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Stacie Reis enjoying an afternoon at Tamitik Arena, on an outing from her hospital bed at Kitimat General.

Reclaim the River group hosts first in-person meeting of its followersCameron Orr

The group seeking a solution to the Kitimat River —and how people use it for camping — held their � rst in-person meeting August 28.

The group had initially gelled on social media through Facebook and the leaders have taken the momentum to heart.

While the turnout to their meeting was low, something they attribute to the slow pace of the community through the summer, they did get the mayor and some councillors out and they’ve received past reports on the river as well to help guide their thoughts.

The group has always said it’s not seeking to outright ban people from using the riverbank, but given the ongoing question of the riverbank camping issue the grassroots team is looking to forge some sort of new understanding or arrange-ment that will lower the tension on the subject.

“We had lots of positive input,” said Maryann Ouellet, one of the group’s founders.

The river report, which was done by a person based in Terrace, covers some of the challenges of the river, in terms of what can be developed or enforced and what can’t.

“We have that [report] and we’ll have him hopefully as a guest speaker once school and everything’s returned and ev-erybody’s settled down,” said Ouellet.

She said a group goal is to regulate, in some fashion, riv-erbank camping.

The group has gathered information about the potential of expanding camping in the area, putting proper sites in the area of the Giant Spruce, with the goal of putting people a short distance from the river rather than having them camping directly on it.

“We would like to make sure it’s more regulated, give an-other variety of camping areas for people who want to come here and make sure things are being monitored more care-fully,” she said.

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Stacie Reis is lifted by love and supportCameron Orr

From the bottom of a 50 foot embankment the trees looked aw-fully high.

Stacie Reis found herself con-torted, her driver’s seat to her right, the cup holder above her, and her windshield smashed.

She estimates now that she was unconscious for no more than 30 minutes, but it was the start of a 14 hour period trapped in her car. She remained certain that she’d be found when daylight broke.

From what she remembers right before the accident that sent her Ford Escape over the edge of the highway between New Hazelton and Terrace, was a stop for an ice cream cone. Forever an optimist, she remembers it being delicious.

Her story has captured the atten-tion of the world over, from major media outlets in British Columbia to worldwide Internet outlets like Buzzfeed.

She laughs when asked how she expected to have been made famous in her life.

“I don’t think I ever thought I was going to be famous. It’s pretty funny,” she said.

Her skills as a nurse — which she does for a living in Prince George — played a heavy hand in to how she got through that night in early July.

She saw her legs twisted in the wrong directions and straightened them out.

“I just prayed for 15 minutes or so, I was like ‘I need some extra strength,’ and then I picked them up and moved the one and then I picked the other one and moved it.”

She was in pain overall, but with the revelation of the extent of the number of broken bones she had, she says she wasn’t in nearly as much pain as she would expect under the conditions.

The pain was nothing to the re-lief she felt in the morning when, some time after sunrise, she heard her name being called.

A group of her friends from her church in Kitimat had found her. There were scores of other friends and family members elsewhere on the highway scouring for signs of her. Some people had gone out the moment they knew she was miss-ing and spent the night in their cars searching while Stacie awaited in hers.

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“I just prayed for 15 minutes or so, I was

like ‘I need some extra strength.’”

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Police Beat

Online posts cause headaches for allAugust 25A complaint from

a member of the public to the RCMP said that they had read, through social media, that someone was plan-ning on assaulting two people, believing them to be causing a major-ity of recent crimes in

the community. Police said the complainant had advised members of the families of these people in advance. The person who made the post was spoken to by officers and told that this type of behav-iour is not acceptable and that threatening

people, and identify-ing them by name in crimes they have not been charged with on social media, can spi-ral out of control. The subject person was apologetic and took down the post.

That same day, police were called on

a report that several people were loading firearms in to a vehi-cle. The complainant was a person identified through the social me-dia post referred to in the earlier file, and so feared for their safety. RCMP arrived and spoke to all parties

and determined the firearms were merely paintball guns, “and this had nothing to do with the previous threats file.” Police also report that the complainant “admitted to possibly embellish-ing their story as they were still ‘jacked up’”

from being named in the social media post.

August 30Police were called

on a file that a piece of heavy machinery was being stolen from a business in the Ser-vice Centre. Police were told the machine was being driven on

Haisla Boulevard to-ward town. A suspect was identified by the complainant and the person arrested, and subsequently released with a court date in October. The ma-chine was reclaimed and driven back to the compound.

Case not fully closed on wildlife offenceCameron Orr

The Kitimat fishing guide operator accused in a cruelty to animal charge will return to court in October after his court appearance was adjourned last week.

Andreas Handl, who runs Kingfish Westcoast Adventures, was charged with one count under the criminal code and three under the Wildlife Act.

Handl was the guide on the fish-ing trip in question, along with his cli-ent, Rodolfo Lopes, who has since pled guilty to offences in Terrace court.

According to the Canadian Press re-port by Robin Rowland, Lopes had tried to pull the deer on to the boat on the

Douglas Channel, where there were four other people, using a jig or gaff.

The deer managed to escape on its own.

After pleading guilty on September 2, Lopes was ordered to pay a $1 fine to the court, but also ordered to give $5,000 to the Heritage Conservation Trust Fund for conservation efforts in the Kitimat area.

Lopes pleaded guilty to one Wild-life Act charge — herding or harassing wildlife with the use of a motor vehicle — and the court offered a stay of pro-ceedings on other charges, including hunting or harming and animal while it is

swimming. The court also offered a stay of proceedings for the Criminal Code charge of causing unnecessary pain to an animal.

Lopes is from Portugal and was reported in the Canadian Press to have been a supervisor of a sub-contractor on the Rio Tinto Alcan modernization proj-ect.

Lopes has since returned home and was represented by his lawyer in Ter-race.

When this story was first reported, Handl told the Northern Sentinel he was advised by his lawyer not to make any public comments.


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Kitimat’s effec-tively gone back to the 1960s. That is to say, its roads are pretty groovy right now.

Ongoing road sur-face work around City Centre and at the Kul-do/Haisla Boulevard intersection has meant delays for motorists working their way around town.

This is also coin-ciding with deck weld-

ing taking place on Haisla Bridge which was expected to be completed last week.

There may be an-other week or so of the work to be expected in Kitimat.

Director of Engi-neering Tim Gleig says the paving of the roads is weather dependent but estimated approxi-mately 10 more days, as of September 3.

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For the first time on a B.C. pub-lic post-secondary campus, work camp-style housing will be used, at Terrace’s Northwest Commu-nity College campus.

“This new facili-ty will not only serve to begin meeting the demand for student housing, it will also play an important role linking students registered in trades to a living scenario that closely emulates the style of remote work camps serving large scale projects,” said NWCC presi-dent Ken Burt.

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Heavy machinery at work on Haisla Boulevard which is undergoing a lot of road re-surfacing, both around City Centre and further down the road at the Kuldo and Haisla Boulevard intersection.

Roadwork means more hold ups

Golf club gets their 60KThe Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club

has been given a $60,000 advance from Kitimat Council.

Councillors voted unanimously in favour of a motion to release a $60,000 advance to the club “on an agreement in principle that [the golf club] continues to operate the Club’s operations and that the District acquires surplus lands sur-rounding the golf course.”

Since last November there’s been discussion about the town acquiring lands in the Whitesail area that belong to the golf course, which tied in to discussion of monies for the club from the town.

In February the golf club asked for $162,000 in financial aid.

Debate about that whole amount hasn’t tak-en place and will be included in the 2015 year end financial and operations report to council, staff say.

Discussions at the staff level about the town acquiring the lands are continuing to take place.

Mario Feldhoff noted in the debate to provide the $60,000 that an earlier presentation from the golf course observed that there were immediate

spending needs on curling rink equipment to get that portion of the operations going this year.

Those costs in theory, said Feldhoff, could use up the entire $60,000.

He said he hopes to hear more about those needs, if they are time sensitive issues, in the coming weeks.

In an August presentation to council, club President Robin Lapointe pointed to a number of items the club will have to pay for in the com-ing months.

The immense snow dump in February crushed their driving range cover and they’ll need to replace that.

A technician’s report on the curling rink’s condenser revealed it would have to be raised, which is estimated to cost $30,000.

Another $30,000 is estimated to replace the dehumidifier in the curling rink as well.

The cost for the driving range cover is esti-mated at $40,000, but that is a temporary bud-get, and may be reduced once the board finds out how much industrial donation will fit in to it. He said the steel has already been donated, but costs such as equipment are so far unknown.

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Have you heard? There’s a huge refugee crisis going on in Europe and the Middle East.

And it has suddenly become the hottest issue worldwide as liter-ally hundreds of thousands of des-perate people are trying to make themselves prominent in a bitter scenario that has seen as many as 4,000 people already lose their lives trying to cross the Mediterranean to various European countries, such asItaly or Greece.

There’s also a federal election go-ing on in Canada.

I know we’ve all heard about that and equally suddenly it has be-come an urgent humanitarian hot button issue for candidates fromcoast to coast.

For Canadians, this is probably the worst possible time for just such a refugee crisis involving so many men, women and children � eeing war-torn Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and a half dozen ISIS or Al Queda dominated African countries. (As many as four million migrants may already be en route or at least on the move, with the number of displaced people who have

been affected often placed at an esti-mated nine million people.)

Why has it become a distraction in the election?

Because it opens the door for leaders of our three major parties, who have an opportunity to govern one of the world’s largest and possibly the most under-populated countries in the world, to enter into a bidding war for migrants numbers to meet humanitar-ian needs.

I’ve been watching this crisis es-calate for some months and watching also as the hyperbole and the politi-cally-correct chatter escalate equally as quickly on TV, newspapers and social media and to an even more im-portant extent, in the real world of the United Nations and European Union politics, it has developed into one of the biggest political headaches since

the end of World War II. The image of the limp drowned

body of an innocent four-year-old boy being gently lifted from the surf of a beach in Turkey has resonated across our country and around the world cre-ating different natural human reac-tions.

A day later, the Canadian connec-tion is revealed when we � nd that the father of the high pro� le four- year old was the only one of his Syrian family to survive a sinking at sea and that the family was eventually headed for British Columbia, where other members of his family were trying to of� cially sponsor the family through Canadian channels.

But the applicants lacked required documentation and there’s confusion which part of the large family the ap-plications were for.

On the news is the reaction of potential prime ministers in Canada. And yes, the public is certainly be-ing asked to choose (with their votes) what number of refugees Canada could or should take in to help stem the tide.

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Pragmatism over emotional appeal

Path aheadIt’s true, matters of pipelines, First Nations and

rights and title are complicated ones.The ongoing issue of a portion of Unist’ot’en

members, themselves under the wider umbrella of Wet’suwet’en nations, has been a long-running is-sue in the north, with the members actively keeping out people working on natural gas pipelines, both for projects that would supply LNG Canada and Kitimat LNG in Kitimat.

Wet’suwet’en chiefs issued a press release the other week which in part took aim at the media for, to interpret the message, dumbing down the issue.

Namely the media, of which admittedly the Sen-tinel is a part, has at times presented the issue as a Unis’tot’en issue versus the rest of them.

But it’s a group of people within that group that are the activists in this case.

Long story short, news people are brushing the First Nations in question with a single brush.

They have a good point in that regard. We wouldn’t look at the Stanley Cup rioters and think “Canadians are certainly an aggressive bunch.”

On that point it’s a good reminder to all of us who present the news that as hard as we try there’s always room for improvement, and room to learn too on just how their systems work.

Pushing ahead though, the press release from the chiefs as I mentioned goes further than just media criticizing. It talks about the complexity of the entire issue of pipeline development.

They note that sustainability may mean some-thing entirely different to people in the north than it does for people in the south of the province, where people have signed a petition called “We Stand with the Unist’ot’en.”

It’s a question of supporting their people “that are anxious to climb out of poverty and � nd mean-ingful opportunity,” said Chief Rene Skin of the Skin Tyee Nation.

Ultimately it’s an issue that “needs to be resolved by the Wet’suwet’en people” added Skin.

Their news release ends with a call that the path forward is through collaboration and balancing en-vironmental protection with economic opportunity.

You can’t argue with that. On one side you may have people adamant about protecting the environ-ment, but on the other you � nd the need for jobs.

The middle ground exists, and I doubt there are many people who disagree that a resolution can be had to bring the two perspectives together.

Making an informed decision comes with under-standing the facts and issues. We all have two ears don’t we, one for each side of the story?

The news release from the Wet’suwet’en chiefs talks about First Nations’ paths, but it’s a reasonable approach that can certainly apply to everyone no matter their heritage.

Cameron Orr

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When I was � rst elected to Haisla Na-tion Council, I was generally opposed to industry. It didn’t take long before I was confronted with the harsh reality of what our communities have been facing — poverty, suicides, and the hope-lessness.

Government hand-outs from Ottawa were not helping our people. There had to be a bet-ter way, and we had to help ourselves.

We had to � nd a way to dig ourselves out of grinding pov-erty. A gas company came knocking at our door in 2004 with an opportunity that we saw as something new that just might make a difference to the fami-lies in my community.

We could get our people off welfare and into good-paying jobs.

It was a risk, and I was as big a skeptic as there was but I also knew it was something we had a duty to consider.

We have studied the LNG industry and its proposals for the last ten years. We have seen that natural gas is the cleanest of all fossil fuels, and that it can improve the global environment by off-setting dirtier fuels in Asia — after breath-ing the air in Beijing, Seoul and Tokyo I can appreciate the desire of those countries for cleaner energy.

This last decade of careful research has convinced our com-munity of the strin-

gent environmental safeguards that are in place, as well as the safety and environ-mental records of natu-ral gas pipelines and LNG transportation.

We have also made some important gains. During the preparation activities anybody in Kitamaat Village who wanted to work was hired. This is a posi-tive step, but believe me, there is much more work to be done. That’s because most of the jobs that are avail-able consist of short-term labour or service jobs connected to near-by construction camps.

For us to be truly successful, we need to

see our people among the � rst in line for the permanent skilled jobs — pipe� tters, electri-cians, millwrights — that will come if LNG projects move ahead.

In Kitimat’s boom and bust economy, that will be the only way for us to make good on the promises we’ve been making to our youth – that if they get an education, they will get good jobs and build ful� lling careers.

Doing this is not easy. It means nego-tiating with govern-ments and major mul-tinational corporations on everything from en-vironmental protection to economic bene� ts.

On this, First Na-tions across B.C. have taken different ap-proaches. One that I have been watching re-cently is the Squamish Nation, which con-

ducted its own environ-mental assessment on a proposal by Wood� bre LNG to build a modest sized export terminal near Squamish.

Squamish has yet to make a � nal deci-sion on that project, but it has already issued 25 tough conditions that would hold the project to account in key areas of environmental and cultural protection.

If Wood� bre LNG does goes ahead, these conditions will make for a better project, and I think embody the kind of creative thinking we all need if we are to strike that key balance between economic bene� ts and stringent environmen-tal protections.

Other nations are also � nding that bal-ance, like those in-volved in the Paci� c Trail Pipeline (PTP)

from Summit Lake to Kitimat, where an un-precedented 16 First Nations – all of the nations along the pro-posed route – have joined a First Nations Limited Partnership to support the project.

Other Nations have concerns about the impacts of fracking or pipelines or LNG carriers. I understand these concerns and I believe every First Nation must satisfy themselves about en-vironmental and safety considerations before they turn to the eco-nomic bene� ts that can come their way.

We have done this work, and are keen to share it with those Nations which do not have the bene� t of our ten years of experi-ence.

As I discovered more than a decade

ago, we have a duty to take these opportuni-ties seriously. We must look at them carefully to understand if the bene� ts can outweigh the risks.

Because services like healthcare, high-ways, water and sewer – ones enjoyed by First Nations and non-First Nations alike – come with a price tag. With-out reliable revenues, cutbacks are inevi-table.

I began this jour-ney as an opponent, but today I am � rm in my conviction that we must work together to ensure these projects proceed while also protecting the environ-ment. Too much is at stake.

Ellis Ross is Chief Councilor of the Hais-la Nation and Chair of the Aboriginal Invest-

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Letters to the Editor

Losing tree a great lossDear Sir,

Kitimat Christmas Tree is gone! This Sacred Symbol of Christmas that is celebrated by all the Christians of the globe and here, is no more.

The decades long efforts of Mr. Walter Bors, his business and his Gyro Club that lit it up every year to keep the Christmas Spirit in this community, now by simple act of the chain saw vanished.

As a Christian I am hurt and sad.

While we Canadians appear to

respectfully attend to preserve of every multicultural group’s spiri-tual, religious and cultural symbol, here we commit, in my opinion, a cultural blunder.

I am sure that there was enough time available to make bet-ter solution yet those in administra-tion representing this community failed us again.

I wonder what Mr. Walter Bors would have to say. May he rest in peace.

Sincerely,Leon Dumstrey-Soos

Continued from page 4Trying in any way to minimize the

impact of these recent events is a waste of time.

What we are seeing is European governments reacting in different ways. Germany has said it is prepared to take up to 800,000 refugees if they can get to Germany. Hungary is one country that at-tempted to put the plug back in the bottle and is insisting on European Union coun-tries’ existing rules for migrants. Violent demonstrations have accompanied the Hungarians’ hard stance.

In Canada, as the personal element of the dead child’s family in Canada, politi-cians like Tom Mulcair, almost in tears, demands Canada admit 10,000 Syrian ref-ugees immediately. Justin Trudeau upped the ante by offered a “bid” of 25,000 im-mediately.

Stephen Harper, on a campaign stop in British Columbia, tried to introduce

better perspective, stating what Canada has done in terms of accepting two and a half million in its refugees programs while continuing signi� cant needed hu-manitarian aid, He pointed to the Moslem jihadi ISIS attacks in Iraq and Syria and Canada’s continuing role in military op-position, and squarely placed the blame on that growing crescendo of violence on ISIS.

“We are doing every-thing we can and we will do more of everything. We have to do more and will continue to do more but what we must continue to do also is more to get to the root causes of the endless wave of migrants...the continuing violence in that region,” Harper said, exactly at the same time as I write this for deadline.

Canada has � nite re-

sources for refugee immigration. Perhaps a loosening in restrictions is called for but to my mind what cannot be allowed to happen is the emotion of this current crisis to create a situation where these migrants are permitted to jump the long queue of applicants wishing to seek ref-uge in Canada with their own families who have been working for years, legally and through the existing system.

Horrible? Yes. Heart wrenching, cer-tainly. But heartless, or the fault of the government of Canada? No. Simply a sensible, pragmatic reaction that there’s a process to be followed, thousands are already patiently doing that. This current wave is noisily, often tragically drawing more attention to themselves but cannot be allowed preference over others who have waited patiently and legally.

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limited themselves to just that section of town though.

They’ve added to their scope a look at Radley Park erosion, with the hope of work being done to curb fu-ture loss of the camp-ground, and they’re also adding to their workload a look at the ways to make Hirsch Creek Campground bigger and a more vi-able camping solution, said Ouellet.

“It’s quite a huge project,” she admits. “We’re now going to be working on a brochure for Reclaiming the River and what we’re about and hopefully get people onboard that will help participate in doing a lot of this stuff with us.”

The primary group members, she said, is herself, Liz MacDon-ald, and Dan Carter.

Having council members at the meet-ing was also impor-tant because she says they’re not trying to duplicate government work or overstep.

“We’re not there to step on toes or overstep our boundaries,” she said.

For future meet-ings the group hopes to have Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Rio Tinto Alcan and Haisla input.

“With the amount of work that’s sup-posed to come in to this community it would be nice to see the province even step up and invest some of that money in to here,” added Ouellet.

There’s no im-mediate schedule for the group’s next meet-ing but you can follow them on their Facebook page at facebook.com/reclaimtheriver.

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With communicable diseases such as whooping cough, mumps and measles making a comeback, Provincial Health Officer Dr. Per-ry Kendall is reminding parents to make sure their children’s vac-cines are up to date as they return to school.

And Kendall has added his voice to that of the Canadian Medi-cal Association, calling for manda-tory declaration of vaccination when children enrol at school, as is done in Ontario and New Brunswick.

The CMA voted at its annual meeting in late August for other provinces to follow suit, requiring

immunization records but allowing exemptions for medical or religious reasons.

Doctors also called for develop-ment of a national database to pull together records from schools and offices.

“By the time a child reach-es five or six years old, he or

she should have received boost-er shots ... and kids in Grade 6 and 9 should receive follow-up vaccinations.”

“This is all part of B.C.’s free, routine immunization program.”

Kendall emphasized that vac-cinations themselves would not be mandatory.

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A trailer came too close for comfort to the Kitimat River after waters rose. Chelsea Mejaski

Trailer avoids a watery fateCameron Orr

A husband and wife did their good deed by pulling away a trailer on the Kitimat River which was coming uncomfortably close to the rising edge of the water.

Heavy rains saw the Kitimat River rise no-tably last week, but one unattended trailer was at risk of being washed away until Chelsea Me-jaski and her husband saw the danger and acted.

“We noticed the water was pretty high so we took a drive down there,” said Mejaski. “We’d seen that trailer there all summer long and when we went down [that day] the water was just coming to the tires.”

She said other people at the river had said the water had been even higher earlier.

As regular anglers on the river, she said she and her husband had not seen people at the trail-er in months.

“I didn’t know where we should leave it so I called the cops and they said just pull it out higher,” she said, adding that soon after she re-

Somebody wants to know what local residents think of an oil re� n-ery and of the prospects of export-ing re� ned products.

Telephone polling to that effect took place in Kitimat and in Terrace Aug. 31, says the company hired to do the work.

“It was done in Terrace and Kitimat on the 31st, from the late afternoon to the early evening,” said Mike Witherly from Rushbrooke Communications which is based in Vancouver.

Witherly would not disclose who hired Rushbrooke or the rea-son behind the polling or why it was con� ned to the Terrace-Kitimat area.

But he did say the questions concerned the acceptance of an oil re� nery and of the export of re� ned fuels instead of raw crude oil.

Other questions centered around job creation and the impact a re� nery would have on the econ-omy.

The questions were posed by a recorded voice, asking the person who answered the phone to regis-ter their range of agreement or dis-agreement by using a number but-ton on their phone.

“They're good in the sense you can reach a lot of people,” said With-erly of the automated system known as interactive voice response.

The fewer and more succinct the questions are, the more answers are received, he said.

Of the two oil re� neries being contemplated for the area, one is at Kitimat and the other near Prince Rupert.

Kitimat Clean Energy president David Black, who also owns Black Press, the owner of the Northern Sentinel and other northwestern B.C. newspapers, said he did not commission the poll.

Black instead pointed to previ-ous poll results posted on the Kiti-mat Clean website.

Those polls, now several years old, indicate the “majority of B.C. residents agree that BC and Canada should add value to natural resourc-es before exporting (86%), that it is better to re� ne bitumen within B.C. rather than offshore (76%), and agree with diversifying exports to � nd markets beyond the United States for Canada’s petroleum prod-ucts (70%).”

Comments from Paci� c Future Energy, the Vancouver-based com-pany with plans for a re� nery near Prince Rupert, were not immedi-ately available.

Both projects would export re-� ned oil products to Asian custom-ers and both would cost billions as well as need pipelines carrying crude oil from Alberta.

Refinery opinions sought

Janet Holder has died

ceived a message from the owner. Mejaski had posted the photo on Facebook.

“So we just ended up towing it right to her house for her,” she said. “I � sh the river all the time so I’d hate to see it � oating down the river and polluting it and someone losing their trailer.”

She said the owner was very happy for them to have towed out the trailer.

Janet Holder, who was a lead executive for the Northern Gateway Pipelines project, has died.

Holder was the executive vice president for Western Access for the pipeline project until her retirement last November.

A letter issued to members of Enbridge’s Community Advisory Board last week announced the

news, saying Holder had passed away from complications relating to her battle with Leukemia.

The letter, signed by Gateway President John Carruthers, said that her passing, after months � ghting cancer, was not unexpected but “it still brings great sadness to all those of us who had the pleasure of work-ing with her at Northern Gateway.” Janet Holder


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Ross supports Wet’suwet’en chiefsCameron Orr

Wet’suwet’en First Nations chiefs are speak-ing out against the ongoing conflict between a fac-tion of the Unist’ot’en group and the developer of a natural gas pipeline, calling out the media as well for not recognizing the complexity of this is-sue.

Namely, media reports referring to the Unist’ot’en activist group has portrayed them as speaking for the whole nation, says the group of four Wet’suwet’en chiefs.

There has long been a blockade by members of Unis’tot’en near Houston which had prevented field work being done by the Coastal GasLink pipeline, which is the pipeline that would supply LNG Canada in Kitimat with its gas.

Speaking against the recent media coverage, four Wet’suwet’en chiefs clarify their support for natural gas development.

“We have long believed it is short sighted to turn down projects such as the Coastal GasLink project before understanding the true risks and benefits. That is just an easy way to avoid dealing with complex issues,” says Wet’suwet’en Chief Karen Ogen, spokesperson for the four Chiefs and for the First Nations LNG Alliance, a group of First Nations that support LNG development in British Columbia.

Burns Lake Band Chief Dan George adds that the support for responsible resource development is “a way to bring First Nations out of poverty and bring opportunities for our young people.”

Nee Tahi Buhn Chief Ray Morris also says that there is the opportunity now to bring the First Nations leaders together.

“We are urging all Wet’suwet’en leaders...to meet as soon as possible to discuss a path for-ward. We as leaders are responsible for the collec-

tive well-being of Wet’suwet’en people. We have an obligation to work together in our collective interest to represent our people.”

Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross responded in support to the Wet’suwet’en chiefs’ statements.

Referring to Aboriginal rights and title, he said it’s only a tool “to get to a better place. It is not the solution. For anything to happen, poli-tics, economics and caselaw have to be working towards the same goal together; not in isolation,” he wrote.

“The Haisla Nation supports the elected Wet’suwet’en leaders in their efforts to resolve the concerns of the Unist’ot’en and allow work on the Coastal GasLink and Pacific Trail Pipeline to proceed, as the First Nations communities along both pipelines have agreed.”

Meanwhile the Unist’ot’en activist group have recently begun fearing an imminent RCMP raid of their blockades, although the RCMP and the members have recently had meetings where police have assured there’s no plan for raids.

In conjunction with the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs, the camp last week issued a press release claiming members of its camp were preparing for a “large-scale RCMP mass arrest operation”.

Camp spokesperson Freda Huson told Black Press that a police source had leaked information about a possible operation.

Huson said a perceived increase in the police presence in Smithers and Houston was another reason members of the clan suspected the RCMP was planning a raid.

The B.C. Civil Liberties Association also wrote to the RCMP yesterday to warn against raiding the camp based on information from camp members.

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Office space planned for downtownCameron Orr

A planned one-storey of-fice building in the empty lot next to the veterinary office is expected to be built start-ing this year.

The developer received a development permit last year but changes to the design meant the application had to be re-approved by council.

Council has, as per their process, referred the new development permit application to the Advi-sory Planning Commission

for input.The lot would add a new

structure to Wakashan Bou-levard, opposite the library.

The discussion at council did spark conversation about the Wakashan corridor as a whole, and the plans for its future development.

Namely the future of pedestrian traffic was an is-sue brought up by council-lor Larry Walker, noting the challenges of pedestrian ac-cess to the post office and the parking lot at Envision.

“There’s no way for pe-destrian traffic that I can see that they can actually service those businesses,” said Walk-er, asking if there’s been thought to install a sidewalk on that side of the road.

Director of Engineering Tim Gleig said there have been a number of plans for Wakashan including walk-way and sidewalk develop-ments, including a cross-walk to tie the walkwaynext to the post office to a crosswalk.

“Whether that’s what will end up depends on other developments,” he said.

There are also decisions such as whether if there will be roadside parking spaces as well.

Director of Commu-nity Planning and Devel-opment said the staff has had plans for Wakashan to present for some time but such discussions are part of capital budget planningand a plan would depend on budget approval.

A planned office space for Wakashan Boulevard would occupy the vacant land next to the veterinary office. Graphic from development permit application

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The new school year in B.C. is the start of a three-year transition to a new curricu-lum that Education Minister Mike Bernier says will emphasize "hands-on" learning.

The new curriculum is being phased in this year for Kindergarten to Grade 9, with higher grades still in development. Bernier said this year it will be up to local school districts and teachers to begin implementing it before it becomes mandatory in 2015-16.

Bernier, the Peace River South MLA appointed education minister this summer, said he's heard from teachers who are look-ing forward to a curriculum that allows more flexibility and individual learning. He

stressed that basic skills of reading, writing and arithmetic will remain, but students will also be taught life skills, communication, collaboration and critical thinking.

Two areas of emphasis for the new cur-riculum are environmental education and an aboriginal perspective, which Bernier said will be present in "every single component in the curriculum."

Local schools are encouraged to work with aboriginal communities across the province to represent the full diversity of aboriginal experience, he said.

Hands-on learning is already in place in schools, and Bernier used the example of

a shop teacher in his home town of Daw-son Creek who encouraged students at risk of dropping out to take his course. They learned mathematics and physics through taking motors apart and reassembling them, he said.

Bernier invited parents to look for themselves at grade-by-grade documents posted at curriculum.gov.bc.ca, listing learning standards and areas of emphasis.

In the science curriculum, for example, students are to be taught "big ideas" that in grade one include "observable patterns and cycles occur in the local sky and land-scape."

By Grade 8, they are to learn that "Earth and its climate have changed over geologi-cal time."

Science competencies required by grade seven include the ability to "exer-cise a healthy, informed skepticism and use scientific knowledge and findings for their own investigations to evaluate claims in secondary sources" such as media reports.

By that time they should be able to identify possible sources of error in their investigations, understand qualitative and quantitative evidence and "demonstrate an an awareness of assumptions … and bias in their own work and secondary sources."

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Continued from page 1Among the things Stacie has learned from this ordeal

is that her network of support and friendship extends far, far further than she had ever expected before.

“I wouldn’t have dreamed that I was so loved. I didn’t know,” she said.

The attention she’s receiving is apparent. Over the course of speaking to the Sentinel — which she did while in Tamitik Arena watching her niece skate — she had her nephews and mom at her side, a group of young girls stopped by to say hello, and more friends arrived at the end.

“Everyday I have at least one person come to visit me. Usually more,” she said.

Even as her mom pushed her in her wheelchair from the Kitimat hospital to the arena, Stacie says a chef at Mr Mikes called out to her and said “You don’t know me but I know you. Hi Stacie!”

“It was pretty funny, it was nice,” she said. “[The atten-

tion’s] given me and my parents a good laugh.”The support has been tangible too: friends in Prince

George opened a fundraising campaign for her and raised $17,000. Some money has already been earmarked to cov-er the expenses incurred by her parents who spent a lot of time by her side during her month-long recovery at Van-couver General Hospital.

Meanwhile she said she’s seen so much other support, including prayers and wishes from other churches through-out the Northwest.

The last weekend in August Stacie managed to arrange her first outing away from the hospital — a trip to Sun-day service at the Kitimat First Baptist Church, where her fellow congregation has been continually offering prayers and support through her recovery.

Stacie said she has a couple more months before she can start putting weight on her left foot, and she has an-other surgery expected on her right in about three months.

Doctors say it’ll be a year before she’s really up and

moving around.A return-to-work program awaits to get her back at her

job too.It’s the best possible outcome from one of the worst

possible scenarios. But from the moment she was found it’s been an upward motion.

“It was so amazing. I can’t even really describe it, how good it is to be found after so long.”

She always knew she’d be found though. That night, with the trees looming over her, she had faith.

“As far as being afraid, I really wasn’t too afraid in the night. Every once in awhile I would look out my window and I would see how tall the trees are...and I’d get a little nervous.”

She just kept calm and waited for the rescue she said she knew would be coming.

“Thankfully I was right.”It turns out the love from her family and friends is

greater than the trees are tall.

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OPEN PERIOD: Until incumbent found SALARY RANGE: Non Union Wage POSITION INFORMATION: This is a part time position for Home Care Nurse and a Part time Community Nurse, requires reporting to the Health Director and working collaboratively with the Health Care team DUTY LOCATIONS: Kitsumkalum Health Center, Kitsumkalum, Terrace B.C. KEY REQUIREMENTS

Nursing registration and membership with the College of Nurses of British Columbia (CRNBC or CLPNBC)Knowledge of First Nation(s) culture is an assetUp dated Criminal Record CheckValid B.C. driver’s license and own vehicle

JOB SUMMARY: Kitsumkalum Health Centre strives towards eliminating barriers to Health Care Services to support community members to achieve a higher standard of Health and well being through community partnerships with the Provincial Health and other Health Care service providers. Home Care/Community Health Nurse must have extensive knowledge of home/community health and be dedicated to providing exceptional care based on current best practice methods. The Position requires the ability to work autonomously with little supervision, and as a member of the Kitsumkalum Health Centre team. Provision of a comprehensive range of nursing functions and services in Kitsumkalum, in program areas of community/public health.General Duties and Responsibilities

Recognizes the importance of First Nations cultural identity, principles and protocols as part of a healthy, balanced lifestyle for individuals within a the community of KitsumkalumApplies and utilizes key nursing knowledge and critical thinking to choose options to plan, implement, and evaluate programs and interventions to address health issues, taking into account relevant evidence, legislation regulations and policiesBuilds capacity, improves performance and enhances the quality of the working environment by sharing knowledge, expertise, and experience with members of the health center teamCompetes and submits service delivery data and reports as required to First Nation Health Authority Home and Community Care ProgramAdheres to infection-control guidelines Maintains client confidentiality and ensures that all records are stored securely. Ability to maintain a professional demeanor and confidentialityParticipates in case management and family conferences as appropriateMaintains nursing skills through attendance at workshops, conferences, in-service and staff meeting, in addition to reading current literature and Best Practice GuidelinesExcellent written and interpersonal communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a variety of people and circumstancesAbility to guide, supervise, and establish realistic performance expectations for Personal Care Aide WorkerDocuments the assessments, care plans and service delivery on the clients chart update all fillies on a annual basis

ResponsibilitiesThe main role of the Home and Community Care nurse is to consistently and accurately assess clients, develop, maintain, revise care plans and liaise with physicians, pharmacy and other health care providers on behalf of the Home Care Clients.Maintaining Electronic Service Document Report Template (EsDRT), Nurse monthly reports Identifies community members requiring service from the home and community care program and enroll them into the program.The position requires meticulous statistical information keeping, regular reporting on all Home Care services and possibly supervisory duties related to the of the Personal Care aspect of the program.The position requires approximately 12 – 20 Km of weekly travel within the community.It is preferred that the Home/Community Health Nurse has previous experience in First Nations Home Care, and or Acute care.If you are seeking an independent, nursing as well as your aspirations to provide exceptional care within a supportive environment Kitsumkalum Health Center, Home/Community Health Nurse may be the position that you seek.

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Mrs. Charlene Webb, Health DirectorKitsumkalum Health Center

PO BOX 544, Terrace B.C. V8G [email protected]

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Kitimatians join bike race in Terrace Jackie Lieuwen

Kylar Highe flew into first place in the Wild Wild Descent Mountain Bike Race Aug. 23.

The site of the showdown was the two-kilometre Pack Horse Trail on Copper Mountain, and organizer Bruce Martindale said all the win-ners clocked super fast time.

Kylar made it down in 2:29, only five-seconds faster than sec-ond-place winner Nikolas Berndt at 2:34. Third went to Richard Payjack with 2:38.

“Kylar was the first one to come down the mountain at 2:29:62 and nobody beat him for the rest of the day,” said Martindale.

Seventeen riders from Kiti-

mat and Terrace showed up on the mountain to compete.

There was “lots of sunshine, and [some] rain and wind and every-thing, but it was good,” Martindale said.

The race was organized by Wild Bike and sanctioned by Ter-race Off-Road Cycling Association (TORCA).

The winning females were first Renee Froese at 2:51, second Stacey Blake at 2:52 and third Helen Purs-low 3:01.

Of the under-19 racers, first went to Brendan Barnett at 2:43, second was Marlon Quack at 2:46, and third was Kyle Anderson at 3:31.

Winners of the Wild Wild Descent mountain bike race line up with organizer Bruce Martindale. L-R is first place winner Kylar Highe, second Nik Berndt from Kitimat, and third Rich Payjack. Mark Charles

Mayor Phil Germuth signs the Kidsport Week proclamation, with Cyndi McIntosh and Shaun O’Neill.

KidSport week in KitimatCameron Orr

Mayor Phil Germuth, seen at left with Cyndi McIntosh and Shaun O’Neill, signs the procloma-tion marking September 6 to 13 as KidSport Week in Kitimat.

The designation complements the same province wide, declared by Lt. Governor Judith Guichon.

“The provincial government is pleased to pro-claim the week of Sept. 6-13 as KidSport Week in British Columbia. We believe in the many ben-efits that come from an active lifestyle and share KidsSport’s commitment to ensuring that every child in this province has the opportunity to play organized sport. By proclaiming this week, we are bringing awareness to this important cause and supporting the work of KidSport across B.C.,” said Peter Fassbender, Minister of Com-munity Sport and Cultural Development in a me-dia release.

The Director of KidSport BC said the week helps profile the importance of organized sport in children’s lives.

“We would like to help an additional 500 kids to play as a result of our efforts during KidSport Week. We also want to profile the incredible vol-unteers, corporate partners and athlete ambas-sadors that help KidSport every day,” said Pete Quevillon, Director KidSport BC.

Kitimat KidSport has run for a number of years locally, and the program seeks to provide

financial assistance for children to participate in organized sport activities to families who may have trouble enrolling their kids.

People who’d like to enroll in the program, or to donate to it, can call Shaun O’Neill at the Tamitik sports complex at 250-632-9855.

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