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Big NorthLakeland Mill will be rebuilt; open 2014
The sawmill at Lakeland Mills will be rebuilt.
Sinclar Group president Greg Stewart made the announcement March 20, accompanied by local United Steelworkers Union pres-ident and city councillor Frank Everitt and acting mayor Cam-eron Stolz.
“April 23 was the worst day in Lakeland Mills history,” Stewart said.
Stewart said he recognizes the incredible strength and human-ity shown by the community as well as the families of Alan Little and Glenn Roche who lost their lives in the explosion and fire that destroyed the mill April 23, 2012.
Twenty-two others were injured.
“We believe in the community and the three generations of own-ers and workers from Lakeland,” Stewart said.
The design of the new mill is not yet written in stone, however Stewart said he was able to share some information. It will con-tinue its legacy of producing stud lumber, but now it will produce both metric length and American standard. The change will open new markets for the mill.
Though they’ve accessed the Japanese market for some time, inroads are being made into the growing Chinese market.
Stewart added the mill will be integrated with the existing planer mill, which feeds the downtown energy system.
The new mill will incorporate the latest safety measures and will employ 100 people in two shifts.
The old mill employed 160 people.
A news release said the antici-pated design and potential equip-ment to be installed suggests fewer people will be required. The company will decide who gets hired back by working with the United Steelworkers to make sure hiring practices meet the
terms of the collective agree-ment.
Fibre supply is unlikely to be an issue.
“Lakeland is in a very fortu-nate situation as a mill itself,” Stewart said.
He noted the mill has access to 250,000 cubic metres of fibre and the Sinclar Group can access
another 500,000 in volume-based tenure available following the shutdown of Winton Global.
Fibre was one of many factors used to evaluate the viability of another mill.
Stewart said the price of lum-ber, though it fluctuates, plays a part as does the employee base, local ownership and the good
partnerships established, among them ones with the university, the city and local contractors.
Stewart said he is unaware of anything further from Work-SafeBC regarding its recommen-dation that the investigation into the fires at Lakeland as well as Babine Forest Products be for-warded to Crown counsel.
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Greg Stewart, president of Lakeland Mills, flanked on the left by Steelworkers Union president Frank Everitt and acting mayor Coun. Cameron Stolz on the right, announced the company will rebuild the sawmill. The new mill will employ 100 people and is expected to be completed in 2014. Standing in rear, with the Lakeland board, are Bill Stewart, Keith Andersen, Carter Anderson and Dr. Charles Jago.
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The Kordyban Lodge was filled March 1 during the grand opening with dignitaries explor-ing the serene rooms, many with a practical purpose, most bearing the name of a family or local business that donated to the cause.
“Welcome to the house that love - and northern generos-ity build,” MLA and Attorney General Shir-ley Bond said. “It is a spectacular place.”
Premier Christy Clark said she couldn’t think of many things harder to bear than having someone in your family diagnosed with cancer.
She added, even with such a life-chang-ing diagnosis, there is always hope, and more reason to hope in B.C. than elsewhere, since it has the best cancer survival rates.
Her mother survived cancer twice, then finally succumbed to brain cancer after hos-pitalization.
“I had the privilege of living in the Lower Mainland and was able to access many of the services,” she said, adding the hospital was closer to her.
So she would stop by at 6 a.m. to shower her mom, then stop again after picking her son up from daycare to feed her dinner and brush her teeth. When the medication she was on drover her to the edge of anxiety, Clark was able to crawl in bed with her and wrap her arms around her to provide comfort.
This, she said, was a wonderful gift.
“The greatest gift I had in my life was the chance to give back to my mom,” she said.
Then the premier looked at Mary Kordy-ban, who donated $2 million towards the lodge that bears her family’s name.
“This gift, Mary, is going to make that possible for others.”
The provincial gov-ernment matched the Kordyban’s gift with many other locals giv-ing generously to make the lodge a reality.
“Today is a spe-cial day for all of us,” Kordyban said. “We are filled with pride and joy for what has been accomplished for cancer care in the north.”
She spoke of how grateful she is to the Canadian Cancer Soci-ety and all they have done to support build-ing the Lodge.
The Kordyban Lodge is the final piece of the puzzle in the B.C Cancer Agency of the North strategy.
Previous to the opening of the can-cer centre in the city, patients had to go out of town to get treat-ment. MLA Pat Bell said when Mary and Bill (who has since passed away) Kordy-ban approached him to pledge their sup-port for the cancer strategy, he was told
that it was dependent on radiation therapy being included in the planned clinic.
Bell, Bond, the Kordybans and many others believed north-ern patients under-going treatment for cancer deserved to be treated as close to home as possible.
The Kordyban Lodge will provide a home-away-from-home for those coming into the city from the region for treatment. It is a 25,000 square foot building with 36 beds. Meals are provided as are many services to soothe guests like the massage therapy
room, a famiy room, library, activity room, and wig and prosthet-ics room.
Volunteers have supported the Lodge and will continue to do so in a number of areas and ways.
“We are so grate-ful to all our donors, supporters and volun-teers who brought this vision for compassion-ate care and accom-modation in Northern B.C. to life,” Cathy Adair, vice-president cancer control, Cana-dian Cancer Society, B.C. and Yukon.
Lorraine Grant, board chair of the Canadian Cancer Soci-
ety, B.C. and Yukon, added, “The Kordy-ban Lodge is a stun-
ning facility that will bring tremendous support, comfort and
peace to those who are going through a can-cer fight.”
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“There is not a person in this room who can hurt me with a ques-tion,” she said, encouraging every-one present to ask whatever they wanted.
The questions revealed more pieces of the story, from the fact Grant is no longer able to cross the border to some of the bits of information about Jessie’s life in Las Vegas she’s picked up over the years.
“I’m not allowed to go anymore,” she said in answer to a question ask-ing if she’s ever searched for Jessie in Las Vegas. Her expression saying it all, she added, “They finally found a record that in 1987 I had a room-mate who was arrested for drugs.”
Her story also encouraged other people to share theirs.
One woman stood and talked about how human trafficking isn’t always about sexual exploitation, but sometimes about gaining free, or nearly free, labour.
Grant agreed there are many rea-sons human traffickers take people, from labour to sexual exploitation.
She added Sweden has instituted an interesting law that may curb most of the problems.
There they have decided it’s per-fectly legal for a woman to sell her body if she wishes, however it is ille-gal for a man to purchase sex. This means women are not prosecuted in prostitution cases, only the men are. They are disgraced, charged, have their faces plastered all over the place and are forever branded
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“Now it’s the Nordic Rule,” she said, adding many countries in the area adopted the law, first because it works and second because though prostitution was driven out of Swe-den, it migrated to nearby countries. “Canada needs to step up and stop victimizing the victims.”
Another mother stepped forward to talk about her daughter who is prostituting herself now, completely addicted to drugs, No matter what she does, she can’t seem to get her daughter off the street. It’s become so bad, she said, that now her daughter is working a corner she knows her mother regularly drives by.
Grant agreed sometimes it is drugs, rather than a person, that keeps a woman imprisoned in that life.
The drug addiction, the mom said, goes hand-in-hand with long-standing and documented mental health issues.
“She is going to wind up dead someday,” she said, voice unsteady.
Diane Nakamura, coordinator for Communities Against Sexual Exploi-tation of Youth, and event organizer, asked to speak to the woman fol-lowing the meeting with the intents of following up on the story.
Those stories were added to the long list Grant has already heard.
Following the presentation she joined the women present for lunch, speaking freely about their issues and her own, sharing the pain that permeates those with a lost child.
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They would be right – but they would be missing an important part of the Lakes Dis-trict Campus.
For almost a decade, CNC Burns Lake has been providing courses dealing with Fetal Alcohol Spec-trum Disorder (FASD), and not just to stu-dents on campus.
“We have students from all over in the online courses,” says Tracey Eyles, program planner for family pro-grams at the school. “We have them from other programs here in Burns Lake, from the nursing programs in Prince George and Quesnel, from Fort St. James.”
Lynn Synotte, in charge of market-ing and recruitment, says they’re looking to expand the reach of the online courses.
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Even without that push, they have had students from some rather far-flung loca-tions, including Alberta, New Jersey,
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While some of the people taking the course are already working in areas such as homelessness or the Aboriginal court system, FASD train-ing co-ordinator Anne Guarasci says the composition of the classes can vary.
“I have 20 students in one of my classes right now, and only one of them is work-ing in the field. Most of them are students. Some of them find it handy to get able to go online and pick up a course which will give them a second- or -third-year credit at their other school; others are encour-aged to take the FASD training because of the field they’re train-ing for.”
Eyles says the online program works well for almost anyone.
“There is no physical class or set class times for the courses, so you can work through the material at your own pace and when you’ve got time.”
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With venues still undergoing upgrades to meet Canada Games standards, more test events will take place next winter. The biggest confirmed
test event is the 2014 Canadian Age Class Short Track Champi-onships, scheduled for March 14 to 16, 2014 at the new Kin 1 arena. The $16.5-million Kin Centre Enhancement Project is the largest CWG-related facil-ity upgrade and the national meet offers the first opportunity for the venue to be competition-tested for short-track speed skating.
The 2015 Canada Winter Games is receiving slightly more than $19 mil-lion in government funding for facility upgrades. The next largest project after the Kin Centre is the remodelling of the Civic Plaza.
Other sports proj-ects include upgrades to the Otway Nordic Centre with a new biathlon range, and trail modifications at
Tabor Mountain and Purden Ski Village, where snowboard-ing and alpine skiing events will unfold.
“Once the upgrades at Tabor and Pur-den are finished, we’re going to want to host an alpine ski event, a snowboard event, freestyle ski-ing events to make sure that those facili-ties are up to Canada Games standard, and hopefully exceeding them and to make sure that we have thought about every-thing from the venue perspective from a Games perspective,” Ballantyne said. “It’s OK to host an event at Otway, but part of of the testing we have to do is transportation plan, spectator plans because we will have that greater amount of spectators at Games time than we’ve ever had there.”
Ballantyne noted that they expect to treat the 2014 Scotties BC women’s curling provincial champion-ships as a CWG test event. The competi-tion is scheduled for next January at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club, the same venue that’ll hold curling draws during the Games.
Organizers also need contingency plans in place should their schedule change as a result of natural causes or emergen-cies. Mother Nature will play a significant role.
“There’s a massive amount of stuff that can challenge any event so our job is to sort of pre-identify what those challenges could be, and then analyze them over the years,” Ballantyne says. “Last year we did a full tracking, what
we call Games time tracking and following weather patterns, and in particular snowfall, all of these things so that we have data that we can rely on.”
Test events offer volunteers the oppor-tunity to advance their skills, and athletes get the chance to try it out. Organizers know a strong Prince George presence would con-tribute to the Games’ success, and hope northern athletes take advantage of the test events and facility upgrades.
“The ability to have kids from northern British Columbia not have to make the big drive every weekend, to be able to train and compete in their own backyard, gives them a bit of an advantage,” Ballantyne says. “If they’re lucky enough to make Team BC, then they have a bit of a homefield advantage because they would know the venue so we want to be able to do that as best we can.”
The 2015 Canada Winter Games are scheduled for Feb. 13 to March 1, 2015. Prince George and the region is expected to play host to 2,350 athletes, 950 coaches and officials, up to 4,500 volunteers, hun-dreds of media and medical professionals and thousands of visi-tors. The event will be the largest sports and cultural event ever held in Prince George and northern B.C., expected to generate an economic impact of between $70 and $90 million.
Prince George sports venues will be in full use during the 2015 Canada Winter Games.
It’s up to the Games team to ensure com-petitions run smoothly during the three-week multi-sport event. With a priority on organiza-tion, staff and volunteers have started running CWG test events to prepare.
By holding particular activities in the same venues they’ll be held in during the Games, test events offer organizers the chance to see how compatible the athletes and sports are with the facilities. They can test the set-up and work out any kinks that may arise.
The test events will also go beyond the com-petition.
“We probably won’t test every single event because we have 19 sports, but probably around a dozen events that’ll happen that will have some form of activity, official activity for us,” Canada Winter Games CEO Stu Ballantyne says. “Sometimes we’re testing odd things, like food services or timing and scoring systems or interaction. It’s not always about the actual sport and field of play.”
The first official CWG test event was the Wheelchair Basketball Canada Junior West Regional Championships from March 22 to 24 at Duchess Park Secondary. Another test event comes this month with the Artistic Gymnastics BC Championships scheduled for April 5 to 7 at the Northern Sport Centre.
Before the wheelchair basketball competi-tion, unofficial test events had already been held. They included cross-country skiing and biathlon at the Otway Nordic Centre, and
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Searching for the ways and means to repair and update crumbling infra-structure is a top priority among Canadian munici-palities, and one discussed in-depth at the Federation of Canadian Munici-palities (FCM) meeting held in Prince George last month.
Coun. Garth Friz-zell, one of the city’s r e p r e s e n t a t i v e s with the FCM, said this is a particularly compel-ling time when it comes to that issue, with all federal fund-ing for infrastructure poised to end in 2013 and just weeks until the federal bud-get is announced. All the hard work the FCM has put into the issue will either be realized or not at that time.
“This year it’s vital,” Frizzell said. “Very soon we’re going to find out what’s going to happen. Our hopes are high.”
Another topic dis-cussed revolved around the economics of polic-ing.
Though the con-tract with the RCMP has been negotiated for B.C., Frizzell said it is interesting to share insight into how it works with other municipalities.
“It is interesting to hear from different municipalities,” he said. “The B.C. caucus is a little different. We are the biggest user of RCMP services in the
country.”I n t e r n a t i o n a l
Women’s Day played a part in the events as well. He said each commit-tee spoke about the impact of gender.
Frizzell also talked about a fund set aside by the FCM to help m u n i c i p a l i t i e s with green proj-ects. Locally it has supported gas col-
lection at the landfill and the downtown energy system as well as dozens of other proj-ects.
Frizzell said he found one
portion of the round of meet-ings, the rural forum, of par-ticular interest.
“It covers almost all the same issues the other committees do, but through a rural lens. About two-thirds of the municipal members are rural, so it’s good to connect with people with like concerns and problems.”
One of the major jobs of the FCM this time, however, was to review resolutions made across Canada in preparation for their annual general meeting.
“We will be taking them for-ward to the spring AGM, to municipal representatives from coast to coast to coast.”
The resolutions approved at the meeting will be presented to the federal government.
“It’s exciting. They are here, in Prince George,” Frizzell said. “This is their last meeting before that.”
Northern Develop-ment Initiatives Trust (NDIT) is a non-profit organization that provides funding for projects that stimulate economic growth and job creation in central and northern B.C.
The online publica-tion from NDIT offers an ‘at a glance’ col-umn that gives people a chance to quickly check out the funding and projects NDIT has been involved with. Since it was legislated into existence, it has committed $111 mil-lion to 1,051 projects, created 5,154 jobs, and teamed up with 1,853 partners, attracting more than $1 billion in new funding to the area.
An $11,000,000 loan from NDIT was instru-mental in providing
funding to expand the Prince George airport, creating the third-longest com-mercial runway in the country at 11,500 feet. Both the wide-bodied 767 and the 747 that trans-Pacific cargo and logistics carriers operate can now uti-lize it.
According to the NDIT website at w w w. n o r t h e r n d e -velopment.bc.ca, the expansion increases the city’s marketabil-ity to Asia. It is also likely to be a favour-able asset for CN’s Intermodal facility.
Boundary Road, which is set to be complete in October of this year, connects two major highways, 97 and 16, via the air-port, further enhanc-ing the logistic capa-bilities of the city.
With several part-ners, including Initia-
tives Prince George, NDIT funded a study looking at container opportunities, one that helped provide nec-essary infor-mation to CN r e g a r d i n g the growing importance of container-ized trans-portation.
The inter-modal facil-ity at CN was devel-oped and expanded.
Joel McKay, director of communications for NDIT, provided an update on projects the organization has recently approved.
“PacificSport North-ern BC with its part-ners, including North-ern Development Initiative Trust, has collaborated to create a new athlete train-
ing and development centre at the Charles Jago Northern Sport Centre at the Univer-
sity of North-ern British Columbia ,” he said in an e-mail. “The new sport and develop-ment centre includes the development of a strength and condi-tioning room with equip-ment in a safe environ-
ment for athletes. It also includes a state-of-the-art multi-use learning centre with advanced IT capa-bilities to serve the community and the region.”
Creating the room means renovating about 1,200 square feet in the lower level of the centre.
Installing IT capa-bilities in the learning centre will enable it to service communi-ties through northern B.C.
NDIT is also helping the cycling club with a trail expansion.
The organization provided a $30,000 grant towards the project.
“The Prince George Cycling Club is work-ing on a trail expan-sion at its Pidherny Recreation Site, which is a 650 hect-are area with 25 exist-ing mountain biking trails. The Cycling Club has developed a plan to include a greater number of beginner and inter-mediate trails to pro-vide a greater experi-ence and more access to the site for local riders.
“The completion of
the new trails appeal-ing to younger and more inexperienced riders will provide a safer, more enjoyable learning experience prior to riders ventur-ing onto more diffi-cult trails.
“The trails are intended to be com-pleted in the spring and summer of 2013, with the 800m begin-ner trail being com-pleted prior to May 15 so it can be uti-lized for the Sproc-
kids Learn to Ride Program through the cycling club.
“Northern Devel-opment has commit-ted a $25,725 grant toward the project, which includes new trail construction, trail head signs, maps, markets, technical features and wooden bridges.”
McKay added it is the passion of the project proponents that make the projects happen.
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