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Hereditary chief, house leaders denounce vandalism near Lelu Island BY SHANNON LOUGH

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Hereditary Chief Alex Campbell is making clear that acts of vandalism on and near Lelu Island, are not condoned by chiefs, matriarchs and house leaders of the Gispaxloats and Gitwilgyots. “I was just informed yesterday afternoon (Dec. 29) that there were some buoys being cut loose in that area ... and that frightened me. It put a scare in me,” Campbell told the Northern View late last week. “I want to make it clear to the people that we as the Gispaxloats tribe, were not part of that.” Prince Rupert RCMP Sgt. Dave Uppal confirmed there is an ongoing investigation into vandalism in the Lelu Island area. “We do have an active investigation on that. Basically, mischief over $5,000 is the actual offence. It’s still under investigation so we can’t really comment more on that,” Uppal said. The buoy-cutting isn’t the first act of vandalism near Lelu Island in recent months reported to the RCMP. Equipment at a telemetry station was damaged close to Porpoise Channel in late September and items stolen including two batteries and two solar panels. “We want it known that we as chiefs and matriarchs have nothing to do with what is happening on Lelu Island. We are concerned about the safety of vessels especially if buoys have been cut loose,” Campbell and five other matriarchs and house leaders stated in a letter to the Northern View. A copy of the letter was also sent to the Lax Kw’alaams band council. Campbell said he was in contact with whom he believes is responsible for cutting the buoys was unaware of that person’s intentions. “I did make phone contact with him but he did not meet us. He took everything on his own.” Campbell said he’d like to see Lelu Island developed. He has a lot of grandchildren and great grandchildren who could benefit from it. “We have nothing now. There’s no fishing, no logging industry, no anything going on for them to look forward to,” Campbell said. “We’ve got to do something and employ some people.”

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Olivia Kaura Baath was born at 10:34 a.m. on Jan. 1 at the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital.

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The first baby of 2016 born in Prince Rupert waited two weeks for the title. Bhupinder Baath anticipated giving birth to her first child on Christmas. Her sister even came to Prince Rupert to visit for three weeks over the holidays so she could be there for the big day. “[Olivia’s] had everybody waiting,” Bhupinder said while holding her little girl who was born at the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital on Jan. 1 at 10:34 a.m. She was eventually induced on New Years Eve, and then doctors performed an emergency C-section after they had concerns over the baby’s heart rate. The baby girl was born healthy with a full head of hair weighing six pounds and 10 ounces. Bhupinder and Ginny, named their daughter Olivia Kaura Baath. Olivia was found to be the most popular name in British Columbia for the third year running. Bhupinder said that after a couple days of deciding on a name Olivia suits her daughter

best. Kaura means “princess” and is a common surname in Indian culture. Bhupinder has lived in Rupert her whole life and met Ginny through her brother. The couple were married in India and Ginny recently moved to the North Coast to be with his wife. On Saturday night, Bhupinder woke up and saw her husband holding their daughter at 4 a.m. She was touched by the sight. She said she knew that being a mother would change her but she was surprised at how hands-on her husband is as a new dad. “It’s exciting. I don’t have the words to describe,” Ginny said with red eyes and smile. “You’re tired and you want to sleep but you can’t because you’re so excited.” One of the nurses at the hospital said it’s been a while since a baby was born on New Year’s Day. Within the Northern Health region the first baby of 2016 was born at the University Hospital of Northern B.C. in Prince George at 1:25 a.m. and the first baby in B.C. was born at Surrey Memorial Hospital at 12:15 a.m.

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A lone basketball net, a singular bench or an abandoned baseball diamond might not inspire outdoor play but a workshop coming to the city will explore the reinvention of park space as a social public place. The movement to encourage constructive spaces for people within the community to interact is a Transition Prince Rupert initiative. Ken Shaw is the president of the group that promotes positive development in the city. The group invited renowned urban designer, Mark Lakeman, from Oregon to host the Placemaking Prince Rupert workshop at the Lester Centre of the Arts from Jan. 8 - 10. “Placemaking is about how we have lots of space in the community but we don’t have lots of place and places where people gather and interact,” Shaw said. An example of placemaking comes from Lakeman’s project in Portland, Oregon in 1996. He designed areas of the city to reclaim public space as a social gathering point to improve urban life. In one intersection of a neighbourhood residents worked together to build a children’s play area, a sharing bookshelf, a community cob oven, a 24-hour tea station, a notice board and chalkboard as well as a foodsharing stand. “We’ve got ideas, we’ve heard lots,” Shaw said. “Not only will the workshop move that process forward but it will also

give all the participants an experience and a sense of how to approach and go about the redesign and rebuilding of places in the community.” Shaw has heard some parents say that the playgrounds in the city are only suitable for ages eight and under. Parks should appeal to multiple ages by building a basketball court or a community garden. The workshop is meant to draw residents into the conversation. “If a whole bunch of people have been exposed to these ideas they can talk to each other and ideas can arise and people won’t think it’s bizarre,” Shaw said. He said there’s literature about places where we instinctively feel good and other places that we don’t. A city can design alienating ghettos or build a foundation for positive social factors to arise. “What the experts in all this find is that when people come together on a neighbourhood basis then there’s a whole bunch of positive social interactions that arise,” Shaw said adding that when people form a relationship within the neighbourhood it lowers crime rates, encourages the growth of local economics and develops a sense of community pride through volunteerism. The pilot project for placemaking is intended for McKay Street Park, where the Transition Society has already set up a community garden. The concept is in harmony with the city’s Re:Build Prince Rupert plans. Mayor Lee Brain called this a grassroots movement. The city owns the property

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“We don’t have a lot of place and places where people gather and interact.” Ken Shaw where the placemaking will occur but that’s as far as the City is involved in the project — for now. “The City doesn’t have the capacity to pay for something like this. Until maybe more industries come online, we get a bigger tax base going, we might have that chance in the future,” said Brain.

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He sees this as an opportunity to restart the volunteer base in the community and avoid volunteer burnout. “Rather than prolong periods of volunteering, we’re saying ‘Hey, why don’t you show up for a weekend and we’ll build this great park’.” The city is currently considering how to maintain and manage the site once it has been built. “For now we want to show the power of people, that people organizing themselves and coming together can do something magnificent for the community and I think there’s going to be a lot of really cool things that emerge from this process.” The first phase will be the workshop. Tickets are $15 for the public workshop on Jan. 8 from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. The weekend workshop runs on Jan. 9 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Jan. 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

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here just might be money in this for you. If not, at least for once, you can be part of the conversation on how your neighbourhood will end up. On Friday, workshops will begin headed by renowned urban designer Mark Lakeman. The workshop will teach the average Prince Rupert citizen how to improve parks and spaces in this city. So why is important to you? How a park looks on your street and the kind of people it attracts can dramatically affect your property value. For those with kids, welldesigned and attractive public spaces add an untold value. Those are just two of the many social and economic benefits to retrofitting our neighbourhood parks but you’ll never know about it if you stay at home.

Were the media Harper’s detractors, Trudeau’s boosters?

first met Stephen Harper when he was running for the Canadian Alliance leadership in 2002. Speaking to a group of Fraser Valley members concerned that the party had split over the leadership of Stockwell Day, Harper didn’t mince words because a local reporter had showed up on a Saturday morning. He explained his prediction that no matter who leads the Conservative movement started by Preston Manning, the national media would work against it. “The press is owned by big-L liberals and staffed by small-L liberals,” Harper said. “Preston was too cerebral; Stock was not cerebral enough. I’m not sure where I will be, but the media will always be on the other side.” Harper’s cold war with national media is a theme that runs through his decade as prime minister, peaking in 2015 with the most slanted election coverage I’ve ever witnessed. The celebration continues over Justin Trudeau’s victory, with the supposedly non-partisan federal bureaucracy cheering along with much of the national media.

Harper’s assessment of deficits that Trudeau promised, major newspaper ownership is and Harper warned against? no longer accurate, except for Borrowing and spending will far the Toronto Star. But the dying exceed that, but we’re assured tradition of owners looking up that’s because they were based on from their accounting ledgers inflated Conservative financial to endorse a political party forecasts. continued, with the Postmedia In fact, independent private chain and the Globe and sector forecasts are now the key Mail pointing out that Trudeau’s reference for government budgets rash promises didn’t add up. at the federal and provincial level. Tom Fletcher Endorsements were a brief None of them predicted the interruption in the media assault further slump in energy prices on Harper’s record. His government’s that continued through 2015. plan to welcome 10,000 refugees, unveiled And cooking the books before an way back in January 2015, was portrayed election isn’t really possible any more, thanks as heartless and feeble, while Trudeau’s to the establishment of the Parliamentary 25,000 by Christmas represented the Budget Office. That was a Harper generous character of the true Canada. innovation, along with scheduled elections. As it turns out, the Liberals have been And that Trudeau pledge to raise taxes hard pressed to reach even the 10,000 mark. on the wealthiest Canadians and use the But they’ve put out a rash new promise to proceeds to finance a tax cut for the middle make it 50,000 at some point in the future, so class? That one didn’t add up either. For one the media’s new-found message of sunshine, thing, wealthy people have a variety of legal hope and change continues. ways to reduce their taxable income. Those modest $10 billion annual Here’s an actual front-page headline

from the Globe and Mail, reporting this unfortunate fact, well after the election: “The way Liberals gauged response to new tax rate explains gap.” So it was just an understandable oversight, you see. Trudeau’s star turn in Paris, where he pronounced that “Canada is back” in the battle to control the world’s weather? The official submission from his bloated delegation to the UN climate meetings was actually the existing Conservative plan, which includes phasing out coal-fired electricity generation. Harper generally represented a preference for the individual over the state, a concept that at one time was known as “liberalism.” This was illustrated by his preference for parents rather than a nanny state to administer child care. He advocated free trade, small government and low taxes. We’ll see how that legacy survives the new government and its media cheering section. Tom Fletcher is the B.C. legislative reporter for Black Press and is based in Victoria.

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We had nothing to do with vandalism at Lelu Island Editor: This letter is in regard to Lelu Island. We express concerns with activities that happened on Lelu, specifically the cutting of the buoys. We want it known that we, as chiefs and matriarchs, have nothing to do with what is happening on Lelu Island. We are concerned about the safety of vessels especially if buoys have been cut loose. Chief Alex F. Campbell Gispaxloats Laxsgyiik Robert Sankey - Gitwilgyots

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Balanced coverage needed Editor: I spent 50 years in the newspaper business as a reporter, editor, and publisher at weeklies and dailies in all four western provinces. Throughout my career I witnessed up close the disconnect between aboriginal people and the non-native society. Becoming familiar with aboriginal history, culture and traditions will surely go a long way in helping to bridge the disconnect. There has been mistrust, anger, suspicion, frustration and fear from both sides toward the other. Positive steps are being taken to narrow the gap but much more needs to be done. For too long the aboriginal community has been stereotyped by negative stories carried in newspapers, TV, and social media. The stories often focus on protests, confrontations, alcohol and drug abuse, financial scandals, fires, gun violence, murders, thefts, assaults, and missing persons on First Nations reserves. Other disturbing stories include poverty, unemployment, poor drinking water, delapidated housing, terrible roads, lack of educational opportunities, truancy, child runaways, etc. But it hasn’t all been negative. There are many aboriginal success stories. Among them: pow wows, rodeo cowboys, accomplished athletes, entrepreneurs, business ventures,

“For too long the aboriginal community has been stereotyped by negative stories.” - Clay Stacey

artists, lawyers, judges, journalists, musicians, craft makers, politicans, etc. To improve the relationship between aboriginal people and non-natives, attitudes need to change. Perry Bellgarde, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, called in June 2015 for people to make room in your hearts and minds and your spirits. Rid yourself of those racial stereotypes of Indians and indigenous people being dumb and lazy and drunk on welfare. Rid yourself of those things, so new things can come in. Chief Bellegarde made the statement in response to the final report and recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The challenge is ours to take. Clay Stacey Kelowna, B.C.

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Winning the 1964 B.C. provincial championships as a Rainmaker is still what national basketball coach and legend, Ken Shields, considers his biggest career achievement. For four days over the winter break from Dec. 27-30 the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Shields, honoured the Rainmakers with his professional perspective on how to win at provincials. Rainmakers’ coach Mel Bishop invited his old friend and coach to teach his team some new techniques and how to utilize the skills and wingspan of Justin McChesney, the prototypical 6’10” player. “I always want the Rupert teams to do well so I came up just to give him (Bishop) a hand and try and help him on his way. Also, Justin is graduating so I wanted to work with him and give him some things to work on that will help him down the road in his basketball career,” Shields said on the fourth day of practice. The young player with so much promise remains undecided on where he will go to university. Shields wouldn’t mind if McChesney went to the University of Victoria (U-Vic) where he could continue to guide him and watch him play. Much of Shields’ career was spent coaching the men’s basketball team, the Vikings. His name is imprinted on the court floor in the U-Vic gym. Under his tutelage, the Vikings went to seven national championships in a row, which remains a record today. He’s also worked with four other national teams and went to two Olympics. “He’s breaking down our zone defense. Mel’s given us a great understanding, but the way that he can break things down further, it’s given everybody more knowledge about it and it’s going to help us,” McChesney said. Shields thinks the team has a good chance of doing well at provincials and he’s been working with them on how to play against double teams trying to

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Current senior boys’ Rainmakers basketball coach Mel Bishop welcomes ex-Rainmaker Ken Shields back to Prince Rupert last week.

“You didn’t have to come from a big city school or a big city to achieve something. Achievement is based on preparation and the will to drive yourself.” - Ken Shields stop McChesney. “He’s very good technically. It’s another look for my players to get perspective,” Bishop said. Shields has known Bishop since junior high school. He took Bishop and a bunch of the players to a basketball school in the United States. Bishop was also coached by Shields when he was at Laurentian University for six years in Sudbury. Both men consider each other life long friends. When Shields reflects on his career and all the exciting opportunities he’s had winning the 1964 provincial championship as a Rainmaker — the only time the team has won that title

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— is still his number one lifetime achievement. “It was so special because it taught me that you didn’t have to come from a big city school or a big city to achieve something. Achievement is based on preparation and the will to drive yourself and to compete fiercely and to play as a tremendous team,” he said. At the time, the Rainmakers won against open competition. The Prince Rupert high school only had about 150 boys in the school and the Rainmakers played against teams that had schools with around 2,000 boys. Now, divisions are based on school enrolment sizes.

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“All of our games down in the championships that year were close games except one and we won them in the last minute and won in overtime. We had toughness and competitiveness.” The situation for young basketball players was also different back then. Shields said that having a tough summer job at the fish plant or on the waterfront and having the Rainmakers play in a high quality men’s basketball league in the city was an advantage that kids today don’t have. “We didn’t have cell phones and Playstations and computers. We could focus on basketball and school and pretty well nothing else and then work in the summer.” He still loves teaching and watching the light flick on when the kids learn ways to improve their game. The advice he left to future basketball players before leaving Prince Rupert: “Learn to compete hard. You only have a short time and your high school career goes by in a millisecond and it’s done and you never have that opportunity again so make the most of it and achieve the best you can.”

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Fisherman and hoops enthusiast BY SHANNON LOUGH PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

He’s a fisherman, his father was a fisherman and his grandfather and great-grandfather before that were fishermen. For 48 years Peter Haugen has fished and while it is his livelihood, for nearly the same number of years basketball, specifically the All Native Basketball Tournament, has been his passion. Born and raised in Prince Rupert, Haugan, now 63, started fishing when he was 15. Over the years he’s experienced the ups and downs of the industry. For 20 years he was the president of the Prince Rupert Fisherman’s Guild and represented all the crewman on the seine boats, trawlers and halibut boats. He cherishes a few highlights from his past and his white, bearded merry face lights up when he recounts those stories. “I fished with my brother on the Golden Chalice for 30 years and I remember one day clearly,” Peter said, then described a time when he was with his brother at the tail end of the Fraser River sockeye season near Haida Gwaii. His brother took a chance to go to an area where there might be salmon but no boats instead of going to where he knew the fish would be. It paid off. He said that a normal day for a commercial salmon seine is about 10,000 to 20,000 lbs of fish. “We had 80,000 lbs of salmon in one set of tides. It was my biggest day as a commercial fisherman.” Another memory he’s particularly fond of was, once again, on his brother’s boat. The government paid them to catch the salmon to be tagged and then returned to the sea for research. The brothers had never met the individual contracted to tag the fish on Haida Gwaii, but then there she was. “Down the dock comes this young lady and she’s going to be the one that tags the salmon and her name was Darlene, and about three or four weeks later we started dating and the next thing you know two years later we’re married.” The couple have celebrated 33 years together and have had two children, a son who is also a fisherman, and a daughter who is working toward being a chartered accountant. At one point Haugan’s fishing career almost cost him his hand. Haugan was out tying a beach line on a salmon seine when he got his left hand pinned under a rock. Fortunately, he was able to pull himself free but his ring finger was sprained, swollen, and he had to cut off his wedding band. Darlene, considered having a broken ring

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Peter Haugan is a multi-generational fisherman and the president of the All-Native Basketball Tournament.

bad luck so he had a new one made by Tsimshian artist, John Sterritt, in the design of an eagle with a diamond for an eye. These days Haugan mainly fishes for prawns on his 36foot boat, the Marci Lynn. He especially loves the spring time when he travels along “unique and cool places in British Columbia’s coast line.” He takes his son, who is now in his thirties and a commercial fisherman, and hires two women to pack the prawns once they’ve been caught. He usually finds women who are working over the summer to pay for college or university tuition. “The experience on the boat really empowers them to know that they can do anything they want to do.” One of the women, he said, has become a doctor and another is on her way to becoming one. While Haugan fishes to make a living, he lives for basketball. He is the president of the All-Native Basketball Tournament and has been involved with the tournament almost since it’s inception — 2016 will be the 57th year. He only missed the first six years because he was too young. As a 13-years-old, he became a scorekeeper before the old Civic Centre burnt down. “In those days you were allowed to smoke in the gymnasium so by the end of the night the kids are sitting up there choking and could barely see the players.”

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He got his chance to play point guard with the Rainmakers in 1971 in his Grade 12 year. Then he went from scorekeeper to referee in his twenties. As the tournament grew in size, the North Coast Tribal Council formed a committee to manage the scorekeepers and referees. Haugan joined the committee and worked his way up the ladder. “Next you know you’re vice-president and when they need a president I guess they all just pointed the finger and that was that.” When he’s not fishing he spends countless hours organizing the tournament. He’s excited for this year’s tournament and the new $206,000 court that’s being made. “This new court is going to look just like the Charlotte Hornets’ Court. It’s going to be pretty flashy. Our logo will be right at second court facing the fans.” Life in Rupert has been sweet for the multi-generational fisherman who found an outlet to sate his enthusiasm for basketball. When he was young and unmarried he used to spend winters in Acapulco. Now he spends those winters organizing basketball tournaments. “I’m a Rupertite. I’m not going anywhere. I will never move away from here.”

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McDade, Jean Isabel Born in the Nicola Valley (Merritt BC) January 26, 1930 Jean passed away peacefully in her sleep on December 14, 2015 at Summerland BC. Jean will remain safely in the hearts of the family she loved and cherished. Together with her husband Bill (Red) McDade who predeceased her in 2002, they raised and are survived by 4 children: Don McDade (Mary Kelly) of M’Chigeeng ON, Patti Ferguson (David) of Armstrong BC, Pam Wolff (Klaus) of Summerland BC and Teresa Warren (David) of Kamloops BC. Together these 4 and their spouses provided the incredible joy of 10 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren: Riley McDade (Amanda) – Jacob – Barrie ON, Lauren DeRoy (Chris) – Orillia ON, Kevin Sawka (Raegan) – Cameron and Nathan – Prince Rupert BC, Jesse Sawka – Prince Rupert BC, Shauna Reid (Russ) – Brooklyn and Liam – Penticton BC, Carla Seddon (Josh) – Olivia – Penticton BC, Kyle Wolff (Lindsay) – Ryker and Sage – Kamloops BC, Aaron Wolff – Cranbrook BC, William Young – Kamloops BC, Krista Young (Joe Hillier) – Khloe – Kamloops BC. Jean is also survived by her sister Rowena DeRooy of Port Alberni BC. Jean and Bill raised their four children in Prince Rupert, retiring to Summerland in 1988. Jean was active in the Rebekah Lodge and worked for Reliable Electric as bookkeeper from the time her youngest started school until retirement. Jean’s focus was on her family and her love and support will always be treasured. Cremation has taken place and the family will celebrate her life around a campfire next summer, reminiscing about hers and Bill’s love that included many such moments.

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The boat launch at Rushbrook was teeming with onlookers and swimmers for the annual Polar Bear Swim. The Rotary Club hosted the event and provided hot chocolate, coffee and hot dogs. A few of the swimmers dressed up in costumes for fun. There was a snowman, a Grinch and even

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