The Northern View, December 16, 2015

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Kyle Le, far right, and Lyla Armstrong, second from right, get a chance to meet Capt. “Nicholas” Santa Claus aboard the Jingle Boat Express last Thursday. For more on the four sailings, please see Page A24.

Sports Rampage lay a licking on Kitimat Page A18

DP World now looking south Company announces feasibility study for Phase 2 South

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

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Just as the ‘Phase 2’ northward expansion is currently underway by the Prince Rupert Port Authority (PRPA) and DP World for the Fairview Container Terminal, which will raise the terminal’s capacity to 1.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) upon completion in 2017, the two organizations announced Monday that they will be conducting a ‘Phase 2 South’ Feasibility Study.

That expansion would raise the terminal’s capacity from 1.3 million TEUs to between 2 and 2.5 million TEUs. In a release sent out by the PRPA and DP World, the study includes DP World examining current marine liner services and container volume growth forecasts for trans-Pacific trade on the west coast. The owner-operator DP World would “weigh demand for activation of Fairview’s Phase 2 South expansion to align the project schedule with market demand.”

“Phase 2 South ... would provide capacity to meet Canada’s Pacific container terminal capacity requirements for decades to come in a costeffective and environmentally responsible manner,” said Maksim Mihic, DP World Canada group general manager, who signed the agreement for the feasibility study with Don Krusel, PRPA president and CEO on Sunday.

“The growth in traffic at the Fairview Terminal, North America’s fastest-growing intermodal gateway, has been a validation of the Prince Rupert advantages in trans-Pacific shipping. We are pleased to see DP World ready to seize those advantages and move forward with planning the terminal’s continued expansion,” Krusel said.

Government of Canada approval and environmental assessment certification was received for Phase 2 South expansionary action in 2012.

By Nov. 30, 718,815 TEUs had been shipped through the terminal, one of North America’s fastest-growing, which signifies a year-to-date growth of more than 29 per cent over 2014.

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BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

The lengthy dispute between Stonecliff Properties and the tenants of its Port Edward trailer court came to a head Wednesday morning when bailiffs representing the property owner Stonecliff, began to serve eviction notices to the residents of the trailer park.

Also on hand were approximately eight members of Prince Rupert RCMP. “We’ve just been called in to assist the bailiffs in keeping the peace out here. The bailiffs are here to remove the property and individuals from these trailers,� said Sgt. Dave Uppal of the Prince Rupert RCMP detachment.

While the bailiffs declined to speak with Black Press, Uppal stated that the process will involve moving vans transporting the residents’ property out of the park. “My understanding is they have

the authority to remove everything from the trailers into a truck or put it curbside ... There’s a number of trailers here, so I’m not sure if it’s all going to happen today, but in the next probably two or three days – that’s as fast as the movers can move their stuff - it all depends on what the bailiff ’s schedule is,� Uppal added.

The bailiffs acted on a B.C. Supreme Court order and tenants were notified of the eviction notice on Aug. 22, 2014, as well as given a 12-month notice to vacate. It was then the company gave its notice to shut down the park.

The timing of the eviction is “terrible�, said Victoria Beattie, president of Stonecliff on Wednesday. “We didn’t pick this day, the courts did. We have no control after the end of the closing of the park on Aug. 31, but I still sent letters to the [B.C. Supreme Court to move the date],� she added.

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Kicked out “I was asked to do it but I just didn’t have the heart.�

Gary Weick EVICTION from Page A2 The eviction officials asked for the services of Gary Weick of Gary’s Lock and Security Shop in Prince Rupert, but after seeing some of the Christmas lights and recognizing the time of year, Weick declined. “I was asked to do it but I just didn’t have the heart,� Weick said.

Claiming the property was losing $10,000 to $15,000 per month and planning to provide property repairs and proper health and safety standards to meet community bylaws for the benefit of existing and future tenants, Stonecliff announced its plans to shut down the park, citing an inability to repair critical infrastructure.

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RCMP officers kept watch as bailiffs began evicting residents of the mobile home park in Port Edward on Wednesday.

repeatedly challenged the eviction notices and alleged harassment regarding rent. Stonecliff ’s demands to move the tenants’ private property to facilitate the work by the property owners and restricting some access to

parts of the property were causes of stress to the tenants. “Every tenant was aware of the consequences of not allowing the required repairs ... Each tenant received due process under the law.

There are no further appeals that can be made,� company solicitor Michael Gemmiti wrote in a prior statement. “Stonecliff did not intend or foresee this unfortunate result when it purchased the park in 2013.�

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Bill Murray Drive condos greenlighted

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

SwissReal Group’s eight-storey, 72-unit condominium on Bill Murray Drive is good to go.

The project, which also includes a medical building alongside it, has received the City of Prince Rupert’s backing from the mayor and council, ho passed its rezoning application - six to one.

Coun. Joy Thorkelson was the lone council member who voted against the project.

The new zoning allows buildings up to 35 metres in its C6 downtown highrise designation, thus allowing SwissReal’s condo project.

Expecting to break ground in 2016, SwissReal vice president Jeremy Towning explained last week that the development is not LNG-dependent and will be moving ahead as planned.

“We’re building. To give you an example I have 35 townhomes I’m building right now in Terrace. There’s no LNG and I’m building,” the vice president said, who heads the northern division of SwissReal’s real estate portfolio.

The project received a lengthy public hearing process last Monday, with eight members of the public making their opinions known on the

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Many were in favour of the development, and a few outright opposed. The main concerns were the height, which some claimed blocked the waterfront view corridor of buildings behind it, specifically the Harbourside Apartments; a loss of privacy for townhomes in the area; council’s honouring of the city’s existing Official Community Plan; the sheer height of the building; a lack of affordable housing options on the property and traffic and parking congestion.

Responding to those concerns over the past nine months, Towning and SwissReal distributed studies including view corridor sightlines, relocating the building a few feet from the sidewalk to make the area pedestrian-friendly and planting more trees in the area.

The project will also see the purchase of city property to configure a parking lot in the land next to the North Coast Meeting & Convention Centre, which drew the concern of Marlene Thornbury, general manager of Chances Gaming and Convention Centre Prince Rupert. But Chances had the option to buy the lot from the City before and declined. The lot does not contribute taxes before the purchase by SwissReal. “[City of Prince Rupert economic

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In a 6-1 vote, Prince Rupert city council passed a rezoning bylaw to permit SwissReal’s 72-unit condominium complex to move ahead. Company officials expect to break ground on the project in 2016.

development officer] Paul Vendittelli has been really supportive of the project and has helped guide us through and [city planner] Zeno [Krekic] has been really effective. He took all the concerns and he’s been the intermediary, working with the city and the public to get this building proper,” said Towning.

“So we set it back by 4.5 metres, so that we’re not too close to the townhomes next door and we added 60 trees and we got rid of some commercial [space] and added residential, so that there would be less noise from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Friday.”

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Thorkelson against CONDOS from Page 4 City council and Mayor Lee Brain gave some insight into their voting rationale.

Joy Thorkelson said that in speaking in opposition, the developers haven’t taken into account the city’s interest in providing affordable housing options to the community and the developers are asking council to change the city for their own benefit.

Coun. Barry Cunningham and Coun.

Wade Niesh responded, saying that the city can’t force developers to co-operate and place affordable housing units in a building not suited for such.

“Who’s here to speculate and who’s here to develop in our community. That’s our job [to differentiate the two] and to extract money to affordable housing.

We can’t force developers to co-operate.

There’s a number of ways we can do this,” said Cunningham.

“This is how you alleviate problems.

This isn’t about what you make on your paycheque,” said Niesh. “[Potential residents] could be a teacher, it could be seniors looking to downsize their lives ... It creates a domino effect. Slum lords who want to charge more, can’t anymore [because of more options],” Niesh continued.

Coun. Blair Mirau said that “this is obviously not an affordable housing project.” Mirau went on to say that the

physical geography of Prince Rupert dictates that with the limited land base available, projects need to densify downtown and Coun. Gurvinder Randhawa said if Prince Rupert has no condo options for retiring seniors that they’ll move somewhere else. Randhawa also asked the developers to use local workforces when they can.

Cynthia Pyde, who has partnered with SwissReal on the development, told council at the outset of the public hearing that herself and Dr. Frank Pyde (owners of the property) have always wished to have a medical clinic that was accessible on the first floor or had elevator access for seniors or those with physical disabilities.

“When we were approached by SwissReal, it was the first time in 20 years that we were approached by a company interested in building green (SwissReal has a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design or LEED Platinum rating building in Vancouver and are aiming to make the Bill Murray Drive project Platinum), interested in building condos of good quality and were also willing to engage with an architect who was incredibly terrain sensitive to the environment,” said Cynthia.

“Since its become public knowledge we have been inundated by every imaginable group of people wondering when those condos would be available ... it will serve many, many interests on our waterfront.”

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Goodbye New Moon

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Mike Botelho works on the ground site of the New Moon restaurant demolition after a fire engulfed the building earlier this year.

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December 16, 2015

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Why shopping local matters

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t’s crunch time for last minute Christmas shoppers and many of you may only find the time to buy gifts in and around the community.

That’s not such a bad thing. Buying local has several advantages.

The first and most obvious benefit is that driving out of town, or flying — if you’re that keen for big city stores — burdens your wallet and the environment. With the global climate change conference that just happened in Paris we should all take a moment and consider how our actions affect the environment.

In this city, almost anywhere you want to go is only about a 15-minute walk. Unlike the big cities such as Vancouver, in Prince Rupert you can avoid parking woes, traffic and spending money on gas by shopping on foot. Another bonus is that you’ll get your daily dose of exercise and with all those holiday parties this time of year that’s essential.

Prices for products in town may be a tad higher than at a big box store or online but in the long run you may get what you pay for.

The whole ordeal of returns is a lot simpler if you buy local. For example, if you bought the wrong sized shirt for a friend, or if you received three copies of The Outsider’s Guide to Prince Rupert, the convenience of returning or exchanging that gift may prevent a few grey hairs.

Studies have found that buying local influences the economic development through the use and expansion of local resources. It’s also more economically efficient because it keeps the region’s economy thriving during off-peak tourist seasons.

When you shop local your money remains in the community. You’re supporting a shop owner’s salary and even their vision to improve their business and provide products needed in the area.

You’re also supporting an employee’s wages. As the business grows so does the need to hire more people locally.

One of the best reasons to shop local is the face-to-face connection with the store owner or employee. It feels good to speak with people who carefully select the products that go in their store.

If you spend your money locally the flow of money stays in the community, which in turn helps Prince Rupert sustain what shops it has and might allow business to grow.

What goes around comes around.

Clark on carbon tax, government ads

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remier Christy Clark sat down with Tom Fletcher PCC: Let’s figure out what the national goal is going for a year-end interview at her Victoria office Dec. to be, which we don’t know yet.

9. Here are excerpts. For the full version, see the TF: On LNG, oil and natural gas prices continue Opinion tab at: www.thenorthernview.com. to go down, and supply continues to go up around the TF: At the UN climate conference in Paris, did you world. Did you see any positive signs this year? speak about natural gas as a transition fuel, and did you PCC: What I saw this year was developing countries, find support for that idea? especially China, making a firm commitment to reduce PCC: Yes and yes. The new government in Ottawa their emissions. The only way for them to do that is to is a big supporter of our LNG plan, and part of the move to a greater degree to natural gas, and the bulk of reason for that is that they also see it as a way forward for their industry is still located on the east coast of their Canada to make a huge contribution to fighting global country, a long way from Russia and close to B.C. Tom Fletcher climate change.

TF: Are we going to see some policy action on high B.C. Views There are 150 coal plants on the books in China housing costs in 2016, and will there be some relief from today. The only way that those plants and the ones that the property transfer tax? come after will be stopped is if they have a transitional fuel to move PCC: You’ll see in the February budget, but we are looking for to. ways to provide some relief for home buyers.

TF: B.C.’s 2020 greenhouse gas target, reduction of emissions by TF: We’re starting to see government advertising ramp up. We a third, is another target that isn’t going to be met. Why? saw a lot of Jobs Plan advertising before the 2013 election, we saw PCC: When the government brought in the carbon tax, it was the federal government do it with their Economic Action Plan, based on the assumption that other jurisdictions around us were which was very expensive, and to most people’s eye self-serving or going to eventually catch up. And none of them have. political in nature at taxpayers’ expense. Is that what we’re going to There comes a point where the carbon tax can only get so high see in the next year and a half? before we start chasing all those jobs out of the province.

PCC: It won’t be political. I think some of that was, really, TF: Your advisory committee says the carbon tax needs to go political. You will see more information-based advertising out there, higher starting in 2018 if it’s going to have an effect. Do you have talking to people about, for example, the Registered Education any other choice?

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December 16, 2015 • Northern View • A7

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Where do you do most of your Christmas shopping?

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“I try to do mine in town.

My wife and I have our own business and we like to support local.”

“Last minute shopping in town.”

“We do the same thing every year. We shop in town. We’re die-hard Rupertites.”

“I like to support our local merchants and do shopping in town.”

Photo courtesy Prince Rupert Port Authority FROM SEED TO SEA: Prince Rupert Grain’s export facility on Ridley Island, built in the early 1980s, boasts the highest throughput rate of any grain-cleaning elevator in the country. Canada’s production and trade in agri-foods is forecast to increase as global demand rises.

Letters to the editor

Upriver fisheries is the problem Grain trade a growing business worldwide

Editor: If we are going to save the cannery we need to be clear about why we are about to lose it.

The Skeena salmon returns are not way down.

The ocean fishery is way down. Those are two very different things.

Recently we had a million sockeye to harvest and they went to waste. This year again, hundreds of thousands of fish were wasted.

Canfisco’s Rob Morley gave us the key to saving the cannery: “reduced access from the DFO cutting back the exploitation rate on some of these fisheries and shifting more of the volume to fisheries further up the river.”

If we are to win this and save Prince Rupert’s economy there needs to be a balance between the ocean fishery and the upriver fishery.

We have a chance of winning this with the new government. Not only has the near total shift of the fishery upriver devastated our economy, it has devastated the regional economy. It takes jobs away from the coast but it does not create anywhere near the same number of jobs inland. A move to upriver fisheries drastically reduces the quality of the fish

“This year again, hundreds of thousands of fish were wasted.”

- Luanne Roth

caught so that the total amount of jobs and gross value is reduced to a small fraction of ocean-caught fish, even on years of big returns.

The Cohen Commission recommended reviewing this policy and perhaps if we revisited it we would find solutions with broad regional support.

If Canfisco was assured that DFO would from now on balance fisheries between ocean and upriver, they might keep the cannery open, boost the whole regional economy and feed more people fantastic delicious nutritious ocean caught Skeena salmon (some of the best in the world).

Luanne Roth Prince Rupert

2015 had its fair share of ups Editor: Although our community faced some economic challenges in 2015, we should also remember the positive business stories. Here’s just a sample: • The container terminal launched a quarter-billion dollar upgrade in response to record breaking throughputs and the success of the hardworking women and men of the waterfront.

• Two car dealerships - McCarthy GM and Rainbow Chrysler - are renewing and expanding.

• The Cow Bay Marina outside Atlin Terminal, completed by Broadwater Industries, will welcome high-value tourists next summer; • CityWest’s multi-million dollar expansion across Northwest B.C. has enabled a $400,000 distribution payments to its sole shareholder, the City of Prince Rupert; • Demand for commercial office space continues to increase; • Pacific Northwest LNG made a conditional final investment decision, with just one more condition to clear; • TransCanada received federal approval for the gas connector into Prince Rupert.

Businesses like these give back to the community: a recent Chamber of Commerce survey revealed

“Chamber members are motivated by the new opportunities that 2016 will present.”

- Rosa Miller local businesses had contributed over $2 million to local non-profit organizations in Prince Rupert in the last 12 months. And that survey was just a sample of 100 businesses. Imagine how large that number is for our entire business community!

We’ll carry some challenges into 2016: the announced closure of the Canfisco canning line, the indefinite suspension of Hawkair services, and the uncertainty surrounding the Alaska Marine Ferry terminal. At the same time, Chamber members are motivated by the new opportunities that 2016 will present, and look forward to celebrating an even longer list of community accomplishments next year.

Rosa Miller President, Prince Rupert & District Chamber of Commerce

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RE:PORT

he importance of exporting Canadian grain to world markets cannot be overstated. As one of the largest grain exporting countries in the world, Canada’s supply of grain provides food to developed and developing nations around the globe.

Grain refers to any number of small, dry seeds harvested for human or animal consumption. It is a commodity that’s been shipped from Prince Rupert since the original waterfront grain terminal began operating in 1926.

Grains are traded globally due to their importance in food staples like flour, oil, and animal feed. They are critical to the nourishment of populations everywhere. In 2012 over 2.2 billion tonnes of grains were consumed worldwide, with wheat and corn being the fourth and fifth most traded commodities in world markets.

In the 2011–2012 crop year, more than 32 million tonnes of Canadian grains were exported. Of that total, nearly 5 million tonnes were shipped through the Port of Prince Rupert, a volume that has more than doubled over the last decade.

The economic outlook for Canadian grain in the near future appears promising. Output and prices are both forecast to grow over the next two years, and global demand is expected to increase by over 1% each year over the next decade due to population and income growth in developing countries.

The role of the Port of Prince Rupert in supplying the strong Asian demand for Canadian grain should only increase, given that roughly half of Canada’s grain exports are directed to markets in the Asia-Pacific region.

From the Port of Prince Rupert, grains are exported to more than 20 countries across the globe. In 2012, the majority of our grain shipments were exported to Mexico (18%), China (12.5%), Sri Lanka (12.5%), and Japan (11%). Wheat has always been the leading commodity shipped through the Prince Rupert Grain terminal, and in 2012 made up 71% of total volume. Canola is also playing an increasingly important role.

A record 1.05 million tonnes of canola was exported through Prince Rupert in 2012, comprising 22% of Prince Rupert Grain’s total volume.

The remaining tonnage is rounded out by barley (6%) and grain pellets (0.3%). All of these grains arrive at the Port of Prince Rupert from the working grain elevators across the prairie provinces served by CN Rail, which in 2012 totaled 37 in Alberta, 33 in Manitoba and 88 in Saskatchewan.

In 2012, the Prince Rupert Grain terminal experienced a 6.4% increase in rail shipments, which resulted in a modest increase in Prince Rupert’s overall share of grain movement to the west coast. The terminal also improved efficiency in 2012 as the average time in port for grain ships was reduced from 12.8 days to 10.2 days. With the capacity to export in excess of seven million tonnes per year, and the highest throughput rate of any grain-cleaning elevator in Canada, Prince Rupert Grain is equipped to handle increased volume as production and demand both grow in the coming years.

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Could Petronas’ LNG project collapse Skeena salmon?

Scientists from Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Simon Fraser University and the Skeena Fisheries Commission have all concluded that Petronas’ proposed LNG facility on Lelu Island would be built over top of the Skeena’s most critical salmon habitat and could have significant impacts on aboriginal, commercial and recreational fisheries. Petronas and its consultant Stantec claim otherwise.

Independent scientists:

Petronas and Stantec:

“The Flora Bank region in the Skeena estuary is like Grand Central Station for salmon.”

“Survey data suggest that salmon do not use Flora Bank eelgrass habitat for nursery habitat or other life dependent processes.”

- Allen Gottesfeld, Skeena Fisheries Commission.

“The industrial disruption could potentially ruin the Skeena salmon run — the second largest in Canada.”

“The worst case scenario is the Skeena salmon population would collapse, and to levels that would not allow commercial fishing.”

- Jonathan Moore, Simon Fraser University “Flora Bank is the most important shallow water area of the Skeena River for rearing juvenile salmon. ...the construction of a superport at the Kitson Island — Flora Bank site would destroy much of this critical salmon habitat.”

- 1973 DFO report urging rejection of a major shipping port on another island near Flora Bank.

- Stantec “The technical work completed to date indicates that the project is not likely to cause significant adverse environmental effects on fish and fish habitat.”

- Petronas (Fisheries and Oceans Canada found the impact modeling Petronas submitted as part of the environmental assessment to be, “full of inaccuracies, unjustified assumptions, and erroneous methodology.”)

Whose science do you believe?

Skeenawild.org

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December 16, 2015 • Northern View • A9

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Illegal dumping forces Kloiya Bay closure

BY KEVIN CAMPBELL PORT EDWARD / The Northern View

District of Port Edward mayor and council are fed up with North Coast residents dumping their garbage at Kloiya Bay. Speaking before the Dec. 8 council meeting last week, Port Edward Mayor Dave MacDonald sounded off on the problem that’s been plaguing the recreation spot that’s often used by residents for picnics, kayaking, swimming and more. “Unfortunately, we’ve had to close the gates out at Kloiya Bay because of the mess that’s been left by people who don’t go to the dump. One of the reasons that this has become a problem is that some people don’t appreciate the 45 per cent [hike for out of town residents using Prince Rupert’s Ridley Island landfill site],� said MacDonald. “It’s unfortunate for residents who want to use that area that we’ve had to do this and if people would just stop [leaving their garbage] we’d re-open it.�

The mayor went on to explain that the District frequently cleans it up whenever they’re notified that garbage has been dumped there and Port Edward Coun. Christine Mackenzie said it’s costing the taxpayers time and money every time the District has to take over.

Contributed / The Northern View

A frustrated Port Edward Mayor Dave MacDonald said he regrets that the District was forced to make the decision to close Kloiya Bay to the public after repeated clean-ups of illegal dumping.

“It’s costing our workers to go out and get paid to clean it up. It took them half a day to go out and clean it up last time and then we paid [to dispose of it] on top of that,� she added. “The gate’s been there for years and we’ve only closed it a few years in a row because of ice on the hill. We’re

worried about people having accidents going down it, but it’s an area people like to use all year-round and the bigger problem is because of industry, we’re losing a lot of areas for people to get down to the water and this is another setback,� said MacDonald.

The mayor said that Skeena

Kayaking employees have always helped clean the area in the summer, as well as some Port Ed citizens. “The [garbage] rate is the rate and we have to live with that. What I’m more disgusted with is that people are actually dumping and its costing us more to bring it back,� said the mayor.

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The search for a boater missing in waters near Prince Rupert has been called off by the Joint Rescue Coordination but RCMP will continue the search, says Sgt. Dave Uppal.

“Right now we’re treating it as a missing person. We are liaising with the family. We’ve got our marine section that is going to be on their way up there right now and they’ll be continuing with the search.”

Whether the search will continue day and night, Uppal says “I’m not sure exactly the logistics behind that and the time frame.”

Two people were reported missing at sea at 5 p.m. on Monday evening in the Kitkatla region, south of Prince Rupert.

As of 3 p.m. on Tuesday, one person aboard the missing 14-foot boat had been located and safely escorted onto Canadian Coast Guard ship Gordon Reid.

The search for the second person involved the Canadian Coast Guard vessel Gordon Reid [and a second one] as well as a Royal Canadian Air Force Cormorant helicopter and Buffalo aircraft. A vessel of opportunity, the Freeport is also assisting in the search, according to Sub-Acting Lieutenant Melissa Kai with the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Victoria.

Late Monday night and before the first missing person was found, as weather conditions worsened, all assets except the Gordon Reid were “stood down”.

The Facebook page of Kitkatla Royal Canadian Marine (RCM) Search and Rescue 74 provides further details.

“Our prayers and thoughts are with the family members and all of community as we continue to search. We are coordinating a search from Gitxaala, we have 13 boats, three from Kitkatla, two RCMP helicopters and a plane, three boats from Metlakatla, Tsimshiam Storm, the Gigata Guardian, the Cape Dolphin, Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM-SAR) 64 Prince Rupert,and three Zodiacs in the water. On the Rupert side the GEM/CIC office has set up the board room for community members to use. Call the CIC office 250 624 4327 or Finn’s cell # 250 600 5491 for rides, or if you wish to help,” said the post.

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BY SHANNON LOUGH PRINCE RUPERT / The Northern View

Retired at 35 — at least that’s how entrepreneur Andrea Pollock feels.

“I said to my Mom that I wanted to open a ‘B and B’ one day. I started thinking why do I have to be 60 or 70 and that’s going to be the last job I do. Why couldn’t I just do it now?”

Andrea is now the owner of Tall Trees Bed and Breakfast. When she welcomes guests sometimes she’s asked if her parents are home because they’re not expecting someone her age. Little do they know her parents live 4,800 kilometres away in Georgetown, Ontario, along with the rest of her family.

She may boast that she lives the life of a retired grandmother, but this apparent blonde mermaidhaired Bohemian harbours an ambitious edge.

Andrea studied commerce at the University of Guelph where she also received her MBA. This 5’1 female force spent much of her youth competitive wrestling. In 1998, she held the Canadian ladies wrestling title for her weight division and she won the Ontario University championships before a devastating injury ended her career in the sport.

“I was the leg attacker. I’m low. All the other girls were so tall and gangly. I was just so low to the ground,” Andrea says with a smile.

Wrestling taught her to emerge from her shell and believe in herself. “I came out here barely knowing anything about Prince Rupert other than just wanting to live my dream and I felt like it was a place that I could make it happen.”

She still stretches her competitive spirit from time to time whenever she golfs at the Prince Rupert Golf Club where she is a member. In 2011, her name was put on the club wall after winning the net competition in a prior tournament.

But before moving to the North Coast, Andrea was pursuing another dream as a travelling wine salesperson for a group of wineries in Ontario. She spent five years based in Ottawa until she began to dream about getting into real estate and owning a bed and breakfast. Andrea did research on a couple of spots in Canada where she might start her business.

“I came close to buying a 20-acre cranberry farm in Nova Scotia and I was going to be a cranberry farmer and open a small one or two room B and B.” She laughs at the thought of how different her life could have been. “It was like one or the other. That was how close I came to living a completely different adventure and version of my life.”

Her heart pulled her west instead. With her two

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Andrea Pollock and her furry best friend Nala (nicknamed Pickle) run the Tall Trees Bed and Breakfast in Prince Rupert.

Running a B&B was a retirement dream that came true a few years early.

dogs, Esko and Nala (nicknamed Pickle), she came to Prince Rupert and with “a vision and with outsider’s eyes” saw the potential opportunities the city could offer.

She bought a 1920s home, found a temporary job and saved up to renovate the space and add a suite as an extension where the shell of a garage used to be.

“I’m always working on it. I had to renovate room by room.” Andrea’s hard work eventually paid off. She created four guest rooms and added a few unique touches to the place. A chalk wall, currently demonstrating a Christmas themed light-bulb design, lightens up the common dining room. A stuffed 200lb polar bear hangs from the ceiling and a metre-long whalebone rests beside the entrance. Pickle diligently waits for guests to arrive and she greets them with round eyes and a wagging tail.

“She’s a little hostess. She loves sitting right by the front door to greet pretty much everyone these days. I let her start doing it and now I can’t stop it.

She’ll sit there all day.” Pickle bounces as Andrea speaks about her. The two have become even closer after Esko passed away a couple of months ago. The two dogs had been on all of Andrea’s adventures with her for the past 15 years. They lived with her in Edmonton, Nova Scotia, Ottawa, Georgetown and

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Life in Prince Rupert keeps Andrea on her toes.

This year she partnered with a friend to start a second B and B. She also started an ice cream venture called Island Sugar with a friend. She’s hoping to hire some high school students looking for a part-time gig to sell homemade ice-cream from her old-fashioned bike complete with a freezer and music.

“I had a little Dickie Dee that would come through the neighbourhood when we were little kids and it was just super fun and it made the afternoon extra special.”

She wants the kids in Prince Rupert to have the same experience so she had the bike designed and shipped from the U.S. Andrea may say she’s retired but with all the projects that she keeps adding to her agenda, she’s one busy bee.

“If I didn’t give myself so many other things to do my day would be making breakfast and cleaning my house a little bit and then going golfing and then going back and sitting around with a bunch of people on vacation and drinking some wine outside at the fire pit. That’s really hard to call a job.”

At such a young age, Andrea is already living the dream right here in Rupert.

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Here are the other consequences: British Columbia Impaired Driving Consequences

Refusal to give a breath sample results in the same consequences as blowing above 0.08, and police officers may still charge you with impaired driving.

British Columbia has some of Canada’s strictest driving impaired laws with consequences for a BAC above 0.05, and increased consequences for a BAC above 0.08

Vehicles are seized immediately, and drivers must pay for all towing and impoundment fees to retrieve the vehicle. Drivers must also pay a fee to have their licence reinstated. Drivers are also responsible for paying for educational courses and ignition interlock.

Licence Suspensions Rules differ depending on driving experience. Any novice driver with a graduated licence may not drive with any alcohol in their body. If you are a new driver and are pulled over on suspicion of driving while impaired, the following consequences apply if your BAC is between 0.00 and 0.04: Immediate 12-hour licence suspension You must restart the current stage of your graduated licence The consequences for having a BAC between 0.05 and 0.08 are the same for all drivers: First Offence: Immediate three-day licence suspension, three-day vehicle impoundment, a $200 fine Second Offence: Immediate 7 day licence suspension, 7 day vehicle impoundment, a $300 fine Third Offence: Immediate 30 day licence suspension, 30 day vehicle impoundment, a $400 fine, mandatory Responsible Driver Program course, enrollment in ignition interlock program If your BAC is over 0.08 while operating or suspected of operating a vehicle, the following consequences apply before any conviction is made: Immediate 90-day licence suspension, 30-day vehicle impoundment, a $500 fine, mandatory enrollment in Responsible Driver Program, enrollment in ignition interlock program

If you are not currently operating a vehicle but an officer suspects that you have in the previous three hours and are also impaired, the officer may ask you to provide a breath sample. If above the legal limit of 0.08, you will receive an administrative driving prohibition, which is a 90 day licence suspension, and you can be charged with and convicted of impaired driving. You will also be required to complete the Responsible Driver Program.

Alcohol Education or Additional Programs Drivers who are required to enroll in the Responsible Driver Program must pay a $880 registration fee. You may be required to participate in this program if:

You are convicted of driving while impaired You have been issued an administrative driving prohibition You have been issued a 30 or 90 day licence suspension You have been issued 3 or more 24 hour suspensions within a 5 year period Three of any of the following suspensions: 24 hour, 3 day or 7 day After paying the program fee, the enrollee is given an assessment interview. Based on responses to questions about their alcohol and drug use, drivers are enrolled in one of two programs:

an 8 hour alcohol education class 16 hours of group counseling over a three-month period.

Jail Time Jail time is issued only when a driver has been convicted of driving while impaired more than once. The minimum sentences for impaired driving are: First Offence: no jail time Second Offence: minimum 30 day imprisonment Third Offence: minimum 120 days imprisonment Fines, Vehicle Impounding and Additional Conditions Upon conviction of driving while impaired, drivers must pay a fine of $1,000 and purchase the driver risk premium to maintain their car insurance. Insurance costs depends on the driver’s previous driving record but begin at a minimum of $905 a year for criminal offenders. The criminal conviction stays on record for ten years.

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Ignition interlock is a breathalyzer mounted in your vehicle which will not allow the vehicle to start until a breath sample free of alcohol has been provided. In addition to the above mentioned consequences, a court can order you to enroll in ignition interlock if: you have had 3 or more licence suspensions in the past 5 years you have had 2 or more 90 day suspensions in the past 5 years The driver must pay for installation, training, monthly monitoring and maintenance for a total cost of more than $1,700.

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Capital works projects outlined Chief financial officer Corinne Bomben gave council an update on early 2016 capital works projects. They include the beginning stages of a “large waterworks project�, which involves the construction of an access road to the Woodworth Dam and the lowering of the supply line below ground to protect it from slides and wind thrown trees.

The Digby Island Airport Ferry’s Kaien Island Dock requires repairs to maintain floatation, a number of stacked retaining walls holding up the road network requires rebuilds, and the Second Avenue bridge requires the same repairs that the Sixth Avenue bridge received in 2014.

Fraser Street improvements put on hold The continuation of the Fraser Street road and water main repairs have been put on hold due to the “expected significant cost to complete and the immediate needs of other capital repairs�. The Fraser Street project will remain partially completed until the utilities funds and the general operation reserves, or new investment into the city allows its completion.

Council stands behind union After an impassioned plea from UFAWU-Unifor representatives detailing the numbers and stats behind the vital fishing and fish processing industry on the North Coast, council voted unanimously to support the union in its battle to save jobs in the wake of Canfisco’s salmon cannery shutdown at its Oceanside Plant. The details of the plan of action for UFAWU-Unifor is to fight for the adjacency policy, which sees fish caught in the coastal communities also be processed in those same communities, fleet separation and owneroperator provisions.

Housing committee to integrate service support The Housing Committee, which Mayor Lee Brain and Coun. Joy Thorkelson serve on, provided an update to its 2016 plans, which sees direction taken on integrating service support for mental health and addictions. “Because drug and alcohol abuse and mental health issues as well as issues around parole and corrections and these types of things are directly co-related with housing, simply developing affordable housing without integrating services into a model is not necessarily going to be the ultimate solution. The ultimate solution is going to have servicing available as well as the housing,� said Brain.

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Children’s centre funded by Port

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Well-worn floors at a children’s play centre were replaced after receiving a donation from the Port of Prince Rupert on December 8.

A $9,000 contribution by the Community Investment Fund was handed over to the Prince Rupert Growing Space Society in an effort to strengthen early learning foundations.

The centre, which sees over 200 visitors a week in the Ocean Centre Mall, was in need of new floors and extra padding to ensure a softer surface for the children’s play space.

President of the Growing Space Society, Elizabeth Melanson said, “We were able to replace the mats we purchased more than seven years ago with more durable, safer flooring that will meet the needs of children in the community for many years to come.”

The centre offers families and daycare providers a place where children aged six years or younger can learn new skills and stay active in the crafting area and playground. The children can also explore the collection of toys and books at the centre.

“Having a dedicated indoor space to escape the weather and get some extended physical activity is a blessing.

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President and CEO of the Prince Rupert Port Authority, Don Krusel said, “The fact that Prince Rupert has a volunteer society like the Growing Space is a testament to the importance placed on early childhood education and development in this community.”

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A combination of relentless pressure and getting the right bounces usually produces a win in a hockey game.

In the Rupert Rampage - Kitimat Ice Demons game Saturday night at the civic centre, it produced a dominating win.

Prince Rupert didn’t let up, even after going down 15 seconds into the game and came away with a 12-4 win.

The game did not start the way the Rampage wanted, as mere seconds in, Josh Slawiwa, Kitimat’s captain, scored after a Rampage breakdown in the neutral zone.

Prince Rupert would come right back three minutes later with a shot from the point from Tyler Ostrom and Tyler Halliday buried on the rebound.

Rupert kept up the pressure, as Jared Meers, with a great effort, slipped the puck past the defender’s skates in the neutral zone, went in and buried it low left making it 2-1 in quick succession.

Right after that, Devin Palmer took the puck to the net on the backhand and Cole Atchison made it 3-1 for Prince Rupert.

Brayden Horcoff’s great pass in the slot to Josh Cook enabled him to snipe the fourth goal and before Kitimat could blink they were down three.

Apparently the Rampage aren’t missing sniper Patrick Robert, who unfortunately had to leave the team due to work responsibilities.

That’s an important fact, not to lose sight of the fact that these guys put their bodies on the line (for the love of the game) and have to go to work the next day.

Jared Davis, Rampage defenceman, took a penalty towards the end of the period. That didn’t stop Horcoff from taking the puck at the opposing blue line, walking in and going shelf to make it 5-1.

Kitimat had chances and after a great save by Rupert goalie Jordan Vanderwiel, Terry Whelan pounced and made it 5-2.

The fans were treated to lots of hitting and the home team outshot the Ice Demons in the first period.

The second period started with JeanLuc Fournier’s strong effort, just missing short side. Tyler Halliday took a penalty

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Prince Rupert’s Craig Munro, right, chases Kitimat’s Jeff Mildenberger in the Rampage’s 12-4 win on Saturday night.

for interference, but the Rampage killed it.

It was some nice, fast-paced hockey throughout the period from both teams.

Kory Movold was denied by the Kitimat tender after a bad give-away behind the net.

Kitimat started their comeback as Brandon Wakita scored with a bullet, top shelf from the slot after a won draw.

With Kitimat turning up the pressure, Vanderwiel made several solid pad saves, keeping it 5-3.

Palmer swayed the momentum back in Rupert’s favour with another power move to the net missing just wide. It was nice to see Cook exhibit his skill going between his own legs and centring it to the trailer, who couldn’t connect with the pass.

Cook would be penalized for slashing very soon after. Kitimat hit the post on the power-play but Prince Rupert weathered the storm and with just 0.2 seconds left in the frame, Palmer found a loose puck and snuck it in the five hole.

It was a hard-working goal as he smashed into the boards after it went in.

He was OK. That made it 6-3 Rampage after two periods.

Rupert started the third shorthanded, but was able to kill off the penalty. Fournier layed out Wakita, who was trying to gain the blue line and Fournier followed that up with another crushing body check.

Cook kept up the pressure after dumping the puck in, and that led to several quality chances.

Craig Vinncav from the Ice Demons took a penalty for hooking, and Horcoff capitalized with all the time in the world in front of the net, making it 7-3.

With Kitimat’s inability to break out, thanks to the Rampage’s forecheck, they forced another turnover and Movold scored their eighth goal, going far side low on the Kitimat tender, streaking down the left wing.

After offsetting penalties to each team, Jeff Mildenberger from the Ice Demons was left alone in the slot and let a beautiful backhand go top corner making it 8-4.

Tyler Halliday answered quickly for the home team, as he was in the right spot at the right time scoring the Rampage’s ninth goal. Ostrom had a solid game on defence stepping up at the right time, and closing the gap on Kitimat’s forwards, making it

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very hard for them to enter the zone.

Cook and Movold scored late to make the rout official. Fournier thought he had possibly his first of the season, as he finally hit the net, but it was disallowed.

To this he commented, “Just shoot the puck and close your eyes. I don’t score very many, and it was unfortunately disallowed.

Apparently there was a phantom rule of two guys in the crease means the goal will be disallowed.”

Probably not the best advice for the kids out there, but as all coaches will tell you: ‘Don’t aim the puck, shoot it’. Fournier was in good spirits as he’s a team guy and was very happy his team came away with the win.

“We have been working hard the last few games but haven’t had any success and finally that happened. Our guys worked hard, we changed up the lines a bit, and everything seemed to go our way. We got all the bounces tonight, they never got any and it worked out well for us,” said head coach Roger Atchison after the game ended.

The final tally ended 12-4 and the Rampage now face Smithers on Saturday.

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Sports In Brief Liu makes quarter-finals Prince Rupert product Adrian Liu made it to the quarter-finals of the YONEX USA International 2015 competition at the ClearOne Badminton Centre in Orlando, Florida from Dec. 1 - 5.

Liu and his men’s doubles badminton partner Derrick Ng were playing in the second straight week of travel and competition, just recently bowing out in the YONEX Brazil Open 2015 in late November.

Liu and Ng were matched up against Denmark’s Christian Lind Thomsen and Joachim Persson in the first round and proceeded to defeat the Danes in convincing fashion 21-15, 21-9.

In Round 2, Liu and Ng faced off against fellow Canadian teammates Phillipe Gaumond and Maxime Marin, and also took out their counterparts handily, beating them 21-10, 2110.

In a tough-fought quarter-finals match, India’s Manu Attri and B. Sumeeth Reddy defeated the Canadians, knocking them out of contention 21-17, 18-21, 21-14.

Chinese Taipei’s Lin Chia Yu and Hsiao-Lin Wu won the overall men’s doubles tournament.

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The Charles Hays senior boys’ basketball team will host a couple alumni games this upcoming weekend.

With a schedule to be released this week, the Rainmakers, who just returned from North Vancouver this past weekend, will split their squad up into two teams and take on their older challengers.

Look for more information on the games to be posted at a later date through the school’s Twitter account: @CHSSSports.

Rapids return from Terrace The Prince Rupert Amateur Swim Club (PRASC) Rapids team travelled to Terrace over the past weekend.

The squad took on the region in the Terrace Winter Invitational and looked to build upon a successful Prince George meet from midNovember.

Look for results from the Terrace meet in next week’s edition of the Northern View.

The games didn’t all end with the results head coach Mel Bishop wanted, but some star individual performances highlighted a solid weekend outing for the Charles Hays Secondary senior boys’ basketball team.

Playing three games in the No Regrets Basketball Tournament in North Vancouver from Dec. 10 - 12 and another single game against the quad-A No. 4 ranked Kitsilano Blue Demons, the ’Makers played top-tier basketball against the province’s very best and held their ground.

Last Wednesday, the Rainmakers played Kits in an exhibition game and fell 91-64. “We gave them a run. We started that game [down] about 18-2. That killed us [coming] right off the plane,� said Bishop on Monday.

The game signified a trend that would prove to be the Rainmakers’ achilles heel all week, when the team gave up the ball too often. “We hung in there. There were too many turnovers in the game. Generally in the whole tournament, we were just not looking after the basketball,� said Bishop.

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The next two games saw the Rainmakers fall to Surrey’s Lord Tweedsmuir 71-66 despite leading for a good amount of time in the contest, and then lose to West Van Secondary 54-45. Turnovers became an issue. “I thought if we looked after the basketball, we would have done a little bit better, gotten a couple more wins, but we turned it over ... Some of the teams already had zone defences in there,� said coach Bishop.

Justin McChesney was an offensive monster, posting 31 points against Kits, 42 against Queen Elizabeth and 40 against Lord Tweedsmuir, along with reaching double digits in rebounds. Nick Campbell, Quinn Leighton, Cole Marogna and Aiden Bull also contributed to the score sheet, posting a range of six to 12 points each game.

However, in the game against Queen Elizabeth Leighton hurt his knee and was sidelined for 2.5 games.

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A20 • Northern View • December 16, 2015

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Review: ‘Stones in His Pockets’ an ambitious feat Rupertites performed four shows in three days at Lester Centre

BY SHANNON LOUGH Prince Rupert / The Northern View

A touch of Irish charm lit up the Lester Centre stage last week with the performance of the tragicomedy Stones in His Pockets.

The 90 minute play is an exercise in careful attention to detail for both the actors and the audience. Two actors play 15 different characters of both genders and speak in several dialects with an exhausting fluidity.

Audience laughter never lingered or else they may have missed what was said next, and who was saying it.

“Extra gives movie star one in a caravan,” said the character Charlie Conlon, played by Michael Gurney, to his friend Jake Quinn, played by Lucas Anders.

The vulgar dialogue isn’t as rough when said with an Irish accent. Both actors mostly pull off the foreign tongue with the odd slip into their flat Canadian accent, but some Blockbuster actors are even guilty of similar slips so it was an impressive feat.

The Irish-written play by Marie Jones is about a Hollywood production that comes to rural County Kerry to film a movie and the local residents are paid to be extras. The scenes toy with humour and gravity.

The exploitation of the extras on their own land and

Shannon Lough / The Northern View Michael Gurney (left) and Lucas Anders are the sole two actors that take on the roles of 15 different characters in the Irish play Stones in His Pockets, performed on the Lester Centre Stage, December 10-12.

the suicide of Sean Harkin, a confused vice-afflicted teenager who is jilted by Caroline, the American film star, adds a palpable heaviness to the light-hearted atmosphere of the play.

It only took about 10 minutes for the first burst

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Anders and Gurney made audiences laugh and feel in the performance. The play will be headed to the prestigious Edmonton Fringe festival next August where the two will condense the play into one 90-minute marathon show.

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The first scene plopped viewers in medias res with the “lemon meringue pie interrogation” with Gurney, as Charlie, a gentle North Irish man with aspirations to see his amateur movie script make the big screen.

As the scenes progressed Gurney became more comfortable as this character. By the final scenes it was easy to sympathize with Charlie as his sweet optimistic composure eroded to frustration.

Gurney’s best asset in this play is his hands. In an attempt to appear tough he balls up his fists when Charlie admits he “can’t take any more knocks, ya hear.” When he transforms into Caroline, the American film star, he fans out his hands and presses them delicately on his silky scarf with over-the-top femininity.

Props, lighting and music are key cues that help the audience follow the switch from character to character. Even the flashback scenes are obvious.

Anders’ main character as Jake Quinn, a native of Country Kerry, pulls off the stereotypical broody impassioned young Irish man. He uses his entire body to become Jake, as well as Aisling, the assistant director, and Mickey, the pipe smoking crooked back elder in the town. He becomes each of his characters so believably that by the final act he appeared on the brink of exhaustion just in time to take the final bow.

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The Grade 11 music class from Charles Hays practiced for the upcoming Jingle Bell Rock Concert on Dec. 19.

Ian Lihou opened his music studio to help the students prepare for the event.

They are a fun and energetic group of students, and with Ian giving his time to help them prepare it will certainly be worth the admission fee (by donation) and with the proceeds going to the Salvation Army, you won’t want to miss it!

Megan Cunningham and Emily Maher, two - Megan music students taking Cunningham part in the production had this to say about what we can expect from the concert. “We worked really hard, and have been at it for a couple of months now. You can expect a bit of

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Captain Nicholas “Santa” Claus was back on the water last Thursday as the Jingle Boat Express sailed a record four sailings from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., carrying 320 passengers and 240 children.

Organizers Northern Savings, Success by 6, Prince Rupert Early Years and the Prince Rupert Port Authority immediately sold out of tickets for the four sailings and the event continues to be one of the most in-demand functions in the city.

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it kind of hits on all the key points on people in Prince Rupert – the holidays, maritime, family, friends, fun and Santa Claus,” said Northern Savings organizer Stefan Delloch.

“You couldn’t do something like this in Terrace. In the previous versions, the rail traffic with the event was becoming a main concern because of how congested the rail lines were becoming, which is a great thing for the regional economy. When the organizers took over the event last year, we knew we wanted to do something a little bit different, that we had a little bit more control of and Adventure Tours is a firstclass organization to work with - they’ve been phenomenal.”

Santa visited all 240 kids throughout the day, took pictures and asked each one what they’d like for Christmas.

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While the garbage and sewer rates have not been changed since 1997, there was an increase in the water user fees in 2013. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, to address that, our costs have gone up on the garbage,â&#x20AC;? said Mayor Dave MacDonald.

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A set of double doors can be implemented in the back-door access to the school which allows gym users to access the gymnasium and bathrooms but not the rest of the facility â&#x20AC;&#x201C; now used as office space for various companies including PNW LNG. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The double doors will have panic bars on the inside, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to re-jig the alarm so that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t set it off and I believe PNW would help with that cost,â&#x20AC;? said Payette.

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Insurance for the users would fall under the same low-risk activity coverage as outdoor swings and parks for the District, said Polly Pereira, director of corporate administrative services.

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No. Our team of world-class engineers have designed unique marine infrastructure to protect fish and fish habitat in the Skeena Estuary. A suspension bridge and trestle would connect the LNG plant on Lelu Island to our LNG carrier berths in naturally deep water in Chatham Sound, reducing the amount of marine infrastructure adjacent to Flora Bank.

Our suspension bridge and trestle would be located on Agnew Bank. Our project is fundamentally different than the 1973 proposal for a superport, which included a causeway across Flora Bank.

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All aspects of our environmental assessment are overseen and reviewed by experienced professionals in their respective fields of practice. We recently submitted our findings to the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency (CEAA), as part of our environmental assessment application. These findings can be found on the CEAA website at bit.ly/pnwlng.

Will Pacific NorthWest LNG’s project negatively affect the Skeena salmon population?

No. Our latest scientific research included one year of detailed fish and fish habitat studies, as well as 3D modelling of wind, waves, currents, tides, water content and sediment movement on and around Flora Bank. The research conclusively shows that eelgrass and Flora Bank would remain naturally stable if our project is built, protecting the long-term health of fish and fish habitat.

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