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Turn back time!

Daylight savings time ends on Sunday, Nov. 4 this year.

At 2 a.m. on Sun-day, the clock will jump back one hour to 1 a.m..

Turn back the clocks one hour when you go to bed and enjoy a little bit more sleep!

Stuart Lake ER to be open most of November

The Stuart Lake Hospital emergency room will be open for most of November.

The change is thanks to a combina-tion of locum physi-cians and the newly arrived Dr. Meyer, who will be starting work in the commu-nity.

Throughout most of November, there will be a physician on call to respond to emergencies.

The ER will only be closed on: Nov. 13, 16-18, 20, 28 and 30. The ER is open thre rest of the month.

Dr. Meyer will be joined by the two Dr. Van Zyls in January.

Dr. Putter has also signed on to come to the community and will be coming here sometime after, po-tentially in March.

A rally in Spirit Square on Oct. 24 saw nearly 40 people brave a chilling wind to link arms in opposition to tankers on the British Columbia coast and the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.

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Fort residents rally in solidarity

Ruth LloydCaledonia Courier

Community members rallied in Spirit Square, braving freezing temperatures as part of a province-wide day of action.

The “Defend Our Coast” day of action was taking place across British Columbia, and the Fort St. James event was one of 68 registered actions taking place to show opposition for tar sands pipelines and tankers on the B.C. coast.

Around 40 people attended the lunchtime event in downtown Fort St. James, some holding signs, some speaking out and a few putting up 25 metres of black rib-bon as a symbolic “wall of opposition” to the proposed

Northern Gateway pipeline which would cross the Stuart and Necoslie Rivers.

“We can’t risk our rivers and our salmon,” said Rose-marie Sam, a band councillor for Nak’azdli. She said the reliance of the Nak’azdli and other area First Nations on the salmon for food means they can not afford any risk to the resource.

Peter Erickson, known also by his hereditary name as Tsoh Dih, stressed the importance of protecting what he called “the last unspoiled territory in Canada.”

“British Columbia is the last threshold,” he said. “It’s really important that we take a stand.”

“It’s time to warrior-up,” he said.Organizer Kyla Pollard spoke briefly about the prov-

ince-wide action taking place and thanked the commu-

nity members who have spent so much time and effort researching the pipeline proposal to act as intervenors for the Fort St. James Sustainability Group, which Pollard is a member of.

Members of the group traveled to Prince Georg to par-ticipate in the final hearings and will be questioning En-bridge in front of the joint review panel starting Oct. 29.

“I feel proud to be part of this unity and solidarity,” said Pollard at the rally.

Also at the rally was Sussanne Skidmore Hewlett, who is seeking the nomination to be the NDP candidate for Nechako-Lakes.

Hewlett spoke briefly about her opposition to the pro-posed Northern Gateway pipeline and its lack of benefit to northern communities.

Drug-related home invasionRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

Last week, several suspects entered a home on the Nak’azdli re-serve in what RCMP believe is a drug-related home invasion.

RCMP responded to the incident at a home on the Lower Road at 1:51 a.m. on Oct. 23

Three people were in the home at the time and were assaulted at the time and cash and drugs are believed to have been stolen.

While the thieves did have weapons, no firearms were involved in the incident, and only minor injuries resulted from the home invasion.

The house was reportedly known to RCMP, who also believe the incident to be targeted, and based on the items stolen, the suspects are also likely involved in the drug trade.

RCMP do not believe others in the community who are not involved in the drug trade will be at risk of these types of incidents.

The victims in the case have so far been uncooperative with the RCMP in their investigation.

“We’re trying to do our part,” said Staff Sergeant Thalhofer. “We’d like to do more.”

Anyone with any information is asked to call the Fort St. James RCMP at 996-8269 or Crime Stoppers.

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NEWSCourierChimney Swallows

The Chimney Swallows (Left: Corwin Fox, Right: Raghu L o k a n a t h a n ) performed with Dave Soroka at a house concert on Oct. 25. The live, acoustic show provided enter ta inment for the Fort St. James crowd. The night before the three musi-cians had played a show in Van-derhoof as well. Soroka stayed to perform an-other night at the home on Friday. All three were at Music on the Mountain in Au-gust.

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Technical and applied career opportunities are growing“British Columbia has a ready source of great jobs

and careers in technology. Our education programs need to keep up with that demand.

John Leech, Executive Director of the Applied Science Technologists and Technicians of BC, ex-plains that, “Every system we rely on – water, roads and transportation, telecommunications and Internet, hydro and natural gas, environment, health, forestry, and many more – utilizes engineering and applied sci-ence technology professionals working in the back-ground. BC’s telecom and IT, animation and many other sectors produce new careers every month.”

ASTTBC has more than 10,000 members currently working in thousands of careers available to graduates of two-year diploma programs available at the British Columbia Institute of Technology and other B.C. col-leges and institutes.

The local campus of the College of New Caledonia (CNC) is already thinking “outside the box” in de-veloping ways to help train the workers area industry needs now and in the future, according to Ann McCor-mick, Fort St. James campus supervisor.

The campus has developed innovative ways to offer programs, despite having a lack of building capacity to house some of their courses.

The college has just rented a building to provide a millwright program, another skill in demand in the region, but one the local campus doesn’t have the ca-pacity to house under their current roof.

In partnership with Mt. Milligan, the campus is offering a minerals processing certificate program

so when students finish, they will provide a pool of workers with the necessary skills for the mine to draw from.

As well, in response to shifts in the local work-force due to industry changes, CNC is also offering a lumber manufacturing program to help train workers interested in learning the safety training, work ethic and other essentials to working in area mills.

This is in response to some mill workers moving to different jobs, especially in the mining industry.

“We work with industry to ensure we meet their needs,” said McCormick.

“Our members enjoy rewarding, well-paid and of-ten recession-proof careers in public service and the private sector alike,” Leech states.

“For huge numbers of young men and women, tech-nology is the answer. In B.C. and across Canada, tech-nology permeates every workplace and job. We need to get capable students involved and engaged in ap-plied sciences and head off workforce shortages by building a B.C. ‘Science and Technology Culture’.”

Leech calls on government for renewed efforts to build student skills and confidence in math and sci-ence programming.

“We especially need to interest young students in science and how things work,” Leech says. “Young students use technology every day – smart phones, iPads and computers. They play video games, even build robots.”

Leech lauds the recent “Year of Science” program that encouraged students toward so-called “STEM”

subjects – science, technology, engineering and math. Citing the recent $6 million B.C. campaign to encour-age careers in trades, Leech urges a similar effort to build awareness of engineering technology education and careers.

BC Technology Industries Association employers like Telus and BC Hydro and many smaller technolo-gy-rich companies say the single most important posi-tion they now struggle to fill is Specialty Technician/Technologist. Even the Canadian Council of Chief Executives expressed concern that only 37 per cent of 16- to 18-year-olds were interested in taking even one post-secondary course in sciences, according to a recent Angus Reid survey.

Leech says the opportunities for those seeking work in the technology field are considerable given a wave of retirements of present-generation B.C. technology professionals that is already underway.

“Half of our membership is now middle-aged at 45-plus, and 22 per cent are over age 55!” he says.

“Every region of B.C. shows growing demand,” Leech concludes. “New two-year technology diploma programs are still needed in the north and central B.C. However, young people are investing to travel so they can earn the necessary tech qualifications.”

It would appear their investment is a smart move, as it will result in a broad range of career opportunities. Industries in all regions of B.C. support programs for local trainees to fill engineering and applied science technologist, technician and technical specialist posi-tions.

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• Guest column...Oppressive structures in society

D. RockefellerTl’azt’en Health Center

As humans we come into this world without culture, prej-udices, or social skills. Being human means we are social-ized by our family members, peers, the educational system, our institutions, and society.

Socialization means we are prepared to become members of an existing group and to think, act, and feel in ways ap-proved by that group.

Part of our socialization in-cludes viewing others based on what our social norms identify as right or wrong and good or bad.

When we internalize these norms we tend view those who have different standards as out-side of the norm or abnormal.

This can create social hier-archies and provide a means by which the dominant group can exploit a country’s resources in a self-serving meaningful way.

Hierarchies, for the pur-pose of this article, are based on dominant and subordinate relations, which result in pri-mary and secondary groups in society.

Hierarchies are such a de-fining and pervasive feature of modern societies that they are often taken for granted. Of concern is the domination of secondary groups by more powerful political, economic, social, and cultural groups and the resulting oppression.

By definition, oppression is: The systematic, institution-alized, and socially condoned mistreatment of a group in so-ciety by another group or by people acting as agents of the society as a whole.

Some conditions that deter-mine oppression are unequal access to resources, blocking individuals from opportunities of self development, excluding them from full participation in society, denying certain rights that the dominant group takes for granted, or assigning them a second class citizenship.

As a society we must come to the realization that social hierarchies and oppression are not the result of an individual’s talent or failure, but due to his or her membership in a particu-lar group or category of people.

In today’s societies oppres-sion occurs on three levels:

Personal, structural, and cul-tural. When you are oppressed at a personal level it compro-mises your thoughts, attitudes, and behaviours.

This occurs when the domi-nant society assigns negative prejudgments on a particular group based on prejudice and stereotyping. This creates ide-als where culturally different populations are viewed as not having the ability to live up to expectations or as not being able to fit in with the dominant group.

Cultural oppression con-sists of those values, norms, and shared patterns of seeing, thinking, and acting.

It assumes a consensus about what is right and normal from the dominant group’s per-spective.

It can refer to the ways in which the dominant group portrays other groups that they consider secondary histori-cally.

For instance, pertaining to First Nation populations, in old movies the common theme is marauding Indians in massive amounts and a small group of brave white soldiers who al-

ways won and by dying they became heroes.

This leads to ethnocentrism where we only see through the eyes of the group we belong to. This process marginalizes other groups.

Structural oppression refers to the means by which oppres-sion is institutionalized in soci-ety.

It consists of the ways the social institutions laws, policies, social processes, and practices and the economic and political systems all work to-gether primarily in favor of the dominant group at the expense of secondary groups.

The next time you are out look at how many buildings that the public accesses are modified to meet the needs of the disabled.

The Canadian reality is that when we view others as “less-er” or outside of the norm we are creating a society that labels its citizens and assigns them to a subordinate or secondary po-sition.

Those individuals assigned to an inferior position are not seen as having as much worth or value as those individuals in

the superior position. Consequently, as humans

we begin to view our experi-ences and place in society as something that we deserve, as natural and inevitable.

This means that those who have the lived experience of being lesser or outside of the norm begin to believe the nega-tive stereotypes that have been created for them through so-cialization.

Often, these beliefs can be so all consuming that even though people are in the pro-cess of creating a new history they cannot overcome their past history.

You might ask how does the dominant population create a destabilizing atmo-sphere? The answer is through myths that are often regarded as the absolute truth. They in-clude, but are not limited to:

The Myth of Scarcity where the belief is that our society is constructed unequally because there is not enough resources to go around. The inevitable re-sult of this is that some people will have access to society’s resources and others will not. The reality is that approximate-

ly 10 percent of the population controls approximately 80 per-cent of the wealth.

The Myth of Might is Right where we ascribe to the in-sidious militaristic ideal of it is easier to make war than peace. The truth is that the majority of people who are injured or die in military campaigns are the poor, weak, and marginalized.

The Myth of Supremacy is a myth that in order for a soci-ety to function there must be social hierarchy.

Our educational systems are a good example of this and can be viewed as feeder systems designed to maintain the social order. If you don’t achieve you are left asking yourself “What is wrong with me? “Why didn’t I make it?”

In conclusion, my aim is to be transformational and mo-bilize people to recognize and address the conditions that con-tinue to enable oppression and intensify social inequality and cultural polarization in society.

As a society we have to take a good look at ourselves and how our actions contribute to the powerlessness, oppression, and marginalization of others.

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LEFT: Karla Olinek at the Nak’azdli Alternate Justice Centre is hoping the community will come together and try and solve some of the issues around crime in the area.



Karla Olinek knows the solution is not going to be easy, but she also knows she and her coworkers can not do it alone.

“As a community we need to step up and create a better community,” she said.

Olinek is speaking about crime preven-tion workshops she is helping to organize, in partnership with the RCMP, District of Fort St. James, Nak’azdli Band Council and the College of New Caledonia.

The workshops will be facilitated by Zandra Ross, a consultant, and are sched-uled for Oct. 29 and Nov.13 at the Music Makers Hall from 4-8 p.m..

“It is not a complaint session,” said Olinek. The workshops will be a two-part series, with the � rst session bringing for-ward issues and concerns, which can then be focussed into top priorities.

But for each issue, people must also bring forward a solution or something they may be able to do to help.

“As community members, we can all do

a little bit,” she said. “For me, owner-ship is a big component.”

The timing might appear to be in response to the recent negative publicity around Fort St. James and criminal activity, such as the Fribjon Bjornson murder, and the more recent home invasion, where witnesses ap-pear reluctant to come forward.

However, Olinek said the work-shops were already in the works, and she feels, despite suggestions by a recent CBC story to the contrary, RCMP are doing what they can.

“We have a great partnership with the RCMP,” she said.

While these types of initiatives have been tried in the past, Olinek hopes this one, given the latest media and crime in the community, will get a greater response from the community than past events like it.

“We’re a mixed community and as a community we need to come forward and create solutions,” she said. “When it comes down to it, we’re going to get out of it what

we put into it.” In other words, if no one shows up,

nothing will happen, but this also means there is no room for a person not interested in being part of the solution to complain then, according to Olinek.

“If you don’t show up and step up, there no room for you to complain,” she said. “I want to be a contributing member of the community and I think we should all have that attitude.”

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there was a description of the outdoor activities Silver Springs Country Recre-ation & Wellness offer.

One of the programs is a Kewap Re-treat, it was said that Kewap means horse in the Dakelh language however Kewap means horse in the Okanagan language Nsyilxcən.

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Dear Residents,

The District of Fort St. James will commence issuing parking tickets to vehicles that are illegally parked as per Traffic & Parking Bylaw No. 839, 2007. Please note that parking infractions can include fines up to a maximum of $100.00 and the vehicle towed. Please ensure that your vehicle is legally parked at all times and that it doesn’t impede snow removal.

District of Fort St. James

SNOW REMOVAL AND ICE CONTROL POLICY

1. ROADSInspectionThe Public Works Department will plow and sand whenever snow accumulations or freezing conditions are such that a hazard is created.

a) A snow removal plan shall be developed each year prior to the onset of winter conditions.

b) Plowing and sanding by priority as follows: 1. Arterial road accessing emergency services. 2. Bus routes and hills. 3. Remaining streets and roads. 4. District owned parking lots.

c) The Public Works Department will sand roads at the request of the R.C.M.P.

d) If in the course of other duties, Public Works personnel observe winter driving hazards they will report them to their supervisors, who will arrange for inspection of the hazard.

e) Where the Public reports a winter driving hazard to the Public Works Department, the Department will inspect the hazard.

f) Driveway windrows on the property of seniors over age 65 or disabled persons will be cleared within 48 hours after the priorities in Section 1(b) are completed.

Make a difference in a young person’s lifeSmithers Community Services Association is seeking to add supportive families to ourCORR HOMES PROGRAM

About our program…CORR Homes is a specialized foster care program for young offenders as an alternative to incarceration and operates in communities throughout Northern BC. CORR Homes offer a caring, stable home environment where youth reside for up to 6 months. CORR Home families are financially compensated to provide this service. Our program provides the CORR Home families with access to training, 24-hour on-call

support, and an experienced Youth Resource Worker who will work directly with families and the youth who reside with them.

Who we are looking for…Interested people who have had experience working with and supporting youth at work or socially (ie; coaching, mentoring, big brothers/sisters etc.) or who have raised their own children through their teen years.For more information about how to become a CORR Home, please visit our website www.scsa.ca/programs/corr-homes or contact Jo-Anne Nugent at (250) 847-9515 or toll free at 1-888-355-6222.


Nearly 50 people came out to a community meeting to discuss loitering and public drinking in the downtown.

After a lot of discussion and debate, it was decided a commit-tee will now be formed to attempt to move forward to � nd solutions, headed by Jackie Marshall.

Business owners and em-ployees, public health nurses, concerned citizens and RCMP were all at the meeting in the high school library to bring for-ward their concerns regarding the downtown.

Detachment Commander, Staff Sergeant Paul Thalhofer started the meeting off trying to clarify how the RCMP has to in-terpret the law and take multiple factors into consideration.

While he said years ago, police used to arrest a person on the street if they smelled of alcohol, now there are case laws and precedents have been set, along with other things like the Canadian Charter of Rights and Free-doms which must be taken into account as well.

“The laws are not black and white in that regard,” he said. “I can’t just go arbi-trarily arrest them and throw them in jail.”

However, he still wants the public to call the RCMP if they see people com-mitting an offence such as drinking in public.

“If you call, we will get there,” he said.

Thalhofer also raised the issue of manpower, which is currently well below full force, with effectively only � ve constables for core po-licing to respond to calls to service. From the beginning of July until the end of Au-gust, the local RCMP had over a thousand calls to re-spond to.

Some at the meeting raised their concerns, and others tried to bring for-ward ideas to begin to bring people together to solve the complex problem.

Councillor Russ Gin-grich was adamant the prob-lem rests on the shoulders of the RCMP, and he believes they should be out enforcing the law.

“I do not have a solution … my interpretation is the only ones who can handle this kind of situation is the RCMP,” said Gingrich.

Thalhofer, however, made it clear while RCMP can and will deal with those who blatantly are breaking the law, he does not see this as a long-term solution.

“This is a social issue, it is not a policing issue,” he

said. “This is not the � rst commu-nity I’ve worked in where this has become a problem.”

There were a number of at-tendees, however, who spoke about approaching the problem from other angles as well.

“Some of our questions should

be directed in that area, to town council,” said Suzanne Lorimer, a downtown resident. “I’d really like to see a public washroom.”

“I think this is about all of us, all of our community and about respect,” said Monica Grill, of Nahounli Kennels. She suggested

people try and take a moment to acknowledge the people doing the public drinking and loitering and ask them to be respectful.

“When you talk to someone, you break down that barrier,” she said.

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Lisa Sam, a nurse who works in the Nak’azdli Health Centre spoke about some of the ini-tiatives public health nurses and Nak’azdli have been working on, including the Men’s House and the Home-less and Hungry ini-tiative which attempt to address some of the core issues.

She pointed out how previously people in the community had come together to cre-ate a treatment centre at Dem Lake, but the funding was cut be-fore it was completed.

She also recalled how when searching for the missing youth on the lake (Kora Lee Prince and Mat-thew Karey in 2005) the street people of Fort St. James came out every day to help, how giving the people who were living on the street a purpose should be a goal for the community.

“It’s a long-term thing that we have to get together to do,” she said. “When they had something to do, they did wonderful.”

Joanne Alexander, a public health nurse, said many people have been trying to approach the problem from a public health perspective for a long time.

“There is a lot hap-pening in our commu-nity from a positive perspective,” she said, suggesting the group look at other commu-nities who have had some success dealing with the same type of issues, such as Port-land, Oregon.

“It was because businesses took re-sponsibility as a com-munity.”

Kevin Gedling, who works at the his-toric site, but was not speaking for them, said moving the prob-lem back to the lake-shore where it is not seen from downtown is not a solution ei-ther, given the thou-sands of both regional and foreign tourists who come to the his-toric site each year, and then take the im-pression of this prob-lem back with them as

part of their experience.He suggested with the

community’s history of coming together to solve

other problems such as the transportation issues, the capacity is there to deal with this as well.

“A comprehensive, creative solution is really the way to go,” he said.

Mayor Rob MacDou-

gall stood up and spoke briefly before he left, saying mayor and council have talked about wash-

rooms, and suggesting if a committee is formed, he and council would work with them.


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Every year children anxiously count down the days until they are able to put on their costumes and head out into the neighborhood in

search of candy. Although Halloween is meant to be a fun occasion for the young and the old alike, it can also be unsafe.

Costumes may impair a child’s vision and motor function. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says that studies indicate Halloween is in the top three among holidays that produce the most visits to hospital emergency rooms. Finger and hand injuries account for 17.6 percent of injuries, and children ages 10 to 14 sustain the greatest proportion of

Halloween injuries. Trips and falls also account for a high number of injuries.

There are also a good deal of children who become injured before Halloween arrives, many of whom sustain lacerations when carving pumpkins.To make Halloween a safe holiday, children and adults can heed these suggestions.• Wear comfortable, sturdy shoes. Although kids might want to wear shoes that match the costume, shoes that fit well and are comfortable are a safer bet. This will help prevent tripping and falling over cumbersome shoes. It also reduces the risk of developing blisters and discomfort when walking from home to home.• Go trick-or-treating in groups. Children should not be allowed to go out in search of candy alone. Going in a group means that someone can get help if need be. Also, there is safety in numbers. Predators won’t view a child as an easy target if he or she is with fellow trick-or-treaters.• Be visible. Since daylight saving time begins shortly after Halloween, there are fewer hours of daylight for trick-or-treating. When Halloween falls on a weekday, children have to wait until after school to venture out, and it can quickly become dark.

Therefore, make sure that children are equipped with flashlights and put reflective tape on their costumes so they will be more visible to fellow pedestrians and motorists.• Stick to the sidewalks. Children should stay on sidewalks and cross the street only at established crosswalks.• Do not enter homes. Unless a child is with an adult and the home is owned by a trusted friend, kids should not enter homes for treats.• Avoid candles and jack-o-lanterns. A costume can easily catch on fire, so it is best to steer clear of candles, luminaries and lit pumpkins.• Bring water. Costumes can become hot and uncomfortable, especially when worn for long periods of time. Be sure children have water to rehydrate themselves.• Accessorize safely. Select flexible swords and knives if they are accompanying a costume. Avoid rigid items that can cause injuries.• Examine all candy before eating. Before kids have their first bite, parents should inspect candy wrappers to determine if there has been any tampering. Also, avoid homemade treats from homes unless you know the people who prepared the items.

Halloween dates back thousands of years to ancient Celts and Europeans. Although Halloween is now largely associated with the celebrations that take place across much of North

America, where 65 percent of Americans decorate their homes and places of business in the Halloween spirit, Halloween is celebrated in various ways around the globe.

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* England: In the past, Brits tossed objects such as stones, vegetables and nuts into a bonfire to frighten away the spirits. These symbolic sacri-fices also were used as a form of fortune-telling. If a pebble thrown into the flames at night was no longer visible in the morning, then it was believed that the person who tossed the pebble would not survive another year. Halloween fell out of favor after the Protestant Reformation spread through the country. However, in recent years some have begun to adopt the American tradition of trick-or-treating.* Hong Kong: A Halloween-type festival in Hong Kong is known as “Yue Lan,” which is the festival of the hungry ghosts. It is believed that, during this time, spirits roam the world for 24 hours.* France: Halloween is considered an American holiday by most French and was relatively unknown before 1996.* Ireland: Ireland is thought to be the birthplace of Halloween, and many of the same traditions of old are still practiced today. In addition to costumes and treats, individuals may play an apple-bobbing game called “snap-apple,” where participants have to try to take a bite of an apple suspended on a string. Children also play tricks on neighbors, including “knock-a-dolly,” which is essentially a variation on “ring-and-run.”* Spanish-speaking nations: Many Spanish-speaking nations celebrate “El Dia de los Muertos.” It is supposed to be a joyous event where people remember friends and family members who have died. Candles and incense are burned to help the departed find his or her way home.* Austria: Some people will leave bread, water and a lighted lamp on the table on Halloween night before going to bed. It was once believed that such items would welcome the dead souls back to Earth on a night Austrians considered to be full of strong cosmic energies.* Czechoslovakia: Czechs place chairs by a fireside on Halloween night. There are enough chairs for each living and dead family member.* Italy: Halloween traditions have just recently begun to blossom in Italy, where decorations and pumpkins are popular. While many of the traditions borrow from the Americans, there is at least one uniquely Italian tradition taking place in the hill town of Corinaldo. La Notte delle Streghe, “The Night of the Witches,” occurs in this town with music, danc-ing and a witch-themed fashion show that names Miss Strega (Miss Witch).* Australia: Halloween isn’t as popular in Australia as it is in the United States and Canada. Austra-lians may celebrate Halloween as Guy Fawkes Eve or Mischief Night. Children create mischief or get treats. Many Austra-lians simply celebrate the holiday with a dance at their schools.

Halloween is alive and well around the world. Perhaps this year North American families will want to in-corporate some global traditions into their standard Halloween plans.

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A prestigious nation-al award for outstanding achievement in heritage interpretation has just been given to a commu-nity project in Fort St. James, B.C.. Dubbed the Ripples of the Past Inter-pretive Walk, the project received a Gold award for the category of Non-Personal Interpretation, a category for outstand-ing exhibits and educa-tion panel projects across Canada.

Interpretation Cana-da, the national organiza-tion which trains and en-courages the profession of heritage interpretation across Canada, awarded the honour through a panel of judges repre-senting every region of the country.

Fort St. James shares the Gold desig-nation with designers of the Amisk Interpre-tive trail project built in Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba.

The project involved the creation of an inter-pretive walking tour that links the Parks Canada Fort St. James National Historic Site to vari-ous cultural resources throughout the town of Fort St. James.

Roughly 2 km in length, 10 interpretive signs were created that cover various evolutions in Fort St. James’ past, from aboriginal history and explorers to natural history and aviation. The panel project was a com-ponent of the Downtown Revitalization Project which was completed in early 2011.

The revitalization gave the business district in Fort St. James a sig-ni� cant makeover.

The large scale proj-ect involved numerous partners, including West-ern Economic Diversi� -cation Canada, and was coordinated by the Fort St. James Chamber of Commerce.

The development of the interpretive panels was led by a team from Fort St. James National Historic Site, the Cham-ber of Commerce, Dis-trict of Fort St. James council and Eggplant Studios graphic design-ers from Prince George.

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Manager Bob Grill and Product Development Of� cer Kevin Gedling established the inter-pretive theme and as-sembled historic photos and text for each panel. Contributions from the community came from Lillian Sam and Harold Prince from Nak’azdli, while local aviation his-torian Grant Luck was consulted on the � nal panel at the Russ Baker Memorial.

The panels were built on sturdy steel frames on a material called digi-tal image high pressure laminate: an extremely high quality sign mate-rial commonly used in national park projects of a similar nature.

As such, the panels

were designed to be du-rable and to last a long time. The panels enable visitors to interact with just one or all ten panels along the route and serve to combine some of the community’s most cher-ished historic sites. Rath-er than promoting them all as separate, individual attractions, the Ripples of the Past Interpretive Walk packaged several smaller experiences in the Fort St. James under one simple, identi� able experience and has been successful in luring visi-tors to the historic park to continue their heri-tage tourism adventures throughout the town site.

The announcement of this award follows a se-ries of several successful

projects recognized for regional and national ex-cellence at Fort St. James National Historic Site.

The awarding of a national award of excel-lence for a project which covers so many parts of Fort St. James’ past and involved so many differ-ent people in the Fort St. James area is an award for which everyone can truly be proud.

Fort St. James and Nak’azdli First Nation, as a community full of vibrant people and a rich past, developed one of the best interpretive ex-periences in Canada.

For more information about the Ripples of the Past Interpretive Walk or Fort St. James National Historic Site:

Call: 250-996-7191 Email:[email protected] Web: www.parkscanada.gc.ca/fortstjames

For more information about the District of Fort St. James or the Down-town Revitalization Proj-ect of 2010-2011. Call: 250-996-8233 Email: edo@fortst james.ca Web: www.fortstjames.ca


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The Crook family reads one of the interpretive panels as part of the Ripples of the Past Interpretive Trail.

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Road Rescue Contribution Service Establishment Bylaw No. 1651

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of Elec-toral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) of the Regional Dis-trict of Bulkley-Nechako that approval is being sought for “Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) Road Rescue Contribution Service Establishment Bylaw No. 1651” by use of the Alternative Approval Process. Bylaw No. 1651 will es-tablish a service within all of Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley-Necha-ko to contribute funds to the District of Fort St. James for the provision of road rescue services within Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural). The maximum amount that may be requisitioned annually for the cost of the service is the amount that could be raised by a property value tax rate of $0.06 per $1,000 applied to the net tax-able value of land and improvements in the Service Area or $11,000, whichever is greater.

Approval to proceed with adoption of this bylaw is being sought from the electors of Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako.

The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Board of Di-rectors may proceed with adoption of Bylaw No. 1651 unless at least 10% of the electors of Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) of the Regional District of Bulk-ley-Nechako submit a signed Elector Response Form indicating their opposition to adoption of the bylaw by 4:30 PM on Friday, November 30, 2012 to the address below. Elector Response Forms MAY NOT be submit-ted by email or facsimile.

Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Box 820, 37 - 3rd Avenue Burns Lake, B.C. V0J 1E0

For the purpose of this Alternative Approval Process, 10% of the qualified electors has been determined to be 113 persons.

“Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) Road Rescue Contribution Service Establishment Bylaw No. 1651” is available for public inspection at the following locations:

• Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Office, 37-3rd Avenue, Burns Lake, B.C. between the hours of 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday to Friday (except Statutory Holidays);

• Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako website at www.rdbn.bc.ca;

• District of Fort St. James Municipal Office, 477 Stuart Drive West, Fort St. James, B.C. between the hours of 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday to Friday (except Statutory Holidays).

Elector Response Forms must be in the form estab-lished by the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako and only those persons who qualify as electors of Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) are entitled to sign an Elector Response Form. Elector Response Forms are available at the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Of-fice, the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako website and the District of Fort St. James Municipal Office at the addresses above. Those persons eligible to sign the Elector Response Form may qualify as either resident electors or non-resident electors as follows:

• 18 years of age or older; • Canadian citizen; • resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding November 30, 2012; • resident of real property in Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley- Nechako for at least 30 days immediately prior to November 30, 2012; or • registered owner of real property in Electoral Area “C” (Fort St. James Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako for at least 30 days immediately prior to November 30, 2012; • not otherwise disqualified by law from voting.

For additional information on the Alternative Approval Process, please contact:

Cheryl Anderson, Manager of Administrative Services Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Phone: 250-692-3195 Toll-free: 1-800-320-3339 Email: [email protected]

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Travel = experiential learningRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

Like any good teacher, Travis James knows a subject has more impact when a person can see, hear and even smell something in real life.

“I’m always amazed by the stuff they’ll come home with - the stories,” said James, recalling a memory of the smell of the steam rising from the New York City subway system.

“I’m never going to for-get that,” he said.

Travis James is a teach-er at Fort St. James Sec-ondary School and also the organizer of the High School Community Travel Club.

As the organizer for the club, James has coordinat-ed and booked seven trips for high school students and community mem-bers for places around the world, with next year’s trip to Beijing being the sev-enth.

From Costa Rica to Rome, New York to Ire-land, James has taken stu-dents to places far outside the daily life of Fort St. James.

“I still have my metro card,” said Pita Rokoratu, a student who went to New York City with the club in the spring of 2010. “It re-ally opens your eyes to the world around you.”

Rokoratu said at � rst he was a bit overwhelmed with how busy the city was, but he became much more comfortable in the hustle and bustle as the trip progressed.

“I remember we watched Wicked in London,” said Kristina Joseph, who went to England and Ireland this past spring. Joseph also recalls learning about the Potato Famine in Ireland from an Irishman, getting a more direct perspective on history.

Josh den Engelsen, who went to Greece and Italy in 2011 recalls seeing the Acropolis and the city of Athens and legendary mountains like Mt. Etna and Vesuvius.

“All the history that I’ve ever known here only goes back hundreds of years, but over there it goes back thousands,” he said.

His leadership and volunteerism earned him some special recognition this year, when he was awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in Toronto.

In total 60,000 Canadians will be awarded the medal to commemorate the sixtieth anniver-sary of Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the throne. James was one of 30 teachers nominated by EF Educational Tours, which was a partner in the nomination process, and is the company James organizes his tours through each year.

On Oct. 13, James was awarded the medal at a ceremony in Toronto, with a big part of the thrill of receiving the award being the opportunity to get up close and personal with Marc

Kielburger, co-founder of Free the Children and Me to We, according to James. Kielburger was a speaker at the event and handed out the medals.

“I felt honoured,” he said.

“Travis is being award-ed this Medal because he is extremely committed to excellence in education with a focus on experien-tial learning,” said Stepha-nie Ruttan, spokesperson for EF Educational Tours in a letter about James. “He goes above and be-yond in his daily life to support the EF mission of breaking down barriers of language, culture and geography, and to encour-age his community to be global citizens.”

But like most volun-teers, James was quick to share the credit for what the travel club does.

“It’s just awesome for the community and district that we have students that are doing this … and that we have a very supportive school.”

He said the area school board and his school’s administration have been very supportive of the travel club over the years. The club itself was started by Mary Huffman, and he picked up where she left off and continued to grow it.

The trips he has gone on so far have all been to places James has been before, because this gives him a level of con� dence about taking the students there.

“It’s very much not a vacation,” said James. He said he doesn’t relax and enjoy the experi-ence himself until the plane lands back in Prince George at the end of the trip.

“A weight is lifted off my shoulders,” said James.But it’s all worth it in the end. “It just goes back to the students,” he said. “I � gure it’s some-

thing they’re going to remember from their high school years.”

Teacher Travis James in the FSJSS library showing his Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal which he received in recognition of his volunteerism with the school travel club.


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