Burns Lake Lakes District News, October 31, 2012

Phone: 250.692.1700 • Fax: 250.692.1750 • Toll Free: 1.866.692.1943 545 Highway 16 West • PO Box 5000, Burns Lake, BC • V0J 1E0

Email: [email protected] • Website: www.cnc.bc.ca/lakesdistrict

CNC helps you win in many ways!

Storm Calvert registered and paid for the Social Service Worker program at the Lakes Campus and was thrilled to win September’s draw for a gift certificate to Takysie Lake Resort.

Look for a CNC tablecard in participating restaurants from Granisle to Takysie Lake and see information regarding

great CNC Programs.

Flexible hours are

available for upgrading.

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 ▼ Volume 92 - No. 44 ▼ www.ldnews.net ▼ $1.34 HST inc.

WALTER STRONG

As part of an omnibus budget bill introduced on Oct. 18, 2012, the Progressive Conservative federal government has included changes to the 1882 Navigable Waters Protec-tion Act (NWPA). It is unclear how proposed changes to the act could af-fect the long term protection of the many lakes and rivers in Northwest B.C., including Babine Lake. Nei-ther Babine Lake, nor any of the riv-ers flowing from it would be included in the new list of federally protected lakes and waterways proposed in the

bill under debate in Ottawa.In a press release issued by Trans-

port Canada, a reform to the act was called for because it had become cumbersome and ineffectual. Waters not listed under the new Navigation Protection Act would ‘continue to be protected through the Canadian Envi-ronmental Assessment Act of 2012, the Canadian Environmental Protec-tion Act, the Species at Risk Act, and the Fisheries Act.’

The new list of protected lakes and rivers does not include any of the wa-terways that have been in local news

Babine Lake excluded from new water act

Federal bill slims river protection

WALTER STRONG

Burns Lake and area residents attended a TransCanada’s Coastal GasLink Pipeline proj-

ect open house in Burns Lake on Oct. 26, 2012. The project is to build a natural gas pipeline from Dawson Creek to Kitimat, B.C. The Pipeline, a four bil-lion dollar project that would take 3.5 years to complete, will be under construction by 2015 if all community, environ-mental and economic feasibility studies are positive.

The proposed 48” diameter underground pipeline will run south west from Dawson

Creek just north of Fra-ser Lake and intersect Hwy. 35 south of Burns Lake at Bald Hill as it makes fairly straight line to the south Hazel-ton Mountain range and through to Kitimat. The exact details of the pro-posed pipeline’s route are not available yet. TransCanada is still in a public consultation pro-cess and will begin its detailed environmental and engineering field work in 2013. This work is expected to take

TransCanada pipeline slated for 2015

Four billion dollar

project will take three years to complete

Burns Lake Bruins goalie Ryley Eakin stops a shot at a hockey tournament in Burns Lake on Oct. 27, 2012. Burns Lake hosted a Bantam Midget Girls Hockey Tournament over the weekend. See page 15 for results. This weekend coming up will see the boys midget tournament here in Burns Lake.

More on page 5...

More on page 7...Walter Strong photo

BIG SAVES AT WEEKEND TOURNEY

COMMUNITY OWNED & OPERATED441 Hwy 16, Burns Lake

www.beacontheatre.ca 250-692-3334

www.beacontheatre.ca

ADMISSION (prices include HST): 2D Movies 3D MoviesAdults (19+) $9.00 $12.00Students (13-18) $7.00 $10.00Seniors (65+) $7.00 $10.00Children (3-12) $6.00 $9.00

“REEL DEAL WEDNESDAY” - ALL SEATS $6*

ALL MATINEE SEATS $6* (*+$3 surcharge all 3D movies)

REMINDER: CASH ONLY! SORRY!Schedule subject to change. Check our website, marquee

or phone line for up-to-date information.Daily updates: www.Facebook.com/beacontheatrebl

Doors open 1/2 hour before showtime.“Reel Deal

Wednesday”all seats $6*

Wed. Oct. 31 - 9:00PM& Thurs. Nov. 1 - 9:00PM

Wed. Oct. 31 - 6:30PM& Thurs. Nov. 1 - 6:30PM

Fri. Nov. 2 - 6:30PM & 9:00PM, Sat. Nov. 3 - Thurs. Nov. 8 - 7:00PM, Mon. Nov. 5: CLOSED

+ Extra Show Wed. Nov. 7 - 9:15PM

Pitch Perfect

Rated PG

“Reel Deal Wednesday”all seats $6*

End Of Watch Taken 2

Rated 18A Rated 14A

2 www.ldnews.net Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Lakes District News

“‘WET’ CAMPS, CAMPS WERE ALCOHOL ARE PERMITTED, AND IDLE HANDS ARE THE TWO BIGGEST ISSUES WHEN IT COMES TO CAMP

PLANNING. WET CAMPS DON’T WORK. ...SEE STORY ON PAGE 10

EDITORIAL ............................................................ PAGE 4SPORTS .............................................................. PAGE 15ENTERTAINMENT .................................................. PAGE 16COFFEE CORNER....................................... PAGES 18 & 19CLASSIFIEDS ................................................PAGES 20-23

WWW.LDNEWS.NET

By now, you’ve probably heard about last week’s sit-in at the Provincial Legislature in Victoria, calling for a halt to oil tanker traffi c along B.C.’s coastline.

Everyone has a right to speak their mind, and we respect the opinions of those who have reservations about the Northern Gateway Project. In fact, we encourage the people of British Columbia to express their opinions — because that’s the best way to have an open, honest dialogue, and separate Gateway fact from fi ction.

In the spirit of honesty, I’d like to share some of my thoughts on last week’s protest. It seems a great many people believe Gateway will introduce oil tanker traffi c to B.C.’s coastline for the fi rst time. This is simply not true. Oil tankers have docked at Kitimat for a quarter-century, and refi neries have been part of Vancouver’s port communities since the 1930s. In fact the fi rst imports of petroleum to Vancouver date back to 1915. As well, after reviewing Gateway’s marine safety program, an

independent study has declared it as safe with measures that exceed national and international regulatory requirements.

I’m from Prince George. Thankfully, we no longer have a one-industry economy here in B.C.’s North, but I’m sure many of us remember those uncertain days in the job market. Establishing the Gateway terminal at Kitimat, and linking Canada’s energy supply to the Pacifi c Rim, would continue the diversifi cation of our region’s economy. That means job security and prosperity. It means a better future for B.C.’s North.

Janet HolderExecutive Vice PresidentWestern AccessEnbridge Inc.

Hearing from all sides

GATEWAYperspectives

It’s more than a pipeline. It’s a path to a stronger economy.Join the conversation at northerngateway.ca

©2012 Northern Gateway Pipelines Inc.


Ad

#EN

014-

10/1

2E –

4.3

125

x 8

It’s more than a pipeline. It’s a path to delivering energy safely.Join the conversation at northerngateway.ca


EN9033_Enbridge_Janet_ad_4.3125x8 #7.indd 1 25/10/12 4:10 PM

HOURSALE1

ANNUAL

THIS SATURDAY, NOV 3RD

NOON - 1 PM 50-80% OFF SELECTED ITEMS

STORE WIDE

3459 9TH ST HOUSTON250-845-2004

MARTINA PERRY

The earth on the north coast was moving on Saturday night as a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck 139 km south of Masset.

“We’re going around and checking now, waiting to see if there was any damage. I do know that it felt like there was a train going through, it was enough for me to move away from the windows,” Queen Charlotte mayor Carol Kulesha said.

The earthquake oc-curred at 8:04 p.m. at the epicenter on Oct. 27.

Although the earth-quake happened 202 km away from Prince Rupert, many felt or noticed signs of it. The quake was felt as far away as Chetwynd through the Pine Pass and down along Hwy. 16 communities includ-ing Smithers and Burns Lake.

The earthquake hap-pened 17.5 kilome-tres below the surface. There is now a tsunami warning in effect for the coastal areas of British Columbia and Alaska. However the chances of Prince Rupert flood-ing from tsunami waves are unlikely consider-ing the city’s harbour is surrounded by islands.

The US Geological Survey (USGS) has confirmed a 5.8 mag-nitude aftershock hap-pened ten minutes after the initial quake, and says aftershocks could last for months.

A 6.3 magnitude af-tershock occurred at 11:54 a.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 159 kilome-tres south-southwest of Masset.

Several aftershocks have occurred since last night’s 7.7 magnitude earthquake, however until this morning, af-tershocks had been giv-en a 5.1 seismic rating or less.

At 12:09 p.m. a 5.5 magnitude aftershock was reported.

“I [haven’t been feel-ing aftershocks] but I’ve heard that others did,” said Carol Kulesha, Mayor of Queen Char-lotte City. Kulesha has been keeping in contact with people from all over the islands since yesterday evening.

According to Nation-al Resources Canada, the Oct. 27 earthquake was the second largest in Canadian history, behind 1949’s 8.1 mag-nitude earthquake that also happened offshore of Haida Gwaii. The

third largest Canadian earthquake occurred in 1970, hitting south of Haida Gwaii with a magnitude of 7.4.

Fortunately no inju-ries or deaths occur-ring during last night’s earthquake have been reported.

“No one has required the ambulance. I’ve asked people to report back to me if the situ-ation changed, and so far I’ve heard nothing,” Kulesha said, adding, “We missed the bullet. We’re very, very fortu-nate. We’re taking it as a good opportunity to practice for something

Saturday’s earthquake felt in Burns LakeU.S. geological survey says after shocks could last for another month as tectonic plates settle

more severe.”Additionally, there

haven’t been reports of any significant damage.

“As far as I’ve been able to determine there’s no major dam-

age. People have lost things off of their shelves and I think some of the stores might have a bit of a clean up to do, but there’s no structural damage that has been

reported,” Kulesha said.A representative

from the US Geologi-cal Survey (USGS) told the /Black Pressaftershocks could last for months.

Daylight Savings Time Ends...Don’t forget on

Saturday night you have to set your clocks

back one hour!

WALTER STRONG

Albert Gerow was re-elected as chief of the Burns Lake Band for a second two year term on Oct. 29, 2012. Ge-row received 46 votes, while Ryan Tibbets re-ceived 33. Dan George was elected council-lor with 46 votes while Ron Charlie tied with

Wesley Sam at 36 votes each. Ron Charlie won the draw to break the tie and is the second band councillor with George. Cecilia Sam was also defeated with 35 votes.

Gerow’s previous mandate included the difficult times following the destruction of the Babine Forest Products mill on Jan. 20, 2012 as well as the uncertain negotiations leading up to the announcement that Hampton Affili-ates would rebuild the mill on the condition that enough wood fibre would be available to justify the extra cost be-yond what is covered by insurance.

Steve Zika, CEO Hampton Affiliates, credited Gerow with an influential visit to a board meeting in Or-egon where Gerow’s presentation asking the board not to impose a ‘second tragedy’ on Burns Lake by not re-building the mill helped sway their decision to announce their intent to rebuild.

Gerow is now in-volved in the current

negotiations for a new community forest li-cense offered by the province as part of a timber supply assurance offered to Hampton last month. There will be a Dec. 3 meeting of the board of Hampton Af-filiates were the final decision for or against the mill rebuild will be made.

“We’re looking at a new community forest license that would be joint with the village [of Burns Lake] and re-gional districts B and E,” said Gerow. “We’re very optimistic that well have everything in place for the Hampton board meeting.”

When asked if the new community forest would be committed to the new mill as part of a timber supply agree-ment with Hampton, Gerow said that it would not be. “The members of the new board that’s forming are very com-mitted to the mill re-build,” said Gerow, “but the license can’t say that as it would conflict with the U.S. softwood trade agreement.”

Gerow has been in-volved in other construc-tion projects in Burns Lake. The demolition of the old Rainbow Motel on the west side of town was done so that a new 40 room motel could be built. “We’re very close finalizing things with our funding partners,” said Gerow. “We were hoping to start this fall, but we’ll have to plan for a spring launch.”

The Burns Lake Band was also able to nego-tiate a service agree-ment with the Village of Burns Lake under Ge-row’s watch and gained an occupancy permit for the Gathering Place. “We can now conduct meetings, rent out the hall for annual general assemblies, weddings and training courses,” Gerow said. The band is working to further develop the Gathering Place with the addition of a commercial kitch-en, which should be complete by the end of March, 2013.

Gerow wanted to make it clear that a lot of this economic and social activity was made

collaboratively with the Village of Burns Lake, the Region District of Bulkley Nechako and School District 91.

Gerow’s past term also saw the reopening of the Little Angels day-care facility. “We’re at full capacity for infants and toddlers and near full capacity for four to five year olds,” said Ge-row.

Lakes District News Wednesday, October 31, 2012 www.ldnews.net 3

Imagine the possibilities!

• T h e H a z e l t o n s • S m i t h e r s • H o u s t o n & D i s t r i c t • L a k e s D i s t r i c t •

2012 Fall Term Deposit Special on NOWContact your local branch for details

www.bvcu.com

See our new website: www.burnslakefl owers.ca

416 Government Street, Burns Lake 250-692-2395 Toll Free 1-877-692-2395NEW HOURS: Open Monday thru Friday: 10 am - 5 pm • Saturday: 10 am - 3 pm

New Kitchen CornerStop by and see our new unique line of

kitchenware We have more than just fl owers!

We create stunning fl ower arrangements for any occasion.

Guaranteed freshness. Give us a call - we deliver!

BURNS LAKE AUTOMOTIVE& INDUSTRIAL SUPPLY

WITH TWO LOCATIONS TO SERVE YOU 98 Francois Lake Drive, Burns Lake 250-692-7565

Hwy 16, Fraser Lake 250-699-6990

Let our helpful staff show you the products that will help

protect you and your vehiclethis winter.

WIPER BLADE CLEAR-OUT!

We have all the products you’ll need to keep warm and dry this season!!

Our Fall/Winter Jackets are in Stock!

We Have Boots for Every

Conditi on!

Extension Cords & BlockHeater Cords ON SALE!

is Breathable, Comfortable,and All Natural!

Made from Merino Wool.

Red Ram Thermal

Underwear

Gordon Hayward, CMS CLU EPC

Catherine Stovel, CMS CLU EPC

Insurance Planning

InvestmentsEstate

ProtectionMortgage Insurance

FinancialPlanning Centre

Toll Free: 1-800-773-3233Email: [email protected]

HM Assoc. Financial Planning Centre

Representing:

• Benefi ts North Group• Empire Life• Great West Life• Industrial Alliance• Manulife/Maritime• Pacifi c Blue Cross• Standard Investments• SunLife Financial• Transamerica Invests.• WealthLINK Financial Services

a member of the KHS Group

Gerow elected for second term

Strong leadership to continue into active new term

CHIEF ALBERT GEROW

NEW GOLD PROJECT

Walter Strong photo

Burns Lake residents attended a New Gold Blackwater project event at the Burns Lake and District Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 24, 2012. New Gold was in town to host an information session regarding a proposed gold mine project east of the Nechako Reservoir. The completion of a economic feasibility study is scheduled for the end of 2013, and if it’s positive, mine construction could start within two years. There is a Blackwater project office in Vanderhoof, B.C. Current job opportunities can be seen at: www.newgold.com/blackwater

‘The Navigable Water’s Protection Act is one of Canada’s oldest pieces of legislation, dating from 1882 at a time when our water-ways were Canada’s primary transportation routes.’

That’s how the government of Canada de-scribes the act that it wants to replace in order to cut down on red tape and facilitate devel-opment and prosperity for us all.

Canadians love to struggle with the idea of what makes us unique. I can’t think of any-thing much more historically Canadian then navigating the waterways of this country by canoe. That’s what the act was originally proposed to protect: free, unimpeded travel by canoe.

According to the federal government, we’re at a crossroads. There is too much legislated protection for rivers and streams. Transport Canada cites Lake Wabamum, an ‘oval shape’ lake near Edmonton, as a prime example of how this crazy canoe act impedes our future and requires legislative action.

Transport Canada was obliged to process ‘roughly’ 80 applications over three years by cottagers who wanted to build docks on this oval lake.

But the lake is shaped like an oval. Get it? Obviously, navigation can’t be impeded by docks on the shore of an oval lake, so why bother with all these ‘pointless’ assessments.

Clearly, if we can just point to the geo-metrical shape of a body of water or river and assay its navigational complexities, then there’s really no need for this kind of protec-tion at all. How did that escape us all these years? The federal government concluded that only two rivers (the Skeena River and the Peace River) in Northern British Colum-

bia deserved protection under the new navi-gation act.

The Muskeg River in Northern Alberta doesn’t lend itself to a tidy analysis. Not only is it not shaped like an oval, but Shell Canada wants to mine a long section of it. There’s tar in those sandy banks of the Muskeg and the last thing that Canada needs is a canoe stand-ing between us and the extraction of those sandy hydrocarbons.

Maybe we need more canoes on the banks of the Muskeg River, not more dump trucks bigger than a house. Or, it might be in Can-ada’s best interest to have more dump trucks and fewer canoes, but how about an open de-bate about it.

There’s been no federal debate about this change. It was buried deep in a giant budget bill that wraps it and other changes together in one massive pill that we are, more or less, forced to swallow.

Some Canadian voters like the idea of pro-tecting unimpeded travel by boat on our wa-terways.

Critics might say, but that’s just an idea. How important is travel by canoe or small boat these days anyway?

The practical response would be that it’s plenty important to large numbers of First Nations that rely on waterways to draw a livelihood from the land. It matters to ev-eryone who enjoys and values our rivers and lakes for recreation and quality of life.

Most importantly, some ideas just matter on their own. We don’t have to be exclusive-ly guided by the value of a dollar. We can be governed by the value of ideals. But only if we’re given the choice. And no debate is no choice at all.

Last Week’s

Question:

Do you plan on using the arena this

winter?

58% No 42% Yes

Cast your vote this

Week:Do you have

concerns with the federally protected lakes and

waterways proposed in the bill

under debate in Ottawa?

To vote log on to www.ldnews.net


Is there a debate in the house?Walter Strong

Distributed every Wednesday in the Lakes District

23-3rd Avenue, Box 309, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 • Telephone 250.692.7526 • Fax 250.692.3685 email: [email protected] OR [email protected]

www.ldnews.netSUBSCRIPTIONS: Local $42.67 (Seniors $33.06) • Outside local area $57.59 • Outside Canada $153.17 ~ HST included

Reproduction of contents either in part or in whole are not permitted without prior consent. Copyright Canada No. 22 Serial No. 132934 Publications Mail Registration No. 08675. PAP Registration No. 08675.

Your community newspaper

LAKES DISTRICT

NEWS

BC Press Council - Lakes District News is a member of the British Columbia Press Council, a self-regulatory body governing the province’s newspaper industry. The council considers complaints from the public about the conduct of member newspapers. Directors oversee the mediation of complaints, with input from both the newspaper and the complaint holder. If talking with the editor or publisher does not resolve your complaint about coverage or story treatment, you may contact the B.C. Press Council. Your written concern, with documentation, should be sent within 45 days to B.C. Press Council, 201 Selby St., Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 2R2. For information, phone 888-687-2213 or go to www.bcpresscouncil.org

PubliSher/advertiSing: laura blackWell

editor: Walter Strong

legiSlative rePorter black PreSS: tom Fletcher

oFFice manager: kim PiPer

Production manager: annamarie douglaS

CMCAAUDITED

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund (CPF) for our publishing activities.

Little new in B.C. Liberal renewaltom Fletcher

B.C. Liberal delegates gathered for their convention on the weekend at the Chateau Whistler, the same luxury hotel where Gor-don Campbell fired up the troops in 2008.

Back then the advertising slogan was “Keep BC Strong.” Unveiled at Premier Christy Clark’s pre-election pep rally: “To-gether. Building BC.”

This slight change hints at the big differ-ence. Campbell led a front-running party to a third straight majority, while Clark is a

struggling underdog pleading for unity to turn back an NDP tsunami.Hence “Free Enterprise Friday,” a discussion open to non-party

members. Clark began with an upbeat speech urging party members to “reach out our arms, open the tent and be as big as we can possibly be.”

So did they? Dashing between three concurrent sessions, I missed a fair amount of it, but there were some provocative suggestions to appeal to those inclined to support the resurgent B.C. Conservatives.

An accountant spoke to a packed room about the growing unfunded liability of public sector pensions, most of which are still of the “de-fined benefit” variety. Based on bond interest rates that have since sunk to all-time lows, these government-guaranteed pensions are now a free ride for those lucky enough to have them, funded by the taxes of pri-vate sector workers who in many cases have no pension plan at all.

There was talk of passing a law that all new public sector hires be restricted to a “defined contribution” plan where the employee and employer contribute equally and the pension is based on what those contributions yield. This would provoke the mother of all confronta-tions with the B.C. Federation of Labour, but there was no evidence yet that this is going beyond the talking stage.

The resolutions continued the theme of confronting the labour movement, ritual combat that seems to be an inescapable part of B.C. elections.

Delegates passed two motions, one calling for public sector unions to disclose what they spend on salaries, political activities and lob-bying, and another advocating a ban on unions spending compulsory dues on political campaigns.

This is a pet project of Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad, whose constituency sponsored both motions. Rustad presented a private member’s bill last year to require detailed disclosure, but it was left to die on the order paper.

Like all the policy resolutions debated at the convention, these ideas are not binding on the government. Again, there is no actual change on the horizon.

Delegates rejected another motion that would have made member-ship in the B.C. Teachers’ Federation optional. This would have been a declaration of war on B.C.’s most militant union, just as Clark and Education Minister Don McRae embark on a long-shot bid to end the decades of confrontation that have defined that relationship since teachers were relegated to the industrial union model of labour rela-tions.

There was a brief debate on a motion to scrap the carbon tax, spon-sored by northern members who see it as unfairly punitive on those who endure cold weather and long highway drives for themselves and the goods they need to have trucked in.

This was rejected too, after delegates were reminded that the tax now takes in more than $1 billion annually that is used to reduce business and personal income taxes. Scrapping it would amount to announcing across-the-board income tax hikes, contradicting 12 years of B.C. Lib-eral policy just before an election.

The good news for Clark is that the 2012 convention was a high-energy, well-attended event that contradicts the notion of a party in disarray.

The bad news is, nothing has really changed.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

[email protected]

opinion

...From page 1

recently like Babine Lake and the Babine River, as well as the Nechako River and its already threatened sturgeon popula-tion.

Chief Wilf Adam of the Lake Babine Nation said that they are still assessing the changes to the act, but he is concerned. “Babine Lake needs cleaning up from the past,” Chief Adam said. “Past logging practices and decommissioned mines need much attention.”

“[We] can’t just take the re-sources and leave the mess to the people who have to live there,” he said.

The Athabasca Chipewayan First Nation have been more vocal in their criticism of the proposed changes to the legis-lation. “This is unacceptable,” said Eriel Deranger, Commu-nication Coordinator for the Athabasca Chipewayan First Nation, “[the conservatives] have made a unilateral decision to remove protection of water-ways without adequate consul-tation with First Nations and communities that rely on river systems for navigation and cul-tural practices protected under treaty.”

Shell Canada is currently applying to the federal govern-ment for approval to mine 21

kilometres of the Muskeg River in bitumen sands development. “We’re fighting [the] Shell ap-plication right now. Part of the application is to mine out the Muskeg River which is no longer protected,” Deranger said. After realizing that the changes to the NWPA meant that the Muskeg River was no longer protected, “It became strik-ingly clear to us what the act was really about,” she said.

“It’s not that we won’t be able to fight applications without the act, it’s the fact that the tools for doing so are be-coming fewer and fewer as the years go by,” she said. “Under the conservative government a lot of the environmental tools that we’ve used in the past are gone.”

The government’s position is that the act was meant to deal with navigation and not envi-ronment, and this new act is needed to ‘cut through the red tape’ of an act that has come to apply to ‘all waters in Canada that can float a canoe including

some brooks and streams that are only full for a few weeks during the spring runoff and other waters that are not nor-mally navigated.’

But according to Deranger, “Many of these smaller rivers

and streams are still used by band members as nav iga t i on points and entry points into parts of t r ad i t iona l t e r r i t o r i e s that other-wise would be much more dif-ficult to ac-cess.”

“We’re definitely not the only ones affected,” she said. “Many First Nations and rural communities utilize smaller rivers and streams that are no longer listed on the waters protection act. They use them for navigation into their com-munities or to access fishing, hunting and trapping grounds. We’re not unique.”

Jessica Clogg, Executive Director and Senior Counsel for West Coast Environmen-tal Law described the bill as a “wolf in sheep’s clothing that will have major implications

for the environment and human health.”

“Under the [proposed chang-es], the Skeena River would be the only body of water in Northwest BC that would have some level of protection under the act,” said Tadzio Richards of Rivers Without Borders.

While federal environmen-tal assessment acts remain in place the problem, according to Richards, is that the previous omnibus bill already weakened those protection mechanisms. “They’ve weakened fish and fish habitat protection in the Fisheries Act, and greatly erod-ed the environmental assess-ment process,” said Richards.

Large industrial projects require federal as well as pro-vincial environmental approv-al. By replacing the inclusive NWPA with the slimmed down WPA, “the [federal] require-ment for a project to describe waterways affected by the proj-ect has been removed.”

“Essentially the federal gov-ernment has off loaded much of its responsibility to the prov-inces,” says Richards. “That means the federal government has removed key protections for the lakes, rivers and fish in Northwest B.C., at the same time as they’ve made it easier for large scale industrial de-velopments to go ahead.”


“BABINE LAKE NEEDS CLEANING UP FROM

THE PAST. WE CAN’T JUST TAKE

THE RESOURCES AND LEAVE THE MESS TO

THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO LIVE THERE.

13797 Stearns Subdivision Road, Burns Lake

250 692-4300(next to the old “Coffee Cup”) 15 km East of town

Take a trip down “Memory Lane” at

HOMESIDE ANTIQUES

FALL HOURS:Open Wed.-Sun. 10am to 5pm

After hours call Kelli at 250-692-2310

Check out our website: homesideantiques.com

Beehive Gothic Clock1875 Era

The Comfort ZoneFlying Dutchman Service

101-1st Avenue, Burns Lake 250-692-3337

We servicewhat we

sell!!

Daylight Savings Time Ends...Don’t forget on

Saturday night you have to set your

clocks backone hour!

One less piece of protection


Burns Lake Curling Club

Curling will be starting soon!

We Will Rock You!

Play a great Canadian game, and be part of a successful and fun

Burns Lake club.For more information, call: Kevin White: 250-692-3294 Men’s League: Gerald Eckland (250-692-4167) Ladies’ League: Gabriela Hamp (250-692-3698) or Sharon Kinnaird (250-692-2336) Mixed League: Sandra or John Barth (250-692-3371)

New curlers are welcome

“Operation Christmas Child” is part of the “Samaritan’s Purse” worldwide ministry.

Boxes & Brochures available at The Loonie Bin, The Dollar Store,

The Real Canadian Wholesale Club

& The Bargain Store

For info call Area Coordinator John Neufeld 250-692-7949.

FILL A SHOE BOX FOR A NEEDY CHILD.

Advertising partially sponsored by LD News

Drop off shoe boxes at Greyhound Depot

November 12th to 24th

The Burns Lake Native Development Corporation wanted to honour the late Robert Luggi Jr. and

late Carl Charlie with two Memorial Bursaries and Education funds available to the children of both

Robert and Carl.

BLNDC sought � nancial contributions to these Bursaries and Education Funds from the

community, businesses and through fundraising efforts.

Thank you to the generous contribution of the following:

• Burns Lake Native Development Corporation• Burns Lake Native Logging Ltd.• All Nations Trust Company (ANTCO)• ANTCO Board Members and Nuu-chah-nulth • Economic Development Corporation• KNV Chartered Accountants• College of New Caledonia Staff• RHN Schmitz deGrace Inc• Babine Forest Products• Wet’suwet’en First Nation• Tech North• Paci� c Trail Pipeline

In addition, thank you to all those who purchased tickets for both fundraising events:

Silent Auction at the BLNDC National Aboriginal Day Celebration

Bernice Nicholas – “Following the Journey” Painting for the Toonie

Raf� e

A heartfelt thank you!

Advertising partially sponosred by Lakes District News

CONTRIBUTED

A RCMP officer is resting at home fol-lowing a run in with a moose. The officer was parked roadside near the corner of 17 Avenue and Juniper Street in Prince George typing a report from a previous file when he observed two moose crossing the intersection. The officer put his vehicle in gear and attempted to intercept a vehicle traveling towards the animals.

As the police vehicle neared the animals, the bull moose attacked the police car injuring the officer and causing damage to the car. The moose first broke the front grill and bumper and then stepped on to the vehicle causing dents to the hood, roof and breaking the wind-shield. Now on the roof, the moose contin-ued to stomp and kick. One of the animal's hoofs slid off the roof breaking the driver's side window, striking the officer in the pro-cess. The moose con-tinued down the back of the vehicle onto the trunk and eventually off the vehicle.

Both the culprit and accomplice departed the area on hoof.

The officer suf-fered bruising on his left shoulder but did

not required medical attention. The Prince George RCMP would like to use this incident

as a reminder to the public to keep a safe distance from wild ani-mals. Although they

are likely more scared of people than we are of them, we believe our of-ficer would disagree

Moose attacks police car

Submitted photo

Prince George RCMP vehicle attacked by moose.

BROCHEZ WINS SCHOLARSHIPThe 2012 University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC) scholar recipient, Nicholas Brochez, being congratulated by principal Mike Skinner. Based on the UNBC criteria, Brochez received this honour out of all of last year’s Lakes District Secondary School Grade 11 students. As part of this award, Brochez will be receiving a full four year free tuition at UNBC.

Submitted photo

...From page 1

about a year, after which they will make a formal application for environ-mental reviews with the federal and provincial governments.

Bruce Wells, Direc-tor of Project Planning and Execution, and se-nior TransCanada en-gineers were on hand to answer questions as part of a public consul-tation process. Wells is proud of TransCanada’s record with pipeline construction. He de-scribed pipeline work that he was involved with South America where his team worked to higher standards than they were asked to ob-serve. “We saved all the topsoil and replaced it when we were fin-ished,” Wells explained. “Government regula-tions didn’t require us to do that, but we don’t abandon our good prac-tises to save a buck.”

Earlier in the day Wells made a presen-tation to the board of the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako where he answered questions put to him by regional directors and mayors of the region. Ralph Roy, Director of

electoral area D (Fraser Lake Rural) asked how TransCanada would deal with land owners who holdout against pipeline land use ease-ments. Wells said that there is an arbitration process in place for such conflicts, but Trans-Canada has not recently had to go to arbitration on any of its pipelines. “We’re diligent to re-solve things before they go to arbitration,” Wells said. “We have a good track record of doing that and all three of our recent pipelines were completed without a need for arbitration. We were able to reach agreements with all af-fected landowners.”

“When possible, our preference is to meet with people in person if they have concerns with the project. We’ve had face to face conver-sations with over 400 affected landowners, and our [project] mail-ing list includes over 600 landowners,” said Wells.

Houston Mayor Bill Homberg asked how revenues would be shared among regions and municipalities that the pipeline might travel through. “We

expect to pay over $17 million every year in property tax payments across Northern B.C.,” Wells said. This is the primary revenue stream directly to the region.

Rob Newell, Direc-tor of Area G (Houston rural) asked about the July 20, 2011 rupture of a TransCanada pipeline in Wyoming. “That was a state of the art

pipeline,” Newell said. “How have you dealt with reliability issues since then?”

“We found that there was a mechanical ex-planation,” Wells re-sponded. “Something happened between the time we put it in the ground and full opera-tion.”

The U.S. Pipelines and Hazardous Materi-

als Safety Administra-tion (PHMSA) website lists the rupture of the pipeline as due to ‘ma-terial, equipment or weld’ failure. The ex-plosion did not result in any human injury, but PHMSA reported $6.7 million dollars in prop-erty damages.

In a statement is-sued by TransCanada to the CBC earlier in


Community Stakeholder Update

and ConsultationJoin us for a brief update on NKDFS, and to tell us how we’re doing and help us chart our direction for the future.SoUthSide: date: tuesday, November 6th time: 1:30pm to 3:30pm Place: Southside health & Wellness Centre, 27920 Wellness Way, Grassy PlainsBUrNS Lake:date: Wednesday, November 7th time: 1:30pm to 3:30pmPlace: royal Canadian Legion, 158 Francois Lake drive, Burns Lake

All welcome. Refreshments provided.To reach us, call toll free: 1-877-478-3863, email [email protected]

Or visit us online at www.nkdf.org

Lakeview Mall, Burns LakeSan-Bar

San Bar is pleased to announce that

Linda Blackwell will be doing

Gift Baskets for us this holiday season.

We carry a wide variety of gourmet cheese & meats.

Our baskets will also include holiday chocolates, nuts, crackers and beverages.

Tell us what you want and we will custom

design a basket to suit your needs.

Gourmet baskets make great gifts for family,

loved ones or co-workers.

Call Linda Blackwell 250-692-3728 or

San Bar 250-692-7538 for information on gift baskets.

We appreciate your

business and aim

to please.

Total Physiotherapy is pleased to introduce

Jared Lalik to our

Burns Lake Physiotherapy

Clinic.Jared has been

working with Mike in Houston and is now

offering appointments in Burns Lake.

The Physiotherapy Clinic is located at 744 Center Street, under the doctor’s office and accessed around the other side of the building.

The Clinic is open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.

Please call 250 845 5953 to make an appointment to see

Jared in Burns Lake.

Pipeline could be underway by 2015the week the company indicated that the me-chanical failure identi-fied at the rupture point was not found at any other point along the pipeline after a com-plete re-inspection of the entire line. Accord-ing to the TransCanada document, PHMSA carried out a review of TransCanada’s own in-spection work and the pipeline was deemed safe to return to service within the same month.

Smithers Mayor Tay-lor Bachrach continued with the questioning Newell had started. He asked how Trans-Canada would reply

to Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) concerns that the com-pany was not always in compliance with NEB regulations.

Wells said that al-though there were some issues regarding com-pliance, the NEB report itself acknowledged that the compliance is-sues were not regard-ing immediate risks to public safety, and that many of the issues identified were already well under way to being corrected at the time of the report. “We make mistakes occasionally,” he said, “but we learn from them.”

A conceptual map of the proposed TransCanada Coastal GasLink Pipeline project. The project is still in it’s preliminary field research stage, but TransCanada hopes to have it’s application in order by the end of 2013. TransCanada was in Burns Lake to hold public consultation with interested residents.

Submitted illustration


CorrectionNotice

Issued October 24, 2012

The following error appears in our October 31, 2012 flyer.

Page #5 Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010 Edition sku #870581

is $348.00, not $248.00 as advertised.

We sincerely regret any inconvenience we may

have caused you.

Make a difference in a young person’s lifeSmithers Community Services Association is seeking to add supportive families to ourCORR HOMES PROGRAM

About our program…CORR Homes is a specialized foster care program for young offenders as an alternative to incarceration and operates in communities throughout Northern BC. CORR Homes offer a caring, stable home environment where youth reside for up to 6 months. CORR Home families are financially compensated to provide this service. Our program provides the CORR Home families with access to training, 24-hour on-call

support, and an experienced Youth Resource Worker who will work directly with families and the youth who reside with them.

Who we are looking for…Interested people who have had experience working with and supporting youth at work or socially (ie; coaching, mentoring, big brothers/sisters etc.) or who have raised their own children through their teen years.For more information about how to become a CORR Home, please visit our website www.scsa.ca/programs/corr-homes or contact Jo-Anne Nugent at (250) 847-9515 or toll free at 1-888-355-6222.

Check us out online...www.ldnews.net

Contributed

“British Columbia has a ready source of great jobs and careers in technology. Our education programs need to keep up with that demand.

John Leech, Executive Director of the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of B.C., explains that, “Ev-ery system we rely on – water, roads and transportation, telecommunications and Internet, hydro and natural gas, en-vironment, health, forestry, and many more – utilizes engineering and applied science technology professionals work-ing in the background. BC’s telecom and IT, animation and many other sec-tors produce new careers every month.”

ASTTBC has more than 10,000 members currently working in thou-sands of careers available to graduates

of two-year diploma programs avail-able at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and other B.C. colleges and institutes.

“Our members enjoy rewarding, well-paid and often recession-proof ca-reers in public service and the private sector alike,” Leech states.

“For huge numbers of young men and women, technology is the answer. In B.C. and across Canada, technology permeates every workplace and job. We need to get capable students involved and engaged in applied sciences and head off workforce shortages by build-ing a B.C. ‘Science and Technology Culture’.”

Leech calls on government for re-newed efforts to build student skills and confidence in math and science programming.

“We especially need to interest young students in science and how things work,” Leech says. “Young stu-dents use technology every day – smart phones, iPads and computers. They play video games, even build robots.”

Leech lauds the recent “Year of Sci-ence” program that encouraged stu-dents toward so-called “STEM” sub-jects – science, technology, engineering and math. Citing the recent $6 million B.C. campaign to encourage careers in trades, Leech urges a similar effort to build awareness of engineering tech-nology education and careers.

BC Technology Industries Asso-ciation employers like Telus and BC Hydro and many smaller technology-rich companies say the single most important position they now struggle to fill is Specialty Technician/Tech-nologist. Even the Canadian Council of Chief Executives expressed concern that only 37 per cent of 16- to 18-year-olds were interested in taking even one post-secondary course in sciences, ac-cording to a recent Angus Reid survey.

Leech says the opportunities for those seeking work in the technology field are considerable given a wave of retirements of present-generation B.C. technology professionals that is already underway.

“Half of our membership is now mid-dle-aged at 45-plus, and 22 per cent are over age 55,” he says.

“Every region of B.C. shows grow-ing demand,” Leech concludes. “New two-year technology diploma programs are still needed in the north and central B.C. However, young people are invest-ing to travel so they can earn the neces-sary tech qualifications.”

It would appear their investment is a smart move, as it will result in a broad range of career opportunities. Industries in all regions of B.C. support programs for local trainees to fill engineering and applied science technologist, techni-cian and technical specialist positions.

Tech career opportunities booming in B.C.

John Leech

WALTER STRONG

Chief Albert Gerow is lead-ing the Burns Lake Band in the possible development of a work-camp trailer construction facility in Burns Lake. The fa-cility would be a complex of administrative offices and very large warehouse allowing for the year-round indoor con-struction of modular buildings.

The modular buildings would be built according to floor plans designed to suit the needs of the booming camp construction market that goes along with the increased

resource and pipeline work slated for Northern B.C. and elsewhere.

“There’s a huge demand for camps in North America and internationally,” said Gerow. “If you were to order a camp today, it would be two years before you could receive ship-ment of it.”

The Burns Lake Band has hired the Vancouver consult-ing firm MNP to complete a feasibility study, which Gerow expects will be complete by the end of January, 2012. The band has already met with sev-eral companies that purchase modular camp units like this and have found a lot of interest for their floorplans.

“We’ve talked to Shell Cana-da, Apache Canada, Enbridge, New Gold and others,” said Gerow. “They’ve all come back interested, and Apache

has a keen interest internation-ally.”

It would take 12 to 18 months to complete construc-tion of the facility, and the facility itself would create ap-proximately 100 direct and in-direct jobs in Burns Lake.

“We’d situate it on the south-side of the tracks beside the Babine Forest Products mill so that we’d have rail access to ship units internationally,” Gerow said. “We’d be mak-ing wood structured, insulated panels and we would by our wood from the mill.”

“Our desire it to assist the community with diversifying so that we’re not locked into one industry.”

The floorplans could be modified to meet the needs of First Nations housing as well as to provide residential modu-lar homes. Gerow hopes that a second phase of operation

might become available were they are able to provide camp management services.

Gerow said that there are no immediate stumbling blocks in the way other than the usual ones that face any new manu-facturing start up.

“Once we have a positive feasibility study, we’ll devel-op the detailed business plan, bring in the federal and pro-vincial governments and then get pre-orders from industry. Once we have pre-orders we’ll go to our financiers for fund-ing.”

Although big industry is the anticipated market for these manufactured homes, Gerow said that they won’t be look-ing to big industry for partner-ship. “We’re looking for local partners,” Gerow said. “Big industry would be customers, not partners.”


Burns Lake & District Chamber of Commerce

CHAMBER NEWS

For more information on any of the above events,please call Shelley at 250-692-3773

540 Highway 16 W, PO Box 339, Burns Lake • Phone: 250-692-3773www.burnslakechamber.com

NOVEMBER 1:Mineral Explorationand Mine DevelopmentJohn Chapman B.Sc., P. Eng., FCIM will be giving a presentation on Mineral Exploration and Mine Development in the Burns Lake Region at 6:00pm.

“The Burns Lake Region has signifi cant potential for discovery and development of mineral deposits – however, there is a rising tide of negative forces in British Columbia that is preventing or impairing the mining industry’s ability to construct and operate new mines.”

This presentation discusses the mineral resources in the Burns Lake Region and the opportunity for their development, as well as the related needs for (1) low cost reliable electric energy,(2) elimination of excessive and redundant environmental regulations and taxes,(3) commonsense on climate change, and(4) a push back against the groups that are strangling mine development.

Historically successful mine developments close to communities will be shown as benchmarks for future British Columbia mine development.

Calendar of Events for November & December...

CHAMBER NEWSCHAMBER NEWS540 Highway 16 W, PO Box 339, Burns Lake •

Heart of the Lakes District

�

The Burns Lake Chamber of Commerce is looking for volunteers to help with

organizing a Xmas parade and Light up festival, if you are interested in helping please contact Shelley at 250 692 3773.

Many hands make light work.

Home Based Business

Christmas FairSaturday,

December 1st

To book a table please contact Shelley or Trina at 250 692 3773.

Join our

Get immunized! InFLUenza vaccine is free for:• Adults 65 years and over • Healthy children aged 6-59 months

• Household contacts and caregivers of children 0-59 months of age• Adults and children with a chronic illness • Adults who are very obese (BMI greater or equal to 40)

• People working with live poultry • Household contacts of people at high risk for influenza• Pregnant women who will be in their 3 trimester during the influenza season

• People providing service in potential outbreak settings housing high risk persons• Health care workers • First responders • Corrections Officers • Aboriginal peoples

the northern way of caring

Influenza shots will be available throughout the flu season. Contact your health unit, 8-1-1 or www.northernhealth.ca for more clinic times.

Some physicians and pharmacists also provide free influenza vaccine for those eligible.

BURNS LAKEBurns Lake Health Unit - 741 Centre Street

(Closed 11:30am - 1:00pm)

DROP-INOctober 30th & November 1st

6:00pm - 8:00pm

APPOINTMENT ONLYOctober 29th 1:00pm - 3:30pmOct. 30th, Nov. 1st & 6th 9:00am - 3:30pmNovember 2nd 9:00am - 11:30am

for more information or to book an appt.

call 250-692-2460

Lakeview Mall - DROP-IN117 Highway 16 E

November 3rd 10:00am - 2:00pm

FRASER LAKEFraser Lake Health Unit

130 Chowsunket Street(Closed 11:30am - 1:00pm)

DROP-INOctober 26th, November 5th & 9th

8:45am - 4:00pm

for more informationcall 250-699-8960

Maria Zahndfrom

Certi fi ed Services provided by Maria...I ElectrolysisI Aromatherapy MassageI Swedish MassageI Hot Stone MassageI Refl exologyI Shiatsu Therapy

Other Services provided by Maria...I Hot Oil MassageI Skin Rejuvenati on MassageI Infrared Sauna

Services provided by Melody...I Deep Tissue or Relaxati on MassageI Personal Training/Individual or GroupI Fitness Instructor

welcomes Melody Saul

Offi ce located in the Medical Clinic BuildingContact Maria Zahnd at 250-692-9119

or Melody Saul at 250-698-7414(by appointment only)

Serenity Spa& Electrolysis

We have the lowest fuel prices in town!

Everyone welcome to purchase gas at our store.

819D Center Street, Burns Lake

250-692-3901Hours: Monday - Friday 6am - 11pm

Saturday: 8am - 11pm, Sunday 9am -9pmHolidays: 9am - 9pm

New gas tankwhich holds double the amount!

Convenience Storewith a range of everyday items

such as groceries, toiletries, pop, candy, tobacco products, and

newspapers.

PLUS

Construction facility considered for Burns LakeInitiative could

bring new industry to Burns Lake

Burns Lake got over 15 cms of snow over 24 hours starting early Sunday morning. Snow plows were out in full force, and the steep hills in town proved tricky if a driver wasn’t paying attention.

Walter Strong photo

IT’S WINTER


WASSERMAN + PARTNERS ADVERTISING ART: AF AE: KV DSGN: WH PROD: SH LASER %

AD SIZE: 8.8125" x 8" PRESS / STOCK: NewspaperBLEED: - RES FINISHED: 200 PPI DESIGN :

File: !EPE005_BLDN OTHER: - ARTWORK SCALE: 1 : 1Rev: Oct. 16, 2012 – 1:08 PM FINISHED: - RES ARTWORK: 200 PPI AE/PROD :

EPE005 FORMAT: InDesign CS5 NOTE : DELIVER: PDF-X1a TRAP AT OUTPUT STUDIO :

EPE-P20397.33BLACK7417

build process

Burns Lake District News

Come to the Return-It™ Drop-Off Event:

COLLEGE OF NEW CALEDONIA PARKING LOT545 Highway 16 WestDate Sunday, November 4, 2012Time 10 am – 3 pm

WANT TO RECYCLE YOUR UNWANTED ELECTRONICS IN BURNS LAKE?

WHAT’S ACCEPTED?

Even more electronic devices can be recycled free of charge at any Return-It Electronics™ Collection Site. Among the accepted consumer products are console gaming systems and accessories, e-readers, electronic books, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and calculators. For the full list, please visit return-it.ca/electronics/products

WHY IS THIS PROGRAM IMPORTANT? The Return-It Electronics™ recycling program provides

an environmentally sound recycling option for unwanted electronics. It ensures these items will not be landfi lled or illegally exported. You can drop off any of the acceptable products at designated Return-It Electronics™ Collection Sites without charge and be assured they will be recycled responsibly.

Walter Strong

Rod Booth, RCMP Chief Superintendent Northern Division was at the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako board meeting on Oct. 25, 2012. Booth has been on the job for a year as the commander of all policing opera-tions in Northern B.C., which includes every-thing north of 100 Mile House to the Yukon, east to Alberta and west to Haida Gwaii.

Booth described a police force spread out over 37 detachments with 800 RCMP consta-bles as well as 300 staff, and the challenges that face such a large and geographically spread out police service.

“The economy is the common denominator in terms of challenges that we are facing,” said Booth. “Not only in terms of street level activity but in terms of how we can manage the day to day operation of a huge operation in the north.”

Both unemployment and prosperity in a com-munity bring particular difficulties. Unemploy-ment and a depressed economy lead to easily recognizable social ills that require police re-sources.

“When things aren’t so good, it brings out all sorts of human weak-ness,” Booth said. “The end result of those hu-man weaknesses engage the police.”

Booth was making reference to the in-creased call to respond to incidents of violence across the region. Burns Lake RCMP detach-ment St. Sgt. Grant MacDonald had earlier this year reported a 200 per cent increase in do-mestic violence calls for service in the Burns Lake area. This kind of increase is not unique to Burns Lake.

The depressed econ-omy also brings with it a weak housing market meaning that officers

find it difficult to sell their homes in one de-tachment when they are moved to another.

“If it takes a person six months to sell their home in Kamloops, then they don’t arrive at their new post for six months,” Booth illus-trated. “It raises the is-sue of how we’re going to staff the vacant posi-tion in the meantime.”

The RCMP does not force senior officers to relocate to the north. While this means that every senior officer in the North wants to be here, it also presents the problem that fresh-ly minted officers are heavily relied upon to fill staff vacancies. This leads to the possibility of a young and inexpe-rienced police force.

“The only people that can be ordered to the north are fresh recruits,” Booth said. “It’s an in-vestment to get them up to speed as a seasoned

officer, but there’s en-thusiasm, energy, recent knowledge, technologi-cal skills and a lot of en-thusiasm. So it’s a good problem to have.”

The flipside to a down economy are the kind of problems faced by small communities that must deal with a sudden and large influx of temporary residents and camp workers.

“These are shadow populations of people living on couches and in basements. They create an increased demand on police resources.”

These shadow popu-lations drove most of the question and answer period that followed Booth’s presentation.

Vanderhoof Mayor Gary Thiessen wanted to know if there was any way for the compa-nies responsible for the proliferation of camp projects throughout the north could be held fi-nancially responsible

for increased need for policing that they bring.

Booth agreed that it would be a good idea to explore the issue, but he felt that it was just as important for the RCMP and local com-munities to be involved with camp planning be-fore the camps come to town.

‘Wet’ camps, camps were alcohol are per-

mitted, and idle hands are the two biggest is-sues when it comes to camp planning. “Wet camps don’t work,” Booth said. “We know that.”

As for down time, Booth said that we need to be asking project managers and planners what is built into camp life to account for down time. “Do the workers

have no days off so that they come in to camp to work and then go home with no opportunity for trouble?” asked Booth.

Mayor Thiessen was still concerned that dry, alcohol and drug free, camps aren’t enough.

“Even though they’re dry camps, the extra cash flow into the com-munity brings other un-desirables with it,” said

the Thiessen. “These companies have a social responsibility to take care of those things in the community.”

“I couldn’t agree with you more,” said Booth. “But we can’t do it alone, we have to part-ner the those involved.”

“It’s strength in num-bers,” Booth concluded. “We need allies to tack-le those problems.”

RCMP calls for allies across RDBNEight

hundred officers police the largest region in

B.C.

Walter Strong photo

Chief Supt. Rod Booth, Supt. Lesley Bain, S/Sgt. Don Murray and S/Sgt. Grant MacDonald attend the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako board meeting in Burns Lake on Oct. 25, 2012.


BestWorkplacesCanada

2012

Devon Canada is hiring at its Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage (SAGD) Thermal Heavy Oil facilities in northern Alberta.

Several positions are currently available, including:

Live in B.C. Work at Devon.

“ I have a huge family up here at Devon, and a growing family at home.”

- Matthew Tompkins, Devon employee

- Plant/Field Operators

- Chief Steam Engineers

- I&E and Mechanical Technicians

- DCS Lead/Technicians

- Maintenance Planners

- Maintenance Schedulers

- Foremen

- Water Specialists

Devon’s site is designed to be a home-away-from-home — providing you a private room with its own bathroom, microwave and fridge. As well, you’ll receive excellent meals prepared each day by Red Seal certified chefs, and have access to snacks 24/7, two-covered ice rinks, a world-class fitness facility, a 148 seat theatre room and a trophy fishing lake nearby.

We know you like to live in B.C. and we want to keep you there while you advance your career in Canada’s oil and gas industry. That’s why we provide weekly flights direct to site from Vancouver and Kelowna* and a monthly travel allowance to offset any additional transportation costs.

GET FACE-TO-FACE WITH DEVON RECRUITERS: Devon will have a booth at the B.C. Jobs Plan, Job Fairs in Prince George on November 6 at The Coast Inn of the North, 12p.m. - 7p.m., and in Terrace on November 16 at the SportsPlex, 12p.m. - 7p.m. The events are free of charge and no registration is required.

Join Devon. Jobs.dvn.com

Commitment Runs Deep

* Devon is currently trialing flights from Vancouver and Kelowna.

Future flight offerings will be based on employee demand. Direct-to-

site flights are also available from Lethbridge, Calgary and Edmonton.

dvn_burnslakedistrictnews.indd 1 12-10-26 1:52 PM


INSTANT PATRONAGE DAYS

The Vanderhoof Co-op and Districts thanks its members and customers for their support by offering instant cash off in all departments

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2 &SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2012

If you’re not a member, join now and enjoy the benefits!All Sales, Cash, Cheque, Visa or Mastercard, Debit Card, Agricard.

Members Only Sale

VANDERHOOF CO-OPco-op equity AND cASH BAcK

quAlity co-op lABel proDuctSpersonalized service

- your community builder

In stock merchandise onlyBulk Feed, Petroleum, Farm Chemical Bulk and Mini Bag Fertilizer, Tobacco

Products, Meat sides and special orders not included.

We HAVe A lArGe SelectioN oF SMAll AppliANceS.All small appliances have a 1 year over the counter replacement warranty.

Fall Hours: Monday - Sunday 6am to 9pmiNSiDe lANe Full SerVice

outSiDe lANe 24 Hour SMAll VeHicle cArDlocKClear and Dyed Gas, Clear and Dyed Diesel & Propane

We have a large selection of sandwiches, subs, pastries, cold drinks, Kool-aid slushies, specialty coffee, cappuccino, snacks and

automotive accessories.Come in and pick up your Co-op Coffee Card

Buy 5 cups of coffee and receive the 6th cup FREE.

HOUSEWARE DEPARTMENT 567-4406

Vanderhoof and Districts Co-op savings for the year ending December 31, 2011 was $14.6 million (7.7% of sales).At the April 23, 2012 Annual General meeting, members approved a patronage allocation of $8.7 million or 4.7% of purchases. For petroleum customers, this represents an average return of 5 cents a litre over the past three years.

HARDWARE FOODHARDWARE BUILDING MATERIALS

CARPET & ACCESSORIES

GAS BAR CONVENIENCE STORE

10%off 10%

off 10%off

10%off 10%

off 10%off

10%off 10%

off 10%off

HOUSEWARES

MAJOR APPLIANCES

LUBES AGRO(excluding bulk)

GAS BAR/C-STORE 567-4486

BULK PETROLEUM OFFICE 567-4488 OR 1-888-545-2667

Hours: Monday - Saturday 8am to 5pm

The Burns Lake Medical Clinic Society AGM 2012

The annual general meeting on

November 7, 2012 at CNC from 7:00 to 8:30 PM

Our Guest Speakers are Charlene Thomas and Sheilagh Wilson, recruiters from Northern Health

who will discussing community physician recruitment for Burns Lake.

Memberships for 2013 will be available at the AGM for $20.

Email: [email protected]. Box 7, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0

HOWARD BROTENHome: 250 692-4809Cell: 778 669-0088

✔ Quality Plumbing and Pipefi tting for Residential, Commercial and Industrial cliental

✔ Hot Water Radiant Heat Systems

✔ Industrial Maintenance

✔ And much more

BROMACKPlumbing and Mechanical

250 692-4809

TOWINGFor Sensible Prices See Us

For All YourMechanical Repairs

Snow Removal

HANSON’S SHOP13200 Bartlette Road, Burns Lake

250-692-3291

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

LEDA

Economic Development Update

LLLL

Lakes Economic Development Association (LEDA), Innovation Place586 Hwy 16, Box 808 Burns Lake, BC Ph: 250/692-3700 Fa: 250/692-3701 Email : [email protected] OR [email protected]

Lakes Economic Development Association’s Board of Directors and staff would like to congratulate Cindy Shelford on receiving her Certificate in Economic Development from the University of Waterloo.

Cindy completed her “thesis” on the apparent disconnect and imbalance between Northern Rural and Southern Urban communities. Through Cindy’s research process it was realized that approximately 70% of BC’s resources come from the North. As a result of these findings, Cindy has been engaging with other communities to increase awareness of the significant contributions that the North provides to the overall economy of BC.

South Burns Lake Trail Project CAF Update:

LEDA has been actively moving the project forward with ongoing stakeholder meetings, obtaining necessary permits, archaeological assessments and First Nations advisory, to review and evaluate the project to best utilize the area and trail quality.

LEDA is pleased to announce that Darwin Zimmer has been hired as the Project Supervisor for the South Burns Lake Trail Project. Darwin will be responsible for the hiring of all the crews, overseeing all components of the project and reporting to LEDA’s Board of Directors.

For information regarding this exciting community initiative, please contact Cindy Shelford, Economic Development Officer.

CongratulationsLakes Economic Development

Association (LEDA)

Lakes Economic Development Association (LEDA)Box 808, Burns Lake BC Ph: 250/692-3700 Email: [email protected] OR [email protected]

Economic Development NewsLEDA continues to focus efforts on Marketing Initiatives for Burns Lake and the Lakes District. Typically, individuals equate marketing with speci� c promotional tools, but in reality it is a much broader process. It traditionally starts with identifying wants and needs and developing products or services to meet those needs. Ultimately, if the product or service is a good match, both the business owner and consumer are happy.

But what if you are trying to sell an entire community .… could you use the same business approach? How would it be different?

LEDA will be looking at doing a “Marketing Effectiveness Assessment.” A way this helps is it looks at things like, how easy is it for potential visitors to � nd information about the community or area?

Burns Lake & the Lakes District is an attractive community and area, with an appealing mix of tourism products & activities of interest to the visitor market as well as existing businesses and potential opportunities. However, it is not usually an obvious tourist destination or business community choice to relocate to, we don’t always let everyone what we have and we tend to take it for granted. Burns Lake needs to make people aware of the appealing reasons to visit, and potentially relocate here. This is already an attractive community with many complementary strengths. By focusing on these strengths and by creating a well-connected environment we will continue to bene� t and promote a great place to live.

Burns Lake is receiving unprecedented media attention as we head into 2013 and we want to focus on the positive healthy potential we have here in the North.

ArenA expAnsion unveiledOn Oct. 23, the recommended option for arena expansion and upgrades was unveiled in Burns Lake. According to Bruce Carscadden of Carscadden Architect Inc., the plan offers best value for the available dollars. "Instead of rebuilding space that you already have here, we've tried to use what you have," he told residents gathered at the public display of proposed arena renovations. The $2.4 million dollar project also includes $250,000 to reinforce the domed roof on the curling arena, as well as a $200,000 upgrade to all electrical and sprinkler systems.

Walter Strong photo

ROTARY AUCTIONBurns Lake Rotary

Auction is November 14 & 15.

Watch for a copy of the guide in next

week’s edition of the Lakes District News!

Lakes District News Wednesday, October 31, 2012 www.ldnews.net 13NO

W A

T YO

UR B

C CH

EVRO

LET

DEAL

ERS.

Che

vrol

et.c

a 1-

800-

GM-D

RIVE

. Che

vrol

et is

a b

rand

of G

ener

al M

otor

s of

Can

ada.

*/†/

††Of

fers

app

ly to

the

purc

hase

of a

201

2 Si

lver

ado

1500

Cre

w C

ab (L

ight

Dut

y), 2

012

Cruz

e LS

(R7A

), 20

12 E

quin

ox L

S (R

7A),

equi

pped

as

desc

ribed

. Fre

ight

incl

uded

($1,

495)

. Lic

ense

, ins

uran

ce, r

egis

tratio

n, P

PSA,

adm

inis

tratio

n fe

es a

nd ta

xes

not i

nclu

ded.

Dea

lers

are

free

to s

et in

divi

dual

pric

es. L

imite

d tim

e of

fers

whi

ch m

ay n

ot b

e co

mbi

ned

with

oth

er o

ffers

, and

are

sub

ject

to c

hang

e w

ithou

t not

ice.

Offe

rs a

pply

to q

ualif

ied

reta

il cu

stom

ers

in th

e BC

Che

vrol

et D

eale

r Mar

ketin

g As

soci

atio

n ar

ea o

nly.

Lim

ited

quan

titie

s of

201

2 m

odel

s av

aila

ble

- Dea

ler t

rade

may

be

requ

ired.

GM

CL m

ay m

odify

, ext

end

or te

rmin

ate

this

offe

r in

who

le o

r in

part

at a

ny ti

me

with

out n

otic

e. C

ondi

tions

and

lim

itatio

ns a

pply.

See

Che

vrol

et d

eale

r for

det

ails

. †0

% p

urch

ase

finan

cing

offe

red

on a

ppro

ved

cred

it by

Ally

Cre

dit/T

D Au

to F

inan

cing

for 8

4 m

onth

s on

new

or d

emon

stra

tor 2

012

Chev

role

t Cru

ze. †

†2.9

9% p

urch

ase

finan

cing

for 8

4 m

onth

s on

201

2 Eq

uino

x LS

. Rat

es fr

om o

ther

lend

ers

will

var

y. Do

wn

paym

ent,

trade

and

/or s

ecur

ity d

epos

it m

ay b

e re

quire

d. M

onth

ly p

aym

ent a

nd c

ost o

f bor

row

ing

will

var

y de

pend

ing

on a

mou

nt b

orro

wed

and

dow

n pa

ymen

t/tra

de. E

xam

ple:

$10

,000

at

0%

/2.9

9% A

PR, t

he m

onth

ly p

aym

ent i

s $1

19/$

132

for 8

4/84

mon

ths.

Cos

t of b

orro

win

g is

$0/

$1,0

88, t

otal

obl

igat

ion

is $

10,0

00/$

11,0

88. 0

% fi

nanc

ing

offe

rs a

re u

ncon

ditio

nally

inte

rest

-fre

e. u

$11,

500/

$3,5

00 m

anuf

actu

rer t

o de

aler

del

iver

y cr

edit

avai

labl

e on

201

2 Si

lver

ado

Ligh

t Dut

y Cr

ew C

ab/2

012

Equi

nox

(tax

excl

usiv

e) fo

r ret

ail c

usto

mer

s on

ly. O

ther

cre

dits

ava

ilabl

e on

mos

t mod

els.

◊To

qua

lify

for G

MCL

’s C

ash

For C

lunk

ers

ince

ntiv

e, y

ou m

ust:

(1) t

urn

in a

200

6 or

old

er M

Y ve

hicl

e th

at is

in ru

nnin

g co

nditi

on a

nd h

as b

een

regi

ster

ed a

nd p

rope

rly in

sure

d in

you

r nam

e fo

r the

last

3 m

onth

s (2

) tur

n in

a 2

006

or o

lder

MY

vehi

cle

that

is in

runn

ing

cond

ition

and

has

bee

n re

gist

ered

and

pro

perly

insu

red

unde

r a s

mal

l bus

ines

s na

me

for t

he la

st 3

mon

ths.

GM

CL w

ill p

rovi

de e

ligib

le c

onsu

mer

s w

ith a

man

ufac

ture

r to

cons

umer

ince

ntiv

e (ta

x in

clus

ive)

to b

e us

ed

tow

ards

the

purc

hase

/fina

nce/

leas

e of

a n

ew e

ligib

le 2

012

or 2

013

MY

Chev

role

t Col

orad

o, G

MC

Cany

on, C

hevr

olet

Silv

erad

o, G

MC

Sier

ra, o

r Che

vrol

et A

vala

nche

del

iver

ed b

etw

een

Octo

ber 2

, 201

2 an

d Ja

nuar

y 2,

201

3. In

cent

ive

rang

es fr

om $

1,50

0 to

$3,

000,

dep

endi

ng o

n m

odel

pur

chas

ed.

Ince

ntiv

e m

ay n

ot b

e co

mbi

ned

with

cer

tain

oth

er o

ffers

. By

par

ticip

atin

g in

the

Cash

For

Clu

nker

s pr

ogra

m y

ou w

ill n

ot b

e el

igib

le fo

r any

trad

e-in

va

lue

for y

our v

ehic

le. S

ee y

our p

artic

ipat

ing

GM d

eale

r for

add

ition

al p

rogr

am c

ondi

tions

and

det

ails

. GM

CL m

ay m

odify

, ext

end

or te

rmin

ate

prog

ram

in w

hole

or i

n pa

rt at

any

tim

e w

ithou

t not

ice.

†*W

hich

ever

com

es fi

rst.

Cond

ition

s an

d lim

itatio

ns a

pply.

See

dea

ler f

or d

etai

ls. C

ompa

rison

bas

ed o

n la

test

com

petit

ive

data

ava

ilabl

e at

tim

e of

prin

ting.

✲Th

e Be

st B

uy s

eal i

s a

regi

ster

ed tr

adem

ark

of C

onsu

mer

s Di

gest

Com

mun

icat

ions

, LL

C, u

sed

unde

r lic

ense

. +Fo

r mor

e in

form

atio

n vi

sit i

ihs.

org/

ratin

gs. ¥

Base

d on

reta

il re

gist

ratio

ns in

the

12 m

onth

s fo

llow

ing

laun

ch. ¥

¥Cru

ze L

S eq

uipp

ed w

ith 6

-spe

ed m

anua

l tra

nsm

issi

on. B

ased

on

Natu

ral R

esou

rces

Can

ada’

s 20

12 F

uel C

onsu

mpt

ion

Ratin

gs fo

r the

Com

pact

Car

cla

ss. E

xclu

des

hybr

id a

nd d

iese

l mod

els.

Your

act

ual f

uel c

onsu

mpt

ion

may

var

y. ^

Chev

role

t Equ

inox

FW

D eq

uipp

ed w

ith s

tand

ard

2.4L

ECO

TEC

I-4 e

ngin

e.

NOW BIGGER THAN EVER!

LOWEST PRICES

PAYMENTSAND

OF THE YEARON SELECT MODELS

MASSIVE

UPTO

Do your part for the environment by upgraDing your olD vehicle to a new pickup.

$3,000◊Recycle your 2006 model year or older vehicle and receive up to $3,000

towards the cash purchase, financing or leasing of an eligible 2012 or 2013 Chevrolet Silverado.

BASED ON A FINANCE PURCHASE PRICE OF $24,495.*OFFER INCLUDES FREIGHT & PDI.

- 2012 IIHS Top Safety Pick+

- Better Highway Fuel Efficiency thanCR-V, RAV4 or Santa Fe

NOW WITH

$3,500IN CREDITSu

FINANCE EQUINOX LS AT 2.99% FOR

$149 WITH $0DOWN†BIWEEKLY/84 MONTHS††

2012 CHEVROLET 2012 CHEVROLET

EQUINOXLOWEST PRICE & PAYMENT OF THE YEAR

CHEVROLET.CA

VISIT YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER TO SEE HOW YOU CAN SAVE ON OUR 2012 MODELS!SCAN HERE

TO FIND YOURS

LTZ mOdEL sHOWN

SILVERADO

SILVERADO2012 CHEVROLET $11,500,CASH CREDITS ON LD MODELSu

UP TO

- Proven V-8 Power withBest-in-Class Fuel Efficiencyt

- Best-In-Class 5 year/160,000km Powertrain Warranty†*

LOWEST PRICESOF THE YEAR

BASED ON A FINANCE PURCHASE PRICE OF $16,135.*OFFER INCLUDES FREIGHT & PDI, PLUS $750 FINANCE CASH.

- Fastest Growing Nameplate in Canada¥

- Best-In-Class Highway Fuel Efficiency¥¥

- 2012 IIHS Top Safety Pick†

FINANCE CRUZE LS FOR

$89 AT FORWITH $0 0% 84DOWN FINANCING MONTHS†BIWEEKLY††

CRUZE

CRUZ2012 CHEVROLETLOWEST PAYMENT OF THE YEAR II

LTZ mOdEL sHOWNLTZ mOdEL sHOWN

Note to Publication: PLEASE examine this material upon receipt. If it is deficient or does not comply with your requirements, contact: Amberlea Schaab - Production Director 604-601-8573 Adam Buechler - Production Artist 604-601-8577

Production Artist: Art Director: Creative Director:

Production Director: Copywriter: Account Manager:

APPROVALSC M Y K CLIENT :DOCKET :

AD # : SIZE : FONTS : RESOLUTION : INSERTION DATE:

PUB : PROOF : DATE :

GMSBCC01382684.10.MMW.4C10” x 196L (14”)Gotham Family, Klavika Family220 dpi See MRFTAB1 12.10.09

2684.10.MMW.4C.indd 1 12-10-09 5:46 PM

Burns Lake District News - April 14, 2010

Call Sullivan Motor Products at 250-845-2244, or visit us at 2760 Yellowhead Highway, Houston. [License #5631]


Featuring the spirit of the local people

183 First StreetVanderhoof

Tel: 250-567-6820Fax: 250-567-6822

Toll Free: 1-877-964-5650

E-mail: [email protected]

Website: www.johnrustadmla.bc.ca

John Rustad, MLANechako Lakes

2500 Butler AvenueHouston

Tel: 250-845-7770Fax: 250-845-7780

CourageousBattles

HumanInterest

AthletesPioneers

Achieving

Serving the community of...

Burns Lake

Brought to you by your MLA John Rustad

Walter Strong

Helen Michell of the Skin Tyee First Nation is one of three hereditary chiefs. The Skin Tyee are an independent First Nation that share in the language and culture of the Wet’suwet’en. The Wet’suwet’en have nev-er signed a formal treaty with the government of Canada and are current-ly active and engaged in consultations with heavy industry regard-ing mineral exploration on their traditional ter-ritories.

“I am Ludooks, care-taker of the land,” Mi-chell explains. “My grandmother and her sisters were part of the Francis Lake tribe in 1916 and we’ve always had hereditary chiefs in our Gilseyhu [Frog] clan from generation to generation. I was cho-sen when I was born to be a Ludook, so I’ve been groomed for as

long as I can remem-ber.”

Michell became con-cerned when her family and clan’s historical ties to its traditional terri-tories were overlooked recently in last week's coverage of the Huck-leberry mine expansion in the Lakes District News. “It’s very disap-pointing when you read in the paper that the wrong traditional terri-tory is named,” she ex-plained.

The Imperial Metals Ltd. project is located on the west side of the Nechako reservoir in between Sweeny lake and Tahtsa Reach.

“At Sweeny Lake there’s a huge boulder that’s carved into the shape of a frog,” said Michell. “It was done to identify the territory as part of the Gilseyhu clan.”

The Gilseyhu clan is affiliated with the Skin Tyee First Na-tion through mar-riage. Michell’s great grandmother married the man who was to become Skin Tyee. ‘Tyee’ means chief in Wet’suwet’en.

“My great grandfa-ther was named Skin and he traded with the first Hudson Bay store in Old Fort on the shores of Lake Babine,” Michell said. “The Hudson Bay company named him Skin be-

cause he brought in the most furs. He was a great trapper.”

Little Andrew Bay on the shores of the present-day Nechako Reservoir is named af-ter the Andrews clan. “They had a big trap line on their traditional territory from Andrew Bay to Whitesail,” said Michell. “My great un-cles also had traplines there.”

It is a perplexing irony that the Skins Spillway at the east end of the Nechako Reser-voir is named after the people it displaced. In 1952 the Kenney Dam was built to flood and create the Nechako Res-ervoir to power the alu-minum plant in Kitimat.

“We were flooded first,” said Michell. “In Andrew Bay and Ootsa Lake we lost our grave-yards. That’s why they call it the Skin dam. ”

“The Skin Tyee trapped, fished, hunted and gathered tradi-tional medicines where the Huckleberry Mine is now,” Michell ex-plained. “Trapping was our livelihood and our way of life. We’re still the registered owners of those traplines.”

Michell and the Skin Tyee First Nation are actively involved with the companies doing work on their traditional territories, including the Imperial Minerals and

New Gold.Rene Skin, Chief

of the Skin Tyee First Nation, and Skin Tyee councillor Darcy Mi-chell joined the conver-sation to help explain the difficulties their small tribe of about 100 faces.

“We experience a lot of struggles as a small band in a remote area,” said Chief Skin. “We struggle because our nation has been living in poverty for so long.”

“We were all recog-nized as separate bands a long time ago and it was the government that bunched us together into the Omenica Band. It never should have been like that, we’re our own people.”

The different clans and tribes of the Wet’suwet’en have al-ways had to cooperate together on the lands they lived on. “There were always overlap-ping issues, occupancy issues. We had to work together to develop trade,” Skin explained.

In 1960 several clans and First Nations of the Wet’suwet’en were gathered together under the name of the Omen-ica Band, but this did not last. By 1984 the original bands begin to reassert their traditional independence. The Nee Tahi Buhn split from the Omenica, and in 2000 the Skin Tyee complet-

ed there split from the Nee Tahi Buhn Band. This was their final step in returning to their tra-ditional standing as a First Nations people.

“We are unique com-munities with our own territories, our own way of trading, and our own dialects and languages. That’s why what the government did with the Omenica Band didn’t work.”

Chief Skin acknowl-edges that the history and oral stories of the First Nations of the Of-fice of the Wet’suwet’en have not been well doc-

umented, making it dif-ficult for people to be clear about whose tra-ditional territories are involved in industrial resource projects.

“It hasn’t been well documented, but we’d like to change that. We’ve just started a Comprehensive Com-munity Plan that will cover all aspects of band life. We’ll form a board made up of elders, youth and the middle generation,” ex-plained Skin.

The Comprehensive Community Plan is a community driven pro-

gram that a lot of B.C. First Nations are en-gaged in. It involves identifying and devel-oping the key elements of a sustainable and well governed First Na-tion communities. The Skin Tyee will be work-ing with the Penticton Indian Band as mentors in this process.

“We used to have the band with the most elders,” Chief Skin explained, “but now they’re slowly disap-pearing and we want to get everything docu-mented before they’re gone.”

Traditional territories continue to define their way of life

Chief Rene Skin

Submitted photo

Skin Tyee hereditary Chiefs Elma Andrew (Tebe Nele’t), Helen Michell (Ludooks) and Mabel Jack (Ahdilec) support Chief Rene Skin and councillors Darcy Michell and Ramona Austin in their work to preserve the traditional territory and culture of the Skin Tyee First Nation.


REC CORNERVILLAGE OF BURNS LAKE

REC CORNERREC CORNERREC CORNER

Village of Burns Lake15 3rd Ave / P.O. Box 570, Burns Lake BC, V0J 1E0Phone: 250-692-7587Email: [email protected] our Facebook Page

Upcoming Events:

Find us & like us on Facebook

For more information, please contact:

Hi Everyone The Regional District of Bulkley

Nechako will be holding a

referendum on November 3 to

ask voters in Area E & B and a

portion of E to decide on the

future funding of our arena.

By voting ‘YES’ you will be

contributing to the continued

health of our arena and the

services it provides. For more

information please contact the

Regional District.

Logan Wilson, Rec Coordinator

Indoor PlaySpaceThis program for children ages 2 to 6 years old.

Location: Muriel Mould Neighborhoodof Learning Gym.

Please visit our Facebook page and website for updates on dates and times for the Indoor

PlaySpace program.

Village RecreationRental Shack

is now closed until June 2013

More Up-Coming Programs...

Parents and Tots SkateWednesdays 11:00 am

Public SkatingSundays at 4:00 pm

PUBLIC SKATING PRICING:Preschool: Under 6 ...............$1.00Youth: 6 to 18 years old .......$3.00Adult: 19 and up ..................$4.00

Early Bird Workout (Free)6:45 am to 7:30 am

Mondays, Wednesday & Fridays At the Lakes District Secondary School gym

SP

ORTS

Lakers SoccerLDSS Lakers are in Victoria this week for provincial championships.

Girls Bantam/Midget Hockey TournamentBurns Lake 3, Houston 5; Burns Lake 1, Vanderhoof 1; Burns Lake 3, Fraser Lake 4; Burns Lake 6, Chetwynd 4.

Overall:

1st Houston

2nd Fraser Lake

3rd Burns Lake

Legion Crib Scores

Oct. 25, 2012Ladies First:Eva KallhoodLadies Second: Carol EverettLadies Boobie: Cecile PhillipsMen’s First:Jim EverettMen’s Second: Art Mercer

CONTRIBUTED

On Oct. 23, 2012, at approximately 3:50 p.m., Stewart RCMP received a report that a male had been killed in avalanche while working as a sur-veyor at a Minerals Camp near Sulphurets Creek, an isolated location 50 kms North of Stewart, BC.

Police were advised that two employees were taking GPS coordinates on a steep slope when both surveyors were swept away by an avalanche.

One male was able to get free of the avalanche and was not injured. Avalanche Technicians and search crews from a neighbouring mine assisted in the search and located the 50 year old deceased male who had been carried by the avalanche and swept off a 300 meter cliff. RCMP confirmed later that the deceased was a Telkwa resident.

RCMP confirm that foul play is not suspected and therefore the investigation has been turned over to the BC Coroners Services.

Avalanche claims a life near Stewart B.C.

Sharon Kinnaird runs the 'pebble can' at the Burns Lake curling rink on Oct. 27 2012. The rink surface is nearing c o m p l e t i o n and the curling club will hold a maintenance clinic this weekend. The club will rely on volunteer m a i n t e n a n c e this year, so it's important that people come out and learn how to maintain a curling rink. The new surface required over 100 hours of volunteer work over the past couple of weeks. The pebbling that Kinnaird is doing flash freezes the string in place so that the surface can receive more skiffs of water.

GETTING READY

Walter Strong photo

Walter Strong photo

A glaciated mountain range northwest of Stewart B.C. on Aug. 31, 2012. The snow covered mountains around Stewart often stay that way right through the summer, so avalanche danger can be present in those ranges a lot earlier than in more southerly ranges.


ENT

ERTAIN

MENT

Seniors meeting

Lakes District Seniors Society meeting will be held Nov. 5 at the RDBN.

Ridley Terminals winners

Two local artists have had their work selected by Ridley Terminals. Beate Marquardt’s sculpture Fisherman’s Delight (below) was selected, as was Gerda Volz’s painting Barkerville.


presented by:

Tickets $17.00 adults, $12.00 seniors, students and youthAvailable at: Process 4 circle arts Gallery: 250-692-3434

And at LDFC Printing & Stationery: 250-692-3309Season tickets are also still available at both locations.

Tuesday evening, November 6, 20127:30 pm LDSS Multipurpose Room

Touring from Sydney, Cape Breton to Sydney, Australia, New Brunswick’s David Myles explores Brazilian and African rhythms with his own intricate songwriting. His songs are framed by the soaring harmonies and the fl awless musicianship of two accompanists. A warm and easy performer, David’s joy at being on stage is infectious and his musicianship is superb. He regales audiences with humorous

anecdotes, making him an instant hit.

ARTSLAKES DISTRICT

COUNCILwww.lakesdistrictarts.com

Live entertainment.The spark’s still here!

Spirited songs, fl awlessmusicianship...

and a warm andengaging stage show!

Hwy 16 • Cold Beer Store: 250-692-3622 • Pub: 250-692-3078

Wing & Prawn NightEvery Wednesday 35¢each

Daily Lunch, Dinner & Drink Specials

KIDS WELCOME...Come check out our

family sectionand have dinner with the

whole family!

Stop by our Cold Beer & Wine Store

Bottle Delivery Service: Call Mulvaney’s Cold Beer& Wine Store & have your bottle delivered... 250-692-3622

Advertising donated by LD News

THANK YOUGerry & Rose Bros from the

Grapevine Pub & Bistro

Lorena Jansen & Linda

Benedict from Root 16

George Hamp & Wayne Svehla

Mark Price & Bob Mills

Norm Synotte

Shelley & Jake Wall

Walter Strong, Bailey King &

Kim Piper

Lakes District News

and to everyone who came out and bought tickets

to supported our fundraiser for the Pines.

Rotary Clubof Burns Lake

CONTRIBUTED

The second performance in the arts council's 12/13 season takes place at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 6 in the Lakes District Secondary School multipurpose room.

New Brunswick’s David Myl-es explores Brazilian and African rhythms with his own intricate song writing. His songs are framed by the soaring harmonies and flawless mu-sicianship of two accompanists on guitar and upright bass.

A warm and easy performer, Da-vid’s joy at being on stage is infec-tious and his musicianship is superb. He regales audiences with humorous anecdotes, making him an instant hit.

He's been a featured artist on Stu-art McLean's Vinyl Cafe, and names Curtis Mayfield, Taj Mahal, Al Green and Bob Marley as favourites and influences. Look for our post-ers around town, and our ads in the Lakes District News.

You can find out more about Da-vid Myles by clicking on this link:

http://davidmyles.com/And, a call for help!In early December, the arts coun-

cil is proud and excited to pres-ent The B.C. Boys Choir in a special Christmas concert.

More information will be coming about this special event soon. In the meantime ... we need billets for the members of the choir, who are boys between the ages of about nine or 10 and 15 or 16.

The boys are billeted in groups of two. If you would like to help, and to share in this exciting event ... billets should be (relatively) close to Burns Lake, will need to provide the boys three nights accommodation (Sun-day, December 2, Monday, Decem-ber 3 and Tuesday, December 4).

They will also need one supper, three breakfasts and three bag lunch-es. Billets will also need to pick up the boys and drop them off at a des-ignated spot in Burns Lake on each of the three days.

If you would like to help, send us an e-mail, or give John or Sandra Barth a call at 250-692-3371.

Billets needed

Rosanne Murray, Bob Fowler and Linda Blackwell at the Tweedsmuir Park Rod and Gun Club in Burns Lake accept a cheque for $13,750 last week. The cheque is the final portion of a Nechako Kitimat Development Fund grant of $27,500.

MONEY FOR CLUB

Walter Strong photo


COMMUN

ITY

Turn your clocks back

Daylight Savings Time Ends...Don’t forget on Saturday night you have to set your clocks backone hour!

David Myles in Burns LakeNov. 6, 7:30 pm at the LDSS. For more infor-mation see the Lakes District Arts Council ad on page 18 of this edition of Lakes District News.


presented by:

Tickets $17.00 adults, $12.00 seniors, students and youthAvailable at: Process 4 circle arts Gallery: 250-692-3434

And at LDFC Printing & Stationery: 250-692-3309Season tickets are also still available at both locations.

Tuesday evening, November 6, 20127:30 pm LDSS Multipurpose Room

Touring from Sydney, Cape Breton to Sydney, Australia, New Brunswick’s David Myles explores Brazilian and African rhythms with his own intricate songwriting. His songs are framed by the soaring harmonies and the fl awless musicianship of two accompanists. A warm and easy performer, David’s joy at being on stage is infectious and his musicianship is superb. He regales audiences with humorous

anecdotes, making him an instant hit.

ARTSLAKES DISTRICT

COUNCILwww.lakesdistrictarts.com

Live entertainment.The spark’s still here!

Spirited songs, fl awlessmusicianship...

and a warm andengaging stage show!

Fraser Lake’sSnowfl ake Tea

& Christmas Craft & Home Based Business Fair

November 17th & 18th, 2012Fraser Lake Elementary Secondary School Gym

Saturday 10 am - 4 pm& Sunday 11 am - 3 pm

Need ideas for Christmas gift selections...Come and check out the variety of items.

Lunch available both days.

For table rentals or more info contact:Richard Cannon250-699-8697

Thank youMany thanks to my daughters; Heather, her husband, Stanley, and Sharilyn, her husband

Uwe, for arranging the celebration for my 90th Birthday! I was deeply touched!

It was wonderful to have so many friends attend with their love, cards, flowers and

best wishes on Saturday October 6th at the Legion. Many, many thanks!!

A special thank you too, goes to my grandson, Joachim, drummer and Master of

Ceremonies; to Thea Jane, my granddaughter, and Clinton, for their music to top off the

celebration.

From the bottom of my heart, a big hug and thank you!

Kay L. Irwin

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Film society members who attend will receive a

FREE PASS to any movie shown at the

Beacon Theatre!

The 2012 Annual General Meeting of the Lakes District

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012 6:30 P.M.

BURNS LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY BASEMENT

Action items will include election of officers for the coming year.

Come hear the film society’s recent accomplishments, as well as its plans

for the future.

Film Society (dba the Beacon Theatre) will be held:

TRADING POSTOpen Daily Monday to Saturday9:00am - 5:30pm

ROYAL ALBERT CHINAGOLD PANS, ROCK PICKS & SHOVELS

Decker Lake

WE SELL... NEW BEDS& FRAMES

New Shipment of TOOLS

FURNITURE

STAINLESS STEEL COOKWARE

“Good Quality”

50-1500 gal. WATER TANKS

ROPE, lots to see

7390 Highway 16, Decker Lake 250-698-7686

FIREWORKS

www.restwell.com

HUNTING KNIVES

SS

For more info on the community forest, call BL ComFor (250) 692-7724

ornerCommunity Forest

Contractor wantedBurns Lake Community Forest is renovating the office located at 153 Francois Lake Drive.

We are looking for a contractor that can complete the renovations prior to the middle of December. Renovations include replacing and moving doors, removing a bathroom, updating various cabinets and shelving areas. Interested parties are to attend a walkthrough at 1 PM on November 6th. All parties are to supply BLCF with an hourly rate, a WCB number and either a resume, portfolio or references.

If you are unable to attend the walkthrough, and are interested in completing the work, please contact Helene at 250-692-7724 prior to November 6th to arrange another time.

The intent is to select a contractor by November 9th.





Lake Babine Nation schools in Burns Lake (Woyenne), daycare, kindergarten, Grade 1 & 2, Woyenne Secondary, Ted Williams Memorial Learning Centre, and the BladeRunners carved 35 pumpkins for Halloween. Overwaitea donated all the pumpkins. Walter Strong photo

PUMPKIN CARVING

Red shoe laces show support

Burns Lake RCMP St. Sgt. Grant MacDonald, Cpl. Jack Ashford, public service employee Bonnie Burns, Cst. Shane Coubrough, and Cpl. Chris Ivany donned red Special Olympics laces on Oct. 25, for a Be a fan Day celebration with local Special Olympics athletes Devon Alec, Matthew Brodie, Travis Burkett, Philip Daniels, Allanah MacDonald, Roy Nooski, Vanessa Redwood, and Danny Tress. On Be a fan Day, law enforcement members in approximately 20 communities around the province wore red Special Olympics laces.

Submitted photo


Computer Repairs, Sales & Training

Hwy 16, Burns LakeOpen 9am-6pm Mon.-Fri.,

12pm-4pm on Sat.

Phone: 250-692-7773email:

[email protected]

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Scorpio, no matter how hard you try, it is not in the stars for you to make a fortune on any get-rich-quick scheme. Focus your energy on different ideas.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, although you may be anxious about some presentation you need to make, it is necessary for advancement at your job. It will be over before you know it.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, get together with Leo and develop a plan that will get your finances in order. Until you sit down and view everything in black and white, things will be in flux.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Aquarius, although work may be giving you head-aches, stick with it for the time being because there could be some major chang-es on the horizon that work to your advantage.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 Pisces, spend the early part of the week really buckling down to get things done and the latter part can be enjoyed any way you want.

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you may have to put a little more effort into your relationship to really reap the rewards. It doesn’t matter if you just met or have been together for years. Amp up your efforts.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 There is turmoil in your financial sector, Taurus. But all it takes is some dis-cipline and budgeting and you can be right back on track in no time at all.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 It’s time to get creative, Gemini. Maybe you are planning a party that can use an interesting theme or thinking ahead to holiday shopping. Think outside of the box.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Cancer, embrace your childish side and let loose. Sometimes it can feel great to shake off responsibility for the time being and just act like a kid with no worries.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, err on the side of caution this week; otherwise you may see too much money flying out of your wallet. Get into a saving mode in-stead of a spending one for the time being.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, now is not the time to make any big changes that could rock the boat. Enjoy the solid foundation that you have built for a few more weeks.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, the choices you are making may temporarily sever a few of your relation-ships. While this may hurt now, there’s a good chance you will mend fences in the long run.

WORD SEARCH SUDOKU

Answers on page 23 Answers on page 23

HOROSCOPESWeek of October 31st - November 6th

COFFE

E CORNE

R

RATING: INTERMEDIATE

LAKES DISTRICT

NEWS

NEED FIRE STARTER?

Come to the newspaper of� ce... we have bundlesof newspapers for sale.

$2/bundle

425 Yellowhead 16, Burns Lake (250) 692-3434 toll free 1-888-990-2298

• G

OU

RM

ET

V

IL

LA

GE

•

S

ER

VIN

G S

PO

ON

S •

• C

OM

MO

N S

EN

SE

TE

AS

• W

IL

D J

OE

CO

FF

EE

S •

Process 4 Gallery

FRAMES • F INE ART • ORIGINALS • L IMITED EDITIONS • POTTERY • WOOD-TURNED BOWLS • CDS • JEWELLERY

A R T I S T S ’ S U P P L I E S • S TA I N E D G L A S S • S I LV E R B R A C E L E T S • C U S T O M P I C T U R E F R A M I N G • C A R D S

Monday: 12noon-5:00pm • Tuesday to Friday: 10:00am-5:00pmSaturday: 10:00am-3:00pm • Closed Sunday

Time to think about gettingyour framing done...

We also have original art byover 30 local

artists!

Bring in your precious painting, photos and prints

to have them custom framed for Christmas.

8 Weeks ‘till Christmas...

Len Klassen Satellites 250-692-7314*Available to new residential customers for a limited time only. The zero dollar Essential HD Receiver is based on a $99.99 purchase price, and the $249.99 HDPVR is based on a $399.99 purchase price, less Promotional and Pay Per View (PPV) credits. The Promotional Credit, $50 for the Essential HD Receiver or $100 for the HDPVR, includes taxes and will appear on the customer’s account in the form of a credit, applied upon activation. The $50 PPV credit excludes applicable taxes and will appear on the customer’s account in the form of a credit, applied upon activation. Conditions apply. A monthly Multi-Receiver Warranty (MRW) of $6.08 may apply for customers with two or more receivers. An included fee of 1.5% of your monthly satellite TV charges applies to fund Shaw Direct’s contribution to the CRTC’s Local Programming Improvement Fund. Effective September 1st, 2012, this fee is reduced to 1%. See SHAWDIRECT.CA/LPIF. Taxes extra. Offer subject to change without notice. Shaw Direct services are subject to our terms of use as occasionally amended.

Shaw Direct 100% digital satellite TV is the clear choice for high defi nition. Watch sporting events, movies, family programming and more. Plus, our latest HD receivers are 3D, MPEG-4 and 1080p compatible and ready for the future.

READY

HDDSR 600

HDPVR 630

Purchase PricePPV/VOD CreditPromotional CreditInstallationNet Price Installed

Advanced HDPVR 630

$399.99-$50-$100included$249.99

Purchase PricePPV/VOD CreditPromotional CreditInstallationNet Price Installed

$99.99-$50-$50included$0

$249.99*

Net Price

Essential HDDSR 600

$0*

Net Price

INDULGE YOUR HD APPETITE.

See Len Klassen for details.MULTIPLE AWARD-WINNING

24/7/365 SERVICE

Heritage Centre Farmer’s Market Every Saturday from 9:00am-3:00pmFor more info or table rental call 250-692-9799

MEET US AT THE

Windows 8 Launches FridayThe newest version of Microsoft’s flagship software will be hitting shelves by the end of this week. The new OS boasts quite a few new features, including built in antivirus security software, a new Windows Store for purchasing apps, and a significantly redesigned user interface. Microsoft is trying to encourage it’s customers to switch over quickly by offering an initial pricing of only $40 to upgrade from a previous copy of Windows (valid until January 31st 2013). With an introductory price much lower than previous versions of Windows, those who don’t wish to switch over immediately will probably still purchase the software now, even though they might plan to upgrade later. Despite all the new features, Windows 8 does not have significantly higher hardware requirements than Vista and Windows 7, making upgrading an attractive option. Just don’t be surprised if the standard keyboard and mouse experience doesn’t feel quite polished, as this new OS is primarily intended for tablets and computers with touchscreens.

LAKES DISTRICT

NEWS23- 3rd Ave., Burns Lake 250-692-7526

DID YOU KNOW?...That LD News does

black & white photocopying!

8.5” x 11” - one sided1-100 copies: 12¢/copyOver 100 copies: 10¢/copy

#2 166 Highway 16BURNS LAKE

250-692-7900

Pizza, pasta, wings, donairs and moreStore hours: Sunday to Wednesday 3:00 PM to 10:00 PM Thursday to Saturday 3:00 PM to 11:00 PM

Phone us for our daily specials and deals

www.canadian2for1pizza.com

4 We do catering with advanced notice 4 In town deliveries available

Fresh dough

made daily


Answers on page 23

CLUES ACROSS 1. Mother (var.) 4. Not happy 7. Reciprocal of a sine 10. Periods of time

12. Relating to wings 14. Alias 15. Hebrew lawgiver 17. Beget 18. Middle East chieftain

19. Worldly and re� ned 22. Having a distinct existence 23. Mexican painter Frida 24. Showing sound judgment

Phone: 250-692-3805 Highway 16 West, Burns Lake, B.C.

EagleAutomotive Center

ICBC Accredited Collision Repair Shop

Factory recommended service interval for changing your oil and oil fi lter is typically once every 5,000 kms. Call for an appointment today...

TIME FOR AN OIL CHANGE?

Burns Lake & District Seniors Meeting on No-vember 5 at 1 pm at the Regional District Meeting Room, upstairs. All 50+ seniors welcome.

The Lakes District Of� ce of the Canadian Can-cer Society will be open from 11am to 2pm the fol-lowing days in Oct. Tue., Wed. & Fri. Call us at (250) 692-7203. For Cancer Information Service and Cancerconnection, the toll free number is 1-888-939-3333. New volunteers are always welcome.

Looking for an opportunity to give back. The Heart and Stroke Foundation is looking for volunteers with a few hours to spare in February. Call Pat at (250) 695-6339

Southside Health & Wellness Centre: October

2012: Chair Yoga every Tue. & Fri. from 10am - 11am. Kiwani on site in afternoon every Wednesday. More in-formation call (250) 694-3270.

The Lakes District Festival Association is currently looking for volunteers. Please phone Lois @ (250) 695-6699

We are inviting kids/youth to join the Scouts move-ment (i.e. Beavers, Cubs, Scouts) held at WKE Monday nights from 6-7pm. Call Alex Bergen 692-3913 for more info.

To list your nonpro� t coming events, please drop off your listings at the Lakes District News of� ce by Friday 3:00 pm. (We regret we cannot take items over the phone). Listings as space permits. There is no guarantee any particular item will run on aspeci� c date.

ChurchDirectory

Lakes District& Area

The newly renovated

Omineca Ski Club Day LodgeIS AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL

for meetings, conferences and events. With a brand new kitchen featuring two stoves as well as dishes and utensils for up to 120 guests,

the lodge is a great spot to host your next event or get together.

To book a rental: please contact Terri Dickson at (250) 695-6684, (250) 692-6684 (cell), or work at

1-877-695-6635. Email: [email protected]

website: www.ominecaskiclub.com

Grassy Plains Gospel Church

Sunday Service:10:45 am

250-694-3329 (Church)

ST. PAUL’SUNITED CHURCH

136 - 4th Avenue, Burns Lake

Sunday Worship 10:00amALL ARE WELCOMEMinistry led by lay leaders

Phone 250-692-7202

IMMACULATA-Catholic Church

248 - 3rd Avenue,Phone: 250-692-3568Saturday 7:30 p.m.Sunday 10:00 a.m.

~ Everyone Welcome ~

FIRST MENNONITE CHURCH

Kerr Road, Burns LakeChurch Service at 10:30 am

Sunday School at 9:15 am for all ages, Youth Group Fridays 7-9 pm

250-692-3259

Sunday 10:00AMPresident Lambert 694-3748

Hwy 35 & Francois Lake 250-695-6316 Everyone Welcome

THE CHURCH OF

JESUS CHRISTOF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

DECKER LAKE MENNONITE CHURCH

Sunday Morning Services:Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Worship Services: 10:30 a.m.Pastors - Ken Dyck 250-698-7629David S. Burkholder 250-692-7057

Everyone Welcome Hwy 16, Decker Lake

Seventh Day Adventist Church GroupMeets Saturdays at

10:00 a.m. at the United Church on Centre Street.

250-695-6586

Burns LakeCommunity Church

Pastor John Neufeld250-692-7949

OLD LANDMARKSCHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

At Muriel Mould Primary School

SUNDAY, 10:30 AMContact: Roland & Lisa Cataford

250-692-9196 ~Everyone Welcome ~

Burns LakePENTECOSTAL CHURCH

724 Babine Lake Road

Sunday Services: 10:30 amCelebrating the Love of GodPastor Henry Washington

250-692-7464

BURNS LAKE LEGION Branch #50

25. Surrounding circle of light 26. 1/6-inch printing unit 27. Atomic #28 28. Spreads grass for drying 30. Common animal parasite 32. Nursing degree 33. Pre� x for again 34. Circle width (abbr.) 36. Freshwater duck genus 39. English philosopher 1285-1349 41. Opposite of 24 across 43. Angina medication 46. Political action com-mittees 47. Those mentioned 48. Pops 50. Rt. angle building wing 51. Capital of Yemen 52. Fish traps 53. Alternate H. S. diploma 54. Pitch 55. Soak � ax CLUES DOWN 1. 13th Hebrew letter 2. Got up 3. Bricklayers 4. Impertinent 5. Perched 6. Afghan Persian

7. Massee Lane Garden � ower 8. 23 ___: Go away 9. Automobile 11. Thin dividing mem-branes 13. Take heed 16. Polished 18. Colorless, odorless gas used as fuel 20. Single units 21. Express pleasure 28. Barcelona gestural theatre 29. Makes into law 30. Old French monetary unit 31. Eyeglasses 34. Magnate Trump 35. Blemish or spoil 37. Moses’ elder brother 38. Twisted Sister’s Dee 40. Bon ___: witty remarks 41. 8th Jewish month 42. Related on the mother’s side 44. Stairs leading down to a river in India 45. Songstress Horne 46. Pirate’s prosthesis 49. Very fast airplane

Island GospelFellowship

Gerow Island, Highway 35Sunday School for all ages

begins @ 9:30 amWorship Service begins @ 10:30 am

Pastor Ed Peters Phone: 250-692-7551

CROSSWORD

OUR TOWN

COFFEE

CORNE

R

If you love your freedom, thank

a Veteran.Support yourlocal Legion.

HomemadeFruit Pies

Ready to go, Cream Pies by request

$10 - call 250-692-0048

COMBINED GATHERING OF:

&

Open 7 Days a Week 11:00am - 9:00pm Highway 16, Burns Lake • 250-692-3020

StudentSpecial

$399

includes snack box& medium

drink

Crib Thursdays at 7:00pm

Friday, November 2

Baked Chicken Dinner $14

“Members and bona fi de guests welcome” Hours: Tuesday to Saturday: 4:00-8:00 pm email: [email protected] Phone: 250-692-3232

24 Hour Service

Competitive Prices and Contract Rates available

Call Branislav 250-692-1812

Complete Commercial/Residential/Industrial Janitorial ServiceAll Floors, Carpets, Windows,

Upholstery, made like new

Saturday, December 1

Legion Bazaar$10 per table, contact Mae at 250-692-4335

Friday, November 9

Roast Beef & Yorkshire $14

Friday, November 16

Seafood Buffet $14


William (Bill) Ernest Egan November 15, 1944 - October 21, 2012

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of William (Bill) Ernest Egan, of Houston B.C. at the age of 67.

Bill passed away in St. Paul’s hospital in Vancouver October 21, 2012 of heart complications. Bill Was born November 15, 1944 in Prince Albert Saskatchewan.

Bill was pre deceased by his father Orville Egan. He is survived by his mother Betty, brother Pat his wife Betty, sisters Donna, Colleen and her husband Brian, Debbie and her husband Darrel, Carol and her Husband Bob. Bill leaves behind his son Stephen and his wife Mehrnoush, daughter Penny and her husband Dan, grand children Courtney, Candice, Indra and Ovid and great grandchildren Savannah and Kali.

A long time resident of Houston, Bill was active in the business community and is probably best known for having created the Willow Grove golf course in Houston.

There will be a celebration of life held November 17th at 2:00 PM at the Community Hall.

COLLEGE OF NEW CALEDONIAMackenzie Campus

The College of New Caledonia is looking to fill the following position:

OPERATIONS MANAGERThe College requires an energetic, solution-focused full time OperationsManager for its Mackenzie Campus. A member of the College’sadministration team, the Operations Manager reports to the RegionalDirector and leads all campus operational activities, in close collaborationwith all campus employees.Responsibilities include: facilities coordination, daily supervision of andsupport for the local employment services centre, managing theadministration of cost-recovery contracts, managing campus marketingand promotional activities and overseeing general administrative systemsin relation to the College services.

To find out more information about this and other opportunities, anddirections on how to apply, please check our website at:www.cnc.bc.ca/tools/employment

Join us. We offer a supportive workplace, great benefits, andcompetitive salaries. And we have opportunities to grow, both withinour college, and within our communities.

CNC - A COMMUNITY FOR LEARNING AND TEACHING THATCARES, SERVES, AND LEADS

3 3 3 0 - 2 2 N D A V E N U E , P R I N C E G E O R G E , B C V 2 N 1 P 8TEL (250) 562-2131 EXT. 5466 FAX (250) 561-5864 EMAIL: [email protected]

(Woods Foreman) TIMBERLANDSCampbell River, BC

Mid Island Forest Operation is a continuous harvest operation (6x3 shift) harvesting 1.1 MM M3 annually and building 140 km of road. Working as part of a team of supervisors, this position will have direct responsibility for woods operations and union crews. The successful candidate will value the team-oriented approach, have a good working knowledge of applicable occupational safety regulations, first-hand knowledge and experience in a unionized environment, and will be responsible for planning, supervision of hourly personnel, safe work performance and the achievement of departmental goals.

Further job details can be viewed at: http://www.westernforest.com/building-value/our-people-employment/careersWFP offers a competitive salary, a comprehensive benefit and pension package and the potential to achieve annual performance rewards. Please reply in confidence, citing Reference Code.

Email: [email protected]

PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR

Controller / Accountant and

Ltd. is looking for a Controller / Accountant to ll a full e osi on at our o ce in it ers

e are looking for a d na ic and energi ed erson to oin our tea

e ideal candidate s ould a e lus ears of e erience in ook kee ing a roll or

accoun ng

Co ensa on and ene ts are co ensurate to uali ca ons and e erience tar ng osi on at a ini u of ear lus

ene ts

A licant ust e e erienced in i l accoun ng e cel and ord

tar ng osi on ill a e a ini u of eeks olida s t er e o ene ts are

e i le and nego a le

is osi on is a aila le o t

lease send a lica ons to o it ers C

or info@

su itreforesta on co

Announcements

In Memoriam Gifts

ALL FUNDS DONATEDto the

Burns Lake Health Care Auxiliary

are used to provide fi nancial support, equipment plus

comfort and care for patients in our hospital, the

Pines and all other community healthcare

services.

Mail a donation on behalf of yourself or a loved one to:

B.L. Health Care Aux.Box 812

Burns Lake, BCV0J 1E0

A tax deductible receipt will be issued

Obituaries

MARILYN BURROWSOn Sunday October 21, 2012 Marilyn Burrows, retired teach-er, friend, volunteer and neigh-bour passed away peacefully at the Prince George Univer-sity Hospital. Friends were at her side.In the spirit of independence and adventure, Marilyn left her Vancouver home in the early 1970s to begin her teaching career. She made friends and memories while encouraging students at Topley Elementary School, Grassy Plains Ele-mentary School, and Muriel Mould Primary School for more than thirty years. As well as being a devoted teacher, Marilyn supported numerous local organizations as a patron and a volunteer.Marilyn always made time for friends as evidenced in the outpouring of support through visits, phone calls, e-mails, cards and letters during her ill-ness.Marilyn was predeceased by her parents and many friends. She leaves behind her many more friends from around the world. Marilyn will be greatly missed.

A Celebration of Life Tea is planned for Friday November 30th from 3:30 to 5:30 PM at

the Muriel Mould Primary School gym.

Information

ADVERTISE in the LARGEST OUTDOOR PUBLICATION IN BC

The 2013-2015 BC Freshwater Fishing

Regulations SynopsisThe most effective way to

reach an incredible number of BC Sportsmen & women.

Two year edition- terrifi c presence for your business.Please call Annemarie

1.800.661.6335 email:

fi [email protected]

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUSSouthside Meetings: Mondays and Thursdays 6:30pm - 7:30pm at Grassy Plains Gos-pel Church. For more informa-tion: (250) 694-3682

Announcements

InformationALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS

If you want to keep drinking that’s your business - if you want to quit drinking that’s our business. Burns Lake Meet-ings: Tuesday 7:30 pm Catho-lic Church, Saturday 7:30 pm - Catholic Church. For informa-tion or transportation call (250) 692-6867 / (250) 698-7325 / (778) 669-0070

Only requirement for AA is a desire to stop drinking.

Anyone needing information on Alzheimer’s please call 1-866-564-7533

BURNS LAKE RCMP Vic-tim/Witness Assistance Pro-gram. 201 Hwy. 35, Box 759 Burns Lake. Open Monday to Thursday 9am to 4pm (250) 692-3010

Career Opportunities

Announcements

InformationFOOD BANK hours starting Sept. 2012: Distribution days will be the fi rst and third Tues-day of each month. Clients should come at 11am. One box per month for each house-hold. The Lakes District Food Bank continues to operate due to the outstanding generosity of the community. If you would like to make a donation and receive a tax deductible re-ceipt, please mail your dona-tion to: Lakes District Food Bank, Box 777, Burns Lake, BC. V0J 1E0.PLANNING a wedding or an-niversary party? Looking for plastic fl owers for decorations. Call OPTIONS at Nourse House 9am- 3pm Mon. to Fri. Francois Lake Drive. Operated by residents of 8th Avenue Group Home. (250) 692-7845


Obituaries


Obituaries


Obituaries


Your community. Your classifi eds.

250.692.7526

fax 250.692.3685 email [email protected]

TO REACH THE MARKETFirst advertise in the Lakes District News! ALL WORD ADS go on the Internet forthe whole world to see!www.bcclassifi ed.com

REACHING USCall 250-692-7526 or come by our offi ce. Hours are 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., Monday thru Friday. Fax in your ad to 250-692-3685 or email: [email protected]

HOW TO PAYCome to our offi ce at 23 - 3rd Avenue, or you may pay with Visa or Mastercard over the phone. All ads must be prepaid.

CLASSIFIED AD RATESREGULAR WORD ADS1 issue, 3 lines $8.50 per week

FREE ADSFor anything under $50.00 value. 15 words or less. Ad must contain one item and price. Misc. for Sale category only. Private party ads only (no commercial). Ads cannot be accepted over the phone.

$5 ADSFor anything worth $50 - $500. 15 words or less. Ad must contain one item and price. Misc. for Sale category only. Runs for 4 weeks. Ads must be prepaid - cash only.

LEGAL ADS$16.01 per col. inch

HWY 16 REGIONAL ADS3 lines - No changes - ad runs in: Burns Lake, Vanderhoof, Prince George, Houston, Smithers, Ft.St.James, Prince Rupert, Terrace, Kitimat, Northern Connector, Northern Daily(1 week) .......................................$78.88

BC BEST BUY ADS25 words- No changes - ad runs one week, all papers covering:Lower Mainland .......... $102.28BC’s Interior ............... $124.95Vancouver Island ........ $119.00All of the Above .......... $299.00Extra cost for additional words

RUN IT ’TIL SOLD ADS1x1 classifi ed ad. For $31.50 we will run your ad UNTIL IT SELLS,any category, max. 30 wordsNo Real Estate or commercial ads

Please call if you need more information on any of our

classifi ed packages.

HAPPY ADSTo announce birthdays, weddings, births etc.2 col. x 2” - $202 col. x 3” - $302 col. x 4” - $40

ALL ABOVE PRICESDO NOT INCLUDE HST

DEADLINESClassifi ed Word & Display:Friday @ 3:00 P.M.

OUR POLICYLakes District News reserves the right to edit, revise, classify or reject any classifi ed ad not meeting our standards.

No refunds onClassifi eds Ads.

▼▼

▼▼

▼▼

LAKES DISTRICT

NEWS


BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Advertise your Business or Service

here for$20.00 per week.Call 250-692-7526

for more information.

Payne Septic Service (2010)

250-698-7964 Still serving the Lakes District

Operated by

Keith Wilson

LAKES DISTRICT & AREA

www.superiorpropane.com

TOLL FREE1-877-873-7467

Sullivan Motor Products Ltd. Highway 16, Houston

1-800-665-3151 • www.sullivangm.com

Come see

Loren Neilsonfor your next vehicle

purchase!Phone: 250-845-8785

Attention HuntersWe cut & wrap wild game at

(Formerly Van Tines) at Ootsa Lake

We make sausage, jerky & pepperoni sticksFarmers, please book domestic animals because of

limited cooler space.

Mountaineer Meats

Call us at 250-694-3359

or 250-694-3322Gary Martin and Crew

The Comfort ZoneFlying Dutchman Service

101-1st Avenue, Burns Lake 250-692-3337Wood and Gas Stoves and Fireplaces

PLUMBER / GASFITTER – BURNS LAKE

School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) has an open-ing for a Plumber / Gasfitter in the Burns Lake area. This position is 8 hour per day, 5 days per week. Trav-eling to various locations in the school district will be required. The district is seeking a highly motivated, progressive individual. The ideal candidate should demonstrate or meet the following criteria.

completion of Grade 12 (Dogwood Certificate) valid BC Trades Certification as a Plumber valid BC Trades Certification as a Gasfitter (Class B) BC Driver’s License - Class 5 Full Privileged with

an exemplary driving record as demonstrated by a current driver’s abstract

Significant experience working with HVAC systems and DDC’s

experience gained through both Trades Qualification apprenticeship programs inclusive of 1 year industry related experience

WHMIS Certificate and familiarity with Work Safe BC (WCB) safety procedures

Additional information regarding this position can be found on our website at www.sd91.bc.ca.

Resumés must be accompanied by a completed application form which is available on our website at http://www.sd91.bc.ca or from the School District Administration Office in Vanderhoof or from any district school.

Applications will be accepted until 4:00 p.m., Thursday, November 1, 2012. Please forward your application to:

Human ResourcesSchool District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes)

P.O. Box 129Vanderhoof, BC V0J 3A0

Phone: (250) 567-2284 Fax: (250) 567-4639Email: [email protected]

DECKER LAKE FOREST PRODUCTS

Operations AccountantThe position will participate as a member of the Canadian Division accounting team. Assigned duties will increase in responsibility over time and commensurate with education level and demonstrated abilities. Development of judgment abilities is required in determining the appropriate accounting treatment and classification of transactions, application of Hampton policies, identification of transactions requiring management’s attention, etc. This position is intended to support continuous improvement to business processes, procedures, and systems to ensure they are capable, efficient and adequately controlled. In addition to accounting related duties, the ideal candidate would bring strong computer related skills that would enhance the Canadian Sawmills technology support.

Please forward your resume by November 23, 2012 to:

Human Resources Babine Forest Products [email protected] (fax) 503-291-5590

Hampton offers competitive compensation and benefits, and is an equal opportunity employer. We wish to thank all those who apply; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

www.hamptonaffiliates.com

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITYThe Village of Burns Lake is currently seeking proposals for an hourly contract rate to repair and maintain various pieces of equipment. The successful proponent must be a certified mechanic with own tools, have a valid Village of Burns Lake Business License, and be registered with WorkSafeBC.

For more information please contact Sheryl Worthing at the Village Office at 250-692-7587. Proposals in the form of a cover letter with supporting documentation will be accepted until a suitable applicant is found.

Invitation to Bid

Custodial ServicesBulkley Valley Credit Union, Lakes District Branch, Burns Lake, BC is looking for quality professional custodial services.A complete list of required services is available at the BVCU office at Lakeview Mall, 117 Highway 16 Burns Lake, BC. Individuals and firms interested in provid-ing these services should contact Sandy Doré, Branch Manager, or Crystal Miller, Office Supervisor at 250 692-7761 for further information and to arrange for a pre-bid walk through of the premisesBids for custodial services will be accepted up to and including November 15, 2012. All bids must be sub-mitted to:Sandy DoréBulkley Valley Credit UnionLakeview Mall, 117 Highway 16PO Box 1029 Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0

Bulkley Valley Credit Union reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

Mature help wantedApproximately 20 hours a week

Apply in person with resume and references at the San-Bar in the

Lakeview Mall

Announcements

InformationLOCAL HOSPICE Services are available by contacting the Hospice Coordinator at (250) 692-2448. The Hospice offi ce, located in the Lakes District Hospital, is open every Thurs. from 10am - 4pm. A lending library of videos, books and information on be-reavement is available. Please make donations to the local hospice and palliative care program payable to the Burns Lake Hospice Program, Box 7500, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1EO

NECHAKO RIVER FLOW FACTS 24 October 2012

Reservoir Elevation: 852.34 m (2796.19ft)SLS Discharge: 63.3 m3/sCheslatta Falls: 57 m3/sNautley River: 11.5 m3/sVanderhoof: 79 m3/sIsle Pierre: 170 m3/sFor more information please call Rio Tinto Alcan at 250-567-5105. A recording of Flow Facts is available 24-hours in Vanderhoof at 567-5812

The Arthritis Society B.C. and Yukon division is your pri-mary source and resource of the latest print and electronic information, programs and ser-vices about arthritis. No matter where you live, you can ac-cess us at the touch of a but-ton. Toll free 1-800-321-1433 or visit www.arthritis.ca/bcThe Chronic Disease Educa-tion Clinic at the Lakes Dis-trict Hospital is open Tuesday & Wednesday from 8am-4pm. The clinic provides information and teaching on various chronic illnesses such as Dia-betes & Heart Disease. A doc-tors referral is not needed. To speak with the nurse call (250) 692-2440

Employment

Business Opportunities

EARN 100% plus on our new product. I will be selling our bulk new product below cost to interested buyers. Please for-ward your interests by email. [email protected].


Education/Trade Schools

LEARN FROM Home. Earn from home. Medical Transcrip-tionists are in demand. Lots of jobs! Enrol today for less than $95 a month. 1-800-466-1535 www.canscribe.com [email protected] & Work in the Tropics. Become a Professional Scuba Instructor. Government Ac-credited Student Financing Available. Professional Diver Training (PDT). Training Pro-fessional Divers Since 1987.www.professionaldivertraining.caREMOTESITESAFETY.CA Online safety courses from $29.95: WHMIS, H2S, TDG and more. 1 - 2 hours each. No classroom, books, CD/ DVDs. Canadian Standards Compliant. Industry recog-nized certifi cates issued.

Help WantedA PIZZA shop in Burns Lake is looking for a perm. f/time Cook and Pizza Maker. Must have min. 1 yr. exp. in Indian / Western fusion cooking and pizza making (Indian style piz-zas, samosas, curry dishes). Wages $11-$13/hr. Email re-sume to: [email protected]

Help Wanted


Help Wanted


Help Wanted Help Wanted


BUSINESS DIRECTORY

LAKES DISTRICT & AREA

250-692-6019

PumpsWater Treatment

Plumbing Repairs

Advertise your Business or Service here for

$20.00 per week.

Call Lakes District News 250-692-7526 for more information.

B’s Free Enterprises Ltd.

Box 420, 28540 Colleymount Rd., Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E2Phone: (250) 692-4353

Cell: (250) 692-6569 • email: [email protected]

Bill & Wendy ImusCertifi ed Appliance Repair& Computer Technicians

Computer Training, Sales & ServicePersonalized In Home Service

Delivery of Ink & Computer Supplies

Starting a Business?Expanding Your Business?

The Comfor/CFDCDevelopmental Lending Program

can help!For more information, call 1-800-556-5539

Greg KingcottDistributor for the Lakes District area

• Design Consultation • Reno & Installation Available

Phone: 250-692-7789Visit our website for door style options and colours:

www.vanwaycabinets.com

“Check Us Out”

DOGS DOGS DOGS!!!

250.877.6777Website: guardmastersecurity.com

GUARD MASTER BOARDING AND

DAYCARESMITHERS BC

Smithers Community ServicesAssociation

Job Posting – Competition #297CORR Home Program - Youth Resource Worker/Burns Lake

Smithers Community Services Association has an immediate opening for a Youth Resource Worker to assist in our CORR Homes Program in Burns Lake and surrounding area. This is a part time position (approx. 10-15 hrs per week) with a exi e schedu e. Youth Resource Work-ers a so receives a month y retainer shou d a youth e residing in the home or not.

Position summary: The Youth Resource Worker provides support to young offenders in meeting their court ap-pointed goa s and reintegrating into their home communities. This position re uires know edge in the app ication of various human and socia deve opment frameworks and demonstrated ski s and competencies working with youth. Ongoing support and training is provided.

ua i ations:A post secondary degree dip oma or certi cate in Socia Work and experience serving c ients in youth crimina ustice or e uiva ent com ina-tion of education and experience. App icants must demonstrate the a i ity to communicate c ear y and dip omatica y and e a e to work independent y in a high demand capacity. Additiona y app icants must undergo a crim-ina record check e wi ing to work outside of norma usiness hours and a so possess a va id C ass 5 driver s icense and have access to own transportation.

Please apply with resume to:Competition #297 - Youth Resource Worker - Burns Lake

mithers ommunity er i es sso iation15 B Rai way Avenue

Box 759 Smithers BC 0 2 0or Fax to 250-847-3712

or emai genera scsa.cao escription Avai a e at SmithersCommunity Services Association

Closing Date: November 16, 2012

Huckleberry Mines Ltd. is a 19,000 TPD open pit copper molybdenum mine located 120 km south of Houston in west central British Columbia. We are currently recruiting the following positions:

Mine Maintenance Serviceperson

Huckleberry Mines is looking for self starters who can work safely with minimal supervision, work well in a team environment and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills to join our Mine Maintenance Section. Under the supervision of the Mine Maintenance Supervisor and direction of journeymen, responsibilities for these positions will include cleaning and inspecting mobile equipment, performing routine services, dispensing fuel and oil and accurate record keeping.

To be successful in these positions, applicants require a mechanical aptitude, and previous experience working with mobile equipment.

Huckleberry Mines is a remote mine where its employees live in a camp environment on their days of work. This position works a 4 x 4 schedule (four day on, four days off). While at the mine site all meals and accommodations are provided free of charge to employees. Transportation is provided from Smithers and Houston.

Huckleberry Mines Ltd. offers a competitive salary and a full range of benefits including medical, life, disability income and RRSP savings plan.

We thank all applicants for their interest in Huckleberry Mines Ltd., but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Qualified candidates can submit their resumes in confidence to:

Human Resources Department Huckleberry Mines Ltd.

P.O. Box 3000, Houston, B.C. V0J 1Z0Fax: (604) 517-4701

Email: [email protected]

JOB POSTINGLake Babine Nation

HOUSING MANAGERThe Housing Manager is responsible for the administration, management and delivery of all social housing programs, services and properties within the community of Woyenne, Tachet and Fort Babine.

REQUIREMENTS:Experience with Financial, Human Resources and Program Management; Business Administration certificate / degree preferred.Knowledgeable about low income housing programs and associated funding sources and current real estate law and practices. Understanding of contract negotiation methods and legal procedures.Effective verbal and listening communication skillsEffective public relations and public speaking skillsHighly proficient computer skillsStrong time and stress management skillsPossess valid Driver’s License; own a vehicle (an asset)Lake Babine Nation offers competitive salary packages, an incredible work environment, and career advancement opportunities.

Please provide cover letter, resume and three (3) references to: Beatrice MacDonald, Human Resources P.O. Box 879, Burns Lake, B.C., V0J 1E0 Fax: 250-692-4790 Email: [email protected]

DEADLINE: November 16, 2012 at 12:00 p.m.

Only those short-listed will be contacted.

Tahtsa Timber Ltd. has full time TRUCK DRIVING POSITION available

in the Burns Lake area. Also looking for a HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC’S HELPER

To rates and bene ts a kage.

Fax resumes to 250-692-7140 or email to [email protected]

THINK SAFE! BE SAFE!

CONTROLLERBurns Lake Native Development Corporation requires a professional accountant (CGA or CMA) for the half-time position of Controller to oversee financial management functions at this economic development organization.

Reporting to the General Manager, the Controller is responsible for preparing and analyzing monthly financial statements, budgeting, supervising, and providing general business advice. The part-time position requires experience with Adagio or AccPac, good communication and decision-making skills, and proven supervisory abilities. Experience in public practice, fund accounting and accounting for logging companies an asset.

Cindy Shelford, General Manager Burns Lake Native Development Corp PO Box 1030, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 Website: www.blndc.ca Fax: (250) 692-7483 E-mail: [email protected]

Deadline for application is November 9, 2012 at 5pm

Employment

Help WantedAn Alberta Construction Com-pany is hiring Dozer and Exca-vator Operators. Preference will be given to operators that are experienced in oilfi eld road and lease construction. Lodg-ing and meals provided. The work is in the vicinity of Edson, Alberta. Alcohol & Drug testing required. Call Contour Con-struction at 780-723-5051.

Direct To U Wholesale Ltd.Experienced industrial supply sales person

and counter person and a road sales person

needed in Burns Lake. Apply in person with

resume at D.T.U. Atten: Bob or email [email protected],

fax: 250-692-3026 or call 250-692-3031.

MEAT MANAGER, Jasper Su-per A. Jasper Super A is look-ing for an experienced Retail Meat Manager. As Meat Man-ager you will be responsible for all aspects of the manag-ing the department, including cutting meat. You must have working knowledge of gross margins, expense controls and human resources manage-ment. The successful candi-date must have Grade 12 (or equivalent) and be able to provide a “clear” security clearance. If you have the skills and abilities please for-ward your resume to our Head Offi ce, The Grocery People Ltd. (TGP) in confi dence to: Human Resources Offi cer, The Grocery People Ltd., 14505 Yellowhead Trail, Ed-monton, AB, T5L 3C4. Fax 780-447-5781. Email: [email protected] MEDIA Consultant Needed: Do you specialize in PPC, SEO, and Social Media? Apply to our job posting at http://tinyurl.com/93zreqkRequired for an Alberta Truck-ing Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a minimum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be willing to relocate to Edson, Alberta. Fax resumes to: 780-725-4430

Income OpportunityEARN EXTRA Cash! - P/T, F/T immediate openings. Easy Computer work, other posi-tions are available. Can be done from home. No experi-ence needed. www.hwc-bc.com

Trades, TechnicalFALLERS needed for Seismic Line Cutting: Must be BC or Enform Level 3 Certifi ed. Start mid to late November until March 2013. Call (250)229-4709 [email protected] www.wildfi reinterface.caJOURNEYMAN TECHNICIAN required immediately for Chrysler/ Dodge/ Jeep dealer-ship in Salmon Arm, BC. Prov-en producer, good attitude, quality workmanship a must. Excellent wage and benefi t package. Contact Pat 250-832-8053, [email protected] MOUNTAIN FALLING is looking for Certifi ed Fallers for seis-mic work in BC & Alberta. For more info contact Jordan at 250-596-9488 or [email protected]

Work WantedProcessor looking for winter work. Available immediately. Call (604)798-2171

Services

Health ProductsGET 50% OFF - Join Herbal Magic this week and get 50% Off. Lose weight quickly, safe-ly and keep it off, proven re-sults! Call Herbal Magic today! 1-800-854-5176.

Financial ServicesDROWNING IN Debt? Helping Canadians 25 years. Lower payments by 30%, or cut debts 70% thru Settlements. Avoid bankruptcy! Free con-sultation. Toll Free 1 877-556-3500 www.mydebtsolution.comM O N E Y P ROV I D E R . C O M . $500 Loan and +. No Credit Refused. Fast, Easy, 100% Secure. 1-877-776-1660.

Help Wanted Help Wanted Help Wanted Help Wanted

A healthy local economy depends on you

SHOP LOCALLY


Delivery Available from our Cold Beer, Wine & Liquor Store

~ Convenient parking ~ Wide selection of wine Hard liquor at liquor store prices

Open until 11:00 pm everyday

Join us for WING NITE on Wednesday or Thursday PRAWN NITE and Fridays are always PRIME RIB NITE

Located on Francois Lake Drive, Burns Lake Pub: 250-692-0068 • Liquor store: 250-692-0067

Free WIFI

We have a relaxed atmosphere with great service!

New menu items

coming soon!

New England Clam ChowderCream soup with baby clams, bacon, and fresh

vegetables served with French bread

CONCONTESTESTSTS PR PRODUODUCTSCTS ST STOREORESS FLYFLYERSERS DE DEALSALS CO COUPOUPONSNSBROBROCHUCHURESRES CA CATALTALOGUOGUESES CONCONTESTESTSTS PR PRODUODUCTSCTS ST STOREORESS

FLYFLYERSERS DEDEALSALS COCOUPOUPONSNS BROBROCHUCHURESRES CACATALTALOGUOGUESESFLYERS DEALS COUPONS BROCHURES CATALOGUES

Are you part of the community?

Find this blog post and more when you click on the community tab!

Not a member yet? Sign up, it’s FREE

SAVE TIME. SAVE MONEY.

your source for FREE coupons

Check out this week’s post from Retail Therapy!

Invest now in wardrobe pieces

Retail Therapy

Financial ServicesGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB. 1-877-987-1420.

www.pioneerwest.com

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: it’s that simple. Your credit/age/income is not an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

NEED MONEY? No credit checks! No upfront fees! Im-mediate response! Electronic deposits and payments! 1 (866) 499-5629 www.mynextpay.com

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.

Merchandise for Sale

Misc. for SaleCRAFTSMAN SNOWBLOWER for sale. 9.5hp, electric starter, purchased in 2006. Asking $600. (250) 692-3996

FOR SALEGlass L shaped desk$50 (250) 698-7533

Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/news-paper?

OLDER CAMPER FOR SALE

Fridge, PropaneFurnace and Stove.

$400Call in the evening

250-698-7533STEEL BUILDINGS - Cana-dian made! - Reduced prices now! 20x22 $4,455. 25x26 $4,995. 30x38 $7,275. 32x50 $9,800. 40x54 $13,995. 47x80 $19,600. One end wall includ-ed. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 250-863-3082 in Town

Real Estate

For Sale By Owner

14’ x 71’Very well kept Mobile

Home for sale in Freeport Mobile Home Park• 2 large bedrooms

• Bay window• Vaulted ceilings

• Open fl oor concept• Very little hallway

• New carpet throughout• Natural gas orpropane furnace

• 2 new 6’ x 8’treated decks$45,000

(250) [email protected]

For Sale By Owner

HOUSE AND 5 ACRES1465 sq. ft. up / 1200 sq. ft. down approx. Minutes from town, numerous trails out-back. Lg. living area, kitch-en, dining room, living room, gorgeous mountain view with a deck. Three lg. bdrms, two smaller bdrms down-stairs, lg. rec-room, mud room, gas & wood heat, sec-ond bathroom and front foy-er, attached two bay garage. Lg. yard, lighted skating rink, gardens and green house. Wired workshop. Full wood shed.

Asking $250,000To view call Traci

(250) 692-3908

HOUSE FOR SALEBY OWNER

16722 COLLEYMOUNT

ROAD• Also a guest house

and other outbuildings• On 20 acres of land

• 420 feet of Lake shore with a boat

shelterASKING $230,000

Call John at(250) 695-6548

Legal Notices

FIND EVERYTHING YOUNEED IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

Mobile Homes & Parks

MODULAR HOMES and park model homes factory direct wholesale. New single wides $37,209 doubles $73,486 Spe-cial winter discounts! Call The Home Boys 877-976-3737 or www.hbmodular.ca

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentLARGE BRIGHT 2 bedroom suites in a safe and secure building. Close to school and hospital. Large patio, in-suite storage and storage lockers available. On site manage-ment. Heat, hot water and cable included for $700 per month. Call (250) 692-3959 and leave message.

Transportation

Trucks & Vans

2010 CHEVROLET Express 8 Passenger Van. 1500 AWD, Very clean, runs great, fl ex fuel-gas and has new studded winter tires. 61,000 km. Con-tact Jen 250-694-3873. $19,900.00

Puzzle Answers

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

AND OTHERSIN THE MATTER OF

THE ESTATE OF JOHN STAUDT, DECEASED,

FORMERLY OF BURNS LAKE, BC

All parties having claims against the said Estate are required to forward particulars of the same to the law fi rm of WARREN CHAPMAN LAW OF-FICE, solicitor for the personal representative at P.O. Box 258, Burns Lake, British Columbia, V0J 1E0, on or before the 10th day of Decem-ber 2012 after which date the claims fi led may be paid without reference to any claim of which the Personal Representa-tives then has no knowl-edge.

Personal Representative,by:

Warren Chapman,Solicitor

NOTICE TO CREDITORS


THE ESTATE OF RUBY LILLIAN FONTAINE, DE-CEASED, FORMERLY OF BURNS LAKE, BC

All parties having claims against the said Estate are required to forward particulars of the same to the law fi rm of WARREN CHAPMAN LAW OF-FICE, solicitor for the personal representative at P.O. Box 258, Burns Lake, British Columbia, V0J 1E0, on or before the 10th day of Decem-ber 2012 after which date the claims fi led may be paid without reference to any claim of which the Personal Representa-tives then has no knowl-edge.



NOTICE TO CREDITORS


THE ESTATE OF JOHN RAYMOND FONTAINE, DECEASED, FORMER-

LY OF BURNS LAKE, BCAll parties having claims against the said Estate are required to forward particulars of the same to the law fi rm of WARREN CHAPMAN LAW OF-FICE, solicitor for the personal representative at P.O. Box 258, Burns Lake, British Columbia, V0J 1E0, on or before the 10th day of Decem-ber 2012 after which date the claims fi led may be paid without reference to any claim of which the Personal Representa-tives then has no knowl-edge.



NOTICETO

CREDITORSIN THE MATTER OF

THE ESTATE OF LORNA EVELYNE

BENNETT, DeceasedFormerly of

Burns Lake, BCAll parties having claims against the said Estate are required to forward particulars of same to the law fi rm of WINGHAM LAW CORPORATION, Solicitor for the Personal Representative, at P.O. Box 1489, Vanderhoof, British Columbia, V0J 3A0, on or before the 25th day of November, 2012 after which date the claims fi led may be paid without reference to any claims of which the Per-sonal Representative then has no knowledge.

Personal Representative by:

Christopher K. Wingham,Solicitor

NOTICE TOREMOVE

PRIVATE LAND FROM WOODLOT

LICENCES1530, 1531 &

1686Please be advised that Sivert Andersen, Licenc-ee for WL1530, Shawn Andersen, Licencee for WL1531, and Mary An-dersen and Carmelle Clovis, Licencees for WL1686 are proposing to remove private land from the 3 Woodlots. The 3 properties located at Palling and are approxi-mately 200ha each. Questions, comments or requests for information regarding this transfer can be sent to Free Growing Forestry Ltd., Box 510, Burns Lake BC, V0J 1E0 before Novem-ber 30th 2012.

NOTICE TOREMOVE

PRIVATE LAND FROM WOOD-LOT LICENCE

W0128Please be advised that John Mould is proposing to remove 15 hectares of private land from Wood-lot Licence W0128 locat-ed southwest of Francois Lake (Ootsa Nadina Road). Inquires and/or comments must be sub-mitted to The Forestdale Canyon Adventure Ltd. (Alison Patch, RPF) at Box 31, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 by November 23, 2012. Only written in-quires received by this date will be responded to. Information about this proposal can be obtained by contacting the above mentioned at 250-695-6340.

Shop from home!

Breathe through a straw for 60 seconds. That’s what breathing is like with cystic fibrosis.

No wonder so many people with CF stop breathing

in their early 30s.

Please help us.

MORE HELP WANTED

418 Yellowhead Hwy., Burns Lake

250-692-7213

Employment OpportunityPharmacy Assistant

Rexall Drug Store Burns Lake (part time - may lead to full time). Must be responsible, moti-vated, customer service oriented and posses strong communication and organization skills. Must be proficient computer/data entry skills. References required. Apply in person or call.

Notice of Annual General Meeting

Film society members who attend will receive a

FREE PASS to any movie shown at the

Beacon Theatre!

The 2012 Annual General Meeting of the Lakes District

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012 6:30 P.M.

BURNS LAKE PUBLIC LIBRARY BASEMENT

Action items will include election of officers for the coming year.

Come hear the film society’s recent accomplishments, as well as its plans

for the future.

Film Society (dba the Beacon Theatre) will be held:





24 www.ldnews.net Wednesday, October 31, 2012 Lakes District NewsON

NOW

AT

YOUR

BC

BUIC

K GM

C DE

ALER

S. G

MC.

GM.C

A 1-

800-

GM-D

RIVE

. GM

C is

a b

rand

of

Gene

ral

Mot

ors

of C

anad

a. *

/††O

ffers

app

ly t

o th

e pu

rcha

se o

f a

2012

Sie

rra L

ight

Dut

y Cr

ew C

ab,

Terra

in S

LE-1

, ba

sed

on a

pur

chas

e pr

ice

of $

26,2

95,

equi

pped

as

desc

ribed

. Fr

eigh

t in

clud

ed (

$1,4

95).

Lice

nse,

ins

uran

ce,

regi

stra

tion,

PPS

A, a

dmin

istra

tion

fees

and

tax

es n

ot i

nclu

ded.

Dea

lers

are

fre

e to

set

ind

ivid

ual

pric

es.

Lim

ited

time

offe

rs w

hich

may

not

be

com

bine

d w

ith o

ther

offe

rs,

and

are

subj

ect

to c

hang

e w

ithou

t no

tice.

Offe

rs a

pply

to

qual

ified

ret

ail

cust

omer

s in

the

BC

Buic

k GM

C De

aler

Mar

ketin

g As

soci

atio

n ar

ea o

nly.

Cond

ition

s an

d lim

itatio

ns a

pply.

See

dea

ler

for

deta

ils.

Purc

hase

fin

anci

ng o

ffere

d on

app

rove

d cr

edit

by T

D Au

to F

inan

cing

Ser

vice

s/Al

ly C

redi

t. 2.

99%

fin

anci

ng o

ffere

d on

new

or

dem

onst

rato

r Te

rrain

SLE

-1

mod

els

for

84 m

onth

s. R

ates

fro

m o

ther

len

ders

will

vary

. Do

wn

paym

ent,

trade

and

/or

secu

rity

depo

sit

may

be

requ

ired.

Mon

thly

pay

men

t an

d co

st o

f bo

rrow

ing

will

vary

dep

endi

ng o

n am

ount

bor

row

ed a

nd d

own

paym

ent/t

rade

. Ex

ampl

e: $

10,0

00 a

t 2.

99%

APR

, th

e m

onth

ly p

aym

ent

is $

132

for

84 m

onth

s. C

ost

of b

orro

win

g is

$1,

088,

tot

al o

blig

atio

n is

$11

,088

. ▼

Base

d on

GM

Tes

ting

in a

ccor

danc

e w

ith a

ppro

ved

Tran

spor

t Ca

nada

te

st m

etho

ds. Y

our

actu

al f

uel c

onsu

mpt

ion

may

var

y. +

The

Best

Buy

sea

l is

a re

gist

ered

tra

dem

ark

of C

onsu

mer

s Di

gest

Com

mun

icat

ions

, LLC

, use

d un

der

licen

se.

^*

For

mor

e in

form

atio

n vi

sit

iihs.

org/

ratin

gs. ^

5 ye

ar/1

60,0

00 k

m (w

hich

ever

com

es f

irst)

Pow

ertra

in C

ompo

nent

war

rant

y. Co

nditi

ons

and

limita

tions

app

ly. B

ased

on

mos

t re

cent

pub

lishe

d co

mpe

titiv

e da

ta a

vaila

ble

for

War

dsAu

to.c

om 2

012

Larg

e Pi

ckup

seg

men

tatio

n. S

ee d

eale

r fo

r de

tails

. ¥¥

2012

GM

C Te

rrain

FW

D eq

uipp

ed w

ith s

tand

ard

2.4L

ECO

TEC®

I-4

engi

ne. C

ompa

rison

bas

ed o

n Na

tura

l Res

ourc

es C

anad

a’s

2012

Fue

l Con

sum

ptio

n Gu

ide

and

War

d’s

Mid

dle

Cros

s/Ut

ility

Segm

ent.

Exc

lude

s ot

her

GM m

odel

s. *

†Com

paris

on b

ased

on

2012

War

ds s

egm

enta

tion:

M

iddl

e/Cr

oss

Utilit

y Ve

hicl

e an

d la

test

com

petit

ive

data

ava

ilabl

e, a

nd b

ased

on

the

max

imum

legr

oom

ava

ilabl

e. E

xclu

des

othe

r GM

bra

nds.

u$1

1,50

0/$3

,500

m

anuf

actu

rer

to d

eale

r de

liver

y cr

edit

avai

labl

e on

the

201

2 Si

erra

Lig

ht D

uty

Crew

Cab

/Ter

rain

for

ret

ail c

usto

mer

s on

ly a

nd a

re t

ax e

xclu

sive

. Oth

er c

ash

cred

its a

vaila

ble

on m

ost

mod

els.

See

you

r GM

C de

aler

for

det

ails

. †*T

o qu

alify

for

GM

CL’s

Cash

For

Clu

nker

s in

cent

ive,

you

mus

t: (1

) tu

rn in

a 2

006

or o

lder

MY

vehi

cle

that

is in

run

ning

con

ditio

n an

d ha

s be

en r

egis

tere

d an

d pr

oper

ly in

sure

d in

you

r na

me

for

the

last

3 m

onth

s (2

) tu

rn in

a

2006

or

olde

r M

Y ve

hicl

e th

at is

in r

unni

ng c

ondi

tion

and

has

been

reg

iste

red

and

prop

erly

insu

red

unde

r a

smal

l bus

ines

s na

me

for

the

last

3 m

onth

s. G

MCL

will

prov

ide

elig

ible

con

sum

ers

with

a m

anuf

actu

rer

to c

onsu

mer

ince

ntiv

e (ta

x in

clus

ive)

to

be u

sed

tow

ards

the

pur

chas

e/fin

ance

/leas

e of

a n

ew e

ligib

le 2

012

or 2

013

MY

Chev

role

t Co

lora

do, G

MC

Cany

on, C

hevr

olet

Silv

erad

o, G

MC

Sier

ra, o

r Ch

evro

let A

vala

nche

del

iver

ed b

etw

een

Octo

ber

2, 2

012

and

Janu

ary

2, 2

013.

Ince

ntiv

e ra

nges

fro

m $

1500

to

$3,0

00, d

epen

ding

on

mod

el p

urch

ased

. In

cent

ive

may

not

be

com

bine

d w

ith c

erta

in o

ther

offe

rs.

By p

artic

ipat

ing

in t

he C

ash

For

Clun

kers

pro

gram

you

will

not

be e

ligib

le f

or a

ny t

rade

-in v

alue

for

you

r ve

hicl

e. S

ee y

our

parti

cipa

ting

GM d

eale

r fo

r ad

ditio

nal p

rogr

am c

ondi

tions

and

det

ails

. GM

CL m

ay m

odify

, ext

end

or t

erm

inat

e pr

ogra

m in

who

le o

r in

par

t at

any

tim

e w

ithou

t no

tice.

Recycle your 2006 model year or older vehicle and receive up to $3,000

towards the cash purchase, financing or leasing of an eligible 2012 or 2013 Sierra (HD amount shown).

$3,000†*UPTO

GMC.GM.CASCAN HERE

TO FIND YOURS

DENALI MODEL SHOWN

LOWEST PRICES AND PAYMENTSOF THE YEAR ON SELECT MODELS

MODEL YEAR-END EVENT

+^*

MPGHIGHWAY

9.4L/100kM HWY14.3L/100kM CITY▼

30

SLT MODEL SHOWN

MPGHIGHWAY

6.1L/100kM HWY9.2L/100kM CITY▼

46

2012 TERRAIN SLE-12012 TERRAIN SLE-1

FINANCEAT 2.99% FOR

FINANCEAT 2.99% $148BI-WEEKLY/

84 MONTHS/$1,999 DOWN††

- Better Highway Fuel Efficiencythan CR-V, RAV4 or Santa Fe¥¥

- Best-In-Class Rear Legroom(1013mm)*†

LOWEST PAYMENTOF THE YEAR

VISIT YOUR BC GMC DEALER TODAY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE LIMITED TIME OFFERS

Note to Publication: PLEASE examine this material upon receipt. If it is deficient or does not comply with your requirements, contact: Amberlea Schaab - Production Director 604-601-8573 Adam Buechler - Production Artist 604-601-8577

Production Artist: Art Director: Creative Director:

Production Director: Copywriter: Account Manager:

APPROVALSC M Y K CLIENT :DOCKET :

AD # : SIZE : FONTS : RESOLUTION : INSERTION DATE:

PUB : PROOF : DATE :

GMSBCP01173527.10.MMW.4C10” x 196L (14”)Gotham Family, Klavika Family220 dpi See MRFTAB1 12.10.12

- Proven V-8 Power withBest-in-Class Fuel Efficiency▼

- Best-In-Class 5 year/160,000km Powertrain Warranty^

LOWEST PRICEOF THE YEAR

2012 SIERRA CREW CAB

CASHCREDITSu

NOW WITH

$11,500

3527.10.MMW.4C.indd 1 12-10-12 4:30 PM

Burns Lake District News - March 17, 2010

Call Sullivan Motor Products at 250-845-2244, or visit us at 2760 Yellowhead Highway, Houston. [License #5631]

Burns Lake Lakes District News, October 31, 2012

Documents

Transcript of Burns Lake Lakes District News, October 31, 2012