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Volume 60 No. 44
Supper Club a big success Cameron Orr The organizers of the Monday night Kitimat Community Supper Club have celebrated six months of meals and show no signs of slowing down. Sherry LeducBrady said that Thanksgiving Monday marked “We will serve their six months since the richest of they began serving food the rich, and at the Kitimat First Baptist Church, which the poorest of began Easter Monday. Dinner opens to the poor.” the community at 5 p.m. and goes to about 7 p.m., and it’s a free event, organizers only asking for donations to keep operations going from anyone who can give. “My numbers have been going up since the beginning,” said Leduc-Brady. “They go up quite steadily.” She said she had recently planned for 150 people and ended up serving 68 people at the church, plus a number of care packages to send out, which put her over that 150 planned servings. “Everybody is welcome,” she said. “We will serve the richest of the rich, and the poorest of the poor.” She also added, “We will not turn away anybody at our door. We firmly believe that having enough to eat should be a right and not a privilege.” Volunteers to the effort are also acknowledged. A lunch is served for volunteers at noon, and she’ll even pick up coffee for people who help her get started Monday mornings, which can mean a start of 8 or 9 a.m. She said a saving grace to the community outreach has been donations from local stores Overwaitea and SuperValu. While individual servings would cost around $1.90 a start, she said now it’s only just over a $1 for each meal served thanks to donations. “If it wasn’t for the donations we received from Terrace Community Gardens, Overwaitea and SuperValu, I don’t think we would have been able to provide the amazing feast we were able to do,” she said, referring to a request to organize a feast in Kitamaat Village, which she did with about 24 hours notice. Their charity doesn’t end with the suppers. She said they’ve done homelessness drives and have sent out about 15 care packages which includes pillows, beddings, and even portable mattresses, as well as toiletries.
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Hatchery manager Markus Feldhoff next to the current water aeration system inside their tower. The new technology will reduce the height requirements for their gravity-fed system. Inset, the new aerators.
Kitimat hatchery nets fed funding Cameron Orr The Kitimat Hatchery has been given access to a pot of over $13 million from the federal government to do some key upgrades to its water system. The federal government announced the funding on October 3, which said that select facilities would be provided $13.8 million — in total for all places — to refurbish water supply systems. The Kitimat Hatchery has already moved ahead on some key projects, some which are already done and others they are still waiting for the bids on. A project already done has provided the hatchery with two new pumps for their river water collection. The project also included a river water bypass line. Previously the hatch-
ery would aerate its river water as it does with its ‘harder’ well water. River water however is already well aerated and so a new line was built to save the trouble of pumping it up its water tower. The aeration tower itself will be given a fairly extensive rebuild as well. As it is now, water is pumped straight to the top and dropped through an aeration system which natural oxidizes the water. New technology will achieve the same result but with a difference of 10 feet. Hatchery manager Markus Feldhoff said dropping the height requirements by 10 feet may not sound like a lot but it saves considerable wear on
the pumps and will mean tremendous cost savings. Work to the incubation room inside the hatchery will also take place, which will install a re-circulation water system as well as a chiller system. The chiller will be useful for instances where hatchery staff will have to slow the growth of fish to reduce bottle necks in releasing to the river. There’s also a natural marking system for fish that requires water at certain temperatures. The hatchery will also update its own potable drinking water system. Their water is not on District of Kitimat supply and while their water is tested regularly the new filtration systems will enhance its reliability.
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