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The Houston RCMP “Cram the Cruiser” food drive was a huge success, filling three cruisers to the roof with food donations and collecting over $1,300 in cash and gift certificates. RCMP Sergeant Stephen Rose said Salvation Army volunteers told him they’ve been doing this for three years and have never seen so much food. Above, Safety Bear, Sgt. Rose, Victims Services Volunteer Paul Batley and Services Assistant Trina Bray promote their food drive and gather support for the local Salvation Army.

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Over 100 people gathered for the Town Hall information discussing the closure of Houston Forest Products (HFP).

The meeting opened with short speeches from Mayor and council, local MLA John Rustad, West Fraser Operations Manager John Vander Ende, and B.C. Transition Team Director Sarah Fraser. Then the floor opened to questions.

MLA Rustad said one of the things the province has been working on since the announcement of the HFP closure is marketing the HFP site to investors.

“There is tremendous economic opportunities for the future in terms of the projects that are happening across the province, particularly through the north.

“The major projects

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“It’s a very good site and there is significant interest in it.”

- MLA John Rustad

inventory list that we have for the province is about $185 million in potential projects that are looking to move forward in B.C.” Rustad said.

He said they are working to make sure that investors - from Liquifired Natural Gas (LNG) to a wide range of other companies looking to start projects in B.C.know about the HFP site.

Rustad said a number of interests have been expressed, but he could not give details at this time.

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Canfor proposes to invest $36 million in Houston sawmill

By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today

C a n f o r C o r p o r at i o n announced last week Monday that, subject to ratification of the tentative labour agreement between the Company and the United Steelworkers, the Company will make capital

investments totaling approximately $36 million to improve efficiency and recovery in its Houston, British Columbia sawmill.

The investment will include upgrades to primary and secondary breakdown lines and advancements in scanning and optimization

“To ensure we are able to operate a worldclass facility in Houston for the long term.” technology.

“Our newlystrengthened fibre position in the

- Canfor President and CEO Don Kayne Houston region allows us to proceed with this significant investment,” said

Canfor Corporation President and CEO Don Kayne. “These capital improvements

are designed to ensure we are able to operate a world-class facility in Houston for the long term, in all market conditions.”

Canfor Corp. recently announced a fibre exchange agreement with West Fraser Mills Ltd. which, when concluded, will see the Company

add approximately 324,500 cubic metres of replaceable forest licence allowable annual cut in the Morice Timber Supply Area. Since 2010, the Company has invested more than $650 million in modernizing its British Columbia lumber, pulp and paper mills.

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Houston council met with Canfor CEO Don Kayne in Houston last week Monday to discuss their plans for Houston.

Kayne announced last week Monday that Canfor is planning to invest $36 million to upgrade the Houston sawmill, subject to the completed labour agreement with United Steelworkers.

“It just shows that they see Houston as a flagship mill… they’re investing, their future is here, so that’s good,” said Councillor Jonathan Van Barneveld.

Deputy Mayor Shane Brienen said it’s tough to say how he felt about the announcement.

“It’s tough [because] whenever they upgrade, it means that a few jobs will be lost, but then it makes them more competitive,” Brienen said.

He said that during the previous economic downturn, Houston Canfor was able to work through most of it because of their efficiency level, while a lot of other mills were shutting down or taking long downtime periods.

“It’s better if you’re more efficient. I would say overall [the upgrades are] probably a good thing. It’s not very nice when you lose a few more jobs, but it’s just the nature of how the industry’s going right now,” he said.

When asked whether Kayne said jobs would be lost with the upgrades, Brienen said no. “They talked about the money they’re putting in,” he said.

“Usually when someone improves efficiency, it means layoffs [but] I can’t speak for Canfor,” Van Barneveld said.

He said the meeting was more to connect with Canfor in the wake of the HFP closure announcement

and start a dialogue with them.

“We just wanted to catch up with Canfor and hear from their end what their plans were going forward,” Brienen said.

“We talked about the extra volume they had and what they plan to do with that and it sounds like they plan to process it at the Houston mill,” Brienen said.

He said one concern council raised was for the local logging contractors with HFP closing.

“There’s all those loggers, and there is going to be less wood for them to log, so we asked [Canfor] what they’re going to do there.

“We expressed on our side that the sooner we heard, the nicer it would be for our community because of the uncertainty,” Brienen said.

Brienen said it seemed that the delay in information is not because they didn’t want to let people know, but it’s that they are still ironing out their plans.

“We’re hoping that as soon as they know, they’ll let us and the loggers know,” he said.

Van Barneveld said they also talked about the Competition Bureau, but they didn’t know the specifics about the process.

“I’m surprised that nobody really knows about this process,” he said.

Van Barneveld said they also confirmed that Canfor’s willingness to invest in Houston projects.

Interested groups can learn about Canfor’s community support and find an application form on their website, at www.canfor.com/responsibility/ social/ Reports say that over 90 percent of all United Steelworkers in the Canfor plants combined, voted no to the proposed labour agreement. For more, see next week’s Houston Today.

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HFP from Page 1 Rustad said a number of interests have been expressed, but he could not give details at this time.

“It’s a very good site and there is some significant interest interest in it,” Rustad said.

Houston Mayor Bill Holmberg said council has been in contact with West Fraser, who is actively looking for someone to buy it. Their hope is that the buyer will be a business that will create lots of jobs, Mayor Holmberg said.

Asked if the District of Houston has any say on who buys the property, Holmberg said no.

“We have no control over that piece of

property,” Holmberg said, adding that the only control they have is over the zoning, which is industrial.

He says that council has been in contact with West Fraser and they hope to have some say in what happens.

John Vander Ende, West Fraser Operations Manager, said they wouldn’t do anything that would have a negative affect on the community.

“West Fraser is concerned about it’s reputation,” he said.

“At the end of the day, we’re not going to hold onto the property, we’re definitely going to sell the property.

We’re looking for people that will give everybody the biggest

bang for their buck - and that’s not just West Fraser’s bang for their buck,” he said.

Vander Ende said they’ve been approached by various people, including a number of locals asking if the property could be used for a pipeline staging area. They’ve also been approached by pipeline representatives who indicated interest in the property, he said.

Vander Ende said West Fraser is proud of their companies and of what they represent in the industry and they don’t want things in Houston to end poorly.

Rob Newell, Regional District Director for the

Houston rural area, said he hopes there will be public-private partnerships.

There are people in Houston with money to invest, who should invest it into this town, he said. “[We should] start up our own industry, rather then depend on people coming in from the outside,” Newell said.

Other questions were raised at the meeting, including several questions about why it was the Houston mill that West Fraser shut down. See next week’s Houston Today for more details about the meeting and for information regarding the Transition Plan from District of Houston.

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Council “not happy with where timber is moving”

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Minister of Forests Steve Thomson is coming to Houston, Mayor Bill Holmberg said after a recent meeting with the Minister in Vancouver.

Mayor Holmberg, Deputy Mayor Shane Brienen and Dave Mayor drove to Vancouver for the meeting Nov. 28, and Councillor Jonathan Van Barneveld took part via conference call.

They met with Minister Thomson, and were joined by MLA John Rustad and Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism, and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour.

“We asked about the Competition Bureau. The licence hasn’t been awarded yet because the Competition Bureau is still involved,” Holmberg said.

“We’re fighting more for the 280,000 cubic metres [of timber rights] that they want to ship to Pacific Inland Resources (PIR) in Smithers.

“I understand the swap between the two mills, but they should leave the extra 280,000 cubic metres right here, it doesn’t need to go anywhere.

“We want it to go into forest reserve, or go into the small business program in our Community Forest so that it can stay local.”

“Whether we’re successful or not, I don’t know,” Holmberg said, adding that Minister Thomson promised to check into it.

“There wasn’t much that came out of that meeting, other then that he agreed to come [to Houston] and see us,” Holmberg said.

MLA John Rustad says the visit will likely be in January.

Reporting to council last week Tuesday,

Deputy Mayor Shane Brienen said they didn’t get a lot of information.

“It was a frustrating meeting, most of our questions weren’t answered.

“They were a little confused actually about how that timber transfer deal worked.

There was a lot of questions that we felt they should have been able to answer that they were not able to,” he said.

Councillor Van Barneveld agreed.

“Not a lot of information was shared, not because they didn’t want to, almost because they didn’t know,” he said.

“When we asked them specifics [about the Competition Bureau], they didn’t really know.

“They didn’t know if the Smithers piece was part of the Competition Bureau process or not, or if

it was just the Canfor piece. They had no idea. We told them to look into it,” he said.

“I don’t know if we made headway,” Brienen said.

“We did let them know that we’re not happy with the deal and we’re not happy with where some of the timber is moving.

And we’ll keep working on that, trying to get a bit back for the community somehow,” he said.

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s BC Hydro ratepayers contemplate a 28 per cent rate increase over five years, they might want to consider the cost of the crown corporation’s Northwest Transmission Line.

First announced in 2007, the cost was $400 million. Cancelled that fall when a major partner, the Galore Creek mine project was halted because of its own overruns, the line slumbered until officially revived in 2009. The cost then was $404 million although officials did caution that could change. And change it did, from $561 million to $617 million to $746 million as of this spring.

But wait, there’s more. To qualify for a $130 million federal grant for the transmission line, BC Hydro agreed to provide power to Iskut, north of where the line now stops.

It’s doing so by buying a power line being built by Imperial Metals that will connect the transmission line to its Red Chris mine now under construction. That cost is $52 million plus an additional $5 million to run a smaller line to Iskut off of the Imperial line, leaving open the suggestion the true price of the Northwest Transmission Line is closer to $800 million.

BC Hydro says it will, fingers crossed, recover the cost of the Northwest Transmission Line from those who use it.

We can only hope that does happen for all of this serves as a cautionary tale of big money in a big project backstopped by taxpayers. Remember that when the BC Hydro rate hikes kick in.

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Black swans bring hope For the last few years, every time I talked to my friend Kay Brown, I could see pain in her eyes.

The physical suffering she had endured since her whiplash injury 17 years prior had become too much for her to manage, and the quality of her life was deteriorating at the same rate as the bone alignment of her diseased spine.

As much as she wanted to distract herself with the company of friends, the agony she was in made her withdraw once it became allconsuming.

Having normal conversations felt next to impossible.

“I’d be talking to someone, already feeling terrible, and suddenly I’d get a jolt of unbearable pain that I wouldn’t be able to hide,” she explained. It became easier for her to just stay home than to try to be social.

After years of being

told nothing could be done, a surgeon named Dr. Kim in Houston, Texas, said the words she’d been praying to hear: he could fix her.

“I sat across from that nice Asian doctor with his cute Texas accent and listened to him tell me that he could immediately eliminate 75 per cent of my pain with an operation he could do in his sleep,” she said.

“He claimed the other 25 per cent would diminish over time. I was in shock.”

Her friends and family were overjoyed at the news, and Kay was hopeful, but she couldn’t wrap her head around the staggering cost.

“A one night stay in the hospital would be $80,000,” she said. “I couldn’t imagine coming up with that kind of money on top of the surgery and travel expenses.”

Loved ones urged her to get the opera-

tion and figure out the finances later. Her new friends whom she had just met at the hotel in Houston, managed to get the hospital charges decreased.

Now $30,000 would be required upfront, and an additional $20,000 afterward.

Within one day some friends back home completely astonished her by coming up with the hefty loan for the down payment.

Overwhelmed with emotion, Kay laid down on a lounge chair at the hotel.

“When I opened my eyes a couple minutes later, three black swans were beside me,” she said. “They stayed with me for 40 minutes. It felt magical - like some kind of omen. At first, I didn’t want to Google the meaning of it, just in case it meant the kiss of death or something.”

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Internet, the black beauties symbolized an epic event. That felt right to Kay. She went ahead and had the operation, and it was a huge success.

Talking face to face with my friend is a different experience now. Her eyes still well up easily, not from shooting pain or despair, but from the love and support extended to her by her friends and family, and even complete strangers during her time of need.

Her physical and mental transformation has come at a high price though, and her friends are now trying to help her pay the debt back.

“Kay’s a hard working single mother of three daughters, and a respected business owner in our community,” said Dr. Dave Manns, her friend and chiropractor. “This woman has a heart of

On a brighter note Lori Welbourne gold. I just hope that we can help her the way she would try to help any of us if the roles were reversed.”

A fundraising event for her is being held on Saturday, December 7th at the Holiday Inn in West Kelowna.

Auction items and cash donations are being gratefully accepted, and there are a few tickets left for sale. It is sure to be an epic event. The black swans from Texas confirmed it.

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“A neighbour comes and plows my driveway every time there is a snowfall, he’s been doing it for the last two years and doesn’t want to get paid. And he brings sand for the road. I really appreciate that.”

“Trent Holmberg approached a bunch of businesses to raise money for wheelchairs for the seniors homes. I thought that was really kind. It made me feel like there is still some good people in our community.”

“When we first moved here, we just bought a whole bunch of stuff and were carrying boxes and bags and our twins and nephew, and we were walking up the hill and this lady pulled over and asked us if we needed a ride. It was awesome.”

“If you need help from someone, people help out. If you’re short on groceries, there’s people who help pay for it. At the Friendship Centre, they help me with my kids’ winter gear, and they give cooking classes and crafts.”

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Editor: Alberta Premier Alison Redford and B.C. Premier Christy Clark have reached an agreement on moving oil through the two provinces.

Clark’s previous sticking point about wanting a share of Alberta’s oil royalties was apparently a nonstarter. Alberta is giving their oil away for only $2 – $8 per barrel. This is less than nothing when you consider that crude oil

minimize the risks of the pipelines. As it stands though, their plans for minimizing spill risk is to fill each outgoing pipeline and oil tanker 30 per cent full of solvent and make it carry about 20 per cent raw tar sand waste – this will double the amount of traffic that would be needed to carry refined oil and double the number of spills.

On top of that, the incoming tankers will be returning the 30

Editor Do the refining closer to the source currently sells for over $80 per barrel and before 2004, when the oil companies were still hugely profitable, oil sold for under $40.

In a hundred years, all Alberta’s oil will be gone and they’ll just have massive amounts of toxic waste to clean up with their remaining royalty money.

Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are always advertising that they are taking all possible steps to

per cent solvent to be piped and shipped in future loads, creating the possibility of a massive toxic tanker spill (and pipeline spill) in both directions instead of just one.

Overall, this increases the spill risk by about 4X instead of piping and shipping refined oil. And yet all the marketing slicks say repeatedly that they are doing ‘Everything Possible’ to be safe.

Let’s be clear, Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are in the pipeline business and will double their own profits if they unnecessarily double the amount of pipelines and quadruple the spill risk at the same time.

CNOOC and Sinopec, the Chinese state owned oil companies that will be transporting their oil through the pipelines, are only really concerned about making more

money for China. If they quadruple the spill risk but add a few million extra dollars to China’s GDP, they will be happy.

The tar sands will then be refined in China probably using coal-fired energy, making the final products by far the filthiest green house gas source on the planet.

It would be much better for the planet if the tar sands were instead even partially refined near their

source in Alberta, or near Fort St. John before crossing hundreds of rivers in B.C. This could be done using clean energy from Site C and would cut the spill risk by about 75 per cent.

With the sawmill closures in Quesnel and Houston, there will be more than enough skilled labor to run an efficient refinery.

Graham Gerry Quesnel, B.C.

Ottawa vows ‘world class’ oil safety Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver assured a Vancouver business audience Wednesday that the federal government is committed to “world class” oil spill prevention and response on the B.C. coast.

In a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade, Oliver stopped short of specifically endorsing the 45 recommendations in a new survey of marine and land oil transport safety, but repeated a vow from last summer to make “polluter pays” the law for pipelines in Canada.

“There has never been a serious tanker accident on the West Coast,” Oliver said.

“Nevertheless, we are committed to building a world-class system to prevent marine accidents.

In the unlikely event there is an accident, we need to respond rapidly and comprehensively and make sure the polluter pays, not the taxpayer.”

On Tuesday, Oliver and Transport Minister Lisa Raitt released a report by a tanker safety expert panel chaired by Gordon Houston,

former president of Port Metro Vancouver and Prince Rupert harbourmaster.

The panel’s report calls for adequate funding to the Canadian Coast Guard to make it the lead agency in any oil spill response at sea.

Potential polluters and their delegated spill response agencies should be prepared for a “worst case” incident like the Exxon Valdez grounding in Alaska in 1989, the report says.

B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak said it remains to be

seen if Ottawa will take the necessary steps to meet the province’s conditions for approving new heavy oil pipelines.

A federal review panel is due to issue recommendations by the end of December on whether the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal for a double pipeline from northern Alberta to Kitimat should be allowed to proceed.

The federal report looks only at current traffic, including crude and other petroleum products. It identifies the south end of

Vancouver Island and the adjacent coast, including Vancouver harbour, as being at “very high risk due to the large volumes of vessel traffic and bulk oil movements that occur within close proximity of environmentally sensitive areas.”

That is the region where Alaska crude oil tankers enter the Strait of Juan de Fuca to reach Washington state refineries, and the oil tanker exclusion zone ends. Between 30 and 60 tankers a year filled with crude oil or diluted bitumen also sail out from

the Kinder Morgan Canada oil terminal at Burnaby through the same waters.

Traffic from Burnaby would increase to about one tanker per day if Kinder Morgan’s proposed twinning of its Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta proceeds. Currently 30 to 60 tankers a year load at the Westridge Terminal in Burnaby.

The tanker exclusion zone, a voluntary agreement between Canada and the U.S., extends 200 nautical miles west from the

B.C. Views Tom Fletcher northern tip of Haida Gwaii to southern Vancouver Island. The federal report rates oil spill risk as “medium” on the northern and southern ends of the exclusion zone, and low in the central portion.

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Stranded trapper rescued from Morice Lake

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A trapper on Morice Lake was rescued Dec. 3 after being thrown from his boat, swimming to shore, and sending a signal for help through his satellite GPS unit.

Eleven rescuers including Houston RCMP, local residents, Houston Search and Rescue (SAR) and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), found the trapper at 2:15 a.m.

Dec. 3, ten hours

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the active hauling road is also known as the Camp 3 Trail.

If you are using this area we encourage you to do so safely.

The logging and hauling activities in this area are estimated to take place until the middle of February.

after he sent the signal for help through his SPOT GPS unit.

“He survived because he was prepared,” said RCMP Sergeant Stephen Rose.

“He had requisite clothing to keep him safe on a boat and to keep him dry. He was equipped with a lighter to start a fire, and he had a GPS device, through which he was able to send a signal to ask for help, and he stayed put after making it to shore and waited to be rescued,” Sgt. Rose said.

The SPOT unit was activated at 3:45 p.m.

Dec. 2, sending a 9-11 call to police.

Sgt. Rose says police determined the terrain using the GSP coordinates and contacted the local SAR and residents who had a boat and

knowledge of the remote area around Morice Lake.

Facing overnight temperatures of -20 degrees, strong

“

he demonstrated his appreciation by sharing breakfast with the rescuers.

The boat, in decent shape, was later found

but really it came down to the locals who were familiar with the area and had the requisite equipment to get us as the rescuers into the

“He survived because he was prepared.”

winds and complete darkness, the rescuers made their way to Morice Lake where a rescue effort was launched, said a recent RCMP press release.

After several hours on the water, rescuers reached the GPS coordinates provided

by SPOT and found the trapper on shore, wet but in good health.

The trapper was brought back to Houston, where

- RCMP Sergeant Stephen Rose on the opposite side of the lake through a helicopter search.

“This is a great example of an avid outdoorsman who ran into trouble in the wilderness but had the equipment and clothing to keep himself safe until help arrived,” Sgt. Rose said.

“Obviously we as the police played the role of arranging and facilitating and going to assist in the rescue,

area.

“They deserve all the kudos,” he said.

“It demonstrates the tenacity of our Search and Rescue group and the willingness of local residents to help emergency services offer help to someone during their time of need.

“The willingness of local residents to risk their own lives to save another is outstanding!”

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Kevin McKenzie Bob Niven Gerard Edmonds Frank McDonald Rick Stevens Clayton Edmonds Wendall Ewald Tim VanLeeuwen Greg MacLeod James D’Andrea Mike Murphy Thank you also to all others involved and to all who supported everyone in prayer.

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Police have a turned in purse, available to claim at the Houston station. It was left at the Ladies Auction at the Community Hall, RCMP Sgt. Rose said. *** A vehicle hit a deer on Highway 16 and Morgan Road at 5 p.m. Nov. 29. Sgt. Rose says the driver was not injured, the deer ran off and the vehicle damage was minimal. *** Police arrested and charged a male for being drunk in public, after seeing him staggering on Copeland Ave. and 11th Street at 8 p.m.

Nov. 29, Sgt. Rose said. *** Police got report of a male chasing another male with an ax at the Tatchet Reserve at 9:50 p.m. Nov. 29. Sgt. Rose says police arrested the offender, held him in cells until Smithers court the next day.

The male got a four month jail sentence, after facing charges of assault with a weapon, carrying a weapon for a dangerous purpose, forcible entry and breach, said Sgt. Rose. *** A female was arrested for punching another female in the face on Hagman Cres. at 4 p.m. Nov. 30. Sgt. Rose says the offender will face assault charges in Houston court Jan. 20. *** A vehicle came to the RCMP station with an eagle caught in its front grill at 11:30 a.m.

Nov. 30. Sgt. Rose says police removed the eagle, which later died, and turned it over to B.C. Conservation Services. The driver was not injured in the collision, but there was significant damage to the front of the vehicle, Sgt. Rose said. *** A Visa and bank card were stolen from a vehicle on Hagman Cres. before 12:10 p.m.

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Dec. 3. Sgt. Rose says the driver claimed they hit black ice, and the damage to the vehicle was estimated at $10,000, but the driver was not injured. it is unclear whether the vehicle was locked, and reminds the public to lock their vehicles to avoid being victims of theft. *** Police are seeking an arrest warrant for a female who was not found when police did a curfew check at 12:30 a.m. Dec. 1. *** Police arrested a female staggering on Butler Ave. near 11th Street at 1:30 a.m.

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20. *** Police arrested a male, held him until sober and issued him a ticket for being drunk in public at 1:30 a.m.

Dec. 1. *** At 3:15 a.m. Dec. 1, police arrested a drunk male on Tweedie Ave. near Highway 16 and held him in cells until sober. *** Police got report of shoplifting at 7-11 at 1:20 p.m. Dec. 1. Sgt. Rose says because of the value and wishes of staff, the offender was not charged.

*** A vehicle backed into another vehicle on Caledonia Ave. at 3:20 p.m. Dec. 2. Sgt. Rose says the drivers were not injured, damage was minimal, but charges are expected against the offending driver for reversing when unsafe. *** Police got report of a missing person at 9 p.m. Dec. 2. Sgt. Rose says police made inquiries, found the female, and notified the concerned person of her safety.

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RCMP from Page 10 A blue car hit the ditch on Highway 16 near Summit Lake Road at 10:20 p.m. Dec. 3. Sgt. Rose says the driver allegedly hit black ice and was not injured, but the damage to the vehicle was estimated at $5,000. *** A male turned himself in Dec. 4, after police got a warrant to arrest him for breaching conditions.

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Dec. 4, on Highway 16 near Barrett Station Road. *** Police investigated a traffic hazard on Highway 16 at McKilligan Road at 10 a.m. Dec. 5.

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JOURNEYMAN AUTOMOTIVE Service Technician(s) in Hanna Alberta. Hanna Chrysler Ltd. offers competitive wages from $32/hour, negotiable depending on experience.

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Houston Forest Products A Division of West Fraser Mills Ltd.

GENERAL LABOURERS WANTED EXPERIENCED PARTS PERSON REQUIRED

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We are currently building a parts department and require a motivated individual to assist.

SHOP, FIELD AND CAMP WORK. Must be willing and able to work independently.

Drivers Licence required • Competitive Wages Please Fax resume to 250-692-0043 Or Deliver in Person at: 135 Roumieu Dr. Burns Lake (In the Industrial Site)

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Are you interested in excelling in a fast paced, challenging environment? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you.

A well established Prince George truck & equipment dealer is currently seeking EQUIPMENT PARTS PERSON to join our team.

• This position pays $30.92 per hour for a Journeyman; all other Overtime is paid at double time.

• Full dental and medical packages as well as an RRSP plan in place.

• Long term commitment, including a training and career development program.

Houston Forest Products, a division of West Fraser Mills Ltd., located in Houston, B.C. is accepting applications for general labourers willing to work till approximately May of 2014.

Previous sawmill experience is an asset but not required.

A competitive wage and benefit package will be provided.

Journeyman Millwrights Journeyman Electricians Quality Control Personnel Must be able to work various shifts and/or weekends.

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SHOP MECHANIC The KDL Group is accepting applications for Shop Mechanic.

Interested candidates must be dedicated, energetic with an aptitude to learn. Preferences will be given to Certified Mechanics, and or second/third year apprentices.

Experienced with logging trucks will be considered an asset.

Candidates must poses a valid BC driver’s license and have resource road driving experience.

Interested individuals may send resumes via fax or email or in person at the KDL Office with attention to Jeff Holland.

If you have any questions please call Jeff Holland at: 250 996 8522.

Jeff Morrison, Parts Manager 1995 Quinn Street Prince George, BC V2N 2X2 Fax: 250-562-6288 or by email: jmorrison@inland-group.com

Drop off location: KDL Office – 561 Stuart Drive, Fort St. James, BC. Fax: 250-996-8742 • Email: admin@kdlgroup.net

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Full Time Delivery Driver / Yard Worker LOOK NO FARTHER! •• 33 bedroom, bedroom, 1680 1680 sq. sq. ft. ft. rancher rancher on on 5.62 5.62 acres acres minutes minutes from from town. town.

•• Awesome Awesome 24’x24’ 24’x24’ detached detached garage/shop. garage/shop.

•• 21’x48’ 21’x48’ RV RV storage, storage, 20’6x49’ 20’6x49’ storage storage building building plus plus another another smaller smaller shed/ shed/ work work shop. shop.

•• Tons Tons of of parking, parking, outside outside wood wood boiler boiler that that heats heats the the house house and and garage. garage.

•• Major Major updates updates to to the the house house including including roof, roof, siding, siding, windows windows and and aa large large addition addition and and sundeck. sundeck. Drilled Drilled well. well.

•• 10 10 foot foot ceiling ceiling in in bright bright spacious spacious living living room, room, offi office ce and and hobby hobby room. room.

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WANTED… ONE HAPPY FAMILY! •• 44 bedroom bedroom family family home home located located with with in in walking walking distance distance to to the the Silverthorne Silverthorne Elementary Elementary School, School, arena, arena, pool pool and and shopping. shopping.

•• Upgrades Upgrades include include aa new new roof roof in in 2005, 2005, newer newer wood wood stove, stove, paint, paint, fencing fencing around around yard. yard.

•• Fully Fully fifinished nished basement basement includes includes aa large large rec rec room, room, laundry, laundry, 4th 4th bedroom bedroom and and aa bathroom. bathroom.

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•• Older Older mobile mobile with with large large addition addition on on just just over over 55 acres acres located located minutes minutes from from town. town. Recent Recent electrical electrical inspection. inspection.

•• Several Several outbuildings outbuildings including including one one that that isis 20 20 xx 28 28 and and one one 14 14 xx 20.

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•• Lots Lots of of room room to to park. park. Nice Nice mountain mountain views views and and most most of of the the property property isis cleared. cleared.

•• Nicely Nicely landscaped landscaped with with aa greenhouse greenhouse and and raised raised garden garden beds. beds.

•• New New water water treatment treatment system system on on the the well. well.

•• Laminate Laminate flfloors oors in in living living room, room, dining dining room room and and hallway. hallway.

•• 22 spacious spacious bedrooms bedrooms and and potential potential for for another another one. one. Most Most windows windows replaced. replaced.

•• Nice Nice covered covered sundeck sundeck to to enjoy enjoy year year round round barbequing! barbequing!

•• Fridge, Fridge, stove, stove, washer, washer, dryer dryer included. included.

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The District of Houston completed lighting upgrades at the Claude Parish Memorial Arena. Tower Communications was awarded the contract; the upgrades were completed in September. By switching the light fixtures it is expected that the DOH will use 40,526 less Kwh per year and recognize a savings of almost $4,000 in electricity costs.

HOUSTON & DISTRICT BRANCH In2365 addition to the energy andP.O. costLogo benefits, the lighting has greatly the lighting Copeland Ave. Box File 1480, Houston • Ph:enhanced 250-845-7117 Colour in the arena making hockey, figure skating, and public skating more enjoyable for You Belong Here participants and spectators alike.

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1956 INTERNATIONAL R160 flatdeck $1500. 1997 Chevrolet Silverado 2500 Supercab 4x4: 5.7 litre turbo diesel, leather, 4” lift, headache rack, box liner, 300,000 km. $2500.

1995 Chevrolet Silverado SLT, 2500 s/c long box, 4x4: 6.5 litre turbo diesel, leather, 4” lift, headache rack, box liner, 300,000 km. $3000. 1994 Ford F350 Crewcab, 4x4 (ambulance): 5.8 litre gas, box liner, trailer package, 190,000, new all season tires. $3000. Contact Johnny Johnson at (250) 692-0021 or jammonitoring@live.ca for further information.

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Holiday Light Up Contest - Show your community spirit by entering the Holiday light up contest. $50.00 NEW LIS TING! Houston Merchant Gift Certificates to the winner of each category. The categories are as follows: Business, Free curling. Part of Sports Day in Canada, the Rural, East side of Houston (East side of Buck Creek), Houston Curling Club is putting on a “Curling Try It Out” West side of Houston (West side of Buck Creek). week. Drop in with clean shoes at the curling rink on Nominations accepted until Dec 12, 2013. Forms Thurs 2:30 or Fri. or Sat. at 7 p.m. and do some curling can be dropped off at Bulkley Valley Home Centre, or learn from a curling instructor.

Reitsma’s Home Hardware and the Houston & District Aerotek is hosting an open information session Chamber of Commerce. Judging will take place on for skilled trades people who may be interested in Dec 13, 2013 and the winners announced in the Dec upcoming industrial construction projects across 24, 2013 edition of the Houston Today.

Western Canada. Aerotek representatives will be at Free guitar lessons. Drop in beginners guitar lessons the Houston Public Library on Dec 12: noon - 7 p.m.

•• Great Great starter starter home home or or rental rental investment. investment. at the Houston Public Library 3:30 to 5 p.m. offered in •• 1080 1080 square square foot foot rancher rancher on on aa 1/3 1/3 acre acre lot. lot. in the Canfor Room. No appointments necessary - just partnership with NWCC, Houston Link to Learning, and •• 33 bedrooms, bedrooms, spacious spacious living living room. room. drop in.

•• Updated Updated bathroom. bathroom. Most Most all all windows windows have have been been replaced replaced with with vinyl vinyl the Public Library. Anyone with questions call NWCC at windows. windows. Two Two covered covered decks decks as as well well as as aa patio. patio.

Houston Public Library - Story Time – Wed: 1:30- 250-845-7266.

•• 12x20 12x20 storage storage shed, shed, clothesline. clothesline. Backs Backs on on to to aa fifield. eld.

2:30pm Free for children ages 0 to 5 with a parent •• Nice Nice quiet quiet spot spot yet yet close close to to all all town town amenities. amenities.

Grief support group presented by the Houston or caregiver. For more info on the above event or to •• Stove, Stove, washer, washer, dryer dryer and and windows windows coverings coverings included. included.

Hospice Society. There are trained facilitators; and it is register, please call the Houston Public Library at 250$ a 10 week course with two hour sessions. It will start 845-2256. when there are enough participants. To register call: Bulkley Valley Credit Union July 2007 Christmas Praise & Fellowship Sunday, December 250-845-4921 or email: houston hospice@hotmail.

EPS Logos to be supplied to Newspapers 22, 2013 7:30 p.m. at the Houston Canadian com Reformed Church (Avalon subdivision).

Houston Dart League is Sat. evenings at 7:30pm.

Pantone colours: Pantone Houston Cutloose Quilters meet Jan 12 for a Quilters upstairs at the Houston Curling Club. Blind doubles ® 287 Blue Day-Out in the Houston Library’s Canfor room. Call games.

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The Houston Legion Branch 249: Meeting: 2nd Mon. of the month is Executive, 4th Mon. is General Meeting.

Seniors Bingo is every Tues. at 7:00pm at Cottonwood Manor. Entry is $1. Come out & enjoy a fun prize filled evening. Lots of prizes!

Topley

Topley Volunteer Fire Dept. meetings every 2nd Tues. of the month at 7:30 pm. Fire practices every Thurs. at 7:30pm.

Structural Firefighting/Hwy Rescue. Interested? Topley Volunteer Fire Dept. is accepting applications. No experience necessary please contact Byron - F/C 250696-3348 or come to a fire practice: Thurs. @ 1930 hrs (7:30pm)

Granisle

Granisle and District Seniors meetings are the 2nd and 4th Thurs. of each month at 1:00pm in the Seniors Centre.

Granisle Volunteer Fire Department meetings & fire practices every Tues., 7:00pm at the Fire Hall.

Granisle Church of the Way services are Sun., 11:00am Bible study is Thurs. at 7:00pm.

Houston Public Library - Community Place project: Bulkley Valley Credit Union donated $817.54 to assist with the purchase of gaming consoles and systems and two games for the Community Place project. Their project is geared towards providing a variety of events for the local community youth; pizza nights, movie nights and games nights. These events support youth and adults alike.

Pizza night and movie nights bring in up to 30 youth. Contact the Houston Public Library for more information on their programs 250-845-2256.

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Carol Fest Top left: Ben Williams, grade 10 Houston Secondary Student, sang along with 22 other HSS students at the Smithers Carol Fest last week Wednesday.

Below left: Tyrell McEwen, grade 7 Silverthorne student, sings “Holly and Ivy and Evergreen” with his classmates at the annual Carol Fest. Twenty-nine students from Silverthorne took part in the annual event last week Wednesday.

Right: Brianna Corfe from Twain Sullivan Elementary sings her heart out at the Carol Fest.

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All Nations Feast Photo submitted

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Nearly 250 people came out to the All Nations Feast at the Houston Community Hall last Thursday. Above, Darren George, Wing Chief of the Wet’suwet’en Laksilyu clan, opened the event sharing how First Nations have practiced goodwill between clans. Participants discussed their experiences of goodwill in Houston, and enjoyed a great salmon feast prepared by Houston Love by the Bowl Soup kitchen, bottom left, and served by the HSS girls rugby team. The evening closed with a performance from a Wet’suwet’en drumming troop, who sang two traditional Wet’suwet’en songs. It was a very positive event, bringing together people from many different backgrounds to discuss the goodwill that exists in Houston.

Jackie Lieuwen photos/Houston Today

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