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BIRD IS THE WORD Smithers Christmas bird count is in

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A look back at the year that was A & E, FROM A TO ZOMBIE An artful look at 2014’s second act.

IT’S A GIRL!

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Smithers New Year’s baby Keva Adelyn Lachance is welcomed to the world on Jan. 3 at 2:42 a.m. in Bulkley Valley District Hospital. Mom Jade Lachance said Keva was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed the moment she entered the world at six pounds, 10 ounces.

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Hazelton man shot by transit police in Surrey

THREE RIVERS REDUX Remember, remember, July to December.

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The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died following a police shooting in Surrey on Dec. 28 as Naverone Christian Landon Woods, 23.

Woods was originally from Hazelton but most recently staying in Surrey.

Woods was shot during an encounter with South Coast BC Transit

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Authority police that occurred shortly after 8 a.m. on Dec. 28, in the Safeway store at 10355 King George Highway.

Woods was transported from the scene to Royal Columbian Hospital but was pronounced dead soon after arrival at hospital.

The BC Coroners Service and the Independent Investigations Office continue to investigate this death.

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July to December in the news

JULY Curbside recycling success A report to council shows success for the new curbside recycling program. Works and operations says waste going to landfill is cut dramatically, with an equal amount by weight being recycled.

AUGUST KSM receives provincial EA approval Seabridge Gold’s KSM mine, with one of the biggest copper and gold deposits in the world, receives an environmental assessment certificate from the province.

Block renamed Hamhuis Way The north end section of First Avenue between Toronto Street and Dogwood Park is renamed Dan Hamhuis Way. It is the street where the Canucks and Team Canada defenceman played street hockey growing up.

Tahltan blockade Red Chris The Klabona Keepers of the Tahltan Nation set up a blockade of the Red Chris copper and gold mine in response to the Mount Polley tailings dam disaster. Imperial Metals owns both mines.

Class of ‘64 reunion Twenty-one members of the 1964 Smithers Secondary School graduating class gather from around the world at Camp Caledonia for their 50year reunion.

Arena delayed Completion of the new Smithers arena is delayed to Oct. 31, with an option to charge a $500 per day late penalty after that.

Rumours spread like wildfire Vehicles line up bumper to bumper at Bulkley Valley gas stations after a press release not meant to be released from the Village of Telkwa is posted on social media, causing

people to fear a power outage.

The China Nose fire saw 120 homes evacuated, with 574 more on alert.

Smithers firefighters celebrate 100 years Former and current firefighters gather at the Smithers fire hall to celebrate 100 years of service in the community.

Telkwa approves new fire hall Telkwa council approves building a new $150,000 fire hall on Cottonwood Street and the purchase of a new $308,000 fire truck, hoping to cut down response times.

SEPTEMBER MMBC recycling depot open early The Multi Material BC depot opens months early, taking in most recyclable material from residents inside and outside Smithers.

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Ranger Park closure Smithers town council reveals it had decided to close the preschool during a closeddoor meeting a month earlier, setting the closure date of Jan. 1.

Sports complex proposed The design of a large indoor sports complex to be built beside Smithers Secondary is presented at a Bulkley Valley School District meeting. It includes spaces for volleyball, basketball, soccer, rugby, a gym, and more.

Back to school B.C. public school teachers vote 86 percent yes to a new six-year agreement, ending the strike and sending kids back to school.

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OCTOBER Emergency landing A Carson Air Ltd cargo plane safely lands at Smithers Regional Airport after a light indicated the front landing gear failed to lock.

Health foundation funds cardiac test The Bulkley Valley Health Care and Hospital Foundation aims to raise $80,000 for new hospital cardiac stress testing equipment, kicking of the campaign by raising tens of thousands at a gala in Smithers.

Mayor, RCMP address downtown safety Smithers mayor Taylor Bachrach, councillors, and the local RCMP respond to complaints of lewd behaviour centering around Bovill Square. Staff Sgt. Kirsten Marshall points out in a letter that most remedies are outside the justice system.

Smithers teacher wins national award Smithers Secondary teacher Rick Hubert is one of 10 teachers and seven early childhood educators to accept a Prime Minister’s Award for Teaching Excellence in Ottawa.

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Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen seeks support during a tour touting his proposed tanker ban for B.C.’s north coast.

Ranger Park reversal Smithers town council reverses its decision to close the Ranger Park preschool after 563 people sign a petition against the closure. A report shows the net loss of the program is expected to be over $30,000 for the year.

Security questions after Ottawa shooting The spotlight is even brighter on a government bill to expand the power of Canadian security services after a gunman kills a guard at the National War Memorial and storms the Parliament building as government and opposition caucuses, including Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen, were meeting.

NOVEMBER Another arena delay Town council approves another extension without penalty to the completion date of the second Smithers arena, moving it to Dec. 1.

Telkwa’s CHP leader Telkwa’s Rod Taylor is acclaimed as the new leader of

the federal Christian Heritage Party.

Child porn sentence Kenneth Moffet is given a one-year sentence with three years probation for making child pornography at his Smithers home.

Mz Judged raises thousands The Mz Judged pageant raises close to $50,000 for the Northern Society for Domestic Peace from pledges collected by the 17 male participants.

CDC rezone approved The Bulkley Valley Child Development Centre gets the rezoning for the Christian Reformed Church property on Columbia Drive it had long sought so that it can move all its operations into Smithers.

Municipal elections Smithers mayor Taylor Bachrach is acclaimed and no incumbent councillors running again lose, while newcomer Darcy Repen is elected mayor of Telkwa, where all but one of the incumbent councillors lose. The province-wide vote also elected new school trustees and regional district directors.

Mall expanded The renovated Smithers

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Domestic violence initiative A new domestic violence program facilitated by the RCMP is being established in Smithers and New Hazelton.

A core team of social support and criminal justice agencies make up the Integrated Case Assessment Teams dedicated to high risk victims.

DECEMBER Arena opens A 20-year effort to build a second arena is completed, featuring 350 seats and five dressing rooms, at a cost of $4.8 million.

Smithers officer investigated A Smithers RCMP officer is accused of excessive force when handcuffing a 61-year-old woman outside Smithers Mall. A bystander’s photograph shows the officer on the face-down woman. The officer had tried to question her about a suspected thief.

KSM receives federal approval Seabridge Gold’s KSM mine receives environmental approval from the federal government. Mine work is expected to last 52 years.

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We had a Toyota for many years but ended up selling it to someone who drove it for years themselves. We found our last vehicle wasn’t up to the job – we do a lot of hauling for Country Herbs, our health and bulk foods store. We looked all over for the right replacement and came back to this one, a Tacoma from Glacier Toyota. It has all the power and capacity we need to pull a trailer.

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Does the province support BC resident families or foreign trophy hunters?

The B.C. Guide Outfitting industry, that harvest wildlife for profit, and their foreign trophy hunting clients have become the subject of much controversy amongst the resident hunting community throughout B.C. and the B.C. Wildlife Federation.

At the heart of the issue is the Guide Outfitters Association of B.C. (GOABC) lobbying Minister of Forests, Land and Natural Resource Operations (FLNRO) Steve Thomson and Premier Christy Clark to remove more wildlife harvest allocations from 100,000 resident hunter to 210 Guide Outfitters throughout B.C. Ultimately the GOABC is asking that Government hand over substantially more B.C. resident wildlife allocations to

guide outfitters.

What does this mean for resident hunters? Much less opportunity to fill your freezers with organic meat, increased odds on Limited Entry, and less opportunity for resident hunters to hunt overall. This in an effort by the GOAB.C. to prop up commercial trophy hunting primarily for foreigners, at the expense of B.C. residents.

Other North American jurisdictions allow commercial hunting interests 10 per cent or less of allocated species. Here in B.C., guide outfitters have successfully lobbied the Minister to allocate up to 40 per cent of allocated wildlife species.

Independent Guide Outfitters and the GOAB.C. have argued the economic benefits of the trophy hunting

business. However, recent economic reports reveal that resident hunters contribute far more to the B.C. economy through the many businesses supporting their outdoor recreation, hunting for food, and wildlife conservation. With these findings it makes no sense economically, and in the interest of wildlife to shift hunting allocations away from resident hunters to that of foreign trophy hunters.

Resident hunting spans generations having a strong heritage, traditional, social and cultural foundation. Family and friendship bonds are fostered and nurtured through our revered hunting opportunities, and many cherished memories created last lifetimes.

We fear that the minister of

FLNRO and the Premier may not recognize or fail to better entrench these very important family values of B.C. residents, and cater to the GOAB.C. and their trophy hunting for profit business agenda. By coincidence, the GOAB.C. and a number of guide outfitters contributed to the Liberal Party in the last provincial election.

It is our perspective that after conservation and First Nations food, social and ceremonial needs, that the needs of B.C. residents be met over that of foreign hunting interests.

We must ask government decision makers if they will allow 210 guide outfitters and the GOAB.C. to trump the social values, economic contribution, and hunt for food opportunity of 100,000 resident

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If the minister and Premier truly support B.C.’s 100,000 resident hunting families, then the now vitiated 2007 allocation policy needs to be rescinded, allocated wildlife spits legislated, and immediately set to 90 per cent residents and 10 per cent guide outfitters for all species as is done in other jurisdictions. Does the Province support 100,000 B.C. resident hunting families or that of 210 guide outfitters catering to foreign trophy hunters?

The minister’s decision will tell and we are anxiously awaiting it.

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L ETTERS Happy to help

with police and government clamoring for even more invasive powers.

Why criminalize ordinary citizens, contribute to civil unrest, paranoia and further alienation when we need social cohesion and interdependence?

Our security and safety as a society is undermined when we fail to respect the lives of all people.

Who is next?

Editor: In your Dec. 10 edition a letter was published by a gentleman re his municipal taxes.

Everything is spelled out very clearly on the notice, what are Telkwa’s taxes and the taxes Telkwa collects for other agencies. In the case of my own notice the Village of Telkwa collects $1227.97 for other agencies. My total municipal tax bill was $1,721.02, add in the utilities of $716.62, which is water, sewer and garbage, for a total tax bill for the Village of Telkwa of $2,437.62.

It states very clearly that the taxes are due the second day of July 2014 by 4:30 p.m. at the Village of Telkwa office. It also states that the home owner grant needs to be applied for by this date.

In reading his letter, it appears to me that he paid his taxes less his home owners grant which it appears he did not apply for by the due date. At that time the amount of the home owners grant would be subject to a ten percent penalty. This is a provincial law that every municipality in the province of B.C. is regulated by.

It is not the responsibility of the Village of Telkwa to ensure the citizens do things according to regulations.

As far as the village operating on fines, at budget time an amount is placed in the revenue side of the budget based on last year’s operations. This can fluctuate a great deal

Linda Pierre Hazelton

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NEW YEAR’S DIP A group from Telkwa starts off 2015 with a New Year’s Day dip into Tyhee Lake.

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depending on how many people pay their taxes.

As I have a lot of experience in dealing with municipal tax notices I would be happy to sit down with this gentleman or anyone else who has trouble understanding their tax notice and explain it to them in detail.

Carman Graf Telkwa

Re: Shooting of distraught man in Surrey Safeway by Transit Police Editor: From this incident which is depressingly similar to many others, our society’s perspective is that mentally-ill people are worthless and deserve to die, confirmed by the lack of

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community resources to support them.

Police become their final point of contact, which results in the problems of their inconvenient illness and behaviour thus being eliminated. I guess we as a society are happy with these outcomes, since nothing ever changes in spite of public outcry, the anguish of families, coroner’s reports and liaison by police with the Canadian Mental Health Association.

I have some suggestions. Perhaps call Conservation

Officers for backup; at least they are trained to deploy nets and tranquilizers. Surely humans, however distraught or dangerous, have a higher value and deserve to be conserved, starting with how they are treated in the medical and social services systems.

Therefore, police should not be killing mentally-ill or marginalized people as a routine response.

The victim should not be blamed and administered instant and arbitrary death.

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Somehow the repertoire of available options needs to be expanded.

The Delta Police Chief (on CBC Almanac Dec. 29/14) seemed to suggest that because police handle thousands of calls without fatalities, we should benevolently overlook the few that result in fatalities! Plenty of police forces throughout the world never or rarely ever kill anyone for any reason. The police could study their techniques and social context to im-

prove our responses toward a goal of ZERO fatalities.

Police could earn trust with these safeguards, instead of the current free pass for fatalities which erodes public confidence. The Independent Investigative Office (IIO) does nothing to prevent fatalities after the fact but wring their hands and absolve the officers. The whole system needs to be thoroughly reviewed, deeply questioned, and radically transformed to protect everyone in our society, including the mentally ill, marginalized and police.

Without public trust, police are further incapacitated and we are not secure. The possible effects of this mistrust are far-ranging.

For example, now we have global government surveillance and domestic spying,

I don’t understand what all the fuss is about the Site C dam. It’s been part of the energy plan for BC for more than half a century and there are already two dams on the Peace River. These other two dams have been powering BC for decades with the cleanest energy possible.

Site C will take optimal advantage of the massive amount of water stored upstream by the Bennett Dam, reusing that water a third time to generate enough clean electricity to power 450,000 homes per year before flowing out to sea.

Site C will also be built with most upto-date 21st Century energy and environmental technology, and the project has been studied and reviewed to death.

Enough is enough.

Building the muchneeded Site C dam is a no-brainer so let’s get on with it.

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Rapids hoist Smithers Cup The BV Rapids U18 team defeated the SC Gunner Reds in dramatic fashion 2-0 to win this year’s Smithers Cup.

Veenstra wins PG Open Adam Veenstra, 16, was one of the youngest people to win the men’s open in Prince George.

Yee dashes to B.C. juniors Hazelton track star Regan Yee was named to the B.C. juniors team for the second year in a row, one of 33 athletes from around the province to participate in track and field championships in New Brunswick and Ottawa. Yee would also compete in the 2014 IAAF World Junior Championship later that month to post a personal best and B.C. junior record of 10:32.04 in the 3,000-metre steeplechase.

Mountain Marathon Ninety people came out for the first Hah Nic Na’ Aah Mountain Marathon, taking on the steep trails of Babine Mountain Provincial Park.

Smithers’ Cormac Hikisch finished first for the men in 3:20, while Ngaere Gilbert came in first place for the women in 4:13.

O Wayde Gingras and Reuben Vanderleest, 6, have a blast playing against Houston at a Christian & Community Kids Hockey exhibition Friday in Smithers. Kids aged 5-18 can still sign up for the second half of the season for the less time-intensive teams by contacting Tracy Gingras 877-2459 Tracy_shalene@ hotmail.com or Silvia Ripmeester at 847-5240 Contributed photo

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Rev. Alyssa Anderson Sunday 10:00 AM Worship & Children’s Program

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CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Sunday Worship Services at 10 a.m.

Sunday School for ages 3-6 during the morning worship service.

Pastor Ken Vander Horst 1471 Columbia Drive smitherscrc@telus.net Phone 250-847-2333 “Groundwork” on The Peak at 9:30 am Sundays

Strauss wins big at special

Laura Strauss, 24, won two bronze medals, in long jump and the 4X100-metre relay, at her third appearance at the special Olympic Summer Games.

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER Strike holds sports With the teachers’ strike heading nearly a month into the school year, school sports such as rugby, volleyball, basketball and cross-country were also on hold. The school’s hockey academy also started late and kids were anxious to get back.

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Christian Fellowship Upper floor Fitness Northwest Centre, Broadway Ave. 10-12 noon Sundays Youth meeting Fridays at 7 pm

Percy wins three-peat Dave Percy defended his title at the kickboxing world championships in Ireland.

The co-owner of C.O.B Bike Shop brought home gold for the third year in a row.

Along with gold, Percy also took home bronze in two other categories: the team continuous fighting and the continuous fighting over 18 years old. Tareq Abu Khadra won three silvers as well.

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Judo club turns 60 The Smithers Judo Club celebrated its 60th anniversary. The club was founded in 1954 by former Smithers resident Henry Boas out of a mutual interest in the sport. “I like the philosophy.

You’re working together with a mutual prosperity,” said Boas.

Head coach Bernie Mattie has kept the club’s numbers consistent, while quietly training its students to compete in competitions around the country.

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Seventh Day Adventist Contact 250-847-5983 3696 4th Avenue

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S PORTS NOVEMBER/DECEMBER SSS sprint into top 5 The Smithers Secondary junior boys’ cross-country running team sprinted into a fifth place finish at provincials in Victoria against 19 other schools. The boys improved on their sixth-place finish the previous year. The junior girls’ team also placed eighth out of 21 teams.

Saltos hire new coach Henry Condor was named the head coach of the The Saltos Gymnastics Club after previous coach Alana Jensen left in August for a gig at a club in Vancouver. Condor has 18 years of experience coaching gymnastics under his belt.

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Johnny V turns 50!

Ski clubs gear up for new season The Bulkley Valley Cross-Country Ski Club and the Smithers Ski and Snowboard Club gear up for winter by shaking things up at the club. First, the cross-country ski club introduced Daryl Wilson as the new president, while the ski and snowboard club will be introducing five new coaches with the help of a grant.

Gryphons finish on high note The SSS senior girls’ and boys volleyball teams ended on a high note at the AA provincials. The senior boys’ travelled to Langley and finished 11th of 16. The team will also lose long-time coach Stuart Van Horn, who said he plans on retiring.

The girls’ team travelled to Mill Bay

on Vancouver Island. They finished 14th of 16 teams, the best the team has done since 2009.

Zollen swims to Olympic trials Former Bulkley Valley Otter Brett Zollen could be on his way to joining Team Canada to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics. He qualified for the Olympic trials after swimming the 50-metre freestyle in 23.10 seconds at varsity competition in Victoria. He’ll head to Toronto in April 2016 for Olympic trials where he will compete in four individual swims for a chance to represent Canada at the Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil later that year.

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Brown Bag Lunch Thursday, Jan. 8 at noon at the Healthy Living Centre. Kim Martin will speak about “Gluten” in food products. Call 250-877-4424 for more info.

The Northern Tanzanian ecosystem and its wildlife Part 2 Slide Show given by Jaap Kalkman. Thursday, Jan. 8, NWCC, 7:30 p.m. Bulkley Valley Naturalists.

All welcome.

Coffee House at Round Lake Hall Saturday, Jan. 10, 7:30 p.m. featuring Backroads Home as well as Theresa Mohr, with sets by Max McLaughlin and Ellie Scott and Friends. $5 at the door. Korean Dinner by Quick Eats ($10) being served starting at 6:30 p.m.

Special General Meeting of the Kispiox Valley Music Festival Society 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11 at The Meeting Place at 3226, Bowser Street, New Hazelton. One of the things to be decided at this meeting is whether or not a Kispiox Valley Music

Festival as we’ve known it will take place in 2015.

Smithers Film Series Mommy Sunday, Jan. 18, 7:30 p.m. at the Roi Theatre. A fiesty, widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her unpredictable 15-year-old ADHD son.

BV Hospital Auxiliary AGM Tuesday, Jan. 20, 7 p.m. at the Healthy Living Centre on Main St. Everyone welcome.

Community Ladies’ Coffee Break Bible Study.

Tuesday: 9:30 a.m. OR evening 7:30 p.m. at 1471 Columbia Drive, ongoing till May. ONLY morning has Childcare. Morning: Fruits of the Spirit.

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By Rosamund Pojar The most exciting bird of the 2014 Smithers Christmas Bird Count was a Pacific Wren (formerly Winter Wren) found at Chicken Creek. Also unusual to see was a Spruce Grouse on count day. The total number of different species (43) and the numbers of individual birds seen was generally lower than normal, possibly because the weather was so mild prior to the count and the birds are more dispersed.

The low numbers were almost certainly also due to the fact that the numbers of finches (redpolls, siskins, crossbills etc.) were very low and this probably reflects the poor cone crop in this area this year. Sharp-shinned Hawks, Pygmy Owls and

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Hawk Owls were all reported to be busy picking off (eating) House Sparrows and Eurasian Collared Doves.

A Cooper’s Hawk was also reported and this is a new species for our count.

There were 48 people out counting in the field including three young children, with a few more folks at home watching their feeders. The weather was warm in the morning but got colder as the Arctic front moved in around lunch time.

Any species seen between Dec. 25-31 but not on the list should be phoned in to 250847-9429 as soon as possible.

On behalf of the Bulkley Valley Naturalists, we thank all who participated in the count and the landowners who allowed us to wander around their property.

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Mallard Common Merganser Bald Eagle Sharp-shinned Hawk Ruffed Grouse Spruce Grouse Eurasian Collared Dove Rock Dove Northern Pygmy Owl Rough-legged Hawk Pileated Woodpecker Northern Flicker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker American Three-toed Woodpecker Woodpecker sp.

Northern Shrike Steller's Jay Gray Jay Clark's Nutcracker Black-billed Magpie Common Raven

70 1 14 2 7 1 37 50 3 1 3 17 40 24 3 3 6 25 34 4 15 299

American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Mountain Chickadee Chestnut-backed Chickadee Red-Breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper American Dipper Golden-crowned Kinglet Pacific Wren American Robin Bohemian Waxwing Song Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Red-winged Blackbird Brewer's Blackbird Evening Grosbeak Pine Grosbeak Purple Finch Common Redpoll Pine Siskin House Sparrow European Starling

289 1066 27 2 4 1 1 1 1 7 233 8 39 44 379 39 48 1 10 38 263 212

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TREE SHRED FOR A HOMESTEAD Sitka Tree Service’s Dane Drzimotta tosses Christmas trees through the shredder at Bovill Square Saturday. Trees were dropped off at Nature’s Pantry, McBike & Sport, and Rayz Board Shop and at the square itself, where about 70 trees met their demise for charity. About $1,000 was raised for Smithers Action Group Association to go towards solving local homelessness. Over 30 local businesses sponsored the shred and Chris Gareau photo barbecue.

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FOR THE BIRDS Brenda Mallory How has it been so far? I mean the New Year. Kind of sneaks

up on some of us. If you were to ask me I have to tell you I am glad all the celebrations are over. Not that I did anything in that way.

Just the same I am glad to be back to my normal life. The word normal is an arbitrary choice.

The annual bird count for this area took place a few days back. It was a sunny cold day that brought out the hardy birder types. I had a look

about my area and had a respectable showing.

Not as many species as some years. I had redpolls, purple finch, hairy and downy woodpeckers. The day before the count I had a pileated woodpecker.

Also on scene was a bevy of black-capped chickadees. Ruffed grouse put in a good number.

On a sad note the counters of birds told me of a snowy owl encased in the ice at

Tyhee Lake. It was dead of course.

A discussion today at this cabin in the woods was about deer. One person was feeding deer oats and barley. I feed oats and barley as well as COB. Which do they like best? Still have not decided. The one- eyed deer who has come here for 12 years seems to prefer COB. The deer provide a lot of entertainment.

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VIEW FROM THE PORCH Lorraine Doiron

I hope everyone had a joyful and safe New Year’s Eve and are prepared for 2015. I feel that this year will be wonderful!

Saw a tree that still had berries on it and some scattered on the ground. Birds, a lot of what appeared to be the same type were gathered, eating the berries. Also there was a large crow and even what looked like a robin, the red breast had a little white fluff in the middle. I sat and watched for a bit, enjoying the birds.

Read an article about an experiment with birds where some were given either an alcoholic drink or grape juice. Their

singing was recorded and analyzed, comparing those that drank the alcohol and those that had grape juice. The scientists involved in the experiment found that the birds, who were drunk, having a blood alcohol level of 0.05 percent, slurred their speech.

The experiment had some value as it could provide valuable information for treatment of alcohol abuse or even better technology used to identify people that are intoxicated.

Start your New Year with information on Gluten and what it means to have gluten free food products. Jan. 8, a Brown Bag Lunch Health Talk by Kim Martin, noon at the Healthy Living Centre.

Another experiment had to do with e-readers.

It appears reading a book before falling asleep is better for you and your sleep. After testing people who read from a book and those who read from an iPad it was found that those reading from the iPad took ten minutes longer to fall asleep, had less sleep-inducing melatonin

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and shifted their internal circadian clock, feeling more tired the next morning. So visit the library, get a book or two and know that you will sleep better!

Round Lake Coffee House, Jan. 10, enjoy a Korean dinner ($10) served by Quick Eats. Doors open at 6 p.m., meal served at 6:30. At 7:30 music ($5 at the door for the Coffee House).

Featured performers are Backroads Home as well as Theresa Michelle Mohr. Short sets by Max McLaughlin and Ellie Scott and friends. Start the New Year off with good food, good music.

Winter storms, bad roads, be prepared.

Check the weather reports and road conditions before leaving. Sometimes the best thing is just don’t go if the weather looks iffy.

If you go always make sure someone knows when you left and when you are due to arrive.

Closing with: “Do not grow old. No matter how long you live never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”

– Albert Einstein

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C OMMUNITY From BIRDS on A9 This morning I had a long chat with a birder from Fort Nelson who recently lost her husband. Lost as in he passed away. Her bird report included pine grosbeaks, evening grosbeaks, redpolls (lots of those) blue jays and one totally white bird.

Must be an albino variety of some species.

Another topic we covered was this business of trying to eat for one.

She tells me all the cookies have gone from her pantry. No more sugar!

Cooking for one can be a problem.

I had a dandy cauliflower in the fridge. What to do with it? I made a cauliflower gratin. This concoction included cooked cauliflower. I made a sauce with whipping cream, butter, grated cheese, three eggs and some

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Dijon mustard. Other things could be used like sour cream. Add your own idea. Add the sauce to the mashed cauliflower and bake until done. Tired of eating all this food? Make a soup, add the gratin and you are good for more days.

Don’t forget your pets in the very cold weather. They do need water. I feed warm food to my old dogs. Make sure if they have metal feeding bowls that they are warmed up in the house.

I cover my dogs with blankets. The old female will not come in the house and the oldest dog stays out because of old dog issues. I check on them throughout the night. So far so good.

I must leave this for now. Once more I do thank all of you for your calls to 250-846-5095 and your kind notes to mallory@bulkley.net.

Why You Need Vitamin C and Lysine for Heart Health and More...

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itamin C is arguably the single most important water soluble antioxidant in the human body. Antioxidants play a key role in protecting cells against free radicals, which can cause damage and play a role in heart disease, cancer and other diseases.

It’s tragic that researchers are unaware that high doses of vitamin C and lysine cannot only prevent, but reverse atherosclerosis in coronary and other arteries in the body. Vitamin C is needed for the manufacture of collagen, the glue that holds cells together. A lack of vitamin C means poor collagen, resulting in cracks appearing between coronary cells thus setting the stage for fatal blood clot.

Recently, Dr. Sydney Bush, an English researcher, made this monumental discovery. He took photos of the retinal arteries and then gave patients 6,000 milligrams of vitamin C and 5,000 of lysine (lysine adds strength to coronary arteries just like steel rods increase the strength of concrete). A year later he repeated the pictures. To his surprise, he found atherosclerosis fading away.

Millions of North Americans also suffer from osteoarthritis. Without sufficient vitamin C to produce collagen, a major component of cartilage, bone eventually grinds on bone. There would be fewer joint replacements if more vitamin C were available to produce healthy collagen.

Rheumatoid arthritis, the inflammatory type, also requires large doses of vitamin C. Every moment of the day our bodies are using oxygen to keep us alive. But oxidation results in metabolic ash, known as “free radicals”, which are believed to trigger an inflammatory reaction in joints.

Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant that helps to reduce damaging free-radicals.

Patients often appear surprised when I tell them that vitamin C will help them keep their teeth a lifetime. By age 65 one in five North Americans has lost all their teeth and many of their teeth were normal. Rather, it was the gums that could no longer hold teeth firmly in place in part due to inadequate amounts of vitamin C. This vitamin is needed in large amounts to produce healthy collagen, the glue that holds cells together and keeps gums healthy. Without good mortar bricks fall apart and the same happens when gums lacking collagen lose their grip on teeth.

The essential amino acid lysine is probably best known for its use in those with herpes simplex infections but several other benefits have been ascribed to the molecule, including favourable effects on blood pressure and stroke prevention but also a positive influence on mood and anxiety.

In addition to providing healthy collagen production and a healthy cardiovascular system, vitamin C and lysine supplementation helps support: • Immune system health • Vision • Teeth and gums • Wound healing • Bones and cartilage • Recovery from shingles • Recovery from herpes outbreaks This is why I’ve been taking high doses of vitamin C and lysine for the last 16 years following a heart attack. I believe it saved my life. Medi-C Plus™, containing high doses of vitamin C and lysine, is available in powder and capsules.

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What happens when 4 top comedians want to spend a month in western Canada snowboarding?

They combine forces to bring you the Snowed in Comedy Tour, coming to Smithers this Thursday.

During the day they will be hitting the slopes at Hudson Bay Mountain, then in the evening they’ll be playing the Della Herman Theatre.

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Ken Vander Horst 250.847.2333 FORGIVENESS With a New Year and resolutions in place, how many of us considered - let alone resolved - to forgive what still troubles us and who might be responsible for it?

Forgiveness is hard.

How do I do it? Why should I do it? Those who did what they did don’t deserve it.

Lewis Smedes, the late author and occasional Oprah Winfrey guest, wrote two helpful books on forgiveness in which he gets down to the heart of the matter.

He outlined the do’s and don’ts in this way: 1) Forgiveness isn’t forgetting - in order to forgive, we have to remember what the issue is.

2) Forgiveness begins when we realize that the person who wronged us is human just like we are.

3) Forgiveness doesn’t mean we have to subject ourselves to another person’s habitually destructive behaviour.

Being a doormat for someone to keep trampling compromises real forgiveness.

4) Forgiveness takes effect when we want to do it - the victim determines the timing and processing, not the perpetrator.

5) Forgiveness isn’t a one-time act - we must practice it regularly, and sometimes forgive the same wrong over and over again before it really kicks in.

6) Forgiveness means that we no longer reserve the right to get even; only then can another relational possibility - reconciliation - happen, if both parties are committed to a new - and perhaps distanced - life together.

Jesus made forgiveness a hallmark of his life - indeed, it brought an end to his life. Among his last words were ones for those executing him, “Forgive them; they don’t know what they’re doing.”

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JULY GTS halts discussions The Gitxsan Treaty Society stopped discussions about any proposed pipeline development because the federal and provincial governments did not withdraw their land offers with two other northwest B.C. First Nations before June 21.

Spookw case thrown out The B.C. Supreme Court threw out a claim against the Gitxsan Treaty Society.

The plaintiffs, the Spookw group of Gitxsan people, sought to end the GTS, saying it had not acted in the best interest of the Gitxsan people.

Gitxsan hands out evictions Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs said until governments obtained their required consent, all those involved with sport fisheries, the forest industry and CN Rail had to leave their territory by Aug. 4.

Simgiigyet Gitwangak and Gitsegugkla issued the eviction notices on July 10.

AUGUST Municipal leaders sign resource agreement District of Kitimat-Stikine director Linda

acclaimed. Kitimat-Stikine Electoral Area B director Linda Pierre was re-elected. Shar McRory was elected Hazelton trustee for Coast Mountain School District 82.

New Gitxsan name for school The former John Field School celebrated the launch of its new Gitxsan name of Majagaleehl Gali Aks, which means “flowers of the rivers”.

Pierre, Hazelton mayor Alice Maitland and New Hazelton mayor Gail Lowry, with representatives from Stewart, Terrace and Kitimat, signed the Northwest BC Resource Benefit Alliance.

SEPTEMBER Base camp built Gitxsan hereditary Chiefs Luutkudziiwus, Xsim Wits’iin and Noola set up a permanent base camp on the Suskwa Forest Service Road. The groups set up the camp on behalf of their house members to control access to their territory, which they said was closed to all natural gas pipeline development.

RCMP helps recover drill equipment Dease Lake RCMP helped drilling company Black Hawk Drilling recover some of its property after it was held hostage by the activist group Klabona Keepers.

The group said they took over the site on Ealue Lake Road because the company, which was hired by Oz Minerals, was there without permission.

The exploration tenure was owned by Firesteel Resources.

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Kispiox Fest faces cancellation OCTOBER Madii Lii camp launch Over 100 people came to Suskwa Forest Service Road northeast of New Hazelton to celebrate the building of the Madii Lii camp at kilometre 15. The camp was built to enforce a prohibition on pipeline building through the Gitxsan Nation’s house of Luutkudziiwus territory.

NOVEMBER Municipal elections Incumbent Mayor Gail Lowry was re-elected Mayor of New Hazelton. Village of Hazelton Mayor Alice Maitland was

DECEMBER Three Gitxsan hereditary chiefs oppose draft LNG deal In the letter the chiefs said they would not be bound by the agreement if the Office of Gitxsan Chiefs became signatory to the agreement.

Hwy 16 blockade Gitxsan hereditary chiefs from Spookw and Luutkudziiwus led a blockade of Hwy 16 in New Hazelton to protest environmental approvals issued by the province for three LNG projects in northern B.C. Kispiox Valley Music Fest on brink Some of northern B.C.’s biggest names in music spoke out to help save the 2015 festival, which organizers said would be cancelled if more help to coordinate the event was not found.

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Hip with hip-hop stars and seniors too Inside When Chrysler resurrected the 300 It is amazing to see how much has nameplate (originally sold from the mid changed inside a modern sedan in the 50s until the late 70s) back in 2005, it was past 10 years. When the 2005 Chrysler met with the kind of enthusiasm of which 300 was introduced, the company was automakers can only dream. still addicted to hard, cheap looking plasHip-hop stars all the way to seniors chose tic. Today, the 300 is fitted with upscale the car with aggressive exterior styling materials and the latest infotainment. and full-size dimensions. In fact, the 2005 The changes for 2015 include a new inChrysler 300 wasn’t just a sales hit — it Much has strument cluster display that is bold and won more awards than any other vehicle bright. My preference would be to have to date. When Chrysler updated the car for changed in 10 years the ability to dial down the brightness 2011, the intention was to make the car for the 300, but the of the glowing instrument rings during less “brutal” looking, making it more ele- same goodness that the day, something that can be adjusted gant and sophisticated. This was achieved was in the 2005 at night when the headlamps are on. by opening up the glass area for better The award winning 8.4-inch uConnect outward visibility and minimizing the model is still here; infotainment screen is standard on all bold front grille. Now, for 2015, Chrysler is it is the refinement trim levels and it is a snap to learn. Also retracing its choices and going back to a that makes this a included now, on all models, is the rotary blunt look again. modern sedan. transmission controller, something that Looks becomes second nature after a few days The people who drove the 2005 model Zack Spencer of use. The rest of the interior is tailored welcomed some of the changes made in depending on the trim. The sportier S 2011. The glass area was improved by 15 model is covered in black with bold white stitching. It is per cent and the top of the front window was raised, the top Platinum models that get the opulent diamond making it easier to see traffic lights. This has not been stitching in the seats, a two-tone leather steering wheel adjusted for 2015; the revisions are kept to the front and open grain wood accents. and rear of the 300. The most noticeable update is the Drive return of a big, bold grille, which is 30 per cent bigger The reason for the standard transmission controller is than the aggressive grille found on the 2005 model. the standard 8-speed automatic transmission for both The way it is integrated is more polished, thanks to V6 and V8 equipped cars. The base engine is the same three distinct grille inserts depending on the trim level.

3.6L V6 with 292hp. The optional 363hp Hemi V8 is a The S trim (seen above) receives more black trim, not powerful upgrade but this car is no longer available just on the grille, but also the side window trim and with all wheel drive (AWD), this is something previous smoked 20-inch alloy wheels. This car has some of the V8 owners didn’t choose in great numbers, so it was attitude of the Dodge Charger in a slightly more upscale dropped. The 300 is now available with a sport setting package. Other refinements include LED lighting for for the transmission, engine management and steering daytime running lights, rear tail lamps and available feel, taking advantage of computer algorithms to LED fog lights. The rear bumper has been raised slightly extract the most out of the car’s strong engines. Unlike to make it look less heavy and integrated exhaust tips the sportier Dodge Charger, there is not an adjustable help refine the look.

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suspension but the S model does run on 20-inch wheels and tires making it feel very connected to the road. This will not be the choice of traditional luxury buyers; they will like the more upscale 300C for grand touring.

Verdict Starting at $37,395 and maxing out at $45,295 for an AWD platinum V6 model, there are many trims to choose (V8 equipped cars run roughly $2,000 more).

The base is the value leader, the S is the sporty model, with standard 20-inch wheels, and the 300C Platinum is the one featuring the opulent interior. Chrysler believes that the S model will be the volume leader thanks to the aggressive black trim and chunky wheels. This is a surprise because the Dodge Charger is based on the same platform and has the whole “bad boy” attitude in spades, something the 300 looks to be mimicking. The top Platinum would be my choice because it’s interior is so different from the Dodge, something that truly separates the two cars plus it has all the latest safety features including the autonomous braking system when a crash is detected. Much has changed in 10 years for the 300 but the same goodness that was in the 2005 model is still here; it is the refinement that makes this a modern sedan.

The Lowdown Power: 2.4L 185hp or 2.0L Turbo with 245hp Fill-up: 9.8L/6.7L/100km (city/highway) Sticker price: $23,999-$34,799 zack.spencer@drivewaybc.ca

Question of the Week This week’s ICBC tip recommends that people carry an emergency kit in their car’s trunk. The list is extensive but we are looking for tips from readers about what else they carry and why.

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Safety Tip: An emergency kit for your vehicle is crucial in case you become stranded or stuck. Items in your kit should include non-perishable food and water, blankets, first aid supplies, flashlight and extra batteries, flares and matches, jumper cables and a spare tire, jack and wheel wrench.

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Drives-U-Crazy Intersections are where roads cross.

Obvious? – Well, it seems many drivers don’t know that because they frequently block intersections where major roads meet with minor neighborhood streets in contravention of local bylaws.

Volkswagen caused quite a stir across Europe when it announced rock singer Robbie Williams as its new marketing manager at a televised press conference.

“For me, it’s a big change. It’s stepping out of the world of pop into a proper job”, is how the Brit singer described his new assignment at Volkswagen.

He currently features in an advertising campaign for the new “Club & Lounge” special models. keith.morgan@drivewaybc.ca

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