March 18, 2015 edition of the Kitimat Northern Sentinel
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Northern Sentinel K I T I M A T Volume 61 No. 11 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, March 18, 2015 $ 1.30 INCLUDES TAX Long serving SAR volunteers honoured. /page 11 Leadership the focus in this month’s Buzz. /page 12 PM477761 Dishing it out The Multicultural Society’s annual potluck dinner was a popular outing. These ladies dishing out food at the final station of the food line were certainly in festive spirits with their garbs. Some more photos from the event on page 7. Resident alarmed at LNG letters Cameron Orr Residents within a 3.3 km circle from the proposed LNG Canada site received letters in their mail which had some con- cerned. Residents in much of the Kildala area, received registered letters which included a map showing the outline of an affected zone that comes just shy of the Riverlodge and as far north as Yukon and Skeena Streets. The zone is for homes that could see any physical impact from the facility, including light pollution and air quality. Kildala homeowner Edward Prochot said the letter, to him, means that homeowners such as him may be among the few people who won’t see the community benefits of a project like that. “We’re going to be the only ones in this one little area that are actually going to lose from it,” said Prochot about how the LNG Canada project will impact his neighbourhood in light of the letters, which indicate an area that could be physically af- fected by the facility. He said he’s brought up the question about if residents will receive any compensation for being in the affected zone but he says the answer from the company has been no. Prochot was interested in attending an information session for affected homeowners but missed it when he didn’t realize the date was so soon after receiving the letter, and for the fact he would have a hard time getting transportation to the office at the former Methanex site. The letters, according to LNG Canada, are a requirement of the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OCG). In addition to things such as an environmental review for the project, LNG Canada would need a facility permit from the OCG. Such a process requires its own set of community consultations. The OCG sets parameters for reaching out to affected neighbours and in the case of an LNG facility they’ve set 3.3 km, LNG Canada explained in an e-mail. The company set a sit-down meeting with interested home- owners in that zone which took place on March 10, and was followed by a community open house at their information cen- tre on Ocelot Road. The issues discussed ranged from noise, traffic, dust, odour, safety and even what the site would look like at night. LNG Canada says 160 people attended their March 10 open house The OCG permit, the company says, focuses on safety as- pects of the project. Strike goes on but sides are bargaining Publicly it was a quiet week regarding the strike, but the District of Kitimat and Unifor 2300 are indeed back at the bargaining table. Members of the bargaining team for both the District and the union were unavailable for com- ment at our deadlines Monday but Mayor Phil Germuth did confirm that work was being done and that the sides had met last week and would be this week too. He said he hopes the work going on now will pave the way to developing trust between the two sides in the future. With the two sides talking again it will hope- fully quickly lead to a new collective agreement, replacing the one which expired at the end of 2014. This year’s strike has beat out the length of the last District strike in 1997, which lasted 16 days. By Monday this week the strike had reached 17 days since it began on February 28. The only true glimpse to what has been of- fered in a new contract came from a February 28 news release from the District which laid out a 2.5 per cent wage increase from 2015 to 2017 as well as the additions of 10 full time employees over two years in the Leisure Services department. Other details from that release included adding two heavy equipment operators and offering en- hanced training programs. Being over two weeks old the details in that offer could very possibly be out of date at this time. If there are updates to this story through the week they will be posted to www.northernsenti- nel.com. People viewing the LNG Canada site model at the March 10 open house.
Dishing it outThe Multicultural Society’s annual potluck dinner was a popular outing. These ladies dishing out food at the � nal station of the food line were certainly in festive spirits with their garbs. Some more photos from the event on page 7.
Resident alarmed at LNG lettersCameron Orr
Residents within a 3.3 km circle from the proposed LNG Canada site received letters in their mail which had some con-cerned.
Residents in much of the Kildala area, received registered letters which included a map showing the outline of an affected zone that comes just shy of the Riverlodge and as far north as Yukon and Skeena Streets. The zone is for homes that could see any physical impact from the facility, including light pollution and air quality.
Kildala homeowner Edward Prochot said the letter, to him, means that homeowners such as him may be among the few people who won’t see the community bene� ts of a project like that.
“We’re going to be the only ones in this one little area that are actually going to lose from it,” said Prochot about how the LNG Canada project will impact his neighbourhood in light of the letters, which indicate an area that could be physically af-fected by the facility.
He said he’s brought up the question about if residents will receive any compensation for being in the affected zone but he says the answer from the company has been no.
Prochot was interested in attending an information session for affected homeowners but missed it when he didn’t realize the date was so soon after receiving the letter, and for the fact he would have a hard time getting transportation to the of� ce at the former Methanex site.
The letters, according to LNG Canada, are a requirement of the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission (OCG).
In addition to things such as an environmental review for
the project, LNG Canada would need a facility permit from the OCG. Such a process requires its own set of community consultations.
The OCG sets parameters for reaching out to affected neighbours and in the case of an LNG facility they’ve set 3.3 km, LNG Canada explained in an e-mail.
The company set a sit-down meeting with interested home-owners in that zone which took place on March 10, and was followed by a community open house at their information cen-tre on Ocelot Road.
The issues discussed ranged from noise, traf� c, dust, odour, safety and even what the site would look like at night.
LNG Canada says 160 people attended their March 10 open house
The OCG permit, the company says, focuses on safety as-pects of the project.
Strike goes on but sides are bargaining
Publicly it was a quiet week regarding the strike, but the District of Kitimat and Unifor 2300 are indeed back at the bargaining table.
Members of the bargaining team for both the District and the union were unavailable for com-ment at our deadlines Monday but Mayor Phil Germuth did con� rm that work was being done and that the sides had met last week and would be this week too.
He said he hopes the work going on now will pave the way to developing trust between the two sides in the future.
With the two sides talking again it will hope-fully quickly lead to a new collective agreement, replacing the one which expired at the end of 2014.
This year’s strike has beat out the length of the last District strike in 1997, which lasted 16 days.
By Monday this week the strike had reached 17 days since it began on February 28.
The only true glimpse to what has been of-fered in a new contract came from a February 28 news release from the District which laid out a 2.5 per cent wage increase from 2015 to 2017 as well as the additions of 10 full time employees over two years in the Leisure Services department. Other details from that release included adding two heavy equipment operators and offering en-hanced training programs. Being over two weeks old the details in that offer could very possibly be out of date at this time.
If there are updates to this story through the week they will be posted to www.northernsenti-nel.com.
People viewing the LNG Canada site model at the March 10 open house.
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Vehicle accidents run rampant for the weekMarch 2At 5:30 p.m. the
RCMP were alerted to a report of two men drinking alcohol inside a vehicle, and were told that the vehicle was seen leaving the Kitimat Modernization Camp and heading to-wards town. Patrols by the police did not turn up the vehicle.
March 3At 4:28 p.m. the
police attended a hit
and run report of an unoccupied vehicle. A 2011 Dodge Ram suf-fered rear passenger-side damage while parked at either Moun-taview Square or at Kitimat Lodge, police say.
March 4At 8:23 p.m. po-
lice tracked down a vehicle reported to be driving erratically in the upper City Centre parking lot. The pick-
up truck had passen-gers in the box area as well. Police found the vehicle, occupied by a 17-year-old driver. The driver was given a warning and spoken to about driving with pas-sengers in the box area.
March 5A woman’s moun-
tain bike was turned in to the Kitimat RCMP by a person who found it somewhere between Saguenay and Stikine
Streets. The bike will be held in their exhib-its until the owner can be found.
March 6At 1:10 p.m. a ve-
hicle was rear-ended while it was mak-ing a left-hand turn in to a parking lot on Wakashan Avenue. Both vehicles suffered minor damage and one driver reported minor injuries. One of the drivers was issued a
violation ticket for fol-lowing too closely.
March 7At 4:38 p.m. the
RCMP responded to a two vehicle colli-sion on Baxter Avenue. Both vehicles suffered moderate damage and police say they are still investigating the inci-dent.
March 8At 12:30 a.m. dur-
ing a licenced premis-es check at the Chilly
and Dancer Pub the police spoke to a man who was being kicked out for knocking over chairs and being a nui-sance. Officers deter-mined the 24-year-old man was not able to care for himself and was held in cells until sober, and on release was given a ticket for being intoxicated
in public.At 7:50 p.m. the
police attended to a home on a complaint of an out of control youth. Police had to re-turn within the hour on a report the youth was threatening to harm himself. The person was taken for an as-sessment at the hospi-tal.
Two charged regarding 2014 arsonCameron Orr
Charges have now been laid against two men in connection with an alleged arson which took place in April 2014.
At 6 a.m. on April 12 that year, a Bayer Street home in Kitimat was allegedly set on fire.
A sleeping family inside man-aged to escape due to a passerby who saw the fire and alerted the fam-ily, police say.
The RCMP have been inves-tigating the file ever since and in March 2015 charges of arson, with respect to disregard of life and prop-
erty, were approved by the Crown.Charged is Nicholas Ferguson,
24, and Thomas Finnie, 22. Fergu-son faces additional charges of pos-session of an incendiary material, gasoline, for the purpose of commit-ting arson. Both males are in custody at the moment, police say.
Kitimat RCMP say that they still welcome any information about this crime and people can either call the detachment at 250-632-7111 and ask for investigating officer Cpl. Stu Egers, or remain anonymous by call-ing Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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continues the lead up to filing with the Envi-ronmental Assessment Office (EAO) for their planned expansion of Terminal A.
RTA last year en-tered an agreement with LNG Canada for their use of Terminal B, the former Eurocan wharf.
In anticipation of LNG Canada taking over that piece of land, RTA will have to ex-pand their own wharf to meet capacity.
The company held an open house last De-cember together with the EAO and this latest event is held in antici-pation of the filing in the coming weeks.
“In a few weeks we’ll put in our appli-cation and it will be the formal [environmental assessment] process from there,” said Kevin Dobbin, manager of
communities, external relations and media.
Perhaps among the most important factors of this project to the community is how it impacts water access, namely to Hospital Beach.
Dobbin, said there’s no long term plan for the beach closure although con-struction may eventu-ally result in a tempo-rary closure.
But at completion the plan is the commu-nity will still be able to use the facility.
“We don’t plan on closing the beach at all, long term. But during construction it might be,” he said.
He said the compa-ny has worked closely with the Haisla and the community in put-ting together their ex-pansion plan, which includes a barge ramp and dredging in the water.
Dobbin said they’ll have to dredge three or four metres to accom-modate their ships.
General Manager of BC Operations for RTA Gaby Poirier says right now they use their Terminal B for ship-ping out their metal but once Terminal A is extended their one terminal will serve the import of the raw ma-
terial and metal export.The company will
move entirely to the new terminal as soon as its completed.
Filing for an envi-ronmental assessment certificate will trigger a 180-day review phase where the public can make comments too.
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The last two weeks of Terrace’s noon-hour hockey league season are all washed up thanks to a few players who couldn’t stop spit-ting while at the players’ bench.
The rest of the drop-in games, a self-regulated pro-gram the city offers have been cancelled because of an exces-sive – and it sounds like, intentional – spitting situation involving one or two individuals who ignored warnings from city workers.
A sign taped to the Hidber Arena door reads, “Noon Hour Hockey Can-celled for the rest of the season due to repeated spitting in the players boxes.”
B.C.’s minimum wage is going up by 20 cents in September, and will see annual in-creases to match the B.C. consumer price index each September after that.
It’s the first increase since 2012, when the current wage of $10.25 was set. Jobs Minister Shirley Bond said this year’s increase reflects what would have taken place if indexing to inflation had been in place at that time.
The lower mini-mum wage for restau-rant and pub servers is being retained, going from $9 to $9.20 in Sep-tember. The discount from the general mini-mum wage will remain at $1.25 per hour to ac-count for tips earned by servers, Bond said.
Piece rates for sea-sonal piece workers are to receive proportional increases, as are day rates paid to live-in camp counsellors and residential caretakers at apartment buildings.
B.C. is the last province in Canada to move to an automatic formula for setting the minimum wage. The annual increase will be based on the previous year’s CPI.
Spit take
Wage
REGIONAL BRIEFS
What: A public hearing will be held on Monday, March 23, 2015 at 7:30pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square to consider ‘Forest Hills Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1864, 2015.’
What changes? Wakita Construction Ltd. has submitted an application for Council to relocate the local park component of Phase 6 of the subdivision, in conjuncture with a revised site layout. Total number of units in this phase remains unchanged. Proposed location of park will tie in to current informal trail connecting Wakita Ave. with Hirsch Creek Trail. As a part of this rezoning, Wakita Construction is proposing sponsoring upgrades to the trail connection. Council is considering ‘Forest Hills Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1864, 2015’, and is seeking your input.
Where is it?
PUBLIC HEARING MARCH 23, 2015Forest Hills Zoning Amendment
Bylaw No. 1864, 2015
When can I speak? Anyone wishing to comment on this issue may provide written comment to Mayor & Council c/o 270 City Centre, V8C 2H7; fax 250-632-4995; or email to [email protected].
Comments regarding the proposed rezoning must be received before 8:30am on March 18 to be included in the report to Mayor & Council. Submissions received by email after this deadline but before 4:30pm on Monday,
March 23 will be read before Council at the Public Hearing. You may also speak in person, or deliver written comment, at the Public Hearing held Monday, March 23, 2015 at
7:30pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square.
Need more info? The bylaw, Council resolution, staff report, submitted application, and other background material are available for review at www.kitimat.ca/pn and at the District of Kitimat reception desk, 270 City Centre, 8:30am-noon and
1:00-4:30pm, Monday to Friday, excluding holidays. Further inquiries should be directed to Community Planning & Development at 250-632-8910.
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General Manager of BC Operations for RTA Gaby Poirier standing by a poster at their open house which gives a virtual look of the view from Hospital Beach after Terminal A expansion.
RTA updates on terminal plans
BC Hydro reflects on stormCameron Orr
BC Hydro says there are some lessons to take after February’s near-record snow fall but emphasize it was a truly unexpectedly large snowfall.
BC Hydro’s Co-ordinator for Northern Community Relations Dave Mosure cited a quote by Mayor Phil Germuth to the CBC in February as an ex-ample of how unusual the storm was.
“The events of the past few days are of such significance that nobody could have been prepared to solve them in a matter of hours,” Germuth had told the CBC.
Mosure said pre-dicting the severity of a storm is challenging.
“It’s difficult to predict how severe a storm will be (in this case it was near record breaking snowfall). That’s why BC Hydro employees continu-ously train on how to respond quickly and effectively duringan emergency, so we are well prepared for the challenges that winter storms bring,”
he wrote in an e-mail statement. “The weath-er forecast informa-tion we had prior to the storm arriving in-dicated the impacted zone would be larger than what actually oc-curred. This resulted in our resources be spread further afield.”
Crews and equip-ment for Kitimat were brought in from Ter-race and Prince Rupert and further from the Hazeltons, Smithers, Prince George and Wil-liams Lake, he added.
As for lessons learned, Mosure says there are two main things.
One, crews on the scenes had many trees falling near them, which resulted in repeated repairs or
being delayed.“Greater consid-
eration must be given to crew safety during events as significant as this record setting snowfall,” he wrote.
Also, coordina-tion with snow clear-ing efforts is impor-tant.
“[BC Hydro] needs access to loca-tions with damaged infrastructure for res-toration work but the snow impedes vehicle travel...Snow removal crews need downed poles and lines re-moved to allow safe snow removal.”
As for the utility’s day to day equipment, he says they are al-ways doing upgrades to keep equipment up to standards.
BC Hydro contractors in Kitimat during the snow storm, February 8.
A miscellany for today: Corporal Stuart Langridge, a veteran of cam-paigns in Bosnia and Afghanistan hung himself, in a suicide in 2008.
A Military Police Complaints Com-mission report on three investigations into the suicide details an extended list of errors and failures by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service, including a decision to withhold a sui-cide note Langridge had addressed to his family, for 14 months. This an-nounced on March 10, 2015.
The MPCC report says military po-lice investigators were “so incompetent in their investigations that they should not be trusted with sudden death inves-tigations.”
The Army, naturally, disagrees and a seven year old dispute between the soldier’s parents and the Army has now costs thousands of dollars.
It’s not over and the matter will now go to federal court to challenge Army police actions. What will that take, an-other two years on one of dozens of Army PTSS suicides? Truly it boggles the mind.
This, by the way represents over-sight of Department of Defence policy
over the sudden deaths of stressed vet-erans. Meanwhile the Federal govern-ment is insistent no such “oversight” is needed with wide-ranging new anti-terrorism legislation.
The 42nd Canadian general election is scheduled to take place on October 19, 2015.
In between the cases of Senators Mike Duffy, Mac Harb, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau, who claimed travel and housing expenses from the Senate for which they were not eligible, are likely to take the form of IEDs (impro-vised explosive devices) along the road to the polls.
Harb has retired and repaid the money but remains in the mix under charges. He’s a Liberal, but Stephen Harper appointees Duffy, Wallin, and Brazeau remain suspended from the Senate without pay. Duffy has been
charged by the RCMP and faces 31 charges of alleged breach of trust, fraud and bribery. In laying the charges, the RCMP described two “avenues” direct-ly relating to the expenses issue — his � ling of living expenses for his second-ary residence in Ottawa, and the � ling of travel expenses for trips they allege were not for Senate business.
Then there’s the matter of the $90,000 gift from PMO Chief of Staff Nigel Wright, who has reportedly been subpoenaed to testify
Duffy used the money to reim-burse the Senate for challenged expense claims.
CBC reports the Crown’s wit-ness list includes David van Hemmen, Wright’s former executive assistant, and Benjamin Perrin, who acted as the Prime Minister’s lawyer, and who have also been called to testify.
Other senators called to testify in-clude Marjory LeBreton, the former government leader in the Senate, David Tkachuk and Carolyn Stewart-Olson. Trial starts April 7 and is expected to last 41 days. Duffy has suggested it will be revealing.
Continued on page 6
Conflict within the Forces
Board feedback
Strange rules
It’s not my usual method of operation to write about subjects in this space before an actual article is done, but I guess I felt inspired.
In this case its regarding a report just released from the school district on Aboriginal education.
It’s an annual report which gives a snapshot of the composition of the school district and also a look at how well the district is doing in reaching their goals for Aboriginal students.
It looks like a useful report, even as I’m only partly in to it.
Even so there were some oddities I found not just in the report but through the whole subject.
Starting in the report itself, I quickly found that there was some missing information. Mount Eliza-beth Middle Secondary School and Skeena Middle both did not have enrollment or Aboriginal enroll-ment information. For a report from the school dis-trict it was odd. A footnote explained the information wasn’t available for those schools on the Ministry of Education’s website.
I’ve since learned it was a reporting issue be-cause both schools underwent recent name changes. Why the school district’s own report had to use sta-tistics from the Ministry itself remains a mystery to me and perhaps is a sign of odd rules from higher up.
The other issue was even just receiving the re-port. The school board itself met on March 11 and re-ceived the report making it public, or so it should be.
There was still a delay in it being released the day after. It was due to formatting changes, including adding photos.
It sounds like a small thing but once a report is made public through the board it makes sense it should be done and released immediately and not held up on minor things. It’s one of those things re-porters notice.
Cameron Orr
Normally the cartoon on the right is fairly self-explanatory but because I � nd it a personally amus-ing tale I’ll just bring anyone who doesn’t get it up to speed.
So this town in Taber, Alberta passed an unusu-al set of bylaws the other week. There were some provisions for curfews for any minors, but the rules became even stranger from there. No gatherings of more than three people that the local police feel may cause a nuisance to the neighbourhood, no spitting, no swearing, and even no yelling.
Breaking the rules come with individual � nes.Truly, in a realistic sense it’s actually scary, not
funny that a town would even begin to think that lim-iting the ability for people to even just gather would be acceptable.
I just feel con� dent that it will hold up to abso-lutely no challenge and will go down in history as a humourous misstep rather than the start of a trend.
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Mayor gives the scoopStudents at Nechako Elementary expressed their appreciate for Mayor Phil Germuth on March 2 with a thank you card, from him fulfilling his promise of buying ice cream for students. Students took the opportunity to ask Germuth questions about how running the town has been since he became mayor.
Readers Write
Dear Sir,My Mom, Elsa Hofer, wrote a poignant let-
ter recently with regards to the events during the February blizzard.
I believe she had some questions within that letter that need answers. My mother deserves an-swers as do the majority of Kitimat residents and their loved ones.
My parents have lived the majority of their lives in Kitimat and to let the events of early Feb-ruary occur is absolutely mind-boggling to me.
My Dad, at 87, is not in the best of shape any-more and to further put him (and the many others in the same position) in harm’s way is extremely concerning.
I demand (as my Mom already did) answers to her questions.
You might take it on the chin but it’s the right thing to do. The almighty buck is no reason to risk lives.
Sincerely, Oliver HoferSurrey, BC
Looking for answers
Nice new signA new sign was installed in late February at the entrance to Kitamaat Village welcoming people in to the community. The sign faces the road and sits just on the Village side of the MK Bay Marina turn off.
Province establishes rural advisory council
Former Mayor Dave Per-narowski says he’ll be pushing for more money for the region — which yes, includes Kitimat — in anticipation of coping with large scale industrial development as part of an appointment to a new provin-cial body.
Pernarowski was named as one of 14 people from around the prov-ince to a provincial advisory coun-cil last week, a body meant to tell the provincial government how best it can serve rural areas and, specifi-cally, how to promote economic de-velopment.
It’s also being charged with telling the province how it should distribute tax money to rural areas from large developments such as anticipated liquefied natural gas plants in the region.
That’s being called the Rural Dividend by the province and was a key part of a Prosperity Fund to be financed by large industry taxation and promised by Clark during the 2013 provincial election.
Pernarowski said it will be a challenge to have the province pro-vide money ahead of actual large scale developments being con-structed.
“I’m not quite sure how that’s going to look. We need to put some of the infrastructure pieces in place before [development occurs],” he said. “Until you get to that, you’ve got nothing really.”
The former mayor did add that northwestern local governments have already formed the Northwest
BC Resource Benefits Alliance to negotiate revenue sharing with the province.
Terrace and Kitimat, along with the Kitimat-Stikine regional dis-trict, played a large part in creating the alliance which took place dur-ing Pernarowski’s time as mayor which ended last year when he de-cided not to run again.
Pernarowski said there are many things that will likely come up through discussions at the coun-cil when it comes to preparing communities for the future. He spe-cifically noted the Haisla Bridge in Kitimat as an ongoing issue.
Overall, Pernarowski looks for-ward to the work of the council.
“As a former mayor, I’m ex-cited. I spent a lot of time doing rural development work and that’s become a real passion of mine.”
He expects other issues of im-portance to rural B.C. such as trans-portation and health care to also figure in the council’s business.
Pernarowski’s joined on the council by two other people from the region, former Houston mayor Bill Holmberg and Roy Jones, a he-reditary chief on the Council of the Haida Nation.
The former Terrace mayor was one of 87 people to apply for the 14 council positions.
His work on the council is inde-pendent of his employment as the northwestern B.C. account manag-er for P.R. Associates, a public rela-tions and consulting company with head offices in Vancouver.
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For centuries residents of our inland north coast have luxuriated in the natural warmth of mineral hot springs.
Close by and within the territory of the Haisla there are at least seven of these oa-ses.
The largest and most accessible is at Lakelse Lake, a treasured milestone along the travelways for countless centuries.
It was a stop for many First Nations travellers commuting to the Skeena and, during the years of the old Kitamaat to Ha-zelton mail route trail, its steaming clays and mineral waters rejuvenated many a traveller.
Situated at the margins of Tsimshian and Haisla territory, it has been shared through all that time.
We are told in Glenn Woodsworth’s book, Hot Springs of Western Canada, that Lakelse is the hottest and greatest flowing hot springs in the entire province.
At a scalding 86 degrees and a flow of half a million litres per day, its 13 or so scattered pools have inspired ambitious de-velopment schemes.
The first of these was tied to Kitamaat when in 1906 Bruce Johnstone pre-empted a 305 acre piece of land surrounding the hot springs, including the water rights.
Johnstone felt his hot springs would be perfectly situated on the proposed Grand Trunk Pacific Railway route to Kitamaat. Others of like mind placed their bets on what was seen as the easier rail route to the ocean by buying up lots at Minette Bay.
Even after 1910, when Prince Rupert was chosen as the rail head instead of Kitamaat, Johnstone didn’t give up on his dream.
His initial plan was for a lodge built for about a dozen guests located right at the main spring with boardwalks taking guests down to the lake.
Later it morphed into a larger lakeside hotel with bath houses and a piped-in wa-ter trench from the springs.
The Johnstones survived floods and
even the setback of the Great Depression as for most seasons their facilities were booked solid from May until October.
And it didn’t hurt that in the 1930s the healing powers of mud masks were all the rage, which helped keep all guest rooms filled. Fantastic fishing also helped.
Visitors would be delivered via the Merlin, a gas powered boat, which picked up the guests from the road at the north end of the lake.
The strangest guests in the 20s were four priests, dressed appropriately in black, who surprisingly consumed cases of whiskey.
Johnstone recalls how they kept to themselves and the occasion they gave him a ten dollar tip, unheard of in those times.
Johnstone at the time had no idea that the priests were actually fugitive gangsters from Chicago, including the infamous Al Capone.
In later times Ray Skoglund revived the hot springs, largely in response to the big Alcan aluminum smelter development in Kitimat and the brand new Terrace-Kit-imat Highway 25 which ran right by his resort’s door.
His Mount Layton scheme saw three outdoor pools and one year-round indoor and also featured an adjacent ski hill.
The most recent revitalization came in the late 80s when Kitimat’s Bert Orleans rebuilt the pools with waterslides, restau-rants and a much larger hotel.
Today the hot springs have again fall-en on hard times but schemes still abound with what could be done with all that oh-
so-hot water.South of Kitimat the Douglas Channel
beckons mariners and some of our great-est assets are the six or so hot springs out there, well known to the Haisla, Gitga’at and Gitxala First Nations.
Three of those are now classified as BC Parks sites with buoys and on -shore infrastructure and improvements.
The closest is Weewanie, just 38 kms south of town on the east shore of Devas-tation Channel, and its 48 degree celsius waters have been enjoyed for centuries.
In the 1950s there was a crude bath house there which was improved by Kiti-mat folk in the 70s and 80s when piping and cement block structures were com-pleted.
BC Parks have since made further refinements including boardwalks, camp-sites and toilet facilities.
And for a while in the 70s this site was used by the adjacent forestry camp which for an even shorter span evolved into a ju-venile detention centre.
The best known of our down-channel treasures is Bishop Bay Hot Springs, 75 kms south of Kitimat, just past Monkey Beach on Ursula Channel.
This BC Parks hotspring, with waters as warm as 44 degrees celsius, has floats, a dock and several pools.
Structures have come and gone over the course of time but we know from re-cords such as Max Patzelt’s and Aubrey Creed’s that the Kitimat boating public built and refined these facilities over the decades.
The most remote of the three BC Parks springs is Shearwater-Europa.
It has buoys and offers another all-weather retreat from the elements and is 65 kms south of Kitimat on the north shore of Allen Reach in the Gardner Canal en route to Kemano.
This site was well-known to the Kit-lope First Nation and subsequently to Ke-mano residents working in Alcan’s power house.
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It’s OurHeritage
Walter thorne
A look back on Kitimat’s steamy history
A Dirk Mendel photo of the Europa-Shearwater Hotsprings as it looked in 2004.
Freda Diesing showThe Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art is hosting an art show by its students at the Kitimat Museum & Archives. The show runs to April 12. Shown here is Raven Releases the Sun by Vanessa Morgan.
Continued from page 4Meanwhile, according to the Toronto Star,
the RCMP said last Monday Pamela Wallin committed fraud and breach of trust by billing the Senate for travel expenses related to her work on corporate boards.
They produced court documents alleging she described an ecocardiogram as “network-ing” and a meeting with an ex-lover as parlia-mentary business.
Other RCMP documents released in Ot-tawa showed the ongoing police investigation into Wallin’s travel expenses involves 150 “sus-picious” travel expense claims filed over three years, including 24 trips to Toronto for board-related activities.
However Wallin, who has repaid $154,191 in expense claims, including interest, has not yet been charged and none of these allegations has been proven in court.
Her lawyer said Monday any expenses claimed for travel related to her board activities were done erroneously.
Wallin has named numerous prominent Ca-nadians she “met with” on her travels but not all agree they have met her on the dates given. I
think more to follow.Finally I guess I have to agree with Andrew
Coyne that the Conservative Government must be “at war” with the Supreme Court of Canada as they continue to draft “omnibus” legislation which Coyne describes as being “stuffed with measures that are in self-evident violation of the constitution.
Not only is the government making no ap-parent effort to “Charter-proof” legislation, that is by seeking the advice of Justice department lawyers on its constitutionality in advance of its introduction, as it is required by law to do, it seems if anything to be taking advice on how to offend it.”
He thinks, as I do, that several recently in-troduced pieces of legislation the Conservatives will ram through with their House and Senate majorities are rife with Charter of Rights and Freedoms challengeable elements.
These include both the anti-terrorism bill, with its anti-privacy and ham-handedly vague effectiveness issues and their new “tough on crime” law that will allow them to pick and chose certain criminals to be sent to jail for life, without possibility of parole.
Conflict
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Royal Canadian (Snow) Mounted Police
The Kitimat RCMP detach-ment will soon be outfitted with standard issue snowmobiles.
The Kitimat detachment’s Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison says he’s expecting delivery of two snowmobiles after he successful-ly presented the business case for such to his higher powers.
He said the snowmobiles, which are stock units and not cus-tom made for RCMP use, cost ap-proximately $11,000 each.
The purchase doesn’t, in a sense, cost the detachment more money. Harrison explains that through the officer funding through the municipality a por-tion of that fee paid by the gov-ernment goes in to accounts for things such as vehicle purchases.
He said that anticipating fur-ther population growth in the coming years snowmobiles will come in useful, and it’s equip-ment he’s had at other detach-ments as well.
“I can see us having more people in the back trails quadding or snowmobiling. That’s one of the reasons I put in to have snow-mobiles,” he said.
Two snowmobiles are re-quired because for safety you
can’t have only one patrolling in the back country areas.
“I got word probably just in January that it was accepted,” he added.
Of course the timing didn’t line up with Kitimat’s near-record breaking snowfall in February but the new units will help for future ones.
“Of course with the snowfall we had on February 7, I greatly realized that if we had problems where we had to go out to do a police action...we had a hard time getting to it.”
He said the detachment can’t rely on volunteers such as Snow-mobile Club — who were used by the fire department and paramed-ics —because there’s the poten-tial to put those people at risk in a criminal investigation.
He also said there’s the poten-tial to rent snowmobiles but they won’t always be available at the moment they need to be.
“It makes it a lot easier all the way around if we had them on site.”
Delivery of the vehicles is expected by the end of the fiscal year, which would mean some-time before April 1.
Anna KillenWhat was going to be a Peewee hockey tour-
nament hosted in Kitimat because a Terrace event due to the labour strike in town.
Hundreds of provincial Peewee hockey play-ers and their families descended on Terrace last weekend, part of the fallout from the Kitimat Dis-trict municipal workers’ strike.
As the event took place over the weekend the results would not be available by our press time.
The Kitimat Peewee Tier 3 BC Hockey Cham-pionship took place at the Terrace Sportsplex March 15 - 18 with the organizing committee making the official announcement March 3.
“You can’t imagine,” said organizing commit-tee chairman Tony Vehlo of how it felt to learn that the ongoing strike would mean that the four-day tournament the committee had been planning since November couldn’t take place at the Tamitik Arena.
“We’ve got a real dedicated group helping out, the committee, and sure it was a bit of a dis-appointment to them – the reason everyone did it was because, ‘hey, I’m a Kitimat person and I want to showcase our town and what we have, we’ve got a nice rink,’” he said.
Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth said the city is “obviously disappointed that we’re not able to host this event as a result of a labour dispute, it would have been a great event for the community.
“However, the situation is what it is,” he said, lamenting the impact losing the tournament will have on Kitimat’s economy but also praising the Kitimat organizing committee for being prepared.
“Obviously Kitimat people were prepared for this and it’s nice to see Terrace people come through and make it a reality,” he said.
Vehlo explained that “there’s been a lot of planning up to this point. And all of the planning is based on it being in Kitimat,” he said, noting there were plans for a coach meeting room and a player’s lounge room at the rink and a handful of teams were booked at Kitimat hotels. Some of those teams have now re-booked hotels in Ter-race, he said, and the only event that will still take place in Kitimat is the banquet.
The organizing committee tried to work with city officials and the union to get the ice back on
the rink in Kitimat, but realizing it wasn’t pos-sible, Vehlo reached out to Terrace.
And his phone has been ringing off the hook with offers to help pull off the tournament ever since.
“Oh my son’s 14 years old, I’m not sure what he can do but he’s willing to help. One lady – I don’t know if her husband knows, but her hus-band’s volunteering – said I can do it, my husband can, and my 11-year-old is a mature 11-year-old, like stuff like that, it’s crazy,” he said, adding the scouts offered to help with 50/50 and he received a call from St. John’s ambulance to do first aid.
He said the Sunday night opening ceremo-nies, with speeches by the BC Hockey president as well as Germuth might be a bit “weird” now that the venue has changed.
“You can’t really say it’s a Kitimat tourna-ment because it’s in Terrace,” he said with a laugh. “It’s more of a regional thing now I guess.”
But he’s “just glad we can still make it hap-pen. Terrace has helped us like crazy. It’s not like Kitimat is in a flood situation where we need housing, but people coming together like that... it’s been really supportive,” he continued.
That sentiment is underscored by the city of Terrace’s leisure services director Carmen Didier.
“We wanted to do whatever we could to make sure the championships stayed in the northwest and were workable for the Kitimat provincial working committee,” she said.
That includes keeping the Hidber ice in one week longer than planned and moving activities from the main arena to the Hidber ice.
“The regular ice user groups have been ac-commodating and have offered support where they can,” she said, adding local businesses are contributing to the team packages and the city is offering free swimming passes to the provincial teams.
“We all recognize that high level competi-tions in the northwest helps to build better local sports programs in many ways,” said Didier.
“Kitimat is a good neighbour and we sup-port them. I am certain you will see many Ter-race folks in the bleachers cheering on the Kitimat team throughout the competition,” she added.
Strike meant Peewee hockeytournament went to Terrace
Potluck is sharing in funThe Multicultural Society’s annual potluck dinner was a well attended good time, hosted at the Luso club. At left, Edwin Empinado dazzles with a magic show as enthralled children look on. Above, young Portuguese dancers display their heritage to song.
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Australia OK with Apache buyCameron Orr
The Australian arm respon-sible for maintaining competi-tion among companies in the country has okayed Woodside Petroleum’s proposed sale of Apache assets, including Apache’s stake in Kitimat LNG.
The Australian Competi-tion and Consumer Commission supported the deal in a March 5 news release.
In Australia, Woodside and Apache overlap in the whole-sale supply of natural gas to the domestic market in Washington, says the ACCC.
“Following the proposed ac-quisition, Woodside would con-
tinue to face strong competition from other suppliers in the mar-ket, including Apache, Chevron, and Santos,” ACCC Chairman Rod Sims said.
“Apache will continue to supply gas to the market through its interests in the Macedon, Varanus Island, and Devil Creek Projects. As a result, Apache will remain a larger supplier of domestic gas in Washington than Woodside following the proposed acquisition,” he con-tinued.
Meanwhile, the ACCC says that the Balnaves and Kitimat Projects are not expected to sup-ply product to Australia.
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Babies
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ANNIKA ELFREIDEDecember 4, 2014
Parents:Shelley Stansbury &Tyrone Thompson
STACIE LYNNEMarch 17, 2014
Parents:Jennifer Irvine &
Manny Nunes
DECLAN ALANNovember 29, 2014
Parents:Amber Wright &Scott MacGregor
MASON GEORGEEDWARD
January 27, 2014Parents:
Janina Brady & Peter Renn
MICAH DAVIDJuly 2, 2014
Parents:Jackie (Irvine) & Dustin Rutsatz
and big sister Sara Faith
EMMETT JOHN STEVEFebruary 19, 2014
Parents:Shawn & Caroline Collins
HENRY JASPERAugust 27, 2014
Parents:Andrew & Janice Gibbons
LUKAS RAYMOND FREDERICK
December 20, 2014Parents:
Danielle & Erik Stohl
JORGINA JOYCEDecember 2, 2014
Parents:Jennifer & Terry Whelen
“When my baby is sleeping that’s when
I think WOW. I made that.”~Maria José Ovalle
The
The Red Chris mine north of here up Hwy37 North is mak-ing the most of a tem-porary environmental permit and has begun both processing and shipping copper con-centrate out the Port of Stewart.
“The mill pro-cessed just over 193,000 tonnes in February producing approximately 2,400 tonnes of copper con-centrate,” says a release on mine owner Impe-rial Metals’ website.
The provincial en-vironment ministry had granted Imperial an effluent discharge per-mit in early February, a three month permit expiring in May that allows the mine to op-erate its ore-grinding mill while testing the tailings facility.
The company is re-quired to show that the tailings facility is hold-ing up before getting the final permit.
The company re-lease says it is process-ing the ore slowly to
begin with but did not mention testing the tailings facility.
“The commission-ing team continues to focus on achieving continuous operations and a consistent fi-nal concentrate grade. Once the team is sat-isfied with the prog-ress in these areas, more emphasis will be placed on metal recov-eries and throughput,” says the statement.
In light of the rup-ture of a huge Imperi-al-owned tailings facil-
ity at the Mount Polley mine near Williams Lake, all mining com-panies in the province have been required to review their tailings safety.
In the case of Red Chris, Imperial paid for a review by a company chosen by the Tahltan Central Council which has been negotiating an economic benefits agreement with the company.
The mine is lo-cated on Tahltan tradi-tional territory.
Mining picking up north of here
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The president of the union representing Canada’s border guards says reducing the hours at the Stewart, B.C./Hyder, AK border is a hypocritical move for a federal government that says it places a priority on national secu-rity.
“The government right now is about to pass a bill, C-51, in regards of the concerns that the government has with the terrorists and the people who are going off-seas to get training.
“And meanwhile they’re reduc-ing the hours at the border,” said Jean-Pierre Fortin, president of the customs and
immigration union.He’s been told the reduction in hours at
the northwestern B.C. border crossing is one of several such moves being undertaken by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) in other parts of the country.
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Last strike in 1997Cameron Orr
The strike between Unifor 2300 and the District is pushing re-cords.
A strike lasting to March 15 this year would mean it had of-ficially lasted longer than the city’s 1997 strike.
In 1997 the then-CAW 2300 union was on strike for 16 days in an at-times bitter con-flict which spilled in to council meetings and even to confrontations in local businesses.
A sticking point at that strike, which has also been brought up as an issue today, was wage parity with Rio Tinto Alcan (then just Alcan).
The union at the time was successful in nabbing what was effectively a three per cent raise for each of three years.
As the Sentinel wrote in the day the resolution came even as the union and the District took some parting shots at each other, each side blam-ing the other for the 16 day strike.
The union’s nego-tiator at the time said the agreement was in line with the union’s mandate of maintain-ing historical wage re-lationship with Alcan workers.
Yet the city man-ager in 1997 suggested the union demands were not clearly com-municated, while the union said once that strike was resolved that ultimately the la-bour dispute was un-necessary with the city seemingly not hav-ing understood the union’s mandate.
Cameron OrrBC Hydro representa-
tives presented their vision for an upgraded power line to Kitimat.
Through an open house and presentation to coun-cil, Project Manager Rob-ert Smith talked about the replacement project for a transmission line from Ter-race to Kitimat.
Out of the potential op-
tions, BC Hydro opted to build a single line down the west side of the Kitimat val-ley.
The existing power line runs on the east side.
The 287kv line will re-place an older 287kv now considered at the end of its operational life.
A west-side power line also benefits from being 10 km shorter between substa-
tions, said Smith.Smith said there were
considerations for a second line, as a potential redun-dancy on the power, but there was little interest from potential developers who’d be using the power.
BC Hydro pitched the possiblity of industries also putting in some money to get a second line built but there were no takers.
Even so a second power line to Kitimat is still pos-sible but Smith couldn’t say when, or if, a second line would be needed.
“We don’t know what the future holds,” he said on a second line.
The new line will be H-frame style and made with steel which Smith said will lower the risk of fire pres-ent with the existing wood
pole. The steel poles won’t be as prone to fires as exist-ing poles are and they’ll be better protected from fires as well, he said.
“In the past few years we’ve had some problems with some of these poles actually catching fire,” he said. “That would never happen with a steel pole and that’s far better for for-est fires.”
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RTA utilizes advanced sim for crane trainingCameron Orr
As Rio Tinto Alcan jour-neys towards completion of the Kitimat Modernization Project they are pushing ahead efforts to get employees trained for op-erations.
One of the more interesting aspects of work site training — which is not a phrase that typi-cally elicits excitement — is a virtual crane simulator at the Learning Centre at Roy Wilcox that mixes the safety of video games with a near-total replica of the new smelter’s potline cranes.
On first glance it looks like a computer game. In front of the operator’s chair, on the other side of replica bars — to copy the look of the real thing — is a large screen. An image is trans-mitted via a projector in the floor behind.
On the other side of the simulator is a bank of comput-ers, making sure each action by the operator creates an entirely realistic reaction on screen.
The screen itself shows a 3D rendered world inside an aluminum smelter’s pot room. The operator does everything they’d do in true life, of course making sure to avoid all the ex-pected dangers.
There are animate people and vehicles rendered on screen.
As the machine activates the room — the room inside
Roy Wilcox — fills with the sounds of a potroom, including the noises of vehicles beeping loudly in a reverse gear.
A worker on the floor — the fictional 3D floor — stares up at you, absent-mindedly tapping his palm with a wrench.
More sound, this time like a jackhammer as the crane breaks through the a molten crust.
“It’s a very high tech simu-lator because when you sit in to it it’s a replication of exact-ly the same cab of a real crane that we’re commissioning as we speak,” said Gaby Poirier, gen-eral manager of BC Operations.
He said a cap with a sensor will even move the display as the user moves their head.
Despite it’s arcade-like ex-perience it’s still a challenging course. Trainees take nearly 40 hours on the sim before moving to on-site training.
In the non-modernized Rio Tinto Alcan smelter crane op-erators didn’t get the luxury of a simulator; straight to the real thing.
The cranes themselves, and the simulator, are made by ECL, which is actually a Rio Tinto owned company.
Poirier says the training is very effective and some op-erators have said the real cranes have even been more forgiving that the simulator is.
One of the more amusing
differences of the new crane system versus the old is the fact that all the controls are effec-tively reversed from how they used to be. Operators tend to overcome that obstacle fairly quickly.
The company will run all their operators through the sim-ulator and Poirier says there are over 200 persons who need the training.
As for the future of this sim-ulator, the company will hang on to it in Kitimat however it won’t always reside in the Roy Wilcox Learning Centre.
The company has held a lease on the building for ap-proximately two years but the company says it will hold on to the former elementary school only for the life of the project.
Once RTA gets their smelter back to what they call steady-state they’ll begin phasing out use of the building.
The building’s been fully used so far. A lot of general training takes place on the school grounds as well as some trades training and electrical, says Poirier.
The simulator could find itself at the RTA site in the fu-ture once Roy Wilcox, for RTA’s purposes, closes down.
“You don’t need a big facil-ity like [Roy Wilcox] to train people in a steady-state smelt-er,” said Poirier.
The trainer for the crane simulator shows off the hardware, which simulates near identical situations for people working on the real thing.
Continued from page 6Forestry crews made further refinements in
1986 followed by BC Parks improvements in the last decade.
The 44 degree Celsius waters are a real treat for weary travellers willing to venture off the beaten path.
There are also other more elusive warm water sites known to a few intrepid travellers.
They include Brim River, Khutze Inlet and Klekane Inlet.
The waters of the last named are a toasty 56 degrees celsius and used to attract crowds in the early days of nearby Butedale Cannery on Prin-cess Royal island.
Why does the region have so many hot springs?
Experts like geologist Allen Gottesfeld, in his publication on Kitimat-area geology, says these springs are a result of movement in the Kitimat/Kalum fault line which is also related to the vol-canic eruption at the Tseax in the Nass Valley in the early 1700s.
Kitimat is blessed by its wealth of natural treasures and the hot springs that surround our community are part of both our past and current identity.
Enjoyed by locals, these assets are also envied by folks from afar.
May they endure for centuries to come.
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SubmittedIt was a parade of
admiration for a re-tiring member of the community.
On January 31 Mayor Phil Germuth, members for the Kiti-mat Fire Department, Kitimat Search & Res-cue, and Emergency Social Services, gath-ered at the Rod and Gun Hall at a retire-ment celebration for Bob and Joyce Ma-cLeod, to thank them for their many years of volunteer service to the community of Kitimat, and the Northwest re-gion.
The evening was full of touching sto-ries, which highlighted Bob’s dedication, ex-pertise and leadership, and Joyce’s support, dedication, and caring nature.
Bob’s first search and rescue involve-ment was back in 1961. He was with the RCMP Auxiliary for 25 years, from 1967 to 1994, and coordinated both police and search and rescue training.
At that time, the auxiliaries were the core SAR group for the community.
Bob became a
Ground Search and Rescue Instructor in 1973, and a Provin-cial Search Manager in 1983. He served on the Provincial Search and Rescue Advisory Committee, from 1999 to 2003, representing all Northwest Region SAR groups, and in 2004, he was selected as the SAR volunteer of the year.
His role in emer-gency management blended with SAR at first. He became the Provincial Emergency Program Deputy Area Coordinator for Kiti-mat from 1979 to 1983 and then the Area Co-ordinator from 1983 to 1990.
That position was responsible for the area covered by the boundaries of the Kiti-mat RCMP, and co-ordinated Search and Rescue activities for both land and (until the formation of the Coast Guard Auxiliary) ma-rine rescue on Douglas Channel and adjacent waterways.
He was respon-sible for emergency management activi-ties in his paid job at Alcan during this time as well. Bob’s most
recent role has been in emergency manage-ment in Kitimat, that of coordinator of the Kitimat Emergency Program since 2000. Last but not least, Bob was a recipient of the Queen’s Jubilee medal in 2012 for volunteer activities.
For Joyce, she started out in her vol-unteer career as an administrative assis-tant to the local Search and Rescue team, and eventually became the Deputy Emergency Social Services Direc-tor.
In 2002, two hik-ers went missing on Mount Elizabeth, and while Bob managed the search which in-cluded many SAR vol-unteers that came here from around the prov-ince, Joyce and her team made sure those searchers were kept from going hungry.
Over the years Joyce has pitched in to help other commu-nities when they were in need, such as in Ter-race during the floods of 2002 and both Ka-mloops and Kelowna during the 2003 fire-storm.
Closer to home,
Bob and Joyce MacLeod have retired, capping of a lengthy and impressive career of volunteer service to Kitimat and to the Northwest as a whole. Submitted
Joyce trained with provincial Northwest TEAMS group through 2006 and worked in the PREOC during 2007 freshet, as did Bob.
In addition to all this, Joyce wanted to share her valu-able experience with other communities so she volunteered as an Emergency Social Ser-vices instructor with the Justice Institute of BC. Joyce also repre-sented her community and our region even further on the Emer-gency Social Services
Association Board of Directors and their Ad-visory Forum. In 2010, Joyce was selected as the provincial ESS Volunteer of the Year.
This potluck-style retirement celebration for Bob and Joyce was organized by Kitimat
Search and Rescue members. The evening was enjoyed by all, and was a very well deserved tribute to Bob and Joyce for their contribution and all the volunteer hours they have graciously given our community. The
local SAR appreciates how Bob and Joyce have cared for, and supported the commu-nity and region.
They have left big boots to fill. They are wished every happi-ness with their quieter times.
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behind the home owners in their time of need. See page 3. Cameron Orr
Kitimat Airshed Assessment released
Anyone holding their breath over
ever seeing the Kitimat Airshed Assess-
ment can breath easier now with its re-
lease on Friday.
The Government of B.C. commis-
sioned for the study of the impacts of
industrial developments to the Kitimat
area, but since it � nished the government
had held on to the document claiming it
as Crown privilege.
Speaking to reporters Friday En-
vironment Minister Mary Polak said it
was always meant to eventually be re-
leased publicly.
An overview of the report shows
that “The airshed can accommodate in-
dustrial growth without signi� cantly af-
fecting the health of residents or the en-
vironment,” a government Powerpoint
presentation says.
The study focused primarily on Sul-
phur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrgen Diox-
ide (NO2).
SO2 is the subject of an environ-
mental permit appeal by two Kitimat
residents who feel Rio Tinto Alcan’s
post-modernization SO2 emissions are
too high.
The government study included the
possibility of four lique� ed natural gas
terminals, a proposed oil re� nery, gas-
turbine powered electricity generating
facilities, predicted increased shipping
along the Douglas Channel, and future
expected increases in road and rail traf-
� c.“We want to ensure any potential
impacts from industrial air emissions
are clearly understood before new proj-
ects are approved,” said Polak.
As for RTA’s existing permit, the
government has no plans to revisit it
save for possibilities from the appeal.
“We intend to see RTA operate un-
der its existing permit. The appeal will
be what the appeal will be and of course
we will look to the results of that if there
are any changes that need to be made,”
she said. “Our intent at this stage is for
RTA to operate under their existing per-
mit requirements.”
Lis Stannus, one of two Kitimat
appellants against the RTA permit, is
pleased to see the study � nally released,
but at over 300 pages she said she’d
need time to go over the details.
Graphs from the government do
show the potential for signi� cant SO2
reductions in the event SO2 scrubbers
are used by the smelter.
SO2 health risks showed minor (pos-
sibly) increases in respiratory incidents
of between .5 and two per cent, and risk
directly related to proximity to indus-
trial area. Continued on page 12
Campfire culprit
in Kitimat wildfire
The Kitimat Fire Department says an unat-
tended camp� re is the likely cause of a one hect-
are wild� re which put at risk the developments
at Strawberry Meadows and left downtown blan-
keted in smoke July 17.
The blaze was in challenging geography for
the local � re depart-
ment to reach and after
an intial assessment
they called the North-
west Fire Centre, based
in Smithers, for aerial
support.
Water tankers and
helicopters were im-
mediately dispatched
to get the � re under
control.Meanwhile heavy
machinery was put to use to create � re breaks, to
contain the � re if it managed to spread.
A � re break is essentially knocking down
trees and leaving a � re-fuel free buffer.
“We weren’t allowing any members to go in,
of our members or their [forest � re] members to
go in, just due to certain hazards. The condition
of the � re and the speed it was progressing,” said
Deputy Fire Chief Pete Bizarro.
In all there were about seven air drops with
water tankers, while helicopters continued to drop
water throughout the evening.
Once air support � nished ground forest � re
� ghters went in and took care of hot spots.
“Jack [Oviatt] was on site, obviously had
lots of equipment. We had a number of excava-
tors working to make these � re guards,” added
Bizarro.
The � re was also the � rst activation of Kiti-
mat’s new Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
since they set up in the Public Safety Building in
the former council chambers.
“Equipment and personnel all gelled really
well, and we’re very pleased with the outcome of
the EOC,” said Bizarro, saying their new set up
proved very useful.
As for evacuations, the Lower Dyke area was
evacuated but he said there was no imminent dan-
ger to campers in the area.
“The only reason I initiated that is because of
the direction of the wind and the fact it would take
some time for those campers to leave,” he said.
If an evacuation was needed emergency
services, including the � re department and the
RCMP, would do a combination door-to-door
knocking, loudspeaker service and using local
media to alert people of the need to leave, and
would establish a place for evacuees to gather.
One Kitimat Fire� ghter did injure his ankle
during the event and was treated at hospital and
released.
“Equipment and
personnel all
gelled really well,
and we’re very
pleased with the
outcome of the
EOC.”
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Kitimat � re� ghters blast water on a Lillooet Street house which burned down on July 14. The home is
effectively gutted but the family of � ve managed to get out safely. The community meanwhile has rallied
behind the home owners in their time of need. See page 3. Cameron Orr
Kitimat Airshed Assessment released
Anyone holding their breath over
ever seeing the Kitimat Airshed Assess-
ment can breath easier now with its re-
lease on Friday.
The Government of B.C. commis-
sioned for the study of the impacts of
industrial developments to the Kitimat
area, but since it � nished the government
had held on to the document claiming it
as Crown privilege.
Speaking to reporters Friday En-
vironment Minister Mary Polak said it
was always meant to eventually be re-
leased publicly.
An overview of the report shows
that “The airshed can accommodate in-
dustrial growth without signi� cantly af-
fecting the health of residents or the en-
vironment,” a government Powerpoint
presentation says.
The study focused primarily on Sul-
phur Dioxide (SO2) and Nitrgen Diox-
ide (NO2).
SO2 is the subject of an environ-
mental permit appeal by two Kitimat
residents who feel Rio Tinto Alcan’s
post-modernization SO2 emissions are
too high.
The government study included the
possibility of four lique� ed natural gas
terminals, a proposed oil re� nery, gas-
turbine powered electricity generating
facilities, predicted increased shipping
along the Douglas Channel, and future
expected increases in road and rail traf-
� c.“We want to ensure any potential
impacts from industrial air emissions
are clearly understood before new proj-
ects are approved,” said Polak.
As for RTA’s existing permit, the
government has no plans to revisit it
save for possibilities from the appeal.
“We intend to see RTA operate un-
der its existing permit. The appeal will
be what the appeal will be and of course
we will look to the results of that if there
are any changes that need to be made,”
she said. “Our intent at this stage is for
RTA to operate under their existing per-
mit requirements.”
Lis Stannus, one of two Kitimat
appellants against the RTA permit, is
pleased to see the study � nally released,
but at over 300 pages she said she’d
need time to go over the details.
Graphs from the government do
show the potential for signi� cant SO2
reductions in the event SO2 scrubbers
are used by the smelter.
SO2 health risks showed minor (pos-
sibly) increases in respiratory incidents
of between .5 and two per cent, and risk
directly related to proximity to indus-
trial area. Continued on page 12
Campfire culprit
in Kitimat wildfire
The Kitimat Fire Department says an unat-
tended camp� re is the likely cause of a one hect-
are wild� re which put at risk the developments
at Strawberry Meadows and left downtown blan-
keted in smoke July 17.
The blaze was in challenging geography for
the local � re depart-
ment to reach and after
an intial assessment
they called the North-
west Fire Centre, based
in Smithers, for aerial
support.
Water tankers and
helicopters were im-
mediately dispatched
to get the � re under
control.Meanwhile heavy
machinery was put to use to create � re breaks, to
contain the � re if it managed to spread.
A � re break is essentially knocking down
trees and leaving a � re-fuel free buffer.
“We weren’t allowing any members to go in,
of our members or their [forest � re] members to
go in, just due to certain hazards. The condition
of the � re and the speed it was progressing,” said
Deputy Fire Chief Pete Bizarro.
In all there were about seven air drops with
water tankers, while helicopters continued to drop
water throughout the evening.
Once air support � nished ground forest � re
� ghters went in and took care of hot spots.
“Jack [Oviatt] was on site, obviously had
lots of equipment. We had a number of excava-
tors working to make these � re guards,” added
Bizarro.
The � re was also the � rst activation of Kiti-
mat’s new Emergency Operations Centre (EOC)
since they set up in the Public Safety Building in
the former council chambers.
“Equipment and personnel all gelled really
well, and we’re very pleased with the outcome of
the EOC,” said Bizarro, saying their new set up
proved very useful.
As for evacuations, the Lower Dyke area was
evacuated but he said there was no imminent dan-
ger to campers in the area.
“The only reason I initiated that is because of
the direction of the wind and the fact it would take
some time for those campers to leave,” he said.
If an evacuation was needed emergency
services, including the � re department and the
RCMP, would do a combination door-to-door
knocking, loudspeaker service and using local
media to alert people of the need to leave, and
would establish a place for evacuees to gather.
One Kitimat Fire� ghter did injure his ankle
during the event and was treated at hospital and
released.
“Equipment and
personnel all
gelled really well,
and we’re very
pleased with the
outcome of the
EOC.”
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Bish road openedEven as early works slows down at the Kitimat LNG site, Chevron has re-opened the Crown-owned Bish Forest Service Road as of March 1. The road is opened for 12km and provides a now well-groomed surface for sightseeing.
MEMSS The BuzzA part of the Kitimat Northern Sentinel
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12 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Special Student Edition Volume 1 No. 02 Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School (MEMSS) Leadership is a program that promotes school spirit and philanthropy with various activi-ties throughout the year.
Under the guidance of teachers Sally Sousa, Malar Benet and Michele Sutherland, students or-ganize and promote events such as monthly spirit days.
Staff and students are encouraged to represent a wacky theme such as twin day, pajama day and ugly sweater day.
The month of January allowed middle school students the opportunity to get physical during lunch time with Capture the Flag intramurals and the second annual pancake lunch was held the � rst Thursday in February.
To celebrate Hockey Day in Canada the school was asked to wear the jersey of a favourite sports team.
In an effort to raise awareness about epilepsy, a Day of Purple (the colour associated with epi-lepsy awareness) was organized by the group in January.
As with most schools across the country Pink Shirt Day was recognized and celebrated in late February.
The always popular Winter Formal was a roaring success especially since the Candy Land theme included a candy bar, mocktail bar and a professional photo booth.
As entertaining as these events were, Leader-ship students also wanted to be given the opportu-nity to act as humanitarians.
Students in Ms. Sally Sousa’s class helping to count their items for the We Scare Hunger campaign. Below, Alyssa Pangan and Malar Benet, the Leadership co-advisor, cooking pancakes for the second Annual MEMSS Pancake Lunch.
Leadership program sets the path on school spirit
Above, Trey Allen celebrates Grinch Day. Below, Ana Pires and Nigel Martyres get into the spirit of Wacky Hat Day.
If you wandered the halls of MEMSS during March 9-13, you may have thought that you made a wrong turn and ended up in Se-ussville.
Leadership stu-dents organized a school-wide Dr. Se-uss Week that cel-ebrated the much beloved children’s author and his books.
A classroom door decorating contest was held and every character from the Lorax to Fox in Socks to Things 1 and 2 were repre-sented.
Many teachers went the extra mile and also decorated the bulletin boards and walls outside of their classrooms with quotes, cut outs and 3-D truffula trees.
If you visited the school library Horton, the Grinch, the Cat in the Hat and others greeted you from the ceiling, walls and shelves.
Each day brought a new chal-lenge: Green Day was based on The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and peo-ple were encour-aged to wear green; Travel Day was an ode to Oh the Places
Students fill up on their green eggs and ham
During Halloween, students organized the “We Scare Hunger” campaign in order to raise much-needed food for the Kitimat Food Bank.
As an added bonus, a Halloween-themed bake sale was held and those proceeds also went to the food bank.
Another bake sale and an information table were set up to help with Leadership’s “Knock Out Epilepsy” event.
The group also supported the SPCA’s Na-tional Cupcake Day with a sale which raised $240 for our local animal shelter (Editor’s note: Just for information the local animal shelter is run by the Kitimat Community Humane Society, which is separate from the SPCA).
Every single cupcake (six dozen in total) sold out and the group’s student bakers/decorators were extremely proud of their handiwork.
From brainstorming to poster making, deco-rating for events to selling baked items, Lead-ership students are the reason why the middle school has such positive energy.
You’ll Go and ethnic or travel out� ts were key; Wacky Hat Day represented the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins; Thing 1 and Thing 2 Day was meant for partnering up as twins or a fa-mous duo, and Red,
White and Blue Day was representative of The Cat in the Hat.
The energy and enthusiasm in the building was off the charts and it was a fantastic way to end the week just before spring break.
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Continued from page 9The list of officials criticiz-
ing the planned reduction of hours at the Stewart, B.C./Hy-der, Alaska border crossing now includes one of Alaska’s two representatives in the Ameri-can Senate, Republican Lisa Murkowski.
“She is concerned and has concerns – she’s working with Alaskans and Canadians in both communities and is really seeking to build the strongest possible case to make the gov-ernment reconsider this move,” said the senator’s communica-tions representative Karina Pe-tersen March 6.
The senator spent last week reaching out to a number of her colleagues in Canada, said Pe-tersen, and intends to present a “united front” from both sides of the border. “We’re not in a position to demand, but hoping that we can make something happen.”
To that end, Murkowski and others hope to “at least per-suade the Harper government to put a pause on this decision so that the (2015) visitor season isn’t lost, while the communi-ties on both sides work together to see what a long-term sustain-able solution could be.
“From our perspective,
despite the fact that this was a cost-cutting move with cost-cutting motivations, we think this decision could actually harm the economies involved,” said Petersen.
The tourist season for Hy-der and Stewart typically starts at the beginning of April – right when the Canadian Border Ser-vices Agency (CBSA) plans to launch the new hours that would see the border closed and the road blocked between mid-night and 8 a.m.
Residents and business owners on both sides have spoken out vocally against the move, touting safety and eco-nomic issues, and Canada’s border guard union has said it is a national security issue.
Murkowski is also con-
cerned about the potential for Hyder residents to be isolated from emergency services.
“The people of Hyder have access to the hospital in Stew-art, so Hyder might be isolated from emergency services, so that needs to be resolved as soon as possible,” said Petersen.
The border services agen-cy did say, in a statement, that “emergency services to sur-rounding communities will not be impacted and provisions have been made to ensure emer-gency vehicles will continue to have access to the roads 24/7.”
Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP Nathan Cullen’s of-fice is also calling for a united front with Alaskan officials like Murkowski.
“Generally speaking I think the concerns we have are mir-rored by the Alaskans as well,” said Cullen’s legislative assis-tant in Ottawa, Hugh Pouliot.
“I think it needs to be made clear to the Canadian govern-ment that this was a bureaucrat-ic decision, taken apparently without any consultation with either Hyder or Stewart, that people were notified after the fact.
“It’s a much stronger mes-sage if it comes from both sides of the border,” he said.
Kinsmen Club keeping up with Kitimat Cameron Orr
You can just call them the fellowship of the Kin.
Kitimat’s Kinsmen’s Club has been one of the fixtures of Kitimat for decades.
The local club itself formed in Kitimat in 1956, as seen at right with a Northern Sentinel report on the club’s Charter Night.
Now, 59 years later, the club continues to be an active centre which is responsible for a number of events from the supermarket sweep raffle to the lead organizers of the annual Canada Day parade in Kitimat.
The current club President Marie Striker has held the posi-tion so far just for this year and has been a member for three but has found the Kinsmen a valu-able club.
“I know a lot of the mem-bers. I’ve been wanting to join a service group for some time,” she said. “So...a friend of mine said ‘do you want to join Kins-men with me?’ and I said yes.”
Striker has a family history of joining community groups, such as her dad who was a long-time Elks member and later a member of the Gyros club.
The Kinsmen, she said, is about joining in a social circle to do good work.
“Kinsmen is a type of fami-ly organization,” she said. “One of our biggest [causes], nation-wide, is cystic fibrosis.”
“Locally, we help out a lot of the local charity organiza-tions too, especially the food bank and the food share pro-gram,” she added.
Last year the club bought enough food for the food share to feed 50 families.
They also organize the Canada Day parade each year, and have started hosting a Kiti-mat Easter Egg hunt.
There’s a lot more the club does too, which is impressive in that the club right now has about seven active members.
“We are always looking for new faces,” said Striker, who says people can always flag down a Kinsmen member to bring them to their meetings.
The meetings themselves are the first Tuesdays of the month at 7:30 p.m. at the lunch-room at Viking Construction.
“We try to get in, we try to do things for the community,” said Striker, noting the club also lends a hand to other com-
Above, in February the acting mayor Mario Feldhoff proclaiming February 16 to 21 as Kin Week with Kinsmen Sharole Bell, Marie Striker and Ron Skuggedal. At left, a scan of a February 16, 1956 Northern Sentinel.
munity groups when needed.
The bottom line though is that being a part of the Kinsmen, for her, is reward-ing and offers her the
opportunity to meet people. She said com-munity groups like Kinsmen are great ways to get involved.
“To me it’s a great way to meet people...
You meet people, not just in your home-town, [but] you meet people all across the province if you’re doing conventions and stuff like that.”
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“I think it needs to be made clear ... that this was a bureaucratic decision, taken
apparently without any consultation with either Hyder
or Stewart.”
Recognizing the talentThe Kitimat Ice Demons held their annual awards ceremony and banquet on March 7, and highlighted some of the season’s best players. Above is Cliff Madsen presenting Josh Slanina with an Ironman award. The full list of the awards were: Ironman - Josh Slanina, Top Scorer - Josh Slanina, Top Goalie - Brandon Heighton, Rookie - Craig Vienneau, Defenceman - Jeff Mildenberger, Inspirational - Brandon Wakita & Shahar Moudahi, Dedicated - Nick Markowski, MVP - Josh Slanina, Unsung Hero - Jordan Goncalves. Submitted photo
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March 26THE KITIMAT FOOD BANK will be holding their An-nual General Meeting on at 8:00 p.m. in the lounge at the Presbyte-rian Church (corner of Nalabila and Lahakas Blvds). March 26CHRIST THE KING PARISH BEREAVE-MENT Ministry Com-mittee will be sponsor-ing Connecting Each Other With Hope, a six week grief support group for adults. Ses-sions are from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Catholic Church Hall. Open to all. For more info call Lidia at 250-632-6292 or Susana at the par-ish office at 250-632-2215.April 2ART CLUB OF KITI-MAT meets at 7 p.m. in Room 103 at MEMSS. Feathers & Fur – Bring materials of your
choice and a visual reference of feathers or fur, or both, to work with. No supplies? We have some and we share. For more info call Katherine Johnsen at 250-632-6888.OngoingZONE 10 OF THE B.C. SENIORS GAMES SOCIETY will be taking mem-berships for 2015. For more info call Bill Whitty at 250-632-2710, or call Margaret Ferns at 250-632-2862.FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY - To join, contact Luce Gauthier at [email protected] or Virginia Charron @ [email protected] or call 250-632-8985.KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are in-terested in joining the Kitimat Quilters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-
6225 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for further info.KITIMAT POTTERY GUILD meets every Thursday in the River-lodge arts wing, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Interested in playing with clay? All experi-ence levels welcome. For more info call Anne at 250-632-3318.THE KITIMAT Public Library offers the high-ly engaging Mother Goose StoryTime for pre-schoolers Monday mornings from 10:30 -11:15 am. Please reg-ister for this free pro-gram.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Devel-opment Center. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings wel-come). Come meet
other parents and in-fants over light refresh-ments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more info call 250-632-3144.CHILD DEVELOP-MENT CENTRE Fun Spot drop-in for chil-dren aged birth to 5 years with caregivers. Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays 10 am- 12 pm. Fridays are now a combined drop-in/mul-ticultural playgroup. All are welcome to at-tend. Contact 250-632-3144 for more info.KITIMAT FIBRE ARTS GUILD: Inter-ested in knitting, spin-ning, weaving, or any other fibre? For more info 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-fidentiality. For more info 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, Thursday at 7:00 p.m. For info phone Brenda at 250-632-1616. PRAYER Canada Kiti-mat meets weekly on Tuesday at noon at Northwest Community College. All are wel-come to pray for our town, province, and country. Call Lesley for info at 250-632-4554.DID YOU KNOW that literacy is more than just being able to read? The Kitimat Adult Literacy Pro-gram provides FREE tutoring services for adult interested in im-proving their reading,
writing, math, commu-nication, and informa-tion technology skills. Is English NOT your first language? We provide FREE tutoring and small group Eng-lish as a Second Lan-guage (ESL) classes. For more info please call Brandi at 250-632-7393 or check us out at www.kitimatcom-muni tyservices .ca/KALP.html or find us
on facebook. DO YOU HAVE DIA-BETES? Individual and group counseling. For more info call 250-632-8313 during oper-ating hours - Wednes-days 8:00 a.m. to noon, Thursdays 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - or leave message on our voice mail. Located on the second floor of the Kitimat Hospital in the Home Support offices.
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Merchandise for Sale
Misc. for Sale
KITIMATBOXES, BOXES, BOXES
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SNOW VALLEY FORD IN KITIMAThas an opening for the position of
Sales Consultant.The successful applicant for this position will be a highly motivated, energetic team player and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.Come and join the fastest growing automotive
team in the Northwest.Please bring your resume to
405 Enterprise Ave. in Kitimat.Ask for Todd Bellamy.
The Chalet Motelin Kitimat is looking to fi ll the positions of Kitchen
Helper, Waitress and Front Desk Clerk. Please drop off resume at the Chalet Motel
front desk.
The Lemare Group is accept-ing resumes for the following positions:• Certifi ed Hand Fallers• Offi ce Highway Logging Truck Drivers• Log Loader Operator• Grapple Yarder Operators• Boom Boat Operator• Chasers• Hooktenders• 2nd Loaders-Buckermen• Heavy Duty MechanicsFulltime camp with union rates/benefi ts. Please send re-sumes by fax to 250-956-4888 or email to: offi [email protected].
Wonderful Opportunity in a busy restaurant.
Rosario’sRestaurant has openings forfull time/part time
A Rehabilitation Assistant is required in Kitimat to provide community rehabilitationservices. You must have graduated from a recognized Rehabilitation Assist-ant program and have an interest in community brain injury rehabili-tation. You are competent in using Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. A reliable vehicle to transport client, valid BC driver’s licence, fi rst aid certifi cate and criminal record check are required for this position. This is a part time position.
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Legal ServicesCRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certifi -cation, adoption property ren-tal opportunities. For peace of mind & a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.
PetsMISSING from 126 Baxter Str, Kitimat. Black cat with a spot of white on chest and belly. Neutered, declawed, smaller than average cats. Reward of-fered for safe return. No collar on at time of missing. Please contact at 250-639-9769 or email [email protected]
We are accepting applica-tions for our Purebred Lab-rador Puppies (for Sale). Sire is #2 lab in Canada. Both parents are Champion and Grand Champions. Our pups have been micro-chipped, dew claws removed and have their fi rst shots. OFA HIPS - Good, OFA EL-BOWS and CERF - Normal, PRA and EIC - Clear $1,000.
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Merchandise for Sale
AuctionsHUGE Burnaby Restaurant Equip-ment Auction - used equipment from closed restaurants & NEW equipment direct from manufactur-er! www.KwikAuctions.com for info and to sign up for our e-newsletter or call 1-800-556-KWIK
Heavy Duty Machinery
A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS
Used 20’40’45’53 in stock.SPECIAL
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HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?
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STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca
Executive Home for Saleon preferred street. Four bedroom, 2.5 bath. New win-dows, siding, roof, doors, marble tiling and rear and front facing decks. Large pri-vate fenced backyard, 3 patios, newly paved drive-way with RV parking.
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• Starting at $600• Balconies• Security Entrances• Cameras for your safety• Now includes basic
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Rentals
Apt/Condo for Rent
KITIMAT
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Free heat & Free Hot WaterFurnished & Unfurnished
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• Downtown location• Balconies• Security Entrances• Some furnished suites
Call for an appointment250.632.4511
www.kitimatapartments.com
SANDPIPER APTSKITIMAT
Newer BuildingsElevators
Security EntrancesCovered Parking
Balconieswww.kitimatapartments.com
250.632.4254
Homes for Rent4 - 3 and 2 Bedroom Homes and Town Houses for rent in Kitimat. Starting August 1st - Go 2 www.rentboard.ca click on BC click on Kitimat or call Stan 780 974 3945
Kitimat Rental3 bedroom. Fenced yard. n/s, n/p. Kildala area. $1,250/mo. Utilities not in-cluded. Available August 1
778-631-2028
TownhousesTHREE bedroom townhouses for rent. 1.5 baths, carport. 1084 Nalabila. $950 per month. Close to all services. Call 250-279-2727
TOWNHOMES in KITIMAT3 bdrm, 1 ½ bath, carportStart $700. Sorry no Pets.
Call Greg 639-0110
Transportation
Cars - Sports & Imports
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.
250-632-6755Serious inquiries only Please
Motorcycles
2007 Suzuki Burgman650cc Executive. Cherry Red. Like new condition. $9,500 obo. Estate sale.
250-632-6263
Recreational/Sale
1996 Winnebago VectraA class diesel pusher
$35,000 fi rm780-881-4722
Kitimat
Transportation
Trucks & Vans
1997 Yukon 4 Dr Full load. 252k km. No Rust. $7,500
2002 Monte Carlo SS143k km. 3.8. Leather.
$8,9002004 Chevy Optra
104k km. New head gas-ket/timing belt/brakes.4 cyl, 5 speed. $3,500
1984 Pontiac Paresienne143,000k km. 4-dr. $3,900
2010 Ram 1500 Sport Hemi11,000k km. Warranty.
$26,0002002 Caravan
209k km. Runs/drives good.1980 Malibu Race Car
BBC/Glide, parts/ whole.$2,500
1983 Regal Wagon305 Headers, Posi mags.
$3,8001996 Impala SS $9,900
View atTom’s Auto Detailing
Kitimat250-639-9678
Boats
17 ft. Alum. Canoe “Spring Bok” very stable, perfect of family / hunting canoe. $600. ----------------------------------13 ft. Alum. Canoe “Sports Pal” very stable & very light, 2 seats. $500.
Call (250) 692-2372
1990 Bayliner29.5ft. $26,000 or trade for newer 5th Wheel or two newer quads with trailer.
250-639-9643
30ft Farrel BoatVolvo diesel, Borg Warner gear, V-drive, VHF radar, auto pilot, sounder, fully equipped for fi shing or cruising. $30,000
403-342-1661
32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT
370hp 8.1L John Deere Diesel, 1500hrs on engine. Trolling valve, Bow Thruster,
2 Radios. Com-Dev Auto Pilot, Spare Prop. Can be seen at MK Bay Marina.
Assessed at $84,400.Contact Warren Poff at
250.632.6119or 250.242.1789
$65,000 Firm(will consider trade for part)
Reduced to $5,900 OBOMoving - must sell
21’ Fibreform CabincruiserKitimat - 5.7L - V8 Mercruis-er with Alpha 1 leg. Great running condition. Brand new exhaust manifolds, bat-teries and starter (over $2000 spent). Stringers and fl oor replaced. 40 gal alum gas tank. Sleeps 3 com-fortably. Heavy duty double axle trailer included.
Ph: 250-632-5673
Our classifi ed ads are on the net! Check it out atwww.bcclassified.com
FIND EVERYTHING YOUNEED IN THE CLASSIFIEDS
More info at www.hcbc.ca
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A banner momentMost of the MEMSS girls curling champions, with their new Provincial curling banner. Left to right, Emma Baker, Leah Anthony, Micaela Stevenson and Taylor Reese-Hansen. Missing is Jordan Zanella, and coach Laurel DeGoeij.
A strong Marlin showing in SmithersJason Cathers
The Kitimat Mar-lins competed at the Smithers regional swim meet recently.
The Terrace and Prince Rupert team were also in atten-dance.
With some strong results from all Mar-lins they were able to place a close second in overall points behind host Smithers who had double the amount of swimmers racing as Kitimat.
Alex van Horne, 11, reached his second AAA provincial quali-fying standard in the 11 and under boys 50 meter butter� y.
By reaching two time standards he now quali� es for the long course (50 meter
pool) AAA Provincial championships which will be held in July in Victoria. Van Horne took the bronze medal for overall points in the 11-12 boys division.
Other medal win-ners for the Marlins were Jayden Johnston, 10, with gold in the 10 and under boys and Angus Bathe, 10, who took the bronze in the division.
Olivia Pearson, 10, took the silver medal for overall points in the 10-11 girls division and older sister Han-nah Pearson, 12, took the silver medal in the 12-13 girls divison.
Also in that divi-son Leah Desousa, 12, took the bronze medal. The Marlins also had two medal winners in
the 13-14 boys with Nolan striker, 14, tak-ing the bronze and Ethan Velho, 14, taking the gold.
In the 14 and over girls Laurence Bouch-er, 14, took the bronze medal while Brander Pacheco, 16, took the gold medal in the 15 and over boys division.
Swimmers who ac-complished the tough task of swimming 100 per cent personal best times in all six of their races were Iris striker, Leah Desousa, Jayden Johnston, Alex Van Horne, Emilie Krabes and Ethan Velho.
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