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Former resident escapes wildfire

In a campaign to end violence against women and children men involved in the community through council, health and emergency services wore high heels while playing a friendly game of musical chairs. The event was held on Wednesay, May 11 at the Haisla Recreation Centre. Photo by Haisla Nation Council

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The wildfire was at least 1.5 km on the out-skirts of Fort McMurray. Katie Seggie wasn’t concerned. She heard that fire crews had it under control. That was on Sunday, May 1. The next day, Seggie was at home with her fiancé, Aaron Belanger, and they heard over the radio that the fire reached the fence line and was lighting up the south end of town.

Seggie grew up in Kitimat. Her father, David, worked as a purchaser at Alcan for more than 20 years and her mother, Ann, worked at the hospital. Seggie went to Nechako Elementary School with her sister and to Mount Elizabeth Secondary School before moving to Fort McMurray 14 years ago.

Kitimat was going through a bust at the time. There were layoffs at Alcan, and the promise of a boom in Fort McMurray drew the family to the oil town.

“There wasn’t a lot going on so we headed for Fort McMurray, Alberta, just like a lot of other people,” Seggie said.

More than a week after the mandatory evacu-ation from the city, Seggie is with her fiancé and their dog Gracie in Athabasca — a 300 kilometre drive south of Fort McMurray.

“We’re staying in a four-wheel camper with a good friend. We’re looking for more permanent accommodations at the moment because we don’t know how long we’ll be away from home. It’s been an adventure that’s for sure,” she said.

When the wildfire spread to the south end of the city, Seggie and Belanger still felt safe in their home. They lived in the north end, about 10 kilometres from the fire. Belanger’s family lived in the south and when they were evacuated they

Shannon Lough(with files from Tom Fletcher)

A drug that can actually reverse an opioid overdose is on its way to Kitimat.

Opioids, such as morphine, metha-done, heroin, OxyContin or fentanyl can cause a user to go into cardiac or respi-ratory arrest — an overdose — and the drug, naloxone, can stop it.

Naloxone is the antagonist to opi-oids. Take home naloxone kits have been available in some areas of the prov-ince, including Vancouver, Victoria and Kelowna, since 2012.

This month, Northern Health ap-proved Kitimat to be a registered nalox-one site.

“It actually saves people’s lives,” said Davey MacLennan, the co-chair for the harm reduction committee at Kitimat Community Services.

MacLennan is one of the three peo-ple qualified, as well as two nurses at the hospital, to educate residents on nalox-one.

“It doesn’t mean that we’re going to

see more people using higher amounts because they have this drug with them. People using opioids don’t want the high to be reversed because it’s actually quite a violent quick reversal that lasts long enough for emergency services to get there.”

Naloxone is injected and lowers the effect of an opioid drug for 15 minutes and wears off in 30 minutes.

The drug works by binding to the same site in the brain where the opioids bind and then it pushes the opioids out.

MacLennan said they ordered the naloxone supplies last week and once they arrive doctors will be able to pre-scribe naloxone kits to people who do require to have the kit on hand.

Last year, there were 465 illicit drug overdose deaths reported in the province, which was a 27 per cent increase from 2014. Many of those deaths were from opioids.

On Thursday, the Health Minister Terry Lake Health Minister Terry Lake said there were 56 overdose cases report-ed in April, and the province has seen an average of 60 a month since January.

Half of those cases are related to fen-tanyl, a potent synthetic opioid increas-ingly showing up in street drugs.“People don’t know they’re taking it, and it’s 100 times more powerful than

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drove north to their son’s home, which took them two hours.“His parents came up to our house thinking, ‘We’ll stay here for a few days, it’ll be okay.’

A couple hours after they got to our house everywhere ended up getting evacuated,” Seggie said.

From there, it took 11 hours non-stop to find a safe place to stay with a friend in Athabasca.

There was nowhere to pull over on the side of the road, so Seggie and Belanger drove until they ran out of gas.

Their friend met them at 4 a.m. with gas to help them make it all the way to his home in Athabasca.

The concern and support has kept Seggie in good spirits.

“I’ve had so many calls from friends and family from Kitimat. It’s been incredible,” she said.

Unlike many evacuees who have posted on Facebook about the strange things they took with them and the essentials, such as socks and underwear, that they forgot, Seggie and her fiancé had a bit more time to pack.

Seggie said she began to panick as soon as the fire hit the Thickwood area, a neighbour-hood near Timberlea where they lived.

She instantly prepared in case they had to leave.

She packed two suitcases with five days worth of clothes and their photo albums.

She even grabbed the com-puter tower and anything else they didn’t think they could re-place.

The oddest item she took

with her was the mailbox key. “I thought, ‘You never know

I might have to check my mail’ and then I got to Athabasca and I was like, ‘if our house is gone chances are so is the mailbox’,” she said followed by a laugh.

More than 80,000 residents were evacuated from Fort Mc-Murray.

After the wildfires moved on from the city, emergency crews found that 85 per cent of the infrastructure remains.

But the Albertan govern-ment still isn’t allowing resi-dents to return.

There is some good news for Seggie and her family. She knows some of the emergency crew members who are working in the city.

One of the fire fighters was in her neighbourhood and took a photo of their home and sent it via text.

“That got us extremely emo-tional. It’s still there. It’s still standing,” she said.

Even her parents, her sister and Belanger’s family’s homes are still intact.

“We’ve worked so hard for everything and just being able to see your house still standing is a good feeling.”

The wild� re as it raged near the Seggie and Belanger home. Photo contributed by Katie Seggie.

Katie Seggie and her � ancé, Aaron Belanger, with their dog Gracie safe and sound. Photo contributed by Katie Seggie

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Smooth operators

The damaged Kitimat Air Park landing strip was � xed as good as new on Thursday, May 12, after Kentron Construction donated nine workers, equipment and the material to smooth out the pavement — which would have cost $5,000. Last fall, Flying Club members noticed large ruts in two sections of the landing stip. No one has owned up to causing the damage. The members considered getting it repaired, but as Bob Rypma, the president of the Flying Club, said, “It’s more than we could afford.” It would have cost approximately $5,000 but Kentron did the work for free. Shannon Lough

“That got us extremely emotional. It’s still there. It’s still standing.”

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated - at length - in Question Pe-riod last week that Canada’s election system has seen the last of its “� rst past the post” processes, which so of-ten results in a majority government elected by 40 per cent or fewer of the electorate and leaving 60 per cent or more of Canadian voters feeling under-represented.

Successive majority governments have stressed dissatisfaction with this and declared Canada needs to devise a new means to improve the proportional representation of voters who wind up represented as they voted in a new Par-liament.

Then successive majority govern-ments have ignored the issue blandly for - well for as long as it takes to make no progress for any upcoming election.

Sure there’s always a lot of talk about it - debate, podcasts, op-ed ar-ticles, and videos and sound bites in our beloved main media - but time soon runs out without any consen-sus and another “� rst past the post”

election ensues.Since Confederation, there have

been only six governments take of� ce with more than 50 per cent of the popu-lar vote.

The subject is annually on each party’s prime promises list -- and was in Justin Trudeau’s election commit-ments last. And with his chronic cosci-entious need to meet his promises (in selected issues) Trudeau’s allowed six months to pass before explaining how the Liberals plan to make this happen for 2019.

And the band played “Waltzing Matilda” while the stuff hitting the fan � ew everwhere.

Nobody - Liberals aside - liked the proposals or the December 1 deadline.

On CTV and CBC -- the double power panels assembled to bleat that the Liberals were stacking the deck for a Liberall- bene� cial result when it announced an all party study commit-tee -- including elected Green Party and Bloc representatives - but with neither permitted a vote - while the Liberals have six voting members, the Conservatives three and the NDP one. Harrumph! Only the Liberals liked that strategy. Other leaders blasted the pro-posals as a set-up...demanding a public referendum - seemingly a contentious issue given the Liberal timeline.

Mixed member or addition mem-ber proportional representation are among the popular names for the hoped for outcome.

It sounds simple - but is in fact quite complicated. It’s attraction is that it seems to work well in many other jurisdictons - including the UK and Germany.

Let me “borrow” from Wikipedia to get an explanation.

Proportional or first to the post

Passing the school bus

Where is the traf� c in Kitimat? How could any driver be in such a rush that they felt it was vital to pass a school bus that has stopped to load its pre-cious cargo.

But for some reason, passing stopped school buses seems to be a problem in the smaller com-munities or on the back roads where there is little to no traf� c.

When I learned that the Kitimat RCMP had the initiative to ride on the school bus to monitor the situation, I was immediately transported back to a memory from my school days that I won’t ever forget.

I went to high school in Ontario, situated beside an apple orchard and on the edge of Brampton, a bustling multicultural city. I lived 45 minutes away and would often take the “late bus” after participat-ing in whatever sports team I was on for the season.

On the way home from the � rst rugby practice of the year it was still light out. My friends and I had packed the late bus. We were riding along the back country roads dropping all the farmer kids off before heading to the small town subdivisions.

A towering Grade 10 player on the team, Brittany, stepped off the bus. I remember looking outside, watching her lower down onto the shoulder of the dirt road still in her grass stained rugby shorts when out of nowhere a truck passed the bus on the inside and clipped Brittany.

All the students on the bus saw it happen, yet the driver continued zooming down the road with-out a concern for the teenage girl he’d just hit.

The rest of the after-school kids waited on the bus while the police interviewed each of us to de-termine what we saw. Of course none of us remem-bered the licence plate number, and I don’t think the driver was ever caught.

Our parents were concerned as well. This is before the days that everyone had a cell phone. We couldn’t tell them we were scared, sad, and had to wait hours on the bus because some idiot was in a rush.

Brittany was lucky in a way. The man’s truck only hit her knee, which put her out for the rugby season, but after her recovery she played on the team the following season.

It still baf� es me that a driver would ever think that it would be okay to pass a bus that has its lights on, stop sign out. We all know that means students are boarding or exiting that lit up bus.

Yes, it sucks being stuck behind a bus that stops and starts up along your route home or to work, but that may be the only traf� c that driver’s in Kitimat have to deal with. It’s not worth the $167 � ne, and it’s certianly not worth harming a child.

Shannon Lough

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Shannon LoughAll the ducks have lined up to replace an old wooden

playground at Saint Anthony’s Catholic School.It has taken three years of fundraising, grant applica-

tions and requests for the parent advisory council (PAC) to raise the necessary funds to build a new playground.

The chair of PAC, Joanne Demelo, said the estimat-ed cost is at $91,700 and through fundraisers the parents raised $50,000 for the Saint Anthony’s Playground Project.

On May 9, PAC appealed to the Kitimat Council for another $15,400 to cover the remaining costs of the project.

“I think it’s prudent that we can do it. I look forward to the new playground,” councillor Rob Goffinet said.

They council agreed with Goffinet. They found the re-quest reasonable and the surrounding neighbourhood will have access to the playground as well. Council has assisted other schools in the district and felt they should extend the same support to Saint Anthony’s.

“We are ecstatic,” Demelo said.“We did our first presentation March and then they ta-

belled it. We had to go back to them to say how we were going to reduce our costs and what we were going to need from them.”

The initial ask was for a $30,000 grant from council. PAC had difficulty accessing some grants as PAC repre-

sents a private or religious school, it’s not a charitable or-ganization and the time lines for some of the grants didn’t meet the needs of the project.

“Because we’re an independent school we have to do a lot of fundraising on our own and we don’t get the same kind of support as the school district gives the public schools,” Demelo said.

With a little more digging, PAC wrangled up some in-kind donations to cover an additional $10,600 of the costs.

Some of the companies donating time and materials to the playground include T Reilly Contracting, Beam Contract-ing and Sandhill will provide all the pea gravel. There are many volunteers who have also offered their time and en-ergy to help build the playground. Now that PAC has the money they were hoping for, they are ready to order the metal playground with plans to install it by August.

The school has agreed to maintain the playground once it’s built.

Shannon LoughThe conversation

around public health and illicit drug deals along the Kingfisher and Albatross Avenues has come to light since a member of the pub-lic enlightened coun-cil about the issue on April 18.

The Oceanview and Viewpoint apart-ment complex is zoned as a multi-family resi-dential building with 15 buildings and 200 suites but when the new property manager, Sarina St. Germaine, moved into Kitimat last September, she discovered that some buildings and ten-ants were involved in drugs.

“To the best of my knowledge I’ve evict-ed all my troublemak-ers and more specifi-cally the drug dealers,” St.Germaine said to council.

However, “In the past couple of months there has been a sig-nificant increase in vehicle and foot traf-fic and drug related transactions that have

occurred on my prop-erties and around my properties.”

She reported the activities to the RCMP, and then she repeated her concerns to the councillors who ques-tioned if she had prop-er lighting or security cameras set up around the apartment complex — she does.

“It doesn’t have to be dark, it (a drug deal) can happen at 9 a.m. in the morning,” St.Germaine said. “I want to live in a safe community.”

Councillor Rob Goffinet applauded her presentation and sug-gested she meet with the RCMP to discuss what can be done.

“We don’t know, but I think we’d be open to suggestions from you and especial-ly the RCMP. You’re asking something that we all want for Kiti-mat,” he said.

A week following the council meeting, St. Germaine met with the RCMP.

Sgt. Morgan Gra-ham said the RCMP

will be following up with St. Germaine. The RCMP will also encourage foot patrols through the Oceanview buildings and property.

“We are aware of buildings that are more problematic than others. We will be tar-geting individuals in those buildings who are doing criminal ac-tivity,” Graham said.

“We are able to do more surveillance and project oriented police work which will target the criminal activity and the drug dealers that do frequent that area,” he said.

The RCMP some-times meet with com-munity health pro-viders and the harm reduction committee. Graham said there are two areas in the com-munity where drug us-ers can pick up needles in a discrete manner so that users don’t have to use dirty needles.

Co-chair for the harm reduction com-mittee at Kitimat Community Services, Davey MacLennan, runs one of those sites

from Monday to Fri-day out of the hospital on the first floor.

They provide a safe needle exchange and harm reduction supplies including al-cohol swabs, gauzes

and tubing for pipes if someone is smoking.

The committee is actively looking for community partners to be a satellite site for better access for harm reduction supplies,

including the safe dis-carding of needles. The hospital site is only open from Mon-day to Friday and the committee wants ac-cess to extend beyond those hours.


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Grade 4/5 students at Saint Anthony’s Catholic School on the old wooden playground that will be replaced by a metal one by August. Photo by Shannon Lough

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Council and RCMP look to ramp up action against drug-related activities in Kitimat

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Rate is often the key factor in the deci-sion-making process, but depending on your circumstances, other factors may be equally important—things like flexibility and pre-payment options for example.

A “closed” mort-gage has a longer, set term (usually six months to 10 years) and limited prepay-ment options. If you decide to refinance, renegotiate or pay out the mortgage before your term ends, a pen-

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In its simplest it-eration, “proportional representation is a system used to elect a country’s government.

If proportional representation is used in an election, a po-litical party that wins 10% of the vote, will win 10% of the seats in parliament and a party that wins 20% of the vote, will win 20% of the seats.

If a party wins over 50% of the vote, it wins over 50% of the seats and can form a government, however this does not happen very often because most countries have lots of different politi-cal parties. If no party wins over 50% of the vote, then a coali-tion government usu-ally has to be formed, where a government is formed from two or more different political parties, who together have over 50% of the seats in parliament.

Countries which use proportional repre-sentation include: Ar-gentina, Belgium, Bra-zil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece and Iceland. Ireland, Austria, Israel, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Ro-mania, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Swit-zerland and Turkey. Countries which have systems that are simi-lar or use semi-pro-portional representa-tion include: Australia, Germany, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Thailand and Wales.” Not all of these coun-tries of course use the same systems.

Get it? No - neither do I. If it works so well in so many places, why has it taken Canada so long and how, when we tackle it, could we come up with such uni-versally decried pro-posal from the Liber-als?

E a s y - C a n a d i a n politicians really don’t want to risk their ma-jorities. It got the Lib-erals their big permit from the public to

overturn virtually ev-erything the Conserva-tives did in the past five years. And as they hon-

eymoon gets blarred by national issues - Muslim immagration, indigenous issues,

wildfires and econom-ic collapse in the vital oil business - muddy-ing the waters on elec-

toral reform plays into Liberals plans because they can blame the op-position for delays that

result in anothe regular election three years from now.

Yes, early days yet

- and so many issues to deal with - anything can happen. Expect it to occur.

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On December 10, 2015, the British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission) received a letter of complaint dated December 8, 2015

from Mr. Adrian Dix, which makes a number of statements and allegations against British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority (BC Hydro)

pertaining to its conversion to SAP as its Information Technology platform.

Upon review of the Complaint, related materials, and response documents from BC Hydro, on April 28, 2016, the Commission ordered a

proceeding to review BC Hydro’s SAP expenditures related to the adoption of the SAP platform.

How to get involved

Persons who are directly or sufficiently affected by the Commission’s decision or have relevant information or expertise and that wish to

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ProportionalContinued from page 4


Shannon Lough

There is an ebb and � ow of people who come to live in Kitimat — the North-ern Sentinel will be looking at the stories of those who choose to stay.

He thought they were � reworks.His family lived in a neighbourhood

on a hill, and at night young Alex Ramos-Espinoza would watch the � ares light up the sky and listen for the boom of the bombs.

It was 1988 when his family decided it was time to leave El Salvador before the civil war spread to the capital city.

Thirteen years later, Ramos-Espinoza would start his career in Kitimat, meet his wife and raise three kids. His epic jour-ney by bus and car with 12 other refugees, through Guatemala, Mexico, the U.S. and � nally Canada is one of the reasons he de-cided to settle in northern B.C.

It is estimated that more than one mil-lion people from El Salvador � ed during the civil war when the country’s popula-tion was approximately � ve million. It is estimated the war claimed the lives of 75,000 citizens.

Ramos-Espinoza was 10-years-old when his parents mortgaged their home and sold all their belongings to pay a coy-ote — a people smuggler — to help them escape to Canada.

“They know the shifts when the guards are changing. They know certain guards that they can bribe. Every time you went to a different border crossing there was a certain time that you had to do it,” Ramos-Espinoza said. They usually moved late at night.

It took one month to get to the U.S.-Canadian border. When they escaped Mexico, Ramos-Espinoza remembers a hill they had to cross in Tijuana.

“You have the Mexican side and across the other hill is the U.S. Everybody is waiting there late at night. Then there’s a shift change. That’s when we started walking across,” he said.

It was an adventure to him, but he knew his parents were scared. When they reached the U.S. they had to run across the freeway then travelled under a drain-age channel. On the other side, the coyote had a car waiting for them.

His parents squeezed into the trunk of the car, and he lay on the backseat with his brother.

They had to hide for fear of being de-ported back south.

His family wanted to go north to Can-ada because they had an uncle in Vancou-ver who said it is a great country to live in.

But the coyotes had another trick up their sleeve to squeeze more money out of Ramos-Espinoza’s family and the oth-

er refugees. They put them all in a safe house where there were at least 50 or 60 people packed inside.

“You’ve seen it in the shows. It’s ex-actly the same thing. Just waiting for the families to pick them up. At the safe house the coyote says, ‘We need more money’,” Ramos-Espinoza said.

Another uncle was living in the U.S., and the coyotes phoned him saying they couldn’t release the family until they got more money. They paid the smugglers and the family was released.

From there, the uncle who was living in Vancouver drove down to L.A. with his son in a small Pontiac “pony car” and ev-

eryone crammed into the seats and drove to the Canadian border.

They applied for refugee status and were told to wait once again.

The family spent two months in Bell-ingham with a church group that gave them shelter.

Then the day they had waited for � -nally came, December 7, “It’s still pretty clear in my mind,” he said.

Ramos-Espinoza moved to Vancouver at � rst, then to Oliver, where he graduat-ed from high school. He decided that he wanted to be a civil engineer and he got his diploma at B.C. Institute of Technol-ogy, and then his degree at Lakehead Uni-versity in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

He started looking for jobs, and then saw a posting in Kitimat.

“I decided to apply. One of the tough-est questions they asked me was if I liked rain?” He said with a laugh. “I said, ‘I don’t mind it.’ I came up and that was in August 2001. My � rst memory is coming down that hill and it was pouring rain.”

It’s been 15 years since then. Kitimat

is the longest place that he’s ever lived. Within six months he met his wife, Em-ily, who had also just moved to town. Her father was working for Rio Tinto and she never thought she would stay. But they fell in love, and eventually bought a house together.

When Emily was pregnant with their � rst child, they made the decision to stay in Kitimat. The couple had spent so much of their lives moving around they didn’t want the same for their children.

“The school system is small and all the kids love it. They all know each other, and all the friends and families are all to-gether and they look after each other,” he said.

He also became a partner in his com-pany, Lapointe Engineering, which was purchased by Hatch last year.

For his kids and to be more connected with the community he joined the Kitimat Youth Soccer Association.

“It’s hard to believe I came from El Salvador to Kitimat,” he said. “But this is where I want to be.”

Alex Ramos-Espinoza started his career and his family in Kitimat after � eeing civil war in El Salvador when he was 10-years-old. Photo by Shannon Lough

El Salvador refugee to soccer dad

You have the Mexican side and across the other hill is the U.S. Everybody is waiting there late at night.”“

SCHOLARSHIPSMost Outstanding

Jr. Performer, Munson Family Scholarship, $250, Karlie Fudger

Most Outstanding Intermediate Performer, Rio Tinto Alcan, $500, Aria Viveiros

Most Outstanding Sr. Performer, Knights of Columbus, $1,000, Magda Vandenberg

AWARDS OF EX-CELLENCE

Brass - Intermedi-ate, Fusion Eyecare Doctors of Optometry - $150, Tiyanee Stevens

Dance - Intermedi-ate, Cote Award - $150, Bailey Rae

Dance - Junior, Flynn Award - $100, Ruby Ferlaino

Dance - Senior, Gemmas Boutiques Award - $200, Kennedy Gill

Guitar - Intermedi-ate, Rotary Club of Terrace Award - $150, Deirdre Lind

Guitar - Junior, Cop-perside Foods Award - $100, Ty Giesbrecht

Piano - Intermedi-ate, Crystal Thomas Award - $150, Nicole Hepling

Piano - Junior, Ter-race Academy of Music Award - $100, Madison Sommerfeld

Piano - Senior, Al Lehmann - $100, Eun-bee Kang

Piano - Senior, Aca-dia Northwest Mech-anical - $100, Eunbee Kang

Speech Arts - Jun-ior, Park Avenue Med-ical Clinic - $100, Iris Striker

Speech Arts - Inter-mediate, Order of the Royal Purple Lodge

216 - $150, Emily An-drews

Speech Arts - Senior, Munson Family - $200, Sophia Zanardo

Strings - Junior, Canadian Tire - $100, Jayden Rogers

Strings - Senior, Ter-race Home Hardware Bulding Centre, $200, Michaela Julseth

Vocal - Junior, Ginny Lowrie Award - $100, Julia Yoo

Vocal - Intermediate, Park Avenue Medical Clinic - $150, Paige McKay

Vocal - Senior, Leah Owens Memorial - $200, Miranda Juer-gensen

Woodwind - Inter-mediate, Jim Steele Me-morial - $150, Emily Barron

BANDMcDaniel Trophy,

Junior Stage Band, Prince Rupert Middle School Jazz Band

McDonalds Restau-rant Trophy, Level B200 or B300 Band, St. An-thony’s Grades 7, 8 & 9 Band

Munson Enterprises Award, Senior Stage Band - $500, Caledon-ia Jazz Band

Rio Tinto Alcan Trophy, Most Promis-ing Band Level B400, Mount Elizabeth High School Band

Terrace Community Band Trophy, Grade 6 - 8 Band, Skeena Grade 7 Concert Band

XI Beta Mu Trophy, Most Promising Band, Levels B500 & B600, Terrace Community Band

BRASSGeier Waste Services

Award, Highest Mark

Brass Solo – $100, Au-tumn Dimitrov

CHORALBank of Montreal

Trophy, Secondary School Choir (Adjudi-cators Choice), Cal-edonia Concert Choir

Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award - Choir, Community and Church Choirs (Adjudicators Choice) - $100, Sine Nomine

Rotary Club of Ter-race Award - Choir, Primary School Choir - $100, Veritas Grade 3

Terrace Kinsman Trophy, Elementary School Choir, Veritas Voices Girls Choir

DANCEAll Seasons Source

for Sports Award, Highest Mark Junior Jazz Dance Solo - $50, Braya Kluss

Art in Motion Award, Highest Mark Classical Ballet Group - $75, Contemporary Collective “Dance of the Gypsies”

Art in Motion Award, Highest Mark Contemporary Duet or Trio - $100, Sarah Jep-sen and Hayley Houl-den

Art in Motion Award, Highest Mark Contemporary Solo - $75, Katrina Duong

Art in Motion Award, Highest Mark Inter-mediate Stage Dance Group - $75, Contem-porary Collective “I Was Here”

Cafenara Coffee Shop Award, High-est Mark Senior Jazz Dance Solo - $100, So-phia Franco

Carlson Award,

Highest Mark Jazz Musical Interpretation Solo - $100, Gillian Jardim

Cedar River Physio-therapy Award, Highest Mark Variety Dance Solo - $75, Taylor Jackson

Cedar River Physio-therapy Award, Highest Mark Ballet Musical In-terpretation Solo - $75, Gillian Jardim

Cedar River Physio-therapy Award, Highest Mark Modern Dance Solo - $75, Kaia Jack-son

Cedar River Physio-therapy Award, Highest Mark Tap Dance Solo - $75, Tylie Wong

Comfort Award, Highest Mark Dance Duet or Trio - $75, Dance Unlimited “Catch and Release”

Dance Academy of Prince Rupert Award,

Highest Mark Acrobatic Solo - $50, Addie Pot-tle

Dance Academy of Prince Rupert Award, Highest Mark Classic-al Ballet Solo - 10 and under - $50, Libby Fer-laino

Dance Academy of Prince Rupert Award, Highest Mark Music Theatre Dance Solo - $50, Gianna Evans

Dance Academy of Prince Rupert Award, Highest Mark Song and Dance Solo - $50, Lola Clouthier

Free Elements Dance Studio Award, Highest Mark Senior Lyrical Solo - $100, So-phia Franco

Free Elements Dance Studio, Highest Mark Modern Musical Interpretation - $100, Erin Axelson


Pacific Northwest Music Festival– The region’s top talent across a variety of arts –

Continued on page 11

Snap shots of some of Kitimat’s performers are showcased here. The Kitimat Dance Academy young kids group in photo above. Photos by Robin Willis.

Kevin Eastman performing his version of the wolf’s side of the story of the Three Pigs.

McDonalds Res-taurants Award, High-est Mark Senior Stage Dance Groups - $100, Contemporary Col-lective “I Have Noth-ing”

MNP LLP Award, Highest Mark Original Dance Choreography - $50, Kennedy Gill

Prince Rupert Arts Council Trophy, High-est Mark Classical Bal-let Solo - 11 and 12, Karlie Fudger

Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award, Highest Mark Street Dance Solo - $75, Tylie Wong

Prince Rupert Ro-tary Club Award, High-est Mark Junior Lyrical Solo - $75, Ruby Fer-laino

Rotary Club of Ter-race Trophy, Highest Mark Junior Stage Dance Group, E-Mo-tion “Pocahontas Goes to London”

Spectrum City Dance Award, High-est Mark Jazz Group - $100, Dance Unlimited “Americano”WOODD FAMILY Award, Highest Mark Classical Ballet - 13 to Open - $100, Kennedy Gill

GUITARNeifer Family

Award, Highest Mark Intermediate to Open Classical Guitar Solo - $100, Azaariah Marrelli

Tchernoussoff Tro-phy, Highest Mark Jun-ior Classical Guitar Solo, Ty Giesbrecht

MISCELLANEOUSAnne Townsend

Trophy, Grades K-7 Enthusiasm and Musi-cality - Adjudicators Choice, Uplands Ele-mentary - Grade 4 Ukeleles

Flying Fish Award, Highest Mark Original Composition (Music, Vocal, or Speech) - $50, Briana Greer

James MacFarlane Memorial Award, Best Overall Adult/Child Presentation - $75, Kemper and Kerri Weightman & Kate and Dave Durrant (tie)

Nenninger Family Award, Highest Mark Older Beginners - $75, Bethany Kaberry

PIANOAl Lehmann Award,

Highest Mark Senior Baroque Composers - $50, Marrick Zips

All Seasons Source for Sports Award, High-est Mark Junior Can-adian Composers - $50, Keyara Knight

Allan Dubeau Award, Highest Mark Senior 20th and 21st Century Composers - $100, Jeremy Baker

Canadian Tire Award, Highest Mark Senior Canadian Com-posers - $100, Julia Yoo

Carlyle Shepherd & Co Award, Highest Mark Senior Piano Solo - $100, Lawrence Liu

Eugene H. Thomas Award, Highest Mark Senior Bach - $125, Eunbee Kang

J. Coosemans Award, Highest Mark Romantics - Other than German and Chopin - $75, Eunbee Kang

Janet Felber Trophy, Highest Mark Junior Piano Conservatory, Nathan Bahr

Jean and Frank Fro-ese Memorial Award, Highest Mark Junior Bach, Konrad Ferec

Kitimat Music Scholarship Soci-ety Award, Highest Mark Sonatina - $100, Brooke Viveiros

Leff le r-S tephens Award, Highest Mark Senior Baroque Com-posers, - $50, Merrick Zips

Nechako Northcoast Construction Award, Highest Mark Junior Piano Solo - $50, Alex Lecky

Northern Savings Credit Union Award, Highest Mark Piano Duets, Trios or Quar-tets - $150, Olivia Feldhoff and Madison Sommerfeld

Noteworthy Piano Service Award, Highest Mark Junior and Inter-mediate Baroque Com-posers - $75, Camryn Oliveira

Park Avenue Medic-al Clinic Award, High-est Mark Chopin - $75, Madison Sommerfeld

Park Optometry, Highest Mark Popular Selections - $75, Mat-thew McDicken

Phillips Family Award, Highest Mark Sonata or Concert Group - $100, Nicole Hepting

Pizza Hut Award, Highest Mark French Impressionists - $75, Julia Yoo

Prince Rupert Rotary Club Award, Highest

Mark Beethoven - $75, Marrick Zips

Ray Johnson Award, Highest Mark Senior Piano Conservatory - $100, Jeremy Baker

Rotary Club of Ter-race Award, Highest Mark Intermediate Canadian Composers - $75, Michaela Mat-thews

Royal Canadian Legion Branch #13 Award, Highest Mark Intermediate Piano Conservatory - $50, Alex Lecky

Terrace Kinsmen Award, Highest Mark Junior 20th and 21st Century Composers - $75, Claire Demelo

Tim Hortons Award, Highest Mark Inter-mediate 20th and 21st Century Composers - $75, Alex Lecky

Warner Bandstra Brown Award, Highest Mark German Roman-tics - $100, Madison Sommerfeld

Westland Insurance Award, Highest Mark Mozart and Haydn - $75, Celine Liu

SPEECH ARTSCrampton Person-

al Law Corp Award, Highest Mark Poetry and Prose - Duets and Trios - $75, Jayden Rogers, Zachary Car-lyle and Alex Syd

Eila and Glenys George Award, Highest Mark Public Speaking - 2nd year and up - $50, Riley Pedro

Eila George Award, Highest Mark Public Speaking - 1st year - $50, Zachary Carlyle

Elan Travel Ltd. Award, Highest Mark Narrative Poetry Sen-ior - $100, Emily An-drews

Michael Strymecki Memorial Trophy, Highest Mark Choral Speaking (Kindergart-en to Gr 3), Uplands Grade 2 & Veritas Grade 2 (tie)

Mike and Joan Brady Award, Highest Mark Spoken Poetry (Lyric) Senior - $100, Magda Vandenberg

Misty River Books Award, Highest Mark Spoken Poetry (Lyric) Intermediate - $75, Iris Striker

Misty River Books Award, Highest Mark Recital Group - $75, Emily Andrews

On Cue Players Award, Highest Mark Canadian Poetry - 12 and under - $100, Han-nah Link

On Cue Players Award, Highest Mark Canadian Poetry - 13 and over - $130, Han-nah Durrant

Prince Rupert Ro-tary Club Award, High-est Mark Narrative Poetry Intermediate - $75, Zachary Carlyle

Robin McColl Memor-ial Trophy, Highest Mark Spoken Poetry (Lyric) Junior, Ana Punta

Rotary Club of Ter-race Award, Highest

Mark Narrative Poetry Junior - $50, Rohan Cooper

Royal Bank Trophy, Highest Mark Choral Speaking (Grades 4 to Open), Suwilaawks Community School - Grade 4

Royal Canadian Le-gion Ladies Auxiliary Award, Highest Mark Group Presentations – $100, All Girls Shake-speare Group

Superior Linen Award, Highest Mark Improvisation and Mime - $75, Sophia Zanardo

Terrace Concert So-ciety Award, Highest Mark Prose - $100, Magda Vandenberg

Terrace Little The-atre Trophy, Highest Mark Dramatic Arts, Kevin Eastman

Terrace Minister-ial Association Award, Highest Mark Bible Reading Solo, Mi-chaela Matthews

STRINGSCafenara Coffee

Shop Award, Highest Mark Strings Conserv-atory - $100, Julia Yoo

Eagle Ridge For-estry Award, Highest Mark Harp - Intermedi-ate and Senior - $100, Sasha Haldane

Haldane Award, Highest Mark Junior Harp - $50, Mikyle Strydom

Harold Doug-las Brown Memorial Award, Highest Mark Strings - Junior - $50,

Randi SorensenRoyal Bank Award,

Highest Mark Strings – Intermediate and Senior - $50, Jayden Rogers

Terrace Symphony Orchestra, Highest Mark Strings Duets, Trios or Ensembles - $100, Inverary Intermedi-ate Harp Ensemble “Brai’Gh Loch lall”

VOCALAcadia Northwest

Mechanical Award, Highest Mark Junior Music Theatre - $50, Madelin Berschamin-ski

Bandstra Transpor-tation Award, Highest Mark Vocal Conserv-atory Classes - $100, Aria Viveiros

Dr. B. L. Phillips Award, Highest Mark Classical Vocal Duets, Trios, Ensembles - $100, Inverary Inter-mediate Vocal Ensem-ble “Clouds”

Kitimat Concert As-sociation Award, High-est Mark Pop Vocal - $100, Eden Viveiros

Lorraine Johnstone Memorial Award, Highest Mark 20th & 21st Century Compos-ers Solo - $100, Aria Viveiros

National Car Rental Award, Highest Mark Junior Vocal Solo - $50, Gabriel Palapar

Nechako Northcoast Construction Award, Highest Mark Inter-mediate Music Theatre - $75, Julia Yoo

Rotary Club of Ter-race Award, Highest Mark Music Theatre Duet, Trio, Ensembles - $150, Inverary Vocal Ensemble “School Song” & Inverary Ensemble “One Short Day” (tie)

Sine Nomine Award, Highest Mark Folk Song Solo - $100, Paige McKay

Spotless Cleaners Award, Highest Mark Intermediate Vocal Solo - $75, Julia Yoo

Theatre Alive So-ciety Award, Highest Mark Senior Music Theatre - $100, Mir-anda Juergensen

Totem Furniture & Appliances Award, Highest Mark Senior Vocal Solo - $100, Mir-anda Juergensen

WOODWINDAcadia Northwest

Mechanical Award, Highest Mark Wood-wind Conservatory Solo - $100, Emily Barron

Bank of Montreal Award, Highest Mark Woodwind Solo, Junior - $50, Nicole Hepting

Nenninger Family Award, Highest Mark Woodwind Duets, Trios and Ensembles - $100, Beth Sheppard, Emily Barron and Eden Vi-veiros

Terrace and District Arts Council Award, Highest Mark Wood-wind Solo, Intermediate to Open - $75, Jacque-line Townsend


Top choices at the 51st annual music festival

From Kitimat are, left to right, Madison Sommerfeld - Junior Piano, Nicole Hepting - Intermediate Piano, and Iris Striker - Junior Speech Arts, who won overall highest marks in their categories and disciplines. Photo Betty Miller

Cont’d from page 11

– Festival performers shine –

By Tom FletcherBlack Press

A first offence for checking your phone while driving will cost B.C. drivers $543 when new penalties take effect June 1.

The fine for dis-tracted driving goes up from $167 to $368, and drivers will also be assessed four penalty points, triggering an-other $175 charge.

The combination results in a total penal-ty of $888 for a second offence within a year of the first.

Public Safety Min-ister Mike Morris said the new penalties put B.C. near the top of distracted driving fines for Canadian provinc-es.

Two tickets in a year will also trigger an automatic review by the Superintendent of Motor Vehicles that could result in licence suspension.

Public consulta-tion over the past year found support for a tougher approach.

“A lot of the input that we had indicated even higher penalties than that,” Morris said.

Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n Minister Todd Stone said the public aware-ness campaigns have not convinced enough people of the dangers of trying to use mobile phones or other devices without hands-free ser-vices.

“Imagine trying to drive the length of a football field while you’re blindfolded,” Stone said.

Central Saanich Police Chief Les Syl-ven, president of the B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police, re-minded drivers that being at a stop light or stuck in a traffic jam does not mean the dis-tracted driving penal-ties don’t apply.

NDP public safety critic Mike Farnworth said the government didn’t need to take a year to increase one of

the lowest distracted driving penalty sys-tems in the country, and giving the superin-tendent discretion over multiple repeat offend-ers doesn’t send a clear enough message.

“Frankly, I think that if you get more

than three in the course of the year, there should be no ‘may’ about it, you will lose your li-cence,” Farnworth said.

Distracted and in-attentive driving was a factor in the deaths of 66 people and injuries to 630 in B.C. in 2014.


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Elementary School Principal Kitimat is a coastal community which offers the mix of amenities and services in an established centre of approximately 9,000. Quality of life is balanced here and there are economic opportunities abound. Kitimat’s majestic setting is paradise; and indoor and outdoor recreation facilities and the surrounding wilderness encourage active west coast living. Kitimat has some of the world’s best fly fishing for trophy salmon and steelhead in the pristine Kitimat wilderness. Outdoor recreational opportunities include hiking, fishing, kayaking, golf, and snowmobiling and cross country skiing.

Kitamaat Village sits at the head of the Douglas Channel in British Columbia. Living and working on the water has always been important to the Haisla–and it still is. The Haisla people have lived off the land and water resources of the Douglas Channel and our traditional territory for hundreds of years. It will continue to be the heart of everything we do. The Haisla people are centered on Kitamaat Village which is about 10 kms from Kitimat and about 45 kms from the airport at Terrace.Summary: Haisla Community School has an opening for a School Principal. As the successful applicant, you will be responsible for the overall administration and operation of the school in a manner consistent with local policies, federal guidelines, and consistent with the values, beliefs, and protocols of the community. The school principal supervises and provides direct educational leadership to school staff, assigns school roles and duties, oversees the school budget and spending priorities, and reports accurate information to the Education Manager and funding agencies.

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By Cecile FavronBlack Press

Patients with com-plex health problems in Kitimat may soon see an improvement to their treatment.

Northern Health is proposing changes to the way health care is delivered in the dis-trict and across north-ern B.C.

Under the new plan a team of nurses from community ser-vices would be as-signed cases to coordi-nate between doctors and other health care providers.

On May 5, an

information session was held at the Kiti-mat Senior’s Centre, where 40 people at-tended. Concerns were raised by members of the public that the re-structuring of North-ern Health resources would not improve care unless more staff were hired.

The departments within the health care system currently op-erate semi-indepen-dently. At the infor-mation session, health services administrator Jonathan Cooper said that the suggested changes will improve the transfer of patient

information between offices and ensure that patients have an over-all care plan

“We’re trying to do some work to look at this from the view of patients and families,” Cooper said. “We also recognize that holistic care is important.”

He said that they are targeting people who require multiple healthcare services to treat their conditions, including elderly pa-tients and those with terminal illnesses.

Northern Health has not provided a timeline as to when the changes will take

affect, noting it is in ‘early stages’ of devel-oping the new system.

“We are working with physicians [...] this is new, but they certainly see the value in it,” added Cooper. “We’ve been having structured meetings with staff over a num-ber of months now.”

He painted a pic-ture of a system where patients are immedi-ately assigned to a care nurse who can relay their needs to a team of healthcare provid-ers that in turn begin caring for the patient.

This will cut down on the need for mul-

tiple referrals and long wait times, Cooper said.

The nurses will be able to obtain care for patients at specialist offices, mental health services, community care homes, social ser-vices and other health initiatives available.

Northern Health does not plan to hire more staff under the new system. Cooper says that the program will fit into the exist-ing budget.

“The coordination of information within the health care sys-tem is a key issue and certainly not some-

thing we are going to resolve overnight”‚ Cooper said then add-ed, “We’ve got to have the thoughts and the conversations and a bit of blue-sky thinking about what we can do to change things.”

Under the cur-rent system, Cooper said that patients of-ten have to provide the same information a number of times and are receiving repeat care at the doctor’s of-fice and home visits.

Tensions at the information session occasionally boiled over with residents ex-pressing their frustra-

tion with the care they or a family member received.

“Maybe one or two of us are making it up, maybe three or four are exaggerating, but if there are mul-tiple things coming out [then] it’s a per-ception,” said attendee Paul Lagace.

Cooper noted at the meeting that Northern Health will continue to provide opportunities for pa-tient input under the new system and will hold additional public consultations “when there is the opportu-nity to do so.”

Improvements coming to patient care in Kitimat

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Canada and our home community of Kitimat have been shaped by unions. In 2016 we tend to forget the role they played in shaping the society we know today.

It is said sim-plistically that it was unions that brought us the weekend, 40-hour work week and pen-sions.

Yes, perhaps with-out the labour move-ment workers would still be considered full time, seven day a week, employees.

Today unions have a diminishing in� u-ence. The participation rate, although not as low as in the USA, has now fallen below 50 per cent.

But it was not al-ways that way.

In the 50s and 60s Canada was a union country and places like Kitimat were bastions of unionism.

Unions weren’t just about workers’ contracts, they were about moral, social and political leadership which produced great Canadians like Tommy Douglas.

Kitimat had a huge union workforce of more than 2,000 at Alcan, better than 700 at Eurocan, (includ-ing the pulp and pa-

per mill, sawmill and woodlands operations) and perhaps a further thousand employed in the hospital, schools and municipality.

Our community was an anomaly, an industrial city in the north.

The Kitimat and Terrace District La-bour Council became an in� uential body which was directed to a large degree by the Alcan and IWA unions.

In the beginning Kitimat’s dominant union was the Alcan-centred United Steel-workers which subse-quently morphed into CASAW, then CAW and � nally Unifor.

Kitimat’s unions had great leadership from the likes of Peter Brisebois, Laurie Leb-lanc, Klaus Mueller, Peter Berton and Ross Slezak, to name a few.

They had their struggles for sure, but they helped to nur-ture the � ne commu-nity Kitimat developed into.

They also helped obtain a fair, stable, safe, healthy and well paid working place. Getting the health and bene� ts the workers wanted didn’t come easy.

Who could forget the Strike of ‘76 with its national media at-tention, small army of imported RCMP of-� cers and helicopters used to ferry in people to keep the smelter running?

The cost of those struggles was enor-mous and the wounds ran deep: in the 1976 Canada Day parade the union � oat featured a scaffold with the ef� gy of a scab worker hang-ing from it.

While the victories from those epic con-tract battles directly bene� tted the indus-try workers, it should not be overlooked that the gains made perco-lated down to the wider community.

Even in teaching, Kitimat was the land of plenty. It had its

own School District #80 with its substantial funding mostly from taxes paid by Alcan.

That money al-lowed the school board to provide services and programs beyond the basics such as its own language lab and it is thought thatlittle District #80 was the � rst in the province to offer its teachers a dental plan.

Yes, the Teachers Union was hard work-ing and effective, but they got their bene� ts and power from oper-ating within a stable, supportive, union com-munity.

The CASAW lead-ership encouraged the teachers and supported them throughout their struggles, helping by offering, for example, the use of shared facili-ties and photocopying.

Kitimat was con-sidered a lighthouse school district, leading the way for teachers throughout the prov-ince with their mater-nity and bereavement clauses, bene� ts that sprang from what Al-can workers already had.

Kitimat teachers, although comparative-ly small in numbers, were able to exert great in� uence on the pro-vincial stage.

At least two Kiti-mat Teacher presidents went on to become president of the BC Teachers Federation: Harley Robertson in the 60s and Neil Wor-boys just over a decade ago.

Kitimat certainly was a community founded on fairness and union principles which have over the course of six decades had a profound in� u-ence on the lives of many and helped de-� ne who we are today.

Solidarity Forever: Unionism in KitimatIt’s Our

HeritageWALTER THORNE

[email protected]

Shown are a collection of photos showing workers expressing their concerns with rallys and signs. Photos Kitimat Museum & Archives collection.

Photos Kitimat Museum & Archives collection.


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The following are the results of the Kitimat ladies golf for Tuesday May 10, 2016.A Flight

1st low gross – Murielle Gaudet – 47.

1st low net – Viv-ian Ringham – 33.B Flight

1st low gross –

Cheri Seppala – 60.1st low net –

Fatima Reynolds – 43 on a countback.

Long drive winners;Murielle Guadet

and Diane Hewlett.Winners of gift

certificates; Elaine Farrell, Sue Jay, Donna McMenamon and Debbie Cyr.

Submitted

Five Kitimat Dynamics Gymnastics Club members had an exciting time May 5-8 competing at the Best of the West Gymnastics Fest at the Richmond Olym-pic Oval, which was comprised of three events: Delta Invitational, Western Cana-dian Gymnastics Championship and the BC Provincial Gymnaestrada Event.

Over 1,800 gymnasts from across Canada attended this event and it was the biggest competition the gymnasts have been to this year.

Brooke Gray competed in the Junior Olympic (JO) level 2 and earned silver medal standings on bars, beam and floor and a bronze medal on vault. She also re-ceived a silver medal all around.

“My favourite part of the competi-tion was getting my stride circle on bars for the first time ever and how nice the Olympic Oval was” said Gray.

In JO level 6 Andria Van Horne came in solid on beam for a silver place finish.

Van Horne received a personal best on vault and a bronze medal. 7th place ribbons for both bars and floor were also earned.

Andria placed 5th overall in the JO 6A Youth Session. Andria said of the competition “standing on the Olympic podium for the awards was pretty cool!”

In JO level 6 Brooklyn Wojciechows-ki placed gold on floor with some power-ful tumbling. She received silver medals on vault and bars. Wojciechowski placed 4th on balance beam which earned her the top spot and an all around gold medal in the JO 6A Senior Session.

Wojciechowski was inspired by watching the high level gymnasts com-peting in Westerns, and has set a goal for herself to be there as a competitor next year!

Melissa Yeoh competed in JO level

7 and received gold medals on floor and vault.

She placed 4th on bars and 6th on the balance beam. Yeoh came in strong with an all around bronze medal.

Yeoh said “floor was my favourite because I came first and it was my best floor routine of the year!”

Nicholas Ferguson competed in men’s level 4 and earned gold on pom-mel horse.

Ferguson also received gold on high bar. “My high bar was good,” Ferguson says.

Ferguson received silvers on floor, rings, vault and parallel bars and placed second all around. All his skills were well landed and he enjoyed competing.

The athletes and coaches have worked very hard for these results, and have made the Kitimat Dynamics Gym-nastics Club very proud with their con-tinued hard work and grit!

Kitimat Dynamics Gymnasts bring home medalsSporting medals are (l to r) Andria Van Horne, Melissa Yeoh, Brooklyn Wojciechowski, Nick Ferguson and Brooke Gray.

Ladies golf results

kitimat northern sentinel, may 18, 2016

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