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Back to the drawing board on strata policyCameron Orr

Kitimat Council has opted against moving forward on a strata conversion bylaw, which so far had reached � rst reading.

Councillors voted to rescind � rst reading on advice that it would be the quickest and cleanest way to scratch the whole plan after some councillors expressed problems.

“I don’t believe in the way we’re doing this bylaw at this time. I feel there are too many potential things we could be holding back by this,” said Phil Germuth, who moved for the rescinding. “I don’t like the � ve per cent rule that’s in there, I do not like the de� nite...that council won’t accept changes to strata.”

The � ve per cent comment re-ferred to a proposal in the bylaw to forbid strata conversions once rental vacancy had hit or was below � ve per cent.

Germuth felt the policy would have taken power away from coun-cil and put decision making into the interpretation of the town’s adminis-tration.

Mario Feldhoff agreed to re-scinding the motion, feeling he hasn’t had enough time to tackle the matter.

“I feel kind of rushed actually in the way this has been pushed for-ward,” he said.

An out of town property devel-oper did write to council with his thoughts, and Feldhoff said he was comfortable with some of those rec-ommendations.

That letter came from Jason Pender, a real estate investor from Vancouver. His ideas included put-ting covenants on titles, allowing conversion to stratas but mandating that the property would have to be a rental unit for three to � ve years.

“This would allow [Kitimat] to get those properties that are in a state of disrepair upgraded to a more modern standard, new life to those ugly properties you see around town, it creates a better quality of rental housing and more net rentable units in the market,” Pender argued in his letter.

“The thing to consider is not just

saying no to something because it af-fects an aspect of what you represent but I would hope that you look at ways of being creative and looking at the betterment for the community overall,” he continued.

He noted that his company has not and does not plan to apply for any strati� cation for Kitimat proper-ties at the moment.

At the debate at council on August 26, Rob Gof� net said he’d prefer an information process to be undertaken for council and the com-munity to learn more.

“I’m not sure this [rescinding the bylaw] will lead us to understand-ing what a strata conversion policy means for the community,” he said.

Mary Murphy meanwhile said she was comfortable moving this bylaw to the back burner until they � gure out something better.

In closing the debate, Germuth said that he doesn’t see the bylaw as proposed as contributing to afford-able housing in Kitimat.

“If staff wants to bring some-thing back they can bring something back that’s more palatable to coun-cil,” he said. “There’s nothing in here that would let it come back to council for us to make decisions on what’s going to happen in this com-munity.”

Included in council’s informa-tion package were the minutes of the Kitimat Housing Committee meet-ing where members discussed the strata bylaw.

There was support and some concerns regarding the plan, but in the end the committee opted to wait until their September meeting when everyone on the committee could be there before taking a position on the plan.

Jonathan Orfao (right), 9, with younger brother Alex, 7, pose with the jaws of life at the Kitimat Fire Department, as the pair were recognized for their good work during a house � re last week.

Classroom training paid offCameron Orr

Jonathan Orfao, 9, was moving his brother’s bike on their driveway when he heard the bang.

On August 14, the Orfao’s home burned as did another, attached house, on Chinook Street in Cablecar.

“I heard a bang, like a drum. I looked behind me and there was a � re,” Jon described while he and his family toured the � re hall, in recognition of what came next.

He said he ran inside the house, shouted ‘� re’ and alerted the rest of his family, including his seven-year-old brother Alex.

The family rushed to their neighbours where they called 911.

But the kids were already, in a sense, pre-pared for a � re after visits to their classrooms by � re� ghter Ben Coultish, as well as the Emergen-

cy Awareness Program coordinators.Deputy Fire Chief Pete Bizarro says that it’s

a great feeling for the department, which some-times isn’t sure that the information they present is being learned or will be put into action.

But clearly it does work.“The biggest thing for me is that the kid

didn’t go back into the house,” he said, saying sometimes temptation is there to go back for things.

As icing on the cake, the � re department sal-vaged a large toy � re truck from the home, and presented it back to the kids, cleaned-up, during a � re hall tour.

“It put some smiles on their faces for sure.”Mayor Joanne Monaghan also presented the

kids with certi� cates of recognition for their ac-tions.

“If staff wants to bring something

back they can bring something back that’s

more palatable to council.”

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Kitimat will make a pitch to the provincial government to implement a new menin-gitis vaccine program in the province, while the regional district wants to hold the Min-istry of Transportation to task over maintenance of our high-ways.

Those are among the many motions on the table for voting at the Union of B.C. Municipalities (UBCM) an-nual conference on Septem-ber 16.

The conference is the an-nual gathering of representa-tives of all B.C. towns, which together pitch issues and ideas directly to the province.

The District of Kitimat’s motion relates to earlier council meetings with Janet Munro, who represents Men-ingitisBC.org, a group com-mitted to getting the province to provide a vaccine program which covers the MCV4 vac-cine, which gives more com-prehensive protection against meningitis strands.

Council gave their sup-port to the cause, and brought the motion to another govern-ment conference, the North Central Local Governments

Association, which passed the motion to bring the mat-ter to the UBCM. (As well as advocating for April 24 to be World Meningitis Day, which is also going to the UBCM.)

As per the motion, it’s recognized that eight provinc-es and territories in Canada already have public immu-nization programs with the MCV4 vaccine.

If passed, the motion calls for the new vaccine program to be implemented in all sec-ondary schools by April 24, 2014.

Meanwhile, the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine is hoping the UBCM will back them on calling on the Min-ister of Transportation and Infrastructure to “revise the provincial standards for road maintenance for future road maintenance contracts, to meet public safety needs.”

Within the motion itself the regional district notes that “northern BC residents con-sistently declare road mainte-nance fails to meet travellers’ requirements and that stan-dards have deteriorated since privatization of road main-tenance,” as well as points out that road maintenance

contractors consistently meet their contractual obligations.

This complements an-other motion from the RDKS asking that the classification of Highway 16 be reclassified from a Class B to a Class A.

Among the motion’s ‘whereas’ clauses, one points to Highway 16’s critical im-portance to the economy of the region, province and na-tion, “and requires the highest standards of maintenance.”

According to the Ministry of Transportation, highways in B.C. are classified from A to F, effectively highest prior-ity to lowest.

Class A highways are “the main, high volume high-ways.”

Class B, which is what the majority of Highway 16 is (except for through com-munities such as Terrace and Smithers), is defined as “routes that are main num-bered highways, but not as much traffic as Class A.”

Highway 37S, from Ter-race to Kitimat, is a Class A highway.

A Ministry spokesperson said that there are no current plans within the department to change the road classifica-tions.

Would the Ministry of Transportation ever take on Hais-la Boulevard as a provincial highway?

Not anytime soon, according to the Ministry.Highway 37S, as it enters Kitimat, becomes Haisla Bou-

levard, a municipally maintained road.Once the road reaches approximately the rail crossing

near Rio Tinto Alcan it becomes RTA property.Ministry spokesperson Kate Trotter said their posi-

tion right now is for the road responsibilities to remain un-changed.

“The ministry will continue to work with the District of Kitimat and road stakeholders to determine the best roles and responsibilities for the maintenance and upkeep of roads and highways in and around Kitimat,” she added.

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Bennett said the review is part of a broader effort by BC Hydro to meet his instruction to “spend less money,” as he leads an ef-fort to reduce costs across all govern-ment operations.

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The response from the Ministry of Transportation has come in re-garding their perspective on a pro-posed Kitimat to Burns Lake high-way, and a spokesperson says it’s not a point of any recent discussion at the ministry.

“The ministry’s goal is to pro-vide a safe and reliable transporta-tion network and we are commit-ted to listening to and working with stakeholders in order to help identify and improve our transportation sys-tem,” wrote Kate Trotter by e-mail. “We understand the bene� t of a di-

rect highway link between Kitimat and Burns Lake in order to support economic growth and development in the Kitimat area.”

But, “The cost of such a project is prohibitive, and the current align-ment on Highway 16 and 37S has enough capacity to support current and foreseeable growth in the area.”

The idea of this ‘coastal connec-tor’ has gone back years and propo-nents today are still pushing for the idea, which would save hundreds of kilometres on vehicle travel to the Houston, Burns Lake area. (See Sen-tinel, August 14, 2013.

PTI needs amendmentPTI Group has

submitted an applica-tion to amend their zoning for the planned workforce accom-modation ‘lodge’ in Strawberry Meadows.

According to their application, geotech-nical issues on the site means they now plan to move some of their dorm buildings to the northern edge of the property.

Those issues are the fact the company has discovered that in the event of an earth-quake there could be a “catastrophic failure of any buildings con-structed on the south

part of the site.”The application,

if approved, would up the maximum num-ber of beds per dorm building from 120 to 174, and the composi-tion of the site would mean 50 more beds than initially expected as the maximum.

Wording in their zoning would have to change to re� ect the new conditions.

While the number of beds may increase, the site would in the end actually have few-er buildings and more open space.

The report to council from staff

planners say that PTI Group is prepared, if there is a community concern about this proposal, to repurpose portions of their build-ings or to leave 50 rooms vacant.

Due to the recent approval of their ini-tial zoning applica-tion, council agreed to staff recommen-dations to not hold a public hearing about this proposed change.

Public notice will be issues, and coun-cil did pass � rst and second reading of the amendment.

Third reading and adoption of the

amendment is expect-ed at the September 9 council meeting.

Shown, not in order, are Brian Wakita, Mathew Stephen, Jeff Wilken, and Kevin Minaker in Centennial Park after bringing a particularly important rock to rest. The rock will eventually have a plaque af� xed to it signifying Kitimat as a Peace Community.

Marking the town for peaceSubmitted

It took most of the morn-ing of August 24 to select, pick up and move the rocks to Cen-tennial Park, where they were placed in an area given the okay by the District of Kitimat.

The rock has signi� cant im-portance because it will eventu-ally hold up a Peace Plaque, that will recognize Kitimat as a Peace Community.

Peace Communities are an initiative of the Rotary Club.

Setting the rock in place coincides with International Peace Day, which Kitimat’s Rotary Club will help celebrate on September 21 at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School.

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I start a lot of columns with “when I was a kid.” In 1957, Aus-sie country singer, Slim Dusty became the � rst Australian to have a No.1 hit song with Gordon Parsons’, “A pub with no beer.” I remember the � rst verse well, “It’s lonesome away from your kindred and all, by the camp� re at night when the wild dingoes call. But there’s nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear, than to stand in the bar of a pub with no beer.” I liked that song, but nothing so lonesome, morbid or drear?

For Canadians, that might be a Timmies with no doughnuts. Couldn’t happen? True perhaps, but last week, I went to our new Tim Horton’s in Kiti-mat in the early afternoon. It was my second time in the place but, sorry to say, for the second time found I had dif� culty � lling what I thought was a “simple order.”

I wanted two medium coffees and a box of six doughnuts. While the coffees were easy enough, the number and se-lection of doughnuts at 2:30 p.m. on a mid-week business day, left a lot to be desired. The shelves were pretty bare of most popular doughnuts. (The girl also explained a customer from Alcan had dropped in and taken six dozen doughnuts off the shelf, leaving them

short of stock. I guess that could be a � rst, but not likely.)

I asked � rst for the doughnut my wife likes best, a plain doughnut. They were there. I pointed clearly to them, but no plain doughnut made it into the box. I didn’t know that until I got home. There were maybe four maple creams in the largely empty shelves, so I took two plus a glazed plain one. Then I asked for a Boston Creme but there were none. I took the last chocolate cream and then the young chap serving me was joined by a girl from the drive-through window who noted they had a better supply in the back. The young male server left and returned, trium-phantly clutching a Boston Creme.

I paid and left. This was Wednes-day.

While my Timmies adventure was basically a humorous glitch, on Thurs-day night, I went half an hour early so I could get something to eat before a

meeting at the Hirsch Creek Golf and Winter Club and at about 6:30 p.m. it wasn’t busy inside.

I should tell you, in some Kiti-mat eating establishments, I have had a decade-long running “feud” about cold food, especially French fries, that also appear to have been heated and re-heated into a semi-blackened state.

Nothing daunted, I still ordered a plate of fries, but took the time to politely stress I wanted them freshly cooked and hot.

The order did not show up in the next 30 minutes, but the rest of my group did. We moved to a larger table at about 7:05 and another server came and took our group order.

I told her I was still waiting for my 6:30 order for fries - and a few minutes later she came back with them - hot, fresh and tasty. Kudos to the kitchen, but it’s what I’ll expect from now on.

Not all restaurants are created equal and Kitimat is getting busier. Competition is stepping up, so, with-out being directly and individually critical, Kitimat restaurants, includ-ing the HCGC lounge, a very popu-lar place for a long time, will have a limited amount of time to get their acts in gear before the competition does it for them.

Time is now to bump up local customer service

I’m down with the OCPWhen Kitimat Council rescinded the � rst read-

ing of the proposed strata conversion bylaw, it was because there was a mix of expediency and confu-sion that no one was comfortable with.

The bylaw’s purpose was to stem the dropping vacancy rate and keep a rental stock available in Kiti-mat.

But its execution had councillors unsure, with others saying the process to have this done was go-ing too fast.

By confusion, I mean it seemed there may have been other ways for council to set policy rather than through a strata conversion policy, but no one had time to really look at the options.

Being entirely shameless, I’ll refer to my August 14 editorial on this matter where I suggested that the Of� cial Community Plan (OCP) could stand to get a refresher, since the current OCP says Kitimat doesn’t need new rental housing.

And that plan was written in 2008 anyway, so to expand on my August 14 point, what use is the 2008 plan if the town is in a radically different situation than it was?

There are a lot of policy questions council is looking at lately, from this strata conversion idea to what to do about workforce accommodations in town. Questions we didn’t have to think about in 2008, or didn’t think we had to.

Would an OCP have helped guide discussion on a strata conversion? I’d think so.

I’d anticipate a modern OCP for Kitimat would include, among other things, guiding policies on rental accommodations and other housing issues.

With each passing day I become more and more aware of the importance of the OCP. (During my � rst round in Kitimat as the paper’s reporter, I de� nitely didn’t have the context to understand why having a master plan really mattered.)

The town needs an of� cial plan, which addresses modern needs.

We need to understand and prioritize the need for rental housing in the community, for during con-struction and for after as well.

Figure out pedestrian needs (ie, walkways) if we’re going to have a higher density of people for the time being.

And maybe � gure out a list of legacies we’d like seen left behind once construction is over, whether it’s some sort of replenishing local trust fund for civ-ic projects or an industrial contribution for locals to access the channel.

That’s why I think it’s time for a new OCP. Until we have one, most decisions will seemingly be made haphazardly with no eye on the prize, whatever the prize is.

Cameron Orr

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Dear Sir,I feel run down and my throat

hurts. Is it because I feel choked or is there something I cannot swallow? I have just returned home to Smithers from an Enbridge sponsored guided tour of the Fort McMurray tar sands. Upon request and to their credit, En-bridge agreed to include me in their latest junket in spite of my open op-position to the Northern Gateway Pipeline Project.

Fort McMurray is a hole in the boreal forest, 467 kms north of Ed-monton. From the air, the sprawling housing for its more than 100,000 inhabitants looks as if it is bursting at the seams because Crown land al-locations are limited and there are seemingly constant traf� c jams. Ev-erything is young and new, including the population whose median age is 31. Superlatives abound: largest air-port traf� c in Canada, nearly com-pleted largest recreational complex in Canada. Average house prices have reached $650,000.

There are two methods for ex-tracting tar sands heavy crude called bitumen; mining and in situ recov-ery. Both require large quantities of water and energy. Mining is an open pit operation using the gigan-tic trucks often shown in the media. Interestingly 30 per cent of the truck drivers are female who are very much liked for their gentler handling of the equipment. Bitumen mining requires the controversial tailing ponds lining the Athabasca River, which also receives the “treated” water. In situ recovery uses steam and does not require tailing ponds.

Suncor boasted about their 200 ha reclaimed area representing less than 1 percent of the land they used. A new directive from the Alberta Energy Regulations requires them to reclaim 50 per cent in the future, albeit nobody knows if this is even possible.

While there, I felt a mix of fasci-nation and horror; fascination came from witnessing the technological prowess and accomplishments. Hor-ror came not only from the scale of the destruction, but also from a sense of planetary disconnection. There is no doubt that the young, happy, ex-tremely well paid people and the sig-ni� cant number of foreign workers who could not dream of a $80,000 a year salary drying laundry in their own country, are all there for the money.

However this is an unprecedent-ed destruction of land, water and air allowed by extremely lenient fed-

eral and provincial regulations. A recently released report (July 2013) shows 4,063 chronic and repetitive contraventions by the major players between 1996-2012 with an enforce-ment rate of 0.9 per cent and a me-dian penalty $4,500.

Further, the area affected is larger than the extraction area. Car-cinogenic products associated with bitumen extraction were found in lake sediments 90 kms from the ex-traction site.

None of that was mentioned in the factoids delivered by the attrac-tive tour guide.

Neither was mentioned at the contribution of the tar sands extrac-tion to global warming, the most crucial issue of our time.

Even if as claimed the contribu-tion is only a few percentage points to global carbon emissions, such added percentage points can be the tipping point for disastrous conse-quences to come.

It appears like a delusional world propped up by our heavily lobbied federal leaders promoting their aggrandized vision of Canada as a super energy power.

By tripling production in the next 20 years, the CAPP representa-tive explained that there still will be 100 years left of production (instead of 500).

Are we to continue letting gi-ant oil multinationals decide on our behalf or are we to develop a vision that will protect the planet and in-clude the well-being of future gen-erations?

The importance of the contri-bution of tar sands extraction to the Canadian economy is not supported by the numbers presented during the visit.

If Alberta is receiving $2.3 bil-lion in royalties, why has it recorded a $2.8 billion de� cit in 2012? Fed-eral taxes amounting to $1.5 billion represent a rather small percentage of the $1.74 trillion Canadian GDP.

No wonder I feel choked. For those of us who have not stepped into the “bitumen bubble,” it is clear that the future lays in careful plan-ning for the reduction of our energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions with a renewed sense of world citizenship and deep care for the future generations.

Sincerely, Josette Wier


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Tarred with the same brush?Here’s a fun lesson

in semantics. While Wier’s letter

above refers to the ‘tar sands’ you’ll notice our article on page 9 refers to the oil sands. So what gives?

The Canadian As-

sociation of Petroleum Producers has a guide on their website, which cites the Alberta govern-ment’s position that it should more accurately be ‘oil sands’.

But ‘tar sands’ is the more traditional term,

going back decades.The terms are po-

litically charged, with some noting that ‘oil sands’ sounds cleaner.

We’re not trying to take a stand, but we’ll go with ‘oil sands’ for simplicity in our stories.


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Shaun ThomasWestern Canada is

going to have to over-come a number of chal-lenges to have a suc-cessful liquefied natural gas (LNG) export in-dustry, says the Inter-national Gas Union (IGU).

In the 2013 World LNG Report the IGU, which represents over 120 members in 81 countries, points to significant commer-cial and environmental risks that need to be ad-dressed.

One challenge, which the report claims to be quite significant, is the difference in pricing. LNG future contract price is set by a system called Henry Hub (HH), named af-ter a distribution point on the gas pipeline in Louisiana, but the IGU said that is not what Ca-nadian companies are wanting to charge.

“Project costs in Canada far exceed counterpart projects in the United States where the natural gas market is much more liquid. Moreover, the distance between the proposed export facilities and the North American gas pipeline grid is large,

and connections are small in both capacity and number.

Exporting Henry Hub-linked LNG is risky because it forces sellers to produce no matter what happens to

Henry Hub,” the report explains. “These factors are exacerbated by the tension between Asian buyers’ insistence on Henry Hub pricing and the sellers’ preference for oil-linked prices –a

difference that has so far been hard to recon-cile ... despite numer-ous marketing leads for Western Canada’s slate of projects, there are currently no finalized agreements with Asia

Pacific buyers.”Despite the chal-

lenges, the report does note that Canada’s po-litical climate is right for the industry to grow.

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face a smaller range of political risks than those in the Lower 48, as Canada is much more accustomed to energy exports on a large scale ... although projects that have not

yet received export li-censes still face the risk of delay or a potential limit being placed on the number of licenses granted, these risks are quite small,” reads the report.

Negotiations with unions represent-ing more than 25,000 school support staff were back on last week, with a strike mandate already in place for B.C.’s 60 school dis-tricts as the new school year gets underway.

Education Minister Peter Fassbender said Wednesday he is hope-ful that a settlement with clerical staff, cus-todians, bus drivers and other support staff can be achieved without picket lines disrupting classes. Talks broke off in August and were set to resume today.


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The District of Kitimat digs up and prepares to repair a sidewalk in front of Couto Electric on Enterprise Avenue. Once rebuilt there will be a wheelchair accessible ramp to get onto the sidewalk and to the business. The District’s Technical Services Manager Wayne Sussbauer says that it’s the usual convention to bring sidewalks up to today’s standards during repairs if they aren’t already.

Public port questions get some clarificationCameron Orr

The province is leading a working group to look at how port governance will work in Kitimat and Kitimat’s Chief Administrative Of� cer Ron Poole says they are getting some clari� cation on the ‘public port’ designation.

The federal natural resources minister Joe Ol-iver announced in March plans to convert Kitimat into a public port, but little details followed that announcement, leaving a lot of confusion over what it would mean to the municipality.

But Poole, who attended a meeting of this working group last month, explained the intent seems to be to have control over ships moving on the water using the Canadian Shipping Act and the Marine Act.

So in short, the government wants to ensure ships moving on the waters meet certain condi-tions, but they’re not going to be in� uencing what happens at the speci� c ports, like Rio Tinto Al-can’s.

“In other words, the designation was made in concern of safety of the harbour but has nothing to do with management or ownership of the port because that basically falls on provincial, private and municipal jurisdiction,” said Poole.

Poole did add though that how the ships are monitored could potentially mean the creation of a public port authority board, but it wasn’t clear if that would be the case.

“How we operate it is still up in the air, we haven’t come up with that model,” he said.

The impetus behind these changes is the an-ticipated shipping of a number of dangerous ma-terials on the water, from lique� ed natural gas to potentially oil from Alberta.

Ice Demons prepare for the new seasonIt’s that time again as the Kitimat Ice

Demons Senior Men’s AA hockey team starts preparing for the 2013-14 Central Interior Hockey League season.

The Ice Demons will be entering its twelfth season in the league and are again hoping to ice a strong team, with a large proportion of the existing core group of players expected to return.

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Kitimatians take the oil sands tourCameron Orr

A trip to the oil sands near Fort Mc-Murray has given Kitimat Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Trish Parsons a new perspective on the projects.

Parsons was in a group of numerous others — including two other as yet un-named Kitimatians — who were invited on the tour by Enbridge, the proponent behind the Northern Gateway Pipelines proposal.

The tour took place on August 14.

The company de-cided such a tour was in order after facing a number of questions about the origin of the crude oil it hopes to pump for customers through its planned Northern Gateway pipeline from Alberta to a marine terminal at Kitimat, says company official Ivan Gies-brecht.

“We thought it would be a lot easier to show them rather than to simply tell them,” said Giesbrecht.

Also on the tour from the Terrace area was the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce executive director Carol Field-ing, Terrace Economic Development Author-ity economic develop-ment officer Evan van Dyk and Alex Pietrella, the executive director of the Kitimat-Terrace Industrial Develop-ment Society.

Enbridge told the Sentinel they were waiting to hear from the two other Kitimat

participants to know if they were comfort-able having their name released to the media, and have since identi-fied Bill Hickman as another participant.

We were unable to reach him by press time.

For Parsons, the tour helped provide the middle ground between the polar-ized imagery of the oil sands.

“Everything that I’ve ever seen about the oil sands was either on TV — somebody who’s totally opposed to it — or somebody like Suncor...promot-ing the oil sands,” she said.

What she said is that instead of huge smoke stacks and cut up geography, she found just regular out doors.

“I was expecting to see a lot more in-dustrial, barren, wide open areas,” she said. “There was lots and lots of green space.”

She was also im-pressed with what she saw of reclaimed lands from oil sands projects.

She said she felt the tour was conducted unbiasedly, saying that participants were able to ask questions at any point of the tour.

As well, the vari-ety of people weren’t just pipeline support-ers. She said she knows through conversations that some of the people on the tour were actu-ally entirely opposed to Enbridge’s pipeline plan for the northwest.

Parsons wasn’t just scoping out oil proj-

ects on her tour. She said she also got to see an active PTI Group lodge.

PTI Group is pro-posing to build a 2,100 bed workforce accom-modation in the Straw-berry Meadows subdi-vision in Kitimat.

The one near Fort McMurray, which Par-sons said was attached to an industrial site, looked very plain from the outside (a differ-ent design than what’s proposed for Kitimat) but the inside was very nice and was very much like a hotel.

Fort McMurray is a good study on a growing town. Parsons said she’s aware of some talk from people who think Kitimat is on its way to being a Fort McMurray kind of town, and that Kitimat is already finding some issues with the growth, and not just the obvi-ous ones.

For instance in Fort McMurray she said there were a lot of closed restaurants. But it wasn’t a lack of business which shut them out, but a lack of employees, she says.

It’s a similar situa-tion which is growing in Kitimat.

“They’re having challenges recruiting and retaining staff for part time jobs,” she said. “If you’ve got after school hours, Tim Hortons has con-stantly got signs up, Dairy Queen...they’ve got signs up. Trigo’s they’ve got signs up. I think that’s going to become the norm as more of these projects

Kitimat Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Trish Parsons in front of a very large piece of oil sands equipment. Parsons was selected, among others, to tour Fort McMurray’s oil sands developments, on a tour sponsored by Enbridge. Parsons said the oil sands weren’t quite as she had always pictured them.

start to move forward. You cannot compete with construction jobs as far as salaries go.”

A company, she said, may have to look at offsetting a wage

with a rental allowance as well, she said.

These sorts of concerns are why the Chamber worked with the Immigrant Em-ployment Council and

the Northwest Com-munity College to host an immigrant work-force forum in Kitimat. (Sentinel, August 28).

Enbridge has host-ed similar tours in the

past. Selected people were sent to Michigan in May to see first hand the clean up efforts on the Kalamazoo River, the site of a major En-bridge spill in 2010.

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Yin Ling grew up in Hong Kong where she met her husband Man Che at H.K.B. University. The couple shared 40 happy and intimate years together. They came to Kitimat in 1976 and Yin Ling worked at Atom Motors then Daval Automotive for a total of 25 years. She loved travelling the world and tending her beautiful garden. Fong Yee Yee was known for her friendly and inquisitive nature, positive outlook, elegant homegrown bouquets, and perfect desserts. She fully cherished all her relations, lived life to the fullest, and loved to laugh.She maintained her sense of humour and lovely demeanor until the end of her days, passing away peacefully and with “no regrets!” after a courageous struggle with cancer. Yin Ling is survived by Man Che, her older brothers Kung Ping (Lei Shang), Kwok Hong (Susana), and Kwok Kee (Fung Yee), as well as her nieces and nephews.Fong Yee Yee and Man Che are indebted to their longtime Kitimat friends and “kids” for their endless support. To the Chiu, Lee, Poon, Lo and Lam families – words cannot express our deep appreciation.Thank you also to the home care nurses Gloria, Elaine, and Lenaya; the home support staff; the hospital staff; Dr. Huang, Dr. Kay, and Dr. Van Schalkwyk; and Debbie Hopkins from oncology. We were so fortunate to receive your compassionate care and love.

A private celebration of life was held on August 28th, 2013 in Fong Yee Yee’s home.

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LicensedCommercial Mechanic

Eldorado Log Hauling Ltd. Williams Lake, BC

has an immediate position for a Licensed Commercial Mechanic with a Commercial Inspection Ticket. Logging Truck experience would be an asset but not necessary.

We Offer An Excellent Benefi t Package &

Competitive Wages.

A drivers abstract will be requested at point of hire. Resumes may be faxed to: (1)250-392-3504 or e-mail to: [email protected]

While we truly appreciate all applications, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

WRANGLER RENTALS LTD. is now recruiting Excavator Operators. Rig experience an asset. Camp jobs, day rates, health benefi ts & steady work rain or shine. Contact Monika 780-980-1331 or email re-sume:[email protected].

Services

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Help Wanted

Services

Financial ServicesGET BACK ON TRACK! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need Money? We Lend! If you own your own home - you qualify. Pioneer Acceptance Corp. Member BBB.

1-877-987-1420 www.pioneerwest.com

IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: it’s that simple. Your credit/age/income is not an issue. 1-800-587-2161.

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Merchandise for Sale

Heavy Duty Machinery

A-STEEL SHIPPING DRYSTORAGE CONTAINERS

Used 20’40’45’53’ in stock. SPECIAL

44’X40’ Container Shopw/steel trusses $13,800!

Sets up in one day!40’ Containers under $2500!

Call Toll Free AlsoJD 544 & 644 wheel loaders

JD 892D LC ExcavatorPh 1-866-528-7108Delivery BC and AB

www.rtccontainer.com

Misc. for SaleFOR SALE

Sofa, loveseat, TV, coffee table and end table, bed-room suite, dining room suite. Please leave mes-sage:

250-632-5918 or250-639-2561

For Sale By Owner

HOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?

RESTLESS LEG Syndrome and leg cramps? Fast relief in one hour. Sleep at night. Prov-en for over 32 years. www.allcalm.com Mon-Fri 8-4 EST 1-800-765-8660.

STEEL BUILDINGS, Metal buildings 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca

Misc. WantedGenuine Coin Collector BuyerCollections, Olympic Gold &Silver Coins etc 778-281-0030

Real Estate

Duplex/4 Plex4 SALE Kitimat - Duplex 930 sq ft 3 bed 1 bath - $182,000 or best offer Investment prop-erty 1 Fourplex 1760 sq ft 3 bed 2 bath comes with renter on 2 year lease at $1,400 per month tenant pays utilities $198,000 or best offer. Call 780-974-3945.

Rentals

Apt/Condo for RentFREE HEAT AND HOT WATER

Bachelor 1 and 2 bedroom

APARTMENTS Largest, Brightest SuitesShiny Hardwood Floors

Unfurnished & FurnishedDaily - Weekly - Monthly

ABSOLUTELY NO PARTIERSINCLUDES HEAT!

OCEANVIEW APTS(250)632-2822 Kitimat

KITIMAT APTSBEST VALUE

• Starting at $600• Balconies• Security Entrances• Cameras for your safety• Now includes basic

cableVisit our Website

www.kitimatapartments.comPhone: 250.632.APTS

(2787)

QUATSINO APTSKITIMAT

• Downtown location• Balconies• Security Entrances• Some furnished suites

Call for an appointment250.632.4511

www.kitimatapartments.com

For Sale By Owner

KITIMAT

MIDTOWN APARTMENTS

Free heat & Free Hot WaterFurnished & Unfurnished

1 & 2 bedroomsSecurity Entrances

No Pets. No Smoking250.632.7179

SANDPIPER APTSKITIMAT

Newer BuildingsElevators

Security EntrancesCovered Parking

Balconieswww.kitimatapartments.com

250.632.4254

Homes for RentHouse for Lease or Sale in

CablecarExecutive style, 5,000 sqft, 3 storey, 2x6 construction. Outstanding style house. Contains 5-8 bedrooms, 3-5 full bathrooms. High ceilings, solid oak hardwood fl oors, fi replace, jacuzzi. Heat re-covery system. Partially fur-nished. Double garage and driveway. 1.4 acres private setting with creek running through. Ample parking for RVs, boats, etc. A must see! $3500/mo + utilities references required (Kitimat)

Please contact Greg250-279-8888

KITIMAT House for Lease or Sale

3 bdr, 1 bath in quiet neigh-bourhood. This house has a big fenced backyard, includ-ing garden shed and fl ower beds. Comes with F/S and W/D. No pets, no parties, no smoking. References and damage deposit required. $1,500/mo.+ utilities

Call (250)279-8888

TownhousesTOWNHOMES in KITIMAT3 bdrm, 1 ½ bath, carportStart $700. Sorry no Pets.

Call Greg 639-0110

Transportation

Cars - Domestic1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Su-preme. Column shift auto, 350 rocket 4Bbl engine. Running condition. Great project car. New all season tires. New brake booster and ball joints. Record of all recent work. Comes with rear racing tires and some extra parts. $3,000. Call (250)632-2018

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

250-632-6755Serious inquiries only Please

Trucks & Vans2001 Ford Windstar. 250000km. New rotor and brakes front end rear brakes and drums replaced winter of 2011. Rear shocks re-placed 2012. Two sets of tires on rims includes two new winter studded tires. Right front calipher should be replaced. A/C and cruise. Multiplayer CD. Asking $1500. 250-639-2608250-632-3486

Boats

17 ft. Alum. Canoe “Spring Bok” very stable, perfect for family / hunting canoe. $500.

Call (250) 692-2372

21.5 ft FG Boat. Chev 350, dual prop, Volvo leg. Elec. downriggers, radio, gps depth sounder, anchor winch. $9,500.2 man Pontoon Boat with oars, seats. $800.

250-639-6747

28’ TRENDCOMMAND

BRIDGEComes with tri axle trailer. Very good condition. Volvo Penta twin Chevy 350 in-board gas. Sleeps 4 com-fortably. Call for pictures.

$24,000Call 250.639.9757

Kitimat

32’ FIBERGLASS FERRELL BOAT

370hp 8.1L John Deere Diesel, 1500hrs on engine. Trolling valve, Bow Thruster,

3 Stage Steering. 2 Hydraulic Deep lines,

Hydraulic Trap Puller, 3 Sounders, Radar, 8’ Dinghy,

2 Radios. Com-Dev Auto Pilot, Spare Prop. Can be seen at MK Bay Marina.

Assessed at $84,400.Contact Warren Poff at

250.632.6119or 250.242.1789

$65,000 Firm(will consider trade for part)

FOR SALE17 ft Cedar Strip Ocean Kayak. 81 Yukon St. Kitimat

$5,500 250-632-7508

GRADY WHITE 25FT BOAT -For Sale-

1994 2x200 Johnson V6 engines. 480HR. With Triple Axel Nextrail Trailer. Rigged

for fi shing, new GPS Asking $30,000. (Neg)

Call: 250-632-1037KITIMAT

Kitimat- For sale: 19’ Aluminum Boat

85 h.p. Suzuki Outboard, 9.9 Mercury kicker, vhf radio,

Eagle fi sh fi nder, Lowrance sonar/gps, 2 solar panels,

2 scotty down riggers. Asking $12,800.

Call: 250-632-6996

Community NewspapersWe’re at the heart of things™

Cameron OrrKitimat’s own Ben Thorne continues his

move through the ranks of race walkers.Most recently he competed in the Internation-

al Association of Athletics Federations’ (IAAF)World Track and Field Championships in the 20 km race walk, held on August 11 in Moscow, Russia.

He placed 20 out of about 65 participants, a � nish he’s feels pleased with.

“It’s about as good as I could have hoped for,” he said. “I wasn’t too sure what to expect.”

For him, the race in Moscow wasn’t a matter of getting out ahead, but pacing himself.

Knowing his limits, and aware of the intense heat of the day, he started slow, and “picked off” competitors as he went.

As for his physical preparedness, he said he was as � t as he ever was going to be getting into it.

But that said, “I do think there’s de� nitely room for improvement for next time.

I’ll work on my � tness to get my mileage up and hopefully I’ll be in the top eight next time or the medals.”

This particular competition happens every two years, so he said he’ll get his next chance to prove himself in Beijing in 2015.

After that will be the Olympics.

“That’s ultimately what we’re working to-wards,” he said.

The remainder of this year doesn’t have many competitions.

He said there’s the Francophone Games in France in the middle of this month, but a minor knee injury has him wondering if he’ll do it.

But even so, the follow-up to that will just be two weeks off before he gets into weight training to build his strength over the winter.

Meanwhile 2014 will be a slow year for com-petitions, but there will be a World Racewalking Cup in China.

“I’ll de� nitely be going to that,” he said.“Besides that there’s not too much.”There’s also a challenge circuit run by the

IAAF he may participate in.


&Sports Leisure

What? Third Reading will be given on Monday, September 9 at 7:30 pm at Council Chambers, 606 Mountainview Square, to consider the following zoning change:

What ChangeS?Currently dormitories in this zone may be a maximum of 120 beds, and a maximum of 2104 beds on the site. The proposed zoning changes would allow a maximum of 174 beds per building - an increase of 54 beds per dormitory, and a maximum of 2154 beds on the site - an increase of 50 beds overall.

a map of the affected zone is below:

hoW Can I Speak?If you have thoughts on this issue, you may provide written comment to Mayor and Council care of 270 City Centre, V8C 2H7; fax 250-632-4995; or e-mail to [email protected]; until 8:30 am, thursday, Sept. 5, 2013. You may also speak in person at the Council Meeting on Monday, Sept. 9, 7:30 pm, 606 Mountainview Square.

need More Info?The bylaw, Council resolution, staff report and other background material are available for review at www.kitimat.ca/EN/main/municipal/public-notices.html and at Municipal Hall, 270 City Centre. Office hours are 8:30 am-Noon, and 1-4:30 pm, Monday to Friday excluding Labour Day, September 2.

Who Can I Speak to?Planner Daniel Martin at 250-632-8900 or [email protected]

SeekIng publIC CoMMentZoning amendment r3-b Multi-family

and Interim residential dormitory Zone

Ben Thorne in Moscow. Claus Andersen / Athletics Canada

Competition in stridesSo you know...

If you’ve been wondering what race walking even is, it’s a form of racing — of course — where the toe of your rear foot cannot leave the ground until the heel of your front foot has touched down. Addition-ally the supporting leg has to be straight for as long as it’s touching the ground.

September 5

The Kitimat Seniors, branch 129, will hold their monthly meeting at 1pm at the senior’s centre.

September 5

The Kitimat Quilters Guild is starting up for the season. Meetings are the � rst Thursday of every month, held at M.E.S.S. Sewing room. All experience levels welcome (19+).Call Aileen at 250-632-6225 or Wanda at 250-632-4458.

September 15

The 33rd annual Terry Fox Run takes off from the Riverlodge Com-munity Centre. Regis-tration starts at noon, the run itself starts at 1 p.m. More info at ter-ryfox.org.

Ongoing

The Kitimat Public Library’s Fri. morning StoryTime! for pre-schoolers has ended for the summer. It will re-sume in early Sept.

COMINGEVENTS

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NOTICE

Kitimat Modernization Project

Application for a permit under the Provisions of the Environmental Management Act.

We, Rio Tinto Alcan, #1 Smelter Site Road, PO Box 1800, Kitimat, British Columbia, V8C 2H2, intend to submit this application to the Director to authorize the discharge of stormwater from the Kitimat Modernization Project’s Main Camp (KMP Construction Village), Parking Lot and Laydown Areas (East, Central, and West). Stormwater from the Main Camp & Laydown Areas will be collected and treated prior to discharge.

The lands upon which the discharges will be sourced and occur are within the District of Kitimat on District Lots 186, 187, 7595 and 7569, Range 5, Coast District, Kitimat, British Columbia. The site is located north of both Anderson Creek and the Kitimat smelter site.

Under normal conditions, the rate of discharge from Outlet C of the Main Stormwater Settlement Pond (Main Camp & Laydown Areas) will typically be below 0.25 m3/s; however, permit provisions will allow an indeterminate maximum rate of discharge in response to storm events. Discharge rates from Outlets B, C and E (Main Camp & Laydown Areas) and Outlets F, G, H and I (East Laydown Area) are dependent on precipitation and, therefore, are indeterminate. The operating period for these Areas will be continuous.

The type of treatment to be applied to the discharge of Outlets B and C in the Main Camp & Laydown Areas is stormwater collection ditches and sedimentation in a pond system.

Any person who may be adversely affected by the proposed discharge of stormwater and wishes to provide relevant information may, within 30 days after the last date of posting, publishing, service or display, send written comments to the applicant, with a copy to the Director, Environmental Protection at Bag 5000, 3726 Alfred Avenue, Smithers, British Columbia, V0J 2N0. The identity of any respondents and the contents of anything submitted in relation to this application will become part of the public record.

Dated this Wednesday, 4 September 2013.

Company contact person: Gabriel EmondKMP Environmental Advisor, Rio Tinto AlcanTelephone: 250 639 8632Email: [email protected]

Kerry MoranKMP Operations Director, Rio Tinto Alcan

Gaby PoirierBC Operations General Manager, Rio Tinto Alcan

kitimat northern sentinel, september 04, 2013

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