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Gold mine to boost region TERRACE AND the Nass Valley are expecting benefits from construction and then operations at a (US) $747 million gold mine near Stewart announced last week. As many as 900 workers will be needed to construct the Brucejack gold mine owned by Pretium Resources. With production in 2017, 400 workers will be needed over the planned 18-year life of the underground mine. Speaking last week, Pretium of-
ficial Troy Shultz said the Northwest Regional Airport will be used to fly in/fly out outside workers, with vans then used for transport to the location. But there will also be an emphasis on local and regional hire, he said. “During the construction process hiring is primarily contractor driven, as we transition into operation then we will focus on direct hires,” said Shultz.
“The contractors are familiar with our mandate to hire from local northern communities whenever possible. As well, when selecting contractors those with connections to the local northern communities are given priority.” “We do have plans to conduct a series of workshops on the types of employment available for local candidates as well as consult with community education facilities to identify and address training gaps,”
said Shultz. There is also to be a strong Nass Valley connection to the project stemming from a benefits agreement signed with the Nisga’a Nation this year. It lays out the foundation for jobs, contracting and business opportunities. It is based on the Brucejack property being within Nisga’a territory as outlined in the 2000 Nisga’a land claims treaty signed
with the federal and provincial governments. The exact number of jobs for Nisga’a citizens and specific business opportunities are confidential, said Shultz. The benefits deal signed by the Nisga’a is one of several the Nisga’a Lisims Government has negotiated with resource companies planning large-scale projects within its area of influence.
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City to focus efforts on homelessness By JOSH MASSEY
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■■ Successful collection THE ANNUAL door to door food collection from the Church of Latter Day Saints last week, collected over 3,850 pounds for the Terrace Churches Food Bank. Church members collected and delivered the food in a big Bandstra truck. Above are church members Carl Ekman, Ian Goslin, food bank volunteer Dylan Mantel, and Marty Wright.
THE CITY is forming a group to deal with what one councillor calls a growing homelessness problem. “We see the homeless trends from surveys, and the jump by the amount this past spring was a surprise,” said councillor Brian Downie at council’s Sept. 14 meeting, adding he suspects “the number could jump again.” The city’s second annual count this spring noted 74 homeless, which was up from the first year of the survey, and Downie says he thinks it is probably even higher now based on what he has seen around town. “The observation would be the number of people on the street or in tent camps has increased,” he said. “We have had come to a head on various issues about homelessness in Terrace. Whether it’s health and safety issues.” He says the math paints a grim picture of what the winter will be like for the homeless noted in the survey when only 20-25 spots are available in a regular shelter run by the Ksan Society. The provincial government makes money available for the society to increase spaces during the winter months but Downie wonders if that’s sufficient. “There’s a discussion that needs to be had there. Is there enough capacity?” he asked. “Winter’s coming up, and these folks are going to have to go some place. With that comes concerns for health and safety, and I know CN Rail are concerned about people on the track, people are concerned downtown, even facilities, like the lack of [washroom] facilities downtown.”
He points to late August fires, suspected to be caused by arson, that destroyed two abandoned buildings frequented by people as a blow to those seeking shelter. “Those two examples, where they had the fires, people were living there. It’s not desirable housing, but at least it was a roof over their head.” The members of the task group have not been chosen by the city, but when they are, they will be given a specific deadline to complete their meetings and come back with strategies and a plan, council decided. Councillors Michael Prevost and Stacey Tyers recommended that the task group model itself after one in the Tri Cities area of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam and Port Moody on the Lower Mainland. There, working groups are composed of housing committee members and also homeless experts and they managed to work effectively, Prevost said. “Staff will come back to council with recommendations regarding the membership of the group and you’ll see this at the council table at a later date,” said corporate administrator Alisa Thompson. There was also some question about setting a deadline for the group with mayor Carol Leclerc saying council should hold the task group’s “feet to the fire” to make sure they get the job done. The Ksan Society’s winter shelter last year was located in the All Nations centre on Sparks which is operated by a Seventh Day Adventist Church society. It provides a meal on Sundays while the Terrace and District Community Services Society has an outreach service there weekdays.
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MILLS MEMORIAL Hospital has a new, state-of-the-art high definition endoscopy suite to assist surgeons when taking a look inside a person for diagnosis, treatment or therapeutic reasons. The $300,000 price tag took a little more than a year to raise by the Dr. REM Lee Hospital Foundation and its many individual and business supporters. The new machine has better high definition (HD) than the older one and allows the medical team to see on a screen where the scope is going inside the patient; before they had to feel around on the patient to determine where it was going, said Holly Pritchett, registered nurse operating room/endoscopy. There are two different types of scopes: gastroscopes are used for looking down into the upper area of the gastrointestinal tract and colonoscopes for looking up into the colon, said Pritchett. Both types are used to find benign and cancerous tissue. Each type is only used for those specific areas and are not interchanged, she said, adding that some patients ask about that. If patients are brave enough, the screen can be placed so they can watch the scope moving inside them, she added. It also comes with a pediatric scope that is smaller and used on
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cludes a new monitor for the anesthetist, a CO2 insufflator to inflate an area, a warmer for sterile water to ensure patient comfort and a cautery to cauterize (burn off) any polyps that are found. The endoscopy room will soon be renovated to make it more efficient, added Pritchett.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Terrace Standard
Access being improved at busy Keith intersection tons, and who used to go to a Great Canadian Oil Change outlet in Alberta, the company does the job quick. “The only time you see them is when they pop out from underneath,” he said of the system the company has where a vehicle parks overtop of an underground service room where the staff are. “You never get out of the vehicle,” he added. Steffensen says the new lane for the double drive-thru at Tim Hortons could help reduce the danger at the Kalum/ Keith intersection. He also thinks any traffic added by the Great Canadian Oil Change will be manageable with the new lanes. And he said he has witnessed the danger himself at Keith and Kalum. “I heard a howl of tire once and a chip truck came skidding to a stop because there was traffic backed up down the road,” he said of the current single drive-thru system which means a bottleneck at the mouth of the busy Keith Ave. corridor. That intersection had 32 accidents between 2009 and 2013, the last period the province gathered statistics, making it the most dangerous intersection, ahead of Hwy16/Kenney (28 accidents) and
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Kalum/Park (21 accidents). The RCMP earlier this year warned they would start ticketing drivers who were parked dangerously out on Kalum as they entered for the single drive-thru. Not everyone is convinced the double drivethru system will help them get their coffee any faster. “It will help alleviate the pressure off the intersection,” said Bill Nelson, as he pulled
through. “But it’s going to create just as much of a bottleneck. If they are going to have two lanes, they need to have two pickup windows.” “It’s needed,” said another customer Doug Davidson. “Apparently the police were nailing people out here for blocking the road because they couldn’t get into the line-up.” The Tim Hortons drive-thru upgrade is expected to be completed this week.
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DOUBLE DRIVE-THRU lanes are being put in at Tim Hortons beside the Great Canadian Oil Change now under construction.
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THERE’S A lot going on Keith Ave. between Evergreen and Kalum where a Great Canadian Oil Change is being constructed and a double lane drive-thru at Tim Hortons is going in beside it. The work follows calls for a better way for Tim Hortons drive-thru customers to enter and leave the single drivethru lane there now without blocking other traffic and also plugging up Keith Ave. “We have leased the property from the developer on the other side,” says Tim Hortons’ manager Norma Giddy of the deal to create a new traffic lane for Tim Hortons customers. The new lane will come in from Evergreen street right south of the Great Canadian Oil Change and will proceed through a second order booth before merging into a single lane again which will pass by the same counter where the items are handed to customers. “I think it will look nice,” said Giddy of the new neighbour soon to be beside them. “Kondolas is red and white, we’re red, Great Canadian Oil Change is red and white and there is red and white across the corner,” she said. According to local Dal Steffensen who frequents the Tim Hor-
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FEDERAL ELECTION 2015
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Get involved, states candidate By JACKIE LIEUWEN FEDERAL LIBERAL candidate Brad Layton has focused his life first on being a dad, and second on being an agent to fight for change. A single dad since a divorce in 1995, Layton says he spent more than 10 years focused on raising his daughter Brittany, now 22, and making ends meet. “From the time she was two until she was about 11, I didn’t have time for anything except for going to work during the day and raising my beautiful daughter in the evenings and weekends,” said Layton. “She spent so much time in daycare during the day, that weekends and every evening became her time,” he said last week during an interview. “It’s a juggling act, being a single parent. You have work because you have to be able to put food on the table and buy clothes and pay your rent, but at the same time you have a
young child that needs a parent around too.” Layton says the balancing act changed as Brittany grew older and time opened up for outside activities. “I’ve been politically minded since I was young, and not just politically, but environmentally,” he said. “On the sidelines, if you’re not happy with the way things are going, you have no influence, but get involved and you have your chance to learn, and to influence and to teach.” He was president in the mid-1990s of Share B.C., a controversial land use group in its day which lobbied to have forest land set aside for logging and other forest land preserved. Layton was also president of the Share chapter in Smithers. He has also taken part in resource management and land use discussions and organized a volunteer clean up day last year. Layton is a registered forest technician with Pro-Tech Forest
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LIBERAL CANDIDATE Brad Layton with his electioneering home away from home. Resources in Smithers, and does mostly project management, he said. Politically, he has been a volunteer for the B.C. Liberals in two provincial elections and also served as president of the B.C. Liberal riding association in the Bulkley Valley. But many of Lay-
ton’s interests went on hold in August 2009 when he was diagnosed with kidney cancer. Surgery and a period of recovery and Layton has now been cancerfree for six years. On the local political level Layton ran unsuccessfully for Smithers council in 2008 but was
elected to Telkwa council in 2011 and re-elected last year. He says he was motivated by several factors: He wanted more recreation for local children, an objective he says is harder to accomplish than first thought. He also was seeking community safety through
completing a wildfire protection plan and addressing highway traffic through Telkwa. Last, he wanted to understand and influence public spending and taxation. “You can’t complain about taxes if you don’t know what it’s being spent on,” Layton said. “Until you sit down
and go through line by line of the budget, with all the money to run a village, you have no idea.” “Unless you’ve been part of why a decision is made, you don’t always understand why they are making these decisions,” he said.
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It’s about respect for other people By MARGARET SPEIRS C O N S E R VAT I V E CANDIDATE Tyler Nesbitt is living close to nature here and doing it ethically, and respectfully while teaching his children to do the same. He wanted them to grow up in the northwest to have the opportunity for them to appreciate nature and enjoy the outdoors as he did as a child. “This is where it’s at,” he said. “It’s a huge part of our existence as humans to be in nature and in this area, nature’s splendour is really important,” he said. People around the world would do anything to have our nature and scenery, he said. Born and raised in Prince Rupert, Nesbitt went to university in Vancouver, getting a bachelor degree in anthropology at UBC. Anthropology interested him because on the archaeology side of it, one of the branches is studying and understanding our past,
which helps us do better in the future. It also appealed to his passion for history, culture and mankind. He jumped at the chance to move back to the northwest when a job came up at a safety supply company that manufactured gloves and fire retardant clothing in Kitimat. He now lives in Terrace and works with area road and bridge maintenance company Nechako Northcoast Construction as its operations/quality coordinator and road superintendent for the Nass Valley. And does anthropology relate to his job? “It’s nothing like my job,” Nesbitt said, adding the only part that could be similar is digging in the dirt occasionally. If he took any more education, it would likely be an MBA which he could use in his career. Nesbitt and his wife Bernadette were married in 2007 at Terraceview Lodge, a location chosen because her father lived there.
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CONSERVATIVE PARTY candidate Tyler Nesbitt, complete with large banner, sitting in his Terrace campaign office. Stricken with pancreatic cancer, he wasn’t expected to live long. They scrapped plans for a big wedding, organized a small ceremony and rushed up there to hold it. Her father died not long afterward. Bernadette is a stay at home mom and works part-time as she can to help out with fi-
nances but it’ll be two more years anyway before their youngest child is in school and she can work more. Their three children are Sophie 10, Bray 7, and Remy, 3. Nesbitt loves fishing, hunting and kayaking, all of which are on hold right now while he campaigns.
His three children love to be out with him while he’s fishing even if it’s just to run around. “If I didn’t work, I’d probably do it all the time,” said Nesbitt about fishing. He hunts but solely for meat, usually moose and deer, and adds it’s critical that it be done responsibly.
Fresh meat tastes better than what’s bought in stores, he said. Nesbitt took French immersion from kindergarten to Grade 12 in Prince Rupert and the family’s school-aged children are enrolled in French immersion in Terrace.
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See more next week OUR 2015 federal election candidate profile coverage continues next week. And don’t forget the all candidates debate taking place Oct. 6, 2015 at 7 p.m. at the REM Lee Theatre.
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Smile THERE’S no way the Green Party of Canada is going to form the next national government on election day Oct. 19 and many voters may still regard it as a quirky band of tree huggers but it continues to impress with policy proposals. The latest, and contained in the party’s just-released election platform, is a call for dental care for the estimated 700,000 Canadians under the age of 18 it says are low-income. Cost estimates for the first full year of the program are stated at $1.516 billion with the second year declining to $1.219 billion and by year five, further declining to $913 million. Note that the first year cost is less than the $1.9 billion federal surplus of the past year which, as economists will cheerfully point out, could also be regarded as an accounting rounding error. So in that sense, a dental program for 700,000 young, low-income Canadians would not break the bank. But what it would do is set the foundations for oral health which is as crucial as fresh food and exercise. And like it or not, with a societal emphasis on physical presentation, people with healthy teeth and gums are more likely to feel better about themselves, a huge step toward becoming a productive member of society. The Green proposal should still be scrutinized for its costs but with the three major parties touting their economic acumen, that shouldn’t be difficult to do.
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ast week’s report from B.C.’s senior advocate, Isobel Mackenzie, about the state of assisted home care took me back to six years ago when my husband was in the last months of his life struggling to breathe with asthma and COPD, and seizures doctors failed to diagnose despite tests. Family visited us frequently, drove us to appointments, and fetched groceries for us; otherwise we managed on our own. Seeking home care or any other government-sponsored assistance never occurred to me until his final weeks when a friend suggested that I apply for at least a few hours of home care weekly. Without reviewing my brief journal entries from those stressful days, I have no clear recollection of my efforts. I do, though, recall my consternation at the lengthy application and the long wait for a home assessment. None arrived in time. I clearly recall my days (and nights) of relentless vigilance. Because of the seizures which could drop him to the
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CLAUDETTE SANDECKI floor without warning, he needed to be guided from bed to bathroom to sofa to kitchen table. Matched pound for pound, the best I could do if he collapsed was keep him from bashing his head on a corner of the piano or edge of the bathtub. A commode stationed near the sofa during the day or in our bedroom at night reduced his hourly treks to the bathroom. Heavy lifting was required if he fell. Getting him back on his feet took three stages: first, to a low stool, then to a higher stool, and finally to a regular chair height.
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The Mail Bag Don’t lose perspective
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TIRE SHOP was once housed in building on the corner of Hwy16 and Hwy113/Kalum Lake Drive.
Landholder is held ‘hostage’ Dear Sir: I’m once again appealing to the City of Terrace to make its final intentions known about whatever plans it may have for a second overpass. I own the large building at the intersection of Hwy 113/ Kalum Lake Drive and Hwy16. This location figured prominently in a 2009 transportation study as one of several
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locations for a new overpass over CN’s tracks as they pass through Terrace. Don’t get me wrong, I am all for a second overpass and not against the need for the city to move forward. But from that 2009 transportation study, I totally understand why the public, the business community, plus simple common sense and logic, have
been spreading the rumours for over six long years that Kalum Drive is the “obvious economical” overpass location. However, these rumours have, unintentional as they may (or may not) have been, blocked all rental agreements and sales of this attractive corner property from taking place, simply due to the uncertainty of access an overpass would
obviously involve. The building has been totally vacant for the past year. And there is no positive sign of anything changing, which makes it all the more obvious that this corner property has continued to be held hostage since these rumours first appeared.
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Dear Sir: I was the one who found the little dog in the diaper box Sept. 13. And since then I’ve followed the news coverage province-wide. At the time of this letter, at least 12 newspapers and radio stations have covered the story, it has also been covered by many local Facebook sites. What is quite disturbing are the comments directed at the dog’s owner. Not once was there any concern for the dog owner’s well-being. Every comment was condemning and echoed the sentiment that the fate of the dog should fall on them. Where is our compassion or so called humanity? Has our humanity been lost – what brought this person to a point in their life where they would leave this dog alone to die in a cardboard box. I believe that people are molded by life’s circumstances which are usually out of their control. I also believe that love and compassion can change people. This person may be suffering from depression, mental illness or some other ailment that we’re not aware of. This poor little dog suffered a fate that none of us wanted to see, but I don’t ask for that for the dog’s owner. If I had known that the outcome of picking up this poor dog would have come to this, then I would have quietly taken him home and lessened his misery and buried him without a word to anyone. The man lost from Kitwanga, the girls lost on the “Highway of Tears”, the immigrant crisis in Syria – these deserve our attention. These people are part of the human family – they deserve more attention and compassion than (sorry to say) – a dog. I love my own dog, she is the most loved and spoiled pet I’ve ever owned, but she is a dog, not a human and I need to keep that in perspective. I’ll always put human life ahead of any other living thing. David Bowen, Terrace, B.C.
Will Japanese nukes torpedo LNG plans?
ack in April of last year I wrote about the elephant in the LNG room – Japan restarting its nuclear power plants. On August 11, the elephant stirred. To quickly recap, as 2011 dawned, Japan had 54 operational nuclear power stations which produced just shy of 30 per cent of the nation’s electricity needs. In March of that year, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and resulting tsunami caused a catastrophic meltdown at the three Fukushima reactors. Alarmed by the disaster, the Japanese government ordered every nuke plant shut down and one by one over the next two years they did just that. The huge hole in electricity supply was filled by increased imports of oil, coal and especially LNG, which by 2013 accounted for slightly more than 43 per cent of Japan’s energy mix. Over that same two years, the
price of oil rose steadily and, since LNG prices were tied to oil, so did the cost of imported LNG, at its height hitting $20 a million British Thermal Units (mbtu). That drove a bus through Japan’s balance of trade, resulting in four straight years of unheard of trade deficits that hit a record US$103 billion by last year, In the same time frame, electricity rates for residential users rose 19 per cent while industry/ commercial got hit with a 29 per cent hike, the latter prompting one prominent Japanese industrialist to suggest companies looking to invest in new manufacturing facilities could decide to do so in countries where the energy costs were significantly lower. Not surprisingly the Japanese government, led by prime minister Shinzo Abe, decided that the solution was to significantly reduce the country’s reliance on imports which in turn meant restarting its nukes. At the same time, and mind-
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MALCOLM BAXTER ful of opinion polls that showed 60 per cent of Japanese were opposed to any such move, it knew that could only happen if a regulatory regime was put in place that allayed people’s fears. The vehicle to do that was a newly created Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority armed with stringent new rules regarding plant safety and the teeth to en-
force them. Which takes us to August 11 this year, the day on which the Kyushu power company, having jumped through all the hoops and cleared all the hurdles, restarted its Sendai 1 reactor on the island of Kyushu. Now granted this is only one reactor but the question of what effect this will have on Japanese LNG consumption is still relevant. And the answer is none. That’s because Kyushu’s power plant fleet, like most other utilities in Japan, includes oil-fired and coal-fired plants and it was five of the former that were taken off-line when Sendai 1 powered up. And it is safe to assume that the same fate awaits the remaining two when Sendai 2 goes operational next month. (It should be noted they are not being mothballed because they might still be needed at times of peak demand.)
So if oil-fired is shuttered first, surely coal-fired is the next to go. Not necessarily. The problem is that while oil was an obvious target given it was the most expensive feedstock for power production, as cheap as LNG is these days coal is cheaper still. In fact, so compelling were the economics that this spring Japanese utilities were talking about building dozens of new coal-fired plants. However, that was before nuclear had taken the first small step in rising phoenix-like from the figurative ashes of Fukushima. What happens to those plans from here on depends on just how high that nuclear phoenix flies. Which takes us to just how many nukes are likely to come on line and in what time frame. But that will have to wait for next time. Retired Kitimat Northern Sentinel editor Malcolm Baxter lives in Terrace. msdbax@citywest.ca
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Landowner seeks overpass answer Therefore I would like to inform all concerned that my company, Karrer Holdings Ltd., will have no alternative but to demand fair compensation for the devastating loss of income this planned rumoured project will continue to have on my company until a location decision is made. If this property is chosen, compensation will include the relocation of the building, due to the destruction of the present three-way highway access. This fatal loss will make a business recovery impossible to justify on this double highway corner property. The building is as
sound as the day it was erected. Other than a paint job, some minor repairs, and the remodeling of the washrooms, this 20,000 sq. ft. building is ready for occupancy. To continue using parts of this specialized, industrial building for storage, with the economy now booming, would be an insult to this attractive corner’s potential. I believe every property owner in the city would feel the same. This second overpass dilemma has completely frozen this property’s income for the past full year. When considering what is happening to my
company that has paid taxes and served the city from this active corner, with as many as 28 employees for 55 years, without a letter or even a simple phone call of concern from a city official, the situation I feel is simply unfair as it is unacceptable. The city has just announced another transportation study. So how long now will it be until the city simply discloses the planned location for a second overpass? I’ve contacted them several times without the answer to this simple question that keeps holding my company hostage. Bob Karrer, Smithers, B.C.
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■ On tour LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR Judith Guichon poses with the Stewart Canadian Rangers contingent during a tour of the north last week. Back, left to right, Constable Jason Dickinson, Eric Drew, Principal Andy Calhoun, Brock Nelson, Scott Hopkins. Front, left to right, Donald Barker, Lieutenant Governor Judith Guichon and Stewart mayor Galina Durant.
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He urges involvement It’s all about respect Layton also sits on the board of the Northwest Regional Hospital District through his position on Telkwa council and is on the board of the Omineca Beetle Action Coalition. The latter calls for more cooperation in deciding on resource use policies. His decision to seek federal office is to represent the northwest in how decisions are made. “I understand that when you go to Ottawa, you are part of the government running the whole country, but at the same time, you are voted in by the people of your riding. They should be the voice you represent.” “I am not happy with the
representation we’ve had,” he said. I’m running to make sure that our riding is represented. We don’t want big business or other parts of the country dictating fundamental things to us on our environment and economics here.” Layton does support the development of a liquefied natural gas industry in the region but only if it meets strict environmental standards. “If that means it costs more, that means it costs more. We’re a first world country with first world technologies. There is no excuse for not doing it the best possible way,” he said. If fewer safety precau-
tions saves millions in project cost and is the deciding factor in a project, “if it’s putting the environment in jeopardy, then it doesn’t get done,” he said. As for the opposition to pipelines most recently expressed by the Wet’suwet’en and Unist’ot’en near Houston, Layton is calling for two-way communication. “All stakeholders have to be consulted and all concerns of stakeholders need to be addressed,” he said, adding that it is the same way in business. “Communication is a two-way street… we have to address the concerns and work through them,” he said.
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“It’s a huge benefit, not just for a career but it’s a good thing to have a second language,” he says, adding he has a French heritage and his wife is of French descent but doesn’t speak the language. He doesn’t want to lose his knowledge of French so he will sometimes watch the news in French. “I think I’ve tried the best I can to preserve that,” he said. And that’s not the only ethnicity in his family. His wife has three sisters who are status First Nations and Metis is included too in the family tree. “I was never taught to [judge on] ethnicity or class
lines and I’ve passed that onto my kids to not judge based on those things,” he said. When he thinks of family, it doesn’t just include his relatives. “I extend it out to my closest friends,” Nesbitt said. “I don’t have any bad personal feelings toward anyone else in this race,” he added. He wants to be able to look back and be content with how his campaign went and not have anything that he wishes he could delete or have to apologize for being disrespectful. “I want to say of this race that I’m proud of a good example demonstrat-
ed and that I can be proud of a respectful campaign,” Nesbitt said. When it comes to northwestern resource development and the ongoing Wet’suwet’en Unist’ot’en blockade preventing pipeline companies from going through traditional territory near Houston, Nesbitt hopes it can be resolved soon. “All I can say is I just hope for a peaceful resolution,” said Nesbitt. People from elsewhere have now joined the Unist’ot’en and Nesbitt’s concern is that these outsiders will exert a negative influence as events develop on the ground.
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COMMUNITY TERRACE STANDARD
MARGARET SPEIRS
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‘Always plant your flowers first’ By KELSEY WIEBE ‘ALWAYS PLANT your flowers first,’ Eva Haugland used to tell her children, one of whom became Mamie Kerby. Mamie and her daughter Norma Kerby took this advice to heart when they established Heritage Park Museum in the early 1980s. Norma, a professor of biology, ensured that a Heritage Garden was included in the preservation of log buildings and artifacts coordinated by the Terrace Regional Museum Society. Norma worked with Floyd Frank and other old-timers to secure plants whose provenance, or story, could be traced into the early settlement days. These plants include rhubarb that came to the Terrace area by sternwheeler from Port Essington before our town had been named. Over the arch at the front gate, we have a honeysuckle from Tom and Eliza Thornhill’s garden between the two bridges that dates back to the 1890s. One of our most showy plants is the Lindstrom rose, which was bred by Emma Bateman Lindstrom at Bateman’s landing near the Zymacord River in the early 1900s. The rose is thought to be a hybrid between an English rose and a wild rose native to our area. It blooms all summer long, and is fragrant and bushy. When I came on board, four-and-a-half years ago, Norma’s garden had been completely dug up. The irises and lilies had spread in the main garden plot, overtaking all of the less territorial flowers. The museum had no choice but to dig up the garden, saving and tagging what remained. Norma recommended that we install aluminum flashing around each plant so that
we could better control the wildness of the garden, and keep the more invasive plants in check. Volunteer Terrace provided two stellar volunteers, Mark Zhang and David Scherer, who began this project. Cathy Jackson from Spotted Horse Nursery donated bedding plants to fill the holes until our plants grew back. In the midst of this community support, I tried to keep up with garden weeding and watering, but it was clear immediately that the garden was too large of a task for anyone to do from the side of a desk. That winter, we applied for summer student funding for a garden coordinator to maintain, expand, and research the garden. We were lucky enough to receive funding from Young Canada Works in Heritage Organizations. We were truly lucky, though, when we hired Terra Nord for the job. Over the past three summers, Terra transformed our garden from a basically bare plot into a thriving, beautiful complement to the museum buildings. She secured donations from all over the community, ranging from a snowball bush from Norma Kerby to banana potatoes from the Froese family, via Ewa Luby and Colleen Froese. After researching the provenance and care of these plants, Terra integrated them into the existing garden. She added compost, manure, and dolomitic lime to the soil, thinned irises and lilies, and researched organic solutions for pests. To help us be more sustainable, Terra built the museum a compost bin. We have added the coffee grounds and fruit rinds from seniors’ teas all summer, and are on track to have lots of rich loamy soil to add to garden beds.
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TERRA NORD, garden coordinator at Heritage Park Museum, stands in front of the Lindstrom rose bush at the museum. Along the same lines, Terra converted the old cedar from our porch into planter boxes in which our rhubarb and potatoes have thrived. She distributed hundreds of Skeena Wonder Strawberry runners, and networked with gardeners across Terrace. In addition to weeding and expanding our understanding of each plant’s history and needs, Terra developed garden-related programming, including children’s workshops on bees, gardening, and compost, in
the hopes of creating a new generation of gardeners. One of Terra’s most lasting impacts is a comprehensive database of plant origin and a garden care plan to ensure that, in future years, the garden continues to be historically meaningful and properly cared for. Thanks to the Kerbys, the community, and Terra, the flowers have not been forgotten! Terrace gardeners are welcome to dig up some of our plants—we are happy to share!
Making Hamlet easier to read By JOSH MASSEY LOCAL WRITER and columnist for the Terrace Standard Al Lehmann has come out with his first novel, an ambitious attempt to render the Shakespeare play Hamlet in a form accessible to people who have difficulty penetrating the archaic language of the original composed some 400 years ago. Hamlet, The Novel is told for a large part in the voice of Horatio Stenmark, one of the characters in the play, who is writing down his version of the story. It is the saga of a prince who is tasked with murdering his uncle to avenge his father’s death and thus assume his rightful place as King of Denmark. “If stories have violent ends, why should they not have vicious
beginnings? And this beginning certainly was vicious,” the tale begins. And yet Horatio himself admits off the bat that his version could be biased, despite his best attempts to render the story accurately. “It might be suspected that the story I tell is only partly true,” he writes. Other parts of the book are told in a more objective form: third person narrative. And while we may wonder about how true this story is to the original play Hamlet, we must put our faith in the author, Al Lehmann, who was an English teacher for many years and whom one expects would know the play inside and out. The original play apparently takes four hours to perform and modern renditions are usually of edited ver-
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AL LEHMANN’S first novel tells the story of Hamlet in his first novel. sions. At 368 pages, Lehmann works on the large scale that pays tribute to the original length of the play. And, more to the point, the book seems to beg us to return to Shakespeare, to corrob-
orate the two versions separated vastly by time and genre. Lehmann is launching Hamlet at the Terrace Public Library next week. See Community Calendar on page 18 for more details.
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■■ Fruit to go LORI MCPHERSON, Kalum Community School Society (KCSS board member, and Gurjeet Parhar, KCSS employee, ask anyone with surplus local fruit and produce to call them so volunteers can come pick the donated fruit/veggies for distribution to schools and community agencies at no cost to the recipients. This is part of the KCSS Fruit Registry Program. To donate or volunteer, call 250-641-3663.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Veterans Dinner cancelled, lack of volunteers blamed SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 12 Branch #13 changed its history from a tradition that has gone on so long no one involved can remember any other. That was to hold the general meetings on the second Tuesday of each month except July and August. The one o’clock in the afternoon meeting on that date must have been an acceptable change as there was a quorum in attendance. The members were brought up to date on activities that took place over the holiday months. We now have a new furnace which is expected to make big differences to the heating bills. The kitchen was upgraded and it is hoped the new appliances will make catering on steak nights and other occasions much easier and that the meals served will be even
tastier if that is possible. Many thanks were extended to the volunteers who are involved in all of these activities. Volunteers - Comrades – Friends of the Legion - we need volunteers. We are slowly losing activities of long standing in our Branch because you are not coming forward to help and those of us who have been doing it all for so many years are playing out. It is with extreme sadness I must tell you that the monthly “Vets Dinner” has to be temporarily suspended. Due to lack of volunteers to cook the meals and a steadily decreasing attendance at the dinners, there will be no further Vets Dinners in 2015. If this situation can be rectified, those happy occasions for our Veterans and guests will be
Legion News revisited in the New Year. If you are interested in attending, continuing to attend and/or assisting with the preparations and cooking of the meals, call the Branch and let us know or preferably leave a note at the Branch for Doug McFarlane with your offer of attendance or service. Coming up in October will be the 2nd Annual Buster Patterson Memorial Pool Tournament, the usual Saturday afternoon meat draws and a special Halloween Dance on the 31st with music, prizes for best cos-
tumes and door prizes. A small entry fee will be charged at the door. Motions were passed to make sizable donations to Mills Memorial Hospital to assist them in the purchase of much needed medical equipment which will make a big difference to the people of this area who have previously had to travel to other areas when they required use of such equipment. At the conclusion of the meeting, coffee and a delicious lunch were served and members enjoyed a visit while awaiting the start of the meat draw. We hope to see you there for the October meeting. Branch #13 is a great place to go, a friendly place to be and welcomes new members. We will Remember Them.
Film festival features local paralympian THE BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings a film to town about a local man who tackles kayaking with passion, not letting being a paraplegic get in the way. Caleb Brousseau stars in the film Caleb, made last year by filmmaker Blair
Trotman of Papatuanuku Film of New Zealand. Brousseau injured himself snowboarding in 2007, but didn’t let that derail his athletic dreams. He earned the city’s first paralympic medal ever, winning a bronze in the sitting division of the men’s super-G
on Team Canada’s para-alpine ski team at the 2014 Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. He also plays wheelchair basketball, went skydiving and got married. For more on the film festival, including date and where to buy tickets, see City Scene below.
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■ KIDS ART CLASSES teach them to create their own masterpieces in 10-week blocks. Messy Monday classes will welcome ages 5-12 from 1:30-2:30 p.m.; ages 5-7 from 3:15-4:15 p.m.; ages 8-10 from 4:45-5:45 p.m. Sessions have a fee per child. The first session is September 28 to December 7 at the Terrace Art Gallery. Call 250-638-8884 to reserve your spot! ■ THE TERRACE ART Gallery presents Quilting Our Lives: A Modern
Journey with Prince Rupert artists Debra Strand and Laurie Gray in the lower gallery for the month of September. And, in the upper gallery, a regional pottery show with the work for sale.
In season
■ SKEENA VALLEY FARMERS Market every Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. until the end of October on Market St. right beside George Little Park. Up to 80 vendors. Music on Sept. 26 is Gavin Stuart from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Dan Robinson from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and SonyaJean Bruneau from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m. ■ THE SUNDAY MARKET is held 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. every Sunday at the Skeena Landing just south of the Hwy 16 and Hwy37 South four-way stop. Music from various local entertainers and vendors selling crafts. Food is also available. ■ FLEA MARKET EVERY Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in front of the George Little House on Kalum. Hidden treasures await those who venture out.
Fundraiser
■ KINSMEN CLUB OF Terrace presents Stand Up for Charity with comedians Ryan Gunther and Kyle Bottom Sept. 25 at the Terrace Arena banquet hall. Doors open at 7 p.m.; show at 8 p.m. Must be 19 or older. All proceeds go to the Kinsmen Foundation of BC which serves the needs
of severely physically disabled adults throughout B.C. Tickets on sale at Misty River Books and Speedee Printers.
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■ ONE DAY TRAINING “Understanding & Addressing Challenging Behaviour” facilitated by Michael Watt, MA, Board Certified Behaviour Analyst, is a free event open to families, professionals and community members interested in learning about disruptive behaviour from 9 to 5 Sept. 26 at the Skeena Middle School drama room. This training offers participants an introduction to Applied Behaviour Analysis and laws that govern behaviour. Please contact Lisa at ldesousa@sourcesbc.ca or call 250-631-3412.
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■ BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM Festival World Tour comes to town at 7 p.m. October 2 at the REM Lee Theatre. The 12 films include local Caleb Brousseau inspiring others in sports after the accident that left him a paraplegic, a 14-year-old taking on difficult rock climbing with his mom, two amateurs rowing across the Indian Ocean, mountain bikers riding trails thousands of years old in Afghanistan, a 90-year-old war veteran returning to Normandy to heal past wounds with fly fishing, plus much more! Grand prize draw. Tickets on sale at Misty River Books. Presented by the Mt. Remo Backcountry Society.
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Terrace Standard Wednesday, September 23, 2015
SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2015
Quality drives mill’s workings IN THE lumber industry, like other manufacturing sectors, quality is king. If a buyer overseas opens a package of timber and sees it’s graded incorrectly, this spells big problems for the mill back home because it risks losing a client in a world where there’s always another supplier and orders can change on a dime. That’s why Skeena Sawmills’ most advanced piece of equipment is a computerized USNR quality-checking machine and also why on staff are quality control officials to monitor the product coming off the sawmill lines and going through the planer mill. “It basically scans the piece, sees the profile of the piece. It makes the decision. If there is too much wane or missing wood, it will know and it will send it back to another machine to get it trimmed back, or it will automatically trim defects out,” says Frank Gration, who is a quality control operator for Skeena Sawmills. According to mill vice president Roger Keery, the USNR computer is the most advanced piece of technology at the mill, and instrumental to Gration getting quality checks done. “It’s one of the most modern piec-
es of equipment in the plant,” said Keery. “It looks at every piece of wood that goes through the mill, individually, and then it knows what size it is,” says Gration. “I’ll watch pieces go through to make sure it’s doing what I want it to do.” If there is anything wrong with the cut wood, it drops that piece down onto another conveyor belt where it gets sent back to a previous stage and recut. Other modern devices include a moisture meter which tells them how much water might be in a certain batch, which is important because sometimes coastal logs like hemlock can hold quite a bit of water. Apart from these more high-tech elements, the mill is still just a traditional lumber mill with a specific type of product coming through day after day – the main one being CS2, short for China Standard Number Two, which is their bread and butter and conforms to Chinese measurements. The mill was built back in the sixties by now city freeman Bill McRae and then owned and operated by West Fraser for many years.
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Mills sells majority of product to Asia It closed because of a four-month strike/ lock out in 2007 and never did fully re-open afterward because of a declining lumber market. West Fraser sold to Chinese-owned by Roc Holdings Ltd in 2011 and the mill re-opened the following year. Since then, the mill has steadily processed 30 truck loads of coastal trees per production day until the markets weakened again this year causing a shutdown for several months this summer. In its modern incarnation, Skeena Sawmills now sends 80 per cent of its wood to Asia, and the other 20 per cent mainly to Canadian markets, with the U.S. spots being too complicated to ship to and their demands not in line with what Skeena Sawmills generally supplies. “It’s been pretty good in the business for the last few years, [but] we are going back, it’s challenging right now, all this angst in the world economy,” said Keery.
As for the Chinese market, since construction of homes is done mainly in concrete, wood products are generally only used for forming the concrete, which is where the CS2 comes in. They also sell to oil field operators in both western and eastern Canada, supplying wood for rig mats and pipe blocking. “People are buying our wood who want to use it in the furniture business,” Keery added of the Chinese end markets. “For our product now, they use it for frames in upholstered furniture and so on, it’s not something that is visible to the user.” But some of the wood coming through is high grade, and with that is the high hope for specialty markets. “A portion of it is really high quality and is good for joinery, which is decorative type woodwork uses. One of our goals is to get more of our wood into high value joinery products,” said Keery.
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Terrace Standard Wednesday, September 23, 2015
SEPTEMBER 20-26, 2015
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Reducing fire hazard goal of gov’t planning By STEVE THOMSON FORESTRY IS a key economic driver supporting families all across B.C. In 2014, forestry provided 60,700 direct jobs, and generated $12.4 billion in exports – accounting for 35 per cent of all B.C. goods exported. One of the risks to our forests and its economic benefits is wildfire. Fire is a normal, natural process in many of British Columbia’s ecosystems. Many species of plants, birds, insects and other animals depend on fire for its regenerative properties. Fire also helps control insects and spread of disease in forests. It also creates forest regeneration, as younger trees replace older trees. Land managers also use prescribed or control burns to restore ecosystems, to enhance habitat and improve forage, or to reduce the wildfire risk around communities. In 2004, we introduced the Strategic Wildfire Pre-
vention Initiative to help local governments and First Nations reduce wildfire risks around their communities. We’ve provided over $67 million. To date, 286 communities have completed community wildfire protection plans and the fuel buildup on over 78,000 hectares of land has been reduced. To complement those efforts, working with the Union of British Columbia Municipalities we have introduced the 2016 FireSmart Grant Program. Grants will be made available to communities and First Nations. And in keeping with this year’s theme for National Forest Week, Wildland Fire –you can make a difference. I’d like to remind property owners that they can reduce the wildfire risk on their properties through landscaping and following the tips in the FireSmart Homeowner’s manual (http://www.bcwildfire.ca/Prevention/firesmart. html) The number of humancaused fires remains too
high. Of the 1,805 wildfires this summer, 545 were caused by humans. The 2015 wildfire season was easier in the Northwest Fire Centre, than in previous years. The northwest experienced 75 wildfires burning 30,089 hectares. However, of those 75 fires, 48 were humancaused. Because of the high percentage of human-caused fires that persists year after year, I asked for a review of fines and penalties in place under the Wildfire Act for human-caused fires – and human interference in firefighting. Twice in August, firefighting operations were shutdown because of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, flying in restricted airspace. Drones put lives and public safety at risk. In addition to asking Transport Canada to strengthen its regulations, we’re looking to see how we can strengthen the Wildfire Act. Steve Thomson is the provincial forests, lands and natural resources minister.
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that we dare not take them for granted. National Forest Week in Canada (September 20-26; http://canadianforestry.com/ wp/national-forest-week/) is often misinterpreted as “national forestry week.” While no-one disputes the role of our forest products sector as one the most important land uses and sources of employment across the country, this week celebrates the forests themselves, not just their contribution to the economy. Remember that forests provide watershed protection (and thus clean water and reliable water supplies for ourselves and for fish and fisheries) and provide habitat for much of our native wildlife. Furthermore, forests bind carbon, offsetting some of
the impacts of our fossil fuel consumption habits. This summer I also hosted visitors from Germany and gave lectures in Denmark and Sweden. Our continuous old-growth forests are held in reverence in that part of the world – Europeans can hardly believe that they are natural, never been cut, not planted. Visitors come here to experience wild forests and pay handsomely for that experience. In much of Europe, natural forests have been displaced for grazing and cultivation and have been repeatedly stripped of fuelwood over the centuries. The “forests” found there today are intensively managed as tree farms (often of our Sitka spruce) for timber production.
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Longterm investment needed in our forests By ROB HART MOST PEOPLE think of Onion Lake as an area for hiking and cross-country skiing. But it’s also a forest and was visited earlier this summer by members of the implementation committee for the land use plans that cover the Kalum District. With host Kim Haworth, the general manager of the city-owned Terrace Community Forest, we wanted to see how it was operating. Lots of planning went into its recent harvest in that area. The Haisla, Metlakatla, Lax Kw’alaams and Kitselas First Nations were all consulted. Pest incidence was considered to see how that might affect the cut. Wildlife tree retention was implemented using the requirements set out in the Kalum Sustainable Resource Management Plan. This block was originally logged in the early 70s. Some was replanted, some naturally regenerated from hemlock and balsam and in the 90s the stand was
thinned. This most recent cut then represents the first harvest of second growth since the original cut some 40 years ago. This pass has taken out 50 per cent of the standing trees and leaves a healthy mix of balsam, hemlock, cedar, spruce as well as deciduous trees to continue to grow and to maintain the forest mix that was there originally. Another harvest will happen in 20 years, allowing for natural regeneration and the cycle will start again with 5 per cent of what’s there now being left to retain old growth characteristics within the forest. All in all, a healthy process of forest management. But we are still struggling to market the harvest. This harvest went to China as raw logs because, at present, we have no other market. We do not yet have a market for trees as bio-fuel nor do we have industries based on value-added products. We have little market for pulp as we no longer have local
mills to process it. Accordingly, we only get the core value out of our forests, the primary jobs of harvesting and shipping the unprocessed product. The Terrace Community Forest has generated $6.6 million into the direct employment of local people working as contractors. Terrace Community Forest produces extra value in that its profits are reinvested in the community in recreation-based groups and projects. But there was one last point Kim Haworth had to share before we left the site that early summer evening. There would have been no harvest, no sale of merchantable wood if thinning had not taken place 20 years ago. It was an investment in communities and their forests that paid off. To continue to collect the benefits, we have to continue to make the investments. Robert Hart co-chairs the committee that oversees the Kalum Land and Resource Management Plan.
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Forests are diverse There are also parklike beech stands devoid of ground vegetation or are degraded oak stands full of brambles and weeds. In contrast, even re-planted forests in Canada typically retain their wild and natural nature, a distinctive Canadian approach. These largely natural forests can promote conservation or economic values as needed, maintaining our quality of
life and future options for recreation and commerce. Of course much more remains to be improved. While a sustained yield of timber and satisfactory regeneration of harvested lands are a given, we have far to go when it comes to sustaining all forest values. Management still seems to proceed with the primary objective of converting trees into 2x4s, with emphasis on biodiver-
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Community Calendar
The Terrace Standard offers the Community Calendar as a public service to its readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-profit organizations and events without an admission charge. Space permitting, items will run two weeks before each event. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursdays. Fax your event or PSA to 250-638-8432. For complete listings, visit www.terracestandard.com
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SEPTEMBER 23 – Terrace Public Library: registration begins for Summer Maker Programs and Story String Productions free family show. (see September 29 and October 8 listings below for more details about both). SEPTEMBER 26 – Terrace Hospice Society holds its free Volunteer Training Program with presenter Joelle McKernan, MSW from Mournings’ Dawn Counselling starts today and continues every other Saturday, Oct. 10, Oct. 24 and Nov. 7 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with an hour for lunch. Tea, coffee, water and snacks will be provided. All four days must be attended. Applications can be picked up at the Terrace Hospice Office at #207, 4650 Lazelle Ave., by phone 250-635-4811 or email terracehospice@ citywest.ca. SEPTEMBER 26 – The Skeena Valley Farmers Market opens from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Market Square, next to George Little Park. Today’s music is Gavin Stuart from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., Dan Robinson from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and Sonya-Jean Bruneau from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. SEPTEMBER 26 – The monthly meeting of 55+ BC Games (formerly called BC Seniors Games) is at 1:30 p.m. at the Kitimat Seniors
Centre Riverlodge. We look forward to congratulating all those who participated in the games in North Vancouver in August. For details, contact Dawn at 250-624-6450 or dquast@citywest.ca. SEPTEMBER 27 – The sixth annual Terrace Kidney Walk goes for a 2.5 km fundraising stroll at Ferry Island. Registration at 1 p.m.; walk starts at 2 p.m. An opportunity for patients on dialysis, organ transplant recipients, their families, living donors, the medical community and the public to come together to raise awareness about the importance of kidney health and organ donation. Donations have reached about half of the $20,000 goal. Info booths, barbecue, nurses on hand to take blood pressure and do glucose testing. For more details, contact walk coordinator Joan Iamele at 250-6353834 or 250-615-2464. SEPTEMBER 28 – Local author Al Lehmann launches his book, Hamlet: The Novel, at 7 p.m. in the Ed Curell Reading Lounge at the Terrace Public Library. Light refreshments will be served and books will be available for purchase. SEPTEMBER 29 – Back by popular demand! Summer Maker Programs at the Terrace Public Library continue this fall. Afterschool Program - Tinkering Tuesday for ages eight and older is from 3:30-4:30. Registration starts September 23 in person or by phone at the Terrace Public
Library 250-638-8177.
SEPTEMBER 30 – Awana Cubbies Preschool Program for three- and four-yearolds starts today from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Thornhill Community Church. Songs, crafts, games and Bible stories. For more details, call Melissa 778-634-2425. SEPTEMBER 30 – Men and women with
disabilities who are looking for work are invited to WorkBC from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the WorkBC Employment Services Centre, Northwest Training. Hear guest speakers, enjoy a catered lunch, explore the latest in assistive technology, and check out the new accessibility app “Planat,” developed by the Rick Hansen Foundation. Special guests include Chris Arnold, a job development expert; Robert Broome, an injured logger who created the award-winning business “Wine n Suds,” and Paralympic medalist Caleb Brousseau. Contact WorkBC today for career counselling, workshops and training, and supports. Call 638-8108 and ask for Michelle or Sarah. SEPTEMBER 30 – TCC Kids’ Klub for children ages five to 12 starts tonight from 6:15 to 7:30 p.m. at Thornhill Community Church. Games, songs and gospel message. For more details, call Melissa at 778-634-2425. OCTOBER 3 – The Skeena Valley Farmers Market opens from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Market Square, next to George Little Park. Today’s music is Alvin Brochu from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
OCTOBER 3 – Oktoberfest parties from 6 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the Thornhill Community Centre. 19+. There is a fee. Put on by the Rotary Club of Terrace Skeena Valley. For more, contact 1kar4@queensu.ca. At this annual fundraiser, enjoy a night of live music, dancing, local craft beer and authentic cuisine with family and friends while supporting your community. Copper Mountain String Band plays 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Soul Professors from 9 p.m to midnight. Beer Garden by Sherwood Brewery and Wheelhouse Brewery on tap. Authentic Bavarian cuisine. Provided by Emmy’s Kitchen. Free shuttles home. Sponsored by Terrace Totem Ford. prizes for best dressed male and female, tons of door prizes, 50/50 draw, bingo with your chance to win a trip for 2 with Hawkair. Tickets available from your favourite rotarian, Uniglobe Travel, Mumfords or Sherwood Brewery. Sponsored by Lakelse Financial, Terrace Totem Ford, Terminal Express, Sherwood Brewery, Wheelhouse Brewery, First Line Security and Hawkair. OCTOBER 7 – Greater Terrace Seniors Advisory Committee meets at 1:30 p.m. at the
Happy Gang Centre. Looking for new people to be on the committee: seniors, family members of seniors, people working with seniors, organizations dealing with seniors, anybody who has suggestions to improve the quality of life for seniors living here and concerns about accessibility issues. The committee meets the first Wednesday of the month. OCTOBER 8 – Free Family Show: Story String Productions. Storyteller Anne Glover from Victoria shares tales from around the world, tied together with mind-bending string figures, from 7-8 p.m. at the Terrace Public Library. Limited space so please register in person or by phone at the library 250 638-8177. Registration begins September 23. OCTOBER 10 – The Skeena Valley Farmers Market opens from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Market Square, next to George Little Park. Today’s music is Michael Averill from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
OCTOBER 10 – Terrace Toastmasters is
thrilled to welcome Paul Mercer back from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly in the Fireside room. Listen to Paul as he recites his experiences with Toastmasters and how its helped him reach his communication and leadership goals. Admission is free and refreshments will be provided. To RSVP or for more information, please call Janine Wilson, VP of Public Relations at 250-615-8187.
THE TERRACE CHURCHES’ Food Bank will be open for distribution from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. from October 5-8 in the Dairy Queen basement. If your last name begins with the letters A to G, please come on Monday, H to P come on Tuesday, Q to Z come on Wednesday. Anyone missed can come on Thursday. Please bring identification for yourself and your dependants, who must be living at your address. ID must show picture on it, preferably BC Care Card, driver’s licence, BCID, birth certificate, status card. You will need proof of address with current street address on it, such as rent receipt, hydro, gas or utility bill, phone or cable bill. THE TERRACE MULTIPLE Sclerosis Support Group meets every other Wednesday of the month. A very informal group who meets every two weeks for coffee and to have a few laughs. Those with MS, family members and anyone interested in MS are welcome. We have current information on new treatments, drugs and clinical trials in progress. Meetings are at one of the members’ homes. We’re always open to new members so feel free to phone our contact people to find out when our next meeting is: Doug 250-635-4809 or Val 250-635-3415.
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Look Who’s Dropped In! Baby’s Name: Lincoln Timothy Wiebe Date & Time of Birth: September 1, 2015 @ 9:25 Weight: 9 lbs. 14 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Leah & Ryan Wiebe “New brother for Oliver” Baby’s Name: Baby’s Name: Bianca Katherine Roldo Riley Wesley Date & Time of Birth: Date & Time of Birth: September 3, 2015 @ 4:38 a.m. August 25, 2015 @ 7:15 Weight: 8 lbs. 11 oz. Weight: 8 lbs. 15 oz. Sex: Female Sex: Female Parents: Beverly & Nino Roldo Parents: Angelina Doolan & Calvin Wesley “New sister for Dario, Chiara, Mia, & Brando” “New sister for Chase in Heaven” Baby’s Name: Baby’s Name: Vinnie Elizabeth Preston-Middleton Deklin-Jaxonpercy Quock Date & Time of Birth: August 21, 2015 @ 4:51 p.m. Date & Time of Birth: Weight: 7 lbs. 8 oz. September 2, 2015 @ 4:34 Sex: Female Weight: 6 lbs. 9 oz. Parents: Kirsten Middleton Sex: Male & William Preston Parents: Cassidy Handel & Clayton Woods “New sister for Paxton & Tucker” Baby’s Name: Grace-Lilli Inez George Date & Time of Birth: September 10, 2015 @ 12:24 p.m. Weight: 8 lbs. 4 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Dorian George
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Police seek owner of abandoned dog By MARGARET SPEIRS
THE CITY and area need an emergency number to call if someone finds an animal in distress and shelters aren’t open. That’s the position of a Thornhill resident who was out walking his dog in Copper River flats on Sunday, Sept. 13 and found a small dog abandoned in a diaper box. “The frustrating thing is there wasn’t a fast go-to person to take that dog to,” said David Bowen. “There should be an on-call emergency number that a guy could call and get someone.” Bowen said he went to the Kitimat-Stikine regional district’s Thornhill animal shelter, phoned its number and it wasn’t open. He then flagged down RCMP Constable Aaron Muzzerall who was conducting a traffic stop nearby. “He was very frustrated that someone left the dog, [and that there] wasn’t someone in town to tend to that dog on Sunday afternoon,” said Bowen. “I wanted to bring donuts to this guy. He’s one of the good ones.” Muzzerall, who is with the area’s West Pacific Traffic Services,
otherwise known as the highway patrol, then took the dog to a veterinarian in Kitimat, the only service available that day. “We estimate the dog had been left for at least two days. He was still alive, but barely. He had been left to die in the woods in a box,” said Muzzerall in a statement issued the next day, Sept. 14. “He was severely dehydrated and suffering from an eye infection. The vet also discovered other health complications. In the end, the decision was made to have the poor little guy euthanized,” he said. “An animal should never be treated this badly and have to suffer like this. Owning a pet comes with it a responsibility to take care of it.” As to whether Muzzerall called the vets in Terrace first to see if he could take the dog to one of them, Terrace RCMP media relations officer Const. Angela Rabut said police were focusing on identifying the person or persons who abandoned the dog. As for who to call if someone finds an animal in distress after office hours, answers were varied. A city animal shelter
employee said the answering machine there said to call the fire hall or police. Terrace veterinarians couldn’t be reached to comment. The Kitimat-Stikine regional district’s website states “neglect and/ or cruelty to animals should be reported to the BCSPCA online atwww.spca.bc.ca. Complainants are required to create a profile and sign in. Be prepared to provide as much information as possible including an address where the animal(s) is/ are located. It is stated that ALL complaints will be investigated. If the complaint is of a life threatening nature, call the emergency number 1-604-879-7343.” It also suggests calling the Kitimat Human Society for possible assistance. “If available, the Humane Society may be able to investigate with the assistance of the RCMP – who is authorized to enforce the PCA Act,” the website added. There is no SPCA officer, who is also authorized to enforce the act, in the region. “The best place to call is the Terrace or Thornhill animal shelters during business hours,” said Rabut.
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“If there is a criminal element, as in this case, call us.” As of September 18, police were still asking the public for information as their investigation had not found anything yet. “We have had a couple of tips that did not go anywhere with investigation. Nothing conclusive,” said Rabut. The criminal code includes laws and punishment for cruelty to animals. That could involve either permitting or causing “unnecessary pain, suffering or injury to an animal or a bird,” according to one section
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THIS DOG, abandoned by its owner, had to be put down last week because of its various ailments. of the criminal code. Another section refers to abandoning an animal in distress or ne-
glecting to adequately care for it by providing food or water. Punishment, depend-
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Open House and Invitation to Comment Aurora LNG (Proponent) is proposing to construct and operate the Aurora LNG Project (proposed Project), a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility and marine terminal for the export of LNG. The proposed Project would be located on the southeast corner of Digby Island near Prince Rupert, BC. The proposed Project would export up to 24 million tonnes per annum of LNG. The proposed Project is subject to review under British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act and is also undergoing a substituted environmental assessment under the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act. The Proponent must obtain an environmental assessment certificate before any work can be undertaken on the proposed Project. However, prior to submission of an application (Application) for a certificate by the Proponent, the Environmental Assessment Office of British Columbia (EAO) must first approve the Application Information Requirements. The Application Information Requirements will specify the studies to be conducted and the detailed information to be provided by the Proponent in its Application. The EAO has now received draft Application Information Requirements from the Proponent and invites comments on this draft. To provide information about the Application Information Requirements, EAO invites the public to attend an Open House. The Open House is scheduled as follows: at: North Coast Meeting & Convention Centre 240 – 1st Avenue West, Prince Rupert on: Wednesday, September 23, 2015 from: 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. There are 30 days for the submission of comments by the public in relation to the draft Application Information Requirements. The comment period will begin on September 1, 2015 and end on October 1, 2015. All comments received during this comment period in relation to the Application Information Requirements will be considered.
The intention of seeking public comments is to ensure that all potential effects – environmental, economic, social, heritage and health – that might result from the proposed Project are identified for consideration as part of the assessment process. At this stage of the process, the primary intent is to receive feedback about the studies or information required for a comprehensive environmental assessment. After taking public comments into account, EAO will finalize the Application Information Requirements and issue them to the Proponent. EAO accepts public comments through the following ways: ONLINE FORM
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Marguerite Janis Adrianne Benoit May 01, 1932 – September 14, 2015
Born in Terrace on May 01, 1932, passed away peacefully in her home on September 14, 2015, surrounded by her loving family. She fought a courageous battle with cancer, with dignity and grace. Predeceased by her husband Ivan in 1983, and her parents Joe Paquette and Marianne Provost. Survived by siblings Diane, Bill (Debbie), Adrienne (Al), Jan (Barry). Children Joe (Chelan), Sharon (Malcolm), Gail (Dennis). Grandchildren Keith (Tracey), Gerald (Carole), Keri (Scott), Kevin (Deanne), Jocelyn (James), Tara (Nick) and her special great grandchildren Kailyn, Aidyn, Mariah, Riley, Natanlie, Ethan, Sarah, Logan and Alyssa. As well as numerous nieces, nephews and friends. She always enjoyed gardening, baking, cooking, quilting, photography and winemaking. Every occasion was made very special for everyone. The family would like to thank Dr. Lotz, the caring staff at Mills Memorial, the Palliative Team of Community Nursing whose compassion and care was exceptional. Thank you also to family and friends, your support has been greatly appreciated.
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June was born in Kimberley B.C. She was the third child of Ethel and William Bailey. She spent her youth in the Kootney’s where she later met her husband Dennis Bradford. They moved to Terrace in 1969 where she resided until her passing. She was predeceased by her husband Dennis in 2013, two sisters and two brothers. She is survived by her children. Gerry, Wesley (Sheila), Scott (Michelle) four grandchildren, seven great grandchildren, four sisiters and numerous nieces and nephews. She will be sadly missed by all. The family would like to thank Dr. Strydom, Dr. Linton and the staff at Mills Memorial Hospital. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the REM Lee Foundation.
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Liberty Tax Service Inc. is currently looking to hire a motivated and experienced Income Tax Preparer/Office Supervisor for our Terrace location to file T1 returns.
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Job Description: The Tax Preparer conducts an in-depth interview with the client and obtains all information and material required for tax preparation. Fully communicates to client the procedures, paperwork, and time frames applicable to the service being provided. Accurately prepares all paperwork and completes all required data entry according to office policy and procedure. Requirements: t Prior tax preparation experience required t Course of study in tax preparation and/or accounting a plus t Basic knowledge of computers and data entry a plus t Excellent communication skills both written and verbal Remuneration: Competitive and commensurate to qualification and experience. To apply, please submit your resume and cover letter via e-mail to: CAResumes@libtax.com
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2 bdrm townhouse, clean, quiet, F/S, W/D. N/P, N/S. Adult oriented. $900/mo + utilities. 250-635-5587 2 bedroom, 2 bath house with large fenced yard in town. Has 5 appliances. $1500 No pets, no smoking. 250 615 1891 3 bdrm family home, 2 dens and rec/rm in Horseshoe. Good rental ref’s reqd. N/S, N/P, $1600/mo. 250-638-8639
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AVAILABLE NOW. EXECUTIVE house. 5 bdrm, 3.5 full baths inc full ensuite w/jacuzzi, with all appliances. Large landscaped yard w/detached shop/garage, $2500/m ref’s req. Contact by email: rent2100@gmail.com or (604)506-1757 CHARMING lakelse lake front home, spiral staircase to a loft bedroom, open floor plan hard wood & heated tile floors, very clean, suitable for professional/single/couple $1600/mo., ref’s req’d. 250-635-2346
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Items will be available for viewing at: The Public Works Yard at 5003 Graham Ave., Terrace, B.C. between the hours of 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 25, 2015. Sale by Sealed Bid to take place at: The Public Works Yard at 5003 Graham Ave., Terrace, B.C. between the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015.
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Townhouses Townhouse for sale in Kenney Estates in Terrace, B.C. 3 bdrom, 2/12 bath, full bsmt partially finished. Laundry facilities on main floor. 55 plus community. Ready for immediate occupancy. Call 250635-6992 or 250-615-2153.
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT
TAKE NOTICE THAT application has been made to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 2069 – 2014 by amending the Permitted Uses in the R5 – High Density Multi-Family Residential Zone for the property at 4714 Park Avenue. THE SUBJECT LAND: The application affects the land located at 4714 Park Avenue, within the City of Terrace, shown hatched on the accompanying map and described as: Lot 11, District Lot 361, Range 5, Coast District, Plan 1103 Except BCP45974 THE INTENT: Amend Section 11.6.1.2 by including the following: In addition to the uses listed in Section 11.6.1, the following site specific use(s) are permitted in the R5 zone, at the location(s) specified: a. Daycare Centre, on: Lot 11, District Lot 361, Range 5, Coast District, Plan 1103 Except Plan BCP45974 as a Primary Use
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2015 TAX SALE Pursuant to Section 403 of the Local Government Act, a Tax Sale will be held in the Municipal Council Chambers, 3215 Eby Street, Terrace, B.C., at 10:00 a.m., September 28th, 2015, for the disposition of the following properties. The following properties have delinquent taxes as of September 10th, 2015: Folio #
10042.000
Address: 4515 Scott Ave.
Legal Description: Plan 3647, Lot 8, DL 838
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The sale of the following properties is subject to Section 403 of the Local Government Act and Section 252 of the Community Charter: Folio # 19037.002 19045.000
Owner: Blue Rentals Ltd. William Long
MHR# 36949 36733
Location: 37-3614 Kalum St. 45-3614 Kalum St.
Upset Price $643.91 $223.74
NOTICE TO PROSPECTIVE PURCHASERS: 1. Tax Sale properties are subject to tax under the Property Purchase Tax Act on the fair market value of the property. 2. Only commercial property is subject to G.S.T. 3. Both taxes become payable if and when the transfer of title occurs following the expiration of the redemption period. 4. The municipality makes no representation, express or implied, as to the condition, quality or encumbrances on the properties for sale.
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Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land Take notice that Wade Bursey from Stewart, BC, has applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Skeena Region, for a Crown Grant Direct Sale situated on Provincial Crown land located THAT PART OF DISTRICT LOT LOT 336, CASSIAR DISTRICT CONTAINING .034 HECTARES, MORE OF LESS, Stewart, BC. The Lands File for this application is 6408874. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Coast Mountains Land Officer, FLNR, at Suite 200 – 5220 Keith Ave. Terrace, BC V8G 1L1. Comments will be received by FLNR up to October 13, 2015. FLNR may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http://www.arfd. gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp for more information. Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ Office in Smithers.
BYLAW INSPECTION: THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT BYLAW AND RELEVANT BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS MAY BE INSPECTED in the reception area at the City of Terrace Public Works Building at 5003 Graham Avenue, Terrace, B.C., between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day from Wednesday, September 16, 2015 to Monday, September 28, 2015 excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays. For enquiries concerning this application contact the Planning Department at 250-615-4022. PUBLIC HEARING DETAILS: Any persons wishing to voice their opinions regarding this application may do so in writing, and/or in person, AT THE PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD IN THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AT 7:00 P.M. ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2015. THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, R.S.B.C., 1996, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO.
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Dragon boat races stir new interest By JACKIE LIEUWEN WATER SPLASHING everywhere, a boat-load of men paddled hard against each other in opposite directions during the new tug-ofwar dragon boat event last weekend. The event was a new feature in the annual Dragon Boat Regatta at Furlong Beach. Two boats were packed, with eight men facing east and eight facing west as they fought for each ripple of distance. Dragon Boat Society Treasurer Sally Ryan says it was a good day all around. “The sun shone on us all day which was beautiful and the wind didn’t pick up until the end of the day,” she said. “Everybody seemed to have a good time and the races went well.” The regatta had 140 participants, or seven teams, competing, including three from Terrace, two from Kitimat, and one each from Prince Rupert and Smithers. Two of the Terrace teams were made up of volunteers and new paddlers. Briana Pellegrino put together a team of new paddlers for the City of Terrace. A new paddler herself, Pellegrino says it was “harder then it looked... but really fun.” She enjoyed the camara-
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THE LAKELSE Dragons paddle their boat in after a race against the City of Terrace White Lightening team at the Dragon Boat Regatta September 12. derie and enthusiasm in the boat and just being out on the water.
“I’m hoping to continue my dragon boating career,” she said, adding that several
on her team talked about joining the Lakelse Dragons next year.
Ingrid Overbeek, who put together the second team of new paddlers from Northern
Health, said she also had a lot of fun. “It was a really upbeat event, lots of team building. It was great fun,” she said. “Everybody had a really good time.” The big Guts & Glory race took on new shape this year. Instead of the strenuous 1,000-metre race, the two lowest-scoring teams lined up to paddle a race backwards. “That was fun to watch,” said Ryan. In the finals, Kitimat Leftovers and the City of Terrace White Lightning team went head to head, and Ryan says it was a real nail biter. “The difference in the finish was point 8 of a second,” she said. “A great finish to a great day.” Ranked from top to bottom were Kitimat Leftovers at 1:12.0, Terrace White Lightning at 1:12.8, and the Prince Rupert Rainbow Warriors at 1:17.3. Next was the Terrace Lakelse Dragons at 1:20.5, Kitimat Free Spirit at 1:24.7, and the Smithers Tyee Lake Dragons at 1:26.0. The new Health Mob team of Northern Health volunteers did not make finals. The regatta wrapped up the season, and paddlers are organizing for next year. Next spring, the season will kick off with workshops.
Scenic King of the Mountain trail race Saturday By JACKIE LIEUWEN
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LAST YEAR drew 100 runners, and this year organizers hope to have more at the annual King of the Mountain race this Saturday, starting at 10 a.m.
THE BEAUTIFUL Terrace Mountain trail will swarm with runners for the King of the Mountain trail race Saturday. Last year the race had over 100 people, and they’re hoping for more this year, said Kristine Ewald, one of the event organizers. The race starts at 10 a.m., and Ewald says the people and natural beauty make it a great run. “It’s just a fun race, everyone is really encouraging,” she said. “The mountain is beautiful, and being on the trail is amazing.” She enjoys the variety in terrain, with sections of soft trail and sections of rocky ground, treed areas and a scenic lookout over the City of Terrace and the surrounding valley. “There is something about trail running,” she said, adding that it is also easier on the joints. Runners will take the same 10 kilometre route as last year, starting at
the Terrace Recreation Centre, taking the bike trails from Johnson Street to the top of the hill, and then taking the hiking trail back down. At noon, Ewald says they have lots of prizes to give out, from a free roundtrip Hawkair flight, to health food bags and vouchers to local restaurants and businesses. All volunteers and participants have a chance to win, as prize winners are decided via random draw. Ewald says people can pre-register at Source for Sports or by emailing terracetranscendfitness@gmail.com. Cost goes up for those who register on race day and registration is at 9 a.m. Saturday. This is the first race organized by Transcend Fitness, a new, women’sonly gym that just opened on Lazelle with a focus on busy moms. They are also organizing a glow in the dark race for kids on October 17 at the Skeena Middle School track, and a 5-km, 10-km, and half marathon race on October 24.
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TERRACE AND Kitimat skaters gather with Coach Steve Muff and Rio Tinto sponsor Andy Lecuyer (back centre) after a Terrace skating seminar September 12-13.
Seminar sharpens skills and invigorates local skaters By JACKIE LIEUWEN TERRACE FIGURE skaters sharpened their skills and were re-invigorated at a recent Terrace skating seminar, led by a level three certified coach from Kelowna. “All the skaters have a new vigour, a new love for their sport,” said club president Elaine Sanchez after the seminar. “It really does inspire them and motivate them and gives them more drive to succeed and keep pushing themselves.” The September 12 and 13 seminar was taught by Coach Steve Muff, a 15-year coach who has produced multiple provincial
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champions and national competitors, and has been involved in a B.C. and Yukon skater development committee. It is key for local skaters to get a fresh perspective and learn new techniques and skills, said Sanchez. “[Coach Muff] is in the heart of competitive skating and those skills that he is teaching down south, he is bringing that to the north and keeping us on par with the rest of the province,” she said. The two-day seminar drew 24 skaters, 18 from Terrace and 6 from Kitimat. The skaters cycled through four stations in four groups based on
ou drive down a back road, slip on your waders and raincoat, unzip pockets to check for nylon, and grab your flybox – the one plugged with flies, most of which you never use, but, hey, you never know. Then you start down the trail that the almost too friendly clerk in the sporting goods shop said would lead to a derelict gravel pit. After a few hundred metres you push through an alder thicket, and there is the pit, as promised. The map the clerk drew, as he told you in hushed tones, about the best run on the Bulkley, the one that almost nobody knows about, is the pockets of your pants. Shoot. You unbuckle your wading belt, awkwardly plunge your left hand into your waders and then into the pocket of your jeans, and pluck out a wad of paper. You extract your arm, squeeze your rod against your side with the other arm, and unfold the paper with the route to extravagant steelhead fishing, wondering, for the first time, why, if the spot was special, a clerk you’d just met was so eager to tell you about it. You re-examine the crudely drawn map. There is a dotted line underneath an arrow over which the clerk has written “to town” indicating the direction you are to take across the pit. The pit is a larger excavation than you expected. You dodge a few puddles, then climb the crumbling bank,
their skill level. One station was off-ice training to build strength and agility and learn techniques for jumps and spins. Two stations were on ice, with one focused on mastering the jumps and spins and the other focused on speed, pushes and basic strokes like cross overs. The fourth station was yoga, where skaters did stretches with a local instructor to improve their flexibility. Muff also evaluated and critiqued performances by the senior skaters, giving them tips to enhance and improve their personal program.
The seminar was run by the Terrace Figure Skating Club with a $5,000 grant from Rio Tinto, half
Sports Scope KING OF the Mountain trail race on September 26. Registration at 9 a.m. and race starts at 10 a.m. at the Terrace Recreation Centre.
against Prince Rupert Rampage at 7 p.m. September 26 at the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre in Prince Rupert.
CANUCKS ALUMNI to play Terrace team at the Terrace Sportsplex September 26. Meet and greet at 4:30 p.m. and the puck drops at 7 p.m.
POOL REOPENS at the Terrace Aquatic Centre on September 28.
RIVER KINGS exhibition game
before checking the distant whine of an outmap once more, finding board engine. In a mina crudely drawn fence ute, a sled slides into the which stands in front of tail. There are rods out you, as promised. the back and two fisher“To river 5 min,” is men aboard. They pull written under another up to the bank and drop arrow drawn next to the anchor. In seconds they fence icon, perpendicuare out working a spot lar to the first arrow. It that has obviously given proves to be more like them fish in the past. “2 min,” through unYou sit down and tended pasture. Your watch dejectedly as they pulse quickens. Spread work the water for what SKEENA ANGLER out below you is one must be 10 minutes, of those wide Bulkley/ then, as quickly as they ROB BROWN Morice glides, a picturcame, they’re off and esque corridor with the gone. recently yellowed leaves So much for the great vividly reflected in the secret run, you think, but river’s surface. you are here now. You’ve But your soaring heart plummets earth- an investment in the place, and besides, it’s ward when your eyes land downstream on beautiful, even more so now that you’re a MacKenzie River style drift boat. Three alone. You ponder your approach. It’s one men are sitting in it, one, obviously a guide, of those big, boulder bottomed, enigmatic is at the oars. The other two are seated, Bulkley runs that seems as if it could hold their rods in holders fastened to the side of fish throughout. You know it won’t. the craft. A third fisherman, still standing The guided fishermen that preceded in the tail out is reeling in. As you watch, you will have fished and, quite likely, sucrestfallen, he slides his rod into a holder, perficially because their guide will want then climbs awkwardly into the boat. The to high grade the river, show his sports a skipper pulls the hook. As the guide boat lot of runs to keep them interested and get floats around the next bend, you hear the them a few fish in the process. It also oc-
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for this seminar and half for a second seminar that will run later this winter.
RIVER KINGS kick off their season with a home game at the Terrace Sportsplex on October 3.
curs to you that, since it’s early in the season, steelhead will be on the move, meaning that some may slide into the run as you are fishing. You know that the higher a fly is in the water column, the better its chance to be seen by a steelhead, so you put on a waking sedge, make 10 metre casts and work down the run, examining it through polarized shades for holding spots and travelling lanes. When you reach the spill, you return with new knowledge to the head again, where you wade a little deeper and cast a little farther. The urge to change patterns prods you, but you resist. There is also the urge to rush, but you stay focused, working slowly and carefully. Now you’re into the rhythm of the river and the fishing. Before the third pass, you sit on a log, take the thermos out of your raincoat and think about things over a coffee. The surface fly has had a good workout. You put the thermos away then switch to a fast sinking tip and size 6 leech. Back in the water. Cast. Three steps. Cast. Three steps. The fly stops. You lift. Resistance. A short time later, you slip the hook from the jaw of a white, bright female steelhead. You know a school of similar fish may have moved into the pool, but, in these circumstances, one fish meets the challenge. It’s enough. You leave satisfied.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015 Terrace Standard
Effort underway to sponsor Syrians TERRACE RESIDENTS will be helping several Syrian refugee families escape to a much safer place: here. After receiving many requests from residents about how to help the refugees, Skeena Diversity Centre hosted a meeting Sept. 15 and welcomed 20 people, including representatives from two local churches, Sacred Heart Parish and Knox United Church. “About 20 people came out and within an hour, we had a commitment and a plan,” said Skeena Diversity executive director Sasa Loggin. “As a community, we are looking to sponsor two to four families.” The decision was made to establish a “Group of Five,” a term used by Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) because five or more people are required to register as those willing to sponsor refugees, and for the two churches to each sponsor a family. “After getting through the process of registration, we will work on the applications together,” she said, adding that information indicates that the cost of sponsoring a family is $20,000 for the
first year. “Yes, the cost is high but people felt very confident,” said Loggin. A Facebook page, Terrace Sponsors Syrian Refugee Families, has been set up and will
provide latest information, ideas and meeting times. And crowd-funding is being looked at to raise money along with asking groups and individuals to help. The
group isn’t able to set up a bank account quite yet. “After we have raised all the money, we can proceed with the application to CIC to sponsor refugees,” said Loggin.
“I have to say that I was really amazed how committed and compassionate people are, and how willing to do something people are.” Canada and other Western countries have
just remains to be seen who is willing to open up their borders and to how many. The group’s next meeting is 6 p.m. Sept. 29 at Skeena Diversity Centre.
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Beating nets jail A MAN has been given 30 days in jail for beating another man with a metal bar. Damien Tyson Shanoss pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm and two breaches of undertaking or recognizance in provincial court here Sept. 11. On June 22, Terrace RCMP reported that officers were called to a fight on Pear St. where a man was beaten with a metal bar, causing major injuries. Police arrested a 24-year-old man and a 20-year-old woman and then awarded charge recommendations to provincial Crown prosecutors, who decide whether to press charges. Shanoss was also ordered to provide a DNA sample to police and to pay $300 in victim fine surcharges. Shanoss was also sentenced to a period of probation following his release.
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Located in Stewart, the Stewart World Port offers shippers a day and a half closer shipping time to and from Asia than can be had by using southern port facilities, says company official Brad Moffat. “The name is self explanatory – we’re opening Stewart to the world,” he said. That Stewart is icefree and that its harbour area is very deep offers competitive advantages, Moffat added. “If not the deep-
est, I believe it is one of the deepest,” he said of Stewart’s ranking among ports on the west coast. In the shipping world the Stewart World Port is called a break bulk facility, handling goods and material that aren’t normally shipped in containers and are not shipped in bulk such as grain. “We’re open to the mining sector, oil and gas, project cargo, pipes, logs,” said Moffat. One example might be accommodation modules for workers at a resource camp, he said. Moffat said the company has already secured one client but that he could not yet release its identity.
“We are negotiating a number of contracts,” he added. Stewart World Port is privately owned by Ted Pickell of Fort St. John who also owns Arctic Construction, the company that built the facility. “He’s a visionary,” said Moffat in adding that Pickell kept construction on track for a three-year completion schedule. Work is now starting on a new phase, this time a $60 million project featuring a traveling bulk shiploader. “This is a large belt system, allowing us to move products like mine concentrate or wood chips. It’s a tremendous amount of infrastructure and will move up and down
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Canadian dollars, the decline in the Canadian dollar is expected to be beneficial,” the company said. “In addition, certain of the capital expenditures contemplated in the June 2014 feasibility study have already been incurred with the advance of the project, and Pretium has begun to examine the opportunities to optimize the project as engineering advances.” Earlier financing for exploration and development came from a (US) $75 million deal reached in 2014 with the Chinese Zijin Mining Group.
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