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Petition opposes Smithers sportsplex By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
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Houston Finning won the President’s Award for Safety Excellence in 2014. Above is President of Finning Canada, Juan Carlos Villegas, presenting Houston Branch Manager Bill Holmberg the award. Villegas said what stood out about Houston employees was how they have maintained the attitude with which Finning was built and have a family-like environment. Finning’s B.C. Health and Safety Manager Jon Pel said Houston is exemplary for how they work together and look out for each other. They also think through tasks and mentor new employees. “Many times I’ve held up your branch as an example of what safety should be,” Pel said. President Villegas, H&S Manager Jon Pel and H&S Advisor Dan Penner celebrated with the Houston Finning crew in Houston last Thursday. Pel recognized Bill Holmberg and Lisa Makuk, Houston H&S Coordinator, for their tremendous contribution to safety and where Houston Finning is today.
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Houston citizens are protesting the school district proposal to build a $3.5 - $4 million sportsplex in Smithers. Houston’s Chris Meints started a petition last Wednesday opposing the proposed sportsplex, which would be funded by School District 54 in partnership with community and business. SD54 Vice Chair Frank Farrell says it would be a regional facility and would include an indoor soccer and rugby field, a walking track and courts for basketball and volleyball. School District 54 is holding a public forum to discuss the proposed sportsplex today, Wednesday, June 3 at the Walnut Park School at 7 p.m. Meints says he is bringing the petition
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Public forum Wednesday, June 3 at Walnut Park School in Smithers.
there and expects a large crowd from Houston. The petition opposing the facility was posted at several Houston businesses and signed by 168 people by Friday. The petition is to “stop the waste of funds on the Smithers sportsplex,” and Meints says it includes both Houston and Smithers residents. For him, this is about distribution of funding. See SD54 on Page 2
Conservatives choose northwestern B.C. candidate Tyler Nesbitt of Terrace has been chosen as the Conservative Party of Canada’s candidate for the Skeena - Bulkley Valley riding for this fall’s federal election. Nesbitt defeated another Terrace resident, MaryAnn Freeman. Voting took place
May 23 and May 24 through a mobile poll which stopped in communities throughout the riding before concluding in Terrace last night. Candidates had a chance to speak and party members to ask questions at each stop. “We had an excellent turn out,
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“We had an excellent turn out, much greater than anticipated at all voting polls.”
much greater than anticipated at all voting polls,” said
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Nesbitt is a manager with Nechako Northcoast, the company with the provincial road and bridge maintenance contract in the area. He was born in Prince Rupert and has lived in Terrace since 2009. Nesbitt has described himself as
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Tyler Nesbitt is the federal Conservative candidate for the Skeena-Bulkley Valley riding.
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