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Kiticorp responds to pastor’s words Cameron Orr Pastor Don Read, with the Kitimat Ministerial Association, spoke up on behalf of Kitimat’s vulnerable when he suggested that property developers in Kitimat for the most part lack a community conscience. But the owner of property management company Kiticorp says the accusations that included his company are unfounded. Pastor Read was reacting to an application by Kiticorp to renovate the exterior of their Viewpoint Apartments on Albatross Street. While the permit is needed just for outside renovations, he feels it will tie in to internal renovations, which is at the core of what some are dubbing “renovictions” — renovations which are leading to evictions. “My hope is as a community we would remember that the strength of our community lies, really, within our ability to care for the most vulnerable within our midst. And that’s really how you measure a healthy and strong community,” said Read. Kiticorp wasn’t spared from his plea to look out for those without a voice in the community. “The latest application by Kiticorp for a development permit on Albatross Street, to me, is an example of continuance of a corporate policy that actually puts profits above individual people,” he said. “When we have developers that have no clear social conscience or long-standing ties to our community, where our community becomes a place where they’re just in here to get exuberant financial gain, when developers like this are not held in check, when their unbridled greed becomes the basis for how decisions are made, and when we allow these corporations to treat longstanding members of community, in essence, with contempt, what we’re really doing is forfeiting our leadership.” But Kiticorp owner Eli Abergel takes exception to his company being portrayed in a negative light and said that there is absolutely no malice in decisions by the company. “When we started working in Kitimat we actually increased the rental pool dramatically. We increased the number of units that were available to be rented in Kitimat,” he said. He refers to the Kuldo Apartments where he said 40 per cent of their units were vacant and uninhabitable. “The reason for that is because rent, historically, has been so low in Kitimat that landlords have not been able to afford to maintain, never mind renovate, the suites,” he said. He adds that by summer there will be 47 more units renovated and available, all finished without evictions. Continued on page 8

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

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Empowering students against bullying Cameron Orr The Kitimat Rotary Club teamed up to bring in the Red Cross to deliver an anti-bullying program to Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School. The program, part of the Red Cross’ Respect Ed program, makes students themselves the leaders of the program and trains them to present anti-bullying messages to younger grades. “I come in and train youth facilitators so I’m training them to deliver anti-bullying workshops in schools to other grades,” said the Red Cross’ Jesse Bowen, who came to Kitimat to get the program going locally. “All the workshops are highly interactive, get kids up and moving,” she said. Among the core lessons of the antibullying program are ways to create positive relationships to combat bullying behaviour.

“A digital record is permanent. You erase it... but it’s still out there.” “We start talking about healthy relationships and healthy schools and what that looks like,” she said. “We discuss the difference between bullying and harassment, ways to intervene, resources they can turn to.” The program also talks about the three parts to any bullying behaviour: The person who is doing the bullying, the victim, and the bystander to any incident. While this program has been run by the Red Cross since 1984, Bowen said bullying is an issue that is continually growing more prominent. “Bullying has become a bigger is-

sue over the last few years, for sure, particularly with the introduction of cyber bullying,” she said. “Bullying is a fairly serious problem in a lot of schools. Teen suicide as a result of bullying is way up.” Social media has meant bullying behaviour can follow kids home, and programs that are advertised as more private don’t even offer protection people might expect. Bowen refers to a program called SnapChat that is supposed to erase a message or photo shortly after receiving, but it’s not immune to screenshots, for example. “A digital record is permanent. You erase it, but you erase it from your phone...but it’s still out there,” she said. The effect of the proliferation of social media applications hasn’t gone unnoticed by the students themselves. Continued on page 11

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LSD-like drug makes appearance in Kitimat February 10 Police tended to an alleged assault on the sidewalk on Quatsino Boulevard. Police didn’t indicate the relationship between the aggressor and the victim but said the suspect was held in cells until sober as the person was apparently intoxicated. February 12 A call came in reporting a vehicle drifting and speeding on Lillooet Crescent. Officers were directed to the area the vehicle was last seen and pulled over a vehicle matching the description. The driver had an L licence and said she had been driving in the Lillooet Crescent area but denied speeding and drifting. She said

she was taking people home who were intoxicated. The driver still received a ticket for driving without a qualified supervisor, having too many passengers and driving between midnight and 5 a.m. February 13 A person possibly on drugs was sought after they entered the Dairy Queen restaurant with a shovel, and asked for a knife from staff to cut his pocket open. The male also called the employees “meat sticks” when they refused the request. The person left before police arrived and was not located, but staff were told to call the police if he returned. An RCMP cruiser

Police Beat was almost T-boned as the officer drove past the Shoppers Drug Mark parking lot. Vehicle was pulled over in the mall parking lot. The driver was found to have no licence and no insurance for the vehicle. Officer issued a violation ticket which makes the person a prohibited driver. February 14 False 9-1-1 call, determined to likely have been dialled by a toddler-aged girl playing with her dad’s new cell phone. A good deed goes wrong when a bystander offered to help drive a disabled-person’s

Chevy pick-up out of a parking stall at the SuperValu store. Another vehicle parked close enough where the owner of the Chevy couldn’t enter, so another man offered to get the vehicle out of the stall, but the vehicle is customized and had alternate placements for the gas and brake pedal. The vehicle was inadvertently driven forward after backing out of the stall, and hit the front passenger side of the vehicle which had crowded the Chevy in the stall. The Chevy then knocked over the handicapped parking pole and hit the outside wall of the store. About $500 worth of damage to the parked vehicle while the Chevy is

thought to be a write off at about $10,000 worth of damages. February 16 A caller reported that his friend was “tripping out” on a drug called 2-5-I, a synthetic hallucinogen. The person was outside of the home, wearing only a t-shirt, pants and socks, reportedly hitting windows, throwing snow and challenging people to fight. Officers arrested the individual for causing a disturbance, after the person allegedly threatened the officer that he would “kick his ass” then threw snow and called the officer names. The individual vomited in the police car on the way to the hospital, and apparent-

Detachment head hopeful 25I won’t reoccur Cameron Orr Kitimat’s RCMP detachment commander is hopeful that the occurrence of 2-5-I in Kitimat is the only one they see for a long time. The synthetic hallucinogen made an appearance on February 16 (see brief above) and is a fairly new drug. “It’s only actually been available... since 2010,” said Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison. “It is a fairly new one. It’s to-

from February 16 about his source for the drug. “Hopefully we’re not going to be seeing too much of it. Hopefully that was an oddity type thing and it won’t be around.” He said the individual was a young person, in his 20s. Aggression, hallucinations and seizures are among the possible effects of the drug.

tally synthetic.” The drug is so powerful that the person who took it in Kitimat might have expected to have hallucinations as much as a week after taking it. “It’s a nasty one,” added Harrison. 2-5-I can be taken either nasally or through dissolvable tabs, similar to how LSD might be ingested. The police haven’t been able to get much information from the individual

ly became afraid of the hospital issued slippers on the way to the police detachment. Police in their report describe 2-5-I as a synthetic hallucinogen and the highs could potentially last up to 12 hours. Symptoms include increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, high body temperature, ag-

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Lisa Raitt, Minister of Transport, announced new funding to increase the number of flights to monitor and detect pollution from ships in Canada’s waters. The National Aerial Surveillance Program (NASP) is one of the main pillars of the Government of Canada’s Pollution Prevention Program and is the government’s primary tool for detecting ship-source pollution, according to a government news release. The Government of Canada is now approximately doubling funding for the program, to $47.6 million over the next five years. The funding allows for significantly more flight hours to detect pollution. The ministry says there has been a noticeable decline in the number of spills observed since the program was established in 1991. The surveillance fleet consists of three modernized aircraft strategically placed across the country. The information generated by Environment Canada’s Integrated Satellite Tracking of Pollution program serves as an early warning indication for areas of potential pollution to assist the NASP crew in performing surveillance activities on Canada’s coastal waters. Evidence gathered, along with information from satellite monitoring reports, is forwarded to the appropriate government departments and international partners to investigate and enforce domestic and international laws and conventions. Kitimat is named as a community receiving surveillance increases.

LNG tax regime misses ‘other costs’: MLA Tom Fletcher and Cameron Orr The B.C. government plans to impose a two-tiered income tax on liquefied natural gas exports, with rebates in early years until investors recover the capital cost of building LNG processing plants. Finance Minister Mike de Jong presented the framework for LNG income tax with last Tuesday’s provincial budget. It describes an income tax rate of up to 1.5 per cent on net revenue in the first three years of LNG production, with a second tier rate of up to seven per cent applicable after five years. Income tax paid in the first three years would be applied as a rebate to higher rates in year four and five, so the top rate wouldn’t take full effect until year six. Producers also pay royalties on natural gas at the wellhead, and B.C.’s carbon tax would apply to gas burned in processing and refrigeration of LNG. De Jong said the final income tax rates will be set when the government introduces legislation this fall. That is when international companies are expected to begin making final investment decisions. The budget includes government revenue and expense forecasts out to 2017, with no tax revenue projected from LNG until later. De Jong said the government is sticking to its “lofty” goal of having three export plants operating by 2020. In his response to the budget, NDP finance critic Mike Farnworth said the government has missed its original target to have the LNG tax regime in place by the end of 2013. He zeroed in on Premier Christy Clark’s promise to have at least one LNG pipeline and plant in operation at Kitimat by 2015, and her campaign pledge to retire B.C.’s growing debt.

Robin Austin, MLA “Judging from today’s lack of LNG revenue, the premier’s promise to magically wipe away $70 billion worth of debts in 15 years is surely a fantasy,” Farnworth said. Natural Gas Development Minister Rich Coleman denied the suggestion that the tax structure is behind schedule. He said he met with officials from Shell and other proponents last week, and they are “comfortable” with the progress to date. “The opposition wouldn’t know LNG if it came up and bit them,” Coleman said. “They’re totally uninformed. They don’t support the process, they don’t support LNG, they never have.” In a speech to the B.C. Chamber of Commerce in Vancouver Wednesday, Clark said not all of the 10 LNG plants currently proposed will proceed, but even one would be a significant source of revenue. Asked by reporters if the budget means no LNG revenues by 2017, Clark said it is still possible. “We don’t want to book money that we don’t have yet,” Clark said. Meanwhile Skee-

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taxes...there’s no mention of water rates because of the extra use of water for fracking. I think the companies are looking at not just this new LNG tax but all the costs that are involved.” Austin said he’s hopeful that the fall session will show the results of the real behind-the-scenes negotiations. Skills training is another area the budget has lacked focus on, which Austin said goes against even the throne speech from the week prior. “They cut the budget for post-secondary education and community colleges. So on the one hand the throne speech said ‘we’re going to emphasis skills training,’ the following week the budget actually cuts the budget for that.” He said he fears

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Is plebiscite still worth it? I’m not quite sure what to think about the possibility that Kitimat may discard any plans to hold a plebiscite about the Northern Gateway project. As much as it’s expensive (estimated to cost $15,000) I feel I’ve spent enough time following the lead up to the plebiscite decision to want them to follow through on it. I’m being selfish, of course. Just because a lot of my time has gone into following the discussion doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good. I asked our Facebook followers what they think should happen and as I write this everyone has been against the idea of holding it. Generally I understand but there’s still a part of me that wants it to happen. Well, I’d be more excited if the question changed, but that hasn’t happened. My thought is that if they just held the vote as planned we’d finally get a democratic look into the opinion of the pipeline. As you read last week I took a few shots at a recent Enbridge opinion poll. The beauty of the plebiscite, if it was worded more succinctly, is that it would take the wonder out of the process. Opinion polls are not perfect, commissioned by companies or opponents, and remember the last provincial election? Sometimes they don’t mean much. But even this editor couldn’t turn away from an actual vote. Let the public speak and we’ll know where we as a community stand. Not a sample of 800 from B.C., or however the polls work. Just a straight vote, open to the thousands of Kitimatians who live here. I guess as council prepares to debate this question next week, I’m saying that despite the problems we’ve had with the plebiscite so far, I’d personally like to just see it through at this point. But I won’t cry to sleep if they cancel it either.

Discouraging Left out again? Last week I sent a Tweet message to Jason Kenney, the federal Conservatives’ minister of employment and social development. He had been Tweeting about meeting with Haisla Nation Council and touring the proposed LNG sites down the channel. When I asked him if he’d have a chance to stop by the Sentinel to see me he said he was holding a news conference at noon ... in Terrace. At the media table at the last council meeting, after Kenney had been through, Robin Rowland asked the council if they even knew that a federal cabinet minister was in the area. The mayor said they didn’t. So the Conservatives either don’t see the municipality as important or they’re hiding from us. Neither makes me feel very good.

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A good time to ‘discus’ old-timey Olympics nual foot race of young women in Did you enjoy your winter Olymcompetition for the position of the pics on TV this year? I have to say I Under priestess for the goddess, Hera, and a did, although it helped that winter fisecond race was instituted for a connally arrived in Kitimat roughly the Miscellaneous sort for the priestess who would parsame time as some of the more extreme sports of the Sochi version of the historic games. It also helped that I had to go outside the odd time to clear snow, clean off the truck and shovel the heavy wet stuff off my back yard bushes. All reality checks. And what a day it is to write about the Games with the Canadian Women’s hockey team delivering their stunning come-from-behind game-tying recovery and overtime win in the gold medal game. It was even better that they were undefeated, knocking off the USA twice. Worth the price of admission, if I’d been there. And similarly the women’s Team Canada curling team snapped up gold, also undefeated. I’ll be just as stoked if the men’s hockey team can show they’ve been doing the Muhamad Ali “rope-adope” through the tournament and can take a gold this Sunday, way past my writing deadline.

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I do have to say however, reading a little bit about the long history of the original Olympic Games and the relatively late introduction of the official Winter version, (not until 1924), I thought the introduction of extreme skiing, skateboarding and these other acrobatic mind-and-limb bending gymnastic circus events in the more recent winter Olympics keeps up the tradition of the games changing throughout the years. Just about as unbelievable were some of the now defunct sports that have popped in and out of the Olympics picture — summer or winter — over the years since the ancient Olympics began some time before the 9th Century B.C. at Olympia in Greece. I’d guess there were very few snow events then. The first games began as an an-

ticipate in the religious traditions at the temple. But, as time passed, they pretty well got a lot of the women out of the games, hopefully before the Greek tradition of athletic nudity was introduced in 720 B.C., most believe, by the Spartans. (Since it was over centuries, some paraphrasing is necessary.) Because a state of almost endless war existed among Hellenic states in the B.C. centuries the games were held during a declared truce about every four years. Heralds traveled from city-state to city-state to declare the official start of the Olympics and to recite the truce. The year 776 B.C. marked the first official Olympics. Like today’s Olympic Games, various races, the long jump, discus and hammer throwing are still around in summer as they are in the resurrected modern summer Olympics (since 1896). Continued on page 5

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First Nation communities are key to provincial NDP wins Being an unrepentant political junkie, I dove into the official 2013 provincial election numbers released last month by Elections BC with enthusiasm. What makes these fascinating is they give you not just the total tally in Skeena for the candidates, but also break down the votes into very specific areas. So it is possible to see which way people voted in a group of a dozen or so streets in Nechako, Whitesail and Kildala neighbourhoods. Don’t worry, I’m not about to get that crazy. But what I do want to do is look at trends over a longer timeline than the usual comparison between the past election and the one immediately before. So I am going back into the last millennium - specifically the 1996 election - to see if voting patterns have changed in the intervening 17 years. I have chosen that year because the face of Skeena was quite different back then, as in there was still something of a logging industry in Terrace while Kitimat boasted three major industries. By last year’s election Terrace had seen

its forest industry all but vanish while Kitimat had suffered the closure of the Eurocan pulp and paper mill and Methanex methanol plant plus numerous jobs bleeding away from its only remaining industry, the aluminum smelter. The idea was that comparing 1996 and 2013 should tell us what impact, if any, there had been from the de-industrialisation of the Northwest as far as the fortunes of the two major parties were concerned given unionised industries usually translate into extra NDP votes . A couple of explanatory notes. First, I have concentrated on the two major population centres of the riding - Terrace/Thornhill and Kitimat - since they theoretically would decide who won. Second, I will deal only with margins of victory in those centres because looking at total votes will give a false picture given voter turnout plunged from about 70 per cent in 1996 to 55 per cent last year. Third, I have not included the advanced poll results in those margins of victory because you cannot pin

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them down to a specific community. Enough of the explanations, let’s get to the meat. In 1996 the contest was between NDP incumbent Helmut Giesbrecht and Liberal Rick Wozney, then mayor of Kitimat. In Terrace/Thornhill Wozney won by 197.In Kitimat it was Giesbrecht by 212. So the battle of the centres went to the NDP by a mere 15. In 2013 it was another NDP incumbent, Robin Austin, up against Liberal Carol Leclerc. In Terrace-Thornhill Leclerc won by 289. In Kitimat it was Austin but by only 33. Liberals prevail by 256, a stunning reversal but clearly the result of that de-industrialisation I mentioned earlier. Now compare that with the overall Skeena vote where in 1996 Giesbrecht won by 635 and in 2013 it was Austin by 522. How is it that the Liberals can actually win (or come oh so

Olympics Continued from page 4 Even the pentathlon was a sport then, but different from today mostly featuring wrestling, boxing and other warrior techniques. Equestrian events and chariot races, which were, well, kind of as shown in the Hollywood epic “Ben Hur” won in that case by USA (Charlton Heston) over Steven Boyd (Northern Ireland, which unfortunately went down.)

Anyway, here are some of the events of the Olympics you don’t see these days: the tug-of-war, (I’d like to see that back) live pigeon shooting, the rope climb, motorboating, croquet and the underwater swim. There were others, mostly in the summer events, but it is interesting to watch the evolution and changes taking place in the Winter Games.

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close) in the major centres but get thumped overall? Two words: First Nations. In 1996 Gitanyow pumped up the NDP margin by 100. In Gitwangak it was 130, in Kitsumkalum 103 and Kitamaat Village 244. And the pattern was repeated in 2013. The obvious conclusion is that even though the de-industrialisation of the Northwest has favoured the Liberals in the major centres, they are never going to win Skeena unless there is a seismic shift in the First Nations vote. Which would in turn require an equally dramatic shift in First Nations’ perception of the BC Liberals as being less sympathetic to their interests than the New Democrats. Frankly, I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

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The weekly trek of Dave Wilken from Kitimat to Terrace in 1954 to see his wife took him through an incomplete transit system of partial railroads and muddy hikes, and, possibly, the frozen lake of Lakelse. Thankfully his wife was later hired as a teacher in Kitimat. Kitimat Museum & Archives, Richard Wells collection

A very dedicated husband In 1954, with the new aluminum smelter just completed, Kitimat was a magnet for workers. They arrived via ship, amphibious aircraft coming up the ramp at Alcan Beach and some even reached it by the nearly completed railroad line. It was a lot like Fort McMurray in Alberta is today and those looking for work, if determined enough, would make it to Kitimat. One who did just that was Dave Wilken. Dave married teacher Vivian Malakoff in Saskatchewan in 1952 and soon after the couple headed for B.C. where they did stints in Osoyoos, Vancouver and Prince George. While Dave celebrated getting a job at Alcan, there was a problem — with very few children in the new community at that time, there was no teaching position available for Vivian. However, she was able to get a job at Terrace’s Riverside School, just downstream from the Old Skeena Bridge where today you find the curling club and Riverside ball fields. So, with Dave living in bachelor quarters at the Anderson Creek camp in Kitimat and Vivian in Terrace, there began a remarkable long distance relationship where every Friday he would embark on a challenging trek to spend the weekend with his wife. That journey involved travel over the unfinished railway which included riding on work trains and sometimes even open hand-pump speeders - he was lucky he had friends in the railroad constructors. But the track was intermittent so Dave might cover five miles on the rails, two miles hiking through mud and gravel beds, then seven more back on the rails and so on until he reached the west side of Lakelse Lake. There he would light a signal fire, a Friday beacon expected by friends on the other side who would head over in an open boat to pick Dave up, ferry him across the sometimes rough waters and then drive him to Terrace. Vivian can recall her husband arriving at all hours of the night, often covered in mud, carrying a battered suitcase and a bag of oranges and special treats he had saved from his Alcan cafeteria meals.

in January because of weather and three for other reasons didn’t dent passenger growth. “The passengers affected are accommodated on other flights by the airlines,” said Hendry. Helping increase passenger numbers was the arrival the end of last November of WestJet with twice daily service to and from Vancouver. Both it and Air Canada have very early departures from Terrace and late evening arrivals from Vancouver, considered a benefit for business travellers. Traditionally, January has one of the lower passenger totals of the year.

Passenger traffic at the Northwest Regional Airport continues to grow, with January’s total being more than 70 per cent greater than January 2013, reports manager Carman Hendry. And there’s no sign things are going to slow down, says Hendry in commenting on the 17,503 passenger total for January. “Everyone’s busy. The airport’s a busy place. “The airlines are doing well and there’s lots of traffic,” he said. By way of comparison, January 2013’s total was 9,816 and January 2012’s total was 8,916. Even having 14 missed flights

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Some return trips were from Terrace airport to Alcan Beach and Dave recalled being crammed in amongst crates of liquour destined to resupply the thirsty bachelors at Alcan. Vivian says her husband never missed a weekend and while she can’t recall if he ever hiked over a frozen Lakelse, she says determined people were known to attempt risky ventures. Fortunately, the fall of 1955 brought welcome changes for the Wilkens. Kitimat was growing and that meant more children which in turn meant a need for more teachers. In September Vivian was hired on at Cormorant School but, owing to a fire, she never actually taught there. Instead, she began instruction at Nechako where she remained until her retirement. The Wilkens first lived in a basement suite in a Johnson Crooks home on Quail Street. Soon after, they purchased a lot on White Street, where they had framed a home by 1957. Living in an unfinished home for three years was less than ideal, but it paralleled what others in the new community experienced. The Wilkens raised two boys, Jeff born in 1960 and Brent in 1963. Vivian remembers those early days with affection: churches were full and pageants were aplenty. Events like Handel’s Messiah were incredible - there were so many talented people. They were also a tough lot and proud of it, enduring prodigious snowfalls and floods. Who could forget the snows of ‘55 with collapsing roofs and the snowbanks so high that sidewalks around town became tunnels? Certainly Kitimat today is a fine place to live, but the 50s and 60s, well those were the days.

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Continued from page 1 Even as the company renovates many of their units, Abergel said that where they haven’t had to do such work, they haven’t. “We still have many units which are rented at below market rates,” added Abergel. As for the social conscience, he says Kiticorp was among the first companies to spend significant money in the community. “We’ve been developing apartments in Kitimat for almost two years,” he said. “We’re bringing a lot of jobs of all types.” In short, he said there’s no angle of evil or greed from the decisions of his company. “It bothers me. I have a social conscience and Kiticorp supports the local arena and we support a lot of different local businesses from advertising to plumbing to electrical to local labour. We’re working hard to do our best with the resources that we have,” he said. “There’s no malice involved and we’re not trying to be greedy, we’re just trying to work within the marketplace in the business that we’re in.” As Read gave his perspective at the council meeting on February 17, his underlying message was for the town’s political system to recognize people who are displaced by the effects of a ‘boom town.’ “We need to remember our calling is to represent every individual within our community, especially those who have no political voice, those who have no social standing, those who are the vulnerable and the powerless in our community,” he said. To that point he explained the story of one of his congregation, a woman in her 80s who lives in the Viewpoint Apartments. (Read used her name but when the Sentinel called her she indicated she would rather not have a high profile so we are respecting

her wishes not to be named.) She lives on a survivor pension after the passing of her husband, and Read spends lots of time talking to her about her options if

she gets evicted. He’s hopeful but uncertain of where she will live in the future given the availability and price of current rental units. Abergel says that Kiticorp does try to

accommodate people who are evicted from their apartments. He said that in a recent instance when there were evictions at one of their buildings 10 alternate units at other apartment

buildings were made available for the people who had to leave, at discounted rates from the going market price. He said three of those 10 were accepted.

“We’re aware of the challenges that Kitimat is experiencing and we’ve been in contact with BC Housing, council, and the mayor, to try to work through some of the challeng-

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Ask questions on energy Cameron Orr The Kitimat Museum & Archives is looking forward this time, rather than backwards, and setting to work establishing a community dialogue about energy. Anything energy. But the co-curators for this program — called Kitimat Questions: Energy — Louise Avery and Robin Rowland, are seeking a bit of community engagement to make the exhibit a great success. Right now they are asking for people in the community to submit their questions about anything energy, which they will in turn pose to various stakeholders, from the companies themselves to local government representatives. The answers will be put on display at the museum later this year, complementing an exhibit of artworks on display from local artists and students, putting down creatively how they picture energy. Community talks are also in the works but no speakers have yet been confirmed.

Rowland said that at the very least they’re not trying to bring in ‘the usual suspects’ as far as energy talks go. “We’re trying to get some high-level speakers,” said Rowland. “We want to get beyond the usual suspects who have been here before.” For Avery, the safe dialogue is important. “We wanted to have a respectful conversation where people can be heard, their concerns about jobs, their concerns about the economy, their concerns about air quality...” To gather input, the two are welcoming community questions. People can e-mail them to the museum at info@kitimatmuseum.ca, use the website at www.kitimatmuseum.ca, or visit the Kitimat Questions: Energy Facebook page. They hope to have all the questions by April 1 to begin sending out to those who’ll answer the questions. Avery and Rowland are also open to sponsorship offers from local businesses.

Just about full strength Cameron Orr At the regular monthly Kitimat RCMP detachment update at town council, staff sergeant Phil Harrison reported that the local police station is just about at its full complement of officers. There is only one vacancy which is for a municipal sergeant. As for the statistics breakdown, Kitimat housed the same number of prisoners, 18, as it did for January last year. That’s as there were no major surprises for the number of files for each category of criminal code. Being as the statistics now show just January 2014, it is hard to draw any trends. But month to month, there was one fewer sexual assault this year, two, than there was for January last year. There were three assaults with weapons files opened, compared to one last year at the same time. Residential break and enter files total five for January against one last year. Harrison points out though that even though they are categorized this way, in reality the majority of those files turned out to be something as simple as a door left open or a false alarm.

There were only two true break and enters. Shoplifting is being reported at a higher

rate, January showing five cases. In all of 2013 there were six. There were two co-

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Putting a stop to bullying on Pink Shirt Day… Kerry Vital / Black Press Names such as Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons are sadly well-known to many Canadians. Both teens committed suicide after years of bullying at the hands of classmates. On Feb. 26, Canadians will recognize Pink Shirt Day, a day devoted to preventing bullying and helping children and teens who are being victimized. For some people, bullying hits very close to home. Tad Milmine, now an RCMP constable, is one of them. As a child, Milmine

cut all ties with his father and Scotia by two teenage boys who, stepmother. Still, he struggled after seeing another male student with being extremely introbullied for wearing a pink shirt, verted and emotional. While he decided to gather their friends and had dreamed of being a police all wear pink to school. CKNW AM officer for much of his life, he 980 was inspired by their action, didn’t feel confident enough to and since 2007 has raised over act on that dream. At 33, he fi$650,000 for anti-bullying pronally felt able to take that step grams in B.C. through the sale of and do what he loved after their pink shirts. You can purchase Tad Milmine encouragement from an officer your own shirt at London Drugs he met while playing baseball. or online. This year’s campaign is “I never acted on my dream because I truly being presented by Coast Capital Savings, believed it was just a dream,” he says. “I with Black Press as a media partner. thought that dreams weren’t meant to be For more information about Pink Shirt achieved.” Day, visit www.pinkshirtday.ca. Milmine’s Milmine was moved by the 2011 suicide website can be found at www.bullyingendof Ontario teen Jamie Hubley, who killed shere.ca. himself after years of bullying for being gay and a figure skater, to start Bullying Ends Here, a website that tells Hubley’s story as well as his own. Milmine has travelled all over Canada and the U.S. speaking to students and encouraging them to contact him if they need help. In the presentations, he shares his own story and that The website and smartphone app Ask.fm is a socialof Hubley, and tells the students that he networking site where people can ask other users understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and that he too is gay, just like Hubley. He questions. It’s extremely popular with pre-teens and shares this information to point out that teens, but recently it has become well-known for he is no different than the people listening facilitating cyber-bullying instead. It has been referto him in the audience. enced in several suicide cases around the world as “I never let my sexuality stand in the way part of the bullying the victim experienced that led of living out a dream,” Milmine says. “I to their suicide. never let the negativity while growing up The biggest issue with Ask.fm is that questions can stand in my way.” Milmine’s presentations are done be submitted anonymously, and content is not monion his own time and with his own tored, so abuse of the service can be rampant with no money. repercussions to the user. Even if someone is blocked, “I always wanted to ‘help’ people that person can still view profiles and see other interand today I am lucky enough actions, and privacy settings cannot be increased as to be in that position,” says they can on Facebook and Twitter. According to RCMP Milmine. “Youth need to know Const. Tad Milmine, the Latvia-based website also that nobody can help them sends daily spam with messages suggesting users if they don’t speak up. You have to share, have to ask kill themselves and calling them ugly, among others, for help. Give us a chance with no name attached. to help.” Parents are urged to monitor all social media acSixty-four per cent of Canadian chilcounts and talk to their children about their online dren have been bullied at school at some activities in an effort to prevent cyberbullying, and point, according to the Pink Shirt Day remember that the terms of service of campaign, and 40 per cent of CanaFacebook, Twitter and Ask.fm require dian employees are bullied at the users to be at least 13. workplace on a weekly basis. “Pink Shirt Day gets people talking,” Milmine says. “People are talking about it leading up to Join the cause and it, and on the day itself. You’re buy a pink shirt at going to talk about why you’re pinkshirtday.ca wearing a pink shirt that day, and or at London Drugs youth are reminded of the resources available to them.” Pink Shirt Day was started in Nova

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Bullying not fair for people to always be picked on.” For grade 9 student Chelsea Pacheco, she’s learned a great deal from the program. “It’s not just the bully,” she said about any conflict between students. “I’ve learned that the bystander is one of the most important parts [of the situation]. We can’t point our finger at the bully,” she said. Each grade has its own personality and when it comes to conflicts of bullying she sees it more in younger grades than older, which emphasizes the

importance of these students taking their message to the younger grades. “We’re trying to get people to interact so that maybe we can stop this problem in the future,” she said. Simon Baldo, a grade 10 student, said that fosering a positive relationship rather than a negative one is part of the lesson he has taken away. “If you establish a negative relationship then just more negative things will happen,” he said. Locally he sees some physical and verbal bullying, but he said

the big problem is how to learn to intervene. “We need to make sure students are aware on how to intervene.” Learning how to step in to a situation is a crucial takeaway lesson. And it takes a bit of courage to do it. “It’s hard for someone to be ‘you cannot do that.’ You have to get encouraged and you have to be that type of person who isn’t afraid,” said Chartrend. “You need to believe in yourself that good will come out of it.” And with 60 per cent of situations resolving when someone steps in, he’s not wrong.

No magic wand for labour Shaun Thomas Federal Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney is holding no illusions of a simple solution to the skilled labour shortage facing the Northwest with the boom in industrial interest for LNG export and mining. “The volume of the potential growth and potential jobs is so enormous that it is going to be a real challenge. If a significant number of those pipelines and mines that are proposed proceed, there just is not the population in Northern B.C. to handle that,” he said. “It’s going to be a very significant challenge, so we need to get as many young aboriginal people in these areas employed in those jobs as possible, we need people in the Lower Mainland and Southern Canada to move up here and we need to do a better job of encouraging

“It’s going to be a very significant challenge.” immigrants to move to the north where many of the best job prospects are ... It’s not a slam dunk. This is going to be a challenge that the private sector, union, the province and the federal government need to work on together.” The minister toured the region last week, with stops in Kitimat, Prince Rupert and Terrace, and said increasing the opportunities for aboriginals will be a key to addressing the shortage. “With all of the mining and commodity development and potential pipelines, we’re looking at tens of thousands of new jobs across the skills spectrum in areas

which happen to be inhabited by significant number of unemployed or under-employed aboriginal Canadians,” he said. “There are a lot more high paying jobs that are coming online available to them and a growing number of private sector employers realize it is very much in their interest to train and employ aboriginal Canadians. I think there is a new era of opportunity opening up for economic inclusion for native communities in northern B.C.” During his tour, Kenney met with a variety of First Nations groups and heard from many about the importance of employers getting on-board with providing the training. “Some have said that the funding we have supplied in the past has been adequate, others say they need more. One thing everyone agrees on is that the private sector has to come to that table

Training funds given Anna Killen An agency created to train aboriginal people to work on a planned natural gas pipeline to feed a liquefied natural gas plant at Kitimat has received a cash infusion from the federal government. The PTP ASEP (Pacific Trail Pipeline Aboriginal Skills Employment Partnership) Training Society had already received federal train-

ing monies to train people to work on the pipeline but that effort was delayed when anticipated construction starts for both the pipeline and accompanying LNG project, called Kitimat LNG, were put off. The new federal money, as much as $6.1 million, was announced last week by federal employment minister Jason Kenney during a stop in Terrace.

with its dollars not just to train people but, of course, give them jobs at the end of it,” he said. “Exciting things are happening because it’s not just government and non-profit societies, the private sector is coming increasingly to the table and I think everyone realizes there is tremendous potential there for the future.”

A trio of students practice their anti-bullying presentation during the Respect Ed course at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School. The program was sponsored by the Kitimat Rotary Club, and provided by the Red Cross.

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Continued from page 1 “It’s [bullying] gotten way worse with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, SnapChat and all these social media websites,” said MEMSS student Brodie Chartrend, one of a select number of students who were accepted into this antibullying program. But he casts that as a general issue for any modern students, and he finds MEMSS itself a safe place for the most part. “I find it’s pretty safe but sometimes I see people getting bullied or being called names and I find it’s

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Members of the 2556 Royal Canadian Army Cadets from Kitimat attended a Zone Marksmanship competition in Terrace and placed second overall.

Kitimat’s straight shooters Submitted On February 8 the 2556 Royal Canadian Army Cadets from Kitimat attended a Zone Marksmanship competition held in Terrace. The Kitimat Army cadets competed with cadets from Prince Rupert Sea Cadets and

Terrace Air Cadets. The competition focused on safe marksmanship and sportmanship. 2556 Army placed second overall ahead of Prince Rupert, and Terrace placed first. Sapper MJ Herrin received an individual medal for second place in the junior category

and Corporal Nick O’Brien received third place in the same category. From this competition, cadets from all over Canada will be participating in their area competitions for chances to advance to the Provincial level and National.

Submitted The Kitimat Marlins had three swimmers attend the AAA provincial short course (25 meter pool) swimming championships in Kamloops earlier this month. The AAA champs is the highest provincial level meet of the season. There were over 600 swimmers aged 10 to 18 from 42 different swim clubs or associations in attendance making for extremely tough competition. The Marlins swim as part of the Points North swim association when attending out-of-region swim meets. This association allows the small northern clubs of Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Terrace and Smithers to field relays where normally they would not be able too. With this in mind,

Points North were able to field relays in the 13/14 girls category. The relays did extremely well. With swimmers Kleanza Cathers, and Alivia Soares from Kitimat, Avery Movald from Prince Rupert and Cassie Horning Wandler from Smithers the team was able to take the bronze medal in the 4x200 meter freestyle relay. They also placed fifth in the 4x50 meter freestyle relay and 7th in the 4x50 meter medley relay. This year the format of the championships was different. They went to two year age groups and an A final for swimmers who placed first to eight in preliminaries and a B final for swimmers who finished 9-16th after the heats. Continued on page 14

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• Local marine transportation & logistics services • Dredging & piling contractors • Temporary storage & warehousing facilities • Maintenance, repair & operations suppliers

Future opportunities will be available to become a vendor as the procurement process continues. Businesses seeking potential procurement opportunities with Pacific NorthWest LNG are asked to submit an Expression of Interest and Qualifications to each of the three international engineering contractors that have been selected for the project’s FrontEnd Engineering and Design: Bechtel Ltd. KBR/JGC joint venture PLNGXPRO@bechtel.com FLONKBR-PNWSubcon@kbr.com FLONKBR-PNWPurch@kbr.com TSH Consortium TSH@technip.com If the project proceeds to construction, tenders will be issued in 2015 and beyond.

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