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Northern Sentinel K I T I M A T RCMP Sgt. addresses the ‘rumour mill’ ... page 5 Volume 58 No. 38 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, September 18, 2013 $ 1.30 INCLUDES TAX PM477761 The Kitimat Ice Demons are back on the ice. Above is the team’s first inter-squad game, held at Tamitik Arena on September 12. The season will really start though when the Demons face off against rivals the Terrace River Kings on October 5. DoK declines recycling offer Cameron Orr The District of Kitimat has declined the offer from Multi-Material BC to be given a financial incentive to pick up printed paper and packaging material as part of a province-wide recycling plan. Councillors had until this month to decide whether to accept the program, which would have meant curbside collection of the recyclable, how- ever a lot of questions and unclear costs meant they may have been walking into a lot of financial burdens. “We want to be doing the recycling, I think it’s very important, but under the proposed plan from Multi Material BC, it’s just not worth it,” said councillor Corinne Scott. Multi Material BC is a non-profit group which was formed to implement these recycling changes.It’s part of a province-wide program that shifts the cost of recycling from taxpayers, to the consumers and producers. Communities which already provide curbside garbage collection were offered the opportunity to take part in the program, which goes into action May 19, 2014. For the District it would mean $137,000 to collect the recycling, but the estimate on expenses came out between $195,000 and $200,000. Plus there were a number of requirements that, if not met, would result in hefty fines. Although councillor Mario Feldhoff repeated a conclusion from the City of Prince George that there may have been $2 million in potential fines if certain rules were not followed, MMBC manag- ing director Allen Langdon clarified that MMBC would cap fines at $120,000 and 24 loads. Langdon said there are three main categories for penalties including contamination, labour dis- ruption, and late reporting of services. “It’s important to producers because they are the ones who are funding this program,” Langdon added. “What they say is that ‘we understand we are responsible for our material, but we don’t want to have to pay for a bunch of stuff that isn’t printed paper or packaging.’” Langdon also wants to assure member service providers—the municipalities and private compa- nies who will have to work together to see recy- cled material through the processing chain—that penalties won’t be given out will-nilly. “There’s a pretty extensive process in A) de- termining if there is a problem, B) verifying if in fact it is a problem, and C) working with the col- lector in question, if it’s a local government, in developing a remediation plan to address the is- sues. If the plan works then I don’t think we have an issue,” he said. Continued on page 2 Close to Farrow St. solution Cameron Orr Canada Post has given Kitimat a way to get mail delivery going again on Farrow Street, but there was just one de- cision left to make on Council’s plate. Door-to-door mail delivery by Can- ada Post to Farrow Street has been sus- pended since November 2012 because of a problem of a dog at large which was reportedly being aggressive to mail car- riers. Kitimat Council has since adopted new bylaws which give the town more power to deal with dangerous and at- large dogs, and Canada Post is report- edly pleased with those developments, according to a Kitimat administration report to council. The last step, however, is for Coun- cil to assure there will be suitable land for a community mail box (CMB) if one is needed. While one won’t be installed immediately, Canada Post wants one to be installed in the event the particular problem dog on Farrow Street becomes a problem again for mail carriers. There are two options council con- sidered. One would have Kitimat agree to in- stalling a permanent CMB which, while coming to no cost to the District, would mean that Farrow Street would never get mail delivery again, even if the dog at some point is assured never to be a prob- lem. (If the dog leaves the neighbour- hood, for instance.) Council instead opted for plan num- ber 2, to provide space to install a tem- porary one, which would leave the door open for door-to-door mail delivery again on the street. However the District would take on the cost burden, which, for installation and removal is estimated to be around $10,000. This plan won’t be officially adopt- ed as a contract with Canada Post until residents on Farrow Street provide their comments and feedback on the proposal. Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Warren Waycheshen said that he speaks with the Humane Society manager mul- tiple times a week and plans are in place to prevent the dog on that street from ever being an issue. “This is something that, through a bunch of unfortunate incidents, just got away from everybody, and that hasn’t happened again,” said Waycheshen. He said the community at large has taken notice and residents are being very cautious about animals on their street now. “It’s really out there in the public now. We’ve had some people call in saying ‘there’s a dog running down my street, I don’t want this to turn into Far- row, come and take a look.’ People are being more vigilant about it,” he said. Continued on page 6

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NorthernSentinelK I T I M A T

RCMP Sgt. addresses the ‘rumour mill’ ... page 5

Volume 58 No. 38 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, September 18, 2013 $1.30 INCLUDESTAX

PM477761

The Kitimat Ice Demons are back on the ice. Above is the team’s � rst inter-squad game, held at Tamitik Arena on September 12. The season will really start though when the Demons face off against rivals the Terrace River Kings on October 5.

DoK declines recycling offerCameron Orr

The District of Kitimat has declined the offer from Multi-Material BC to be given a � nancial incentive to pick up printed paper and packaging material as part of a province-wide recycling plan.

Councillors had until this month to decide whether to accept the program, which would have meant curbside collection of the recyclable, how-ever a lot of questions and unclear costs meant they may have been walking into a lot of � nancial burdens.

“We want to be doing the recycling, I think it’s very important, but under the proposed plan from Multi Material BC, it’s just not worth it,” said councillor Corinne Scott.

Multi Material BC is a non-pro� t group which was formed to implement these recycling changes.It’s part of a province-wide program that shifts the cost of recycling from taxpayers, to the consumers and producers.

Communities which already provide curbside garbage collection were offered the opportunity to take part in the program, which goes into action May 19, 2014.

For the District it would mean $137,000 to collect the recycling, but the estimate on expenses came out between $195,000 and $200,000.

Plus there were a number of requirements that, if not met, would result in hefty � nes.

Although councillor Mario Feldhoff repeated a conclusion from the City of Prince George that there may have been $2 million in potential � nes if certain rules were not followed, MMBC manag-ing director Allen Langdon clari� ed that MMBC would cap � nes at $120,000 and 24 loads.

Langdon said there are three main categories for penalties including contamination, labour dis-ruption, and late reporting of services.

“It’s important to producers because they are the ones who are funding this program,” Langdon added.

“What they say is that ‘we understand we are responsible for our material, but we don’t want to have to pay for a bunch of stuff that isn’t printed paper or packaging.’”

Langdon also wants to assure member service providers—the municipalities and private compa-nies who will have to work together to see recy-cled material through the processing chain—that penalties won’t be given out will-nilly.

“There’s a pretty extensive process in A) de-termining if there is a problem, B) verifying if in fact it is a problem, and C) working with the col-lector in question, if it’s a local government, in developing a remediation plan to address the is-sues. If the plan works then I don’t think we have an issue,” he said.

Continued on page 2

Close to Farrow St. solutionCameron Orr

Canada Post has given Kitimat a way to get mail delivery going again on Farrow Street, but there was just one de-cision left to make on Council’s plate.

Door-to-door mail delivery by Can-ada Post to Farrow Street has been sus-pended since November 2012 because of a problem of a dog at large which was reportedly being aggressive to mail car-riers.

Kitimat Council has since adopted new bylaws which give the town more power to deal with dangerous and at-large dogs, and Canada Post is report-edly pleased with those developments, according to a Kitimat administration report to council.

The last step, however, is for Coun-cil to assure there will be suitable land for a community mail box (CMB) if one is needed. While one won’t be installed immediately, Canada Post wants one to

be installed in the event the particular problem dog on Farrow Street becomes a problem again for mail carriers.

There are two options council con-sidered.

One would have Kitimat agree to in-stalling a permanent CMB which, while coming to no cost to the District, would mean that Farrow Street would never get mail delivery again, even if the dog at some point is assured never to be a prob-lem. (If the dog leaves the neighbour-hood, for instance.)

Council instead opted for plan num-ber 2, to provide space to install a tem-porary one, which would leave the door open for door-to-door mail delivery again on the street. However the District would take on the cost burden, which, for installation and removal is estimated to be around $10,000.

This plan won’t be of� cially adopt-ed as a contract with Canada Post until

residents on Farrow Street provide their comments and feedback on the proposal.

Deputy Chief Administrative Of� cer Warren Waycheshen said that he speaks with the Humane Society manager mul-tiple times a week and plans are in place to prevent the dog on that street from ever being an issue.

“This is something that, through a bunch of unfortunate incidents, just got away from everybody, and that hasn’t happened again,” said Waycheshen.

He said the community at large has taken notice and residents are being very cautious about animals on their street now.

“It’s really out there in the public now. We’ve had some people call in saying ‘there’s a dog running down my street, I don’t want this to turn into Far-row, come and take a look.’ People are being more vigilant about it,” he said.

Continued on page 6

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Continued from page 1District of Kitimat staff noted that

MMBC, under the terms of the offered contract, could cancel the arrangement with 180 days notice without cause.

So Kitimat administration was con-cerned that if they invested the capital, which would include a $250,000 collec-tion truck, there was no assurance the

contract would continue long-term.In their motion councillors did sug-

gest to MMBC that they develop a recy-cling depot in Kitimat to collect the prod-ucts. (KUTE does not have the capacity to handle the volume of household material that would be collected, in addition to the commercial waste they already collect.)

Mario Feldhoff said that staff should

come back in the future with a report that fleshes out the concept of a local recy-cling depot that they could possibly send to MMBC as a counter-proposal.

Langdon has told the Sentinel that once the contracts were sorted out for col-lection the organization would look into receiving proposals for the post-collec-tion side of the process.

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There were no objections to a zoning amendment ap-plication from the PTI Group, the company which proposes to build a workforce accom-modation complex in Straw-berry Meadows.

The company discovered

that conditions in the ground on the southern end of the property was such that if an earthquake occurred it could be devastating to the build-ings.

The application asks that PTI be allowed to put larger

buildings more densely in the central and northern portion of the property.

The new layout means an increase in the maximum beds for the lifetime of the project, from 2,104 to 2,154.

The application was sent

to the Advisory Planning Commission which supported the application, and public notice was also advertised.

With no comments re-ceived from the public, coun-cil adopted the amendment at their September 9 meeting.

Cameron OrrThe Kitimat Humane Society re-

ceived an unwelcome package last week.Shelter manager Maryann Ouellet

said that a box containing three kittens was left just a few meters down the road from the shelter, all the kittens were dead.

A cat which the shelter presumes is the mother, an adult black cat, was seen nearby but was spooked and ran when it saw shelter staff approaching.

The shelter has left out a live trap to collect the cat but it so far has not been

successful. The cat is still seen in the area where the box of kittens was found.

The adult cat is short haired, black, with a tuft of white fur on its chest.

Ouellet said that all three kittens were found soaking wet.

The shelter posted the grisly find to their Facebook page, along with a photo of the kittens still inside the box, in an effort to crowd-source a suspect in the matter.

What compounds the frustration is that all of the kittens appeared to be a

good weight and showed no signs of any illness.

The box must have been placed between 8 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. on Sep-tember 10, as that was a window where Ouellet had left in the morning on other animal calls.

She said if they can figure out who left the animals, the person or persons could be charged under animal cruelty laws for causing distress to an animal.

Anyone with information is encour-aged to call the shelter at 250-632-7373.

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Police appre-hended a person on Raley Street on Monday, September 9, under the Mental Health Act.

A person with a weapon was re-ported to police, and police cleared the surrounding houses immediately as a precaution.

Eventually the individual came outside and po-lice moved in and brought the person to the hospital under the Mental Health Act.

It’s the biggest and live-est show in Kitimat all year; the Aluminum City Telethon.

October 20 will mark the 34th year as an entertainment and fundraising venue.

Local abilities will be the focus for this year, with the theme named “Kitimat’s Got Talent.”

Such a theme is a well-timed turn, as or-ganizers will welcome two new hosts to the line-up, replacing long-time host Monique Miller.

This time, Sally Sousa and Pat Mou-land will be leading the show, which so far has about eight confirmed acts returning.

They’ll also have a number of guest hosts throughout the 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. day.

Of course the suc-cess of the event de-pends on the public, and the organizing commit-tee is calling out for any help people are willing to provide.

Priority right now is to gather more talent, and sign on food ven-dors to sell for lunch and for dinner. Orga-nizers definitely want a full day’s worth of food available for people to enjoy.

Of course general volunteers are always welcome.

People can find out more from the com-mittee by either calling Margaret at 250-632-3144, ex. 27, or Angela at 250-632-4887.

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Cadets seek dry land

Feds speak to the proposed Clio Bay project

Cameron OrrEven though the

Sea Cadets in Kitimat has only just recently restarted, the organiz-ing group behind the youth program will give Army Cadets a try to the end of this year.

Cadets were re-en-listed after a long hia-tus in Kitimat, but the arrival of Captain R.J. Buller to town got the wheels moving again to see it back.

But despite the ini-tial height of 13 cadets, the unit saw just nine at their year end parade last June.

Over the spring, Buller set out to find out what people wanted out of a cadet program, and the overwhelming response turns out that kids want an army pro-gram.

Buller said they’ll give the Army Cadets a run until December and see what the response

is and will decide then if they want to make the permanent switch.

“All the leader-ship and the citizen [aspects], that’s all the same. The only differ-ence is going to basi-cally be the stuff that is sailing oriented go-ing to be replaced with an outdoor adventure [component], survival training, mountain bik-ing stuff.”

Buller thinks it’s geography that made 30 youth interested in the Army Cadets pro-gram.

He notes that most training and equipment for Sea Cadet programs are located in Victoria and the cadets go there once a year for sailing.

“To go practice survival skills we can take a short walk in almost any direction,” he said of an army pro-gram.

The Regional Ca-

det Support Unit in Victoria has granted permission to Kitimat’s unit to immediately be-gin in Army program-ming. The local group has 20 cadets signed on for the Army program, and the Navy League of Kitimat will contin-ue to fundraise for the cadets.

If the switch be-comes permanent,

they’ll transition into an Army Cadet League.

To join the cadets, the youth must be be-tween 12 and 18 years old.

The meetings con-tinue to be held at the cadet building at 160 Konigus Street, Tues-days at 7 p.m.

The local cadets’ website is www.kiti-matcadets.com.

Department of Fisheries and Oceans says a monitoring program will be put in place by Kiti-mat LNG to evaluate fish habitat conditions on approval from a marine clay dumping program.

DFO spokesperson Carrie Mishima gave some perspective to the Clio Bay Restoration Project, saying that they have reviewed the pro-posal from the proponent, which is to take ‘inert soil removed from the LNG terminal site into Clio

Bay,’ and that the works are intended to improve aquatic habitat in the bay.

Mishima noted the same things a representa-tive of Chevron had said, which is that log dump-ing and storage in Clio Bay mean the bay was highly contaminated by woody debris, “resulting in low-value aquatic habitat.”

The soil that will be dumped, which is com-posed of gravel, sand, silt and clay, will cover

the woody debris “to promote faster recovery of aquatic habitat, including for insects and fish, than if the woody debris is left exposed.”

Mishima said the work will avoid placing soil on “the relatively healthy habitat within Clio Bay, such as intertidal areas, rocky substrates and ell-grass beds.”

DFO representatives have been invited to speak to Council on this subject.

What? A public hearing will be held on Monday, September 23 at 7:30 pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square, to consider the following zoning amendment:

What iS it?The proposed bylaw changes where recreational vehicles may be parked or stored on residential lots between November 1 and March 30 of the following year.

What ChangeS?Currently owners of recreational vehicles over 3700 kg may apply to Council for approval to park or store an RV in the rear yard of a residential property. Changes are being considered that would allow owners to park or store their RV, boat, or trailer in a rear or side yard, on the legal driveway, or within the buildable area of the lot, without applying for Council approval. District boulevard must remain open.

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hoW Can i Speak?If you have thoughts on this issue, you may provide written comment to Mayor and Council care of 270 City Centre, V8C 2H7; fax 250-632-4995; or e-mail to [email protected]. To be included in the report to Mayor and Council written comment must be received by 8:30 am, thursday, September 19, 2013. You may also speak in person, or deliver written comment, at the Council Meeting on Monday, September 23, 7:30 pm, 606 Mountainview Square.

need More info?The bylaw, Council resolution, staff report and other background material are available for review at www.kitimat.caand at Municipal Hall, 270 City Centre. Office hours are 8:30 am-noon, and 1:00-4:30 pm, Monday to Friday.

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Local politicians from across B.C. are in Vancouver Sept. 16 to 20 to take part in the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention.

There will be trivia reported as news, such as the cost of ho-tels. Suggestions to license mo-bility scooters or lower speed limits to 40 km/h, dreamed up in Vancouver Island retirement locales, will be rejected by delegates from the rest of the province.

Serious discussion will revolve around a report by a UBCM executive committee to reshape the � nancial re-lationship between the province and local governments. If this proposal gets the support it deserves, Premier Chris-ty Clark’s government will be asked to undo a couple of decades of political meddling in that relationship.

One problem for local govern-ments is that they depend on property tax, a stable source of revenue but one that has no relationship to the property owner’s ability to pay. It tends to load costs onto lower-income groups such as seniors and renters.

Economic growth results mainly in increased corporate and personal

income tax revenues as well as sales taxes, which aren’t shared with local governments.

One key proposal is to return to a system of revenue sharing grants intro-duced by the Social Credit government in the 1980s. They were funded by one point each from personal and corporate income tax and six per cent of sales, fuel and resource tax revenues, thus in-creasing in years when provincial rev-enues were strong.

The UBCM proposal is to put a share of provincial revenues into an in-frastructure bank, to be distributed by the organization on a more stable basis.

Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard, one of the authors of the report, uses a basketball analogy to describe the current system of federal-provincial grants for road and bridge projects. It’s

a “jump ball,” where communities have to apply to a fund when it’s offered and then see who gets it.

Even if a community wins the jump ball, they may � nd them-selves with costs in� ated by a hot construction market and an arbi-trary deadline to get the job done.

Then there are new regula-tions imposed by senior govern-ments. The most dramatic example

these days is a 2020 federal deadline for Greater Victoria to construct land-based sewage treatment. Even with federal and provincial cost sharing, this project is going to land heavily on property tax bills, including those of pensioners and poor renters who will have it passed on to them.

Leonard points to another arbitrary system, provincial facilities that pay grants in lieu of property taxes. Saan-ich is home to the University of Victo-ria, a community of 25,000 people that needs water and sewer service, as well as police and � re protection. Saanich gets an annual grant in lieu of property taxes of $120,000 for UVic, enough to cover wages and bene� ts for one cop and maybe some gas money.

Continued on page 5

Curing a community cash crunch

Council would benefit from frequent reports

Corinne Scott zeroed in on a subject I’ve long quietly thought about, so I was entirely impressed when it came up at last week’s council meeting.

And that has to do with Council appointees to the town’s various sub-committees, or other groups that allow councillors a seat.

Here’s the situation; in an at-times hard to fol-low debate about the Kitimat Housing Committee last week, while councillors were in the midst of debating amending the group’s terms of refer-ence and their current mandate, Scott brought up the fact that councillors should be providing fel-low councillors reports from their attendance at sub-committees.

As a refresher, because it’s actually something I at times forget, when a new council is sworn in, or around that time, the mayor will name council appointments to various sub-committees that deal with a particular mandate. That Housing Com-mittee, for example was formed by council, and councillor Edwin Empinado is the primary coun-cil representative to that board.

Now, reporting to council on these does hap-pen, but it feels infrequent. Scott, who, among other groups, is council’s representative to our regional district (obviously the RD is not a coun-cil committee, but communities get to appoint their representatives to them) has updated council about the goings on there before.

And while it may have been awhile since I have seen Empinado make an actual report, I have seen him put forward motions that came out of discussions at the committee level.

But then there’s things like the Kitimat Health Advocacy Group, the Kitimat Literacy Program, the Interagency Committee, the Age Friendly Committee, and the Traf� c Committee, all places councillors have a seat, but we rarely get the up-dates on what happens week to week or month to month.

(In fairness though, some of these don’t meet all that often. Also, I don’t personally see the pub-lic’s need to get reports from the Theatre Adviso-ry Committee. My apologies for anyone offended by that.)

If you listen carefully you can hear council-lors bring up ideas they’ve heard from these, but otherwise it’s hard to realize exactly what they’ve done.

And with sitting for two hours each Monday being a relatively small part of their job I’m sure, I bet others would back me in saying it’d be nice to hear more about what councillors have done and seen. It’s an effective way to gain context and understanding to the eventual decisions they have to make.

Cameron Orr

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From theLegislature

Tom Fletcher

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Dear Sir,I am writing in

regards to the general perception of certain members of the Kiti-mat community that crime is running amok in this town. Let me assure you, it is not. The only thing running amok in Kitimat is the rumour mill.

Facebook is not the be all and end all and items posted to Internet sites such as Facebook must be tak-en with a grain of salt.

Regular report-ers of the media are required to meet a certain standard while those posting items on Facebook and similar sites have no such re-strictions or standards. Therefore one needs to exercise caution when reading items posted to such sites.

One advantage that Facebook and similar sites have over other printed news is that it is almost instan-taneous.

This means that erroneous “news” can be sent out just as quickly as correct “news”. Those in tra-ditional news forums such as TV and news-paper generally check out their stories before printing or airing them. Facebook and similar sites do not.

There is a percep-tion that police do not let people know what is happening in Kiti-mat. There are a num-ber of reasons for that including, to some ex-tent, privacy laws, the Youth Criminal Justice Act which forbids us to publish or otherwise identify any young person involved, and active criminal inves-tigations where as a general rule, we do not want the bad guys to know what we know while investigating an incident.

If and when po-lice need assistance from the public regard-ing a particular case it is generally because they have exhausted all leads and hope that by releasing some

information it will generate new leads to follow. You can be as-sured that if during the course of an investiga-tion information came to light that there was a danger to someone in particular or to the general public out-side the norm, that we would be notifying the person or the general public of the danger.

I or someone from my office attends Council meetings once a month to pres-ent Council with the crime statistics for the month. I believe that they are also published on the Town’s website.

I have compared them to other towns of similar size and note that we are either the same or lower in terms of criminal statistics. They are however ris-ing, and that is to be expected as the town increases in population but they are rising pro-portionally, not out of control. And contrary to popular belief, the majority of crime are not being committed by the workers in the camp but by persons in the community.

I would not be con-cerned for the safety of my daughter if she chose to walk around Kitimat, day or night and several Detach-ment members have said the same thing to me about their fami-lies.

As there appears

to be a need or a want by the general public for more timely infor-mation, I am planning, once consultation with members of the local media occurs and at-taining full resources once more, to institute a weekly report con-sisting of a quick sum-mary of events or calls that the police respond to. I have done this at other Detachments I have commanded and it was well received by the public in those jurisdictions. I hope to have it in place by November this year and expect that it will be just as well received here.

In conclusion, Kitimat is a beautiful town with a low crime rate compared to other towns.

Does it have it’s ugly moments? Yes, but no more than any other town.

I am proud of the hard work the Kitimat Detachment members do in keeping the Town safe and the crime rate as low as it is.

All I ask is that you take a moment to know where your informa-tion is coming from before you consider it the truth. Otherwise, the rumour mill just keeps going on and on.

Sincerely,Phil Harrison,

S/Sgt.NCO In ChargeKitimat RCMP

Detachment

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Continued from page 4Cariboo Regional District chair Al Richmond,

co-chair of the UBCM committee, is concerned about new water and flood protection legislation the province is preparing to impose. His district and others like it have thousands of kilometres of riverfront, with relatively few property owners.

Interior communities also want BC Hydro to pay something for power lines, as is now being done with some aboriginal territories.

Local politicians will be expecting a sympa-thetic ear from the new version of the B.C. Liberal government. Former Quesnel councillor Coralee Oakes is the new community, sport and cultural development minister, with direct responsibility for local government issues.

And one of the original members of this UBCM committee was former Langley City mayor Peter Fassbender, who is now minister of education.

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CAW Local 2301 and the Kitimat-Terrace District Labour Council held the annual Labour Day Picnic on September 2. Above are Jose Pires and Jose Dasilva, brothers at the grill.

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Feldhoff did air com-ment that he hopes a precedent isn’t being set for the community.

“This goes be-yond Farrow Street, in my opinion,” he said. “Whatever solution we come to with Canada Post could potential-ly...become the model in other streets and I want to ensure we con-tinue to have door-to-door delivery in those streets that currently have door-to-door.”

From here, resi-dents have until Sep-tember 24 to give their feedback to this proposal, and Kitimat Council will get to review the response at their September 30 meeting, before it’s set in stone that this is the path they’ll take.

Of course if there’s significant opposition Council may opt to follow a different path.

Farrow

Councillors debates electronic presence at meetingsShould councillors

be allowed to partici-pate in council meet-ings when they can’t physically attend?

That was a ques-tion that came up for debate on September 9, when councillors vot-ed, narrowly, to allow electronic attendance to all council and in-camera meetings, in-cluding committee of the whole and council-established commis-sions.

This isn’t actually the first time in recent memory that council-lors tackled the sub-ject. In June this year the same motion came up but was defeated due to a tie vote.

Councillors fol-lowed up by asking the motion return once all councillors could at-tend. (Including the

Mayor there are seven votes, so the matter can’t be tied with a full quorum.)

The entirety of the motion passed allows for electronic atten-dance at meetings, but

it will only be permit-ted if the member is away from the District on municipal business, or otherwise physically unable to attend.

A physical quorum must be reached before

any electronic atten-dance is allowed.

Finally, if it’s the Mayor or designated Chair that will be at-tending electronically, someone actually in the room must preside

over the meetings.The motion passed

with Edwin Empinado, Rob Goffinet, Corinne Scott and Joanne Monaghan in favour.

Mario Feldhoff was a vocal opponent,

saying that there’s no need, and other levels of government don’t allow it.

Mary Murphy came to oppose it too, noting frustration at such systems at the re-

gional district level.Phil Germuth was

also consistently op-posed, saying special meetings provide ways to get councillors out if they can’t attend certain nights.

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Extending a helping hand to Kitimat’s newest arrivalsCameron Orr

They come on promises of jobs and prosper-ity, but neither are for certain in this age of Kiti-mat.

What the experts now call newcomers — the catch all term for people new to the area, whether from out of region or out of country — are ar-riving, many with Bachelors degrees or Masters, but finding that making a new life in Canada and Kitimat can be harder than it seems.

That’s where Elizabeth Hoffman steps in, who heads up Kitimat’s Welcoming Communi-ties’ Immigration Settlement Services.

Her job puts her in touch with what could possibly be Kitimat’s newest generation, and she does everything from connecting people with ser-vices that transfer their academic credits between countries, or even just helping fill out paperwork for new arrivals, like to apply for a Care Card.

Hoffman said the majority of her clients have been in Canada less than a year but she does help people who have 10 years of experience as a Ca-nadian.

“Our first six months review showed 17 [cli-ents], and we have had 14 since that time,” she said.

The question is what are all these people do-ing here? Are they seeking the high paying indus-trial jobs to support a construction boom in the area? Surprisingly, no. It’s people with health care education that make the bulk of new arrivals.

“Unfortunately...their education in health care doesn’t transfer over here properly,” she said. “They come here expecting that it’s going to be easy to flip in and be that doctor or be that nurse.”

She points out that in other countries it’s often a very noble goal to get health care training and receive a medical degree, but with a glut of trained workers in their home countries, that’s why many turn to Canada, which often posts of needs for doctors and nurses.

Meanwhile Canadian demand is high in plac-es. Take our own health authority for instance. Northern Health is advertising 58 jobs for phy-sicians, from general practitioners to surgeons to psychiatrists, all throughout their area. Kitimat itself accounts for three of those positions.

There are 24 nurse openings throughout Northern Health too, including nurse practitioners

and registered nurses.But whether it’s for health care or other ca-

reers, Kitimat has to be careful how it advertises itself to potential new immigrants, says Hoffman.

“What’s happening is when we are advertis-ing for these health care positions and saying that Kitimat is in a crisis...we also need to be truthful that there are very few housing opportunities, and that the jobs that are available...a majority are for those who have their credentials transferred over,” said Hoffman.

“We need to be careful what we’re advertising to the rest of B.C., Canada,” she adds.

She notes that there can be different kinds of newcomers. While some set their eyes on Kitimat from their home, others are ‘floating’, meaning they get to places like Vancouver and find a huge-ly competitive market, and are directed to places like Kitimat where they’re told work is easier.

Hoffman added that many people move to Canada to send money back home to their fami-lies.

Hoffman is worried about the people who come here with an education, find it doesn’t trans-fer, and are academically only qualified to work in, for instance, fast food. Those jobs won’t pro-vide for rent and for cheques back to their fami-lies.

Meanwhile, challenges aside, Hoffman is moving ahead on being the front line assistant to people new to the community.

She said that in the fall sometime they’ll hold a Welcoming Communities dinner, an evening of cultural information and welcoming for Kitimat’s newcomers, that the public is welcome to join.

People who need to connect with Welcoming Communities and with Hoffman can call 250-639-7037.

Welcoming Communities will also be present at noon on September 21 at the Mount Elizabeth Theatre for the International Peace Day celebra-tions.

Luke Worgan posted this photo to Twitter of a humpback whale surfacing. He didn’t specify where exactly this photo was taken but tagged it as a Kitimat photo.

Elizabeth Hoffman with Kitimat’s Welcoming Communities’ Immigration Settlement Services listens during an information meeting for Welcoming Communities at the Northwest Community College.

“They come here expecting that it’s going to be easy to flip in and be that

doctor or be that nurse.”

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Koosc Hoo, a recycled-art exhibit at the Kitimat Museum & Archives, a piece made by the Kildala Out of School Care group. It’s one of many works on display for the Re� ections: Where I Am exhibit, showcasing life in the Paci� c Northwest using various mediums through various artists from the region. Be sure to check the exhibit out and place your vote, because the winning piece gets $250.

Humanitarian mission brings Trigo to Thailand

Keeping the Peace in Kitimat

Josh MasseyAfter spending

many of her teen years volunteering at Kitimat General Hospital and Kitimat Heath Advoca-cy, 19-year-old Sabrina Trigo decided to take her humanitarian im-pulse overseas.

So this August she spent two weeks volun-teering at a children’s home located in a vil-lage in Thailand near the border with Burma where the Thai govern-ment allows refugees and exiles to stay.

“These people have been robbed of their hu-man rights,” said Trigo of the children at the home, some of whom are newborns dropped off by relatives from violent areas of neigh-bouring countries. “The corruption that goes on in Burma and Laos is crazy.”

“They don’t have the right to work or education and there is a lot of racism against the refugees,” Trigo contin-ued, adding that after saving about $1,000 and waiting long enough they can apply for Thai citizenship.

For the two-week volunteer period, Trigo taught English in the morning, then in the afternoon the 13 in-ternational volunteers were put to work sand-ing, painting and lay-ing a foundation for an addition to the social housing catering to 140 semi-permanent resi-dents.

Trigo’s large jour-nal is full of names and

descriptions that paint a colourful picture of her trip.

For instance, Trigo found Thai place names to be as exotic as the non-Western and fre-quently non-existent plumbing. She noted that the village name is Sangkhlaburi, located in the province of Kan-chanaburi, and the chil-dren’s home is called Baan Urak.

She describes the whole village running out of water days be-fore she arrived, impov-erished yet happy peo-ple living in grass and bamboo huts, and the group of volunteers get-ting a taste of a tougher life having to share two rooms and sleeping on thin mats overhung with bug nets.

Trigo hopes to re-

turn to Baan Urak one day after she � nishes her science degree at UBC and medical train-ing afterwards.

She recommends the experience to oth-ers in the northwest and

also wishes to thank those who made the trip possible.

“If there are doc-tors or nurses in the community wanting to volunteer this is the place,” she said. Many of the kids are sick and need basic check-ups.”

“I want to thank all the people in Kitimat, especially the District of Kitimat, Terrace and all the surrounding First Nations reserves,” she said.

The District of Kit-imat provided her with a $700 donation, and she sold chocolates to raise money as well.

The total cost of her trip was $2,190 plus airfare, and she gave the $350 extra that she raised to the children’s home in Thailand.

The California-

based volunteer orga-nization Trigo travelled with is called ISV (In-ternational Student Volunteer). It offers educational and travel adventure programs in various countries.

Cameron OrrIt’s this Saturday when the Kiti-

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Held at the Mount Elizabeth Theatre starting at noon, this year-ly celebration brings together the community in the name of sharing and spreading peace.

Speaking for the local Rotary Club, Eleanor Kendell said there will be a number of interesting things this year.

That includes the Salvation Army Mobile Kitchen which will be on display and in full use by vis-iting Northwest Community Col-

lege chef students.There will be dancers, as well

as a children’s choir too, in addition to the various speakers.

Also special will be Dan Huis-man from Smithers displaying a Shelter Box, an all-in-one package designed for people who lose their home. Kitimat’s Rotary has spon-sored such boxes for delivery to places like Haiti.

Before people leave, free cake and hot chocolate will also be avail-able.

Of course the human peace sign will be done again, which takes place in the lot just outside of the theatre.

Sabrina Trigo with one of the residents of a Children’s Home in Thailand.

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Business Opportunities

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Drivers/Courier/Trucking

CLASS 1 DRIVERS w/ AIRReq. for DH Manufacturing, Houston BC. BC & Alberta routes to be determined based on experience.Hour Pay Based On Exp. & Full Benefi ts After 3 Mos.

Apply with resume &abstract by emailing:[email protected]

DRIVERS WANTEDAZ, DZ, 5, 3 or 1 w/ Airbrake

• Guaranteed 40hr. WorkWeek & Overtime

• Paid Travel & Lodging• Meal Allowance

• 4 Weeks Vacation• Excellent Benefi ts Package

Must be able to have extended stays away from home. Up to 6 months. Must have valid AZ, DZ, 5, 3 or 1 with airbrake license and have previous commercial driving experience.Apply at:www.sperryrail.com/

careers and then choosethe FastTRACK Application.

Education/Trade Schools

THERE’S A Critical demand for qualifi ed Medical Transcrip-tionists in Canada. Enroll to-day with CanScribe and be working from home in one year. [email protected]

Help WantedACCENTUS IS hiring experi-enced Medical Transcription-ists to work from home. Candi-dates must have 1 year of acute care experience. Apply today! Send resume to: [email protected]

Career Opportunities

• GENERAL HELPERS• CAMP ATTENDANTS

• JANITORS

North Country Catering has immediate openings for permanent full-time camp opportunities in Northern Alberta. Shift Rotation; 3 weeks in camp and one week home.

Founded in 2000, NCC has become one of the largest independent management, operation & catering compa-ny in Western Canada. NCC is responsible for managing and operating remote work camps.

Competitive Wages & Benefi ts After 3 mos.

Interested applicants are invited to forward

resumes to: North Country Catering, Human

Resources e-mail: [email protected]

fax: 1-(780)-485-1550

KITIMAT - P/T WAITRESSand DELIVERY DRIVERwanted. Food Safe & Serv-ing it Right preferred. Drop off resume in person at Chop Suey Kitchen 424 Enterprise Ave. after 4 p.m.

Career Opportunities

KITIMAT DRIVERS WANTED

Full and Part time for Coastal Taxi. $12.50/hr.

We are also hiringpart-time dispatchers.

Send resume & drivers abstract to

PO Box 56 Kitimat, BC V8C 2G6

No phone calls

KitimatHelp Wanted

TONY’S SPECIALTIES is looking for

ENTHUSIASTIC RELIABLE, FRIENDLY

and HAPPY cashiers. Must be available to work

afternoons shifts and weekends.

Please drop off resume at TONY’S SPECIALTIES in the Nechako Centre during

the day.

LAKEVIEW DENTAL Centre. Energetic, motivated F/T Hygienist required. Knowledge of the Cleardent Program an asset. Hours are Monday to Thursday. Please send re-sume to Lakeview Dental Cen-tre, Box 310, Burns Lake, B.C. V0J 1E0 or fax to (250) 692-4251 or email to [email protected]

Career Opportunities

MILLWRIGHT - Fast paced lumber remanufacturing plant in Penticton has f/t opening. Inter provincial Journeyman Millwright with machining, welding and fabrication experi-ence. Experience with Europe-an reman machinery, moul-der’s, radio frequency press, angle line and transfer desks desirable. Duties include main-tenance, troubleshooting, in-stalling machinery. Team player, able to work unsuper-vised. $25.89/hr. USWA con-tract. Benefi ts. Apply by e-mail [email protected] or by fax to (250)493-8130.

Nechako Barber Shop &Hair Essentials

An upscale salon in Kitimatwith a huge clientele base is seeking a part-time Barber, 20-30 hours per week. Part-time Stylists and a Recep-tionist. Please fax resume to 250-632-4406 or call:

Tracy at 250-632-3048

Wonderful Opportunity in a busy restaurant.

Rosario’sRestaurant has openings forfull time/part time

COOKS, SERVERS andDISHWASHERS.

Days and Evenings.No experience necessary

as we train.Please email

[email protected] bring resume to Rosario’s

in Kitimat. No phone calls please

Information

Drivers/Courier/Trucking

Drivers/Courier/Trucking

Your community. Your classifi eds.

250.632.6144

fax 250.639.9373 email classifi [email protected]

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SERVING KITIMAT AND REGION SINCE 1954

SELL YOUR HOME PRIVATELY.Advertise your house for sale in the SENTINEL SPOTLIGHT.

Published in the Northern Sentinel and the Northern Connector for 3 weeks.

Email or drop off a photo and description of your home.CALL TODAY 250-632-6144 or email: [email protected]

or drop by 626 Enterprise Avenue, KitimatNO AGENTS • PRIVATE SALES ONLY • NO AD CHANGES • NO REFUNDS

THAT’S 6 ISSUES FOR $5999

incl. tax

New driveway in 2013.Please call for more information on this home.

$225,000Call 250-639-6129 or

250-639-0361

BUNGALO WITH UPDATES

48 STIKINE ST.

O4

1200 sq ft house with450 sq ft attached garage,

three bdrm rancher, one bath, big livingroom, kitchen, new

hot water tank, furnished

$255,000For more info

call 250-640-3596

159 KOOTENAY

S18

5 bdrm basement home,2 full bathrooms, den, laundry rm, original oak flooring up, 2 kitchens,2 living rms, new roof, new paint int. & ext., garage, lg parking area, fenced private back yd, 20’x20’ solarium, landscaped, trees, gardens.

$260,000 OBOCall 250-632-5446

VERY GOOD FAMILY HOME

15 WHITE ST.

O2

NEWSPAPER

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NEEDEDFOR THURSDAY AFTERNOONS.

Apply in person with resume to:

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NOW HIRING

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LPN’s and RN’sfor Kitimat

Please respond by October 15, 2013 toCindy Mangnus RN, Client Care Manager

at 250-641-2211 or 250-635-2274or mail resumes

ATT: Linda Preston, Office Manager, #101 - 4614 Greig Ave., Terrace, BC

Land Act: Notice of Intention to Apply for a Disposition of Crown LandTake notice that Veresen Energy Infrastructure Inc from Vancouver, BC, have applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Smithers, for a Water Power Investigative Licence situated on Provincial Crown land located ALL THAT UNSURVEYED CROWN LAND IN THE VICINITY OF JESSE LAKE AND JESSE CREEK, RANGE 4 COAST DISTRICT, CONTAINING 2,168.66 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS.

The Lands File for this application is 6408540. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Land Officer, MFLNRO, at PO Box 5000 - 3726 Alfred Ave. Smithers BC VOJ 2NO Comments will be received by MFLNRO up to November 1, 2013. MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http://www. arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/index. jsp for more information.

Be advised that any response to this advertisement will be considered part of the public record. For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations’ Office in Smithers.

Anchor / Kal Tire KitimatWe are presently seeking a Tire Person

to work in the shop area.

Duties would involve changing tires including rotating, balancing, and flat repairs. Work involves use of tire shop equipment. Experience working on larger pieces of equipment would be an asset.Applicants must possess the ability to work successfully in a team atmosphere and to excel in a physically demanding environment. This is a part time position for the busy season but could lead to full time work with medical benefits.Applications with experience as a tire person will be considered over those having no experience. Training as required will be available. Valid driver’s license is required.

Please fax resume including references to250-632-4436 or drop off at the store

236 Enterprise Avenue (Attention Manager).All applicants will be considered but only those contacted

will be given an interview for the position.

Help Wanted

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Employment

Help Wanted

Employment

Hotel, Restaurant, Food Services

CHALET Motel & Restaurant. Food Server & Kitchen Helper. $10-$12/hr, 40 hrs/wk, F/T, Prmnnt, 852 Tsimshian Blvd, [email protected]

LabourersGUARANTEED Job Place-ment. Labourers,Tradesmen & Class 1 Drivers For Oil & Gas Industry Work. Call 24hr Free Recorded Message For Info 1-888-213-2854

Medical/DentalCERTIFIED DENTAL AS-SISTANT required for full time position in Smithers, B.C. Salary commensurate with ex-perience. New grads start at $19/hr. 250-847-9898, 250-847-4934, [email protected]

Help Wanted

Employment

Trades, TechnicalGUARANTEED JOB Place-ment: General laborers and tradesmen for oil and gas in-dustry. Call 24hr Free Re-corded Message. For Informa-tion 1-800-972-0209.

Millwright/PlanermanTolko Industries Ltd. is currently seeking a Certifi ed Millwright / Planerman to join our team at our Planermill Division in Lavington, BC.

POSITION OVERVIEW:Responsible for the preven-tive maintenance, repair, installation and modifi cation of planer equipment.

QUALIFICATIONS:• Certifi ed Planerman or Millwright with a Planerman endorsement• Planermill experience a defi nite asset• Superior Troubleshooting Skills• Excellent Organizational Skills• Hydraulic and Welding experience an asset• Strong safety background• Desire to work in a team environment

“Our tradition of excellenceis built on strong company

values, a challengingenvironment, and continuous

improvement philosophy.”

We Are An Equal Opportunity Employer and

this position offers an excellent pension and

benefi t program!

READY TO APPLY!If you are interested in

exploring this opportunity and being part ofour community,

please visit our website at:

www.tolko.comor e-mail:

[email protected] your resume by

September 22, 2013.

Services

Art/Music/Dancing

DANCE KITIMATBallet, Jazz, Contemporary

Age 4 - 18Registration package at

Kitimat Museum, or [email protected]

For Sale By Owner

Services

Financial Services$500 + INSTANT LOANS / 3 months to pay back / No credit check / Apply online or by phone / Bc-Loans.com / 1-855-720-0096

DROWNING IN Debt? Cut debts more than 50% and debt free in half the time! Avoid bankruptcy! Free consultation. www.mydebtsolution.com or Toll Free 1-877-556-3500 BBB Rated A+

GET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: it’s that simple. Your credit/age/income is not an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

Legal ServicesCRIMINAL RECORD? Don’t let it block employment, travel, education, professional, certifi -cation, adoption property ren-tal opportunities. For peace of mind and a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

Contractors

DEAD-ON CONTRACTINGGeneral contracting, special-izing in renovations, roofi ng, fl ooring, repairs, framing, fi n-ishing and more. Call Dar-nell for more information. Booking in the Kitimat and Terrace area.

250-859-2920

Home Improvements

FLOORING SALEOver 300 Choices

Lowest Prices Guaranteed!Laminates - $0.59/sq ftEngineered - $1.99 sq ftHardwood - $2.79 sq ft

Overnight Delivery in most of BC!www.kingoffl oors.com

1.877.835.6670

For Sale By Owner

Services

Misc Services

Starting October 1Norsk Mechanical

Plumbing, Hot Water Heat-ing and Gas, Commercial Residential 24hr. Service.

Robert vonRommelhoff778-872-4065

[email protected]

Pets & Livestock

PetsGERMAN Shepherd Puppies For Your Consideration. Evans Training Centre and Blacklion Kennels, produce dogs with powerful, athletic bodies with sound, stable minds. No hype - Just good dogs honestly presented. Find us @ www.blacklionkennels.ca Inquiries invited and appreciat-ed. Ask about our Purchase – to - Train bonus.

Merchandise for Sale

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53’ in stock. SPECIAL

44’X40’ Container Shopw/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!40’ Containers under $2500!

Call Toll Free AlsoJD 544 & 644 wheel loaders

JD 892D LC ExcavatorPh 1-866-528-7108Delivery BC and AB

www.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?STEEL BUILDINGS, Metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Misc. WantedGenuine Coin Collector BuyerCollections, Olympic Gold &Silver Coins etc 778-281-0030

Real Estate

Duplex/4 Plex4 SALE Kitimat - Duplex 930 sq ft 3 bed 1 bath - $182,000 or best offer Investment prop-erty 1 Fourplex 1760 sq ft 3 bed 2 bath comes with renter on 2 year lease at $1,400 per month tenant pays utilities $198,000 or best offer. Call 780-974-3945.

Real Estate

RecreationalTHE PALMS RV Resort www.yumapalmsrvresort.com Rated top 2% in America. 6-5-4-3 monthly specials. Starting at $637.50 month. (plus Tax/Elec.) Toll Free: 1-855-PALMS-RV (1-855-725-6778)

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentFREE HEAT AND HOT WATER

Bachelor 1 and 2 bedroom

APARTMENTS Largest, Brightest SuitesShiny Hardwood Floors

Unfurnished & FurnishedDaily - Weekly - Monthly

ABSOLUTELY NO PARTIERSINCLUDES HEAT!

OCEANVIEW APTS(250)632-2822 Kitimat

KITIMAT APTSBEST VALUE

• Starting at $600• Balconies• Security Entrances• Cameras for your safety• Now includes basic

cableVisit our Website

www.kitimatapartments.comPhone: 250.632.APTS

(2787)

KITIMAT

MIDTOWN APARTMENTS

Free heat & Free Hot WaterFurnished & Unfurnished

1 & 2 bedroomsSecurity Entrances

No Pets. No Smoking250.632.7179

QUATSINO APTSKITIMAT

• Downtown location• Balconies• Security Entrances• Some furnished suites

Call for an appointment250.632.4511

www.kitimatapartments.com

SANDPIPER APTSKITIMAT

Newer BuildingsElevators

Security EntrancesCovered Parking

Balconieswww.kitimatapartments.com

250.632.4254

TownhousesTOWNHOMES in KITIMAT3 bdrm, 1 ½ bath, carportStart $700. Sorry no Pets.

Call Greg 639-0110

Transportation

Cars - Domestic

1999 Toyota Corolla, 156,000 km, A/C, one own-er, regularly maintained, New starter and battery. Two year old all season tires. Maintenance records. In-cludes 4 studded winter tires, only used one winter. Needs new struts. Little rust. $2,000 250-639-2452

Cars - Sports & Imports

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

250-632-6755Serious inquiries only Please

Boats

17 ft. Alum. Canoe “Spring Bok” very stable, perfect for family / hunting canoe. $500.

Call (250) 692-2372

28’ TRENDCOMMAND

BRIDGEComes with tri axle trailer. Very good condition. Volvo Penta twin Chevy 350 in-board gas. Sleeps 4 com-fortably. Call for pictures.

$24,000Call 250.639.9757

Kitimat

32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT

370hp 8.1L John Deere Diesel, 1500hrs on engine. Trolling valve, Bow Thruster,

3 Stage Steering. 2 Hydraulic Deep lines,

Hydraulic Trap Puller, 3 Sounders, Radar, 8’ Dinghy,

2 Radios. Com-Dev Auto Pilot, Spare Prop. Can be seen at MK Bay Marina.

Assessed at $84,400.Contact Warren Poff at

250.632.6119or 250.242.1789

$65,000 Firm(will consider trade for part)

GRADY WHITE 25FT BOAT -For Sale-

1994 2x200 Johnson V6 engines. 480HR. With Triple Axel Nextrail Trailer. Rigged

for fi shing, new GPS Asking $30,000. (Neg)

Call: 250-632-1037KITIMAT

Legal Notices

FIND EVERYTHING YOUNEED IN THE CLASSIFIEDS

Classifi edsGet Results!

SPOTLIGHTSENTINEL

O N K I T I M AT H O M E S

New driveway in 2013. Please call for more information on this home.

$225,000Call 250-639-6129 or

250-639-0361

Bungalo with updates

48 stikine st.

O4

1200 sq ft house with450 sq ft attached garage,

three bdrm rancher, one bath, big livingroom, kitchen, new

hot water tank, furnished

$255,000For more info

call 250-640-3596

159 Kootenay

S18

Sell yourhome here.

Advertise in theNorthern Sentinel and Northern Connector

for 3 weeks for $59.99 incl. tax.

CAll ToDAy 250-632-6144 email classifieds@

northernsentinel.comDrop in at

626 enterprise Ave., KitimatNo AgeNTS

PrivATe SAleS oNlyNo AD ChANgeS

No refuNDS

Sell your home

here.Three bedroom, 1 bath, single level home on double corner lot. Includes six newer appliances, new laminate flooring throughout, carport with attached workshop, new 180 sq.ft. storage shed. Partially furnished.

$200,000Call 250-632-7090SeriouS enquirieS only.

25 BaBine St.

S11

5 bdrm basement home,2 full bathrooms, den, laundry rm, original oak flooring up, 2 kitchens,2 living rms, new roof, new paint int. & ext., garage, lg parking area, fenced private back yd, 20’x20’ solarium, landscaped, trees, gardens.

$260,000 OBOCall 250-632-5446

Very good family home

15 white st.

O2

sold

NOW HIRING

Home Support WorkersCare Aides,

LPN’s and RN’sfor Kitimat

Please respond by October 15, 2013 toHeather Gurnsey, RN Client Care Manager

at 250-641-2211 or 250-635-2274or mail resumes

ATT: Linda Preston, Office Manager, #101 - 4614 Greig Ave., Terrace, BC

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Cameron OrrIt’s a craze taking over the 50-plus

crowd in Kitimat.A new game played Tuesday and

Thursday mornings at the Riverlodge, and it’s an assortment of a few games at once.

And it’s called Pickle Ball.Describing the game in its very ba-

sic form, you could say it’s a life-sized version of table tennis.

Which you might just say is tennis. But it’s not quite that.

“It’s played with a paddle similar to ping pong, and the dimensions of the court are that of badminton,” explained Pauline Morgan, who brought the game back to Kitimat with husband Mark.

It’s an activity that spread here, from players in Arizona, where the Morgans were staying last winter.

“We’re retired now and we went to Arizona and where we were staying there was a large club playing Pickle Ball,” she said.

After a few lessons, they found they really enjoyed it.

“My husband played badminton and I played racket ball so we were familiar with the racket sports,” she said, adding the people playing in Arizona were very enthusiastic.

Pauline also says it’s a good challenging sport.

“Most of the time you play two people on each side but it’s also a singles game.”

Right at the start Kitimat had upwards of 10 people play-ing, which has grown since those � rst few weeks.

The Kitimat Snow� ake Se-niors Centre programmer Joc-elyn Iannarelli pushed to get the game going, and the direc-tor for the local zone of the BC Seniors Games Bill Whitty was also instrumental in getting it all set up in Kitimat.

After a hiatus over the summer, Pickle Ball is back again, and the ballers meet from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Riverlodge every Tuesday and Thursday.

If you’ve come this far and are still wondering why it’s called Pickle Ball, well it’s more a name from its history rather than for a description of the game itself.

The lore is that the game is named after it’s inventors’ dog.

Word was, explained Pauline from her own research, the dog Pickle would grab the ball from the game and take it to hiding.

It’s a cute story but apparently the dog was added to the family of Joan and Joel Pritchard, a congressman in the United States, two years after the game was invented.

The dog, in fact, was named for the sport, not the other way around.

Joan Pritchard herself would ex-plain the game’s origin in a column in the News and Sentinel of West Virginia.

“The name of the game became Pickle Ball, after I said it reminded me of the Pickle Boat in crew where oars-men were chosen from the leftovers of other boats,” she explained in that 2008 article, which is still available online.

12 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, September 18, 2013

&Sports Leisure

WATCH FOR A DONATION BAG ON YOUR DOORSTEP!

All food collected in Ridge Meadows will be donated to the Friends in Need Food Bank.

To volunteer visit bctfooddrive.org today!

From September 16th -21st help us collect food from neighbourhoods across B.C.

Serving Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows since 1978

All food collected in your neighbourhood will be donated to your local food bank.Get involved.

Club Championship results

Game combines badminton and ping pong

Results of the two day Golf Club Cham-pionship held on Sept. 7 and 8.Ladies club resultsOverall low gross win-ner - Barb Thomas - two day score of 196Overall low net win-ner- Carol Cresswell - 147A Flight winners1st low gross - Irja Juustila - 1972nd low gross - Mi-chele Frater - 2043rd low gross - Joanne Bennato - 1541st low net - Bonnie Donaldson - 1482nd low net - Esther Pretulac - 152B Flight1st low gross - Mary Murphy - 217 on a countback2nd low gross - Car-rie Gammel - 217 on a countback3rd low gross - Doro-

thy McDonald - 2354th low gross - Sheila Reeves - 2631st low net - Susan Jay - 156 on a countback2nd low net - Anita Vahanikkila - 156 on a countback3rd low net - Sally Ri-goni - 162C Flight1st low gross - Anne Berrisford - 2372nd low gross - Mau-reen Atkinson - 2393rd low gross - Fatima Reynolds - 2464th low gross - Barb Monti - 2541st low net - Karen Lei-bach - 1582nd low net - Dorit Lindner - 1613rd low net - Sandra Knowles - 171Least putts winner - Carol Cresswell with 57Most putts winner - Maureen Atkinson - 88

Long drive winners - Michele Frater, Carrie Gammel, Anne Berris-ford,Joanne Bennato, Susan Jay and Dorit Lindner.Closest to the pin win-ner - Bonnie Donald-son (both days)Men’s DivisionOverall low gross win-ner -Steve Venman - 145Overall low net winner - Brad Riley - 136A Flight1st low gross - Dylan Kerbrat - 1472nd low gross - Clay-ton Harris - 1583rd low gross - Rob Brady - 1604th low gross - Grant Frater - 163 on a count-back1st low net - Russ Nicholson - 1412nd low net - Nelson Almeida - 144 on a countback

3rd low net - Wayne Haddo - 1444th low net - Bob Reid - 145B Flight1st low gross - Gerry Gilchrist - 1662nd low gross - Randy Swaddling - 1673rd low gross - Greg Morgan - 1704th low gross - Dan Barker - 1741st low net - Aaron Singh - 1392nd low net - Leon Dumstrey-Soos - 1423rd low net - Joe Laga-na - 143 on a countback4th low net - Scott Mi-chaluk - 143C Flight1st low gross - Bob Morden - 1762nd low gross - Greg Saunders - 1813rd low gross - John Vales - 1824th low gross - Ryan McDonald - 187

1st low net - Joe Pa-checo - 141 on a count-back2nd low net - Ron Lei-bach - 1413rd low net - Carl Gabel - 1474th low net - Paul Ze-nuk - 149

Pickle Ball athletes during a serve. The game is played Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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