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S TANDARD TERRACE $ 1.34 $1.20 PLUS 14¢ HST VOL. 25 NO. 34 Wednesday, December 5, 2012 www.terracestandard.com Take a stand College students raise awareness about bullying \COMMUNITY A16 Charges laid Two teens who allegedly vandalized a power pole are officially charged \NEWS A15 Climb on Caledonia’s new climbing wall gets community boost \SPORTS A26 THERE SHOULD be a blend of public and private developments on the old Terrace Co-op site lo- cated just west of the Best Western Terrace Inn, a city task force has determined. After a year of research and meetings, the group’s recommen- dations include a hotel with res- taurant and retail space, a heritage centre, green space, a brew pub and parking. “The development of the former Co-op property will have a dramat- ic positive impact to our downtown and our community,” said Terrace’s mayor Dave Pernarowski after the recommendations were released at a Nov. 26 city council meeting. “Council will continue to take actions that ensure this happens in the shortest time frame possible.” The site once contained a thriv- ing shopping centre owned by the Terrace Co-operative Association but it closed in the late 1990s when the forest industry collapsed. Sold at first to a private devel- oper, the city bought it in 2005 and has been trying to figure out a use for the property ever since. It tore down the shopping cen- tre building a year ago, saying the chances of the property attracting developers was slim as long as the building remained. “The city should consider con- tracting an architect to provide a cohesive concept for the property,” suggested task force chair Bob Park to council while presenting recommendations. He added that local First Nations could be con- tacted about building a long house or museum. Public space would consist of a plaza or square with the remaining property sold to developers to pro- vide tax revenue to the city. There’s incentive for develop- ers through the city’s downtown improvement tax exemption which allows for improvements to build- ings and property that aren’t fac- tored in to taxable value for five years. Building a hotel is at the top of the recommendation list. “The need for more hotel rooms is evident in the community,” said the report, recommending a 100- room limited service hotel with retail and restaurant space built in. Next on the list is a heritage centre, which mentions the Ter- race’s Museum Society’s efforts to build a museum and archival space at a minimum of 3,000 square feet in the downtown. “A museum to store and display artifacts would meet the current zoning and would also comple- ment the George Little House,” read the report, which estimated 10,000 square feet of property would fit the museum’s needs. In addition to the museum, a long house or First Nations muse- um could be built either separately or jointly on the property, requiring up to 20,000 square feet. Next up, green space is recom- mended as a use for the property. “Green space would enhance the aesthetic of the property and would provide some public space,” the report reads, suggesting the city look into buying some land from CN Rail along the southern part of the property and extend the Grand Trunk Pathway. Or, extra space along the Greig Ave. side of the property could be set aside for green space as an in- viting place for pedestrians. A group of local investors want- ing to build a brew pub on the property have already signed a pur- chase option. Planned is a small brewery with food and entertainment on the northwest corner of the Co-op property near the Western Finan- cial Group and Staples. “This facility will provide some tax revenue to the city as a private business,” reads the report. Lastly, parking will be required, the report acknowledges. City talks Co-op property priorities Cont’d Page A9 MARGARET SPEIRS PHOTO Kettle kickoff MARYLIN DAVIES, city councillor, is the first volunteer to help kick off the Salvation Army Kettle Campaign, its big fundraiser, at Canadian Tire Dec. 1. That’s regional district admin- istrator Bob Marcellin making the first donation. Kettles will also be set up at Walmart, Real Canadian Wholesale Store, Save on Foods, Safeway and the BC Liquor Store. TERRACE CITY council has giv- en owners of three derelict build- ings on Little Ave. 60 days to tear them down and clean up the yards or the city will do it for them and send them the bill for the work. Two of the properties contain Second World War-era military housing and the third was once a hospital. The structures at 4520 Little Ave. owned by Sandra and Wayne Kirby, 4440 Little Ave. by Lloyd Wittkowski and 4450 Little Ave. by the estate of Bertha Vogel have been the subject of complaints and warnings by public officials of safety, health and nuisance hazards for years. The decisions reached by coun- cil Nov. 26 followed months of closed door sessions about what action to take. City officials prepared nearly 100 pages of information and pho- tos for council to consider in reach- ing the three decisions. Little Ave., a graveled section of road barely one lane wide and full of potholes, is located just east of the arena and aquatic centre and resembles more of a back lane than a city street. In the case of the Wittkowski property, city records indicate complaints going back to 1990. He didn’t acquire the property until the mid 2000s. “(There’s) a long history of is- sues on this property,” noted city official David Block. “The ground has pushed in a wall of the crawl space,” said an excerpt of one report on the struc- ture. “Some of the strong smell in there is a result of (cats) presence and indicates an unsanitary situa- tion.” No plumbing or heating is available in the building, electric- ity only services one light, stairs and landings are in poor and dan- gerous condition and the founda- tion has been affected by rot, said the report. “If fire were to spread, it would spread rapidly and potentially be life endangering,” said Block to council. “Reconstruction would not make viable sense.” After a round of letters demand- ing action from the city late this summer, Wittkowski indicated he would tear down at least part of the building by now. It still stands. Demolish derelict buildings: council Cont’d Page A12

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Page 1: Terrace Standard, December 05, 2012

STANDARDTERRACE

$1.34 $1.20 PLUS 14¢ HST

VOL. 25 NO. 34 Wednesday, December 5, 2012www.terracestandard.com

Take a standCollege students raise awareness about bullying \COMMUNITY A16

Charges laidTwo teens who allegedly vandalized a power pole are officially charged\NEWS A15

Climb on Caledonia’s new climbing wall gets community boost \SPORTS A26

TheRe ShoulD be a blend of public and private developments on the old Terrace Co-op site lo-cated just west of the Best Western Terrace Inn, a city task force has determined.

After a year of research and meetings, the group’s recommen-dations include a hotel with res-taurant and retail space, a heritage centre, green space, a brew pub and parking.

“The development of the former Co-op property will have a dramat-ic positive impact to our downtown and our community,” said Terrace’s mayor Dave Pernarowski after the recommendations were released at a Nov. 26 city council meeting.

“Council will continue to take actions that ensure this happens in the shortest time frame possible.”

The site once contained a thriv-ing shopping centre owned by the Terrace Co-operative Association but it closed in the late 1990s when the forest industry collapsed.

Sold at first to a private devel-oper, the city bought it in 2005 and has been trying to figure out a use for the property ever since.

It tore down the shopping cen-tre building a year ago, saying the chances of the property attracting developers was slim as long as the building remained.

“The city should consider con-tracting an architect to provide a cohesive concept for the property,” suggested task force chair Bob Park to council while presenting recommendations. he added that local First Nations could be con-tacted about building a long house

or museum.Public space would consist of a

plaza or square with the remaining property sold to developers to pro-vide tax revenue to the city.

There’s incentive for develop-ers through the city’s downtown improvement tax exemption which allows for improvements to build-ings and property that aren’t fac-tored in to taxable value for five years.

Building a hotel is at the top of the recommendation list.

“The need for more hotel rooms is evident in the community,” said the report, recommending a 100-room limited service hotel with retail and restaurant space built in.

Next on the list is a heritage centre, which mentions the Ter-race’s Museum Society’s efforts to

build a museum and archival space at a minimum of 3,000 square feet in the downtown.

“A museum to store and display artifacts would meet the current zoning and would also comple-ment the George little house,” read the report, which estimated 10,000 square feet of property would fit the museum’s needs.

In addition to the museum, a long house or First Nations muse-um could be built either separately or jointly on the property, requiring up to 20,000 square feet.

Next up, green space is recom-mended as a use for the property.

“Green space would enhance the aesthetic of the property and would provide some public space,” the report reads, suggesting the city look into buying some land

from CN Rail along the southern part of the property and extend the Grand Trunk Pathway.

or, extra space along the Greig Ave. side of the property could be set aside for green space as an in-viting place for pedestrians.

A group of local investors want-ing to build a brew pub on the property have already signed a pur-chase option.

Planned is a small brewery with food and entertainment on the northwest corner of the Co-op property near the Western Finan-cial Group and Staples.

“This facility will provide some tax revenue to the city as a private business,” reads the report.

lastly, parking will be required, the report acknowledges.

City talks Co-op property priorities

Cont’d Page A9

MARGARET SPEIRS PHOTO

■ Kettle kickoffmarylin davies, city councillor, is the first volunteer to help kick off the salvation army Kettle Campaign, its big fundraiser, at Canadian Tire dec. 1. That’s regional district admin-istrator Bob marcellin making the first donation. Kettles will also be set up at Walmart, real Canadian Wholesale store, save on Foods, safeway and the BC liquor store.

TeRRACe CITY council has giv-en owners of three derelict build-ings on little Ave. 60 days to tear them down and clean up the yards or the city will do it for them and send them the bill for the work.

Two of the properties contain Second World War-era military housing and the third was once a hospital.

The structures at 4520 little Ave. owned by Sandra and Wayne Kirby, 4440 little Ave. by lloyd Wittkowski and 4450 little Ave. by the estate of Bertha Vogel have been the subject of complaints and warnings by public officials of safety, health and nuisance hazards for years.

The decisions reached by coun-cil Nov. 26 followed months of closed door sessions about what action to take.

City officials prepared nearly 100 pages of information and pho-tos for council to consider in reach-ing the three decisions.

little Ave., a graveled section of road barely one lane wide and full of potholes, is located just east of the arena and aquatic centre and resembles more of a back lane than a city street.

In the case of the Wittkowski property, city records indicate complaints going back to 1990. he didn’t acquire the property until the mid 2000s.

“(There’s) a long history of is-sues on this property,” noted city official David Block.

“The ground has pushed in a wall of the crawl space,” said an excerpt of one report on the struc-ture. “Some of the strong smell in there is a result of (cats) presence and indicates an unsanitary situa-tion.”

No plumbing or heating is available in the building, electric-ity only services one light, stairs and landings are in poor and dan-gerous condition and the founda-tion has been affected by rot, said the report.

“If fire were to spread, it would spread rapidly and potentially be life endangering,” said Block to council. “Reconstruction would not make viable sense.”

After a round of letters demand-ing action from the city late this summer, Wittkowski indicated he would tear down at least part of the building by now. It still stands.

Demolish derelict buildings: council

Cont’d Page A12

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THE LOCAL Chances Terrace gam-ing centre wasn’t so lucky with Ter-race city council last Monday after its request to increase the number of slot machines it operates was denied.

After a public forum was held two weeks ago at which the majority of community members who spoke were in favour, the Chances Terrace request to add 25 slot machines was defeated by a 4 – 3 vote.

Councillors who voted against the bid felt that even if profits were distributed to governments and com-munity groups in need, isn’t worth the suffering gambling causes to those addicted.

Councillors who favoured the ex-pansion argued it’s not the city’s job to regulate a facility that operates le-gally and that demand at the facility speaks for itself.

“I still maintain that the biggest addiction to gambling is our levels of government,” said councillor Lynne Christiansen. “It really bothers me that a society as a whole profits off the backs of those that lose.”

Although many at last week’s public forum spoke in favour of in-creasing the number of slot machines, Christiansen noted they stood to gain gambling revenue grants and that she’s heard privately from many citi-zens who aren’t in favour.

Councillor Stacey Tyers added that she also heard from community mem-bers who are opposed to expansion but weren’t comfortable speaking at the forum.

“The people most affected by gaming addiction are ... essentially, our most vulnerable,” said Tyers, adding research she’s done indicates slot machines are the second highest addictive form of gambling next to online gambling.

She also pointed to the revenues.“A lot of this is coming from peo-

ple who can absolutely not afford to lose it,” she said of money they had.

Councillor James Cordeiro agreed.“Repeatedly, the amount of money

distributed to charities has been used to rationalize a substantial increase to the number of slots in Terrace,” he added, also voted against expansion.

Also, there are a few circumstanc-es which contradict the BC Lottery Corporation’s (BCLC) efforts to pro-mote responsible gambling, he said.

He pointed to a machine at Chanc-es Terrace which allows four virtual machines to be played at once, the placement of an ATM at the doorway and also BCLC’s online gambling limit which he said was raised from

$120 to just under $10,000.Councillor Bruce Bidgood also

voted against the motion, saying that in this case, he voted with his heart.

“I have to speak with my own val-ue system on this position,” he said, adding that while he’s heard compel-ling arguments both against and in favour, he’s against creating a culture that fosters gambling addiction.

Chances operates a legal facility, pointed out councillor Brian Downie, adding it is “an issue of congestion” that’s led the facility to request to in-crease the number of slots.

In a previous presentation to coun-cil, the BCLC said an average of 90 per cent of the 75 slot machines at Terrace Chances were filled on week-ends compared to 54 per cent occu-pancy in Prince Rupert and 71 per cent in Williams Lake.

“Chances exists,” said Downie. “And it has been run by all accounts successfully.”

Council also endorsed the con-struction of Terrace Chances in the first place, he said.

He questioned council’s role in trying to limit slots when demand for the machines speaks otherwise.

But Tyers responded that a limit was imposed years ago, meaning council made the decision then to regulate the number of machines al-lowed.

“I think we’re simply upholding the previous position,” she said.

According to councillor Marylin Davies, it isn’t council’s job to limit people’s choices.

“As a democratic citizen of Cana-da it’s not my place to say what you can do with your money and what you can’t,” she said. “If people want to gamble, nobody is taking them by the hand and shoving them in the door.”

She also pointed to the irony un-derlying another request made to council by a local group for a letter of support for gaming money to run programs to feed hungry people.

The request, which was granted, came from the Kalum Community School Society which this year re-ceived a $125,000 gaming grant but now wants an increase to $180,000 next year.

Grant money will go toward food school programs, community school gardens, the Good Food Box program and the fruit registry.

Mayor Dave Pernarowski did not speak to the motion but he sided with Downies and Davies in supporting a move to increase the number of slot machines.

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ChanCes TerraCe’s request to add 25 slot machines like these was denied by council.

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Clear sailing for Shames purchaseMY RECREATIONAL Mountain Coop says it can go ahead and purchase the Shames Mountain Ski facility from current owners, the Shames Mountain Ski Corporation, now that a combination of a debt forgiveness and loan payment plan worth close to $700,000 has been worked out with the provincial gov-ernment.

The non-pro� t re-gional co-op struck a purchase deal with the ski corporation last year, but it was held up pending a debt resolu-tion with the provincial

government.The ski corpora-

tion owed the province $429,010 for an out-standing tourism devel-opment loan taken out more than 20 years ago plus $108,672 in out-standing interest.

It also owed the province $88,579 in unpaid royalties and $46,767 in unpaid inter-est tied to the royalties, � nancial obligations which were taken on by the co-op as part of the sales arrangement.

The debt forgiveness deal for the tourism loan calls for the ski corpora-tion to pay the province

$125,000 in return for the province writing off the remainder of the loan amount and forgiv-ing the interest.

The province will also write off the $46,767 unpaid interest tied to the unpaid royal-ties.

In return, the ski co-op will pay off the $88,579 in unpaid roy-alties on a payment schedule stretched out over the next 10 years.

The payment sched-ule includes interest of prime plus 1.5 per cent.

“The resolution of these items means that My Mountain Co-op

can now close the pur-chase agreement and proceed with the op-eration of the hill into the future,” said co-op founding director Cur-tis Billey.

“It also means the co-op can now apply to have the [land] tenure transferred to it. This is a great way to kick off the 2012-13 season at Shames.”

The co-op operated the Shames facility last year on a lease arrange-ment with the ski corpo-ration.

Provincial forests minister Steve Thom-son, the minister re-

sponsible for the for-giveness plan, said the alternative was for the Shames Mountain Ski Corporation to declare bankruptcy.

If that happened, the province would have ended up with the ski hill assets and the task of disposing of them, he said.

The co-op was

formed in response to the ski corporation saying it was contem-plating closing down because it could not � -nancially break even.

My Mountain Co-op currently has more than 1,000 members and continues to draw support from area busi-nesses, individuals and corporations.

This isn’t the � rst time a province has stepped in to � nancially assist a struggling ski operation.

The best known one is the Whistler devel-opment which was res-cued by the provincial government and is now one of the premiere ski-ing showcases in North America.

Politicians back dealTHE TWO front run-ners in next year’s pro-vincial election say they support the province’s Shames Mountain debt forgiveness plan.

Current Skeena NDP MLA Robin Austin, who is running again next May, said there was no realistic way the province could expect a debt of $429,000 owed by the Shames Moun-tain Ski Corporation to be paid anyway.

Instead the corpora-tion will pay $125,000 and the province will write off the remainder of the $429,000 and more than $108,000 in interest.

The forgiveness plan now means the ski cor-poration can sell the Shames ski facility to

My Mountain Co-op.At the same time, the

co-op has taken on the task of paying $88,000 in royalties owed the province. In return, the province is erasing a debt of $47,000 in un-paid interest tied to the royalties.

“Actually, this is re-ally going to be a good thing,” said Austin of the debt forgiveness plan. “The co-op can now get on with the job of � nding a sustainable model to run the moun-tain.”

Austin added that having a ski hill so close to Terrace will help at-tract and keep new resi-dents to the area.

Also in support is Carol Leclerc, the pro-vincial Liberal candi-

date next May.“I think [My Moun-

tain Coop] has had a big load lifted off of their shoulders and now have an opportunity to move forward without so much debt hanging over their head,” she said.

My Mountain Coop

“is truly a coop; every-one knows they have a role to play, people aren’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and un-derstand it will be hard work going forward but the light is looking much brighter at the end of the tunnel.”

Carol LeclercRobin Austin

You can post a Christmas greetingREADERS ARE invit-ed to post a Christmas greeting on The Terrace Standard’s website, www.terracestandard.com.

It’s the ninth year The Terrace Standard has opened up its web-site, which is the best

read site for local and regional news in north-western B.C., so that people can exchange best wishes for the sea-son.

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Hockey originsIt took support from the whole community of Terrace to build the arena and get

local minor hockey off the ground By Anna Killen

It might be hard for some in Terrace to remember a time when there was only one sheet of ice here, not two. But

imagine growing up with no indoor arena at all. That was the case for years here in Terrace, even as oth-er, smaller northwest towns built rinks and grew their minor hock-ey leagues. But by the end of the 1960s, the community was commit-ted to working together to fund and build the Terrace Arena, and from there the seeds of the Terrace Mi-nor Hockey Association (still going strong today) were planted, with both acts serving as a symbol of unity and co-operation in the town.

It was 1972 when the Terrace Arena was completed and the Ter-race Minor Hockey Association � rst registered players. Organizers weren’t sure what to expect that � rst season, but on the � rst day of registration, nearly 750 boys lined up outside of the new arena, snak-ing the block. They were eager to � nally skate—and spectate—in-side. It was the � rst indoor ice rink for the town of 10,000, and that � rst season almost 900 new hockey players were registered.

“In the � rst year, I’d say that 90 per cent of the kids couldn’t skate,” says Jim Macintosh, TMHA’s � rst vice president, noting that many of the kids signed up for � gure skating and power skate and that coaches often spent hours giving one-on-one instruction to shy re-cruits. “It wasn’t until January that we even allowed them to interplay. It actually worked out well. It gave would-be coaches the chance to get their feet on the ground.”

Because that � rst year, hockey organizers and parents in Terrace � ew by the seat of their hockey pants.

Jim MacDougall, who was also part of the � rst core group of 14 volunteer directors, with Richard Olsen as president, and Les Smith,

Donna Donald and Fred Nicholson rounding out the executive, re-members being told he was going to be the bantam manager.

“‘Well, how do you be a ban-tam manager?’ And they said, ‘Oh, you’ll � nd out,’” he says.

But the feeling that they were all � guring it out together as they went along was part of the fun, both men concede.

“It was quite the exciting time, enthusiastic energy,” says Mac-Dougall. “The enthusiasm was just unreal.”

Part of the enthusiasm came from the fact that the arena and the hockey league had been coveted by the community for so long.

For years neighbouring commu-nities were building indoor arenas of their own while the citizens of Terrace skated on backyard rinks.

A 1967 editorial in the Terrace Omineca Herald, the newspaper at the time, compared Quesnel, which had a rink, to Terrace, and called on Terrace’s then-MLA Dudley G. Little to pressure the provincial government to put more money into parks and recreation. It also warned the taxpayers there

would be a cost. “Make no mistake, it’s going to

cost you money,” the paper said. “But it’s well worth the expendi-ture. All one needs for proof is a recent copy of the Quesnel Cari-boo Observer in which three full pages of pictures appear. They are pictures of young, healthy, happy faces sticking out above bulky hockey sweaters.”

And Macintosh remembers moving here with his family in the mid-60s from Prince George and being worried about how his chil-dren (who were used to playing hockey and � gure skating) were going to skate.

But outdoor rinks popped up ev-erywhere—there was even a group of boys from Uplands who called themselves the UHL and would organize games—eventually lead-ing to a larger outdoor rink behind Skeena school, that Macintosh, Bill Watson and Twin River Elec-tric out� tted with outdoor � ood lights.

“That really brought people into it, all of the sudden they could watch local hockey on an outdoor rink, � oodlit, at night,” he said. “So

we did that for maybe two years before we got started on the arena.”

And the arena was an all-hands-on-deck effort, with community members of all stripes and capabil-ities pitching in to help wherever they could. Bake sales and dances were held, and there was a big ther-mometer erected outside the Ter-race library so people could see the donations for the arena come in.

“The arena was all volunteer, too, there were guys that put in hours and hours and hours,” said Macintosh. “Everybody got behind it, it was unbelievable. The whole town just jumped right in there and away it went.”

And once the rink was ready, it wasn’t hard to � nd volunteers to help with the hockey league.

One of the early organizers, John Donald, went door to door during the summer of 1972 shoring up support. The very � rst TMHA meeting was held at John Custus’ of� ce on Railroad Ave., with a larger meeting taking place shortly thereafter at the Veritas Hall.

“That was the big one,” said MacDougall. “People just came up and spoke in droves.”

They � gured out who would do what right there, and Terrace Mi-nor Hockey was on its way.

And � nding sponsors for the 43 teams was not a problem, says MacDougall.

“We had sponsors for every team,” he says.

The rink was hopping busy from day one, with some of the older leagues taking to the ice after midnight, highlighting a struggle that is still here in Terrace today.

“One of the big problems was allotting ice time,” said MacDou-gall. “The rink was never shut down except to put water on it.”

And even though they all had full-time jobs, the minor hockey group found themselves at the rink every day, for hockey, � gure skat-ing, a meeting, or to help a new player sharpen his skates.

Family members of the execu-tive often found their houses � lled with extra hockey equipment, or piles of jerseys to be laundered, and girls from the skating club ran the concession stand. The city took care of the Zamboni. And All Sea-sons was there to sell equipment—though suitable goalie gear was always hard to come by.

But the � rst year was “not with-out its problems” as the group � gured out how to run a hockey league, but watching their kids grow up playing hockey, and see-ing the town pack the arena to play games made it worthwhile and joined the community together.

The town would even pack the rink to watch the youngest league, the equivalent of today’s Timbits.

“I can always remember those little guys,” says Macintosh. “We had two sets of teams on the ice at one time... They didn’t know which end to skate to. We’d have people come down on the Saturday just to watch them—they had prime time, eh? People just � ooded in to watch these little guys try to skate.”

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS

ON LEFT, it’s the 1973/74 Terrace Downtown Lions Bugs Division team. On right, it’s the 1974/75 Wedeene River Pee Wee Pups, who played “the longest game ever” (see newspaper clip below).

CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS

HERE IS a photo of the Terrace Arena in 1975, three years after its completion, and a newspaper ar-ticle from March of 1975 detailing a Ter-race minor hockey game that spanned three whole days and took 150 minutes of playing time. All pho-tos courtesy of Heri-tage Park Museum.

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JOHN Shaw � ew in long distance aircraft from a base in the Maritimes, far out over the dangerous North At-lantic on the look out for both friend-ly ships and enemy submarines.

That he never left Canada in no way diminished the importance of the role he played for had Allied forces not kept the North Atlantic shipping lanes open, Britain would have literally starved and been un-able to function as the land base for the invasion of Europe in 1944.

Otto Lindstrom did � ght over-seas, a member of the Canadian Army which took part in the long and bloody � ght to liberate � rst Sic-ily and then Italy beginning in 1943. That campaign was called The For-gotten War, often overshadowed by the June 1944 storming of the beach-es at Normandy.

But, as Mr. Lindstrom himself put it in a 2004 feature in The Terrace Standard written by Jennifer Lang, “if it hadn’t been for the army in Ita-ly, D-Day would have failed.” That’s because Allied forces tied down en-emy troops in Italy, preventing them from being used as reinforcements in France.

Mr. Shaw and Mr. Lindstrom, both in their 90s, passed away in No-vember, thinning out even more the ranks of those surviving who fought in the Second World War. Their passing reinforces the need for all of us to remember the sacri� ces that soldiers, aircrew and sailors made in all wars. Not just on Remembrance Day, but throughout the year.

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EDITORIALA6 www.terracestandard.com OPINION Wednesday, December 5, 2012 Terrace Standard

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COMPOSITION: Keenan Stella

With the arrival of snow, gar-deners may dress in leo-

tards and drive to a gym to work out.

I, however, don hard hat, goalie pads, and steel-toed boots and descend into the basement to stack winter � re-wood.

Stacking � rewood gives me plenty of stretching as I heave the blocks higher than my head, and bending as I grapple one block at a time from the � oor.

Most blocks are too wide and heavy for me to safely grip and lift with one hand.

Stressing my bones helps to ward off osteoporosis and thus the risk of fractures, pro-vided I don’t crush a toe or � nger as I work.

With the exception of the occasional length of limb, two or so inches in diam-eter, every block is tri-sided tripling the sharp planes that must be avoided.

Experience has taught me never to place one hand over the lead end of a block. I did that once and needed several stitches to repair the damage.

Stacking wood in the basement keeps it dry, handy to the woodstove, and out

of sight of neighbours who might criticize my stacking.

I openly admire one neigh-bour’s woodshed with every block lined up as precisely as kernels on a prizewinning cob of corn.

Since the 7.7 magnitude earthquake October 27 I now check the stability of my stacks not only from end to end of each row, but also from side to side, particularly the stabilizing ends if no con-crete wall is available to be a bookend.

Over the years I’ve been startled awake or had my reading interrupted by the heart-stopping thud of blocks bouncing down and sprawl-

ing out on to the concrete � oor.

For that reason I always aim to leave plenty of “delta” space between my stacks and the woodstove, gas furnace and hot water tank, just in case.

Besides the block-by-block considerations of length, shape, and uniform depth, I have to remember to stack so I have easy access to the driest wood � rst.

That’s one thing I forgot as I began stacking the sec-ond cord this summer.

Now my only access to the driest � rst rows is from one end, putting me at risk of a thump on the head, hand, or foot should I dislodge pieces higher up while I gather a piece or two from the � oor.

I’ve learned to hold one block upright in front of my ankles while I pitch a heavy block toward the top of the pile to purposely trigger a slide.

Until I adopted this pup I could cover the pile with a plastic tarp when it was deliv-ered and keep it dry from rain or snow until I could throw the wood into the basement a little each day.

But this pup chews any-thing. She would tear the

tarp into strips before the � rst dawn.

Also, she hauls wood blocks to use as chew toys. The longer she has access to the off-loaded pile, the more wood I have to retrieve from the far corners of the yard.

After one delivery, I wheeled 31 pieces back to the basement opening. As though I needed the extra exertion.

Before the delivery truck leaves my yard she can have � ve pieces arrayed at her fa-vourite play area. There she strips the bark and gnaws off bumps.

Any skinny sliver, bark curl, or branch nub is all her pincer grip needs to haul a heavy block, head high, rear end waggling to balance the weight, like a bitch removing a misbehaving eight-week-old pup from danger.

Gardeners enjoy a sense of satisfaction viewing their pantries with row upon row of canned fruits and freezers � lled with their summer pro-duce. I don’t garden.

But I share similar sat-isfaction from a basement stacked with enough � re-wood to keep me comfortable through weeks of stormy, cold weather.

Burning wood keeps you in shape

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The Mail Bag

The story of the 2012 US presidential election we should pay attention to in Canada is not the per-

formance of the candidates; it is a story of mathematics.

The star in this regard is Nate Silver who predicted the outcome of the election with uncanny ac-curacy. Most pollsters held that the election was too close to call.

Silver, who is not a pollster but a statistician and mathematician, devised a formula using polling data produced by others to accu-rately predict the outcome of the vote in every state.

Silver’s overall prediction was that Obama had a better than 90 per cent chance to be reelected. Some political observers have expressed concern that the ability to predict election outcomes with such accuracy may hurt democra-cy. They fear that citizens may not bother to make the effort to vote if the outcome of an election can be accurately predicted in advance.

The concern is valid, but I am

more concerned about the influ-ence polling and Silver’s formula will have on the strategies of Can-ada’s political parties.

Obama’s team applied refined polling strategies in swing states such as Ohio. They used its so-phisticated polling data to devel-op, shape, and refine its campaign message to address those unique-ly local aspects of the broad na-tional issues.

Thus, while a national objec-tive may be job creation, local campaigns are crafted to address and highlight uniquely local em-ployment related messages.

The objective is for individual voters to interpret a party’s broad national policy statement from a close to home and easily under-stood perspective.

When a political party incor-porates an Obama-style strategy with Silver’s formula in a national campaign, it can measure with a high degree of accuracy the ef-fectiveness of the strategy. It will know which electoral districts

may be ignored and thus direct all resources to key districts to secure a victory.

Canada’s electoral system cannot be compared to that of the United States. There the two branches of the legislative and the head of the executive are elected separately. We elect only half of the legislative arm of govern-

ment, the House of Commons. The party who controls the House of Commons controls it all.

Our democracy is further mar-ginalized by our electoral system which is not concerned about the will or the mood of the majority; all the rewards go to the leader.

Over the span of the past three elections, from 2004 to 2008, voter support for the Conservative Party increased by 3.3 per cent, from 36.3 to 39.6 per cent.

With those numbers the party’s representation in the House of Commons increased by 33.9 per cent, giving it eleven seats more than needed for a majority in one legislative arm and full control of government overall.

The 2008 election results were not an aberration. In 1993 the Liberal Party won a nine seat ma-jority with only 38.5 per cent of voter support.

Notwithstanding differences in our systems, there is noth-ing to prevent the application of Obama’s campaign segmentation

strategy with Silver’s voter intent monitoring formula in Canada.

The consequence of doing so has the potential to reduce our already marginal democracy to tokenism.

Obama’s campaign segmen-tation strategy combined with Silver’s voter intent monitoring formula applied in Canada will enable political parties to ac-curately identify swing ridings, ignore ridings where support is either assured or negligible, and focus individualized campaign messages on a few swing ridings. Voter response in these swing rid-ings will be monitored using Sil-ver’s formula.

Applying such sophisticated campaign strategies to our system will make parliamentary majori-ties possible with the support of as few as one third of the voters, thereby reducing democracy to mere symbolism.

Andre Carrel is a retired pub-lic sector administrator living in Terrace, BC.

American polling a threat to Canadian voting

Terrace Standard Wednesday, December 5, 2012 VIEWPOINTS www.terracestandard.com A7

g u e s t c o M M e n t

ANDRE CARREL

Dear Sir:Is it possible that all

the negative talk about oil and gas pipelines has given us tunnel vision and not allowing us to look at the bigger pic-ture?

Most of us would be happy if there were no pipelines anywhere but petroleum products are a necessary evil and life as we know it cannot ex-ist without them. What is important is that these products are moved in

the safest possible way. Everyday thousands of railcars filled with pe-troleum products travel on the railroads across the country and in B.C. due to our mountainous terrain the railroads run right adjacent to our ma-jor river systems.

Every year there are train wrecks in this country and it is only a matter of time until one of them ends up in one of the major rivers that they follow.

What do people say about these trains that are getting longer all the time?

They say, “man, that’s a nice long train,” because no environmen-talist or media outlet that thrives on negativity has told them any different. Most of us know noth-ing about oil and gas pipelines but the media has made us believe that they are a bad thing.

Actually, if they want to point out the danger

of pipelines they should be talking about the sew-er systems of the towns and cities in the country.

All the liquid from these systems ends up in the lakes and riv-ers of this country and contains every chemical known to man. But we won’t hear much about this as we even the most radical environmental-ists know they need the use of these systems.

There are a lot of so-called green living peo-

ple that are not fooling anyone but themselves.

As the population of the world increases, there will be threats to land and water, but if everyone works together these threats could be kept to a minimum.

One way or another petroleum products will be moved offshore to the countries that need them as we are part of a global community and a global economy.

Pipelines are a fact of life

Cont’d Page A9

Dear Sir:I hear Christy Clark’s B.C. government wants

to levy a toll on all B.C.’s highways and bridges. What money do they owe the Chinese? Or

are they just mad at people for calling for the end of the harmony tax and this is their way of getting even with B.C. voters/tax payers?

The government figures the bridge tolls are worth millions and the highway ones are worth billions.

The only reason they call themselves Liberals is because after two wins by the NDP in the ‘90s they noticed the regular Liberal Party got more votes than the Socreds.

In Skeena, Juanita Hatton in her eighties came second, even though she only appeared at the all-candidates meetings and she was too busy running the Golden Rule organization to extend her energy.

People in Skeena and other places just loved the name Liberal. But someone said their name change would be confused with the Ottawa Lib-erals so they changed themselves to BC Liberals.

But they’re basically the old ultra conserva-tive party: the Emperor is naked!

Warning: the Terrace food bank is doing a good job but they gave sugared bread out to dia-betics.

I don’t think they know that cheap white, brown and 60 per cent whole wheat bread is sug-ar. A friend of mine calls the stuff, candy bread.

None of them are nutritious so watch out and read the label if you’re diabetic.

Depending on what your health demands, watch it anyway.

Brian Gregg,Terrace, BC

Socreds areLiberals who are actuallyConservatives

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Otto Lindstrom was a one of a kind personDear Sir: I was fortunate to have

gotten to know Otto Lind-strom pretty well during my years at The Terrace Stan-dard.

My favourite memory is the time he took me out to his trapline in Remo, site of his family’s former home-stead.

He’d maintained the tra-pline for 75 years, taking it over for some pioneer Swede, I think, back in the day, and was still making the rounds.

We both hopped on ATVs (he was 87 at the time) and roared through the damp woods. We were rewarded with the discovery of a

soggy, flea-infested marten snared inside one of the con-nibear traps.

Fortunately (for me) the marten had to be hung up overnight to dry, so the rest of the procedure had to wait for another day.

A veteran of the Second World War and the brutal Italian campaign, Otto was

proud to call himself a D-Day Dodger. I am humbled to have learned what he meant by that, and am happy to enlighten anyone who asks.

My strongest memory is the day after my story about his time during the war was published.

He came in and we just

looked at each other for a few minutes before saying anything. Neither of us was able to articulate what we were thinking.

“I know.” I said finally. “I know.”

The story, you see, had just scratched the surface. But somehow there was nothing more to be said.

He was such a gentle, kind, opinionated, life-af-firming soul.

His life says so much about the kind of people who make Terrace what it is – and the generation that sacrificed so much for their country.

Jennifer Lang,White Rock, BC

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If we think we can just keep the oilsands for our own use, re-member that most of the wars fought in recent times were to gain con-trol of the world’s oil reserves no matter what Mr. Bush may tell you.

If we are successful in stopping the pipeline to Kitimat all that will change is the loss of high-paying jobs. The pipeline would then run south into the USA where a pipeline will bring it to the Wash-ington coast for loading onto ships for Asia.

This could happen just across the Canadian border so we would still

have the same concern of increased tanker traf-fic as ocean currents and tidal movements would bring any prob-lems into B.C. waters as shown by the debris ar-riving from Japan.

We must look at all of this with an open mind to be sure we know what we are talk-ing about as jobs are go-ing to become very im-portant in this province.

At least 15,000 jobs will be lost over the next 10-15 years in the for-est industry due to the mountain pine beetle.

Sawmills will no longer be able to pro-duce lumber of a quality

that would keep them financially stable and as sawmills shut down, other forestry-related plants will shut down as well.

Pulp mills, pellet plants, co-generation plants, etc. can not op-erate without the wood chips and wood waste made available as a by-product of making lum-ber.

Logging just to run those type of operations would be far too costly.

The jobs that will be lost can not be replaced with a seasonal tourist industry or a job in a big box store.

These types of good-

paying jobs can only be replaced in the resource sector, so if we want our young people to be able to support a fam-ily and buy a home, we will have to make jobs available in the resource sector.

If we don’t do that a lot of these young people will move way and those that stay will struggle to survive.

U n e m p l o y m e n t causes huge social problems.

Just ask the people in towns like Hazelton and Burns Lake. All of this makes it very impor-tant that we make the right decisions about

resource sector projects.We should not com-

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rials available today can not be compared to the ones used 50 over even 20 years ago.

I’m not knocking the people opposed to pipelines but hopefully

I want to make us all take a good honest look at the bigger picture and not just go by what we see or read in the media.

This will be very im-portant to our future.

Brian Mould,Kitwanga, BC

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Hotel, green space, brewery, part of Co-op property plan

A single parking area with 280 spaces would fulfill the above recommendations and the report notes that it should not be a focal point of the property. Underground or multi-level parking should be explored to reduce its footprint on the lot.

The report suggests an architect be hired to re-create a downtown focal point. Earlier this year, famous architect Douglas Cardinal visit-ed the site and has since sent an estimate of what his services would cost. For the commu-nity consultation and the following concept design the cost to hire Cardinal would be from $20,000 to $30,000 ac-cording to an estimate he provided.

At the city coun-cil meeting where the report was presented, councillor James Cor-deiro who sits on the task force as a council liaison asked if there was any additional ben-efit to hiring Cardinal above another architect.

Park responded that no specific architect was recommended.

And prior to being developed, a northeast-ern portion of the prop-erty will require envi-ronmental remediation as an old gas bar was once located there. A certificate stating that portion of the property is cleaned up is required from the province and development could

likely start by 2014, said the report, recom-mending this part of the process take priority.

Members on the task force include two city

councillors, Cordeiro and Brian Downie; four members at large, Norm Frank, Bert Husband, Neal Lindseth and Wanita Simpson; Sasa

Loggin from the Skeena Diversity Society; and chair Bob Park from Terrace’s Downtown Improvement Associa-tion.

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BUSINESS REVIEWConstruction stats increase

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DALEN WEIBE and project manager John Bartam on the site of a new home for Innovation Autoworks on South Kalum. Occupancy is slated for early spring of next year.

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BRUCE MARTINDALE at the front counter of the new McBike location on Lazelle Ave.

IT’S BEEN a good year so far for new and reno-vated commercial space with a combined $6.8 million being spent in this fashion.

And all told, nearly $13.6 million in con-struction permits were taken out by the end of October, based on sta-tistics provided by the City of Terrace.

That’s more than 2001, 2010 and 2009 but less than 2008’s number of $24.33 mil-lion which featured $6 million in housing and $5.3 million in institu-tional construction and $4.3 million in new commercial construc-tion.

There’s also been a very modest uptick in the number of business licences.

The number stood at 1,059 in January and has now increased to 1,068 to the end of Oc-tober.

There have been 76 closures during the same period but 81 openings and � ve re-openings.

One of the recent commercial construc-tion projects underway is a building for Innova-tion Autoworks, located on Kalum Ave. off of Keith on the Southside.

The 5,000 square foot six-bay garage should be ready for business early spring.

As business in the northwest has been

picking up, company of-� cial Dalen Wiebe says the full-service automo-tive repair shop simply needs more space.

“We’ve outgrown the space,” said Wiebe about the company’s current 2200 square foot shop on Greig Ave.

Construction began on Nov. 6 and the struc-ture and exterior walls are now complete said John Bartram, project manager of the con-tracting company hired for the job, Ressel Con-structors.

The company is subcontracted through Kelowna-based Alpine Steel Buildings.

Innovation Auto-works is also using Terrace-based general contractors for the job, which requires concrete work, gutters, windows and other � nishing work prior to completion.

For the land and building, Wiebe said ex-penditures are expected to clock in just under the $1 million mark.

Meanwhile, local bicycle shop McBike has moved a few doors down from its Lazelle Mini-Mall location to a much larger space in a building owned by 16-37 Community Futures. The latter has also tak-en up residence in the building.

McBike owner Bruce Martindale says the larger space, mea-suring approximately

2,800 square feet, pro-vides more retail dis-play space and a larger work area for his me-chanics.

As a business, McBike has been in Terrace for approxi-mately 16 years and Martindale has been its owner for the past eight.

And there’s been another store opening

in the nearly-renovated Skeena Mall. Dollarama has joined SportChek as a new outlet in the mall purchased nearly a year ago by Bosa Properties of Vancouver.

Since then both the interior and exterior have gone under exten-sive renovations. Win-ners is next on the list of stores to open up.

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THE TERRACE and District Chamber of Com-merce is going to talk to Enbridge about whether it wishes to repeat as a sponsor of a chamber award which recognizes “green” practices.

The company’s sponsorship this year, part of the chamber’s overall Business Excellence awards, drew fire when all three nominees declined, saying it was wrong for a company such as Enbridge to sponsor such an award.

SkeenaWild Conservation Trust, one of the three, was chosen, however, to be the winner and it then declined the award.

It and other business excellence award winners were announced at a chamber banquet Nov. 24.

Chamber executive director Carol Fielding said the practice of contacting sponsors to determine their plans for the next year is common.

“Sometimes companies tell us what their plans are right away,” she said. “And whenever we have companies interested [in a sponsorship], we try to see how we can fit them in.”

SkeenaWild, a conservation group aimed at the survival and growth of wild salmon populations, is one of the regional groups taking a lead role in opposing Enbridge’s plan to pump crude oil from Alberta to a marine terminal at Kitimat through the Northern Gateways pipeline.

“It’s very clear that Enbridge is using sponsor-ship of community events as a public relations tool to help gain social licence for its project,” said SkeenaWild’s Julia Hill when it turned down the award. “We are not interested in being a pawn in their PR game.”

The other two nominees were local clothier Urban Colour and the Lakelse Watershed Society, which works to increase and protect fish popula-tions and habitat in the Lakelse Lake area.

Hill did say the chamber’s annual business ex-cellence wards are important because the com-

munity is filled with businesses, organizations and people that deserve recognition for a job well done.

“We really encourage the chamber to find some-one to sponsor the green award that’s more in line with our community values,” said Hill.

In a letter sent to the chamber, Hill said a local business had offered to be a sponsor this year or next year.

Fielding said other local businesses have since suggested they might sponsor the green award.

This is the second year Enbridge has sponsored the award. Last year the Terrace Beautification So-ciety was named the winner.

“Last year there was not a hint of a controversy,” said Fielding. “I really think this year it’s because of the winner. It’s because of who is involved.”

The Green award itself is three years old. The first year it was offered was in 2010 with Northwest Community College as the sponsor and the K’san community greenhouse program was the winner.

In a statement, Enbridge said it was is a proud member and supporter of the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce.

“The chamber’s annual Business Excellence Awards ceremony, which includes a Green Award, is part of our support because we believe it is im-portant to recognize local business efforts and con-tributions to a healthy environment.”

“However, we do not participate in the nomina-tion or selection process of this award and we re-spect any local business owner’s personal decision to accept his or her own nomination,” the statement continued.

Speaking afterward, Enbridge official Ivan Giesbrecht said it was too early to say what the company will do next year regarding the business excellence awards.

“But we’ll continue to be supportive of the Ter-race chamber and what it does,” he said.

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■ Happy 25thFROM LEFT, Northwest Counselling Ltd. senior partner Lorna Sandhals, managing part-ner Susan Viveiros and founding partner Lynn Hughes cut a cake Nov. 29 to mark 25 years of being in business. Sister agency Northwest Training was founded two years later.

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Little Ave. ownersays he’ll � ght onONE OWNER of a Little Ave. building ordered demolished by the city last week says he’ll � ght the decision.

George Vogel, who manages 4450 Little Ave. on behalf of the estate of Bertha Vogel, his moth-er, says he’s staying put.

“They have no right to force me out,” he said following the city decision giving owners of three Little Ave. properties 60 days to tear down the structures and clean up the properties.

“This is a single family private residence,” he said, noting that he has been working on cleaning up the property, and has plans to turn the east wing of the building into a green house and the north wing into a garage. Vogel lives in the building with three other people.

“I know it’s not the best, but its not as bad as it’s portrayed,” he said of the Second World War-era structure. “The photos that are in the report are over six months old.”

Nearly 100 pages of informa-tion, report and photos regard-ing health, safety and structural problems at all three properties were provided to council mem-bers last week.

Vogel he says he could have had more work done if the city had agreed to issue him a build-ing permit.

“It’s a Catch-22 and a set up

from the get-go,” he said, noting there are many properties in the area that aren’t complying with city bylaws.

“At the meeting, one of the councillors said the windows should be boarded up. But I had them boarded up before the city told me to un-board them, which I did.”

But while he has plans to con-tinue living in the building while � ghting city hall, Vogel also said he is willing to sell the property, and listed it with a realtor about a month ago.

He extended an offer to the city to purchase the land and structure at the council meeting last Monday. “They can buy it if they want to,” he said of a list price of $179,000.

He said he would accept a fair price on the property, but doesn’t believe the latest assessment of the property is accurate when you consider the size of the lot and how much properties in the neighbourhood have sold for.

The three properties in ques-tion are worth three very differ-ent amounts, according to BC Assessment.

4440 Little Ave. is assessed at $43,000 for the 36,380 sq. ft. lot, while 4520 Little Ave. is as-sessed at $161,900 for 32,336 sq. ft. and 4450 Little Ave. is as-sessed at $72,300.

And 4455 Park Ave, one block

south of Vogel’s property, sold for $168,700 last October.

If the city ends up tearing his property down, Vogel says he would be in a bad situation as his mother’s estate could not afford to pay taxes on the vacant lot.

This means the city could eventually try to claim his prop-erty, he said.

The city has said that if the owners do not comply with the tear-down order they will do it for them and send them the bill.

The property owners have 14 days after the demolition order was issued to � le an appeal.

One of the others, Lloyd Witt-kowski who owns 4440 Little Ave., says he will comply with the tear down order.

“I’ll tear it down in the spring,” he said.

“The problem nowadays is you can’t burn it (the debris) you have to haul it away,” he said. “But there’s lumber I can sal-vage, lots of starter wood.”

He doesn’t expect the process to be too costly.

“I have an excavator and two sons, they will help me,” he said. “God gives and God takes it away, and you can’t � ght city hall.”

Attempts to contact Wayne and Sandra Kirby, owners of the third Little Ave. building ordered town down, 4520 Little Ave., were unsuccessful.

The next property discussed was 4450 Little Ave., owned by Bertha Vogel who is now de-ceased with George Vogel as the manager and occupier of her es-tate.

The complaint history on this property dates back to 1991 with city records showing cleanliness and building safety issues. A real estate for sale sign has now been placed on the building.

A most recent review of the property showed substantial � re hazards, and after issuing a letter to Vogel this summer demanding that he clean up the property and yard, some of the work promised did not materialize.

For instance, Vogel said he would clean up the yard and cut grass by Sept. 8, remove plywood and replace glass and windows by Sept. 15, complete house scraping and paint preparation by Sept. 22 and completion of paint-ing of home by Sept. 29.

Severe structural issues were also recently noted by building inspectors.

The last property reviewed by council was 4520 Little Ave., which was Terrace’s � rst hospi-tal, and is now owned by Mike and Sandra Kirby.

Complaints about this prop-

erty date back to 1996 when a � re chief reported that “if not already, this building will pose a serious life safety concern.”

Reports from a more recent site inspection show the building is in a state of disrepair like the others.

“There are signs of structural issues evident … the interior of the building is very beat up … plumbing � xtures have been re-moved … ceilings are damaged and in some places removed … paint is peeling … due to humid-ity and lack of heat mold is pres-ent,” said a city report.

Fire hazards currently pose a risk to life and neighbouring properties.

After a letter from the city earlier this year demanding ac-tion be taken, Wayne Kirby not-ed he intends to sell the property and secure the building or tear it down.

But efforts to clean up the site have been slow moving, said Block, noting a demolition per-mit was taken out for an eastern portion of the building in Febru-ary.

While a substantial amount of the building has be torn down, some of it still stands, and de-molition permits expire after 90

days, he explained.He added that council had

more options for remedial ac-tion to be taken for this property, including that the city order the building be maintained and se-cured or that staff continue to seek voluntary compliance from the owners.

Councillor Bruce Bidgood added that as the owners had al-ready started to demolish a por-tion of the building, he thinks it best the city order the rest to be boarded and secured.

But councillor Marylin Da-vies pointed out owners had passed the 90-day mark, which means plenty of time for that to complete has passed.

“This implies value and fu-ture use,” said councillor Brian Downie.

“I just don’t see the value in going through this over and over,” added councillor James Cordeiro. “These properties have been derelict for years.”

In the end, council chose to treat all three buildings equally by ordering demolition within 60 days along with other property maintenance orders.

Councillor Stacey Tyers left for two out of three votes due to con� ict of interest.

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TERRACE RCMP called a special po-lice unit to assess the risk after Northwest Community College (NWCC) received two more threats after a bomb threat in October.

The E Division Be-havioural Analysis Unit out of Surrey was con-tacted to assist the Ter-race General Investiga-tion Unit.

The behavioural unit is made up of spe-cially trained experts, who evaluate behaviour similar to a profiler, who give an opinion on whether one or more people are making threats, their next move, and the level of risk of the threat, said Cpl. Mike Dame, officer in charge of the Crime Re-duction Unit and Gener-al Investigation Section of Terrace RCMP.

“What they do is give an assessment, an opinion...a very educat-ed opinion,” said Dame.

Police will then use that to determine whether, for example, the college should be evacuated, he said.

The second and third threats received Nov. 22 and 26 were not as severe, so the college wasn’t evacuated like it was after a bomb threat Oct. 2, says Phil Saunders, director com-munications and PR at NWCC.

“We have an extra security guard that’s go-ing to be working in the evening,” said Saunders of the extra security measures the college took.

“We are comfortable and the RCMP are com-fortable with our assess-ment of that risk.”

Terrace RCMP me-dia relations and com-munity policing officer Const. Angela Rabut said the safety risk was less than the bomb threat.

“The Behavioral Analysis Unit and the

Terrace GIS Unit ana-lyzed the threats and determined the risk to be low at this time,” she said. “The most effec-tive security is the en-tire college students and faculty being vigilant and keeping an eye out

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An emergency pro-tocol was in the pro-

cess of being set up at the college and after the bomb threat Oct. 2, the process was put in place, said Saunders.

The subsequent threats have been differ-ent kinds of threats but Saunders couldn’t give

many details.Whoever made the

bomb threat hasn’t been caught and there is nothing to show that the person is familiar with the college, he said.

On Oct. 2, someone emailed a bomb threat

to Northwest Com-munity College, which led to the college being evacuated for the day.

A bomb sniffing dog was called in and searched the build-ings and residences but didn’t find anything.

Cops use experts to probe college threats

CITY COUNCILLOR Bruce Bidgood is re-turning as one of two city directors on the Kitimat-Stikine region-al district board.

He’ll be joined by Lynn Christiansen.

Mayor Dave Per-narowski, who was one of the city representa-tives last year, did not put his name forward when city council met Nov. 26 to decide on the appointments.

City council must name two regional dis-trict representatives ev-ery year.

Bidgood returns to board

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Terrace Standard Wednesday, December 5, 2012 NEWS www.terracestandard.com A15

Last week, in this space, I talked about why we chose Kitimat as the site for Gateway’s marine terminal. This week, I’d like to discuss the various steps we’ve taken to prevent an incident on water, and the measures we’ve put in place to build a comprehensive marine safety plan for Gateway.

Safety starts with a tanker acceptance program that’s as stringent as any in existence — and includes an independent review of all tankers, weeks ahead of their scheduled arrival. Tankers mooring at the terminal will be double-hulled and no more than 20 years old, and will be required — by independent third parties, before they enter Gateway’s shipping channels — to show a sound maintenance and operational history. As they approach Kitimat, all vessels will be boarded and guided by B.C. Coast Pilots with expert knowledge of our coastal waters.

Simulations conducted in varying weather conditions have shown that the largest tankers can be safely navigated without the help of tugboats. Still, Gateway is adding a tug-escort system as an additional safety measure. The Douglas Channel is already one of the deepest and widest inland waterways on North America’s west coast, and Gateway’s tug-escort

system, according to risk assessment data, would reduce the already unlikely chance of a grounding incident by a further 80 to 90 per cent.

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Groups who oppose this project use fear tactics. They’d have you believe an oil tanker spill is inevitable. It isn’t. But don’t take my word for it — visit our website and read for yourself about all the work that has gone into making Gateway’s marine operation one of the safest in the world. Then, decide for yourself what’s true.

Janet HolderExecutive Vice PresidentWestern AccessEnbridge Inc.

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■ Back homethree months passed quickly for four Quebec high school students here on a lan-guage exchange program. Julianne toupin, Camille savard, Catherine Albert and rox-anne Plante left for home nov. 30. they were hosted by four French immersion Caledonia students and next February, those students will travel to Quebec to spend three months living in the homes of their Quebec twins.

TWO TEENS who al-legedly tried to cut down a power pole out-side Caledonia Senior Secondary have been charged.

“Two young per-sons are at this point formally charged and facing a charge of mis-chief endangering life in relation to the alleged sawing of the hydro pole,” said Neil Mack-enzie, communications council for the Criminal Justice Branch of the provincial government. The two boys, ages 15 and 17, cannot be iden-tified under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

Two boys were ar-rested Oct. 29 after wit-nesses called police at 2:48 a.m. to report two

figures in dark clothing doing what looked like trying to saw through a power pole outside the school, said police at that time.

The teens ran when they saw police but offi-cers followed and found two teens attempting to hide in bushes on the Howe Creek Trail and followed footprints in the snow to find a saw, said police.

Classes were can-celled for the day at Caledonia while BC Hydro crews replaced the pole. The cost to re-place the pole was more than $25,000, said BC Hydro at that time.

The case was ini-tially handled by pros-ecutors here but the file

has been transferred to Prince Rupert Crown council.

“It is my current understanding that this charge was in fact initially approved by Crown in the Terrace office,” said Mackenzie.

“A prosecutor in the Prince Rupert office, now responsible for the file, is reviewing the

case and will ultimately decide what charge or charges will proceed.”

There was a conflict of interest in the Crown office here so “Crown concluded that to avoid any perception of a con-flict in the circumstanc-es, it was appropriate to have the case handled by a different office,” he said.

Thefts at the poolTERRACE RCMP reported several thefts from the pool recently and some recovery of stolen items.

On Nov. 25 at around 8 p.m., a Dodge Ram was stolen and pants, truck keys, and a wallet were taken from a locker while the person was swimming.

On Oct. 29 between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., some-one stole jeans, a coat, keys, and a wallet from a lock-er at the pool. The clothing was found but the keys were still missing Nov. 27, said police.

The Dodge Ram was found abandoned on Lower Dyke Rd. in Kitimat on Nov. 26 where it appeared to be stuck. It was towed to Kitimat RCMP and exam-ined by the Terrace Forensic Identification Section.

Some stolen ID was found in front of the North-ern Motor Inn. The sled deck was found in the west ditch of Hwy 37 near the hot springs Nov. 27. The sled deck ramp was found on the old bridge Nov. 25.

Teens formally chargedfor power pole damage

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COMMUNITYMARGARET SPEIRS

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■ Christmas cutiesANGELICA BRUNI, left, and Erilyn Nicklie check out crafts, like Eri-lyn’s balloon elephant, at the Skeena Valley Farmers Market Christ-mas Craft Show in the arena banquet room Nov. 24.

IN WHAT is hoped to be an annual event, workplace skills training pro-gram students at Northwest Com-munity College fought against bul-lying in their own way.

After hearing on the internet about the death of Amanda Todd – a Burnaby high school student who took her life after years of bul-lying – they decided to honour her memory by promoting an anti-bully awareness event at the college, espe-cially because college students use Facebook, where anyone could be vulnerable, said their instructor Pat Stone.

They chose Nov. 27th, which would have been Todd’s 16th birth-day, putting up posters they made in computer class.

Some posters were words and pictures, each uniquely put togeth-er by the student, as well as some Wordle posters that described with chosen words the effects of bullying.

They gave away Hershey kisses, pink hand shapes with Stop Bullying written on them, and about 100 pink yarn bracelets as a symbolic protest against bullying at two tables – one in the cafeteria building and one in the trades building.

Michael Jensen from the student union also provided pins for the stu-dents to hand out on anti-sexism, anti-racism, and anti-homophobia.

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woRkpLACE SkILLS training students at one of the two tables at their anti-bullying day event Nov. 27. From left, Tamara Clayton, Trish Turner, Dan Ripper, keegan Haines and that’s their instructor pat Stone getting one of the students’ handmade yarn bracelets.

Students raise bullying awareness

TWO LOCAL miners received an award for their reclamation work at an old mine.

Eli Christiansen and his partner Moril Daigle won the 2011 Placer Reclamation Award for a mining site the pair worked on near Douglas Creek for seven years.

“It feels great to be recognized for the work we’ve done,” said Chris-tiansen.

“This also helps to inform the public that mining does not neces-sarily destroy an area involved with mining operations.”

Christiansen, who has been plac-er mining for 35 years, said at the end of each season, all the dirt and ground that’s removed was put back to, or close to, its original state.

The award description and rea-sons said “... the work completed is deserving of recognition and sets an example of good practice for other placer operations throughout the province.”

And that the area “shows successful natural regrowth of alder and small fir trees that are native to the area” three years after the site was shut down.

Miners receive award

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THE NUMBER of people us-ing the Terrace Churches Food Bank in its first two months of its new year’ are down from last year.

October kicked off this round of food bank openings with about 40 fewer families than last year, calculated from the num-ber of bags handed out, accord-ing to food bank president John Wiebenga. 

“We were 60 bags down from

last year,” he said. “Our opening week went well as lots of food came in during the summer from various food drives,  and  dona-tions from many local stores and businesses. 

“The food donated usually needs sorting or bagging and shelving.  We really appreci-ate all the help we get and one of the helping groups this fall was a Grade 7 class from Veritas School, who  came to help bag

up 400 lbs. of potatoes, which had been donated by the Com-munity Garden.” 

November was much the same as October with numbers down by 70 bags compared to the same period last year, said Wiebenga.

“We did have a number of new clients,” he added about November. December’s food bank hours are taking place this week.

Food bank numbers down for two months

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CITY SCENEFax your event to make the Scene at 250-638-8432. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday.

Clubs & pubsTHORNHILL PUB: Free pool Wed. and Sun., karaoke night Thurs. Karen and Mark provide musical entertainment every Fri. and Sat. night 7 p.m. Shuttle service if you need a ride. LEGION BRaNcH 13: Meat draws every Sat. afternoon.GEORGE’S PUB: Free poker Sun. 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Wed. 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. Karaoke Sun.. Live weekend entertain-ment. Dec. 7, 8 Accelerators; Dec. 14, 15 River Valley Rats; Dec. 21, 22 Playback; Dec. 27 DJ; Dec. 28, 29 After Hours; Dec. 31 Triple Bypass. Tickets on sale before and at door. Shuttle service if you need a ride.

mT. LayTON LOUNGE: Open daily noon to 11 p.m. Free pool, darts and shuf-fleboard.BEaSLEyS mIx: Karaoke every Fri. night, free pool every Sat.

Art ■ aRT SHOw: UNIqUE Photography

runs until Dec. 15 at Skeena Diversity So-ciety.

■ THE TERRacE aRT Club: You are invited to Mon. sessions from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. to share, teach and just enjoy putting paint to paper, canvas or board at the Art Room at Skeena Middle School. Work-shops: Christmas theme Dec. 10—bring your own projects. Please bring your own

supplies. For more details, call Joan 638-0032 or Maureen 635-7622.

Music ■ caLEDONIa PERFORmING

aRTS presents Rodgers and Hammer-stein’s musical Carousel at 8 p.m. Dec. 6, 7, 8 at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre. Tickets on sale at Misty River Books.

■ UPLaNDS ELEmENTaRy ScHOOL presents its Christmas Concert Dec. 11 and 12 at the R.E.M. Lee Theatre.

■ TERRacE SymPHONy OR-cHESTRa presents A Christmas Offer-ing with conductor Mike Wen, assistant conductor Stacey Zorn and guest soloist Ellie Higginson, at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 22 at Knox United Church. Enjoy an evening of beautiful music of the season. Tickets on sale at Misty River Books and at the door.

Fundraiser ■ BLack aND wHITE Gala New

Year’s Eve 2012 parties into the early morning hours in the Waap Haawk din-ing room (cafeteria building) at Northwest Community College Dec. 31. Formal. Cocktails at 6 p.m.; fine dining dinner at 7 p.m. Dancing until 2 a.m. Cash bar, formal champagne celebration, party favours and prize draws. Rides home will be provided. This is a fundraiser for student scholar-ships and tax receipts will be issued. To buy tickets or if you have questions, call Lynne at 635-6511 ext. 5219, or email, or come to the campus. Ticket purchase deadline is Dec. 13.

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■ Hockey helps outthe terrace bantam rep team deliver several bags of coats for the coats for kids drive held annually by John heighington of Spotless cleaners Nov. 21.

Music by RICHARD RODGERSBook and Lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II

Based on Ferenc Molnar’s Play LiliomAs Adapted by Benjamin F. Glazer

Original Dances by Agnes de Mille

CALEDONIA PERFORMING ARTSMUSICAL 2012

ASSIGNED SEATING$10 Thursday

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All Shows at 8 p.m.

December 6, 7, 8R. E. M. Lee Theatre, Terrace

Carousel is presented through special arrangement with R & H Theatricals: www.rhn.com.

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Skeena Valley Fall FairAnnual General Meeting December 5th, 6:30pm at the Skeena Diversity center4617 Lazelle Ave, terrace bc

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Kermode Friendship SocietyWill Be Holding Their

Annual General Meeting

Friday, December 7, 2012from 2pm-4pm.

Refreshments will be served. Members of the society and members of the community are

encouraged to attend.

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caledoNia drama students present Carousel for three nights dec. 6-8 at the r.e.m. lee theatre.

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Community CalendarThe Terrace Standard offers the Community Calendar as a public service to its readers and community organizations. This column is intended for non-pro� t organizations and events without an admission charge. Space permitting, items will run two weeks before each event. Deadline is 5 p.m. Thursdays. Fax your event or PSA to 250-638-8432. For complete listings, visit www.terracestandard.com

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COMMUNITY EVENTS DEC. 8 – Metis Community Christmas Gathering, an appetizer or � nger food potluck, from 4 p.m. - 8 p.m. at #306–4546 Park Ave. (Trigo Building). Music, munchies, dancing and a language learning opportunity. Adults and children invited. For more details, call Beverly 635-6864.

DEC. 11 – Terrace Hospice Society will be hosting its annual Celebrate-A-Life Ceremony at 7 p.m. at the Elks Hall (2822 Tetrault St.). This free non-denominational candlelight ceremony is an opportunity to remember and honour the loved ones we have lost. Everyone welcome.

DEC. 12 – Terrace Toastmasters’ next meeting is at 7:30 p.m. at the Graydon Security Building on Keith Ave. Come for a fun evening of learning communication skills, featuring “word of the day,” inspiration, jokes, and more. Everyone has a chance to speak and be evaluated. Meetings usually up to two hours long. Have fun and develop new skills. New members always welcome. For more details, call Randy 635-2151 or Rolf 635-6911.

DEC. 12 – Canadian Cancer Society - Relay For Life is looking for volunteers to help organize the 2013 Terrace event. Interested? Join us at 7 p.m. in the board room at the Terrace Public Library or call 641-9954. Time to register your team for the Relay For Life, happening here May 4, 2013, at www.relaybc.ca/terrace2013.

DEC. 14 – Family Caregiver Support Group, a free forum for education, information, sharing common experiences, tips, strategies and emotional support by videoconference from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the education room at Mills Memorial Hospital. Put on by the Alzheimer Society of BC. To register, call Leanne at 1-866-564-7533.

DEC. 16 – Kitselas Holiday Bazaar takes place from noon to 4 p.m. at Kitselas Community Hall. Just in time for gift giving season, come � nd a handmade gift made by one of our many talented members. Hosted by the Kitselas Treaty Of� ce. For more details, call Geneva at 635-8882.

PSAs STARTING DEC. 8 to 16, Terrace � re� ghters will be asking for food donations to � ll a trailer with non-perishable items for the Salvation Army Christmas Food Campaign.

ADULT PROGRAM AT the Terrace Public Library Sweets of the Season: the Ultimate Library Cookie and Square Share! Get in the Christmas spirit, taste test some of the yummiest recipes in town and share your own. How it works: Bring 1 dozen of your favourite home-made cookies along with the recipe

to the library to share. We will be tasting and exchanging recipes December 6 from 7-8 p.m. For more information or to register, come to the library or call 638-8177.

TERRACE CHURCHES’ FOOD Bank will continue to distribute food from the basement of Dairy Queen at 4643 Park Avenue from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5 for surnames S to Z; and Thursday, Dec. 6 for anyone missed. The above order will be enforced, so please come on the right day and bring identi� cation for yourself and your dependents.

SALVATION ARMY FOOD Bank Drive: until Dec. 24, bring a non-perishable food item to Denny’s for the Salvation Army food bank and get 20 per cent off your bill. One food item must be brought per person.

DURING DECEMBER, THE library invites the community to help “Fill Our Shelves.” Donations can be dedicated to someone and his/her name put up on the donation wall. Donations in any amount accepted and tax receipts issued for amounts of $10 and over. All proceeds will be used to support library programs and services.

TIS THE SEASON: Registration for Week 2 of Christmas Crafts After School with the Terrace Public Library starts Nov. 28. Please pre-register at the library. The event takes place Dec. 5 at 3:30 p.m. For more information or to register, come to the library or call 638-8177.

TERRACE FLU CLINICS are Dec. 7, 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Terrace Health Unit.

THE GREATER TERRACE Seniors Advisory Committee (GTSAC) meets on the � rst Wednesday of the month at 1:30 p.m. at the Happy Gang Centre. Everyone welcome.

THE SALVATION ARMY holds Toonie Wednesdays every � rst and third Wednesday of the month – all clothing is $2. All children’s clothing $2 or less is half price.

GREATER TERRACE BEAUTIFICATION Society meets from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the � rst Thursday of each month at the city council chambers. New members always welcome.

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS OF Terrace meet from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. the � rst Thursday of each month at the Back Eddy Pub. Anyone looking to start or has a new business, looking for work, to hire employees, gain clients or collaborate on a project, newly relocated here, wanting to meet people with unique skills, trades or professions living and working in the Terrace area.

NORTHERN BRAIN INJURY Support Group meets at 4 p.m. on the second and fourth Monday of the month in the boardroom at

the Terrace and District Community Services Society (3219 Eby St.). For more details, call Deb 1-866-979-4673.

THE TERRACE ART Association meets the second Tuesday of each month at 7 p.m. in the gallery. Call 638-8884 for details.

THE TERRACE PARKINSON’S support group meets the second Tuesday of each month. Persons with Parkinsons, family, friends and support people are welcome. For more information, call Therese at 250-638-1869.

THE TERRACE MULTIPLE Sclerosis Support Group meets every second Wednesday of the month. To � nd out the location of the next meeting, call Doug 635-4809 or Val 635-3415.

HEALING TOUCH COMMUNITY Clinics continue to be offered. Call Julie for more details 635-0743. Donations accepted.

PACIFIC NORTHWEST MUSIC Festival 2013 syllabus is available online: changes made by the committee are covered in “Recent Amendments” on the second page of the syllabus. Check out our webpage at www.pnmf.ca or [email protected]. If you prefer a hardcopy, it is available at Sight and Sound or Misty River Books until the Jan. 15 deadline.

TERRACE BIRTHRIGHT SOCIETY has closed its pregnancy crisis of� ce. The hot line and 1-800-550-4900 will remain available free of charge. We would like to thank all those who supported us for the past 31 years.

PARK CENTRE OFFERS a variety of parenting education and support programs including Infant Massage, Nobody’s Perfect, So You Have the Blues (PPD/PPND Support), Parenting Plus!, Fathers Group, Building Healthier Babies, and Building Blocks. Stop in or phone for more information: 4465 Park Ave, 635-1830, or on Facebook (Programs of the Terrace Child Development Centre).

ONLINE CHAT FOR youth in crisis or emotional distress – www.northernyouthonline.ca – from 4 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. daily, except Mondays and Tuesdays. This chat supplements the Youth Support phone line 1-888-564-8336, available from 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. every day.

PUBLIC PRENATAL CLASSES available thru the year. Classes run Tuesdays 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or Thursday 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. For more info or register, call Park Centre at 250-635-1830.

HEALTH ISSUES? HIGH blood pressure? High cholesterol? Do you suffer from a chronic disease like diabetes, arthritis or any cardiac condition? Healthy Terrace offers free group sessions on various topics. For more information call Alanna at Healthy Terrace, 615-5533.

DECEMBER 6, 7, 8, 2012 CALEDONIA SECONDARY SCHOOL - MUSICAL “CAROUSEL” 8:00 p.m.

DECEMBER 11 AND 12, 2012 UPLANDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONCERT

DECEMBER 13, 2012 ECOLE MOUNTAINVIEW SCHOOL CONCERT

DECEMBER 15 AND 16, 2012 ART IN MOTION PRESENTS: THE NUTCRACKER

DECEMBER 20, 2012 VERITAS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CONCERT

DECEMBER 21, 2013 SKEENA MIDDLE SCHOOL WINTER CELEBRATION

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NOVEMBER 2012DATE MAX MIN TOTAL TEMP TEMP PRECIP °C °C mm23 1.5 -1.5 4.6 24 3.5 0.0 0.825 2.0 -0.5 0.626 3.5 0.5 0.027 2.0 0.5 1.028 2.5 0.0 1.0 29 0.4 -2.2 1.6

NOVEMBER 2011DATE MAX MIN TOTAL TEMP TEMP PRECIP °C °C mm23 2.0 0.0 26.2 24 2.5 0.5 7.825 2.5 -1.5 14.1 26 3.0 0.0 20.0 27 3.5 -0.5 1.8 28 3.0 0.0 6.1 29 2.5 0.0 10.6

If you encounter one of our snowplows on the

road, please leave plenty of room between it and

your vehicle.

Look Who’s Dropped In!

Congratulates the parents on the new additions to their families.

Baby’s Name: Mercedes Jayden Gonu Date & Time of Birth:November 27, 2012 at 3:41 a.m.Weight: 8 lbs. 7 oz. Sex: FemaleParents: Holly Green & Ivan Gonu“New sister for Ivan & Preston”

Baby’s Name: Skyler Aimé Neil BissonDate & Time of Birth:November 26, 2012 at 10:02 p.m.Weight: 6 lbs. 3 oz. Sex: MaleParents: Kendra Ratcliff & Darren

Bisson“New brother for Kayden ”

Baby’s Name: Elizabeth Susan Emily Wong

Date & Time of Birth:November 26, 2012 at 11:05 p.m.Weight: 7 lbs. 1 oz. Sex: MaleParents: Christina Wong“New sister for Desmond & Billy”

Baby’s Name: Jacob H. E. Lincoln JrDate & Time of Birth:November 23, 2012 at 11:49 a.m.Weight: 5 lbs. 14 oz. Sex: MaleParents: Tiffany & Jacob Lincoln“New brother for Dallas & Tamika”

Baby’s Name: Kara Linora McKayDate & Time of Birth:November 16, 2012 at 8:55 a.m.Weight: 7 lbs. 7 oz. Sex: FemaleParents: Katherine S McKay“New brother for Cody”

Baby’s Name: Sophia Belle FeldmanDate & Time of Birth:November 7, 2012 at 2:00Weight: 6 lbs. 15 oz.Sex: FemaleParents: Terri & Rory Feldman“New sister for Mikaela & Dayman”

Northwest CouNselliNg aNd traiNiNg wishes to give a

heartfelt thanks to the our friends, clients, and businesses in the North who have supported us over the last 25 years. A personal thank you from Lynn Hughes to her founding partners Lil Farkvam, Andre Klingner, Carol Harvie. Without your vision and support we would not be here today.

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On Angel’s WingsOn Angel’s Wings you were taken away,But in my heart you will always stay.I will hear your whisper in the tallest of trees,Feel your love in the gentle summer breeze.And when I fi nd I miss you the most,Inside our beautiful memoriesI will hold you close.You are my angel watching over meWith the comfort and blessings you bring,You embrace my heart, and hold it close,Forever on Angel’s Wings.

Love always,Mom & Dad, your daughters, Amanda & your grandson Peter; Andrea; Alanna & your granddaughter Sydney; Randi; Robert & family; Glenn & family; WEB, Sharon & family.

Anna Martha (Pasch) Thodt, passed awaysuddenly at her home in Terrace, B.C. on Sunday,

November 18th, 2012. She was born to the late Josef and Gertrude Pasch on July 18th, 1933 in Hitdorf, Germany.

At the age of 18, Anna married Hans Guenter Peter Thodt on November 3rd, 1951 in Leverkusen, Germany. Life as Anna had

known it changed dramatically after this. In 1952 Anna and Hans celebrated the birth of their first child, a little girl they

named Erika. With the changing times Anna and Hans decided to make some changes themselves. Hans left his wife and daughter in Germany and moved to Canada in 1954 where

he gained employment and a new home in Kitimat for his family. In June 1956 Anna and Erika arrived on the east coast of Canada and traveled by train across the country to reunite with Hans in their new home. In a few short years the family again grew with the addition of their son Frank.

The first few years in a foreign country was a challenge for Anna with her limited English skills. She told of her many visits to the grocery store that ended with her coming home with the wrong items, as she was not familiar with the written language or the products in the stores. In time, with the help of many new life-long friends she had made in Kitimat, Anna conquered the language issues.

In 1958 the family relocated again, this time only a few short miles to Terrace. Here they bought a small home on Agar Avenue and did some major renovations to make it fit their growing family that soon included son’s Edward, Peter and daughter Rosalee. In 1978 Hans and Anna purchased 10 acres on North Eby. With the help of their children, they built a new home and turned the land into a small hobby farm. This included goats, geese, chickens, rabbits and a variety of fruits and vegetables that Anna took great pride in canning and preparing for her family. When not in the home effortlessly preparing large delicious meals for her family, Anna was usually tending to her beautiful flowerbeds or knitting something-or-other for one of the family.

Anna and Hans made their final move in 1999 downsizing to a small apartment. This last move allowed them more time to visit with their growing family that had spread out to Alberta, Ontario and Switzerland.

On November 3rd, 2008 Anna and Hans celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary. It was a love that endured to the end when Hans passed away a few short weeks later on November 26th, 2008.

Anna’s greatest joy in life was her family. She took pride in all their accomplishments and was there for all of the sorrows as well. She could always be depended upon as a source of unconditional support for anyone at anytime.

Anna was predeceased by her loving husband Hans Guenter Peter Thodt and son-in-law David Waywitka. She is survived by: sons Frank (Beatrice), Edward and Peter (Marilyn). Daughter’s Erika Waywitka and Rosalee Niznansky (John). Anna was blessed with several grandchildren; grandsons: Jason (Jen), Justin, Aiken & Julian, Tyler and Mathew; granddaughter Melissa-Anne and great-grandson Case.

Private interment was held at Terrace Municipal Cemetery on Monday, November 26th. Memorial donations may be made to the Terrace Community Foundation at 3100 Kalum Street, Terrace, B.C. V8G 4L1.

And though we cannot see you, you are always at our side”We would also like to thank Dr. Fourie and his staff for the wonderful carethey gave our beloved mother in her final days. Also Art Erasmus,Charlie Meeks, Terrace RCMP member’s and the Ambulanceattendants that so thoughtfully helped us in our time of grief.

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known it In 1952 Anna

Anna Thodt, 79

Cara Anne Morton, born June 25, 1968 in Scarbor-ough Ont., died peacefully after a lengthy and coura-geous battle with cancer on November 18, 2012 in Terrace, B.C. Cara leaves behind: her children, Aila Morton and Adrian La Haie; husband Bruce La Haie; mother Anna Morton; and brothers Greg and Derek Morton. Predeceased by her father Ronald Morton.

Cara was passionate about sharing her experience as an artist and experimental fi lmmaker with local com-munity members, and advocated a do-it-yourself ap-proach to creating art, with particular interest in the cre-

ative process, over fi nal products. She will be missed by all who had the good fortune to meet her, whether at a Shutter to Think screening, laughter yoga, or out and about around town. Her family is grateful to friends and community, who have helped so much over the last while.

Service was held at Terrace Pentecostal Assem-bly on Nov. 23, 2012. Donations in memoriam

can be sent to Inspire Health.

Cara Anne Morton

Murdoch Robert MacIntyre Robertson

Born in Revelstoke, BC on April 14, 1926. Doch passed away peacefully on Nov. 18, 2012 with his family by his side. He is survived by his loving wife, Marion of 61 years; son Jarvis ( 51), daughter Fiona (44), grandson Jeffrey(17), and grand daughters Janes-sa(15) and Jennifer(13). His sister Ann Minty is still alive and living in Nepean, Ontario. He is pre-deceased by his mother Effi e and father Bill Robertson.

Doch started his law career with Brown and Harvey in Prince Rupert in 1951. He started his own law prac-tice here in Terrace in 1957 where he acted in many high profi le criminal law cases in this area. He moved into family law in the middle of his career and retired in 1995. He went on to have a book published called “A Touch of Murder Now and Then”, which highlighted his life as a Barrister in this area in the early days of Terrace. He was a member of the Rotary Club here in Terrace for most of his career, earning the Paul Harris Fellowship Award for his tireless years of community service. He served as Chancellor of the Diocese of Caledonia for over 35 years in the Anglican Church. After retiring from this service, he was bestowed the honour of Canon. His friends will miss his whimsical sense of humour and hilarious “one liners” that made everyone chuckle.

He grew up in Vancouver and spent many hours of his childhood riding with his father in the locomotive engine of the Royal Hudson. He graduated from UBC with his law degree in 1951, the same year that he married Marion ( nee Filmer). They moved North for “one year” and like it so much that they spent the rest of their married life here. He and Marion had 3 children: Jarvis , Geoffrey ( deceased), and Fiona.

Mom and family would like to thank Dr. De Bruin, all of the staff at Terraceview Copper Community, Father Ernest and Cory, and all of the support of the communi-ty during Dad’s fi nal days. A funeral was held on Nov. 22, 2012 at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church. In lieu of fl owers, donations may be made to the HOME Society 31581 South Fraser Way, Abbotsford, BC V2T 1T8.

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Cards of Thanks My brother William Groo-tendorst was killed several kilometers north of Kitwan-ga in a single vehicle acci-dent on an extremely icy,

unsanded stretch of high-way on Oct. 29 when he

lost control of his company truck. I would like to ex-

tend my heartfelt gratitude to Eric Roy, an extraordi-narily kind man who did

everything in his power to save my brother. He

stayed with him as he died and for the hour it took un-til the ambulance arrived. Many others stopped to

offer what assistance they could. Most of you remain

unnamed but know you are all Good Samaritans and I offer you my sincer-est thanks for all you did for my brother. Hennie Aikman, Comox, BC.

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BOARD OF DIRECTOR MEMBERSKermodei Tourism Society is the tourism marketing organization for the Terrace area, funded by the City of Terrace and run by an independent Board of Directors. Board members are dedicated to facilitating the growth and sustainable development of the local tourism industry.

The Board is structured so the membership characterizes a broad cross-section of tourism and economic interests in Terrace, including representation from sectors such as:Recreation and Adventure Eco-tourismCulture and History First NationsRetail and Hospitality Accommodations Travel and Transportation Media and Marketing

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KONDOLAS FURNITURE(TERRACE)

has an opening for a permanent full-time

SALESPERSONMust have valid Class 5 drivers license andability to lift. Individual enjoys working withthe public and previous experience is notnecessary. Drop off resumes in person at:

KONDOLAS FURNITURE4525 Lakelse Ave., Terrace, B.C.

No phone calls pleaseHIRING IMMEDIATELY

OPTOMETRIC ASSISTANTA part time position is available for 1 to 2 days per week

plus on-call and holiday relief. Applicants should have excellent communication skills and previous experience working with the public. Flexibility is mandatory. The applicant should be able to multi-task in a fast paced professional environment and be prepared to be trained in all areas of the office operation. Prior experience will help determine the wage.

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Terrace, B.C. V8G 1V5Thank you to all who apply however only applicants selected for

interviews will be contacted.

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If you are organized, able to prioritize, and multitask and work exceptionally well with others and want to be part of a great team then please drop off a resume with handwrit-ten cover letter and drivers license abstract to:

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JOB POSTINGTYSA PROGRAM SUPPORT CLERK Temporary/part-time

The Terrace Youth Soccer Association has an opening for a temporary part-time Program Support Clerk position. This position will commence January 1, 2013 and end on Octo-ber 1, 2013 (subject to review). This is a part-time position (average15 hrs/wk) with variable hours as some evening and weekend work may be required (additional hours may be added during peak times of the season). Hourly rate of $17/hr.DUTIES:Under the general supervision of the TYSA president, the in-cumbent will be required to answer the TYSA phone and email and route all calls to the appropriate people, help maintain the website and provide clerical support to various commit-tees. Duties will also include performing word processing functions in the preparation for the start of the 2013 season, photocopying, fi ling, faxing, ordering departmental supplies and other related duties as assigned.QUALIFICATIONS:High school graduation with at least one-year post-secondary education in Offi ce Administration or Business Administration (diploma preferred) with a minimum of two years of directly related work experience particularly in word processing, cus-tomer service and reception. An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered. The incumbent must also:• Demonstrate profi ciency in the use of word processing,

spreadsheet, presentation and database applications, email and internet;·

• Have the ability to relate effectively with the public, and board members as well as work in a team environment with a minimum of supervision;

• Work effi ciently under pressure of deadlines;• Possess excellent interpersonal, communication and time

management skills;• Have the ability to handle and prioritize different tasks;• Possess excellent proof reading skills as attention to d tail is

mandatoryRespond in confi dence, by submitting a current resume to: [email protected] thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.Closing Date: December 14, 2012

General ManagerBurns Lake Native Development Corporation is a First Nations owned and driven organization. With a strong working relationship with its Board of Directors the organization is committed to promoting entrepreneurship and economic growth development within its six member first nations.

Reporting to the Board of Directors, the ideal candidate for this half-time position (moving to full time pending resources) will demonstrate - financial management skills - good written and oral skills - strong management skills and project management experience - experience working with a board of directors - hands-on HR management skills - familiarity with lending principles - experience in community economic development - experience in a non- profit organization - must have experience in proposal writing, forestry, logging and value added operations - good understanding of dealing with first nation communities

Responsibilities: - co-ordinating meetings of, and reporting to, Board and its committees - assisting Board formulate policies and programs - overseeing administration - planning, developing and monitoring budgets and performance targets - developing and maintaining HR policies; recruiting, training, supervising staff - leading economic development initiatives

Applicants ideally will have several years management experience, post secondary education in a business related field, familiarity with log harvesting, small business lending and an ability to work with diverse client and partnership groups. Aboriginal ancestry is an asset.

Please submit resumes by January 7, 2013 to:

Chair Burns Lake Native Development Corp PO Box 1030, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 Fax: (250) 692-7483 Email: [email protected]

Administration Office Skeena Mall,400-4741 Lakelse Ave.,Terrace, B.C.NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE

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Thorough knowledge of English language. Authoritative, deals well with the public. No criminal record & bondable.Apply in person - Skeena Mall Office

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• Strong knowledge and awareness of Health, Safety and environmental requirements.• Complies with and understands all safety policies and procedures.• Attend and participate in morning toolbox meetings.• Have a valid driver’s license.• Earthworks experience required.

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• Minimum 2 years related experience in similar role. • Excellent communication skills.• The Site Administrator roles requires expert Excel skills.• Warehouseperson must have knowledge of heavy equipment parts.

A combination of day and night shift is require working 12 hour days.All Positions are for the Dasque Cluster Hydro Electric Project in Terrace British Columbia.

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email: [email protected]

Hawkair Aviation is looking for a Crew Scheduling/Offi ce Clerk for our Flight Operations team. The Crew Scheduler is responsible for the develop-ment and coordination of Pilot and Flight Attendant sched-ules and training records. Working within a set of con-straints and rules coordinate, communicate, and manipulate daily fl ight crew schedules to assure effi cient manning and crew legality. Coordinate and monitor crew hotel and fl ight reservations. Monitor biweekly payroll information for Person-nel. Record· information for monthly reports and check for compliance and limita-tions. Aviation experiences an asset Minimum two years’ experience in professional of-fi ce environment, intermediate to advanced level computer and typing skills. Visit Hawkair website at www.hawkair.ca for a detailed job descriptions and how to apply for this position.

KALUM KABS LTD. Requires full/part time dispatchers and drivers. Guaranteed wages, fl exible hours. Drop off resume to 4449 Lakelse Ave. No phone calls please.

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Help WantedMount Layton Hotsprings has immediate openings for FT/PT Cook, Housekeeping and Barmaid/lounge server. Resumes may be faxed, emailed or dropped off in per-son to Mount Layton Hot-springs:

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No phone calls please

Required for an Alberta Trucking Company. One Class 1 Driver. Must have a mini-mum of 5 years experience pulling low boys and driving off road. Candidate must be able to pass a drug test and be will-ing to relocate to Edson, Al-berta. Fax resumes to: 780-725-4430

SCOTIABANK Terrace Part time Customer Rep Position

Available. Drop resume at Ter-race Branch or email vale-

[email protected]

Home Care/SupportFemale Homecare Worker re-quired by disabled female. Ex-perience preferred. Permanent Part Time. Duties include per-sonal care & meal preparation.

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TCS, Thompson Community Services is hoping to fi nd individuals in the immediate area who can help care for our clients that have a variety of needs but most simply need a home where people will care about them. They require supervision and need the support and stability that comes from living in a home. Knowledge around supporting individu-als with developmental disabilities would be an asset.

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Trades, TechnicalHEAVY DUTY Mechanic (Fraser Valley).We are a well established medium size contractor serving the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley area since 1969. We are recruiting a Heavy Duty Mechanic stationed at our Abbotsford shop. You will be re-sponsible to service, maintain and repair our fl eet of mobile paving and grading equipment in addition to un-dertaking basic welding and fabri-cating duties to upkeep equipment. Must have a good understanding of hydraulic and electrical systems and have a keen eye for preventa-tive maintenance practice. You must have a valid class 5 BC driv-er’s license and a safe driver’s ab-stract in order to drive our service truck to respond to fi eld service re-quests. A min 3yr experience is needed along with Interprovincial Heavy Duty Mechanic Certifi cate and you must possess an ability to work in a team environment and at times with limited supervision. This is a unionized position paying very competitive wages and an exten-sive benefi ts package for the right candidate. Respond by email to: [email protected]

JOURNEYMAN AUTOMO-TIVE Service Technician. Han-na Chrysler Ltd. (Hanna, Al-berta) needs a few more good people. Busy, modern shop. $25. - $31./hour + bonus, benefi ts. Great community. In-quire or send resume. Fax 403-854-2845; or Email to: [email protected]

TERA ENVIRONMENTAL Consultants (TERA) has im-mediate openings for positions in the environmental fi eld. TERA is an environmental consulting services company specializing in the Canadian pipeline, power line, and oil and gas industries. TERA pro-vides its employees with com-petitive compensation andbenefi ts, fl exible working schedules, career growth op-portunities and more. For cur-rent and future opening visit our website www.teraenv.com. To apply e-mail your cover let-ter and resume [email protected]

Work WantedLandscaping & snow removal

Work Mon to Thurs. Reasonable Rates, Referenc-

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DAVE MATERIPERSONAL REAL ESTATE CORP

4389 QUEENSWAY DR. $129,000 MLS• 1056 Sq. Ft.- 3 Bedrms, Dblewide

• Garage - Lots Of Parking• 13 Acres Mostly TreedRUSTY LJUNGH

3354 RIVER DRIVE $109,900 MLS• Great starter or investment

• 2 bedrooms on level 1/4 acre• full basement for developingMARION OLSON

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4818 DAIRY $49,900 MLS • Vacant Land

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3943 CRESCENTVEIW - $199,900 MLS• new coffee colored kitchen cabinets• new high efficiency furnace & heat pump• updated laminate flring, privt backyrd

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• *open designed kitchen• *large deck, single garage

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• *gorgeous custom kitchen• *25 X 44 detached shopKELLY BULLEID

JACKPINE FLATS - $339,500 MLS• beautiful 5 bdrm, 3 bath home

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• 4 bdrms, large master ensuite• 30 X 40 shop, 16’ drs, mezzanine

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AdvertisementLand Act : Notice of Intention to Apply for a

Disposition of Crown LandWater Act: Application to Divert & Use WaterTake notice that Northern Hydro Ltd. of Maple Ridge, BC, intends to make application to the Province of British Columbia for the Treaty Waterpower cluster which consists of the following components:

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF SURVEYORS CREEK AND BELL IRVING RIVER, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 489.293 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Surveyors Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408323);

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF TIM WILLIAMS CREEK, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 1,103.44 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Tim Williams Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408364);

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF GILBERT LAKE AND TREATY CREEK, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 488.71 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Gilbert Lake & Treaty Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408365);

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF SCOTT CREEK AND TODEDADA LAKE, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 329.9 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Scott Creek & Todedada Lake. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408366);

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF SCOTT CREEK, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 567.91 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Scott Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408367);

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF WILDFIRE CREEK, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 1,329.36 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Scott Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408368);

• Lands Act applications for an Licence of Occupation for Waterpower transmission line purposes covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF BOWSER RIVER, SCOTT CREEK, TODEDADA LAKE, TODEDADA CREEK, TREATY CREEK, AND BELL-IRVING RIVER, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 1,890.220 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Scott Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408349);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from Surveyors Creek which flows into the Bowser River. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 23.5 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 4.5 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001362);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from Tim Williams Creek which flows into Treaty Creek. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 3.4 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 2.4 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001374);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from an unnamed source (Unnamed B) which flows into Treaty Creek. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 1.0 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 4.8 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001375);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from an unnamed tributary (Scott Creek tributary) which flows into Scott Creek. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 1.1 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 2.8 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001372);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from Scott Creek which flows into the Bowser River. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 4.0 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 5.5 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001373);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from Wildfire Creek which flows into the Bell-Irving River. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 2.4 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 7.5 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001376);

Written comments concerning this application (with file numbers) should be directed to:

Treaty Cluster Project LeadMFLNRO, Smithers-Skeena Region, PO Box 5000 - 3726 Alfred Ave, Smithers, BC, V0J 2N0

Comments [or objections to the water application] will be received until January 4, 2013. Comments received after this date may not be considered. For more information on the Land Act application, please visit our website at http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp .

The information you provide will be subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. . For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Regional Office.

TAKE NOTICE THAT, in accordance with the Community Charter, the Council of the City of Terrace intends to lease the following lands to the not-for-profit group My Mountain Co-op: a 645-square foot portion of the building known as the Kwinitsa Foreman’s Residence located at 4805 Highway 16 West (legally described as District Lot 362, R5, Coast District, Plan BCP17919) for a one-year period to December 31, 2013 for the total rent of One Dollar ($1.00).THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 26 OF THE COMMUNITY CHARTER, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO.

Ron Bowles,Director of Finance

CITY OF TERRACEPUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENTION

DISPOSAL OF LAND

NOTICE TOCREDITORS AND OTHERS

RE: THE ESTATE OFANNA THODT, also known as ANNA MARTHA THODT,

Deceased, formerly of Terrace, British ColumbiaCreditors and others having claims against the estate of ANNA THODT, also known as ANNA MARTHA THODT, are hereby notified that particulars of their claims should be sent to the undersigned Executors at #200- 4630 Lazelle Avenue, Terrace, BC., V8G 1S6, on or before JANUARY 23, 2013, after which date the Executors will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard only to the claims that have then been received.EDWARD HANS THODT and PETER ARTHUR THODT, ExecutorsWarner Bandstra Brown, Solicitors

CITY OF TERRACENOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT

TAKE NOTICE THAT application has been made to amend Section 7.4.2.2 of Zoning Bylaw No. 1431-1995.

THE SUBJECT LAND:The application affects the land located at 3202 Munroe Street, within the City of Terrace, shown hatched on the accompanying map and described as:Lot 1, District Lot 362, Range 5, Coast District, Plan BCP43149

THE INTENT:To Amend Section 7.4.2.2 by including the following:.2 Despite the provisions of this Part, the following pro-visions shall apply to:

.4 Lot 1, District Lot 362, Range 5, Coast District, Plan BCP43149

.1 In addition to the uses described in 7.4.2.1 the following uses shall be permitted:

.2 technical consulting firms

BYLAW INSPECTION:THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT BYLAW AND RELEVANT BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS MAY BE INSPECTED in the reception area at the City of Terrace Public Works Build-ing at 5003 Graham Avenue, Terrace, B.C., between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day from Wednes-day, November 28th, 2012 to Monday, December 10th, 2012 excluding Saturdays, Sundays and Statutory Holi-days. For enquiries concerning this application contact David Block, City Planner at 250-615-4000.

PUBLIC HEARING DETAILS:Any persons wishing to voice their opinions regarding this application may do so in writing, and/or in person, AT THE PUBLIC HEARING TO BE HELD IN THE MUNICI-PAL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AT 7:00 P.M. ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 10TH, 2012.

THIS NOTICE IS GIVEN IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, R.S.B.C., 1996, AND AMENDMENTS THERETO.

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Duplex / 4 Plex1 BDRM Basement Suite, Lo-cated near town, share laun-dry, N/P, N/S. Good Ref’s Re-qu’d. Call 250-635-61223 bed, 1 1/2 bath, duplex in upper Thornhill. New carpet and paint, W/D, gas fur-nace,large yard. Quiet neigh-borhood close to Golf course and bus. $1000/mo. Quiet ten-ants, NS, good references re-quired. Contact 250-635-6813For Rent taking application on side by side duplex 3 bdrm, 2 bth, carport, shed in upper Thornhill n/p n/s Avail. Dec, 2 references required. 1,100/m plus utilities.

Homes for RentFRESHLY renovated 1600sq ft rancher, upper thornhill, Ter-race. 3 bed, 2 bath, double car garage, lots of parking. Dam-age deposit required. Refer-ences required. No smoking in home. $1,400 p/m, call 615-9995.

HOME FOR RENT 4 bdrm, 3 full bathrm,execu-tive house quiet dead end st.Inc 5 appliances, ref’s

req’d, avail immed $1,600/pm+util.N/S,N/P.

e-mail [email protected] 3 bdrm rancher on South-side. N/P, N/S, Good Refer-ences Required. $950/mo. 250-638-8639.

Suites, Upper3 BDRM Upper Unit at 4721 Loen Ave. F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P.

Excellent Ref’s Requ’d. Utilities Included. $1,050. 250-

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TownhousesPINE CREST

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Call Jenn 622-4304TOWNHOMES in KITIMAT3 bdrm, 1 ½ bath, carportStart $700. Sorry no Pets.

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Transportation

Cars - Domestic2007 PT Cruiser, 29,000KM, as new, 5yr Ext. Warranty, new studded tires, asking $10,500. Phone 250-641-0006

MotorcyclesDIRT Bikes, ATV’s, UTV’s & Golf Buggies. Cartsplus Kam-loops. 888-371-3946 - www.cartsplusbc.com - [email protected]

Off Road Vehicles96 Yamaha 350 ATV. Good shape mechanical & body. Mud Lite Tires. Winch. Great Hunting Bike. $2,700. Call Terry 250-635-5592

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AdvertisementLand Act : Notice of Intention to Apply for a

Disposition of Crown LandWater Act: Application to Divert & Use WaterTake notice that Northern Hydro Ltd. of Maple Ridge, BC, intends to make application to the Province of British Columbia for the Treaty Waterpower cluster which consists of the following components:

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF TREATY AND TODEDADA CREEKS, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 529.947 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located in the vicinity of Treaty Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408346);

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF TODEDADA CREEK, TOGETHER WITH ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN FORESHORE BEING PART OF THE BED OF TODEDADA CREEK, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 511.84 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Todedada Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408347);

• Lands Act applications for an Investigative Licence and a General Area Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OR TREATY CREEK AND BELL-IRVING RIVER CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 888.221 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at Treaty Creek. The Lands file number that has been established for these applications is (6408348);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from an Unnamed Creek which flows into Treaty Creek. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 2.6 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 6.5 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001354);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from Todedada Creek which flows into Treaty Creek. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 2.2 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 11.5 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001355);

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to divert and use water from Treaty Creek which flows into Bell-Irving River. The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 32.0 m3/s for Power generation purposes. The proposed point of diversion will be located approximately 7.0 kms from the mouth of the Creek. The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application (Water File: 6001356);

Written comments concerning this application (with file numbers) should be directed to:

Treaty Cluster Project LeadMFLNRO, Smithers-Skeena Region, PO Box 5000 - 3726 Alfred Ave, Smithers, BC, V0J 2N0

Comments [or objections to the water application] will be received until January 11, 2013. Comments received after this date may not be considered. For more information on the Land Act application, please visit our website at http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp .

The information you provide will be subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. . For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Regional Office.

AdvertisementLand Act : Notice of Intention to Apply for a

Disposition of Crown Land Water Act: Application to Divert, Use and Store

Water Take notice that Syntaris Power Corp. of Vancouver, BC, intends to make application to the Province of British Columbia for Kinskuch River hydroelectric project which consists of the following components:

• Land Act application for an Investigative Licence for Waterpower covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF KINSKUCH LAKE TOGETHER WITH ALL THAT CROWN FORESHORE BEING PART OF THE BED OF KINSKUCH LAKE, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 8,210.16 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at approximately 32 km northeast of Alice Arm in northern BC. (The Lands file number that has been established for this application is 6408049)

• Land Act application for a Licence of Occupation for Waterpower covering the same area detailed above (Lands File: 6408049)

• Land Act application for an Licence of Occupation for Waterpower transmission line covering ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF NISKA LAKES, TOGETHER WITH DISTRICT LOT 3412 AND THOSE PARTS OF DISTRICT LOTS 3401, 3402 AND 3403, CASSIAR DISTRICT, CONTAINING 9,976.73 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS situated on Provincial Crown Land located at approximately 32 km northeast of Alice Arm in northern BC. (The Lands file number that has been established for this application is 6408464)

• Water Act application for a Water Licence to Divert, Use and Store Water from Kinskuch Lake which flows into Kinskuch River The proposed quantity of water to be diverted is 16m3/s for Power Generation purposes The proposed quantity of water to be stored is 55,2000,000m3 The proposed point of diversion and storage dam will be located at the head of Kinskuch Lake at the confluence of the Kinskuch River The land upon with the water will be used is Crown land described in the Land Act application above (The Water file number that has been established for this application is 6001399);

Written comments concerning this application (with file numbers) should be directed to:

Kinskuch River Waterpower Project Lead MFLNRO, Smithers-Skeena Region, PO Box 5000 - 3726 Alfred Ave, Smithers, BC, V0J 2N0

Comments [or objections to the water application] will be received until January 10, 2013. Comments received after this date may not be considered. For more information on the Land Act application, please visit our website at http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index.jsp .

The information you provide will be subject to the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. . For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations Regional Office.

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T E R R A C E S T A N D A R D

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Climbing wall nears completion

AnnA Killen PHOTOs

At top, fourth from right, Ben Matthias presides over the climbing rope cutting ceremony (a clever riff on your traditional ribbon cutting) Friday, Nov. 23 with community supporters. At right, Marcus Mat-theis and Landon Andrei test out the new wall.

AfTeR yeARS in the making, Caledonia Secondary School’s climbing wall is near the peak of completion, with only a few final steps to go before it will be in full use.

“It will be very nice to see it used to its full potential,” said Ben Matthias, the driving force behind the wall, at the wall’s ‘climbing rope’ cutting ceremony on friday, Nov. 23. “There’s still a lot of work to be done.”

That work includes finishing the wall—the top right corner was not fully finished—and implementing the new school district policy for safe use and maintenance of the wall.

Then, the wall will be made available to any school in the district —pending time and avail-

ability of the wall and a climbing wall coordinator.

And friday marked the first climbing coordinator class, with teachers and support staff from six schools in the district coming out to learn the lay of the wall so that it can be used safely and managed properly.

“We have many teachers who are anxiously awaiting starting climbing clubs and are working on a cross grade level club day where K-12 could share the wall,” he said.

“It’s a way of bringing young kids together with old kids,” he said. “And introduce them to the world of climbing.”

And what about the out-of-school climbing community?

The goal is to eventually open it up for community use.

“There are many factors that need to be addressed,” said Matth-ias, noting that there is a group of local climbers who have been meet-ing and brainstorming how to go about its use.

“We had one initial meeting at Caledonia during the initial con-struction of the wall to give an op-portunity for some of the climbers to meet each other, get together as a group, and see how they could work together to make that part hap-pen,” he said. “After all necessary components have been completed, times for usage will be set based on availability of the school facility.”

The wall’s construction was made possible by thousands of dol-lars donated by community groups and members, and the hard work of volunteers.

Big wins for Terrace at badminton tourney NeARly 40 Junior badminton players compet-ed here in Terrace at the Thornhill Junior Sec-ondary gym on Saturday, Nov. 24 for the annual junior badminton tournament.

Players hailing from Terrace, Kitimat, Prince Rupert—with one exchange student from Que-bec—took to the court, with some of Terrace’s most promising young athletes working their way to the top of the tournament with multiple wins.

The popular badminton program has group practices twice a week, and a handful of tourna-ments a year.

The junior program has been hosting tour-naments for about half a decade, but the adults program has been around for much, much lon-ger.

In this year’s junior tournament, matches were played in age categories between U10 and U16. for singles play, levi Kroeker of Terrace took the U10 boys division.

And Prince Rupert’s Jordan Truong was first

in the U12. Centennial Christian School’s evan Veldman

of Terrace took first place in U 14 boys. While Jake Blix of Terrace was first place in

the U16 category. for the girls, leah Julseth of Terrace took

the U10/12 top spot.And leona Truong travelled from Prince Ru-

pert to take first in the U16 division. for doubles, Braden Clunas and levi Kroek-

er, both of Terrace, were the winners in the U10 division.

And the team of logan Clunas and Garic Hill, also both of Terrace, were first in the U12 boys meet.

Terrace’s leah Julseth and Sarah Kroeker took the win for the U12 girls.

And lucas Mantel and evan Veldman of Terrace were first in the U14 boys.

In the U16 girls, Michaela Julseth and Bri-anna Weir of Terrace took the top spot.

COnTribuTed PHOTO

terrAce’s JAke Blix and Quebec’s roxanne plante, winners of the U16 mixed doubles, ready for a serve. Cont’d Page A27

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After struggling with solid bam-boo salmon rods, Bob Clay re-alized that if he wanted build and sell two handed cane rods,

they had to be lighter. While honing his craft by assembling single handed fly rods, Bob had learned of E.C. Powell, the inno-vative bamboo rod builder from Maryville, California. Powell came up with a method of rod construction that involved stripping slabs of the dense outside fibres from the bamboo, gluing these to a strip of cedar, then sanding out a series of hollow sections up the length of the rod blank. This semi-hollowing, as Powell dubbed it, enabled the maker to construct a bamboo rod that was not only considerably lighter than oth-er long bamboo poles, but just as strong.

From the time of their introduction in the 1930s, E.C. Powell’s power poles, were used by the members of the Golden Gate Casting Club of San Francisco to take all sorts of casting competitions. Bob Clay’s bright idea was to employ Powell’s semi-hollowing process to two handed bamboo poles. A measure of how well he suc-ceeded is demonstrated by the fact that the wait for a Bob Clay two handed bamboo rod is now two years. Still, Bob’s is a niche market. Almost all two handed rods used by contemporary anglers are made of car-bon fibre or graphite, as was the case in the 1980s when Art Lingren, Mike Maxwell

and I were pretty much the only steelheaders casting two handed rods over the rivers in the this province.

At that time, Art was editing the Totem Top-ics, the newsletter of the Totem Flyfishing Club of Vancouver. I can’t recall whether the pub-lication was quarterly or monthly, but I do recall gleaning a lot of use-ful information about angling with double handed rods from the articles Art wrote for the Topics.

Mike Maxwell was a English expatriate with considerable experience with the two handed salmon rod. Mike had most of the Totem Flyfishers practising with two fisted fly rods at the pond in Burnaby’s Central Park, only blocks away from his Golden West Fly Shop where one could buy a copy of his treatise on Spey casting, complete with a video cassette from Mike’s lovely wife, Denise, who was a superb fly caster in her own right, or from the master him-self. The shop also carried Golden West Rods, built to Mike’s specifications by

the rod builders at the J. Kennedy Fisher plant and J.W. Young reels fa-voured by Mike, as well as a selection of his fa-vourite lines.

Mike and Denise bought a lodge on the Bulkley River where they conducted classes in Spey casting and Spey fishing. The latter was a designation that Mike coined along with the term Spey rods, which, in Mike’s native coun-try were known simply as salmon rods. His original inclination was to call his two handed poles steelhead rods, but

Mike realized that the traditional rods used by float fishers were already called that. Today there are Speyclaves and Speylines, and almost every steelheader wielding a long rod refers to the avocation as Spey fishing. Mike and Denise also promoted the use of double handed Spey rods from their lodge on the Bulkley River, where they conducted Spey fishing clinics and did some steelhead guiding.

Three decades ago, I spent an after-noon talking to Mike in his shop on Joyce

Road in Vancouver. At that time I was do-ing a decent job of manipulating my 15 foot Hardy salmon rod thanks to the many hours I spent trying to emulate an instruc-tional video by the famous English fisher, Hugh Faulkus. When I told Mike I was in-terested in two handed rods his face lit up.

What rod do your have? he asked.A 15 foot Hardy Favourite, I replied. It will do, he said, leaving me to with

the obvious inference that he thought his rods were superior. What reel?

A Hardy Salmon number 3, I replied. Don’t need anything that expensive,

Mike said. One of these will do, he added holding out a made by J.W. Young.

Mike then showed me some video of himself casting a long line on the Bulkley. I noticed that his technique required more body movement than Faulkus’s approach, which relied on the caster’s shoulders and arms, but in the result was pleasing and ef-fective in both cases.

Mike, who passed in 2004, probably contributed more to the Renaissance of two handed rods in British Columbia than any single individual, and, I suspect, since he was waving his long rods at tackle shows throughout the Pacific Northwest when ev-ery other steelheader was casting flies with single handed rods, that his influence may have extended south of the border too. ...Next week the American connection...

S K E E N A A N G L E R

ROB BROWN

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Sports ScopeA LOOK ahead at what’s on the sports hori-zon. To have your sporting or athletic event included, email [email protected].

River KingsTHE TERRACE River Kings are hitting up Kitimat and Prince Rupert this weekend. They’ll meet the Demons on Friday, Dec. 7 night, and head to Rupert on Saturday, Dec. 8. The Kings have had a tough go this season, losing a couple of their top players to injury, but are looking to repeat their wins against Lac La Hache and Williams Lake late last month to bring them up in the standings before the break.

SwimmingTHE TERRACE Bluebacks swimming club will be travelling to Kitimat Dec. 14 - 15 for the annual Kitimat December Invitational. Watch out for athletes Angelina Filziakis, Jade Heathfield and Brayden Philips, who per-formed well at the team’s last meet in Prince George mid-November.

Jake Blix, who also won first place in the U16 Singles category, and partner Roxanne Plante, a Terrace/Que-bec exchange student, won the U16 mixed doubles.

Plante, who played badminton in her home-town, was here in Ter-race for three months, and left last Friday to travel back to Quebec.

The adult badminton program held a tourna-ment last weekend– look for those results in next week’s paper.

The club runs from September to April, where it rounds off the season with a combined juniors and adults tour-nament that sees many attend.

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Exchange student wins tournament

Contributed PHoto

Here Are the participants of this year’s Terrace Junior Badminton Tournament.

‘A little reality check’ for Midget rep girls in Kamloops

Contributed PHoto

Here Are the Midget Female reps after winning a tournament in Vernon early last month. They came in third in the Kamloops tournament they travelled to over the Nov. 24 weekend.

THE TERRACE Midget Female Reps broke their tournament winning streak over the Nov. 24 weekend in Kamloops, taking third place after falling to Red Deer in the semi-finals.

The weekend saw the team face off against some of the high-est ranked teams in the province, like the North Shore Avalanche and the Surrey midget girls team.

And the girls held their own, picking themselves up after a hard 5-1 loss to the number one ranked North Shore Avalanche to beat Surrey, the third ranked team, 5-1.

They then continued to prove they have Vernon’s number, beat-ing them 7-1, for their third win

against the team this year. Despite losing in the semi-

finals, something the team isn’t used to as they’ve been practi-cally undefeated in every tourna-ment this year, their coach, Mario Desjardins, says it was a “pretty successful weekend.”

“Overall the girls I thought had a pretty decent tournament, but didn’t play their best hockey collectively as a team,” he said.

“Certainly some room for im-provement. Maybe a little reality check.”

The team has just returned home from a trip to Prince George, where they were looking to redeem themselves. Look for those results in print next week.

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