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Deflation in B.C.prices

B.C.’s consumer price index slipped into negative terri-tory in November, partly due to the repeal of the harmo-nized sales tax last spring.

The price index in Vancouver was up slightly, but defla-tion in Victoria and other areas of the province produced a provincial average of -0.2 per cent for the month. Canada-wide, inflation was 0.9 per cent.

The cost of res-taurant food fell 4.4 per cent in Novem-ber compared to the same month in 2012, Statistics Canada reported. The provin-cial average cost of health and personal care, including ser-vices where sales tax was removed, went down 3.1 per cent.

There were aver-age price increases in food purchased from stores, up 1.1 per cent, clothing up 1.3 per cent, trans-portation up 0.7 per cent and alcohol and tobacco products, up 1.7 per cent.

Average rent costs were up 1.0 per cent, but overall shelter cost was down 0.7 per cent, continuing a decline since mid-2012.

The view from here

Ian Berry’s goggles reflect a beautiful afternoon at the top of Murray Ridge on the start of the run called the Scud. Berry was picking up his camera which he had set up for a time-lapse photo/video of the lovely day. The short video can be viewed on the Murray Ridge Face-book page, sunshine and snow and all.

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She shoots, she scores!

Ruth LloydCaledonia Courier

Local athlete Sophie Davis is headed to the B.C. Winter Games this year.

Davis was selected to play defence on the northwest zone’s under 16 female hockey team.

Davis attended tryouts in Terrace on January 3-5 and candidates were evaluated on ice skills, game ses-sions and fitness testing.

Davis said the tryouts were tough and she did not know any of the other girls but after the two ice times and the fitness, she came out near the top of the group.

Davis had what it takes, even though she is only 13 years old and the tryouts consisted of girls from 13 to 15 years old. Those born in 1999 and 2000 can try out for the team in their zone for the chance to represent the zone in the provincials.

The team will be heading down to Mission, B.C. for the provincial competition February 19-23.

Leading up to this, Davis has been playing with the Prince George Cou-gars Bantam Female Rep Team for two years and she said it has made a big difference in her skill level, espe-cially her stick handling. The young defensive player travels to Prince George for practices and games about two times a week, which can be tiring, but she loves the sport, especially the friends she has made and for the competition.

The team has so far been hav-ing a successful year, according to Sophie’s mom Morgan Davis and the Cougars recently won a tourna-ment in Kamloops. They now have their sites set for the bantam-level provincials, and will be facing off against Williams Lake to make it there.

Up to and including the pee-wee level, Davis played on Fort St. James teams made up mostly of boys.

Sophie Davis will be headed down to Mission to help represent the northwest zone for under 16 hockey.

Photo courtesy of Morgan Davis

Mischievous suspectRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

RCMP are looking for more victims in a mischief case.An adult caucasian male has been reported to be knocking on the

doors of local residents and asking for cash or food for various reasons. Stories from victims range from the man reporting he had a snowmobile breakdown to running out of gas and forgetting his wallet.

The suspect then asks for some money or food and reports vary from

requests for $5 to $20. Once obtaining the money, he then leaves, some-times promising to return to pay the money back, which he does not do.

The RCMP have collected several reports from victims, but believe there may be more victims out there and would like to continue to strengthen their case and locate these other possible victims.

Anyone who has further information on the suspect and has had a similar incident, is asked to call the Fort St. James RCMP at 996-8269.

RCMP are currently seeking a warrant for the suspect’s arrest in rela-tion to the incidents.

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Well the new year is upon us, and many of us will start the year with great intentions of im-proving our health.

If you are considering your � nancial health this year consider these three steps to improve your � -nancial � tness. Step one:

Make a budget – yes the ‘b’ word.

It’s the � nancial equivalent to a diet and is just as important to your � nancial health as eating right is to your physical health.

Start by looking at your bank and credit card statements for at least three months. You might be surprised at how much you are spending.

Knowing where your

moola is going allows you to make informed choices. Your budget doesn’t have to be fancy; there are numerous tools available to help you.

Most � nancial institu-tions will have calcula-tors and tools available on their banking sites that you can use, or stop in and talk to your � nan-cial planner, they love budgets.

If you prefer to go it alone google budgets and � nd something that works for you.

Ultimately the goal of a good budget is to help you live beneath your means so that you can enjoy today and achieve your long term goals. Step two:

Put savings on auto pilot. One trick to help stay on budget is to set up automatic transfers

on paydays into separate savings accounts. Ideal-ly you will want enough cash reserves to cover necessary living expens-es for 3 to 6 months.

Unfortunately mills burn down, mines down-size, and break-ups hap-pen.

Emergency savings allow you survive unex-pected situations without having to resort to drastic measures.

There are various in-vestment options that you can consider to help your savings work for you like registered retirement sav-ings plans (RRSP) and tax free savings account (TFSA).

No matter how you choose to invest your savings the � rst step is to get it out of your day to day cash � ow.

Have some fun with

this, there are going to be items in your budget that are important to you and you are willing to spend money on, so plan for them.

Want to go to Mexico in March- start a “holi-day savings” account. Hunting in September- start a “high maintenance husband savings.” With a little planning it is pos-sible.Step three:

Review your credit report.

In today’s � nancial world this is the equiva-lent of your � nancial handshake.

Credit Bureaus keep monthly records of your current and past pay-ments, credit limits, and debt level.

This information is obtained from companies that have granted you

credit and from public records like courthouses.

This is then used by lenders, insurers, land-lords, employers, utility companies and others to evaluate the risk that you present.

You have the right to obtain a copy of your consumer disclosure free of charge without impacting your credit rating, by mail or in per-son, but expect to jump through some hoops to get it.

The two largest credit bureaus in Canada are Equifax and TransUnion.

It is not uncommon for there to be errors or omissions on these re-ports.

Inaccurate reporting may result in you hav-ing to pay higher interest costs or being declined for credit.

In subsequent issues of this column we will go over how to read a credit

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NEWSCourierMoola Matters

He ran like the wind with his red hair � ying in the wind.

We could not slow him down no matter how we tried.

Stewart is now free to run with the wind wild and free

no matter where it takes you.And now that you are free

� y and � y and I hope you � nd your peace at last.

You will always be our son and we will love you always.

Missed by your brothers and sister. But mostly by Dad and Mom.

Stewart left us Jan. 4th at 7pm at the Fort St. James Hospital.

~~~~~~~~~~~~The Smith family would like to thank the nurses, doctors and support staff of the

Fort St. James Hospital for the care given to our son Stewart. This Hospital is a place of

very caring people and in many cases under appreciated by the public.

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- there's an app for that!Ruth LloydCaledonia Courier

Youth and adults in Fort St. James can now access a specially-creat-ed app to � nd out what is going on and what services are available.

The SONAR proj-ect - Social Network-ing App for Resilience has launched thanks to eight youth involved in a research project.

After Emily Jenkins from UBC visited Fort St. James to do work on a research project looking at youth men-tal health, she decided to do something about what she found during her research.

She hired youth from a diverse range of back-grounds, ages and social groups to form a group to work on projects to help provide youth with support.

One of their ideas was to create a web-besed application to help connect youth with activities and events to combat boredom and also to help them access resources in the com-munity.

Tess Amyot, Lexi Joinson, Melissa Hilde, Danielle Sutherland,

Maddison Sam, Ray-lene Erickson, Morgan Prince and Harry Go-ertz are the youth in-volved in the project.

They said their goals in creating the web-based app were to help bring people together, so people and espe-cially youth, can access resources and take ad-vantages of the opportu-nities and assets offered in the community.

They said many youth seem to be un-aware of events or ac-tivities available in the

community which don't involve sports.

The application is web-based, so even people without smart phones can access the information on it and it includes an events list-ing, which anyone in the community can sub-mit events to.

The hope is that the app will allow people to � nd out what is going on outside their social circle and open peoples' eyes to other social ac-tivities and help address bullying issues.

Within such a small community, the youth said rumours about peo-ple can circulate more quickly and people can not get away from the stigma negative gossip can create.

The SONAR group said they have the ad-vantage of their diver-sity allowing them to know what is going on amongst a broad range of social circles of youth.

To check out the app, access resources or sub-mit an event or activity

to the calendar, go to: sonaryouth.com

Members of the SONAR youth group. L-R: Maddison Sam, Danielle Sutherland, Melissa Hilde, Tess Amyot (on screen via Skype), Lexi Joinson and Raylene Erickson.

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Court reportFor files appearing before the Fort St. James Provincial Court on January 7, 2014.Bradley M. Abraham was fined $500 and prohibited from driving for one year for oper-

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• LettersOne small step for

Nak’azdli, one giant leap for the community


If you are driving around on the Nak’azdli Reserve, you might take notice of a small change in places.

The change is not dras-tic, but it is dramatic in some ways.

The difference is a sign - literally.

Stop signs on the re-serve are being changed from the traditional Eng-lish-language signs to a bilingual sign, with Dakelh (Carrier) at the top and the English version underneath (if you haven’t seen one yet, “’Etsul” is the Dakelh word appearing at the top of the sign).

While the signs are a small thing, as everyone will automatically know what the sign means, whether it says “Stop” or

“’Etsul” because we are completely programmed to recognize the colour and shape of the sign regardless of the words printed on it, it still is significant.

The signs indicate the beginnings of a restoration of balance long lost, a bal-ance of acknowledgement, pride and respect of a cul-ture and its language, and of the people who lived on this land for many genera-tions, before any of the cur-rent occupants came along.

One word on a sign

does not signify total trans-formation, but it is exciting to see the integration of a suppressed culture back to its rightful place in the mainstream.

While schools in the community have been teaching Dakelh language and culture for years, until the language and culture is brought out of the school and into the lives of adults and the community, it will not truly be integrated and it will continue to be left behind.

This community is made of up of a diverse range of strong individu-als, with pride of place, and it is time to celebrate the strengths of the culture and language of the Aboriginal Peoples alongside those who came so much later.

Musi Nak’azdli for this great step forward for the community.

Thanks SLHEditor:

We would like to express our appreciation to the Stuart Lake Hospital (their doctors and staff) for the compassionate and professional way we were treated when my wife needed to see a doctor.

Please, always maintain that caring way as it will add untold benefits to those you minister to.Again, we thank you so much.

Stan and Edna ReadPrince Albert, Saskatchewan

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The Stuart Lake Hospital Auxiliary would like to acknowledge the support of the community as a whole in our efforts to raise funds for hospital purchases, patient comfort, and help in other health related fields.

Without the generosity of the community our Christmas raffle wouldn’t have been the success it was. The auxiliary sold all of the raffle tickets that were printed.

The auxiliary would like to acknowledge the support of individuals that donated the raffle priz-es thereby keeping our costs to a minimum. Tom Schaff, (donated 30 minute helicopter ride – won by Harvest Soles ) Jim and Bea Barnes (donated an office chair won by Carole Kirkaldy), Ruth Northcott (donated a crochet afghan won by Axel Boris), Mark Whitely and Renee Prince (donated a popcorn machine won by Nancy Erickson), Grant Mortenson (donated a cordless 18 volt drill won by Shane Huffman), Brad Miller (donated a Grillmate barbeque won by Kerry Buck), and Russ and Donna Gingrich (donated a DVD Player won by Kevin Uhrich ).

The remaining three prizes were supplied by the auxiliary. Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 was won by Charlyne Smilinski. The food hamper was won by Winnie Marchand. The lottery ticket tree was won by Gwenda Felix.

The net profit from the Christmas Raffle was $3,600.00 Thank you everyone for supporting a worthy fundraiser.

Happy New Year to the community of Fort St. James.

Sherry Nielsenon the behalf of the Stuart Lake Hospital Auxiliary

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Honesty is the best policy - and it pays


Honesty is rewarded at Sowchea Elementary School, but not with money, with rec-ognition.

Students at the school are told the best thing to do when you � nd money which doesn’t belong to you is to try and � nd who it belongs to. But often small amounts of money are not claimed or identi� ed as be-longing to anyone in particular, but the money still doesn’t be-long to the person who found it.

So at Sowchea, students then are asked to bring the money to the of� ce, where they turn it in.

The money is set aside, with the student’s name.

Eventually, the money collected adds up and last year, the collected money was donated towards the Fort St. James Community Foundation.

“It was really cool,” said Joyce Helweg of the foundation. “They’re just so sweet.”

At an assembly towards the end of last year, the students presented Helweg and Pat Short with a cheque

for a total of $25.59 and each student who had turned in money was recog-nized at the assembly.

A few more coins had been turned in since the cheque was made out, and in the end, the foundation was given $29.19 from the students.

“These kids were so enthused,” said Helweg.

At the assembly, Helweg ex-plained to the students how the foun-dation will be investing the funds in order to obtain interest which can then go back towards worthy causes in the community via grants.

The Fort St. James Community

Foundation now has over $130,000 invested and will be using the interest to al-locate their � rst grant funds for local projects or orga-nizations, but has to deter-mine the grant allocation procedures for the founda-tion yet.

The � rst money given back to the community will be two $450 grants, and will hopefully be given out this spring.

Helweg said she hopes to continue building on the deduction at source fund-raising, which allows the employees of participating

companies the option to have auto-matic deductions taken off of their paycheques, which Helweg said pro-vides the best return for donors be-cause the donation is taken off before the income tax is calculated.

If 770 people were to donate $5 off of each pay check, the foundation would raise $1 million in 10 years.

So far, Conifex and Ubleis Log-ging are participating companies, with Conifex employees donating a total of $4,965 in 2013 and Ubleis employees donating a total of $560.

Joyce Helweg (left) speaks to the Sowchea El-ementary students at an assembly while Pat Short stands holding the large cheque for the Fort St. James Community Foundation.

Photo courtesy of Sowchea Elementary


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The weather was sunny for the 32nd annual Fort St. James Christmas Bird Count. There were 11 feeder watchers, and 15 � eld observers in six parties. The temperature ranged between -17 and -9 degrees Celcius and the snow depth was 31cm.

The Eurasian collared-dove numbers were high, given the bird only just

showed up on the count last year for the � rst time, said Joanne Vinnedge, biologist and count organizer.

This year there was an absence of winter � nches - observers tallied no pine grosbeaks, and very few common redpolls. These winter � nches tend to follow cone crops, and this year there is a record spruce cone crop across

the province. This may have affected numbers observed, said Vinnedge. With the warm weather, the river was quite open and swans were spread out.Bird numbers: Trumpeter swan 55Mallard 47Common goldeneye 18Common merganser 3Ruffed grouse 10Bald eagle 2

N. hawk owl 1N. pygmy owl 1Saw-whet owl 1Downy woodpecker 30Hairy woodpecker 353-toed woodpecker 1Northern � icker 6Pileated woodpecker 4Northern shrike 1Gray jay 1Steller’s jay 4Black-billed magpie 20American crow 29

Common raven 114Black-capped chickadee 489Mountain chickadee 1Red-breasted nuthatch 21American dipper 4Townsend’s solitaire 1Eurasian starling 7Bohemian waxwing 8Dark-eyed junco 51 (High number with large groups spotted at 3 feed-

ers)Red crossbill 52Common redpoll 4Pine siskin 6Evening grosbeak 106House sparrow 50Purple � nch 13White-breasted nuthatch 1Merlin (observed in count

week) 1Red-winged blackbird 3White-throated sparrow 1Eurasian collared-dove 11 (high) Brown creeper 3Snow bunting 58Total species 41


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RCMP reportDec. 30 at just be-

fore 5 p.m., RCMP were called to a report a group of individuals had sto-len $100 worth of liquor from Suspenders store.

After the suspects left, a review of the video surveillance tape led the clerk to call the RCMP as it showed a group made up of two females and two males enter the store.

One female was re-ported to have taken a bottle of Fireball whiskey, and one bottle of Weisers whiskey. One male was reported to then have taken a bottle of Captain Morgan's Rum.

The entire group then departed in a late nineties black GMC pickup truck.

RCMP will continue to investigate the incident and are awaiting a copy of the video surveillance in order to positively iden-tify the suspects.

Dec. 31 at 11:43 a.m., RCMP were called to a report of a sudden death on Pinchi Road.

The wife of an 84-year-old man called to report the sudden death of her husband, who report-edly suffered from severe health problems.

Emergency Health Services were also called to the incident and the investigation was turned over to the Coroner's Ser-vice once RCMP deter-mined the death was not suspicous.

Dec. 31 at 3:08 p.m. a female called RCMP to report her common-law husband had struck her

with a can of beer.RCMP attended and

the female reported the suspect had wanted some beer which she refused to give him as it belonged to her brother.

She said the suspect then struck her in the head with a can of beer.

The male then left. RCMP located the

suspect and arrested him and are recommending charges of assault with a weapon. He will appear in court on April 7.

Jan. 1 at 11:16 p.m., RCMP responded to a complaint of assault.

A female reported her male boyfriend had punched, kneed and choked her at their home.

She said she then left to her aunt's house.

Upon further ques-tioning it was also report-ed the female had been dating the male since she was 15. The suspect was later located and arrested and RCMP are recom-mending charges of as-sault and sexual assault.

A young person can not legally give consent to sexual activity until the age of 16 if their partner is � ve years or more older than the young person.

The suspect is in his thirties.

Jan. 3 at 8:42 a.m., RCMP received a report of a possible snowmobil-er in distress on the lake.

The caller reported seeing someone on a snowmobile crossing the lake from Cottonwood Park heading west.

The caller said the headlight of the machine was visible and then sud-denly disappeared, and it was feared the driver of the machine may have gone through the ice or run into trouble.

RCMP went to the lakeshore, but because it was night and there had been a risk of poor ice conditions due to the warmer temperatures, the RCMP used a de-vice called a FLIR for forward-looking infrared, which allows difference in temperature to become highly visible, regardless of the amount of light available.

While tracks were ob-served, no heat sources were seen or detected and no report of missing per-sons came in.

While Fort St. James RCMP do have these kind of tools now available to them thanks to the civil forfeiture program which gives grants back to de-partments from the sale of items obtained through crime, RCMP would still like snowmobilers to use caution on the lake,

With the lack of con-sistently cold tempera-tures, there may still be spots on the lake which could pose a danger to snowmobilers and others out on the ice.

Jan. 3 at 11:29 p.m. RCMP attended a resi-dence at the Fort Trailer Court in response to a possible breach of an un-dertaking.

The girlfriend of the

complainant was report-edly at his home, under the in� uence and was re-fusing to leave.

RCMP attended and determined the woman was on a recognizance to leave the male's presence when asked.

The female was sub-sequently arrested for mischief and breach of a recognizance and held until sober.

The complainant did not want to proceed with charges and the � le was concluded.

On Jan. 4 at 11:35 a.m. RCMP were called to Yekooche Reserve to a report a female said she had been choked by a male.

The female reported the man had choked her and she had to repeatedly scratch at his face in order to get him to release her.

The male suspect was subsequently arrested and later released until an up-coming court appearance.

Jan. 4 at 3:27 p.m., RCMP were dispatched to Overwaitea to a report of a shoplifter.

Upon arrival, RCMP said they located the suspect, an intoxicated male, leaning against a wall with an employee of Overwaitea watching him.

The manager said the male had been holding his jacket in a way which looked suspicious and was asked to show staff what was inside his coat.

A DVD which was believed to have been sto-

len was found inside.The store decided not

to pursue charges for the incident, however RCMP did hold the suspect until he was sober.

Jan. 6 at 3 p.m., a mo-tor vehicle collision was reported on the North Road at the Teardrop For-est Service Road turn.

A 1997 Ford F150 was reportedly driving up the North Road when a Chevy Blazer attempted a u-turn in front of the driv-er of the Ford, causing a collision.

The drivers were not injured and exchanged information and both ve-hicles were able to drive away, though both were damaged in the incident.

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From the beginning, Northern Gateway has committed to building a safer and better pipeline. The Panel’s conditions are an important step towards that goal. They refl ect the input of thousands of British Columbians and Canadians, and include many of the commitments we made in our submission. But our work is far from done. As a proud British Columbian, I assure you that my team will continue to work hard towards meeting all of the fi nal conditions set out by the Joint Review Panel, just as we’re working hard to meet the Province’s tough conditions.

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The new fire chief has been in place long enough to attend some calls and get a feel for the community and his new crew of firefighters.

Mike Navratil started the job on Nov. 4, and came to the role from a very diverse background in fire.

He started as a paid on-call firefighter in Williams Lake, while he was working as a GIS analyst for the provincial govern-ment.

After taking a buy-out in 2004, Navratil decided to make emergency fire services his career and did a three-month Justice Institute training program.

Navratil said he was attracted to fire-fighting because of the unpredictable na-ture of the job.

"It's a very dynamic and challenging career," he said. "You don't know what's going to happen next."

While starting out as a firefighter in Williams Lake, Navratil was attending a call at a gas leak when the group was called to a nearby structure fire, a house had a fire in the basement.

"I remember going down the stairs - you couldn't see, it was hot," said Navratil. "It was more than interesting."

"It was one of those experiences that scares you at the time but you're more than happy to do it again."

The firefighters stopped the fire in the

basement and saved the house."So that was my introduction to live fire

as a rookie," he said.Since this first experience in live fire,

Navratil has attended hundreds of fires and

has since worked as a fire training officer in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emir-ates, as the deputy fire chief in White-court, Alberta, and as a fire inspector at the Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan.

In Abu Dhabi, Navratil worked on a few month contract teaching a National Fire Protection Association course.

In Kandahar, Navratil worked for NATO as a fire inspector for a year and a half.

"It was interesting," he said. "It was really good experience in many aspects."

He was also a paid on-call firefighter in Vernon and Okanagan Landing.

Over the years, since he started in 2003, Navratil said the job has changed and evolved.

The training aspect of firefighting has become much more structured, said Navratil, making the job much safer for firefighters to do their job.

He said the effects of fire safety edu-cation have also had a huge positive ef-fect on the numbers of structure fires.

In coming to Fort St. James, Navratil said he is looking to make a long-term commitment.

"To stop jumping around to work - get settled for a change," he said.

While Navratil said he had been to Fort St. James briefly for an interview

with the Ministry of Forests in 1997, he remembered the golf course more than anything, as he took in nine holes after the interview was over.

His fiancé will be joining him in Fort St. James and the couple will take advan-tage of what Fort St. James has to offer, as Navratil is a skier, a mountain biker, and a golfer.

With there still being some issues to resolve amongst the fire fighter mem-bers since the resignation of former chief Rob Bennett after sexual harassment al-legations by female firfighters, leading to criminal charges, Navratil said he feels his background has given him some experi-ence in such matters, having worked under a former fire chief who later had griev-ances filed against him.

So far, Navratil said the fire hall has been going alright, and he is not trying to change things immediately, but instead to identify possible issues of safety and li-ability and resolve them to move forward.

Navratil said he is open to people com-ing to him with concerns and working to resolve conflict within the hall.

The fire hall is currently undertaking a recruitment drive to increase their mem-bership. There are 30 members now, and Navratil said they would like to start four junior and four adult recruits for training.

For the first couple of months, recruits would need to attend training on Monday and Thursday evenings for a couple of hours, but would then be required only to attend the Thursday practices.

Live fire training could then begin in May, which would also require a couple extra training days.

Mike Navratil is the new fire chief in Fort St. James.

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The Seniors Helping Seniors delivery and transportation service in Fort St. James has been given a temporary reprieve to keep operating by mayor and council.

The service has run out of grant funding which was paying for the operation of two vans to help pick up and deliver medications and gro-ceries for seniors and to drive seniors to medical appointments or social activities.

The program began in December 2012 to provide grocery and medication delivery and was expanded to offer transportation for seniors to medical appointments and social activities.

There is a part time senior coordinator posi-tion with the service, and the driving is done by volunteers who get a small honorarium for their time.

"It's really built on the strength of our volun-teer," said Emily Columbo, economic develop-ment officer for the District of Fort St. James.

Since it began, the service has provided over 300 delivery trips and an estimated 70 medical appointment trips and driven over 25,000 km.

Mayor Rob MacDougall and all of the coun-cillors spoke in support of the service and it's importance in allowing seniors in the commu-nity to age in place.

The council then voted unanimously to ap-prove interim funding to maintain the service, which costs an estimated $30,000 a year to op-erate.

"We have those two vans sitting out there but I don't want them sitting," said Councillor Russ Gingrich.

Councillor Joan Burdeniuk suggested the funds allocated for councillors to pay for at-tending extra meetings outside of their normal council duties, but are often not all claimed, be then allocated to this service specifically.

Burdeniuk and Councillor Riley Willick did not claim any of their extra meetings last year, and funds go back into general revenue.

MacDougall said he sees the service as some-thing unique in the interior.

"I just think it's a service that is so beneficial to our community," he said.

Gingrich said the hope is to partner with Northern Health, Nak'azdli or the Regional Dis-trict of Bulkley Nechako to be able to maintain the service.

He pointed out the service helps to reduce backlogs in medical appointments because it helps prevent clients missing medical appoint-ments due to transportation issues, which in-creases wait lists.

Mayor and council approved $7,500 in fund-ing to keep the service for the time being while they look for funding partners for the program.

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Nechako Valley Community Services Society (NVCSS) and Fireweed Collective Society are in discussions over the future of the old women's shelter in the Sitka Building.

NVCSS Executive Director Tyrell Arnold gave a short presenta-tion at a council meeting at the end of last year on where the group is at with plans for a daycare facility in the community.

It was a little over a year ago NVCSS found out the board for

the Sikh temple had backed out of a deal for NVCSS to purchase the building to renovate the building into a daycare and of� ce facility for NVCSS.

Reasons for the deal being turned down were never given, however, Arnold told Mayor Rob MacDou-gall and council NVCSS continues to look at possible ways to create a daycare in Fort St. James.

"We are still hopeful," he said. "It's been a long process."

The group is currently looking at the possibility of locating a day-care in the Sitka Building on Stuart Drive. NVCSS owns the building

and operates of� ces in it and rents of� ces to Fireweed Collective Soci-ety and a facility in the back which used to house the Fireweed Safe-haven women's shelter.

Fireweed has since moved their women's shelter to a home on Sec-ond Avenue, which the society purchased in order to expand their space and create certainty for the group by owning the property.

The group still rents the now va-cant space where the shelter used to be, however.

Fireweed's Brandi Hanterman said she could not yet discuss publicly what the group is plan-

ning to do with the space or if they are considering turning it back over to NVCSS.

The space was renovated signi� -cantly to become a safe house by Fireweed.

While Arnold said NVCSS has gone so far as to look at whether the space would � t the requirements for a licensed facility in terms of square footage to make it viable and they have asked for some quotes from contractors in order to look at ap-plying for funding to complete ren-ovations for a daycare, it is unclear

whether the group will be able to reach an agreement to take over the space from Fireweed.

"It's too early to tell which direc-tion it's going to go," he said.

While the NVCSS and Fireweed boards are working on coming to an agreement on what to do with the space, Arnold said NVCSS contin-ues to look for some sort of appro-priate location in the community for a licensed daycare facility.

"It's something we're really wanting to have in the community," he said.

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