an evolution of encaustic styles and techniques. Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, is an ancient technique using heated beeswax and tree resin to Artists Liz-Anna Waugh and Leif Ostlund at the opening of their joint exhibition at the which coloured pigments are added. Smithers Art Gallery on Saturday night. Waugh paints with hot wax using the “encaustic” The exhibitions will be displayed at technique and Ostlund is an oil painter. the art gallery until Nov. 26. Alicia Bridges photo
Highgate offers fresh look at death By Chris Gareau Smithers/Interior News
Highgate is a theatre and dance performance about Victorian funerary culture. Contributed photo
It is a fate that befalls us all, as much a part of life as birth: death. Highgate invites patrons to take a fresh look at death with the Tara Cheyenne Performance’s sense of humour, in-depth exploration of grief, physical oddity and poignant imagery. Five dancer/actors will give their spin on Victorian funerary culture. “This is not to be missed. You will be captivated and enter a new world that is somehow dark, funny and beautiful all at once,” said BVCA president Miriam Colvin. The performance is the second show of the Bulkley Valley Concert Association’s (BVCA) season. Colvin said Tara Cheyenne Friedenburg, whose Goggles performance was here in 2012, would also be giving an acting workshop Sunday as part of a series of events and displays surrounding the show. One-liners that give some levity on death are
being postered up around town this weekend. Keep an eye open for local musicians who are also performing on Main Street and at the post office this week as part of the lead up to the show. Performance: Saturday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m. Della Herman Theatre Tickets at Mountain Eagle Books: $25/Adult, $20/ Senior, $16/Student Workshop with Tara Cheyenne Friedenburg: Sunday, Nov. 9, 1-2:45 p.m. Creative Roots Studio (2nd Ave. and Main St.) Character creation and exploration from movement and text-with an eye to the fabulous strangeness lurking in all of us. Open to actors, dancers, musicians, writers, closeted performers of all kinds. Wear comfortable clothes you can move in. Silliness welcome! Ages 15 years and up, all abilities. Suggested donation $1-5. For more info and preregistration: bvconcertassociation@gmail. com.
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WWI memories remain for Smithers woman By Kendra wong Smithers/Interior News
Sitting across from Patricia Scott and her passion for learning about her family history becomes clear. The Smithers woman speaks very fondly of a monthlong trip to England and Ireland that she ventured on by herself to learn more about her ancestry in 2012. Scott knows little about her father and even less about her great grandparents who lived in Ireland. But what Scott does know is the tragedy surrounding the greatest loss in her family has had a ripple effect on younger generations. In the early
1900s, Scott’s great grandparents James and Mary McIlwrath gave birth to 30 children, only 26 of who survived in Ireland. “Mary was a very strong woman. Besides raising her own children, she raised three of her sister’s children and she ran a little bakery. I’m sure there were twins involved, but I don’t know for sure,” said Scott, who moved from the Lower Mainland to Smithers in the 1960s. “They were the dynasty.” However, when the First World War began in 1914, 14 of Mary’s sons enlisted in the British army’s Ulster Rifles’ Regiment and
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travelled to France to my mother Anne, fight on the Western she always talked Front. about it,” said Scott. Sadly, only seven “She remembers her returned home. grandmother saying “The story is from that she knew before
she was told that one of her boys was killed and it was true, he was killed.” Over the past two or three years, Scott
has been working with the Bulkley Valley Genealogy Society to find out more about the seven men who lost their lives in World War One. “I have found 22 of the 26 children that my great grandmother and great grandfather had,” she said. “Out of those 26, she sent 14 of them to war . . . it takes a while to do this and I’m getting older.” Though she doesn’t know much about Mary and James and the sons who went to war, Scott continues to share the story of her family’s loss with her six children, six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. “My mom passed it on and my kids know
a little bit about it and I just hope they will continue on with this genealogy,” said Scott. “Remembrance Day makes you think about what happened before.” On Nov. 11, she will head to the cenotaph to honour the people who lost their lives, including her long-lost family members. “The sense of loss in my family has remained to this day and is still quietly carried in my heart. My great grandmother never recovered from her great and devastating loss,” she said. “Five generations feeling a sense of loss from a war that was supposed to end all wars.”
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Lest We Forget The Poppy
Sam Sanderson (2007) Arriving at the local church and thinking I was late I realized I had two hours, so I sat down to wait. A hot and sunny afternoon, I simmered in the heat, then a teenage girl appeared and sat down on the seat. I saw she clutched a poppy and asked who was it for, she said it’s for a man she knew, who’d always lived next door. It seemed he’d outlived all his friends and no children had he borne and she asked me if I’d join her, when she went inside to morn. Of course I would be glad to, was my instant reply, and when the hearse at last arrived, we took ourselves inside. Quietly the vicar stood, his head bowed down in prayer and it was then I realized, there was just us two there. The vicar then began, to recount Billy’s story. It seemed he joined the Navy young, In search of fame and glory. So very soon he found himself, away across the sea as a gunner on a Frigate, and none as fine as he. Because he served his country well, in different zones of war he soon got many medals and all with pride he wore. Dunquirke saw his finest hour, he gave it all he’d got, you couldn’t touch his gun all day, the barrels were so hot. Then in the North Atlantic one dark and stormy night, his ship took two torpedoes, from a U-boat out of sight Adrift in the ships lifeboat, the RN came to save our Billy and his shipmates, snatched from a watery grave. Safe aboard the corvette, and suffering from shock he slipped in and out of consciousness, they thought he’d had his lot Then when at last he did come round and sat up in the bed the doc he had to tell him, that he’d lost both his legs.
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Billy wasn’t bitter, and never lost his nerve soon he learnt to walk again, and then returned to serve. Off he went to sea once more, and joining in the fight was wounded off the Brittany coast, but this time lost his sight. Returning home to blighty, he made himself a home but after all he’d been through, he had no wish to roam. A cottage on the foreshore now, was where he longed to be, to live his life amongst his friends, near his first love, the sea. So now as Billy’s laid to rest, his coffin is adorned with one red poppy laid on top, a hero sadly mourned. And though a tear came to my eye, I could so plainly see, what Billy gave, for the land he loved and what Billy gave ... for me.
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Chicago Creek Environmental Enhancement Society president Ian Johnston with one of more than 1500 coho salmon captured at a volunteer-run fish fence at Mission Creek near South Hazelton this year. The fence allows volunteers to transport the captured fish around a man-made impasse to their spawning grounds at Waterfall Creek, near New Hazelton.
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Bumper year for Hazelton coho recovery By Alicia Bridges Hazelton/Interior News
Two decades since volunteers in the Hazeltons set about restoring a coho salmon population of only a few breeding pairs, 1,500 fish have arrived at a local spawning ground with a little help from a handful of dedicated people. About 20 years ago, a culvert built under Highway 16 put a wall between the coho salmon in Mission Creek, near South Hazelton, and their natural spawning habitat at Waterfall Creek. To help the fish complete their
migration, a group of volunteers set up a fish hatchery at Chicago Creek and a simple fish fence at Mission Creek. From the fish fence, the salmon were captured and transported to Waterfall Creek. Project manager Mark Larsen, who has been with the project for about 13 years, remembers the volunteers had a basic system for moving the fish. “It was pretty simple at first and they were carrying fish out in buckets and through the bush,” Larsen said. “It’s come quite a long way to the point that last year that we had a complete rebuild with some support
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from CN and from the Department of Fisheries.” The upgraded fish fence is a permanent structure with a removable pen which captures the fish during the spawning season between August and November. Using a custom-built trailer with a tank and oxygen, a generator and a water pump, the volunteers truck about 15 to 18 fish at a time from the capture pen to their spawning beds at Waterfall Creek. The original hatchery at Chicago Creek is no longer used because the property changed hands, so for the past five years the fish that pass through
the fence are from a self-sustaining population. Last year 560 fish passed through the fence, a record at that time, and Larsen said projections this year suggested numbers would drop to about 150 coho in 2014. Instead, the salmon arrived in huge numbers. Since the season started in August, about 1,500 fish have been collected from the capture pens in a bumper year for the species. Larsen said the influx took the volunteers by surprise. See SALMON REACH on C7
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Candidate profiles: 2014 local government election On Nov. 15, Hazelton area residents will take to the polls to vote in the 2014 local government elections. Only three seats will be determined by the vote, with all other candidates running unopposed. Advanced voting begins on Nov. 5.
District of New Hazelton Mayor Candidates
Rob Henwood A familiar face at the Skeena Bakery in New Hazelton, Rob Henwood has lived in the area for more than 30 years. The former mailman and schoolbus driver was originally based in the Kispiox Valley before he moved to New Hazelton about 11 years ago. In addition to volunteering at the bakery, a not-for-profit-run business which provides training opportunities for people with disabilities, he is a small-business owner who runs a mechanical workshop. This is Henwood’s second attempt at running for mayor. If elected, he would like to see more of a focus on making changes to encourage highway motorists to stop and spend time in the community. He wants the District to become more involved in encouraging small-business growth by providing grants for business-owners who commit to the town in the long-term. “My main concern with New Hazelton is the stand-still thing is not going to work. Everything will bypass us and we will be just another statistic. We’ve held ourselves pretty well I think since the logging has gone. We have to open our doors, we have to slow down our traffic so people can see what we have.”
Coast Mountains School District 82 (Hazeltons) Trustee Candidates Shar McCrory — Originally from the Kootenays, McCrory moved to the Hazeltons 22 years ago and she has three children aged 10, 12 and 17. She is a member of the Early Childhood Education Network, the executive for Hazelton Minor Hockey and she is on the Wrinch Memorial Hospital advisory board. She has been on elementary and high school Parent Advisory Councils (PACs) and, until this year, she was the chair of the District PAC. She is also involved with committees on the B.C. Confederation of PACs. McCrory works as an administrator for the Upper Skeena Development Centre. Through her long-term involvement as a parent in the school system, she said she has developed an understanding of the Upper Skeena region. She expressed concern over a proposal to transfer Grade 7 classes from Hazelton area schools to the Hazelton Secondary School. “Most important to me is the students and that they have a successful educational experience. The other things that are concerns for me are graduation numbers. We have very low statistics on graduation in the Upper Skeena area and we really need to work on that and I think we need to support that from early childhood all the way up. The other issue I see is that we need more support for special needs.” Larry Joseph — Raised in Hagwilget, Joseph was the first person from his village to graduate from high school. He left the region to study at school and university before returning in 1992 to commence a career in forest management, with a focus on social development aspects. A Wet’suwet’en man, he is a director on the board of the global charity Forest Stewardship Council. Joseph’s daughter is a school teacher, as was his wife until her retirement recently, and he has grandchildren attending public school in the Hazelton area. He credits public education as the key to his own success and wants to see the needs of other First Nation students represented in the school district. If elected, he would aim to ensure education met students’ cultural needs, and to focus on engaging parents in the education of their children. “Given that 88 to 89 per cent of the students in Hazelton area schools are First Nation students, there is a great need for a trustee who understands their challenges at the deepest and most intimate level. I am well prepared to work for students ... in building and maintaining a school system that reflects priorities, values and expectations of the Hazeltons.”
Gail Lowry A resident of the Hazeltons for more than 30 years, incumbent Mayor Lowry originally moved to the area to take up a job with the RBC Royal Bank, where she worked for more than 40 years before she retired. Lowry is currently a board member at the Roche View Lodge senior’s complex and the Hagwilget Trust. She is also the New Hazelton representative for the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine. Before she was elected as mayor in 2011, Lowry was a councillor for the District of New Hazelton for 20 years. At the end of her first term, she says she has enjoyed the role to date and wants to be reelected to continue her work on projects she is passionate about, such as plans for a new ice arena. She said she would also like to see more growth in the business sector locally. “I still care about the town, I still would like to see some progress. I don’t know how much more we will get without the industry here but I really do care about the town and want to do the best I can to continue on and be fiscally responsible. We are debtfree and very careful fiscally with our money.”
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Election candidates (cont.) Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine Candidates (Electoral Area B) Dean Paranich — Born and raised in the Hazeltons, Dean Paranich is a smallbusiness owner, a husband and a father of two daughters and a son. In addition to running the Town Pantry at Chevron in New Hazelton, he educates school children about how to avoid drugs and alcohol as an instructor for the RCMP’s D.A.R.E program. He is also an auxiliary member of the RCMP and he has been involved with highway rescue, fire department and Jaws of Life services. Paranich lives in Two Mile and loves the Hazeltons area for its outdoor lifestyle. This is his third attempt at being elected to the Regional District board and, if successful, he hopes to see more collaboration and cooperation between different community groups and organizations in the Hazelton area. He is also passionate about addressing drug and alcohol abuse problems. “Alcohol and drug abuse needs to be the top priority in this area. It takes a terrible toll on people here and I think, directly or indirectly, it is also responsible for many of the various crimes. We do have a lot of crime in our area and a lot of it stems from alcohol and drug abuse.”
Students at the former John Field Elementary School, including Michael McLean, Kaien Tait, Lucas Lawrence, Renée Paquette and Peyton Marshall, will celebrate the school’s new name of Majagaleehl Gali Aks Elementary at an unveiling ceremony on Nov. 19.
Linda Pierre — The existing Regional District board member representing the Hazeltons, Pierre moved to the region in 2007 on a recommendation that it was “the most beautiful place in the world.” In addition to working as a developmental education instructor for By Alicia Bridges the North West Community College, she Hazelton/Interior News is on the boards for the library, the planned ice arena and the Skeena TV Association, local people with free Bulkleywhich Valley provides Credit Union July 2007 access to TV and EPS radio channels. The former John Field Elementary School, which is Logos to be supplied to Newspapers With eight of the 11 communities she represents at the situated on reserve land and has a student contingent Regional District Pantone being First Nations, she said social justice colours: Pantone 287 Blue which is 75 to 80 per cent Gitxsan First Nation, has for Aboriginal people was a priority. She hopes to continue to been renamed in the Gitxsan language in a move to Pantone 356 Green play a role in ensuring communities are ablePantone to benefit 139from Harvestenhance its cultural relevance. their lands and resources. Majagaleehl Gali Aks, which means “flowers of the “There’s a lot happening in terms of development, or rivers,” was chosen as the school’s new name through proposed development anyway. We together can influence a consultation process involving teachers, students, some of the events in terms of environmental protection parents and Gitxsan chiefs. or sharing some of the benefits of development so that Originally named after the Anglican Minister we’re not caught in a boom and bust cycle. We have to have John Field, who lived in the area in the late 1890s, the people properly compensated for their school was built in the Black/Grey Logo file land and resources, Colour Logo File 1960s. particularly the First Nations, which so far have been The suggestion to change the name came from the marginalized in some ways. Hazelton Gitwanga Learner Success committee, a sub-
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New Hazelton police responded to 70 calls between Oct. 23-29 Oct. 23 — Police were called to the movie theatre in Hazelton for two patrons that were disturbing other customers. Two males were found to be intoxicated, acting irrationally and were arrested. They were subdued following a brief struggle and were detained in the New Hazelton RCMP cell block until sober. Oct. 24 — Police were called to the community of Kitwanga to investigate a report of a reckless driver. Three children reported almost being hit and witnessed a dog getting run over on Kitwanga Rd West at 9:30p.m. The vehicle was described as a purple or dark red pickup with a bush bumper and orange lights on the roof. Oct. 26 — A report was received of two males breaking a window at the New Town Pub in New Hazelton. The males were last seen walking east on 10th Ave. Oct. 27 — Two males were observed lurking around a residence on Wolf St. in Kitwanga. The complainant was concerned due to recent thefts in the area. Oct. 27 — At 9:30a.m was reported that a blue Samsung Galaxy S3 phone was stolen from the Glen Vowell Band Office.
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“We generally have two peaks, one in September and one in about the middle of October and once we hit October they just started coming like we have never seen before,” he said. “There were three days where we had over 200 fish. “It was just ridiculous, wall to wall fish, we had never seen it like that.” Larsen said it was not clear what caused
such a significant increase in fish numbers but he said it was possible the fish had avoided the Alaskan fisheries by starting their migration later than usual. “We’re not quite sure why the survival rate is so outstanding this year,” he said. “This is just incredible. “We’ve never had the problem where we have too many fish.” The number of fish saturated the spawning habitat at Waterfall Creek so some of the captured salmon had to be put back into
Mission Creek. Larsen said the Society had started discussing ways to increase the amount of spawning habitat in the area. “We have done some work this last year making spawning beds downstream of the culvert but you’re not allowed to put the fish into different watersheds so there is only so much we can do.” He said one option could be to get a licence to harvest and sell the fish but that it was still under consideration.
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$549,000
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7123 square foot, one level building 5 acres, level and landscaped Covered play area 4 classrooms, 3 bathrooms, gym
Donna & Leo
$549,000
mls n4506585
5 acres, private, treed, rancher 2/3 bdrm, 2 bathroom, new kitchen 36x36 shop, RV storage, vaults www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
$449,000
mls n238472
$245,000
1012 Victoria Street
3524 Fifteenth Avenue
4124 Dohler Road
21471 Telkwa High Road
3466 Nadina Place
5423 Lake Kathlyn Road
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Starter or investment home 2 storeys, upstairs guest suite Fenced yard, storage shed, garage www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
mls n239385
4 bedroom, 3 bath, 2 storey + bsmt Shop, paved drive, fenced yard Family room & rec, f/p, ensuite www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
mls n240406
4 bedroom home, 2.17 acres, shop Bulkley River frontage Upgrades to kitchen and exterior www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
$89,500
$246,500
mls n240236
94 acres, treed, private 3 bedroom, full basement, vaulted Shop, outbuildings, gardens www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
mls n240237
$629,500
0.38 acre lot on greenbelt 4 bdrm, 3 bathroom, executive home 18x26 shop, paved, RV parking www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
mls n240390
Steps to the beach, mountain view Updated 3 bdrm mobile, big shop 2.5 acres,duck pond,landscaped yard www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
$276,500
$419,900
mls n239884
$129,500
D OLD L S SO
#6 – 3664 Third Avenue
Lot A Morris Road, Telkwa
559 Viewmount Road N
13 Pavilion Place
4055 Alfred Avenue
1672 Third Street, Telkwa
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Ground level, 2 bdrm, 2 bath condo 1164 sf, spacious, open design Includes modern appliances www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
mls n240488
5.4 acre view lot near Telkwa Established driveway, no GST Great building sites, mature trees www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
$168,000
mls n238736
Sunny 6 acres, Bulkley Riverfront 6 bdrm, 5 bathroom updated home King size master, gorgeous ensuite www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
$375,000
mls n239597
2.5% 5 year mortgage OAC Landscaping, 5 appliances included Awesome lake & mountain views www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
mls n233231
from $123,500
Attractive 4 bdrm, 2 bath, split level River rock & cedar accents Updated inside, big sundeck, hot tub www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
$299,000
mls n240470
Seller desires quick sale/possession Fixer upper, concrete foundation 100x120 lot, heated detached shop www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
$234,500
mls n238424
$284,000
4157 Second Avenue
1637 Queen Street
AlpineWay,HudsonBayMountain
3919 Broadway Avenue
3849 Eighth Avenue
1257 Columbia Street
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Cute starter home 2 bedrooms, fenced yard High eff furnace, detached garage Great value
Sandra Hinchliffe
mls n240086
Large modern rancher w/ basement Huge 132x122 lot Great hill section location Updates too numerous to mention
Sandra Hinchliffe
$279,000
mls n239848
6 lots available Fully serviced Full time residence & suite allowed Ski in, ski out
Sandra Hinchliffe
$269,000
Updated heritage home Energy efficient Private landscaped yard Detached garage
Sandra Hinchliffe
$389,000
mls n238773
Tidy compact 1,075 sf home 3 bdrm, 1 bath w/ open living area Roomy attached 35x16 garage/shop Roof/siding 2009, appliances incl.
Charlie McClary
$62,000
mls n234502
Suite deal on 2574 sf home Main 3 bdrm, ensuite, 460sf of bsmt Bsmnt suite 1 bdrm rents for $575 Fenced yard, roof done in 2010
Charlie McClary
$229,000
mls n236847
$152,000
3436 Victoria Drive
4236 Reiseter Avenue
1329 Driftwood Crescent
10 Fulton Street, Granisle
17771 Highway 16, Smithers
2690 Bulkley Drive
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Industrial M-2 bare land site Great location on this 2.41 acres Water at site line, septic required Access off Victoria/Fulton Drive
Charlie McClary
mls n4506733
Peter Lund Res. 847-3435
3 bedroom ranch style home Great location, carport Wheelchair accessible Storage shed, paved drive
Karen Benson
Donna Grudgfield Cell. 847-1228
mls n239724
Leo Lubbers Cell. 847-1292
4 bdrm, 3 bath, immaculate home Dble garage, sundeck, fenced yard Teak hardwood, many updates New high eff furnace & HW tank
Karen Benson
Ron Lapadat Cell. 847-0335
mls n237672
Solid 3 bedroom home in Granisle Carport, large lot, sundeck Close to marina & Babine Lake Fresh paint on main, appliances incl
Jantina Meints
Sandra Hinchliffe Cell. 847-0725
mls n239329
Charlie McClary Cell. 877-1770
900 sf well built & clean home 2.23 acres, 8 minutes from town 2 bedrooms, full basement Quick possession
Jantina Meints
Karen Benson Cell. 847-0548
mls n233643
Jantina Meints Cell. 847-3144
Affordable country living, 4.6 acres 1995 2 bdrm mobile, mud room Minutes to Smithers, trail to river Partially fenced, vaulted ceilings
Jantina Meints
mls n234999
Kiesha Matthews Cell. 876-8420
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T HREE R IVERS R EPORT New name for local school
From SCHOOL on C3 “With that we started eliminating and we came up with a list of 10 and then we invited chiefs in and presented them with the list that we had come up with,” he said. “We had a lot of feedback from the chiefs and a lot of discussion around the fact that the name should be easy to pronounce and it shouldn’t be something that would be intimidating for people to say.” The suggestions were narrowed down to three and presented to school staff, who identified Majagaleehl Gali Aks as their new name of choice. “It means flowers of the rivers, the rivers of course being the Kispiox, the Skeena and the Bulkley, and flowers being symbolic of our students,” said Newbery. “In (the Gitxsan language) the name for children is flowers.” The proposed new title was presented to parents at a public meeting, where Newbery said the overall response was positive. “For the most part it’s been well-received, particularly among the young people in our community and really that is who it is for,” he said. “The name change really was for the kids in an attempt to have the school reflect the local culture and try to make it more relevant for the kids coming to our school.” The new title will be unveiled formally with a ceremony at the school and a celebration at Gitanmaax Hall on Wednesday, Nov. 19.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2014
Pay your respects at the Remembrance Day service Residents of the Hazeltons can pay their Remembrance Day respects at a service in Old Hazelton on Nov. 11. The ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m. at the Village of Hazelton Office at 4310 Field St.,
where the march to Bastion Park begins at 10:45 a.m. The service will be held at the cenotaph in Bastion Park at 11:00 a.m. The public is invited to the St. Peter’s Anglican Church
Hall for light refreshments after the service. There will also be a Remembrance Day tribute display at the Hazelton District Public Library.
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