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J.R. RardonGazette editorPORT HARDY—A planned grand opening

for the new Canadian Coast Guard Station here was disrupted Tuesday afternoon when nearly two dozen Kwakiutl First Nation elders and other band members established a picket line of protest signs on the street above the building.

The nation is protesting the Crown’s failure to consult on construction of the Coast Guard’s new office and boat house on a traditional vil-lage site at the end of Shipley Street.

“We wrote to them in June,” Kwakiutl elected chief Corrine Child said. “Basically we wanted to sit down with them; actually, to find who to sit down with. They had all these dignitar-ies and officials come through, but who was responsible for sitting down with the Kwakiutl about this facility, and what services it is going to provide?”

The Coast Guard announced last week a ribbon-cutting and ceremonial opening for the new facility, located just up the shore from its old office on Government Wharf. The event was called off after the Kwakiutl notified organizers of their planned protest. Instead, a general tour and open house was hosted for a number of

Loci lands a heritage home

October 16, 2014

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Kwakiutl halts ribbon-cutting

J.R. RardonGazette editorWOSS—With a gentle push

from a more modern diesel coun-terpart, the historic Alco Steam Locomotive 113 was eased into its new heritage park home last week.

Turns out, it’s in the same spot it used to call home decades ago.

“What’s interesting is, where it’s sitting right now is the old round-house, where they serviced it and so forth,” said Dave Rushton, Area D Director for the Regional District of Mount Waddington and longtime executive with the Woss Residents Association. “So it’s back in the good, old Woss roundhouse.”

Dozens of local residents, work-ers from the nearby Western Forest Products operation and officials from RDMW were on hand to watch and shoot pictures of the 94-year-old locomotive’s move from a siding in WFP’s rail maintenance yard to a newly laid stretch of track just a few hundred metres away.

It is the second major heritage item place by the RDMW under the heritage registry bylaw it

established in 2012, following the placement earlier this year of the century-old Hornsby Mammoth Steam Tractor at Coal Harbour’s old community centre.

Like the Hornsby, “Loci 113” was the subject of something of a custody battle before the RDMW secured possession in negotiations

with the Alberni Valley Heritage Network.

The society believed it had purchased the locomotive from Western Forest Products in 2010 and had secured funding to move and begin restoring the engine, which had sat idle on the side rail in Woss since running forestry

tours from 1988-94. When Rushton and other region-

al district officials learned of the agreement, they began trying to prove Loci 113 had already been sold to the residents of Woss by Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor) before the company was purchased by WFP.

“I took a loonie out of my own pocket and bought it from Canfor when we became a community, in 1999,” said Rushton. “The prob-lem came when Canfor was sold to Western, and (the locomotive) hadn’t been taken off their books.”

Under the agreement with AVHN, Loci 113 was to remain in Woss as long as the community made efforts to restore the engine, while the heritage society retained the right to follow that progress and revisit the possible move of the engine.

But Loci 113’s status as a heri-tage registry artifact probably nul-lifies that option, and Rushton and other volunteers said it would

See page 4‘Band: title rights ignored’

See page 4‘Heritage display’

alco steam locomotive 113 rounds the final corner as it is pushed onto a fresh line of track at the new heritage park in Woss last week. J.R. Rardon

roman child, right, peers over his sign while joining other Kwakiutl first Nation members in a protest at port Hardy’s coast Guard Station tuesday afternoon.

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tion season just kicked off Friday afternoon, but already a pair of North Island communi-ties have their mayors in place.

Incumbents Jan Allen, of the Village of Port Alice, and Michael Berry, of the Village of Alert Bay, were acclaimed for four-year terms when they were the only can-didates to declare in their respective com-munities.

Elsewhere, both Port Hardy and Port McNeill will see new mayors installed fol-lowing the Nov. 15 election, though famil-iar faces are in the hunt.

All-candidates meet-ings have been sched-uled for Wednesday, Oct. 29, in Port McNeill and in Port Hardy.

On North Vancouver Island, the election will fill spots on councils in

Alert Bay, Port Alice, Port Hardy and Port McNeill, as well as the Regional District of Mount Waddington and the School District 85 board of trustees.

As with Allen and Berry, several other candidates were acclaimed for positions when the nomination period closed Friday at 4 p.m. with no chal-lengers.

On the RDMW board, Heidi Soltau of Sointula will return as Area A director, Phil Wainwright of Winter Harbour returns as Area B Director and Dave Rushton of Woss is back as Area D Director. Only Area C is being contested, with incumbent Andrew Hory of Coal Harbour facing Pat Horgan of Nimpkish Heights.

Other spots on the RDMW board will be filled by either may-ors or appointees from each of the other com-munities’ councils.

Three members of the SD85 board of trustees have already been determined by acclimation. Leightan Wishart and Jeff Field of Port Hardy and Danita Schmidt of Coal Harbour, all incumbents, were the only three nominees in the newly created Area 1 (north zone), under electoral restruc-turing approved by the Ministry of Education last year.

Two more spots will be filled by voters in Port McNeill, where incumbent Werner Manke is joined on the ballot by David Jack, Rod Sherrell and for-mer trustee Lyn Skrlac.

The final two spots will be filled from the newly created Area 2. Lawrie Garrett of Sointula, Eric Hunter

of Alert Bay and Carol Prescott of Port Alice, all incumbents under the previous electoral structure, are back on the ballot along with C.W. Petersen, which means at least one incumbent will be left off the board next month.

The District of Port Hardy will have the busiest ballot, with 13 nominees vying for six available council spots. Former Mayor Hank

Bood, who served until 2008, is attempting a return to the office and will be opposed by cur-rent councillor Janet Dorward.

The council candi-dates include incum-bents Jessie Hemphill, Rick Marcotte and John Tidbury, along with challengers Pat Corbett-Labatt, Dennis Dugas, Debbie Perkovich, Shelley Quist, Eric Ralph, Graham Richards, Fred Robertson, Rodney Romas, Shelley Siemens and Leightan Wishart, who is bid-ding for a council job in addition to his duties as school district trust-ee.

The Town of Port McNeill will see a complete makeover of its council, though one current member will

return in a new post.Current council-

lors Shirley Ackland and Gaby Wickstrom are squaring off for the mayor’s job, which became open when Gerry Furney announced he will not stand for re-election after 39 years as mayor.

Fellow councillors Grant Anderson and Chris Sharpe have both declined to return, which means all four council spots are avail-able for a slate of seven contenders. Among them are former coun-cillors Shelley Downey and Aaron Frost, who both served until 2011, along with Jason Clark, Jay Dixon, Graham MacDonald, David Mitchell and Alannah Nicols.

In Alert Bay, incum-bent councillors Kane

Gordon, Kim Mercer and Wendy White are bidding for a return to office. They will be challenged by Dennis Buchanan, David Faren, Lisanne Granger and Duncan White for the four available spots.

In Port Alice, two incumbents — Marc Brackett and David Stewart — are back in the running for one of four available council spots, and at least one is assured of returning. Three newcomers have also declared, includ-ing Marnie Chase, Christine Martin and Doug Worthington.

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District of Port Hardy2015 Budget Meeti ngs

Dates: October 27, 2014 5:00pm-7:00pm November 12, 18, 25, 2014 4:00pm-6:00pm

Place: Municipal Hall Council Chambers 7360 Columbia Street, Port Hardy, BC

All inquiries may be directed to:

Allison McCarrickDirector of Financealli@porthardy.ca 250-949-6665

from page 1dignitaries, including North Island MLA Claire Trevena and uniformed members of Port Hardy’s Canadian Legion branch.

“It’s tantamount to an insult and an abro-gation of treaty,” said Norman Champagne, Kwakiutl Band man-ager. “All we wanted was to communicate this to the Crown, but our request has gone unheeded. It’s a denial, a dishonour-

ing and a disrespecting of Kwakiutl title and traditional territorial rights.”

Tom Child, Kwakiutl Lands Manager, point-ed out the protest is not against the Coast Guard’s presence on traditional territory.

“It’s not about the

Coast Guard people who are our neigh-bours,” he said.

The first sign-wav-ing protesters arrived about noon Tuesday, in advance of the planned 1 p.m. ribbon-cutting. The crowd grew steadily as more members arrived,

including hereditary chief George Hunt and elder Wata (Christine Joseph).

“This territory here belongs to our people,” said Joseph. “If we did something like that on land that is not ours, we will be jailed.

“We want our young-er generation to know our territories, and for our generation here to know we do have our rights to our territories. We don’t have much left.”

from page 1remain on static dis-play.

“When it gets a little paint, and a pressure-washing, it’ll look pret-ty good,” said Larry Knutson, Loci 113’s last conductor when it ran forestry tours in the Nimpkish Valley for schoolchildren and tourists. “I’d love to see it running, but it’s probably too far gone.

Still, a lot more people will appre-ciate it here than where it was.

The heritage park was secured by the RD through a land tenure agreement with WFP. At the moment, Loci 113 sits alone on the partially cleared site, which shows no evidence of the old

roundhouse or any other structure or development. But improve-

ments to the park will commence in the com-ing weeks, RDMW economic development manager Pat English said.

“Starting this fall and into the spring we’ll do landscaping,” he said. “We’ll have interpre-

tive signs, a viewing platform for the loci, and we’ll put in a park-ing area.

“The Regional District has a number of heritage items in our inventory and we may be looking at this park as a place to display some of them.”

The 113 was the last steam locomotive active in logging ser-vice.

Band: title rights ignored

Heritage display planned

“If we did something like that on land that is not ours, we will be jailed.”

Christine Joseph

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LETTERSDear editor,October is Foster Family

Appreciation Month. This special month celebrates the extraordinary work of our foster families who pro-vide stable, secure and nur-turing homes for children and youth unable to live with their own families.

In the Province of British Columbia, 3,239 foster families provide care to children who cannot reside with their own families. In all, 5,864 children are cared for in foster homes, all for a variety of reasons. On the North Island, 38 foster families provide care to 105 children in care from our communities.

There is always a need

for more individuals and families to become fos-ter parents. Foster parents play an invaluable role in the lives of thousands of children and youth offer-ing love, stability and a safe place to call home. The main qualifications needed are a desire to provide a supportive and caring envi-ronment and make a posi-tive difference in a child’s life.

There are many ways to make a difference to sup-port foster families and

the children they care for. Consider fostering. Provide a child with a safe, nurtur-ing and supportive home when they need it the most. Consider providing respite care for other foster fami-lies, instead of fostering full time. Respite caregiv-ers typically have a child in their home anywhere from 24 hours up to two weeks.

Attend an information session to determine if fos-tering is right for you! A brown-bag lunch informa-tion session is being held

at the Ministry of Children and Family Development office at 8755 Gray Street in Port Hardy on Monday, Oct. 27, from noon-1 p.m. Call Nicki Therrien at 250-949-8011 or the Provincial Foster Line at 1-800-663-9999 for more information. You may also check out the Ministry’s website at www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/foster for additional information about fostering.

Do you know a foster family in our community? Acknowledge and appre-ciate the hard work and commitment they show our community’s children and youth every day.

Nicki TherrienPort Hardy

VICTORIA – Three years ago, long-time chief and band administrator Sophie Pierre sought an extension of her term leading the B.C. Treaty Commission and gave a warning. The federal and provincial government should start taking this long and costly effort seriously or “shut ’er down.”

Last week Pierre wound up her sixth and final year as chief commissioner on a slightly more hopeful note. This year, the Tla’amin Nation in the Powell River area and the Yale First Nation in the Fraser Canyon had their treaties proclaimed by Ottawa.

They join the Maa-nulth First Nations on Vancouver Island and the Tsawwassen First Nation in leaving behind the Indian Act and the courts to get on with self-government.

The need for aboriginal

people to work out their overlapping claim issues between themselves was the focus of the commission’s 22nd annual report. In it, former chief commission-ers Miles Richardson of the Haida Nation and Steven Point of the Sto:lo Nation added their influential voic-es, urging aboriginal com-munities to consider them shared territories, rather than clinging to ancient rivalries.

Another hopeful sign is

that the federal government has finally given its negotia-tors a mandate to negotiate fisheries.

This year’s landmark deci-sion of the Supreme Court of Canada, recognizing Tsilhqot’in Nation title in the remote Nemiah Valley, has also got the attention of Victoria and Ottawa. Pierre noted the “flurry of activ-ity” by Premier Christy Clark in seeking reconcili-ation, which will culminate this month with a formal apology for the hanging of Tsilhqot’in chiefs 150 years ago.

That’s the good news for B.C.’s thorniest historical problem, the lack of treaties across most of the province.

Here’s the bad news. As of this year, the B.C. Treaty Commission has paid out $627 million to First Nations to support treaty negotiations. Most of that is

in the form of loans, which are to be repaid out of the cash settlements that Ottawa contributes to settle modern treaties.

Pierre acknowledges that some communities are close to completing treaties, but their debt has climbed to near what Ottawa is offer-ing. This would leave them free but broke.

Others are just “spinning their wheels” with no real hope of achieving a treaty, Pierre said. The commission is calling for an “exit strat-egy” for these communities, starting with loan forgive-ness that would allow them to pursue economic activity.

Federal and provincial governments must recog-nize the successes, and the failures.

Tom Fletcher is legisla-ture reporter and columnist for Black Press. tfletcher@blackpress.ca.

COMMENTARYSenior Citizen is a common expression to describe

someone over the age of 65, and is now commonly used instead of old person, old age pensioner or the elderly. We trust this change is out of respect.

That said, the Hardy Bay Seniors Citizen’s Society offers membership from 19 years and up.

We recognize that the Senior Citizen does not stand alone any more than the youth does. We are all connected from birth to death. This connection is healthy and desir-able for the senior citizen.

We want to bring attention to the need for new members to the Hardy Bay Seniors Citizen’s Society and, for those who do not understand the Society, will give you a few facts about the group:

It is a group founded many years ago to support and maintain a common meeting place where the Senior Citizen could attend and have fun! At this time, the meeting place is the building next door to the Hospital/Ambulance Service and, now, the New Port Hardy Medical Centre. It was the old Port Hardy Hospital.

Hours of operations vary depending on the events but generally it is open Monday through Friday, noon-5 p.m. Tuesdays, we bring our lunch and enjoy tea and coffee with good conversation. The third Wednesday of the month a Pot Luck Dinner is held at 6 p.m. followed by an informative meeting letting the members know what has happen and what will be going on.

The building and site has been improved over the years from the generous support of the community as well as the endless number of volunteers at the centre. It is a good building and houses a mini exercise room, small library, TV room, computer room, pool room and com-munity kitchen.

As the community changes so does the number of Senior Citizens.

If you are a Senior Citizen in Port Hardy and surround-ing areas, would you please take a few moments and answer the question below, either by email donnag@cablerocket.com or telephone at 250-949-7252 or on our Facebook Page. Or visit us on Tuesday Bag Lunch Day at noon, at 9150 Granville in Port Hardy.

What do you think the Hardy Bay Senior Citizen’s Society should offer that would make you consider becoming a member of this group? What is it that you are looking for to make this happen?

Donna Gault

Volunteers from Woss and Western Forest Products completed the move of Alco steam locomotive to its nal heritage park home.

The Coast Guard got caught in the middle of the treaty con ict between the Kwakiutl First Nation and the government this week.

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Gazette staffHYDE CREEK—

The sunshine made a brief appearance last weekend for the North Island Farmer’s Market’s season closer.

Vendors gathered outside of the Hyde Creek Petro Canada station on Saturday for the last market of the season. The tables, which show-cased local gardeners and craft makers, fea-tured everything from homegrown produce to crafts to baked goods.

Although the market eventually succumbed to rain, it saw a large turnout of vendors and customers in its early hours.

“Last year’s last day was bad,” said event organizer Neva Perrot, referring to a torrential downpour during last year’s final market that had vendors packing

up early.“This season’s been

good,” she went on. “It seems to grow a little each year, so that’s really hopeful. I’m happy to see a couple more vendors today.”

Perrott is already working out the details for next season, which will probably start up in late May or early June with plants and starters.

“I love this loca-tion,” she said. “We have everything that we need here—park-ing, washrooms, an ATM, lots of space.” The location is also ideal, she said, because many vendors are from the Hyde Creek and Nimpkish Heights area.

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Last winter we drove south for a couple of weeks to Southern California to take a most enjoyable break, while visiting friends who live down there. This was good because, not only did we see a totally dif-ferent environment, but also another kind of lifestyle. However, you can probably guess what happened to our perception of our good old North Island.

Returning home, the first thing we noticed after crossing the bor-der back into Canada, was how the pace of life slowed down and people seemed to have more time to talk. How do you explain this phenomenon? Is it because the massive population of the U.S. means they have to be more efficient in deal-ing with large num-bers of people and that efficiency means the personal touch goes by the wayside?

Compared to California, B.C. is an

empty land. It was so nice to come back to empty highways and miles and miles of miles and miles; back to the green on green of Vancouver Island.

I always enjoy the drive to and from Campbell River but this time, in com-ing home from far away, I was especially struck by the beauty of Nimpkish Lake. All North Islanders have to drive along this lake on their journey south and, no doubt, all of us take the beauty of this drive for granted.

There are just a few rare places in Canada that have this

kind of drive with the Karmutzen Mountains as a backdrop for the lake. Not high, as mountains go, but very immediate; right there, rising straight out of the lake. With snow-capped tops most of the year, they give us post-card pleasure as we drive by.

This oil painting of Nimpkish Lake and the Karmutzen Range is from one of my favourite spots along this drive just 11 kms from home. Am I lucky or what?

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Port Hardy celebrated two decades of its twinning relation-ship with sister city Numata, Japan, this week, unveiling a torii gate at Carrot Park to the visiting Japanese delegation.

The gate towers over the entrance to the park, next to the Twinning Garden, and represents the tradi-tional entrance to a Shinto shrine; the tran-sition from the profane to the sacred.

Inclement weather Monday forced the move of a planned reception from Carrot Park to the Civic Centre, where the Numata delegation were welcomed by council, Twinning Society, RCMP and community members.

Speaking at the reception, Numata’s Astushi Oinuma said that the towns’ rela-tionship was “very valuable,” particularly for the children who had the opportunity to travel and experience a different culture.

“We are very impressed with the torii,” he continued. “The torii is a very old symbol in Japan; one of the symbols of Japan and a sign of the bond between Port Hardy and Numata.”

Society member Pat Corbett-Labatt said the

gate had been a vision of fellow Twinning Society member Leslie Driemel for some time. Councils had been supportive in principal, but fund-ing for the project proved difficult to find until Western Forest Products stepped up to provide the timber for the project.

She thanked the “tireless volunteers” who helped guide the project to fruition, not least of which was Leslie’s husband, Rob Driemel, the project manager who con-structed the gate.

To commemorate the occasion Corbett-Labatt presented the Numata group and

Port Hardy council with photo albums containing pictures of delegations spanning the two decades.

Speaking on behalf of council, Deputy Mayor Deb Huddlestan said she was honoured to be part of the occasion and presented a Spirit Stone, or Suieskei, as

a gift from the town.Not to be outdone,

Oinuma presented a Kamidana, a miniature Shinto Shrine tradi-tionally found in the home.

After the speeches and refreshments, the group made its way to Carrot Park for a rib-bon-cutting ceremony at the torii.

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Bylaw No. 05-2010 regulates the possession and discharge of fi reworks in the District of Port Hardy:

• A permit must be obtained from the District of Port Hardy for the use of all fi reworks including, but not limited to, Class F.1 Consumer Fireworks.

• Consumer fi reworks may only be discharged between 5:00p.m. and 10:00p.m. on October 31st (Halloween).

• Permit applicati ons must be submitt ed to the District of Port Hardy no later than noon on October 31st (there is no fee).

• Permit applicati ons for consumer or display fi reworks events must be submitt ed no later than thirty (30) days prior to the date of the event.

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October 16Great Canadian Shake-out, 10:16 a.m., various loca-

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October 16Port Hardy branch of Vancouver Island Regional

Library continues its series on remarkable women with Strength in Silence, 6:30 p.m. Reading, discussion. Info, 250-949-6661.

October 24Halloween Howl, 7-11 p.m., Port Alice Community

Centre. Costume contest, dance with DJ Matt Reimer, photo booth and more. $5 per goblin; $15 per goblin fam-ily. Info, 250-284-3912.

October 25Create for a Cause scrapbooking and paper working

fundraiser to benefit the Gazette Hamper Fund, 8 a.m.-8 p.m., Port McNeill Baptist Church. Registration $10, plus suggested donation of $15 in food or toys. Classes, prizes, goodie bags, silent auction. Registration forms available on the Facebook page Create for a Cause 2014.

October 25Gate House Community Society after-school drama

program presents A Mother Goose Mystery, 6:30-8:45 p.m., Gate House Theatre. An interactive family play in which audience members walk through scenes to help solve the mystery. Admission by donation.

October 26Community Garage Sale hosted by Port McNeill

Hot spotsLioness, 1-3 p.m. at the Lions Hall. Lots of great items and a lunch counter with pie by the slice! Table rental or space $5; prepay and book at The Flower Shoppe or call Christine, 250-956-4400 or Helen, 250-956-3673.

Hot ticketPor t McNeill Volunteer Fire Department host-ed its annual open house last Thursday. Clockwise from left, Andrew Fletcher prepares to rappel off the fire hall tower; Junior firefighter Joel Waines helps Emily Ashford operate a fire hose; Matthew Harder puts out a blaze. J.R. Rardon

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North Island Church ServicesPORT HARDY BAPTIST

CHURCHCorner of Trustee & Highland

Morning Service 11:00 am Plus regular family activities

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ST. COLUMBA ANGLICAN UNITED

Reverend Wade Allen9190 Granville St. Port Hardy

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at Providence Place, 7050 Rupert StSunday Worship 10:30 am & 7 pm

Tuesday Prayer 7:30 pmMidweek Biblestudies - Call the church

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PORT ALICE ANGLICAN- UNITED FELLOWSHIP

Reverend Wade AllenSunday Services - 4pm

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10:00 am-Sabbath School11:15 am-Worship Service

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North Island Church ServicesPort Hardy BaPtist

CHurCHCorner of Trustee & Highland

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Father Scott Whittemore 250-956-3909

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9amSt. Bonaventure 4750 Byng Rd.,

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Reverend Wade Allen9190 Granville St. Port Hardy

Phone 250-949-62471:00 p.m. Sunday School and Service

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Full gosPel CHurCH2540 Catala Place Port McNeill

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10:30 am - Morning Worship Church Office 250-956-4741

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Sunday Services - 10 amReverend Lincoln Mckoen

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Driver NeededDriver needed to deliver the North Island Gazette to carriers and businesses in Port McNeill and Port Hardy every Thursday morning. Someone with own vehicle that meets safety standards.

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October 18Rep hockey

North Island Eagles atom development hosts Nanaimo in tiering-round play, 1:45 p.m., Port Alice.

October 24-26Women’s hockey

8th annual Wild Women’s hock-ey tournament at Don Cruickshank Memorial Arena, Port Hardy. Women’s, men’s and old-tim-ers divisions. Entry fee $650 per team; limited spaces avail-able. To sign up or FMI, contact Janey Henschke at 250-230-0707 or Marnie Ordano at 250-949-0437.

October 25Rep hockey

North Island Eagles atom development hosts Juan de Fuca in tiering-round play, 4 p.m., Port McNeill.

October 29Cross country

Districtwide ele-mentary school meet, 10 a.m., Sunset School, Port McNeill. 1.6-km route for tykes (grades 2-3); 3.2-km run for peewee and bantam (grades 4-7). Volunteers welcome; to sign up or for info call 250-956-4434.

November 1Rep hockey

North Island Eagles atom development hosts Comox Valley in tiering-round play, 1:45 p.m., Port Alice.

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Left: The Eagles' Brandon Purdey fights for the puck during Sunday's exhibition with Nanaimo. Above: Daryll Coon lets one fly at net dur-ing the 2-1 Eagles win.

Port Hardy's George Walkus and Port McNeill's Devin Williams go shoulder to shoulder on a 50-50 ball during last week's game at NISS.

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Midgets maintain unbeaten runGazette staffPORT HARDY—

The North Island Eagles midgets side maintained its unbeaten run in the preseason with back-to-back home wins against Nanaimo at Port Hardy’s Don Cruikshank Memorial Arena last weekend.

The midgets ran out comfortable 5-3 win-ners Saturday before

showing some grit to overturn a one-goal deficit in Sunday’s 2-1 victory.

The visitors took the lead Sunday in the closing seconds of an even first period, when Michael Schnablegger stuffed the puck home on the back post after Eagles goalie Sarah Case was unsighted during a scramble on the right.

The home side went close several times before the ice-clean-ing break, including a long-range bomb that rattled the upright.

The Eagles came out of the locker room fired up and needed just 12 seconds to tie it up, Kenton Browne providing the touch after Tyren Dustin broke down the right off the puck drop.

The equalizer kicked both sides into high gear and opened the door to an increas-ingly physical match-up between the sides, the third period see-ing a combined 22 of the game’s 32 penalty minutes.

Dustin turned from provider to goalscorer to give the Eagles the edge. After soaking up a penalty the home side

surged forward at full strength and Dustin was the first to react to a loose puck in front of the Nanaimo goal, forcing it past the pads of the visitors’ goalie for the winning score.

On Saturday the Eagles fell behind to a first-period strike but Dustin evened the scoring soon after.

The visitors added another before the

buzzer before goals from Josh Walkus, Daryll Coon, George Walkus and Brandon Purdey helped them coast out to a 5-2 lead, Nanaimo grabbing a late consolation.

Divisional placing and scheduling will take place this week-end, with league action expected to begin the weekend of October 25.

NISS, PHSS soccer sides tie in McNeillGazette staffPORT McNEILL—The two

North Island high schools’ senior boys soccer sides remained inseparable last week as they tied 2-2 in Port McNeill, echoing the 1-1 draw in the sides’ opening game.

On another day, either side could have romped away with a game that saw periods of intense pressure, several missed chances and a spec-tacular equalizer.

An open and flowing start from both sides at the North Island Secondary School pitch Wednesday provided a few half chances in the opening stages but little to trouble either keeper.

It took a set-piece to break the deadlock midway through the half after a foul 25 yards out from the Port Hardy Secondary goal. Clifford Glendale was the first to react to a looping delivery into the box and he did well to slot home from a narrow angle past an oncoming Quentin Wamiss in the PHSS goal.

The PHSS side rallied and

had several looks at goal but the home side soaked up the pressure and closed out the half on top, looking particu-larly dangerous from set piece work-ups.

PHSS looked a different side from the kick-off of the second half, immediately pil-ing forward and putting NISS on the back foot.

They were rewarded min-utes into the half when Daryll Coon earned a free kick on the edge of the box, then con-fidently stroked it into the cor-ner to tie.

PHSS kept up the pressure and earned the lead when Grade 9 Steven Williamson picked up a rebound in the box and coolly lifted it high into the back of the net.

NISS fought its way back into the game with a series of counter attacks, the home side’s quick ball movement from midfield causing head-aches for the PHSS defence.

The breaks had the desired effect when the PHSS back line got drawn to the left on a through ball, opening space

for a whipped cross in front of goal. Moses Smith did superb-ly to convert, arriving late at the back post with a sliding scissor kick to turn a difficult ball into the net.

"I thought it was a good game," said NISS coach Casey Mork, "again, that was prob-ably a fair result. I thought e had better speed and we were the better team in the air but they had better passing than we did."

"We played quite well," said PHSS coach Mike Cleary, "we came back nicely in the sec-ond half; the first 15 minutes we dominated and probably should have put them away."

The two sides have a pair of chances this week to break the deadlock. NISS once again hosted yesterday, after the Gazette went to press, and PHSS play at home today, Thursday, Oct. 16, at 1:15 p.m.

Both sides will use the games to make final prepara-tions ahead of next week’s trip to Duncan for the Island A championships.

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Sports & Recreation

Tyler roperThe Port Alice forward scored five goals

and finished with eight points as the Eagles atoms rallied past Comox.

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AThleTe of the Week

Atoms go nuclear in thirdJ.R. RardonGazette editorPORT McNEILL—

The North Island Eagles atom development team may have gotten off to a slow start in its exhi-bition game with the Comox Chiefs Sunday, but there was nothing wrong with its finish.

Tyler Roper scored five goals, including a natural hat trick in the pivotal third period, and Ethan Bono added nine points as the Eagles raced away to an 11-6 win over the visitors at Chilton Regional Arena.

The 17 goals amassed by the two teams is remarkable considering they skated to a score-less tie through the first period.

“At first they were playing selfish and not passing the puck enough,” Eagles coach Ray Bono said. “Once they started moving the puck they played a lot better.”

Still, after back-to-back goals by Roper

and Bono in the open-ing minute of the sec-ond period staked the hosts to a 2-0 lead, the Chiefs showed they had come to play, too. Comox added two goals of its own in a two-minute stretch to tie it midway through the period, and continued to match scores with the Eagles before taking its first lead at 5-4 early in the third.

“It’s good for us

to be in a game like that, where we’re not blowing someone out or getting blown out,” Ray Bono said. “The kids showed grit. They worked hard together.”

The turnaround began at 5:10 of the third, after the Chiefs — who were whistled for only four penalties the entire game — found them-selves skating 3-on-5 due to a five-minute slashing major com-

bined with two minor penalties a minute and a half later.

The Eagles took full advantage, with Cole Klughart netting the tying goal and Bono putting the atoms ahead for good, both on the power play. David Klatt made it 7-5 for the Eagles when, bat-tling the Chiefs’ Cash Swayze behind the Comox net, he managed to score what teammate David Hurley called, “the craziest goal ever.”

“(Swayze) went to go shoot it around (the boards),” Klatt said. “It tipped off my stick and then it hit the goalie in the back of the leg and hit the post.”

When the puck finally came to rest, it was sit-ting behind the goal line as the Chiefs looked on in disbelief.

Meanwhile, goalie Griffin Handley, who was victimized by sev-eral odd-man rushes in the second, was doing his best work of the game to keep Comox

from chipping into the lead.

Then it was time for the Roper show, as he potted three straight goals in less than two minutes to make it a 10-5 game. All the goals were assisted by Bono, who closed out the team’s scoring by redirecting a Roper shot to complete his own hat trick at 17:32 of the third.

Comox capped the scoring with a mean-ingless goal with 47 seconds to play.

“That’s North Island Eagles hockey,” Ray Bono said. “You’re gonna have games like that.”

Bono finished with six assists to go with his three goals, while Roper had three assists and Klughart three more. Ethan Hunt had two helpers and Mannie Browne added an assist for the Eagles, who will host Nanaimo in a tiering-round game in Port Alice Saturday.

Daunte McKinney of the North Island Eagles atom development team, right, and Carter McCallum of Comox go down after colliding during their teams’ exhibition game Sunday. J.R. Rardon

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