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Rob Hope, an OWL bird care staff member stands beside Sonsie, the teaching eagle while guests get an up-close look.

Bald eagle festival draws a crowd

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Biologist David Hancock was only 62 eagles off from his prediction on the weekend by midday Sunday.

The volunteer board member of the Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival roughly guessed last week that he and his team would count 1,500 eagles

by Sunday, and the reported number just after lunch was closing in on his forecast at 1,438.

Those eagles were all feeding on salmon within three kilometres of the Harrison Crossing Bridge, and tourists flocked to see them over the weekend at nine designated viewing spots in the area.

At Tapadera Estates, a fire roared, food was served and artists worked shapes out of logs with their chainsaws all in celebration of the 20th festival.

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But behind all of that activity on the long grass near the Harrison River, visitors with massive camera lenses

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and borrowed telescopes stood quietly and watched the natural display flying and feeding.

And guests could also get an upclose sneak peek at an eagle at the OWL orphaned wildlife rehabilitation society tent.

Children and adults looked on as Sonsie, a 13-year-old male eagle stood within feet of the crowd.

“He likes me, that’s why he’s sitting here nice and calm,” said Rob Hope, an OWL bird care staff member. “The kids love it and that’s our target with the education program.”

The organization aims to Educate children about the birds and how they can help so that future generations will “follow through when we’re long gone,” Hope said.

“Seeing them up close gives them a greater feeling of respect and a different perspective,” he added while Sonsie shifted on his perch.

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Photos clockwise from the upper left: Mature bald eagles gorge on salmon, while an imature bald eagle makes off with his catch (photos by Angeline Haslett).

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The society rescued 556 birds last year and have already saved 581 to date in 2015, with spring time seeing mostly orphans and an increased proportion of injuries in the fall.

Organizations like OWL and other participants support the Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival with their resources to promote awareness and protection— something that has been around since the festival’s roots.

In 1995 the Habitat Conservation Trust Fund and the Wild Bird Trust created the Harrison/Chehalis Bald Eagle Festival.

Three years later a committee was formed, and the current Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Society (FVBEFS) identity was born.

Five to seven million of the fish die in the waters of the area after they finish spawning, each one possibly weighing up to 10 pounds.

“So that’s a lot of protein to nourish a lot of scavengers,” Hancock said last week. “That’s what it’s all about.”

Combine the food abundance with a climate where waters don’t freeze and those eagles from the north that are losing access to their regular sources of sustenance because of ice coverage head south.

The FVBEFS, a registered charity showcases those visitors and the salmon cycle.

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The Help Project Society would like to thank the following supporters who contributed time, money and passion for the 1st Annual Help Project Society Fundraising Dance. You helped us raise $5500 towards building a culture of help for youth in the Fraser-Cascade area.

This could not have happened without each and every one of you - THANK YOU!!!!

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A passerby stopps to take a photo of the CCGS Moytel hovercraft as it departs Harrison Lake beach Friday. The coast guard craft landed in Harrison between outings to upgrade the navigational aids around the lake last week.

Hovercraft makes Harrison stop Vessel here to help replace navigational aids

By Greg Laychak THE OBSERVER

A Sea Island coast guard hovercraft, the CCGS Moytel took the journey up the Fraser and Harrison rivers to play a support role in replacing all navigational aids throughout Harrison Lake last week.

The craft has a removable crane and a stable platform that were useful in the four year nav aid maintenance cycle that took place over the week throughout the lake.

The upgrade that was a joint venture of the Sea Island coast guard base and Marine Civil Infrastructure (MCI) out of Victoria (a division of the coast guard), and included LED lights and solar installation this time around.

“With improvement in battery technology it gives us the opportunity for longer lasting more energyefficient materials,” said carpenter and project lead Aaron Chan of the green tech.

New and emerging technology reduces annual maintenance costs and is actually a better product for mariners and boaters, he added.

The wind storm delayed progress of the operation and the crew finished Friday before heading back to base early that afternoon, leaving the lake beach where the craft had parked during downtime.

It was the first time the craft had been out to Harrison Lake, and it was met with strong winds during their approach early last

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The District of Kent’s response to winter events varies according to the individual characteristics of each event and availability of resources. Roads are checked early in the morning and the appropriate Public Works’ staff is called in to address the situation.

District of Kent priorities for snow and ice removal include: • Opening access for emergency service providers, such as Fire and Ambulance • Opening school bus routes on school days • Opening rural milk truck routes • Opening prison access routes • Clearing the commercial core and opening collector routes Once mobility is restored to these priority areas work can start on municipal subdivisions, sidewalks and parking lots. Exceptions will be made for emergencies.

Townsite plowing often starts with clearing driving lanes by plowing toward the curb.

Driveways do become obstructed from street plowing. Please note that the District cannot open private driveways or roads.

Some important things to remember during a snowfall: • Property owners are responsible for clearing snow and ice from sidewalks or footpaths bordering their property by 12:00 noon the day following the accumulation.

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It’s no surprise the eateries in our small Village struggle keeping their doors open 12 months of the year. Our ‘heads in beds’ occupancy rate for Harrison is around 60%, and that number heavily accounts for summer stays. We also know not all who stay dine out.

In BC, women make up approximately 38% of the self-employed. Most employees work 35 - 40 hours per week compared to the 50 or more hours the selfemployed put in. Next time your self-employed barista serves you a latte without a smile remember they are probably in their 50th hour of work that week! Small businesses provide almost 1/3rd of all wages paid to workers in BC, the highest share of all provinces.

The impact of small business in our community is undeniable contributing to our culture and authenticity.

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They often keep banking local. Our local credit union then finances other local businesses and community groups.

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They typically buy marketing, accounting, legal, maintenance and other services from other local businesses Local businesses give five times more per dollar of revenue to groups in their communities They reduce transportation impacts associated with global supply chains whey they work with local producers

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Extra caution on roads

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QUESTION OF THE WEEK

Did you take in the Fraser Valley Bald Eagle Festival?

It still feels weird to be driving home from work in the dark.

Though we’ve had a few weeks to adjust to the end of Daylight Savings Time it is sometimes still a shock to get out of work and see the stars overhead.

We also haven’t had to really adjust yet to winter weather. We can count on one hand the number of times we’ve had to scrape the frost off the car in the morning.

We’ve experienced a couple of storms now, but until this week the thermometer has stayed decidedly on the mild side.

The rain, though, after this summer’s long drought, is still something to which we are adjusting to.

But it has also, it seems, left us rather unprepared for winter driving.

We’re not entirely sure why it seems the population forgets how to safely drive through the elements when we don’t have to for a few months, but it behooves us all to give ourselves a little primer.

It’s an abrupt and sad reminder of our mortality on the road in our speeding metal boxes.

Sometimes a crash is unavoidable. But there are things that we can do to give ourselves more of a safety cushion out there. And the more people doing those things the safer it is for everyone.

First and foremost, slow down.

Speed limits are set for optimal conditions — not in the dark, or on a road that has frosted overnight, or where water is pooling and catching your tires.

If you don’t know if it has frozen or not, some extra caution just in case never hurt anyone.

Second, leave appropriate stopping space between yourself and the car in front of you so that if they get into trouble, you don’t have to follow. Your hurry is never that important.

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Tom Fletcher VICTORIA – The fall session of the B.C. legislature petered out two days early last week, as the ruling B.C. Liberals and the opposition NDP agreed to turn out the energy-efficient lights and head for home.

NDP leader John Horgan skipped the last day and headed to the B.C. Institute of Technology campus in Burnaby. There he announced “PowerBC,” billed as the NDP’s “bold, progressive plan for the future of B.C. energy, with a strong focus on jobs.”

Reporters asked, how many jobs? Horgan said retrofitting public buildings and homes for energy efficiency would create jobs all around the province, but he can’t say how many.

How much does the plan cost, and does it include subsidizing

homeowners to fix their windows and insulation? “The costing will be more apparent when we get closer to the election,” Horgan replied.

Whatever the cost, the NDP plan apparently rests on the assumption that the $9 billion Site C dam project on the Peace River can be stopped by an NDP government after the 2017 election. That money would be used to build wind and solar generation, and to install a sixth and final water turbine at Revelstoke dam.

The chances of Site C being stopped are approaching zero.

Construction of an access road started two months ago, site clearing and work camp construction a month before that.

Energy Minister Bill Bennett says the main dam construction contract will be let shortly, followed by the powerhouse contract next year.

Horgan said remaining legal challenges could slow or stop the project.

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The West Moberly and Prophet River First Nations have lost their case against Site C twice, in the B.C. Supreme and Federal Courts,

A coalition of U.S. and Canadian environment groups is also demanding that Site C be stopped, using typical arguments to appeal to their low-information donor base. and are appealing. The Doig River and McLeod Lake Indian Bands dropped their challenges, and McLeod Lake’s construction company has started work on a Site C contract.

West Moberly Chief Roland Willson staged a dramatic protest at the legislature last spring,

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bringing a cooler of frozen bull trout from a river below the two existing Peace dams, telling media they were too contaminated with mercury to eat.

Flooding land for hydro dams does elevate methylmercury levels in water, but BC Hydro provided me with the latest study that included fish samples collected by West Moberly members. It shows average methylmercury levels remain below federal guidelines for limiting consumption of commercially sold fish.

It’s an odd coincidence that Willson suddenly made this claim, 47 years after the first Peace dam was completed, when he happened to be in court trying to stop Site C. A coalition of U.S. and Canadian environment groups is also demanding that Site C be stopped, using typical arguments to appeal to their low-information donor base. According to the Sierra Club and others, Site C is not renewable energy because the (largely idle) farmland it floods is a “carbon OFFICE HOURS Tues.-Fri. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

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sink.” Forests do store carbon, albeit temporarily, but farmland where the trees have been cleared?

This is gluten-free gobbledegook.

They also trot out the claim that Site C will be used to power liquefied natural gas operations.

Most proponents so far have said they will use gas for LNG processing, and if they don’t have hydro available for ancillary power, they will have to burn more gas.

BC Hydro has just finished its latest grid upgrade, a second high-voltage transmission line from Merritt to Coquitlam. It adds disaster reliability to the system that brings power from the Peace and Columbia dams to the Lower Mainland.

If you’re arguing that hydroelectricity isn’t renewable power, you’ve already lost Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: tfletcher@blackpress.ca

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B.C. trade missions fail to deliver bang for buck

For those not counting, there have been eight B.C. trade missions to China alone in the last 18 months. Forests minister Steve Thomson is set to leave on a ninth mission this Friday.

Premier Christy Clark came home from her third trip to China, in early November, proudly waving one letter of intent, one strategic cooperative agreement, two strategic partnership agreements and 18 MOUs, signed by 28 companies on the mission.

One company re-announced a 2014 investment agreement.

Add the new dollar announcements in the mission backgrounder all up and they total $25.9 million.

Meanwhile – as Clark was warming up for the Terry Fox run in Hong Kong – Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne announced $1.2 billion in new agreements on the first stop of her trade mission to China.

By the time Wynne left, she was clutching $2.5 billion in agreements.

Trade missions aren’t cheap, they set the B.C. government back $767,000 in 2014 and that doesn’t include the bill for local governments, universities and other agencies.

Think $15,000 to $20,000 per person for flights, transportation, hotels and meals.

B.C.’s education sector is certainly no slouch when it comes to tagging along.

In 2014, international trade minister Teresa Wat led a mission where nearly half of the 53 member delegation were from the education sector, 22 from the public side and four private.

Strangely – given the delegation’s composition – neither then education minister Peter Fassbender nor then advanced education minister Amrik Virk accompanied Wat. Quickly remedied.

Five months later, the new advanced education minister, Andrew Wilkinson, led another trade mission to China, with four post-secondary institutions and the B.C. Council for International Education. Four of the five had just returned from Wat’s trade mission.

How has all this jet-setting worked out for them?

According to Citizenship and Immigration Canada, the number of international students in B.C. on study permits has increased from 26,483 in 2009 to 28,400 in 2013.

Nothing to brag about, particularly when you consider that in the same period, B.C.’s share of international students fell from 31 per cent to 25 per cent of Canada’s total. Ontario’s share

rose from 36 per cent to 44 per cent.

Each mission comes with pomp and ceremony.

Clark has opened the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, plaques have been unveiled at a school in India and at the China Canada Clean-Tech Innovation Centre.

There have been tête-à-têtes with Joon-Yang Chung, then CEO of Korean-based steel producer POSCO, and Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak.

While some mission announcements do come true, others don’t and some were never about B.C. Much was made of POSCO’s 2011 announcement that it would invest $181 million at the Mount Klappan coal mine in northern B.C. Little was made of the government’s decision this year to buy back 61-disputed licenses associated to the mine from POSCO and Fortune Minerals for $18.3 million.

The Douglas Channel LNG project was a key part of Clark’s 2013 trade mission, even though the proponents plan to build their $300 million floating terminal in China, if they can get around a 25 per cent federal tariff.

Of the dozens of MOUs signed on missions, one – between the Vancouver Airport Authority

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and the Shenzhen Airport Group – is “to share information and knowledge, learn and benefit from each other.”

Mission updates drip with catchy phrases: top priority markets, high-level meetings, cooperation agreements, accelerate research collaborations.

For Clark’s trip this month there were 12 updates, but only seven came from the government itself and two of those were focused on Clark running the Terry Fox Run. They’re thin on results too.

May have a bit to do with the fact that between 2011 and 2014, the value of B.C. exports to the Pacific Rim rose by 1.35 per cent to $14.212 billion and fell as a share of total exports from 42.9 per cent to 39.7 per cent.

In the same period, the value of exports overall rose by 9.47 per cent.

At $34.25 billion in annual trade with Asia-Pacific countries (imports and exports), B.C. has a ways to go to hit the government’s 2009 forecast of $76 billion in trade by 2020.

Thinking out loud here, but maybe fewer photo-ops and more elbow grease should be the order of the day on future trade missions.

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Brendan McAleer writes stories about cars, but it was his photography that recently won the Agassiz-raised auto journalist praise from his industry.

McAleer won first place in Pirelli’s photography prize for published images, and award of the 2015 Automobile Journalists Association of Canada’s (AJAC) annual journalism awards.

“Photography is just something I learned to help fill out the writing side, as I'm often out on assignment by myself,” he said.

Good writing is what the Vancouver-based storyteller is most proud of, but “the best pieces are of course those that incorporate both,” he added.

The photo that won McAleer the award is a sunset silhouette on the racetrack at the 30th Nismo (Nissan Motorsports) festival

at Fuji Raceway just outside of Tokyo.

“They were positioning the cars after a couple of victory laps, and I happened to turn, catch the fading light just right, and line up the track marshall, the car, and the 30th anniversary Nissan banner,” the young journalist said, though he credits some luck as well.

McAleer started writing for community newspapers about 10 years ago and worked his way up to work with Postmedia publications, including the Vancouver Sun and the National Post.

He also contributes to Road & Track and various Canadian and U.S. automotive websites.

And though McAleer loves cars, it’s the people that make the stories he tells.

“Cars are only interesting because of the human element,

and this year I've been lucky enough to tell a couple of great stories,” McAleer said.

He listed some of his favourites from 2015: how Jack Lord's stunt double ended up with the Mercury Marquis from Hawaii 5-0; how a little Honda Civic helped a Japanese woman become a new Canadian; how a couple of English hot rods represent a pair of brothers (one near the end of his life); how a Datsun 510 embodies the service-minded spirit of the veteran who sold the most poppies of anyone in Canada; and how Terry Fox's support van still survives today.

McAleer grew up with British cars in the family—a Land Rover and an MGB—that they were constantly needing to “wrench” to keep them on the road.

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“Two cars like that, you either get the automotive bug or you buy a Prius and never look back,� he said.

That interest has grown into a successful career for McAleer who said it isn’t easy to get paid for auto journalism.

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important to me to get a short email from a reader saying nothing more than ‘good job,’ he said. “It's a privilege to have an audience, and that's something I try to remember.�

He hopes that audience will one day see a feature article with his byline on the cover of Road & Track. He’s been a reader of the magazine since his childhood in Agassiz, where he said there might still be a few Hot Wheels buried in the backyard of his family’s old house.

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Following these steps and a bit of luck a repeat of last year’s flower should appear.

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This is the second time the Rod and Gun Club have donated $1,000 to Kent Harrison SAR. The volunteers very much appreciate the club’s support.

Kent Harrison Search and Rescue volunteers spent two days assisting Hope Search and Rescue

with the recovery of the driver involved in a logging truck accident north of Hope. Although the incident occurred on November 17th, crews were not able to access the site until deemed safe to do so by a geotechnical engineer. Kent Harrison SAR members provided site safety and oversight while a mini excavator was flown in by helicopter to remove debris in order to release the subject from the remains of the cab. In all, SAR volunteers from Hope, Chilliwack

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1920 - 2015 It is with great sadness that the family of Barbara (nee Bennewith) (formerly Kennedy) OHMAN announces that she passed away peacefully at home in Agassiz, BC, on Tuesday November 17, 2015 at the age of 95. Barbara was born on July 22, 1920 on the family farm in Rosedale BC, the fifth of ten children.

She was predeceased by her parents James and Florence Bennewith who immigrated to Canada and the Rosedale area from Gloucestershire, England in 1910. In 1932 the family moved to a farm on Cuthbert Road in Agassiz, BC. Barbara married Dean Kennedy in 1941 and had a family of seven children. Sadly Dean died suddenly in 1960. Barbara married John “Adolf” Ohman in 1961 - Adolf passed away in 2001.

She was predeceased by her sisters: Grace (Miller) and Joyce, and brothers: Les; Bill; Jim; Stan Bennewith. She is survived by her siblings: Frances “Frank” (Morrow); Margaret (Edmondson) and Gerald Bennewith.

She will be dearly missed by her children: Bob (Bev); Bill (Marilyn); Sharon (Garth) Parberry; Gary (Shirley); Jim Ohman; Jean (Vince) Sciotti; Deana (Mike) Rebstock. Barbara had fifteen grandchildren: Darren (Lenni); Warren; Scott (Chantel); Carla; Lona (Aaron); Shannon (Harold); Shareen; Kraig (Aryn); Keith (Melanie); Shane (Alea); Jamie (Tim); Dean (Medo); Tanya; Megan; Aaron (Brent).

She also had twenty great-grandchildren with one more greatgrandchild on the way.

Barbara attended Rosedale School during her first few years and then went to school in Agassiz when the family moved across the Fraser River. During her working years, she worked as a cook at the Agassiz Agricultural Research Station Boarding House and also cooked at the Glenwood Hospital in Agassiz. She was a talented baker, and to the delight of her family, she baked bread, buns and cookies almost every week of her life up until the last year or so.

Her interests included carpet bowling and gardening as she loved flowers, she also enjoyed having Siamese cats and Maltese dogs.

Over the years, as well as raising her own large family, she also looked after many foster children.

Barbara lived most of her life in Agassiz and enjoyed the rural lifestyle. Much of her life was spent on small farms where she always kept a cow and calves; chickens; ducks and sometimes a goat. She was very pleased to be an early pioneer of the area and well remembered, as a young girl, milking cows for Ruben Hogg.

Barbara was proud to be a part of the large Bennewith extended family and all its relatives.

No service will be held at the request of the deceased. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the BC Heart & Stroke Foundation.

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