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■■ Burning off the turkey fat VAUGHAN ROBINSON, also known as “Noodles,” pumped out over 75 squats with 195 pounds at the Squat Challenge Dec. 27 at the North Coast Health & Fitness Gym. The event is the first-known event of its type, where athletes did squats for ten straight minutes, lifting a barbell with their body weight. See page A12 for results.
Family to live in Costa Rica A LOCAL family is following their passion for a country by moving there to live for a year. Lana Garner, her husband Shawn Grier and their two children Maya, 13, and Ethan, 10, are spending 2016 in Costa Rica, after travelling there several times and falling in love with the Central American country. The couple, both of whom have lived here most of their lives, first went to Costa Rica about 17 years ago and dreamed of going back, living there or maybe even retiring there, said Garner. In January 2015, they took their children with them and had a similar, awesome experience, she said. “We loved what we saw and experienced and it started a conversation between us of ‘could we do this?’” said Garner. Garner had decided to quit her job at Northern Health a couple of years ago to devote more time to her family, and she has never regretted it, as putting her family first is most important. “I’ve been able to go to my kids’ Christmas concerts and not be rushed. I’ve been home for them after school, able to bake, get my social work degree,” she said. “The time that it’s given me with my family, it’s priceless so this is a continuance of that.” That includes making sacrifices this past year to save up enough money to go, she said, and to have enough money to survive without working because they did not get work visas.
Given their skill set – Garner is a reflexologist and her husband a carpenter – they want to see what they can build from their shared skills. They are thinking they can be part of the community in Costa Rica and trade skills with others. As for her children going to school there, she said from what she has learned from researching it, that it will be great for them. “The experience our kids will have is just awesome,” said Garner. They will be going to a bilingual school, taking their academic courses in English and other courses in Spanish so they should learn the language in a short time, she said. “Kids are so good that way. They’ll be teaching us,” she said. The school district here has been very supportive and said that travelling and taking your kids somewhere is a far bigger education than they can get from school classes. Garner has used the internet to research anything and everything she has wanted to know. “You can basically find whatever you want to research online, whatever question or concern, type it in and there is oodles of blogs and videos, all sorts of things to make these things possible to prepare you,” she said. Another thing she learned was that people can travel the world by housesitting for others. “There are ways in which you can go on a shoestring budget and live somewhere,” she said.
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A RECENT rise in the price of providing a comanaged federal-provincial program to pay for DNA testing in law enforcement is being downloaded onto municipalities, and the City of Terrace doesn’t like it one bit. At a recent regular meeting, Terrace councillors received information outlining the reasons why the Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) opposes this fee increase on behalf of municipalities affected. They also resolved to write their own letter about their displeasure with receiving a surprise new cost without consultation. The problem began this fall when a bill of $2,352 arrived, followed by the knowledge that total costs are expected to be $11,400 starting for the 2016/2017 year. “It wasn’t even asked of us, it was told. So it was a complete download. There is no negotiation, there is no discussion, so you can imagine Terrace, like other municipalities, is pretty upset about this. We will lobby through UBCM that this gets reversed,” said mayor Carol Leclerc. The fees are for what is called Biological Casework Analysis that is performed by the RCMP forensic identification team, National Police Services and local police detachments. The provincial and federal governments renegotiated the payment method shared between them, and the provincial government set a cap on what it would pay annually, with the rest being cost-shared with the local police units around the province who in turn bill municipalities for the total amount. “Police services has created a cost sharing model calculated on the total cost for DNA analysis in British Columbia, minus the provincial contribution, distributed proportionally based on your agency’s two year average usage compared to the usage of other law enforcement agencies in British Columbia,” said a letter to the Terrace RCMP detachment about the new program. Terrace’s contribution and thus usage of DNA crime forensics compared to neighbouring municipalities is average. By way of comparison, Prince Rupert will have to pay $26,361.17 for 2016/2017 and Kitimat $7,456.45. The total cost for BC in 2016/2017 will be $4.9 million, with $1.36 million coming from the province in a base sum and then $3.5 million cost shared with municipalities having 5,000 or more residents, who will pay $2.9 million collectively in total. The federal government pays for the remaining 46 per cent. Another letter from the North Central League of Governments Association (NCLGA) stated this is an instance of the province downloading costs from the province to municipalities balanced budget. The City of Terrace report states that the city did not authorize the Organized Crime Agency to invoice them for the service.
Last look
Crash and smash
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Check out the happenings in the second half of 2015 \COMMUNITY A10
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Man charged after truck crashes through mall By MARGARET SPEIRS AFTER WHAT could literally be described as a “drivethrough,” one man faces several charges for damage to Skeena Mall. Curtis Bryan Summers, 22, has been charged with one count each of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, mischief to property over $5,000, mischief $5,000 or under and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle. The charges come after the Dec. 28 series of incidents in which police were called out first to an assault on the 2300 block of Kalum Street in which they were told the suspect had left in a white Ford truck. Minutes later, police were called again about a person who had driven a truck with the same description through the Skeena Mall, damaging two sets of doors. The third call to Terrace RCMP said an individual had wandered into a local restaurant asking someone to call police as he had just driven his truck through the mall. A 22-year-old man of no fixed address was arrested afterward and police learned he was connected to the as-
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sault, the mall damage and had outstanding warrants out of Alberta. Summers appeared in court in the following days for the start of his bail hearing process. Crown prosecutor Sara Hopkins said there was a publication ban on the bail hearing and as the investigation was ongoing, she couldn’t comment on whether the truck belonged to Summers. He was remanded in custody until his next court date in January, she added. Skeena Mall property manager Amber Zanon said Dec. 31 that new doors had been ordered and will take six weeks to arrive so in the meantime, a solid pane of glass will be put in place of the plywood that covered the holes initially. People will only be able to use the manual doors, which could present some accessibility issues for some people, but there are a couple of alternatives. “Usually there’s a lot of people by the doors so hopefully people will help each other,” she said, adding that the automatic doors by Save-on Foods are another option. After the incident, Skee-
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SKEENA MALL doors were substantially damage when a vehicle drove through them on the evening of Dec. 28. na Mall had posted on its Facebook page that no one had been hurt, there had been significant damage to the doors and that the staff was working hard to clean up the debris so the mall
could open safely the next day. Zanon had talked to people that she knew including business people who were able to bring some repair supplies to the mall, such
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2015 IN NEWS
The Year in Review posals and cumulative impact considerations. Lax Kw’alaams is not part of the group. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ AUG. 16 two fires caused by arson burn down abandoned buildings, one located at 3111 Atwood, and close to the CN tracks, which used to be owned by the rail company but is now owned by the Best Western Terrace Inn. The other building was located at 4727 Park Avenue and was used for storage by owner Lloyd Wittkowski. Both were used for shelter by the homeless.
WELCOME TO the second half of the THE TERRACE STANDARD’S annual year in review of significant news events of the past year. This issue contains events from the final six months of 2015. The Community and Sports pages are handled the same way. Enjoy!
July
JULY CITY council sessions heat up with the introduction of a request by local resident Sarah Artis for a Rainbow Sidewalk that offers community support for the gay and lesbian and transgender community. Council votes unanimously to do the sidewalk, though the installation date it pushed ahead to 2016. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ AFTER A couple solid years running full bore, Skeena Sawmills closes down temporarily because of slow down in demand for logs in Asia, then reopens in September before slowing down again heading into the winter. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ IN THE span of a two days, July 8 and 9, three fires are sparked in the hot weather, and it is found that dry tree limbs falling on hydro wires were the cause. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TAHLTAN CENTRAL Council President Chad Day helicopters into a copper and gold mining camp in Tahltan traditional territory 50 kilometres east of Telegraph Creek and forces the shutdown of a mining exploration camp located in a historical burial area. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE CITY decides to cancel its $165,000 contract with the Terrace Econcomic Development Authority and create a new position within the city called an Economic Development Officer that will handle those tasks. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE PROVINCIAL government announces $37 million for infrastructure in Terrace, with approximately $4.3 million of that amount going towards enhancements of the intersection on the South end of the Sande Overpass. Originally it was hoped that Terrace would receive a completely new second overpass. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE FEDERAL and provincial governments announce they will be contributing approximately half of the money needed by Northwest Regional Airport in Terrace for an expansion project beginning this year to improve the baggage check-in and waiting area. The governments give $4.4 million each toward the projected $16.4 million project cost. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ LONGTIME RESIDENT and veteran volunteer Yvonne Moen is named Freeman of the City of Terrace.
August THE KITSUMKALUM and Kit-
September
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TERRACE SEARCH and Rescue volunteers train in the Skeena River in the vicinity of the old and new bridges. Below: Kitsumkalum chief Don Roberts signs the agreement in principle with the federal and provincial government. selas approve their agreements in principle with the federal government which makes the agreements official. Both land and money are involved in the deals, while fisheries are still to be figured out separately. The final agreements still need to be negotiated. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ LOCAL GOVERNMENTS from Vanderhoof to the coast meet in Terrace to advance their call for a share of provincial resource taxation benefits. It’s the first full meeting of the Northwest BC Resource Benefits Alliance (RBA) since it expanded to include 21 munici-
palities and regional districts in the spring. The Resource Benefits Alliance calls for money from the province to deal with the financial impacts of the increased local government services that will be needed based on projected major industrial developments in the region. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE CITY decides to lay out $40,000 for a transportation master plan which will provide a blueprint for the construction of roads and transportation networks. The study focus includes “current capacity and traffic loading of arterial and collector roadways; recommenda-
tions or confirmation of locations for future vehicle and pedestrian grade separations for crossing the railway.” There is a traffic study for both hills in town also in the works. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ FIVE TSIMSHIAN bands, The Metlakatla, Gitxaala, Gitga’at, Kitselas and Kitsumkalum bands, announce the formation of the Tsimshian Environmental Stewardship Authority (TESA), which is designed to provide a way for all of the nations to address common environmental stewardship issues such as project development pro-
LOCAL FISH conservation group Gitanyow Fisheries Authority gets upset over the federal officials having opened the coastal commercial fishery for sockeye salmon, a move which it says goes against previous decisions to hold off on a late run harvest. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE PLAN for the rainbow-coloured crosswalk to reflect the local lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or questioning (LGBTQ) community spurs the formation of a new group because of online comments that lash out against the idea. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE OWNER of Terrace Chances, Pomeroy Lodging, declares it is setting its sights on moving to a new location where it would be combined with an executive-level hotel and conference centre. But the application is not submitted before Christmas as planned. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE CITY decides to form a homelessness task group after a motion to do so is made by councillor Brian Downie at council’s Sept. 14 meeting. They begin to meet to look at long term solutions to the problem. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ RURAL RESIDENTS outside of Terrace learn they will be on the hook for $200 a year for refuse collection which creates backlash from frustrated rural residents. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ PRETIVM RESOURCES has announced the official start of construction of an underground gold mine near Stewart in northwestern B.C. The Sept. 15 announcement follows a deal to secure approximately 70 per cent of the (US) $747 million needed to fully construct the Brucejack mine which will begin operations in 2017 and have an operating life of nearly 18 years. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE CITY council votes to withhold a letter of support for pipeline developer TransCanada until after a meeting with the provincial government concerning a revenue sharing agreement with northern local governments, which is called a tactical play to impress on the government that they want to see benefits from any major industrial developments.
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2015 IN NEWS
The Year in Review October
NISGA’A LAY groundwork with Pretivm Resources of Vancouver for the Nisga’a Lisms Government to receive payments and royalties from the company and also to have job opportunities coming from the mine when it goes into production in 2017. The provincial government also signed a profit-sharing agreement with the First Nation for the mine. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ AFTER WITHHOLDING their support of the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Line, Terrace City Council endorses it in a written letter requested by TransCanada while mayor Carol Leclerc says it also means council is supporting the Lelu island export facility which the pipeline would feed. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE FALL building stats show that Terrace hits over $50 million in construction value over the year owing to all the houses and the new hotels after a big construction season. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ AS THE Oct.19 elections draw closer, the candidates agree on one thing at least, and that is an inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women is necessary. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ CULLEN WINS the election with 51 per cent of the vote, and his fifth straight win, making the SkeenaBulkley once again an NDP riding despite a drop overall federally and a slight drop in Cullen’s numbers, as well as those of the Conservatives in the riding, with the Liberals jumping slightly in popularity in the region. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE EXTREME weather shelter for the homeless opens early in the month, several weeks before the Nov.1 typical open date. BC Housing and Ksan shelter say it’s because of the particularly cold weather.
November
RECENTLY RE-ELECTED NDP MP Nathan Cullen says he will meet with the Liberal party ministers to push them to solidify their tanker ban legislation promised for the North Coast, and says he has a willing ear in the new Liberal environment minister Catherine McKenna. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE FORCEMAN Ridge Landfill construction commences south of Lakelse Lake which is the first phase in a major relocation of waste handling in the area with the new landfill soon to be shared with Thornhill. The Thornhill landfill is to be decommissioned and turned into a transfer station. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ FIELD OF Faith Foundation, a new non-denominational Christian group with a goal of helping homeless starts an outreach Wednesday evenings in George Little Park to
give food and other items. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ABORIGINAL EDUCATION rates show improvement with a report showing increased graduation rates compared to other years. Shortly after, Dec.9, the school district starts public consultation towards an Aboriginal Enhancement Agreement. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ALTAGAS FINISHES the third of its three power generation plants on the Iskut river, all of them feeding into the Northwest Transmission Line. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ STUDY FINDS that Terrace is one of the cities with the highest use of contraband cigarettes in B.C.
December
POPULATION COUNT done by the city finds there are more than 12,000 currently living in Terrace including the nebulous “shadow population” of people who have moved here for work. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ CITY CONTINUES to give out 7,300 recycling and garbage carts to each residence and residents have to figure out what to do with their old cans. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ AN ABORIGINAL man, Walter Wright, expands his case to sue a former Terrace RCMP officer for his role in Wright’s brain injury suffered while in police custody. Wright wants to know more about how the officer did his job and, in particular, how he dealt with other aboriginal people. Court files reveal that Hederman had lost a bag of cocaine and had physically hurt other First Nations during a stint with the Terrace RCMP when he also did steroids. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE COMMUNITY foundation is given responsibility to
decide on who gets the community grants. This typically fell to council to decide, but in 2016 onward the foundation will have a separate board. This decision was made by Terrace city council at an in camera meeting. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE PROVINCIAL government gives $3 million to the north to improve transportation along Highway 16. It falls short of actually providing new public transport between towns, but offers a costsharing solution with municipalities and First Nations villages. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ REPORTS SHOW public school numbers continue decline, while private schools grow in Terrace. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ KITSELAS SAY they had difficulty figuring out how to divide up to $30 million in pipeline revenue sharing deals with other First Nations along the routes.
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TIM VAN Horn (top) travels Canada for his Canadian Mosaic project. In Terrace, he parks on a busy street and waits for people to knock on the door of Big Maple. Middle: Remains of an abandoned house that was burned down on Park Ave., one where homeless used to stay. Below: Candidates for the Skeena-Bulkley riding in the October federal elections.
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Social shift
Last year at this time, it felt like money was king—pipeline revenue sharing deals, LNG tax frameworks, the real estate boom—topics that lent an economic flavour to the times. In the lead-up to this new year, it felt like our days took on a more social-minded, people-oriented feel. There were fundraisers to bring Syrian refugees to Terrace and an effort both on the part of the city and local church groups to give more help to the growing homeless population. A note sent to this newsroom by a bystander spoke of an RCMP officer who showed special compassion and care in helping a drunk person who had passed out in the cold. A public letter from Telegraph Creek chief Terri Brown told of her trip to Ottawa for the final Truth and Reconciliation report release, saying what is needed is communitybased healing, language and cultural revitalization, youth programs and quality education in remote communities. And the new federal government agrees, having promised to back all the recommendations in the report. The common theme of all these small gestures and big plans is introspection, change, experimentation, reaching out. Is this the year we strive to get to know our neighbors better, to stop and ask someone in need if they need help? Maybe a hardened person would say that nothing will change. But this and future years will be a good test of flexibility.
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THROUGH BIFOCALS
CLAUDETTE SANDECKI uttered her first cry on a midJanuary morning in Halifax when the thermometer dipped to -3°C. Parents rate leeway given the impreciseness of due dates. And these three births occurred miles, decades, and thermometer styles apart. Now we live near each other, giving us the opportunity to make much of each birthday separately if we choose. Frequently, however, sniffles or general malaise lead to putting off a birthday bash. That’s when we resort to combining celebrations. I can’t count how many years we’ve put off one or
both of the earliest birthday get-togethers because one or more of us was too sick to participate even at the promise of gifts and goodies. Healthwise, Christmas must be the riskiest time of year to be born. Germs mingle at school Christmas and band concerts, and community gatherings such as seniors’ homes carol sings and church services. Just as other families with several birthdays within a day or two may come together to mark all birthdays in one fell swoop (a convenience for families that must travel some distance to gather) we give greater priority to our youngest. As a senior, I look forward to family company far more than gifts or goodies, so shelving my get-together a week or more never perturbs me. The division of gifts for anyone whose birthday nudges Christmas can be a dilemma for gift-givers. How to heap sufficient parcels under the tree yet leave an ample supply for the birthday is an annual conundrum. Backed by a healthy credit card, having an adequate supply of loot is less
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of a concern today than it was when our daughter was young. Back then, every winter we skinned by on Dad’s unemployment while construction halted until spring thaw. Yuletide birthday cakes can lack the specialness of one in August or May surrounded as we often are by surviving mounds of fruitcake, mince tarts, and candies both bought and homemade. Oddly, being born in the deepest winter never influenced my choice of entertainment or career. You might expect me to be an accomplished skater, a dedicated skier, or at the very least keen on snowshoeing, curling or watching Winter Olympics. Not so. I sprained my wrist within the first 30 minutes of lacing on skates and since then I never again intentionally set foot on ice. Today when I walk my dogs I wear Icers to better my chances of remaining upright if I fail to avoid a patch of the frozen stuff. As for keeping warm, my thermostat sits at 74°F and I’m seldom without a sweater.
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The Mail Bag Fighting for power
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TERRACE RESIDENTS joined a Terrace to Paris rally marking the start of international climate change talks last Nov.
How new is climate change?
Dear Sir, How ‘new’ is the science of CO 2 and the warming of our planet? Some people claim this is new. Let’s examine some facts: 1856 - Journal of American Science published a paper titeld “Circumstances Affecting the heat of the Sun’s rays” by Eunice Foote. It discribed
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how CO 2 is unique in affecting the warming of our planet. 1896 - a paper “On the influence of carbonic acid (CO 2) in the air upon the temperature of the ground” by Savante Arrhenius (Nobel Prize in 1903) pointed out that even though CO 2 is only % 0.03 of our atmosphere but doubling it, to % 0.06, would raise the
mean temperature on our plant by about 5 degrees C. A number of other scientists came to similar conclusions between those dates. Now anybody who thinks linking CO 2 on our planet to climate change is a new science, perhaps they are willing to forgo other ‘new’ science: 1928 - Penicilin discovery
(Antibiotics) 1895 - x-rays 1885 - vaccines for humans In other words, if one were to reject the science of climate change, may as well reject modern medicine! (How long would such a person live?) Martin Holzbauer Thornhill, B.C.
Dear Sir: What do Queen Elizabeth I and R. Buckminster Fuller have in common? The Great Pirates. Everybody who knows their history lessons know that QEI invented piracy. She used pirates to loot Spanish ships taking gold doubloons to Spain; which is how the British Empire got the money to get started. QEI didn’t like Spain anyway because its king said the Pope claimed she was his intended wife. QEI claimed she was the “Virgin Queen”. When the buccaneers turned capitalist they became known as privateers. Captain Morgan thought working for QEI was a rum way to go so he turned to private enterprise and looted ships for himself like Jack Sparrow. R. Buckminster Fuller, who invented the geodesic dome, was in India where he visited the offices of the British East India Co., also started by QEI, when he thought he saw the American flag. Instead of stars in the blue corner, QEI’s two crown standards were there. Fuller says in his book, the Critical Path, George Washington must have been very familiar with the flag and had stars substituting the crowns, everything else was the same. Fuller goes into great detail about the Great Pirates, including their history which goes back to the Phoenicians, who were world traders as the dreaded Ships of Tarshish. It was discovered more recently that the Phoenicians were Vikings who migrated south to Lebanon on the European rivers system. Queen Elizabeth II has overseen the dissolution of the British Empire over the last 70 years. Replacing the Great Pirates have been the globalist oligarchs.
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What made you remember that?
n one of Isaac Asimov’s more than 300 books he observed that our brains function more like sieves than like bowls: we forget the vast preponderance of our experience rather than retain it. Much of our experience drains away, with vastly fewer events remaining for review. As Asimov put it, we have a memory for forgetting. We can train our memories to work more effectively. Numerous mnemonic tricks exist through which we can retain and access more details into consciousness. But for most daily living these devices are rarely in demand or in use, and we bumble along, plaintively asking Siri to find things for us, or searching in pockets for misplaced grocery lists. “Lest we forget!” we are reminded each autumn as Remembrance Day nears. And yet, for most of us, what is there to recollect, aside from former years of similar public appeals and their attendant ceremonies? We exhibit an unacknowledged cultural terror of losing our
pasts. Anniversaries and birthdays roll past in regular sequence. Families mount photo walls featuring deceased relatives, a hopeful if morbid celebration of family history. Faces gaze at us in frozen formation, as if ready to demand allegiance or devotion. But there is nothing like a photograph to startle memories into consciousness or to pique curiosity. Recent years have seen the extraordinary rise of research into genealogy, as if hanging onto our ancestors through official documents, old family letters and photos, and a comprehensive family tree dating back hundreds of years somehow validates our own provisional existence. The art of physicalizing our memories into buildings, exhibits, diaries (and correspondence), coats of arms, house poles, monuments, and so on has been part of human psychology since antiquity. It is a powerfully motivated activity. “That was Grandpa’s rocking chair,” a mother says. I recall reading segments from my deceased mother’s diary and
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AL LEHMANN being struck with wonder, struggling to align her words to my experience of a woman whom I knew intimately yet barely understood. Much of this behavior is obviously heart-warming and satisfying. Yet there is something nonetheless curious about such obsessive nostalgia. Once in Europe we stayed at a hotel in the Vienna Woods. The patriarch of the family who
owned it was in his late eighties. As a young man he had been part of the German Wehrmacht in Austria. We dined at his family table one evening, and a personal name came up in conversation. The name stimulated his memory, for his brow furrowed, and moments later he began a short account of one of his wartime experiences. “The last time I heard that name was at the very end of the war,” he said to us. “The Russians were attacking Vienna. I was outside the city and wanted to mount an observation tower to get a view of what was happening.” He frowned. “At the bottom of the tower was a drunk soldier of that name, and I remember being ashamed that a German soldier might be drunk on duty.” He paused, collecting his thoughts. “I pushed the man aside and climbed the tower to look out over the city. It seemed that half the city was on fire! It was like a scene from hell. I thought to myself that this was a horrible, horrible scene I would never, never
forget.” He turned to us and gave a small smile. “And then I forgot it,” he said. “Until now.” After the war he had contrived to purchase an old chateau and turn it into a hotel. In subsequent years he and his family built a thriving business. The necessary attentions of living had sequestered his wartime experience into some secluded recess of his mind. The keys to memory are many and varied, and perhaps the most effective of them are out of our ken altogether until some accidental occurrence turns one, and then ‘click,’ a vivid recollection spills out of the black box of our past. We fear losing memory. After all, who are we, besides the compendium of our memories? Perhaps this admission explains why we do cling to them so ferociously, like breath, like heartbeat, like life itself. One wonders what in the future we’ll wish we had forgotten. Retired English teacher Al Lemann lives in Terrace, B.C.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 Terrace Standard
Councillors confident in land deal By JOSH MASSEY
IN THE spring of 2014, the city had to make a difficult decision and choose between five potential buyers of the property located at 3304 Kenney Ave. at the corner of Park. In doing so, they had a couple hopes. One was that the city could get a fair deal for the land, and they set a minimum price of $450,000 based on market value at the time. The other goal was to find a developer who would include an affordable housing component in a housing proposal. In the end, the city sold the property to a company called Coastto-Coast from Calgary that is backed by a financial investment firm from Quebec called ROI Investments, a deal that included $951,000 for the land and the promise of upwards of 105 apartments, 22 of those rented at an affordable rate outlined in a special bylaw created by the city. City councillor Stacey Tyers, who was part of the council that chose the developer based on staff recommendations, said the high dollar amount and a concrete plan for an affordable housing component made Coast-to-Coast the right choice at the time. “It definitely wasn’t an easy decision. A lot of information was weighed, but in the end the ability to get affordable units built and be able to contribute to the
affordable housing fund were deciding factors, for me anyway,” said Tyers. But now well over a year has passed, ground still hasn’t been broken at the site, and ROI says the development is delayed pending market conditions. According to director of development services David Block “to date, they have not paid for or been issued the building permit for the first 12 unit apartment building.” The development permit they were granted in fall of 2014 expires in fall of 2016. Looking back at the city’s original choice, records obtained from the city show that the other interested companies bid far less upfront cash than Coastto-Coast, who ended up paying $500,000 more than the minimum asking price for the 2.4 acre parcel of centrally located land. One company, now defunct, was called Vancouver Sand and Gravel Inc. offered $621,000. Another numbered company from Vancouver submitted a bid under the name of president Travis GE Chen for $530,000. Yet another was an individual named Chen, I Husun who bid $601,800. And the same numbered Vancouver company that eventually went on to buy the old Kerby property at the top of Lanfear Hill bid $600,000 on the Kenney property (several months later they would
pay over $1 million for the Kerby property). Only one company other than Coast to Coast included a defined affordable housing plan in their bid, and that was a B.C. company called Terra Housing. Terra Housing offered $450,000 cash plus $800,000 of inkind donation “to be achieved by selling 15% of the gross built area on the site (12 units) to a not-for-profit housing operator at a reduced price that will enable them to rent the units within BC Housings’ rental affordability guidelines.” Including the value of the in-kind contribution in the form of reduced price, the total value of the sale of land came to $1,250,000. Comparing the affordable housing component of Terra to the Coast-to-Coast deal shows that on one hand Coast-to-Coast offered more units of affordable housing while Terra aimed to provide the affordable units they did propose according to BC Housing affordable guidelines and to offer some larger family units. Tyers says that while she thinks highly of Terra Housing, their plan was by no means a certainty. “Even if they [Terra] sell them to not-forprofits, if the not-for profits decide to rent them at market which they would have every right to do, then the in-kind contribution is
for not-for-profits, not the city. Whereas with Coast-to-Coast we already knew that anything over the appraised value could be put towards an affordable housing fund.” Though a bylaw similar to the one guiding the Coast-to-Coast affordable housing could have been created following a Terra deal, said Block. “If Council had determined to accept Terra Housing’s proposal the City could have registered a Sec 905 housing Agreement on title to ensure the provision of the affordable units. This would have been a similar agreement as that registered with the Coast to Coast sale,” he said. The affordable housing bylaw remains tied to the land, even if Coast to Coast sells it again—any developer must include 20 per cent of their units at 20 per cent below cost. It would take a special act of council to dissolve the bylaw were a new owner to desire property, said Block. “Only the City of Terrace can authorize the discharge of this agreement from title,” said Block. “In the (unlikely) event a zoning amendment was approved the Sec 905 Housing Agreement could be amended if applicable or discharged by the City.” Tyers said she was hoping that construction of the much needed housing would have been underway by now.
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THIS PRIME piece of land has lain fallow as the developer waits for market conditions to look up before beginning a planned 105 room housing complex with an affordable component. ROI Investments was one of several people to bid on the land. “Hindsight is 20/20. We couldn’t have foreseen that they would choose not to build right away,” she said. Founder of Terra Housing Stuart Thomas says he was disappointed that his company’s
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Trustee candidates vying for vote Jan. 9 By JACKIE LIEUWEN WITH A school trustee by-election coming up Jan. 9, three local candidates are vying for a spot as the Thornhill trustee on the board of the Coast Mountains School District. Candidates are Barbara Johnson, Diana Penner and Sandy Watson, running for the three-year remainder of the term from longtime trustee Gary Turner, who passed away suddenly on Oct. 2, 2015. MaryAnn Freeman and Lorrie Gowen withdrew their names from the running. Cathy Jackson is the Chief Election Officer for the by-election, and the elected Thornhill trustee will represent Thornhill and the area east along Hwy 16, Jackpine Flats, Old Remo and Lakelse Lake. ◆◆◆◆ Barbara Johnson went to school in Terrace and has been elected twice as trustee filling two part-terms from 1987 to 1989. At that time, Johnson was balancing full-time work, motherhood, and the school district, but she has now retired and has more time to devote to the school district. “I think what qualifies me as a trustee is my genuine concern and interaction with the community,” she said, adding that she also has experience as a lawyer with a degree in mediated family law and has previous trustee experience. In her past terms, she fought for the parents’ right to choose which school their child attends and she negotiated in a teachers strike. “I believe we accomplish more together with mediation, then we do with an adversarial model,” she said, adding that as a trustee she was one of few at the time who genuinely connected on a positive basis with teachers and school staff. Living in Terrace, Johnson says the key in education today is focusing on the basics, particularly literacy. She said that students should be able to spell and read comfortably when they gradu-
ate from the system. “My attitude has always been if you can read, you can learn anything,” she said, adding that she believes cursive writing is still important to be taught in schools. “I don’t think we do [children] any favours by dumbing down the program,” she said. In her previous time as trustee and in her work experience, she has learned that working cooperatively is best, and that is her goal in working with school staff and parents. “We all have to work together, because we all ultimately want the same thing for our children,” she said. ◆◆◆◆ Diana Penner has been a trustee for three full terms from 1999 to 2005 and 2008 to 2011 and says she knows policies quite well. She considered running for trustee in 2014, but it did not work with her schedule at the time. A friend of the late Gary Turner, Penner says she knows a lot of the situations in the Thornhill area from the last decade or so. She feels informed with the current issues, her children have gone through the system and her grandchildren are just entering. “I have the interest of the students in my heart and I think I could do a good job,” she said. Her past experience and connections in the system make her feel qualified, and she says
her perspective is grassroots. “I really believe in good basic education and I believe that kids need to be given as much opportunity as possible to be able to find out who they are and their strengths,” she said, explaining that things likes trades, art, and music are important parts of creating wellrounded citizens. “I think of each child as being a future citizen in my community,” she said. Living on Brauns Island, Penner said some of the issues she focused on in previous terms on the board were starting the trades centre and bringing in more music opportunities through the Dare to Dream Foundation. ◆◆◆◆ Sandy Watson says she has been highly involved in the school district and Parent Advisory Council (PAC). She did not run previously because she supported the late Gary Turner as a strong advocate for Thornhill. Watson has children in the Thornhill schools and has been a PAC chair. She helped start D-PAC (District PAC) and sat on budget and education committees of the school district. She was also a drug and alcohol councillor for 11 years in Terrace, connecting her to many of the area’s teachers, principals, school staff, and students. Another qualification is simply where she
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COMMUNITY 2015 YEAR IN REVIEW
MARGARET SPEIRS
A review of the community’s highlights from the last six months of 2015.
July THORNHILL FIRE chief Wes Patterson leaves to become deputy fire chief in Port Alberni. Rick Boehm, Thornhill’s deputy fire chief, takes over as fire chief. Both men have spent almost all of their firefighting careers here. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ CHRIS ARNOLD is awarded the national CASE-Wiltshire Award of Excellence in Supported Employment after 25 years of helping people with mental or physical employment barriers, enter the workforce through the Provincial Networking Group he co-founded. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ CORPORAL MACKENZIE Lindsay, a soldier with the Royal Canadian Regiment, starts three weeks of intensive drill training for his role in the Ceremonial Guard of the Canadian Armed Forces for the summer. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TEN TERRACE Venturers are off to the 23rd World Scout Jamboree in Japan as part of 30,000 scouts from 161 countries. Susan Fleming, Timothy Zettler, Aurora Peden, Nathan Archer, Joshua Evans, Briana Greer, Brittney Preston, Chelsey Loset, Megan Bellamy and Brandon Kirkwood go with their advisor Paul Fleming. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ LONGTIME RESIDENT, historian and community champion Yvonne Moen learns she is to be named a Freeman of the City at the opening ceremonies of Riverboat Days. She joins Bill McRae, Jack Talstra, Vesta Douglas and Emil Haugland, the city’s other freemen.
August ROBIN MACLEOD, Caledonia’s longtime performing arts program co-director folds up her director’s chair after 23 shows in 30 years. She continues to teach at the school and co-director Geoff Parr is set to work with students on musicals. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE TEEN Sara Pipe, crowned Miss Teenage Northern BC earlier in the year, competes at the Miss Teen Canada national pageant. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ LOCAL ARTIST Jamie Nole donates one of her limited edition prints “Pregnant Frog Woman” to Park Centre, an office of the Terrace Child Development Centre (CDC). Jamie, who is from the Tahltan Nation and Nisga’a Nation under the Frog clan, has been involved with the Terrace CDC programs for the past three years and wanted to give back to the centre. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE CONSERVATION Of-
ficer Ryan Gordon is the first in B.C. to join the Cops for Cancer Tour de North, the first year the event invited conservation services to join. Gordon says he joined Tour de North as an opportunity to give back to the community.
September
A BARRED owl is saved from a murder of crows by several people. Gale finds the owl caught in a soccer net at Christy Park, untangles it and leaves it braced against a tree. She asks Tom Walker to check on it where he found it when it burst from the trees and landed at his feet among the noise of the crows. He took it to the provincial conservation office who checked it and shipped it to the Prince Rupert Wildlife Rehab Shelter. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE-RAISED MUSIC teacher Andrew Clark is instrumental in his Texas high school being named the 2015 National Signature School by the Grammy Foundation, honouring it as the best in the United States for its music program. For the last six years, Andrew, son of George and Tessie Clark, has been Director of Classical Guitar Studies at McCallum High School in Austin, Texas. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE GIRLS Johanna Vandenberg, 20, her sister Ria, 18, and friend Sarah, bike across Canada on a three month trip they say was incredibly worth it. Johanna says her mom, Cathy, made a similar trip with a friend when she was 20, and Johanna has wanted to do it since she was 16. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE BANFF Mountain Film Festival World Tour brings as one of its films, a film about Caleb Brousseau who tackles kayaking with passion, not letting being a paraplegic get in the way. The film Caleb, was made last year by filmmaker Blair Trotman of Papatuanuku Film of New Zealand. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ AFTER SPENDING his whole career here, CFTK cameraman John Dando retires after 43 years, leaving with the distinction of being at the TV station the longest of all the staff currently there.
October
WHILE GOVERNMENTS and groups discuss solutions to hitchhikers going missing or being murdered, University of Northern BC professor Dr. Jacqueline Holler is doing a study to see what hitchhikers have to say about their experiences. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE CITY of Terrace is the lucky recipient of a 70th Anniversary Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Garden, one of 140 being distributed across Canada in celebration of the first gift of 100,000 Dutch tulip bulbs sent to Canadians in 1945 as
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a symbol of appreciation for the role Canadian soldiers played in the liberation of the Netherlands and the hospitality Canada provided to the Dutch Royal Family in Ottawa during the Second World War. Our garden, consisting of 700 red and white tulip bulbs, will be symbolically linked to a 70th Anniversary Dutch-Canadian Friendship Tulip Garden to be planted this fall in our nation’s capital and showcased during the 2016 Canadian Tulip Festival. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ AFTER 20 years of feeding local residents in need, Ron and Delphine Dame look for some help with their Seventh-day Adventistassociated Bread of Life soup kitchen. The biggest immediate need is with the pickup of bread products and other foodstuffs provided by Safeway, moving the often-heavy boxes for storage and then distribution.
November
TERRACE PUBLIC Library children’s librarian Jess Dafoe is working with Laura Bloomhagen, education coordinator at the Kitselas First Nation education centre, on a pilot program to make reading and access to books a lot easier in Gitaus. That includes signing up Gitaus residents for library cards so they don’t have to come to Terrace to do it, and having shelves of books to borrow. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ CELEBRATING A record 66 years of marriage is former Terrace mayor Dave Maroney and wife Jean, married on Oct. 12th 1949 in St. Anthony Church in Fredericton, New Brunswick. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ A GROUP planning to bring at least one family of Syrian refugees to Terrace moves closer to its goal. The group Terrace Sponsors Syrian Refugee Families said it is ready to accept a family or individual before the end of the year. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ FAMILIES WITH teens receiving Christmas hampers from the Salvation Army get a little extra in the form of 500 pool passes after Salvation Army Captain Jim VanderHeyden asked city council for them, saying teens were the most difficult people to buy gifts for.
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WES PATTERSON spent his entire firefighting career here until a new position with great learning opportunities came up quickly and he decided to move on. Here he is June 19 with the newly completed fire stairs to be used for training., Below, Yvonne Moen stands with daughter Maxine Ljungh and son Gary Moen after being named just the fifth Freeman of the City of Terrace in its history. The honour was bestowed by Terrace mayor Carol Leclerc during Riverboat Days opening ceremonies July 31 in George Little Park.
December
JOHN JENSEN’S achievements were recognized when he is given a lifetime membership in the Kitimat-Terrace and District Labour Council. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ PATRICK HAMER, a cadet with the local 747 Royal Canadian Air Cadet squadron, receives a silver medal at the Duke of Edinburgh’s Awards ceremony in Victoria after a year of challenging exploits in four categories. The ceremony is attended by BC Lieutenant-Gover-
nor Judith Guichon. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ A COMMUNITY SPAGHETTI dinner Dec. 12 at Knox United Church continues local efforts to raise money to bring in at least one Syrian refugee family. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆
THE WINNER of this year’s Miss Chinese Vancouver pageant is local Jennifer Ling Coosemans. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ NORTHWEST COMMUNITY College offers therapy dogs to visit with students to relieve stress during Final Exam Week.
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Legion ends year on high note SATURDAY DECEMBER 12 saw a good turnout for the last meeting of Branch #13 for 2015. In the absence of the Acting President, the Treasurer, Cde. Kirkaldy took the chair. Numerous items of interest were discussed with reports from committees. A letter of gratitude was read out from Brixton Sandhals for the Bursary he received. Everyone was reminded that the Monthly Steak Dinner for January 2016 would be postponed until Jan. 8th as the first Friday of the month is New Year’s Day. The Grey Cup Sunday was a successful event and good time was had by all in atten-
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THE TERRACE River Kings travel to Prince Rupert to take on the Rampage Jan. 9 in their first away game of the new year.
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■ THORNHILL PUB: KARAOKE Thurs. 8 p.m. All day free pool Wed. and 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. ■ 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.
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■ THE TERRACE ART Gallery presents Ice, Water, Snow, oil and acrylic paintings by Tara Irwin, showing now thru January 9. Gallery hours are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday noon to 4 p.m.; Saturday noon to 5 p.m.; Sunday 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.. Closed Monday. Free admission. Donations accepted.
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■ THE TERRACE CONCERT Society kicks off the new year with Northwest Spotlight featuring Rachelle van Zanten and Dr. Fishy at 8 p.m. Jan. 16 at the REM Lee Theatre. Tickets on sale at George Little House.
Comedy ■ SNOWED IN COMEDY Tour is at 8 p.m. Jan. 6 at the REM Lee Theatre. Tickets on sale online. Use the passcode ‘snowedin’ and save money per ticket. ■ JOIN THREE-TIME CANADIAN comedy award winners, Peter ‘n’ Chris as they perform this ‘extremely funny’ CBC comedy sketch show The Mystery of the Hungry Heart Motel 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Jan. 23 at the REM Lee. Using every trick in the comic book, these extremely inventive physical comedy experts leave no funny bone untickled in this fast paced spoof to the horror genre. Named the Just for Laughs Best Comedy Montreal Fringe 2012/2013. Tickets on sale at Terrace Sportsplex, Neid Enterprises and from the U16 Terrace Rage Team. Proceeds support Northwest Club Volleyball. peterNchris.com. ■ IAN BAGG AND special guests Mat-
thew Fulchiron, Chad Daniels and Francisco Ramos perform at 7 p.m. Jan. 26 at the REM Lee Theatre. All funds raised help people dealing with serious illness to provide medical travel, medical equipment or supplies and medical therapy. All funds raised stay within Terrace and area. Tickets on sale at Misty River Books. For more details, contact Donna 250-641-3044 or give@kimmunityangelssociety.ca.
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■ THE TERRACE RIVER Kings head to Prince Rupert to take on the Rampage Jan. 9 and to Kitimat Jan. 16 to face off against the Kitimat Ice Demons. Take a group to cheer them on at these first two away games of the new year.
Reading ■ UNBC NORTHWEST PUBLIC Presentation is “Some New Work (Especially Poetry)” with presenter Janet Rogers, UNBC Writer-in-Residence from noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 13 at the UNBC campus. Free. For more details, contact Alma 250-615-5578 or alma.avila@unbc.ca. Rogers will also read at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14 at the library.
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Family in Costa Rica for a year They found a couple in Alberta with a rental in Costa Rica in the area they are going to, which is in the southern part of the country south of Dominical. They chose to go there because the area is less of a tourist area, smaller, more low key and not as dry as in the northern part of the country. The medical plan they have allows them to be out of the country for up to two years once in a five-year period so they’ll be covered, she said. Another thing she found online is an ex-patriot checklist that lays out things to do at certain times before you leave, which has proven to be a big job just to get through, she said. “We’ve had multiple garage sales, so it’s been a lot of decluttering,” she said. The last weeks before they leave has been stressful with things coming up last minute, such as problems with the car they were going to drive there. Garner had traded her car in for a Honda they bought on the internet from Vancouver that was supposed to be suitable for a trip like theirs. However, it started to die and sound bad and after the dealer here looked at it, the cost to fix it was going to be a fortune. “They showed me the quote
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LANA GARNER, her husband Shawn Grier and their children, Maya and Ethan, are spending 2016 in Costa Rica. for the vehicle and it was going to be quite a bit of money. It’s easy to say ‘you know I could do this later’ but we need to have something when we come back too, right? We can’t not have a vehicle,” said Garner. The staff at the Honda dealership here knew a bit about the family’s trip and said they would cover the bill. “That was just very generous and we really appreciate that,” she said, adding they’ll buy a car in Costa Rica. Garner has a blog she’s started – pathtopuravida.blogspot. ca – and hasn’t posted on it for a while with everything getting
so busy but she intends to start again once they get settled. Pura vida as directly as you can translate it means “pure life,” but in Costa Rica the people use it to say “life is good,” she said. She is thankful for all the support from their family and friends. “I’m looking to encourage other people to pursue and make happen whatever they want to and not be held back,” said Garner. “We’ll go and have an experience together which will impact all of us for the rest of our lives,” said Garner. The family left the city Dec. 24 and the country on Dec. 31.
time frame. He actually came as a volunteer, but stepped in that morning to compete in place of an absent competitor. Second was Bryce Thomson, with 136 reps, squatting with 165 pounds. Third place went to Charis Whittington, who made 127 reps with 145 pounds. Others were Jack Lofroth 122 reps with 180 lbs, Dawsin Kluss
120 reps with 210 lbs, Davis Lindsay 113 reps with 170 lbs, Austin Legros111 reps with 170 lbs. Ashley Whittington 107 reps with 260 lbs, Vaughan Robinson 78 reps with 195 lbs, Benjamin Davidson 76 reps with 215 lbs, Nolan Chapman 74 reps with 200 lbs, Fritz Lotz 73 reps with 215 lbs, Nathan Chapman 68 reps with 175 lbs, and Elizabeth Esau 38 reps with 180 lbs.
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Lifters set squat records By JACKIE LIEUWEN FOURTEEN LOCAL power lifters tallied squats they made lifting barbells of their body weights of up to 250 pounds at the first Squat Challenge Dec. 27 at the North Coast Health & Fitness gym. Adam Linteris won first, squatting 140 repetitions with 220 pounds in the ten minute
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WWW.REMLEETHEATRE.CA COMMUNITY EVENTS JANUARY 7 – Everyone is welcome to attend the ongoing series of free art workshops sponsored by the Terrace Mental Health and Addictions Advisory Committee as a part of “Random Acts of Mindfulness”. The next workshop, facilitated by Laura McGregor is “Creating A Spirit Animal Portrait,” a two-part workshop from 9 - 11:30 a.m. To register, or for more information, please call 250-635-8206. JANUARY 15 – Deadline for entry into the Pacific Northwest Music Festival. The 2016 syllabus is available online for free. Please submit two copies of each entry along with your entry fee. Postmark your entries before Jan. 15, 2016. Entries received after this date will not be accepted. A hardcopy of the syllabus and entry forms are also available at Sight and Sound. The music festival is from April 14 to April 30. JANUARY 16 – Terrace Chapter Council of Canadians meets at 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at UNBC room 103. For more details, contact Bruce at 250-641-0732 or bbidgood@telus.net.
PSAS NO PANCAKE BREAKFAST at Happy Gang Centre for January. MILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Auxiliary Thrift Shop will not be accepting clothing donations from the community until January 25 due to fire and safety regulations. Donations should not be left at the back door due to inclement weather and will be subject to ruin. We appreciate your cooperation and understanding in this situation. We would like to take this opportunity to thank and wish a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all our donators and customers. TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE’S Criminal Hearts production is looking for the following items: one double or queen bed (no head board), silk bed sheets, pencils preferably yellow ones ( about 300 in total), 12-18 battery or electric pencil sharpeners (will not be returned), Walkman from early 1990s, empty cans of Dr. Pepper (several dozen), pizza boxes (we need up to 30), man’s tuxedo size large or XL. If you can help, please contact TLT at info@ mytlt.ca or call Marianne at 250-635-2942 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. FIELD OF FAITH Foundation Homeless Outreach provides coffee and sandwiches from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays at George Little Park. Everyone welcome. Donations appreciated. Coats, boots, hats, gloves, socks, new underwear, toiletries for adults and children. For more, call Dan at 250-641-3665.
TERRACE YOUTH ENGAGEMENT Strategy (TYES) is an informal youth hangout spot at 3219 Eby St. Free Wi-Fi, computers and video games. Soup served at 1 p.m. Monday to Friday. Coffee/juice and muffins all day. Not in school? No home to go back to? Stop by and rest a while! Put on by TDCSS. ROYAL PURPLE WELCOMES new members. For more details, call Sharon 635-6955. KIMMUNITY ANGELS SOCIETY works to promote quality of life for seriously ill individuals and their families by providing financial assistance for medical treatment, medical expenses and equipment or supplies. All funds raised stay within our community. Get involved by volunteering at fundraisers, challenging family, friends and businesses to get involved or meet or exceed your donation, raising funds and spreading the word about us. For more, contact give@kimmunityangelssociety.ca. 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. THE TERRACE CHAPTER of TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly) meets once a week in the cafeteria in the basement of Mills Memorial Hospital. Weigh-in starts at 6 p.m., meeting at 7:15 p.m. For more information about this, call Joan at 250-635-0998 or Sandy 250-635-4716. HELPING HANDS OF Terrace, a non-profit organization, recycles cans, bottles and scrap metal with proceeds going to help seniors, cancer patients and children get medications or assistance they can’t access or afford. Individuals and businesses who would like to be involved are asked to call 778-634-3844. Cash donations can also be made at the Northern Savings Credit Union. 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. A PEER SUPPORT group for people living with a brain disorder meets from 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. CRISIS PREVENTION, INTERVENTION and Information Centre for Northern BC has
VOLUNTEER TERRACE NEEDS volunteers for its programs. Consider spending an hour or so each week providing ‘friendly home visits’ for seniors: the Community Volunteer Service Program helps serve the community with your extra hands. Agencies that need help include the library, Heritage Park Museum, the Greater Terrace Beautification Society and more. For more details, call 638-1330. KERMODE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY’S Father’s Group would like to invite past, present and new participants to attend the weekly group meetings every Tuesday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the society satellite office (3242 Kalum St.). For more details, call 250-635-1476. HEALING TOUCH COMMUNITY Clinics continue to be offered by appointment. Call Julie for more details 250-849-5554. Donations accepted. HAS YOUR LIFE been affected by someone else’s drinking? Al-Anon can help. Meetings are Mondays at 7 p.m. in the Mills Memorial Hospital education room. For more information, call 250-635-7033. THE GREATER TERRACE Seniors Advisory Committee (GTSAC) meets on the first Wednesday of the month at 1:30 p.m. at the Happy Gang Centre. Everyone welcome. THE SALVATION ARMY holds Toonie Wednesdays every first and third Wednesday of the month – all clothing is $2. All children’s clothing $2 or less is half price. GREATER TERRACE BEAUTIFICATION Society meets from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the first Thursday of each month at the city council chambers. New members always welcome. TRIVIA CHALLENGES ARE held on the second Saturday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Legion. NORTHERN BRAIN INJURY Support Group meets at 4:40 p.m. to 6 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of the month in the boardroom at the Terrace and District Community Services Society (3219 Eby St.). For more details, call Tanya 250-641-4673. PACIFIC NORTHWEST MUSIC festival committee regular monthly meeting to plan the music festival is the second Tuesday of every month at the Terrace Academy of Music. If interested in helping out, come to the meeting or call Fiona at 635-9089 for more details.
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Look Who’s Dropped In! Baby’s Name: Blake Reginald McIsaac Date & Time of Birth: December 8, 2015 @ 6:50pm Weight: 6 lbs. 8 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Rebecca Pelletier & Todd McIsaac “New brother for Marshall”
Baby’s Name: Mia Avaline Madeline Mills Date & Time of Birth: November 27, 2015 @ 10:55pm Weight: 8 lbs. 12 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Jocelyn Mills “New sister for Dominic, Benjamin, David & Nelson”
Baby’s Name: Jana Joy Dasilva Date & Time of Birth: December 6, 2015 @ 10:33pm Weight: 8 lbs. 9 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Judy & Brian Dasilva “New sister for Peyton”
Baby’s Name: Alice Avis Fifield Date & Time of Birth: December 3, 2015 @ 7:45 Weight: 6 lbs. 6 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Melissa Matthews & Pierce Fifield
Baby’s Name: Davis Dean Douglas Morgan Date & Time of Birth: November 30, 2015 @ 11:02pm Weight: 8 lbs. 11 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Nadine & Jordan Morgan “New brother for Matteo”
Baby’s Name: Daelen Belle Netzel Date & Time of Birth: November 20, 2015 @ 4:58 Weight: 8 lbs. 5 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Sarah Crawley & Bryan Netzel “New sister for Jackson, Shaye, Hadlee & Quinn”
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AN 11-YEAR-OLD Terrace participant makes an impressive finish at the seventh annual Salmon Run at Kitsumkalum on June 28. Hannah McNeil, 11, takes the top spot for the women’s 2km race, beating out competitors in all other age categories including the men, clocking just 10 minutes and 21 seconds. The event has its highest ever turnout with more than 500 people signed up to race in over 120 categories under the intense summer sun. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ LOCAL RESIDENT Ashley Whittington is crowned Mr. BC for 2015 at a provincial amateur bodybuilding competition in Vancouver. At age 33, Whittington is co-owner with his wife of North Coast Health & Fitness in Terrace. In his fifth straight year of competing, Whittington weans himself
to 235 pounds and wins top honours in the super heavyweight category, as well as winning best all around physique at the event, which features 300 competitors. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE NORTHMEN rugby team slams the PG Gnats in a huge shutout win 29-0 at their final home game of the season July 11. The game starts out close with a slim 5-0 lead for the Northmen at half, but in the second half the speed and conditioning of the Terrace back line takes over, scoring four tries in the final half and leading them to victory. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE TERRACE U15 boys cork and foot check their way to a silver medal at the Les Sinnott Memorial Boys Provincial Cup July 9-12 in 100 Mile House. Other Terrace soccer teams also compete at provincials, with U13 girls and U17 girls earning 4th, U13 boys earning
6th, and U17 boys and U15 girls earning 8th place in the province. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ A GRADE 10 student and volleyball player at Centennial Christian School, Terrace’s Evan Veldman is one of 40 youths from across the country selected for the national team. He trains with Team Canada as they prepare for the National Team Challenge Cup (NTCC) in Edmonton July 15-19. Now that Veldman is on the national roster, his development as a player will be supported in hopes he might make the men’s team.
August RUNNING CHAMP Ed Ansems adds another first place medal to his collection after coming first in his age category at the 10km BC championships in Vancouver. The 67-year-old runner runs the 10km championship and beats out all other competi-
tors aged 65-69 in the province. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ RISING VOLLEYBALL star Carly Davies earns a second gold medal with Team BC at the National Team Challenge Cup in Richmond in July. The first medal was earned by Davies and the team in last year’s Western Elites Championship. At 17 and in her Grade 12 year at Caledonia, Davies has several scholarship offers from post-secondary institutions here in Canada and in the U.S. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE SKEENA River Challenge is revived for dedicated bicyclists in the region on Aug. 9, and cool weather and no wind makes for a pleasant race for the seven riders. The once-annual Skeena River Challenge is a scenic race from Prince Rupert to Terrace, and has an uncertain future as it was replaced in 2013 and 2014 with a gran fondo between Terrace and Rosswood and back, which draws cyclists from a wider range of skilllevels.
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THE LAKELSE Dragons paddle in after a race at the Dragon Boat Regatta Sept. 12.
TERRACE SENIORS take home 17 medals from the BC Seniors Games, renamed the 55+ BC Games. Terrace’s Maxine Smallwood wins six medals in track and field events, and is one of 17 Terrace seniors who come home with medals, including cyclists, bowlers, horseshoe players, golfers, and cribbage players. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE’S ROLLER Derby Association launches
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TOP LEFT: James Taylor, first place winner in two classes of the northern BC motorcross series, carves around a corner at the Terrace Fun Race Sept. 20. Top right: Blackbelts battle at the Elite Black Belts taekwondo competition in Terrace July 31, part of Riverboat Days. Above: Cyclists bike what may be the last Skeena River Challenge from Prince Rupert to Terrace. a new junior training program, starting Oct. 4, for young people to try out the sport. The eight-week training program for youth ages 12-18, is geared to build roller skating skills, and how to stop and fall safely. They hope to launch a junior team called the Night Terrors in a few years. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ CANUCKS ALUMNI face off against Terrace hockey players at the Sportsplex Sept. 26, put on by the Terrace Peaks Gymnastics Club as a fundraiser for facility improvements. The event
gives locals a chance to meet Canucks and honours dedicated volunteers who were chosen for the local team. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ REMOTE CONTROLLED cars is an expanding sport in Terrace and draws a large crowd at Skeena Valley Fall Fair Sept. 5. The newly-formed Northwest R/C Club built a big track at the Thornhill Community Grounds, and puts on a great show with freestyle tricks and races and an open chance for others to try the track.
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2015 YEAR IN REVIEW
WITH HIS third win in amateur Mixed Martial Arts Sept. 11, Terrace’s Blake Sigvaldason is on his way for a shot at a title in the Battlefield Fight League (BFL), a step away from UFC. Ranked #4 in the BFL bantamweight amateurs, Blake is 21, 5’8” and 140 pounds and aims to go pro. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TERRACE OFFROAD Cycling Association (TORCA) starts work on a new intermediate-level trail called Downtube on Terrace Mountain in September. The 2.2-kilometre trail will open a new route from the northeast end of Flathead Loop to Kitselas Road, add to the 25-km trail network on the mountain and will be done by the end of 2016.
October TERRACE’S JAMES Taylor wins first of all northern B.C. motocross racers in two classes, the MX-2 class with
318 points, and the Junior MX-3 class with 395 points. He earns the points at 10 different events in the region, and wins a whopping seven races in the season. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ FOR THE first time ever, Terrace has a Glow in the Dark Fun Run Oct. 17, geared towards families and adorning runners with glow sticks for the 1K or 5K loops around the Skeena Middle School and surrounding streets. It is a hit and draws 250 to 300 people. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ A FAMILY trio of threegenerations calls themselves the “Reid Runners” and has trained and competed in many different races in the last nine years, planning to join the 10K Vancouver Sun Run next spring. The trio includes 69-year-old Michael Reid, his daughter Megan and granddaughter Michaela, who say running has been a special bond between them.
November
TERRACE CHARITY runner Joe Pelletier raises $1,895 in a fundraising campaign in support of the Canuck Place Children’s Hospice this fall. He runs two half marathons, the Vancouver Rock N’ Roll Oct. 25, where he ranks 227th of 5,000 runners, and the Las Vegas Rock ‘N’ Roll half marathon on Nov. 15. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE BASKETBALL superfit class at Caledonia Secondary School requires commitment and challenges students to work hard, set personal goals and push themselves. The students are improving fitness and basketball skills, taking ownership for their learning, seeing benefits, and loving it. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ THE TERRACE River Kings are chosen to host the Coy Cup Championship for March 2016, giving them an automatic berth to the tour-
nament. The River Kings’ season starts slow, but they climb to the top of the western division and win most of their season games. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ TEN ATHLETES in the Terrace Bluebacks Swim Club are part of a northwest team “Points North” who win first place at a Prince George swim meet Nov. 20-22. Terrace coaches are proud of swimmers for improved techniques and several best times and top placings.
December THE TERRACE Skating Club comes home with a sparkling team trophy, 39 medals, and big smiles after the Kla-How-Ya competition in Kitimat Nov. 28-29. All 16 of the Terrace skaters earn at least one top-three finish in 63 events. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ CENTENNIAL CHRISTIAN’S senior boys volleyball team wins the ‘A’ provincial championship in Abbotsford Nov. 26-28, an impressive feat for the
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erry showed me the potential of the places between Lean-to Creek and the little canyon before he left town. We’d fished together more than a few times in the years before he moved. I was sad to see him go. We enjoyed each other’s company. I showed him a few things. He showed me just as many, in particular how it was possible to fish for those ghostly, winter steelhead of the Kalum River with a floating line and get them to strike. Terry was an autodidact. If he would’ve read anything about winter steelheading, specifically about doing so with a fly rod, some articles of which I’d written, he wouldn’t have gone hunting steelhead with a floating line. He hadn’t so he did. Fishermen carrying two fisted fly rods were just starting to show up on the rivers then. I told Terry if he had an interest, I’d show him how to cast one. He didn’t, preferring to use his single handed rod, a tool that made his ability to catch winter steelhead all the more remarkable. Alone, he discovered a few reliable slots where he could get close with short casts and sparse weighted flies. To facilitate those lessons he stashed a rickety canoe in the shrubbery next to the river bank. He got to the leaky craft on snowshoes. Once there, he paddled the river downstream a couple of kilometres
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TOP: CENTENNIAL senior boys celebrate after winning volleyball provincials Nov. 28. Above: Caledonia’s Emma Kenmuir and Mya Siemens shut down a kill at provincials, where the team wins fourth. Bottom left: Ski patroller overlooks the valley from Shames Mountain, where mountain rescue team celebrates 40 years. smallest school at the tournament. The team upsets last year’s champions, Abbotsford Christian, in four sets in the finals, and takes home the first provincial banner ever for Centennial. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ CALEDONIA’S SENIOR
and then worked his if we’d had some, they way back a run at a time would be hopelessly out alone, an exercise that of range. Karen knew I consumed all the dayhad gone to the Kalum, light a short winter day but not where on the rivhad to offer. er we were bound. I went along with I had my hand warmhim on a couple of ers, a lighter and matchthose trips. We crossed es and there was enough the river in the canoe old man’s beard, twigs, but once there I chose and bark nearby to build to stay and fish the run a fire, but there was no we crossed and the one appeal to the thought of just downstream rather a sleepless night and an SKEENA ANGLER than paddle through the uncomfortable wait for rapids below, reasona squad from Search and ROB BROWN ing that he could more Rescue to arrive the next capably guide his craft day while dwelling on without me in it. the demise of my friend. As he pushed off I tried to push such downriver and out of morbid thoughts from sight with no lifejacket I realized that my mind as I worked over the boulder spending that night in subzero tempera- strewn bottom of the long run we call Last tures alongside the wrong side of river or Chance. As almost always happens when in my bed was completely dependant on fishing in winter, the rhythms of casting, Terry’s canoeing skills. Of course a life the stillness of the surroundings, the conjacket probably wouldn’t have saved him if tinuous rush of rapids below and above, he’d capsized in that frigid water. It would and the movement of the river’s surface only change it from death by drowning to subtly reflecting the contours of the subdeath by freezing. aqueous landscape combined to put me in Concentrating on my fishing was im- a meditative state that dispelled my recent paired by growing concern. There were concerns. primitive cell phones at the time, and even I stopped for lunch. At first I reflected
Winter steals
girl’s volleyball team wins fourth at provincials in Vernon Dec. 3-5, a nice climb from 10th place last year. Their biggest victory of the volleyball weekend is upsetting the first place ‘AAA’ team from last year, Duchess Park.
on my approach. The water I had just fished had always held fish in the past. Was my General Practitioner too high in the water column to provoke a look? Could I fish a less complicated pattern deeper without hanging up? I sipped tea and looked downstream. There was no sign of Terry. Once again worry began to pollute my thoughts. I swept it aside with the knowledge that it was still only one-thirty in the afternoon. I screwed the cup on the thermos bottle, secured the lid on the lunch container, slipped it in my vest pocket, then retraced my way upstream in the path I’d impressed in the knee high snow, attached a sparse fly and started at the head of the run once more. As the light seeped out of the day the annoying worry returned, stealing my enjoyment in fishing. I gave up fishing at the end of the run downstream of where I’d begun in favour of staring down river for a hint of Terry. When it was awfully dark, I saw him moving upriver, crossing, dragging the canoe and crossing again until, when the last of the light was barely reflected in the snow, he rejoined me. We crossed. Terry shackled the boat to a tree. As we walked out over the snow fields lit up by the moon, he told me about the two steelhead he’d landed. I didn’t tell him that I was worried. There being no point at that point.
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Comparing two offers shows differences At the same time, Thomas sympathizes with Coast to Coast and ROI’s challenges getting the project off the ground. Having seen hundreds of housing construction projects through, he says that all the risk is on the front end in securing the financing and getting all the ducks in a row. “I have every sympathy with the Coast-toCoast people that they tried hard to win the site, they put in twice as much cash up front as we did, got it, paid the cash, good for them, good for the city, and now they are stuck with it having to realize the front end,” he said. And despite the fact that Terra is a housing developer with decades of experience in various for-profit and not-for-profit housing projects, he said there is no guarantee that a Terrace project would have taken off. “It’s too speculative to say, you know,” he mused. “At the very early stages, your chances of having an assumption come unglued are higher.” As for the bylaw that sets out the affordable housing component of the Coast-to-Coast deal, the city set a certain guideline for who could acquire an apartment. An eligible tenant meant “a family having a cumulative annual income that does not exceed four times the aggregate annual permitted rent for the applicable affordable rental unit.” Under the bylaw rules, prospective tenants of 20 per cent of the affordable units would be able to apply, but must show proof of their income. As for the potential 12 units that Terra would have supplied through a partner notfor-profit, Thomas says the details of how the units would be priced wasn’t finalized, but that BC Housing guidelines would have dictated them, based on Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation data. Thomas said Coast to Coast’s promise of housing 20 per cent below market value sounds like a good value for affordable hous-
ing. But BC Housing guidelines show they are slightly stricter about the maximum earnings of a family,
saying that “Affordable rent is defined as costing no more than 30 per cent of a household’s total gross monthly income,” whereas in the
ROI agreement it’s a 25 per cent ceiling. The city moved quickly at the end of last year to put $500,000 of the new money into a
new affordable housing fund, which it wants to use for future housing project partnerships. Thomas said that times have changed
and that partnerships with BC Housing are now the most common method. “It used to be that there were these huge
government programs, federal programs, provincial programs that were very reliable, he said of past programs for social housing.
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Rescue skills advanced TERRACE SEARCH and Rescue (SAR) team members took an opportunity to bone up on their avalanche rescue skills using avalanche beacons and the RECCO System. The RECCO Rescue System is used by more than 700 ski areas and SAR teams and it has two parts: it has a reflector, also called a chip, and special detector, said search and rescue president Dwayne Sheppard. The one used by the local team is owned by My Mountain Co-op, he added. Manufacturers attach a small Band-Aid-sized reflector into clothing, boots, helmets. It is a passive device and does not require batteries or any user attention. A special detector transmits a signal that is reflected back to it. The system is analogous to submarine sonar— the detector sends a signal that bounces off the reflector and is received by the detector, he said. “The RECCO detector is a worthy addition to the professional’s search arsenal, but it is not in-
tended to replace avalanche transceivers,” said Sheppard. “Even more so than avalanche transceivers, becoming proficient with a RECCO detector requires practice.” The RECCO system can sometimes detect other electronic devices, such as a cell phone or two-way radio, at distances up to 200 metres. “We have occasionally picked up a signal from electronic devices when training with a RECCO detector. Newer RECCO detectors also receive the 457 kHz signal from avalanche transceivers, but without displaying direction or distance indicators,” said Sheppard. “That’s still very helpful for a professional rescuer, because one rescuer can search for an avalanche transceiver and RECCO reflector simultaneously,” said Sheppard. Local SAR has an older system and is working on getting a newer one donated by the manufacturer, he added.
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TERRACE SEARCH and Rescue practise their avalanche rescue skills at Shames Mountain late last month.
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