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King Crows and the Ladies from Hell perform at the Riverlodge � elds for attendees to Rio Tinto Alcan’s 60th anniversary celebrations. The event was capped off with an impressive � reworks display.

Teachers back in classroomsCameron Orr and Tom Fletcher

With a � rm “yes” vote, B.C. teachers have set this week to return to classes.

In fact teachers returned to their classrooms this past Monday.

“We announced on September 17 how pleased we were that a tentative deal was reached between the government and the BC Teachers’ Federation (BCTF),” read a letter on the school district’s website Fri-day, signed by Superintendent Katherine McIntosh. “We waited to learn the � nal details of the agreement reached and the rati� cation results to announce the open-ing of our schools. Those details are now in hand.”

The rati� cation put schools back in to service September 22.

“We have well established routines and we will follow our normal opening day routines with a shortened � rst day,” she wrote. “As you will know, these � rst days allow us to greet students, set pre-

liminary enrollment and then prepare in earnest for the coming school days.

“I wish to congratulate both bargain-ing teams. We recognize that both teams put in huge hours and an enormous effort to reach a deal. We should also acknowl-edge that our teachers and their support staff colleagues have been walking a pick-et line since last spring.”

B.C. Teachers’ Federation members voted 86 per cent in favour of a six-year agreement negotiated with the help of me-diator Vince Ready last week. About three out of four of the province’s 40,000 teach-ers voted.

“I’m happy with this deal,” said BCTF president Jim Iker. It gives the province’s

teachers raises totalling 7.25 per cent over six years, improvements to bene� ts and a fund to hire hundreds of new teachers each year.

Iker said the turnout for the vote was higher than the union’s last two rati� ca-tion votes.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender congratulated teachers on the settlement, which ends a bitter strike that shut schools for two weeks in June and another three weeks this fall.

“We can now focus on the path for-ward,” Fassbender said. “This long-term agreement is a historic opportunity to work together for students – to enhance their education experience and to support their achievements.”

Premier Christy Clark added her thanks on Twitter.

“This is a fair, affordable deal that will let us focus on putting students � rst,” Clark said.

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Running MK as a businessCameron Orr

While not speaking to any speci� cs of ex-isting offers of sale for MK Bay Marina, Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross said a Haisla-owned MK Bay Marina wouldn’t get shut down to the public.

“We’re going to keep it public, that’s for sure,” he said on the idea of the Haisla owning the facility. “We want to run it like a business so we can actually attract investments so we can upgrade it.”

We sought Ross’ comments following the online posting of documents on the Regional District of Kitimat Stikine’s website showing a draft terms of sale and purchase of the marina to the Haisla.

“We’ve been talking about it for years in one form or another,” said Ross. “There’s been a number of offers over the years.”

Those past offers � zzled out for various rea-sons but he said current negotiations are more transparent and sincere, with credit to the current board.

“I think it’s got more to do with the board’s willingness to talk about this seriously.”

Ross said the Haisla relationship to MK Bay Marina goes back to the 80s when Kitamaat Vil-lage offered free water service and use of their land for parking as a show of good faith during tricky land transactions happening at the time.

He said that any potential changes to the rates at the marina would make it comparable to the province, speaking to how business-like it’d be run.

“I’ve seen the rhetoric out there about how we’re going to kick everybody out, and rates are going to go up...I heard all that, and that couldn’t be further from the truth,” he said.

While he notes rates on Vancouver Island for instance might be lower than what rates could be up here, that’s a factor of demand, where Van-couver Island could have 10 other marinas in close proximity.

“Therefore the demand is actually lower than compared to us,” he said.

He said keeping rates low would be arti� -cially keeping the marina cheaper.

“I think everybody wants to keep the arti� -cial lower rates in place, so as soon as you start to see this threat of rates being comparable to the rest of B.C., people start parking their boats on the side of the road.”

Results from a recent RDKS meeting regard-ing the marina are mostly held in-camera, but a motion was passed, from Kitimat representative Phil Germuth, that prior to any sale of the marina a press release must be issued explaining the of-fer to the public.

“We have well established routines and we will follow our normal opening day routines.”

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Residents resistant to densificationA community fu-

ture which includes high density town-house developments is no future for some Kitimat residents who are speaking about against what they per-ceive is a troubling rise in townhouse construc-tion plans.

A pair of public hearings on Septem-ber 15 on Kingfisher townhouse plans near the golf course and on Riverbrook Estates at Liard and Konigus streets turned into a long discussion by residents and council-lors on their visions for Kitimat.

Among the most thorough of those pre-sentations from Mar-getts resident Spence Edwards, who ques-tioned to what qual-ity the townhouses on Kingfisher would be built and implored council to come up with a plan for Kiti-mat’s future develop-

ment, saying failing to plan is planning to fail.

“I’m not a qualified planner...but without a strategic plan in place, something that guides the town of Kitimat, we’re setting ourselves up for failure,” he said to councillors.

Not all comments were against the de-velopments however. Share a message on behalf of the Kitimat Development Corpo-ration, Bruce Howard said they’ve received dozens of inquiries for the developments pro-posed from local resi-dents wanting to buy.

Skeena Street resident Luke Tunney spoke on both River-brook and Kingfisher developments, saying that he’s aware they will be built to high standards and wants to see more develop-ments to re-grow the community.

“We would like to see this commu-

nity grow as a family again,” he said.

On the Riverbrook proposal specifically, another resident, Shaun Graham, was con-cerned on a number of fronts, including traffic concerns and sewer ca-pacity.

“There are only two streets that are

going to access 214 units,” he said.

He said that if each home unit on the River-brook proposal had two cars, that would mean 400 cars.

“That, I find, is unacceptable for that small area,” he said.

District Director of Engineering Tim

Gleig responded to the concern about sewer, saying that while the additional units will add to the sewer line on Nadina Street, previ-ous studies conducted show that existing sew-er capacity is adequate for the development.

Phil Germuth also responded on traf-

fic saying the town’s traffic committee has looked at the matter and did find some con-cerns but did not firmly oppose the develop-ment in terms of traffic issues.

Graham’s concerns also dealt with the un-certainty of what the density of development

would mean for home values many years down the line.

Kitimat realtor Il-lona Kenny spoke on the development, say-ing some buyers do look for new housing in Kitimat because of the home warranties that come with that.

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As I write, Thursday, Sept. 18 marks the 34th anniversary of my ar-rival to work in public relations for Al-can’s Kitimat Works.

Kitimat, for most of us who were here at that time, was a different type of community in 1980 than it is today.

For me, as a journalist, an editor and an established public relations pro-fessional, with a 24 year work record behind me in three countries, the last 15 in Toronto and Brampton, Ont., the contrast between Kitimat and where I had been working could hardly have been wider.

Surprise number one, as it was on my “look-over” visit earlier, was that 55 km bus ride from the airport to town -- with, essentially, nothing but forest to be seen in between. No other com-munities in 55 clicks, unheard of in (Southern) Ontario, New Brunswick or Britain.

As people who live here, we see why this is so and the current “boom” in home building demonstrates there’s still plenty of growth opportunity within city limits. Other than a size difference there’s little else to separate Cable Car from Strawberry Meadows or the Wakita Avenue developments -- other than the 20-plus years that

divided them.The town I came to call home was

very different for me -- and I had to make many contacts quickly and lis-ten to much opinion so that I could do my job which was to help advise Al-can management where it � tted in to a community where its employees were a signi� cant part of the population.

In my time, I believed Alcan played its part quite well in the devel-opment of the community it founded, without being heavy-handed or patron-izing. Others of course will disagree.

Alcan was a well established oper-ation, as was Eurocan, when Methanex came on the scene. Now the other two are gone, and at this time Kitimat is again essentially a one-industry town, as it was when it started. A new smelter offers a new lease on life - and there are signs that this will change.

Northwestern B.C. is still cau-tiously creeping forward into the ener-

gy business, whether it is LNG or other pipelined energy products. I think it’ll happen for Kitimat, but I’m not sure I’ll be around to see it. However, the drive and bustle of the last eight or nine years of controversy and proposed de-velopments has hastened many of the changes that were already evident in Kitimat through the 1990’s and into the new century.

Not all of them for the best, from my point of view. I have seen some major losses in the sociability of the community and some divergence in the charitable support element in the community.

Some things do come and go in a community - the service clubs that were so prominent in my � rst 15-20 years here have withered somewhat. Not gone, but their attraction for young people seems negligible.

Annual community dances used to be popular; the Hospital Ball, the RCMP Ball, Octoberfest. If you didn’t reserve for next year, that night, you might not get a ticket. No longer the same I think can be said for some of our multi-cultural events as Kitimat’s younger people become Kitimatians rather than transplanted newcomers.

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A look back at a Kitimat career

Lets plan to planI’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the town

is quite due for an updated Of� cial Community Plan.

At no time in recent memory has that been more apparent than during a pair of public hearings at the council meeting on September 15.

The hearings were meant for the King� sher townhouse proposal and for the Riverbrook Es-tates plan, each which would densify portions of the community, and has many residents split on whether we need newer, higher density housing or if we should focus on the stock we have.

The lack of vision is apparent for our town. The public hearings are meant for people to comment on speci� c proposals. Does the King� sher plan ad-equately address traf� c on that street? Does Riv-erbrook Estates’ plan address townhouse heights in relation to neighbours? You know, that sort of thing.

After a pair of public hearings which bordered on two hours we (as a community) heard less from residents on speci� c issues with the proposals, but we heard lots and lots about the overall community need for densi� cation, or the need for new build-ings.

More than anything I think the town wants a vision. The OCP is from 2008, created before any of the current activity was anticipated.

I can’t fault any residents for using the public hearings as a platform to talk about town planning because honestly what other opportunity like this do they get?

In the perfect world, presuming the town doesn’t go full on with a consultant to make a whole new plan, it might be a good idea to just book a night at Mount Elizabeth Theatre, get a big whiteboard on the stage, and have residents hurl ideas to the poor person at the front and get a sense of what anybody wants.

At any rate we really need to � gure out the de-mands of housing (a plan, somewhere out there, does exist about this, for whenever the government gets around to releasing it), and � gure out how to meet those demands while matching the commu-nity vision.

I suspect Kitimat will not escape this “boom” without seeing one or two high density develop-ments, but if our council has no mandate from the community about long-term livability, there’s no real effective way to curb potential over develop-ment.

If we don’t � nd a plan to suit the town, we’re only going to see more public hearings like the ones we saw last Monday.

Cameron Orr

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The Kitimat-Stikine regional district has put off the start date for pickup of garbage and recyclable material in the rural areas surround-ing Terrace and Lakelse after dis-covering the environment ministry hadn’t signed off on the planned program.

But news of the delay in start-ing the controversial program only came after residents opposed to it appeared at the Sept. 12 regional district’s board meeting and voiced their misgivings.

The regional district has already been telling residents the service will start as of Oct. 6 and that resi-dents will be charged $200 a year.

Directors had given three read-ings to a bylaw authorizing the program at earlier meetings but, regional district works and services manager Roger Tooms told them at the Sept. 12 meeting, the environ-ment ministry had yet to give its ap-proval in order for the bylaw to be officially adopted.

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Tooms, residents told regional dis-trict directors there had been no adequate discussion of the planned program.

One speaker, Les Pawluk, told directors he had a petition of nearly 700 signatures from residents who believe they don’t need and don’t want the proposed curbside garbage and recycling pickup, particularly because of the $200 a year cost per person. It’s to apply whether people are living at the residence year-round or not.

The planned program is to blend in with a larger regional plan to close the City of Terrace’s dump altogether while converting the re-gional district’s Thornhill dump into a transfer station where material will be sorted for recycling, leav-ing the waste that’s left to be hauled to a new super landfill at Forceman Ridge off of Hwy 37 South.

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Council denies KingfisherCameron Orr

After lengthy discussion, councillors were faced with the choice of what to do with the pro-posed zoning applications for Riverbrook Estates and Kingfisher Townhouses.

On the issue of Kingfisher council opted to adjourn the public hearing, which basically con-cludes the public comment portion of a zoning application.

That led to their debate further in the Sep-tember 15 meeting where they decided whether to accept a third reading of the bylaw or to deny it.

Ultimately there was not enough council support to proceed with the Kingfisher proposal and the vote was negatived, with a 50/50 split of councillors, with councillors Mario Feldhoff and Mary Murphy along with Mayor Joanne Monaghan in favour, and Phil Germuth, Edwin Empinado and Rob Goffinet opposed.

Germuth argued his case saying that the ma-jority of the people showed they were opposed to the development.

“How do we morally justify adopting this by-law?” he asked. “To adopt this bylaw now makes us no better than any other level of government or any corporation out there that says ‘we want to consult because we care about what the public thinks,’ and then to completely ignore them.”

Goffinet meanwhile had said during the pub-lic hearings that he didn’t want to even conclude

those until after a full discussion regarding the yet-publicly released Housing Action Plan from the province.

On the Riverbrook Estates proposal, council have adjourned the public hearing to October 6, giving the community more time to speak on the proposal. Council essentially felt the applica-tion should have more time in the public hearing phase to allow more public comments.

Germuth also said there is still potential to further negotiate the application with the propo-nent.


Dear Sir,Over the past few weeks, I’ve writ-

ten about what electors should look for in a candidate for municipal office and what candidates can expect. Currently, I don’t know for sure which of the current mem-bers of Council are preparing to run for office again. This is my report card from an ‘inside perspective’ of their past per-formance. Everyone will have their own opinion, and it’s important for electors to express their opinion at the polls on elec-tion day.

Councillors (alphabetically):Edwin Empinado - Greatest public relations asset of Coun-cil. - Outgoing personality when meeting Pro-vincial Minister’s and other dignitaries. - Put Kitimat on the map for being a friendly community. - Always acts with integrity and care of his fellow man.- Is a great listener. - Needs to practice making presentations.- My wish for Edwin is that he continues to prepare speaking notes, so he doesn’t get flustered.Mario Feldhoff - Greatest asset to Council during budget preparation.- Critical thinker.- Organized, always prepared for meetings- Understands the issues.- Acts with integrity and honesty.- Remarkable memory for details.- My wish for Mario is that he was old enough to retire and run for Mayor. Phil Germuth - Most improved of the ‘newer’ members

of Council. - Has worked hard to be informed of the issues.- Completes research, and preparesspeaking notes. - Organized, always prepared for meetings.- Not afraid to tackle issues in a forthright manner.- Has worked diligently at de-veloping his diplomatic skills.- Looks professional.- Acts with integrity and honesty.- My wish for Phil is that he considers running for Mayor.Rob Goffinet - Critical thinker from a com-pletely different perspective than mine.- Has the ability to see issues from various perspectives.- Is well spoken. It behooves people to listen carefully and follow his thought process, as it’s always valuable.- Not always concise while making presentations.- Acts with integrity and honesty.- Always diplomatic.- Organized, always prepared for meetings.- First to volunteer his time for worthy causes.- My wish for Rob is that he becomes more concise in

making his presentations.Mary Murphy - Is willing to tackle any issues.- Cares about Kitimat.- Kind hearted - a people person.- Sometimes has too much on her plate to do justice to her responsibilities.- Not always prepared in advance of meet-ings.

- Outspoken personality and not afraid to ruffle feathers.- At times misinterprets what others try to say so misunderstands the issue and/or concern.- My wish for Mary is for her to have more time to focus on one or two critical issues and do them justice.

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Cameron OrrAt their September 15 meeting Kitimat Council formally adopted the

bylaw which establishes an affordable hosing fund.The bylaw means any money put in to that fund will go towards afford-

able housing initiatives in the community.The precise mechanics of how the fund will be fed and withdrawn from

has not been set.One way the fund is likely to be supported is through density bonus-

ing. Some high density developments, for example Civeo’s (Formerly PTI Group) worker accomodation facility in Strawberry Meadows pays a density bonus per bed installed.

There are some affordable housing proposals, most recently a plan from newly formed Mountain View Housing Society, to construct affordable housing near the Mountain View Alliance Church.

The four member board are still working on the concept for that plan.

The public, portable toilets in-stalled at places along the river and the Cablecar Dyke were subjected to damage and misuse over the sum-mer.

A report from the Director of Leisure Services Martin Gould said that the toilets council instructed installed at the Kitimat River Pump Houses, and at the Cablecar Dyke Road were both damaged.

In the case of the Cablecar toilet, it was pushed over three times over the summer and was often used to deposit dog feces, rather than its in-tended use, Gould wrote.

For the Pump Houses location, it was pushed over about one time

per week and was eventually dam-aged beyond repair when a vehicle drove in to it, destroying the base of the toilet.

“Further, this portable toilet faced misuse through the inappropri-ate deposit of human feces through-out the season,” the report says.

Staff say they will prepare a re-port in the future for the placement of toilets in 2015.

Meanwhile Edwin Empinado brought the matter to attention at the September 15 council meeting, and encouraged anyone who witnessed the vandalism to report it to Gould at the District of Kitimat offices.

When Chris Rigoni paid $5 to support the creation of UNBC, he saw the University as a chance to keep more youth in the North, as his hometown of Kitimat lost a lot of young people. Little did he know that his wife Sally would became a graduate. They both say that UNBC is giving people in Kitimat the education they need to succeed at home.

No university in Canada has a history like UNBC’s. Imagine 16,000 people calling on government to create a northern university. It happened here. Before UNBC was a university, it was a social movement that instilled a strong sense of ownership, purpose, and adventure in the region, which carries over to our students today.

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NOTICE OF TAX SALEAs per section 403 of the Local Government Act, unless the Delinquent Taxes and interest thereon are paid before September 29, 2014, a Tax Sale will be held in the Municipal Council Chambers, Northwest Community College 606 Mountainview Square, Kitimat, BC, at 10:00 am, September 29, 2014, for the disposition of the following property:

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1220.000 122 5777 Alexander/Nalabila $41,338.80 2567.016 16 SP 3 7-486 Quatsino Blvd $5,024.81 10210.025 1021 A 11442 534-540 Mountainview Sq $73,712.36

As per section 252 of the Community Charter, unless the outstanding property taxes are paid by September 29, 2014, taxes accruing to the following manufactured homes may be subject to levy by legal remedy of distress:

ROLL NUMBER LOCATION

2200.030 3 584 Columbia Ave 2200.040 4 584 Columbia Ave 2200.110 11 584 Columbia Ave 2200.370 37 584 Columbia Ave 2200.440 44 584 Columbia Ave 2200.460 46 584 Columbia Ave 2200.481 48 584 Columbia Ave 70000.390 E2 653 Columbia Ave 70000.480 E12 653 Columbia Ave 70000.530 F8 653 Columbia Ave 70000.940 H18 653 Columbia Ave 70001.010 H27 653 Columbia Ave 70001.100 J7 653 Columbia Ave

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Continued from pg 7Mayor Monaghan - Longest serving politician- Joanne must receive credit for the number of years devoted to the Council of Kitimat. She has had an amaz-ing run in politics at all levels of elected of-

ficial committees and organizations. - Cares about Kitimat. - Personal health issues have plagued her over the past few years. - Doesn’t like to travel any more, therefore has missed impor-tant conferences and

meetings eg. UBCM, NCLGA, and provin-cial committee meet-ings that she appointed herself as the represen-tative from Kitimat. - Lacks consistency and diplomacy.- As meeting Chair, is not totally familiar with rules of order

which at times causes breakdowns in orderly Council meetings.- Ignores and disre-spects rules of order at meetings.- Doesn’t take kindly to differences of opin-ion when discussing issues.- Not a ‘team’ player,

tends to focus on per-sonal aggrandizement.- My wish for Joanne is for her to retire with grace after a long run of her political career.

Again, these com-ments are my opinion only, please don’t start phoning or e-mailing me, everyone is

entitled to their own opinion and the voting booth is where the opinions count.

Food for thought.Sincerely,

Corinne Scott(Editor’s Note: Having seen this let-ter circulated prior to our publishing, Joanne

Monaghan tells us her lack of travel is from a recommendation from District of Kitimat staff who felt travel may be more produc-tive to newer coun-cillors, and would in turn allow her to meet delegations locally in Kitimat.)

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dances and social events, smaller, more focused, different mu-sic, different people but they’re no longer “social” highlights. Kitimat is no more or no less evolutionary or revolutionary that other towns where similar events have vanished from the calendar.

Kitimat’s July 1st celebrations are hold-ing in, but I’d say from my recent experiences, they’re showing their age.

An adventurous decade-plus with the Ice Demons showed me sport, even hockey, is no cinch without suc-cess. The golf course is unfortunately a good example but with the popularity of the sport, it seems to me that’s solvable. We need a full-service golf club as a community resource.

I’m rambling as I try to make my point. But, I hope and think we may see more peo-ple-directed change at the next municipal election. So much of what is happening is di-visive, like it or not. A day looking at the opin-ions on local events on Facebook pages show that to be true.

Change is inevi-table, creeping and not always to everybody’s liking.

That, to me, is mainly because differ-ent individuals have differing reasons for why they stay and en-joy being a part of a community. But be-ing here � rst doesn’t give anyone a right to decide which changes are truly for the better - although, no matter where I’ve lived, I’ve always met people who think it does. Often they get rolled over.

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September 28Annual Kitimat River Clean Up, hosted by KUTE to celebrate World River Days. Registration at 1 p.m. at the Rod and Gun Club, teams to choose an area to clean. Register by e-mailing [email protected],

with subject line “Cleanup Team.” Include team member names and cell phone number of a mem-ber.September 30There will be a meeting for parents and children interested in Spoken Word training and prepara-tion for the Paci� c Northwest Music Festival in April 2015. Children aged 5 – 17 are eligible to participate however, space is limited. The meeting will be held in the Kitimat Public Library on at

7 p.m. Tina Watchorn (632-6033) will make the presentation.October 6 - November 10Christ the King Parish Bereavement Ministry Committee is sponsoring “Connecting Each Other with Hope”, a six week grief support group. Ses-sions in the Catholic Church Hall. Open to any-one, regardless of religious af� liation. Register or get more information by calling Lidia at 250-632-6292, or Susana at 250-632-2215.

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Zone 10 Seniors Games athletes ar-rived home from the BC Seniors Games in Langely with a to-tal of 42 medals: 15 gold, 13 silver and 14 Bronze.

Ninety-eight par-ticipants and six non-participants attended the Games between September 9 and 13. Sixteen of the pos-sible 26 events were participated in with local athletes, with medals being award-ed in 11 of those events, as follows:

For Archery, Fred Hutchings took two gold, and Bob Bennett earned one bronze.

Bridge (social), Joe Martyres/Ron Adam with one silver

Cycling, Ann Kantakis with one Bronze and Trudy Rafuse with two Sil-vers, and one bronze

Darts, Rena Hummel with one bronze (mixed dou-bles).

For Five Pin Bowling, Ken Rut-satz earned one bronze.

In golf, Betty Glover took one gold, and Anne Berrisford earned a bronze.

For Horseshoes, Marielle Mercure took one bronze, and Marg Sharp took one silver, with John Paul Boirgoin taking one bronze for himself.

Ice Curling, 55+ mens team, gold went to T. Abriel, H. Smith, L. Blackmore, and B. Drinkwater.

For Pickle Ball, Barb/Ray Webster earned a bronze, and Dave Quinn/KC Tam took silver.

In Swimming, Dawn Quast earned two silvers and one bronze.

For Track and Field, Cecil (Bob)Goodvin took two gold medals and a sil-

ver. Ken Earl took one bronze, Maxine Small-wood earned four gold and two silver.

In whist, Frank Ackerman/Jean Thom-son took one gold and one silver. Anna

Quinn/Donnette Far-rell took one bronze for their efforts.

After a couple

months of relaxation it will be time to start preparing for the BC Seniors Games, which

next time will be held in North Vancouver between between Au-gust 25 and 29.

Classifi edsGet Results!

Cameron OrrIn the old school traditions it’s actually the

10th anniversary which is called the aluminum anniversary but perhaps we’ll waive that tradition this time.

So that said, sorry diamonds, but at 60 years in operation it’s the aluminum anniversary for Rio Tinto Alcan.

Since kicking in to gear the Alcan smelter (referring to its historical name, before Rio Tinto bought the company in 2007) has been producing aluminum ingots at their seaside smelter, and as many know is the only reason the District of Kiti-mat exists as it does.

To back up, the Aluminum Company of Can-ada, building a smelter in place now known as the District of Kitimat, commissioned the visionary community planner Clarence Stein.

It’s Stein’s vision that accounts for Kitimat’s quite unique layout, where streets occupy “horse shoes” off main arterial streets.

Green space buffers many streets, and are connected by walkways.

It is, what has been dubbed, a Garden City.Many in Kitimat still remember early Kitimat

life, when the town was right on the water, where

construction workers spent their off time. In some cases that time spent on the dock waiting to see any new people arriving by plane, which was re-ally the only way to get in to Kitimat besides boat.

Life in Kitimat was a, literally, muddy pros-pect for awhile, until the neighbourhoods started being constructed, beginning in the Nechako area in the early 60s.

Ever since those early years, the town of Kiti-mat and the aluminum smelter have been forever entwined, each affecting the other in some way.

The northwest for sure sees RTA as a ma-jor, if not the major, economic driver. Hundreds of people in Kitimat and Terrace call the RTA smelter their job, and of course today the Kitimat Modernization Project has employed thousands of man hours on its way to getting a new smelter in operation.

Some note the ‘world’ of Kitimat today is very similar to those early times. Just as the com-munity was pushed forward by the company in the 1950s, today a lot of the activity, employment and excitement of the town is owed to the mod-ernization, the largest construction project in the region by far.

All of this, in just 60 years.

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August 5, 1954 H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh visits Kitimat. The Duke’s of� cial guide in his informal tour of Kitimat Works was A.W. Whitaker, Vice President and General Manager of the Aluminium Company of Canada. Northern Sentinel � les.

August 13, 1959 Alcan VIP tour of Kemano Powerhouse and Kitimat Works by 36 Member Group of the Aluminium Extruders Council of the U.S. and Alcan and Aluminium Ltd. sales representatives. Northern Sentinel � les.

The aluminum anniversary for RTA

Looking back to 2007

From the � les of the Northern Sentinel, July 18, 2007

The rumours � -nally became a real-ity on Thursday, July 12 as mining-giant Rio Tinto has put forward a $US31.8 billion bid to acquire Alcan.

This bid which was uanimously agreed to by the Alcan board trumps the $US 27 billion hostile bid from Alcoa - which has since pulled it’s of-fer. Jointly based out of Melbourne, Australia and London England, Rio Tinto is offering $US101 per share.

Speaking at a Montreal press conference, Alcan CEO Yves Fortier assured people that all of Alcan’s Canadian projects, including the Kiti-mat Works modernization, will still be priorities of a new merged com-pany that would be called Rio Tinto Alcan.

“All of Alcan’s commitments will become those of Rio Tinto,” he announced.

Alcan Primary Metal president Jean Simon told the Sentinel that following Alcoa’s hostile bid in early May the Alcan board of directors weighed their options and found that Rio Tinto was the best solution for the company and for Kitimat.

“It is by far the most reassuring of all the options on the table,” he said. “It’s clear for us this is good for Kitimat.”

Rio Tinto’s bauxite and alumina facilities in Australia could comple-ment Kitimat Works, Simon suggested.

Economic Development minister Colin Hansen told the Sentinel that both � rms have informed the provincial government that the interests of Kitimat and the Northwest will be served.

“Each party has given it’s reassurance that the Kitimat smelter is go-ing ahead,” he explained.

Although parent company, Rio Tinto is based in Australia and Eng-land, the � rm has pledged to maintain Rio Tinto Alcan’s headquarters in Montreal.

The amalgamated company would become the world leader in alu-minum and alumina production. And with potential projects lined up in Australia, Rio Tinto Alcan could also become the world leader in bauxite production as well. Both alumina and bauxite are key ingredients in the production of aluminum.

Rio Tinto’s CEO Paul Skinner said that he expects the transaction to be � nalized by the end of the year [2007].

“It [RTA] is by far the most reassuring of all the options

on the table.”

Rio Tinto makes bid to buy Alcan

Economic driverThe impact of Rio Tinto Alcan on Kitimat and

the area can’t be understated.General Manager of BC Operations Gaby Po-

irier said that with the [Kitimat Modernization] project 70 per cent complete, they’re currently employing 3,600 people on their way to conclud-ing the Kitimat Modernization Project (KMP).

The � rst pour doesn’t have a � rm announced date but he said they will do it before the end of the � rst half of 2015.

For Poirier, who has been involved in the KMP project for just over a year, it’s been a fasci-nating journey in to the long history of the com-pany and Kitimat.

“They built Kitimat, transmission lines, the smelter, in less than � ve years. There were over 30,000 workers here,” said Gaby on the company history. “What they did 60 years ago is quite im-pressive.”

He said comparing that work to today’s ac-tivities, the challenges are different but there is a

common thread which runs through then and now.For instance the arrival of the Delta Spirit

Lodge, which turns memories to the steamwheel-er Delta King which once housed workers in the 1950s.

“It’s very much alike what we did in the 50s.”Of course not every thing is the same. Po-

irier says he heard a lot of comments from for-mer employees during their 60th celebrations at the Riverlodge on the September 13 weekend that it’s remarkable how much safety standards have changed.

“Many, many comments came out from the evolution of safety throughout the years,” he said. In the Riverlodge gymnasium a line of historical photographs dotted the wall, and people saw � rst hand the differences of safety from then to now.

“I think this is something to be proud, be-cause our safety resolve improved tremendously in the last 15 years,” said Poirier.

Continued on page 8

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1965 - Kitimat townsite aerial view of Nechako area. Northern Sentinel � les.

1956 Kitimat aerial view, photo above. The � rst home purchases came from Alcan employees settling in the brand new community.

1953 - We’ve come a long way. These muddy � elds and crude roads would eventually connect the Alcan smelter site with the Kitimat townsite. Northern Sentinel � les.

60thContinued from page 7

That celebration at Riverlodge was an overall successful celebration of the company’s history.

The events opened with a ceremony on Sep-tember 12 marking the 60th milestone with com-pany representatives, employees, retirees and a selection of other guests.

Poirier met some interesting retirees. One couple made a particular impression on him, re-galing him with the story of how the move to Kiti-mat in the 60s was predicated on the requirement that the couple be married before moving.

A retirees breakfast was held by the compa-ny at Riverlodge on September 13, and Colleen

Nyce, manager of corporate affairs, said she was pleased to see many of those attending wearing “Pioneers of 54” hats.

Nyce says due to the potential attendance throughout the day for other events they couldn’t plan for a publicly-open daytime celebration but was happy to open up the Riverlodge grounds to the public in the evening ahead of an energetic � reworks display.

Management, including Poirier also spent the day in other ways, notably getting ‘dunked’ in the dunk tank, a day long fundraiser for the Kitimat Hospital Foundation.

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So where is the Kitimat Modernization Project, the next chap-ter in the RTA story, today as far as comple-tion?

It’s in the tail end, nearly 3/4s done at 70 per cent.

Gaby Poirier said being at 70 per cent means a lot of the ‘heavy lifting’ is done and what’s left is just the, well, heavy lifting.

“It’s all the engi-neering, procurement and construction,” he said. “It means that right now the only step to getting it done is construction.”

The project has hit their peak workforce of 3,600 people and he said they’ll be at that stage for several weeks as construction work gets done.

Colleen Nyce says a lot of former em-ployees have remarked that the eventual new smelter seems to be a far cleaner place than when they worked on site.

Many in Kitimat still remember early Kitimat life, when the town was right on the water and the work site, where construc-tion workers spent their off time. In some cases that time spent on the dock waiting to see any women ar-riving by plane, which was really the only way to get in to Kiti-mat besides boat.

By April 1954, the first two potlines for the smelter were well on their way to being done

A familiar face at that time would have been McNeely Du-Bose, who in 1954 was the vice-president of the Aluminum Com-pany of Canada in charge of power development.

The Northern Sentinel on April 15, 1954, gleefully informed its readers that power to Kitimat from Kemano would be “laid on” in July or August that year.

Alcan’s then-president was R. E. Powell.

He and Alcan staff began planning for the smelter in 1949.

“I, for one, realized the job would not be easy,” he said in 1954. “Nor has it.

Yet great and small problems have been solved as work pro-gressed.”

The Sentinel itself reflected on the role of Alcan in the town’s future, opining that “Kitimat is not just another up-coast village. It is a city and a seaport for which growth will be natural and inevita-ble. Plans for the Aluminum Com-pany of Canada alone guarantee that. Other developments will fol-low in due course.”

Snapshot from 1954

R. E. Powell

Cameron OrrThere’s another as-

pect to the whole mod-ernization of the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter that is sometimes not as obvious from the outside.

That’s the fact that the modernization of the smelter, being the � rst major project in the region, has created a pathway for other major industries look-ing to come to Kitimat.

Notably it’s the liq-ue� ed natural gas proj-ects which aim to open facilities in neighbour-ing lands from RTA.

“I think an im-portant point is our modernization project spurred on the econo-my to grow here,” said Colleen Nyce. “Our project...is still the only one really with a green light. But it paved the way for the other pro-ponents to come.”

Rio Tinto Alcan has even had deals with LNG Canada in a land share and sale which has LNG Cana-da taking over an RTA-owned wharf, as RTA builds a new one for themselves.

That deal will maintain the level of exports from the smelt-er due to the offer of Terminal B to LNG Canada.

“We’re developing

many partnerships with local contractors for the long term business. We’re building that ca-pacity,” added Gaby Poirier.

He notes that close to 1,000 people work-ing on the Kitimat Modernization Project are from the local area.

Nyce and Poirier

says the knowledge RTA has gleaned over the years of modern-ization will bene� t new projects to come, al-lowing them to take in

the knowledge, while avoiding any missteps that tend to happen along the way during a multi-billion construc-tion project.


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One thing that people within Rio Tinto Alcan are excited about are the new environmental stan-dards that will come with the new smelter.

Under the terms of their current new environ-mental permit they will see an overall 50 per cent reduction in the smelter’s bottom line.

“We increase [production] by 48 per cent, but we reduce by 50 per cent our total environmental

emission footprint,” said Gaby Poirier.Colleen Nyce says the drop is an exception in

a lot of other industries.“It’s amazing when you think about it, I don’t

know if there’s any other industry that will cut their foot print in half environmentally.”

Only one emission, SO2, is set to increase, which correlates with increase in production.

In March earlier this year Rio Tinto Alcan opened up the modernization site for the � rst time to media for a tour of the works.

Rio Tinto Alcan is working out how much over-budget they are and what the new sched-ule will be for the pour.

But the company is looking to the extra beds of the Delta Spirit Lodge to allow for more workers to keep the project on schedule from here.

Jacynthe Côté, then Rio Tinto Alcan chief executive, spoke to reporters along with Rio

Tinto Alcan’s BC Operations’ General Man-ager Gaby Poirier following the media’s tour of the construction.

Côté said that the labour and skills base that RTA is developing through their project will be bene� cial to any emerging LNG proj-ects in the area as well.

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Between 1949 and 1953, McElhanney was tasked with surveying the route for the 16 km water tunnel, through extremely rugged terrain. Astonishing accuracies were achieved, even before the days of modern electronic survey equipment. Additional surveys were completed for the twin penstocks, the powerhouse, the proposed Kenney dam site, the smelter site, marine facilities, the Kitimat and Kemano town sites, all proposed roads and rail lines between Terrace and Kitimat, and the transmission line between Kitimat and Kemano.

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Pumping up the aluminum output

So how much more metal exactly will a modernized Rio Tinto Alcan smelter produce?

Forty-eight per cent more.

Gaby Poirier said peak capacity under the old smelter was 282,000 tonnes a year. “With KMP (Kitimat Modern-ization Project), it will be 420,000 tonnes [a year],” he said.

To get there KMP will have to shut down, or “idle” their lines as the new ones are con-structed.

As of today he said Lines 1 and 5 have been idled, and the remaining lines, two through four, will soon follow.

But safety is key for that transformation, he said.

“To make it happen the only way is to make it happen safely,” he said, noting the safety record so far in con-struction has been great.

The District of Kitimat provided this photo in February, showing an overhead look at the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter site and the wharves.


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Rio Tinto Alcan has announced an agreement to bring in a cruise ship to house workers for the Kiti-mat Modernization Project.

The � nal agree-ment was reached on January 27 with Bridgemans Haisla LP to house workers in the � nal construction year, the company said.

The ship, the Silja Festival, will be redubbed the Delta Spirit Lodge by RTA, and is a converted Bal-tic Ferry.

The ship is expect-ed to be used for nine months for the project.

The ship left port in Estonia earlier yes-terday and is expected in Kitimat by the end of February.

The ship is expect-ed to be stationed at the former Eurocan wharf, and will have a service staff of 110, will have 500 bedrooms, as well as dining and lounge facilities.

In addition to con-struction workers, she also said it will house company visitors, con-sultants, and business guests as needed.

She said this ship is a way not to bur-den Kitimat’s already crunched housing stock.

“We have a grow-

ing workforce to com-plete our project and we will do our utmost to house them in Kiti-mat without undue im-pact to the town,” she said through e-mail.

The company is drawing memories of the Delta King steam

roller which housed workers during the Kitimat smelter’s orig-inal construction.

With this being the smelter’s 60th year they are “delighted that the ‘Delta Spirit Lodge’ historically parallels the alumi-

num industry’s incep-tion in Kitimat with the prominence of the ‘Delta King’ as � oat-ing accommodations for construction work-ers during the original smelter’s construction period in the early 1950s.”

The ribbon cutting ceremony at the of� cial opening of the Delta Spirit Lodge. Black Press

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Fireworks light up the night sky for RTA’s 60th celebrations. Scores of people arrived at the Riverlodge to take in the late evening live entertainment from King Crows and the Ladies from Hell, whose performance led into a musically accompanied � reworks display which thundered through the town.

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This year is RTA’s 60th year in operation, but it won’t be the last milestone the company cel-ebrates by far.

Gaby Poirier thinks back to the remarks of Rio Tinto Alcan, Primary Metal’s CO Arnaud Soirat who said that it’s rare to see a smelter last 60 years.

That gives him pride to work on the modernization which he sees as a project that’s not just the start-up of opera-

tions, but the beginning of at least another 60 years of opera-tion.

“We’ve done the � rst 60th, we’re going to go for another 60 with a new smelter,” he said.

That being the case, there’s a lot of carry-over from the ‘old’ smelter to the ‘new’.

A large part of that, he said, comes from the people.

As retirees gathered at the Riverlodge over the weekend Poirier was struck that at least half of those who attended the opening ceremony of the 60th shared the names of people working on site at the plant.

“The next generation are

here on plant site,” he said.Even as an international

company, the local operations of Rio Tinto Alcan are in some ways like a family business in that sense.

Meanwhile, Colleen Nyce said she was touched to see the support for the company as they celebrated their 60th.

“We were really touched by the well wishes that we re-ceived from the Mayor of Kiti-mat, the municipality of Ter-race, the Haisla drummers were awesome, the MLA...so all our community stakeholders, the support and the well wishes have been very nice to receive.”

We at the Northern Sentinel would feel re-miss if we didn’t take a moment to personally thank all the business-es who have put their name on these pages and sponsored this special feature con-gratulating Rio Tinto Alcan.

We’re proud to do business with the region’s strong com-panies, all of which do their own part in developing our com-munity.

As each of you congratulate the de-cades of accomplish-

ment by the Rio Tinto Alcan smelter, we must congratulate you on all

of your hard work that provides the backbone of our region.

So from us at the Sentinel to you, thank you very, very much.


The gang’s all there for RTA 60thFor the opening

ceremony of Rio Tinto Alcan’s 60th anniver-sary weekend, the com-pany got together peo-ple from all corners of the company’s history.

Shown above is members of the man-agement team and the pioneer group, as well

some who started with Alcan in 1954.

From left to right is Gaby Poirier, general manager BC Opera-tions; Werner Bikows-ki, pioneer 1955; Horst Voigt, retiree 1963; Al McGowan, pioneer 1954; Karl Renhack, pioneer 1954; John

Hoffer, pioneer 1954; Murray McDonald, pioneer 1954; Arnaud Soirat, president and CEO Primary Metal; Etienne Jacques, chief operating of� cer Pri-mary Metal North America; Daniel Herts-berg, senior vice-presi-dent Human Resources

and HSE; Rolf Leibach pioneer 1954; Pat Fio-re, Major Project As-set Owner Represen-tative; Paul Henning, vice-president Strate-gic Projects, Western Canada; Ken Mini� e, pioneer 1953.

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A concert stage provided the venue for live music at the Riverlodge on September 13 for Rio Tinto Alcan’s 60th celebrations.


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