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No more rec directorBy Chris GareauSmithers/Interior News

The Town of Smithers no longer has a director for recreation, parks and culture.

Andrew Hillaby is leaving after eight years after council decided to remove the position and replace it with a coordinator who will administer recreation programs and report to the director of works and operations.

“Council has decided to move back to a model that was used previously,” explained Mayor Taylor Bachrach.

“It’s more of a hands-on, boots on the ground type position really focused on delivering a few of the core services, and that includes managing the arena rentals and field rentals.”

The mayor said council will review recreation offerings, speak to stakeholders, and focus on the core services. He said staff levels will

remain the same.Hillaby did not respond to a

request for an interview, but did send a list of over 40 recreation stakeholders that have worked with him.

Sign survey availableAll community members are

invited to take part in a sign bylaw review survey, available on the Town’s website, that could reshape how Smithers looks. The deadline is Jan. 25. Sign tours will take place Jan. 19 at noon and Jan. 21 at 4 p.m. starting at Bovill Square.

The bylaw review was initiated after a complaint on one Main Street business led to the revelation that a majority of businesses and offices were likely breaking the bylaw in some way. The rules were put in place to create a alpine village theme. Town staff is researching towns like Whistler and Banff to reshape the new rules to be presented in March.

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Hwy 16 transport planBy Alicia BridgesSmithers/Interior News

Security webcams at bus stations and funding for communities to launch their own public transit systems were among the measures included in the B.C. government’s $3 million transportation plan for Highway 16, announced on Monday.

At a press conference in Victoria, Transportation Minister Todd Stone revealed a five-point plan based in part on recommendations from a symposium held in Smithers in November.

The biggest sum under the plan was a $1.6 million funding pool for communities to expand their own transit services and possibly launch new ones.

The Minister proposed three possible routes connecting communities along Highway 16, including one from Burns Lake, Houston, Telkwa and Smithers. A second proposed route would connect Hazelton, Gitsegukla, Kitwanga and Terrace and a third route would travel

between Burns Lake, Fraser Lake, Vanderhoof and Prince George.

Another $750,000 in grants will be available over three years for communities to purchase and operate vehicles, as well as $150,000 for a First Nations driver education program. The government will also invest $500,000 over two years to install webcams and upgrade transit shelters for security reasons.

The fifth part of the plan is a commitment to foster greater collaboration between organizations including B.C. Transit, Northern Health and not-for-profits.

An advisory council whose members include the mayors of Burns Lake and Houston will meet early in 2016. Their job will be to develop a process through which communities can apply for the funding.

“Partnering with local governments, First Nations communities and organizations, the Ministry is ensuring they are active participants with a vested interest in selecting the transportation services that best meet their needs,” said Minister Stone.

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Paris climate deal leaves questionsBy Chris Gareau and Tom FletcherBlack Press

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined other national leaders in hailing the international greenhouse gas emission agreement reached in Paris over the weekend, but the implications for Canada and B.C. remain unclear.

Trudeau said in a statement from Ottawa that he and the provincial premiers will meet within 90 days to develop a plan to do Canada’s part in the effort to keep average global temperature rise below two degrees. The agreement also calls for an attempt to keep warming below 1.5 degrees.

The Paris agreement notes that existing voluntary targets by countries do not meet what is calculated to prevent the increase, and more emission cuts will be required. Article 28 of the legal text also gives every country the ability, after three years of implementation, to give a year’s notice and withdraw.

In a year-end interview, B.C. Premier Christy Clark said the government will wait until a national emissions goal is established before deciding whether to add measures to the existing carbon tax on carbon-based fuels. The B.C. tax has been frozen at $30 a tonne since 2013, adding about seven cents to the price of a litre of gasoline, with similar increases for natural gas and other heating fuels.

An advisory committee recommended in November that the tax be increased by a third starting in 2018, with annual increases after to drive down carbon dioxide emissions.

Clark said the carbon tax freeze means B.C. won’t meet its own legislated target of reducing emissions by a third by 2020, but the government couldn’t keep raising it and risk pushing industries and jobs out of the province.

“Other provinces are starting to get closer to where we are,” said Clark. “By 2018, Alberta’s going to have come some way. By then Ontario will be into a plan, and Quebec already is.”

B.C. NDP leader John Horgan said he’s “comfortable” with the advisory committee’s date of 2018, which would give an NDP government time to assess the situation if he wins the 2017 B.C. election.

Horgan said he is inclined to support the carbon tax proposed recently by Alberta Premier Rachel Notley, which means “taking revenues and driving them into industries, or activities like transit, that will reduce emissions over time.”

Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen was in Paris last week. He said indigenous rights and title would be an important part of any plan for people in the Northwest.

“As well as having a hard target from Canada,” said Cullen from Paris Thursday.

He said while he was there, he helped

government representatives build relationships with other countries. Cullen also spoke of focusing more on green energy projects like run-of-the-river hydro dams.

“You can’t simply not be building new bitumen pipelines ... and rapidly expanding undeveloped oilsand places,” said Cullen.

The MP said he also spoke with Environment Minister Catherine McKenna Thursday about the PETRONAS LNG project, adding that Clark asked that LNG be exempted in its carbon budget.

“That’s a non-starter ... Carbon is carbon,” said Cullen, adding that LNG projects that do not use natural gas for power would lower their carbon footprint dramatically.

“But if they’re emitting carbon, I believe that there’s going to be a price on that, and that is as it should be because that’s the way the atmosphere works.”

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RDBN to offer reuse shed solutionsBy Flavio NienowBlack Press

According to the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako (RDBN) waste committee, a one-size-fits-all approach may not be the best solution to address the safety concerns at RDBN solid waste management facilities.

In September, the RDBN decided to close all reuse sheds and ban salvaging activities at waste management facilities due to troubling incidents directly affecting staff and public health and safety.

Last week, the committee decided that directors from each group of neighbouring communities (such as Smithers and Rural Area A) should determine their own delivery model and service levels, and bring back those discussions to a RDBN meeting on Jan. 14.

The waste committee also determined that safety audits will be conducted at all RDBN solid waste management facilities, but no timeline has been given.

Over 200 people participated in meetings that were held in nine communities this fall. The main purpose of those meetings was to gather feedback from the community and to explain the reasons why the reuse sheds have been closed.

According to the RDBN, troubling incidents that took place at the reuse sheds include live ammunition found in a brown

cassette tape brief case, prescription drugs left in a box, a dirty diaper found thrown in the corner of a reuse shed, and over 100 used hypodermic needles that were found in boxes mixed in with children’s toys. Reports have also been made of people urinating and defecating behind a reuse shed.

According to a report prepared by Janine Dougall, RDBN Director of Environmental Services, members of the public attending the consultation meetings were “very passionate” and many expressed disappointment with the closure of the facilities.

The report said some people disagreed with the risk and liability associated with the reuse sheds, saying that the incidents that occurred were “rare and not a sufficient reasoning” to close the facilities.

The RDBN received a total of 86 feedback submissions on how to safely and effectively operate the reuse sheds.

Among the common themes that emerged during the meetings were suggestions for addressing the hazardous materials and bad behaviour issues, including:• Additional clear signage and public

education;• More staffing, both hired or volunteers;• Not allowing unopened bags or boxes

to be dropped off;• Having a separate drop-off area that is

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• Installing camera systems;• Paying membership in combination

with signing a liability form;• Calling the RCMP;• Zero tolerance, fining people and

banning people from the site;• Having additional public education on

available recycling programs;• Reducing hours of operation of the

re-use sheds to minimize additional staffing costs;

• Transition the management of the reuse sheds to non-profit organizations or partner with existing organizations to expand existing operations;

• Moving the reuse sheds closer to communities;

• Increasing the size of the reuse sheds and changing location to reduce traffic congestion;

• Only allowing children in the reuse sheds under direct supervision by an adult.

The RDBN also investigated what other regional districts are doing with respect to reuse sheds. While some districts are experiencing similar challenges, others are not. According to the RDBN, in most cases where reuse sheds are working well, the facilities are staffed to a certain degree — either through the use of district staff, contractors or non-profits. In addition, materials accepted in these reuse sheds were limited to “good materials” in clean and working condition, and the decision as to acceptability of materials was up to the attendants managing the facility.


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Family members of victims of the Highway of Tears called for rural and remote consultation after the Liberal government launched the first phase of a long-awaited inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women last Tuesday.

At a press conference in Ottawa last Tuesday afternoon, federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould said the first step of the inquiry would be to meet with families in the Ottawa region to seek their input on the inquiry’s design and its goals.

“And over the next two months, we will hear from more families, other indigenous peoples, national aboriginal organizations and a range of front line services workers, and others,” said Wilson-Raybould.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett said the consultations would help to identify potential terms of reference for the inquiry, its activities and who should lead it.

“All of what we will hear will help us determine our objectives, the scope and parameters of the inquiry,” she said.

An online survey will also be launched and some communities will receive information in the mail, she said.

According to CBC News reports, Bennett said phase two would be the inquiry itself, which the government hopes to announce in spring 2016.

After years campaigning for a national inquiry, Smithers woman Matilda Wilson was happy when she saw the announcement on television last week.

Her daughter Ramona was 16 when she disappeared along Highway 16 in 1994. Her body was found near the Smithers Regional Airport the following year.

Wilson hopes the inquiry will lead to better education to protect vulnerable

women, improved transportation along Highway 16 and reduced poverty.

She said the inquiry would need to travel to remote parts of northwest B.C. to fully understand the challenges facing indigenous women and girls.

“There’s been a lot of talk from different people, especially in Victoria and Vancouver,” she said.

“They have no idea how isolated some of these little villages are, how you have to get to town, how you have to get to your appointments, how you have to get to school.”

Wilson also hopes the inquiry will bring to light information that could re-open unsolved cases like Ramona’s.

She wants the inquiry to look at each case individually to help find answers for victims’ families.

“It’s been 21 years and I’m still praying that some day her murder will be solved,” she said.

“I say the same thing for the missing that are not found, they will be found, I know they will be.

Vancouver-based Gladys Radek runs an organization called

Tears4Justice, which works with victims’ families and raises awareness about the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women.

She started the group after she lost her niece Tamara Chipman, 22, who vanished from Highway 16 near Prince Rupert in 2005.

Radek said the inquiry would need to travel to every community to consult with every affected family.

She believes the scale of the inquiry should be similar to that of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which collected thousands of statements from residential school survivors and their families.

Radek said the inquiry gave her some hope but she was still apprehensive about how effective the inquiry would be.

“It’s just really hard to really get excited about it, especially knowing how hard we worked for decades trying to bring this to the attention of Canadians,” she said.

“I’m a little apprehensive, we’ve had promises given before.”

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When Christy Clark said she would make a new softwood lumber agreement with the

United States her top priority with a new federal government, New Democrats voiced support. We believe that a vibrant forest industry is vital to our economy. Forest dependent communities in the province, B.C. forest companies, and those over 25,000 citizens directly employed in the forest industry deserve strong support.

Unfortunately, either Premier Clark forgot to mention it, wasn’t very forceful in making the case for softwood lumber, or the new prime minister simply ignored her. There’s no evidence that trade consequences for the softwood lumber industry have registered with the federal government.

The Premier writes mandate letters to her new ministers. Those letters

express the most important and urgent priorities of the government and order the minister to act on them.

The new prime minister’s long mandate letter to the federal minister of international trade fails to mention the trade consequences of softwood lumber at all.

It talks a lot about the Canadian-European Trade Agreement and about the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It talks about the auto sector, about clean technology, about energy, but doesn’t include the words “wood,” “forest” (or “forestry”), “timber,” or “log.”

Forest-related products remain British Columbia’s largest single export, with a value of nearly $13 billion in 2014, which is more than a third of all our exports. Maximizing the health of our forest industry is crucial for business, workers and communities around the

province.Christy Clark’s B.C. Liberal

government’s record has been to the detriment of forest-dependent communities, with the closure of more than 200 mills and the loss of more than 25,000 jobs. Meanwhile, raw log exports — which cost British Columbia jobs — are on pace for yet another record high this year: close to seven million cubic metres.

So much for Christy Clark’s so-called first priority. Forest-dependent communities in British Columbia deserve better than Christy Clark’s empty words.

— Bruce RalstonMLA (Surrey-Whalley)

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Sign points the way to people willing to help

Editor:

There was a recent letter to the editor about the adoption billboard being vandalized and about how it was obviously causing much pain.

I agree with this. It is very obvious that this sign, which has a beautiful baby on it and reads “Alive, Placed, Loved,” is causing people pain. While a previous writer stated this should be a reason to take the billboard down, I on the other hand believe that this is an excellent reason to keep this billboard up.

When abortion causes so much pain, so many tears, so many lasting consequences, isn’t it our responsibility to let the next generation know this? Shouldn’t we be letting young women who are facing these same situations know that abortion is not the magic button that makes everything OK, that they have other options, and that there are people who are willing, ready and, yes, wanting to help them?

I agree that we should continue to have respectful conversation about this subject, but if even a sign with the picture of a baby stating that it is loved, is considered “ringing with judgement,” how can this conversation ever happen?

Rachel WerkSmithers

Right and wrong are determined by absolute truth

Editor:

Some points of Mr. Cummings need correcting (letter ‘Compassion rather than compliance’ published Dec. 9):

Murder can never be ethical/moral, or it will eventually become acceptable in any circumstance. Legalization doesn’t change wrong to right today, any more than it made slavery right, or the attempted annihilation of Gypsies or Jews.

English Common Law maintains that, “the right to life is inherent in every individual and begins, in contemplation of law, with the infant in the mother’s womb. Such an infant is capable of having legacies made to it, a guardian assigned to it, etc.”

We must always fight for justice, whether by freedom of speech, the press, courts, or Parliament. Right and wrong are not determined by culture, race, religion or power, but by absolute truth. A majority can be wrong, and culture simply reflects the values of a country. It does not mean the status quo can’t or shouldn’t be challenged by civil means.

The voice of the people is NOT the voice of God. While we favour democracy, even it has its limitations, and can ultimately implode upon itself.

You refer to a minority (7 per cent) of faith voices, but Statistics Canada in the 2010 census shows 30 per cent of Canadians as regulars at worship services, and another 30 per cent as occasional attendees. That would be 60 per cent with “committed personal faith choices.”

We challenged, decades ago, the unsubstantiated number of deaths from “back alley abortions,” and eventually former abortionists like Dr. Bernard Nathanson, co-founder of NARAL, who performed 65,000 abortions before ultrasound opened his eyes, admitted they knew the “many thousands” was a lie.

No unborn baby would choose abortion if he or she had a voice, and in the end, no woman will ever regret the “choice” of LIFE. Call 250-847-2475 for help.

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Buying into lacking forest stewardship plans hook, line and sinker

Editor:

(Note: this is the conclusion of a letter split into three parts.)

So how do we or will we balance the wild with the tamed or managed? Well, not through any of the plans made to date, at least not if we are not really going to implement them, monitor them and then apply what we have learned from them in the future.

But I appreciate the Forest Practices Board for highlighting a key issue for us all to consider, and I hope public policy can change. Lord knows I’ve tried to be a part of public policy and land use plans because I thought the values worth fighting for were world class. They are no longer world class

with respect to wilderness ... maybe semi-wilderness with an ever declining value placed on a wild ecosystem.

Someone asked how one could measure wilderness values. Perhaps it comes down to sightings of things like grizzly bears, so many salmon that there seems like more fish than water, and all the small game and birds that feast off of a truly healthy salmon population.

And perhaps measuring wilderness comes down to really crappy access to it; no roads, very few trails, old growth forests that are very difficult to walk through, game trails and animal tracks where they have their own roads and highways since the dawn of time.

My wife, Anita, and our son, Jesse, and I drove across Canada and back last summer. Church steeples and grain elevators all the way. Old logging towns now depressed with lots of for sale signs. Old growth forests were hard to find unless you went north where there were no roads.

And then there was an Atlantic Salmon museum located on the famous Bonaventure River on the Gaspe Peninsula. Yes a museum. You purchased your ticket and were directed to sit down and watch a ten minute video explaining the history of the salmon and why there are so few left today.

The only reason given for the decline was logging. But I know the fish farming industry out there is also alive and well. And guess what? The Federal Fisheries had just rapped up a public consultation process on the plight of the salmon, and there was great concern voiced about the fish farm industry.

I hope we don’t end up with a salmon and steelhead museum on the Skeena watershed some day. And I hope that public policy will change to include healthy old growth forests, especially around such great watersheds as the Babine. And I hope that our current Forest Stewardship Plans are challenged and changed to better reflect all those other values that registered professional foresters like to call non-timber values, values that really depend on old growth timber in order to survive in the long term. Stewardship, sustainability, parks, special management zones ... plans, zones, buffers, riparian areas, blah, blah,

blah; just names with no teeth, legal or otherwise.

The emperor with no clothes; imagine that, we are buying into that hook, line and sinker.

Pierce CleggSmithers

Thanks to volunteers who put kids back on the ice

Editor:

The tractor shack (soon to be Zamboni hut) was put together over the past three weeks with the help of many. The Skeena Ice Arena Association board (volunteers themselves) would like to thank the following people for volunteering their time for the shack and getting our outdoor arena up and running: Ian Johnston for your concrete work, contractors Steve Kern, Kelly Kranz of Klappan, Aaron Wesley of Three Rivers, Tom Lee of Hook and Line Guiding, Walter Smith and Kiefer Larson of BV Electric, Tyler Simms for helping with electrical, Peter and Henny Beertema, Bruce’s Plumbing and Heating, Bernie Vallace of Blue Sapphire Contracting, Shawn Pozzo and Blake Shearing with BC Hydro, Ken Morrison, Andy Busby, Skye Jones, Matt Ranahan, Tim Sullivan, Billy Maitland, Amedee, Mitch and Nick Marshal, Larry Skulsh Jr., Lorne Wilson, Lou Parent, Clarey Martin, Craig Penfold, Simon and Liam Dodd, Tyreke Mowatt, Tim Wilson, Scott Swift, Anissa Watson, Keith Marshal, Bill Maitland, Darren Pierzchalla, Caylin Holland, Leon Ounsworth, Steve St. John, Amber Grimm, Caleb Strachan, Jadah and Ferghas Grimm O’Neil, Moise, Emery, Jade and Honor Watson, Stacey Brown and Marty Strachan.

Thanks to Gitanmaax Band and Village of Hazelton for freeing up Corey Turner, Ian Trombley and Jim Clifford, and for the loan of the culvert de-icer and the Zoom Boom for the trusses.

Thanks to BV Electric for donating electrical materials, Dave West for building materials, Tricon Trusses for letting us jump the queue, Cam Penfold for your truck.

Thanks to Jen Walker, Pat Coukell, Julie Maitland, Krista Jay, Monica Simms, Wade and Dusty Russell, Sharon Daniels, Melanie Green, Lamoureaux’s, Noreen O’Hara, and Mike O’Neil for food and drinks.

I’m sure to have forgotten someone, our sincere apologies.

Stacey Brown and Marty StrachanHazelton

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Chandler field cost keeps growingThe estimated cost of upgrading the soccer fields

at Chandler Park keeps getting kicked higher.Town staff is seeking more funding from the

Bulkley Valley Soccer Society, as well as three grants totalling $71,000. A staff report presented last Tuesday shows a phased plan that includes rolled sod sports turf instead of seeding to speed up access to one of the fields by a soccer season and a half.

The total budget for phase one, which would construct two of three fields, is now estimated at $359,000. The last motion by council called for putting the project to tender in early 2016 at a maximum cost of $258,765. The rolled turf for one field would be eight times as expensive, costing $80,700 for 10,000 square metres. The first call for tender earlier this year only yielded a quote of over $500,000.

Council will discuss the fields more during budget talks, and has referred the phasing plan to the field upgrades advisory committee, which has representation from youth, women’s and men’s soccer. If the tender process is successful, the sod turf would be ready by September.

Council finishes cooking up hen bylawThe animal control and zoning bylaw changes

to allow laying hens in town were finally passed last Tuesday after revisions delayed adoption. Residents are now allowed to have up to six laying hens that must be registered with the town.

It took several months since Ryan Holmes brought the idea forward to council for it to hatch.

“It’s good to see that Smithers is going the way that Terrace and Telkwa, and even larger communities like Vancouver and Victoria are, as a first step towards local food security,” said Holmes.

“It’s always nice to walk out back and grab a fresh egg and make your omelette in the morning.”

Plan to deal with air quality comingThe day after Town council passed a motion

last Tuesday to bring a plan forward by the end of January to deal with air quality issues, another air quality advisory was issued for Smithers.

The Ministry says wood smoke is a major contributing pollutant in Smithers, and that exposure is particularly a concern for infants, the elderly and those who have diabetes, and lung or heart disease.

Smithers’ Clean Air Bylaw prohibits the use of wood-burning appliances during the advisory, except for stoves that are the sole source of heat for a home.

The council motion calls for Coun. Greg Brown and Mayor Taylor Bachrach to create a survey on wood stove use and plan how to do it by the Jan. 26 council meeting. Staff from the B.C. Ministry of Environment visited Smithers and highlighted the air quality issues in the Bulkley Valley during its delegation to council at the Nov. 24 council meeting. Delegates said the province was willing to help with any solutions the Town proposed.

Council ranks NDIT grant fundingCouncillors ranked their preferences for what

council should endorse for Northern Development Initiative Trust grants. After points were given for how each councillor ranked each project, the Chandler Park soccer fields got first, followed by repairs at the Dze L K’ant Friendship Centre, replacing restaurant and bar equipment at the Smithers Golf & Country Club, and modifications to the Grendel Group kitchen and building.

Council also withdrew its application for airport expansion funding, as NDIT requested the Town secure other funding sources first.

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By Alicia Bridges Smithers/Interior News

Motorists or hitchhikers travelling the Highway of Tears could register to have their safe passage monitored by “eyes in the sky” if a Gitxsan-run satellite service can get government support to expand its coverage.

BC SafetyLink is a new Gitxsan D e v e l o p m e n t Corporation business which provides live safety monitoring from its Hazelton office.

Companies pay the service to monitor their workers, who can use their smartphones or GPS devices to check in at regular intervals.

If a worker fails to check in, the BC SafetyLink call centre follows a protocol of contacting delegated supervisors who can decide how to proceed.

The GDC wants to open up the service to the public so they can check in while travelling on Highway 16, which is also known as the Highway of

Tears because of the high number of women who have disappeared or been murdered along it.

GDC president Rick Connors said the BC SafetyLink system does not need cellphone reception, making it easier for people to call for help in dead zones along the highway.

He said people who were driving alone or hitchhiking could register with the call centre to follow up with a family member or with emergency services if they did not check in before a certain time.

“We could have an app that we could give to anybody with a cellphone,” he said.

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“If there is an incident we know who it was and we send the police out, RCMP, whoever it is in the area.

“We’ve got all the assets, the eyes in the sky.”

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50 YEARS OF CHRISTMAS CHEERCarolers entertain the crowd at the Elks Seniors Dinner, which celebrated its 50th anniversary in Smithers last Wednesday. More than 110 people were at the volunteer-run event, which also delivers meals to seniors who cannot attend. Alicia Bridges photo

By Xuyun ZengSmithers/Interior News

Eight teams of Grade 10-12 athletes converged onto SSS’s gym last Friday and Saturday.

Prince George Secondary School won the Smithers Secondary School basketball invitational, beating Terrace’s Caledonia Secondary 96-63.

Bulkley Valley Christian School won 67-61 against Vanderhoof’s Nechako Valley Secondary, making them the Consolation Champions, or fifth overall.

SSS’s Gryphons ended up seventh after beating Caledonia Secondary’s junior team 65-48. The junior team included Grade 9 athletes.

Other participants include Prince George’s Kelly Road Secondary, which ended up third after

beating College Heights Secondary 67-61, also from Prince George.

Kitimat’s Mount Elizabeth Secondary

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SSS’s Justin DeJong tries for a layup. The Gryphons took the the second-last position at the school’s invitationals, hosted over Friday and Saturday.

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Hat trick in 40 seconds

Brendan DeVries shoots for the goal. The Steelheads won against the Quesnel Kangaroos 4-1 last Sunday.

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By Xuyun ZengSmithers/Interior News

The Steelheads are on fire — especially so after an amazing hat trick.

They beat the Lac La Hache Tomahawks 11-2 last Saturday and then went on to beat the Quesnel Kangaroos 4-1.

In both games, they had about twice as many shots on goal as their opponents. They shot 49 times while the Tomahawks shot 23. Against Quesnel, they shot 35

times to the Kangaroos’ 16.The Tomahawks lost their fighting

chance early in the game. The Steelheads got an early lead, but

the Tomahawks tied it up soon after. However, by the end of the first period,

the score stood at 5-1, much of this was the result of Brendan DeVries scoring three goals within 40 seconds.

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Dec. 131st PeriodSSH 16:46-R. GreenLLH 14:56- A. HarrySSH 3:48-J. GroenheydeSSH 1:05-B. DeVriesSSH 0:56-B. DeVriesSSH 0:26-B. DeVries2nd PeriodSSH 17:28-Z. DaviesSSH 4:07-D. Becker3rd PeriodSSH 18:06-R. SanghaSSH 14:01-Z. DaviesSSH 10:20-E. SmithSSH 3:11-L. GrayLLH 2:09-A. Harry

1st PeriodSSH 17:49-Z. DaviesQKR 16.25-J. FultonSSH 7:46-B. DeVries3rd PeriodSSH 13:09-Z. DaviesSSH 5:04-R. Green

“Terrible” game against Lac La Hache“Terrible game, because we won

11-2,” said DeVries. “They didn’t have many guys and it was, right off the get-go, lackadaisical.”

DeVries hoped for a good game on

Sunday, and luckily for him, the game against Quesnel had a steady tempo.

Goals came in slowly but steadily. Nobody could wager confidently who would win — until the lead widened in the third period from 2-1 at the start to

4-1 with five minutes left on the clock.DeVries commented that the game

was a “better win than last night.”“Again, good goaltending this

afternoon, it was nice to see,” said DeVries.

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By Alicia BridgesSmithers/Interior News

A moose whose unexpected recovery from a broken leg set a precedent that helped save other animals has surprised wildlife workers again by returning to Smithers after a long absence.

Northern Lights Wildlife Society (NLWS) owners Peter and Angelika Langen met Daisy when she was sent to their shelter as an orphaned calf in 2003.

Shortly after she was released near the shelter, the young moose broke one of her hind legs when she ran in front of an ATV driven by Peter.

A veterinarian said Daisy would have to be euthanized because broken legs are difficult to heal in four-legged animals like moose, horses and cows.

“We were of course pretty upset because usually a broken leg in an animal like this means that you have to euthanize them but Peter was adamant we had to try to fix it and we did,” said Angelika.

She was skeptical the

treatment would work but the calf proved her wrong, having healed within six weeks.

Daisy returned to the shelter numerous times after she was released, sometimes with one or two calves.

Based on their success healing her broken leg, the Langens have used the same method to mend the broken legs of about seven young moose.

“It does work when they are young, they can heal, and it was not only that one animal but it subsequently saved a whole bunch of others because we knew it was at least worth a try,” said Angelika.

“Not one of the ones we tried did not heal, they all healed.”

She said conservation workers were now more willing to bring moose calves with broken legs to the shelter, as long as the break is not in a joint.

“Often moose calves get hit by a vehicle and end up with a broken leg so in the past they were always killed and now the conservation officers will phone us and we pick it up and we fix

it,” she said. Two years ago Daisy

stopped visiting the wildlife shelter in winter when food was scarce and the Langens feared the worst.

“We assumed that she had died, that something had hunted her or whatever, and then a week and a half ago we went out to feed and there she was with a beautiful, big female calf by her side, healthy as can be, both of them,” she said.

The moose, now 12, is still tame enough for Peter to walk up and pat her.

Angelika said success stories like Daisy’s were the reason she and her husband kept running the shelter, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2015.

“If we can make a difference in a couple of lives and offset the human impact that we have on our wildlife, that’s what makes it worthwhile,” she said.

NLWS is currently running its annual Dawson’s Lights Christmas fundraiser. For more information about how to donate visit the Northern Lights Wildlife Society’s Facebook page.

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Daisy the moose, whose broken leg healed unexpectedly 12 years ago, surprises NLWS owner Peter Langen as she returns to the shelter after a long absence.


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Brenda Mallory

Here I am — the old humbug. Actually I am not so humbuggy today. The change comes after my weekly visit to Smithers.

Everyone I met seemed to be in great spirits. Not sure if it was the holiday kind but happiness all-around nonetheless.

I met a lady who, like me, lives on her own. We often talk about this and that when I am in town. Today she was very appreciative. Someone had come to her house sometime yesterday. She came home to see that her driveway had been cleared. Steps to the house as well. When she entered her porch there was a basket of goodies just for her and a box of dog cookies for her old pooch. Who did it, she wondered. How can you ever thank them?

She is right. Those of us who have help and kindness in their lives might find it difficult to

find the words of thanks. In my case it would have to be some mighty big words.

This encounter made me think how much a simple act of kindness means to many of us. Maybe that is a solution to your holiday shopping dilemma. So why not clear a driveway for a senior neighbour? Volunteer to walk a dog.

Some older folks might not get out as much as they might like. How about taking someone to a Christmas concert? Maybe going out for a cup of coffee? A gift certificate for lunch or dinner? Simple things that could very easily make a difference in a life.

If you have a family member you are concerned about, a good gift for them would be a safety measure taken to make sure a fall does not happen. A new walking stick, a bag of outdoor salt! The fact that you cared is a gift in on its own.

It seems like a lot of folks are taken care of at this time of the year. The soup kitchen feeds the needy with help from others. Food hampers are delivered close to Christmas.

I know how this process works. These past four years of widowhood have been marked by many acts of kindness. The greenhouse roof is shoveled, the snow blower is ready to go. My woodshed is filled to the brim. My limited social life includes a coffee with friends at the Telkwa café (the old Midway). From time to time a coffee is bought for me. What a nice thing!

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Lorraine Doiron

Word of the day: bibliotaph, meaning a person who caches or

hoards books. The word is from the Greek term biblion meaning “burial.”

If you came to my place, you would see that this word pretty much describes me. Sir Thomas Phillipps was a really scary example of this. He bought so many books, his mansion was crammed with them. Apparently, he purchased whole libraries, crammed them into his home and never even saw what he bought.

And one more word: lexicographer, meaning a writer, editor or compiler of a dictionary. Descends from the Late Greek lexikographos. Lexicon, meaning “a wordbook or dictionary.” Comes from the Greek lexis, meaning “speech, word.”

The Great Big Christmas Sing-Along at the Della Herman Theatre is Dec. 18, 7:30 p.m. Performances by Local Vocals, Smithers Community String Orchestra, and Sweet Harmony. Admission by donation with proceeds going to the local Food Bank and the Animal Shelter.

Another chance to sing: Tuesday, Dec. 22, 7 p.m. at the beautiful Round Lake Hall. Join in singing traditional Christmas carols. Curt Gesch will lead the singing and hot

apple cider will be served. Bring your contribution of Christmas baking. Having family or friends visit for Christmas? Bring them along! Questions, call Judy at 250-846-5296.

The last movie of the season hosted by Smithers Alternative Film Society is on Dec 20, 7 p.m. at the Roi Theatre: Brooklyn (Ireland/U.K./Canada). A story about choices, country, commitments, sacrifice and love. A bittersweet portrayal of who we are, where we’ve come from, where we’re going and the places we call home.

I have always done an advent calendar for my daughter and her two children. I found this idea and love it: Instead of odd gifts, I will buy 24 books and wrap them up. They will be allowed to open one a day at bedtime until Christmas.

Maybe with the cost of books nowadays, I may have to be creative, but I love, love books! In Iceland, books are exchanged on Christmas Eve and you spend the rest of the night reading. An idea is to take the book to bed along with some lovely chocolate. Iceland publishes more books per capita than any other country, with new books typically published during the Christmas season. This is called Jolabokaflod or the Christmas book flood. Wonderful!

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The Road To DamascusBy Alex NikolicMud Hut Media

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page”- St. Augustine

If the world were a book, it would be a history book. And travel, to a large extent, is a trip through the past – an experience we hope will help us understand the present, and imagine the future. So, in our continued effort to visit as many UNESCO World Heritage Sites (ie. history) as practical, we headed to the oasis town of Tudmur to see yet another pile of rocks.

On an ancient trading route for Egyptian caravans bound for the Silk Road, Palmyra’s location made it an important crossover of eastern and western culture for thousands of years, long before the Romans annexed it in the first century. Soon afterwards, Palmyra joined Jerusalem on the list of Roman colonies sacked to quell rebellions and uprisings. Since then, the statues, towers and temples of past civilizations remained amazingly intact - until recently.

Not too long ago, many people in Tudmur relied on tourism for a living, and we were the only tourists in town. We chose one restaurant for dinner, resulting in a competing restauranteur taking objection with the proprietor of the establishment we chose. The ensuing exchange, the only conflict we witnessed in Syria, was as comical as it was tragic. After dinner, our host didn’t have enough change for our 500 pound note, so he kindly decided that we were good for it and could leave without paying, provided we returned for breakfast.

As most travelers will attest, visiting somewhere again is never the same as the first. Unfortunately, many travelers who have been can add Palmyra to this list. At least two of the antagonists in Syria’s

war fear, among other things, the past and attempt to destroy it. Much like burning history books, many of Palmyra’s monuments have been demolished.

Daesh 101

After WW1, the British and French, with little regard to religious and cultural similarities or differences, divided the old Ottoman Empire into new countries, including Iraq and Syria. During the Cold War, Afghan Mujahedeen rebels, armed by the British and Americans, fought an occupying Soviet force. After the Soviet Empire collapsed, with no occupation or communism left to fight, they turned their sights on each other.

Mujahedeen extremists formed the Taliban and al-Quaeda. The British and Americans, convinced that Iraq’s government was involved with al-Quaeda, included it with their military operations in Afghanistan against the Taliban.

Iraq’s Sunni president brutalized the Shias and Kurds for decades, and was replaced with a Shia president who went about marginalizing the Sunnis. Al-Quaeda in Iraq (Daesh) is Sunni, and took objection. After winning several battles against an ill-prepared (but well-equipped) Iraqi army, it quickly appropriated an arsenal of abandoned western weaponry and proceeded to march across the desert, expanding the control of what it called the Islamic State of Iraq.

Taking advantage of the instability caused by civil war, it began taking Syrian territory in 2013, and added an “S” to its acronym. Last year, al-Quaeda washed its hands of them and threw its support behind al-Nusra Front, which occupies territory in northwestern Syria. In addition to less-than-precise western and Russian air-strikes, there are four forces fighting each other in Syria – the government army, the Free Syrian Army, al-Nusra Front, and Daesh. Those caught in the crossfire, and who suffer the most, are millions of innocent people.

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SANTA VISITS TELKWASanta takes pictures with Aiden Dash, 3, and Cameron Lyons, 6, at the Third Annual Telkwa Community Christmas Dinner, hosted by the Bulkley Valley Kinettes. Attendees enjoyed dinner, carolling and photos with Santa at the Telkwa Community Hall.

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OUR TOWNBy Alicia BridgesQuick/Interior News

“This was the entrance to the house”, says Katrina Hill, pointing to a mess of twisted metal and unidentifiable shapes in the snow.

Two weeks after fire engulfed her family’s heritage home on an acreage in Quick, Hill’s face still flushes red as she gestures to where the rooms in her family home used to be.

All that remains of the century-old homestead is the chimney, and even that looks poised to topple at any moment.

Katrina, her husband Luke and two children Jacob, 4, and Amber, 1, had driven to Smithers on Nov. 27 for an appointment, but they decided to stay and shop the Black Friday sales.

As they were driving back down the hill to their home in Quick, about 17 kilometres southeast of Telkwa, Katrina saw smoke in the distance.

They thought one of their neighbours might have been burning off old wood until they saw the flames.

“We drove around, just past that house and looked at our house and it was fully engulfed,” she said.

“It was the worst thing you could ever come back home to.”

Smithers RCMP were already at the home when the family arrived but Smithers RCMP Sgt. Shaun Begg said there was nothing they could do to extinguish the blaze.

The Hill family’s property sits outside the

Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako’s fire protection zone so it is not covered by any of the local fire departments.

“It was kind of stressful for the members there to watch this house burn and there was nothing they could do,” he said.

Sgt. Begg said neighbours, fearing Luke was sleeping inside after a nightshift at the mill, were banging on the door of the home when officers arrived.

Hill said her family was the last to know about the fire because they were not carrying a cellphone.

When they returned to the house, they too were helpless to fight the fire.

“The fire department was called and they said they couldn’t come, which totally surprises me, even though we are out of the fire zone I though maybe they could do something,” she said.

“From my understanding I thought that it meant that you had to pay for the fire department to come here.

“I didn’t realize that they don’t come at all, they just let it burn, which was totally heartbreaking when we were standing here watching our house burn down.”

Sgt. Begg said police were not investigating the fire because it did not appear to be suspicious.

Katrina said the family was just grateful nobody was home when it started, although they were saddened by the loss of their pet cat and a lizard.

The fire also destroyed old photographs belonging to her father, who passed

away last year. Katrina said they moved

to the property in 2012 to start a small farm and give their children a rural upbringing.

“We were out in Telkwa and we always wanted to get some acreage, get some horses and do a little bit of farming, have chickens and stuff, have a country lifestyle,” she said.

“It’s a good place to raise

your kids and stuff, we love it out there.”

Katrina said the house was insured and the family hopes to start rebuilding in the spring. After two weeks staying with family, they got the keys to their own rental property last Thursday.

They have no furniture or appliances, but their friends have donated clothes and toys for the children.

To help them rebuild,

friends and family have set up a GoFundMe page and a fundraising account at the Bulkley Valley Credit Union.

A potluck dinner and dance at the Round Lake Hall will also be held on Dec. 19.

“We’ve had an amazing amount of support, I’m so thankful for this community,” said Hill.

“It makes me proud to live in the Bulkley Valley.”

Donations for the family can be made via The Hills Fire Relief Fund GoFundMe page, or to the “Hills Fire Relief” account at Bulkley Valley Credit Union.

The Hills Family Fundraiser will be held at the Round Lake Hall from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Dec. 19, with a silent auction and live performances by Mark Perry, The Racket and other bands.

Katrina and Luke Hill with their children Amber (1) and Jacob (4) where their house used to be. The heritage home in Quick was razed by � re on Nov. 27.


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Alex Cuba nominated for a GrammyBy Xuyun ZengSmithers/Interior News

Local singer-songwriter Alex Cuba will head to the Grammys for the second time this February.

Cuba’s latest album, Healer, has been nominated in the Best Latin Pop Album category, where he will compete against Ricky Martin, Pablo Alborán, Alejandro Sanz and Julieta Venegas. These four nominees are veterans with considerable renown among Hispanic circles — but Cuba is not fazed.

“Alejandro is ... around 46-years-old now, and he started his career quite young,” said Cuba. “The same goes to Ricky Martin. But I started when I was four years old too.

“I think they’ve been probably around for longer than me, taking into consideration that I came from Cuba, we did not have Sony Music or Universal Music when I was growing up.

“But musically I think we’ve all been doing music for the same time in our lives, since we were kids, I’m sure.”

Cuba sees his nomination as a major milestone. He is the only one who is not signed to a major record label.

“I had similar challenges at the Latin Grammys three weeks ago, where I ended up winning, and that was amazing. But the truth is that for me just to be nominated is already a huge accomplishment,” said Cuba. Healer won a Latin Grammy

for Best Singer-Songwriter Album, produced by Cuba’s own record label, Caracol Records.

“My wife works with me. We do everything from here,” said Cuba.

That means the mom-and-pop record label has to compose, produce and record music, handle marketing,

arrange tours and other tasks.“Constantly, you are

communicating with the promoters and all that,” he said. “I wouldn’t know any different. That’s the way I’ve done it from the beginning.”

However, all these remain minutiae to Cuba. At the Grammys, he believes winning comes down to good music.

“They’ve been able to last so many years and to defend in their eyes what music is supposed to be,” he said. “Obviously they’ve been doing a fairly good job at it, otherwise I wouldn’t be nominated if music was about not music; if the premise was not about music.”

Cuba went to the Grammys for the first time in 2011, nominated for Best Latin Pop Album.

Coincidentally, two out of five nominees back then, Alejandro Sanz and Julieta Venegas, will compete with him again in 2016.

“I like the music of Alejandro,” said Cuba. “He is somebody that I actually used to listen to before I left. His early albums are just unbelievable, he’s incredible.”

Cuba believes having a background as a jazz musician makes him a better singer-songwriter.

“I am blessed with being able to arrange my own music, to hear in my mind what I want to do and just do it,” said Cuba.

The music he creates defies categorization.

“In every album, no sound sounds like the other. That’s my thing,” he said.

“When I was just about to release my second album, somebody that I know, a musician, a friend of mine, I was talking to him and I was telling him, ‘Man, I’m kind of worried about my music being all over the place,’ ” said Cuba.

His friend reassured him

that nothing was wrong.“In fact, if that’s the way you

do it, it would always be right, and in fact, it would always make you stand out from the crowd,” Cuba said his friend told him.

Cuba furthered that musicians can fall into the trap of “copying themselves album after album.”

“It’s not like that with me, I see it actually as an element, and that is, indeed, I believe the element that has made me position me into the Canadian music scene,” said Cuba. “Even when I sing most of my music in Spanish, I have fans from every background, from every culture, every language, because there’s a song for everyone.”

Cuba has also won Latin Grammys for Best New Artist, Best Tropical Song and Best Short Form Music Video, but he has not run out of space for more trophies.

“No, not yet, there’s still room for more,” said Cuba.

Alex Cuba performs songs from Healer at St. Joseph’s Elementary School last December. Healer has been nominated for a Grammy.

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By Josh MasseyBlack Press

Last time filmmaker and journalist Damian Gillis was in northwest B.C. for a public talk it was over two years ago during the peak period of speculation on the liquefied natural gas industry. The area seemed poised to become an energy superpower like Fort McMurray.

Gillis called bluff at the time, basing his claims on research from what he called the most reliable sources.

“I predicted that the Asian price for LNG would fall to eight or nine dollars [per million British thermal units] and in fact it’s about 7.5 right now,” he said last week of a glut on the market of the commodity which, in turn, has given pause to many projects planned in B.C.

Gillis returned to the North to tour his new film Fractured Land, which he co-directed with Fiona Rayher. It is a project completed over four years, a film which won top B.C. film at the Vancouver Film Festival this year, and which was a finalist at Toronto’s Hot Docs festival.

Gillis has other research to talk about as well, saying that the greenhouse gas emissions predicted from a liquefied natural gas industry far outweigh the “cleanest fuel” label used by the provincial government and the industry.

“The government has referred to LNG as the cleanest fossil fuel on the planet, and in the film we juxtapose those comments by Premier [Christy Clark] at the big global conference in Vancouver with those of one of the acknowledged top experts on the climate effects of fracking,” said Gillis.

“That expert, from Cornell University in the United States, said once you take into account the escaped methane emissions from the fracking process and the piping, and then when you take that gas and burn it to create the power to cool it into a liquid and then burn more of it to power the tanker to take you to

Japan or China, when you put that all together it is quite reasonable to say that it’s the dirtiest fossil fuel that has ever been invented, especially from the climate perspective,” continued Gillis.

Despite his own pointed view, Gillis said the movie really isn’t an issue-first, hit-you-over-the-head type of environmentalist film, but rather a coming of age documentary about a young First Nations man, now-lawyer Caleb Behn, who is caught between the forces of industrialization and the tradition of his people to hunt and live off the land in the Peace region of northeastern B.C.

With Gillis’s mother and other family having grown up in the Peace, and with his own grandfather having trapped game in the area and been friends with First Nations there, he decided to explore the importance of Treaty 8 in guiding current land claims spearheaded by northeastern B.C. First Nations in the area, for whom Behn in fact does law work.

“We paint a picture of the historical waves of development that have washed over the Peace Valley over the last century since the treaty,” said Gillis.

“And how that has amounted to a breaking of the fundamental promise that underlies the whole Treaty 8, which is that those First Nations would be able to continue practising their traditions on the land as though contact had never occurred. It was supposed to be much more of a harmonious sharing of the land between settlers and First Nations.”

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Gitxsan Development Corporation president Rick Connors (left) introduces Minister for Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation John Rustad, who announced $800,000 for LNG skills training in Hazelton last week.


Training made for LNG jobs By Alicia Bridges Hazelton/Interior News

The Gitxsan last week received an $800,000 share of B.C. government funding for LNG skills training for First Nations.

The money will be provided to the Gitxsan Development Corporation (GDC) and the Northwest Community College (NWCC) for training programs targeting LNG sector jobs.

Courses in camp services, security, construction skills, driver training and occupational first aid will be available to 168 unemployed or underemployed Gitxsan members.

All of the training will be delivered in the Hazelton area.

Funding for the programs comes from a $30 million pot set aside by the B.C. government for aboriginal skills training in communities located along the proposed LNG pipeline routes.

The $800,000 provided to the Gitxsan is the second biggest sum allocated to a First Nation so far.

Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation Minister John Rustad made the announcement at a meeting at the GDC building in Hazelton last Wednesday.

He told hereditary chiefs and GDC staff members the Ministry had worked with the Gitxsan Nation to identify which courses to offer.

“These are things that your Nation wanted to bring forward and felt that would give your people the best opportunities for

jobs and for lasting skills that could move forward,” he said.

“It’s a pleasure to be able to work together to try to design and do things differently from the way governments have worked in the past.”

In a statement issued that day, the Minister said the LNG industry would create thousands of jobs and bring greater prosperity to B.C.

Although none of the proposed LNG

pipelines in the province have received final investment decisions, Rustad told The Interior News the Ministry was helping First Nations get ready for industry growth by investing in skills training now.

“We thought if we wait for final investment decisions the jobs would be created before we could actually get the training done, so what we wanted to do was to make sure that First Nations have an opportunity to be able to take advantage of

them as the opportunities come along,” he said.

Rick Connors is the president of the GDC, which is the business arm of the Gitxsan Hereditary Chiefs office.

The Corporation’s existing businesses include the Gitxsan Forest Inc. forestry company and Gitxsan Safety Services, which runs traffic control and security services.

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coordinator Lynzee West is one of two employees currently working for the company.

She said the service could also be set up so people who were hitchhiking could log license plates or indicate if they were in danger.

“What they can actually do is enter into a hazard mode which will shorten their check-in times so it can be anywhere from 10

minutes to 15 minutes, someone will be looking for them,” she said.

Connors said the GDC, which conducts business on behalf of Gitxsan hereditary chiefs, needs government support to make the service available for the public.

He said the company was preparing a plan that it hopes the government will endorse.

“We want to put it together so that it is a plan that is going to be a bankable plan, that they

can put their name on it, and they can say ... the province of B.C. endorses the program,” said Connors.

“What better place to monitor it.”

Connors said the company had also bid for a WorkSafe B.C. contract to provide the service for workers across the province. The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure’s office did not respond to this newspaper’s questions before the time of print.

From EYES on A10

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Chiefs grill Minister on issuesThe GDC has also signed

an agreement with the provincial government to receive benefits for supporting TransCanada’s Prince Rupert Gas Transmission project.

That agreement has not come into effect because the Corporation is waiting to negotiate a separate project agreement with TransCanada.

Connors told hereditary chiefs at the meeting that supporting LNG would have long-lasting benefits for the community.

He said the new training would be more successful than previous programs because the Gitxsan had been involved in creating them.

“The last thing we needed with a project like natural gas coming into place was to be dictated which training is going to be provided,” he said.

“Then we’ve got a bunch of people with certificates that wouldn’t even be applicable.”

Hereditary chiefs at last week’s meeting took the opportunity to grill the Minister on residential schools, reconciliation, education, environmental stewardship and investment in silviculture.

Some chiefs recalled

the abuses they suffered at residential school, asking the Minister why more wasn’t being done to investigate and address systemic problems caused by their legacy.

The Minister said the B.C. government was taking steps towards reconciliation.

“What we’re trying to do in doing things like this, the training side, the support, whether it’s the business relationship side; we’re trying to set the stage for being able to do something differently and for us to come in and try to support your culture and your history and give recognition so that it can be the foundation of building that.”

Hereditary chief Nika’ teen (Francis Sampson) said she believes putting money into projects like the proposed Heart of the Hazeltons recreation centre would help address some of the social problems facing the Gitxsan communities.

“I don’t think giving money to individuals is the answer, what I’d like to see is a great big recreational centre so our children can be energetic,” she said.

Last week’s training announcement was made the same day that LNG opponents in the Kispiox Valley vowed to stop the

PRGT pipeline project. The diverse group

including doctors, farmers, loggers and guide outfitters issued a press release expressing their belief the pipeline threatens their health, livelihood, culture and environment.

“We tried working with the B.C. government and the pipeline companies but they have ignored our concerns,” said retired community development consultant Gail MacDonald.

“Now it’s time to act together — as First Nations and non-First Nations, united.”

From LNG on B1

Gitxsan hereditary chief Nika’teen (Francis Sampson).

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THIS 10 DAY EVENT STARTS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2015. PRICES IN THIS FLYER ARE IN EFFECT DECEMBER 19 - 28, 2015. IF ANY ADVERTISING ERROR OR OMISSION IS DISCOVERED, SPORT CHEK WILL MAKE THE APPROPRIATE CORRECTIONS AND NOTIFY CUSTOMERS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. QUANTITIES MAY BE LIMITED. SELECTION (STYLES, COLOURS, SIZES AND MODELS) MAY VARY BY STORE. PRODUCT AND OFFERS IN THIS FLYER MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE AT METROPOLIS, BURNABY, BC; SALMON ARM, BC; TERRACE, BC; CRANBROOK, BC; WILLIAMS LAKE, BC; SMITHERS, BC; STEPHEN AVE, CALGARY, AB; CHINOOK CENTRE, CALGARY, AB; SOUTHCENTRE MALL, CALGARY, AB; MARKET MALL, CALGARY, AB; CROSSIRON MILLS, ROCKEYVIEW, AB; COCHRANE, AB; WETASKIWIN, AB; COLD LAKE, AB; CAMROSE, AB; OKOTOKS, AB; WEST EDMONTON MALL, EDMONTON, AB; NORTH BATTLEFORD, SK; ESTEVAN, SK; SWIFT CURRENT, SK; STEINBACH, MB; ALLISTON, ON; LINDSAY, ON; HUNTSVILLE, ON; SIMCOE, ON; EATON CENTRE, TORONTO, ON; MAPLE LEAF SQUARE, TORONTO, ON; 2529 YONGE STREET, TORONTO, ON; YARMOUTH, NS; TRURO, NS; BRIDGEWATER, NS; MIRAMICHI, NB; SUMMERSIDE, PEI; GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, NFLD; AND GANDER, NFLD LOCATIONS. KIDS’ APPAREL, OUTERWEAR & FOOTWEAR IS NOT AVAILABLE AT STEPHEN AVE, CALGARY, AB; HYLANDS, LONDON, ON; 2529 YONGE STREET, TORONTO, ON AND EATON CENTRE, TORONTO, ON LOCATIONS. HOCKEY EQUIPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THE 2529 YONGE STREET, TORONTO, ON AND MAPLE LEAF SQUARE, TORONTO, ON LOCATIONS. JUNIOR HOCKEY EQUIPMENT AND SKATES ARE NOT AVAILABLE AT THE STEPHEN AVE, CALGARY, AB LOCATION. SKI & BOARD EQUIPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THE STEPHEN AVE, CALGARY, AB; GATEWAY MALL, PRINCE ALBERT, SK; SWIFT CURRENT, SK; TOWN AND COUNTRY MALL, MOOSE JAW, SK; ESTEVAN, SK; NORTHGATE CENTRE, WINNIPEG, MB; STEINBACH, MB; NORTHUMBERLAND, COBOURG, ON; MAPLE LEAF SQUARE, TORONTO, ON; YARMOUTH, NS; TRURO, NS; SUMMERSIDE, PEI; MIRAMICHI, NB; GRAND FALLS-WINDSOR, NFLD AND GANDER, NFLD LOCATIONS. SKI EQUIPMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE AT NORTH BATTLEFORD, SK; SOUTHLAND MALL, REGINA, SK; ST. VITAL, WINNIPEG, MB; KILDONAN, WINNIPEG, MB; WINNIPEG UNICITY, WINNIPEG, ON; AND FESTIVAL MARKETPLACE, STRATFORD, ON LOCATIONS. WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO LIMIT QUANTITIES PURCHASED. PRODUCTS AND OFFERS WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE AT ERIN MILLS TOWN CENTRE, MISSISSAUGA, ON LOCATIONS. ®REGISTERED TRADEMARKS OF FGL SPORTS LTD. AND ALL OTHER TRADEMARKS ARE THE PROPERTY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNER(S).

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SC WK46 SMITHERS 10.3125 X 14 DEC 12

MEN’S ALLTRACK PRO 100

14/15 SKI BOOTSOUR REG. PRICE 399.99

19999

WOMEN’S ESSENZA ADORA 15/16 SKIS WITH

MARKER 3MOTION TPI LIGHT 10.0 BINDINGS

OUR REG. PRICE 449.98

26998

MEN’S PROCESS 3D 15/16

SNOWBOARDOUR REG. PRICE 429.99

22999

MEN’S TRANSFER BLACK OR WOMEN’S

TRANSFER WHITE 15/16 SNOWBOARD BOOTSOUR REG. PRICE 219.99

12999

50%SAVE

50%SAVE

INCLUDES INSTALLATION.

BASE GRAPHICS MAY VARY BY SIZE.

180$SAVE

150$SAVE

200$SAVE

115$SAVE

EA.

90$SAVE

CINCH CTS 15/16SNOWBOARD BINDINGS


12499

DOOM NOCTURNAL GOGGLES


9999

CONEXT15 COMPETITION SIZE 5

SOCCER BALLOUR REG. PRICE 59.99

2999

SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

CALLAWAY CXR CONTROL OR NIKE HYPERFLIGHT

12 PACK GOLF BALLSOUR REG. PRICE 29.99 YOUR CHOICE

1999

GRAPHENE SPEED TOUR OR INSTINCT LITE

TENNIS RACQUETOUR REG. PRICE 29.99 YOUR CHOICE

7999EA. EA.

50%SAVE

30%SAVE OVER

BIOMIMETIC TOUR ELITE

SQUASH RACQUET OUR REG. PRICE 159.99

6999

POWERCORE 100LB

HEAVY BAGOUR REG. PRICE 139.99

8999

ALPHA 2 ACTIVITY TRACKEROUR REG. PRICE 219.99

16999

COLOUR MAY VARY BY LOCATION. SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

EA.

50$SAVE

50$SAVE

90$SAVE 60%

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NEXUS 2000 SENIOR COMPOSITE STICK


3999

SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

DYNASTY AX1 LT SENIOR COMPOSITE STICK


12999

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YOUR CHOICE

9999EA.

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HOCKEY CANADA OR EASTON V5E SENIOR COMPOSITE STICK

CCM OR BAUER. OUR ORIGINAL PRICE 99.99 EASTON. OUR ORIGINAL PRICE 109.99

WAS/NOW

5999

SYNERGY HSX SENIOR HOCKEY GLOVES


7499

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CARRY HOCKEY BAGOUR REG. PRICE 59.99

2999

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MEN’S ROCKY SHORE

SWIM TRUNK OUR REG. PRICE 49.99

2499

MEN’S MOBILITY EMBOSS POLO


4000

COLOUR SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION. COLOUR SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

50%SAVE

60%SAVE50%

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WOMEN’S FIREFLY BOOTS

MEN’S SELECT SKATE SHOES

DUFFELS, PACKS & TOTES

MEN’S, WOMEN’S & KIDS’ SELECTWINTER OUTERWEAR CLEARANCE*

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MEN’S & WOMEN’S SELECT ATHLETIC APPAREL

MEN’S, WOMEN’S & KIDS’ WINTER ACCESSORIES & BASELAYER

APPLIED TO ITEMS ENDING IN 95C. SELECT STYLES. PRICES SHOWN REFLECT DISCOUNT. AVAILABILITY & SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

APPLIED TO ITEMS ENDING IN 94C. PRICES SHOWN REFLECT DISCOUNT. AVAILABILITY AND SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

PRICES SHOWN REFLECT DISCOUNT. EXCLUDES ARC’TERYX, BURTON, SPYDER, NOBIS & PARAJUMPERS. BRAND AVAILABILITY MAY VARY BY GENDER. AVAILABILITY & SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

APPLIED TO ITEMS ENDING IN 95C. PRICES SHOWN REFLECT DISCOUNT. AVAILABILITY & SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

EXCLUDING ITEMS ALREADY MARKED DOWN. CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER OFFER. AVAILABILITY & SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

EXCLUDING ITEMS ALREADY MARKED DOWN. CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER OFFER. AVAILABILITY & SELECTION MAY VARY.

WINTER ACCESSORIES INCLUDE TOQUES, BEANIES, SCARVES, INSULATED GLOVES & MITTS.EXCLUDING ITEMS ALREADY MARKED DOWN, ARC’TERYX, HESTRA & SELECT NIKE STYLES. CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER OFFER. AVAILABILITY & SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

APPLIED TO ITEMS ENDING IN 95¢. PRICES SHOWN REFLECT DISCOUNT. CANNOT BE COMBINED WITH ANY OTHER OFFER. AVAILABILITY & SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

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MEN’S ESSENTIAL 3-STRIPE

WOVEN PANT OUR REG. PRICE 64.99

2999

COLOUR SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.

50%SAVE OVER

MEN’S OR WOMEN’S HEXAFFECT RUN 2.0

RUNNING SHOEOUR REG. PRICE 109.99

4399EA.

MEN’S TRAILCRUISER

BOOT OUR REG. PRICE 129.99

6499

MEN’S OR WOMEN’S GT 2000 2

RUNNING SHOEOUR REG. PRICE 159.99

7999EA.

COLOUR & WIDTH SELECTION MAY VARY BY LOCATION.MEN’S COLOUR SELECTION WILL VARY BY LOCATION. WOMEN’S ADVERTISED COLOUR ONLY.

MEN’S ADVERTISED COLOUR ONLY. WOMEN’S COLOUR SELECTION WILL VARY BY LOCATION

MEN’S OR WOMEN’S 623 TRAINING SHOE


4499

MEN’S OR WOMEN’S 646 WALKING SHOE


5499

MEN’S OR WOMEN’S 730 V2 RUNNING SHOE


6499EA. EA. EA.

35%SAVE OVER

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MEN’S LOMA VISTA HOODED JACKET


7499

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Have a safe and happy holiday.

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Don’t Drink and DriveEverybody gets hurt

Have a safe holiday season

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Wrinch Memorial Hospital

2510 Highway 62Hazelton, B.C. V0J 1Y0

250-847-5373 • www.unitedchurchhealth.ca

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The New Hazelton RCMP will be escorting Santa around local communities on Dec. 19 and 20. Santa will be riding a “light up” police truck with music, and providing gifts to kids. The routes in the communities will be as follows:

LOCAL VOCALSVoices soar at the Community Choral Concert at the United Church in Hazelton on Sunday.

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Dec. 19:New Hazelton (start) 6:30 p.m.South Hazelton 6:30-6:50 p.m.Gitsegukla 7-7:30 p.m.Gitwangak 7:45-8:15 p.m.Gitanyow 8:30-9:00 p.m.

Dec. 20:New Hazelton 6:30-7 p.m.Hagwilget 7-7:15 p.m.Two Mile 7:15-7:30 p.m.Gitanmaax 7:30-8 p.m.Glen Vowell 8:10-8:30 p.m.Kispiox 8:40-9:15 p.m.


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ChurchServices

2015

hristmasC

ST. JOSEPH’S CATHOLIC CHURCH

Dec 24 Christmas Eve5:00 pm Children's Christmas Mass (Smithers)

7:30 pm Christmas Mass (Houston)10:00 pm Midnight Mass (Smithers)

Dec 25 Christmas Day10 am Mass (Smithers)Dec 31 New Year’s Eve

5:00 pm New Year Eve’s Mass (Smithers)7:30 pm New Year Eve’s Mass (Houston)

Jan 1, 2016 New Year’s Day9:00 am Mass (Smithers)

Rev. Pier Pandolfo

ST. JAMESANGLICAN CHURCH

1636 Princess Street Rev. Jake Worley

Sunday, Dec 2010 am Holy Eucharist at St. JamesThursday, Dec 24 Christmas Eve

5:30 pm Holy Eucharist at St. John’s in Quick8 pm Holy Eucharist at St. Clements in Houston

10:30 pm Holy Eucharist at St. JamesFriday, Dec 25 Christmas Day

10 am Holy Eucharist at St. JamesSunday, Dec 27

10 am Lessons and Carols at St. James250-847-3333Rev. Debbie Bentham

SMITHERS UNITED CHURCH

Monday, Dec 21 – 7 pmBlue Christmas Service

Thursday, Dec 24 – Christmas Eve7 pm Traditional ServiceSunday, Dec 27 – 10 amCarol Singing Service

At the corner of Queen St. & 8th

Corner of Viewmount Rd & Hwy 16 250-847-2466

Morning WorshipSundays - 11 am

Christmas Eve ServiceThursday, Dec. 24 - 7-8 pmSunday School ResumesSunday, Jan. 3 - 9:45 am

BETHEL REFORMED CHURCH

3115 Gould PlaceSmithers

Pastor Lou Slagter 250-847-2080

Christmas Day ServiceFriday

December 25 • 10 am God’s Blessings thru the

Christmas season as we celebratethe birth of our Saviour

Canadian Reformed Church

Pastor James Slaa2788 Upper Viewmont south Rd.

250-847-5879

Christmas Day ServiceFriday, Dec 25

10 amShort Christmas Program Following

Email: [email protected]: www.smithersefc.org

Annual Christmas EveCandlelight Service • Dec. 24, 7 p.m.

1838 Main St.

Rev. Dwayne GoertzenPastor Trevor Brawdy

250-847-2929

EVANGELICAL FREE

CHURCH

FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH

on the corner of Queen St. and 7th Ave.

Christmas Eve Service Thursday, Dec. 24

6:30-7:30 pm

Pastor Chris Kibblewww.smithersbaptist.ca

250-847-3725

Come worship with us at

FAITH REFORMED CHURCH OF TELKWA

for a specialChristmas DayWorship Service

at 10 amRemembering:

“Jesus is the Reason for the Season”Pastor James Folkerts

(URC-NA)1170 Hwy 16, Telkwa

Community CalendarTo list your nonprofit coming events please drop off your listing at The Interior News, 3764 Broadway Ave., fax us at 250-847-2995, or email [email protected]. More information is available through our Online Community Calendar at www.interior-news.com. Deadline for submissions is Fridays at noon. Maximum 25 words. Limited space is available. We regret we cannot accept items over the phone.Light up the Night for Seniors. Dec. 17, 6:00 p.m., volunteer drivers pick up seniors for a Christmas lights tour, followed by a party. RSVP Delia at 250-877-1733.One of a Kind – Artisans Christmas Gift Shop Dec. 1-19 at the Smithers Art Gallery, Tuesday to Friday 12-5 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Exclusive items of limited supply. www.smithersart.org, [email protected], 250-847-3898.Christmas Food Hamper REMAX Swim Saturday, Dec. 18, 2:30-4:30 p.m., BV Pool. Bring a non-perishable food item or unwrapped toy as a donation to the Smithers Community Food Hamper Program and enjoy a Swim or Soak.Smithers Film Society Brooklyn Sunday, Dec. 20, 7 p.m., Roi Theatre. Luminous and bittersweet portrayal of who we are, where we’ve come from, where we’re going and the places we call home. Regular admission.Christmas Carols at the historic Round Lake Hall, Tuesday, Dec. 22, 7:00 p.m. Curt Gesch will lead the singing and hot apple cider will be served. Please bring your contribution of Christmas baking. A great event for visitors too!Winter Wonderland Swim Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2-4 p.m., BV Pool. Join us for a fun filled afternoon filled with reindeer games, polar bear dip and snowman building contest. Regular Admission.

Ground 2 Griddle Neighbourhood Kitchen Tuesdays 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., St. James Anglican Church Hall. SCSA 250-847-9515 to join this free life skills literacy program. Childcare provided.BV Toastmasters Club meets every second and fourth Monday, 7-8:55 p.m., Smithers NWCC campus, Room 109. [email protected]. Sept. to June.Smithers Tai Chi Players. New season Tuesdays and Thursdays. Come learn Yang-style tai chi and qigong. [email protected] or 250-847-5091.BV Genealogical Society meets the last Tuesday every month, Sunshine Inn meeting room, 7 p.m. Guest speakers and programs are presented to assist family root researchers. All welcome.Evelyn Community Association meetings first Wednesday of each month, 7 p.m., Evelyn Hall. New members welcome.Legion Meat Draws every Friday 6-7 p.m. and Saturday 3-4:30 p.m. Everyone welcome.Brain Fitness habits for adults and seniors: We are now taking names for our February 2016 course. Stay sharp; stay fit! 250-877-7723 or email [email protected] to register.

With thankfulness to God,Bill and Jean Devries are pleased

to announce the wedding of their daughter,

Alyssa Jenelle to

Gregory Reynold Kanis

Tuesday,

December 22, 2015

12:00 pm

Canadian Reformed Church

Smithers


Peter LundRes. 847-3435

Leo LubbersCell. 847-1292

Ron LapadatCell. 847-0335

Sandra HinchliffeCell. 847-0725

Charlie McClaryCell. 877-1770

Karen BensonCell. 847-0548

Donna Grudg� eldCell. 847-1228

Kiesha MatthewsCell. 876-8420

Jantina MeintsCell. 847-3144

Real Estate Real Estate Real Estate Real Estate Real Estate Real Estate Real Estate Real Estate

250-847-5999Bulkley Valley Real Estate

$398,000

2766 McCabe Road• 62 acres, 15 min from town• 1452 s.f. full basement home• Very private, good views• www.realestatesmithers.com

Leo Lubbers mls r2019365

$45,000 each

Lot C & D Cottonwood Street• 2 lots just over 1 acre each• Plenty of room to build• Quiet neighbourhood • Sunny Telkwa

Sandra Hinchliffe

$67,000

#1 Tyhee Mobile Home Park• 3 bedroom, bright & open mobile• Beautifully renovated• Quiet location• Close to Tyhee Lake & playground

Kiesha Matthews mls r2018094

$335,000

20887 Highway 16 W, Smithers• 46.6 acres, 4 bedroom home• 3 pastures, fenced for horses• Toboggan Creek frontage• Spruce forest, many trails

Donna Grudg� eld mls r2012828

$275,000

4879 Fourth Avenue• 3 bdrm, 1 bath rancher style home• Large .47 acre lot by golf course• Carport, paved drive, storage• www.realestatesmithers.com


$269,000

19 Starliter Way• Premier lot• Lake front, spectacular view• Fully serviced lot• 10796 square feet

Sandra Hinchliffe mls n227134

$69,900

#64-95 Laidlaw Road• 794 sf, 2 bedroom mobile• New roof, new siding, new windows• New kitchen, new bath and lighting• Covered deck, quick possession

Karen Benson mls r2009039

$191,500

#8 - 3278 Park Place• 3 bedrooms, 2 full bathrooms• Double paved drive, covered carport• New roof 2012, stainless appliances• Wheel chair ramp, fenced yard

Donna & Peter mls n247002

$205,000

1191 Coalmine Road, Telkwa• Affordable 4 bdrm, 2 bath, osbe• Large fenced yard, by park & river• Hardwood � oors, sundeck, views• Quick possession is available

Ron Lapadat mls r2014298

$214,900

3676 Alfred Avenue• 4 bedrooms, one level• Hardwood � oors in living room• European style kitchen• 75x125 lot, alley access


$269,900

#11 Alpine Village Estates• 2 bedroom, 1100 sf condo• Garage, double paved parking• Lots of upgrades, new � ooring• Natural gas � replace, sundeck


$399,000

3245 Turner Way• 4/5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms• Floors above ground, concrete dw• 10 years young, Willowvale Sub.• Fenced backyard, perimeter trail

Donna Grudg� eld mls n247381

$689,000

1314 Main Street• Thriving Restaurant & Steakhouse• 86 seat. Land, building & business• Prime Main Street location• Well maintained, 2 storey

Donna & Leo mls n4507517

$459,000

18634 Kerr Rd (Old Quick School)• 7123 square foot, one level building• 5 acres, level and landscaped• Would make a good residence• 4 classrooms, 3 bathrooms, gym

Donna & Leo mls n4507311

$ $189,000

Lot 1 Hubert Rd & Hwy 16• 46 acres, ideal for rural home site• Undeveloped, mix of treed/cleared• Excellent view, seasonal creek• www.realestatesmithers.com

Leo Lubbers mls n243201

$239,000

1139 Queen Street• Prime corner lot, downtown• C-1A zoning allows for multiple use• Of� ces, entry foyer, bathroom• www.realestatesmithers.com

Leo Lubbers mls n4507388

$569,000

7639 Tatlow Road• 285 acres, borders crown land• 50x140 shop with 50x40 heated• 30x40 & 24x24 new building 2012• www.realestatesmithers.com


$299,900

Chandler Park Estates• Phase 1, quick possession available• Now preselling Phase 2• Luxury 2 bed, 2 bath adult complex• 1260 sf, wheelchair accessible

Ron Lapadat

$ $ $326,900

14424 Round Lake Road• 4 bdrm, 2 bathroom, 2030 s.f. home• 5.25 acres, Round Lake views• Updates to kitchen, � ooring, bsmnt• OSBE, double garage, fruit trees

Peter & Karen mls 2017292

$230,000

3915 Fourth Avenue• Super solid 2 bedroom rancher• Deck, patio, greenhouse, gardens• Crawl with spray foam insulation• www.smithershomes.com

Ron Lapadat mls n243387

$588,000

15058 Kitseguecla Lake Road• 40 acre country estate• Hay land, pasture, 20 min to town• 5700 sq ft, 6 bedroom, 3½ bathroom• Picturesque setting, great views


$250,000

A – 3568 Third Avenue• Modern open concept ½ duplex• 3 bedrooms, space for 2 more• Separate bsmnt entry, great location• www.smithershomes.com


$ $ $379,000

4750 Manton Road• Updated open plan 4 bedrooms• In town,by golf course, rural setting• Paved drive, 24x24 workshop• www.smithershomes.com

Ron Lapadat mls n246385

$379,000

8652 Nouch Frontage Road• 5 acre view location, close to town• Solid 4 bdrm log home, big sundeck• Double garage, shop, Quonset, barn• Great family home/hobby farm

Ron & Charlie mls n246920

$310,000

1677 First Street, Telkwa• 4 bedrooms + den, 3 bathrooms• ½ acre lot, treed & private• Many updates and well kept• 3 car garage

Sandra Hinchliffe mls r2015605

$89,000-109,000

Whistler Road• Last 3 lots on Whistler Road• Close to town and wilderness• Great access to biking & skiing• 5.06-8.92 acres in size

Sandra Hinchliffe

$144,000

9257 Glacierview Road• Beautiful lot in great neighborhood• Partially constructed log home• Shed and outbuildings• Treed with lots of � at area

Sandra Hinchliffe mls n244995

$197,000

1708 Telegraph St., Telkwa• 1998, 3 bedroom rancher• Well kept open design home• Fenced yard, greenhouse & garden• Trails out back to Tyhee Lake

Charlie McClary mls r2016797

$225,000

3436 Victoria Drive• Industrial M-2 bare land site• Great location on 2.41 acres• Water at site line, septic required• Access off Victoria/Fulton Drive

Charlie McClary mls n236530

$284,500

5166 Nielson Road• Country home, 1080 sf, 2 bedroom• Pristine setting, 5 min to town• Vaulted ceilings, rock � replace• Open design, detached sauna

Charlie McClary mls n248159

$285,000

5716 Morris Road• 10.68 acres, fenced and cross fenced• Updated mobile with addition• Drilled well, new appliances• Gardens, greenhouse, shop

Karen Benson mls n242286

$239,000

4048 Fourth Avenue• 3 bedroom, 2140 sf home, carport• Central location near arenas/pool• Fenced yard,bamboo hardwood,osbe• Large rec room, central vac,� replace

Karen Benson mls n247811

$229,000

17771 Highway 16, Smithers• 900 sq ft well-built and clean home• 2.23 acres, 8 minutes from town• 2 bedrooms, full basement• Quick possession

Jantina Meints mls r2016604

$92,000

#10-4430 Hudson Bay MHP• One of the best location in park• 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom, 1994• Open layout, bright, vaulted ceilings• Interior freshly painted, storage shed

Jantina Meints mls r2017384

$320,000

7060 Cedar Road• Great family home on 5 acres• 4 bdrm, 3 bath, of� ce, large rec room• Double garage, large sundeck, osbe• Beautiful view of Hudson Bay Mtn

Jantina Meints mls n247477

$320,000

48680 Mill Bay, Granisle• Beautiful home on Babine Lake• Large sundeck, osbe, shop, carport• Vaulted ceiling, bright, open layout• Gardens, greenhouse, full basement

Jantina Meints mls n244386

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Pick up your FREE copy of our Real Estate Flyer and our map of the Bulkley Valley. View more of our listings online at www.remaxsmithersbc.ca or on Facebook.

Email: [email protected]

smithers interior news, december 16, 2015

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