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Locally contracted machine operator Ron Groot tore down the charred Pinecrest Apartment building last week Monday and Tuesday. The apartment building burned Aug. 15, 2012, and Property Manager Goldie Smitielener says owners are waiting on insurance to decide whether to rebuild. They have to wait until the building is demolished to see if the foundation is usable, then they will make the decision whether or not to rebuild, Smitielener said.

A section of the Library floor is rotting and Library programs are cancelled Feb. 11 to 22 for repairs - which will cost the District an estimated $10,000.

Director of Engineering and Development Services Michael Glavin talked to Houston council Feb. 5 about water damage and rotting in a section of the Library floor near the entrance to the Canfor room.

Glavin says a major amount of moisture built up in the exhaust system at a joint in the duct work and now there is a hole between the Library building and the 1999 addition and the rot is slowly spreading in the floor.

Fungus is growing between two of the floor joists and the two joists are saturated with moisture, Glavin

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said.

“Now it’s at microsaturation, and once you’re saturated, just like cancer it spreads and spreads and spreads,” said Glavin.

Glavin says the water came from condensation build up on the pipes.

He says the water had to travel quite a long way because of the way the floor joists were laid, and the pipes were sloped up from the pipe joint, causing the water to collect in the joint.

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Pipelines could double regional district revenue

By Walter Strong Black Press

Franca Petrucci of Spectra Energy led a delegation to the Jan. 24 2013 board meeting of the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako (RDBN).

His presentation concerned the recently announced joint

proposal of Spectra Energy and the BG Group to build a liquid natural gas (LNG) pipeline from Northeast B.C. to Prince Rupert.

The proposed pipeline would be similar in capacity to the proposed Transcanada Coastal Gaslink project which

is currently working on its provincial environmental assessment.

The pipeline would connect shale gas fields in the Fort Nelson and Fort St. John areas to proposed LNG terminals in Prince Rupert via a pipeline running westward more than 140 kms

north of Burns Lake.

The Spectra BG Group proposal is the fourth proposed LNG pipeline that would cross RDBN areas.

A fifth pipeline, the Enbridge N o r t h e r n G a t e w ay pipeline has also been proposed to transport modified bitumen from Northern

Alberta to Kitimat, B.C. Any of these pipeline projects would contribute to the RDBN annual tax base.

The Mount Milligan Mine project, expected to be ready for production this year, will also contribute to the

RDBN tax base. If all four LNG pipelines and the Milligan Mine project were up and running, the estimated tax impact for the RDBN, the Stuart Nechako Regional Hospital District (SNRHD), and the North West Regional Hospital District (NWRHD) would

total over $6.2 million.

If the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project were to come online, then an additional $2 million would drop into RDBN and hospital district coffers for a total of over $9.5 million per year.

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Rotting floor requires estimated $10,000 in repairs

RENOS from Page 1 Heat from the crawl space rose to that corner, and the insulation around the pipes blocked the moisture from going anywhere, Glavin said.

“All the moisture came, travelled down [to the joint], built up and just created like a sauna atmosphere,”

said Glavin, adding that it started rotting there and then was slowly rotting back.

Asked if he would fix the duct work problems as well as repair the damage, Glavin said yes, he would change the system so it vents vertically instead of horizontally.

“Right at the cor-

ner where the water is, we’re going to go straight up, through the ceiling and vent from the roof, instead of from the side,” said Glavin, adding that they would also wrap the ducts.

Glavin says the repairs could cost less than the $10,000 estimate, but he didn’t

want to estimate too low and have to present to council again.

He added that the only unknown is whether the Canfor room wall, beside the hole will need to be ripped out.

“We won’t know until we get in there,” Glavin said.

Chief Librarian

Toni McKilligan says the contractor came this Tuesday and to avoid interference and conflict, programs are cancelled until Feb. 22 when construction should be finished.

Glavin says repairs will take about a week and the Library will shut down completely during construction.

Hayden, 9, Dustin, 9, and Ton, 10, play chess together at the Houston Public Library, where program coordinator Marlee Johnson runs an after school games program for children every other Tuesday 3:30 to 5 p.m. The after school games is one of four programs that will be postponed because of the floor renovations at the Library.

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GATEWAY perspectives

Marine safety plan Recently, I talked about why we chose Kitimat as the site for Gateway’s marine terminal. I’d like to also discuss the various steps we’ve taken to prevent an incident on water, and the measures we’ve put in place to build a comprehensive marine safety plan for Gateway.

Safety starts with a tanker acceptance program that’s as stringent as any in existence — and includes an independent review of all tankers, weeks ahead of their scheduled arrival. Tankers mooring at the terminal will be double-hulled and no more than 20 years old, and will be required — by independent third parties, before they enter Gateway’s shipping channels — to show a sound maintenance and operational history.

As they approach Kitimat, all vessels will be boarded and guided by B.C. Coast Pilots with expert knowledge of our coastal waters.

Simulations conducted in varying weather conditions have shown that the largest tankers can be safely navigated without the help of tugboats.

Still, Gateway is adding a tug-escort system as an additional safety measure. The Douglas Channel is already one of the deepest and widest inland waterways on North America’s west coast, and Gateway’s tug-escort

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Spectra Energy speaks to regional board system, according to risk assessment data, would reduce the already unlikely chance of a grounding incident by a further 80 to 90 per cent.

As another Gateway marine safety initiative, we’re introducing landbased radar to B.C.’s North Coast for the first time. This radar system will be bolstered by extra navigational aids such as lights and channel markers. These enhancements aren’t just for Gateway — they are for all vessels on B.C.’s North Coast.

Groups who oppose this project use fear tactics. They’d have you believe an oil tanker spill is inevitable. It isn’t.

But don’t take my word for it — visit our website and read for yourself about all the work that has gone into making Gateway’s marine operation one of the safest in the world. Then, decide for yourself what’s true.

CASH from Page 1 These figures, provided to the board of directors of the RDBN by Hans Berndorff, Financial Administrator for the RDBN, are based on 2012 tax rates and do not include school taxes or other provincial property taxes.

Focussing on the Lakes District, the 2012 tax base for the RDBN and the SNRHD combined was $9 million. The projected income from all proposed pipeline projects and the

Milligan Mine would provide an additional $8.7 million to the tax base, according to 2012 tax rates.

As enticing as a near-doubling of the annual tax base sounds, Bill Miller, RDBN Chair and director of Region Area B, expressed a cautionary note regarding the likelihood of all projects moving forward.

Beyond vocal public resistance to the proposed Enbridge Northern Gateway project, supply and

demand will govern which proposed natural gas pipelines get built. “ R e a l i s t i c a l l y, we’re not going to see all those lines,” said Miller. “All those players realize that there’s not going to be five pipelines. We may end up with two, or one, or four, but not everybody is going to be there.”

Although the Milligan Mine is expected to begin limited operations later this year, off the proposed LNG pipe-

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Initial work has begun in the Terrace and Kitimat areas for PTP, but even that project has neither the long-term LNG contracts in place, nor the final engineering and design studies completed that will be required before a final investment decision is made by Apache and Chevron.

Pacific Trails Pipeline also faces strong opposition from the Wet’suwet’en, one of the First Nations whose traditional territories PTP is proposed to cross.

The other proposed LNG pipelines, TranscanadaShell Coastal Gaslink Pipeline, Transcanada -Progress Energy Pipeline, and Spectra Energy Pipeline, are all at very preliminary stages and none have yet moved beyond pre-assessment to gain environmental or regulatory approvals.

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Houston town council met last Tuesday and discussed a fee system for the use of the new charging station and decided to have free use for the time being.

“Most municipalities are not charging for the use of the stations at this point,” said CAO Linda Poznikoff at the Feb. 5 town council meeting.

Poznikoff says that, depending on the make of the vehicle, the estimated cost for a charge can range up to $2 and the district cannot charge for the electricity, but could charge a parking fee.

Councillor Rick Lundrigan said he thought users should pay for the electricity.

“So at the end of the day, you are saying it’s going to cost a minimal amount to charge a vehicle, which we are going to either have to either eat or find some creative way to recuperate,” Lundrigan said.

Councillor Shane Brienen said he does not anticipate a lot of use of the station the first year, and motioned for council

to leave the station free and then review it in a year.

Director of Engineering and Development Services Michael Glavin, in response to questions, said the District of Houston would pay electricity costs, and it comes off the pole that ties in with the solar energy.

The solar panels power the lights in the

park, the irrigation system pumps and the fountain pumps, and they won’t know until May how much power is being stored, said Glavin.

Glavin says the charging station will require an access card from the station, but clarified that the District would not get money from that.

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but they could either charge an access fee or parking fee, said Glavin.

Brienen made a slight change to his previous motion not to charge for use of the station at present, adding that council would be free to review it anytime.

All the councillors were in favour except Lundrigan, who opposed the motion.

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Driver responsibility

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t shouldn’t irritate me —it’s human nature to protect our own backside. But it does.

It starts at the scene of the crash and carries through the incredibly small part negligent drivers play in the legal process. Even when it’s abundantly clear, with several independent eye witnesses, many drivers will deny their fault.

It reminds me of a movie; Rocket Man I think. There is a scene with two astronauts floating in their space suits in space. There is a tube connecting the two suits. You hear one of them fart, and watch as a bubble of fart air moves from his end of the tube to the other. The “innocent” astronaut starts gasping for air when the fart bubble makes it into his space suit. The culprit says, “It wasn’t me.”

Denial is commonplace in the criminal justice system.

You are innocent until proven guilty.

Standard protocol is to plead “not guilty” and sit back to see if the Crown can prove the case.

In the criminal justice system, guilt comes with very real, and potentially very serious, consequences. Perhaps it’s a fear of criminal prosecution that leads some obviously “at fault” drivers to deny responsibility.

The irony is that criminal prosecution is rarely a risk and “at fault” drivers are sitting in a fluffy, protective blanket of insurance protection. It doesn’t matter how serious the crash or if the injuries are temporary or permanent. The legal implications don’t even change if you kill someone—negligent driving in our legal system does not come with criminal consequences.

Perhaps it’s a fear of having to take financial responsibility that leads some drivers to deny their obvious fault. Financial responsibility doesn’t play into it either, though.

This is where the fluffy, protective blanket comes in.

It doesn’t matter if you were texting the moment of the crash, reaching down to pick something up from the floor, or daydreaming. Your liability insurance company will take care of everything.

In fact, when innocent victims bring lawsuits to pursue fair compensation for their injuries and losses, the grand total “inconvenience” to the negligent driver is usually limited to dropping the legal papers off at the insurance company offices.

Sometimes, if fair compensation isn’t offered by the time a trial is looming, I find myself examining negligent drivers in a type of hearing called an Examination for Discovery. That would be the second “inconvenience,” and the event doesn’t usually last more than an hour.

Even then, with an insurance company paid-for lawyer looking after everything, and no risk of any personal consequences, I sometimes find negligent drivers very reluctant to take responsibility.

One fellow smashed into the back of a vehicle, causing that vehicle to smash into the back of my client’s vehicle, and he insisted on minimizing the seriousness of the crash.

He said he was just about stopped before impact, and insisted on referring to the impact as a “bump.”

That was one heck of a “bump” that caused a stopped vehicle to be propelled forward into the back of another, causing the occupants to suffer permanent injuries.

Of course, I am talking about the bad apples; the majority of people immediately admit their fault and are extremely apologetic at the scene. It’s the bad apples, though, who can get in the way of fair compensation for innocent victims. Many times, there are no independent witnesses. What is a court to do if one driver says one thing, and the other driver says the opposite?

Please, take responsibility for your actions. Don’t be a “fart bubble spaceman.” It’s not like taking responsibility means accepting consequences, anyway.

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Born to be a blonde

When people ask me what my real hair colour is, I usually tell them it’s grey. The truth is, I was blonde when I was young, but as I got older, my hair darkened. By the time I was in high school, it was considered “dirty blonde” – no matter how often I washed it.

I hated my hair back then. It didn’t fit into any categories. It wasn’t curly or straight, and it wasn’t blonde, brunette or red. To me it was nondescript and in-between.

Regrettably, I had no appreciation for my thick, natural waves, its fabulous long length, or the fact that it required no styling products to look great.

All I could see was boring and bland, so I decided to do something about it.

Against my mother’s wise advice not to spoil my virgin washand-go locks, as soon as I graduated from high school I bought

myself a box of SunIn so I could get beautiful, sun-kissed highlights like the models in seventeen magazine.

Unfortunately my hair didn’t end up looking anything like theirs. It turned a weird yellowish orange, and believe me, back in the ’80s this was not a cool hue to have. My mother was not pleased.

Despite her disapproval, I experimented a lot with my hair over the next decade. Dark brown, light brown, auburn and several shades of blonde were all tried out on my slow learning noggin at some point. My self imposed struggle also included a few bad perms and too many horrid haircuts for any insecure young woman to enjoy.

By the time I reached my 30th birthday I realized how good I’d had it in my youth and wanted to revert back to my natural unprocessed state

so I wouldn’t have to spend valuable time taming the fried-out, frizzy, cavegirl hair I now had. But by then I had too much grey and I was unwilling to embrace my natural state.

I found a dark blonde colour, slightly lighter than my natural “dirty blonde,” that suited me best and was easy to maintain. No more colour experiments for me.

Sixteen years later, I changed my mind.

“Do you think I should dye my hair red?” I asked my husband a couple of weeks ago.

“No,” he said.

“You’re a blonde, not a redhead.”

Three days after that, as he was on his way home from a work trip, I sent him a text with a picture of my bright red hair.

My text said: Don’t freak out. His reply simply said: I am.

Entering the house he looked at my face, then my head, and

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then he started to laugh.

“What’s so funny?”

I asked, imagining a picture of me as Ronald McDonald in his head.

“You asked my advice, but you didn’t take it,” he said. “Again.”

“The cashier at Walmart thought it was a great idea,” I replied.

“Well, that’s nice,” he said, scratching his big, shiny bald spot.

“But she doesn’t know you like I do. Look at all the times you’ve cut your bangs when I warned you not to, and then you regretted it like we both knew you would. You know you’ll go back to your regular hair, so why bother?”

“I just needed a change,” I explained, shrugging. I knew he was right, I wouldn’t be able to stay a redhead for long. Not just because red fades fast and is hard to maintain, but because, as much as I love red

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hair, I don’t really feel like me when it’s attached to my head.

Luckily, now that it’s washed out to more of a strawberry blonde, the red is so subtle it’s barely noticeable.

“Nice orange hair!” my daughter’s nineyear-old friend just exclaimed as she climbed into the back seat of my VW Beetle. “You’re the exact same colour as your car now. ” Awesome. I look like my car and a clown at the same time. Precisely the sweet, subtle style I was hoping for.

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Fish ban plain wrong

tact, as a result of their efforts over decades.

They are bonafide salmon conservation heroes, but they have it all wrong, as does the province, with these proposed regulations.

It’s this simple – regardless of the serious problems the province’s fish people have with resources, this proposed policy shuts down a quarter of the province to retention of trout and char from rivers.

Hundreds of rivers within these watersheds have no issues from human caused mortalities (killing and eating a fish for dinner). This is a “one size fits all”

Wayne Tofsrud Telkwa 38 year rancher

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Al Smith Vanderhoof 30 year rancher

“We are over-regulated by the government. For example, there are some big challenges coming in the agricultural waste act, and that’s going to have a major impact on the farming community.”

“The finances. The cost of doing business is a lot, way over the return from the beef industry.

It’s improved a bit, but with the BSE we’ve been in a period comparable with the 30’s.”

“The prices we have to pay for things, and the low return. It’s getting a little bit better now, the cattle prices have come up, but in the meantime everything else, like fuel and fertilizer has come up as well.”

“Cost of production, like fuel and living costs.

And the marketing of livestock is not enough to help. It costs money to put crops in, anything they do on their farms costs money and requires fuel.”

Letters are welcomed up to a maximum of 250 words. Letters are subject to editing for clarity, brevity and legality. All letters must include the writer’s name, daytime telephone number and hometown for verification purposes. Anonymous, or pen names will not be permitted. Not all submissions will be published. Letters may be e-mailed to: editor@houstontoday.com, faxed to: 250-847-2995 or mailed to: P.O. Box 899, Houston B.C., V0J 1Z0.

policy. It is petulant, unscientific, polarizing and worse.

By all means the rivers identified as having issues with char, like the Copper, should be closed to retention.

If provincial fisheries had been doing their job, they would have been shut down years ago. A precautionary approach is well advised in some cases.

But making retention illegal on rivers without issues just criminalizes the kayakers, rafters and local fisherman who like to eat a trout once in awhile.

If there is that serious of a problem with Copper River char, then the next logical next step is closing the river down to all angling, including guides.

I have fly-fished

Catch and release kills too

Editor: Banning an entire region for trout and char retention in the absence of sound scientific data is not only absurd, it’s downright reckless and self-serving.

And hardly a substitute is the lack

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Editor: Recent coverage in regard to proposed closures for keeping trout from the rivers of the Skeena, Nass and Stikine is a classic example of how good intentions don’t always lead to good outcomes.

Rob Brown and Jim Culp are often criticized by anglers of all persuasions, which is not surprising considering their proclivity to tell everyone else where, when and how to fish.

Having said that, anyone who enjoys fishing on the Skeena should tip their hats to these two every day they fish the Skeena – there are more fish in the river, and more habitats in-

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of fishing skills to determine a species population.

Where do our license fees and tax dollars go if not to support the very fishery they’re supposed to?

And by self-serving I mean to say the very

notion that driving a hook into a fish and playing it has no ill effect is a very naive belief because the truth is at least half or more such caught and released fish peter off and die of infection or trauma.

What some don’t

for over 40 years, and I don’t want to hear any more neo religious claptrap about the sanctity of catch and release.

If you hook fish in the mouth with steel hooks, some of them

inherently tough given their physiology or size, or the stage of their life history.

Badly applied, it can exacerbate conservation issues instead of fixing them, allowing mortalities

tionary conservation, better be careful what you ask for.

I know some First Nations would gladly love to see the courts decide if catch and release mortalities count in the grand

will die.

It is a blood sport, regardless of whether you use a size 20 midge, or a spoon, a 2,000 dollar bamboo rod, or a 10 dollar spin stick from Walmart.

Catch and release is not a religion, it is a management tool.

And an effective one with species that are

to continue unabated under the belief that dragging fish around by the lips has no ill effects on them.

Catch and release on steelhead makes perfect sense, biologically and economically.

Catch and release on ocean coho is incredibly counter productive.

If you want precau-

scheme of things, what the law and logic says, as opposed to the neo religious opinions of self appointed arbiters of when and how we all fish.

Rob and Jim managed to severely damage the local, and sustainable, sportfishing economy in this region with

the ill-conceived regulations foisted on us by the so-called Quality Waters process.

Now Rob thinks a quarter of the province’s rivers should be closed down to retention of trout and char.

Enough is enough.

The province needs to get its act together, and devise a representative process to get balanced input from anglers.

We need the province to man up on a lot of fisheries issues, like the future of Thompson steelhead, proposed oil pipelines and filling in pristine lakes with toxic mine tailings.

But this drama queen approach to char conservation deserves a swift and emphatic no.

Bruce Hill, Terrace, BC.

want you to know is government fisheries representatives are vigorously lobbied by commercial fresh water fishing guides who want nothing more than to systematically exclude recreational fishing residents like they did in Europe.

Why do you think they all come here to

fish? And when they do it means dollars for their guides.

The same thing goes on in hunting.

I’m not saying all guides are greedy, just that some are and go to great lengths to disguise it.

If there is a real issue with the hardy trout and char which we all know are in

sufficient abundance based on what we hear from skilled anglers in our communities, why then does the ministry propose excluding only retention?

If it is as serious as some writers proclaim, then ethically we should stop all forms of negative impact on these species by

banning catch and release, too.

In fact, some of our most concerned and vocal anglers should outright volunteer to ban all forms of fishing in open support of what they claim as fact.

Please support the petition.

Donald Rolfe, Kitimat, BC

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“This is a “one size fits all” policy.

It’s petulant, unscientific, polarizing and worse.”

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The local GEMS club, a Christian girls club, got together with the Smithers and Telkwa GEMS clubs for a rally at Rough Acres Bible Camp Feb. 2 and 3. The girls had fun with activities in the snow, Bible lessons, singing and skits, a movie and sleepover in the Rough Acres cabins and lodge. Right, (L-R) Emma, Julie Ana, Jordyn, Rebecca and Mary are bundled up to stay warm while they enjoy the winter activities in the snow.

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Ranchers concerned about waste management proposal

By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today

Northern ranchers need to be aware as regulation changes may cause big problems in the coming years.

The B.C. C a t t l e m e n ’s Association (BCCA) is a provincial policymaking association and that lobbies the government on behalf of B.C. cattle ranchers and is their official voice to government.

It is made up of 17 regions represented by two bodies: a

Board of Directors, which makes major policy decisions and meets three times a year, and a sevenperson Executive Committee, annually elected from the Board of Directors, which meets once a month, is advised by the board and makes the more day-to day decisions.

At the Skeena Regional Cattlemen’s meeting in Houston Feb. 2, General Manager of BCCA Kevin Boon talked to local ranchers via Skype about discussions he and

BCCA President David HaywoodFarmer were having with government ministers about issues affecting ranchers.

He said one big concern for ranchers is the Waste Management Act, proposed Jan. 2012 by the Ministry of Environment.

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the dairy and poultry industry in the Fraser Valley, and it was proposed as a blanket regulation to cover all of B.C. But here in the north, those regulations just wouldn’t work, said Tofsrud.

“We’re in trouble if that comes out,” said Matt Taylor, president of the Smithers Bulkley Valley Cattlemen’s Assoc.

“I don’t think we could farm when it comes down to it,” he said, adding that there are regulations that require winter feeding area’s to be covered, and all waste piles over six inches deep to be covered, which is not possible in this area.

The BCCA opposed the waste management proposal very strongly, said Tofsrud, adding that now all the interested parties are going to sit down and discuss the pros and cons.

Boon says the meeting in Kamloops Feb. 12 is the third meeting of the consultation process and holds some promise to make government aware that one size does not fit all for provincial regulations.

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Luke and Braydon give eight-year-old sisters Taylor and Piper a swinging ride on the round swing in the Twain Sullivan playground on Thursday after school. Children lingered outside after school, enjoying the beautiful sunshine and mild weather.

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Speed reader glitch in Houston

By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today

The speed reader board study in Houston has failed to give results due to a technical glitch, says Carl Lutz, Ministry of Transportation district manager for the Bulkley-Stikine.

Lutz says the glitch occurred when they were downloading the data off the Houston speed reader board, and they were unable to recover any data

“Boards are used as a traffic calming tool.”

- Carl Lutz, Ministry of Transportation district manager for Bulkley-Stikine

from the sign prior to it’s January activation.

“We are disappointed, as the Ministry was hoping to get some local statistics on the effect of the new speed reader sign,” said Lutz.

But Lutz says other

resources show that speed reader boards have proven consistently effective at getting drivers to slow down, reducing speeds by about 10 per cent - an effect that lasts for several kilometres down

the road.

Lutz cites that speed reader boards are gaining popularity with municipalities as a traffic calming tool to slow and restrict traffic, primarily in residential neighbourhoods.

He adds that the ministry’s mandate is to improve traffic flow efficiency rather than restrict it, so tools such as the speed reader board are usually used only at the municipal level on provincial highways.

Break and enter at Northwest Community College

By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today

RCMP were called about a break and enter at the Northwest Community College on Feb. 4, said RCMP Corporal Geary.

Cpl. Geary says a

teacher found their office windows pried open and their top desk drawer rummaged through.

The suspect was looking for cash that the teacher usually stores there, but no cash was there at the time of the break

and enter, said Cpl. Geary.

RCMP have no current suspects and anyone with information is asked to call Houston RCMP at 250-845-2204 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. ***

Someone shoplifted some liquor from the Houston Liquor Store on Feb. 7, but RCMP caught the suspect, retrieved the liquor and returned it, said Cpl. Geary.

RCMP are still contemplating charges, he added.

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Electricity surplus costly

By Tom Fletcher Black Press

BC Hydro stands to lose $1 billion over the next four years by selling surplus power at a loss, NDP energy critic John Horgan said Monday.

Horgan renewed the NDP’s long-standing criticism of the B.C. Liberal government’s push for electricity self-sufficiency, and its requirement that all new clean energy sources be privately developed.

Long-term purchase contracts signed under that policy mean BC Hydro can expect to lose more than $1 billion by 2015, Horgan said at a news conference at the legislature. He based his calculations on documents BC Hydro released when it filed its application last week for an environmental assessment for the proposed Site C dam on the Peace River.

The environmental impact statement for the dam shows an expected surplus of 5,200 gigawatt-hours for 2013 and similar surpluses out to 2015.

Horgan said the current information suggests BC Hydro will have a surplus for the next 10 years.

“We’re purchasing at $94 a megawatthour, and we can sell it for $37 a megawatthour [on the spot market],” Horgan said.

“The net difference

being $57 per megawatt-hour for power we do not need, power that BC Hydro was forced to purchase because of aggressive B.C. Liberal energy policy.”

Energy Minister Rich Coleman said Horgan is using a “snapshot” of today’s low spot market and extending the same demand and prices far into the future.

The province has numerous mine projects underway or seeking approval, and liquefied natural gas export proposals are proliferating in northern B.C. that are also likely to increase demand for electricity, he said.

Coleman said the North American electricity market has likely reached bottom, with the U.S. using its own cheap natural gas to generate electricity and still suffering a slow economy with low power demand.

BC Hydro’s Powerex division continues to buy and sell power, using dam capacity to effectively store power and sell it when prices are higher.

Coleman said Powerex stands to make $200 million this fiscal year on electricity trading.

One of B.C.’s moneymakers is wind power produced with U.S. government subsidies.

Wind power can’t be stored, so Powerex buys excess power at a nominal cost and uses it while storing water in BC Hydro dams.

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Strict marine safety standards will ensure we respect our neighbours above, around and below us.

Although tankers have been safely navigating the north coast and its channels for decades, marine safety remains a top priority for British Columbians. We have been planning the Northern Gateway Project for over a decade, with a particular focus on protecting the environment. We have added specific safety requirements to our marine operations plan to help make the waters of the north coast safer not just for tankers serving the project, but for all marine vessels.

Tankers will reduce speeds in the channels…

Qualified BC Coast Pilots will board and guide all tankers… To prevent spills, all tankers serving the project will be modern and double-hulled, and will be vetted by independent, third party agencies before entering Canadian waters.

Once strict safety and environmental standards are met, they will be guided through the Douglas and Principe Channels by qualified BC Coast Pilots.

Tankers travel slowly, but to make sure that marine species and their habitats are respected, tankers will be required to reduce speed as they pass through certain sections of the channels. Even their escort tugboats will have quieter engines to reduce underwater noise.

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Additional radar and navigational aids will improve safety for all vessels…

Tugboats have been shown to significantly reduce tanker incidents worldwide. Powerful tugboats that have been specially commissioned for Northern Gateway will assist in the safe arrival and departure of tankers.

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Healthy Options for People and the Earth Society (HOPE) is a grassroots non-profit working towards a healthy, sustainable community. We operate and maintain the Pleasant Valley Community Market in Houston for the sale and purchase of locally grown produce and locally made products and encourage the practice of “reduce, re-use and recycle” through partnerships with businesses, agencies and government for recycling opportunities and education. If this sounds like something you would like to be involved in:

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This will be an evening to look back on what HOPE has done over the past year and a look forward to 2013. Board members will be elected at this time. Positions include President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and several Directors. If you know of anyone who might like to be involved in this way please send nominations to healthyoptions4houston@ gmail.com or post on facebook at www.facebook.com/ healthyoptions4houston $2 memberships will be available at the door or at any time at Bizz’s Pet Grooming in Houston.

Wrestling A Dummy

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Randy Chapman, wrestling coach for the Houston club and school teams, coaches HSS students Rebecca, Max and Jeremy at their club practice last Thursday. Chapman gave the students a dummy to wrestle to help them perfect their throws, because they can throw the dummy to the mats and not have to worry about injuring someone’s spine if they make a mistake in their throwing technique. HSS wolverine wrestlers played their zone tournament in Smithers last Friday.

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More Air Canada flights Air Canada has announced its adding another flight to its daily Vancouver-Smithers run and its daily Vancouver-Terrace run as of July.

“This year there will be five Dash 8-300 flights (vs. four Dash

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The Smithers daily capacity will rise from 100 to 150 seats a day, and the Terrace capacity from 200 to 250.

News of additional service into Smithers and Terrace was part of an announcement on increases of service into a number of Western Canada airports. In all, there will be increased capacity to 19 airports.

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Child development centre collecting pennies to support programs

By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today

What a sight!

You can just picture little two-year-old eyes bulging at the all colourful toys filling the sensory motor room where the Child Development Centre hosts it’s play group.

The small indoor swing set, the bright blue tunnel and minitrampoline, the shelves of exercise balls and cupboards filled with toys would make any three year old squeal.

But the toys filling CDC’s sensory motor room isn’t just a fun place for children to play, it is a place meant for learning and development, designed to help children with developmental delays.

The Bulkley Valley CDC, based in Smithers, has 20 staff that serve communities from Granisle to Kitwanga and run programs to help young children who are at risk or show signs of developmental delay or have a diagnosed disability, said Executive Director Kerri Bassett Kluss.

The team has physiotherapists, occupational therapists, a speech and language pathologist and staff specialized in infant development and specialized in family services coordination, Kluss said.

Six staff make weekly visits to Houston, visiting families in their homes, meeting at their office in the Houston Health Centre or running the play group in the sensory motor room at Silverthorne Elementary School, said Kluss.

Ellen Anderson, infant development consultant, has been coming to Houston for over five years and runs the play group every other week for children aged 0 to 3 who have delays in their development.

After children are referred to CDC, Anderson says she meets with parents, talks about the child’s development, the parents’ goals and concerns and then looks

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Speech and Language Pathologist Jonina Cawsey and Infant Development Consultant Ellen Anderson show off a swing used in the Houston play program at Silverthorne Elementary, to help children with balance and motor abilities. Part of CDC, Cawsey and Anderson come to Houston every other week to serve families with 0 to 3 year old children who have or are at risk for developmental delays, or who have diagnosed disabilities. at intervention strategies to help with those things.

One to 15 children show up for the play group session and Anderson plays with the children, doing things with play dough or finger painting or playing on all the bigger equipment designed to help children develop gross motor skills, she said.

Sometimes the group goes to the pool or outside, said Anderson, adding that they run nearly year round so summer programs are nice in the park.

And if Anderson feels it would be helpful, she refers people to other therapists in CDC or other services in the community, she said.

Jonina Cawsey, speech and language pathologist, has been coming to Houston for over 3 years, and she works with children who have trouble communicating.

Cawsey says she makes lots of home visits and gives parents suggestions about how to get their child talking more and support their child’s communication, including things to do in play and things parents can practice with their children.

“I think it’s a privi-

lege to be invited into people’s homes and into their lives,” said Cawsey.

“And you get to

be there to help them make change and that’s powerful,” she added.

Ellen says one nice

thing is that children change quickly, so they really get to see changes and results in the children they are

working with.

The programs are play-based and family-centred, so they are based on the needs of the child and what the parents perceive as the needs of the child, said Anderson.

“We try not to run away with we think is important, but we’re family centred, so we are really working on what the parents see as important,” said Cawsey.

The CDC programs are funded by the MInistry of Children and Family Development, and some of the schoolaged therapy programs are funded through the Mi nistry of Health and Education, Kluss said.

She adds that the government money is not enough to run the programs and most of the equipment is bought with fund raised or grant money.

This year, the Bulkley Valley CDC is collecting pennies

to fund raise for resources and equipment, an idea that came from the CDC in Whitehorse, Yukon, where they are trying to collect one million pennies.

The Bulkley Valley goal is to collect 500,000 pennies, or $5,000, and so far they have only $600, said Kluss.

Kluss says pennies are being collected for the CDC at Western Financial in the Houston mall, as well as several locations in Smithers, Hazelton and other areas CDC services.

“We appreciate the support that we’ve gotten from Houston over the years, [and how Houston has] welcomed us into the community,” said Kluss.

“We have great partners in the community… [and staff] love coming to Houston,” said Kluss.

“It’s been such a great place to work in,” she said.

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Application No: PE-1505

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NOTICE Application for Permit Amendments under the Provisions of the Environmental Management Act. We, Maclaren Forest Products Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Xstrata Copper Canada Corporation (“Xstrata”), PO Box 10424, Pacific Centre, 1300-777 Dunsmuir Street, Vancouver, B.C. V7Y 1K2, has submitted permit amendment applications requesting authorizations to construct and operate a water treatment facility and related components in order to safely discharge treated water from the Bell mine site. The Bell mine site is a decommissioned open pit copper mine located in north-central British Columbia on Newman Peninsula in Babine Lake, approximately 12 km north of the Village of Granisle, Range 5 Coast District and within the Skeena River Watershed.

Xstrata has effectively managed reclamation activities at the Bell mine site according to the 1992 Closure Plan accepted by the province of BC. Since closure and as per the plan, the Bell pit has been used to safely store water from site collection ponds and runoff from mine related facilities. The water elevation in the pit has been measured annually since closure to monitor the filling rate. It is expected that the pit will reach its upper operating level in 2018.

Xstrata’s application to the British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas (BC MEMNG) and Ministry of Environment (MOE) proposes to amend the existing permits for the Bell Mine – Mines Act Reclamation Permit M-35, issued on 4 October 1991, last amended on 16 February 1993, and Environment Management Act Permit PE-1505, issued on 21 April 1972, last amended on 25 May 2012. The amendments are for the construction of a water treatment plant to treat and discharge water to Babine Lake.

treatment plant to operations.

Xstrata proposes construct a new state of the art water treatment facility on the Bell mine site utilizing the High Density Solids (HDS) process technology to treat the pit water. This treated water will be directed to a polishing pond and subsequently discharged to Babine Lake via a Other components theThis water treatment plant willwater include a polishing pond submerged multi-portassociated discharge with system. is consistent with the treatment process studied and recommended in the 1992 Closure Plan. and a Treatment Solids Management Facility (TSMF) (currently the TEX pond), which The HDS process is an effective and reliable technology that is proven to consistently produce excellent quality of treated water in northern has a storage capacity of 300,000 m3. The expected volume of the treatment solids climates.

produced annually is 1,500 mplant , assuming annual treatment volume of 1.55 . If The proposed water treatment will treatanand discharge the annual average inflMm ow to the Bell pit at a rate of 1,050 m3 per hour. The aver3 of water requires treatment, the volume of treated solids produced 2.6 Mm 3 in that year age annual discharge3 volume from the water treatment plant will be 1.55 Mm (million cubic metres), with a maximum discharge volume of 2.6 3 on the of treatmenthours solids that will be produced eachfor 9 weeks during the ice-free months of May would bewater 2,500treatment m . Based Mm . The plant will volumes operate twenty-four per day, seven days per week year, it is expected that proposed TSMF has sufficient capacity to3store treatment and October to process thethe average annual discharge volume of 1.55 Mm . It will take 15 weeks to treat the maximum discharge volume of 2.6 3 3 solids for 120 to 200 years.

Mm at the rate of 1,050 m per hour. Contingency plans are provided for untreated water and potential disruptions in the water treatment plant operations.

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The location under consideration for discharge is offshore and east of Newman Peninsula

Other components associated with the water treatment plant will include a polishing pond and a Treatment Solids Management Facility and southwest of the Bell pit in Babine Lake. The selection of the discharge location (TSMF) (currently the TEX pond), which has a storage capacity of 300,000 m3. The expected volume of the treatment solids produced annually considered criteria including, but not limited to, protection of culturally significant areas, is 1,500 m3, assuming an annual treatment volume of 1.55 Mm3. If 2.6 Mm3 of water requires treatment, the volume of treated solids produced aquatic habitats, isolated embayments, volumes of treatment solids that will be produced each year, it is expected that the proposed TSMF indrinking that yearwater wouldsupplies, be 2,500environmentally m3. Based on thesensitive and deep waters, as well as to minimize disturbance of the land and lake bottom and has sufficient capacity to store treatment solids for 120 to 200 years.

comply with all applicable regulatory requirements. The proposed facility location will

The location undertoconsideration for discharge is offshore and east of Newman Peninsula and southwest of the Bell pit in Babine Lake. The produce limited no visual impacts. selection of the discharge location considered criteria including, but not limited to, protection of culturally significant areas, drinking water supplies, sensitive aquatic habitats, isolatedequal embayments, andthan deepthose waters, as well as to minimize disturbance of the land and lake The environmentally treated water will have chemical characteristics to or better bottom and comply with all applicable regulatory requirements. The proposed facility location will produce limited to no visual impacts.

presented in Table 1.

The treated water will have chemical characteristics equal to or better than those presented in Table 1.

Table1:1: Chemical Characteristics of the Treated Water Table Chemical Characteristics of the Treated Water Parameter pH

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The treated water will meet British Columbia Water Quality Guidelines for the Protection of Aquatic Life within the discharge zone for all parameters. Water quality in Babine Lake will remain virtually indistinguishable from background conditions for most parameters after the discharge commences. The discharge of treated water will not affect water quality and will not pose a risk to human health, aquatic biota or the receiving environment.

Any persons interested in commenting or providing relevant information pertaining Additionally, paper copies are available at the following locations: Village of Granisle toThe the permit amendment may do so within 30 days of this posting.

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Left: HSS Wolverine Evan Kenzle jumps and fires the ball towards the Spartain basket, during the senior boys basketball tournament last Saturday.

Above: HSS Wolverine Harpreet Parmar plows through Spartain defense on his way to the basket. HSS Senior Boys hosted the basketball playday last Saturday, with teams from Houston, Hazelton, Smithers, Fraser Lake and Terrace.

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Advance Public Notice Load Restrictions

In order to preserve road base strength, pursuant to Section 66 of the Transportation Act, and to provisions of the Commercial Transport Act, notice is hereby given that load restrictions may be placed on short notice in the near future on all highways within the Bulkley Stikine District, including areas from Burns Lake west to Kitwanga, and north to the Yukon border, including Atlin. Restrictions will be imposed in each service area, as conditions warrant.

The restrictions will limit vehicles to 100 per cent, 80 per cent, 70 per cent or 50 per cent of legal axle loading.

Overweight permits will not be granted and all term overweight permits are invalid for the duration of the restrictions.

Trucking and transportation companies, as well as the general public, should govern themselves accordingly.

Your cooperation in adhering to the above regulations is appreciated.

If you normally receive bulk deliveries of water, fuel, livestock feed or other produce, please plan ahead so interruption to your deliveries will be minimized.

Dated in Smithers, British Columbia, this 13th day of February, 2013.

Carl Lutz, District Manager Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Bulkley Stikine District

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Wednesday, February 13, 2013

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Ranchers face governance changes

By Jackie Lieuwen

number of cattle.

Then a sevenperson Executive The governance of Committee is annuMOTI Ad #968 ally elected from the the cattlemen’s provinBulkley Load Board of Directors, cial body Stikine is changing toRestrictions represent the prov- which makes most of the decisions based on ince more equally.

GeneralInterior Manager Smithers News the board’s advised diof the B.C. Cattlemen’s rection.

Boon says Association Houston TodayKevin because of Boon talked to local that for ranchers viaDistrict Skype competition Burns Lake atNews the regional cattle- board representation and other issues men’s meeting Feb. 2. from the BoonX said the cur- arising 4.31” 7.143” rent structure of lines the current system, a 3 columns X 100 BCCA governing sys- committee and the developed tem wasn’t working board well, so the directors and proposed a new and governance com- system that will divide mittee did research the province into seven and developed a new zones for the purpose model which they have of selecting BCCA proposed for BCCA directors.

In the proposed governance. system, “They are try- seven-zone ing to set it up so we there will be five major get equal representa- zones - with two direction across the prov- tors and one represenince,” said Wayne tative on each of the Tofsrud, president five committees - and of the local Skeena two minor zones - with Regional Cattlemen’s one director and one representative on each Association.

Currently, BCCA committee.

Under the prois governed by a 28-person Board posed new system, the of Directors, Executive Committee decided based on would be eliminated regional association and the 12-person membership and Board of Directors Houston Today

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Pantone 139 vacancies at our Pleasant Valley Village apartments. Granisle Volunteer Fire Department meetings & fire The Houston & District Chamber of Commerce is Please call Roberta@250-845-2257. practices every Tues., 7 p.m. at the Fire Hall. sponsoring a PST Seminar presented by the Ministry of Finance on Wed., March 20 from 10am – 12pm. You Houston Secondary School webpage: http://hssweb. Granisle Church of the Way services are Sun., 11 a.m. Bible study is Thurs. at 7 p.m. must pre-register for this seminar. For more info or to sd54.bc.ca register, please contact the Houston & District Chamber Houston Community Services is open Mon. thru Fri. of Commerce at 250-845-7640. from 9am to 4pm We have clothing to give away. Baby Houston Dart League is Sat. evenings at 7:30 pm. upstairs clothing; women’s and mens as well as children of all Colour Logo File at the Houston Curling Club. Blind doubles games. ages. Come and check it out!

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and a separately elected BCCA president would meet more frequently and do the duties previously done by the executive, Boon said, adding that the system will save BCCA $25,000 to $40,000 per year.

Boon says the local Skeena Regional Cattlemen’s Assoc. has two directors on the BCCA board, but if the proposal goes through they will have one director and one person on each of the five committees - six representatives total.

The proposal will be voted on at the BCCA annual general meeting in Vernon May 23 to 25, and BCCA members will get an information package before that.

Boon also discussed several other rancher concerns.

The change to PST makes it more difficult for ranchers to get their tax exemptions, Boon said.

HST was much simpler, had less paperwork and was more cost effective but now they have to go back to the pre-HST system and make two claims, one for PST and one for GST, said Boon.

He adds that some retailers are not willing to go back to the old remittance system as it usually costs them, so ranchers fear that

they won’t get the exemptions and will see higher costs for their agriculture as a result.

Boon says government will try to simplify the system down the road, and for the time being ranchers can get a FarmerID card from the B.C. annual general council, which is accepted by some retailers.

Boon said BCCA is doing a survey and ranchers need to report losses - be it cattle loss to predators, disease, hunters or road accidents; or land and property damages.

BCCA is trying to identify what is costing ranchers and how they can address problems and minimize costs, Boon said.

Boon says ranchers with property on scheduled highways need to give BCCA information about their fencing needs so that plans can be made for a future fencing program.

He adds that ranchers should also keep a careful eye on the new Code of Practice for cattle handling (link on BCCA website), and should be aware of the Animal Health Act, Open Burning Regulations, and water and waste management issues.

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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM ERNEST EGAN, Deceased Formerly of Houston, British Columbia All parties having claims against the said Estate are required to forward particulars of same to the law firm of WINGHAM LAW CORPORATION, Solicitor for the Personal Representative, at P.O. Box 1489, Vanderhoof, British Columbia, V0J 3A0, on or before the 15th day of March, 2013 after which date the claims filed may be paid without reference to any claims of which the Personal Representative then has no knowledge.

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