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Shannon Lough Black Press The wildfire was at least 1.5 km on the outskirts of Fort McMurray. Katie Seggie wasn’t concerned. She heard that fire crews had it under control. That was on Sunday, May 1. The next day, Seggie was at home with her fiancé, Aaron Belanger, and they heard over the radio that the fire reached the fence line and was lighting up the south end of town. Seggie grew up in Kitimat. Her father, David, worked as a purchaser at Alcan for more than 20 years and her mother, Ann, worked at the hospital. Seggie went to Nechako Elementary School with her sister and to Mount Elizabeth Secondary School before moving to Fort McMurray 14 years ago. Kitimat was going through a bust at the time. There were layoffs at Alcan, and the promise of a boom in Fort McMurray drew the family to the oil town. “There wasn’t a lot going on so we headed for Fort McMurray, Alberta, just like a lot of other people,” Seggie said. More than a week after the mandatory evacuation from the city, Seggie is with her fiancé and their dog Gracie in Athabasca — a 300 kilometre drive south of Fort McMurray. “We’re staying in a four-wheel camper with a good friend. We’re looking for more permanent accommodations at the moment because we don’t know how long we’ll be away from home. It’s been an adventure that’s for sure,” she said. When the wildfire spread to the south end of the city, Seggie and Belanger still felt safe in their home. They lived in the north end, about 10 kilometres from the fire. Belanger’s family lived in the south and when they were evacuated they Continued on page 3

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Naloxone reverses Opioid overdoses Shannon Lough (with files from Tom Fletcher) A drug that can actually reverse an opioid overdose is on its way to Kitimat. Opioids, such as morphine, methadone, heroin, OxyContin or fentanyl can cause a user to go into cardiac or respiratory arrest — an overdose — and the drug, naloxone, can stop it. Naloxone is the antagonist to opioids. Take home naloxone kits have been available in some areas of the province, including Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna, since 2012. This month, Northern Health approved Kitimat to be a registered naloxone site. “It actually saves people’s lives,” said Davey MacLennan, the co-chair for the harm reduction committee at Kitimat Community Services. MacLennan is one of the three people qualified, as well as two nurses at the hospital, to educate residents on naloxone. “It doesn’t mean that we’re going to

Davey MacLennan, co-chair of the harm reduction committee. see more people using higher amounts because they have this drug with them. People using opioids don’t want the high to be reversed because it’s actually quite a violent quick reversal that lasts long enough for emergency services to get there.”

Naloxone is injected and lowers the effect of an opioid drug for 15 minutes and wears off in 30 minutes. The drug works by binding to the same site in the brain where the opioids bind and then it pushes the opioids out. MacLennan said they ordered the naloxone supplies last week and once they arrive doctors will be able to prescribe naloxone kits to people who do require to have the kit on hand. Last year, there were 465 illicit drug overdose deaths reported in the province, which was a 27 per cent increase from 2014. Many of those deaths were from opioids. On Thursday, the Health Minister Terry Lake Health Minister Terry Lake said there were 56 overdose cases reported in April, and the province has seen an average of 60 a month since January. Half of those cases are related to fentanyl, a potent synthetic opioid increasingly showing up in street drugs. “People don’t know they’re taking it, and it’s 100 times more powerful than Continued on page 2

Wildfire Continued from page 1 drove north to their son’s home, which took them two hours. “His parents came up to our house thinking, ‘We’ll stay here for a few days, it’ll be okay.’ A couple hours after they got to our house everywhere ended up getting evacuated,” Seggie said. From there, it took 11 hours non-stop to find a safe place to stay with a friend in Athabasca. There was nowhere to pull over on the side of the road, so Seggie and Belanger drove until they ran out of gas. Their friend met them at 4 a.m. with gas to help them make it all the way to his home in Athabasca. The concern and support has kept Seggie in good spirits. “I’ve had so many calls from friends and family from Kitimat. It’s been incredible,” she said. Unlike many evacuees who have posted on Facebook about the strange things they took with them and the essentials, such as socks and underwear, that they forgot, Seggie and her fiancé had a bit more time to pack. Seggie said she began to panick as soon as the fire hit the Thickwood area, a neighbourhood near Timberlea where they lived. She instantly prepared in case they had to leave. She packed two suitcases with five days worth of clothes and their photo albums. She even grabbed the computer tower and anything else they didn’t think they could replace. The oddest item she took

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That got us extremely emotional. It’s still there. It’s still standing.”

with her was the mailbox key. “I thought, ‘You never know I might have to check my mail’ and then I got to Athabasca and I was like, ‘if our house is gone chances are so is the mailbox’,” she said followed by a laugh. More than 80,000 residents were evacuated from Fort McMurray. After the wildfires moved on from the city, emergency crews found that 85 per cent of the infrastructure remains. But the Albertan government still isn’t allowing residents to return. There is some good news for Seggie and her family. She knows some of the emergency crew members who are working in the city. One of the fire fighters was in her neighbourhood and took a photo of their home and sent it via text. “That got us extremely emotional. It’s still there. It’s still standing,” she said. Even her parents, her sister and Belanger’s family’s homes are still intact. “We’ve worked so hard for everything and just being able to see your house still standing is a good feeling.”

The wildfire as it raged near the Seggie and Belanger home. Photo contributed by Katie Seggie.

Katie Seggie and her fiancé, Aaron Belanger, with their dog Gracie safe and sound. Photo contributed by Katie Seggie

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The damaged Kitimat Air Park landing strip was fixed as good as new on Thursday, May 12, after Kentron Construction donated nine workers, equipment and the material to smooth out the pavement — which would have cost $5,000. Last fall, Flying Club members noticed large ruts in two sections of the landing stip. No one has owned up to causing the damage. The members considered getting it repaired, but as Bob Rypma, the president of the Flying Club, said, “It’s more than we could afford.” It would have cost approximately $5,000 but Kentron did the work for free. Shannon Lough

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Where is the traffic in Kitimat? How could any driver be in such a rush that they felt it was vital to pass a school bus that has stopped to load its precious cargo. But for some reason, passing stopped school buses seems to be a problem in the smaller communities or on the back roads where there is little to no traffic. When I learned that the Kitimat RCMP had the initiative to ride on the school bus to monitor the situation, I was immediately transported back to a memory from my school days that I won’t ever forget. I went to high school in Ontario, situated beside an apple orchard and on the edge of Brampton, a bustling multicultural city. I lived 45 minutes away and would often take the “late bus” after participating in whatever sports team I was on for the season. On the way home from the first rugby practice of the year it was still light out. My friends and I had packed the late bus. We were riding along the back country roads dropping all the farmer kids off before heading to the small town subdivisions. A towering Grade 10 player on the team, Brittany, stepped off the bus. I remember looking outside, watching her lower down onto the shoulder of the dirt road still in her grass stained rugby shorts when out of nowhere a truck passed the bus on the inside and clipped Brittany. All the students on the bus saw it happen, yet the driver continued zooming down the road without a concern for the teenage girl he’d just hit. The rest of the after-school kids waited on the bus while the police interviewed each of us to determine what we saw. Of course none of us remembered the licence plate number, and I don’t think the driver was ever caught. Our parents were concerned as well. This is before the days that everyone had a cell phone. We couldn’t tell them we were scared, sad, and had to wait hours on the bus because some idiot was in a rush. Brittany was lucky in a way. The man’s truck only hit her knee, which put her out for the rugby season, but after her recovery she played on the team the following season. It still baffles me that a driver would ever think that it would be okay to pass a bus that has its lights on, stop sign out. We all know that means students are boarding or exiting that lit up bus. Yes, it sucks being stuck behind a bus that stops and starts up along your route home or to work, but that may be the only traffic that driver’s in Kitimat have to deal with. It’s not worth the $167 fine, and it’s certianly not worth harming a child. Shannon Lough

Proportional or first to the post Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated - at length - in Question Period last week that Canada’s election system has seen the last of its “first past the post” processes, which so often results in a majority government elected by 40 per cent or fewer of the electorate and leaving 60 per cent or more of Canadian voters feeling underrepresented. Successive majority governments have stressed dissatisfaction with this and declared Canada needs to devise a new means to improve the proportional representation of voters who wind up represented as they voted in a new Parliament. Then successive majority governments have ignored the issue blandly for - well for as long as it takes to make no progress for any upcoming election. Sure there’s always a lot of talk about it - debate, podcasts, op-ed articles, and videos and sound bites in our beloved main media - but time soon runs out without any consensus and another “first past the post”

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election ensues. Since Confederation, there have been only six governments take office with more than 50 per cent of the popular vote. The subject is annually on each party’s prime promises list -- and was in Justin Trudeau’s election commitments last. And with his chronic coscientious need to meet his promises (in selected issues) Trudeau’s allowed six months to pass before explaining how the Liberals plan to make this happen for 2019. And the band played “Waltzing Matilda” while the stuff hitting the fan flew everwhere. Nobody - Liberals aside - liked the proposals or the December 1 deadline.

On CTV and CBC -- the double power panels assembled to bleat that the Liberals were stacking the deck for a Liberall- beneficial result when it announced an all party study committee -- including elected Green Party and Bloc representatives - but with neither permitted a vote - while the Liberals have six voting members, the Conservatives three and the NDP one. Harrumph! Only the Liberals liked that strategy. Other leaders blasted the proposals as a set-up...demanding a public referendum - seemingly a contentious issue given the Liberal timeline. Mixed member or addition member proportional representation are among the popular names for the hoped for outcome. It sounds simple - but is in fact quite complicated. It’s attraction is that it seems to work well in many other jurisdictons - including the UK and Germany. Let me “borrow” from Wikipedia to get an explanation. Continued on page 7

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Playground project gets funding Shannon Lough All the ducks have lined up to replace an old wooden playground at Saint Anthony’s Catholic School. It has taken three years of fundraising, grant applications and requests for the parent advisory council (PAC) to raise the necessary funds to build a new playground. The chair of PAC, Joanne Demelo, said the estimated cost is at $91,700 and through fundraisers the parents raised $50,000 for the Saint Anthony’s Playground Project. On May 9, PAC appealed to the Kitimat Council for another $15,400 to cover the remaining costs of the project. “I think it’s prudent that we can do it. I look forward to the new playground,” councillor Rob Goffinet said. They council agreed with Goffinet. They found the request reasonable and the surrounding neighbourhood will have access to the playground as well. Council has assisted other schools in the district and felt they should extend the same support to Saint Anthony’s. “We are ecstatic,” Demelo said. “We did our first presentation March and then they tabelled it. We had to go back to them to say how we were going to reduce our costs and what we were going to need from them.” The initial ask was for a $30,000 grant from council. PAC had difficulty accessing some grants as PAC repre-

Grade 4/5 students at Saint Anthony’s Catholic School on the old wooden playground that will be replaced by a metal one by August. Photo by Shannon Lough sents a private or religious school, it’s not a charitable organization and the time lines for some of the grants didn’t meet the needs of the project. “Because we’re an independent school we have to do a lot of fundraising on our own and we don’t get the same kind of support as the school district gives the public schools,” Demelo said. With a little more digging, PAC wrangled up some inkind donations to cover an additional $10,600 of the costs.

Some of the companies donating time and materials to the playground include T Reilly Contracting, Beam Contracting and Sandhill will provide all the pea gravel. There are many volunteers who have also offered their time and energy to help build the playground. Now that PAC has the money they were hoping for, they are ready to order the metal playground with plans to install it by August. The school has agreed to maintain the playground once it’s built.

Council and RCMP look to ramp up action against drug-related activities in Kitimat occurred on my properties and around my properties.” She reported the activities to the RCMP, and then she repeated her concerns to the councillors who questioned if she had proper lighting or security cameras set up around the apartment complex — she does. “It doesn’t have to be dark, it (a drug deal) can happen at 9 a.m. in the morning,” St.Germaine said. “I want to live in a safe community.” Councillor Rob Goffinet applauded her presentation and suggested she meet with the RCMP to discuss what can be done. “We don’t know, but I think we’d be open to suggestions from you and especially the RCMP. You’re asking something that we all want for Kitimat,” he said. A week following the council meeting, St. Germaine met with the RCMP. Sgt. Morgan Graham said the RCMP

will be following up with St. Germaine. The RCMP will also encourage foot patrols through the Oceanview buildings and property. “We are aware of buildings that are more problematic than others. We will be targeting individuals in those buildings who are doing criminal activity,” Graham said. “We are able to do more surveillance and project oriented police work which will target the criminal activity and the drug dealers that do frequent that area,” he said. The RCMP sometimes meet with community health providers and the harm reduction committee. Graham said there are two areas in the community where drug users can pick up needles in a discrete manner so that users don’t have to use dirty needles. Co-chair for the harm reduction committee at Kitimat Community Services, Davey MacLennan, runs one of those sites

from Monday to Friday out of the hospital on the first floor. They provide a safe needle exchange and harm reduction supplies including alcohol swabs, gauzes

and tubing for pipes if someone is smoking. The committee is actively looking for community partners to be a satellite site for better access for harm reduction supplies,

including the safe discarding of needles. The hospital site is only open from Monday to Friday and the committee wants access to extend beyond those hours.

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Shannon Lough The conversation around public health and illicit drug deals along the Kingfisher and Albatross Avenues has come to light since a member of the public enlightened council about the issue on April 18. The Oceanview and Viewpoint apartment complex is zoned as a multi-family residential building with 15 buildings and 200 suites but when the new property manager, Sarina St. Germaine, moved into Kitimat last September, she discovered that some buildings and tenants were involved in drugs. “To the best of my knowledge I’ve evicted all my troublemakers and more specifically the drug dealers,” St.Germaine said to council. However, “In the past couple of months there has been a significant increase in vehicle and foot traffic and drug related transactions that have

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Proportional overturn virtually everything the Conservatives did in the past five years. And as they hon-

eymoon gets blarred by national issues Muslim immagration, indigenous issues,

wildfires and economic collapse in the vital oil business - muddying the waters on elec-

toral reform plays into Liberals plans because they can blame the opposition for delays that

result in anothe regular election three years from now. Yes, early days yet

- and so many issues to deal with - anything can happen. Expect it to occur.

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Continued from page 4 In its simplest iteration, “proportional representation is a system used to elect a country’s government. If proportional representation is used in an election, a political party that wins 10% of the vote, will win 10% of the seats in parliament and a party that wins 20% of the vote, will win 20% of the seats. If a party wins over 50% of the vote, it wins over 50% of the seats and can form a government, however this does not happen very often because most countries have lots of different political parties. If no party wins over 50% of the vote, then a coalition government usually has to be formed, where a government is formed from two or more different political parties, who together have over 50% of the seats in parliament. Countries which use proportional representation include: Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece and Iceland. Ireland, Austria, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. Countries which have systems that are similar or use semi-proportional representation include: Australia, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Thailand and Wales.” Not all of these countries of course use the same systems. Get it? No - neither do I. If it works so well in so many places, why has it taken Canada so long and how, when we tackle it, could we come up with such universally decried proposal from the Liberals? Easy-Canadian politicians really don’t want to risk their majorities. It got the Liberals their big permit from the public to

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El Salvador refugee to soccer dad Shannon Lough There is an ebb and flow of people who come to live in Kitimat — the Northern Sentinel will be looking at the stories of those who choose to stay. He thought they were fireworks. His family lived in a neighbourhood on a hill, and at night young Alex RamosEspinoza would watch the flares light up the sky and listen for the boom of the bombs. It was 1988 when his family decided it was time to leave El Salvador before the civil war spread to the capital city. Thirteen years later, Ramos-Espinoza would start his career in Kitimat, meet his wife and raise three kids. His epic journey by bus and car with 12 other refugees, through Guatemala, Mexico, the U.S. and finally Canada is one of the reasons he decided to settle in northern B.C. It is estimated that more than one million people from El Salvador fled during the civil war when the country’s population was approximately five million. It is estimated the war claimed the lives of 75,000 citizens. Ramos-Espinoza was 10-years-old when his parents mortgaged their home and sold all their belongings to pay a coyote — a people smuggler — to help them escape to Canada. “They know the shifts when the guards are changing. They know certain guards that they can bribe. Every time you went to a different border crossing there was a certain time that you had to do it,” Ramos-Espinoza said. They usually moved late at night. It took one month to get to the U.S.Canadian border. When they escaped Mexico, Ramos-Espinoza remembers a hill they had to cross in Tijuana. “You have the Mexican side and across the other hill is the U.S. Everybody is waiting there late at night. Then there’s a shift change. That’s when we started walking across,” he said. It was an adventure to him, but he knew his parents were scared. When they reached the U.S. they had to run across the freeway then travelled under a drainage channel. On the other side, the coyote had a car waiting for them. His parents squeezed into the trunk of the car, and he lay on the backseat with his brother. They had to hide for fear of being deported back south. His family wanted to go north to Canada because they had an uncle in Vancouver who said it is a great country to live in. But the coyotes had another trick up their sleeve to squeeze more money out of Ramos-Espinoza’s family and the oth-

Alex Ramos-Espinoza started his career and his family in Kitimat after fleeing civil war in El Salvador when he was 10-years-old. Photo by Shannon Lough

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er refugees. They put them all in a safe house where there were at least 50 or 60 people packed inside. “You’ve seen it in the shows. It’s exactly the same thing. Just waiting for the families to pick them up. At the safe house the coyote says, ‘We need more money’,” Ramos-Espinoza said. Another uncle was living in the U.S., and the coyotes phoned him saying they couldn’t release the family until they got more money. They paid the smugglers and the family was released. From there, the uncle who was living in Vancouver drove down to L.A. with his son in a small Pontiac “pony car” and ev-

eryone crammed into the seats and drove to the Canadian border. They applied for refugee status and were told to wait once again. The family spent two months in Bellingham with a church group that gave them shelter. Then the day they had waited for finally came, December 7, “It’s still pretty clear in my mind,” he said. Ramos-Espinoza moved to Vancouver at first, then to Oliver, where he graduated from high school. He decided that he wanted to be a civil engineer and he got his diploma at B.C. Institute of Technology, and then his degree at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He started looking for jobs, and then saw a posting in Kitimat. “I decided to apply. One of the toughest questions they asked me was if I liked rain?” He said with a laugh. “I said, ‘I don’t mind it.’ I came up and that was in August 2001. My first memory is coming down that hill and it was pouring rain.” It’s been 15 years since then. Kitimat

is the longest place that he’s ever lived. Within six months he met his wife, Emily, who had also just moved to town. Her father was working for Rio Tinto and she never thought she would stay. But they fell in love, and eventually bought a house together. When Emily was pregnant with their first child, they made the decision to stay in Kitimat. The couple had spent so much of their lives moving around they didn’t want the same for their children. “The school system is small and all the kids love it. They all know each other, and all the friends and families are all together and they look after each other,” he said. He also became a partner in his company, Lapointe Engineering, which was purchased by Hatch last year. For his kids and to be more connected with the community he joined the Kitimat Youth Soccer Association. “It’s hard to believe I came from El Salvador to Kitimat,” he said. “But this is where I want to be.”

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– The region’s top talent across a variety of arts – SCHOLARSHIPS Most Outstanding Jr. Performer, Munson Family Scholarship, $250, Karlie Fudger Most Outstanding Intermediate Performer, Rio Tinto Alcan, $500, Aria Viveiros Most Outstanding Sr. Performer, Knights of Columbus, $1,000, Magda Vandenberg AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE Brass - Intermediate, Fusion Eyecare Doctors of Optometry $150, Tiyanee Stevens Dance - Intermediate, Cote Award - $150, Bailey Rae Dance - Junior, Flynn Award - $100, Ruby Ferlaino Dance - Senior, Gemmas Boutiques Award - $200, Kennedy Gill Guitar - Intermediate, Rotary Club of Terrace Award - $150, Deirdre Lind Guitar - Junior, Copperside Foods Award $100, Ty Giesbrecht Piano - Intermediate, Crystal Thomas Award - $150, Nicole Hepling Piano - Junior, Terrace Academy of Music Award - $100, Madison Sommerfeld Piano - Senior, Al Lehmann - $100, Eunbee Kang Piano - Senior, Acadia Northwest Mechanical - $100, Eunbee Kang Speech Arts - Junior, Park Avenue Medical Clinic - $100, Iris Striker Speech Arts - Intermediate, Order of the Royal Purple Lodge

216 - $150, Emily Andrews Speech Arts - Senior, Munson Family - $200, Sophia Zanardo Strings - Junior, Canadian Tire - $100, Jayden Rogers Strings - Senior, Terrace Home Hardware Bulding Centre, $200, Michaela Julseth Vocal - Junior, Ginny Lowrie Award - $100, Julia Yoo Vocal - Intermediate, Park Avenue Medical Clinic - $150, Paige McKay Vocal - Senior, Leah Owens Memorial $200, Miranda Juergensen Woodwind - Intermediate, Jim Steele Memorial - $150, Emily Barron BAND McDaniel Trophy, Junior Stage Band, Prince Rupert Middle School Jazz Band McDonalds Restaurant Trophy, Level B200 or B300 Band, St. Anthony’s Grades 7, 8 & 9 Band Munson Enterprises Award, Senior Stage Band - $500, Caledonia Jazz Band Rio Tinto Alcan Trophy, Most Promising Band Level B400, Mount Elizabeth High School Band Terrace Community Band Trophy, Grade 6 8 Band, Skeena Grade 7 Concert Band XI Beta Mu Trophy, Most Promising Band, Levels B500 & B600, Terrace Community Band BRASS Geier Waste Services Award, Highest Mark

Brass Solo – $100, Autumn Dimitrov CHORAL Bank of Montreal Trophy, Secondary School Choir (Adjudicators Choice), Caledonia Concert Choir Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award - Choir, Community and Church Choirs (Adjudicators Choice) - $100, Sine Nomine Rotary Club of Terrace Award - Choir, Primary School Choir $100, Veritas Grade 3 Terrace Kinsman Trophy, Elementary School Choir, Veritas Voices Girls Choir DANCE All Seasons Source for Sports Award, Highest Mark Junior Jazz Dance Solo - $50, Braya Kluss Art in Motion Award, Highest Mark Classical Ballet Group - $75, Contemporary Collective “Dance of the Gypsies” Art in Motion Award, Highest Mark Contemporary Duet or Trio - $100, Sarah Jepsen and Hayley Houlden Art in Motion Award, Highest Mark Contemporary Solo $75, Katrina Duong Art in Motion Award, Highest Mark Intermediate Stage Dance Group - $75, Contemporary Collective “I Was Here” Cafenara Coffee Shop Award, Highest Mark Senior Jazz Dance Solo - $100, Sophia Franco Carlson Award,

Highest Mark Jazz Musical Interpretation Solo - $100, Gillian Jardim Cedar River Physiotherapy Award, Highest Mark Variety Dance Solo - $75, Taylor Jackson Cedar River Physiotherapy Award, Highest Mark Ballet Musical Interpretation Solo - $75, Gillian Jardim Cedar River Physiotherapy Award, Highest Mark Modern Dance Solo - $75, Kaia Jackson Cedar River Physiotherapy Award, Highest Mark Tap Dance Solo $75, Tylie Wong Comfort Award, Highest Mark Dance Duet or Trio - $75, Dance Unlimited “Catch and Release” Dance Academy of Prince Rupert Award,

Highest Mark Acrobatic Solo - $50, Addie Pottle Dance Academy of Prince Rupert Award, Highest Mark Classical Ballet Solo - 10 and under - $50, Libby Ferlaino Dance Academy of Prince Rupert Award, Highest Mark Music Theatre Dance Solo $50, Gianna Evans Dance Academy of Prince Rupert Award, Highest Mark Song and Dance Solo - $50, Lola Clouthier Free Elements Dance Studio Award, Highest Mark Senior Lyrical Solo - $100, Sophia Franco Free Elements Dance Studio, Highest Mark Modern Musical Interpretation - $100, Erin Axelson

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Kevin Eastman performing his version of the wolf’s side of the story of the Three Pigs.

Snap shots of some of Kitimat’s performers are showcased here. The Kitimat Dance Academy young kids group in photo above. Photos by Robin Willis.

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Top choices at the 51st annual music festival – Festival performers shine –

Cont’d from page 11 McDonalds Restaurants Award, Highest Mark Senior Stage Dance Groups - $100, Contemporary Collective “I Have Nothing” MNP LLP Award, Highest Mark Original Dance Choreography $50, Kennedy Gill Prince Rupert Arts Council Trophy, Highest Mark Classical Ballet Solo - 11 and 12, Karlie Fudger Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award, Highest Mark Street Dance Solo - $75, Tylie Wong Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award, Highest Mark Junior Lyrical Solo - $75, Ruby Ferlaino Rotary Club of Terrace Trophy, Highest Mark Junior Stage Dance Group, E-Motion “Pocahontas Goes to London” Spectrum City Dance Award, Highest Mark Jazz Group $100, Dance Unlimited “Americano” WOODD FAMILY Award, Highest Mark Classical Ballet - 13 to Open - $100, Kennedy Gill GUITAR Neifer Family Award, Highest Mark Intermediate to Open Classical Guitar Solo $100, Azaariah Marrelli Tchernoussoff Trophy, Highest Mark Junior Classical Guitar Solo, Ty Giesbrecht MISCELLANEOUS Anne Townsend Trophy, Grades K-7 Enthusiasm and Musicality - Adjudicators Choice, Uplands Elementary - Grade 4 Ukeleles Flying Fish Award, Highest Mark Original Composition (Music, Vocal, or Speech) - $50, Briana Greer James MacFarlane Memorial Award, Best Overall Adult/Child Presentation - $75, Kemper and Kerri Weightman & Kate and Dave Durrant (tie) Nenninger Family Award, Highest Mark Older Beginners - $75, Bethany Kaberry PIANO Al Lehmann Award, Highest Mark Senior Baroque Composers $50, Marrick Zips

All Seasons Source for Sports Award, Highest Mark Junior Canadian Composers - $50, Keyara Knight Allan Dubeau Award, Highest Mark Senior 20th and 21st Century Composers $100, Jeremy Baker Canadian Tire Award, Highest Mark Senior Canadian Composers - $100, Julia Yoo Carlyle Shepherd & Co Award, Highest Mark Senior Piano Solo - $100, Lawrence Liu Eugene H. Thomas Award, Highest Mark Senior Bach - $125, Eunbee Kang J. Coosemans Award, Highest Mark Romantics - Other than German and Chopin $75, Eunbee Kang Janet Felber Trophy, Highest Mark Junior Piano Conservatory, Nathan Bahr Jean and Frank Froese Memorial Award, Highest Mark Junior Bach, Konrad Ferec Kitimat Music Scholarship Society Award, Highest Mark Sonatina - $100, Brooke Viveiros L e ff l e r- S t e p h e n s Award, Highest Mark Senior Baroque Composers, - $50, Merrick Zips Nechako Northcoast Construction Award, Highest Mark Junior Piano Solo - $50, Alex Lecky Northern Savings Credit Union Award, Highest Mark Piano Duets, Trios or Quartets - $150, Olivia Feldhoff and Madison Sommerfeld Noteworthy Piano Service Award, Highest Mark Junior and Intermediate Baroque Composers - $75, Camryn Oliveira Park Avenue Medical Clinic Award, Highest Mark Chopin - $75, Madison Sommerfeld Park Optometry, Highest Mark Popular Selections - $75, Matthew McDicken Phillips Family Award, Highest Mark Sonata or Concert Group - $100, Nicole Hepting Pizza Hut Award, Highest Mark French Impressionists - $75, Julia Yoo Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award, Highest

Mark Beethoven - $75, Marrick Zips Ray Johnson Award, Highest Mark Senior Piano Conservatory $100, Jeremy Baker Rotary Club of Terrace Award, Highest Mark Intermediate Canadian Composers - $75, Michaela Matthews Royal Canadian Legion Branch #13 Award, Highest Mark Intermediate Piano Conservatory - $50, Alex Lecky Terrace Kinsmen Award, Highest Mark Junior 20th and 21st Century Composers $75, Claire Demelo Tim Hortons Award, Highest Mark Intermediate 20th and 21st Century Composers $75, Alex Lecky Warner Bandstra Brown Award, Highest Mark German Romantics - $100, Madison Sommerfeld Westland Insurance Award, Highest Mark Mozart and Haydn $75, Celine Liu SPEECH ARTS Crampton Personal Law Corp Award, Highest Mark Poetry and Prose - Duets and Trios - $75, Jayden Rogers, Zachary Carlyle and Alex Syd Eila and Glenys George Award, Highest Mark Public Speaking 2nd year and up - $50, Riley Pedro

Eila George Award, Highest Mark Public Speaking - 1st year $50, Zachary Carlyle Elan Travel Ltd. Award, Highest Mark Narrative Poetry Senior - $100, Emily Andrews Michael Strymecki Memorial Trophy, Highest Mark Choral Speaking (Kindergarten to Gr 3), Uplands Grade 2 & Veritas Grade 2 (tie) Mike and Joan Brady Award, Highest Mark Spoken Poetry (Lyric) Senior - $100, Magda Vandenberg Misty River Books Award, Highest Mark Spoken Poetry (Lyric) Intermediate - $75, Iris Striker Misty River Books Award, Highest Mark Recital Group - $75, Emily Andrews On Cue Players Award, Highest Mark Canadian Poetry - 12 and under - $100, Hannah Link On Cue Players Award, Highest Mark Canadian Poetry - 13 and over - $130, Hannah Durrant Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award, Highest Mark Narrative Poetry Intermediate $75, Zachary Carlyle Robin McColl Memorial Trophy, Highest Mark Spoken Poetry (Lyric) Junior, Ana Punta Rotary Club of Terrace Award, Highest

Mark Narrative Poetry Junior - $50, Rohan Cooper Royal Bank Trophy, Highest Mark Choral Speaking (Grades 4 to Open), Suwilaawks Community School Grade 4 Royal Canadian Legion Ladies Auxiliary Award, Highest Mark Group Presentations – $100, All Girls Shakespeare Group Superior Linen Award, Highest Mark Improvisation and Mime - $75, Sophia Zanardo Terrace Concert Society Award, Highest Mark Prose - $100, Magda Vandenberg Terrace Little Theatre Trophy, Highest Mark Dramatic Arts, Kevin Eastman Terrace Ministerial Association Award, Highest Mark Bible Reading Solo, Michaela Matthews STRINGS Cafenara Coffee Shop Award, Highest Mark Strings Conservatory - $100, Julia Yoo Eagle Ridge Forestry Award, Highest Mark Harp - Intermediate and Senior - $100, Sasha Haldane Haldane Award, Highest Mark Junior Harp - $50, Mikyle Strydom Harold Douglas Brown Memorial Award, Highest Mark Strings - Junior - $50,

Randi Sorensen Royal Bank Award, Highest Mark Strings – Intermediate and Senior - $50, Jayden Rogers Terrace Symphony Orchestra, Highest Mark Strings Duets, Trios or Ensembles - $100, Inverary Intermediate Harp Ensemble “Brai’Gh Loch lall” VOCAL Acadia Northwest Mechanical Award, Highest Mark Junior Music Theatre - $50, Madelin Berschaminski Bandstra Transportation Award, Highest Mark Vocal Conservatory Classes - $100, Aria Viveiros Dr. B. L. Phillips Award, Highest Mark Classical Vocal Duets, Trios, Ensembles $100, Inverary Intermediate Vocal Ensemble “Clouds” Kitimat Concert Association Award, Highest Mark Pop Vocal $100, Eden Viveiros Lorraine Johnstone Memorial Award, Highest Mark 20th & 21st Century Composers Solo - $100, Aria Viveiros National Car Rental Award, Highest Mark Junior Vocal Solo - $50, Gabriel Palapar Nechako Northcoast Construction Award, Highest Mark Intermediate Music Theatre - $75, Julia Yoo

Rotary Club of Terrace Award, Highest Mark Music Theatre Duet, Trio, Ensembles - $150, Inverary Vocal Ensemble “School Song” & Inverary Ensemble “One Short Day” (tie) Sine Nomine Award, Highest Mark Folk Song Solo - $100, Paige McKay Spotless Cleaners Award, Highest Mark Intermediate Vocal Solo - $75, Julia Yoo Theatre Alive Society Award, Highest Mark Senior Music Theatre - $100, Miranda Juergensen Totem Furniture & Appliances Award, Highest Mark Senior Vocal Solo - $100, Miranda Juergensen WOODWIND Acadia Northwest Mechanical Award, Highest Mark Woodwind Conservatory Solo - $100, Emily Barron Bank of Montreal Award, Highest Mark Woodwind Solo, Junior - $50, Nicole Hepting Nenninger Family Award, Highest Mark Woodwind Duets, Trios and Ensembles - $100, Beth Sheppard, Emily Barron and Eden Viveiros Terrace and District Arts Council Award, Highest Mark Woodwind Solo, Intermediate to Open - $75, Jacqueline Townsend

From Kitimat are, left to right, Madison Sommerfeld - Junior Piano, Nicole Hepting - Intermediate Piano, and Iris Striker - Junior Speech Arts, who won overall highest marks in their categories and disciplines. Photo Betty Miller

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Improvements coming to patient care in Kitimat By Cecile Favron Black Press Patients with complex health problems in Kitimat may soon see an improvement to their treatment. Northern Health is proposing changes to the way health care is delivered in the district and across northern B.C. Under the new plan a team of nurses from community services would be assigned cases to coordinate between doctors and other health care providers. On May 5, an

information session was held at the Kitimat Senior’s Centre, where 40 people attended. Concerns were raised by members of the public that the restructuring of Northern Health resources would not improve care unless more staff were hired. The departments within the health care system currently operate semi-independently. At the information session, health services administrator Jonathan Cooper said that the suggested changes will improve the transfer of patient

information between offices and ensure that patients have an overall care plan “We’re trying to do some work to look at this from the view of patients and families,” Cooper said. “We also recognize that holistic care is important.” He said that they are targeting people who require multiple healthcare services to treat their conditions, including elderly patients and those with terminal illnesses. Northern Health has not provided a timeline as to when the changes will take

affect, noting it is in ‘early stages’ of developing the new system. “We are working with physicians [...] this is new, but they certainly see the value in it,” added Cooper. “We’ve been having structured meetings with staff over a number of months now.” He painted a picture of a system where patients are immediately assigned to a care nurse who can relay their needs to a team of healthcare providers that in turn begin caring for the patient. This will cut down on the need for mul-

Distracted driving fines, points increase By Tom Fletcher Black Press A first offence for checking your phone while driving will cost B.C. drivers $543 when new penalties take effect June 1. The fine for distracted driving goes up from $167 to $368, and drivers will also be assessed four penalty points, triggering another $175 charge. The combination results in a total penalty of $888 for a second offence within a year of the first. Public Safety Minister Mike Morris said the new penalties put B.C. near the top of distracted driving fines for Canadian provinces. Two tickets in a year will also trigger an automatic review by the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles that could result in licence suspension. Public consultation over the past year found support for a tougher approach. “A lot of the input that we had indicated even higher penalties than that,” Morris said. Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n Minister Todd Stone said the public awareness campaigns have not convinced enough people of the dangers of trying to use mobile phones or other devices without hands-free services.

“Imagine trying to drive the length of a football field while you’re blindfolded,” Stone said. Central Saanich Police Chief Les Sylven, president of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police, reminded drivers that being at a stop light or stuck in a traffic jam does not mean the distracted driving penalties don’t apply. NDP public safety critic Mike Farnworth said the government didn’t need to take a year to increase one of

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the lowest distracted driving penalty systems in the country, and giving the superintendent discretion over multiple repeat offenders doesn’t send a clear enough message. “Frankly, I think that if you get more

than three in the course of the year, there should be no ‘may’ about it, you will lose your licence,” Farnworth said. Distracted and inattentive driving was a factor in the deaths of 66 people and injuries to 630 in B.C. in 2014.

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Position Type: Teaching/Literacy Support Categories: Aboriginal Education Location: Kitimat Village, British Columbia Haisla Community School is accepting application to join our dedicated teaching staff. Haisla Community school is located in Kitamaat Village approximately a 15 minute drive from the town of Kitimat, BC. The teaching staff is a dedicated and collaborative team. The school focus is both literacy and numeracy and implementation of read well/reading mastery and Saxon math programs. Low teacher to student ratio and collaborative team support provides an ideal situation for either emerging or master teachers to make significant contribution to student learning. Qualifications • B.C. teacher certification; • Teaching experience at the primary level; • Strong classroom management and excellent rapport with students; • Strong organizational and planning skills to accommodate the needs, the multi-levels and skills of this combined classroom; • The ability to maintain accurate and current student records; • Clear criminal records check. Interested individuals should submit a cover letter and resume (including BC Certification – confirmation of TQS level, email and cell phone contact), as well as names of three (3) references and the express permission for HNC to contract the references, to: Stephanie McClure, Human Resources Manager Haisla Nation Council Haisla PO Box 1101 Kitamaat Village, BC V0T 2B0 Fax (250) 632-2840 Email: humanresources@haisla.ca No later than 4 pm on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those short-listed will be contacted.

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Solidarity Forever: Unionism in Kitimat Canada and our home community of Kitimat have been shaped by unions. In 2016 we tend to forget the role they played in shaping the society we know today. It is said simplistically that it was unions that brought us the weekend, 40-hour work week and pensions. Yes, perhaps without the labour movement workers would still be considered full time, seven day a week, employees. Today unions have a diminishing influence. The participation rate, although not as low as in the USA, has now fallen below 50 per cent. But it was not always that way. In the 50s and 60s Canada was a union country and places like Kitimat were bastions of unionism. Unions weren’t just about workers’ contracts, they were about moral, social and political leadership which produced great Canadians like Tommy Douglas. Kitimat had a huge union workforce of more than 2,000 at Alcan, better than 700 at Eurocan, (including the pulp and pa-

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per mill, sawmill and woodlands operations) and perhaps a further thousand employed in the hospital, schools and municipality. Our community was an anomaly, an industrial city in the north. The Kitimat and Terrace District Labour Council became an influential body which was directed to a large degree by the Alcan and IWA unions. In the beginning Kitimat’s dominant union was the Alcancentred United Steelworkers which subsequently morphed into CASAW, then CAW and finally Unifor. Kitimat’s unions had great leadership from the likes of Peter Brisebois, Laurie Leblanc, Klaus Mueller, Peter Berton and Ross Slezak, to name a few. They had their struggles for sure, but they helped to nurture the fine community Kitimat developed into.

They also helped obtain a fair, stable, safe, healthy and well paid working place. Getting the health and benefits the workers wanted didn’t come easy. Who could forget the Strike of ‘76 with its national media attention, small army of imported RCMP officers and helicopters used to ferry in people to keep the smelter running? The cost of those struggles was enormous and the wounds ran deep: in the 1976 Canada Day parade the union float featured a scaffold with the effigy of a scab worker hanging from it. While the victories from those epic contract battles directly benefitted the industry workers, it should not be overlooked that the gains made percolated down to the wider community. Even in teaching, Kitimat was the land of plenty. It had its

own School District #80 with its substantial funding mostly from taxes paid by Alcan. That money allowed the school board to provide services and programs beyond the basics such as its own language lab and it is thought that little District #80 was the first in the province to offer its teachers a dental plan. Yes, the Teachers Union was hard working and effective, but they got their benefits and power from operating within a stable, supportive, union community. The CASAW leadership encouraged the teachers and supported them throughout their struggles, helping by offering, for example, the use of shared facilities and photocopying. Kitimat was considered a lighthouse school district, leading the way for teachers throughout the province with their maternity and bereavement clauses, benefits that sprang from what Alcan workers already had. Kitimat teachers, although comparatively small in numbers, were able to exert great influence on the provincial stage.

At least two Kitimat Teacher presidents went on to become president of the BC Teachers Federation: Harley Robertson in the 60s and Neil Worboys just over a decade ago. Kitimat certainly was a community founded on fairness and union principles which have over the course of six decades had a profound influence on the lives of many and helped define who we are today.

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Oh hey, you’re looking for the legal, right? Take a look, here it is: Take a look, here it is: Vehicle(s) may be shown with optional equipment. Dealer may sell or lease for less. Limited time offers. Offers only valid at participating dealers. Retail offers may be cancelled or changed at any time without notice. Dealer order or transfer may be required as inventory may vary by dealer. See your Ford Dealer for complete details or call the Ford Customer Relationship Centre at 1-800-565-3673. For factory orders, a customer may either take advantage of eligible raincheckable Ford retail customer promotional incentives/offers available at the time of vehicle factory order or time of vehicle delivery, but not both or combinations thereof. Retail offers not combinable with any CPA/GPC or Daily Rental incentives, the Commercial Upfit Program or the Commercial Fleet Incentive Program (CFIP).*Until May 31, 2016, lease a new 2016 F-150 XLT SuperCrew 4x4 5.0L V8 300A with 53A Trailer Tow package and get as low as 0.99% lease annual percentage rate (APR) financing for up to 36 months on approved credit (OAC) from Ford Credit. Not all buyers will qualify for the lowest APR payment. Lease this vehicle with a value of $38,406 (after $2,895 down payment, Manufacturer Rebates of $3,750 and including freight and air tax charges of $1,800) at 0.99% APR for up to 36 months with an optional buyout of $23,801, monthly payment is $431 (the sum of twelve (12) monthly payments divided by 26 periods gives payee a bi-weekly payment of $198.92), and total lease obligation is $18,411. Taxes payable on full amount of lease financing price after Manufacturer Rebate deducted. Additional payments required for PPSA, registration, security deposit, NSF fees (where applicable), excess wear and tear, and late fees. Lease offer excludes variable charges of license, fuel fill charge, insurance, dealer PDI (if applicable), registration, PPSA, administration fees and charges, any environmental charges or fees, and all applicable taxes. Some conditions and mileage restriction of 60,000km for 36 months applies. Excess kilometrage charges are 16¢ per km, plus applicable taxes. Excess kilometrage charges subject to change (except in Quebec), see your local dealer for details. All prices are based on Manufacturer’s Suggested Retail Price. ¥Offer valid between May 3, 2016 and June 30, 2016 (the “Offer Period”) to Canadian residents. Receive $750 towards the purchase or lease of a new 2015 Mustang (excluding Shelby GT350),Taurus, Edge, Transit Connect, Transit, F-150 (excluding Regular Cab XL 4x2 Value Leader); 2016 Fusion, Mustang (excluding Shelby GT350), Taurus, Edge, Flex, Explorer, Escape, Expedition, Transit Connect, E-Series Cutaway, Transit, F-150 (excluding Regular Cab XL 4x2 Value Leader), F-250 to F-550; 2017 Fusion, Mustang (excluding Shelby GT350), Explorer, Escape, Expedition (each an “Eligible Vehicle”). Only one (1) bonus offer may be applied towards the purchase or lease of one (1) Eligible Vehicle. Taxes payable before offer amount is deducted. Offer is not raincheckable.^Based on results from the 2015 Vincentric model level analysis of the Canadian consumer market for the Full-Size 1/2-Ton Pickup segment.‡F-Series is the best-selling line of pickup trucks in Canada for 50 years in a row based on Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association statistical sales report up to 2015 year end.†When properly equipped. Max. payloads of 3,240 lbs/3,270 lbs with available 3.5L V6 EcoBoost 4x2 / 5.0L Ti-VCT V8 engine configurations. Class is Full-Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs GVWR based on Ford segmentation.††Class is Full-Size Pickups under 8,500 lbs. GVWR. vs. 2015 competitors. Some driver input required. Driver-assist features are supplemental and do not replace the driver’s attention, judgment and need to control the vehicle.‡‡Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’S) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar. gov). ©2016 Sirius Canada Inc. “SiriusXM”, the SiriusXM logo, channel names and logos are trademarks of SiriusXM Radio Inc. and are used under licence.©2016 Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited. All rights reserved.

16 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Sports & Leisure Ladies golf results

The following are the results of the Kitimat ladies golf for Tuesday May 10, 2016. A Flight 1st low gross – Murielle Gaudet – 47. 1st low net – Vivian Ringham – 33. B Flight 1st low gross – Cheri Seppala – 60. 1st low net – Fatima Reynolds – 43 on a countback.

Long drive winners; Murielle Guadet and Diane Hewlett. Winners of gift certificates; Elaine Farrell, Sue Jay, Donna McMenamon and Debbie Cyr.

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