The Northern View, June 03, 2015

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Reductions to hospital service levels proposed

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BY MARTINA PERRY

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Hundreds come out for Relay for Life Page A2

An internal report from the provincial government is proposing a significant shift in medical service on the North Coast.

The Rural Health Services in B.C. policy paper proposes changing medical service in the Northwest into a “hub and spoke” model of service delivery, essentially moving a number of services from the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital to Terrace.

The subject was brought up in a recent legislative committee meeting, with comments on the policy paper being made by North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice in the minutes of the - Jennifer Rice meeting.

“The paper, which hasn’t been implemented ... proposed some pretty dramatic changes on how surgeries would be performed in the Northwest,” said Rice.

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“The paper ... proposed some pretty dramatic changes.”

Feature Heart of our city: Carol Meers Page A5 Kevin Campbell / The Northern View

The Charles Hays Secondary School graduating class of 2015 gathers at the waterfront for the traditional pre-prom photo on Saturday afternoon. Before the prom festivities, students participated in the formal graduation ceremony on Friday night.

Rupert’s newly homeless share their struggles

BY MARTINA PERRY

Sports Badminton players hit the court Page A11

Community Jump Rope for Heart aims high Page A18

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Since the closure of the Neptune Motor Inn at the end of April, a number of the former tenants have literally been left out in the cold.

With the community’s affordable housing stock completely depleted, a number of people have been finding shelter wherever they can on the streets of Prince Rupert.

At the May 25 city council meeting, Coun.

Joy Thorkelson said of the 14 or so people who were residing at the Neptune Motor Inn when it shut its doors, about seven have came through the Fishermen’s Hall to use its services for homeless people. While some were able to find a relative or friend to stay with, Thorkelson said she could name at least five people sleeping in the rough.

“I honestly feel like crying when people come in and they don’t know where they’re going to sleep ... What the hell do you tell them?” said Thorkelson.

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Thorkelson put much of the blame on the government and BC Housing for not providing enough subsidized housing in Prince Rupert.

But according to Donna Cairns, BC Housing senior manager of communications, in the past year the agency has increased the number of subsidized units in Prince Rupert from 439 to 472.

She also said there are currently 57 applications for subsidized housing in Prince Rupert, 31 of which are from families, 26 from singles and 14 from seniors.

Cairns said BC Housing recently met with Prince Rupert mayor and council to discuss housing and said the agency continues “to seek

viable proposals for affordable housing from the community to address long-term housing needs”.

“We are working with the municipality and our housing partners to determine potential future housing options,” said Cairns, who noted 15 units were made available recently from the refurbishing of the existing housing stock.

“In the coming months, we will be looking at refurbishing additional units.”

The Prince Rupert Aboriginal Community Services Society (PRACSS) runs the federallyfunded Aboriginal Homelessness program in Prince Rupert and is presently trying to manage an overwhelming caseload.

Last week, PRACSS executive director Theresa Wesley said the society has been struggling to fulfill its mandate of providing a leadership role in the implementation of the Housing First Model in the community. “‘House the person first and then take care of everything else’. Well, we can’t even house the people. There’s nowhere to put them,” she said.

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Terrace envisioned Relay for Life smashes goal as hub hospital

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL

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HOSPITAL from Page A1 Rice wanted it put on the record that she and many North Coast constituents view Prince Rupert as a hub, serving a number of outlying communities including people from Haida Gwaii and Aboriginal communities.

“Those constituents that raised r the issue of this internal report r have expressed strong needs, n that they would like the Prince Rupert Regional Hospital to remain ... a regional r hospital providing surgical services.”

In the minutes, B.C. Health Minister Terry Lake states Northern Health recommended r a hub and spoke model in the region.

“It’s critical that, if you’re doing surgery, there be a n volume. I know - Terry Lake necessary if i I’m having surgery, I’d rather go to some surgeon that’s doing a lot of those procedures rather than one who only does one once a week,” said Minister Lake, adding there’s an opportunity to increase services as communities grow and volumes increase.

“When you look at Prince Rupert ... there’s a lot of activity — real economic activity now but potential economic activity and population growth — in that region. Then the volumes ... would go up, and that changes the kinds of service levels that you would expect to have.”

Northern Health did not immediately return Northern View requests for comment regarding the policy paper.

“I know if I’m having surgery, I’d rather go to some surgeon that’s doing a lot of those procedures rather than one who only does one once a week.”

The survivor’s lap looked a little different this year, compared to 2014’s Canadian Cancer Society’s Relay for Life 12-hour marathon event at the Prince Rupert Middle School track on Saturday morning.

Instead of just the lone yellow shirts donned by the survivors, walking behind the RCMP’s Honour Guard at 10 a.m. to kick off the event for a single lap, the survivors were interspersed on the track by friends, family and all kinds of supporters who walked right beside and behind them.

It was a little more crowded, but a lot less solitary, said Relay leadership chair Sheila Seidemann. “[The survivors] felt lonely walking by themselves last year. They wanted lots of people walking with them. There’s survivors and then there’s caregivers, but lots of people throughout the community have been supportive of them, even though they’re not particularly their family.”

And that’s what Relay for Life became on Saturday – the blend of the fighters who have battled and fought for their health alongside their brothers and sisters-inarms, all working together to find a cure for cancer.

And topping last year’s record-breaking $73,000 raised was an even greater $85,000 contributed to cancer research for 2015. That number beats the goal of $80,000 and continues to climb as last-minute totals trickle in, Seidemann added.

“I’m really glad that today is here because there’s lots to organize and lots of things that you thought were going to go one way, and then they go another ... and the organizing team, 10 of us, did such an amazing job. I had a couple ladies I gave tasks to and they just ran with it. They blew me out of the water,”

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The RCMP Honour Guard led the survivors’ walk on Saturday at the 2015 Relay for Life.

said Seidemann.

Food, live music, balloons and guest speakers filled the day right until 10 p.m. with the late spring sun setting behind the coastal mountains.

Tents of all colours and backgrounds lined the track and inside, the cheers and applause for the day’s heroes lifted everyone’s spirits on a day when, quite understandably, emotions could run a bit rampant.

“It’s different for everybody,” saidSeidemann.

“Some survivors find this extremely emotional. ...

There’s going to be emotion, there’s no way around it ... to be here and support all of the cancer survivors and their families – that’s the biggest goal.”

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Principals being Worker accommodations a concern shuffled

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BY MARTINA PERRY PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

There will be some changes in leadership at three Prince Rupert schools in the fall.

The changes begin at École Roosevelt Park Community School, as current principal Sheila Wells has announced she will retire at the end of August. Wells has been part of the Prince Rupert School District for 37 years, being a teacher for many years before becoming principal of Prince Rupert Secondary School.

Wells became principal of Roosevelt last year “The district will miss Sheila Wells and her contributions,” said superintendent Sandra Jones.

Andrée Michaud will be taking over the role of principal at the school, in addition to her duties as district principal of the French Immersion Program. Michaud will be leaving her role of vice-principal at Prince Rupert Middle School.

SD52 is welcoming back Stephanie Coates, who will become vice-principal of Roosevelt, a school she is very familiar with, having worked within the French Immersion Program.

Pamela Groves, currently vice-principal of PRMS, decided to pursue her passion as a full-time counsellor at the school, so Sheryl Sadorski will become vice-principal effective Aug. 1. Michelle Cross-Pomponio is becoming the associate principal to fill in as necessary as Ken Minette continues with his dual role of director of instruction and PRMS principal.

The first question ever posed to Port Edward council as part of its public question and answer period at the end of the regular meeting agenda took aim squarely at the impact of worker accommodation facilities proposed in the community.

“The camps are an issue. I have been reading many articles where there have been sexual assaults and heavy drinking. I myself have worked at camps and we would be pretty naive to think that guys don’t drink when they are in camp,” said Alice Kruta, a Port Edward resident.

“There is lots of land just on the highway and I would like to put forward to the council ... if they would have the camps moved out of the community.”

Noting the land was sold to Civeo and Quickload, the latter of which is leasing land to Black Diamond for a worker accommodation facility, Mayor Dave MacDonald said council wouldn’t be making such a request.

“We, as a council, would rather have the camps in town where we have some control and will also get some taxes from that land and the buildings upon it. We felt that was the right way to go,” he said.

“As well, there are an awful lot of

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Concerns around worker accommodation were raised at the May 26 Port Edward council meeting, though mayor and council said they supported the developments.

good people that are going to come.

Yes, there are some bad people, none of us are that naive, but that is why there are police forces to take care of problems that you have.”

Those sentiments were echoed

by Coun. Grant Moore, who said the prospect of losing a high-paying job means many in the camp strictly adhere to the rules. Moore also said he was happy with the information that had been coming from the two companies.

“I have met with Civeo and Black Diamond representatives to look over the layouts and the security they are going to be using. I was actually quite impressed, they are pretty top

notch. The Civeo one, once it is built, you won’t even look at it like a camp because it is more like a resort,” he said.

As well as taxes, MacDonald and Coun. Dan Franzen said having the facilities in town could hold other benefits for Port Edward residents.

“They are talking about shared facilities. People may be able to use the gym at the site and they’re talking about putting in a coffee shop that residents could use,” said Franzen.

“They’re talking about emergency services possibly being shared and they may have a doctor on the site that might be accessible,” added MacDonald.

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Homeless tell of cold nights, lack of support HOMELESS from Page A1 “Everywhere it’s the same. It’s all full,” said Wesley.

PRACSS has been trying to help those impacted by the Neptune’s closure, putting up three former tenants in the Moby Dick Hotel last week with leftover credit. The society also purchased new clothes for the individuals, as they were told they had to remove all of their clothing prior to their stay because of concerns related to bed bugs.

After the credit ran out, PRACSS came up with enough money to house the individuals for another two days, until Wednesday of last week.

“The only reason we were able to get these three into the Moby Dick is we used some of our dollars. But we’re running out of those dollars. We’re in crisis mode now,” said Wesley.

“We can’t leave people like this,” said Tracy Downey, PRACSS justice coordinator.

With her frustration growing, Coun.

Thorkelson organized a press conference at the Fishermen’s Hall last week to allow a number of homeless individuals to share their stories.

One was William Brooks, who had lived in the Neptune for three years before it closed. His attempts to find housing have been unsuccessful.

“We’ve been trying to look for places, but they take one look at us and say no,” Brooks said, adding the rejection has made him feel worthless and depressed.

Brooks couch surfed for awhile, but said he got the feeling he overstayed his welcome

at the houses of family and friends.

When Brooks ended up on the streets, it was an all-to-familiar feeling; he had been homeless previously about three years prior in the middle of winter.

“You gotta sleep with one eye open because you never know with these young kids, or even adults ... as soon as you hear noise, you have to get up,” he said.

Anne Robinson and Richard White had lived in the Neptune for five years, and, before they were temporarily housed at the Moby, had been sleeping on the street for about three weeks, mainly behind the museum.

Robinson said on the first night it was pouring rain.

“We leaned against the back of the carving shed and held each other,” she said.

“He took his jacket and put it around me ... but it didn’t keep me warm,” Robinson said, noting the couple remained there until the Salvation Army opened for coffee the next morning.

“The second night, we went back ... we managed to get one blanket. At 2:30 in the morning we heard teenagers coming and they were all drunk. We were scared and told each other not to say anything or else they would bother us. We just kept quiet,” said Robinson.

“I’ve never cried this much before.”

The couple said they were even warned

by RCMP to leave the museum property as it was considered trespassing.

Brooks, Robinson and White were all housed at the Moby last week, but had no idea what they would do on Wednesday.

“I’m still not able to sleep not knowing

what’s going to happen,” said White.

Since coming to Prince Rupert from Haida Gwaii, Steven Brown said he’s slept in the rough for weeks.

“I’ve basically been walking all day and trying to figure out where I’m going to sleep at night,” he said, adding he’s either found a spot to sleep outside or in an abandoned vehicle.

Steven told media he tried to access the Salvation Army’s emergency shelter program several times, but it’s always full.

All individuals expressed their gratitude for the Salvation Army’s breakfast and lunch programs, which often provided them with the only food they would get each day.

“I wake up hungry, and hear my stomach growling,” said Brown.

During city council’s May 25 meeting, Coun. Thorkelson said the community needs to push BC Housing and the provincial and federal governments to “live up” to their housing mandates. “(The city) can help out in some fashion, but the City of Prince Rupert’s responsibility is not to provide housing. We have land that we can help to provide housing,” she said.

Thorkelson moved council write the provincial and federal ministers responsible for housing to bring attention to the “intolerable situation” in Prince Rupert and rally government to either provide additional assisted housing units or supply enough rental subsidies to pay for the going rates of private rentals.

The motion was supported by all city councillors present.

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“Now we’re moving into a phase of needing to quantify what those housing needs are. We’re going to be launching a major community campaign ... called the Go Plan Survey,” explained Prince Rupert Mayor Lee Brain last Monday.

For the campaign, Rupertites are being asked to provide input through a brief questionnaire related to population, housing and social cohesion. Residents are asked to fill out the survey online or through a door-to-door campaign running from June 8 to 18.

The survey is being undertaken to collect information to help quantify housing needs and provide the city will baseline data.

Part of the survey will focus on affordable housing, to be filled out by people who are currently in need or perceive that they will be in a short period of time.

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Additionally, Coun. Thorkelson noted the city will host an event on Fraser Street this month to promote the survey.

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Heart of our City

Meers keeps Rupert Rampage, civic centre rolling behind the scenes

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Multiply 15, the number of seasons Carol Meers’ son Jared played in minor hockey by four, the number of times parents can work at the canteen to offset registration costs, and your total would come to a lot of hours spent handing out poutine dishes for Carol.

“Oh yes, I did my fair share [working there]. Fifteen years of minor hockey, I’ve been in that canteen,” she said last week at the civic centre.

Jared Meers no longer plays Seawolves minor hockey – he graduated a number of years ago now – and Carol no longer works behind the counter four times per year, but Jared’s on-ice impact in Prince Rupert is felt through his leadership qualities as captain of the senior men’s Prince Rupert Rampage hockey team and Carol’s impact is still felt in the rink as secretary treasurer with the Rampage and everywhere else at the civic centre.

Dubbed the centre’s new manager of recreation administrative services after she transferred from city hall’s finance department more than a year ago, Carol oversees the growth of recreation and casual sport in Prince Rupert and perhaps more importantly, recognizes and helps enact policies to grow the revenue streams that the City of Prince Rupert can utilize to bolster both its services at the Jim Ciccone Civic Centre and elsewhere.

“I call it a mini-city hall just because it’s the only revenue-generating entity of the city – the only thing we don’t do here is take [city] taxes,” she said.

Not only does she keep the recreation department in check, but as the secretary treasurer of the Rampage, Carol assists with a plethora of duties while serving on the team’s executive committee.

“You find yourself doing more than one role, so I do the sponsorship with [team defenceman] Derek Baker and I do the programs of each game, so organizing all of that and getting everything to come together for that

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first game is the challenging part,” she said.

The Rampage’s executive will ramp up in August to prepare for the team’s 2015-16 season, their eighth season as a hockey franchise and approximately Carol’s fifth as treasurer.

She handles sponsorship duties for the team – something she says is never an issue with the strong community support the town holds for the group.

“Sponsorship in Prince Rupert has been phenomenal. The businesses support this team 100 per cent, which has been really nice to see because when the boys finish minor hockey, there’s really nowhere else for a lot of them to go. This provides them with an opportunity to continue to play and be a part of the community,” said Carol.

In addition to scoring goals and making saves, the team has also been known to read books to kids, collect money for the Salvation Army, walk in the Santa Claus parade, DJ New Years’ Eve shindigs, play golf for charity and skate with miniature Rampage members-in-training for a family skate day.

“They do a lot of volunteering for [events that] the port holds and in the schools they have ‘Read with the Rampage’ and so it gets them out into the community. It’s awesome,” she said.

“We have the Rampage show up at the year-end minor hockey banquet.

All of that coordination takes work and it’s easy to do when the reaction from fans has been so positive year after year.

“We have the best fans in the CIHL (Central Interior Hockey League) as far as I’m concerned. We average through the season about 600 [attendees] per game,” she said.

Carol, who was born and raised in Prince Rupert with extended family going back at least a couple generations and with the Johnson clan (her maiden name) having firm roots on the North Coast, took many classes in college to

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Carol Meers has been part of the Rampage’s executive committee for over four years. She recently made the move to be the city’s manager of recreation administration services.

“We have the best fans in the CIHL as far as I’m concerned.”

- Carol Meers prepare her for life with the city. She just received her 25-year pin, being with the organization for 27 years now, and credits a number of her colleagues for helping her get so far in her career.

“The majority of my experience, I learned a lot of it on the job, hands-on.

I’ve had a lot of great role models who have helped throughout my career ... just too many to name that have helped me,” she said.

With the recreation department restructuring brought upon by consultant Brent Meunier in 2014 and the addition

of new director Willa Thorpe, the department’s preparing to soar to new heights.

“It’s amazing, with Willa on board and myself, it’s relieved a lot of pressures that were on the aquatic manager. Now each of us has a piece of the pie to deal with and it’s manageable now ... It’s proven to be very beneficial,” she said, adding, she keeps tabs on the innovative group’s progress as secretary for the newly-formed recreation commission.

“The focus at this point is going out and getting sponsorship for different projects that the recreation complex needs, more fundraising ... with the proceeds going to the recreation access program for low-income families,” she said.

“It’s been a very rewarding career here ... [Prince Rupert] is a great community – the scenery, the ocean, just the friendliness of the community. It’s a great place to raise a family.”

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t’s unfortunate that some on the North Coast seem to hold onto the idea that work accommodation sites are going to be a threat to the communities of Prince Rupert and Port Edward.

Their concerns, to some extent, are valid: You are going to be getting a large number of people coming in who are making a lot of money doing what they do and they will be congregating at these workforce accommodation sites.

The problem, for me, arises when people push forward this idea that the workers are just going to be drinking, doing drugs and bringing carnage and chaos into the community. It’s the problem of painting the entire workforce population Shaun Thomas with a single brush that irks me.

For the most part, the people who spent the past several years working on the Rio Tinto Modernization project have been hard-working men and women who put in their hours to support themselves or their family. As someone who has spent considerable time in Kitimat, I can tell you that for the most part the workers either kept to themselves or integrated themselves into the community through participating in sporting events or the overall social scene of Kitimat.

Were there problems with increased theft, vandalism and drug use? Absolutely. But here’s the thing — that could happen regardless of whether there is a “camp” in town or not and whether or not there is any major project happening in the community.

In reality, anybody who comes into town for any reason can create a problem. Unless you want to shut the gates to town and throw up a “no new residents allowed” sign, you’re not going to stop any issues related to increased drinking or drug use or criminal activity. And if you don’t think drugs or drinking or rowdiness is already taking place on the North Coast, you need to pull your head out of the sand.

Since there isn’t a single person on earth who can stop someone who is legally allowed to move into a community from moving there, perhaps we can put this silliness to rest. If people want to come to town to work, they’re going to do it.

Let’s not pre-judge project workers before any project is ever announced.

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e might call ourselves Super, Natural or even funder of the ongoing effort to “save” the B.C. coast, The Best Place on Earth, but how is B.C. the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Gordon viewed around the world?

Moore is a co-founder of Intel Corp., maker of most Ever since U.S. billionaires and their environmental of the world’s computer processor chips, now spending clients decided more than a decade ago to supervise his vast fortune on the Amazon basin, B.C. and other our society, the impression that British Columbia is a “threatened” places. primitive colonial backwater in need of “saving” has Other Silicon Valley and Seattle billionaires helped only been reinforced. finance the original effort, and a strategy document Tom Fletcher In late April, the province and coastal aboriginal surfaced in 2008 describing their plan to de-market the leaders announced completion of marine planning Alberta oilsands by creating a blockade against energy areas for Haida Gwaii and the North and Central Coast. exports on our Pacific coast. That campaign has featured a fake U.S. activists knew about the announcement weeks before the cancer study and grossly exaggerated greenhouse gas claims legislature press gallery did, and a documentary crew was sent compared to U.S. coal and oil production. up to advance the narrative of the saving of the “Great Bear The effort has since expanded to natural gas, with false horror Rainforest.” Within minutes of the announcement, the World stories about “fracking” finding a receptive global audience.

Wildlife Fund website trumpeted the creation of the “Great Back to reality. B.C.’s Auditor General issued a report Bear Sea,” continuing the penchant of outsiders for renaming last week calling on the province to do more to prevent the large parts of B.C. to fit their marketing strategies. “cumulative effects” of industrial development.

Unlike the “Great Bear Rainforest” land use deal of 2007, the Among other things, they noted that 90 per cent of B.C.’s Sierra Club, ForestEthics and Greenpeace were not represented. vast area is now covered by regional land use plans created to Instead, Tides Canada CEO Ross McMillan sat beaming in the manage cumulative impacts. A whopping 37 per cent of B.C. is audience. McMillan’s role in directing U.S. foundation money to designated as parks and protected areas for environmental and B.C. has prompted him to declare himself “a principal architect cultural values. of the Great Bear Rainforest project,” although in the early years Maybe that’s still not good enough, but it’s better than he and his staff (currently 24 people) stayed behind the scenes anything I can find in Europe or the U.S. That’s particularly true while Sierra, Greenpeace et al took the credit. of California, home of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, a pipeline At the event, two aboriginal leaders gave a nod to the real spill, heavy oil refining and gridlocked freeways.

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June 3, 2015 • Northern View • A7

On the street

Are you concerned about an influx of workers on the North Coast?

With Shaun Thomas

SHARON AZAK

MARVEN LEWIS

RUDY AND RHONDA MORRISON

LILA SPENCE

“Yes because we need work for the people who are here now.”

“I think that would be a good thing for Prince Rupert.”

“Well, we haven’t seen people coming in or new jobs available.”

“Yes, because I just finished a training course and there weren’t jobs for the people in the class.”

Letters to the editor

Photo courtesy Prince Rupert Port Authority BUSINESS IS LOOKING UP: As Asian demand for Canadian wood products increases, BC’s forest industry is meeting demand with a diverse blend of exports. The ongoing success of the forest sector in the province depends on achieving a sustainable harvest.

Wood trade roots BC Suzuki discusses tour goals as resource leader

Editor: We all have favourite spots, places close to our hearts that evoke our most profound memories.

Many of mine are along B.C.’s coast.

These places have welcomed and honoured me, their marine life has fed me and the beauty of their ecosystems has humbled me. Taking part in protests at Windy Bay on Haida Gwaii in the early 1980s brought me closer to the people and places of coastal B.C., shaping my understanding of the fundamental relationship between culture and nature.

I’m excited to visit some of my favourite locations in June as I accompany filmmaker and University of Winnipeg professor Ian Mauro for screenings of his film about climate change in British Columbia. After earning a PhD from the University of Manitoba, Ian moved to the Arctic where he made a film with Inuit elders on climate change impacts they were experiencing.

He then moved to Atlantic Canada and filmed fishers, hunters, First Nations leaders, farmers, municipal politicians and local businesses to show how climate change is already affecting their communities, economically and socially.

As one businessman said, “If you don’t believe climate change is real, just look out the window”.

I joined Ian on a tour of Atlantic Canada to screen that film and was struck by the power of his message. I asked him to do one on B.C., where milder winters have led to a devastating outbreak of mountain pine beetles. When I talk to friends and family in Skidegate, Alert Bay and Bella Bella, they tell me about the changes they’re seeing from a warmer environment.

Scientists predict B.C. will warm by 2.4°C in summer and 2.9°C in winter by 2100. We’ve heard how global warming and ocean acidification are already affecting Vancouver Island shellfish. We know periods of lower summer water flows are taking their toll on agriculture, ecosystems, fish and natural resource industries. Warmer water in

the Fraser and other rivers is harming migrating salmon. A sea level rise brings risks of coastal flooding, infrastructure damage and saltwater intrusion into groundwater.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. I’ve also witnessed other dramatic, but positive, changes in this region, including recognition of First Nations’ rights and title as evident in the Tsilhqot’in First Nations Supreme Court decision a year ago, moves to conserve the Great Bear Rainforest and blueprints for marine plans in the North Pacific Coast led by First Nations and the provincial government.

Coastal communities are taking charge of their future. I’m encouraged that municipal leaders in Comox, Courtenay, Tofino, Ucluelet and Queen Charlotte have passed declarations supporting the right to a healthy environment, joining a cross-Canada movement to protect the people and places we love.

Canada needs a national vision to deal with a changing climate and mounting pressures on the environment and our economies. With more than 10,000 years of environmental stewardship to draw upon, West Coast communities can teach us a lot about recognizing healthy ecosystems as the foundation of long-term sustainability.

We have to move beyond the false notion that a healthy environment and strong economy are incompatible. After all, clean technology is the fastest-growing sector in Canada and alternative economic visions that include renewable energy are moving communities toward long-term sustainability.

I’m looking forward to hearing about your community’s vision, successes, challenges and ways of supporting each other. The stories we share will shape the future for our children and grandchildren.

This is a “coming home” tour for me and I’m honoured to be a guest in your community.

David Suzuki

Congratulations to talented youth Editor: It was a delight to see and hear our young people perform, solo and in groups, in the Pacific Northwest Music Festival.

My imagination does not stretch far enough to fully appreciate the dedication, determination, and sheer hard work our youths dedicate to the performing arts, countless hours of practising, practising, and more practising.

Taking lessons and rehearsing is one thing, but to then stand on a stage, introduce yourself, perform, and have the result of all these hours of practising and rehearsing evaluated in front of a crowd, that takes true courage.

Congratulations to all, organizers, instructors, parents and, above all to performers who made the 50th Pacific Northwest Music Festival great.

André Carrel, Terrace

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RE:PORT

ritish Columbia is Canada’s most ecologically diverse province, with more than half of its 95 million hectares covered in forest.

Over 80% of these forests are coniferous. They range from the dry ponderosa pine forests in the south to the spruce and pine boreal forest along the Yukon border.

These vast forests and the softwood products derived from them continue to be a major driver of the BC economy. In fact, more than 40% of regional economies in the province are forestry-based, supporting over 55,000 direct jobs in 7,300 businesses.

Despite the industry’s status as a key employer and revenue stream, BC’s entire annual harvest comes from less than 200,000 hectares—less than 1% of the working forest.

Sustainability is a central priority. All harvested areas are reforested, with more than 200 million seedlings planted each year to supplement natural regrowth.

Approximately 90% of BC’s forests are publicly owned, and the province takes a co-operative approach to land use planning. British Columbians participate in processes that decide which areas should be protected. The public is able to review and comment on forestry plans before any harvesting activities commence. Professional foresters, biologists, and engineers help make decisions about best practices. Audits by independent agencies like the Forest Practices Board are conducted regularly with government and licence holders.

In 2009, BC scaled nearly 49 million cubic metres of timber. Coastal forests provided approximately 30% of the harvest, with the remaining 70% coming from the Interior.

The primary species harvested is lodgepole pine, accounting for 51%, with spruce and hemlock making up 14% and 9% respectively. Douglas fir, balsam, cedar and other species round out the rest. Softwood products produced include lumber, pulp, newsprint, paper products and shingles.

The majority of BC’s forest product is manufactured into lumber at dozens of mills across the province. Lumber accounts for more than 35% of exported forest products, and is in experiencing new demand from expanding Asian markets, particularly China.

With the crash of the United States housing market in 2007, BC lumber export volumes fell 59%, leading to lumber production in the province dropping by more than 40% by 2009.

This led to major curtailments across the industry, including the closure of 26 sawmills. Fortunately, Chinese imports of softwood lumber nearly doubled each year since 2006. By 2011, China lumber imports rose to 3.1 billion board feet, 25% of BC’s total production.

Responding to this shift, BC forest companies are transforming their operations to meet new demands for softwood lumber in Asia. This transformation includes producing a strategic combination of traditional lumber products, new building systems, value-added wood products and other bio-products, which maximize the value of harvested timber and further supports local economies.

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Government accused of deleting Highway of Tears emails

BY TOM FLETCHER PRINCE RUPERT / Black Press

Michael Hoffman Skipper of the crab boat Lasqueti Explorer. Photo by Talon Gillis

Missing from the Chamber of Commerce

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he Chamber of Commerce Membership for Prince Rupert has 188 businesses listed. If that membership included fishing businesses the number would soar.

Late in the evening last week, a group of workers headed down to the Port Ed dock to greet and unload four local boats piled high with purple urchin from Dundas Island.

There were many First Nations people involved. Another batch of urchin boats was at the Cow Bay dock the week before; another four local businesses with different owners and different workers. How many people in town know about our urchin boats? They are not listed with the Chamber or even in the phone book.

A new Petronas PNW LNG ad features Craig Ferguson mentioning: “since fishing went away�. He probably just meant that it was reduced from its heyday, but then again maybe they don’t realize how many fishing businesses contribute to Prince Rupert’s present economy.

Many who know about local fisheries, still underestimate; they might forget about the urchin boats altogether and few would guess there are 58 crab boats which unload in Prince Rupert. Most of these crabbing businesses, valued in the half million to million dollar range, are based right here.

Each boat employs roughly four or five crew, some with families. There are directly related trucking, unloading, monitoring, science and net mending jobs. There are indirect jobs supplying fuel, mechanics, bait, etc.

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Crabbing is just one fishery; add in prawning, salmon, urchin, etc. and it is clear that these businesses are a very important part of our local economy.

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The B.C. NDP is calling for an investigation into missing records they have been seeking on community meetings along Highway 16 in northern B.C. NDP MLAs produced letters from a former assistant to Transportation Minister Todd Stone, who says a supervisor deleted emails from his computer to keep them from being considered for a freedom of information (FOI) request.

Former executive assistant Tim Duncan wrote to B.C. Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Dunham on Thursday saying his supervisor told him to delete a dozen of his emails in November 2014 after an FOI request came to the ministry. “When I hesitated, he took away my keyboard, deleted the emails and returned the keyboard stating, ‘It’s done.

Now you don’t have to worry about it any more’,� Duncan wrote to Denham.

Confronted with the letter in question period Thursday, Premier Christy Clark said records should not be deleted once an FOI request is made. Citizens’ Services Minister Amrik Virk said not every email is considered a government record.

Stone said he intends to have a “frank� discussion with his ministerial assistant George Gretes about the accusation that Gretes deleted the emails.

A history of missing and murdered women along the remote highway from Prince George to Prince Rupert led to a series of community meetings last year.

Opposition critics have been demanding records from the meetings and calling

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A former Ministry of Transportation official alleges he was instructed to delete emails related to the Highway of Tears.

“The BC Liberals are disrespecting the memory of each woman.�

- Jennifer Rice for additional bus service along the highway to keep vulnerable people from hitchhiking.

In an email to NDP leader John Horgan’s office, Duncan acknowledged he had no evidence of the incident or the content of the deleted messages. He said he blew the whistle on the Highway 16 incident because his own father was murdered in a domestic incident in 2010, and he believes the families of missing and murdered people “deserve better.�

North Coast MLA Jennifer Rice, who had previously requested information

about community consultations along the Highway of Tears corridor, said she was “appalled� when she heard about the allegations. “I am utterly appalled that the BC Liberals would go to such lengths to hide information about the Highway of Tears. This has huge implications as to the government’s failure to address the real life safety issues for women who are traveling on Highway 16,� Rice stated after question period. “This blatantly shows how the BC Liberals are disrespecting the memory of each woman who has gone missing or been murdered along the Highway of Tears.�

Duncan was appointed to his job in October 2014. He told the NDP he left “the cesspool that is the B.C. government in March� and reported to Denham that he believes abuse of the FOI process is “widespread and most likely systemic within the Clark government�.

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Seafest drawing near

BY SHAUN THOMAS PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

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Georgia Scott, 8, and Lauren Scott, 6, were using their entrepreneurial skills last Wednesday, selling cold drinks on a hot day.

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Please join us for a conversation with David Suzuki and filmmaker Ian Mauro.

The evening will begin with 30-minute preview of Ian’s upcoming film on climate change, followed by a discussion about the challenges facing your community and your hopes for the future of British Columbia’s spectacular coastal waters.

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As the calendar turns from May to June, the focus of many on the North Coast turns to Seafest, which will be taking place from June 12-14.

This year Seafest will pay tribute to the men and women who volunteer to keep boaters safe on the waters of Hecate Strait. As Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue - Station 64 Prince Rupert celebrates its 40th Anniversary, Seafest will pay tribute to the group with a co-theme of “Saving Lives on the Water”.

Seafest 2015 includes three days of activities that includes a mix of new events, old favourites and some bigtime entertainment.

Among the events scheduled for Friday are the annual Seniors’ Tea, Music at Mariner’s and a blessing of the paddles created by those involved in the Friendship House’s Paddle for

Wellness program.

Seafest Saturday activities include the Seafest Parade, wagon rides, Soapbox Derby races, a grass volleyball tournament, arm wrestling, a show and shine and more. That evening there will be two venues hosting live music acts as the Lester Centre presents Abba Tribute Band “Arrival” and the North Coast Convention Centre hosts Tina Turner tribute artist Louisa Marshall.

Seafest will wrap up at the waterfront on Sunday with events including the Swim for Survival, the finals of the Quick and Daring, kayak fire drills, the sailpast and flypast and the new Harley Riders Rodeo and canoe tug-of-war.

The final event of Seafest, the Sunset Memoria Service, will pay tribute to those who were lost at sea or those who dedicated their life to working on the water.

Look for a full list of events in next week’s issue of the Northern View.

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Yuan slices his way to win at badminton tourney

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

There’s a new men’s singles badminton powerhouse in town, and he wasted no time claiming his first Prince Rupert title.

David Yuan, one of the province’s top players and coming to the North Coast from Vancouver, took the second annual Prince Rupert Badminton Tournament men’s singles championship over Jordan Truong on Sunday afternoon, highlighting a tremendous weekend of extremely highcalibre badminton action.

The participating players hailed from Prince Rupert, Terrace and even a couple dozen came from Prince George, including president of Badminton B.C. and women’s singles champion, Lisa Davison.

“The volunteer base [in Prince Rupert] is fabulous. There’s lots of really keen people intent on making a tournament happen ... Like us in Prince George and anything north of Kelowna, there isn’t a dedicated badminton facility, but you can see we have the same level of really strong players – just more isolated,” said Davison, who runs a junior club in Prince George and brought over 25 kids to the tourney.

Yuan, a former assistant coach at the prestigious ClearOne Badminton Centre in Richmond and former head coach of the Capilano University Badminton team, impressed audiences with his drop shots, powerful forehands and deceitful backhanded swings that had his opponents sprinting to the wrong side of the court.

For young Truong, it was all he could do to try and outpace the experienced veteran in their finals match.

“Jordan is a young, rising player and he has a lot of strength and technique. I think right now, he needs a lot of high-intensity training to refine his skills and strength because right now I’m a lot older than him.

So in terms of experience and technique, I think I’m a little bit better and this is why I was able to take advantage on a lot of shots. If he’s able to continue to practice, I can see that he has a bright future,” said Yuan of his opponent.

“I think my best shots today were a lot of slices, cross-court drop shots ... I made him dig birds a lot.”

Beginning Sunday’s matches at “Court 2” - centre court for the civic centre’s gymnasium in front of numerous spectators were the mixed doubles finals, and Davison and Jonathan Goodkey were victorious over Yuan and Katherine Crossley in a fine match.

Following their tilt was a high-octane and extremely tight two games to one victory for Julian Callangan and Thai Pham over Yuan and Steven Liu, with both teams working closely in sync with each other to try and outlast their talented opponents.

Then, Prince George’s Clara Froling and Olivia McClair took down Rachael Ernst and Kathy Liu for the women’s doubles championship, while Davison was victorious in women’s singles over fellow club player McClair in a match that had spectators on the edge of their seats in a hushed atmosphere inside the gymnasium.

Yuan finished the day with his men’s singles win over Truong, though the young up-and-comer got his title in the under-19 boys’ division, beating Alex Santos in the

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David Yuan won the Prince Rupert Badminton Tournament men’s singles title and came in second in mixed doubles with Katherine Crossley and men’s doubles with Steven Liu.

final.

In the under-19 girls’ championship, Leona Truong defeated Brielle Cooke while Kenadi Stephen and Steve Pye grabbed the under-19 mixed doubles title, topping Cooke and Zak Simpson.

Jordan Ho and Braydon Watson claimed the under-19 boys’ doubles title, with Jarin Davison and Simpson coming in second.

For the under-19 girls’ doubles champions, Clare Froling and Diane Ayson took out Nicole Wilkes and Kenadi Stephen.

Rounding out the weekend’s winners

was Brandon Mah claiming victory over Brendan Eshom in the under-15 division on Sunday.

“You’ve got some great knowledge [here].

David [Yuan]’s got some great knowledge, the Lius have some great knowledge – there was a real learning curve, but everybody was keen,” Davison added before departing back to Prince George with her junior crew.

Organizer Kathy Liu thanked the volunteers and executive committee for organizing the grand-scale tournament, and mentioned the third iteration will come next year.

New team champ to be crowned in 2015 relay

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Runners from Haida Gwaii, Prince Rupert, Terrace, Kitimat, Smithers, Houston and Telkwa will collectively race 142 kilometres from the Lester Centre in Prince Rupert to the Canadian Tire location in Terrace.

It’s part of the 14th Annual Skeena River Relay for 2015 where, on Saturday, June 6 at 7 a.m., 300 participants in 30 teams of 10 runners each test their body’s limits in 10 different stages of the race, the

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longest being 21.2 kilometres for a single runner on the team. The smallest stage of the relay for one runner is 10.2 kilometres that’s at Basalt Creek.

“We have a women’s division, masters’ division (over-40), corporate division (minimum six people from the same workplace), mixed (at least five female runners) and an open division,” said organizer Carrie Coley on the weekend.

“The winners of each category receive a medal and the overall [winning] team gets their team name on a trophy. Winners of each stage (male and female) get a prize –

usually a towel. Then, we just have draw prizes for all racers. There’s an awards dinner at the Thornhill Community Centre at 6 p.m. on Saturday after the race.”

The Skeena relay organizers will also hold a pre-race meet and greet and social on Friday, June 5 at 6:30 p.m. at the Crest Hotel and dinner will be included for all race participants at the community centre after the race.

Last year, Smithers Fire Rescue was the No. 1 team to clean up at the relay, posting a finishing time of 10:44:05 and running in the corporate category.

Three Smithers Fire Rescue members finished in first on their leg of the relay, including Blaine Smit, Chris Pendray and Peter Smit.

The next-closest team to cross the finish line in Terrace was There Are Margaritas At The End, another corporate squad, finishing in second with a time of 11:02:46.

A new champion will be crowned this year however, as Smithers Fire Rescue is not on the list of teams submitted to relay organizers at www.skeenariverrelay.com.

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Liu’s heroics not enough for Canada at Sudirman Cup Despite going 3-1, Rupertite Adrian Liu couldn’t elevate Canada to elite status in China

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

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Despite a masterful week of men’s doubles badminton for ex-Rupertite Adrian Liu and his athletic partner Derrick Ng in China earlier in May, the Canadian team fell from contention in the hotly-contested 2015 Sudirman Cup. Liu and Ng lost their first men’s doubles match against their first group opponent, the Netherlands’ Jacco Arends and Jelle Maas, 18-21, 19-21.

But the duo would rebound and reel off three straight victories to run the table for the duration of the 35-team tournament.

The next day, Canada’s second group opponent, Singapore’s Danny Bawa Chrisnanta and Chayut Triyachart faced off against Liu and Ng and both teams found themselves in a tightly fought battle, with the Canadians just edging Singapore in three games 21-18, 10-21, 21-18. Despite Singapore’s 57 total points won being greater than the Canadians’ 52, it was the lategame clutch performances by Liu and Ng in games one and three that toppled their opposition to move to 1-1 at the tourney.

Two days later, Liu and Ng took on Spain’s Luis Enrique Penalver and Ernesto Velazquez – a more unfamiliar opponent for the duo, and they took them out with relative ease, winning 21-9, 21-16.

Finishing group play with a record of 2-1, the men’s doubles team helped carry Canada’s chances of advancing at the tourney, but unfortunately not all of

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Prince Rupert’s Adrian Liu, third from right, beat Singapore, Spain and Brazil at the Sudirman Cup, held in China earlier in May. Canada finished fourth in their pool and China won the overall tournament.

their colleagues performed as well in their matches.

Women’s singles powerhouse and the country’s top current badminton player, Michelle Li, did the best out of all the Canadian sides, winning all three of her matches, including an epic game against Spain’s Carolina Marin, that went three games and lasted an hour and 19 minutes. Her other two matches were 33 minutes each.

Canada’s competitors in men’s singles, mixed doubles and women’s doubles combined for a collective 1-8 record, which when paired with Liu, Ng and Li’s performances gave Canada a 6-9 record, good for fourth in Level 2 Group A. The Netherlands won the group, followed by Singapore in second and Spain in third.

In group two playoffs, Canada proved to be too much for their opponent, Brazil. Despite an opening match loss by Canadian mixed doubles’ team Alex Bruce and Toby Ng, Canada stringed together three straight wins by men’s singles’ Andrew D’Souza, women’s singles’ Rachel Honderich and Liu and Derrick Ng in men’s

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Team China dominated the field and emerged victorious at the end of the Sudirman Cup, beating Japan in their series 3-0. The hosts won their 10th Sudirman Cup with the victory.

Next for the Rupertite is a busy on-court summer schedule, starting with the Suffolk County Community College US Open, held in New York from Tuesday, June 16 to Sunday, June 21. That tournament is part of the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Grand Prix Gold Series and is a qualifying event for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games.

Shortly thereafter, Liu will head north and a little closer to home for the Yonex Canada Open, held in Calgary from Tuesday, June 23 to Sunday, June 28.

Liu’s focus will then turn to the Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games in July, where he’ll represent Canada again on the men’s doubles badminton stage with teammate Derrick Ng.

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BY KEVIN CAMPBELL

Thank You. Prince Rupert & Area for making this event

PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Bike to Work Week Prince Rupert broke their ridership totals from one year ago, having 59 cyclists travel the roads of the North Coast to get to work from May 25-31. That’s five more riders than 2014.

Though their numbers were greater, the distance travelled by the participants couldn’t match the totals from a year ago, with the 59 riders totalling 393 kilometres between them, 113 km short of 2014’s total.

The Friendship - Juliane Mark House smashed the team competition, coming in first-place with approximately 115 kilometres ridden, followed by the Prince Rupert Port Authority, Pioneer Guesthouse and Northern Savings Credit Union head office.

“Everybody had a really cool experience. The weather was amazing – not a single day of rain,” said organizer Juliane Mark.

Mark distributed prizes to the winning teams as well as through a draw Saturday at the Last Minute Market and had buttons for sale by donation for participants and supporters.

“Button Guy brought his machine so we can use it,” she said, adding the donations from the civic centre, Overwaitea, Safeway, CIBC, Shoppers Drug Mart, Advantage Printing, Pioneer Guesthouse and Farwest Sports made the week a success.

In total, eight teams signed up, with 13 new riders over last year. Just under 400 kilometres

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Juliane Mark, organizer of Bike to Work Week Prince Rupert, proudly displays 2015’s stats.

were cycled, with 12,003 calories burned and 87 kg of greenhouse gas emissions saved.

The money raised through the initiative will go towards the Kaien Anti-Povery Society’s Bicycle Fund – offering those without bikes a chance to ride for themselves.

A grand prize of a trip for two to Prague was given away and the Rupert Off-Road Cycling Association performed bike repairs for anyone needing it.

“We’re really looking forward to next year as well,” said Mark.

The results of the week can be found at www.biketowork.ca/princerupert.

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A14 • Northern View • June 3, 2015

Rash of theft hits Port Ed

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BY MARTINA PERRY PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

BY SHAUN THOMAS PORT EDWARD / The Northern View

The mayor of Port Edward is asking residents to remain calm in light of a series of thefts reportedly taking place in the community.

“There has been thievery going on around the municipality and some upset residents are ready to confrontt people they feel - Dave MacDonald responsible. I think itt is important to call the RCMP and go through the proper channels so you don’t get yourself into a situation you don’t want to be in,” he said during the May 26 meeting of council.

“I have been in contact with Sgt. Uppal at the Prince Rupert RCMP about this and we are working with them to address what is happening.”

However, Const. Matt Ericson said there has only been one incident of theft reported to RCMP since the beginning of the month.

“There seems to be a lot of talk in town about people’s personal property being stolen, but we haven’t received any reports other than the one file,” he said.

“People who have property stolen should contact the RCMP so we can conduct some type of investigation.”

“Call the RCMP and go through the proper channels.”

The City of Prince Rupert has awarded a contract for work for the first part of the Fraser Street Rehabilitation Project.

The city’s engineering department conducted an open tender process for the first phase of the project, with Adventure Paving providing the lowest and preferred tender bid.

The restoration of Fraser Street has been at the top of the city’s list of capital projects for a number of years, with the first phase of the project set to begin sometime in June.

“Fraser Street’s road surface, road base, sidewalks, curbs and gutters are all designated as being in poor condition. The utilities have been fully depreciated for many years and are well past any reasonable life expectancy. The sewer on Fraser Street is rated as the poorest condition of any in town,” said Richard Pucci, the city’s engineering coordinator.

The project will be undertaken in phases, with the first part of construction on the Salvation Armyend of the street.

“The Phase 1 work is ... from the 6th Street intersection at the lane into Grenville Court all the way to in front of the enrichment society building,” Pucci told members of council last

Shaun Thomas / The Northern View

The first phase of the Fraser Street Rehabilitation Project, which will cover Sixth Street leading to Fraser Street and Grenville Court, will cost $1.185 million.

week.

Adventure Paving submitted a bid for $1,185,228.56, which is $80,000 more than the city’s allocated budget of $1,105,000 for the first part of the rehabilitation project.

To cover the shortfall, the city’s engineering department, in consultation with the finance department, recommended the shortage be funded through the city’s gas tax reserve. Because the project is being paid for entirely through the city’s gas tax fund, the overage wouldn’t affect the municipality’s 2015 budget.

“Currently we have a substantial gas tax fund. It’s about $3 million and

we will be receiving approximately another half a million dollars this year,” explained Corinne Bomben, Prince Rupert’s chief financial officer.

Businesses in the construction area will not be accessible by vehicle while the work is being undertaken.

Pucci said the estimated completion date of Phase 1 of the Fraser Street Rehabilitation Project is Sept. 1, 2015.

“We anticipate the Fraser Street Rehabilitation Project will take two construction seasons or two phases.

However this is budget dependent,” said Pucci, noting, if next year’s budget allows, Phase 2 will begin in the next construction season.

2015 ANNUAL SERVICE AND RETIREMENT Recognition and Appreciation Evening The School District will be hosting a Recognition and Appreciation evening to acknowledge service for 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and Retirees.

The following are is the list of those being recognized.

5 Years Continuous Service: Ryan Bishop Helena Geske Ryan Harvey Sonny Henry Alisha Kennedy Sheryl Sadorski Amanda Salm Janilee Stovel Morgan Sundin 10 Years Continuous Service: Charles Astor Teresa Atchison Wil Barrow Cheri Guadagni Wendy Holkestad Barton Hughes Irene Johansen Sarah Kavalec Tasha Kellough Patricia Martinson Caroline McChesney Amber Mossini Tracey Nelson Fernanda Soares Deb Taylor

15 Years Continuous Service: Sara Barrow Elaine Carlson Roberta Edzerza Darlene Wulf 20 Years Continuous Service: Andrew Bellis Cameron Hill 25 Years Continuous Service: Mike Cavin Ellen Denluck Yvette Lebedick Delores Moore Coretta O’Brien Linda Polsson Roger Woodruff 25+ Years Continuous Service: Joyce Dundas 38 Mel Blois 36 Lisa Anderson 35 Don Davies 35 Barrie Girbav 35 Rod Hikida 35 Mel Bishop 34 Mavis Glencross 34 Linda Hikida 34

Dale Boyle Ellen Braid Sally Marr Kathy Offutt Sharon Trew Marianne Wick Nick Adey George Nielsen Dianne Rabel Cindy Paul Jamie Scott Malerie Burton Carmel Pepin Barb Spencer-Dias Marlene Clifton Debra Fabbi Laila Leach Karen Martin Vandette Dave Salyn Lauri Burgess Cary Dalton Kathy Dann Sandy Jones Don Nicholson Myna Salo Mae Jong Bowles Claudette Hornsby Jacqueline Jackson

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Susan Kobza Kevin Leach Paul Paling Beth Palmer Cindy Stephens Tamara Thomson Teresa Weismiller Wes Baker Gabriel Bureau Maria Davies Maria Elsa Kollar Brent Krieger Jacki Kydd Sal Magliocchi Ken Minette Kerry Savinkoff

27 27 27 27 27 27 27 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26 26

Retirement: Maria Wells Wendy Bernhardt Pansy Collison France Powell Paula Linn Shawna Flaten Catherine Lindseth Linda Hansen Wendy Atchison Sheila Wells

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The Prince Rupert Northern View reserves the right to revise, edit, classify or reject any advertisement and to retain any answers directed to the News Box Reply Service, and to repay the customer the sum paid for the advertisement and box rental.

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It is agreed by the advertiser requesting space that the liability of the Prince Rupert Northern View in the event of failure to publish an advertisement as published shall be limited to the amount paid by the advertiser for only one incorrect insertion for the portion of the advertising space occupied by the incorrect or omitted item only, and that there shall be no liability in any event greater than the amount paid for such advertising.

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HEAVY DUTY MECHANIC White Bear Industries Ltd., located in beautiful Terrace BC, has an immediate position available for a heavy duty mechanic. This position is full time and involves seasonal camp work, primarily in Northern BC. White Bear Industries has more than 40 years of experience in all types of road construction. Ideal candidates will be able to work on a variety of heavy equipment and trucks and will show a high aptitude for diagnosing problems and safety issues.

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Employment Help Wanted SEASONAL FISH PLANT WORKER

June - End August Camp located Stikine River, BC needs worker to land, sort, process and package fresh & frozen salmon. Also camp duties, painting, small construction projects.

Must have valid Canadian passport. Room and board provided.

Apply in person with resume to Mary at 201 Cow Bay Road, Prince Rupert, V8J-1A2 or Call: 250-627-4955

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HOUSEHOLD: Teak dining table/6 chairs, Teak coffee table, Inlaid Oak coffee & end table, (3) dining room suites, table/4 chairs, Pine buffet, (2) fold-up cots, futon, Kroehler loveseat, couch & loveseat, orthopedic bed (Queen size), bedroom suite, dressers, (12) padded folding chairs (new), electric stove & propane stove, (2) fridges. ANTIQUES: Beatty wash machine/copper tub, (2) Beatty galv tubs, Singer sewing machine, (2) cross-cut saws. TACK: English saddle with rigging, new saddle pads, blankets, halters, headstalls.

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Point of sale under Warehouse Lien Act This is a notice to Santa Vo (Santa Fishing LTD) of Prince Rupert. Your 1996 Ford F-350 XL Cab & Chassis 2 DR Standard Cab VIN #2FDJF37HXTCA43582 will be sold for repair and storage fees owing in the amount of $7,064.28 under the Warehouse Lien Act in 21 days on or about the 21st day of June 2015 at Joe’s Autobody Repair, 1003 Saskatoon Ave. Prince Rupert, B.C., V8J 4P1

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MINES ACT NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO PERMIT THE MINE PLAN AND RECLAMATION PROGRAM FOR THE PROD’HOMME LAKE QUARRY

Take notice that: Storey’s Excavating Ltd., has filed with the Chief Inspector of Mines, pursuant to Part 10.2.1 of the Health and Safety Reclamation Code for Mines in British Columbia, 2008 a proposed mine plan together with a program for the protection and reclamation of the land and water courses related to the proposed quarry operation located on DL 972, R5, CD, except Plans 4394, 7138 and BCP 43551.

A copy of the permit application, including supporting documentation, is available for viewing at: Ministry of Energy and Mines, 3726 Alfred Avenue Smithers BC VOJ 2ND. Any person affected by or interested in this program has 30 days from the date of publication to make written representation to the Chief Inspector of Mines, Ministry of Energy and Mines, Northwest Region at Bag 5000, 3726 Alfred Avenue Smithers BC VOJ 2ND or by email MMDSmithers@gov.bc.ca, (facsimile: 250-847-7603).

Please note that the Chief Inspector does not have a mandate to consider the merits of the proposed mine from a zoning or a land use planning perspective.

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BIG AIR

Roosevelt students were out skipping during their daily physical activity time in late May as part of the school’s Jump Rope for Heart program to support the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Pictured is Grade 5 student Nash de la Nuez jumping over a rope controlled by coteacher Jennifer Le, who is leading Jump Rope for Heart at Roosevelt.

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The Indo Canadian Sikh Association of Prince Rupert donated $1,000 to the Red Cross to help with relief efforts in Nepal following the recent earthquake.

Pictured is Kulwant Mann, secretary of the association, Guneet Uppal, a member and director, and Atma Kanth, president of the association, with Prince Rupert Red Cross volunteer Josie Mackay.

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NEPAL AID Seniors Centre notes

BY DONNA PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

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In fact, in 2013 alone, more than $1.4 billion was spent on pipeline safety across Canada. As we move our energy to new markets we will never stop working to protect our Not actors. Real Canadians.

environment, our people and our communities.

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Cribbage Winners Monday: 1st — Ron and Ed, 2nd — John and sister Mary, 3rd — Alex and Marion; Thursday:1st — Ed and Marion, 2nd — Laurel and Ron/ Marg and Jane.

General meeting reminder: Tuesday, June 9 at 10 a.m.

Friday June 12 — Seniors’ Seafest Tea will be held at the Highliner Inn from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. All resident and visiting seniors are welcome. This event is sponsored by the volunteers of the Special Events Society.

Those of you who are planning on attending the Senior Games in North Vancouver this year as a member of Zone 10, you better get your rear in gear and finalize registration. Dawn Quast is available at the Seniors Centre most days to collect fees and get you signed up before the deadline. You can reach us at 627-1900 for more info.

Special Bridge lessons will be held on Tuesday, June 16 at 10:30 a.m. Please sign up if you’re interested.

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THANK YOU The Prince Rupert Curling Club would like to thank this season’s Donors and Sponsors

Bonspiel Sponsors Aero Trading Andre’s Electronics Acklands Grainger AECOM Belmont Hotel and Pub Bridgeview Marine Burnco Ready Mix Bytown Diesel Breakers Pub Canfisco Cargo Citywest Cowpuccino’s Cook’s Jewellers Coast Industrial Construction

The Crest Coastal Propane Davey Drywall Dolly’s Fish Market and Restaurant Dwayne Davey Construction The Electrician Entire Automotive Frank’s Auto Repair Gat Leedm Logistics General Paint Home Hardware Joe’s Autobody Kello’s Marine La Gondola

Maher Terminals Marcan Construction Maverick Mart McCarthy GM Napa Auto Parts Northern Breeze Surveyors Northwest Fuels Petro-Can Overwaitea Foods Pacific Net and Twine Pacific Inn Port City Ford Praxair Prince Rupert Grain Prince Rupert Port Authority

Prince Rupert Golf Club Rainbow Chrysler Ridley Terminals Rupert Wood and Steel Remax Coast Mountain Prince Rupert Rona Rupert Cleaners Saanich Plumbing Sears Canada Seasport Outboard Marine Storey’s Excavating Stuck on Designs TD Canada Trust Traylings Tackle Wainwright Marine

Prince Rupert Curling Club Sponsors Quickload Logistics – Superior Port Services Prince Rupert Home Hardware Kinnikinnick Campground Wainwright Marine Services Ltd Crest Hotel TheaAnne’s Greek Palace Pacific Inn Inn on the Harbour Maverick Foods

Port City Ford Remax – Dorothy Wharton Remax – Jeff Clarke Remax – Mike Morse Hawkair Breakers Pub Eclipse Bookkeeping Services Bandstra Transportation Systems Sullivan Mechanical Rona

Overwaitea Foods Kaien Office Essentials Rupert Wood N’ Steel The Belmont Rainbow Chrysler Dodge Jeep Frank’s Auto Repair Prince Rupert Port Authority Maher Terminals Maverick Foods Ridley Terminals

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