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Coast Mountain News Thursday, July 16, 2015 A1
Dan and Jan Coates lost their home and business, Woodland Caribou Resort, in the Puntzi Lake fire.
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Homes and business destroyedin aggressive Puntzi Lake fire
An aggressive fire located in Puntzi Lake has destroyed several homes and a longstanding busi-ness. The B.C. Wildfire Management Branch classified it at Rank 4 to 5 wildfire, making it the most aggressive wildfire burning in B.C. A fire of that rank causes entire trees to can-dle and spreads by crown-ing or jumping through the tree-tops.
As of press time, cooler
weather had helped to calm the flames but the Cariboo Regional District’s evacuation order included 90 properties and an alert is for an additional 183 prop-erties. It was then classed
The fire is now esti-mated at 8,089 hectares, however, Cariboo Fire Centre information officer Kelsey Winter said Sunday afternoon the increase from the earlier measurement of 7,000 hectares is not
because the fire has grown, but because with less smoke in the air it was easi-er to do a tight line map.
The fire is threatening the nearby community of the Tsi Del Del First Nation at Alexis Creek. Chief Percy Guichon said the fire is about 10 kilometres as the crow flies from his com-munity.
Two elders from the community, however, live at Puntzi Lake and were
evacuated, and one of the band employees lived at the resort that was lost in the fire. In total two per-manent residences, one seasonal residence, and the resort were lost, with a total of about 18 structures.
A water bomber also crashed last week into Puntzi Lake fighting the fire. The plane sank but the pilot managed to escape unharmed.
The Caribou Woodland
Resort, owned by Dan and Jan Coates, was destroyed late last week. Coates said he felt lucky to get out ahead of the fire.
He had decided to send his guests away and started hosing down the property, not expecting the fire to move as quickly as it did.
“So I had my fire pump up and I was wetting down the ground, hosing down the roof, that kind of thing
and when Jan saw our last guest leave she came to see me and said, ‘Dan look behind you.’” he said. “And I turned around because I had my back to that side of the lodge and it was just a 100-foot wall of flame not far from where we were and I just looked at Jan and said, you know what, we gotta go.”
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LOCAL NEWS
National Geographic runs feature story on loss of eulachon
BY CAITLIN THOMPSON
It’s a little fish mak-ing big headlines. The loss of the eulachon, felt so deeply here in Bella Coola, has also been dearly missed in First Nations com-munities up and down the West Coast.
In a recent article in National Geographic, writer J.B. MacKinnon can-vasses the coast from Alaska to California in an attempt to under-stand the eulachon’s demise. What comes out on top however, is the most respected theory related to the decline, that of the Nuxalk Nation’s own Megan Moody.
The word eulachon literally means “savior fish” in many indige-nous languages. Many years the arrival of the eulachon was the bridge between life and death for many coastal people; the Nisga'a word is saak, but the fish are also known as halimotkw, often translated as “savior fish” or “salva-tion fish.”
The Nass River, located 100 kilome-tres north of Terrace, is home to the last major run of eula-chon. Rivers to the south and north have suffered severe declines or the com-plete extinction of the species. Bella Coola’s run failed to return after 1998, but this shouldn’t be reason for a complete loss of hope.
As MacKinnon points out, the eula-chon is a mysterious little fish, in some years spawning in incredible numbers and in others—1984, 1964, 1907, 1890—hardly showing up at all.
It’s the mystery of the eulachon, coupled with the fact that it’s not a “commercially viable” fish, that has resulted in so little attention paid to its remarkable decline. As its importance is
becoming more recog-nized, however, so are efforts to understand and preserve the runs.
Europeans first documented eula-chons in 1806 when Meriwether Lewis was on his epic crossing of North America. It was a grease trail that led Alexander Mackenzie down to the sea near Bella Coola in 1793, when he became the first European to reach the Pacific Ocean by land along a northern route, more than a decade ahead of Lewis and Clark. Many of the pathways went on to become pioneer roads and modern highways.
In those days, immense eulachon spawning runs took place as far south as the Mad River in northern California and all the way up the coast to southern Alaska. The lower Columbia, which marks the border between Washington and Oregon, was one of the greatest eulachon rivers of all. Some scholars argue that the word “Oregon” is derived from a pronunciation of the word “eula-chon” used by aborigi-
nal traders as they told European explorers of the riches to be found in the West.
Moody began investigating eulachon as a graduate student in fisheries science. Her first discovery was how little information exists on a fish that rivals salmon in its importance to indig-enous people.
“It all comes down to economics,” says Moody, who's now the stewardship director for the Nuxalk Nation. “In the mainstream world, if it's not a commercial commod-ity—a highly valued species in the fishery management world—nobody pays attention to it.”
But the benefits of eulachon are finally beginning get noticed outside of traditional cultures. For such a small morsel, eula-chon should very well be considered a “superfish.” Its nutri-ents pack a punch: A single tablespoon pro-vides more than 125 calories, and just five ounces (150 millili-ters)—an amount still commonly eaten by Nisga'a elders today—supply half an adult's recommended daily
energy intake.It’s food as medi-
cine, something Nuxalk elders com-monly speak of when lamenting the loss.
Moody believes that climate change was already con-tributing to a slow decline in eulachon populations, some-thing that had been happening since the 1970s. However, it was the arrival of shrimp trawlers in Queen Charlotte Sound in the mid-90s that appears to have been a major contributer to the spectacular disap-pearance of 1998.
This could account for why the coast's biggest rivers, such as the Columbia, Fraser, and Nass, still have eulachon runs—albeit smaller ones than in the past—while lesser rivers have wit-nessed near total local extinctions. The large eulachon runs in big rivers, the theory goes, could withstand heavy losses to bycatch and still endure; smaller runs could not.
In some locations, the fish could be returning as mysteri-ously as they disap-peared. In 2013, schools of eulachon
arrived in the Bella Coola, setting off waves of excitement. Moody believes there is good reason to think they may return. “The potential for recovery is there,” she says.
In 2007, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe petitioned the U.S. government to pro-tect eulachon in Washington, Oregon, and California under the Endangered Species Act. A result-ing scientific review that led, in 2010, to eulachon being listed as a threatened spe-cies in the U.S. south of Alaska.
In Canada, eula-chon are now classi-fied as endangered in every river system except the Nass and nearby Skeena River.
However, the eulachon are better
protected than ever before. Ocean shrimp boats on the Pacific coast have been equipped with man-datory bycatch-reduc-tion devices since 2003, and last fall an experiment with LED lights strung on trawl fishing lines reduced eulachon bycatch by 90 percent, prompting officials to recom-mend that fishers start using the new tech-nique immediately.
Meanwhile, 335 miles (540 kilome-ters) of creeks, riv-ers, and estuaries in the U.S. have been identified as critical eulachon habitat by the National Marine Fisheries Service, and a complete recovery plan is expected in 2016.
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A4 Coast Mountain News Thursday, July 16, 2015
BY CAITLIN THOMPSON
It seems as though some things are just meant to be. That’s certainly how it’s shaping up for Chris and Stephanie Quinn, the new owners at one of Bella Coola’s long-standing businesses - Bella Coola Air.
“We actually had been looking at prop-erties in Bella Coola for 2 years previous to buying the business,” said Chris. “We knew we wanted to get out of the city and start a family in a small mountain town, so when Bella Coola Air became available, it seemed too good to be true.”
Originally from Penticton, B.C., Chris is an airline licensed pilot with 16 years of flying experience. His
most recent position was that of Medi-Vac Captain in Alberta, where he flew all over the province transporting patients. Before that, he flew bush planes in Ontario and Yellowknife.
He met his wife Stephanie, originally from Edmonton, at the Edmonton City Airport, where she was working as a customer service representative. Between the two of them, she describes the purchase of Bella Coola Air as a “perfect fit.”
Bella Coola Air offers general charters, along with sightseeing tours, on the Central Coast. Their company utilizes a C-172 on wheels and a C-185 on amphibious floats, and when asked about the work environment,
Chris described his new job as “spectacu-lar.”
“It’s hard to put into words,” he said. “Going out every day to work is like flying through Jurassic Park. There’s no end to the wilderness. I get to see the ocean, glaciers, the various kinds of wildlife, and of course great people. It’s amazing!”
“We are excited to offer continued service to the community and surrounding areas” Chris said. Longtime employee Leon will be staying on and former owner Wayne Sissons will continue to fly during the transitional period. You can find out more about Bella Coola Air through their website at www.bellacoolaair.com or call 250 982 2545
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regular meeting. The next regular meeting of the CCRD Board
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July Board Meeting included the follow-ing statement from the CCRD Board of Directors about human-wildlife con-flict management.
While the CCRD does not currently have the mandate or budget to take initia-tive regarding human-wildlife conflict in our district, CCRD sup-ports the work of the Conservation Officer Service and WildSafe BC in our commu-nity by creating waste management policies and decisions that take wildlife attractants into account and providing links on our website to appropriate provincial agencies such as COS and WildSafe BC
In the interest of
human and wildlife safety, CCRD strongly encourages all district residents to manage attractants on their property and to call the RAPP line at 1-877-952-7277 (RAPP) to report problems with wildlife.
The CCRD also advises its residents that the province is cutting strategic invest-ment funding for 2015 by $15,000. The future of this substantial source of funding is uncertain heading into 2016.
Residents are encouraged to con-tinue in the positive direction we have been moving regarding recycling and waste management. More Recycling = More Revenue for commu-nity waste manage-
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The CCRD received a letter regarding the comment period for the “Great Bear Rainforest Order” Draft for Public Review. Public com-ments on the GBRO draft document are accepted by the Province until August 10, 2015. https://www.for.gov.bc.ca/tasb/SLRP/lrmp/nanaimo/EBM/GBR_BMTA/GBR%20LUO%20Draft%2020150609.pdf
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There are things I remember and things I have forgot-ten; some memories come together as I look through the boxes of photographs and notes unearthed from the storage loft. The cobwebs and dimness there echo my frame of mind. Do I really want to remember those times forty-five years ago when Don Jensen and I were together in the Palisades?
After Don died while biking to work in Aberdeen, Scotland, I tried to dissociate myself from moments that would have been painful to recall. Apparently, I was suc-cessful, as I now find those ancient memo-ries almost nonexis-tent. But searching through the old boxes to enable someone other than myself to write about those times has helped release me from sor-row.
If he had survived beyond his thirtieth year, what would have been his life’s path? Mathematician/
logician, equipment designer, photogra-pher/artist, teacher and inspirer of oth-ers? Whatever it was, it would have been accomplished with enthusiasm, a sense of humor and eagerness for exploration and discovery.
Don didn’t dwell on the past: I rarely heard him mention the Alaska climbs he undertook prior to our meeting. But he did try to envision the future. In November 1970, after we’d been together for four years, he wrote:
“Now we should begin… to encourage
our real excitement about life. It is over five years since my last (Huntington) really expensive expedition to Alaska, and our own Alaska explora-tion/escape [from LA] is one of my first promises to Joan—the time is overdue.”
Instead of planning another expedition with his climbing bud-dies, Don and I want-ed to try living in a remote area of Alaska. He wrote: “I felt I could have become the greatest of moun-taineers—but chose to integrate the joy of the mountains into my life—instead of mak-
ing it control my life.” In life as in climbing, I went wherever his joy for the mountains took us.
He was the kind of man you could trust with your health and safety, and I did. In the years after his death, I never found anyone else whom I felt this way about, and so I never climbed again.
Still, a few memo-ries stand out from the haze of forty-five years. There is my first summit in the Palisades with Don: 360 degrees of rock, snow and glacier below us on a glori-ous, sunny summer morning. And there is
the moment of waking up on a narrow ledge thousands of feet above the Palisades Glacier, watching the sun rise over the Owens Valley, with us —or at least our sleep-ing bags—anchored to the rock behind.
That might also have been on the trip I wasn’t supposed to be on: The guides at PSOM wanted to go to Palisades Basin and were strongly against having me along, not because I couldn’t climb, but because they thought I might raise a fuss. Finally, after some pres-sure from Don, I was allowed to join them, but I was expressly
told to keep my mouth shut and not com-plain. On the ascent to the pass, Bob Swift’s long stride leading through the ice and snow was too wide for me, but I never said a word. Don noticed the problem and cut addi-tional, shorter steps that I could use.
On another occa-sion, Don and I went to Palisade Basin to leave a cache of equipment for the guiding season. The most reasonable con-tainer was a 40-gallon metal garbage can, which Don strapped onto his pack.
The Nature of Memory - 1966 - 1973
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Coates, now safe in Maple Ridge, B.C., cried as she watched Cariboo Regional District foot-age from a flyover of her destroyed proper-ty. Her husband Dan says he is still trying to wrap his head around it.
“It's a life-chang-er,” he said. “It's not just a resort and how we made a liv-ing. It was our home, everything we have is... was there. The Cariboo Fire Centre, I think they're all heroes. They gave us time to get our people out. Otherwise I think it would have been a deadly fire.”
As of press time crews were still actively fighting the fire, which was 30 percent contained on the southwest flank.
Chief Guichon and two band councillors flew over the fire on Sunday and people were starting to trick-le back into the area, anxious to get to their homes that hadn’t been damaged.
“It's very tragic and something to see the devastation from the air,” Guichon said of the properties that were lost. “It has been an emotional time.”
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FROM PAGE 1
A view of the fire from Puntzi Lake
sEE 'PALIsADEs' On PAGE 6
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Off we went, up and over the crest into the basin. Presumably the cache is still there, hidden in the depressed area next to a huge boulder.
The pack he used, or at least the sack,
was of his own design. Don made most of his own equipment: either he didn’t like the available designs or he didn’t have the money. His motto was “go light”— I would count pieces of toilet paper so as not
to have to pack the whole roll.
Don also calcu-lated the number of calories needed. For winter excursions, breakfast was instant oatmeal and dried buttermilk powder mixed with hot water.
Lunch under the crisp blue winter sky was cheese, crackers and hard salami, shared with the whiskey jacks perched in the scrub-by trees. Dinner we called “glop”: instant rice, dried soup mix, canned meat or tuna. A splurge was an onion, which liv-ened up the one-pot brew. A dram of apri-cot brandy was our reward before calling it a night.
Although we spent most of our time in the Palisades during summer climbing-school season, my sharpest memories are from the winter. We would drive from LA in Don’s VW bug to camp near the trail-head. The owners of Glacier Lodge lived there year-round, and thus the road along Big Pine Creek was plowed (most of the time), eliminating a long trudge.
I had first met Don when he was giving a talk on Mt. Huntington to the Fresno Sierra Club during the autumn of, probably, 1966. He wanted to show me his beloved Palisades, and planned a ski-mountaineering trip during term break. It was to be my first overnight experience in winter. We strapped on our skins over wide, heavy moun-taineering skis and headed up the trail. I loved the serenity and pureness of our snow-blanketed sur-roundings. Late that afternoon, after we’d settled into our camp, he began preparing
our dinner glop. Then, the stove malfunc-tioned and the tent caught fire. We man-aged to get out (not hard because the thin ripstop nylon melted easily), but the tent was ruined, and one of Don’s boots was damaged.
Because of the severe cold, we had no choice except to make our way down to the lodge, follow-ing our ski tracks back through the moonlit forest. We stayed what remained of the night in one of the empty cabins, thankful for a roof over our heads. A few years afterward, we were married, so obviously the scare didn’t diminish my opinion of him. In fact, it might have improved his chances with me, as I saw how calmly he exe-cuted our emergency descent (though I can’t imagine the names he was calling himself while doing this).
Of a later experi-ence, Don wrote: “On Thanksgiving after-noon we walked from Sage Flats in new snow. There were per-haps a dozen ‘winter hikers’—some years ago we would have been alone. The next day we had passed all and waded to the overlook beyond the Black Lake Trail—we had abandoned our minimal hardware selection and skis near the roadhead, seeing their inutility (and ill repair respec-tively).
Due to the big work push this fall [on his PhD], we have not
been able to escape the traffictional field of LA prior to this, and we needed desperate-ly what we got—to see plumes of snow blow off Temple Crag, and to be alone—but as dusk was deepening, our grateful solitude was interrupted by two persistent follow-ers. I guess we were not as cordial as they had expected—but we were both honestly angry. As Joan said later, they were new and enthusiastic to
the winter mountain scene and could in no way understand the extent to which we needed to be alone there….”
It was these oppor-tunities to be alone together and away from the crowds of LA, and even of Bishop, that interwove and cemented our relationship. They are what I remember most vividly of the years I was fortunate to share with my soul-mate, Don Jensen.
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Joan on a mountaineering trip with Don.
Joan and Don Jensen on the Palisade Crest, 1968. Joan and Don used this photo as their wedding announcement,
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BY ERNEST HALLWith the rain fall-
ing in Bella Coola after weeks of record-breaking drought, the MV Nimpkish recent-ly ran out of water. Responding to a late Saturday phone call, this NEWS reporter arrived at the BC Ferries terminal at 6:30 a.m. Sunday to find Nimpkish crew members pouring water into their cof-fee makers – water they had boiled to sterilize – according to Nimpkish Captain Ramir Cloma.
What about the “potable” water installed along with free food on the little boat last year (on Transportation Minister Todd Stone’s instructions) to make the vessel more com-fortable?
The crew hadn’t been allowed to fill up their water tanks in Bella Bella because of the water short-age there resulting from the dry summer. Besides, the island is short of shipped-in water because their supply trucks are often “bumped” by BC Ferries. While docked alongside, the resourceful crew had boarded the big ferry and picked up a supply of Dasani bottles to hand out to Nimpkish passengers on their 9-hour voy-age to Bella Coola.
On arriving in Bella Coola, where the rain was softly falling, the crew found more bottles on the Townsite and stocked up for the 7 a.m. trip back to Bella Bella. They also sent a sample of Bella Coola water away for testing – as required by Health Canada. Cloma expected to have the test results in three days, and if it tested clean, the Nimpkish could sup-ply its “potable” water tanks in Bella Coola. Meanwhile, passen-gers would continue to get their water in plastic bottles, and
“out of service” signs would be fixed to the Nimpkish water taps.
In the Nimpkish wheelhouse, high above the car deck of the little boat, with the light welcome rain trickling down the window panes, and the glacier fed jade-green inlet plac-idly surrounding the little boat (dubbed the “MV Skimpish” by some), Yours Truly was struck, like the “Ancient Mariner” by the notion that there was “water, water everywhere”. But on the Nimpkish, you had to get “potable” water from a 341 ml plastic bottle because the tap water might be hazardous.
Also noticeable were a few folks tak-ing advantage of the dry benches in the newly-installed plexi-glass shelter at the top of the ferry ramp. (It seems that convincing Tourism Minister Naomi Yamamoto 15 months before to help “miti-gate” the damage created by throttling the Discovery Coast Circle Tour had not been entirely in vain.)
An amusing way to start your Sunday morning.
Disembarking sometime after the scheduled 7 a.m. departure time, I counted five stan-dard vehicles flank-ing each side of the 16-vehicle vessel. In the bow were two campers in the centre
overheight lane. A motorcycle crouched aft starboard. A large space (nearly half of the boat’s 110-foot length) stood vacant in the overheight centre lane behind the campers.
Up on the dock, I watched, along with the Nimpkish passen-gers, as a 40-foot tour bus slowly inched backward down the ramp and onto the
Nimpkish car deck. The driver of the forward camper was asked pull ahead, beyond the yellow stop line and right up to the chain separat-ing the deck from the sea below. The sec-ond camper pulled ahead and the bus slowly backed onto the deck. Then, a muffled screech and spinning rear wheels.
Nimpkish or bus?Tales from an early morning sailing
It was a tight squeeze but the bus eventually made it on board
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The bus’s under-carriage had hung up because of the sharp angle between the ramp and the deck. In forward gear, the wheels continued spin-ning.
A crew member, shouted up to me
(over the roar of the Nimpkish engines): “We weren’t sup-posed to get these big buses this year.” (This had happened last year, the first year of the Nimpkish doing the “connector” run between Bella Bella and Bella Coola.) I
shouted back across the 15 meters of open water between us: “So why is it happening this year?” His shouted reply: “Reservations, probably – Who knows?” Captain Cloma later said by phone: “Those big buses are meant to go on big ships.”
Cloma went on to say that the 2013 deci-sion to replace the 115-vehicle Queen of Chilliwack with the tiny Nimpkish was “a surprise to all of us”, that it was made by “higher-ups”, and “hopefully they are rec-ognizing” the decision was flawed. However, he said, “I have to reserve my comments to the operations.” He suggested that the Chilliwack (now up for sale) could have been rescheduled to phase in her retirement.
Down at the rainy Sunday morning load-ing, the crew of six scrambled around the bus, blocking its wheels, and talked of running a strap from the bus to the camper ahead to give the bus a tow, yanking it down
onto the car deck. For whatever reason, this idea was abandoned. Someone suggested finding a Bella Coola tow truck to try pulling the bus back up the ramp. Someone coun-tered that they would be hard-pressed to find a tow truck big enough to handle that task.
Someone took off for the Townsite to get a hydraulic jack to raise the driving wheels on the bus in order to block it up and provide traction on the rain-wet deck.
Over the roar of the Nimpkish engines, the tour bus driver shouted to me: “Fun and games.” He’d heard from last year’s driver that the tide had been higher on that sailing, so the bus had been easier to dislodge. High tide today was four hours away, and waiting would make them too late for the Bella Bella connec-tion. The friendly crew member shouted again: “You can con-trol these buses. But you can’t control the tide.”
I learn that the 45
passengers have 90 minutes between arriv-al in Bella Bella and departure on the big ferry to Port Hardy.
Shouting back I ask: “Have you been to the washroom yet?” A lady shouts back: “Are they even legal?” (The three washrooms are not wheelchair acces-sible and anyone with mobility issues would have difficulty using them.)
The tour guide shouts: “We might have to stay over in Bella Bella.” I shout back: “There’s nowhere to stay over.” She shouts, “Maybe we can billet.” (I don’t have the heart to tell her about the water taxi and hotel at Shearwater.)
A young man claim-ing to be a “ferry geek” shouts out that he has sailed on every route and on every vessel in the entire BC Ferries fleet. Then he shouts to all: “We have Todd Stone to thank for this.” Some passengers indi-cate their agreement.
8:16 a.m. (14 min-utes shy of the 90-min-ute Bella Bella transfer
window): The bus begins to roll slowly backwards onto the deck. The jacking has worked. A cheer drowns out the roar of the Nimpkish engines.
8:26 (with four minutes’ “spare” time remaining in the win-dow of a 9-hour cruise affected by wind, tide, and other variables, the ramp comes up and the little boat chugs out onto the cloud-draped waters of North Bentinck Arm – churning the calm jade-green into a white wake as fast as it can, heading out to Labouchere and right, up to Dean Channel, then left, and south-west out the fjord toward Bella Bella where, too, the reliev-ing rain will be falling at last after so many hot, dry weeks.
Once back in cell phone range near Shearwater, the “ferry geek” phones me to say they are going to make it because they have bypassed Ocean Falls, saving enough time to ensure a timely arrival in Bella Bella.
Ocean Falls resident
Sharron Cartier, who serves on the Ferry Advisory Committee for the region, says the Nimpkish radioed that they weren't coming in, a frequent practice in bad winter weather when no one is booked in or out of Ocean Falls. Otherwise, the BC Ferries/Government contract requires them to stop in there. Says Cartier: “It made sense. I’m not sure why they were com-ing in here anyway. I think they should do that more often as it would save time and money. It (the bypass) didn't affect us at all,” she says.
That early Sunday morning, driving slowly home, with the clouds beginning to break and a hint of the sun piercing through, I think again of the “water, water everywhere” and the Ancient Mariner, and wonder: “If I were Gustave Dore illustrat-ing the famous poem, and the Nimpkish were an albatross, from whose neck would I picture the great bird hanging?”
Montreal Canadiens goal-tender Carey Price encouraged First Nations youth to be leaders in their com-munities as he accept-ed one of four trophies he won at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas.
“I would like to take a moment to encour-age First Nations youth,” said Price, who was raised in the largely aboriginal community of Anahim
Lake, B.C.“People would say
it's very improbable that I'd make it to this point in my life,” he said in a minute-long speech to some of the most decorated hockey players in the world, while accepting the Vezina trophy for best goalie.
“I made it here because I wasn't dis-couraged. I worked hard to get here, took advantage of every
opportunity that I had. And I would really like to encourage First Nations youth to be leaders in their com-munities. Be proud of your heritage, and don't be discouraged from the improbable.”
Price finished his speech by saying “chanalya” — “thank you” in the Dakelh language, spoken by the Ulkatcho peo-ple, who are part of the Carrier First Nation.
Besides the Vezina, as judged by the league's general managers, Price was awarded the Hart Trophy (NHL most valuable player, cho-sen by pro hockey writers), the Ted Lindsay Award (most outstanding player, as voted by players) and the Jennings Trophy (fewest goals allowed), share with Corey Crawford of the 2015 Stanley Cup-winning
Chicago Blackhawks.Price's hefty haul of
hardware capped one of the greatest regular seasons for a goalie in NHL history. They go along with the gold medal he earned as netminder for Team Canada at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
“I'm just grate-ful," Price said. "I'm immeasurably blessed to do what I do.”
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On the morning of July 9, 2014, four canoes began their journey from Bella Coola to par-take in the annual Tribal Canoe Journeys. Hosted this year by the Heiltsuk Nation of Bella Bella, it is estimated that there will be 100 canoes attending the Qatuwas Festival and 5,000 visitors going to Bella Bella for seven days of celebrating, feast-ing, and dancing.Tribal Journeys, also referred
to as Qatuwas, or ‘People Gathering Together,’ is planning to return to Bella Bella this year, 21 years after its first gathering was held in 1993. The Heiltsuk have played a key role in the resurgence of the ocean going canoe culture along the Pacific North West Coast when they first carved a canoe and paddled from Bella Bella to Vancouver for Expo 86, in 1986 and in 1989 participated in the “Paddle to Seattle”, and at this event invited other tribes to travel to
Bella Bella and hosted the 1993 Qatuwas Festival.Members of the Squamish Nation and their fellow paddlers from Hawaii towed two canoes from Vancouver, BC and were welcomed into Bella Coola by the Nuxalk Nation with a pot-luck at the Bella Coola Motel Campground. Together, they journeyed for three days with the help of support vessels, arriving in Bella Bella last weekend. Luke Mack, a skipper, who has been on several canoe
journeys, was cautious when speaking of facing the notori-ous Mesachie Nose, famous for its swirling currents and strong winds. “If the winds pick up we may have to be towed,” said Mack. To many, this canoe journey is seen as a healing opportu-nity for all involved. Cultural traditions and knowledge are being revived as traditionally Nuxalkmc were skilled naviga-tors on the water, using the ocean as a highway for trade and
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It is with heartfelt sadness that we announce the sudden passing of
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Shane was born to Kirk and Marilyn Johnson in Williams Lake on
November 4, 1973. He attended Glendale Elementary School where
his sweet, caring personality and intelligence won over teachers and made him many friends. Shane spent the later part of his childhood
with his father and Kluane First Nations family in the Yukon, where he
enjoyed learning about the 10,000 year history of his ancestors in Canada.
In 2005 he married Rebecca Pfi ffner of Switzerland and they had three children, who Shane adored:
Jimmy, Kirk and Shelly.
Shane loved nature and spent his adulthood surrounded by beautiful mountains, pristine lakes and rivers, and
abundant wildlife in the Yukon. He was known as a hard worker who never complained, and he chose jobs in the outdoors, surveying for Underhill Geomatics in Alaska,
on a heritage site fi ve hours by skidoo in the bush, on helipads on Vancouver Island, and for the Public Works
Department of Kluane First Nations.
In his spare time, Shane cut fi rewood to keep his elders warm and helped teach the children at Kluane Lake
School. Shane liked playing poker, Yahtzee and chess and watching documentaries. Recently, Shane obtained
a trapper’s licence, and he was planning to attend Vancouver Community College in the fall.
Shane is survived by his loving wife and children, mother and father, sister Natalie Halff, brother Jamie Halff, niece Chantal Montgomery, and many relatives and friends in
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Merchandise for Sale
Heavy Duty Machinery
ZOOM BOOM machines, Container Truck, Large Tools, 250-494-1126, 7085 93 Mile Loop Road.
Real Estate
For Sale By Owner
10 Beautiful acres in the well sought after 150 Mile
area, almost 1800 sqft home. 4bdrms, large deck,
shop 24’x34’ with upstairs & deck on cement fl oor. Wood stove, horse barn & chicken
house, large creek. with trails & sitting benches.
Cheap taxes, Nat. gas & hydro.
See Kijiji Ad #1071830159 for more photos:
(250)296-3383
Beautiful log home in the Borland Valley built from Douglas
fi r. Deluxe fi nishing throughout.
Windows & doors are all superior
quality. Many out buildings, all log.
Phone: (250)296-0139
Houses For SaleSecluded private hideaway hermitage haunt. 200 acres. Less rules, pollution, regula-tions, taxes, restrictions, bans, by-laws, peddlers, thieving, charges, fees, claws, trapping, creature comforts of civiliza-tion. Old fence, old large cook stove, old airstrip 2 miles. New log cabin, 12” diameter logs, not 6” timbers. New ATV, creek well road. $74,000 terms. Box 18, Redstone, BC V0L 1S0.
Lakeshore
Big Lake Cabin4258 Likely RoadBeautiful .45 acre
waterfront property with cabin & 5th wheel.
40 minutes to town.$145,000.
250-392-0658 or250-392-1960
Mobile Homes & Parks
14’ x 70’ 3 bdrm mobile home. Decks - front and back. Skylights,
walk-in tub, a/c. Nice landscaping and
perfect view of the lake. #56 Northside Village.
$67,000 obo. 250-392-5095
Rentals
Apt/Condo for Rent3 bdrm apartment, South Lakeside area, $650/mo n/p 250-392-5074.
Bachelor units avail July 1st $450/mnth, 1 small bdrm unit avail July 1st $500. utilities in-cluded in quiet adult bldg, coin laundry, n/p, r/r 250-392-6876 leave a message.
Rentals
Apt/Condo for RentClean, lakeview, 1bdr. apt. $500. util. incl., n/s, quiet working person preferred, f/s, n/p. r/r 250-398-7361
Commercial/Industrial
FOR RENT. Light industrial bay/shop. 24’ x 32’, Great for workshop, storage, autobody or similar. Heated, over-head door. (250) 808 7711
Duplex / 4 Plex2 bdrm. duplex. F/S natural gas heat. Please call (250)392-7617.2bdrm top portion of duplex, $800/month, utilities included, no pets, no smoking, ref req’d, washer & dryer negotiable. (250)302-1155 Avail. July 15th3bdrm duplex, utilities includ-ed, shared washer & dryer. Pets negotiable. $950. Phone (250)305-83583bdrm upper suite in 4-plex, w/d hook-up, 1.5 bathrooms, $975.00, utilities included. (250)398-7552
Mobile Homes & Pads
2bdrm mobile home, f/s w/d hookup. Kendell Acres, 1427 Dog Creek Rd, $650/month. Avail Aug. 2nd 1-250-488-79253 bdrm, 1 bath mobile home. Large covered deck, large storage shed, f/s, w/d. Avail. immed. Looking for long term tenants. Phone 250-302-2888 to view.3bdrm mobile at 150 Mile. Close to shopping center and school. n/p (250)392-76173 bdrm mobile homes fridge, stove, close to casino. no pets. (250)392-7617
Homes for Rent3380 Pine Valley Rd. 3 bdrm Rancher style. w/d, f/s. Very quiet neighbourhood. $900/mon + util. 250-305-0371 only call after 5.3bdrm house & 1bdrm bsmt suite avail immed n/s n/p Close to schools & TRU (250)398-8111 (250)303-15463 bdrm house. f/s, natural gas heat. 250-392-7617.3bdrm house in town, f/s, d/w, w/d included. $1150/mo +util. N/S No Pets. Call 1-587-433-6795 or email: [email protected] and spacious 3bdrm upper suite located in quiet neighbourhood, walking dis-tance to downtown core. En-joy the view from the private deck. 5 appl. $1,050 + util. n/s. Pets Neg. Call for private viewing today! 250-267-9686.Main fl oor of quiet home, suits single professional. N/S N/P, No Parties. R/R (250)267-5759
Suites, Lower1 bdrm bsmt suite. Laundry, f/s, n/s, n/p. $650/mon. 1-587-433-6795 or email: [email protected] n/p n/s close to schools & TRU, Avail. July 15 $550 incl util (250)392-53521bdr. suite $550.mnth/1 per-son $650.mnth/2 persons heat & light included n/s, n/p, r/r. (250) 305-6045.2bdrm suite avail immed $800/mo heat & hydro includ-ed. (250)296-3131 after 6 pmBright, clean modern 1bdrm suite in walking distance to the hospital and on the Gibraltar Bus Route. Suitable for a sin-gle working person N/S N/P D/D $600/month, incl. utilities. References required. Phone (250)392-9484Ground Level 2bdrm bsmt available. Close to schools & bus stop. $800 incl utilities. N/P N/S Call between 2pm-8pm (250)305-1213Large 2bdrm bsmt suite on 12th, in suite laundry, back-yard, nice area. Includes heat & hydro $900. (250)302-9807
Suites, UpperCentrally located, this newly renovated top fl oor of the house offers a paradise gar-den to create, full winter sun-shine, access to downtown. 3 bdrms, laundry and other fabu-lous features. Reliable tenants required, with references. n/s, n/p. $950 + util. 250-296-3230.
Rentals
Suites, UpperLarge 1bdrm upper fl oor, shared laundry, large deck, covered parking. Includes heat & hydro $900. (250)302-9807
Townhouses3Bdrm 3 storey townhouses on 1st Ave. f/s, n/s, n/p. $950./mo. Available July 15th (250)303-0631.
Transportation
Cars - Domestic2002 Honda Odyssey EXL. Good condition. $4,000 obo. 250-392-6532
Cars - Sports & Imports
2006 Kia Rio Sedan 4 door, automatic,
100,000 kms, set of winter & summer tires. $5,000. OBO
Call 250-267-7226 or 250-267-1427
Motorcycles2004 Honda 750 Shadow Aero - 12,499 km. - Cobra Pipes + lots of extras; $6,500 OBO. (250) 398-8822
2005 Suzuki Boulevard
800cc, low kms.Injured back, need to sell.
(250)267-3401
Recreational/Sale
1994 Winnebago Adventure Motorhome
69,900 miles. 454 auto. Onan generator,
twin roof air. New fl oor/upholstery.
$18,500 obo.REDUCED $16,000
250-392-4366
1996 F250 7.3 Diesel & 8.5’ camper package. Both excel-lent. $12,000. 250-296-0090 or 250-303-1214.
1999 26ft RKS Citation Supreme 5th Wheel. New tires, 6,000lb
axles. Winter package. Hitch included. Good shape. $13,000 obo.
250-392-5542 days250-392-4308
evenings & weekends
Transportation
Recreational/Sale
2005 Westwind 26.5’ Travel Trailer
Sleeps 7-8, rear bunks, master bedroom at
front, Bathtub/shower w/skylight over tub,
A/C, built in microwave & coffee maker, large
awning, lots of storage.$14,000.
Call 250-267-2211
2006 39’ Mallard Park model travel trailer, new a/c, w/d combo, wide door in 2014, current value $13K, located in Wildwood campsite with porch. Moving make me an of-fer. (778)464-1234
24’ TravelaireMotorhome
54,000 kms on rebuilt motor, new fridge, two new batteries. Good condition.
$6000.Phone (250)398-7904
Nash 2000$10,000.
25’ with 7’ slide with topper, Solar Ready
2 - 12 volt batteries,1 - 30# propane tanks,good tires, 2 year old awning, rear kitchen,
Sleeps 6.Phone 250-296-4553
Sport Utility Vehicle
2010 RAV4125,000 kms. Super clean.
Brand new tires - 4 winter & 4 summer.
Asking $16,500.250-925-1010
Trucks & Vans
1994 GMC Safari MiniVan4.3 V6, Auto, Stereo, CD Player, P/B, P/S, Newer
trans & motor, alloy wheels, trailer tow pkg, needs front tires, small
dent on left fender, seats 7, seats can be removed.
$1500. OBO(250)303-0941
1996 Dodge 1500 4x4 Heavy Half Club Cab. Good cond.,hard top tonneau cover. $4,500 obo. 250-303-1672.4 GMC Minivans. AWD, good condition, 1995 - 2000. $1000 - $1500. (250)303-1672
BoatsSOLD! 14’ Lund (no leaks) complete with seat, rod holder, downrigger, life jacket. First $600 takes. (250)398-2802
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