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The president of the Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club board said the club is pleased to report that they were only in the hole $13,000 last year.

It’s not something that is typically cel-ebrated though, said

Robin Lapointe, but in comparison to past year’s deficits it’s a big step in the right direc-tion.

In past years the amount has been up to $75,000.

Lapointe joined the club’s new General Manager Steve Hag-

gard for a community update, following the cumulative release of $100,000 to the club from the District of Kitimat.

The deal isn’t a straight grant however, but will eventually lead to the District’s acqui-sitions of golf course

lands in the area sur-rounding the club.

Talks for what lands the District would take are in the early stages and it’s not clear what will eventu-ally change hands.

Lapointe says that following a soft open-ing event in November

for the club’s restau-rant, they will be mov-ing to offer evening dinner services starting sometime in January.

The club’s goal, be-yond opening their res-taurant again regularly, is perhaps naturally to grow its membership.

In 2015 the club

will prepare a five-year capital replacement plan as well.

Lapointe said that with the club’s situ-ation to know all re-pairs were done as things broke down, so now they hope to be-ing able to do preven-tative maintenance on

their equipment.Such expenses,

he notes, may require council and industry support still.

On the curling side of things, he said Fri-day night drop-in curl-ing has been very suc-cessful in drawing in people.

A campaign promise kept. After Nechako Elementary held an all-candidates forum for the students during the local election campaign, Phil Germuth promised frozen treats if elected mayor. 1,828 votes later here he is.


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The Sentinel’s top read story of the yearThe ‘Delta Spirit’ docked in Kitimat. The ship arrived to house workers for the Kitimat Modernization Project.

When we took a look through the top read stories at northern-sentinel.com, we were happy to see the top story wasn’t of crime or injury.

What apparently got most people’s attention in 2014 was a simple story about a re-fitted Es-tonian ferry being brought in by Rio Tinto Alcan to house work-ers during their peak construc-tion period for the modernization project.

Certainly the story did at-tract readers, although it’s hard

to say exactly why.The ship was re-dubbed the

Delta Spirit, in honour of the Alcan ship Delta King, which in the 1950s was an accommoda-tion ship for workers during the original construction.

That ship is now permanent-ly docked in Sacramento as a ho-tel and restaurant.

Perhaps the story of this old ferry tugged at Kitimat’s mariner heartstrings.

Even though the town itself sits away from the waterfront,

the town still is home to many that rely on the ocean for work or play.

That puts anything that hap-

pens in our waters under a mi-croscope of community interest.

Or maybe it’s simply just an indication of the work that has been happening at the RTA site, a visual cue that construction was to continue ramping up.

Regardless, from television news reports from its stop in Vancouver on the way here, to a packed-house ribbon cutting cer-emony on board, the arrival of the Delta Spirit was anything but unnoticed.

The ship remains there as of

today, even though itws run was originally going to keep it just until October.

Now, Rio Tinto Alcan says there will be a bit more time for sightseers in Kitimat to see the ship.

While it has remained be-yond it’s original timeline, the ship will stick around until prob-ably March, as the need for hous-ing of workers dwindles with the end of the project, and more workers are moved back on to the land-based camp.

Since we’re al-ready on the subject of Rio Tinto Alcan with our top story for the year being the Delta Spirit, it may as well be a good place to look back on the fact that RTA marked 60 years of operation in Sep-tember.

Given the arrival of a floating ‘hotel’ for workers, it was fitting that the com-pany’s sixth decade was marked with some throwbacks to its ear-lier days.

The celebration it-self was big.

The Riverlodge was effectively taken over for an entire weekend, with the main events conclud-ing with an outdoor concert by King Crow and the Ladies from Hell (at left) —a Terrace-based band —

and with an enormous fireworks display.

The anniversary also called for a look at the modernization project itself.

General Manag-er of BC Operations Gaby Poirier said in September that with

the Kitimat Modern-ization project 70 per cent complete, they were employing 3,600 people on their way to concluding the Project.

The first pour doesn’t have a firm an-nounced date but he said they will do it be-

fore the end of the first half of 2015.

For Poirier, who has been involved in the KMP project for just over a year, it’s been a fascinating jour-ney in to the long his-tory of the company and Kitimat.

“They built Kiti-mat, transmission lines, the smelter, in less than five years. There were over 30,000 work-ers here,” said Gaby on the company his-tory. “What they did 60 years ago is quite impressive.”

He said comparing that work to today’s ac-tivities, the challenges are different but there is a common thread which runs through then and now.

For instance the ar-rival of the Delta Spirit Lodge, which turns memories to the steam-wheeler Delta King which once housed workers in the 1950s.

“It’s very much like what we did in the 50s.”

Of course not ev-ery thing is the same. Poirier says he heard a lot of comments

from former employ-ees during their 60th celebrations at the Riv-erlodge on the Septem-ber 13 weekend that it’s remarkable how much safety standardshave changed.

“Many, many com-ments came out from the evolution of safety throughout the years,”

he said. In the River-lodge gymnasium a line of historical photo-graphs dotted the wall, and people saw first hand the differences of safety from then to now.

“Our safety resolve improved tremendous-ly in the last 15 years,” said Poirier.

In February this year it was announced that RTA had entered in to an agreement for LNG Canada to acquire their Terminal B, the former Euro-can wharf.

That project meant that

RTA would need to expand their Terminal A, and the reg-ulatory process for doing that work has already begun.

Later in the year, RTA announced they were gifting 156 acres of waterfront land

at Minette Bay to the District of Kitimat.

The news was well re-ceived, and gives the DoK much needed waterfront for potential development.

It hasn’t been established

what will happen to the land but Kitimat Council has com-mitted to undergoing a public process before finalizing any plans for that space, which is on the west end of the bay, near Minette Bay Lodge.

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– Year in Review –




It’s time to look beyond the pro-tests and political battles around cli-mate change that dominated 2014, and look at the year and the decade ahead.

From the California drought to shifting forest patterns across B.C., there is evidence that our climate is changing more rapidly. Public debate consists mainly of squabbling about the signi� cance of human-caused greenhouse gas emissions, rather than what can be done to prepare.

A draft discussion paper from the B.C. forests ministry on wild� re con-trol was released in December after an access to information request. “Climate Change Adaptation and Action Plan For Wild� re Management, 2014-2024” de-scribes the progress made in the prov-ince’s community forest � re prevention plan, and its goal to create “wild� re re-silient ecosystems and wild� re adapted communities” over the next 10 years.

The � nal discussion paper is to be released early in 2015, but the key re-search is in. It estimates that by 2017 there will be 788 million cubic metres of dead pine in B.C. forests. Fires in these areas spread 2.6 times faster than in healthy green stands, up to 66 metres per minute.

The report calls for fuel manage-

ment beyond community boundaries to stop “mega-� res” by creating land-scape-level fuel breaks, with targeted harvesting, prescribed burning and new silviculture practices.

It notes that bark beetle infestations and bigger, hotter � res are being seen across North America, with costs ris-ing along with urban development. For example, the 2011 Slave Lake � re in northern Alberta generated the second largest insurance charge in Canadian history.

The costs of preparing are huge. The costs of not preparing could be catastrophic.

Also in 2014, the B.C. government appointed an advisory committee to prepare for the renewal of the Colum-bia River Treaty with the United States.

While this 1964 treaty has no end date, its � ood control mandate expires in 2024. I spoke with Deborah Harford

and Jon O’Riordan, members of the Simon Fraser University Adaptation to Climate Change Team (ACT), who, along with ACT senior policy author Robert Sandford, have written a pro-vocative book on the treaty. They hope it will help lead to a renewed agree-ment that will be a model for a chang-ing world.

“If you’re looking ahead 60 years from 2024, there’s a lot of climate change projected in that period, for British Columbia and the U.S.,” Harf-ord said. “For the B.C. side, we’re look-ing at heavy precipitation and potential increase in snowmelt runoff, while in the States, you’re getting the opposite, much less snow.

“There will probably be no snow-pack left down there, and they’re look-ing at the prospect of quite drastically lower � ows in the summer.”

The treaty, sparked by devastating � oods in 1948, led to construction of three dams on the B.C. side and one at Libby, Washington that backed up Koo-kanusa Lake into B.C. Between that reservoir and the Arrow Lakes, 110,000 hectares of B.C. land was � ooded, in-cluding orchards, dairy farms and the homes of 2,000 people.

Continued on page 11

2015: the year of climate adaptation

A year in summaryIt’s New Year’s Eve. Given the occasion, � rst let

me begin by thanking you for taking time out of your day to read the paper. I’m sure you have plans and we’re happy to be a part of them.

As the year comes to a close, it’s our usual time to look back at the headlines which made the news for the past year.

The year 2014 was another exciting year and to be honest I’m surprised it’s over already.

That said, there are stories that I also can’t be-lieve are still from this year, given how much has happened.

To give me a sense of what news impacted read-ers this year I took a look at the report of what the top read news stories were for the year on our website, northernsentinel.com.

Now let me preface by saying that when it comes to writing the stories that go in the paper, I have a lot more fun with the happy ones. I’m not a bloodthirsty tabloid newspaper editor. In fact it gave me great happiness to see a story from 2012 I reposted this year near Halloween, the original story to Kitimat’s pumpkin wall on Kuldo Boulevard, ranked #7 over-all for the year. I can credit everyone who ‘shared’ the story on Facebook.

But the stories about the ‘bad’ stuff did indeed top the ranking list. Well, mostly. The top story was actually about Rio Tinto Alcan bringing in a cruise ship. (Or re-� tted ferry if we’re going to bring se-mantics in to this)

Right behind though was an article about a po-lice drug investigation which resulted in an arrest of a Kitimat-area woman.

The following story in the list is the shocking story of a woman who was robbed while using a Kit-imat ATM machine.

A stabbing investigation follows, as well as an-other police report about a woman who accidently fell off Haisla Bridge.

Oddly enough, even with the April plebiscite about the Northern Gateway project, only a story about spending during the ‘campaign’ made my top 50 stories report.

The story at the bottom of the list — again, out of the top 50 — was a story about how Chevron has no plans to convert the Paci� c Trail Pipeline to an oil pipeline. That pipeline is what would supply the proposed Kitimat LNG project.

So there you have it, crime really tops the list of most-read stories for this newspaper’s website.

Don’t worry though. For as long as I have a bet-ter time writing happy stories than bad ones, you’ll still have plenty of good news to read.

Cameron Orr

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NDP Leader Horgan reflects on 2014, looks ahead to 2015Tom Fletcher

Following are highlights from Tom Fletcher’s year-end interview with NDP leader John Horgan. For an extended version, see the Opinion section at www.northernsentinel.com.

Tom Fletcher: The B.C. Lib-eral government has given every indication they’re going to pro-ceed with the Site C dam on the Peace River. What do you think?

John Horgan: I’ve always maintained that it’s a good proj-ect, but it’s a question of when to add another $8-9-10-12 billion onto the backs of ratepayers.

First of all, go to the B.C. Utilities Commission and find out if this is the power you need and if this is the time to build it.

The government refuses to do that, and I think that’s just an Achilles heel in this process.

TF: You voted for the lique-fied natural gas income tax to provide certainty, and then you

immediately said you would work to increase the LNG tax in 2017, before any major project could be started. How is that certainty?

JH: I thought it was important that the investment community in this sector knew there was bipar-tisan support for LNG in British Columbia. But we went from a seven per cent [tax] to a 3.5 per cent because of a softening mar-ket.

If there is a decline in return to the province because of a soft-ening market, then surely over a 25-year period – not just between now and 2017, but if the market conditions change and prices go up – I think British Columbians would want their government to make sure they were getting a fair share of that benefit.

TF: Why did you vote against the LNG environmental legisla-tion?

JH: They said prior to the election that LNG would be the

greenest in the world. And then when they tabled legislation they left out 70 per cent of the emis-sions from upstream activity.

TF: Gordon Campbell’s great goal for greenhouse gases, 33 per cent reduction by 2020, can that be reached assuming a substantial LNG development?

JH: I find it difficult to believe that they’re going to achieve those results. [Environment Minister] Mary Polak has a

different point of view, and our job as opposition is to hold them accountable to the numbers that they passed into law, and we’re going to do that.

One of the three sectors, hous-ing, energy and transportation, where emission profiles can be managed downward is transpor-tation. And the government has wasted 18 months talking about a referendum on [Metro Vancouver transit.]

TF: What’s your top priority for 2015?

JH: I think the public is going to increasingly find affordabil-ity issues to be the challenge. We didn’t spend as much time as I had hoped to on hydro rate increases, ICBC. When the government bal-anced the budget, they did it by selling assets, and by increasing costs at their Crown corporations

and then pulling that revenue in for budget purposes.

We’re going to have to use new technologies and means of communication to better explain to people what the government’s doing to them.

TF: What should happen with the agricultural land reserve?

JH: I don’t think there was a groundswell of opposition to the ALR, quite the opposite in fact, and the commission has in my opinion, infinite flexibility to meet the demands of development in northern areas as well as urban centres.

I’m going to make sure that [agriculture critic] Lana Popham, who as you know is fearless on this issue, is let loose on [Agricul-ture Minister] Norm Letnick, and we’re going to dog this issue up to the next election.

John Horgan

One, not two, Hydro lines from Kitimat to Terrace

BC Hydro has announced it will be building only one new 287kV power line from its Skeena Substation at Terrace to Kitimat.

It had been considering two lines in light of anticipated industrial expansion in Kitimat, in-cluding two large liquefied natural gas plants, and of the consequent need to provide reliable power to that area.

“BC Hydro’s load forecasts, which include information we have received from potential fu-ture industrial developers, indicate that a single 287kV transmission line will provide enough ca-pacity to meet electricity needs in the area,” an email from the corporation indicated.

“To date, discussions with these potential de-velopers have not indicated that a second line is needed for reliability,” it continued.

LNG developers have now said they will gen-erate the majority of their own power needed to cool natural gas into a liquid form for export.

BC Hydro did say, however, that it will still have the flexibility to construct a second line if ever needed.

A new line is needed to replace the one now in service which is at the end of its service life.

The new line will be built down the west side of the Kitimat valley.

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A moment, a really chilly moment, from last year’s Kitamaat/Kitimat Polar Bear Swim. The event, organized by Trev Amos, is back for a second outing this New Years Day, tomorrow, at 12 noon. Amos began organizing the event after Polar Bear Swim events at Hospital Beach ended due to construction activity. The event takes place at the Kitamaat Village boat launch.


Banks Island and its mysterious Kiwi connectionBanks Island is one of our largest

coastal islands, lying just southeast of Hartley Bay. Recently it was the proposed location for a large wind farm and more than two centuries ago it was the site of a famous shipwreck at the aptly named Ca-lamity Harbour.

According to all accounts the island was named for Sir Joseph Banks, patron of Britain’s esteemed Royal Society, wor-thy scientific group in pre-Victorian times.

The name was bestowed by James Colnett, captain of the Prince of Wales and the island earned its name as the result of a fascinating set of historical circumstances.

Banks was a wealthy associate of Sir James Cook, famous British navigator, and the gentleman botanist stationed on Cook’s ship Endeavour on its first voyage of discovery which reached New Zealand in 1769.

Banks headed up the scientific delega-tion which included astronomers, bota-nists and artists.

At Poverty Bay in New Zealand he and Cook were fascinated by the Maori people and much of their elaborate cul-ture. In particular Banks was quite taken

by a Maori stone weapon called a patu, a paddle shaped skull-splitter of about nine pounds which appeared to be made of jade.

It was attached to a lanyard and could be hung around the neck.

On his return to England he commis-sioned metal workers to produce 40 small-er, five-pound replicas. These were forged from brass and stamped with the Royal Society’s seal and Banks’ name.

His goal was to use them as gifts or trade items on future voyages so he dis-tributed them to a number of departing captains prior to their various voyages to lands afar. Captains Cook and Clerke are two who are known to have been recipi-ents with most of the patus being doled out to chieftains across the Pacific.

But at least one was given away in the Western Atlantic in the vicinity of Labra-dor.

Another patron of the Royal Society was Archibald Menzies. He was a disciple of Banks who, almost a generation later, was entrusted with almost identical duties.

Menzies was doctor and exploring botanist on Captain Colnett’s 1787 voy-age.

Now imagine Menzies’ surprise when he saw a Tsimshian chief carrying a brass patu on the as-yet-unnamed island Sep-tember 16, 1788.

He wasn’t sure when he noticed the weapon secured by a lanyard around the chief’s neck, but on closer inspection he was able to discern the almost worn away Royal Society insignia and Joseph Banks’ name.

Both Colnett and Menzies realized the historical implications as they were the first European traders on the island - there-fore decided that it just had to be named Banks Island.

Speculation continues to this day as to how that Tsimshian chief obtained the patu.

It is known they were presented to or traded with chiefs at Nootka Sound on Vancouver Island. So could they have been traded further up the coast, ending up a full 400 kilometres north at Banks Island on Nepean Sound?

Or did Cook trade one to the Tlingits of Alaska while his second boat, the Cha-tham, was getting its hull rehabilitated af-ter long months at sea?

Today there is a mint-condition patu exhibited in London’s British Museum and curiously there is also one in Ameri-ca’s Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. The latter was discovered in a First Nation’s burial ground 400 kilometres up the Columbia River.

No doubt a lot of trading went on for that to have occurred and obviously there was a lot of status in having the strange weapon.

As author Richard Wells said in his book Calamity Harbour, the fate of the patu possessed by the Tsimshian chief may never be known.

But perhaps it is buried with its chief-tain somewhere down channel near Banks Island.

It’s OurHeritage

Walter thorne

The year’s biggest forgotten story

One of those crazy mornings

Kitimat City High story came and closed, for now, in 2014

Does anyone remember when Strawberry Meadows almost burned down in July?

If you’re like us, you might have almost overlooked the story as the year comes to a close.

Thankfully nothing is really for-gotten in print, and we were remind-ed of this story from July 17 when a wildfire broke out in the depths of the Strawberry Meadows area.

It was a notable fire in a dry part of the year. Water bombers and heli-copters swarmed in to Kitimat to drop water and keep the fire contained. The air support was called in from Smithers’ Northwest Fire Centre.

The lower dyke was even evacu-ated of people as a precaution in case the fire bolted that direction.

In all there were about seven

air drops with water tankers, while helicopters continued to drop water throughout the evening.

Heavy machinery in the area was also used to create fire breaks.

The culprit of the blaze, which grew to about one hectare, would turn out to be an unattended campfire, the fire department said.

One little campfire resulted in all that work, a minor injury to a fire fighter (One Kitimat Firefighter in-jured his ankle during the event and was treated at hospital and released.) and a smoky haze all over down-town Kitimat. Forest fire firefighters moved in the morning after to take care of remaining hot spots.

It was a moment of alert for our small town, and for 2014 it’s one of the year’s ‘forgotten’ stories.

It’s not a forgotten story, and in fact the story, in the long-term, may not even be ‘over’, but for now the con-templated relocation of Kitimat City High has come and gone in 2014.

The original plan which came out from the school district was to take the students at KCH and place them in to a school which would be operated within the building of the existing Mount Elizabeth Middle Sec-ondary School.

For many parents of KCH students, the

move would have de-stroyed what KCH was for its youth.

Among the par-ents at a school board meeting following re-lease of the plans were Karen Jonkman, whose son is a recent gradu-ate of KCH and she’s certain her son would never have succeeded at the mainstream high school.

“He was in Mount Elizabeth and it wasn’t a good fit for him. There’s no way he would have been able to do it without a pro-gram such as what they have [at KCH]. And

that’s his words, not mine,” said Jonkman at the time.

It didn’t take long for the school district to rethink their ap-proach.

Where it stands now, after a June 2014 school board meeting, the relocation plan was reviewed by the busi-ness and education committees, and both recommended the re-location program be revisited, and that fur-ther decisions be made through a “collabora-tive public consultation process with all partner groups.”

It was just one of those crazy moments in the year.

Kitimat woke up the Sep-tember 25 morning without power. Of all things, the culprit was a pick-up truck smack-ing a power pole near the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter at 3 a.m.

The event backed traffic up for kilometres, on top of

causing a town-wide power outage.

Employees for the com-panies down Haisla Boule-vard, from the LNG offices to the smelter, had to either stay home or were redirected on haul roads while emergency crews dealt with the situation.

Police spent the morn-

ing tracking down the driver of the truck, who had fled af-ter the accident — otherwise known as ‘not a smart plan when downed power lines are involved.’

About a day later police said they confirmed the regis-tered owner of the vehicle was in fact the driver.

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Kitimat, the album

Luke Wallace came to Kitimat last July, and here he found music.

The Vancouver-based jack of all trades (he’s a student, a musi-cian and a filmmaker) set his eyes on Kitimat in order to receive a first hand local experi-ence.

He needed it as he, like many, is a supporter of environ-mental conservation and is a vocal sup-porter of ecosystems and preserving natural beauty.

As someone who speaks for environ-mental conservation, he felt he really need-ed to see first hand the environment he seeks to protect.

Armed with a camera, he came to Kitimat in pursuit of a documentary about the area.

His efforts also led to music, and he recently released the Kitimat LP, a col-lection of folk-style music inspired by the town of the album’s namesake.

He said he be-gan writing the music for the Kitimat LP in December, before he planned to even come to Kitimat that follow-ing summer.

“I’m a musician first and foremost,” he said.

Once he settled on making a documenta-ry, he said he knew it would be from a musi-cian’s perspective.

Wallace, who studies environmental geography at UBC, said his documentary will premier on cam-pus, before beginning a provincial tour.

He said he will be returning to Kiti-mat, partnerned with Friends of Wild Salm-on, to show the filmin Kitimat.

He said his days in Kitimat were al-ways full of adventure and getting up close to the area wildlife at times.

Seabridge gets federal environmental approvalThe federal government has given its envi-

ronmental approval to a proposed $5.3 billion gold mine north of Terrace.

But proponent Seabridge Gold will also have to undertake a series of environmental protec-tion and other measures for its Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell open pit and underground copper, gold,

silver and molybdendum project which would process up to 130,000 tonnes a day of material and have a life span of more than 50 years.

Federal environment minister Leona Agluk-kaq, in giving her approval, also signed off under the Nisga’a Final Agreement because of the proj-ect’s impacts on the Nisga’a lands and people.

Provincial approval for the project was pro-vided by the provincial government in the sum-mer.

“The project is not likely to result in signifi-cant adverse environmental effects,” said Agluk-kaq in a statement, provided mitigation steps out-lined in a study of the project are followed.

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TOP2014 storyThere would

honestly be no other choice, would there?

It was a moment that put Kitimat on the map in more ways than one. It caught provincial attention, it caught national at-tention, it caught in-ternational attention.

Editorials would be written on it, and plays would be made from it.

The editor’s pick

for the year’s top sto-ry is none other than the Northern Gate-way plebiscite.

It was a long time coming. Two whole town councils ago, they decided that they would wait until the Joint Re-view Panel process concluded before they would seek community feed-back on what to do with the Northern

Gateway project. Support it or not?

When the Joint Review Panel con-cluded their findings they leaned in favour of the project, which came as no surprise to some people.

That however put the ball in our coun-cil’s court to decide what they wanted to do.

After much de-bate and discussion

the town settled on a plebiscite — versus, say, polling — to get the community opin-ion.

What happened next was an intense political campaign from energy trans-porter Enbridge and grassroots environ-mental groups.

Regardless of the result, Kitimat’s own Douglas Channel Watch proved a pow-

erhouse of activism.Always vigilant

locally, they made waves beyond the boundaries of Kiti-mat, and pooled to-gether resources to take Enbridge head-on.

Spending was high, nerves were on high, leading up to April 15.

In some ways the vote was just the start.

Nothing about the entire process was easy.

Even beginning with the choice of question itself.

The question de-cided on was: Do you support the final report recommendation of the Joint Review Panel of the Canadian Envi-ronmental Assessment Authority and National Energy Board, that the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project be ap-proved, subject to 209 conditions set out in Volume 2 of the JRP’s final report?

A mouthful, and I don’t even think you

could tweet a question that long.

Even a parade of residents opposed to the wording did noth-ing to sway council from their choice.

Even with such a questionable choice (we argued against it in editorials at the time) the community still knew the bottom line. The vote wasn’t just a vote on the JRP condi-tions but whether or not the community wanted to endorse the Northern Gateway Project.

And they couldn’t.The ‘No’ vote

topped out at 1,793, while there were 1,278

votes cast under ‘Yes’, leaving opponents with a 58.4 per cent victory. Not necessarily a land-slide, but a comfortable margin over the 41.6 per cent in favour.

Kitimat Council didn’t waste much time afterwards to formerly oppose the project, giv-en the perspective of the community through the plebiscite.

After over an hour of debate and discus-sion on April 21, Kiti-mat Council settled on officially opposing the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines pro-posal.

The motion reads

“That Mayor and Council support the re-sults of the April 12th plebiscite by adopting a position of being op-posed to the Enbridge Northern Gateway project.”

Just Edwin Empi-nado voted against the motion, although in this case that shouldn’t be read into as an en-dorsement of the proj-ect.

Rather, Empinado was concerned about the community’s fu-ture ability to deal with Enbridge if the project does eventually pro-ceed, and Kitimat is left with a formal op-

position to the project.Empinado said at

the time that he wants the town to take a po-sition that will allow them to protect the en-vironment while still giving them the ability to work with the com-pany to protect their interests.

Speaking to his motion, then-council-lor Phil Germuth em-phasized Kitimat’s on-going and past support of industrial develop-ment.

“Kitimat has al-ways supported indus-try. “This [project] just crossed the line in that risk and benefit was

weighted to be way too much on the risk side,” he said.

The motion, he added, won’t close the door to speaking to proponents in the future, including even with Enbridge them-selves.

Meanwhile, the federal government in June opted, as may have been expect-ed, to approve the Joint Review Panel’s recommendations and gave Northern Gateway its environmental certificate, with 209 conditions attached.

“After carefully reviewing the report, the Government accepts the independent Panel’s recommendation to impose 209 conditions on Northern Gateway Pipe-lines’ proposal,” said Canada’s Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford in a news release.

The decision will certainly lead to court challenges. Haisla Chief Coun-cillor Ellis Ross, who leads the First Nations community at the head of the Douglas Channel where Northern Gate-way would flow diluted bitumen to, said court is the next step.

“We actually made the decision back in 2009 that if our Rights and Title case law principles aren’t abided by then we have no choice but to go to court,” he said, saying the experience so far is that Canada has not been following rights and

title case law. “Not only on our own but in partnership with other First Nations.”

On the possibility of consultation at this point, he said it would be too late. The government had been warned on the implications, he said.

“Every mistake they’ve made we actually pointed out to them and said ‘this is not following case law principles. You’re making a mistake, you shouldn’t do this.’ But they went ahead and did it,” he said. “It is going to be court. It has to be court.”

Douglas Channel Watch protesters in the wake of the federal government’s decision to approve Northern Gateway Pipeline’s environmental certificate.Cameron Orr

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60 years old.On April 16, 2014, 60 years plus a day since the

first issue hit the streets, we ran a special commemo-rative issue with a look back on the newspaper world between the 50s and now.

“From the outset and doubtless throughout its whole career, Kitimat will be chiefly a metallurgical centre. It is destined to become one of the world’s great aluminum smelting and distributing centres of an era that is turning dramatically to light metals...No other development is necessary to make Kitimat British Columbia’s third largest centre outside of the Greater Vancouver and Greater Victoria communi-ties,” wrote the Sentinel’s editor in 1954, in the pa-per’s “Commencement.”




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IIO under continual changeTom Fletcher

B.C. police forces have undergone a “sea change” in the two years since a civilian-led unit was put in charge of investigating police-involved deaths and serious injuries, says the man in charge of the Independent Investigations Office.

But the road to a new system that is moving away from police investigating other police has not been smooth, former U.S. prosecutor Richard Rosenthal acknowledged in his report to a com-mittee of B.C. MLAs.

The office started up in the fall of 2012 with 36 investigators, about half and half civilians and former police officers. Its mandate was to move

to all-civilian investigations, and Rosenthal said progress has been made, with two thirds of staff in the two investigative teams being people who have never worked as police officers.

This year four former officers were fired from the IIO, and five more resigned, Rosenthal told the committee. Two civilian staff also quit this year after three civilians resigned in 2013. Anoth-er former officer was “separated from the organi-zation” in 2012, Rosenthal said.

He cited three reasons for the high turnover: “cultural conflicts,” the struggles of a new organi-zation and evolution of jobs that causes people to look for something new.

The best good newsTotem pole goes up at MEMSSAs you may have read on

page 4, there’s nothing better to write than the happy stories.

Each year there are always a lot. The Fire Chief for a Day is one, and it’s always fun to see how kids react to their roles. (Some are more ‘bossy’ than others, which is a blast to see.)

Then there’s the ‘good news’ moments, like RTA gift-ing land to the District of Kiti-mat. One-hundred and fifty-six acres of waterfront. What could be better?

But when it comes to the top ‘happy story’ I saw no rea-son to not put the conclusion of the totem pole raising at Mount Elizabeth Middle Sec-ondary School as the top story.

Nathan Wilson spent the better part of the year chiseling, shaving, and carving out a raw log to make the school’s first totem pole, which was erected

in the school’s lobby to great fanfare, music, dancing and speech.

There are a number of things which make this event the top in our books. Firstly, it was, at its core, just a good story. Wilson had not carved a totem pole before, and this task was certainly a defining mo-ment for the Haisla-artist who will no doubt have a great ca-reer in front of him. From the human interest aspect it was just a solid story of rising to a challenge.

On a larger scale, it was a peak event for relationship building and bridging between the school and its Haisla stu-dents. The event works towards the ongoing inclusion and rec-ognition of First Nations cul-ture in the region, and the totem pole is a beacon of that rela-tionship which will certainly be

a visual reminder that no matter your culture or background, the school is an inclusive place that seeks to exclude nobody.

To top off everything else that made it a great story, the ceremony of raising the pole itself was spectacular. Spirit of Kitlope dancers, singing, and ceremony filled the high school all morning on November 20. With Haisla dignitaries in tra-ditional regalia, it was without a doubt an important moment in the school’s history, and in Haisla history too.

As the dust cleared, it’s apparent that the students who saw this event unfold will re-member it for the rest of their lives.

Wilson himself said during the event that the whole process was humbling for him.

No doubt it should be a humbling event for us all.

Nathan Wilson speaking at the pole raising ceremony at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School. Cameron Orr


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JOB SUMMARY:Organizes and implements social, recreational, educational and life skills activities and programs designed to meet the individual needs and interests of people being supported. Activities may take place within the individual’s home or in community settings.DUTIES:• Assisting person being supported with cleaning and housekeeping duties, including

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With our clubhouse restau-rant opening in January we are seeking individuals to add to our culinary team. We have a variety of posi-tions available based on your experience level.Duties will include: Creating meals that will ensure customers return, up-holding hygiene & sanitary regulations, enforcing a safe work environment for your-self and your colleagues, promoting good relationships with other colleagues and other departments. Preferred (but essential) Assets: Completion of a culinary pro-gram, Food Safe Certifi ca-tion, Min. 6 months experi-ence working in a restaurant.We offer: Competitive wages, Golf Privileges, Discounts in Pro Shop and in restaurant and supply uniforms.

Submit applications to: Steve Haggard e-mail: [email protected] or call 250-632-4653

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Medical/Dental

RegisteredCasual Care Aides

Bayshore Home Health is seeking Registered Casual Care Aides in Terrace and surrounding area.Please email your resume:

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Services

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Continued from page 4Those dams hold back spring � ood wa-

ter and provide for irrigation that has allowed Washington to expand its agriculture to a $5 billion-a-year industry. The treaty shares the

value of hydroelectric power generated by the many downstream U.S. dams such as the Grand Coulee, but it pays B.C. nothing for agricultural bene� ts that were achieved at the cost of B.C. farms and aboriginal territories.

O’Riordan notes that climate shifts create a strategic bene� t for B.C.

The U.S. has no more dam capacity to ex-ploit, and needs us more than ever, for � ood protection and water supply.

January 27Bladder Cancer Canada will be hav-ing a meeting. The meetings will be at the UNIFOR Union hall on Enter-prise Avenue at 2:00 p.m. This is a great way to meet and connect and to learn about bladder cancer from people who have experienced blad-der cancer. For more information

call Glen at 250-632-3486.OngoingConsider joining the Friends of the Public Library. To do so contact Luce Gauthier at [email protected] or Virginia Charron @ [email protected] or call 250-632-8985.KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are interested in joining the Kitimat Quilters Guild please con-tact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6223 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for further information.

EVERY THURSDAY, the Kitimat Pottery Guild meets in the River-lodge arts wing, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Interested in playing with clay? All experience levels welcome. For more information call Anne at 250-632-3318.WANT A GARDEN bed next year at the Kitimat Community Garden? Call Denise at 250-632-9107 for more information.THE KITIMAT Public Library of-fers the highly engaging Mother Goose StoryTime for pre-school-

ers Monday mornings from 10:30 -11:15 .am. Please register for this free program.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child De-velopment Center. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older siblings wel-come). Come meet other parents and infants over light refreshments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more in-formation call 250-632-3144.

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The Kitimat Mar-lins hosted the � rst regional swim meet of the season recently with 103 swimmers from Terrace, Smith-ers, and Prince Rupert. The Marlins had some excellent results with pool records set, new time standards met and many swimmers win-ning medals for over-all points. With their strong results the Mar-lins were able to win the meet, over second place Prince Rupert Rapids by a whopping 322 points.

Kleanza Cathers (15) in her � rst regional swim meet in the 15 and over girls division broke two pool records in the division. In the 100 IM she posted a time of 1:08.97 which

broke the old record of 1:09.27 set by Stepha-nie Nicholls from Prince Rupert in 2002. Stephanie Nicholls went on to swim for University of British Columbia and break BC and Canadian re-cords. Cathers also broke the 50 back-stroke record while leading off the Marlins medley relay. Her time of 32.34 eclipsed the old record of 32.96 set by Laura Woodman of Prince Rupert from 2004. Cathers took the gold medal for overall points in the division.

Brander Pacheco (16) broke two pool re-cords in the 15 and over boys division. Pacheco posted times of 27.41 in the 50 meter butter-� y and 1:01.01 in the 100 butter� y breaking

the previous records of 27.75 and 1:02.20 by Brett Zollen of Smith-ers from 2012. Zollen is now swimming for University of Victo-ria and swimming ex-tremely fast. Pacheco took the silver medal for overall points in the division.

Alivia Soares (14) became the fourth Kiti-mat Marlin to achieve the tough Western Na-tional qualifying time in the 1500 meter free-style. She is now wel-come to attend Western Nationals in February in Edmonton. Soares took the silver medal for overall points in the divison.

Achieving his � rst AAA Provincial quali-fying time was Hayden Dobbin (15). Dobbin achieved the time in

the 14-15 year old 1500 meter freestyle.

Achieving their � rst AA Provincial times were Alex Van Horne (11) in the 11 and under boys 100 backstroke and Nolan Striker (13) in the 12-13 boys 100, 200 back, 100 � y and 400 free-style. Van Horne also took the Bronze medal in the 11-12 boys cat-egory.

Zachary Dumas

(15) took the bronze medal in the 15 and over boys division. Dumas also broke the pool record in the 15 and over boys 400 IM but was narrowly out touched by less than a second by Bailey Esperson (16) from Smithers who took the record.

Ethan Velho (14) took the silver medal in the 13-14 boys divison. Velho also had the larg-

est one swim improve-ment with a 91 second improvement in his 1500 meter freestyle.

In the 10 and under girls division the Mar-lins swept the medals. Alexis Florit (9) took the bronze medal, Ol-ivia Pearson (10) took the silver medal and Adrianna Florit (10) took the gold medal.

Other medalist for the Marlins were Ewan Thomopoulos (10) gold

in the 10 and under boys. Jadyn Johnston (10) bronze medal in the 10 and under boys. Hannah Pearson (12) took the gold medal in the 11-12 girls division. Leah Desousa (12) took the silver medal in the divison. Laurence Boucher (14) took the bronze medal in the 13-14 girls division. Paige Collier (16) took the bronze medal in the 15 and over girls division.

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