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Dan Brooks, who ran for the MLA seat for the Nechako Lakes riding � n-ishing third, announced that he will seek leadership of the B.C. Conservatives for this fall.

“I feel like this province needs the Conservatives,” he said. “We need a Con-servative party that moves government towards � s-cal responsibility. Without that, I think we’re doomed to lean left and go towards socialism.”

The Conservatives took a signi� cant part in the last B.C. election for the � rst time in a generation even though they won no seats.

“Even though we didn’t win the election, or even a seat, I feel like the Conservatives actually had a very large role to play in the outcome of that election in regards to what platform was on the table.”

Brooks said that because of the strength of the Conservative cam-paign the Liberals made a huge swing to the right in order to counter them, thus the “debt-free B.C.” platform. Brooks says that’s a mostly Conservative concept not a Liberal one.

“So we pulled B.C. politics to the right and that’s a good thing for B.C., from a Conservative perspective of course.”

Brooks said that he disagrees with any pundits who might say that Conservatives should just get out of B.C. and there should just be Liberals and NDP.

“If it is just the Liberals and the NDP, then it becomes NDP and NDP light,” Brooks said. “I don’t think that’s healthy for a political system.”

Brooks is very against the whip system of government, he said that it’s a huge problem for the Conservatives and admits that the federal government has made a few mistakes by maintaining their stance on it.

The whip system means that each member of a party has to vote and agree with the party stance on any issue. If a member of a political party disagrees with party policy then there are certain punishments that members can face.

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Vanderhoof conservative running

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Concert in the Park

In clockwise order: opening band 45 Slide, open mic singer Pam, and Craig and Ruth Hooper dancing at the concert in Ferland Park on Saturday.

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Vanderhoof is host to two young people from Nunavut this summer. They are here for a taste of the south and to be inspired.

“We like it,” said Katie Bylsma, one of the hosts. “We like people, we like meeting people and travel-ing and hearing about different places. It’s a great

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High school students from Vanderhoof have re-turned from their trip to Beijing, China.

Kim McGregor and Keishja Fawcett stayed in China for 10 days all on China’s expense. This the third Beijing trip organized by China’s version of the provincial Ministry of Education, the Beijing International Education Exchange.

Keishja Fawcett was unable to be interviewed but she wrote a bit about her travels in an email.

“This is Spring Fawcett and I had the chance to go to China. I can’t come in but I’ll give you a write up on my experience.

“When I � rst landed in China I thought I had walked in to a jail. We were surrounded by people we didn’t know and a big fence that surrounded our camp. But throughout the trip I learned so many amazing things about China and how different their culture is. I had the opportunity to walk on the Great Wall and see the Forbidden City, which were dreams of mine that I thought would never happen but now there ful� lled. I’d like to thank ev-eryone that helped me get there. It was a honour! I met people from all over the world that I made re-ally good friends with and hope to see them again. By the end of this trip I wanted to go home for my family but didn’t want to leave the camp at all. The people there were amazing! Thank you!”

“The kids participate in a variety of activities in-cluding learning some mandarin,” said Manu Mad-hok, before the girls left Vanderhoof. “They go and see some landmarks and see cultural activities and in the meantime they’re meeting kids from around the world as well as Chinese kids.”

Beijing kids return

chance for kids to experience what life is like in Southern Canada, in Vanderhoof.”

Bobby Jo Sweetland of Baker Lake and Emily Kalluk from Pond Inlet are hosted by Steve and Katie Bylsma until August 6. This will be the third time they have host-ed for the Northern Youth Abroad program which has over 30 kids travelling across the country.

The girls heard about the program in school and when Sweetland heard about it she said “I’m going to do that someday.”

“I love it, it’s my inspiration,” she said. “There’s just something about it.”

Both girls must complete a work place-

ment as well as volunteer at various pro-grams during their stay in Vanderhoof. Sweetland’s work placement was at Rona but she found that to be boring but Kalluk was busy volunteering at the Sunsational Summer Camp.

Sweetland and Kalluk will learn new skills and develop future career interests during their stay here. The girls must com-plete a scavenger hunt, speak with com-munity representatives and give a couple of presentations about life in northern Canada.

“It’s an education and travel program,” said Nick Pelletier, a program of� cer.

“The graduation rates in Northern Cana-da are not very good. So this helps them � nish high school and it gets them some work experience and some independence living away from home.”

Pelletier said that if northern youth do go to a post-secondary education insti-tution they often leave before � nishing because they don’t have the experience needed to handle it.

They might have trouble navigating large campuses or � nd complex bus routes frustrating. So the trips to southern Can-ada help them get the experience and re-sources they need.

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RCMP are recommending charges against three male suspects in relation to a drug bust at a residence on the Nak’azdli Reserve on July 19.

The search led RCMP to confiscate $1,200 in crack cocaine, some marijuana, drug para-phernalia and $495 in cash.

Three male suspects were arrested at the res-idence, one was released unconditionally, two

were released on a promise to appear.A summons has been issued for the renter/

owner of the home.The raid was carried out by RCMP mem-

bers, including members of the Fort St. James RCMP crime reduction unit and an RCMP po-lice dog, executing a search warrant under the Controlled Drug and Substance Act.

RCMP are now recommending charges of one count of possession of a controlled sub-stance for the purposes of trafficking and four

counts of breach of probation against a young offender.

They are also recommending one count of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking against an adult male, and one count of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking with three counts of breach of recognizance against a third male suspect.

The next scheduled court appearance for two of the suspects is October 22, 2013 in Fort St. James.

From front

Brooks wants to govern with a constitu-ents � rst policy.

“The Liberals and the NDP are incapable of doing that because they govern by the whip system. And so long as you have whip it’s not constituents � rst it’s government � rst.”

So instead of going to MLAs and dictating that they must vote yes on legislation Brooks wants to ask MLAs what their constituents think of legislation, whether it’s good for them or not.

“Leadership by con-sensus,” Brooks said. “It’s up to the 60 or so candidates left behind to decide where to take the party.

Brooks’ fam-ily owns Crystal Lake resort and he is a guide and out� tter with a de-gree in Greek-Roman History. These are, perhaps, con� icting interests but Brooks said that he’s going to go back and get a Law degree soon and that he loves Northern B.C.

The Vanderhoof Hospice Society was the recipient of the proceeds of the 2013 Vanderhoof Forestry Golf Scramble. This was the 18th annual tournament. A different forestry company organizes it each year and all proceeds go to a charitable organization. This year it was Avison Management who had their turn. That is Brian Frenkel from Avison Mngt present the cheque to Philip Osnes, board direc-tor, Kathy Hawrys, vice pres, and Julie Hodson, pres. The Hospice Society is focused on meeting the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the terminally ill and their families. The regular monthly meetings are held the � rst Wednesday of every month, excluding June and July, at the Manor. If you are interested in the society, you can call Julie Hodson at 567-4181 or Kathy Hawrys 567-9074.

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Doug MacLean, 68, musician, teacher and friend to everyone of all ages is departing Vanderhoof to pur-sue more opportunities in his � eld of teaching.

He is taking his instruments and knowledge to the Nisga’a in school district 92. A little known fact about the Nisga’a is that they, along with Fort Simpson, hold one of the old-est traditions of an Aboriginal brass band. Brass bands have been popu-lar with First Nations people for well over a hundred years according to MacLean.

“They didn’t have any way to ex-press themselves at the residential schools,” said MacLean. “So they did what they could through music. They don’t talk about that. The only thing you see in the news is about the horrors of the residential schools but they don’t talk about the music.”

Then he brought a couple binders full of ancient photographs of Ab-original men with trumpets wearing parade uniforms in the middle of a village in 1910. A shocking sight.

Several of MacLean’s friends made during his time in Vanderhoof stop by and chat during the course of the interview. One of these individu-als is James “Jimmy” Duncan, a for-mer student in a residential school.

Duncan said that music changed his life. He was taken away from his family and thrown into a residential school at a young age. But when he plays music, he can take himself far away and he can � nd peace.

In the list of the top three greatest things in his life, Duncan said that music is one of them.

“When I’m lonely, I miss my grandmother, I miss my family. When I’ve got nothing, I take that guitar and I’m just... I can put all the sadness away,” Duncan said.

And this is the love for music that MacLean tries to foster in every per-son he meets, every student he teach-es and in every community that he lives in.

“I honestly think I wouldn’t have become the person I am without the music,” said MacLean. “Music is the the thread that holds everything to-

gether.”MacLean got into music at a

young age, not unlike most musi-cians. His stepmom promised him, when he moved in, that he would get accordion lessons. Accordions were big back then, there weren’t electric guitars yet so accordions were the cool thing to play.

After an unusual childhood being relocated all over the United States by his birth parents and taken to all sorts of events well beyond his age, this was a welcome and stable home. His birth mom was a fashion model and “incredibly beautiful” according to MacLean.

He pulled out his phone and brought up black and white photos of his mother as a Coca-cola girl and even photos of Marilyn Monroe who was a roommate of his mother’s at college.

So MacLean learned all about life from having his own adventures as a young child exploring Calgary, one of the many stops, on his own. Cal-gary wasn’t intimidating at all for him even though he saw the gangs and learned so many practical life lessons at a young age. His home life was so

Music teacher leaving communityunstable from hav-ing to travel all the time that when he � nally found a home with step-parents on Vancouver Island he was grateful for the stability.

When kids around him were beginning to rebel against their parents and question their authority, MacLean was appreciating his all the more. The music lessons helped him cope with anything that life could throw at him.

MacLean has always wanted to teach and he’s al-ways wanted to teach music, all his life. Even when he was in his teens he knew that was what he wanted to do. But � rst he joined

the Navy and played in the military band for many years.

The pictures set up in MacLean’s tiny music shop show him at the head of marching bands lead-ing large crowds forward in parades.

“But this isn’t about me,” he said. “This is about getting everyone to work together, building every-one up to achieve something.”

He describes it as a need of his to lift others up.Every time that he leaves a place to move on and

teach elsewhere, MacLean makes sure that the mu-sic programs he created and nourished continue and if not thrive then at least go on.

During his time here in Vanderhoof, MacLean faced a lot of hardship. After spending so much of his own money to relocate here to Vanderhoof

with the promise of a teaching job at the school, the province began its series of budget cuts.

“Before I was 30 I had 11 years of teaching ex-perience,” he said. But he was almost never of� -cially a teacher but he was hired to teach and he volunteered everyday and then played music every night just because that was his passion.

MacLean has taught music in many communi-ties, and now he has over 50 years of teaching expe-rience and has taught about 600 kids in Vanderhoof alone. But since he couldn’t work at NVSS, his � -nancial and personal situation has changed. Even after a couple legal disputes with the city, MacLean doesn’t want to leave this community that has treat-ed him, he said, with love and respect.

Even so, he wants to return to one of the last traditional Aboriginal music bands and try to bring music back to the Nisga’a in a big way.

So he is also trying to set up a couple of teachers he knows to take on a few more students and also trying to get others to sell musical instruments and accessories.

MacLean would like to thank the school district and the community for their support and kindness.


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On Saturday, August 17 at 4 p.m. there will be a tug o’ war with an ambulance happening during the fall fair at the Nechako Valley Exhibition Grounds.

Anyone interested should get a team of six together and get ready to pull a 5,000 lb. ambulance. Registra-tion costs $150 but anyone can fun-draise beyond that amount. Everyone has to be signed up and ready by noon on August 16.

“We have organized an ambulance pull as our campaign kick off event,” said Meghan Ginter, organizer for United Way, Northern B.C. “They try to pull the ambulance 50 feet and then we give the awards for fastest pull and there are other awards for most money raised and best dressed teams. It tends to be a lot of fun and we’ve never done one in Vanderhoof before

so we’re really excited.”United Way is a non-pro� t orga-

nization and the northern B.C. divi-sion is dedicated to helping people get back on their feet, helping people stay healthy and helping kids get the education they deserve.

According to Ginter, United Way supports several programs in Van-derhoof including the Best Mom and Dads program, Seniors Connected and the Youth Centre organized by CNC.

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The following tips were released in order to help people protect their homes in the event of a wild� re.

The news release stated that the prov-ince’s summer is fore-cast to be hot and dry and that with 1,700 wild� res in B.C. per year, people need to be prepared for the worst.

1. Make an evacu-ation plan for your fam-ily.

2. Create a 10-me-ter safety zone around your home. Prune trees, cut your lawn and re-move organic debris. Use concrete or gravel around your home as an additional barrier.

3. Store wood, propane and other � am-mable materials at least 10 metres from your house.

4. Get a � re extin-guisher.

5. Use � re-resis-tant siding and roo� ng materials.

6. Install a roof-top sprinkler and chim-ney spark arrester.

Wild� re protection tips7. Install dual-pane windows.8. Prepare an emergency kit to

use in the event of evacuation.9. Keep a ladder that reaches

your roof, plus basic � re� ghting tools such as shovels and buckets, in an ac-cessible location.

10. Update the replacement value of your home, to make sure your in-surance re� ects renovations or other signi� cant home improvements.

The tips were released by Cana-dian Direct Insurance.

“Unless you live on the outskirts you don’t really have to worry but still precautions should be taken,” said Joe Pacheco, Vanderhoof � re chief. “If you live near trees then you should have the area around your home well cleaned. Even lawn furniture can be dangerous.”

Pacheco described how in Southern B.C. one house � re was started be-cause the owners had left lawn chairs or something similar on their deck and when it got too hot, the � re started up.

As part of fundraising the Cops for Cancer event, Sharon Unger organized a yard sale on Saturday. Unger is riding to raise awareness and funds to support childhood cancers. All the monies raised went to Cops for Cancer and the remaining items were donated. The Cops for Cancer ride will go from Dawson Creek and end in William’s Lake, an 832 kilo-metre trip over seven days.

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About 8 years ago I was between teaching con-tracts, so I decided to work for a few months as a labourer on a railway track maintenance and repair crew in the Williams Lake and 100 Mile House area. I learned how heavy a railway tie is, and how heavy the tools are that are needed to repair track failures. I also learned something else that I had previously been unaware of: just how common train derailments are. In that brief period I had been called to maybe half a dozen repair jobs and one serious derailment that was something of an emergency. I heard about a man who had been killed in Williams Lake a few years earlier because a derailment had caused a railway car to fall on top of him. Whenever a train went by, the entire crew stood well back. I thought about how many de-railments and deadly accidents and potential accidents there must have been in the entire country, given the number of towns and cities that had grown up around railway lines in Canada—places like 100 Mile House, Williams Lake, Quesnel, Prince George and Prince Rupert.

What brings all of this to mind, of course, is the recent disaster in Lac Megantic, Quebec. Although this was technically not a case of track failure (it was a runaway train, that probably failed to negotiate a curve or piece of track because of its excessive speed), it is a reminder of the omnipresent risk posed by the transportation of large amounts of � ammable materi-als through populated areas. We must ask: have recent changes in policy or technology contributed to this disaster? Should recent increases in the amount of oil and fuel being transported on Canada’s railways have prompted a revision of rail transportation and safety policy?

Fact: The Harper government cut the safety bud-

get for railroads from $36.9 million to $33.8 million -- even though the rail transport of oil has increased by 28,000 % since 2009. To me, this looks like the government’s � scal left hand was not coordinating with its energy-obsessed right hand. If it was un-derstandably frustrated by the slowness of action in pipeline oil construction, and authorized this huge in-crease in rail oil transportation, then it should have revisited a 2007 report from the Canada Safety Coun-cil, which had raised the alarm about the dangers of allowing railways to regulate themselves, and which had called Canada’s railway network a “disaster wait-ing to happen.” After a Via Rail derailment in 2012 killed 3 engineers and injured dozens of passengers, the Transportation Safety Board also called for a ma-jor safety overhaul, but all the government would do is “recommend” the installation of audio and video recorders.

Both Conservative and Liberal governments share some of the blame for this disaster. Although I ap-preciate the general logic of moving away from heavy reliance on prescriptive rules and toward more eco-nomically ef� cient “results-based” regulation and “self-regulation”, it is plainly evident that this ap-proach did not automatically adjust safety standards to meet the added risk entailed by the huge recent increase in oil traf� c. As I see it, the government should have increased the safety budget instead of cutting it by $3.1 million; and should have returned to Transport Canada the oversight of rail safety that the Liberals had removed in 1999.

Mark Crawford teaches political science at Atha-basca University. His website, BC Policy Perspec-tives, is at http://www.markcrawford.blogspot .com

He can be reached at [email protected]

Tom FletcherAfter climate scientist-turned-Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver

had a taste of debate in the B.C. legislature, I asked him for his im-pressions on that and other issues. Excerpts from that discussion:

TF: You did a study comparing burning all the world’s coal re-serves and all oil reserves, showing how big coal really is. The federal government says that when you add up what’s actually being used in North America, carbon emissions from coal are about 30 times more than from oil.

Now we have a symbolic coal export ban in Vancouver, which doesn’t apply to Port Moody or Point Roberts or Prince Rupert. Do you think there’s any signi� cance to this?

AW:There is no question that the biggest issue around is coal, be-cause coal use is on the rise world-wide. Not in the United States, because they’re converting [power production] to natural gas. This is why American producers are saying, let’s ship it to Asia. California says no, Oregon says no, Washington says no. Vancouver says no, British Columbia, not sure.

It’s pushing us to start thinking about what I think is going to be the greatest industrial revolution the world has ever seen, which is transformation of energy systems away from our combustion ap-proach, which is essentially what we’ve been doing since we were in caves. We’ve gone from burning wood to now fossil wood, and fossil plants and fossil algae, to a much more modern era of production of energy through natural means, solar, wind, geothermal etc.

TF: Liqui� ed natural gas. The NDP says they are absolutely in favour of that now.

AW: I have questioned the economics of it from day one. There’s a market differential that exists now. There’s that small window be-cause Japan is moving from nuclear to natural gas. But we’re way behind everyone else.

TF: Thirty years ago, Japan played Australia and B.C. off for met-allurgical coal. Those northeast B.C. coal mines are back up and run-ning again, but you’re seeing a similar thing here?

AW: Yes. And if we start shipping natural gas to Asia … the Asian price comes down, the North American price goes up. British Colum-bians haven’t been told that.

TF: How has the legislature session been for you?AW: I sit there and watch the two parties. Rhetorical question,

condescending answer. Rhetorical question, condescending answer. And I hope more British Columbians watch this, because this needs to change. And I think it can change.

TF: The NDP opposition decides when you and Delta South Inde-pendent Vicki Huntington get your occasional moments in question period?

Green MLA on coal and controversy

AW: Yes, and if I’ve asked it’s been no problem.TF: Grudgingly no doubt. If the NDP had their way,

the closest Green Party member would be in Holland.AW: [Laughs] Yes. Certainly not in North America.

There’s this sense of entitlement within the NDP to the ‘green’ vote. And I sense that the B.C. Liberals very much like our existence, as being not NDP. The real-ity is, we take as many Liberal votes, if not more. It’s because what it means to be ‘green’ has moved out of what the NDP view as green, which is a tree hugger.

It’s kids going to school, talking about conservation, and going home to talk to their parents. That’s where our votes are coming from.

TF: Are you going to be found standing in front of a coal train any time soon?

AW: No, never. They asked me to, and I said no, because I don’t believe in civil disobedience.

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

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Our vocational education program offerings develop and strengthen a variety of employabilty skills for individuals seeking to enter and re-enter the workplace. Whether you want to work in office setting, tourism & hospitality, community daycare, or start your own business… come talk to your local campus about your options for training starting this fall 2013!

The Nechako campuses work closely with business and industry employers to ensure we are delivering train-ing relevant to their needs. Light Warehousing, Welding “C”, “B”, “A”, Pipe Trades Foundation, Mineral Process-ing Operator, Environmental Field Assistant, Electrical Foundation, Heavy Duty Mechanical Foundation… all fulltime programs planned for fall and winter 2013/14! Are you in grade 11 or 12 at high school, and interested in enrolling in a trades program – the � rst step is to contact your career counselor at your high school.

Partnership and cooperation are key elements to the success of CNC Nechako Region. We are proud of our commitmment to social community development and the lead we have taken to support programs such as Neighbourhoud Space, Seniors Connected, Fort St. James KEY Resource Centre, Vanderhoof Youth Centre, Fort St. James and Vanderhoof Community Adult Literacy Program (CALP) and ESL among other initiatives. All these have demonstrated to be very positive for participants as they become more engaged in their own communities.

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The provincial track and � eld championships took place in Kam-loops this year and the weather was sweltering for the athletes.

Running and jumping in 35 de-gree Celsius for three days takes a toll on anyone’s body but Alexan-der Nemethy and Emma Floris from Vanderhoof gave it their all.

Emma Floris, grade nine, placed tenth in long jump, seventh in 200 metre and third place in the 100 me-tre, a new personal best for her.

“It de� nitely made it harder, in all my races I didn’t quite beat my personal best probably because I’m not used to that kind of heat,” said Alexander Nemethy. “But I still did really well, in the 2,000 metre stee-ple chase I was only three seconds off my personal best.

Nemethy had one race at 9:30 a.m. and it was “already super hot” he said. So by the time he had to race at 3:30 p.m., the hottest part of the

day, the track must have been mol-ten.

Nemethy, grade 10, placed � fth in the 2,000 metre steeple chase, and ninth in both the 3,000 metre run and the 800 metre run.

Nemethy mostly did the 800 me-tre run just for fun, his main event being the steeple chase.

“The long stuff you want to go out and pace yourself well not go too hard otherwise you’ll suffer a lot at the end and fade away whereas the 800 metre you can almost go full out the � rst lap and then in the second lap you basically try to hang on and not slow down too much.”

Nemethy trains every week. He runs at least three or four times a week, does core workouts, cycles and even does something called roll-er skiing which looks like skiing but on wheels.

There were 523 athletes attending the provincials aged 14 to univer-sity level. Both Vanderhoof athletes quali� ed for Legion Nationals in Langley on August 9-11.

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Spoiler alert. If you’re a fan of Highway Thru Hell, the Discovery Channel documentary televi-sion series that focusses on Hope B.C.’s Jamie Da-vis and his high-risk Coquihalla highway recovery operation, the following will take the drama out of an upcoming episode.

Four months ago, the Cheslatta-Carrier Nation (CCN) discovered that two of their tug boats, the Davis Straits and the Valerie, had been sunk at their winter mooring in Forestry Bay, beside the old Cheslatta sawmill site on Ootsa Lake.

After initial environmental cleanup, the vessels remained in place as Cheslatta and their insurance company worked out a recovery plan.

Davis was recently returning from the Fort Mc-Murray area where he has set up a branch of his business and is � lming for upcoming seasons.

It was perfect timing for him to pull into Burns Lake on his way back to Hope, if logistics could be ironed out quick-ly enough.

James Rakochy, incident commander and CCN land and resource manager, was able to co-ordinate with local forestry and specialized logging contractor Quinten Beach to set up an open-water barge system to accommodate the heavy recovery equipment needed to get the tugs off the lake bottom.

Beach Marine Inc., Beach’s underwater logging out� t, took over the logistics for extraction in co-ordination with Prince Rupert’s Adams Diving and Marine Services for un-derwater rigging, and local forestry contractor DWB for en-vironmental services.

Davis’ 600 hp Rotator HR 150 is the king of heavy duty extraction and recovery. Made famous in his television se-

ries, it has the mobility of a tow-truck with the lifting power of a boom-armed, swing crane. And all of this without the regulations which limit the usefulness of larger ‘crane-des-ignated’ units.

“We can take this into situations where a larger crane wouldn’t be able to go,” Davis said.

The boom lift is rated for 75 tonnes at minimal extension and up to 36,000 pounds at full extension.

The weight of the sunken vessels was not exactly known, but it was never a concern as local towing contractor BKV Enterprises Ltd. was also on hand with his 35-tonne heavy recovery truck to reinforce the lift.

Davis said that the biggest issue wasn’t likely to be the weight of the boat, but overcoming the suction created be-tween accumulated lake-bottom silt and the boat.

After loading both tow trucks onto two barges lashed

together, Beach Marine Inc. swung the barges into place over the sunken boats. With a large, on-barge excavator anchoring the barges in place and two small river tugs making � ne adjustments, members of Adams Diving were able to secure re-covery straps stretched from the trucks to anchor points on the Davis Straits.

Slowly, Davis and BKV Towing hoisted the boat until it broke surface. Once partially out of the water, Beach’s crew secured any open boat hatches and began pumping out hull water with three bilge pumps.

Within an hour of starting to empty the hull, it was � oating on its own. After an inspection by ministry authorities, the boat was towed to shore where contaminated water was emptied into con-tainers for safe disposal.

Very little engine � uid came up during the lift. Care was taken to keep bilging within a perimeter of hydro-carbon absorbent materials.

Representatives from the Department of Fish-eries, the Ministry of Environment, Emergency Response B.C., the Coast Guard, and the Conservation Of� cer Service were on hand to observe the recovery.

The second vessel - the Valerie - was also raised, as well as a barge that had gone underwater some time ago.

Rakochy later said that the reasons for the tugs sinking remain undetermined at this time, even after an initial in-spection once the tugs were raised.

“We will hopefully have the smaller vessel, the Valerie, in service this season,” said Rakochy, “but don’t know about the Davis Straits as it is a more daunting task.”

Total costs for the lift are not yet determined, but insur-ance is expected to offset some of the expense. Very prelimi-nary estimates put all costs, from the time of the sinking to getting the boats going again, well over $100,000.


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THE STUART NECHAKO ADVERTISER CAN BE PICKED UP AT THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

VANDERHOOFOmineca Express office

Vanderhoof Co-opCo-op Mall

Vanderhoof Co-op C Store Highway 16 Pull-out

Extra Foods Riverside Park Campground

Vanderhoof Post OfficeRiverside Place

Nechako View Senior’s HomeSpeedway Road

MapesBlackwater RoadCJ’s Trailer Court

Loop RoadPrairiedale

Braeside RoadJones Road

Sob Lake RoadRedfern Drive

Sinkut Frontage RoadKenny Dam & Lakes Road

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ENDAKOEndako Bar & Grill

Slenyah Store

CLUCULZ LAKE

BROOKsiDE REsORt

FRAsER LAKEPar 3 Sports

Fraser Lake RexallFraser Lake Building Supplies

ENGENGiesbrecht Frontage Road

FORt FRAsERFort Fraser Petro Can

FORt st JAMEsLakeshore Realty Sana’aih Market

Overwaitea Foods Fort Loonie Bin

Fas Gas Plus Lakeside Pharmacy

Red Fox Bistro

Sunken tugs on Ootsa Lake rise again; Highway through hell tow trucks help out


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For more information or to joinVanderhoof’s Faith Church Directory

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Vanderhoof Christian Fellowship

The Church on the Corner“Giving you a Purpose to live for

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Worship Service: 10:00 am

Small Groups meeting together regularly:

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448 Connaught Street

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Our MissionGlorifying God by helping all people move closer to

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11:00 a.m. Worship Service

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PICTURE THIS....Your activity could be featured in “Picture This.” Snap a photo at your groups’ fundraiser. It could be anything from a car wash to cleaning up our streets. It could even include school activities. Basically people making a difference in our community. Send us your photo by e-mail ([email protected]) or drop it off at the Omineca Express (150 W. Columbia Street). Please provide a brief description accompanied with the photo.This week’s submission....

Brenda, 250 567-9705.***

VHF HOSPICE SOCIETY...What are you doing every 3rd Wednesday of each month. Do you have 2 hours to give each month? Are you sensitive to the special needs of those persons at the end stages of life? Want to be part of a great organization that makes a difference in our community then we are looking for you. The Vanderhoof Hospice Society is a not-for-profit charity looking for new volunteer members who will work with the current members to oversee our local Hospice Program. Hospice is a program that offers a support system to persons that are the end stages of life. Our Society has a desire to help others. We are sensitive to the special needs of the dying patient and their families. We do not have personal agendas or “missions” to our Hospice work.Our main fundraising come in the form of donations to our Tree of Life. We are looking for new members to continue this great service. More info call Debbie 567-7956

***THE FOOD BANK... is in serious need of food donations. Specifically the following is needed: Canned vegetables, meat, fish, canned milk, sugar, pasta, pasta sauces, soups, toilet tissue.

***BADMINTON AT FLESS GYM... Every Thursday at 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. come out and have some fun!

***THE VANDErHOOF CANCEr SuPPOrT GrOuP...meets the first Friday of every month @ noon at the The Reid. For more info call Karen @ 567-4828.

***ENDAKO HALL SOCIETY...meets every THIRD Wednesday of the month in the hall at 7:30pm.

***THE YELLOwHEAD DrAFT HOrSE ASSOCIATION...is an organization for those interested in light and heavy horse driving. Monthly meetings every second Tuesday of the month. For more info contact: Jon 250-567-8484.

***NECHAKO QuILTErS GuILD... meets the third Tuesday of the month 9:30 am (Sept. - May) at Nechako View Seniors Common Room. Fran Sheeley 567-5254.

***THE FrASEr QuILTErS GuILD... meets the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 10am at the Fort Fraser Community Hall. Newcomers welcome.

***HOSPICE TrEE OF LIFE... is to honour

the living as well as to remember and honour those who have passed on. For more info call Debbie @ 250-567-7956.

***THE FrASEr LAKE CANCEr SuPPOrT GrOuP... meets the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 12 noon in the New Fraser Lake Restaurant. For further information call Judy at 250-699-7763.

***NECHAKO VALLEY HISTOrICAL SOCIETY...meets every second Thursday of the month 6:30 pm at the Chamber of Commerce office.

***VANDErHOOF 899 AIr CADET SQuADrON...Cadets will meet every Wednesday night 6:15pm at the Cadet Building on Burrard Street. Anyone age 12 to 18 interested in the Cadet Program is welcome to attend. Any adult interested in assisting in anyway, please contact the officers at the Cadet Building Wednesday night. For more information call Glenda 250-567-7574.

***AA MEETING... Wednesday, 8:00 p.m. United Church Hall. 567-8087 or 567-4588

***FrASEr LAKE AA MEETINGS... Tues & Thurs 8:00 p.m. at St. Wilfred’s Church just across from police station.

***ST. JOHN HOSPITAL AuXILIArY SOCIETY... meets second Tuesday of the month (with the exception of July & August) at 7:00 p.m. in the hospital cafeteria. For further info contact Edna 567-9759 - New members welcome.

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LIBrArY HOurSTuesday 10:00am to 5:00pm

Wednesday 10:00am to 5:00pm & 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Thursday 10:00am to 5:00pmFriday 10:00 am to 6:00pm

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Friday 10am - 4pmSaturday 10am - 2pm

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COMING EVENTS....Will appear, as space is available, free of charge in this section. Coming events are available to non-profit organizations only. This area is not intended for thank you submissions or selling products. It is simply a place for non-profit organizations a place to announce upcoming free activities. You can e-mail your item to [email protected] or by fax (567-2070). Your organizations’ announcement can also be dropped off at our office located at 155 W. Columbia. Decision of the publisher is final.

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NEW EVENTS....

FArMErS MArKET...Thursdays, from 11-3 at Riverside Park until September 12, 2013. For more information call the Market Manager Joni at 250-570-3122

***VOLuNTEErS NEEDED....Would you like to become part of a team working together to improve the quality of life for stroke survivors? The Vanderhoof Stroke Recovery Group is looking for volunteers to join their team. Vanderhoof Stroke Recovery’s goal is to encourage stroke survivors to improve their lives through education, exercise, work groups, crafts, outings, etc. No special skills required; training and orientation are provided. Patience and caring understanding a necessity. Volunteers share responsibilities: assisting with activities, exercises, education, crafts, outings, fund raising. Time commitment: 3 hour meeting each Monday morning (excluding stat holidays), from September through mid-June.

Please contact Sheila 570-2467

[email protected]***

VANDErHOOF SENIOrS CONNECTED is looking for Seniors in need of Outreach & Transportation. We are also taking applications for Volunteers wanting to take part in the VSC Program. Vanderhoof Seniors Connected is a program dedicated to improving the quality of life for Seniors/Elders in our community through Companionship and Transportation Assistance.For more information contact Debra-Ann Bishop at 250-567-0623 or email at [email protected]

***CALLING ALL SENIOrS... come and join us for carpet bowling, pool or snooker - Monday and Thursday afternoons at the Friendship Centre. We also have cards or bingo on Wednesday evenings. Music nights are also popular and these are the last Friday night of the month. Come and have some fun! Everybody welcome young or golden agers. Call Oscar for more info: 250-567-4582.

***AL-ANON...Has your life been affected by someone elses drinking? The Al-Anon is for you! Meetings held on Mondays at 7pm in Community Room at Omineca Safe Home Society. For more information contact Gail at 567-4318.

***STuArT NECHAKO MANOr ...is looking for Volunteers with musical talent. If you would like to volunteer for entertainment for the residents please contact Marnie at 250-567-6290

***THE NOrTHSIDE wOMEN’S INSTITuTE...meets the 3rd Tuesday of the month. Newcomers always welcome. For more information call

Nechako Notes

Dennis Roberts getting some air at the local bike park.

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COLLEGE OF NEW CALEDONIAVanderhoof CampusThe College of New Caledonia is looking to fill the following position:

SOCIAL SERVICE WORKER CERTIFICATE PROGRAM INSTRUCTORThe Vanderhoof campus is looking for an instructor to deliver the Social ServiceWorker Certificate program. The successful candidate will instruct in the followingareas: communication and interpersonal relationship skills, social service practicein the community and the field, practical applications of helping skills, history andphilosophy of social welfare policy, and practicum and seminars. A Master’sdegree relevant to the topic required. Master of Social Work preferred (acombination of relevant education and experience may be considered). Five yearsof experience in the social services field.

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

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

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Lake Babine NationEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

TREATY CHIEF NEGOTIATOR

Reporting to: Lake Babine Nation Treaty Society BoardSalary & Benefits Negotiable

Qualifications • Post Secondary or equivalent • Skills: Negotiations, Decision-making, Computer / Internet Use, Supervision • Understanding of Babine Carrier Culture an asset.

Duties: • Secures negotiation mandates • Sets up and prepares tripartite workplan for main table negotiations • Prepares background and summary documents • Ability to drafts position / interest papers for the Nation in consultation with the Treaty Board and for negotiation • Directs and participates in side table negotiations • Supervises and directs employees and other contractors hired to support treaty development and negotiations; manages the Research team and develops individualized research plan and activities for each researcher • Responsible for the preparation of treaty negotiations budget and the strategic work plan for the Treaty Negotiations • Maintains appropriate liaison with government departments, ministries, agencies, UNBC and other interested groups and individuals regarding the advancement of the Lake Babine Treaty developments • Develop a management integration plan with respect to services and programs in areas of governance and jurisdictional issues revolving around treaty developments • Prepares funding proposals design to support the activities of the Treaty negotiations • Prepares and implements a communications work plan • Works closely with and keeps Lake Babine Nations Council and administration informed of all Treaty activities • Other Treaty Related Duties as directed by the Local Treaty Board.

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After 47 years of employment, Cliff Irving of Vanderhoof and Districts Co-op is retiring. He will continue to work on a few small accounts but he’s look-ing forward to his time off starting Au-gust 16.

Clifford Irving has always worked at a Co-op. He began his career in Vander-hoof in 1966 as a clerk. Then in 1972 Irving became general manager of the Co-op in Prince Rupert. After that he was general manager of the Houston Co-op before he � nally returned to Vanderhoof in 1982.

“I’ve never worked for anybody else,” said Irving. “Just Co-op.”

Irving came in at a time when the Vanderhoof Co-op was struggling to get by because of high interest rates and high unemployment. The company was taking a lot of losses.

“I came back here in ‘82 and it wasn’t good times [for Vanderhoof]. When they built the shopping centre they had to borrow a lot of money so when you have $2.5 million and close to 18.5 per cent in the ‘80s it was a disaster. So we went into survival mode and it was lucky that I had experience with Co-ops that didn’t have cash � ow so I could make the tough deci-sions.”

Under his leadership sales grew from $12 million back then to $200 million today making this the largest earning Co-op in the region.

“A department either made money or it was gone,” he said. “At one time this whole mall, except for where the pharmacy is, was all Co-op. We had dry goods, we had home entertainment, a houseware section, a sporting goods section… But when things got tough and nobody was buy-ing then we rented it out and remodeled and away it went.”

The Vanderhoof Co-op began in 1942 with an egg pool. There was a strong market for eggs since the CN line from McBride to Prince Rupert was developed since soldiers

in the Second World War needed food and the supply line from Prince Rupert was it.

Then in 1944 the egg pool was incorporated into the Vanderhoof Co-operative Association. Then they began to expand beyond just eggs into produce and grain. After some tough times in the late 1940s the business had two options available, bankruptcy or change from a producer to a consumer organization. They made the choice and the business improved.

Irving belongs to the pioneer families that came to Vanderhoof about 90 years ago. His grandparents on his father’s side, the Andros’ came here in 1920. They were one of the founding members of the Co-op. On his moth-er’s side, the Irving side, came to Vanderhoof in 1932. So both of his parents were born here and so was he.

“Sometimes people ask ‘well what’s the weather going to do?’ and I have an old family saying that only fools and newcomers would predict the weather, you just wait a

while and it will change.”When asked what his biggest accom-

plishment here was Irving replied that it was just believing in Vanderhoof and the area.

“Because this is where our Co-operative started and we’ve grown it into a $200 mil-lion organization and the head of� ce is in Vanderhoof and a lot of people ask how that happened. We’re not a city, we’re farm-based and proud of it! We know that our forest industry may be some of the best farming we can produce and so be it.”

During his tenure Irving has been on several different committees involved in the future and growth of Vanderhoof. He’s been on the Airport Management commit-tee and the Omineca Seniors lodge com-mittee but the Co-op has demanded more of his attention over the years so he’s had less time for other things.

“I’ve worked an average of 65 hours a week for a long time,” he said. But he still manages to � nd time to enjoy life and relax.

“We have a big garden, I look after the vegetables and my wife looks after the � ower garden on our small farm out in the Prairiedale district. I deep sea � sh out in

Prince Rupert and Kitimat, at one time, on my holidays, I used to commercial � sh. I love the ocean.”

But is he ready to retire? “No,” he said. “I don’t have to retire, it’s just time to

move over and do something different.”With his time off, Irving hopes to have lots of time to

� sh and hunt, “mostly birds nowadays,” he said.Him and his wife Linda are looking forward to years of

traveling, they’ve been to Mexico and Hawaii many times but now they have over 20 destinations around the world that they absolutely must visit.

“We don’t call it a bucket list,” he said laughing. “A bucket list means you don’t have much time left and we have lots of places to go.”

Their � rst trip will be a cross-Canada journey by camper to visit the East Coast, he’s excited to see the fa-mous bright red maple trees.

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