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By Jackie LieuwenHouston Today

C a n f o r C o r p o r a t i o n announced last week Monday that, subject to rati� cation of the tentative labour agreement between the Company and the United Steelworkers, the Company will make capital

investments totaling approximately $36 million to improve ef� ciency and recovery in its Houston, British Columbia sawmill.

The investment will include upgrades to primary and secondary breakdown lines and advancements in scanning and o p t i m i z a t i o n

technology.“Our newly-

strengthened � bre position in the

Houston region allows us to proceed with this signi� cant investment,” said

Canfor Corporation President and CEO Don Kayne. “These capital improvements

are designed to ensure we are able to operate a world-class facility in Houston for the long term, in all market conditions.”

Canfor Corp. recently announced a � bre exchange agreement with West Fraser Mills Ltd. which, when concluded, will see the Company

add approximately 324,500 cubic metres of replaceable forest licence allowable annual cut in the Morice Timber Supply Area. Since 2010, the Company has invested more than $650 million in modernizing its British Columbia lumber, pulp and paper mills.

What about the HFP site?

Canfor proposes to invest $36 million in Houston sawmill


Over 100 people gathered for the Town Hall information discussing the closure of Houston Forest Products (HFP).

The meeting opened with short speeches from Mayor and council, local MLA John Rustad, West Fraser Operations Manager John Vander Ende, and B.C. Transition Team Director Sarah Fraser. Then the � oor opened to questions.

MLA Rustad said one of the things the province has been working on since the announcement of the HFP closure is marketing the HFP site to investors.

“There is tremendous economic opportunities for the future in terms of the projects that are happening across the province, particularly through the north.

“The major projects

inventory list that we have for the province is about $185 million in potential projects that are looking to move forward in B.C.” Rustad said.

He said they are working to make sure that investors - from Liqui� red Natural Gas (LNG) to a wide range of other companies looking to start projects in B.C.- know about the HFP site.

Rustad said a number of interests have been expressed, but he could not give details at this time.

““It’s a very good site

and there is significant

interest in it.” - MLA John Rustad

““To ensure we are able to operate a world-class facility in Houston for the long term.”

- Canfor President and CEO Don Kayne

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Houston coun-cil met with Canfor CEO Don Kayne in Houston last week Monday to dis-cuss their plans for Houston.

Kayne announced last week Monday that Canfor is planning to invest $36 million to upgrade the Houston sawmill, subject to the completed labour agreement with United Steelworkers.

“It just shows that they see Houston as a � agship mill… they’re investing, their future is here, so that’s good,” said Councillor Jonathan Van Barneveld.

Deputy Mayor Shane Brienen said it’s tough to say how he felt about the an-nouncement.

“It’s tough [be-cause] whenever they upgrade, it means that a few jobs will be lost, but then it makes them more competitive,” Brienen said.

He said that during the previous economic downturn, Houston Canfor was able to work through most of it because of their ef-� ciency level, while a lot of other mills were shutting down or tak-ing long downtime pe-riods.

“It’s better if you’re more ef� cient. I would say overall [the up-grades are] probably a good thing. It’s not very nice when you lose a few more jobs, but it’s just the nature of how the industry’s going right now,” he said.

When asked wheth-er Kayne said jobs would be lost with the upgrades, Brienen said no. “They talked about the money they’re put-ting in,” he said.

“Usually when someone improves ef� ciency, it means layoffs [but] I can’t speak for Canfor,” Van Barneveld said.

He said the meet-ing was more to con-nect with Canfor in the wake of the HFP closure announcement

and start a dialogue with them.

“We just wanted to catch up with Canfor and hear from their end what their plans were going forward,” Brienen said.

“We talked about the extra volume they had and what they plan to do with that and it sounds like they plan to process it at the Houston mill,” Brienen said.

He said one con-cern council raised was for the local logging contractors with HFP closing.

“There’s all those loggers, and there is going to be less wood for them to log, so we asked [Canfor] what they’re going to do there.

“We expressed on our side that the soon-er we heard, the nicer it would be for our community because of the uncertainty,” Brienen said.

Brienen said it seemed that the delay in information is not because they didn’t want to let people know, but it’s that they are still ironing out their plans.

“We’re hoping that as soon as they know, they’ll let us and the loggers know,” he said.

Van Barneveld said they also talked about the Competition Bureau, but they didn’t know the specif-ics about the process.

“I’m surprised that nobody really knows about this process,” he said.

Van Barneveld said they also con-� rmed that Canfor’s willingness to invest in Houston projects. Interested groups can learn about Canfor’s community support and � nd an applica-tion form on their website, at www.can-for.com/responsibility/social/

Reports say that over 90 percent of all United Steelworkers in the Canfor plants combined, voted no to the proposed la-bour agreement. For more, see next week’s Houston Today.

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Council “not happy with where timber is moving”By Jackie Lieuwen

Houston Today

Minister of Forests Steve Thomson is coming to Houston, Mayor Bill Holmberg said after a recent meeting with the Minister in Vancouver.

Mayor Holmberg, Deputy Mayor Shane Brienen and Dave Mayor drove to Vancouver for the meeting Nov. 28, and Councillor Jonathan Van Barneveld took part via conference call.

They met with Minister Thomson, and were joined by MLA John Rustad and Shirley Bond, Minister of Jobs, Tourism, and Skills Training and Minister Responsible for Labour.

“We asked about the Competition Bureau. The licence hasn’t been award-ed yet because the Competition Bureau is still involved,” Holmberg said.

“We’re fighting more for the 280,000 cubic metres [of tim-ber rights] that they want to ship to Pacific Inland Resources (PIR) in Smithers.

“I understand the swap between the two mills, but they should leave the extra 280,000 cubic metres right here, it doesn’t need to go anywhere.

“We want it to go into forest reserve, or go into the small busi-ness program in our Community Forest so that it can stay local.”

“Whether we’re suc-cessful or not, I don’t know,” Holmberg said, adding that Minister Thomson promised to check into it.

“There wasn’t much that came out of that meeting, other then that he agreed to come [to Houston] and see us,” Holmberg said.

MLA John Rustad says the visit will likely be in January.

Reporting to coun-cil last week Tuesday,

Deputy Mayor Shane Brienen said they didn’t get a lot of in-formation.

“It was a frustrat-ing meeting, most of our questions weren’t answered.

“They were a little confused actually about how that timber transfer deal worked. There was a lot of questions that we felt they should have been able to answer that they were not able to,” he said.

Councillor Van Barneveld agreed.

“Not a lot of in-formation was shared, not because they didn’t want to, almost because they didn’t know,” he said.

“When we asked them specifics [about the Competition Bureau], they didn’t really know.

“They didn’t know if the Smithers piece was part of the Competition Bureau process or not, or if

it was just the Canfor piece. They had no idea. We told them to look into it,” he said.

“I don’t know if we made headway,” Brienen said.

“We did let them know that we’re not happy with the deal and we’re not happy with where some of the timber is moving. And we’ll keep work-ing on that, trying to get a bit back for the community somehow,” he said.

Inviting job-creating businesses to townRustad said a

number of interests have been expressed, but he could not give details at this time.

“It’s a very good site and there is some significant interest interest in it,” Rustad said.

Houston Mayor Bill Holmberg said council has been in contact with West Fraser, who is actively looking for someone to buy it. Their hope is that the buyer will be a business that will create lots of jobs, Mayor Holmberg said.

Asked if the District of Houston has any say on who buys the property, Holmberg said no.

“We have no control over that piece of

property,” Holmberg said, adding that the only control they have is over the zoning, which is industrial.

He says that council has been in contact with West Fraser and they hope to have some say in what happens.

John Vander Ende, West Fraser Operations Manager, said they wouldn’t do anything that would have a negative affect on the community.

“West Fraser is concerned about it’s reputation,” he said.

“At the end of the day, we’re not going to hold onto the property, we’re definitely going to sell the property. We’re looking for people that will give everybody the biggest

bang for their buck - and that’s not just West Fraser’s bang for their buck,” he said.

Vander Ende said they’ve been approached by various people, including a number of locals asking if the property could be used for a pipeline staging area. They’ve also been approached by pipeline representatives who indicated interest in the property, he said.

Vander Ende said West Fraser is proud of their companies and of what they represent in the industry and they don’t want things in Houston to end poorly.

Rob Newell, Regional District Director for the

Houston rural area, said he hopes there will be public-private partnerships.

There are people in Houston with money to invest, who should invest it into this town, he said.

“[We should] start up our own industry, rather then depend on people coming in from the outside,” Newell said.

Other questions were raised at the meeting, including several questions about why it was the Houston mill that West Fraser shut down. See next week’s Houston Today for more details about the meeting and for information regarding the Transition Plan from District of Houston.

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contemplate a 28 per cent rate increase over � ve years,

they might want to consider the cost of the crown corporation’s Northwest Transmission Line.

First announced in 2007, the cost was $400 million. Cancelled that fall when a major partner, the Galore Creek mine project was halted because of its own overruns, the line slumbered until of� cially revived in 2009. The cost then was $404 million although of� cials did caution that could change. And change it did, from $561 million to $617 million to $746 million as of this spring.

But wait, there’s more. To qualify for a $130 million federal grant for the transmission line, BC Hydro agreed to provide power to Iskut, north of where the line now stops.

It’s doing so by buying a power line being built by Imperial Metals that will connect the transmission line to its Red Chris mine now under construction. That cost is $52 million plus an additional $5 million to run a smaller line to Iskut off of the Imperial line, leaving open the suggestion the true price of the Northwest Transmission Line is closer to $800 million.

BC Hydro says it will, � ngers crossed, recover the cost of the Northwest Transmission Line from those who use it. We can only hope that does happen for all of this serves as a cautionary tale of big money in a big project backstopped by taxpayers. Remember that when the BC Hydro rate hikes kick in.

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Black swans bring hopeFor the last few

years, every time I talked to my friend Kay Brown, I could see pain in her eyes. The physical suffering she had endured since her whiplash injury 17 years prior had be-come too much for her to manage, and the quality of her life was deteriorating at the same rate as the bone alignment of her dis-eased spine.

As much as she wanted to distract herself with the company of friends, the agony she was in made her withdraw once it became all-consuming. Having normal conversations felt next to impossible.

“I’d be talking to someone, already feel-ing terrible, and sud-denly I’d get a jolt of unbearable pain that I wouldn’t be able to hide,” she explained. It became easier for her to just stay home than to try to be social.

After years of being

told nothing could be done, a surgeon named Dr. Kim in Houston, Texas, said the words she’d been praying to hear: he could � x her.

“I sat across from that nice Asian doc-tor with his cute Texas accent and listened to him tell me that he could immediately eliminate 75 per cent of my pain with an operation he could do in his sleep,” she said. “He claimed the other 25 per cent would di-minish over time. I was in shock.”

Her friends and family were overjoyed at the news, and Kay was hopeful, but she couldn’t wrap her head around the staggering cost.

“A one night stay in the hospital would be $80,000,” she said. “I couldn’t imagine com-ing up with that kind of money on top of the surgery and travel expenses.”

Loved ones urged her to get the opera-

tion and � gure out the � nances later. Her new friends whom she had just met at the hotel in Houston, managed to get the hospital charges decreased. Now $30,000 would be required upfront, and an additional $20,000 afterward.

Within one day some friends back home completely as-tonished her by com-ing up with the hefty loan for the down pay-ment.

Overwhelmed with emotion, Kay laid down on a lounge chair at the hotel. “When I opened my eyes a couple min-utes later, three black swans were beside me,” she said. “They stayed with me for 40 minutes. It felt magi-cal - like some kind of omen. At � rst, I didn’t want to Google the meaning of it, just in case it meant the kiss of death or some-thing.”

According to the

Internet, the black beauties symbolized an epic event. That felt right to Kay. She went ahead and had the op-eration, and it was a huge success.

Talking face to face with my friend is a different experience now. Her eyes still well up easily, not from shooting pain or despair, but from the love and support extended to her by her friends and family, and even complete strangers during her time of need.

Her physical and mental transformation has come at a high price though, and her friends are now trying to help her pay the debt back.

“Kay’s a hard working single mother of three daughters, and a respected business owner in our community,” said Dr. Dave Manns, her friend and chiropractor. “This woman has a heart of

gold. I just hope that we can help her the way she would try to help any of us if the roles were reversed.”

A fundraising event for her is being held on Saturday, December 7th at the Holiday Inn in West Kelowna. Auction items and cash donations are being gratefully accepted, and there are a few tickets left for sale. It is sure to be an epic event. The black swans from Texas con� rmed it.

To donate or read more information see CashMobForKay.com

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Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver assured a Vancouver business audience Wednesday that the federal government is committed to “world class” oil spill preven-tion and response on the B.C. coast.

In a speech to the Vancouver Board of Trade, Oliver stopped short of speci� cally endorsing the 45 rec-ommendations in a new survey of marine and land oil transport safety, but repeated a vow from last sum-mer to make “polluter pays” the law for pipe-lines in Canada.

“There has never been a serious tanker accident on the West Coast,” Oliver said. “Nevertheless, we are committed to building a world-class system to prevent marine accidents. In the unlikely event there is an accident, we need to respond rapidly and comprehensively and make sure the polluter pays, not the taxpayer.”

On Tuesday, Oliver and Transport Minister Lisa Raitt released a report by a tanker safety expert panel chaired by Gordon Houston,

former president of Port Metro Vancouver and Prince Rupert harbourmaster.

The panel’s report calls for adequate funding to the Canadian Coast Guard to make it the lead agency in any oil spill response at sea. Potential polluters and their delegated spill response agencies should be prepared for a “worst case” incident like the Exxon Valdez grounding in Alaska in 1989, the report says.

B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak said it remains to be

seen if Ottawa will take the necessary steps to meet the province’s conditions for approving new heavy oil pipelines. A federal review panel is due to issue recommendations by the end of December on whether the Enbridge Northern Gateway proposal for a double pipeline from northern Alberta to Kitimat should be allowed to proceed.

The federal report looks only at current traf� c, including crude and other petroleum products. It identi-� es the south end of

Vancouver Island and the adjacent coast, including Vancouver harbour, as being at “very high risk due to the large volumes of vessel traf� c and bulk oil movements that oc-cur within close prox-imity of environmen-tally sensitive areas.”

That is the region where Alaska crude oil tankers enter the Strait of Juan de Fuca to reach Washington state re� neries, and the oil tanker exclusion zone ends. Between 30 and 60 tankers a year � lled with crude oil or diluted bitu-men also sail out from

the Kinder Morgan Canada oil terminal at Burnaby through the same waters.

Traf� c from Burnaby would in-crease to about one tanker per day if Kinder Morgan’s proposed twin-ning of its Trans Mountain pipeline from Alberta pro-ceeds. Currently 30 to 60 tankers a year load at the Westridge Terminal in Burnaby.

The tanker exclu-sion zone, a voluntary agreement between Canada and the U.S., extends 200 nautical miles west from the

northern tip of Haida Gwaii to southern Vancouver Island. The federal report rates oil spill risk as “medium” on the northern and southern ends of the exclusion zone, and low in the central por-tion.

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Editor: Alberta Premier

Alison Redford and B.C. Premier Christy Clark have reached an agreement on moving oil through the two provinces.

Clark’s previous sticking point about wanting a share of Alberta’s oil royalties was apparently a non-starter. Alberta is giv-ing their oil away for only $2 – $8 per bar-rel. This is less than nothing when you consider that crude oil

currently sells for over $80 per barrel and be-fore 2004, when the oil companies were still hugely profitable, oil sold for under $40.

In a hundred years, all Alberta’s oil will be gone and they’ll just have massive amounts of toxic waste to clean up with their remaining royalty money.

Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are always advertising that they are taking all possible steps to

minimize the risks of the pipelines. As it stands though, their plans for minimizing spill risk is to fill each outgoing pipeline and oil tanker 30 per cent full of solvent and make it carry about 20 per cent raw tar sand waste – this will double the amount of traffic that would be needed to carry refined oil and double the number of spills.

On top of that, the incoming tankers will be returning the 30

per cent solvent to be piped and shipped in future loads, creating the possibility of a massive toxic tanker spill (and pipeline spill) in both directions instead of just one.

Overall, this increases the spill risk by about 4X instead of piping and shipping refined oil. And yet all the marketing slicks say repeatedly that they are doing ‘Everything Possible’ to be safe.

Let’s be clear, Enbridge and Kinder Morgan are in the pipeline business and will double their own profits if they unnecessarily double the amount of pipelines and quadruple the spill risk at the same time.

CNOOC and Sino-pec, the Chinese state owned oil companies that will be transport-ing their oil through the pipelines, are only really concerned about making more

money for China. If they quadruple the spill risk but add a few million extra dollars to China’s GDP, they will be happy.

The tar sands will then be refined in China probably us-ing coal-fired energy, making the final prod-ucts by far the filthi-est green house gas source on the planet.

It would be much better for the planet if the tar sands were instead even partial-ly refined near their

source in Alberta, or near Fort St. John before crossing hun-dreds of rivers in B.C.

This could be done using clean energy from Site C and would cut the spill risk by about 75 per cent.

With the sawmill closures in Quesnel and Houston, there will be more than enough skilled labor to run an efficient refinery.

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Stranded trapper rescued from Morice LakeBy Jackie Lieuwen

Houston Today

A trapper on Morice Lake was rescued Dec. 3 after being thrown from his boat, swimming to shore, and sending a signal for help through his satellite GPS unit.

Eleven rescuers including Houston RCMP, local residents, Houston Search and Rescue (SAR) and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO), found the trapper at 2:15 a.m. Dec. 3, ten hours

after he sent the signal for help through his SPOT GPS unit.

“He survived because he was prepared,” said RCMP Sergeant Stephen Rose.

“He had requisite clothing to keep him safe on a boat and to keep him dry. He was equipped with a lighter to start a � re, and he had a GPS device, through which he was able to send a signal to ask for help, and he stayed put after making it to shore and waited to be rescued,” Sgt. Rose said.

The SPOT unit was activated at 3:45 p.m. Dec. 2, sending a 9-1-1 call to police.

Sgt. Rose says police determined the terrain using the GSP coordinates and contacted the local SAR and residents who had a boat and

knowledge of the remote area around Morice Lake.

Facing overnight temperatures of -20 degrees, strong

winds and complete darkness, the rescuers made their way to Morice Lake where a rescue effort was launched, said a recent RCMP press release.

After several hours on the water, rescuers reached the GPS coordinates provided by SPOT and found the trapper on shore, wet but in good health.

The trapper was brought back to Houston, where

he demonstrated his appreciation by sharing breakfast with the rescuers.

The boat, in decent shape, was later found

on the opposite side of the lake through a helicopter search.

“This is a great example of an avid outdoorsman who ran into trouble in the wilderness but had the equipment and clothing to keep himself safe until help arrived,” Sgt. Rose said.

“Obviously we as the police played the role of arranging and facilitating and going to assist in the rescue,

but really it came down to the locals who were familiar with the area and had the requisite equipment to get us as the rescuers into the

area. “They deserve all

the kudos,” he said. “It demonstrates

the tenacity of our Search and Rescue group and the willingness of local residents to help emergency services offer help to someone during their time of need.

“The willingness of local residents to risk their own lives to save another is outstanding!”

““He survived because he was prepared.”

- RCMP Sergeant Stephen Rose

I would like to thank the Houston R.C.M.P., Houston Search and Rescue, and Department of Fisheries and Oceans

for all their help and hard work when it was needed.Words cannot express our gratitude for all you’ve done

and went through to bring a happy ending to a bad situation.

We especially would like to thank...

Kevin McKenzieBob Niven

Gerard EdmondsFrank McDonald

Rick StevensClayton Edmonds

Wendall EwaldTim VanLeeuwenGreg MacLeod

James D’Andrea Mike Murphy

Thank you also to all others involved and to all who supported everyone in prayer.

Doug & Kathy

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Photo submitted A red pickup hit the ditch on Highway 16 near Barrett Station Road at 6:55 p.m. Dec. 3. Sgt. Rose says the driver claimed they hit black ice, and the damage to the vehicle was estimated at $10,000, but the driver was not injured.


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A blue car hit the ditch on Highway 16 near Summit Lake Road at 10:20 p.m. Dec. 3. Sgt. Rose says the driver allegedly hit black ice and was not injured, but the damage to the vehicle was estimated at $5,000.

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***In the past seven

days police dealt with nine other traffic complaints, two false alarms, one abandoned 9-1-1, and one bylaw complaint.

Photo submittedA driver hit the ditch at 4 p.m. Dec. 3, claiming to have hit black ice on Highway 16 near Barrett Station Road. Sgt. Rose says the vehicle was significantly damaged and the driver was not injured.

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SHOP MECHANICThe KDL Group is accepting applications for Shop Mechanic. Interested candidates must be dedicated, energetic with an aptitude to learn. Preferences will be given to Certified Mechanics, and or second/third year apprentices. Experienced with logging trucks will be considered an asset. Candidates must poses a valid BC driver’s license and have resource road driving experience.

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Skeena Sawmills Ltd is a forest products company located in Terrace, BC operating a sawmill and a related woodlands operations. We currently have openings in the following positions:

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The Houston Legion Branch 249: Meeting: 2nd Mon. of the month is Executive, 4th Mon. is General Meeting.Seniors Bingo is every Tues. at 7:00pm at Cottonwood Manor. Entry is $1. Come out & enjoy a fun prize filled evening. Lots of prizes!

TopleyTopley Volunteer Fire Dept. meetings every 2nd Tues. of the month at 7:30 pm. Fire practices every Thurs. at 7:30pm. Structural Firefighting/Hwy Rescue. Interested? Top-ley Volunteer Fire Dept. is accepting applications. No experience necessary please contact Byron - F/C 250-696-3348 or come to a fire practice: Thurs. @ 1930 hrs (7:30pm)

GranisleGranisle and District Seniors meetings are the 2nd and 4th Thurs. of each month at 1:00pm in the Se-niors Centre. Granisle Volunteer Fire Department meetings & fire practices every Tues., 7:00pm at the Fire Hall.Granisle Church of the Way services are Sun., 11:00am Bible study is Thurs. at 7:00pm.

Please keep your announcements as brief as possible. Deadline (faxed or mailed or delivered) is 4 p.m. Thursday. Items are printed or alternated as space permits. Items will be accepted via fax, email or dropped at the office. No phone calls please. More calendar items are listed online and can be submitted or viewed at www.houston-today.com

Free curling. Part of Sports Day in Canada, the Houston Curling Club is putting on a “Curling Try It Out” week. Drop in with clean shoes at the curling rink on Thurs 2:30 or Fri. or Sat. at 7 p.m. and do some curling or learn from a curling instructor. Aerotek is hosting an open information session for skilled trades people who may be interested in upcoming industrial construction projects across Western Canada. Aerotek representatives will be at the Houston Public Library on Dec 12: noon - 7 p.m. in the Canfor Room. No appointments necessary - just drop in.Houston Public Library - Story Time – Wed: 1:30-2:30pm Free for children ages 0 to 5 with a parent or caregiver. For more info on the above event or to register, please call the Houston Public Library at 250-845-2256.Christmas Praise & Fellowship Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:30 p.m. at the Houston Canadian Reformed Church (Avalon subdivision).Houston Cutloose Quilters meet Jan 12 for a Quilters Day-Out in the Houston Library’s Canfor room. Call

Mary at 845-2668 or Pam at 845-2573 for more information. Holiday Light Up Contest - Show your community spirit by entering the Holiday light up contest. $50.00 Houston Merchant Gift Certificates to the winner of each category. The categories are as follows: Business, Rural, East side of Houston (East side of Buck Creek), West side of Houston (West side of Buck Creek). Nominations accepted until Dec 12, 2013. Forms can be dropped off at Bulkley Valley Home Centre, Reitsma’s Home Hardware and the Houston & District Chamber of Commerce. Judging will take place on Dec 13, 2013 and the winners announced in the Dec 24, 2013 edition of the Houston Today. Free guitar lessons. Drop in beginners guitar lessons at the Houston Public Library 3:30 to 5 p.m. offered in partnership with NWCC, Houston Link to Learning, and the Public Library. Anyone with questions call NWCC at 250-845-7266. Grief support group presented by the Houston Hospice Society. There are trained facilitators; and it is a 10 week course with two hour sessions. It will start when there are enough participants. To register call: 250-845-4921 or email: houston [email protected] Houston Dart League is Sat. evenings at 7:30pm. upstairs at the Houston Curling Club. Blind doubles games.

Houston Public Library - Community Place project: Bulkley Valley Credit Union donated $817.54 to assist with the purchase of gaming consoles and systems and two games for the Community Place project. Their project is geared towards providing a variety of events for the local community youth; pizza nights, movie nights and games nights. These events support youth and adults alike. Pizza night and movie nights bring in up to 30 youth. Contact the Houston Public Library for more information on their programs 250-845-2256.Re/Max Houston

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• 4 bedroom family home located with in walking distance to the Silverthorne Elementary School, arena, pool and shopping.• Upgrades include a new roof in 2005, newer wood stove, paint, fencing around yard.• Fully fi nished basement includes a large rec room, laundry, 4th bedroom and a bathroom.• Quick possession available. Call Lia to view today!

• Older mobile with large addition on just over 5 acres located minutes from town. Recent electrical inspection.• Several outbuildings including one that is 20 x 28 and one 14 x 20.• Lots of room to park. Nice mountain views and most of the property is cleared.• Nicely landscaped with a greenhouse and raised garden beds.• New water treatment system on the well.• Laminate fl oors in living room, dining room and hallway.• 2 spacious bedrooms and potential for another one. Most windows replaced.• Nice covered sundeck to enjoy year round barbequing!• Fridge, stove, washer, dryer included.

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Sport Utility Vehicle2008 CHEVROLET Equinox AWD. Power windows and locks, Air Conditioning, cruise control only 95230 km. Asking 16900 obo. Call (250) 845-8785.

Trucks & Vans1956 INTERNATIONAL R160 fl atdeck $1500. 1997 Chevro-let Silverado 2500 Supercab 4x4: 5.7 litre turbo diesel, leather, 4” lift, headache rack, box liner, 300,000 km. $2500. 1995 Chevrolet Silverado SLT, 2500 s/c long box, 4x4: 6.5 li-tre turbo diesel, leather, 4” lift, headache rack, box liner, 300,000 km. $3000. 1994 Ford F350 Crewcab, 4x4 (ambu-lance): 5.8 litre gas, box liner, trailer package, 190,000, new all season tires. $3000. Con-tact Johnny Johnson at(250) 692-0021 or [email protected] for further infor-mation.

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• 3 bedroom, 1680 sq. ft. rancher on 5.62 acres minutes from town.• Awesome 24’x24’ detached garage/shop.• 21’x48’ RV storage, 20’6x49’ storage building plus another smaller shed/ work shop.• Tons of parking, outside wood boiler that heats the house and garage.• Major updates to the house including roof, siding, windows and a large addition and sundeck. Drilled well.• 10 foot ceiling in bright spacious living room, of� ce and hobby room.• Huge country kitchen. All appliances included. Call Lia to view!

• 4 bedroom family home located with in walking distance to the Silverthorne Elementary School, arena, pool and shopping.• Upgrades include a new roof in 2005, newer wood stove, paint, fencing around yard.• Fully � nished basement includes a large rec room, laundry, 4th bedroom and a bathroom.• Quick possession available. Call Lia to view today!

• Older mobile with large addition on just over 5 acres located minutes from town. Recent electrical inspection.• Several outbuildings including one that is 20 x 28 and one 14 x 20.• Lots of room to park. Nice mountain views and most of the property is cleared.• Nicely landscaped with a greenhouse and raised garden beds.• New water treatment system on the well.• Laminate � oors in living room, dining room and hallway.• 2 spacious bedrooms and potential for another one. Most windows replaced.• Nice covered sundeck to enjoy year round barbequing!• Fridge, stove, washer, dryer included.

$269,000

$129,900

$159,900

$114,900

LOOK NO FARTHER!

WANTED… ONE HAPPY FAMILY!

AFFORDABLE RURAL LIVING!!

CUTE & COZY!

NEW LISTING!

• Great starter home or rental investment.• 1080 square foot rancher on a 1/3 acre lot.• 3 bedrooms, spacious living room.• Updated bathroom. Most all windows have been replaced with vinyl windows. Two covered decks as well as a patio.• 12x20 storage shed, clothesline. Backs on to a � eld.• Nice quiet spot yet close to all town amenities.• Stove, washer, dryer and windows coverings included.

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The Houston Legion Branch 249: Meeting: 2nd Mon. of the month is Executive, 4th Mon. is General Meeting.Seniors Bingo is every Tues. at 7:00pm at Cottonwood Manor. Entry is $1. Come out & enjoy a fun prize filled evening. Lots of prizes!

TopleyTopley Volunteer Fire Dept. meetings every 2nd Tues. of the month at 7:30 pm. Fire practices every Thurs. at 7:30pm. Structural Firefighting/Hwy Rescue. Interested? Top-ley Volunteer Fire Dept. is accepting applications. No experience necessary please contact Byron - F/C 250-696-3348 or come to a fire practice: Thurs. @ 1930 hrs (7:30pm) GranisleGranisle and District Seniors meetings are the 2nd and 4th Thurs. of each month at 1:00pm in the Se-niors Centre. Granisle Volunteer Fire Department meetings & fire practices every Tues., 7:00pm at the Fire Hall.Granisle Church of the Way services are Sun., 11:00am Bible study is Thurs. at 7:00pm.

Please keep your announcements as brief as possible. Deadline (faxed or mailed or delivered) is 4 p.m. Thursday. Items are printed or alternated as space permits. Items will be accepted via fax, email or dropped at the office. No phone calls please. More calendar items are listed online and can be submitted or viewed at www.houston-today.com

Free curling. Part of Sports Day in Canada, the Houston Curling Club is putting on a “Curling Try It Out” week. Drop in with clean shoes at the curling rink on Thurs 2:30 or Fri. or Sat. at 7 p.m. and do some curling or learn from a curling instructor. Aerotek is hosting an open information session for skilled trades people who may be interested in upcoming industrial construction projects across Western Canada. Aerotek representatives will be at the Houston Public Library on Dec 12: noon - 7 p.m. in the Canfor Room. No appointments necessary - just drop in.Houston Public Library - Story Time – Wed: 1:30-2:30pm Free for children ages 0 to 5 with a parent or caregiver. For more info on the above event or to register, please call the Houston Public Library at 250-845-2256.Christmas Praise & Fellowship Sunday, December 22, 2013 7:30 p.m. at the Houston Canadian Reformed Church (Avalon subdivision).Houston Cutloose Quilters meet Jan 12 for a Quilters Day-Out in the Houston Library’s Canfor room. Call

Mary at 845-2668 or Pam at 845-2573 for more information. Holiday Light Up Contest - Show your community spirit by entering the Holiday light up contest. $50.00 Houston Merchant Gift Certificates to the winner of each category. The categories are as follows: Business, Rural, East side of Houston (East side of Buck Creek), West side of Houston (West side of Buck Creek). Nominations accepted until Dec 12, 2013. Forms can be dropped off at Bulkley Valley Home Centre, Reitsma’s Home Hardware and the Houston & District Chamber of Commerce. Judging will take place on Dec 13, 2013 and the winners announced in the Dec 24, 2013 edition of the Houston Today. Free guitar lessons. Drop in beginners guitar lessons at the Houston Public Library 3:30 to 5 p.m. offered in partnership with NWCC, Houston Link to Learning, and the Public Library. Anyone with questions call NWCC at 250-845-7266. Grief support group presented by the Houston Hospice Society. There are trained facilitators; and it is a 10 week course with two hour sessions. It will start when there are enough participants. To register call: 250-845-4921 or email: houston [email protected] Houston Dart League is Sat. evenings at 7:30pm. upstairs at the Houston Curling Club. Blind doubles games.

Donation of $5,000 to the District of Houston for Lighting Upgrades to the Claude Parish Memorial Arena

The District of Houston completed lighting upgrades at the Claude Parish Memorial Arena. Tower Communications was awarded the contract; the upgrades were completed in September. By switching the light fixtures it is expected that the DOH will use 40,526 less Kwh per year and recognize a savings of almost $4,000 in electricity costs.

In addition to the energy and cost benefits, the lighting has greatly enhanced the lighting in the arena making hockey, figure skating, and public skating more enjoyable for participants and spectators alike.


Carol Fest

Top left: Ben Williams, grade 10 Houston Secondary Student, sang along with 22 other HSS students at the Smithers Carol Fest last week Wednesday.

Below left: Tyrell McEwen, grade 7 Silverthorne student, sings “Holly and Ivy and Evergreen” with his classmates at the annual Carol Fest. Twenty-nine students from Silverthorne took part in the annual event last week Wednesday.

Right: Brianna Corfe from Twain Sullivan Elementary sings her heart out at the Carol Fest.

Nearly 250 people came out to the All Nations Feast at the Houston Community Hall last Thursday. Above, Darren George, Wing Chief of the Wet’suwet’en Laksilyu clan, opened the event sharing how First Nations have practiced goodwill between clans. Participants discussed their experiences of goodwill in Houston, and enjoyed a great salmon feast prepared by Houston Love by the Bowl Soup kitchen, bottom left, and served by the HSS girls rugby team. The evening closed with a performance from a Wet’suwet’en drumming troop, who sang two traditional Wet’suwet’en songs. It was a very positive event, bringing together people from many different backgrounds to discuss the goodwill that exists in Houston.

All Nations Feast

Ryan Jensen photos/Black Press

Jackie Lieuwen photos/Houston Today

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