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Canada Day back on trackMost usual attractions to return for festivitiesCameron Orr

First there was almost nothing, then the Kins-men promised to follow-through on the parade, and now most of the usual Canada Day festivities should be taking place after a quick turn-around as municipal staff went back to work.

Kitimat Council approved the insurance lia-bilities for the usual events as the Leisure Services department tries to lock down con� rmations, but as it stands food vendors should be out at the Riv-erlodge following the parade that afternoon, and � reworks will be set off.

This comes after the Hill Climb will take place the weekend prior, on June 27.

The only thing missing this year is the stage shows, which just couldn’t be put together in the time that was left before July 1, said Leisure Ser-vices Director Martin Gould.

And by the time of the council meeting on June 15, he wasn’t sure if there were going to be helicopter rides either, but even so Festivals Kiti-mat did put in for an insurance policy to cover helicopters, should they happen.

A � nal schedule of events is anticipated to be released today by Festivals Kitimat.

Local businesses have also reportedly gotten together to hold a “can-struction” exhibit during Canada Day — that is, the companies will provide sculptures made from non-perishable food cans for display, with the food ultimately going to the food bank once the day is done.

Gould said all of the arrangements for Cana-da Day came together very quickly following the resolution of the labour dispute.

Relay for LifeThe 2015 Relay for Life in Kitimat begins with the survivors’ lap at 11 a.m., shown above. This year’s relay theme was Carnival for a Cure, and ultimately organizers handily cleared the $100,000 mark in fundraising for the Canadian Cancer Society. The full amount revealed on page 8.

LNG Canada gets enviro certificateLNG Canada has received an environmental assessment

certi� cate which gives them the environmental OK to build their plant.

This decision doesn’t mean the company will de� nitely move ahead to a construction phase — that would happen only after the company issues a positive Final Investment Decision (FID).

Even so, the awarding of the certi� cate is a major mile-stone for the project.

The certi� cate from BC does come with 24 conditions, including environmental monitoring, developing a greenhouse gas emissions management plan, and mitigating and monitor-ing impacts to marine mammals during construction and ship-ping.

A unique aspect of this particular environmental review is that it’s the � rst to be given a certi� cate under a “substituted environmental assessment” meaning that a single process, lead by British Columbia, provided the review actions on behalf of both the province and the federal government.

The federal government shortly after B.C.’s announcement also formalized their approval of the process, and added 50 conditions as well for LNG Canada to follow.

From here the company will still need federal approvals from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, Transport Can-ada and Environment Canada, and a number of regulatory ap-provals at the provincial level at different stages of the project.

Within the executive director’s list of recommendations in

the Reasons for Ministers’ Decision document, a number of concerns were laid out relating to the project.

In a subject known well to people in Kitimat, the environ-mental assessment of� ce noted concerns regarding cumulative emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO

2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO

2).

The report says that “the assessment predicted that cu-mulative SO

2 ground level concentrations would be above the

Ministry of Environment’s interim Ambient Air Quality Objec-tives,” but added that “the project on its own did not exceed any objectives or guidance, but predicted exceedances were the re-sult of future cumulative emissions, particularly the emissions from the Rio Tinto Alcan facility.”

The EAO report on reasons for decisions notes that they’re aware of government action to study the cumulative impacts to air quality in the Kitimat air shed and efforts to put in place programs to monitor and mitigate those effects.

“We are satis� ed that the EA Certi� cate conditions and other regulatory requirements, particularly under the Envi-ronmental Management Act, will effectively manage air emis-sions,” the report states.

Other considerations will be the need by the company to offset any impacts to � sh habitat, and for the company to deal with the wake from their tankers and take steps to avoid colli-sions with marine mammals.

LNG Canada issued a statement from its CEO Andy Calitz shortly after the announcement.

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Some insight in to cost of Collective AgreementChief Administrative Officer Warren

Waycheshen provided some insight in to how much the new Collective Agreement costs taxpayer.

The Sentinel had inquired as to how the contract would reflect on tax rates, in light of the District’s claim at the begin-ning of the labour dispute that the union’s

original offer would have meant a 12 per cent increase for property taxes.

Waycheshen told the Sentinel that each one per cent raise in wages equates to about half a per cent increase in prop-erty taxes.

The wage increases in the new agree-ment are 2.5 per cent this year, 2.5 next

year and three per cent in 2017. He said this year’s contract costs are

simply absorbed in to the town’s exist-ing overall three per cent property tax increase, and future budgets will handle the contract’s future increases. It was un-clear how much the contract will cost in other non-wage factors.

Cameron OrrPolice say a 27-year-old

Victoria man is dead follow-ing a roll over of the driver's truck on Bish Forest Service Road June 14.

The police received the report at 11:40 p.m. of the incident involving just one vehicle.

The truck was heading southbound and lost control

around the seven kilometre mark. Police say the driver was ejected from his vehicle.

The driver was treated at the scene but was pronounced dead later at Kitimat General Hospital.

RCMP say alcohol, speed, and failing to wear a seatbelt are believed to be contributing factors in the in-cident.

The RCMP and the BC Coroner Service are continu-ing to investigate and at this time a name has not been re-leased.

If anyone has further in-formation on this they are en-couraged to call the RCMP at 250-632-7111.

Bish Forest Service Road was re-opened to the public March 1 following the con-

clusion of most of the early works by Chevron which had been using the road to devel-op their site for the proposed Kitimat LNG project. The road itself is Crown Land, and Chevron has noted ever since its re-opening that the road's use is at the public's own risk, although it has been signifi-cantly upgraded over the past few years.

SubmittedKitimat-raised author

Kayla Czaga has been short-listed for the Canadian Au-thors Emerging Writer Award for For Your Safety Please Hold On.

The winners of each of the Canadian Author four awards categories – Fiction, Canadian History, Poetry, and Emerging Writer – will be announced on June 13. The

Emerging Writer finalist re-ceives $500 and all shortlisted authors receive a complimen-tary one-year membership with Canadian Authors.

For Your Safety Please Hold On, which was also shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (Sen-tinel, April 15, 2015) earlier this year, moves in a thematic focus from family, to girlhood, to adulthood, each perme-

ated by Czaga’s lively voice and quick-witted, playful lan-guage. The poems test the line between honest humour and bitter reality in a sophisticat-ed, incisive manner that tugs at the gut and feels true.

Kayla Czaga grew up in Kitimat and now lives in Vancouver, BC, where she recently earned her MFA in Creative Writing at UBC. Her poetry, non-fiction and fiction

has been published in The Walrus, Best Canadian Poetry 2013, Room Magazine, Event and The Antigonish Review, among others. For Your Safe-ty Please Hold On is her first book.

The other shortlisted au-thors for the Canadian Author Emerging Writer Award were For Today I Am A Boy by Kim Fu and Wallflowers by Eliza Robertson.

Fatal roll-over on Bish road

Kitimat author shortlisted for award

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Studying seismologyCameron Orr

A seismic survey of Kitimat is being undertaken which will explore the ground be-neath us.

Trevor Allen, a seismologist for the Geological Survey of Canada, explained they’re using a truck called a “minivibe” which will push low-level seismic waves into the ground in an effort to map the type of ground the town sits on.

“This is part of a much larger program to better assess the earthquake hazards in the B.C. north coast re-gion,” he said.

Aside from the minivibe, a network of seismometers have been installed around the north coast region to monitor if there is small earthquake activ-ity, which if so could indicate active faults in the region.

In Kitimat such a sensor has been in-stalled at the Hirsch Creek Golf Course.

In a technical sense this new study in

Kitimat will see how fast earthquake waves can travel through the ground.

With very simi-lar valleys in the area, Kitimat is essentially the test subject to get a sense of the wider re-gion around us.

“We now know that sites that are on soil, as opposed to rock sites, do tend to shake more in an earthquake and that is often a func-tion of the shape...of

the basin the sediments are sitting in,” said Allen. Studying Kiti-mat’s ground will map out the type of ground Kitimat sits on more clearly.

“We’re really try-ing to get a sense of what the shape of the bedrock below the Kit-imat Valley is and how that might affect seis-mic waves travelling in to the soft surface sedi-ments,”

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gathered will be shared in reports and at con-ferences but the build-ing code may be an eventual beneficiary of this.

“As part of this work we would like to see some of the results that we see from Kiti-mat then feed in to the national building code as well.”

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Changes will be announced soon for post-secondary edu-cation, based on the recommendations of the Truth and Rec-onciliation Commis-sion of Canada. The B.C. government is providing $4.3 mil-lion to establish an emergency finan-cial assistance for aboriginal students and $12 million for a scholarship pro-gram.

“There have been attempts over the years to include more information around First Nations and our aboriginal history, but this is going quite a bit further and trying to tell a more complete history of us as Ca-nadians, all Canadi-ans,” Rustad said.

Pacific NorthWest LNG announced a posi-tive final investment de-cision for its $11 billion Lelu Island terminal, located in Port Edward near Prince Rupert, subject to two condi-tions.

The conditions for the company are ap-proval of the Project Development Agree-ment by the Legislature and regulatory approval from the Canadian En-vironmental Assess-ment Agency.

“In parallel with work to support the fi-nal investment decision, Pacific NorthWest LNG will continue construc-tive engagement with area First Nations, lo-cal communities, stake-holders and regulators. The integrated proj-ect is poised to create thousands of construc-tion and operational careers in the midst of the current energy sec-tor slowdown,” said Mi-chael Culbert, president of Pacific NorthWest LNG.

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LNG Canada news may mean more people in fallCameron Orr

LNG Canada is hailing the ap-proval of environmental certificates from the province and from Ottawa a big success for their project, and it’s possible that some early works could take place in the fall.

The company said they weren’t ready to confirm if any early works might take place in Kitimat later in the year — that would be contingent on permits and design work being completed — but there’s the poten-tial for extra people around town later.

“If we do decide to do that as early as lets say this fall, you might see some additional folks in town but we haven’t made a decision on that yet,” said LNG Canada’s Susan-nah Pierce.

She adds you wouldn’t see any-where close to the level of manpow-er for such work as you would see for full on construction.

As for the topic of full construc-tion, it still remains to be seen if there will be positive Final Invest-ment Decision and Pierce said that, as always, there’s no date on when that may happen.

“[The environmental certifi-

cate’s] certainly a very positive step in that direction,” she said about FID. “We’re trying to make sure that we put the most compelling and ro-bust case in front of our partners to make a decision in favour of LNG Canada. When we think about the time frame for when we want to see this project happen, we want to do that as soon as we possibly can. But in order to make the robust case we need to make sure we have the in-formation. So the environmental ap-provals...is a significant milestone in putting together that package. I think we’d like to see delivery of that FID package and some decisions as quickly as we can.”

She suggested the FID package could be at least submitted within a year from now.

“We’re trying to make sure that we put the most

compelling and robust case in front of our partners to make a decision in favour

of LNG Canada.”

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I know it is not news to anyone that the cost of food is skyrocketing. Occasionally, I like to look ahead and perhaps plan a special meal for a spe-cial occasion — maybe like a steak barbecue on July 1, weather permit-ting.

I can’t do anything about the weather but I do know I could do some horrible things in planning a BBQ the way food prices are going.

I have been following the mete-oric price rise of two and three-rib prime rib roasts at my local grocery store over the past few year or so. I do like a prime rib.

I wouldn’t be surprised if NASA might be interested in examining what it is that drives the cost of a roast of prime rib into the stratosphere. It has to be something pretty powerful.

The best (highest) cost I’ve seen so far for a single beef roast was $68. That was for almost two kilograms. Four rib roast, good for, say, a family of four on any celebratory occasion. I, of course, did not buy it.

What is behind the explosively-rising costs of beef and food in gen-eral?

Consumers are bleating noisily at

increases at the supermarket, as beef prices hit record highs this summer. According to CanFax, the analytics division of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association, growing demand and a shrinking Canadian herd have pushed prices up by approximately 40 per cent in the last year. That was their report in January, and now it’s June and I can assure you the climb has not slowed down.

Can we do better? Of course.Careful opportunistic shopping is

always a way to cut the cost of quality meat. There’s always a sale as the su-permarkets compete with one another, isn’t there?

How about buying on the Internet? That’s a set-up question of course, because I came across some Internet costs that made me think twice about a nice prime rib from Overwaitea,

whatever the sticker price. I’m only sharing for fun, because

everyone else may already know. Did you?

I was � ddling around on the Cost-co website when a few eye-openers cropped up on the screen.

Example; I can buy 10 Cana-dian Wagyu Kobe classic beef strip-loin steaks on line from Costco for a mere $299. Isn’t that only about $29 a steak?

Keep in mind these are 10 oz. steaks and that “Kobe Classic Beef is world renowned for its buttery � a-vour, velvet texture and succulent juiciness.”

Why stick to beef, I began to wonder, as I explored further and was taken by the prime wild boar sampler. This is so much more affordable for a pensioner, only $109.99 for a French rack, a loin and three tenderloins, with the rack serving eight people, the loin four to � ve people and the tenderloin stretching to three people. Really, that might be a good share idea for July 1 for a group BBQ.

Really no point in going over-board until the 150th anniversary of Canada Day, two years from now.

Start saving for your 2017 BBQ

Air qualityFinal hearings in to the appeal of RTA’s emis-

sions permit take place June 29 and 30, after which the Environmental Appeal Board will deliberate on whether or not the company needs a new one.

The ultimate goal for the appellants is for the company to drop the air emissions portion of sulphur dioxide and instead use scrubbers, which do have a space in the smelter if it comes to that.

In another corner of the industrial landscape, LNG Canada has been given their conditional envi-ronmental assessment certi� cate. The province has given 24 conditions and the federal government 50 from the review process which was done via B.C. itself, the � rst project to get such a uni� ed review, or as the government says, “substituted.”

How does LNG Canada connect with Rio Tinto Alcan? Well Kitimat’s a small town, and in some ways the airshed even smaller.

Within the document outlining the reasons for the government’s decision they talk air quality, and note that with the LNG Canada project, Kitimat’s predicted, cumulative SO

2 ground level concentra-

tions will be above the objectives set by the govern-ment and even the World Health Organization.

So, LNG Canada is bad?Well, it’s not really LNG Canada’s fault, accord-

ing to the document.“The project on its own did not exceed any ob-

jectives or guidance,” the report states, “but predict-ed exceedances were the result of future cumulative emissions, particularly the emissions from the Rio Tinto Alcan facility.”

All of this poses interesting questions, such as will this impede any future developments for Kiti-mat?

Chevron’s Kitimat LNG project already has their certi� cate in hand, RTA theirs (pending appeal, of course) and now LNG Canada.

Still to come is AltaGas’ Douglas Channel Ener-gy project, which will admittedly be, in comparison to the others, a very small LNG project for Kitimat.

But then David Black is still out there promot-ing an oil re� nery for the area. It’s admittedly been quiet on that front lately but on paper the re� nery does have a bit of support. Would a large job creator have trouble if the airshed was already full up?

I doubt the government would let that happen. Within the documents for LNG Canada’s approval, it’s noted the government has been “taking action” to study potential cumulative impacts to air quality in the Kitimat airshed, and to put in place programs to monitor and mitigate these cumulative impacts.

The monitoring part I think has been fairly suc-cessful. Mitigation, I’m not so sure. There are studies on Kitimat’s airshed out there, but government stud-ies and real mitigation are different things.

Well, maybe we just need a few more studies.Cameron Orr

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Jeff NagelThe province will require in-

dustry to pay for a new organiza-tion to quickly deploy trained and equipped responders to deal with a spill of oil or any other hazardous substance on land.

New legislation will come next spring and the new Preparedness and Response Organization (PRO) is to be in place by 2017 to counter a variety of land-based spills, includ-ing train derailments, tanker truck crashes and pipeline failures that re-lease petroleum or other chemicals.

Environment Minister Mary Polak predicted it will significantly improve B.C.’s readiness to coor-dinate and, if necessary, lead the response to a spill on land without delays to determine who is respon-sible.

Companies will have to join the new response organization if the risk they pose – based on the vol-ume and toxicity of the cargo they ship – exceeds a certain risk thresh-old that is yet to be determined.

The spiller will remain re-sponsible for response and cleanup costs, but if its efforts are failing the province would be able to call the PRO in to take over.

Polak likened the new agency’s role to that of the Western Canada Marine Response Corp., the non-profit industry-funded group that responds to marine spills.

“That’s the kind of idea that we are looking at so you have one body that can be contacted, can be imme-diately put into place, taking action even before we’ve identified who’s responsible for a spill,” she said.

Polak said the aim is to fill gaps in readiness, not to duplicate exist-

ing industry efforts.While the federal government

has jurisdiction over problems along a pipeline right-of-way, Po-lak said a spill could cause environ-mental damage over a wider area.

“If one imagines the damage that a pipeline spill could potential-ly do, much of that would then be potentially our responsibility out-side of that pipeline right of way.”

First Nations and other local communities are expected to play significant roles in the new system.

The B.C. SPCA is also involved in the planning work to ensure in-ternational best practices in caring for oiled animals, said chief scien-tific officer Dr. Sara Dubois.

The federal government has ju-risdiction over spills at sea.

But the province says the new land-based spill response system will also be ready to pitch in on a marine spill by helping coordinate the response and quickly minimiz-ing shoreline impacts, if necessary.

Polak said a lack of good co-ordination between agencies was one of the problems that arose in the Marathassa fuel oil spill in Eng-lish Bay in April, and reiterated the need for Ottawa to bolster marine response preparedness.

“What we have now is outdat-ed,” she said. “The province is not prepared for a major spill.”

Premier Christy Clark had pre-viously said if Ottawa can’t do bet-ter on marine response it should re-linquish authority to B.C.

World-leading spill response capabilities on land and at sea are among the province’s preconditions for agreeing to new heavy oil pipe-lines.

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Con’t from page 1“We have made

significant progress to advance our project over the past year,” said Calitz. “Receiv-ing both provincial and federal approval of our Environmental Assessment is a criti-cal milestone on our

path to making a final investment decision. We could not have achieved this without input from the local community of Kitimat and First Nations, and we appreciate the local knowledge they shared with us.”

He added in the

statement, “LNG Can-ada proposes to have one of the lowest lev-els of CO

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Not exclusive but rather inclusiveActs 4: 12, “For there is salvation in

no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we might be saved…this is our text.”

This current postmodern age we live in really is something isn’t it?

It is an age where there are suppos-edly no absolutes, everything is relative; if it works for you great, if something different works for me, then that is great for me.

It all sounds nice but the fact re-mains that there are absolutes: death and taxes are absolute; the laws of nature are absolute. In fact there are plenty of abso-lutes. It’s not all relative.

But in a world that holds relativism dear, statements like “There is salvation in no one else (but Christ), for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we might be saved,” are met with outright hostility.

The open-minded crowd is fine with Jesus “the teacher of good morals” (all that turn the other cheek, walk a mile in my shoes stuff is nice), but Jesus the

Saviour? Jesus who said, “ I am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the Father except through Me”?

Ah, well, “No One,” they say, “can claim to have exclusive possession of the truth.”

But you see, there’s the rub. That statement in itself is an absolute, and so we can’t have it both ways.

The problem seems to stem mostly with Christ and His claim to be our Sav-iour, because if He is indeed the Saviour, then that means we have something to be saved “from.”

It means that we have sin that needs to be forgiven, and in our pride we don’t want to admit that.

Two thousand years ago the reli-gious leaders desired to push the living Lord back into the empty tomb.

That was the beginning of a 2000 year struggle between our pride and our Gracious God who sent His Son to die a horrible death on the cross so that we might be forgiven through simple re-pentance of our sin and receive eternal life through faith in Jesus Christ as our Savior.

Friends, this gracious gift of God is not exclusive rather it is inclusive of all who would turn to the Lord in faith: “For God so loved the world that he gave His only son that whoever believes in Him will not perish but receive eternal life.”

Only Jesus lived a perfect life and so only the Sinless Son of God is qualified to be our Saviour, therefore, “there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we might be saved.”

That is God’s absolute plan of Salva-tion in His Son Jesus Christ; it is for you, it is for me and it is for all who would receive it in faith.

Amen.

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The fire danger rating in the Skeena Fire Zone currently ranges from “moder-ate” to “extreme”. A fire danger rating of “high” or “extreme” indicates that forest fuels are very dry and the fire risk is serious.

New wildfires will start easily, spread rapidly and challenge suppression efforts.

Last week a 1.5 hectare wildfire on the south part of Lakelse Lake was reported but it has since been brought under control.

Since the begin-ning of May, all wild-fires in the Skeena Fire Zone (encompassing Terrace, Kitimat, the Nass Valley and sur-rounding areas) have been human-caused.

These prevent-able wildfires serve as reminders that camp-fires, open fires, recre-ational activities and equipment use can easily spark a wildfire.

Although the weather forecast for the Skeena Fire Zone indicates scattered showers and cooler temperatures, these conditions may not be sufficient to signifi-cantly lower the fire danger rating.

Forest fuels re-quire sustained pre-cipitation to regain moisture, and a return to warm and dry con-ditions could rapidly increase the wildfire risk.

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There are plans to install an ocean observatory in the same lot as Kitamaat Village’s waste water treatment plant which will provide publicly available information about the goings on in the Douglas Chan-nel.

Ocean Networks Canada, with the University of Victoria, will in-stall the ocean monitoring equip-ment, which will collect data via underwater cables connected to the land-based observatory.

According to Ocean Network Canada’s Business Analyst Teron Moore, the project builds on previ-ous cabled observatories on Vancou-ver Island, named Venus and Nep-tune.

“We’ve taken that expertise in the science and engineering and tried to look for ways to apply that…to more science-based applications that would enhance communities and coastal priorities,” said Moore.

Moore said the Douglas Chan-nel and Kitimat is an ideal choice for the program given that it’s an area of “huge provincial and nation-al change.” Essentially, this area is where scientific monitoring will be a priority.

“It made perfect sense for the university to expand our ability to monitor ocean and environmen-tal aspects in that area, essentially trying to get in before a lot of that

change occurs and try to work with the community to identify what their main priorities are,” he said, adding working with the Haisla provided an obvious benefit to understand com-munity priorities.

The data being collected ranges from sub-sea noise to acidity and temperature.

Ocean Networks points to a number of benefits to the program, from marine safety — monitoring incidents and ship tracking, among their abilities — to public safety through monitoring ground shaking.

On the environmental side it will be able to track any changes to ocean conditions.

The information collected will be public, and not just for whoever wants to pay.

“[It’s for] anybody who’s inter-ested in unbiased data that we’d be collecting,” he said, adding it will be posted to the Internet as well.

He said they’ll have a com-ponent of their overall program to make the information accessible in the sense that raw data might not mean much to the casual person.

The information will essentially be collected in real-time, continu-ously through the cables.

Moore said it’s not yet known how far out the sensor cables will go, but it will be a fine line not to go too far south, or too close to the river.

Ocean monitoring program in the works

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“There’s some areas that would be more interesting than others,” he said.

He did note they won’t be as long as the Neptune and Ve-nus cables which, for the whole loop, reach up to 800 km.

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for similar programs include Prince Rupert, Hartley Bay, Campbell River and Port Al-berni.

Ocean Networks Canada do still have to secure their permits before installing their observatory. An application for

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As attendees learned at an Elder Abuse Awareness event in Kitamaat Village, elder abuse comes in many forms, from physical to financial to emotional, and everything in be-tween.

It’s a topic that has its share of taboo, but the Haisla Health Centre in hosting the event are looking at bringing the issues to light.

Cassandra Mitchell, one of a team of professionals at the Haisla Health Centre, said this is the first time Elder Abuse has been formally tackled in Kitamaat Village, and the underlying purpose was to find ways to honour and respect elders.

Services to support people want-ing to discuss elder abuse includes counselling and a wealth of informa-tion resources.

The health manager Eric Bottah said some of the challenges of deal-

ing with these sorts of is-sues is that usual rights, individuality and priva-cy, can sometimes work against people looking to help, in the sense that bringing these issues up, for some people, would be violating those rights.

People, he said, might not want to come across as nosy, basical-ly, he said.

Yet Bottah counters with “when you see something, say something.”

An open event such as the one hosted in the Haisla Rec Centre is one step towards reducing the stigma of bringing up issues of elder abuse.

He said there are no available statistics to show exactly how wide-spread elder abuse may be in the community — a result of that stigma, no doubt — but he encourages peo-ple to speak out whenever they can.

The event included talks from Mike Christensen with Northwest Counselling who spoke about his own family’s experience on this topic, and from the Kitimat RCMP represented by Cst. Brad Walsh who explained the RCMP’s role in elder abuse, noting reporting abuse doesn’t automatically lead to arrests and charges, which for many can be a reason not to report the crimes.


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Kitimat mayor joins others in oil sands tour

Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth says he sees the oil sands operations in Alberta in a new light, not ignor-ing there are ugly sides to the indus-try but can see the positive sides of it too.

Germuth, along with other Northwest mayors, flew over the oil sands on a tour sponsored by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.

The tour was organized in con-junction with the Federation of Ca-nadian Municipalities (FCM) con-ference in Edmonton from June 4 to 8. Germuth wasn’t formally part of that conference — tied up elsewhere in the Lower Mainland at another event — but councillor Mario Feldhoff represented Kitimat for the FCM. Germuth said the trip began with an aerial tour.

“Basically they flew us over all the different [open pit] oil sands sites, and we visited the actual drilling sites,” he said.

From there they visited Syncrude and Suncor sites, and had a sit down with the Fort McMur-ray mayor, whom Germuth said was immensely knowledgeable about all the issues that came from industrial development, which Kitimat ex-perienced through the Rio Tinto Alcan modern-ization.

Germuth said the trip turned out a lot more educational than he was expecting from a tour hosted by the group representing the oil produc-ers themselves.

“Going up I can admit I was a bit skeptical, thinking we were only go-ing to see one side of it, only the re-ally nice stuff,” said Germuth. “But I was very impressed with how honest they were on the whole tour.”

In some cases he says the oil sands are very much like the photos you occasionally see circulating on the Internet.

“The pictures you see on the In-ternet of this big, open, black pit and yeah, that’s what it looks like. No doubt about it,” he said.” And they admit that they do remediate...but that’s one area where they’re work-ing very hard.”

He said all the companies in that area are fo-cusing on improving remediation efforts.

Germuth said the tour also took them to reme-diated sites themselves.

“It was good to actually see it yourself. There is some ugly stuff...but there is also a lot of reme-diation.”

Overall the tour did raise his impression on oil sands.

“Definitely better than what I thought of be-fore,” he says on his opinion on oil sands. “You had a really good perspective of what it’s really like over the whole, very large area. Yes, there is the open pits...but for miles and miles around you can see untouched land too.”

Germuth was not the only mayor from the area on the trip. Terrace Mayor Carol Leclerc and Prince Rupert Mayor Lee Brain also took part.

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Kitimat’s sweeping ‘wheat fields’ will soon be no more with public works back in action. However for some in town they’ll miss the view and would be happy to see it remain.

Louisa Genzale

Town resumes operationsBy now many community facilities and services are back in action al-

though there is still a wait for some key places.By June 12 the District of Kitimat office in the mall was back in full

service, but public works was phasing workers back in while the department reviewed and prioritized work for the community.

Building inspectors, who were notably missed during the strike, began their effort of getting in touch with all people who contacted the department during the labour dispute. The town said it could take a couple of weeks to connect with everyone who needs a building inspection.

On June 15, council floated the idea, but didn’t vote on any motion, to potentially give extra resources to hire temporary building inspection staff to deal with the backlog.

Meanwhile Leisure Services presented their anticipated schedule of openings.

Already the Tamitik Arena has re-opened for walkers, and Hirsch Creek Park re-opened June 17. Over the weekend Riverlodge re-opened and the attached youth centre and senior centre opened as well.

Radley Park’s reopening has been pushed back to the week of July 10.It is still not known when the swimming pool will reopen. Leisure Ser-

vices Director Martin Gould said there’s a number of steps to opening that facility, from mechanical inspection to sending water samples to Northern Health to training employees.

He said they’re hoping to incorporate work that is normally done at the end of summer each year — which results in a short-term pool closure — in to this review. Getting an all clear from Northern Health on the water samples itself could take a full week as well.

In all he said it’s possible to take about four weeks to get the facility back in service.

He told councillors that he’d rather estimate the four weeks rather than try to promise two or three weeks and end up disappointing people.


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Kristi Genzale, Kitimat, performing a dead lift, was among the top lifters for the weightlifting competition held in Terrace. Submited by Adam Yawrenko

BENCH PRESS :Teen Woman - Steph ForrestTeen Men - Colton Carrita 20 - 30 Women - Linda Nguyen20 - 30 Men - Adeola Adetunji31 - 40 Womens - Dawn Mackay (Also overall best lifter)31 - 40 Men Jordan Linteris (Also overall best lifter)50 - 60 Women - Leigh Kasum40 - 50 Men - Art Lucier 50 - 60 Men - Clayton Kurisu

DEAD LIFT:Teen Womens - Steph ForrestTeen Mens - Simon Baldo20 - 30 Womens - Kristi Genzale (Also overall best lifter)20 - 30 Mens - Adeola Adetunji30 - 40 Womens - Lueez Shears 30 to 40 Mens - Jordan Linteris (also best lifter)ROLLING THUNDER GRIP STRENGTH :Womens - Talisa Bachek Mens - Brandon “LURCH” Kingcott

Anna KillenThe second annual Northwest Weightlifting Competition

in Terrace on June 7 brought out some Kitimat-based athletes too.

The packed house saw 38 competitors pull for their best – that includes 13 women in bench press and four women who pulled more than 300 lbs from the floor.

Organizer Adam Yawrenko said “all in all it was a step

above last year” and noted that once again, a significant amount of personal records were achieved.

He said he’s already planning next year’s event and is sure that, just like last year, many of the ath-letes from this competition will go onto the next level this fall.

The full results are below:

NW weightlifters prove their strength at competition

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Happy 50thAnniversary

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