Caledonia Courier, June 13, 2012

Ruth LloydCaledonia Courier

A meeting to discuss concerns about the North Road revealed the lack of funds for the highway may be limiting growth in Fort St. James.

Twenty-fi ve people gathered in the District of Fort St. James on a sunny Saturday to voice their concerns and while safety is still a concern for those living or working on the road, economic impacts were at the forefront, both now and in the future.

While the connector road to Mackenzie is still open to full weight capacity, the North Road is not, and conditions on the road are considered some of the worst residents on Puntzi Road have seen in over twenty years.

Mount Milligan Mine is contributing to keep-ing the connector road to Mackenzie open and passable during breakup, according to Scott Mor-rison, transportation committee representative for the mine.

The North Road, however, is a highway, not a forestry road, and therefore it is managed, main-tained and funded by the Ministry of Transporta-tion and Infrastructure.

Attendees at the meeting were very direct in putting their concerns forward, and Councillor Joan Burdeniuk opened the meeting with a strong statement for the community.

“We just have some signifi cant concerns that the condition of the North Road is very much nega-tively impacting the community of Fort St. James’ ability to be economically viable within this area,” said Burdeniuk. “We want this addressed -it’s not acceptable, it’s not okay.”

Mount Milligan opening up their Environmen-tal Assessment Certifi cate in order to change their load out facility to Mackenzies infl uenced by their inability to haul on the North Road at 100 per cent year-round, according to Burdeniuk.

“I know we just get it done, it’s just our nature. we don’t complain a lot, we don’t whine a lot we never have,” said Burdeniuk. But she made it clear the community was no longer going to sit back and stay quiet about this problem any longer.

Mayor Rob MacDougall recalled the support the community gave when he was mayor previously for the construction of the connector, which cost $10.3 million, but there were also discussions at the same time that some upgrades would be looked at on the Fort St. James side to improve the road as Mount Milligan was developed.

“Today, nothing has been done,” said MacDou-gall. “There’s been absolutely nothing done with

the substructure … there’s mud showing through in all areas … for a Class B highway that is com-pletely unacceptable.”

He suggested with the years of resource extrac-tion which has taken place on the road over the de-cades of its use, there should have been more than enough money to maintain the road properly.

“We’re not getting money back and as a result we’re losing an opportunity in our community in the way of the load out (ore shipping facility for the mine),” he said.

Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad agreed lost economic opportunity for the community due to the road would be a problem for him.

“That’s unacceptable in my mind,” he said. “Es-pecially considering the 10.3 (million dollars) that was spent on a connector road to another commu-nity … but clearly there needs to be some invest-ment on our side too.”

Creative solutions were discussed, such as the possibility of turning the North Road into a forest service road as well, instead of a highway, but then there were concerns this may negatively impact residents who live along the road.

Rustad was not optimistic any signifi cant up-

grades would be able to be done this year, as the ministry is still doing “catch-up” after money set aside for improvements to problem areas last year was used up due to the severe damage the road sus-tained.

“I don’t think there’s anything we can do to get additional capital,” he said. “I would like to give a different answer, but I also want to be realistic.”

He did, however, give the community advice on how to help make a case for funding the improve-ments, even if they would not happen this year.

He advised the committee members to try and put forward a case giving a sense of the economic impact the poor road conditions is having or will have on the community and to summarize some of the safety concerns with numbers of accidents or incidents.

Rustad also clarifi ed what has been done on the road recently and said this spring the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is doing testing on the road to put together a plan to strengthen it.

“I want to straighten the record out … there has been more than $3 million spent in the last number of years on strengthening that road over and above maintenance,” he said.

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Cullen hosts Town Hall

Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen will be host-ing another tele-phone town hall June 12, after this paper arrives in the mail.

He will be joined on the town hall by Deputy Leader and Environment Critic Megan Leslie.

“Our first call in March 2011 was very popular,” said Cul-len. “We were joined by 8,100 constituents and took questions on everything from health care to the economy.”

Cullen invited the Opposition’s environment critic to guest on the town hall because of wide-spread interest in the riding around harsh cuts to environmental protection announced in the Conservatives’ omnibus budget bill.

They will take as many questions as the one-hour event, set to start at 7 p.m. Pacific, will allow. Last year, 21 of the 251 questions posed were answered live on line, were fol-lowed up on within a few weeks.

There is no charge to join the town hall. All listed residential telephone numbers in the northwest will be dialed between 7-7:30 p.m. on June 12.

North Road is holding Fort backTransportation Committee argues Fort is missing out on economic benefi ts thanks to North Road conditions

Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad speaks to the area Transportation Committee and concerned citi-zens about the condition of the North Road.

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Treeplanters plant a seedRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

Treeplanters working for Artisan Reforestation gave over $3,400 to the Fort St. James Community Foundation this year.

Peter Horak, owner of Artisan, spoke to his planters about the cause and what the foundation is trying to do, to establish a trust fund for the commu-nity where the interest helps to fund local projects and causes.

Then the crew of planters jumped on board, agreeing to plant for a day and

donate the proceeds to the Fort St. James Community Foundation.“I thought it was a pretty good showing,” said Joyce Helweg of the Com-

munity Foundation. She was impressed the planters, who spend only a few weeks in the com-

munity each year believed in the foundation enough to do a day’s work for them.

The funds will be matched by the District of Fort St. James, and then those funds will again be matched by the Northern Development Initiative Trust (NDIT).

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NEWSCourierPhoenix from the ashes…

GUF makes plans to rebuild their recycling centre and revamp their strategic plan for the future


“Don’t give up, because we’re coming back bigger and stronger.”

Louise Evans-Salt, spokesperson for Greening Up Fort St. James So-ciety (GUF), gave the announcement recently the group will be rebuilding after a fi re destroyed their recycling facility.

The building may even be rebuilt sooner and have less of a fi nancial shortfall than was originally feared.

So far, the group has learned the total cost of a rebuild will be around $90,000, and would include two fi re-rated steel doors instead of the wood construction doors the fi rst building had.

They have also learned the concrete slab poured for the building will not have to be demolished and replaced.

“We’re really fortunate we don’t have to replace the slab because that would have been big money,” said Jana Gainor , GUF recycling coordinator.

The demolition and landfi lling of the concrete and rebar was estimated in the thousands.

Instead, the slab will only have to be capped to repair some minor goug-ing which damaged the surface.

The group also saved some money on their cleanup costs thanks to Brad Miller of BAM BAM trucking. Miller generously donated nearly three days of cleanup on the site, which included the use of equipment, a crew and haul-ing the materials to the dump. Miller also had his staff separating the insula-tion and wood from the metal roofi ng in order to recycle the metal.

Gainor said the contribution was huge.

So while the group will still be looking at a shortfall, it appears it may be in the area of less than $10,000, where they previously had worried it could be in the tens of thousands.

As for the time frame to get the new recycling centre built, Gainor said a contractor they have spoken to ex-pects to be able to complete the build

within two months of starting it, and would be able to start sooner than she had initially anticipated.

She is hopeful they may be able to get the new building done as soon as the end of August.

In the meantime, GUF is still look-ing at setting up a temporary site for fi bre collection and Riverside Repairs has also offered to help out by donat-ing their property for the temporary facility.

A shelter Riverside erected on their property could house the bailer and recyclable fi bre, if GUF can purchase the bailer before the building is com-pleted.

Not being able to accept fi bre in the meantime is a concern for the group.

“That’s a challenge and we know that the Fort St. James community has really made a commitment to recycle,” said Evans-Salt.

She hopes people are willing to help to store the fi bre for the time be-ing or pool fi bre with friends driving through area communities which still

have facilities such as Vanderhoof or Prince George.

“Don’t fi ll up the landfi ll,” said Evans-Salt, urging people to help the community continue to reduce its waste.

The group met with partners last week, including Mount Milligan, who were just starting a recycling program in partnership with GUF not long be-fore the facility burned.

The group is now looking at updat-ing their strategic plan to adjust for the setback and to see where they should go from here.

“How do we grow the recycling initiative, how do we prevent another setback or crisis,” said Evans-Salt.

Along these lines, the group held a public meeting at the public library last week, getting input from the com-munity on what they would like to see from the group, and they also hope to increase membership and raise further funds through a membership drive.

“Finances is a big issue,” said Ev-ans-Salt. “We’re defi nitely going to

have to increase our funding base.”As a volunteer-driven, nonprofi t

organization, the group will now be working to make up the shortfall for the cost to rebuild through various fundraising efforts.

While the news is good the group will be able to rebuild, there are still going to be some hurdles, as the fi re has set the group back signifi cantly from where they had hoped to be.

Aiming to make themselves self-sustaining within two and a half years of starting the building with the fund-ing they had in place, the fi re will likely set the group back a year.

“Basically, it gives us less time to become self-sustaining,” said Gainor.

By the end of 2013, the group will need enough money to continue to operate. This may also be impacted by the new Product Stewardship leg-islation which will come into effect, changing the structure of recycling in the province. But no one is yet sure ex-actly what the legislative changes will mean in practice.

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A sign promoting the Fort St. James Historic Site and the community has some local residents with their tail feathers in a knot.

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Feathers in a fl apRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

A sign promot-ing Fort St. James on Highway 16, a few ki-lometres east of Van-derhoof, has been at-tracting quite a bit of attention.

The large bill-board sign shows five chicken hens run-ning across the sign with the words Fort St. James and World Class Chicken Racing along the top.

The sign replaced a Fort St. James Na-tional HIstoric Site sign which was worn and needed retiring, and Bob Grill, site manager at the histor-ic site, came up with the concept in the hopes it would attract attention and visitors not only to the site, but also to the town of Fort St. James itself.

“I think it’s nice to have people that come to Fort St. James (for the park) also go into the town,” said Grill.

The concept of the chickens came about through a natu-ral progression from the “More than a one horse town” sign, which the local Cham-ber of Commerce asked Grill to come up with within a very short time frame.

He showed them the concept, and while he said the chamber wasn’t overly excited about the image, be-cause they were short on time to make it

happen, they went with the idea.

From the horses running across a sign, the idea of chickens running across seemed like a good tie-in and chicken racing has been an attraction at the park which has gained interest over the past three years. The races were first implemented after historical reading of daily activities in the life of the fort got Grill thinking about horse racing, which would not have been very feasible as a park attraction, but chicken racing was, and he found out oth-er people were doing it as well.

“It’s different,” said Grill, which is why the races attract-ed some attention.

Since the races themselves generated attention, and the idea was to intrigue pass-ers-by with an image on a billboard, Grill designed the whim-sical new sign to try and build on this.

They also have a large ad in the latest Visitor Guide with a park interpreter hold-ing a chicken which has been getting lots of positive reaction, which also helped point them in the di-rection of a chicken theme.

“It seems to be working to me,” said Grill. “I’ve never heard anybody talk about a sign before.”

People have been talking all right. With a phone call from peo-ple pleased with the sign and park visitors who came to the site to see chicken racing, Grill has gotten some very positive feed-back.

When the image went out online be-fore it was put up along the highway, posted on <The Cou-rier> Facebook page and through email networks, Grill had requests for t-shirts to be made, and the online responses were all positive, some from as far away as Ottawa.

The park also asked for feedback from some of their other associates in the area, and the responses all affirmed the sign stuck with them and most found it humor-ous.

Locally, however, there has been some negative feedback coming in, with the District of Fort St. James receiving two or three phone calls complaining the sign is an embarrassment and the callers saying it made them ashamed for their town.

One group called Grill at work and told him they didn’t like the sign, but he said once he explained the reasons behind it and they realized there re-ally is chicken racing at the park, they went away happy.

Grill said he’s hap-py to talk to people about the sign and hear concerns, but he has had far more positive feedback than negative, with the only negative re-sponses coming from Fort St. James resi-dents, but this isn’t as big a concern as the reaction from tourists or travellers.

“It’s not directed at people that live here,”

said Grill.The next sign in

the series will feature a number of Rain-bow trout swimming across the sign with the words Fort St. James and underneath: Home of endless rain-bows The sign will be put on the reverse side of the “More than a One Horse Town” sign at the junction of Highway 27 and Highway 16.

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All afl utter about nothing


It has been very interesting to hear some people’s reaction to the somewhat notori-ous “chicken racing” sign on Highway 16.

The mayor called about doing a story on the sign to help people understand where it came from and what the intention was behind it.

Apparently he was tired of having to deal with the phone calls complaining about it from local residents.

It got me to thinking, now why would people have a problem with the sign? What possible reason would people have to criti-cize a whimsical sign promoting their com-munity?

Perhaps it is the large amount of bad press the small community has generated in the past two years.

So are people concerned the sign makes the community look like a bunch of chick-en-racing fools?

This, on top of the negative stories in the provincial and national press are perhaps a bit much for people to take.

But why would a clearly funny sign make anyone think badly of Fort St. James?

The sign makes you wonder, creates cu-riosity and because it is different, I argue it sticks with you, planting a seed which may help to draw people up the road, which should be the goal.

I would argue the people who have a problem with the sign have a bigger prob-lem than the sign — a much bigger prob-lem. They take themselves far too seri-ously.

Lacking a sense of humour is no laugh-ing matter.

In all fairness, having a chip on your shoulder about the place you live does in no way make it more appealing to people, instead enjoy where you live and have a bit of a chuckle about some of its little idio-syncrasies.

If you appreciate the great place you live, why be defensive about it and why get your beak out of joint over a little chicken race?

Perhaps those concerned about it should head on over to the historic site in July this year and get in on the chicken racing action, it’s a lot more fun than you might think.

Then when you drive by the sign in the future, instead of clucking in disapproval, perhaps you’ll have a good laugh, which really is the best medicine after all.

The “value” in family

Christina MillingtonBlack Press

Family values.They tend to stick with you through the years

even when they’ve seemed to have bit the dust ages ago.

I have fond memories of my childhood, for it wasn’t limited by too many rules, rather encour-agement to get into a little trouble and learn life les-sons the hard way.

To some that may sound odd, for parents gener-ally set guidelines for their children to follow with-out question or room to bend them.

My parents thought that if we went through the adversities of learning life lessons through our own mistakes rather then in their shadow, we would take more from them.

Fast-forward to today; being a 27-year-old pro-fessional, it’s those very lessons that I recall when having to deal with adult responsibilities and mak-ing judgment calls with the unfamiliar.

My Nana Millington, whom has a heart of gold, has been an amazing role model when it comes to family values, respecting others and most impor-tantly, staying true to ones self.

However, visits to the Millington household of-ten consisted of routine.

My siblings and I would kick off our shoes and toss our jackets aside to then march into the kitchen where my granddad would often be sitting at the head of the table doing a crossword or lost in the

daily print.Manners were important at this point for my

granddad wouldn’t tolerate our silly hearts when it came to being respectful.

“Hello, Granddad,” not “hi Granddad, hi or hello.” Full sentences were required.

It’s those memories that I look back on as hum-bling. I loved the rigors of it, as well as the likeli-hood that I had my manners backwards the major-ity of the time - which resulted in time outs at the top of the stairs.

As a child, family gatherings were quite fre-quent.

My siblings and cousins were often required to retreat to the basement, to allow our parents to have time to mingle without the worry of chasing after us.

We were often lured to activities that would pro-duce the most sound; and that activity in the Mil-lington household was the grand piano.

Pianist we were most defi nitely not, therefore, ever so often we would hear a holler from the up-stairs living room as a kind reminder to keep our fi ngers off the pearly keys.

Leaving the nest, fi nding your way in life is an encouraged journey that many look forward to – leaving your parents behind, not too far behind, with hope to pave the way as a new chapter un-folds.

Here’s to family values and making them your own, with the slightest tweak and with the silliest of hearts.

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NEWSCourierThe Doctor Game

Do You Really Need a Colonoscopy?Dr. W. Gifford-Jones M.D.Contributed

Is there any way that you can avoid having a colonos-copy? A survey showed that many believed the test isn’t needed until symptoms occur. Others said their doctor never suggested one, or they were too embarrassed to discuss it. Still others said it was too painful. If you’re thinking this way, think again, it may cost you your life.

But there is some good news about colonoscopy. A report from the University of California says it’s time to stop offering this procedure as the only way to diagnose large bowel cancer.

Instead, doctors should also be suggesting sigmoidoscopy and the fecal occult blood test (FOBT). So, why this change in thinking?

One prime reason is that colonoscopy is always a hard sell. Patients don’t like the bowel preparation, the strong laxative, and drinking copious amounts of water.

And many have heard of the discomfort. So why not inform the public of more pa-tient-friendly methods and in-crease the number of cancers being detected?

But does this make sense? Dr. James Allison, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, an expert on co-lon rectal screening, says that colonoscopy, which examines the entire large bowel, has never been proven as the gold

standard compared to other tests.

For instance, Allison re-ports there is evidence that sigmoidoscopy, done every fi ve years, is just as effec-tive as colonoscopy every 10 years.

A sigmoidoscopy examines just the lower part of the large bowel, requires less bowel preparation, only minimal dis-comfort and is a much easier sell. Besides, the sigmoid is where most cancers occur. But the big negative is that a sig-moidoscopy will miss cancers that are in the more distant parts of the colon. Two studies are currently in process to see if this thinking is correct.

The most patient-friendly test is the annual FOBT used to detect hidden (occult) blood in stool samples. If the home kit detects blood, further tests such as colonoscopy must be done. The FOBT is still the standard test in many parts of the world as it’s less expen-sive. One problem is its false positive tests due to certain foods, medication or vitamin C. It also produces occasional false negatives that miss pol-yps or cancers that in the early stages do not bleed.

But is the colonoscopy test always accurate? As one wise sage said, “All that glit-ters is not gold”. He could have add-ed that colonosco-py, considered the gold standard, pro-

vides a glittering look at the bowel, but is not perfect and can miss up to four percent of malignancies.

One problem is that can-cers in the sigmoid are usually raised polypoid growths that are easy to see and remove. Cancers and polyps in the dis-tant part of the large bowel are often fl at, not easy to spot. Doctors also can’t diagnose what is impossible to see. If patients fail to follow the proper routine of cleansing the bowel, fecal matter may hide the cancer from view.

The old saying that “prac-tice makes perfect” applies whether you’re a mechanic or a doctor.

Experienced physicians skilled in this procedure are more likely to detect cancer-ous lesions than less experi-enced colleagues.

So what to do? I remain convinced that the best way to avoid colon cancer is to have regular colonoscopies. What-ever way you cut the cake, ma-lignancies can be missed if the entire colon is not examined.

For those who still refuse this procedure, a combination

of sigmoidoscopy and FOBT should be done. Studies show that over the age of 50, one in three people develop a polyp that may become malignant. So the best policy is not to play Russian roulette. Have an an-nual FOBT done, at the very least.

It’s illogical to wait for symptoms of malignancy to appear as bleeding may not occur until a cancer is well advanced, has already spread beyond the bowel, with little chance of cure.

Over the years I’ve seen too many people leave this planet for using every excuse in the book for not submitting to co-lon cancer screenings.

Remember the story of the camel who stuck his head in the sand. Not a good move for camels or humans.

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Tl’azt’en Nation signed an exploration Memorandum of Un-derstanding with Cliffs Natural Resources Inc. and First Point Miner-als Corp. last week.

The signing took place on Tache Reserve on June 6, and marks another step in pos-sibly developing the Decar nickel-iron alloy project, located within Tl’azt’en territory.

The agreement for-malizes some of the working relationship between the companies and Tl’azt’en Nation and the keyoh holders directly impacted by the exploration and any further development.

Included within the agreement are protocols for managing project activities with respect to cultural and environ-mental interests, com-munity consultation and socio-economic benefi ts to the Tl’azt’en community.

S o c i o - e c o n o m i c benefi ts agreed upon include community contribution funds and business opportunities.

The signed agree-ment also sets out pro-cesses for any future negotiations of a com-prehensive Impact and Benefi ts Agreement if the project proceeds to mine development.

“On behalf of the Tl’azt’en Nation, I commend Cliffs for working with us in

good faith to ensure that the exploration program safeguards environmental and cul-tural values while also providing opportuni-ties and benefi ts to our members,” said Chief Ralph Pierre. “The agreement lays a foun-dation for a successful working relationship between Cliffs, First Point and our people.”

“Cliffs shares First Point’s and Chief Pierre’s positive senti-ments about the signing of the MOU,” said Bri-an Butterworth, presi-dent of Cliffs Natural

Resources Exploration Canada Inc. “We will seek to employ and source goods and ser-vices for the Decar Project locally, with a particular emphasis during the exploration phase on training to maximize employment opportunities.”

For more infor-mation on the Decar Nickel Project, located northwest of Tache Reserve near Trem-bleur Lake, visit www.caledoniacourier.com and read A nickel for your thoughts which gives the background

on the project. A drilling program

will be continuing this summer at the project, which is in the prelimi-nary economic assess-ment stage of develop-ment.


NEWSCourierLEFT: Pictured, left to right, Peter Brad-shaw of First Point Minerals, Chief Ralph Pierre of Tl’azt’en, and Brian Butterworth of Cliffs Natural Resources hold the Memoran-dum of Understand-ing they signed re-garding the Decar Nickel Project.

Photo courtesy of Tiffany Verkerk

Tl’azt’en Nation signs MOU

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Sara King burns through some dirt on the motocross track in Pemberton on May 19. King fi nished second in the ladies both days on the track for the weekend, and took 14th and 10th in the Junior A class the two days.

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King racing national seriesRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

Sara King is back on her bike for the motocross racing season, and recently competed in Pem-berton.

The race was part of the South Spring series, and while King normally competes mainly in the North Series, she likes the Pemberton track so much her family took her down for this year’s race.

King has upgraded her bike this season and moved up into a the Junior MX-2 class, where she competes against both male and female riders in the larger class.

The weekend after Pember-ton, King raced in Williams Lake in a North Series race, where she fi nished 10th and ninth in Junior MX-2, on the

two days and fi rst on both days in the Ladies.

The next stops on King’s list are the Western Series Ladies Nationals, a series of three rac-es for the top women in western Canada to battle it out.

The series starts out in Kam-loops on the June 6 weekend, where King competed last year, but she didn’t race the entire la-dies national series.

From Kamloops, the plan is to head to Calgary on June 16 for round two and then on to Edmonton on June 23 for round three of the series.

Last year, King raced against about twenty other women in Kamloops, but she said she’s hoping for more this year.

She also has heard there is

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King herself is not setting herself up with overly ambitious goals for her fi rst time in the se-ries, instead she said she wants “just to have fun … and to con-sistently make the top 10.”

Her mother Kathy King said her daughter is adjusting well to the larger bike this year and “if she rides like she’s been riding, she could do fairly well.”

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NEWSCourierLEFT: Jackson Hooke rowing in a junior open eight scull for Brentwood College competed in the Canadian Secondary School Rowing Associa-tion regatta in St. Catherine’s Ontario recently.

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Local rower takes 3rd in national regatta


Jackson Hooke of Fort St. James was one of eight young men from Brentwood College racing in St. Catherines, Ontario on the weekend of June 2.

Hooke was one of the junior boys crew compet-ing at the regatta, in which they raced in fi ve dif-ferent events, winning bronze in the junior eight open.

The crew fi nished the 2,000 m race in 6 minutes, 31 seconds, and according to Coach Harold Backer, in the past 10 years, the average winning time has been six minutes and 29 seconds.

Most of the boat had been training together since September, but novices joined up with the more experienced rowers in October.

“Jackson was a novice in September, so it’s quite good for him to be selected in the top crew,” said Backer via email. “Jackson, as a novice this year, still has a long way to go, but he has a great desire to push himself and to extend his limits in this very demanding sport.”

He said Jackson was the best novice in Grade 9 or 10.

The junior boys, ages 14-15, raced in extremely windy conditions, according to Backer, and while he said they did not handle the conditions as well as some teams, they handled them well enough to take third.

The rowing coach said the entire group of young men from Brentwood did well.

“The crews were so well-behaved and focused, we’re very proud of all of them,” said Backer.

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***ST PATRICK’S ANGLICAN CHURCH... hosts a free lunch every Tuesday from 11.00am - 1.00pm. All are welcome. This lunch is made possible through the generous giving of time and resources,by many people in the region, including Sylvia Isaac, The Roman Catholic Church, Camp Living Water, and many other indi-viduals.We wish to thank all those who contribute their labour to this program as well as those who pro-vide food and other necessities. We also run a small food bank on Tuesday morning, and are very thankful for all who contribute to this endeavor. For further infor-mation please call Gwen Andrews 567-6744.

***SERVICE TIMES... at St Pat-rick’s Anglican Church, Fort St James, will be 2.00pm every Sunday. Friday at 6.00pm - Each week we offer a Fellowship time

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***FIREWEED CLOTHES DRIVE...The Fireweed Safe Ha-ven is doing a winter clothes drive. We are looking for jackets, boots, snow pants, mitts, hats, scarves, fl eeces, etc, for men, women and children. The items will then be given to families in the community that need them. If you do not have anything at home that you can part with but still wish to contribute, you can purchase mitts, socks, or thermal underwear. Please drop items off at the Fireweed Safe Ha-ven. For more information please contact Talia at (250) 996-8081. Every little bit helps.

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***FORT TRAP AND HANDGUN CLUB... meets last Sunday of ev-ery month. Contact Sharon at 996-8373 for more information.

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HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC FOUNDATION LEVEL INSTRUCTORVanderhoof CampusThe Nechako - Vanderhoof campus is looking for a sessional instructor to teachin the Foundation Level Heavy Duty Commercial Transport Mechanic program.

INDUSTRIAL MECHANIC (MILLWRIGHT) FOUNDATIONPROGRAM INSTRUCTOR - Fort St. James CampusThe Nechako – Fort St. James campus is looking for a sessional instructor toteach in the Foundation Level Industrial Mechanic (Millwright) program.

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From Tache to New YorkHereditary Chief Edward John of Tl’azt’en is now Chair of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues


New York City may be a long way from Tache Reserve, but for Chief Edward John, it is just a matter of taking the right steps to get there.

“There’s always hurdles, you just have to bear down,” said John over the phone from Vancouver, where he had recently re-turned from New York.

John is a hereditary chief of the Tl’azt’en Nation, and was even an elected councillor for around 18 years, but he only works in the background now, as he has his hands full.

As the recently appointed chair for a one-year term of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, John was in New York in May, chairing a two-week session at the United Nations. The forum is an advisory body to the United Na-tions (UN) on indigenous issues.

There were 1,800-2,000 indigenous delegates from around the world at the session, plus government representatives, repre-sentatives from international organizations and some from non-governmental organizations (NGOs, usually aid organizations like Doctors Without Boarders or World Vision).

“It’s a big undertaking,” said John.As the chair of the second largest annual gathering at the UN

in New York (the largest being the forum on women’s issues), it is logistically a lot of work to chair the long session.

John and the rest of the forum must listen to the discussion on the fl oor between indigenous peoples, and between indigenous peoples and governments, and then the 16-member forum of which he is the chair produces a report for the UN Economic and Social Council. The report then goes to the UN General As-sembly in the fall.

There will be advice and recommendations related to next year’s meeting in Rio de Janeiro (Rio +20), the UN Conference on Sustainable Development. World leaders will then be meeting in 2014 to deal with indigenous issues, so the recommendations John is helping to make potentially have long-term global im-pacts.

These recommendations will look at ways the UN and state governments can implement the 46 articles of the UN Declara-tion on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The implications of this declaration are huge for all indig-enous peoples, and John said one of the greatest things indig-enous leaders can do for their people is to understand the articles of the declaration and work with local communities and others to implement the provisions.

“A good example for that would be the concept of ‘free prior and informed consent for resource development in indigenous people’s territories’” explained John.

This kind of globally relevant work is not a bad gig for a boy from Tache.

“I’m right from the village of Tache,” said John, when describing his background.

He spent time growing up in a number of surrounding communities, with relatives in Portage, Nak’azdli, Yek-ooche and as far west as the Babine Lake community of Nan Tl’At.

With nine brothers and sisters, it is not surprising John still has relatives throughout the area.

But growing up, he said he focused on getting through high school and did not set out with the intention of going to law school or becoming involved in government and politics, but he had a work ethic taught to him by his fam-ily.

He graduated from O’Grady High School in Prince George, and from there went to the University of Vic-toria (Uvic), where he completed his undergraduate de-gree, but came back to work in the area each summer.

After graduating from Uvic, John re-turned and worked for his community for a couple of years and then went back to the University of British Colum-bia (UBC) for law school.

Even though he said there was a need and the demand from his community still for his time, they understood and supported him in what he was doing.

“I made it clear that my fi rst priority is my education,” he said.

After fi nishing law school, he did his articling at a law fi rm in Prince George.

From there, John became involved in the First Nations Sum-mit, a B.C. body addressing treaty negotiations and other indig-enous issues in the province, and from there he went to the UN.

Chief Ed John said he did not set out to become a lawyer and get involved in higher-level politics.

While he may be living on Musqueam Reserve near UBC and traveling extensively for his role with the UN and the First Na-tions Summit, he also still maintains a connection with his com-munity in the north, providing some background support and

advice.“We all have responsibilities to our

community,” said John. The work he is doing has also given

him some truly valuable opportunities to get to know First Nations people across the region, with the great-est benefi t coming from spending time with the elders, talking with them and learning from them according to John, which he said gave him a fi rm grounding.

“Having that grounding I think really served me well in the work that I do nationally as well as internationally,” he said, giv-ing him a depth and a world view not well understood outside of First Nation culture.

In his time with the UN, John has already seen some interest-ing things happen, and said Canada’s role at the UN is a develop-ing one.

“They’re working on it, let’s put it that way,” he said. “And there’s a lot of work that needs to be done.”

While Canada did endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, they are also the only country in the world which voted against it twice.

Top and left: Chief Edward John chairing the opening of the 11th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

Photos courtesy of Edward John

Caledonia Courier, June 13, 2012

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