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Clockwise from above: Members of the Port Hardy Fire Department gear up to tackle the flaming debris around the ‘crash site’ during an emergency response training exercise at Port Hardy Airport; Jonah Shandel of Headwater punctuates the group’s performance of Freight Train by leaping off the stage in front of Matt Bryant, (left) and Noah Walker in Port Hardy; Steve Child guides Seth Hanuse as the Wagalus as students from Fort Rupert’s Wagalus School perform an original dance during opening ceremonies of a language revitalization conference at U’Gwamalis Hall; Mitchell Thacker kicks up his heels as he approaches a jump — while pushing a bike with a flat tire — during the Rumblefest downhill mountain bike race in Port Alice.

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Idle No More on the North Island Gazette staff More than 100 members of the Kwakiutl, Gwa’sala’Nakwaxda’xw and Quatsino First Nations joined for a march and rally in support of the Idle No More movement in January.

Singing and dancing their way from the Tsulquate River bridge, the marchers stopped at Port Hardy Secondary School to address students and School District 85 administrators, stopped near Port Hardy Hospital for a moment of silence, then made their way to the memorial totem pole at

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2013 Rotary Park for speeches and the sharing of bannock, the traditional native fried bread.

“I’m so proud of all of you,” Betty Walkus said to the participants assembled at the park. “You’re beautiful people; you’re strong people. You remember that.”

The Idle No More movement emerged in

November in response to the federal government’s passage of Bill C-45, an omnibus package of legislation that environmental activists and many First Nations leaders say strips away environmental protections and treaty rights.

The North Island rallies were part of a much larger day of action that saw similar gatherings across North American and even overseas.

Also in January, Headwater, a Vancouver-based roots/ folk/pop quartet, came to Port Hardy in the third event of the NICS 2012-13 concert sea-

Drummers and singers keep spirits high on the Idle No More walk in Port Hardy.

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Matt Bryant (guitar, mandolin) and Jonas Shandel (guitar, banjo), after getting their start in rock-and-roll, formed the acoustic

group roughly a decade ago with steel guitarist Tim Tweedale and bassist Patrick Metzger.

About a year and a half after what began as a verbal altercation

Hellberg said, adding he did not believe that the quoted numbers were representative of public opinion.

He reaffirmed his belief in the project regardless of the figures.

“I think what it will do is provide a burst of economic development along the coast.

It won’t directly benefit us (on the North Island), but anything that helps development — if safe — will help us.”

During the global

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between two groups of friends escalated to the eventual death of 19-year-old James Denton, Justice R.B.T Goepel handed down sentencing in the case.

A packed courtroom heard Goepel levy the maximum sentence for second-degree murder under the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Goepel previously ruled that the teen, who cannot be named due to conditions of the YCJA, was guilty.

Crown prosecutor Gordon Baines noted immediately following the conclusion of the trial in June that

he would seek an adult sentence. To support his request, Baines presented six aggravating facts to Goepel including that the accused brought a weapon to a public event, that he provoked the fight, and the attack with a knife was done without warning.

However, Goepel imposed the maximum sentence under the YCJA. “What you did was inherently stupid, abhorrent and horrifying. What you did can never be undone,” said Goepel as he addressed the accused directly.

Kwakwaka’wakw artist, was joined by a host of supporters who helped him by offering blessings or joining him on the trek to perform a symbolic breaking of a copper on the steps of the legislature.

Telus announced plans to improve the internet infrastructure on the North Island.

“We’ve been aware of the capacity crunch on North Vancouver Island for some time,

mostly due to the rapidly increasing demand,” Telus’ Shawn Hall said.

“We’re well into a $10 million project at the minute to fix that.”

Hall emphasized the complex challenges facing telecom engineers in bringing the line to the North Island.

“It’s a massive undertaking. It’s 130 kilometres of some of the most difficult terrain — it’s an enormous, challenging undertaking.”

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Pipeline plans struggle to find support

Gazette staff Former Port Hardy Mayor Russ Hellberg made national headlines February as the community hearings on the Enbridge Pipeline wrapped up in Vancouver.

According to figures released by two environmental groups, 1,161 people spoke before the hearings on the Northern Gateway project but only two spoke in favour of the project.

One of those assenting voices was that of Hellberg, who spoke at the hearing in Port Hardy in favour of the proposed plan to pipe

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Regular Council Meeting Dates In accordance with Section 127 of the Community Charter, the following is the schedule for the Regular Meetings of Council for the Village of Port Alice for 2014.

The Regular Council Meetings are held at 7:00 pm in the Municipal Office Council Chambers, located at 1061 Marine Drive, Port Alice, BC. January 8th, 2014 June 25th, 2014 January 22nd, 2014 July 9th, 2014 February 12th, 2014 August 13th, 2014 February 26th, 2014 September 10th, 2014 March 12th, 2014 September 24th, 2014 March 26th, 2014 October 8th, 2014 April 9th, 2014 October 22nd, 2014 April 23rd, 2014 November 12th, 2014 May 14th, 2014 November 26th, 2014 May 28th, 2014 December 10th, 2014 June 11th, 2014 Certified a true and correct resolution as passed by Council on the 11th day of December, 2013 ___________________________ Madeline McDonald Chief Administrative Officer

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Hornsby finds a home in Coal Harbour Gazette staff The Hornsby Steam Crawler prepared to make tracks for Coal Harbour after the Regional District of Mount Waddington responded favourably to Coal Harbour Community Club’s proposal to house the historical artifact.

“We’re having a bit of a renaissance in Coal Harbour,” said Andrew Hory, RDMW Regional Director for Area C,

referencing recent work at the Catalina Lookout Point and fire hall, as well as the heritage hall, the proposed home for the Hornsby.

The board voted in favour of the proposal, which would see the village’s former RCAF building adjacent to the fire hall converted to a heritage hall with the Hornsby as its star attraction.

The B.C. government and the B.C. Medical

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Association added another incentive to entice physicians to relocate and fill select rural positions.

In addition to the existing debt-forgiveness program, doctors willing to practice in

select communities will receive a $100,000 golden hello from the province, with Port Hardy funded for two new general practitioner positions.

Just days before delivery of its first cohort of salmon smolt, the ‘Namgis First Nation’s land-based fish farm received a boost March with the release of a report by the Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans.

The Closed Containment Salmon Aquaculture Report, the first of its kind to specifically address closed containment aquaculture systems, forwarded a series of recommendations to the Federal Government that included funding for and further studies and research of projects like the K’udas Project, located on ‘Namgis territory just south of Port McNeill.

Huddlestan praised Gazette staff Tributes poured in following the passing of Al Huddlestan, chairman of the Regional District Board of Directors and former Port Hardy mayor, who died following a extended battle with pancreatic cancer.

“I have no hesitation in saying (Huddlestan) was probably the best chair the regional district ever had,” Port McNeill Mayor Gerry Furney said. “And I say that having served as chair myself.”

“We’re really going to miss him,” said Port Hardy Mayor Bev Parnham. “He was a very good friend for over 30 years, and always gave a lot to the North Island over the number of years he served as either mayor or councillor and on the RD.” Kwakwaka’wakw carver and Chief Rande

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DISTRICT OF PORT HARDY 2014 REGULAR COUNCIL MEETINGS Notice is hereby given with respect to the scheduling of regular meetings of District of Port Hardy Council as per section 127 of the Community Charter.

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Cook, who created an ancestral totem pole for display last summer at a museum in the Netherlands, returned this month with a small local delegation to bless the pole’s move to a new, permanent location outside the facility.

Cook, Chief William Wasden Jr. and Mike Willie traveled to Leiden, Holland, to assist in taking down the pole from the Museum Volkenkunde, where it had been the focal point of an exhibit on North American aboriginal culture.

The pole was moved outside and erected in the plaza in front of the museum, where it will

‘Namgis senior adminstrator George Speck and ‘Namgis Chief Bill Cranmer watch the first Atlantic salmon smolts pour into the quarantine tank at the First Nation’s closed containment aquaculture facility south of Port McNeill.

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remain on permanent display.

“It was a day to remember”, said Cook, who was chosen to carve his ancestral figures from the Gigalgam of the ‘Namgis. “It was all about sharing who we are and where we come from. It also marked the beginning of a good relationship with the Netherlands.”

Georgia Murray returned home to Port McNeill to help 43

members of the fledgling Wild Heart youth choir in their debut at Gate House Community Theatre.

“I’m so excited to be here and see all your support of the kids and the program,” said Murray. “I think so far it’s going so exceptionally well, and far beyond what I think any of us thought it could be. It’s blowing my mind, I hope it’s blowing yours.”

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District of Port Hardy Council Procedure Bylaw No. 03-2009 regulates scheduling, procedures and other matters pertaining to Council meetings.

Regular Council meetings are held at 7:00 pm on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month in the Council Chambers of the Municipal Hall building located at 7360 Columbia Street. To allow for holiday periods, the Union of BC Municipalities convention and other events or matters, Council may change the regularly scheduled meeting dates or conduct additional or special meetings. The following are the meeting dates for the year 2014 as approved by Council on November 12, 2013: January 14 February 11 March 11 April 8 May 13 June 10 July 8 August 12 September 9 October 14 November 12 December 9

January 28 February 25 March 25 April 22 May 27 June 24 July 22 is cancelled for summer holidays August 26 is cancelled for summer holidays September 30 - changed from September 23 for UBCM October 28 November 25 December 23 is cancelled for Christmas holidays

Members of the public are welcome to attend open meetings of Council and If desired, may address Council if arrangements to do so have been made in advance. For more information, please contact: Jeff Long, Director of Corporate & Development Services District of Port Hardy 7360 Columbia Street, PO Box 68, Port Hardy, BC V0N 2P0 Ph: 250-949-6665 Fax 250-949-7433 jlong@porthardy.ca

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Missing person case turns to homicide Gazette staff A missing person case turned into a murder investigation as the husband of Jennifer McPherson was arrested on second-degree murder charges.

Traigo Ehkid Andretti, 37, was scheduled to appear in Campbell River Provincial Court on the death of McPherson, 41.

The couple were caretakers at the remote Double Bay Resort on Hanson Island.

McPherson, 41, was reported missing by her family after members had been unable

and Quatsino First Nations allowed them to purchase a top-ofthe-line model.

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2013 A series of completed towers dominate the skyline at the Knob Hill site.

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to contact her for two days. RCMP in Alert Bay launched a search, which expanded May 3 to include dozens of officers from the Island District Tactical Troop, RCMP Air Services,

Police Dog Service, Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit.

Motorists found the highway a little quieter as the last gigantic pieces of wind farm equip-

ment left Port Hardy and were transported to the Knob Hill site.

But Holberg Road continued to hum as workers ferried back and forth to the site to assemble the towers.

The Coal Harbour Volunteer Fire Department took delivery of its first new truck after a partnership between Coal Harbour

Grizzly destroyed

Gazette staff An adult male grizzly bear was destroyed by the Conservation Officer Service Monday morning after breaking into a Marine Harvest hatchery in Beaver Cove and killing a rottweiler dog one day earlier.

“These were very unfortunate circumstances,” said Steve Petrovcic, a North Island Zone conservation officer based in Black Creek. “No Conservation Officer likes to destroy such a beautiful, majestic animal, but when its

to plant a behaviour is seed which such that it’s came to habituated bloom with it’s likely a field trip to get into June to rememadditional ber. conflict with “Our hard humans.” work and A f t e r a classroom theme of ability to make this trip “Dream big and reach a reality has allowed for the stars” was set, our students to realize students at Quatsino’s that nothing is imposK’ak’ot’lats’i School sible,” said teacher Sarah took the lesson to heart. Whiting. “We have When one boy jok- memories that will last ingly suggested a trip a lifetime and a new perto Disneyland his class- spective on what we are mates initially burst into capable of doing. I am so laugher but that off-the- proud to be their teacher cuff remark was enough and am confident that

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Whiting also paid tribute to the community for getting behind the kids.

“I’d like to give a huge thank you to anyone who supported us along the way. Rob Cahill our principal and the man behind the dream, parents of all of the students who helped fundraise, the entire North Island community that came together to help us! We could not have done it without you! Thank you for believing in us and letting us follow our dreams!”

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s HealtHyt i pcorner Over nine million Canadians are living with diabetes or prediabetes in Canada. This life-threatening disease can As we ring in 2014, many of us will be starting on our New Year’s Resolution … again. If you are one of the many lead to many complications, such as heart disease, kidney disease, eye problems and neuropathy. November is people who find themselves repeating their resolution New Year after New Year, perhaps you need another way to National Diabetes Awareness Month.

think about reaching your goals.

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the trigger andthe several solutions with your goal! as well; including age, race, family history of the disease, Other factors increase likelihood of getting diabetes prior 4. gestational diabetes, having high cholesterol abdominal 30-Day Challenge: It is said it takes 21 daysand to create a habit,obesity. but it might in fact take longer. Setting a 30 to If you experience any of these symptoms, or have some the known risk factors, talk to your doctor today.

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Communities respond to arson attacks Gazette staff Quick action by volunteer firefighters may well have saved a historic and world-renowned Kwakwaka’wakw potlatch collection after a fire broke out in the U’mista Cultural Centre.

The fire, which initially appeared to have started in or near a dehumidifier, broke out about 2 a.m., July 23, ‘Namgis Chief Bill Cranmer said. It triggered a built-in sprinkler system which, with the help of firefighters, helped limit the dam-

Jacob Robitaille flashes past spectators during the Filomi Days Soapbox Derby in Port Hardy.

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age to an eight-foot section of the facility.

“There’s a bit of smoke damage and water damage near the front of the building,”

said Cranmer. “None of the masks were burned. There’s some smoke and water damage to some of them, but that can be fixed up

with the help of conservators, and we’ve got access to them from major museums.”

The community was given troubling news soon after, however.

After examining the scene, the fire inspector provided a report stating the blaze had an external source, leading to an appeal for information.

In Bella Bella, three teenage girls were arrested in the wake of a fire that destroyed the grocery store and post office in the remote island community.

The girls, ages 13, 15

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and 16, were arrested within hours of the initial fire and police response.

“RCMP and fire investigators will forward a report of their findings to the crown for their review, in order to determine whether charges against the girls are appropriate,” RCMP Cpl. Dan Moskaluk

said Monday in a written release.

The community wasted no time rallying to restore services lost when the fire razed the 35-year-old wooden building and left the community without its only grocery store and several other services.

An emergency meeting was called by the Heiltsuk First Nation council to establish short-, medium- and long-term processes to restore grocery distribution and other services.

About 60 hours later the local United

Anglican Church opened as a temporary grocery store, with the Heiltsuk elders’ building serving as the post office.

In Port McNeill, a series of “tagging” incidents spread over multiple days left numerous local buildings marred with illegal graffiti and spoiled Canada Day weekend for much of the community.

“I find it disgusting,” Port McNeill RCMP constable Carl McIntosh said. “It’s disrespectful and it won’t be tolerated.”

Hundreds take to the beach for Musical Ride Gazette staff BC Parks made the decision to close Raft Cove Provincial Park after a protest against a planned gathering erupted on Facebook.

Word spread of an Event page inviting members of the Rainbow Family — a leaderless band embracing many of the values of the ‘60s counter-culture movement — to the remote North Island location for a monthlong gathering. The event had just over 1,800 “Going” with many more invited, the des-

tination apparently an eleventh-hour change from a previously arranged location.

Soon after, a protest page was set up, urging BC Parks to take action against the gathering.

The protest gained support at an astounding rate, with more than 1,400 joining in a 48-hour period.

“BC Parks is closing Raft Cove Provincial Park in response to concerns arising from the World Rainbow Gathering that began August 7th,” said the release from the Ministry of

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2013 Environment. “The closure was prompted over specific concerns that an increase in the number of visitors unprepared for such a remote and rugged location would significantly increase the risk to public health and safety, the protection of the natural environment and the preservation of park values.”

Proposed Woodlot Licence Plan Woodlot Licence W2108 Twin T. Holdings Corporation (the Licensee) hereby gives notice that the proposed Woodlot Licence Plan (WLP) for W2108 will be made available for public review. The woodlot is located on West Cracroft Island and near the town of Port Hardy.

The WLP provides: a) information about the resource features and values on the woodlot area, and b) strategies and practice requirements to meet the objectives that the government has set. It is a ten year operational plan prepared in accordance with the legislation. When approved, the WLP forms the basis for future development of cutblocks and roads, leading to the issuance of cutting permits and road permits, which provide authority to harvest.

Interested parties are invited to comment or provide information about specific resource features so that this information can be incorporated into planning of forest activities.

The WLP may be amended as a result of written comments. After the review period and completion of amendments, the District Manager, North Island Central Coast Resource District considers approval.

a lone male entered the Storey’s Beach school at around 4 a.m. was converted into on August 23 and went Canada’s most picon a rampage, smashturesque riding arena when the RCMP ing TVs, Smart Boards Musical Ride made and computers, as well its first North Island as interior and exterior appearance in a dozen windows. years.

Paint was also found The ride was brought dumped on the floors

by Port Hardy’s Rotary and computers.

Club, and drew hun- Naomi Stead of Port Hardy, left, holds “The damage susdreds of spectators to tained to the school was up daughter Winona to pet one of the the two days of activestimated at $100,000,” horses following the RCMP Musical Ride said Cst. Lesley Smith, ity at the beach and at Storey’s Beach.- $394,000 J.R. Rardon11-8805 610B Nimpkish Heights Central North District Media neighbouring Beaver Harbour Park. after an attack on the Community School Relations Officer. “The Just weeks after a community’s only was nearing comple- community is in shock major fire tore through school. tion and preparing for and the children are the local store, resiUnder constructhe upcoming school visibly upset over this Price senseless act of viodents of Bella Bella year. tion for the past Reduced were left reeling again year, the Bella Bella According to RCMP, lence”.

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Happy New Year

It’s always a surprise to look back and see just how far we’ve come in the space of a year.

These year in review editions may not be packed with ‘news’ in the traditional sense, but there is surely something to be said for reminding ourselves of the highs and lows of another 12 months.

This was the year that saw the Idle No More movement and cuts to the ferry service.

The year we lost Al Huddlestan and saw the erection of 55 turbines at the Knob Hill site.

The year we saw protests lead to the closure of Raft Cove and a fire consume the store in Bella Bella.

We may not have seen the Stanley Cup this summer but there were plenty of other sporting highlights to keep us smiling as we looked back at 2013.

As we turn the corner to 2014, we’re sure that this year will bring even more smiles and surprises to North Islanders. And scowls.

Late in 2013, a tentative nod was given to the Northern Gateway project which plans to bring Albertan oil products to the coast for transport. In a series of public consultations, B.C. residents were strongly opposed to any such move, and it seems unlikely that this project will go ahead without serious protests.

On a happier note, the Gazette will mark a milestone this year as we enter into our 50th year in circulation on the North Island. No doubt as our August birthday draws closer we will plan to mark the occasion.

Whatever the year brings, we hope it’s a happy one for you and yours.

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A hopeless wish list for 2014 VICTORIA – 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, 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

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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.

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Over 550 hampers were delivered this Christmas as the community came together yet again for the Hamper Fund.

An unusually warm end to the month means a late start to the ski season this year as local hills await more of the white stuff.

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.

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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?

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Service cuts and price hikes on the horizon Another year is drawing to a close, giving us the opportunity to look back to the last 12 months and forward to the coming year.

Unfortunately we already know some of what is in store for 2014 and most of it is not good. Cuts to our ferry service and increases in fares; massive hikes to hydro bills and of course, the annual rise in the cost of our MSP. The government’s announcement of systemwide cuts to our ferry service and the community meetings held around the coast have kept me busy as both constituency MLA and as the Official Opposition Transportation critic. The meetings started in Port Hardy, where cuts to the ferries to Prince Rupert and to the central coast will devastate the tourism industry which has been so successfully nurtured and they will tear the heart out of those isolated communities up the coast. The panel from the Ministry of Transportation and BC Ferries heard from businesses and individuals from across the region saying the cuts were foolish and irresponsible. Likewise at the packed Community Centre on Quadra Island, one after another person stood up to denounce the erosion of our marine highway.

It is extraordinary that a government that just a few months ago sold itself to the people of this province as sound economic managers could have gone into this process so blindly. It did not follow accepted best practices before making such a fundamental decision and did absolutely no analysis of the economic or social impacts of such widespread cuts.

What was clear from the Port Hardy meeting on – through Bella Coola to Bowen Island – was that the decision to make cuts has already been made and the meetings were primarily for show. There may be some minor changes

— which we will be told shows how much they listened to people at the community meetings — but nearly every route will see service reduced. And of course we know fares are increasing by another 4 percent in April — just when seniors will have to start to pay. However it has been truly heartening to see a coalescing of coastal communities. Chambers of Commerce and high school students, seniors and shift workers are with one voice saying that our marine highway is too valuable to lose and the government’s approach to BC is seriously damaging ferry-dependent communities.

I have been working with individuals and groups from communities around the coast to support their efforts in attracting the BC Liberal government’s attention. I have written an open letter to the Minister of Transportation urging him to look at other alternatives. And in the New Year I will be taking this into the Legislature.

At the same time as the cuts to ferry services was announced we also heard the bad news about BC Hydro. The government has mismanaged our public utility so badly with its ideological approach, such as forcing it to buy expensive power from private producers in contracts that tie Hydro up for 40 or more years, that the utility is forced to increase rates by nine percent this spring and 28 percent overall.

I have been talking with both large and small businesses, with school districts and other institutions and all are fearful of the impact this on their operations. How people on low income, those dependent on benefits, seniors — and anyone who is living on the tight budget that most people work within — are expected to survive with this raise is beyond me. It belies all the BC Liberal spin about caring for fami-

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lies or for business.

I had a meeting recently with the new head of the Island Health Authority and discussed a number of issues including how best to deliver health care in our rural communities and plans for facilities in Port Hardy and Campbell River.

An area of growing interest is Community Paramedics, where ambulance paramedics would do a variety of medical support work within communities — from checking in on someone recently released from hospital to taking blood in a clinic. I was assured that plans for the primary health clinic in Port Hardy are on track but once again was

disappointed in the intransigence from Victoria on increasing the number of beds for the new Campbell River hospital. However, the health authority is receiving a study on the potential of retaining part of our existing hospital.

I have had discussions in various communities in the constituency about the delivery of health care and I will continue to lobby for the best possible care — including adequate beds in the new hospital — through the coming months. Unfortunately, although I wish otherwise, there is nothing I can do about the coming four per cent rise in MSP.

However in the New Year I will finally be able to take these and the many other issues that have come to me as your MLA and as transportation critic to the government. I am still astounded that the BC Liberals can get away with just 36 days of Legislative time in a year. It is a thirdworld approach to governance that is an insult to the people of the province, and a danger to our democracy.

We are returning to Victoria in early February and I will be fighting for justice and equality — whether that is in relation to our marine highway, our access to services or in the treatment of those most in need.

In the meantime the Campbell River and Port Hardy constituency offices will be closed from Monday December 23 and will reopen on Thursday January 2, so my impressive assistants can take some time off. You can always get in touch by email at Claire. trevena.mla@leg.bc.ca, by phone at 250-287-5100 in Campbell River, 250-9499473 in Port Hardy or toll free at 1-866-387-5100.

And feel free to friend me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter @clairetrevena.

Best wishes for a good Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

Claire Trevena MLA

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North Island Life

2013 in review Gazette staff From the Musical Ride to the summer festivals, concerts to recitals, wildlife to sports events, there was no shortage of North Island happenings to train

Clockwise from above: Dominik Nelson dances the Hamat’sa during Fort Rupert’s play Potlatch; Dayna Moore of Port McNeill hits the floor with the rest of Portside Academy’s dance troop during the contemporary piece Assylum in the performing arts school’s sixth annual Stars of Tomorrow dance recital; Grace Dawson pauses at a beam of light shining into the Kwakiutl Big House while performing the salmon dance as part of the Earth Day salmon fry release; Patrick Hunt singing feast songs with nieces Scarlett Hunt (l) and Cynthia Dickie at a PHSS Professional Development day; Riders wheel into a gallop during the RCMP Musical Ride at Storey’s Beach; Jordan Cook, top, performs a trick on his BMX bike while Michael Chalmers rolls down a ramp on a skateboard during the City Slickers’ performance at the grand opening of the Alert Bay Skateboard Park; Members of the Port Hardy Minor Hockey atom team wait with the Warriors’ Quinn Mellow, right, during the puck toss at intermission of the Movember benefit hockey game in Port Hardy.

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Stoner grizzly hunt pics launch controversy Gazette staff The Tour de Rock kicked off its annual ride with events on the North Island.

The event begins each year in Port Alice before heading to Port Hardy and Port McNeill on the first stops of a twoweek, 1,000 km ride to Victoria to raise funds for children’s cancer charities.

Port McNeill NHL player Clayton Stoner was legally licensed to hunt a grizzly bear in B.C. when he took a boar during a family hunting outing in May. But his hunt gener-

ated controversy in September when the Coastal First Nations released graphic photos of a bear’s discarded carcass in the Kwatna estuary as part of a documentary film designed to end bear hunting in the Great Bear Rainforest.

Other photos, published by the Vancouver Sun, show Stoner posing with the severed head of a grizzly bear, and decked out in camouflage fatigues.

The bear’s nickname was ‘Cheeky’, and it was being documented by filmmakers from Coastal First Nations

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(CFN). Last year, the CFN banned bear hunting on its territories.

“I grew up hunting and fishing in British Columbia and continue to enjoy spending time with my family outdoors,” Stoner said in a statement released by his NHL club, the Minnesota Wild. “I love to hunt and fish and will continue to do so with my family

and friends in British Columbia.”

Hundreds of locals got a behind-thescenes look at Global News as the News Hour broadcast live from Port Hardy as part of the show’s On The Road series.

After setting up in Carrot Park, the show went live at six from the waterfront with anchor Chris Gailus, sports broadcaster Squire Barnes and meteorologist Kristi Gordon delivering the stories in front of a local crowd.

And Port Hardy created a celebrity of its

Cougar attacks couple male cougar, which Gazette staff A cougar was treed McIntosh estimated and shot in Port between 120 and 140 McNeill after an off- pounds, was unafduty RCMP officer fected by the spray and his wife were and the loud report attacked, of the bear and a series banger of sightmerely slowed its ings placed approach. schools The couand dayOctober cares on ple finally lock-down. escaped R C M P the stalkCpl. Carl ing cougar McIntosh and his with a little luck — wife Katherine were the sudden arrival of walking a remote local logger Shane stretch of Mine Road Murdoch in his truck. with their Chinese Three men were Crested dogs when killed when the float they were stalked and plane in which they approached by a large were flying crashed cougar. at Potts Lagoon, on Having occasional- West Cracroft Island.

Kevin Roger ly encountered black bears on their regular Williams, aged 42, walks of the road, the from Lake Country in couple seemed well- the Okanagan, was the equipped for an attack, pilot of the Air Cab possession both bear Cessna 185 floatplane spray — “this stuff is which crashed into an 10 times as potent as island in the middle of the spray we use in Potts Lagoon, where the RCMP,” McIntosh it was expected to said — and percussive land, at about 11:45 a.m. on Oct. 24. bear bangers.

The two passengers But the large

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on the plane were Frederick Gerald Cecil Wiley, aged 40, of Merville on Vancouver Island, and Norman Slavik, aged 59, of Surrey. The two had chartered the

plane to take them from Port McNeill to a logging operation on West Cracroft Island, a small island on the east side of Robson Bight east of Alert Bay.

own when seven-yearold Emma Walkus joined Gordon on-air to give the weather forecast.

Walkus won judges over with her audition tape for the role and seemed perfectly at home in the limelight.

Walkus said she thought the experience was “good,” but wasn’t sure she would make a career of it. When asked if she would like to read the weather when she grew up Walkus said, “Maybe.

I’m not sure; maybe I want to be a teacher. Or a construction worker.”

Sarah Case gets a first look at her new ‘do courtesy of Tour de Rock rider’s cellphone photo. The Port Hardy teen raised over $2,000 to have her head shaved and the hair donated to Locks of Love.

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January 10-12 Minor Hockey Port Hardy Minor Hockey peewee tournament, Don Cruickshank Memorial Arena. Concession, raffle, 50/50 draws and more.

January 11 Rep hockey North Island Eagles midgets host Saanich, 4 p.m., Port Alice.

January 17-19 Minor hockey Port McNeill Minor Hockey midget tournament, Chilton Regional Arena. Concession, raffles, 50/50, more.

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Curling Broughton Curling Club’s Ladies Open bonspiel. Draw/matchup times to be determined. Dinner, prizes, concession; lounge open throughout. Info, Keith at 250-902-8197 or Broughton Curling Club on Facebook.

January 18 Rep hockey North Island Eagles bantams host Peninsula, 2:30 p.m., Port Hardy; Eagles peewees host Alberni Valley, 4 p.m., Port Alice.

January 19 Rep hockey North Island Eagles peewees host Alberni Valley, 9 a.m., Port Hardy; Eagles atom development hosts Comox, 11:15 a.m., Port Hardy.

January 24-26 Curling Fort Rupert Curling Club’s Mixed Open bonspiel. Draw/matchup times to be determined. Dinner, prizes, concession; lounge open throughout.

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2013: Titles, tantrams and tourneys January The Warriors notched up another win for Gilbert Walkus Jr. at the former number 10’s memorial game in Port Hardy. The Don Cruikshank Memorial Arena stands filled up to watch the Port Hardy Warriors face off against the Port Hardy Bulls in the 3rd annual memorial game. … The Tri-port bantam girls hockey team reached the championship game of the Oceanside girls hockey tournament for the second straight year and went to a double shootout before taking the silver medal with a 3-2 loss to Sooke in Parksville. … Mike McCulley’s foursome took the A final in the Fort Rupert Curling Club Mixed Bonspiel.

The skip’s hammer in the final end scored to deny Colin Hunko’s rink in a thrilling finale. … Brenda Drummond took victory as Broughton Curling Club hosted a discothemed ladies bonspiel. … Ali Romanow claimed the women’s title in the annual Cain Cup ski race as Alan Clavsen of Sointula took home the men’s title. … The NISS basketball side beat Gold River 47-36 and 58-42 in a doubleheader.

February The Cowichan curling squad dispatched Cloverdale in a onesided final at the BC/ Yukon Command Curling Playdowns hosted by Broughton Curling Club. … The annual Rod Watson Memorial has been held to benefit Port Alice Minor Hockey and other worthy causes for several years. 2013’s event raised more than $1,000 to benefit cancer victim Dorothy Noseworthy, the mother-in-law of Rod Watson, Jr. …

Goalie Nicole Yorke posted a pair of shutouts and Ashlynne Moore potted eight

Women’s division in the annual B.C. Star Skate Championships in Kelowna. … RCMP officer Chris Bezaire launched a judo club in Port Hardy.

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goals as the Downpour reached their tourney championship game for the first time before taking second place with a 5-1 loss to the Victoria Furies. … The Port Alice Minor Hockey Association hosted the North Island’s novice players in a hockey jamboree. … The North Island Eagles midgets’ run to the provincial Tier 3 hockey championships came to a heartbreaking halt, as host Victoria prevailed for a 4-3, double-overtime win over the Eagles in the Vancouver Island semifinals. A win would have clinched a provincial berth for the midgets. … Juan Camacho hit one of two free throws with 1.5 seconds remaining, lifting NISS to a 61-60 win over visiting Campbell River Christian. …

The Regulators ran out 12-5 winners over the TFN Crew in the men’s bracket of the Harvey Walkus Memorial Tournament, while the Chix with Stix took the ladies’ title.

March Brad Zealand claimed his third Fort Rupert

Curling Club men’s open bonspiel title. …

The village played host to eighteen teams for the North Island’s biggest hockey tournament, the 34th annual Oscar Hickes Memorial. Port McNeill’s Mustangs beat out local favourites the Islanders for the A title. … Port McNeill’s Willie Mitchell was honoured as the “Best of BC” Athlete of the Year. … Georgia Walkus of Port Hardy claimed a second runner-up finish at the B.C. Open Highland Dance Championships, the highest overall placing ever for a North Island dancer. Two more members of Team Charlton Highland Dancers, Xandryn Frost of Port McNeill and Jenna Brown of Port Hardy, each earned third runner-up honours. Emily Walker of Port Hardy was fifth runner-up. … Mickey Walker guided his foursome/ rink to a slender onepoint win in the annual Daffodilly, which combines golfing and curling. … Port Hardy figure skater Alyssa Busch claimed a silver medal in the Junior Silver

April The Kingcome Wolves men’s soccer club struck again on the South Island, claiming the championship of the Totem Invitational Tournament in Victoria over Easter Weekend. … A CBC camera crew visited the North Island to tape young members of the Port Alice Minor Hockey club in a promo for CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada. … Thanks in part to posting the high score in their sixth and final game, the ladies team from North Island Lanes placed fourth overall in the 27th annual Vancouver Island 5-pin Bowling Championship, held Mar. 22-23 at Brechin Lanes in Nanaimo. …

Chad Bell claimed MVP honours for the midget club, David Charlie Jr., who had a breakout season with the Eagles peewees, won that club’s MVP Eagle Trophy, and Kayden Jones, who went from novice rec to play every game as the lone goalie for the atom development squad, earned the atoms’ MVP as the North Island Eagles Hockey program hosted its annual awards night.

May The Port McNeill Rangers, winless in 2012, began the 2013 season atop the North Vancouver Island Baseball League standings thanks to a 12-0 romp over the Port Hardy Cubs at the local ballpark in the opening game. … Kolby Beattie earned Canada’s top overall marksman award and all eight North Island participants earned medals in a banner showing at the annual Junior Canadian

Rangers championships, held at CFB Valcartier in Quebec. …

Port McNeill RCMP Sergeant Craig Blanchard was the fastest finisher among the 29 North Island entrants in the annual Times-Colonist 10K run in Victoria. … The Port Hardy Umpire’s Association Ice Breaker Slo-Pitch Tourney was held at the Storey’s Beach diamonds, with Field 2 renamed the Jack Tompkins Memorial Field in honour of the local legend. … Almost 100 came out for the inaugural SportMed Aboriginal RunWalk in Port Hardy. … Port McNeill’s Jason Abernethy tore it up when motocross racing returned to Seven Mile track … The NISS girls soccer program hosted the Island A Championships, the qualifying tournament for B.C.’s provincial finals, for the first time. … The Sointula Young Guns rolled to a 12-2 victory against the Sointula Old Boys in the annual showcase rivalry game of the annual Sointula Baseball Tournament. … Port Hardy’s Jaylon Grenier took home a bronze medal and the father-daughter tandem of Scott and Madyson Harris each posted top-seven finishes last weekend in the annual Comox Valley Shoreline Orthodontics Tri-K Triathlon.

June An injured Kim Cardwell came off the bench to score a hat trick and goalkeeper Karina Cann stopped a pair of shootout shots as NISS senior girls soccer team pulled out a 4-3 shootout victory over Kaslo in the 11thplace game of the provincial tourney. … A field of seven cars took to the track for qualifying, including two new drivers as Tri-Port Speedway hosted the

Tri-Port Motor Sports Club’s season-opening stock car event. … The Port Hardy Bluesox claimed the tourney championship at the Father’s Day Classic slo-pitch tourney after Port McNeill’s Woodchuckers qualified for the A final, but declined to play and walked away in a dispute over roster makeup. The Beer Gardens — named for the locale from which most of the players were recruited — provided a spirited exhibition matchup for the champs in the Woodchuckers’ stead. … The annual Loggers Golf Tournament drew 144 entries with three teams tying on a low of 62. … A wild spring soccer season came to a fitting close Sunday when the final game of the annual Port Hardy Youth Soccer tournament went down to a shootout that required nine rounds to settle.

A goal by Caroline Walkus finally sealed the Port Hardy Outlaws’ victory over Port McNeill’s Kick Ass in the girls U-15 final at Port Hardy Secondary School. … Port Alice’s Rumblefest drew 44 riders to the 20th annual downhill event. …

Port Hardy’s Ian Beatty was the top local finisher Saturday in the gruelling Kusam Klimb, the 23-kilometre mountain race held annually on Mt. H’Kusam near Sayward. … The summer drag season on the North Island kicked off as Rumble on the Runway returned to the Port McNeill airport. …

Kevin Black, manager and club pro at Seven Hills Golf & Country Club, suffered an early exit from the 2013 PGA Championship of Canada when Graham Gunn of Ontario’s Whitesands Golf & Practice Centre scored a 2-up win in their opening-round match Monday at Magna Golf Club in Aurora, ON.

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Fundraisers and nailbiters in NI contests July Stephanie Lacasse and Devon Gullacher of Avalon Adventist Junior Academy were presented plaques honouring their accomplishments in the 30th annual Charlie Cup Checkers Championship after helping the school to the team title. … North Island highland dancer Abigail McCorquodale, 8, of Port Hardy, placed second in the Fling, Sword and Half Hullachan, and third in the Seann Truibhas, for an overall placing of first runnerup in the 7-9 Championship at the Sons of Scotland Pacific Northwest Open Championship.

Xandryn Frost, 9, of Port McNeill, placed fourth in the Fling, fifth in the Sword, second in the Seann Truibhas, and third in the Half Hullachan for an overall placing of second runnerup in the 7-9 Championship. …

Logger Sports returned to Port McNeill for its 4th annual outing. …

Prevailing Wins prevailed over a series of rogue waves that nearly swamped rival Na’max’sala to win the mixed class in the fourth annual Tri-Port Dragon Boat Society regatta.

The Warriors topped the Flying Dragons for the ladies title in the regatta, which drew seven teams. … Nanaimo’s Glenn Kennedy, driving a 1968 Plymouth Barracuda sporting bumper-to-bumper black primer paint, claimed Saturday’s Super-pro class title with a win over Larry Morris of Shawnigan Lake on the eighthmile strip at Port McNeill Airport as the Rumble on the Runway returned. … A single inning made the difference in the A final of the Filomi Days wood bat tourney last weekend, as the Generals came from behind to beat out the defending champion Bluesox. …

A tiebreaking overtime goal by Josh Walkus of Port Hardy lifted “Team Brasil” to a dramatic victory over “Team Argentina” in the annu-

al World Cup Soccer Camp jamboree.

August Matt Nestman, 29, claimed the top spot in the 5-kilometre Salmon Run event in a time of 25 minutes, 34 seconds. The 10-k victory went to local nurse Nicole James, who topped a small field of a half-dozen runners in the longer event. … Minnesota Wild defenseman Clayton Stoner returned to Port McNeill to to headline his summer hockey camp. … Ian McKenzie topped the field yet again at the annual Alert Bay 360 race in a little over 50 minutes. … Woodchuckers prevailed over the Fog Duckers in the final of the annual Woss Slopitch Tournament. … Local Sensei Ivan DeToro added another notch to his belt recently, successfully testing for his Rokudan, or sixth-degree black belt. … Ivan Hall hit two home runs, including a go-ahead, grand slam in the bottom of the sixth inning, as the Dustmen rallied for a 13-10 win over the Woodchuckers in the championship final of the Port McNeill Slo-pitch Association’s league playoff tournament. … The Intersport Dodgers of Campbell River claimed the A final of the OrcaFest Slo-pitch Tournament with an 11-9 win over Mr. Mike’s Jays, on a two-run, walkoff home run by Mark Berry. … Hometown driver Chris Sharpe battled his way through a day of elimination heats to earn a spot opposite Parksville’s Eric Shields as the last two drivers remaining, only to be disqualified by jumping the gun and drawing a red light in the final heat as Shields claimed the $1,500 top prize at the Vancouver Island Bracket Finals drag races. … A field of ten drivers took to the track at the Tri-Port Speedway Dustbowl, with Glen Day taking the chequered flag.

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Rory Bondue, right, submits to a head shave as Mark Preston mans the clippers and Jason Hodson shoots video following the annual Bob Bailey Memorial Hockey game in Port Alice.

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Load ‘Em Up took the top spot in the fifth annual Fred Donaldson Memorial Slo-pitch Tournament last weekend after a hard-fought comeback against the Blue Sox. … Rory Bondue of Port Alice came from three strokes behind in the two-day, 36-hole tourney to force a playoff with Mackenzie Osbourne of Comox, then dropped an easy tap-in for birdie to claim a one-stroke victory on the second hole of the playoff at the annual Men’s Open Golf Championship at Seven Hills Golf and Country Club. … Steve Holm of Port Hardy was the overall winner in the inaugural Frogger 15K road run, held in Campbell River. … The peewee North Island Eagles got their season off to a great start as they comprehensively beat the Comox Valley Chiefs 6-2 at home. …

Competing in his first group cycling event, Port McNeill’s Ron Mollinga, 51, placed 12th overall out of 302 finishers in the 100-kilometre ride, one of three distances available to riders on the day.

October A combination of raw weather and low turnout combined to force the cancellation of Fort Rupert Curling Club’s Fall Funkin’ event, the fall version of the spring daffodilly event. … Thanks to a popular response in its inaugural season last year, the Intro to Girls Hockey returned for

another run in the Port McNeill Minor Hockey Association. … For the second straight year, Glen Day of Port Hardy was crowned track champion at Tri-Port Speedway. … Clifford Glendale assisted on the tying goal and then scored the game-winner as the North Island Secondary School senior boys soccer team rallied from behind for a 4-2 win over Port Hardy Secondary in a friendly. … After making a strong start to the season locally, the Port Hardy Secondary School girls’ volleyball team hit the road to test themselves against down-Island competition. … Chris Dutcyvich and Reed Allen each notched hat tricks Sunday as the Port McNeill Mustangs kicked off their North Island Commercial Hockey League season with an 8-2 romp over the visiting Neucel Islanders at Chilton Regional Arena. … All three local curling clubs hosted drop-in clinics this month, allowing prospective newcomers a chance to try out the sport and giving returning players an opportunity to get some practice time ahead of the upcoming season. … The North Island’s two senior boys soccer teams fell just short of a spot in the provincial A championships after they both finished with one win and one loss in the Vancouver Island A finals in Victoria.

November Quatsino Band host-

ed its inaugural co-ed dodgeball tournament and — just as in the movie of the same name — teams faced off in costume. Eight teams came out for the event, won in a thrilling finale by the Lifeguards who overcame a 3-1 deficit in the best-ofseven series to trump the Dirty Dodgers 4-3. … PHSS rallied from 2-1 down to beat the NISS senior boys 4-2 in soccer action, Darryl Coon scoring two to tie the game and put PHSS ahead, before creating Hardy’s fourth. …

Mainline — a newly formed outfit comprised largely of Port Hardy Bulls and former North Island Eagles — left it to the dying seconds of overtime to snatch victory away from the Warriors in a dramatic end-to-end battle at the Wild Women’s Tourney.

In the Women’s division the Courtenay Whalers beat out the Nanaimo Islanders to claim the top spot. The North Island’s Juiceheads had a heartbreaker, finishing third after losing out to the Islanders in a shootout for a finals berth. … For three days, elementary school students from throughout the North Island filled the Gwa’sala’Nakwaxda’xw school gym with high-flying action, laughter and, of course, smiles at the Friendship Soccer Tournament. … Players on both the Port Hardy Warriors and Port Hardy Bulls men’s hockey teams showed off some impressive facial hair when they squared off in the second annual Movember hockey benefit for prostate cancer research at Don Cruickshank Memorial Arena. …

Devon Gullacher, a grade 6 student at Avalon Adventist Junior Academy, claimed the first point of the Charlie Cup Checkers Championship.

Of the 102 students who entered the checkers competition during the three-day soccer tournament, Gullacher was the only participant who swept a five-game

series over contest founder and host David Lyon.

December The annual Bob Bailey Memorial Hockey game raised nearly $2,700 to benefit a young family dealing with an untimely cancer diagnosis. Rory Bondue raised about $800 of the total in a raffle for the privilege of shaving his long, blond locks. … Trailing 5-4 going into the eighth and final end of the 2013 Gurney Memorial, Mike Balcke parlayed his hammer into a tying point, then watched as his son Keith’s own hammer in an extra mini-end rubbed a guard and left père Balcke with his second straight A title in

the Broughton Curling Club event. … A small squad of soccer standouts got some top-class coaching last week as the International Futbol Scouting Academy kicked off a pilot project in Port Hardy. …

A rapid-fire Corey Swain hat trick helped push the Kwixasa’las Memorial side to a comfortable victory in the final of the Memorial Co-ed Indoor Soccer Tournament, held at Wakas Hall. …

The District of Port Hardy and the RDMW renewed a Christmas break tradition by opening for free public skating and swimming at their respective recreational facilities, courtesy of local businesses and organizations.

Athlete of the Year ATHLETE of the Week Doug BonDue The Port Alice man continues to be the CONNOR SCOTT beating heart of hockey in the Village The midget skater and andPort was McNeill recognized in a ceremony atom assistant coach named last month as the Portwas Alice ArenaPlayer was of the Year during Port McNeill Minor renamed ‘Doug Bondue Arena. ’ Hockey’s annual awards night.

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Carolyn Donovan of Port Caleb, left, and Ethan McNeill hasjoin every rightfor to MacKenzie Santa smile after being drawn as a photo at the community the winner of the Gazette’s centre in Port Alice.

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Miranda Schulte

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Ferry cuts outrage local residents

Sgt. Craig Blanchard of the Port McNeill RCMP places a wreath at the cenotaph during the Remembrance Day commemoration in Port McNeill.

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Gazette staff The BC Coastal Ferries Community Engagement began its tour in stormy waters, visiting Port Hardy on the first of 20 stops to discuss changes announced last week to the coastal ferry service.

With one route out of Port Hardy cancelled outright and the other slashed by 32 per cent in the latest round of cuts, the representatives from BC Ferries

and the Ministry of Transportation came under relentless fire from local government, businesses and residents during a 90-minute question period at the Civic Centre Nov. 20.

Port Hardy Mayor Bev Parnham set the tone with her opening broadside, asking the group, “Why are they here? What is that BC Ferries wants from us?

Consultations listen to what people say. Where

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on earth in the consultation last year did you hear that cutting Route 40 (Port Hardy - Mid Coast - Bella Coola) was a good idea?”

In an effort to preserve a Kwakwala language “hanging by a slender thread”, local

educators and social service workers are turning for help to the experts: First Nations elders.

“In a nutshell, our languages are in such a critical state that, if we don’t begin to put more effort into revitalization, it’s estimated that by 2018 they’ll fall off the map,” said Sara Child, program coordinator for Kwakwala teacher training.

Surveys have revealed only a

few dozen fluent Kwakwala speakers among members of the North Island’s Kwakwaka’wakw nations, and the majority of those are elders age 75 and above.

With the help of funding from the First Peoples Cultural Foundation, local organizers are embarking on a five-month program to establish a strategic plan to ensure the language doesn’t go to the grave with those elders.

Molly recovers in Victoria Gazette staff Molly, a Shepherd cross found near death, is happy and recovering in a Victoria-area foster home after being rescued from a horrifying cruelty situation near Port Hardy.

Although she was found extremely emaciated, outside, in a deplorable state of neglect, Molly is mak-

ing a good recovery in the loving care of a foster home, the B.C. branch of the Society Against Cruelty to Animals announced.

The BC SPCA cruelty investigations team has forwarded recommended charges to Crown Counsel.

Five days after a unidentified bag of Christmas gifts land-

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ed on the road near Sayward — and just five days before Christmas — the bag was returned to Tiffany Charlie at her Port Hardy home.

“This has just turned out to be a positive thing,” said Cpl. Milo Ramsey, the RCMP detachment commander in Sayward. “And it’s just enough before Christmas that they can be wrapped and under the tree.”

The return of the bag of gifts followed a concerted effort — by Ramsey’s detachment,

Merrilee Tognela has become a part of the NEW Four Paws Rescue Group.

This group has come together to help raise money to help feed and take care of the dogs of the North Island. Together, Four Paws and the North Island can come together and help show support of “Molly” and friends like her.

Pasta Night Fundraiser QuarterDeck Pub Thursday, Jan. 30th from 5pm to 9pm.

Call Alex for more info at 250-949-9462

Merrilee Tognela cell: 250-230-5220 1-800-779-4966 mtognela@coastrealty.com www.coastrealty.com

other volunteers and social and news media outlets — to find its rightful owner.

“It was awesome,” Charlie, a mother of eight, said after accepting the bag from Ramsey and peeking inside to verify the contents. “It’s nice to see Santa Claus greets Rosie Jackson as so many people try to she arrives for a photo at Port McNeill’s help. Especially at this Guide/Scout Hall.

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