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Fatal motor vehicle accident near Fraser Lake

Year in review The top stories from 2013. Burns Lake idle no more - Jan. 2, 2013 The self-styled grassroots movement has been holding rallies across the country in a show of unity in defiance of Bill C-45.

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Rio Tinto Alcan makes donation

Road conditions did not play a factor in this incident

Shortly before Christmas Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) demobilized the construction camp for the Kemano backup tunnel project near Thatsa Reach, southwest of Burns Lake.

POLICE REPORT

Fraser Lake RCMP were called to the scene of a serious Motor vehicle incident at approximately 1:30 am on Dec. 22, 2013. A single vehicle traveling East bound on Hwy.16, 34 kms West of Fraser Lake, collided with a moose. Emergency services, local fire and rescue and Fraser Lake RCMP attended to the scene and located two occupants in the small passenger vehicle. The passenger, a 43 year old female, suffered life threatening injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene. The female driver suffered serious life threatening injuries and has since been transported to the Vancouver General hospital where she is in critical condition. Both occupants were from Burns Lake BC. Fraser Lake RCMP and North District Traffic Services continue to investigate and a preliminary survey of the scene indicated the Moose suddenly appeared from the ditch and jumped in front of the oncoming vehicle. The highway was closed temporarily for investigative purposes and removal of the vehicle but was soon re opened to traffic. Name of deceased had not be released at press time.

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New Gold caution issued The recent drop in the market value of gold has caused New Gold Inc. to caution a possible delay of its Blackwater gold mine project southwest of Vanderhoof.

Partridge in a pear tree

No it is just a grouse in a willow tree. Local resident Wren Gilgan captured this guy sitting quietly during our last heavy snow fall.

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Lakes Campus re-opens January 6

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Elders pass on wisdom and culture to others Lean years in B.C.’s North shaped humble but powerful people Walter Strong “It is the life and times of our elders,” said Anthony Tom, Aboriginal Student Support worker at College of New Caledonia Lakes District Campus (CNC). “We risk losing their stories, ways and knowledge,” Tom said. “We need to get youth and students in touch with the traditions they are lacking… We can learn from our elders where they came from, the work they did, and what they experienced.” Through a series of lunchtime workshops hosted by CNC in Burns Lake, First Nations elders are invited to share memories of growing up in the region. These elders were true community builders. They supported their parents and older siblings when they were young by listening, learning and helping. Growing older they’ve kept what they’ve learned and have been passing it on to their own children and families, although times and circumstances have changed drastically.

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First Nations drummers and dancers joined participants in the final session of the College of New Caledonia Lakes District Campus lunch time elders series. The noon workshops brought elders and participants together to share in the experiences of those who came before us. On Dec. 11 2013, four elders from the Bear and Frog clans, Leonard Michel, Damian Pierre, Connie Dennis and Annie Patrick shared some of their experiences as young men and women, and offered to help carry on the traditions they have inherited from their parents and grandparents. Connie Denis and Annie Patrick are cousins. Patrick, the last of 14 children, remembers life as a young girl. She learned to make fish nets, to work with moose hides to make moccasins, vests and jackets. “We hated to work on the moose hides, they

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were rotten and smelly,” Patrick said. “But we couldn’t say no to our parents.” “We had no freezers or fridges back then,” she said. “We learned to make preserves, and we would cut blocks of ice in the winter and cover them in sawdust [to use in the summer].” “It was a hard time, but we were happy. Our family was all together.” After living in the Smithers area for 42 years, Patrick has now moved back to Burns Lake. Connie Denis grew up in Fort Babine, long before the modernities of electricity had made its way there. “We packed water

to wash our clothes,” she said. “In the winter we would have to melt snow to wash clothes.” She met her future husband Peter at 17. They were married in Smithers where they lived for 16 years. Denis has since lost her husband and two boys. She now calls Burns Lake home. Damian Pierre remembers the first time he saw electricity. It was after a walk from Donald’s Landing on the shores of Babine Lake to Burns Lake. He followed an old wagon trail and saw the old Beach garage on the west end of town, where the vacant building across from the old

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Root 16 restaurant is today. “Beach’s garage had the first electric light I ever saw,” Pierre said. Growing up in Fort Babine without roads, hydro or running water, under the hot summer sun and long winter nights, Pierre summed up the experience in a phrase. “Life was hard; we were lucky to survive.” “I had no money, so at 17 I started work on building the Hudson Bay store,” Damian recalled. “When the job was finished I had enough money to buy a 30/30 rifle for $75. I could finally hunt and feed my family.” “In those days I didn’t

get tired. When I was 19 I worked in a sawmill. This was before power saws, we did everything by hand with cross-cut saws.” Not all hardships were imposed by life’s circumstances. Pierre recalled entering a rodeo to shake off wise crackers who made fun of his wearing a cowboy hat when he had never ridden a horse. He broke his kneecap that day, but took it in stride. “That was the end of my rodeo career,” he said. Born in Old Fort, Leonard Michel continues to use the traditions he learned at his par-

ents’ side as a youth. This year’s low snowfall and relatively cold weather has set up ideal conditions for Michel to take one of his traditional skills to Pinkut Lake, north of Burns Lake. “We’ll set nets and lines under the ice,” he said. Michel invited anyone in attendance to join him and learn how to cast fish nets under ice. “It’s how we carry on what our parents taught us, we carry on as our parents left off.” The CNC lunchtime program has concluded for 2013, but Tom anticipates it may be brought back in the new year.

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Year in review - top 2013 stories

Burns Lake idle no more - Jan. 2, 2013 The self-styled grassroots movement has been holding rallies across the country in a show of unity in defiance of Bill C-45. This recently passed omnibus package included changes to environmental legislation that critics have identified as weakening Canada’s protection of environmental and First Nations interest in the face of resource development. The movement is fundamentally about First Nations treaty rights and further proposed changes to federal legislation defining the relationship between First Nations and the rest of Canada. World's for Dickson - Jan. 16, 2013 Former Burns Lake Omineca Ski Club racer Emily Dickson has won a spot on the Canadian team that will compete in the 2013 Youth and Junior Biathlon World championships in Obertilliach, Austria, being held Jan. 23 to Feb. 2, 2013. Broken hearts slow to mend - Jan. 23, 2013 On the one year anniversary of the explosion and destruction of the Babine Forest Products Mill, hundreds gathered in Burns Lake at the Lakes District Secondary School for a memorial service in honour of fallen and injured mill workers. Nineteen workers were injured in the Jan. 20, 2012, explosion. Two were killed; Carl Charlie and Robert Luggi never returned home from their shift. Huge resource tax-dollar potential Feb. 6, 2013 The Spectra BG Group proposal is the fourth proposed LNG pipeline that would cross Regional District Bulkley Nechako areas. A fifth pipeline, the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline has also been

proposed to transport modified bitumen from Northern Alberta to Kitimat, B.C. Burns Lake Band leadership faces criticism - Feb. 13, 2013 Burns Lake Band (BLB) councillor Ron Charlie, former BLB chief Robert Charlie, and approximately 20 other members of the band gathered at the BLB offices on Feb. 5, 2013, to protest what they see as a lack of transparency in band management and finances. “A lot of out members are really concerned with their leadership,” counc. Charlie said. “I had a lot of hope when I got on as councillor. Since day one I’ve wanted transparency and community involvement.” On behalf of signatories to a petition calling for the resignation of Chief Albert Gerow and counc. Dan George, Charlie expressed a lack of good faith in Gerow and George. Gerow and George were on hand for the protest and silently listened to Charlie deliver his statement. Charlie believes that Gerow and George have failed to address the needs and concerns of those living on-reserve in Burns Lake, and that band finances require closer scrutiny. While Tuesday’s protest forced the cancellation of the February meeting, the previous months’s meeting was cancelled due to a lack of participants. “In January, nobody showed up,” said Gerow. Area-based licenses not a privatization of the forest, Rustad says - Feb. 20, 2013 Pre-election rhetoric has heated up surrounding proposed changes to forestry legislation that will see the conversion of

some current volume-based logging licenses to area-based licenses. The changes were devised as part of the solution to satisfying the need for a consistent mid-term timber supply in order to entice the rebuilding of the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake which was destroyed in an explosion on Jan. 20, 2012. Bob Simpson, MLA for Cariboo North, has been a consistent critic of the decision to rebuild the Hampton mill. Regarding the conversion of volume-based to area-based tenures, Simpson said that, “It could lead to the majority of B.C.’s public forests coming under the control of a few major forest companies.” The Burns Lake Community Forest has always been an area-based tenure. For Ron Zayac, interim general manager for the Burns Lake community forest, this has worked well in terms of securing timber supply and clarifying forest stewardship responsibilities. “We support area-based tenures as providing licensees with an incentive to invest in the land-base so that they can reap the long-term rewards of more intensive forest management policies,” Zayac said. Morrison Mine denial court challenge - Feb. 27, 2013 In a Feb. 13, 2013 press release, Pacific Booker Minerals Inc. announced that it had retained the Vancouver law firm of Hunter Litigation Chambers Law Corporation, “to advance litigation against the Province of British Columbia in connection with the refusal of the government to issue an Environmental Assessment Certificate for the Morrison Copper/Gold Mine Project.”

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Looking back at 2013

A hopeless wish list for 2014

Looking back over the past year we see a lot of new beginnings in Burns Lake. The new Babine Forest Products milll is taking in logs and is slated to be operating early in the new year. The Tom Forsyth Memorial Arena expansion and facility upgrades are well-underway and the form of the new addition has taken shape. The construction site of the new Lakes District Hospital seems transformed weekly, with exposed laminate timber beams installed and the second floor steel framing almost complete. Phase one of the downtown revitalization project was completed, seemingly without a hitch. Construction was kept mostly to nighttime hours. It was a always interesting to go to work in the morning and see how much work had been done while most were sleeping. Volunteers and community groups had a great year as well. The Decker Lake community hall and the Trout Creek hall both celebrated the completion of extensive interior and exterior renovations this year. The Lakes District Fall Fair celebrated its seventieth anniversary by bringing in some of its largest crowds ever to the Eagle Creek fair grounds. The Eagle Creek grounds themselves received significant upgrades thanks to community support, volunteer hours and help from the Nechako Kitamaat Development Fund. Most recently, the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 50, found its feet again after a close call with being disbanded. A group of new and experienced volunteers rallied to support the 85-year old Burns Lake institution. A number of Burns Lake businesses celebrated significant anniversaries as well, like Home Hardware, Lakes District Printing, Lino’s Sales Ltd, and Lakes District Maintenance. The Village of Burns Lake itself celebrated 90 years of incorporation. With all that is going on within and outside of its municipal boundaries, it’s not showing any signs of slowing down. For the first time in 100 years, new totems went up in the Burns Lake area as Wet’suwet’en First Nation raised two totems at their new health clinic west of Burns Lake. The Burns Lake Mountain Bike Association had a milestone year, winning accolades for its trails by being named as a Canada’s first Ride Centre by the International Mountain Biking Association. The designation is also a recognition of Burns Lake as a destination community for mountain bikers were they will find more than just good trails. That same combination of great trails and a great community also inspired Canadian travel writer Robin Esrock to place Burns Lake mountain biking in the top three of his 25 essential Canadian outdoor adventures. The Lakes District Festival of the Performing Arts held its fifty-sixth season of performances in Burns Lake this past year. The list of personal milestones, birthdays, anniversaries is too long to include here, but they are an important part of the community fabric. It can be easy to quickly forget or pass over the high points of the past year as the glow of success or achievement is often overshadowed by life’s tragedies and traumas. Controversy often dominates newspaper headlines and personal conversations, as do contentious issues or feared outcomes. But it’s important to take a break from the heavy task of confronting whatever challenges us and to reflect on why any of it matters in the first place. When I think of Burns Lake I think of great community with quiet leaders who do most of their work in the background without asking for anything in return other than to share in the joy it brings to the community. They emerge occasionally to be publicly honoured or recognized, like John Rempel recently was by the province for his tireless dedication to public safety and search and rescue in the Burns Lake area, but it’s always obvious that public honour or recognition had nothing to do with their dedication. Their dedication is to the community that inspires them. In that sense, there is little surprise that so many great things are happening in Burns Lake. Burns Lake is an inspiring community, and we wish you all the best in 2014.

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Here are a few things I’d like to see in B.C. political life in the coming year, but won’t. An orderly schedule of legislature sittings, one in the spring and one in the fall. I canvassed this topic with Premier Christy Clark in our year-end interview, and got the usual runaround about how it’s always been optional since old Gordon what’shis-name set the schedule of sittings and elections more than a decade ago. Spring is for the budget and MLAs sit in the fall if they need to discuss legislation. They need to all right, but what governments want to do is ram it through as fast as they can, so that’s what they do. The last couple of years of this have been a sham worthy of a South American banana republic, with three chambers running simultaneously and opposition members trying to prepare as they run down the hallways. It leads to mistakes in new laws and adds to the public’s cynicism about the whole business, but it gets things done with minimum exposure of the government to criticism. Stephen Harper would approve. A political debate about real issues, rather than just a competition to score points in an endless election campaign. I appreciate that this is hopelessly naive, but setting aside enough time to consider issues could, at least in theory, lead to that happening occasionally. Certainly the hastily staged mock combat of our legislature today isn’t winning new friends for any political party. The main growth area today is people who have given up on the whole thing. An opposition with ideas. The B.C. NDP will have another leadership contest in 2014, and they’d better bring more modern policy to the table than they had in the last one. Remember the big issues in that pillow-fight? Me neither. I had to look them up. Health care? Local organic carrots into the hospital food. Forest industry? A job protection commissar to force the mills to stay open. Resource development? They’re for it, unless you’re against it. These guys need a Tony Blair-type makeover. They need to be for something, and they need to leave the past behind. Media that care about more than conflict. News organizations are in bad shape these days, and the competition for a rapidly fragmenting audience is having some ugly effects. One thing that needs to go is obsessive coverage of who’s winning and who’s losing. If the news media are going to be interested mainly in the gaffes and gotcha moments, is it any surprise that’s what politicians try to provide? The Canada Post announcement that it has to wind up home delivery offers a recent example. Is it really so outrageous for the CEO to suggest that walking to the corner is good exercise? When there’s a 24-hour news cycle to fill, it’s a scandal! How many people know that Canada Post’s unfunded pension liabilities amount to $6.5 billion, as it continues to pay a dwindling workforce to hand out mostly advertising flyers? Should they just keep doing that until they run out of cash? Are taxpayers really expected to maintain another two-tier service that’s only available to selected urban people? Facts to go with opinions. Whether it’s the government’s fantasy figures on job creation or the opposition’s arithmetic-challenged child poverty claims, serious problems can’t be understood, much less solved, without defining them accurately. Submitting government advertising to scrutiny by the Auditor General to make sure it is accurate and non-partisan would be a good place to start. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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Rio Tinto Alcan makes donation to communities

Work complete, Rio Tinto makes donation of supplies Walter Strong

Shortly before Christmas Rio Tinto Alcan (RTA) demobilized the construction camp for the Kemano backup tunnel project near Thatsa Reach, southwest of Burns Lake. All of the gear, which included work and safety equipment, kitchenware, bedding, mattresses, and pillows, was donated by RTA to be distributed through Lakes District Community Services to organizations in Burns Lake, Southbank, Fraser Lake, and Vanderhoof. Donated supplies will be distributed to outreach programs, community service groups, homeless shelters, safe

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Cheslatta Carrier Nation members a long with Bandstra Transportation Systems provided transportation, CJ Enterprises helped unload the huge load of donated items. houses, First Nation culture camps and to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch #50. It was a monumental task to move the two truckloads of equipment to Burns Lake from the remote camp,

and many local businesses and volunteers made it happen. Cheslatta Carrier Nation had a crew at the camp site to take it down, pack it up and also help unloaded. Beach Marine Ltd.

barged the gear and helped unload the first truck. Bandstra Transportation Systems provided transportation, CJ Enterprises helped unload and McPhail and Associates made space available in an empty

storefront to store all the equipment and donated items until they are distributed. The work and safety gear will go the College of New Caledonia Lakes District Campus trades program.

Lake Babine reaffirms Pacific Booker Minerals rejection Minister Rustad hears from Chief and council first hand Walter Strong Nechako Lakes MLA and provincial Minister of Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation, John Rustad, attended a Lake Babine Nation (LBN) council meeting in Burns Lake recently. The Dec. 19 meeting was for him an historic event - being the first time he had sat down to a chief and council meeting - one he said he hopes to repeat. Rustad heard LBN Chief Wilf Adam, councillors, and staff speak to issues important to LBN, like the health of the Lake Babine salmon fishery and the quality of water in Babine Lake, as well as issues surrounding treaty negotiations that imply there are legitimate overlapping claims to LBN traditional territories (see Dec. 11, 2013 Lake Babine First Nation concerns), something which LBN denies. Chief Adam also reaffirmed LBN council’s rejection of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, promising to bring the matter before the courts if the pipeline should eventually be approved. The most pressing item discussed was the recent decision by the B.C. Supreme Court to return to the province its Oct. 1, 2012 decision to deny Pacific Booker Minerals (PBM) in its environmental assessment application for the Morrison mine project (See Dec. 18, 2013 Morrison mine decision rethink). The proposed copper/gold mine would include a tailings pond that LBN, as well as the Skeena Fisheries Commission (SFC), consider too close to Morrison Lake. Rustad heard that Morrison Lake is considered by LBN council members to be the last remaining unsullied salmon spawning ground in the Babine Lake watershed. “We are dead-set against the project,” Chief Adam said. “We are still dealing with the two huge holes from other mining projects [the Bell and Granisle mines]. We are still dealing with the

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fallout to salmon and wildlife habitat.” Although he is minister of aboriginal relations and reconciliation in Premier Christy Clark’s government, Rustad said he would not be directly involved in the decision making process. “I am not a statutory decision maker [on the project],” Rustad said. “I do not have the ability to influence the statutory decision 101-1st Avenue, Burns Lake 250-692-3337 makers, but I wanted to tell you what the process is.” The province, according to Rustad, has 30 days to decide if it is going to appeal the decision. To date, the province has refused to comment on what its response will be to the court’s decision, other than to ...the Pub closes at 7:00 pm on December 31st say it is carefully considering the rulso our staff can enjoy New Years. ing before proceeding. Chief Adam maintains the province Closed made the right decision in rejecting January 1st. PBM’s environmental application. “The province made the right deciWe look forward sion,” Chief Adam said. “I was very to seeing you disappointed when PBM took you to in 2014! court. We implore the B.C. government to stand with their decision and appeal. I respectfully ask the province to stand with their original decision.” Later, Chief Adam confirmed to Lakes District News that he is concerned the province might claim it has to approve the project because the courts are forcing their hand. “If they do that, it’s going to change our relationship with the province Hwy 16 • Cold Beer Store: 250-692-3622 • Pub: 250-692-3078 drastically,” Chief Adam warned.

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Huge Donation The under construction new Lakes District Hospital in Burns Lake received generous support for RBC Royal Bank for emergency room equipment on Dec. 6, 2013. In total, $50,000 will be donated to the hospital. Pictured above, Trent Waughtal, RBC regional vice-president, Michelle Dyble, outgoing Burns Lake RBC manager, Alice Harris, Burns Lake RBC new manager, Dale Finch, Lakes District Hospital head nurse, Marie Hunter, Northern Health service administrator and Paul Stewart representing Spirit of the North. Walter Strong photo

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I’ll start my viewpoint with the words of an very popular Christmas song “It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas.” And it sure is and what a wonderful feeling it gives us. A time of loving and sharing and forgiving and the close feelings of our families. All this is so precious as we get older. This will be my last until after Christmas. Senior’s dinner Last week there was a senior’s Christmas dinner held in the Island Gospel Church. What a dinner it was too, everything went over so perfect. The tables were decorated and set up so well. The gym was full of folks enjoying it all. To make it all so

special the Grassy Plains church choir sang carols and Pastor Peters read the Christmas story which is ever so loved by young and not so young. This brought back memories of my father who always would read our family the Christmas message and we would look forward to this family time. The Grassy Plains church are always so generous with their singing. We thank you all. Happy Birthday Agnes Last week the Hiebert family celebrated their mother, grandmother, and great grandmother’s 95 birthday at the Tweedsmuir House on Sunday. Agnes was 95 years old and what a life this wonderful lady has had. The dining room and the sitting room were all filled with her family. You could tell there was so much love for this wonderful lady and so much respect. It was interesting to me as our family and the Hiebert and Knelsen families all three came into the Lakes

District in 1941 so we have all know each other for over 70 years, almost a record. We have been good friends and good neighbours for almost a lifetime. The younger generation have now taken over where we have left off. I am very proud to be a good friend of Agnes Hiebert and the rest of this well known and respected family. Party time On Monday afternoon last there was a Christmas party for the residents of the Tweedsmuir House. It was very nice with decorations and such a pretty tree. There was what is called a Mexican exchange of gifts. The way it works is you pick a give from under the tree, you open it and if it is not what you want you can exchange with another person and they can take a gift from the tree or else exchange with another person who may have a gift you would like. A nice lunch was served to close off a very pleasant afternoon.

We were treated to a lovely group of young ladies who gave us Scottish highland dancing. The girls just looked beautiful in their special dress for the part. One very pretty young lady did an Irish dance, this was very lovely too. This ended a very pleasant afternoon. One thing that came to my mind was how perfect the dancers preformed as some of the dances looked very difficult and no doubt they were and they danced so well. Hats off to the dancers and the very able teachers. Then we had the fiddlers and talk about music. If you like fiddle music this was it, what music just makes your feet itch to get up there and dance. I just loved their music, brings back those growing up years. Fiddle music was always liked and looked forward too. I took up the fiddle and played for dances but I didn’t like taking my dad’s valuable violin

around so I took up the guitar. You fiddlers are great so keep it up, we love you. Then last night we had the Decker Lake Mennonite church choir entertain us with a wonderful carol singing. All those old Christmas carols bring back such wonderful memories. Every one takes part in the singing from the oldest to the youngest and their harmony is out of this world. The Christmas story was read and it is always so special and we never get tired of it. Christmas during the depression When the great depression and the big dry as well, there just was no money so the biggest thing to get hit was Christmas and it really hurt. The bottom out of the economy so there was nothing to sell. No water as we had no rain so no gardens, could not even grow potatoes. Of course this was in Saskatchewan, as B.C. was able to manage because

they had rain. Of course money was tight in B.C. too but they were able to grow feed for their stock and our stock was starving with just enough to live and that was all. Lots of our friends rode the freights to go to B.C. to work in the woods. They would send money home for the families. A very good friend of ours called Fin Autosen left his washburn guitar with mother and told her if he didn’t come home it was hers. He was catching a freight that night. He had worked in B.C. the winter before. Mother gave him her name and address and within the week the RCMP contacted mother to say Fin had got thrown off a box car in Jasper and killed. We have tried to located his grave there but no luck. I still have his guitar and treasure it. It was made in 1930 so it’s about 80 years old now. Fin came from Denmark and had family there. He made his home with us and we sure missed him,

he was a great guy. No matter how slim the picking got we always had a nice Christmas, not much in the gift line but enough to eat and on Christmas Day Mother would have some single men having Christmas dinner with us. Nobody went hungry when Mother was around and how she did it was a mystery. There seems to be lots of heavy traffic so slow down and enjoy your holidays and always remember God loves you and so do I. P.S. There is an old Christmas poem called the night before Christmas. It starts out and I quote “It was the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care in hopes St. Nicklas soon would be there.” So far this year I have not heard it could be me. A wonderful and happy Christmas to all my wonderful friends.

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Carpentry foundation class students from the College of New Caledonia Lakes District Campus (CNC) are performing a major renovation at Kenny Michell’s home in Burns Lake. Michell was seriously injured in the January, 2012 explosion at the Babine Forest Products (BFP) mill. Michell continues to recover from his injuries. He is in good spirits, but continues to live with the aftereffects of

that terrible night written on and within his body. His home had undergone some access renovations under direction from WorkSafe BC, like the addition of a wheelchair ramp, a sliding power lifter to assist with navigating stairs in his house, and accessibility renovations to the bathroom. Michell’s son, Ken Michell, saw the need for more work around his dad’s house. Already in the carpentry foundation program at CNC, he proposed the class consider renovating Michell Sr.’s house. Approval for the project came quickly, and Michell Sr. moved out of the house so that CNC carpentry instructor Gary Muir and his 12 member carpentry class could get to work. Babine Forest Products helped with the cost of materials, and the CNC crew got to work shortly after inspecting the house on Nov. 19, 2013. “It’s a great project,” Muir said. “The crew is ...see RENOS ▼ P9

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The CNC carpentry class crew was all smiles beneath a layer of drywall dust as the they took a break from sanding mudded drywall seams to get together for a group photo. RENOS from ▼ P7 very enthusiastic.” The entire interior - excluding work already done by WorkSafe BC - was gutted, both the main floor and the basement. Insulation needing replacement was replaced, vapour barrier and drywall were installed, and Muir has already begun working on new kitchen cabinets. “The move for Kenny and Theressa [Michel] back into their house has been a long and complicated process,” said BFP’s Canadian regional operations manager Ian Gray. “We felt that these final renovations would be the finishing touch and would help make that move home more rewarding and enjoyable for Kenny and Theressa.”

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Bruins midgets off to Provincials Feb. 27, 2013 The Burns Lake Bruin midgets won home zone playoffs and have advanced to the provincial finals in Lillooet on March 17, 2013. They beat Houston 9-1 and Fort St. James 7-3 to earn that spot. Live it! Love it! growing fast- March 20, 2013 Three years ago Jeff Scott was enjoying a day of snowboarding at Revelstoke Mountain Resort when his ride turned a terrible corner. He didn’t stay down for long. After an intense year of surgeries and physical rehabilitation he regained partial use of his arms and hands. Scott and his friend Izzy Lynch, a talented skier and Revelstoke local he had met before the accident, made a trip to Canada’s east coast. During the trip Scott and Lynch hatched an idea that has, in just two-and-a-half years, gone from inspiration to reality: Live it! Love it! The van that carried Scott to the east coast is now 20 years old with more than 390,000 kms on the odometer. It never was an ideal way for Scott to get around, lacking the adaptations that it would need for him to operate it with his injuries. “It’s still working now, but I’m unable to drive it by myself,” Scott said. “I’m reliant on others to help with that.” “I need the van to get to [Live it! Love it!] camps and to trade shows,” he said. “I speak at schools and youth groups. Having the van is essential in allowing me to get to those places. I’m looking for something I’m able to operate independently.” Snowboarders champs for a third year - March 27, 2013 Patti and Pat Dube, Lakes District Secondary School (LDSS) teachers and snowboard/ski team coaches, are doing something right with the LDSS snowboard and ski teams. If Burns Lake were a ski hill town, you might expect that more than a couple of students would do well at the B.C. School Sports Ski and Snowboard Provincial Championships. With Burns Lake a flat 150 kms from

the nearest ski hill, you wouldn’t expect the local high school team be a dominate presence among 180 racers from 24 schools across the province. But that’s exactly what happened in Smithers last week during the provincial snowboard and ski championships held March 4 − 6, 2013 on the Hudson Bay Mountain Ski Resort. Arena expansion underway - April 24, 2013 For the third year Lakes District Secondary School students participating in Project Local in a row, the LDSS Government joined Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimbold, Regional District snowboard team is of Bulkley Nechako director B, Bill Miller, Nechako Lakes MLA John the Combined Pro- Rustad, and Pacific Venture construction management’s Mark Van Ek, vincial Champions in boys and girls snow- as they broke ground for the facility expansion of the Tom Forsyth Arena boarding. Individual in Burns Lake. performances were officers enforced an order for protesters to very strong as well. vacate the BLB offices. New hospital build unveiled - April 3, 2013 In a combined effort involving RCMP A community open house was held on detachments from across the region, apMarch 27, 2013, at the Burns Lake Heri- proximately 25 marked and unmarked tage Centre to reveal the design plans for RCMP vehicles arrived at BLB offices in the long anticipated new Lakes District Burns Lake on Sunday morning, April 7, hospital in Burns Lake. The new facility represents a $55 mil- 2013, shortly after 11 a.m. The situation was peacefully resolved at lion investment in Burns Lake. It will have 16 hospital beds in private rooms, each approximately 2:30 p.m. as members and with a window view. It will provide acute guests inside the building agreed to leave. Breaking Ground - April 17, 2013 care, emergency services, diagnostic imMarie Hunter, a PCL representative, aging, a laboratory and a pharmacy. Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimbold ex- Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimbold, pressed his satisfaction that a project of Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad and this size is about to get underway in Burns Gordie Alec break ground on April 12, Lake. For him, the project represents an LBN and village sign long-term agreeinvestment in the future of the Lakes Dis- ment - April 24, 2013 trict and will encourage young families to The Village of Burns Lake and the Lake remain in the area. Babine Nation signed a five year service Heavy police presence at band office agreement on April 19, 2013. Standing are - April 10, 2013 Susan Schienbein, Gordie Alec, Bernard A two-week long stand-off between Patrick, John Illes and Frank Varga. Seated, dissatisfied members of the Burns Lake Priscilla Crouse, acting Deputy Chief for Band (BLB) came to a head late Sunday LBN and Burns Lake Mayor Luke Strimmorning as a large contingent of RCMP bold put pen to paper on the agreement.

Current price of gold does not justify mine construction NEW GOLD from t P8 to have an approximate 20-year working lifespan before closure and reclamation. According to information provided during

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OUR TOWN The Lakes District Office of the Canadian Cancer Society is open the following hours: Tues., Thurs. & Fri. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. We are located at 332 Hwy. 16 (Main Street). Check out our craft table and garage sale items. New volunteers are welcome. Ph: 250-692-7203. For Cancer Information Service and Cancerconnection, the toll free number is 1-888-939-3333. Lakes District Fall Fair meeting on Jan. 9/14 at 7pm. Held at the Cancer Society Office on the Main Street. Prenatal Classes Thurs. 6-8pm Burns Lake Health Unit - located in the hospital. (250) 692-2460 to register. Parent-child Mother Goose. Children between 0-5 yrs. Circle time, snack time & free play 10am-11:30am Wed. & Fri. at Muriel Mould Learning Centre.

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Indoor playspace for families & children 1-5 yrs. Contact Village of Burns Lake for start-up date: (250) 692-7587. Burns Lake Strongstart. Preschool program for children and caregivers/ parents. Crafts, circle time & snacks. Mon. - Fri. 9am-12pm. Muriel Mould Learning Centre. 250-692-7782. Southside Strongstart Outreach. Learning program for children, caregivers/ parents. Tues. 10am-2pm, Wed. 12:15-3:15pm. Rita: (250) 694-3396 or 250692-0983. Southside Family Centered Program. Preschool program for children and caregivers/parents. Thurs. 11:30am - 3pm. Grassy Plains School. Rita (250) 694-3396.

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Please call Annemarie 1.800.661.6335 email: ﬁsh@blackpress.ca ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS If you want to keep drinking that’s your business - if you want to quit drinking that’s our business. Burns Lake Meetings: Tuesday 7:30 pm Catholic Church, Saturday 7:30 pm Catholic Church. For information or transportation call (250) 692-6867 / (250) 6987325 / (778) 669-0070 Only requirement for AA is a desire to stop drinking. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Southside Meetings: Mondays and Thursdays 6:30pm 7:30pm at Grassy Plains Gospel Church. For more information: (250) 694-3682 Anyone needing information on Alzheimer’s please call 1866-564-7533 BURNS LAKE RCMP Victim/Witness Assistance Program. 201 Hwy. 35, Box 759 Burns Lake. Open Monday to Thursday 9am to 4pm (250) 692-3010 PLANNING a wedding or anniversary party? Looking for plastic flowers for decorations. Call OPTIONS at Nourse House 9am- 3pm Mon. to Fri. Francois Lake Drive. Operated by residents of 8th Avenue Group Home. (250) 692-7845

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Information CRISIS PREVENTION. You are not alone. Support is just a phone call away. 1.800.SUICIDE (1.800.784.2433) is a confidential, toll-free service that is available to anyone, anywhere, any time in B.C. The youth support line is 1.888.564.8336 (TEEN). The 24 hour crisis line for northern BC is 250.563.1214 and 1.888.562.1214. In addition, several crisis lines also provide support through online chat services so young people have a web-based way to reach out. These services can be reached through www.nor thernyouthonline.ca (4:00 to 11:00 pm daily) or www.youthinbc.ca. FOOD BANK INFORMATION Distribution days will be the first and the third Tuesday of each month, clients should come at 11 a.m. Sign up is at BLNDC at 10:45 a.m. The Lakes District Food bank continues to operate due to the outstanding generosity of the community. If you would like to make a donation and receive a tax deductible receipt, please mail your donation to: Lakes District Food Bank, P.O. Box 777, Burns Lake, BC. V0J 1E0 LOCAL HOSPICE Services are available by contacting the Hospice Coordinator at (250) 692-2448. The Hospice office, located in the Lakes District Hospital, is open every Thurs. from 10am - 4pm. A lending library of videos, books and information on bereavement is available. Please make donations to the local hospice and palliative care program payable to the Burns Lake Hospice Program, Box 7500, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1EO The Arthritis Society B.C. and Yukon division is your primary source and resource of the latest print and electronic information, programs and services about arthritis. No matter where you live, you can access us at the touch of a button. Toll free 1-800-321-1433 or visit www.arthritis.ca/bc The Chronic Disease Education Clinic at the Lakes District Hospital is open Tuesday & Wednesday from 8:30am4pm. The clinic provides information and teaching on various chronic illnesses such as Diabetes & Heart Disease. A doctors referral is not needed. To speak with the nurse call (250) 692-2440

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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. If you are a team player with a good work ethic, please forward resume to:

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Front Desk Receptionist/ Optometric Assistant Busy Optometrist Clinic seeking a part-time Front Desk Receptionist/Optometric Assistant for 3-4 days per week. The successful applicant must be open to learning new tasks and gaining knowledge of Optometry including dispensing and eyewear repairs. Skills Required • Good Team Player • Excellent Computer Skills • Ability to Multi-Task • Excellent Communications Skills If this position is of interest to you, please submit your resume with references to: Burns Lake Eye Care P.O. Box 269, Burns Lake, B.C. V0J 1E0 or Fax to: (250) 692-3424

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Burns Lake Community Forest Ltd. (BLCF) is updating their Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) to add two new areas and make minor text changes to the Plan. This FSP proposes to add an area south of Pinkut Lake along the north-east boundary of FDU 1 and an FDU 2 along the south boundary of the Community Forest on the north shore of Francois Lake. Please see map below for more details. In addition, Burns Lake Community Forest Ltd. is amending its current Management Plan.

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Lakes District News

Happy New Year! The Lakes District News has been working with and helping the Burns Lake and area communities and we are looking forward to much more in 2014. We would like to share with you some of the local non-profit groups and organizations we have helped and/or promoted in the previous years.

We wish them, all our dedicated readers and advertisers a Happy New Year and Best wishes for a fabulous future from all of us to all of you. LDSS Grads Lakes District Music Festival CNC Family Centred Program Heart & Stroke Foundation Alzheimer Society

Canadian Red Cross Medical Equipment Loan Service

Endako Hall Committee

Seniors Curling

Burns Lake Snowmobile Club

Royal Canadian Legion Operation Christmas Child

Burns Lake Chamber of Commerce BC Lung Association Muscular Dystrophy The Pines

Lakes District Senior Secondary School

LDSS Drama Club Island Gospel Fellowship First Mennonite Church The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Scouts Southside Fire Department Burns Lake Airport Society Canadian Diabetes Association Epilepsy Canada

Burns Lake Health Care Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Store Lakes District Fall Fair Wet’suwet’en First Nation RCMP Cheslatta Carrier Nation Village of Burns Lake The Burns Lake Rotary Club BLNDC

The Arthritis Society

Francois Lake Elementary School

St. John Ambulance

William Konkin Elementary School

Children’s Hospital

Burns Lake Community Forest

Medic Alert

Citizen of the Year

The Kidney Foundation

Burns Lake Curling Club

Terry Fox Run

Aboriginal Day

Burns Lake Food Bank Burns Lake Rotary Auction

Omineca Ski Club Lakes District Senior Housing Burns Lake Figure Skating Club

Burns Lake Cancer Society

CNIB

Southside Ambulance Society

Burns Lake Minor Hockey Lakes District Arts Council Burns Lake Show & Shine Beacon Theatre 4-H Clubs Burns Lake & District Seniors Society Decker Lake Recreation Commission Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish Burns Lake Playschool Ootsa Lake Bible Camp Bulkley Valley RC Flyers Kyle Daniel Pow Wow Burns Lake Terry Fox Committee Ducks Unlimited Burns Lake Veterinary Clinic Lakes Animal Friendship Society LDSS Girls Volleyball

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