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Second World War veteran Douglas Bateson, 95, looks back on a lifetime of memories at his 95th birthday party in Smithers in August. Bateson passed away in September but his granddaugther, Amanda, is making sure his stories and sacrifice are remembered by writing them in a book for generations to come. Story, page B7. Contributed photo
Transport emails Smithers man arrested include Smithers after armed robbery By Alicia Bridges Smithers/Interior News
Notes from a Smithers meeting about safer transportation along Highway 16 were among 36 B.C. government emails released last week, almost one year after they were requested in a Freedom of Information (FOI) request from the B.C. NDP. On Nov. 19, 2014, North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice asked the government to release all records that referenced the issue of missing women along Highway 16, also known as the Highway of Tears. Her FOI request specifically
related to meetings about held by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI) between May 15 and Nov. 19 last year. Although some of those records were made public earlier this year, a report by the B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham found MoTI had located 36 emails that were “potentially responsive” to the request, but had ultimately decided not to release them. Denham recommended those emails should be made public and the Ministry released them last Monday. See TRANSPORT on A2
Smithers RCMP have arrested and charged 22-year-old suspect in relation to a brazen robbery in Smithers over the past week. The Smithers man was scheduled to appear in Smithers court Monday after an alleged armed robbery at a gas station. The incident took place on Halloween afternoon at the Copperside Foods store, which is inside the Petro-Canada gas station at the corner of Frontage Road and King Street. Police allege the man entered the store about 4:20 p.m. carrying a knife and wearing a hooded sweatshirt, black balaclava, ski goggles and gloves. He allegedly approached the cashier and demanded money from the register, taking several bills before fleeing the scene. Officers were unable to locate the suspect when, according to police, they arrived about 30 seconds after the incident took place. They seized video surveillance footage to help their
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investigation. The man has been charged with robbery, disguise with intent and possession of a weapon. Smithers RCMP said the man was also a suspect in a second robbery three days later, although he has not been charged. Police allege the suspect approached a female store employee who was taking a coffee break behind the Shoppers Drug Mart building on Main Street at about 2:15 p.m. The suspect allegedly threatened to get out a knife when the woman refused to give him her cellphone and car keys, so she relented and gave him the phone. Police say the suspect demanded she get in her vehicle and give him the keys, but she refused and threw coffee in his face, at which point he fled the scene. The incident was also captured on video surveillance.
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Better transport needed: NDP B.C. Liberals have been excusing their failure to bring in an enhanced public transportation system along Highway 16 by saying that people don’t want it and don’t think it’s practical,” said Karagianis. “What these newly released notes show is that far from saying it was a bad idea, people were brainstorming about what public transportation connecting communities would look like and how to best make it work.” Ministry spokesperson Trish Rorison told The Interior News the consultations indicated northern communities did not want a shuttle bus. “During consultation we heard from some local communities and service providers that a ‘one size fits all’ approach, like a long haul shuttle bus travelling up and down the corridor, will not address the diverse transportation needs of the people living along the Highway 16 corridor,” said
From EMAILS on Front One of the emails includes notes from consultations in Smithers, where the Ministry was told current public transportation options were inadequate. The Ministry was asked to recognize that the “current situation is inadequate, especially in terms of public transportation options.” Ministry representatives were also told that “missing women must be part of the conversation as that is the only reason MoTI is in the room”. Cuts and scheduling problems with the Greyhound bus service and problems with the reliability of rail transportation were also raised. NDP Women’s spokesperson Maurine Karagianis said in a press release the emails proved community leaders in the North had asked the Ministry for better transportation connecting communities along the highway corridor. “For the last year the
Rorison. She said the Ministry was instead exploring “community-based” transportation solutions. SMITHERS FORUM On Nov. 24, the Ministry and the First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) will host a transportation symposium in Smithers on Nov. 24. According to a press statement from the Ministry, the discussions would be attended by representatives from 23 First Nations communities as well as municipalities along the stretch of highway between Prince Rupert and Prince George. Rorison said an itinerary for the symposium had not been finalized. “Generally, participants will be discussing the results of a recent survey on transportation sent to First Nations in the region and identifying community-based transportation options and solutions that will address
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LNG training for Moricetown
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The B.C. government says it is helping Moricetown Band members get ahead of the pipeline curve by preparing them for LNG industry jobs with an education program announced last week. The Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation last Thursday put $385,000 towards the first year of KyahWorks, a three-year program aimed at giving Moricetown Band members better access to job training. Adult education, postsecondary preparation and advanced trades training will be among the courses offered through the program, which will be delivered to 229 participants by the Kyah Wiget Education Society (pronounced K-eye-a Wi-get). There will also be courses in environmental monitoring, health care, camp operations, security training and occupational first aid. Funding for the program comes from the government’s $30 million Aboriginal Skills
Training Development Fund, which has been put aside for First Nations training for LNG jobs over the next three years. None of the proposed pipelines have all the approvals they need to start construction but Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister John Rustad said the training would still be provided regardless of pipeline progress. “I’m confident that we will get final investment decisions, but whether or not we get them we made a decision that we wanted to do some training early to work with nations so that they are in a position to take advantage of these jobs when they are created,” said Rustad. “That’s why we initiated the training this year and have been working with the nations and committed to the threeyear component. “Our hope is that by starting this early the training will not only benefit the individuals but give them that leg up on opportunities to be able to get some of these jobs that are being created from LNG.”
Rustad said the Ministry had created the program in consultation with the Moricetown Band to customize the program to the community. “We are working directly with the nations, asking them what they would like to see, as opposed to what we have traditionally done, which is we provide a program and then we try to go out and get First Nations to participate in it,” he said. Moricetown Band Chief Duane Mitchell was among those who voted in favour of two multi-million dollar LNG agreements signed by the band in January. The first agreement guaranteed an immediate payment of $1.1 million to the Moricetown Band as the 16th and final First Nation to sign on to the First Nations Limited Partnership (FNLP) with Chevron Apache. The second deal, a benefits agreement with the province supporting TransCanada’s Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, consists of a combination of employment and environmental funds and
legacy payments totalling about $6 million. Mitchell said training programs like KyahWorks were part of the reason he supported LNG development in the Northwest. “It’s not just with the pipeline, it’s for long legacy jobs, if they want to become a nurse, or a teacher or a secretary,” he said. “Something that they could lean on the for the next 40 years of their life.” He said one of the key benefits of the program was that it was being delivered locally. “They can stay home and do their training at home, they can walk to school instead of bussing it to Smithers or bussing it to Hazelton to the community college,” he said. “It’s right in their back yard and with transportation and getting their kids to school, it’s a win-win situation for the parents.” Although there is opposition to LNG development in his community, Mitchell does not believe that will deter people from signing up to the KyahWorks courses.
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING You are cordially invited to Wetzin’kwa Community Forest Corporation’s
Annual General Meeting; Friday, November 20th, 2015 The “Old Church Hall” – 3704 First Ave in Smithers from 12:00-2:00pm Lunch will be provided – Please RSVP by Wednesday, November 18th. For further information please contact the following: Jay Baker, RPF, General Manager Wetzin’kwa Community Forest Corporation Phone: 250-847-3680 / E-mail: general@silvicon.com
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TransCanada is planning to soon apply to have another option for its Coastal GasLink route south of the Bulkley Valley. Pipeline project president Richard Gateman told The Interior News of the idea during a visit to Smithers in August, but the company is now moving forward with the plan to have an option several kilometres north of the approved route. The company said consultations with mostly Wet’suwet’en people in the area led to the decision. The alternative covers about 56 kilometres, and brings the pipeline north of the Morice River watershed and farther from the Unist’ot’en camp blocking access to pipeline workers. Members of the camp do not wish to negotiate for any LNG pipeline access through the Wet’suwet’en Dark
House’s territory. “We continue to diligently pursue engagement with Dark House, and we’d prefer to talk with them in a meaningful way in an effort to address concerns. We respect the rights of individuals to peacefully express their point of view,” wrote Coastal GasLink spokesperson Shela Shapiro in an email. “The project is widely supported by several communities and Aboriginal groups across B.C. Northern communities understand the benefits from the construction and operation of the Coastal GasLink pipeline and ultimately in the emergence of the LNG industry in B.C.,” continued Shapiro. The new route would also require fewer trees to be cleared as it goes through a harvested region. Chevron has said it does not plan to reroute its Pacific Trails Pipeline, which has a nearly identical route to Coastal GasLink’s first one.
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PreambleThe Town of Smithers recognizes the traditional territory of the Wet’suwet’en people and is committed to working collaboratively with the Wet’suwet’en to By Chris Gareau council in September. met by opponents from the ensure the long-term stewardship of the Smithers/Interior News Council decided to adopt community who felt the plant local environment. its own declaration rather than should not reopen until an air Smithers is an environmentally use the Blue Dot’s. Members quality assessment was done. conscious community that values its Smithers town councillors spent nearly an hour at the Council passed the permit connection to nearby forests, mountains, unanimously passed a meeting going through the amendment after NewPro lakes and rivers and the wildlife contained declaration at the Oct. 27 declaration line by line to make said the switch would actually therein and recognizes the interconnection council meeting that calls a minor changes to the non- cut emissions by 94 per cent between a healthy environment, strong healthy environment a right legally binding declaration. compared to when the plant economy and healthy people. that all people should have. “Different people interpret was last open. Thirty to 40 Declaration“It can serve as a reminder the meaning of different employees are expected to Whereas the Town of Smithers to council when we make statements in different ways, work at the plant. understands that the health of the decisions in the future that and our amendment process “The detailed discussion community and the health of our this is one of the lenses that was aimed at building as much and debate around that permit environment are inextricably linked; we have committed to viewing consensus among council as showed that council takes Now therefore the Council of Town of local issues through,” said possible,” said Bachrach. the issue of air quality very Smithers declares that: Mayor Taylor Bachrach. A decision this summer to seriously, and that we are 1. Council believes that all people have The idea to make such grant NewPro the ability to willing to grapple with the the right to live in a healthy environment a declaration came from switch from particle board to tough issues and some of the including the right to: the Blue Dot movement wood pellet manufacturing trade-offs that are occasionally • breathe clean air; delegation that appeared at on Railway Avenue was required,” said Bachrach. • drink and access clean water; • eat safe and healthy food; • access nature • know about pollutants and contaminants released into the local environment; • participate in decisionmaking that will affect the environment. 2. Within its jurisdiction, the Town of Smithers has responsibility to respect, protect, fulfill and promote these rights. 3. The Town of Smithers will Rick Garner apply the precautionary principle: where threats of serious or f someone hurts you in a car accident, they might have insufficient insurance to compensate you for your irreversible damage to human health injuries. or the environment exist, the Town In BC, drivers must buy liability coverage from ICBC to pay for the injuries for anyone they hurt in a car accident of Smithers will consider measures within its jurisdiction and authority (the standard minimum is $200,000). to prevent such degradation of But if you’re seriously injured, you may be entitled to much more than that. Say you’re in hospital for a month, the environment and protect the then recuperate at home for six months, and then scale back at work indefinitely when you return. You could have health of its citizens; and lack of a very significant loss of income claim, not to mention other losses like pain and suffering. full scientific certainty will not be viewed as sufficient reason for the With your Basic Autoplan package, you automatically get up to $1 million of Underinsured Motorist Protection Town of Smithers to postpone such (UMP) – meaning your insurance (subject to certain deductibles) will pay any balance up to $1 million, if the other measures. driver only has the $200,000 liability coverage and your claim exceeds that liability limit. 4. The Town of Smithers will endeavour to apply the principles But for only an extra $25, you can increase your protection to $2 million by buying Excess Underinsured Motorist Protection. It’s a good deal, considering the benefits and peace of mind you receive.
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of full cost accounting when evaluating reasonably foreseeable costs of proposed actions and alternatives. The Town of Smithers will consider costs to human health and the environment. 5. The Town of Smithers will continue to regularly monitor, report on, and integrate environmental objectives in planning, decision-making and operational activities. The Town of Smithers will consult with citizens as part of the process of evaluating progress towards fulfilling this declaration and toward its broader goals and objectives. 6. The Town of Smithers will specify objectives, targets, timelines and actions the Town of Smithers will consider, within its jurisdiction, to address the residents’ right to a healthy environment under section 1, including priority actions to: a. distribute of environmental benefits and burdens equitably within Smithers; b. consider whether infrastructure and development projects of the Town of Smithers and private sector respect the objective of protecting the environment, including air quality; c. address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions and implementing adaptation measures; d. responsibly increase density in accordance with growth and servicing strategies that respect the objective of a healthy environment; e. prioritize walking, cycling and public transit as preferred modes of transportation; f. prioritize infrastructure and protected water sources for the provision of safe and accessible drinking water; g. promote the availability of safe food; h. work with the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako to reduce solid waste and promote recycling, re-use and composting, 1. establish and maintain accessible green spaces in all residential neighbourhoods and protect and conserve nature in public open spaces. The Town of Smithers will review the objectives, targets, timelines and actions of its healthy environment policy every five years, and measure progress toward fulfilling this Declaration; and will consult with residents as part of this process.
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Do not lean on your own understanding Editor: Re: Keith Cummings’ letter “Kindness over Dogma” from Oct. 28: I thought it would be good to clarify what I believe I hear Keith saying when he says that, rather than listening to what God says in the Bible (because His word is absolute, controversial and judgmental) we should instead listen to what he says because he is for kindness and what he says is not controversial or judgmental. However in his first paragraph he already makes a very strong judgment in regards to God and His Word. I understand that Keith wants us to celebrate the freedom to do as we please, make our own choices, and have inclusive diversity so long as each person keeps to him or herself and doesn’t bother others with our choices or our lifestyle. What he writes may appear to sound okay when he writes about kindness, human experience, helping others unconditionally without judgment, but taken in the wrong context that can be blatant selfishness with no genuine care for others. The Bible also speaks of these things but in a different context. We are to love God above all and to love our neighbour as ourselves. Just like a manual that comes with a purchased product, you need to follow directions to have it installed or to run properly. Humans have God’s manual that explains who He is and how we his creatures ought to conduct ourselves on this earth. If we would all recognize and listen to our creator as he reveals Himself to us in His Word then we would live with more kindness and love for our fellow citizens. Your idea of equality and respect for all Canadians has already failed because of your disrespect for God’s Word and those who hold and live according to that Word. Here are some words from our creator we should take to heart: “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.” (Proverbs 14:12) “Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths. Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.” (Proverbs 3:5-7) Don Tuininga Telkwa
any people say the quality they appreciate most in their leaders is honesty, so I would like to offer my honest thoughts on why I feel it’s important we paint a rainbow crosswalk in downtown Smithers. Few would argue we should not strive to be an inclusive, tolerant community. These values lie at the heart of what it means to be Canadian. We do not include or tolerate everything. We don’t tolerate serious criminal offences. We don’t tolerate bullying and violence. But unless your actions are harming others, most would agree you should have a right to live here. This tolerance has made Smithers a reasonably diverse place. Smithereens come from different ethnic backgrounds, subscribe to different philosophies, look different, hold different faiths and yes, have different sexual orientations. We all call this place home. However, there’s a distinction between tolerating difference — a sort of grudging
acceptance that keeps “the other” at a distance — and celebrating difference. The latter not only accepts others and seeks to understand them, but also appreciates the fact that within difference lies diversity and the path to a stronger, more resilient community. Over the past century, North American society has taken some big steps toward accepting and celebrating difference. At one time the notion that people of colour were lesser humans was embedded in our laws and institutions. At one time women were viewed as deserving fewer rights than men, including the right to vote. And at one time First Nations people were not allowed to speak their own language, practise their customs or enter most of the businesses on our Main Street. Much work remains, but who among us resents our progress toward a more equal society? Small towns are not easy places to grow up lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer. People I’ve spoken to tell me they often experience at best a kind of reluctant tolerance; at worst they suffer overt homophobia. Many small-town LGBTQ youth feel scared, isolated and so full of shame that some are driven to desperate measures. LGBTQ youth are four times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers. Perhaps this is why so many young people who hold these identities
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leave small towns like ours as soon as they possibly can. They leave in order to live and love, and many never look back. Is this OK? Wouldn’t we be a better community if we could create a place where all of our LGBTQ youth could envision themselves making a life? I think we would. It’s no secret that many of our views have been shaped by how we were raised as children. My understanding of LGBTQ identities came at an early age because of my relationship with my uncle, who is gay, and my aunt, who is a lesbian. Both are remarkable people. Even though they were different, my parents taught me to accept them — celebrate them — for who they were. We did not wish they would change. We did not think it was a phase they might grow out of. Some people have the wrong idea about what the rainbow crosswalk symbolizes. It is not meant to suggest being LGBTQ is better than being heterosexual. Council’s intention is for it to be a symbol of inclusion and acceptance, a celebration of difference. Further, it’s a statement that discrimination or hate based on sexual orientation and gender identity will not be tolerated in our town and on our streets. One of the great things about small towns — the reason why many of us, including my family, came to live here in Smithers — is the deep sense of belonging that only a tightly
knit community can offer. Beyond everything, the crosswalk symbolizes a promise that every member of the LGBTQ community who lives in Smithers can expect that sense of belonging. It also means that among Smithereens, difference is never a reason for exclusion but rather a case for inclusion. And while difference has many aspects, we have indeed chosen a symbol primarily associated with sexual orientation, because for a very long time the LGBTQ community has been denied the full measure of human dignity, which is the first step to that sense of belonging. I appreciate the many conversations I’ve had with people who see this issue differently. You have helped me more clearly understand other perspectives. I want you all to know that I respect your views even when I don’t share them. We still hold so much in common. As a resident offered at one of our recent council meetings, it serves us to remember that we are all striving to create a better place — a place that is more just, more compassionate. While at times we may each see a different path toward this place, the fact we have the same destination in our sight means it will always be worth talking about how to get there. — Taylor Bachrach is the mayor of Smithers. He can be reached by email at mayor@ smithers.ca.
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Way less Old Testament, lots more New Testament Editor: Re: Jim McGregor’s letter “I want my town back” from Nov. 4: You may want your town back, but it never belonged to you in the past and certainly doesn’t now nor in the future. To call Smithers “yours”, neglecting all the many others who built this town and have lived here who didn’t share in your religious faith, is overtly self-centred, provincial, fringe-xenophobic. Smithers belongs to the many cultures, beliefs, faiths celebrated by the people of old and modern Smithers, and reflects the ongoing
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democracy that elects those to guide our town, who in their wisdom and compassion have chosen to express modern Canadian values rather than religious dogma. We welcome you, and you should also welcome us. Embrace kindness and love for those of cultures and beliefs your faith does not allow you to fully understand, and be less of a religious stalwart who “cannot and will not compromise our position...” In other words, way less Old Testament, lots more New Testament. Keith Cummings Telkwa
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Ministry of Energy and Mines rudderless Editor: The Ministry of Energy and Mines in Smithers is like a boat which lost its steering. It took me more than four months and 15 emails to get an appointment with the regional director, whom I could only meet on the phone from Cranbrook where she is transitioning for a full time regional director position there. Although she had confirmed the meeting for last Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. at the conference room of the Ministry’s office in Smithers, she was unreachable with the number she gave her staff as well as by email or cell phone. She has not bothered to apologize or reschedule since then. It is clear that we are heading straight on towards another big mine disaster like the Mount Polley one, or the recent one on Banks Island near Prince Rupert where dumping of tailings in a watershed and in the ocean were only brought to light by a whistleblower, not an inspector.
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ecently in the legislature the Official Opposition was honored to host Mohamed Fahmy, the award-winning Canadian journalist who spent 438 days in an infamous Cairo prison for simply doing his job, for doing what we in B.C. take for granted. Fahmy was jailed after a mock trial that was denounced as a travesty of justice around the world. Through miraculous efforts, especially by his now wife Marwa Omara, he was pardoned Sept. 23 and returned to Canada. He is now a journalistin-residence and visiting fellow at UBC’s Global Reporting Centre and on Oct. 27 he spoke to MLA’s at the legislature. One statement Fahmy made that day stuck with me. He said the “transparency of information is important for all of us.” Coming from the source that is Mohamed Fahmy, it couldn’t have been more poignant given our revelations of the deceit and delete culture the Premier has fostered when it comes to public information held by her government. And the timing, with Remembrance ceremonies upon us, couldn’t have been much more poignant either. Men and women died and families sacrificed greatly to ensure we live in a society where transparency, accountability and openness are the hallmarks of good government. Yet the Christy Clark led provincial government continues to behave and make decisions counter to those values. The most recent example in the deceit
VIEW FROM THE LEGISLATURE MLA Doug Donaldson and delete disgrace was the revelation that a $3 billion pre-2013 election announcement by the Premier to replace the Massey tunnel with a new bridge over the Fraser River was supported by no documents in her office. Once again Freedom of Information requests came back with no records. No business case, nothing, for a $3 billion decision to spend taxpayer dollars. It is beyond belief that no records were kept in the Premier’s office on this type of spending and it points out the delete culture is alive and well with this government. The same culture that led to the destruction of documents by the transportation ministry on missing and murdered aboriginal women along Highway 16 and the lack of documents on the wrongful dismissal of eight government health care researchers. That is not the kind of transparency of information Mohamed Fahmy went to jail to defend or our veterans fought for. — Doug Donaldson is MLA for Stikine.
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Customs duty hangs over project
A Calgary-based energy company expects to find out this month if it will be successful in appealing a decision by the federal government to impose a $100 million customs duty on a planned liquefied natural gas (LNG) project at Kitimat. The appeal was filed by AltaGas, a Canadian partner in the Douglas Channel LNG project which would feature a LNG plant affixed to a floating platform to be built in Asia and ferried to Kitimat. It would use existing pipeline infrastructure running through the Northwest. Because the federal Canada Border Services Agency is classifying the platform as a ship, it’s subjecting the barge-shaped platform to a 25 per cent duty fee. “The floating unit is incapable
of navigation, it has no selfpropulsion and it’s going to be moored permanently,” said AltaGas vice president John Lowe during a conference call to analysts. The Douglas Channel consortium have been working toward a final investment decision on the $600 million project by the end of the year and an appeal of the $100 million duty fee is necessary to make that decision, said Lowe. “We feel that on a policy basis it’s not in Canada’s interest to impose this sort of a barrier to these developments, particularly when there really aren’t any shipyards in Canada that would be able to undertake this sort of a project,” said Lowe. NDP MP Nathan Cullen
says he’ll be contacting AltaGas to find out more about the $100 million federal customs bill. Cullen acknowledged that the 25 per cent duty is meant to protect and encourage Canadian shipbuilders, but noted the importance of the project to the area. “This is a situation where the company is doing the right thing,” said Cullen. “It has the approvals and the approval of the local First Nations.” In the meantime, provincial natural gas development minister Rich Coleman says he’s talking to the federal government about a duty remission. With an investment decision made by the end of this year, the Douglas Channel project would be the first LNG facility.
CoWork Space Did you know that Smithers has one of the only co-working spaces in northern BC? It’s true. A co-working space is somewhere for entrepreneurs and remote workers to rent a different style of office space, either on a monthly, weekly, or drop-in basis. Depending on your needs, you can rent anything from a shared drop-in “hot desk” to dedicated, private workspace. While business owners in the technology industry have been early adopters of the co-working trend, these spaces offer many advantages to owners of other kinds of small businesses as well. Particularly when you’re first starting your business, the cost of renting office space can be prohibitive. At the same time, using your kitchen table or a local coffee shop as an office may not provide an ideal environment for you to run your business. For these reasons, the flexible drop-in and short-term rental agreements offered by co-working spaces can be an attractive alternative to traditional office rentals for entrepreneurs. And whereas small business owners who work exclusively from home may miss the daily social interaction that comes with working in an office, co-working offers the unique opportunity to connect with fellow business owners, and meet entrepreneurs who drop-in from other cities. The Smithers Co-Working Space is located within the Bulkley Valley Economic Development Association’s office at 201 – 3848 3rd Avenue. It offers dedicated workspaces (both sitting and standing workspaces), free wifi, meeting spaces and a boardroom. 24/7 access is granted to clients who lease space and normal working hours are available for those who drop in.
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Accused murderer Kelly Andrew Johnson’s pretrial ended last week. His trial is scheduled to be set on Nov. 23 in Smithers court. Johnson is accused of fatally stabbing
26-year-old Francis George Namox the night of Feb. 7, 2014. At about 11:30 p.m. RCMP were called to a report of a stabbing in an apartment in the 1,500 block of Main Street and arrived on scene to find Namox in medical distress. He was pronounced dead after being transported to Bulkley Valley District Hospital. Johnson Francis Namox’s mother Martina Joseph smudges her heart at a vigil in was charged with second-degree murder. Smithers in February.
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RDBN takes a cautious approach to LNG By Flavio Neinow Burns Lake/Lakes District News
The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako (RDBN) recently announced it is taking a careful approach to liquefied natural gas (LNG) development in the region. The RDBN issued a press release saying the pipeline construction process has the potential to “negatively impact local communities” and place a burden on local infrastructure and services. The RDBN says there are too many unanswered questions regarding the location, operation, and servicing of the large work camps to be built in the rural area. In addition, there is inadequate commitment to utilize wood fibre cut from the pipeline routes, and there is no long-term commitment to support invasive plant management. Furthermore, the RDBN points out that emergency management “remains uncoordinated.” The press release says the RDBN has been engaging with LNG pipeline proponents and the province to ensure that “potential negative effects associated with pipeline construction are mitigated.” It also says the RDBN is working to ensure that the community will benefit from the economic benefits that would come from LNG development.
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Fishing guides are reporting a slump in the number of prized steelhead salmon biting in local rivers this year, reflecting a drop observed by scientists counting the number of fish entering the Skeena River to spawn. According to information from the B.C. Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Fish and Wildlife Branch, 113.3 steelhead index points were counted at the Skeena River Tyee Test Fishery in 2015. The Ministry uses a calculation based on that number to estimate the total number of fish entering the river annually. This year’s estimate was 27,580, which was lower than last year’s number of 31,821, but higher than the estimate of 25,541 in 2013. Senior fisheries biologist Mark Beere said this year’s numbers were not particularly low in the context of the fishery’s six decade history. He said numbers in the recent past, since the late 1990s, had been high compared with the years before that, when commercial fishing was more prevalent. “The big picture is to recognize there were ... 40 worse years in the past 60 but partly that was because the commercial fishery was so active,” he said. “Imagine in the past up to 1,200 commercial boats, each packing 1,200 feet of gillnet fishing up to six days a week or even more. “It truly was a wall, a gauntlet.” He said commercial fishing levels had since been scaled back due to a dive in sockeye numbers and concerns for weak stocks. Derek Botchford owns Frontier Farwest Lodge, which offers guided steelhead fishing on the Bulkley and Morice Rivers. He said he had noticed the fish were not biting as vigorously in 2015 compared with previous years, but he said those years were so good that visiting anglers had developed high expectations. “There’s enough fish where everybody goes out and catches a fish or two a day but it is lower comparatively [to] the past ten years.” Botchford said he was not alarmed by the drop, guessing it could be attributable to a flood in the region four years ago. Another fishing guide, Denise Maxwell from Maxwell Steelhead Guides, said the steelhead had
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been not only fewer but smaller this season. “There’s a few big ones around but most of them are normal or below normal size so it gets you wondering, what happened to the big fish?” said Maxwell. “Is it ocean survival or have those fish been caught in somebody’s nets?” She said the salmon migration passed through several commercial fisheries, including some in international waters. Maxwell said fluctuations in steelhead numbers made it difficult for fisherman who travelled from all over the world to catch the prized trophy fish, which by law must be released back into the river. “There is disappointment, of course, frustration because there is nothing you can do about it,” she said.
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Telkwa House hopes to double capacity By Chris Gareau Telkwa/Interior News
There may be more subsidized housing for seniors in Telkwa if Telkwa House is successful in getting interest-free loans and doubling its capacity from eight to 16. Telkwa Seniors’ Housing Society (TSHS) received a $10,000 interest-free loan in seed money from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC). “This is for early exploration for viability of the project,” explained CMHC affordable housing consultant Andrew Middleton, who was in Telkwa Oct. 27 as part of a tour of northwest B.C. assessing possible housing projects. “So basically, what we’re looking for is financial viability and business plan.” The CMHC also has up to $100,000 as an interest-free loan for proposal development funding that Telkwa House hopes to receive a portion of. “That’s really to get up to the financing stage. So all the soft costs, all the preliminary work to be done before you get to the construction phase,” said Middleton. “We have that money based on number of units being created, so for this type of unit, you’d be probably looking at more like
The Telkwa Seniors’ Housing Society hopes to add eight units at Telkwa House. $25,000,” added Middleton, who said he was in Telkwa to support the project in any way he could. “We’re hoping BC Housing is going to pay for the whole thing and going to build it,” said TSHS’s John McDivitt. “Basically a replication of
what happened with [the first eight units],” agreed Telkwa Mayor Darcy Repen. “This is a 70-year lease from the village which owns the land. BC Housing built the buildings, and we have Telkwa Seniors’ Housing Society that actually
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manages the buildings and takes care of the finances.” The current eight units on First Street cost $1.4 million to build and had their grand opening in November 2012. The cost was shared by all three levels of government, with Telkwa giving
the land and equity of $7,500 for the legal, survey and subdivision fees related to the new lot. The two buildings include room sizes that allow for wheelchair access and manoeuvering, shelves and light switches at an accessible height, and bathroom grab bars or step-in showers. They are 600 square feet and each has one bedroom with a fridge, stove, washer and dryer. It is low income housing for selfsufficient tenants. “As you get older, they are good enough. You don’t need that much room or junk,” laughed McDivitt. The new building is planned to be built behind the current ones, facing Second Street. “This whole area here is really one of those burgeoning development areas for the village,” said Repen. “We are actually also waiting on a grant, hopefully that we’ll get, for a new water tower that will be up on this side, which will increase our capacity. That’s been one of the challenges for us in development of the village, just lack of water.” Filling the units should not be a challenge, according to Repen, who pointed to demand throughout the Bulkley Valley for affordable housing. “Once something’s built, there’s not space for long,” said Repen.
Weather shelter brings homeless in from the cold By Chris Gareau Smithers/Interior News
An extreme weather shelter was declared Friday in Smithers. That gives the Broadway Place funding for two more spaces at its downtown shelter. “It’s a BC Housing initiative, and it was enacted because some legislation was enacted around preserving lives in extreme weather,” explained Smithers Community Services Association executive director Cathryn Olmstead. Each community decides what weather conditions warrant an alert and how
many spaces to activate on a given night, depending on the capacity of existing shelters and the estimated need. Close to 1,200 temporary emergency shelter spaces will be available this winter in about 100 B.C. communities. “For Smithers, in our plan the conditions are that the temperature is near zero with rainfall — that makes it difficult or impossible for people without shelter to stay dry. Sleet, freezing rain, wet snow ... periods of extended rain, accumulated snow, or sustained high winds and temperatures at or below minus two including wind chill,” said Olmstead. With the extreme weather plan
activated, the shelter gets more funding for staffing levels to accommodate two more spaces. The contract period is November to March. With the forecast calling for colder temperatures and snow this week, the shelter decided it was time to enact the plan. “There’s a pretty high likelihood that once that’s enacted it’s going to stay that way until March probably,” said Olmstead. An extreme weather response has been at Broadway Place for two years. “Three years ago this organization spearheaded and funded an auxiliary
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Telkwa has chosen Kimberley’s Kitchen to receive the Telkwa Business Leadership Award. The confectionery business captured 34 per cent of the public’s votes, while runner-ups Spruce Drive Bedding Plants garnered 20 per cent. In third place is Midway Gas Station with 16 per cent. “Personally, I think it’s pretty straightforward,” said Coun. Leroy Dekens. “I think we should back Kimberley’s Kitchen, I have no problem with that at all.” Administrative manager Debbie Joujan confirmed that Telkwa Baeckerei Kaffeehaus was excluded in this year’s awards because they won last year. A dissenting voice came from a woman during public comment, arguing that paper votes should count for more.
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“I was really disappointed with the business of the year. I see one business had five paper [votes] dropped off. I think maybe that should be taken into consideration,” she said. “That takes a lot of effort as opposed to click on your mouse to vote for someone.” Spruce Drive Bedding Plants received the most paper votes at five. Others who received paper votes only received one. Smithers council also chose its winners for its 2015 Awards of Excellence. Smithers Community Services Association won the residential category with it six patio homes on Second Avenue. Smithers Mall Holdings won for its facade upgrade off Highway 16. The only nominee for mixed use was 1012 Columbia Street, which was awarded for its renovation of four new residential suites and facade upgrade in the mixed residential/industrial building.
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Smithers hosting 2016 Bantam Provincials By Xuyun Zeng Smithers/Interior News
Teams from all around the province will converge in Smithers for the Bantam Tier 3 provincial championship March 13-18. This means that the Smithers Hoskins Ford Bantam Storm will compete against teams from around the province as hosts automatically get a place in the tournament, and they have been working hard in preparation. “Now that we know that we’re kind of guaranteed in, obviously, being a host team, so now we’re trying to prep our kids and use that kind of as a motivation to get them on board with what we’re trying to get them to learn,” said assistant coach Darren McMillan. “It’s just taking on extra practices, kids are going to be starting to do dry land training, and things like that, but more in-depth anyway, trying to get ready and in shape.” “We’re pretty much practicing
three to four times a week now whereas generally we’d only be doing one or two.” McMillan said that the team’s biggest competitor in this region comes from Terrace. “Obviously our strongest competition up in the North and who we’ve always played has been Terrace,” said McMillan. “So that’s our goal. It’s to make sure that we’re on par with them or better by the time provincials come around.” Teams will do zone playoffs in February and the winner will be the zone representative that will play in Smithers. “This year, because it’s in Smithers, the North will have two zones, for sure,” said McMillan. “And then you’ll get a team from the Lower Mainland in their playoffs, they’ll send a team. There’s generally a team from Whitehorse, you’ll get a team from the Kootenays, a team from the Island.” “There will be at least eight teams, I believe.” Smithers Minor Hockey
Association president Suzanne Rourke expects this to generate revenue for Smithers. “Each team will have coaches, players and their families that will stay in our community for five nights,” she said in a press release. She estimates that with 150 players and family members coming, it equates to $150,000 [in] revenue for local businesses from lodging, food and shopping expenses. Since the Association heard of the news in mid-October, they have been working hard organizing this. “Once it was finalized and official through BC Hockey, then we started to prepare with organizing the accommodation, tourism aspects,” she said. “What we really want to do is highlight [Smithers] as a community so that people who are travelling for their March break are enticed to bring their family and enjoy what we have as a community.” They will create a host information package that will
The Smithers Hoskins Ford Bantam Storm practise at the Civic Arena last Saturday.
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go online Dec. 15 to provide information about Smithers. They are also sending out pamphlets to the public and businesses to get them interested. In the meantime, the Association is also looking for sponsorship. “It’s an expensive endeavour. It could cost us $15,000 to
$20,000 to put it on. So we have to offset those ice costs and ref costs and those sort of things,” Rourke said. “We really wish to show BC Hockey that we have the capacity to do it very well, and we wish for the people who attend to have a really good time when they’re here,” said Rourke.
Smithers Mountain Bike Association looks to future By Xuyun Zeng Smithers/Interior News
The Smithers Mountain Bike Association reviewed their year and talked about the future in their annual general meeting last Friday. “We talked about the accomplishments this year. A big obvious one is the Smithers Bike Park, so we completed that,” said SMBA president Leanne Helkenberg. “And also part of that is we’ve started working with the Town of Smithers, so continuing that relationship and talking to them about future developments for the Bike Park.” “We talked about the high alpine trail, so the future developments
of the SMBA, we talked about our five-year plan, so this year we all sat down as an executive and put together a five-year plan.” Future developments in the Bike Park will include a pavilion and a water service, and the next five years will see the SMBA work on the high alpine, kids and an emergency exit trail, upgrading their website and working with bike shops in events. The high alpine trail is in its preliminary stages. “It’s sort of looking at a circumnavigation around Hudson Bay Mountain, but like I said, we’re really in the pre-planning stages,” said Helkenberg. Trails director Derek Pelzer added that planning will start next year.
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“We also have some grant money that is being given to us that is strictly for planning for a high alpine trail. So next year there will be some planning for a route in the alpine,” he said. In addition, half of the proceeds from the Rotary auction fund will go towards the kids’ trails. “We just found out we’re going to be the recipients of the Rotary auction fund, so whatever monies come from that, they will be used for our kids’ trail area,” said Pelzer. “There’s going to be some good improvements in the kids’ trail area in the bluff.” Helkenberg said membership is now between 200-250 and their mailing list has reached 400 subscribers.
The Smithers Mountain Bike Association’s executives pose for the camera at the AGM. President Leanne Helkenberg said the oversized glasses were meant to recognize their “rockstar” contribution to the SMBA. Larry McCulloch photo
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Lest We Forget Smithers Order of Service 10:30 10:57 10:58:30 11:00 11:02 MC:
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Be in position at cenotaph SERVICE IN O Canada TELKWA STARTS Last Post AT 1:00 PM Silence, 2 minutes duration TELKWA Lament SENIORS Rouse/Reveille CENOTAPH They shall grow not old as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, And in the morning We will remember them Legion Prayer Padre’s Reflection, The Rev. Captain(Ret) Douglas Campbell The Lord’s Prayer Welcome and Blessing from Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chief or representative Reflection by MP or representative Reflection by MLA or representative Reflection by Mayor or representative Placing of Official Wreaths Public wreath laying Benediction and blessing Royal Anthem God Save the Queen March Past
All welcome to an afternoon of camaraderie after the services at The Royal Canadian Legion.
Service begins at 1pm at the Telkwa Cenotaph Master of Ceremony, Rick Fuerst — Welcome March on the Colours - Smithers Sea Cadets Parade Comes to Attention Colour Guard March Honour Guard Reverse Arms & Present Arms O Canada - Trixie Dekens Brief Address and Lord’s Prayer: Pastor Joe Ellis Christian Reform Church Brief Message from Mayor Darcy Repen Last Post — 2 minutes of silence Bugler’s Last Post and Reveille Telkwa School Choir Laying of Wreaths “In Flander’s Fields” recitation Closing — God Save the Queen Trixie Dekens Honour Guard Reverse Arms & Present Arms March off the Colours Light luncheon to follow at the Telkwa Seniors’ Centre
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on Government Street in Bastion Park, LEGION PRAYER in Old Hazelton Almighty God, we thank Thee for Thy 10:20 am - Service participants to meet at the Inlander Parking Lot 10:40 am - March to Bastion Park begins 10:50am - Remembrance Day Service beings at the Cenotaph in Bastion Park
Following the service, everyone is welcome at St. Peter’s Anglican Church Army Hall for light refreshments. Everyone is welcome at the Hazelton District Public Library to view the Remembrance Day tribute display.
guidance and protection in the dark days of war, and for the liberties which were won by the service and sacrifice of our Comrades whom we remember and honour at this hour. We pray Thee to grant us the wisdom and strength to safeguard these precious freedoms. Bless our Gracious Queen and all the Royal Family. Guide those in authority that they may plan wisely and strive zealously to strengthen all that is best in our land. May wisdom, honour and truth be the foundation of our life, and may our faith be ever deepened in Thee, our God and Father. AMEN
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Mz Judged documentary crowd funding By Chris Gareau Smithers/Interior News
A trailer for a documentary on the 2014 Mz Judged competitions in Smithers and Prince Rupert has been released, but the producer is going to need some help to get the film done. People can view Jason James’ early work at mzjudged.com. The trailer includes an explanation of why men in the Northwest dressed in their best and tried to feel what it was like to be in women’s shoes — literally — for a fashion and talent competition. James said he got feedback from friends in the film industry and is still tweaking the trailer. But in order to travel for additional interviews, hire post production and legal help, and generally put more hours of work on what he describes as a moonlighting project, the owner of Rockwater Media needs a crowd funding effort to be successful. “It’s a big project, and I’ve got hundreds of hours into it already. And I’ve got to put hundreds and hundreds of hours more,” said James. “I want to make sure it’s impactful and done right. I’m not asking for a lot ... I’d also like to develop the website
Jason James is putting together the documentary.
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Mz Judged contestants perform at last year’s pageant, raising money for the Northern Society for Domestic Peace.
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more so it’s a recruitment tool and other towns can pick this up and do it.” The ultimate goal is to have the documentary broadcast on television. James expects the film to be about 40 minutes long. He sees at least four more
months of work going into the project. “I wanted it done six months ago, but it’s just not realistic. I can’t drop everything and do this full-time as I’d like to and get it done. But it is growing into a more in depth project that is
going to be more far reaching. I think that’s worth it to wait a little longer,” he said. The pageant to raise funds and awareness for the Northern Society for Domestic Peace inspired James to put in as much effort as he can. “Guys need to stand up for this,” he said. NSDP is now recruiting men for Mz Judged 2017.
Timber Kings building home on Hudson Bay Mtn By Xuyun Zeng Smithers/Interior News
Pioneer Log Homes of BC, featured in the television series Timber Kings, have finished the initial groundwork for a custom log home on Hudson Bay Mountain. The Williams Lake-based construction company is building the 3000-square-foot house with Western Red Cedar
logs. “Foundation has been poured by local general contractor Devries Construction Ltd.,” a Hudson Bay Mountain Estates press release said. The house will have a daylight basement, main floor, loft and a deck. “The owners are a couple from Kitimat who have been running a road building company for some time,” said
Hudson Bay Mountain Village director of development Kevin Stunder in an email. According to the press release, September saw the “first delivery of the basement logs,” and “the final delivery of the log structure.” It added that most of the contractors involved were local to Smithers. Construction is scheduled through 2015 and will be finished by summer 2016.
A Kitimat couple will inhabit this bespoke log home on the Hudson Bay Mountain when it finishes in summer next year.
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Once a month, Mike Sawyer’s living room becomes a lively concert venue. Musicians from Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia have been converging on the Twelfth Avenue home to perform to about 30 guests. “I am doing house concerts at my house through the Home Routes program,” said Sawyer. “It’s a paid concert, and all the proceeds go to the artist. It’s just a way of getting more good quality, predominantly younger, musicians travelling through our community.” For this part of the country, the ninth season of the Home Routes Home Concert series sees bands visiting homes in various communities from Grande Prairie, Alta. to Haida Gwaii. “It’s a non-profit that kind of grew out of the Winnipeg Folk Festival scene, and their mission is to setup circuits where homeowners, music lovers, will open up their houses to do home concerts,” said Sawyer. “So they do 10 concerts, and then across the country there are 10 or 11 other circuits and so there’s house concerts going on all over the country.” “The primary thing is to give upand-coming, and entry level musicians, venues where they can play,” said Sawyer. “It’s really hard making a living as a musician, it’s pretty scratchy.” George and Norma Stokes have hosted it for the past decade but Sawyer believes that they did not host it last
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Mike Sawyer, dressed in a white shirt, hosts concerts in his living room as part of the 2015/2016 Home Routes Home Concert Series.
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year because of personal reasons. He decided to step up. “No one picked it up last year, and I thought I’ve got a big enough living room,” said Sawyer. “I like live music, and I thought, ‘You know what, I’m going to pick it up and host them here.’” Sawyer said that most musicians that play in the home concerts tend to perform acoustic, folk and roots music. Last Saturday, Drum & Belltower and Blocktreat drove themselves and their instruments up from Williams Lake to perform. “There is no stage – that’s the main difference,” said drummer, guitarist and vocalist Brent Morton, speaking about the experience of doing a home concert. “You’re on the same level as people, they’re right there in front of
you. Lots of eye contact, and you know, everybody’s having the same appetizers, so it’s a way more democratic kind of experience.” Luckily for Sawyer, his neighbours do not seem to mind the noise pollution. “When I bought this house four, five years ago, I went over to my neighbour next door ... I said, ‘Ron, if I do anything here that bothers you, come and let me know,’ ” said Sawyer. “You have to understand that it was condemned when I bought it, and it had been a crack house.” “ ‘You know Mike,’ he said, ‘It doesn’t matter what you do with that house, it can’t be as bad as what it used to be.’ ” The next concert is scheduled for Nov. 24. Kevin Roy will be playing.
RAISING MONEY FOR PROSTATE CANCER Sweet Dreams Esthetic & Laser Studio’s staff stand in front of the Smithers Secondary School Jazz Band in Boston Pizza. They hosted the Sweet Mustache Bash Saturday to raise money for Prostate Cancer Canada. The event included demonstrations of the services and products available at the spa, door prizes, and a sevenperson jazz band. Each participant donned a sticky moustache to celebrate Movember. Xuyun Zeng photo
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Smithers Motocross Association 2015 Annual General Meeting Smithers Moto-X Associations Annual General Meeting will be held Thursday Nov 26. at the Smithers Legion in the front room at 7 pm. Please come and check it out if you like the sport of Moto-X. We will have positions available if you would like to become a director. Snacks will be provided. Contact Aaron at 250-877-2604
Faith Matters Evangelical Free Church Pastor Trevor Brawdy 250.847-2929 A letter writer in the paper. A co-worker or Remembrance boss. We may not think of them as Day is upon our enemies, but us. And if this we treat them as year is like othsuch. These are ers from recent the people we past, standing really struggle apart from the cenotaph service with. The ones we fight with, speak will be silent sentinels, holding against. Jesus’ words to love our signs with loud messages. And if enemies apply no less to the ones memory serves we struggle with me faithfully, one of the signs and clash with on will read: “Jesus the home front. said to love your Jesus does not enemies.” call us to drum up emotions, or He says many things we do not fabricate warm like to hear, this feelings towards Jesus. Like “for- an enemy. His call to love is a call give.” Like “sell your possessions to know them, to see dignity and and give to the poor.” Like “re- worth reflected in their faces. It is a pent.” call to intentional And when these care, to costly kindness, to words, “Love sacrificial service. your enemies,” When we don’t are heard, so often the reaction feel like it. When they don’t deserve is verbally violent. What about it. Even when it might hurt us. Hitler? What about Bin Laden? What about ISIS? And more than Because maybe, just telling us if we jump to the what to do, Jesus shows us how to extreme enemy in faraway places do it. He loves or times, we can His enemies. He then overlook the absorbed abuse. person we treat, He was mute and speak of, as to the mockery. an enemy in our He took up His enemies’ sins and everyday life. died for them. Because, you see, A spouse. A His enemies were parent. A child. us. A neighbour. Love Your Enemies
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Community Living BC’s Anita Clegg stands beside artist Jesse Clegg, Gallery manager Caroline Bastable and volunteer Cathy Mortensen.
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Community Living BC (CLBC) has awarded the Smithers Art Gallery for being inclusive of people with disabilities. CLBC’s North Region Community Council presented a framed letter of appreciation to the Gallery last Monday at an afternoon ceremony. “I’m a parent volunteer. I’m in North Region Community Council for Community Living BC, and as a parent of a young man who’s an artist with a disability, he was welcomed as a member of the Art Gallery Society and his artwork was able to be displayed as part of the member’s showing and so on,” said spokesperson Anita Clegg.
“The Art Gallery encourages people of all abilities to be leaders, and to volunteer to help the people passing through the Gallery, and they’ve renovated the building to make it accessible to people with mobility impairments.” Gallery manager Caroline Bastable added that the Gallery encourages everyone to participate in the yearly community exhibition. “It’s a great honour to receive this. Inclusion’s something that the Gallery is very proud of, it’s very important to us and we hope that this event will maybe inspire other people with disabilities to come forward and participate in the gallery either as a volunteer … or to join in with our community art shows,” said Bastable. The next community exhibition will be in April and October.
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Brown Bag Lunch, Thursday, Nov. 12, 12-1 p.m., Smithers Healthy Living Centre, Dr. Kim Hunter will talk about “Restoring communication between the mind and body to help healing”. Details 250-877-4424. Giant, 2 day, Friends of the Smithers Library Book Sale Friday, Nov. 13, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. & Saturday, Nov. 14, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Royal Canadian Legion. Donations welcome at the Library. Call 250-847-3043 for pickup of large amounts. Smithers United Church Christmas Bazaar. Saturday, Nov. 14, 2-4 p.m. Admission $5 (includes tea & goodies). Crafts, baking, cookies by the dozen (bring your own container). Home based businesses. Everyone welcome. ADRA Disaster Relief Saturday, Nov. 14. Representatives will be canvassing the community. Please consider helping those in need of emergency supplies of water, food, blankets, shelter and medicines. Smithers Art Gallery Call for Submissions Deadline Monday, Nov. 16. For the July 2016 to June 2017 season. Exhibitions change every 5-6 weeks. For info and applications 250-847-3898, info@ smithersart.org, www.smithersart.org. Smithers Rodeo Club AGM Wednesday, Nov. 18, 7:30 p.m., Bulkley Valley Insurance, upstairs. All are invited to attend.
Diabetes Open House Thursday, Nov. 19, 3-5 p.m., Healthy Living Centre. Information, free blood sugar testing, refreshments, door prize, visit with Wendy Orienti Dietician/Nutritionist and Shelley Irvine, Diabetes Nurse Educator. Healthy Choices Grocery Store Tour Friday, Nov. 20, 10:30 a.m., Safeway. A grocery store tour with Dietician/Nutritionist Wendy Orienti to learn to make healthier choices for preparing meals. Preregister 250-847-4744. St. Joseph’s Annual Bazaar Saturday, Nov. 21, 2-4 p.m., in the school auditorium. Everyone welcome. Smithers Film Society This Changes Everything Sunday, Nov. 22, 7 p.m., Roi Theatre. An epic attempt to re-imagine the vast challenge of climate change. Connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Regular admission. Living with Stroke Wednesdays 1-3 p.m., Healthy Living Centre, Oct. 7 to Nov. 25. Course by the Heart & Stroke Foundation for those who have had a stroke and their caregiver. Register 1-888473-4636 ext. 8002. The Alumni Show featuring the work of over 20 Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art graduates. Exhibition dates: Oct. 20 to Nov. 25. Smithers Art Gallery hours Tue-Sat 12-4 p.m. 250847-3898.
Smithers’ Latin Grammy Award-winning artist Alex Cuba has been booked to play Minerals North next year. Smithers and Telkwa are hosting the event May 18-20. Kendra Wong photo
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Congratulations to Brad Cober of Telkwa, BC; Grand Prize winner of the Castle 2015 Blaze the Trail contest. Presenting the 2015 Summit 600 Sport Sled is Travis Nanninga, General Manager of Bulkley Valley Home Centre, and Les Gillespie from Castle Building Centres.
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Love, war & remembrance
By Josh Massey Kitwanga/Terrace Standard
Kitwanga is one of the places on the list when Peter Crompton from Branch 13 of the Royal Canadian Legion begins organizing the poppy distribution campaign in smaller northwestern communities early each fall. There he finds Alex Morgan, who looks after the poppy campaign in that village and the surrounding area east of Terrace. Morgan has a story of ties with the Second World War – a story that illustrates the power of love and war and the value
of remembrance. Alex’s parents, Lavender and Raymond, met in Europe and it was one of those love-at-firstsight encounters between nurse and wounded soldier. Raymond, who was of Gitxsan decent (his birth certificate records his place of birth as “Skeena River”) was one of many volunteer soldiers who left the B.C. northwest to fight for the Allies largely because of their values, says Alex. Like Raymond, a good number of volunteers from the Northwest were First Nations and a number were killed overseas and never returned. See GITXSAN on A23
Go’ohl Flanders Fields A Hazelton community project to build an outdoor rink has been shortlisted for a share in $1 million from the Aviva Community Fund.
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Outdoor rink finalist for Aviva funds By Alicia Bridges Hazeltons/Interior News
A community effort to transform the Hazeltons’ condemned arena into an outdoor ice skating rink could pay off after the project was shortlisted for a share in $1 million from the Aviva Community Fund. The Skeena Ice Arena Association was last month urging the public to vote in an online competition to help it win funding to run an outdoor rink this winter. To be shortlisted for a prize from Aviva, the projects needed to collect the highest number of votes from friends, family and supporters. Last week the Hazelton project was named one of 30 finalists in the competition. The Skeena association is asking for $65,000 to purchase a used Zamboni, $20,000 towards a roof and
$15,000 to cover operating costs for the three months from January to March. The outdoor rink is what remains of the Ken Trombley Memorial Arena, which closed suddenly in March because of safety issues with its roof. Plans to build a new recreation centre were already underway when the old arena was condemned, but an interim solution was needed to keep skaters on the ice until the new facility is built. The association decided to tear down the arena roof to create an outdoor rink so clubs would have a place to skate this winter. The group has already committed to running the outdoor facility this winter but it needs more money, having spent part of its operational budget on the roof demolition. Winners of the competition will be selected by a judging panel and announced on Dec. 2.
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“Mom, they don’t murder girls” ▾ MYTH: Girls and women aren’t allowed to join gangs: Reality: Girls are joining gangs across
Gitxsan Development Corporation human resources coordinator Laurie Paulin is running a course to help Hazelton Secondary School students cope with stress.
Canada and there are many documented reports of them being extremely violent. Girls are often used to hold and/or transport drugs and/or guns because the girls and the gangsters don’t think that the police will stop the girl…they are wrong.
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Course helps conquer stress By Alicia Bridges Hazeltons/Interior News
Giving students the skills to cope with stress at school and in their future workplaces is the focus of a program being run at the Hazelton Secondary School. Living Life to the Full is a 12-hour course designed to help students in Grades 10-12 build self-esteem and improve their mental health and well-being. Based on cognitive behavioural therapy principals, it teaches participants to identify problems and then provides them with the skills to make changes. About 14 HSS students are taking part in the program, which was created the Canadian Mental Health Association. The course is being delivered by the Gitxsan Development Corporation (GDC) as part of its Youth Discoveries program, which aims to prepare young people for the workplace by offering training and personal development opportunities. GDC human resources coordinator Laurie Paulin said her organization decided to run the program to help combat low graduation rates and help at-risk students in the Hazeltons. “It is just so people have the ability to deal with their stress and have good coping skills now, [or] even going forward into their future,”
she said. “Future employers are going to look for people or want to employ people that can manage their stress, whether it’s at work or at home.” This year is the second time the course has been delivered at the school. Paulin said she saw some students build confidence during last year’s program and she had received positive feedback from the group. She said it was particularly helpful for Grade 12 students who were on the cusp of starting their adult lives. “Last year we had six Grade 12s in the program and it was just really good timing for them,” she said. “They are just going on to the next phase of our lives and then going to off to college in Prince George, or wherever they are going.” HSS career counsellor Andy de Boer said the program gave students who were struggling with confidence or self-esteem dedicated time to develop those skills. “Here they are taking some time to focus on themselves and focus on aspects of their lives that they would like to change,” he said. He said it was one of a range of programs at the school to help students cope with stress, particularly in senior grades. “I think there is an awful lot of pressure on Grade 12s to apply for post-secondary, to find funding, to do all these things,” said de Boer.
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Remembering a Gitxsan soldier From WAR on A21 Alex says his father didn’t speak a whole lot about his service, which is fairly common among war vets, but his body showed the marks of wartime conflict: He was mostly deaf in one ear, and had one arm shorter than the other after having reconstructive surgery to shattered bone. “He went into the North African conflict then up into the Mediterranean into Italy and Greece,” recounted Alex. “He was driving a Bren gun carrier that has tracks on the back and wheels on front, he was the driver and he was blown up in Italy and there were four of them, all who died except for him.” Raymond was then sent to a hospital in England where he met Lavender and their transcontinental romance began to bloom. When Lavender, a young Scottish woman with bright red hair and an adventurous streak, set off by boat with scores of other war brides from England in 1944, she soon discovered she was risking her life to be with Raymond who had travelled separately to Vancouver for treatment at Shaughnessy
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arrival of Raymond’s wife from England. Born several years later, Alex and his sister Naomi moved with the family to Houston where Raymond worked in forestry, before returning to Kitwanga in the 1980s. WITH LOCAL Throughout that time the EXECUTIVE family became avid promoters DIRECTOR’S of Remembrance Day, visiting schools to share their story that NAME & PHOTO shows the influence of the war in shaping their own lives and the society we know today. “I can see they now put a face to Remembrance Day,” said Alex. “I will see students in the mall, and they will say, ‘ah, you came to our class and gave the poppies out.’ ” Alex says that in the classes REPLACE WITH – at various aboriginal schools LOCALGitanyow and in Gitsegukla, Kitwanga as well as public WRITE-UP schools – he passes on the same messages that his parents did before they died – Raymond in 2001 and Lavender ten years later. R“We’d be out in the bush in 30 below, and he would say, ‘isn’t LOCAL LOGO & this just wonderful,’ and I used to WEB look atADDRESS him and tell him it’s crazy,” Alex recalls. “ ‘We are alive and we’re free,’ he’d always say.”
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Man walks Alaska to Argentina via B.C. By Xuyun Zeng Smithers/Interior News
For over 120 days, a 72-year-old Los Angeles man has been taking a stroll to South America. Jim Brennan started from the northern tip of Alaska at Prudhoe Bay in May and made it to the Bulkley Valley two weeks ago, pushing a two-child stroller loaded with supplies 24 kilometres a day towards a town in southern Argentina, nicknamed the “end of the world”. “There’s a little town down there, that they refer to as ‘fin del mundo’ — Ushuaia,” said Brennan. “Because it’s the furthest south you can go on road anywhere in the world.” “It’s been done so many times bicycling and motorcycling and probably cars, that they refer to it now as a milk run. But to my knowledge, nobody has ever walked it. I’m going to do it.” Brennan subsists on Soylent, a liquid nutrition substitute, and water. He survives comfortably on savings and a $1,200 Social Security pension. At best, Brennan takes five hours to walk 24 kilometres. Faced with undulating terrain here, it sometimes takes longer. “There was a hill back here called Hungry Hill, and that was a three-hour hill. And I can tell you that you can forget the five hours,” said Brennan. “It’d taken me about eight hours, because that thing just never stopped.”
That day, his GPS ticked 24 kilometres at the crest of Hungry Hill, and as per routine, Brennan looked around to find a place to camp. “Sometimes I try to do it on people’s property, and they chase me off, and then when I tell them what I’m doing, they get into the spirit,” said Brennan. This happened to Brennan near Smithers. “A gentleman … who’s all set to throw me off his property, and he started thinking about it, and he was a Christian. He said, ‘I can’t do that.’ He said, ‘They refused Jesus too, I can’t do that!’ ” Instead, the man ended up feeding Brennan three meals. “He seems to think there’s some metaphysical connection between us two that he needs to support me,” Brennan said. Brennan’s inspiration came from the trip he took 24 years ago on a motorcycle on the same route. “It was such a wonderful trip,” said Brennan. “I said, ‘Some day when I’m older, and the future was really dim — nothing to look forward to … I said, ‘I’m going to come back and walk it.’ ” Brennan has a resupply van which he drives about 150 kilometres ahead of his route. He caches water and Soylent at certain intervals on the side of the road to deal with the lack of shops in the North. “It’s just an impossible situation to try to accommodate yourself with supplies over these kind of distances,” said
Jim Brennan pushes his stroller through the Bulkley Valley. The Los Angeles man started his walk from Alaska in May, headed for Argentina.
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Brennan. “Now when I get into Mexico, there will be plenty of food and water.” Brennan will stop using his van once he reaches Seattle. On Oct. 27, Brennan left Houston for Topley. Brennan will head east to Prince
George, down south and into Vancouver before he crosses into the United States. “I made an agreement with myself — that I would never give up no matter what. It was going to be literally do or die,” Brennan said.
Firefighters receive thanks at annual banquet By Xuyun Zeng Smithers/Interior News
Firefighters were thanked for their service and contribution to the community last Saturday. Seven firefighters received awards for their years of service and the department received an award from Muscular Dystrophy Canada for having the top fundraising event in British Columbia and the Yukon. “That was for our Harley Raffle we do every year
in conjunction with the Harley’s owner groups. And this year’s raffle we raised approximately $44,000 for Muscular Dystrophy Canada,” said deputy fire chief Kelly Zacharias. The fire department received the award from Muscular Dystrophy Canada’s Alyssa Gould, and heard a speech from Peter van Cadsand on how the department’s efforts have helped people with muscular dystrophy. “Every year our firemen’s ball is used to recognized service awards for our members
there,” said Zacharias. “We also bring in what we call our retired members — guys that have over 20 years in — we call them our over-the-hill gang, so we come in and we celebrate our year and then also give our long-term service recognition awards.” Russel Graf and Matt Herzog were awarded for five years of service, while Ian Smith and Ryan Miller were awarded for 10. Eric Person, Dennis Rusmussen and Marcel Ehalp were recognized for 20, 25 and 35 years of service.
Kelly Zacharias, Peter van Cadsand and Marcel Ehalp hold a plaque celebrating the department’s assistance against muscular dystrophy.
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has been much controversy about heating with wood because of the environment. Let me tell you about the country I came from over 60 years ago. Austria heats their inhabitants with about 50 per cent biomass (cordwood, wood chips, pellets, etc). Their goal is 100 per cent by 2030. Can you imagine our B.C. government suggesting such a goal? Let’s do a little math: Austria has over 8,000,000 inhabitants, so, about 4,000,000 are heated with biomass. Let’s compare that to B.C.: 11 Austrias would fit into the area of B.C. With that ratio, 44,000,000 would be heating with wood in B.C. Can you imagine? I visited Austria in winter on many
occasions. There were no complaints about wood heat and wood smoke. Of course many use wood pellets and wood chips. However, it is a status symbol in the country to have cordwood stacked all around the homes. Wood sheds are full. Yes, many of their wood heaters are clean burning masonry heaters, but there are many conventional steel heaters and cook stoves. Their secret is the seasoning of firewood: a minimum of two years split and piled under rain protection. Water is the main smoke culprit. You can easily buy an inexpensive moisture meter at Canadian Tire. Split a sample in half and immediately measure
the inner moisture. If it is over 20 per cent it is too wet. Better yet, 15 per cent or less. This, of course means you need enough wood storage for at least two years of firewood. Your neighbour will thank you for it. I have heated with wood for most of my life. I moved back to the Bulkley Valley seven years ago and built a new home. I check my chimney a couple of times a year using a mirror. I have not had to clean my chimney yet … and I don’t expect to because my wood is dry, and of course I have an RSF Energy stove, which helps a little. If you have one too, the trick is to only run it with your thermostat. This way the fire is fully burning or almost out. This greatly helps reduce smoke.
However, any wood stove emits much less smoke with properly seasoned wood. Also, in spring and fall, use large pieces which are much easier to control compared with a lot of small ones. If it doesn’t control, check your door gasket. Remember, the best thing you can do for the environment is to heat with your wood stove with well-seasoned firewood. Fossil fuels need to stay in the ground for your great-grandchildren. — Hans Duerichen founded RSF Energy Inc. in Smithers in 1978 and for 19 years built stoves and furnaces. He sold the business and they are now made in Ontario and Quebec. Duerichen now does consulting engineering locally.
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Smithers Secondary School recently hosted WorkBC’s Find Your Fit program on Monday, which helped students discover a suitable career. “Find Your Fit is an interactive event
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Students use tablets to find out what job suits their skills.
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Over the summer of 2015, in order to meet the needs of continued school growth, a beautiful full-size gym was built at Ebenezer Canadian Reformed School and the old gym was converted to three classrooms. The Board of Trustees would like to publicly thank the members that volunteered 10,000+ hours to construct the gym and to Harry Leffers who voluntarily coordinated this massive effort. We are very thankful for the incredible parental support at Ebenezer. The construction was also made possible by the generous support of the following local businesses to whom we express our sincere appreciation:
The carpentry booth saw students try out various tools that carpenters use.
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Recording stories from the past so the next generation never forgets By Alicia Bridges Smithers/Interior News
For Smithers woman Amanda Bateson, Remembrance Day has always been a poignant reminder of her grandfather’s bravery. For as long as she can remember Douglas Bateson, who served in the Second World War, marched in the local parade while his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren looked on. “All the family would gather every November in Smithers ... and just kind of share in remembering and supporting him in what he went through too,” she said. Sadly, this year’s service will evoke even deeper emotions for Amanda after Douglas, who celebrated his 95th birthday in August, passed away in September. “Remembrance Day will definitely be a little sadder, that’s for sure,” she said. “I wish we had more time with him just to learn more about his time and record more of these stories that he told us so we can share with the next generation too. “I think it’s important to remember what people have been through and keep the memory alive as well.” Amanda said for a long time her grandfather was reluctant to talk about his time in the war, saying “those were terrible times” that he felt nobody should have to go through. But later in life, he opened up to her about some of his experiences with the Canadian Armed Forces, where he served as a gunner and motor transporter from 1942 to 1946. Douglas, who was born in Glentana near Smithers in 1920, grew up as one of six siblings on his family’s farm in the Bulkley
Valley. He and his older brother Bruce joined the armed forces in 1942, when Amanda said there was an expectation and honour for young men to serve their country. Douglas told Amanda he signed up to see more of the world and have new experiences, saying there “just wasn’t enough life for us on the farm.” In August that year he embarked in a “tin can ship” to the United Kingdom, after receiving extensive training as a gunner in Canada. The army also took advantage of his experience riding, racing and repairing motorcycles, allowing him to drive high ranking officials all over England as a motor transporter. One of his passengers was former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who Douglas remembered would always have a cigar hanging out of his mouth. In 1944, he was part of the second wave of Allied troops to land in Normandy, where he survived one of the war’s bloodiest battles despite being injured by bullets. Amanda said he smiled when he recalled the excitement and relief he felt when he saw his brother after the war. She said he also had fond memories of the ways he was able to help people who had suffered in the war. “One of the things he always said he enjoyed was the humanitarian work he did overseas after the war,” said Amanda. “With a guide to assist him he transported supplies and food to towns in Holland who had suffered greatly.” Douglas’s medals and decorations included a 1939-45 Star, a France-Germany Star, Defence medal and a Canadian Volunteer Service medal and
clasp. He was officially discharged in January 1946 and returned to Smithers, where he married Alma Peterson in 1950. Amanda wishes she had more time to learn about her grandfather’s experiences in the war but she is grateful for the stories she was able to record in her conversations with him. Her daughter was also able to speak to Douglas about the war for her social studies projects. Amanda plans to write both of her grandparents’ life stories in a book so they can be remembered, shared and passed down. “He played a huge role in sacrificing really his life, his young adulthood into making the world a better place for all of us,” she said. “I do think it’s important for us to remember what he did and what many of the soldiers did to make the world a better place for the generations to come after him.”
The late Douglas Bateson pictured as a young man (top), when he served in the Canadian Armed Forces, and more recently with a friend. Bateson served in the Second World War as a gunner and motor transporter whose passengers included Winston Churchill.
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ood morning to you! I had planned on talking to you earlier but I was glued to the TV as I watched our 23rd Prime Minister sworn in. Justin Trudeau should have instilled an optimistic attitude for all of us. When I watched the collection of ministers come forward I was so impressed with their backgrounds and credentials. Fifteen men and 15 women as promised. When asked why he wanted to have gender equality, he replied “it is 2015.” The diversity of the cabinet is in so many ways impressive. Still, you will hear folks complain about one thing and another. You heard it! He’s “just not ready.” Most of those complaints come from older people. For me I am hopeful for the future. A younger leader with fresh ideas and a point of view that I am positive will make our country a better place. Time for us to move on. To those who hope he fails and look forever for fault, let’s wait a bit before we jump to judgment. I hope he does a great job for all of us. Thankfully we don’t have the process of obstructionism that has dogged U.S. President Obama. The plan was to make his term hard to manage. Make sure he could not do all he wanted to do. What a way to look at a government for years to come. So as I head back to watch this special day in our country, I ask you to look at this transition in a positive
I know as I finish my words to you many in the valley and beyond look for failure with
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C OMMUNITY Remembering the men and women who served
R
VIEW FROM THE PORCH Lorraine Doiron
emembrance Day. There is a program called Canada Remembers with a mission to help young and new Canadians to appreciate what persons who served Canada during time of war, armed conflict and peace stand for and what their sacrifices were for this country. The red remembrance poppy is a symbol, based on the poem In Flanders Fields, which speaks of the brilliant red poppies
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that bloomed across some of the worst battlefields, their colour symbolizing the blood spilled in the war. World War Women is a new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa and pays tribute to the millions of women who served, volunteered, worked in factories or on farms, directed air traffic, drove trucks, sold War Savings Stamps, all to do their part while the men were away fighting the war. My mom
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and I stayed with her sister and she went to work in a local factory. She often spoke of how much she actually enjoyed the work. The Smithers Art Gallery is inviting artisans to apply to have their work for sale in One of a Kind. It is a gift shop of local and regional arts and crafts which is set up in the gallery through December. A super place to find that one-of-a-kind gift. You do not have to pay for or
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staff a table, the gallery sells your work on commission. They are looking for a wide range of handmade items in a range of materials and prices. The application form is on the gallery’s website or pick one up at the gallery; deadline is Nov. 23. Saw a vehicle on Main Street with license plate “Mayner”. Don’t forget the Library Book Sale at the Legion, Nov. 13-14.
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Closing with: “Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should do, they never get around to do what they want to do.” —Kathleen Winsor. Ms. Winsor was an American author best known for a racy historical novel Forever Amber which was banned in 14 states for its sexual content. Published in 1944 it sold 100,000 copies in the first week!
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20887 Highway 16 W, Smithers
B – 3270 Third Avenue
#38 – 95 Laidlaw Road
4879 Fourth Avenue
Eddy Park Lodge, Telkwa
133 Prairie Road
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46.6 acres, 4 bedroom home 3 pastures, fenced for horses Toboggan Creek frontage Spruce forest, many trails
Donna Grudgfield
mls r2012828
$79,900
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Newer 2 bedroom, 2 bath, one level Quality ½ duplex, custom kitchen Ensuite w/ jacuzzi, fenced backyard www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
mls n4507235
Karen Benson
$55,500
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2 bdrm, 1 bathroom, 14x70 mobile New snow roof, updated kitchen Updates to windows and flooring Appliances incl, fenced yard, deck mls r2012755
$192,500
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3 bdrm, 1 bath rancher style home Large .47 acre lot by golf course Carport, paved drive, storage www.realestatesmithers.com
Lovely 6 unit guest lodge Updated, immaculate, like-new Daily, weekly & monthly clientele www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
Leo Lubbers
$76,500
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mls n4507235
Cozy ski cabin along Cinderella run Wood/electric heat, 3 bdrm, 1 bath Fully furnished, bring your ski gear www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
mls n243506
$309,000
$163,500
Fulton Street, Granisle
62 Fulton Street, Granisle
#4 – 3278 Third Avenue
#64-95 Laidlaw Road
3744 Broadway Avenue
2035 Aveling Coalmine Road
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Granisle handy-man special Executive home let go, needs repair 3216 sf, 6 bdrm, 3 bath, 2 fireplaces Many extras, awesome lake view
Ron & Charlie
mls n248147
4 bedrooms, 3 bathroom home Clean, newer windows and flooring Private backyard, covered sitting area Carport, storage shed, pellet stove
Jantina Meints
$398,500
mls r2012119
2 bedroom home Sunken living room New linoleum and carpets Carport, concrete patio
Donna Grudgfield
$399,000
mls r2004470
794 sf, 2 bedroom mobile New roof, new siding, new windows New kitchen, new bath and lighting Covered deck, quick possession
Karen Benson
$259,900
mls r2009039
Handy downtown area location Clean, cozy & comfy 3 bedroom Zoning allows residential/comm use Brand new roofing shingles
Ron Lapadat
$668,800
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mls n216307
4 bdrm home, quiet area 4.94 acres, nicely landscaped Lots of upgrades, recreational area www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
mls n239358
$998,800
$339,500
224 Viewmount Road
3245 Turner Way
#7 - 3664 Third Avenue
3243 Turner Way
800 Upper Viewmount Road
4912 Fourth Avenue
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7.5 acres, fenced & x-fenced, view Drilled well, outbuildings 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom, large rooms www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
mls n246359
4/5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms Floors above ground, concrete dw 10 years young, Willowvale Sub. Fenced backyard, perimeter trail
Donna Grudgfield
mls n247381
2 bedrooms, 2 bathroom condo Walk-in closet, ensuite, n/g fireplace Low strata fee, close to mail/shops www.realestatesmithers.com
Leo Lubbers
$208,000
$347,000
mls n247697
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Quality, style & spacious, 4150 sq ft High vaulted entry, 9 foot ceilings Chefs kitchen, huge master/ensuite www.smithershomes.com
Ron Lapadat
$144,000
mls n246201
Enjoy the sunshine Spacious 3 bedroom home Mountain and valley views Minutes from town, large shop
Peter Lund
$289,000
mls n246414
8000 sq. ft. 3 level executive home 7 bedrooms, office, 5 bathrooms Home theater, game rm, huge kitchen Quality custom built
Ron Lapadat
mls n246775
$169,500
$365,000
3763 First Avenue
DL 2291 Highway 16 West
9257 Glacierview Road
Highway 16, Smithers
21777 Woodmere Road
233 Poplar Park Road
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Great business opportunity Turn key Owner will train the new buyer C.O.B. Bike Shop
Sandra Hinchliffe
mls C8000703
Timbered ¼ section of land Zoned R-1 and only part is ALR Mixture of tree species 20 min west of Smithers
Sandra Hinchliffe
mls n231055
Beautiful lot in a great neighborhood Partially constructed log home Shed and outbuildings Treed with lots of flat area
Sandra Hinchliffe
$244,000
$234,500
mls n244995
28,800 sf with 240’ of Hwy frontage Great location Near high school and KFC C-3 commercial zone
Sandra Hinchliffe
$192,500
mls n4507490
Country living, log home, 5 acres Self-contained 1 bdrm inlaw suite Covered deck, garden, creek View of Round Lake & mountains
Ron & Charlie
$95,000
mls n24846
Kispiox valley house on 10 acres Home offers 1466 sf of living space Shop could convert into 2nd home Park like, walk to river and fishing
Charlie & Ron
mls n243329
$62,000
$320,000
1686 Telegraph Street
4048 Fourth Avenue
#8 - 3278 Park Place
11 Sterrett Ave, Granisle
7060 Cedar Road
Unit 2&3 – 50 Hagan St, Granisle
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1936 sf family home in Telkwa 2 floors, 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms Large fenced yard, carport Quiet low traffic neighborhood
Charlie McClary
mls r2000621
Peter Lund Res. 847-3435
3 bedroom, 2140 sf home, carport Central location near arenas/pool Fenced yard, bamboo hardwood, osbe Large rec room, central vac, fireplace
Karen Benson
Donna Grudgfield Cell. 847-1228
mls n247811
Leo Lubbers Cell. 847-1292
3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms Double paved drive, covered carport New roof 2012, stainless appliances Wheel chair ramp, fenced yard
Donna & Peter
Ron Lapadat Cell. 847-0335
mls n247002
Beautifully renovated, 3 bdrm home Updated hw tank/windows/appliance Shop, greenhouse, fenced, shed RV parking, lg bdrms, furniture neg.
Jantina Meints
Sandra Hinchliffe Cell. 847-0725
mls n248233
Charlie McClary Cell. 877-1770
Great family home on 5 acres 4 bdrm, 3 bath, office, large rec room Double garage, large sundeck, osbe Beautiful view of Hudson Bay Mtn
Jantina Meints
Karen Benson Cell. 847-0548
Renovated double unit Ground level, view of lake 2 - 4 piece bathrooms, kitchen island Freshly painted, hardwood flooring
mls n247477
Jantina Meints
Jantina Meints Cell. 847-3144
Kiesha Matthews Cell. 876-8420
mls r2006209
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PHYSICS IS KING AT SSS Richard Audet’s Physics 11 students toss tennis balls across the field with trebuchets at Smithers Secondary School in the name of science Oct. 30. The Halloween costumes helped turn SSS medieval. Chris Gareau photo
Diabetes open house offers risk assessment By Chris Gareau Smithers/Interior News
An estimated 1 million Canadians have Type 2 diabetes and do not even know it. Registered dietitian, nutritionist and diabetes educator Wendy Marion-Orienti hopes to see the number of people affected by diabetes in the Bulkley Valley go down with the help of an open house from 3-5 p.m. on Nov. 19 at the Healthy Living Centre on Main Street. “Type 2 is a lifestyle disease and can be prevented,” said MarionOrienti. The open house will have nurses and a medical student to give tests to anyone who want them to help identify people’s risk level. Marion-Orienti said there are also 5.7 million Canadians who are categorized as being “pre-diabetes.” “That’s where their blood-sugars are above normal but not quite in the range that would be called for to diagnose for diabetes,” explained Marion-Orienti. Information on what MarionOrienti described as “tweaked” medication and insulin for people with diabetes now will be given at
the open house next Thursday. “People with diabetes don’t have to be less healthy,” said MarionOrienti. There is also information on an update for Class 1 drivers with diabetes. November is Diabetes Awareness Month in Canada, and Nov. 14 is World Diabetes Day. The Canadian Diabetes Association recognized National Certified Diabetes Educator Day in honour of the important work carried out by diabetes educators on Nov. 4. Shelley Irvine is one of those health care workers who make a big impact on the lives of patients, including those with diabetes. While she is not back at work since being in a serious bike/motor vehicle accident in May, Irvine will be at the open house. “She will be here to come and say hello to people, and let them know she’s planning to be back at work,” said Marion-Orienti. “I think if we have community champions in Smithers, she’s one of them.” The first Type 1 diabetes conference to be held in Smithers is also in the works for a date to be set next fall.
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