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The 2014 North American Indigenous Games (NAIG) were a year of firsts for Brit-ish Columbia. It was the first time British Columbia’s volleyball team won the gold medal, the first time a team had won the med-al count and the pres-tigious John Fletcher award and it was Kristi Howell’s first time coaching.

“This years NAIG was my first time coaching,” said How-ell. “I’ve always played volleyball, so I know a lot about it but I’ve nev-er actually coached,” she added.

The 2014 NAIG were held in Regina, Sask. in late July and saw over 500 athletes attend from British Co-lumbia.

Howell, who took charge of the 2014 girls volleyball team, said that over 80 girls from British Columbia tried out for the team, which is more than they’ve ever had before.

Howell said that the NAIG flew around 500 athletes from British Columbia to Regina as well as providing hotel accommodations for the athletes.

Howell led her team to their first ever gold medal win at the NAIG and did so without her team being defeated

once throughout the entirety of the 2014 games.

“It was amazing,” Howell said of her ac-complishments. “I’ve played at the NAIG twice before as an athlete but I’ve never come close to winning gold or even placing in the medal count, so to win as a coach, and my first time coaching at that, was a very big ac-complishment for me.”

Howell’s team man-aged to not only win a gold, but British Co-lumbia as a whole also took home first place in the medal count with a grand total of 161 med-als. British Columbia’s win was thanks in part to Howell’s gold medal win, which tipped the scales in British Co-lumbia’s favour after a tie with Saskatchewan.

British Columbia’s win of the John Fletch-

er award also added to the years prestige and marked the first time in the history of the NAIG that a province has won both the medal count and the John Fletcher award.

Howell said that going from athlete to coach was no easy transition, “coaching was one of the hardest things I’ve done, there were a lot of things I had to factor in and

sometimes that’s hard to juggle.”

But Howell says it was her experience participating in NAIG that inspired her to give back and get involved as a coach.

“The reason I chose to coach came from the experience I had when I went to the NAIG myself,” Howell said. “I had a very good ex-perience and I believe it helped to make me

the person I am today. It opens your eyes to a bigger world and other possibilities, so being able to give back and help other girls have a similar experience was something very impor-tant to me.”

The NAIG takes place every three years and while not certain she will continue to coach in the years to come she says she is definitely considering it.

Taking home the goldB.C. wins the North American Indigenous Games across the board

Kristi Howell, coach of the 2015 U19 girls volleyball team holding up the gold medal her team won in this years NAIG.

Photo by Jesse Cole


The Nak’azdli Band First Nation will be holding a cultural af-ternoon celebration on Thursday, Aug 14. The celebration which fea-tures traditional drum, dance and song will be held in Kwah Hall, beside the Nak’azdli Band office in Fort St. James. The celebration is open to the public and takes place from 12 p.m. until 7 p.m.

At 1 p.m. a game of Lahal, a traditional indigenous game, will be played between at-tendees.

The cultural after-noon celebration comes as a way to celebrate and bring some levity to the community after a series of loss and grief workshops that have taken place over the last few weeks in response to the loss of Nak’azdli community members and elders.

Alexandra Luggi, who is one of the orga-nizers of the event says she’d like to make the afternoons a monthly event in the future.

The event will celebrate First Na-tions culture, traditions and serve as a way to brighten the spirits of those in the community dealing with the recent losses of loved ones.

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On July 30, Fort St. James RCMP responded to a report of a domestic assault. Upon arriving at the scene police discovered a woman had sus-tained significant injuries and was transported to hospital to for injuries. The male suspect was located and arrested by RCMP and released later that day with a court summons and strict conditions.

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On July 31, Fort St. James RCMP conducted a traffic stop of a vehicle in Fort St. James. Upon inspection of the ve-hicle occupants, a male and a female, officers found that the female occupant was in breach of her probation and no contact order. The woman was arrested and later released by a Court Justice with strict conditions and a court summons.

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a.m. RCMP responded to a call of disturbance at the Fort St. James Royal Canadian

Legion. Upon arriving at the legion, officers observed two people riding 4x4 ATV’s on the roadways in a reckless and dangerous manner. Officers apprehended one of the two riders and issued them a traf-fic violation ticket. The second suspect fled the scene, injuring a police officer in the process. The investigation is on-going.

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p.m. Fort St. James RCMP officers responded to a single vehicle accident at Highway 27 and Carrier Road. The ve-

hicle in question had left the roadway and driven into a ditch. Upon examination, Of-ficers found the male driver exhibited obvious signs of impairment and subsequently initiated an impaired driving investigation. The suspect was arrested for impaired driving and transported to the Fort St. James RCMP detachment where he refused to provide breath samples to Officers.

The man was later released with a court summons and a driving prohibition. Charges were forwarded to the Crown.

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For all you stargazers out there, the next few days are the optimal time to get your cameras and telescopes out and head up to Mt. Pope. The Perseids meteor shower, which is a an-nual meteor shower, will be at it’s peak visibility over the next

few days allowing for some tremendous stargazing and pho-tography opportunities. So named because of it’s recurring presence within the Perseus constellation, the shower is rec-ognized as one of the more prolonged and beautiful showers. During it’s peak. which will take place tonight and tomorrow around 100 meteors an hour will fly through the night sky. Get your cameras ready.

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SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 91 (NECHAKO LAKES)

KINDERGARTEN REGISTRATION

1. DAVID HOY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Fort St. JamesParents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 25 - 29, 2014.

2. SOWCHEA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Fort St. JamesParents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 25 - 29, 2014.

3. FORT FRASER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Fort FraserParents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 25 - 29, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon.

4. MOUSE MOUNTAIN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - Fraser LakeParents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 25 - 29, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

5. EVELYN DICKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - VanderhoofParents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 25 - 29, 2014.

6. MAPES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - VanderhoofParents should register Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 25 - 29, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

7. SINKUT VIEW ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - VanderhoofKindergarten Registration for the 2014-15 School year is closed, but will re-open for the 2015-16 School year.

8. W.L. MCLEOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - VanderhoofParents should register English or French Immersion Kindergarten pupils new to the area on August 25 - 29, 2014.

9. EBUS ACADEMY - VanderhoofPlease phone our registrar at 1-800-567-1236 any weekday during the summer to discuss how the EBUS distance learning Kindergarten program may fit your child’s needs.

TRANSPORTATION: Kindergarten pupils will be transported on regular school bus runs. To request transportation for your child/children, please contact the office starting the week of August 25, 2014.

Fort St. James Bus Garage: Frances Honeywell, at 250-996-7835Vanderhoof Bus Garage: Graeme Kellem, at 250-567-9618Fraser Lake Bus Garage: Tracey Syrota, at 250-699-6995


REGISTRATION FOR STUDENTS NEW TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT

Registration for all students who are NEW to this District will take place in the school listed below on the dates indicated during the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon and 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. unless otherwise stated. Grade 6 & 7 students heading to Nechako Valley Secondary and students who are returning to their same school as last year do not need to re-register.

Report cards or transfer records should be presented to the school upon registration to assist in proper placement in the school. Please bring the student’s birth certificate and care card.

Beginning students (Kindergarten and Grade One) who have already registered should not re-register.

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Mapes Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 6 August 25 - 29, 2014 **(9:00 am to 1:30 pm)

Nechako Valley Secondary Grade 7 - Grade 12 August 25 - 29, 2014

Sinkut View Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 6 Registration for this School is full

W.L. McLeod Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 6 August 25 - 29, 2014

Fort Fraser Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 7 August 25 - 29, 2014 **(9:00 am to 12:00 noon)

Fraser Lake Elementary Sec. Grade 4 - Grade 12 August 25 - 29, 2014

Mouse Mountain Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 3 August 25 - 29, 2014 **(9:00 am to 2:30 pm)

David Hoy Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 7 August 25 - 29, 2014

Fort St. James Secondary Grade 8 - Grade 12 August 25 - 29, 2014

Sowchea Elementary Kindergarten - Grade 7 August 25 - 29, 2014 EBUS Academy Kindergarten - Grade 12 Online, July & August, 2014**NOTE TO SECONDARY STUDENTS:

Those students who register after Friday, September 5, 2014, may have difficulty in registering in classes due to space availability.


SCHOOL OPENING AND REGISTRATION

All schools will open on Tuesday, September 2, 2014, at the regular time. Parents and students should note that on school opening day school bus runs would be as follows.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2014 Bus runs will begin on their regular schedule in the morning and will make the return run immediately following school dismissal at noon. Please note that noon hours vary from school to school.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 WEDNESDAY, September 3, 2014, will be a full, regular day with regular bus runs both morning and afternoon.

Kindergarten students will begin regular bus runs. For further information, see the advertisement re: Kindergarten.

NOTES:With student population shifts in various locations, some changes in bus runs or pick-up locations may be required. Problems such as these will be carefully studied and parents will be notified. Cooperation by all concerned will be appreciated. If you have any questions, contact Tracey Syrota, Transportation Manager, at 250-567-9618.

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The Mount Pol-ley mine tailings pond spill is “unlikely” to significantly harm Fra-ser River sockeye now returning to spawn in fouled Quesnel Lake, according to the Pacific Salmon Commission.

The agency manag-ing salmon fisheries said it doesn’t expect the peak of the sock-eye migration to reach Quesnel Lake until the first week of September, giving about 20 days for river and lake condi-tions there to improve.

In a news release issued Friday it also noted the “encouraging results” of initial water quality tests released by the province is a cause for optimism.

But the commission cautioned there are also juvenile sockeye cur-rently rearing in the lake and it’s too soon to tell whether they will be severely affected.

“The spill could im-pact their survival and food supply,” it said.

Great concern per-sists among First Na-tions and other salmon users over the potential for contamination and long-lasting damage to the fishery as a result of the mine disaster.

Between 845,000 and 2.95 million sock-eye are forecast to spawn in the Quesnel system this year – about a quarter of the summer run and seven per cent of all Fraser sockeye stocks combined.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans has not directly com-mented on the threat to salmon, saying Envi-ronment Canada is the lead federal agency.

“Fisheries and Oceans Canada will be closely monitoring the salmon run as it ap-proaches the Quesnel system over the coming days to assess the po-tential effects of these pollutants and other factors including water temperature on salmon returns,” the department said via an emailed statement.

The Fraser continues

to run at lower levels and higher temperatures than average, adding to concern that significant numbers of sockeye could die on their way upstream before spawn-ing.

But officials say in-coming sockeye look healthy and most are migrating through Johnstone Strait, rather than Juan de Fuca Strait on the west side of Van-couver Island.

Commercial fishing has already been open offshore to trollers since

Aug. 2 and gillnetters who fish on the lower river between Steveston and Mission will get their first opening on Monday afternoon.

There’s no in-season estimate of the overall run size yet.

But major compo-nents of the run are tracking close to the mid-range of what had been predicted in ad-vance.

That suggests a total sockeye return closer to the median forecast of 23 million, rather than

the low end of seven million or a record high return of 72 million.

Area E Gillnetters Association spokesman Bob McKamey said it looks to be the best re-turn since the large run of more than 30 million sockeye in 2010.

The last two years have been bleak for gill-netters, with only one chum opening each of the past two years and no sockeye fisheries.

“They have waited a long time for a sockeye fishery. A lot of us are just looking forward to getting a fresh one to the table.”

He expects steady openings for the 300 or so commercial gillnet-ting boats for several weeks.

“We’re expecting regular week-day open-ings from now until September.”

Limited recreational fisheries for sockeye opened on the Fraser River last week, which catch limits of four per

day, while aboriginal ceremonial and food sockeye fishing started two weeks ago.

Unionized commer-cial fishermen, mean-while, have denounced the lack of government oversight of the Mount Polley mine.

“We have fleets of boats with observers or cameras watching our every move to fish sus-tainably, and nobody is watching these folks as they destroy our eco-system,” said said Kim Olsen, president of the Unifor local represent-ing fishermen and allied workers.

“Where has the BC Ministry of Environ-ment been? Where has Environment Canada been? The oversight is pathetic.”

– with files from Phil Melnychuk

Mine spill ‘unlikely’ to harm spawning sockeye

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VICTORIA – The B.C. government’s intentions for the Agricultural Land Reserve have been clarified by a public consultation that proposes new commercial and industrial uses on farmland.

Political watchers may recall that this was the hill the NDP was prepared to die on this spring. It was going to be a farmland looting spree for right-wing property developers and all hope of “food security” would be dashed.

As I attempted to explain at the time, the changes have little or nothing to do with ALR exclusions. Now a discus-sion paper poses a series of questions, some of which illus-trate the need to bring farmland regulations up to date.

The first one deals with restrictions on retail sales, a case study in arbitrary state control. There is a strict maximum floor space. A minimum one half of retail sales must be pro-duced on that farm. Food packing, preparation and process-ing are similarly restricted.

This requires multiple duplicate operations of question-able viability. It brings to mind Mao Tse Tung’s Great Leap Forward, where farmers all had little iron smelting furnaces out back to make tools. But I digress.

“Amongst other things,” the discussion paper says, “less-ening the restrictions on on-farm processing could allow the establishment of abbatoirs (large, small or mobile) on farms, to serve surrounding cattle, game or poultry farms.” Then there’s cheese, fruit juice and even medical marijuana prod-ucts.

And did you know that wineries and cideries are allowed on farmland but breweries, distilleries and meaderies aren’t? (Mead is made from honey, and doesn’t have to be drunk from a bronze mug while wearing a horned helmet.)

Now that we’ve discovered that breweries don’t have to be giant urban industrial plants producing mediocre lager that all tastes the same, possibilities abound.

On-farm wine and cider sales have similarly quaint retail space and product origin restrictions. The government pro-poses to allow sales of products not made on site, as long as they’re made in B.C.

This could make more local retail beverage co-ops viable. Or it could spawn a wave of unregulated rural liquor stores

that create chaos on country roads. You decide.On a more serious note, there are a couple of questions

about changes to the newly created “zone two,” the Interior, Kootenay and North regions. One repeats the government’s intention to open up non-farm use rules to allow certain oil and gas service functions on farmland. This is to reflect the reality already on the ground in the Northeast. What other non-farm activities it may entail is not yet known, as the con-sultation and regional meetings continue until Aug. 22.

There are proposals to bypass the Agricultural Land Commission for certain kinds of farmland subdivision in zone two. These are where the subdivided parcels are a quar-ter section (160 acres) or bigger, or where they are divided by a road or waterway.

And finally there are proposed exemptions from ALC scrutiny of leases, to allow “intergenerational transfer,” so retiring farmers don’t have to plead for state permission to remain on their own property. Another exemption would “encourage the use of otherwise unfarmed land by existing or new farmers.”

NDP agriculture critic Lana Popham, who circulated a photo of herself with a samurai sword in a theatrical “Kill Bill 24” campaign, continues to insist that these changes open up 90 per cent of ALR land for “development.”

It’s a hypocritical as well as a misleading statement, since a portion of her own Saanich farm property is rented to a successful craft gin distillery.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: [email protected]

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Kerry and Morgan Buck have combined their love of horses, the outdoors and teaching into a youth develop-ment camp program they’re offering as part of the Silver Springs Country Recreation and Wellness ranch.

The youth develop-ment camps run four days and typically take on only four kids allow-ing the Bucks to focus on each child in great detail.

“We spend so much one-on-one time during the youth camps that we’re really able to take the time with them and help them learn to be comfortable with the horses,” Kerry Buck said. “You can really see their self esteems grow as the camp pro-gresses,” she said.

Morgan Buck echoed her sentiments saying, “when the kids come to the camp they’re quite shy but they build confidence working around the big and small animals,” he said. “It’s pretty excit-ing to see the changes.”

The idea for devel-opment camps was long in the making starting when Kerry Buck grad-uated high school and began working at the Nak’azdli health cen-tre as a youth wellness worker.

“While I was work-ing as a youth wellness worker, the support staff and I saw that the youth in the area were really looking for other things to do,” Kerry Buck said. “There was a lot of boredom and sometimes that can lead to activities that aren’t always healthy.”

Kerry Buck said that the youth development camps give the kids a

chance to explore the other opportunities available to them,

“A lot of the youth get stuck on that trio of options: the bush, the mill and the mine. So we had kicked around the idea of showing the youth agriculture and equine as a career choice.”

The Bucks efforts have already produced results.

“One of the girls who came out was in-terested in getting in-volved in the trades. We talked to her during one of our day retreats and we spoke about be-ing a farrier. She started researching that trade and is now consider-ing becoming a farrier. She hadn’t previously known that it was even an option,” said Kerry Buck.

The youth develop-ment camps are part of a much larger paradigm that the Kerry and Mor-gan Buck share. The couple hopes to encour-age a nature focused and sustainable lifestyle.

“Not everyone gets to experience that coun-try lifestyle anymore,” said Morgan Buck. “So

the camps play into that as well. Everything doesn’t need to run wide open.”

The camps source-nearly all of their meat and produce, from the Fort St. James farmers market and local farm-

ers. “[sourcing locally] is

part of it too, we want to share that knowledge and promote an agri-cultural program that is sustainable,” said Mor-gan Buck.

So far the youth de-

velopment camps have operated throughout 2012 and 2013 to great success but Kerry and Morgan Buck say that as of yet, they don’t have any plans to run a camp this year, opt-ing instead to focus on business building and working out the kinks. The couple did note that if the current teach-ers strike lasts into next school year, they may operate camps during the early fall months to give kids something to do during that time.

Some of the horses uesd by Silver Springs Country Recreation and Wellness.

Photo by Jesse Cole.

Country couple offer kids chance to experience a different way of life

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