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NEWS BRIEFS A stroll through the pumpkin patch
Fort St. James national historic site pulls out all the stops for a halloween haunt
Jesse ColeCaledonia Courier
Thompson Creek Metals, the Colo-rado-based mining company that owns and operates the Mt. Milligan mine outside of Fort St. James will be closing its Fort St. James and Mackenzie of-fices this month after the company gave notice at the end of October.
The closure of these two satellite offices was cited as being due to a low level of usage that made the offices less than viable from a business perspective.
The offices will be moved to Prince George but their ser-vices will remain in the communities via a partnership with the College of New Caledonia (CNC) who will have a ded-icated staff member present to provide services related to Mt. Milligan’s opera-tions.
Offices located at the Mt. Milligan mine will still remain open and in use.
Hundreds of of pumpkins, all with unique carvings like this one, lined the walkways of the National Historic Site in Fort St. James for the annual halloween pumpkin walk. Photos on P. 12
Photo by Jesse Cole.
Jesse ColeCaledonia Courier
A routine medi-cal procedure gone wrong resulted in a young girl from Fort St. James being ex-posed to HIV.
The young girl, who has since moved to Prince George with her family, underwent a routine vaccina-tion procedure at the Fort St. James Health Unit that when awry when the administer-ing nurse accidentally pricked themselves with the needle while they were injecting the patients.
The little girls fa-ther, who wishes to remain anonymous, told the Huffington Post B.C. that while the nurse was admin-istering the shot (a subcutaneous injec-tion that is often ad-ministered at a 40 de-gree angle) the little girl flinched and the needle went through the skin of her arm and pricked the nurs-es hand. When the needle was removed their blood mixed and the little girl was ex-posed to the virus.
Initially, the fam-ily was unaware that their child had been exposed to the HIV virus as the nurse re-
portedly told the fam-ily that they had no blood-borne illnesses.
A week later, a representative from Northern Health con-
tacted the family and told them that the administering nurse had tested positive for HIV and that their daughter had been ex-
posed.It remains un-
known whether or not the nurse was aware of their HIV status prior to the contact or
whether they became aware after undergo-ing testing as a result of the blood-to-blood contact.
However, one of
the guidelines set out by the College of Registered Nurses of B.C. states that:
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As the town gets ready for the snow to fly, Fort St. James and Nak’azdli Band are coming together again to gather food and toys for their annual toy and food drive.
The toy and food drive has been a part of the community for over two decades and provides food and toys to around 140 families throughout the Fort St. James and Nak’azdli areas.
It’s a “100 per cent non-profit” says Jasmine Lakusta, owner of Beauty by Vengeance and one of those involved with organizing the toy and food drive.
“There are no administration fees, every dime goes into this [the toy and food drive],” she said.
Lakusta is a four year veteran of the toy and food drive. “It’s supposed to bring people together,” she says. “It’s one community.”
The toy and food drive works in conjunction with the grade 11 and 12 students of Fort St. James Secondary School for their annual “fill the bus” campaign that sees students go door-to-door requesting donations for the toy and food drive.
In addition to being part of the Moonlight Madness event, the bus will going through town as the holidays ap-proach and this year they are seeking items such as pasta, pasta sauce, rice, tuna, peanut butter and other easy-to-make, healthy items.
Lakusta has been part of a group trying to implement a more healthy food drive and avoid processed foods like Kraft Dinner, which she says the toy and food drive often gets a lot of.
Lakusta would like to see a move away from those types of items towards healthier things for families and children who receive the christmas hampers.
To help raise funds for this years event, the toy and food drive will be hosting a silent auction and cocktail party at the North Arm Pub in early December.
“We’ll be doing a fundraiser on Dec. 6,” said Lakusta. “We usually do a dinner and I wanted to do something dif-ferent so I thought a cocktail party and a silent auction and DJ would be a good event.”
Despite being nearly a month away Lakusta says the event has already nearly sold out.
“It’s already pre-sold most of the tickets and I haven’t even printed the tickets yet.”
If you have items to donate or would like to get involved please contact Jasmine Lakusta at (250) 996 8192 or (250) 996 4446.
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Continued from P. 1“Nurses who are
involved in exposure-prone procedures must know whether they have a blood-borne pathogen themselves so they can take appropriate mea-sures to protect patients from any risk of trans-mission.”
Similarily the Col-lege of Physicians and Surgeons of B.C. says that it is a ethical re-sponsibility that practi-tioners be aware of their blood-borne illness sta-tus.
Both the name of the administering nurse and the girl and her family are being withheld out of respect for the pri-vacy of those involved.
Sandra Allison, who is the chief medi-cal health of� cer with Northern Health, said that upon discovery of the incident Northern Health expressed it’s “deep regrets and apol-ogized to the family.”
According to the College of Registered Nurses of B.C. and the College of Physi-cians and Surgeons of British Columbia, two of the governing bod-ies that oversee the medical practices and protocols of nurses in British Columbia, there are guidelines in place that prevent staff with blood-borne communi-
cable diseased like HIV from performing pro-cedures deemed to be “exposure-prone.”
The guidelines of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Brit-ish Columbia de� nes exposure-prone proce-dures as:
“Where there is a risk of injury to the physician (that) may result in exposure of the patients open tissues to the blood of the phy-sician. These include procedures where the physicians gloved hand may be in contact with sharp instruments such as needle tips.”
Despite the descrip-tion, under the guide-lines immunization is not considered an “exposure-prone” pro-cedure and thusly, there is no legal obligation to prevent a nurse or physician with a blood-borne pathogen from performing them.
There is also no legal obligation for a nurse or healthcare practitioner to disclose their HIV status to a patient.
Allison said that Northern Health does not discriminate against those with blood-borne illnesses but does ex-pect them to practice under the guidelines of their governing bodies.
“We expect all of them [staff] to practice within the guidelines,” she said. adding that an investigation into the incident is currently un-derway.
“As soon as it was brought to our attention an internal investigation was implemented and it is currently under inves-tigation.”
The family of the girl spoke to the Huf� ngton Post B.C. and said in an interview that they have � led a complaint with Northern Health and want changes made to the policy.
In the event of an HIV transmission there are a number of anti-vi-ral, anti-HIV treatments that are given to those in jeopardy of contract-ing the illness. Drugs used in those treatments must be administered within 24 hours of transmission for them to be fully effective. Because the girl and her family weren’t noti-
� ed about the infection until a week after the transmission, they were not able to undergo the treatment.
It is currently un-known whether or not
the girl has contracted HIV but she will be pe-riodically tested for sev-eral months.
The likelihood of a transmission of the ill-ness depends on a num-
ber of factors including the route of contact and can also be predicted by the viral load (the amount of viral particles per mililitres of blood) of the person who has the virus, according to the Public Health Agen-cy of Canada.
If the girl does in-deed contract HIV, it
will mark the � rst time in history that a nurse-to-patient transmission (of which there have only been four) has hap-pened in Canada.
Numerous attempts were made by the Cou-rier to reach out the nurse involved for a statement but we were unable to reach them.
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VICTORIA – The climate debate, which all left-thinking people insist is over, has erupted in the B.C. legislature over our nascent liquefied natural gas industry.
Chilliwack-Hope B.C. Liberal MLA Laurie Throness heated things up by an-nouncing that he’s “agnostic” on the subject of human-caused global warming. The religious terminology is intentional, he said, because this is how climate change is currently discussed – deniers, believers and so on.
Throness mentioned the inflated elephant in the room, 18 years with little or no average global surface temperature rise, even as greenhouse gas emissions keep rising around the world.
Needless to say, Green Party MLA and climate scientist Andrew Weaver was aghast at this heresy. And NDP MLAs lined up behind former Sierra Club high priest George Heyman to ridicule Throness, inadvertently proving his point about their rather nasty religious zeal.
I’m also skeptical on global warming, as regular readers will know, and so are many voting adults in Canada and elsewhere. And I agree with Throness’ main point that B.C. shouldn’t sacrifice its energy economy while the jury is still out.
Most politicians who presume to decide the fate of this vital and threatened industry have at best visited a well or plant site, and media information about the industry is often from questionable protesters. So today I’d like to provide some background on the natural gas industry, as someone who grew up with it and worked in it in northeastern B.C.
Natural gas is mostly methane, the main ingredient in farts. It is many times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, which is one reason it is often flared rather than vented if it isn’t captured for use as fuel.
Raw natural gas may contain carbon dioxide, a key plant food and component of exhaled breath that has been rebranded as pollution. Gas from the Horn River Basin, one of B.C.’s largest deep shale formations, contains 10 per cent or more CO2, more than conventional gas.
B.C.’s most lucrative gas field is the Montney shale around Fort St. John, which contains nearly CO2-free gas as well as light petroleum liquids.
(This is similar to the Bakken shale in North Dakota, where American rough-necks continue to burn off vast amounts of gas to get at the more valuable light liquids. Oddly, President Barack Obama and former Canadian singer Neil Young don’t notice this.)
Weaver and the NDP are correct in their main objection, which is that the B.C. government’s new limits on CO2 from LNG production are a sham. As much as 70 per cent of the total greenhouse gas emissions from the gas industry occur before the LNG stage, which is the only thing the new rules regulate.
CO2 that comes up with gas is extracted and vented. A government-subsidized pilot project to capture and store CO2 at Spectra Energy’s operations at Fort Nel-son seems to be going nowhere. Restricting LNG-related emissions is mostly a cosmetic gesture.
Environment Minister Mary Polak correctly notes that gas producers pay car-bon tax. Yes, but only on the fuel they use, not “process emissions” such as flar-ing. Big LNG proponents plan to burn more gas to compress and cool LNG, and their greenhouse gas emissions beyond a certain limit will force them to buy carbon offsets or pay into a technology fund.
If LNG investment isn’t scared away by protests and piled-on taxes, it surely means B.C.’s greenhouse gas reduction targets are history. The question now is how much that actually matters.
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
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On Remembrance Day
The Poppy is a Symbol of Wartime
RemembranceThe poppy has
stood as the official symbol of Canada’s Remembrance Day since 1921, a visual reminder of all those who made the ultimate sacrifice for war. Some may wonder why this small flower is used to represent the fallen soldier.
Poppies and fallen soldiers have a long history together. The origins of the flower can be traced back to the Napoleonic wars in France. During these times of unrest and battle, many soldiers went on to final resting places in graves in Flanders, France. Ensuing
literature describing how poppies grew so thickly and vibrantly over these graves — in soil that once could not produce much vegetation. Years later, a soldier would be instrumental in bringing the symbol of the poppy to the hearts and minds of Canadians.
When John McCrae served in World War I as a Lieutenant-Colonel, he was stationed near Ypres, Belgium, the area traditionally called Flanders. McCrae observed how poppies grew so well among the makeshift graves of the soliders, which were marked by wooden crosses. When McCrae lost a fellow soldier and close friend, he penned a poem called “In Flanders Fields”
and portrayed the picture of war and the poppy flower visual.
To th is day McCrae’s poem remains among the most memorable war poems ever written. It also paved the way for the poppy flower to be one of the most recognized symbols of wartime remembrance. T h o u s a n d s o f poppies are placed on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and Remembrance Day participants wear poppies on their lapels.
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On Oct. 21 at around 4 a.m. Fort St. James RCMP Of-ficers were notified of a stabbing in Fort St. James. A female had stabbed a male during a domestic dispute. As a result of his inju-ries the man received medical attention. The female was ar-rested by RCMP Offi-cers and taken before a Justice of the Peace. She was later released with strict conditions and a court date in December.
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On Oct. 26, at around 8:50 Fort St. James RCMP Of-ficers responded to reports of a single motor vehicle acci-dent on Tache road. The driver and single occupant of the acci-dent was located by police and was taken to Prince George for medical care. No charges were laid as the accident was the result of poor driving conditions rather than any criminal activ-ity. RCMP are advis-ing people to practice caution when driving on the roads during the late fall and win-ter months.
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On Oct. 26 at around 6 p.m. Fort St. James RCMP con-ducted a routine traf-fic check and pulled over a vehicle. The driver was found to be unlicensed and exhib-ited signs of impair-ment. RCMP Officers subsequently per-formed an impaired driving investigation. The driver of the ve-hicle, Derek Monk, provided a breath sample to RCMP Of-ficers and blew over the legal limit of 0.08.
Monk was arrest-ed, charged with driv-ing while impaired and driving with a suspended license. He was taken to a Justice of the Peace and held until his court date on Oct. 30.
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Nak’azdli Band pre-sented a check worth $1,500 to the father of Skylar Barfoot to help the young man travel to and from Vancouver to visit his son who is
currently in treatment for what appears to be some form of cancer.
Leon Erickson, a representative of Nak’azdli Band pre-sented the check to Barfoots father on be-half of Nak’azdli Band and Fort St. James.
The money comes
from the money raised at the October fund-raiser that raised over $5,000.
“You are a valuable member of our com-munity,” said Erick-son. “We are support-ing you.”
After receiving the funding to visit his
son, the father said, “I’m really happy
that you are supporting us, you guys have been a big help.”
Erickson also pre-sented the father with an honorary members jacket in addition to the travel money.
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Halloween fun at Eugene Joseph JESSE COLECaledonia Courier
Ghouls, ghosts, goblins and even spiderman were spotted roaming the hallways of Eugene Joseph elementary school last week.
Students of Eugene Joseph, located in Tachie Village outside of Fort St. James, put on their first ever halloween haunted house
the day before halloween. The haunted house was located in the hallway between the
school and the gym facilities and was created and staffed by costume-clad students. A partnership between staff and after-school committees, students worked hard to make the haunted house a scary and fun experience for students from kindergarten to grade 7.
After students braved the ghosts, witches and devils inside the
haunted house they arrived at the school’s gym and were treated to a variety of fun, halloween-themed activity booths including a game of pin the hat on the witch, cookie decorating and a Fear Factor inspired booth that dared students to feel real brains (spa-ghetti) and eyeballs (grapes)
The Caledonia Courier made the trip out to Eugene Joseph to take part in some of the holiday scares. Below are some of our favourite moments.
Students at Eugene Joseph Elementary in Tachie Village built and or-ganized their own haunted house this year for the Halloween festivities .
Photos by Jesse Cole.
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Jason Barr is a man with a plan. What is that plan? Well it’s sim-ple, he wants to rebuild and maintain the KDL mountain biking park in Fort St. James and it’s a plan he already presented the municipal council.
Barr lives in Vander-hoof but is a former resident of Fort St. James. Barr was the president of the Fort St. James Bike Club when it was first conceived and played an intrical part in having the KDL bike park built.
“I was the president of the bike club when we first formed and when we first built the park,” Barr says
Built in 2008, the park was a combined effort from the District of Fort St. James, KDL and the bike club. It cost the district and KDL a combined $80,000 to build the park, but in the years since it was built the park has fallen into disrepair.
It’s something that nags on the conscience of Barr who spent much of his time lobbying to have the park built in the first place.
“Since I helped to build that park and we put a lot of work into it, I really feel guilty when I go there. I don’t want to go to near the bike park when I’m in Fort St. James because I know how bad it is. It looks bad for the district, KDL, the Bike club and myself,” Barr says.
Initially the town and the bike club main-tained the facility, with the town mowing and managing plant growth while the bike club would do repairs to the parks infrastructure but Barr says that the work load simply got to be too much.
“When we formed and we built this we had no idea just how much work it was to maintain it,” he said. “It’s a lot of work for volunteers to do, so you get volunteer burnout.
Barr pitched the idea of repairing and main-taining the park to Fort
St. James council dur-ing their second coun-cil meeting in October, only this time Barr wants to spearhead the project.
Barr is no stranger to the trials and tribu-lations associated with the repair and mainte-nance of a facility like the KDL bike park. After moving to Van-derhoof a few years ago, he joined the Van-derhoof bike club and rebuilt and remodelled the entire Vanderhoof bike park.
“I bought my own machine and put a pro-posal to our own bike club here in Vander-hoof,” said Barr. “I said ‘hey, hire me. I can do it at this rate - lower than the contractors - because I don’t have to pay all of the same fees, so the mother goes farther. So I rebuilt the park up here this year.”
It’s not just Barr’s experience that he believes makes him suited for the job, but also his history with the KDL bike park.
“I do the maintenance at the bike park here [in Vanderhoof] and I can do the same thing in Fort St. James. I went [to council] and offered it to them. I said ‘hey, I have the machine and I was there for every step of the build - I know things that work and don’t work - I can do it and at a little bit of a fairer rate than some-body else can.”
Bike parks require repair around every third year to keep them functioning properly but Barr says that main-tenance is relatively cheap when compared with a complete over-haul like the one he spent 120 hours com-pleting in Vanderhoof.
“The rebuilds cost a bit of money,” said Barr who spent around $16,000 on his rebuild of the Vanderhoof bike park. “But maintenance after its been rebuilt is a small chunk. It’s easier for council to allocate; they pretty much spend that amount just having their workers in there brushing in the summer. It’s not a big item to put in to keep the project going.”
Maintenance typi-cally needs to take
place once every three years in order to keep a park in useable shape.
Municipal council has reserved judgement on whether or not to invest money into the rebuilding and main-tenance of the bike park, citing a need to look over the amount of users and numbers associated with the park before making any final decision.
In response to this, Barr created a survey that he’s been spreading around and is now on the district’s Facebook page that will help to measure the interest and number of cyclists who want and use the park.
“If they said no that’s fine by me but I did want to offer it because it is important to me that that park is rebuilt,” Barr said.
Barr works full time with School District 91 and while he plans on turning his trail build-ing and park remodel-
ling work into a full-fledged business, he does it now out of a passion for mountain biking.
“I’ve been moun-tain biking for years and trail building for years as well. When I lived in Fort St. James, I trail built every year that I was there and in Vanderhoof as well,” he said. “I always felt that there were certain trails I wanted to ride and there was no reason we can’t have them, all you have to do is build them.”
While the Fort St. James bike club is essentially defunct, there are a few mem-bers still in town who are supportive of Barr’s plan and Barr said that he hopes that through the rebuild the club and the town would attract more cyclists.
Barr is in the process of applying for grants
which would help match and support fund-ing for these types of facilities. Vanderhoof, Burns Lake and Prince George all have used grants in conjunction with municipal funding to repair and maintain existing mountain bik-ing facilities.
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Fort St. James secondary school hosted the junior girls volleyball finals last weekend on Nov. 1
Six teams competed from four different district highschools from Vander-hoof, Fraser Lake, Burns Lake and Fort St. James.
Around 50 students took part in the tournament that would see the winner go on to represent the region of Bulkley-Nechako in the Zone tournament later this year.
The tournament began at 9:30 a.m. and ran until 2:30 p.m. The match culminated in a bout between Vanderhoof's NVSS A team and
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The grade 8 girls volleyball finals will take
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Fort St. James took on teams from Vanderhoof, Burns Lake and Fraser Lake (above) at the junior girls regional finals.
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School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes)
NOTICE OF ELECTION BY ACCLAMATIONIn accordance with section 76 of the Local Government Act, I hereby declare the following candidates as elected by acclamation for the term commencing December, 2014 and terminating in 2018 for the 2014 General School Elections in the following electoral areas: Electoral Area Electoral Area Name Elected 4 Grassy Plains and Francois Lake Adele GOODING 5 Endako, Fraser Lake and Fort Fraser Timothy MAERTZ
NOTICE OF ELECTION BY VOTINGPUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY given to the electors of School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) that, in accordance with Section 77 of the Local Government Act, an election by voting is necessary to elect School Trustees for the term commencing December 2014 and terminating in 2018, and that the persons nominated as candidates and for whom votes will be received are:
Electoral Area 1 – Engen, Mapes, Vanderhoof and Cluculz Lake School Trustees – Two (2) to be elected
Usual Names Residential Addresses Thomas BULMER 1357 Aspen Drive, Vanderhoof, BC Nadine FRENKEL 227 Vanderview Drive, Vanderhoof, BC Jean JOHNSON 3474 Hawes Place, Vanderhoof, BCGENERAL VOTING DAY will be open to uali ed electors of School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the following locations: Vanderhoof Seniors Friendship Centre, 219 Victoria Street East, Vanderhoof, BC Cluculz Lake Cluculz Lake Fire Hall, 3395 Lund Road, Cluculz Lake, BCAnd ADVANCE VOTING on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the following locations: Vanderhoof Vanderhoof Municipal Of ce, 1 0 Connaught Street, Vanderhoof, BC Cluculz Lake Cluculz Lake Fire Hall, 3395 Lund Road, Cluculz Lake, BC
Electoral Area 6 – Fort St. James, Manson Creek, Germanson and Takla Landings School Trustee – One (1) to be elected
Usual Names Residential Addresses Lucille DUNCAN 5 0 Carnell Street, Fort St. James, BC Alexandra LUGGI 222 4th Avenue East, Fort St. James, BCGENERAL VOTING DAY will be open to uali ed electors of School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the following location: Fort St. James District of Fort St. James Municipal Of ce, 477 Stuart Drive est, Fort St. James, BCAlso a SPECIAL VOTING OPPORTUNITY will be available on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at the following location: Takla Landing Takla First Nation Potlatch House, Lot 117, Takla Landing, BCAnd ADVANCE VOTING on Wednesday, November 5 and 12, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the following location: Fort St. James District of Fort St. James Municipal Of ce, 477 Stuart Drive est, Fort St. James, BC
Electoral Area 2 – Topley, Decker Lake and Granisle School Trustee – One (1) to be elected
Usual Names Residential Addresses Steve DAVIS 3 Centre Street, Burns Lake, BC Marnie PHAIR 781 Brewer Avenue, Decker Lake, BCGENERAL VOTING DAY will be open to uali ed electors of School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the following locations: Topley Topley Community Hall, 11591 Chester Street, Topley, BC Granisle Granisle and District Senior Citizens Centre, #19 Chapman Street, Granisle, BC Decker Lake Decker Lake Elementary School, 710 Highway 1 est, Decker Lake, BCAnd ADVANCE VOTING is on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the following locations: Topley Topley Community Hall, 11591 Chester Street, Topley, BC Granisle Granisle Municipal Of ce, 1 McDonald Avenue, Granisle, BC Burns Lake Village of Burns Lake Municipal Of ce, 15 3rd Avenue, Burns Lake, BC
Electoral Area 3– Burns Lake and Rural Area School Trustee – One (1) to be elected
Usual Names Residential Addresses Crystal FISHER 1425 Pinecrest Road, Burns Lake, BC Lynda MAERTZ 3740 Murphy Road, Burns Lake, BCGENERAL VOTING DAY will be open to uali ed electors of School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) on Saturday, November 15, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the following location: Burns Lake Babine and Decker Room, Lakeside Multiplex, 103 Flogum Drive, Burns Lake, BCAnd ADVANCE VOTING is on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm at the following location: Burns Lake Village of Burns Lake Municipal Of ce, 15 3rd Avenue, Burns Lake, BCElectoral Areas
uali ed electors are only entitled to vote at the voting place within the electoral area in which they reside or ualify as a non-resident property elector. Electors are entitled to one vote per school district. If you need to con rm the electoral area in which you reside, contact Rosanne Murray, Chief Election Of cer at (250) 94-3242 or cell: (250) 92- 2 9 or Darlene Turner, Secretary Treasurer at the School Board Of ce in Vanderhoof, (250) 5 7-2284 or 1-800-903-4771.Elector Registration Voting Day Registration – Two Pieces of Identi cation NeededThe registration of all electors for this election will take place at the time of voting. Voters must produce at least two documents that provide evidence of identity and place of residence. Alternatively, electors can provide two documents that provide evidence of identity and make a solemn declaration as to place of residence. Voters will also be required to make a declaration that they meet the following requirements: 18 years of age a Canadian citizen have been a resident of BC for at least six months immediately preceding the day of registration have been a resident of the electoral area for at least 30 days immediately preceding the day of registration are not otherwise disquali ed from voting by the School Act or any other enactment or law and
• am entitled to vote and have not previously voted in this election.Non- Resident Property Elector (NRPE) RegistrationNon-resident property electors must produce two pieces of identi cation (at least one with a signature) to prove identity, proof that they are entitled to register in relation to the property, and, if applicable, provide written consent from the majority of the property owners.Rosanne Murray Chief Election Of cer, School District No. 91 (Nechako Lakes) Box 98, Burns Lake, BC, V0J 1E0, Telephone: 250- 94-3242 Fax: 250- 94-3243 Cell: 250- 92- 2 9 Email: [email protected]
John Prince Research ForestSUP 22194 2014/15 Operational Plan
Notice is hereby given that Chuzghun Resources Corpo-ration (CRC) has prepared a operational plan for the John Prince Research Forest (SUP 22194) in the Fort St. James District.
This plans shows blocks scheduled for harvest for winter 2014/15. In total, approximately 88 ha of harvesting (ap-proximately 25,000 m3) is proposed.Review and Comment: The plan will be available for review and comment until November 12th, 2014 at CRC s of ce, during regular business hours (8:00 AM – 4:00 PM). CRC is located at Cinnabar Resort on Tezzeron Lake. Phone is (250) 996-3700.
Any written comments should be forwarded to the address below by Nov. 14th, 2014 to ensure consideration:
Attn: Sue Grainger, RPFChuzghun Resources Corporation
Box 2378, Fort St. James, BC V0J 1P0
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The District of Fort St. James is now accepting applications for contract snow removal dump trucks for the 2014/2015 winter season. The District has a snow blower and we require trucks to have a snow wall. The District has a set rate of $80.00/hr. Applicants should include W.C.B. num-ber and we require you to have a current business licence.
Applications must be received by the District of Fort St. James (PO Box 640, 477 Stuart Drive West, Fort St. James, BC V0J 1P0) no later than 4:00 p.m. on Monday, November 10th, 2014. Please Attention: Dave Stewart, Public Works Superinten-dent
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Fort St. James pumpkin walk 2014JESSE COLECaledonia Courier
It was night of ghouls, ghosts, goblins, candy and pumpkins! That’s right the annual halloween pumpkin walk at Fort St. James’ National Historic Site was once again a big hit.
Dozens of trick-or-treaters turned up to walk the (supposedly) haunted grounds of
historic site. While children enjoyed treats and a few tricks from the many ghosts and witches on hand, parents got to remark at all the wonderful pumpkins strewn across the grounds.
With a barbecue courtesy of Overwaitea and two bon� res it was easily the best way to spend halloween night in Fort St. James.
The Courier braved the night and captured a few ghouls and ghosts on � lm, as well as a few of our favourite pumpkins.
PUMPKIN WALK: Hundreds of jack-lanterns lined the walkways of the National Historic Site as eager trick-r-treaters braved the dark to get some candy.
Photos by Jesse Cole.
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December 10, 2014 issue of the Omineca Express & the Caledonia Courier, serving Vanderhoof, Fraser Lake, Fort Fraser
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