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Union rejects binding arbitrationCécile Favron

There is still no end in sight for the three-month District of Kitimat workers’ strike that has left Kitimat at a standstill.

Unifor 2300 has rejected binding arbitration as the third round of mediation be-tween the union and the Dis-trict failed to reach a deal by the afternoon of May 23. Ne-gotiations had to be wrapped-up by that time because the mediator was scheduled to � y out of town.

In a subsequent press re-lease on May 25, the District of Kitimat proposed binding arbitration – a process that would see a mediator draw-up a deal after listening to both parties. If binding arbitration was agreed to, employees would have returned to work

while the process occurred. The union refused to

comment on the District’s proposal until three days later when they informed the Dis-trict of their decision to reject the proposal. Their announce-ment was relayed to the pub-lic through the District’s press release on May 28.

Unifor 2300 could not be reached for comment on their decision to reject binding ar-bitration.

As for reaching a deal, the latest three-day round of mediation was the last instal-ment of nine days of mediated discussion between the union and the District that have only aggravated tensions between them.

In the last minutes of the May 23 meeting, the union’s Bargaining Committee out-

lined their “Bedrock Posi-tion.” They stated that this � nal Offer to Settle was “the bare minimum that will im-prove our working lives.” The District was unable to respond to the proposal slated just � ve minutes before the mediator’s departure.

That is when the District decided to propose bind-ing arbitration. “Enough is enough, we are willing to put everything on the table,” said Mayor Phil Germuth of the proposal.

The union then rejected the proposal, but maintained in a press release on May 26 that they are getting close to a deal.

Both sides claim to have made signi� cant compromis-es over the mediation process and blame the other party for

the stalemate. Mayor Phil Germuth maintains that the District’s offer is fair and, in a press release on May 25, states that “this dispute is ul-timately about who is going to run the District of Kitimat.”

The union maintains is-sues around safety and ha-rassment and the extent of contracted-out work are not being properly addressed by the District’s proposals.

They also have concerns about signing an agreement that does not guarantee a minimum number of full-time jobs nor assigns wage in-creases based on the level of new industry in Kitimat.

Meanwhile, the District maintains that their proposed 2.5 per cent wage increase in each of the next three years

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Bull-O-Rama is cancelledCécile Favron

The fourth-annual Bull-O-Rama, Kitimat’s bull-riding competition, has been cancelled due to the District of Kitimat workers’ strike.

The strike has jeopardized access to the Tamatik arena which was set to hold the event on June 13.

The competition was called off early to en-sure that preparation for the event wouldn’t fur-ther drain the Snow� ake Community Fairground Society’s resources if the event didn’t happen.

“At this point, we cannot be assured that Tamatik arena will be available for the event and without that assurance we cannot risk the total loss of any more the of society’s cash,” organizer Jack Oviatt said in a press release last Wednesday.

The cowboys and bulls come from C+ Rodeo in 150 Mile and there are huge expenses associat-ed with bringing them to Kitimat. Without assur-ance that the event would go forward, the Society cancelled the event to allow the cowboys to attend other rodeos that weekend.

The society had no other option, but to can-cel the event because Kitimat does not have the capacity to hold the event outdoors, explained Oviatt. “It is a big disappointment for us,” he said.

Those that have bought tickets or sponsors who have sent cheques to the Snow� ake Commu-nity Fairgrounds Society will be reimbursed.

This marks the second year in a row that the Bull-O-Rama has been cancelled in Kitimat. In 2014, the society decided to hold-over the event to 2015 because of a volunteer shortage.

This cancellation marks a great loss to the Kitimat community.

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Continued from page 1and new full-time jobs in lei-sure services are generous.

They also feel that their current policy on safety and harassment is adequate.

The heated negotiations have devolved into shouting in some cases and strikers have picketed Kitimat Coun-cil meetings.

The District called in the

efforts of a third-party ne-gotiator to handle the city’s side after the District felt that bargaining sessions were be-coming too abusive to staff.

Details of the last two months’ negotiations can-not be released as they are bound by a confidentiality agreement.

The strike has greatly af-fected Kitimat recreational

services with no access to the pool, the arena, or the Senior’s Centre.

Both sides emphasize that they are committed to returning the services to the community as soon as pos-sible.

The union’s Business Agent Martin Mcllwrath said “[they’re] as eager as anyone to resume services

to the citizens of Kitimat, but [they] can’t do that if the negotiators are going in circles.”

Similarly, the mayor said that “[he] feels the concerns for the people of the commu-nity.”

As the strike enters its fourth month, there is no word yet on when talks will resume.

Kitimat RCMP report downtown bank left unlockedMay 18Kitimat RCMP

received a third party report of a suicidal male. The male was apprehended under the mental health act and transported to Kitimat General Hospital.

The police re-ceived a report that a bank at City Cen-tre was unlocked and no one was inside at 1:10pm. The bank was closed (Victoria Day holiday) and the front door was unlocked. Police contacted the

bank manager who attended to lock the door.

May 19 An officer con-

ducting traffic en-forcement on Quatsino Blvd. stopped a ve-hicle as the passen-ger was not wearing a seatbelt. While speak-ing to the passenger an open beer can was ob-served in the passen-gers’ possession. The passenger was issued a violation ticket for open liquor in a motor vehicle.

May 20A complainant

requested the assis-tance of the Kitimat RCMP in locating her adult daughter who she hadn’t seen in two days. Within a few hours the complainant updated police that she had located her daugh-ter and that her daugh-ter was fine.

May 21Police attended to

a report of a missing child on Okanagan St at 9:03pm. The com-plainant reported her

8 year old child was missing. Police at-tended and made pa-trols and at 9:20pm located the child with some friends.

May 22Kitimat RCMP at-

tended to a complaint of youth drinking on the grounds of Kildala elementary school at 9:06 pm. Police at-tended and located a 14 year old female and a 15 year old female who were intoxicated. Police escorted the youth to one of their

parents’ residence.May 23RCMP attended

to the KMP camp at 1:33am following a complaint from secu-rity of two intoxicated camp workers. Two camp workers were be-ing difficult with secu-rity staff. Police attend-ed and kept the peace while the two males returned to their rooms.

May 24Police responded

to a complaint of an as-sault in the parking lot of the Chilly and Danc-

er Pub at 1:25 am. The complainant stated that his girlfriend struck him with a glass while he was sitting in his vehicle. A 33 year old female faces charges of assault with a weapon.

The Kitimat RCMP received a report of a stolen 18 speed bicycle from a residence on Columbia Ave. It was unlocked and stolen overnight from outside a residence.

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A complete ban on cardboard in lo-cal land landfills is slated to come into effect later this year, say public works officials from the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine.

“There’s a mar-ket for cardboard, it’s an affordable material to transport south and get out of the waystream,” says regional dis-trict works manager Roger Tooms. “The cardboard ban [in landfills] I would expect will be in place this year.”

City of Terrace manager of public works Rob Schibli said Terrace will also ban cardboard once the regional district has finalized the cardboard pro-cessing contract.

Tooms said the goal is to have the new Forceman Ridge landfill, lo-cated 30 kilometres south of Terrace on Hwy37, operating by mid-2016.

Passenger traffic at the Northwest Regional Airport continues to dip but it’s not unexpected, reports airport man-ager Carman Hendry of April’s statistics.

April’s regular passenger traffic stood at 17,282, down from 20,219 the month be-fore.

When charter pas-sengers are factored in, the April to April de-cline is approximately 1,000, says Hendry.

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This development comes as the parting KUTE executive team post-ed on their website last month that the depot would close unless a new team of volunteers came out to their Annual General Meeting (AGM).

The AGM on May 26 saw at least twenty-five new people in at-tendance and went “very, very well” according to outgoing president Barb Hall.

The current three-member board was not only replaced by new volun-teers, but nine people stepped up to be on the incoming executive board.

The three positions that the board hoped to fill at this AGM was Hall's position as president and Ken Maitland and Doug Hughan's posi-tions as directors.

The new board holds nine po-sitions with president Peter King, vice-president Michelle Martins, treasurer Elizabeth Cloakey, secre-

tary David Brown, and five directors at large David Sivyer, Nicole Gof-finet, Melissa Thomas, Cory Haupt, and Brian Andrews.

All of these board members are completely new to KUTE and the outgoing team is trying to take the transition as smooth as possible.

“We are very pleased and grate-ful to all the people that showed up and will work closely with this new board,” said Hall of the transition.

Concerns had been raised that a new board would not step up be-cause “over the last several years there have been no new people at the AGMs,” explained Hall.

“The whole thing with KUTE has become more complex and, with just three of us running it, we really started to run out of steam,” she said.

All three executives felt that they must step down for personal reasons and were alarmed that there might be no one to take over the project.

KUTE is the only recycling de-pot in Kitimat and has been run by a volunteer executive board for 24 years.

In April, the board made a post titled “The KUTE Crisis” on their website stating that “without a new executive KUTE will fold and the Kitimat Recycling Depot will be closed.”

This spurred Kitimat residents into action as they came out to offer their support for KUTE.

Other attendees at the AGM expressed interest in becoming in-volved in KUTE on a smaller scale.

The Kitimat recycling depot em-ploys three to four full time employees at their facility open six days a week.

The depot recycles electronics, small ap-pliances, power tools, cell phones, batteries, light bulbs, and smoke alarms in addition to cans and paper.

KUTE began in 1990 when students from Mount Elizabeth Secondary School took on an environmental

challenge. They soon realized there was not only a need for a depot in Kitimat, but the project was too large for them to handle.

That was when they passed the idea over to the adults which grew the society from 1991 onwards. They have been at their current loca-tion on Railway Ave. since 1995.

KUTE holds AGMs usually in October to get the public involved and also runs environmental aware-ness programs in the community.

New board saves recycling depot

KMP Unions donate to striking workersCécile Favron

A GROUP of unions has made a sizable do-nation in support of the District of Kitimat work-ers who have been on strike since February 28.

The building trades union workers, stationed in Kitimat to work on the Kitimat Modernization Project, donated $12,000 to the relief fund.

The workers that donated out-of-pocket for the cause were from the BC Millwrights, the In-ternational Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, The United Association of Journeymen and Ap-prentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting In-dustry, and the Ironworkers' Union.

Sam Adams, Union Representative for the BC Millwrights, noted that it was the “working men on the ground” that really felt motivated to give to the striking Unifor 2300.

“As craftsmen that travel, they have seen what happens to the living wage in communi-ties when union workers come into the area,” he said.

The presence of the unionized workers, Ad-ams claims, drives up the cost of living in the area and displaces some people.

This is why he asked his coworkers to donate to the workers that are locked in a three-month stalemate with the District of Kitimat.

“It is just unions helping unions,” he ex-plained.

This money will go towards holding over

District workers, who are only receiving mini-mal strike pay from their union, until a deal can be reached.

Adams is pleased that his idea to ask his col-leges to start a fund was so well received and hopes that other unions in the area will do the same.

Unifor 2300 workers have been striking over issues of wages, job security, safety and harass-ment.

The destructive negotiations have furthered

the bitter dispute as the last of three mediation sessions ended a week ago.

Both the District of Kitimat and the union claim that the other side is refusing to make rea-sonable compromises with their proposals.

Last week, the District proposed binding ar-bitration, but the union rejected the offer.

The strike has halted Kitimat's recreation-al services closing the pool, the arena, and the Senior's Centre causing many events to be can-celled.

The buildings trades unions presented Unifor 2300 with a $12,000 cheque to go towards a relief fund for the striking District of Kitimat workers on May 22. Left to right are Sam Adams of the BC Millwrights on the microphone, Charlie Simmons, Ken Charbonneau, Brandon Wedgewood, and Rod Burrows.

Continued from page 1The event brings

in approximately 2,200 people from the around the northwest region each year and is a ma-jor fundraiser for the community.

Mayor Phil Ger-muth expressed his concern that the com-munity would lose up

to $40,000 generated for charity from the event.

This years’ event was set to raise $10,000 for the Kitimat General Hospital Foundation to purchase infusion pumps.

Furthermore, the Kitimat Karate Club had signed up to be

security for the event, the Figure Skating Club planned to run the canteen, the Kinsmen club was tasked with the 50/50 draw, and the Mount Elizabeth The-atre planned to stage the pyrotechnics.

In return, the event was supposed to be a fundraiser for those

groups. Any extra prof-it made from the event was supposed to go to-wards general upkeep for the Snowflake Fair-grounds.

In past years, Bull-O-Rama has included a wild horse race and a fundraiser dance put on by the Northern Spirit Paddlers.

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In and around 1974-75, I worked for a prominent public relations co-many, Public and Industrial Relations in Toronto.

It was perhaps one of the higher-pressure jobs I ever worked at. From day to day, you never quite knew when you’d be diverted from what you set out to accomplish that day, to help another staffer with a special event. PIP was a prestigeous company with a world wide clientele including many of Toronto’s top corporations, but it still worked with a minimum of professional staff.

So, it goes without saying, there wasn’t a lot of time to look out the window at the spectacular views sur-rounding the Torstar Building, al-though I did spend a lot of time doing that -- mainly because of the business address, the Toronto Star Building was a 25 storey structure, opened in 1970 and located at #1 Yonge Street, at Queen’s Quay, which also marked the start of what was Highway 11, known informally as “the longest street in the world”.

PIR had a whole � oor in the building in these days, but the prin-ciple presence was the newspaper, the Toronto Star, then (and now) one of the city’s most in� uential newspapers, The Torstar Building as it was known, gave some of the most fascinating and diverse views of the big city water-front.The Island Airport, Toronto Island, busy Queen’s Quay itself, the gargar-tuan two level Queen Elizabeth Way throughway curled westward and south en route to Oakville and evenu-ally St. Catharines and Niagara.

From a personal perspective, my of� ce had a west-north-west facing window view. Much of my time there, about a year, was pretty well high-

lighted by the � ve-week long conclu-sion of construction of the CN Tower, front and centre about a mile or two away from my window, including the dramatic addition of the communi-cations tower placed atop Canada’s tallest construction, cranes and a gi-ant Sikorsky helicopter, named Olga which became the toast of the town. I watched the tower creep higher for months -- but the antenna tower going on was the most exciting part of the experience.

I guess a few million people watched in fascination, either live or on TV, in the winter of 1974, as skilful pilots and daring high rise steel works burned off bolts to connect the sec-tions of the huge 330ft. antenna tower, that took the edi� ce to its full height of 1815 feet above the city.

The tower today is a communi-cations facility that broadcasts over 30 Toronto television and FM radio signals across Southern Ontario in ad-dition to wireless paging and cellular telephone signals.

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From the Torstar high rise at 1 Yonge Street, Toronto

Enchanté, KitimatThat two-weeks of guaranteed vacation time,

which some of you might be enjoying right now, is the reason why I am here.

I am the student that you might see fumbling her way through her summer job, part of which is � lling in for your editor Cameron Orr for the two-weeks he is spending at a tropical destination.

So let me introduce myself. Hi, I’m Cécile, enchanté Kitimat, it is a pleasure

to meet you.I have spent almost all of my 20 years living in

Rosswood, and for those of you who don’t know, it is that little bump-in-the-road towards the Nass Val-ley.

We still don’t have high-speed internet, and even I can remember the days before Hydro power.

So Terrace has really become my home-base, but this summer I am getting the chance to learn more about my neighbours in the north.

How I got here is a bit of a story, but I’ll give you a quick explanation.

I really like learning. I like learning so much that I joyously packed my bags and headed to one of a couple hundred schools that I looked at over the � ve-years prior: Simon Fraser University.

I chose SFU because, after I � nally gave-up on the idea that I could be happy in the fashion design industry, it was the only school I found that offered the wonderfully broad degree of International Stud-ies.

International Studies (which, ironically, I can’t abbreviate without being linked to a certain extrem-ist group in the Middle East) covers nearly every discipline in the social sciences from economics to sociology.

It is the study of world issues through these varying lenses – and let me tell you, there are no easy answers.

With this topic of study, I have felt cynical to the point that I am often resigned, so I needed a little boost to get me back into action.

I started a side project that would give me a good dose of humanity with a pinch of creativity; I started writing for the student newspaper.

One thing lead to another (small towns are actu-ally wonderful for opportunity) and I ended up as an intern for the Terrace Standard. And here I am, covering Kitimat for Cameron’s vacation time.

This is really my � rst small-town experience outside of Terrace.

Small towns have a really special place in my heart, for it is not what they have that makes them special, but who they have.

This little area here has got to be one of the � n-est in Canada. As they say, “west coast, best coast!”

I look forward to working with many of you over the next while, feel free to drop me a line.

Thank you for having me!Cécile Favron

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Ephesians: 8: “For it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God.”

Maybe you've had a conversation that begins like this, “Did you hear about…”

We like conversations that start like that don’t we; a nice juicy tidbit of dirt on someone to make us feel better about our-selves. Sometimes the person doing the telling even follows the shocking, lurid story with, “How sad!”

Funny though, that the person doing the telling usually doesn’t seem all that sad. In fact, those kinds of stories are usu-ally told with zest and glee. It’s almost as if someone’s fall from grace is good news.

Quite often, Christians are branded as hypocrites; “the church is full of hypo-crites: hypocrites in the pulpits and hypo-crites in the pews.” Have you ever heard that?

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But no, the Bible isn’t scared to portray even the mighty King Da-vid as a sinner who was forgiven by God’s grace when he repented. And that is the point. God is in the restora-tion business.

The Christian church is not a club for goody two shoes types, but sinners saved by God's grace in Christ.

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Former KMP workers get Bravery MedalCécile Favron

The Governor General Met-al for Bravery was presented to three former KMP ironworkers for pulling two people involved in a head-on car crash to safety near Kitimat in December 2012.

The four-decade old award was presented to Jack Tyler, his son Jacob Tyler, and Dale Hes-sion to recognize their excep-tional bravery for pulling Bobby Weir from his burning car.

The Tylers and Hession, all from Alberta, were working on the Kitimat Modernization Proj-ect at the time.

The accident on December 5, 2012 was caused by danger-

ous winter road conditions on the highway between Terrace and Kitimat.

The Tylers and Hession saw the accident and risked their own lives to cut Weir, a Kitimat resident, out of the burning car.

“This sense came to me that it's now or never. This car is go-ing to blow up. We either get him out or it's going to be too late. So I grabbed him with ev-erything I had,” said Jack Tyler in a CBC interview.

Just after they pulled Weir to safety, the men said that the car exploded.

Jack Tyler then turned his attention to freeing another man

from the other vehicle involved in the collision.

The accident sent three peo-ple to hospital with one, Bobby Weir, medevacted to the Van-couver General Hospital burn unit.

Weir was treated in Vancou-ver for severe burns as well as leg and facial fractures.

Knowing that Weir had a long road to recovery, the Tylers and Hession collected donations from other workers at the KMP site.

Within a week, they had raised $5,000 which they sent to Weir to help cover his medical expenses.

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The Industry Training Authority (ITA) is embarking on a plan to develop a skills training program for Aboriginal people.

ITA announced the program earlier this month, a development spun from the B.C. government’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint docu-ment released in 2014.

The program would provide Red Seal Construction Craft Worker (CCW) training.

Gary McDermott, Director of Aborigi-nal Initiatives, said the Blueprint document shows a projection of 15,000 Aboriginal workers required for construction in BC over the next 10 years.

“In terms of ab-original participation in the apprenticeship system about 10 per-cent of our apprentices are Aboriginal,” said McDermott.

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A steering com-mittee, composed of a number of aboriginal community members, industry people and training providers, is set to develop this pro-gram.

In particular there are members on the committee from North-west Community Col-lege and Kitimat LNG.

“There’s an en-gagement phase under-way for the project and so we’re engaging the First Nations including in the north,” said Mc-Dermott about where in the process this pro-

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When George An-derson left his post at the Kitamaat Mission in 1903, his new resi-dence wasn’t far away. In fact he was moving just five kilometres across Kitimat Arm to the west side of Kiti-mat’s river delta lands.

He was giving up his life as a lay minis-ter to become, with his third wife Martha, a valley rancher/farmer. The lush grasslands and alluvial soil of the delta were just too at-tractive and Anderson had been using the property there for more than five years.

By 1910 improve-ments included a ranch house, barn and animal pens plus many addi-tional buildings in the long ribbon settlement which extended north for more than a kilo-metre.

The settlement grew up on the margins of grasslands along the western waterways of three streams which eventually became

Anderson, Moore and Xatzy Creeks.

Within just a few years the Andersons had guest cabins, more barns, fencing and a summer church camp retreat for the girls home at Kitamaat Mis-sion.

There were various warehouses including one for the company Foley, Welsh and Stew-art and a Royal Mail depot for the Canadian Postal Service because the ranch was the start-ing point for people attempting the govern-ment road to the cable car river crossing and the road on to the Ha-zeltons.

At the ranch, but in the waterways,

were the operations for Mitchell and Hallet’s logging camp. They had a large floating scow-house, a bunk-house for additional loggers and their vari-ous boats.

Reading the ac-counts of those years by Elizabeth Ander-son Varley in her book Kitimat My Valley, it is clear the Andersons just had to be around people. They enjoyed company and were su-perb hosts.

They were forever putting up visitors from government surveyors to pioneer travellers poised for a journey overland to the Interior. Almost all the prospec-tive valley pioneers spent time in residence

at Kouthpega, meaning "The place of the tree fungus" in the Haisla language.

People who stayed and lived at the ranch included Barney Mc-Conkey, Charlie and Lizzie Moore, Ru-dolph Braun, Alvin and Mabel Kepler, Aaron Brown, Henry List, Pete Long, Percy Mills, Jack Cole, Floyd and May Worthing, Charlie Carlson and, eventu-ally, Jack Pine.

The Andersons liked the thought of prospective new neigh-bours and they went overboard to encourage them to stay. Often the new folk would stay at Anderson Ranch - sometimes working for George - while they prepared their own pio-neer abodes.

Some of them lived at the ranch for more than a year while their own land allot-ments were sorted out. Such was the case with Rudolph Braun, the Worthings, Keplers

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would often arrive and depart from Kouthpega as they rendezvoused with the various steam-ships heading south out of Kitamaat Mission.

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missioned - to a scrap yard in Port Colborne, last week ... a sad end to a near-30 year his-tory on the Toronto waterfront. The ship, now known as M.V. Jadran, has a colourful history, including its sinking in 1981 after it was struck by a Toronto ferry.

It first filed for bankruptcy protection in 2002. John Let-nik, who owned the old cruise ship turned floating restaurant, fell behind on rent and taxes in

2012, and it finally shot down, reportedly owing a million in taxes to Toronto.

I visited Captain John’s frequently when I lived in To-ronto and worked downtown. To tell the truth, I don’t recall the quality of the food -- but Captain John’s receipe menu was severely hacked, trashed and slashed by commentors in the story about the demise of the floating restaurant, on the CBC website.

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pools at Mount Layton Hotsprings Resort are not open to the pub-lic. The waterslides sag further each year, and half the build-ings on the property have sat vacant since a regional economic decline in the 1990s, plastic tacked along the framed windows in the illusion that the halting of construction was momentary. Their present state belies the central role the hot springs played in the history and identity of the northwest region of British Columbia.

Located to the east of Lakelse Lake, the cluster of hot springs has been the subject of a series of commercial developments since 1910, beginning with a log-cabin bathhouse built by Bruce John-stone.

But before that, the pools were long fre-quented by the Tsim-shian people, the clay and warm mineral wa-ters at the hot springs

traditionally used for healing. Addie Turner, of Kitsumkalum, re-called in a 2004 in-terview that the hot springs were consid-ered a kind of ‘native hospital.’ In fact, the word ‘Lakelse’ itself is an anglicization of Lax Gyels, the Sm’algyax word for the site of freshwater mussels.

Reports from the turn of the century show that mail carriers broke up their two- to three-week dog-sled routes from Kitimat to Hazelton by warming up by the hot springs pools. That’s how Hank Boss, the Do-minion Government Telegraph operator at Kitselas in the early 1900s, learned about the Lakelse hot springs – from the mail mush-ers stopped at Kitse-las. Sensing potential, Boss purchased half of Bruce Johnstone’s pre-emption of the hot springs property and remained a silent part-ner until he died in 1925.

Johnstone was

similarly familiar with the hot springs land from working as a gov-ernment surveyor and at the nearby Lakelse fish hatcheries before he pre-empted the land in 1906. The two men began clearing land with the expectation that Kitimat would be chosen as the western railway terminus, go-ing so far as to build a roadhouse next to the hot springs in 1910 to house the anticipated rail traffic.

When the railway was routed to Prince Rupert, instead, John-stone was undeterred – if disappointed. The lodge at the hot springs served as the first post office on the mail route from Kitimat to Hazel-ton. On mail day, trap-pers, settlers, hatchery men, and miners gath-ered at the lodge to await their letters and to hear news from the outside.

The original lodge was located about 1,200 feet from the main hot spring, so water was transported

to wooden tubs in an open, gravity-fed ‘V’ trough made of two boards nailed together.

This first hotel was a two-storey log cabin with 14 bedrooms, a dining room, and a liv-ing room, with an ad-jacent bathhouse and guest cabins. It mea-sured approximately 40 by 60 feet.

“You had the tub right there and the wa-ter was going by it so when you wanted wa-ter to come into the tub you’d just take out a board on the side and push it across there and the water would just come right into the tub,” David Bowen-Colthurst recalled in a 1970’s oral interview.

In 1912, John-stone met Beatrice May Bradley during a winter furlough in Vic-toria shortly after con-structing his first hotel. Bradley’s brother-in-law was the head of the British Columbia Fish-eries Department. They were married in the fall of 1913.

At that point, John-

A look back at the Lakelse Hotsprings

The Mount Layton Hot Springs in happier days.Heritage Park Museum, Terrace

stone arranged to sell the hot springs proper-ty, and bought a home in Victoria. But the sale of the hot springs fell through, so the newly-weds returned to Lake-lse Lake in 1915.

Johnstone sold Lakelse Hot Springs, as the business was then called, for a sec-ond time in 1921, and again tried to relocate to Victoria. Lloyd, the couple’s only child, at-tended school in Victo-

ria from 1921 to 1928. In 1928, the sale once again defaulted, and the family resumed op-erating the lodge dur-ing the tourist season.

“It must have been a very lonely life for my mother,” Lloyd mused, much later.

Beatrice was well-educated, and hailed from a large lumber family in Ottawa. As a newlywed, she moved to Lakelse Lake with Bruce, and was quickly

immersed in rural pio-neer life.

During the sum-mer seasons, she would wake up at 4 a.m. to bake pies, wash clothes by hand, and cook for between 12 and 20 guests. She occasion-ally had a part-time cook and waitress to assist her, but it none-theless must have been an extreme adjustment from city life in East-ern Canada.

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Continued from page 7George and Martha were operating

an early version of Kitimat’s Community Centre.

Kitamaat Village folk came to wit-ness and enjoy farm life and valley folk came for their Thanksgiving, Christ-mas and Easter celebrations where thefood was legendary.

Additionally, the evenings included table games and lively music - George had the first valley gramophone and he encour-aged neighbours to bring along their talents to ensure a good time for all.

Charlie Carlson usually arrived with his violin and some in the group had cred-

ible baritone voices which were effectively used in the usual popular hits and tunes. Some of the more popular ones were actu-ally hymns like Rock of Ages.

Elizabeth confessed that despite her parents having served the Lord, they were not above playing a fun card game like gin rummy.

The Andersons were compassionate, kind folk, always taking in the singletons, mostly men, who Elizabeth described as “lonely men in a weary land.”

It was a severe loss to the Kitimat valley pioneers when in 1921 the Andersons finally

left. It was like the heart of the valley had been removed.

Yes, life had been a struggle, what with World War I and the loss of several valley youths, including Bert Anderson, the disap-pointments of the railroad going elsewhere and that constant battle with the capricious river freshets.

The river was continually eroding pas-

ture lands and tearing out structures and fencing and Elizabeth well remembered the loss of the original Ranch House to a rampaging November torrent.

The early 1900s were memorable years in the life of Kitimat and Kouthpega was the heart of it all.

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importance of who you’re surrounded with,” she said, refer-ring to the fact that valedictorian is a nomi-nated process, meaning she had to have been highlighted by a friend or peer.

She remarks that imparting her gained knowledge from uni-versity is important to her because her young-er brother will be start-ing university himself at UNBC in the fall.

As for the school work itself, she said there’s no “one crazy trick” to doing it right.

“The biggest piece of advice is your work ethic is hugely impor-tant, and time manage-ment. They go hand in hand. It’s really hard to find a balance when you’re in university. For me I was lucky that I really enjoyed my studies so doing things like research and pa-pers was enjoyable for me,” she said, add-ing, “It wasn’t always,

don’t get me wrong, but it’s not like it was a drag.”

Ultimately, find enjoyment with what you’ll be doing.

“[Be] social with your work. Get forming study groups to help you. When you’re help-ing others it helps you more than it helps oth-ers a lot of the time.”

She continued, “There’s no way to get around it. There’s no little trick, ‘you don’t have to study if you do this,’ you’ve got to work hard.”

For any students out there reading this it’s probably best to take her advice, she is valedictorian after all. Horianopolous is origi-nally from Kitimat. She will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

She chose to attend UNBC because of the scholarship opportuni-ties and because of its

location in Northern BC. Like many UNBC undergraduate students she had the opportunity to conduct research early in her degree. For the past two and a half years she’s been working in Dr. Brent Murray’s lab and she recently presented her undergraduate thesis on the mountain pine beetle.

In addition Hori-anopolous was able to teach as a supplemen-tal instructor and lab teaching assistant. This summer she will pres-ent her research at an international confer-ence.

H o r i a n o p o l o u s will speak at the Col-lege of Science and Management Convoca-tion at 2:30 p.m.

Valedictorians are selected by a commit-tee consisting of two undergraduate student representatives, two graduate student rep-resentatives, and one alumni representative.

Cameron OrrKitimat can safely

check “book smarts” on its list of commu-nity exports.

Kitimat’s Linda Horianopolous is cap-ping off her undergrad-uate program at the University of North-ern British Columbia not only with a path towards her Masters at UBC, but has been named one of UNBC’s two valedictorians.

“It was exciting,” she said about learning she was chosen, after a comprehensive nomi-nation and interview process. “It’s actually a more involved process than I thought it was.”

H o r i a n o p o l o u s will be leaving UNBC

with a Bachelor of Sci-ence in Biochemistry and Molecular Biol-ogy.

She said she’s looking forward to continuing to do re-search at UBC, which had been a big part of her life at UNBC in Prince George too.

But she’s not alone in the fact she needed some time at the start to find the right path for her.

“When I started university I didn’t real-ly know what I wanted to do,” she said.

Certainly it was always going to be science. Her interests lay in that field, and she said she had that foundation nurtured by

what she calls phenom-enal teachers at Mount Elizabeth Middle Sec-ondary.

“I thought I was going to go with biol-ogy but then I just re-ally liked biology and chemistry, and I was like ‘well, I’ll do bio-chemistry then.’”

Her chosen pro-gram offered flexibil-ity, she said, in terms of how heavy her course-load could be in either the biochemistry or molecular biology side.

Through the course of her studies she spent time researching owls and the mountain pine beetle.

At UBC she said her focus will shift to the pathogenic

fungus cryptococcus.She said she ar-

rived at UNBC on the fact that it had a num-ber of benefits, includ-ing its geographical proximity to home.

The school also of-fers good scholarships for northern residents, she said.

On May 29 she fulfilled her duties as valedictorian by giving speech to her fellow undergrads.

So what life les-sons will Horiano-polous be imparting to her peers?

Namely, it’s the people who you sur-round yourself with which can make the biggest different.

“It just shows the


Continued from page 8The Johnstone family kept

around 15 cows as well as a vegetable garden to feed them-selves and the guests at the lodge. Apparently, their garden was much more productive than Terrace settlers due to the min-erals in the hot springs water. Today, current owner Bert Or-leans pipes the hot springs wa-ter into greenhouses, continuing to use the mineral water to grow enormous organic vegetables.

Promoted as a health spa in newspapers across the United States and Canada, the lodge had a full register for most of the season, which ran May through October.

Johnstone catered mostly to people with rheumatism and arthritis and the spot was also frequented by commercial fish-ermen from Prince Rupert.

In 1991, Lloyd discussed the miraculous cures he wit-nessed during his tenure at the Lakelse Hot Springs.

“I remember one young fellow who had arthritis really bad. They packed him in on a stretcher. Dad didn’t think we could help him, but the fellow said we were his last hope. He came in August; two months lat-er he walked out on snowshoes. In those days they didn’t have drugs, so people used the spa to get relief,” he said.

Visitors would come to the area by rail, then taxi from Ter-race to the north end of Lakelse Lake.

The first car in Terrace in 1916 was a Stanley Steamer, bought by Ernie Large and his brother to ferry guests to and from the Lakelse Hot Springs

– although, it was quickly re-turned because it was unable to maintain the proper level of steam on the steep hills out to the lake.

For communication, there was a single-wire phone system. When visitors were dropped off at the lake, they notified the lodge on crank telephone.

A boat would then be dis-patched to pick up the guests, who would then carry their lug-gage or push it in a wheelbarrow along a split cedar plank walk that spanned the half-mile be-tween Lakelse Lake and the hot springs.

In the spring of 1929, Bruce Johnstone constructed a second hotel of vertical log construc-tion on the lake shore. It mea-sured about 70 by 40 feet, and featured 12 upstairs bedrooms. Downstairs, there was a large fireplace, dining room, living room, and a few extra bedrooms.

Newspaper ads indicate that the hotel fee of $4.25 a night in-cluded three meals and “fringe benefits.”

The lake shore bathhouse was about the same size as the lodge, but was constructed of horizontal logs. It featured a large fireplace and four to six seven-foot enamel bathtubs.

Frank Poe, a wealthy Illi-nois contractor who retired to Lakelse Lake, financed the con-struction of a wooden pipeline carrying hot springs water to the lake shore bathhouse between 1930 and 1931. As a result, an uninsulated wire-bound wood-en pipeline carried hot springs water approximately 5,000 feet from the main hot spring pool to the lake shore bathhouse. For

the first 1,000 feet, the pipe was eight inches in diameter. For the final 4,000 feet, the pipe was six inches in diameter. It was en-tirely gravity-fed.

By the time the water ar-rived at the bathhouse, it had cooled to a perfect temperature for soaking. (Sections of this pipe were recently transferred to Heritage Park Museum by the Kitimat Museum & Archives.)

In 1936, the Skeena River flooded, halting passenger trains from the end of May through late August.

This destroyed Johnstone’s entire tourist season. Incidental-ly, Frank Poe had died the year before, and his estranged wife and daughter arrived that fall to settle his estate.

Lloyd estimated Poe’s in-vestment in the pipeline at be-tween $6,000 and $8,000.

In 1936, at the height of the Depression, Johnstone was un-able to settle the outstanding debt, especially because he had no income coming in for much of the 1936 season.

Mrs. and Miss Poe were ap-parently uninterested in extend-ing Frank’s goodwill.

As such, Johnstone was forced into foreclosure and lost the Lakelse Hot Springs prop-erty.

At that time, Lloyd recalled, “he was a very bitter man.”

This is part one of a three part series, originally published in our sister paper The Ter-race Standard. More on the hot springs next week.

Kelsey Wiebe is the curator of Heritage Park Museum.

Part II continued June 10, in the Northern Sentinel

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Caretakers/Residential Managers

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visual presence at the prop-erty. Interviewing prospec-

tive tenants, negotiating con-tracts and adhering to the practices consistent with

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Employment

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Email applications to:[email protected]

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SAWMILL MACHINEOPERATOR

✱(15 vacancies) NOC 9431Company operating name: Yaorun Wood Co. Ltd. Busi-ness and mailing address: 4032 12th Avenue, PO Box 148, New Hazelton, BC, V0J 2J0.JOB DUTIES: • Examine logs and rough

lumber to determine size, condition, quality and other characteristics to decide best lumber cuts to carry out.

• Operate automated lum-ber mill equipment from control rooms or equip-ment consoles to saw logs into rough lumber.

• Set up and adjust saw equipment and replace blades or bands using wrenches, gauges and other hand tools .

• Clean and lubricate saw-mill equipment.

Full time, permanent; $26.50 per hour. Location of work: New Hazelton, BC.Contact: Bealie Chen, [email protected]: 778- 919-2077.✱Minimum two years of work experience. Training will be provided. Education: not required.

Stratton Ventures requires aMaintenance/Labourer

This handy person will have experience dealing with mi-nor repairs and general up keep for various properties.

Hours are M-F and on-call for weekends/emergencies. This could be an hourly or a

contract position.For more information call: 250-632-2822 or 250-407-2297

or Email:[email protected]

Medical/DentalMEDICAL Transcriptionists are in huge demand! Train with Canada’s top Medical Transcription school. Learn from home and work from home. Call today! 1-800-466-1535, www.canscribe.com or [email protected].

Services

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

TAX FREE MONEYis available, if you are a homeowner, today! We can easily approve you by phone. 1st, 2nd or 3rd mort-gage money is available right now. Rates start at Prime. Equity counts. We don’t rely on credit, age or income.

Call Anytime1-800-639-2274 or

604-430-1498. Apply online www.capitaldirect.ca

Home ImprovementsFULL SERVICE plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, re-liable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. 1-800-573-2928

Merchandise for Sale

AuctionsAUCTION SALE

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2015 @ 10:00 A.M.

Decker Lake Starland Storage site Hwy 16, 7km west of Burns

Lake8 x 12’ campshack - 6” walls - wired - metal clad - treated skids, Gooseneck stock trailer,Older Murray 2 horse trailer, motorcycle trailer, 1999 Chev Cavalier - 4 cyl auto, 1998 Chev Malibu - V6 auto, (4) 15” studded snow tires on rims, Kubota tractor - 18 hp/3pt. Ro-totiller, core cutting saw 14”, Craftsman 10 hp snowblower, Poulin & Homelite chainsaws, 10 sheets 20’ galv. roof metal (new), treated 4”x4”x10’ tim-bers, large roll chain link fenc-ing, large roll fi lter cloth, deep well pump, 2 cases pipe insu-lation, (2) 325 gal Turtle water tanks, (2) caged water tanks, 10 rolls fi re hose (new), small Generator, (2) shop vacs, va-riety of tools, (2) large com-mercial yard lights, Herman Nelson construction heater, oil fi lled heater & electric heaters, Geo stove (kerosene), fi re ex-tinguishers, large First Aid cabinets/supplies (2), new helicopter stretcher, large commercial ice cooler, (2) dog carriers, bicycles, snowshoes (3 sets), extension ladder & step ladders. HOUSEHOLD: Teak dining ta-ble/6 chairs, Teak coffee table, Inlaid Oak coffee & end table, (3) dining room suites, table/4 chairs, Pine buffet, (2) fold-up cots, futon, Kroehler loveseat, couch & loveseat, orthopedic bed (Queen size), bedroom suite, dressers, (12) padded folding chairs (new), electric stove & propane stove, (2) fridges. ANTIQUES: Beatty wash machine/copper tub, (2) Beatty galv tubs, Singer sew-ing machine, (2) cross-cut saws. TACK: English saddle with rigging, new saddle pads, blankets, halters, headstalls. Misc household items & more

For information call Richie at 250-698-7377or 250-698-7351

Sale conducted by Schmidt Auction

BUD HAYNES, Ward’s Fire-arms Auction. Saturday, June 13, 10a.m., 11802 - 145 St., Edmonton, Alberta. Denny Harding Estate, Sask. Store Dispersal. Over 200 new guns. Website, catalogue w/pictures. Phone 403-347-5855 or 780-451-4549; www.budhaynesauctions.com. www.WardsAuctions.com.

Heavy Duty Machinery

FOR Sale: North West Coast, Logging Road Heavy Equip-ment, Traxxon Rock Drills, Ex-cavators, Cats, and numerous parts. Call 250-615-6523.


Misc. for SaleKITIMAT

BOXES, BOXES, BOXESYou need them and we have them. Buy one bundle of 10

for $5.00 and we will give you a bundle for free.

Come down to the Kitimat Northern Sentinel offi ce at

626 Enterprise Avenue9:00am - 4:30pm

SAWMILLS FROM only $4,397 - Make money & save money with your own bandmill - Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & DVD: www.NorwoodSaw mills.com/400OT 1-800-566-6899 Ext:400OT.

STEEL BUILDINGS. “Our big 35th anniversary sale” 20x20 $4500. 25x24 $5198. 30x30 $7449. 32x36 $8427. 40x46 $12140. One end wall includ-ed. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422 www.pioneersteel.ca

Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector BuyingCollections, Olympic Coins,Silver, Gold, Jewelry, EstatesChad: 778-281-0030 in town.

Real Estate

For Sale By Owner2 BEDROOM BUNGALOWfor sale by owner 1150 Sq ft.

Newly renovated bathroom, new fl oors through out. New electric panel, ducting, plumb-ing, insulation, bonus room within attached garage. Some Doors and Windows replaced. New Roof, W/D and F/S. Snow blower and lawn mower included. ASKING $239,000

250-632-3912Serious Inquiries Only

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentHILLCREST PLACE

APARTMENTSTotally Renovated

(ask for details)Security Entrance,

Dishwasher, No Pets, No Smoking

250-632-7814 KITIMAT

KITIMAT APTSBEST VALUE

• Starting at $725• Balconies• Security Entrances• Cameras for your safety• Now includes basic

cableVisit our Website

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(2787)

QUATSINO APTSKITIMAT

• Downtown location• Balconies• Security Entrances• Some furnished suites

Call for an appointment250.632.4511

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KITIMAT

MIDTOWN APARTMENTS

Free heat & Free Hot WaterFurnished & Unfurnished

1 & 2 bedroomsSecurity Entrances

No Pets. No Smoking250.632.7179

SANDPIPER APTSKITIMAT

Newer BuildingsElevators

Security EntrancesCovered Parking

Balconieswww.kitimatapartments.com

250.632.4254

Transportation

Cars - Sports & Imports

CLASSIC/COLLECTOR1971 300SEL 3.5 Mercedes Benz. 75,000km. Very good condition, always garaged, never driven in winter. Well maintained. Maintenance records, service/parts book. Manuals. Some spare parts.

250-632-6755Serious inquiries only Please

Motorcycles

For Sale2014 Yamaha XT250EL Dual Sport Motorcycle

2,500 km. Asking $4200call 250-632-5342

Boats

32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT

2300hrs on New 370H.P. Fresh Water cooled 8.1L Diesel Engine, Trolling

valve, Bow Thruster, 3 Stage Steering, 2 Hydraulic Deep

lines and Trap Puller, Sounder, Radar, 2 Radios,

Com-Dev Auto Pilot,Spare Prop, 8’ Dinghy. Assessed at $84,400

Can be seen at MK Bay Marina. Includes slip

Best offer over $55,000 Contact Warren Poff at

250-632-6119

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June 9DAVID SUZUKI is coming to Kitimat. We want to hear from coastal residents about the challenges facing your community and B.C.’s coastal waters, along with your hopes for the future. Starts at 7 p.m. at Mount Eliza-beth Theatre.September 1SPORTFISH ADVI-SORY COMMITTEE meeting, 7 p.m. at Kit-imat Rod & Gun Club. Topics for discussion: Fish possession limits and transporting; and Steelhead plan. For more info call Jack Riddle 250-888-8202.OngoingHOSPICE: Do you have a couple of hours a month to make phone calls, plant flowers, share memories, play cards, etc.? Hospice can provide you with excellent training. Call us now at 250-632-2278.KITIMAT LADIES AUXILIARY, Branch 250 hold regular meetings every sec-ond Thursday of the month. More info by calling Nancy at 250-632-4051, or Lyn at 250-632-2351FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY To join contact Luce Gauthier at [email protected]

or Virginia Charron @ [email protected] or call 250-632-8985.KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are in-terested in joining the Kitimat Quilters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6225 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for further info.THE KITIMAT PUB-LIC LIBRARY offers the highly engaging Mother Goose Story-Time for pre-schoolers Monday mornings from 10:30-11:15 am. Please register for this free program.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Devel-opment Center. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (old-er siblings welcome). Come meet other par-ents and infants over light refreshments with support from the CDC staff and a Pub-lic Health Nurse. For more info call 250-632-3144.CHILD DEVELOP-MENT CENTRE Fun-Spot drop-in for chil-dren aged birth to 5 years with caregivers. Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays 10 am-12 pm. Fridays are now a

combined drop-in/mul-ticultural playgroup. Contact 250-632-3144 for more info.KITIMAT FIBRE ARTS GUILD: Inter-ested in knitting, spin-ning, weaving, or any other fibre? For more info call Maureen 250-632-5444.KITIMAT MUL-TIPLE SCLEROSIS - The Kitimat M.S. group would like to be here for you. Total confidentiality. For more information con-tact Mary at 250-639-6016.UNIFOR LOCAL 2301 RETIREES CHAPTER - The next Retirees Chapter So-cial is on Thursday June 18th, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at the Unifor Union Hall 235 Enter-prise Ave. Kitimat. All Unifor Local 2031 re-tirees in Northern B.C. are welcome. Please forward your email ad-dress or phone number to Raymond to stay up-dated on future events. Contact Raymond Raj @ [email protected] or (250)-632-4006. PRAYER CANA-DA Kitimat Tuesday lunchtime meetings will start again on September 8th, 2015. Location to be deter-mined. For more info, please call Lesley at 250-632-4554.

Coming Events

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SNOW VALLEY FORD IN KITIMAThas an opening for the position of

Sales Consultant.The successful applicant for this position will be a highly motivated, energetic team player and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.Come and join the fastest growing automotive

team in the Northwest.Please bring your resume to

405 Enterprise Ave. in Kitimat.Ask for Todd Bellamy.

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Carriers Wanted!No Collecting!Direct Deposit Pay!Wednesday & Friday Deliveries.

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Nalabila Townhouses, Duncan, Anderson (100)Okanagan, Omenica (100)Eagle, Egret, Drake (60)Liard, Lillooet, Nadina, Ochwe, Nass (100)Moore (42)

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Employment

Help Wanted

The Chalet Motelin Kitimat is looking to fi ll the positions of Kitchen

Helper, Waitress and Front Desk Clerk. Please drop off resume at the Chalet Motel

front desk.

The Lemare Group is accept-ing resumes for the following positions:• Certifi ed Hand Fallers• Offi ce Highway Logging Truck Drivers• Log Loader Operator• Grapple Yarder Operators• Boom Boat Operator• Chasers• Hooktenders• 2nd Loaders-Buckermen• Heavy Duty MechanicsFulltime camp with union rates/benefi ts. Please send re-sumes by fax to 250-956-4888 or email to: offi [email protected].

Wonderful Opportunity in a busy restaurant.

Rosario’sRestaurant has openings forfull time/part time

COOKS, SERVERS andDISHWASHERS.

Days and Evenings.No experience necessary

as we train.Please email

[email protected] bring resume to Rosario’s

in Kitimat. No phone calls please

Help Wanted

Employment

Medical/Dental

Rehabilitation Assistant

A Rehabilitation Assistant is required in Kitimat to provide community rehabilitationservices. You must have graduated from a recognized Rehabilitation Assist-ant program and have an interest in community brain injury rehabili-tation. You are competent in using Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as have excellent verbal and written communication skills in English. A reliable vehicle to transport client, valid BC driver’s licence, fi rst aid certifi cate and criminal record check are required for this position. This is a part time position.

Email resume and cover letter to: [email protected]

Services

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.

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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.

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Legal ServicesCRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certifi -cation, adoption property ren-tal opportunities. For peace of mind & a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

Pets & Livestock

LivestockPUREBRED KATAHDIN Sheep, lambs, adult ewes, also mixed breeds. (250) 695-6980

PetsMISSING from 126 Baxter Str, Kitimat. Black cat with a spot of white on chest and belly. Neutered, declawed, smaller than average cats. Reward of-fered for safe return. No collar on at time of missing. Please contact at 250-639-9769 or email [email protected]

We are accepting applica-tions for our Purebred Lab-rador Puppies (for Sale). Sire is #2 lab in Canada. Both parents are Champion and Grand Champions. Our pups have been micro-chipped, dew claws removed and have their fi rst shots. OFA HIPS - Good, OFA EL-BOWS and CERF - Normal, PRA and EIC - Clear $1,000.

780-881-4722Kitimat


AuctionsHUGE Burnaby Restaurant Equip-ment Auction - used equipment from closed restaurants & NEW equipment direct from manufactur-er! www.KwikAuctions.com for info and to sign up for our e-newsletter or call 1-800-556-KWIK

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53 in stock.SPECIAL

44’ x 40’ Container Shopw/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!40’ Containers under $2500!

Call Toll Free AlsoJD 544 & 644 wheel loaders

JD 892D LC ExcavatorPh. 1-866-528-7108 Delivery BC and AB

www.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for SaleAT LAST! An iron fi lter that works. IronEater! Fully patent-ed Canada/U.S.A. Removes iron, hardness, smell, manga-nese. Since 1957. Visit our 29 innovative inventions; Phone 1-800-BIG-IRON. Or online at: www.bigirondrilling.com

CENTRAL RV. New and used sea containers. Best prices in B.C. Can Deliver. 20’ New - $3800. Used $2800. Other siz-es available call for pricing. (250)314-9522.

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

KILL BED Bugs & Their Eggs! Buy a Harris Bed Bug Kit, Complete Room Treatment Solution. Odorless, Non-Stain-ing. Available onlinehomedepot.com (NOT IN STORES).

STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Misc. WantedLocal Coin Collector Buying Collections, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins etc 778-281-0030

Real Estate

For Sale By Owner

Executive Home for Saleon preferred street. Four bedroom, 2.5 bath. New win-dows, siding, roof, doors, marble tiling and rear and front facing decks. Large pri-vate fenced backyard, 3 patios, newly paved drive-way with RV parking.

17 Deville Cres. KitimatAsking $364,000

250-639-9643

Other Areas20 ACRES FREE! Own 60 acres for 40 acre price/pay-ment $0 Down, $198/mo. Money Back Guarantee, No Credit Checks. Beautiful Views, West Texas. Call 1-800-843-7537.www.texaslandbuys.com

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentFREE HEAT AND HOT WATER

Bachelor 1 and 2 bedroom

APARTMENTS Largest, Brightest SuitesShiny Hardwood Floors

Unfurnished & FurnishedDaily - Weekly - Monthly

ABSOLUTELY NO PARTIERSINCLUDES HEAT!

OCEANVIEW APTS(250)632-2822 Kitimat

KITIMAT APTSBEST VALUE

• Starting at $600• Balconies• Security Entrances• Cameras for your safety• Now includes basic

cableVisit our Website

www.kitimatapartments.comPhone: 250.632.APTS

(2787)

Rentals

Apt/Condo for Rent

KITIMAT

MIDTOWN APARTMENTS

Free heat & Free Hot WaterFurnished & Unfurnished

1 & 2 bedroomsSecurity Entrances

No Pets. No Smoking250.632.7179

QUATSINO APTSKITIMAT

• Downtown location• Balconies• Security Entrances• Some furnished suites

Call for an appointment250.632.4511

www.kitimatapartments.com

SANDPIPER APTSKITIMAT

Newer BuildingsElevators

Security EntrancesCovered Parking

Balconieswww.kitimatapartments.com

250.632.4254

Homes for Rent4 - 3 and 2 Bedroom Homes and Town Houses for rent in Kitimat. Starting August 1st - Go 2 www.rentboard.ca click on BC click on Kitimat or call Stan 780 974 3945

Kitimat Rental3 bedroom. Fenced yard. n/s, n/p. Kildala area. $1,250/mo. Utilities not in-cluded. Available August 1

778-631-2028

TownhousesTHREE bedroom townhouses for rent. 1.5 baths, carport. 1084 Nalabila. $950 per month. Close to all services. Call 250-279-2727

TOWNHOMES in KITIMAT3 bdrm, 1 ½ bath, carportStart $700. Sorry no Pets.

Call Greg 639-0110

Transportation

Cars - Sports & Imports

CLASSIC/COLLECTOR1971 300SEL 3.5 Mercedes Benz. 75,000km. Very good condition, always garaged, never driven in winter. Well maintained. Maintenance records, service/parts book. Manuals. Some spare parts.

250-632-6755Serious inquiries only Please

Motorcycles

2007 Suzuki Burgman650cc Executive. Cherry Red. Like new condition. $9,500 obo. Estate sale.

250-632-6263

Recreational/Sale

1996 Winnebago VectraA class diesel pusher

$35,000 fi rm780-881-4722

Kitimat

Transportation

Trucks & Vans

1997 Yukon 4 Dr Full load. 252k km. No Rust. $7,500

2002 Monte Carlo SS143k km. 3.8. Leather.

$8,9002004 Chevy Optra

104k km. New head gas-ket/timing belt/brakes.4 cyl, 5 speed. $3,500

1984 Pontiac Paresienne143,000k km. 4-dr. $3,900

2010 Ram 1500 Sport Hemi11,000k km. Warranty.

$26,0002002 Caravan

209k km. Runs/drives good.1980 Malibu Race Car

BBC/Glide, parts/ whole.$2,500

1983 Regal Wagon305 Headers, Posi mags.

$3,8001996 Impala SS $9,900

View atTom’s Auto Detailing

Kitimat250-639-9678

Boats

17 ft. Alum. Canoe “Spring Bok” very stable, perfect of family / hunting canoe. $600. ----------------------------------13 ft. Alum. Canoe “Sports Pal” very stable & very light, 2 seats. $500.

Call (250) 692-2372

1990 Bayliner29.5ft. $26,000 or trade for newer 5th Wheel or two newer quads with trailer.

250-639-9643

30ft Farrel BoatVolvo diesel, Borg Warner gear, V-drive, VHF radar, auto pilot, sounder, fully equipped for fi shing or cruising. $30,000

403-342-1661

32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT

370hp 8.1L John Deere Diesel, 1500hrs on engine. Trolling valve, Bow Thruster,

3 Stage Steering. 2 Hydraulic Deep lines,

Hydraulic Trap Puller, 3 Sounders, Radar, 8’ Dinghy,

2 Radios. Com-Dev Auto Pilot, Spare Prop. Can be seen at MK Bay Marina.

Assessed at $84,400.Contact Warren Poff at

250.632.6119or 250.242.1789

$65,000 Firm(will consider trade for part)

Reduced to $5,900 OBOMoving - must sell

21’ Fibreform CabincruiserKitimat - 5.7L - V8 Mercruis-er with Alpha 1 leg. Great running condition. Brand new exhaust manifolds, bat-teries and starter (over $2000 spent). Stringers and fl oor replaced. 40 gal alum gas tank. Sleeps 3 com-fortably. Heavy duty double axle trailer included.

Ph: 250-632-5673

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We joyfully announce the safe arrival of

She was born in Victoria to proud parentsEric Grandbois and Erica Venalainen

on March 22, 2015 at 5:13 amat 7 pounds 2 ounces and 19.5 inches longHer birth is also celebrated by excited � rst time

grandparents Marilyn and Mike Grandboisfrom Kamloops and Ritva and Erkki Venalainen

from Kitimat who welcome their� rst precious granddaughter.

Cécile FavronFormer Kitimat resident

Ben Thorne race-walked his way to his second national title at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Champion-ships in Gulf Shores, Ala-bama in May.

Thorne won the men's 5000 meter race walk for his team the UBC Thunder-birds.

When Thorne won his title on the second day of

competition, the UBC men's team was third in the stand-ings at 20 points – half of which came from Thorne's win.

Thorne's time was 21:37, 15 seconds ahead of his competitor Anthony Peters from Iowa and over a minute ahead of the third place competitor Alejandro Chavez from Missouri.

The NAIA competition does not qualify athletes

to compete at international events, but Thorne will most likely be on the Canada’s World University Games team.

This is Thorne's second national title after he came in third at the 2013 Canadian Track and Field Champion-ships, earning him a trip to Moscow.

He has been on the UBC Thunderbirds team since 2011 and is 22 years old.

Thorne wins second national title

Kitimat defenceman drafted to Prince George CougarsCécile Favron

Defenceman Zach Minaker, 15, was drafted to the Prince George Cougars last month in their ninth-round selection.

This puts Minaker 183rd over-all.

Minaker grew up in Kitimat, but has spent the last season playing for the Okanagan Hockey Academy Bantam Prep team.

“It's an honour to become a part of the @PGCougars organiza-tion. Thank you to all my friends and family who have supported me along the way,” Minaker posted on Twitter when he heard that he had been drafted.

Over the past season Minaker has played 18 games and totalled three assists and fourteen penalty minutes.

In an interview on the PG Cou-gars’ website, General Manager Todd Harkins described Minaker as “a good, smooth skating defence-man [who] makes very smart de-cisions and is very reliable on the back-end.”

Minaker was the fifth B.C. born player to be drafted in the Bantam

draft this year. He is also the second from Kiti-

mat to be drafted to the Cougars in as many years with Kitimat's Justin Almeida being drafted in the first round last year.

The draft was a part of the West-ern Hockey League Bantam Draft 2015 which included players from the western provinces of Canada and the western half of the United States.

The WHL Bantam Draft has a long history of drafting players who went on to play in the National Hockey League.

Notably, this includes players such as Dan Hamhuis, drafted to the PG Cougars in 1998, who went on to play for the Vancouver Canucks.

Zach Minaker, a 15 year-old defenceman from Kitimat was drafted to the PG Cougars last month. Tim Minaker

“In an interview on the PG Cougars’ website,

General Manager Todd Harkins described

Minaker as ‘a smooth skating defenceman.’”

AddendumWe missed out on the result of

one of Kitimat’s gymnasts in our May 6 edition.

Sorry to Melissa Yeoh, 15, who competed in level 7 and earned gold overall with 32.10 points.

Also note an associated photo of raffle winners which was printed in the following Northern Connec-tor noted a raffle prize incorrectly at $200, which should have been $2000.

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Kitimat Northern Sentinel, June 03, 2015

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