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Cameron OrrKitimat Council has approved a sec-

ondary suite incentive program that will kick money back to homeowners who develop their homes with secondary rental suites.

The program is one of the options the District of Kitimat had been researching as ways to potentially alleviate some of the trouble associated with low vacancy rates in town.

The amount of secondary suites in Kitimat has dropped signi� cantly since 1985, when there were 274. Today only 95 secondary suites remain.

While this new incentive program won’t apply to existing suites, it is de-signed to help absorb some of the con-struction cost in establishing it.

Kitimat planner Daniel Martin said the incentives start at up to $2,500, or up to 33 per cent of the construction. If

you design you suite with accessibility in mind — for instance wheelchair acces-sible — you get an extra $2,500 grant. More grants, either $5,000 or $7,500, is available if you rent it out as an afford-able housing unit, as de� ned by the Ca-nadian Mortgage and Housing Corpora-tion, and the grant amount depends on how affordable you make the unit.

The largest concern in debate came from Mario Feldhoff who was concerned that taxpayer money could potentially go to homeowners who then turn around

and rent out to family members.“I personally don’t feel that’s an ap-

propriate use for taxpayers money,” he said.

Director of Community Planning and Development Gwen Sewell said that staff decided not to pursue those restric-tions primarily because human rights legislation make restricting persons who can rent units very challenging.

As well, even if a unit is rented to a family member that’s still a rental unit that is freed up elsewhere, such as an apartment building.

Feldhoff attempted to have the pro-gram tabled until council could receive a legal opinion regarding limiting renting to family members, but was ultimately defeated with the rest of council opposed.

In calling for � nally approving the program as a whole, with a $50,000 bud-get, all of council stood with it.

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Riverbrook moving ahead

With a 5-1 vote, council has issued public no-tice for the proposal which would effectively sub-divide the parcels of land owned by Riverbrook Estates. Right now the proponent could go ahead and build 80 living units on the site.

A staff report to council shows the site in question was created by subdivision in 1968 and a 70-unit subdivision to complete Liard and Nadina Streets was approved in 1981, but work was halted in 1982.

Among council’s suggestions is to expand the area of public notice to nearby homeowners, which currently cuts out around 90 metres.

Mario Feldhoff also suggested pushing the de-veloper to hold open houses.

“It’s a very large development proposal, and it’s exciting but at the same time potentially a con-cern to some of the immediate neighbours,” he said.

Meanwhile the idea of building out the com-munity rather than in concerned councillor Phil Germuth who thinks allowing rezoning to accomo-date so many more units goes against the commu-nity plan.

“Back in 1952 Clarence Stein designed this community for us. It was planned out for well over 20,000 people. At this point we’re nowhere near there,” he said. “I see no point in trying to jam pos-sibly 217 families in to the space where 80 should be going. This is not Vancouver, this is still Kiti-mat. There’s nothing wrong with having people that have yards and driveways.”

He said it doesn’t make sense to open up land to new development when places in town need to be re-developed as it is.

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Councillor meanwhile worries for overbuild

The parking lot at the Riverlodge is just a � eld of dirt while contractors dig up and repair the pavement. Repairs to the Riverlodge parking lot is part of the District of Kitimat’s annual roads project this year.

Incentives for secondary suites

“I see no point in trying to jam possibly 217 families.”

Several layers of grants await those who create

secondary suites in approved zones

Does Kitimat need a new housing complex that could provide up to 217 individual units?

Council will wrestle with that question as the process has begun on a zoning amendment for the Riverbrook Estates.

That development is proposed for the area in the undeveloped land beyond Liard and Nadina Streets.

The complex would have apartment buildings, townhouses and detached housing at full build, but project proponent Leonard Kerkhoff said it would be built in phases to ensure a market for the con-struction.

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Continued from page 1Meanwhile, aside from the concerns about more

high density building in Kitimat, project proponent Leonard Kerkhoff said that he is working with BC Housing for possible affordable housing units.

Out of the two apartment buildings being pro-posed for the land, he said they are negotiating to possibly build and sell one building at cost to BC Housing to operate as non-pro� t living units. The apartment buildings would be built with elevators to increase accessibility as well.

The proponent is also contemplating a park strip to run between the new development and the homes on Liard and Nadina Streets.

Tow truck needs its own towJuly 17A pedestrian re-

ported nearly being hit by a vehicle while crossing Farrow Street and Tweedsmuir Av-enue. Person said she had assumed vehicle would stop but had to jump back to avoid be-ing hit. The pedestrian, however, didn’t want police to speak to sus-pected driver.

A stolen 2011 black H&H � at deck trailer was reported from the KMP con-struction site. Police

are investigating the incident. The trailer had a B.C. licence plate 21654D and is valued at $5,000.

July 18Police called a tow

truck to remove a vehi-cle after police stopped a prohibited driver. When the tow truck arrived the of� cer no-ticed signs of impair-ment in the tow driver.

The driver was given two tries at a roadside screening device and failed both attempts. The 34-year-old Kiti-mat driver received a 90-day driving prohi-bition and a 30-day ve-hicle impoundment. A tow truck from Terrace had to be called in to impound the Kitimat-based tow truck.

Police were called to a reported stabbing on Columbia Avenue at 12:15 a.m. Police say the victim heard a disturbance outside his

home and went outside to confront a small group of young males. Three ran off but one stayed. The male chal-lenged the resident and ended up stabbing him in the chest. The victim was treated at the Kiti-mat General Hospital. Police are looking for a suspect, described as a Caucasian male in his twenties.

A grizzly bear was reported on Wozney Street at 7:45 a.m. The bear was reportedly at-tracted to a barbecue.

Police have contacted the Conservation Of-� cer Service on the sighting.

July 20Police were called

to help in removing an intoxicated person from the Kitimat Ho-tel. The intoxicated male “ran away from police and tripped a couple of times prior to being arrested for being intoxicated in public.” The 33-year-old male was held in cells until sober and given a violation ticket

for being intoxicated in public.

Anyone with infor-mation on these or oth-er crimes are asked to call the Kitimat RCMP at 250-632-7111, or call Crime Stoppers to remain anonymous at 1-800-222-8477.

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What: A public hearing will be held on Monday 5 August at 7:30pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square to consider ‘Strawberry Meadows (Phase 9) Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1853, 2014.’

What changes? The present application seeks to amend zoning of six lots. Three lots would move from C10 Commercial Agricultural to G3-C Rural Residential. Three lots would move from G3-B Strawberry Meadows to G3-C Rural Residential. The Administration considers this application to be a minor zoning amendment and supports this request.

Where is it? All six lots are near the intersection of Dewberry Street and Loganberry Avenue.

pubLic heAring 5 Aug 2014Strawberry Meadows (Phase 9)

Zoning Amendment - Bylaw No. 1853, 2014

When can i speak? Anyone wishing to comment on this issue may provide written comment to Mayor and Council c/o 270 City Centre, V8C 2H7; fax 250-632-4995; or email to [email protected]. Comments regarding the proposed rezoning must be received before 8:30am on July 31, 2014 to be included in the report to Mayor and Council. Submissions received by email after this deadline but before 4:30pm on Tuesday, August 5, 2014 will be read before Council at the Public Hearing. You may also speak in person, or deliver written comment, at the Public Hearing held Tuesday, August 5, 2014 at 7:30pm at

606 Mountainview Square, Council Chambers.

need more info? The bylaw, Council resolution, staff report, submitted application, and other background material are available for review at www.kitimat.ca/pn and in a handbook at the District of Kitimat Reception Desk, 270 City Centre, 8:30am - noon and 1:00 to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday, excluding BC Day (4 August).

Further inquiries should be directed to Community Planning and Development at 250-632-8910.

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Kitimat Council has taken in a report from the staff which sets out the process for dealing with unsightly premises in Kitimat.

The report from the District’s Deputy Chief Administrative Officer lays out three ways the town can en-force unsightly proper-ties in town. The first is using tickets, and is said to be best used for easily rectified prob-lems, such as brushing the yard or removing debris.

Second is court-or-dered enforcement for clean-up or rehabilita-tion. Finally, the Com-munity Charter allows for remedial action on properties, which does call for an extensive process which brings the matter to council. If work eventually has to be undertaken by the District then that cost is added to that home-owner’s property tax bill.

Historically there have been hurdles to effectively enforcing unsightly properties, notably the legal as-pect. “I know it’s really tough when you’re liv-ing next to something that doesn’t look over-ly great but if it’s some-thing that’s still inhab-itable and it’s more of the aesthetics, it’s something you have to try to work through,” said Warren Waychesh-

en, referring to the dif-ficulty in convincing a court that a home was a nuisance through law, rather than simply be-ing bad looking.

In other communi-ties enforcement has also been met with threats of violence to municipal workers, he

said.The definition of

a ‘nuisance’ property under the Community Charter is “so dilapi-dated or unclean as to be offensive to the community.”

The house, staff’s report continues, must be a nuisance in law

“to the surrounding area, such that it is af-fecting other people’s enjoyment of their properties.” Council-lors were supportive of the three-pronged process the town could take (tickets, court, or remediation) and wel-comed a quicker pace

to deal with properties.“We’ve received

letters and pictures of some very ugly proper-ties and if we can use municipal ticket infor-mation systems to go to the full max...then so be it. Some of these prop-erties, they’re hideous,” said Mario Feldhoff.

Rob Goffinet add-ed during debate that “We’ve been vexed

long enough as a com-munity with this prob-lem.”

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Kitimat council given outline on how to combat unsightly homes

Local volunteers, mostly from the Kitimat Modernization Project, donated their time to sort thousands of empty bottles for the Kitimat Community Humane Society. The 25 volunteers efforts sorted $2,300 worth of empties.

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Will there ever be an end to the saga of Mike Duffy or the other “honourable” senators who have been investigated for their alleged feelings of entitlement to copious taxpayers’ money through their expense claims?

Duffy has been charged with 31 counts of fraud, bribery and other offences against the Crimi-nal Code, by the RCMP, after a pain-fully long investigation process.

Russell Williams was arrested, confessed, went to trial, and was incar-cerated for life in about half the time.

There are many of us, however, who really felt that Mike Duffy would breeze on with his life and that no charges would ever be forthcoming.

But, now that they are reality, Duffy seems to be anxious to get into a court of law where he says the truth will come out, “under oath.”

Which suggests a “not guilty” plea because Duffy continues to insist he has done nothing wrong and that he is a victim in what has come to be known as the “Senate expenses scandal.”

The big question, however, if whether the truth we all want to hear will emerge when and if this case hits the courts and whether or not the courts will permit Canadians to actually hear and report the evidence presented.

Courts have peculiar ways in insti-tuting “publication bans” which make

it very dif� cult for reporters to let peo-ple know what is actually going on in the proceedings.

That big question is “what did Prime Minister Stephen Harper know about Duffy’s predicament and Nigel Wright’s solution to the problem — a gift cheque for $90,000?”

Last week, a new court � ling pro-vided fresh details of the RCMP’s charges against Duffy, alleging he billed taxpayers for a personal trainer, a makeup artist and for personal travel to funerals. A makeup artist?

On Mr. Harper’s behalf, the PMO said he didn’t expect to be asked to tes-tify because he had no relevant infor-mation to provide a court.

The RCMP says it has decided Nigel Wright has done nothing wrong and that they don’t believe the Prime Minister knew anything about what was going on. Thank goodness the RCMP don’t get too choose who Mike Duffy’s legal team (surely this kind of court case is a team effort?) might want to subpoena as witnesses.

But sources suggest we can ex-pect Nigel Wright to appear from behind his cloak of invisibility to explain what took place.

I side with the Opposition that the Prime Minister, under oath, might be able to shed a little more light on his appointee’s behaviour than he has to date. I side with the

Liberals in their call for resumption of the internal federal ethics watch-dog’s Senate probe that ground to a halt when the RCMP announced they were looking into the Senate affairs.

But, as I say, the maneuvering has just begun.

Most Canadians, I think, would like to see the air cleared and would expect the Prime Minister to step up in the witness stand, right hand raised, and demonstrate his frequently voiced belief in transparency and honesty in government. Duffy is back in court Sept. 16, but no one expects any court proceedings to get underway until at least 2015 and this could be uncomfort-ably close to a federal election, where one more time, the honesty, transpar-ency and competency of the Conser-vative Party of Canada will again be under the scrutiny of Canadian voters.

Duffy is likely to be a formidable opponent in court and his lawyer has indicated he believes the best defence is a good offence. Can’t wait for the games to begin.

Senate probe needs to resume

Access and accessibiltityWe are an aging town, it’s true.Of course I don’t mean chronologically; with

each gray hair it’s apparent no one, person or town, is spared from the ticking clock.

What I mean is demographically. Statistics Canada shows the proof. Between

both men and women, in 2011, our population showed shrinkages in all age categories, save for one, those 65 years and wiser. (We all get wiser, not older, correct?)

That demographic went up 16.1 per cent, as each other age group dropped.

(I should also point out I am aware the town is in a different situation this year than 2011, but I bet-ter just stick to the known facts for the time being.)

Back to the point at hand, councillors were dis-cussing developments at the last meeting.

Riverbrook Estates is planning to build ac-cessible apartment buildings with elevators, and a few of their townhouse units are anticipated to be “adaptable” which I’ve taken to mean customizable for people with other needs.

On discussion about the proposed townhouse complex on King� sher near the golf course, there was a late submission from the developer propos-ing about 10 units to be accessible.

I did an article a year or two ago about Kiti-mat’s accessibility and it touched on the fact that there’s a lot of places in town that just aren’t. Even in my personal experience of just pushing a stroller you can see a lot of challenges.

A lot of Kitimat was constructed I’m sure be-fore accessibility was an important factor in devel-opment. But next time you step in to your home, think about how challenging it might be if you couldn’t use your two feet.

I think it’s worth a discussion, given all the construction for homes that are proposed to take place over the coming years, to see whether the town should be altering their bylaws to force devel-opers to provide more accessibility in homes.

I’m no home designer, but with a population that’s increasingly getting older, not younger, it should be vital that many homes are designed and built considering accessibility, or at least with an eye to making them, as the word goes, adaptable for future use.

It’s great that developers are making room for accessible units, but it might be time that it be-comes the norm, not a selling feature.

Cameron Orr

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Oh those Russians.Life was already complicated enough

when it came to BC’s LNG aspirations, but the Russians and Chinese have just cranked it up several notches.

I refer to the late May deal signed be-tween the two that will see a pipeline built that will ultimately carry 3.7 billion cubic feet of gas a day from Russia’s East Sibe-rian gas fields to customer China.

Now there were a couple of things to like about the deal if you were a proponent of a BC LNG plant.

First, it is for 30 years and that is just the sort of long term contract that project proponents here - especially Kitimat LNG - have insisted they need.

Second, the price is linked to that of oil, another must-have for those same pro-ponents.

The bad news is the price.Back in the days of heady optimism

that sparked the LNG “gold rush” and saw the provincial Liberals hitch their election campaign wagon to that rising star, Japan was paying between $15 and $18 per mil-lion British Thermal Unit (mbtu) while Canadian benchmark prices were as low as $3.

Even with the cost of extracting the gas, paying the toll to get the gas delivered by a pipeline company and building the liq-uefaction plant, an LNG export project was clearly a licence to print money.

So what will China be paying the Rus-sians? Consensus says about $10 per mbtu.

Five weeks later it was announced that Indonesia had renewed an admittedly small contract with one of the Chinese prov-inces. Again it was long term - 20 years - and again it was oil-linked. The price was $10.30/mbtu.

So if that is as much as the Chinese are willing to pay, what does that mean for BC projects?

In a column last July I noted that Che-niere, the outfit going full steam ahead with an export plant in Louisiana, estimated that with US natural gas prices of $4 it could de-

liver LNG to Asia at around $10.50/mbtu.And that Janine McArdle, senior vice

president of gas monetization for Apache - don’t you just love those grand titles - had already made it clear that, at that sort of price, Kitimat LNG was a non-starter.

But is that all the Chinese are prepared to pay?

Probably not since they are smart enough not to put all their eggs in one bas-ket and so will want to line up a number of sources, including Canada.

But they will use the Russian contract as a very big stick to persuade any potential new suppliers that they have to significant-ly moderate their price aspirations if they want to sell LNG to them.

There are other price pressure points as well.

There is the possibility of a second Russia-China pipeline to follow the one just agreed to.

Turkmenistan, which already supplies half the current Chinese natural gas needs, is planning to double its output by 2020.

And Chinese domestic production is expected to rise 50 per cent by 2017.

Now, if you add up all those non-Cana-dian supply sources, the total is still short

of the forecast increase in Chinese demand. But those forecasts are based in large

part on the avowed goal of China to phase out its coal fired power plants and replace them with natural gas plants.

And government policy in China, un-troubled by the need to ensure re-election, can change on a dime. In other words, it doesn’t need to hit that goal by any specific date.

So whereas the Russians, given the consequences of their Crimean adventure, needed that deal with China, China doesn’t necessarily need us.

Sure, it will buy our LNG, but only if the price is right. But what they likely consider the right price is almost certainly not enough to persuade B.C. proponents to spend billions of dollars on their projects.

While I would love to be proved wrong, frankly I cannot see the green light being given to any BC LNG project this year. And I have my doubts about even next year.

I’ll give the final word to Jeff Leh-rmann, Chevron Canada president as quot-ed in my November column.

“(Kitimat LNG) may not be for today, but it may be for the future. Something for my kids or their kids.”

Northwest nursing program gets competitiveJosh Massey

Nursing students at Northwest Community College (NWCC) who failed courses were surprised to hear they will not be allowed to continue even after making up the courses, as high demand has forced the college to be stricter in enforcing its sequencing rules.

The Northern Col-laborative Baccalaure-ate Nursing Program is offered in conjunction with the University of Northern British Co-lumbia and College of New Caledonia and re-quires students here to complete two years at NWCC before matric-ulating into their final two years at UNBC.

This year saw eight second year students at NWCC fail one or more classes and redo them in order to catch

up, but were told by the college part way through the spring semester that unlike other years there would be no room for them to continue.

NWCC nursing student Christina Rog-ers has spoken out in an attempt to encourage those who administer the program to support local students and ac-commodate those who retook courses to catch up.

There is room for 24 third year nursing students each year, so if some students fall behind then they risk not being allowed into the program due to lack of space as those in the year behind move for-ward.

Failing a course means they “fall out of sequence” and need to make up for the failed

class before advancing to higher level courses.

According to both the college and the students, typically room opens up in the sequence because of “attrition,” however attrition numbers are low this year and there is more demand over-all to enter nursing programs all over the province.

“In the past you would get a bit of at-trition, so five or six might not continue in their cohort, either be-cause they didn’t pass a course or they decid-ed nursing was not for them, you have some students who drop out part of the way through which allows someone else in,” said NWCC communications di-rector Sarah Zimmer-man. “The program is also becoming much

more competitive.”Rogers said that

she and several of the other students were all retaking their failed courses with the un-derstanding that they would get a second chance.

Rogers said that when a formal notice was sent in April tell-ing her that there was

no space she felt deflat-ed because she had just finished successfully retaking the course she needed to make up.

“The college did not inform us of this information until one week before our fi-nal exams this year in April 2014,” said Rog-ers. “Too late for us to come up with back-up

plans to apply to other schools.”

Rogers highlighted the fact that the region could lose much-need-ed nurses as a result.

NWCC said the students are made aware of the rules re-garding sequencing.

“Students were ad-vised of their marks as they became available

though formal notice was sent in April,” said Zimmerman.

“NWCC is con-tinuing to pursue some complex options that could help find some available seats in the system,” she added.

Part of that com-plexity lies in coordi-nating clinical place-ments, she said.

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B.C. wildfires burning more than usualJeff Nagel

Wildfires in B.C. have already burned up more forest than has usually been lost in recent years, with many weeks of hot, smoky action still ex-pected for firefighting crews.

Fires have burned 166,125 hectares since April 1 – more than the average of 141,000 hectares burned over the previ-ous 10 years.

“It has been quite busy,” fire informa-tion officer Navi Saini said last week. “The danger ratings we saw for the last two weeks were the highest we’d seen since about 2010, which was the last busy fire season.”

In 2010, B.C. lost 337,149 hectares and spent $212 million fighting 1,673 fires.

Evacuation orders were issued for sev-eral communities that year.

There have been 652 fires so far this year and 128 of them were considered ac-tive as of last Tuesday.

The provincial government has so far spent an estimat-ed $80.7 million and more than nine times as much area has al-ready been burned as the 18,259 hectares all of last year.

About 60 per cent of the fires so far have been caused by people – a high proportion – but Saini said that’s typical early in the season, because light-ning-sparked fires tend to pick up later in the summer.

Cooler weather and rain is helping ease the wildfire risk in much of the prov-ince, but Saini said an expected high pres-sure ridge may bring a return to warm, dry conditions.

Thousands of res-idents were ordered evacuated due to wild-fires earlier this month near West Kelowna and Hudson’s Hope, where BC Hydro dams that generate much of B.C.’s power

were also evacuated but continued to oper-ate.

A one hectare fire was also contained in Kitimat on July 17.

Kitimat resident Walter Thorne snapped this picture of a water bomber flying over Kitimat during a wildfire near S t r a w b e r r y Meadows on July 17.

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Are plastic bags on the way out?Cameron Orr

Kitimat Council wants to get a plas-tic waste issue bagged.

Councillor Mary Murphy brought a discussion to the July 21 meeting, with the idea of � guring out a way to ban plastic bags, starting with “abolishing all single-use plastic bags at retail checkout counters,” according to her motion.

The motion as is wasn’t adopted though as Murphy learned that in B.C. communities can’t ban plastic bags that way.

“I don’t know how we can get our heads around it,” she said. “Or whether we can send a letter to the Prime Minister saying we need to be able to make de-cisions within our community on using plastic bags.”

Mario Feldhoff wasn’t keen on out-right banning bags but used the discus-sion to say council should be talking to Multi-Material BC about their programs, which locally is running out of the Kiti-mat Bottle Depot. MMBC had initially indicated it would run door-to-door re-cycling pick-up but that service didn’t materialize in Kitimat and other places where they couldn’t secure contractors.

“I for one am not in favour of ban-ning single use plastic bags. I think that we should move in that direction and en-courage people to re-use their bags, but we have other initiatives to extend the life of our land� ll that we need to follow up on,” added Feldhoff.

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Murphy maintained she felt it was an issue of an emergency nature — the deadline for UBCM motions has passed so any new business would have to fall under ‘emergency’ for the convention — but the matter was ultimately tabled pending a staff report on the issue.

“There’s a lot of good intentions here but I think we need a staff re-port,” said Feldhoff, who moved for the tabling.

SuperValu to become No FrillsCameron Orr

Kitimat’s SuperValu grocery store will see changes in 2015.

The local grocery store — which came alarm-ingly close to shutting its doors earlier this year during lease negotiations — is remaining in the Loblaws chain, but will change from a SuperValu to a No Frills-branded store.

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Monthly police statisticsTo the halfway point of the year, some of

Kitimat’s crime statistics show a mix of num-bers, with some cases on par with last year to certain areas with increases.

That area of increase is motor vehicle act tickets, which this year so far have totalled 241. That’s above all of 2013 which saw 237. In June there were 33 tickets issued.

Kitimat’s staff sergeant has earlier told town council that the increase may actually be to do with a maturing detachment, where of-ficers last year were mostly new members and as the members confidence grows so does their frequency of pull overs.

The detachment is also close to being at a full complement after being short for a number of months.

Assault with a weapon sits at nearly a third of 2013, with 10 total cases (one in June) versus

34 in 2013.Common assault saw 18 cases in June, mak-

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including the recent robbery of a woman at a bank ATM — against seven all of last year.

Shoplifting has seen a rise, sitting at 13 for the year to June (two in June itself). In 2013 there were only six.

We’re just over halfway to the number of cocaine possessions, seven in 2014 so far, and 13 in 2013. There’s been two possession of ec-stasy files this year, one in June, after zero last year.

Marijuana files are at 22, with three in June, against 34 in 2013.

Combined cocaine and other drug traffick-ing total five this year, no files in June. The same combined for 2013 was nine.

Kitimat Council invites refinery proponentsCameron Orr

Although he has some doubts about some of them, Mario Feld-hoff moved on July 21 to invite all oil refinery proponents to come to Kitimat to discuss their projects.

“We should hear them out. We should give them an opportunity to engage with the community and talk about how this is an improve-ment over the diluted bitumen ex-port project,” he said.

Council has already had pre-sentations from Kitimat Clean propoponent David Black (who is also the chairman of Black Press which owns this newspaper) but

there are other oil refinery propos-als for the province, some which could potentially be built in this region.

That includes Pacific Future Energy, which proposes a facility in Prince Rupert.

There is also Eagle Spirit En-ergy, which could potentially ship oil from Prince Rupert’s Grassy Point land.

Although all these projects are publicly proposed, none are at the cusp of development, with a string of regulatory processes to go through before any company can reach a final investment decision.

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Lot 14Mountainview Square

The District of Kitimat has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a 2.37ha (5.86 acre) site in Mountainview Square. The land is vacant and currently zoned C1 City Centre. Proposals will be accepted until 4:30pm, 30 September 2014.A site overview, including detailed planning, municipal servicing, environmental, geotechnical and other considerations for information of prospective proponents is available in the Part 2 Marketing Package of this RFP.Please visit the BC Bid website to see the full RFP: www.bcbid.gov.bc.ca/open.dll/welcome. Select “Browse Using The Advanced Search” and enter Solicitation Number: P-2014-06-06.A convenience copy of this RFP is posted on the Municipal website: www.kitimat.ca. On the Home Page, select “Latest News” and scroll down to “Call for Proposals...”.If you have questions, or wish to submit a proposal, please contact the Director of Community Planning and Development: [email protected],Ph. 250-632-8912.

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Trades, TechnicalCHEVALLIER GEO-CON Ltd. of Rocky Mountain House, Al-berta requires experienced Cat and Hoe Operators, Class 1 Lowbed Driver, Heavy Duty Mechanic and Mechanic’s Helper. Safety tickets required. Please email resume to: [email protected] or fax to 403-844-2735.

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Merchandise for Sale

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Real Estate

Acreage for SaleFOR SALE: 4 Bed, 3 Bath 2008 two-story home on Chase-Falkland Road, 3.5 km from Falkland, BC. 2420 sq ft incl fi nished basement. 240 sq ft deck, and double attached garage complete the home. Asking $419,000. Call 780-723-4132 or [email protected]

For Sale By Owner

Kitimat House for Sale15 Stikine St.

Well maintained, updated, 1,100 sq ft, 3 bdrm house. 1.5 car garage/storage, cov-ered deck and garden shed. $325,000 obo.

250-632-5566

Kitimat House for Sale5 Nass St.

Well maintained, updated, approx. 1,400 sq ft, 3 bdrm house with large family rm. Covered deck and garden shed. $285,000 obo.

250-632-5566

Rentals

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Homes for Rent

KITIMAT House for Sale/Rent

63 Chilko St. - 3 bdr, 1 bath in excellent neighbourhood. This house has a big fenced backyard, including two sheds and fl ower beds. Comes with F/S and W/D.

Call (250)279-8888

Suites, UpperKITIMAT - Spacious, quiet rooms for rent, shared kitchen, laundry, includes utilities, cable and Internet. $700 a month.250-632-4416

Transportation

Cars - Sports & Imports

CLASSIC/COLLECTOR1971 300SEL 3.5 Mercedes Benz. 75,000km. Very good condition, always garaged, never driven in winter. Well maintained. Maintenance records, service/parts book. Manuals. Some spare parts.

250-632-6755Serious inquiries only Please

Transportation

Motorcycles

2007 Suzuki Burgman650cc Executive. Cherry Red. Like new condition. Less than 5000km.$5790 obo. Estate Sale.

250-632-4235

Motorcycle for Sale2003 Harley Davidson 883 Sportster. 8000km.

$5200 obo250-632-4635 (Kitimat)

Boats

32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT

New 370hp John Deere 8.1L Diesel, 2000hrs on engine. Trolling valve, Bow Thruster,

3 Stage Steering. 2 Hydraulic Deep lines,

Hydraulic Trap Puller, 3 Sounders, Radar, 2 Radios.

Com-Dev Auto Pilot, Spare Prop. 8’ Dinghy.

Can be seen at MK Bay Marina.

$65,000.Contact Warren Poff at

250.632-6119

For SaleQuickSilver infl atable

Both soft and hard fl oor. Comes with electric motor and battery. Asking $1700 obo. Call 250-632-4589

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Marlins earn medals at BC Summer GamesSubmitted

The Kitimat Marlins swim club had six swim-mers representing northwest B.C. at the 2014 BC Summer Games in Nanaimo.

There were 13 swimmers total from the north-west region at the games.

To qualify for the games swimmers had to be the fastest swimmers aged 12-15 in their region who were not quali� ed for Canadian western na-tional championships or a higher level.

Zachary Dumas lead the way with a gold in the 1500 meter freestyle.

It was a great race with only 4/100s of a sec-ond separating Dumas from the silver medalist swimmer from Trail in this gruelling 60 length race.

Dumas also took two silver medals in the 400 im and 200 � y and made the � nals (top eight race again for medals each evening) in all his other events placing � fth in the 400 freestyle and 200 im, sixth in the 100 butter� y and 200 backstroke.

Dumas also helped the regional relays. The medley relay � nished � fth while the freestyle re-lay � nished seventh.

Also helping out the boys regional relays was Marlin swimmer Hayden Dobbin.

Dobbin had some big personal best times at the swim meet. Dobbin had his highest individu-al placing in the 1500 meter freestyle placing 11th overall.

July 15Winners of the high net score link-up were;1st place Lori Jardine and Davene D’Amico with a score of 40,2nd place; Sue Jay and Lillian Sanders - 37 on a countback,3rd place; Sharon Adams and Sally Rigoni - 37 on a countback,4th place; Sharon Bruno and Nancy Tormene - 34


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Kitimat Marlins pose with their medals following the BC Summer Games in Nanaimo. Submitted

Laurence Boucher had her best result in the 800 free placing 24th and helped out the regions freestyle relay to an eighth place � nish.

Morgan Winterburn had her best results in the 100 Meter backstroke with a 26th placing.

She also helped the regional

medley relay to a seventh place � n-ish. Also on the medley relay for the Marlins were Madisen Szmata and Vanessa Lamarre. Lamarre had her best individual result in the 200 backstroke placing 31 while Szma-ta had hers in the 100 breaststroke placing 37th.

Golf results

OngoingGARDEN beds are available at the Kiti-mat Community Garden. Call Denise at 250-632-9107 for more information.THE SUMMER Reading Club happens at the Kitimat Public Library Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and at the Haisla Community School on Fridays. This program is loads of fun, free of charge and a great way for children to build on their reading skills throughout the holidays. It’s never too late to reg-ister your child. For more information, call Mia at the library at 250 632 8985.

THE KITIMAT Public Li-brary offers the highly engaging Mother Goose StoryTime for pre-schoolers Monday mornings from 10:30 -11:15 .am. Please

register for this free program.THE BC SENIORS Games will be held in Langley from September 9-13. If you’re interested in joining or would like information contact Bill Whitty at 250-632-2710.KITIMAT PUBLIC Library offers one-on-one reading help for all ages. Contact Mia Craft at the library at 250-632-8985 to schedule your 30 minute appoint-ment.THE KITIMAT QUILTERS Guild meetings are the � rst Thursday of every

month, held at M.E.S.S. Sewing room. All experience levels welcome. (19+) Call Aileen at 250-632-6225 or Wanda at 250-632-4458.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held ev-ery Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Kitimat Child Development Cen-ter. They welcome families throughout pregnancy and up to one year (older sib-lings welcome). Come meet other par-ents and infants over light refreshments with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more informa-tion call 250-632-3144.KITIMAT FIBRE ARTS GUILD: In-terested in knitting, spinning, weaving, or any other � bre? For more information phone Maureen 250-632-5444.

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on a countback;Long drive winners - Nancy Tormene, Sha-ron Bruno and Charlene Nicholson;Closest to the pin - Esther Pretulac, Sharon Bruno and Heather Masch;The deuce pot was won by Esther Pretulac.Stableford winner of a sleeve of balls with a score of 22 was Joan Gray.

July 22Winners by � ight;A � ight1st low gross - Michele Frater - 472nd low gross - Charlotte Nicholson - 481st low net - Carrie Gam-mel - 33.52nd low net - Mary Mur-phy - 35B Flight1st low gross - Helen O’Neill - 55

2nd low gross - Norma Snider - 60 on a countback1st low net - Barb Monti - 35.52nd low net - Cheri Seppala - 39.5 on a countbackLong drive winners; Anita Hauki, Dorit Lindner and Sharon Bruno.Closest to the pin - Anita Vahanikkila & Barb Monti.Deuce pot was shared by Karina Dziuba and Carrie Gammel.

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