Northern Sentinel K I T I M A T Did you see the banded swan? ... page 7 Volume 58 No. 01 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, January 2, 2013 $ 1.34 INCLUDES TAX Here’s something to fill your time; Google has added Kitimat to its Google Street View service. From Google Maps, you can drag a little yellow icon of a person onto Kitimat roads and see what it looks like from the ground, such as shown above, the view of Hospital Beach. Most residential streets aren’t on, only Haisla Boulevard/ Highway 37S, Lahakas Boulevard from in front of the mall, to the loop around Kildala of Quatsino and Kuldo, and then the Service Centre and the industrial area. Screen capture from Google Street View PM477761 Chevron, Apache team up for LNG Cameron Orr One will have the gas, one will have the plant. In a nutshell that’s how the new set up is for Kitimat LNG, which saw a change in the invest- ment structure just ahead of Christmas. In this new model, Chevron Canada has taken a 50 per cent stake in the Kitimat LNG project and Pacific Trails Pipeline, and 644,000 of undeveloped acres in the Horn River and Li- ard basins. The other 50 per cent will go with current backer Apache Canada, which previously held 40 per cent in the project. Bowing out of the LNG plan for Kitimat is EOG Resources and Encana, each of whom had a 30 per cent non-operating interest in the proj- ect. The announcement on December 24 sets out that Chevron will operate the LNG plant while Apache will operate the natural gas extraction operations upstream. Those operations will include development of 220,000 acres in the Horn River basin, and 424,000 acres in the Liard Basin. The company says there is more than 50 trillion cubic feet of resource potential in those basins. “This agreement is a milestone for two principal reasons: Chevron is the premier LNG developer in the world today with longstand- ing relationships in key Asian markets, and the new structure will enable Apache to unlock the tremendous potential at Liard, one of the most prolific shale gas basins in North America,” said G. Steven Farris, Apache’s chairman and chief executive officer in a press release. Apache’s 100 per cent owned Liard and Horn River acreage will be sold to Chevron for their 50 per cent share for $550 million. Apache will then pay Chevron to equalize interests in the other Horn River properties which are owned by Apache, Encana and EOG. This transaction is dependent on govern- ment approvals and the companies expect the deal to close in the first quarter of 2013. Continued on page 3 Council wants federal tax change Cameron Orr Kitimat Council is backing a pro- posal to get the federal government to change the tax class of liquefied natural gas liquefaction plants. The recommendation passed from Counci is for them to send a letter to the federal government support- ing a submission by the Ca- nadian Association of Petro- leum Producers (CAPP) to the House of Commons, re- questing that LNG facilities — for example the proposed Kitimat LNG and LNG Can- ada projects in Kitimat — be moved from Class 47 to Class 43 under Capital Cost Allowance tax classification. In short, LNG facilities being in Class 47 means they have a depreciating value of eight per cent. To let that make a bit more sense in context, liquefaction facilities in Canada reportedly have a 10 per cent higher after-tax operating cost than they would have in, for instance, the United States, according to the CAPP. The submission from the CAPP to move the LNG facilities to Class 43 would mean LNG facilities have a 30 per cent declining balance, which would correct the cost difference between Canada and the U.S. and other countries and make running such facilities in Canada more cost competi- tive. Kitimat was introduced to this proposal in a confer- ence call lead by CAPP on November 23 which was attended by Mayor Joanne Monaghan and Kitimat’s Chief Administrative Officer Ron Poole. On that call also were the mayors of Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Fort Nel- son and Prince Rupert. A report from Kitimat administra- tion say that all of the other mayors were in support of CAPP’s proposal. “This classification change will properly recognize these assets as manu- facturing and processing,” said Kitimat staff’s report. Due to this proposed change being a federal tax, it would not affect municipal taxation or assessments. Mario Feldhoff, who brought for- ward the motion, said that now is the time for this change to happen. “The government needs to act...in order to make our LNG facilities become a reality,” he said. “This motion helps make it more likely these projects will move forward in a timely basis.” In CAPP’s own report, they state that “The window of opportunity to ensure Canadian competitiveness and positively influence final investment decisions is now.” In the draft letter to the government from Monaghan, she requests that the government consider this tax change in their 2013 budget so as to possibly sway favourably the eventual investment deci- sions of LNG facilities. “This motion helps make it more likely these projects will move forward in a timely basis.”
Here’s something to � ll your time; Google has added Kitimat to its Google Street View service. From Google Maps, you can drag a little yellow icon of a person onto Kitimat roads and see what it looks like from the ground, such as shown above, the view of Hospital Beach. Most residential streets aren’t on, only Haisla Boulevard/Highway 37S, Lahakas Boulevard from in front of the mall, to the loop around Kildala of Quatsino and Kuldo, and then the Service Centre and the industrial area.
Screen capture from Google Street View
PM477761
Chevron, Apache team up for LNGCameron Orr
One will have the gas, one will have the plant.
In a nutshell that’s how the new set up is for Kitimat LNG, which saw a change in the invest-ment structure just ahead of Christmas.
In this new model, Chevron Canada has taken a 50 per cent stake in the Kitimat LNG project and Paci� c Trails Pipeline, and 644,000 of undeveloped acres in the Horn River and Li-ard basins.
The other 50 per cent will go with current backer Apache Canada, which previously held 40 per cent in the project.
Bowing out of the LNG plan for Kitimat is EOG Resources and Encana, each of whom had a 30 per cent non-operating interest in the proj-ect.
The announcement on December 24 sets out that Chevron will operate the LNG plant while Apache will operate the natural gas extraction operations upstream.
Those operations will include development of 220,000 acres in the Horn River basin, and 424,000 acres in the Liard Basin.
The company says there is more than 50 trillion cubic feet of resource potential in those basins.
“This agreement is a milestone for two principal reasons: Chevron is the premier LNG developer in the world today with longstand-ing relationships in key Asian markets, and the new structure will enable Apache to unlock the tremendous potential at Liard, one of the most proli� c shale gas basins in North America,” said G. Steven Farris, Apache’s chairman and chief executive of� cer in a press release.
Apache’s 100 per cent owned Liard and Horn River acreage will be sold to Chevron for their 50 per cent share for $550 million. Apache will then pay Chevron to equalize interests in the other Horn River properties which are owned by Apache, Encana and EOG.
This transaction is dependent on govern-ment approvals and the companies expect the deal to close in the � rst quarter of 2013.
Continued on page 3
Council wants federal tax changeCameron Orr
Kitimat Council is backing a pro-posal to get the federal government to change the tax class of lique� ed natural gas liquefaction plants.
The recommendation passed from Counci is for them to send a letter to the federal government support-ing a submission by the Ca-nadian Association of Petro-leum Producers (CAPP) to the House of Commons, re-questing that LNG facilities — for example the proposed Kitimat LNG and LNG Can-ada projects in Kitimat — be moved from Class 47 to Class 43 under Capital Cost Allowance tax classi� cation.
In short, LNG facilities being in Class 47 means they have a depreciating value of eight per cent. To let that make a bit more sense in context, liquefaction facilities in Canada reportedly have a 10 per cent higher after-tax operating cost
than they would have in, for instance, the United States, according to the CAPP.
The submission from the CAPP to move the LNG facilities to Class 43 would mean LNG facilities have a 30
per cent declining balance, which would correct the cost difference between Canada and the U.S. and other countries and make running such facilities in Canada more cost competi-tive.
Kitimat was introduced to this proposal in a confer-ence call lead by CAPP on November 23 which was attended by Mayor Joanne Monaghan and Kitimat’s
Chief Administrative Of� cer Ron Poole. On that call also were the mayors of Dawson Creek, Fort St. John, Fort Nel-son and Prince Rupert.
A report from Kitimat administra-tion say that all of the other mayors were in support of CAPP’s proposal.
“This classi� cation change will properly recognize these assets as manu-facturing and processing,” said Kitimat staff’s report.
Due to this proposed change being a federal tax, it would not affect municipal taxation or assessments.
Mario Feldhoff, who brought for-ward the motion, said that now is the time for this change to happen.
“The government needs to act...in order to make our LNG facilities become a reality,” he said. “This motion helps make it more likely these projects will move forward in a timely basis.”
In CAPP’s own report, they state that “The window of opportunity to ensure Canadian competitiveness and positively in� uence � nal investment decisions is now.”
In the draft letter to the government from Monaghan, she requests that the government consider this tax change in their 2013 budget so as to possibly sway favourably the eventual investment deci-sions of LNG facilities.
“This motion helps make
it more likely these projects
will move forward in a timely basis.”
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The right kind of Hattitude for animalsThe Kitimat Snowflake Hattitudes, with their headwear so red, guided a load of food to Kitimat’s animals for Christmas.The Hattitudes, a chapter of the Red Hat Society, presented a trunk full of dog and cat food, toys and treats which the
club collected at their Christmas dinner to the Kitimat Humane Society.A cash donation was also given, the money raised from their monthly meetings’ 50/50 draws. Presenting the donation
to Human Society’s Darlene Abercrombie were Davene D’Amico, Gail Gardner, and Sherry Hodgson.
Continued from page 1Meanwhile, the soon-to-be former partners in
the operation issued statements of their own fol-lowing the December 24 announcement.
“While we still believe in the viability of the Kitimat project, our decision to exit is consistent with EOG’s focus on domestic onshore crude oil production, which is generating more immediate reinvestment opportunities,” said Mark G. Papa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for EOG in a release.
The company said that no further details about the sale are being disclosed.
Encana also issued a statement on this move.“Our main goal since we first acquired an in-
terest in Kitimat LNG almost two years ago was to help ensure the progression of this project towards its development. While we are no longer a direct participant in this project, we continue to support LNG export as vital to diversifying markets for North American natural gas,” Encana president and CEO Randy Eresman is quoted saying in an Encana release.
Encana joined the Kitimat LNG project in March 2011.
The company said the sale of their interests in the facility is “consistent with the company’s choosing to focus on its core business. In addition, this transaction reduces Encana’s future capital committments.”
“The proceeds from this transaction will help to strengthen the balance sheet and provide fur-ther financial flexibility to fund capital programs and develop key and emerging resource plays,” the company also stated in their release.
The Kitimat LNG project is estimated to have an initial export capacity of five million metric tonnes a year, with gas supplied by the Pacific Trails Pipeline, which will connect to Spectra En-ergy’s Westcoast pipeline system.
Provincial and federal environmental approv-als for the project have been received, and they have an export licence for up to 10 million metric tonnes a year.
New Apache, Chevron deal
Record year for passportsFor the fourth year now, the Kitimat Chamber
of Commerce and the District of Kitimat put to-gether the Christmas in Kitimat passport promo-tion and they say they beat their record.
As a reward to encourage people to shop lo-cally over Christmas, people were entered into draws based on how much they shopped in town. The draws were done on December 18.
The Chamber said that a record 101 passports were entered in to win one of 62 prizes.
The Kitimat Chamber and the District fund, promote, advertise and provide the passports to local merchants, and each participating business offers a prize for the eventual draw.
Shoppers would have to spend $10 at least at a participating businesses to get a stamp. Twenty stamps in the passport gets you into the draw.
Names are pulled during the draw for the Christmas in Kitimat passport program. Submitted
The Kitimat Hospital Auxiliary held an afternoon with Santa and entertainment for the extended care residents. Shown here are some of the students who shared their talents and an afternoon with them. In the back, left to right: Trevor Harness, Phillis Powell and Katherine Ocsovai. In the front: Sylvia Mitchell, Sage Benet, Gabrielle Barbosa, MJ Herin and Sherryanne Smeader. Submitted
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Chinese employers may be having trouble � nding adequate-ly trained coal miners in B.C. to mine coal in a traditional coal-mining community in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
But in economically-pres-sured Italy, there was no dif� -culty attracting candidates for 11,500 teaching jobs. A long-de-layed written exam is part of the process of being hired as a teacher in Italy and more than 321,000 hopefuls took the examination.
Various sectors of Canadian industries are grimly predicting a serious shortage of skilled workers in particular, but also an overall shortage of quali� ed applicants for an expected glut of job opportunities in this country in the coming 10 years. Of course Canada isn’t looking for 300,000 Italian teachers, but many are likely armed with other training and like quali� ed resi-dents of many other economically-stressed countries in Europe, are just looking for work.
Numerous representatives of busi-ness, labour, education and health groups have indicated the economy is endangered by Canada’s worker shortage and more se-riously, that federal and provincial govern-ments are basically ignoring the issues.
“The shortage of skilled workers is crippling our country’s economy,” accord-ing to Paul Charette, chairman of the Ca-nadian Construction Association, warning that in his industry alone, close to 260,000
new workers are needed over the next eight years. “We expect all party leaders to tell Canadians how they plan to address this crisis.”
They are looking for policy changes in immigration, changes to the employment insurance system and a major boost invest-ment in apprenticeships and post-second-ary education to help address the looming shortage. Teacher strikes in B.C., Ontario and student protest about education costs in Quebec suggest there’s some truth in some governments’ intransigence in pur-suing educational answers.
I’m not sure either that I can agree that all levels of government are ignoring the need for a boost in home-grown young tal-ent to help meet the needs. But there’s lit-tle doubt to me the federal government is more focused on looser immigration poli-cies to bring in a ready-made contingent of temporary skilled foreign workers to meet the country’s immediate perceived needs.
Most Canadians, however, I think would prefer to see a much more focused expansion of investment in building skills among young Canadians to meet a larger
percentage of the needs, both in skilled trades and professionally.
Many skilled foreign work-ers who have come to Canada ad-mittedly have run into frustrating roadblocks to obtaining meaning-ful employment is their areas of expertise. Legislated regulatory requirements sometimes play a part, union quali� cations may
have a role even, employer deceit plays a part – so too many well-quali� ed immigrants are not � nding their dream satis� ed in Canada. Stories of doctors and pharmacists driving cabs or operating con-venience stores dot the papers.
Yet, according to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Develop-ment’s “ Education at a Glance “ report, 50 per cent of Canada’s population has a post-secondary economic education, easily the highest percentage in the world.
Canada reportedly spends 2.5 per cent of its GDP each year on education, the fourth-highest rate, while its most promi-nent institutions and universities hold their own with the best U.S. Schools.
The OECD study also showed over the past 50 years, college graduation rates in developed countries have increased nearly 200 per cent. Education is improv-ing around the world, but not consistent-ly. South Korea and Israel have vaulted to high rankings, while China and other emerging market nations struggle to catch up. It remains a competitive world.
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Move means KLNG gets traction
The Haisla and District of Kitimat got an early present this past Christmas - the December 24 announcement that Chevron is taking a 50 per cent share in the KM LNG project.
The surprise was not so much the arrival on the scene of such an important player - although I had expected Exxon to be the one - but that it took as long as it did.
EOG and Encana, both 30 per cent own-ers of KM LNG, had been grumbling about the lack of progress on the project and they as well as majority owner Apache had indi-cated they were prepared to sell up to a 30 per cent share.
One thing that always bothered me about the project was that ownership was in the hands of that trio.
Granted, they are reputable companies with a good track record and have ample proven and potential natural gas reserves to supply the proposed lique� ed natural gas plant.
However, to my knowledge they were not pipeline builders and, more importantly, they lacked experience in LNG.
(While Apache has a stake in the Wheat-stone LNG project in Australia, it is very much a junior partner at just 13 per cent with Chevron owning 64 per cent.)
The latter may help to explain in part why KM LNG hasn’t been able to make any headway on nailing down buyers for its prod-uct.
Asian customers are not going to make the sort of long term commitment KM LNG was looking for without being con� dent in the source of supply. How con� dent were they likely to be relying on three rookies in the business?
Despite all the prep work that has been going on at the site, there has been a growing impression that the project was spinning its wheels.
Continued on page 5
We’ll allow Malcolm Baxter his former slot for this week’s issue as he addresses the Apache/Chevron deal:
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Continued from page 4So why does Canada have to
look overseas immediately to meet its short and long term labour needs?
Temporary foreign workers are limited to four years in Canada – and organized labour sees that as a problem. Unions perceive the legis-lative change and its accompanying approval for employers to pay up to 15 per cent less than Canadian aver-ages as a good reason to scrap the program, while Ottawa sees this as providing “� exibility.”
More policy-based roadblocks to circumvent. Looking for some scare numbers to make this relevant.
In 2011, Citizenship and Im-migration Canada recorded 190,769 temporary workers entering the country; 25,542 in Alberta. An annu-
al measurement on Dec. 1 counted a total of 300,111 TFWs in Canada as a whole and 58,228 of them in Al-berta.
The latest unemployment rates for Alberta, B.C. And Ontario are – 4.2 per cent, 6.8 per cent and 7.9 per cent respectively.
So, Canada has major issues fac-ing it in the immediate future – and unfortunately, the divisions facing the country in politics, the protec-tion of the environment, education, industrial and resource develop-ment, First Nations and government relations and inter-provincial and linguistic problems are not condu-cive to an improved performance in 2013.
For many years many of the resi-dents in Mountain-view Lodge made a trip on the bus to the Luso Canadian Club where they were made very welcome and had tables and spaces booked for them. This year was a bit differ-ent. The bus and help from the hospital were not available.
However, a few
people were able to go thanks to Manny Me-deiros and his wife Pat who arranged with the Taxi-Dart to transport some of the residents and families to the event. (This was great – we arrived a little bit early but at least some of the people were able to enjoy this won-derful evening!)
They had a great dinner and many des-serts — this was fol-
lowed by wonderful entertainment by the young dancers and a visit by Santa Claus.
I think Santa helped deliver a mon-etary gift to the Luso’s Mountainview Lodge guests. Again, a sin-cere ‘thank you’ on behalf of those people who were able to en-joy a wonderful eve-ning.
Sincerely,Joanne Ong
Tackling resolutions big and smallGalatians 4: 4,
“But when the time had fully come, God sent forth His Son…”
How are your New Year’s resolu-tions coming along? We are only a few days past New Years, but it isn’t too early to take stock of how we are doing with our resolutions.
You know, the kinds of prom-ises we make ourselves when we take an honest look in the mirror and say, “Enough is enough! I’m tired of the old me and so over the next 365 days I’m going to lose weight, exercise more, eat health-ier, save more, spend less, have more family time, clean out all the junk I don’t need, reduce stress, get a better job...”, you know, resolu-tions.
So how are you doing with those? How’s your will power holding up?
The truth is, we humans aren’t very good at keeping resolutions. Surveys show that 55 per cent of
Canadians can keep a resolution for about a month, and then the number of faithful drops below 20 per cent.
What’s the problem? Well, the fact that we are bad at
staying faithful to our resolutions should show us beyond a shadow of a doubt that we are fallen and sinful. We try, oh yes we try, but sooner or later the excuses begin, “Oh, it’s raining outside so I won’t go for a walk today,” or the ratio-nalizing starts.
“One bag of chips isn’t going to kill me (or substitute with your own vice),” and soon we are right back where we were, or worse.
Well, in the midst of our inabil-ity to keep a resolution, the verse
From the PulpitRedeemer Lutheran Church
Pastor Clint Magnus
Continued from page 4The FEED study - front end engineering
and design - was originally supposed to be com-pleted 11 months ago. Today there is still no � rm date for its completion.
On the pipeline, while Shell (Kitimat) and BG (Prince Rupert) swiftly followed their an-nounced intention to build LNG plants with the naming of the pipeline builder for their projects, there has been nary a word from KM LNG.
Add in the lack of progress on contracts and you do not have a very inspiring picture.
That was re� ected in a TD Securities report from September 27.
Assessing the likelihood of the various northwest LNG projects going ahead, it rated Shell and BG as ‘high’ but KM LNG only as ‘medium’.
That despite the fact that KM LNG has all its environmental approvals and a licence to ex-port in place while the other two have only just started down that path.
Now that Chevron is the lead company for both the LNG plant and the pipeline, I suspect that if TD were to do an update today, they would give KM LNG top rating.
But there is still one more shoe to drop, the buy-in by Asian customers.
In a June 2012 study of LNG markets, PFC Energy stated, “The ability to secure equity in the entire value chain is a critical value creator and it also enhances security of supply as buy-ers have direct knowledge of and participating interests in the projects that supply them.”
In other words, the potential customers want a slice of the LNG plant, pipeline and gas � eld pies.
Shell obviously knows the game - Korea Gas, Mitsubishi and PetroChina all have a share in its proposed project.
Chevron too since their KM LNG deal in-cludes a piece of the action in the natural gas � elds that will feed the Kitimat plant.
Quite when there will be an announcement of Asian participation in the KM LNG project “value chain” is unknown, but I suspect it will not be long in coming.
In the meantime, the involvement of Chev-ron certainly means the project is � nally started to get some traction.
above tells us that even though we aren’t faithful, God is.
When humans fell into sin in the beginning, God made a reso-lution that was made good in the birth, life, death and resurrection of God’s own Son, Jesus Christ. That resolution by God is this: That God so loved this sad and sinful world that He resolved to do that which was necessary to save us.
Bethlehem was the beginning, but God’s resolution to save us was ful� lled on the cross of Calvary, where Jesus faithfully took the punishment you and I deserve for our unfaithfulness. He did it so that
you and I might repent of our sin, believe on Him as our Savior, and thus be forgiven and receive eter-nal life. What a blessed day when God’s resolution became our real-ity.
Friends, God did not send His Son into the world to give us a bit of behavior tweaking at New Years. With the faith given to you through the Holy Spirit in the cruci� ed and ever-living Lord, you can be restored, recycled, redeemed and saved for all eternity. Only Christ can do that for you. Trust Him, He is faithful.
There’s no mistaking the importance of Kitimat, B.C., to the Gateway project. It’s where the pipeline ends, and it’s where marine operations begin.
I’d like to set the record straight on why we chose Kitimat, at the head of the Douglas Channel, as the site for Gateway’s marine terminal. The answer took thousands of hours of research, planning, engineering, environmental science, oceanography consultation, weather monitoring, and simulation. But the simple reason is . . . safety, all the way.
The Douglas Channel is one of the widest and deepest inland waterways on North America’s west coast. Government research had already determined Kitimat to be among the safest ports in B.C., and about 1,500 tankers carrying petrochemicals have docked safely at Kitimat over the past quarter-century.
Strategically speaking, Kitimat provides the lowest environmental risk for all aspects of Gateway operations. It offers a safer endpoint for the pipeline route, from a geotechnical perspective. The marine terminal at Kitimat also provides safe approaches for tanker traffi c — with a suitable turning basin in Kitimat Arm, and natural deep-water berths that are sheltered from open-water wave conditions.
At its very narrowest, the Douglas Channel is 1.4 kilometres wide — three times wider than Transport Canada’s recommended width for two-way tanker traffi c. Water depths in the marine channels are up to several hundred metres.
As an added measure, full simulations of vessel traffi c in the Douglas Channel were carried out at a world-leading facility in Denmark. It tested the largest proposed vessels in environmental conditions that tankers would experience in the marine channels. The result was a thumbs-up on the shipping route, endorsed by both government departments and the British Columbia Coast Pilots.
Why Kitimat? Why the Douglas Channel? It’s the safe option for Gateway.
Janet HolderExecutive Vice PresidentWestern AccessEnbridge Inc.
Kitimat once had a ski hill to call its own near hospital
In the 1950s and 60s the brand new town of Kitimat had much to be proud of, including a downtown ski hill.
It hadn’t taken long. Within ten years of start-ing up Alcan’s aluminum smelter we had our own town-operated ski facility. Similar to Europe, where a lot of Kitimat’s people had come from, you didn’t have to drive to get there, it was right downtown. Early on the slope attracted both to-bogganers and skiers. As more and more winter sliding occurred a rope tow operated by the local township emerged.
Many who were from established European ski powers like Switzerland, Austria, and Germa-ny, felt it was quite right to start enjoying skiing without leaving town. The natural site for skiing was the big bald slope adjacent to the eastern end of Kitimat’s Hospital, affectionately known as “The Pink Lady”.
The ski slope extended upwards all the way to Albatross Street. The facilities were rather spar-tan with no benches, tables, or shelters. It was just a rope tow with three or four towers. But it was certainly enjoyed by many.
Ski equipment in the 50s was rather more simplistic than it is now. There was even little dis-tinction between downhill and cross-country ski-ing. Skis were often cable mounted with some-what detachable heavy leather boots, somewhat resembling today’s telemark skis. Often the poles were common bamboo with leather and metal baskets.
Those early days of skiing were especially enjoyed by the youth of Kitimat who would often go there without supervision from parents. Ac-cording to reminiscing skiers like Dirk Mendel, the slope operated from November until March and during most daylight hours, depending of course on availability of snow. Most recall fre-quent dumps of heavy snow which could often be problematic, for without grooming equipment it took a lot of energetic teenager’s hours to pack down the snow. Dirk Mendel can recall hours do-ing just that. Those were the days.
There surely was no need for first aid on the slope as a full service modern hospital was right on site. We can only imagine how many accident patients with assorted injuries were whisked into the emergency room from just meters away. Stan
Pucelj was a teenager who one day misjudged the bottom mogul ski jump left by the Kitimat snow-blowers and ended up with major road rash on his face from the unforgiving sidewalk. Stan was in KGH’s emergency ward within minutes.
Kitimat in those days was a more trusting kind of place, Dirk recalls, and it was not unheard of for the teenagers to cross over into the rope tow start up and get the rope tow running without an operator present. Dirk remembers the speed of the rope tow being rather fast and often tough on gloves and hands. The tow rope was very thick and often wet and icy and challenging to hold.
Although the slope was not operational after dark that didn’t prevented skiing. There were no special lights there but the reflected light from City Centre and the Kildala neighbourhood was quite sufficient for the youth. As always, ener-getic young ones were quite prepared to hike up the slope without the assistance of the rope tow.
By the early 1980s Kitimat’s downtown ski hill had ceased operations. The shine had worn off the experience and of course by then there were many other ski options. With the good high-way link to Terrace and beyond, Kitimat families had established ski homes at Hudson Bay Moun-tain in Smithers and some began day trips to the new facilities at Kitsumkalum Mountain near Ter-race. Briefly, there had even been skiing right by Mount Layton Hotsprings.
Kitimat’s Hirsch Creek Golf Course had also become a centre for cross country skiing that at-tracted hundreds of people embracing winter. For an even shorter time there was skiing at another rope tow operation up Forest Avenue.
Kitimat had its fine hockey rink and swim-ming pool but for a while Kitimat had something that few other communities had; it had a down-town ski hill. It certainly made our community a better place to live. The memories of those years will last a life time for many.
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Some snapshots from the skil hill Kitimat once enjoyed from the 1950s to 80s. A rope tow allowed skiers to ascend the hill, and the adjacent hospital allowed quick treatment for any bad spills.
Kitimat Museum and Archives photos
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Banded Tundra Swan spotted in areaOver the years, Kitimat has had a number
of unusual birds drop by for a short visit or ex-tended stay.
Two Sandhill Cranes stayed over one winter, two Cattle Egrets strayed here from the southern USA and a Brambling from Siberia appeared at a feeder on White Street.
All of these created considerable excite-ment among the local birders. An almost equal amount of excitement occurred on Nov. 13 when a banded Tundra Swan was spotted in the Sumgas Creek in Kildala.
We have an interesting history of banded birds appearing here. The � rst recorded banded bird occurred in October 1991. A Trumpeter Swan, banded near Cordova, Alaska � ew to Kiti-mat along with a dozen or so others of the same species.
Banded Trumpeter Swans appeared again in 1994, 1996, and again in 2005.
In the spring of 1994, a northbound � ock of Greater White-fronted Geese landed on the Kiti-mat Estuary for a few days. They were observed resting their wings while gaining some sustenance from the fresh estuary plants.
One, however, looked a little different. It had a neck collar which identi� ed it as W-10, an adult that had been observed as far south as Mexico and was probably headed for Bristol Bay, Alaska.
This latest banded bird was a bit unusual. Ev-ery winter, some 40 Trumpeter Swans winter in close proximity to Kitimat. More than double this number stay at Lakelse Lake. They scatter along the lakeshore where small numbers can often be seen from the highway or places that small creeks enter the lake.
So, while Trumpeter Swans are predictably common, Tundra Swans are decidedly rare in our area. For some reason, they usually bypass our valley while en route to California. When a Tun-dra Swan does appear, it is often a lone bird and keeps to itself. They rarely mingle with the larger trumpeters.
This might explain why this latest Tundra Swan was spotted in Sumgas Creek. This quiet waterway attracts plenty of ducks and mergan-
sers but Trumpeter Swans usually frequent larger waterways. Perhaps this new arrival just wanted some peace and quiet.
Prior to this banded swan arriving here, it hasn’t exactly been entirely alone. When it was caught and banded on July 18, 2010, it was giv-en a blue neck collar with the inscription P967. Fifty-one other swans were also adorned with numbered neckbands at the same time. Prior to its arrival here, there has been a single con� rmed sighting of our bird. It was a long way from B.C.’s north coast.
Some folks living near Marysville, California, a community northeast of San Francisco, were out for an afternoon of bird watching in November 2011. They spotted P967 along with P966, an-other swan banded at the same time. For the next 12 months, this swan’s exact location remained a mystery.
This would have been different, however, if P967 had been one of a select group of 50 birds from throughout Alaska. These birds were � t-ted with a satellite transmitter. For several years, researchers have been able to accurately follow their daily � ight patterns and staging grounds. The primary reason for such accurate daily data is related to avian in� uenza. North American scientists wanted to know if this Asian virus has been spreading to North America with migrating swans. So far, there is no evidence this has oc-curred.
Nevertheless, we hope P967 will stay with us for the winter. Although its urge to migrate to California will be strong, it may decide the Kiti-mat Valley is a welcome place to spend the winter. One bene� t will be this spring. At least it won’t have such along � ight back to Alaska.
Nature’sPath
By Dennis Horwood
P967 arrived with little fanfare. The wintering Trumpeter Swans ignored it as it rested and foraged in Sumgas Creek.
April MacLeod photo
Jan. 3The Kitimat Seniors Branch 129 general meeting will be held at 1 p.m. at the Seniors Centre.OngoingThe Kitimat Girl Guides urgently need new leaders for the lo-cal groups. For more info call Lois at 250-632-3446 or Nancy at
250-632-0135.KITIMAT PUBLIC LIBRARY – Resum-ing January 11, Story-Time for pre-schoolers happens every Friday morning from 10:30 a.m. to 11:10 a.m. Bring your little one for a morning of songs, rhymes, and stories. No registration necessary. Guardian must also at-tend.
SILLY YAKS (CE-LIAC) SUPPORT GROUP supporting gluten free eating and helping people with celiac disease feel well and healthy. Participate in discussions around safe foods, foods to avoid, cross contami-nation, recipe ideas, etc. The � rst meeting will be held Aug. 23 from 7-8:30 p.m. in the multipurpose room at the Kitimat General Hospital. The group is open to anyone in-terested in learning about celiac disease. For more information please call 250-632-3063KITIMAT PUBLIC LI-BRARY — Book your free one-on-one intro-duction to computer
COMING EVENTStutorial. Want to learn how to use a computer? Brianna will show you, just call the library and book an appointment for a morning, after-noon or evening ses-sion at 250-632-8985.KITIMAT SENIORS’ CENTRE is looking for a new leader for their Seniors’ Band. Please contact the Programmer (250 632 3475) for more info if you have the skills, experience and desire to volunteer your time with this group.CHILD DEVELOP-MENT CENTRE Fam-ily Fun Spot Drop-In Monday and Friday afternoons 1-3 p.m., Wednesday mornings 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Ages 0-5 wel-come “A Great place for families to meet over coffee and toys!” Contact 250-632-3144
for more information.KITIMAT FIBRE ARTS GUILD: Inter-ested in knitting, spin-ning, weaving, or any other � bre? For more information phone Maureen 250-632-5444.KITIMAT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS - I have M.S. but M.S. does not have me. You are not alone, male or female, and the Kitimat M.S. group would like to be here for you. Total con-� dentiality. For more information contact Mary at 250-639-6016.AGLOW OF KITI-MAT: All are welcome at our Care Group and Bible Study for men and women, singles or married, Thursdays at 7 p.m. For information phone Brenda at 250-632-5771 or Wendi at 250-632-5673.Continued on page 11
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A look back at the year 2012Clearly we’re all still here which means the hype around a Mayan doomsday may have been a tad-overblown. However that means we have the chance to take a look back at all
the things that happened over the past year. Here’s just some of the highlights of the stories we covered over the year:
It was clear skies over the Douglas Channel on one nice afternoon in September last year.Cameron Orr photo
JanuaryThe total assessed property value in
Kitimat sky-rocketed from $777 million last year to $965 million, an increase of just over 24 per cent. Major and light industry were major factors with the former leap-ing from $156.8 million in 2011 to 206.1 million this year. Light industry more than doubled from $22.3 million to $48.15 mil-lion. But the most dramatic jump came in the business/other classification where val-ues near tripled, going from $22.3 million to $123.1 million.
An Ipsos-Reid poll commissioned by Enbridge shows a surprising number of British Columbians are unaware of the pro-posed project. And of those who are, nearly half support it to some extent. Ipsos-Reid polled 1,000 BCers using its on-line house-hold panel between December 13 and 15, 2011.
The near two-year road to a Joint Re-view Panel recommendation on the North-ern Gateway pipeline project began January at the Haisla Recreation Centre in Kitamaat Village. And the first day was given over to the Haisla with presentations by hereditary chiefs Sammy Robinson, Rod Bolton, Ken Hall, Clifford Smith, Marylin Furlan and Henry Amos, with Haisla Na-tion chief councillor Ellis Ross wrapping up the session. Ross told the panel of Sheila Leggett (chairman), Kenneth Bateman and Hans Matthews that he was there to talk about the his-tory of the Haisla, traditional knowledge and his personal experience. “I think it’s really important for you to hear be-cause right now we are making history, and you are part of our history.”
Gitsxan hereditary chiefs have rejected an economic ben-efits agreement with Enbridge tied to its proposed $5.5 bil-lion Northern Gateway pipe-line. But they have also left the door open for future talks. The deal, which would have provided about $7 million in profits through a Gitxsan part
ownership in the pipeline as well as other benefits, became a focal point of ongoing internal dissension within the Gitxsan com-munity. The deal was rejected by a vote of 28-8 among Gitxsan hereditary chiefs who met January 17 in Gitsegukla.
Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Na-than Cullen is eligible to collect an annual pension of close to $54,000 if he leaves office in 2015, estimates the Canadian Taxpayers Federation. And that amount will climb to nearly $73,000 a year if he is re-elected in the 2015 fed-eral election but then leaves in 2019, the next one based on elections being held every four years.
FEBruaryThe Coast Mountains
school district has paid a $15,750 settlement for using software on multiple com-puters without authorization. News of the settlement was released January 24 by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a global group which represents nearly 100 software companies and which works to stop software piracy. In a BSA
statement, Coast Mountains school district superintendent Nancy Wells acknowledged the district’s actions.
Council has decided it will wait for the Joint Review Panel to bring down its rec-ommendation on the North-ern Gateway Project before asking what Kitimatians think about it.
Councillor Phil Germuth had proposed that the city survey residents now on how they felt about the project, but colleague Mario Feldhoff immediately put forward an amendment so that it would read “that, upon completion of the JRP (Joint Review Pan-el) process, that the District
of Kitimat put a survey out to residents of Kitimat asking them for their opinion on
the Enbridge project.” Noting the topic had come up a lot
at last November’s all-candidates forum, Feldhoff said his commitment at that time was it would be in the best interests of the community to elicit input once people had an opportunity “to reflect upon all the evi-dence.”
Eleven months after it made its ap-plication, the BC LNG Co-op has had its export permit approved by the National En-
ergy Board. The Co-op, which
plans to locate a barge-based liquefied natural gas plant on the west side of the Douglas Channel, has been granted a 20-year licence to export a maximum of 1.8 million tonnes of LNG a year. That’s the equivalent to about 84.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas. But, like the KM LNG application, that number assumes that the capacity of the initial plant will be doubled. BC LNG is a 50:50 partner-ship between the Haisla and LNG Partners LLC of
Houston, Texas.
With the potential surge in LNG ex-ports from Kitimat and the problem of a potential shortage of power to run them all, premier Christy Clark announced the Lib-eral government’s natural gas strategy on February 3.
Clark said the strategy had four prongs:— the government would find new cus-
tomers for LNG, particularly in Asia,— it would work with “communities,
industry and educators” to support jobs in the clean technology and natural gas sec-tors and make sure the skills and training program match the needs of those sectors,
— it was reaffirming its commitment to “clean energy and climate change lead-ership”, and to do that it would make sure LNG plants were powered by “clean en-ergy, as much as possible,” and
— it was redefining the government’s energy self-sufficiency policy “to ensure BC is well positioned for power expansion
and Hydro rates remained affordable for families.”
The city of Terrace now opposes the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline Proj-ect after a 5-2 vote at a February 13 council meeting. The motions passed don’t actu-ally mention Enbridge or Northern Gate-way. Instead they use the wording of two broad brush motions passed at the Union of BC Municipalities annual conference in 2010. The first opposes the shipping of tar sand oil in pipelines across northern BC for loading onto crude oil tankers and the sec-ond opposes any expansion of bulk crude oil tanker traffic in Dixon Entrance, Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound, British Columbia.
Transport Canada says its TERMPOL review of the Northern Gateway proj-ect “has not identified any regulatory is-sues or gaps or the need to consider any new regulatory requirements at this time.” TERMPOL is short for Technical Review Process of Marine Terminal Systems and Transhipment Sites. Transport Canada ex-plains, “TERMPOL is an extensive, though voluntary review process in which propo-nents involved in building and operating a marine terminal system for bulk handling of oil, chemicals and liquefied gases can participate.”
MarCHIt’s a good news, bad news story for
recreational fishermen and charter opera-tors when it comes to halibut fishing this year. On February 17 federal Fisheries minister Keith Ashfield announced the recreational fishery’s share of Canada’s al-lowable catch (CAC) was being increased to 15 per cent from the 12 per cent limit that has been in force for close to a decade. (While charter operations are commercial in nature, they are classified as recreational for the purpose of the federal Fisheries al-location.)
However, that came in the wake of the International Pacific Halibut Commission’s decision at its annual meeting in Anchor-age, Alaska, to cut the CAC by 8 per cent - from 7.6 million pounds to 7.038 million. In other words, the Canadian sport fishery will get a greater share of a smaller pie.
Continued on page 9
The Coast Mountains
school district has paid
a $15,750 settlement for using software
on multiple computers
without authorization.
An Ipsos-Reid poll
commissioned by Enbridge
shows a surprising
number of British
Columbians are unaware
of their proposed project.
Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, January 2, 2013 9
Continued from page 8City council has lodged an objection to
the make up of an “Expert Panel” appointed by the province to “provide analysis and recommendations to the province on busi-ness tax competitiveness”.
The government press release in Janu-ary outlining Finance minister Kevin Fal-con’s announcement in a speech to the Van-couver Board of Trade said “a component of the review will also look at municipal property taxation of business.” At council’s March 5 meeting Corinne Scott moved an administration recommendation that a letter be written to Community, Sport and Cultur-al Development minister Ida Chong and all Union of BC Municipalities (UBCM) mem-bers saying Kitimat objected to the compo-sition of the panel in that it did not include a municipal representative.
A new opinion poll commissioned by Skeena NDP MP Nathan Cullen shows more people oppose the Northern Gateway project than support it. The Mustel poll was based on 501 interviews completed by tele-phone (both land lines and cellular) between January 25 and February 8. It has a margin of error of +/-4.4 per cent.
The Kitimat River has made the BC Outdoor Recreation Council (ORC) “most endangered rivers” list. And it has come in at number three, in no small part due to the efforts of two local groups.
In drawing up the annual list, the ORC says it solicited nominations from its 100,000 members - primarily members of recreation and conservation groups across BC - as well as accepting nominations from the general public as well as resource man-agers from the province.
Therefore, the ORC notes, “The list represents the views of those who use and recreate on rivers as well as those who man-age them.”
APRILResults from the March 24 by-election
for a Kitimat seat on the Coast Mountains school board went to former trustee Linda Campbell. Campbell had previously served three terms on the Coast Mountain school board in the 90s, and since then has spent
two terms as a Kitimat city councillor.
A water flushing program has been successful in reducing the amounts of lead and copper in the water supply at Kitimat public schools. On April 6 a joint announce-ment from the Coast Mountains School District and Northern Health alerted parents that elevated levels of copper and lead was found in test samples of area schools. Those schools affected are Nechako Elementary, Kildala Elementary, Kitimat City High and Mount Elizabeth Secondary School. How-ever, despite the presence of the minerals in the water, it is believed that even without the flushing that it is not expected to produce any adverse health effects, due to the “sporadic nature of wa-ter consumption in the school setting.”
An open house at the Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club introduced the communi-ty to Jack Oviatt’s proposal to build adult housing, called The Meadows. His plan at the time was for two three-unit hous-ing complexes built essentially behind where the two large inukshuks are now at the corner of Quatsino and Lahakas Blvd. The project was being billed as “ac-tive adult housing” and is set to fill the gap between owning a large home and being in retirement, said project co-ordinator Mark Minifie.
The Coast Mountains school district will adopt a two-week spring break for the upcoming school year. At a school board meeting trustees voted unanimously in fa-vour of the longer break, which had been brought to public consultation at meetings earlier in the month in Terrace, Kitimat and Hazelton.
Saying the public response to the two-week break was largely positive, Kitimat trustee Ray Raj brought the motion forward.
“This is not a money saving thing,” Raj said, noting that the change would be ap-proved for only for one year right now.
MAYKitimat remains as the most affordable
community in Northern B.C. when it comes to home ownership, according to the Hous-ing Affordability Study for Northern BC.
The report was prepared for the BC Northern Real Estate Board by Rory S. Conroy, and showed affordability among Northern B.C. communities which saw 75 of more home sales for 2011. According to the affordability index, using the median community income from the 2006 census — which for Kitimat was $84,979 for all family types — Kitimat homeowners spend 15.3 per cent of pre-tax income on home ownership. 100 Mile House meanwhile
hangs on to its title as least af-fordable community, despite much improvement from 2008. There residents spend 46.7 per cent of their pre-tax income on their home.
Northwest Community College (NWCC) President Denise Henning assured Kiti-mat Council that the local campus would not be shutting its doors. “Our campus in Kiti-mat is not closing, it is going to continue going forward,” said Henning at a pre-
senting at the April 16 council meeting. That’s not to say that the campus will be business as usual. She and Dave O’Leary, vice president of institutional advancement, spoke to coun-cillors about a plan to grow place-based learning and de-velopment of what they call a Learning Centre model. The pilot for that model was being run out of the District of Hous-ton last year and has programs based in oth-er college campuses, even ones in Ontario, delivering programs and local faculty act as learning coaches for students.
Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Na-than Cullen has been named as House lead-er for the official opposition in the House of Commons. NDP opposition leader Tom Mulcair, in making the appointment, de-scribed Cullen as a “great debater.”
“Nathan has shown a great capacity to
involve people in the political process. His persuasiveness, his innovative thinking and his respect for others are his hallmarks,” Mulcair said. Cullen, first elected in 2004 and then re-elected in 2006, 2008 and in 2011, ran third in the March NDP leader-ship contest.
The Mills family is seeking to capitalize on the influx of executive level employees to Kitimat with a plan to develop a hamlet of cottages on their property where their Mi-nette Bay Lodge is now. Speaking for the project, Dr. Howard Mills, speaking on be-half wife Ruth Mills who could not attend the meeting, pitched the idea to Kitimat Council with the hope they would approve a zoning amendment for their property, at 2255 Kitamaat Village Road.
“We’ve heard that it’s difficult for com-panies to recruit and retain the management and executives that they wish to move here simply because they operate all over the world and the family might decide that a project in Bahrain where the sun shines all the time rather than Kitimat where it never does might be preferable,” he said.
Councillor Mary Murphy wants to see the District of Kitimat promote recycling by supporting Kiti-mat Understanding the Envi-ronment (KUTE) by whatever cost is necessary. That was the thrust of her motion at a coun-cil meeting where suggestions such as pitching in for a $9,000 upgrade of KUTE’s power sys-tem and donating the use of District trucks to collect paper waste was talked about.
“If we’re serious about changing our carbon footprint we can’t use excuses like it’s too expensive or it’s not cost effective,” she said.
Shell Canada announced on May 15 a partnership with three Asian companies to build a large liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant at Kitimat. Shell will own 40 per cent of what’s being called LNG Canada with Korea Gas Corporation, Mitsubishi Corpo-ration and PetroChina Company Ltd. each owning 20 per cent.
2012 Year in Review
At left. the Watoto Children’s Choir from Uganda performed at the Full Gospel Bible Fellowship in March. Above, chiefs Clifford Smith, Rod Bolton, Sammy Robinson, Henry Amos, Ken Hall and chief councillor Ellis Ross at JRP hearings in Kitamaat last January.
Year in Photos
An opinion poll commissioned by Skeena NDP MP Nathan Cullen shows more people oppose the Northern Gateway project than support it.
Shell Canada announced
on May 15 a partnership
to build LNG plant at Kitimat.
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Jose Manuel PiquesMay 23, 1939 - Departed December 30, 2008
Sadly missed, fondly remembered and forever loved.
Dad, you will always be remembered as a very strong
man with a generous heart, a man who was opinionated at times but still very loving. We respected you till the end.There are times when we are together, events are recalled, stories of our
childhood are recounted, smiles then hard laughter can
be heard as your grandchildren are there listening and laughing
along with us. Your memory brings tears and laughter. Thank you for all that you shared with us.Your loving wife Maria; daughters Isabel and Nelly; sons John (Stacey) and Paul; grandchildren Mercedes, Danielle, Savanna, Jonah, Amber, Brendan and Connor.
Celebrating 65 years together!January 2, 2013
Cheryl, Doug and families; Barbara, Roy and families.
Together, they have found a friendship, raised a family
and built a beautiful marriage.
Their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren wish them a lifetime of
loving, caring and sharing.
Maxwell & Dorothy Cheyne
Haisla Nation Councilhas an immediate opening for a:
EXECUTIVE ASSISTANTThe Haisla Nation Council has an opening for a motivated individual for the position of Executive Assistant. The successful applicant will be responsible for providing administrative and clerical services in an effective and efficient manner to ensure the Nation’s operations are maintained, and will report to the Chief Operating Officer.
Duties:• Provides administrative support to Chief Operating Officer;• Planning, organizing and coordinating administrative functions;• Scheduling meetings, take minutes and arrange conference calls;• Review and edit reports;• Preparing correspondence;• Maintaining filing system;• To follow the HNC personnel policy and manual;• Other duties as requested by the Chief Operating Officer;• To serve as Interim Chief Operating Officer in his absence.
Qualifications:• Diploma or Degree in Business Administration preferred;• Five (5) years work experience in administration;• Excellent people management and facilitation skills;• Direct working experience with First Nations;• Excellent writing, research and computer skills, including
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and budgets;• Knowledge of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada policies and
procedures, Human Rights legislation, and Labor Canada regulations.
Skills: Work flexible hours, analytical and problem solving skills, team building skills, decision-making skills, attention to detail, organizational skills, oral and written communications, computer knowledge, research skills, time and stress management skills.
Interested individuals should submit a cover letter and resume, which must include names of three references and the express permission for HNC to contact these individuals to: Stephanie McClure, Human Resources Manager
Haisla Nation Council Haisla P.O. Box 1101 Kitamaat Village B.C. V0T 2B0
Phone: 250-639-9361 Ext 109 Fax: 250-632-2840
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General ManagerBurns Lake Native Development Corporation is a First Nations owned and driven organization. With a strong working relationship with its Board of Directors the organization is committed to promoting entrepreneurship and economic growth development within its six member first nations.
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the ideal candidate for this half-time position (moving to full time pending resources) will demonstrate - financial management skills - good written and oral skills - strong management skills and project management experience - experience working with a board of directors - hands-on HR management skills - familiarity with lending principles - experience in community economic development - experience in a non- profit organization - must have experience in proposal writing, forestry, logging and value added operations - good understanding of dealing with first nation communities
Responsibilities: - co-ordinating meetings of, and reporting to, Board and its committees - assisting Board formulate policies and programs - overseeing administration - planning, developing and monitoring budgets and performance targets - developing and maintaining HR policies; recruiting, training, supervising staff - leading economic development initiatives
Applicants ideally will have several years management experience, post secondary education in a business related field, familiarity with log harvesting, small business lending and an ability to work with diverse client and partnership groups. Aboriginal ancestry is an asset.
Please submit resumes by January 7, 2013 to:
Chair Burns Lake Native Development Corp PO Box 1030, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 Fax: (250) 692-7483 Email: [email protected]
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The Kitimat Child Develop-ment Centre is accepting applications for two Admin-istrative Support positions. Both positions are perma-nent positions at 35 hours per week. Hourly wage de-pendent on qualifi cations is $20.15 to $33.13. Both posi-tions are open to internal and external applications. Applications accepted in writing by email to
[email protected] in person to 1515 King-fi sher Ave. Kitimat, BC V8C 1S5. Closing date is January 11, 2013 at 3:00pm. The Ad-ministrative Positions are re-sponsible for working as part of the administrative team to provide reception, account-ing and administrative sup-port to all services provided by the Centre. Preferred cer-tifi cate or degree qualifi ca-tions in accounting, offi ce management or related fi elds. Must have working skills in Simply Accounting, ACCPAC including payroll and fund accounting. Profi -cient computer word pro-cessing skills are necessary. The job descriptions for these positions will be available at the Centre on January 7, 2013.
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The Kitimat Child Develop-ment Centre is accepting applications for a Special Projects Manager. This is a term position initially for (3) three months, (20) twenty hours per week. Hourly wage dependent on qualifi -cations is $20.04 to $29.31. Preferred qualifi cations of a Diploma or degree in Human Services, planning or related fi elds. A Bachelor degree will be given preference. The Special Projects Manager will oversee implementation of projects beginning with the Welcoming Communities Grant. The Project Manager will be responsible to ensure community project(s) achieve the deliverables and desired outcomes set in con-tracts. Key deliverables for the Welcoming Communities project include coordination of a team of community part-ners to develop a Welcom-ing Communities Action Plan. Further information on this project is available on the Welcoming and Inclusive Communities and Workplac-es web site. Applications ac-cepted in writing by email to
[email protected] in person to 1515 King-fi sher Ave. Kitimat, BC V8C 1S5. Closing date is January 11, 2013 at 3:00pm. The centre is closed for the holi-days until January 7 at which time a job description is available at 1515 Kingfi sher Ave. and inquiries can be answered.
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DID YOU KNOW that literacy is more than just being able to read? The Kitimat Adult Literacy Program provides FREE tutoring services for adult interested in improving their reading, writ-ing, math, communication, and information tech-nology skills. Is English NOT your � rst language? We provide FREE tutoring and small group Eng-lish as a Second Language (ESL) classes. For more information please call Brandi at 250-632-7393 or to see what’s happening at the Communi-ty Corner check us out at www.kitimatcommuni-tyservices.ca/KALP.html or � nd us on facebook. DO YOU HAVE DIABETES? We offer individ-ual and group counseling. Certi� cation for blood glucose strips is available. Make an appointment and bring your meter. The Good Food Box is part of our program. Forms for this can be picked up at the Living Well Program or at the hospital main desk. Donations for this worthwhile program are always accepted. For more info call 250-632-8313 during operating hours - Wednesdays 8:00 a.m. to noon, Thursdays 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - or leave message on our voice mail. We are located on the second � oor of the Kitimat Hospital in the Home Support of� ces.PRAYER CANADA KITIMAT meets upstairs at the � re hall Tuesdays, from noon - 1:00 p.m. All are welcome to pray for our city council and those in positions of authority in Kitimat, for the gov-ernment of BC and of Canada. For information call Lesley at 250-632-4554.TUTORS NEEDED — The Kitimat Adult Lit-eracy Program is looking for people interested in tutoring. They offer tutoring services for Eng-lish as a Second Language, math, reading, writ-ing, communication, and information technology. They offer free tutor training and resources to as-sist you. Only requires approximately 2 hours per week. If you would like more information on how to become a Tutor please call Brandi at 250-632-7393 or email [email protected]
The Kitimat Marlins hosted a regional swim meet near the end of December that saw 85 swimmers from around the region attend. The Marlins had some fantastic results with six pool records broken and medalists in almost every age category. With the strong swimming of all Marlin swimmers the Marlins were able to win the meet for overall points. Prince Rupert � n-ished second, Smithers third and Terrace fourth respectively.
Leading the way Kyler Cordeiro (17) broke � ve pool records in the 15 and over boys division. He broke his own record in 50 meter backstroke by 4\10ths of a second. He broke the 100 meter freestyle record by a mere seven one hundredths of a second set last year by former Smithers now UVIC swimmer Brett Zollen. He also broke the 400 meter freestyle record by three seconds, the 800 freestyle record by two seconds while swimming his 1500 meter freestyle which he also broke the record for by 10 seconds. All three of those re-cords were set last season by Smithers’ now University of Waterloo swimmer Brian Dohler. Cordeiro took the gold medal in overall points in the division.
In the 13\14 boys division second year swimmer Brander Pacheco (14) broke his � rst pool record in the 200 meter butter� y. He shaved a solid 5 seconds off the previous mark set 15 years earlier by Prince Rupert swim-mer Chris Marcinkiewicz. Pacheco went on to take the silver medal in the division.
The Marlins now have four swimmers who hold pool records. Alivia Salema and Kleanza Cathers hold pool records as well in the 11\12 girls age group. There are pool records still standing as far back as the mid 1970s.
In the 13\14 girls division Kleanza Cathers made her � rst AAA Provincial qualifying standard for the 13 year old girls division. She is now welcome to attend AAA Provincial championships in Victoria in March and UBC in July. Cathers swam 100 per cent personal best times in all seven of her races on her way to the gold in the 13\14 girls division.
Also taking the gold for overall points was Hannah Pearson(10) in the 10 and under girls division. And the future looks bright for the Marlins as Leah Desousa (10) and Charlotte Collier (10) tied for the bronze medal in the division as well and both swam to 100 per cent personal best times.
Ethan Velho (12) had an excellent swim meet swim-ming to 100 per cent personal best times in all 7 of his
races and took the silver medal for overall points in the division.
Alivia Salema (12) took the silver medal in the 11-12 girls division and Robyn Alderman (16) took home the bronze medal in the 15 and over girls division respec-tively.
There were seven other swimmers who also did the tough task of swimming 100 per cent personal best times. They were Ben Anker (14), Nicholas Cordeiro, (14), Raychel Davies (12), Madison Hauki (12), Madi-son Landry(11), Julia Piroso (15) and Morgan Winterburn (12)
Winterburn also had the largest one swim improve-ment for the Marlins, a 46 second improvement in the 800 meter freestyle.
Candice Pilgrim was once a Marlin swimmer. Photo supplied by Candice Pilgrim
Monique Miller at a Fit Life competition.Photo supplied by Monique Miller
Body-building Kitimatians seek cover spotTwo former Kitimatians have
ended up in the same contest to win the coveted title of the � rst front page model for a Natural Physique and Athletic Association (NPAA) magazine.
From this neck of the woods is Candice Pilgrim and Monique Miller, both long-time � tness enthu-siasts.
But what makes these two con-testants really stand out is the ex-ample they set by maintaining their peak physique while handling a busy family life.
“It’s not about a perfect body, it’s about health,” said Monique Miller, who now lives in Victoria. “It’s also about obtaining something that takes a lot of hard work.”
Miller started her body building in 2011 after watching a competi-tion and deciding she wanted to have the same con� dence the contestants were showing.
As 2012 passed along, Miller had competed and placed highly in two different � tness competitions. She placed second in � gure at a Fit Life competition in Nanaimo.
She was inspired by the many other women she saw competing.
“I knew they had laundry, I knew they had work,” she said, adding she has an of� ce job now which means a lot of sitting around. “I [wanted] to � nd a way to see if I can achieve that.”
Candice Pilgrim, who was a member of the Kitimat Marlins Swim Club for 15 years, manages to keep � tness close to her professional life, working at a � tness centre in Fort MacMurray. She started her � gure competitions after joining co-workers who were doing the same.
As an endurance competitor in the past she wasn’t sure how she would handle being judged in front of a crowd but said she really devel-oped her con� dence as she started competitions, at � rst locally then to other larger competitions.
Among the challenges she has to keeping � t is a busy family life with young children and a husband who works shift. She said there were times that to meet her nutritional needs and feed everybody else she would make three meals in a night.
To vote for either one for the magazine cover, visit the Facebook page of the NPAA and ‘like’ Pil-grim’s and Miller’s photo.
