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NEWS BRIEFS Oh Canada!

Chrome and Canada Day fl ags were decorating the vehicles in the Canada Day Parade on July 1. For more photos see Page 6, 7 and 8 or go to www.caledoniacourier.com.

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The Dr. is not in

With Dr. Stent taking some well-earned vaca-tion time in July, Fort St. James will be without an emergency room and without a medical clinic at times.

No physician services will be available while Dr. Stent is away, how-ever, the health unit and Nak’azdli Health will still be open for nurse visits.

The Fort St. James Medical Clinic will be closed on: July 2, 16, 18-23, 25, and July 27 until August 3.

The Stuart Lake Hos-pital emergency room will be closed for the remainder of July, unless Northern Health is able to fi nd locum physicians for the community.

Canada Day fi reworks leave one injured

CorrectionsTreeplanter donation

To clarify: In the June 13 issue of The Caledo-nia Courier, the donation by treeplanters working for Artisan Reforestation was a combination of $1,700 from the planters, and $1,700 from Artisan to match this.

Planters chose to plant however many trees they wanted towards the Community Foundation, and Artisan then matched their donations.

Not your average grad

There were mistakes in the details pertaining to the new mom and her son from the June 27 is-sue of The Courier.

Katelyn Joseph’s new baby is named Carson Frank George Joseph and was born on June 19, 2012, weighing 6 pounds, 8 ounces.

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A fi reworks technician was injured by a misfi re on Canada Day in Fort St. James.

At shortly after 11 p.m., only a few minutes into the annual Canada Day fi reworks display over Cottonwood Beach, the show was brought to an abrupt end when a mis-fi re occurred and the blast went out over the ground instead of up into the air.

The technician from Northern Lights Fire-works was injured in the blast.

The injured man had burns to his lower body, but the injuries were con-sidered not life-threaten-ing.

He was taken by am-bulance to Vanderhoof due to the current closure

of the Stuart Lake Hospi-tal Emergency room.

He was expected to make a full recovery, ac-cording to Bruce Hinton of Northern Lights Fire-works.

The injured man was still in hospital in Prince George on Thursday of last week, but was ex-pected to be released later that day.

The burns were most-ly on one leg, but he had also breathed in some of the hot gases during the explosion, and so had needed assistance breath-ing for the time being.

The remaining fi re-works were packed up from the Lakeshore Drive site on Sunday after the accident, and stored until Hinton came up to dis-mantle and retrieve the remaining fi reworks.

Until they are dis-

mantled, the fi reworks are essentially armed ex-plosives, and so must be taken apart by a licenced technician.

Once dismantled, the fi reworks can be used again, except for dam-aged devices, which are taken to a special facil-ity to dispose of explosive materials.

While Hinton said misfi res can happen, they are rare, and injuries from them even rarer, occurring in about 0.1 per cent of cases.

He said this was the fi rst serious injury from a show he could recall in almost 20 years of busi-ness for Northern Lights Fireworks.

The devices are set to go up to certain heights according to the site, and at Cottonwood were set for 300-600 feet in the air,

to explode to a diameter of 500 feet for the device which misfi red on Sun-day.

This kind of force means the devices are quite dangerous if they fi re on the ground instead.

“He’s lucky, very lucky,” said Hinton of the injured man.

The technician would have been wearing per-sonal protective equip-ment, including fi re-re-sistant coveralls, eye and hearing protection, a hard hat, gloves and boots.

Hinton said in cases where not all the fi reworks are used, the unused por-tion is normally removed from the bill.

RIGHT: Bruce Hinton of Northern Lights Fireworks dismantles the left over fi reworks from Canada Day.

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Nine-year-old Taylor Christian was visiting her Grandmother Sharon Buck on Necoslie Road last week. Her timing was pretty lucky, as she had the op-portunity to spend some time with a 10-day-old foal.

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While at 6 a.m. most mornings, I might nor-mally be found count-ing sheep still soundly tucked into bed, I re-cently chose counting birds over the fuzzy mammals.

First of all, as a dis-claimer, I must say I am not a birder.

While I enjoy bird-song in my yard and attempt to plant native and berry-laden bushes in yards I inhabit to at-tract feathery friends, I am not very knowl-edgeable when it comes to identifying the broad spectrum of winged creatures fl itting about.

Sure, I can spot a few, the Cedar Wax-wing is easy to pick out, and the Northern Flick-er, but try and get me to tell you what type of sparrow is on a branch and I will be lost.

But luckily for me, I had the distinct pleasure of going with some ex-perienced birdwatchers last week, who knew their White-crowned Sparrow from their Lin-coln’s Sparrow.

I was invited by Joanne Vinnedge, area biologist and the re-gional coordinator for the fi rst ever BC Breed-ing Bird Atlas.

Accompanying her was Randy Rawluk, an experienced birder with a keen ear for birdsong.

Now, we did not tip toe through the woods with binoculars peering up at trees attempting to see rare species, which is more my mental pic-ture of bird watching.

Instead, as part of Vinnedge’s work for the BC Breeding Bird

Atlas, we were visiting one of the 10 km by 10 km squares her region is divided up into to do point counts.

Essentially, we went to different points in the square and documented the habitat type and then for fi ve minutes, listened and watched for birds.

Now, if you’re like me, birdsong is more like a pleasant back-ground than something I can use to count birds, but being there with two knowledgable bird-ers was quite a different experience.

They pointed out individual sounds and if there were repeated sounds in a different spot, that meant there were two of this bird.

Now, this must take some practice. After

awhile standing there with them, as they called out different species and asked each other if one or the other heard this or that one, it was almost akin to the feeling of staring at one of those 3D images where you unfocus your eyes and eventually an image pops out at you.

Or maybe more like looking at a woven fab-ric from far away and as you move in closer you begin to see the pattern, and eventually the indi-vidual threads.

Different sounds be-came more distinct and individual.

Seeing the birds was a lot easier for me, as some fl ew overhead and others clung to branch-es and fence lines, the “small brown birds” I had never even at-

tempted to identify be-came more easily dis-tinguished by the white around an ear or the darker breast.

Now of course, had I been on my own, at-tempting to clarify the individual species us-ing the trusted Sibley’s Field Guide, I would likely have been staring at the book while the bird fl ew out of sight and had to try to recall whether or not there was a spot of white at the birds throat or per-haps some brown on the breast.

But this is the great part about going out with experienced bird-ers, they can be your guide.

It was a lovely way to spend an hour in the early morning, and a great way to appreci-

ate a little more what is right here in our back-yards.

Vinnedge is work-ing on the fi nal push for her BC Breeding Bird Atlas, and can use all the help she can get in doing her fi nal survey work.

The BC Breeding Bird Atlas will help to provide a baseline for conservation in the province. Birds are an indicator of all kinds of environmental changes and this fi rst atlas will help to provide a refer-ence for future changes in bird breeding habits and populations.

Anyone interested in helping out or reporting birds observations can call Vinnedge at 996-7401 or to learn more about the project go to www.birdatlas.bc.ca.

Joanne Vinnedge carefully records the point count at one of the sites near Airport Road. Vinnedge is working on the fi nal push for surveys which will help to create the fi rst ever British Columbia Breeding Bird Atlas. The atlas will help to provide a baseline for monitoring changes in bird popu-lations and habits. Much of the surveying is being done by volunteers like Vinnedge, dedicating untold hours of their own time to create a valuable resource for the future.

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Editor:

An open letter to Enbridge, proponent of the Northern Gateway Pipeline, and the residents of Fort St. James and sur-rounding area

On the evening of June 20, our com-munity had yet another visit by two com-munications representatives of Enbridge.

The company is proposing to build the Northern Gateway Pipeline which would pass just south of our community, cross-ing both Stuart River and Pitka Creek.

The purpose of the representatives’ visit was to tell the two dozen people in attendance about what Enbridge has done to date for the communities along Talmadge Creek and Kalamazoo River in Michigan USA, the site of Enbridge’s July 2010 pipeline spill of about 3.3 mil-lion litres of thick bitumen crude, this is the same product which would be carried through the proposed Northern Gateway Pipeline. The cleanup of the Enbridge Michigan spill is nearing the two year mark, and the 39 mile stretch of river has

just recently been reopened to the public even though cleanup continues.

More was said of the economic and social benefits Enbridge provided the communities in the days, weeks and now years following the spill.

What were the “benefits” mentioned? • for the first few months of the

cleanup efforts the communities saw their hotels and motels booked solid, and their restaurants and other businesses reaping the economic benefits of all the crews working on the spill site;

• as the cleanup efforts were downsized the used equipment such as shovels and rakes, even a pickup truck, were given to the communities;

• new access points were built to the Kalamazoo River;

• cleanup stations were installed along the river’s edge so that people who might come in contact with residual oil could clean themselves immediately;

• 150 houses were purchased from people impacted by the oil spill; some are now being used by crews that

continue cleaning up the spill.In my opinion, the presentation was

crafted by Enbridge to boast about what they have done for communities in the af-termath of an oil spill from one of their pipelines, as though these are things we could look forward to.

A very real threat hangs over us, over our community if the Northern Gateway Pipeline is built. The pipeline is proposed to travel under Stuart River near our air-port, threatening a pristine ecosystem that is like few others. If a spill were to happen at the proposed pumping sta-tion which is in close proximity to Pitka Creek there is the strong likelihood of the oil entering Stuart Lake as shown on a map provided by Enbridge.

The spill could easily be carried down Stuart River. Pipeline spills are inevi-table and are happening with alarming frequency.

In the past few weeks alone there have been at least two pipeline spills in Al-berta, the first into the Red Deer River, the second a failure at an Enbridge pump

station. I told the Enbridge representatives to

take a message to their company. My message was that I do not want our

hotels and motels, restaurants and busi-nesses reaping benefits because of an oil spill affecting our community. I do not want Enbridge to give our community shovels and rakes, and pickup trucks be-cause of an oil spill affecting our com-munity.

I do not want Enbridge building new access points to Pitka Creek, Stuart Lake or Stuart River because of an oil spill af-fecting our community.

I do not want Enbridge installing clean-up stations along our waterways because of an oil spill affecting our community.

I do not want Enbridge buying houses from our residents because of an oil spill affecting our community.

I do not want the Northern Gateway Pipeline!

Brenda Gouglas

Resident responds to Enbridge presentation

Editor:Well, that was quite the show that

Enbridge put on the other night (One more Enbridge presentation, Caledo-nia Courier, July 4).

To listen to them you could get the impression, spilling 20,000-plus barrels of oil into the Kalamazoo River can be a good thing for a community.

Oil spills can be an economic boon – hotels are fi lled with spill workers, restaurants are busy catering for clean-up crews, imagine the jobs, the poten-tial!

And need a new boat launch? Let Enbridge dump a bunch of oil

in your waterway, clean it up, and then use the site that has been dredged and degraded to provide you with access to the contaiminated river.

Get a little oil on your hand reach-ing for that fi sh you just caught?

Here’s a handy wipe to take that away – but, as the posted warning sign says, “It’s easier to clean off if you do it right away”.

Other things Enbridge said Wednes-day night just didn’t, to be honest, sit right with me. So I went looking for answers. Here’s what I found.

Contrary to Enbridge’s statement that night, bitumen does not act “just like any other oil.”

It sinks. It sticks. And the toxicity is far beyond any other types of oil. And that means that clean-up is a challenge

because conventional clean-up meth-ods don’t deal with submerged oil – oil on the river bottom. The US Environ-mental Protection Agency admits that they are “writing the book” on bitumen spill clean-ups because they had never responded to a spill like this before. (See: http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2011/07/kalama-zoo_river_oil_spill_resp.html )

And Enbridge was adamant that they didn’t know about the spill when it happened because “Nobody called us.”

Documents recently released by the National Transportation Safety Board indicate that Enbridge employees at the Edmonton Control Centre knew some-thing was wrong, that they couldn’t fi gure out what the problem was, but not until someone outside the company told them what the problem was they went into damage control.

Keep in mind this is the same Ed-monton Control Centre that will be monitoring the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline.

Documents recently released by the US Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Agency show that the actions of the employees at the control centre pushed excessive oil into the river dur-ing a 17 hour delay, instead of follow-ing a basic company rule to shut the system down after 10 minutes when a problem is detected.

A delay of 17 hours on the Northern Gateway pipeline could push a lot of bitumen into Pitka Creek or the Stuart River.

But I guess the language that ran-kled me the most was their insistence that they could not discuss anything leading up to their response on the ground “because the NTSB has told us not to.”

Well, Michelle and Loraine, I con-tacted the NTSB and asked them if this was true.

They told me you were able to discuss any information contained in documents already released. In fact, the words the fellow that I contacted used were “parties are free to discuss factual information that has been released”. Timelines, interviews with Enbridge employees – all out there, all posted on the NTSB web-site, all available for discussion.

The key word here is “told.” Michelle and Loraine insisted that they were “told” not to discuss any-thing until the fi nal report has been released. The word the NTSB uses is “choose,” as in “The vast majority of parties simply choose not to talk about the investigation until our investigation is complete and we’ve made the determination of probable cause.”

Enbridge chose not to talk. Hiding behind an administrative

direction that gives you the option of discussing the facts as they have been released does nothing to endear a com-pany to the community.

I would have been a lot more im-pressed if they had come in, said yes, this is what happened, mistakes were made, and we’ve made changes as a result.

So now Enbridge is going to come back, once again, to sell us on the mer-its of this proposal. How many more times does this company have to show up in town to try and sell us on a pro-posal that has no local benefi t, carries signifi cant local risk, and is basically being forced through by the federal

government? We are being asked to carry all of

the risk for a company and a govern-ment that does not live here – they won’t be told they can’t eat the fi sh, drink the water, or use the lake.

It’s time for those of us who care about our clean waters, our communi-ties, and our neighbours to stand up, stand together, and say NO to Northern Gateway.

And that includes our local govern-ment offi cials. You elected them to rep-resent you, to protect your community. Make sure they do.

Kandace Kerr

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NEWSCourierDistrict asks residents to be prepared


Residents living along Stuart Lake are asked to be prepared for rising lake levels.

Rising water levels last week had the Fort St. James Integrated Emergency Management Program (FSJIEMP) warning residents to move items out of harm’s way.

The FSJIEMP is run cooperatively by the District of Fort St. James and Nak’azdli Band.

The River Forecast Centre has estimated the lake level could rise between 8 and 20 cm in the next two weeks.

Outdoor furniture, personal items or things which could be damaged by fl ooding or which

would fl oat away should be removed.Basements and crawlspaces should be pre-

pared by removing buoyant materials which could damage the fi rst fl oor of the structure or possessions which would be damaged by water.

Chemicals such as weed killer, insecticides, fuels or corrosives should be kept somewhere safe and dry so as to prevent contamination, fi res or personal injury.

All vehicles and equipment with gasoline or diesel engines should be moved to higher ground as well.

The key areas of concern for the emergency management team right now are spots where high water typically hits fi rst.

Huffman Point, located next to the beach

volleyball courts, the government wharf, also known as Cottonwood Marina, and Lakeshore Drive, are the spots where lower ground can leave them susceptible to high lake levels.

Notices have been sent out to boat owners keeping boats in the marina to be aware of high water levels and if water gets too high, they may need to take their boats out of the water to avoid damage.

The FSJIEMP is hoping the two days with-out a rise in the lake level as the paper was going to press was a sign the water may have peaked, making the fl ood watch a non-issue.

However, they want the public to be prepared in case the River Watch prediction does occur.

Flood level is designated as 1.8 m on the

gauge at Cottonwood Marina, and the lake level was sitting at 1.88 m before the paper went to press last week. While there was some water in driveways on Huffman Point, water had not yet reached the fl oors of homes and was not yet causing residents any real concern yet.

Some of the highest levels previously re-corded were seen in 2002 and 2007, when the Cottonwood Marina lake level gauge read 2.029 m and 2.15 m, respectively.

For further information on fl ood prepared-ness, visit: Emergency Management BC

Rural residents requiring assistance should contact the Regional District of Bulkley-Necha-ko (RDBN) at 1-800-320-3339.

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***ST PATRICK’S ANGLICAN CHURCH... hosts a free lunch every Tuesday from 11.00am - 1.00pm. All are welcome. This lunch is made possible through the generous giving of time and resources,by many people in the region, including Sylvia Isaac, The Roman Catholic Church, Camp Living Water, and many other indi-viduals.We wish to thank all those who contribute their labour to this program as well as those who pro-vide food and other necessities. We also run a small food bank on Tuesday morning, and are very thankful for all who contribute to this endeavor. For further infor-mation please call Gwen Andrews 567-6744.

***SERVICE TIMES... at St Pat-rick’s Anglican Church, Fort St James, will be 2.00pm every Sunday. Friday at 6.00pm - Each week we offer a Fellowship time

with soup, music, and prayer, at St Patrick’s Anglican Church Hall beginning at 6.00pm. Please come and join us.

***FIREWEED CLOTHES DRIVE...The Fireweed Safe Ha-ven is doing a winter clothes drive. We are looking for jackets, boots, snow pants, mitts, hats, scarves, fl eeces, etc, for men, women and children. The items will then be given to families in the community that need them. If you do not have anything at home that you can part with but still wish to contribute, you can purchase mitts, socks, or thermal underwear. Please drop items off at the Fireweed Safe Ha-ven. For more information please contact Talia at (250) 996-8081. Every little bit helps.

***AUXILIARY TO STUART LAKE HOSPITAL... Monthly meeting 2nd Wednesday each month. Hospital Cafeteria 7:00 p.m.

***FORT ST. JAMES PUBLIC LI-BRARY HOURS...

Tuesday 11:30-8:00Wednesday 11:30-4:30Thursday 11:30-4:30

Friday 11:30-8:00Saturday 11:00-3:00

***NECHAKO VALLEY COM-MUNITY SERVICES SOCI-ETY...Child and Youth Mental Health and Counseling Services available at no cost. Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Call 996-7645 for appointment.

***FORT TRAP AND HANDGUN CLUB... meets last Sunday of ev-ery month. Contact Sharon at 996-8373 for more information.

***FORT ST. JAMES SEARCH & RESCUE... steering committee

meetings fi rst Tuesday of everymonth. 7:00 p.m. above the Fort St. James Firehall. Training is thethird Tuesday of every month at the Firehall at 7 p.m. New mem-bers welcome.

***MUSIC MAKERS...New mem-bers always WELCOME. Not everyone has to be on stage, thereis lots of work behind the scenes.Call Rosemary Allan at 250-996-8997 for more info.

***THE THRIFT STORE...has anew name! “The Bargain Base-ment”. We are still at the same lo-cation, across from Shoppers FoodMart. Donations of clean clothingand small housewares are greatlyappreciated. Please, no books or magazines. Proceeds are used for community needs. Open Wed-Sat,12 noon to 4pm.

***PUBLIC SERVICE AN-NOUNCEMENT...If you knowanyone, including a child, who hasbeen abused or harmed by a psy-chiatrist call the Citizens Commis-sion on Human Rights at: 1-800-670-2247.

***ALCOHOLICS ANONY-MOUS... Every Thursday, 8 p.m. at the United Church Hall on 2ndAvenue. Contact 996-8290.

***FIREWEED SAFE HAVEN...a safe place for women and their children leaving violence or abuse.24 hour access - please call 996-8000.

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FORT ST. JAMES PARENTADVISORY...3rd Tuesday every month 7 p.m. at High School.

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PHOTOS CLOCKWISE FROM ABOVE: The fi reworks show was short-lived over Cottonwood Park. Hannelise Inden wowed the crowd at the Multicultural Potluck Dinner on Canada Day during the Fort St. James Has Talent competition. She won fi rst place with her impressive demon-stration of hula hooping talent. A tractor-pulled haywagon is always an attraction in the parade. Calla the Labrador Retriever shows off some of her ribbons for her retrieving skills. Calla was in the parade with Monica Grill of Nahounli Kennels. Classic cars always provide some eye-candy while fi lling out the parade. Young dancers from the Frog Clan showed off their moves and their beautiful regalia in the parade. For a much larger slideshow of images from Canada Day, check out The Caledonia Courier Facebook page.

Photos by Ruth Lloyd

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Once again, the Canada Day helicopter toy drop took place on the shores of Stuart Lake. Coupons are dropped from the helicopter and each person with a coupon can then choose one free prize.

Photos by Ruth Lloyd

Harry Hook rode his horse while leading another for his wife Lynn Jackson in the Canada Day parade. Jackson was helping to organize and judge the parade, so couldn’t be in it, but got to ride her horse back from Cottonwood Park Kevin Gedling Photo

Overwaitea Foods hosted some watermelon eating contests during Canada Day celebra-tions in Cottonwood Park. The messy hands-free races were a major hit with youngsters.


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(Left) Two young helpers greet the crowd from the Farmer’s Market fl oat. (Right) A young cyclist frills out the parade with her festive bike. Ruth Lloyd Photos

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We are very pleased to be serving commu-nities in the Nechako Region. The College of New Caledonia (CNC) is involved in many initiatives that meet community educational and so-cial services needs. CNC Nechako lives by the college’s mis-sion statement as be-ing “a comprehensive college, providing access to lifelong learning to facilitate in the achievement of personal and educa-tional goals. We are responsive to the di-verse needs of our cli-ents, our employees, and the communities of our region. In the dynamic, consulta-tive environment, we deliver quality pro-grams and promote the success of every student”.

C N C - N e c h a k o Region includes campuses in Fort St. James, Vanderhoof and Fraser Lake; it has been serving adult learners in the respec-tive communities for more than 30 years. The regional cam-puses serve 12 multi-cultural communities of varying sizes with a total population of over 18,000 in a geo-graphical area cover-ing 1,105,900 hect-ares – half the size of Vancouver Island.

The role of CNC-Nechako is to equip learners to identify and meet the complex and evolving needs of their communi-ties in ways that are culturally appropri-ate, economically and socially relevant, and wholly refl ective of the adult learner. In addition to providing education opportuni-ties the community campuses provide many social programs that benefi t our local youth, adults, and se-niors/elders.

Our vocational education program offerings develop and strengthen a variety of employability skills for individuals seek-ing to enter and re-enter the workplace.

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The Administrative Assistant Certifi cate program is one exam-ple of a program that is truly a career kick-starter for many of the graduates. Many of the graduates have a job to go to before they have completed the program, or soon after!

The Nechako cam-puses are working closely with mining companies to en-sure we are deliver-ing training relevant to their needs. The Mining Resource In-dustry Certifi cate, Drill Core Technician and Surface Diamond Driller’s Helper will continue to be de-livered at both our Vanderhoof and Fort St. James campuses. The Mineral Pro-cessing Operator is a new training program available this fall for individuals interested in mine processing employment opportu-nities.

Through the Min-istry of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation - Em-ployment Skills Ac-cess funding, campus-es have successfully delivered fulltime training programs for Industrial Field Medic, Basic Secu-rity, Essential Offi ce Skills, Resources Based Industries, Lumber Manufactur-ing, and Environmen-tal Field Assistant. Due to the popularity of the Targeted Initia-tive for Older Work-ers (TIOW), all three campuses have offered multiple deliveries in Fort St. James, Fraser Lake and Vanderhoof. This very successful program is directed to unemployed workers age 50 to 64 years of age where they up-date their skills sets that builds confi dence in their ability to se-cure future employ-ment.

The Aviation and Business Certifi cate program started in September 2011. The Aviation program called PilotPlus and is the only one offered in the north and pre-

pares new commer-cial pilots for imme-diate employment as pilots in command in single engine aircraft operations with small and mid-level aviation companies. The Col-lege has an agreement with the University of the Fraser Valley and Coastal Pacifi c Avia-tion to transfer to a full four year bach-elor’s degree in Avia-tion Business. The Aviation program uti-lizes two-state-of-the-art full motion fl ying simulators and is now expanding to offer a range of shorter length courses.

Partnership and cooperation are key elements to the suc-cess of CNC Nechako Region; each initia-tive includes estab-lishing multiple part-nerships that assist us in addressing pro-gramming require-ments that meet the economic and social needs in the commu-nities we serve. Due to our commitment to social community development, we have taken the lead to support programs such as Neighbour-hood Space, Seniors Connected, the Van-derhoof Youth Centre,

Fort St. James and Vanderhoof Commu-nity Adult Literacy Program (CALP) and ESL among other initiatives. All these have demonstrated to be very positive for participants as they become more engaged in their own communities.

CNC’s staff in Fort St. James, Fraser Lake and Vanderhoof are involved in the community and par-ticipates in several local community or-ganizations, includ-ing the Chamber of Commerce, Good Neighbours Commit-tee, Fort St. James Pioneer Place Hous-ing Society, Nechako Valley Community Social Services, Fort St. James Community Foundation Society, Literacy Now Task Group, Success By Six, Nechako Valley Food Network, B.C. Cattlemen’s Associa-tion, Central Interior Feeder Cattle As-sociation, Enbridge Community Advisory Board (CAB), OBAC Agricultural Imple-mentation Committee, Nechako Community Arts Council, Mount Milligan Community Sustainability Com-

mittee, Fort St. James Indicators for Mining Community Health and Sustainability Committee, and Fort

St. James Community Literacy Task Com-mittee.

These partnerships speak to the active in-

volvement and com-mitment to supportdiverse initiatives thatbenefi t the Collegecommunities.

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.cnc.bc.ca/nechakoCNC Campus @ 179 Douglas Fort St. James

Phone: 250-996-7019 Summer hours for CNC campus are 9 am to 3 pm Monday to Friday

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Apollo Forest Products Ltd. has openings for full-time positions for Millwrights. Certifi ed, uncertifi ed and 2nd or 3rd year apprentices will be considered.

The successful candidate must possess:• Experience with various automated operations and systems in a modern industrial facility,• The ability to apply their trade skills and knowledge safely and effectively,• Exceptional organizational skills, • Excellent communications and interpersonal skills,• Sawmill experience an asset.

Candidates must be a highly motivated tradesperson with the ability to work in a close team environment.

Applicants should forward or fax resumes to: Apollo Forest Products Ltd. Human Resource Dept. PO Box 129 Fort St. James, BC V0J 1P0 Fax# 250-996-8730 Email: [email protected]

Only applicants short-listed will be notifi ed.

ELECTRICIAN

Apollo Forest Products Ltd. is currently seeking Electri-cians for permanent full-time shift work. Certifi ed, un-certifi ed and 2nd or 3rd year apprentices will be con-sidered.

The successful candidate must possess:• Experience with various automated operations and systems in a modern industrial facility,• The ability to apply their trade skills and knowledge safely and effectively,• Exceptional organizational skills,• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills,• Sawmill experience an asset.

Candidates must be a highly motivated tradesperson with the ability to work in a close team environment.

Applicants should forward or fax resumes to: Apollo Forest Products Ltd. Human Resource Dept. PO Box 129 Fort St. James, BC V0J 1P0 Fax# 250-996-8730 Email: [email protected]

Only applicants short-listed will be notifi ed.

5 years ago God looked around his Garden and found an empty space.

He then looked down upon this earthAnd saw your tired face.

He put his arms around youAnd lifted you to rest,

God’s garden must be beautifulAs he only takes the best.

You will always be in our hearts,Love Gladys, Mandy, Mom & families

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You have at least 2 years’ experience as a maintenance supervisor and a leadership characterized by effective people and team management and superb interpersonal, analytical and problem-solving skills. You’ve combined this with a working knowledge of WorkSafeBC regulations, a commitment to safety and computerized business applications proficiency, particularly with maintenance management systems. Extensive crew-management experience would be ideal.

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The new Recreation Coor-dinator for the District of Fort St. James comes with a pas-sion for recreation.

Lisa Kabool, a student of the Recreation Leadership Diploma Program at Langara College, is excited for the op-portunity to put her passion and her knowledge to work here in the Fort.

While Kabool was born and raised in New Westminis-ter, the 31-year-old has spent quite a bit of time in Fort St. James over the past year vis-iting her boyfriend, who was up here working.

So, while she wanted the opportunity to put her first year of studies in her program into practice, she also thought this might be a great place to do it.

The position of recreation coordinator in Fort St. James will give her an opportunity to gain a much broader range of experience than she would have been able to had she tried to find a position in the Lower Mainland or in any other larger centres.

“The experience is invalu-able,” said Kabool.

Summer positions in larger centres would not likely allow

her the opportunity to plan and implement entire recreation pro-grams as well as run them on a day to day basis to see how well they work.

“Plus it’s so pretty here,” she

added.Since she’s been in the com-

munity, she has already helped to lead a running clinic and she has been up Mount Pope, something many long-time residents can not

even boast.An avid runner, Kabool runs

half-marathons and her innate love of fitness and recreation is what got her interested in the program she is in.

“It just seemed kind of like a natural fit to do what I like and help others get into it too.”

Initially, she had ob-tained a degree in psy-chology from Simon Fraser University (SFU), and for the last three years she has managed the SFU bookstore, which while it was a great job, did not necessarily seem like the job she wanted to be at forever.

So instead, Kabool said she “decided to follow my passion” and entered into the Recreation Leadership Program and one year in she’s at the top of her class and loving the program.

While initially she took a leave of absence from her job at SFU, she has since handed in her resig-nation in full commitment to her future as a recre-ation leader.

“It was so scary,” she said.

But she seems to be doing well at her new role, and this year’s recre-ation programs are sure to

benefit from the love she has for what she’s doing.

Information on programs can be found at: http://fortstjames.ca/parks-recreation/

A new local girl offers up summer

recreation opportunities

Lisa Kabool is the new summer recreation coordinator for the District of Fort St. James. She can be found at the District office on Stuart Drive or out and about recreating with the community’s youth.

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