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Northern Sentinel K I T I M A T MLA responds to provincial budget ... page 3 Volume 60 No. 09 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, February 26, 2014 $ 1.30 INCLUDES TAX Roland Wright with Haisla Business Operations tries his hand at a welding simulator at the Northwest Community College booth at a Haisla career fair on February 19. That’s the college’s Keisha Reichert, trades coordinator, guiding Wright’s torch on the simulator. PM477761 Years est. 1954 Empowering students against bullying Cameron Orr The Kitimat Rotary Club teamed up to bring in the Red Cross to deliver an anti-bullying program to Mount Eliza- beth Middle Secondary School. The program, part of the Red Cross’ Respect Ed program, makes students themselves the leaders of the program and trains them to present anti-bullying messages to younger grades. “I come in and train youth facili- tators so I’m training them to deliver anti-bullying workshops in schools to other grades,” said the Red Cross’ Jesse Bowen, who came to Kitimat to get the program going locally. “All the workshops are highly inter- active, get kids up and moving,” she said. Among the core lessons of the anti- bullying program are ways to create positive relationships to combat bullying behaviour. “We start talking about healthy rela- tionships and healthy schools and what that looks like,” she said. “We discuss the difference between bullying and harass- ment, ways to intervene, resources they can turn to.” The program also talks about the three parts to any bullying behaviour: The person who is doing the bullying, the victim, and the bystander to any incident. While this program has been run by the Red Cross since 1984, Bowen said bullying is an issue that is continually growing more prominent. “Bullying has become a bigger is- sue over the last few years, for sure, par- ticularly with the introduction of cyber bullying,” she said. “Bullying is a fairly serious problem in a lot of schools. Teen suicide as a result of bullying is way up.” Social media has meant bullying be- haviour can follow kids home, and pro- grams that are advertised as more private don’t even offer protection people might expect. Bowen refers to a program called SnapChat that is supposed to erase a message or photo shortly after receiving, but it’s not immune to screenshots, for example. “A digital record is permanent. You erase it, but you erase it from your phone...but it’s still out there,” she said. The effect of the proliferation of so- cial media applications hasn’t gone un- noticed by the students themselves. Continued on page 11 Kiticorp responds to pastor’s words Cameron Orr Pastor Don Read, with the Kitimat Ministe- rial Association, spoke up on behalf of Kitimat’s vulnerable when he suggested that property de- velopers in Kitimat for the most part lack a com- munity conscience. But the owner of property management com- pany Kiticorp says the accusations that included his company are unfounded. Pastor Read was reacting to an application by Kiticorp to renovate the exterior of their View- point Apartments on Albatross Street. While the permit is needed just for outside renovations, he feels it will tie in to internal ren- ovations, which is at the core of what some are dubbing “renovictions” — renovations which are leading to evictions. “My hope is as a community we would re- member that the strength of our community lies, really, within our ability to care for the most vul- nerable within our midst. And that’s really how you measure a healthy and strong community,” said Read. Kiticorp wasn’t spared from his plea to look out for those without a voice in the community. “The latest application by Kiticorp for a de- velopment permit on Albatross Street, to me, is an example of continuance of a corporate policy that actually puts profits above individual people,” he said. “When we have developers that have no clear social conscience or long-standing ties to our community, where our community becomes a place where they’re just in here to get exuber- ant financial gain, when developers like this are not held in check, when their unbridled greed be- comes the basis for how decisions are made, and when we allow these corporations to treat long- standing members of community, in essence, with contempt, what we’re really doing is forfeiting our leadership.” But Kiticorp owner Eli Abergel takes excep- tion to his company being portrayed in a negative light and said that there is absolutely no malice in decisions by the company. “When we started working in Kitimat we ac- tually increased the rental pool dramatically. We increased the number of units that were available to be rented in Kitimat,” he said. He refers to the Kuldo Apartments where he said 40 per cent of their units were vacant and un- inhabitable. “The reason for that is because rent, histori- cally, has been so low in Kitimat that landlords have not been able to afford to maintain, never mind renovate, the suites,” he said. He adds that by summer there will be 47 more units renovated and available, all finished without evictions. Continued on page 8 “A digital record is permanent. You erase it... but it’s still out there.”

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Page 1: Kitimat Northern Sentinel, February 26, 2014

NorthernSentinelK I T I M A T

MLA responds to provincial budget ... page 3

Volume 60 No. 09 www.northernsentinel.com Wednesday, February 26, 2014 $1.30 INCLUDESTAX

Roland Wright with Haisla Business Operations tries his hand at a welding simulator at the Northwest Community College booth at a Haisla career fair on February 19. That’s the college’s Keisha Reichert, trades coordinator, guiding Wright’s torch on the simulator.

PM477761

Yearsest. 1954

Empowering students against bullyingCameron Orr

The Kitimat Rotary Club teamed up to bring in the Red Cross to deliver an anti-bullying program to Mount Eliza-beth Middle Secondary School.

The program, part of the Red Cross’ Respect Ed program, makes students themselves the leaders of the program and trains them to present anti-bullying messages to younger grades.

“I come in and train youth facili-tators so I’m training them to deliver anti-bullying workshops in schools to other grades,” said the Red Cross’ Jesse Bowen, who came to Kitimat to get the program going locally.

“All the workshops are highly inter-active, get kids up and moving,” she said.

Among the core lessons of the anti-bullying program are ways to create positive relationships to combat bullying behaviour.

“We start talking about healthy rela-tionships and healthy schools and what that looks like,” she said. “We discuss the difference between bullying and harass-ment, ways to intervene, resources they can turn to.”

The program also talks about the three parts to any bullying behaviour: The person who is doing the bullying, the victim, and the bystander to any incident.

While this program has been run by the Red Cross since 1984, Bowen said bullying is an issue that is continually growing more prominent.

“Bullying has become a bigger is-

sue over the last few years, for sure, par-ticularly with the introduction of cyber bullying,” she said. “Bullying is a fairly serious problem in a lot of schools. Teen suicide as a result of bullying is way up.”

Social media has meant bullying be-haviour can follow kids home, and pro-grams that are advertised as more private don’t even offer protection people might expect.

Bowen refers to a program called SnapChat that is supposed to erase a message or photo shortly after receiving, but it’s not immune to screenshots, for example.

“A digital record is permanent. You erase it, but you erase it from your phone...but it’s still out there,” she said.

The effect of the proliferation of so-cial media applications hasn’t gone un-noticed by the students themselves.

Continued on page 11

Kiticorp responds to pastor’s wordsCameron Orr

Pastor Don Read, with the Kitimat Ministe-rial Association, spoke up on behalf of Kitimat’s vulnerable when he suggested that property de-velopers in Kitimat for the most part lack a com-munity conscience.

But the owner of property management com-pany Kiticorp says the accusations that included his company are unfounded.

Pastor Read was reacting to an application by Kiticorp to renovate the exterior of their View-point Apartments on Albatross Street.

While the permit is needed just for outside renovations, he feels it will tie in to internal ren-ovations, which is at the core of what some are dubbing “renovictions” — renovations which are leading to evictions.

“My hope is as a community we would re-member that the strength of our community lies, really, within our ability to care for the most vul-nerable within our midst. And that’s really how you measure a healthy and strong community,” said Read.

Kiticorp wasn’t spared from his plea to look out for those without a voice in the community.

“The latest application by Kiticorp for a de-velopment permit on Albatross Street, to me, is an example of continuance of a corporate policy that actually puts pro� ts above individual people,” he said. “When we have developers that have no clear social conscience or long-standing ties to our community, where our community becomes a place where they’re just in here to get exuber-ant � nancial gain, when developers like this are not held in check, when their unbridled greed be-comes the basis for how decisions are made, and when we allow these corporations to treat long-standing members of community, in essence, with contempt, what we’re really doing is forfeiting our leadership.”

But Kiticorp owner Eli Abergel takes excep-tion to his company being portrayed in a negative light and said that there is absolutely no malice in decisions by the company.

“When we started working in Kitimat we ac-tually increased the rental pool dramatically. We increased the number of units that were available to be rented in Kitimat,” he said.

He refers to the Kuldo Apartments where he said 40 per cent of their units were vacant and un-inhabitable.

“The reason for that is because rent, histori-cally, has been so low in Kitimat that landlords have not been able to afford to maintain, never mind renovate, the suites,” he said.

He adds that by summer there will be 47 more units renovated and available, all � nished without evictions.

Continued on page 8

“A digital record is permanent. You erase it...

but it’s still out there.”

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LSD-like drug makes appearance in KitimatFebruary 10Police tended to an

alleged assault on the sidewalk on Quatsi-no Boulevard. Police didn’t indicate the re-lationship between the aggressor and the vic-tim but said the suspect was held in cells until sober as the person was apparently intoxicated.

February 12A call came in re-

porting a vehicle drift-ing and speeding on Lillooet Crescent. Of-ficers were directed to the area the vehi-cle was last seen and pulled over a vehicle matching the descrip-tion. The driver had an L licence and said she had been driving in the Lillooet Crescent area but denied speeding and drifting. She said

she was taking people home who were intoxi-cated. The driver still received a ticket for driving without a quali-fied supervisor, having too many passengers and driving between midnight and 5 a.m.

February 13A person possibly

on drugs was sought after they entered the Dairy Queen restau-rant with a shovel, and asked for a knife from staff to cut his pocket open. The male also called the employees “meat sticks” when they refused the re-quest. The person left before police arrived and was not located, but staff were told to call the police if he re-turned.

An RCMP cruiser

was almost T-boned as the officer drove past the Shoppers Drug Mark parking lot. Ve-hicle was pulled over in the mall parking lot. The driver was found to have no licence and no insurance for the vehicle. Officer issued a violation ticket which makes the person a prohibited driver.

February 14False 9-1-1 call,

determined to likely have been dialled by a toddler-aged girl play-ing with her dad’s new cell phone.

A good deed goes wrong when a bystand-er offered to help drive a disabled-person’s

Chevy pick-up out of a parking stall at the SuperValu store. An-other vehicle parked close enough where the owner of the Chevy couldn’t enter, so an-other man offered to get the vehicle out of the stall, but the vehicle is customized and had alternate placements for the gas and brake pedal. The vehicle was inadvertently driven forward after backing out of the stall, and hit the front passenger side of the vehicle which had crowded the Chevy in the stall. The Chevy then knocked over the handicapped parking pole and hit the outside wall of the store. About $500 worth of damage to the parked vehicle while the Chevy is

thought to be a write off at about $10,000 worth of damages.

February 16A caller reported

that his friend was “tripping out” on a drug called 2-5-I, a synthetic hallucinogen. The person was outside of the home, wearing only a t-shirt, pants and socks, report-edly hitting windows, throwing snow and challenging people to fight. Officers arrested the individual for caus-ing a disturbance, after the person allegedly threatened the officer that he would “kick his ass” then threw snow and called the officer names. The individual vomited in the police car on the way to the hospital, and apparent-

ly became afraid of the hospital issued slippers on the way to the po-lice detachment. Police in their report describe 2-5-I as a synthetic hal-lucinogen and the highs could potentially last up to 12 hours. Symp-toms include increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, high body temperature, ag-

gression, hallucination, seizures and metabolic acidosis which can lead to increased respiratory rates.

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mander is hopeful that the occurrence of 2-5-I in Kitimat is the only one they see for a long time.

The synthetic hallucinogen made an appearance on February 16 (see brief above) and is a fairly new drug.

“It’s only actually been available...since 2010,” said Staff Sergeant Phil Harrison. “It is a fairly new one. It’s to-

tally synthetic.”The drug is so powerful that the

person who took it in Kitimat might have expected to have hallucinations as much as a week after taking it.

“It’s a nasty one,” added Harrison.2-5-I can be taken either nasally

or through dissolvable tabs, similar to how LSD might be ingested.

The police haven’t been able to get much information from the individual

from February 16 about his source for the drug.

“Hopefully we’re not going to be seeing too much of it. Hopefully that was an oddity type thing and it won’t be around.”

He said the individual was a young person, in his 20s.

Aggression, hallucinations and sei-zures are among the possible effects of the drug.

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LNG tax regime misses ‘other costs’: MLATom Fletcher and Cameron Orr

The B.C. govern-ment plans to impose a two-tiered income tax on liquefied natural gas exports, with rebates in early years until inves-tors recover the capital cost of building LNG processing plants.

Finance Minis-ter Mike de Jong pre-sented the framework for LNG income tax with last Tuesday’s provincial budget. It describes an income tax rate of up to 1.5 per cent on net revenue in the first three years of LNG production, with a second tier rate of up to seven per cent appli-cable after five years.

Income tax paid in the first three years would be applied as a rebate to higher rates in year four and five, so the top rate wouldn’t take full effect until year six. Producers also pay royalties on natural gas at the well-head, and B.C.’s car-bon tax would apply to gas burned in process-ing and refrigeration of LNG.

De Jong said the final income tax rates will be set when the government introduces legislation this fall. That is when interna-tional companies are expected to begin mak-ing final investment de-cisions.

The budget in-cludes government revenue and expense forecasts out to 2017, with no tax revenue projected from LNG until later. De Jong said the government is sticking to its “lofty” goal of having three export plants operating by 2020.

In his response to the budget, NDP fi-nance critic Mike Farn-worth said the govern-ment has missed its original target to have the LNG tax regime in place by the end of 2013. He zeroed in on Premier Christy Clark’s promise to have at least one LNG pipeline and plant in operation at Kitimat by 2015, and her cam-paign pledge to retire B.C.’s growing debt.

“Judging from today’s lack of LNG revenue, the premier’s promise to magically wipe away $70 billion worth of debts in 15 years is surely a fan-tasy,” Farnworth said.

Natural Gas De-velopment Minister Rich Coleman denied the suggestion that the tax structure is behind schedule.

He said he met with officials from Shell and other propo-nents last week, and they are “comfortable” with the progress to date.

“The opposition wouldn’t know LNG if it came up and bit them,” Coleman said. “They’re totally un-informed. They don’t support the process, they don’t support LNG, they never have.”

In a speech to the B.C. Chamber of Commerce in Vancou-ver Wednesday, Clark said not all of the 10 LNG plants currently proposed will proceed, but even one would be a significant source of revenue.

Asked by report-ers if the budget means no LNG revenues by 2017, Clark said it is still possible.

“We don’t want to book money that we don’t have yet,” Clark said.

Meanwhile Skee-

na MLA Robin Austin, the NDP’s critic for natural gas develop-ment, said there are is-sues with the budget as presented.

“This tax is after expenses. So in other words the companies will bring in their rev-enue and after all their expenses that’s what their taxes are going to be paid out on. Which is, you know, challeng-ing in the sense that these companies are multi-nationals and they can decide what are expenses or not ex-penses,” he said. “They can transfer costs from one jurisdiction to an-other.”

He said this “very late” LNG tax system also doesn’t address the bigger picture of LNG development.

“They haven’t mentioned anything to do with the other costs. No mention of any extra carbon

taxes...there’s no men-tion of water rates be-cause of the extra use of water for fracking. I think the companies are looking at not just this new LNG tax but all the costs that are in-volved.”

Austin said he’s hopeful that the fall session will show the results of the real be-hind-the-scenes nego-tiations.

Skills training is another area the budget has lacked focus on, which Austin said goes against even the throne speech from the week prior.

“They cut the bud-get for post-secondary education and com-munity colleges. So on the one hand the throne speech said ‘we’re go-ing to emphasis skills training,’ the following week the budget actu-ally cuts the budget for that.”

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Did you enjoy your winter Olym-pics on TV this year? I have to say I did, although it helped that winter � -nally arrived in Kitimat roughly the same time as some of the more ex-treme sports of the Sochi version of the historic games.

It also helped that I had to go out-side the odd time to clear snow, clean off the truck and shovel the heavy wet stuff off my back yard bushes. All re-ality checks.

And what a day it is to write about the Games with the Canadian Wom-en’s hockey team delivering their stunning come-from-behind game-ty-ing recovery and overtime win in the gold medal game. It was even better that they were undefeated, knocking off the USA twice. Worth the price of admission, if I’d been there.

And similarly the women’s Team Canada curling team snapped up gold, also undefeated.

I’ll be just as stoked if the men’s hockey team can show they’ve been doing the Muhamad Ali “rope-a-dope” through the tournament and can take a gold this Sunday, way past my writing deadline.

I do have to say however, reading a little bit about the long history of the original Olympic Games and the relatively late introduction of the of-� cial Winter version, (not until 1924), I thought the introduction of extreme skiing, skateboarding and these other acrobatic mind-and-limb bending gymnastic circus events in the more recent winter Olympics keeps up the tradition of the games changing throughout the years.

Just about as unbelievable were some of the now defunct sports that have popped in and out of the Olym-pics picture — summer or winter — over the years since the ancient Olym-pics began some time before the 9th Century B.C. at Olympia in Greece. I’d guess there were very few snow events then.

The � rst games began as an an-

nual foot race of young women in competition for the position of the priestess for the goddess, Hera, and a second race was instituted for a con-sort for the priestess who would par-ticipate in the religious traditions at the temple. But, as time passed, they pretty well got a lot of the women out of the games, hopefully before the Greek tradition of athletic nudity was introduced in 720 B.C., most believe, by the Spartans.

(Since it was over centuries, some paraphrasing is necessary.)

Because a state of almost endless war existed among Hellenic states in the B.C. centuries the games were held during a declared truce about ev-ery four years.

Heralds traveled from city-state to city-state to declare the of� cial start of the Olympics and to recite the truce. The year 776 B.C. marked the � rst of-� cial Olympics. Like today’s Olympic Games, various races, the long jump, discus and hammer throwing are still around in summer as they are in the resurrected modern summer Olympics (since 1896).

Continued on page 5

A good time to ‘discus’ old-timey Olympics

Is plebiscite still worth it?

Discouraging

I’m not quite sure what to think about the pos-sibility that Kitimat may discard any plans to hold a plebiscite about the Northern Gateway project.

As much as it’s expensive (estimated to cost $15,000) I feel I’ve spent enough time following the lead up to the plebiscite decision to want them to fol-low through on it.

I’m being sel� sh, of course. Just because a lot of my time has gone into following the discussion doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good.

I asked our Facebook followers what they think should happen and as I write this everyone has been against the idea of holding it.

Generally I understand but there’s still a part of me that wants it to happen. Well, I’d be more excited if the question changed, but that hasn’t happened.

My thought is that if they just held the vote as planned we’d � nally get a democratic look into the opinion of the pipeline.

As you read last week I took a few shots at a recent Enbridge opinion poll. The beauty of the plebiscite, if it was worded more succinctly, is that it would take the wonder out of the process. Opinion polls are not perfect, commissioned by companies or opponents, and remember the last provincial elec-tion? Sometimes they don’t mean much.

But even this editor couldn’t turn away from an actual vote. Let the public speak and we’ll know where we as a community stand. Not a sample of 800 from B.C., or however the polls work. Just a straight vote, open to the thousands of Kitimatians who live here.

I guess as council prepares to debate this ques-tion next week, I’m saying that despite the problems we’ve had with the plebiscite so far, I’d personally like to just see it through at this point. But I won’t cry to sleep if they cancel it either.

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Left out again?Last week I sent a Tweet message to Jason Ken-

ney, the federal Conservatives’ minister of employ-ment and social development. He had been Tweeting about meeting with Haisla Nation Council and tour-ing the proposed LNG sites down the channel.

When I asked him if he’d have a chance to stop by the Sentinel to see me he said he was holding a news conference at noon ... in Terrace.

At the media table at the last council meeting, after Kenney had been through, Robin Rowland asked the council if they even knew that a federal cabinet minister was in the area.

The mayor said they didn’t.So the Conservatives either don’t see the munici-

pality as important or they’re hiding from us. Neither makes me feel very good.

Cameron Orr

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First Nation communities are key to provincial NDP wins

Being an unrepen-tant political junkie, I dove into the official 2013 provincial elec-tion numbers released last month by Elections BC with enthusiasm.

What makes these fascinating is they give you not just the total tally in Skeena for the candidates, but also break down the votes into very specific areas.

So it is possible to see which way people voted in a group of a dozen or so streets in Nechako, Whitesail and Kildala neighbour-hoods.

Don’t worry, I’m not about to get that crazy.

But what I do want to do is look at trends over a longer timeline than the usual compari-son between the past election and the one immediately before.

So I am going back into the last millen-nium - specifically the 1996 election - to see if voting patterns have changed in the inter-vening 17 years.

I have chosen that year because the face of Skeena was quite different back then, as in there was still some-thing of a logging in-dustry in Terrace while Kitimat boasted three major industries.

By last year’s elec-tion Terrace had seen

its forest industry all but vanish while Kiti-mat had suffered the closure of the Eurocan pulp and paper mill and Methanex metha-nol plant plus numer-ous jobs bleeding away from its only remaining industry, the aluminum smelter.

The idea was that comparing 1996 and 2013 should tell us what impact, if any, there had been from the de-industrialisation of the Northwest as far as the fortunes of the two major parties were concerned given unionised industries usually translate into extra NDP votes .

A couple of ex-planatory notes.

First, I have con-centrated on the two major population cen-tres of the riding - Ter-race/Thornhill and Kitimat - since they theoretically would de-cide who won.

Second, I will deal only with margins of victory in those cen-tres because looking at total votes will give a false picture given voter turnout plunged from about 70 per cent in 1996 to 55 per cent last year.

Third, I have not included the advanced poll results in those margins of victory be-cause you cannot pin

them down to a specific community.

Enough of the ex-planations, let’s get to the meat.

In 1996 the contest was between NDP in-cumbent Helmut Gies-brecht and Liberal Rick Wozney, then mayor of Kitimat.

In Terrace/Thorn-hill Wozney won by 197.In Kitimat it was Giesbrecht by 212.

So the battle of the centres went to the NDP by a mere 15.

In 2013 it was another NDP incum-bent, Robin Austin, up against Liberal Carol Leclerc.

In Terrace-Thorn-hill Leclerc won by 289. In Kitimat it was Austin but by only 33.

Liberals prevail by 256, a stunning re-versal but clearly the result of that de-indus-trialisation I mentioned earlier. Now compare that with the overall Skeena vote where in 1996 Giesbrecht won by 635 and in 2013 it was Austin by 522.

How is it that the Liberals can actually win (or come oh so

close) in the major cen-tres but get thumped overall?

Two words: First Nations.

In 1996 Gitanyow pumped up the NDP margin by 100. In Git-wangak it was 130, in Kitsumkalum 103 and Kitamaat Village 244.

And the pattern was repeated in 2013.

The obvious con-clusion is that even though the de-industri-alisation of the North-west has favoured the Liberals in the major centres, they are never going to win Skeena unless there is a seis-mic shift in the First Nations vote.

Which would in turn require an equally dramatic shift in First Nations’ perception of the BC Liberals as be-ing less sympathetic to their interests than the New Democrats.

Frankly, I don’t see that happening anytime soon.

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Continued from page 4Even the pentathlon was a sport

then, but different from today most-ly featuring wrestling, boxing and other warrior techniques. Eques-trian events and chariot races, which were, well, kind of as shown in the Hollywood epic “Ben Hur” won in that case by USA (Charlton Heston) over Steven Boyd (Northern Ireland, which unfortunately went down.)

Anyway, here are some of the events of the Olympics you don’t see these days: the tug-of-war, (I’d like to see that back) live pigeon shooting, the rope climb, motor-boating, croquet and the underwater swim.

There were others, mostly in the summer events, but it is interesting to watch the evolution and changes taking place in the Winter Games.

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A very dedicated husbandIn 1954, with the new aluminum smelter just

completed, Kitimat was a magnet for workers. They arrived via ship, amphibious aircraft

coming up the ramp at Alcan Beach and some even reached it by the nearly completed railroad line. It was a lot like Fort McMurray in Alberta is today and those looking for work, if determined enough, would make it to Kitimat. One who did just that was Dave Wilken.

Dave married teacher Vivian Malakoff in Saskatchewan in 1952 and soon after the couple headed for B.C. where they did stints in Osoyoos, Vancouver and Prince George.

While Dave celebrated getting a job at Alcan, there was a problem — with very few children in the new community at that time, there was no teaching position available for Vivian. However, she was able to get a job at Terrace’s Riverside School, just downstream from the Old Skeena Bridge where today you find the curling club and Riverside ball fields.

So, with Dave living in bachelor quarters at the Anderson Creek camp in Kitimat and Vivian in Terrace, there began a remarkable long distance relationship where every Friday he would embark on a challenging trek to spend the weekend with his wife.

That journey involved travel over the un-finished railway which included riding on work trains and sometimes even open hand-pump speeders - he was lucky he had friends in the rail-road constructors.

But the track was intermittent so Dave might cover five miles on the rails, two miles hiking through mud and gravel beds, then seven more back on the rails and so on until he reached the west side of Lakelse Lake.

There he would light a signal fire, a Friday beacon expected by friends on the other side who would head over in an open boat to pick Dave up, ferry him across the sometimes rough waters and then drive him to Terrace. Vivian can recall her husband arriving at all hours of the night, often covered in mud, carrying a battered suitcase and a bag of oranges and special treats he had saved from his Alcan cafeteria meals.

Some return trips were from Terrace airport to Alcan Beach and Dave recalled being crammed in amongst crates of liquour destined to resupply the thirsty bachelors at Alcan.

Vivian says her husband never missed a weekend and while she can’t recall if he ever hiked over a frozen Lakelse, she says determined people were known to attempt risky ventures. For-tunately, the fall of 1955 brought welcome chang-es for the Wilkens. Kitimat was growing and that meant more children which in turn meant a need for more teachers.

In September Vivian was hired on at Cormo-rant School but, owing to a fire, she never actually taught there.

Instead, she began instruction at Nechako where she remained until her retirement. The Wilkens first lived in a basement suite in a John-son Crooks home on Quail Street. Soon after, they purchased a lot on White Street, where they had framed a home by 1957.

Living in an unfinished home for three years was less than ideal, but it paralleled what others in the new community experienced. The Wilkens raised two boys, Jeff born in 1960 and Brent in 1963.

Vivian remembers those early days with af-fection: churches were full and pageants were aplenty. Events like Handel’s Messiah were in-credible - there were so many talented people. They were also a tough lot and proud of it, endur-ing prodigious snowfalls and floods. Who could forget the snows of ‘55 with collapsing roofs and the snowbanks so high that sidewalks around town became tunnels? Certainly Kitimat today is a fine place to live, but the 50s and 60s, well those were the days.

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The weekly trek of Dave Wilken from Kitimat to Terrace in 1954 to see his wife took him through an incomplete transit system of partial railroads and muddy hikes, and, possibly, the frozen lake of Lakelse. Thankfully his wife was later hired as a teacher in Kitimat.

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Airport traffic growsPassenger traffic at the North-

west Regional Airport continues to grow, with January’s total be-ing more than 70 per cent greater than January 2013, reports man-ager Carman Hendry.

And there’s no sign things are going to slow down, says Hendry in commenting on the 17,503 passenger total for January.

“Everyone’s busy. The air-port’s a busy place.

“The airlines are doing well and there’s lots of traffic,” he said.

By way of comparison, Janu-ary 2013’s total was 9,816 and January 2012’s total was 8,916.

Even having 14 missed flights

in January because of weather and three for other reasons didn’t dent passenger growth.

“The passengers affected are accommodated on other flights by the airlines,” said Hendry.

Helping increase passenger numbers was the arrival the end of last November of WestJet with twice daily service to and from Vancouver.

Both it and Air Canada have very early departures from Ter-race and late evening arrivals from Vancouver, considered a benefit for business travellers.

Traditionally, January has one of the lower passenger totals of the year.

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From the very beginning, Northern Gateway has worked to meet the high expectations British Columbians have for a safer, better pipeline. Today, that commitment is as strong as ever. There is a lot of work ahead. But by working with the experts, and listening to people across this province, we know we can get it right. If you’d like to join the conversation, or to get more information on our project, I encourage you to visit gatewayfacts.ca

WRITTEN BY JANET HOLDER

This past December, an independent Joint Review Panel (JRP) recommended the Northern Gateway project be approved with 209 conditions. The JRP process was the most thorough and comprehensive science-based process of its kind in Canadian history. It began when Northern Gateway presented an exhaustive 17,500-page application, laying out the details of exactly how our project is designed for the unique landscape of British Columbia.The three expert panel-ists examined evidence provided by some of the foremost scientists and engineers in the world. This testimony allowed the JRP to base its recommendations on leading science.

Canada’s National Interest In its report, the JRP determined that Northern Gateway is good for our country.“The Enbridge Northern Gateway Project, con-structed and operated in full compliance with the conditions required by the Panel, is in the Canadian public inter-est,” the JRP wrote in its lengthy report.“The Panel finds that Canadians would be better off with this project than without it.”At Northern Gateway, we agree. Our project will help secure jobs and opportunities for many generations to come.

Meeting the ConditionsBut, as the JRP pointed out in its report, British Columbia and Canada will only benefit if we do this right. For that reason, the team I lead at Northern Gateway is working hard to meet the 209 conditions included in the JRP report, just as we’re working to meet British Columbia’s five conditions for oil pipeline development. We also remain commit-ted to listening to British Columbians.

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Continued from page 1Even as the com-

pany renovates many of their units, Abergel said that where they haven’t had to do such work, they haven’t.

“We still have many units which are rented at below market rates,” added Abergel.

As for the social conscience, he says Kiticorp was among the first companies to spend significant mon-ey in the community.

“We’ve been de-veloping apartments in Kitimat for almost two years,” he said. “We’re bringing a lot of jobs of all types.”

In short, he said there’s no angle of evil or greed from the deci-sions of his company.

“It bothers me. I have a social con-science and Kiticorp supports the local are-na and we support a lot of different local busi-nesses from advertising to plumbing to elec-trical to local labour. We’re working hard to do our best with the re-sources that we have,” he said. “There’s no malice involved and we’re not trying to be greedy, we’re just try-ing to work within the marketplace in the business that we’re in.”

As Read gave his perspective at the council meeting on February 17, his un-derlying message was for the town’s political system to recognize people who are dis-placed by the effects of a ‘boom town.’

“We need to re-member our calling is to represent every individual within our community, especially those who have no po-litical voice, those who have no social stand-ing, those who are the vulnerable and the powerless in our com-munity,” he said.

To that point he explained the story of one of his congrega-tion, a woman in her 80s who lives in the Viewpoint Apartments. (Read used her name but when the Sentinel called her she indi-cated she would rather not have a high profile so we are respecting

her wishes not to be named.)

She lives on a sur-vivor pension after the passing of her husband, and Read spends lots of time talking to her about her options if

she gets evicted. He’s hopeful but uncertain of where she will live in the future given the availability and price of current rental units.

Abergel says that Kiticorp does try to

accommodate people who are evicted from their apartments. He said that in a recent in-stance when there were evictions at one of their buildings 10 alternate units at other apartment

buildings were made available for the people who had to leave, at discounted rates from the going market price.

He said three of those 10 were accept-ed.

“We’re aware of the challenges that Kitimat is experiencing and we’ve been in con-tact with BC Housing, council, and the mayor, to try to work through some of the challeng-

es,” said Abergel.BC Housing has

some assistance pro-grams, including those for seniors on low to moderate incomes. The BC Housing website is at www.bchousing.org.

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On Friday, January 31, 2014 a retirement celebration was held to honour Angelo Lamonato’s 22 years of service as a mechanical engineer at LEL. Over 50 guests attended Angelo’s retirement celebration, held in the recently built Project Management building at LEL. Stories were shared, including when Angelo joined LEL and lead the newly formed Mechanical Engineering Division, to the more recent years when he mentored newly recruited engineers.One of the gifts presented to Angelo was his earliest drawing completed for LEL, presented by Robin Lapointe, P.Eng., (board President) and senior partners Alex Ramos-Espinoza, P.Eng., and Mark Gravel, P.Eng.While LEL is happy for Angelo and his wife Darlene, as they begin this new chapter in their lives, we know that we are losing part of our family.

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At the regu-lar monthly Kitimat RCMP detachment update at town coun-cil, staff sergeant Phil Harrison reported that the local police station is just about at its full complement of offi-cers.

There is only one vacancy which is for a municipal sergeant.

As for the statis-tics breakdown, Kiti-mat housed the same number of prisoners, 18, as it did for Janu-ary last year.

That’s as there were no major sur-prises for the number of files for each cate-gory of criminal code. Being as the statistics now show just January 2014, it is hard to draw any trends.

But month to month, there was one fewer sexual assault this year, two, than there was for January last year.

There were three assaults with weapons files opened, compared to one last year at the same time.

Residential break and enter files total five for January against one last year. Harrison points out though that even though they are categorized this way, in reality the majority of those files turned out to be something as simple as a door left open or a false alarm.

There were only two true break and enters.

Shoplifting is be-ing reported at a higher

rate, January show-ing five cases. In all of 2013 there were six.

There were two co-

caine possession files in January, and one file for trafficking ‘other’ drugs.

Ask questions on energyCameron Orr

The Kitimat Museum & Archives is looking forward this time, rather than backwards, and set-ting to work establishing a community dialogue about energy.

Anything energy.But the co-curators for this program — called

Kitimat Questions: Energy — Louise Avery and Robin Rowland, are seeking a bit of community engagement to make the exhibit a great success.

Right now they are asking for people in the community to submit their questions about any-thing energy, which they will in turn pose to vari-ous stakeholders, from the companies themselves to local government representatives.

The answers will be put on display at the mu-seum later this year, complementing an exhibit of artworks on display from local artists and stu-dents, putting down creatively how they picture energy.

Community talks are also in the works but no speakers have yet been confirmed.

Rowland said that at the very least they’re not trying to bring in ‘the usual suspects’ as far as energy talks go.

“We’re trying to get some high-level speak-ers,” said Rowland.

“We want to get beyond the usual suspects who have been here before.”

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Kerry Vital / Black PressNames such as Amanda Todd and Rehtaeh Parsons are sadly well-known to many Canadians. Both teens committed suicide after years of bullying at the hands of classmates. On Feb. 26, Canadians will recognize Pink Shirt Day, a day devoted to preventing bullying and helping children and teens who are being victimized.For some people, bullying hits very close to home. Tad Milmine, now an RCMP con-stable, is one of them.As a child, Milmine

was bullied relentlessly by classmates and locked in the basement by his stepmother every day for 12 years. His father, an alco-holic, never tried to help him, even when Milmine’s stepmother verbally abused him.“I always held out hope that one day an adult would see that I was in the basement and perhaps ‘rescue’ or ‘save’ me,” he says. “No one ever came.”At 17, Milmine ran away from home and

cut all ties with his father and stepmother. Still, he struggled with being extremely intro-verted and emotional. While he had dreamed of being a police o� cer for much of his life, he didn’t feel con� dent enough to act on that dream. At 33, he � -nally felt able to take that step and do what he loved after encouragement from an o� cer he met while playing baseball.“I never acted on my dream because I truly believed it was just a dream,” he says. “I thought that dreams weren’t meant to be achieved.”Milmine was moved by the 2011 suicide of Ontario teen Jamie Hubley, who killed himself after years of bullying for being gay and a � gure skater, to start Bullying Ends Here, a website that tells Hubley’s story as well as his own. Milmine has trav-elled all over Canada and the U.S. speaking to students and encouraging them to con-tact him if they need help. In the presen-tations, he shares his own story and that of Hubley, and tells the students that he understands what it’s like to be an outcast, and that he too is gay, just like Hubley. He shares this information to point out that he is no di� erent than the people listening to him in the audience.“I never let my sexuality stand in the way of living out a dream,” Milmine says. “I

never let the negativity while growing up stand in my way.”

Milmine’s presentations are done on his own time and with his own

money.“I always wanted to ‘help’ people

and today I am lucky enough to be in that position,” says

Milmine. “Youth need to know that nobody can help them if they don’t speak up. You have to share, have to ask for help. Give us a chance

to help.”Sixty-four per cent of Canadian chil-

dren have been bullied at school at some point, according to the Pink Shirt Day campaign, and 40 per cent of Cana-dian employees are bullied at the workplace on a weekly basis.“Pink Shirt Day gets people talk-ing,” Milmine says. “People are talking about it leading up to it, and on the day itself. You’re going to talk about why you’re wearing a pink shirt that day, and youth are reminded of the resources available to them.”Pink Shirt Day was started in Nova

Scotia by two teenage boys who, after seeing another male student bullied for wearing a pink shirt, decided to gather their friends and all wear pink to school. CKNW AM 980 was inspired by their action, and since 2007 has raised over $650,000 for anti-bullying pro-grams in B.C. through the sale of their pink shirts. You can purchase your own shirt at London Drugs or online. � is year’s campaign is

being presented by Coast Capital Savings, with Black Press as a media partner.For more information about Pink Shirt Day, visit www.pinkshirtday.ca. Milmine’s website can be found at www.bullyingend-shere.ca.

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The website and smartphone app Ask.fm is a social-

networking site where people can ask other users

questions. It’s extremely popular with pre-teens and

teens, but recently it has become well-known for

facilitating cyber-bullying instead. It has been refer-

enced in several suicide cases around the world as

part of the bullying the victim experienced that led

to their suicide.

The biggest issue with Ask.fm is that questions can

be submitted anonymously, and content is not moni-

tored, so abuse of the service can be rampant with no

repercussions to the user. Even if someone is blocked,

that person can still view pro� les and see other inter-

actions, and privacy settings cannot be increased as

they can on Facebook and Twitter. According to RCMP

Const. Tad Milmine, the Latvia-based website also

sends daily spam with messages suggesting users

kill themselves and calling them ugly, among others,

with no name attached.

Parents are urged to monitor all social media ac-

counts and talk to their children about their online

activities in an effort to prevent cyberbullying, and

remember that the terms of service of

Facebook, Twitter and Ask.fm require

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Shaun ThomasFederal Minister of

Employment and So-cial Development Ja-son Kenney is holding no illusions of a simple solution to the skilled labour shortage facing the Northwest with the boom in industrial in-terest for LNG export and mining.

“The volume of the potential growth and potential jobs is so enormous that it is going to be a real chal-lenge. If a significant number of those pipe-lines and mines that are proposed proceed, there just is not the population in Northern B.C. to handle that,” he said.

“It’s going to be a very significant chal-lenge, so we need to get as many young aboriginal people in these areas employed in those jobs as pos-sible, we need people in the Lower Mainland and Southern Canada to move up here and we need to do a bet-ter job of encouraging

immigrants to move to the north where many of the best job pros-pects are ... It’s not a slam dunk. This is go-ing to be a challenge that the private sector, union, the province and the federal govern-ment need to work on together.”

The minister toured the region last week, with stops in Kitimat, Prince Rupert and Terrace, and said increasing the oppor-tunities for aboriginals will be a key to ad-dressing the shortage.

“With all of the mining and commod-ity development and potential pipelines, we’re looking at tens of thousands of new jobs across the skills spectrum in areas

which happen to be in-habited by significant number of unemployed or under-employed ab-original Canadians,” he said.

“There are a lot more high paying jobs that are coming online available to them and a growing number of pri-vate sector employers realize it is very much in their interest to train and employ aborigi-nal Canadians. I think there is a new era of opportunity opening up for economic inclusion for native communities in northern B.C.”

During his tour, Kenney met with a va-riety of First Nations groups and heard from many about the im-portance of employers getting on-board with providing the training.

“Some have said that the funding we have supplied in the past has been adequate, others say they need more. One thing every-one agrees on is that the private sector has to come to that table

with its dollars not just to train people but, of course, give them jobs at the end of it,” he said. “Exciting things are happening because it’s not just government and non-profit societ-ies, the private sector is coming increasingly to the table and I think everyone realizes there is tremendous potential there for the future.”

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“It’s [bullying] gotten way worse with Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, SnapChat and all these social me-dia websites,” said MEMSS student Bro-die Chartrend, one of a select number of students who were ac-cepted into this anti-bullying program.

But he casts that as a general issue for any modern students, and he finds MEMSS it-self a safe place for the most part.

“I find it’s pretty safe but sometimes I see people getting bul-lied or being called names and I find it’s

not fair for people to always be picked on.”

For grade 9 student Chelsea Pacheco, she’s learned a great deal from the program.

“It’s not just the bully,” she said about any conflict between students.

“I’ve learned that the bystander is one of the most important parts [of the situation]. We can’t point our fin-ger at the bully,” she said.

Each grade has its own personality and when it comes to con-flicts of bullying she sees it more in young-er grades than older, which emphasizes the

importance of these students taking their message to the younger grades.

“We’re trying to get people to interact so that maybe we can stop this problem in the future,” she said.

Simon Baldo, a grade 10 student, said that fosering a positive relationship rather than a negative one is part of the lesson he has taken away.

“If you establish a negative relationship then just more negative things will happen,” he said.

Locally he sees some physical and ver-bal bullying, but he said

the big problem is how to learn to intervene.

“We need to make sure students are aware on how to intervene.”

Learning how to step in to a situation is a crucial takeaway les-son. And it takes a bit of courage to do it.

“It’s hard for some-one to be ‘you cannot do that.’ You have to get encouraged and you have to be that type of person who isn’t afraid,” said Chartrend. “You need to believe in yourself that good will come out of it.”

And with 60 per cent of situations re-solving when someone steps in, he’s not wrong.

A trio of students practice their anti-bullying presentation during the Respect Ed course at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School. The program was sponsored by the Kitimat Rotary Club, and provided by the Red Cross.

Training funds givenAnna Killen

An agency created to train ab-original people to work on a planned natural gas pipeline to feed a lique-fied natural gas plant at Kitimat has received a cash infusion from the federal government.

The PTP ASEP (Pacific Trail Pipeline Aboriginal Skills Employ-ment Partnership) Training Society had already received federal train-

ing monies to train people to work on the pipeline but that effort was delayed when anticipated construc-tion starts for both the pipeline and accompanying LNG project, called Kitimat LNG, were put off.

The new federal money, as much as $6.1 million, was announced last week by federal employment min-ister Jason Kenney during a stop in Terrace.

No magic wand for labour“It’s going to be a very significant challenge.”

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Continued from pg 16With most events

having double or more than 16 swimmers competing it was an excellent accomplish-ment for the swimmers to reach an A or B fi-nal. All three Marlins swimmers reached an A or B final in numer-ous events.

Alivia Soares (13) competing in the 12-13 girls category placed fourth in the province in the 800 meter free-style and achieved her second Canadian age group national quali-fying time for 13 year old girls in the process. She also placed fifth in the 400 meter individ-ual medley, eighth in the 50 breaststroke.

Soares also made

the B final in the 400 freestyle and 200 breaststroke placing 10th and 13th respect-fully.

Brander Pacheco (15) competing in the 14-15 boys category achieved five national level time standards. He reached the west-ern national standard in 50, 100 and 200 but-terfly for 16 and under boys and the Canadian age group national time standard in the 100 and 200 fly for 15 in year old boys. Pa-checo finished fourth in the 50 fly, eighth in the 200 fly and 50 backstroke, 10th in the 100 fly and 15th in the 400 im.

Kleanza Cathers (14) competing in the

14/15 girls age group broke two points north regional records in the 100 and 200 meter backstroke.

Unfortunately for her, friend and com-petitor from the Prince Rupert swim club Avery Movald broke Cathers’ records on the same days in the finals.

Between the two events the two girls lowered the records six times between them in between heats and fi-nals competition.

Cathers best indi-vidual results came in the 50 meter butter-fly and 50 backstroke with 8th place finishes. She placed 13th in the 50 freestyle and 16th in the 100 backstroke.

From left to right: Brander Pacheco, Kleanza Cathers and Alivia Soares at the Canada Games pool in Kamloops during warm ups for finals of the AAA provincial short course swim championships.

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Kitimat’s straight shootersSubmitted

On February 8 the 2556 Royal Canadian Army Cadets from Kitimat attended a Zone Marksmanship competition held in Terrace.

The Kitimat Army cadets competed with cadets from Prince Rupert Sea Cadets and

Terrace Air Cadets. The com-petition focused on safe marks-manship and sportmanship.

2556 Army placed second overall ahead of Prince Ru-pert, and Terrace placed � rst. Sapper MJ Herrin received an individual medal for second place in the junior category

and Corporal Nick O’Brien re-ceived third place in the same category.

From this competition, ca-dets from all over Canada will be participating in their area competitions for chances to advance to the Provincial level and National.

Members of the 2556 Royal Canadian Army Cadets from Kitimat attended a Zone Marksmanship competition in Terrace and placed second overall.

Marlins take to KamloopsSubmitted

The Kitimat Marlins had three swimmers attend the AAA provincial short course (25 meter pool) swimming championships in Kamloops earlier this month. The AAA champs is the highest provincial level meet of the sea-son. There were over 600 swim-mers aged 10 to 18 from 42 differ-ent swim clubs or associations in attendance making for extremely tough competition.

The Marlins swim as part of the Points North swim associa-tion when attending out-of-region swim meets. This association al-lows the small northern clubs of Prince Rupert, Kitimat, Ter-race and Smithers to � eld relays where normally they would not be able too. With this in mind,

Points North were able to � eld relays in the 13/14 girls category. The relays did extremely well. With swimmers Kleanza Cathers, and Alivia Soares from Kitimat, Avery Movald from Prince Ru-pert and Cassie Horning Wandler from Smithers the team was able to take the bronze medal in the 4x200 meter freestyle relay.

They also placed � fth in the 4x50 meter freestyle relay and 7th in the 4x50 meter medley relay.

This year the format of the championships was different. They went to two year age groups and an A � nal for swimmers who placed � rst to eight in preliminar-ies and a B � nal for swimmers who � nished 9-16th after the heats.

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