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Strike goes on but sides are bargaining Publicly it was a quiet week regarding the strike, but the District of Kitimat and Unifor 2300 are indeed back at the bargaining table. Members of the bargaining team for both the District and the union were unavailable for comment at our deadlines Monday but Mayor Phil Germuth did confirm that work was being done and that the sides had met last week and would be this week too. He said he hopes the work going on now will pave the way to developing trust between the two sides in the future. With the two sides talking again it will hopefully quickly lead to a new collective agreement, replacing the one which expired at the end of 2014. This year’s strike has beat out the length of the last District strike in 1997, which lasted 16 days. By Monday this week the strike had reached 17 days since it began on February 28. The only true glimpse to what has been offered in a new contract came from a February 28 news release from the District which laid out a 2.5 per cent wage increase from 2015 to 2017 as well as the additions of 10 full time employees over two years in the Leisure Services department. Other details from that release included adding two heavy equipment operators and offering enhanced training programs. Being over two weeks old the details in that offer could very possibly be out of date at this time. If there are updates to this story through the week they will be posted to www.northernsentinel.com.
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Dishing it out The Multicultural Society’s annual potluck dinner was a popular outing. These ladies dishing out food at the final station of the food line were certainly in festive spirits with their garbs. Some more photos from the event on page 7.
Resident alarmed at LNG letters Cameron Orr Residents within a 3.3 km circle from the proposed LNG Canada site received letters in their mail which had some concerned. Residents in much of the Kildala area, received registered letters which included a map showing the outline of an affected zone that comes just shy of the Riverlodge and as far north as Yukon and Skeena Streets. The zone is for homes that could see any physical impact from the facility, including light pollution and air quality. Kildala homeowner Edward Prochot said the letter, to him, means that homeowners such as him may be among the few people who won’t see the community benefits of a project like that. “We’re going to be the only ones in this one little area that are actually going to lose from it,” said Prochot about how the LNG Canada project will impact his neighbourhood in light of the letters, which indicate an area that could be physically affected by the facility. He said he’s brought up the question about if residents will receive any compensation for being in the affected zone but he says the answer from the company has been no. Prochot was interested in attending an information session for affected homeowners but missed it when he didn’t realize the date was so soon after receiving the letter, and for the fact he would have a hard time getting transportation to the office at the former Methanex site. The letters, according to LNG Canada, are a requirement of the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OCG). In addition to things such as an environmental review for
People viewing the LNG Canada site model at the March 10 open house. the project, LNG Canada would need a facility permit from the OCG. Such a process requires its own set of community consultations. The OCG sets parameters for reaching out to affected neighbours and in the case of an LNG facility they’ve set 3.3 km, LNG Canada explained in an e-mail. The company set a sit-down meeting with interested homeowners in that zone which took place on March 10, and was followed by a community open house at their information centre on Ocelot Road. The issues discussed ranged from noise, traffic, dust, odour, safety and even what the site would look like at night. LNG Canada says 160 people attended their March 10 open house The OCG permit, the company says, focuses on safety aspects of the project.
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Police Beat
Vehicle accidents run rampant for the week March 2 At 5:30 p.m. the RCMP were alerted to a report of two men drinking alcohol inside a vehicle, and were told that the vehicle was seen leaving the Kitimat Modernization Camp and heading towards town. Patrols by the police did not turn up the vehicle. March 3 At 4:28 p.m. the police attended a hit
and run report of an unoccupied vehicle. A 2011 Dodge Ram suffered rear passengerside damage while parked at either Mountaview Square or at Kitimat Lodge, police say. March 4 At 8:23 p.m. police tracked down a vehicle reported to be driving erratically in the upper City Centre parking lot. The pick-
up truck had passengers in the box area as well. Police found the vehicle, occupied by a 17-year-old driver. The driver was given a warning and spoken to about driving with passengers in the box area. March 5 A woman’s mountain bike was turned in to the Kitimat RCMP by a person who found it somewhere between Saguenay and Stikine
Streets. The bike will be held in their exhibits until the owner can be found. March 6 At 1:10 p.m. a vehicle was rear-ended while it was making a left-hand turn in to a parking lot on Wakashan Avenue. Both vehicles suffered minor damage and one driver reported minor injuries. One of the drivers was issued a
violation ticket for following too closely. March 7 At 4:38 p.m. the RCMP responded to a two vehicle collision on Baxter Avenue. Both vehicles suffered moderate damage and police say they are still investigating the incident. March 8 At 12:30 a.m. during a licenced premises check at the Chilly
Two charged regarding 2014 arson Cameron Orr Charges have now been laid against two men in connection with an alleged arson which took place in April 2014. At 6 a.m. on April 12 that year, a Bayer Street home in Kitimat was allegedly set on fire. A sleeping family inside managed to escape due to a passerby who saw the fire and alerted the family, police say. The RCMP have been investigating the file ever since and in March 2015 charges of arson, with respect to disregard of life and prop-
erty, were approved by the Crown. Charged is Nicholas Ferguson, 24, and Thomas Finnie, 22. Ferguson faces additional charges of possession of an incendiary material, gasoline, for the purpose of committing arson. Both males are in custody at the moment, police say. Kitimat RCMP say that they still welcome any information about this crime and people can either call the detachment at 250-632-7111 and ask for investigating officer Cpl. Stu Egers, or remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-2228477.
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REGIONAL BRIEFS Spit take The last two weeks of Terrace’s noon-hour hockey league season are all washed up thanks to a few players who couldn’t stop spitting while at the players’ bench. The rest of the drop-in games, a self-regulated program the city offers have been cancelled because of an excessive – and it sounds like, intentional – spitting situation involving one or two individuals who ignored warnings from city workers. A sign taped to the Hidber Arena door reads, “Noon Hour Hockey Cancelled for the rest of the season due to repeated spitting in the players boxes.”
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Cameron Orr Rio Tinto Alcan continues the lead up to filing with the Environmental Assessment Office (EAO) for their planned expansion of Terminal A. RTA last year entered an agreement with LNG Canada for their use of Terminal B, the former Eurocan wharf. In anticipation of LNG Canada taking over that piece of land, RTA will have to expand their own wharf to meet capacity. The company held an open house last December together with the EAO and this latest event is held in anticipation of the filing in the coming weeks. “In a few weeks we’ll put in our application and it will be the formal [environmental assessment] process from there,” said Kevin Dobbin, manager of
communities, external relations and media. Perhaps among the most important factors of this project to the community is how it impacts water access, namely to Hospital Beach. Dobbin, said there’s no long term plan for the beach closure although construction may eventually result in a temporary closure. But at completion the plan is the community will still be able to use the facility. “We don’t plan on closing the beach at all, long term. But during construction it might be,” he said. He said the company has worked closely with the Haisla and the community in putting together their expansion plan, which includes a barge ramp and dredging in the water.
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General Manager of BC Operations for RTA Gaby Poirier standing by a poster at their open house which gives a virtual look of the view from Hospital Beach after Terminal A expansion. Dobbin said they’ll have to dredge three or four metres to accommodate their ships. General Manager of BC Operations for RTA Gaby Poirier says right now they use their Terminal B for shipping out their metal but once Terminal A is extended their one terminal will serve the import of the raw ma-
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PUBLIC HEARING MARCH 23, 2015
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Forest Hills Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1864, 2015
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A public hearing will be held on Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:30pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square to consider ‘Forest Hills Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1864, 2015.’
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Wakita Construction Ltd. has submitted an application for Council to relocate the local park component of Phase 6 of the subdivision, in conjuncture with a revised site layout. Total number of units in this phase remains unchanged. Proposed location of park will tie in to current informal trail connecting Wakita Ave. with Hirsch Creek Trail. As a part of this rezoning, Wakita Construction is proposing sponsoring upgrades to the trail connection. Council is considering ‘Forest Hills Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1864, 2015’, and is seeking your input.
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being delayed. “Greater consideration must be given to crew safety during events as significant as this record setting snowfall,” he wrote. Also, coordination with snow clearing efforts is important. “[BC Hydro] needs access to locations with damaged infrastructure for restoration work but the snow impedes vehicle travel...Snow removal crews need downed poles and lines removed to allow safe snow removal.” As for the utility’s day to day equipment, he says they are always doing upgrades to keep equipment up to standards.
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It’s not my usual method of operation to write about subjects in this space before an actual article is done, but I guess I felt inspired. In this case its regarding a report just released from the school district on Aboriginal education. It’s an annual report which gives a snapshot of the composition of the school district and also a look at how well the district is doing in reaching their goals for Aboriginal students. It looks like a useful report, even as I’m only partly in to it. Even so there were some oddities I found not just in the report but through the whole subject. Starting in the report itself, I quickly found that there was some missing information. Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School and Skeena Middle both did not have enrollment or Aboriginal enrollment information. For a report from the school district it was odd. A footnote explained the information wasn’t available for those schools on the Ministry of Education’s website. I’ve since learned it was a reporting issue because both schools underwent recent name changes. Why the school district’s own report had to use statistics from the Ministry itself remains a mystery to me and perhaps is a sign of odd rules from higher up. The other issue was even just receiving the report. The school board itself met on March 11 and received the report making it public, or so it should be. There was still a delay in it being released the day after. It was due to formatting changes, including adding photos. It sounds like a small thing but once a report is made public through the board it makes sense it should be done and released immediately and not held up on minor things. It’s one of those things reporters notice. Cameron Orr
Strange rules Normally the cartoon on the right is fairly selfexplanatory but because I find it a personally amusing tale I’ll just bring anyone who doesn’t get it up to speed. So this town in Taber, Alberta passed an unusual set of bylaws the other week. There were some provisions for curfews for any minors, but the rules became even stranger from there. No gatherings of more than three people that the local police feel may cause a nuisance to the neighbourhood, no spitting, no swearing, and even no yelling. Breaking the rules come with individual fines. Truly, in a realistic sense it’s actually scary, not funny that a town would even begin to think that limiting the ability for people to even just gather would be acceptable. I just feel confident that it will hold up to absolutely no challenge and will go down in history as a humourous misstep rather than the start of a trend.
Conflict within the Forces A miscellany for today: Corporal Stuart Langridge, a veteran of campaigns in Bosnia and Afghanistan hung himself, in a suicide in 2008. A Military Police Complaints Commission report on three investigations into the suicide details an extended list of errors and failures by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service, including a decision to withhold a suicide note Langridge had addressed to his family, for 14 months. This announced on March 10, 2015. The MPCC report says military police investigators were “so incompetent in their investigations that they should not be trusted with sudden death investigations.” The Army, naturally, disagrees and a seven year old dispute between the soldier’s parents and the Army has now costs thousands of dollars. It’s not over and the matter will now go to federal court to challenge Army police actions. What will that take, another two years on one of dozens of Army PTSS suicides? Truly it boggles the mind. This, by the way represents oversight of Department of Defence policy
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over the sudden deaths of stressed veterans. Meanwhile the Federal government is insistent no such “oversight” is needed with wide-ranging new antiterrorism legislation. The 42nd Canadian general election is scheduled to take place on October 19, 2015. In between the cases of Senators Mike Duffy, Mac Harb, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau, who claimed travel and housing expenses from the Senate for which they were not eligible, are likely to take the form of IEDs (improvised explosive devices) along the road to the polls. Harb has retired and repaid the money but remains in the mix under charges. He’s a Liberal, but Stephen Harper appointees Duffy, Wallin, and Brazeau remain suspended from the Senate without pay. Duffy has been
charged by the RCMP and faces 31 charges of alleged breach of trust, fraud and bribery. In laying the charges, the RCMP described two “avenues” directly relating to the expenses issue — his filing of living expenses for his secondary residence in Ottawa, and the filing of travel expenses for trips they allege were not for Senate business. Then there’s the matter of the $90,000 gift from PMO Chief of Staff Nigel Wright, who has reportedly been subpoenaed to testify Duffy used the money to reimburse the Senate for challenged expense claims. CBC reports the Crown’s witness list includes David van Hemmen, Wright’s former executive assistant, and Benjamin Perrin, who acted as the Prime Minister’s lawyer, and who have also been called to testify. Other senators called to testify include Marjory LeBreton, the former government leader in the Senate, David Tkachuk and Carolyn Stewart-Olson. Trial starts April 7 and is expected to last 41 days. Duffy has suggested it will be revealing. Continued on page 6
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Province establishes rural advisory council Former Mayor Dave Pernarowski says he’ll be pushing for more money for the region — which yes, includes Kitimat — in anticipation of coping with large scale industrial development as part of an appointment to a new provincial body. Pernarowski was named as one of 14 people from around the province to a provincial advisory council last week, a body meant to tell the provincial government how best it can serve rural areas and, specifically, how to promote economic development. It’s also being charged with telling the province how it should distribute tax money to rural areas from large developments such as anticipated liquefied natural gas plants in the region. That’s being called the Rural Dividend by the province and was a key part of a Prosperity Fund to be financed by large industry taxation and promised by Clark during the 2013 provincial election. Pernarowski said it will be a challenge to have the province provide money ahead of actual large scale developments being constructed. “I’m not quite sure how that’s going to look. We need to put some of the infrastructure pieces in place before [development occurs],” he said. “Until you get to that, you’ve got nothing really.” The former mayor did add that northwestern local governments have already formed the Northwest
BC Resource Benefits Alliance to negotiate revenue sharing with the province. Terrace and Kitimat, along with the Kitimat-Stikine regional district, played a large part in creating the alliance which took place during Pernarowski’s time as mayor which ended last year when he decided not to run again. Pernarowski said there are many things that will likely come up through discussions at the council when it comes to preparing communities for the future. He specifically noted the Haisla Bridge in Kitimat as an ongoing issue. Overall, Pernarowski looks forward to the work of the council. “As a former mayor, I’m excited. I spent a lot of time doing rural development work and that’s become a real passion of mine.” He expects other issues of importance to rural B.C. such as transportation and health care to also figure in the council’s business. Pernarowski’s joined on the council by two other people from the region, former Houston mayor Bill Holmberg and Roy Jones, a hereditary chief on the Council of the Haida Nation. The former Terrace mayor was one of 87 people to apply for the 14 council positions. His work on the council is independent of his employment as the northwestern B.C. account manager for P.R. Associates, a public relations and consulting company with head offices in Vancouver.
Nice new sign A new sign was installed in late February at the entrance to Kitamaat Village welcoming people in to the community. The sign faces the road and sits just on the Village side of the MK Bay Marina turn off.
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Looking for answers Dear Sir, My Mom, Elsa Hofer, wrote a poignant letter recently with regards to the events during the February blizzard. I believe she had some questions within that letter that need answers. My mother deserves answers as do the majority of Kitimat residents and their loved ones. My parents have lived the majority of their lives in Kitimat and to let the events of early February occur is absolutely mind-boggling to me.
My Dad, at 87, is not in the best of shape anymore and to further put him (and the many others in the same position) in harm’s way is extremely concerning. I demand (as my Mom already did) answers to her questions. You might take it on the chin but it’s the right thing to do. The almighty buck is no reason to risk lives. Sincerely, Oliver Hofer Surrey, BC
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Mayor gives the scoop Students at Nechako Elementary expressed their appreciate for Mayor Phil Germuth on March 2 with a thank you card, from him fulfilling his promise of buying ice cream for students. Students took the opportunity to ask Germuth questions about how running the town has been since he became mayor.
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A look back on Kitimat’s steamy history For centuries residents of our inland north coast have luxuriated in the natural warmth of mineral hot springs. Close by and within the territory of the Haisla there are at least seven of these oases. The largest and most accessible is at Lakelse Lake, a treasured milestone along the travelways for countless centuries. It was a stop for many First Nations travellers commuting to the Skeena and, during the years of the old Kitamaat to Hazelton mail route trail, its steaming clays and mineral waters rejuvenated many a traveller. Situated at the margins of Tsimshian and Haisla territory, it has been shared through all that time. We are told in Glenn Woodsworth’s book, Hot Springs of Western Canada, that Lakelse is the hottest and greatest flowing hot springs in the entire province. At a scalding 86 degrees and a flow of half a million litres per day, its 13 or so scattered pools have inspired ambitious development schemes. The first of these was tied to Kitamaat when in 1906 Bruce Johnstone pre-empted a 305 acre piece of land surrounding the hot springs, including the water rights. Johnstone felt his hot springs would be perfectly situated on the proposed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway route to Kitamaat. Others of like mind placed their bets on what was seen as the easier rail route to the ocean by buying up lots at Minette Bay. Even after 1910, when Prince Rupert was chosen as the rail head instead of Kitamaat, Johnstone didn’t give up on his dream. His initial plan was for a lodge built for about a dozen guests located right at the main spring with boardwalks taking guests down to the lake. Later it morphed into a larger lakeside hotel with bath houses and a piped-in water trench from the springs. The Johnstones survived floods and
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even the setback of the Great Depression as for most seasons their facilities were booked solid from May until October. And it didn’t hurt that in the 1930s the healing powers of mud masks were all the rage, which helped keep all guest rooms filled. Fantastic fishing also helped. Visitors would be delivered via the Merlin, a gas powered boat, which picked up the guests from the road at the north end of the lake. The strangest guests in the 20s were four priests, dressed appropriately in black, who surprisingly consumed cases of whiskey. Johnstone recalls how they kept to themselves and the occasion they gave him a ten dollar tip, unheard of in those times. Johnstone at the time had no idea that the priests were actually fugitive gangsters from Chicago, including the infamous Al Capone. In later times Ray Skoglund revived the hot springs, largely in response to the big Alcan aluminum smelter development in Kitimat and the brand new Terrace-Kitimat Highway 25 which ran right by his resort’s door. His Mount Layton scheme saw three outdoor pools and one year-round indoor and also featured an adjacent ski hill. The most recent revitalization came in the late 80s when Kitimat’s Bert Orleans rebuilt the pools with waterslides, restaurants and a much larger hotel. Today the hot springs have again fallen on hard times but schemes still abound with what could be done with all that oh-
A Dirk Mendel photo of the Europa-Shearwater Hotsprings as it looked in 2004. so-hot water. South of Kitimat the Douglas Channel beckons mariners and some of our greatest assets are the six or so hot springs out there, well known to the Haisla, Gitga’at and Gitxala First Nations. Three of those are now classified as BC Parks sites with buoys and on -shore infrastructure and improvements. The closest is Weewanie, just 38 kms south of town on the east shore of Devastation Channel, and its 48 degree celsius waters have been enjoyed for centuries. In the 1950s there was a crude bath house there which was improved by Kitimat folk in the 70s and 80s when piping and cement block structures were completed. BC Parks have since made further refinements including boardwalks, campsites and toilet facilities. And for a while in the 70s this site was used by the adjacent forestry camp which for an even shorter span evolved into a juvenile detention centre.
The best known of our down-channel treasures is Bishop Bay Hot Springs, 75 kms south of Kitimat, just past Monkey Beach on Ursula Channel. This BC Parks hotspring, with waters as warm as 44 degrees celsius, has floats, a dock and several pools. Structures have come and gone over the course of time but we know from records such as Max Patzelt’s and Aubrey Creed’s that the Kitimat boating public built and refined these facilities over the decades. The most remote of the three BC Parks springs is Shearwater-Europa. It has buoys and offers another allweather retreat from the elements and is 65 kms south of Kitimat on the north shore of Allen Reach in the Gardner Canal en route to Kemano. This site was well-known to the Kitlope First Nation and subsequently to Kemano residents working in Alcan’s power house. Continued on page 10
Conflict Continued from page 4 Meanwhile, according to the Toronto Star, the RCMP said last Monday Pamela Wallin committed fraud and breach of trust by billing the Senate for travel expenses related to her work on corporate boards. They produced court documents alleging she described an ecocardiogram as “networking” and a meeting with an ex-lover as parliamentary business. Other RCMP documents released in Ottawa showed the ongoing police investigation into Wallin’s travel expenses involves 150 “suspicious” travel expense claims filed over three years, including 24 trips to Toronto for boardrelated activities. However Wallin, who has repaid $154,191 in expense claims, including interest, has not yet been charged and none of these allegations has been proven in court. Her lawyer said Monday any expenses claimed for travel related to her board activities were done erroneously. Wallin has named numerous prominent Canadians she “met with” on her travels but not all agree they have met her on the dates given. I
think more to follow. Finally I guess I have to agree with Andrew Coyne that the Conservative Government must be “at war” with the Supreme Court of Canada as they continue to draft “omnibus” legislation which Coyne describes as being “stuffed with measures that are in self-evident violation of the constitution. Not only is the government making no apparent effort to “Charter-proof” legislation, that is by seeking the advice of Justice department lawyers on its constitutionality in advance of its introduction, as it is required by law to do, it seems if anything to be taking advice on how to offend it.” He thinks, as I do, that several recently introduced pieces of legislation the Conservatives will ram through with their House and Senate majorities are rife with Charter of Rights and Freedoms challengeable elements. These include both the anti-terrorism bill, with its anti-privacy and ham-handedly vague effectiveness issues and their new “tough on crime” law that will allow them to pick and chose certain criminals to be sent to jail for life, without possibility of parole.
Freda Diesing show The Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art is hosting an art show by its students at the Kitimat Museum & Archives. The show runs to April 12. Shown here is Raven Releases the Sun by Vanessa Morgan.
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Potluck is sharing in fun The Multicultural Society’s annual potluck dinner was a well attended good time, hosted at the Luso club. At left, Edwin Empinado dazzles with a magic show as enthralled children look on. Above, young Portuguese dancers display their heritage to song. Photos by Amy Da Costa
Strike meant Peewee hockey Royal Canadian (Snow) tournament went to Terrace Mounted Police Anna Killen What was going to be a Peewee hockey tournament hosted in Kitimat because a Terrace event due to the labour strike in town. Hundreds of provincial Peewee hockey players and their families descended on Terrace last weekend, part of the fallout from the Kitimat District municipal workers’ strike. As the event took place over the weekend the results would not be available by our press time. The Kitimat Peewee Tier 3 BC Hockey Championship took place at the Terrace Sportsplex March 15 - 18 with the organizing committee making the official announcement March 3. “You can’t imagine,” said organizing committee chairman Tony Vehlo of how it felt to learn that the ongoing strike would mean that the fourday tournament the committee had been planning since November couldn’t take place at the Tamitik Arena. “We’ve got a real dedicated group helping out, the committee, and sure it was a bit of a disappointment to them – the reason everyone did it was because, ‘hey, I’m a Kitimat person and I want to showcase our town and what we have, we’ve got a nice rink,’” he said. Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth said the city is “obviously disappointed that we’re not able to host this event as a result of a labour dispute, it would have been a great event for the community. “However, the situation is what it is,” he said, lamenting the impact losing the tournament will have on Kitimat’s economy but also praising the Kitimat organizing committee for being prepared. “Obviously Kitimat people were prepared for this and it’s nice to see Terrace people come through and make it a reality,” he said. Vehlo explained that “there’s been a lot of planning up to this point. And all of the planning is based on it being in Kitimat,” he said, noting there were plans for a coach meeting room and a player’s lounge room at the rink and a handful of teams were booked at Kitimat hotels. Some of those teams have now re-booked hotels in Terrace, he said, and the only event that will still take place in Kitimat is the banquet. The organizing committee tried to work with city officials and the union to get the ice back on
the rink in Kitimat, but realizing it wasn’t possible, Vehlo reached out to Terrace. And his phone has been ringing off the hook with offers to help pull off the tournament ever since. “Oh my son’s 14 years old, I’m not sure what he can do but he’s willing to help. One lady – I don’t know if her husband knows, but her husband’s volunteering – said I can do it, my husband can, and my 11-year-old is a mature 11-year-old, like stuff like that, it’s crazy,” he said, adding the scouts offered to help with 50/50 and he received a call from St. John’s ambulance to do first aid. He said the Sunday night opening ceremonies, with speeches by the BC Hockey president as well as Germuth might be a bit “weird” now that the venue has changed. “You can’t really say it’s a Kitimat tournament because it’s in Terrace,” he said with a laugh. “It’s more of a regional thing now I guess.” But he’s “just glad we can still make it happen. Terrace has helped us like crazy. It’s not like Kitimat is in a flood situation where we need housing, but people coming together like that... it’s been really supportive,” he continued. That sentiment is underscored by the city of Terrace’s leisure services director Carmen Didier. “We wanted to do whatever we could to make sure the championships stayed in the northwest and were workable for the Kitimat provincial working committee,” she said. That includes keeping the Hidber ice in one week longer than planned and moving activities from the main arena to the Hidber ice. “The regular ice user groups have been accommodating and have offered support where they can,” she said, adding local businesses are contributing to the team packages and the city is offering free swimming passes to the provincial teams. “We all recognize that high level competitions in the northwest helps to build better local sports programs in many ways,” said Didier. “Kitimat is a good neighbour and we support them. I am certain you will see many Terrace folks in the bleachers cheering on the Kitimat team throughout the competition,” she added.
The Kitimat RCMP detachment will soon be outfitted with standard issue snowmobiles. The Kitimat detachment’s Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison says he’s expecting delivery of two snowmobiles after he successfully presented the business case for such to his higher powers. He said the snowmobiles, which are stock units and not custom made for RCMP use, cost approximately $11,000 each. The purchase doesn’t, in a sense, cost the detachment more money. Harrison explains that through the officer funding through the municipality a portion of that fee paid by the government goes in to accounts for things such as vehicle purchases. He said that anticipating further population growth in the coming years snowmobiles will come in useful, and it’s equipment he’s had at other detachments as well. “I can see us having more people in the back trails quadding or snowmobiling. That’s one of the reasons I put in to have snowmobiles,” he said. Two snowmobiles are required because for safety you
can’t have only one patrolling in the back country areas. “I got word probably just in January that it was accepted,” he added. Of course the timing didn’t line up with Kitimat’s near-record breaking snowfall in February but the new units will help for future ones. “Of course with the snowfall we had on February 7, I greatly realized that if we had problems where we had to go out to do a police action...we had a hard time getting to it.” He said the detachment can’t rely on volunteers such as Snowmobile Club — who were used by the fire department and paramedics —because there’s the potential to put those people at risk in a criminal investigation. He also said there’s the potential to rent snowmobiles but they won’t always be available at the moment they need to be. “It makes it a lot easier all the way around if we had them on site.” Delivery of the vehicles is expected by the end of the fiscal year, which would mean sometime before April 1.
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The Red Chris mine north of here up Hwy37 North is making the most of a temporary environmental permit and has begun both processing and shipping copper concentrate out the Port of Stewart. “The mill processed just over 193,000 tonnes in February producing approximately 2,400 tonnes of copper concentrate,” says a release on mine owner Imperial Metals’ website.
Cameron Orr The Australian arm responsible for maintaining competition among companies in the country has okayed Woodside Petroleum’s proposed sale of Apache assets, including Apache’s stake in Kitimat LNG. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission supported the deal in a March 5 news release. In Australia, Woodside and Apache overlap in the wholesale supply of natural gas to the domestic market in Washington, says the ACCC. “Following the proposed acquisition, Woodside would con-
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The provincial environment ministry had granted Imperial an effluent discharge permit in early February, a three month permit expiring in May that allows the mine to operate its ore-grinding mill while testing the tailings facility. The company is required to show that the tailings facility is holding up before getting the final permit. The company release says it is processing the ore slowly to
begin with but did not mention testing the tailings facility. “The commissioning team continues to focus on achieving continuous operations and a consistent final concentrate grade. Once the team is satisfied with the progress in these areas, more emphasis will be placed on metal recoveries and throughput,” says the statement. In light of the rupture of a huge Imperial-owned tailings facil-
ity at the Mount Polley mine near Williams Lake, all mining companies in the province have been required to review their tailings safety. In the case of Red Chris, Imperial paid for a review by a company chosen by the Tahltan Central Council which has been negotiating an economic benefits agreement with the company. The mine is located on Tahltan traditional territory.
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tinue to face strong competition from other suppliers in the market, including Apache, Chevron, and Santos,” ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said. “Apache will continue to supply gas to the market through its interests in the Macedon, Varanus Island, and Devil Creek Projects. As a result, Apache will remain a larger supplier of domestic gas in Washington than Woodside following the proposed acquisition,” he continued. Meanwhile, the ACCC says that the Balnaves and Kitimat Projects are not expected to supply product to Australia.
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Last strike in 1997 Cameron Orr The strike between Unifor 2300 and the District is pushing records. A strike lasting to March 15 this year would mean it had officially lasted longer than the city’s 1997 strike. In 1997 the thenCAW 2300 union was on strike for 16 days in an at-times bitter conflict which spilled in to council meetings and even to confrontations in local businesses. A sticking point at that strike, which has also been brought up as an issue today, was wage parity with Rio Tinto Alcan (then just Alcan). The union at the time was successful in nabbing what was effectively a three per cent raise for each of three years. As the Sentinel wrote in the day the resolution came even as the union and the District took some parting shots at each other, each side blaming the other for the 16 day strike. The union’s negotiator at the time said the agreement was in line with the union’s mandate of maintaining historical wage relationship with Alcan workers. Yet the city manager in 1997 suggested the union demands were not clearly communicated, while the union said once that strike was resolved that ultimately the labour dispute was unnecessary with the city seemingly not having understood the union’s mandate.
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Border guard union slams closures Anna Killen The president of the union representing Canada’s border guards says reducing the hours at the Stewart, B.C./Hyder, AK border is a hypocritical move for a federal government that says it places a priority on national security.
“The government right now is about to pass a bill, C-51, in regards of the concerns that the government has with the terrorists and the people who are going off-seas to get training. “And meanwhile they’re reducing the hours at the border,” said JeanPierre Fortin, president of the customs and
immigration union. He’s been told the reduction in hours at the northwestern B.C. border crossing is one of several such moves being undertaken by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in other parts of the country. Continued on page 13
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RTA utilizes advanced sim for crane training Cameron Orr As Rio Tinto Alcan journeys towards completion of the Kitimat Modernization Project they are pushing ahead efforts to get employees trained for operations. One of the more interesting aspects of work site training — which is not a phrase that typically elicits excitement — is a virtual crane simulator at the Learning Centre at Roy Wilcox that mixes the safety of video games with a near-total replica of the new smelter’s potline cranes. On first glance it looks like a computer game. In front of the operator’s chair, on the other side of replica bars — to copy the look of the real thing — is a large screen. An image is transmitted via a projector in the floor behind. On the other side of the simulator is a bank of computers, making sure each action by the operator creates an entirely realistic reaction on screen. The screen itself shows a 3D rendered world inside an aluminum smelter’s pot room. The operator does everything they’d do in true life, of course making sure to avoid all the expected dangers. There are animate people and vehicles rendered on screen. As the machine activates the room — the room inside
Roy Wilcox — fills with the sounds of a potroom, including the noises of vehicles beeping loudly in a reverse gear. A worker on the floor — the fictional 3D floor — stares up at you, absent-mindedly tapping his palm with a wrench. More sound, this time like a jackhammer as the crane breaks through the a molten crust. “It’s a very high tech simulator because when you sit in to it it’s a replication of exactly the same cab of a real crane that we’re commissioning as we speak,” said Gaby Poirier, general manager of BC Operations. He said a cap with a sensor will even move the display as the user moves their head. Despite it’s arcade-like experience it’s still a challenging course. Trainees take nearly 40 hours on the sim before moving to on-site training. In the non-modernized Rio Tinto Alcan smelter crane operators didn’t get the luxury of a simulator; straight to the real thing. The cranes themselves, and the simulator, are made by ECL, which is actually a Rio Tinto owned company. Poirier says the training is very effective and some operators have said the real cranes have even been more forgiving that the simulator is. One of the more amusing
differences of the new crane system versus the old is the fact that all the controls are effectively reversed from how they used to be. Operators tend to overcome that obstacle fairly quickly. The company will run all their operators through the simulator and Poirier says there are over 200 persons who need the training. As for the future of this simulator, the company will hang on to it in Kitimat however it won’t always reside in the Roy Wilcox Learning Centre. The company has held a lease on the building for approximately two years but the company says it will hold on to the former elementary school only for the life of the project. Once RTA gets their smelter back to what they call steadystate they’ll begin phasing out use of the building. The building’s been fully used so far. A lot of general training takes place on the school grounds as well as some trades training and electrical, says Poirier. The simulator could find itself at the RTA site in the future once Roy Wilcox, for RTA’s purposes, closes down. “You don’t need a big facility like [Roy Wilcox] to train people in a steady-state smelter,” said Poirier.
The trainer for the crane simulator shows off the hardware, which simulates near identical situations for people working on the real thing.
BC Hydro setting plans for line upgrades Cameron Orr BC Hydro representatives presented their vision for an upgraded power line to Kitimat. Through an open house and presentation to council, Project Manager Robert Smith talked about the replacement project for a transmission line from Terrace to Kitimat. Out of the potential op-
tions, BC Hydro opted to build a single line down the west side of the Kitimat valley. The existing power line runs on the east side. The 287kv line will replace an older 287kv now considered at the end of its operational life. A west-side power line also benefits from being 10 km shorter between substa-
tions, said Smith. Smith said there were considerations for a second line, as a potential redundancy on the power, but there was little interest from potential developers who’d be using the power. BC Hydro pitched the possiblity of industries also putting in some money to get a second line built but there were no takers.
Even so a second power line to Kitimat is still possible but Smith couldn’t say when, or if, a second line would be needed. “We don’t know what the future holds,” he said on a second line. The new line will be Hframe style and made with steel which Smith said will lower the risk of fire present with the existing wood
Steamy Continued from page 6 Forestry crews made further refinements in 1986 followed by BC Parks improvements in the last decade. The 44 degree Celsius waters are a real treat for weary travellers willing to venture off the beaten path. There are also other more elusive warm water sites known to a few intrepid travellers. They include Brim River, Khutze Inlet and Klekane Inlet. The waters of the last named are a toasty 56 degrees celsius and used to attract crowds in the early days of nearby Butedale Cannery on Princess Royal island.
Why does the region have so many hot springs? Experts like geologist Allen Gottesfeld, in his publication on Kitimat-area geology, says these springs are a result of movement in the Kitimat/ Kalum fault line which is also related to the volcanic eruption at the Tseax in the Nass Valley in the early 1700s. Kitimat is blessed by its wealth of natural treasures and the hot springs that surround our community are part of both our past and current identity. Enjoyed by locals, these assets are also envied by folks from afar. May they endure for centuries to come.
pole. The steel poles won’t be as prone to fires as existing poles are and they’ll be better protected from fires as well, he said. “In the past few years we’ve had some problems with some of these poles actually catching fire,” he said. “That would never happen with a steel pole and that’s far better for forest fires.”
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Retirement caps extensive rescue career Submitted It was a parade of admiration for a retiring member of the community. On January 31 Mayor Phil Germuth, members for the Kitimat Fire Department, Kitimat Search & Rescue, and Emergency Social Services, gathered at the Rod and Gun Hall at a retirement celebration for Bob and Joyce MacLeod, to thank them for their many years of volunteer service to the community of Kitimat, and the Northwest region. The evening was full of touching stories, which highlighted Bob’s dedication, expertise and leadership, and Joyce’s support, dedication, and caring nature. Bob’s first search and rescue involvement was back in 1961. He was with the RCMP Auxiliary for 25 years, from 1967 to 1994, and coordinated both police and search and rescue training. At that time, the auxiliaries were the core SAR group for the community. Bob became a
Ground Search and Rescue Instructor in 1973, and a Provincial Search Manager in 1983. He served on the Provincial Search and Rescue Advisory Committee, from 1999 to 2003, representing all Northwest Region SAR groups, and in 2004, he was selected as the SAR volunteer of the year. His role in emergency management blended with SAR at first. He became the Provincial Emergency Program Deputy Area Coordinator for Kitimat from 1979 to 1983 and then the Area Coordinator from 1983 to 1990. That position was responsible for the area covered by the boundaries of the Kitimat RCMP, and coordinated Search and Rescue activities for both land and (until the formation of the Coast Guard Auxiliary) marine rescue on Douglas Channel and adjacent waterways. He was responsible for emergency management activities in his paid job at Alcan during this time as well. Bob’s most
recent role has been in emergency management in Kitimat, that of coordinator of the Kitimat Emergency Program since 2000. Last but not least, Bob was a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee medal in 2012 for volunteer activities. For Joyce, she started out in her volunteer career as an administrative assistant to the local Search and Rescue team, and eventually became the Deputy Emergency Social Services Director. In 2002, two hikers went missing on Mount Elizabeth, and while Bob managed the search which included many SAR volunteers that came here from around the province, Joyce and her team made sure those searchers were kept from going hungry. Over the years Joyce has pitched in to help other communities when they were in need, such as in Terrace during the floods of 2002 and both Kamloops and Kelowna during the 2003 firestorm. Closer to home,
Bob and Joyce MacLeod have retired, capping of a lengthy and impressive career of volunteer service to Kitimat and to the Northwest as a whole. Submitted Joyce trained with provincial Northwest TEAMS group through 2006 and worked in the PREOC during 2007 freshet, as did Bob. In addition to all this, Joyce wanted to share her valuable experience with other communities so she volunteered as an Emergency Social Services instructor with the Justice Institute of BC. Joyce also represented her community and our region even further on the Emergency Social Services
Association Board of Directors and their Advisory Forum. In 2010, Joyce was selected as the provincial ESS Volunteer of the Year. This potluck-style retirement celebration for Bob and Joyce was organized by Kitimat
Search and Rescue members. The evening was enjoyed by all, and was a very well deserved tribute to Bob and Joyce for their contribution and all the volunteer hours they have graciously given our community. The
local SAR appreciates how Bob and Joyce have cared for, and supported the community and region. They have left big boots to fill. They are wished every happiness with their quieter times.
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Bish road opened Even as early works slows down at the Kitimat LNG site, Chevron has re-opened the Crown-owned Bish Forest Service Road as of March 1. The road is opened for 12km and provides a now well-groomed surface for sightseeing.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Students fill up on their green eggs and ham
Students in Ms. Sally Sousa’s class helping to count their items for the We Scare Hunger campaign. Below, Alyssa Pangan and Malar Benet, the Leadership co-advisor, cooking pancakes for the second Annual MEMSS Pancake Lunch.
Leadership program sets the path on school spirit Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School (MEMSS) Leadership is a program that promotes school spirit and philanthropy with various activities throughout the year. Under the guidance of teachers Sally Sousa, Malar Benet and Michele Sutherland, students organize and promote events such as monthly spirit days. Staff and students are encouraged to represent a wacky theme such as twin day, pajama day and ugly sweater day. The month of January allowed middle school students the opportunity to get physical during lunch time with Capture the Flag intramurals and the second annual pancake lunch was held the first Thursday in February. To celebrate Hockey Day in Canada the school was asked to wear the jersey of a favourite sports team. In an effort to raise awareness about epilepsy, a Day of Purple (the colour associated with epilepsy awareness) was organized by the group in January. As with most schools across the country Pink Shirt Day was recognized and celebrated in late February. The always popular Winter Formal was a roaring success especially since the Candy Land theme included a candy bar, mocktail bar and a professional photo booth. As entertaining as these events were, Leadership students also wanted to be given the opportunity to act as humanitarians.
During Halloween, students organized the “We Scare Hunger” campaign in order to raise much-needed food for the Kitimat Food Bank. As an added bonus, a Halloween-themed bake sale was held and those proceeds also went to the food bank. Another bake sale and an information table were set up to help with Leadership’s “Knock Out Epilepsy” event. The group also supported the SPCA’s National Cupcake Day with a sale which raised $240 for our local animal shelter (Editor’s note: Just for information the local animal shelter is run by the Kitimat Community Humane Society, which is separate from the SPCA). Every single cupcake (six dozen in total) sold out and the group’s student bakers/decorators were extremely proud of their handiwork. From brainstorming to poster making, decorating for events to selling baked items, Leadership students are the reason why the middle school has such positive energy.
If you wandered the halls of MEMSS during March 9-13, you may have thought that you made a wrong turn and ended up in Seussville. Leadership students organized a school-wide Dr. Seuss Week that celebrated the much beloved children’s author and his books. A classroom door decorating contest was held and every character from the Lorax to Fox in Socks to Things 1 and 2 were represented. Many teachers went the extra mile and also decorated the bulletin boards and walls outside of their classrooms with quotes, cut outs and 3-D truffula trees. If you visited the school library Horton, the Grinch, the Cat in the Hat and others greeted you from the ceiling, walls and shelves. Each day brought a new challenge: Green Day was based on The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and people were encouraged to wear green; Travel Day was an ode to Oh the Places
Above, Trey Allen celebrates Grinch Day. Below, Ana Pires and Nigel Martyres get into the spirit of Wacky Hat Day.
You’ll Go and ethnic or travel outfits were key; Wacky Hat Day represented the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; Thing 1 and Thing 2 Day was meant for partnering up as twins or a famous duo, and Red,
White and Blue Day was representative of The Cat in the Hat. The energy and enthusiasm in the building was off the charts and it was a fantastic way to end the week just before spring break.
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Kinsmen Club keeping up with Kitimat Cameron Orr You can just call them the fellowship of the Kin. Kitimat’s Kinsmen’s Club has been one of the fixtures of Kitimat for decades. The local club itself formed in Kitimat in 1956, as seen at right with a Northern Sentinel report on the club’s Charter Night. Now, 59 years later, the club continues to be an active centre which is responsible for a number of events from the supermarket sweep raffle to the lead organizers of the annual Canada Day parade in Kitimat. The current club President Marie Striker has held the position so far just for this year and has been a member for three but has found the Kinsmen a valuable club. “I know a lot of the members. I’ve been wanting to join a service group for some time,” she said. “So...a friend of mine said ‘do you want to join Kinsmen with me?’ and I said yes.” Striker has a family history of joining community groups, such as her dad who was a longtime Elks member and later a member of the Gyros club.
The Kinsmen, she said, is about joining in a social circle to do good work. “Kinsmen is a type of family organization,” she said. “One of our biggest [causes], nationwide, is cystic fibrosis.” “Locally, we help out a lot of the local charity organizations too, especially the food bank and the food share program,” she added. Last year the club bought enough food for the food share to feed 50 families. They also organize the Canada Day parade each year, and have started hosting a Kitimat Easter Egg hunt. There’s a lot more the club does too, which is impressive in that the club right now has about seven active members. “We are always looking for new faces,” said Striker, who says people can always flag down a Kinsmen member to bring them to their meetings. The meetings themselves are the first Tuesdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the lunchroom at Viking Construction. “We try to get in, we try to do things for the community,” said Striker, noting the club also lends a hand to other com-
Above, in February the acting mayor Mario Feldhoff proclaiming February 16 to 21 as Kin Week with Kinsmen Sharole Bell, Marie Striker and Ron Skuggedal. At left, a scan of a February 16, 1956 Northern Sentinel. munity groups when needed. The bottom line though is that being a part of the Kinsmen, for her, is rewarding and offers her the
opportunity to meet people. She said community groups like Kinsmen are great ways to get involved. “To me it’s a great way to meet people...
You meet people, not just in your hometown, [but] you meet people all across the province if you’re doing conventions and stuff like that.”
Border Continued from page 9 The list of officials criticizing the planned reduction of hours at the Stewart, B.C./Hyder, Alaska border crossing now includes one of Alaska’s two representatives in the American Senate, Republican Lisa Murkowski. “She is concerned and has concerns – she’s working with Alaskans and Canadians in both communities and is really seeking to build the strongest possible case to make the government reconsider this move,” said the senator’s communications representative Karina Petersen March 6. The senator spent last week reaching out to a number of her colleagues in Canada, said Petersen, and intends to present a “united front” from both sides of the border. “We’re not in a position to demand, but hoping that we can make something happen.” To that end, Murkowski and others hope to “at least persuade the Harper government to put a pause on this decision so that the (2015) visitor season isn’t lost, while the communities on both sides work together to see what a long-term sustainable solution could be. “From our perspective,
“I think it needs to be made clear ... that this was a bureaucratic decision, taken apparently without any consultation with either Hyder or Stewart.” despite the fact that this was a cost-cutting move with costcutting motivations, we think this decision could actually harm the economies involved,” said Petersen. The tourist season for Hyder and Stewart typically starts at the beginning of April – right when the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) plans to launch the new hours that would see the border closed and the road blocked between midnight and 8 a.m. Residents and business owners on both sides have spoken out vocally against the move, touting safety and economic issues, and Canada’s border guard union has said it is a national security issue. Murkowski is also con-
cerned about the potential for Hyder residents to be isolated from emergency services. “The people of Hyder have access to the hospital in Stewart, so Hyder might be isolated from emergency services, so that needs to be resolved as soon as possible,” said Petersen. The border services agency did say, in a statement, that “emergency services to surrounding communities will not be impacted and provisions have been made to ensure emergency vehicles will continue to have access to the roads 24/7.” Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen’s office is also calling for a united front with Alaskan officials like Murkowski. “Generally speaking I think the concerns we have are mirrored by the Alaskans as well,” said Cullen’s legislative assistant in Ottawa, Hugh Pouliot. “I think it needs to be made clear to the Canadian government that this was a bureaucratic decision, taken apparently without any consultation with either Hyder or Stewart, that people were notified after the fact. “It’s a much stronger message if it comes from both sides of the border,” he said.
Recognizing the talent The Kitimat Ice Demons held their annual awards ceremony and banquet on March 7, and highlighted some of the season’s best players. Above is Cliff Madsen presenting Josh Slanina with an Ironman award. The full list of the awards were: Ironman - Josh Slanina, Top Scorer Josh Slanina, Top Goalie - Brandon Heighton, Rookie - Craig Vienneau, Defenceman - Jeff Mildenberger, Inspirational - Brandon Wakita & Shahar Moudahi, Dedicated - Nick Markowski, MVP - Josh Slanina, Unsung Hero - Jordan Goncalves. Submitted photo
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A strong Marlin showing in Smithers Jason Cathers The Kitimat Marlins competed at the Smithers regional swim meet recently. The Terrace and Prince Rupert team were also in attendance. With some strong results from all Marlins they were able to place a close second in overall points behind host Smithers who had double the amount of swimmers racing as Kitimat. Alex van Horne, 11, reached his second AAA provincial qualifying standard in the 11 and under boys 50 meter butterfly. By reaching two time standards he now qualifies for the long course (50 meter
pool) AAA Provincial championships which will be held in July in Victoria. Van Horne took the bronze medal for overall points in the 11-12 boys division. Other medal winners for the Marlins were Jayden Johnston, 10, with gold in the 10 and under boys and Angus Bathe, 10, who took the bronze in the division. Olivia Pearson, 10, took the silver medal for overall points in the 10-11 girls division and older sister Hannah Pearson, 12, took the silver medal in the 12-13 girls divison. Also in that divison Leah Desousa, 12, took the bronze medal. The Marlins also had two medal winners in
the 13-14 boys with Nolan striker, 14, taking the bronze and Ethan Velho, 14, taking the gold. In the 14 and over girls Laurence Boucher, 14, took the bronze medal while Brander Pacheco, 16, took the gold medal in the 15 and over boys division. Swimmers who accomplished the tough task of swimming 100 per cent personal best times in all six of their races were Iris striker, Leah Desousa, Jayden Johnston, Alex Van Horne, Emilie Krabes and Ethan Velho.
A banner moment Most of the MEMSS girls curling champions, with their new Provincial curling banner. Left to right, Emma Baker, Leah Anthony, Micaela Stevenson and Taylor Reese-Hansen. Missing is Jordan Zanella, and coach Laurel DeGoeij.
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