The Northern View, December 17, 2014

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$150 million for Port Ed

BY SHAUN THOMAS PORT EDWARD / The Northern View

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Twelve days after announcing it has delayed its final investment decision, Pacific NorthWest LNG announced Monday a 25-year agreement- “Pacific NorthWest in-principle to LNG intends on support Port Edward infrastructure and being a long-term services to the tune of positive contributor.” $150 million.

The landmark agreement guarantees - Michael Culbert the District of Port Edward $3.25 million each year and escalates over the life of the agreement.

The $150 million will be paid out in the form of property taxes and front-end contributions by Pacific NorthWest LNG for district infrastrucutre improvements.

“Pacific NorthWest LNG intends on being a long-term positive contributor to the District of Port Edward and this agreement-in-principle serves as the blueprint for a multi-decade co-operative relationship that will benefit all residents of Port Edward,” said Pacific NorthWest LNG President Michael Culbert.

Ava Farrell whispers her Christmas wish to Santa Claus while aboard the Jingle Boat Express on Dec. 12. For more from the sailing with Santa, see Page 25.

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Ferry capacity to Terrace’s benefit?

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Community For Salvation on the stage Page A18

Feature Heart of our City: Donna McNeil-Clark Page A20

Sports Rainmakers lose captain to injury Page B1

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Trustees speak out against work camp

BY MARTINA PERRY PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

The concept of a 2,500-person work camp being created near Prince Rupert Middle School is causing uneasiness for the Prince Rupert School District (SD52) Board of Education.

The City of Prince Rupert has allowed Horizon North to investigate the construction of two 1,250-person lodges on a portion of city-owned property, formerly the city’s garbage dump.

A public hearing on the subject was held on Nov. 24, with SD52 secretary-treasurer Cam McIntyre voicing concerns on negative impacts other worker camps in the north have had on communities, referring to a number of studies on the subject.

When the board of education met on Dec. 9 a majority spoke against the proposal.

“Our middle school is just too close.”

- Janet Beil “If this group of people comes in, they’re here to do a job. There’s no ownership in the community,” said Tina Last, board chair.

“From a council’s perspective, I wonder what the rationale could possibly have been to put it in such a close proximity.”

Trustee Janet Beil agreed with Last’s sentiment.

“I don’t believe this is appropriate,” Beil said.

“Research says that these type of facilities may attract things we don’t want it to, i.e. drugs and alcohol. Our middle school is just too close

to where they are proposing this.”

Trustee Judy Carlick-Pearson, who sat on Prince Rupert city council last term, said the city didn’t consider the closeness to the middle school as a major risk, concluding it should be brought to the city’s attention.

The only trustee who didn’t have an issue with the proposal was Louisa Sanchez.

“I don’t think it’s going to harm our school,” Sanchez said.

“What I was told was that it would be something like a hotel.”

The board of education voted to have SD52 staff request a meeting with the city to express its apprehension, with Sanchez being the only trustee in opposition.

Horizon North has stated that the camp would have zero tolerance for drugs and alcohol and would be contained to prevent people from wandering the area.

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Agreement to benefit Port Ed PORT EDWARD from Page A1 “I would like to thank Mayor Dave MacDonald, Port Edward Council and district staff for their dedication and hard work to get to this day.”

The Minister of Community Sport and Cultural Development, Hon. Coralee Oakes, was in attendance to “[LNG] ... celebrate c the signing of o the agreementrepresents a in-principle. in The Province P has chance to bring our committed c to children ... back introducing in legislation at a the earliest home.” opportunity o in 2015 to enable e this agreement u the Community - Dave MacDonald under Charter.

C “Liquefied natural gas, and Pacific NorthWest LNG in particular, represents the chance to bring our children who have gone elsewhere in search of opportunity back home to Port Edward,” said Mayor MacDonald.

“The bold agreement with Pacific NorthWest LNG was reached on our terms and will ensure that Port Edward residents benefit from the LNG opportunity in the form of increased services, as well as infrastructure upgrades and ultimately, improved quality of life.”

The agreement is subject to the project proceeding to construction and will be effective upon the execution of a long-term lease with the Prince Rupert Port Authority.

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Thanks but no thanks: SQCRD Regional District unsatisfied with its share of the LNG pie

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Just two days removed from a friendly meeting in Port Edward, representatives from TransCanada made their way to the Skeena – Queen Charlotte Regional District on Friday where board members pulled no punches in expressing their concerns about the project and the company itself.

“I don’t really see much point in going on for this with a pipeline company I don’t believe has accountability at either end of the pipeline,” said Electoral Area D director Mike Racz.

“My community does not want any money from you, thank you very much, and many of my constituents are opposed to the terminal at the end of this project .... this is a short-term project, to be honest,” added Dodge Cove director Des Nobels.

While TransCanada pointed to $25 million in property taxes per year that would be paid to the provincial government for disbursement to communities along the route, board members said they were unconvinced that would do the North Coast any good.

“Every dollar that higher level governments get, local governments get about eight cents back .... we need a little help with our core services and core infrastructure .... maybe you should go back to your team and say, ‘we need to help communities at the end of the line’,” said Prince Rupert Mayor Lee Brain.

“You can give money to government but I can tell you we won’t see any of it, so don’t sell us on that,” added Racz.

TransCanada further cited $2 million in community investments since the project started, including launching a breakfast program and supplying iPads to students at

“$2 million toward a water infrastructure project ... that would get you some social licence.”

- Lee Brain Port Edward Elementary and a $10,000 donation to the Prince Rupert Minor Hockey Association, as proof of benefits of the project. While he said he did appreciate those donations, Brain told company representatives that they were looking in the wrong direction if they wanted support. “$Two million toward a water infrastructure project might be a better investment than to a hockey team .... that would get you some social licence,” he said.

“If our infrastructure can’t support LNG, then there is a problem for all of us. What good is a hockey team without a reliable dam capable of supplying water to the town?”

Following the presentation, chair Barry Pages thanked the company for their presentation and noted TransCanada had been more proactive than “other projects” in communicating with the board.

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Digby ferry could push worker charters to Terrace Report outlines impact of low capacity

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

The Digby Island Ferry and its lack of capacity could lead to liquefied natural gas (LNG) companies looking elsewhere when it comes to bringing workers to the North Coast, according to a report commissioned by the Prince Rupert and District Chamber of Commerce.

The Digby Island Ferry Capacity Analysis notes that, due in part to its inability to handle a number of larger buses, the current capacity of the ferry is 156 people per sailing.

“There are a number of probable scenarios in which 156 passengers per sailing would be a constraint on the ability of the airport to move people in and out of Prince Rupert. The ferry is, therefore, the limiting link in airport passenger capacity,” reads the report, which was produced by Operations Economics Inc. (OEI) of Vancouver, adding contractors want to move more than 156 passenegr per hour due to economies of scale.

“The ferry already provides a low quality of service, as experienced by passengers. In a high-growth scenario, this quality of service would decline further and be unacceptable. It is unlikely that LNG companies and major construction companies would find 156 passengers per hour as an acceptable level of passenger arrival and departure. They will therefore probably find another way to move workers in and out of Prince Rupert.”

While the report notes that the ferry could handle a B737-200 charter in one trip, a Q400 and a Dash 8 in one trip and two Q400s in one trip, a problem arises if companies use B737 flights. The report notes the planes,

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A report commissioned for the Prince Rupert and District Chamber of Commerce notes the low capacity of the Digby Island Ferry could push companies to fly workers into Terrace.

which are 136 seat planes, were often landed two at a time when Fort Nelson experienced significant development.

Should project proponents use these planes, two sailings would be needed to accommodate one B737 and a Dash 8 or one B737 plus current evening flights. Should two B737s land at the same time, three sailings would be needed. As well, the report notes “the arrival of multiple aircraft in the evening on an ongoing basis would require an extension to the operating window of the ferry because it would require an additional final sailing in the evening”.

In the cases where B737s are brought in, passengers would be waiting two to three hours before arriving in Prince Rupert.

In terms of service quality, the report found the total travel and fares for people traveling through Prince

Rupert is longer and higher than comparable terminals, while the appearance and comfort of passengers is also below other comparable airports.

All told, the report notes the overall airport experience could have some workers and companies looking east.

“As the current quality of service compares poorly to other options now, one can assume that passengers will not accept services which would be considered worse in the future. For example, the scenarios which include a B737 and another aircraft arriving at the same time assume that some departing passengers would take 180 minutes (or three hours) from departure from an origin in Prince Rupert until departure from the Prince Rupert Airport,” reads the report, noting “keeping 156 tradespeople waiting would be expensive”.

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Improvements Former church to house workers needed on ferry Will later be FERRY from Page A4 “This is an interesting scenario, but would not be accepted by passengers who have the option of driving to TerraceKitimat airport ... one can assume that no passenger will fly to Prince - OEI report Rupert knowing in advance they will have to wait for the second ferry upon arrival or departure.”

As for options to address the situation, the report recommends examining either a larger ferry or second ferry, or re-siting the current Du Vernet terminal to Tobey Point. Before either could be done, however, the report recommends addressing issues related to dock weight capacity and vehicle loading angle, which “will both be a significant limiting factor in the medium-to-long term if motor coaches are used as a means of transporting passengers on the ferry”.

At the same time as recommending the improvements, the report notes that the Digby Island Ferry has run an average deficit of $852,000 over the past four years.

Among those interviewed by OEI in the making of the report were representatives from Pacific NorthWest LNG, the BG Group, the Prince Rupert Port Authority, the Prince Rupert Airport, the City of Prince Rupert and the Digby Island Ferry captain.

“This ... would not be accepted by passengers .”

seniors housing

BY MARTINA PERRY PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

What was formerly a place of worship may help alleviate housing shortages in Prince Rupert, with a company proposing to convert a closed church into a complex for project workers, and later, seniors.

The Bethel-First Baptist Church on India Avenue closed its doors earlier this year, with Greenwell Asset Management purchasing the building. The company plans to spend approximately $1.4 million to remodel it into a high-end, multiunit housing complex for industrial project workers needing temporary housing, and eventually for the elderly.

“Our idea is to build this so down the road it could be converted into a seniors facility. We’re designing it to be senior-friendly. Once the construction boom is over, our intention would be to turn it into an assisted living facility,” said Geoff Greenwell of Greenwell Asset Management.

“In the short-term, if you can run it as a rooming house you can offset an awful lot of the costs. Otherwise

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Geoff Greenwell stands in front of the former Bethel-First Bapist Church, which has been purchased to turn it into a workers accommodation camp.

you’re passing on those costs to seniors.”

The blueprint is already complete, with the company seeking approval to square out the roof of the building where church services were once held to to allow for a second floor.

In total, 18 suites are laid out in the design, all 400 sq. ft. in size and consisting of a bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and living space.

Plans are to construct 10 units in the former church service congregating area, along with eight units on the upper and lower levels of what was previously church offices.

The basement would house a laundry facility, utilities and storage.

“We’re going to preserve some

of the architectural components. It would be a shame to tear a place like this apart,” Greenwell said.

The building’s exterior would also be transformed, using cedar and wood for a stylish appearance.

There is enough space out front to park 18 cars, or one car per unit.

Demolition has begun, with Greenwell Asset Management submitting a rezoning application to the city last week. If approved, the renovation would start right away.

“With places like this, if you don’t deal with them quickly they end up derelict ... The idea is to renovate quickly so that doesn’t become a problem,” he said, noting a watchman is currently living on site.

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LNG concerns raised at forum

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

With the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry knocking on Prince Rupert’s doorsteps, North Coast residents have been inundated with proposals and they’re sick of reacting. They want to proactively take charge of the future of their city whether that includes LNG or not.

This was the overarching message from approximately 25 attendees, who came to the community dialogue forum on LNG Thursday night hosted by the Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research’s LNG facilitator Valine Crist and West Coast Environmental Law’s (WCEL) staff counsel Hannah Askew. With the floor open to the public, familiar concerns were raised by residents and members from Dodge Cove, Lax Kw’alaams and Metlakatla, as well as other areas near proposal sites for the seven known LNG facilities.

But that wide range of concerns was exactly what Askew was looking for.

“We wanted to facilitate a conversation about regional strategic environmental assessments so that as people are responding to all of these different kinds of proposals, they have a chance to think about the vision of development that they have for their community and what their core values are that they want to protect,” said Askew after the three-hour discussion had ended.

“We got incredibly thoughtful and pretty diverse feedback from people who attended both [sessions], so it was really rich and rewarding Askew and Crist will now take their findings from the night’s discussion and another forum they held that same morning and submit them in

a report to be distributed to stakeholders and the public for consumption.

Murray Smith, hereditary chief for Lax Kw’alaams, opened the dialogue with a welcome and prayer.

Common themes that arose in the discussion were an increasing lack of access to beaches and green spaces, the effects the industry may have and is having on residents’ mental health, a depletion of healthy fish, First Nations groups working in conjunction with the industry, threatened wildlife on land and in the rivers and oceans, the routes of tankers, the city’s income gap and comparisons between Prince Rupert and Fort McMurray.

Infringement on others’ values was a popular topic as well for future generations who will call Prince Rupert home.

A few residents noted the healthy state of the medical care they currently receive and appreciate the level of service they’re getting in comparison to places like Fort St. John, which is dealing with a lack of family doctors.

A sense of connectedness and a sense of place was another concern raised by attendees as some feel newer or migrant workers won’t respect the city they inhabit the same way long-time residents do. Safety for the community was top-of-mind and many had issues with the idea of work camps being so close to neighbourhoods.

An executive director in Metlakatla raised a point about food security and the review process that local and provincial governments are taking – whether their current studies and assessments are satisfactory or not.

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Hypocrisy: it’s spelled NDP

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ypocrisy, thy name is the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

Just two weeks ago, the press secretary for John Horgan and our own Jennifer Rice were jumping all over yours truly for putting forward an opinion without contacting them. Despite the fact that the opinion was based on Horgan’s own comments, the hypocrisy of their claims now is evident.

This week, showing hypocrisy knows no bounds, the NDP put forward a negative opinion about Pacifc NorthWest LNG based on a Globe and Mail article, a company spokesperson felt was lacking context without first calling Pacific NorthWest LNG. Shaun Thomas Sweet, sweet irony.

You see this week NDP natural gas development spokesperson Bruce Ralston — who doesn’t live anywhere near Prince Rupert, Port Edward or Lelu Island — jumped all over a portion of the company’s environmental assessment filing that indicates up to 40 per cent foreign workers would be used in constructing the project and that number could jump up to 70 per cent in the last three years of construction.

This, he claims, is the reason the premier must “reject the Petronas plan” to construct “an unsupportable project” — a direct quote despite assurances from Rice that he was referring to the practice of hiring foreign workers as opposed to the project itself.

Ignoring the fact that calling the terminal “an unsupportable project” flies right in the face of John Horgan’s assertion in this very paper that he’d “like to see all their projects built in Prince Rupert and Kitimat”, a simple call or email to Pacific NorthWest LNG would have brought the following comment: “Our first priority is to hire as many local workers as possible ... the numbers included in the BC EAO submission are conservative models assuming multiple projects are under construction at the same time as our project”.

It truly was that simple, but the natural gas spokesperson for the NDP — who doesn’t live anywhere near any LNG proposal — couldn’t follow his party’s own advice and instead put this scam of a statement out to provincial media.

That, quite frankly, is truly unsupportable.

2015 to the mind of John Horgan

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ollowing are highlights from Tom Fletcher’s the greenest in the world. And then when they tabled year-end interview with NDP leader John legislation they left out 70 per cent of the emissions Horgan. For an extended version, see the from upstream activity.

Opinion section at: www.thenorthernview.com TF: Gordon Campbell’s great goal for greenhouse TF: The B.C. Liberal government has given every gases, 33 per cent reduction by 2020, can that be indication they’re going to proceed with the Site C reached assuming a substantial LNG development? dam on the Peace River. What do you think?

JH: I find it difficult to believe that they’re going JH: I’ve always maintained that it’s a good project, to achieve those results. [Environment Minister] Mary but it’s a question of when to add another $8-9-10-12 Polak has a different point of view, and our job as Tom Fletcher billion onto the backs of ratepayers. opposition is to hold them accountable to the numbers First of all, go to the B.C. Utilities Commission that they passed into law, and we’re going to do that. and find out if this is the power you need and if this is the time One of the three sectors, housing, energy and to build it. The government refuses to do that, and I think transportation, where emission profiles can be managed that’s just an Achilles heel in this process. downward is transportation. And the government has wasted TF: You voted for the liquefied natural gas income tax to 18 months talking about a referendum on [Metro Vancouver provide certainty, and then you immediately said you would transit.] work to increase the LNG tax in 2017, before any major TF: What’s your top priority for 2015? project could be started. How is that certainty?

JH: I think the public is going to increasingly find JH: I thought it was important that the investment affordability issues to be the challenge. We didn’t spend community in this sector knew there was bipartisan support as much time as I had hoped to on hydro rate increases, for LNG in British Columbia. But we went from a seven per ICBC. When the government balanced the budget, they did cent [tax] to a 3.5 per cent because of a softening market. it by selling assets, and by increasing costs at their Crown If there is a decline in return to the province because of a corporations and then pulling that revenue in for budget softening market, then surely over a 25-year period – not just purposes. between now and 2017, but if the market conditions change We’re going to have to use new technologies and means and prices go up – I think British Columbians would want of communication to better explain to people what the their government to make sure they were getting a fair share government’s doing to them. of that benefit.

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December 17, 2014 • Northern View • A7

On the street

Do you celebrate any holiday traditions?

With Kevin Campbell

ROB GRUBER

“Nothing overly spectacular. Christmas definitely and New Years.”

RANDI JOHANSEN

“I’m from Sweden, but we usually get together with family.”

JACKIE JOSEPH

“We visit my sister-in-law Alanah and Katie’s house and they put balloons on their ceiling and when we do the New Year’s countdown they let them go and the kids step on them.”

CLIFFORD WELLS

“I watch [the New Year’s countdown] on T.V. every year.”

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Monitoring systems Questions from Nisga’a deal gauge industry impact “Our often-envied Canadian

Editor: Re: Nisga’a proving critics wrong.

Tom Fletcher seems to have had an epiphany that’s led to his urging acceptance of Supreme Court of Canada rulings which enabled the creation by the Nisga’a Nation of (Fletcher’s words) “a parallel state” in B.C. Fletcher may never have learned “that two wrongs don’t make a right”.

The first long-standing wrong at issue is the sorry treatment of aboriginals in both B.C. and across Canada. Despite significant improvements over recent years, more remains to be done. The second wrong is that the Supreme Court of Canada now enables a new layer of government in B.C. What’s been created is a “landed gentry” of sorts who’ve in effect received authority to exercise sovereign powers and they now plan to establish multiple export-enabling LNG terminals on the B.C. coast. B.C. taxpayers will follow such developments with interest, particularly if there is no parallel commitment by the Nisga’a to assume increasing responsibility for both federal and provincial government services as their “parallel state” business plans prove profitable.

The old adage that “there’s only one taxpayer” could, with Nisga’a concurrence, remain a truism. It’s based on the realization that whether for services provided by local, provincial or federal governments, most voters and elected leaders have long recognized that it’s the voting taxpayer who,

cultural mosaic is at risk.”

- Ron Johnson over time, determines both government funding levels and program priorities.

Unanswered questions include: Will this aboriginal “parallel state” acknowledge a responsibility to – within its anticipated capability – participate as a fully functional entity within our national federation?

Will it fund a portion of the many provincial and federal government services it now receives?

Will it commit to creating and funding its selfdetermined unique government service programs?

Historical antipathy between First Nation, local, provincial and federal agencies indicates a need for strong but flexible leadership at all four governmental levels. In seeking a comprehensive governmental re-balancing, we’ll hopefully avoid historically based emotional rhetoric supporting retributive rationale if we’re to minimize costly, confrontational negotiations.

In B.C., our often-envied Canadian cultural mosaic is at risk of becoming a dysfunctional and tattered societal quilt.

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Christy at the helm of LNG sleigh Editor: The fall session of B.C.’s provincial legislature closed in late November, with NDP Leader John Horgan condemning Premier Christy Clark’s abysmal attendance record of being present for only eight of 24 sittings.

There’s always been something misty and twisty about Christy’s take on politics, and her response was in keeping with this; immediately firing back that she was attacked because of her gender and that she was busy elsewhere.

Last year the B.C. Liberals returned to power mainly on the strength of Clark’s endless campaign promises about a rosy future that lay ahead, with the exportation of liquefied natural gas (LNG). All those promises of the Prosperity Fund that would result, and B.C. becoming debtfree meant everyone would benefit. Now foreign investors’ plans to build pipelines, plants and shipping terminals are rapidly evaporating and

smelling like so much bad gas.

Just maybe the Premier has been spending her absentee days in Northern B.C. at a franchise of Santa’s Workshop putting B.C. Liberal Party elves to work on loading up a huge LNG-powered sleigh. Imagine the political brownie points for a Christmas Eve trip by Christy Claus to dole out gifts to B.C.’s many underprivileged children.

Despite an election theme of “Families First,” B.C. has the highest child poverty rate in Canada.

Yet the government persists in the clawback of child support from a single parent on temporary or disability assistance, equal to payments received from their child’s absent parent.

When that LNG-powered sleigh makes its way through the starry Christmas Eve night, maybe that red-suited lady at the controls should really be addressed as Christy Claws.

Bernie Smith Parksville

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hrough a number of programs launched in recent years, the Prince Rupert Port Authority is gathering information about environmental conditions—and learning to ensure that industrial development respects the integrity of the natural ecosystem.

Together with like-minded community organizations and industry partners, the Port Authority is monitoring issues like air quality and introducing best practices to reduce the impact of existing operations and future developments.

Through a partnership with BC’s Ministry of Environment and School District 52, the Prince Rupert Port Authority installed a meteorological tower on the roof of Roosevelt Park Community School in 2012.

The 10-metre tower measures wind direction, wind speed, temperature and relative humidity. This data has helped create an atmospheric dispersion model that illustrates patterns of emissions released from port activities including ships, trains and other vehicles.

Following the redevelopment of the Westview Industrial Site in 2013, the Port Authority installed the port’s first air quality monitoring station, which measures particulate matter. The station ensures the Westview Wood Pellet Terminal complies with provincial objectives for the density and size of airborne particles. Nearby cannisters also collect dust. Dustfall quantities are measured and speciated (separating wood dust from insect parts and pollen, for example) at regular intervals.

At the same site, noise monitoring equipment measures sound emanating from port operations on the waterfront. The data gathered from this station is informing the Port Authority and Pinnacle Renewable Energy Group about which activities are generating high noise levels. This helps establish baselines for noise levels that will show the effectiveness of future noise management initiatives.

Working with project proponents Pacific NorthWest LNG and BG Group, the Port Authority coordinated the establishment of the port’s first wet deposition station. Funded by the two liquefied natural gas companies and administered by the Port Authority, the station is located in the District of Port Edward. It collects samples of rainfall and snow that are tested for chemical compounds including nitrate, sulfate and free acidity.

As with other monitoring sites, the samples collected at the wet deposition station are providing data that define today’s air quality within the vicinity of the Port of Prince Rupert. This information will be used as a reference for future environmental assessments for developments— and compared against future air quality to understand the impact of major industrial development.

Through these initiatives and monitoring programs, the Port Authority is working collaboratively to measure airborne pollutants and better understand how we can keep our community healthy. Commitment to air quality is a key component of Port Authority’s 2020 Environmental Sustainability Plan.

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Rare photo of a Harbour Porpoise with his/her face above the surface. Credit Ari S. Friedlaender

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ave you ever noticed little black porpoises around Ridley Island?

The Harbour Porpoise is our smallest whale, but they have a very big brain in relation to their size. They use some of that large brain for echo location and some figuring how best to catch herring, smelt and salmon smolts near Flora Bank.

If you have never seen a Harbour Porpoise you are not the only one; many locals have gone in and out of Prince Rupert Harbour many times and not even noticed them. These whales are one of the shyest on earth. They never come over and play at the bow of boats.

They rarely do more than break the surface with their quick roll, not even showing their face. They are hard to spot because they don’t splash as they speed along.

However, once people become aware of them they can be spotted around Ridley Island almost every day- a couple of black backs with fins breaking the surface for a moment in the distance.

How many live here? We really don’t know. Judging from the name of waterways around Ridley Island; Porpoise Channel and Porpoise Harbour, there used to be a lot of them. Marine life in the area went down drastically when the pulp mill was going. The herring went down and likely the Harbour Porpoise population went down as well.

But now, the pulp mill has been shut down for more than a decade and the area is getting richer and richer as marine species come back. Maybe these shy local whales are becoming more plentiful too.

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Pacific NorthWest LNG is firing back at statements made by the New Democratic Party alluding to a plan to bring in a significant number of temporary foreign workers that would take jobs away from British Columbians.

New Democrat spokesperson on natural gas development Bruce Ralston accused the company of indicating it would “recruit 40 per cent of the workers required to build its terminal, and a staggering 70 per cent of the workers used during the last three years of building, from overseas”, citing the company’s filing with the BC Environmental Assessment Office.

“The Premier said this week that she has completed a project development agreement with Petronas, a proponent that had already told her government that it intends to use up to 70 per cent foreign labour on construction,” he said, also pointing to the recent pause of the Lelu Island terminal.

“It looks unlikely that construction of any LNG project will start in the next year. It’s time for the Premier to publicly reject the Petronas plan to use workers and businesses overseas and use the next year to fight for B.C. workers and an LNG industry built by them, rather than giving up on them in her desperation to get an unsupportable project underway.”

However, Pacific NorthWest LNG said the numbers contained in the filing represented somewhat of a worst-case scenario in which there were no skilled workers available in B.C. or across the country due to a large number of major projects moving forward.

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BC Transit will be extending its hours during the holiday season and running into the early morning hours of New Year’s Day. From Dec. 15-20 and again on Dec. 22 and 23, bus service on routes 51-55 will be extended until 10 p.m to accommodate late-night shoppers and holiday celebrants. While there will be no bus service at all on Christmas day, bus service in Prince Rupert will be free between 6:45 p.m. and 3:30 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. For those in Port Edward, bus service connecting to Prince Rupert will be free on New Year’s Eve. Buses will depart from Prince Rupert bound for Port Edward at 6:10 p.m., 7:10 p.m., 9:30 p.m., 10:10 p.m., 1 a.m., 2 a.m. and 3 a.m.

“Our first priority is to hire as many local workers as possible to construct the facility. We’ve already began to support training programs for local workers and First Nations, such as Coastal Pathways Partnership and piloting our own Individual Training Program,” said spokesperson Spencer Sproule, noting some workers with “highly specialized expertise” that doesn’t exist in Canada will be needed.

“Where local workers are unavailable, our hiring philosophy will be to recruit workers from British Columbia and the rest of Canada before hiring international workers. Hiring as many Canadians as possible makes sense for our business and for our economy.

Approximately one-third of the jobs operating the facility will be process operators. We will be providing training for those positions to help ensure we’re able to hire locally.”

North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice said

the potential use of temporary foreign workers for construction of the terminal is worrisome.

“Most of the jobs British Columbians and locals can benefit from are in the construction of the LNG facilities.

It will be of little economic benefit if British Columbians are not working and it certainly will be hard-felt by people in Prince Rupert and Port Edward if they are left at the side of the road to watch temproary foreign workers building the LNG industry right in front of their eyes,” she said, noting the long term benefits of LNG are also questionable.

“There are few jobs for local people once an LNG plant is in operation.

The former pulp mill would have still employed more people than two LNG plants in Prince Rupert ever will. I want locals to benefit and that means they need to be involved in the construction of LNG facilities.”

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in a difficult position, in part because of the collapsing energy prices ... I still think LNG remains an ongoing question.”

Cullen said his confidence in how the provincial and federal governments are handling the LNG discussion has also diminished.

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December 17, 2014 • Northern View • A11

Port cargo down in 2014

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Backers of a third large oil refinery proposal for B.C.’s North Coast made some high-profile appointments Wednesday, naming former Assembly of First Nations national chiefs Shawn Atleo and Ovide Mercredi as advisors to their team.

Pacific Future Energy, proposing what it calls the world’s greenest refinery near Prince Rupert, announced the appointments Wednesday at a Vancouver Board of Trade event hosted by Stockwell Day, the former Conservative trade minister who has been the group’s public face since August.

Pacific Future’s proposal is similar to Kitimat Clean, a refinery bid launched in 2012

by David Black, chairman of Black Press.

Both would be constructed from modules manufactured offshore to produce diesel, gasoline and other fuels for sale, avoiding the transport of heavy oil by tankers to reach export markets.

The third proposal is called Eagle Spirit Energy, headed by aboriginal author and lawyer Calvin Helin with financial backing from the Aquilini Group, the Vancouver family business that owns the Vancouver Canucks and extensive real estate and farm holdings.

Eagle Spirit is proposing a pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to an upgrader that would produce synthetic crude oil for export by tankers, likely from the Prince Rupert area.

Black announced last week that engineering firm Hatch Ltd. has completed a design and feasibility study for a refinery at an estimated

Cargo handled by terminals within the Port of Prince Rupert was down last month and, so far, this year.

Last month, facilities handled just less than 1,481,859 tonnes of cargo all together, dropping nearly seven per cent from the November 2013 total of 1,593,067. Eleven months into this year, all terminals moved 19,233,960.6 tonnes, a decline of nearly nine per cent from the 21,113,840 tonnes recorded in the same period of 2013.

Fairview Terminal actually experienced an increase in 20-foot equivalent units (TEUs) last month, with 53,692 TEUs moving through the facility. This is up from 50,798 in November 2013, an increase of nearly six per cent. With a month remaining in 2014, 557,933 TEUs went through Fairview, up from 496,445.5 TEUs by the end of November 2013, a more than 12 per cent rise. Imports at the container port were up slightly more than five per cent, with 30,448 TEUs coming through in November. With a month remaining in 2014, imports have jumped close to 15 per cent yearover-year, with nearly 323,043 TEUs coming through Fairview, up from 281,033.5. Exports also increased by more than six per cent in November with 23,244 TEUs leaving Fairview.

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cost of $22 billion, making it one of the 10 biggest in the world.

Black said in an interview he sees obvious similarities with the Pacific Future proposal, which describes new technology and carbon capture to reduce its environmental impact.

Kitimat Clean proposes a new refining process that avoids production of petroleum coke, a coal-like byproduct of conventional heavy oil refining that is used in steel making.

Black said the entry of Pacific Future, headed by an executive of Mexican conglomerate Grupo Salinas, shows the business case for a B.C. refinery is sound and there is capacity for more than one plant.

All proposals for B.C. North Coast refining require oil transport to the coast, either by rail or in some version of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, which received a federal environmental certificate this year and awaits approval by the federal cabinet.

All proposals also face opposition to transport of heavy oil.

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TEUs left the operation, with empty TEUs jumping 75 per cent.

By November’s end, a total of 234,890 TEUs were shipped from Fairview, increasing from 215,412 in the same period of time in 2013, or nine per cent. The amount of loaded TEUs leaving Fairview went up three per cent so far this year, with empty TEUs going up by 19.5 per cent.

Close to 39 per cent more logs left the harbour last month, with a total of 26,463 tonnes going through compared to 19,088 last November.

But log shipments had decreased by 8.5 per cent with a month left in 2014.

Ridley Terminal experienced a 31 per cent drop in cargo last month, with 327,517 tonnes being moved compared to 476,086 in November 2013. The coal terminal recorded a 38 per cent drop in tonnage year over year, with 6,789,188 tonnes going through in 11 months, down from 10,994,662 in the same period in 2013.

Prince Rupert Grain’s November tonnage dropped by nine per cent month over month, handling 535,076 tonnes last month and 588,806 in November 2013. With a month of 2014 left, PRG saw nearly 27 per cent more tonnage than in 2013, a total of nearly 6,043,972 tonnes up from 4,764,622 11 months into 2013.

Last month, 55,880 tonnes went through Westview Terminal with a year-to-date total of 466,543 tonnes.

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TransCanada updates plans for marine pipeline

BY SHAUN THOMAS PORT EDWARD / The Northern View

Representatives from TransCanada were in Port Edward on Dec. 9 to give an update on the pipeline, with much of the focus being put on the underwater portion of the project.

The company will be running two 36inch pipelines, which are concrete-weight coated to endure the pressure of being hundreds of metres below the surface, from the Nass Valley to the Pacific NorthWest LNG terminal on Lelu Island using a specialized 330 metre long vessel.

“The whole process for the marine pipeline will take about a year, the actual heavy construction, where we are constructing pipe and laying it on the seabed will take about four months. All the rest is smaller activities such as doing seabed preparation at the front end and working on the pipeline at the back end,” said major projects director Neil Milne.

“Laying a large pipeline like this underwater, this is the first one for us. But all of the contractors involved have done this thousands of times ... there are only about four companies in the world that do this type of pipelining and have the

type of vessels that can lay the pipe. We’re reviewing their bids at the moment and will have them selected by early January.”

The pipe will be laid at an average depth of 250 metres, with open ocean depths ranging from 80 metres to more than 600 metres. While the pipes won’t be buried in the open water, TransCanada said it is taking extra precautions when it comes to the area near the terminal.

“The soils outside of Lelu Island, the first couple metres are pretty soft. It’s almost flaky soil so there is not really sediment, but down below that it is reasonable soil for trenching a burying the pipes,” said Milne.

“It doesn’t need to be from an engineering perspective, we’re just doing it so fishing gear doesn’t snag on it. Not that it would because it is concrete-weight coated, but we’re going to bury it so the seabed looks like its original state. We won’t be burying it in the deep ocean.”

To accommodate the people laying the pipe, TransCanada will be using a work camp unlike any other proposed for the North Coast.

“There will be a marine camp that we will have to use, which we didn’t have in our environmental application ... the land

AWARD WINNER Cody Robinson, electrical apprenticeship student from Prince Rupert was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Silver Medal for excelling in his studies and his positive contribution to the community.

“It’s hard for me to get my head around the idea that I won this award, but at the same time I’m very honoured,” said Cody Robinson, who was presented the award at the Terrace Campus on Dec. 5 by NWCC Board Chair Herb Pond.

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ON NOW AT YOUR BC CHEVROLET/GMC/Buick DEALERS. Chevrolet.ca/ BCGMCDEALERS.ca 1-800-GM-DRIVE. Chevrolet/GMC/Buick are brands of General Motors of Canada. License, insurance, registration, PPSA and dealer administration fees and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in the BC Chevrolet/GMC Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer trade may be required. 1Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014, 2015 model year Chevrolet/GMC car, SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between December 2, 2014 and January 2, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on all eligible Chevrolet/GMC vehicles. Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any Pontiac/Saturn/SAAB/Hummer/Oldsmobile model year 1999 or newer vehicle or Chevrolet Cobalt or HHR that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014, 2015 model year Chevrolet/GMC car, SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between December 2, 2014 and January 2, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $1500 credit available on all eligible Chevrolet/GMC vehicles. Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer pick-up truck that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive): $1,000 credit available towards the retail purchase, cash purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014 or 2015 model year GMC/Chevrolet light or heavy duty pickup(except Canyon or Colorado); delivered in Canada between December 2, 2014 through January 2, 2015. Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GMCL dealer for details. GMCL reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice. 2$500 Boxing Week Bonus is a manufacturer-to-consumer credit (tax inclusive) available on the retail purchase or lease of 2014 or 2015 model year Chevrolet Sonic, Cruze, Trax, Equinox, Traverse, Silverado 1500 Double Cab, Silverado HD (gas engine only) and 2014 or 2015 model year GMC Terrain, Acadia, Sierra 1500 Double Cab, Sierra HD (gas engine only). delivered in Canada between December 15, 2014 and January 2, 2015. For the province of Quebec the offer ends on December 31, 2014. 3$8,500 is a combined total credit consisting of a $4,000 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Silverado/Sierra Light Duty Double Cab, $1,000 Holiday Cash for Truck Owners (tax inclusive), $500 Boxing Week Bonus (tax inclusive) and a $3,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Silverado/Sierra 1500 Double Cab, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers,

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BOXING WEEK BONUS ENDS JAN 2ND consumers are foregoing this $3,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model.4$5,500 is a combined total credit consisting of a $1,000 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) on 2014 Chevrolet Cruze LTZ, a $750 Holiday Cash (tax inclusive), $500 Boxing Week Bonus (tax inclusive) and a $3,250 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Cruze LTZ which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $3,250 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. 5$3,250 is a combined total credit consisting of a $750 Holiday Cash (tax inclusive), $500 Boxing Week Bonus (tax inclusive) and a $2,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Trax which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $2,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. 6Based on Wardsauto.com 2013 Large Pickup segment and last available information at the time of posting. Excludes other GM vehicles. Maximum trailer weight ratings are calculated assuming base vehicle, except for any option(s) necessary to achieve the rating, plus driver. The weight of other optional equipment, passengers and cargo will reduce the maximum trailer weight your vehicle can tow. See your dealer for additional details. 72014 Silverado 1500 with the available 5.3L EcoTec3 V8 engine equipped with a 6-speed automatic transmission has a fuel-consumption rating of 13.0L/100 km city and 8.7L/100 km hwy 2WD and 13.3L/100 km city and 9.0L/100 km hwy 4WD. Ford F-150 with the 3.5L EcoBoost V6 engine has a fuel consumption rating of 12.9L/100 km city and 9.0L/100 km hwy 2WD and 14.1L/100 km city and 9.6L/100 km hwy 4WD. Fuel consumption based on GM testing in accordance with approved Transport Canada test methods.

Your actual fuel consumption may vary. 8Whichever comes first. See dealer/manufacturer for details. Based on Wardsauto.com 2013 Large Pickup segment and last available information at the time of posting. 9Based on GM Testing in accordance with approved Transport Canada test methods. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. 10Based on WardsAuto.com 2012 Upper Small segment, excluding Hybrid and Diesel powertrains. Standard 10 airbags, ABS, traction control and StabiliTrak. 11Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). 12Visit onstar.ca for coverage map, details and system limitations. Services vary by model and conditions. OnStar acts as a link to existing emergency service providers. After complimentary trial period, an active OnStar service plan is required. 13Whichever comes first. Limit of four ACDelco Lube-Oil-Filter services in total. Fluid top-offs, inspections, tire rotations, wheel alignments and balancing, etc., are not covered. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. 14Whichever comes first. See dealer for details. 15$4,250 is a combined total credit consisting of a $750 Holiday Cash (tax inclusive), $500 Boxing Week Bonus (tax inclusive) and a $3,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for all 2014 Terrain, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $3,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. 16The GMC Terrain received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among compact SUVs in the proprietary J.D. Power 2014 Initial Quality Study. Study based on responses from 86,118 new-vehicle owners, measuring 239 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of owners surveyed in February-May 2014. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com.

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ON NOW AT YOUR BC CHEVROLET/GMC/Buick DEALERS. Chevrolet.ca/ BCGMCDEALERS.ca 1-800-GM-DRIVE. Chevrolet/GMC/Buick are brands of General Motors of Canada. License, insurance, registration, PPSA and dealer administration fees and taxes not included. Dealers are free to set individual prices. Offers apply to qualified retail customers in the BC Chevrolet/GMC Dealer Marketing Association area only. Dealer trade may be required. 1Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer car that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014, 2015 model year Chevrolet/GMC car, SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between December 2, 2014 and January 2, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $750 credit available on all eligible Chevrolet/GMC vehicles. Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any Pontiac/Saturn/SAAB/Hummer/Oldsmobile model year 1999 or newer vehicle or Chevrolet Cobalt or HHR that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit valid towards the retail purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014, 2015 model year Chevrolet/GMC car, SUV, crossover and pickups models delivered in Canada between December 2, 2014 and January 2, 2015. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive) and credit value depends on model purchased: $1500 credit available on all eligible Chevrolet/GMC vehicles. Offer applies to eligible current owners or lessees of any model year 1999 or newer pick-up truck that has been registered and insured in Canada in the customer’s name for the previous consecutive six (6) months. Credit is a manufacturer to consumer incentive (tax inclusive): $1,000 credit available towards the retail purchase, cash purchase or lease of one eligible 2013, 2014 or 2015 model year GMC/Chevrolet light or heavy duty pickup(except Canyon or Colorado); delivered in Canada between December 2, 2014 through January 2, 2015. Offer is transferable to a family member living within the same household (proof of address required). As part of the transaction, dealer may request documentation and contact General Motors of Canada Limited (GMCL) to verify eligibility. This offer may not be redeemed for cash and may not be combined with certain other consumer incentives. Certain limitations or conditions apply. Void where prohibited. See your GMCL dealer for details. GMCL reserves the right to amend or terminate offers for any reason in whole or in part at any time without prior notice. 2$500 Boxing Week Bonus is a manufacturer-to-consumer credit (tax inclusive) available on the retail purchase or lease of 2014 or 2015 model year Chevrolet Sonic, Cruze, Trax, Equinox, Traverse, Silverado 1500 Double Cab, Silverado HD (gas engine only) and 2014 or 2015 model year GMC Terrain, Acadia, Sierra 1500 Double Cab, Sierra HD (gas engine only). delivered in Canada between December 15, 2014 and January 2, 2015. For the province of Quebec the offer ends on December 31, 2014. 3$8,500 is a combined total credit consisting of a $4,000 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Silverado/Sierra Light Duty Double Cab, $1,000 Holiday Cash for Truck Owners (tax inclusive), $500 Boxing Week Bonus (tax inclusive) and a $3,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Silverado/Sierra 1500 Double Cab, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers,

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BOXING WEEK BONUS ENDS JAN 2ND consumers are foregoing this $3,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model.4$5,500 is a combined total credit consisting of a $1,000 manufacturer to dealer delivery credit (tax exclusive) on 2014 Chevrolet Cruze LTZ, a $750 Holiday Cash (tax inclusive), $500 Boxing Week Bonus (tax inclusive) and a $3,250 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Cruze LTZ which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $3,250 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. 5$3,250 is a combined total credit consisting of a $750 Holiday Cash (tax inclusive), $500 Boxing Week Bonus (tax inclusive) and a $2,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for 2014 Trax which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $2,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. 6Based on Wardsauto.com 2013 Large Pickup segment and last available information at the time of posting. Excludes other GM vehicles. Maximum trailer weight ratings are calculated assuming base vehicle, except for any option(s) necessary to achieve the rating, plus driver. The weight of other optional equipment, passengers and cargo will reduce the maximum trailer weight your vehicle can tow. See your dealer for additional details. 72014 Silverado 1500 with the available 5.3L EcoTec3 V8 engine equipped with a 6-speed automatic transmission has a fuel-consumption rating of 13.0L/100 km city and 8.7L/100 km hwy 2WD and 13.3L/100 km city and 9.0L/100 km hwy 4WD. Ford F-150 with the 3.5L EcoBoost V6 engine has a fuel consumption rating of 12.9L/100 km city and 9.0L/100 km hwy 2WD and 14.1L/100 km city and 9.6L/100 km hwy 4WD. Fuel consumption based on GM testing in accordance with approved Transport Canada test methods.

Your actual fuel consumption may vary. 8Whichever comes first. See dealer/manufacturer for details. Based on Wardsauto.com 2013 Large Pickup segment and last available information at the time of posting. 9Based on GM Testing in accordance with approved Transport Canada test methods. Your actual fuel consumption may vary. 10Based on WardsAuto.com 2012 Upper Small segment, excluding Hybrid and Diesel powertrains. Standard 10 airbags, ABS, traction control and StabiliTrak. 11Government 5-Star Safety Ratings are part of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) New Car Assessment Program (www.SaferCar.gov). 12Visit onstar.ca for coverage map, details and system limitations. Services vary by model and conditions. OnStar acts as a link to existing emergency service providers. After complimentary trial period, an active OnStar service plan is required. 13Whichever comes first. Limit of four ACDelco Lube-Oil-Filter services in total. Fluid top-offs, inspections, tire rotations, wheel alignments and balancing, etc., are not covered. Additional conditions and limitations apply. See dealer for details. 14Whichever comes first. See dealer for details. 15$4,250 is a combined total credit consisting of a $750 Holiday Cash (tax inclusive), $500 Boxing Week Bonus (tax inclusive) and a $3,000 manufacturer to dealer cash credit (tax exclusive) for all 2014 Terrain, which is available for cash purchases only and cannot be combined with special lease and finance rates. By selecting lease or finance offers, consumers are foregoing this $3,000 credit which will result in higher effective interest rates. Discounts vary by model. 16The GMC Terrain received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among compact SUVs in the proprietary J.D. Power 2014 Initial Quality Study. Study based on responses from 86,118 new-vehicle owners, measuring 239 models and measures opinions after 90 days of ownership. Proprietary study results are based on experiences and perceptions of owners surveyed in February-May 2014. Your experiences may vary. Visit jdpower.com.

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Wise customers read the fine print: *, •, ★, *, ‡, †, §, 5 The Be Your Own Santa Holiday Sales Event offers are limited time offers which apply to retail deliveries of selected new and unused models purchased from participating dealers on or after December 2, 2014. Offers subject to change and may be extended without notice. All pricing includes freight ($1,695) and excludes licence, insurance, registration, any dealer administration fees, other dealer charges and other applicable fees and taxes. Dealer order/trade may be necessary. Dealer may sell for less. *Consumer Cash Discounts are offered on select new 2014/2015 vehicles and are deducted from the negotiated price before taxes. •$500 Holiday Bonus Cash is available on select new 2015 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Fiat or Ram models at participating dealers from December 2-31, 2014 only. Excludes 2015 Jeep Patriot/2015 Dodge Grand Caravan Canada Value Package/2015 Dodge Journey Canada Value Package. Bonus Cash will be deducted from the negotiated purchase/lease price after taxes. See dealer for complete details and exclusions. ★The Make No Payments for 90 Days is a limited time offer which applies to retail customers who finance a new 2014/2015 Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Ram or FIAT vehicle (except 2014 Dodge Avenger SE and 2014/2015 Dodge Viper) at a special fixed rate on approved credit through Royal Bank of Canada, TD Auto Finance or Scotiabank. Offer does not apply to Scotiabank special rate financing contracts longer than 90 months. Monthly/bi-weekly/weekly payments will be deferred for 60 days and contracts will be extended accordingly. Interest charges will not accrue during the first 60 days of the contract. Customers will be responsible for any required down payment, license, registration and insurance costs at time of contract. Some conditions apply. See your dealer for complete details. *3.49% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2015 Jeep Cherokee FWD through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Example: 2015 Jeep Cherokee Sport FWD with a Purchase Price of $23,498 financed at 3.49% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 416 weekly payments of $65 with a cost of borrowing of $3,441 and a total obligation of $26,939. ‡3.99% purchase financing for up to 96 months available on the new 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo/2015 Jeep Wrangler Sport 4x4 models to qualified customers on approved credit through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Examples: 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo/2015 Jeep Wrangler Sport 4x4 with a Purchase Price of $38,498/$20,498 (including applicable Consumer Cash Discounts) financed at 3.99% over 96 months with $0 down payment equals 416 weekly payments of $108/$58 with a cost of borrowing of $6,485/$3,453 and a total obligation of $44,983/$23,951. †0.0% purchase financing for 36 months available on the 2015 Jeep Cherokee models through RBC, Scotiabank and TD Auto Finance. Example: 2015 Jeep Cherokee with a Purchase Price of $23,498, with a $0 down payment, financed at 0.0% for 36 months equals 156 weekly payments of $150; cost of borrowing of $0 and a total obligation of $23,498. §Starting from prices for vehicles shown include Consumer Cash Discounts and do not include upgrades (e.g. paint). Upgrades available for additional cost. 5Sub-prime financing available on approved credit. Financing example: 2015 Jeep Cherokee Sport with a purchase price of $23,498 financed at 4.99% over 60 months, equals 260 weekly payments of $90 for a total obligation of $26,939. Some conditions apply. Down payment is required. See your dealer for complete details. 3Based on 2014 Ward’s Small Sport Utility segmentation. »Jeep Grand Cherokee has received more awards over its lifetime than any other SUV. TMThe SiriusXM logo is a registered trademark of SiriusXM Satellite Radio Inc. ®Jeep is a registered trademark of Chrysler Group LLC.

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Judd Rowse and the team at Cowpuccino’s are in the Top 10 in two categories of the Small Business B.C. Awards.

Cowpuccino’s advances to semi-finals

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Cowpuccino’s has made it through to the next round of the Small Business B.C. Awards in both the Community Impact and Best Workplace categories.

The Cow Bay-based coffee shop was named as one of the Top 10 semi-finalists in the awards on Dec. 12 after receiving enough votes and community support to get through a preliminary round that saw more than 460 businesses in more than 70 communities across the province receive a nomination.

“This year we saw a tremendous amount of participation in the Small Business BC Awards through a high number of nominees coming in from across the province. It’s fantastic to see so many small businesses being recognized, not only for their success, but also for the positive impact they’re having on their local communities and the contributions they’re making to the economy,” said Small Business B.C. CEO George Hunter.

As a semifinalist, Cowpuccino’s will now move forward to face a panel of judges, who will review their applications, and based on the award criteria, narrow down the competition to the Top 5 finalists in each category.

The Top 5 finalists in these categories will be announced on January 30, 2015, and invited to give a Dragons’ Den-style pitch in front of a panel of judges on why they should be named the best in B.C. “It’s going to be a tough job selecting the winners, but we’re very excited to see who comes out on top,” said Hunter.

The winners will be honored and celebrated on Feb. 26, 2015 at the Small Business BC Awards Ceremony in Vancouver. The night will include messages from Premier Christy Clark and the Honourable Minister Naomi Yamamoto, among others.

Winners will receive the Premier’s Prize of $1,500 cash, a one-year All-Access Pass to Small Business B.C. education and resources, and one-on-one business mentorship opportunities with notable advisors from the award sponsors.

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BY MARTINA PERRY PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Blossoming musicians from the Ring System Music Studio have been plugging away at their vocals and instrumental segments for the 2014 Jingle Bell Rock concert, which is taking place this Saturday.

The annual performance is one of two that Ring System students put on each year, with all proceeds from the holiday show going to the Prince Rupert Salvation Army Christmas Appeal. Each year the show has collected more and more money for the Salvation Army, with $1,760 being raised at the 2013 performance.

This year’s Jingle Bell Rock concert will consist of a total

of 55 young musicians who will take the stage in small and large groups.

“There’s going to be a whole variety of music—pretty much every style. Pop, rock, classic rock, country and some indie,” Ian Lihou, Ring System Music Studio instructor, said.

Lihou promised it will be the best show yet and said the young performers are going to bring down the house.

“There’s so many students that have been with me since the very beginning, and they’re all getting so good ... The arrangements and vocal harmonies are getting far more intricate, and some of the performances you’re going to hear will blow you away,” he said.

“It’s so gratifying to see the progression.”

The music studio’s yearly concerts are something Lihou’s students look forward to each year, despite all the extra hours required to organize them. Student Emily Mair has performed in seven of the group’s shows over the years, and said it’s always worth the effort.

“I remember being really nervous the first time we performed, but now it’s not a problem. It’s really fun; it’s not work for us,” Mair said.

The 2014 Jingle Bell Rock concert will take place at the Lester Centre of the Arts on Saturday, Dec. 20, with the performance starting at 7 p.m.

Admission will be by donation.

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McNeil-Clark born again

BY MARTINA PERRY PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

For much of her life, Donna McNeilClark didn’t know her origins; the history of her people was nearly erased.

Today, Donna, a proud member of the Tahltan and Nisga’a Nations, is more connected to her roots than ever, thanks in part to her career in the Prince Rupert School District.

“I’m like a born-again First Nations,” Donna laughed.

School used to be a place that aimed to strip Aboriginal people of their culture.

Through her teaching, Donna hopes she can do the opposite for her students.

“I’m very passionate about teaching the local language, history and culture,” she said.

Donna was born in Prince Rupert but spent her childhood in Port Edward, being the eldest of four children.

As a young child, Donna and her family lived in the Nelson Brother’s Cannery row houses for First Nations. Here Donna recalls being able to see her father at work while he unloaded fish from boats.

Many of the people working at Nelson Brothers lived in the cannery village, which was divided into sections based on race.

Donna said she had a happy childhood in the close-knit community.

“It was a busy little fishing town. All walks of life lived in the neighbourhood and everyone cared about one another,” she said.

“You knew you couldn’t get away with mischief because everybody knew each other. Your mom would find out pretty damn quick,” Donna laughed.

Donna says her parents were great role models for her growing up, being very community-minded people who valued the importance of education.

When she was attending school in Port Edward as a kid, Donna noticed there were never lessons about Aboriginal history or culture within the curriculum. And if there was, the lessons weren’t about any of the First Nations people of the area.

“I’d wondered why native people weren’t represented in our textbooks,” she recalled.

When Donna was a teenager she attended high school in Prince Rupert until she decided to drop out in Grade 11 and move to Tsawwassen.

While she lived in the Lower Mainland, Donna found it extremely difficult to find work, noticing many employers had a negative concept of First Nations people.

“Trying to get a job in the city in the ‘80s ... was really hard for native people. As soon as they found out you were native, you knew you weren’t going to get the job. I stopped saying I was,” she said.

The challenge to find a job motivated Donna to go back to school. At the time she was fascinated with the fashion industry, enrolling in Blanche Macdonald Centre’s fashion merchandising program in hopes of becoming a fashion illustrator.

“I wanted to decorate all the storefront windows I used to look at in Vancouver,” she said.

But even after completing the program, finding a job that paid more than minimum wage continued to be a struggle, prompting Donna to return to the North Coast each summer to work in the cannery.

Growing tired of what felt like a neverending pursuit to find work, Donna decided to return to school.

After completing the electronic technician program at Vancouver Community College, Donna landed a job but felt she wasn’t taken seriously.

“It was a male-dominated area,” she said.

“I ended up just staying in the shop and hated it.”

It frustrated Donna to be the first employee laid off each year and having to depend on employment insurance for numerous months.

But it was in the employment insurance office that she would learn about a program that was being set up to get more First Nations people working in Prince Rupert schools, signing up to become a support worker.

Donna did the practicum portion of the program at Roosevelt Elementary and was hired before graduating, becoming a childcare worker at the school in 1992.

For the two years she stayed in the position, Donna worked closely with two students.

Although there were many challenges, there were also noteworthy successes.

Through a combination of computer learning and sign language, Donna was able to help a young girl who had Down syndrome and a hearing impairment to read and speak aloud.

“I was so happy for her,” said Donna, adding the experience was also fulfilling.

“It made me see it doesn’t take much to inspire kids; all you have to do is believe in them and give them encouragement,” she said.

In the ‘90s, industries that had been the community’s livelihood for decades were dwindling. Because a lot of the students at Roosevelt were from families struggling to cope with the changing economy, the provincial government supplied funding to turn it into a community school. A community school program coordinator was needed, with Donna being hired for the yearround job.

Donna excelled at her mandate of

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Donna McNeil-Clark has taught Sm’algyax at Charles Hays Secondary for four years.

forming community partnerships in order to provide programs and services to meet the needs of students and their families.

The Roosevelt gym housed an array of activities, as well as basketball practices for a number of teams.

“We ended up having programs every day after school. The school was open everyday after three until six,” Donna said.

In time another full-time coordinator had to be hired, along with two more in the community for the Nights Alive program.

“It went from me being in a room to a full-service school model,” Donna said.

Through one of the many activities at Roosevelt, Donna would fall for her future husband, Lance Clark.

The two rented separate levels of a home, being acquainted through their children.

“I invited him and his cute son (Adam Moore) up to play with (my son) Justin,” Donna explained.

Knowing Lance was a musician, Donna asked him to perform at a Christmas concert that was being put on at Roosevelt.

“I was impressed with how he conducted himself with the kids and how much the kids liked him. So much so that I started liking him ... so I dropped a love note in his guitar case. Then was too scared to go home,” Donna laughed.

The two went on to get married in 1994, with this Boxing Day being their 20th wedding anniversary. In 1997 they welcomed

their son Kendall to the family, raising their three boys together.

“There was no borderline there,” Donna said of raising their kids.

Life at home was great for Donna, but her work life became more uncertain in the early2000s when the provincial government began reducing community school funding. More and more money was cut, reducing staff and programs, and after 16 years at Roosevelt Donna decided to leave and pursue a teaching career.

When the school district began offering a program to ensure there were enough Sm’algyax language teachers in Prince Rupert, Donna decided to take a chance.

Many of the people in the program were able to get a bachelor of education in Prince Rupert through the University of British Columbia without having to leave, including Donna.

“To learn a new language at that age was difficult, but what kept me going was that finally, finally the missing part of my life, my own history, I got to study everyday,” she said.

“I started to look for my own history [in our learning materials]. I wanted to know what they knew about the natives at the Stikine. What did they know about the Nisga’a? All the questions I had about my own family, I would look for traces in their adawx.”

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Saving a language one student at a time McNEIL-CLARK from Page A16 For the past four years Donna has taught Sm’algyax at Charles Hays Secondary, with Lax Kw’alaams hereditary chief Alex Campbell (Sm’ooygit Gitxoon) working with her over the years to help develop her skills.

“He’s a great mentor. He never makes me insecure about not being Tsimshian,” Donna said.

The more Donna learned about her ancestors, the more passionate she felt about advocating for the protection of the land they lived off of for thousands of years.

“We have what the rest of the world doesn’t. We have an intact ecosystem that is still working and can be saved. We could live off this land. If we learned the ways of the elders we could exist for a lot longer,” she said.

Donna hopes that by teaching her students what the names of land and territories were prior to colonization, they too will grow to have the same appreciation.

“I think it’s so important to know who you are and how you are connected to this land,” she said.

“These students are our future and will need to fight for it.”

It wasn’t too long ago that schools stripped Aboriginal people of their identities and forbid them from practising their culture, so Donna aims to bring as much meaning into the Sm’algyax course’s set curriculum as she can. Because even if her students never becoming fluent in the language, she hopes to instill something even more important.

“As long as they walk out of the door and are proud to be First Nations ... I still feel like I was able to help,” Donna said.

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A young man was taken to hospital earlier this month after being stabbed in the head.

On Dec. 6 at approximately 10:52 p.m., members of the Prince Rupert RCMP received a report of a fight in progress on the 600 block of Fulton Street.

“Police attended and we located one victim who had a stab wound to his head,” Const. Matt Ericson, spokesperson of the Prince Rupert RCMP, said, adding the young man was taken to the hospital and after receiving treatment was released that evening.

“One suspect has been taken into custody.”

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Members of the Prince Rupert RCMP and other emergency personel held the annual Candy Cane Checkstop on Dec. 12, handing out candy canes while checking for impaired drivers.

“The purpose of the checkstop is to educate drivers and the community of the dangers of drinking and driving and to plan before you party,” said Const. Matt Ericson, spokesperson of the Prince Rupert RCMP. “If you are planning of drinking over the holiday season, please do not drive. Find an alternative way to get home.”

Rupert First Nation student improvements highlight report

BY MARTINA PERRY PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Sandra Jones, superintendent of the Prince Rupert School District, recently presented a report on student achievement that showed many areas of improvement in 2013/14, particularly for Aboriginal students.

“The board is pleased to see the continuing improvements in the results for the Aboriginal students in the district. We look forward to even better results in the years to come,” said Tina Last, board chair.

In the 2013/14 school year, 89 per cent of kindergarten students met basic skills by the end of the year, a seven-year high. Phonological skills were also the highest in years at 71 per cent.

While Grade 4 Aboriginal students scored higher than the provincial average in their reading Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA), there was a slight drop.

But the reading scores of all Grade 4 students declined by 10 per cent and was below the provincial average.

All Grade 4 students improved in the writing FSA, with Aboriginal students scoring above their B.C. counterparts by 11 points.

But Grade 4 numeracy results weren’t as positive. All students scored nearly 20 points below the provincial average, with Aboriginal results declining 10 points below the average.

Grade 7 FSA scores in reading, writing and numeracy have steadily improved over the last three years.

Grade 7 writing results were six points above the

“Maybe two or three students doing poorly in one class [in] one year can make it loook like the world has gone to hell in a handbasket.” average of all students, with Aboriginal students being 17 points above. Reading scores of all learners and Aboriginal students were above the provincial average, with Aboriginal learners also marking above the average in numeracy.

All Grade 10 mathematics marks declined last school year, with Science 10 marks declining over the last five years. English 12 blended final marks were also down.

While all high school grade-to-grade transitions improved last year, the first time graduation rate of all students declined by 16 per cent and 22 per cent for Aboriginal students.

Aboriginal six-year completion rates increased for the fifth straight year, going from 35 per cent in 2009/10 to 62 per cent in 2013/14. But the percentage of all students’ six year completion rate went down three per cent.

Jones cautioned the district’s statistics could be widely diverse based on just a few students.

“Maybe two or three students doing poorly in one class one year can make it look like the world has gone to hell in a hand basket,” she said.

To maintain positive trends, the district will continue its early childhood education work and has hired specialist teacher Carole Fullerton to work with teachers on their mathematics instruction practices.

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Salvation Army In December Christmas 2014 - A Season of Grace Prince Rupert - Doing the most good!

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Merry Christmas Friends,

Erica Collinson and Ken Coping of the Salvation Army accept a donation of hygiene products totaling a value of $800 for the mens’ shelter from Teresa Wesley and Connie Wilson of the Prince Rupert Aboriginal Community Social Services.

Captain Gary Sheils of the Salvation Army accepts two donations totalling $1000 from Magdalena Matthews of the Ladies of the Royal Purple.

Tom MacDonald the secretary/treasurer on behalf of ILWU Local 505, presents Captain Gary Sheils of the Salvation army with a donation of $5,000.

It’s hard to imagine that another year has come and gone. Once again it has been a busy year for us and although there has been a small decrease, need continues to be great in our community. The Christmas season is one where need is most magni¿ed and this year, with your help, we expect to serve 800 families through our Christmas Hamper program.

This past year we partnered with Rising Above to bring a healing conference to Prince Rupert which approximately 300 people attended. It was wonderful to see many take some important steps in the healing journey and support will continue for some time to help people keep moving forward.

Our community partners are so very important to us and they include the Harley Riders whose annual Toy Run brings in a substantial amount of toys as well as a very generous cash donation. We also partner with the Northern Health Authority who assists our clients with general health issues and concerns every Friday. Our partnership with BC Housing helped us provide 225 men, women and children with emergency shelter and meals. Our largest partnership is with you...the individuals and businesses of Prince Rupert and Port Edward. Without you we would not have been able to provide Christmas assistance (food gift cards and toys) last December to more than 800 families (2,500 plus people)...we would not have been able to serve 40,000 meals in Sally Ann’s Bistro and Café... we would not have been able to help 2,300 families through our Food Bank……we would not have been able to provide 1,400 people with free clothing and housewares through our Thrift Store.

It has been said that the worth of a community is seen in how well it looks after its most vulnerable members. Year after year you have proven that ours is a community that cares...ours is a community that has a heart as big and beautiful as the nature that surrounds us. So, on behalf of those we are privileged to serve, thank you so much for your caring and generous hearts. Thank you for all you do to help others and in closing we wish you a most blessed Christmas and we pray for the abundance of God’s grace in your lives.

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CROSSWORD The Northern View is proud to publish at no charge community coming events. The coming events section is reserved soley for non-profit, non-governmental or non-political groups and organizations. All events advertised in the Coming Events section must be free of charge and open to the public. The Coming Events section is published as space permits.

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The Prince Rupert and District Hospice Society sponsors a nine week Support Group, “Journey through Grief”’, Wednesday evenings, two - three times per year according to need. Our group is for adults who are grieving the death of a loved one. We believe that grief has no time limit so therefore your loss need not be a recent one. We do however recommend that there be at least three months from the time of your loss to joining the group. Learn what to expect and gain skills to manage your grief while connecting with others who share a similar journey.

Pre-registration is required. For further information, to register, or for 1:1 support call the Hospice Office at 250-622-6204. Please leave your name and number and your call will be returned.

Prince Rupert Seniors Centre Bingo Fridays 13 pm. Everyone 19 years and older welcome.

Genealogy Club meets every first Tuesday of every month. Phone Josie at 250-624-3279 for the location.

The Prince Rupert Breast Cancer Support Group invites any woman living with cancer to attend our monthly luncheons every third Saturday each month at noon at the Crest Hotel.

P.R. Royal Canadian Legion meets the third Monday of every month. Come visit the Military Museum Thursday - Sunday from 1:30 pm 4:30 pm. Call 250-622-2917 for more information.

Cornerstone MB Church: Coffee mornings at 202-6th Ave. West. Tuesday & Wednesday 10 am - noon All are welcome! 250-627-1033 BC Metis Federation of Prince Rupert meets the third Monday of every month at 1702 Atlin Ave. New people welcome. Refreshments provided. For more information, call 250-627-4013 This is not church! No expectations of financial support or service. Join us in a celebration of faith in Jesus Christ, Sundays 7 p.m., for praise, prayer and proclamation at the Salvation Army, 25 Grenville Court. Friendship House of Prince Rupert Hosts: AamaGoot Power Puff Girlz Club (ages 7-12) Tuesday 3 - 5 p.m., third floor meeting room. AamaGoot Ladyz Club (18 yrs. +) Learn new artistic designs through sewing, beading, etc. Fridays 1- 4 p.m., third floor meeting room. Call Carol Doolan at the Friendship House 250-627-1717, ext. 64 for more info.

Calling all Musicians! Prince Rupert Community Band and Choir are seeking new members No auditions necessary! PR Community Band meets Mon. 7:30 pm - 9 p.m. at PRMS (formerly PRSS) Band Room. PR Comm. Choir meets Wed. 7:30 - 9 p.m. at PRMS Band Room. Contact Peter Witherly at 250-624-9634 Women in Business breakfast meet on the fourth Wednesday each month, 7:30 a.m. Highliner Plaza. We offer women in business an opportunity to network with other women in an informative and fairly informal environment. Interested in attending? Call the Chamber Office 250-624-2296

Cornerstone MB Church: Sunday Celebration every week @ 10:30 a.m., everyone welcome.

Call 250-627-1033 for details.

Volunteers Needed The Prince Rupert Hospital Auxiliary Society is looking for new members. Meetings are held once a month,for further information please call Lila @250-627-1886.

Meals on Wheels program needs volunteers to deliver hot meals to people in Prince Rupert on Mon. Wed. and Fri. from 11 a.m. - noon. Call Andrea Vogt 250-622-6375 for further info.

Become a member of the Prince Rupert Salmon Enhancement Society to get exciting hands-on experience with Salmon at the Oldfield Creek Fish Hatchery and in their natural habitat. You will play a vital role in everything from community education to spawning, raising, and releasing Salmon to local streams. We welcome any level of experience and will provide the necessary training to turn you into a Salmon expert!

Call 250-624-6733 or email oldfieldhatchery@ gmail.com for more information.

Rupert & District Hospice Society is dedicated to “The care and support of those experiencing the dying and grieving process”. For more information, support or to become a volunteer please call 250-622-6204.

Kaien Anti-Poverty Society is seeking persons interested in becoming members of a group who wish to make positive changes for those living below the poverty line. For more info, call KAPS 250-627-5277, leave message.

Donations Needed * No cash requests.

School District 52 Band Program is looking for donations of band instruments! Help us bring music to all students by donating that trumpet you have in your basement or the saxophone in your coat closet! If you have an instrument no one is playing, please call School District office at 250-627-6717 for pick up.

Services * Must be free.

North Coast Victim Services Act Now! Protect yourself and your household, avoid becoming a victim. Obtain a free home security package and a free home inspection. Call 250-627-7779 From Tears to Hope Prince Rupert’s Community Grief Support Group provides education and sharing. Meetings run eight consecutive weeks, several times each year. Pre-registration is required. Contact 250-627-7779 Prince Rupert Unemployed Action Centre provides a range of FREE services to unemployed/ underemployed people in Pr Rupert and Northwest BC. Need help applying for CPP, Canada Disability Pensions, Old Age Security, EI, or WCB? Landlord or Social Service difficulties?

We can help! Come see us Monday - Friday, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m. 869 Fraser St. at Fisherman’s Hall or call 250-627-8776.

If you have knowledge or skills that you would like to share, we would like to meet you as we are always looking for new tutors. We offer a supportive environment and plenty of resources to coach and support new tutors. We offer individual and small group tutoring matching volunteer tutors with students. For more information, please contact Karen Buchanan and Sharon Jo Scott at 250-627-7166 ext.39 or by e-mail fslprces@citytel.net.

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Sugarshack shaping up

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Francophone culture will be proudly on display next month as the Association des francophones et francophiles du Nord-Ouest (AFFNO) prepares to host its annual Sugar Shack Festival.

“It is hard to believe, but this January will be our fifth annual Sugar Shack Festival,” said AFFNO executive director Patrick Witwicki at the Dec. 10 meeting of Port Edward council.

“It’s been building every year and everyone who comes loves it, with the highlight being the traditional Francophone food at the Sugarshack Brunch ... I feel we’ve really built this up to a popular family event for the region.”

This year’s festival will take place from Jan. 29 to Jan. 31, 2015, with the Sugarshack Brunch scheduled to take place in the Dick St. Louis Auditorium beginning at 11:30 a.m. on Jan. 31. As with year’s past, the festival will include live music, with this year’s feature band being the Pastiche Trio — a Francophone band from Victoria that will play the brunch and a show at the Lester Centre during the weekend.

As well as outlining plans for the festival, Witwicki highlighted some of the initiatives AFFNO has

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The Sugarshack Brunch is always a highlight of the festival.

undertaken as part of its mantra of promoting French language, culture and education.

“Locally we have been able to create trilingual flash cards with English, French and Sm’algyax, so it is great to have all three of those on one flash card ... we also undertook a mature worker program for people 55-plus who want to get back into the workforce,” he explained.

“We have recently partnered with Hecate Strait to create an opportunity for new Francophone people in the community. It may not seem like a lot now, but with the LNG industry that could change.”

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PAY IT FORWARD

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Judy Riddell of the Prince Rupert Hospice Society accepts a cheque for $1,240 from Donovan Dias, David Costa and Don Holkestad of CityWest. The money is part of Costa’s “pay it forward” program. He donated the $450 typically charged for DJ service for a company Christmas party to the society if CityWest would match it, which they did. The remaining $340 was raised by CityWest employees during the event.

Notes from the Seniors Centre

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Monday Cribbage: 1st - Alex W. and Marion W., 2nd - Lynne M. and Mary A., 3rd - Paul P. and Merle S. Thursday: 1st - Alex W. and M. Weir, 2nd - Sharron and Paul P., 3rd Lorna M. and E. Page.

Chair exercises were very well attended and the “student teachers” were a blast.

Angela will be back in January with a new

set of students. They will start on Monday, Jan, 5 at 3:15 p.m. and run for five weeks.

Chair exercises are drop-in, all members are welcome to attend.

We will be closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. Other than that we are open for business as usual. So far we have a Bingo scheduled for Wednesday, Dec. 24.

Mark the Jan. 4 pancake breakfast on your calendar. Don’t forget!

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At his last meeting after 21 years as chief administrative officer for the District of Port Edward, Ron Bedard, right, swore in the district’s new CAO Bob Payette on Dec. 12.

The Skeena - Queen Charlotte Regional District includes, back row from left, City of Prince Rupert alternate Barry Cunningham, Port Edward director Dan Franzen, Prince Rupert director Nelson Kinney, Electoral Area E director Bill Beldessi, Area C director Karl Bergman, Prince Rupert director Lee Brain, front row from left, vicechair and Electoral Area E director Des Nobels, Port Clements director Ian Gould and chair and Masset director Barry Pages. Not pictured are Electoral Area D director Michael Racz and Queen Charlotte director Greg Martin.

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The company looking to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal at Grassy Point has just reached a multi-billion dollar deal to take some LNG assets off of Apache Energy’s hands.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd. announced it would be purchasing the Wheatstone LNG and Kitimat LNG, along with accompanying upstream oil and gas reserves, from Apache for $2.75 billion. Apache will also be reimbursed for its net expenditure in the Wheatstone and Kitimat LNG projects between June 30, 2014, and closing which is estimated to be

approximately $1 billion.

“Today’s announcement marks the successful completion of one of our primary strategic goals of exiting the Wheatstone and Kitimat LNG projects,” said Apache Chairman and CEO G. Steven Farris in a news release.

“I am proud of Apache’s legacy in advancing the Wheatstone and Kitimat LNG projects, and I am confident that Woodside’s participation will have a positive impact in seeing these world-class LNG facilities through to first production.”

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BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

A devastating injury has created an irreplaceable hole on the Charles Hays senior girls basketball team.

Grade 12 captain and point guard Tanveen Randhawa was practicing last Thursday for her play day to be taking place this past weekend against the junior squad when she grabbed the ball on a routine play and knew something had gone terribly wrong.

“I caught the ball, went to drive, pushed off my left leg and then I just heard a popping sound and it felt like someone kicked me really hard from behind, so I just turned around and there was no one there,” said Randhawa last Saturday.

“And then I knew it was my achilles [tendon].”

It wasn’t a sight anyone expected to see on Saturday – Randhawa making her way across the court on crutches and in a cast after the first quarter of the senior Rainmakers match versus Caledonia (CAL) at Charles Hays Secondary.

But losing 18-3, and donning their #PLAYFORTAN message on the back of their team shirts, the Rainmakers picked up their game at the sight of their sidelined captain, and made it a twopoint game at 24-22. But in the end, the Kermodes were just too much to handle for the home team and the girls fell 58-39 to a strong Caledonia side in their second game of the day.

“We’re just without our point guard and trying to get used to that,” said head coach Sara Barrow.

“We’re just trying to figure out the lines and where they belong. Henzle [Masocol] came in and hasn’t even touched the ball [before today] so she played fairly well for not even doing that and taking it up the

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court.”

Masocol stepped in for Randhawa and played admirably, but the team will now have to traverse the 2014-15 season without their leader. That’ll be a daunting task, especially with tough competition from Terrace and the surrounding area.

“I had surgery [Friday] morning and then I have my stitches in for two weeks.

After that, I’ll get a cast and then six weeks later, I’ll be in physio,” said the captain.

The ‘Makers’ had trouble boxing out in that first quarter that had the squad down 15 points early, but a masterful second quarter led by Morgan Weir, Ashtyn Andreesen, Billie Leeson, Masocol and Tanveen Sahdra had Charles Hays go on a 19-6 run to almost catch up to Caledonia.

But Khali Pelletier, Faith Nisyok and Carly Davies helped the Kermodes escape the Rainmakers’ comeback to go on their own 13-0 run in the fourth quarter to pull away and take the victory for Terrace.

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“We rushed it. We took about 10 seconds before we put up a shot and they were a lot more patient and they moved the ball around and anytime you move that ball around it’s going to be a lot easier to score when the defence breaks down.”

In their first match on Saturday morning against CAL, the team lost 5337.

JUNIORS DOMINANT AGAINST CALEDONIA, NISGA’A Head coach Anna Ashley will have a lot of substitute calls to make this season. She can also produce four full lines at will.

Twenty girls have taken part in Charles Hays’ junior girls basketball program and Ashley was able to play them all in two games on Saturday.

First against Caledonia, the Rainmakers handily defeated their rivals 51-31 and then late in the afternoon, the

team downed Team Nisga’a 57-29.

“I was really happy with how they played. We just learned zone offence so considering that, they were doing awesome,” said Ashley.

Brittany Waite, Ruby Mason, Tara Robinson, Marissa Innes, Madison Thomas, Jada Wesley, Brooke Andreesen and Carly Cochrane all found the score sheet in the game against Team Nisga’a.

An early 10-5 lead after the first quarter and great chemistry between Cochrane and Waite produced the 2411 half-time lead the ‘Makers gained on their opponents.

Mason’s speed and agility had her defenders reeling more often than not and Innes’ two fourth-quarter three-pointers took the game out of reach for Nisga’a.

“Their defence picked up a little bit [from the morning game to the afternoon game] ... they were talking well. I’d like them to talk more but they were talking fairly well and they were moving the ball around. They had some good shooting today so overall I was very happy with how they played,” said Ashley.

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The Charles Hays Rainmakers senior boys’ basketball team now ranks third in the B.C. AAA Division after reaching the finals of the 2014 North Shore Invitational (NIST) last weekend.

But the quad-A No. 5 provincially-ranked Blue Demons proved to be too much for the Prince Rupert team, snapping their sevengame undefeated streak by a score of 60-46.

In the NSIT tourney, the Rupertites went 3-1, a much-improved record from 2013 when the team went 1-2, only defeating AAAA Victoria’s Belmont Secondary in the process.

“We lost Perry Terrell, our starting small forward after Game 3 and it hurt us a little bit offensively so the score at half-time was 2525 and then we held them to 60 so we played good enough defence to win that game but we scored 46,” said head coach Mel Bishop.

Jacob Henry took Terrell’s place and scored 12 points. Both Kyler Reece and Justin McChesney sank 10 points in the final.

“We got beat on the board a little bit because we start smaller like that,” said the coach.

“I’m really happy about the defensive side of things. The kids are working hard on defence which is a good thing.”

Grade 11 student McChesney was named an all-star.

Although the Rainmakers were edged out by AAAA powerhouse Kitsilano Blue Demons in the final, they reached the championship game with convincing wins

over other higher-level competition.

Thursday’s matchup and the tournament opener had the ‘Makers face-off against AAAA Belmont and take the game 65-46.

Kyler Reece matched Henry’s earlier totals with 14 points while Justin McChesney had 12. It was the second straight year the ’Makers faced Belmont.

“There was a pretty good balance there,” said head coach Mel Bishop.

“A lot of guys scored.”

Friday’s quarter-final match had the crowd heavily against the Rainmakers as the host team Cason Graham battled Prince Rupert for a semi-final shot. Charles Hays wasted no time taking the audience out of it though, and snatched a 56-45 victory away from the hosts.

Another Vancouver team met the Rainmakers in the semi-final, but they fared no better than Carson Graham against Charles Hays as ‘Makers’ head coach Mel Bishop’s crew completed their seventh-straight win in a 62-48 victory over Sutherland Secondary, giving them the chance to win the 16-team tournament against Kitsilano.

The Rainmakers won’t be surprising too many teams this year compared to last season where they got the jump on most squads due to being a relatively unknown item in the Lower Mainland. Their early AAA No. 3 rank in B.C. has made sure of that.

Up next for the Rainmakers is the Jim Ciccone Memorial Alumni Tournament this Friday and Saturday and then they’ll face-off against Caledonia again on Friday, Jan. 2 and Saturday, Jan. 3 at home.

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In terms of new programs the city is offering, kids’ yoga headlines a plethora of exciting opportunities for residents of all ages to get involved with.

“We’ve got kids’ yoga [for families] in two different age groups: 3 to 5 and then 6 to 11 and Karen Cruz is teaching both of them,” said Kendal Sheppard, aquatic leader and program coordinator at the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre.

“Mandy Lawson gave us a good start out of the gate [for the idea] and Karen would like to continue with those sessions with that introduction and fundraiser [back in the fall].”

Following in the fitness trend, Kristin Beintema-Barre will be leading group and private fitness orientations in the weight area and a nutritional workshop so it’s all about eating right and staying positive and healthy in your choices of food,” he said.

Kerrie Kennedy, a new addition to the civic centre’s list of program instructors, will run mini bootcamps as well.

Under the educational umbrella, fabric arts will be making its introduction under the guidance of Mavis Glencross where she’ll be dying and working with colouring techniques for ages 8 and up and even bringing sewing to the list of programs for participants aged 8 to 16.

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Volleyball, pottery, and a lifeguard apprenticeship program are some options not in the current guide, but programs that Sheppard is looking forward to hopefully unveiling to the public in the near future.

“We just had two volleyball sessions just to try it out and 16 people showed up [last] Tuesday and we had 11 [on Wednesday] so with a week’s notice that’s pretty good,” said Sheppard, who is looking for anyone interested in starting up the program to talk to staff at the civic centre.

“Our child daycare is operating in the mornings and evenings and it’s licensed so you can be subsidized.”

Consistently strong programs include noon hour and Wednesday and Sunday night badminton, rock climbing and Nifty Fifties walking and exercise club. Among independent leagues that are striving are the new Prince Rupert Gymnastics Association, Friday night C-league basketball and beginners’ hockey.

Sheppard encourages those interested in any programs to register as opposed to paying the drop-in fees.

“There are many benefits to registering. You get a cheaper rate and we have your contact, so if a cancellation happens we can quickly phone those registered,” he said.

On Saturday, staff at the civic centre will officially be unveiling the sea otter murals that have been painted on the rereation centre’s outdoor walls over the fall.

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Network Systems Analyst School District No. 52 (Prince Rupert) is accepting applications for a full-time Network Systems Analyst position.

The successful applicant will install, repair and maintain computer hardware and software in schools and other district facilities. This position provides support and training for School District staff in the use of computer software and Ministry of Education technology.

Required abilities and qualifications are: Grade 12 or equivalent; CompTIA A+ Certification; Microsoft Certified Professional; knowledge in VMWare would be an asset.

Expert knowledge of standard computer programs and a minimum of three yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; experience working in a Microsoft Windows environment. Proven ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and repair computer systems with an ability to read and interpret schematics, wiring diagrams, drawings and specifications. Ability to exercise discretion and confidentiality in dealing with all matters pertaining to students and staff. Must be physically able to perform the duties of the position and have a valid B.C. driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s licence.

Qualified applicants should complete a School District application form which is available on the School District 52 website or from the School Board Office.

Please submit your application with complete resume and references to: School District No. 52 (Prince Rupert) 634- 6th Avenue East, Prince Rupert, BC V8J 1X1 Email: applications@sd52.bc.ca Website: http://sd52.bc.ca/ Only those applicants considered for an interview will be contacted.

CARRIERS WANTED 1st Ave W, 2nd Ave W, 3rd Ave W & Park Ave 8th Ave W, 9th Ave W & Lotbiniere St 8th Ave W, 9th Ave W & McBride St

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Industrial / Automotive Sales Representatives

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HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available.

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JOB DUTIES: â&#x20AC;˘ Examine logs and rough lumber to determine size, condition, quality and other characteristics to decide best lumber cuts to carry out. â&#x20AC;˘ Operate automated lumber mill equipment from control rooms or equipment consoles to saw logs into rough lumber. â&#x20AC;˘ Set up and adjust saw equipment and replace blades or bands using wrenches, gauges and other hand tools . â&#x20AC;˘ Clean and lubricate sawmill equipment.

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Registered Casual Care Aides

Bayshore Home Health is seeking Registered Casual Care Aides in Terrace and surrounding area.

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STEEL BUILDINGS/metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-4572206 or visit us online: www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

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Home Improvements FULL SERVICE Plumbing from Parker Dean. Fast, reliable, 24/7 service. Take $50 off your next job if you present this ad. Vancouver area. Call 1-800-573-2928.

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Alpine Ave, Graham Ave & Atlin Ave Borden St, Taylor St & 6th Ave W Gull Crest, Raven Crest, Cormmorant & PR Blvd.

Beach Pl, Water St, 2nd Ave W & 11th St Graham Ave, Atlin Ave, 17th St & 14th St. Seal Cove Circle & area 6th AVe East & Hays Cove Circle

Now accepting applications for the position of Store Manager in Prince Rupert Apply with resume to

Misc. Wanted

Steve at the 3rd Avenue Location or email to andrea@cartersjewellers.com

PR Blvd., Alberta Pl. & Drake Cres.

Private Coin Collector Buying Collections, Accumulations, Olympic Gold & Silver Coins + Chad: 778-281-0030. Local.

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Apt/Condo for Rent

Apt/Condo for Rent

Homes for Rent

Rooms for Rent

Trucks & Vans

Tenders

Tenders

2 x 2 br suite/1 bathroom.

1 just renovated and 1 recently renovated. $1200 per month and $1400 per month plus utilities. Electric heat.

N/S. N/P. Must have ref. rupertrentals@gmail.com

ROOSEVELT HEIGHTS APARTMENTS

4 br, 2 1/2 bath, 2 floors, very spacious.

Close to the Hospital. $1800/ month plus utilities

PR: Male room mate wanted to share older 4 bdrm house on 8th Ave W. with 3 others. $500 per month including utilities. Avail. Immediately. No pets, no parties. 604-767-0252

Exteriors renovated 3 bedroom apartments.

Heat and hot water included.

No smoking. No pets $850 per month.

References required.

Clean

Renovated 1 & 2 bdrm Suites Furnished & Un-Furnished.

Quiet Living.

On Site Management.

Gym, Hot Tub & Sauna.

Phone between 9am - 6pm 250-627-8123

250-627-5820

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help and information anytime, anywhere in BC.

Homes for Rent CLIFF SIDE APARTMENTS 1123-1137 Borden Street Adult-oriented.

Quiet location with harbour view.

Heat and hot water included.

Minutes walking to downtown and hospital.

References required.

1, 2, or 3 bedroom suites.

Some furnished.

Prince Rupert

250-624-9298

1 br above ground basement suite.

Electric heat, stainless steel double door fridge, W/D. $950/ month plus utilities.

Available Jan 2015

4 Bed 3 Bath, clean, excellent condition, avail imm $1700/mo Prof Mngd 250-600-3208 PR: Very nice 1 bdrm apt street level in quiet home.

Close to hosp. with off-street parking. F/S, W/D, N/S, N/P. $775/mon. Hydro included.

Avail. Jan 1st. Call 250-6244848 or 250-600-0897

Skyline Manor

1200 Summit Ave. Bachelor & 1 Bedroom Suites.

Security Entrance, harbour views, balconies, storage, laundry facilities, hot water & heat included.

Sorry no pets.

Close to hospital, bus stop & downtown.

References required.

Contact our on site Manager at 250-624-6019

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Rooms Starting At $59/Daily, $299/Weekly, $799/Monthly, Contractors Welcome All-Inclusive. 250-600-1680

Suites, Lower

4 br, 2 bath ocean view house on Overlook.

New floors, laundry, 50” wall mount TV included. $2000/ month plus utilities.

Available Jan 2015

PR: Bachelor Suite. $530 per mon. Quiet tenants only. No Pets.

Ref. Req. Call 250-6002334

1 br, furnished suite.

Newly renovated.

Nice kitchen. $1300/ month plus utilities Available Jan 2015

P.Rupert: 2 bdrm suite. F/S, W/D. No smoking, no pets, no partying. $1000 per mon. Ref. required. Call 250-600-4111

No smoking and no pets References Required. rupertrentals@gmail.com

References Required. www.oasisaparts.com

3 br, 1 bath. Just renovated.

2 floors, very spacious.

Close to the Hospital. $1700/ month plus utilities.

Transportation

Cars - Sports & Imports

Our classified ads are on the net! Check it out at www.bcclassified.com

1997 Toyota Corolla LE 131K in good condition. Dark Green, Auto, A/C, 4-cyl. Winter & summer tires on rims. $3500 obo 778-884-2248 or 250-6274020.

Homes for Rent

Homes for Rent

HOUSE FOR RENT

2100 SQFT HOUSE IN PRINCE RUPERT AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY

Fully Furnished, N/S, N/P, 3 Bed, 2 Bath, W/D included, off street parking. Out of town and professionals welcome. References required.

$1800/MONTH CALL 250 615-7810 or 250 635-5485

1999 Ford F350 XLT Crew Cab Diesel pickup.

4x4, automatic, long box, aluminum bed liner.

Winter and summer rims/tires. 300,000 km’s. $8500. Call 250-6410970

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Legal Notices

Please submit your proposal to P.O. Box 234 Prince Rupert, B.C. V8J 3P6 Closing date for submissions is December 31st, 2014 for further information call - 250-600-3915

Legal Notices

Legal Notices

Notice of Property sold at the 2014 Tax Sale Pursuant to Section 94 of the Community Charter, the City of Prince Rupert makes public notice the following property(s) was sold at the 2014 Tax Sale: Owner:

Theodore Kourletis, Businessman #28, 342 3rd Avenue West Prince Rupert, BC V8J 3S1

Civic Address: Legal Description:

Vacant lots Lot 61 & 62, Block 34, Section 8, District Lot 251, Coast District, Plan 923

HOUSE FOR RENT 2100 SQ FT HOUSE, AVAILABLE IMMEDIATELY.

The Prince Rupert Golf Club is seeking proposals for it’s kitchen and catering service for the 2015 season.

PID # 005-748-682 & 005-748-691 Date of Tax Sale:

September 29, 2014

Fully Furnished, N/S, N/P, 3 Bed, 2 Bath, W/D included, off street parking. Out of town and professionals welcome. References required.

Date of Redemption:

September 29, 2015

$2000/MONTH CALL 250 615-7810 or 250 635-5485

For further information please contact R. Holkestad, Finance Department at (250) 627-0964

Go Saturday, ahead Dec. 27 and dream …

22ND ANNUAL MARC (DEZI) DESAUTELS MEMORIAL Presented by:

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Prizes awarded from 6-7 p.m. • Entrance fee: $25 per ticket

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