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Scientists urge LNG site rejectionBy JOSH MASSEY

THE PACIFIC NorthWest LNG project planned for Lelu Island faces another challenge now that a group of 108 scientists and aca-demics have signed a collective letter urging the federal govern-ment to reject the $11.4 billion dollar export terminal planned for the Skeena River estuary close to

Port Edward.The letter, released today, out-

lines a number of reasons why the signers believe that the Can-adian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) draft report re-leased last month is flawed in its conclusion that the project would not have a severe impact on fish and that the methods it used to draw this conclusion were not

based on sound science.Addressed to federal environ-

ment and climate change minis-ter Catherine McKenna, the letter was written by six scientists and co-signed by 103 others, and con-cludes that “while we are not de-cision-makers, we can assess when decisions would be made based on false premises. This is one of those instances. We urge you to reject

this draft report.”The CEAA draft report was

completed after a prolonged en-vironmental review, and concluded that the project design would not adversely affect Flora Bank adja-cent to Lelu Island, which is a tidal area full of eelgrass where young fish congregate.

“A worse location is unlikely to be found for PNW LNG with

regard to potential risk to fish and fisheries,” reads the letter coun-tering the ministry’s draft report.

The report is now nearing the end of a 30-day public comment stage after which it will be final-ized and then sent to McKenna and other federal cabinet ministers for review.

KELSEY WIEBE PHOTO

■ Smooth sailingIT’S GOING to be a lot easier for people with mobility challenges to gain access from the main gate at Heritage Park to the dance hall thanks to the construction of a brick pathway. In the past, people in wheelchairs have had to be pushed over the park’s uneven lawn. Museum curator Kelsey Wiebe notes that the dance hall is well-used by residents of nearby Terraceview Lodge and McConnell Estates who often attend teas and other functions. In the photo is Lloyd Johnson carrying a load of bricks while Chris Chayba arranges others in a set pattern. Cypress Contracting was hired to do the work.

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THE CITY’S cold weather shelter has re-opened barely a week after it was closed.

Run by the Ksan House Society the 20-bed shelter closed Feb. 26, a month earlier than planned because of warmer temperatures and less moisture than anticipated.

But when the weather turned rainy and colder the middle of last week, the decision was made to re-open it on March 3, says society executive director Amanda Bains.

“We have a contract that says it needs to be certain tem-peratures to be open and so if the weather doesn’t fall within that we close,” said Bains of the original closure decision, which is tied to the contract that the society has with the provincial B.C. Housing agency.

“It’s not me saying that I think people can stay outside, sleep in the bush, it’s that we have to follow the rules of our contract,” she said.

But instead of renting space at the All Nations Centre on Sparks St. close to downtown, the society is instead using a room at its southside Hall St. complex which also contains the society’s year-round shelter.

That decision was based on the society not having a Northern Health Authority permit to use the kitchen at the All Nations Centre.

Bains said the permitting issue came as a surprise because the the emergency shelter had been using the kitchen without a permit at the All Nations Centre for several winters.

For about a week before the Feb. 26 closure, staff had been handing out coupons for McDonald’s breakfasts in-stead of providing one themselves.

Due to the time it would have taken to get the permit and the fact the contract with BC Housing expires March 31 anyway, Bains said the decision was made to use a meeting room at the Hall St. complex.

In the long term, Bains says Ksan Society hopes to pur-chase a building in the downtown core that will be a more suitable location for the cold weather shelter.

She said the All Nations Centre facility was not ideal for an overnight shelter and she looks forward to finding a permanent home with the possibility of staying open year round and even expanding to include a detox centre.

The extreme weather shelter is popularly called a “damp shelter” because it provides beds for people who have been drinking, something not permitted for people using the Ksan society’s regular shelter.

Shelter closes,then re-opens

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A DELEGATION from Qinhuangdao, China travelled here late last year to sign what’s called a friendly exchange agreement with Terrace.

By JOSH MASSEY

TERRACE MAYOR Carol Leclerc and two city councillors are off to the Chinese city of Qinhuangdao in May, building on a friendship agreement signed when that city’s officials vis-ited here in late Nov-ember.

Leclerc will be ac-companied by council-lors Stacey Tyers and Brian Downie and city economic develop-ment manager Danielle Myles and in addition to visiting the city’s economic development zone, also have Beijing on their tour list.

Speaking at the Feb. 22 city council meet-

ing, Tyers called the trip “a good opportun-ity” to build relation-ships and Downie said “he particularly wanted to go”.

The choice of which councillors to send on the trip was made by a draw from a hat, with all except councillors Lynne Christiansen and James Cordeiro putting their names in, because they had gone on a pre-vious trip.

The city’s Chinese hosts also want a rep-resentative from the Kitselas First Nation to accompany the city delegation and also sug-gested Northwest Com-munity College and the Coast Mountains

School District be asked to send one representa-tive each.

The group will be hosted for a week in May by the Qinhuang-dao Foreign Affairs Office and the Qin-huangdao Economic and Technological De-velopment Zone which will cover the expenses for three days in the east coast city of Qinhuang-dao and two in Beijing, with flights to and from and any other expenses covered by those on the tour.

For the City of Ter-race and Kitselas, it means meeting with planners in Qinhuang-dao and learning about their progress in plans

to develop a section of the Skeena Industrial Development Park pur-chased by a subsidiary of the economic de-velopment from the city in 2014.

As for potential rep-resentatives of local educational institutions, it would be a chance for them to learn about the

school system in China, with the hopes of stu-dent exchanges and at-tracting international students.

This is the fourth trip made by city officials since the deal to sell 1,186 acres of industrial park land was initially negotiated in November 2013.

Last year’s friend-ship agreement is supposed to solidify cultural and economic ties between muni-cipalities in different countries.

The city ended up selling the land for $12 million to the Qinhuangdao development zone.

Since then, Vancouver company Taisheng International has overseen the effort to attract manufactur-ing companies to the park.

The trip will cost the city $6,000 or $1,500 each for the four people scheduled to go.

A4 www.terracestandard.com NEWS Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Terrace Standard

From front

Reject Lelu site, scientists sayThey’ll then make the ultimate decision on

whether the project is rejected or accepted pending it meets any number of conditions which may be laid out.

That federal acceptance is the last of two condi-tions that must be met according to an announce-ment made last June by the Pacific NorthWest LNG, which is majority-owned by the Malay-sian-state Petronas corporation.

The first condition, already checked off, was the finalization of provincial project development agreement legislation which passed last summer.

The letter writers’ criticism of the CEAA report contained five main points including the opinion it misrepresented the importance of the area to fish, proceeded with lack of information (for example of fish species like eulachon which were never studied), relied too heavily on the science provided by Pacific Northwest LNG-funded studies, didn’t look adequately at cumulative effects, and made unproven claims that it could offset the damage it does through enhancing other areas of the water-shed.

The letter states that “the protection of the Lelu Island/Flora Bank area would benefit the second-largest salmon producing watershed in Canada.”

It continues in saying that the company’s plan to

enhance other areas of the watershed to offset their project’s footprint on the ecosystem “could actual-ly cause additional damage to fishes of the Skeena River estuary.”

The six signers and co-signers are scientists, academics and others who are either active or re-tired from a wide variety of regional, national and international conservation organizations and uni-versities.

Included in the list is Otto Langer, a former habitat assessment chief for the federal fisheries and oceans department and Bob Hooton, a former senior fisheries biologist for the provincial environ-ment ministry’s Skeena Region.

Among the regional co-signers is Mark Cleve-land, the head biologist for the Gitanyow Fish-eries Authority. It is also co-signed by internation-ally-known conservationist Alexandra Morton.

Pacific NorthWest LNG has been promoting the economic benefits of the project which it says will contribute up to $1.3 billion in annual taxes and royalties to the federal, provincial and municipal governments.

Pacific NorthWest LNG “is committed to build-ing and operating a world-class LNG facility in an environmentally sustainable manner that First Na-tions and residents in the region can be proud of,” said a company official last month when the draft

report was released.The Lelu Island site has already been rejected

by the Lax Kw’alaams First Nation which counts it within its traditional territory and set up a protest camp at the location last year.

The Lax Kw’alaams turned down a benefits package last year that would have amounted to $1.4 billion over the life of the project.

Other Tsimshian First Nations, gathered togeth-er within the Tsimshian Environmental Steward-ship Authority, including the Kitselas and Kitsum-kalum have so far welcomed the report.

“All of our leaders and people have been weigh-ing the benefits against the potential impacts through multiple public meetings. We are encour-aged that the proponent has undertaken significant additional work to address concerns and that the independent scientists at CEAA [Canadian En-vironmental Assessment Agency] have validated this work,” said Kitselas chief councillor Joe Bevan when the report was released.

In January, a large gathering in Prince Rupert called the Salmon Summit featured the signing of a declaration calling for the permanent protection of Lelu Island. The signing included a number of First Nations hereditary chiefs and others, includ-ing Skeena NDP MLA Robin Austin and Skeena – Bulkley NDP MP Nathan Cullen.

A DEADLINE has been set for the First Nations located in the areas along the route of proposed nat-ural gas pipelines to forge a revenue sharing deal with the province by March 31, says Kitselas chief councillor Joe Bevan.

After over a year in the negotiating, the chal-lenge to figure out how much money each First Nation will get from a total of $10 million annual payments allotted per pipeline has seen several deadlines come and go.

Meanwhile, the likelihood of many of the pro-jects going through has diminished as global mar-kets have plummeted for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) to be produced from the gas delivered by the pipelines.

Originally, the provincial government had in-volved itself in the negotiations with the First Na-tions chiefs who have traditional territory along the proposed routes and set a deadline of June 30 of last year to hash out an agreement.

At one time the province had indicated it would impose a deal if one could not be negotiated.

But the province then decided to back out as ac-tive negotiator and leave the decision to the chiefs, who in turn aimed to have a deal in place by Dec. 31 of last year.

That deadline then passed with no deal and a group of chiefs met in early February in Vancouver to continue talks.

“The province has provided technical informa-tion to First Nations, but the province has not been involved in the First Nations’ decision-making pro-cess,” said a statement from the aboriginal relations and reconciliation ministry.

Up to 32 First Nations stand to benefit from the $10 million per year per pipeline.

Bevan said the last meeting in Vancouver saw some progress made but that a final deal has not materialized. “It’s a complex situation,” said Bevan.

A key to the negotiation is figuring out a formu-

la that would allot a percentage of the $10 million to band councils along the path of the pipelines in greater or lessor amounts based on distance tra-versed by the pipeline or other factors such an en-vironmental footprint. Another suggestion was to divide the money up equally.

Each of the proposed pipelines – Coastal Gas-Link to Kitimat for the planned LNG Canada li-quefied natural gas plant, Prince Rupert Gas Transmission to the Lelu Island/Port Edward area for the planned Pacific NorthWest LNG plant and the Westcoast Connector to another planned LNG plant at Prince Rupert – originate in the northeast of the province and come west through huge expanses of First Nations traditional territory.

The Pacific Trails Pipeline impact benefits agreement for the planned Kitimat LNG plant at Kitimat was figured out separately back in 2013.

First Nations have also been negotiating separ-ate agreements directly with pipeline companies.

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ARTIST’S CONCEPTION of the Lelu Island Pacific NorthWest LNG plant location. It features now only a facility to super cool natural gas into a liquid form but an export terminal to ship the product overseas.

Pipeline benefits talks extended

LAST YEAR local resident Tony Walker won $1,000 to further develop his idea of a micro-hydro project to provide power for the Shames Moun-tain ski area and and wean it off of using a diesel generator.

That same year, Chris Barton of Ter-race won $1,500 to buy equipment to fabricate reflectorless survey targets.

This year organ-izers of the 2016 Northwest Innova-tion Challenge are back looking for more ideas from northwestern B.C. residents leading to commercially-viable businesses and pro-jects.

“We are really excited to see what ideas people come up with. This is the third annual Northwest In-novation Challenge and applications just keep getting better,” said Rick Brouwer from the non-profit Skeena-Nass Cen-tre for Innovation in Resource Economics (SNCIRE) based in Terrace.

SNCIRE is based on the idea of de-veloping viable and stable business opportunities away from what has been the traditional boom and bust cycle of nat-ural resource use in the region.

“In 2014 and 2015, applicants of all ages, from across the region, presented incredibly smart and creative ideas,” said Brouwer.

“Many had real potential to benefit the region and for new business oppor-tunities. Others were quirky and fun. We were impressed by all of them.”

As in the past two years, SNCIRE has lined up $10,000 in prize money allocat-ed to seven specific categories.

There is a sub-mission deadline of April 18 leading to the judging of final-ists at a May 13 event in Terrace.

Application infor-mation is available at www.sncire.ca.

Prizesofferedfor cleverideas


HERE IS a list of some of the more popular websites containing information about cyber-bullying:

www.erasebullying.cawww.bullying.orgwww.bullybeware.comwww.pinkshirtday.cawww.cyberbullying.cawww.preventbullying.orgwww.kidshelpphone.cawww.needhelpnow.caAdditionally, cybertip.ca is a website run

by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection. Cybertip.ca is the country’s tipline for report-ing the online sexual exploitation of children.

FOR the uninitiated, the world of online communication can bewildering.

TTYL, or Talk/type To You Later, is but one of a myriad of abbreviations now com-monplace in digital communication.

Here are some of the more common ones:4YEO - For Your Eyes OnlyAFK - Away From KeyboardBRB - Be Right BackBTW - By The Way -or- Bring The Wheel-

chairB4N - Bye For NowBCNU - Be Seeing YouBFF - Best Friends Forever -or- Best

Friend’s FuneralCYA - Cover Your Ass -or- See YaDBEYR - Don’t Believe Everything You

ReadDILLIGAS - Do I Look Like I Give A

Sh**FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, and Disinforma-

tionFWIW - For What It’s Worth -or- Forgot

Where I WasILY - I Love YouIMHO - In My Humble OpinionIRL - In Real LifeISO - In Search OfJ/K - Just KiddingL8R - LaterLMAO - Laughing My Ass OffLOL - Laughing Out Loud -or- Lots Of

Love -or- Living On LipitorLYLAS - Love You Like A SisterMHOTY - My Hat’s Off To YouNIMBY - Not In My Back YardNOYB - None Of Your Business NP - No Problem -or- Nosy ParentsNUB - New person to a site or gameOIC - Oh, I SeeOMG - Oh My GodOT - Off TopicPOV - Point Of ViewRBTL - Read Between The LinesROTFLMAO - Rolling On The Floor

Laughing My Ass OffRT - Real Time -or- ReTweetSH - Sh** HappensSITD - Still In The DarkSOL - Sh** Out of Luck -or- Sooner Or

LaterSTBY - Sucks To Be YouSWAK - Sealed (or Sent) With A KissRTM or RTFM - Read The Manual -or-

Read The F***ing ManualROTFL - Rolling On The Floor LaughingTHX or TX or THKS - Thanks TLC - Ten-

der Loving CareTMI - Too Much InformationTYVM - Thank You Very MuchVBG - Very Big GrinWEG - Wicked Evil GrinWTF - What The F***WYWH - Wish You Were Here

TTYL!

By JACKIE LIEUWEN

PARENTS ARE being encouraged to talk to their youths more about their online activity, in light of a recent study which found that internet bullying and sending sexual pictures is alarmingly prevalent and growing among B.C. youths.

The study surveyed 30,000 students in B.C. and found that close to 1 in 5 females and 1 in 10 males experienced bullying on the internet (cyberbullying) or met some-one online they felt was unsafe.

As for sharing sexual photos online (sexting), 11 per cent of males and six per cent of females reported that they had sex-ted on the day before taking the survey.

Terrace RCMP community policing/media relations officer Const. Angela Rabut said she expects it would be same among Terrace youths.

“Terrace youth are not immune from the internet and they would fall in line with our provincials stats,” she said.

The study, done by the non-profit Mc-Creary Centre Society, surveyed nearly 30,000 students ages 12-19 in 56 of B.C.’s 59 school districts, representing 98 per cent of students enrolled in public schools.

They found that the more time youths spent online, the more likely they were to report safety issues such as meeting un-safe people, being bullied online, and sex-ting photos. Those experiences were also linked with “poorer mental health ratings, fewer hours of sleep, extreme stress and despair, self-harm, and suicidal ideation and attempts.”

One of the key things for parents, is that the study showed that youths who had “support from family, school, peers, or adults in their community were less likely to experience online safety problems.”

Also, 20 per cent of youth who were victimized online but who had a support-ive adult in their family seriously con-sidered suicide compared to 50 per cent who did not have this type of support.

Rabut said she speaks about these on-line risks whenever she can to youths and parents.

She advises parents to have more open conversations with youths about their on-line activity, and to do things together out-side of the internet world.

“The biggest key for parents is to have lots and lots of conversation…Get them to show you their phone, show you what the apps look like,” Rabut said.

Secondly, Rabut recommends that par-ents ensure that tablets, phones and com-puters are not the focal point of their chil-dren’s lives. “We as parents sometimes need to disengage as well, and spend quality time with our kids that doesn’t in-volved the internet,” she said.

If youths open up to parents about bullying or sexting, Rabut says it is im-portant for parents to resist the knee-jerk reaction to cut their children off from the internet.

“For youth, internet is a very important part of their lives. They are being raised in a digital world and we have to recognize that fact,” she said. Cutting them off “is just going to close the door of communi-cation with your child.”

Despite apps that can nanny a child’s internet use, Rabut said Wi-Fi internet is everywhere and extremely easy to access by phone, iPod, or other device.

“The best advice I can give to parents is talk to your kids a lot… Have that open dialogue so that if something happens, they will go to you and tell you.”

The research director of the McCreary study, Annie Smith, said the same thing af-ter talking to many of the youth surveyed.

“When we took these results back to young people, they told us that for the most part they really don’t know how to protect themselves online or what to do when they have a bad experience. They are looking to the adults in their life to support and guide them through this, but often feel that adults don’t know what to do either, other than telling them to turn their computer off, which is just not realis-tic for most teenagers,” Smith said.

Earlier this month, Const. Rabut spoke to all the classes at Skeena Middle School about online safety, and she visits other

school classrooms whenever invited. She warns students about online pred-

ators, who are often very candid about having “an adult relationship,” and groom youth by flattery, talking about “adult sub-jects,” distancing them from parents, and encouraging secrecy and meeting offline.

She also tells youths not to post and share personal schedules or contact infor-mation, and warns that students need to be aware that their online footprint will never go away.

“Ten years from now, when you are applying for that scholarship or your first job, your first job interview is not face-to-face anymore; it’s an internet search, and depending on what you look like on the internet, that’s your first interview,” Rabut said. “You may have all the credentials in the world, but you’re not even going to get a face-to-face if you do not have an appro-priate digital footprint.”

Rabut encourages youths that if any-thing does happen or even if they sense something unsafe, to stop contact with the person, block them and report the concern to the website provider and to cybertip.ca.

Finally, make sure to tell an adult, she advises. “Adults are maybe not as knowledgeable in the area of computers as youth are, but we have knowledge in life… If we can’t help them ourselves, we can look around and get the help they need,” she said.

Below are a few of the results found in the McCreary study:

• There are increasing numbers of stu-dents affected and links between victims and victimizing behaviour and suicide.

• Youth who have been cyberbullied are 10 times more likely to bully others (29 percent of bullying victims bullied others, compared to 3 percent with non-victims).

• Students cyberbullied or who sexted were more likely than others to report mental health issues, fewer hours of sleep, avoiding extracurricular activities and missing school for fear of bullying.

The McCreary study results can be found at http://www.mcs.bc.ca/pdf/untan-gling_the_web_.pdf

Cyber safetyOnline bullying and sexting alarmingly prevalent among youths

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CONST. ANGELA Rabut of Terrace RCMP talks to students at schools about online safety and parents when possible.

Cyberbullying information

T H R O U G H B I F O C A L S

CLAUDETTE SANDECKI

A6 www.terracestandard.com OPINION Wednesday, March 9, 2016 Terrace Standard

Signs of spring are everywhere: Tulips blooming on the slope in front of the

public library, supermarket parking lots swept clean of winter gravel, and fresh graf-� ti sprawled over an entire back wall of Copper Moun-tain School . . . for the second time in two weeks.

As recently as February 12, School District 82 paint-ed over two large rectangles of back wall to erase the handiwork of two different vandals.

You can tell this is done by two different people, one taller than the other. One works with several colours painting letters bloated as in-ner tubes used to � oat down a river. In two places four letters spelled out ZEST. The shorter vandal left a jumble of thin, black line squiggles.

Two days ago the same vandals – or so it would ap-pear – defaced two new spots on another back wall.

The same colours and let-ter designs were used here too so it appears our neigh-bourhood harbours two van-dals who operate as a team.

The taller one I may have seen one afternoon as I walked my dogs on the upper

� eld.He was loitering in a back

corner where he could be seen only by someone ap-proaching from the west, as I had, not either side of the school. At the time he wasn’t doing anything, just seemed uneasy, as though he were trying to look nonchalant until I left the area.

Perhaps he was waiting for his vandal partner to ar-rive and act as lookout.

I’ve not witnessed groups of kids playing games on either � eld, although I did see a couple of golf balls abandoned on the fringes, and one afternoon at about 3:30 a young lad walking

toward the school carrying a golf club. But neither playing golf nor carrying a golf club is a crime, nor evidence of graf� ti to come.

Graf� ti anywhere on public property upsets me. It particularly upsets me af-ter vandalism to the Dobbie Street bus shelter a year ago. RCMP dealt with the few loi-terers responsible for that de-struction and there has been no repeat since. Until this.

I take my community personally, feel all local residents are disrespected when some jerk does some-thing senseless that forces my neighbourhood to resem-ble an inner city slum.

Painting over graf� ti week after week not only eats up school district’s man hours but wastes tax dollars, when parents attend parent advisory council meetings crying out for more tax sup-port to buy books, classroom supplies, and other educa-tional needs for all students, even these delinquents.

Besides squandering pre-cious tax dollars, occupying school district maintenance staff in never-ending futility, and making our neighbours look like undisciplined slobs, this graf� ti is the “work” of

two lone individuals. Not an epidemic of vandals. Just two.

Judging by the height of their graf� ti, both these van-dals are old enough to know better. They just choose to defy rules, as witnessed by them selecting the most out-of-sight wall of the school. If they were as show-off as they pretend, they’d spray the front walls where every passerby would be sure to see it.

If they haven’t been brought up to respect others’ property, it’s time their par-ents grow a backbone and give them a refresher course in community manners.

Instead of the school dis-trict repeatedly dealing with their blight, I’d like to see these boys’ parents step up and make the boys them-selves tidy up.

Order them to paint over their graf� ti using school board paint and quarter inch brushes. If the restoration occupies them much of a Saturday afternoon, � ne. They’ll reduce the hours left to vandalize another public building.

Next time let them graf-� ti their dad’s garage or a wall of their house.

Spring has sprung and so has graf� ti

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IT’S time for the provincial govern-ment to address the home heating inequity faced by natural gas users from Vanderhoof west to the coast.

For years northwestern customers of Paci� c Northern Gas have been paying more to heat their homes with natural gas than anywhere else because the large industries which once used the majority of the cap-acity of the utility’s pipeline have disappeared, leaving the remaining customers to shoulder the entire bu-rden of maintaining the line.

That would have changed had the Douglas Channel LNG project at Kitimat gone ahead because it would have taken up all of that surplus cap-acity and paid its share accordingly.

With that project now shelved, northwesterners will continue pay-ing delivery rates easily three times what they are elsewhere in B.C.

The province has a ready-made tool to deal with this inequity. As part of its revenue-neutral carbon tax policy, the standard $570 home-owner grant currently increases to as much as $770 for northern and rural residents depending upon where they live. It is a partial recognition that they pay more for energy be-cause of where they live.

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It’s time to rein in the lobbyists

Terrace Standard Wednesday, March 9, 2016 VIEWPOINTS www.terracestandard.com A7

Just recently lobbyists gath-ered in Vancouver for The Future of Lobbying, a one-day conference put on by

B.C.’s Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists, Simon Fraser Insti-tute’s Governance Studies and Public Affairs Association of Canada (B.C. Chapter).

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there does seem to be a future for the industry. In fact, if we’re not careful, B.C. could be overrun by lobbyists.

Last year, there were 2,502 in-house and consultant lobby-ists registered in the province, up from 1,451 four years ago. Whoever said the B.C. Jobs Plan wasn’t working?

While others do get some attention – political staff, dep-uty ministers and the like – that works out to 30 lobbyists for every MLA.

In Ottawa, there are 3,008 lob-byists or nine per MP.

As one of 14 panelists at the Vancouver conference, it fell on me to provide a bit of insight on the public’s perspective towards

the industry and a few ideas on how it might be improved.

Somehow it has to rain on the parade of rainmakers. Not a tough task, though. There’s no shortage of material.

Last month, Missouri state legislator, Bart Korman, tabled Bill 2059.

If it becomes law, lobbyists in that state would be required to disclose each month any sex shared by a lobbyist to a law-maker or their staff. A dollar valuation will not be required when reporting sexual acts. Be thankful for small mercies.

Closer to home, former B.C. lobbyist Marcella Munro found herself in a pickle after taking a post with Alberta’s new NDP government.

The Wildrose party was only too happy to blast her appoint-ment by pointing to some of Munro’s B.C. blog posts, includ-ing “saying no to projects like Kinder Morgan, to protect our environment and quality of life” are things to be celebrated.

The posts were quickly taken

down and replaced with Al-berta-centric messaging.

“My BMW 325i is my favour-ite possession” was Munro’s new riff, telling the Calgary Herald: “there’s no planet on which I could try to argue against the oil-sands. I love all the good things petroleum does for me – includ-ing driving too fast on Highway 2.”

As the Herald’s Don Braid

put it: “If you have trouble rec-onciling the contradictions, you are most likely a regular human unconnected with the murky, interlinked worlds of lobbying, campaigning and government ad-vocacy.”

If the industry is an unavoid-able evil of modern politics, it was then sacrilege time for the assembled.

First up: transparency.Reporting only intent to lobby

– as the legislation currently re-quires – isn’t good enough. The “if I’m really, really lucky the minister might open my email before he triple deletes it,” isn’t the best approach for reporting lobbying activities.

It’s meetings that count and lobbyists should be required to report who they’ve met with as well.

Those on the other end of the bargain – MLAs, political staff, deputy ministers – should also disclose who is lobbying them. It’s a good way to check to see if everyone’s reporting matches up.

Fees paid by clients should be

disclosed, as is done in the United States.

A province-wide registry for municipal lobbyists is long over due. Contingency fee agreements need to be trashed, as is the case at the federal level today.

Public agencies and local gov-ernments should be prohibited from hiring outside lobbyists.

In B.C., some universities, local governments, profession-al bodies such as the College of Dental Surgeons of B.C. and fed-eral agencies like Via Rail and Port Metro Vancouver have all retained lobbyists in the past.

If there was an industry award for client development, it would have to go to Earnscliffe Strategy, who has represented Deloitte since 2013.

In 2010, Deloitte billed the B.C. government a little less than $20 million. By 2015, their bill-ings had risen to more than $50 million.

Dermod Travis is the Integ-rityBC is a non-partisan organiz-ation located in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

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CARPENTER JAMES Ryan from Lax Kw’alaams and Ken Lawson in the early days of a camp set up on Lelu Island in the Skeena River estuary to protest plans for Pacific NorthWest LNG to locate there.

LNG and salmon don’t mixDear Sir:

In January, numerous Tsim-shian hereditary chiefs as well as chiefs from inland nations spanning the entire length of the Skeena River, signed the Lelu Island Declaration at the Salmon Nation Summit in Prince Rupert.

The declaration states that

Lelu Island, and Flora and Agnew Banks, are “protected for all, as a refuge for wild sal-mon and marine resources.”

Grave concerns about the possible effects of a Petronas liquefied natural gas plant at Lelu Island are supported by peer-reviewed science. A key-note speaker at the summit

was Jonathan Moore, Associ-ate Professor of Aquatic Ecol-ogy and Conservation. Moore holds the Liber Ero Chair of Coastal Science and Manage-ment at Simon Fraser Univer-sity. His research, supported by Lax Kw’alaams Fisheries, covered the periods of 2007 and 2013 in the Skeena estuary

area slated for development. Moore’s sampling showed

that the eelgrass beds adjacent to Lelu Island are a critically important salmon habitat. In their delicate transition from freshwater to marine habitat, some salmon populations may use these areas for months.

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G U E S T C O M M E N T

DERMOD TRAVIS

Dear Sir:It is encouraging to see, paraphrasing Mark

Twain, that the death of philosophical discussion about the existence of God has been greatly exag-gerated.

In response to Mr. North’s Jan. 20, 2016 letter:(1) atheism does make the truth claim “there is

no God”. To propose “an atheist is one who doesn’t pretend to know God exists” is confusing atheism with agnosticism. Atheism is a stronger claim; if it isn’t, atheism is a world view that says nothing and has nothing to say.

(2) Mr. North’s uncited use of Bertrand Rus-sell’s celestial teapot caricature of theism is curi-ous, as even a careless, disinterested reader would note I didn’t concede there was no evidence for God’s existence (c.f., Fred Hoyle’s “a super intel-ligence has monkeyed with physics, biology and chemistry”).

Mr. North’s eagerness to use a set-piece argu-ment failed to alert him to its ineffectuality and the erroneous assumptions that followed. Besides, Russell’s argument works just as easily in the op-posite direction; the use of an absurd premise adds nothing to the logic.

Consider the opposite challenge: could a believ-er disprove the non-existence of the coelacanth? Is the non-believer justified in the belief based on a dearth of evidence? Anyone’s guess, right up to the day one is caught (in South Africa, 1938).

Atheism, in principle, could never be proven correct (you would need to know all that exists to know what doesn’t and that would mean, ironically, you would be God and I doubt He would share your view). Thus, atheism is more of a belief than theism (which could, in principle, be proven correct).

(3) Mr North misses the point again in regard to evil entailing the existence of God.

God and hissaving power

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From Page A7

Science says Lelu sitedeserves protection

The area acts as a funnel for hundreds of mil-lions of juvenile salmon every year.

A broad range of genetic diversities was detected in the samples collected, with fish representing the Skeena, Nass, Stikine and Southeast Alaska water-sheds, and coastal systems from the central and north coast watersheds.

In short, this relatively tiny stand of eelgrass supports nearly all the salmon in the Skeena.

This peer-reviewed science confirmed earlier research in 1975 that the area should be protected from industrial development.

The Skeena River and its salmon are vital to the health and well-being of our region.

North West Watch would like to publicly ac-knowledge our elected representatives – MLAs Robin Austin, Jennifer Rice, and Doug Donaldson, and MP Nathan Cullen, for their integrity and cour-ageous stand in support of the Lelu Island Declara-tion.

North West Watch Society, and the Council of Canadians,

Terrace B.C. Chapter, Terrace, B.C.

From Page A7

God is more profoundthan we can imagine

It does follow, necessarily, that we categorize the acts of ISIS as evil and morally distinct from the acts of Mother Teresa.

Even Richard Dawkins confesses a Godless world is one with “no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.” I suggest Friedrich Nietzsche a “good” place to start for an understanding of what a rigorous atheism really means.

Incidentally, Mr. North’s parenthetical “absurd” actually exhibits my correlative point that we nat-urally find the ramifications of a rigorous atheism repugnant. Why is that?

(5) God does “reveal in concealing” in the same way “absence discloses presence.”

This is a difficult concept. Consider Blaise Pas-cal’s contemplation: “what can be seen on earth indicates neither the total absence, nor the manifest presence of divinity, but the presence of a hidden God.”

God reveals His otherness, unequivocally, through the human predicament and its subjection “to futility” (Romans 8:20). God is not a projection nor is He after our happiness.

Our lives will slay every god we give ourselves and reveal our spiritual bankruptcy. God knows something is missing, do we?

God is more profound than we can imagine and His challenge to save us from ourselves initially in-

scrutable. Consider Isaiah and the depiction of the suffering

servant of the Lord who through “what he... experi-enced... (would) make many to be counted right-eous... for what was unthinkable they’ll have right before them... (and) who would have thought God’s saving power would look like this?”

Who would have thought, indeed. Irwin Jeffrey,Terrace, B.C.

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SENTENCING FOR a 25-year-old Terrace man found guilty in October 2015 of murdering his girlfriend more than three years ago in Kamloops was further de-layed last week while Crown and defence await a report.

Damien Taylor was found guilty after trial of second-de-gree murder in connection to the death of CJ Fowler, who was 16 at the time of her death more than three years ago.

Fowler, from the Hazel-tons and living in Terrace at the time of her death, had traveled to Kamloops with Taylor in the weeks before her death. She was 16 and he was 21.

Sentencing arguments were originally set for earlier in Febru-ary, but Crown prosecutor Alex-andra Janse said a Gladue report

is not complete, despite the four-month wait.

Gladue reports are sometimes ordered for First Nations offend-ers to detail their background.

Today, March 9, was set for an update on the report and to fix a possible date for sentencing.

At trial, court heard the pair was visiting friends in Kamloops in December 2012.

The Crown’s case was built on circumstantial evidence.

Fowler’s body, with a con-crete chunk on her chest, was found by a person walking their dog in Guerin Creek on Dec. 5, 2012. A pathologist testified Fowler choked to death when her tongue became trapped in her airway, the result of at least one blow to her head and face.

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Sentencing delayed in local teen’s murder case

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FIVE NON profit or-ganizations have re-ceived $9,500 in grants from the Terrace Com-munity Foundation which uses interest from investments and direct donations to aid community groups and projects.

Thirteen applica-tions were received for consideration by the foundation’s board in this the foundation’s second distribution.

“We will do this once a year and perhaps twice, but that depends on the interest we earn through our invest-ments,” said foundation chair Joyce Gibson.

“Our commitment is to provide $10,000 at

least once a year.”The foundation will

help finance the pur-chase of assets but does not provide grants for salaries, travel, training and the like.

“With a limited amount of funds avail-able every cycle we take great care in choosing recipients who demon-strate a financial need and represent a broad range of interests in the community,” said Gib-son.

The foundation was established by the City of Terrace with $50,000 in seed money then matched by the North-ern Development Initia-tive Trust.

Its capital base now

approaches $400,000 and is managed by the Prince George Foun-dation which does the same for community foundations of other smaller northern com-munities.

Distribution deci-sions remain with the local foundation but having its assets man-aged by a larger foun-dation maximizes inter-est earned and reduces expenses, explained Gibson.

The eventual goal is for the city to hand over its annual community grant-giving function, along with money, to the foundation to avoid having council mem-bers debate and decide

who should receive support and who should not.

Gibson said the foundation was pleased with the 13 applications it received, adding that

deciding on the recipi-ents was difficult.

She said the foun-dation was particularly happy with the $500 grant for materials and supplies given to the Terrace Adult Autism Initiative, a new group which is planning a public awareness event in the spring.

The other recipients are the Terrace & Dis-trict Community Ser-vices Society ($2,000 toward a wheel chair ac-cessible swing), Terrace & District Museum So-ciety ($2,000 to support summer museum work-shop camps for young people), Terrace Hos-pice Society ($2,500 to support volunteer

bereavement training) and Volunteer Terrace ($2,500 to support the publication of a seniors resource directory).

The wheel chair ac-cessible swing to be purchased by the Ter-race and District Com-munity Services Society will be installed at the daycare centre located at Northwest Commun-ity College.

The daycare centre was once administered directly by the college and then by a society of parent volunteers, but now comes under the umbrella of the com-munity services society.

Aside from grants given with interest earned from invest-

ments, the foundation will also accept direct donations from groups and individuals which it will then distribute im-mediately based on the wishes of the donors.

The foundation is also looking for volun-teer directors and more information is available by contacting the foun-dation at [email protected].

Several large dona-tions have added to the foundation’s capital base, including ones from LNG Canada, one of two planned LNG projects at Kitimat.

The Terrace Com-munity Forest has also been a contributor.

Foundation provides five grants

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RELAY FOR Life makes a big change for its 17th annual event this May with a reduction in the length of time it is on.

The regular 12-hour event will be cut down to six hours, starting at 4 p.m. and ending at 10 p.m. May 28, says Amanda Berry, annual giving coordinator for Terrace, Kitimat and Prince Rupert for the Can-adian Cancer Society, BC and Yukon Division.

“We will be building on relay’s community fes-tival atmosphere by taking all of the enthusiasm, activities and entertainment previously spread over 12 hours and condensing it into a high-energy even-ing event,” said Berry.

“We’re hoping teams will be able to spend more time together as they won’t be taking turns over the course of the whole day.”

Berry says the idea came about from community feedback, including from teams and volunteers, the

decline in participation and in response, the society wanted to “re-energize the spirit of relay.”

This year’s Relay For Life will continue to of-fer an opportunity for the community to celebrate, remember and fight back and will have all the trad-itional elements, including the survivors lap, lumin-ary ceremony and more, she said.

Last year, the six-hour event was piloted in two communities on Vancouver Island, and other com-munities across Canada with good results and was expanded this year to most B.C. communities, said Berry.

Teams are already forming and beginning their fundraising.

The fundraising goal for Terrace this year is $110,000.

Last year, residents and businesses here and in the surrounding area raised nearly $112,000.

Relay for Life shortened

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CHANGES TO the amount of time for Relay for Life won’t affect the traditional parts, such as the survivors’ lap, which takes place at the beginning of the relay. This is the 2015 survivors’ lap.

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■ Hobiyee!THE MORICETOWN Elementary School and Ewk Hiday Hozdi Dance Group perform “Water Dance for Women” at Hobiyee Feb. 27 in New Aiyansh. The two-day celebration of Nisga’a New Year featured more than 12 dance groups, raffles and lots of food for a packed hall.

A BENEFIT band performance for the homeless has been postponed indefinitely.

The Majagaleehl Nisga’a Concert Band an-nounced March 3 that the event scheduled for March 6, would not be rescheduled yet.

“Due to the recent deaths within the Nisga’a Na-tion, we must follow protocol and push this event to another more suitable time,” said Anthony Moore, Nisga’a Lisims Government lands officer.

“We will be looking at possible dates in the fu-ture to hold this event, but our cultural calendar does not provide many opportunities. At this time the Majagaleehl executives have decided to post-pone this indefinitely.”

The Majagaleehl Nisga’a Concert Band plans to hold a benefit performance to raise awareness about homelessness and to provide assistance to the homeless, hosting the homeless themselves as the guests of honour. Money raised was set to go toward existing facilities in need of funds to assure programs can continue or toward the purchase of necessary items and equipment.

The event had first been scheduled for Feb. 20 but was also postponed due to a death.

Benefit concert postponed for indefinite time

War Amps service turns 70 years old

AS THE War Amps 2016 key tags are mailed out, the service marks 70 years of returning lost keys to their owners.

Donations to the Key Tag Service assist members of The War Amps Child Amputee (CHAMP) Program, including Brooklynn Stanvick, 10, of Thornhill.

Brooklynn is a right leg amputee who has received financial assistance for the cost of artificial limbs and recreational devices. She has also attended regional CHAMP seminars where CHAMPs and parents learn about the latest in artificial limbs, dealing with teasing and bullying and parenting an amputee child.

“As Brooklynn grows, she needs new artificial legs which are quite expensive. Thanks to CHAMP’s support, we don’t have to worry about these costs and Brooklynn gets to do the things that any other child gets to do,” said mom Karry.

The War Amps Key Tag Service was launched in 1946 so that returning war amputees could not only work for com-petitive wages, but also provide a service to Canadians that would generate funds for the association. The Key Tag Ser-vice continues to employ amputees and people with disabilities and has returned more than 1.5 million sets of lost keys.

Each key tag has a confidentially coded number. If the keys are lost, the finder can call the toll-free number on the back of the tag, or deposit them in any mailbox, and the keys will be re-turned to the owner by bonded courier.

The War Amps receives no govern-ment grants and its programs are pos-sible through public support of the Key Tag and Address Label Service.Brooklynn Stanvick

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

Clubs/pubs ■ THORNHILL PUB: KARAOKE Thurs.

8 p.m. All day free pool Wed. and Sun. Texas hold ‘em poker Tues. 6 p.m. and Sun. 5 p.m. Showing all UFC events. Jam sessions Sat. 8 p.m. Shuttle service provided.

■ LEGION BRANCH 13: Meat draws every Sat. – first draw at 4 p.m. Steak Night is the first Fri. of each month.

■ GEORGE’S PUB: POOL tourney every Sun. starting 6 p.m. Poker on Sun. 1 p.m. and Wed. 7 p.m. Thurs. game night, DJ and open to 2 a.m. On Fri./Sat. is live entertainment. Kara-oke Thurs./Sun. 8:30 p.m. Shuttle weekends.

■ MT. LAYTON LOUNGE: Open daily 2 p.m.-10 p.m. Play pool for free. Located at Mt. Layton Hot springs just off Hwy37 South between Terrace and Kitimat.

Art ■ TERRACE ART GALLERY presents

Captured Colour of Trees & Bark, a beautiful exhibition of painting and prints by local artist and long-time gallery member Dawn Germyn, in the upper and lower galleries to March 26.

Drama ■ TERRACE LITTLE THEATRE

presents “Out of Time” a locally written play about the people who shaped the

Northwest. Pithy, funny and poignant, this play, based on interviews with more than 25 pioneers, captures the drama and the joys of life in BC’s northwest. Opening on March 25 and playing for three weekends. Tickets available at Uniglobe Travel.

Fundraiser ■ CIRCLE OF CULTURES showcases

local talent and cultures from around the world living in our region March 12 at the REM Lee Theatre. Performers include dances from the Philippines, Latin America, India and more. International Appy Snack Tasting while the food lasts in the lobby at 5:30 p.m., prepared by the Terrace and District Multicultural Asso-ciation. Circle of Cultures at 7 p.m. Would you like to perform, volunteer or participate? Con-tact Skeena Diversity Society. A benefit for Syrian refugee families coming here. Tickets at Misty River books and Skeena Diversity.

■ FOUNDER’S DAY TEA with a War-time Theme: Honouring our Veterans is from 2-4 p.m. March 13 at the Royal Canadian Legion. Come and celebrate our Founder George Little’s arrival March 10, 1905, 111 years ago! Enjoy wartime tunes by Rusty Ljungh on the piano and don’t miss Sandy Norman and friends performing the Charles-ton. Sweets and tea by Emmy’s Catering. A fundraiser for the restoration and signage of

two local wartime bunkers. Tickets on sale at George Little House. For more, call Debbie 250-638-8887 or Yvonne 250-638-0423 or email [email protected]. Sponsored by George Little House and Terrace’s 100-years Celebration Committee.

Singing retreat ■ FESTIVAL OF VOICES is a springtime

retreat bringing singers of all levels together for a weekend of fun and learning April 22-24 at Glenwood Hall, a beautiful rural setting just outside Smithers. Five instructors from across North America will present 11 diverse workshops throughout the weekend and all participants can take part in mass choir in-struction, a Sunday gospel workshop and enjoy fine food, fine company and fine music together. Register by March 15 for early bird rates; otherwise register by April 15. For more details, contact Sheila at [email protected]. Put on by Sing Smithers.

Presentation ■ UNBC NORTHWEST PUBLIC

Presentation will be “The Science and History of the Alcoholic Beverage” with presenter Dr. John Krisinger of NWCC at noon March 16 at the UNBC campus. For more details, contact Alma at 250-615-5578 or [email protected].

My colleague Christine told me about DYT – Dress-ing Your Truth, showing me photo after photo of

almost unbelievable before-and-afters. “Wow, what is that?” I asked her, then spent the next month madly Googling.

It’s a wonderful and sneaky and lib-erating way for Mormon women in Utah (and any men and women on the inter-net) to free themselves from oppressive stereotypes.

True.At first I thought it was that fashion/

beauty thing where you were advised, with your colouring, to wear, say, “au-tumn” or “winter” colours. It is, but only on the surface level: “Oh, look, there’s some of the ladies from our church try-ing on scarves, bless their hearts.” Uh – huh.

The founder, Carol Tuttle, has a daughter, Melissa, who is Type 2 – the soft, feminine woman who looks good with long, wavy hair, and wearing flow-ing lacy girly stuff.

But Carol is Type 3 – “rich and dy-namic” – also known as pushy, abrupt, results-oriented, and so she looks like a clown dressed as a Type 2. Better for her to have short, snappy hair, a bold leather belt over a textured sweater. Yeah! She has found a way to monetize this (with online and retail sales of clothes, acces-sories, hairdressing and products) while sneaking in some pretty heavy questions about self-identity and self-worth.

“What did your mother do to your hair when you were little?” she asks women guests on her video blog. “She lightened it.” Carol replies, “So you grew up thinking your hair was too dark.” Curled it? Too straight. Straight-ened it? Too curly. Growing up feeling flawed, and not quite knowing why.

Wow.A “gender-fluid” blogger, Z Egloff,

“gets it” when she looks at before-and-afters of men on DYT, as did I. First, in “What a Mormon Woman Taught Me About Truth and Clothing,” she de-scribes a formerly black-only fashion-ista showing up:

“Marcy was wearing a yellow shirt with a fuzzy pink vest – you heard me right, a fuzzy pink vest – and she looked great. More than great. It was as if her clothes were a natural, elemental ex-pression of her spirit…. Now there was no separation from her essence and her outfit. Her outsides matched her insides. It was amazing.”

The four categories are: Type 1/Air: Bright and Animated (Marcy), Type 2/Water: Subtle and Soft (Melissa), Type 3/Fire: Rich and Dynamic (Carol), Type 4/Earth: Bold and Striking (Z Egloff). (I am pleased to dress in brighter col-ours like Marcy, so people aren’t as surprised when my exuberant gestures

knock over all the water glasses on the table at a meeting.)

For men, Type 1 is Fun loving, Type 2 is Comfortable, Type 3 Determined and Type 4 Serious. My kidling is def-initely Type 4, I realized after I saw the transformation of a guy on DYT. He had been wearing his hair fuzzy and dishev-elled with gold-rimmed oval glasses slightly askew, and a loose stretched-out golf shirt and baggy khaki pants. He looked like he would be a goofy friendly jokey kind of guy. But when he is in-stead cool, aloof, unsmiling, and, well, “Serious,” people he meets may think, “What’s up with him? He’s so grumpy.”

The “after” is amazing: his hair slicked back, he is sporting more se-vere rectangular black-rimmed glasses, wearing a dark purple pressed shirt with a black tie and black skinny jeans and you can see he might enjoy an intense conversation about Existentialism. And approach him with more accurate ex-pectations.

In the New Yorker’s “Cover story – The head scarf, modern Turkey, and me,” Elif Batuman, an American with secular parents from Turkey, finds acci-dentally wearing a head scarf outside of a holy site she was reporting on “amaz-ing” and “a wonderful gift.”

Without the scarf, women and men alike had glared at her, or refused to smile or make eye contact. With it, shop doors were opened, and a bus she had missed stopped, the bus driver reaching out his hand and calling her “sister.”

She found herself thinking about high heels: expensive (more taxis) and painful. “Yet there were many times when I wore high heels to work-relat-ed events in New York, specifically be-cause I felt it made people treat me with more consideration.”

W H AT ?CHARLYNN TOEWS

Dressing her truth

THE ORDER OF TERRACEThe Order of Terrace is given to select individuals in recognition of outstanding contributions to the well-being of the City of Terrace, and to recognize significant achievement and service to the community in a wide variety of fields, including (but not limited to) business and entrepreneurs, arts and entertainment, science and academics, health and education, sports and youth leadership, volunteer and community service, and charitable donations.

If you know someone that you feel should be considered for the Order of Terrace, please submit their nomination (in confidence) before March 18, 2016* to:

The Order of TerraceMayor and Council3215 Eby StreetTerrace, B.C. V8G 2X8

Nomination forms and criteria information may be picked up at City Hall, or by calling Alisa Thompson at 250.638.4721, or online at www.terrace.bc.ca/city

*Nominations previously submitted will also be considered, however if information regarding the individual has changed please contact the City to provide updated information.

CITY OF TERRACEis seeking nominations to

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■ CelebrationCENTENNIAL CHRISTIAN students wel-comed Kitsumkalum students, who per-formed a dance for Hobiyee and invited First Nations students from Centennial to participate and dance with them Feb. 26. That’s Centennial student Mason McKay taking part.


Does it take a PhD to know Lelu Island is a terrible place to put an LNG plant?

Nope. But over 100 of Canada’s most reputable scientists agree it’s a bad idea and puts our Skeena salmon at risk. The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is currently reviewing a proposal by the Malaysian state-owned corporation Petronas to build an LNG plant on Lelu Island, located at the mouth of the Skeena River. It risks damaging the critical salmon habitat of Flora Bank. Its fracked gas wells, pipeline and liquefaction plant will make Pacific Northwest LNG one of Canada’s top three sources of greenhouse gases.

Your voice matters. To submit your comments by March 11, visit skeenawatershed.com


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A MAN convicted of hunting illegally in the Spatzizi Provincial Park was ordered by court to turn over the ram he killed but said he couldn’t because it had been stolen.

Jordan Patrick Garb-itt of Moberly Lake, B.C. was convicted in Dawson Creek Provin-cial Court on February 24, 2016 for hunting a stone sheep ram in Spatzizi Provincial Park without a Limited Entry Hunting Authorization.

When the judge or-dered him to forfeit the ram, Garbitt said that the ram, which was a finished wall mount, was stolen.

The ram is perma-nently marked with government PIN iden-tification number of H955 which is drilled into the rear of the left horn of the sheep.

It is a legal require-ment for hunters to undergo a compulsory inspection of their sheep.

This is when the ID number is put in to permanently mark the horns as a tracking tool.

The horns of sheep have their own charac-teristics and can some-times be identified simi-lar to fingerprints.

Garbitt’s conviction stems from a two-year investigation where it was alleged that Garbitt and two other hunting partners flew into Cold-fish Lake, and killed a stone sheep ram in Sep-tember 2012.

Garbitt, who is a Treaty 8 Indian, claimed the ram was killed with-in the Treaty 8 area, which Spatzizi Park is not part of.

The judge sentenced Garbitt to a $1,000 fine and ordered that he pay an additional $3,500 to the Habitat Conserva-tion Trust Fund.

He further ordered that Garbitt was pro-hibited from hunting anywhere outside of the

Treaty 8 area for one year.

The BC Conserva-tion Officer Service is asking for the public to help locate this ram with the reminder that rewards are sometimes available from outside

agencies for assistance in an investigation.

Anyone with infor-mation can call the BC Conservation Officer Service’s Report all Poachers or Polluters (RAPP) line at 1-877-952-7277.

Ram trophy sought

BC CONSERVATION officers are looking for a ram that is sup-posed to be forfeited to them by order of the court.

A MAN seen with a handgun in the back of his pants who later had two guns and ammunition seized by police was sentenced March 3.

Riad Reynen Hess received a conditional sen-tence of nine months and 18 months of probation to follow on charges of careless use or storage of a firearm and loaded/unloaded with ammo pro-hibited/restricted firearm.

On January 19, 2015, Terrace RCMP reported

being called about a man with a handgun in the back of his pants near the Royal Bank.

A short time later, police were told that the 26-year-old was taken to Mills Memorial Hospi-tal by a person who at that time took the gun from him. The gun was turned over to police and am-munition was seized from the man. Investigation led police to seize another firearm, more ammu-nition and various gun magazines at a residence.

Sentenced on firearms charges

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CONGRATULATIONS!

See photos, videos, and results at BCGAMES.ORG

Thank you to the coaches, officials, volunteers, and families who support these growing champions.

59 athletes from the North West competed at the 2016 BC Winter Games bringing home 13 medals.

ROYAL CANADIAN Air Force CF-18s could � y low over Terrace this summer should a local re-quest be granted.

The appearance would coincide with the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 13’s 2016 Riverboat Days parade on July 30.

“To add excitement and variety to the 20l6 [Riverboat Days] program, a request has been made for Royal Canadian Air Force participation,” wrote Riverboat Days president Susan Bostock in a letter to Terrace city council.

“Speci� cally, the RCAF has been asked to per-form a � yover of downtown Terrace to coincide with the legion parade which commences at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 30,” Bostock wrote.

The air force’s CF-18 demonstration team is in western Canada and Alaska during late July and early August, making a Terrace appearance pos-sible, Bostock added.

“However, knowing RCAF assets are dif� cult to obtain on holiday long weekends, the invitation

includes consideration of other ways to participate and to consider any of the l0 days of Riverboat Days,” she said.

“This might lead to a � yby on a day other than July 30 and/or a static display at the airport.”

RCAF of� cials have said they � rst need a city council resolution approving of a � yover and asked that it contain precise wording for one of as low as 500 feet. That resolution has been provided.

The air force’s CF-18s have been front and cen-ter ever since six were sent to join aircraft of other nations in bombing ISIS targets in Iraq and then in Syria. They were withdrawn from combat missions last month following on a federal Liberal 2015 election promise to do just that.

This would not be the � rst time CF-18s have made an appearance here. One performed dur-ing an airshow at the Northwest Regional Airport years ago and once, a CF-18 pilot raised in Terrace touched down brie� y at the airport while enroute from Alberta to Vancouver Island.

CF-18s could appear

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

THE RIVERBOAT Days society has asked for a � yover by Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18s.

Top cop postup for reviewTHE LOCAL RCMP detachment may no longer have an inspector in charge of its everyday func-tions.

Thanks to a shift in the police force’s internal workings, the number of of� cers now reporting to the of� ce in charge of the detachment has fallen to 49, which is below the 55-of� cer level which nor-mally requires an inspector.

That prompted an RCMP review of whether an inspector is needed, says Constable Angela Rabut.

She termed the internal reorganization one of regionalization in which some of� cers from spe-cialized sections such as traf� c and forensics no longer report to the of� cer in charge here.

An inspector has been in charge of the detach-ment here for at least 30 years and the prospect of losing an of� cer of that rank has worried city coun-cil enough that wrote to the police force.

“Given the growth that the City of Terrace is cur-rently experiencing and our placement in the top 10 of the Crime Severity Index, losing the high-level oversight of an inspector as the of� cer in charge at the detachment would be detrimental to the com-munity,” city administrator Heather Avison wrote in a memo to council last month which then caused council to send the letter.

The last inspector here, Inspector Dana Hart, re-tired earlier this year, a factor that helped prompt the review.

Staff Sergeant Syd Lecky, who was the second in command, is now in temporarily charge of the detachment.

Deputy mayor Stacey Tyers said that the city believes the inspector position is important consid-ering how busy the detachment is.

“It is just something that they look at every time an inspector steps down so we just want to make sure that up front we’re letting them know we don’t want to do that,” she said.

There is no date set for when the review is to be completed.

At one time the detachment here even housed a regional command and communications centre but that function was shifted to Prince George years ago.

In addition to forensics of� cers and ones on traf� c or highway patrol duty, the detachment has of� cers who investigate major crimes.

As is the case with many detachments in B.C., the Terrace RCMP detachment is made up of of� -cers considered municipal and rural when it comes to � nancing detachment activities, but in everyday work, there are no geographical distinctions and of-� cers attend calls when and where required.

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Shelter re-opensThe contracts of the B.C. Hous-

ing’s extreme weather shelter call for them to be open from early-Nov-ember to the end of March each year but the shelter opened in October last year because of colder weather and in anticipation of high demand.

So far this season, the shelter has averaged 10 occupants a night.

Soon after the Feb. 26 shelter clos-ure, Terrace RCMP reported � nding people sleeping in ATM vestibules located at the entrances to � nancial institutions.

“Numerous bank vestibules were noted with people inside attempting to keep warm due to lack of other op-tions,” read a March 1 RCMP report.

According to the Northern Health Authority, environmental health of� -cers visit all public kitchens around town to make sure they are complying with rules and regulations.

“We are working collaboratively with Ksan House Society and have been for quite some time,” said North-ern Health Authority of� cial Jonath-on Dyck. “Our environmental health of� cer has a relationship with that so-ciety and works with them on a var-

iety of various things as they would with any operator of a kitchen.”

Dyck continued saying that in gen-eral, “if you are operating food prem-ise, there are permits that are required through the environmental health of-� cer.”

As of late last week, Bains says the year to date cost of the extreme shel-ter is $79,447.44. Last year, the total cost by March 31, 2015 was $70,000.

Now that the extreme shelter is contained in the regular shelter fa-cility the society won’t have to pay rent to use the All Nations Centre, she said.

Those using the extreme weather shelter at the new location have new mats on which to sleep, replacing older cots which were folded up and stored during the day.

The All Nations Centre on Sparks is owned by a society backed by the Seventh Day Adventist Church which operates a soup kitchen on Sunday. During the week days it is rented by the Terrace and District Community Services Society which also offers food and programs for homeless and others.

Homeless committeeeyes public washroomsTHE CITY’S home-lessness task group is examining the possi-bility of extending the hours of public wash-rooms or even putting in more facilities.

“They need some place to go that they have dignity,” said man-ager of George Little House Debbie Letaw-ski.

“Because what they do is they use the area around here as a public washroom, so for me and my staff to clean up around here, it’s been really bad, especially the last two years.”

Letawski has met in the past with the home-lessness task group to see about having a temporary outhouse put near the tourist destina-tion located by the CN tracks.

Typically Letaw-ski has quite a number of people coming into George Little House asking to use the bath-

room, and she doesn’t always feel safe be-cause she is frequently alone in the building.

However, the chair of the task group, Dan-ielle Lavoie, advised Letawski that having an outhouse there might make the problem of people hanging around George Little House worse.

The homelessness task group has been discussing longer terms solutions to the home-less situation.

One of city council’s two appointees to the group, Stacey Tyers, said the city has already been looking into what can be done to open what public washrooms there are for longer per-iods of time.

At George Little Park, for example, the public bathrooms are open mainly during public events.

According to Tyers, the problem is mainly at

night when businesses and social agencies who do have washrooms are closed.

“A better idea might be to talk to [the city’s] public works [depart-ment] about actual-ly opening the public bathrooms and having more police and having some video cameras for entering and exiting, for more security.”

“George Little House isn’t the only place hav-ing to deal with the pub-lic defecation,” she said listing the area around the downtown building where she works and Brolly Square as also being problem areas.

Tyers said she hopes that more substantial solutions can be found as the homelessness group continues meet-ing and speaks with various social agencies around town.

Those agencies, Tyers added, are more hands-on when it comes

to coping with the homeless.

Aside from the city’s washrooms at George Little Park, the only other public washrooms are located at the Ter-race Public Library lo-cated within the park.

Head librarian David Tremblay says part of the library’s mandate as a public institution is to provide washrooms but like other facilities around town, the library has had problems with non-library patrons using its facilities.

He feels that having the city’s own public bathroom in George Little Park open for-more than special events would be a bonus.

“It would be great to have a public washroom for everyone,” he said.

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As Canada’s first national accounting and consulting firm to open in Terrace, MNP and McAlpine are thrilled to be working together to deliver enhanced services to private, public and First Nations clients across the region. Committed to our clients’ success, our local team includes four partners – each with more than 20 years of experience in public practice – and more than 15 additional professionals and support staff.

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CHAMBER CHATTER WELCOME!

Welcome to Chamber Chatter! At the beginning of each month, we’ll let you know what’s happening at the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce, including dates of luncheons and major events such as our Business Expo which is April 22-23. We’re now accepting registrations for new exhibitors through our website, www.terrace-chamber.com!

Don’t forget our March 17 luncheon with speakers from Paci� c NorthWest LNG. $25 for members; $30 for non-members. RSVPs required. Visit our event calendar at www.terracechamber.com or call 250-635-2063.

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GILL MCKEAN, owner of WestCoast Fishing Adventures and Jim Dopson, general manager of the Kitselas Development Corporation, stand by the Skeena River. The company and the cor-poration are joint venture partners in an angling business.

Guiding goal achievedBy JOSH MASSEY

FOR THE organizers of the joint venture partner-ship between the Kitselas First Nation and West-Coast Fishing Adventures (WCFA), it took a bit longer than expected to prove that their business plan is worthy of investment.

The partnership began optimistically in 2013 when the guiding company and the Kitselas, through their Kitselas Development Corporation, first bid for a number of Skeena River angling rod days put up by the provincial government.

One rod day equates to being able to take out one angling client for the whole day. They are highly prized licence allocations that become more valuable in free market bidding.

What the partnership offered was a model that fused the Kitselas Development Corporation’s identity as an economic force within the Kitselas First Nation with a Terrace company that has 20 years guiding experience and a desire to give some-thing back to the First Nations culture.

It seemed the type of deal on which the modern principle of reconciliation is founded.

It just so happened that the areas allocated for the rod days fell on a stretch of the Skeena River within Kitselas traditional territory, including the Kitselas Canyon.

But the partnership was surprised to have the bid and application turned down by the provincial gov-ernment and some of the reasons given struck them as odd in hindsight.

“They told us that the Kitselas didn’t have any history with steelhead guiding,” development cor-poration general manager Jim Dopson said of the rejection.

This seemed absurd, WCFA owner Gill McK-ean added. “Could you imagine this? That type of a statement that you can’t get rod days because First Nations have no prior history of guiding.”

“Steelhead was known as the saviour fish in the winter, because that was the winter food supply,” said Dopson, adding that historically his people have been capable when it comes to reading the riv-er and leading fishing expeditions, if not as much in the modern commercial sense of guide outfitting.

It was in the wake of that disappointing setback that Dopson decided to bring the issue to the prov-incial government’s officials charged with negotiat-ing the Kitselas land claims treaty.

Dopson and McKean retooled the application and reapplied last year, and found out recently that they were successful in getting 100 of 582 rod days allocated for the Upper Skeena.

“That’s why I got [the] treaty [negotiators] in-volved. I printed out all the registered owners, the guides, and I said, there isn’t one First Nation on

there. I said, we gotta be the first,” said Dopson.This request was parlayed into a letter of support

for the application from the provincial Ministry of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation.

In the short term, other than sharing revenue from the guiding that McKean does through his business, the joint venture is built on training ab-originals to become guides.

“We want our people to learn the skills so they can take over the business from Gill when he is ready to exit. That is the long-term plan. The short term is to get people into the industry, get them in-terested, build up the labour pool,” said Dopson.

McKean began the training program last spring, training up three people, one of whom is now going to be a guide and another one who has the potential to become a professional too.

The vision is that McKean, when he retires from the business, might sell his company to the Kitselas so they can be the owners and operators.

“I think it is important for the health of their cul-ture and their people and it’s really much bigger than just Kitselas,” said McKean.

Kitselas chief councillor Joe Bevan said that he was happy to hear about the successful bid but also said thinks 100 rod days should only be viewed as the beginning for the Kitselas.

“It always seems that you get forty or sixty per cent of what you need,” said Bevan. “I think it would be better if we went forward with an analy-sis of how many days we do need to make a decent business out of it. We are happy with what we got, but we definitely want more.”

“They’re down in the U.S. selling these rod days,” he said of local angling marketing. “That’s where you go to sell those days and promote cul-tural tours.”

Second doubledrive-thru on wayTHE LAKELSE Ave. McDonald’s single-lane drive-thru is going to be a double drive-thru now that city council has passed a development permit for the location.

This will be the second drive-thru expansion in the city in a short span of time.

The first took place when a similar permit was granted for the Tim Hortons outlet on the south-side.

That was accompanied by other traffic flow changes to ease vehicle congestion there.

City council accepted the recommendation by staff Feb. 23 for the McDonald’s change which they expect to also ease congestion at the location during peak hours.

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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

COMMUNITY EVENTSMARCH 12 – Pruning Seminar is a hands-on overview and demonstration of basic pruning techniques with Charles Claus and Cathy Jackson 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at Spotted Horse Nursery. Pre-registration required, call 250-635-1907. There is a cost to attend that includes a resource booklet: Growing Fruit Trees. Proceeds go toward local community food initiatives.

MARCH 15 – Starting today is Strengthening Families Together from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesdays thru May 17. Registration required at the Mental Health Family Resource Centre for this free 10-session course on Tuesday nights through May 17. Intended for families, friends and caregivers of people living with any mental illness. For more details, 250-635-8206 or [email protected].

MARCH 17 – The Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce Luncheon is an opportunity to network with the business community of Terrace, featuring a guest speaker from Paci� c NorthWest LNG, who will give an overview of the proposed project, update on the regulatory process, next steps for the project and provide some background on vendor preparedness. Contact the Terrace Chamber to register 250-635-2063.

MARCH 19 – Greater Terrace Food Association Seed Swap will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Health Unit Auditorium. People who have seeds to exchange should be there at 11 a.m. sharp. Plans also include Seeds of Diversity, Kids Corner, Communities in Bloom, information on pesticide use and the protection of bees, Northern BC Seed and Plant Swap online, Terrace and Area Farm Fresh buy and sell online, Community Supported Agriculture, GFTA membership, and more. For more information, email Agatha at [email protected] or call Judy Chrysler at 250-798-2535.

MARCH 19 – The third annual Spring Affair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the second � oor of the Skeena Landing (above the Flying Fish). Arts, crafts and home businesses with 35+ vendors from the northwest. The perfect time to stock up on Easter, Mother’s Day, Graduation, Birthday and other gifts. For more details, [email protected].

MARCH 26 – Heritage Park Museum hosts its fourth annual Easter Egg Hunt at 2 p.m. Hunt for Easter eggs amongst the historic buildings. Toddler-safe zone in the back of the park. Candy exchange, egg dyeing, face painting, and refreshments. Bring your own basket. Everyone welcome. Admission free or by donation.

MARCH 26 – 55+ BC Gamesj Zone 10 (BC Seniors Games) meeting is at 1:30 p.m. at Riverlodge Seniors Centre in Kitimat.

PSASIN CASE YOU didn’t know, the Happy Gang Centre isn’t just for seniors. Memberships are available to anyone 19 and older. And the centre is open Monday to Friday.

MILLS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Auxiliary Thrift Store will be closed until further notice.

THE SKEENA-NASS CENTRE for Innovation in Resource Economics (SNCIRE) 2016 Northwest Innovation Challenge applications are now available at sncire.ca. Everyone in northwest B.C. is invited to submit an idea. Application form includes information package with contest rules, prizes, prize criteria and sponsors. Deadline to submit ideas is midnight April 18. SNCIRE will choose approximately 12 � nalists to compete at the � nal event in May. $10,000 in prize money to be awarded.

THERE’S LOTS TO do at the Terrace Public Library during Spring Break! Week 1 program registration has begun: On March 15 – Petland brings “Little Critters” to show and tell, this is an all ages family program from 1:00-2:00. March 16 – children 8-11 years old are playing with electric playdough, “Squishy Circuits” and then make terrariums downstairs at the Terrace Art Gallery, 1:00-4:00. March 17 – kids 6-11 years old enjoy Lego free-play and design challenges and do St. Patrick’s Day crafts at the Terrace Art Gallery, 1:00-4:00. Week 2 program registration begins March 9: March 22 – Petland returns with animals that “Creep, crawl and slither...” to show and tell, this is an all ages family program from 1:00-2:00. March 23 – children 8-11 years old explore “LittleBits” electrical components and then do “Sculpture creations” at the Terrace Art Gallery, 1:00-4:00. March 24 kids 8-11 make “Seed bombs” for spring planting and then create handmade paper at the Terrace Art Gallery, 1:00-4:00. Please register for each day separately in advance for these FREE programs with limited spaces. Come in to the library or phone 250-638-8177.

THE TERRACE CHURCHES’ Food Bank will be open for distribution from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. from March 14-17 in the Dairy Queen basement. If your last name begins with the letters A to G, please come on Monday, H to P come on Tuesday, Q to Z come on Wednesday. Anyone missed can come on Thursday. Please bring identi� cation for yourself and your dependants, who must be living at your address. ID must show picture on it, preferably BC Care Card, driver’s licence, BCID, birth certi� cate, status card. You will need proof of

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TAI CHI IS a gentle form of exercise that can help maintain strength, � exibility and balance and could be the perfect activity for you! We have Tai Chi classes at the Happy Gang Centre, 3226 Kalum St. Sessions are held Tuesdays and Thursdays 8:45 to 9:45 a.m. There is a small fee for classes and everyone is welcome.

TERRACE TOASTMASTERS MEETS the second and fourth Wednesday of each month in Room #404 of the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly with meetings beginning at 7 p.m. If you’d like to build self-con� dence and improve your leadership and communication skills in a fun and interactive setting with like-minded individuals, consider joining Toastmasters. For more information, please call Sharon 250-641-4197, Janine at 250-615-8187 or � nd us online at www.terracetoastmasters.com.

THE TERRACE ART Gallery board of directors meets the second Thursday of each month at 7 p.m. in the gallery. Call 638-8884 for details.

TRIVIA CHALLENGES ARE held on the second Saturday of each month at 7 p.m. at the Legion.

NORTHERN BRAIN INJURY Support Group meets at 4:40 p.m. to 6 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 Tanya 250-641-4673.

TERRACE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB meets monthly on the third Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at the Terrace Art Gallery. Want to enjoy photography more? Open the aperture of your mind and come and see us. Two � eld trips a month and much more. Contact information thru our website northernlensescameraclub.ca.

COMMUNITY SENIORS’ SOCIAL invites all seniors and mature adults for complementary coffee, tea and refreshments, socializing with other seniors, entertainment and music from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month at the Terrace Pentecostal Assembly. Free. This time together includes a coffee/tea/snack time and singing.

NORTHWEST BC METIS meet the third Wednesday of the month (except July and August) at 7 p.m. room 306, 4536 Park Ave. Everyone welcome. For more details call 638-1199 or Beverly at 635-6864 or [email protected].

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Baby’s Name: River Phyllis Elizabeth Spalding Date & Time of Birth:February 24, 2016 @ 3:51amWeight: 9 lbs. 9 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Charity Duncan & Herb Spalding“New sister for Dominic & Eliza”

Baby’s Name: Dayton Reid NadeauDate & Time of Birth:February 16, 2016 @ 1:51amWeight: 5 lbs. 13 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Kendra McQuinn & Bronson Nadeau“New brother for Marlaena”

Baby’s Name: Kylie-Ann Adrianna Meredith QuashDate & Time of Birth:February 8, 2016 @ 10:21amWeight: 6 lbs. 13 oz. Sex: Female Parents: Celina Day & Kody Quash

Baby’s Name: Jaxon WebbDate & Time of Birth:February 5, 2016 @ 8:44amWeight: 8 lbs. 10 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Danielle & Kevin Webb“New brother for Taylor & Grace”

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Baby’s Name: Damon Liam RobinsonDate & Time of Birth:January 25, 2016 @ 3:27amWeight: 9 lbs. 13 oz. Sex: Male Parents: Kim Stewart & Les Robinson“New brother for Logan & Aiden”

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“The overall budget was adjusted down slightly this year be-cause the softening resource sector has negatively impacted our non-base activities (workforce training and contract training) but we’ve off-set this with cost reductions in the same areas,” said college official Heather Bastin.

The base grant the college receives from the province did in-crease by $307,000 to cover wage increases for its unionized em-ployees.

In previous years, the college has struggled to balance its budget, re-sulting in cuts to pro-grams and staff.

This year, the college expects to avoid more layoffs by early retire-ments and job sharings.

The dollar savings from these measures isn’t yet known, said Bastin.

One measure to avoid layoffs is to trans-

fer positions that are now vacant in Terrace to other campuses.

That’s to avoid los-ing people in the col-lege’s other locations should their jobs be eliminated and they either don’t want to or can’t move to Terrace, said Bastin.

“In some cases it is possible for that work to be done from any of our locations,” she said of transferring work out of Terrace.

Unions representing college workers and its human resources office are working on those possibilities, Bastin added.

Students in both its academic and trades programs will face a two per cent tuition hike, the maximum al-lowed by the provincial government.

For a full academ-ic course load, that means a tuition in-crease to $2,874.56 from $2,818.20 and for a ground level car-pentry trades program, for example, the 20-week program cost rises to $1,371.49 from $1,344.60.

New to prospective students this year is

a $25 non-refundable application fee which will be deducted from tuition costs should a student be accepted and then follow through and register for courses or programs.

Bastin said NWCC had been the only col-lege not to introduce an application fee over the years.

The administration fee is to help cover ad-ministrative costs and applies to university credit, business, entry level trades courses and health program.

It won’t apply to students taking specific developmental educa-tion programs or trades apprenticeship pro-grams.

And NWCC is all but closing its Kitimat campus space as the institution continues to trim costs.

It will only open its doors in Kitimat should there be courses to run, a college announcement indicated last week after its governing board ap-proved a new budget.

“We had one term-position employ-ee in Kitimat. That person’s term was not renewed. We plan to

staff that campus on an as needed basis with people from other cam-puses for the 2016/17 year,” said Bastin of plans for the year.

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Resource Social Worker – Full Time - Permanent:ri ari res onsi e or re r i ing de e o ing and ain aining

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Resume and cover letter may be forwarded by 5 pm March 18, 2016 to: Nisga’a Lisims Government

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Fisheries Biologist / Technologist PositionKitwanga, BC

Location: Position based in Gitanyow, BC. Terrace, Kitwanga and Hazelton are all reasonable home base locations.Term: Full-time seasonal (7-8 months). Potential for extensions subject to project funding.Wage: Competitive remuneration based on education, experience and qualifications.The Gitanyow Fisheries Authority (GFA) is one of the largest aboriginal fisheries organizations in northwestern BC. Established in 1994, it fosters ethical conservation, protection and management of fish and fish habitat within and around the Gitanyow traditional territory. The Gitanyow territory encompasses 6,200 km, spanning sections of both the Skeena and Nass Rivers. GFA is the technica arm of the Gitanyow Chiefs Office, and provides fisheries, wildlife and overall environmental expertise and services. GFA conducts a wide range of environmental stewardship activities including but not limited to: fish and wildlife management, harvest monitoring, salmonid stock assessment, fish and fish habitat assessments, environmental impact assessment, environmental monitoring, planning and research. To find out more about GFA please visit our website: www.gitanyowfisheries.comThe successful candidate will act as a crew leader and be able to implement and report on fisheries related projects under minimal supervision. This position requires excellent field skills, communication skills, leadership and problem solving abilities. Applicants should be energetic and willing to work in the field under adverse weather conditions and around fast moving water. Skills and Qualifications - Applicants should have a BSc. in applied biology (or equivalent) or a technologist diploma in a field related to fisheries biology and qualify for registered professional status in BC (College of Applied Biology). The successful candidate must have a valid BC Driver’s License (minimum class 5), good technical writing skills and be proficient in MS Office programing.Ideal candidate will also have at least 2 years of hands-on experience identifying and biologically sampling both juvenile and adult salmon.

How to apply: Email cover letter / resume to: [email protected] • Closing Date: March 25, 2016

Triton is looking for a well-seasoned environmental professional with a passion for working outdoors on construction projects often in remote and isolated communities.

SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS:• Post-Secondary education in one of the Earth Sciences disciplines (i.e. Biology,

Geography, Forestry, Agriculture) or Diploma in Environmental Technology• 5 -10 year as an environmental monitor on construction projects of all size• Extensive knowledge of construction site ESC measures and BMPs• Understanding applicable environmental legislation, regulations, and guid-

ance documents to ensure and/or enforce project-specific compliance• Able to communicate effectively, with clients, contractors, agencies, cowork-

ers and the ability to coordinate the efforts of others to accomplish objectives• Flexible and adaptable in identifying and mitigating issues rapidly to

ensure compliance within an active construction work environment• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision making abilities• Fish/amphibian salvage and isolation experience would be considered an

asset• Fish, wildlife and vegetation assessments would also be considered an asset• Excellent organizational skills• Physical fit and able to work in all weather conditions• Valid Class 5 general Drivers Licence

HOW TO APPLY: If this opportunity sounds like you, and you are serious about joining a progressive team of environmental consultants, please email us (quoting the competition number in the subject line) with your resume and cover letter stat-ing where you saw our job posting.

Email: [email protected] Competition Number: 2016-006Closing Date: March 11, 2016 http://www.triton-env.com/

Senior/Intermediate Environmental Construction Monitor

We are looking to fill the positions of Sous Chef and Server /Lodge Support for the upcoming season. If you have a desire to work with a leading company in the fishing guide industry and join a team that is passionate about the outdoors, then Nicholas Dean Outdoors is for you. Please provide references.

Please apply in confidence by e-mail to: [email protected] or by mail to: Chad Black, Nicholas Dean Outdoors,

PO Box 434, Terrace, BC V8G 4B1

Nicholas Dean Outdoors Sous Chef and

Server/Lodge Support

CCRR and Community Programs Coordinator

Are you knowledgeable about child care and literacy issues in our community? Are you passionate about helping women and their families?

We are looking for an energetic facilitator for workshops, programs, and community events that support regional child care providers, local women/ families, and a community literacy group. You will be part of the Terrace Women’s Resource Centre team.

Qualifications/skills• Proficiency in social media • ECE or equivalent post-secondary education• Understanding of the issues surrounding quality child

care, women’s priorities, and community literacy • Program delivery and program management experience

This is a 35-hour/week unionized term position with benefits. Email the

Terrace Women’s Resource Centre team at: [email protected] or phone 250-638-0228

(Rosemary Craig) or an applica on pac age.

City of Terrace Vacancy

DAY CAMP SUPERVISOR/LEADERSThe City of Terrace is currently seeking outgoing, creative individuals with experience working with children to fill the positions of Day Camp Supervisor and Day Camp Leaders with the Leisure Services Department.

Applicants must have attended school, college, or university during the last school term and must be returning to their studies in the fall. For more details regarding these exciting positions please visit the City of Terrace website at www.terrace.ca for complete job descriptions for these positions and information on how to apply. Applicants should submit a detailed resume specifying which position they wish to be considered for.

Deadline to apply is March 25, 2016.

Briana Pellegrino, Human Resources Advisor

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TREE To Me: Farm Manager (Or-ganic) Tree To Me is a new organic farm operation located in Kereme-os, BC that has a farm market, cof-fee shop, bakery and bed and breakfast. The company requires a full time Farm Manager. This is a career position with the opportunity for equity ownership in the busi-ness. The current farm operation in-cludes tree fruits, perennial vegeta-bles and berries, annual vegetables and a greenhouse operation. Along with increasing production in these areas, additional farming activities will be added in the future. The suc-cessful candidate will have both academic and practical farm experi-ence, an aptitude for equipment and building maintenance and be capable of functioning within a man-agement team. An attractive remu-neration package will be offered. Reply by email to [email protected]. www.TreeToMe.ca

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Farm Workers Ofce SupportADMINISTRATIVE ASSIST-ANT APPRAISALS NORTH-WEST, a real estate appraisal and consulting business head-quartered in Terrace and pro-viding services throughout Northwestern British Colum-bia, is seeking an Administra-tive Assistant. The Administra-tive Assistant will perform a variety of general offi ce duties, including telephone, reception, bookkeeping, mail, fi ling, pho-tocopying, as well as assisting in compiling appraisal and consulting reports.The suc-cessful candidate should pos-sess the following experience and skills: - Practical experi-ence with Microsoft Word and Excel, as well as basic ac-counting, database, network-ing, internet, graphic and digi-tal photography software. - Good communication skills, both written and verbal. - Strong comprehension and or-ganizational skills, and ability to multi-task and work with minimal supervision. This is a permanent, part-time position (20-30 hours per week). Those interested in this position should submit resumes by email: [email protected] or fax (250) 638-8056. Dead-line for application is March 18, 2016. We thank all who submit resumes for this posi-tion. Only those selected for interviews will be contacted.

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CITY OF TERRACENOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT

TAKE NOTICE THAT an application has been made to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 2069–2014 by making gen-eral text amendments to the R6 – Manufactured Home Residential zone and amending the Site Specific Permit-ted Uses in the R6 – Manufactured Home Residential zone affecting the property at 4305 Lakelse Avenue.

THE INTENT:1.0 Amend Section 11.7 – Purpose statement to read

as follows:To provide for low density residential housing within manufactured home parks.

2.0 Amend Section 11.7.2 – Site Specific Permitted Uses by adding the following:In addition to the uses listed in Section 11.7.1, the following site specific use(s) are permitted in the R6 zone, at the locations(s) specified:a. Manufactured Home (Modular) shall be permit-

ted as a Primary Use only on Strata Lots 1 to 41, District Lot 368, Range 5, Coast District, Strata Plan PRS348.

b. A Conventional Site-Built Single-Detached Dwelling shall be permitted as a Primary Use only on Strata Lot 13, District Lot 368, Range 5, Coast District, Strata Plan PRS348 together with an interest in the common property in proportion to the unit entitlement of the strata lot as shown on Form V.

3.0 Amend Section 11.7.3.4.a – to increase the maxi-mum building/structure height of a manufactured home (mobile) from 4.0 m to 5.0 m.

4.0 Amend Section 11.7.4.a – Additional Regulations for this Zone, to read as follows:In addition to the regulations of this zone, manu-factured home parks are also subject to the City of Terrace Manufactured Home Park Bylaw.

PURPOSE: 1.0 To create consistency in terminology and regulations

with Manufactured Home Park Bylaw 2099-2016.

2.0 To facilitate the construction of a Conventional Site-Built Single-Detached Dwelling on Strata Lot 13, District Lot 368, Range 5, Coast District, Strata Plan PRS348 together with an interest in the common property in proportion to the unit entitlement of the strata lot as shown on Form V.

BYLAW INSPECTION:THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT BYLAW AND RELEVANT BACKGROUND DOCUMENTS MAY BE INSPECTED at the City of Terrace Public Works Building at 5003 Graham Avenue, Terrace, B.C., between the hours of 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. each day from Friday, February 26, 2016 to Monday, March 14, 2016 excluding Sat-urdays, Sundays and Statutory Holidays. For enquiries concerning this application please contact the Planning Department at 250-615-4022.

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, MARCH 14, 2016.

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

CITY OF TERRACENOTICE OF PUBLIC INPUT

AMENDMENT TO FOOD-PRIMARY LICENCE

TAKE NOTICE THAT the City of Terrace has received an application from Wings Tap and Grill for an amendment to Food-Primary Licence #306773.

THE SUBJECT LAND:The application affects the land, within the City of Ter-race, shown hatched on the accompanying map and described as:Lot A, Block 21, District Lot 361, Range 5, Coast District, Plan966[#105 – 4741 Lakelse Avenue]

THE INTENT:To permanently amend Food-Primary Licence (#306773) to extend the hours of liquor sales in the Wings Tap and Grill restaurant establishment, located at #105 – 4741 Lakelse Avenue as follows:

Current Hours of Liquor Sale:9:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m. (midnight), Monday through SundayProposed Hours of Liquor Sale:9:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., Monday through Sunday PUBLIC INPUT DETAILS:Any persons wishing to voice their opinions regarding this application may do so in writing, and/or in person, AT THE COUNCIL MEETING TO BE HELD IN THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AT 7:30 P.M. ON MONDAY, MARCH 14, 2016.

Invitation to BidAquatic Centre Renewal Project

The City of Terrace is seeking proposals from firms with proven experience in comprehensive architectural and professional design services including construction management and contract administration.

Documents will be provided to interested bidders electronically. Please email Carmen Didier at [email protected] or Floyd Mann at [email protected] for proposal package and link to the reference materials.

Deadline for submission is 4:30pm Thursday, March 31, 2016.

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By JOSH MASSEY

AN ALLIANCE of northwestern municipalities formed in

2014 to push for a revenue sharing agreement with the pro-

vincial government for a cut of profits from resource devel-

opment in the area has been turned down – at least for the

time being.

The Northwest Resource Benefits Alliance – which rep-

resents the communities in the regional districts of Kitimat-

Stikine, Bulkley-Nechako and Skeena-Queen Charlotte –

has been seeking an amount in the hundreds of millions of

dollars to be redistributed to the area for infrastructure and

other upgrades. The communities would be accommodated

under a single sharing agreement.

In a letter from the Ministry of Community, Sport and

Cultural Development dated April 22 and addressed to Re-

gional District of Kitimat-Stikine chair Stacey Tyers, the

government laid out the reason for rejecting a request for

$1,131 million for planning and delaying any agreement.

“The tone was a surprise. It was exactly the opposite of

the previous correspondence, but we are still hopeful that we

can go back to the table and talk to them,” said Tyers, adding

that the alliance has already sent another letter “asking on a

political level to meet again and try to get on track.”

The money the group asked for was needed to do neces-

sary legwork to secure a wide-reaching deal, she said.

“To actually bring together all three regional districts is

incredibly expensive and we would have to do that a couple

times just to make sure that everybody is on the same page,”

said Tyers.

Local governments and the provincial government have

already spent money planning for the agreement which they

hope will be like the one the government has with industrial-

based communities in the northeast called Fair Share.

According to the government, it is too soon for a revenue-

sharing agreement to be signed and they are unwilling to

commit more money for the initial planning at this point.

“It is in our view, premature for the province to consider

entering into any agreements that would see those revenues

dedicated before they are realized,” says the government let-

ter. “Future benefits from LNG development have not been

incorporated into provincial revenue forecasts,” it continues.

However Tyers said that the agreement would be based on

new money in other sectors, not just the proposed liquefied

natural gas industry.

Despite 18 export plants proposed and 12 export licenses

granted, not one of the gas companies has made up their

mind to go ahead with their coastal liquefaction plants.

“Mining, forestry, any resource development in our area

really. We are looking at new revenue, we are not asking

them for a piece of the revenue they currently have, we rec-

ognize that is committed elsewhere, but we are looking at

new resource revenue,” said Tyers.

Gov rejects

planning

money

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By MARGARET SPEIRS

AS PEOPLE remember and mark

the 70th anniversary of the liberation

of the Netherlands by the Canadians

and other Second World War events,

a part of that remembrance has lived

in Terrace for more than 40 years.

Yellow tulips given to veter-

ans associations across Canada as

thanks from the Dutch government

for the liberation of Holland have

been growing in Evelyn Pousette's

garden on the bench since 1974.

And before that, they grew in her

garden downtown where she and her

husband lived before that.

She says they just keep growing

year after year.

The exact year they were given

to Canada wasn't known to her but

she believes it may have been 1970

which was the 25th anniversary of

the end of the Second World War.

Way back before she and her hus-

band were married, they went out for

a drive one day and stopped at the

top of Lanfear hill in the spot where

their property is now, but which was

just vegetation and land without any

houses back then.

She stood at the edge of the hill

and her now-husband took a photo

of her.On the back she wrote “I want to

live here someday” then put it away

in a drawer and forgot all about it.

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Touching history to local tulipsMARGARET SPEIRS PHOTO

EVELYN POUSETTE tends to the tulips in her backyard, which have a special story behind their presence

here in Terrace for the past several decades.

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AN ALLIANCE

2014 to push for a revenue sharing agreement with the pro

vincial government for a cut of profits from resource devel

opment in the area has been turned down – at least for the

time being.

The Northwest Resource Benefits Alliance – which rep

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TERRACE - The drive to bring an aboriginal hockey champion-ship here moved closer with the committee struck to make the bid asking for council to waive the fees of renting the arenas for the event.In addition to bringing the teams and fans here from around the region and country, the cham-pionship serves as a way to build relationships between the aborig-inal communities and the city, showcase northwest aboriginal culture and provide role models for youths, said councillor Brian Downie to a city council Com-mittee of the Whole Meeting May 4.

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webcast, they will bring nation-al viewers online to see them, he said.During dead time between games and periods, videos show-ing coverage of the area could be added for viewers to see.Members of the committee for the championship bid came to give their support and talk to council too. That included Cal Albright from Kermode Friend-ship Society, Joe Bevan for Kit-selas, and Yulanda Leighton from CFNR.

To rent the main arena and the Hidber arena for the sev-en days of the championships, the facility rental fees would be about $25,000 and ice installa-tion about $30,000.The committee was request-ing that council and the city

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By JACKIE LIEUWEN

TWO TERRACE Wolverine basket-ball teams are heading to the Junior All Native Basketball Tournament in Williams Lake next week, March 13-19.

With a mix of players ages 17 and under, including Nisga’a, Tahltan, Tsimshian and Metis, the team was formed from some of the regulars at the weekly drop-in basketball at the Clarence Michiel gym.

With girls playing Tuesday nights and boys on Wednesdays, the Wolver-ines’ basketball drop-in is open to all youths, not just First Nations, and is run by a group of parents who want to make activities available for their children.

At the drop-in, the youths do 20 minutes of fitness and jumping, then run drills and practise the fundamental skills, and finally they scrimmage.

The program started in 2012 when Suwilaawks principal Pamela Kawin-sky and Fred Wilson opened the gym one evening for a random basket-ball night for youths. A lot of youths showed up that night so parents or-ganized two teams, boys and girls, to travel and compete in the Junior All Native that year.

The next year, local parents stepped up to continue the drop-in, including Cecil Barton and Tiffany Moore who now run the boys’ drop-in and Daniel Henry who runs the girls’ program.

“I got involved because of my daughter. She was the reason I came here, she was the reason I stayed,” said Henry, adding that the other part is that he wants to provide a consistent program for youth.

“That’s one thing I would like to see here, is a steady youth drop-in basketball. That’s why I do this – I want to see the kids out playing…

staying active,” he said. Tiffany Moore agreed. “I grew up playing basketball and

wanted to support these guys and give them something to do… it provides a safe place… I’d rather them be here than out doing other things,” she said. “I do it to support my kids and help these other guys.”

The parents run a basketball drop-in during the school year and a drop-in soccer program during the summer as much as they can find gym time, which has been the biggest challenge.

A core group of over 12 parents meet regularly to plan and organize fundraising for the Wolverines, so that the youth who drop-in can travel to nearby communities for games a few times each year and so they can send a team to the Junior All Native.

Since they ask for community sup-port, Henry says the group works to keep involved in the community and give back through volunteering for things like community cleanup and the Terry Fox Run.

They have had a lot of support from the community in Terrace, and were sponsored by the Nisga’a Lisims Gov-ernment this year in order to travel to the Junior All Native.

“It’s big for them, it’s an experi-ence,” said Henry of the tournament. “They have a good time and they have that team bonding, and that’s my goal.”

Fostering friendships is Henry’s aim through all of the program, not just the tournament.

“I have experience in basketball, in that camaraderie with my friends [on the team]… and they’re my brothers to this day,” Henry said, adding that he wants the same for the youths on the team. “I mentioned that to these girls: respect each other and take care of each other, and be sisters forever… That’s what I want,” he said.

Drop-in basketball sends teams to compete at Junior All Native

JACKIE LIEUWEN PHOTOS

JUNIOR ALL Native teams from Terrace. Ladies from back, coach Daniel Henry, Shelly Rob-inson, Mckenzie Lyons, Madison McKay, Tyler Henry, Martina Clayton, Linda McLean, coach Blake Wilson. Jade Bright, Trista Cooley, Carissa Scodane, Patricia Derrick, and Jamika Moore. Missing are Brielle Derrick and Shawna Mackay. Boys from back, coach Cecil Barton, Martin Watts, Cecil Barton Jr., Josh Grant, Andrew Wells, Robin McNiel. Alister Doolan, Jalen Barton, Nathaniel Russ, and Josh Barton. Missing is Everette Poole.

THE YOUNG Terrace Peaks gymnasts set the bar high and earned first for overall points at a recent gymnastics meet here in Terrace Feb. 20.

The competition had 57 athletes from Kitimat, Terrace and Smithers competing in eight categories. Individual results for Ter-race gymnasts are as follows:

In Junior Olympic level 3+ category, ages 11 and up, Savannah Medeiros finished third with 24.5 points overall, and third in floor and beam, fourth in vault, and fifth in bars. Ella Almgreen got fourth and Amelia Evans got fifth overall in that category.

In Junior Olympics level 3 category, ages 10 and under, Haydyn Taylor got second overall with 27 points. She got first in beam, tied for first in floor, got second in bars and

third in vault. Carissa Menninger was third overall, with second in vault and third in bars, beam, and floor. Lily MacDonald got fourth and Piper MacCormac got fifth.

In Junior Olympic level 2, Taeler Linter-is, Kaylee McCormick and Claire Vieira all earned silver-level finishes.

In Junior Olympic level 1, Izzie Croot, Pyper Testawich, Emma Angus, Lola Hanna, Myka Nikitiuk and Maia Purita all finished at the silver-level. Helena Spearing, Paige Constantinescu, Allison Lewis and Shantae King finished at the bronze level.

In Interclass Performance Plus, Eva Bar-nett, Mira Forget, Dessirée Houlden-Make-la, Kennedy Howse and Aila Morton all finished at the silver-level and Grace Peer-less finished at bronze.

Colourful display by young local gymnasts

JACKIE LIEUWEN PHOTO

TERRACE PEAKS gymnasts practise their final stand before the big meet Feb. 20.

Terrace Standard Wednesday, March 9, 2016 SPORTS www.terracestandard.com A27

January can be the bitterest of months. This one wasn’t. In January I like to be out on skis, the dog bounding through the snow ahead of me at first,

then trailing behind later in the day. This winter, a large part of last winter, and the winter before that, have been remarkable for their pathetic snow falls.

The back channels that irrigate the woods on the west side of the lower Kalum used to be a favourite skiing loop for Doug and me. We cut trails and when we got tired of skiing the same circuit, we laced on the snow shoes and set out on vigorous tramps across the frozen ponds.

If it were possible, we would have tramped to the river and fished, but angling was sketchy and dangerous with large sec-tions of the river frozen and where it was open, it was fast shallow riffles where the river pushed hard against jams pinned against the corners at its severest bends.

In February the river was still in win-ter’s grip, and by mid-March it would be open again, but with white banks.

This year, the warmest since the keep-ing of records, I began walking the Kalum and Zymoetz the first week of January, my goal to cover from 5 to 10 kilometres three or four times each week. During these out-ings I encountered more fishers than I’d seen until now. To access the upper por-tion of the lower river, I parked at the end

of the Deep Creek sub division, where, several times, I saw as many as four trucks parked on week day.

I was surprised that these anglers were fish-ing two-handed fly rods. I canvassed the anglers; every one of the dozen I subjected to my haphaz-ard creel census admit-ted they hadn’t hooked a single steelhead. They each said this with sin-cere disappointment rather than the mock disappointment old steelheaders feign to hide that they have had very good fishing.

Finally, last week, when it felt more like March-end than mid-February, I could re-sist the siren call of the river no longer. I grabbed my 10 foot 10 inch Echo Switch Rod, pulled on my waders, picked up my staff and made for the Kitsumkalum. The place to find new arrivals when everything feels like spring is in the fast water, a les-son I learned from Mike Whelpley.

I went directly to two places that few if any fishers fish but have produced well for me in years past. Because they are quick

and shallow, I used a sparse fly at the end of a floating line and long leader. After fishing each lay-by carefully with no result, I sat on a log and reflected on my next move.

The run Mike and I used to call simply “The Root” for the big subsurface stump lo-cated in its deepest part that steelhead like to lie next to, was a short walk away. If it wasn’t hold-ing steelhead, which it almost always was, there would be some char or cutthroat lurking within its confines. I made my

way there, fished deliberately, and was skunked again.

Determined to hook something, I re-turned the next day to find Mike Johnson fishing the run accompanied by his dog Ellie. As our dogs gambolled, Mike fished through the run twice. He covered the water well with a fast sinking tip. I followed with a waking fly, an ineffective lure at this time of year to be sure, but I have caught a few spring steelhead in 5 degree water this way.

When Mike was making his second

pass, Jules Jelev and his dog Charlie ap-peared. When we were done, Jules fished the tail with a spinning rod and a spoon and did as badly as we had.

I don’t think there are many steelhead in the Kalum this year, Mike observed.

Next morning I returned to the same run, fished through with a sinking line then guiltily took out the centre pin I’d thrown into my vest.

Two-handed fly rods make excellent float rods. I rigged mine up with the cast-ing reel, attached shot and a foam float. For terminal tackle, I tied on the deadliest lure I know, a Colorado Spinner. Drifting free under a float, Colorado spinners blink enticingly. With the application of a little pressure to the formerly free spooling reel, they whirr. As I brought mine back to make another cast it shone like a ballroom chandelier. I felt certain that fish would be forthcoming. None were.

There have always been steelhead in that part of the river over the winter. Af-ter the spinner treatment I was convinced there were none in that run. I moved down to the fast riffles. No steelhead there either and the fact that I didn’t catch a single char or trout made the exercise doubly discour-aging.

Winters are now unpredictable. I left wondering if winter steelheading had lost its predictability too.

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

ROB BROWN

Unpredictable

BC Winter Games

BC GAMES SOCIETY PHOTOS

BC WINTER Games competitors from Terrace.CLOCKWISE FROM above: Michaela Yeo flies over a jump in slopestyle where she got 4th. She was the talk on the slopes for her speed and high jumps, but a crash and resulting injuries kept her from competing in big air. Tom Yasinchuk got 14th in slopestyle and 7th in big air.MIDDLE, KAILEY Halvorsen takes aim in the archery competition where she got 7th. Craig Durando took 6th, and Hannah Stewart took 9th.RIGHT, GRACE Magnusson goes in for a shot in a game against Zone 8, Prince George and Quesnel. The Northwest Zone 7 ringette team were underdogs and lost every game, but kept high spirits and were able to score some strong goals against teams with top AA players. They made friendships and had a great experience.BOTTOM CORNER is Aidan Carter and right is Yohannes Vandenberg ripping down the track in cross-country skiing. Both boys and Gabriel Vandenberg did well and had fun and Yohannes earned bronze in the 400m sprints.


Canadian Energy. Global Reach.PacificNorthWestLNG.com

Will PNW LNG be dredging in order to accommodate LNG carriers?No. LNG carriers will berth in naturally deep water in Chatham Sound, requiring no dredging at the marine terminal.

Why is dredging no longer required at the marine terminal?Based on feedback from federal regulators, First Nations and the community, PNW LNG revised the marine infrastructure design to relocate the marine terminal to naturally deep water and eliminated the need for dredging at the LNG carrier berths.

Will there be any dredging for the project?We have significantly reduced the dredging required. We will need to do a small amount of dredging in advance of the construction of our Material Offloading Facility (MOF). The MOF would be used to accommodate cargo ships delivering equipment and materials to our facility. Before any dredging occurs, we would work with local First Nations and the regulators.

What has PNW LNG done to protect salmon habitat?By relocating the marine terminal, we have eliminated the need for significant dredging at the LNG carrier berths. In addition, as part of our environmental assessment application, we have proposed fish and fish habitat mitigation measures to protect local salmon and other marine life during construction and operations.

What is the current status of the project?The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA) recently released its draft environmental assessment report and proposed conditions for Pacific NorthWest LNG (PNW LNG). To review the draft CEAA report and conditions, please visit bit.ly/DraftCEAAReport.

How can I provide feedback on the CEAA process?CEAA is accepting comments from the public until March 11, 2016. Comments can be emailed to [email protected].

We want to thank the local First Nations and community members who have provided feedback to us and the Government of Canada throughout our federal environmental assessment. Your feedback has helped us to continually improve the design of our facility.

For more information, visit one of our community offices in Port Edward or Prince Rupert, PacificNorthWestLNG.com or call 250.622.2727.

Current Design Trestle Suspension bridge

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Previous Design

Our current project design (below, left) does not require any dredging to accommodate LNG carriers at our marine terminal. A previous design (below, right) had proposed significant dredging at the marine terminal.