Terrace Standard, January 08, 2014

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2013 wrap-upHere’s more highlights of the locals who stood out in the last half of the year \COMMUNITY A9

Housing optionsA local developer is set to break ground on a new project this spring\NEWS A14

Year in Review 2The second installment of our 2013 Sports Year in Review continues \SPORTS A22

By JOSH MASSEY

AN ARbiTRATioN hearing over how a layoff process unfolded at Northwest Community College (NWCC) in 2012 has resulted in a decision that will see some faculty compensated by the college for lost wages.

Members of both unions rep-resenting the faculty said that the arbitration decision reinforces the collective agreement, while the college said it has learned some lessons in how to negotiate future labour deals.

“We were successful on all

of our major points,” said Kevin Rose, National Representative for the Canadian Union of Public Em-ployees. “The remedies the arbitra-tor awarded were everything the union had asked for, so i would say we see this as a major victory.”

The arbitration took one year, with 18 hearings held throughout 2013, and a final decision released Dec. 30. both sides hired lawyers and also paid fees for what was called a lengthy arbitration period.

in arbitrator Rod Germaine’s ruling papers, he states that the original dispute began when fac-ulty at the various campuses across

the northwest were sent a prelimi-nary layoff notice by the college's administration that indicated cuts were needed to make up for a defi-cit of more than $1 million.

The unions quickly responded by charging that the correct proce-dures were not followed leading up to the announcement.

Ultimately 10 layoff notices were issued, with four going to arbitration together, and another separately.

Cindy oliver, president of the Federation of Post-Secondary Ed-ucators (FPSE) said that several faculty members took early retire-

ment and that other adjustments were negotiated by the unions, thus minimizing the layoff impacts, but that college administrators had ini-tially “botched the whole process.”

The arbitration papers show that two faculty members will receive financial compensation for missed time on top of “declaratory relief in relation to both the breakdown of the joint layoff committee pro-cess under Article 11.2.2 and the violation of their seniority rights” awarded to all four grievors.

The arbitrator also said that “the grievors’ joint layoff committees did not perform their responsibili-

ties under Article 11.2.2.”President and CEo of NWCC,

Denise Henning, sees some posi-tives in the decision.

“What i can say is that Mr. Germaine found the college to be reasonable in handling the overall layoff process. Where there were issues, the majority were a result of a significantly compressed time-line that was imposed through a labour relations board solution,” she said.

“i think it also gives us clarity for bargaining discussions in the future,” Henning added.

College layoff decision reached

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■ Toboggan timelenyx harling, 3, enjoys some sledding by northwest Community College on a beautiful day Jan. 4. Children were out sliding down the hill by the college parking lot, taking advantage of the warm weather as the temperature hovered around -1 C during the weekend.

Property values riseTHE bC Housing Assessment office released sta-tistics last week showing that the value of home and business properties in Terrace has risen compared to 2013 assessments.

The average value for a single family residential property in Terrace is now $244,000 compared to $220,000 in 2013—a 10.91 per cent increase ac-cording to the report, released Jan. 2.

And when considered next to its neighbouring municipalities of similar population, Terrace finds itself in the middle.

The average rise in value of single family resi-dential properties in Kitimat was highest in b.C. at 26.67 per cent ($228,000 compared to $180,000 in 2013), while Prince Rupert saw an average rise of 8.89 per cent ($196,000 compared to $180,000 last year).

The total value of commercial properties in Terrace—including new construction—rose by 3.37 per cent, at $300,543,000 compared to $290,731,000 in last year's assessment.

The total value of commercial property, includ-ing new construction, rose by 14.84 per cent in Prince Rupert and 8.71 per cent in Kitimat.

Prince Rupert's totals jumped from $311,395,000 to $357,608,000 and Kitimat's from $188,964,000 to $205,429,000.

Nearby towns that experienced declining overall assessments for 2014 include the District of Stew-art, which saw the average value of a single family residence drop by 6.33 per cent, down to $74,000 from $79,000 in 2013. New Hazelton saw a sub-stantial increase in the value of single family resi-dential properties at 22.73 per cent, from $88,000 to $108,000. The overall value of commercial prop-erties, including new construction, rose by 91.30 per cent in Port Edward.

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By MARGARET SPEIRS

with the snowy and slushy conditions on the roads this holiday sea-son, road clearing crews had their work cut out for them to keep traffic moving.

to give the public a better idea of how road clearing works, Necha-ko Northcoast opera-tions manager Peter Lansdowne took some time to explain it to the regional district board late last year.

the public may think road crews aren’t out at the right time or in the right places, but they have a schedule, said Lansdowne.

Shifts start at mid-night and noon for 12 hours and if needed, a cover crew is out at 6 a.m. in heavy winter weather, he said.

People have com-plained that crews were not out before the traf-fic starts, which is why Nechako changed from a 4 a.m. shift to mid-night, said Lansdowne.

“it’s amazing that people think our trucks aren’t out there,” said Lansdowne, adding that from his point of view, if motorists don’t see the crews and the road is in decent shape, that’s the best thing because Nechako doesn’t want to delay travellers.

Crews work 24/7 and are out clearing the roads when traffic is light, Lansdowne told the regional district.

“we time the trucks to [go out] in front of school bus routes,” said Lansdowne, adding that they’re always in touch with the bus operators.

the public needs to be aware that the truck

drivers are told to clear the centre line of the roads and they’re not trying to run vehicles off the road, said Lans-downe. Crews are also instructed to hold their position on the road go-ing up hills or around corners to ensure they’re cleaned, he said.

it can be difficult to predict when and where little squalls of intense bands of snowfall will fall and when they do, in minutes the road can look like that snowfall has been there for days, he said.

“we try to get word out, so people are aware of the conditions before people go out so they can make an educated decision,” said Lansd-owne, adding he likes to hear from people di-rectly so if the regional district directors hear comments from their constituents to pass it on to his office.

One way to help mo-torists stay safe on area roads is the message boards, such as the one west of terrace just be-fore crossing the bridge to Kitsumkalum and new ones on the east side of the city on hwy 16, two at Kitwanga and one at Krumm Rd., he added. webcams are another way to pass on road conditions to mo-torists and a new one at Rosswood just came online recently, he said.

“tis the season to get yelled at for snow removal,” joked City of terrace board represen-tative Bruce Bidgood.

he said he hears from constituents at Al-can and their concerns range from the snow removal crews not be-ing out early enough

before they commute between terrace and Kitimat, that the snow-plow blades are not put down all the way to the ground to prevent road erosion, and that the ag-gregate is not put down in a sufficient pattern.

“what can i say to my constituents?” asked Bidgood. add-ing that Nechako might want to talk to the Rio tinto Alcan workers who commute between terrace and Kitimat.

Lansdowne said he’s met with Rio tinto Al-can and information has gone out in their com-pany newsletters.

As for the snowplow blades not touching the ground, a lot of blades have been worn out.

“the thing about ag-gregate is you can ap-preciate a load or two loads of sand only goes so far,” he said. “there are days [when] there’s never enough sand.”

And heavy trucks will blow sand out of the driving lanes and into the centre of the road, he added.

Salt is the best tool to remove snow and ice but if it’s used at the wrong time, it can cre-ate conditions that are much more dangerous, he said. Salt requires traffic, the sun or a heat source to activate it.

Often a brine will form and refreeze and it’s dangerous and re-ally hard to get off the road surface, he ex-plained.

“it creates all kinds of grief,” he said.

Anther thing that’s done is to put down liquid calcium, which helps to activate the salt by starting a chemical reaction that cuts down

on the amount of salt used, which is better be-cause salt is harmful to the environment.

Kitimat councillor Corinne Scott said a problem with calcium is that besides helping to activate the salt, it’s also very slippery when it’s wet and is like soap scum or slime. Lansd-owne said that was true but that “slimy compo-nent” doesn’t last.

terrace area direc-tor Doug McLeod com-mended Nechako and the ministry for working on road safety, especial-ly since the hwy16 and hwy 37 corner is very busy these days with all the logging traffic.

“i appreciate the ef-fort, also thank you for putting street lights out at water Lily bay, which are very helpful at this time of year,” he said, referring it getting dark sooner in winter.

And he also thanked Lansdowne for putting

up the “slingshot fence” on the other aide of air-port hill, which has al-ready been tested a few times, he said.

Lansdowne said a woman had called to say thanks for the fence after her husband had hit it and it had stopped his vehicle. Before that, they had been wonder-ing if it would really stop a vehicle and now they knew it would.

Lansdowne said that kind of fence was way less expensive than put-ting up a railing and that it was relatively new up here but had been used in medians in the Fraser valley for awhile now.

“the reason we use it up here is it’s not cost effective to try to construct shoulders to provide enough width to put concrete barriers in,” he said.

the toll-free number with 24 hour access to the road crews is 1-800-665-5051.

Roadway snow removal has plan behind it

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even though it may seem like it to some drivers, snowplows out clearing the snow are not trying to run other vehicles off the road.

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Snowmobiler and Winter Recreation Users Public Safety Notice

Snowmobilers and winter recreationalists (cross country skiers, snow shoers, etc.) should be aware that the Northwest Transmission Line (NTL) is under construction, and the NTL right-of-way remains a construction zone with restricted access. This is required to avoid safety risks associated with such things as unmarked guy lines, construction materials and other potential hazards along the right-of-way, as well as for public and worker safety as construction activities continue.

In particular, over the past year many of the transmission structures for the NTL project have been installed. Most of these structures are supported by currently unmarked guy lines which can be very difficult to see against a snow background.

Please avoid using the right-of-way for your activities. If you are in the area, take extra care when travelling in the vicinity of the transmission structures.

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This Terracite wants to live on MarsBy MARGARET SPEIRS

A WOMAN who spent her teen years here is one step closer to her dream of going into space after making the shortlist for Mars One, which intends to send people to live on the red plan-et starting in 2024.

Marina Miral learned she was one of the shortlisted applicants Dec. 30 and is looking ahead to what the rest of the two-year application process will be for the project, which is being organized and done by a team from the Netherlands.

"Ever since I was a kid, it's been a dream," says Miral about her desire to go into space.

Miral, who lives in Sooke on Van-couver Island and works as a co-writ-er of juvenile fiction novels, lived out in Jackpine Flats from ages 12 to 19.

She applied for Mars One last Sep-tember and says her life has changed since she found out she was shortlist-ed Dec. 30.

"I got an email and life has been pretty different since then," she says.

Mars One, a not-for-profit founda-tion that wants to establish a perma-nent human settlement on Mars, plans to launch an unmanned mission to Mars in 2018 and send up its first four people in 2024 and four more every

two years afterward.About 200,000 people applied in

the first round and out of that, 1,058 candidates were shortlisted from 107 countries.

Seventy-five Canadians were shortlisted – the second biggest show-ing for a country.

The United States has the most contenders out of any country with 297 applicants.

Applicants have to be at least 18 years of age and so far the oldest ap-plicant shortlisted is a 72-year-old American man.

Since the application process is two years long, Miral says she's not guaranteed a place on the flights to Mars yet, and although she doesn't know what to expect, she knows there's lots of training ahead.

"All I know is it's difficult and tests the physical and emotional capabili-ties of everyone," she says.

"I don't know what it is but I'm ex-cited and nervous at the same time."

She urges anyone who wants to go into space to apply when the next round of applications is being taken.

"Absolutely in the future when they take application again, definitely apply. What can be a more amazing adventure than this?" she says.

"It sounds crazy, and awesome."

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Marina Miral could be one of the first people to go to, and live on, Mars.


JulySummer beginS with the installation of new charging stations for electric cars at the Skeena mall. This green technology infra-structure is for people considering buying electric-gas hybrids or all-electric vehicles in the north. These new charging stations join the two others located at northwest Community College and city headquarters on eby St.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆A Couple files an appeal against an at-tempt by the provincial government to keep money seized during a police execution of a search warrant earlier in 2013 for $21,380. This forfeiture case continues over the next few months.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆A murder occurs in south Terrace July 23 and a large investigation ensues. The case is still being actively investigated. 29-year-old nathan Ward was the man who was mur-dered.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆inCidenT of a pilot having a nervous breakdown and shooting holes in his aircraft occurs north of Terrace July 12. This begins a summer of much news coming out of the Klappan area, mainly related to the proposed coal mine by fortune minerals.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The CiTy announces it intends to sign a contract with multi-material bC to join their recycling program beginning in may, 2014. however, other municipalities stall, drawing out the process.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆TerrACe rCmp responds to 17 break-and-enter calls in the second half of July. Then in early August they make two arrests, and the numbers of break-and-enters drop.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆niSgA’A nATion takes the province of british Columbia to court over an environ-mental assessment certificate issued for the proposed Avanti mine near Kitsault. The ap-peal is filed July 29, and the provincial gov-ernment scrambles to negotiate a solution.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆CAnAdiAn roCK hero Jim Vallance an-nounces that the rumours are true: the old dogs ‘n’ Suds on lakelse Ave. was the sub-

ject he drew inspiration from when writing “Summer of ‘69” with bryan Adams.

AugustSKeenA SoCKeye run deemed extremely low and all fisheries on the Skeena river are closed to first nations, after a previous ban was issued for other groups. The dfo esti-mates that only 408,000 fish have returned, well below initial estimates of between 600,000 and 800,000. The first nations fish-ery is closed from Aug. 4 to Aug. 23.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆meAnWhile, nASS river sockeye re-turned in higher levels than first predicted, meaning the nisga’a were able to harvest 25,000 more sockeye than anticipated.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆STeWArT’S ongoing ambulance ser-vices lack gets more severe with the depar-ture of paramedics. A single part-time para-medic remains for a busy long weekend. bC Ambulance promises more training. local residents appeal for help to local mlAs.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The CiTy of Terrace finalizes the sale of

some of its Skeena industrial park land lo-cated just south of the northwest regional Airport to global dewatering ltd. Aug. 21.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆VereSen inC. announces it wants to build a peaking power generation facility in the Skeena industrial development park and signs a memorandum of understanding with the city on Aug. 21.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆reCordingS of loud, strange sounds go viral. The noises are heard Aug. 29 and peo-ple speculate what it could be, with univer-sity experts weighing in. A grader grinding its blade at the Sportsplex parking lot is the source of the noise as told by the city.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The end of an era comes Aug. 19 as the last of three old buildings at little Ave. or-dered demolished by the city came down. The building once served as a hospital oper-ated by the red Cross. The other two build-ings, 4440 little Ave. and 4450 little Ave., a Second World War-era barracks building, were demolished earlier in 2013.

SeptemberSepTember 4: elders and other activists block a road leading out to the Klappan area marking the beginning of renewed disputes between the Tahltan first nation and for-tune minerals that will escalate until the end of the month when fortune leaves the Klap-pan area. This begins a series of negotiations between the province and the Tahltan over the ensuing months.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The SeCond murder of the year happens Sept. 14. A man is dead and a woman is in-jured following a shooting in Thornhill.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆loCAl orgAnizerS push for a pro-vincial pot referendum with an extensive campaign helped by bob erb. Their goal of collecting the signatures of 10 per cent of registered voters is met in this region, how-ever, not enough electoral districts across the province hit the 10 per cent mark by the deadline in december.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ former CiTy employee don ramsay sues city. he was hired in march 2012, and says his legal statement June 2012 resigna-tion was made under “duress and through misrepresentations” and so is invalid.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆dArrell genAille, the man who had $21,380 along with drugs and weapons seized in April, files complaint against po-lice for the raid.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆pArenTS of children enrolled in schools outside of their designated neighbourhood received an unwelcome surprise among the usual notices that came home on the first day of school – a letter from the school district demanding $20 a month or $200 a year in or-der for their child to take a bus. This change is put on hold after public outcry.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆TerrACe reSidenTS ike murray and devlin Sabo go missing while mushroom picking on the banks of the Skeena river Sept. 22. A huge search begins with more than 100 volunteers coming out to help Sept. 28.

OctoberThe long lake hydro project, a $100 million hydroelectric project near Stewart, powers up. it’s located 25 kilometres north of Stewart on Cascade Creek. This is one of several run-of-river projects currently under-way in the region.

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iKe murrAy, one of the two missing mushroom was found on railway tracks oct. 7 and is brought to Terrace’s mills memo-rial hospital in stable condition. he directs searchers to the body of devlin Sabo who died from exposure days before.

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The proVinCe of b.C. announces on oct. 3 it is kicking in $650,000 for a scientific study to figure out how the area’s air shed will handle emissions from liquefied natural gas plants and other proposed developments.

The Year in Review2013 IN NEWS

BELOW FIND the second installment of The Terrace Standard’s annual year in review of significant news events of the past year. This issue contains events from the last six months of 2013. Community and sports sec-tions also contain a review.

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Dennis Herbison waters his lawn on 4700 block on McConnell Ave., which is being repaved and upgraded, on Aug.9.

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More tHAn 100 volunteers go out to search for missing mushroom pickers Devlin sabo and ike Murray sept. 28.


October cont’dKITSUMKALUM IS honoured with the first visit to a community of the lieutenant-governor’s Black Rod on Oct. 9 in celebra-tion of it and the late former Kitsumkalum chief councillor Cliff Bolton, who carved the piece of jade on the symbolic icon.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆A CIvIL Court battle continues through the fall relating to Cane the dog, with the owner looking for an apology and compensation from the regional district after the court de-nied the regional district’s request to destroy the dog after a biting incident in 2012. The civil court case is ongoing.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆A WATeR treatment plant first planned in the 1990s finally opens in Nass valley in the town of Gitwinksihlkw Oct. 25 with a cer-emony held in celebration.

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The LOCAL social services society, Ksan,

reveals ambitious plans on Oct. 28 to build at least 20 low-income and affordable rental units on city-owned land in Terrace. Director Carol Sabo asks city council Oct. 28 to con-sider granting it a long-term lease on either one of two city-owned properties.

NovemberThe NORThWeST Regional Airport hits a milestone Nov. 25 with its inaugural WestJet flight arriving from vancouver.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆AfTeR MONThS of waiting to see if municipalities would agree on terms for a province-wide recycling program, Terrace, which decided to join in July, signs up on Nov. 29. The recycling program is to roll out in May 2014.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆POWeRLINe STRINGING continues west of Terrace, pole to pole along BC hydro’s Northwest Transmission Line working to-wards a spring 2014 completion date.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆LOGS IN the YaoRun Wood log yard on Keith Ave. get seized by forestry officials Nov. 13 because of non-payment of stump-age fees. The first time the log yard was shut down by a seizure of logs was in October when YaoRun fell behind by $586,000 for outstanding stumpage. The November debt was $150,000 and is quickly paid back, as was the first debt. Work at the yard contin-ues.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ALCAN DefeNDS increased sulphur di-oxide emissions projected for its moderniza-tion project in Kitimat, which would affect the local airshed, saying positives of lowered carbon footprint and other emission reduc-tions outweigh negatives. This was in re-sponse to several groups, including Skeena Wild, attempting to appeal the permit change granted by the provincial government allow-ing the increase.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ThRee TeRRACe residents drown on the Skeena River on a boating trip that started Nov. 11. Lyle Ray Lukat, 24, Patrick John hawkshaw, 40, and Nicole Lucy McKay, 23, were the victims. All three were from Thornhill. They were taking a boat across the Skeena to hot springs west of Terrace through rough water.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ A DeLeGATION of Terrace and Kitselas first Nations officials go to China to woo investors. The goal is to sell portions of the 2,400-acre Skeena Industrial Development Park located just south of the Northwest Regional Airport. The trip, from Nov. 16 to Nov. 23, results in a memorandum of under-standing signed between Terrace and Chi-nese investors.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ A PUBLIC forum on LNG (liquefied nat-ural gas) is held Nov. 13 at the ReM Lee Theatre, hosted by Skeena-Bulkley valley MP Nathan Cullen. Panelists from industry, government and first Nations discuss the challenges that the community faces with an emerging LNG industry.

DecemberSTATISTICS shared by local real estate agent John evans show a dramatic drop in available homes in Terrace compared to the spring, as well as spiking home values.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆PLANS fOR a wood pellet plant are an-nounced Dec. 6. An agreement between Coast Tsimshian Resources (CTR) and Pin-nacle Renewable energy Inc. means the two will work toward the plant’s construction. The location is yet to be confirmed. The plant is expected to create close to 200 jobs.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆IT IS revealed that representatives from the Kitasoo first Nation and the City of Terrace launched a lawsuit against Kelowna-based Urban Distilleries for using the trademarked Spirt Bear name shared by the two parties. The city reveals that it has defended the trademark several times over the past years, not always successfully.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆A TRANSPORTATION Safety Board inves-tigation into a helicopter crash that claimed the lives of three people near Terrace in 2012 cites sudden loss of visibility as well as a lack of instruments and instrument training as the cause of the crash in its December re-port.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆A feDeRAL housing report shows that it’s

more difficult to find an apartment or town-house to rent in Terrace than anywhere else in the province. The Canadian Mortgage and housing Corporation report issued Dec. 12 shows that, as of October, the vacancy rate for apartments in Terrace was the lowest in B.C. at zero per cent, down from 3.4 per cent last October.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆CITY COUNCIL passes a resolution that tax money from future developments at the Skeena Industrial Development Park south of town will go toward lowering both busi-ness and residential taxes. They determine that a yearly review will happen to assess ex-actly what percentage of the tax money will go towards reducing taxes, and how much might be used to tackle capital projects.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆CITY COUNCIL also passes a resolution to host a series of LNG forums similar to the one MP Nathan Cullen organized in Novem-ber to raise awareness about how an LNG in-dustry will affect communities in the north.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ The federal Joint Review Panel gives provi-sional acceptance for the enbridge Northern Gateway project on Dec.19. The report sets out 209 required conditions for the con-struction and operation of the project, and includes “technical standards and require-ments for detailed plans, studies, scientific research, consultation, reports, monitoring, and financial assurances,” should the federal government approve the project.

The Year in Review2013 IN NEWS

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It was a busy year for City of terrace staff. Here director of development services David Block shows the blueprints for the Grand trunk Extension project that will elongate the current path along Hwy16 as far as Frank st.

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InstallInG tHE towers for the north-west transmission line was done in large part by helicopter. a skycrane was brought in by Valard to lift the towers up and place them on their foundations. the next step was to use smaller heli-copters to string the cable.

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ProtEsts aGaInst the proposed northern Gateway Project continued nov. 16 across Canada as the decision by the federal Joint review Panel was pending.

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NEWS last week from the BC Hous-ing Assessment Of� ce that north-west property values are on the rise was likely not much of a shock to homeowners in the bustling Terrace area.

Nor to those looking to purchase a home, many of whom saw their options for real estate investment di-minish through 2013 – with one re-altor saying late last year that there were only 16 single family homes available for purchase at that time, a number that in all likelihood will de-crease or stay steady through 2014.

And it’s not much easier to � nd a home to rent. While the recent feder-al housing report that put Terrace’s vacancy rate at zero doesn’t show the entire picture (for one, the report doesn’t include secondary suites or detached homes available for rental) there’s no question it re� ects the re-ality that prospective renters have been encountering for some time.

These challenges are part and par-cel for a community experiencing a boom, and while help might appear to be slow in coming, recent news suggests some is on the way – new condo developments and units are in the planning stages which should provide a boost for permanent dwell-ing and investment options, while easing some of the strain placed on the rental market.

And the city is set to release its housing study in the coming months, a report that should include recom-mendations on how to help society’s most vulnerable.

T H R O U G H B I F O C A L S

CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

EDITORIALA6 www.terracestandard.com OPINION Wednesday, January 8, 2014 Terrace Standard

If you’re a devotee of The Big Bang Theory you’ll recall the episode in which Sheldon ac-

companies Penny to an elec-tronics store and once there, dispenses information about other electronic devices to various customers who re-quest help until even the manager asks, “Are you an employee of this store?”

The tipoff that he didn’t work there should have been his ready availability to customers seeking help, his detailed knowledge of the merchandise he was of-fering, and his eagerness to guide the customer to the best choice.

Contrast Sheldon’s readi-ness to assist with the ‘ser-vice’ various friends have experienced in local stores.

One friend walked into a stationery store wanting to buy an outsized 2014 wall calendar. The store appeared deserted until a young man emerged from the back room wearing a toque, a ski jacket and cold weather boots.

Was he, too, a customer in search of a salesperson? Or had he strolled in from the back alley to warm up? His hands were plunged into his blue jeans pockets.

“Do you work here?” my friend asked.

He admitted he did, al-though nothing about his de-meanour suggested he might.

“Do you have any more 2014 wall calendars?”

He didn’t know, and seemed reluctant to bother � nding out. Then again, who should he ask? No other per-sonnel were visible.

Another friend stood waiting fourth in line at a parts counter to buy a repair for his snowblower.

While he and the three would-be customers ahead of him waited, the clerk took a phone call from someone checking to � nd out if the

store had on hand what he needed before he bothered to drive to the store. Minutes passed as the clerk walked to the back of the store in search of the exact item, as-sured the caller the store had it, gave the caller a price, and promised the caller they would hold the item at the front counter for his conve-nient pickup later.

Businesses usually serve � rst the people in front of them before accommodating phone callers. Rather than irritating the people stand-ing waiting, the clerk could have either taken the caller’s number and called him back during a slack moment, or asked the caller to wait and put down the phone until he served those waiting before his counter.

Another friend in need of a unique, off-season item went to the only store that might stock his item at this time of year.

When he entered the store, a young woman stood nearby, back to him, � nger-ing a window display. She gave no sign of his pres-ence: No turning around. No Hello. No smile. No “May I help you?” He wondered, does she work here? Is she

the cashier? Or is she an out-of-bounds customer?

Glancing around and not seeing anyone else, or any sign of the item he came to buy, he walked way back in the store to � nd a young man extolling the virtues of a pair of hiking boots to a young couple. He wore a winter jacket, unzipped, and out-door boots.

Again no acknowledge-ment of a potential customer obviously in need of direc-tion to the appropriate shelf. Was he a store employee, or a Sheldon sharing personal knowledge with a friend?

Staff who don’t dress in a store uniform or even display a name tag, and grudgingly assist, resemble mystery shoppers more than sales-people.

We have come to expect to fend for ourselves in de-partment stores; that’s the reality of understaf� ng. But if we must assess clues to determine who is an em-ployee and who is just an-other bewildered customer, the establishment’s market-ing strategies could do with some tweaking for the ben-e� t of both their customers’ convenience and the store’s pro� tability.

Customer service lacking in stores

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Low birth rate means trouble in China

Terrace Standard Wednesday, January 8, 2014 VIEWPOINTS www.terracestandard.com A7

The big news from China is the relaxation of its one-child policy. Af-ter 34 years when most

Chinese families were of� cially limited to only one child, most couples can now have two chil-dren. The reality, however, is that it will make very little difference.

It will make little difference because only about one-third of Chinese couples were still living under those restrictions anyway. The one-child limit never ap-plied to ethnic minorities, and in the past � fteen years it has rarely applied to people living in rural areas either: couples whose � rst child was a girl are almost always allowed to have a second child (in the hope that it will be a boy).

Controls were stricter in the cities, but if both prospective parents were only children them-selves they were exempt from the limit. And people with enough money can just ignore the rules: the penalty for having a second child is just a stiff � ne up front and the extra cost of raising a child who is not entitled to free

education.The net result is that the Chi-

na’s fertility rate (the average number of children a woman will bear in a lifetime) is not 1.0, as it would be if there were a really strict one-child policy. According to United Nations statistics, it is 1.55, about the same as Canada. It suggests that most Chinese who really wanted a second child got one.

The new rules announced by the Third Plenum of the Com-munist Party say that urban peo-ple can now have a legal second child if just one of the would-be parents was an only child. This is not going to unleash a wave of extra babies; it will raise the fer-tility rate, at most, to 1.6. (“Re-placement” level is 2.1.) Indeed, it’s questionable whether the one-child policy really held down China’s birth rate at all.

There are demographers who argue that the one-child policy hasn’t really made much differ-ence. China was already urban-ising fast when the policy was imposed in 1979, and the more

urban a country is, the lower the birth rate. From about 1970 there was also a very aggressive birth control policy.

China’s National Population and Family Planning Commis-sion claims that the one-child policy has spared the country an extra 400 million mouths to feed, but it would say that, wouldn’t it? The real number of births avoid-ed by that policy is probably no

more than 100 million in three decades. And if we accept these numbers, then three major con-clusions follow.

The � rst is that the one-child policy is not the major culprit in China’s disastrous gender imbal-ance, with at least 120 boys born for every 100 girls. The social ef-fects of this are very dangerous: by the end of this decade there will be 24 million “leftover” men who will never � nd a wife.

Any sane government would be terri� ed by the prospect of a huge army of unattached and dissatis� ed young men hanging around after work with nothing much to do. A regime with as lit-tle legitimacy as the Communists will be even more frightened. Ending the one-child policy will have little effect on this pattern.

The second conclusion we can draw from these statistics is that China’s population is going to drop whether the regime wants it or not. It will peak at or below 1.4 billion, possibly as soon as 2017, and then begin a long decline that will see it fall to 1.2 billion by

2050.There’s nothing wrong with

that in principle, but it exacer-bates what is already the greatest threat to economic growth in Chi-na: the population’s rapidly rising average age. The big, old genera-tions will be around for a long time, but the younger generations are getting smaller very fast. In-deed, the number of people in the 20-24 age group in China will halve in the next ten years.

This means the dependency rate is going to skyrocket. In 1975, there were 7.7 people in the workforce for every person over sixty: by 2050, the ratio will be only 1.6 employed persons for every retiree.

No country has ever had to bear such a burden before, but ending the one-child policy won’t get the birth rate back up. The only way China could increase its workforce to lessen the burden is to open up the country to mass immigration. And what are the odds on that?

Gwynne Dyer is an indepen-dent journalist and columnist.

He’s got some advice for ClarkDear Sir:

Some friendly advice for Pre-mier Christy Clark: I saw a play recently, Arsenic and Old Lace, in which the protagonists dis-cussed earnestly whether they could take credit for the natural death of a hapless sole so they could add him to their body count of murder victims.

The point was moot, the ar-gument absurd, but quite funny

because it was intended to be. The play was a farce after all; it is supposed to be funny.

Following my loopy brain’s path it made me think of your efforts to explain how doubling B.C.’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions is going to be good for the planet. I have to hand it to you; you are making a valiant effort to explain this. But if you were a character in that play ex-

pressing the tortured logic you have been using, you would have ended up in the same nut house that all the principle characters did.

Unfortunately, Premier, the spin can’t work, it isn’t working, and it won’t work. If you were going to write a play about your GHG sales job the only way to present it would be as a farce. It would be a good one, you can

tell because people are already laughing.

We need to � x this so here is what you do Ms. Clark. Take some good advice from another old friend, Elsie Wayne, (former Mayor of St. John, one of only two Conservative MPs to sur-vive the Mulrooney meltdown of 1993). In Elsie’s words, it goes like this: SHUT UP?!

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G U E S T C O M M E N T

GWYNNE DYER

Dear Sir:Janet Holder, leader of the Northern

Gateway Project said, “The Joint Review Panel conducted the most comprehensive and science-based pipeline review in Ca-nadian history and their report re� ects the input of thousands of Canadians.” The absurdity of her comments matches the farcical tone of the report itself.

Almost a thousand people made pre-sentations at the JRP hearings, and only two spoke in favour of the project. The federal government’s response was to vilify the critics of the Northern Gateway pipeline and associated tanker traf� c, call-ing them “eco-terrorists” and traitors who had “hi-jacked” the hearings. In addition, the Conservatives wasted millions of tax dollars witch hunting “foreign-funded” non-governmental organizations in a bla-tant attempt to cast a chill over their ac-tivities.

On the other hand, when the oil indus-try wanted changes to the Fisheries Act and the process of the JRP hearings, they simply met in private with the Conserva-tives and handed them their list of pro-posed changes.

For example, the rules were changed so that only people directly impacted by the proposed pipeline route could com-ment.

All the changes recommended by the oil industry were made, often using the identical wording the industrial lobbyists had suggested.

Report did not re� ect citizen input

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PREMIER CHRISTY Clark has said that a lique� ed natural gas industry in Brit-ish Columbia would combat pollution worldwide.


Battle those low Rates - with thRee types of incomeIf you depend on fixed-income investments for at least part of your income, you probably haven’t been too happy in recent years, as interest rates have hit historic lows. Nonetheless, even in a low-rate environment, you can broaden the income-producing potential of your investment portfolio.

However, before taking action, it’s helpful to know what the direction of interest rates may look like. The Bank of Canada has kept its short-term target interest rate at low levels, and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank has pledged to keep short-term interest rates near zero until 2015. However, this doesn’t mean that other interest rates can’t rise sooner. The Bank of Canada and the U.S. Fed’s actions play a key role in determining interest rates – but ultimately, rates should begin to go up if market participants believe the economy is on the right path and economic growth accelerates.

In any case, rather than worry about something you can’t control – that is, interest rate movements – try to focus on those things you can accomplish. And one achievable goal is to create an investment mix that includes three types of income: variable, reliable and rising. Variable income investments – short-term GICs can be considered variable because they will mature relatively quickly and thus must be reinvested at current market rates. GICs, offer significant protection of principal, and the value of your investment won’t change with fluctuating interest rates, provided you hold your GIC until maturity. Of course, current rates are quite low, which means GICs provide you with little income today, but their rates have the potential to rise along with short-term interest rates. Reliable income investments – When you purchase reliable income investments, which can include individual bonds, you have the opportunity to earn more income today, and more consistent income over time, than you’d typically get from variable income investments. However, you will likely also experience greater price fluctuations as interest rates change. Specifically, as interest rates rise, the price of your existing bonds typically will fall. Rising income investments – When investing for income, you’ll want to keep at least one eye on inflation – because if the interest rates paid on your GICs and individual bonds are lower than the annual inflation rate, you may lose purchasing power. If this gap persists over time, it could grow into a real problem for you. Consequently, you’ll want at least some of your investment income to come from rising income investments, such as dividend-paying stocks. Of course, not all stocks pay dividends, but with the help of your financial advisor, you can find companies that have paid – and even increased – their dividends for many years running. And if you don’t actually need the dividends to supplement your cash flow, you can reinvest them to build your ownership stake in these stocks. Keep in mind, though, that companies can increase, decrease or eliminate dividends at any time without notice. Also, remember that stock prices will constantly rise and fall, so the value of your principal could decline.

As you can see, all three types of income-producing investments – variable, reliable and rising – offer some benefits, along with some risks of which you need to be aware. But putting together a mix of these investments that’s appropriate for your individual needs, goals and risk tolerance may help you boost the productivity of the “income” portion of your portfolio – no matter what’s happening with interest rates.

Bonds may be subject to certain risks, including interest rate risk, credit risk, re-investment risk, market and currency risk. The values of bonds fluctuate, and you may lose some, or all of your principal. Diversification does not guarantee a profit or protect against loss.

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By ANNA KILLEN

Kitsault EnErgy, the company wanting to build and operate a liquefied natural gas (lng) export plant near an abandoned mining town north of terrace, has applied for a 25-year natural gas export licence from federal regulators, the latest step in the company’s bid to export Canadian shale gas to asian mar-kets.

submitted to the na-tional Energy Board on Dec. 18, 2013, the filing requests a licence au-thorizing the export of up to 20 million tonnes of lng per year for a term of 25 years.

the company in-tends to initially use smaller floating lique-faction plants beginning in 2018 and add on to those plants in future years in order to export up to 2.6 billion cubic feet of gas per day.

“the proposed lng terminal will be com-prised of a floating, and/or land-based natural gas liquefaction plant, lng storage and ma-rine loading facilities,” reads the filing.

Kitsault Energy was

formed by Kitsault townsite owner Krish-nan suthanthiran to market the location as an energy hub because its location on alice arm provides access to the Pacific Ocean for lng tankers and its convenience as an end point for natural gas pipelines originating in northeastern B.C.

the townsite was initially built to house molybdenum mine workers and their fami-lies, but was abandoned over 30 years ago when the mine closed.

the outfit still needs to find partners or inves-tors for an approximate-ly 600-kilometre long pipeline to bring the product to Kitsault, the lng facilities it wants built, and a supply of natural gas itself.

“Kitsault Energy will employ several models for export including a tolling model and one where project partners may own their gas sup-ply or contracts and be responsible for sales and delivery,” reads the filing. “accordingly, Kitsault energy may or may not be involved directly in the purchase and sale of natural gas

with respect to export of gas from Canada.”

the company in-tends to power the proj-ect using electric drives utilizing a BC Hydro transmission line al-ready in use at Kitsault, gas turbine power gen-eration, or a combina-tion of the two, reads the filing.

three northwest lng terminals re-ceived approval for ex-port licences from the nEB last month – Bg group’s Prince rupert lng Exports ltd., the Petronas-led Pa-cific northWest lng ltd. and Exxon Mo-bil Corp.’s West Coast Canada lng ltd. – as

well as a smaller outfit near squamish.

that brings the pro-vincial total of nEB-approved lng export applications to seven – with four more cur-rently being assessed.

the federal govern-ment still needs to give its approval for the proposed projects, and companies and inves-tors are still waiting for news from the province on how the projects will be taxed before moving forward.

taxation informa-tion was expected to be released by the pro-vincial government last november, but was de-layed until 2014.

Kitsault Energy seeks LNG export permit

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Kitsault is located on alice arm, 115 kilometres northwest of terrace.

By toM FLEtCHEr

MEDiCal PrEMiuMs for all but low-income B.C. residents go up again with the start of a new year.

the B.C. government is increas-ing its Medical services Plan pre-miums for the fifth straight year, by four per cent across the board. the Canadian taxpayers' Federa-tion released its annual survey of tax and other payroll deductions Monday, calculating that MsP pre-miums in B.C. have risen 28 per cent since 2010.

Effective Jan. 1, the monthly health premium for a single per-son rises from $66.50 to $69.25. in 2014, families of two pay $125.50, up from $120.50, and families of three or more pay $138.50, up from $133.00.

Many full-time employees have their MsP premiums paid by their employer. People earning $30,000 or less are eligible for reduced pre-miums on a sliding scale, with pre-miums eliminated for those earn-ing $22,000 a year or less.

the B.C. government has used

the increased MsP revenues to off-set the long-term growth of health care costs, which are approaching half of the total provincial budget.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong's 2013 budget projected health spending to increase 2.3 per cent in the current fiscal year, 2.7 per cent in the year beginning april 1 and only 2.2 per cent the follow-ing year. the government's critics called that unrealistic after years of increases of more than five per cent.

the CtF reports that Canada Pension Plan and Employment in-surance payments are also going up for many people, despite a fed-eral government pledge to freeze Ei premiums for three years.

in its new year tax Changes re-port, it calculates that maximum Ei premiums will go up $23 in 2014, totalling $914 for the year.

the maximum employee Canada Pension Plan deduction, charged to those earning $52,500 or more, goes up $70 to $2,426. Employers match employee CPP payments dollar for dollar.

Medical, pension payments increase


T E R R A C E S T A N D A R D

COMMUNITYMARGARET SPEIRS

(250)638-7283

Here’s a review of the last half of 2013 in the community and area.

JulyA 1945 movie detailing the trials and triumphs of public health in the northwest is restored with missing narration added after several peo-ple work together. The 30-minute � lm shows Prince Rupert and its lumber, cannon and ship building industries at that time, a trip to the public health unit and a visit to the hospital with the public health nurse. The sanitary inspector goes to a restaurant, country dairy, and the chlorinating plant, then to the lab and x-ray of� ce.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Northwest artist Dempsey Bob

is appointed an Of� cer of the Order of Canada by Governor General David Johnston. The designation is one of our country’s highest civil-ian orders, recognizing a lifetime of outstanding achievement and merit of a high degree in service to Canada or to humanity at large.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The Terrace Community Band

celebrates its 30th year anniver-sary with a performance in George Little Park and at the annual � re-� ghters pancake breakfast over the Canada Day long weekend.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆For the second year, Ksan and

Terrace RCMP form the Ksan Girls Group, a summer mentorship program for girls, in which Const. Angela Rabut and other female mentors spend time with tween and teen girls as positive role mod-els to help them through those dif-� cult years.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Local writer Willy Schneider

receives the Gold Seal of Literary

Excellence for his life story, “Such is Life” as well as a book review, a portion of which Schneider can now include on the back cover of his autobiography. His story is about his youth in his native Ger-many, his experiences as a young soldier in the German army during the Second World War and his time now spent in Canada.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Five young history buffs show

off their projects to a new audience at the Provincial Heritage Fair and week-long history camp.

Michael Munday, Myah Bowal, Nicole Lofroth, Sebastian Heron and Morgyn Budden earned their spots at the provincial event after receiving top honours at the re-gional fair held here in the spring.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆A 100-year-old button blanket

from the Laxgibuu (wolf) tribe of the Nisga’a Nation gets a new life as the Nisga’a Museum makes a reproduction of it so it can be handled and part of the education collection.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Terrace Little Theatre wins two

awards at the provincial theatre festival in Kamloops after an acci-dent on the way there nearly stops the production from going on.

Its production of Perfect Pie “brought the house down when Erica Wilson and Melayna Ross, festival darlings, shared the Best Novice or Youth Award for their portrayal of two girls from oppo-site sides of the tracks aging from eight to 16 years,” said director Marianne Weston upon their re-turn from Mainstage 2013. “Their hard-hitting yet heart-warming production of Canadian theatre icon Judith Thompson’s “Perfect Pie” garnered a standing ovation.”

The show is almost pulled down

when actors Laura and Melayna Ross, mother and daughter, hit a moose outside Prince George, to-talling their van and injuring both, who went on to deliver solid per-formances to a large house, said Weston. Despite being up against some stiff competition, the show also won a “Thespian” for Best Lighting for designer Eryn Grif� th and operator Trina Botelho.

AugustSKEENA VALLEY Farmers Mar-ket celebrates its 30th season.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Joachim Ostertag, 60, uses his

holiday time to bike across the country to talk to others about ending violence against women, beginning his journey June 20 at Owen Sound, Ontario and passing through Terrace July 29.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The Terrace Art Gallery cel-

ebrates its 30th year with a resur-gence in popularity.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Air cadet Zachary Gordon of

747 Squadron in Terrace received a Most Improved Award during the � fth and � nal graduation parade for Albert Head Cadet Training Centre (CSTC).

SeptemberMICHAEL BAXTER drives his Nissan Leaf electric car from Van-couver Island to Terrace to visit his brother.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Kevin and Trevor Hansen come

through town on their trip around the world � ve months after they began because they wanted to get out, see other countries, push them-selves physically every day, and share their experience on their blog.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

Jorden Hendry, 16, goes to a forum for bilingualism as one of 30 young people from across the country, put on by the non-pro� t organization French for the Future with workshops on the signi� cance of bilingualism, leadership, com-munication and how the French language affects each of the am-bassadors’ communities.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Terrace’s Redneck Kitchen

takes on the barbecue competition at the 21st annual BBQ on the Bow in Calgary, Canada’s oldest barbe-cue competition, and � nishes in third place overall.

Local barbecue pit master Be-van Sweeney places third with his pulled pork, fourth for his chicken, sixth for chef’s choice and his brother Colby places fourth for his sauce. Bevan also receives the hon-our of being asked to cook for the judging class.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Sydney Maki, 16, prepares to

travel to the project she began. Project Ekitangaala (e-ch-tahn-gah-lah), which means The Light in the local language Luganda, helps children who have lost one or both parents to AIDS in Uganda.

OctoberDONNA ALTON and friends orga-nize a bene� t dance to raise money for her longtime friend Kim Kaye, who is battling cancer, and her family and raise $20,000.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The Usk ferry, the single re-

maining ferry service on the Skee-na River, continues going strong as it turns 100-years-old.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Heritage Park Museum em-

barks on an oral history project to record the voices of the region

entitled ‘Preserving the Past for the Present,’ which will preserve seniors’ knowledge of and insights into local history, expand our lo-cal history collections, and foster intergenerational participation. Students from Caledonia Second-ary School, ‘Na Aksa Gila Kyew Learning Centre at Kitsumkalum, and Northwest Community Col-lege will be interviewing elders and seniors from their communi-ties, using equipment purchased through a grant.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Brandon Broderick, a self-

taught photographer and relative newcomer to Terrace, releases his second book Skeena II, 64 pages of his photos of the area.

“The main reason I take pic-tures is to show people some stuff they might not get to see,” he says. “And how beautiful the area is that we live in.”

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Deanna Freeman, a local de-

velopmentally disabled woman, meets Don McRae, minister of social development and social in-novation, when he comes to town to look at her new digs and talk to her parents.

Thanks to the Giving in Ac-tion Society grant money, in 2011, Deanna’s basement living area was retro� tted with a safety rail in her bathroom, the area brought up to safety standards and her un� nished living space was completed.

McRae also came here to kick off this year’s Community Living BC Widening Our World (WOW) program nominations, which rec-ognize community leaders who promote inclusion for adults with developmental disabilities. Safe-way here has won the award twice.

FILE PHOTO

VANESSA MORGAN weaves a traditional Nisga’a Gwiis Halayt, or “Chilkat” blanket as they’re known today, at the Nisga’a Museum.

FILE PHOTO

KSAN GIRLS Group paddles on Pine Lake July 4. On the water here are leader Brian-na Phillips, Micca Asuncioin, Reagan Ippel, Zoe Presby and Shayla Hudson.

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Baby’s Name:Terrence Edward Cashis HillDate & Time of Birth:Dec 30th, 2013 @ 4:16 a.m.Weight: 9 lbs. 7 oz. Sex: MaleParents: Trista & Jonathan Hill Sr.“New brother for Shelby, Jon Jr., Trinity, Shannon, & Faith”Baby’s Name:Brooklyn Edith Grace WilsonDate & Time of Birth:Dec 25th, 2013 @ 2:54 a.m.Weight: 11 lbs. 6 oz. Sex: FemaleParents: Karisa & William Wilson“New sister for Malcom & Lainie”

Baby’s Name:Blythe Christine Nicole Bethany MunroeDate & Time of Birth:Dec 23rd, 2013 @ 7:13 a.m.Weight: 8 lbs. 3 oz. Sex: FemaleParents: Candice Robinson & Robert Munroe“New sister for Alexa”

Baby’s Name:Reid Bennett SmithDate & Time of Birth:Dec 22nd, 2013 @ 5:38 a.m.Weight: 8 lbs. 12 oz. Sex: MaleParents: Natasha & Shane Smith

Baby’s Name:Deisha Josephine Bridget Esther HyzimsDate & Time of Birth:Dec 14th, 2013 @ 4:09 p.m.Weight: 6 lbs. 3 oz. Sex: FemaleParents: Sharla Hyzims & Shaun Daniels“New sister for Caroline”

Baby’s Name:Oliver Elliot Sam-StephensDate & Time of Birth:Dec 14th, 2013 @ 12:40 a.m.Weight: 8 lbs. 13 oz. Sex: MaleParents: Tracy Sam & Kyle Stephens“New brother for Ethan”

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COMMUNITY EVENTSJAN. 8 – Terrace Toastmasters’ meeting meets at 6 p.m. at room 1107 at the Northwest Community College industrial trades/training building. Our meetings follow an agenda much like a regular business meeting with all members participating in all the roles including chairing. We begin with brief introductions, a “Word of the Day”, an” Inspiration” and a “Joke of the day”. This is followed by Table Topics and Evaluations. Table Topics is a regular feature allowing members to hone their speaking skills on various subjects. In the second half of the meeting, there is an opportunity for prepared speeches. Mentoring is available and there are evaluations offered to help you develop your skill. We always welcome new members and look forward to enabling them to achieve their fullest potential. Our meetings begin promptly at 7 PM on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. Please come early.

JAN. 21 – Paci� c Northwest Music Festival committee meeting is from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Terrace Academy of Music in the basement of Knox United Church. All committee members encouraged to attend and anyone interested in volunteering to help out in the upcoming festival March 27 to April 12 should attend. For more details, call Fiona 635-9089.

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THE TERRACE CHURCHES’ Food Bank will be open for distribution from January 13-16. If your last name begins with the letters A to G, please come on Monday, H to P come on Tuesday, Q to Z come on Wednesday. Everyone is welcome on Thursday. Please bring identi� cation for all household members.

THE 48TH ANNUAL Paci� c Northwest Music Festival syllabus is now available online at pnmf.ca and at Sight and Sound on Keith Ave. Deadline for entries is Jan. 15, 2014. The music festival will be March 27 to April 12, 2014. Competitors come from all over the paci� c northwest to participate in band, choir, piano, voice, speech arts, dance, strings, woodwinds and brass and concludes with the gala on the last night of the festival. For more details, call Fiona at 635-9089.

AUTISM CONFERENCE AVAILABLE in Terrace through Telehealth for parents of children with autism and professionals who work with them to learn from leaders and specialists in the � eld. The 7th annual conference, hosted by Children’s Autism Services of Edmonton, is a major educational event that engages respected researchers and practitioners to present in-depth sessions with practical strategies and resources. This year’s

featured presenter is Michelle Garcia Winner, internationally renowned speech language pathologist from California, who coined the phrase Social Thinking®. How we think about others – social thinking – affects how we understand and relate to one another. For most of us that process is intuitive; but, for a child with autism, this is a complex communication skill which must be learned. www.socialthinking.com. The conference runs Thursday, January 23 to Friday January 24, 2014 at the Edmonton Marriott at River Cree. For program information, registration, and to � nd the local Telehealth site: www.childrensautism.ca or 780-495-9235.

LIVING A HEALTHY Life with Chronic Conditions Workshop is a free six-week online self-management workshop, offered to those who are experiencing ongoing health conditions. Friends and family encouraged to take part. To register visit selfmanage.org/onlinebc or http://www.selfmanage.org/onlinebc.

THE TERRACE MULTIPLE Sclerosis Support Group meets every second Wednesday of the month. To � nd out the location of the next meeting, call Doug 635-4809 or Val 635-3415.

THE TERRACE TOASTMASTERS Club meets every second and fourth Wednesday of the month at the Graydon Securities Building on Keith Ave. (next to Irlybird). For more details, call Randy 635-2151 or Rolf 635-6911.

NORTHERN BRAIN INJURY Support Group meets at 4 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of the month in the boardroom at the Terrace and District Community Services Society (3219 Eby St.). For more details, call Deb 1-866-979-4673.

REGULAR MONTHLY MEETING to plan the music festival is the second Tuesday of every month, If interested in helping out or for more details, come to the meeting or call Fiona at 635-9089.

CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY meets noon – 1 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month at 207-4650 Lazelle Ave. We’re looking for volunteers to help in our of� ce, outreach programs, fundraising campaigns (Daffodils or Relay For Life). Call Mary at 638-8583 or 635-3048.

THE TERRACE ART Association meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the gallery. Call 638-8884 for details.

THE TERRACE PARKINSON’S support group meets the second Tuesday of each month. Persons with Parkinsons, family, friends and support people are welcome. For more information, call Therese at 250-638-1869.

THE SALVATION ARMY holds Toonie Wednesdays every � rst and third Wednesday of the month – all clothing is $2. All children’s clothing $2 or less is half price.

NORTHWEST BC METIS meet the third Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m. room 306, 4536 Park Ave. Everyone welcome. For more details call 638-1199 or Beverly at 635-6864 or [email protected].

HEALING TOUCH COMMUNITY Clinics continue to be offered. Call Julie for more details 635-0743. Donations accepted.

HAS YOUR LIFE been affected by someone else’s drinking? Al-Anon can help. Meetings are Mondays at 8 p.m. in the Mills Memorial Hospital education room. For more details, call 635-8181.

THE LIVING ROOM Project provides services at the Old Carpenters Hall. Open Mon. to Thurs. 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Fri. until 2 p.m.

HELPING HANDS OF Terrace, a non-pro� t organization, recycles cans, bottles and scrap metal with proceeds going to help seniors, cancer patients and children get medications or assistance they can’t access or afford. Individuals and businesses who would like to be involved can call 778-634-3844. Cash donations can be made at Northern Savings Credit Union.

DO YOU THINK you might have a problem with alcohol? If you do, please call 635-6533.

PEER SUPPORT FOR people living with mental illness takes place from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. every Tuesday at the Stepping Stones Centre. For more details, call Lynn 635-0027.

ONLINE CHAT FOR youth in crisis or emotional distress – www.northernyouthonline.ca – from 4 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily, except Mondays and Tuesdays. This chat supplements the Youth Support phone line 1-888-564-8336, available from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. every day.

HEALTH ISSUES? HIGH blood pressure? High cholesterol? Do you suffer from a chronic disease like diabetes, arthritis or any cardiac condition? Healthy Terrace offers free group sessions on various topics. For more, call Alanna at Healthy Terrace, 615-5533.

NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS MEETS Thursday from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Christian Reformed Church and Saturday from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church. Both meetings are open to everyone.

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TIME TO get to trial has decreased here in the last three years, mean-ing criminal court cases are getting through the court system quicker, according to the gov-ernment's latest report, released last fall.

The latest update to the Justice Delayed report, dated Sept. 30, saw Terrace avoid the top 10 for delays in time to trial for adult crimi-nal half-day trials and adult criminal two-day trials.

That means Terrace is at, or below, the stan-dard set by the provin-cial chief judge.

Gene Jamieson, legal officer for the Office of the Chief Judge (OCJ), said it's not known what place Terrace is in now as only the top 10 are ranked.

“Terrace had a six month waiting time to both criminal half-day and criminal two-day or longer trials,” he said.

“Therefore, Terrace was at the OCJ standard for criminal half-day trials and better than the

eight-month OCJ stan-dard for criminal two-day trials.”

The standards used by the chief judge were developed by the court in 2005 as a benchmark, taking into account the law set out by the Su-preme Court of Canada as to what is considered an unreasonable delay under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, he added.

As for what factors have contributed to the reduction in the time to trial here, the factors would likely include ef-forts of judges assigned to the area; the back-log reduction initiative undertaken earlier this year that's still in prog-ress; overall reduction in the number of new cases brought before the provincial court, which could include a reduc-tion in impaired driving cases and others; having judges from other parts of the region who are available sitting here in person or by video, he said.

When Justice De-layed: A Report of the Provincial Court of BC

Concerning Judicial Resources, was first re-leased, as of September 30, 2010, Terrace was in first place with a 15 month delay to get to trial for adult criminal half-day trials and in second place for adult criminal two-day trials, also with 15 months.

In the first example, Terrace was tied with Surrey and in the sec-ond, Terrace was tied with Dawson Creek.

The city didn't get any new judges from 2009 thru 2013, al-though local prosecutor Terence Wright was ap-pointed to the bench in 2012 in Smithers and has sat in Terrace.

Judge Calvin Struyk was appointed in March 2008 to replace Ed de Walle who had moved to Salmon Arm in Sep-tember 2007, after 16 years on the bench here.

From 1991 to 2004, Terrace had two sitting judges.

When Judge Paul Lawrence retired in 2004, he left the city with one sitting judge and it's been the same ever since.

Neil MacKenzie, communications coun-sel for the provin-cial Criminal Justice Branch, said the delay in cases getting to trial has improved in the whole province.

“It's always a con-cern getting cases to court in a timely man-ner and when any case is beyond 18 months, it can be a concern,” he said.

“It (the shorter delay to trial here) is partly clearly due to the im-mediate roadside pro-hibition, which results in fewer impaired driv-ing cases coming to the court system since 2010 when that was imple-mented.

“I don't know if all the decrease can be at-

tributed to one factor more than another.

“We've certainly seen substantially fewer impaired cases as police deal with the majority of them.”

He explained there may also be fewer more-complicated or fewer time-consuming cases coming into the court system.

In general, the num-ber of cases can fluctu-ate from year to year.

Whether the de-crease will continue isn't certain.

It depends on where judges are assigned but certainly more judi-cial time can affect the amount of cases able to be handled in any par-ticular area, said MacK-enzie.

Court wait times down Terrace aids in search for missing man

AS OF late last week, northwest RCMP and search and rescue crews were still searching for Prince Rupert resident Adam Moore, 26.

Moore was last seen around 7-11 in Prince Rupert at approximately 3:15 a.m. on Dec. 29.

Terrace Search and Rescue, Terrace RCMP, the RCMP Integrated Road Safety Unit and Prince Rupert RCMP Air Services began look-ing for Moore on Jan. 1, searching until night-fall. Groups from Prince Rupert, Terrace and Kitimat have also been searching the area be-tween Prince Rupert and Terrace for Moore and his black 2005 Volkswagen Jetta, licence plate 517 NVV.

Moore is described as six feet tall, 176 pounds with short brown hair and brown eyes.

The Prince Rupert RCMP is asking that anyone who may have information regard-ing this incident to contact the Prince Rupert RCMP Detachment at 250-627-0700 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477).


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Details of the 2014 tax Bylaw are becoming clearer as the city's budget talks progress.

the provisional budget has pegged a tax increase for business and residential properties at two per cent, which mirrors last year's in-crease.

“existing tax payers can expect a two per cent tax increase over last year,” said

city finance director Ron Bowles.

He added that the in-crease, if approved by coun-cil resolution in february, would see the two per cent increase applied equally to both business and residential properties.

However, the property tax money owed by indi-vidual homes or businesses could be higher or lower than previous years depend-ing on assessments.

the tax increase needed to keep up with rising costs could have been 2.8 per cent if it weren't for an increase in revenue from new construc-tion last year, said Bowles.

“We do have some new taxpayers in town. We are projecting about another $160,000 in taxes from new development. in a nutshell, that's allowed us to keep it at two per cent.”

the reason for the con-tinual rise in tax rates year

after year is due to inflation, Bowles continued.

“every year, if we want to maintain the same level of services [including pro-viding water, garbage re-moval, sewer maintenance and snow removal] we have to somehow come up with funds to pay for the costs that are rising. We are in an inflationary climate.”

“it costs much more to build a road right now. it costs more for fuel. it costs

much more for hydro,” said Bowles, adding that RCMP operational costs and public employee wages are also up.

Rising property taxes may not be the norm for-ever, though, as city coun-cil passed a resolution in December to use tax money from sold or leased city lands at the skeena indus-trial Development Park to bring residential and busi-ness property taxes down in future years.

the city is planning to host a budget open house where residents can come and give their input this win-ter, though an exact date has not been selected.

there are still several as-pects of the 2014 tax Bylaw that need to be finalized, including tax share propor-tions.

this could mean some change in the proportion of property tax that businesses and residents pay.

Two per cent tax increase coming

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Property values up

the report said that terrace property own-ers should receive their assessments by mail in the next few days.

“Most homeown-ers in the Northwest assessment area will see changes in the -10 to +25 per cent range,” said Christopher Whyte, deputy assessor of the region, in the release.

local realtor John evans said that the av-erage sale price rose by 10 per cent in 2013 and suspects there could be a higher rise in 2014.

He said that provin-cial assessments are not always indicative of market values.

Meanwhile, these in-dicators of growth have led CDN Real estate Wealth Magazine to in-clude terrace in one of the top three neighbour-hoods to watch in B.C. for 2014.

oliver says a lot of money could have been saved if the collective agreement had been fol-lowed in the first place and a drawn out arbitra-tion avoided.

“it seems like an odd way to spend money when they could have sat down with the union and worked things out,” said oliver. “We under-stand there were some financial pressures at Northwest but frankly to decide to bull ahead, it made no sense to any-body.”

Henning said that the college cannot seek to appeal the arbitrator's decision because it is binding to all parties.

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You can’t win this point, so stop trying! It just makes you look disingenuous, so stop it. We are sick to death of disingenuous politi-cians. Grow a backbone like Teddy Roosevelt and say what you mean!

It would be a lot less disingenuous to admit that we are just going to ignore the Greenhouse Gas Emissions Target Act, and get on with it. In fact the honourable thing to do would be to repeal that act altogether and consign it to the ash heap of history. At least that wouldn’t be disingenuous. You wouldn’t need to spin it because everybody in the world could see you were telling the truth. It is also entirely possible that the government of Australia might pass a motion congratulat-ing B.C. for getting rid of such a silly law. (That wacky Gordon Campbell, what was he thinking?) Hey, it’s happened before!

I guess there might one teeny little down-side though. Repealing the act would strip away the last vestige of the mirage of a moral basis for the carbon tax, so that would have to go too. That’s okay we won’t need it because we’ll be living in debt-free B.C.!

Best wishes for 2014.Dave MenziesTerrace, B.C.

Nobody investigated oil in-dustry lobbyists or right-wing think tanks.

What this report, and its entirely expected recommen-

dation, reflect is the fact that Canada is rapidly becoming a petro-state, a corporatocracy in which the voice of the people is drowned out by the money

and influence of the oil indus-try.

Who should determine what is in the “national inter-est” is the citizens of this coun-

try, not the corporate elite and their apologists in Conserva-tive party.

Andrew Williams,Terrace, B.C.

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By ANNA KILLEN

A RECENT report reveal-ing that Terrace has a zero vacancy rate for apartments and townhouses could yield unexpected bene� ts.

That's because develop-ers who have been consider-ing investing in Terrace now have hard evidence that more apartment and other rentals are needed, which in turn could prompt them to build sooner rather than later.

In early December, the Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) released its lat-est bi-annual rental report, which shows Terrace has a zero vacancy rate for apart-ments and townhouses, placing it all alone in that category among communi-ties with a population over 10,000.

But that could change over the next few years, says David Block, director of de-velopment services for the City of Terrace.

He says there have been a number of developers look-ing at building condomini-ums in Terrace and that the CMHC report might be the push they need to act now, instead of waiting for lique-� ed natural gas (LNG) proj-ects to be con� rmed.

“There are a lot of proj-ects in the north, a lot of mining,” Block said, refer-ring to the need for more housing units whether or not LNG projects come to fruition. “Evidence like this – CMHC data saying zero per cent rental vacancy – means developers will be more con� dent that people are going to buy units. And the more affordable we can make them, the more they will sell.”

While the report doesn't include houses, secondary suites, or owner-occupied rentals, it still re� ects the reality of what the city has been hearing anecdotally from local housing commit-tees and advocates for some time, he said.

In response, the city's housing committee has been working on a number of fronts covering everything from standard developments to those aimed at seniors and people on low income.

An announcement is

close on � nancing which will add � ve units of subsi-dized rental housing for se-niors at the Tuck Ave. senior housing project which is owned and operated by the Terrace District Christian Council.

“That's a really great project,” Block said. “It's a small one, but it's going to happen locally and it's going to provide � ve units – well below market rental senior housing units.”

When it comes to condo-miniums or townhouses, the city's had interest in prop-erty it owns on the corner of Kenney St. and Park Ave.

Block says it's unlikely new housing speci� cally for renting will be built.

“Not too many people anywhere in this country are building rental housing,” he said. What's more likely are condo units, which would then be bought as an in-vestment and rented out, or would offer an alternative affordable housing purchase and ownership option for some people, he said.

“People who can't af-ford a home for $300,000 to $400,000, maybe even a $280,000 home, might be able to buy a $200,000 condo and they might prefer that to continuing to try and rent,” Block continued.

As part of last year's council-endorsed housing action plan, council wants to see some contribution to affordable housing as part of future developments on the city-owned properties on Kenney St. and Haugland Ave. – whether that would be a percentage of the units being sold to a non-pro� t with loan � nancing support by the provincial BC Hous-ing agency to provide af-fordable housing or a cash contribution offered to the city to establish an afford-able housing fund remains to be determined.

“The municipality's focus is – if it's going to be taxpay-ers money involved, taxpay-er staff time involved – is to focus energy on low-income subsidized housing because there's very few government programs and the market isn't going to meet that,” he said.

An update to the city's housing assessment, fo-

cussed on market housing demands and the needs of the lower end of the income spectrum will be coming out mid-March.

With speci� c reference to city-owned Haugland Ave. parcel on the southside, negotiations are underway which, if successful, would result in a long-term lease being signed with the Ksan House Society. It has plans to build 20 units of affordable housing and has hopes the development will be in place as early as next summer.

At the same time, long-time local contractor Kevin Goddard, who owns Deep Creek Masonry, is moving forward with a strata town-house project for 4700 block of Park Ave. The 24-unit project would be completed in two phases of 12 units each – the � rst breaking ground in March 2014 to be ready for market by Aug. 1.

“The economy is scream-ing for more housing,” God-dard said. “That's what we do – we do houses and con-dos and commercial build-ings, so this is right up our alley.”

Goddard, who built the successful adult-oriented Maple Estates located just behind the new senior citi-zens housing complex on Park, says this development will have two storeys and the units will have three bed-rooms and two bathrooms.

A clause in the strata will allow for owners to rent out the units – which differs from Maple Estates which were built for people 50-plus. The Maple Estates strata has a clause stating renting out the units was not allowed.

“People are talking about just buying a unit and rent-ing it out because the econ-omy is so good,” said God-dard.

And because of the eco-nomic activity in the area, he is anticipating higher con-struction costs and can't say exactly what the units will cost – but says the units will still be priced reasonably.

“Reasonably market. They're not high end,” he said. “You can get a high-end house now for $350,000 - $400,000, I'm anticipat-ing these things quite a bit lower.”

Housing options in development

ANNA KILLEN PHOTO

DEVELOPER KEVIN Goddard is building a strata townhouse project on this Park Ave. property, with the � rst phase ready for market by Aug. 1.



CITY SCENEFax your event to make the Scene at 250-638-8432. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday.

Clubs & pubs ■ THORNHILL PUB: FRee pool

Wednesday, Sunday, karaoke night Thursday. Live weekend entertainment. Shuttle service if you need a ride.

■ LeGION BRaNcH 13: Meat draws every Saturday – first draw at 4:30 p.m. Steak Night is the first Friday of each month.

■ GeORGe’S PUB: FRee poker Sunday 1 p.m. - 7 p.m. and Wednesday 7 p.m.-11 p.m. Karaoke Sunday. Live weekend entertainment. Shuttle ser-vice.

■ mT. LayTON LOUNGe: Open daily noon-11 p.m. Free pool, darts and shuffleboard. Located at Mt. Layton Hotsprings just off Hwy37 South be-tween Terrace and Kitimat.

■ BeaSLeyS mIx: KaRaOKe every Friday night in the Best Western.

Lecture ■ UNBc NORTHweST ReGION Pub-

lic Presentation will be The Biology and Chemistry of Aging with presenter Dr. John Krisinger from noon to 1 p.m. January 15 at the Terrace UNBC campus room 103. Free. For more details, contact Alma at [email protected] or 615-5578.

■ UNBc NORTHweST ReGION Pub-lic Presentation will be about “Whale Song and Noise Pollution” with presenter Max Ritts, UBC geography, from noon to 1 p.m. January 29 at the Terrace UNBC campus room 103. Free. For more details, contact Alma at [email protected] or 615-5578.

Roller Derby ■ NORTH cOaST NIGHTmaReS’

Fresh Meat eight-week training program

from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. January 9 to March 6 at the Thornhill Community Centre. You must be 19+ to register. Learn the basics of the game and participate in drills, core work-outs and free skates. For anyone interested in roller derby, to play, referee, volunteer or just try it out. For more details on gear, forms and costs, see northcoastnightmares.ca, email [email protected], or see the facebook page.

Music ■ THe FUNG-cHIU DUO, a young,

modern musical team plays standard clas-sical repertoire and original transcriptions of repertoire for fans to have a great time, learn about repertoire never before heard in duo piano form. are at 8 p.m. January 17 at the REM Lee Theatre. Put on by the Terrace Concert Society. Tickets on sale at George Little House.

Art ■ NORTHweST cOmmUNITy cOL-

LeGe Freda Diesing School of Northwest Coast Art first and second year student exhi-bition shows from February 7 to March 1 at the Terrace Art Gallery. Opening reception is at 7 p.m. February 7. Artists will be in at-tendance.

Etc. ■ DIRecTOR cHRIS STONe is look-

ing for two male actors for the Terrace Little Theatre Dinner Theatre production of Norm Foster’s hilarious comedy Skin Flick. The show runs at the Skeena Valley Golf and Country Club starting February 14. No experience necessary – we will train you! If you are interested, please contact Chris at 635-3334 or [email protected].

From A9

Community year in review winds up 2013

FILE PHOTO

AlejAndro sAn juan takes a break while scaling the climbing wall in the Caledonia senior secondary gym as part of the Xplore sports Program in which the youths, ages nine to 12, took on the climbing wall and gymnastics.

NovemberSTEP BY Step Books to Grow On, a free book giveaway for children from age one up to age five, begins here as an extension to Wee Readers, previously called Books for Babies, which gives books to newborns. The idea behind it is to encourage families to use the library regularly with their young chil-dren and promote early literacy.

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The community comes to the aid of Vera and Allan Hancock, who were overwhelmed with the amount of offers to fix or replace their beloved bench after it’s destroyed by vandals. Allan suffered a massive stroke three years ago, and after months spent in hospital and rehabilitation, he would sit on the bench every day and enjoy the view from their backyard, which helped with his heal-ing, said his wife Vera.

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Ken McNeil will receive a 2013 BC Cre-ative Achievement Awards for First Nations’ Art that celebrates artistic excellence in tra-ditional, contemporary or media art.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Terrace Rotary Club sets another record

on its earnings in its 53rd rotary auction, raising about $46,000 from 427 auctioned items in its two-day auction by phone, inter-net and in person at the sportsplex.

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A new book is a collaboration between artists and poets in the northwest. Eight art-ists and 22 poets contributed work to the Summer Arts Festival juried arts show and the idea came up to do a book of the results.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Local band King Crow and the Ladies

from Hell film their first video.◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

British cellist Michael Kevin Jones plays a concert with the Terrace Symphony Or-chestra.

DecemberTERRACE RESIDENT Connie Littlejohn wins $1 million on the Lotto Max Lottery after buying a ticket on the way home from being laid off.

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Terrace Little Theatre celebrates its 60th anniversary with its production of the play Arsenic and Old Lace, last performed in 1977. It has special meaning for director Marianne Brorup Weston because it’s one of the two plays her late father said he would come see if she directed it.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆SkeenaWild Film Festival takes its films

to Toronto after an audience member asks to take them there to show the east the beauty of this part of the country. SkeenaWild’s Ju-lia Hill says the excitement around the films came from audiences around the region who saw them and voted on their favourites.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Terrace Symphony Orchestra celebrates

its 20th anniversary. Caledonia music teach-er, and orchestra conductor, Michael Wen is the only founding member still alive.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆Volunteer Terrace welcomes its new ex-

ecutive director Tekah Sabal to the job, giv-ing longtime executive director Lovina Tyler the chance to finally retire.

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Three students from Suwilaawks School place in the top three at the Royal Cana-dian Legion Poem, Poster, Essay and Video Contest, designed to make the youth of our communities aware of the sacrifices of their ancestors. First place goes to McKenzie Ly-ons, second place to Anika Juergensen and third place to Irene Stevens. Lyons’ entry advances to the zone competitions.

FILE PHOTO

ACklAnds grAinger’s team heaves its way to victory for the third time in the third annual Terrace Fire Truck Pull fund-raiser for the United Way on emerson st.

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Northwest

jobs picture

brightensNORTHWESTERN B.C. now has the third lowest jobless

rate of any region in the province, behind only the north-

east and the Kootenays, indicates data released by Statis-

tics Canada Oct. 11.

And at 5.5 per cent for September, the northwest's rate

is less than the provincial average of 6.7 per cent.

The jobless rate is also nearly half of Sept. 2012's 10.5

per cent and an improvement over August's 6.2 per cent.

The statistics indicate the labour force in the area from

the north coast to just this side of Vanderhoof in September

was 43,700 people with 41,300 working and 2,400 unem-

ployed. The labour force in September 2012 was 42,900

people with 38,400 working and 4,500 unemployed.

September's figures reflect a continuing improvement

in the regional economy, much different than even two

years ago when the jobless percentage rate was consis-

tently in the low and mid teens, placing the region consis-

tently in last place.

The Lower Mainland had the highest jobless rate of any

region in the province in September at 7.1 per cent with

the Thompson-Okanagan next at 6.8 per cent and the Cari-

boo following at 6.5 per cent.

Vancouver Island had a jobless rate of 6.2 per cent with

the northeast coming in at 4.9 per cent and Kootenays hav-

ing the lowest jobless rate in the province at just 3 per cent.

The northwest jobless rate is not the number of people

collecting Employment Insurance. Instead it is based on

interviews of people from the north coast to just this side

of Vanderhoof who consider themselves as part of the

workforce whether they are employed or not. That means

the jobless rate can reflect how people feel about their own

employment prospects.

Nationally, employment was up 1.2 per cent (212,000)

compared with 12 months earlier.

“During this same period, however, the employment rate

was little changed, as employment and the working-age

population grew at a similar pace,” said Statistics Canada.

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

■ Usk ferry

BILL BOREHAM was ferry man on the Usk ferry for five or six years. Here he is in 2000 with the ferry after it

was retrofitted with a new design and new wheelhouse and repainted. The ferry underwent a major refit in

2012, thanks to the Ministry of Transportation, which runs the ferry. For more on the Usk ferry, which is cel-

ebrating its 100th year, see page 11.

Black Rod makes historic visit

By MARGARET SPEIRS

KITSUMKALUM WAS honoured

with the first visit to a community

of the lieutenant-governor's Black

Rod last week, in a celebration

of it and former Kitsumkalum

chief councillor Cliff Bolton, who

carved the piece of jade on the

symbolic icon.

“Kitsumkalum is the very first

community to see the Black Rod. It

has never left the legislature since

it was introduced,” said former

lieutenant-governor Steven Point

Oct. 9 to the crowd at Kitsum-

kalum Hall.

Point told the story about how

the Black Rod – a ceremonial ba-

ton used to knock on the door of

the legislative chamber in order for

the lieutenant-governor to receive

permission to enter – came about.

After he became B.C.'s lieuten-

ant-governor, the sergeant-at-arms,

Gary Lenz, asked if he'd like to try

on the old uniform of his position.

Point agreed and Lenz brought

him the 40-pound jacket. He tried

it on, and it fit.

He decided to wear it and be-

came only the second provincial

lieutenant governor to wear the tra-

ditional dress – the other province

is Nova Scotia, he said.

“When I began to wear it, I

began to get noticed,” he said.

“Someone asked why I would want

to wear it and I said ‘it's part of our

history.'”

The country's history hasn't al-

ways been pleasant as it sometimes

brought injustice, he said, but nev-

ertheless it's our history.

Aboriginal people have a his-

tory connecting them to the Queen

through the treaty process and the

lieutenant-governor was instructed

to protect the aboriginal people,

said Point.

He also had another reason for

wearing the traditional dress of the

lieutenant-governor.

“I said 'yes I do [want to wear

the traditional dress] because I

wanted to see the faces of those

people who had never seen an In-

dian wear the lieutenant-governor's

dress before,”' said Point.

“People love to see our history

come alive as Canadians,” he said.

Lenz also wanted to help Point

bring back to B.C. the tradition of

using the Black Rod.

Up until then, the silver mace

of the speaker was used to bring in

the lieutenant governor who was

the representative of the Queen.

“As aboriginal people, we un-

derstand history and tradition re-

minds us of history in the coun-

try,” he said, adding Lenz wanted

aboriginal people involved in the

making of the Black Rod.

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By MARGARET SPEIRS

KITSUMKALUM WAS

with the first visit to a community

of the lieutenant-governor's Black

Rod last week, in a celebration

of it and former Kitsumkalum

chief councillor Cliff Bolton, who

carved the piece of jade on the

symbolic icon.

“Kitsumkalum is the very first

community to see the Black Rod. It

has never left the legislature since

it was introduced,” said former

lieutenant-governor Steven Point

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However, details of any such plan are sparse. Eagle Spirit Energy chairman and president Calvin Helin said the group was undertaking community discussions before making any public comment, and a represen-tative for the Ministry of Natural Gas Devel-opment said the ministry was made aware of the proposal but have not had formal discus-sions with the proponent.Should the idea proceed, it would be the second oil refinery proposed for the North-west, joining the proposal by Kitimat Clean Ltd. to construct a refinery in the Kitimat Val-ley.

This isn’t the first time Grassy Point has been on the map for potential energy devel-opments. Four companies have submitted proposals to develop LNG export terminals on the site, including Australian energy gi-ant Nexen, Australia’s largest independent oil and gas company Woodside Petroleum Ltd., Korean-based SK E&S and a partner-ship between Imperial Oil and ExxonMobile Canada.

Eagle Spirit Energy Holdings Ltd. was formed last September, with the Aquilini In-vestment Group providing the financial back-ing for the company. The stated objective of the company is “to assist aboriginal commu-nities and individuals to become successful with managing economic opportunities in their traditional territories”.Details on the meeting were not avail-able, and Lax Kw’alaams Mayor Garry Re-ece did not immediately respond to requests for comment by The Northern Connector.

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IN MEMORIAM

Irvin Verner BensonApril 24, 1929 to Dec. 19, 2013

It was hard to watch him go. He had a good long life. And we all know he is dancing, singing, and playing his accordion in heaven. Ivan, Vern and Natasha are with him now and we will all miss him.

Barry Sandra (Laurier), Brenda (Dan) Calvin Niki, Fabian (Charleen), Dustin, Wilfred (Ericka), Stewart (Florance), Calvin (Samantha), Rachel (Marlon), Jason (Misty), Andrew, Bronwin, Calvin, Kyle (Arcatia), Brandy, Calvin, Vern, Nocolas, Kory, Kaid, Kloe, Derren, Peyton, Ivy Josie Jasie Rose, Sammy Jr., Archor, Chelsea, Hailey, Teagan and Trinity, Michelle, David, Brandon and Nathan.

Till we meet again.

Hildegard Elisabeth Ouderkirk “Hilde”BORN MAY 4, 1929 PASSED DEC. 24, 2013

Sleep baby sleep Thy father guards thy sheep Thy mother shakes the dreamland free Down falls a little dream for thee Sleep baby sleep

Survived by children: Bonnie, Wilfred (Annie), Jim (Joanne), (Dorothy), Sarah (Ed), Sue (Wayne), sister Anneliese Wischhofer (Nienburg, Germany)

Grandchildren: Alexander, Trisha, Charlie, Jeremy, Vera, Evan, Ray, Jay, Marissa, Rhonda, Michael, Natosha, Jennifer, Jennifer, Michael, Joey, Jake, Ryan, Matthew, and all of her great-grandchildren.

Predeceased by parents Karl & Gertrude, siblings Erika, Karl, Heinz, husband Wray, son Stanley, life partner Walter.

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The City of Terrace has an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled, organized and enthusiastic individual to fill the position of Executive Assistant – CAO & Council with the Administration Department.

This is an exempt position with a competitive salary and benefits package. Please visit the City of Terrace website at www.terrace.ca for more details about the vacancy and information on how to apply. Deadline to apply is Friday, January 10, 2014.

Briana Pellegrino, Human Resources Advisor

CITY OF TERRACE

VACANCY

Please apply to:Email: [email protected]

Fax: 905-293-7696

Red Apple Stores Inc. is a nationwide chain of 165 value retail stores proudly serving Canadians in small communities, under the Red Apple and The Bargain! Shop banners. We are dedicated to high standards of customer service, which is mirrored in our commitment to our Managers and Associates. We are currently looking for a motivated and results driven Store Manager to be part of our Super Friendly team in our New Hazelton, BC store.

Store ManagerA career-minded self-starter with a passion for retail and a focus on friendly service, you are a motivated and results driven leader with a strong sense of responsibility and prior retail management experience.

We offer competitive wages, benefits, merchandise discounts, opportunities for growth, and a fun work environment.

YOUR CAREER STARTS HERE.

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North America’s Premier Providerwww.trimac.com

Trimac Transportation is North America’s premier provider of services in highway transportation of bulk commodities. Our Kitimat,Terrace and Prince George locations require...

Company DriversOwner OperatorsExcellent pay • shared benefits • safety equipment • safety bonus dry bulk pneumatic hauling • shift work involved • B-train and mountain experience required

Please send your resume to: Mark Davy, Fax: 888-746-2297 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 866-487-4622

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Gitxsan Child & Family Services Society

Employment OpportunityFamily Services Director

Gitxsan Child & Family Services Society is a delegated agency based in beautiful Hazelton, BC. It is a rural agency serving the Gitxsan communities. We are surrounded by beautiful scenery, clean rivers and a thriving culture. We are seeking a qualified experienced Family Service Worker to join our dynamic team. The Family Service Worker is expected to carry a regular caseload, using clinical and interpersonal skills as well as good case management system to provide a variety of services. Their primary responsibility is to ensure the delivery of family support services to families and children who require them, guardianship services and the development and maintenance of caregiver homes.Qualifications: Bachelor of Social Work Degree or a Bachelor Degree in a human relates services field, plus two years related experienceRequirements: We are looking for individuals who are delegated or are eligible to be delegated under the current Provincial (BC) Legislation.Willingness to travel.Have a valid BC driver’s licenseMust successfully pass a Criminal Records CheckKnowledge of Gitxsan Culture and language would be an assetQualified individuals interested in this opportunity should apply in writing, faxed or emailed with a copy of their resume and 3 references to:

Christine Pearson-BronschGitxsan Child & Family Services Society

P.O. Box 333, HAZELTON, BC V0J 1Y0Fax # 250-842-2481, Email: [email protected]

DEADLINE for applications is 4:00 pm on January 17. 2014Pursuant to Section 41 of the BC Human Rights Code, preference may be given to applicants of Aboriginal Ancestry. Relocation Expenses can be negotiated. Only those who have made the shortlist will be contacted.

PAYROLL ADMINISTRATORSkeena Sawmills in terrace has an immediate opportunity for an experience payroll administrator.

Qualifications for this position include:Knowledge of Sage Accpac payroll programsExperience in a union payroll environment Ability to reconcile and process all government and benefits remittancesKnowledge of extended benefits programs administration Understanding of the BC Labor CodeMinimum of 3 years’ experience preferredAbility to work both independently and within a team environment

Please forward a cover letter and resume to: Linda Hillegeist – Administration ManagerBY EMAIL: [email protected] FAX: 250-635-4335OR DROP OFF AT THE FRONT DESK AT: 5330 Highway 16 west Terrace, BC

Closing date: February 1, 2014.

CONSTRUCTION/MAINTENANCE ATTENDANT III LEISURE SERVICES

(Regular Full Time)

The City of Terrace is currently looking for a skilled candidate to fill the position of Construction Maintenance Attendant III with the Leisure Services Department. Incumbents with Journeyman Trades qualification in a related field preferred.

This is a regular, full time Union position (CUPE Local 2012) with a 40 hour work week. Please visit the City of Terrace website at www.terrace.ca under Employment Opportunities for a more detailed job description and information on how to apply for this vacancy. Deadline to apply is 4:30 p.m., Friday, January 17, 2014.

Briana Pellegrino, Human Resources Advisor

CITY OF TERRACE

VACANCY

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KITSELAS FIRST NATIONJob OpportunityJANITOR

The Kitselas First Nation (KFN), located in Terrace BC, is seeking a Full Time In-terim Janitor. This position is Interim to March 31st 2014, with possible extension. Working under the supervision of the Housing/Public Works/Infrastructure Co-ordinator, the Janitor is responsible for performing custodial duties, minor main-tenance and other miscellaneous duties in order to ensure KFN buildings and facilities are maintained in a healthy, safe and sanitary manner.

A. EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

equipment

-tion is preferred

The successful applicant must be willing to undergo a criminal record check

Salary

www.kitselas.com Interested applicants should apply at their earliest convenience with a resume and cover letter to the attention of the Finance Clerk. Please refer-ence “Janitor” and indicate clearly in your cover letter how your experience and qualifications meet the requirements of the position.

Please submit Resume with Cover Letter and names of Previous Supervisors for reference to: Carlene Casey2225 Gitaus

[email protected] Tel: 250-635-5084

Fax: 250-635-5335

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Employment

Help Wanted

Client Relocations!Immediate P/T position for professional individual to provide tours of Kitimat and provide rental housing assistance. Need car! $200-275 per day.

Fax resume to:1-905-640-3836



Employment

Help WantedGOLDEN STAR requires the following positions: F/T or P/T server. Experience is an asset. Please apply in person with re-sume at 4606 Lazelle Ave., Terrace. No phone calls please.

TUG SKIPPER Full time senior & junior positions available. Minimum Limited Master <60GT Certifi cate required. Apply via email: [email protected] or by fax: (250) 974-5216



Help Wanted

Employment

Medical/DentalRESOURCE Ability is a well established and growing com-pany looking to hire casual RN’s and LPN’s to work 1:1 in home with a medically fragile child in the Terrace area. Un-ion wages, paid training and full support provided. Please fax your cover letter and resume to 250-846-9817 attn Jennifer Hols or email [email protected]



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The Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine Works and Services department is currently seeking an energetic individual for casual opportunities working with the Regional District Works and Services crew in the Terrace area. This position involves working outdoors in all conditions and seasons. Casual employees are typically employed to relieve regular employees or for the purpose of temporary increase in workloads in the works and services department.Candidate’s qualifications:

• Two years of previous experience in public work related maintenance tasks or,

• Completion of a recognized course in water operations.

• A valid class 5 Driver’s License for the Province of B.C. and driver’s abstract.

• Able to work independently as well as in a team environment.

Interested qualified individuals are requested to submit their letter of application and resume by mail, fax or email to the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine.

Regional District ofKitimat-Stikine

300-4545 Lazelle Ave.Terrace, BC V8G 4E1Ph: 250-615-6100Toll Free:1-800-663-3208Fax: 250-635-9222Email:[email protected]: www.rdks.bc.ca

Casual Works and Services Maintenance Worker


3111 Blakeburn, Terrace

635-2728

The quality shows in every move we make!

Container or van service!www.bandstra.com

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SEAPORT LIMOUSINE LTD.EXPRESS SERVICE

Scheduled freight service from Stewart to Terrace and return, and all points in between.

Pick-up and delivery of goods in Terrace, C.O.D. and courier service.

P.O. Box 217, Stewart, B.C.Ph: 250-636-2622 Fax: 250-636-2622

Tillicum Twin Theatres Ltd.Has a part-time Janitor position available 2 days per week (Sunday & Monday). This is a morning job with fl uctuating hours depending on how busy the previous night was. It requires the ability to work on your own and is relatively light-duty.

This position is suitable for someone who wants to earn a little extra money.

TO APPLY PLEASE CONTACT ADRIAN ENRIGHT AT:250-638-8111 or fax a resume to250-638-0398

EXPERIENCED MECHANIC REQUIREDSHOP, FIELD AND CAMP WORK

Must be willing and able to work independentlyDrivers Licence required

Competitive WagesPlease Fax resume to 250-692-0043

Or Deliver in Person at: 135 Roumieu Dr. Burns Lake (In the Industrial Site)

has a position for a

LAUNDROMATATTENDANT

Apply In Person at3223 Emerson St., Terrace, B.C.

SPOTLESS CLEANERS

AUDIO/VIDEOCELL PHONE DEPARTMENTThe person that we are looking for is an

outgoing individual that enjoys meeting the public and has a passion for the latest and greatest in electronics.

This is a fulltime position that will require the successful applicant to work some Sundays and Friday nights. We offer a great work environment and provide a good package of employee benefits.

Please send your resume to Ken Chemko, Fax: 250-635-7174

or email to [email protected] or drop it off at 4710 Keith Ave. Terrace, B.C.

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

We are looking for an out going individual who enjoys meeting the public and is interested in the electronics

industry. We will train you to become a qualified cellphone customer representative in the ever-expanding

cellphone industry.This is a full time position with good benefits in an

excellent working environment.Please apply in person with resume:

Attention Manager.

Cellphone Consultant

4710 Keith Ave., Terrace

NO PHONE CALLS

PLEASE.

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CITY OF TERRACENOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT

TAKE NOTICE THAT application has been made to amend Schedule “A” (Zoning Map) of Zoning Bylaw No. 1431-1995.

THE SUBJECT LAND:The application affects the land, within the City of Terrace, shown hatched on the accompanying map and described as:Lot 21, District Lot 980, Range 5, Coast District, Plan 1097 [5034 McConnell Avenue]

THE INTENT:To amend Schedule “A” (Zoning Map) of Zoning Bylaw 1431-1995 by changing the zoning classification of the property shown hatched on the accompanying map: FROM: RR1 (Rural Residential) TO: R1 (One Family Residential)

BYLAW INSPECTION:THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT BYLAW AND RELEVANT BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS MAY BE INSPECTED at the City of Terrace Public Works Building at 5003 Graham Avenue, Terrace, B.C., between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day from Wednesday, January 1, 2014 to Monday, January 13, 2014 excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays. For enquiries concerning this application contact the Planning Department at 250-615-4000.

PUBLIC HEARING DETAILS:Any persons wishing to voice their opinions regarding this application may do so in writing, and/or in person, AT THE PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD IN THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AT 7:00 P.M. ON MONDAY, January 13, 2014.

THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, R.S.B.C., 1996, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO.

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Professional/Management

DIVISION MANAGER Needed for trucking company. Position is Salmon Arm Based. Mini-mum 5 years verifi able experi-ence in truck or supply chain management. Details on line @ sutco.ca or call 888-357- 2612 ext 230.

Trades, TechnicalJOURNEYMAN AUTOMO-TIVE Service Technician(s) in Hanna Alberta. Hanna Chrys-ler Ltd. offers competitive wages, relocation allowance, negotiable depending on ex-perience. Bright, modern shop. Full-time permanent with benefi ts. Friendly town just 2 hours from major urban cen-tres. More info at: hannachrysler.ca Fax 403-854-2845; Email: [email protected] Baron in Terrace is looking for a motivated Heavy Duty Mechanic. 5 years expe-rience working on hydraulics, processors, and excavators is reqd. Welding is an asset. Wages are based on experi-ence. Home every night. Please send resume to [email protected]

Services

PsychicsSusan Maroney is accepting appointments for New Year’s Readings. Book your appointments now. www.susanmar imaroney.ca 250-641-9483

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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.

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

Computer ServicesENCLAVE MANAGED NET-WORKS is rolling out the same great I.T. support for in-dividuals as we do for our cor-porate clients, at a great price, too!

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Merchandise for Sale

Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?RESTLESS LEG Syndrome and leg cramps? Fast relief in one hour. Sleep at night. Prov-en for over 32 years. www.allcalm.com Mon-Fri 8-4 EST 1-800-765-8660.

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STEEL BUILDING. The big year end clear out! 20x22 $4,259. 25x24 $4,684. 30x34 $6,895. 35x36 $9,190. 40x48 $12,526. 47x70 $17,200. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422.www.pioneersteel.ca

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A20 www.terracestandard.com CLASSIFIEDS Wednesday, January 8, 2014 Terrace StandardTerrace Standard Wednesday, January 8, 2014 www.terracestandard.com A21

NEID ENTERPRISES LTD. “Your Recreation Specialist”4921 Keith Ave., Terrace, B.C.

Phone 250-635-3478 • Fax 250-635-5050

Show Winter Who’s Boss

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND TO OTHERS

Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Raymond Goldwin Roberts, deceased, are hereby notified under Section 38 of the Trustee Act that partic-ulars of their claims should be sent to the undersigned Executor at 221 Old Lakelse Lake Drive, Terrace, BC V8G 0G5 on or before January 30, 2014, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

SUSAN THELMA ROBERTS, Executor

CITY OF TERRACENOTICE OF PUBLIC INPUT

ROAD CLOSURE

TAKE NOTICE THAT, pursuant to the Community Charter, the Council of the City of Terrace intends to dispose of a portion of highway dedicated by Plan PRP13382, District Lot 979, Range 5, Coast District shown hatched and in heavy outline on the attached map;

AND pursuant to the Community Charter the Council of the City of Terrace intends to remove the highway dedication of the said undeveloped road.

BYLAW INSPECTION:THE PROPOSED LANE CLOSING BYLAW AND RELEVANT BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS MAY BE INSPECTED in the reception area at the City of Terrace Public Works Building at 5003 Graham Avenue, Terrace, B.C., between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. each day from Wednesday, January 1, 2014 to Monday, January 13, 2014 excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays. For further information concerning this bylaw contact the Planning Department at 250-615-4000.

BYLAW PURPOSE:Following the completion of the bylaw the City of Terrace intends to dispose of this undeveloped highway and transfer the lands to the adjacent landowners to be consolidated with their property.

PUBLIC INPUT DETAILS:Any persons wishing to voice their opinions regarding this application may do so in writing, and/or in person, AT THE COUNCIL MEETING TO BE HELD IN THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL CHAMBERS at 3215 Eby Street, Terrace, B.C., AT 7:30 P.M. ON MONDAY, January 13, 2014.

THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMMUNITY CHARTER, S.B.C. CHAP.26, 2003, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO.

6312689

6325113

Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown Land

Take notice that Stewart world Port Services Ltd. from Fort St. John, BC, have applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO), Smithers, for a Crown Grant and a Licence of Occupation both for Heavy Industrial purposes situated on Provincial Crown as outlined below.Licence of Ocupation Crown Land file 6408641Legal Description: ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN FORESHORE BEING PART OF THE BED OF PORTLAND CANAL, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 4.59 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS.

Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Coast Mountains Land Officer, FLNRO, at Suite 200 – 5220 Keith Ave. Terrace, BC V8G 1L1. Comments will be received by FLNRO up to FEBRUARY 9, 2014. FLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date.

Please visit the website at http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp for more information.

Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ Office in Smithers.

Store Equipment/Fixtures

SHARP PROGRAMMABLE er-a 440 cash registers in G/C

Asking $125 each. Contacted Carters Jewelers

1-888-847-9766

Mobile Homes & Parks

2 BDRM Mobile Home For Sale in Woodland Height Trail-er Court with many improve-ments - windows, siding, fl oor-ing & drywall. Wood Heat. Asking $55,000 fi rm. To view call 778-634-3624.

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Apt/Condo for Rent2 & 1 bdrm apts & 1suite, new fl ooring and paint available now, $725 & $625 & $475/mo 2 ref’s req’d, also shared ac-commodation trailer for rent with option to buy 250-635-9333, or 250-641-1534 cell

BEST PLACE TO LIVENow taking applications for

1,2, & 3 bdrm suites.If you are looking for clean, quiet living in Terrace and

have good references, please call:

250-638-0799Walsh Avenue Apartments

Homes for Rent2 bdrm duplex for rent on Queensway. N/S, N/P, view of river, $1200 month 250-635-2837

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Homes for RentAVAILABLE NOW. Executive House. Furnished 4 bed/ 2 full baths, 1/3 private acre. $4000. /mo. Absolutely NP/NS. 2 yr lease. 250-638-7747 message

For Rent- Lg 2 bdrm 2 bath trailer, w/d, f/s, d/w, wood stove electric heat, gas fur-nace, large yard, utilities extra. Available Feb. 250-631-9979

House For Rent - 3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom, large kitchen with deck and shop in the backyard. Fully furnished in-cluding 5 appliances, all utilities, hydro, TV and inter-net. Available January. $4,000/mo. NS, NP. Call 250-635-7347.

Suites, LowerRoom for Rent in basement of house, W/D, Kitchen, Bthrm w shower. Driveway snow is cleaned after work. N/P, N/S Call after 6PM (250)638-2077

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TownhousesPINE CREST

3 Bdrm. 2 Level T/H1 ½ bath No pets

Call Jenn 622-4304

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

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGNotice is hereby given that a Public Hearing will be held on Tuesday, January 21, 2014, in the of� ces of the Regional District of Kitimat Stikine, Suite 300, 4545 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace, BC commencing at 7:00 pm to receive representation from all persons who deem their interests to be affected by the proposed bylaw:

Kitimat-Stikine Thornhill Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 630, 2013In general terms, the purpose of the proposed bylaw is to amend Thornhill Zoning Bylaw No. 194, 1983 to address existing commercial development and potential further commercial development on Skeena Landing Limited’s properties located near the intersection of Highway 37 and 4065 Motz Road as indicated below. Some of the existing commercial development on the properties includes the Lodge at Skeena Landing and the Flying Fish retail store.

The proposed bylaw shall rezone the following land parcels:a) Portion of Parcel A (Plan 9947) District Lot 374, Range 5, Coast District, Plan 1137, shall be rezoned from the OS (Open Space) Zone to the C3 (Highway Commercial)

Zone.b) Lot 2 and AN UNDIVIDED 1/3 SHARE IN LOT 3, District Lot 374, Range 5, Coast

District, Plan 8178, shall be rezoned from the Ru3 (High Density Rural) Zone to the C3 (Highway Commercial) Zone.

c) Portion of Lot 4 and AN UNDIVIDED 1/3 SHARE IN LOT 3, District Lot 374, Range 5, Coast District, Plan 8178, shall be rezoned from the OS (Open Space) Zone to the C3 (Highway Commercial) Zone.

d) Common Lot 3, District Lot 374, Range 5, Coast District, Plan 8178, shall be rezoned from the Ru3 (High Density Rural) Zone to the C3 (Highway Commercial) Zone.

The public hearing on Kitimat Stikine Thornhill Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 630, 2013, is to be held by Directors Ted Ramsey, Doug McLeod and a Director from the City of Terrace or their Alternate designate as delegates of the Regional District Board. A copy of the Board resolution making the delegation and a copy of the proposed bylaw may be inspected at the of� ces of the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine, 300-4545 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace, BC between the hours of 8:30 am and 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday, except statutory holidays.

Regional District ofKitimat-StikinePhone 250-615-61001-800-663-3208

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A22 www.terracestandard.com Wednesday, January 8, 2014 Terrace Standard

Bonjour! Here’s the second installment of our sports year in review. These are just some of the mo-ments that caught our attention during the second half of 2013.

July◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

RUnneRS in Terrace are taken aback to learn that the Fall Run will be cancelled this year. But organizer Bob Park clarifies the event is just on hiatus and will be back next year. “After 34 years, we decided to take a break, mainly because of lack of volunteers,” he said.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆JO-Anne BORgFORd, the Master Bowler zone director for the northwest zone, her husband dave, and first-time national competi-tor Al Annett made the trek to Calgary June 29 to July 3 – the first national event to be held in the city after the flooding – for the Mas-ter Bowlers’ Association national tournament, repre-senting Team BC. The crew came back with a handful of medals for their efforts.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The TeRRACe Strike-Force Ladies slo-pitch team is once again Queen cham-pions of the 2013 Kings and Queens tournament held during Canada day long

weekend in Terrace. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

MOTOCROSS RACeRS from all over the province turn out to the track for Ter-race’s last Motocross As-sociation sanctioned home event of the season. “There was about 80 racers each day and they were from all over – Revelstoke, Kam-loops, Williams Lake, Ques-nel, one was from Victoria,” said Terrace Motocross As-sociation’s Ken Parkes.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆AFTeR A strong season that saw them beat and tie their toughest competitors, the Prince george gnats and the Williams Lake Rustlers, at home, the Terrace north-men rugby club couldn’t do the same on the road, losing a 17-14 squeaker against Prince george, and getting blown out 56-0 by Williams Lake the following day to take them out of playoff contention.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆TeRRACe’S CASSidy Kitchen is one of just 14 ath-letes to make the 17U Team BC volleyball team, which ultimately took second against teams from across Canada at the national Team Challenge Cup in Winnipeg, Manitoba July 16-21.

August◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

TeRRACe’S MiTCheLL hess is in dublin, ireland getting ready to compete in his biggest martial arts com-petition yet, the World Orga-nization of Martial Arts Ath-letes’s World Martial games XiV Aug. 9 - 11. he was

invited to join Team Canada after winning a gold medal in Brazilian Jujitsu at the Ti-gerbalm international Tour-nament in north Vancouver earlier this year.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆FiVe LOCAL cross-country runners met in grand Cache, Alberta, to participate in the 24 hour grind called the Ca-nadian death Race on Aug. 4 and 5, a 125 kilometre, 3 summit run with 17,000 feet of elevation change, one wild river and a huge party called the death dance on the last day.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The ABSenCe this year of the Skeena River Challenge, the race from Prince Rupert to Terrace along hwy16, didn’t stop local cyclists from coming up with an al-ternative. The Terrace Off

Road Cycling Association cast its eyes northward, or-ganizing a race from Terrace to the Rosswood general Store and back on hwy113.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆LOCAL MiXed martial arts athlete Mitchell hess returns home from worlds with a bronze medal.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆nORThWeST B.C. senior athletes return from the Se-niors’ games with an im-pressive amount of medals, as usual.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆A TeRRACe RCMP officer brought home a silver medal from the World Police and Fire games in her first time there. Kendra Felkar played rugby on Team Canada West at the event in Belfast, ire-land and was the only B.C. player and one of two RCMP

members, on the squad. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

The King of the Mountain crown returns to Terrace. Chris hampton, who was second last year, edged out last year’s champion Judson Rowse from Port edward by 17 seconds, winning the 40+ category and overall race with a time of 0:49:38.1.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The nORTh Coast night-mares’ first home bout was anything but a nightmare. The team may have lost 230-133 to dawson Creek’s Mile Zero Mercy, but Terrace’s roller derby team says the huge outpouring of support from the community had them feeling like winners at the end of the game.

September◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

TeRRACe RiVeR Kings executives circulate a no-tice imploring residents and businesses to “Save the Riv-er Kings.” The notice warns that without more sponsors and community support, the 2013/2014 CihL season – the team’s 10th – could be the team’s last.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆The inAUgURAL cohort of Skeena Middle School’s new hockey academy takes to the ice for the first time. Run by Pacific Rim hockey Academy, the close to 45 middle school students en-rolled in the program, one of 10 in B.C., can expect three days a week of ice time, two days of dry land training, and a curriculum that covers everything from nutrition, to volunteering, to goal setting.

Sarah artiS and Jo MccinStrie PhotoS

At Left: the North Coast Nightmares take to the flat track at the terrace Sportsplex for their first home bout Aug. 31. At right, terrace Northmen Jarryd Kurisu, carrying the ball, pulls away from the Smithers Camels at the River Boat Days Rugby 7’s tournament on Saturday, Aug. 3.

anna Killen Photo

the 2013/2014 terrace Peewee Pizza hut Reps win the Cliff Sharples Memorial tournament this year – the first time in the tournament’s three years for the hometown team to take the top spot.

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The Boom is here. Roads to build pipelines will be hacked through wilderness to reach proposed liquefied natural gas plants in

Kitimat. Most Northwesters are embrac-ing the LNG with a level of enthusiasm we haven’t seen since Terrace won the right to be called Hockeyville.

In retrospect, Hockeyville was a sham perpetrated by the Kraft and the NHL. For all the energy expended by a large number of its citizens, this community got to see a meaningless scrum by the Vancouver Ca-nucks, minus their biggest stars, see pyra-mids of the substandard “food” products of Kraft manufacture in the local supermar-kets, and were given the opportunity to purchase those same semi-toxic faux food items at a discount. The whole thing was a big bust that left a feeling reminiscent of the disappointment you felt as a kid when the giant dinosaur pictured on the front of the cereal box turned out to be tiny bit of hard plastic buried under the pile of sugared cornflakes inside. Still, not much harm was done. In the case of the LNG boom, we are dealing with larger corporations. Energy companies are a more powerful and more malign breed of corporate cat.

When a lot of well meaning people get together to form a corporation, the whole soon takes on a moral character different from the ethos of the individuals. The gi-ant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the derivative scandal that ultimately toppled

Wall Street are but two recent examples of this dynamic in action. His-tory is replete with such corporate crime, much of it with tragic results. The bottom line trumps all in the corporate world and that includes your health and mine and the health of chil-dren and our children’s children. We need to keep this axiom upper-most in our minds when dealing with corpora-tions.

Jordan Cove is a community in Coos Bay Oregon. Coos Bay is the largest city on the Oregon Coast with a population of 16,000. Ten years ago some energy corporations, including Veresen of Calgary, applied for a pipeline and an LNG terminal there similar to that proposed for Kitimat. Instead of throwing out the wel-come mat, the citizens of Jordan Cove studied LNG, and were shocked. Ultimate-ly they went to court and pulled the rug out from under the proponents. The reasons for the rejection are legion. I haven’t room to deal with all of them today, but I’ll start with a fundamental one – air pollution.

Joseph T. Morgan, M.D., a physician

with Bay Clinic, LLP, since 1966, has prac-ticed medicine for 50 years, specializing ex-clusively in adult and pediatric allergy and environmental medicine since 2003. Among his credentials, he is certi-fied by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Environmental Medi-cine; is a member and past president of medi-cal staff at Bay Area Hospital; and is fellow emeritus of the Ameri-can College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunol-ogy.

In a letter to The World, a daily serving the Coos Bay area, Dr. Morgan noted that 800 tons per year of harmful air pollutants, including oxides of nitrogen, oxides of sulfur, volatile organic compounds, and fine particulates from the plant and from the tankers and service ves-sels entering and leaving the bay, and about the same total from the proposed LNG ex-port facility. In addition, another 2.2 mil-lion tons per year of greenhouse gases will be discharged, primarily from the gas-fired electrical generating plant, which would be built to supply power for the LNG termi-

nal. “The wind will not dilute and dissipate

these toxic air pollutants sufficiently to mitigate the fact that we all will be breath-ing them”’ writes Dr. Morgan. “I fully ex-pect that there would be a significant expo-sure to Coquille and possibly Myrtle Point. Those at greatest risk are the very young, the elderly and those with chronic illness-es, especially asthma, COPD, heart disease and sinus problems. There wouldn’t be a body count in weeks or even months, but some especially susceptible individuals may develop problems early on. For oth-ers, it may take years or even a couple of decades. But I am not exaggerating when I say that there will, sooner or later, be a price to pay. I have already spent too many years dealing with these types of illnesses to want to have more cases which can be avoided in the community.”

Presumably a similar discharge will be entering the Kitimat/Terrace air shed from each of the two proposed LNG plants. Do-ing a rough calculation based on the as-sumption that LNG plants ought to emit approximately the same amount of toxic effluent, this means that the citizens who breathe air from the Kitimat/Terrace air shed can expect that air shed to be carrying 2903 extra tonnes of toxins in addition to the considerable and soon to be increased burden of poison put there by Rio Tinto Alcan. Given Dr. Morgan’s warning, this poses an extreme health risk to all of us.

S K E E N A A N G L E R

ROB BROWN

Risks

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From Page 22BEAUTIFUL WEATHER brought in a bounty of boat-ers and spectators to the 8th Annual Lakelse Regatta at the Furlong Bay Boat Launch, Lakelse Lake, on Sept. 7. Terrace Pipes and Drums kicked off the open-ing ceremonies before a noon start for the races, which featured eight teams this year from Terrace, Smithers, Prince Rupert and Kitimat.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆TWENTy-ONE TERRACE mountain bikers went all out at this year’s Flathead Flatout bike race, held at Terrace Mountain Sept. 15. The time-trial race, return-ing after a year-long hiatus, travelled the Terrace Moun-tain bike loop, also known as Flathead.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆THE TERRACE River Kings travelled to Prince Rupert for the Challenge Cup on Sept. 20 and 21, and came away without a win after being outscored 10-2 in two games against the Prince Rupert Rampage and Kitimat Ice Demons. The Smithers Steelheads would go on to win the tournament.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆THE STRENGTH of Ter-race’s volleyball scene looks to be shining again this sea-son with Skeena Middle School’s Grade 9 girls’ tak-ing second place at the Jr. B Girls Volleyball Kodiak Classic in a hard-fought fi-nal against the undefeated College Heights.

October◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

IT WAS a record-breaking turnout at the fourth annual Terrace Rod and Gun Club Mountain Bike Biathlon Oct. 5, with 37 competitors turning out to bike and shoot their way across the finish line. “It was the most we’ve ever had out to compete at the event,” said organizer Chris Schooner. “And it has the potential to be much big-ger.”

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆THE CALEDONIA Senior Boys volleyball team saw success in Prince George over Thanksgiving week-end – taking first place in the College Heights John Bragg Memorial Invitational.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆My MOUNTAIN Co-op begins holding community meetings about what mem-bers envision for Shames for the next 30 years.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ATLANTIS TAEKWON-DO’S athletes are back from worlds with medals around their necks. Eight club mem-bers travelled to Edmonton to compete in the Interna-tional Chang-Hon Taekwon-do Federation 10th Anniver-sary World Cup, held Oct. 18 and 19 in Edmonton, Al-berta. The tournament saw 650 competitors compete, with eight rings going at all times.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆THE CALEDONIA Ker-modes senior boys soccer team is heading to provin-cials after turfing the com-petition at the Northwest Se-nior Boys Soccer Zone com-petition in Prince Rupert.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆CENTENNIAL CHRIS-TIAN’S Senior Girls volley-

ball team hit 10th overall in the provincial rankings for Senior Girls “A”, marking an exciting milestone for the team. Centennial’s Senior Boys also hit high, ranking first in the “A” division – the boys would go on to take first at provincials, a first for the school.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆FOR THE first time in the three years of the Cliff Shar-ples Memorial Tournamant, Terrace’s flagship Peewee

tournament, the hometown team has taken the top spot. The Terrace Kermode Pizza Hut Peewee Reps went un-defeated, starting off what is promising to be a stellar season.

November◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

THE TERRACE River Kings got November off to a good start, giving their home crowd a show, beating the Kitimat Ice Demons 6-1 at

the Terrace Sportsplex – this would be a turning point for the season, and the begin-ning of a major point streak.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆THE SHOGUN Dojo’s Rob-bie Clein-Matheis wins gold in his division and goes on to win Grand National Cham-pion at his first ever compe-tition, the Western Canadian Martial Arts Championship in Burnaby.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆THE TERRACE Girls

Midget Rep team is showing they are a serious provincial contender, beating Lower Mainland teams handily in Kamloops. The team skated away with gold after going undefeated and only allow-ing two goals against in the entire tournament.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆THE TERRACE Blue Backs take a small team to the first swim meet of the season in Prince George, and best friends Jade Heath-field and Angelina Filtzia-kis, both 11, take gold and silver, respectively, in their age category.

December◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆

TERRACE RINGETTE players Bryn Giesbrecht, Jessica Dahl, and Sarah McLeod make the elite Northern Lights U14 AA Team, based in Prince George, and travel to Alber-ta to compete against teams from all over the western provinces.

◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆AFTER A summer of reno-vations – including a fresh coat of paint to the exterior of the lodge – Shames My Mountain Co-op opens Dec. 14 for the 2013/14 season, right on schedule.

AnnA Killen PHOTO

At the left of the net, Caledonia Sr. Boys blockers Leo Nast (outside) and Vidar Sandhals (inside) try to stop Centennial Christian School’s Nathan Struyk during an exhibition game Nov. 2.

CorrectionA photo in last week’s Sports year in Review incorrectly named the Terrace Bantam Ker-mode Reps in a photo. In fact, that was the North U16 Female team after their historic BC Cup win.

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