kitimat northern sentinel, june 17, 2015

Cameron OrrOn June 9, Unifor

2300 and the District of Kitimat announced a tentative Collective Agreement had been reached.

Rati� cation came soon afterwards, with union members sup-porting the deal the evening following the announcement, and Kitimat Council ratify-

ing the agreement on their end on June 10.

The conclusion to the over 100 day-long strike comes as a relief to Mayor Phil Germuth.

“Overall we’re just extremely happy that it’s � nally over,” he said.

Council met to ap-prove the agreement at a special closed meet-ing June 10.

Germuth said it passed fairly easily save for one issue, which he couldn’t elaborate on due to the closed nature of the meeting. (‘La-bour relations’ is one of the categories of topics that are allowed in the closed portion of coun-cil meetings.)

“There was a mi-nor [hold up] but other than that no, we’re hap-py to get our workers back, we’re happy to be able to eventually get our recreation facilities open,” he said.

The speci� c de-tails of the agreement were not yet publicly released but we’re told the agreement will be posted for viewing sometime in the com-ing weeks.

The District on their website did say that for this agreement, “in addition to numer-ous increases to ben-e� ts, the agreement in-cludes wage increases of 2.5 percent in 2015, 2.5 percent in 2016 and 3.0 percent in 2017.”

The District says

that some employees would go back to work by last Friday while some departments will have a phased-in return to work plan.

Germuth said he’s looking forward to building inspections resuming and the repair of a number of water mains in town.

The union is thank-ful to the community for its support.

“We couldn’t have done it without the rock-solid support of the community and Unifor members from across the country,” said Martin McIlwrath, Local 2300 Business Agent, in a Unifor press release.

“The solidarity and patience shown by the people of Kitimat made the difference.”

Unifor says the new collective agree-ment sets a minimum number of permanent staff that must be main-tained, including re-placing retiring work-ers.

The raises were

also in line with those negotiated between Lo-cal 2301 and Rio Tinto Alcan.

For relationship building leading to the next Collective Agree-ment, Germuth said the town is committed to being more engaged in dealing with any issues.

“ R e l a t i o n s h i p building, that’s got to

be communication, right?

We know [that] over the past Collective Agreement we’ve had the option with coun-cil that we were going to meet twice a year with the union and for various reasons it didn’t happen.

So we’re going to make sure now that it

happens. If we don’t get a call from the union we’ll be calling them,” he said.

As for the lingering question of if there were any second thoughts to how the negotiations were handled, Germuth said he continues to stand by the negotiating team.

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Refreshing, and for a good cause. Michael Barnard and Alec Venman sold lemonade from the corner of Driftwood Street last Wednesday, raising $275.40, for the Kitimat Relay for Life, held on Saturday.

Unifor 2300 sent in this photo of the membership celebrating following the rati� cation vote of their new Collective Agreement with the District of Kitimat.

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Bittern CreekWater flows from underneath the grass in front of a home on Bittern Street. The leak, which is on municipal property, will be among the many priorities of the Public Works department as employees go back to work. Director of Engineering Tim Gleig says he’s not aware of the leak causing any other problems, and that the repairs will be prioritized along with other works.

SO2 hearings running to June 30The Environmen-

tal Appeal Board hear-ings into Rio Tinto Al-can’s emissions permit, which allows a sub-stantial increase in SO2 emissions, wrapped up their Kitimat portion of hearings which had run at the Rod and Gun Club to June 12.

The EAB so far expects just two more days of hearings, for

June 29 and 30 in Victoria, to wrap up the process before the board contemplates a decision.

It might not hap-pen fast though. From the hearing’s conclu-sions it’s anyone’s guess when a decision will be made. There is no legislated time frame for when deci-sions have to be made,

said an employee at the EAB by phone.

The Northwest In-stitute (NI) continues to provide highlights from the hearings, the most recent by press time being the over-view of the June 8 hear-ing, which included testimony from Greg Paoli, Principal at Risk Sciences International, a consulting firm hired

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Waycheshen formally takes on Kitimat’s top job as CAO

The District of Kitimat’s former deputy chief administrative officer Warren Waycheshen, who took on the role of interim CAO when Ron Poole announced his resignation to move to Mission, has now officially been named the town’s new CAO.

The District announced the pro-motion June 11.

Waycheshen began at the Dis-trict of Kitimat in September 2012.

Waycheshen was moved up to the interim CAO position in the midst of the municipal strike.

A press release from the District

of Kitimat says “Council looks for-ward to working with Warren.”

Waycheshen told the Sentinel in an e-mail that they are “still looking at options” as far as replacing his former position, but they expect to be posting a position soon. He notes the position may not be the exact one he held.

Meanwhile a man named Don Schaffer is filling in as the acting corporate administrator. Schaffer, said Waycheshen, does work in the province doing short-term coverages for municipalities.


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David Suzuki himself along with the Founda-tion’s staff, and filmmak-ers for the short film screen the same night at Mount Elizabeth Theatre, were on hand to speak to Kitimat and to take in feedback about coastal living.

The stop was the ninth in the Foundation’s Con-necting Coastal Commu-nities tour, which for this region has included Smith-ers, Prince Rupert and Masset.

For Suzuki, the event was in part a way to pro-mote filmmaker Ian Mau-

ro’s film on climate change impacts in British Colum-bia, a short version of the production was shown in the theatre.

On a larger scale though the event sought the input of community residents to speak about things which concern them in regards to being a

coastal community.The perspectives of

the Haisla First Nation was in particular high-lighted, with opening re-marks from Hereditary Chief Sammy Robinson and Chief Councillor Ellis Ross, who spoke about his community’s challenges and priorities.

Ross spoke to his com-munity’s history trying to raise alarms over environ-mental issues, including the drop in the oolichan population.

“I really still do be-lieve the Kitimat River is dead,” he said, noting there is a great hatchery here but saying there is effectively no wild salmon anymore.

He said the Haisla are using all of their resourc-es to look at permits that

would affect their terri-tory, all with an eye to ben-efit the the region and the Haisla people.

“It’s all with the idea that some of that ben-efit has got to flow to the Haisla people. It’s our ter-ritory.”

David Suzuki under-stands the importance of

engagement and consul-tation, remembering the laughable way ‘consulta-tion’ was handled in the 1990s, but sees Canadian courts providing much bet-ter recognition to First Na-tions today.

For benefits that flow to others rather than First Nations, Suzuki says he sees it on Haida Gwaii where his grandchildren live.

He said billions of dol-lars of resources are taken from the area while people in the area remain quite poor.

“I think there’s a very real issue of social justice,” he said. “This land was all theirs and we’ve seen them reduced to tiny reserves and begging for crumbs off the table. So now is

their moment.”As for the Ian Mauro

film Suzuki was on hand to promote, he said it tries to reach people in a way aca-demic experts don’t.

“There’s been a huge push back from the fossil fuel industry saying this is junk science,” he said. “The public has been re-ally confused, is it settled or not? So if we can’t con-vince people by the scien-tists I feel we have to have people who are outside [academia], living their lives, to tell us.”

He says Canada is at the greatest risk in the developed world for cli-mate change given the massive amount of coast-line and the industriesthat rely on it, from forest-ry to tourism.

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RTA gets scrubber petition delivered but still believes in emissions planCameron Orr

A near 1,100 sig-nature petition to Rio Tinto Alcan demand-ing SO

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hand delivered to the company’s community office June 9.

The company has followed up though saying they stand by their decision to release SO

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than through salt water scrubbers.

Meanwhile the deliverers of the peti-tion, Lucy McRae and Breanne Wilken, felt unwelcome when they handed the petition to the company.

“Kevin Dobbin [Manager Communi-ties, External Relations and Media] was not happy to receive it,”

said McRae outside the office. She and Wilken both say they felt like they were pushed out the door.

McRae said copies of the petition will also be forwarded to RTA’s head office.

“We did receive the petition this week,” said Gaby Poirier, Gen-eral Manager for BC Operations, but added, “Our main focus is on people and stakehold-ers that live and reside in the community.”

The petition in-cludes signatories who are not specifically in the Kitimat area, even as far away as Ontario and the United King-dom.

Poirier points to what he calls the “big

picture” of the overall 50 per cent general re-duction in emissions.

“We are very open to feedback. We have many consultation pro-cesses...we’ve got the website, got the com-munity office always open to the public,” he said.

“There’s many, many ways to get the feedback and we’re very open to get the feedback from the community because this remains our main focus. People and stakeholders that live and reside in the com-munity.”

Poirier called SO2

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I suppose I am easily offended and that why I feel offended almost on a daily basis, but particularly by of� cial and political hypocrisy.

Today I reacted to the “warn-ings” of the current governor of the Bank of Canada during one of his monthly economic reviews in which he expresses his concernsabout where Canada is heading eco-nomically.

Today (June 11) Governor Ste-phen Poloz repeated, again, as he has so often before, one of his man-tras, “the vulnerability associated with household indebtedness is edg-ing higher, and the overall risk to � -nancial stability in Canada is slightly higher than it was at the time of our December FSR.”

I don’t object or argue with the point, only that it comes from the top man in the banking industry in Can-ada at the same time as his brethren bankers almost daily inundate me (a � xed-income retired consumer) with invitations to extend my credit card limit, to take on a new, more effective credit card.

The mail and TV advertising each day invites me to take advantage of borrowing against the paid-off “eq-uity” on my house for holidays, cars,

investments, home improvements, lots of other things I don’t need.

The friendly warning that con-sumer debt poses a threat to the econ-omy comes as the central bank says “it is seeking to balance the risks of record consumer debt burdens against the shock to incomes from lower crude oil prices.”

Also hypocritical, while most heavy mortgage-lending banks and the real estate industry have said there is no housing bubble in Canada, Poloz insists on behalf of the Bank of Can-ada, that “a crash in housing prices that are overvalued by as much as 30 percent remains the biggest risk to the country’s � nancial system, a danger that has edged higher on the drop in crude oil prices.”

How about Poloz instead more openly criticize the real estate indus-try in big centres such as Vancouver and Toronto and instead acknowledge

that the upward drive of prices is often driven by agent claims of duplicitous “better competing bids.”

But agents are wary of any leg-islation to demonstrate the truth of these claims.

My other complaints about hy-pocrisy hinge on events in — surprise — politics.

Everyone is as aware of the im-plications of the revelations con-tained in the auditor general’s report on the Senate expenses scandal but lo and behold, while “visible” sena-tors (those willing to comment) em-brace the need for change and more accountability and transparency, there were others who are infuriated at the “gall” of the attorney general horning in and spotting a million dollars worth of expense irregularities by some 30 senators.

The Senate clearly will resist change just as evidently as the House of Commons will never request a similar audit of MP and MP of� ce ex-penses. Once bitten...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper exacerbated the hypocrisy by his usu-al means, by leaving town while the bullets � ew.

It’s going to be an interesting summer and a critical election run up.

Being offended on a daily basis

The end (for now)This is how I re-kindle my life back at work af-

ter being away a couple of weeks: admitting I was wrong.

I wrote a few weeks back that arbitration seemed the only real way to end the debacle of the municipal strike once and for all, a decision I felt would get an agreement that would save face for either side.

I couldn’t resist taking peeks at the goings on re-garding the strike while I was away and had to miti-gate my blood pressure when I saw arbitration was offered to and declined by the union.

Yet hope remained with knowledge mediation would resume, and my second day back the an-nouncement is made a tentative agreement is made.

I’ve been wrong before. Mediation came through with a win this time, and I couldn’t be happier.

Of course life won’t go back to ‘normal’ for some people. Issues boiled over in this strike which have simmered for decades. It’s not something that can be � xed immediately.

In fact many problems I’m sure were created by the strike. Both sides were poked by the other. To imagine the District and the union as neighbours, if it were me I’d be ready to move out.

The relations between employer and employee have been strained. But it’s never beyond repair.

I feel con� dent that the new Collective Agree-ment will set a groundwork to rebuild the relation-ship in some way.

That’s really the hope for in three years when the contract comes up again. If there’s a system for re-lation building, a measurable system, then the town and the union will know next time how far things have come.

Even by then things might not be perfect — is life ever perfect between an employee and an em-ployer? — but the path to a better relationship will be clear.

Hopefully everyone has learned something from this chapter in Kitimat’s life. It’s been a toll on ev-eryone, and a real test of a brand-new council. It’s been said that this is the longest municipal strike in B.C. history.

Basically no one can walk away from the strike with the new agreement and expect everything to go back to normal.

Hopefully people remember that the next time an agreement needs to be negotiated. I suspect there will still be some lingering bits of what the union called a “poisonous work environment.” The ques-tion next time will be has anything been done.

Perhaps the most interesting thing to look out for is to see how far it goes next time: we’ll be on the verge of the next municipal election when the con-tract is next up for expiration. Will there be holding hands or raising arms?

This isn’t really the end, but let me just cheers for this conclusion, and look forward to the rebuild-ing phase next.

Cameron Orr

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It’s going to hap-pen in 2016.

Kitimat will join Terrace in a shift to a community mailbox system for collecting mail rather than the door-to-door service enjoyed now.

Canada Post re-vealed last week that Kitimat, along with Terrace, would be part of nearly 4,000 homes that will lose the door-to-door service, part of the mailing service’s multi-year plan to phase in community mailboxes country-wide.

Figuring out where community mailboxes will be placed will be determined through consultation processes with the town and af-fected residents, says John Caines with Can-ada Post’s media rela-tions.

“This is part of a five-year initiative to convert one-third of Canadian addresses who still have delivery at the door to commu-nity mailboxes in an effort to secure postal service for the future,” said Caines in a state-ment. “Since the pro-gram began in 2014, one million addresses have been or are in the various stages of the conversion process.

“Within the next couple of days, each affected resident will receive the first of many communications from Canada Post. The first one is an infor-mation package with a mail-in survey. The package will tell them how they can express their priorities and preferences about their new delivery method. This is a process we have used since the be-ginning of the process. So far 260,000 Cana-

dians have shared their insights through this survey, which proved very helpful in choos-ing safe, suitable loca-tions.”

A dedicated phone

number will be avail-able for people con-cerned about their ability to access their mailbox.

Canada Post said no regular full-time or

part-time employees will lose their jobs due to this change, as they will reduce the work-force through attrition.

“With mail vol-umes continuing to de-

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Nechako Elementary School celebrated National Aboriginal Day in style with performances from the Spirit of Kitlope Dancers. As well as performing for the school, the intermediate students were also treated to some dancing lessons. The whole school also got to enjoy some fried bread and syrup.

In November 2014, Haisla carver Nathan Wilson marked the end of a totem pole carving project which saw the piece lifted in the lobby at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary School. The pole has a raven on top and a beaver at the bottom.“They represent unity and community within the Haisla clan

system, those two work really well together,” he explained.He said it was an emotional day seeing everyone out for the celebration, from mentors to students who helped out during the carving process.

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Kitimat will still celebrate Canada Day this year, even if the municipal strike put a wrench in the usual proceedings.

Thankfully the Kinsmen Club will continue on with their usual Canada Day tradition by hosting the Canada Day Parade.

The Kinsmen head up the parade each year, and regardless of if there was to be a strike July 1 or not, the club is able to or-ganize it without using District resources.

The only thing they needed was permission from town council to close the road for the event, which they’ve received.

Otherwise they’ve received a number of donations and support from local businesses to keep the event go-ing.

The route will remain the same as it always is, starting at Mountainview Square and end-ing on Peace Street behind Riv-erlodge.

Beyond the parade, there will be � reworks this year, the Director of Leisure Services Martin Gould con� med via e-mail last week as well, follow-ing the conclusion of the strike.

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ees were just coming back to work he said they’d be review-ing any plans for July 1.

The parade will start at noon July 1. This year’s theme is “50th Anniversary of the Ca-nadian Flag.”

People interested in being a part of the parade can contain Christine Dielschneider at 250-632-6193 or through e-mail at [email protected].

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A photo from last year’s Kinsmen’s Canada Day parade. The event will be held this year even though much of the day’s other activities won’t be, due to the now-concluded municipal strike.

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of any of our negotiat-ing teams at all for the way they conducted themselves,” he said. “We’re very con� dent in the team we had. We have no issues with the way we handled things. We thought we were negotiating in good faith the whole time, and we believed in our offers, the one we have put out.”

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Continued from June 10 Northern SentinelMore campsites and spaces for trailers

were added. A planned marina service with rental boats complemented the existing ca-nal to the lake. A new hotel complex with 48 new units, cocktail lounge, stone fire-place, dining room, and lobby was slated for construction.

The Power Corporation Development Company of Canada provided financial as-sistance for the expansion. “However large the place may grow,” Skoglund promised, “it has always been my wish that families of the northern area may never be out priced for a relaxing holiday at the springs.”

In September 1965, Skoglund asked residents to “pray for snow” when an-nouncing his $25,000 plans for a ski hill across the highway from the hot springs.

Apparently, the prayers were success-ful: on 30 January 1966, more than 1,000 people attended a ski meet at ‘Skogy’s Hill,’ easily matching the 1,000 people who attended the opening day the week before.

Skiers from across the region compet-ed in the ladies’ junior and senior events, and men’s juvenile, junior, and senior events. According to the Terrace Omineca Herald, Skoglund himself had intended to present the Skogy’s Ski Hill Cup, but broke his ankle while being towed behind a snow-mobile earlier in the day.

The ski hill boasted 380 vertical feet serviced by a seven-tower T-bar tow. The hill’s 1,500-foot ski run had a slalom run, “sizeable” jumps, and a mercury vapour

floodlight system for night skiing.“Some of the more seasoned hickory

buffs reached speeds of close to 50 mph as they sped down,” Ruth Hallock wrote of the opening day in the Terrace Omineca Herald, “with bright jackets, earmuffs and gauntlets creating an abstract color streak on the sun-tipped hillside.”

The proximity of the hot springs and the ski hill at Skoglund Hotsprings Resort was remarkably unique. The resort was promoted as “the only one of its kind on the North American continent.” Unlike at Banff, for example, one could be soaking in the hot pools within minutes of skiing to the bottom of Skogy’s Ski Hill.

The T-bar, installed by Hall Ski-lift of Montreal in less than two weeks, could handle 400 people per hour. Eventually, Skoglund planned to expand the resort’s serviced area to 4,000 feet. The doubled T-bar would increase capacity per hour to 900 skiers. He also envisioned a bunny tow for children.

But, along with the final phase of his plans for the hot springs, Skoglund’s dreams of expanding the ski hill were never realized, and it was relegated to the fond mythology of local history. The towers, seen occasionally by hikers, stood as sen-tries to Skoglund’s visions.

Skoglund’s final ambitions for the property ranged from arcades and more camping sites to an 1800-foot landing strip so planes could land within the confines of the resort: eventually, the complex would

envelope guests, who would not need to leave for any amenities.

Phase III would see the expansion of the total room count to 500. A beauty par-lour, physiotherapy rooms, an expanded ski hill, a 40-acre golf course, and a new Olympic-sized outside swimming pool for summer were other items on Skoglund’s agenda.

According to the local newspa-pers, Skoglund was even consider-ing installing a drive-in movie the-atre that could be viewed from the interior and exterior of the complex.

This visionary transformation of the Lakelse Hot Springs into a glamorous, self-contained interna-tional attraction was never finalized: before Phase III began, Skoglund’s financial backers balked, and his overall vision was sidelined.

Ray Skoglund was the sole op-erator of the Lakelse Hotsprings Resort into the later 1960s, when he sold interests in the company to fi-nance the enormity of his vision for the resort. Following a fire in No-vember 1966 that destroyed three of the duplex cabins, the holding com-pany who owned much of the prop-erty balked at his plans for further expansion.

Relegated to the position of one director among several, Skoglund continued to provide guidance on the operation of the property, but his

advice was not always heeded. “I’ve been trying to convince the holding company people for a long time that we had to cater to the local people,” Skoglund told the Ter-race Herald in 1968.

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Second phase in hot spring development - Part 2

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Continued from page 9Beginning in the early 1970s, the property

changed hands several times, finally falling into disrepair and receivership. Skoglund slowly dis-engaged himself, and the hot springs fell apart without the guiding force of his enthusiasm, hard work, and determination.

In 1978, a flood completed the long decline, and the resort was closed to the public. In the fol-lowing year, the property was turned over to the provincial government by the Canadian-Ameri-can Loan and Investment Corporation. The Lake-lse hot springs property was dormant once again.

This is part of a series, originally published in our sister paper The Terrace Standard. More on the hot springs next week.

Kelsey Wiebe is the curator of Heritage Park Museum. More photographs and stories can be found in A History of Lakelse Hot Springs, Heritage Park Museum’s Community Memories exhibit, available online through heritagepark-museum.com. The exhibit was funded by the Ca-nadian Heritage Information Network, and as-sisted greatly by Merilyn McLeod, Alice Gellner, David Skoglund, and Ella Goodlad. Please con-tact Heritage Park Museum at 250-635-4546 or [email protected] to share your own recollections and photographs.

Hot springs

Bears spotted in Kildala areaJune 1RCMP report that a ‘Tony Hawk’

skateboard was stolen from the porch of a home on Mallard Street. Police con-tinue to investigate.

June 2Police attended to a report of a bear

on Haisla Boulevard and Lahakas Bou-levard South. The complainant said they saw a grizzly bear near a foot path. The Kitimat RCMP attended to the area but could not find the bear. The B.C. Conser-vation Officer Service was notified.

June 3At 10:30 a.m. police attended to a fire

near the Haisla Marina. The fire started in the forested area and was extinguished before it could spread. Police say the file remains open for investigation.

At 8:17 p.m. the RCMP responded on a complaint of a moose in the area

of the Roy Wilcox school building. The moose was in distress, police say, as it was separated from a baby moose. Police attended to ensure public safety until the two moose were able to find each other on Davy Street.

June 4The police were on patrol following

a report of a stolen vehicle at 10:30 a.m. in the City Centre area, but called it off when the complainant got in touch with the RCMP to say that it turned out her husband had moved the vehicle without her knowing.

At 2:36 p.m. police responded to a break and enter to an unoccupied apart-ment on Kingfisher Avenue. Police were told the person had broken a window and entered a ground-level suite. Damage to the window is estimated at $100. Police continue to investigate.

June 5Police responded to a report of an

intoxicated youth around Kitlope and Kootenay Street at 10:20 p.m. An intoxi-cated 16-year-old was found at the lower City Centre and taken to a family mem-ber for care.

June 6The occupants of a home on Raley

Street were cooperative with police when officers arrived for a noise com-plaint, which was filed just after mid-night.

June 7At 9:15 p.m. the RCMP were called

on another report of a grizzly bear, this time in the area of Kootenay Street and Kitlope Street. The bear was seen on a foot path. A bear trap has been set up in the area by the B.C. Conservation Offi-cer Service.

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June 27KITIMAT MULTI-CULTURAL SO-CIETY and Kitimat Chamber of Commerce are co-hosting the In-ternational Flag Day on at 11:30 a.m. at Kitimat Heritage Park (outside the Chamber of Commerce Build-ing.) Everyone is wel-come to this free cer-emony. Free hotdogs, juice, cake and snacks on hand. For info: [email protected] or 250-632-4006.June 29ROCKET SHIP crafts. For children ages four and up. From 2 to 3

p.m. Please register for this free event.OngoingHOSPICE: Do you have a couple of hours a month to make phone calls, plant flowers, share memories, play cards, etc.? Hospice can provide you with excellent training. Call us now at 250-632-2278.KITIMAT LADIES AUXILIARY, Branch 250 hold regular meet-ings every second Thursday of the month. More information by calling Nancy at 250-632-4051, or Lyn at 250-632-2351

KITIMAT QUILTERS GUILD: If you are in-terested in joining the Kitimat Quilters Guild please contact Aileen Ponter at 250-632-6225 or Janet Malnis at 250-632-7387 for fur-ther information.THE KITIMAT PUB-LIC LIBRARY offers

the highly engaging Mother Goose Story-Time for pre-schoolers Monday mornings from 10:30-11:15 am. Please register for this free program.HEALTHY BABIES drop in is held every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the

Kitimat Child Devel-opment Center. Fami-lies welcome through-out pregnancy and up to one year. Come meet other parents and infants with support from the CDC staff and a Public Health Nurse. For more information call 250-632-3144.

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Ideal conditions for the Mr. and Mrs. tournamentSubmitted

Under ideal con-ditions 59 couples played in the annual Kitimat His & Hers golf tournament.

The tournament was represented by the communities of Ver-non, Victoria, Quali-cum Beach, Houston, Smithers, Terrace, Prince Rupert and, of course, Kitimat.

Overall low gross winners were Prince Rupert’s Brian & Rose Holkestad with a score of 154.

Overall low net winners were Kitimat’s Simon L’Hevreux and Maude Farley with a score of 120.

As the winners were being announced a White River helicop-ter landed on the #18 fairway to take the winning couples on a sightseeing tour of the area, their first prize reward.

Winners by divi-sion were;

A Division1st low gross -

Rob & Susan Brown (Qualicum Beach) -160

2nd low gross - Grant & Michele Frat-er (Kitimat) - 170

3rd low gross - Erv & Jackie Himech (Smithers) - 173

1st low net - Rus-sell & Charlotte Nich-olson (Kitimat) - 133 on a countback

2nd low net - Dal-lis & Joy Stevenson (Terrace) - 133

3rd low net - Steve Haggard & Krystal

Pawlick (Kitimat) -136

B Division1st low gross -

Dennys Baldock & Esther Pretulac (Kiti-mat) - 173

2nd low gross - Kyle Vales & Sabrena Dawe (Kitimat) - 181

3rd low gross - Brent & Diane Hamil-ton (Vernon) - 185

1st low net - Paul & Christine Henning (Victoria) - 125

2nd low net - Ross McRae & Lorraine Half (Houston) 134

3rd low net - Dar-ren & Jenn Grange (Houston) - 137

C Division1st low gross -

Alonzo & Ann Slaney (Houston) - 176

2nd low gross - Paul de Jong & Fatima Reynolds (Kitimat) - 179

3rd low gross - Ronald & Linda Miller

(Prince Rupert) - 1871st low net - Art

Emmerson & Cheri Seppala (Kitimat) - 27

2nd low net - Tim & Trish Martin (Kiti-mat) - 135 on a count-back

3rd low net - Russ & Christine Giraldi (Kitimat) - 136

D Division1st low gross

- Mike & Heather Masch (Kitimat) - 186

2nd low gross -

James Alderman & Joanne Hauki (Kiti-mat) - 193

3rd low gross - Jeremy & Tamera Al-fred (Smithers) - 197

1st low net - Mike Correia & Maureen Atkinson (Kitimat) -126

2nd low net - Lyle & Barb Harvey (Ter-race) - 135

3rd low net - Wayne & Krista San-wald (Kitimat) - 138

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