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For files appear-ing before the Fort St. James Provincial Court on April 23, 2013.

Linda M. Basil was released on conditions and $500 bond for as-sault.

Christopher S. Bird was fined $500 and charged a victim surcharge of $75 for driving without due care and attention.

Cecil G. Martin was fined $500 plus a victim surcharge of $75 and prohibited from driving for one year for driving while prohib-ited.

Haleanna A. Prince was released on condi-tions for 12 months with the allegation of $500 for assault.

Leslie M. Prince was given 25 days in jail, two sentences of 12 months suspended sentence and 12 months probation as well as charged a victim surcharge of $50 for theft under $5,000 and uttering threats.

Nadine C. Sam was released on recogni-zance on conditions for one year with a $500 bond to keep the peace.

Firefighters work to extingiush the smoking remains of a shed next to the Our Lady of the Snow Church on Nak’azdli Reserve on April 23.Ruth Lloyd/Caledonia Courier

Fire department saves church from blaze

Ruth LloydCaledonia Courier

Father Frank Salmon is crediting the quick response and training of the local fire depart-ment with saving his church.

A fire destroyed a shed on the Our Lady of the Snow Catholic Church on the Nak’azdli Re-serve in Fort St. James, but was close to taking the church and rectory as well.

Salmon’s rectory, which is on the back of the church, also has an attached wood shed which had just caught fire when the firefighters arrived on the scene. The storage shed next to the main building was completely engulfed when the firefighters arrived and the shed and its contents

were completely destroyed in the fire.“The quick response of the fire department

saved the church for sure,” said Salmon. Had they been five minutes later, Salmon thinks the wood shed would have been too far gone to stop it from destroying the rest of the entire struc-ture.

While the rectory was damaged with some melted siding visible from the outside and pos-sible smoke damage, Assistant Fire Chief Don Fraser said it looked like the structure itself of the rectory and church were not seriously fire-damaged besides the siding.

Two fire engines and one water tender were on site to fight the fire, one working primarily on the destroyed shed and one on the grass fire

which had burnt the hillside below the church.Salmon said the shed was used to store a num-

ber of items both belonging to himself and to the church, including his kayaks, camping gear, canoe and the church’s ride-on lawnmower.

He is hopeful insurance will cover some of the losses.

The cause of the fire is still under investiga-tion but properties below the church had grass still burning while crews were at the scene, so the fire may have started down slope.

RCMP are reminding residents to take pre-cautions with fires - do not leave them unattend-ed and make sure to have water and equipment on site to deal with a fire should it begin to get out of control.

One woman stabbed, another faces charges


One women was taken to hospital and another has been charged after a stab-bing at the Fort St. James Trailer Court April 22.

On the Monday at 3:10 p.m., RCMP responded to a report a woman had been stabbed at a residence in the trailer park.

Upon arrival, RCMP report they found a seriously injured woman suffering from multiple stab wounds and arrested another woman at the scene.

Maybeline John has since been charged with assault with a weapon in rela-tion to the incident.

The victim was transported to Vanderhoof for treatment of one of the stab wounds to her knee, but the injuries were deemed not to be life threatening.

Truck taken

April 21 at 10:14 a.m., a resident on Highway 27 called RCMP to report they had recovered their stolen 2005 Dodge Ram pickup 13 km south of Fort St. James. The ve-hicle had been taken from Russell Transfer yard.

There was no damage to the vehicle, and RCMP said they have no suspects at this time. Those with info should contact RCMP or Crimestoppers.

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ing to restore the Greening up Fort St. James recycling bins which were damaged in an ar-son fire last year. He is using recycled glass to sandblast the bins before priming. Jim Kaha-rchuk is also helping the society get back up and running by finding them a used forklift and replacing the plywood which lines the bottom of the bins for free. GUF hopes to have the bins for recycling mixed paper and corrogated card-board back up and ready for drop-offs by this week. Please follow the instruc-tions on the signs.

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Fort St. James RCMP responded to a num-ber of incidents from April 19-22.Beef bandit

On April 19 at just before midnight, RCMP were called to Carrier Food and Fuel (Petro Canada) on Highway 27 to a reported shoplift-ing.

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• Guest column• ColumnThe negative campaignMud in the eye


There was some mud flying during the Nechako Lakes all candidates forum in Fort St. James.

Conservative candidate Dan Brooks was going after Liberal MLA John Rustad with fierce enthusiasm. Brooks was repeatedly bringing up Rustad’s choice not to vote on the first round of a bill Rustad had stood up and opposed on parks.

Rustad voted against specific sections of the bill in a later vote, and was the sole dis-senter, but Brooks was not satisfied with this answer.

Susanne Skidmore-Hewlett was asked some pointed questions by Rustad on NDP plans for infrastructure currently in the works, and some NDP platform questions.

Rustad was being singled out at times by the audience as well, with some tough ques-tions on everything from education and local health care issues to Enbridge’s proposed pipeline.

Then there was the embarrassing news-paper article references, getting mud in the face of this reporter. A question referred to a response Rustad gave to a letter to the editor which asked him about the Northern Gateway pipeline in which he responded he would support it if it could meet certain criteria, including those laid out by Premier Christy Clark. They then asked him what

had changed given the recent profile pub-lished in the Caledonia Courier which said he supported the pipeline.

Rustad deflected the question and instead threw a bit of mud at the newspaper (the pro-file was from an Omineca Express candidate profile series published nearly one month ago and given the time since its original pub-lication and the fact the Vanderhoof editor did the interview, it was believed correct).

Skidmore-Hewlett did not throw back a lot, but she did take a few shots at the Liberal record on things like forestry and she defi-nitely took a few shots from Rustad herself.

Essentially, the room was a bit messy when all was said and done and it felt like most of us had some mud on our faces.

The only candidate to emerge clean from the two-hour event, was Green Party candi-date Colin Hamm.

Hamm, probably considered not worth targeting by those in the room who were throwing mud, came out shining as a worthy opponent, from a party most had likely not previously put much thought into.

Hamm’s composure and compassionate approach did seem to have him walking out of the forum with a few admirers.

But then, perhaps it is easy to stay clean when a party has not yet been invited into the mud pit.

If only the event was televised, it would have been worth a watch for those not in at-tendance.

Bill PhillipsPrince George Free Press

I like political rallies.There’s always lots of energy in the room.What I don’t like about political rallies is

that there usually isn’t anything substantive said during the rallies. In that regard, Christy Clark didn’t disappoint last week when her campaign made a whistle stop in Prince George.

Lots of rah-rah, make the troops feel good, but little on what a Liberal government would actually do. It’s ironic that Clark and the Liber-als have been hammering Adrian Dix and the NDP for not releasing a platform while their own plans for the province are about as vague as they come.

“Most of (the Liberal platform) consists of glowing descriptions of the government’s 12-year record, and attacks on the NDP of the kind that are not normally seen in a platform,” writes Victoria columnist Tom Fletcher.

And that kind of sums the campaign up. The Liberal strategy is to attack, attack, attack. Not much more.

The only plan they seem to have for the fu-ture is that liquid natural gas will solve every-thing from infrastructure woes to zits in teenag-ers. How will it do that? Just wait and see.

Clark’s main campaign strategy is “we don’t want to go back to the 1990s,” refer-ring, of course to when the NDP were last in power. Of course we don’t want to go back to the 90s, because that would also mean we’re on

the cusp of electing a Liberal government (ta-dum). The argument is just stupid, but it reso-nates, so they keep hammering it. It’s negative and it’s fear-mongering.

But that’s what the Liberal campaign is about these days.

The other one that got me about Clark’s visit here was that she called out Adrian Dix for not agreeing to a one-on-one debate. She said that it will either be an NDP or Liberal government come May 14 so British Columbi-ans should see those two leaders go toe-to-toe, without those pesky other democratically cre-ated parties at the table.

She’s right in that one of the two main par-ties will form government.

But her zeal for a debate between her and Dix, exclusive of other party leaders, shows, at least for me, an arrogance that is unsettling.

I would hope that the premier, whoever it is, would not only recognize the differences in our political landscape but embrace and en-courage them. But, of course, Clark likely sees BC Conservative leader John Cummins as one of the biggest obstacles to her return to power so avoid giving him a platform at all costs and basically call Dix a coward for not agreeing to the charade.

Dix, on the other hand, got to take the high road but the reality is that he knows Clark would likely hammer him in a one-on-one de-bate.

So this goes on and we wonder why fewer people are interested in voting.

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BC Green PartyColin Hamm

Colin Hamm has been nominated to run for the BC Green Party for Nechako Lakes.

Hamm was born and raised in British Co-lumbia, alternating be-tween being educated in Vancouver and living and working on the fam-ily farm north of Dawson Creek.

He has lived all over the province and worked in a variety of jobs and set-tings including working in a saw mill in Fort Nelson to pay for university studies, working as a reporter in Smithers and Houston, and teaching in Victoria.

Hamm holds a Bachelor of General Studies degree from Simon Fraser University with minors in history, kinesiology and environmental education.

He also has a Teaching English as a Second Lan-guage (ESL) teaching certi� cate.

Hamm trained to be a teacher, but took a private sector job designing children’s playground equipment for 10 years then returned to teaching in private col-leges.

He now resides on a small acreage near Fort St James, B.C., and has designed and built his home and other the buildings on his property.

Hamm said he is not opposed to development, but does not see the risk to the environment worth what he sees as the minimal local bene� ts in the case of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. He also sup-ports forestry planning which would include creating more jobs for the amount of wood harvested through value-added products and more local input and ben-e� ts.

Hamm also would like to see the province promote education and innovation to help diversify the econo-my for the long-term.

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Comparing candidatesEditor's note: This candidate came forward after the

previous pro� les of the other three candidates ran in the April 17 issue of the Caledonia Courier, so in the inter-est of fairness, this pro� le is meant to announce and outline the fourth candidate for the riding. One other candidate is still working on � nalizing her nomination in the region.


Edmonton musician Scott Cook had the audience in the palm of his hand with his deep soulful voice and storytelling lyrics at a Wednesday night house concert.

While I had heard Cook once before, his charm and the beauty of his music were truly on display in the intimate acoustic venue of a friend's living room, and the warm crowd of music lovers and cosy setting gave great am-biance.

His song This One's on the House is about living in his van and it had this writer miss-ing the simplicity of changing your front yard when you choose and always making it home to your comfy bed from every event you go to, because it's parked right outside (I lived in a van at two different times in my life, and thoroughly enjoyed it).

There were heartbreakers and fun whimsi-cal sing alongs, but they were all captivating.

While the All Candidates forum kept me from hearing much of the evening's other solo set that night by Raghu Lokanathan, he did join in with Cook for a number of songs at the end.

Lokanathan's music is also well-suited to the simplicity of the intimate house concert, a venue few music-lovers are blessed enough to experience.

It was the latest Music on the Mountain (MoM) group house concert offering on April 24 on Necoslie Road, and it was the kind of night worth making the weeknight effort to enjoy. The crowd was small, but warm and appreciative, and I was still home and in bed before I turned into a pumpkin.

We are so lucky to have the opportunity for these close encounters of the musical kind right here in little Fort St. James.

LEFT: Edmonton musician Scott Cook wooed the crowd at a happening house concert on Necoslie Road on Wednesday, April 24. Cook was joined by Raghu Lokanthan for the event, which had a small but appreciative turnout.

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There was a forum for Nechako Lakes candidates in the upcoming provincial election on April 24.

The event was orga-nized by the local Cham-ber of Commerce and held at David Hoy Elementary and about 55 people came out to ask questions and hear from the candidates.

MLA John Rustad of the Liberal Party opened with some of the things he has been involved with during his time in of� ce, from a new hospital for Burns Lake to funding for road improvements in the Fort St. James area and chair of the Mid Term Timber Supply Commit-tee

Dan Brooks, BC Con-servative Party candidate opened with an anecdote about an injury he suffered while guide-out� tting, with the � nishing line: "The suffering I experi-enced 16 hours overnight in the bush waiting for a helicopter is nothing com-pared to what I've experi-enced under the Liberals."

Susanne Skidmore-Hewlett, BC NDP candi-date, opened with a prom-ise not to attack the other parties. She mentioned

focusses in the NDP plat-form, without speci� cs, except to say she opposed the Enbridge (Northern Gateway) pipeline.

Colin Hamm, BC Green Party candidate, described some of the philosophy behind Green Party politics, saying the party is not opposed to development or jobs He also said the party believes in a strong decentralized government, which would keep economic bene� ts in local communities as well as decision-making pow-ers.

Question topics ranged from education to En-bridge and of course there was some Mid-term tim-ber supply thrown in as well.

Here are some summa-rized responses to issues raised, with apologies to candidates for simlifying. For more go to www.cale-doniacourier.comSustainable forestry

Brooks: Said the prov-ince needs to review tim-ber supply with better in-ventories and data.

Rustad: Pine beetle epidemic forced the fo-cus to shift to harvesting in a short time, now the Liberal plan is to work on inventory and invest in sil-viculture. He also touched

on the report put forward by the Mid-Term Timber Supply Committee.

Skidmore-Hewlett: Said the NDP would focus on replanting and slowing raw log exports and updat-ing the inventory as well. She attacked the Liberal record on oversight and monitoring in the forest sector.

Hamm: Replanting is a priority but for the short-term want to look at more value-added jobs. Com-pared cubic metres cut per forestry job in Quebec (300 cubic metres) versus B.C. (1,000 cubic metres), emphasized need for cre-ating more jobs by using more of the � bre.Agriculture

Hamm: Agriculture has been taken over by large corporations, said the Green Party wants to help return the industry to more small-business-style agri-culture and move towards more sustainable agricul-tural practices.

Skidmore-Hewlett: Said the NDP would bring back the Buy BC program to support local producers.

Brooks: Said the Con-servatives would focus on reducing energy costs for agriculture by repealing the carbon tax and would decentralize meat inspec-

tionRustad: Would like to

update the Primary Agri-culture Products list, said Liberals are committed to removing carbon tax for agricultural use, and committed money to the Agricultural land commis-sion. He also said the Lib-eral plan is to move to local meat inspectors by 2014.Enbridge Northern Gateway

Rustad: Made the eco-nomic argument we need to � nd more markets for our product. He said he would support the pipeline if it meets the � ve criteria laid out by Premier Christy Clark and talked about building a province that is debt-free with increased services by increased natu-ral resource revenue if it can be shipped offshore.

Brooks: Said he would feel more comfortable with third-party monitor-ing of the pipeline, but supports it because he be-lieves it is important to the economy. When asked a question about his daugh-ters cleaning up an oil spill. Brooks responded with "My girls aren't go-ing to clean up an oil spill because quite simply it's never going to happen … it's about risk assessment for the economic bene� ts."

Said a community has to have conditions under which projects can move forward. "There must be somewhere in there that a community can say these are the reasons we op-pose this and if you meet these conditions and these expectations you may pro-ceed with the project, that's what resource develop-ment is about."

Skidmore-Hewlett: Opposed to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipe-line. "I don't think it's a good idea, I don't think the communities from the beginning of this constitu-ency all the way to the end want to see it go through."

Hamm: Opposes pipe-line for economic, envi-ronmental and political reasons because majority of public of the region are opposed and he does not believe the pipeline would bene� t the local economy signi� cantly.

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A March 25, 2013 staff report from Janine Dougall, director or en-vironmental services with the Re-gional District of Bulkley Nechako (RDBN), paints a scene of chaotic scavenging and salvaging at some of the RDBN solid waste management facilities across the region.

The report outlines a litany of re-fuse-site abuses.

Among the abuses are reports of intimidating and aggressive scaven-gers lingering around re-use sheds to smash and strip otherwise usable or recyclable electronics of their valu-able metals, a scrap metal scavenger generating an estimated $50,000 in revenue by dragging scrap metal out of existing metal piles and then sell-ing it, piles of metal rubbish left pre-cariously unstable by salvaging activ-ity, reports of rummagers hanging-out and consuming alcohol by the re-use shelters waiting for the arrival of fresh cast-offs, RDBN employees intimi-dated - even attacked in one instance - by confrontational scavengers, and the report of a child run over by a car in the distracting commotion sur-rounding the re-use shelters.

The child was unhurt, but the RDBN report cautions that children are sometimes left unattended at the re-use shelters while their parents use other areas of the facilities. Those unaccompanied children � nd shelter-interiors strewn with ‘dirty clothing, broken toys and soiled mattresses’ that never should have ended up in the sheds in the � rst place.

Historically, the RDBN allowed and encouraged salvaging as a nod to-wards reusing and recycling. Accord-ing the report, the rise in the value of scrap metal over the last number of years has contributed to the frenzied escalation of scrap metal scavenging.

The increased value of scrap metal has meant a revenue stream for the RDBN, with approximately $485,000 of income through scrap metal recycling in 2011/12.

Despite the grim picture painted by the report, the re-use shelters re-main immensely popular with users. At the April 18, 2013 RDBN board meeting, Directors Taylor Bachrach, Carmen Graff and Tom Greenaway each described the strong response they’ve received from members of their electorates regarding the sheds.

Bachrach reported over 99 per cent support for the sheds on an online Facebook poll he conducted to get a feel for public opinion. Graff said that he had never received so many phone calls on an issue. Greenaway stated that he was presented with a 208-per-son petition in favour of keeping the re-use sheds in operation.

“People love the dump,” said Ba-chrach speaking of people’s need for salvaging. “We can’t let a small num-ber of people ruin it for everyone else. We need to look at strategies for those small numbers of people who are be-having inappropriately.”

Director Stoney Stoltenberg vo-calized the sentiments of those who question the wisdom of al-lowing a ba-sic free-for-all around the re-use sheds.

Stoltenberg

was concerned that the RDBN is cre-ating a lot of unnecessary work for transfer station staff to duplicate re-cycling options that are already avail-able elsewhere.

For Stoltenberg, the re-use sheds started out as a great idea with a lot of volunteer support, but they’ve turned into a kind of feel-good garbage drop-off point .

“People just take their junk, throw it out and say, ‘There, I took it to the re-use shed’,” Stoltenberg said.

Directors Gerry Thiessen and Greenaway shared Stoltenberg’s concerns regarding the duplica-tion of other local recycling or re-use efforts. The observation was made that in some cases the re-use sheds were actually adding to land� ll piles.

“People bring perfectly good things there [to a re-use shed] such as a microwave, only to have some guy, within thirty seconds, rip the cord off [to salvage the copper], and then you’ve got a

piece of junk,” said Theissen. “These re-use sheds and our waste transfer stations have been abused by a few individuals, and they’re starting to wreck it for everybody.”

Thiessen was concerned that de-spite a vocal contingent of salvag-ers signing petitions and responding to online polls, the public support for the re-use shed may be much less than pre-sumed.

Greenaway sug-gested that clothing and small appliances could go to local thrift shops, rather than being left in re-use sheds where staff have to potentially deal with a mess.

In the end, a mo-tion was approved that gives the re-use sheds a continuance. The three-part mo-tion directs RDBN staff to investigate ways to address the problems associated with salvaging ac-tivities; to investigate adding additional staff to deal with the

re-use sheds; and to ban large scale commercial metal salvaging.

Thiessen was the sole vote against the motion. He maintained that the re-use sheds, although well-intentioned, have not worked out as intended and take away from existing re-use op-tions like local thrift stores.


NEWSCourierDump dilemma for RDBN

Vocal citizen support keeps re-use sheds open across the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako

The exterior of the Smithers/Telkwa reuse shed at the transfer sta-tion.

Photo courtesy of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako

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sponsored by the Caledonia CourierCOMING EVENTS... Will appear as space is available, free of charge in this section. Coming events are available to non-profit organizations only. This area is not intended for thank you submissions or selling products. It is simply a place for nonprofit organizations a place to announce upcoming free activities. You can e-mail your item to [email protected] or by fax: 567-2070. Your organizations’ announcement can also be dropped off at our office located at #111-250 Stuart Drive, Fort St. James. Decision of the publisher is final.

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thank all those who contribute their labour to this program as well as those who provide food and other necessities. We also run a small food bank on Tuesday morning, and are very thankful for all who contribute to this endeavor. For further information please call Gwen Andrews 567-6744.

***SERVICE TIMES... at St Patrick’s Anglican Church, Fort St James, will be 10:30 am every Sunday. Free lunch every Tues between 11-1pm with music and Prayer. Please come and join us.

***FIREwEED CLOThES DRIVE...The Fireweed Safe Haven is doing a winter clothes drive. We are looking for jackets, boots, snow pants, mitts, hats, scarves, fleeces, etc, for men, women and children. The items will then be given to families in the community that need them. If you do not have anything at home that you can part with but still wish to contribute, you can purchase mitts, socks, or thermal underwear. Please drop items off at the Fireweed Safe Haven. For more information please contact Talia at (250) 996-8081. Every little bit helps.

***AUxILIARy TO STUART LAkE hOSpITAL... Monthly meeting 2nd Wednesday each month. Hospital Cafeteria 7:00 p.m.

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***FORT ST. JAMES SEARCh & RESCUE... steering committee meetings first Tuesday of every month. 7:00 p.m. above the Fort St. James Firehall. Training is the third Tuesday of every month at the Firehall at 7 p.m. New members welcome.

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To Beijing and backRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

For one week, students and some local community members had a chance to expe-rience the wonders of Beijing, China.

The HIgh School Community Travel Club group at Fort St. James Secondary School (FSJSS) took 10 high school stu-dents and 10 community members on a tour with EF Tours. The EF stands for Education First, and locals have been taking these trips for years. Current organizer Travis James, a teacher at FSJSS, has led eight of the trips over the years.

The group this spring break visited Ti-anneman Square, the Forbidden City, The Summer Palace, the Great Wall of China, a night market, a local Beijing classroom of students of similar ages and the Bird’s Nest olympic stadium (Beijing National Sta-dium).

While each trip is different, the size of the group determines whether or not they get the trip to themselves, and this trip ended up being an interesting combination with a group from New York City, allowing the students and teachers to exchange stories of life in New York versus Fort St. James.

On the day the group visited the Great Wall of China, there was snow on the ground around the wall, and while other groups were dampened by the snow, the Fort St. James group saw the white stuff as an opportunity to toss some snowballs.

“We took full advantage of it, being Canadian and all,” said Kaylee Walstrom.

The group also enjoyed sliding down the many railings along the Great Wall.

They enjoyed almost celebrity status in some touristy spots, being asked to pose with Chinese nationals in their photos.

Stefan Baillout said he was even asked to pose with somone’s girlfriend while the boyfriend took a picture.

One fun moment took place when the group visited a local class at a public school, and some of the students performed dif-ferent skills for them, including piano, violin and karate.

After the students performed, some music was put on and Fort St. James students Kaylee Walstrom and Gabriela Willick got up and danced to Gangnam Style, the South Korean pop song by PSY.

Another highlight for the pair was when they were visiting the Summer Palace, some older women were doing a sing-along and the pair were brought into it.

At the night market, the group had the chance to try some un-usual food items as well, from grasshoppers to scorpions, which

Willick described as tasting like a potato chip.Dorian Pierre, however, was sick shortly after she tried the

same delicacy.

The rest of the food experiences the group reported were mostly positive, though, with impressive buffet breakfasts made up mostly of steamed vegetables and the group said the Chinese food in China was nothing like the local Chinese-Western res-taurants.

The group even ate dinner with a local family and had the chance to see how they lived, with communal bathrooms.

In a formal tea ceremony, the group learned how to properly sip tea in the traditional way, slurping it through their lips.

Over the course of the trip, the group ate starfish, donkey, snake, and centipede as well, and they think they probably ate other things they were not even aware of.

The students also described the bargaining as “insane” and they learned a lot while making their way around the markets about bargaining strategies.

Members of the group came back with a few souvenirs, and one student had the chance to experience first-hand the “buy-er-beware” principal when he purchased a pair of speakers he thought were name-brand but were instead inexpensive knock-offs.

The Asian traffic was experienced to its fullest, with the tour bus being hit by a car at one point.

Another adventurous part took place when Walstrom and Willick hopped the fence in the Bird’s Nest stadium and ran

on the olympic track briefly until they were chased off by security, but managed to make a check of the “bucket list” in the process.

The favourite highlights listed by the stu-dents ranged from the Great Wall to the tour bus time with the New York students, to the rickshaws.

The students all seemed to get along really well and James said they were all on time and well-mannered.

“Just in that one week, they came togeth-er,” he said. “It was a really great group.”

James said he always gets great feedback from tour guides on how respectful the groups he brings from Fort St. James are, which he takes as a good indication of how the trip went.

“I always have nerves before we go,” he said. “Especially in a country of over a billion people.”

James also said EF Tours did a great job of organizing the trip, and provided a good mix of education and time for the students to explore.

Next year’s trip to Italy, France, Switzer-land and Monaco is already full, so James has already opened up the 2015 trip to Costa Rica

for booking, a sure sign these tours are enjoyed by participants.

Great Wall group shot. Back L-R: Stefan Baillout, David Tibbetts, Caleb Du-rand, Teacher:Travis James, Dorian Pierre, Erica Bolton, Taylor Beauchemin. Front L-R: Kaylee Walstrom, Gabriela Willick, Jodie Pierre, Kristina Joseph.

Jean-Jacque Baillout Photo

Students and community members on a recent spring break trip to Beijing, China tried their hand at the ancient t’ai chi during the trip.

Travis James Photo


Nak’azdli Band has an opening for a Capital, Housing and Lands Manager. This person promotes coopera-tion, mission statement and commitment towards the attainment of common goals of the Capital, Housing and Lands department. Manages programs and staff related to Nak’azdli Housing, Capital Developments, Lands, Operations & Maintenance and Band taxation; understanding of Housing policy and regulations.

Minimum Qualifications: ➣ 3-4 years experience in Housing and Lands management. ➣ Degree or diploma would be an asset. ➣ Managing issues and legislation affecting First Nations both locally and nationally. ➣ Ability to prioritize workload, meet deadlines, computer skills, ability to write and submit proposals on behalf of Nak’azdli. ➣ Knowledge of the Nak’azdli Community will be considered an asset. ➣ Valid class 5 drivers license and preferably own vehicle. ➣ Full Job description is available only to candidates that are qualified and called in for interview.

Deadline for Applications: May 6, 2013 Faxes and emails will be accepted. Please no phone calls.

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Individuals and companies that wish to register their equipment are invited to visit the RDBN office or website (www.rdbn.bc.ca/hiredequipment) and obtain the appropriate registration forms. Completed forms can be dropped off in person, mailed, emailed or faxed using the addresses provided above.

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

District of Fort St. James Municipal Council is consid-ering an application to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 738, 2001 by rezoning the parcel legally described as Lot B District Lot 110 Range 5 Coast District Plan PRP5871 from “Residential Single Family (R-1)” to “Residential – Apartment Building” (R-3).

The proponent, Brij Mohan Berry, proposes to rezone the property, located at 383 Simon Fraser Avenue, for the purpose of construction of a building to contain four residential units.

Copies of the proposed amending bylaw, including map, may be viewed at the District Office, 477 Stuart Drive West, Fort St. James, from April 15 through May 8, 2013, between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

A public hearing on the proposed amendment will be held in Council Chambers at the District Office at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 8, 2013. All persons who be-lieve their interest in property will be affected by the pro-posed amendment will be given an opportunity to be heard at that time.

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CLASSROOM AIDE – Building for the Future ProgramVanderhoof CampusUnder the direction of the Regional Director or their designate, this position willassist the Building for the Future Instructor with preparation for the program.Obtaining necessary materials as required for class use. Assisting the instructorwith preparation for the course. Organizing of classroom facilities and classactivities. Assist the instructor and regional manager with testing andrecordkeeping. Other related duties as assigned.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD ASSISTANTPROGRAM INSTRUCTORFort St. James CampusCNC Nechako is looking for a sessional instructor to teach in the Essential SkillsEnvironmental Field Assistant program in the community of Takla Lake. Thesuccessful candidate will instruct in the following areas: core field skills, aquaticand terrestrial resources, fisheries, wildlife and restoration.

CLASSROOM AIDE – COLLEGE & CAREER PREPARATIONPROGRAM INSTRUCTORFort St. James CampusThe Classroom Aide will assist instructors with the College and CareerPreparation program to be delivered in the community of Nak’azdli. Obtainingnecessary materials for class use. Assisting the instructor with preparation forthe course. Organizing the classroom facilities and class activities. Assisting theinstructor with testing and recordkeeping. Individual tutoring of students andinstruction of particular segments of the course may be required

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