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February 04, 2015 edition of the Kitimat Northern SentinelTRANSCRIPT
Hit and run leaves truck in the drink.
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Blues duo touching down in Kitimat.
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Winterfest 2015A few more slices of tourtiere (meat pie), please? The AFFNO Winterfest celebration arrived the week of January 22, with a social, a dance, and a hearty brunch at the Riverlodge to cap it off. This second year of Winterfest’s return was a good one. More on page 8.
On a mission for the dogsCameron Orr
Kitimat Councillor Claire Rattée, now in her third full month in local gov-ernment, is already aiming for changes to bene� t one of the lesser remembered local constituents: dogs.
More speci� cally Rattée is looking ahead at a goal to get a dog park installed somewhere in town.
A dog owner herself, Rattée has felt the need for a dedicated dog park since she moved to Kitimat approximately three years ago. She was impressed with the recreational opportunities in Kitimat but was bothered by no dog park.
“I realized so many people around here have dogs,” she said. “I think now more so than ever before people are thinking of them as their children, I know that’s how I am.”
Rattée has two pit bulls and her own personal problem is that it’s hard to let them run free due to some people’s fear of the breed given their stereotype of
being aggressive.“I own two pitbulls, so for me it’s re-
ally dif� cult because there is a huge stig-ma attached to them and my dogs are the sweetest things in the world but people don’t get to know them,” she said.
She’s had to make special allowanc-es to get them outside to burn off their energy.
“I started taking them out at two in the morning to the Nechako school � eld because that was the easiest thing I could do because there was no one around to get mad at me for them being off-leash,” she said.
Other bene� ts to the general pub-lic in having a dog park is being able to keep resources around for people to clean up after their pets, which some pet owners don’t do when walking around town with their animals.
Rattée also believes establishing a dog park in Kitimat shouldn’t come at any great expense.
That said, she knows it’s not likely to get a dog park for Kitimat this year as the budget is in its � nal stretch for adop-tion.
The issue of the dog park will come up at the next Leisure Services Advisory Committee for discussion.
Among the questions that are still being answered is whether a park is bet-ter suited up the hill or down the hill.
Of course the discussion has left some people asking her why not just use places like Radley Park or Hirsch Creek park.
Her answer is those places just aren’t as accessible.
“I don’t want to walk to Radley or Hirsch with my dog and I certainly don’t want them in the car when they’re mud-dy afterwards,” she said. Having places in town will just make it universally ac-cessible for pet owners, she said.
“I think it will resolve a lot of issues.”
Sentencing soon for convicted killerMargaret Speirs
The two-day sentencing hearing for a man convicted of killing a Kitimat woman and attempt-ing to murder her husband in 2011 ended without a sentence but with the victim and defendant shar-ing their feelings on the stand.
On October 9, 2011, around 7 a.m., Kitimat RCMP were called to a residence in the Whitesail area for an alleged break and enter with assault, whereby of� cers found a man and woman who had been assaulted and were in need of immediate medical help, said police in a release at that time.
Both went to hospital in Kitimat where the woman died from her injuries and the man had surgery and was listed in stable condition, report-ed police.
Tyler Scott Eli, then 19, was initially charged with second degree murder, aggravated assault and break and enter into a dwelling house to com-mit an indictable offence.
A charge of attempted murder was later added.His trial took place over periods of time in
May, June and August, 2014.On November 5, 2014, Judge Punnett found
Eli guilty of second degree murder, attempted murder and the break and enter. The charge of ag-gravated assault was stayed by the court.
On Jan. 29, 2014, Gualter Rego read his vic-tim impact statement to the court in an emotional voice.
He described his wife as a nurturing mother, respectful daughter, kind aunt, niece, cousin, co-worker, mentor, cherished friend to many, a proud grandmother, who always had a smile on her face.
She was his soulmate, best friend, love of his life, wife and partner and they’d raised two chil-dren, he said.
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Police searching for dirt bikers at golf courseJanuary 19A caller report-
ed dirt bikes riding through the Hirsch Creek golf club grounds, worried about the potential damage given the wet weath-er. Police conducted patrols but could not locate the bikes, and were told by a witness they were seen head-ing towards the high school. No suspects have yet been found.
A dead moose was reported block-ing the highway at 7 p.m. The moose had been removed from
the road by the time police arrived, and it was noted that it seems a vehicle had struck it. There was no sign of a vehicle nearby and no report of a a collision was made.
January 20At 1 a.m. a neigh-
bour called police worried after hearing banging and yelling from a nearby home. Police arrived and did not find any signs of distress, and warned the home owner of the town’s noise by-law.
At 4 p.m. the po-lice were called on an
assault file on Mallard Street. Police located the victim of the al-leged assault, and the person told police he was attacked and had some money and his snacks stolen. The person could not iden-tify the assailants. The person was treated for minor injuries. The file is still under investiga-tion.
January 21At 6:30 p.m. the
police were called on a report of an assault with a weapon on Al-batross Street. The investigation found
the complainant had allegedly been hit on the head with a pair of pliers by a man who is known to him. Police arrested the suspect a short time later at a home after receiving a disturbance complaint. The 32-year-old resi-dent of Kitimat faces charges of assault with a weapon and was re-leased on strict condi-tions.
Police conducting a curfew check on a youth found the person not home, and are rec-ommending charges of failing to comply with
an undertaking.January 22At 11:30 p.m. po-
lice were called on a report of a woman on the ground on Al-batross Avenue. The woman, police learned, had just been released from the hospital and was suffering pain. The person was taken to their home where a person was home to take care of her.
January 23A pair of work
boots were stolen from the lunchroom at the Kitimat Moderniza-tion Camp. No sus-
pects have been identi-fied.
January 25At 6 p.m. the po-
lice were called to a collision on Highway 37, about 20km out of town. A pick-up truck heading north hit a moose. The driver and passenger were not injured, however the moose died. The vehi-
cle suffered moderate damage.
An officer spot-ted a driver speeding at 100km/h on Haisla Boulevard and pulled the vehicle over, re-sulting in an excessive speeding ticket for go-ing 40km/h over the posted limited, and the vehicle was impound-ed for a week.
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Kitimatian joins NWCC boardThere are some new faces around the
Northwest Community College board table, with the appointment of three new members.
Paul Bjorn and Lucy Praught, both of Terrace, and Devrie Lapointe, of Kitimat, were appointed as governors on the board by the provincial lieutenant-governor in council on Dec. 19, 2014 to terms that expire Dec. 31, 2015.
They join the five sitting board mem-bers, Judy Carlick-Pearson from Prince
Rupert, vice-chair Tom Euverman from Houston, chair Herb Pond from Prince Rupert, Gurvinder Randhawa from Prince Rupert and Donny van Dyk from Terrace (now lives in Kitimat).
Lapointe is a board member of the Kitimat Rotary Club and the co-ordina-tor of regional economic development for Rio Tinto Alcan’s Kitimat aluminum smelter modernization project.
Bjorn’s biography lists him as trea-surer for the Rotary Club of Terrace-
Skeena Valley and branch manager of McElhanney Consulting Services Lim-ited.
Praught, a graduate of NWCC and UNBC, is principal and CEO of Spirit Strategies Limited, a community engage-ment and economic development firm.
The three fill seats left vacant when former chair and Prince Rupert resident Rhoda Witherly, and board members Carol Fielding, Nika Collison and Adrian Carlick stepped down.
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The parade for budget pre-approvals continues, but a request for a new fire depart-ment pick-up truck — which would be used for emergency call outs too — had one council-lor making contrasts to other budget pre-approvals.
Councillor Claire Rattée was in the midst of arguing in favour of the purchase, which would pre-approve money from the Dis-trict of $52,000 for an operations truck to re-place the 16 year old one already in service. The money would come from the fire de-partment’s vehicle re-serve fund.
The early expendi-ture wasn’t necessar-ily fought but Mario Feldhoff didn’t see the spending as an emer-gency and wanted to weigh it with the en-tirety of the budget too.
Rattée, however, fired back, referring to an approval already
granted, unanimously on January 12, for an expense of $20,000 for hanging baskets.
That expense was requested, and ap-proved, due to the Dis-trict of Kitimat’s staff’s recommendation that to wait until the bud-get was finalized to approve the spending would mean they miss their window to get flowers in the baskets for 2015.
Regardless of time lines though, Rattée felt that, given what council has already ap-proved, a new vehicle for the fire department was higher in impor-tance.
“No one had a problem with pre-approving $20,000 for hanging baskets,” she said. “We’re talk-ing about our fire re-sponse here.”
Fire Chief Trent Bossence said the truck is used for travel by fire department staff and would be equipped
with emergency lights and decals for respond-ing to emergencies.
He has a very simi-lar vehicle already in service which he uses for work travel.
The $52,000 bud-get request would in-clude $10-$12,000 in additional improve-ments to the vehicle.
(namely the addition of lights and sirens and other items.)
Rattée also defend-ed the spending saying it comes from the fire department’s vehicle reserve fund, designed exactly for vehicle re-placements such as this.
But money isn’t
necessarily just there for the taking, argued Feldhoff.
“At the end of the day those vehicles have to stand in competi-tion for all the other demands put on this community,” he said, saying money in the reserves can easily be moved around for oth-er purposes.
“I don’t see why we can’t wait another month or so to fin-ish the remainder of our budget,”’ he said. “[I’m] concerned that we’re being asked for pre-approval on something that would appear not to be an emergency.”
Councillor Larry Walker sided with Feldhoff, especially to his comments that by pre-approving so much of the budget the coun-cil may be “painting ourselves in to a cor-ner.”
Despite the argu-ments, the fire depart-ment received its pre-
budget approval.Edwin Empinado,
Walker and Feldhoff voted against the ex-pense, while the re-
maining councillors, Mary Murphy, Rattée, Rob Goffinet and May-or Phil Germuth, voted in favour.
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In the wake of developments from AltaGas on Douglas Chan-nel LNG (see page 5), the Haisla-owned Cedar LNG are also saying they’re confident in reaching a fi-nal investment decision by the end of 2016.
Cedar LNG is, like Douglas Channel LNG, a proposed barge-based liquefaction plant for natural gas in Kitimat.
“We continue to be optimistic that we will achieve our target of reaching FID on Phase 1 of the proj-ect by the latter part of 2016,” said Dave LaVallie, Cedar LNG CEO through a press release.
“Unlike other projects, because the Haisla Nation is the owner of Cedar LNG, the ultimate decision to proceed with the project will take into account not only economic con-siderations but also environmental, cultural and social concerns,” he continued. “This is one of the sig-nificant benefits of ownership for a
First Nation.”The Cedar LNG proposal is
being undertaken with partner Go-lar LNG, which has its expertise in LNG shipping and floating storage.
The project, in its first phase, anticipates two floating liquefaction units, with a total export capacity of five million tonnes a year.
Three applications for export permit licences have been sought from the National Energy Board for the project, and sites along the Douglas Channel have been identi-fied, the company says.
Council talks fire, flowers, and buying power“No one had a problem with pre-
approving $20,000 dollars for hanging baskets.”
Possible cougar sighting
Haisla’s planned Cedar LNG project still in picture
The Kitimat RCMP warned of a possible cougar sighting on January 22.
An off-duty officer spotted what appeared to be a cougar in the middle of Lahakas Boulevard at Cormorant Avenue, at around 9 p.m. The Con-
servation Officer Service was noti-fied and will monitor for any more sightings in the area.
Police are reminding residents to keep their animals on a leash at all times within the city limits, unless in specified off-leash areas.
Replacement arrivesOn January 29, District of Kitimat crews were reinstalling a light pole at the Haisla and Lahakas Boulevard intersection. A temporary half-pole, which holds up a left turn signal, had been installed following a traffic accident late last summer and the permanent replacement arrived recently. Traffic was directed by flaggers during the install.
“The ultimate decision to proceed with the project will take into account
not only economic considerations but also
environmental.”
HateThe Terrace
RCMP are inves-tigating an online comment made on the website for the Northern Sentinel’s sister paper, the Ter-race Standard.
The comment, which makes de-rogatory comments about First Nations, appeared briefly through a posting by a Facebook user called Howie Boake to an online Terrace Standard article Jan. 27.
Following the widespread sharing of the post, Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth the City of Terrace Mayor Carol Leclerc and regional district Chair Stacey Tyers issued a joint state-ment, saying “In light of a recent online comment...we would like to emphasize our belief that racism has no place in our soci-ety, including online.”
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“You won’t recognize Canada when I’m through with it,” Prime Min-ister Stephen Harper is often quoted as saying. Opponents frequently refer to this quote. I’m not sure that he ever did utter these words. I can’t � nd them au-thoritatively attributed anywhere.
But even if he didn’t, I believe he enjoys taking credit for it.
I know he’s not yet “through with Canada,” to the dismay of people who already don’t recognize the country, as his government has shaped it.
My bleat today is that federal ap-proval by Canada’s Competition Board of the $12 billion takeover of the “Ca-nadian” Tim Horton’s coffee chain by Brazilian-US-owned Burger King, was couched in terms of � rm requirements to protect the jobs of Canadians who work in the coffee shops.
Unfortunately the protection was not extended to head and regional of-� ce employees, many of whom spent their working lives building the iconic chain into a desirable acquisition.
Although described as “left-lean-ing” the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives forecast on Oct. 30, last year, it “feared massive layoffs and
strict cost cutting at Tim Hortons when Burger King’s parent company com-pleted its takeover of the doughnut chain.”
It released a scathing review of 3G Capital’s past takeovers, concluding the Brazilian private equity � rm’s track record indicated “overwhelmingly negative consequences for Canadians.”
They weren’t alone as numerous knowledgable Canadians also saw big job losses coming for Canadians, based on the record of 3G’s earlier takeovers. Included in CCPA’s analysis was the assumption the investment company would follow its usual modus ope-randi, which they forecast would force Tim Horton’s to lay off more than 700 employees.
On January 27, about a month after the takeover was concluded, the
new ownership announced a major, but unspeci� ed number of layoffs of Ca-nadian head of� ce and regional of� ce employees but rounded out at close to the numbers projected by CCPA and maybe as high as 2,000.
That’s what I call making the em-ployees pay the bills while you reap the pro� ts.
I think it stinks and the Competi-tion Board knew full well what would happen but chose to protect the outlet employees, thousands of whom are temporary foreign workers. It’s com-mon knowledge the Harper Govern-ment’s approach to TFWs has been all over the map and is a fumbling nation-al nightmare.
Additionally, and shamefully, the way the layoff was handled last week was cold, impersonal, insulting and by my thinking, abusive. Long term em-ployees, some with 30 years invested in Horton’s, were escorted by security from their workplaces and directed to outplacement agencies.
That’s the ruthless approach many moneyed corporations take to this kind of business.
Continued on page 5
The rapidly unrecognizable Canada
SnowmageddonCertainly I’ve said it before and I stand by it,
I’m not keen on ever being a sensationalist when it comes to how I report the news.
That said, a part of me does sigh with longing that other news outlets can get away with sensational weather stories, billing winter storms with expres-sions such as in the headline, Snowmageddon. Ac-tually, being it’s the year 2015, I think I’m legally obligated to call it #Snowmageddon.
You can call it Snowpocalypse, or my own per-sonal twist, Snowtastrophe.
Please just mentally attach the hashtags to those, if you will.
I talk about snow because I woke up on Friday to what should be a reasonable sight, snow falling, heavily.
But given the January we’ve had it was a novelty not to see my yard anymore.
Meteorologists have said it’s an El Nino year, which for us seems to have meant we’re perpetually stuck in April weather, but perhaps that’s changing now with the latest fall.
It’s truly a shame it happens now though, a week after the Winterfest events which required snow for events like the Rail Jam and the toffee on the snow. No toffee this year, unless someone felt like hiking up a nearby mountain.
Of course we all still know what winter should be like. Local freelance writer Robin Rowland put CNN in its place last week as they pulled their “Bliz-zardmobile” out of the garage for a storm that never fully materialized. Their breathless reporting was a comical contrast to Rowland’s own photos showing Kitimat buses merrily making their rounds during a 2012 snow dump.
Our adaptation to winter shouldn’t be done with-out caution though.
Remember the report last week in the paper about the � ve car accidents on the highway? That came even without centimeters upon centimeters of snow. Some rain and a pocket of freezing conditions caused lots of problems.
When I saw snow out of my window on Friday my � rst thought was surprise, but I did quickly wor-ry that there would be some cars off the road in the coming hours.
Despite speed limit signs, drivers are really obli-gated to drive to conditions.
If we’ve spent January becoming accustomed to rain and bare roads, we should be extra cautious in adapting back to snow.
I know you know that we all know to drive care-fully, it’s a given. Practicing things we know is some-times the hard part.
So I close with this: do everyone a favour and drive as little as possible in the snow, car pool as much as you can to reduce the number of cars on the road, and drive like you’re trying to annoy everyone else; slowly and very carefully.
Cameron Orr
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Small-scale Douglas Channel LNG project would lower gas rates for usCameron Orr
The Douglas Channel En-ergy project, a floating LNG plant for Kitimat, which fizzled over the last couple of years, has been reborn under the own-ership of a consortium which includes Pacific Northern Gas parent company AltaGas.
Now the consortium — which is officially called Al-taGas Idemitsu Joint Venture Limited Partnership (AIJVLP) — says they have full owner-ship of the Douglas Channel LNG project and are aiming for a final investment decision on its project by the fourth quar-ter this year, with a forecasted operational date of sometime in 2018.
The project is barge-based, where natural gas will be pro-cessed on the water, and deliv-ered on the PNG line, which notably will directly benefit
individual consumers as it will lower the delivery cost for gas to homes.
The land needed for this proposal, District Lot 99, is along the west side of the chan-nel, and the partners have al-ready secured the site with a long-term lease with the Haisla.
AltaGas’s Director of Fi-nancing and Communications Jess Nieukerk said this project’s direct benefit to the community, or in fact all customers of Pacif-ic Northern Gas, is that by using up the volume capacity on the line, natural gas prices should drop due to a reduced delivery charge.
He said developing the project would require construct-ing an 8km line of pipe from the existing line which would em-ploy up to 50 people.
He said it’s too early to know what the long-term, op-
erational employment numbers would be.
Meanwhile the company is also seeking a new export li-cence, which the previous itera-tion of this project had but has since expired.
Nieukerk said they can either apply for a new one or could petition to have the origi-nal permit amended to include the new partners.
This project could also po-tentially tie in to another Al-taGas proposed project called Triton LNG, which would be built with the same model. The project had been eye-ing locations in Kitimat and Prince Rupert but with Doug-las Channel LNG potentially moving forward the site wouldallow for the simultaneous de-velopment of Triton, which would have a higher export vol-ume as well.
The story of the Prodigal sonThe story of the
Prodigal son is per-haps the most beloved of Jesus’ parables.
Charles Dickens said, “The parable of the Prodigal son is the finest short story ever written.”
As it begins we read about how the younger of two sons goes to his father and demands of him, “Fa-ther, give me the share of property that is com-ing to me.”
What the youngest son asked of his father was completely outra-geous. Inheritances are given to the heirs of an estate once the person dies, but this brash son thought he deserved his inheritance now. How many parents would willingly give a child their inheritance knowing that it will just be squandered, knowing that once it is given it is gone?
This is the position the son put his dad in. But here’s the thing, the father in this par-able isn’t an earthly fa-ther who thinks as we humans do. The father in this parable is our Heavenly Father and His gifts are never held back.
And so we read that the young lad liq-
uidated his assets and moved to a far away country.
It was probably fun for a time, it usually is. While he had money he likely had lots of friends. He was living life in the fast lane, a round for the house, he was the big shot
But soon the mon-ey was gone, and so were all the hangers on. Augustine called this far away land, “Forget-fulness of God.”
How many people have visited that far off place throughout the centuries, how many are there right now? The land of for-getfulness of God is a long way from home. I know this to be true, because the story of the Prodigal is also my story.
Finally the son sinks so low that he even craves the left over corn cobs of the pigs and that is when he realizes that every-thing he truly needed
was in his Father’s house, and he goes home.
Now, we might expect the Father to be a bit cool to the son’s return, but instead we read, “That while the son was still a long way off, his father saw him, and felt compas-sion, and ran and em-braced him and kissed him.”
When the young lad sees his dad run-ning out to him, he in-stinctively knows that all is forgiven. No lec-ture or “I told you so.”
The Prodigal son remained true to form throughout the parable; it is the fa-ther who reacts as we don’t expect. It is all too easy for us to read this parable and think it is about the son, but it isn’t, it is about the Father. It is about the Father who loves us so much that He sent His Son to pay the wages of our sin on the cross so that we might be
saved through simple faith in Him.
Our Heavenly Fa-ther never gives up on us. He stands by the gate searching the ho-rizon for all His chil-dren to come home, where on account of Christ, He forgives us and welcomes us with open arms.
Amen.
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Continued from page 4No more so that the Target pull-out of its 133 stores from the Cana-
dian market, with an unbalanced severance system that wildly profited upper-level decision makers. Target however, affected some 17,000 Ca-nadian workers; at Christmas, too.
Government MPs were basically “still on Christmas holidays” and were not much heard from. Just the same echoing silence as the federal government reaction to the Horton’s layoffs, the Heinz layoffs and even the ongoing oil patch layoffs as oil prices plummet.
Public reaction to the Horton’s announcement ran the gamut from boos to boycotts and some inevitable “I’m all right, Jack” disinterest. But there was general disgust at the methods used.
I know that 3G Capital is hardly the only user of this odious play-book but that emphasizes the recognizable difference between the ruth-less financiers who lack any residual loyalty for those who have shown a career of loyalty to their acquisitions.
To me, the methodology is comparable to the Mafia (“it’s just busi-ness”) or even the Nazis (“I was just following orders”).
People (employees) are just numbers and lower employee numbers mean more money for shareholders.
I, for one, won’t be back in Tim Hortons on personal principle. Oh, I started with Stephen Harper’s quote. Why? Because I don’t
know this Canada. His party and policies will not get my vote in 2015.
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On February 9 many of us will get a nice statutory day off for this one chance to reconnect with our families and spend time with them rather than with our jobs.Kitimat is well positioned to provide a memorable Family Day for you and your family.For starters there’s the free swim at the Sam Lindsay Aquatic Centre on Family Day. With a waterslide and other water spraying installations, the pool is an ideal place to bring your kids to burn off some energy.Some gathering places in Kitimat may be closed for the holiday, but that shouldn’t limit a family with a good imagination.For instance plan ahead a day or so and stop by the Kitimat Public Library to fi nd a movie on DVD or Blu-Ray to watch for a family night on February 9.It’s been an interesting year for weather, which means choices to be made for recreation during the day. If a large drop of snow materializes there is snowshoeing to be had, and you can rent your own from the Riverlodge if you don’t have any hanging out in your garage already.
If the weather maintains its warm and watery self, that just makes some muddy hiking all the more possible. There’s the popular Coho Flats trail as well, which begins at a trail-head on Baxter Avenue, and can take hikers towards Hirsch Creek or even to the Fishermen’s Trail.Just be sure to dress for the weather and have other things on hand for safety such as lights and a cell phone for communication.
If you didn’t plan for a movie night, or wanted to do something a bit earlier, just grab the family and play a board game. Something away from glowing screens can be nice. Bonus points if you get your hands on the Kitimat Adventure board game.Kitimat is a community that thrives on its foundations of family, which makes this a great place to celebrate your Family Day. Rain, shine or snow, there is plenty for you to enjoy.
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That is, the zon-ing and OCP amend-ments required to build the facility, which will later include a hotel and a restaurant, will have worked it’s way to completion.
Leonard Kerkhoff of Kerkhoff Construc-tion said that the com-pany is set on having construction begin as early as March to en-sure it gets the bulk of the work done before the summer in order to avoid unfavourable weather conditions.
Kerkhoff specifi-cally pointed to the Microtel Development opposite Rosario’s Restaurant, comparing that structure to a ‘wet sponge’ due to the heavy rains as work continues, saying he wants to avoid a simi-lar fate for this project.
Some late con-cerns from Kitimat residents came in a question to how vis-ible the developments would be from Alba-tross, as well as how much forest could be lost.
While it’s known that some forest will have to be removed to make way for the apartment buildings and parking areas, a covenant would be signed that formally protects a large swath of the trees.
At the January 26 public hearing on the zoning proposal the District of Kitimat trea-surer, drawing on his expertise as a profes-sional forester, also ad-
dressed concerns about the species of trees that live there, saying the Douglas Firs and other species there are not terribly unique for this area even if they’re a
little north of their usu-al border, and as a for-mer resident of a home overlooking Albatross, he said residents there would not see these apartment units, espe-
cially given that the former hospital could not be seen either.
The Kitimat Traf-fic Committee also took a look at the pro-posal for the land and
the ultimate conclusion was that traffic on the site can be “safely and adequately accommo-dated” by the planned intersections and ac-cess points of the site.
The second and third readings for the Town Centre bylaw have now been passed, leaving only adoption as the final step in con-cluding the process.
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GasLink making plansCameron Orr
As this year unfolds an executive for Trans-Canada’s Coastal GasLink project says Kitimat and other communities along its proposed route will see the project visibly, through open houses and job fairs.
Coastal GasLink is the pipeline planned to service the Shell-led LNG Canada project.
Director for Project Planning Greg Cano said that their project — including start dates and com-missioning dates — will tie directly to the pro-posed LNG Canada project.
He projected an air of optimism that there will be a decision made early in 2016 on the project.
Before that, however, the project will undergo open houses, including to Kitimat, likely in April.
This year, said Cano, the company’s theme will be planning, including bringing on their eventual general contractor sometime in the sec-ond half of the year.
Other plans include getting First Nations on-board with project benefit agreements. He said there are 19 First Nations they are negotiating with on that, and five have already signed.
Cano, along with Community Relations Lead Jaimie Harding, gave Kitimat Council a brief up-date to on their project at the January 26 meeting.
Among the topics discussed included loca-tion of work camps and whether they had ambi-tions to use Civeo, the worker accommodation
facility in Strawberry Meadows.Cano said they have five potential camp lo-
cations selected within the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine but it would be up to the general contractor where to put them as it will be a re-sponsibility of contractors.
That said, Civeo likely wouldn’t be chosen, in part because no work camps have been envi-sioned for within the District of Kitimat itself, and also that agreements that Coastal GasLink has in place means that work camps must be at least 50 per cent owned by a First Nation.
Meanwhile the project is anticipating a final investment decision in early 2016 and as men-tioned will tie with the schedule set for LNG Canada.
The project is also still awaiting permits from the B.C. Oil and Gas Commission.
Winterfest continues to grow, even if this winter proved shyCameron Orr
What is a Winterfest without any winter?It was certainly a challenge for the organizers
behind this second year of the return of AFFNO’s Winterfest celebration, who had to contend with a cancelled Rail Jam — planned in tandem with the Winterfest activities — and an overall lack of snow which kiboshed the planned toffee on the snow activity during the Saturday brunch, which is otherwise a family favourite.
Even so, AFFNO Executive Director Pat-rick Witwicki is using this year as a spring board to possibly plan an alternate Winterfest style or schedule next year to make sure it can go off seamlessly with or without a winter.
“It was good. I think the weather, kind of,
wasn’t,” said Witwicki, with a laugh, about how this year went.
Even so, he was quite happy with local sup-port, and with the Hazelton band Axes of Egos who performed classic rock for one show, and then more traditional music the next day for the brunch.
Next year they may try new things but above all he hopes there will finally be snow.
As for potential participants, he encourages people who attended the event to share the word.
“I know those who attended last year abso-lutely enjoyed it and the key thing is we would hope everybody who came tells their friends, tells their family what they missed so next year more people can check it out.”
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The Sing Along choir group, consisting of members of the Kitimat Snowflake Seniors Centre, harmonize the residents at the Mountainview Lodge Multi-Level Care facility. The group gathers every two weeks at the facility and entertain residents with a selection of the classics; no Madonna for this group, just the good oldies like Kay Starr’s Side by Side. The choir, however, is in need. The one thing they lack in their group is men, and the organizers are appealing to male vocalists in the community to join them. If you like the sound of that either contact the Seniors Centre at 632-3405, or call Fran Hrynkiw at 632-3836.Harpoonist and Axe
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Murderer: you might wonder what the Kitimat Concert Association is bringing to you on Friday the 13th.
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Vancouver based duo is some sort of concept group based on a hypothetical love story between Captain Ahab and Lizzie Borden.
However you would be wrong. In reality, Shawn ‘The Harpoon-ist’ Hall, armed with an arsenal of harmonicas and Matthew ‘The Axe Murderer’ Roger with his road worn Telecaster kick out raw and primal blues.
The two met and bonded over music while recording a radio jingle. Their memorable name is inspired by a lyric from Kris Kristofferson’s ‘Bobby McGee’ that references the blues harp, (‘I took my harpoon out of my dirty red bandana’) and ‘axe’, a common term for the guitar.
Their influences range from the iconic songwriting of Willie Dixon to the boundary pushing of Jack White and Danger Mouse but their sound is distinctly their own, smothered in greasy, gritty soul and imbued with funk. Shawn Hall provides the rousing, rugged vocals and blues harmonica, while Mat-thew Rogers rips on the guitar and pounds the skins with his feet. Their music is unapologetic. It slaps you in the face and makes you sweat like it’s a sticky, summer night. It
cuts you to the core. It’s the blues played the way it was meant to be played.
Shawn and Matthew have re-ceived considerable recognition in the last few years. They have been nominated for multiple Maple Blues Awards and won ‘Blues Act of the Year’ at the SiriusXM Indies in 2013.
The duo has also pounded their fair share of festival stages includ-ing SXSW 2013/14, Winnipeg Folk Fest, Ottawa Blues Fest, Cal-gary Folk Fest, and Montreal Jazz Fest. Along the way they’ve shared the stage with Taj Mahal, Booker T Jones, David Wilcox, Mother Mother, The Sheep Dogs, and Ser-ena Ryder.
They’ve also had songs featured on television shows such as the ‘The Good Wife’, ‘Blue Bloods’, and the aptly-named TV movie ‘Lizzie Bor-den Took An Axe’.
As an added bonus they are joined by Jody Peck, aka Miss Quincy.
Miss Quincy began her mu-sic career in the wild mountains of northern B.C., though she’s been a touring warrior since the beginning, releasing her debut Your Mama Don’t Like Me in 2010, and follow-up Like The Devil Does in 2012.
Beat the winter chills with a hot night of blues at the Mount Eliza-beth Theatre on Friday, February 13.
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Anna KillenThe man being sued for defamation by Skeena
NDP MLA Robin Austin because of statements made at an all candidates forum in Terrace dur-ing the May 2013 provincial election campaign is denying the incident was a scheme between him and one of Austin’s political opponents.
That’s just one of a handful of amendments filed earlier January to Terrace resident Jim Lynch’s response to Austin’s civil claim against him.
In that claim, first filed in the BC Supreme Court nearly a year ago, Austin says Lynch’s com-ments at an April 2013 all candidates meeting, in which he alleged Austin abused a foster child, characterize Austin as a sexual predator and not worthy of his standing in the community and of his position as a public official.
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Continued from page 1“Our future plans,
dreams and hopes came to an abrupt end when Mr. Eli broke into our home in Oc-tober 2011 and he vi-ciously attacked us as we slept defenselessly in our bed,” said Rego.
Rego added that Eli’s actions were “in-comprehensible, inex-cusable and senseless.”
“It’s not up to me to judge Mr. Eli al-though it is difficult not to. I have faith in the judicial system,” he said.
Rego said he has since moved to Ter-race but is reminded of what he has lost daily when he drives to work in Kitimat.
He also said, “I pray he’s held account-able for the horrific crime he committed and pray God is able to enter his heart so he can acknowledge the extent of his actions.”
On January 30, defence lawyer Donna Turko said Eli would like to apologize to the court.
He went to the witness stand after Punnett suggested he would be better heard with the microphone.
After standing for a bit, he sat down to continue, speaking softly, sometimes to the point he couldn’t be heard, and pausing several times.
“First, I’d like
to apologize to (the Regos). I’d like to apologize to the family who lost a loved one.
He continued now there’s nothing that can truly repay what was lost.
If there’s any other way I can ever right this wrong, I prom-ise to try and work on that.”
Further he said, “To my own family for having to watch a son go through the court system I’d like to apologize, to the court, society...I just truly am sorry to everyone,” he said.
Crown lawyers Claire Ducluzeau and Rita Kis gave their sentence submission of concurrent life sen-tences for all three charges for which Eli had been found guilty.
Life in jail was the maximum allowed sentence for second-degree murder, leaving the question of how much time there should be until he is eligible for parole, which they suggested should be 15 years.
The minimum pe-riod of ineligibility is 10 years and the maxi-mum is 25 years for second degree murder, court heard.
Punnett indicated he would reserve sen-tencing to another day, sending the file to the judicial case manager to set the next date.
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The Kitimat rink of Greg Morgan (S), Tracy Hittel (3rd), Chad Stevenson (2nd), BJ Houghton (L) , who won first place in the A event for the men’s curling tournament. Photo submitted
Kitimat rink places first in Men’s bonspiel
A total of 15 teams registered for the Alu-minum City Men’s Bonspiel at the Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club.
Two teams came out from Smithers and three teams from Ter-race.
Results from the Kitimat Aluminum
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ton (L) - KitimatB Event – Jordan
Johnson (S), Dino Di-ana (3rd), Al Green (2nd), Kevin Dod-dridge (L) - Terrace
C Event – John Evans (S), Maurice Bullied (3rd), Kelly Bullied (2nd), Gord Olson (L) - Terrace
D Event – Dereck DeGoeij (S), Ray Taylor (3rd), Steve Haggart (2nd), Robin Lapointe (L) - Kiti-mat
LNG Canada still in as Arrow LNG out
Kitimat LNG to slow down
Cameron OrrShell, the primary partner in the venture which
is proposed to build LNG Canada in Kitimat, still sees the Kitimat project as a priority even as the company has put the covers back on a project in Queensland, Australia.
Arrow LNG was a venture between Shell and PetroChina, which is one of the LNG Canada partners, along with Mitsubishi and KOGAS.
The Sydney Morning Herald reported on January 30 that the company announced the proj-ect had been shelved in favour of Shell’s North American prospects.
Shell’s global chief executive Ben van Beur-den, quoted in the Morning Herald as speaking to investors, said the LNG Canada project and a Georgia, U.S. based project called Elba is being prioritized.
In seeking a com-ment on these develop-ments, LNG Canada spokesperson told the Sentinel that “LNG Canada remains fo-cused on moving our project forward and se-curing the permits and regulatory approvals necessary for our part-ners to make a final in-vestment decision.”
In a quarterly call with investors, Chevron CEO John Watson says the Kiti-mat LNG project will see a slow down in 2015 as early works projects slow down and the company looks to focus on the upstream as-sets. A spokesperson for Kitimat LNG said the com-pany is still committed to the project.
“As 2015 unfolds our focus remains on complet-ing the front end engineer-ing and design (FEED) work that we’re doing,” said Ray Lord.
But the work done so far means 2015 will slow down for Kitimat.
“As a result of the prog-ress we’ve made to date, in 2015 there will be a de-crease in engineering and early site work associated with the LNG plant and the pipeline,” he said.
The Kitimat LNG of-fice will remain open down-town, he said.
“We don’t consider this a race,” he added, saying the intention is to go at the right pace “to get to the market at the right time.”
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