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Twenty-one year-old Cody Karey from Fort St. James has toured with David Foster and has now signed a recording deal with Universal/Verve Records.

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Cody Karey signs record dealRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

At four years old his mom remembers him telling her: “The next time you sing Mommy, I wanna sing too.”

But even at four years old, Cody Karey didn’t just want to sing any old place, he told his mom he didn’t want to sing where she sang. She asked him where he wanted to sing then.

He told her he wanted to be on stage where she saw the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band perform. That was the CN Centre in Prince George.

“He’s seen himself on the big stage since the earliest days,” recalled the ambi-tious singer’s mom, Stacey Karey.

Well, Cody Karey apparently didn’t grow out of his ambitions, instead they grew with him.

Since his four-year-old declaration, Karey, a 21-year-old from Fort St. James, B.C., has gone on to perform with huge stars and has performed at the Madison Square Gardens in New York.

“That’s got to be right on top of my things, walking out on stage and saying ‘Hello New York City’ at Madison Square Gardens, that was pretty cool,” said Karey.

He has gotten to share the stage with Michael Buble, Barbara Streisand, Cher, Donny Osmond, Paul Anka, and toured with David Foster and Friends.

The timeline, while short from the out-side, has been a bit of a grind for Karey,

who left Fort St. James in September of 2008 to pursue his singing career in Van-couver after entering a singing contest in Vancouver in August of 2007 which got him connected with David Foster, the Ca-nadian music industry icon.

“I was able to get out of the Fort a little bit and go and do some pretty incredible things and caught the bug from there for sure,” explained Karey.

In the summer of 2008, he went to Toronto and was the fi nale number for an audience of 40,000 people for the open-ing of a new building at the Royal Ontario Museum.

He then went to Dallas, Texas for a pri-vate event and as he listed his accomplish-ments, he became a little self-conscious of them and interrupted himself.

“I feel like I’m name-dropping in a huge way right now,” he said.

But his mom was not so reluctant to name names, and said he performed at Farah Fawcett’s funeral service and Mo-hammed Ali’s 70th birthday party.

She describes him as a really humble kid, but when I speak to him on the phone, Karey comes across as very articulate and confi dent, something he likely has learned in the years of performing and self-promo-tion he’s put into his career to date.

“It was a lot of work there for awhile,” he recalled. “A lot of people have this vi-sion of people going from relative obscu-rity and into the limelight fairly quickly, when in reality, in the vast majority of

cases, an overnight success is ten years in the making,” he added.

His manager, Su Bailey, who “discov-ered” Karey when he was 14 and a half years old, echoes this sentiment, and said she’s a fi rm believer “it takes 10 years to be an overnight success.”

But Karey, while only 21, has been working towards where he is for a long time.

“The good news for me is I’m six years down that road already.”

And where he is right now is just hav-ing signed a record deal with Universal/Verve Records.

The deal means Universal/Verve will now begin putting their promotional ma-chine behind Karey.

The company has committed to do-ing a record with Karey, which he said is a big deal for them to commit to the type of music he does and the shape of the music industry in the digital age.

“It’s an indication and a commitment which is pretty cool as well,” he said. The deal also includes the possibility of fi ve more records, as long as the music hits some markers along the way.

With the power of David Foster behind him, Karey seems pretty confi dent some-thing he will be able to make something happen.

“It’s hard to imagine not having some level of success, it’s pretty exciting,” said Karey.

After all the hard work to get a deal

signed, Karey won’t be sitting back any-time soon, however.

“First I want to start with making a re-ally really great record with really really great material, honest stuff, real stuff, great solid music and you know, just be able to get out there and perform it,” said Karey.

His determination to keep improving is obvious, and he said he is also focussing on becoming a better musician and diversify-ing his skills.

“You know I play a little bit of every-thing but being able to hone my skills to a certain level of expertise is really impor-tant, especially in the type of music that I want to do and that I’m really passionate about,” he said. “I’m a person that is al-ways striving for more and always striving for perfection.”

“The sky’s the limit as far as I’m con-cerned.”

A record deal with Universal/Verve Records is a long ways from starting out in Fort St. James singing at coffee houses, but when Karey tells people he’s from Fort St. James, he said it always makes for a good story, and has given him a good ground-ing.

“It was really a fantastic place to grow up as a kid and have a childhood and to be able to sort of move on with a base of a) humility, and b) a really solid understand-ing of community,” said Karey.

Now what exactly does Karey’s music sound like? Well, it’s complicated.

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Counter confusion

The Fort St. James Canada Post out-let is responding to complaints being put forward regarding their hours.

The post office lobby is open Mon-day to Friday from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. for people to pick up their mail from their post office boxes.

While the counter service is only open during the day to send or pick up par-cels or use other ser-vices which require an attendant, the mailboxes are open for people beyond those counter hours.

Mayor and council had brought forward concerns from the community which had been raised around their hours, but staff has been working to get the word out the lobby is open beyond counter hours to accommo-date people’s sched-ules.

Fort U12 team wins gold

The Fort St. James Girls Under 12 soc-cer team won gold in Quesnel.

The youth soccer tournament in the riv-er city saw the local U12 girls beat out the hometown team from Quesnel in the gold medal match 3-1.

Gilbert Scho-tel, director of the Quesnel Youth Soccer Association, called it a very physical game.

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Inside-out motivationAndre Genthon gives kids from Sowchea Elementary School a high fi ve as they leave the gymnasium after his inspirational presen-tation. Genthon is on a cross-Canada tour, with his son Michael, taking his inspirational presentations to school-age children all over “motivating kids from the inside-out.”

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Continued form Page 1“I had someone describe it to me, once upon a time

as the illegitimate love child of Michael Buble and Josh Groban, so you can maybe imagine what that would be like,” described Karey. “Sort of a sophisticated, orchestral pop if you will, mostly predominantly big ballads, pop classical sort of piano tunes.”

Not your average musical act, and defi nitely not some-thing you would normally see in Fort St. James, but he ob-viously loves what he does and is making a go of it.

“Realistically I’ve got an opportunity right now where I can kind of get to a place in my life where I can take my passion and turn it into something that I can make a living by.”

Not bad for 21 years old.

Record deal for Karey

WorkSafe issues mills safety directiveRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

WorkSafeBC issued a directive to all sawmill employers on April 26.

The directive orders all saw-mills in BC ‘without undue delay” to: “undertake a comprehensive risk assessment with respect to hazards created by combustible dusts, which assessment must in-clude a thorough inspection of the employer’s facility, and de-velop and implement an effective combustible dust control program based on the risk assessment.”

WorkSafe has also committed to doing follow-up on-site inspec-tions of all mills by May 9, 2012 to ensure employer’s have taken steps to comply with the direc-tive.

Since late January, two saw-mills in the region have exploded, killing and injuring workers.

The directive states failure to comply with the directive will re-

sult in further action which could include sanctions or stop work or-ders.

First the Babine Forest Prod-ucts mill in Burns Lake exploded on Jan. 20, 2012, killing one man and injuring 19 others. Then, on April 23, Lakeland Mills in Prince George experienced a similar in-cident. Two men have since died from their injuries and a total of 22 others were injured, five were still in serious condition as of April 25.

The tragic mill explosions have shaken confidence in mill worker safety in the region and WorkSafe-BC is still investigating the causes of both explosions.

RCMP have turned their inves-tigation over to the BC Coroner’s Service and have ruled it no lon-ger a criminal investigation.

But wood dust has been sug-gested as a possible causal fac-tor, given the large amounts of dry beetle-killed wood being pro-cessed in area mills.

A WorkSafeBC report from Feb. 9, 2012 did note accumula-tions of wood dust noticed by the inspector and a discussion regard-ing preventing hazardous accu-mulations was noted in the report. No direction was given to specific cleanup required.

Apollo Forest Products Ltd. is owned by the same parent com-pany as the Lakeland Mill, Sinclar Group Forest Products Ltd. Tl’oh Forest Products is also a partner-ship between Nak’azdli First Na-tion and the Sinclar Group.

The Sinclar Group also oper-ates Nechako Lumber, L&M Lum-ber and Premium Pellet in Vander-hoof.

Sinclar Group Forest Products acknowledged meetings are sched-uled with WorkSafeBC regarding the latest directive to take a look at dust cleanup in their facilities.

The group hopes to clarify what the directive means and how to implement it to improve worker safety in their remaining mills.

Tache man charged with manslaughterRuth Lloyd Caledonia Courier

Virgil Hummingbird Thomas has been charged with man-slaughter in relation to a death on Tache Reserve.

Thomas appeared briefl y in court on April 24, and will be remanded in custody.

His next court appearance is scheduled for May 22, and will take place via video conferencing.

The charge is related to a death on the Tache Reserve on April 21.

On the morning of April 21, RCMP were called to the Tache Reserve, northwest of Fort St. James, to a report of an unre-sponsive male.

RCMP arrived to fi nd a deceased adult male outside of a home who has since been identifi ed as Alfred Joseph Jr. of Tache.

Family of both the accused and the deceased at the court-house said both the men were known to each other and one relative described them as friends.

The death of Joseph was ruled a homicide by RCMP, which means Joseph died as a result of another person’s actions.

A manslaughter charge according to the Criminal Code of Canada can result when a “culpable homicide that otherwise would be murder may be reduced to manslaughter if the person who committed it did so in the heat of passion caused by sud-den provocation.”

There is no minimum charge for manslaughter, however the maximum sentence is life in prison.

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***FORT ADULT CENTRE FOR EDUCATION...Suite 221-250 Stuart Drive, in the Goodwin Building. Open daily 8:00-4:00 and now Tuesday evenings 6:00-9:00pm. Call 250-996-7712 for more information.

***ST PATRICK’S ANGLICAN CHURCH... hosts a free lunch every Tuesday from 11.00am - 1.00pm. All are welcome. This lunch is made possible through the generous giving of time and resources,by many people in the region, including Sylvia Isaac, The Roman Catholic Church, Camp Living Water, and many other indi-viduals.We wish to thank all those who contribute their labour to this program as well as those who pro-vide 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 infor-mation please call Gwen Andrews 567-6744.

***SERVICE TIMES... at St Pat-rick’s Anglican Church, Fort St James, will be 2.00pm every Sunday. Friday at 6.00pm - Each week we offer a Fellowship time with soup, music, and prayer, at St Patrick’s Anglican Church Hall beginning at 6.00pm. Please come and join us.

***FIREWEED CLOTHES DRIVE...The Fireweed Safe Ha-ven is doing a winter clothes drive. We are looking for jackets, boots, snow pants, mitts, hats, scarves, fl eeces, 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 Ha-ven. 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.

***FORT ST. JAMES PUBLIC LI-BRARY HOURS...

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***NECHAKO VALLEY COM-MUNITY SERVICES SOCI-ETY...Child and Youth Mental Health and Counseling Services available at no cost. Monday to

Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Call996-7645 for appointment.

***FORT TRAP AND HANDGUNCLUB... meets last Sunday of ev-ery month. Contact Sharon at 996-8373 for more information.

***FORT ST. JAMES SEARCH &RESCUE... steering committeemeetings fi rst Tuesday of everymonth. 7:00 p.m. above the Fort St. James Firehall. Training is thethird Tuesday of every month at the Firehall at 7 p.m. New mem-bers welcome.

***MUSIC MAKERS...New mem-bers always WELCOME. Not everyone has to be on stage, thereis lots of work behind the scenes.Call Rosemary Allan at 250-996-8997 for more info.

***THE THRIFT STORE...has anew name! “The Bargain Base-ment”. We are still at the same lo-cation, across from Shoppers FoodMart. Donations of clean clothingand small housewares are greatlyappreciated. Please, no books or magazines. Proceeds are used for community needs. Open Wed-Sat,12 noon to 4pm.

***PUBLIC SERVICE AN-NOUNCEMENT...If you knowanyone, including a child, who hasbeen abused or harmed by a psy-chiatrist call the Citizens Commis-sion on Human Rights at: 1-800-670-2247.

***ALCOHOLICS ANONY-MOUS... Every Thursday, 8 p.m. at the United Church Hall on 2ndAvenue. Contact 996-8290.

***FIREWEED SAFE HAVEN...a safe place for women and their children leaving violence or abuse.24 hour access - please call 996-8000.

Mayor asks for further patiencefrom the communityon doctor shortage

Ruth LloydCaledonia Courier

Mayor Rob MacDougall is reassuring the community work is being done on the physician crisis.

Since the news Dr. Stent would be the sole remaining doctor in the community came out in January, things have been going on behind the scenes to address the situation.

Meetings have been taking place since Janu-ary between Northern Health, representatives from the local medical clinic, the Regional Dis-trict of Bulkley-Nechako, the District of Fort St. James, and Nak’azdli.

They have been working on how to address both the doctor shortage and the future opera-tion of the medical clinic and emergency ser-vices in the community.

So far, Northern Health has hired a consul-tant to look at different options to address the situation and in March, the consultant brought forward somewhat of a plan.

Northern Health has also hired a full-time recruiter on a three-month contract to work at attracting permanent and locum physicians to help provide coverage in the community.

The consultant also presented two options for taking over the operation of the Fort St. James Medical Clinic, which Dr. Stent has been doing but would like to retire from.

One option would be Northern Health sim-ply take over the management of the facility, the second would be a nonprofit society of commu-

nity members partnering with Northern Health to help support the clinic management and maintain a commitment from the community to local health care.

Northern Health is helping to financially sup-port Dr. Stent in maintaining the clinic at this.

Further details of future clinic management and operations are still being worked on.

Last week, another meeting was held to be-gin to involve more members of the community in the process and to help get the information on what is going on out to the public. Each mem-ber of the initial group meeting since January then invited a few people.

The goal of the larger group was to still be able to have a manageable sized meeting, but help get more information out to the greater community and have more input on how the community would like to be involved in running the clinic as a society.

Mayor Rob MacDougall said “as local resi-dents, if we are going to pursue a non profit then we have to come up with a plan.”

Another meeting will now be set up for the larger group in a couple of weeks to discuss the pros and cons of forming a nonprofit society to run the clinic and see where the community wants to go from here.

“I’d just like to say thank you to the residents of our area for their patience and understand-ing and ask them to just allow the process to continue to take place and hopefully we’ll find a long-term resolution as a result,” said Mac-Dougall.

Cullen leads the

Housefor the NDP

Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen was appointed Op-position House Leader.

“The Opposition House Leader is in charge of the party’s day-to-day business in the House of Commons and also negotiates with the other parties on the business of the country,” said Cullen in a press conference with area journalists.

“I’ll be working with our Leader daily to set the strategic direc-tion of our questions and debate in Parliament, and also touching every piece of legislation the government brings in,” said Cullen. “It is a position of influence within the party and Parliament and will give me even greater access to ministers in my fight for the riding.”

Cullen said the position will allow him to further develop and utilize his consensus-building skills and his proven abilities to work across party lines.

He also said he wants to engage more Canadians with the gov-erning of the country.


One week whirlwind tour.

Six visitors from Gallup, New Mexico were exchanging cul-tural ideas and educa-tional information in the Fort last week.

One principal, one teacher, two students and two teachers were visiting the Fort St. James area schools on an exchange hosted by David Hoy Elementary.

The exchange was a grant-funded trip which Ron Donkersloot, prin-cipal of Indian Hills Elementary School in Gallup had proposed.

Grade fi ve teach-er Scott Farver then helped Donkersloot write a grant and they were then successful in securing the $5,000 grant to fund the trip from the National As-sociation of Elementary School Principals.

The grants were awarded for ideas which would help to promote “global aware-ness.”

Donkersloot had come up with the idea to come to the Fort area because he had a connection to the area through Rick Pooley, assistant superinten-dent of School District 91 Nechako Lakes.

The entire trip seemed to be “very, very serendipitous,” said Farver, between the idea, the grant and the connection to the area.

The connection goes a bit deeper than one person, however. In the past, a delegation from this area had gone down to Gallup to learn about some of their programs, due to similarities in the demographic as well as the language.

Gallup also bor-ders a Navajo Nation reserve land, giving it similar cultural dynam-ics to the Fort area, with similar cultural, socio-economic and language factors.

The students at In-dian Hills Elementary are 65 per cent Navajo descent and about 35 per cent Caucasian and other ethnic groups.

I n t e r e s t i n g l y enough, the Carrier and Navajo languages

are also both from the Athabascan language family, so the group is also interested in learn-ing about the local Car-rier language programs which have been devel-oped.

“We really face a lot of similar challenges,” said Donkersloot. He mentioned the discipline differences in style are notable, with the south-ern schools being more “authoritarian.”

For his part, Farver was in-t e r e s t e d in the trip b e c a u s e he wanted to set up c o n n e c -tions for his Grade 5 class and a Grade 5 class at David Hoy.

S i n c e he’s been in town, he has a l r e a d y S k y p e d his class from Mar-ilyn Gam-m o n ’ s Grade 5 class and hopes to con t inue the proj-ect, prac-ticing his t e a c h i n g p h i l o s o -phy of “creating global cit-izens” in

his students.He said it was great

to watch Johannah Cas-tillo, one of the two stu-dents on the trip with them, as it was her fi rst fl ight on an airplane, and he hopes to be able to open up the world for more of his stu-dents through the video conferencing on Skype connection.

So far, Donkersloot is very positive about the trip.

“We’ve had just a

marvellous time,” he said. The other mem-bers of the delegation from Indian Hills were Johannah’s dad Sam Castillo, Kasey Billy, the other Grade 5 stu-dent, and his mom De-nise Begaye.

They have all been interacting with stu-dents and teachers, and will be visiting a number of area schools and participated in the community’s Guinness Book of World Records

fi tness challenge at-tempt.


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Ron Donkersloot, principal of Indian Hills Elementary School in Gallup, New Mexico, speaks to the David Hoy Elementary School which was hosting him and fi ve other delegates from his community on a bit of a cultural and educational exchange.

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Mayor gives thanks to

medical staffEditor:

Council of the District of Fort St. James would like to publicly thank all of the people who have gone above and beyond the call of duty while Fort St. James endures an ongoing shortage of physicians.

Dr. Paul Stent and his staff have done an excellent job of accom-modating as many patients as possible. Locums have kindly made themselves available to keep the Stuart Lake Hospital emergency de-partment open some evenings and weekends. The ambulance service continues to provide a consistent level of service whenever needed to transport emergencies to Vanderhoof or Prince George. St. John Hospital emergency department has been helping to reduce the load by seeing emergency patients from Fort St. James.

Northern Health staff members have been working hard to recruit both short and long term doctors to the community, and are working with local people to restructure the clinic operations to make the set-ting more attractive to new doctors.

We appreciate all that you have done and continue to do. While this is a challenging time for many people, we know that there are plenty of people who are doing their best to help people through and to find a permanent solution to the problem.

We also acknowledge the people of Fort St. James and area who have been very patient while all this is going on.

Rob MacDougallMayor

Many hands make light work

Editor:

I would like to take the op-portunity to express sincere thanks and appreciation to the community members and vol-unteers from GUF who came to the historic park clean up on Sunday, April 22.

This event was completely organized and driven by the Guffers themselves with little involvement from Parks Cana-da. The results were fantastic!

At it’s peak, I counted 18 volunteers, 18-20 bags of trash, two shopping carts, four large tires, countless pieces of broken glass, industrial cables, piping and other hazardous items all being removed from below the waterline of Stuart Lake.

Debris was removed from locations along the park’s his-toric shoreline and trash from the north boundary and the Fur Trade Burial ground area.

These locations are both in-tegral components of the his-toric site’s cultural landscape.

Both the lakeshore and the burial ground/north perimeter of the park are the most heav-ily impacted by garbage and other material.

Garbage which often blows in from other places in the community or is simply dis-carded in these locations in an irresponsible way.

Visitors and locals alike can now wander the lakeshore and experience the area in a man-ner much like what those in 1896 may have seen: free of a lot less trash and a lot more ability to enjoy as a result.

As a park surrounded by community, the stewardship of lakeshores and parklands everywhere are everyone’s re-sponsibility.

Reclaiming these landscapes is as simple as pitching in just a few moments of your time to

lend a hand, pick up some trash, thinking twice about your pur-chases and where those things you purchase go.

It sounds like a cliche from volunteer organizing manuals everywhere: but truly, many hands DO make for lighter work.

And the results that comes from the efforts made by a few amazing people do benefit ev-eryone.

Thank you once more to Marilyn Gammon, Jana Gainor and the entire board and volun-teers of GUF once more.

We invite the entire com-munity to come and check out their national historic park and to enjoy their spectacular heri-tage lakeshore when we open on May 19, 2012.

Kevin GedlingProduct Development

OfficerFort St. James National Historic Site of Canada


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Road trip to see Smithers JRP Oral statement

Kandace KerrSubmitted

It was a rainy start to a road trip, but once we passed through Burns Lake the sun came out and it shone all the way to Smithers.

I was on my way to the opening day of the com-munity hearings for oral statements to the Joint Review Panel on the pro-posed Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline.

This was the start of the second round of com-munity hearings on the pipeline proposal. The fi rst round was for regis-tered intervenors giving oral evidence. The Joint Review Panel was here in March of this year to hear evidence from local inter-venors.

I’m signed up to make an oral statement, and the community hearing date for Fort St James is July 19, so I have lots of time to prepare.

But I’ll be honest – I’m nervous. And every time I think about it I want to focus on something different. So when the chance came up to travel to Smithers to sit in on the fi rst two days of oral state-ment hearings I jumped at the opportunity.

I thought that if I sat in and watched others making their statements it might ease those jumpy butterfl ies in my stomach, and help me fi gure out exactly what it is I want to say.

It’s not an easy thing to sit or stand in front of a panel fi lled with lawyers and experts and talk about something as complicated as a pipeline proposal. If I was talking about baking bread or growing garlic, no problem, they wouldn’t be able to shut me up.

But telling a legal hearing how I feel about a pipeline running through the centre of the province, across Airport Road and through my neighbour-hood – well, that’s a bit intimidating.

When I arrived in Smithers there was a rally downtown, getting ready to make its way over to the location of the community hearings.

There were about 150 people there, lots with signs and a few folks car-

rying big red fi sh puppets. I missed the local Rag-ing Grannies group who started the rally with some songs, but I was there in time for speeches from Wet’suwet’en leaders and local provincial and mu-nicipal politicians. The speech that caught me the most was by a group of lo-cal high school students.

They had arranged a forum on the pipeline that was attended by both En-bridge and ForestEthics, as a way of bringing the discussion to their school. They rocked the rally.

There were a lot of youth from local el-ementary and secondary schools, and they really did have the best signs!

After the speeches we all walked over to the Hudson Bay Lodge where the Joint Review Panel hearing was taking place. After the noise and music of the rally it was almost like going into a library – the room where the panel was sitting was very quiet. The atmosphere was very different from that of the oral evidence hearings held earlier in the year.

Everyone seemed a bit nervous about how this set of community hearings would go, as this was the fi rst time this type of com-munity hearing had been held for this project ap-plication.

This wasn’t evidence, it was personal opinion. There are very clear guide-lines on what presenters should be speaking to, and a long list of things that were not allowed to be used as part of a presenta-tion, such as photographs and video recordings.

In the room there were two long tables facing each other at the front of the room– one for the panel members, and one for fi ve presenters. There were lawyers and techni-cal people in the room as well, and lots of seats for the audience. People giv-ing oral statements had registered in advance, and when they arrived they were placed in an alpha-betical speaking order. Five speakers per ses-sion, ten minutes each, no break in between, and no comment from the panel other than if there was some issue with the previ-ous statement. Applause

erupted after almost every statement, but there was very little comment from the audience other than the applause. I was ex-pecting lots of comment from the audience, but there was none.

At the beginning of the fi rst session one of the Wet’suwet’en chiefs asked for respect for all in the room, and all seemed to take that to heart. No one was booed, every-one was allowed to speak their piece (even if they went slightly over or for-got their notes in their car and had to run out and get them), and the two ses-sions I attended ran with-out incident.

Speaker after speaker spoke out against the pipeline, for a variety of reasons. One woman read a list of questions her chil-dren had asked her about the pipeline. Another read a poem. Several talked about growing up on the Bulkley and Morice rivers, about fi shing in Kitimat as children, and about how important clean water was to them. Many cried as they made very passionate and personal statements about how they feared the pipeline could affect them and their families. All of the statements were very personal, some nothing more than a quick personal opinion. One fellow asked for a moment of silence for all of the rivers around the world that had been destroyed by industrial pollution. Most speakers were very nervous, and that made me feel that I wasn’t alone in my ner-vousness about making my oral statement.

Only one fellow spoke in favour of the pipeline, and his statement was very thorough and well-argued, but was initially greeted with silence from the audience. A few of us applauded – it takes a lot of guts to stand up and say what you know will not be favourably received by the audience.

By the end of the sec-ond session I was feeling less nervous about making my oral statement in July, and I had a better idea of exactly what I want to say. I’ll be there at David Hoy School on July 19 with over 40 Fort St James and Vanderhoof residents,

and together we’ll spend the day telling the Joint Review Panel and our

communities how we feel about this pipeline pro-posal. And I’ll remember

and thank those folks in Smithers who helped me get ready to tell the Joint

Review Panel what I think of the Northern Gateway pipeline proposal.

A rally in Smithers marked the beginning of the oral statements being made to the Joint Review Panel hearings in the community. Fort St. James residents attended the event from the Fort St. James Sustainability Committee.

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MoM gets rollingRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

Music on the Moun-tain is back on the fundraising trail again this year. After another shortfall last year, the young nonprofi t soci-ety has begun to ask for funding for this

year’s fest.Last year’s festival

was $8,680 short of breaking even, accord-ing to their fi nancial statement. But orga-nizer Lionel Conant has been working on this year’s festival de-spite the hardships in-volved.

Conant spoke at a recent council meet-ing, asking mayor and council to support this year’s festival, and council has again allo-cated $3,000 towards the festival.

A recent house con-cert at Conant’s home was also to help raise

awareness and help with fundraising ef-forts.

Dave Parsons of Prince George and Joey Only of Wells, B.C., both performed at the private performance, along with local tal-ents Harold Prince and Jerusha Turgeon.

Dave Parsons (front left) and Joey Only (in back) were two of the musicians on hand at a Music on the Mountain house concert at Kionel and Rosemary Conant’s home recently. The event was to raise awareness about the music festival in August and to begin raising funds for the event.

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Past resident victim of mill fi re


One of the two victims of the Lakeland Mill Fire in Prince George was a past resident of Fort St. James.

Alan Little, 43, was a shift supervisor working at the mill when the explo-sion took place on April 23 at about 9:38 p.m., result-ing in a fi re.

Little was taken to the University of Hospital of Northern BC, but passed away hours later from his injuries.

Little lived in Fort St. James and worked at Stu-art Lake Lumber, about 19 years ago. He was only in the community for about a year before moving to Prince George, but some of his family had remained in the community until re-cently.

A memorial service was planned for Satur-day, April 28 at 2 p.m. at the Mennonite Church in Prince George.

Glen Francis Roche, 46, of Prince George, also died in the mill fi re and 19 more workers were injured.


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An energetic crowd of over 300 participants at the Fort Fo-rum on April 20 helped set a new world record.

The record has yet to be of-fi cially recognized for the largest 30-minute fi tness circuit work-out, as the fi lm footage, photo-graphs and other documenta-tion will fi rst be reviewed by the Guinness Book of World Record offi cials, but the numbers were high enough.

The event, which was initiat-ed by Jessica Anderson in Dun-can, B.C., was locally supported by Julie Leggat, who organized Fort participants for the multi-venue world record attempt.

“I couldn’t have been happier with the amount that we got,” said Leggat. She said it was a really positive experience for all involved and it was “really neat to see” the really young partici-pants helping out and doing so well.

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Fort Forum, with live video feeding from the Cowichan Sportsplex on Vancouver Island as well. There were volunteers walking through the participants, monitoring the event and record-ing details for the offi cial status.

Participants were divided into fi ve groups and circulated fi ve stations, with station leaders demonstrating each station exer-cises from a stage in the centre of the arena.

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The previous record for the largest 30-minute fi tness circuit workout was only for a single venue and had a total of 317 people.

The Cowichan Sportsplex saw 1,674 participants, and there were nine other satellite loca-tions for the event, so the fi nal numbers could be much higher. For more photos of the event go to the Caledonia Courier Face-book page.

Christine Deverson (front right) leads one of the stations at the Fort Forum during the attempt to set the Guin-ness World Record for a multi-venue 30-minute fi tness circuit workout. Participants came from all schools in the community and community members.

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Take notice that John and Joyce Helweg have made application to the Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Forests and Range, to remove 102.4 ha private land inclusion from Woodlot 1495.The Private land portion of this licence is located adjacent to the crown land of Woodlot 1495, approximately 5 km east on Necoslie Road.Information about this proposal can be obtained by Joyce Helweg at 250 996 7293.Only written inquiries received by May 31, 2012 will be responded to. Please submit inquiries to Joyce and John Helweg, Box 415, Fort St. James, BC V0J 1P0. Comments received after this date may not be considered.

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manson North RoadSale Conducted on behalf of Mr. & Mrs. Bill Tuck & others.VEHICLES etc: 2 man self contained camp on skids, 8 li-ter BMW, 5 ton service truck, Bluebird 72 seat bus on facto-ry propane, variety of late model Ford diesel trucks, 98 GMC 1/2 ton 4x4, 2 electric 3 wheel handicap carts, 5HP Craftsman roto tiller, 2 person go cart. 4 - 17” tires for Toyota pickup. MARINE: 16 ft. fi ber-glass boat, 70 HP Johnson boat motor, boat trailer, 30 commercial prawn traps, 2 new Dawa halibut rods. TOOLS: Makita 5 & 8” grind-ers, Hitachi 8” grinders, impact tools 3/8”-1”, electric jack hammer, Hilti drills & hammer drills, air greaser & luber, 3/4 & 1” drive socket, 600 lb. torque wrench, 1 & 1 3/4” drive multiplier set, torque wrench-es, power tools, air / brad nail-ers, 12.5 & 18v rechargeable drills, 3/8”-1/2” metric & stan-dard socket sets, lg. slide hammer, cord & rechargeable hand power tools, 2 - 10” Rockwell miter saw, hydraulic 2 1/2” pipe bender w/ dies, tap & die sets, pipe stand & threader, wheel sockets & seal drivers, multiple open & box end wrenches, 1-1 1/2, 2-3 & 6 ton com-a-longs. EQUIPMENT: 10x10x20 portable garage, 6000 lb. HD engine hoist on wheels, 2 HP compressors, Hilti drills & hammer drills, 200 Lincoln gas welder, 1200 liter lube oil dis-penser (full of 15/40 oil), multi-ple roll away tool boxes, tire machine, bead blaster, air conditioner equip., 2 vac pumps, 10 & 20 ton porta pow-er kit, parts washer, quad jack, electric fuel pumps, double walled 100 gal used oil tank, Acetylene torches & hoses, 2 new shallow well pumps, sand blaster, 6 - 3 ton fl oor jacks, 2 - 3500 lb. transmission jacks, multiple ext. cords, 5 gas pow-ered water pumps, 2 - 6500 gensets (gas & electric start, low hrs.), new 3000 gen set, 8 1/2HP wheeled Honda pres-sure washer, 3500psi pressure washer, 18Hp 3500psi pres-sure steam cleaner, up to 2 1/2” metric & standard dies hydraulic hose press, Rock-well lg drill press (variable speed), 2HP bench grinder, 4 industrial shop vacs, 3 pickup headache racks w/ side rails, 40# full forklift propane tanks, 4 warn winches, 2 - 99 chan-nel ICom programmable ra-dios w/ charger, helmets size s-2xl, 1st aid equip. SUP-PLIES: Lg qty of brass, pipe & hydraulic fi ttings, pallets of new & used truck parts, multi-ple trays of snap rings, o-rings, screws, rivets, keyways, side, rear & front windshield for Pe-terbuilt, alternator, starter, fan hubs, pulleys for Cummings motor, new cam shafts, auto & manual slacks, plastic air line fi ttings, cinches, wrappers & cable for logging trucks, metal cabinets & fi ling cabinets, bolt bins (full of bolts), lg qty truck parts back up, tail & head lights, wiring, log trailer parts, 8’6” axel, truck parts seals, drive lines, scale equip, bear-ings, brake shoes, drums, low-bed chains & cinches, body work equip, sanders, new spray & paint guns, welding rods, grinding discs HOUSE-HOLD & MISC: 26 sheets of 3/4”-7’6” granite counter tops w/ 4” back splash. Consign-ments welcome! Approx. 2000 lot Sale. If you would like to consign large farm / logging equip or vehicles please con-tact Mikes Auction. Please note that we cannot take any small items at this already large sale.Condition of Sale Terms: Cash & Check with Identifi cation, sorry No Credit cards. Items are As Is Condition ~ Not re-sponsible for accidents. There will be a Concession on Site. Any question Please Contact:

Mike Steinebach @

(250) 694 - 3497 or Cell (250) 692-6107 or (250) 692 - 9752

Egon Steinebach @ (250) 694-3319 or

Cell (250) 570- 2055E-Mail: mike@mikesauc-

tion.net & Website www.mikesauction.netWatch future papers for a

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May 26, 2012 Saturday @ 10:00 a.m.

Topley, BC. @ Topley Gar-age, Hwy 16 & Junction Hwy

118 to GranisleSale Conducted on behalf of Henry Van Der Weil & others. Sale will start off with Horse & Tack, followed by Antiques and a large coin collection.VEHICLES etc: Yukon chain-saw sawmill, Okanogan 5th Wheel, 2005 Ford Freestar Sport 4.3, 4 door Mini van, 2008 Ford F250 Super duty 4x4 Super cab w/new tires & canopy, 2007 F350 Super duty 4x4 crew cab diesel w/new tires & spray on bed liner, 1972 Triumph Spit Fire con-vertible, 2002 diesel 2.4 l Toyota Hilux Surt SSR-G right hand steering (38x15.5x15” tires), 1984 Yamaha Tri-Z ATV, 800 ATV w/ winch, BF Good wrench 265/70R/17” tires w/ Ford 8 bolt rims (2 sets), misc. used tires good shape, Johnson 10 HP boat motor. TOOL & EQUIP-MENT: New welding rods & grinding discs, Aw32 hydraulic oil, chain saws, Poulan 2150, Husky 2150, Husky 371xpg, Cantec 6.5 gas water pump CT200, Cantec CT80CLC air cooled diesel water pump, 2 & 12 ton hydraulic jacks, rivet-ers, levels, new & used cord-less drills & skill saws, Rona table saw, Geotop C20C Auto-matic level w/ 2 tripod stands, pressure washer gun kit, HD furniture trolly, Rockwell Bea-ver 10” bandsaw, Beaver table saw on stand, Lincoln wire feed welder, Ingersoll Rand upright 60 gal air compressor, Speedair air compressor, Coleman Powermate 2500, Honda CX34 11hp power unit, Makita grinders, rolling tool-boxes, socket drives, torque wrenches, air tools, wrenches, 23 - 16x2x4 trusses. HOUSE-HOLD: Solid oak table & chairs, loveseat, sectional so-fa, bunk bed w/ mattresses, Maple bedroom suite, Pine end table, Citizen TV w/ dvd, coffee table w/ brass accents, 3 drawer dresser, table & chairs, lamps, zero clearance mantle electric fi replace, Ken-more washer & dryer, Igloo bar fridge, paintings, upright Kenmore freezer (new), hot/cold stainless steel 40 tray catering cart, hot water tank, Weider weight machine, fi sh smoker, Big Gar wood stove, Ivy Cabin wood cook stove, small 2 door wood stove, Technifl ame pellet stove, pew-ter & brass items, violins & guitar, Memorex antique syling radio/cassette/CD player, many misc. household items, 8” computerized Colestoron telescope. ANTIQUES: Oil lanterns & lamps, antique ta-ble & chairs, Missionary desk, Oak sideboard, Mahogany mirrored dresser, cast iron ket-tles, Pine mirror & night stand, green marble top hall stand w/ barley twist legs, 40 yr. old never fi red 30-30 Winchester Rifl e Sioux Carbine (en-graved). HORSES & TACK: Black/white Pinto mare, Blue Roan gelding, black QH geld-ing, saddles, headstalls, hal-ters, breast collars, antique pack saddle, reins, foldable saddle racks, misc. other tack. COIN COLLECTION: Nice 150 lot coin collection, don’t miss it!Consignments welcome! This is an excellent sale and all Goods are in very good condi-tion. For out of town buyers there is local restaurant & ac-commodations, please contact Whispering Pines Motel (250) 696-3353. Condition of sale terms: Cash & Check with Identifi cation, sorry no Credit cards. Items are As Is Condi-tion ~ Not responsible for acci-dents. There will be a Conces-sion on Site. Any question Please Contact:

Mike Steinebach @ (250) 694-3497

Cell (250) 692-6107 or Egon Steinebach @

(250) 694-3319Cell (250) 570-2055

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Fort gets greener for Earth DayRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

It was a dreary day outside, but everyone inside the new Integris Recycling Centre was all smiles Sunday.

It was the offi cial grand open-ing of the new facility in Fort St. James on April 22, and one the Greening Up Fort St. James So-ciety (GUF) has been working to-wards since 2008.

It all started with an idea. Colleen Mullen, who has since

moved to Merritt, called the fi rst meeting of the group on Dec. 3, 2008, to look at ways to make Fort St. James more sustainable.

In July 2010, the group con-ducted a survey in Fort St. James and the surrounding region and got some clear indications of peo-ple’s priorities.

Their results indicated 87 per cent of people surveyed would recycle cardboard if the facilities existed, and 83 per cent would re-cycle mixed paper.

They then secured funding for recycling bins and had the bins delivered in the fall of 2010.

Since the bins have been in place, GUF has diverted 100 met-ric tons of waste from the area landfi ll, which is more than the weight of a space shuttle, accord-ing to the display the group put together for the grand opening of the centre.

So, with a lot of hard work and some great support from the community - not to mention some signifi cant donations from Integ-ris Credit Union and the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako - the dream to open a recycling centre became a reality recently.

In just two months of this year, with the recycling centre building in place, the group has already di-verted nine metric tons from the

landfi ll, which they approximate to be the mass of 40 grizzly bears.

A small crowd had gathered for the event to mark the opening, and Louise Evans-Salt, a GUF board member, gave a short speech ac-knowledging all the hard work of those in the soci-ety and the great strides the group had made in help-ing make Fort St. James more sus-tainable. She also acknowledged the great contribution of Riverside’s Ar-lan Gainor help-ing transport their new bails to Prince George.

Lynn George, also a GUF board member, then spoke about how the re-cycling centre came to be, noting the hiccups along the road when it was fi rst being built, and showed off the display the group had set up to show the evolution of the society and recycling in the Fort.

She then demonstrated their new bailer for the au-dience which compacts the recyclables into tight bails to make shipping more cost-effective for the group.

The event was not only well-attended, but it was also a feast of delicious snacks and to make it even greener, the group did not serve disposable cups, but instead had cups of their own for those who forgot a travel mug, showing

this is a group practicing what they preach.

Many of the GUF members

then had a break before heading over to the Fort St. James Historic Park to help clean up the beach,

once again demonstrating their dedication to the community and the environment.

Clockwise from top left: GUF had a display highlight-ing some of their accomplishments since the group formed back in 2008 at the grand opening of their new Integris Recycling Centre. (Left to right): San-dra Sulyma, Berrit Christianson, and Louise Evans-Salt, enjoy the opening of the new Integris Re-cycling Centre. Lynn George gives a talk to the crowd gath-ered for the grand opening.

All Photos by Ruth Lloyd

caledonia courier, may 02, 2012

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