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startle nerves AGM announcement By Staceyamid Marple record profits comes Haida Gwaii Observer The early morning of Friday April 24, By Andrew Hudson Haida Gwaii was hit by an Earthquake of 6.1 Haida Gwaii Observer magnitude. No tsunami warnings were issued after the earthquake. The epicentre of the Fewwas 70-year-olds mark their quake approximately 167 km birthdays south of the with a name change and a growth spurt, Village of Queen Charlotte. but the residents Delmas Co-op is Gwaii a special case. Some of Haida reported Starting Feb. 24, the co-op will be objects shaking and windows rattling, but no renamed HaidaorGwaii Consumers serious damage injuries were reported. Co-operative Association — all an have all-isAs the islands of Haida Gwaii land name to better reflect the fact that unique geological qualities, the effects of an with a grocery store and building supply earthquake can vary from island to island. in Masset and a second store in in Every community reportedgrocery feeling the quake Skidegate, the co-op serves residents different ways. Queen Charlotte Village which across Haida has a rock base Gwaii. didn’t feel the quake as much Speaking to of thethenearly 100parts people who as the residents northern of Graham packed the Masset legion for Sunday’s island. Tlell and north is mostly a sand based annual meeting, co-op that president area andgeneral feels almost every quake happens. Bob Isaacs said member-owners can look Shirley Wilson of Skidegate reported forwardthetoearthquake. a promising, prosperous feeling “I was sitting in future. my All together, the co-op rang in After a record bed when I heard the house creak.” $13,749,700 sales thestart lastrocking fiscal the initial creakinshe feltover her bed yearnoticed — nearly $1.2 million more“The than the and her ornaments rocking. previous year. ornaments rocked for a while after the quake For member-owners, sales also stopped,” Ms. Wilson toldbetter the Observer. “My mean a boost in equity and cash son and brother who were also in thereturns. house Overfeel thethe current fiscal year, they will see a didn’t earthquake at all.” four per cent return on their co-op purchases, Barry Pages of Masset, director of the which is a full point higher than last year. In Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District total,he$835,786 has been member said felt the quake but allocated because itfor was fairly returns. short he wasn’t too concerned. However, he While“This the bulk of the co-op’s salesone stillto be added, is a reminder to every come from its larger grocery store and buildprepared.” ing supply in Masset, the Skidegate store Earthquakes are nothing new to Haida saw higher — its salesjust were up 56after per acent Gwaii. growth The quake comes weeks over last year, compared with a 32 per study identied Haida Gwaii as groundcent zero boost Masset. for theinnext major seismic event on the west Richard Clarmont, the co-op’s general mancoast. ager, he was also pleased to announce Thissaid recent earthquake doesn’t qualify as thatbig theone co-op is debt-free, having fullysmaller retired the scientists predict, as it was the mortgage on its six-year-old Masset food than even some of the aftershocks after the 7.7 store, nearly two years ahead of schedule. magnitude earthquake in 2012. Thatsame milestone was that marked in Gwaii September The weekend Haida got with a mortgage-burning ceremony at the hit by this 6.1 tremor, Nepal was devastated co-op’s barbecue. by a 7.8 anniversary magnitude event. Earthquakes between a 6.0 and a 6.9 are AGMscale. on Page 2 considered a strong on theSee Richter

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After a series of powerful storms, this tree came crashing down on the Cemetery Road outside Masset, blocking all traffic to the airport beach. Janet and Robert Baker of Masset, pictured, continued their hike to the beach, leaving their car behind. The Village of Masset soon sent out a crew to cut up the fallen hemlock and piled it Submitted up in firewoodphoto sized blocks for the taking. Committee members of the Pulling Together Haida Gwaii Event demonstrate their teamwork abilities at the carving shed in the Kay Centre. The group will be holding a fund raiser May 2. See full story on Page 3

Searchunveils and rescue suspended after Day 3 YVR Davidson masterworks

By Quinn Bender Haida Gwaii Observer By Andrew Hudson Haida Gwaii The search forObserver Kumdis Ilsand resident, Brent Hendren, was suspended Reg Davidson enjoysone skyoflight last weekend following Haidaa lot more than spotlights. Gwaii’s largest search and rescue The celebrated carver likes operations in moreHaida than 25 years. to“Iget up and working in his Old know for a fact that if he was Massett studio around 3 a.m., well alive out there we would have found before dawn, no and way before his him. There’s chance we would phone gets a chance to ring. have missed him. The community The studio hasdid noeverything windows, we so should know we Davidson can work without waking possibly could to find him,” said his neighbours. Chris Ashurst, SAR manager with “Nobody’s complained yet, and and Archipelago Ground Search I’ve been here 20 years,” he says, Rescue and deputy unit leader with

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laughing. Massett Marine Rescue. Instead of windows, the studio has Mr. Hendren, 27, was last seen skylights — meaning the only ones rowing out to his Kumdis Island likely to get a peek at Davidson’s cabin rental with supplies Sunday

morning, April 18. He missed dinner plans with friends later that night. latestfollowing work are theTuesday eagles andMasset ravens The that fly overhead. RCMP received a missing persons But after an unveiling lastdiscovery Tuesday, report, which led to the a whole new flock of high-fliers Mr. Hendren’s boat abandoned will and get to see the four of red-cedar overturned south Watun works River that make up Davidson’s public near Pure Lake Provincialfirst Park. art“Itoutside Old Massett. is strongly believed that Brent Standing in the domesticcapsized termidrowned when his rowboat nal of the Vancouver International west of Kumdis Island,” Mr. Ashurst Airport, Davidson’s 24-foot cedar said. “This is based on information pole, two sculptures and monumenfrom witnesses, the location of the captal bentwood box be seen by up sized vessel, and thewill distribution of his to 100,000 air travellers a day. personal effects along the shoreline. See YVR on Page 8 See SEARCH on Page 2

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Gwaii TrusT Board of direcTors, Graham island souTh The south Graham island Gwaii Trust advisory committee (sGiGTac) is seeking candidates for nomination as director to represent Graham island south on the Gwaii Trust Board of directors. The Gwaii Trust society has a volunteer eight (8) member Board of directors that represents all participating communities on haida Gwaii. Term of appointment is for 2 years. Graham island south includes the areas in and between lawn hill and the Village of Queen charlotte. The sGiGTac is composed of the elected Village of Queen charlotte council and one representative from each of miller creek and lawn hill. candidates should: • Be available for regular meetings at various locations throughout haida Gwaii (minimum monthly); • Be available for occasional travel off island to meet with professional groups or attend other business related functions; • Possess a basic level of computer literacy; • Be prepared to review a regular volume of documentation, including proposals, emails, financial materials and other related correspondence Deadline for applications: thursday February 25, 2016 at 4:30pm Your letter of interest should include a brief summary of you background, what you would like to achieve through your term on the board, and how you believe you can add value as a representative of south Graham island on the Gwaii Trust Board of directors. Please submit your applications via email to office@queencharlotte.ca

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Co-op director Bret Johnston reacts after winning a door prize shortly after his wife won another during the Delmas Co-op meeting on Jan. 31. Iris Jennings won the grand prize trip to Vancouver.

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GwaiiTel Society’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) March 21, 2016 Location TBA The GwaiiTel Board is composed of 5 directors appointed by the members: Council of the Haida Nation Village of Masset Village of Port Clements Village of Queen Charlotte Skidegate Band Council

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Three directors were appointed for one year term and now stand for either reappointment or replacement by the membership at the AGM. If you are interested in putting your name forward for consideration by the membership, please email Terri.Walker@gwaiitel.ca for an information package and application form. An ideal candidate will have a background in one of more of the following: the internet services industry, program evaluation, creating and maintaining partnerships, and/or risk management. As well past experience on non-profit boards, experience with documentation and financial control and strategic thinking would be an asset. Resumes and application forms must be submitted to Terri.Walker@gwaiitel.ca by 4 PM on February 19, 2016

Bret Johnston, the co-op’s vice president, said progress has been slow on efforts to enlarge the Skidegate store, which will require a new lease agreement proposal from Gwalaagaa Naay Corporation and the Skidegate Band Council. But Johnston also reported that the co-op was able to

buy the property next to the Masset building supply. The existing house on the property will be torn down in the next six to eight weeks, he said, giving the home centre room for a future expansion. When it comes into effect, the Haida Gwaii Co-op’s name change will be the second one in its history. Founded as the Masset

Consumers Co-operative Association in 1945, the co-op voted for a broader name six years later, with “Delmas Co-operative Association” referring to the Masset and Delkatla communities. Part of the Federated Co-operative Limited, the co-op is part of a supply and distribution network that covers much of western Canada.

LNG consultations falling flat: SQCRD The Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District had some harsh words for Nichola Wade, executive director of the province’s Northwest Community Readiness program under the Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development, at their regular meeting in Prince Rupert earlier this month. Wade, working on behalf of the province of B.C., provided the SQCRD board members with several updates relating to population expectancy surveys, funding projects that have affected the region whether one or more liquid natural gas projects go ahead in the region or not. SQCRD vice-chair and director Des Nobels offered criticism with how the province has handled preparing communities for a potential LNG boom from the outset. “You may have learned some things in terms of how to bring

industry into communities, but I would suggest that the province, on the LNG portfolio, has fallen flat on its face in terms of how we roll this out and the planning, or lack thereof, that took place within our region,” he said. “This place has been blown to pieces by this. There was no early consultation of the province running this out as an economic model, no previous work done ... but also a lot of other problems are going to be very tough to solve in terms of community fracturing, communities moving away from each other, all sorts of things that have been extremely disruptive within the region,” Nobels said, adding that with any project, adaptations that must be adopted based on community feedback, more often than not is the communities that are the ones adapting and changing, based on the proj-

ect’s needs and not the other way around. “The problem is we have many ministries at different levels that are functioning at different aspects of overall projects, and it becomes very hard for those in the general public to know who they actually need to speak to, and it’s becoming more and more disjointed,” Nobels added. As well, the Northwest Resource Benefits Alliance (RBA), which many northwest communities have entered into, was another hot topic of discussion, with the district wanting to see progress made in terms of funding announced for the alliance (resource benefit sharing agreement), while the province holds its position that there will be no movement on its part just yet, until the major projects and investments in the area are further finalized.

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Insurance liability The School Board recently discovered that public users of school gymnasiums lack proper insurance, forcing the board to make tougher regulations of after-school use. During the last regular board meeting, a group of frequent users of the QCSS gym asked the School Board to pay the insurance out right to allow the groups’ continued use of the facility, promising to gradually pay it back through their user fees. The groups have used the school gyms’ for many years without insurance, but the school district was not aware of the lack of insurance. The School Board voted unanimously against the proposal to pay the insurance for the groups. Haida Gwaii Recreation is fully insured and unaffected by the vote.

Eagle’s-eye view The School Board was treated to a rare performance from Sk’aadgaa Naay Grades 1 and 2 classes at their last regular meeting Eight children came to the meeting and presented the findings from their Eagle View project, which consists of a camera aimed at a eagle’s nest near the school. The students, with assistance from their Haida teacher, explained in Haida what the members of the board was seeing in the pictures, the eagle who lived in the nest a raven who visited the nest and a squirrel that happend to pass by, all could be seen in the pictures.

Strategic start The School Board passed a resolution to begin the strategic planning process. The board has committed to participate in a workshop for the new curriculum at Sk’aadgaa Naay Feb. 5. The board has been studying other school districts strategic plans to assist them in the strategic planning process. The members would ideally like to have the new strategic plan done by June. The board would like to see the plan in place for the fall of 2017 along with the new curriculum.

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Island kindney treatment upgraded By Andrew Hudson Haida Gwaii Observer

Our Haida Gwaii branch hours are changing Effective March 21, 2016, our hours will be: Masset Branch:

Monday – Thursday: 10:00am - 3:00pm Friday: 10:00am - 5:00pm

Saturday & Sunday: Closed

Queen Charlotte Branch:

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People living with kidney disease on Haida Gwaii will get early and more inclusive health advice once a new tele-health project arrives on island. Starting next month in Terrace and nearby mainland towns, patients will be able to book two-hour video meetings with a kidney care team in Prince George. The team includes a dietician, pharmacist, social worker, nurse, clerk and a specialist doctor. “We’re just starting out,” says Dr. Anurag Singh, a kidney specialist at the Prince George hospital and director of kidney care for Northern Health. “This is like the gold-standard kidney care that you would get in Vancouver or Toronto or other major centres,” said Dr. Singh, noting that Vancouver is the only B.C. city that has tried the team approach so far. Dr. Singh has heard many patients say it’s just too far or costly to go to Prince George for appointments,

“This is like the goldstandard kidney care you would get in Vancouver....”

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especially when a kidney problem is in early stages. That’s a real setback, said Dr. Singh, because when people get early control over kidney disease, they can often save their kidneys, avoid dialysis, and significantly lower their risk of heart attack or stroke. Many of the things kidney patients need at first are simple — better diet, more exercise, less smoking, drinking, or drugs — but that means changing habits. “These are the things people struggle with the most,” said Dr. Singh. But by speaking with a range of advisers, patients not only get details on how each step helps, they also get

a look at the big picture — the lifestyle changes that slow or stop kidney disease also tend to boost a person’s overall wellbeing. And for kidney patients who do need dialysis, Dr. Sing said meeting the team early by videoconference can boost their eligibility for a transplant or dialysis at home. Six or eight months after patients start booking video meetings in Terrace, which has a dialysis unit, the pilot project will expand to include Fort St. John for another year. By the end of 2017, Dr. Singh hopes to see the program offered across northern B.C., including at the hospitals of north and south Haida Gwaii. Video meetings can’t replace a face-to-face encounter, said Dr. Singh, but the team may be able to arrange annual sessions at ‘hub’ sites like Terrace and Fort St. John to meet more patients in person. “We’re very excited about it,” he said. “At the same time, we want to see what works for each community.”

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Vancouver musician on a mission By Stacey Marple Observer Being a man on a mission, Luke Wallace has spent a good part of the last two years bringing his singing voice to the stage as a folk musician and environmental activist. Even amidst positive signs of an oiltaker moratorium on the North Coast, he refuses to let up on his message, and is now trying for a spot at the Edge of the World Festival. Between traveling across the province and representing Canada on the world stage at the Paris Climate Summit, he has found his purpose in uniting the north and south coasts of B.C. in their fight against of industrial and oil developments. “When you hear of these threats of industry coming in LNG and oil pipelines you see them being proposed in towns where the populations are under 1000

“There needs to be unity between the North and South.” -Luke Wallace

people and Haida Gwaii extends that for me,” Mr. Wallace said. L a s t s u m m e r M r. Wallace was touring with the documentary Sail(ish) that follows a solar powered trek through the communities that would be faced with Kinder Morgan tanker traffic, which he had hoped to bring to Haida Gwaii. Unfortunately he was not able to bring the movie to the islands but now he is trying to bring his music to Haida Gwaii. Mr. Wallace hopes to be

accepted into the lineup f o r t h i s y e a r ’s E d g e of the World Festival, where he would play his album Little Rivers Matter too, which was the soundtrack to the documentary. “We are running huge risks by pitching tanker traffic along the North Coast, LNG or oil,” Mr. Wallace said. This is a well known issue for Haida Gwaii over the past few years but he feels the distance between Haida Gwaii and the larger populated areas silences the voices trying to be heard. “There needs to be some unity between north and south. I have taken on that role as a folk musician and story teller. My purpose for the next while is to travel north and west, travel to these isolated areas and bring these stories back to Vancouver and try to create unity between these two geographically different areas.”

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Third- and fourth-year university students taking part in the Haida Gwaii semester program stop for a group photo on a field trip to Old Massett.

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Residents hear plans for reconciliation studies in north end By Andrew Hudson Haida Gwaii Observer Carver Christian White says he values the days when students in the Haida Gwaii semester program visit his Old Massett longhouse. “When I greet people at my longhouse, at my carving shed, and I talk about the totem poles, I’m trying to educate them on Haida people,” said Mr. White. “I want them to learn something right from our own mouth.” Six years after Skidegate began hosting university students who are learning about natural resources, a new semester program in Masset and Old Massett might invite students to learn how reconciliation is taking shape on Haida Gwaii. Speaking Jan. 14 at a public meeting held in the cedarwalled cafe at Sherri’s Gas Bar and Grill in Old Massett, Carrie Anne Vanderhoop said if it goes ahead, the north-end semester will be modelled on the existing program, which invites third- and fourth-year university students to spend a fall or winter learning from local and off-island teachers in the Haida Heritage Centre at Ḵay Llnagaay. Ms. Vanderhoop is the academic lead for the program, which is run by the Haida Gwaii Higher Education Society and the University of British Columbia. “We just wanted to find out what the community feels about having a semester in the north end,” said Ms. Vanderhoop at the start of the meeting. “Is there support for that, and do we feel we have the capacity to make the program a success here?” In May, just as Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was publishing its final report, HGES paired four local knowledge-holders and four professors to co-author a set of classes about the ongoing reconciliation between Canada and the Haida Nation. Open not only to UBC students, but to students at uni-

“We just wanted to find out what the community feels about having a semester in the north end.”

up on Haida Gwaii, meaning they got to spend 14 weeks studying near their families and take a break from city life. Looking 10 or 20 years ahead, Mr. Alsop said the natural resources students who spend a semester here could one day work for government or industry. “Hopefully there’s a whole new generation of natural-resource managers on the other side of the table who, when we have a conversation about our concerns, our values, and where we’re coming from as Haida people, maybe they’ll - Carrie Anne Vanderhoop understand what we’re saying,” he said. “We also want those students to go out there and continue versities around the country and the world, the resulting courses would be First Nations in Canada: Rewriting to spread the word about Haida Gwaii as well, and the good History; Law and Governance: Indigenous and European stuff that’s happening here,” he added. “This is a place to learn from.” Traditions; Reconciliation and Resource Management; and When it came time for questions, Crystal Robinson Perspectives in Reconciliation. Ms. Vanderhoop said the word ‘reconciliation’ means (Kung-jaada) spoke about the harmful legacy of abuse, different things to different people, and none of the classes poverty, and separation from culture and family that residential schools brought to Old Massett. tries to set it in stone. “There are so many losses, and grief,” Ms. Robinson said. Students in the new semester program would look at “How are we going to move forward to embrace the recent partnerships and negotiations between the Council of the Haida Nation, the B.C. and the federal governments, educational system?” Keith Moore, who co-founded the HGES, said that’s a and at case histories such as the co-management of Gwaii good question. Haanas. “If it’s too early, and it’s too painful, and people are not Jason Alsop (Gaagwiis), CEO of the Kay Centre, has been involved with the south-end semester since it began ready to talk about this, then I think that’s feedback we’d really like to hear,” said Mr. Moore. in 2010. “I support the concept, but you’re doing the right thing Over the years, Mr. Alsop said the program has brought a lot of good to Skidegate — the Kay Centre is full, students by putting feelers out,” added Arnie Bellis. Speaking in favour of the idea, Frank Collison said while often rent homes from local elders, and many volunteer with the Skidegate Haida Language Immersion Program (SHIP). he never got a chance to attend university or finish high Alongside the UBC professors who fly in to teach, school — it just wasn’t allowed — he has since made many dozens of local Haida knowledge-holders also give talks friends in the university and college community. “I certainly learned something from them, and I thought to the students, something Mr. Alsop would like to see in they learned something from me,” said Mr. Collison, the north as well. Mr. Alsop also hopes a new program can bring more local smiling. “I thought that was important — to make that two-way students home for a semester — about a dozen of the 180 students who finished the existing program actually grew connection.”

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Feb. 10, 2011 The head of B. C. Ferries predicted it would have to increase its rates for Northern routes by 100 per cent. After David Hahn of B.C. Ferries made the announcement, Queen Charlotte Mayor Carol Kulesha told the Observer that she would be speaking to the Minister of Transportation about his comments, stating “We can’t afford that kind of increase.”

Feb. 2, 2006 An oil spill at Tahayghen elementary school cost the school district more money than what was originally thought. It was expected that the school’s insurance would cover the clean-up costs of the oil spill. The insurance claim was rejected because the oil leak was slow rather than sudden. The oil spill was discovered in 2004 and the oil tank along with 12 loads of soil was removed

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Feb. 1, 1996 Four people escaped with minor injuries after an out-ofcontrol south bound car crashed into a parked van at First Beach in Skidegate, pushing both vehicles over the edge of a 40-foot embankment. The van landed on its roof while the brandnew car landed on its nose. The van was awaiting a tow truck when the accident happened. The Queen Charlotte RCMP suspected that snowy roads were to blame. Haida

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Jan. 20, 1986 B.C. Hydro wanted to have a strip of trees along the highway cut after they had caused several power outages in just one month. The trees were left for aesthetic purposes when the area was logged. According to BC Hydro the strip of trees was not wide enough and wasn’t windfirm. The trees, located 11 kilometers north of Port Clements, were blamed for the power outages.

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2015: The Year in Review In praise of Reg Davidson and his carving team

For small communities such as ours, it’s with extraordinary regularity that national audiences celebrate Haida Gwaii’s creative output. But never have we quite seen the reaction Reg Davidson is receiving for his exquisite works unveiled last week at Vancouver International Airport. Unless you’ve been in a media blackout the past week, you’ll know the installation features a 24-foot red-cedar pole, Raven Stealing the Beaver Lake, which illustrates an episode of the Haida creation story when the Beaver people brought Raven to their great house and provided him with meals of salmon. Two sculptures, The Blind Halibut Fisherman and Raven with a Broken Beak were inspired by a myth in which Raven attempted to play a joke on an old, blind man. And near the sculptures sits a large bentwood box crafted from a single, steam-bent cedar board.

Preparing the installation for shipment to YVR.

Since we posted photos (see Page 8) of these master works on Facebook, we’ve received (as of press time) more than 18,000 views, almost Archie Stocker Sr. photo

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Haida artist Reg Davidson, not pictured, packed up three totem poles in Old Massett destined for raising at YVR’s international terminal.

FEBRUARY Province shuts down afterdouble our previous record. Comments of praise serviceof course and congratulations for Mr. death Davidson followed. As one person wrote: “We finally get toordered Consumer Protection B.C. SD50 boosts Sandspit the only islander see what Reg has been working so hard onproviding — thisfuneral assistance services for grieving families to is amazing!” School District No. 50 voted in immediately cease his activities or For of hisboosting part, Sandspit’s Mr. Davidson legalbeen action.gracious For many years, favour trans- facehas Queen Charlotte his resident portation assistance from $10 no to $13 and humble, wasting time to extend ownGeorge Westwood had volunteered his time to per family. praise to fellow carvers whose assistance dealing with SD 50 made the decision at their help friends and family was regular board meeting in Masset Jan. the loss of loved ones by handling and instrumental in the project. 27. The increased assistance went into transporting the bodies and offering No matter how many thousands ofsupport timestophotos emotional families. effect this month on a tip Consumer and stories of the work are Acting shared, itlastisOctober, a blip Protection investigated Mr. Westwood compared to the 100,000 travellers who will see T h e r i s e o f a u t o m a t e d and concluded his activities were in the carvings in person everyviolation day. of at least three provincial defibrillators Legislation Acts and ordered the immeThey serve as both a greeting and a testament diate halt to his activities. Every islands community was furtonished Mr. with Davidson’s culture. And although he tomay Haida Gwaii was told spend large at least one automated amounts ofshed moneyover and time to either external defibrillator (AED), of which can carving prefer the solitude his the increase the chance of surviving a heart ferry bodies to Prince Rupert for funeral glare ofasall this it winds preparation, or down somehowwe recruit a attack by much as 75praise, per cent. before “I think it’s extremely important licenced funeral director. want to extend our own. for all communities everywhere to have access to AEDs. There’s a lot of research out there indicating that they save lives,” said Skidegate emergency coordinator Mary Kelly, who helped allocate the eight AEDs purchased by the Skidegate Band Council last year. According to the Heart and Stroke Foundation, having defibrillators accessible in public locations decreases the amount of time it takes for a responder to begin CPR and defibrillation, which increases chance of survival. AEDs work best in conjunction with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (C.P.R.) and, although many of the devices will talk a rescuer through the motions, the best way to ensure accurate technique is to take a first aid course.

In a letter to the Observer Mr. Westwood expressed frustration over the matter. “To occasionally help neighbors or friends at the time of a death in the family is allowed,” he wrote, “but to do so on an ongoing basis, one is deemed to be acting like a funeral director. “It has been a privilege and honour to have been of help when it is most needed, but I must refrain in the future.”

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from making its way to the islands, but it was now coming in regularly, appearing on the beaches in waves. Some tides brought hundreds of pieces of Styrofoam and some bring countless plastic bottles. A representative of Japan Environmental Action Network (JEAN) and Kate Le Souef of the Vancouver Aquarium visited Haida Gwaii on a research trip to investigate the environmental impacts. The Haida Gwaii Debris Committee gave the researches a tour of affected beaches of Haida Gwaii. After the tour of the islands, Ms.

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Question of the Week Tell us about your windiest day on Haida Gwaii.

Chrissy Kienzle Queen Charlotte “Last year in Masset. The wind was blowing 140 km/h and rattled our front window, ”

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Meet Graham Island North director Fran Redick By Carla Lutner Chief Operating Officer

Dave Blanchette Skidegate

Max Collison Masset

Robin Brown Old Massett

“ In 2002 I was riding my dirt bike on East beach in 120-130 km/h winds. . People were being sandblasted. It was wild.”

“It sounded like a freight train coming… We’re kind of protected from the southeast, but you could hear it coming through the trees.”

“We got one that blew down all the power lines on the causeway — we were standing on the dock when they went flat. The winds come so fast. I’ve had the windows smashed in on my boat, out in the ocean.”

Letters to the Editor Tide has turned on tar sands transition Dear Editor, When the tide goes out in one part of the world, it comes in another. A decade ago, explosive growth in the tar sands attracted workers from every corner of Canada, unintentionally costing thousands of workers in tourism and manufacturing their jobs as the value of the loonie soared. Today, the tide has turned and jobs are being redistributed away from the tar sands towards businesses which can thrive with a devalued Canadian dollar. Rather than attempt to resuscitate the tar sands, far better to view the low price of oil as a market driven opportunity — a golden opportunity — to transition workers into industries such as manufacturing, tourism, infrastructure repair, construction and green energy projects, which do not threaten the planet. If Canada is to do its part to limit warming to less than 1.5 C, the Alberta tar sands and their attendant pipelines must be allowed to die a natural market death as low oil prices weed out the most expensive, GHG intensive operations on the planet. Our only concern should be to do everything possible to help yesterday’s oil workers transition to other fields.

The tide has turned, and it couldn’t have come at better time. Sincerely, Mike Ward Duncan

Sunny ways don’t extend to taxes Dear Editor, Prime Minister Trudeau promised us sunny ways. This is certainly not taking place in our tax system. Aside from a measly one per cent tax increase on the incomes of the very rich, there is no planned tax increase on corporations. These corporations are stealing millions of dollars from Canada and depositing them in off shore accounts. I don’t see any Liberal promise to stop this thievery. Canadians For Tax Fairness estimates, reliably, that $199 billion is hidden in tax savings accounts and that every year an additional $10 billion is added to that. Canada ranks as the third largest loser of taxable corporate income among the G20 countries. I haven’t been aware of our new government making any changes to this thievery. So much for sunny ways.. Sincerely, Bob Abrahams Nelson

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Fran Redick remembers the exact day she first set foot in Masset. It was Sept. 3, 1973, and she was a young military wife and mother, newly arrived from Inuvik. Fran, who grew up in Vancouver, had enjoyed her first taste of small town life in Inuvik, but it was Masset that was destined to become her life-long home. Fran soon became closely involved in her community. She volunteered for the Masset fire department’s ladies auxiliary, the hospital auxiliary, the Delmas Co-op, Cubs and Scouts, and the Animal Help Line. She worked at several part-time jobs, including at the RCMP office and the clinic, and the combination of work and volunteer time brought her into contact with most of Masset and gave her a good insight into the village’s strengths and challenges. “I used to say, you can look at it like I’m a very knowledgeable source of information, or you could say I’m just a nosy old bee,” she says with a laugh. Eventually, Fran was elected to Masset council, an opportunity she says she would never have had if she had stayed in the big city. In her role as a village councillor she became involved in the Gwaii Trust Interim Planning Society, the group that worked together in the early 1990s to form what is now the Gwaii Trust. Fran recalls that in those days, relationships between Haida and non-Haida communities were very different than they are today; many community leaders weren’t used to cooperating, but their shared desire to bring $38 million of federal funding under islands control as a perpetual trust fund brought them together. “We worked hard,” Fran said. “We made a plan that worked and it’s still working. And we’re all still talking to each other.” About six years ago, Fran became involved in the Gwaii Trust once again after she was appointed as the director for Graham Island North. As a director, she often has strong opinions, and doesn’t shy away from sharing them. She also listens closely to what her fellow directors have to say. In her many years of experience at board and council tables, she has changed her own mind and seen others change theirs after listening to another point of view. “People learn things from listening to other people,” she said. In the coming year, Fran is looking forward to seeing what happens as a result of the new Vibrant Communities program, which will distribute up to $1 million to each of the islands’ villages or areas over the next four years. “It puts the money more in the hands of the communities,” she said. “They know it’s coming, so it gives them the ability to be more forward-thinking and forward-planning... I’m hoping they will be creative with it and we’ll see some really positive things come out of it.” Meanwhile, Fran challenges all islanders, especially the younger generation, to get more involved in their communities, saying that volunteering is incredibly rewarding and provides many opportunities people living in larger communities would never have. “You get a lot back. It’s a lot of work, but you help build a better life for everyone on Haida Gwaii. Think about it, because it can be absolutely eye-opening.” The Gwaii Trust update is a collaborative promotional venture by the Gwaii Trust Society and the Haida Gwaii Observer.

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Artist Reg Davidson stands in front of Raven with a Broken Beak, The Blind Halibut Fisherman, and a monumental bentwood box at the Vancouver Airport on Jan. 26.

Reg Davidson’s work reaches from Old Massett to the world YVR from Page 1 The unveiling made headlines in Vancouver and across the country. Here on Haida Gwaii, Davidson’s Facebook lit up with local shout-outs of “beautiful!” and “stunning!” One person said the Vancouver airport is looking pretty siijuu (classy) with all its Haida art — Reg’s four sculptures join works by his brother Robert Davidson, and others by Bill Reid. Robert was on hand at the opening, where he sang a Haida song to commemorate his younger brother, who he taught to carve when Reg was in his late teens. Later, the brothers co-founded Tuul Gundlas Cyaal Xaada, or the Rainbow Creek Dancers, named for a creek that flows at the north end of Old Massett in the rainy winter season, the traditional time for potlatches. “I got kind of embarrassed the last couple days, because it’s so overloaded with the whole project and that video,” said Reg Davidson, talking about the ‘likes’ on his Facebook page and a behind-the-scenes video that the Vancouver Airport posted online. “This my home, you know, so it makes me feel good because I look at everybody as my friends,” he said, adding that whenever a local person succeeds in something, everyone here shares in his or her accomplishment. “We’re a small community, helping each other.”

Davidson hired several other carvers to help with the large-scale project, much as his brother once took him on as an apprentice when they carved a housefront and houseposts to honour Charles Edenshaw, the father of their grandmother, Florence Davidson. Oliver Bell and Cori Savard worked with Reg Davidson full-time on the project, and were joined by carvers Tyson Brown and Sgwaayaans Young. Even Robert did a little work. “He’ll be mad I mentioned his name, but it’s okay,” said Reg. “He’ll say, ‘I didn’t do that much,’ but he helped.” The 24-foot totem pole in the airport display is called Raven Stealing the Beaver Lake, and it tells the story of how Raven rolled up the salmon lake of the Beaver people and flew it to the Haida along with a fish trap and a great house. Asked when he first heard the story, Mr. Davidson laughed and said, “Oh, that’s been around forever.” Two sculptures, The Blind Halibut Fisherman and Raven with a Broken Beak, tell another Raven tale — the story of a blind fisherman who happens to yank off Raven’s beak just as the prankster tries to steal halibut off the old man’s line. Standing just behind the sculptures is a huge bentwood box made from a single, steam-bent cedar board. Relief carvings on the front and back show Raven stealing the moon from a great Chief as a gift to the Haida people. Mr. Davidson said the pole was carved

from a 500-year-old red cedar that grew by the Awun River, close to Juskatla. “This is some of the nicest wood I’ve carved in a long time,” he said, noting its very tight grain. Every foot of width represents about 100 years. At 61, Mr. Davidson is enjoying where his art has taken him: home. From the beginning, he said it was always his goal to be established enough that he could live and work in Old Massett. That hasn’t changed, and the wider art world is having no trouble finding him.

The English artist Damien Hirst ordered a 40-foot pole a few years ago (“I’m just fascinated by him — I mean, who makes a formaldehyde shark and sells it for $18 million?”), and Mr. Davidson’s website brings loads of questions from art students keen on Haida style (For the record, Mr. Davidson said he is happy to point out books to read, but won’t do anyone’s homework). “When I’m recognized, it makes me happy, but I’m not looking for that,” Mr. Davidson said. “I’m happy where I’m at today.”

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Marking Reg Davidson’s first public works outside Old Massett, the four pieces are displayed in the domestic terminal of the Vancouver Airport.

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Ballers & Scholars gets real laughs with fun take on GMD By Andrew Hudson Haida Gwaii Observer We’re heading for a basket We’re running for the floor We a r e t h e M i g h t y Gigantopithecus, And we are going to score! Gigantopithecus is real enough, though the 10-foot ape went extinct long before it got to try basketball. But that cheer is for an imaginary team at an imaginary high school — one that happens to look a lot like Masset’s George M. Dawson Secondary. Written by Taylor Lantin for the pilot episode of Ballers & Scholars, a comedy series made by students in a GMD drama class, the cheer and the cheerleader who performs it on the show are funny because they seem at least a little bit true. Take Solas Reynolds, the show’s super popular, extra confident Grade 8 kid. Like all the students and teachers who star on Ballers & Scholars, Solas plays a cartoon version of himself. In the opening shot of the pilot, he tells a Star Wars joke — “Why did Anakin Skywalker cross the road?” — and doubles over laughing at his own punchline — “To get to the dark side.” Speaking with some of the Grade 10 to 12 students who create the show, they said that’s kind of what Solas is like. Likewise, when Dion Lewis rattles off the Gigantopithecus cheer in character, he throws in a cheese-y lay-up move that wasn’t in the script. Teacher Derek Seifert said that officially, the class is called Drama, Film, and Television

“It’s been a learning process for us, because this is the first time this class has run.” - Derek Seifert

Production, but everyone at school calls it GMD-TV. “It’s been a learning process for us, because it’s the first time this class has run,” said Mr. Seifert, although it’s not the first time GMD students have had success with video. Last summer, a group of GMD students produced a documentary short called Body Image, based on interviews with adults and students from Tahayghen Elementary. The film won a Reel to Reel scholarship, sending the creators to a summer workshop at the Gulf Island Film & Television School, where they shot another doc about island food that featured local farmers and chefs. Among the memorable scenes is a shaky, hand-held shot of the students running from some Galiano goats. “All of a sudden, one of them starting coming closer,” said Zaya Zaleska, laughing. “All of them walked toward us and then they were like, charging.” After the workshop, several students already had experience with film editing software and setting up well composed shots.

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Some of the student showrunners working on Ballers & Scholars pose for a photo last week at GMD.

They also took cues from TV shows that owe a lot to real high-school stories, like the original Degrassi High and all too short-lived Freaks & Geeks. Switching from documentary to a script-based comedy took a couple tries before it went smoothly, but the GMD-TV team has three episodes done, and two more written and ready to shoot.

So far, they’re on track to produce one episode a month, and Mr. Seifert hopes a new class will keep the show rolling next school year. Already, the writers are pushing at the boundary of fact and funny. Principal Bernadette Marie Ouillette is cast as a tyrant who calls students vermin and dreams of a school with daily

tests, white walls, blasting water fountains and zero windows. But even in character, the principal has her limits, said student Cora Camire. When the script called on her to say a student was ‘dumb,’ Ms. Ouillette refused because it was something she would never say, even as a joke, said Camire. “She changed it to ‘useless.’”

Seed planning amidst the wintry west-coast bluster be saved to dry or sprout for new trees somewhere other than the garden. To be fair, the willow was there first and I will miss it but it will surely sprout from the trunk and become a nuisance again in another twenty years. The tentative date for Sara’s Seedy Saturday is by Elizabeth Condrotte confirmed for March 12 from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM in the Port Clements Hall. Our GIECFI secretary, Linda, pointed out that it’s actually going to be the The seed catalogs are starting to arrive just on the 7th annual, and not the 5th. Where did the two years heels of the spring and summer catalogs. Not that I go? I’m not the only one getting spring planting fever need commercial signs of spring this year since nature as folks have been asking about Seedy Saturday since has been providing them aplenty in spite of our west New Years. If you want a table, call Linda at 250 559 coast style wintry bluster. I spent all of one of those 8975. The PC Grade 7 students are providing lunch stormy evenings poring over the seed catalogs plan- to raise money for their grad. My February school board calendar is filling up ning my garden for this spring. It will be much smaller by Elizabeth Condrotte already from local events to a trip to the provincial since Stevie is taking over the big one. Mine will be council meeting in two weeks. There will be a prethe kitchen garden and hers for the market. Caylen came and carefully felled the huge willow sentation of the new curriculum today (Feb. 5) and that has been leaning over and shading my garden this weekend, inspired by that, the school board will before the wind did the job, not so carefully, on my meet to initiate its strategic planning process. The fence and apple tree. The willow has pussies already; board is hoping to involve the whole community of the earliest I have ever seen them. Those branches will Haida Gwaii in deciding on the future of education

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for our children. Contact your trustee and see how you can get involved. My woofer from Norway left last Thursday after a number of construction improvements to both my and Kim’s little farms. As he left, Mark arrived. Taro and Darrel have also returned home while Celina and Yoshi have stayed on in Panama but they will also be returning soon. Silviculture work begins early on Haida Gwaii so I expect Darrel will be back to work immediately as is Mark. Ever since I first heard Buffy St. Marie some 50 years ago she has been my favorite female vocalist for more reasons than her beautiful unique voice. I have admired her ideals, the songs she wrote as well as the art she created to express them, and her life that she lived by those ideals. So last week a chance meeting with Roland made my day and began the next six months of anticipation. As the director of the Edge of the World Music Festival, Roland was pretty excited himself to have booked Buffy St Marie and her band as headliner for this summer’s festival. Are you as excited as we are?

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Howa’a to the cooks! Jingles from Skidegate

by Rhonda McIsaac

t is amazing the amount of food that Skidegate makes for teas or feasts — often seven or eight tables full of food with more left in the kitchen to replenish the spread as guests serve themselves. When Nuni E’s Girls are cooking at community events you know that you are going to be well fed. When your baked goodies, your sandwiches, or your cooked casserole is brought to the kitchen your name is marked down on a list for the hosts as part of the protocol associated with the event. When you leave you can also count on having a clean dish to take home because of the work done in the kitchen. To have so much food is a blessing. It is something to look forward to for sure. Sometimes the meal happens before the business is conducted. Other times a meal happens afterwards to help celebrate and give thanks to those who have witnessed a ceremony. If the meal is delayed it is usually a given that you have eaten beforehand especially if you are diabetic or need to stave off hunger pangs and a noisy tummy. I have been fortunate to cook with Nuni E’s Girls of the Raven Wolf clan: Vi Husband, Dodie Zeller and Heda Kelly and their daughters and friends. They do not take payment for their skills because they cook for the love they have for the community. They have it down to a science and make it look easy but it’s hard work that begins in each lady’s home days prior to any event. It is always nice to hear Uncle Roy bless the food with a Haida prayer. Elders — like Auntie Pearl and Auntie Lorna (thank you both for your encouragement and support for Jingles) — are invited first to serve themselves or are served by younger members of the community. There are often over 150 community members to feed. Once the meal is over there are sometimes only one or two cakes left. It’s nice to see people leave the hall with a meal or dessert with tea for the next day. It’s always a sign of generosity and wealth in the community. I am sure that Nani E is always in the kitchen watching over her girls and loving how the community comes out to take care of each other. Howa’a to the cooks!

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Juicing: good for the mind, soul and palate Cooking on the Rising Tide

by Kris Leach

or centuries, fasting or the voluntary abstinence from food has been a spiritual and alternative medical approach to gaining mental clarity and ridding our bodies of toxins, chemicals from our foods and environment, and any extra weight we are carrying. The literature that promotes this practice has shown us that clearing the mind and body makes way for energy and good health! It is important to take in abundant clear fluids—water and occasional herbal teas is what most of them advocate— but if you go a step further as I did then buy yourself a juicer. Some feel that using a blender is the way to go, and I agree it does have its benefits, the obvious one being the amount of fiber being added to your diet is high. Different practice tho... Juicing has the benefit of supplying our bodies with the extracted nutrients of fruits and vegetables, which allows us to actually ingest those 7-10 servings of raw fruits and vegetables comfortably without constantly reaching for a carrot stick! My experience has been positive in every way with this practice, lots of research and

trying it out for myself have made me a firm (and becoming firmer) advocate...lol! But before beginning a juice fast do some research. Check out “Juicing Radio,” to find out how others have been successful, and you will too. Different times of the year are better than others, some feel that 4 times a year for 3-7 days as we move from one season to the next is a good way to be mindful of our bodies and our needs. As with any practice that involves radical change in our diets, you should check with your doctor if you have serious health issues that may change the way you approach this practice. Now is a good time for me to undertake a good long juice fast as I have an abundance of greens still in the garden. Any greens are good right now. Kale, chard and arugula are still producing, and my favourite, spinach, is up thank goodness, as it was half of my grocery budget last week at the store! My own personal experience has shown me that after 3 days of juicing, I wake up in the morning and nothing hurts! All those little aches and pains that after the age of 40 seem like a constant reminder of the “getting older is not for the faint of heart” mantra, is for the time being in respite. This alone keeps me in the game. My morning drink begins with half an organic lemon with

a touch of honey (like half a teaspoon) and warm water in my cup. Then I reach for my coffee, which is not technically very good for me says the literature, but then again neither is the week long headache if I don’t partake of my brew every morning! This week my juicer has made me some pretty exotic and delicious drinks involving pineapple, ginger, spinach or other greens. A new book from the library called the Best Green Smoothies on the Planet by Tracy Russell has recipes which call for a blender, which I glean for new recipe ideas for juicing or you can just drink the smoothie. Depends on how I’m feeling on any given day. It’s important to keep motivated, but you have to listen to your body. Hunger means you need nutrients, not chips! Do it for your health. Your energy levels I promise will increase, your skin will become clearer, your eyes will sparkle, heck what’s not to love about all that? A clear winner this week partly because I already had the ingredients in my fridge is the; Spiced Pineapple smoothie 1 c. cubed pineapple 1 frozen banana- peeled ½ tsp. grated ginger 2 c. fresh spinach 6 ounces chai tea, brewed and cooled.

This is a great blender drink! The spinach is pretty much obliterated and makes for a very green drink, and you will be pleasantly surprised how good this tastes! Drink immediately for optimum nutrition. That being said, you can also pour this in your to-go mug (I use a canning jar with a lid), and take it to work with you! Everyday Just-for-theNutrition Juice 1 inch piece of ginger 3 carrots Stalk of celery Half an apple ¼ of a beet –peeled Several hands full of spinach, kale, chard, romaine lettuce etc. I run this through my juicer; it’s not the best one on the market (actually under $100 from Canadian Tire last year), but it’s affordable and it does the job! There are many on the market, from my little affordable one which does an adequate job and it’s easy to clean, to veritable Cadillacs of the juicing world (read expensive), which I will admit do a superb job of extracting the juice. There is something for everyone in this arena depending on your level of interest and tax bracket! And so I wish you all a great week. A drink to your good health everyone... Cheers!

Time once again for the seasonal slowdown last month, but there are a few ongoing and new classes and events happening right now and in the future. On Sunday, February 21st Brogran Kiss is offering an by Evelyn von Almassy intensive Vinyasa class, which will review fundamental poses, improve your body’s There are a few places in our commu- alignment, build strength and balance your nity and neighbouring communities that arms. Prior Vinyasa class experience is are closing for awhile, and others that suggested. The workshop runs from 1 to have been closed that are re-opening. 3 p.m., and the fee is $30.00. Funk It, in our own village, for examThe same day, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., by Evelyn Almassy ple, is now closed, but will re-open on von Karen Walhout is offering a Song Circle, Tuesday, March 1st. Andrea and Dell are which will include chanting medicine going shopping for us! Isn’t that great? songs of awakening, with the themes of Yes, they are going to a trade show, and oneness, gratitude and love for the earth soon more funky good stuff will wind up and each other. The songs act as positive in their store. Andrea is also going to be affirmations, and you do not need any getting her spring nursery ready in Tlell, prior experience. This class accepts the with mixing soil and propagating roots pay-what-you-can fee. and stuff. (I am not a very good gardener, Ceitlynn Epners is doing creative moveas is quite evident.) So get ready to pick ment classes on Saturdays, February 6th up roots, seeds and plants to plant in your and 13th for four- to six-year-olds. The garden or deck pots. time is 10:45 to 11:30, and there is a $12 Charters Restaurant in Masset has been drop-in fee for this class. closed for the month of January, and The last Sunday of each month, Liz opened this past week. That is one of my Wouters will offer Move Me! from 10 favourite places to eat, and we are lucky until noon. All you need is the will to move to go shopping for a day in the north of to music, anyway that you can. Wear your the island, and fuel our tummies up before most comfortable clothing, and bring your driving home again. water bottle. This class is open to adults Sun Studio in Charlotte re-opened and teens, and accepts the pay-what-you-

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can fee. Starting on Sunday, February 23rd, from 7:30 p.m. To 8:30 p.m. is the Jive and Swing dance, offered by Dolores Davis. The fee for this class is by donation. Isn’t it great that the name change for the Skeena-Queen Charlotte Regional District is beginning? After all, the name Haida Gwaii was changed from the Queen Charlotte Islands in 2010 so it only makes sense to bring that organization up to speed in reflecting that change, don’t you think? We have all heard of the overdosing among people in B.C. who have taken oxycodone and fentanyl in the past year. For people who have overdosed on those drugs (opioids), 370 deaths were avoided by naloxone, the antidote to oxycodone and fentanyl. The province is giving naloxone kits to firefighters in Surrey and Vancouver, to administer when necessary. Hopefully these kits will be offered to our local volunteer firefighters, as fentanyl is now on the islands as well. Anytime we can prevent drug overdoses is a good day. This coming Monday, February 8th is a B.C. holiday named Family Day. So, don’t forget to stay home from work, or go to work and get holiday pay, if you work in that kind of place.

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OF of NOMINATION Village of Masset To 4:00 pmthat October 10, 2014 Public Notice is given to the electors ofNOTICE the Village Masset nominations for the offices 1686 Main Street Masset, BCis Excluding holidaysfor and weekend MAYOR – given ONE (1) TO electors BE ELECTED Public Notice to the ofVILLAGE the VillageOF of MASSET MassetStatutory that nominations the offices NOTICES V0T 1M0 Haida 2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS Friday, September 2014 Friday, February26, 5, 2016 Gwaii COUNCILLOR FOUR (4) TO BE ELECTED MAYOR – ONE– (1) TO BE ELECTED From 9:00 amwww.haidagwaiiobserver.com September 30,2014 www.haidagwaiiobserver.com By fax to: 250-626-3968 4:00 pm October 10, 2014 NOTICE OF To NOMINATION for a four (4) year term will be received by the Chief Election Officer or a designated person, a COUNCILLOR – FOUR (4) TO VILLAGE BE ELECTED OF MASSET By email to: vom@mhtv.ca2014 GENERAL LOCAL Originals of faxed or emailed nominati ELECTIONS Public Notice is given the ofby the Village of MassetOfficer that nominations for by the offices for a four (4) year termto will beelectors received the Chiefdocuments Election orbe a designated person, must received the Cha NOTICES By hand, mail or other delivery service: From 9:00Officer am September 30,2014 Election by 4:00 pm on October 1 NOTICE OF To NOMINATION Village of Masset 4:00 pm October 10, 2014 2014 MAYOR – ONE (1) TO BE ELECTED 1686 Main Street By hand, mail or other delivery service: From 9:00 am September 30,2014 Masset, BCMasset Excluding Statutory holidays and weekend Village of ToMASSET 4:00 pm October 10, 2014 Public Notice is given to the electors ofVILLAGE theELECTED VillageOF of Masset that nominations for the offices COUNCILLOR – FOUR (4) TO BE V0T 1M0 1686 Main Street 2014 GENERAL LOCAL ELECTIONS Masset, Excluding Statutory and person, weekend for a four (4)BC year term(1) willare beavailable received bythe theVillage Chief Election or1686 aholidays designated MAYOR – ONE TO BE ELECTED Nomination documents at of Masset Main Street froma From 9:00 Officer amOffice September 30,2014 V0T 1M0 2,By 2014 10, 2014 duringNOTICE regular office hours to 4:00 Monday to Frid fax to to:October 250-626-3968 4:00 9:00am pm October 10,pm 2014 OF To NOMINATION COUNCILLOR – FOUR (4) TO BE ELECTED From 9:00 9:00 am am September September 30,2014 30,2014 Byemail hand,to: mail or other delivery service: From By vom@mhtv.ca Originals of October faxed or10, emailed nominatio By fax to: 250-626-3968 To 4:00 pm 2014 QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE Masset To 4:00 pm October 2014 Public Notice is given the ofby thethe Village of Masset that nominations for by the offices for aVillage four (4)ofyear termto will beelectors received Chiefdocuments Election Officer orbe a 10, designated person, a must received the Chi 1686 Main Street Election Officer by 4:00 pm on October 1 By emailBC to: vom@mhtv.ca Originals of faxed or emailed nominati Excluding holidays and weekend A Masset, person is qualified to be elected, and to hold Statutory office asbea member of local gov 2014 MAYOR – ONE (1) TOnominated, BE ELECTED Jeff King photo documents must received by the Ch V0T ment if1M0 theymail meet following criteria: By hand, orthe other delivery service: From 9:00Officer am September 30,2014 Election by 4:00 pm on October 1 Finished for the season, Sandspit style. • Village Canadian citizen; of Masset To 4:00 pm October 10, 2014 COUNCILLOR – FOUR (4) TO BE ELECTED 2014 From 9:00 am September 30,2014 • 1686 18 years age or older; MainofStreet By fax to: 250-626-3968 To 4:00 pm Octoberbefore 10, 2014 • Masset, of British Columbia for atbyleast 6 months immediately the day nomin Excluding Statutory and weekend for aresident four (4)BC year term will beavailable received theVillage Chief Election Officer or1686 aholidays designated person, Nomination documents are at the of Masset Office Main Street fromaS papers V0T 1M0 are filed; 2,• 2014 to October 10, 2014 during regular office 9:00am to 4:00 pm Monday Frida By to: vom@mhtv.ca Originals of faxed orfrom emailed not email disqualified by the Local Government Act orhours any other enactment votingnominati intoan ele Haida Gwaii documents must be received by the Ch Nomination documents are available at the Village of Masset Office 1686 Main Street from in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding office. From 9:00 am September 30,2014 By hand, mail or other delivery service: From 9:00Officer am September 30,2014 Election by4:00 4:00 pm on October 1 2014 October 10, 2014 during regular office hours 9:00am to pm Monday to Frid •2,Village By fax to to: 250-626-3968 To 4:00 pm October 10, 2014 QUALIFICATIONS FOR of Masset To 4:00OFFICE pm October 10, 2014 2014 1686 Main Street By emailBC to: vom@mhtv.ca QUALIFICATIONS Originals of faxed holidays or emailed nominatio Excluding Statutory and weekend FOR OFFICE ELECTOR REGISTRATION A Masset, person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office asbea received member of local documents must by the gov Chi V0T 1M0 ment if they meet the following criteria: Election Officer by 4:00 pm on October 1 • RESIDENT ACanadian person iscitizen; qualified to are be nominated, and holdam office as1686 a member of local gov ELECTORS: 2014 Jeff King photo available atelected, the Village oftoMasset Office Main Street from From 9:00 September 30,2014 •Nomination 18 years ofdocuments age or older; ment if they meet the following criteria: • age 18 or older; and 2014 to October 10, 2014 during 9:00am to 4:00 Monday to Frid Margo Hearne By faxseason, to: 250-626-3968 Tohours 4:00 pm October 10,pm 2014 Finished for the Sandspit style. •2, of British Columbia for atregular least 6office months immediately before the dayphoto nomina Canadian citizen; • resident a Canadian citizen; and A Long-tailed Duck tucks its beak. papers filed; 18 yearsare ofof age or older; • a resident British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day of reg email to: vom@mhtv.ca Originals of faxed or emailed nominatio • • By not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an elec QUALIFICATIONS FOR OFFICE resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomin tion; and Old Massett 6:30 pm, comm. hall. $17 Street door/$15. 8, Multiplex. Noon to 4Village pm, demo by documents must be received by the ChiS Nomination documents are available at the of Masset Office 1686 Main from in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding office. papers are filed; • a the resident of the VillageAmanda of Masset for at least 30 days Advance. immediately before the day of reg Take Back Night March/Sisters Price, Thrive Foods. Election Officer by 4:00 pm on October 1 toand Octoberby 10, 2014 during regular office hours 9:00am to 4:00 from pm Monday toan Frida •2,• 2014 not disqualified the Local Government Act or any voting in ele tion; person is Centre. qualified to be nominated, elected, and toother hold enactment office as a member of local gov in Spirit A Vigil. Youth Wed. 2014 Haida Gwaii Jeff King photo in British Columbia orblocked from nominated for, being elected to, or holding office. •pm. not disqualified by any otherbeing enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqua Skipper explained. “We couldn’t they meet the following criteria: to prevent further deaths and Oct. 1, 7 ment Rachel 626-6052 Network with employment seektlell Finished theiflaw. season, Sandspit style. •• for by QUALIFICATIONS FOR ELECTOR REGISTRATION Canadian citizen; believe thetosize!” Fin 11 Whales I’dFarmers’ be happy to work with others to get Market, Sun., 11 am2 OFFICE ers. Wed. Oct. 22, am – usually noon,? • 18 years of age or older; • travel offshore but they have been the open chimneys covered.” by Margo Hearne Gaw Xaadee Cancer Awareness pm, soccer field. Three more left! HS Employment Development Soc. NON-RESIDENT PROPERTY ELECTORS: resident of British Columbia forELECTOR at elected, least 6REGISTRATION months immediately before the day nomina seen in Hecate Strait and they follow In many ways these are the down Walk, 5Nomination walk. Walk, jog, run. (beside Dollar Store). 559-0049 ?terA••km person is qualified to be nominated, and to hold office as a member of local govS RESIDENT ELECTORS: age 18 ordocuments older; and are available atThe theBird Village of are Masset Office 1686 Main Street from papers are filed; the food. From tiny shrimp to huge days of winter. Counts ment if they meet the following criteria: •2, age 18 or older; and Sun. Oct. 5, 2 pm, comm. hall. $10. FLK Taoist Tai Chi classes, Tues. ri-lynne@hseds.ca • 2014 a Canadian citizen; and to October 10, 2014 during hours 9:00am to pm Monday Frida not disqualified by the Government Act or any enactment voting intoan ele whales, the4:00 oceanfrom feeds them all. designed to regular catch the office throes ofother Canadian citizen; ••RESIDENT a Canadian citizen; andLocal 7 Gwaii - 9,for Thurs. 11 am -last noon. Info, Haida ELECTORS: • resident of British Columbia at least 6 months immediately before the day of registration he• barometer rises and falls in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding office. Meanwhile back in Masset Inlet, fall migration and now it’s a story of 18 years of age or older; aa resident British Columbia for Haida at in least 6 months day2 pm. of regis Haida singing/dancing, Mon. nights 557-4336 Farmers’ market Sat.the 11 days amage 18 or itof older; registered owner of real property the Village of immediately Masset atbefore least immedi and birds tough out onand the •• resident close toforshore, more30 Long-tailed survival for the wild winter residents. QUALIFICATIONS FORimmediately OFFICE •youth of British Columbia for atGwaii least 6 months before the day nomina tion; and 6-8 pm, centre. • a Canadian citizen; and before the day of registration; and edge of things.are Three injured Ducks float by before and further out flocks Fortunately we have a reasonably filed; • anot resident ofof the Village of aMasset for at least 30 days immediately immediately the day of apapers resident British Columbia for atelector; least 6and months before the day ofregis reg skidegate Table Tennis, 4:30-6:30 pm Tues. entitled to register as resident sea birds• •showed up this week. Two of healthy Black Scoters fly inland. mild climate and are surrounded by not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an elec tion; and ELECTOR REGISTRATION tion; and • not disqualified by any other enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqua Nights Alive youth program ages A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local gov Thurs, Sat, hall Massett 6:30 pm, hall. $17 8, Multiplex. toInlet, 4from pm,where demo by They Long-tailed Ducks, dappled black land,comm. thenor let the tide door/$15. take them Out on Noon Masset the in British Columbia or water. from being nominated for, being elected to, holding office. • •Old not disqualified by any other enactment voting an election or otherwise disqual a resident of the Village ofruns Masset for at least 30time, days immediately before the day of reg by law; and ment if they meet the following criteria: 13-18, Fri. 8-12 pm Ngystle Soc. agm., Thurs. Oct. 2, 7 inback Take Back the Night March/Sisters Advance. Amanda Price, Thrive Foods. and white with long tails, and a Black out again. Among the flocks were tide in and out at the same •• •Canadian by law. tion; and if there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals citizen; pm. Ngystle bldg. Pickleball, school gym, Mon./Fri. in Spiritall Vigil. Wed. hundreds of Pacific Loons feed just winter-plumaged Pigeon Guillemots ELECTORS: Scoter, black Youth with a Centre. bright yellow •RESIDENT •pm. not disqualified by anyoffshore. other from voting in an election otherwise disqua Remembering Wally with the consent of theenactment majority of the owners, as p.m. awith non-resident property ele 18 years ofwritten age or older; Masset 7:00-9:00 •latter age 18 or older; and bill. sat by the heat all day Oct. The 1, 7•NON-RESIDENT Rachel 626-6052 Network employment seektlell returning to theiror nesting grounds. The nutrients washed out register Backhoe Services PROPERTY ELECTORS: by law. • • • resident ofconversation British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomina ELECTOR REGISTRATION Suicide prevention HGHES Speakers Series: What is a Canadian citizen; and and survived. The Long-tails were let A Celebration Life22, fora Port Clements had seen fewam during the from theRedi-Mix rivers circulate and Farmers’ Market, Sun., there 11 am2 We ers. Wed.only to ofOct. 11 – noon,? • • age 18 orare older; and Concrete filed; mayor Wally is being • aapapers resident British Columbia for atThree least 6 months before theof day of with Pond, Mon. Oct. 6, 7-9 go in Michael the•Xaadee river. Leila, who of had rescued sustainable seafood? Thurs. Oct. 9, immediately Drop inCheer dodge ball,organized Wed. 8forp.m., Bird Counts but upwards forty in regi food is plentiful. Gaw Cancer Awareness pm, soccer field. more left! HS Employment Development Soc. Canadian citizen; and NON-RESIDENT PROPERTY ELECTORS: Saturday, Oct. 4. •that not“it disqualified by the Local Government Act oris any other enactment from voting inwere an elec Gravel and Sand Sales tion; and one, said was a calm day, it had pm, Wellness House. Info 626 3911 various colours sped by. Some 7-8 pm, Heritage Centre QCSS, $2. Even in mid-winter there always Old Massett 6:30 pm, comm. $17 door/$15. Multiplex. Noon 4 pm, demo by Walk, 5•RESIDENT Walk, jog,and run.or 8, (beside Dollar Store). 559-0049 ELECTORS: resident of British Columbia for at least 6tomonths immediately before the day of registration; The ceremony will behall. held at 2 pm at the?ter•km age 18 or older; FURTHER INFORMATION on the foregoing may be obtained by contacting: inwalk. British Columbia being nominated for, being elected to, or holding office. a resident ofowner the Village of Masset for at least 30 days immediately before day of regi cover and shelter and itMarch/Sisters went off and clean white with just30 a the little afrom run of something. Our fishing TRUCKING EXCAVATING community hall, the village office said inblack, Take Back the Night age 18 or older; and Advance. Amanda Price, Thrive Foods. Sun. Oct. 2 pm, comm. hall. $10. •• ••5, a registered of real property in the Village of Masset for at least days immedia FLK Taoist Tai Chi classes, Tues. ri-lynne@hseds.ca atotion; Canadian citizen; and Election Officer Trevor Jarvis, Chief and stayed close the Mallards. We saw an emailed invitation. some were light grey and some were neighbour Robert explained about Sahaj Marg (Raja Yoga) meditation, Ngystle Tues. FLK before Taoist Tai Chi, Mon. noon, aresident Canadian citizen; and before the day of registration; and Dave Ellis in Spirit• •Vigil. Youth Wed. 7 Meditation, - 9,for Thurs. 11 am - bldg. noon. Info, Mr. ofCentre. British at least 6 months immediately the day of registration Jo-Ann Brown, Deputy Chief Election Officer Cheer died in mid-August after serv- disqua •pm. disqualified byColumbia any other enactment from voting inalmost an election or otherwise it next soresident it’s a good news story. black. In10 summer plumage the herring runthe now occurring. Thurs. 5:30, Sun. 7:30, 626-5400 anot of British Columbia for least 6 months immediately before the day of regis 7:30-9:30 pm.at 559-4414 Wed. 7 pm, Sat. am. 559-8458 not entitled to register as aearly resident elector; and 250-559-4747 Oct. 1, day, 7•singing/dancing, Rachel 626-6052 Network with employment seektlell Haida Mon. nights 557-4336 Farmers’ market Sat. 11 ampm. • a registered owner of real property in Village of Masset for at least 30 days immedi 250-626-3995 ing almost three years as mayor. He was 2 by law. “What’s nottion; such a good newsby story they are all black with aam white oval The adult herring feed on the bottom ELECTOR REGISTRATION and not disqualified any other enactment from voting infirst an election or otherwise disqual drellis@qcislands.net elected as a councillor in 2005 and Farmers’ Market, Sun., 11 am2 ers. Wed. to Oct. 22, 11 – noon,? 6-8 pm, •youth centre. before the day of registration; and • a by was the Taoist Red-shafted Flicker we but wing-patch, sobefore they aresuccessfully beginning the juveniles are and feed immediately •dead resident ofAwareness the Village ofwww.davesbackhoeservices.ca Masset for at smaller least 30 days the day oftoregis again in 2008, before running law; FLK Tai Chiand classes, Wed. Queen CharlOtte sandsPit Gaw Xaadee Cancer pm, soccer field. Three more left! HS Employment Development Soc. skidegate Table Tennis, 4:30-6:30 pm Tues. • someone’s not entitled to register as a resident elector; and Chief Election Officer NON-RESIDENT PROPERTY ELECTORS: found in wood-stove,” for the mayor’s seat in 2011. show their summer colours. near the surface, which is probably tion; and • if there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals noon-1 pm; Sat. 10:30 - noon. Info Assassinating Thomson, Fri.voting Sept. in Memorial forStore). Kurt Carey, Sat. ?terSept not disqualified by enactment from an election or otherwise disquam Walk, 5RESIDENT walk. Walk, jog, run.any other (beside Dollar 559-0049 Nights Alive youth program ages Thurs, Sat, hall ELECTORS: ••km age 18 or older; and Leila continued. “The stove hadn’t Pine Siskins come skipping down what the eagles, gulls, loons and • not disqualified by any other enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqual with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property ele 557-4336 26,FLK Comm. hall. Doors 6:45 Oct. pm,Tues. per27, 1 pm, 507 Beach Rd. by law; and • •5, age 18 or older; and Sun. Oct. 2Canadian pm, comm. hall. $10.andmurres Taoist Tai Chi classes, 13-18, Fri. 8-12 pm Ngystle Soc. agm., Thurs. 2, 7 ri-lynne@hseds.ca a been used some time andcitizen; the flicker out of the sky to land at the feeder have been feeding on these by law. •• •in Life-saving transport there is more than one owner of the property, only one of day those individuals formance 7:30 pm sharp aifdown Canadian citizen; and 7past - registered 9, Thurs. 11 -herring, noon. Info, pm. Ngystle bldg. Pickleball, school gym, British Columbia for at least 6not months immediately before the registration had fallen theofchimney and and juncos continue toofMon./Fri. spar and ele few weeks. Ifam then register •• aresident with the written consent of the majority of the owners, as a non-resident property • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day of regis POrt CleMents Rod and Gun Coho Derby to2 Oct. The Kwuna crew is still available for Haida singing/dancing, Mon. nights 557-4336 Farmers’ market Sat. 11 ampm. Masset 7:00-9:00 p.m. • aout. registered owner of real property in the Village of Masset for at least 30 days immedi couldn’tNON-RESIDENT get The home-owner had argue. A lone, quiet Varied Thrush, sandlance or euphausiids, those tiny PROPERTY ELECTORS: emergency transport after 1 a.m. • prevention tion; and Assassinating Thomson, Sun. Sept 12. Info 637-2212 Reading by Biographer Sandra 6-8 pm, youth centre. Suicide conversation HGHES Speakers Series: What is before the dayflicker of registration; asked meFURTHER toage come and a live the orange and the black robin’ shrimp thatand baleen whales feed on. 18 orget older; and INFORMATION the foregoing may be obtained bybetween contacting: However, hours‘swamp of 7 p.m. •••stove a hall. resident of the Village ofon for atOct. least 30Oct. days immediately before the day ofasregis 28, Comm. Doors 6:45 pm, perDjwa , Legion, Sat. 4,and 7:30 p.m. skidegate Table Tennis, 4:30-6:30 pm Tues. withof Michael Pond, Oct. 6, 7-9 entitled to register aMasset resident elector; sustainable seafood? Thurs. 9, and Drop in dodge ball, 8just p.m., out the and itMon. survived, but it as comes quietly, feeds, Whales have been seen in Skidegate 1 a.m.,in the BC Ferries crewWed. isand not • anot Canadian citizen; and Trevor Jarvis, Chief Election Officer tion; and formance 7:30 pm sharp FLK Taoist Tai Chi, Mon. 10 am, •Alive notHouse. disqualified by any other enactment from voting in an before election or otherwise disqua available for emergency call-outs, but the Nights youth program ages Thurs, Sat, hall pm, Wellness Info 626 3911 7-8 pm, Heritage Centre QCSS, $2. was sad to see what had happened to quietly flits away again. Inlet, aChief few Ocra, Humpbacks resident of British Columbia for at least 6+two months immediately the day ofMid-winter registration; Jo-Ann Brown, Deputy Election Officer FURTHER INFORMATION on the foregoing may be obtained by contacting: ••one. not disqualified by any other enactment from voting in anGuard election orto otherwise disquali Yoga Art Coast has agreed transport emerThurs., 7 pm, 637-5463. Puppet show, Sat. Oct. 4, 2-3 pm, by law; and 13-18, 8-12 pm Ngystle Soc. agm., Thurs. Oct. 2, 7 the firstFri. Who knows how long it survival. andElection what could been a of FinMasset • a by registered owner of real property in have the250-626-3995 Village for at least 30 days immedia Trevor Jarvis, Chief Officer gency patients. law. •there? ifbefore there is more than one registered owner oflength theTues. property, only one ofChi, those individuals Reading by Sandra Djwa, Sun. Oct. Sun Studio, $5 per family had beenMarg I’d just like to say that pm. Ngystle bldg. Pickleball, school gym, Mon./Fri. Sahaj (Raja Yoga) meditation, Meditation, Ngystle bldg. FLK Taoist Tai Mon. noon, Whale which grows to a of the day of registration; and If the Coast Guard is unavailable and the Jo-Ann Brown, Deputy Chief Election Officer •are with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property 5, 3 p.m. Seniors’ rm E-mail your coming events for if there any other empty homes Email Margo Hearne at ele 22 metres. “It was huge and almost call is considered a “life and death situaMasset 7:00-9:00 p.m. Thurs. 5:30, 7:30, 626-5400 7:30-9:30 pm. 559-4414 Wed. 7 pm, Sat. 10 am. 559-8458 •NON-RESIDENT notSun. entitled toOfficer register as a resident elector; and Chief Election 250-626-3995 PROPERTY ELECTORS: • tion,” BC Ferries manager of public affairs with open chimneys they should be 250-637-1571 Haida non-profit events to: observer@haidBanff Mountain Film Festival Tues. hecatebird@gmail.com as long as the Kwuna,” the Al, the not disqualified by enactment from What voting Suicide prevention conversation HGHES Speakers Series: is in an election or otherwise disqual Univer •• age 18 or older; andany other Darin Guenette said the Kwuna crew will Gwaii Emergency preparedness, Wed. Oct Oct. 7,Queen Wed.seafood? Oct. 8. Doors 5:30 films by law; and with Michael Pond, Mon. Oct. 6,Wed. 7-9 Thurs. Oct. 9, beagwaii.ca Drop into transport, dodge ball, Wed. 8 p.m., oldest FLK Taoist Tai Chi classes, CharlOtte sandsPit sunstudiohaidagwaii.com Election Officer available although it may • Chief a Canadian citizen; andsustainable if there isof more registered owner of Fri. the property, only one of day those individuals m pm, Wellness House. Info 626than 3911 7-8Assassinating pm, Heritage Centre QCSS, $2.the noon-1 Sat. 10:30 - noon. Infoone effect sailings following day.of registration; Thomson, Sept. Memorial for Kurt Carey, Sat. Sept ••pm; resident British Columbia forthe at least 6 months immediately before the FURTHER INFORMATION on foregoing may be obtained byacontacting: with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as non-resident property ele 557-4336 26, Election Comm. hall. 6:45 pm, of per-Masset 27, 1 pm, Beach 30 Rd.days immedia • a registered real property inDoors the Village for 507 at least Trevor owner Jarvis,of Chief Officer • before Sahaj Marg (RajaJo-Ann Yoga) Meditation, Ngystle bldg. Tues. FLK Taoist Tai Chi, formance 7:30 pm sharp the meditation, day of registration; and Moresby gets theMon. votenoon, Brown, Deputy Chief Election Officer Thurs. 5:30, 7:30, 626-5400 7:30-9:30 pm. 559-4414 Wed. pm,Gun Sat. Coho 10 am.Derby 559-8458 POrt CleMents Rod7and to Oct. • notSun. entitled to register as a resident elector;250-626-3995 and People living on Moresby Island will be Re • not disqualified bySept any other enactment from voting an election or otherwise disquali Assassinating Thomson, Sun. 12. Info 637-2212 Reading by Biographer Sandra inable Backhoe Services to vote for members of their manageFURTHER INFORMATION on the foregoing may be obtained by contacting: byTai law; AC Taoist Chiand classes, Queen CharlOtte sandsPit 28,FLK Comm. hall. Doors 6:45 pm,Wed. perDjwa , Legion, Sat. Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m. ment committee this November, although Chief Election Officer Redi-Mix Trevor Jarvis, Chief Election Officer mayo •pm; if there is more than one Assassinating registered owner of Fri. the Sept. property, only one ofConcrete those individuals m the Memorial event won’t be called anCarey, election. noon-1 Sat. 10:30 noon. Info Thomson, for Kurt Sat. Sept formance 7:30 pm sharp FLK Taoist Tai Chi, Mon. 10 am, Jo-Ann Brown, Deputy Chief Election Officer Satu Under the terms of the new Moresby Gravel and Sand Sales with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elec 557-4336 26,Puppet Comm.show, hall. Sat. Doors 6:45 27, 1Management pm, 507 637-5463. Beach Rd. Thurs., 7 pm, Oct. 4, pm, 2-3 perpm, Island Th 250-626-3995 Standing Committee • by Sandra Djwa, Sun. Oct. formance TRUCKING EXCAVATING comm 7:30 Reading Sun Studio, $5 pm per sharp family bylaw adopted by the -regional district Univ an em Sept. 19, the will five to Oct. POrt CleMents Rod andcommittee Gun Coho Derby Dave Ellishave 5, 3 p.m. Seniors’ rm E-mail your coming events for ers Chief Election Officer m Mr members, selected by a voting process 250-559-4747 Assassinating Thomson, Sun. Sept Info 637-2212 Reading by Biographer Sandra non-profit events to: observer@haidBanff Mountain Film Festival Tues. on12. Canad ing a the same day as the local government FURTHER INFORMATION on the foregoing may be obtained bydrellis@qcislands.net contacting: sites 28,Emergency Comm. hall. Doors 6:45 pm, perDjwa , Legion, Sat. Oct. 4, 7:30 p.m. preparedness, Wed. Oct first o Oct. 7, Wed. Oct. 8. Doors 5:30 films agwaii.ca elections, Nov. 15. Trevor Jarvis, Chief Election Officer www.davesbackhoeservices.ca again Those who acquire most Mon. votes will www.inlandair.bc.ca formance 7:30 pm sharp Brown, Deputy FLK Taoist TaitheChi, 10 am, auton cle Jo-Ann Chief Election Officer for(A th be appointed to the committee by the Thurs., 7 pm, 637-5463. Puppet show, Sat. Oct. 4, 2-3 pm, appea 250-626-3995 regional district chair. underw Reading by Sandra Djwa, Sun. Oct. Sun Studio, $5 per family

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The SAVINGS Start…

NOW!

2013 Ford F150

2012 Chevrolet Cruze

2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500

2012 GMC Sierra 1500

Was $32,900

Was $15,900

Was $24,900

Was $25,900

Stk #TDFC60070. 44,745 kilometers.

Stk #CC7177192. 112,487 kilometers.

Stk #TAZ213121. 106,795 kilometers.

Stk #TCZ166865. 87,945 kilometers.

Now $32,656

Now $12,730

Now $19,590

Now $21,663

2005 Chrysler 300

2010 Ford Focus

2011 Dodge Caravan

2012 GMC Terrain

Now $5,995

Now $9,995

Now $11,900

Now $22,900

2014 Chevrolet Silverado 3500

2013 Chevrolet Equinox

2007 Kia Rio

2008 Pontiac G5

Now $55,900

Now $26,900

Now $6,995

Stk #C5H687670. 208,086 kilometers.

Stk #TEF180009. 48,265 kilometers.

Stk #CAW194572. 80,769 kilometers.

Stk #TD6202133. 76,316 kilometers.

SPRING SERVICE SPECIAL Including:

- Oil change - 44 - point inspection - full brake inspection

Stk #C76236282. 106,746 kilometers.

*Prices vary by vehicle. Please see dealer for details.

Kimberly Godfrey Prince Rupert kgodfrey@maccarthygm.com

Stk #TC6359688. 77,047 kilometers.

Stk #C87309888. 91,752 kilometers.

TRANSMISSION

FLUSH

210

starting at

88.00*

Stk #TBR726208. 130,569 kilometers.

Tyler Portelance Prince Rupert tportelance@maccarthygm.com

Boyd McCann Terrace bmccann@maccarthygm.com

1001 Chamberlin Ave, Prince Rupert 250-624-9171 Dealer #31283

Bobby Moniz Terrace bmoniz@maccarthygm.com

5004 Hwy. 16 West, Terrace 250-635-4941 Dealer #5893

1-800-862-3926 • www.maccarthygm.com