Kitimat Northern Sentinel, August 12, 2015

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The Gyro community Christmas tree, which once stood to the delight of patients at the former hospital, now faces possible destruction with the development of Haisla Town Centre. Cameron Orr

Gyro Christmas tree is now facing an uncertain futureCameron Orr

Just like an advent calendar, the community Christmas tree’s days may be numbered.

The Gyro Club’s community Christ-mas tree at the old hospital site may soon disappear with work ongoing at the Haisla Town Centre.

The possibility of losing the tree has divided some, with a loyal group of his-tory-minded residents concerned for its possible loss.

That includes the Kitimat Gyro Club, who was responsible for planting the trees in the 1960s and maintaining the tree through it’s life.

At least immediately though the tree isn’t going anywhere, even if it looks like the developer is moments away from uprooting it.

The Sentinel did not get an imme-diate reply from Kerkhoff Construction through e-mail requests for an interview, but e-mail correspondence between

Leonard Kerkhoff and the mayor show that the work being done right now is to connect the District of Kitimat’s utilities to their property.

The tree will stay for now, said Leonard in the e-mails to the mayor, un-til a plan is made to deal with it.

Mayor Phil Germuth shared the knowledge that the professional opinion so far given to Kerkhoff is that the tree relocation would cost $60,000 with no guarantee it will survive the move.

The uncertainty around the tree has the Gyro Club on alert.

We’re looking at different locations maybe, with a different tree,” said long-time club member Chris Rigoni.

He said he’s heard the same reports that the tree may not survive an attempt at relocation.

They have no � rm plans at this time though and will discuss new locations at a Gryo meeting.

Rigoni says the tree was ini-

tially planted in 1964 by Kitimat’s Walter Bors.

“He wanted to get the Christmas tradition from his native Germany,” said Rigoni. “That’s how it got started.”

Also, in no small part, the tree was meant to give patients at Kitimat Gen-eral Hospital something to look at.

“There was something [to] give them a little Christmas spirit seeing the tree decorated outside.” he said. “That’s what he planned it to do.”

The Gyros re-strung LED lights on the tree about six years ago, he added.

While the Gyro club is responsible for the tree, maintenance of it has gotten more challenging for members, he said.

“When your in your 30s or 40s most of the work was done by the members. Now everybody is reaching 60, 65, 70, and nobody is going to tackle going up on the tree.”

The Gyros are a club of 17 at the moment.

Working together to reclaim the RiverCameron Orr

The issue of the use of the Kitimat River bank continues as a sore spot for some, but for others it’s an opportunity waiting to present itself.

A citizen-formed think-tank on the Kitimat River, and what to do with it, formed around a conversation made on Facebook, which lead to the creation of Reclaiming the River, a Facebook page dedicated to sharing thoughts about what to do about riverbank camping and other recre-ational use.

But if there’s one thing the group’s founders want clear is that they’re not a group intent on giv-ing the boot to river bank campers. They just want a way for everyone to just get along.

“What we’re doing right now is coming up with a list of people who are identi� ed as the stakeholders and we’ll try to meet with them ei-ther individually or as a group, after we’ve actu-ally had a public meeting where we can get some idea of public input,” said Liz MacDonald, a co-founder of the group along with Maryann Ouellet.

“We want to � nd something that will be hap-py for all people to enjoy the river,” said Ouellet. “And come up with a sustainable plan that’s going to work for camping, for people who just want to just go down to spend the day. So right now we’re just taking people’s opinions.”

If there’s a sticking point to their concerns, it’s not that people are camping for free, but that people are camped for months at a time, which further begs the question what is happening to all the waste and sewage being generated by those campers.

“We’re not saying their necessarily dumping their refuge on the river bank, but if they’re not us-ing their tanks they’re certainly using a washroom somewhere,” said MacDonald.

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Police Beat

Males lighting gasoline on driveway are warned

Car stolen from Kitimat home ends up in Smithers

July 27Police responded

to a single vehicle collision on Saunders Road, where it was de-termined an unlicensed driver had driven in to the ditch with speed as a factor in the ac-cident. The passengers in the vehicle were all intoxicated, police say,

but no one was hurt. A ticket was issued to the driver.

July 30On a call about

people lighting fires on their driveway, police found and spoke with two males at a home who admitted to offi-cers they were pouring gasoline on the drive-

way and lighting it. The males were spoken to about how danger-ous and reckless the act was. While unrelated, police note that the two males were passengers in the July 27 vehicle incident.

July 31RCMP acted on a

complaint of a vehicle

possibly being oper-ated by an intoxicated driver with children present. The driver was found and determined to be intoxicated, and now faces charges in Kitimat court later this year.

August 1A complainant

reported fireworks be-

ing set off near a play-ground and was con-cerned about the fire hazard. Police discov-ered unknown persons were setting off roman candles. The RCMP are reminding the public that fireworks are only permitted in Kitimat during cer-tain times of the year,

although the fire chief may issue a permit to persons wishing to pur-

chase low-hazard fire-works for special fes-tive occasions.

Police patrolled for a stolen vehicle reportedly taken from the Egret Street and Lahakas Boule-vard area.

Patrols all turned up negative however, so neighbouring detach-ments were put on alert for the vehicle.

That notice paid off when a short time later the Smithers RCMP reported having found the vehicle, and three Kitimat resi-dents inside or nearby; two men and one woman.

The three were arrested in connection to the theft.

The three people are well known to the Kitimat RCMP, a detachment news release said.

One male was found to be breaching his no contact condi-tions with the other male from a previous file in Kitimat.

The suspects were also in

possession of bicycles and other property that did not belong to them.

The Kitimat RCMP want to remind the public not to leave valuables in their cars and to en-sure they are locked and secure when parked.

If you are missing any prop-erty, or know who might be the rightful owners of the bicycles, give the RCMP a call at 250-632-7111.

Anonymous tips can also be called in to Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

Jackie LieuwenCoast Mountains school district chair

Art Erasmus says he's looking forward to a revamped provincial scholarship pro-gram for graduating students because it's expected to include trades students as well as ones headed toward more academ-ic post secondary programs.

“Trades are going to be important as we move forward. The Passport to Edu-cation [program] was not based on that,” he said of the program which officially

ended with this year's crop of Grade 12 graduates.

Based on marks, the Passport to Edu-cation program provided $250 to students completing Grade 10, the same amount for completing Grade 11 and $500 for fin-ishing Grade 12, with the money meant for specific post secondary education pro-grams.

But the provincial education ministry announced three years ago it was phasing out the program in favour of one aimed at

more classes of students.The changes follow a 2012 education

ministry review of the Passport program which showed “a desire for a broader, more robust program that is tailored to lo-cal needs and values achievement beyond grades and exam marks.”

Details of the new program, which is expected to apply to students in the senior high school grades as of this year, are ex-pected to be announced later this month, an education ministry official said.

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Cameron OrrThe District of Kitimat and the

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 250 re-dedicated the community ceno-taph, which has recently been beau-tified under a two-year municipal program at Centennial Park.

The event brought to the fore-front the memory of one of Kitimat’s early pioneers, Fire Chief Aubrey Creed.

Creed designed the cenotaph, which was completed in 1972, the year after Centennial Park was

opened in 1971.Creed based his design off of

the Bronze Star award given to him by the United States, awarded for valour during the Italian campaign in World War II.

Retired Fire Chief Bill Dawson remembered Creed in his speech to those gathered at the event August 6. He remembered Creed for establish-ing Kitimat’s emergency services

program, including ambulance ser-vice which began with a single Ford van.

Creed was also instrumental in the development at Bishop Bay and Weewannie for their hot springs.

Creed also was distinguished with a knighthood.

“You will always be remem-bered here,” said Dawson about Creed and the cenotaph.

Creed’s children Kim and In-gvar were also on hand, and spoke in thanks for the beautification proj-

ect and the importance it has to their family.

Speaking on behalf of Kitimat Council, Rob Goffinet noted the ex-tensive work that has happened in the park, which includes new gar-dens, walkways and a flag pole, in addition to the new plaques on the cenotaph itself.

He said it was in partnership with the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 250 that council, in 2013, were able to repair and update the cenotaph area of the park.

There was heated discussion at the Au-gust 4 council meeting on, of all things, the sewer system.

Or more specifi-cally, whether the Dis-trict of Kitimat should take on responsibil-ity of sewer connec-tions the developer of the Crossroads — that large cleared lot next to the Chamber of Com-merce — have to build to service the site.

Those utilities are a challenge to devel-opment of the site, which has to connect to the sewage main at Lahakas and Quatsino Boulevard, as there is no capacity to connect to the Nechako lines.

There are two sides to whether the District should take on the on-going responsibility of the utilities developed by the site.

District staff for-mally recommended

that the town not take on the responsibil-ity of the Crossroad’s sanitary sewer because doing so “could be viewed as assisting a commercial operation,” which would be a large conflict for council to approve.

Staff’s report to council also note that the work camp owned by Civeo will have their own sewage lift station and main, as will a proposed town-house development on Kingfisher.

The existing Kiti-mat Official Commu-nity Plan also does not envision further devel-opments of this sort in the area — which is served by septic tank systems — so staff did not see the value in tak-ing on the cost of main-taining the system.

Councillor Mario Feldhoff disagreed, who presented a mo-

tion counter to staff’s recommendation.

His motion would have council accepting Crossroad developer Horizon North’s pro-posal for the District to take on approximately 27 kilometers of sewer main.

Feldhoff said that future developments in that area can’t be dis-counted with a growing community and while the service would ini-tially benefit the one development it would open up the possibil-ity for further develop-ments in that area.

Basically to do so will open up future op-portunities.

There are uncer-tainties, including what specific route the line will take to get to the District’s services at Lahakas/Quatsino.

Councillors also debated within them-selves whether Feld-

hoff’s motion was in line, as Goffinet felt unprepared to discuss the options of taking on responsibility given the materials councillors had mainly pertained to why they shouldn’t.

Ultimately though Larry Walker and Rob Goffinet were outnum-bered in a vote, and council has approved the plan to take on the responsibility of the line.

The Crossroards is a planned 300 room hotel and a 1,000 bed work camp.

A covenant is on the property between the developer and the District that the hotel will have to be con-structed as well as the camp.

When the Cross-roads plan was initial-ly brough to council it was a proposal by a different company, Bryton Group, who has

since sold it to Hori-zons North.

The complex may

also include restaurants and meeting room spaces.

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Terrace RCMP are asking the pub-lic for any informa-tion in regards to the theft of the Kitsum-kalum fire truck.

Inves t iga t ion has determined that the thieves ap-proached the fire truck in a pickup truck at 2:48 a.m. on August 2nd, said po-lice August 6.

Minutes later the stolen fire truck was seen heading north on the West Kalum Forest Ser-vice Rd.

The fire truck is described as a red 1986 GMC pumper truck with expired BC licence plate 3162MF and the words “Kitsum-kalum Vol Fire De-partment” on the doors.

If you have in-formation about this crime contact the Terrace RCMP at 250-638-7400 or anonymously through Crime Stop-pers by telephone at 1-800-222-TIPS, online at www.ter-racecrimestoppers.ca or by texting TERRACE plus your message to 274637 (CRIMES).

If your infor-mation leads to an arrest, you may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $2,000.

The B.C. health ministry is adding an extra $2 million to im-prove security at four facilities identified as having the highest risk for violence.

Extra staff, new alarms and violence prevention training will be among strategies for Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Port Co-quitlam, Hillside Cen-tre in Kamloops, Seven Oaks Tertiary Mental Health in Victoria and Abbotsford Regional Hospital.

Eight more health facilities have been identified as priorities for additional help, and more are expected to be identified this fall, Lake said.

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The cenotaph at Centennial Park was re-dedicated last week, in honour of former Kitimat fire chief Aubrey Creed, who designed the cenotaph himself in the early 1970s. At top right, a photo tribute to Creed, and below retired fire chief Bill Dawson speaking at the event. Max Patzelt group photo; Cameron Orr side photos

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It’s about time for me to give the 2015 federal election a rest. I’ll come back to it fairly soon likely because the controversy is building up in a fast and furi-ous way. But this week I would like to draw some attention to some things that are happening in the world which either amuse me greatly, sadden me, or simply beggar belief.

Starting in the sad category: a former Summerside, PEI, deputy po-lice chief has resigned his voluntary post as president of the Island chapter of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), after he was charged with impaired driving. David Grif� n, 65, was the volunteer president of the MADD chapter in East Prince County. He was charged with impaired driving in June and will appear in court at the end of this month.

Even though I am as stunned as anyone at the wave of deaths of un-armed black men and youths across North America at the hands of what I would have to categorize mostly as “rogue cops,” I know that these are a

highly visible minority of police of� -cers who drag much of the great work being done by police of� cers across the continent into the gutter. It’s very hard not to be incredibly cynical as the startling numbers grow. As stated these police cases have a high pro� le and deservedly so.

Less prominent in the news is the culmination of sometimes years of work to solve numerous serious crimes. Cold cases are being solved mostly as a result of improved foren-sics and a willingness to spend some resources on egregious cold cases, mostly murders that could fall into the serial killer category. I don’t want to defend these awful crimes by either racist, arrogant or over-frightened of-

� cers in over their heads, and, I suspect, very poorly trained. The United States’ justice system has been under the microscope for some time, and while Canada does not exactly have the same volume of problems we are certainly not in the clear in this respect.

In the beggars belief catego-ry, I have to give great credit to Daphne Bramham of the Vancou-

ver Sun for the one of the most fasci-nating current affairs stories featuring the bizarre possibilities of new Cana-dian child care and parental income splitting rules in the equally bizarre ongoing case of polygamist Winston Blackmore of Bountful, B.C., a prolif-ic “daddy,” current awaiting a return to court for trial on criminal charges of bigamy.

Bramham posits that with 133 children, 98 of them in the eligible age ranges for cheques from the Harp-er government’s backdated child care credits, she � gures Blackmore was in line for a payday of over $43,000 last month.

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Catching up on the miscellaneous

O community treeLook, I’m fairly new to Kitimat in the scheme

of things. I moved here in 2007 for the � rst time. To me the old Dollar Store next to the former Ed’s Bake Shop will never be the old pharmacy, and the old hospital would never have been, well, the hospital.

(I can proudly direct people to the old Book Masters at least.)

So anyway, why am I drawing attention to my lack of ‘Kitimat maturity’? It’s because there’s this discussion going on about the community Christmas Tree at the old hospital site and I can’t wrap my head around it.

Here’s the parts I can � gure out: there’s a com-munity Christmas tree that has been a part of Kitimat since the 1960s.

Yet as much as maybe it was a centre piece in earlier days for the community, it’s been lately a sta-ble yet background attraction for Kitimat.

So today, a developer may have to tear it down to make room for an intersection and roadway to access the future Haisla Town Centre.

If you haven’t fainted yet at the idea allow me to continue.

There had been a hope to relocate the tree on to District property somewhere. The tree was initially on District land but a park-swap took place a few months back so now the tree is squatting on private property.

Relocation seems � ne but professional estimates say it will cost $60,000 to move the tree, and it might just die in the process anyway.

Despite being iconic, the tree, from my time here, hasn’t been a focal point for the local holidays.

The Light-Up Kitimat committee has recti� ed the winter community-spirit issue for me with last year’s � rst round at a community light-up event, involving the tree at the � re hall, and displays in Mountain View Square.

Even without the light-up, Kitimat is known for the snow� ake decorations which adorn light posts around town.

No where, in my mind, does the Christmas tree at the old hospital weigh in with my memory of holi-days in Kitimat.

Thankfully it seems the Gyro Club is looking to adopt a new community tree somewhere in the com-munity to make up the loss of this one.

Certainly it won’t appease some who will lament the loss of the original from 1964, but really the orig-inal tree has stood effectively by itself for years.

Perhaps I better armour myself from a deluge of angry letters to the editor (and please send them in!) but it might be time to say goodbye to that tree and look to a new one.

That tree next to the � re hall is looking pretty good, and that one’s probably not going away for a long time

Cameron Orr

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A race of three right now in the election

As of press time there were three parties represented to run in the federal election in the Skeena-Bulkley Valley riding.

Incumbent Nathan Cullen is once again carrying the torch for the NDP party. Cullen will be seek-ing his fifth term as a member of parliament.

He’s being challenged by Con-servative candidate Tyler Nesbitt, a born-and-raised Prince Rupert citi-zen who now lives in Terrace.

Rod Taylor also has his name forward representing the Christian Heritage Party (CHP).

Based on the election results from the 2011 election, the race is, for the most part, down to the NDP and the Conservatives. Both parties are the only two to break 10,000 votes in the 2011 election.

The Conservatives took 12,117 votes for 34.5 per cent of the vote. The NDP took 19,431 votes for 55.3 per cent for the win.

The Liberals took third in that race (3.5 per cent), followed by the Green Party with 3.1, the CHP with three, and finally the Canadian Ac-tion Party with half a per cent of the vote.

Nominated in May, Nesbitt said he’ll spend the first part of the

campaign juggling campaign du-ties, work and home life before tak-ing up his holiday time to campaign full time as the election date draws closer.

This will be the first federal campaign for Nesbitt, 32, who is a manager with Nechako Northcoast Construction in Terrace.

“I’ll be knocking on as many doors as humanly possible in every single community I can,” he said.

“Right now we’re getting the team together and lining up our vol-unteers,” Nesbitt added.

Organizing volunteers also fac-tored in comments made by Gord Lechner, the campaign manager for incumbent NDP MP Nathan Cul-len.

“We’ve never had as much money as our opponents but what we do have is volunteers.

We’ll out-volunteer them,” he said.

Lechner said late last week that lease agreements for space in Ter-race, Prince Rupert, Kitimat and Smithers were being finalized.

He described the election pe-riod, because of its length, as a chance of voters to really under-stand the issues that will arise.

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Dear Sir, Official Opposition and

Canadian media for months have accused federal gov-ernment for failing in man-agement of Canadian econ-omy and job creation.

Yet they are not re-porting or comment-ing that Canada does not stand alone economically in today’s global market/trade and how global ups

and downs affects Cana-dian economic activity. It takes lot of skill to balance these occurrences with do-mestic ones. The Prime Minister has worked hard at it.

We never hear the com-ments or reports of these wise economic experts how in the past 10 years opposi-tion (directly or indirectly), individuals and self interest

groups stopped or blocked economic opportunities of oil, gas and mining indus-tries through endless pub-lic inquiries and litanies of concerns, that brought most of the projects to a dead stop.

And would you believe it, they continue with their economic autopsy to prove the dead more dead yet they have gall to blame the fed-

eral government for a reces-sion.

What was/is the real ef-fect on Canadian economy and jobs? Where are the re-ports?

Why the management and governing skills of “Government in Waiting” are also not equally scruti-nized? Like NDP provin-cial failures of governing in Ontario and B.C. in the

past 50 years. While NDP Alberta’s

victory occurred at the same time there was an NDP loss of one Maritime province (not much talked about), one NDP MP called Alberta s victory: “Last Nail in the Coffin of Enbridge”.

This is very unprofes-sional. It is scary to think about the future of this Country if MP’s may carry

a nail gun. In closing I see the only

solution for the govern-ment in waiting; Majority government with the privi-lege to print, not borrow, all the money for the Stimu-lus Budgets thus be able to stand alone (at least for five years) amid the world’s economics. Some prospect.

Sincerely,Leon Dumstrey-Soos

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Common Ground programColumnist pens response to the Wozney letter

Cameron OrrBefore the Microtel hotel opens its doors

on Dadook Avenue this month, the com-pany has launched a voting campaign to get Kitimatians to pick a local charity to receive $5,000.

The company developing the property, MasterBUILT Hotels, have taken the lead up to their opening as the place to launch their pro-gram called Common Ground.

The company says it’s a “thank you” to the community for their welcome.

Residents can vote on their pick out of the three pre-chosen charities and non-profits to receive the $5,000 by going online to microtel-

canada.com/commonground.The choices are the Kitimat Humane Soci-

ety, the Kitimat Gymnastics Club and the Kiti-mat Child Development Centre.

The public has until 11 a.m. on September 7 to place their vote and show

“We look forward to being part of the Kiti-mat community and feel the Common Ground initiative highlights the importance of working together and supporting the wellbeing of the community,” said MasterBUILT Hotels Chief Operating Officer Eric Watson.

“We are pleased to be working with three great organizations that offer important servic-es to this community.”

Dear sir,I was pleased to

see past mayor Rick Wozney reply to my Sentinel, July 29 col-umn on riverbank camping.

It is gratifying that I can count one of the community’s elder statesmen among my readers.

I particularly liked

his keying on the first paragraph of the col-umn by signing off with “nostalgically submitted”.

Masterful.But I feel I must

point out that I did rec-ognise that privately owned lands existed and suggested a solu-tion to that perceived problem.

That said, I concede that Mr. Wozney’s alternative of getting the owners of that land to donate it to the District of Kit-imat is more elegant than mine.

And join him in encouraging council to pursue that goal.

Sincerely,Malcolm Baxter

Kitimat Council will send a warm greeting to Her Majesty the Queen and will also commemorate her long reign as monarch on Sep-tember 9 at Centennial Park.

Councillor Rob Goffinet put forward the motion for council to recognize Elizabeth as the longest reigning monarch in modern times, which will be made official on Sep-tember 9.

Kitimat will mark the occasion by sending an official letter of con-gratulation to the Queen, and the day will be commemorated with a brief noon-hour ceremony at Centennial Park that same day too.

In his memo to council on the motion, Goffinet notes that Queen Elizabeth II’s reign “almost perfect-ly overlaps the history of Kitimat.”

Her coronation was in 1953 as Kitimat was being build, and her husband Prince Philip represented her at the first metal ceremony in Kitimat in 1954.

The Queen herself has visited B.C. before, including a stop in 1959 to Terrace.

“This singular lady has been an example of service, dedication, in-tegrity and hard work for the past 62 years,” wrote Goffinet.


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Kitimat to commemorate the 62 years of Queen Elizabeth

Kitimat contributes to northwest readinessCameron Orr

The District of Kitimat has been used as a model for planning purposes provincially, says Executive Direc-tor for the provincial government’s North-west Readiness pro-gram Nichola Wade.

Wade gave coun-cillors an overview of the program, the first time for the new coun-cil.

“We’ve taken what

you’ve learned about work camps and are applying those to areas of impact,” said Wade as an example of local lessons applied else-where.

While her pre-sentation was mainly an overview, she was still pressed on some notable Kitimat ar-eas of ‘readiness’, as she was encouraged to take council’s con-cerns to other layers

of government.Haisla Bridge was

brought up, as the may-or says he doesn’t want to delay mega projects due to an aging bridge.

Wade agreed that it is an area of priority for the ministry of trans-portation. She said the bridge poses challeng-es because “tragically it’s yours yet it’s a sig-nificant investment to upgrade, to replace...It is most definitely on

the Ministry of Trans-portation and Infra-structure’s [minds].”

Larry Walker em-phasized a need to develop the tourism industry, which to him includes a more com-prehensive rail trans-portation system for the winter, and the re-lease of Crown lands to the District for local development.

Mario Feldhof meanwhile inquired

about taxation issues, encouraging the gov-ernment, via Wade, to not limit a municipal-ity’s ability to set prop-erty tax rates on major industries, noting that communities such as Kitimat have been fair and balanced in how they’ve approached the matter in the past.

Wade responded that her ministry, the Ministry of Commu-nity, Sport and Cultural

Development, has been focused on facilitating the tax process so that other ministries don’t feel the need to look at the issue broadly, as has been suggested in the past.

Wade said she has facilitated tax nego-tiations between the Petronas LNG project in Port Edward and that municipality, which she said was needed because of the multi-

billion dollar project setting up in a com-munity of under 1,000 with a usual operating budget of just $2 mil-lion.

She’s also facilitat-ed service agreements between that project and Prince Rupert, and played a role in the recent project de-velopment agreement between Pacific North-west LNG (PNW) and the province.

VintageGeoff McFarlane in front of his carefully restored 1928 Pontiac Chiefton, which is the same approximate age as the Dance Hall at Heritage Park Museum in Terrace. Kitimat’s Geoff went in for the Skeena Valley Cruizers’ Show and Shine event, which is a group of vintage car enthusiasts from Kitimat and Terrace. The Show ‘n’ Shine took place June 21. Kelsey Wiebe

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And, Abu-bakr Al-Baghdadi, leader of the so-called Is-lamic State, went un-der scrutiny when he

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Con’t from page 5Cullen, 43, who

is also the NDP’s fi-nance critic, was first elected in 2004 and was returned to office in 2006, in 2008 and in 2011.

The Bulkley Val-ley resident has in-creased his share of the vote each election, gathering in 55 per cent in the 2011 cam-paign.

Also running is Rod Taylor, another Bulkley Valley resi-dent, who is president of the Christian Heri-tage Party. It will be his fifth race.

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the River group is anticipating holding a public event to gather ideas about the river, and will meet with var-ious river stakeholders, from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to the Haisla.

The organizers know that the process will miss this fishing season but they envi-sion having a handle on some type of change by next spring.

Something, they say, does need to be done.

“There’s no other river in the province where you can actu-ally camp on the river for months on end. Ter-race has the advantage of Ferry Island. Other communities have pro-vincial parks. There’s two outside of Ter-race,” said MacDonald. “We do not have a pro-vincial park in Kitimat. Yet we have thousands of campers that come here from all over the world, for months on ends.”

Ouellet said some-thing, anything, needs to be done at the river.

“There’s lots of scenarios that are hap-pening down there. It’s just not very good pub-

licity even for all of the tourists that are coming to Kitimat. We want to maintain the people who are coming as well as the locals, so we’re looking for better solu-tions. This isn’t about shutting down the river bank,” she said.

Concern that the town may shut down the riverbank camp-ing brought long-time Kitimat resident Mary Bouzane to the August 4 council meeting.

Bouzane was re-sponding to an article she saw in the North-ern Sentinel regarding the issue of riverbank camping.

She said people should have the choice to camp on the river.

“Everybody has the right of choice and this one, I find, people have the right of choice to visit our wonder-ful community. They come to the river bank, they employ people in the fishing stores, the grocery stores, the gas, everything,” she said. “And yet council says ‘well, they’re not get-ting any money...’

“Every year this issue wastes council’s good time and money. There was $12,500 spent on a survey at one time. That’s a lot of money.”

Mary Murphy did respond to Bouzane’s presentation, noting council’s lack of con-trol at the river.

“We don’t have control right now who camps at the river and who doesn’t, and I look forward to all these people coming and vis-iting our community, and they do enhance our community.

And we do have Radley Park, and I know sometimes it gets filled and we are work-ing on expanding Rad-ley Park.”

She said the major-ity of feedback on this issue is against river-bank camping and is appreciative that Bou-zane came to give her side.

Mayor Phil Ger-muth added that their ultimate goal is to en-sure the environment is being protected.

“If we had enough

camp sites I’d be all in favour of not hav-ing them there. At least charging them for

something to make up for some of what we do put in to it,” he said.

He also added of

the Reclaiming the River group, “I would commend a group for getting together to try

to do something like that.

They’re not trying to kick anyone off.”


Century of groceriesThe Overwaitea stores turned 100 this year and the Kitimat store celebrated the milestone as well with an outdoor historical display, which included the company’s original Model T car. The displays are part of a travelling showcase around the province. Local store manager Jas Pannu says he’s thankful to the community for its ongoing support, including their generosity as donations were being accepted during this event, on August 6, for B.C. Children’s Hospital.

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“There’s no other river in the province where you can actually camp on the

river for months on end. ”

Cameron OrrAll-terrain-vehicle

(ATV) riders, particu-larly men, should be sure to exercise cau-tion when out in the back country.

In the Northwest area of the Northern Health Authority, of which we’re a part, 263 files, from 2001 to 2012, were reported of hospitalizations re-lating to injuries from off-road vehicle use.

Out of the 1,558 total files in the entire Northern Health re-gion, 1,279 of those were of men.

Northern Health is pushing for ATV safety due to the high preva-lance of cases, which over that time frame has cost over $8 mil-lion in direct health care cost, not including other costs such as re-habilitation.

The largest demo-graphic of people at risk are men 15 to 29

years old, and youth in general.

“We also experi-ence a much higher rate of ATV related injuries than the rest of the province,” said Shellie O’Brien, Northern Health Injury Prevention Coordina-tor.

She says intoxica-tion is a big reason that accidents happen, or not wearing safety gear such as helmets.

Holly Christian, Northern Health’s re-gional lead on men’s health and activity, says the prevalance of men’s injuries from the sport is partly a fac-

tor of men being the largest user group of ATVs, but also says men are more likely than women to engage in risky riding behav-iour.

ATV injuries, she adds, are still the lead-ing cause of sports-re-lated hospitalizations in Northern Health.

Between 2006 and 2011 there were 33 ATV-related deaths, half of which involved drugs or alcohol.

Her key emphasis is that all ATV injuries are preventable.

“We want every-one to make it home safely,” she said.

Sergeant Al Stein-hauser with the North District RCMP says files involving ATVs have been rising rap-

idly this year.Now in the peak

season he says calls come in each day re-garding an ATV injury.

Kitimat Sgt. Gra-ham Morgan says they don’t keep records spe-cifically on ATV inci-dents, but it is a matter

the RCMP here deal with. The detachment has their own ATVs and conduct patrols regularly.


Northern Health is urging ATV safety. Off road sports contributes to a number of injuries or deaths each year. Black Press file photo

ATV safety urged by Northern Health

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The Kitsumkalum and Kitselas can now formally advance into the final stages of their treaty negotia-tions with the federal and provincial governments thanks to agreements in principle.

Both First Nations approved their agreements more than two years ago through referenda but se-nior government approval wasn't made official until today's signing.

The Kitsumkalum Agreement-in-Principle provides for approxi-mately 45,406 hectares of land, north and west of Terrace, and $44.2 million (to be adjusted for inflation), once a final agreement is reached.

The Kitselas Agreement-in-Principle provides for 36,158 hect-ares of land east of Terrace, and $34.7 million (to be adjusted for inflation), once a final agreement is reached.

It may take several years yet of negotiations to reach a final agree-ment for both First Nations.

Kitsumkalum chief council-lor Don Roberts and Kitselas chief councillor Joe Bevan signed for their governments while the province was represented by aboriginal relations and reconciliation minister John Rustad.

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Elio Bravo died peacefully Friday, July 31st, 2015,at the age of 82, in his home in Nanoose Bay, BC.

Elio was born to the late Giuseppe and Virginia Bravo, June 8, 1933, in San Vito Al Tagliamento, Italy. In 1957 he married the love of his life, Rosa Schwegler.As one of Kitimat’s early pioneers, arriving in 1952, Elio came to Kitimat to begin his legacy. With a passion for hard work and a dream to see his new adopted home town prosper, Elio, along with his late brother, Joe Bravo, started businesses that continue to operate today. He was a member of the Kitimat Rod and Gun Club, Italian Cultural Club, Gyro’s and the Chamber of Commerce. Work, friends and family were Elio’s driving forces and he impacted all those who knew him in ways beyond measure. Elio is survived by his beloved wife of 58 years, Rosa, his four children, Pino Bravo (Patricia) of Kitimat, Rosanna Bravo, Silvana Bravo and Elia Bravo of Vancouver Island; six grandchildren: Lindsey (Michael), Nikka, Alexandra, Elio, Helena and Seanna and many nieces and nephews.Whether at work or play, Elio’s larger than life presence, booming voice and powerful hugs, will be missed by all.

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Kitimat guide facing charges

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The operator of a local fishing guide company has been charged with one count under the criminal code and three under the Wildlife Act, relating to charges under cru-elty offences to animals.

Andreas Handl will be returning for his next court appearance in September.

The CTV report on the charges refer to an incident where it’s alleged Handl and his client that day, another

man also charged named Ro-dolofo Martins-Lopes, tried to catch a swimming deer in the Douglas Channel.

The deer was not caught or killed, and a video of this alleged incident was shared

on Facebook but has since been removed.

Handl told the North-ern Sentinel that he has been advised by his lawyer to not make any statements regard-ing this incident at this time.

Jeff NagelLightning sparked doz-

ens of new fires across B.C. last week, and officials say an expected weather shift back toward sunny, dry conditions by the weekend could worsen the risk.

“We do not want people getting complacent,” B.C. chief fire information officer Kevin Skrepnek had said.

There are currently 147 active fires – more than 100 of them lightning caused – and 10 major “fires of note.”

More than 130 firefight-ers continue to battle the new-est major wildfire at Wood Lake north of Harrison Hot Springs.

That aggressive fire has grown from just a few hect-ares to more than 650 hectares

in just four days.So far this year, B.C. has

had 1,418 wildfires, an esti-mated 282,000 hectares has burned and firefighting costs are currently pegged at $180 million.

The area burned is al-ready more than four times worse than the average of 63,000 hectares over the past 10 years.

And 2015 appears cer-tain to go down as one of the worst wildfire years in B.C. of all time.

Approximately 30 per cent of fires so far have been caused by people – due to everything from thrown ciga-rettes and improperly extin-guished campfires to indus-trial activities and vehicles igniting vegetation.

Leaders battle over pipelines, jobsTom Fletcher

Federal party leaders squared off in their first TV debate last Thursday, a mostly polite two-hour exchange of views on the economy, environment and military action overseas.

The environment segment was most focused on B.C., where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was pressed on stalled pipeline proposals to the west and east coasts as well as to the U.S. Harper said low world prices for energy make it the only sector that is under-performing, while the rest of the economy is growing.

Green Party leader Elizabeth May urged NDP leader Thomas Mulcair to op-pose the twinning of the TransMountain oil pipeline from Alberta to its Burnaby terminal. Mulcair stuck to his position that he will await a federal environmen-tal review.

Harper noted that Liberal leader

Justin Trudeau has opposed capital cost allowances for liquefied natural gas in-vestors, weakening the case for new gas pipelines. He said his government ap-proved the Northern Gateway pipeline proposed to run to Kitimat with more than 200 conditions, because “that’s how the system works.”

Trudeau and Harper sparred over greenhouse gas emission efforts, with Harper noting he moved ahead on curb-ing coal power plant emissions three years before U.S. President Barack Obama.

Harper agreed that approval of the Keystone XL pipeline from Alberta to southern U.S. refineries will likely have to wait for Obama to leave office next year.

May said Harper is nowhere near meeting his own commitment to curb emissions, as forest fires rage and ex-

treme weather increases all year around.The debate moderator, Maclean’s

magazine columnist Paul Wells, asked Harper if he owes Canadians an apology for appointing since-suspended senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick Brazeau. Harper did not apologize, say-ing the provinces need a consensus to re-form the senate through elections as he proposed, or to abolish it.

Mulcair and Trudeau oppose the cur-rent bombing missions against Islamic State terrorist targets in Syria and Iraq. Mulcair said he would support military action sanctioned by the United Nations or under Canada’s NATO commitments.

Harper said the deployment of six fighter jets with special forces support is what Canada’s allies want to do, and Islamic State is a “nerve centre” for a global movement that has targeted Cana-da specifically.

Aerial view of Wood Lake wildfire north of Harrison Hot Springs. BC Wildfire Service

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Smithers, Prince Rupert, Ter-race and Kitimat played in the annual three day Kitimat Men’s Open golf tournament.Overall low gross winner was David Venman with a score of 208.Overall low net winners was Joe Lagana with a score of 203.Winners by flight are;Championship flight1st low gross - Dylan Kerbrat - 2092nd low gross - Scott Rigler (Terr) - 2163rd low gross - Russ Nichol-son - 229Lap gross - Alex Sterling - 2521st low net - Gene Kerbrat - 2082nd low net - Rob Brady - 2163rd low net - Kyle Vales - 221Lap net - Joel Demelo - 229A Flight1st low gross - Nathan Steen-hof (Smithers) - 2352nd low gross - Augie Penner - 243 on a countback3rd low gross - Steve Hynes (Terr) - 247Lap gross - Angelo Demelo - 258

1st low net - Grant Frater - 2112nd low net - Wayne Hatto - 2133rd low net - Mitch Turco (Smithers) - 220Lap net - Clayton Thom - 229B Flight1st low gross - Bruce MacKay (Smithers) - 2552nd low gross - Andrew Schaffer (Pr. Rupert) - 2623rd low gross - Tony Santos - 266Lap gross - Bill Blair - 2691st low net - Greg Saunders - 2202nd low net - Paul Sampson (Terr) - 228 on a countback3rd low net - Teru Yamamoto (Pr. Rupert) - 228Lap net - John Vales - 233 on a countbackC Flight1st low gross - Randy Prinz (Terr) - 2582nd low gross - James Alder-man - 2673rd low gross - Paul Zenuk - 2704th low gross - Ed Martin - 275Lap gross - Frank Thomas - 2881st low net - Jeremy Alfred (Smithers) 208

2nd low net - Brad Riley - 216 on a countback3rd low net - Harvey Gunna-noot - 2164th low net - Paul Voykin - 221Lap net - Carol Gabel - 236Long drive winners over the three days were;Championship flight;Scott Rigler (Terr) and Dylan KerbratA FlightAngelo Demelo, Aaron Singh and Wayne HattoB FlightJoe Lagana, Jason Majore (Terr)C FlightRandy Prinz (Terr), Brad Ri-ley and James AldermanClosest to the pin winnersChampionship flight;Simon L’Hevreaux, Scott Rigler (Terr) and Jacob Ca-chia (Smithers)A FlightAugie Penner, Dallis Kerbrat and Nathan Steenhof (Smith-ers)B FlightDoug Jay and John ValesC FlightWayne Sanwald, Randy Prinz (Terr), Frank Thomas.

Men’s Open tournament

Jason CathersThe Kitimat Marlins had two

swimmers qualify for the Cana-dian age group nationals swimming championships in Quebec City over the August 8-9 weekend.

To qualify the two swimmers had to reach the tough qualifying times in three events for their age group.

The qualifying times are based on the top 50 fastest times in the country for each age group from the previous season.

There are thousands of com-petitive swimmers in each age group across Canada so to be among the top 50 fastest times is a great accom-plishment.

To understand how fast those times are Zachary Dumas and Kleanza Cathers from the Marlins had to establish Northwest B.C. re-gional records in the 15 and over cat-egory in each event they qualified in to reach those standards.

Unfortunately because of the Kitimat pool closure only Cathers was able to train in July by living with family in Vancouver and train-ing there to attend the swim meet in

Quebec City. Cathers had some great results

while competing with the best 15 year old girl swimmers in the coun-try at the age group nationals.

Her best result came in the dis-tance event the 1500 meter freestyle. Cathers was seeded 18th and fin-ished 15th with a personal best time by 10 seconds lowering her regional record in the process.

She also had an excellent swim in the 800 meter freestyle. Cath-ers already held the regional record in the event short course (25 meter pool).

She took 15 seconds off her long course (50 meter pool) time and broke the 15 and over girls regional record in the event held by Stephanie Nicholls from Prince Rupert from 2001.

Her improvement brought her from being seeded 25th to finishing 19th overall in the event.

Cathers also finished 24th in the 400 free, 34th in the 200 free and in her free non qualified swim the 100 free where she was seeded 47th, she had a solid personal best time to fin-ish 34th overall.

Kleanza Cathers was one of two qualifying swimmers to attend Quebec City, but the only one to actually go due to training opportunities in the lead up. Submitted

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