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Why does it rain so much in Kitimat?
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Jungle Book comes to life on stage.
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Haisla FOI request 4 years laterCameron Orr
Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross says the reveal of inter-nal government e-mails comes too late to support their court case against Canada relating to the Enbridge Northern Gate-way project, but does con� rm his long-standing suspicions regarding the consultation process for the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal.
“We’ve done a tremendous amount of Freedom of Infor-mation requests regarding Enbridge,” said Ross, noting some had come back sooner, among the exceptions this latest one that came four years later. “But this one here for some reason didn’t come out until after the Joint Review process and after Canada’s process and after our court case against Canada got started.”
Among the information released in the FOI documents are that First Nations were not involved in the design of the consultation process, there was limited opportunity for gov-ernment departments to engage with Aboriginal groups until after the JRP process and there was a “lack of clarity” about First Nations rights and title considerations.
“It’s too late for us to use it in any of our court proceed-
ings...and this is exactly why we’re taking Canada to court,” said Ross.
He said the reveal of these internal documents con� rms the Haisla’s perspective on Canada’s approach to rights and title.
”We’ve been saying it since day one,” he said. “It just fell on deaf ears. So this con� rms that even their administrative body...believed the same thing the Haisla did. By the way we did not talk in depth with Canada’s administration regarding these issues.”
The Haisla have taken Canada to court following the is-suing of a federal government approval to Enbridge, on the grounds the government did not abide by rights and title case law. Ross said proceedings will likely begin on that matter in October.
A group of volunteers pose before heading out on the road to clean up trash on April 18. The lead organizer Sandra Jackson felt embarrassed seeing garbage as she drives the highway daily for her work.
Clean-up crew tackles Kitimat highwayCameron Orr
Having lived in Kitimat for under a year so far, San-dra Jackson still felt embarrassed to bring people in to her community due to the abundance of trash along Highway 37S.
Jackson drives a bus from the airport to Kitimat and has always been very aware of the garbage along the road’s side.
Having had enough of that, she banded together a group of fellow do-gooders who donned re� ective vests
and pickers, and took to the road to get at least a little bit of it cleaned up.
Jackson took to social media to recruit helpers and eventually set a day and time and told would-be cleaners she’d be there if they wanted to join.
In the end 11 people gathered at the Kitimat Chamber of Commerce parking lot.
They were read the safety brie� ng, and set out to-wards Cablecar.
“It’s bad,” said organizer Sandra Jackson about the
garbage just before heading out on clean-up duty. “You don’t see scenery or mountains, just trash.”
There were plans for further clean up efforts follow-ing this one.
Maintaining the road, which includes trash pick-up, is of� cially a duty for the main highway contractor, which for us is Nechako Northcoast.
We called Northcoast to ask them about their clean-up protocols but had not received a call back by press time.
“This confi rms that even their administrative body...believed the same
thing the Haisla did. ”
April 13A complainant re-
ported that the tires to their vehicle had been slashed and told offi-cers it may have been a retaliatory act for something that hap-pened earlier in the week, but police say so far there has been no information which would have confirmed that theory.
At 11:23 a.m. po-lice were alerted to an abandoned vehicle about 11 km north of Kitimat on the high-way. Police later learned the vehicle was sold for parts the previous day and had broken down on the new owner. Police say that the public should be reminded that when they sell a vehicle they should remove their plates immediately to avoid possibly facing fines and responsibil-ity for vehicles they no longer own.
April 14A person reported
a driving complaint from a person who said they were cut off while
driving on Haisla Bou-levard and the driver, when stopped at an intersection, “gave the complainant a rude gesture with his hands.” The offenders vehicle was noted to have an “N” on the back. Police are working on identi-fying the person who gave the gesture and will be spoken to by the RCMP about his driv-ing habits “and how to be a polite member of society.”
At 7:09 p.m. the RCMP was given a re-port of a possible miss-ing woman who had not been seen for a day. RCMP made patrols and eventually found the woman, who was intoxicated and admit-ted to police to drug consumption, police say. The woman was taken to a safe resi-dence for the night.
April 15Police are inves-
tigating a report of a counterfeit $100 which was passed at a local business. Police are investigating where the bill came from, but
are also advising busi-nesses to be wary of taking bills they feel are counterfeit. If a bill is suspected to be fake people should contact the RCMP, or deny tak-ing the bill.
April 17Police were dis-
patched to a call of a man with an axe in the area where people camp near the Giant Spruce area at 1:21 p.m. Police learned that a man had gotten in to an argument with his wife and had taken an axe to their camper, damaging
it. The wife received an injury to her hand dur-ing the ordeal. The man was arrested and later released on conditions. The woman was not cooperative with po-lice, RCMP say.
April 18At 12:50 a.m. the
police were called to a disturbance behind the Nalabila townhouse complex. Police de-termined there was a fight between two well-known individuals. One person was found to be in breach of their curfew. The two were
held in custody until a court date in Terrace.
At 5:06 a.m. police were called by BC Am-bulance on a call of a possible drug overdose of a man in the Giant Spruce area of campers.The person was taken to the hospital. At 8:40 a.m. the police were called again on a drug overdose call to the same area and found it was the same person from earlier. The man had been seen with a needle in his arm and had left in a vehicle. The man was found
in a parked car nearby and officers woke him up. A small quantity of drugs and parapher-nalia was found next to him. The man was found to be under court conditions to ab-stain from possessing controlled substances and was arrested for breaching those condi-tions.
April 19A person in a com-
pany car admitted to consuming alcohol be-fore landing the vehicle in a ditch on Oolichan Avenue. The driver also failed a roadside screening.
With warm weather the police are remind-ing the public to be Bear Aware. The Bear Aware program sug-gests reducing odours or attractants to which bears will be lured.
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What? A public hearing will be held on Monday, 4 May at 7:30 pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square to consider ‘Service Centre M2 Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1865.’
What changes?McElhanney Consulting Services Ltd. has submitted an application asking Council to change zoning on a parcel of land — the intended home of Inland Industrial Supply Ltd. — from M2-A Service Centre Commercial Zone to M2 Service Centre General Zone. Council is considering ‘M2 Service Centre Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1865’, and is seeking your input.
Where is it?
PUBLIC HEARING MAY 4, 2015Service Centre M2 Zoning
Amendment Bylaw No. 1865
When can I speak? Anyone wishing to comment on this issue may provide written comment to Mayor & Council c/o 270 City Centre, V8C 2H7; fax 250-632-4995; or email [email protected]. Comments regarding this proposed zoning change must be received before 8:30 am on Thursday, April 30, 2015 to be included in the report to Mayor & Council. Submissions received by email after this deadline but before 4:30 pm on Monday, May 4, 2015 will be read aloud at the Public Hearing. You may also speak in person, or deliver written comment, at the Public Hearing on Monday, May 4, 2015, 7:30 pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square.
Need more info?The bylaw, Council resolution(s), staff report(s), submitted application, and other background material are available for review at www.kitimat.ca/pn and at the District of Kitimat Reception Desk, 270 City Centre. Reception is open8:30 am-noon and 1:00-4:30 pm, Monday to Friday, excluding holidays. Further inquiries should be directed to Community Planning & Development at 250-632-8900.
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A logging truck lost control and hit the ditch on Hwy 16 last week, causing the highway to be shut down when its load of logs spilled across the lanes.
Terrace RCMP were called to the scene 42 km east of Terrace on Hwy 16, commonly known as the rock slide, shortly before 8 a.m.
The loaded log-ging truck was trav-elling westbound when it lost control, went into the on-coming lane, then hit the left ditch, flipping over onto its top side, said police.
“Road con-ditions were dry, weather was clear. Driving conditions were perfect,” said Terrace RCMP Const. Angela Rabut, community policing/media rela-tions officer. “Speed is believed to be a factor.”
The driver and passenger were both ejected from the truck, but mi-raculously sustained only minor injuries.
They were both transported to Mills Memorial Hospital by BC Ambulance.
The B.C. govern-ment has killed 11 wolves in the South Selkirk Mountains and another 73 in the South Peace region in the first year of a five-year plan to protect dwindling caribou herds.
The South Selkirk program left seven to 10 wolves alive because they were not target-ing caribou, and their movements continue to be tracked. That moun-tain caribou herd is down to 14, compared to 18 last year and 46 in 2009.
The program to shoot wolves from the air was a last resort after targeted hunting and trapping of wolves proved inadequate, sometimes splitting up wolf packs and increas-ing predation of cari-bou.
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Taryn Wilton is an electrician by trade, which is appropriate because he’s electrified the community with a homage music video to the area and its abun-dant rain.
Wilton has lived in Kitimat since last August working on the Kitimat Modernization Project. He hails from Niagara in Ontario, and said he is slowly getting the hang of filmmaking, although he does have a music
degree from New Zea-land where he grew up.
He worked on the Kitimat song while in camp.
“As long as I can see the sun once in awhile I’m happy,” he said about his rela-tionship with the rain. “We got here in August and it was beautiful...then in September I think it started to rain and it didn’t seem like it stopped until about January. It was crazy.”
He recruited the efforts of some local
people, including a young woman working at the Kitimat Museum & Archives, who he said was a good sport in volunteering to be filmed.
“We just walked in there one day and said ‘hey, you want to be in a music video?’”
Wilton said he wasn’t expecting the immense popularity of the video.
“I’m definitely surprised, I didn’t ex-pect it to be that popu-lar, no,” he said.
His contract may be finishing soon at KMP, so he’s setting his sights on return-ing home for awhile and seeing his fam-ily, which includes his wife and three kids.
Taryn Wilton singing in this image from his Kitimat music video about why it rains so much here, hosted on video service Vimeo.
So, why does it rain so much?The Kitimat troubadour who
dropped beats about our commu-nity’s rain drops was asking a fair question: why does it rain so much in Kitimat?
The answer is as it is in real es-tate: location, location, location.
Now, first thing’s first, we’re not king of the rainy climate. Prince Rupert has us beat on that. But even Prince Rupert is beat by Hartley Bay, which, according to Environ-ment Canada, is the rainiest place in all of Canada.
By the numbers, Kitimat gets, on average, 1,886 mm of rain a year, or about six feet, says meteorologist Matt MacDonald.
Prince Rupert gets 3,060 mm, or about 10 feet.
Over in Hartley Bay its 4,673 mm, or about 15 feet.
“At least you guys get a little bit more sun,” said MacDonald, noting that Kitimat sees rain for 190 days a year. (“That’s pretty much one out of every two days.”)
Prince Rupert sees rain 235 days a year.
But, why does it rain so much?The cheat answer is the Pacific
Ocean, or at least how its moisture hits the ground.
“The Pacific Ocean is such a source of humidity that any storm coming off the ocean is pack-ing quite a bit of humidity. The surrounding topography of Kiti-mat helps increase those rainfall amounts,” said MacDonald.
Basically, the air mass moves up the Douglas Channel, forcing that moisture in to a smaller space, which squeezes out the rain. Then when the air hits the mountains even more water gets wringed out of the air.
It’s a similar story for most any community at the head of an inlet, he added.
“Without a doubt it’s definitely a rainy place to live,” added Mac-Donald.
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Is there anyone who does not honestly acknowledge the futility of war? At least from the perspective of a young conscripted soldier, plucked from their peaceful life, whether sin-gle, or raising a family, to be “handed a tin hat and given a gun” and sent away to a foreign land, to engage in combat in a war he doesn’t understand?
Innocent people and civilians have always paid the ultimate price for what is generally started as politi-cal posturing.
Why am I on this ghoulish sub-ject? Last night, I listened to half-a-dozen different versions of one of the most powerful anti-war songs ever written, “And the Band played Walt-ing Mathilda,” penned by Scottish-born folk singer and song writer, Eric Bogle in 1971. It recounts the bloody experience of a young Aussie “swag-man” turned soldier, who is horribly maimed at the Battle of Gallipoli in the First World War. I � rst heard the song about 30 years ago, about 70 years after Gallipolli.
If you’ve heard it you know well just why it stuck with me.
Allied forces landed on the Galli-poli peninsula in western Turkey, then part of the Ottoman Empire, in April, 1915.
Services took place this past weekend to mark the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign, one of the bloodi-est and most senseless campaigns of the First World War.
The allied objective was to march inland and capture the capital, Con-stantinople (now Istanbul) in order to force the Ottomans, who were � ghting alongside the Germans, out of the war.
The BBC on Thursday reported Prince Charles and Prince Harry were among those attending services near the site of the carnage on the Turk-ish peninsula, as well as the leaders of Australia, New Zealand and Tur-
key. About 141,000 people died in the campaign, including 10,000 Aus-tralian and New Zealand Army Corps (Anzac) soldiers.
As well as 55,000 Allied troops, an estimated 86,000 Turkish soldiers were killed at Gallipoli.
The invasion failed spectacularly, with the allied forces never able to advance more than a few kilometres inland before a bloody stalemate ensued which lasted until the troops evacuated the peninsula eight months later in January, 1916.
Gallipoli was the � rst campaign that led to major casualties for Aus-tralian and New Zealand forces during the war.
Eric Bogle’s powerful song is so well worth a listen on YouTube, par-ticularly the versions by John McDer-mott, Liam Clancy and Joan Baez.
It is a haunting and frustrating that could apply to any war from the Ro-man campaigns to Vietnam, Second World War and today’s ongoing Is-lamic depredations in the Middle East and Africa.
Continued on page 6
The world remains affected by war
NicetiesIt’s one of those weeks where I look back at what
I’ve done and seen and scratch my head over what needs to be said this time.
Not that there aren’t issues, but I strive to con-nect to local issues, emphasis local, and in today’s paper most of the things are way too happy.
Page one, a local woman tires of seeing the trash along the highway so does something about it and organizes a ‘Trash Mob’ to tidy it up a little bit.
Such a great plan, and a real example of how any one can make a difference: � nd a task and set to it.
Page three, a man (and by the way, both him and the woman who cleaned up the highway are not life-long Kitimatians, seemed appropriate to mention) decides that there’s too much rain in Kitimat and de-cides to...sing about it? And what a great job. In the scale of Kitimat, the video went viral on social media and was a welcome poke to Kitimat’s climate in the best way possible.
Page 6, Nechako students perform an amazing, elaborate production of The Jungle Book.
Page 7, organizers behind the Relay for Life prepare for Kitimat’s annual tradition of fundraising for cancer research. It’s always a jovial affair and the weather even cooperates most years I’ve been here. It’s something to look forward too.
Of course there are some downsides in the paper too.
Kitimat Community Services isn’t able to con-tinue running with the public markets and have un-successfully tried to get others to take on the task.
A lot of people are talking about how sad it is to lose the market. If people out there are serious about wanting it to continue they follow the example of the clean-up crew from our front page. If you really want something to happen you need to make it happen for yourself. It’d be a great opportunity. And you’d certainly be a hero to those who enjoy the weekend markets too.
If you’ve followed my ramblings this far down you might be wondering if I’m just outright ignoring the ongoing municipal strike, and no. But we’re at an awkward point in the process at this time.
The sides met for mediation in Vancouver re-cently but the exercise appears to have been fruitless. Both the union and District say that it couldn’t bring them together on issues.
So what now?No one’s saying it but perhaps arbitration is the
next step. Bargaining directly hasn’t worked, the District with an external negotiator so far hasn’t pro-duced results, and a mediation even broke down.
Arbitration could be it. A third party to sit every-one down, and say ‘this is it.’
I can’t imagine either side being particularly happy with whatever an arbitration would bring, but at least it would end things and put people back to work. I know we’re all tired of this.
Cameron Orr
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Misleading caption(This letter is in response to a photo caption which appeared on the front page of the Northern Connector on April 17.)Dear Sir,
This is concerning the picture of Unifor members in Kitimat march-ing April 7. Your caption says they are on strike over wages and work-ing conditions.
My concern with this comment is this, anyone from Kitimat knows they are on strike for working condi-tions wages are at the bottom of the list. My concern is you are giving the people outside Kitimat the per-ception that DOK workers are whin-ing about money when the real issue is the working conditions period.
I would suspect the Sentinel
writes truths but when you lead people to presume then wrong as-sumptions are made, and your job is neither to presume or assume but to write the truth.
This is a serious issue with peo-ple having been off work for two months. I’m not a DOK or union worker nor is any of my family but I think you (the Sentinel) should do something.
I personally can’t believe a newspaper in a union based town would have printed that caption.
You could have just said they were marching and then let people presume or assume what they want, you’re just not helping matters.
Sincerely,Antonio Cordeiro
Search and Rescue kept busy in recent weeksSubmitted
On the evening of April 16, Kitimat Search and Rescue was contacted by the Kitimat RCMP and asked to locate and res-cue one lone male mountain biker on Fish-erman’s Trail, which runs along the Kitimat River.
The distressed biker’s location was determined to be in a location between the Kitimat Rod and Gun and Coho Flats. KSAR made contact with the subject via cell phone to obtain more detailed informa-tion on his location. It was dark by this time and the biker was lost, without a head lamp and not dressed for spending the night or current weather. The subject shared that he was very cold and shivering, as it had started to rain heavily, but agreed to stay
put until KSAR could be mobilized and start the search.
The biker had set out on his mountain bike from the Coho Flats trail head at ap-proximately 7 p.m. that evening without advising anyone of his plans. Two KSAR teams were dispatched on the rescue. One team headed towards the subject’s location from the Kitimat Rod and Gun, and the other team headed off from the Coho Flats Trailhead.
Many large and small trees had fallen across the trails from at least two recent weather events greatly hampered locating the subject. By midnight it had started to snow.
At about 12:30 a.m. the subject was lo-cated. Although extremely cold, the KSAR
teams reported that the mountain biker was in good condition. KSAR was able to supply him with warm dry clothing and escorted the biker back to the Coho Flats Trailhead, where he was turned over to BC Ambulance Service for assessment.
KSAR would like to add a thank you to members of the Kitimat RCMP and KFD paramedics for their support and assistance with this rescue effort.
Also, KSAR advises that Kitimat resi-dents should avoid hiking Fisherman’s Trail at this time as there has been a slide washing out the trail in one area, and an extremely large amount of trees currently obstructing the trail.
Even Coho Flats trail has some down-fall and only experienced hikers who are
familiar with the trail should be attempting to use it.
Earlier in the week late in the evening of April 12, KSAR was called in by Kiti-mat RCMP to assist with the rescue of two stranded motorists on the Wedeene River Flats area.
Two males, in their late teens, were traveling the back roads by motor vehicle in early spring conditions.
The SUV they were in had become high centered on a very narrow, overgrown, and decommissioned road. Two KSAR members were dispatched and they were able to locate the individuals after search-ing for the right access road to their posi-tion. Both males were found in good health around 2:20 a.m.
Mediation couldn’t sort out DOK-Union issues
Hope that mediation could sort out the differences between the District of Kitimat and Unifor 2300 has been dashed with both sides posting publicly that agreements couldn’t be made.
Don’t hold your breath to know what happened behind those doors dur-ing mediation though, the rules of the process forbid either side from dis-closing what took place, meaning both the District and the union are mum on the specifics.
Mediation had initially been set for May 1 due to scheduling limits from the mediator but the bargainers were told they could go to Vancouver if they wanted to start it up sooner.
“Over the past weekend negotiating parties worked very hard and spent many hours in mediation. Some progress was made; however, the sides were unable to bridge the gap between language and money,” is the only statement the District of Kitimat says they can release on the matter.
The union also revealed the failure of mediation in a letter posted via their Facebook page.
“Unfortunately it became apparent that instead of moving in a direction that would see the parties resolve the outstanding issues left at the bargaining table we were going in a direction that would see us going backwards, so on the evening of Monday, April 20, 2015 mediation came to an end,” reads the letter posted to social media.
Both sides remained silent as far as further comment when asked by the Sentinel.
Meanwhile the union did say they have an offer from Unifor 2301 in Kitimat to offer essentially one hour of pay per member per month up to two months after a contract gets resolved. 2301 does have to vote on that endorsement at their next meeting.
2300 meanwhile has also launched an online petition for people to sign which reads “In the spirit of good faith bargaining I support the Municipal workers and the District of Kitimat bargaining the outstanding items only to reach a fair Collective Agreement.” A link to the petition is on Unifor 2300’s Facebook page.
Final frontierA travelling space centre landed at Kildala Elementary on its northern tour. The event is run by the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre, and this tour is being sponsored by Chevron. These kids are checking out some 3D images before heading off to the inflatable planetarium to take in the sights of our galaxy.
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All the little bear necessitiesWait a second, do elephants laugh? The ones on the right sure did. Students from Nechako Elementary School hit the stage at the Mount Elizabeth Theatre last Wednesday night. The Nechako students performed The Jungle Book for a packed house. This performance was an entry-by-donation fundraiser for new stage curtains at Nechako Elementary.
Line painting contract extendedCameron Orr
Council has approved a two-year extension to the line painting contract for the com-munity.
Their contract with Yellow-head Line Painting Ltd. ended in 2014, which was a $37,000 a year document.
The new price is $56,000 a year for two years.
Staff’s report to council stated that due to current work-loads re-tendering the contract would have delayed painting and pushed back any work until later in the year.
Among other consider-ations staff also note that Yel-
lowhead has been the only bid-der on the contract going back to 2007.
And given the background of a labour dispute councillors did ask if this was work that had to be contracted out.
For that Technical Services Manager Wayne Sussbauer said the equipment used to paint lines is specialized and very ex-pensive, making it cheaper to go through a contract.
As for the increase of cost, he said the original contract was made � ve years ago on the year-ly average, so the signi� cant in-crease is re� ective of � ve years of cost increases since then.
Mayor Phil Germuth did question if there were ways to make paint last longer given it seems paint fades after just one year.
Despite efforts the District has not found an effective way to make longer lasting paint, said Sussbauer.
Line paint these days is re-formulated from earlier genera-tions given environmental con-cerns, but even increasing the paint thickness has not gone far in increasing the life span.
Kitimat’s weather — and snow clearing in the winter —also takes its toll on road paint, he said.
Continued from page 4Particularly jaundiced is the reference to the
legless old � ghter, many years later, sitting on his porch every year watching fewer and fewer veterans march to commemorate the sacri� ces of their comrades. He muses: “The young people ask what are they marching for, and I ask myself the same question”.
Because, despite the commemorative events Gallipolli today remains just another “forgotten war” with thousands of victims. In these past 100 years the death toll has frequently been exceed-ed, the brutality certainly enhanced from First World War sniper � ring and shelling to the later poison and mustard gas in the trenches, the Ger-man death camps of the Holocaust, the bombing of the Blitz, the atomic bombs that ended WW2
in Japan, to the � aming horror of napalm from the air and agent orange in Vietnam and even sa-rin in Syria. Find the song and listen to it and tell me how far we’ve come in the past 100 years.
Remembrance Day on November 11 to me is a lot less about marking the end of the World Wars and more a galling reminder of the count-less number of con� icts that have followed the First World War, dubbed the “war to end all wars.”
For myself, the evocative, simple haunt-ing message of “And the Band played Waltzing Mathilda,” a song I’ve probably listened to more than 100 times, transforms the impact and horror of that old war into a chilling human reminder, as the song puts it - “I never knew there were worse things than dying.”
War
Cameron OrrKitimat’s Relay
for Life is already sprinting to go-time, which is set for June 13 at 11 a.m.
One of the com-mittee’s lead organiz-ers Michel Voyer says there are a number of events planned in the lead up to the main day.
For the main day itself, the event runs from 11 a.m. with the traditional survivors’ lap and ending at 11 p.m. that night.
Voyer notes that the Kitimat Bull-O-Rama is scheduled for that same day, but not until 7 p.m. and doesn’t see any major conflicts between the two.
This year’s theme is “Carnival for the Cure” and partici-pants are encouraged to wear their best car-nival costumes for the event.
So far Voyer says there are 14 teams signed up and teams technically have un-til the end of May to sign up although he said they will likely make some space for people who can gather five people after that. Teams can be up to 15 people.
Beyond the laps there are plans for zoomba lessons and belly dancing demon-strations, along with kids activities and live music, of which they already have a few bands lined up.
Organizers this year will certainly be set on beating last year’s total which came in at around $120,000.
Voyer said the committee is good for volunteers for the planning but there is
always room for day-of volunteers.
Information on volunteering, and on team registration, can be e-mailed to [email protected].
There are early-bird draws for teams who have pre-reg-istered so be sure to sign up quickly for a chance for prizes.
In the lead up
to June 13 he said there is an open mic night planned for the PF Pizzeria and Bis-tro, and last Sunday there was a talent show held at Mount
Elizabeth Theatre which was a Relay fundraiser.
People can also go online for information at relayforlife.ca/kitimat.
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It wasn’t the first time he had heard the line, but the treasurer for the District of Kiti-mat took an opportuni-ty at last week’s coun-cil meeting to fight against a perception there are no services in town as the strike con-tinued.
Speaking on concern for town spending and tax issues, Frank Mauro said that he’s fine to pay higher taxes but expects services to be provided in exchange.
To that end he encouraged council to finally end the strike between the District and Unifor 2300.
In response, once Mauro had finished, trea-surer Steve Christiansen felt compelled to note services have not ended.
“I have to take exception to that [claim],” he said. “Yeah, we’re not cleaning up the gravel out there...we’re not issuing building permits, we’re not cleaning up some of the damage from the snow clearing, but in fact we’re still providing sewer services, you’re still getting fresh water. We haven’t ripped up the roads, sidewalks are there, we’re providing lighting. There’s drain-age and we have crews cleaning up litter, con-stantly.”
He said the town also provides firefighting services, RCMP and ambulance.
“I just can’t see where people are saying we’re not providing services.”
Resident Frank Mauro implored council to settle this contract, and atwhatever cost.
“I would like to see this contract settled and have the workforce come back to the crew with dignity and respect,” he said. “We have to increase 12 per cent? Well lets increase 12 per cent...give them what we have to give them.”
He referred to the high wages paid to se-nior administration in the District of Kitimat— bringing up comparisons of DoK administra-tors to world leaders, a document which has been shared on-line — and said if the money is there to pay staff high wages then there should be mon-ey to provide for la-bour issues. He noted his own tax bill, over three years, has in-creased $780.
Mario Feldhoff noted to Mauro that the increases may also include numer-ous other taxes that are collected by the municipality through people’s tax bills but are rates not set lo-cally.
The property tax is the only rate the District itself controls.
Feds release budget, MP says it’s an election docShaun Thomas and Jeff Nagel
While noting some positive inclu-sions, Skeena – Bulk-ley Valley MP Nathan Cullen is less than impressed with the federal budget tabled in Parliament on April 14.
“This is an elec-tion budget. The Con-servatives are trying to buy votes across the country to counter the numerous scandals they have created and the controversy with Bill C51,” he said.
“They’ve just gone through the checklist and offered something for everyone they are interested in. If they are not interested in your vote, then there is nothing here for you ... if you are wealthy this budget is for you. If you’re not wealthy, there is nothing here for you.”
While Cullen noted there are “three or four ideas the NDP
proposed included” in the budget, it’s what isn’t included that has the MP shaking his head.
“There is nothing here about the envi-ronment or climate change here and ap-parently First Nations don’t exist to this gov-ernment. That needs to change ... there is nothing to address the Coast Guard or marine protection and with the recent spill in Van-couver and the number of pipelines being pro-posed I was surprised by that,” he said.
Seniors and sav-ers are the big winners in the federal budget, while the Conserva-tive government also pledged money for transit upgrades and a new maritime centre in Vancouver to shore up votes in B.C.
The big personal finance change in the budget is an increase in the annual con-tribution limit from
$5,500 to $10,000 for Tax Free Savings Ac-counts (TFSAs) effec-tive next year.
TFSA contribu-tions don’t generate a tax deduction but the interest, stock dividends and capital gains earned within them aren’t taxed and the money can be withdrawn at any time.
The higher limit will be useful to well-off seniors who must withdraw more than they need from retire-ment accounts. They and others will be able to gradually shield more money from tax within TFSAs rather than taxable invest-ment accounts.
Critics say the change mainly ben-efits the wealthy and will threaten federal tax flows over time as more Canadian wealth is tax sheltered.
“This is so blatant-ly for the very rich,” said Lorraine Logan, president of the Coun-
cil of Senior Citizens Organizations of B.C.
She said the bud-get will appeal to wealthy retirees but is silent on the concerns of lower-income se-niors, from affordable housing to sustaining federal health trans-fers to the provinces.
A second key change will give more flexibility to retir-ees with Registered Retirement Income Funds. While RRSP contributions earn a tax deduction, se-niors later pay tax on RRIF withdrawals and there’s a minimum withdrawal rates that rise each year after age 71. The budget re-duces those minimum withdrawals modestly, allowing seniors to keep more money tax shielded in RRIFs lon-ger.
People caring for a terminally ill family member will now be able tap compassion-ate care benefits under
Employment Insur-ance for six months instead of six weeks.
The Tories also pledged to cut the small business tax rate from 11 to nine per cent by 2019 on the first $500,000 earned.
The federal budget is balanced for the first time since 2008, with a $1.4-billion surplus that will go to pay down the debt.
Home builders applauded a targeted home renovation tax credit for seniors to help them make their
homes more acces-sible. It rebates up to $1,500 out of $10,000 of spending on items like wheelchair ramps and walk-in bathtubs.
On the spending site, items for B.C. include $3 million to match provincial contributions to de-velop an International Maritime Centre in Vancouver to promote B.C. as a maritime centre and best-in-class transportation and logistics hub.
And $2 million is pledged to help the Pacific Salmon Foun-dation study survival problems of juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Salish Sea.
Part of the budget touts federal oil spill response preparedness but also commits to fund nearly $14 mil-lion in scientific re-search over five years on “the behaviour of oil in freshwater in order to contribute to the knowledge base
to effectively respond to oil spills in some of the highest risk areas in Canada.”
Cullen meanwhile thinks the impacts to the north specifically are minimal.
“In terms of im-pact in the Northwest, I think the small busi-ness tax changes are going to be benefi-cial.”
While the govern-ment has budgeted for a $1.4 billion surplus in this year’s budget, Cullen said it is one that could prove to be more costly than larger surpluses in the past.
“They have pro-jected a surplus, but essentially had to raid the cupboards and sell all the furniture to get there. That leaves Canada in a very frag-ile place going for-ward,” he said. “There is a lack of ambition in this thing. It’s an elec-tion budget that lacks vision for the country.”
“I just can’t see where people are
saying we’re not providing
services.”
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Construction could start the middle of the year to expand the Northwest Regional Airport’s main terminal building in a project worth $16.9 million, making it more comfortable for passen-gers and more efficient for airlines.
Speaking last week, airport manager Carman Hendry said he’s expecting to hear by the end of May if its application for money from a federal/provincial program called Build Canada will be accepted.
This is a program in which the province would chip in one-third or $4.5 million, the fed-eral government another one-third and the airport the remaining one-third for a total $13.715 mil-lion, he said.
That covers eligible costs Build Canada will help finance but the airport will have to pay a fur-ther figure of just under $3.2 million all by itself for other, ineligible costs, added Hendry to meet the project budget.
“Things like permits and licences and furnish-ings, those are considered non-eligible,” he said.
A newly-introduced airport improvement fee of $7 a passenger on outgoing flights will help the airport accumulate the capital it needs. “It’s a fee designated for the terminal project and when it’s done, will be taken off,” said Hendry.
Provided the news from Build Canada is good, Hendry said requests for bids will go out in quick order. “We expect that to happen within six weeks,” he said. “As soon as that, we’ll be ready to go.”
Leading up to that period, the not-for-profit airport society which runs the airport has asked the City of Terrace to either waive or consider as a donation in-kind the $133,000 it would normally charge for the expansion project’s permits and li-cences.
“It’s one of those expenses not eligible under Build Canada,” said Hendry of the request. He hopes to hear an answer from the city by the end of May, the same time as word is expected from Build Canada.
Large increases in passenger traffic beginning several years ago have put a strain on airport ser-vices.
Current planning has the expansion project
taking approximately two years.By the time construction is expected to be
complete, the terminal building will be 40 per cent larger than it is now with a more spacious holding area for departing passengers, new and larger check in and baggage drop off facilities, more room for security clearing and renovated of-fice and counter space for airlines.
The addition will be 1,534 square metres in size and the area to be renovated within the cur-rent terminal will be 1,110 square metres for a to-tal terminal building size of 4,101 square metres when construction is completed.
Hendry points to the larger departing passen-ger hold room as an example of the airport’s em-phasis on passenger comfort.
The current hold room can comfortably con-tain about 80 people but with airlines now depart-ing within minutes of each other, more space is needed.
What’s being planned is a hold room of ap-proximately 190 seats and separate departure gates for each airline.
New check in and baggage facilities will also improve the traffic flow for passengers prior to going through security, he added.
“We’re also looking at self serve [check in] kiosks,” Hendry continued.
The expansion will allow for two security clearing lines to be installed but only one will be built for the time being.
First quarter statistics show the airport han-dled 53,474 passengers on scheduled flights, a figure lower than the first quarter of 2014 total of 57,591 passengers on scheduled flights.
But the overall first quarter figure is very comparable to 2014’s first quarter when charter numbers for each time period are added in, said Hendry.
Those charter numbers are primarily flights for shift changes for companies working at Rio Tinto Alcan’s massive Kitimat aluminum smelter re-construction project.
That project is going to start winding down as the year goes on and Hendry expects a dip in over-all passenger numbers beginning in the summer.
- Terrace Standard
Airport updates this year
Public market folds up
Enbridge denies connections to embattled Senator Duffy
Cameron OrrIn what would
have been its fourth year, Kitimat’s Public Market has packed it in.
At least the usual organizers of the mar-kets, Kitimat Commu-nity Services Society, said they won’t con-tinue operating it.
They said the door is left open to anyone else who may want to keep the markets alive.
“Community Ser-vices started the market with the expectation that after a few years of building momen-tum...that a separate, independent market as-sociation would form,”
said Willow Rudiger at community services.
That information was shared with ven-dors and volunteers but few took up KCSS’ offer to help get that separate association off the ground.
“Nothing hap-pened,” she said.
The market, she said, had never reached a self-sustaining level.
“The market was always taken at a loss every year. The only funding that was really coming from the mar-ket was from vendor fees and it never really covered all the bud-getary costs through advertising, insurance
and everything,” she said. “It’s sad because it’s a very cool thing. It’s not that community services doesn’t want there to be a market.”
She said there are materials left over that any interested persons can use if they wanted to keep the torch go-ing and there is help for those who want to get involved going for-ward. She said even if not this year it could always begin again next year. She said for her it was about 10-15 hours a week work-ing on the markets, as information to those thinking about doing it themselves.
Cameron OrrA report in the National
Observer purports that com-munications between Senator Mike Duffy’s office and En-bridge had been withheld from disclosure to the federal lobby-ing commission.
The Observer uses revealed pages in Duffy’s diary which show calls between his office and company representatives.
The company however says they’ve not violated lobby-ing rules and that communica-tion between the company and Duffy was all unsolicited.
D’Arcy Levesque, En-bridge’s Vice President of Enterprise Communications, which Enbridge says has first-hand knowledge of these issues, says the allegations made by the Observer “are completely false.”
Levesque’s comments
were submitted to the Sentinel through Enbridge’s communi-cations office.
“Senator Duffy made a number of unsolicited contacts to Enbridge representatives of-fering advice regarding North-ern Gateway, as well as to rec-ommend that Enbridge consider hiring his communications col-league, Bill Rodgers,” said Levesque. “I personally inter-viewed Mr. Rodgers but elected not to retain him. At no time did Enbridge solicit Senator Duffy’s help to lobby the fed-eral government. In the interest of clarity, we also took the extra step to notify the Prime Min-ister’s Office at the time that Senator Duffy did not represent Enbridge or our interests.”
He said the company last Thursday — following the publication in the Observer — contacted the Office of the
Commissioner of Lobbying of Canada, “to provide assurances that Enbridge met all require-ments of the Lobbying Act and its regulations.”
“The nature of our lobbying communications with the Fed-eral government are governed by the provisions of the Lob-bying Act, are disclosed in ac-cordance with that Legislation, and are recorded in the public registry,” he said.
The Office of the Commis-sioner of Lobbying responded to Sentinel inquiries only say-ing, “There are many factors that determine whether a com-munication with a public office holder must be reported in the registry. The Commissioner takes all allegations seriously...The Lobbying Act stipulates that all matters must be dealt with in private, so there is no further comment.”
A 2012 file photo of Kitimat’s Public Market. As it stands the market won’t be returning this year.
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AREA SUPERVISOR – LOUISIA-NA-PACIFIC CANADA LTD - MAL-AKWA WOODLANDS DIVISION LP is seeking a highly motivated indi-vidual to supervise harvesting, road construction, road maintenance and other forestry operations in the Mal-akwa BC area. KEY RESPON-SIBILITIES: - Supervision of Con-tract Harvesting, Road Construction & Maintenance Activities. - Inspec-tions for Compliance and quality control - Review fi eld layout working with Planning Forester. - This is a fi eld oriented position; 80%+ of time will be in the fi eld. QUALIFICA-TIONS: - Driver’s License required. - Strong communication, negotia-tion, interpersonal and computer skills. EDUCATION: - Forest Tech-nician diploma or Bachelor’s degree in Forestry is preferred; Or equiva-lent combination of education and experience. EXPERIENCE: 5 + years’ forestry and supervisory ex-perience. Apply with Resume & References to:[email protected] by May 23, 2015.
Upscale Salon & Barbershopis seeking stylists for salon
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CLASSIC/COLLECTOR1971 300SEL 3.5 Mercedes Benz. 75,000km. Very good condition, always garaged, never driven in winter. Well maintained. Maintenance records, service/parts book. Manuals. Some spare parts.
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Coming EventsSeptember 1SPORTFISH ADVISORY COMMITTEE meet-ing, 7 p.m. at Kitimat Rod & Gun Club. Topics for discussion: Fish possession limits and transport-ing; and Steelhead plan. For more info call Jack Riddle 250-888-8202.OngoingHOSPICE: Do you have a couple of hours a month to make phone calls, plant flowers, share memories, play cards, etc.? Hospice can provide you with excellent training. Call us now at 250-632-2278.BRANCH 250 OF THE KITIMAT LADIES AUXILIARY hold regular meetings every second Thursday of the month. More information by call-ing Nancy at 250-632-4051, or Lyn at 250-632-2351JOIN THE FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC LI-BRARY. To do so contact Luce Gauthier at [email protected] or Virginia Charron @ [email protected] or call 250-632-8985.KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are inter-ested in joining the Kitimat Quilters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6225 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for further information.THE KITIMAT PUBLIC LIBRARY offers the highly engaging Mother Goose StoryTime for pre-schoolers Monday mornings from 10:30 -11:15 .am. Please register for this free program.HEALTHY BABIES DROP IN is held every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kiti-mat Child Development Center. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings welcome). Come meet other parents and infants over light refreshments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more information call 250-632-3144.CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE FunSpot drop-in for children aged birth to 5 years with caregivers. Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays 10
am- 12 pm. Fridays are now a combined drop-in/multicultural playgroup. All are welcome to attend. Contact 250-632-3144 for more information.KITIMAT FIBRE ARTS GUILD: Interested in knitting, spinning, weaving, or any other fibre? For more information phone Maureen 250-632-5444.KITIMAT MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS - I have M.S. but M.S. does not have me. You are not alone, male or female, and the Kitimat M.S. group would like to be here for you. Total confidentiality. For more information contact Mary at 250-639-6016.AGLOW OF KITIMAT - All are welcome at our Care Group and Bible Study for men and women, singles or married, Thursday at 7:00 p.m. For in-formation phone Brenda at 250-632-1616. PRAYER CANADA KITIMAT meets weekly on Tuesday at noon at Northwest Community Col-lege. All are welcome to pray for our town, prov-ince, and country. Contact Lesley for info at 250-632-4554.DID YOU KNOW that literacy is more than just being able to read? The Kitimat Adult Literacy Program provides FREE tutoring services for adult interested in improving their reading, writ-ing, math, communication, and information tech-nology skills. Is English NOT your first language? We provide FREE tutoring and small group Eng-lish as a Second Language (ESL) classes. For more information please call Brandi at 250-632-7393 or to see what’s happening at the Communi-ty Corner check us out at www.kitimatcommuni-tyservices.ca/KALP.html or find us on facebook. DO YOU HAVE DIABETES? Individu-al and group counseling. For more infor-mation call 250-632-8313 during operat-ing hours - Wednesdays 8:00 a.m. to noon, Thursdays 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. - or leave mes-sage on our voice mail. We are located on the second floor of the Kitimat Hospital in the Home Support offices.
The Kitimat General Hospital Foundation received a double-whammy of donations to go towards their purchase of IV Infusion Pumps for the hospital. Above, a donation of $3,000 from Knights of Columbus Christ the King Council #5148. From left to right, Julie Wakita, Marg Sanou, Corinne Scott, the Knights’ Frank Mauro, nurse Lucille Harms, and Rob Goffinet. Below, a $9,800 donation from the from Rio Tinto Alcan Donations, Sponsorships and Partnerships Program. In the photo from RTA is Gaby Poirier, General Manager, BC Operations and Patricia Scafe, External Relations Advisor.
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Sports & Leisure
MEMSS takes on RainKevin Campbell
The Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School (MEMSS) proved a worthy foe against Prince Rupert’s Charles Hayes Secondary School during a April 11-12 weekend soccer play day in their rainy coastal town.
Charles Hays’ game on the Saturday against Kitimat’s Mount Elizabeth Secondary School (MESS) proved to be their strongest yet, although late goals from the MEMSS Eagles ensured a Kitimat victory.
A late goal by the Eagles erased the strongest half the Rainmakers have played yet, and elevated MEMSS to a 2-1 win, dropping the ‘Makers re-cord to 0-2.
Ten minutes into the match, Rupert forward Charlotte Kobza broke through Kitimat’s defence, cut to the middle and launched a shot from inside
the box.The Eagles’ goalie got a piece of it, but the
ball was too high for her outstretched arms and it deflected in just under the crossbar for the Rain-makers’ first lead of the season.
That goal stood up until approximately 10 minutes later, when some nice ball control by the Eagles in Charles Hays’ zone led to furious pres-sure in Sidhu’s crease. The goalie leapt onto the ball to prevent MEMSS’ forwards from reaching it, but as Sidhu rose to her feet, the slippery ball fell from her hands, and Kitimat capitalized for the 1-1 tie at the half.
The Rainmakers didn’t give up afterwards, with a strong showing in the early part of the sec-ond half, possessing the ball for minutes at a time in Kitimat’s end, and earning six or seven corner kicks from their pressure up front.
The Kitimat Eagles in their match against the Prince Rupert Rainmakers in Prince Rupert earlier this month.
Gymnastics meetThe Spring Fling meet event hosted by the Kitimat Dynamics Gymnastics Club saw clubs from around the region descend and flip in to town for this annual event. Above is a Kitimat gymnast getting a leg up in the competition.
KUTE joins union
Quake hits off coast
The UFCW Canada Local 247 union announced last week that employees at the Kitimat reycling depot (the KUTE depot) have joined as members of the union.
“The employees at KUTE have chosen UFCW Canada 247 as their bargaining agent as they felt UFCW was the best choice to represent their needs and get them a solid contract,” said Local 247 organizer Steve McAusland in a media release.
UFCW Canada Local 247 says they will be contacting the
employer shortly to commence bargaining.
The recycling depot employs four people.
The executive board which runs the depot are still expected to all retire after the May 26 annual general meeting, which means a new board must be instated oth-erwise the depot will likely shut down without an active board, as per the Society Act.
People can e-mail [email protected]. for more in-formation about the society or to express interest.
Shaun ThomasThe earth under the North Coast region was shaking last Friday morn-
ing as a magnitude 6.1 earthquake hit south of Haida Gwaii.Natural Resources Canada reports the quake happened at 6:56 a.m., 167
kilometres south of the Village of Queen Charlotte. Although the quake was felt by some in the region, no damage was re-
ported and there was no risk of a tsunami.
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