kitimat northern sentinel, october 28, 2015

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Nathan Cullen retains NDP seatTerrace Standard

Re-elected Skeena – Bulkley Valley NDP MP Na-than Cullen says he’s looking forward to spending time with his wife and twin sons.

“I’m going to see my kids and have a normal meal again. We put almost 20,000 kilome-tres on the car. It was a long, long campaign. I’m just fo-cused in on phoning my col-leagues... and seeing how ev-eryone is doing,” he said Oct. 19 after learning he achieved a fourth straight electoral win.

Personally victorious with just over 51 per cent of the vote, Cullen did express disappointment at his party’s showing.

From of� cial opposi-tion with hopes of forming the next federal government when the votes were counted Oct. 19, the NDP instead is in third place.

“We’re very disappointed we were not able to form the government as we hoped to do a number of weeks ago,” said Cullen.

The party fell from 95 seats at the beginning of the election to 44 when the count-ing was done.

Its share of the popular vote dropped from 30 per cent to 19 per cent.

Still, he said he has no intentions of running for the leadership of the NDP should Thomas Mulcair step down after this week’s disappoint-ment for the party.

“It’s the furthest thought from my mind tonight,” said Cullen who placed third the

last time the NDP held a lead-ership race.

As for whether the elec-tion results would’ve been different if he had been lead-er, Cullen said he had no lack of con� dence in Mulcair.

“That ship sailed three years ago... I was con� dent with Thomas’s leadership and ... many, many short weeks ago, [the talk was] about Mul-cair as prime minister.”

Meanwhile, Conservative challenger Tyler Nesbitt, who ran second with 25 per cent of the vote, says he’s willing to help Cullen push the new fed-eral Liberal government for results for northwestern B.C.

“Nathan is a voice in the opposition just like we are. We will just see what he can make of it, and if there is anything I can ever do in my capacity to help the people in this region I will certainly have my phone on for him,” said Nesbitt speaking at his Terrace campaign of� ce the night of the election.

Nesbitt said his results

had “absolutely nothing to do with my performance and my team and anything we did. It’s that we got caught up in that anti-Conservative, anti-Harper wave. And that’s just what it was. I make no regrets about how we campaigned.”

We had the right message but the deck couldn’t be more stacked against a Conserva-tive running in the Skeena - Bulkley Valley riding,” said Nesbitt.

And he did wish Cullen the best “and hope he can de-liver results for people here being a distant third place [nationally].”

Nesbitt even suggested Cullen would make a viable NDP leadership candidate once again.

“If he does in the end, Nathan and I will never agree on many issues but at the very least I don’t think it would be such a bad thing for the rep-resentative of the Skeena - Bulkley Valley to lead a major federal party,” said Nesbitt.

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Nathan Cullen

Land transfer celebratedProvincial aboriginal relations and reconciliation minister John Rustad, left, with Haisla chief councillor Ellis Ross at the B.C. – Haisla Incremental Treaty Agreement celebration. More about this on page 3.

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No minor issue over hockeyCameron Orr

Kitimat is a hockey town. Or is it?There’s a pall hanging over the ranks at Kiti-

mat Minor Hockey which has come from an ongo-ing con� ict of philosophies: is it the House or the Rep teams which should get the most attention?

For awhile it seemed to be the Rep teams, those teams which play more competitively and spend more time travelling.

For some parents there may not be much ap-petite in enrolling their kids in hockey if it means they won’t compete on a serious stage.

Yet the focus on Rep hockey has left some House teams in the lurch.

Case in point; the Midget House team has no more players left — after other Midget level play-ers were carded to rep — to � ll an entire roster.

It’s effectively a clash of ideologies. Should hockey primarily be about the competitions, or should it be about the game?

Brent Gurski is a director on the Kitimat Minor Hockey association, and the coach of the aforemention Midget House team.

He came to the Sentinel with the problem as he sees it: a lot of kids are missing out on ice time because too many kids are being swept up into the Rep level.

“House has always suffered. It’s just been a natural way things have gone,” said Gurski.

He’s been involved in minor hockey for six years, joining the association when his son began playing.

The issue of Rep versus House has been com-pounded with the association’s drop in numbers over the years. Gurski says when he joined, there were close to 180 players.

“Today we have less than 110.”Continued on page 9

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roll over collision was reported to the Kitimat RCMP. A vehicle was located off Highway 37 near Mt Elizabeth rd. The driver had al-ready been transported to the Hospital for treatment of injuries. File still under inves-tigation.

October 13A complaint of a

possibly intoxicated male operating an ATV on a roadway was received. It was deter-mined the male was also prohibited from

driving. The driver provided two samples of breath which were determined to be at a blood alcohol level where their licence (if they had one) would have been revoked for 3 days. The ATV was impounded for 7 days based on the driving prohibition.

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received of two un-locked vehicles parked in a driveway being rummaged through. The complainant stated they did not lock their vehicle,

and found all their be-longings strewn about outside. The public is reminded to lock their vehicles.

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ed immediately to a report of a Break & Enter in progress and located a heavily in-toxicated suspect at-tempting to enter the residence. Based on the intoxication level of the suspect, it’s be-lieved they mistook the residence for a nearby one belonging to an acquaintance. The suspect was es-

corted from the scene and taken to be cared for by a relative. Crim-inal charges were not pursued.

A person passed out on a sidewalk was reported to the RCMP. Members arrived on scene and located a heavily intoxicated youth. Ambulance ar-rived on scene and took care of the per-son, transporting them to the Hospital. Mem-bers spoke with the youth’s friends near-by, and seized a small amount of drugs with-out charge.

October 18A local business

owner contacted the RCMP stating that they had found what they believed to be il-legal drugs in an area only accessed by staff. Members arrived on scene and seized the substance. The com-plainant said they would be speaking to their staff members about the incident.

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Continued from page 1Liberal candidate Brad Layton,

while unsuccessful personally, was in an upbeat mood.

“I’m ecstatic, we needed change and I’m 100 per cent behind the platform of the Liberal party,” said Layton the eve-ning of the election from his Smithers campaign office.

“We’ve already been checked off as elected to NDP here.

I’m hoping that Nathan Cullen will work as hard as he can to make sure that

we see the benefits with the Liberal gov-ernment.”

Layton finished with just un-der 19 per cent of the vote, a sub-stantial improvement over the Lib-eral candidate who ran in 2011.

Green candidate Jeannie Par-nell had 3.6 per cent of the vote and the Christian Heritage Party’s Don Spratt had 1.8 per cent of the vote.

In the neighbouring riding of Prince George – Peace River – Northern Rock-ies, Conservative Bob Zimmer, the in-

cumbent, was returned with 47.9 per cent of the vote compared to Kathi Dickie of the NDP who had 16,9 per cent and Liberal Matt Shaw who had 27 per cent.

Three other people also ran.In the Cariboo - Prince George rid-

ing, Todd Doherty was elected as the Conservative MP with 37.1 per cent of the vote while Liberal Tracy Calogheros received 30.8 per cent of the vote and NDP candidate Trent Derrick received 25.6 per cent of the vote.

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Cameron OrrA land deal decades in the making has been

done, which connects the Indian Reserve where Kitamaat Village rests to another just south of the channel.

Haisla Chief Councillor Ellis Ross explains that the deal means the land that exists between the Village (‘Indian Reserve 1’) and ‘Indian Re-serve 2’ is the subject of this new arrangement and will allow the community flexibility to grow.

That said, there’s no firm plan on what to use the land for, except to say that it won’t be used for industrial developments.

“We definitely need expansion lands for resi-dential, social, and possible commercial use. Not industrial,” he said.

Efforts to take responsibility for the land be-gan in 1948 and subsequent Haisla councils have continued to try to get it.

“They wanted land for, basically, residential use. And maybe some commercial use. That’s still the idea today.”

A celebration was held last week to mark the occasion in Kitamaat Village.

The celebration goes beyond simply mark-ing a land deal with the government, but is a sig-nal of continued improving relations, said Ross.

“It’s been a long, complicated, drawn out

file,” he explained. “When I got in to the file I just thought it was a worthwhile initiative to ac-tually pursue but in reading the timeline it started in 1948 and included B.C., Canada, Rio Tinto Alcan, and on and on and on. From 1948.”

He said to mark the occasion is to celebrate the fact that Haisla persistence has finally paid off. And he also credits a far improved relation-ship with the provincial government than existed a decade or two ago.

“It’s not the fearmongering of 20 years ago when First Nations were going to take over the world and kick everybody out. It’s not that any-more. We’ve got a government that says ‘yeah, let’s sit down and let’s come to a mutually ac-ceptable agreement.”

He said that change in mentality has become apparent over the last 10 years.

“It’s just getting progressively better.”It’s an improvement that he said the Haisla

are not seeing from the federal government so far.

“We’re not very close to the federal govern-ment,” said Ross.

Ross spoke about the relationship before the end of the election so while it was hard to pre-dict how it’d be going forward, he did say the Conservative government at least hasn’t shown

much initiative.“I don’t see a Conservative government

changing their mandate or their policies anytime soon. Not to the same standards of what B.C. has done,” he said. “But both NDP and Liberals have promised better relations and better negotiations, but that’s a wait and see thing because I’ve heard that before.”

The relationship with the District of Kitimat meanwhile is also showing stronger links, he said from his perspective.

“They are getting better. I think they’re start-ing to realize the Haisla are here...we’re not go-ing away. We have to be acknowledged,” he said. “They’re willing to look now at how different initiatives are good for the region. So it’s better to get on board now. Before it was always so iso-lated, just what’s good for Kitimat.”

Kitimat Mayor Phil Germuth was elected on a platform which included a better relationship with the Haisla.

The progress of the Haisla-owned Haisla Town Centre development in Kitimat’s City Centre is an indication of that improving rela-tionship, he said.

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George, 25, had been arrested on outstanding warrants Sept. 3, 2013 after police responded to a call about a civil dis-pute between a landlord and tenant on Kalum St., ac-cording to a Terrace RCMP report.

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Haisla celebrate land deal years in the making

Mall hotel seeks spring 2016 opening dateOwner of City Centre Mall

Jerry Minni says the roof of the future hotel is about 90 per cent done, paving the way to do ex-terior cladding and inside con-struction.

He said a spring 2016 open date for the hotel isexpected.

The ground floor will also be contracted out to Alexan-der’s Lounge and The Pantry

restaurant. He said the space will be turned over to them by the end of this year but they’ll go through about three months of preparation before they open.

“They might be open a month or two before [the ho-tel],” he said.

Once the MStar Hotel opens, Minni’s plan is to focus on the City Centre Mall itself,

and he has not set aside his plans to update the look of the shopping centre.

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“My apologies to both my read-ers...” it’s an old joke, but sometimes helps to bridge an awkward moment for a regular columnist in a local news-paper. Personal issues of little interest to readers combined for me missing submissions over the past two weekly issues. But I think everything is back on track, for a while at least.

Sometimes with a column like mine there’s a wealth of subject matter out there - and at other times there’s a serious dearth of “inspiration”. I set it up that way, so not to limit myself.

Of course, it’s all from a person-al perspective. Millions of words are written on a million subjects on a day-to-day basis and with the explosion of personal blogs there are more and more writers scribbling daily thoughts about their personal life, pet projects and fer-vently held theories and beliefs.

That’s a lead in to the fact that the 2015 general election is over and much as I would like to give my im-pressions of what happened across Canada last Monday, by the time the Northern Sentinel drops in their mail-

box next Wednesday, most people will have heard all they need or ever want to know about Canada’s longest-ever campaign.

Last week an article caught my eye, written by an about-to-be retired 65 year old man, with a minor worry - he didn’t really have a ‘bucket list” of objectives for his new life after work. Bruce Ward worked as a columnist for the Ottawa Citizen and his article was written in January this year, just shortly before his birthday and his subsequent retirement. It struck me that some doz-en or more years ago, when I entered the retired category - I too didn’t have a bucket list, as such.

Of course the movie, “The Buck-et List,” starring Jack Nicholson and

Morgan Freeman, didn’t come out un-til 2007, some four years after I retired, followed the paths of two terminally ill men, one of them a billionaire, who � nanced a road trip with a wish list of things to do before they “kicked the bucket.”

Neither Mr. Ward, nor myself, as far as I know, are terminally ill - but that’s hardly the point - most retirees have some form of plan for what they are going to do when there’s no daily 8 am work-starting-time staring them in the face. They don’t necessarily de-scribe it as a bucket list.

Looking back, yes, I had some loose ideas rattling around - not any-thing like a sky-diving experience, a trip to the pyramids or even the Hi-malayas - more a quick trip to revisit (twice, as it turned out) some of my old haunts and a couple Scottish highlights I overlooked as a younger man living there. And see my sisters and where Mom and Dad were laid to rest.

Beyond that, to my wife’s dismay, I didn’t really have a real plan.

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Not to ignore a Bucket list

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Election post mortemThe interminable federal election is over, the Liber-

als have returned to power, the reign of Harper is over and the New Democrats have retreated to their traditional third place.

The result did not surprise me for a number of reasons including what I wrote in this space in the wake of the 2011 election. “As stunning as the NDP Orange Crush was in La Belle Provence, it must be remembered Quebec voters are a volatile bunch.”

The Conservative sweep under Brian Mulroney and the subsequent volte face to the Bloc Quebecois demonstrate that. Clearly voters had given up on the Bloc and, having no apparent love for the Liberals or Conservatives, stampeded to the only one left (excuse the pun).

Frankly, the scale of the revolt was such that the NDP could have run a chimpanzee and it would have got in with a four � gure majority.

And that’s a pretty fragile base.”So it proved to be.There were of course other factors in play. In 2011

the Liberals had an appalling leader and ran a campaign to match. And the NDP had the little and loveable “bon Jack” Layton.

It was quite different this time around with the Libs of-fering up a reaonably credible leader who got stronger the longer the campaign went on and the New Democrats were led by Tom Mulcair who, for whatever his virtues, was no-where near as loveable as Layton.

The Conservatives also made signi� cant mistakes which contributed to their being rejected.

First the campaign was far too long allowing the Liber-als lots of time to adjust their message to maximum effect. Second, while the Conservatives initially did an excellent job of branding Trudeau as “Just Not Ready”, they kept it up far too long and never really came up with a positive � nish as to what they offered. And third they continued to rely on the ‘only we know how to run the economy’ card even though that was contradicted by the economic slump the country was going through.

The New Democrats made two errors. First Mulcair committed to balanced budgets which made him sound like a Conservative - and the Liberals were smart enough to leap into the gap he had created with a promise of “small” de� cits to � nance billions of dollars on infrastructure projects (ironi-cally something the Conservatives had done on their watch).

Second the NDP advertised themselves as the only par-ty that could defeat Harper. While that may that have been accurate at the beginning of the campaign and captured the anti-Harper sentiment of many a voter, as the tide turned it became clear the party that had the best chance of getting rid of Harper was the Liberals.

As for the Liberals, whatever your political stripe, you had to admire the brilliant campaign they put together. Start-ing out in third and being relentlessly pummelled from the start by the continuous Conservative attack ads that Trudeau was “just not ready”, they stuck to their game plan.

Like Ali in the famous 1974 Rumble in the Jungle � ght against George Foreman, they played rope-a-dope, absorbed all the punishment and waited.

And waited.But as the seemingly endless campaign entered the

stretch they came off the ropes with carefully crafted TV ads showing a dynamic Trudeau making a powerful speech as the crowd went wild.

And ended with a single word on the screen - “Ready”.Like I said, brilliant.

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Another year has passed and it's time again to see what the Old Farmer's Almanac has to say about the weather for the next 12 months.

With temperatures forecast to be below normal next month, odds are we will see our first snowflakes by mid-month, but likely in the form of snow showers only.

Week three will see mixed snow and rain and the month will end as it started: wet, wet, wet.

And rain will dom-inate through the first week of December, but then the real white stuff will take over con-tinuing through week

three when we will get our first taste of cold weather.

After a couple of days of rain to wash away what we have on the ground by then, cold and flurries will be the order of the day through the Christmas period.

January opens with mixed rain and snow showers but a vicious cold snap hits at the end of week one bring-

ing with it blizzard conditions (Pleeese, not another one!).

Thankfully as week two draws to a close we will be back into rain/snow with even some sunny and mild weather.

However it is a brief respite as heavy snow hits in week three before a sunny and cold end to the month.

That sunny cold weather drags into the

beginning of Febru-ary and from there the month will be dominat-ed by snow or flurries.

March announces that winter is over by opening with a week of rain then three weeks of mainly sunny and cool weather.

And April rein-forces the message when, after a week of cool and showers, we get "seasonable" conditions followed by sunny and "nice" for the last couple of weeks.

And so to May, the most important month of the year for gar-deners wanting to get their veggies into the ground.

It starts out per-fectly with sunny warm weather but then fails to follow up on that promise with three weeks of showery weather with tempera-tures flipping back and forth between cool and mild.

After an unchar-acteristically hot June this year, next year nor-

mal service is resumed with nothing but show-ers and only one week of warm weather.

July starts out not much better with cool and showery weather but in week two sum-mer arrives with sun-ny/hot for a couple of weeks, finishing with warm and a few show-ers.

August can't make up its mind, opening with hot sunny weath-er followed by show-ers and cooler in week two, sunny in three and

cool with showers to end.

September is equally undecided go-ing from cool with showers to sunny/cool to rain to showers/mild.

And to complete the year October opens with a bit of sun but the first half of the month will be mainly wet and through that last half we should see our first white - thankfully just showers.

And there you have it.

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Continued from page 4I agree with Bruce Ward that

only the Boomer nation could turn retirement into “a status competi-tion.” That wasn’t in my limited plan either.

We moved - only about a mile - to a one storey home, built a simple deck outside and busied myself with the garden and the Kitimat Ice De-mons, our new senior men’s hockey team. At the time I did some free-lance writing and helped organize events to celebrate the 50th anniver-say of Kitimat as a city.

That was a privilege.My wife and I did Phoenix, San

Diego, the California coast and wine country by road and then turned abruptly east to Las Vegas at the first sight of LA smog, an ugly yellow smudge on the north-west horizon.

I had visited LA and Hollywood

for work in the 1970s anyway, leav-ing little urge to return. I fished the Kitimat River and Douglas Chan-nel for salmon and crabs and vari-ous creeks and lakes for trout, my favourite, where we camped all over Northern B.C., the Okanagan and into Alberta and Edmonton.

Come to think of it - even though I didn’t have a bucket list as such, I have to say I filled a bucket or two with some interesting and extrordi-nary experiences - and I could prob-ably say that many of the things that simply fell into place were planned.

So I never castigate myself for not having a scheduled list of achievements - mainly because I have an awful long list of personal and domestic requirements that I have procrastinated on for far too long. I’m not sure I’m in a hurry yet, either.

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And a further jump in optional premiums for coverage like third-party liability will add nearly $16, for an an-nual increase of about $60 on average.

The basic pre-mium increase is less than the 6.7 per cent jump ICBC had warned in August might be required as a result of rapidly rising injury claims and the resulting payouts.

The hit is lower in part because the province has approved an unusual $450-mil-lion transfer of capital from ICBC's optional insurance business to the basic insurance side.

There's been growing financial pressure on the ba-sic side, while ICBC has had more wriggle room in recent years to actually decrease rates on its optional side, where it does not hold a monopoly and competes with private insurers.

But officials say optional costs are also on the rise because optional third-party li-ability insurance cov-ers injury payouts over $200,000.

Adrian Dix, the NDP's critic on ICBC, noted the average driv-er will be paying near-ly 30 per cent more in basic premiums than they did when Christy Clark became premier in 2011.

"Overall what we're talking about is a major, major increase in rates for the average

motorist," said Dix, who lays part of the blame on management decisions at ICBC and trouble with the rollout of its new computer system.

He noted the pro-vincial government has

not opted to forgo the $160-million annual dividend it extracts each year from ICBC's optional side.

"They're not sac-rificing," Dix said. "They're doing a dou-ble dip on the optional

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ers Federation spokes-man Jordan Bateman said the continued flow of dividends to the government is particu-larly frustrating.

"Despite the fact

we get gouged for more money each year, the government contin-ues to suck all the prof-its out and puts them into general revenue," Bateman said.

"We have a gov-ernment that talks

about affordability but erodes it when it comes to ICBC rates that continually jump higher than the rate of inflation."

Tr a n s p o r t a t i o n Minister Todd Stone said more than 80 per

cent of motorists use ICBC for both basic and optional coverage and they are paying only 13 per cent more than in 2011 after op-tional rate cuts are tak-en into account.

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Insurance premiums raised an average of $60 this year


Who knew that Kitimat had another museum? But it does and that second muse-um is nothing short of fascinating.

Located on a south facing, channel view property at the start of the road to Kitamaat Village, it is “curator” Adrian Tryssenaar’s pride and joy.

And you get a clue to some of the treasures you will see inside when you turn into his driveway and notice the name on the street sign he has erect-ed there - Elvis Presley Blvd.

Within his home there are countless col-lectibles with colourful histories - it’s truly a trip down memory lane and his stuff would certainly � t in well on the television show Ca-nadian Pickers.

There is a lot on site to hold one’s in-terest including glass bottles, stained glass and historical artifacts.

The museum even appeals to the young and Adrian believes that is important be-cause historical arti-facts give the younger generation a better ap-preciation of how their forefathers lived and what they used in their lives.

Included are a completely stocked, old time general store with an authentic coun-ter, a full-sized Hudson Bay Store display case with bevelled glass, a restored pioneer-age coffee grinder, an old time Chevron Gas Pump, a porcelain

Shell Gas sign, various neon lights while local treasures include the original CFTK radio

turntable and the nos-talgic Nechako Theatre blue-lit clock.

There are also the

restored cars, each done in true Elvis Pre-sley tradition.

Adrian’s talents go beyond historical restoration - he is an avid musician with a passion for the likes of Roy Orbison and Pres-ley.

Besides imperson-ations of them at com-munity events, he also has a lot of collectibles

pertaining to them.Adrian was born in

Britain, surviving the Blitz as a war baby in the Paddington area of London.

He can remember at the age of six sail-ing to Canada on the Queen Mary - what a ship!

Upon arrival he and his family made their way west by

train, eventually taking up residence on a then remote property near Whaletown on Cortes Island in the Gulf of Georgia near Campbell River.

After this rural interlude and a year in Vancouver, they headed north to near Prince George. He can remember the tough winters and his Mom

struggling to get to her nursing job while temperatures hovered around minus forty.

Like other fami-lies in the � fties, they heard that better times were available out west in the new aluminum town of Kitimat. So off they went with Adri-an’s step-dad leading the way.

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Adrian attended both Cormorant and Necha-ko elementary schools before going on to Mount Elizabeth Sec-ondary School.

Those were good times, he recalls.

He got his � rst gui-tar at 18 - and wishes it had been sooner.

It wasn’t until after working for years at Alcan that he was able to indulge his passion for coloured glass.

It began with col-lecting pioneer glass bottles and the re� ect-ed light from the glass

always appealed to him, perhaps remind-ing him of the old glass lamps used at their pio-neer home on CortesIsland.

In 1981 Adrian’s wife Josephine en-rolled him in a Riv-erlodge course on stained glass.

From there he nev-er looked back, honing his skills and becom-ing a community leg-end in the crafts trade.

Some of his favou-rite projects are now in churches and local homes - his parrot win-dow is especially strik-ing.

When asked if money and space were not a problem what would you change, Adrian replies, “Get more glass.”

Besides the glass there was the music. With shows of his own, frequent Karaoke and of course three decades of appearances at our community telethon, Adrian was a busy man.

It was more than 18 years ago that Adrian found the need for larger prem-ises owing to the size-able collection he hadamassed.

He readily admits he is fortunate to have a spouse who allows him to continue his passion for accumulat-ing treasures.

At his premises, Adrian will certainly open the doors to inter-ested folks, provided you call ahead.

There is no posted

admission, but perhaps a group fee of ten dol-lars might be a good start?

Adrian is unques-tionably a man of

many talents which are evident when touring his fascinating collec-tions.

You’ve got to see it to believe it.


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Light-Up event returns to Kitimat in NovemberCameron Orr

Kitimat will see the return of the Light-Up Kitimat event.

The event, to take place at Mountainview Square, will happen in the early evening,5-7 pm., Sunday, November 29.

The Rotary Club is the pri-mary leader of the Light Up event.

The one challenge remain-ing, however, for the organizers is � nding an appropriate tree to light up as well just for the oc-casion.

Organizers last year put work in to stringing lights up on the tree adjacent to the Kitimat � re hall.

However that section of

town is actually subject to high volumes of wind and Christmas lights were apparently not a matchfor nature.

A tree topper was going to complement the lights this year but the top of the tree was dis-covered to have snapped.

Light-Up committee mem-ber Trish Parsons said the group

will be looking at other options as far as a tree to light up.

A big challenge is � nding a tree that has adequate power sup-ply.

Meanwhile the festive event itself will go forward and people are even in the works making an of� cial Santa Claus chair.

From Mountainview Square

Parsons said the alley will be lit up and there will be enjoyments for the family including hot chocolate.

She said overall the event is designed to encourage the com-munity to light up through the dark days of winter.

“Might as well light up the evening,” she said.

By Tom FletcherA B.C. Liberal

political staffer has re-signed and his conduct has been referred to the RCMP by the In-formation and Privacy Commissioner after an investigation of his de-letion of government emails that were being requested under free-dom of information laws.

C o m m i s s i o n e r Elizabeth Denham said three investiga-tions showed records were intentionally de-stroyed to avoid public release.

One of those re-quests was for records related to public hear-ings on risks of travel-

ling along Highway 16 in northern B.C.

NDP leader John Horgan said the in-vestigation shows the conduct of B.C. Lib-eral government staff-ers, including Premier Christy Clark’s deputy chief of staff Michele Cadario, reveals “a culture of deception, a culture of deceit, a cul-ture of delete, delete, delete.”

Citizens’ Services Minister Amrik Virk told reporters the ref-erence to the RCMP is related to transpor-tation ministry staffer George Gretes testify-ing under oath to the commissioner.

Denham said

Gretes lied about his actions while under oath.

Virk said the gov-ernment has accepted Gretes’ resignation and has called on for-mer information and privacy commissioner David Loukidelis to respond to Denham’s � nding that records were routinely deleted in violation of free-dom of information legislation.

Denham start-ed investigating the Highway 16 informa-tion request after a complaint from Tim Duncan, made after Duncan left his job as executive assistant to Transportation Minis-

ter Todd Stone.Duncan told the

commissioner that Gretes deleted a se-ries of emails from Duncan’s of� ce com-puter in December 2014 after they were requested under free-dom of informationlaw.

Stone told report-ers Thursday he has also “triple deleted” his own emails, and that he disagrees with Denham’s interpreta-tion of the Freedom of Information and Pro-tection of Privacy Act.

“I adhere to the act,” Stone said.

“I expect all of my staff to adhere to the act.”

Police investigate government email deletion

Continued from page 6Forgoing the annual dividend to government

would have only trimmed the basic rate hike to 5.2 per cent, Stone said. That 0.3 per cent reduc-tion would have been "negligible" in terms of impact on customers, he said, but would "blow a pretty signi� cant hole" in the province's budget.

He called the $450-million transfer a one-time shift that can't be repeated next year because there won't be enough excess capital on the op-tional side.

ICBC of� cials also said they're stepping up efforts to combat exaggerated and fraudulent claims.

A new fraud analytics tool is to be deployed

early next year to use data, algorithms and sta-tistical methods to quickly � ag patterns and high predictors of fraud early in the claims process.

ICBC projects bodily injury claims costs will hit $2.3 billion this year, up from $2.17 billion in 2014. Those costs are up 64 per cent since 2008. The number of injury claims are up about 11 per cent from the previous year.

Another basic rate hike is guaranteed next year.

The province's rate smoothing policy requires each new year's rates be no more than 1.5 per cent above or below the previous year's. The proposed basic rate hike, effective Nov. 1, must still be ap-proved by the B.C. Utilities Commission.

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Continued from page 1Gurski says there’s been

years of issues.Two years ago, he says,

there weren’t enough play-ers left after the Rep team was recruited at the Bantam level that players were merged under a Peewee/BantamHouse team.

Now the problem has got-ten worse.

“There’s not enough kids leftover from the Peewee rep and the Bantam rep to even make a team,” he said, saying kids have to wait for the Rep teams to be back home before they can play hockey.

Gurski doesn’t see the val-ue in pushing so hard for Rep teams, given that minor hockey hasn’t lifted a championship banner in the time he’s been involved. He says that’s sim-ply because “we don’t have the pool of kids that we used too.”

For him, House needs to come first. If you can play bet-ter than House, you might have to look beyond Kitimat.

“What we need is to go back to the basics of letting the kids play House. If you’re bet-ter than House you need to go somewhere else to play.”

Kitimat Minor Hockey President Bento Pedro says that he does in principle agree that House needs to be re-prior-

itized but it’s a direction that’s set based on the desires of the members.

“The executive is taking direction that the majority are still wanting to do this, so that’s how we’re running the associa-tion. Now, is that fair? On the flip side people are saying ‘is it fair for the Rep kids not to play Rep’?

“You have the same argu-ment on the other side of the fence,” he said.

He said this is the fourth season where Peewee and Ban-tam House teams have been blended to get enough players to make a team.

There are parents who say, though, that if there’s no Rep hockey then they’ll pull their family out, he said.

But Pedro agrees with Gurski’s assessment about the strength of the club based on the numbers.

“Are we strong enough right now to...bring that cham-pionship banner home? Per-sonally I say no. We don’t have the strength.”

He believes that kids need guarantees that they’ll play, by taking away Rep carding of players, to bring people back in to the fold.

“That’d be I think the only way that you’d ever get people to come back out of the wood-

work and say ‘okay, lets give it a try again.’”

When it comes to the Midget House team, in order to get them back on the ice he said the board is looking to pair them together with affiliated players.

Those are the players who didn’t quite get carded to the Rep team but are able to play on both streams of hockey.

As well with a rotation in of some Rep players, they hope that will gather enough bod-ies together to make the team work again.

As for the overall drop in membership over the years, he says it can be anything.

“You can blame all sorts of things,” he said.

Among the theories is the fact that being a construction town the increase in people haven’t meant more families to join the association.

The cost of the sport can also hold people back, al-though Pedro notes there are programs, including through the District of Kitimat, to help offset costs of joining sports.

Bottom line though is with the lower number of kids play-ing hockey today, the challeng-es in making everyone happen are extreme.

“It’s easy to do when you have a lot of kids,” he said.

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Telethon boasts big bucks The Aluminum City Telethon celebrated another successful year for fundraising for the Kitimat Community Foundation. The annual Kitimat talent show raised a spectacular $115,631.75, with significant donations from LNG Canada ($50,000), Kitimat LNG ($10,000) and Rio Tinto ($5,000).

Tom FletcherPremier Christy

Clark is emphasizing cooperation with the new Liberal govern-ment in Ottawa on climate change and in-frastructure spending, while avoiding com-ment on plans to run deficits and legalize marijuana.

Clark said she is looking forward to having Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accom-pany premiers to Paris at the end of Novem-

ber for the next United Nations climate con-ference.

Trudeau said he is looking forward to changing Canada’s reputation as a “less than enthusiastic ac-tor” on climate policy, but he wants provinces to take the lead.

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“built environment” and other ways to re-duce greenhouse gas emissions.

Trudeau’s infra-structure plan is in “complete alignment” with B.C.’s efforts to grow the economy, with BC Hydro alone spending $2.5 billion a year over the next decade, Clark said.

She sidestepped a question on Trudeau’s deficit plans, noting that a prime minister has to govern for all

provinces and B.C. is “an outlier” with oper-ating budget surpluses and projected growth.

Clark was even more cautious with Trudeau’s plans to legalize and regulate marijuana, as Vancou-ver and other cities grapple with unregu-lated medical pot dis-pensaries.

“If and when they make changes, we’ll work with them to make sure that the changes can be effec-

tive in B.C.,” she said.B.C. NDP leader

John Horgan shrugged off his federal party’s big setback in the fed-eral election, consol-ing himself with an increase of two NDP MPs in B.C.

The NDP’s Gord

Johns won the new riding of Courtney-Al-berni, defeating long-time Conservative MP John Duncan for an NDP sweep of Van-couver Island, except for Green Party leader Elizabeth May in Saa-nich-Gulf Islands.

“I’m also de-lighted that the coun-try voted for change in massive numbers,” Horgan said. “And that’s good news for me as well, because in 2017 there’s go-ing to be a desire for change.”

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Laugh, Dance and SingGordie MacKeeman and His

Rhythm Boys are gracing the stages of the Mount Elizabeth Theatre at 8:00pm, on Friday, November 6 for a night of entertainment you won’t want to miss.

Their latest album, Laugh, Dance and Sing, pretty well sums up their approach to entertainment and they will have you bouncing in your seat if not boogying at the foot of the stage.

This Prince Edward Island group will give you a fantastic con-cert experience. They are fun and amazingly talented musicians who

consistently manage flashes of flair and fancy footwork. Of course, they have a blatant disregard for predict-able stage presence and you never will be completely sure of what comes next, just rest assured it will be high energy.

The “Rhythm Boys” literally launch into their songs and you will launch right along with them. Gordy (Crazy Legs) MacKeeman and his fiddle light the fuse on a musical rocket and The Rhythm Boys pro-vide the high test fuel for an amaz-ing ride.

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Oct. 16 The Demon’s cleaned up in their home game against the Prince Rupert Rampage with a win of 6-2. The teams swapped as winners and the Demons took a loss of 8-2 in the following game next day held on the Rampage’s home ice.

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TRICK-OR-TREAT:• DRESS TO BE SEEN: Halloween is about putting on the spookiest

outfi t possible and that often involves dark colours. A good solution is to buy some refl ective tape that you can add to the outfi t or even to their shoes or bag – as long as it makes them stand out against the dark road.

• THE BEST GHOULS SEE EVERYTHING: Scary masks are a key part of many Halloween costumes but it’s important that your child wears a mask that doesn’t hinder their ability to fully see what’s going on around them. Put the mask over your own face to check the visibility and make any necessary adjustments.

• THE BEST GHOULS HEAR EVERYTHING TOO: As adults, we know that hearing is just as important as seeing to ensure our safety around roads. Remind your children to not use their cellphone or to listen to their MP3 player – they should keep their fun focused on Halloween and all the candy.

• SAFETY IN NUMBERS: If you’re going for a walk on this spookiest of nights, you’ll be safer in a group. Walking in numbers will help drivers and others see your children and they should always be accompanied by an appropriate number of adults.

• GONE HAUNTING: If your kids are heading out for some trick-or-treating fun, make sure you help them plan their route ahead of time so they get home safely. Consider a route that takes them through a quiet residential area away from busy main roads and parking lots. And remind them to cross streets at designated points.

DRIVE CAREFULLY:• A FRIGHT’S JUST AROUND THE CORNER: Drivers need to slow

down and expect the unexpected. Children can easily get caught up in the excitement of Halloween and forget to use caution, so slow down and be especially alert in residential areas. Limit any distractions in your car so your focus is solely on the road ahead.

• THE GHOULS MAY NOT NOTICE YOU: Children may have very limited visibility while wearing masks and costumes – don’t assume they see you approaching. And remember to always yield to pedestrians. By doing so, you help ensure they cross the road safely.

• DON’T END ON A TRUE SCARE: If you’re hosting or attending a Halloween party, always ensure there are safe options to get home, such as designated drivers or taxi numbers at hand.

PROTECT YOUR PETS:• KEEP PETS INDOORS FOR THE DAY: Animals that are frightened

may run away or grow disoriented and get lost. Also, you never want your pet to be the victim of a Halloween prank. Sometimes black cats are stolen on Halloween. Dogs left outside may be at risk for teasing and taunting, too.

• DON’T TAKE DOGS TRICK-OR-TREATING: Although you may have a calm, well-mannered dog, the crowds in the neighborhood may excite man’s best friend, whose behavior might be diffi cult to predict. Also, other animals that get loose from homes when the doors are opened may provoke your dog.

• BE MINDFUL OF HOLIDAY DECORATIONS: Strings of lights, fake spider webs and other decorative items can be tripping hazards for pets, while electronic devices could pose a safety risk. Avoid lit candles in the home because cats or dogs may knock them over.

• KEEP PETS SECURED IN A BEDROOM OR ANOTHER QUIET SPACE: Your dog or cat may try to bolt outside every time you open the door to trick-or-treaters. Instead, keep the animals in a bedroom or laundry area. Not only will they appreciate the quiet, but also they won’t have a chance to escape and get lost.

• STORE COLLECTED CANDY OUT OF REACH: Candy wrappers and the candy itself can be hazardous to pets. Therefore, store candy where pets cannot access it and be sure children discard candy wrappers.

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jectory Gordy’s legs shiver and shake seemingly with complete disregard for the laws of phys-ics.

Gordy MacKeeman and His Rhythm Boys bring you high energy, original songs, traditional favourites, catching rhythms, and smooth harmo-nies, that together give flesh to their obvious love of traditional bluegrass and old time roots music.

Gordie (fiddle, cello, acoustic guitar, feet percussion, vocals), Peter Cann (guitars, banjo, vocals), Thomas Webb (guitars, bass, banjo, steel guitar, vocals) and Mark Ged-des (bass, percussion, man-dolin, piano) weave together a refreshing mix of invigorat-ing songs, traditional-leaning ideas, and modern influences infused with solid instrumen-tation, rockabilly-inspired

numbers, and toe tapping reels - all polished by MacKeeman’s stunning fiddle work.

Gracing stages from Can-ada to the United Kingdom, from the United States to Bel-gium, Malaysia, India and Aus-tralia, The Rhythm Boys are renowned for their high-energy exhilarating live show, jaw-dropping stagecraft and show-manship. They have graced the stage at the legendary Glaston-bury Festival, Celtic Connec-tions, WOMAD, Orkney Folk Festival, Shrewsbury Folk Fes-tival and the Woodford Folk Festival, and received the Gal-axie Super Nova Award at the Ottawa Folk Festival (in 2012) for their outstanding high-ener-gy performance.

Whether it is perform-ing on a grand festival stage or in an intimate concert hall, the powerhouse group has the magnetic ability to bring au-diences to their feet causing

standing ovations where ever they go.

With a growing list of nota-ble achievements, The Rhythm Boys were recently honoured with the 2015 Music PEI Award for Entertainer of the Year and Touring Artist of the Year and their album, Pickin n’ Clickin’ was awarded the 2014 East Coast Music Award and Music PEI Award for Roots Traditional Group Recording of the Year.

Gordie and the band are at the top of today’s vibrant old-time musical revival and are a mighty fine example of what an unending revival it is. For a taste of their offerings, why not toddle over to their website, www.gordiemackeeman.com for a listen.

Tickets available at Katti’s Knook at Kitiamt City Centre Mall.

Photo provided by the Kiti-mat Concert Association.

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