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Hiro Takeda prepares a noodle dish with hurried care Monday at 293 Wallace Streets tasting night. GREG LAYCHAK PHOTO

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Placing a single, impeccably arranged scallop on the table in front of his guest, head chef Brent Gillis describes in detail what his patron is about to eat.

Apples, compressed then infused with lemon juice and fennel accom-pany the scallop.

Together they sit in a butternut squash juice with dots of parsley oil circling the main bite.

There is chervila relative of parsleyin the dish as well. Though the guest has never heard of this herb, the sprigs on his plate are grown locally in an aquaponics sys-tem.

It could easily be mistaken as a

scene from the world-class Danish restaurant Noma, and there is good reason for that.

Moments before serving the scal-lop dish, Gillis emerged from the kitchen of 293 Wallace Street where the owner Hiro Takeda had just concluded a meeting with all of his employees, going through all of the dishes to be served that night.

Many of Takedas recent decisions for 293 Wallace, including the pep talk circle (complete with each per-son sharing two positives from their lives) and his Monday night tastings are strongly influenced by his time as an intern at Noma.

It really helped fortify things that we were doing at the restaurant and it helped bring new ideas to the restaurant, says Takeda. Foraging

is a big thing that we bring to the restaurant, using ingredients like Douglas fir, wild mushrooms, and different herbs that people generally wouldnt use.

The list continues: sheep sorrel, ground elder, dandelion and sting-ing nettle are all examples of unique (but often naturally ubiquitous) ingredients in the revamped 293 cuisine.

Over his 13 weeks in the Copenhagen restaurant, in an experience that was very intense, Takeda spent valuable time in the production kitchen and the service kitchen where he was thrown right into the fray with the full team and some of the other two dozen interns, doing lunch and dinner service.

But more than half of his time

was spent in the fermentation lab at Noma alongside Lars Williams, head of research and development, an opportunity few of his counter-parts were fortunate enough to get.

Thats where theyre creating new flavours and new products essentially, Takeda says. Theyre creating their own misos and soy sauces and kombuchas and vinegars and such. The inventive restaurant uses Danish or other Scandinavian ingredients as a base for those fer-ments.

Miso traditionally is made with soy beans but since thats not native to the region, theyre using yellow split peas and rye bread and differ-ent ingredients that way, Takeda says.

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Thursday, December 17, 2015 The Hope Standard2 www.hopestandard.com

Letter of Support Segway Tours Council endorsed the letter addressed to Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure, recommending the Ministry amend the regulations to allow the use of segways on or near local roads in Hope, which would thereby increase tourism and local economic development.

Asset Management PlanCouncil endorsed the proposal submitted by Urban Systems to create the Districts Asset Management Plan and Geographic Information System Infrastructure Inventory. The cost is $62,000.

Development Permit and Development Variance Permit 21534 Richmond Drive Relax Front Yard Set-Back RequirementCouncil approved the preparation of a Geotechnical Hazards Development Permit for 21534 Richmond Drive to enable the owner to proceed with the

construction of a single family dwelling and approved necessary structures.

Council also approved the preparation of a Development Variance Permit to relax the front setback requirement of 7.5 metres down to 2.0 metres and the siting exemptions as provided in Zoning Bylaw No. 1324 be reduced to 1.2 metres to allow for roof over hangs and a proposed deck. Staff will be notifying neighboring properties of the applicants intentions.

Fraser Valley Inter-Municipal Business Licence BylawFraser Valley Inter-Municipal Business Licence Bylaw No. 1363, 2015 was adopted. This bylaw permits certain categories of businesses to operate in more than one municipality within the Fraser Valley region without having to obtain a separate business licence for each jurisdiction.

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November 9, 2015WE ASK RESIDENTS TO:Clear their driveways and entrances. Property owners/occupants are responsible for clearing sidewalks adjacent to their properties. It is dangerous to place snow on the roadway. When clearing your driveway, pile the snow on the left side of your driveway (as you look towards your house). In many cases this will reduce the amount of snow that the plows push back into your driveway.WE ASK BUSINESSES TO:Remove snow, ice and rubbish from the sidewalk and footpath bordering on the property not later than 10 oclock in the morning of any day except Sunday or a statutory holiday.After a snowfall or ice storm, snow and ice must be removed from the roof or any other structure where there is potential for ice and snow to fall on any sidewalk or roadway.WE ASK EVERYONE TO:Try not to park on the road if possible after a snowfall. Vehicles parked on the roads will impede the ability of the snowplow to clear the road.

Be patient and thoughtful. The District staff is out there working on your behalf. A little consideration and common sense can go a long way when weather conditions are diffi cult.

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Merry Christmasfrom the Mayor, Council, Management & Staff of the District of Hope The District of Hope is seeking a

motivated individual for the position of:

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS (Public Works)

Reference the full detailed Job Posting and Job Description on the District of Hope web site, www.hope.ca

Candidates seeking a rewarding career opportunity are invited to submit a cover letter and detailed resume in confi dence, by 4:00 p.m. December 30, 2015.

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

Donna BellinghamDirector of Corporate Services

The District of Hope Christmas hoursThursday, December 24th: 8:30 am 1:30 pmFriday, December 25th: ClosedMonday, December 28th ClosedTuesday, December 29th: 8:30 am 4:30 pmWednesday, December 30th: 8:30 am 4:30 pmThursday, December 31st: 8:30 am 4:30 pmFriday, January 1st: Closed

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The current MLA for Chilliwack-Hope said boundary changes that will remove Hope and the Fraser Canyon from the riding by 2017 are unfortunate.

But MLA Laurie Throness had no choice but to accept the forth-coming shift in elec-toral boundaries, along with the upheaval in the impacted communities.

Throness described the Chilliwack-Hope electoral district, in his Legislature speech last month, as one of the most changed and most altered by the work undertaken by the Electoral Boundaries Commission to realign boundaries in more than half of the ridings across B.C.

The provincial rid-ing of Chilliwack-Hope is set to become C h i l l i w a c k - K e n t by 2017. That means the residents of Hope, Boston Bar, Yale and the Fraser Canyon will become part of the Fraser-Nicola riding.

District of Hope Mayor Wilfried Viktor said many Hope resi-dents made it clear they were against the riding changes, and preferred to keep the status quo.

Obviously the major-ity of the public seemed to be in favour of the existing electoral bound-ary configuration, at about two-thirds in sup-port, said Viktor. But that also meant that one-third were interested in seeing it go the other way.

It was mainly party-based opposition, he said, along the urban-rural divide, but added that there isnt an exist-ing appeal mechanism for anyone who doesnt like it.

Well have to adjust. Theres no point being crabby about it. I guess well have to see how it goes, said Viktor.

The business sector also took issue with it.

We are extremely concerned, said Stephen Au-Yeung, president of the Hope Chamber of Commerce.

Its been an ongo-ing topic of discussion around Hope chamber tables, and they fired off a letter in opposition to the commission.

The challenge is that

the new Fraser-Nicola MLA will have to be extremely adept at work-ing with various bodies, ranging from Hope in the eastern edge of the Fraser Valley, all the way into the Interior.

Theres a strong sense that the MLA wont be able to assist us, and if something emerg-es and someone needs to meet with their MLA, its going to mean travelling up the Coquihalla.

Often thats not con-venient, or even possi-ble, for those with trans-portation challenges.

Its just not workable from chamber of com-merce perspective at this point, he said. Maybe the next MLA will be able to overcome the difficulties this change presents, and maybe there will be new oppor-tunities.

But the fear and trepi-dation remains.

Why is my rid-ing changing so much? Its about numbers, Throness explained in his speech.

With growing popula-tions across B.C., riding boundaries get shifted provincially every eight years, to ensure the voter weight of every British Columbian is evenly dis-tributed.

Its done to avoid the appearance of gerry-mandering, Throness said, which means manipulating the num-bers for political gain.

But argued to the commission that geo-graphically, economical-ly and culturally, Hope is more aligned with the Fraser Valley, than it is with the Fraser-Nicola region.

This was a big deal

for my constituents in Hope. I immediately began receiving feedback from people in Hope and even from people to the north of Hope, Throness remembered.

Chilliwack-Hope is going to shrink from 10,842 square km to 3,168 square km which is 70 per cent smaller.

Itll be much more of an urban riding than it currently is, Throness said. It will have about 51,000 people in it, so its still quite a large riding.

MLA Throness said he did everything he could to register the opposition of his con-stituents to the proposed change. He handed in a 400-name petition after the local municipal-ity passed a resolution opposing the changes.

I think, in conclu-sion, that its unfortunate the commission finally chose to make the deci-sion it did; that is, to

put Hope and the Fraser Canyon within the constituency of Fraser-Nicola, Throness said in his Leg speech.

But I understand their reasons for doing so. Its a difficult job of an independent com-mission to do this kind of work, and of course, I accept their verdict.

He was nonetheless sad to be losing the more rural areas.

They are such beau-tiful areas of my riding. I have so enjoyed getting to know the unique peo-ple that populate Hope and Yale and Boston Bar and smaller areas in between. They are salt-of-the-earth people. They are good people. They are genuine people.

It has been such a pleasure to represent them, and it will be such a pleasure to represent them for the next 19 months until the next election.

But the whole issue

has caused a bit of a weird situation for the MLA.

One of the upshots will be the loss of the democratic imperative, or the impulse to be re-elected, which wont be there for Throness.

He called it a flaw in the system, and is calling for change.

Since the bound-ary readjustments hap-pen every eight years, it means that on a perma-nent basis, 20 per cent of the time in areas all over B.C., most MLAs have the incentive to serve constituents who are currently in a neigh-bouring riding, and the incentive not to serve some constituents who are currently in their own riding, he said.

He added its not in the public inter-est to allow that much lead time and leave the accountabilities of most MLAs to be blurred.

So I would recom-mend to this House, to future legislators, that some time in the next eight years we have lots of time before the next bound-ary adjustment, that this Legislature would change the law in order to keep the democratic incentive in place for as long as reasonably pos-sible and maximize the accountability of MLAs to their constituents, to keep our constituents as our constituents, as close as possible to each elec-tion, and to give MLAs every incentive to focus on their current con-stituents rather than on future constituents.

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The human papilloma virus (HPV) can cause cervical cancer in women. It can also cause oropharyngeal cancer (throat and

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People who suffer from severe allergies can take heart. There is a new skin patch technology being researched that looks promising. Its called epicutaneous immunotherapy (EPIT). It is hoped that it will work well with those with peanut allergies as well as dairy

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Wine often is part of holiday celebrations. Check the wine labels for alcohol content. Its not uncommon to nd wines with more than the usual 11-12% alcoholeven up to 14%. The same can be true of some beers too. Also, every drink doesnt have to be alcohol. Try the mix only or a big glass of water.

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Locally sourcing and fermenting were important before his time in the coveted intern position, but they have taken on a new fervour since his return in June.

And with many foods at 293 Wallace made on site as well, prep time for Takedas staff is lengthy.

We set out to try to create a restaurant that was special for [Hope], that not only did it provide food that was all made from scratch and had a creative twist to it, but also our investment into our team, into our staff, he says. It goes far beyond the daily operations. We do our best to make sure that our team members feel like part of the family.

Its always been that way for Takeda, influenced by his many years as a chef when he returned to his childhood-favourite Camp Squeah.

But Takeda has also borrowed a page from Noma, holding a daily staff meal cooked by himself or another chef where everyone working that day will sit and eat together.

And he credits his passion for people and com-munity building to his own path of success.

I was very fortunate to have a lot of chef mentors very early on who invested heavily into me and really helped me out, Takeda says. I was given many opportunities to succeed.

He doesnt just want to provide a unique dining experience for the people of Hope, but also wants to give a great learning experience to his staff.

One of the reasons Takeda started the 293 Wallace Monday night tastings was to have a creative outlet for his team and to give them the opportunity to come out of the kitchen and talk with restaurant guests.

Our team is one that spends a lot of time think-ing and pondering ideas and creating things on their own, he says. And thats fantastic to see but its a shame if nobody else gets to see it.

Even the front end staff gets an opportunity to add to the creativity. Dining room manager Nicole Craig adds a twist to the constantly-changing bar fresh sheet.

And Monday night is the new avenue when staff can take all of that energy and funnel it into one evening, where diners and cooks interact over the experimental dishes of the week.A full-flavoured history

Takeda remembers sitting with his peers for lunch at school when he was young.

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Growing up I was exposed to many flavours that most of my friends were never exposed to, Takeda says. The flavour profiles that Im used to and that Im able to dabble into have been broad-ened because of that upbringing.

His parents immigrated from Japan and eschewed fast food, preparing every meal from scratch and placing importance on a TV-off family meal every night.

And that influences Takedas restaurant to this day. He places utmost importance on the ingre-

dients and the details of foodand the people who make and eat it.

But he also took a strong work ethic from his parents, something he says made him who he is today: a 30-year-old fine-dining restau-rant owner who has trained with some of the worlds best chefs.

I was taught to be very hard working I was taught to put work above almost everything else, Takeda says, adding that his father was also a chef at one point in his career path.

Its not just drive and values that the young entrepreneur inherited from his parents.

Some of the dishware a custom-er might see on the Monday tast-ing nights are from his parents hand-made, artisan collection.

One bowl that Im very fond of is a bowl that I used to eat out of as a kid, Takeda says.

That same child growing up in Surrey fell in love with the Hope area at summer camp, not know-ing that he would return as an adult to lead his own family and teach a marriage of life skills and cooking skills.

Takeda admits its a bit more of a serious platform at a restau-rant than working at a camp, but the core values (and some of the employees) are still the same.

We still have people who dont want to become chefs but theyre working in our kitchen, he says. They value it here because theyre learning life skills and because theyre part of a team thats cre-ative and has a cool dynamic to it.

We all get along very well and we all create together, and we all make people happy togetherand we do it as a team.

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Premier Christy Clark sat down with Tom Fletcher for a year-end interview at her Victoria office Dec. 9. Here are excerpts. For the full version, see the Opinion tab at www.hopestandard.com.

TF: At the UN climate confer-ence in Paris, did you speak about natural gas as a transition fuel, and did you find support for that idea?

PCC: Yes and yes. The new gov-ernment in Ottawa is a big sup-porter of our LNG plan, and part of the reason for that is that they also see it as a way forward for Canada to make a huge contri-

bution to fighting global climate change.

There are 150 coal plants on the books in China today. The only way that those plants and the ones that come after will be stopped is if they have a transitional fuel to move to.

TF: B.C.s 2020 greenhouse gas target, reduction of emissions by a third, is another target that isnt going to be met. Why?

PCC: When the government brought in the carbon tax, it was based on the assumption that other jurisdictions around us were going to eventually catch up. And none of them have.

There comes a point where the carbon tax can only get so high before we start chasing all those jobs out of the province.

TF: Your advisory committee says the carbon tax needs to go

higher starting in 2018 if its going to have an effect. Do you have any other choice?

PCC: Lets figure out what the national goal is going to be, which we dont know yet.

TF: On a related topic, transit spending. Your new minister Peter Fassbender has talked about a new day in Ottawa and hes downplay-ing the idea of another referendum for new funding sources. Is that off the table now?

PCC: It may be possible that the federal government wants to invest more in transit, and take up some of the slack from the local govern-ment level.

TF: On LNG, oil and natural gas prices continue to go down, and supply continues to go up around the world. Did you see any positive signs this year?

PCC: What I saw this year was

developing countries, especially China, making a firm commit-ment to reduce their emissions. The only way for them to do that is to move to a greater degree to natural gas, and the bulk of their industry is still located on the east coast of their country, a long way from Russia and close to B.C.

TF: Are we going to see some policy action on high housing costs in 2016, and will there be some relief from the property transfer tax?

PCC: Youll see in the February budget, but we are looking for ways to provide some relief for home buyers.

TF: Were starting to see gov-ernment advertising ramp up. We saw a lot of Jobs Plan advertis-ing before the 2013 election, we saw the federal government do it with their Economic Action Plan,

which was very expensive, and to most peoples eye self-serving or political in nature at taxpayers expense. Is that what were going to see in the next year and a half?

PCC: It wont be political. I think some of that was, really, political. You will see more information-based advertising out there, talk-ing to people about for example, the Registered Education Savings Plan.

TF: Not Jobs Plan 2.0?PCC: I dont think thats in the

plan. I wish I could say to you no, never, but I, you know.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Email: [email protected]: @tomfletcherbc

There are many reasons to register as an organ donor.In our province alone, there are at least 544 reasons. That is the

number of people currently waiting for a transplant in B.C.The good news is that 959,635 British Columbians have done what

they can to shrink the number on that wait list. That is the number of registered donors in B.C.

While that is noble, that accounts for barely 20 per cent of the provinces population.

According to the Canadian Council for Donation and Transplantation, the vast majority of Canadians 96 per cent approve, either strongly (71 per cent) or somewhat (25 per cent) of organ donation. Only four per cent of Canadians expressed disap-proval (see bit.ly/1Qek5yy for full publication).

So, why is there such a disparity between the approval rating and the act of registering?

That is a question that confounds many experts.The most common belief is that people simply have not gotten

around to it. Theres always time, right?Well, we can hope so. But the truth is, we dont know. And the

problem is, its never too late... until its too late.Another theory is that the need for a transplant does not affect

enough of the population for it to be a pressing issue to the majority.That is understandable. It stands to reason that someone is more

likely to be empathetic to a situation if their lives have been touched by it. That is one of the reasons cancer research donations are so incredibly high. Nearly everyone has been touched by the disease in one way or another, and we all want to see the end of it.

In that regard, we are blessed that the need for transplants does not affect nearly the percentage of the population as a disease as terrible as cancer. That said, the need is still there. And the commitment on your part is simple. Four minutes. Thats all it takes to register online at transplantbc.ca

All you need is your BC Health number, and in 240 seconds.It could be the most selfless, heroic act you ever perform, and it

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Many Canadians are enjoying a rare surge of optimism as they wel-come a new prime minis-ter, cabinet, and presum-ably, a new direction, for Canada.

Im one of them, although I find myself stepping back to a more cautious mindset.

After 10 years of oppressive democratic, environmental, and pub-lic services darkness it seems almost logical that there is no where to go but up.

But its important that we keep in mind that up comes with a price tag; Im OK with that, to a degree and for the near term, but discounting costs is dangerous terri-tory.

Governments and cor-porations have specialized in shoving costs down the road with, for example, incremental and now sig-nificant cumulative dam-age to our environment, biological diversity, public and social services, and climate.

But with each passing day someone will have to pay with a notch or a chunk taken out of their life, perhaps a lost oppor-tunity or less on the table and that someone is usually the people you and I.

Reports tell us there are at least 100 aborigi-nal communities without water and sewage servic-es. At this stage in our his-tory thats insulting, and while I remain suspicious

that there is some bleed-ing going on between government funding and native spending in their communities, this criti-cal situation has to be corrected. It will cost us hundreds of millions of dollars.

The new census forms, of which I strongly approve, will require tens of millions of dollars to process and analyze.

Mail services to homes, and perhaps maintaining post offices in small communities, another correction I think important, will costs tens of millions of dollars.

Resurrecting our Coast Guard, implementing an honest environmental assessment process that ensures Canadians a legal

right to be heard without being labeled as radicals, and rebuilding federal science libraries will come at a cost.

Reforming our pen-sion system to remove the insult of over half a mil-lion seniors living below the poverty line and pro-vide greater payment to all seniors, so they dont descend into that fright-ening world, and provid-ing long overdue benefits to veterans and disabled persons will consume hundreds of millions of dollars.

Why then is Canada rushing frantically to burden our social sys-tem, our already stressed natural environment, our overloaded health care system, in a world

in which overpopulation and overconsumption are internationally recog-nized threats to the earths life support systems, to relocate 25,000 refugees?

It has always been dif-ficult for people to link their actions with con-sequences, particularly when the latter are incre-mental and diffused. Most humans operate in a short term, visual world. But a lack of awareness, or out-right denial of impacts, serves only special inter-ests, not society.

Canada can, given our relative wealth, help slow, perhaps some day even stop, the exodus of humans from their home-land, but it will take help flowing from here to their land; relocating refugees

simply stalls and compli-cates serious and essential reform.

Failure of this rash agenda is something I would accept.

Perhaps then we would concentrate on a collec-tive strategy to preempt forced emigration that already threatens to destabilize critical ecolog-ical, social, and political systems.

Dr. Brian L. Horejsi


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I find it very caring and hon-ourable that Canada is step-ping up to the plate in its com-mitment to take up to 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year, and 25,000 overall.

What I find confusing, is the double standard of showing preference to these people, over our own population.

On any given day in Canada, there are 235,000 homeless people roaming our streets, including many, right here in the Fraser Valley.

Why is it, all of a sudden to show this visual display of open kindness, to this despaired foreign population, while we continue to neglect our own

despaired people. Are the lives of our mentally

ill, drug addicted, homeless, and those with other chronic health issues, less important, than those who have at least the energy to paddle a raft across the Mediterranean?

I cant help but think, that maybe, the optics of aiding

a population that makes the headlines in our news medias, have become more important because of political observa-tion and intimidation, rather than helping out those in dire straits, who are apart of our own Canadian family.

I believe this isbecause that our homeless were circum-

stanced into a situation, that many of us cannot make sense of, or dont understand.While, the Syrian refugees, create an opportunity for our politicians to change the focus from their policy miscalculations, to our heart strings.

Art Green, Hope

On behalf of the Royal Canadian Legion, Hope Branch #228, I would like to express our sincere thanks to our community for the very generous support they gave our poppy campaign for 2016.

The money raised through this cam-paign is used to help the vets who reside in our catchment area.

Also, we continue to be overwhelmed by, but very appreciative of the support that we also receive annually, through your attendance of our ceremony that

takes place at the cenotaph.While there are many legions

throughout the province that are strug-gling to stay open, we are fortunate that through the hard work of our members and the support of our community we continue to thrive.

Once again thank you one and all for your generosity.

Lynn Barker

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Refugee response displays double standard

New governments promises carry a heavy price

The Syrians are com-ing. Those of us with open minds will welcome them into our country and our communities.

This is the Canadian way; our ancestors all came from some some-where else, even our aboriginal peoples.

For those Canadians

who do not want non-Europeans to come here, consider this: DNA research shows that the ancestors of all Europeans spent thousands of years in central Asia, in places like Kazakhstan, before migrating westward into Europe.

Later there were other

migrations into Europe from the Middle East.

I myself, who always thought I was 100 per cent British/ Irish, have four per cent Middle Eastern (Turkish) genes. We are all cousins of each other.

Lets welcome these people with open hearts

and not let fear and unfounded prejudices get in the way of doing what

is right.

Patricia McGee

There are many of us that real-ize that the Syrian refugees are in the need of help, but there are many Canadians that also need help and are not getting it.

How come there is an almost endless amount of taxpayers cash to help foreigners but nothing for those that have contributed taxes

to the Canadian economy for decades.

I know of a gentleman in his 50s that had a nervous break-down over two months ago and has been told by the doctors that he would not be well enough to return to work for at least four months.

He has not received one cent by way of government monetary assistance. If he finally is accept-ed for assistance he would receive approximately $620 per month. This amount would have to cover his rent, utilities and food.

Perhaps he should pretend that he could not speak English

so that he could get the help that he desperately needs.

Charity begins at home and this man needs a short-term lift up, but I guess that he would not be considered a case of oppor-tune political headlines.

Donald Thorsteinson

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Metro Vancouvers drive to build a new garbage incinerator is on ice, if not dead.

The regional district announced Thursday it is discontinuing the lengthy waste-to-energy procure-ment process, although it indicated it could be restarted in a year or two.

I certainly think it was good news, said District of Hope mayor Wilfried Vicktor. Obviously air quality is a huge concern for the Hope region because were the end of this funnel shaped valley.

If there are periodic air qual-ity warnings that apply to Hope throughout the summer it can affect the towns tourism, he added.

And its not pollution weve cre-ated for the most part its pollution from Metro Vancouver, Vicktor said. Im relieved we dont have to deal with it, for now at least.

Fresh on the heels of that plans cancellation, the Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) received approval for its solid waste manage-ment plant from the Environment Ministry.

We applaud Minister [Mary] Polaks decision which will allow for the establishment of policy and regulation that will encourage pri-vate sector investment, innovation and competition, while meeting the plans target of 90 per cent diversion in the next 10 years, said FVRD chair and Chilliwack Mayor Sharon Gaetz said in a press release.

The FVRDs plan focuses on mixed waste material recovery, a sophisticated way to divert as much as possible material from the waste stream and improve recycling.

By working together with the private sector, and taking advan-tage of economies of scale, the FVRD hopes to lead by example and implement a true Zero Waste management system in British Columbia, according to a press

release issued Tuesday.The FVRD release reiterated that

mixed waste material recovery is more cost effective than garbage incineration and has no negative impact on air quality.

Gaetz and other FVRD leaders have been vocal for years in oppo-sition to Metro Vancouvers plan to build a waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in the region.

Metro Vancouver board chair Greg Moore said improved recy-cling and waste-reduction efforts have pushed back the need for new waste disposal capacity by several years.

Its not about killing waste-to-energy, Moore said of the board decision. Its about stopping this process and re-evaluating our needs to ensure that were building the right facility for the amount of residual we have requirements for.

Metro originally aimed to build a plant that could burn 500,000 tonnes of garbage a year, but scaled the plan down twice to 250,000 tonnes as its volume of unrecycled garbage shrank.

Moore said Metro doesnt want to end up with an overbuilt inciner-ator if the current trend continues.

About 500,000 tonnes a year was once going to the Cache Creek landfill, which Metro will stop using at the end of 2016, but Moore said that is currently down below

200,000 tonnes.We dont want to build a facil-

ity that is too large, that weve spent more capital on than whats required.

Metro could, with the approval of Delta and Vancouver, send more waste to the Vancouver Landfill, which currently takes less than half of its licensed annual volume of around 650,000 tonnes. The exist-ing Burnaby incinerator continues to take 285,000 tonnes per year.

Metro officials also cite uncer-tainty around future waste volumes, which have been in doubt after a provincial decision disallowing Metro from imposing a ban on the export of waste out of the region.

The challenge with new waste-to-energy is that it requires a sig-nificant up front capital investment as well as predictable waste flow, said Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie, chair of Metros zero waste committee.

The capital cost of an all-new plant was expected to top $500 mil-lion. Payments to a private partner would be covered by rising tipping fees.

But revenue from tipping fees has also been a growing question mark Metro was forced to slash its tipping fees for large haulers to get them to stop sending garbage to the Fraser Valley or the U.S.

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling for nothing less than a total renewal of the relationship between Canada and First Nations.

I will be your partner, the PM told First Nations leadership at the Assembly of First Nations annual meeting in Gatineau last Tuesday morning.

And that is positive news for local Yale leader, Chief Ken Hansen who said he is optimistic about the next few years as long as open dialogue and real consulta-tion and real consent are a part of the process.

He told The Standard he is hopeful Trudeau and the federal Liberals see the benefit in working together.

If First Nations are strong, Canada is strong, Hansen added. Indigenous people are part of this country, we contribute to the economy in the same way anyone else in this country does.

As a growing and young popula-tion across Canada, he said invest-ments made in indigenous com-munities now will pay off ten-fold for the future of this country.

Under the Harper government,

Hansen said there was no real consultation or consent with First Nations.

Decisions affecting First Nation peoples lives were made with no actual input or permission from us, he said.

The Conservative leadership showed a total disregard for the lives and wellbeing of Aboriginal women, according to Hansen.

Our missing sisters, daughters, nieces and mothers were seen as non-important, a political nui-sance at best, he added. Im hop-ing the Inquiry on Missing and Murdered Women can provide some answers and offer peace to the grieving family members, and prevent future tragic losses to our communities.

On top of that, Hansen has seen funding increased for other popu-lations essential services over the last 20 years.

But Yale and other First Nations had been under a funding cap during that periodthat is until Trudeau announced last Tuesday that two per cent limit will be finally lifted.

With the cost of living con-tinuing to rise but essential fund-ing at a virtual standstill, its as if our communities are always taking

one step forward and three steps back, Hansen said. Hes hopeful Trudeaus commitment to imme-diately lift the funding cap will allow much-needed services to the Yale membership.

Yale First Nations short-term goals are to address a lack of hous-ing and poor nutrition, according to their leader.

When I was elected, I also inherited a Treaty thats signed and ratified under past leadership and Im not happy with it, Hansen said. The Treaty will affect neigh-boring First Nations as well as non-Native communities in ways Im not comfortable with.

And though he and his counter-parts are elected representatives, Hansen said theres still an aura of distrust from membership toward the leaders.

With the majority of the Yale First Nation population first-gen-eration descendants of residential school survivors, he said the dis-trust is natural.

Hansen might be a bit distrust-ful of unproven leaders himself: I just hope Trudeau is a man of his word and walks his talk, he said.

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A new incinerator faced a steep uphill battle against opponents in the Fraser Valley, who argue

it would be an unac-ceptable source of new air pollution in the con-strained airshed.

Metro officials have long rejected that char-

acterization, but the proj-ect would have faced a provincial environmental review as well.

Moore said Metro remains committed to

waste-to-energy as the least expensive and most environmentally sustain-able method of disposing of garbage, after efforts to reduce and recycle are

exhausted.The regional dis-

trict has been under pressure from Belkorp Environmental, which operates the Cache Creek

landfill and opposes incineration, to allow intensive use of mate-rial recovery facilities to extract recyclables from garbage.

Some municipalities have also supported that strategy, which has been embraced by the Fraser Valley Regional District.

Were thrilled, said FVRD vice-chair and longtime incinera-tion opponent Patricia Ross. Its a pretty great Christmas present for everybody who has been fighting this.

Ross predicted there will be even less need for a new incinerator in the future, and that Metro will never pursue it again.

We in the FVRD are applauding the wisdom of this decision.

B e l k o r p Environmental vice-president Russ Black said he believes the need for action on climate change was one factor behind the Metro decision.

It just doesnt make sense to burn recyclables like plastics for energy versus recycling them and conserving energy, he said, adding a new incinerator would also mean burning gar-bage and putting con-taminants in the air that Fraser Valley residents have to breathe and that would fall on the farm-land of the food we eat.

Belkorp subsidiary NextUse has been offered a licence for its proposed material recovery facility in Coquitlam.

But Black said the licence is for only five years and has other terms that make it unacceptable to build a $30-million plant. Hopefully with this decision we get a more reasonable licence.

Asked if the sharp decline in energy prices over the past few years also undermined the economics of waste-to-energy, Moore said no.

He noted some propo-nents didnt need to sell any energy including a proposal in Vancouver tied to district heating, and Lehigh Cements plan to use processed garbage as fuel in place of coal at its Delta cement plant.

The 10 short-listed bidders that had been angling to build and operate the new plant have been notified.

Moore said Metro is within its rights to ter-minate the process and will not be forced to pay penalties as a result.

Metro has spent $4.5 million pursuing waste-to-energy since 2012.

By halting the process, Metro also abandons options to buy various undisclosed sites for the possible new incinerator that it had secured.

NewsFVRD thrilled with end of Metros incinerator plansFVRD from page 8


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Sandy Acton (left) and Helena Bastedo (right) stand beside the Tree of Hope at the Hope and District Recreation Centre Foyer Tuesday.

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In a span of a few days last week, fire crews attended a series of hydro pole related incidents.

In the early morning of Dec. 6 on the south side of Highway 1 on Laidlaw and Dent roads firefighters were on scene for a power pole that was smoking. That situation was likely storm related according to Fire Chief Tom DeSorcy.

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Dec. 7 a power pole was down in Hope and the next afternoon another was down on Tom Berry Road from an incident involving a truck. On Dec. 10 a tractor trailer struck a power pole near the McDonalds restau-rant and resulting damage sheared the pole, breaking it. Firefighters were there to make the area safe until hydro authorities arrived

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cases weve had no one injured and all volunteer firefighters returned home after each [incident] safe-ly, said DeSorcy.Fire on George Road

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call, eight firefighters attended to a home that was reported as being abandoned. It was fully involved in fire upon their arrival and crews knocked the structure down. RCMP took over the investigation, which remains ongoing as The Standard goes to press. However police confirm that no one was injured as a result of the fire.

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