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Legebokoff trial delayed

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The trial of accused serial killer Cody Legebokoff has been postponed until Oct. 7 to face four charges of first-degree murder.

Originally slated for trial to begin Sept. 9, Cody Alan Legebokoff, 23, will now appear in October in B.C Supreme Court in Prince George in front of a judge without jury.

Legebokoff, originally from Fort St. James, is accused of the murders of four women: Loren Donn Leslie, Jill Stacey Stachenko, Cynthia Francis Maas and Nata-sha Lynn Montgomery.

Legebokoff, was stopped by chance in November 2010 by a passing RCMP mem-ber who was driving on Highway 27 toward Vanderhoof and saw Legebokoff pulling off of an unused logging road onto the highway at night.

When pulled over, Legebokoff raised enough suspicion a conservation officer was contacted to search the area, looking for pos-sible illegal hunting activity.

During his search, however, the conserva-tion officer discovered the body of 15-year-old Loren Leslie, who was from Fraser Lake and attending high school in Vanderhoof at Nechako Valley Secondary School when she disappeared.

Her parents reported she had told her mother she was going for coffee with a friend and never returned.

Legebokoff was subsequently arrested and charged with her murder.

After further investigation, RCMP allege they have linked Legebokoff to three addi-tional women’s deaths.

Stachenko went missing in October 2009 and was found only days later in a gravel pit outside Prince George.

Maas went missing in September 2010 and was found in L.C. Gunn Park in Prince George within a couple of weeks.

Montgomery went missing at the same time as Maas, but her body has not been re-covered.

At the time of his arrest, Legebokoff was living in a house in Prince George with high school friends from Fort St. James.

Fire chief resigns


In a late press-day release, the District of Fort St. James announced Fire Chief Rob Bennett has resigned from his position, effective August 31 of this year.

Bennett had been the subject of an independent investigation after two female volunteer firefighters had filed sexual harassment complaints against him with the District in July.

The District has now confirmed Bennett was suspended with pay on July 23 while the matter was under investigation.

While the District admits they agreed with the conclusions of the report in the release, they will not be releasing the contents of the report and they also included in their release the information Ben-nett “denied all of the allegations but has decided to resign in the best interests of the department.”

The release also mentioned plans for new per-sonnel policies and additional training to employ-ees as recommendations from the report which will be implemented.

Meth may be on the rise

Methamphetamine (a.k.a. meth or crystal meth) may be on the rise in Fort St. James.

RCMP say there have been increasing reports of meth in the community. Crack cocaine is normally the most common hard drug they deal with, but more incidents involv-ing meth have been reported.

While crack cocaine is a dangerous drug, meth can be an even bigger concern, be-cause of the dangerous ingredients it contains and the nature of the manufacturing.

Meth is also incred-ibly addictive, which could potentially lead to more drug problems.

“I don’t want to see it become the drug of choice,” said Staff Ser-geant Paul Thalhofer.

Anyone using illicit drugs should consider the dangerous nature of methamphetamine use an the toxic chemicals used to manufacture it.

School resumes

School staff are busily getting ready for the return of students to the classroom and are looking forward to welcoming them on Wednesday, September 4, 2013. Wednesday will be a half day for students and they will be dismissed three hours earlier than the normal end of day dismissal time for their school.


Progress may not be visible on the new community hall for Fort St. James, however it is happening, and an additional grant of $250,000 will certainly help.

The facility will hopefully open before the end of next year.

Planning has been going on for months, but slowed a bit over the summer, and preliminary plans have been made, with an architect work-ing on drawings and more exact cost estimates.

The rough cost estimates so far are a further $1 million, above the purchase of the building, based on initial plans.

The committee working on de-veloping the plans had been trying to determine what would be pos-sible within the existing structure of the building (previously the Victory Christian Centre and Birch Theatre).

While there was enough money in place, this also included a long-term loan for $300,000 over 20 years by the District.

The additional funds from North-ern Development Initiative Trust could also help to provide for contin-gencies.

“That gives us a nice extra cush-ion,” said Kevin Crook, chief admin-istrative officer for the District of Fort St. James, who is spearheading the committee.

With so many user groups hoping to utilize the facility and different fire code constraints, it was initially un-clear whether the cinema would be able to be kept in place and there was also uncertainty around a racquetball and squash court.

However, the theatre will be kept and moveable walls are in the plans in order to meet fire code regulations and to make the spaces more flexible for different users.

The one shortfall so far however, is the lack of funding for the digital projector the theatre will need to be functional. There will also the addi-tion of some seating to the theatre, so it is more usable for arts council performances and other productions, and it is expected it will seat around 130 people, if plans move forward as

they hope.On the other side of the moveable

wall will be a large hall with a capac-ity of around 250 people.

There will be meeting rooms, possibly as many as three, depending on the space the bathrooms end up requiring. The kitchen was a major discussion point for awhile, but the committee is working with Northern Health to determine what is required to provide an adequate kitchen for the size and capacity of the building when it is done.

Look for further information on the plans as the committee continues into the detailed design stage.

The committee is hoping to be able to put out a request for propos-als for construction contracts later this year.

The facility will be a great addi-tion to the economic potential of the town, according to Emily Colombo, economic development officer for the District.

“It gives us the opportunity to host conferences, forums, and large-scale events we’ve been previously limited from hosting,” she said.

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Thefts from vehiclesRuth LloydCaledonia Courier

A couple of thefts from vehicles in town is again prompting RCMP to ask people to lock their cars.

On August 25, two unlocked vehicles had items stolen from them on Birch Street.

One vehicle had a purse, which included a wal-let containing cash and all the victim’s ID and a camera taken sometime overnight.

At 8:35 p.m. the same day, a female also called to report she had a generator, chainsaw and a head-

lamp stolen from her unlocked 2012 Suburban.The items were worth an estimated $2,500.So far RCMP have no suspects in the thefts.

Others who notice missing items from their vehi-cles are encouraged to contact the RCMP, as some items may be recovered by RCMP and the more information they can gather the better for the in-vestigation.

Anyone with information in these incidents or the stolen property can contact the Fort St. James RCMP at 250-996-8269 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

New life for the old courthouse


Joyce Helweg is continuing the charge on keeping the old courthouse alive.

After council was consider-ing returning the lease back to the Province of British Columbia earlier this year when they no lon-ger had a known use for the aging building, Helweg jumped at the chance.

She contacted some other potential user groups and asked the District of Fort St. James to consider keeping the lease with the province in order to allow the building to be used by local non-pro� t groups for storage, meet-ings and possibly a museum later on.

So far, Helweg has some buy-in from the local community arts council, and she’s looking for oth-ers who might need some storage space to get involved so the user group can grow.

Helweg said the building does need some work, which will re-quire some grant funding, to up-grade windows and heating, and eventually security and fencing, however, it doesn’t need much to get started.

“It needs considerable work but the most work it needs is cleaning,” she said. “We’ll just do it one step at a time.”

Helweg is interested in get-

ting in touch with any non-pro� t organizations in the community who might be interested in using the building and hopes the groups would have representation on the committee for the building, but they will run it as a committee of the council, so it will not need to become its own society.

The building itself could be a useful facility for local non-prof-its, hopes Helweg, but it is also worth keeping for its own histori-cal signi� cance.

“It really is one of our heritage buildings,” she said.

The building was the Hudson’s Bay Store, on the site where the now closed Northern Store still

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Mormon Church, who used it for awhile as a church.

The building was then sold to the provincial government and used as a government agent’s of-� ce, then later as a courthouse.

Anyone interested in using the facility for a non-pro� t can get in touch with Helweg at [email protected]

The group will also be hold-ing a contest to name the new-old building, with submissions due by the end of September. Look for information on prizes and how to submit entries in the next District of Fort St. James newsletter.

LEFT: The old court-house building at Seventh and Birch Avenue was getting some cleanup work done to it last week as volunteers begin the process of giving the building a new lease on life as a home for non profits in the community.

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Above: (L-R) Joyce Helweg, Allison Leach and Mary Willick were having fun with the old holding cell while working on cleaning up the courthouse building to use for non profits.

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Back to school labour disputes

Tom FletcherBlack Press

VICTORIA – Another school year dawns in B.C., with the prospect of disruptive labour disputes.

First up are 27,000 support staff, in a legal strike position. These are the teacher aides, custodians, bus drivers and crossing guards. Most are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, with a few Teamsters and other locals scattered around the 60 school districts.

Public discussion about these disputes usually fo-cuses on wage increases, which CUPE members in schools haven’t seen for four years. Their current deals expired more than a year ago, after they were subject to the same two-year wage freeze imposed on the rest of government.

The B.C. government moved from the post-recession wage freeze to a system they call “co-operative gains,” where raises must be financed by savings in other areas of the operation. Only two provincial employee groups have yet to do this: school support staff and teachers.

(Education Minister Peter Fassbender confirmed last week that teacher raises will be funded by extra trans-fers from the provincial treasury as they try to get a long-term deal. But that’s a topic for another day.)

CUPE, the largest union in the country, has a sophis-

ticated media campaign to generate public sympathy. We are repeatedly reminded not only that the last raise was 2009, but that the “average” pay is a mere $24,000 a year. If that number is accurate, it reflects a large number of part-timers.

Let’s look at a few provisions CUPE doesn’t talk about, on behalf of those self-employed taxpayers who have no paid holidays, no employer pension or benefits and no paid overtime, but are expected to help pay all of the above to government workers.

The 60 contracts have many variations, but core ele-ments are the same. In the Central Okanagan school district, the starting CUPE wage rate is $17.37 an hour. The top rate is $26.59, or $28.78 for workers who qual-ify for a “trades adjustment.”

All contracts have rigid seniority and “bumping” clauses to ensure that new employees absorb any reduc-tions in working hours. From a taxpayer’s perspective, this leads to the maximum number of employees mak-ing the highest wages.

Overtime in Central Okanagan is time and a half for the first two hours, and double time after that. Con-tracts also include the provision that unscheduled over-time is subject to a four-hour minimum. It’s amazing how often an unexpected hour of work can arise when it’s paid at quadruple time.

The Surrey school district contract details how even

“spare board” employees are to be enrolled in the mu-nicipal pension plan, a defined-benefit system most private-sector employees can only dream about.

Then there are paid sick days. The Canadian Tax-payers’ Federation reports that the average B.C. private sector worker took 7.4 sick days last year. The public sector average was 12.

The Surrey contract details the windfall of unused sick days that must be paid out to employees who retire as early as age 55. The maximum is 150 days, for a lav-ish perk only available to employees hired before July 1, 1996. Even so, we’ll be paying these bonuses out for years to come.

It goes on and on. Six weeks’ paid vacation after 20 years, with an extra day added for every year after that.

There are many little things, such as a $60 “swimsuit allowance” for teacher aides who take part in swim-ming instruction.

This is not to devalue the work done by these people. It is to suggest that given the growing gap between pub-lic and private employment benefits, finding savings is reasonable.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalNews.com

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MoM2013

1) The view from above the Music on the Mountain festival on Saturday at Murray Ridge 2) Artist Crystal Charlotte Easton, spent the weekend painting on site at MoM 3) The crowd shows their appreciation 4) A massive crowd joined the band onstage during Party on High Street’s Saturday night per-formance 5) A drum workshop on Saturday inside the lodge 6) One of the more colourful campers at the site for the weekend 7) A saxophone player for Navaz belts out some tunes 8) Susu Robin returned to her home turf to play some of her original music 9) Janna Burgart (left) and Mel Chesnutt ham it up in the crowd while taking in some music 10) A teepee was on site for the weekend to provide some shelter for workshops 11) Heidi Haslinger was in town to play on site at the ski hill her father built 12) Kids were the biggest fans of the art installation Trouble in the Peace by Karl Mattson 13) The accordion player for Nice Verdes adds some backup vocals 14) Vendor tents selling everything from ukeleles to grass baskets to hot dogs stretch out around the MoM site at Murray Ridge 15) Party on High Street’s Travis Charuk was show-ing some of the Victoria group’s hillbilly style this year at MoM.

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Sowchea Fire Hall expansionExpansion of fire hall means expansion of services


The Sowchea Fire Hall is being expanded to hopefully allow � rst responders in the area to provide better � rst aid coverage.

An additional parking bay would make it possible for a water tender and a � rst re-sponder vehicle to be kept at the Sowchea hall.

The hall is located 15 kilo-metres from town on Sowchea Road at Luck Bay Road and was built in 2006 to improve response times and provide � re protection for the area, which is outside the municipality and in the Bulkley-Nechako Re-gional District.

The � re department has a number of active � re� ghters who live near the second hall and the close proximity of � re-� ghters means a � re engine can be on site in the Sowchea area within a few minutes, while a truck from town could take much longer.

"We're able to respond in a fraction of the time," said John Bennison of the Fort St. James Volunteer Fire Department.

The expansion to include a � rst responder vehicle, which will carry all necessary � rst aid supplies for serious emer-

gency care, would provide for criti-cal care such as an automated external de� brillator (AED) for those suffering heart attacks.

So far the proj-ect is estimated to cost $50,000, and Conifex and Apol-lo have already donated lumber for the project, and Russell Transfer and Newlands and Eldon Nordstrom have all helped out as well with the work which has been done up to this point.

Bennison estimates the � re� ghters will need about an-other $25,000 to complete the addition for tin for the roof, insulation and with the help of volunteer labour.

"It's not a complicated structure," he said.

BC Ambulance said they welcomed additional � rst re-sponders in the area to help improve outcomes for patients.

Both the Sowchea and downtown � re halls respond to all the calls the � re department receives, and the department as a whole gets around 100 � re call-outs a year.

LEFT: Work has been done to start the addi-tion on Sowchea Fire Hall which would allow for expanded services in the area.

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Miranda Free is back, and she’s here to help.

Free is the new Stopping the Violence Counsellor for the Fire-weed Collective Society and she will be supporting women who’ve been victims of violence through group work and one on one counselling services.

But while she is new to the position, she is not new to Fort St. James.

Free was born and raised in Fort, but had moved to be near her father for awhile in Roseburg, Oregon in the United States.

While in Roseburg, Free did in-home support work for dis-abled war veterans.

However, with the decline in the United States’ economy and missing some other things about being home, Free returned to Fort St. James in April of this year.

“I missed medical and dental and the nice perks that Canadi-ans take for granted,” said Free, in addition to missing her family

and the traditional food and cus-toms she can practice while back in Fort.

“I really missed my cultural food,” she said. Since she has been back, Free has helped to butcher three bears, two of which she half-smoked and one was butchered and distributed to el-

ders to provide food for the win-ter.

In her role as a counsellor for Fireweed, Free is currently working on building her caseload and will be mentoring under the experienced Louise Evans-Salt, who was the head of the Fort Alcohol and Drug Counselling Services.

Evans-Salt, who has over 30 years experience in counselling, will be a wealth of information for Free.

Free herself went to school in Terrace, where she ended up liv-ing for � ve years, and she com-pleted her Social Service Pro-gram Certi� cate there.

She will be working on de-veloping group work activities to help women develop self-esteem, communication skills and safety plans and possibly offering some art therapy.

Women can be referred to Free’s services through self-re-ferrals and service agencies such as Nechako Valley Community Services Society or the Ministry of Children and Families.

Miranda Free is the new Stop-ping the Violence counsellor.

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Kitchen completion

The kitchen on the St. Patrick’s Church has been completed and is now operating.

The of� cial opening of the Fort St James Chris-tian Outreach Kitchen and Food Bank, located at St Patrick’s Church, will take place at 1 p.m. on Saturday, September 14.

This is to say “Thank-you” to all those who have helped to make the food bank and kitchen happen, and to share fellowship through the free barbecue being provided to members of the com-munity as well as invited guests.

The Lunch Program has been active since No-vember of 2010 and is currently provided by St

Patrick’s Anglican, Free Evangelical, Camp Liv-ing Water, and Our Lady of Snows Roman Catho-lic Churches.

The Food Bank offers bi-weekly hampers to the needy and is run by volunteers.

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***FORT ST JAMES CHRISTIAN OUTREACH GROUP FOOD BANK SCHEDULE...10.00am to 12.00noon, on Wednesdays, September 11, 2013, September 25, October 9, October 23, No-vember 13, Wednesday, Novem-ber 27, December 11, January 8, 2014, January 22, February 4, February 18, March 5, March 19, April 2, April 16, April 30, May 14, May 28, June 11, June 26, July 9, July 23, August 6, August 20, September 3, Wednesday, Sep-tember 17.

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ST pATRICk’S ANGLICAN ChURCh... hosts a free lunch every Tuesday from 11.00am - 1.00pm. All are welcome. This lunch is made possible through the generous giving of time and resources,by many people in the region, including The Roman Catholic Church, Camp Living Water, E-Free Church and many other individuals. We wish to thank all those who contribute their labour to this program as well as those who provide food and other necessities. We also run a small food bank on Tuesday morning, and are very thankful for all who contribute to this endeavor. For further information please call Gwen Andrews 567-6744.

***SERVICE TIMES... at St Patrick’s Anglican Church, Fort St James, will be 10:30 am every Sunday. Free lunch every Tues between 11-1pm with music and Prayer. Please come and join us.

***FIREwEED CLOThES DRIVE...The Fireweed Safe Haven is doing a winter clothes drive. We are looking for jackets, boots, snow pants, mitts, hats, scarves, fleeces, etc, for men, women and children. The items will then be given to families in the community that need them. If you do not have anything at home that you can part with but still wish to contribute, you can purchase mitts, socks, or thermal underwear. Please drop items off at the Fireweed Safe Haven. For more information please contact Talia at (250) 996-8081. Every little bit helps.

***AUxILIARy TO STUART LAkE hOSpITAL... Monthly meeting 2nd Wednesday each month. Hospital Cafeteria 7:00 p.m.

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***NEChAkO VALLEy COMMUNITy SERVICES SOCIETy...Child and Youth Mental Health and Counseling Services available at no cost. Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Call 996-7645 for appointment.

***FORT TRAp AND hANDGUN CLUB... meets last Sunday of every month. Contact (Sue) at 250-996-7728 (h) for more information.

***FORT ST. JAMES SEARCh & RESCUE... steering committee meetings first Tuesday of every month. 7:00 p.m. above the Fort St. James Firehall. Training is the third Tuesday of every month at the Firehall at 7 p.m. New members welcome.

***MUSIC MAkERS...New members always WELCOME. Not everyone has to be on stage, there is lots of work behind the scenes. Call Rosemary Allan at 250-996-8997 for more info.

***ThE ThRIFT STORE...has a new name! “The Bargain Basement”. We are still at the same location, across from Shoppers Food Mart. Donations of clean clothing and small housewares are greatly appreciated. Please, no books or magazines. Proceeds are used for community needs. Open Wed-Sat, 12 noon to 4pm.

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B.C. pulls plug on power projects

Tom FletcherBlack Press

VICTORIA – BC Hydro has cancelled or deferred four electricity purchase contracts with independent power producers, and the total may reach 20 by the time a review of projects is complete, Energy Minister Bill Bennett said Thursday.

Bennett said the review is part of a broader effort by BC Hydro to meet his instruction to “spend less money,” as he leads an ef-fort to reduce costs across all government operations.

BC Hydro proposed the move, identifying the 20 project proponents that were not meeting their contract obligations due to � nancing, regulatory or other problems. That non-performance gives BC Hydro legal au-thority to delay or terminate contracts.

The utility has contracts with 81 operating projects, mostly run-of-river hydroelectric, and another 47 are under construction or seek-ing permits after receiving purchase contracts.

BC Hydro released its latest draft resource

plan last week, which estimates the province has enough electricity supply to meet growing demand for the next 10 years. Bennett said he is skeptical about that forecast, with popula-tion growth and industrial demand from new mines and natural gas development in north-ern B.C., but it gives the utility some breathing room.

“I’m a real fan of the clean energy indus-

try, but obviously we don’t want to be agreeing to buy more power than what we need,” Bennett said.

BC Hydro has been criticized in recent years for running up billions in deferred debt, as it com-pletes major expansion and seismic upgrading of its network of dams. A new power line to northeast B.C. has run over budget, and the NDP opposition has accused the government of forcing BC Hydro to buy private power at in� ated rates through contracts run-ning as long as 40 years.

Bennett said he has asked for a detailed analysis of the cost of private power com-pared to new sources such as the proposed Site C dam

on the Peace River or adding turbines to BC Hydro dams on the Columbia River.

B.C.’s Clean Energy Act requires BC Hydro to be self-suf� cient in electricity by 2016, based on an average rainfall year to re-plenish its hydro dams. The requirement is to minimize the import of power generated by burning coal or natural gas.

Wind turbine components await construction at independent power project near Chetwynd in 2008. High construction costs stalled B.C.’s first commercial wind energy project, which was later completed by a new investor.

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Facesof MoM

2013

This year, with challenges in weather, MoM did not per-haps have the larger crowds hoped for, however, those

who did come seemed not only to enjoy themselves, but to love their time at MoM. The Cale-donia Courier asked some of those at the festival what they loved most about MoM.

Dominique Maguire from Prince George - photographer for one of the performers: “I loved the people - terrific openness and friendliness. Of course the music was amazing, but the people made it extra fun.”

Brian Battersby, Megan Wall and daughter Andromeda Battersby from Prince George - patrons: “Doug’s hugs.” (Doug Koyama, performer and festival webmaster, is known for his generous hugs)

LEFT: Scott Dun-bar of no fixed address -per-former: “I love these small mu-sic festivals - es-pecially the ones that are fledgling because every-one’s working together to make something hap-pen.” “It’s not about entertain-ment as much as it’s about com-munity.”

Richard Sutton from Quesnel - volunteer : “This is my first MoM experience. It feels very inti-mate.” “You get to know folks on a bit of a deeper level. It’s friendly and it’s safe for the whole family.”

Rhiannon Gammon from Fort St. James -volunteer: “I really love the atmosphere and everyone is really cheerful and happy all the time.”

Al Trampuh from Vanderhoof -volun-teer: “The love in the community.”

Terry Gresl from Terrace -volunteer and music lover: “I don’t know if I can narrow MoM down into any kind of brief summary.” “The communion with nature and people from various walks of life - and there always seems to be amazing headliners.”

RIGHT: Sarah and Connor Mitchell from Edmonton - patrons: “Everything. It’s the feeling.” (Sarah) “The commu-nity. It’s still pretty cosy.” (Conor)

Dave Soroka from Grand Forks -per-former and festival supporter: “It’s as if there was some small little shard or piece of 1969 still drifting around out there somewhere. Rose(marie) and Lionel found a place for it.” “MoM, it is kind of the exclamation point. The punctuation mark at the end of a long season of festivals.”

Jett Johnston from Nanaimo - son of artist: “Playing Mantracker.”

Janna Burgart from Fort St. James - food service provider for the per-formers and volunteers: “I love that it brings me to my favourite place (Murray Ridge) in the summer - and it brings live music to Fort St. James.”

Bobby Middlteon from Terrace -performer: “How as soon as you drive through the gate, you’re instantly family.” “Wicked volunteers, wicked food.” “Wicked crowd, wicked energy - even when it was pissing rain.”

caledonia courier, september 04, 2013

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