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■■ Sold to the woman in blue! KAZUKO TAKEMOTO takes a look at a pair of moccasins that were on display for the 55th Annual Rotary Club of Terrace auction. Taking place on Nov. 7-8, the large event raised money for Rotary projects and featured an online bidding as well as in-person display and bidding system for a variety of donated items. The money raised goes toward both local community projects as well as to the global list of projects undertaken by Rotary.
WITH THE new federal Liberal government now in place, northwestern B.C. NDP MP Nathan Cullen says he’ll be pressing it to follow through on an election commitment to legislate a ban on oil tanker traffic on the north coast. One of his first tasks is to prepare an information package for environment and climate change minister Katherine McKenna to get her up to speed on Cullen’s position on tankers and to impress upon her the need to get the ban bill passed as soon as possible. Both the Liberals and the NDP have supported a tanker ban with Vancouver Quadra Liberal MP Joyce Murray introducing a private members’s bill in 2010 following a motion by Cullen, and then Cullen in 2014 submitting a private member’s bill of his own to the House of Commons. Now that the Liberals are in power, Cullen expects the new government to introduce a bill similar to both previous versions, neither of which ever received support from the then-Conservative government. “The solution is very well-known, it’s not that there is an enormous amount of research or consultation that needs to be done, their own policy is their campaign commitment,” said Cullen. “Enacting it would not be difficult and obviously with a majority and our support, such an enactment would pass through parliament very easily.” Once the new parliament begins work in Ottawa on Dec. 3, Cullen says he hopes to have the opportunity to nudge the government dur-
ing question period, however he can’t say exactly when he will have this opportunity considering Justin Trudeau has promised to change how question period operates. “I don’t want to make a promise and find out we get one question a week,” said Cullen. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a tanker ban plan a key part of his west coast promises, saying he would “formalize the moratorium on crude oil tanker traffic on British Columbia’s north coast – including the Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait, and Queen Charlotte Sound – and ensure that ecologically sensitive areas and local economies are protected from the devastating impacts of a spill.” The moratorium would
take in the length of the coast from the northern tip of Vancouver Island to the Alaskan border, commonly referred to as the Great Bear Rainforest. Cullen said Trudeau was so adamant about legislating a ban it will be politically impossible to back out. “I am not sure he has a choice,” said Cullen. “This was an important election, and B.C. returned a majority of MPs who are supportive of a north coast tanker ban, so chip chop,” he added. But while a moratorium is certainly in the cards, there are important details to be finalized such as the area in which it might apply and what types of oil products in particular will be banned.
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THE CHAIR of the Northwest B.C. Resource Benefits Alliance says the $1 million that local governments in the region received several years ago from the province wasn’t enough to get ready for a possible super boom of industrial development in the area. “I think the province needs to step up their game and really contribute to these communities,” said Tyers to Nichola Wade, official in charge of the province’s Northwest Readiness Project, at a recent city council meeting. Tyers was referring to a request made by the alliance, subsequently turned down, by the province for another $1 million so it could shape its call for the province to share taxation revenue from large-scale projects. “We have been touted as the economic driver of the province and a $1 million commitment over the last four years to six communities is not a significant contribution to the province,” said Tyers. The original money was meant to help municipalities update sewer and water needs planning and land use planning based on the prospect of increased population numbers and business activity that would come from large-scale liquefied natural gas projects and other developments. Tyers said that money only scratched the surface of what is needed.
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ported and used, but did not walk away without concerns. McMillan said she had previously heard concerns from other people about fracking, the manner in which chemicals and water are injected deep underground to free up natural gas deposits. Though that was discussed at the conference, she still had questions. She and Sandhals also both had concerns about greenhouse gases. “When they poured the LNG on the water, I saw that it evaporated from the water but once it goes away, it doesn’t quite go away. It stays in our atmosphere,” said Sandhals. If there was a pipeline leak, Sandhals said it would not damage what is on the ground, but her concern is the air – particularly because LNG cannot be used in closed spaces, as it replaces oxygen in the air. Chaperone Doug Brewer said he also
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LOCAL SECONDARY school students say they learned a lot about the B.C. prospects of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry at a three-day event held in Vancouver Oct. 14-16. Called Gamechanger, the event was held in conjunction with a larger LNG conference sponsored by the province featuring energy companies and others. Five Terrace students and eight others from this school district participated. Students heard presentations on energy and LNG, and for many of them it was their first chance to learn what LNG is, how it is produced and transported and how it interacts with the environment. Grade 11 Caledonia student Bronson Johnson said his highlight of the trip was an LNG presentation where an industry expert took LNG, poured it on water, watched it become
a gas and dissipate, and then drank the water. “He showed everybody how it wasn’t hurtful to the environment,” Johnson told the school board at its Oct. 28 meeting. “If he can drink it, I think the fish can handle it.” Johnson said that before the conference he did not know much about LNG, except that it was better than Enbridge, but now that he is informed he is confident enough to take a stance on it. “I would definitely say I am pro-LNG now,” he said in a later interview. “I realize that it is going to bring a lot of jobs to the northwest, and it is clean in comparison to other usages such as coal which we are trying to replace.” Grade 9 Skeena Secondary School students Brynja Sandhals and Mya McMillan said they knew very little about LNG before the conference. They learned a lot about how it is trans-
thought LNG presentations were informative. “No power source that we utilize is perfect, but this is an opportunity to reduce the amount of pollution that is coming from some of the other fuels that are being used around the world,” he said. He said concerns were acknowledged and not downplayed, particularly by one presenter, who took questions and presented the risks and benefits of LNG. “He didn’t encourage you to take his particular point of view, but he sort of laid out the facts in a way that I thought he was being fair about it,” Brewer said. Besides learning about LNG, students also looked at careers, opportunities and innovations in the energy industry. They visited Science World and the
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STUDENTS FROM the school district at the Gamechanger LNG conference. From left, Caledonia students Sonny Walterhouse and Terrence O’Brien, Hazelton Secondary student Julian Stokes and Caledonia student Bronson Johnson. BCIT campus, where they toured trades departments. Trades was the second big focus of the conference, with engaging 15-minute talks as
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LNG project faces $100 million bill in form of customs duty 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 an LNG plant affixed to a floating platform to be built in Asia and ferried to Kitimat. 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. AltaGas vice-president John Lowe, in speaking to analysts during a conference call held to discuss the company’s latest earnings, said it takes the opposite view. “The floating unit is incapable of navigation,
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it has no self-propulsion and it’s going to be moored permanently,” he said. And the equipment on the platform should not be subject to any duty which is the case for all equipment that liquefies air or gases, Lowe said. AltaGas and other
members of 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. He noted that the
Douglas Channel LNG project is not the only proposal involving a floating platform. “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 Cana-
da 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.
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Early connections urged, businesses hear at forum By MARGARET SPEIRS BUSINESSES NEED to understand First Nations and how they do business, more than 150 people heard at a forum here Nov. 4-5. Called Nation2Nation, the forum, one of a growing number to be held regarding business opportunities, concentrated on partnerships between First Nations and companies. Companies should be talking to First Nations about potential projects on their territories at a very early stage, said Tahltan Nation Development Corporation CEO Garry Merkel during one of several panel discussions held at the Sportsplex. “We have had people come talk to us at the investment stage and that’s ideally the best time,” he said. “A lot of industry does not understand the value in being a community based company and there is absolutely huge, almost invaluable, value in being grounded in and having a relationship with your local community,” said Merkel, adding that being honest and clear with exactly what the business has to offer and what the Tahltan need in return is necessary. Merkel noted that the Tahltan have two primary points of contact – the development corporation, which is owned by the Tahltan Nation, and the Tahltan Central Government, which speaks for Tahltan on resource and other developments.
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KITSELAS FIRST Nation chief councillor Joe Bevan, Tahltan Nation Development Corporation CEO Garry Merkel and CEO of the Nisga’a Village of Gitwinksihlkw Harry Nyce Jr. sat on a panel at the Nation2Nation business forum held Nov. 5 in Terrace. Kitselas First Nation chief councillor Joe Bevan, a second panel participant, emphasized early contact as well, saying that companies eyeing large projects needing to be reviewed federally should be speaking to First Nations up to two years before the review begins. It will be a lot easier for a project to gain First Nations support and social licence, he added. Small businesses who may not need to have their projects reviewed to the same extent as large ones should be in touch about a year ahead of their development schedule, Bevan said. Unlike other First Nations, the Nisga’a have a treaty setting out a rigor-
ous procedure for projects, noted Harry Nyce Jr., the chief executive officer of the Village of Gitwinksihlkw located in the Nass Valley and another panel participant. “As soon as the idea is hatched, the conversation should begin,” said Nyce. One audience member wanted to know if a company that has success working with First Nations in Alberta could expect to have that count when making connections here. Bevan said it would help to have those connections and make it easier for him to develop trust with the company. Merkel added that it would give a company a foot in the door but he would still need to get to
ployment is climbing, says Ken Coates from the University of Saskatchewan. “If you look back over just the past 20 years, the progress has been amazing,” said Coates. “We’re at the point where there are literally thousands of aboriginal businesses.” And what’s needed for corporations to spend billions up front on resource development for returns to occur years down the road is increased certainty they can do so, said Brian Lee Crowley from the Ottawabased think tank Macdonald Laurier Institute. That’s particularly important for aboriginal involvement with court
precedents setting out requirements to consult First Nations and accommodate their interests, he said. But consult and accommodate shouldn’t be regarded as a complete veto over resource development where one First Nation can stop a project in which there is overall consensus and approval by other First Nations that is proceeding, Crowley added. “No community can have the right of veto. I think the courts are clear, they’re not trying to confer a right of veto. These [developments] can proceed in the absence of universal agreement,” he said. “What we have to have
know the company first to know whether it clicks with the Tahltan. “We have a presence with all the tribes you met, [in Alberta]. When it comes to building [a partnership], we are building together so we walk together, build together and make money together,” said Nyce. All three panels said businesses must also understand that education is crucial to First Nations. “When you run a major organization...it’s all about finance, legalities...you need an education,” said Merkel, adding he hires people for their management skills as other things can be taught to them. Nyce said the Nisga’a realize the value of education and in terms of busi-
ness, if the people have the needed skills, fewer people will come in from the outside to work. “Human resources is very important. Education of course is very important as well,” he said. Bevan said that while higher education is important, not everyone chooses the academic route, meaning that skilled trades training is needed. “We’ve had to tell people that maybe it’s best to talk to a company who might want to sponsor an apprenticeship and go at it in those terms and also think of it as not just shortterm gains but long-term,” he said. “That’s kind of the Kitselas approach to our development.”
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is a process where First Nations have a high level of comfort in how a development is evaluated, where the science is robust, where
the First Nations feel they have been consulted and engaged. We’re not there yet,” Crowley continued.
Aboriginal involvement crucial NORTHWESTERN B.C. has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to directly profit from large-scale economic development, say two academics who recently toured the area. Court decisions toward aboriginal title and the realization from companies that aboriginal people must be involved in decisionmaking are driving the opportunity, they say. What could happen here, given the potential for an LNG industry, is already happening in other northern parts of the country where aboriginal corporations are building equity in resource developments and where aboriginal em-
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Project faces customs duty
While Cullen acknowledged that the 25 per cent duty is meant to protect and encourage Canadian shipbuilders, he 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.” “I certainly feel AltaGas deserves a fair hearing.” Cullen did wonder if the duty was an item AltaGas knew about in the planning of the project or whether it was something just recently sprung by federal customs officials. In the meantime, provincial natural gas development minister Rich Coleman says he’s talking to the federal government about a duty remission. “We are working with our industry partners, stakeholders and other levels of government to ensure British Columbia is a competitive place to do business,” said Coleman. “We believe providing duty remission for Douglas Channel LNG, consistent with other LNG facilities, will make Canada more attractive for companies considering establishing projects here.” “The province has contacted the federal government to support duty remission for the proposed Douglas Channel LNG facility. We look forward to continuing these discussions,” Coleman said. Provided there is an investment decision made by the end of this year, the Douglas Channel project would be the first LNG facility off the mark. At $600 million it would also be the smallest compared to others, such as Chevron-backed Kitimat LNG and Shell-backed LNG Canada, also at Kitimat, that would cost upwards of $40 billion. And unlike other projects which would required pipelines to deliver natural gas, Douglas Channel LNG would be fed by the existing natural gas pipeline servicing the northwest. It’s owned by Pacific Northern Gas, an AltaGas subsidiary. The other members of the consortium are Belgian-based LNG shipper called Exmar, which would supply the floating LNG platform, Indemitsu Kosan of Japan and EDF Trading Ltd., a subsidiary of Electricite de France S.A. The AltaGas investment in Douglas Channel LNG is $100 million and the Haisla First Nation is an equity participant as well.
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Shelter ADD up the list of things the city has done to encourage more types of housing and it’s quite impressive. Zoning changes for inlaw/granny/ basement suites, secondary residences on what were once single-family plots and zoning of larger parcels – sometimes in the face of neighbourhood opposition – for townhouse developments. Efforts extended to a so-far unrealized agreement with a developer that in return for purchasing city land for housing, to set aside a portion of that housing for people of modest income and using a portion of the sale of that land for a fund to encourage more affordable housing, also so far unrealized. And now the city is forming a group to tackle the most crucial form of housing – shelter for the homeless. In this the city deserves credit for in the way government responsibilities are structured social housing is the province’s job as are dealing with the myriad of reasons people are homeless in the first place. But while the city deserves credit, council’s decision to exclude a homeless person or two from the group membership is puzzling. Surely if anyone can speak to the realities of being homeless, it is a homeless person. Any number of other city committees dealing with specific issues has representatives from those areas – youth, seniors, etc. Council should rethink its decision.
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CLAUDETTE SANDECKI a carpenter, a mechanic, a horticulturalist, a teacher, a cook, a quilter, two gardeners expert on flowers, and one brimming with literary quotes, names of authors, book titles, movies and actors. From time to time, I search out someone who can help me with a specific word. For instance, when I needed to know what to call a baby llama. My internet wasn’t working. The word wasn’t to be found in Encyclopedia Britannica although it gave me everything else about raising llamas in Peru – pounds of wool produced annually and such.
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The Mail Bag
Detox centre must be a priority Dear Sir: Enough talk, analysis and fruitless recommendations. Terrace needs a detox and treatment centre. There’s much higher drug and alcohol use per capita outside of the south and the further north you go, the worse the matter. Local mental health services are not available when required, Terrace ranked the 10th city in the Canadian Crime Severity Index in 2014. This year, the homeless count cost the city $2,500 and 74 people were found. And now what, another committee is formed to analyze the situation. Action has always been diverted by yet another well-intentioned committee or task force whether the subject is youth at risk, suicide awareness, domestic violence, the RCMP Crime Reduction Unit (an increased police presence to make the problem less visible) or the Highway of Tears and Fears. The politicians commissioning these reports and their authors have obviously never had to deal with personal demons or the dark, dank side of life without any hope of helpful services or they would have insisted they exist long before now. The Minister of Health and the Minister of Children and Family Development commissioned a 40-page glossy report and mandate titled “Healthy Minds, Healthy People: A 10-year Plan to Address Mental Health and Substance Use in B.C. 2010” It was an election promise.
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THE COASTAL Health Authority operates this detox facility in Vancouver. “The plan establishes a vision for collaborative and integrated actions focused on opportunities to promote positive mental health, and to prevent health and substance abuse problems before they occur,” to quote the document. The plan includes an action statement “specific to training programs for suicide prevention and intervention across a lifespan (including children and youth)” and
several more “action statements” intended to “enhance and make accessible, the capacity and quality of the health system’s response to mental health and substance abuse problems in B.C.” It also states that mental illness costs B.C. $6.6 billion per year and indirect costs of $1.6 billion in lost productivity directly related to alcohol alone. Liquid courage is costly.
These promises were made by the Liberal government even though budget cuts ensued. Christy Clark was sworn in as the Premier of B.C. with a “Family First Agenda” in 2011. But she seems to have swept the mandate under the carpet as she strides forward with an exceptional interest in Northern B.C.’s resources. There are literally hundreds of reports making the same recom-
mendations costing millions of dollars and action is never taken. Accountability is non-existent. Broken people are voiceless and don’t alert the media of the gaps in service mandates until they die, a tear or two falls and then they disappear into the forgotten past or if tragic enough, another inquiry is ordered. It does, however, create government jobs and an aura of good will. If you actually walk through the doors of children and youth mental office desperate and begging for help, they will say to you “you need a referral from your doctor to receive our services.” That is a cold shoulder when you are standing on the edge of a precipice so close to falling. It means you need a doctor, a phone and the strength to wait for an appointment and then a referral to services that usually don’t exist here. This is another direct contravention of the 2010 report recommendations. Mental healthiness is merely a theory with them. If you were born beautiful or smart it wasn’t by your choice though it is a leg up on the road through life but by the same measure if you were born into poverty of mind or body or with a tortured soul these are also not choices made at birth but the luck of the draw, cards fall as they may. Lucky or not, they are not choices.
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Action needed to save young lives
he recent The Terrace Standard report on Alyssa George’s death is unsettling. The story of Alyssa’s short life is a protracted list of addictions, afflictions and bad conditions, but her death was classified as natural. It is all but inevitable that a life will come to a premature end when body and soul are subjected to the abuses endured by Alyssa who was just 25. In that sense, the cause of her death was indeed natural. What is not natural is for a community and society to remain impassive and disengaged, spectators to a young life sliding into despondency and despair. The coroner’s jury’s 16 recommendations arising from the inquest into Alyssa’s death are addressed to the RCMP, the City of Terrace, and to various provincial agencies. But not a single recommendation addresses the causes that brought Alyssa to the RCMP’s holding cell. Their common objective is improvements after the
fact. The jury could have taken a much broader view on what contributed to Alyssa’s premature death. The lack of a detox facility in Terrace is an immediate problem, but Alyssa’s problems did not begin with the lack of such a facility. The roots of Alyssa’s problems are likely to be found in the socio-economic conditions and realities that shaped her young life before she took her first drink, before she consumed her first addictive poisonous substance. The conditions that shaped Alyssa’s childhood prevail in many communities. Alleviating such conditions, not to suggest eliminating them, is neither easy nor quick and cheap. However, as the jury’s recommendations make abundantly clear, responding to the consequences of such conditions is not cheap either. The Standard’s story does not specify the nature of the outstanding warrants that obliged the RCMP to arrest Alyssa.
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ANDRE CARREL There is no mention of the cumulative costs to society from the events linked to these warrants, to Alyssa’s arrest, her transfer to the local and then to the Vancouver hospital, and finally to the inquest into her death. We do not know these costs, but the amount is likely in the six figure range. Alyssa might still be alive today if the 16 measures the jury recommended had been in place
at the time of her arrest. It is possible that Alyssa’s problems could have been dealt with if these measures had been in place. It is equally possible, however, that she would still have had to be transferred to Vancouver. If all 16 jury recommendations were to be implemented, a person born into conditions similar to those experienced by Alyssa would still run a high risk of experiencing a myriad of problems and a premature death. What steps would we, as a society, have to take to prevent premature deaths such as Alyssa’s? We are a First World nation and a proud member of the G7. We know that there is more to human dignity and community ethics than raw economic interests. The jury could have considered a 17th recommendation. It could have called on government to research and document the early childhood endured by Alyssa. It could have challenged us to compare that to a childhood un-
likely to end up in Alyssa’s predicament. The jury recommended that the city establish a committee to consider adding an additional guard at the police station. Council should expand that committee’s terms of reference. The committee should be asked to explore what we, as a community, could do to change the environment that pushed Alyssa onto a path of abuse in a futile search for comfort and relief. Other jurisdictions have analyzed the social returns arising from investing in youth mentoring programs. Efforts to endow a young person’s life with a welcoming future will lessen her and his search for an escape from hopelessness. Such efforts cost money, but arguably less over the long-term than having to deal with the aftermath of neglect and abuse – to say nothing of putting joy and safety into a young person’s life. Retired public sector administrator Andre Carrel lives in Terrace, B.C.
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When will you start beating up my son? Dear Sir, I would like to respond to Lesley Winterhalt’s fantastic letter of October 21. In 1953, when I was fiveyears-old, my family lived in Doreen, a railway station built for the Grand Trunk Pacific railway east of Terrace. I was the only pre-schooler there except for a two-year-old girl who was off the grid. My mother had enrolled me to keep the school open. I was virtually alone until an aboriginal family moved in next door and they had a five-year-old son. Wow! I had a playmate. After a few weeks, my new friend asked me when I was going to start to beat him up. Huh? He told me his mother told him white boys always beat up native kids. I assured him I would never beat him up: who would I have to hang out with if I did? He ran inside to tell his mom.
I was called in and she repeated the question: when was I going to start beating up her son. Never, I replied. She said I was a funny white kid if I didn’t want to beat up her son. She couldn’t let him play outside their home in Hazelton without some white kid coming by and beating him up.
“Needless to say, I find aboriginals A-OK, friends and good neighbours” They were in Doreen for the month on a hunting trip. She was worried about his school years. I said my mom was a good teacher and a severe disciplinarian; no fighting where she taught. His mom then tried to explain Residential Schools. She said she would kill her
son before allowing “them” to put him in one of those places. Whoa! Truth is those schools were ordered by Ottawa to eliminate the Indian in the kids and put white society in them. Magneto in the X-Men had the same goal for the mutants. His dad said when I hit puberty I would turn hardcore racist and beat aboriginals up. I shook my head and the parents said they would pray for me. Thanks! The aboriginal kids were beat up, physically and sexually abused among other things in the schools. The entire Canadian culture was racist. I found this out even in high school when I tried to befriend aboriginal students – they reacted with paranoia and shunned me. Needless to say, I find aboriginals A-OK, friends and good neighbours. Anything else is racist. Brian Gregg Terrace, B.C.
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Centre would save lives
Remember every homeless person camped out in the woods behind the arena was once a child. Whether it’s looking out from a drug-induced coma or ending it all, these are not choices we wish upon ourselves – why would we assume anyone else would wish it upon themselves? The jury in the Alyssa George case has recommended that “A committee/focus group (here we go again) should be established to investigate the construction of a proper medically staffed substance abuse/detox centre in the city of Terrace to service all outlaying areas.” If anyone out there is capable of setting up an online petition to get action on a decade long promise, please let me know at judehay21@gmail.com. The evidence is reality and what we need is pressure from the community for accountability. Jude Haydock Terrace, B.C.
THE LAKELSE DRAGON BOAT SOCIETY The Lakelse Dragon Boat Society would like to thank all sponsors, participants, volunteers and supporters of our 10th Annual Reqatta. Fun was had by all!
SNOW REMOVAL NO PARKING ON STREETS
From November 15 to April 01 Under Street and Traffic Bylaw No. 1313-1993, every street, boulevard, alley and highway in the City of Terrace is designated as a snow removal route, and parking on them is prohibited during the winter months, from November 15th to April 1st. Any vehicle that impedes snow removal and / or road maintenance work on any snow removal route may be towed. Plowing in residential areas can occur at any time of the day or night. Snow clearing operations in the downtown area are typically carried out between 10:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. In addition, it is illegal for anyone to place ice or snow from any private property, parking lot or entrance way, on to City right-of-way as it impedes traffic, creates drainage problems, buries fire hydrants, and interferes with routine snow plowing. Under this bylaw, you may be fined for doing so. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.
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Overwhelming challenges are to be overcome and some have the strength and/or opportunity and some do not, it’s not just a question of not trying hard enough. Equal opportunity is not an inherent right as the Charter of Rights insists. A detox and treatment centre along with a crisis centre here in Terrace would be a sensible central location for a vast area that would be better utilized and successful than placing people on waiting lists for Prince George or Vancouver, a fast track to Hastings street if you fail. This would be the first step in addressing the volumes of issues leading to drug and alcohol addictions or in reverse, addictions leading to mental illness, homelessness and crime. If Canadians want change, there has never a better time than now to prevent another headline of one more man, woman or child tragically dying as the end result of addiction.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 Terrace Standard
Living here comes with certain responsibilities. We’re stepping up with a state of the art solution. To assist with construction of the new Thornhill Transfer Station, as of Nov. 14, 2015, the following items cannot be accepted at the landfill until further notice:
UNTIL NOVEMBER 28, 2015. SEE IN-STORE FOR DETAILS.
• Scrap metal • Large appliances (fridges and freezers still accepted)
• Lead acid (vehicle) batteries • Tires
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Kermode aims for renovation
Aboriginal involvement crucial “We need to define what those fair processes are so that a First Nation will accept a decision even if the decision doesn’t go their way.” Crowley and Coates paint their viewpoint within the context of Canada’s economy being underpinned by resource extraction and export. “I believe that 70 per cent of the mining investment in the world is raised on the Toronto Stock Exchange,” said Coates. “If we don’t [develop resources], what does the Canadian economy look like?” added Crowley. Crowley also introduces the concept of social licence, defined as the broad approval that development can take place once projects pass through
scientific and environmental reviews. “I think the social licence movement puts aboriginal people in a very key position,” said Crowley. But there are aboriginal groups as well as environmental groups who take a hardline position on social licence with Crowley adding the word “radical” to the phrase. “The radical social licence movement is actually against the principle of resource development. They attack the credibility of the regulatory process which is actually quite good. They do that so it becomes a chokepoint.” “Even if it’s one person holding a sign they’ll say, ‘See, you don’t have social li-
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cence,’” Crowley said. “It’s taken that to the illogical extreme.” And that makes it even more important to have a process of evaluating projects that fully include First Nations, he said. “There will be winners and losers. We need to ensure the process is fair and that interests are accommodated and that losers are compensated,” Crowley added. He and Coates, who has had a years-long interest in northern development, began to delve into aboriginal inclusion in economic development following a phone call from the Assembly of First Nations, the country’s predominant group representing First Nations in-
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of the Kermode Friendship Centre Cal Albright was successful in his request Oct. 26 for city council support in seeking a grant for renovations. His plan for the non-profit social services organization is “to replace some of the windows in our building and also what we know as the Eagle Room which the community uses a lot,” said Albright. As part of the application for a $30,000 grant from
terests. “What they said was that “we, as aboriginal people, know we have a whole bunch of opportunities here. But what we have is not clear to us and project proponents are coming to us saying we want your agreement [for projects]. We need help to see our way through this,’” said Crowley. The Macdonald-Laurier Institute, named after former Conservative and Liberal prime ministers, doesn’t receive money directly from the Assembly of First Nations or from individual private companies, said Crowley. But it has received financial assistance from the Mining Association of Canada which represents mining companies.
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He asked for donations to help others
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RYAN KUNAR with the many bags of clothing and other items he collected for the homeless and others in need and gave to Ksan House Society.
FOLLOWING HIS brother’s lead, Ryan Kunar, Grade 12 at Cal, gave out leaflets in his neighbourhood and used social media to ask for clothing donations for the women’s shelter over the last month. He asked for jackets, gloves, scarves, sweaters, shirts, pants, towels, bedding, shoes and any other clothing items no longer needed. And received the most items he’s ever collected. His older brother Steve had done a similar collection and donation four years ago. Homelessness being a big issue right now made it even more of a reason to collect clothing and other items for people. Ryan couldn’t help out with housing but could donate items. The wet and cold weather also led him to collect items now rather than closer to Christmas, which he’s done in past. Reminder leaflets went out two days before he was to collect the donations and said that people could leave bags of items on their doorsteps for him. Some people even dropped off their donations on his front step. The bags of clothing filled his parents’ minivan so the back seat was removed to make more room. The bags took up the foyer of Ksan House Society.
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THE NEW Terrace RCMP Auxiliary Constables are from left: Graham Peters, Jonathan Simpson, Cathy Konst, Chris Gair, Jason Lebarge and Stanley Nicklie.
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■■ No presents CAMRYN REITER, an Uplands’ Grade 6 student, asked friends coming to her birthday party Oct. 30 to bring a monetary donation for the women’s shelter instead of presents. Her 22 friends raised $312 that she gave to Ksan House Society Nov. 2. She did it to help the women who have to leave their homes and don’t have household items with them. Reiter wants to inspire other youths to help out like she has and plans to do this every year. Here she is with her mom Barbara Bond.
New auxiliaries join RCMP NEW AUXILIARY constables have swelled the ranks at the RCMP detachment here. After a drop to two auxiliary constables, recruitment began for volunteers to take the program to boost the numbers back up. The result was the graduation of six new officers at the end of October after their 160 hours of training and two provincial exams were completed. “I am very proud that I have had the pleasure to guide this class through the process of becoming an auxiliary member,” said Const. Angela Rabut.
“Each person here brings something unique and valuable to contribute to the program. Their backgrounds and experience have great diversity, and I truly believe that makes for a stronger program.” Rabut thanked family and friends for their support that is “crucial for your loved ones to take part in this program, considering the pay is lousy.” Training began in June and included classroom sessions, practical training, presentations and exams. Local RCMP officers did the training on topics including law, ethics,
dress and deportment, use of force, community policing and officer safety. Auxiliary constables are non-paid volunteers who dedicate countless hours to their training and participate in community policing initiatives. They are uniformed but unarmed and serve as sworn peace officers supporting the staff and regular officers of the Terrace RCMP. Each auxiliary constable must log 160 volunteer hours each year for two years to stay in good standing in the program.
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Terrace Standard Wednesday, November 11, 2015
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n Manitoba, in fall, there are some serious social events to engage in. I am sorry to tell you that you have already missed the Lowe Farm School Fall Supper on October 30, 2015, at the Mennonite Collegiate Institute Fundraising Fall Supper, admission by donation for Soup and Pie. We have also missed out on the Darlingford Fall Supper on November 1, 2015 at the Community Hall, with a menu of turkey, meatballs, potatoes, vegetables, stuffing, coleslaw, jellied salads, buns and desserts. Jellied salads, people! We will have to wait until next year for the Reinland Community Centre Fall Supper, admission by donation for roast beef, sausage, baked potato, gravy, baked beans, homemade bread and pie. Try again next autumn for the Oakville Curling Club Fall Supper with 4:30, 5:30 & 6:30 p.m. sittings for turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, turnips, stuffing, gravy, corn, coleslaw and homemade pie. Make your travel plans now. Fortunately, we still have ahead of us a season of Socials (see definition below), Knipsbrat (flick-board or Crokinole) and Zoat Knacken (eating Knackzoat, aka sunflower seeds). What is a Manitoba Social? A social is a particularly Manitobagrown concept. It’s a fundraising party, often for a wedding, charitable or community organization. Usually held at a community centre or a Legion hall, it can be known as a “Wedding Social,” “Fundraising Social” or just simply a “Social.” A wedding Social gives people a way to include people in the wedding when they could not invite all their friends and extended family to the ceremony, to support the couple financially for their
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Knipsbrat and Krackzoat new life together. Common features of the Manitoba Social are: Liquor – The alcohol will be cheaper than at bars, but more expensive than from the Liquor Commission. Expect budget beers and cheap hard liquor. Food – Traditionally this includes sliced kubasa, luncheon meats rolled up and stabbed with a toothpick, rye bread, pickles and cheese. The food is brought out buffet-style around midnight. Social food is a great task to delegate to family members. Unless you have Legion Ladies – their food is always the best. Music and Dancing – I preferred a DJ, because a live band made it hard to guess exactly what Top 40 song they were trying to cover. Unless you get a polka band, so all the songs sound the same anyway. And you can whirl around the dance floor like a dervish. Raffles and Draws – Socials are fundraisers, so bring cash for at least one arms-length of 50-50 tickets.
Tickets – Social tickets are sold person to person, and I was surprised to learn the cost has more than doubled since the ’70s – now they are around $10. My local social hall was Friedensfeld, just outside Steinbach town limits. Lucky for my teenage dancing requirements, it held its first Social in June of 1970. On July 25, 1970, the Grand Opening was held with over 800 people in attendance. Guest speakers were Mayor L.A. Barkman and Reeve Albert Driedger. The Rev. W. Gartke said the table grace. Why Knipsbrat? Crokinole is often believed to be of Mennonite or Amish origins, but there is no data to support this, it’s just really popular in Mennonite and Amish groups. The game is viewed as a rather innocuous pastime – unlike diversions such as card playing, gambling, drinking or dancing, which were considered from the Devil. Unless Friedensfeld. Why Knackzot? Nearby my town of hometown of Steinbach, Altona has declared itself the “Sunflower Capital of Canada.” Sunflowers are usually the last crop to be harvested in fall, since fall frosts are necessary for drying down the crop. I wondered how they could advertise they were “salted in the shell.” Seems impossible to salt them with out opening them, doesn’t it? Unless brine. Right. When Mennonites are not busy working all day, there is one activity they’ll always make time for: Zoat Knacken, a Plautdietsch phrase meaning “seed cracking.” Why do Mennonites love their seeds? Mennonites eat so much of it that often they just throw the shells on the ground and sweep it up in the end. Hey, wait a minute – “Crack“ seeds! Obviously addictive: don’t go there.
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■■ THORNHILL PUB: KARAOKE Thurs. 8 p.m. All day free pool Wed., Sun. Texas hold ‘em poker Tues. 6 p.m. and Sun. 5 p.m. Showing all UFC events. Jam sessions Sat. 8 p.m. Shuttle service provided. ■■ LEGION BRANCH 13: Meat draws every Sat. – first draw at 4 p.m. Steak Night is the first Fri. of each month. Trivia Challenge is the second Sat. of each month at 7 p.m. ■■ GEORGE’S PUB: POOL tourney every Sun. starting 6 p.m. Poker, Sun. 1 p.m., Wed. 7 p.m. Thurs. game night, DJ and open to 2 a.m. On Fri./Sat. is live entertainment. Karaoke Thurs./Sun. 8:30 p.m. Shuttle weekends. ■■ MT. LAYTON LOUNGE: Open daily 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Free pool. Located at Mt. Layton Hotsprings just off Hwy37 South between Terrace and Kitimat.
Art
■■ TERRACE ART GALLERY presents Whimsical North West, acrylic on canvas by Marie-Christine Claveau and mixed media on linen and birch panels plus lino prints on paper by Laura McGregor for November. They say “the subject of including the NorthWest came naturally; as transplants to this area, we could not help but be inspired by its over-
whelming beauty - something that we share daily with our children.” Gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from noon to 4 p.m.; Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Closed Monday.
bank. Meeting their eccentric neighbours may be more than they can handle. Warning: some adult language. Tickets at Uniglobe Travel.
Stageplay
■■ TERRACE COMMUNITY BAND season opener concert Folk plays at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at the REM Lee Theatre. Tickets on sale at Misty River Books. ■■ SKEENA BAND FALL Concert is at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 18 at the REM Lee Theatre. Admission by donation to the Skeena Band Program.
■■ AUDITIONS ARE BEING held for Terrace Little Theatre’s spring dinner theatre production of “Criminal Hearts,” a black comedy by Jane Martin and directed by Marianne Brorup Weston, at 11 a.m. Nov. 14 at the McColl Playhouse. Roles for two men, two women and one off-stage woman’s voice. No experience necessary, we will train you! Show dates are Feb. 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, 27, March 4, 5. For more details, please contact Marianne at mbrorup@citywest.ca or 250-635-2942 between 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. ■■ TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE presents a double feature fall show at 8 p.m. Nov. 20, 21, 27, 28 and Dec. 5 at the McColl Playhouse. “Anniversary” is a story of romance and recovery from grief. “Brooding and Dangerous” is newlyweds Sid and Margaret, who are having a busy Saturday moving into their place and preparing for Sid’s job at the
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■■ UNBC NORTHWEST PUBLIC Presentation Film and Discussion: “The Power of One Voice” about the life and impact of Rachel Carson (to be confirmed) is at noon Nov. 18 at UNBC. For ages 19 and older. Free. For more, call Alma 250615-5578 or alma.avila@unbc.ca. ■■ UNBC TERRACE AND Matt Beedle, NWCC and UNBC presentation of “Eight Thousand Kilometers in a Year: The Slow Way” by Amy Klepetar, is at noon Nov. 25 at UNBC. For ages 19 and older. For more, call Alma 250-615-5578 or alma.avila@unbc.ca.
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The Terrace Standard offers the Community Calendar as a public service to its readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-profit organizations and events without an admission charge. Space permitting, items will run two weeks before each event. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursdays. Fax your event or PSA to 250-638-8432. For complete listings, visit www.terracestandard.com
COMMUNITY EVENTS NOVEMBER 14 – Terrace Peaks Gymnastics Club hosts its third annual Christmas in November from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the sportsplex banquet room. A festive evening of fun and entertainment with live and silent auctions, DJ and dancing, appetizers and more! A great opportunity for a staff Christmas party or a night out with friends. Designated drivers services available. Tickets on sale at the gymnastics club or CitiFinancial. Call Jaimee for further details at 250-635-1611. NOVEMBER 14 – Fall Tea and Bazaar at the Happy Gang Centre from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. NOVEMBER 14 – Royal Purple Craft and Bake Sale is 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Elks Hall. (2822 Tetrault St.). Crafts, baked goods, tea. NOVEMBER 13 AND 14 – 40th annual Skeena Winter Extreme Ski and Board Swap: on Friday, register your lightly used winter gear for consignment sale from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Saturday, swap goes from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Kitsumkalum Hall. Community fundraising event for volunteer Canadian Ski Patrol and Shames Mountain Ski and Snowboard Club. Admission by donation. More info at www. winterextreme.com/skeena.
NOVEMBER 18 – Seniors’ Social welcomes all seniors and mature adults for complementary coffee, tea and refreshments, socializing with other seniors, entertainment and music from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly. NOVEMBER 21, 22 – Ten Thousand Villages Sale - Terrace’s annual non-profit Fair Trade event will be held on Friday at 1 p.m.- 9 p.m. and Saturday at 10 a.m. - 6 p.m. at the Skeena Mall. Come enjoy some beautiful handcrafted goods and fair trade coffee while supporting artisans from developing countries such as India, Nepal, Uganda, and Haiti.
NOVEMBER 27-28 – Mills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary hosts its annual Craft Sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. both days at the hospital education room. Lots of Christmas crafts and goodies. NOVEMBER 28 – Skeena Valley Farmers Market Christmas Craft Show is 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Arena Banquet Room in the Sportsplex. More than 65 vendors, raffle of three gift baskets! Please bring a nonperishable food item for the Terrace Churches Food Bank.
PSAS DIABETES EDUCATION CLASSES run every Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. on the
second floor of the Park Avenue Medical Clinic. 19+. Free. Group classes for people living with diabetes. For more details, contact Alanna at 250-615-5533.
of the members’ homes. We’re always open to new members so feel free to phone our contact people to find out when our next meeting is: Doug 250-635-4809 or Val 250-635-3415.
THE RED CROSS Health Equipment Loan Program urgently needs volunteers. The program loans equipment at no charge to those who need it. If you can spare two or more hours per month, please contact Norma at the Terrace Red Cross at 4450 Greig Ave., 250-631-4177. Office hours are Tuesday and Thursday from noon to 2 p.m.
TERRACE TOASTMASTERS MEETS the second and fourth Wednesday of each month in Room #404 of the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly with meetings beginning at 7 p.m. If you’d like to build self-confidence and improve your leadership and communication skills in a fun and interactive setting with like-minded individuals, consider joining Toastmasters for the 2014-2015 season. For more information, please call Ralph at 250-638-1905, Janine at 250-615-8187 or find us online at www. terracetoastmasters.com.
LIVING WITH STROKE is a free program with trained facilitators bringing together stroke survivors and their care partners to learn and share with others, to improve their health, work thru challenges and to reduce the risk of another stroke. Next sessions are Thursdays from October 29 to December 10 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Healthy Terrace Education Room, second floor, medical clinic, 4634 Park Ave. Free. For more details, contact Heart and Stroke Foundation at 1-888-473-4636 or see website at heartandstroke.bc.ca/livingwithstroke. MODERATO, A SMALL, adult band with Courtney Preyser as conductor welcomes new members at its practices from 7:15 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. Wednesday nights at the Skeena band room. If you play or have played an instrument or want to learn a new one, then this is the group for you. For further information, please call Terry at 250-635-4694. TERRACE PUBLIC LIBRARY for kids: Ollie, a therapy dog under the Paws for Stories program with St. John Ambulance, is looking for reading buddies to practice their reading skills in a fun and relaxed atmosphere after school on Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., in October and November at the Terrace Public Library. He is available for 15-minute reading sessions while siblings enjoy a concurrent drop-in program in the children’s area. Sign up your reader today at 250-638-8177. “Check it Out” welcomes kids of all ages to the library for after school fun each Wednesday from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., beginning October 7th thru November. Enjoy snacks, books and friends! This is a free drop-in program with no registration required. Let us help you browse the books, play some games or just hang out and do your homework! THE TERRACE MULTIPLE Sclerosis Support Group meets every other Wednesday of the month. A very informal group who meets every two weeks for coffee and to have a few laughs. Those with MS, family members and anyone interested in MS are welcome. We have current information on new treatments, drugs and clinical trials in progress. Meetings are at one
THE TERRACE ART Gallery board of directors meets the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. in the gallery. Call 638-8884 for details. TRIVIA CHALLENGES ARE held on the second Saturday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Legion. TERRACE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB meets monthly on the third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Terrace Art Gallery. Want to enjoy photography more? Open the aperture of your mind and come and see us. Two field trips a month and much more. Contact information thru our website northernlensescameraclub.ca. COMMUNITY SENIORS’ SOCIAL invites all seniors and mature adults for complementary coffee, tea and refreshments, socializing with other seniors, entertainment and music from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly. Free. This time together includes a coffee/tea/ snack time and singing. NORTHWEST BC METIS meet the third Wednesday of the month (except July and August) at 7 p.m. room 306, 4536 Park Ave. Everyone welcome. For more details call 6381199 or Beverly at 635-6864 or terracemetis@ ymail.com.
A PEER SUPPORT group for people living with a brain disorder meets 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. every Monday at the Terrace Public Library meeting room. Also meet us for a coffee at Cafenara on Friday nights at 7 p.m. For more details, call Ken or Sheila at 631-4176. THE HOMELESS OUTREACH Program and the Living Room Project provide services at the Old Carpenters Hall on the corner of Davis Ave. and Sparks St. open Mon. to Thurs. 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Fri. until 2 p.m. HEALING TOUCH COMMUNITY Clinics continue to be offered by appointment. Call Julie for more, 250-849-5554. Donations accepted.
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Look Who’s Dropped In! Baby’s Name: Faye Teresa Marie Cure Date & Time of Birth: October 24, 2015 @ 11:27 a.m. Weight: 8 lbs. 12 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Destiny Stewart & Adam Cure Baby’s Name: Makken Peter Todd Date & Time of Birth: October 19, 2015 @ 7:43 p.m. Weight: 7 lbs. 3 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Lisa Graydon & Brian Todd Baby’s Name: Eva Lou-Lana Yvette Nole Date & Time of Birth: September 30, 2015 @ 4:47 p.m. Weight: 7 lbs. 6 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Angelita & Keith Nole “New sister for Rydee, Karson & Corbin”
Baby’s Name: Theo James Date & Time of Birth: October 7, 2015 @ 8:56 Weight: 10 lbs. 5 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Alexandra & Paul Baby’s Name: Xander Addison Quinn Robinson Date & Time of Birth: October 14, 2015 @ 1:35 a.m. Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Gaylene Woods & Anthony Robinson “New brother for James, Mackenzie & Jordan” Baby’s Name: Ella Renée Biggs Date & Time of Birth: September 26, 2015 @ 7:59 a.m. Weight: 9 lbs. 8 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Allison & Dan Biggs “New sister for Ty and Cohen”
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While Tyers said the original money was well spent, some of the results just led to more responsibility being placed on municipalities. “Even the housing action plan is a lot of community-based stuff,” said Tyers, adding that they need to “see benefits from these projects.” Wade submitted that benefits and impacts are two different discussions. “This conversation has been about impacts, it has not been about benefits,” she said. “So I know that is another conversation the minister is in-
terested in having, and just to be clear it has been a bit more than a million dollars,” she said in referring to provincial community’s minister Peter Fassbender. Wade said that other communities that prepared responsibly have “planned and built, but not overbuilt.” She said communities facing growth should build capacity first by looking at “what’s going to fall apart whether or not development happens.” Councillor Brian Downie highlighted changes already seen. “What we have seen with the growth we have had with the
Rio Tinto project and the power line is that we have new subdivision areas,” he said, adding that the city needs some help dealing with potentially expensive fixes such as the traffic flow problem up Lanfear Hill. The resource benefits alliance was formed two years ago and is made up of northwestern local and regional governments stretching from the coast into the interior. They argue that while developments may take place outside of their taxation boundaries, there are increased pressure for local services as a result.
▾ MYTH: Girls and women aren’t allowed to join gangs: Reality: Girls are joining gangs across 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.
Brianna Kinnear’s mother, along with her daughter’s dog Ferdinand, sit on a memorial bench dedicated to her daughter’s brutal gang murder in 2009. Brianna’s murder remains unsolved.
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Hallock leaves legacy of service in Terrace By JACKIE LIEUWEN HAVING POURED so much time and energy into the Terrace River Kings and Royal Canadian Legion, Ray Hallock says he leaves town happy and has benefited as much from his service as he gave. The involvement gave him purpose and something to focus on as he has worked through a major brain injury, which left him on life support for six weeks and unsure if he would ever fully recover his brain and body functioning. But since then Hallock has helped found and manage the River Kings since it started in 2004. He also helped build up the Legion and served as treasurer for eight years, and vicepresident and president each for three years. Now at age 65, Hallock and his wife Bernadette left Terrace on November 1, bound for a new home in Clark’s Harbour, Nova Scotia, a village of just over 800 people. Hallock says they had no intention of moving, but vacationed there in September and liked the area so much, they decided to buy and move. “It is just too beautiful a spot to pass up,” he said, adding that the property they found was ocean front on the harbour and had its own dock. His wife Bernadette is bilingual and originally from New Brunswick, so Hallock said the place is like a dream come true for both of them. Leaving his position as a technical support analyst at Northern Health Authority, Hallock says he plans to continue work in a technology-based field, likely as his own consultant. He is also transferring his membership to a small legion there and is planning to get involved in a baseball team or something, he said. Hallock was born in Prince Rupert but raised in Terrace and though he left as a youth, he came back to the area on and off as most of his family lived here. In 1993, Hallock got in a serious car accident in Alberta. “I wasn’t expected to
survive,” he said. On life-support for six weeks in Edmonton, Hallock had multiple surgeries and was diagnosed with a serious brain injury which has left lasting damage on his optic nerve. He was released to his parents for rehab a few months later, but rehab never happened, as the detail got lost in the chaos of a doctor strike
which was happening at the time. His parents brought him to Terrace and he began his own rehab. “My mom had me lifting soup cans and my dad had me walking around the yard pushing a fertilizer spreader,” he said. “Believe me, it’s tough…just to walk across the yard I would have to stop three times and take a break.”
It took a year for Hallock to learn to walk and talk again, and he says those were dark days. “I was feeling pretty sorry for myself. I didn’t know that I was ever going to be a viable person again,” he said. During his recovery, he said there were times he didn’t know if he was normal or not, whether he was perceiving things right or act-
ing normal. Hallock says his saving grace was a doctor who gave him a test that ignited hope for his recovery, showing that his cognitive ability was still very strong. But Hallock says it was more than the test that helped him recover: The River Kings and Terrace Legion also played a role.
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Hallock found focus in legion, hockey team “It gave me focus, gave me something to do, gave me a place to learn new things and re-learn old things,” he said. Hallock says his nephew Jason Johnson and Kitimat goalie Burny Carlsen came to him for help starting a Terrace hockey team, since he had background in writing and online design work. The three of them, with support from many others, got approval from the city and league and launched the team in 2004. Coach Rob Findlay says for many years Hallock has looked after all the details of organizing trips and games, and he is also the team’s most loyal fan. “He’s been the heart and soul of our team, he’s always been there… The guys really like Ray, he is always fun to go out of town with,” said Findlay. “The guys will really miss him, we’ll all miss him. He’s helped the team be where it is and get to where it is now.” Doug Richey, previous coach, agrees, adding that up until now, Hallock has done “pretty much everything for the team,” from bookings, insurance, and paperwork to singing “Oh Canada.” “He’s a really big part of that team, and they’ll need two or three to replace him,” he said. Hallock has also been very involved in the legion. During his recovery, Hallock says his dad brought him to a meeting hoping that it might help, and that night Hallock was elected as treasurer. He says one way he helped the legion
was securing grants and boosting finances by bringing the River Kings team there after games. Brian Kirkaldy, legion manager and trea-
surer, says Hallock did a great job as treasurer, and took the finance department into the new age. He also developed a new membership pro-
time and effort into the legion,” Kirkaldy said, adding that there are many volunteers who have put in decades of work there. Mary Ann Mis-
feldt adds that he also brought younger members into the legion. Hallock says he is happy with the legacy that he has left in Terrace.
“I’m leaving town proud. I’ve had some great accomplishments, and I’m sure there will be people who will remember me fondly,” he said.
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MICHELLE ROSEBOOM, Miranda Valmont and Josh Pires collect a strand of kiwi DNA in a test tube during a demonstration held at Centennial Christian School.
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STUDENTS AT Centennial Christian School and Parkside Secondary extracted kiwi DNA and learned about the science of genetics during recent demonstrations. Two students from the University of BC (UBC) taught classes about the field of science called genomics, that studies DNA and seeks to understand the encoded information. Students extracted the DNA from a kiwi and
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learned about how genomics has value in forensics, medicine and genetic engineering in agriculture. The program is about inspiring the next generation of researchers, and it ran in Centennial Christian School and Parkside Secondary in Terrace, as well as schools in Kitimat and Prince Rupert. The program is a partnership between Genome BC Geneskool and UBC Let’s Talk Science program.
Once again we are asking the public to donate winter wear to those in need. Both children and adult sizes are needed. Simply drop off your coats, used or otherwise wearable; mitts, toques & scarfs to Spotless Cleaners in the Terrace Plaza, Spotless Cleaning kitty corner from the Post Office or Superior Linen on Legion Ave. When received, we will clean and do minor repairs to restore the winter wear at no charge. Items can be picked up from the Salvation Army Thrift Store, 3236 Kalum Street, anytime after November 21st.
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Oil tanker ban “So much will depend on the details of the moratorium,” said Cullen. “Mr. Trudeau repeatedly said in British Columbia that if he were prime minister then [the] Enbridge [Northern Gateway oil pipeline] would not go ahead. That’s specific to that project. The larger question he talked about was the legal moratorium on B.C.’s coast. I can tell you, as someone who has crafted legislation, that details matter, how you put it together matters.” The definitions that both Liberal MP Murray and Cullen used in their respective private member’s bills said that the definition of oil that would be banned from being transported in tankers included “crude petroleum” and “any other hydrocarbons, except coal and gas.” Murray’s 2010 bill made a single exception and that was for smaller vessels carrying fuel to local communities on the coast.
Cullen said his plan for a tanker ban would not apply to the liquefied natural gas industry, and Trudeau also appeared to lean that way during his campaign. Cullen said his private member’s bill was designed largely to stop the Enbridge Northern Gateway project from going through and that other projects aiming to export refined fuels would still be able to apply for a federal environmental review. “Some of the companies came to us afterwords and said can we work under this [Bill] and their people felt that they could and I said that this is a conversation for when you actually make an application, is what is it you are moving and how do we define it, which is why you need an application before you can judge a project,” said Cullen. Cullen says he wasn’t sure that the Trudeau government has made a distinction yet between refined fuel
and crude or diluted bitumen. In terms of the wording in his own bill, Cullen said its drafters in their definitions “left room for interpretation” adding that “my focus was certainly around Northern Gateway.” The other part of Trudeau’s promise about energy projects is to make changes to the National Energy Board which examines largescale energy projects. He said in his platform literature that he would ensure that “its composition reflects regional views and has sufficient expertise in fields like environmental science, community development, and indigenous traditional knowledge.” Proposals for the export of refined fuels from north coast ports include Eagle Spirit Energy and Kitimat Clean (whose proponent, David Black, also owns Black Press, which owns The Terrace Standard and other northwestern newspapers).
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Tanker ban idea goes way back JUSTIN TRUDEAU isn’t the first prime minister with that last name to entertain the idea of a ban on oil tankers on the north coast. His father, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau was in charge of another Liberal government in 1972 when a verbal moratorium was uttered. But it was done without legislation and not considered enforceable. “That motion from the 1970s was never put into law,” says Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen. “It was always an utterance of
government and that has led to uncertainty, and a lot of conflict.” According to Cullen, the informal nature of the ban made Stephen Harper able to simply ignore it when supporting east-west oil transport projects such as Northern Gateway. Proponents used the argument that the informal ban didn’t apply to east-west tanker traffic and was aimed at north-south tanker flow, something Cullen called absurd because one direction is not more hazardous than another.
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WHOEVER DUMPED a moose carcass and five deer carcasses at Thunderbird near the power lines could be fined close to $1,000. “There’s no evidence at the site so right now it would just be public information that would help us,” said Skeena conservation officer Ryan Gordon Nov. 4. “We’re certainly interested in [hearing from] anyone with information.” Two people out on an ATV Nov. 1 found moose remains and five deer skins dumped at Thunderbird, as one of the people noted on Facebook. On their return trip two hours later, they saw a big pile of corn and a bunch of frozen fish had been added, looking like someone was laying down bait so when a bear came by, hunters could kill it, said the post on Facebook. It was reported to conservation officers, who went out to the site the next day to take a look and take photos. “It looks like it was a bunch of Queen Charlotte deer so probably they processed it at home and took all the inedible portions and dumped them in that spot along with freezer burned fish,” said Gordon. “There was no indication of bear baiting. I think it is more of a case of dumping. It’s still an illegal act – they should be taking it to the landfill.” The reason why it’s illegal is that people walk their dogs along that same area and they could come across a bear there and conflict would ensue, Gordon added. Gordon didn’t see any bears there but lots of birds had descended on the carcasses. If the person is caught, the fine for dumping the carcasses is $575 plus the additional fine of $345 for potentially attracting dangerous wildlife, said Gordon. And the person would have to clean up their mess too. With birds feeding off the remains, Gordon figured the carcasses would be gone in a couple of days. Animal parts are dumped in the bush probably half a dozen times a year, even though taking the parts to the dump doesn’t cost anything because it’s considered part of residential waste, said Gordon. “I’m not sure what the rationale is [for dumping]. They just want to get rid of it or it gets smelly and they just want to get rid of it as quickly as possible,” he said. He speculates this person went to the Queen Charlottes to hunt deer, shot their five deer, brought them back and cleaned and disposed of them there, along with rotten fish. Gordon reminds people that if they see someone dumping animal parts or other conservation violations to call the Report All Poachers and Polluters toll-free number at 1-877-952-7277.
Bear destroyed CONSERVATION OFFICERS are reminding people to keep their garbage secured after a bear had to be killed for getting into garbage. The black bear was put down Nov. 3 after hanging around residences in Copper River Estates, getting into garbage and people’s vehicles, causing damage, said Skeena conservation officer Ryan Gordon. “It’s a critical time of year and bears are fattening up. It hasn’t quite been cold enough for hibernation so it’s still important to secure your garbage,” said Gordon. The bear that was killed was habituated to eating garbage was a not very healthy small adult male and had been getting into garbage for some time, he added. It had been hanging around the area around the middle of October and then returned for Hallowe’en, Gordon said. The bear was caught after a trap was set up in the afternoon of Nov. 3.
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■■ Rakers SKEENA MIDDLE School students volunteered raking leaves for seniors last week. Here, the jazz and concert band students finish raking a yard. Left to right are Tyler Berschaminski, Thomas Gagnon, James Boutilier, James Gagnon, Alex Cloakey, Bryce Roy, Ryan Casorso, Tobias VanDyke, and front is Joe Giles.
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Terrace ranks high for illegal smokes JUST OVER 25 per cent of cigarettes smoked outside Mill Memorial Hospital are contraband from the unregulated black market. This was one finding from a Western Convenience Stores Association (WCSA) study released that found Terrace to be third on a list of B.C. cities with highest contraband tobacco usage. The association said it found the results of the study “disturbing”. The study method involved collecting and examining butts from 44 sites around B.C. to determine what percentage of those butts were of illegal origin. Mills Memorial Hospital was the institution with the fourth highest percentage of contraband at 25.2 per cent, and the only hospital in the top ten. Passport Canada in Vancouver was top on the list of institutions at 38.8 per cent contraband of all the retrieved tobacco remains. Vancouver had the highest overall percentage of contraband at
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28.7 per cent, followed by Richmond (21.2 per cent) and Terrace (21.2 per cent). “Illicit tobacco is sold without mandated health warnings on packages and without age-verification checks. Increased taxes, regulations and product bans drive the tobacco market underground, meaning these products are both affordable and accessible to youth,” reads the WCSA release. WCSA president Andrew Klukas admits
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Besides the estimated $120 million a year in lost government tax revenue, Klukas said the trade helps fuel organized crime in B.C. and across the country. Most of the unauthorized smokes sold in B.C. are produced on aboriginal reserves in Quebec or Ontario and are smuggled across the country, Klukas said. Prince Rupert also ranked high on the list of cities in which illegal tobacco is readily available.
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ITT - TCS-1505 THORNHILL SEWER PHASE 2 CONTRACT E: ELECTRICAL/ INSTRUMENTATION/CONTROLS Regional District invites tenders for Contract E:ELECTRICAL/INSTRUMENTATION/CONTROLS. The work associated with this contract includes the supply and installation of all electrical, control and instrumentation equipment and cables which forms part of Phase 2 of the Thornhill sewer system. This includes the supply of an electrical kiosk and control panel. The contract also includes the civil works for buried electrical services and concrete housekeeping pad construction for the electrical kiosk. The ITQ can be viewed at BC Bid www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca and also at www.rdks.bc.ca All enquiries with respect to this tender shall be directed to: Tony Raposo, P. Eng. AECOM – Vancouver Office 650 West Georgia Street, Suite 1900 Vancouver, BC V6B 4N7 tony.raposo@aecom.com Submissions for this tender must be received by 2:00 pm local time on November 17, 2015 at the office of Regional District Kitimat-Stikine located at: 300-4545 Lazelle Avenue Terrace, B.C. V8G 4E1 Attention: Verna Wickie or Delegate
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ITQ – FR15-006 FORCEMAN RIDGE WASTE MANAGEMENT FACILITY AND THORNHILL TRANSFER STATION Concrete Interlocking Block Supply Regional District invites quotations for the supply and stockpile of full-size interlocking concrete blocks at the Forceman Ridge site; supply and stockpile full-size, flat-top interlocking concrete blocks at the Forceman Ridge site and, supply and stockpile full-size interlocking concrete blocks at the Thornhill Landfill Site and Transfer Station. Information on this ITQ, including technical specifications and required quantities, is available at BC Bid www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca and www.rdks.bc.ca. All enquiries related to this ITQ are to be directed, in writing, to: Mircea L. Cvaci, P.Eng., mcvaci@sperlinghansen.com Information obtained from any other source is not official and should not be relied upon. Submissions must be received before 4:00 PM, Pacific Time, on November 18, 2015 and must be received by the office of: Sperling Hansen Associates Inc. 8-1225 East Keith Road North Vancouver B.C., V7J 1J3 Attention: Mircea Cvaci, P.Eng.
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Volleyball girls gearing up for zones By JACKIE LIEUWEN THE SENIOR girls volleyball team at Caledonia is stronger than anticipated and is gearing up for zones in Terrace Nov. 21. Coach Carmen Didier says this is a development year for the team, with most of the players in grade 11, but they have had a really successful season so far. They won tier two in Kamloops mid-September, and then won their pool and earned a spot in tier one in the Kelowna UBCO Championship, a major tournament in B.C. that often draws university scouts. They placed 10th out of 44 teams in B.C. and Carmen says that was a big tournament for the team. “I think a lot of the girls realized that they are just about at that calibre and able to compete with some of the top lower mainland teams,” she said. Didier says the team is strong on offence, and blocking and serving, but are working to strengthen their passing and setting. Another strength is their attitude. “They’re fighters. They like to fight and dig in deep in order to win those games,” said Didier.
Captains Carly Davies and Correina McNeice agree. “I think our general aura is good, because we are comfortable with each other,” said Davies. “We have improved a lot. It has been a drastic change from September to now, just in skill improvement and figuring out rotations.” Looking ahead to zones, Davies says it is looking good for the team, which recently beat Prince Rupert. McNeice said they just have to keep practices intense and challenge each other. “I’m excited to have the home court. We should have a good crowd and hopefully we’ll go to provincials,” said McNeice. Didier said they are not taking anything for granted, but she expects the girls will play hard and do well. If they win, the team will head to Vernon for provincials December 2-6. Caledonia junior girls earned bronze at a Prince George tournament Oct. 31, beating College Heights Secondary in two sets, 2516 and 25-17. They lost the semifinal in two very close matches (26-24 and 27-25) against Kelly Road Secondary School from Prince George.
Coach Mark Neid said overall it was a good tournament. “We played some tough matches, but when you lose like that it shows you where your weaknesses are… our passing broke down, that was the biggest thing in that semi final,” he said. Neid says practices will focus on getting rid of those weaknesses. “We are just trying to strengthen our passing so that next time we play those teams at provincials, we’ll be ready,” he said. Caledonia is hosting junior girls A-volleyball zones this weekend, Nov. 14, with six teams from Queen Charlottes to Houston competing. After that, they have a berth to the junior girls provincials in Delta November 27 to 28. The Centennial Christian School junior girls team is preparing for zones in Terrace as well. Coach Rayna Braam says their strengths are their close-knit team, as well as several strong leaders passionate about the game and enthusiastic and positive on the court. Lack of interest in volleyball among the girls at Centennial has limited the team, and Braam says they recruited several grade seven students who have done very well.
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HAILEY MITCHELL sets up hitters Gillian Frank and Ally Mouldenhauer at a the Caledonia girls volleyball practice last week. The team is feeling excited and good about zones coming up. “It’s always a wildcard,” said
Braam, adding that her goal is for the girls to be happy and feel good about how they played.
Basketball superfit teaches youth commitment By JACKIE LIEUWEN
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TRYSTEN DERRICK goes up for a layup at a morning basketball superfit class at Caledonia Secondary School last week.
IF YOU are late for the 7:15 a.m. class, you run the bench alone. Commitment is required from the start, and is the fuel that drives students through the basketball superfit class at Caledonia Secondary School. “You don’t improve unless you put time into it,” said grade 12 student Trysten Derrick of a lesson he has learned through the class. He also learned about the benefits of working with other people, as they help push him to improve. Derrick says his 6 a.m. morning every other day is worth it, teaching him discipline and getting him fit and ready for the basketball season so Terrace has an advantage over opposing teams. Grade 11 student Jalen Holland says he loves the class and it has greatly benefited his basketball ability, making him fit to play multiple games without getting tired out. “It’s a really fun class if you want to be here. It’s what you make of it,” he said. “The
harder road works out better for you if you push yourself.” It is that principle that the superfit class is built around, and teacher Joe Dominguez says it started in 2010 as a way to credit students who were coming early to school to work on basketball. The class has 31 students this year and is every other morning before school. It starts out with students doing fitness assessments and personal goal setting, then Dominguez teaches them weight room exercises, basketball drills and skills, and how to develop a strong basketball workout program. From there on, most of the class is individually driven, with students developing their own workout program and goals, and doing assessments of their own effort and progression. Students do group runs some mornings, often on the bench but sometimes a 8.5-kilometre route that circles over the old bridge, new bridge, to Kenny Street and back to the school. Dominguez says students are really responsible, push each other and are actually
proud to be part of something like that. “I don’t have to do a whole lot of motivation because they bought into it,” he said. “They see the effects of it. They know when the season comes, they are good to go.” They also do some classroom work on sports psychology, with assignments on the character that makes a strong student athlete, such as leadership and integrity. Dominguez says he likes the relationship he builds with students and seeing their willingness to commit. “It speaks volumes about their character, as well as the support of their parents,” he said. Through the individually driven program and self-assessments, Dominguez says he encourages them to keep themselves accountable. “It’s more ownership - so that they take ownership of their own learning and their own effort,” he said. “It’s on you. It’s kind of like in life, somebody is going to encourage you, but you still have to put in the work. I’m just preparing them for that.”
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Mountain rescue team celebrates 40 years By BART DEFREITAS
IT WAS a fairly typical winter day in the mid-1950s on farmland in Old Remo that a young boy’s life was saved thanks to the quick actions of a volunteer responsible to help prevent injuries and respond to emergencies. The farm owned by Mr. Lipp was where the second downhill ski area in the Terrace region with a mechanical rope tow and was built by community members to provide a family friendly winter activity. Marion Clift recalls picking up a load of kids with her husband Ev every Sunday to take them to the Old Remo hill for skiing, toboggan rides, and hot cocoa in an old building that was donated by the town that served as a warming hut. On one of these weekend adventures, 12 year old Paul Richardson’s long scarf got caught in the tow rope and kept tightening around his neck as he was pulled towards the unprotected motor. Fortunately, young Paul was saved by a safety volunteer who stopped the motor before any serious harm. Community members coming together to build downhill ski areas and helping users stay safe is a story that has repeated itself in many places in BC and across Canada. In the Terrace and Kitimat region alone, downhill ski areas with mechanical tow ropes were built in the Thornhill golf course, on Mr. Lipp’s farm in Old Remo, at Bornite Mountain near Kleanza Creek, on the bench in the City of Terrace, across the highway from the Mount Layton Hotsprings, in downtown Kitimat, and on Kitsumkalum Mountain and Shames Mountain west of Terrace. Volunteers and paid staff that focus on safety of skiers and snowboarders are called ski patrollers. Today, nearly all Canadian volun-
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teer ski patrollers are by coordinating training members of a national and providing patrolnot-for-profit charitable lers with uniforms and organization called the first aid kits. They also Canadian Ski Patrol. helped form the KitThe Canadian Ski sumkalum Ski Club to Patrol was incorporated develop youth athletes in 1962 but its origins and started the tradition go back twenty years of hosting an annual ski earlier, when the Canaswap each fall so that dian Amateur Ski Assowell-priced ski equipciation asked Dr. Dougment could be purlas Firth, a doctor of chased by new and avid osteopathic medicine, skiers. These ski swaps to organize and train a generated much needed first aid rescue group funds to advance the to patrol ski hills in the goals of the ski patrol Toronto and Montreal and ski club. areas. Skiing popularUnder the leadership ity grew dramatically of Arnold Smith, folin the decades followlowed by Bob Peg and ing World War II, and Dan Morrison, the volthe national organizaunteer ski patrol team tion grow from 1,000 to at Kitsumkalum Mounnearly 5,000 patrollers tain promoted injury and expanded across prevention and assisted Canada. hurt skiers until the area CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Today, the Canaclosed in 1988 due to dian Ski Patrol has over VOLUNTEER SKI patroller overlooks the valley finances after several 4,200 volunteers that from Shames Mountain. winters with poor snow receive annual training and limited skier visin advanced first aid, its. When they weren’t accident scene management and kalum Development Society to providing services at Kitsumkalum mountain rescue techniques in or- promote skiing in the region and Mountain often the patrollers did der to provide first aid services at developt and operate a downhill regional first aid competitions and 230 alpine and nordic ski areas in ski area on the north side of Kit- mountain rescue training events at sumkalum Mountain near Terrace. hills such as Mount Hays in Prince all ten provinces and the Yukon. Young Paul’s rescue the farm in With strong determination and Rupert and Hudson Bay Mountain Old Remo is possibly the first re- support of the Regional District of in Smithers. corded account of a mountain res- Kitimat-Stikine, the society helped In 1990, all major infrastruccue in the Terrace region, but this lead the development of that ski ture at Kitsumkalum Mountain type of service has continued to area by clearing trees from main Ski Area, including the chairlift, today. At the Northern Heights Ski runs and setting up a tow rope in tow rope, T-bar lift, day lodge and Hill, which was on Terrace’s birch fall 1974, which they operated that maintenance building was moved bench near Cedar Crescent, an winter to stir skier interest. and set up again at Shames MounKitsumkalum Mountain Ski tain west of Terrace. It was purambulance attendant named Guy Rushton volunteered his time to Area officially opened on Decem- chased by the Shames Mountain assist injured skiers while the hill ber 6, 1975, owned by the regional Ski Corporation which formed district, and volunteers from the four years prior to develop a new was operating 1968 to 1972. In the year after Bill Little’s ski Kitsumkalum Development Soci- ski area. hill closed, Guy and eight other ski ety helped form the first Canadian When Shames Mountain enthusiasts founded the Kitsum- Ski Patrol team in the Terrace area opened its doors on December 15,
t’s important to get out and absorb light during breaks in the overcast. Because the application on my mobile phone predicted more light than there had been for a week, I set out for the wide open spaces of the Skeena. When we reached the trail head, the wind was blowing strongly out of the west. Because of that, I left my rod in the truck. This pleased the dog Oona, who has learned that when I’m packing a rod there will be a lot more standing around. Fallen leaves overlapping on the ground formed a brindled russet carpet. Walking on it was like walking on sponge, since it had been raining on and off, but mostly on, since the August long weekend. Stepping out from under the canopy and into the expanse was exhilarating: the curiously crepuscular sky, light seeping from its porous grey clouds, illuminated the valley. The air was filled with the roar of a distant rapid and the hiss of the nearby riffle. A hoarse minor chord at a distant level crossing heralded the approach of a train. By the time we’d walked across the sand bar to the rocky shingle below it, the rumble of the freight dominated the incessant sound of moving water. The russet red of the box cars matched the russet red of the bands of alder that now mark the old logging roads on the mountain flanks above the tracks. I counted cars,
thought better of it on Probably a juvenile reaching fifty, whistled salmon, I thought. I at Oona, so as to get her threw the ball for some away from the intrigufive minutes more, casting smells of an old ing glances out over the fire pit, and continued river from time to time, across the long rocky hoping to see more rises. bar. As we left, I looked over An hour had passed my shoulder one last by the time we’d made time and saw two wida circuit that had taken ening rings. us to the end of the Little salmon, I said lengthy shingle then to my panting pooch. back through woods to All night my mind SKEENA ANGLER the sandy spot where kept coming back to we began our walk. those rises like it does in ROB BROWN Oona sat up smartly as an unresolvable dream. I took a couple of balls The next day I reout of the back pocket turned wearing my of my raincoat and one neoprene waders and of those foot-long arm carrying my six weight extensions to throw them. All the dogs I’ve bamboo trout pole. More rain was predicthad love sand between their claws. Oona ed, some of it heavy. I pulled on my rain romped through the sand and into the brush coat then clipped a landing net to the Dafter the balls. She returned with one, ring on its back. dropped it then clacked her teeth like an We made our way to the sandy knoll. angry bear on the occasions when I didn’t Oona raced through it in circles. I waded send out another immediately. out up to my waist, it being the only way One of the orange balls rolled down the to get the scraggly little leech out and over bank to the river. I went after it. As I bent the spot where I’d seen the rise rings. down, I saw the widening ring of a rise. The ceiling lowered. Rain pelted down. Because I didn’t see the rise, there was no I pulled the hood over my head and hunway of knowing what made it. kered into my waders. I stripped line from
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1990, the volunteer Canadian Ski Patrol team was there to ensure the wellbeing of skiers and snowboarders. Ambulance attendant Barry Franzmann gave leadership at this time and the membership included ski patrollers from Mount Hays, which was struggling to stay open due to poor snow conditions. The Canadian Ski Patrol team and the renamed Shames Mountain Ski Club continued to work together both on and off the hill. Ski patrol provided more volunteers to support the ski club’s youth development and competitive events and the organizations co-hosted the annual ski swap each fall to connect buyers and sellers of high quality winter gear and clothing. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Ski Patrol in the Terrace region, their partnership with the Shames Mountain Ski and Snowboard Club and the annual ski swap. This year’s ski swap, which has grown to be northwest BC’s largest discount sale of new and lightly used winter gear and clothing, will be at Kitsumkalum Community Hall on November 14 from 10am to 1pm. For more info, visit www.winterextreme.com/skeena. Each fall volunteer patrollers undergo advanced first aid and mountain rescue training so members are prepared to manage an accident scene, assist injured outdoor enthusiasts, and help prevent serious harm from happening in the first place, just like what happened on Mr. Lipp’s farm in Old Remo on a typical winter day in the mid1950s. Bart DeFreitas is the Zone President for the Canadian Ski Patrol Skeena Zone and a Project Manager with engineering and environmental consulting firm Golder Associates Ltd.
the reel and sent out thirty feet of line that was immediately grabbed by the wind and whipped upstream. I retrieved hastily and sent out another, hauling on the line and casting side arm to keep the line closer to the water. The current was imperceptible so I retrieved slowly. A fish took, splashed once on the surface and spit the fly. The dream had a resolution. The fish was too big to be a juvenile. For the duration of the rainstorm, I lost six more fish. Some held on long enough for me to gauge their weight by the bow in my rod. As the squall abated and the sun broke through momentarily, I hooked another and held onto him. He was difficult to get into my net and when I got him there, he bent double. A perfect specimen of a harvest cutthroat, fat, firm and beautifully marked. Before the afternoon was over, I’d set four more like him free and reached my limit. Those fish begged questions. Were they passing by like a pack of hunting wolves? Did they reside in that part of the river for a long time, perhaps all winter, and if so, what attracted them to the place? Would places with similar structure in different parts of the Skeena host their cousins? They were portals into new areas of exploration and discovery that could occupy an angler for a long time. I left looking forward to the rest of the voyage.
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Poll supports more mining controls RESULTS OF a recent poll commissioned by local conservation group SkeenaWild indicate the majority of British Columbia residents support amending regulations for better mine planning and to make operations safer. The poll asked a number of questions to 805 people in B.C. Only 39 per cent of the 805 people contacted by polling company Greenberg Quinlan Rosner said that jobs and economic benefits of mining outweighed the risk of a tailings break or risks to people’s health, environment and local tourism. Three quarters of all respondents said reforming B.C.’s mining laws would protect jobs and revenue by securing other industries like tourism and fishing. Despite where respondents lay on the economics or development spectrum they endorsed the following six reform measures: “Establishing a mandatory clean-up fund paid into by the industry before a mining project in watersheds shared by Alaska and British Columbia is granted (90%); Increasing the authority and usage of independent review boards to inspect and regulate mining waste facilities (89%); Increasing Ministry of Environment staff dedicated to mining waste facility inspections; Establishing mining no-go zones in sensitive areas such as key salmon watersheds; Requiring consultation with First Nations, and consent from them.” “It was a standard poll, 805 British Columbians were randomly surveyed, and it was done earlier this fall. Its margin of error is plus or minus 3.5 per cent, so it is standard polling methodology,” said
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to look at the mining tenure act and update.” Knox says that land management programs need to better reflect mining and energy sectors now that forestry is being eclipsed by new sectors. Under the most recent revisions to the act back in the late 90’s the tenure process was made digital and allowed people to stake
claims quickly online, which Knox says needs to be balanced with a system to protect some areas from staking. Spots off limits to mining tenure and others proposed would be decided through consultation with local communities and First Nations, he said, and this was supported by those polled. “Specifically here in
the northwest, the majority of people actually felt that protecting the environment and tourism and fishing industry is more important than having mines go through, which just shows the strong connection people have to fish wildlife, and local rivers,” said Knox. A second poll conducted at the same time by another conservation
group, Salmon Beyond Borders in Alaska, had similar findings, with respondents there saying they wanted more involvement in assessing Canadian projects that could affect waters flowing into Alaska. Knox said the Mount Polley mine tailings pond collapse of 2014 and ongoing public concern was the catalyst for the polls.
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