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Burns Lake property assessments up

Winter brings power outages Heavy winds and wet snow last week contributed to a large swathe of power outages between Fraser Lake and Houston.

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Upcoming village budget deliberations

Year in review continues

WALTER STRONG Village of Burns Lake 2014 budget deliberations are scheduled to begin on Jan. 13, 2014.

Residential property tax rates in Burns Lake slightly edge out Houston to be the highest within the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako (RDBN), according to data available through the provincial Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development.

Residential property owners in Burns Lake paid 7.3 per cent property tax last year, to generate $498,998, or 47 per cent of the municipal taxation budget.

Residential taxes in Houston were at seven per cent for 2013, generating just over one million dollars, or 28 per cent of the municipal tax base.

Residential tax rates in Smithers were 4.7 per cent, Fraser Lake 5.3 per cent, Fort St. James 4.3 per cent, Vanderhoof 4.5 per cent and Telkwa 6.3 per cent.

What Burns Lake lacks is a major industry tax base within municipal boundaries. Houston last year collected $1.6 million, or 43 per cent of its tax base, from major industry. Burns Lake collects no taxes from major industry, a budgetary constraint that it shares with only Telkwa within the RDBN. Business property rate payers in Burns Lake accounted for 45 per cent ...see ASSESSMENTS

On May 14, 2013, B.C. voters re-elected a majority Liberal government. Under the leadership of Christy Clark, the party defied consistently negative pre-election polling.

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Burns Lake society aims to warm up winter

Bruins hockey in Burns Lake ...page 8

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More than just bears hibernate...

Did you know that trees “hibernate” as well?

DRIVE SAFE OUT THERE, IT’S WINTER

This roll-over from last Sunday afternoon didn’t result in any injuries, but was probably a scary ride for the driver. Burns Lake RCMP Jack Ashford said environmental factors played a role in this accident. Burns Lake RCMP report 10 vehicle collisions over the holiday season. Road Checks were also out in full swing in the lead-up to New Year’s Eve. It was a quite holiday season for merrymakers in town, at least from an RCMP perspective. In total, only seven individuals were involved in alcohol or drug related impaired driving incidents over the holidays.

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How is it that trees can just take a “rest” for the winter? Trees hibernate or go dormant during harsh weather when temperatures are colder and there is less sunlight. Without this deep dormancy, woody plants would never survive harsh winter conditions. The main environmental signal which triggers the onset of dormancy is daylight. The “provenance” refers to the specified area in which plants that produced seed are located or were derived. If a person tries to grow a tree that originated too far south of Burns Lake, for example, the tree would not shut down or harden off soon enough in the fall and would be damaged by frost. BLCF plants seedlings grown from seed that are of the correct provenance and hope that other environmental factors (disease and drought for example) will let them be and grow into healthy, well-formed trees in the future!

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Accident claims lives

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Houston RCMP and Smithers Traffic Services continue to investigate a serious Motor vehicle collision that has claimed the lives of a couple who were on their way home to Prince Rupert BC. On Dec. 29, 2013 at approximately 10 pm, Houston RCMP received a call of a motor vehicle collision on Hwy.16 approximately 18 km west of Houston.

Once on scene members learned that a Ford pick-up truck was traveling east bound on Hwy/ 16 when an SUV traveling west bound started spinning and lost control. Subsequently, the pick-up truck t-boned the west bound SUV as it spun into the oncoming east bound lane.

The local fire department and BC ambulance services were also called to the scene.

Both occupants in the SUV sustained life threatening injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene. The couple were later identified as

residents from Prince Rupert BC. The two occupants in the pick up truck were transported to the Bulkley Valley District Hospital with serious, non life threatening injuries.

The highway was closed for a number of

hours as the scene was investigated by a collision analyst and Smithers Traffic Services.

RCMP have advised that foggy and icy road conditions played a factor in this tragic incident.

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Burns Lake sees rise Property values in property values slip for the south

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of the municipal tax budget last year, paying just over $475,000, or 16.3 per cent in property taxes.

That 16.3 per cent rate place Burns Lake business rate payers in the middle of the pack for rates across the RDBN. In 2013, Fraser Lake sat at a 22.2 per cent, Houston at 20 per cent, and Smithers at 17.1 per cent. Fort St. James, Vanderhoof and Telkwa all had marginally lower business tax rates, with Telkwa the lowest at 12.6 per cent.

Property owners in Burns Lake can expect to see an 8.59 per cent increase in their property value assessments this year from BC Assessment. Property assessments are based on an estimate of market value as of July 1, 2013, and the physical condition of properties as of Oct. 31, 2013.

The B.C. Assessment Office does not speculate on the cause of the increases.

“BC Assessment reviews and analyses all the sales that transact within the year that are registered with the Land Titles and Survey Authority,” said Christopher Whyte, BC Assessment northern region deputy assessor. “As a result, the sales that took place in Burns Lake in 2013 indicated that the market was willing to pay more for property in that location.”

Whyte noted that a common trend throughout the Northwest is a rise in property value associated with projected resource projects.

“The one common trend that is present across the majority of the north half of the province is that the natural resource sector is continuing to prosper which will create certain economic outcomes. This may or may not be the case for Burns Lake.”

Burns Lake, part of the Prince George assessment area, is second only to the District of Mackenzie for an increase in assessed property value within the Prince George assessment area.

The average assessment in the District of Mackenzie increased from $125,000 in 2013, to $149,000 for this year. That is a 19.2 per cent jump in assessed value.

After Burns Lake, came Vanderhoof at 6.5 per cent, and Prince George at 2.5 per cent.

Turning to the Northwest assessment area, the District of Kitimat saw a 26.7 per cent increase in assessed property values, the District of New Hazelton a 22.7 per cent increase, and Terrace a 10.9 per cent increase.

Smithers had a 2.3 per cent increase and Telkwa a nine per cent increase. Houston remained relatively stable at a 0.7 per cent assessment increase.

The property assessments provide the foundation for local and provincial taxation, generating more than $6.2 billion in property taxes every year province-wide.

Property assessments are up slightly across most of B.C., with dips in average residential values in the Okanagan and on Vancouver Island.

The biggest increases were in the Northwest and Peace River regions, where total residential value rose about 10 per cent as natural gas and other industrial development picks up speed.

The B.C. Assessment Authority released its 2014 property assessment rolls Thursday, showing continued slight growth in total property values in most regions of B.C. The value of all property in B.C. rose 1.27 per cent, despite declines in most regions for farm, recreational and managed forest land.

Penticton region residential property is down 0.94 per cent, with a similar dip in farm value. Kelowna also had about a one per cent drop in farm value, with residential value steady compared to 2013. The Vernon region saw a 1.57 per cent drop in residential value and a 1.95 per cent dip in farm value.

Residential value held steady in the Cariboo region, with declines recorded in industrial, farm and forest land.

The largest moves in the 2014 assessment roll were for managed forest land, which showed a jump of 15.3 per cent in the Fraser Valley and drops of 10 per cent or more in other regions.

Rod Bealing, executive director of the Private Forest Landowners Association, said the value reflects fluctuations in the price of logs, with property value lagging the timber market by several years.

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Make this new year your own

Another year of enviro-wars

Some dates carry a bit of magic with them. Two thousand and fourteen isn’t one of them.

But this might be a good thing.

Some recent dates held potential importance which proved to be completely unsubstantiated. The year 2000 was supposed to be a real mess. Computers everywhere were feared to fail as they tripped over their internal clocks. Banks would crash, computer-controlled missile defence systems would go haywire and spread world-wide nuclear mayhem, and we’d all be in the dark as communication systems stopped working.

As it happened, 2000 absolutely failed to live up to its hype. Most Jan. 1, 2000 headaches were the result of traditional celebratory follies rather than a computer glitch.

Those of you old enough to remember will recall a little movie called ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’. Released on the cusp of the 1970s, it proposed a then not too distant future with sophisticated space travel, a possible extra-terrestrial explanation for human evolution, and a computer operating system that leapfrogged from subservience to human need to a self-conscious will to survive.

Not quite a horror film, it was a kind of moody foreshadowing of what technology’s future might hold for us.

The real 2001 brought a different kind of terror in the form of attacks on Manhattan, and ushered in a different kind of future, one that very few - if any - anticipated.

So computer science and science fiction have both provided us with some colossal failures of future telling. Myth has also been a disappointment recently.

Not too long ago 2012 came and went with all the excitement of air being let out of a balloon. It was, according to some Mayan-inspired calendar, to be the end of the world.

But we’re still here and 2012 turns out to have been just another calendar year roll-over.

Even though the greatly anticipated turning points of the past two decades or so came and went without any real significance (it turned out, for example, that partying in 1999 was pretty much like partying any other time), it’s interesting to note that the world has changed in ways bringing us a little closer to some of the dystopian possibilities previously anticipated.

Computers may not have overtaken humanity in any literal sense, or gained consciousness, but our own consciousness as human beings has been transformed by technology in the past 14 years.

It’s sometimes hard now, thanks to text messaging, Instagram, Facebook, and so on, to tell if you’re in conversation with the people you’re with or if you’re just an anecdote in the larger digital conversation they’re having with others on their smartphones. Computers may not have developed their own consciousness, but our own consciousness and aspects of human interaction have become something subtly more digital and ethereal than they ever were.

Although 2000 didn’t bring with it any significant hiccups as computers counted past 1999, since then we’ve seen calamity on a scale that would have fit right in with pre-2000 scare scenarios.

The 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima reactor, and the 2001 attack on Manhattan’s twin towers, fit into a picture of the world where the security we in part expected from technology failed us with tragic outcomes which have yet to run their course.

With no excitement surrounding 2014, things are as they should be. One year passes into another and counting past 2013 was no more significant in itself than counting past 1999 was.

This sounds like a bummer and I suppose it is if you’re the type that places significance on dates.

But dates aren’t significant, they only mark significant things.

Here’s hoping this start of 2014, and every day counted within, will find you working towards creating your own place in the world and in its surprising history yet to be written.

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Last Week’s Question:

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Did you have a good year for 2013?

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The new year lurched to life with a round of shouting about the environment, as our post-industrial, post-literate urban society grapples with conflicting claims of impending doom.

The release of a group of Greenpeace protesters from a Russian prison was welcomed by TV news networks desperate to fill the holiday dead zone. Our intrepid Canadian pair got to describe over and over their bid to hang a strongly worded banner from a Russian offshore oil platform, and their horror when security forces boarded their vessel from helicopters and seized it.

In all the fawning interviews, I kept waiting for two questions to be asked. What did they think Vladimir Putin’s regime would do? And what was the point? How is disrupting one oil platform for an hour going to save the planet?

The Greenpeace “activists” claimed this was the first oil platform to operate above the Arctic Circle. So it was a line in the snow, which I’m sure impressed Putin as he ramps up his territorial claim to include the North Pole.

Meanwhile at the South Pole, TV anchors remained carefully sombre as they reported numerous bids to rescue a scientific vessel trapped in thick ice. No quips about the predictive abilities of climate scientists please!

In fact this ill-fated voyage was a re-enactment of Sir Douglas Mawson’s 1913 expedition, with proglobal warming news outlets BBC and The Guardian aboard to capture the melting wrought by a century of industrial expansion. The rescue efforts (from a Russian ship by Chinese helicopters) also disrupted an Australian icebreaker’s supply trip for one of the real scientific expeditions working in Antarctica.

Skeptics had great fun with the Antarctic debacle, as they did earlier with the resurgence of Arctic ice that trapped climate tourists.

As is normal in the Internet age, the climate debate has split into two fanatical factions, each of which promotes the most extreme examples it can find to prop up its version of truth. They call each other “warmists” and “deniers” among other pithy names.

Greenpeace is now known in B.C. as part of our Team America anti-tar sands brigade. They got off to a good start in 2014 by selectively seizing on reports of a new study of mercury contamination in northern Alberta.

A “bullseye” of this dreaded neurotoxin has been drawn around oilsands operations by measuring traces in snow. The study by Environment Canada scientists isn’t published yet, but Postmedia News reported on a presentation in November by the researchers.

“The federal scientists stress the mercury loadings around the oilsands are low compared to the contamination seen in many parts of North America including southern Ontario and southern Quebec,” the news report states.

This is like the study of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) pollution in northern Alberta lakes that was twisted into propaganda and fed to the news media last year. This is another group of neurotoxins that are far more concentrated in urban areas than around remote industry.

Consumption, rather than production of coal, diesel and other fuels produces the vast majority of these emissions. I look forward to the study of their effects around Lost Lagoon and Burnaby Lake.

Of course safe levels of these materials have been set by Health Canada. You’re more likely to get significant exposure to mercury from a broken fluorescent lamp or the mercury amalgam in your old tooth fillings than you are from feeding ducks at the lake, although you might get a whiff of PAH when you gas up the car or board the bus.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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870 Highway 16 West, Burns Lake The isolated community of Takla Landing, north of Babine 24 HOUR ACCESS – WOMEN AND MEN Lake, was without power from late afternoon on Jan. 1 until late in the day Jan. 3. The community is served by a single transmission line Heavy winds and wet snow last week contributed to a large that travels through remote wilderswathe of power outages between Fraser Lake and Houston. ness. Ground crews were unable to According to BC Hydro spokesperson Bob Gammer, on Jan. locate the cause of the power outage.

2, 2013, approximately 900 customers between Endako and just A helicopter survey of the line got west of Burns Lake were without power for anywhere from three underway last Friday morning when to 10.5 hours due to a windstorm. weather conditions finally improved More than 1800 customers in Fraser Lake were without power enough for safe flight.

BC Hydro for about 30 minutes on the afternoon of Jan. 3 due to heavy crews located several trees which had snow. Approximately 30 customers in the area remained without power until early morning on Jan. 5. fallen on the lines, and by Friday afterNotice is hereby given that a meeting of the electors of the Burns Houston had a brief power interruption as well when 41 cus- noon at 3 p.m. power was restored to Lake Indian Band will be held at the Burns Lake Band Office, tomers lost power for approximately one and a half to three hours Takla Landing.

653 Highway 16 West, Burns Lake, BC, on Wednesday, January 15, 2014, beginning at 5:00 p.m. local time and lasting You’re invited to a for at least three hours. The purpose of this meeting is to nominate candidates for the vacant chief position on the Burns Lake Band Council, for the remainder of the term ending October Local resident & author 22, 2014.

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An election will then be held at the Burns Lake Band Office, 653 Highway 16 West, Burns Lake, BC, on Tuesday, February 11, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. (local time).

If you are unable to attend the nomination meeting and wish to nominate candidates, please contact the Electoral Officer immediately, at the coordinates listed below, in order to obtain the necessary forms. For a nomination to be valid, the Electoral Officer must receive the completed forms before the time set for the nomination meeting.

Also note that any elector may vote by mail-in ballot. If your address has changed, please send your new address to the Electoral Officer to ensure that you receive all information you will need to participate in this election.

If you require further information, please contact the Electoral Officer, Jean-Émile Dufault, at 604-666-5305 or by e-mail at jeanemile.dufault@aandc.gc.ca.

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Reader loves lit-up ferry

Editor: I have recently moved to Francois Lake. The other night I was going home and for the first time seen the Ferry all decorated in Christmas Lights. She looked wonderful floating out on the lake all lit up. Thank you for the smiles it gave me and thanks for a free ferry and great staff. Someone mentioned they may consider taking the other ferry out on dinner cruises up and down the lake. What a wonderful idea, I sincerely hope it materializes. Happy New Year Jane Skelton

Progress at new hospital

Editor: Northern Health is pleased with the progress made in 2013 on the Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre project. Construction is well underway on the $55 million project, and we’re excited to continue moving the project forward to completion in the Fall of 2015.

March of 2013 marked the end of the procurement process to find a team to design and build the new hospital and health centre. PCL Westcoast Constructors Inc., along with CEI Architecture, was selected as the contractors to carry out the work on the new facility. On March 27, 2013, the design of the facility was unveiled to the public in a community update meeting in the Village of Burns Lake.

The new hospital and health centre will have 16 beds, provide acute care and emergency services, diagnostic imaging, a laboratory and pharmacy. Facility space is planned for the medical clinic along with the delivery of mental health and additions services, public health, and home and community care, and will include administrative and logistical services. The design included considerations such

as ensuring it fits within the wood first initiative and natural light is available by strategically placed windows throughout the facility.

Ground was officially broken on the project at a ceremony on April 12, 2013. Following the groundbreaking ceremony, crews worked to finalize construction details and the design of the facility. In June the first excavator, operated by a Burns Lake resident, arrived on site to clear the ground for the facility. Activity in July included the first concrete pour, an event celebrated by the Province of B.C., Northern Health, Stuart-Nechako Regional Hospital District, and Village of Burns Lake. The final concrete pour for the structure occurred in November. Currently, crews are working on the roof and inside the facility.

2014 will be another exciting year for the Lakes District Hospital and Health Centre project. It is the goal of the crews to have the exterior walls and roofing completed early in the year, and many more milestones are ahead.

Paul Rudecki Project Director - Northern Health

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Memorial Mass Father Tom of Immaculata Parish will be conducting a

Memorial Mass on Monday, January 20th, 2014 at 12:00 noon at the NEW Community Hall of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation in Palling, BC.

Lunch is being provided after the service, compliments of Babine Forest Products and Wet’suwet’en First Nation.

Gaylene Neary has been asked to facilitate a candlelight vigil and releasing of balloons. We welcome the general public as well as the former and current employees of Babine Forest Products/Hampton Affiliates as we take this time to remember the late

Carl Charlie and Robert F. Luggi Jr who died so tragically in the BFP mill explosion.

For more information or to make a contribution of any kind, please contact Penny Perlotto, General Manager of Wet’suwet’en First Nation (250) 698-7307.

We thank Penny for her compassion, support and understanding as we approach the 2nd anniversary of this tragedy.

We realize not everyone can attend, so we respectfully ask for your thoughts and prayers of healing for the families involved and for the BFP employees who are still not recovered from their injuries that night. We pray that weather will be favorable for our travellers.

Thank you for all the love and support in the past two years towards all the families. We hope you are able to join us on this day.

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Wolves are causing havoc for local farmers

I will ask my readers to be patient with me for a little while until I get back in the swing of things again. Christmas has come and gone but it always leaves so many wonderful memories of family, friends and just how we can remember the true meaning of Christmas and what it means to us.

On Christmas eve there was the most delightful Christmas service held at St. Lukes on the lake. It brought back so many memories of the years now gone back. It’s been so many years. The little building was decorated with such a lovely big tree and lights in the windows. Also new

drapes on the windows donated by a very kind lady. A number of top of the line musicians who brought guitars for the carol singing, some of the players came from Southside and they are so welcome. Thank you so much. After the service a lunch was served which really went over big too. Many, many thanks to the wonderful folks who donated their time to organize the whole evenings service that went over so well. After so many years it gave us all such a great feeling to once more have a Christmas service at our little church. One thing that stands out was an almost life-sized figure of Joseph and Mary and the cradle. These were made I would guess 40 years ago but they look like they were just made, the colours are still bright. I was given the honour to read the Christmas story.

Once again I would like to thank all those who made this wonderful evening possible. I would

like to remind folks that there will be a service in St. Lukes once a month, time and date will be posted. You will enjoy the service. There will be a short message plus lots of music and singing.

You will be made most welcome.

New Year’s Eve New Year’s is upon us.

Another big turkey dinner and more visiting too.

This is the time of resolutions that are not kept but it’s fun anyway.

Our friends would trade off, they would have Christmas dinner with us and we would have New Year’s dinner with them.

This custom went on for years. It was always a fun time. Francois Lake was always known for its New Year’s dance and Clemretta has more or less taken over now and is well known for their dances. The driving and drinking laws have made a number of the local halls close down. More folks are having their parties at home. Maybe a good thing. Times have

changed.

Sunday last we had the Grassy Plains gospel church choir entertain us with some good old gospel hymn singing. They always make us feel at home as they like to visit too. From the Tweedsmuir House they go on to the Pines.

The singers always leave everyone feeling good and look forward to their coming back again. Music and singing always help pass the time.

So far our winter has been wonderful when we hear what the rest of Canada is getting, we are so fortunate so far. Which is the best the ice on the roads and parking lots or have the heavy snow. So far it’s unseasonal for the Lakes District.

Already we can notice the days getting bit longer. There is an old saying that goes like this “As the days get longer the cold gets stronger.” This year it’s going to tell.

We took over the general store and post office at the landing at Francois

Lake October 1941. We had left Saskatchewan and this was a good move. It was a general store as we sold everything as my dad used to say if we didn’t have it you didn’t need it. All the freight came from Vancouver by Beach Truck Lines once a week. There was a need for a taxi service as the only taxi service was in Burns Lake run by Andy Anderson.

He also had the mail run three times a week to Francois Lake. So in 1946 we were in the taxi business and it went well.

Before I got into the business the First Nations people from the Southside would use teams of horses, some would come over 40 miles. It was a long hard trip so they were happy to have a taxi service. They were good customers for me.

When a taxi service came into the picture it made things much more convenient and much easier. There was a pasture bordering our place so the they would lead

the horses there and hire a taxi into town for mass.

They would be away for a couple of days and away back home. We had a very good relationship and respect for the First Nations people.

The stopover is now gone and I missed the many visits I used to enjoy.

Winter is here again We got a bit of winter on the third with a snow fall to cover the ice a bit.

It’s mild again today so maybe we will lose it all again. There is an old saying “Only fools and newcomers forecast the weather.” So I guess we will just take everyday as it comes.

Wolves Charlie and Sheri Peebles, local ranchers in our district, are facing a wolf problem and this can be serious and a financial loss as well. Last week Sheri went out to check the herd and saw three big adult wolves in among the cattle. There were three other packs howling close by. So far

no damage as they could tell.

They have a big herd, it’s hard to tell if any loss. It’s been many years since this problem has come up. That year the wolves came into the landing here and killed a yearling calf. The wolves were very bold that year.

When Charlie and Sheri brought their cattle in from the summer range they noticed three calves damaged very badly.

There are so many deer this year folks are wondering why the wolves are killing the cattle as the deer population is so large.

I have been told that once wolves get started on killing cattle they will not stop.

Christmas and New Year’s is behind us but the wonderful memories will remain for a long time.

Remember always God loves you a lot and so do I. Have a good year.

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Nechako-Lakes John Rustad wins with solid majority - May 22, 2013 On May 14, 2013, B.C. voters re-elected a majority Liberal government.

Under the leadership of Christy Clark, the party defied consistently negative pre-election polling results and delivered a 17seat provincial majority, with 44.4 per cent of the popular vote and 50 seats.

Historic totem raising - June 5, 2013 For the first time in 100 years, new totem poles went up in the Burns Lake area.

On May 31, 2013, after a day of celebrations, the totems were raised at the newly built Wet’suwet’en First Nation(WFN) Necigeh Beyikh Health Centre on the WFN reserve west of Burns Lake.

Babine mill rebuild on Schedule - June 19, 20123 Construction of the new Babine Forest Products sawmill east of Burns Lake continues and is on schedule for the anticipated 2014

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Babine Lake salmon collapse - Aug. 7, 2013 Lake Babine Nation (LBN) Chief Wilf Adam was prepared to hear that the sockeye salmon return would be low this year, but he wasn’t prepared for the official numbers that came out recently.

Adam said that this year’s Babine sockeye return is the lowest in living memory.

Normally, the sockeye return to Lake Babine is between one and two million fish, Adam explained. This year, estimates place the return at around 540,000 fish. Minimum return from a conservation standpoint is around 400,000.

Babine Lake produces 85 per cent of Skeena sockeye, but with returns forecasted to be not much higher than minimums required to fill channels and tributaries, LBN is being put in the position of choosing between food stock and the health of the salmon population.

1000 drums rally Aug. 21, 2013

Approximately 150 people gathered in Burns Lake on Aug. 17 for an afternoon rally.

Titled, ‘1000 drums rally: Burns Lake Ground Zero’, the gathering was a show of opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline project to transport diluted bitumen from northern Albert to Kitimat.

Pinnacle Pellet announces major emissions upgrades - Oct. 16, 2013 On Sept. 9, 2013, Leroy Reitsma and new Senior Vice President of Operations, Scott Bax, attended the regularly scheduled meeting of Village of Burns Lake (VBL) council to announce that Pinnacle would be replacing the existing scrubber technology with a proven technology used in their Meadowbrook facility, approximately 70 kms south of Prince George.

Burns Lake mountain biking top three in national bucket list - Oct. 16, 2013 Burns Lake mountain biking is good, we all know that.

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Business owner sign draws council attention - July 17, 2013. Gwyndolyn Nicholas, owner of downtown Burns Lake business Health in Order, recently replaced the sign on her building with one that delivers a message. The new sign came under scrutiny of the Village of Burns Lake, but was eventually approved. three things to do in Canada?

That’s what Explore Magazine recently reported in their Fall 2013 issue list of the 25 essential outdoor adventures, the ‘All-Canadian Bucket List’.

The magazine, which hit stands across Canada a couple of weeks ago,

commissioned Canadian travel and adventure writer Robin Esrock to condense the findings of his forthcoming book, ‘The Great Canadian Bucket List’, into magazine format.

“I look for the different and the unusual, the stuff you can’t do anywhere else,” Esrock

said.

“British Columbia is one of the best places in the world to mountain bike, and looking around BC, I was drawn to the characters, quality and passion of the biking community around Burns Lake.”

Celebrating 90 years - Oct. 23, 2013

Two honoured 90 year old Burns Lake residents were asked to cut the cake at last week’s Village of Burns Lake celebration dinner and dance. Joe Comeau, 90, Alan Blackwell, also 90, Alan’s wife Marion and former resident Ellen Wiege lent a hand. ...see 2013 t P10

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“We wanted to do something that would be community driven and helpful within Burns Lake,” said Deanna Nolan, TBFCS director. “I know that the community is going through tougher times economically, and it’s not always easy to go out and purchase new items for winter.”

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2013 from t P7 Houston Forest Products to close - Oct. 30, 2013 Late Thursday afternoon, West Fraser announced the shutdown of its Houston Forest Products mill operation and Canfor Corporation (Canfor) announced the closure of its Quesnel sawmill.

Reserve members demand split - Nov. 27, 2013 A group of on-reserve members of the Burns Lake Band (BLB) are positioning themselves to bring about the only solution to what they see as an intractable situation with current band governance.

Burns Lake legion faced apathy - Nov. 27, 2013 “It’s a shame and it hurts,” said Burns Lake Legion Branch 50 chairman and past president Bob Whipps. “After 85 years, this branch faces closure.”

At the Nov. 18 general membership meeting last week, voting for the new executive council came to a halt when no one was nominated or offered to volunteer for the position of branch president.

On Dec. 16, 2013 many local legion members came out to volun-

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A new executive was formed and the legion is ready to go for the new year.

Babine yard take logs - Dec. 11, 2013 It was a perfect Burns Lake winter day - sunny, clear, and cold - when driver Dave Konkin delivered the first load of logs to the yard of the under-construction Babine Forest Products mill near Burns Lake.

Konkin, whose father also drove for Babine, has been with the company for 27 years, and was a mill-worker before becoming a driver.

“It feels good to bring the first load in,” he said.

The original mill was destroyed in January, 2012, in a tragic explosion and fire which saw the loss of two workers’ lives and injured many more.

The rebuild of the mill was, for a long time, an open question in the Burns Lake community.

Construction was able to get underway with full force last spring once winter loosened its grip. With more than 150 workers on site on any given day, the new facility has been going up fast.

Morrison mine decision rethink - Dec. 18,

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2013 Response to the recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling to quash the Oct. 1, 2012 denial of an environmental assessment certificate to Pacific Booker Minerals (PBM) proposed

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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.

Kerr Road, Burns Lake Sunday School for all ages begins at 9:15am. Worship Service at 10:30am.

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Sunday Morning Worship Service begins @ 10:30 am Pastor Ed Peters Phone: 250-692-7551

Grassy Plains Gospel Church Sunday Service: 10:45 am 250-694-3329 (Church)

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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.

SUNDAY, 10:30 AM Contact: Roland & Lisa Cataford 250-692-9196 ~Everyone Welcome ~

ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH 136 - 4th Avenue, Burns Lake

Worship Service at 10 am Sunday mornings Ministry led by lay leaders Phone 250-692-7202

DECKER LAKE MENNONITE CHURCH Sunday Morning Services: Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Worship Services: 10:30 a.m.

Pastors - Ken Dyck 250-698-7629 David S. Burkholder 250-692-7057 Everyone Welcome Hwy 16, Decker Lake

Seventh Day Adventist Church Group Meets Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. at the United Church on Centre Street.

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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

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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.

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PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given to the electors of Electoral Areas â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? (Burns Lake Rural) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eâ&#x20AC;? (Francois/Ootsa Lake Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako that approval is being sought for â&#x20AC;&#x153;Burns Lake and Area Victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Services Service Establishment Bylaw No. 1682, 2013â&#x20AC;? by use of the Alternative Approval Process. Bylaw No. 1682 will establish a service within the Village of Burns Lake and Electoral Areas â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? (Burns Lake Rural) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eâ&#x20AC;? (Francois/Ootsa Lake Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako to contribute funds to the Burns Lake and Area Victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Services to provide counselling and other services to victims of crime and other trauma.

The annual costs of providing this service shall be recovered by a requisition of money to be collected by a property tax value in accordance with Section 803(1)(a) of the Local Government Act on the net taxable value of improvements only in the participating areas. The cost of providing the service shall be apportioned among the participants on the basis of 60% (SIXTY PERCENT) to the Village of Burns Lake, 20% (TWENTY PERCENT) to Electoral Area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;?, and 20% (TWENTY PERCENT) to Electoral Area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eâ&#x20AC;?. The maximum amount that may be requisitioned annually for the costs of this service shall be $20,000 (TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS).

Approval to proceed with adoption of this bylaw is being sought from the electors of Electoral Areas â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? (Burns Lake Rural) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eâ&#x20AC;? (Francois/Ootsa Lake Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako.

The Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Board of Directors may proceed with adoption of Bylaw No. 1682 unless at least 10% of the electors of either Electoral Area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? (Burns Lake Rural) or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eâ&#x20AC;? (Francois/Ootsa Lake Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako submit a signed Elector Response Form indicating their opposition to adoption of the bylaw by 4:30 PM on Friday, FEBRUARY 14, 2014 to the address below. Elector Response Forms MAY NOT be submitted by email or facsimile.

Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Box 820 37, 3rd Avenue Burns Lake, B.C. V0J 1E0 For the purpose of this Alternative Approval Process, 10% of the qualified electors has been determined to be 146 persons in Electoral Area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? (Burns Lake Rural) and 109 persons in Electoral Area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eâ&#x20AC;? (Francois/Ootsa Lake Rural). â&#x20AC;&#x153;Burns Lake and Area Victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Services Service Establishment Bylaw No. 1682, 2013â&#x20AC;? is available for public inspection at the following locations: â&#x20AC;˘ Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Office, 37-3rd Avenue, Burns Lake, B.C. between the hours of 8:30 AM and 4:30 PM, Monday to Friday (except Statutory Holidays); â&#x20AC;˘ Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako website at www.rdbn.bc.ca Elector Response Forms must be in the form established by the Regional District of BulkleyNechako and only those persons who qualify as electors of Electoral Areas â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? (Burns Lake Rural) and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eâ&#x20AC;? (Francois/Ootsa Lake Rural) are entitled to sign an Elector Response Form.

Elector Response Forms are available at the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako Office and the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako website at the addresses above. Those persons eligible to sign the Elector Response Form may qualify as either resident electors or non-resident electors as follows: Resident Elector â&#x20AC;˘ 18 years of age or older; â&#x20AC;˘ Canadian citizen; â&#x20AC;˘ resident of BC for at least 6 months immediately preceding February 14, 2014; â&#x20AC;˘ resident of real property in Electoral Area â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bâ&#x20AC;? (Burns Lake Rural) or â&#x20AC;&#x153;Eâ&#x20AC;? (Francois/Ootsa Lake Rural) of the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako for at least 30 days immediately prior to February 14, 2014; â&#x20AC;˘ not otherwise disqualified by law from voting.

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A person must not sign more than one elector response form in relation to the same Alternative Approval Process.

A Non-Resident Property elector may only submit one elector response form, regardless of the number of properties owned.

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Walter Strong Burns Lake RCMP continue to keep the search for P.J. Sebastian as a high priority. Dec. 26, 2013 marked two years since Sebastian went missing after a last being seen near Southbank, south of Burns Lake.

Despite numerous witness statements and having followed up on more than 180 individual tasks related to the case, the case remains open. Last year, Sebastian’s cousin Kim Sebastian said that despite canvasing a large area extending as far east as Edmonton, no concrete leads were had.

Kim Sebastian had been involved in the search of P.J. right from the beginning. She organized and participated in the June, 2012 ‘relay for hope’, a 260 km journey from the Nee Tahi Buhn reserve on Southside to Hagwilget Village in Hazelton, where P.J. was living and believed to be returning to when he disappeared.

Leads in the investigation were slim from the beginning. Shortly after P.J. disappeared, Kim spoke to Southside ferry crossing staff who were working on the evening P.J. was last seen, and they reported not having seen P.J. arrive for a ferry crossing.

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