Northern Sentinel K I T I M A T Relive Canada Day with some photos ... page 8 Volume 60 No. 28 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, July 9, 2014 $ 1.30 INCLUDES TAX PM477761 Years est. 1954 Residential cardboard ban Cameron Orr Kitimat Council is moving ahead on putting a residential cardboard ban at the landfill. A similar ban is already in place for com- mercial cardboard and once the new bylaw comes in to effect homeowners will have to take their cardboard to either the KUTE depot or to the Kitimat Bottle Depot which is now a Multi Material BC (MMBC) contracted recycling de- pot. MMBC’s recycling program went into effect earlier this year. District of Kitimat staff told council that they recommended that they debate three read- ings of the bylaw at their July 7 public meeting, and then finalize the bylaw on July 21, due to the fact those meetings are televised and it would help to advertise the likely changes. Mario Feldhoff said he was happy to see the process begin. “This is good, I think this is an incremen- tal change to our solid waste recycling that will incrementally ensure that we extend the life of our landfill,” he said. “I think the time has come for the residential cardboard ban. We started off with the business cardboard ban and a few busi- nesses had some challenges with that but they’ve moved on, they’ve adapted and I think that those residents that are currently not recycling their cardboard they’ll find a way to do that in the fu- ture as well.” There are potential budget impacts for this change. Most directly with advertising costs for public education, staff say in their report. Also, KUTE, which receives grant funding from the District of Kitimat, has indicated if they become inudated with residential cardboard they might need another half-time employee. That addition would cost $14,000 annually. However because there are two depots in town that can take the material it is hard to fore- cast the burden to KUTE, staff note. Kitimat will likely advertise a new card- board ban with a brochure that will be distrib- uted before a ban is implemented. Staff expect the brochure to cost the District $2,000. No penalty for this proposed bylaw has been set at this time but may have been discussed at this past Monday’s meeting. Staff had indicated the cardboard ban could fall under the municipal ticketing ability with a potential $75 for violations of the cardboard ban. If council sticks with the staff’s recommen- dations the bylaw could go in to effect as early as September 1. Public education would include factors such as residents’ need to keep cardboard dry, other- wise it is no longer able to be recycled. Whatever the results would end up being at the dog show on Canada Day, Louiee here must certainly be the reigning “good dog” in his house. That’s owner Marc Jean giving Louiee a better view of the camera lens. The results of the dog show are on page 2. Keeping pace on walkways Cameron Orr In a follow-up to a recent council meeting presentation on Kitimat’s walk- ways, council and the Kitimat Heritage Group donned walking shoes rather than business shoes for a quasi-committee of the whole meeting on June 30. Quasi in the sense that instead of sit- ting indoors they toured Kitimat’s side- walks and walkways both down the hill and up in a review of the current state of the insfrastructure. Peter Ponter with the Kitimat Heri- tage Group said it was a productive tour. Among their concerns were portions of a walkway near Albatross Street that involves a flight of steps. “The concern was that anybody on a scooter...they could not realize that situa- tion, so the idea was we suggest they put up some caution signs,” he said. Among the group’s overall priorities is to make sure walkways aren’t lost in community expansion. “What we’re concerned about is try- ing to maintain the current system and also as new developments go in bring them up to a similar standard,” he said. There’s no existing plans to decom- mission any walkways at the moment but other plans about maintanence couldn’t be answered during the tour as no repre- sentatives of District of Kitimat’s engi- neering department was on the tour. That said Ponter is happy with the turnout of the tour, which included all but one councillor, which he sees as in- dicative of a focus on the group’s goals. “It was good to see so many coun- cillors,” he said. “We seem to be getting more attention.” Mayor Joanne Monaghan, who was on part of the tour, said the walkways will continue to be an important part of Kitimat, especially as the community ages. “As we’re an aging community I think we have to take that [mobility] in to consideration,” she said. “When peo- ple can get around on their scooters and things they don’t feel so confined, and I think it’s wonderful and if we can keep that going it’s going to be good.” She said she appreciates the heritage committee for keeping the sidewalks a priority for Kitimat’s heritage and hopes they continue to do so. “What we’re concerned about is trying to maintain the current system and also as new developments go in bring them up to a similar standard.”
Kitimat Council is moving ahead on putting a residential cardboard ban at the land� ll.
A similar ban is already in place for com-mercial cardboard and once the new bylaw comes in to effect homeowners will have to take their cardboard to either the KUTE depot or to the Kitimat Bottle Depot which is now a Multi Material BC (MMBC) contracted recycling de-pot.
MMBC’s recycling program went into effect earlier this year.
District of Kitimat staff told council that they recommended that they debate three read-ings of the bylaw at their July 7 public meeting, and then � nalize the bylaw on July 21, due to the fact those meetings are televised and it would help to advertise the likely changes.
Mario Feldhoff said he was happy to see the process begin.
“This is good, I think this is an incremen-tal change to our solid waste recycling that will incrementally ensure that we extend the life of our land� ll,” he said. “I think the time has come for the residential cardboard ban. We started off with the business cardboard ban and a few busi-nesses had some challenges with that but they’ve moved on, they’ve adapted and I think that those residents that are currently not recycling their cardboard they’ll � nd a way to do that in the fu-ture as well.”
There are potential budget impacts for this change. Most directly with advertising costs for public education, staff say in their report.
Also, KUTE, which receives grant funding from the District of Kitimat, has indicated if they become inudated with residential cardboard they might need another half-time employee.
That addition would cost $14,000 annually.However because there are two depots in
town that can take the material it is hard to fore-cast the burden to KUTE, staff note.
Kitimat will likely advertise a new card-board ban with a brochure that will be distrib-uted before a ban is implemented. Staff expect the brochure to cost the District $2,000.
No penalty for this proposed bylaw has been set at this time but may have been discussed at this past Monday’s meeting.
Staff had indicated the cardboard ban could fall under the municipal ticketing ability with a potential $75 for violations of the cardboard ban.
If council sticks with the staff’s recommen-dations the bylaw could go in to effect as early as September 1.
Public education would include factors such as residents’ need to keep cardboard dry, other-wise it is no longer able to be recycled.
Whatever the results would end up being at the dog show on Canada Day, Louiee here must certainly be the reigning “good dog” in his house. That’s owner Marc Jean giving Louiee a better view of the camera lens. The results of the dog show are on page 2.
Keeping pace on walkwaysCameron Orr
In a follow-up to a recent council meeting presentation on Kitimat’s walk-ways, council and the Kitimat Heritage Group donned walking shoes rather than business shoes for a quasi-committee of the whole meeting on June 30.
Quasi in the sense that instead of sit-ting indoors they toured Kitimat’s side-walks and walkways both down the hill and up in a review of the current state of the insfrastructure.
Peter Ponter with the Kitimat Heri-tage Group said it was a productive tour.
Among their concerns were portions of a walkway near Albatross Street that involves a � ight of steps.
“The concern was that anybody on a scooter...they could not realize that situa-tion, so the idea was we suggest they put up some caution signs,” he said.
Among the group’s overall priorities
is to make sure walkways aren’t lost in community expansion.
“What we’re concerned about is try-ing to maintain the current system and also as new developments go in bring them up to a similar standard,” he said.
There’s no existing plans to decom-mission any walkways at the moment but other plans about maintanence couldn’t be answered during the tour as no repre-sentatives of District of Kitimat’s engi-neering department was on the tour.
That said Ponter is happy with the
turnout of the tour, which included all but one councillor, which he sees as in-dicative of a focus on the group’s goals.
“It was good to see so many coun-cillors,” he said. “We seem to be getting more attention.”
Mayor Joanne Monaghan, who was on part of the tour, said the walkways will continue to be an important part of Kitimat, especially as the community ages.
“As we’re an aging community I think we have to take that [mobility] in to consideration,” she said. “When peo-ple can get around on their scooters and things they don’t feel so con� ned, and I think it’s wonderful and if we can keep that going it’s going to be good.”
She said she appreciates the heritage committee for keeping the sidewalks a priority for Kitimat’s heritage and hopes they continue to do so.
“What we’re concerned about is trying to maintain the current system and also as new developments go in bring them up to a similar
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June 26A yearling grizzly
bear was spotted in the
back yard of a person’s home on Wakita Street. Conservation Offi-cers were informed, and the bear retreated in to the woods when police arrived on the call. Neighbours were warned.
June 27Police are inves-
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June 28An overturned
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June 29A 22-year-old
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Pups dressed to the (ca)nines for dog showCameron Orr
Some were big, some were small, all took a shot at being Kitimat’s best dog at the Kitimat West Coast Park Dog Show.
The pups attempted to wow judges on the tennis court at the Riverlodge while Canada Day festivities surround-ed them.
Winner of the Toy dog category was a pet named Tinkerbell. Buddy-Dun was top dog in the medium category. And Ty took top in the large category.
Best in Show went to Sully.
Amy Kuppers provided these photos of Sully (left) and Ty, who won in the large dog category.
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What prom-ised to be negotia-tion that would see the Klappan Valley, popularly known as the Sacred Headwa-ters, protected from mining and other de-velopments, appears to be in limbo as the Tahltan Central Council has threat-ened to take the pro-vincial government to court over control of these traditional lands.
“They haven’t listened to us to date, that’s why we are preparing to go to court,” said Tahl-tan Central Council President Annita McPhee last week.
Last year the province and the Tahltan agreed to take part in what was called the “Klappan Strategic Initiative” with the latter hop-ing the area would be saved from plans by Fortune Minerals of Ontario to build a large metallurgical coal mine there.
The Tahltan use the Klappan for hunting, education and spiritual prac-tices and have block-aded the area off and on over the years to prevent Fortune from gaining access.
The talks were also seen at the time as the follow-up to promises made by Premier Christy Clark prior to the 2013 provincial election to create a land use strategy for the hotly contested lands.
But, according to McPhee, the stra-tegic initiative lead to a technical report but not a resolution.
And no agree-ment was reached after the March deadline for the parties involved in-cluding the Tahltan Central Council and senior representa-tives from various provincial govern-ment ministries, to submit recommen-dations, although the province says “pro-ductive discussions” were continuing.
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Haisla letter shows distaste over consultationCameron Orr
The Haisla Nation Council and the Gov-ernment of Canada ap-pear at opposite ends of consultation regarding the Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal.
Namely, the fed-eral government says, through a June 9 letter to the HNC obtained by the Northern Sentinel, they’ve heard the con-cerns from the Haisla regarding the project and the Joint Review Panel (JRP) process, but the Haisla say the government didn’t take in to account any of their concerns.
“With respect to your key concerns regarding the risk of spills, the federal consultation team ex-plained how the Gov-ernment of Canada places a high priority on preventative mea-sures to avoid th oc-currence of spills in
the first place, and on enhancing response and recovery measures in the unlikely event of a spill,” reads part of a letter to HNC Chief Councillor Ellis Ross from Brett Maracle, Crown consultation coordinator for the Ca-nadian Environmental Assessment Agency, and Jim Clark, director of operations for Natu-ral Resources Canada.
The letter contin-ues to highlight federal government commit-ments to new measures to “further enhance Canada’s world-class pipeline safety and tanker safety systems.”
In the response letter from the Hais-la, signed by Deputy Chief Councillor Tay-lor Cross, the HNC says that examples of improvements to ma-rine safety referred to in the government’s letter point to press re-
leases on tanker safety that doesn’t impact the local area.
“With respect to the enhanced tanker safety, the Kitimat Arm / Douglas Channel area was not even included in areas Canada has identified for enhanced spill response,” read Cross’ letter. (Under-lining taken from origi-nal letter.)
Cross’ letter also points to the Haisla’s concerns that many of their issues were not considered at all.
“Clearly your ‘consultation’ team was just a tool to allow Canada to pretend that it had consulted and then go ahead and do what it intended to do all along.”
The two letters refer to meetings be-tween government representatives and the Haisla in March and April this year.
The Haisla con-cerns include address-ing aboriginal rights and title, as well as di-rect project effects on the environment.
“Your letter identi-fies Haisla Nation con-cerns regarding risks, consequences, and re-sponse in the event of an oil spill in both the terrestrial and marine environments, missing completely concerns about a spill in the freshwater aquatic en-vironment.”
The government’s letter says that en-hancements to Aborigi-nal engagement will be done with the creation of a Major Projects Management Office West, and the estab-lishment of a tripartite forum.
“The Major Proj-ects Management Of-fice West will serve as a single window for the Government of Canada
to coordinate activities on energy infrastruc-ture development with British Columbia First Nations and industry in British Columbia and Alberta,” read Ma-racle’s and Clarke’s let-ter.
The tripartite fo-rum, the letter says, will “provide an op-portunity for the Gov-ernment of Canada, the Governemnt of British Columbia and British Columbia First Nation leaders to share infor-mation, identify com-mon interests and align efforts on issues direct-ly impacting Aborigi-nal participation in the development of energy infrastructure and natu-
ral resources on Cana-da’s west coast.”
Concluding his let-ter, Cross also took aim with the “boilerplate” format of the letter.
“Finally, your letter was boilerplate; a simi-lar letter was sent to various First Nations. We see this as another failure in consultation. The Haisla Nation is a distinct aboriginal na-tion with a unique his-tory and culture with its own rights and title and with its own threat-ened impacts from the Project (Northern Gateway). This attempt to brush us off with a form letter underlines Canada’s contempt for our People.”
Hotel gets zoning varianceCameron Orr
MasterBUILT Hotels, which is constructing a hotel on Haisla Bouelvard where the former Alu-minum City Motel once stood, has asked for and received a zoning vari-ance for their lot on Dadook Avenue.
The variance alters the required rear yard setback, from 5.8 metres to 2.537 metres.
The proponents requested the change due to a redesign of their re-
taining wall and parking lot require-ments that have changed the sitting of the hotel, Kitimat staff say in a report.
Basically the hotel had to move closer to the property line.
Staff had no concerns regard-ing the variance being asked for and council approved it unanimously at their June 23 meeting.
The construction is set to run from September to October 2015.
Immigration help continuesCameron Orr
It may have gone through some changes but at its core Kitimat’s Immigration Service — up until recently Welcoming Commu-nities — is still here to give services to those who have made Kiti-mat, and maybe Cana-da, their new home.
The change in name comes as Wel-coming Communi-ties — a provincially funded program — no longer exists.
Taking its place for the now-called Kit-imat Immigration Re-source Centre (KIRC) is CIC, which is Citi-zen and Immigration Canada.The office is still in the Northwest Community College campus.
CIC has contract-
ed with Kitimat’s im-migration centre for the next three years.
“Our priorities for this next three year contract that we have is of course to devel-opment the ESL. We have...hired on a very qualified ESL teacher who will be running levels one through nine classes. Those are all free to the public,” said Liz Hoffman, who heads the program.
They also offer settlement services, paperwork services, and job shadowing programs through lo-cal companies.
Because their are connected with the federal immigration system, Hoffman says they can actually im-prove their immigra-tion paperwork by ty-
ing straight in to the government system, whereas before they could only advise and pull information from the Internet.
KIRC also works to alleviate problems associated with hous-ing and child care for immigrants to Kitimat.
“Our new priori-ties this year are al-ways trying to solve the housing and child care issues for immi-grants. It’s an issue for both immigrants and I think Kitimat com-munity members,” she said.
Health care em-ployment is the main area where they see challenges in placing people for employ-ment, due to Can-ada’s requirements for health employees
compared to other countries.
“We have doc-tors that are actually working as LPNs in town because they’re credentialed, running their own places in other countries but here they come and the requirements are so much different.”
KIRC has drop-in hours from Monday to Thursday, 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. or you can make arrangements to see them outside of those hours.
4 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Drones are very much in the news these days for a variety of different rea-sons.
Most of us have heard of the most familiar use of drones - in a military capacity in Afghanistan, Pakistan and numerous other countries. North Americans have become accustomed to nightly TV news reports of unmanned aircraft attacking al-Qaida leaders in Afghanistan while being controlled by U.S. pilots from thousands of miles away.
We’ve even read about Amazon.com’s plans to use drones to speed up parcel and other deliveries.
We’ve also read that the FAA in the U.S., which has taken on much of that country’s responsibility for some kind of regulatory control of drones, has nixed that idea for now. In Canada it is Transport Canada, for the time be-ing, which can permit or refuse a use of drones. It is cautious about commercial uses at this time.
But there are numerous other plans and developments for the use of drones. Some fascinating, such as search and rescue capabilities in hostile or dif� -cult territory, and some more intrigu-ing, even dangerous, such as a real es-tate selling tool, a new kind of “paint gun extreme experience, pipeline and power line monitoring, � sh and wild-
life counts or crop monitoring on large farms, weather checking – well the list goes on and on.
Meanwhile some casual drone owners are under investigation for � y-ing their “toys” in public parks too close to airport � ight operations in various places in around the world, endanger-ing passengers. Imagine the damage a couple seagulls can cause when sucked into a passenger jet engine. How much worse would it be if an 80 lbs plastic and metal “� ying object” was to strike a passenger plane windshield or be sucked into a jet engine?
There appears to be a great deal of confusion about who has the real say-so on drone use. Meanwhile hundreds of models of quad helicopter drones, single-wing unmanned aircraft are freely available for sale on the Internet and millions are being spent for toy and commercial variations.
Just enter the word “drones” on Google and up pops about 13 million reference as well as scores of photos
and articles about current uses and available forms of drones. The can be cheap, toy versions at $25 -$75 or very expensive in the thousands for commer-cial use drone units.
Examples of non-military or non-police uses include public safety and traf� c surveillance, conducting aerial search and rescue operations, to com-mercial aerial aerial mapping, crop monitoring, movies, advertising, com-munications and scores of others.
But just from day-to-day reading, drones remain as controversial in public use as they are in military use.
Thus the US FAA is expected miss its planned September 2015 deadline to integrate unmanned aircraft systems into the skies, mainly due to a lack of consensus and controversies based on technological, regulatory and privacy barriers preventing safe drone integra-tion into the national airspace system.
“Following many years of work-ing with industry, FAA has not reached consensus on standards for technology that would enable UAS to detect and avoid other aircraft and ensure reliable data links between ground stations and the unmanned aircraft they control,” one report states.
But of course, while Nero � ddles, the beat goes on.
Continued on page 5
Apologies if I’m droning on
Recycle ableRecycling continues its rapid change in Kitimat,
as the town prepares for a ban on residential card-board from the land� ll.
Such a move follows the already-banned com-mercial cardboard from the land� ll and ful� lls a di-rection of council that goes back a fair bit of time.
In fact whenever councillors gather to take a look at their ‘work sheet’ (a list of their motions and a progress report on if they’ve been ful� lled or not), Mario Feldhoff usually makes a few comments about cardboard recycling.
Such a move on cardboard is one I can’t com-plain about and I’m sure many can’t.
What it does do is draw attention back to recy-cling in the area and remind us of other changes that happened to recycling recently.
Namely the arrival of Multi Material BC’s pro-gram of recycling paper and packaging.
You might remember my editorials from months ago (I can only presume my words on this page are laminated and held for safe keeping in your closets) where I said the District of Kitimat shouldn’t con-cern itself with being a collector of recycling under MMBC not because I’m against recycling but be-cause the program was rife with uncertainties and potential problems.
Plus regardless the program was coming anyway.What happened since is that MMBC went to ten-
der for a collector of curbside recycling and subse-quently found a total of no one to take them up on the offer. (The managers of Kitimat Valley Disposal at the time spoke with council on this issue and basi-cally said the offer from MMBC wasn’t worth their time.)
What Kitimat has received now is an MMBC contracted depot.
Now your plastic and packaging materials can be taken to, of all places, the Kitimat Bottle Depot in the Service Centre.
The change doesn’t effectively alter how KUTE operates. I took all my paper and cardboard to them just last week as usual with no issues.
That said MMBC’s arrival in B.C. with their re-cycling program has gone on silently, and I’m will-ing to bet a lot of people don’t even know it’s here. The organization did all this work to get it running but has done little to announce how it works to resi-dents.
It simply wasn’t here, then it was.If you do want to know a bit about what items
the bottle depot will take now you can look at the District of Kitimat’s website. Just do a search for re-cycling in the search bar to get taken straight to the proper page.
MMBC, now that they’re running, just has to put some effort in to making sure the program is used.
Cameron Orr
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John 5:40, “(Jesus said), But you are not willing to come to Me that you may have life.”
One of the worst civilian airline crashes in history took place on the Canary Islands in 1977 when two Boeing 747s collided.
A survivor related how many of the pas-sengers reacted upon the fiery impact. Many of them were heard to have spoken their last words with profan-ity and cursing. Rath-er than making their “Peace with God,” their last earthly moments were spent cursing God.
What would cause someone staring eter-nity in the face to still shake their fist at God? The sad fact is that many people would rather grasp onto their personal sin and take it with them to the grave rather than confess it to God and have it for-given.
The Bible says in 1 John 1:8-9, “If we say we have no sin we de-ceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. But if we confess our sin, God who is faithful and just will forgive us our sin and cleanse us fromall unrighteousness.”
God forgives us not based on any merit of our own, but be-cause God’s Son, Jesus Christ, lived a perfect sinless life for us, and then gave that sinless life on the cross as our substitute, so that who-ever confesses their sin and believes in Him will not perish but re-ceive eternal life.
But of course, you first need to admit that you have sin in your life and your pride doesn’t want to admit that; and so even while staring death in the face many let their pride condemn them rather than receiv-ing God’s free gift of forgiveness and eternal life.
The Bible tells us that it is God’s desire that all souls would come to repentance and have eternal life, but so many are not willing.
Friends, don’t al-low someone else’s opinion to formulate your thinking about Jesus Christ. Don’t let
anyone belittle you or demean your eternal priceless soul; rather, regard your soul with kid gloves. Acknowl-edge your sins before God and receive His free gift of forgiveness and eternal salvation through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Let go of that sin that shackles you and drags you down.
Many people think that repentance is something that crushes them, when in reality it is a great weight being lifted off.
Jesus said, “Come to Me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest.”
May God grant you the humility to ac-knowledge your sinful condition, and give you the faith to believe so that you may have life through our Savior Je-sus Christ both now and forever.
Amen.
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On June 20, Gitga’at First Nation women held a symbolic blockade on the Douglas Channel with a crochet Chain of Hope” which the community stretched across the Channel. The fabric, which was strung from Hawkesbury Island to Hartley Bay, totalled 11,544 feet long. The event was to show opposition to oil tankers and oil spills on B.C.’s coast. Chain of Hope Facebook page
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Continued from page 4Last month, the National Park
Service temporarily banned UAS from all National Parks unless oper-ators go through an application pro-cess. Earlier in the month, the Mo-tion Picture Association of America applied for an exemption to allow film studios to use UAS for filming, and the FAA also allowed the use of drones by BP in Alaska to monitor activity on pipelines.
And, drones are also being in-
troduced into hurricane tracking by the National Oceanic and Atmo-spheric Administration’s Hurricane Research Division in Miami. A kind of drone has been developed that can spend hours descending slowly, cruising on the air currents spinning through a storm, possibly even orbit-ing a hurricane’s eye. Data from the three foot, seven pound drone from the lowest areas of a hurricane may give researchers a movie with im-portant information.
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Development Association, a non-profit society that helps to promote economic devel-opment in the Kitimat area, received a $2,500 operating grant from the District of Kit-imat after sending a request letter to council.
The organization is volun-teer run and will at times col-
laborate with the District of Kitimat’s Economic Develop-ment Office.
KEDA does not compete or duplicate work of the mu-nicipal department though.
“They do meet with us regularly,” said Economic De-velopment Officer Rose Klu-kas, to avoid any duplications.
Councillors’ only minor concern was to ensure that
the money granted to KEDA would not eventually wind up paying for advertising that may support projects the Dis-trict of Kitimat does not sup-port, namely the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal.
Council ensured that sce-nario by adding a friendly amendment that the money would not be used for such.
Tom FletcherB.C.’s new amphibious water-scooping air-
craft have been sent to a forest fire near Hay River in the Northwest Territories.
Four Air Tractor “Fire Boss” planes and one Cessna Grand Caravan command aircraft went into service this spring. They are based in Rev-elstoke, but can be moved to other locations in B.C. as conditions dictate.
Their first mission of the 2014 forest fire season was supporting ground crews at a fire
near Kaslo on June 9. The planes delivered 222,361 litres of water and foam in 75 minutes.
The Fire Boss group replaces two Martin Mars water bombers that were contracted by the B.C. Forest Service from the Coulson Group of Companies, based at Sproat Lake on Vancouver Island. Forests Minister Steve Thomson said the smaller aircraft can be deployed more quickly, operate from more than 1,700 bodies of water in B.C. and can be split up as needed to assist with multiple fires.
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The Kitimat Multicultural Society hosted the annual � ags raising at the Visitor Information Centre. Shown here is the Austrian � ag being raised with John Berger (left), Gunter Prett (centre) and Louis Lechner.
Kitimatians honoured on Canada DayCameron Orr
Canada Day in Kitimat also means presentation of community awards.
A number of Community Recog-nition Awards were handed out at the Riverlodge marking the past year’s most notable Kitimatians.
Duncan Peacock earned an award for over 10 years working with the Kitimat Marine Rescue Society.
Angelo Demelo was recognized for many years of volunteer service with youth sports, the Kitimat Ice Demons and providing investment information to Kitimat seniors.
Robert Buller and Deana Buller were recognized for their volunteer hours to start-up the Cadets program in Kitimat.
John F. Denholme Sr. was sin-gled out for over 15 years volunteer-ing for the Kitimat Food Bank.
Murray Minchin received his due winning a recognition award for his advocacy work with the Douglas Channel Watch.
Barbara Hall, as the driving force behind recycling in Kitimat with her title as President of Kitimat Under-standing the Environment, won an award.
In recognition of Super Series Star Skate provincial champion-ships, Tayah Pacheco, Mikaela Car-reiro and Aliyah Goncalves earned Recognition of Excellence awards.
Representing the BC Seniors Games Zone 10, winning awards were Joe Martyres and Ron Adam
(Social bridge), Jackie Dean and Jim Potuzak (cribbage), Eylene Craven (5-pin bowling), Rena Hummel and Lisa Stumpf (Darts), Tony Abriel, Howard Smith and Larry Blackmore (curling), Anne Berrisford and Betty Glover (golf).
Meanwhile, for the Kinsmen’s Canada Day Parade, they had 26 en-tries.
First place in the parade went to the Kitimat Dynamics Gymnastics Club.
The Luso took second place with their lively � oat.
Douglas Channel Watch earned third with their colourful and vibrant entry.
The Luso club earned second place in the Canada Day Parade on July 1.
Caitlin ClowNortherners don’t
want to drive faster, ac-cording to public opin-ion polling conducted as part of a review of speed limits on provin-cial highways.
It means while speed limits are being increased to 120 km/h on stretches of southern highways, Hwy16 will remain at 100 km/h.
Only 42 per cent of northerners who participated in surveys during the review were in favour of having the highways speed limit adjusted. Most of the support for the increase came from the Lower Mainland with 81 per cent in favour.
Skeena NDP MLA Robin Austin said the response from resi-dents of northwest B.C. reflects wisdom.
“I’m not at all sur-prised,” he said.
“We have complex, windy roads. We don’t have straightways so it doesn’t surprise me that they said no. They were quite satisfied with the speed limits as they are,” said Austin.
The transportation ministry reviewed ap-proximately 9,100 km of highways and 1,300 km have been deemed fit to have their speed limit increased.
Provincial trans-portation Minister Todd Stone said limits are being raised where it is noticed that vehicles are already exceeding the posted limit.
The new 120 km/h speed zone will only be applied to certain sections of multi-lane and divided highways. Signs with the 120 km/h limit are going up on the Coquihalla Highway from Hope to Kamloops limit right away and speed limits
will be raised on other highway sections when new signs arrive.
Although speed limits are on the rise highway safety is still the number one prior-
ity to the province, says the province.
Provincial high-ways will continue to be monitored and there will be an ongo-ing evaluation of speed
limits and safety mea-sures by a provincial committee.
A RCMP officer said the police force’s focus won’t change.
“Our priority in
B.C. remains traffic safety and harm reduc-tion,” said Sergeant Rob Vermeulen who speaks for the RCMP on provincial issues.
“The BC RCMP
will continue to con-centrate our enforce-ment efforts in the area of reducing the number of people killed or in-jured on our roadways,” he said.
Other than speed limits, last year’s re-view also examined the requirements for win-ter tires, keeping to the right except to pass and wildlife collisions.
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Date and time: Tuesday, October 8th, 4 p.m. – 8 p.m.
Location: Riverlodge Rec Centre, 654 Columbia Ave West
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Chevron Canada invites you to attend a Community Open House on the Clio Bay Restoration Project
Chevron invites you to learn more about the proposed Clio Bay Marine Life Restoration Project.
This proposed project would see Chevron excavate marine clay from the Kitimat LNG construction site at Bish Cove and work closely with the Federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans to deposit this natural material in specifi c locations in Clio Bay. The clay will cap-off decaying wood debris left by historic log booming operations that has accumulated on the bottom of Clio Bay, damaging the Bay’s natural ecosystem. A key goal of the project is to restore natural marine life populations in Clio Bay.
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The Kitimat LNG Community Office at 369 City Centre in Kitimat will begin summer hours to allow Community Office staff to take annual leave.
Jul. 2 – Aug. 3, 2014: Closed
Aug. 4 – Aug. 31, 2014: Open 12:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m., Monday – Friday
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The Kitimat LNG Community Office at369 City Centre in Kitimatwill begin summer hours to allowCommunity Office staff to take annual leave.
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Kitimat LNG Community OfficeSummer HoursNo mediation for teachers
Tom FletcherA B.C. Supreme Court justice has concluded
the B.C. Teachers’ Federation and the B.C. gov-ernment are too far apart on wages and working conditions for mediation to be effective.
The B.C. Public School Employers’ Associa-tion and the BCTF confirmed a week ago today that Justice Stephen Kelleher has taken part in “exploratory” talks in recent days to seek an end to the teacher strike that wiped out the last two weeks of the school year.
“He had some exploratory discussions with the parties and determined that mediation is not indicated at this time,” said an agreed statement by both parties.
Education Minister Peter Fassbender said the BCTF’s total compensation demands are still more than twice what other government unions have settled for.
The union’s benefit demands alone represent an additional $225 million a year, Fassbender said. Those include increases to preparation time, pregnancy and parental leave, extended health and dental and substitute teacher compensation.
“There is no process and no mediator that can bridge this gap at this time,” Fassbender said. “To pretend otherwise only raises false expectations
and serves to delay the tough decisions the BCTF executive needs to make to get to an affordable agreement.”
BCTF president Jim Iker said the government placed unacceptable pre-conditions on wage ne-gotiations going to mediation.
“At this point, with the government maintain-ing entrenched positions that are unfair and un-reasonable, mediation will not be able to move forward,” Iker said. “We will keep the lines of communication open in July to restart bargaining if the government is ready to make a real effort and bring the necessary funding to the table.”
BCPSEA has proposed a 7% pay increase over six years, plus a $1,200 signing bonus with a deadline that expired June 30. The BCTF has countered 8% over five years with a proposed $5,000 bonus, to make up for a year the union has worked under an expired contract.
BCPSEA has calculated the cost of the union’s position on class size and composition at $1.67 billion. That dispute has been the subject of a series of court actions and the B.C. Court of Ap-peal is expected to rule on it in the fall.
Fassbender said the latest offer is to guarantee $75 million in each year of a new contract for spe-cial needs support.
Clockwise from top left, a boy waves his Canadian Flags as the Kitimat Marine Rescue Society Float moves past; Nathan Closter hugs a bear for the Bear Aware float; the evening was capped off with a loud and wild fireworks display; Douglas Channel Watch earned third place in the parade; Gymnasts flip and jump, earning themselves first place in the Kinsmen’s Canada Day Parade contest.
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Haisla Nation CouncilHaisla Community School has an opening for the
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We are looking for energetic and enthusiastic teacher for Grade 2/3 for the upcoming school year. Commencement of this position is September 1, 2014. This position is suited to a committed teacher who is comfortable teaching in all subject areas at these levels and have a strong desire to make a difference in the lives of students. Teaching experience, along with excellent leadership, team building and a background in literacy, cooperative learning, differentiated assessment and instruction is an asset. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
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the opportunity to witness and learn about Haisla culture/language; • Ability to plan for students using a collaborative approach.
Salary is based on education and experience.
Interested individuals should submit a cover letter, names of three (3) references and the express permission for Haisla Nation Council (HNC) to contact these references, as well as copies of your valid teaching BC teaching certificate, Teacher Qualification Service Card, and practicum/teaching reports to:
Stephanie McClure, Human Resources ManagerHaisla Nation CouncilHaisla PO Box 1101 Kitamaat Village, BC V0T 2B0Phone (250) 639-9361, ext. 204 Fax (250) 632-2840Email: [email protected]
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Stephanie McClure, Human Resources ManagerHaisla Nation CouncilHaisla PO Box 1101 Kitamaat Village, BC V0T 2B0Phone (250) 639-9361, ext. 204 Fax (250) 632-2840Email: [email protected]
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Gorgeous 5 bdrm, 2.5 bath on 1 acre of very private landscaped property. 2,600 sq ft. Maple hardwood fl oor-ing, tile and laminate throughout. Charming French country kitchen has solid oak butcher block counters and gas range.2 pc en-suite and walk-in closet complete the master bdrm. Main bath has his/her sinks and a luxurious air jet soaker tub. 2 enormous bdrms and family room on the lower level host a 3 pc bath with radiant fl oor heat-ing and a walk-in shower that easily fi ts two. Includes spacious glass railed deck, security system, 28x24 dou-ble garage, large storage shed, enclosed 40ft RV/boat/toy stall, green-house, raised vegetable gar-den and mature trees. Im-maculate and 100% move-in-ready! Lower level is plumbed and wired for a full kitchen or bar. Professionally appraised at $540,000, open to offers, call
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68 Carswell St.2200 square foot well main-tained home in Whitesail area of Kitimat. Large, open kitch-en/dining area, 3 bdrms and full bath upstairs. Downstairs has a one bdrm in-law suite with full bath, kitchen and liv-ing room. All new windows and fully renovated. Private backyard with 2 tier deck and sunken hot tub. Call 250-632-8466 for more info.
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Kitimat House for Sale15 Stikine St.
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CLASSIC/COLLECTOR1971 300SEL 3.5 Mercedes Benz. 75,000km. Very good condition, always garaged, never driven in winter. Well maintained. Maintenance records, service/parts book. Manuals. Some spare parts.
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Charitable housing gives family support in hard timesCameron Orr
It may be hard to picture why a housing re-source in Vancouver may be at all important to a family in Kitimat.
But when the facility is a place to house sick children undergoing treatment at the BC Chil-dren’s Hospital, that resource suddenly makes a whole lot of sense to people in the north.
The Marleau family of Alex, 17, older sister Jocelyn and parents Lorna and Terry, know very well the advantages of the Ronald McDonald House.
When Alex was seven a curious downturn in his health during a camping trip prompted his family to get in checked out at the Kitimat hos-pital.
They quickly learned that Alex had acute lymphoblastic leukemia and needed to get to Vancouver immediately to receive treatment.
The diagnosis set off a frantic scramble to get to Vancouver and get Alex in to treatment.
Until the family figured out more long-term arrangements Lorna and Terry stayed in a ho-tel before finally moving in to the Ronald Mc-Donald House with Alex while he was receiving treatment.
The experience of staying there — which they still do during Alex’s annual check-ups in Vancouver — shaped the entire experience of having a sick child, said Lorna.
“Our experience would have been complete-ly different, or mine personally, not having been at the house,” said Lorna. “It wouldn’t have been as endurable.”
Alex said he doesn’t remember too much of those early days of his illness. He has small memories or going to Vancouver but being more excited about the trip, not quite understanding at the time what was happening.
“I remember being really excited about go-ing to Vancouver,” he said.
A regime of pills and needles that followed broke down that excitement and Terry said he had to use Alex’s Gameboy as an incentive sometimes to get him to take medicine.
But as far as treatments go he went through with flying colours.
Today Terry calls his son the “poster boy” for leukemia because of how smoothly the treat-ment went for him.
“Praise to God, he’s gone through it and went through it well without a lot of setbacks,” he said.
In the background to his illness though was their accomodation at the house, and the co-residents quickly became good friends of the Marleau’s.
That’s not to mention the staff and volun-teers that keep the place running.
“The staff there are amazing. Absolutely amazing,” said Lorna.
“Anyone who’s truly involved in cancer treatment for adults but especially children are amazing anyway.”
As ‘residents’ of the house the place has a way of making people pay it forward for sup-port.
When they arrived they received a lot of emotional support from families who had been there longer.
Now, with Alex receiving annual follow-ups in Vancouver, the family stays there still and give their advice and support to the newer families.
Lorna and Alex are looking forward to their next stay which will be at the new Ronald Mc-Donald House built on-site at the Children’s hospital.
From a capacity of 13 rooms, the new place will handle 73 families a night.
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Your can almost feel your ears ringing in this amazing starting line shot shared to us by photographer John Weaver from the Kitimat Hill Climb on June 29.
It’s all uphill for Kitimat Hill ClimbThe annual Dave Saun-
ders Memorial Hill Climb was another great success, kicking off July 1 festivities in Kitimat.
The results are:
A class 1st Arron Baverstock2nd Harley Bell3rd Pierre Amado B class1st Randy Sarell
2nd Doug Ribeiro3rd Karri NelsonSnobike1st James Gaidner2nd Peter Walsh3rd Robin Aurther
Juniors1st Delaney Ribeiro2nd Lou Ribeiro3rd Quinn AmadoKing of the HillJames Gairdner
We invite you to visit our interactive display to learn how a molecule of
natural gas turns into liquefi ed natural gas. The display will take you on a
journey from deep underground, all the way to customers overseas.
Where: Tamitik Jubilee Sports Complex – in the arena400 City Centre in downtown Kitimat
Visitors can enter through the Sam Lindsay Aquatic Centre doors or through the wheelchair accessible entrance at the arena doors on the west side of the building.
When: Wednesdays through Saturdays, June 25 to August 16.
Drop by any time between 11:30 am to 4:30 pm, starting June 25.
CorrectionIn our July 2 issue, a caption on page 8 im-
properly referred a person in a photo as an el-der. The person in full regalia should have been properly referred to as Haimus Wakas, head he-reditary chief of the Haisla Raven Clan.
We apologize for our incorrect caption and are happy to issue this correction.
