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Tickets, pleaseCameron Orr

The District of Kitimat is working to amend their rules to allow giving bylaw tickets out in-stead of taking people to court.

The move will give the town more � exibility in dealing with bylaw infractions without the bur-den and cost of legal proceedings.

On June 23 Council gave three readings to the Penalties and Municipal Ticket Information Sys-tem bylaw.

As it is now for certain infractions people will get a site visit from the District, before possibly escalating to courts.

Staff point out in their report to councillors that the process “can consume signi� cant staff time.”

The offences one can be ticketed for include things such as parking too many RVs on your property, keeping a prohibited animal or having over-sized commercial vehicles on your property.

The tickets are all set at $100.

Each day that the infraction hasn’t been handled will be consid-ered a new offence and people could be receiv-ing additional tickets.

Court action could still be taken on offenc-es despite this bylaw.

“The main point of what we’re trying to do here is we’re taking a lot of our bylaw infractions such as parking illegally, being parked on proper-ties it’s not zoned for. Right now we have to do what’s called a long-form information, which means essentially we make contact with the per-son and if they don’t do anything with it, usually follow-up with a letter or two then you have to go to court,” explained Deputy Chief Administrative Of� cer Warren Waycheshen. He said once you get to court it will still be several weeks before a mat-ter is settled.

“That’s the main thing we’re trying to do here, things that can be easily recti� ed and � xed,” he continued. “A lot easier to do, it hits the person in the pocket book...it’s not something we have to drag out.”

The language of the bylaw also gives ticket-ing power to the District’s director of commu-nity planning and development. Waycheshen said that’s because the planner will likely have the ex-pertise needed in some infraction situations.

While the town now has this ticketing power, Waycheshen said the person issuing a ticket can use their discretion and determine whether a puni-tive measure is appropriate in the circumstance.

“There’s always some extenuating circum-stances to look at most of the time.”

Not that this St. Anthony’s student would need help with the rain that was coming down, but she also got immersed in the dunk tank (that was actually marked for teachers) during St. Anthony’s June 19 year end fundraiser and barbecue.

Cameron Orr

Supreme Court rules on Aboriginal titleTom Fletcher and Cameron Orr

Aboriginal communities across B.C. are celebrating a court ruling that rede-� nes ownership of their traditional terri-tory outside reserves.

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the Tsilhqot’in Nation’s claim to aboriginal title over 1,700 square km in the Nemiah Valley west of Williams Lake, in a landmark ruling with effects on land claims across the province.

In a unanimous decision, the coun-try’s highest court rejected the B.C. gov-ernment’s argument that aboriginal title should be restricted to settlement sites and other places frequently occupied by semi-nomadic aboriginal people before European contact.

Joe Alphonse, tribal chief of the Tsilhqot’in Nation, said the ruling is a victory in a struggle that had its roots in deadly con� ict with a wave of gold seekers during the 1860s. He said the communities need more control over re-

sources to support more people living on reserves.

“We didn’t � ght in this case to sepa-rate from Canada,” Alphonse told a news conference in Vancouver.

“We fought in this case to get recog-nized, to be treated as equals in a mean-ingful way.”

Settlement sites and others used for hunting and � shing were exhaustively studied in a 2003 B.C. trial that granted broad title but was later overturned by the B.C. Court of Appeal.

“The Province’s criticisms of the trial judge’s � ndings on the facts are primarily rooted in the erroneous thesis that only speci� c, intensively occupied areas can support Aboriginal title,” the eight Supreme Court of Canada justices agreed in a unanimous ruling released Thursday.

The Tsilhqot’in case was strength-ened by evidence that “prior to the as-sertion of sovereignty the Tsilhqot’in

people repelled other people from their land and demanded permission from out-siders who wished to pass over it,” the judges wrote.

Haisla in Kitimat, as well as gov-ernment representatives for the region, hailed the decision as a good one for Ab-original rights, and which sets the criteria for industry development on traditional lands.

Haisla elders and members gathered at the old hospital site — which is now owned by the Haisla for commercial de-velopment — on the day of the ruling to celebrate.

“I think this armours us, our commu-nities even more,” said Gerald Amos. “I think it’s symbolic that we get together and give them our thanks and in the spirit of reconciliation to call on the govern-ments to honour this ruling.”

He said the ruling should be con-cerning to some companies.

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“That’s the main thing we’re trying to do here...it hits the person in the pocket book...it’s

not something we have to drag

out.”

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Off-duty cop spots drunk driver Cullen hears worries over temp. foreign worker program change

Top District salaries disclosed

June 16An off-duty RCMP

member followed a vehicle on Highway 37 in to Kitimat. The vehicle was driving in an erratic manner. The vehicle entered a parking lot off Tsi-mishian Boulevard as the off-duty member called the detachment for an on-duty mem-ber. The 58-year-old driver from Surrey failed two attempts at the roadside screening device and was giving a 90-day driving pro-hibition and a 30 day vehicle impoundment.

June 18An all-terrain ve-

hicle was found aban-doned near Haisla Boulevard by an off-duty officer. Vehicle was recovered and po-lice are attempting to locate the owner.

A woman came to the RCMP detachment saying a Rottweiler dog had bitten her while she was walk-ing on Coho Street. Woman suffered minor

injuries and police are attempting to find the owner of the dog.

June 19A 40-year-old Kit-

imat man was arrested for being intoxicated in public after police received an anony-mous complaint at City Centre Mall.

June 20A 53-year-old Kit-

imat man was caught in a road check at 12:20 a.m. on King-fisher Avenue. He failed the first blow of a roadside screening device but landed in the ‘warn’ range on the

second try. As a result he received a three day driving prohibtion.

June 21A person called

to complain about a construction company which accepted a de-posit but so far had failed to commence work on a project for a homeonwer on Skeena Street. Police contact-ed the company and were told they would follow-up with the complainant.

June 22An intoxicated

person at the Ol’ Keg was refusing to leave

and wanted to fight the bouncer at around 12:40 a.m. Police ar-rived and arrested the 21-year-old Calgary resident for causing a disturbance.

Police attended to an assault complaint at the Kitimat Hotel. Caller said two peo-ple were involved and wanted them removed from the property. Po-lice spoke with the two parties and police deemed the fight con-sensual.

Both participants were removed from the hotel.

With a law stating that government em-ployees earning over $75,000 must be dis-closed, the list for the District of Kitimat has been released as part of the 2013 annual report.

Kitimat’s Chief Administrative Of-ficer tops the salary for employees who are

still on the payroll this year. He earned $201,692.16. He was also covered for vari-ous expenses through-out the year, those to-talling $12,238.41.

His Deputy earned $151,800.05 in 2013 with $2,788.35 in ex-penses.

The Director of

Engineering for the District of Kitimat earned $141,800.05 and claimed no ex-penses.

The top earner for the District was actu-ally Walter McLellan, who has since retired but was the town’s Municipal Cleark. His remuneration in 2013

was $207,218.95, with $9.50 in expenses claimed.

Director of Com-munity Planning and Development earned $118,525.93, and the District treasurer earned $116,409.89. The town’s economic development officer earned $94,102.41.

Firefighters in Kitimat also earn high salaries. Among those listed is the fire chief who took $115,906.51.

Forty-eight people were listed as earn-ing over $75,000 in the District. The entire payroll for the town, is $9,916,040.48, not in-cluding expenses.

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The government, he said, has “somehow managed to make everybody unhappy; em-ployers, people who are fighting for the rights of temporary foreign workers and those of us that believe if we’re short...of workers in this country then we should do something about our broken immigration program,” said Cullen.

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A pot leaf paint-ed over the kermode bear on a rock face in Terrace hasn’t impressed some people.

A group of art-ists plans to paint over the marijuana leaf painting which appeared on the rock face over the old bridge two weeks ago.

That’s the word from artist Mat-thew Daratha, who confirmed he and a group of artists he is associated with will be replacing the new painting with one of a bear.

The marijuana leaf mural appeared on the rock face cov-ering up a painting of a Kermode bear which appeared last fall.

That bear was a replacement for the long-standing Ker-mode bear painting which was painted over with grey paint suddenly last year.

Inspection teams are now going from tower to tower along the 344 kilometre length of BC Hydro’s Northwest Transmission Line, methodically checking each one prior to the line being energized sometime next month.

The checks are part of the commissioning of the $736 million 287 kilovolt line, construc-tion of which was of-ficially completed June 7, says Jim Shepherd, the BC Hydro manager in charge of the project.

“They’re looking at each of the 1,092 towers – the founda-tions, testing each of the bolts, the sag on the [conductor] line to see if it’s correct,” said Shepherd.

And while the tow-ers are being inspected, so to is the equipment at the BC Hydro’s exist-ing Skeena Substation south of Terrace, which connects the line to the provincial power grid.

“There are 40 steps and 85 pieces of major equipment,” said Shep-herd of substation work checks.

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LNG Canada has installed a model of the Kitimat townsite and their own industrial site, to give visitors to their information centre an idea on how their facility will fit in to the community. The company initiated a series of events for community consultation in Kitimat, beginning with an open house on June 24.

Cadets get annual reviewSubmitted

On June14 the 2556 Royal Canadian Army Cadets held their first Annual Ceremonial Review (ACR).

The event marks the culmi-nation of the training year and serves as a venue for dignitar-ies and families to come and see the cadets in uniform.

This year the event was held at the Tamitik Arena and Major G. Reddy CD, served as the reviewing officer.

Major Reddy is the officer in charge of the Army Cadet program for all of B.C. and traveled from Victoria for this special event.

The unit had 13 cadets on parade. This number is almost double the number of last year’s parade as sea cadets demon-strated significant growth and interest in the program.

The corps expects 10-15 new members next year and may even form a band if the

numbers permit. Also in atten-dance were the District of Kiti-mat mayor and some council-lors.

The training year has ended for the program however over half of the cadets will be attend-ing summer training courses held in Vernon B.C. this sum-mer.

The program is free to join and those interested should visit the corps website www.kiti-matcadets.com.

Above, Cpl. Ashton Campbell leads cadets on parade. At right, Major G. Reddy CD addresses the cadets. Below, the cadets receive their inspection. Photos submitted


Until this past weekend Mike Ty-son’s famous efforts to chew off the ear of heavyweight boxer Evander Holy� eld in their classic WBA heavy-weight � ght in Las Vegas in June, 1997 was probably the best known modern episode of an athlete biting his oppo-nent.

Then, this weekend FIFA suspend-ed Uruguayan footballer Luis Suarez after he sank his teeth into the shoulder of Italian defender, Giorgio Cheilini, during the World Cup match between the two countries in Brazil.

It was, however, the third time the South American player had been accused of using his teeth on an op-ponent – and FIFA stepped in with a rather lame punishment reaction, a � ne of $112,000 and a suspension for nine games, bringing Suarez’s 2014 World Cup hopes hopes to an abrupt end.

I say “lame” deliberately – con-sidering the comparative punishment to Mike Tyson, a $2-million � ne and a life suspension from professional box-ing.

So far as I know, the bite to Holy-� eld’s ear was a � rst for Tyson, but since it was the third time Suarez did something similar, stricter punishment was called for.

In November 2010, during a match between Ajax and PSV Eind-hoven players, Suarez bit Feyenoord mid� elder Otman Bakkal on the neck, earning a seven game suspension and

just last year he nibbled on Chelsea de-fender Branislav Ivanovic’s arm.

That resulted in a 10 game suspen-sion. Suarez is also suspended from all soccer-related activity for four months, which will also keep him on the side-lines when his club team, Liverpool, opens the English Premier League sea-son in August.

An amusing sideline that I saw came from a report that a Swedish gambling company stating that more than 150 people across Europe placed bets that Suarez would bite someone during the World Cup. It’s true – sports fans will bet on anything, and will oc-casionally win with a wild � utter.

I’m not sure if biting is just a “thing” for boxers and soccer players but there have been a couple of other similar incidents. Heavyweight boxer Dereck Chisora bit opponent Paul But-lin in the ring in Munich, Germany and Toronto FC player Jermaine Dafoe chomped down on West Ham’s Javier Mascherano while playing for Totten-ham in England in 2006.

But others like to chow down ev-

ery now and then too; Vancouver Ca-nucks’ Alex Burrows was accused of biting Boston’s Patrice Bergeron in the Stanley Cup � nals in 2011. Col-lege wrestler Mike Ottinger (Central Michigan) was disquali� ed for sink-ing his teeth into Matt Miller (Navy) in a recent wrestling encounter. Nasty New York Rangers pest Shawn Avery accused Washington’s Brooks Laich of biting him – and back in 2009 —after a tussle with Buffalo’s Andrew Peters. Ottawa Senators’ Jarko Ruutu took a nip at the Sabres player, biting Peters’ thumb. For his bite, Jarkko earned a two-game suspension and was � ned $35,000.

In rugby, former South African rugby player Johan Le Roux was sent home early in 1994 when he bit New Zealand’s Sean Fitzpatrick on the ear during a � eld scramble.

In 1983, Danny Ainge while play-ing for the Boston Celtics, was bitten by then Atlanta Hawks’ center Tree Rollins, resulting in a clever morning headline in the Boston Herald - “Tree bites man!”

Now while none of this points to an imminent sports episode of Dracula Returns – it certainly serves to point out that athletes do lose their heads in the heat of the game while trying to put the bite on the opposition.

But Mike Tyson still holds the re-cord for severity of punishment, I’d say.

High level sports is a hungry endeavor

Anticipating disagreementI get a selection of Ingrid Rice political cartoons

each week so I have somewhat of a choice in which ones to run. My choices, in the past, have gotten me in to trouble I admit. I’ve rarely felt that a cartoon was ‘wrong’ though.

Of course when it comes to opinions it’s hard to be wrong. In this instance cartoons also serve to make a point or an argument, whether or not you agree with it.

I say this because I’m certain the cartoon to your right might upset some people. As a solution to the ongoing teacher strike is still out of reach, there is the cartoonist painting a picture of teach-ers as unable to budget themselves, while making a comfortable living as it is.

On wages, at my last reference, teachers want, over a � ve year period, to get an eight per cent raise.

The cartoon over there says the average salary is $71,485, which is a very comfortable salary I’d say.

But here’s some local � avour for Coast Moun-tains school district teachers to consider.

As a background, teacher wages fall under vari-ous ‘categories’ (based on academic credentials) with varying ‘steps’ (or wage increments.)

The lowest is category 4, and as of July 2010 step zero is $42,802.

That grows until step 10 at $66,626.Category � ve, which apparently is where most

teachers sit, starts at $46,306, rising to $75,412 by step 10.

(When you get more credentials, like a Mas-ters, you can get up to category six which starts at $50,488, and tops out at $82,380.)

With these numbers I’ll leave it to you to decide what you think about the wage demands. (At the peak of the eight per cent increase the category � ve starting wage will be approximately $50,000)

But of course the teacher strike is really not en-tirely about wage.

Class size and composition, for instance, is a huge part of the debate.

Don’t forget that the BC Supreme Court ruled against the provincial government when it came to class size. The government now has to go back to 2002 wording for size and composition, while pay-ing B.C. teachers $2 million in damages, the court says.

When Kitimat teachers spoke to town council-lors on Monday wages weren’t even part of the dis-cussion.

Councillors backed the suggestion of them to write to the BCTF, the Premier and the Ministry of Education to say schools need adequate funding and suitable class size and composition, and for ev-eryone to work quickly to end the strike.

At this point though I just don’t know what will end this once and for all.

Cameron Orr

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Dear Sir,Open letter to Mary Polak, Minister

of the Environment and Premier Christy Clark:

I have had an opportunity to learn about the plans made by the BC Ministry of the Environment to create a world-class spill response along any pipelines built in British Columbia. I would like to say that I am extremely impressed by the work done

by Ministry staff as outlined in their last two intentions papers. This plan will save taxpayers money and will put the onus on companies to do an effective job of any spill, anywhere, any time. It will encourage prevention of any spills and it will provide much needed enforcement.

The public trust in pipeline companies is close to zero, as you may have noticed.

I have recently been horrified by news

articles reporting on the claims by compa-nies that all these required measures are already in place and that they require no input from government. Oh yes they do. Input, supervision and enforcement of en-vironmental standards is exactly what they need and have never had.

It is now your responsibility to make sure that the plan as outlined in the two in-tentions papers written by the very knowl-

edgeable and skilled staff, goes through and becomes law. I want to encourage you to do everything in your power to follow through on this. It is the only way that any pipeline can be even remotely acceptable in this province. Please make sure it happens.

Better yet, keep oil off our coast all to-gether.

Sincerely, Elizabeth Thorne (Douglas Channel Watch)

Dear Sir,Federal MPs are back in their

ridings for the summer, and will be out hitting the barbecue circuit.

When I think back to the second session of the 41st Parliament (Jan-June), the following things come to mind:

1. The Orwellian-sounding Fair Elections Act. One hundred and sixty university professors signed a March 11 National Post editorial that stated the Fair Elections Act “would damage the institution at the heart of our country’s democracy: voting in federal elections.” On April 25

Minister of State (Democratic Reform) Pierre Poilievre begrudg-ingly submitted 45 changes to the bill in a bid to quell opposition to it.

2. Tory attacks on Chief Elec-tions Officer Marc Mayrand, former Auditor General of Canada Sheila Fraser, and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.

3. Veterans Affairs Minister Ju-lian Fantino’s haughty manner in dealing with veterans and their fami-lies.

4. Speaker of the House of Commons Andrew Scheer finding Conservative MP Brad Butt’s Feb. 6 remarks prima facie grounds of breach of parliamentary privilege. On Feb. 6, Butt said in the House: “I have actually witnessed other people picking up the voter cards, going to the campaign office of whatever candidate they support and handing out these voter cards to other indi-viduals, who then walk into voting stations with friends who vouch for them with no ID.”

On Feb. 24 Butt told the House that his earlier statement was “not accurate”.

5. The Temporary Foreign Worker Program fiasco, in which Employment Minister Jason Kenney had allowed it be abused too often by employers.

6. The deafening silence of Con-servative MPs after the government announced in a June 17 press release (not a press conference) that it has given conditional approval to the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipe-line.

The Sierra Club B.C. called the approval a “slap in the face” for Brit-ish Columbians.

“But ultimately, it changes noth-ing: the Enbridge pipeline will not get built,” said spokeswoman Cait-lyn Vernon.

On June 18 NDP MP Nathan Cullen (Skeena—Bulkley Valley) said on CBC’s Power & Politics: “Where are the Conservatives? And we know that 21 B.C. Conservatives that represent--allegedly--their con-stituents have been under their desks on this thing because they know back home the recent polling says 1 in five people in the last election who voted Conservative are switch-ing their vote on this issue. They know that they’re in trouble. This is going to be a ballot box issue in 2015.”

David BucknaKelowna, B.C.

Dear Sir,An open letter to Stephen Harper and Cabinet:

Thanks for endorsing the decision of the National En-ergy Board (NEB) granting permission to Enbridge for the Northern Gateway (NG) pipeline to proceed, thus squan-dering the opportunity to develop a route for export of Ca-nadian bitumen (Dilbit) in the least risky manner.

You have chosen to risk Canada and the environment. Your ill informed decision ignored the evidence. Your de-cision creates extreme risk because:

NG has chosen the riskiest port (Kitimat) to ship their Dilbit, with tankers exposed to the high risk channels of the Northern BC coast, navigating for 16 hours be-fore reaching the open ocean, compared to Prince Rupert (which would demand only 2 hours) or Port Simpson (half hour to one hour). The Kitimat decision was clearly made to save an extra $2 billion required to extend the pipeline to Prince Rupert or Port Simpson from Terrace. This extra

cost saving comes at a much higher risk of a likely, and much more costly, bitumen spill.

The product Dilbit is not proven to float in salt water and it is likely to sink. This uncertain behaviour is still the subject of investigations by scientists here and in the US. This a case of “out of site and out of mind.”

These uncertainties mean that the consequences of a potential spill cannot be estimated and, therefore, a “world-class” disaster response strategy cannot be put in place.

A tanker spill clean up fund of $1.3 billion is totally inadequate to cleanup a spill of any consequence (5 million litres or more). Compare this fund to the Exxon Valdez spill cleanup costs of $7 billion (and counting) to clean up less than 10 per cent of the product spilled in 1989.

According to NG’s own estimates at least one marine spill of 5 million litres of bitumen, has a nine per cent chance of occurring in the 50 year operating life of the pipeline.

It would take only one spill to produce a catastrophe along the B.C. coastline.

Concerned Professional Engineers’ estimates, which includes the influence of the projected LNG traffic and does not double count the use of tugs, are closer to a 23 per cent chance for the same spill volume and the same operating life of 50 years.

Mr. Harper, these are some of the reasons why we are convinced that the analysis and risk assessment of this project is flawed and that the NEB report you received does not reflect any of these concerns.

Mr. Harper, you have made a totally bad decision for the environment, the resource industry and, most of all, Canada and the First Nations of this country.

We urge you to change your mind. Brian Gunn,

Professional EngineerConcerned Professional Engineers

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Cameron OrrKitimat teachers

sought Kitimat Coun-cil’s support when it came to the ongoing teacher strike.

Dave Durrant and Kristine Lewis spoke for the Kitimat District Teachers’ Association at the June 23 special meeting of council, and overviewed their concerns regarding the strike and lock out to council, asking them to support a motion that would encourage the issue to be resolved quickly.

“I would suggest to you that students are getting the message loud and clear that they are not respected and what we want in this collective agreement, despite anything you

hear in the media...is our constitutional rights to be respected and we want class size and class composition back in our collec-tive agreements,” said Durrant.

Spurred from the presentation by the teachers, Phil Ger-muth moved that the District of Kiti-mat write to the BC Teachers Federation, the Premier and the Minister of Educa-tion, saying that B.C. schools require ad-equate funding, along with suitable class size and composition, with specialist teach-ers. And also that the BCTF and the prov-ince need to work “expediently” to re-solve the issues and

if not then to agree to mediation. Provin-cially the two sides did seek a mediator, Vince

Ready, but Ready said he was too busy to take part in the school me-diation plans.


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PMO responds to DistrictCameron Orr

The District of Kitimat’s letter to the Prime Minister’s Of� ce regarding the results of the community’s Northern Gateway plebiscite reached its destination.

While based on the re-sponse it’s hard to conclude whether or not Stephen Harper himself read the message, his assistant Salphie Stepanian wrote back to the District of Kitimat council.

“Our of� ce has taken note of the results of the non-bind-ing District of Kitimat plebi-scite that you kindly transmit-

ted. Please be assured that the government is committed to en-suring that the development of our natural resources will only proceed if it can be done safely and responsibly,” read the bulk of the letter to council.

Kitimat’s original letter was not itself wordy, aside from the results of the plebiscite where 58.4 per cent of voters said they were against the project versus 41.6 per cent in favour.

“The people of Kitimat have been surveyed and we re-spectfully ask that Cabinet con-sider the results of the plebi-scite when making the decision

about the Northern Gateway project,” the letter, signed by Mayor Joanne Monaghan, con-cludes.

Also copied on the letter from the District was James Moore, the minister responsi-ble for British Columbia.

Moore’s response was even more brief, and made no opin-ion on the plebiscite results.

“As the Minister Responsi-ble for British Columbia, I ap-preciate being informed of the survey’s results. Thank you for writing and please feel free to keep me apprised of any further developments,” he writes.

Maryann Oullet and Luna Zhang remove a nest of baby birds which was stuck in a broken dryer vent. Cameron Orr

Birds pulled from dryer ventCameron Orr

Luna Zhang said her husband could hear chirping from a dryer vent outside their building and discovered a birds nest stuck in-side.

Worried it’d be a dangerous location for the baby birds, and not seeing a mother bird around, they thought of ways to get them out. They ended up calling the Kitimat Community Humane So-ciety for help.

Shelter manager Maryann Oullet made the house call to get

them out.Zhang volunteered her arm

to reach in and pull out the nest which was only barely in reach.

Oullet brought the nest of swallows back to the shelter for eventual transportation to the Prince Rupert Wildlife shelter where they will be cared for and released.

She said the baby birds didn’t appear as active as they should be, leading her to think no mother bird had been around for awhile to care for them.

Teachers get council support

Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Shirley Bond with Kitimat Mayor Joanne Monaghan.

Skills minister visits Kitimat and mayorCameron Orr

Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training Shirley Bond came through Kitimat on June 19, checking out local projects and talking with the District.

She called her visit a chance to reconnect to the local council, and she met the mayor and District staff at the Mr. Mikes restaurant, one of Kitimat’s success stories with its rapid growth in hiring people, according to Bond.

On the big picture of industrial development she said there is challenges in moving the work-force to new projects as they come online.

“One of the things I’ve asked our staff to look at is, we have a workforce here at Rio Tinto that’s used to working here and they’ve worked very hard to retain and to train so we are looking at things like transition, how do you take workers from one project and move them to another one?” she said. “In fact when you look here at the Shell circumstance they’re literally neighbours with one another. We are talking about how we’re going to keep a workforce that’s already engaged working in a region of the province they’re familiar with.”

For smaller-scale businesses, she said the government needs to encourage people to move to the region so there is an adequate service in-dustry workforce.

Monaghan said its bene� cial whenever a gov-ernment minister visits as its that much more ef-fective in sharing the town’s message.

Cameron OrrKitimat Mayor

Joanne Monaghan can put another distinction on her belt with her awarding of the Tête Jaune Award from the TransCanada-Yellow-head Highway Asso-ciation.

Monaghan has been a member of the group since 1986, and served for a time as its president.

There are a few historic moments from her time as an active member of their ex-ecutive, the first to come to mind was the significance of being a woman leader for the group.

“I was the first woman they ever had as president of the Yel-lowhead. It was an old boy’s club, and I’ve told everybody that. I don’t think they even realized that women drove cars,” she said, later emphasizing that was only the case many years ago.

Yet her mark as first woman president isn’t what she feels earned her the award, which was presented by Lynne Christiansen, a Terrace city council-lor, at a recent council meeting.

What really made a difference was get-ting the Yellowhead highway distinguished as a TransCanada highway.

“I said lets get it named a TransCanada highway,” she said, an effort that came with some reluctance from people. “Well we tried and we worked as a team and we got it. And that’s when the Yellowhead became a TransCanada high-way.”

As with every-thing, getting that dis-

tinction for the highway takes some effort. You have to prove it’s a safe and efficient highway and they want to know how often in a year the road gets closed.

“Of course the Yel-lowhead came up way above TransCanada 1,” she said.

She said they would get letters from truckers saying they

prefered the Yellow-head over the main TransCanada 1 high-way.

The benefit of the change, she said, is the highway gets extra

funding and new sig-nage as well.

Monaghan real-izes though that noth-ing happens through just one person and it took effort from more

people than herself to reach her goals.

“Of course some-thing like that you nev-er do by yourself, you have to encourage oth-er people to see the vi-

sion that you have and get them on board, then we all work together as a team, and we did.”

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Continued from page 1Amos said that the ruling

includes sections pertaining to projects which may already have received permits, which he says calls in to question Enbridge Northern Gateway’s recent approval by the federal government.

“The ruling as far as I un-derstand it in that respect calls in to question, or gives the ca-pacity of us or others, to perhaps call on the government to re-think that permit because of the lack of consultation,” he said.

He said the ruling is also a “shot across the bow” for other projects which may not have been consulting First Nations as well as they should, but points out the duty to consult falls on the government primarily, not on businesses.

By press time we were not able to reach any member of the Haisla Nation Council itself.

Skeena MLA Robin Austin meanwhile praised the decision saying it had been a long time coming.

“I think this is a very mo-mentous decision. It’s been 25 years working its way through the courts and of course today’s ruling was unanimous in the Su-preme Court, eight to zero,” he said. “[It’s] upholding a lower court decision from a few years back which essentially states

that aboriginal rights and title is due to a much larger area than simply the reserves they were put on as a result of the Indian Act.”

He continued, “So this has a huge impact on any industrial project because it means the First Nations by and large have to give consent to industrial ac-tivity that happens in their tra-ditional territories, only with an exception the government can overrule that if it’s deemed to be in the public interest.”

He said he believes this sends a strong message to peo-ple wanting to do business in unceded traditional territories.

“In terms of this riding, I think Enbridge will be looking at today’s decision and recal-culating their efforts here be-cause this is now another mas-sive roadblock because you’ve seen so many First Nations right across the pipeline route from Alberta to Kitimat here who are opposed to this project, they’ll now all benefit.” “So Enbridge, if they had their work cut out for them yesterday, boy...they should just pack up and go.”

Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen also chimed in on the decision.

“It’s obviously a huge vic-tory for First Nations rights and title and a deep set back for the Harper government, who was

hoping they could ignore things like the constitution and claims on the land,” he said.

This case began in 1983 when the B.C. government is-sued timber permits for the re-gion and the Xeni Gwet’in, one of six Tsilhqot’in communities, went to court to stop the log-ging.

Haida Nation president Pe-ter Lantin said the Tsilhqot’in case strengthens his island com-munity’s title claim, which is being prepared for court. The Haida claim includes the sur-rounding ocean off B.C.’s North Coast, which Lantin expects to use against plans for oil tank-ers from the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal.

Despite the long-running dispute and the Tsilhqot’in Na-tion’s refusal to take part in treaty talks, the B.C. aboriginal relations ministry signed a three-year “stewardship agreement” with the group June 10. The agreement gives the Tsilhqot’in $670,000 per year to implement a forestry strategy and other re-source development.

B.C. Attorney General Su-zanne Anton said the Tsilhqot’in ruling, like other aboriginal title cases, emphasizes that negoti-ated settlements are preferable to court action to settle claims in the majority of the province that are not covered by treaties.

Gerald Amos, left, with Haisla elders at the old Hospital site, celebrating the Supreme Court ruling.

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More PTI questions answered

Cameron Orr

PTI Group executives were in town

for a second community open house to

talk about their proposed work lodge

just off from Kitimat’s downtown core.

The event provided people the

chance to catch up on the details of their

proposal while also allowing PTI rep-

resentatives to � eld questions from the

public.Earlier questions included inquiries

into the availability of health services

for such a large facility.

Sean Crockett, the company’s vice

president of business development, not-

ed that health services is a government

responsibility, however their facilities do

enable health services, and by that they

mean their facility can be designed to

reduce burdens in the emergency room.

“We can create space for medical

service contractors for physiotherapists,

for doctors, for dentists,” said Crockett.

That said, he also pointed out that

the workers aren’t coming to Kitimat

because of their lodge, but because of

the other, major industrial projects be-

ing proposed.

PTI Group director of business

development Bob Greaves said that

they have been working with North-

ern Health in Kitimat to develop ways

to provide health services on their site,

such as allowing nurses to check blood

pressure and provide diabetes support on

site.The company also answered ques-

tions relating opening their lodge to more

public events. Crockett said it’s not nec-

essarily the business they’re in but “with

the permission of the community,” they

could open up for special events such as

hockey tournaments.

But, “If that’s competing with a local

hotelier’s business, we wouldn’t do that.”

Project legacies are still to be worked

out but he mentioned possible future uses

of their land to be converted to recre-

ational uses such as trails. Their core site

though would likely be sold, as a fully

serviced lot at the time they’re � nished.

But they wouldn’t leave behind an

abandoned property, he said.

PTI Group has purchased one site

and has a purchase offer on another for

land east of the Kitimat General Hospi-

tal, in the Strawberry Meadows area.

They propose to construct a work-

force lodge that could eventually house

up to 2,100 people. They say that the fa-

cility would be a � ve minute walk to the

downtown core, which would provide

retail bene� ts to businesses.

Crockett said in an ideal world

they’d have the � rst few hundred beds

set up by October but because of various

factors such as public consultations and

the ongoing work to prepare site zoning

and work to amend the Of� cial Commu-

nity Plan — which is taking place with

the municipality right now — he expects

an opening around April of next year.

The Smithers Storm midget hockey team attempts a goal against the Kitimat Legion Bombers during the

zone championship � nals on March 7. Smithers would end up taking the game, 4-2.Cameron Orr photo

Oil refinery

money in place

David Black says he’ll build his own pipe-

line to carry crude oil from Alberta if that’s what

it takes to supply a massive re� nery he wants to

build on the Dubose plateau north of Kitimat.

“I have the � nancing. That’s not a problem,”

said Black last week following a presentation to

the B.C. Chamber of Commerce March 6.

Black provided an update on his project � rst

announced last August to build a 550,000 barrel-

a-day re� nery supplying Asian and other custom-

ers with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel among other

products.

The cost is now in the $25 billion range and

Black said he has a general agreement with his

company called Kitimat Clean to line up the mon-

ey through the Swiss-based Oppenheimer Invest-

ment Group although more detailed negotiations

have to take place.

“I hope to sign a � nancing [memorandum of

understanding] within 60 days,” said Black of the

debt-� nancing for the project.But � rst he needs

to demonstrate he has

customers for the re-

� nery’s output and

Black expects to have

a memorandum of un-

derstanding, called an

off-take agreement, in

place within a month.

Black wouldn’t comment on whether those

potential customers include any of the ten com-

panies who have provided Enbridge with the seed

money for its Northern Gateway Pipeline project.

It’s those companies who have interests in the

Alberta oil sands and want to ship the raw product

overseas but who, for now, lack a way of getting

their product to the coast.

But Black did say the generally accepted

business model for re� neries elsewhere is for

their owners to also own the pipelines supplying

the raw product.

“Then you’re dealing with suppliers who are

locked in,” said Black, adding that it’s a more ef-

� cient way to do business.

Black wouldn’t comment directly on whether

he’s considered asking Enbridge to sell its North-

ern Gateway project but he has told Enbridge its

concept of shipping crude to the coast through a

pipeline and then having the unre� ned product

taken overseas won’t be accepted in B.C.

“I’ve thought a lot about that,” said Black. “I

think it would be very, very dif� cult now for En-

bridge to win.”

Enbridge is now in the middle of extensive

public hearings and a � nal decision to accept or

reject the project is expected from the federal gov-

ernment late this year.Continued on page 2

“I think it would

be very, very

diffi cult now

for Enbridge to

win.”


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More PTI questions answered

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PTI Group executives were in town

for a second community open house to

talk about their proposed work lodge

just off from Kitimat’s downtown core.

The event provided people the

chance to catch up on the details of their

proposal while also allowing PTI rep-

resentatives to � eld questions from the

public.Earlier questions included inquiries

into the availability of health services

for such a large facility.

Sean Crockett, the company’s vice

president of business development, not-

ed that health services is a government

responsibility, however their facilities do

enable health services, and by that they

mean their facility can be designed to

reduce burdens in the emergency room.

“We can create space for medical

service contractors for physiotherapists,

for doctors, for dentists,” said Crockett.

That said, he also pointed out that

the workers aren’t coming to Kitimat

because of their lodge, but because of

the other, major industrial projects be-

ing proposed.

PTI Group director of business

development Bob Greaves said that

they have been working with North-

ern Health in Kitimat to develop ways

to provide health services on their site,

such as allowing nurses to check blood

pressure and provide diabetes support on

site.The company also answered ques-

tions relating opening their lodge to more

public events. Crockett said it’s not nec-

essarily the business they’re in but “with

the permission of the community,” they

could open up for special events such as

hockey tournaments.

But, “If that’s competing with a local

hotelier’s business, we wouldn’t do that.”

Project legacies are still to be worked

out but he mentioned possible future uses

of their land to be converted to recre-

ational uses such as trails. Their core site

though would likely be sold, as a fully

serviced lot at the time they’re � nished.

But they wouldn’t leave behind an

abandoned property, he said.

PTI Group has purchased one site

and has a purchase offer on another for

land east of the Kitimat General Hospi-

tal, in the Strawberry Meadows area.

They propose to construct a work-

force lodge that could eventually house

up to 2,100 people. They say that the fa-

cility would be a � ve minute walk to the

downtown core, which would provide

retail bene� ts to businesses.

Crockett said in an ideal world

they’d have the � rst few hundred beds

set up by October but because of various

factors such as public consultations and

the ongoing work to prepare site zoning

and work to amend the Of� cial Commu-

nity Plan — which is taking place with

the municipality right now — he expects

an opening around April of next year.

The Smithers Storm midget hockey team attempts a goal against the Kitimat Legion Bombers during the

zone championship � nals on March 7. Smithers would end up taking the game, 4-2.Cameron Orr photo

Oil refinery

money in place

David Black says he’ll build his own pipe-

line to carry crude oil from Alberta if that’s what

it takes to supply a massive re� nery he wants to

build on the Dubose plateau north of Kitimat.

“I have the � nancing. That’s not a problem,”

said Black last week following a presentation to

the B.C. Chamber of Commerce March 6.

Black provided an update on his project � rst

announced last August to build a 550,000 barrel-

a-day re� nery supplying Asian and other custom-

ers with gasoline, diesel and jet fuel among other

products.

The cost is now in the $25 billion range and

Black said he has a general agreement with his

company called Kitimat Clean to line up the mon-

ey through the Swiss-based Oppenheimer Invest-

ment Group although more detailed negotiations

have to take place.

“I hope to sign a � nancing [memorandum of

understanding] within 60 days,” said Black of the

debt-� nancing for the project.But � rst he needs

to demonstrate he has

customers for the re-

� nery’s output and

Black expects to have

a memorandum of un-

derstanding, called an

off-take agreement, in

place within a month.

Black wouldn’t comment on whether those

potential customers include any of the ten com-

panies who have provided Enbridge with the seed

money for its Northern Gateway Pipeline project.

It’s those companies who have interests in the

Alberta oil sands and want to ship the raw product

overseas but who, for now, lack a way of getting

their product to the coast.

But Black did say the generally accepted

business model for re� neries elsewhere is for

their owners to also own the pipelines supplying

the raw product.

“Then you’re dealing with suppliers who are

locked in,” said Black, adding that it’s a more ef-

� cient way to do business.

Black wouldn’t comment directly on whether

he’s considered asking Enbridge to sell its North-

ern Gateway project but he has told Enbridge its

concept of shipping crude to the coast through a

pipeline and then having the unre� ned product

taken overseas won’t be accepted in B.C.

“I’ve thought a lot about that,” said Black. “I

think it would be very, very dif� cult now for En-

bridge to win.”

Enbridge is now in the middle of extensive

public hearings and a � nal decision to accept or

reject the project is expected from the federal gov-

ernment late this year.Continued on page 2

“I think it would

be very, very

diffi cult now

for Enbridge to

win.”

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The majority of Coast Mountains School District students will not be receiving report cards this year thanks to the the ongoing labour dispute between the province and the teachers’ union.

Superintendent Katherine McIntosh posted a notice to parents on the school district’s web-site last week that said as Kindergarten through Grade 9 report cards have not been deemed an essential service by the Labour Relations Board (LRB), they will not be distributed. Students in grades 10 through 12 will receive report cards as they have been deemed an essential service by the LRB.

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Lordy lordy, look who’s 40.

Why, it’s the Kiti-mat Child Develop-ment Centre.

Since 1974 the CDC has been a cru-cial community ser-vice, starting with just three programs, now expanded to nearly 30.

Attending the 40th anniversary celebra-tion of the CDC is the Centre’s founder. Dr. Kwadwo (Kojo) As-ante. He said he mar-vels at how the centre has grown since its in-ception.

“I’m very grati-fied, I’m impressed by the breadth of servic-es,” he said. “It’s im-pressive, the services provided by the centre now.”

Asante was born in Ghana and came to Canada, and later to Scotland, to study medicine.

He first arrived in Kitimat on Canada Day weekend in 1970.

He came on the encouragement of col-leagues — as well as deciding it was too cold to move to Ques-nel or Williams Lake — and opened a pedi-atrics practice.

“There had never been a pediatrician here,” he said.

After being here awhile he came to real-ize a need for services for youth.

“As a pediatrician I was familiar with the needs of children here, especially young chil-dren with developmen-tal and physical handi-caps,” he said.

“During my early years in Terrace and Kitimat I realized there was no facility for chil-

dren who had cerebral palsy and other prob-lems, to have physio-therapy, speech thera-py and other kinds of treatments.”

He rallied parents, the school board, and the province for sup-port and in 1974 the Kitimat Child Devel-opment program be-gan.

In Kitimat it start-ed in the Service Cen-tre and has moved sev-eral times in its history, to the first floor of the old Kitimat hospital to the Roy Wilcox el-ementary school, to the former school board building it occupies now, sharing a parking lot with Mount Eliza-beth Middle Second-ary.

In Terrace, the Child Development Centre he helped start began in a parent’s basement.

Asante credits the personal involvement of those who work at the CDC for growing it to the organization it is today.

CDC board presi-dent Jo Ann Hilden-brandt has been with the CDC for 22 years now and has seen first hand how the centre has grown over two de-cades.

With 1,000 clients on the books when she started, the centre now has 5,000, and has grown grown from three programs at its beginning to 28 today.

She said her entire involvement with the centre all comes back to the birth of her son 25 years ago.

“Both my interest in becoming a teacher of children with special needs and my involve-ment in the centre, all go back to to the birth of my son,” she said. Her son has special needs and has benefit-ted immensely from the CDC’s services.

“If we didn’t have a child development centre the children in our community would not be the children they are today because they wouldn’t have had ac-

cess to the services that helped them to become who they are,” she said.

She believes if the CDC hadn’t existed in Kitimat her fam-ily would have had to move to where there were services.

“We are so fortu-nate we have the quali-ty and level of staff and committed staff that we have here. That’s what I believe parents appreciate,” she said.

Dr. Kwadwo Asante stands with Child Development Centre Executive Director Margaret Warcup before a 40th anniversary celebration for the CDC.

School district scraps proposed bussing feeAnna Killen

The Coast Mountains School board has decided it’s not worth it to implement a bussing fee for students attending a school out-side of their designated neigh-bourhood school.

That was the decision at the board’s final meeting of the school year June 25, following conflicting recommendations from the two board committees studying an original fee plan.

The plan had been to imple-ment a $20 per student fee, to the maximum of $40 per family, at the beginning of the school year last fall, but after an outcry from parents who charged it was im-plemented without consultation or consideration of the financial strain the fee would place on par-ents, the board decided to delay that implementation until this coming fall while it studied the issue further.

A presentation from French Immersion activists, includ-ing those from Kitimat, at last month’s board meeting said the

move would deter students from entering French Immersion as many students cross boundaries to attend those schools.

That presentation appears to have been the final push in con-vincing the board to ditch the fee.

The business committee and the education committee studied the fee following the French Im-mersion presentation, with the former committee recommend-ing to scrap the fee and the latter recommending to keep it.

At last night’s meeting, in discussing how to proceed, school board chair Art Eras-mus said the amount of money the board would have saved by charging cross-boundary bus-sing fees is “minimal” compared to the total district budget.

“It’s about $25,000 in a $53 million – $57 million dol-lar budget,” Erasmus said. “And the amount of time required to collect it and to deal with the indigent students is pretty massive.”

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DISTRICT OF KITIMAT

Sealed tenders in separate envelopes marked “Tender for Radley Park 2014 Upgrades, Washroom Facilities Contract #339” will be received at the District of Kitimat office located at 270 City Centre, Kitimat, BC V8C 2H7, not later than 2:30 pm local time on July 15, 2014 and will be opened in public at that time.The works to be constructed under this Contract include the following:

station and force main to Connect the new washroom facility to the existing service centre Sanitary lift station

Tender documents may be obtained from the Lapointe Engineering Ltd. office on or after June 30, 2014, upon payment of $50.00 which is not refundable. Cheques should be made payable to Lapointe Engineering Ltd.

Inquiries should be directed to Bruce Howard at Lapointe Engineering Ltd., telephone 250-639-4754, fax 250-639-9255.Tenders must be accompanied by a Certified Cheque or Bid Bond in the amount of 10% of the tendered price as bid security. Contract security shall be provided as specified in the Contract Documents. The District of Kitimat reserves the right to reject all tenders or to award the Contract to other than the lowest tender received if it percieves that to be in its best interests.

Bruce Howard, P. EngLapointe Engineering Ltd.322 Industrial Ave.KITIMAT, BC V8C 2E9

INVITATION TO TENDERRADLEY PARK UPGRADES,

WASHROOM FACILITIES 2014CONTRACT No. 339

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•Produce 10-15 stories per week, plus photos as necessary

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Homes for Rent2 Rental opportunities: 3 bdrm bungalow with carport. 4 bdrm basement suite. Both walking distance to shopping. Available July 1st or earlier. To inquire please call 250-632-1120 or 250-632-6977.

For Rent3 bdrm bungalow in Kitimat. Newly renovated, includes 4 appliances. Available imme-diately. $19000 per/m

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House for Lease or Sale in Cablecar

Executive style, 5,000 sqft, 3 storey, 2x6 construction. Outstanding style house. Contains 5-8 bedrooms, 3-5 full bathrooms. High ceilings, solid oak hardwood fl oors, fi replace, jacuzzi. Heat re-covery system. Partially fur-nished. Double garage and driveway. 1.4 acres private setting with creek running through. Ample parking for RVs, boats, etc. A must see! References required(Kitimat)

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Cars - Domestic

2009 PONTIAC VIBEexcellent condition, 60,000 kms, fully loaded with a set of winter tires. Manual, front wheel drive. $9800Call (250) 251-4500 or

(250) 698-7533

Transportation

Cars - Sports & Imports

CLASSIC/COLLECTOR1971 300SEL 3.5 Mercedes Benz. 75,000km. Very good condition, always garaged, never driven in winter. Well maintained. Maintenance records, service/parts book. Manuals. Some spare parts.

250-632-6755Serious inquiries only Please

Motorcycles

2007 Suzuki Burgman650cc Executive. Cherry Red. Like new condition. Less than 5000km.$5790 obo. Estate Sale.

250-632-4235

Recreational/Sale

‘07 Sundance 30’ 5th Wheel Trailer. Rear kitchen, lots of counter space and cupboards. Sleeps four. Two slide outs, custom trailer cover. New tires. Excellent condition. $22,000; will deliv-er. Phone or email for pho-tos.

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Trucks & Vans

2010 Dodge Ram 4x4 3500Long Box. White, 6.7 Cum-mins Diesel, 6 speed auto-matic. Factory engine brake. Very good condition. $29,500. Phone or email for photos. 604-852-0490

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Estate Sale2011 Silver GMC Sierraextended cab. 4WD, A/C, all automatic, Bluetooth compatible, canopy, 4 winter tires on rims, V/G condition

250-632-4305

Boats

21’ Campion, 15 hp remote control kicker. Lowrance HD-7 sonar/GPS. 2 elec. downriggers, Scotty black box. Galvanized double axle trailer. $15,000.00

250-632-2781

32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT

New 370hp John Deere 8.1L Diesel, 2000hrs on engine. Trolling valve, Bow Thruster,

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Com-Dev Auto Pilot, Spare Prop. 8’ Dinghy.

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subject to prior sales/error/omissions. All sales are fi nal. For more info call 6048086808. Licensed auctioneers.

PUBLIC AUCTIONSaturday, July 12th, at 2pm

OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OFPERSIAN: ORIENTAL CARPETS

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VIEW FROM 1 PM, AUCTION STARTS 2 PM A large wholesaler of fi ne Persian & Oriental carpets is now insolvent.

Their assets are to be sold by auction.

Marlins splash in VictoriaSubmitted

Well over 300 swimmers from B.C. and Yu-kon were in attendance at the AA long course (50 meter pool) Provincial championships in Victoria.

To attend, swimmers needed to reach the AA Provincial time standard in two swim races and have achieved one or less of the higher AAA Pro-vincial time standard.

With this in mind racing at the AA champi-onships is always close and exciting. Five of the seven members of the Kitimat Marlins who had quali� ed for the AA provincial champs were in attendance.

Leah Desousa (11) competing in the girls 11 and under age group took two golds and a bronze medal.

She took the gold in the 100 meter and 200 meter butter� y.

During her gold medal swim in the 100 � y she achieved her second AAA provincial time standard. This quali� es her for the AAA Provin-cial champs in Victoria.

Desousa took the bronze medal in the 400 IM as well as a 5th in the 200 meter backstroke. De-sousa swam 100 per cent personal best times at the competition.

Gabriel Lamarre (12) competing in the boys

12-13 age group achieved 100 per cent personal best times and had his best placings in the 1500 meter freestyle and 200 meter breaststroke. Both events he � nished 11th overall.

Laurence Boucher (13) competing in the 12-13 girls division had her best placing in the 800 meter freestyle 15th overall. Laurence swam � ve out of six personal best times.

Vanessa Lamarre (14) competing in the 14 and over girls division had her best � nish in the 400 IM with a 16th place � nish. Vanessa swam 100 per cent personal best times.

Charlotte Collier (11) competing in the 11 and under girls division swam to 100 per cent per-sonal best times and had her best placing in the 100 freestyle with a 20th place.