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Local pipelines key to refinery TWO PIPELINES, both of which would have to traverse the Skeena River west of Terrace in some fashion, surface in a multi-billion petroleum refinery proposal released last week. The pipelines, one for gasoline and the other for diesel, would extend 120 kilometres from the proposed Pacific Future Energy Corporation refinery location on the Dubose Flats between Terrace and Kitimat north to an undefined marine export terminal location on the Portland Inlet on the coast north of Prince Rupert. “Early third-party studies suggest a marine terminal could be situated along the Portland Inlet, in the event such a development were to secure the support of a host First Nation,” indicates a project description submitted to federal and provincial
regulators. “If such a marine terminal were to be developed, we anticipate that two (one for gasoline and one for diesel) short (120 km) pipelines, developed in partnership with First Nations along the route, could be built to support the marine terminal’s operations,” the project description reads. Pacific Future official Don MacLachlan, speaking last week, was confident a river crossing could be accomplished. “New techniques for putting a pipeline under rivers and lakes are proven,” said MacLachlan in emailed comments. Should Pacific Future be successful in its $15 billion refinery plan and should those pipelines be constructed, the company anticipates Panamax-size ships being
used to transport gasoline and diesel to overseas markets. This term refers to the size limit for cargo ships passing through the Panama Canal with a maximum length of 950 feet, a width of 106 feet and 189 feet in height, according to online specs. The potential Portland Inlet export terminal location stands in contrast to other planned petroleum product ones which instead feature Kitimat as the location for loading tankers. In particular, Enbridge’s Northern Gateway plan to export crude oil from a Kitimat terminal has been criticized by those who are not convinced tanker traffic would be viable coming up and then leaving that area via the Douglas Channel.
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Land clear to develop By JOSH MASSEY
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■■ A winning situation THE ATOM development program took advantage of the old-timers tournament on Jan.16 to sell raffle tickets in support of their bid to send a team down to a tournament in Richmond. That’s Aidan Korving, Mark Pietralla and Linden Anderson selling raffle tickets at the Terrace Sportsplex. The winner will take home a new ATV at a draw held March. 5. The tournament they are vying to enter is on March 12-15.
CITY PLANS to sell off land it owns are moving forward, thanks to information council has received from a consulting company. One parcel, 2.79 acres along Greig Ave., on what was once the site of a Terrace Co-op shopping centre, could soon receive a clean environmental bill of health from the province, council learned in a report from Golder and Associates and released Jan. 11. That parcel has been under option to a Calgary hotel developer, Superior Lodging, since 2013, but the sale has been held up over worries about contamination potentially spread from a gasbar which was part of the Co-op complex but separated from the larger parcel wanted by Superior Lodging. Drilling and sampling of soil from the gasbar location which is on the corner of Kalum and Greig (the easternmost edge of the Co-op lands) has found contamination to be minimal and to have had no impact on the parcel optioned by Superior, Golder in-
dicated. “They are confident that they have found the line where they can delineate where the contamination is,” city economic development manager Danielle Myles told council of the Golder work at a meeting Jan. 11. “They will be proceeding to the ministry of the environment to request a release so we can subdivide the property and complete the sale with Superior.” But because the earth shifts and changes with the seasons, the city might have to pay more money to update the study in the spring, she cautioned, though the amount is expected to be small compared to what has been spent so far. The news of low contamination was greeted with optimism by councillor Brian Downie. “It’s good news,” he said. The total cost of that investigation was approximately $138,000 but half was paid for by a Federation for Canadian Municipalities grant.
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Open space
Ban for fluoride
Fresh powder
Local cancer society relocates for more space, better access \COMMUNITY A8
Local man collects signitures to petition city with health concerns \NEWS A23
Two Shames skiers hit Red Mountain slopes in national championship \SPORTS A21
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NEWS
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Top Mountie hanging up his spurs By MARGARET SPEIRS TERRACE RCMP Inspector Dana Hart is happy to retire from a detachment he is now proud of. “I’m quite pleased that the detachment I’m handing over command of is vastly different than the one I arrived at,” said Hart who took over command here in 2011. He recalls his first years here where he had issues to deal with such as officer conduct and performance that led to three officers disciplined for steroids and one for allegedly assaulting two men in custody.
“I wasn’t anticipating that when I got here,” Hart said, adding he wished those events had not happened as it was not something he would want anybody to go through and was something he had never experienced previously. “At the end of the day, the community has expectations of the police service [acting] with integrity and honesty and I’m very proud of the police detachment we have today.” Hart is very proud of the engagement between the community and the detachment whether it is Riverboat Days or the Kids ‘n’ Cops Camp, of which he said Const. Angela
Rabut, the detachment’s community relations officer, “has done an outstanding job.” Hart also instituted daily press releases, saying they’ve been an important way for “the community to know what the police service is up to and what happens in the community. The detachment has formed some great relationships with local agencies such as ones providing mental health services. “It’s a nice thing that the number of agencies and groups and city council want to work together,” said Hart. “It’s nice when you’re involved in positive thing and things go
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Hart remains hopeful someone will come forward with information and aid police. He also anticipates a conclusion of a homicide here in 2013. “I’m quite confident we’ll have a successful conclusion on that one too,” he said, referring to the case. It stands out in his mind because it is the only homicide during his time here that is still under investigation. Two specific officerinvolved incidents did happen during Hart’s time here. An officer was disciplined after a video surfaced of him striking a handcuffed male in 2014.
Insp. Dana Hart well. It’s very rewarding.” As for regrets, he said there are always cases you wish you could’ve concluded, citing two local women still missing along Hwy 16.
Another officer still has to face a hearing from two 2012 incidents. One of those involved a man suffering injuries while in RCMP cells. Often police officers who retire will start another job but Hart is not planning on that, at least not yet. “Right now, retirement and I’ll sort of look at the different options,” he says, adding he loves to play hockey and loves the outdoors. Hart’s spouse, Sgt. Pam Hart, who was in charge of the area’s traffic services section commonly known as the highway patrol, retired earlier. Hart’s four and a half
years of service, ending a career of nearly 30 years, was recognized by Terrace city council Jan. 11. Assignments over those years included working on the protection details of Prime Ministers Jean Chretien and Stephen Harper. Hart was awarded a Commissioner’s Commendation for Bravery and holds a RCMP Long Service medal and Bronze Clasp. He was named executive of the year by the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce in 2014. A search for a replacement is underway. Staff Sergeant Syd Lecky is in temporary command.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2016 Terrace Standard
Low income students will not be excluded THE COAST Mountains School District is developing a policy to help students with financial limitations to take part in its education programs. The proposed policy states “no student of school age will be denied an educational program due to financial hardship [or] denied the opportunity to participate in a course, specialty academy, trades program, and/ or activity associated with a course, specialty academy, or trades program, in which they are enrolled because of financial hardship.” School district secretary treasurer Alanna Cameron says some of those programs include trades training and a hockey academy students enroll in
while at school. School principals are responsible to ensure students are not denied access to these things, and that situations are handled confidentially and respectfully. Parents need to talk to principals or formally apply for assistance, which could include deferred payment, payment over time, partial waiver or full waiver of fees. The school district provides money for the assistance. The board is still going through a process of approval, receiving comments from interested parties. Cameron says March is the earliest it will be in effect due to the time required to seek public response.
oast Mountains Board of Education JOSH MASSEY PHOTO
THE CITY of Terrace is looking forward to closing the deal to sell land along Greig Ave. to a Calgary developer once it receives a clean environmental bill of health.
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City cleans up its act Superior Lodging’s option would have it pay the city $877,000 for the Greig Ave. parcel. At the time of the option Superior said it was contemplating a 90-room hotel with a number of amenities. But since then, construction has started on three other hotels – two in Terrace and one in Thornhill – of a similar size. Aside from the Superior option, the city did succeed in selling another, smaller lot on the westernmost portion of the former Co-op property to the local Skeena Brewing Company which so far has not advanced on its plans to build a kraft brewery there. The city has also decided to move forward with a plan to seek environmental clearance for three parcels of city-owned land west of Kenney St. on the Southside and bounded generally by Keith Ave. and the CN tracks. Golder has told council it would cost a maximum $300,000 for the clean up. This area was once a log yard for a now-dismantled sawmill complex on the other side of Kenney stretching east toward the Sande Overpass. The area forms the core of the city’s Keith Estates plan which would convert the property into a mixed use area of residences and commercial enterprises. Cleaning up the land is the first step toward realizing the city’s plan. One parcel is located at 5014 Keith Ave. and is one acre and the second is at 5020 Keith Ave. and is just under 10 acres. The third is 3111 Kenney St. and is 4.4 acres. This parcel is immediately adjacent to the one on the corner of Kenney and Keith which was sold in 2014 to the company owning the local Chrysler and Toyota dealerships for $1 million. Councillor Stacey Tyers said the cost of the clean up of the three parcels would come from the revenue received from the sale to the Chrysler/Toyota dealerships. “We are in the process of having the existing environmental assessments for the property reviewed and a report prepared outlining the remaining scope of work and a cost estimate for what needs to be done to achieve a Certificate of Compliance on the properties,” said a statement from the city. “Once we have that information we will put out a Request for Proposals for the remediation work.” The city purchased the former Terrace Co-op property in 2005 for $1 million from a private company which had originally purchased the property
from the Co-op after it closed its shopping centre in 1998. It acquired the log yard along Keith Ave. following the closure of the Skeena Cellulose/Terrace Lumber Company sawmill in 2006.
School District 82
SCHOOL TRUSTEE BY-ELECTION RESULTS The following candidate for the 2015-2016 By-Election for Trustee Electoral Area 3 (Thornhill) for Coast Mountains Board of Education School District 82 was officially declared elected by Cathy Jackson, Chief Election Officer on January 11, 2016, having received the highest number of valid votes for the office:
Trustee Electoral Area 3 (Thornhill) - Sandy Watson A brief public ceremony will be held on Wednesday, January 27 at 11:30 a.m. to swear-in Sandy Watson as Trustee for Electoral Area 3 (Thornhill). The ceremony will be held at the Coast Mountains Board of Education Office. Everyone is welcome. Next Regular Board of Education Meeting Wednesday, January 27, 5:00 p.m. Board of Education Office (Terrace) 3211 Kenney Street, Terrace, B.C. V8G 3E9 Tel. (250) 635-4931 or 1-855-635-4931 Local 4401 . Fax 1-888-290-4786 . www.cmsd.bc.ca
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Terrace Standard Wednesday, January 20, 2016
NEWS
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Permits nudge $52M
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LITTLE HAS transpired on a plan to build housing on land purchased from the City of Terrace.
Barren ground Affordable housing plan missed crucial detail
By BRUCE BIDGOOD THIS IS a follow-up to a series of recent articles in The Terrace Standard (on-line and in print) about the sale by the City of Terrace of its property at Kenney and Park to Coast to Coast holdings and the purchaser’s lack of subsequent development including. The purpose of this letter is not to debate the likelihood of new units in the future but rather to examine how the City proceeded with the sale of the property so that we may learn to increase the likelihood that future strategic land transactions will actually translate into the housing desired by our elected leaders. First, this is not an attack on our city council. There are some who will immediately dismiss the analysis of an unsuccessful mayoral candidate as nothing more than “sour grapes”. Let me be clear, I was as much responsible for this unproductive land transaction as any current member of council. In fact, both Dave Pernarowski and I were at the council table when the decisions were made. It also follows that those first-time councillors elected in 2014 (Michael Prevost and Sean Bujtas) are blameless in what I have come to view as a botched land development opportunity and the single most disappointing experience in my two terms as a city councillor.
Why a botched land development? The goal of council was clear – to get some affordable housing built immediately to address a housing crisis which even saw notoriously pro-free market advocate Dave Pernarowski petition rental owners not to be too greedy in their demands. To date, six very expensive town house units have been constructed on this site with no affordable housing residences built and no concrete plans for construction on the horizon. The proponent’s promise of 105 units of housing including 22 affordable units remains unfulfilled. The developers appear to want to sit on the property until the market suits their profit ambitions. Low income residents who would have occupied the promised 22 affordable housing units are still homeless. What went wrong? Put simply, council failed to insist on a timeline for development as a condition of sale. This can be done. The former City of Terrace lands manager insisted that such a clause be included in the sale of the airport industrial lands to Qinhuangdao, China. If the purchaser fails to acquire development permits by an agreed upon date, the city has the right to purchase the land back at the original price regardless of market value. This could have also been done with the Park and Kenney property.
Perhaps the offer of twice the asking price (an eventual purchase price of $950,000 versus an appraisal value of $450,000) had us all seeing stars. We did after all create a new half million dollar affordable housing fund with the surplus. Maybe we thought our desire for immediate affordable housing was explicitly clear to administration who would ensure that a development time frame was included in any legal agreement drawn up. Regardless of the reason, we didn’t insist on a timeline clause to get the affordable housing job done. Should we have known? Quite frankly, council just never imagined that someone would pay nearly $1 million for a property in Terrace and then sit on it without developing the site. We should, however, have learned from past about the necessity of an enforceable timeline. When the city bought the Co-op property along Greig Ave. in 2005, council knew that it was acquiring land which was at least partially contaminated. Clearly the seller was responsible for remediating this contamination and this responsibility was included in the sales agreement. Unfortunately, no concrete time line for this remediation was adopted. So now, the seller continues with minimal remediation over decades and the contamination remains.
This is, at least in part, the reason why the property is still vacant to this day. Councillors from the day, including the current mayor, should have learned from this lesson. You need to get a time line for development/remediation for all strategic land dealings. Could this have been prevented? Yes, there were things we could have done differently at a number of key points in the process. First, the administration could have provided council with information not only on price and number of units but also on proposed development time lines. This would have permitted council the option to choose a bid for less money that provided guaranteed development dates. That would have been strategic decision making. Second, council believed that our desire for immediate housing was understood. We could have made this explicit to administration with instructions to include a development clause in the sales agreement. We missed an opportunity for visionary leadership to anticipate changes in the development market. Finally, the Mayor who reviews and signs the final agreement could have refused to sign the document until it reflected not only the word but the spirit of council’s desire for immediate housing development. This was an opportunity missed for governance and procedural leadership.
What should we learn? We all need to learn some lessons from this fumbled land deal and other mishandled land transactions from the past like the purchase of the Coop property. First, city administrators must routinely provide counsel to mayor and council about the latest legal vehicles for ensuring timely development before final land deal decisions are made. Second, councillors must demonstrate due diligence by insisting that provisions for timely development be included in all strategic city land dealings. Third, you, the voters need to hold local elected officials accountable by insisting they answer three key questions: 1) Why this land purchase/sale (what is council trying to accomplish?) 2) How much (Is the value paid/received for land a fair market value) and finally, 3) When will the development happen. Don’t just get the deal signed. Get it dated! Bruce Bidgood was a twoterm City of Terrace councillor from 2008 to 2014 and ran unsuccessfully for the position of mayor in 2014. The Terrace Standard articles “Housing efforts stymies city, says Terrace mayor” (June 22, 2015), “Councillor confident in land deal” (Jan. 4, 2016), and “Housing development for Terrace remains in limbo” (Jan. 7, 2016) can be found with the online version of this article at www. terracestandard.com.
A COMMERCIAL renovation permit in December 2015 helped cap a year in which City of Terrace building permit values came just shy of $52 million. The permit carried a value of $459,000 for work at the building at 4545 Lazelle Ave. now owned by the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine and which occupies one of its floors. It pushed the city building permit value to $51.926 million, one of the highest values in years. In 2014, the city recorded $42.251 million in building permit values. City permit totals indicate 26 permits for new residences were issued for a combined value of $6.28 million. Three multi residential permits were issued for a combined value of $2.54 million while four duplex permits were issued for a combined value of $1.516 million. Nineteen commercial renovation permits were also issued at a value of $2.907 million. Homeowners were also busy on residential projects with 45 permits issued for a combined value of $901,000. The city also issued nine mobile home permits worth a combined $971,000. But it was new commercial construction which topped all values with five permits issued worth $17.241 million. And within that category, the Sunshine Inn and Suites project adjacent to city hall had the highest total with a value of $14.476 million for construction and a separate foundation permit of $565,000. Other significant commercial construction projects included a Bandstra Transportation warehouse, the Great Canadian Oil Exchange building and the expansion of Park Ave. Optometry. The nod for the permit carrying the highest value goes to the Northwest Regional Airport expansion project which fell within the institution renovation category. It was worth $15.709 million for several years of work.
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Windrows CITY administrations over the years have regularly pooh-poohed the idea of clearing those snow windrows left at the foot of driveways after a street has been plowed. Too expensive. Too impractical. The city does, however, provide an annual maximum subsidy of $250 for those over the age of 65 or for those with a physical disability who hire a contractor. For the rest of the population, suck it up. Things are different in Quesnel. There city crews do clear windrows for residents but with conditions. The snowfall has to first exceed four inches and, according to the Quesnel policy, “it is the responsibility of the homeowner to mark any obstructions that may be damaged by backhoes clearing the driveway entrance” using brightly coloured stakes as markers and which are supplied by the City of Quesnel. Quesnel officials place the cost of this service at $55,000 each winter. Quesnel’s population is slightly less than Terrace’s. It’s also in a different climatic zone with a drier snow and, on average, its snowfall is about half of what falls here. And that means what happens in Quesnel may not be easily or quickly compared to any similar service here. But the duty of a government is to provide services to as many of its taxpayers as reasonably possible. An enterprising city council, on behalf of its taxpayers, should at least ask the question of its administrators for all to consider.
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CLAUDETTE SANDECKI held each November. Now the term is four years. Even those seven seats are sometimes filled by acclamation. But a mid-winter byelection! In January! The competition for a lone seat could be unpredictable, to say the least. Not satisfied conjuring possible voting snafus, I searched afield. Are poll staff medically screened before they are hired, especially for narcolepsy? Can their heart and blood pressure be expected to withstand the excitement, the unrelenting pressure of voters as impatient to stuff their ballot into the box as Black Friday customers to
wedge a 58 inch flat screen TV into their SUV? Recalling a time I served as scrutineer in an unheated school gym, do they own a thermos and ski duds to keep them warm for 12 hours?” The morning of the vote I woke early with a knot in my stomach, as if I had preprogrammed it along with the coffeemaker the night before. I scanned the horizon for weather signs, and was relieved no snow had fallen overnight necessitating shovelling to drive out of my driveway. The street was as clear as before. Fortified by a breakfast of oatmeal, blueberries, and two cups of coffee, I drove off at 10:15 aiming to arrive following the tsunami of early voters, but before the noontime rush, mindful when I voted near lunchtime in the advance poll for the October federal election a polling station attendant had to herd us into straggly alphabetical lines, each line extending well back into the tiny room. Suppose the queues of waiting voters this time turned out to be equally long and cramped? Driving into the polling
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The Mail Bag Why call him God?
Emissions appeal lacking Dear Sir: On December 23, 2015 the provincial Environmental Appeal Board quietly released its decision in relation to the appeal of Rio Tinto Alcan’s pollution permit for a near doubling of S02 emissions into the Kitimat/Terrace air shed connected to the modernization of its Kitimat aluminum smelter. The board dismissed the appeal and found in favour of Rio Tinto which had gone to great lengths to build a case touting taller smoke stacks, air dispersion modeling, and a lack of hard proof that expected ambient levels of S02 would do much more than cause a few extra cases of asthma. I, along with everyone else living in this air corridor have a stake in this. I understand the epidemiology of the health effects of S02, and I have an insider’s insight into a process that is weighted heavily in favour of wouldbe polluters, especially those with deep corporate pockets. What a disappointing, if not surprising, decision by the appeal board. Reading through the board’s reasoning it becomes clear that they speak and understand the same language as Rio Tinto Alcan. They too believe that the onus should be on people to prove harm rather than on the company to prove safety.
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Dear Sir: Even though it is tempting to vigorously respond to Irwin Jeffrey`s Dec. 30, 2015 explanation of God`s existence, but apparent absence, over all these countless centuries of pain as “He reveals in concealing” (darkly hilarious), and “the problem of evil logically entails His existence” (absurd), it might be more constructive to respond in kind, with additional humor. As for expecting atheists to disprove God’s existence: you can’t disprove a negative. You cannot prove that the universe was not created at 8 p.m. last Thursday, complete with fossils, old newspapers, and all of your own memories intact. I defy you to prove that there isn’t a tiny porcelain teapot orbiting the planet Saturn, that it governs all our activities, and that it deserves our reverence. Can’t prove there isn’t one? “Well, then,” says Mr. Jeffrey’s logic, “there must be a teapot, and those who don’t believe it are fools!” Extraordinary claims (e.g. there is a supernatural God) require extraordinary evidence, and the burden of proof is on the one who makes the claim, not on the ones who doubt it. As for atheism as a “faith,” atheists are not “avowed” as Mr. Jeffrey says. Someone’s not an atheist because they pretend to know there is no God; they’re an atheist because they don’t pretend to know that there is one. Faith is not a virtue. You need faith to believe something that is probably not true. There have been about 2,500 gods that humans used to believe in before science started being able to explain things like earthquakes and lightning, and most people are now atheistic with regard to those gods. The people you call atheists simply go one god further.
EMISSIONS STACK at modernized Rio Tinto Alcan aluminum smelter in Kitimat.
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Power play at the core of oil price drop
n my last column we took a look at what had – or had not – happened during 2015 in terms of the proposed northwest B.C. LNG industry. This time we’re polishing up the crystal ball to see what the next 12 months might have in store. Any analysis of LNG’s prospects in our backyard has to start with oil since LNG prices have traditionally been linked to those of the black gold. On March 13, 2012 the price of Brent (North Sea) oil, the international bench mark, shot up to US$126.16 per barrel. It was of course a blip but on either side of that spike the price stayed steady at around $110: on June 17, 2014 the price was $113.30. Then the roof caved in and as I write this the Brent price has free fallen by more than two-thirds to only $33.50 per barrel. So what happened to cause this and what are the prospects of a turnaround? The answer to the first ques-
tion is as simple as it is complicated – the available supply of oil has soared as a result of the technological breakthrough (fracking) that has unlocked huge amounts of shale oil in the United States and resulted in an over supply. In years past when the price of oil slipped, Saudi Arabia and its OPEC partners would simply reduce production in order to force it back up. Not this time. The Saudis declared their priority is to maintain global market share so they kept pumping out the oil regardless of the ever diminishing revenue they were getting for the product: a half a loaf is better than none strategy. Of course there was another strategy at work: drive the price of oil so low that higher cost US producers would be losing money on every barrel they produced at such a rate that they would be forced to either cut back on production or risk going under. Make no mistake, this strategy is costing Saudi Arabia a pretty
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MALCOLM BAXTER penny. Faced with record budget deficits as a result of those declining revenues and its very generous “social contract” commitments to the populace, it has dipped into its foreign currency reserves to the tune of more than $100 billion to keep the financial ship of state on an even keel. True it still has more than $600 billion in those reserves, but the Saudis have clearly rec-
ognized they can’t keep draining them at this pace. Hence the recent decision to jack up domestic Saudi gasoline prices by 50 per cent and talk that they could go so far as to introduce new taxes and even borrow money via the international bond market. But as painful as these consequences of cheap oil may be for Saudi Arabia, the impact on US oil producers is shaping up to be agonizing, especially since the Saudis have indicated they will not change course before the next OPEC meeting in June. The Houston Chronicle reported that 70,000 jobs in the US oil industry have already disappeared, unemployment in Houston has risen to 4.9 per cent and drilling in the shale oil plays of Texas and North Dakota has fallen to levels not seen for 16 years. David Zimmerman of Taltra Capital Management, a company that specializes in “restructuring”, estimates that this year at least one in five small-to-medium US oil companies are going to go through significant downsizing at
best, bankruptcy at worst. In other words the Saudi strategy has started bearing fruit. So what is the outlook for LNG in these turbulent times? That will have to wait for next time. FOOT NOTE: The oil world was supposed to look very different today from the one we are actually experiencing. In 1956 Dr. M. King Hubbert, an oil geologist working for Shell, made attendees at an American Petroleum Institute meeting sit up and take notice with his forecast for the future of US oil. He warned that production in Texas and the Lower 48 states would peak sometime between 1965 and 1971 and that world production would start declining by 2006. Based on what was known at the time, that wasn’t necessarily a crazy forecast. But events since have shown it is dangerous to predict too far into the future given technological advances can change the rules dramatically. msdbax@citywest.ca
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Angels’ first year triumphs
AFTER A successful and busy first year, a local charity keeps working to provide money to those who need medical travel and equipment. Kimmunity Angels Society, whose mission is to help with quality of life for seriously ill individuals and their families with financial assistance for medical treatment, medical expenses and equipment or supplies, became a registered charity, a highlight because that began its handing out of tax receipts to donors. “When people are ill, the stress of finances is not something they should need to worry about, they should be able to focus on healing and doing what it is they need to do to get to their appointments etc,” said Donna Slavik, president and founder of Kimmunity Angels Society. “[The] Community has contributed a great deal, including their time and money. Donations and successful fundraising events allow us to honour our mission and continue to provide much needed help to people dealing with serious illness.” The money its raised has gone to help with travel to BC Cancer Lodges in Prince George, Kelowna and Vancouver; covered medication costs, assisted with MSP payments, dental, naturopathic visits. It’s also provided a wheelchair, walker, cane, toileting equipment for post-surgery at a cost of nearly $5,500. Costs to a cancer lodge add up quickly because it includes accommodations, food, flights, gas or bus travel, plus there’s expenses for nausea, pain or inflammation medications. “These costs add up quickly depending on the length of chemo or radiation treatment,” said Donna Slavik, president and founder of Kimmunity Angels Society. The cancer lodge is a $53 a night stay, which includes food, however, if a patient needs to stay for six weeks of chemo or radiation, which is not uncommon, it is $2,226 for accommodation and food before travel costs or anything else. Kimmunity Angels is now set up for memberships for a small fee, which gives members discounts on events, plus the chance to help the community. The society’s long-term goal is to expand to Kitimat, Prince Rupert and Smithers and maybe even go province-wide or nationwide, said Slavik. “It’s good to have goals and to set them high,” she said. The first fundraiser for the year for Kimmunity Angels Society is a comedy show with Ian Bagg and three other comedians. Bagg is still a huge community supporter even thought he has a busy schedule and with all his career success, including being in the top 5 of Last Comic Standing. This fundraiser for the society is January 26. For more, see City Scene on page 9.
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AMANDA BERRY, annual giving coordinator for the local cancer society branch, sits in the new office with several volunteers. The furniture was donated and managed to fit in the space perfectly with a bit of room to spare.
Local cancer society’s new office gives more space, better access THE LOCAL cancer society office starts the new year in a new space with new furniture and improved access. Amanda Berry, annual giving coordinator for Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert, says the move from the office it was sharing with the hospice society in the former Terrace and District Credit Union building to the Tourist Information Building is all finished. “We were wanting to find somewhere with a little bit more visibility just so that people are able to reach us faster when they’re facing a recent cancer diagnosis,” she said.
“We have the opportunity for better signage and good parking access at the new building so that was a big reason and a little bit more space for volunteers.” There was a concern about everything fitting in the new space after the society received new furniture. “When they sent me pictures of what they wanted to donate, we were right down to the 11th hour before moving into the new office. It was beautiful and I thought ‘there’s no way it’s going to fit in our office’ and I brought a measuring tape down and it all squeezed in there with two inches between desks,” said Berry.
The furniture she’s referring to came from Rio Tinto Alcan, who was closing down its training facility at that time, so it donated a full suite of nearly new furniture, said Berry. Totem Furniture also donated a big desk for use in the wig dressing area, she added. And there is an upcoming open house planned to thank all those involved. The Terrace office of the Canadian Cancer Society, BC and Yukon Division, holds its open house from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Jan. 26 at its new location at the Tourist Information Centre on Keith Ave.
Bat winter behaviour research expands even further north A STUDY to learn about bat behaviour in winter to understand how a deadly fungus affects them expands this winter to new locations. The study is to provide data on normal bat behaviour in winter so scientists have this information in case White Nose Syndrome, a deadly parasitic fungus that grows on bats during hibernation and
has killed millions of bats in the last decade, comes here. It will help scientists know whether bats are behaving normally or have been affected by the disease, which changes their winter behaviour. The study began in 2009 in the Kootenays and has expanded around the province, with monitors being installed in Terrace and the Nass Val-
ley for the first time last winter and expanding more this winter into Dease Lake, Telegraph Creek and Fraser Lake. Equipment there has already picked up at least two or maybe three species of bats to the delight Cori Lausen, associate conservation scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada, who visited Dease Lake earlier this winter.
It’s hoped that equipment here will do better than last year by moving it. Last winter, monitoring equipment on Ferry Island was removed due to the wind, said Norma Kerby, local biologist. “The sensors picked up the noise of the wind, making it very difficult to monitor for bats,” she said.
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KEN ADAIR with the bat monitoring equipment at the Ferry Island site last winter.
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New locations for bat monitors While the site proved to be too windy for meaningful results with the equipment, researchers did get good bat recordings up to the beginning of November, she said. The equipment was moved to the north end of Lakelse Lake this fall where it’s
now monitoring bat activity, she added. Open water around Blackwater Creek and Williams Creek along with large old growth trees means researchers have a good chance of obtaining good data, said Kerby.
Nass Valley monitoring was very successful last winter and will continue in the same locations, she added. Volunteers monitoring the bats there have a bat colony living on the third floor of their house, said Kerby.
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Clubs/pubs
■■ 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 on Sun. 1 p.m. and Wed. 7 p.m. Thurs. game night, DJ and open to 2 a.m. On Fri./Sat. is live entertainment. Karaoke Thurs./Sun. 8:30 p.m. Shuttle weekends. ■■ MT. LAYTON LOUNGE: Open daily 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Free pool. Located at Mt. Layton Hotsprings just off Hwy37 South between Terrace and Kitimat.
Art
■■ THE TERRACE ART is proud to showcase its gallery gift shop artists for the month of January. The art gallery is open Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays noon to 4 p.m., Fridays noon to 6 p.m. and Sundays 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. It is located in the basement of the public library. ■■ ARTNEST MESSY MONDAY workshops are back. The next 10-week session has begun with artist and instruc-
tor Cara Purita: preschool 1:30-2:30 p.m.; ages five to seven at 3:15-4:15 p.m.; ages eight to 10 at 4:45-5:45 p.m. Or join Cara for Teen and Adult Acrylic Lessons for Beginners at 6:45-7:45 p.m. There is a cost for kids’ sessions and adult/teen’ sessions. Note: no class Feb. 15 which is Family Day.
Jan. 23 at the REM Lee. These extremely inventive physical comedy duo leaves no funny bone untickled in this fast paced spoof to the horror genre. Tickets on sale at Terrace Sportsplex, Neid Enterprises and from the U16 Terrace Rage Team. Proceeds support Northwest Club Volleyball. peterNchris.com.
■■ RUMMAGE SALE AT the art gallery from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 22 and 23. Come down to drop off your unused items. Anything in good order is welcome except clothing. All items purchased by donation. All proceeds to gallery operations.
■■ IAN BAGG AND special guests Matthew 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 in Terrace and area. Tickets on sale at Misty River Books. For more details, contact Donna 250-641-3044 or give@kimmunityangelssociety.ca.
Music
■■ CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC group Le Vent du Nord plays its original and traditional Quebecois music with opening performance by The Copper Mountain String Band at 7 p.m. Jan. 28 at the REM Lee Theatre. Advance tickets on sale at Misty River Books and Ecole Jack Cook. Tickets on sale at the door for a bit more.
Comedy
■■ 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.
Fundraiser
■■ THE RACKET DANCE features high energy original band The Racket at 8 p.m. Jan. 23 at Elks Hall. Dance to their heavy ‘n’ steady rock ‘n’ roll fight ‘n’ funky grooves. A fundraiser for North West Watch with proceeds going to protect the Skeena Watershed. Presented by North West Watch. Tickets at Misty River Books. For more details, contact Nancy at 250-638-8393 or lee3nan@yahoo.com.
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COMMUNITY EVENTS JANUARY 26 – Canadian Cancer Society Terrace Community Office open house welcomes everyone from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at 4511 Keith Ave. (just above the Tourism Info Centre). Please join us to celebrate the opening of our new location! The community office provides support and resources to those facing cancer. Volunteers are in the office Monday to Friday noon to 2 p.m. For more details, contact 250-638-8583 or terrace@bc.cancer.ca. JANUARY 26 – Kermode Friendship Society Babyhouse meet and greet at 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. at 3240 Kalum St. (beside the Salvation Army). Come meet staff, learn about programs and tour the building. Babyhouse hosts programs for families with children from 0-6 years of age and upstairs is the Circle of Life program that supports women attaining their goals. For more details, contact Jenn at 250635-4906 or jdolen@kermode-fs.ca.january 27 – Parents of Children Who have Autism Support Group meets from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in the library community room. Parents of children with autism spectrum disorders or others interested in learning about autism are invited to attend. Guest speakers and information sharing. for more details, call Rebecca 250-635-9192. JANUARY 30 – Family Literacy Day will be celebrated from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cassie Hall School. Displays, activities, entertainment, and free food. FEBRUARY 5 – Diabetes Awareness Workshop is from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 3313 Kalum St., at Kermode Friendship Society’s main building beside Copperside foods. Join us for a day of knowledge with our elders and local health professionals to increase your awareness for health promotion, prevention and complications associated with diabetes. Learn about culturally appropriate food and activities. Lunch provided and a traditional foods cookbook is gifted. FEBRUARY 6 – Pancake Breakfast is from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Happy Gang Centre. There is a cost for the meal.
PSAS YOU ARE INVITED to a group discussion Noticing God: in mystical encounters, the ordinary, the still small voice, community and creation from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sundays Feb. 14 to April 10. This eight session discussion group will provide an opportunity to explore ways in which one can notice God’s presence and activity. The book Noticing God by Richard Peace will serve as a resource. Discussion facilitated by Charles Claus, an ordained Vineyard pastor with more than 25 years of
ministry experience. For more or to register call 250-638-8996 or email charles.claus@gmail. com. STORYTIME AT THE Terrace Public Library: Classes begin the week of Jan. 17 and run for six weeks. “Babytime” (birth-12 months), Tues 1-1:30; “Toddler 2’s” (13 months-2+ yrs), Tues 10-10:45; and “Preschool Storytime” (35yrs), Wed 10-11. Register at the front desk or by calling the library at 250-638-8177. These classes include rhymes, games, books and puppets to engage little people in fun early literacy teachings. Have your grown up register you today! SNOW ANGELS ARE back! And more are needed! Are you looking for a very gratifying community volunteer opportunity? If you are not afraid of the cold and would enjoy some morning exercise this winter, this is a great opportunity for you! We welcome families, students and businesses alike! The Snow Angels Program is part of the Helping Handyman Program – we need volunteers to faithfully shovel a safe path to the street throughout the winter season. This service is available to seniors 65 years and older and persons with physical disabilities. For more information, contact 250-638-1330 or on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/ volunteer.terrace UP TO $2,500 in grant funding available to nonprofits in the Terrace area. Deadline to apply is January 29. Please visit website for more information: terracecommunityfoundation.com. 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. COMMUNITY SENIORS’ SOCIAL invites all seniors and mature adults for complementary coffee, tea and refreshments, socializing with other seniors, entertainment and music from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly. Free. This time together includes a coffee/tea/ snack time and singing. NORTHWEST BC METIS meet the third Wednesday of the month (except July and August) at 7 p.m. room 306, 4536 Park Ave. Everyone welcome. For more details call 6381199 or Beverly at 635-6864 or terracemetis@ ymail.com.
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. 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. THE ALZHEIMER SOCIETY of BC offers a Family Caregiver Support Group in Terrace, a free monthly group providing education, information, sharing common experiences, practical tips, strategies and emotional support, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. on the last Tuesday of the month at Terraceview Lodge). To register, call Lana To register, call Leanne 1-866-564-7533. TERRACE TOASTMASTERS MEETS the second and fourth Wednesday of each month in Room #404 of the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly with meetings beginning at 7 p.m. If you’d like to build self-confidence and improve your leadership and communication skills in a fun and interactive setting with like-minded individuals, consider joining Toastmasters For more information, please call Sharon 250-6414197, Janine at 250-615-8187 or find us online at www.terracetoastmasters.com. THE TERRACE ATV and Side-by-Side Society meets at 7:30 p.m. on the last Thursday of the month at the college in the trades building. For more details, contact terraceatvsidebyside@ hotmail.com, or on the Facebook page. 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. 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. CRISIS PREVENTION, INTERVENTION and Information Centre for Northern BC has a 24-hour crisis line 1-888-562-1214. Free. Confidential. No call display.
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Look Who’s Dropped In! Baby’s Name: Linaya Sarah Audrey MacMillan Date & Time of Birth: January 10, 2016 @ 6:06pm Weight: 8 lbs. Sex: Female Parents: Roxanne & Peter MacMillan “New sister for Linda, Chris, William, Mercedes, Emma, Jacob & Jamie”
Baby’s Name: Felicity Hailey-Beth Ousey Date & Time of Birth: December 20, 2015 @ 3:51 am Weight: 8 lbs. Sex: Female Parents: Lavender Morgan & Dakota Edgar-Ousey “New sister for Annabelle”
Baby’s Name: Raven Trinity Sally Spencer Date & Time of Birth: January 11, 2016 @ 4:44 pm Weight: 9 lbs. 15 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Miriam Spencer & Francis Stanley “New sister for Kenneth, Audrey, & Destiny”
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: Jedi Phillip Angelo Wells Date & Time of Birth: January 2, 2016 @ 6:26 pm Weight: 8 lbs. 14 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Phyllis Wells & Justin Squires “New brother for Jared & Jade”
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”
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Police Briefs Witnesses sought TERRACE RCMP are seeking witnesses to a hit-and-run between a Mazda hatchback and a red Ford Ranger truck near the four-way stop at Hwy16 and Hwy37 on Monday, Jan. 11 at approximately 5 p.m. Police are trying to identify the driver of the truck, described as a Caucasian male in his mid-30s, 6’ tall, slim build, orange hair and goatee. The truck was tailgating the Mazda down Old Lakelse Lake Dr. all the way to the four-way stop. Shortly before the stop, the truck rammed the Mazda from behind. The truck did a quick u-turn and took off down Substation Rd. and along Queensway, driving in an erratic manner. Contact Const. Ewacha, at 250638-7400 or anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS, online at www.terracecrimestoppers. ca or by texting TERRACE plus your message to 274637 (CRIMES).
Shooting charges are not approved CHARGES ARE not being approved against a man that police believed was involved in the death of a teen by gunshot wound last year. “The [Criminal Justice] Branch has completed our review of that file and are not approving any charges against the adult male, as the branch was not satisfied that the standard for approving any charge against him was met in the circumstances of the case,” said provincial crown official Neil MacKenzie Jan. 13. On Jan. 6, Terrace RCMP announced it had concluded its inves-
tigation into the death of a 15-year-old boy who was shot at a Molitor St. residence on the Southside and who later died Feb. 9, 2015. Charges police forwarded were criminal negligence causing death, careless storage of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a firearm against a 47-year-old Terrace man. At the time of the incident, police also took a 16-year-old youth into police custody and he was later charged with manslaughter and criminal negligence causing death. The youth’s trial is
set to start in May. Under the Crown Counsel Act, Crown Counsel lawyers have the responsibility of making a charge assessment decision which determines whether or not a prosecution will proceed. In discharging that charge assessment responsibility, Crown Counsel must fairly, independently, and objectively examine the available evidence in order to determine: 1. whether there is a substantial likelihood of conviction; and, if so, 2. whether a prosecution is required in the public interest.
Cocaine arrests made CHARGES HAVE been forwarded to Crown Counsel after Terrace RCMP arrested a 57-year-old man Jan. 7 for trafficking cocaine. Terrace RCMP officers seized cocaine and money and released him with a court date, said Const. Angela Rabut, community policing/ media relations Terrace RCMP. This was the second narcotics arrest in a matter of days. RCMP reported that on Jan. 9 a 23-yearold man was arrested after a search warrant was used to search a residence on the 4500
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FAMILY LITERACY DAY SPEND THE WINTER HOLIDAYS PLAYING AND LEARNING WITH YOUR FAMILY! Schools close for the holidays, but young minds and bodies need to keep busy. The winter holidays can be the perfect time for families to play games that reinforce learning. ABC Life Literacy Canada offers these holiday family-time tips to help the cold days pass quickly—and these activities are so fun that your little ones won’t even realize they are practicing important literacy skills! • LIGHTS OUT, TALK ON: After your bedtime story, turn the lights off and create new endings to the story you just read together. • Number Walk: As you put on your boots, choose something you want to count during your walk. It could be dogs, trees, stop signs, cars—anything you want! On your walk, count how many you can find. • TRAVEL THE WORLD: Use your library card as your passport to check out books or explore websites on different countries. Learn about their traditions and celebrations. • KNOW IT ALL: Together, look online for the meaning of funny words like “collywobbles” and “onomatopoeia.” Test your family’s’ word power! • GAME ON: Start a family board game night and play a different game each week. Family members can take turns reading instructions and game cards as well as keeping score. • FLOAT IN A BOAT: Work together to fold a family fleet of origami boats. (Find all the steps in the FamilyLiteracyFirst. ca sample module!)
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Joe Bevan “neatbit”, less likely to spread were an accident to happen en route, according to a Pacific Future Energy release. Bevan said the new group has come forward with more detailed plans than others. With Kitimat Clean he said that it “never quite engaged and never came out with a project description or engineering specs or anything, so there again, it was so preliminary, just an idea and it was really tough to gauge with Mr. Black exactly what it is that he is doing.” But he said that with Pacific Future Energy, it will take at least a year to evaluate the plan. The proposed refinery would produce up to 160,000 barrels a day of diesel, 40,000 barrels a day of gasoline, 13,000 a day of kerosene, and 10,000 a day of liquefied petroleum gas or propane.
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New trustee pledges to act as an advocate AS NEWLY-ELECTED Sandy Watson prepares to assume her position as Thornhill school trustee on the Coast Mountains School District board, she says her goals remain the same as when she first became involved in education. “My goal has always been the same and that’s advocating for parents, advocating for students… so that we are sending kids out into the real world who are ready,” said Watson in an interview days after
winning the Jan. 9 byelection for the vacant Thornhill trustee position. The byelection was made necessary because of the October 2015 death of longtime Thornhill trustee Gary Turner. “We’re not raising kids, we’re raising adults, and what kind of adults do we want to see leaving our school system? Personally, I want to see well-rounded and capable and confident adults going out… and it is a lot on the schools
to prepare our students for the real world.” Watson said her two top priorities within that are getting more parents involved and engaging students. Her plan is to stay involved at schools as a volunteer, attend Parent Advisory Council (PAC) meetings, post on Facebook about school matters, and talk to and encourage parents. To engage more First Nation families, she wonders if meetings could be held in First Nations communities.
“I know it has been tried in the past and turnout has been low, but I don’t think that means we stop doing things like that, and trying to bring in those families that don’t often step foot in the school,” she said. Watson wants to encourage teachers and administrators to make schools feel safe to parents, through activities such as hosting movie nights at the schools, which draw families in so they get familiar and comfortable with the
space and teachers. She also wants to encourage ways to make school fun and engage learners in order to improve grad rates. She says early literacy and numeracy are key, as well as making primary and elementary school fun because then ”there is a better chance they are going to want to go to school later on.” “I think the schools are doing a really good job of that,” said Watson, referencing food and sports and afterschool programs at
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ERIN REIMER and Grace Edison have established a women’s business support group in Terrace called Terrace Women in Business.
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Women share strategies IT’S ONE of those open secrets of the business world – the old boys club where networks are built, connections made and information traded to advance careers and build the fortunes of companies. A group of women in Terrace has now taken that model and is adapting it for their own purposes. Called Terrace Women in Business, the group is the creation of chartered accountant Erin Reimer and financial planner Grace Edison. Reimer, born in Terrace but gone for a time, and Edison, originally from Prince Edward Island, both moved to Terrace about two years ago and met at a yoga studio owned by Edison. “I think we first had coffee and realized we had a lot in common with our overall career goals and what we wanted to do in Terrace,” said Edison. Both having worked in larger centres elsewhere and in larger offices, they knew the challenges working women face – meeting and surpassing expectations above what male workers face, working harder and longer than male workers. It’s true that there are more women than ever in careers where men once dominated but it’s also true there are few women in positions at the top executive ranks of those careers. “We bonded over the fact of how there could be help for women to advance their causes so we decided to start our own group,” said Reimer. “What we wanted was a group to strengthen, encourage and educate women for as far as they wanted to go,” added Edison. Formed a year ago, Terrace Women in Business has approximately 20 members – and is actively looking for more – and meets once a month. “What we wanted was a solid group of women,” explains Edison in setting the stage for the group’s philosophy.
“Women tend to cut each other down and there are jealousies. In the business world it’s hard for women to move up because there have been so few positions historically for women. They feel they are pitted against each other for those few positions. This is about encouragement and support.” Reimer also points out an advantage in developing cooperative business relationships by being a member of a business group. “It creates opportunities to work together. It makes work so much better when paths do cross,” said Reimer, adding that she’d recommend a prospective client to someone else if she thought it would result in a better fit. There is a brief social networking period at the start of each meeting followed by the main educational and information portion. Both Reimer and Edison are clear in stating the meetings are not about marketing a product or business by one member to others. And they are not bitching sessions either. “This is sharing what we’ve learned. If someone comes up against a roadblock and feels frustrated, someone else may have a solution. It can be a form of gentle mentorship,” said Reimer. “It’s just helpful to listen to other people and hear what they have done.” At first meetings were held over the noon hour but that has now changed to evenings when schedules tend to be more free. Group members include people who own small businesses such as clothing shops, fitness centres, a bookstore and people who are real estate agents and graphic designers. Past presenters have included a partner in a micro brewery, a clothing store owner and an author and at a session tomorrow, a realtor is scheduled to make a presentation.
Walk to inform city plans A BUSINESS walking tour to acquaint local groups with local businesses is an important first step for the recently internalized economic development wing of the city, says economic development manager Danielle Myles. It’s been less than half a year since the city’s contract with the Terrace Economic Development Authority expired. The new internal economic model kicked in with the hiring of Myles last summer to look after the city’s lands and business dealings, something that used to be done by TEDA in conjunction with the now cancelled position of corporate lands manager. Myles says the business walk
will see city staff team with Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine officials, the Terrace & District Chamber of Commerce, Community Futures and the Terrace Downtown Improvement Area Society and fan out to interview at least 50 local business owners in the area. She says this will announce the arrival of the new direction; and the answers to a questionnaire will help with the larger program she is working on as an economic development strategy. “We just brought economic development in house, it’s a good opportunity in developing a new economic development program to check in the business com-
munity as one of the first steps,” she said. “We are developing an economic development strategy for the city, and so to inform that strategy it makes sense to go and check in with the business community early on, to help open up and inform that strategy with good information.” A team of about a dozen walkers will roll out in small groups across Terrace and Thornhill on February 17, 2016. Armed with the questionaire, they will be asking what are the successes, challenges and needs of the local business community. “We all have a role to play in supporting business,” says Myles.
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God’s existence fiercely debated Atheism is a term that should not even exist - no one ever needs to identify him or herself as a “non-astrologer,” or a “non-alchemist”. There are people who study fairies, and call it ‘Fairyology’. It doesn’t mean that there are fairies. And so it is with theology. Atheism is nothing more than the noises that reasonable people make in the presence of unjustified religious beliefs. But to return to the
problem of evil that Mr. Jeffrey says endangers “nothing short of the goodness of God.” It would be far easier to make a logical case for the existence of an infinitely cruel God, when you consider the vastness of the supposedly fine-tuned universe created in order to destroy, in unimaginable suffering, 99.99 per cent of the species of life on our tiny struggling planet over 4.5 billion years, just to test our belief in
him and then punish us each forever if we fail. As for faith being rewarded, I can’t see why we should expect an infinite God to do any better in another world than he does in this one.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and
willing? Then why is there evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? Epicurus (d. 270 BC) Brad North, Terrace, B.C.
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Board had no appeal They too are happy with an approval process managed hand in hand by the regulator and the polluter. They choose to believe that this is the way of the world, and that it is just fine. I noted with interest that they cited Northern Health as being supportive of the permit based on a letter in which we acknowledged the usefulness of the STAR report as a background document, but they chose to ignore the fact that we urged the Ministry of Environment to require the installation of scrubbers; a best practice technology ideally suited to the Kitimat setting and the logical way to protect health in the face of uncertainty about the science related to ambient S02 and human health. Given the time of year the appeal decision was released, I was reminded of that iconic miser, Ebenezer Scrooge. Except Scrooge was a person with a heart and soul who could be startled out of his pinched worldview by spirits reminding him that human values are more important than profit. Rio Tinto Alcan, like almost all large corporate entities, is a profit generating machine with that and only that in its DNA. No ghosts will ever visit it and catalyse a change of heart. The appellants in the case, and their legal team from the UVIC Environmental Law Centre, did an outstanding job of trying to make the argument for clean air. We owe them a debt of thanks for the effort they put into challenging a flawed and cynical process. But I am under no more illusions that the existing environmental assessment processes or “health studies” as window dressing in an “adaptive management” approach to pollution are adequate to protect the public’s health. I am at a loss as to what if any more can be done within the system as it is. We are being hoodwinked. Perhaps just being clear about that is an important first step toward tipping the balance back toward human values and human health. As long as we accept that we are here to serve an economy dominated by profit taking rather than being served by an economy that works for us and as long as we view the environment as a corporate asset rather than as our common human space, we will continue to be peasants living at the largesse of corporate lords. Please sir could I have a job in your factory even as you reduce the workforce? Could you spare us just a little clean air at Christmas time? In the words of Tiny Tim on behalf of the ordinary people in London who had no choice but to live under the terms and conditions dictated by Ebenezer Scrooge, “God bless us every one.” David Bowering, Terrace, B.C. (Editor’s note: David Bowering is a former chief medical health officer for the Northern Health Authority.)
The use of pesticides is intended within the area to which the Pest Management Plan (PMP) applies. The purpose of the proposed PMP is to control vegetation under, above and near BC Hydro’s power lines in order to maintain the safe and reliable delivery of electricity to our customers. This plan applies to all areas of British Columbia where BC Hydro manages its transmission and distribution system and associated power line corridors, access roads and helipads. The proposed duration of the PMP is from April 2016 to April 2021. Vegetation incompatible with the operation of the power system will be controlled using: physical (manual brushing, mowing, girdling, grooming, pruning, tree removal), cultural (compatible land use), biological (release of parasitic insects to control invasive plants), and chemical (herbicide application) techniques, or any combination of these methods. The active ingredients and trade names of the herbicides proposed for use under this plan include: ○ aminocyclopyrachlor and metsulfuron-methyl – Navius or equivalent ○ aminopyralid – Milestone or equivalent ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
aminopyralid and metsulfuron-methyl – ClearView or equivalent aminopyralid, metsulfuron-methyl, and fluroxypyr – Sightline or equivalent aminopyralid, metsulfuron-methyl and triclopyr – Clearview Brush or equivalent Chondrostereum purpureum – Chontrol or equivalent clopyralid – Lontrel or equivalent diflufenzopyr and dicamba – Distinct, Overdrive, or equivalent glyphosate – Vantage, Vision or equivalent imazapyr – Arsenal Powerline or equivalent metsulfuron-methyl – Escort or equivalent picloram and 2,4-D – Aspect or equivalent triclopyr – Garlon products or equivalent 2,4-D – LV700 or equivalent
Adjuvant products may also be combined on occasion with an herbicide to improve its effectiveness, such as: nonylphenoxy polyethoxy ethanol – Agral 90, paraffinic oils – Gateway, octadec-9-enoic acid as methyl and ethyl esters – Hasten NT, or siloxylated polyether – Xiameter or equivalents. The proposed methods for applying herbicides include: cut surface, basal bark, backpack foliar (low pressure spray), mechanical foliar (boom, nozzle, powerhose, or wick), or injection (hack and squirt, lance or syringe) techniques. A draft copy of the proposed PMP is available at bchydro.com/pestplanforcorridors. Alternatively, it’s available in person at 6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby; 1401 Kalamalka Lake Road, Vernon; 18475 128 Street, Surrey; 400 Madsen Road, Nanaimo; 3333 22 Avenue, Prince George. BC Hydro, the applicant for the proposed PMP, is located at 6911 Southpoint Drive, Burnaby, B.C., V3N 4X8. Please contact Tom Wells, Vegetation Program Manager, at 604 516 8943 or thomas.wells@bchydro.com for more information. A person wishing to contribute information about a proposed treatment site, relevant to the development of the pest management plan, may send copies of the information to the applicant at the above address within 30 days of the publication notice.
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Donald Geoffrey Parr August 30, 1932 – January 7, 2016 Don Parr was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba August 30, 1932 to Eileen and Geoffrey Parr, recent immigrants from Ireland. By time he was four his family had moved to Vancouver. After marrying Shirley Van Blarcom in 1953 they lived in New Westminster, Nanaimo, and Prince Rupert, finally moving to Terrace in 1964. Don was employed at BC Tel almost his entire working career, retiring from the company in 1988. He died peacefully in Lac La Hache on January 7, 2016. Don is predeceased by his first wife of 52 years, Shirley, in 2005. He is survived by his second wife Judy Pedersen. He will be sadly missed by his cousin Charlie (Marion) Horton; sons Robert (Linda), Geoffrey (Karen), daughter Barbara, (Ralph) Lenardt, son Colin (Valerie); grandchildren Stacey Stromme, Steven (Marcia), Katie, Sean, Dawson, Roscoe, and Andrea; great grandchildren, Callee and Jaxon; and many other friends and relatives. The family will host a celebration of life in mid August. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the R.E.M Lee Hospital Foundation.
Terry E. Johnson Feb 7 1934- Jan 9 2016
Terry Johnson, 81, of Terrace BC passed away surrounded by his family on January 9, 2016. He was survived by his wife of 60 years, Irene Johnson and children Cathy (Kim) Wright & family and Tonia Blake & family. A memorial service will be held at Mackay Funeral Services Chapel at 2 pm on January, 26, 2016. Cremation took place at the Terrace Crematorium. In lieu of flowers, the family would prefer a donation to the Alzheimer's Society of BC
Ruth Emma Turner Feb. 11, 1921 Jan. 3, 2016 Turner, Ruth Emma (Jackson, Peters, Hillyard) was born in Saskatoon Sask. on February 11, 1921. She passed away January 3, 2016 at the Good Samaritan Hillside Village Care Complex in Salmon Arm BC at the age of 94. Her daughters Donna and Barb were at her side. Ruth is survived by her sister Dorothy, Tony Robinson Gloria Nicolson and John Saunders and families. And her eldest son from her first family Ernie, Cookie Peters - Cheri and Audra family. Elsie. And from her second family sons Jim Hillyard, Don Hillyard. Her daughters: Doreen Hillyard - Kellie, Rory Lisa. Joan’s children - Craig, Kerri, Corinna, Scott, Calvin, Patch, Cheryl. Donna Wood - Nathan, Shaun. Barb Larry Hazard - Melissa Lyman Jaakkola, Adam Jackie Hazard, Amanda Alvin Eichhorst, Dustin Alyssa Hazard and her many great grandchildren. Ruth will be fondly missed by Syd Munson and family and by her countless friends she made over the years in Chase, Terrace, Burns Lake, QCI, Vancouver Island and her travelling partners in Hawaii and Yuma. Ruth is predeceased by her parents, husbands: Harry Peters, Jim Hillyard, and Phil Turner. Her siblings George, Lawrence, and Arnold Jackson. Her children: Jim Peters, Joan McGillis and Betsy Hillyard. Ruth will be remembered as a fun loving, sister, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, and a friend that had a wonderful sense of humour. She was a wonderful cook, “Ruth’s Café,” in Port Clements, loved walking the beaches, hunting and fishing. In her later years she made many trips including Yuma, Hawaii. Her favorite place was her cabin at Babine Lake where they spent spring to fall with family and friends. At Ruth’s request, there is no service. Her ashes will be laid to rest at a later date. In lieu of flowers donations to CNIB or Heart and Stroke would be appreciated. Our family would like to thank everyone especially the staff and caregivers at Hillside Village.
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Steve Kuhar October 28, 1936 - December 10, 2015 It is with sadness that we announce the passing of Steve Kuhar on Dec. 10, 2015. Steve passed away peacefully at the Terraceview Lodge after battling both Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's for the last several years. He is survived by his wife Irene, and daughters Sandra & Stephanie. No memorial service will be held at this time, but one will be announced by the family for a later date. The family would like to thank the nursing staff up at Terraceview for all of their care during Steve's stay.
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Thank You Thank You B.C. Seniors Games, Zone 10 members wish to “Thank” all those who generously supported our yearly “Gift Wrapping” Fundraiser in the Skeena Mall in December. All proceeds will go toward Travel and Accommodations for the Games in Coquitlam this September 20-24th.
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Responsible for the generation of of technical documentation relied upon forthe the operation, maintenance, and improveResponsible for the generation technical documentation relied for operation, maintenance, and improvePacific Northern Gas Ltd., a subsidiary of AltaGas Ltd., owns andupon operates natural gas transmission and distribution the PNG transmission distribution system pipelines and facilities. The Draftsperson will be required to mentment of theofPNG transmission andand distribution system pipelines and Preparing and processing, updating maps, mosaics systems. Located in our Terrace office, the Field Accounting Clerk isfacilities. responsible for collecting, verifying work closely with Construction and Operational departments’ personnel on a daily basis, andand fieldas-built work and design drawings utilizing 2-DMaintenance and 3-D and CADD along with GIS applications. Preparing construction and entering invoices, customer refunds expenses statements. away and frommaintaining the Terrace office is to be expected forfor theall purposes of field data collection and system record verification. drawings detailed plant records facilities. Qualifications (MUST HAVE’s): Qualifications: Qualifi cations: • • Relevant education or two (2) years’ experience in an accounting environment Grade 12post-secondary education • Grade 12typing education. • • Min speed of 50 A minimum of four (4) wpm years’ experience in drafting including at least one year in a related field. • A minimum of computer four (4) years’ experience in block drafting one year in a related field. • • Proficient skills. Advanced knowledge of including Excel andat JDleast Edwards is considered an asset Experience in building and maintaining libraries • Experience in verbal building and maintaining block libraries • • Excellent and written communication skills drafting standards Experience in defining and maintaining corporate • Experience in defiinning maintaining corporate drafting standards • Well versed weband related mapping This position is within the applications bargaining unit (IBEW) with a current hourly rate of $28.33 • Well• versed in web mapping applications Experience withrelated GIS implementation and data base management would be considered an asset • Experience with GIS and data management would bedescription considered an and assetinformation • Experience 3Dimplementation design with at preference to base mechanical considered an asset Please visitin our website www.png.ca for aapplications detailed job • Experience in 3D design withisGas preference to mechanical applications considered an This position within the bargaining unit (IBEW) withare an current hourly rate of $their 33.51resumes on Pacific Northern Ltd. Qualified applicants invited to asset email This position within the bargaining unit (IBEW) with an for current hourly of $ 33.51 Please emailisresumes: careers.ca Visit www.png.ca a detailed jobrate description in confidence to the Human Resources Department: careers@png.ca
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Shames skiers carve national slopes By JACKIE LIEUWEN TWO SKIERS from the Shames Mountain Ski and Snowboard Club will carve down the steep open slopes of Red Mountain in a national championship this week in Rossland. Terrace’s Tom Yasinchuk, 13, and Kitimat’s Jared Thornton,16, are contending with junior athletes from across the country in the Canadian Junior Freeskiing Championships Thursday, Jan. 21, to Saturday, Jan. 23 - an event put on by the International Freeskiing Snowboard Association (IFSA). “I’m really looking forward to it. It’s going to be really fun,” said Yasinchuk, adding that he hopes to adopt techniques he sees used by the other skiers. “Maybe if there are better people there, I can look at them and maybe learn from them,” he said. Having never skied slopes larger than Smithers’ Hudson Bay, Yasinchuk said that is what he is looking forward to most: “Just to ski the mountain feel it and see what the mountain is like,” he said. “It’s pretty steep and it’s a lot of powder, a lot of jumps… I’m really excited to hit those.” Tricks can be part of freestyle skiing, but Shames Mountain
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JARED THORNTON from Kitimat (in photo) and Tom Yasinchuk from Terrace are competing in the Canadian Junior Freeskiing Championship on Red Mountain this week.
coach Chance Healey said the key is control. “It’s learning how to read terrain… There is no runs, there is
no markers, it’s just the side of the mountain, and they have to negotiate the safest way, or the way they want to go down, with the best
control. That’s the point: the person who skis it with the most control, the most speed, the most aggression, usually wins the event,”
Healey said. “You can do tricks if you want - some people do, some people don’t - but when you are skiing down a hill with 40 to 50 degree slope angles and the kids are skiing anywhere from 40 to 80 kilometres per hour down that, with the rocks and trees, most of the time they are just trying to stay balanced and square ... Tricks are not a mandatory thing, but they do help your overall impression on the judges if you land them,” he added. Healey said that big mountain, freestyle skiing is the focus of the Shames Mountain club, as it uses and builds competitions around existing terrain, rather than requiring special grooming like alpine racing. Events at Shames are usually freestyle, such as the Hit & Run competition last weekend, which was a good mock run for Yasinchuk and Thornton to practice on before nationals. At age 13, Yasinchuk has competed on Shames and on Smithers Hudson’s Bay Mountain, and first hit the slopes at age three with his dad. “My dad mostly taught me,” Yasinchuk said, citing the french fries and pizza as some of the basic skiing forms his dad showed him.
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Team faces fierce competition in Finland By JACKIE LIEUWEN THREE TERRACE ringette players returned from an international trip inspired, sharpened in their game and with new friendships across the world. Sarah McLeod said that despite tough competition and 1-6 winloss record, it was awesome playing with the Northern Lights team in the Helsinki Ringette Festival over the holidays. Cassidy Pavao and Jessica Dahl joined McLeod on the AA Northern Lights team made up of players from Prince George, Finland, Vancouver and Quesnel. Playing in Sweden and Finland Dec. 28, 2015 to Jan. 6, 2016, the team lost its first six games to teams from Helsinki, Ontario, and Kelowna, but ended on a high note with a win against Helsinki Likko. “I think we all played well; they were just better,” McLeod said of the competition. “They were really good. Their passes were really nice and really precise… and they had different strategies than we would have,” she said. Pavao agreed. “They made lots of short passes… They were fast! And they were just on you… if we tried to get open, they would just
be there,” she said. In the final game against Helsinki Likko, Pavao said the team hit the ice intent to take home a win. Helsinki earned an early lead 3-0, but Northern Lights fought their way back up to a tie at 3. After that it was back and forth – 4-3, 4-4, 5-4 – with the teams matching up at 6-6 in the game’s final minutes. With only three minutes left, Northern Lights scored for a 7-6 lead and the win. Pavao said that she had some close shots in that final game, hitting the crossbar on one shot and the post in another. “They started calling me ‘Crossbar Cass,’” she laughed. Earlier in the tournament, McLeod scored a goal against another Helsinki team. She was forward with a Finnish teammate who was making an offensive assault. A shot rebounded to the right side and McLeod and an opponent both went for the ring. McLeod clinched possession and fired off a backhanded shot which flew past the goalie and landed back left in the net. Goalie Jessica Dahl earned MVP for the team, saying it was worthwhile to see how other teams
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LOCAL RINGETTE players Sarah Mcleod, Jessica Dahl, and Cassidy Pavao rock their Northern Lights jerseys at the Helsinki Ringette Festival over the holidays. played and amazing to have the
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When not on the ice, the team toured parts of Sweden and Finland. In Sweden they visited the Vasa Warship Museum (named for the salvaged battleship on display there). They also walked the brick roads and looked at the history-rich buildings of Stockholm, stopping at the Stockholm Icebar where they sipped cool drinks from ice cups and toured the ice hotel in parkas. They sang karaoke on an overnight cruise ship from Sweden to Finland, and enjoyed an impressive New Year’s firework display peppering a Finnish popstyle concert in the Senate Square in Helsinki, Finland. They also joined the crowds watching the Canadian National Ringette Team win gold against Finland in the World Ringette Championship. Pavao said that was her highlight of her trip. “It was loud! There were actually lots of Canadians… more than half [of the arena],” she said. One thing she will take away from the trip are new friendships with the three Finnish players who joined the Northern Lights team for tournament. They exchanged contact information and are keeping in touch, she said.
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Tirefit program builds practical strength RUNNING AND jumping through tight tire courses, stacking, flipping and throwing tires, and pushing and pulling tires with ropes are some of the exercises involved in a new exercise program recently started in Terrace. They also line up on large mats, arm themselves with boxing gloves, and drill through martial arts exercises, learning to punch and kick with power and precision. Though somewhat unorthodox, the MMA/ tirefit exercise program run by The Clubhouse in Terrace is all about getting in shape and learning self defence and has grown from 10 to 20 people since it started in December. Fitness coach Tony Rutledge says that people sign up for the classes with different goals, some wanting to
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BASIL MORGAN flips one of the big tires used in the tirefit/MMA exercise program run in The Clubhouse on the west end of Park Street in Terrace. improve fitness, some to improve their physique, and others to learn selfdefence. “It’s not about my
goals. It’s about their goals,” said Rutledge. “If you come in for fitness… when you’re punching I won’t come
over to you and go ‘oh, your shoulders should be over here, your arms like this.’… People are very specific about what
they want… it is usually either fitness or self-defence,” he said. The MMA/tirefit classes are twice a week
and different every day, and Rutledge says he focuses differently with individuals to help them achieve their goals. Utilizing old tires, the exercises do not specifically focus on one muscle like working out with gym equipment, rather they build practical, whole body strength, Rutledge said. “You could have really strong biceps, but absolutely useless triceps,” he said, adding that it does not make sense with the normal body structure. Rutledge says that the tire circuits involve movements that people will use in every day life, like bending to lift things, pushing a cart or a stroller, or pulling a sled behind them. Denise Manion, who started exercising through Rutledge’s programs last August, and joined MMA/tirefit
when it started, says she likes it because “it’s fun and it works.” “I like how he teaches,” Manion said of Rutledge. “He’s usually quite interactive… [and] his humour really helps pull me through a tough, gruelling workout.” She adds that he is constantly changing routines and rotating in new exercises. “He keeps adding new things to it… it’s not just the same mundane workout,” she said. Manon said that she despises traditional cardio exercise like jogging and has not done organized sports or martial arts previously, yet she enjoys the multi-purpose exercises and martial arts of this program. The self-defence skills are a nice side effect for her, and she says it’s nice to know.
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Friendship forged skiing Shames Mountain Since he joined the club three years ago, he has been learning form from coach Healey and from fellow skier Thornton, who is age 16 and now a friend and mentor to Yasinchuk. “He teaches me a lot of things… a lot of basic things to learn to build up for bigger tricks,” said Yasinchuk of Thornton. Yasinchuk also learns from watching Thornton.“Most of the time I just watch him do it first, and then go,” he said.
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y recent standards it’s a cold winter day. The windsock above the train yard is flying perpendicular to its pole; its narrow end points south. Karen elects to stay inside the station with the other prospective passengers. Bundled up to withstand 30 below, I opt to stand under the clear sky and bask in the rare winter sunlight. People arrive and place their baggage on the platform to stand in place for them then they go inside. A wiry woman places a bag almost as tall as she but twice as wide behind the rest, pulls her hat over her ears, and stands next to it. “Where you going?” I ask. “Topley.” “Christmas swag?” I point at her big black pack and the cardboard box with a picture of a coffee machine on it. She flashes a guilty smile. “Visiting family,” she says. “We kinda overdid it.” “How many people in Topley?” “Around a hundred maybe.” “Farm country?” “Yeah, mostly farmers.” “There it is,” she says. I look west and see the headlight under the Ray Sande’s overpass. It’s twenty minutes late. Gone are the days when conductors carried gold pocket watches attached to their black vests with fobs, a tool to help
Coach Healey said the two skiers train on Shames Mountain every weekend, and managed to seize an opening in the fall to compete in the nationals without earning the spot in the Kicking Horse Mountain qualifier last year. Thornton did compete there, and earned a rank in the top 12. He has been skiing with the club six years and competed many times. “He has been very focused since a young
age to pretty much live and breathe skiing,” said Healey of Thornton. “He goes down to Whistler summer camps every year to do as much training as he can.” Healey said Thornton is a good mentor to Yasinchuk as he pursues the sport. “Tom (Yasinchuk) is literally almost Jared’s shadow, which is nice because Tom has the example in Jared as to where his athlete path-line is heading,” Healey said. Connie Yasinchuk, Tom’s mom, said Tom
ensure that the trains tickets with his mobile ran on time. Now, they phone. The overhead tell me, passenger trains lights are dim; the interigive way to far too long or of the car is lit largely freight trains. The conby the oblique southern venience of people takes daylight. After a few a back seat to corporate blasts of the horn the profit. This isn’t the way train accelerates as we it used to be and isn’t leave the Old Bridge and the way it should be. roll on past Thornhill, The conductor the Copper River Flats, throws down a yellow and Gossen Creek. step stool, re-enters the Though the air is train three times and reclear, a curtain of cloud SKEENA ANGLER turns, each time with a seems to be descendpiece or two of luggage, ing as we move inland ROB BROWN then he stands aside as a through the Canyon at few passengers detrain. Kitselas past Gitaus. As We board, stow a we push through Usk the little luggage overhead tops of the distant peaks and then slide into our are veiled. The light filseats. They are comfortable and spacious, tering through the curtain paints the conevery one is a window seat. tours of the valley in otherworldly pastels, “Compare this to the plane, eh?” I re- pinks mostly, oranges, and soft blues. mark, thinking of my last flight, crammed The trees are decorated with snowy orinto cubicle next to a wheezing big guy naments. The forest floors are covered in battling some kind of virulence. deep snow. The landscape is simpler, its With “all aboard,” the train shunts off geometry more clearly defined, its edges then speeds up slightly and begins to rock harder than at any other time of year. gently in sync with the rhythmic clicking Moving fluidly through time and space, of steel wheels on tracks. unconcerned and thoroughly relaxed beThe conductor walks down the aisle, cause I’m devoid of the stress that comes scanning the images on the passengers’ with navigating a dangerous, poorly main-
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looks up to Jared a tremendous amount and both of them give their all into what they do. “They definitely have a lot of commonalities: They are both very aggressive when it comes to fitness and skiing… I can definitely see why they really enjoy each others company because they are so intense.” The two skiers hit the road with coach Healey and Sheldon Yasinchuk, Tom’s dad, on Tuesday, driving to Rossland for the competition. tained highway. We pass a freight train at a siding. It seems a kilometre long. When we’ve past it, I hear the faint sound of a movie or TV show. As I walk down the car to the washroom, I notice that almost everyone is looking at a tablet, laptop, or a phone. Karen and I could do the same, but we can’t take our eyes off the exquisitely beautiful scenery. Perhaps this is because we’re novice riders, but it is hard to imagine this trip growing dull. We reach Cedarvale. Because of the cloud curtain, the peaks of the Seven Sisters aren’t visible but just under the cloud is a vivid wide band of cerulean blue that is unlike any I’ve seen. This spectral swath continues all the way to Gitsegukla before losing some of its intensity. We cross the breathtaking gap at Skeena Crossing on the century old bridge to river left, make our way through New Hazelton and into the upper end of the Canyon at Hagwilget, in the territory of the Went’su’wet’en. The First Nations pair across from us, whom I judge to be a mother and daughter, look up from their devices to peer out the window. As the mother takes a video of the scenery with her iPad, I tell Karen we must arrange to be on that side of the train on the return trip. … to be continued...
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Fluoride ban bid going to council WE INGEST the chemical called fluoride every time we take a sip of city tap water, but is it really good for our teeth and overall health? Local resident Barry Prince is again calling on Terrace to join the growing list of countries around the world who are phasing out fluoridation of public water, and this time he will have a petition which he hopes will convince city council that a referendum should be held on the matter. Prince is scheduled to appear at the next city council meeting on Feb. 9 to press his case. “If you look at America and what’s going on, you will see that there are thousands of communities that are standing against it right now,” said Prince, adding that Terrace is now only one of a handful of municipalities in B.C. that still puts fluoride in the municipal water supply. Prince George voters, in a referendum in late 2014, approved the removal of the fluoride from their water. Prince says information about why water fluoridation should be stopped is easy to find online and he wants Terrace residents to take a look themselves at the research showing it is not an effective way of stopping tooth decay and that it poses potential health risks for increased thyroid disease, cancer and other disruptions of important bodily processes. “I urge the public to do their own
research on this very controversial subject,” he said. “I am going to show up with petitions in my hand,” he added of his presentation planned for council. “We are getting a lot of signatures.” With a long list of people signed up, he hopes to sway council to bring the question formally to the public through a ballot. The last time Prince spoke to council, it was determined that because the initial decision to put fluoride in the water was made through a referendum, that a reversal of the program would also require such civic engagement. Prince says the petition is available at Dynamic Health Service and The Dollar Store by Shoppers Drug Mart, Dr. Linsey’s office and Chill & Grill. He said information can be found online by searching “professional perspective on fluoride” and “the history of fluoride”. Fort St. John, Prince Rupert and Cranbrook are the only two other B.C. communities to have fluoride in their water supply. The bid to take fluoride out of Prince George’s water was opposed by a coalition of dentists and others, but was passed by referendum in 2014. Toronto also voted to keep its water fluoridation program. This will be the third approach Prince has made to city council.
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