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Council takes Canada Goose CEO group forms New neighbourhood inpass Thompson Book a way towatch preserve and on first step towards donates $1 million towards memories of growing up in Churchill reducing their polar bear conservation facility ranks in October

neighbourhood patrols and will never physically engage In response to a recent with someone who is comstring of thefts, arsons and mitting a crime. ā€œThat’s where I want to cases of vandalism, a group of Thompson residents de- make sure the line is drawn. Polar Bears International Bears International board ā€œOver the least decade of ing them build a much- cided to find a proactive We’re not trying to be cops. (PBI) received a $1 million member and a former working with PBI, I have needed facility which will solution to this problem by We’re not trying to impose donation towards the con- chairman of that board seen firsthand the passion serve as a launch site for forming a new neighbour- our views on people either,ā€ BY IAN GRAHAM that’sThird. our size, we of have the said ā€œA lot it will watch group. struction of a new facility from 2008 to 2017, and energy that the team PBI’s research and educa- hood EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET most,ā€ she said. be us walking and possibly The members of this in Churchill during their pledged the money, which puts into their important tional activities on polar Council approved rst notMatechuk that even really said interacting known as Peacefiand Polar Bear Affair gala in represents about half of research and efforts to bear habitat conservation group, reading ofCommunity, a bylaw to met re- with sinceany thepeople need to forcut thecosts first Prevention the money the organ- ensure polar bears have around the world.ā€ Toronto Feb. 27. duce the number of counis partly due to the new, while.ā€ City Hall May 29 to little Dani Reiss, president ization hopes to raise for a future,ā€ said Reiss in a The proposed Polar outside cillors eightthe tospecifsix at lower grant-in-lieu (GIL) During Tuesday’s meetand from nail down and CEO of Canada Goose, Polar Bears International press release. ā€œIt is a priv- Bears International House, try their byto a ing, that Vale Manitoba Operseveral members of of Feb. how 26 theymeeting are going ilege to be a part of help- construction of which is ics as well as a current Polar House. vote of on 6-3, with council- Peace ationsand pays the city instead Prevention Coma week-to-week expected to begin at the operate lors Ron Matechuk, Dun- munity of property thekind counsaidtaxes, that this of start of the 2018 polar bear basis. can Wong and Judy Kolada cillors who negotiated that communal action is a long While they are still in season, will be built on doopposed. agreement it coming,could since make many of development stages, time nated land on Churchill’s the Before the reduction possible for council to go them feel like the Thompson main street and designed Stephanie Third, one of the becomes lead reality, however, is through a trial periodmore with becoming a much organizers, to be energy efficient and group’s the bylaw must be misthe dangerous fewer members. place. their overriding ecologically sound. It will said subject of a public hearā€œIf the three crime councillors Statistically, is up statement is to ā€œkeep serve as a site to educate sion ing, currently scheduled that negotiated the GIL, over the past year, as this the Thompson safeā€ by patrolvisitors to Churchill about for March 12, andofthen miserable, RCMP this very poor reported different areas the Thompson polar bears, climate change ling receive second and third GIL, wereMay to do council 22the thathontheir and acting as a to and the urgent need to take community reading, which are tentaourable thing and resign overall calls for service went deterrent to crime. action, as well as provide Nickel Belt News photo by Kyle Darbyson tively slated to occur March from council, we would ā€œBeing visible and ap- up about 10 per cent since facilities for Members of Peace and Prevention Community pose for a group photo following a meeting at broadcast Thompson City Hall May 29. 12 and March 26 respecthave a couple of weeks to as a group might 2016-17. media, support polar bear proachable ively. City manager Gary out Peace whether want While andwe Prevenresearch and outreach ef- help some people that aren’t find Ceppetelli says the bylaw to proceed all the way to tion Community is gearing able to request help for forts, and assist visiting must be 180 days up third on this,ā€ said forreading their inaugural patrol or passed feel comfortable scientists, educators and things prior that,ā€ to theshe election date this Matechuk, whoweekend, repeated upcoming said. ā€œThat’s other guests whose work doing of Oct. 24. If it is, the next comments made Feb. 12 Third said they are still lookour goal right now.ā€ and support are critical to be a bit of ing when councilwho voted 5-2 for recruits are willThird could also hammered polar bear conservation. election a casethe of point musical to amend the Thompson to contribute in whatever thatchairs, Peace ing The facility will include a home with the eight incumbent Charter Act, which stipuway they can. and Prevention Community workspace, bunkhouse, councillors, assuming of lates council ā€œWethat need peopleshould to be not a vigilante groupalland kitchen and storage space is them decide to adopting run again, have eight and oncouncillors the Facebook doesn’t plan on an working for equipment. competing for only six a mayor, to the effect that page, we need people to be ā€œThis is the single lar- aggressive approach towards available spots, along with reducing the number of working on things like filling crime prevention, especially gest donation PBI has all thea other council positions would applications for possible lot ofcandidates. residents’ ire out received and it is an since twotowards council grants prevent ā€œnew bloodā€ from and taking questions being directed amazing commitment to is Eliminating positions would save just coming into council. from people,ā€ she said. ā€œSo youth online. helping secure the polar $20,000 in salarDeputy mayor are other rolesColleen people ā€œPeople are starting to get there bear’s future,ā€ said PBI under ies and Smook isn’t necan take,said eventhat if it’s watchand Iperhaps don’t wantabout toNickel see Belt executive director Krista angry News photo by Ianshe Graham $5,500 to $16,400 in cessarily true as and ing from their home and that happening to children,ā€ Wright. ā€œWe’re humbled Addictions Foundation of Manitoba northern director Gisele deMeulles has written a book about her experiences growing up, mostly in Churchill. travel Valentino us. were the It’samong really very said.expenses, ā€œI don’t like based seeing contacting by this generous gift and she on the amounts spent on open, top three vote-getters in Anyone can those postswhen wherepeople someone’s extremely BY IAN GRAHAM For inclusive. all the harsh weather to write things that you have ā€˜Oh, I’m just as bad, right?’ was not a grateful.ā€ very safe thing swallow say travel by the two lowest2014 despite having not join. Anyone can help.ā€ like ā€˜IChurchill got my bat ready. and the dangers of polar EDITOR@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET to figure out. It’s pretty clear I have all these stories and to do but I jumped at it. I that residents spending councillors and been on council before, To find out more about Come on kids.ā€™ā€ Though she’s now written when I get through.ā€ I need to capture them for thought that was exciting should just fi nd somewhere bears, deMeulles said if it Erica and Dani Reiss do- theInstead, two highest spending while and Coun. Penny ComByer Peace Prevention this group will a book about her experienDeMeulles said she wrote my grandchildren really until the plane landed and easier to live. had been viable she would nated $1 million towards in theon fiscal year said fresh faces automunity, join theirdon’t Facebook safety and2016. compasces growing up in Churchill, her book, titled Whispers in because they will be lost if they started throwing the focus ā€œTo say, ā€˜Those people have moved back to ChurchShrinking council totheir six group. matically equate to differPolar Bears International’s sionate outreach with Addictions Foundation of the Wind: Stories from the I don’t.ā€ fuel off and I realized, ā€˜Holy choose to live there. They ill in a heartbeat. would put Thompson in ent results. proposed in ChurchManitoba northern director North - Life in Churchill for She also has a reputation cats, I wasfacility probably sitting should just leave,’ is quite ā€œI miss the shoreline, I line with other similarly ā€œI’m not sure that whethill during the organization’s simplistic. Gisele deMeulles said writ- a couple of reasons. as a storyteller herself. on a bomb.ā€™ā€ It’s quite disre- miss the rock, I miss the sized communities said er you have new blood Bear Affair gala inthat To- spectful. If we were in the polar ing wasn’t something she ā€œI just sort of thought, ā€œI had such a varied his- Polar Another thing bears even though Coun. Blake Ellis, a com- makes that great a differalways thought she would you know what, this his- tory and I would tell people spurred ronto Feb.her 27. on was the same boat in another area they’re very dangerous and ment reiterated by Coun. ence in what a council is do. tory, this stuff that’s in my stories and they would go, hard times facing Churchill I think we would really miss of theJoe Hudson Nickelscream Belt News Iphoto courtesy Garson Nickel Belt News Kathy Valentino. able to do and accomplish ā€œIn my youth I never head, it’s going to be gone ā€˜That’s not true, is it?’ I’d go, since the Hudson Bay Rail- about that so why don’t they Bay,ā€ she says. ā€œWhen I go This wolf was spotted about 10 kilometres out of Thompson ā€œWhen you look at every depending on what the obphotooperations courtesy of have felt good at writing,ā€ she if I don’t write it down,ā€ she ā€˜Yeah it’s true.’ They’d go, way suspended the option to do that? back home, standing on on Highway to Nelson House on May 26. on Pagethe other city or391 municipality Continued 3 Bears last International said. ā€œBut when I moved said. ā€œMy kids are not go- ā€˜You didn’t do all that, did north Polar of Gillam spring. I think right now they’re Hudson Bay looking out on BY KYLE DARBYSON

KYLE@THOMPSONCITIZEN.NET

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to Thompson to get into ing to get it if I don’t do it you? You’ve got to be really ā€œIt used to be a really feeling like they’re pawns the bay, it just gives you an the school of social work, and it’s something I’ve al- old.’ I was like, ā€˜No, actually thriving large community in a political game and that’s incredible sense. You feel so at that point I had to write ways wanted my mom to I did all that before I was and it’s just dwindled down really sad for them because I small and you feel great.ā€ WE SELL for university and realized, do. My mom’s an elder and 27,’ and they went ā€˜What?ā€™ā€ to such a small population think the people of ChurchNow that she’s got • HOUSEWARE • ELECTRONICS ā€˜Holy, I’m not bad at this, she’s an artist, she’s got so under her belt, Looking back, some of now,ā€ deMeulles says. ill really want to thrive. one book HELIUM • TOYSThough she’s not there • FRAMES right?’ I certainly developed many wonderful stories be- those experiences are things They’ve built their worlds deMeulles says she may try BALLOONS! a lot of skill in university cause she always tells her she might not do again. any longer, her parents and there. How would we feel to produce another. • CRAFT • LINEN and came out of there with stories at Parks Canada in ā€œI did some pretty bizarre her sister and other family if someone came to you and ā€œI have another book in • the STATIONERY • CARDS a very strong skill in my Churchill and I’ve always stuff like fuel hauls into said, ā€˜I’m sorry, you WE have toARE me,ā€ she says. ā€œIt’s a darker members still are. writing and confidence in hounded her, ā€˜Please, just high Arctic at -35,ā€ said ā€œMy cousin owns the leave your home community story, more about personTHE PARTY my writing. I write very put it on tape, I will write it deMeulles. ā€œIt didn’t dawn hardware store there,ā€ she and we’re going to displace al growth and struggles. LOOK FOR ā€œGREAT CANADIAN DOLLAR STORE THOMPSONā€ ON FACEBOOK! SPECIALISTS clear and that’s it. It’s there. for you because your story on me until after. That was a says. you somewhere else and all Maybe in the next five years Some peopleMON say it’s kind of is going to be lost,’ and she’s very dangerous thing to do. Because of that, yourNORTH! it’s something I’ll focus on OFand THE - THU: 9 am - 9 pm • FRIDAY: 9 am - 10 pm • SATURDAY: 9 am - 9 pm • SUNDAY: 10 am - your 6 pmloved ones blunt or direct. I don’t tend never done it and I thought, Being on a plane full of fuel deMeulles finds it hard to history is gone?ā€™ā€ doing.ā€


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