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◆ Flu shots - pg 2-3 ◆ Beyond the Market - pg 3

◆ Happy Halloween - pg 5 ◆ Community builder - pg 7

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Daylight Savings Time ends Sunday, November 1, 2015, 2:00:00 AM clocks are turned backward 1 hour

Red Cross Hosts free lasagna dinner to raise anti-bullying awareness On Nov. 3, the Canadian Red Cross will be hosting a free lasagna dinner for parents, children, teachers and community members. The event begins at 6 p.m. in the old FSJSS gym. The theme is promoting healthy relationships and learning how to support children or youth who are experiencing bullying.

Nechako Valley Festival

38th Annual Nechako Valley Festival of Performing Arts will be held March 9-20, 2016. Please visit the website for more details. www. musicfestivalweb.com/ nechako. The committee is always looking for volunteers to help plan this event.

Members of the Stuart Lake Seniors Association and the Stuart Lake Hospital Auxiliary: Judy Greenaway, Jacquie Dagenais, Sherry Nielsen, Diane Vinnedge, Julie-Ann Mortenson and Bea Barnes.

The Stuart Lake Seniors Association Bus is ready to ride It was four years ago that the members of the Stuart Lake Seniors Association made a strategic plan alongside Economic Development Officer, Emily Columbo from the District of Fort St. James. This plan identified a need for transportation for the seniors within the Fort St. James community and this is when “Seniors Helping Seniors” was developed. The program helps meet senior’s needs from deliveries to medical appointments out of town. According to Judy Greenaway, president of the Stuart Lake Seniors Association, something was still missing; there still seemed a need socially for the seniors in the community. This is when the idea of a bus was introduced by past district council member, Russ Gingrich. The Stuart Lake

Auxiliary was approached and a very generous donation of $30,000 was made to help the idea of a bus come to be. Julie-Ann Mortenson is president of the auxiliary. “It’s our wish to provide patients and residents with comfort and care. We thought this to be useful in our community and especially for our seniors, Mortenson said. Diane Vinnedge couldn’t agree more. She is a member of both the auxiliary and the seniors association. “It’s wonderful if you can’t drive due to medical reasons. There are lots of seniors who are in wheelchairs in Fort St. James,” Vinnedge said. Funding also came from New Horizons, a seniors grant program. Other local companies also jumped on board to help with the purchase of the bus including: Canfor, Newland Enterprises Ltd., Carrier Lumber, Sinclair

Group, Northland Automotive & Industrial Wholesale Ltd., BnK Automotive, Auto Parts Plus Riverside Repairs and Lost Creek Holdings. “Without all of this support, we would never have been able to make this happen,” Greenaway said. The bus was purchased this past summer and it will make its first trip on Oct. 30. Seniors will be travelling to a studio fair in Prince George. “We are planning for one social event each month,” Greenaway said. Greenaway is grateful to the community for all of their help. “Social interaction for our seniors is an important part of their well-being. We are very proud of our bus and we would like to thank the Stuart Lake Hospital Auxiliary and all the others who contributed and helped make this possible for the seniors of Fort St. James.”

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NEWS Get your flu shot: “don’t let the flu get to you” Courier

It’s that time of year again. Flu immunization clinics will be held in Fort St. James from Nov. 3 – 13. Call (250) 996-7178 to book your appointment. Preventing the flu is everyone’s responsibility. Influenza or the flu is a common, infectious respiratory disease that begins in your nose and throat. It is highly contagious and spreads rapidly from person to person. Fiction: Influenza is not a serious problem Fact: Influenza is a highly contagious virus that infects millions of Canadians every year. While most recover in about a week, up to 8,000 people, most of them young children and seniors, will die due to flu-related complica-

tions like pneumonia. Flu shots are especially important for: * People at high risk: * Adults and children with chronic health conditions * People with morbid obesity * People who are residents of nursing homes and other chronic care facilities * People 65 years of age * Children 6 to 59 months of age * Healthy pregnant women * Aboriginal peoples * People capable of transmitting influenza to those at high risk * People who provide essential community services * People in direct contact during culling operations involving

poultry infected with avian influenza. You can protect yourself and those around you from influenza. Annual immunization is the safest and most effective way to prevent infection, to reduce the severity of your symptoms if you do get sick, and to keep from spreading the virus to others. Fiction: The flu vaccine can give me the flu. Fact: The flu vaccine cannot cause influenza because it does not contain any live virus. Flu vaccines only contain parts of the more common strands of flu viruses in order to prompt your immune system to create the right antibodies to fight off the real virus.

Mild side-effects can occur but rarely last more than 48 hours. Severe allergic reactions are possible but occur less than once in every million vaccinations in Canada and are treatable. Fiction: I got the flu shot last year so I’m still protected. Fact: It is necessary to be immunized each fall to make sure your body forms antibodies against the most common strains of flu viruses circulating that year. Because the flu viruses are capable of changing from year to year, the vaccine is updated annually. Each year, the World Health Organization (WHO) identifies three strains of the influenza virus that are predicted

to be the most common and therefore will have the most impact on our

health. Influenza vaccines are then developed based on these

three viruses. See more about flu shots on page 3

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District of Fort St. James Calendar OCTOBER, 2015 SUNDAY 25

MONDAY 9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nak’azdli

Municipal Website: www.fortstjames.ca

NOVEMBER

Public Skating 5:30-7:30 Small Business Fair 12-3, North Arm Pub

8 Public Skating 5:30-7:30

Regular Council Meeting 7pm 9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nakalbun

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Lunch Program @ The Anglican Church

9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nak’azdli

Lunch Program @ The Anglican Church

9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nak’azdli

Lunch Program @ The Anglican Church

23 Public Skating 5:30-7:30

Red Haven Concert & Masquerade Ball 996-1897 District Pumpkin Walk 6:00-8:00pm @ Historic Park Kwah Hall

9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nakalbun Women Connect NVCSS Boardroom 349 Stuart Drive 6-8pm

Public Skating 7:00-8:30

9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nakalbun

9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nak’azdli

Lunch Program @ The Anglican Church

25 9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nakalbun

Craft Fair 10:00-4:30 @ High School

Public Skating 7:00-8:30

Public Skating 5:30-7:30

SATURDAY

Public Skating 7:00-8:30

4 Flu Shots start

9:30-11am Pre School Gym @ Nak’azdli

16 Craft Fair 10:00-3:30 @ High School

THURSDAY

Lunch Program @ The Anglican Church

Public Skating 5:30-7:30

Cancer Support Group 1pm Sue - 996-8639

WEDNESDAY

Christmas Home Fair Shopping Blitz 10:00-4:00pm @ United Church

Please submit all events by Wednesday for the next Wednesday paper distribution. ofĲce@fortstjames.ca

FSJ Minor Hockey 8-3:30pm

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Public Skating 7:00-8:30

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NEWS Beyond the Market is hosting Courier

another workshop in Fort St. James “Many of these business owners lack good business planning so we try to help them with being more strategic allowing for better income in the end,” Merrick said. “We provide very simple and easy to use technologies that can be accessed from your computer or mobile phone,” she said. The Beyond the Market project is an economic development strategy that supports local food and agriculture across the B.C. Highway 16 region. It has been running since 2010 by Community Futures Fraser Fort George who continue to provide small business owners and entrepreneurs with various services including: business coaching support, business financing, self-employment services, events, workshops and small business tools and resources. Merrick hopes for a good turnout in Fort St. James. “It can be challenging because some have been farming for

Get your flu shot From page 2 Fiction: I don’t need the flu shot because I never get sick. Fact: You may not be at risk of a serious illness but those around you may be more vulnerable. Even mild symptoms of influenza mean that you could be carrying it into the lives of your family, friends, coworkers and many others that you come in contact with during the day. By getting immunized every fall, you will develop the antibodies to break down the flu virus in your system, lower your risk of catching the virus, reduce

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the severity of symptoms and avoid spreading the infection to those who are more vulnerable. Fiction: The flu shot doesn’t work. Fact: Immunization is the most effective means to reduce the impact of influenza. As with any vaccine, the flu shot may not protect 100% of all susceptible individuals. However, with a good match to circulating strains, influenza vaccination prevents illness in approximately 7090% of healthy children and adults. You might still get influenza, but vaccinated people usually experience

only mild symptoms. You could still get another strain of influenza that the vaccine was not designed to protect against. Fiction: Immunizations do my children more harm than good. Fact: The benefits of flu shots far outweigh the risks. Flu shots are especially important for children ages 6 to 23 months, who without immunization could be susceptible to serious flu complications. Flu vaccines do not contain live influenza virus and will not infect your children with the flu. For more information, visit:www.publichealth.gc.ca and www.ImmunizeBC.ca

years and others are just starting out. But we do have something for everyone,” Merrick says. “We just want to help everyone succeed.” For more information and to register visit: http:// beyondthemarket.eventbrite.com/

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NOTICE OF A MAINTENANCE POWER OUTAGE FORT ST. JAMES AREA We will be making electrical system improvements in your area. To ensure the safety of our work crews, it will be necessary to interrupt electrical service for approximately three hours.

Where: Fort St. James, Tl’azt’en, Nak’azdli, Yekooche When: Sunday, November 8, 2015 Time: 2:00 a.m. to 5:00 a.m. To prepare for this interruption and protect your equipment from damage, please turn off all lights, electrical heaters and major appliances and unplug all electronics. We are sorry for the inconvenience. We will restore power as soon as we can. Visit bchydro.com/outages or call 1 888 POWERON (1 888 769 3766) for more information.

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The workshop series, led by Diandra Oliver, co-founder of Home Sweet Home Grocery, will be held on Nov. 16 from 1 - 4 p.m. on Nov. 16 at the municipal office in Fort St. James. The workshop will provide information on low-cost technologies for anyone with a farm or food business. Oliver brings a world of teaching knowledge and experience in various technologies that have personally helped in her day-to-day in operating and promoting her small business. An introduction to available tools will help small business owners access their technology needs. It will show them how important tools will assist with various needs such as: processing inventory, time management, billing and payment systems, branding and marketing. Project Manager, Jillian Merrick says that it’s all about growing a sustainable business from the farm.

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B.C. VIEWS: Seeing the forest and the trees TOM FLETCHER

when the B.C. Liberal government changed its approach to forest management. Gone was the NDP’s infamous seven-volume “Forest Practices Code,” which There was a flurry of excitement in the B.C. legislaattempted to micromanage every detail of a timber ture last week, as Delta South independent MLA Vicki licence, right down to inspecting for litter left at a logHuntington released documents suggesting that a mulging site. tinational manufacturing company continued to buy up In came “results-based” forest management, where B.C. farms for carbon offsets after they said last June licence holders had to produce a plan showing stream they would stop. protection and other values. The Forest Practices False alarm, as it turns out. Agriculture Minister Board has found these plans often aren’t good for Norm Letnick clarified that three more farms in the much, although results are generally good when they Peace and Cariboo region had indeed been bought, but follow up with on-the-ground audits of actual timber the company was merely following legal advice to close harvest areas. deals on farms that it had already agreed to purchase. The investigation found that many of the plans The company, British-based cleaning product and Mountain pine beetle has affected vast areas of B.C. forests. cover “vast and overlapping areas of the province, and pharmaceutical maker Reckitt Benckiser (RB) confirmed Photo courtesy of Black Press were written using legal language that makes them this. A company official reiterated that its program to very difficult for public understanding or review.” Litbuy farms and replant them with trees is suspended. tle has changed since a similar finding in 2006. been part of the regeneration of the ecosystem since the By the time the B.C. government became aware of this During that time, the forests ministry was turned into retreat of the last Ice Age. global public relations scheme, thanks to the work of NDP Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, with Beetle-kill areas are already coming back, and they MLA Lana Popham and others, about 10,000 hectares of were never completely denuded in any case, so the notion greatly increased responsibility over wildlife, mining, gas farmland was already planted with seedlings. RB initialof manual planting these areas seems impractical. Most are drilling and so on. ly said they were buying up abandoned and unproductive Columbia River-Revelstoke MLA Norm Macdonald, now criss-crossed with deadfall and all but impassible. farms, but local government officials disputed that. who traveled the province as NDP forests critic in recent Another situation that received little public attention RB soon realized that undermining already precarious was a report issued late this summer by the B.C. Forest years, says the problem now is there just aren’t enough farming communities was going to provide the opposite of people on the ground to assess what’s going on in our huge Practices Board about forest stewardship plans. the green publicity they sought, at least in B.C. The comThe board reviewed 43 stewardship plans from all re- expanse of Crown land. pany told me it is now looking to switch its carbon offset Meanwhile the city media covers professional protesters gions of B.C., prepared as required under provincial law by program to replanting forest areas depleted by pine beetle forest tenure holders on Crown land. They are supposed to issuing demands about the Walbran Valley. and fire. deal with things like where roads go and how streams are I’ll believe that when I see it, but on the face of it, this Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for protected. sounds almost as questionable as converting farmland back Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc This is the management system put in place in 2003, to forests. Pine forests need fire to regenerate, so fires have Black Press

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NEWS Local orchestra hosts Courier

Vancouver symphony veteran VIVIAN CHUI Omineca Express Vanderhoof’s classical music enthusiasts, on and off stage, won’t need to travel far for live musical notes from the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra this season. In Vanderhoof and Prince George this weekend, VSO veteran Gordon Cherry will be accompanying the Northern Orchestra’s first concerts of the season. Performing in VSO and CBC Vancouver Radio Orchestra as principal trombonist from 1974 to 2009, Cherry had taught the trombone to Gordon Lucas, the artistic director of the Northern Orchestra, for four years, Lucas said. “He’s my teacher and he’s my friend,” he said. “I strong-armed him and brought him up.” Cherry will be playing with the orchestra’s 50 members who hailed from both cities, with the majority from Vanderhoof, Lucas said. The group of musicians encompassed a wide range of age groups, from the youngest at 11 to the oldest at 68, as well as all levels of playing — though not all may play in a concert, he added. “There’s a minimum level that they have to play to, ” Lucas said. “Although I have a lot of beginners in there…they can get in[to concerts] gradually.” He added, “It’s a true community orchestra; I don’t say no to anybody.” Lucas had founded the N.O. in 2002 when he

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retired from his role as principal violinist of the Prince George Symphony Orchestra. “I started the orchestra because there was no amateur orchestra here and I felt there’s a need,” he said. For Sara McBride, Gr. 12, who has joined the group last year and plays clarinet, the wide variety of individuals is beneficial for her music. “I learn a lot more with people who are a lot better,” McBride said. Peaige Loewen, who plays flute in the orchestra and has also become a member last year, agrees and finds the group an opportunity to meet players from different parts of the community. “You get to meet people you never would have met,” Loewen said. “Some are even homeschooled.” The Northern Orchestra’s vision lies in ensuring “that learning more about classical music is something the entire community can enjoy,” as well as including people from all walks of life who share a common passion and a love of live orchestral music, its website states. With music from Grandahl, Rossini, Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, and Schubert, the orchestra’s first Vanderhoof concert of the season will showcase Kevin Teichroeb as solo violin and Megan Loewen as solo cello in “Autumn” from Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”. The concert will take place on Nov. 1 at 2:00 p.m. in Nechako Valley Secondary School’s Integris Community Theatre.

COSTUME SAFETY (Looking good out there) While kids (and adults!) may be focused on a costume that impresses friends, try to keep safety top of mind: * Wear a light-coloured or bright costume, reflective tape or arm bands to heighten visibility. * Make sure the costume that is properly fitted to reduce the chance of tripping on it. * Select a costume that is constructed from flame-retardant materials. * Make sure your vision is not restricted. Consider completing your costume with make-up not masks. * Shoes should fit properly even if they do not go well with a costume. * Create a fun necklace with string and glow sticks to keep kids visible to cars. Or accessorize with a flashlight! * “Fake”: Swords, knives and guns part of your costume? Make sure they look fake but remember, some people still may not be able to tell the difference. BE STREET SMART Pedestrian Safety (Hit the sidewalk) If parents can’t go with children, have another parent, older sibling or babysitter go with them. Tell them to

stay on the sidewalks – no jaywalking, not even to get to that really cool decorated house. Woof Stay away from animals you don’t know. Pets get frightened on Halloween. Plan ahead (Make a plan) Parents should be aware of the route that their children plan to follow Ensure your child is wearing a watch or has a cell phone to meet the agreed-upon curfew. Safety in Numbers Older children trick-or-treating without an adult should walk in groups and stay together Emergencies Older children should know what to do to get in touch with you in case of an emergency. Make sure your child knows the places along his or her route where they can get help. FIREWORKS In many BC communities, the use of fireworks is strictly prohibited by law. Fireworks aren’t kids play: Every Halloween children and adults end up at hospital emergency rooms for firework-associated injuries. For more information visit: BC.RCMP.CA

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The power of music brings David Hoy Elementary School community together BARBARA LATKOWSKI

Barefoot Caravan will also be sharing the stage with Red Haven, another band from B.C. on Halloween night at the Fort St. James Community Centre Theatre. Tickets for the concert and mas-

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“We hear music with our ears but feel it with our hearts.” This was certainly true as kindergarten students from David Hoy Elementary school broke out in song with a tune called “Hands and Hearts” along with the band, Barefoot Caravan. The school gym came alive as primary students from kindergarten to grade 3, sang, danced and played their hearts out as teachers and parents clapped and sang along. The students practised all week along with the band in preparation for the final performance on Oct. 22. Barefoot Caravan truly believes that music belongs to everyone. “Music and the arts are a gateway to knowing ourselves: a window to the soul. This is why music is so important

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Members of Barefoot Caravan; Angela, Roy, Chris Dusevic and Riley Mc Connell perform with primary students at David Hoy Elementary School. Photo by: Barbara Latkowski

in the world today.” The band, based in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley, perform and provide musical workshops to schools in B.C. to promote visibility and accessibility to children and to also increase intercultural understanding through rhythmic based programs. Barefoot Caravan performs indigenous music in various languag-

es combining root rhythms such as Soca, Afro-Cuban, Gypsy and Reggae with melodic harmonies. They are currently touring with their new debut, EPEchoes. On Friday, October 30 at 1:30 p.m., the band will be performing with the senior students in theDavid Hoy Elemtary School gym. All are welcome to attend this energetic and fun performance.

We are looking for a Retail Lender (Financial Services Officer) to work in Vanderhoof on a permanent, full-time basis. The primary functions of the position will be to meet the needs of our customers/ clients, as well as refer the full range of lending, financial planning & insurance products and services. The applicant should have a successful track record in actively seeking new customers/clients, analyzing financial information, building consumer lending portfolios, and marketing basic and complex deposit products. Furthermore, the successful candidate must enthusiastically participate in all branch campaigns and promotions, and maintain a high profile. They should be an expert at win-win based problem solving and providing customer-focused service.

For this position, extensive lending experience is necessary. If you are interested and would like to apply, please upload your resume/cover letter by visiting www.integriscu.ca/careers and locating the corresponding position under the current openings tab.

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Keeping culture alive “Guy” Prince brings culture into his home and out into the community. BARBARA LATKOWSKI Caledonia Corier

When you walk into his home, you are instantly welcomed. The door opens and closes often. Children, friends, family and even strangers are greeted with a warm smile. Drums and artwork fill the living room. His wife sits with him. The two are close, it’s a bond felt ever so evidently. “We’ve been married five Francois “Guy” Prince at home with one of his years,” Fran- drums. cois Prince says. a cultural liaison with Carrier Sekani Francois, more commonly known as “Guy” was Family Services where he works with front line workers from cliniborn and raised in Fort. St. James. “I love teaching in and out of my cians to teachers in helping them home,” Prince says. “To see my cul- better understand cultural differture coming alive in my home is a ences and how to blend in with the community and its programs. true blessing.” Ruby works as an addiction Keeping his Carrier culture alive recovery counsellor with Carrier is something Prince is very passionSekani Family Services. ate about. And much of this is done Prince, himself, is well aware of through teaching. Prince, 48, and his wife Ruby, the effects of addiction. “I grew up learning to respect both graduated with teaching diploeverything around me. My father mas from UBC. “It was the first time university programs like this were taught me to respect life, land and water. I was the youngest of 10 chiloffered here,” he said. The four year program led dren and I was taught to respect my to teaching in various schools and elders,” he said. Growing up though, he didn’t currently Prince holds a position as feel that support from his elders. He

dropped out of school and ended up his work at the Stuart Hospital. dad ever told him. following a bad road, a road that led For Prince, it truly is about culA young boy was playing at the him to drugs, alcohol and jail at the ture. “Right now, I am so passionate river. He fell in and turned into a young age of 17. about keeping the language alive. salmon. When his parents caught “I was addicted and I stayed on Everyone thinks it’s lost but it’s not,” him, he turned back into a boy. that bad road for almost 25 yrs. My Prince says. “It’s all about re-intro“Look at the life of the salmon,” parents passed away when I was on ducing culture back into the com- Prince says. “If the boy dosen’t stay that road but in 2005 I finally so- munity.” with his parents, he’ll get into troubered up,” Prince said. And for Prince, there is no better ble. Just like salmon need to stay “My road to recovery led me to way than through teaching. with their group in order to survive Ruby. She helped me and supported “My dad was a teacher. He al- and be safe, the boy too needs to be me,” he said. ways taught. And it’s amazing be- with his parents.” Having lived on the streets him- cause that’s what I’m doing right Prince intends on staying with self, Prince now mentors youth in now. I think he lost hope for our cul- his group and will continue to bring the community and they look up ture when I became addicted. He lost others, young and old back to their to him. “He’s always quiet but he’s hope for passing on the culture.” culture. “My dad would be proud. I always there for the community,” Prince recalls the first story his am passing on the culture. I feel I can Ruby says. “He has such impact. He’ll never admit it but he really does. Everyone loves him,” she said. Prince speaks regularly at youth conferences and to high risk youth about native pride and making good choices. He has spoken at “The Key” about addiction and continues to travel to elementary schools to teach staff and students about the Carrier culture. He also teaches drum making, singing and drumming. Both he and Ruby belong to the Didoh Ne Drummers who perform regularly at community events. Prince is also a well-known artist. Guy Prince (lower left) with the Didoh Ne Drummers. You might recognise Photos by Barbara Latkowski

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FSJSS boys soccer team head to provincial championships after winning 2nd place at Zones tournament. Photo by James Waddell

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The FSJSS boys soccer team is on their way to the provincial championships. “The team played very well at the Zone Tournament,” coach, James Waddell said. Waddell has been thrilled with coaching

the team this year. “They finished 2nd at Zones and now off to the provincials,’ Waddell said. FSJSS defeated Mountain Christian School 4 -1 and they won against Westside 1-0. FSJSS lost to Burns Lake but made a determined come back to defeat Fraser Lake 1-0 in

The Fort St. James Secondary School junior girls volleyball team win against Northside, Vanderhoof on Oct. 22. Photo by: Barbara Latkowski

the end. The team will travel to Kamloops for the Single A Boys Provincial Championships on Nov. 4 – 7. ç

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A Fort St James Falcon jumped for an over-the-net block during the team’s first play-off match against Prince George’s College Heights Secondary in Vanderhoof’s invitational tournament on Saturday morning. After tight loss in the first set at 21-25, the Falcons defeated College Heights at the second and third sets with 25-18 and then 12-3. The Fort St James senior girls volleyball team placed sixth among 12 teams in the region this weekend.

The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako (RDBN) held its second forest forum on Oct. 13, 2015. Participants included local politicians and representatives from forest industry, community forests, Council of Forest Industries, Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, First Nations and the Omineca Beetle Action Coalition. Discussions focused on issues such as changing climate and the significant changes to wildfire management around fuel build up and intensity of fires. Bill Miller, Director of Electoral Area B, explained that wildfires have had cumulative impacts to the region over the last few years. Miller said discussing sustainable forest practices is vital. “Forest is our home, our sustenance, our workplace, and our recreation place,” said Miller. “It is a part of who we are.” He added the forum was important to ensure the RDBN is working collaborative in their approach to getting the best use of the region’s resources and capacities. Participants heard presentations from Brian Simpson, former Executive Director of the Wildfire Management Branch, Tim Ryan, Board Chair of the Forest Practices Board, and Bradley Martin, Senior Protection Officer with the Northwest Fire

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Real Estate John Prince Research Forest SUP 22194 2015/16 Operational Plan Notice is hereby given that Chuzghun Resources Corporation (CRC) has prepared an operational plan for the John Prince Research Forest (SUP 22194) in the Fort St. James District. This plans shows blocks scheduled for harvest for winter 2016/17. In total, approximately 79 ha of harvesting (approximately 22,000 m3) is proposed. Review and Comment: The plan will be available for review and comment until October 30th, 2015 at CRC’s office, during regular business hours (8:00 AM – 4:00 PM). CRC is located at #133, 250 Douglas Ave, Fort St. James, B.C. Phone is (250) 996-3700.

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AMENDMENT REQUIRING APPROVAL 2006 FOREST STEWARDSHIP PLAN Prince George & Stuart Nechako (Fort St. James portion) Natural Resource Districts Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor), Carrier Lumber Ltd., Takla Track & Timber Ltd., and Conifex Inc. have prepared an Amendment Requiring Approval (ARA) to their joint Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) for operations in the Prince George and Stuart Nechako (Fort St. James portion) Natural Resource Districts. The Amendment is available for public review starting on October 26th, 2015. Amendment ARA-013 is required to: Extend the term of the Forest Stewardship Plan for an additional five years; Update the licenses and agreement holders to which the plan applies; and Review Results/Strategies for revision as necessary. In accordance with the Forest Planning and Practices Regulation, Amendment ARA-013 is available for public review and comment from October 26th, 2015 to December 31st, 2015 at any one of the following locations during regular office hours (8:00 am to 4:00 pm): Canadian Forest Products Ltd., 5162 Northwood Pulpmill Road, P.O. Box 9000, Prince George BC V2L 4W2; Phone: (250) 962-3343, Fax: (250) 962-3217 Carrier Lumber Ltd., 4722 Continental Way, Prince George BC V2N 5S5; Phone: (250) 563-9271, Fax: (250) 563-9371 Conifex Inc., 300 Takla Road, P.O. Box 254, Fort St. James BC V0J 1P0; Phone: (250) 996-5412, Fax: (250) 996-5425 Takla Track & Timber Ltd., same as Canadian Forest Products Ltd. above Representatives will be available to discuss the proposed amendment at the above office locations, and to receive comment(s). If an interested party is unable to review the Amendment (ARA-013) during regular business hours, please contact us by phone or in writing to arrange a suitable time.

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Nechako Lakes students get voice through peers VIVIAN CHUI Omineca Express Moving on from satisfaction surveys and focus groups, Nechako Lakes school district’s students now has a defined group from their peers that advocates their needs. A Student Voice representative from Vanderhoof presented the group’s mission and vision statements, as well as its values to School District No. 91’s board on Oct. 19. With two students from each high school in the district — including Burns Lake, Fraser Lake, Fort St. James, and Vanderhoof — Student Voice was started in 2013 when the school board became interested in having student opinion, said Manu Madhok, the school district’s director of instruction. “They rarely get a chance to say whether they are satisfied or not,” Madhok said. “If you’re thinking of a business model, they are our customers.” With no particular model for the student voice project at its inception, the first group of students were picked by each school’s vice principal, Madhok explained. “The kids said what we need to do is a survey in what the kids think about,” he said, and the group went on to conduct an online survey across the school district through broad questions, such as naming five things the school does well, rating their school involvement, and suggesting how the school experience can be improved. Bullying, racism, communication, and school engagement are the main topics that emerged as the group categorized the collected information according to grade and gender. To gather more indepth information in person, the group then conducted focus groups with specific questions on the issues affecting schools, and are now reviewing the results. For Danielle Marks, who represents Nechako Valley Secondary School in Student Voice along with Zech Night-

ingale, participating in the group is an opportunity to learn and help. “It was exciting to learn lots about issues,” Marks said. “I’m able to address and help solve the problem.” The most surprising

result for Marks was one of the main topics that had emerged from the survey. “You hear about bullying, but I thought it’s more in the past,” she said. “I didn’t expect it to be so much of an is-

sue in some grades.” Representatives of Student Voice currently attend school board meetings on a rotational basis, as the group has no hierarchy system. “As soon as you elect one person, all we’ve

done is created a structure where one person represent all students,” Madhok said. “We want to stay away from that.” Though the majority of group are active members of student government in school,

the group is looking to diversify, with future representatives found by students. “When we started, we are deliberate in the sense that we wanted a broad spectrum of students because it really

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is about getting student voice,” said Eugene Marks, the school district’s director of instruction. “It’s about building capacity and leadership across a wider number of students,” Marks said.