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Year in reviewThe top stories from 2013. Burns Lake idle no more - Jan. 2, 2013 The self-styled grassroots movement has been holding rallies across the country in a show of unity in defiance of Bill C-45.

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Rio Tinto Alcan makes donationShortly before Christ-mas Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) demobilized the construction camp for the Kemano back-up tunnel project near Thatsa Reach, south-west of Burns Lake.

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New Gold caution issued

The recent drop in the market value of gold has caused New Gold Inc. to caution a pos-sible delay of its Black-water gold mine project southwest of Vander-hoof.

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POLICE REPORT

Fraser Lake RCMP were called to the scene of a serious Motor vehicle incident at approximately 1:30 am on Dec. 22, 2013. A single vehicle trav-eling East bound on Hwy.16, 34 kms West of Fraser Lake, collided with a moose.

Emergency services, local fire and rescue and Fraser Lake RCMP attend-ed to the scene and located two occu-pants in the small passenger vehicle. The passenger, a 43 year old female, suffered life threatening injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene. The female driver suffered serious life threatening injuries and has since been transported to the Vancouver General hospital where she is in critical condi-tion. Both occupants were from Burns Lake BC.

Fraser Lake RCMP and North Dis-trict Traffic Services continue to inves-tigate and a preliminary survey of the scene indicated the Moose suddenly appeared from the ditch and jumped in front of the oncoming vehicle.

The highway was closed temporarily for investigative purposes and removal of the vehicle but was soon re opened to traffic. Name of deceased had not be released at press time.

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“It is the life and times of our elders,” said Anthony Tom, Aboriginal Student Support worker at Col-lege of New Caledonia Lakes District Campus (CNC).

“We risk losing their stories, ways and knowledge,” Tom said. “We need to get youth and students in touch with the traditions they are lacking… We can learn from our elders - where they came from, the work they did, and what they experienced.”

Through a series of lunchtime workshops hosted by CNC in Burns Lake, First Nations el-ders are invited to share memories of growing up in the region.

These elders were true community build-ers. They supported their parents and older siblings when they were young by listening, learning and helping. Growing older they’ve kept what they’ve learned and have been passing it on to their own children and fami-lies, although times and circumstances have changed drastically.

On Dec. 11 2013, four elders from the Bear and Frog clans, Leonard Michel, Dami-an Pierre, Connie Den-nis and Annie Patrick shared some of their ex-periences as young men and women, and offered to help carry on the tra-ditions they have inher-ited from their parents and grandparents.

Connie Denis and Annie Patrick are cous-ins.

Patrick, the last of 14 children, remembers life as a young girl. She learned to make fish nets, to work with moose hides to make moccasins, vests and jackets.

“We hated to work on the moose hides, they

were rotten and smelly,” Patrick said. “But we couldn’t say no to our parents.”

“We had no freezers or fridges back then,” she said. “We learned to make preserves, and we would cut blocks of ice in the winter and cover them in sawdust [to use in the summer].”

“It was a hard time, but we were happy. Our family was all together.”

After living in the Smithers area for 42 years, Patrick has now moved back to Burns Lake.

Connie Denis grew up in Fort Babine, long before the modernities of electricity had made its way there.

“We packed water

to wash our clothes,” she said. “In the winter we would have to melt snow to wash clothes.”

She met her future husband Peter at 17. They were married in Smithers where they lived for 16 years. De-nis has since lost her husband and two boys. She now calls Burns Lake home.

Damian Pierre re-members the first time he saw electricity. It was after a walk from Donald’s Landing on the shores of Babine Lake to Burns Lake. He followed an old wagon trail and saw the old Beach garage on the west end of town, where the vacant build-ing across from the old

Root 16 restaurant is today.

“Beach’s garage had the first electric light I ever saw,” Pierre said.

Growing up in Fort Babine without roads, hydro or running wa-ter, under the hot sum-mer sun and long winter nights, Pierre summed up the experience in a phrase.

“Life was hard; we were lucky to survive.”

“I had no money, so at 17 I started work on building the Hudson Bay store,” Damian recalled. “When the job was finished I had enough money to buy a 30/30 rifle for $75. I could finally hunt and feed my family.”

“In those days I didn’t

get tired. When I was 19 I worked in a sawmill. This was before power saws, we did everything by hand with cross-cut saws.”

Not all hardships were imposed by life’s circumstances.

Pierre recalled enter-ing a rodeo to shake off wise crackers who made fun of his wear-ing a cowboy hat when he had never ridden a horse.

He broke his kneecap that day, but took it in stride.

“That was the end of my rodeo career,” he said.

Born in Old Fort, Leonard Michel contin-ues to use the traditions he learned at his par-

ents’ side as a youth. This year’s low snow-

fall and relatively cold weather has set up ideal conditions for Michel to take one of his tra-ditional skills to Pinkut Lake, north of Burns Lake.

“We’ll set nets and lines under the ice,” he said.

Michel invited any-one in attendance to join him and learn how to cast fish nets under ice.

“It’s how we carry on what our parents taught us, we carry on as our parents left off.”

The CNC lunchtime program has concluded for 2013, but Tom antic-ipates it may be brought back in the new year.

Elders pass on wisdom and culture to othersLean years in B.C.’s North shaped humble but powerful people

First Nations drummers and dancers joined participants in the final session of the College of New Caledonia Lakes District Campus lunch time elders series. The noon workshops brought elders and participants together to share in the experiences of those who came before us.

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Burns Lake idle no more - Jan. 2, 2013The self-styled grassroots movement

has been holding rallies across the country in a show of unity in defiance of Bill C-45. This recently passed omnibus package in-cluded changes to environmental legisla-tion that critics have identified as weaken-ing Canada’s protection of environmental and First Nations interest in the face of resource development.

The movement is fundamentally about First Nations treaty rights and further pro-posed changes to federal legislation defin-ing the relationship between First Nations and the rest of Canada.

World's for Dickson - Jan. 16, 2013Former Burns Lake Omineca Ski Club

racer Emily Dickson has won a spot on the Canadian team that will compete in the 2013 Youth and Junior Biathlon World championships in Obertilliach, Austria, being held Jan. 23 to Feb. 2, 2013.

Broken hearts slow to mend - Jan. 23, 2013On the one year anniversary of the ex-

plosion and destruction of the Babine Forest Products Mill, hundreds gathered in Burns Lake at the Lakes District Sec-ondary School for a memorial service in honour of fallen and injured mill workers.

Nineteen workers were injured in the Jan. 20, 2012, explosion. Two were killed; Carl Charlie and Robert Luggi never re-turned home from their shift.

Huge resource tax-dollar potential Feb. 6, 2013

The Spectra BG Group proposal is the fourth proposed LNG pipeline that would cross Regional District Bulkley Necha-ko areas. A fifth pipeline, the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline has also been

proposed to transport modified bitumen from Northern Alberta to Kitimat, B.C.

Burns Lake Band leadership faces criticism - Feb. 13, 2013

Burns Lake Band (BLB) councillor Ron Charlie, former BLB chief Robert Char-lie, and approximately 20 other members of the band gathered at the BLB offices on Feb. 5, 2013, to protest what they see as a lack of transparency in band management and finances.

“A lot of out members are really con-cerned with their leadership,” counc. Charlie said. “I had a lot of hope when I got on as councillor. Since day one I’ve wanted transparency and community in-volvement.”

On behalf of signatories to a petition calling for the resignation of Chief Albert

Gerow and counc. Dan George, Charlie expressed a lack of good faith in Gerow and George. Gerow and George were on hand for the protest and silently listened to Charlie deliver his statement.

Charlie believes that Gerow and George have failed to address the needs and con-cerns of those living on-reserve in Burns Lake, and that band finances require clos-er scrutiny.

While Tuesday’s protest forced the cancellation of the February meeting, the previous months’s meeting was cancelled due to a lack of participants. “In January, nobody showed up,” said Gerow.

Area-based licenses not a privatiza-tion of the forest, Rustad says - Feb. 20, 2013

Pre-election rhetoric has heated up sur-rounding proposed changes to forestry legislation that will see the conversion of

some current volume-based logging li-censes to area-based licenses.

The changes were devised as part of the solution to satisfying the need for a consistent mid-term timber supply in or-der to entice the rebuilding of the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake which was destroyed in an explosion on Jan. 20, 2012.

Bob Simpson, MLA for Cariboo North, has been a consistent critic of the deci-sion to rebuild the Hampton mill. Regard-ing the conversion of volume-based to area-based tenures, Simpson said that, “It could lead to the majority of B.C.’s public forests coming under the control of a few major forest companies.”

The Burns Lake Community Forest has always been an area-based tenure. For Ron Zayac, interim general manager for the Burns Lake community forest, this has worked well in terms of securing timber supply and clarifying forest stewardship responsibilities.

“We support area-based tenures as pro-viding licensees with an incentive to in-vest in the land-base so that they can reap the long-term rewards of more intensive forest management policies,” Zayac said.

Morrison Mine denial court challenge - Feb. 27, 2013

In a Feb. 13, 2013 press release, Pacific Booker Minerals Inc. announced that it had retained the Vancouver law firm of Hunter Litigation Chambers Law Corporation, “to advance litigation against the Province of British Columbia in connection with the refusal of the government to issue an En-vironmental Assessment Certificate for the Morrison Copper/Gold Mine Project.”

Year in review - top 2013 stories

Last Week’s Question: Would you like to know more about the village’s green ideas?

0% No 100% Yes

Here are a few things I’d like to see in B.C. political life in the coming year, but won’t.

An orderly schedule of legislature sittings, one in the spring and one in the fall.

I canvassed this topic with Premier Christy Clark in our year-end interview, and got the usual runaround about how it’s always been option-al since old Gordon what’s-

his-name set the schedule of sittings and elections more than a decade ago. Spring is for the budget and MLAs sit in the fall if they need to discuss legislation.

They need to all right, but what governments want to do is ram it through as fast as they can, so that’s what they do. The last couple of years of this have been a sham worthy of a South American banana republic, with three chambers running simultaneously and opposition mem-bers trying to prepare as they run down the hallways.

It leads to mistakes in new laws and adds to the public’s cynicism about the whole business, but it gets things done with minimum exposure of the government to criticism. Stephen Harper would approve.

A political debate about real issues, rather than just a competition to score points in an endless elec-tion campaign.

I appreciate that this is hopelessly naive, but setting aside enough time to consider issues could, at least in theory, lead to that happening occasionally.

Certainly the hastily staged mock combat of our legislature today isn’t winning new friends for any political party. The main growth area today is people who have given up on the whole thing.

An opposition with ideas.The B.C. NDP will have another leadership contest in 2014, and they’d better bring more modern

policy to the table than they had in the last one.Remember the big issues in that pillow-fight? Me neither. I had to look them up. Health care? Local

organic carrots into the hospital food. Forest industry? A job protection commissar to force the mills to stay open. Resource development? They’re for it, unless you’re against it.

These guys need a Tony Blair-type makeover. They need to be for something, and they need to leave the past behind.

Media that care about more than conflict.News organizations are in bad shape these days, and the competition for a rapidly fragmenting audi-

ence is having some ugly effects.One thing that needs to go is obsessive coverage of who’s winning and who’s losing. If the news

media are going to be interested mainly in the gaffes and gotcha moments, is it any surprise that’s what politicians try to provide?

The Canada Post announcement that it has to wind up home delivery offers a recent example. Is it really so outrageous for the CEO to suggest that walking to the corner is good exercise? When there’s a 24-hour news cycle to fill, it’s a scandal!

How many people know that Canada Post’s unfunded pension liabilities amount to $6.5 billion, as it continues to pay a dwindling workforce to hand out mostly advertising flyers? Should they just keep doing that until they run out of cash? Are taxpayers really expected to maintain another two-tier service that’s only available to selected urban people?

Facts to go with opinions.Whether it’s the government’s fantasy figures on job creation or the opposition’s arithmetic-chal-

lenged child poverty claims, serious problems can’t be understood, much less solved, without defining them accurately. Submitting government advertising to scrutiny by the Auditor General to make sure it is accurate and non-partisan would be a good place to start.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: [email protected]

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Looking back over the past year we see a lot of new begin-nings in Burns Lake.

The new Babine Forest Products milll is taking in logs and is slated to be oper-ating early in the new year. The Tom Forsyth Memorial Arena expansion and facility upgrades are well-underway and the form of the new addi-tion has taken shape.

The construction site of the new Lakes District Hospital

seems transformed weekly, with exposed laminate timber beams installed and the second floor steel framing almost complete.

Phase one of the downtown revitalization project was completed, seemingly without a hitch. Construction was kept mostly to nighttime hours. It was a always interesting to go to work in the morning and see how much work had been done while most were sleeping.

Volunteers and community groups had a great year as well. The Decker Lake community hall and the Trout Creek hall both celebrated the completion of extensive

interior and exterior renovations this year.The Lakes District Fall Fair celebrated its seventieth anniversary by bringing in some of its largest crowds

ever to the Eagle Creek fair grounds. The Eagle Creek grounds themselves received significant upgrades thanks to community support, volunteer hours and help from the Nechako Kitamaat Development Fund.

Most recently, the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 50, found its feet again after a close call with being dis-banded. A group of new and experienced volunteers rallied to support the 85-year old Burns Lake institution.

A number of Burns Lake businesses celebrated significant anniversaries as well, like Home Hardware, Lakes District Printing, Lino’s Sales Ltd, and Lakes District Maintenance.

The Village of Burns Lake itself celebrated 90 years of incorporation. With all that is going on within and outside of its municipal boundaries, it’s not showing any signs of slowing down.

For the first time in 100 years, new totems went up in the Burns Lake area as Wet’suwet’en First Nation raised two totems at their new health clinic west of Burns Lake.

The Burns Lake Mountain Bike Association had a milestone year, winning accolades for its trails by being named as a Canada’s first Ride Centre by the International Mountain Biking Association.

The designation is also a recognition of Burns Lake as a destination community for mountain bikers were they will find more than just good trails. That same combination of great trails and a great community also inspired Canadian travel writer Robin Esrock to place Burns Lake mountain biking in the top three of his 25 essential Canadian outdoor adventures.

The Lakes District Festival of the Performing Arts held its fifty-sixth season of performances in Burns Lake this past year.

The list of personal milestones, birthdays, anniversaries is too long to include here, but they are an important part of the community fabric.

It can be easy to quickly forget or pass over the high points of the past year as the glow of success or achieve-ment is often overshadowed by life’s tragedies and traumas.

Controversy often dominates newspaper headlines and personal conversations, as do contentious issues or feared outcomes. But it’s important to take a break from the heavy task of confronting whatever challenges us and to reflect on why any of it matters in the first place.

When I think of Burns Lake I think of great community with quiet leaders who do most of their work in the background without asking for anything in return other than to share in the joy it brings to the community.

They emerge occasionally to be publicly honoured or recognized, like John Rempel recently was by the province for his tireless dedication to public safety and search and rescue in the Burns Lake area, but it’s always obvious that public honour or recognition had nothing to do with their dedication.

Their dedication is to the community that inspires them. In that sense, there is little surprise that so many great things are happening in Burns Lake.

Burns Lake is an inspiring community, and we wish you all the best in 2014.

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Nechako Lakes MLA and provincial Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, John Rustad, attended a Lake Babine Nation (LBN) council meeting in Burns Lake recently. The Dec. 19 meeting was for him an historic event - being the first time he had sat down to a chief and council meeting - one he said he hopes to repeat.

Rustad heard LBN Chief Wilf Adam, councillors, and staff speak to issues important to LBN, like the health of the Lake Babine salmon fishery and the quality of water in Babine Lake, as well as issues surrounding treaty negotiations that imply there are legitimate overlapping claims to LBN traditional territories (see Dec. 11, 2013 Lake Babine First Nation concerns), some-thing which LBN denies.

Chief Adam also reaffirmed LBN council’s rejection of the En-bridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, promising to bring the matter before the courts if the pipeline should eventually be approved.

The most pressing item discussed was the recent decision by the B.C. Supreme Court to return to the province its Oct. 1, 2012 decision to deny Pacific Booker Minerals (PBM) in its environ-mental assessment application for the Morrison mine project (See Dec. 18, 2013 Morrison mine decision rethink).

The proposed copper/gold mine would include a tailings pond that LBN, as well as the Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC), consider too close to Morrison Lake.

Rustad heard that Morrison Lake is considered by LBN coun-cil members to be the last remaining unsullied salmon spawning ground in the Babine Lake watershed.

“We are dead-set against the project,” Chief Adam said. “We are still dealing with the two huge holes from other mining proj-ects [the Bell and Granisle mines]. We are still dealing with the

fallout to salmon and wildlife habitat.”Although he is minister of aboriginal relations and reconcili-

ation in Premier Christy Clark’s government, Rustad said he would not be directly involved in the decision making process.

“I am not a statutory decision maker [on the project],” Rustad said. “I do not have the ability to influence the statutory decision makers, but I wanted to tell you what the process is.”

The province, according to Rustad, has 30 days to decide if it is going to appeal the decision.

To date, the province has refused to comment on what its response will be to the court’s decision, other than to say it is carefully considering the rul-ing before proceeding.

Chief Adam maintains the province made the right decision in rejecting PBM’s environmental application.

“The province made the right deci-sion,” Chief Adam said. “I was very disappointed when PBM took you to court. We implore the B.C. govern-ment to stand with their decision and appeal. I respectfully ask the province to stand with their original decision.”

Later, Chief Adam confirmed to Lakes District News that he is con-cerned the province might claim it has to approve the project because the courts are forcing their hand.

“If they do that, it’s going to change our relationship with the province drastically,” Chief Adam warned.

Lake Babine reaffirms Pacific Booker Minerals rejection

Minister Rustad hears from Chief and council first hand

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Shortly before Christmas Rio Tinto Al-can (RTA) demobilized the construction camp for the Kemano back-up tunnel project near Thatsa Reach, south-west of Burns Lake.

All of the gear, which included work and safety equipment, kitchenware, bedding, mattresses, and pillows, was donated by RTA to be distributed through Lakes District Commu-nity Services to organi-zations in Burns Lake, Southbank, Fraser Lake, and Vanderhoof.

Donated supplies will be distributed to out-reach programs, com-munity service groups, homeless shelters, safe

houses, First Nation culture camps and to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #50.

It was a monumental task to move the two truckloads of equip-ment to Burns Lake from the remote camp,

and many local busi-nesses and volunteers made it happen.

Cheslatta Carrier Nation had a crew at the camp site to take it down, pack it up and also help unloaded.

Beach Marine Ltd.

barged the gear and helped unload the first truck. Bandstra Trans-portation Systems pro-vided transportation, CJ Enterprises helped un-load and McPhail and Associates made space available in an empty

storefront to store all the equipment and do-nated items until they are distributed.

The work and safety gear will go the Col-lege of New Caledonia Lakes District Campus trades program.

Rio Tinto Alcan makes donation to communitiesWork complete, Rio Tinto makes donation of supplies

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Cheslatta Carrier Nation members a long with Bandstra Transportation Systems provided transportation, CJ Enterprises helped unload the huge load of donated items.

I’ll start my viewpoint with the words of an very popular Christmas song “It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas.” And it sure is and what a wonderful feeling it gives us. A time of loving and sharing and forgiving and the close feelings of our families. All this is so precious as we get older. This will be my last until after Christmas.

Senior’s dinnerLast week there was a

senior’s Christmas dinner held in the Island Gospel Church. What a dinner it was too, everything went over so perfect. The ta-bles were decorated and set up so well. The gym was full of folks enjoying it all. To make it all so

special the Grassy Plains church choir sang carols and Pastor Peters read the Christmas story which is ever so loved by young and not so young. This brought back memories of my father who always would read our family the Christmas message and we would look for-ward to this family time. The Grassy Plains church are always so generous with their singing. We thank you all.

Happy Birthday AgnesLast week the Hiebert

family celebrated their mother, grandmother, and great grandmother’s 95 birthday at the Tweedsmuir House on Sunday. Agnes was 95 years old and what a life this wonderful lady has had.

The dining room and the sitting room were all filled with her fam-ily. You could tell there was so much love for this wonderful lady and so much respect. It was interesting to me as our family and the Hiebert and Knelsen families all three came into the Lakes

District in 1941 so we have all know each other for over 70 years, almost a record. We have been good friends and good neighbours for almost a lifetime. The younger generation have now tak-en over where we have left off. I am very proud to be a good friend of Ag-nes Hiebert and the rest of this well known and respected family.

Party timeOn Monday afternoon

last there was a Christ-mas party for the resi-dents of the Tweedsmuir House. It was very nice with decorations and such a pretty tree. There was what is called a Mex-ican exchange of gifts.

The way it works is you pick a give from un-der the tree, you open it and if it is not what you want you can exchange with another person and they can take a gift from the tree or else exchange with another person who may have a gift you would like. A nice lunch was served to close off a very pleasant afternoon.

We were treated to a lovely group of young la-dies who gave us Scottish highland dancing. The girls just looked beauti-ful in their special dress for the part.

One very pretty young lady did an Irish dance, this was very lovely too. This ended a very pleasant afternoon. One thing that came to my mind was how perfect the dancers preformed as some of the dances looked very difficult and no doubt they were and they danced so well. Hats off to the dancers and the very able teachers.

Then we had the fid-dlers and talk about music. If you like fiddle music this was it, what music just makes your feet itch to get up there and dance.

I just loved their mu-sic, brings back those growing up years. Fiddle music was always liked and looked forward too. I took up the fiddle and played for dances but I didn’t like taking my dad’s valuable violin

around so I took up the guitar. You fiddlers are great so keep it up, we love you.

Then last night we had the Decker Lake Menno-nite church choir enter-tain us with a wonderful carol singing. All those old Christmas carols bring back such wonder-ful memories. Every one takes part in the singing from the oldest to the youngest and their har-mony is out of this world. The Christmas story was read and it is always so special and we never get tired of it.

Christmas during the depression

When the great de-pression and the big dry as well, there just was no money so the big-gest thing to get hit was Christmas and it really hurt. The bottom out of the economy so there was nothing to sell.

No water as we had no rain so no gardens, could not even grow potatoes. Of course this was in Sas-katchewan, as B.C. was able to manage because

they had rain. Of course money was tight in B.C. too but they were able to grow feed for their stock and our stock was starv-ing with just enough to live and that was all. Lots of our friends rode the freights to go to B.C. to work in the woods.

They would send mon-ey home for the families. A very good friend of ours called Fin Autosen left his washburn guitar with mother and told her if he didn’t come home it was hers. He was catch-ing a freight that night. He had worked in B.C. the winter before.

Mother gave him her name and address and within the week the RCMP contacted mother to say Fin had got thrown off a box car in Jasper and killed. We have tried to located his grave there but no luck. I still have his guitar and treasure it. It was made in 1930 so it’s about 80 years old now. Fin came from Denmark and had family there. He made his home with us and we sure missed him,

he was a great guy. No matter how slim the pick-ing got we always had a nice Christmas, not much in the gift line but enough to eat and on Christmas Day Mother would have some single men having Christmas dinner with us. Nobody went hungry when Mother was around and how she did it was a mystery.

There seems to be lots of heavy traffic so slow down and enjoy your holidays and always re-member God loves you and so do I.

P.S. There is an old Christmas poem called the night before Christ-mas. It starts out and I quote “It was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes St. Nicklas soon would be there.” So far this year I have not heard it could be me. A wonderful and happy Christmas to all my wonderful friends.

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The under construction new Lakes District Hospital in Burns Lake received generous support for RBC Royal Bank for emergency room equipment on Dec. 6, 2013. In total, $50,000 will be donated to the hospital. Pictured above, Trent Waughtal, RBC regional vice-president, Michelle Dyble, outgoing Burns Lake RBC manager, Alice Harris, Burns Lake RBC new manager, Dale Finch, Lakes District Hospital head nurse, Marie Hunter, Northern Health service administrator and Paul Stewart representing Spirit of the North.

Eleven students at Francois Lake Elementary school were award winners in the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 50’s 2013 poster contest. Of 12 winners in the contest which, 11 of them were from Francois Lake Elementary.

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Carpentry foundation class students from the College of New Caledo-nia Lakes District Cam-pus (CNC) are perform-ing a major renovation at Kenny Michell’s home in Burns Lake. Michell was seriously injured in the January, 2012 explosion at the Babine Forest Products (BFP) mill.

Michell continues to recover from his inju-ries. He is in good spir-its, but continues to live with the aftereffects of

that terrible night writ-ten on and within his body.

His home had under-gone some access reno-vations under direction from WorkSafe BC, like the addition of a wheelchair ramp, a slid-ing power lifter to assist with navigating stairs in his house, and accessi-bility renovations to the bathroom.

Michell’s son, Ken Michell, saw the need for more work around his dad’s house. Al-ready in the carpentry foundation program at CNC, he proposed the class consider renovat-ing Michell Sr.’s house.

Approval for the project came quickly, and Michell Sr. moved out of the house so that CNC carpentry instruc-tor Gary Muir and his 12 member carpentry class could get to work. Babine Forest Products helped with the cost of materials, and the CNC crew got to work short-ly after inspecting the house on Nov. 19, 2013.

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Burns Lake CNC students on the jobLocal college and Babine Forest Products team up to assist Kenny Michell

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The recent drop in the market value of gold has caused New Gold Inc. to caution a possible delay of its Blackwater gold mine project southwest of Vanderhoof.

Originally projected with a potential construction start of as early as 2015, New Gold said in a Dec. 12, 2013 feasibility report that mine construction would have to wait until market conditions im-prove. Market conditions do not currently support construction start.

“The combination of gold being down by over $500 per ounce since we completed the preliminary economic assessment for Blackwater in September of 2012 and our Rainy River project having a more modest capital requirement, results in our primary objective being the advancement of Rainy River,” said New Gold executive chairman Randall Oliph-ant.

Rainy River is a New Gold project west of Thun-der Bay, Ontario. Like the Blackwater project, Rainy River is in pre-application stages for its pro-vincial and federal environmental applications.

Despite this cautionary announcement, New Gold will proceed with slated environmental ap-plication work over the next year, which is exactly what New Gold’s previous 2014 plan for the Black-water project was for before the Dec. 12 announce-ment.

“We’ll continue with the permitting process on both projects… but with current gold prices we wouldn’t be able to start the capital investment to build the mine [Blackwater] until prices recover,” said New Gold director for corporate communica-tions and investor relations, Julie Taylor.

“We’re going to continue through 2014 as if it were a go,” Taylor added. If gold prices recover, then the project will be that much further ahead with a completed feasibility study and environmen-tal permitting.

The New Gold Blackwater project is expected

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Parent-child Mother Goose for children between 0-5 yrs. Circle time, snack time and free play 10:00 -11:30 a.m. Wed. & Fri. at Muriel Mould Learning Centre.

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The entire interior - excluding work already done by WorkSafe BC - was gutted, both the main floor and the basement. Insulation needing replacement was replaced, vapour barrier and drywall were installed, and Muir has already begun working on new kitchen cabinets.

“The move for Kenny and Theressa [Michel] back into their house has been a long and complicated process,” said BFP’s Canadian regional operations manager Ian Gray. “We felt that these final renovations would be the finishing touch and would help make that move home more rewarding and enjoyable for Kenny and Theressa.”

The CNC carpentry class crew was all smiles beneath a layer of drywall dust as the they took a break from sanding mudded drywall seams to get together for a group photo.

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Carpenters help out Michell family

The College of New Caledonia Lakes District campus secured $15,000 in funding through the United Way of Canada to distribute between different family and social agencies in the Lakes District. Strong Start program facilitator Sarah Green (L) accepts Overwaitea and Save-On Food grocery vouchers from CNC's Andrea Currie.

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Lakes District Fall Fair meeting January 9, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Held at the Cancer Society Office on the Main Street, Burns Lake.

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Current price of gold does not justify mine construction

to have an approximate 20-year working lifespan before closure and reclamation. According to information provided during

a May 8, 2013 open house in Burns Lake, the project would require more than 1000 workers to build the mine and provide 500 full-time positions once in operation.

New Gold is a B.C.-based mining com-

pany with four mines operating in Canada, the U.S., Australia and Mexico.

New Gold’s New Afton mine operation near Kamloops, B.C. is not affected by the recent slide in the price of gold.

Bruins midgets off to Provincials - Feb. 27, 2013

The Burns Lake Bruin midgets won home zone playoffs and have advanced to the provincial finals in Lillooet on March 17, 2013. They beat Houston 9-1 and Fort St. James 7-3 to earn that spot.

Live it! Love it! growing fast- march 20, 2013

Three years ago Jeff Scott was enjoy-ing a day of snowboarding at Revelstoke Mountain Resort when his ride turned a terrible corner.

He didn’t stay down for long. After an intense year of surgeries and physical re-habilitation he regained partial use of his arms and hands. Scott and his friend Izzy Lynch, a talented skier and Revelstoke lo-cal he had met before the accident, made a trip to Canada’s east coast.

During the trip Scott and Lynch hatched an idea that has, in just two-and-a-half years, gone from inspiration to reality: Live it! Love it!

The van that carried Scott to the east coast is now 20 years old with more than 390,000 kms on the odometer. It never was an ideal way for Scott to get around, lacking the adaptations that it would need for him to operate it with his injuries.

“It’s still working now, but I’m unable to drive it by myself,” Scott said. “I’m reli-ant on others to help with that.”

“I need the van to get to [Live it! Love it!] camps and to trade shows,” he said. “I speak at schools and youth groups. Hav-ing the van is essential in allowing me to get to those places. I’m looking for some-thing I’m able to operate independently.”

Snowboarders champs for a third year - march 27, 2013

Patti and Pat Dube, Lakes District Secondary School (LDSS) teachers and snowboard/ski team coaches, are doing something right with the LDSS snow-board and ski teams. If Burns Lake were a ski hill town, you might expect that more than a couple of students would do well at the B.C. School Sports Ski and Snow-board Provincial Championships.

With Burns Lake a flat 150 kms from

the nearest ski hill, you wouldn’t expect the local high school team be a dominate presence among 180 racers from 24 schools across the province.

But that’s exactly what happened in Smithers last week during the provincial snowboard and ski championships held March 4 − 6, 2013 on the Hudson Bay Mountain Ski Resort.

For the third year in a row, the LDSS snowboard team is the Combined Pro-vincial Champions in boys and girls snow-boarding. Individual performances were very strong as well.

new hospital build unveiled - April 3, 2013A community open house was held on

March 27, 2013, at the Burns Lake Heri-tage Centre to reveal the design plans for the long anticipated new Lakes District hospital in Burns Lake.

The new facility represents a $55 mil-lion investment in Burns Lake. It will have 16 hospital beds in private rooms, each with a window view. It will provide acute care, emergency services, diagnostic im-aging, a laboratory and a pharmacy.

Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimbold ex-pressed his satisfaction that a project of this size is about to get underway in Burns Lake. For him, the project represents an investment in the future of the Lakes Dis-trict and will encourage young families to remain in the area.

Heavy police presence at band office - April 10, 2013

A two-week long stand-off between dissatisfied members of the Burns Lake Band (BLB) came to a head late Sunday morning as a large contingent of RCMP

officers enforced an order for protesters to vacate the BLB offices.

In a combined effort involving RCMP detachments from across the region, ap-proximately 25 marked and unmarked RCMP vehicles arrived at BLB offices in Burns Lake on Sunday morning, April 7, 2013, shortly after 11 a.m.

The situation was peacefully resolved at approximately 2:30 p.m. as members and guests inside the building agreed to leave.

Breaking Ground - April 17, 2013Marie Hunter, a PCL representative,

Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimbold, Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad and Gordie Alec break ground on April 12, LBn and village sign long-term agree-ment - April 24, 2013

The Village of Burns Lake and the Lake Babine Nation signed a five year service agreement on April 19, 2013. Standing are Susan Schienbein, Gordie Alec, Bernard Patrick, John Illes and Frank Varga. Seated, Priscilla Crouse, acting Deputy Chief for LBN and Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strim-bold put pen to paper on the agreement.

Year in review - top 2013 stories

Arena expansion underway - April 24, 2013Lakes District Secondary School students participating in Project Local Government joined Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimbold, Regional District of Bulkley Nechako director B, Bill Miller, Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad, and Pacific Venture construction management’s Mark Van Ek, as they broke ground for the facility expansion of the Tom Forsyth Arena in Burns Lake.


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Lakes Learning Centre 10:30 amThe Lakes District Of� ce of the Canadian Cancer Society is open the

following hours: Tues., Thurs. & Fri. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. We are located at 332 Hwy. 16 (Main Street). Check out our craft table and garage sale items. New volunteers are welcome. Ph: 250-692-7203. For Cancer Information Service and Cancerconnection, the toll free number is 1-888-939-3333.

Lakes District Fall Fair meeting on Jan. 9/14 at 7pm. Held at the Cancer Society Of� ce on the Main Street.

Prenatal Classes Thurs. 6-8pm Burns Lake Health Unit - located in the hospital. (250) 692-2460 to register.

Parent-child Mother Goose. Children between 0-5 yrs. Circle time, snack time & free play 10am-11:30am Wed. & Fri. at Muriel Mould Learning Centre.

Indoor playspace for families & children 1-5 yrs. Contact Village of Burns Lake for start-up date: (250) 692-7587.

Burns Lake Strongstart. Preschool program for children and caregivers/parents. Crafts, circle time & snacks. Mon. - Fri. 9am-12pm. Muriel Mould Learning Centre. 250-692-7782.

Southside Strongstart Outreach. Learning program for children, caregivers/parents. Tues. 10am-2pm, Wed. 12:15-3:15pm. Rita: (250) 694-3396 or 250-692-0983.

Southside Family Centered Program. Preschool program for children and caregivers/parents. Thurs. 11:30am - 3pm. Grassy Plains School. Rita (250) 694-3396.

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CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20: After time away for the holidays, getting back into a routine can be challenging, Capricorn. But you like to stick to a schedule, and getting back on track is the way to do it.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18: Aquarius, although you have many friends, you recently have only spent time with a select few. This week is a great time to reach out to those friends you haven’t seen in awhile.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20: Your competitive juices will be flowing this week, Pisces. Enjoy the competitive atmosphere but don’t take things too far.

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20: Now may be the time to try something new, Aries. You are not one to shy away from anything, but right now you’re a bit apprehensive about things. Take a leap of faith.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21: Taurus, many people look to you as a leader, and they are wise to do so. You are especially trustworthy, and you will be asked to solve a few problems this week.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21: Gemini, there won’t be much time to enjoy recre-ational activities this week, so you may have to find a new way to let loose. Rest assured there will be more time for fun down the road.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22: Cancer, a new opportunity comes your way but you’re not quite sure if you’re ready for such drastic changes. Take your time before making a final decision.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23: Leo, no matter how hard you try, some people just can’t see things from your point of view. Don’t take this personally, as everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22: Virgo, sometimes it seems like you have all of the answers, while at other times, you might not know how to approach a situa-tion. Take some time to analyze your approach.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23: Feeling homesick, Libra? If so, make some post-holiday plans to visit with friends or family you didn’t get a chance to see dur-ing the holidays. Enjoy this time spent with loved ones.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22: Scorpio, you like to stay busy. But you sometimes feel overwhelmed with all that you have to do. Stop biting off more than you can chew and take things one task at a time.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21: Sagittarius, now is a good time to make resolutions and reconnect with distant friends. It is good to rekindle relation-ships and commit to spending more time with friends and family.

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Hwy 16, Burns LakeOpen 9am-6pm Mon.-Fri.,

12pm-4pm on Sat.

Phone: 250-692-7773email:

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Front Desk Receptionist/Optometric Assistant

Busy Optometrist Clinic seeking a part-time Front Desk Receptionist/Optometric Assistant for 3-4 days per week. The successful applicant must be open to learning new tasks and gaining knowledge of Optometry including dispensing and eyewear repairs.Skills Required• Good Team Player • Excellent Computer Skills • Ability to Multi-Task • Excellent Communications SkillsIf this position is of interest to you, please submit your resume with references to:Burns Lake Eye Care P.O. Box 269, Burns Lake, B.C. V0J 1E0or Fax to: (250) 692-3424

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)

Are you interested in excelling in a fast paced, challenging environment? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.A well established Prince George truck & equipment dealer is currently seeking EQUIPMENT PARTS PERSON to join our team.

• This position pays $30.92 per hour for a Journeyman; all other Overtime is paid at double time.

• Full dental and medical packages as well as an RRSP plan in place.

• Long term commitment, including a training and career development program.

If you are a team player with a good work ethic, please forward resume to:

Jeff Morrison, Parts Manager1995 Quinn StreetPrince George, BC V2N 2X2Fax: 250-562-6288or by email: [email protected]

EQUIPMENTPARTS PERSON

Project Manager required for full time work in the Prince George area.

Looking for an experienced & motivated project manager for restoration and new construction

projects. Must have experience in the construction industry and be proficient in CAD.

Competitive wage package with benefits.

Email resume to [email protected]

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Career Opportunities

Help WantedHelp Wanted

Announcements

In Memoriam Gifts

ALL FUNDS DONATEDto the

Burns Lake Health Care Auxiliary

are used to provide fi nancial support, equipment plus

comfort and care for patients in our hospital, the

Pines and all other community healthcare

services.Mail a donation on behalf of yourself or a loved one to:

B.L. Health Care Aux.Box 812

Burns Lake, BCV0J 1E0

A tax deductible receipt will be issued

Information

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUSIf you want to keep drinking that’s your business - if you want to quit drinking that’s our business. Burns Lake Meet-ings: Tuesday 7:30 pm Catho-lic Church, Saturday 7:30 pm - Catholic Church. For informa-tion or transportation call (250) 692-6867 / (250) 698-7325 / (778) 669-0070

Only requirement for AA is a desire to stop drinking.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUSSouthside Meetings: Mondays and Thursdays 6:30pm - 7:30pm at Grassy Plains Gos-pel Church. For more informa-tion: (250) 694-3682

Anyone needing information on Alzheimer’s please call 1-866-564-7533

BURNS LAKE RCMP Vic-tim/Witness Assistance Pro-gram. 201 Hwy. 35, Box 759 Burns Lake. Open Monday to Thursday 9am to 4pm (250) 692-3010

PLANNING a wedding or an-niversary party? Looking for plastic fl owers for decorations. Call OPTIONS at Nourse House 9am- 3pm Mon. to Fri. Francois Lake Drive. Operated by residents of 8th Avenue Group Home. (250) 692-7845

Career Opportunities

Announcements

InformationCRISIS PREVENTION. You are not alone. Support is just a phone call away. 1.800.SUI-CIDE (1.800.784.2433) is a confi dential, toll-free service that is available to anyone, anywhere, any time in B.C. The youth support line is 1.888.564.8336 (TEEN). The 24 hour crisis line for northern BC is 250.563.1214 and 1.888.562.1214. In addition, several crisis lines also pro-vide support through online chat services so young people have a web-based way to reach out. These services can be reached through www.nor thernyouthonline.ca (4:00 to 11:00 pm daily) or www.youthinbc.ca.

FOOD BANK INFORMATION Distribution days will be the fi rst and the third Tuesday of each month, clients should come at 11 a.m. Sign up is at BLNDC at 10:45 a.m. The Lakes District Food bank con-tinues to operate due to the outstanding generosity of the community. If you would like to make a donation and receive a tax deductible receipt, please mail your donation to: Lakes District Food Bank, P.O. Box 777, Burns Lake, BC. V0J 1E0

LOCAL HOSPICE Services are available by contacting the Hospice Coordinator at (250) 692-2448. The Hospice offi ce, located in the Lakes District Hospital, is open every Thurs. from 10am - 4pm. A lending library of videos, books and information on be-reavement is available. Please make donations to the local hospice and palliative care program payable to the Burns Lake Hospice Program, Box 7500, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1EO

The Arthritis Society B.C. and Yukon division is your pri-mary source and resource of the latest print and electronic information, programs and ser-vices about arthritis. No matter where you live, you can ac-cess us at the touch of a but-ton. Toll free 1-800-321-1433 or visit www.arthritis.ca/bc

The Chronic Disease Educa-tion Clinic at the Lakes Dis-trict Hospital is open Tuesday & Wednesday from 8:30am-4pm. The clinic provides infor-mation and teaching on vari-ous chronic illnesses such as Diabetes & Heart Disease. A doctors referral is not needed. To speak with the nurse call (250) 692-2440

Travel

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Employment

Business Opportunities

TRAIN TO be an Apart-ment/Condominium Manager online! Graduates get access to all jobs posted with us. 33 years of success! Government certifi ed. www.RMTI.ca or 1-800-665-8339, 604-681-5456.

Education/Trade Schools

INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIP-MENT OPERATOR SCHOOL.NO Simulators. In-the-seat training. Real world tasks.Weekly start dates. Job board! Funding options.SignUp online! iheschool.com 1-866-399-3853

Help WantedExperienced parts person re-quired immediately for James Western Star in Williams Lake. Full time, competitive wages, benefi ts and signing bonus. Fax resume to 250-398-6367 or email: [email protected]

Employment

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: hannachrys-ler.ca. Fax 403-854-2845; Or send by email to: [email protected]

Services

Financial ServicesIF 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.

Your community. Your classifi eds.

250.692.7526

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TO REACH THE MARKETFirst advertise in the Lakes District News! ALL WORD ADS go on the Internet for the whole world to see! www.bcclassified.com

REACHING USCall 250-692-7526 or come by our office. Hours are 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., Monday thru Friday. Fax in your ad to 250-692-3685 or email: [email protected]

HOW TO PAYCome to our office at 23 - 3rd Avenue, or you may pay with Visa or Mastercard over the phone. All ads must be prepaid.

CLASSIFIED AD RATESREGULAR WORD ADS 1 issue, 3 lines $8.50 per week

FREE ADSFor anything under $50.00 value. 15 words or less. Ad must contain one item and price. Misc. for Sale category only. Private party ads only (no commercial). Ads cannot be accepted over the phone.

$5 ADSFor anything worth $50 - $500. 15 words or less. Ad must contain one item and price. Misc. for Sale category only. Runs for 4 weeks. Ads must be prepaid - cash only.

LEGAL ADS $16.07 per col. inch

HWY 16 REGIONAL ADS3 lines - No changes - ad runs in: Burns Lake, Vanderhoof, Stewart/Nechako, Ft. St. James, Houston, Smithers, Prince Rupert, Terrace, Kitimat, Northern Connector(1 week) .......................................$78.88

BC BEST BUY ADS25 words- No changes - ad runs one week, all papers covering: Lower Mainland .......... $102.28 BC’s Interior ............... $124.95 Vancouver Island ........ $119.00 All of the Above .......... $299.00 Extra cost for additional words

RUN IT ’TIL SOLD ADS1x1 classified ad. For $31.50 we will run your ad UNTIL IT SELLS, any category, max. 30 words No Real Estate or commercial ads

Please call if you need more information on any of our

classified packages.

HAPPY ADS To announce birthdays, weddings, births etc. 2 col. x 2” - $22.25 2 col. x 3” - $32.25 2 col. x 4” - $42.25

ALL ABOVE PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE GST

DEADLINESClassified Word & Display: Friday @ 3:00 P.M.

OUR POLICYLakes District News reserves the right to edit, revise, classify or reject any classified ad not meeting our standards.

No refunds on Classified Ads.

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Services

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Misc ServicesGUITAR LESSONS available Over 10 years teaching pri-vately in Burns Lake. Bruce (250) 692-7728. Great Christ-mas gift!

Telephone ServicesDISCONNECTED PHONE? National Teleconnect home phone service. No one re-fused! Low monthly rate! Call-ing features and unlimited long distance available. Call Na-tional Teleconnect today! 1-866-443-4408. or visit online: www.nationalteleconnect.com

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?

KENMORE WASHER top end load, white 3.9 cubic ft. $400 and newer dryer, $500, excel-lent condition. Call (250) 692-2347.

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

Real Estate

LotsLAKEVIEW LOT FOR SALE ON BOWRON LAKE, B.C. 2.58 acres, unserviced, small trees on it. 100 ft. from lake. $250,000. Call: 1-250-983-2594

Rentals

Suites, LowerLARGE BRIGHT 2 bedroom suites in a safe and secure building. Close to school and hospital. Large patio, in-suite storage and storage lockers available. On site manage-ment. Heat, hot water and cable included for $700 per month. Call (250) 692-3959 and leave message.

Heavy Duty Machinery

Heavy Duty Machinery

153 Francois Lake Drive, P.O. Box 788, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0Tel: (250) 692-7724 • Fax: (250) 692-7767 • Email: [email protected]

BURNS LAKE COMMUNITY FOREST NEW FOREST STEWARDSHIP PLAN

AND MANAGEMENT PLAN AMENDMENT

Burns Lake Community Forest Ltd. (BLCF) is updating their Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) to add two new areas and make minor text changes to the Plan. This FSP proposes to add an area south of Pinkut Lake along the north-east boundary of FDU 1 and an FDU 2 along the south boundary of the Community Forest on the north shore of Francois Lake. Please see map below for more details.

In addition, Burns Lake Community Forest Ltd. is amending its current Management Plan.

BLCF invites the public and interested stakeholders to view and provide written comment on the draft Forest Stewardship Plan #523 as well as the amended Management Plan.

Both documents will be available for review and comment during of� ce hours until March 06, 2014 at the BLCF Of� ce located on Francois Lake Drive in Burns Lake.

To arrange to view these plans, please contact Kerry at 250-692-7724 Ext. 227.

Written comments are requested by March 06, 2014. Comments can be sent to: BLCF, 153 Francois Lake Dr., Burns Lake, V0J 1E0 Fax: 250-692-7767; or via email: [email protected]

If you have any questions about this FSP please contact Mike Werrell at 250-692-7724 Ext 226 or [email protected]

Burns Lake Veterinary Clinic Ltd.Fountain Road, Burns Lake • Phone: 250-692-7476

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Burns Lake & area BUSINESS DIRECTORY

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Full Winter Service

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We make sausage, jerky & pepperoni sticksFarmers, please book domestic animals because of

limited cooler space.

Mountaineer Meats

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or 250-694-3322Gary Martin and Crew

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P&B Mechanical

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Happy New Year!The Lakes District News has been working with and helping the Burns Lake and area

communities and we are looking forward to much more in 2014.

We would like to share with you some of the local non-pro� t groups and organizations we have helped and/or promoted in the previous years.

We wish them, all our dedicated readers and advertisers a Happy New Year and Best wishes for a fabulous future from all of us to all of you.

...over $18,800 this year donated back to our community!Laura Kim Walter Annamarie

LDSS Grads

Lakes District Music Festival

CNC Family Centred Program

Heart & Stroke Foundation

Alzheimer Society

Burns Lake Chamber of Commerce

The Pines

CNIB

LDSS Drama Club

Island Gospel Fellowship

First Mennonite Church

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Scouts

Southside Fire Department

Burns Lake Airport Society

Canadian Diabetes Association

Epilepsy Canada

The Arthritis Society

St. John Ambulance

Children’s Hospital

Medic Alert

The Kidney Foundation

Terry Fox Run

Burns Lake Food Bank

Burns Lake Rotary Auction

Canadian Red Cross Medical Equipment Loan Service

Seniors Curling

Royal Canadian Legion

Operation Christmas Child

BC Lung Association

Muscular Dystrophy

Burns Lake Cancer Society

Lakes District Senior Secondary School

Burns Lake Health Care Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Store

Lakes District Fall Fair

Wet’suwet’en First Nation

RCMP

Cheslatta Carrier Nation

Village of Burns Lake

The Burns Lake Rotary Club

BLNDC

Francois Lake Elementary School

William Konkin Elementary School

Burns Lake Community Forest

Citizen of the Year

Burns Lake Curling Club

Aboriginal Day

FAS Day

Endako Hall Committee

Southside Ambulance Society

Burns Lake Snowmobile Club

Omineca Ski Club

Lakes District Senior Housing

Burns Lake Figure Skating Club

Burns Lake Minor Hockey

Lakes District Arts Council

Burns Lake Show & Shine

Beacon Theatre

4-H Clubs

Burns Lake & District Seniors Society

Decker Lake Recreation Commission

Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish

Burns Lake Playschool

Ootsa Lake Bible Camp

Bulkley Valley RC Flyers

Kyle Daniel Pow Wow

Burns Lake Terry Fox Committee

Ducks Unlimited

Burns Lake Veterinary Clinic

Lakes Animal Friendship Society

LDSS Girls Volleyball

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