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By Alicia Bridges Smithers/Interior News

A man who became unconscious shortly after he was arrested by Smith-ers RCMP on Valentine’s Day died in hospital on Feb. 21.

The deceased, who was arrested at a Smithers residence at about 10:30 p.m. on Feb. 14, had told police he was hav-ing difficulty breathing before he lost consciousness while in custody.

Investigators from the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. were in Smithers last week conducting inter-views about the incident.

In a statement released on Monday, the IIOBC said police arrested the man after they were called to a complaint at a local residence.

“According to police, officers locat-ed the affected person; he appeared dis-traught, in emotional distress and did not comply with officers’ commands,” said the IIOBC.

The man was pepper-sprayed dur-ing the arrest before reporting he was having difficulty breathing.

The officers called emergency health services and, after assessing the man, he was cleared to be transported to po-lice cells.

“While being booked into cells, the affected person reportedly became uncooperative and a physical struggle took place,” said the IIOBC.

“The affected person lost conscious-ness.

“He was transported to hospital where he remained until his death on Feb. 21, 2015.”

IIOBC was notified of the incident about an hour after it took place.

Its primary investigator and an-other investigator were in Smithers last week to conduct interviews with civil-ians and police and collect information such as paramedic crew reports and ra-dio transmissions.

A family support worker travelled with them.

An IIOBC spokesperson said there would be no forensic investigation be-cause there was no “scene” to examine.

By Alicia BridgesSmithers/Interior News

An influenza outbreak that killed three people at the Bulkley Lodge nursing home this month has been contained, according to Northern Health.

The deceased were among nine people infected with the virus at the long-term care facility from Feb. 5-15.

Family and friends of the lodge’s 67 residents were

asked not to visit during the outbreak unless they had up-to-date flu vaccines.

Group activities were also cancelled and lower doses of preventative anti-viral treatment were given to other residents.

Northern Health will not conduct an official in-vestigation into whether the deaths could have been prevented but northwest medical officer Dr. Raina Fumerton said the facility had protocols for respond-ing to an outbreak.

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Eagle Spirit Energy gathers support for oil pipeline

By Chris GareauSmithers/Interior News

A number of Northern chiefs have put their support behind a planned oil pipeline that would carry crude from Alberta to the west coast.

The Eagle Spirit plan differs from the Northern Gateway plan in a few ways. It includes building a re-finery so that the pipeline would not have to transport bitumen oil. Spokesperson Marc Storms also said that there was an emphasis on gaining social license from First Nations before moving forward.

“We won’t do this project unless you’re on board,” said Storms.

The inevitability of oil reaching the coast one way or another was a reason to support the project accord-ing to Storms.

“We’ve had enough meet-ings, oil is going to flow... Part of the First Nation con-cern is oil by rail, also part of the province’s concern probably,” said Storms.

“So you combine things where First Nations actually have a meaningful economic

ownership stake, they also get to lead the environmen-tal process and create new environmental stewardship laws based on traditional laws.

“It’s sort of the first time someone has come and said ‘we need you, we know we can’t get any project done without you. So if you’re interested we’re ready to go further, if you’re not, bye-bye.’

“We’ve got something like $3.8 billion worth of in-vestments in First Nations projects in the Lower Main-land anyway.”

Vancouver-based Aqui-lini Group, a large construc-tion company and owner of the Vancouver Canucks, is a driving force behind the project.

“My basic understand-ing is Luigi Aquilini basi-cally said why aren’t people doing this the right way? It just makes total sense,” said Storms.

“This is a family business. They don’t have corporate structures that put profits over people. They don’t have shareholders who are going to pound their fists down and say ‘I don’t care, we’re

going to get this done, we’re invested.’

“They are banking a proj-ect like this because they be-lieve the First Nations will lead it.”

Not all Gitxsan chiefs are impressed.

“You’ve got two chiefs there and that’s it. If they had more [support] they would have had more chiefs with them,” said hereditary Chief Norman Stephens, who does not want any pipe-lines coming through the territory.

“I don’t want gas pipe-lines going across, but most certainly can’t have an oil pipeline going across.”

Gitxsan Niist/Basxhalaha hereditary Chief William Blackwater said there is not enough information to sup-port the pipeline.

“They were here in the spring last year, and they couldn’t answer a lot of questions.

“As a matter-of-fact we asked them where is the pipeline right away. They told us ‘we’re just following the Enbridge [route],” said Blackwater.

“When all the pipelines are in the ground, the ab-

original people will be for-gotten. I think Eagle Spirit is working for Christy Clarke.”

Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP Nathan Cullen does not see an oil pipeline in the region happening any time soon.

Cullen has proposed a bill that would ban oil tanker traffic off B.C.’s north coast. Part of it allows for excep-tions to be made for projects with high support, or social license.

“At first I was curious about if it was going to be a lot more people [support-ing it], and I don’t get that sense,” said Cullen.

“The larger conversation in the Gitxsan has yet to happen. A number of chiefs remain dead set against it, so that will be for the Gitxsan to work out.”

Gitxsan hereditary chiefs Larry Marsden and Art Mathews were among the aboriginal leaders who last week said the Eagle Spirit Energy plan was an option worth considering given the risk of transporting oil by train.

Chiefs Marsden and Mathews could not be reached for comment.

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“They’re a very vulnerable group and that’s why we really encourage precau-tionary measures and doing the best that we can to prevent influ-enza from getting into those facilities given the compromised im-mune status of the el-ders that are in those facilities,” Fumerton said.

There were no i n f l u e n z a - r e l a t e d deaths in the North-ern Health region last winter.

However, B.C. Centre for Disease Control deputy pro-vincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said deaths from out-breaks were common.

“The people who are in long-term care homes are people who have both medi-cal conditions and by virtue of their age are must more at risk of having severe cases of influenza so every

time we have out-breaks in long-term care we do see deaths,” she said.

Henry said the el-derly were also more susceptible to this winter’s dominant in-fluenza strain: H3N2.

“The one thing we know about this strain is that for reasons that we aren’t entirely clear on, older people tend to get more severe ill-

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Flu vaccines were not as effective against H3N2 compare with other strains of influ-enza, she added.

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the importance of the wider community be-ing vaccinated to help stop the virus spread-ing.

“Older people with long-term chronic ill-nesses tend not to re-spond as well to the vaccine so the very people that are most vulnerable and need the protection don’t get as good a response as young healthy peo-

ple,” she said. “As young healthy

people ... we can do our best to be immu-nized and to keep it away from those who are most vulnerable.”

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Jonathon Dyck praised the staff at Bulkley Lodge for their work containing the outbreak.

“At Bulkley Lodge we continued the out-break declaration for a period of time after it appeared to be con-tained to ensure it did not spread further,” he said.

“The staff work ex-tremely hard to con-

tain these outbreaks, and we would like to thank them for their hard work.”

He added North-ern Health tracked influenza outbreaks to ensure it was im-proving its practices as needed.

“We’re always try-ing to learn and look at these types of situ-ations and make sure that we are improving our practices not just here in northern B.C. but across the prov-ince and nation as well,” he said.

There were 145 lab-confirmed cases of influenza in the Northern Health re-gion in the winter of 2013/2014, and 136 in 2012/2013.

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Skeena-Bulkley Val-ley MP Nathan Cullen says the proposed Anti-Terrorism Act goes too far, and suggests the bill giving more powers to police and the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is politi-cally motivated.

The Act allows those suspected of plotting an attack to be more easily detained or have their movements restricted.

Cullen pointed to recent arrests of sus-pected terrorists before they were able to carry out acts of terror as evi-dence that the current system need not change.

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erful enough, and now they’re going to extend that much beyond any classic definition of ter-rorism for what can only be assumed to be po-litical motivation,” said Cullen.

The MP said broad definitions including po-tential threats to ill-de-fined infrastructure and economic interests point to that motivation.

“If people are try-ing to petition against a pipeline or a bridge proj-ect, or something that the government decides is economic, then they can be spied on with no oversight, no protection of our civil rights.

“These are basic rights. These are free-dom to assembly, free-dom of speech. The powers given to the spy agency would be able to trample all of those with no judge or Parliament

involved at all,” said Cullen.

There is a section in Bill C-51 that states works of art and “le-gal” protest are exempt. Despite that, former Liberal and Progres-sive Conservative prime ministers, and four for-mer Supreme Court

Justices have come out against the bill.

The Liberals have in-dicated they would sup-port the bill, but would add more oversight of CSIS if elected, a prom-ise made by the Conser-vatives under Harper when they were in Op-position.

“This is about peo-ple, about bird watchers, the Raging Grannies and people fighting for salmon,” said Cullen.

A poll by Angus Reid saw 82 per cent of Canadians surveyed in support of the law, with 69 per cent wanting more oversight.

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Sometimes you can be your own worst enemy – even with a winning case – and it can cost you.

Suppose you’re a pedestrian crossing an intersection on a green light. A car turns left into your marked crosswalk and hits you. You see the car coming and push off its hood. An eye witness says you’re lifted up into the air some � ve to eight feet and land on the road 10 feet away. The driver admits it’s her fault. An ambulance and the police are called, and you’re rushed to hospital. There’s no question you should get compensation – so how could you damage your case?

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A recent case shows that, while the court will still give you fair compensation for your actual injuries, your exaggera-tions will undermine your experts’ evidence. And though you win, the court might award legal costs against you too, which could eat signi� cantly into your compensation.

Here, Sean (name changed) told his doctors he was thrown 15 feet up into the air, and landed 30 to 40 feet away from the car that struck him. Though he spoke to the police and ambulance personnel at the scene, and the hospital recorded he never lost consciousness, he also told one doctor that he became unconscious.

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Said the court: “The dif� culty with such inconsistent reporting of the accident, speci� cally the distance that [Sean] might have been thrown… is that subsequent expert reports… were based on an exaggerated set of facts… The weight to be given to those reports is signi� cantly diminished – perhaps to a level where they are almost worthless.”

Sean also told his doctors he couldn’t go back to work due to his car accident injuries. In fact, he’d been � red from his job for persistent absenteeism, a problem pre-dating his car accident. Sean claimed roughly one-half to one million dollars for a supposedly catastrophic accident. But he received $32,500 for pain and suffering, about $15,000 for past wage loss and $3,000 for out-of pocket costs, for what was a minor accident without signi� cant injuries.

And rather than reimbursing Sean for some of his legal fees by awarding legal costs in his favour (normal for a winning claimant), the court left the question of such costs – substantial in a 12-day trial – open for later argument. If you’re involved in a car accident, seek legal advice, and make sure you don’t hurt your own case.

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Hudson Bay Mtn GM steps down

By Kendra WongSmithers/Interior News

Hudson Bay Moun-tain general manager Dikran Zabunyan resigned from his post last week citing medi-cal issues.

“He was a strong addition to the team right from his arrival in the fall of 2014; however, recent de-velopments with his health have encour-aged him to step away from the resort and move home to Van-couver to focus on his health,” said a press release from Hudson Bay Mountain.

Staff were notified last Thursday after-noon.

“We were con-cerned about his health, we just want him to be better,” said Chrissy Chapman, re-

sort services manager. “We never had a

GM for five months since Nancy [Treiber] departed.”

But the day-to-day operations shouldn’t be affected by his sudden departure.

They have upper level management including Chapman, manager of trails and hills Frank McBride, and controller Mi-

chael Huffman who have almost 30 years of combined experi-ence with the moun-tain and will continue to keep it operational.

“We’re confident the resort will keep operating as is,” said Chapman. “It’s busi-ness as usual. We’re halfway through [the season]. We all work very well together, the team is just awe-some up there. We’re just going to keep go-ing and look forward to keep the mountain running smoothly.”

The mountain will be open until April 12 and they will not be hiring a replacement GM.

Before coming to the ski hill in Sep-tember, Zabunyan worked in the hospi-tality industry across Canada for the past 25 years.

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Lack of vision impacts budget

decision on Hwy of Tears

As is the practice, the BC Liberals set out their vi-

sion for the province for the coming year with a throne speech to begin this legislative sitting, followed a week later by a budget Feb. 17 to support that vi-sion.

On the throne speech, one long-time mainstream media columnist reported, “Feb. 10, 2015: On this day in provincial history, the BC Liberals admitted they had pretty much run out

of new ideas.” That concisely summed it up.So when the budget speech was delivered, expecta-

tions were not high about backing up any great ideas from this government for the coming year.

But one item struck me as a tell-tale sign of the priorities of Premier Clark, her cabinet and caucus.

Surplus for this fiscal year, 2014/15: $879 million.Investment ear-marked for coming year, 2015/16,

to improve safety for women by providing a public transportation system, as recommended by experts, along Hwy 16, the Highway of Tears: 0.

It made me contemplate a different vision for a government that would address that stark contrast.

Imagine for a moment, what it would be like to have a government in power whose vision is founded in ‘we are all in this together’, rather than ‘every per-son for themselves’. A government who believes in reciprocity – that every person has a gift to give as well as the need to receive and fostering opportunities for this exchange to happen results in healthier individu-als and stronger relationships between community members. A vision that recognizes we are part of the ecosystems in which we live, not apart from them. A vision that the depth and breadth of relationships people have in their lives are what ultimately matters over everything else.

A government that recognizes that people who are healthy, and who feel secure, make sound decisions about taking care of where they live, and are better able to participate in the economy, making this a stronger province for all.

I didn’t see, hear or read that type of vision in this government’s throne speech. That’s a disappointment because it translates into budget decisions like the one of not investing what amounts to a small amount of the surplus into such an important service as a co-or-dinated public transportation system along the Hwy 16 corridor.

I was at the Supreme Court hearing on Oct. 15 and was able to listen to Jo-seph Arvay of the BC Civil Liberties

Association (BCCLA) make the case for state-approved killing. Like their full-page opinion piece in The Interior News, their arguments were laden with misinforma-tion and rhetoric. In many ways the pro-euthanasia is a wolf in sheepskin, claiming to be about dignity and compassion but ultimately denying what we all need most — love and care.

Mr. Arvay argued before the court that Parliament has been unable to deal with this issue of assisted suicide and euthanasia so it is time for the court to take the lead. What he failed to acknowledge was that Parliament has examined this issue at least six times, and has always voted against changes to the law. It is not that they were unable or unwilling. It is that the BCCLA, and the Supreme Court judges, were sim-ply unhappy with Parliament’s leadership.

Just in this past year, there was almost unanimous support for a motion by NDP MP Charlie Angus to promote a national palliative care strategy. When Bulkley Val-ley ARPA met with Mr. Angus and our MP Nathan Cullen in Ottawa, Mr. An-gus was clear that the direction our nation needed to go was promoting palliative care, not killing. This is clear leadership from Parliament. The Supreme Court is sup-posed to interpret the law that Parliament

has made. One of the supreme principles of law

has always been that it is wrong to inten-tionally kill innocent human life, regardless of how justified we feel. When our society decides that worth or dignity is lost when we aren’t able to live as we please (because of illness or disability etc.), what we are really saying is that our value comes from what we can do, and how we measure up to someone else’s measuring stick. This is a violation of fundamental human rights.

We don’t have to look hard into history to find examples of millions of lives that have been killed because some humans be-lieve that other humans don’t measure up, and would be better off dead.

In this decision, our court has crossed a line. The value of human life has moved from objective (based on simply being hu-man) to subjective (based on how someone feels about themselves or someone else). Once this objective line is crossed, it is im-possible for any Parliament or legislature or court to come up with new standards which will be able to withstand future challenges. This court has said euthanasia should be possible for adults who are suf-fering. But why should they have to suffer? And why should they have to be adults? Just last year Belgium widened their law to include children.

Recently a 63-year-old gentleman from the Netherlands was approaching retire-

ment and could not stand the thought of life without his job. His answer to the prob-lem was to request that the state kill him. How did his society respond? Colleagues threw a party at his favourite tea house and gave him trinkets to “take with him.” The next day he was killed. This may sound extreme but it is a logical progression once society determines that the right to life is subjective.

I’m not advocating that human life has to be sustained through all medical means possible. There are times to stop active treatment. There is a fundamental moral distinction between letting natural death take its course, and killing someone. But I am advocating that Canadian society put more emphasis on caring for those who are suffering and dying – being a neighbour to each other in our most difficult times. Palliative care goes a long way in this direc-tion. But the only ultimate answer to death is spiritual, and found in Jesus Christ. This isn’t something that can be legislated.

The court gave Parliament only one year. We will be looking to Nathan Cullen and all MPs to pass a law quickly which upholds life to the greatest extent possible.

— Mark Penninga and his family live in Smithers. He is the executive director of the Association for Reformed Political Action Canada which was an intervenor in this Carter Supreme Court case.

Canada should be caring, not killing

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A shakedown of the governments by CanadaEditor:

We are in the stage of time in our lives where there is going to be a big change in our future.

It is a very delicate situation and we need to come together and plan for the future.

We know what we have, our rights and title, our morals, principles and values.

The two govern-ments, federal and pro-vincial, have staged a platform in breach and have deliberately used an unessential approach to negotiate with the Gitxsan Nation.

They have imposed improper consultation tactics of offering mon-ey to influence a small group of Gitxsan chiefs whom in turn have nev-er consulted with their house groups.

How we negotiate has to change to sustain our Gitxsan Nation’s future.

Like subsidiary agreements and revenue sharing, it’s our resource and royalty.

This land is not for sale.

We need to dia-logue with diplomacy amongst our people.

We need to be up front with our young people; this is their lan-guage, their future.

We need to dialogue with other nations in exchange of ideas on political issues.

How governments approach on agreements should be mandatory.

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Praise for local pet groomer

Editor:

Too often we take the time to complain as a society, seldom tak-ing the time to praise. I would personally like to take the opportunity publicly to thank local dog groomer Penny of Penny Lane Pet Care and Grooming for the professional and per-sonal caring that she has provided for our dog Brandy over the years.

I can honestly say that Brandy dances when she recognizes that she is going to get the dreaded “Haircut” when we arrive at Pen-ny’s door. Her facility is clean and her affec-tion for the animals that she provides excellent grooming services to is obvious. We are very fortunate to have her as a dog groomer in our lo-cal community. I would highly recommend Pen-ny Lane Pet Care and Grooming to the proud owners of their special pals when they may be in need of the services that Penny so ably pro-vides.

Elaine ThompsonSmithers

Time to talk tree service

Editor:

This is a letter to all the people complain-ing about the Asplundh tree service in town. This is a good time to write this, after the big storm in Terrace and Kitimat that put the power out for two days. Hydro called in Asplundh to help get the power on and deal with the hazard trees that had fallen across the lines, putting the power out. Asplundh is here to take down hazard trees or trees growing too close to the power line. For your own good. Have you ever taken a good look at where the trees

are growing? Or if they are burning into the line already? Would you rather have the power out for a few hours? Or days? They are the rea-son the power stays on here in town! Hydro gives Asplundh the authority to cut down these trees, on your property or not. You do not own the power lines. And if you grow trees near the power lines. They need to be pruned. To keep your power on! Maybe think about this when you plant a tree that is surely going to grow, right next to, or under a power line. These guys are doing this for

your own good. They keep the risk of fires and outages lower by doing their job. My husband comes home from work every night and fields calls from irate home owners for doing his job. He is highly skilled and has been a certified CUA for many years. Work-ing in this field for 15 years. Again. They are doing their job. Why not thank them for helping keep you safe? No. They are not going to prune your tree like it’s some ex-otic bonsai tree. They do the best they can. It’s hard and dangerous work. There are times

where they are within inches of a power line and can hear the energy zinging through the wires. Again. For your safety. I would think there would be more important things to be concerned about than complaining about having your hazard-ous trees maintained. Think about that the next time your power goes out and hydro and Asplundh are out there in the dark and all kinds of weather to bring it back on for you.

Lana VanderwijkSmithers

Beating yet bloodied heartsEditor:

Lots going on re-cently with Enbridge....Line 9/9B from Sarnia to Montreal: the NEB has dropped its man-dated shut-off valve requirement (one valve within a kilometre of each side of a signifi-cant waterway, an in-dustry standard) agree-ing with Enbridge’s submitted plan of only 17 new shut-off valves, which would cover only six of the 104 sig-nificant waterways. The Montreal Metro-politan Community of 82 cities and towns are still fighting to stop this pipeline because En-bridge hasn’t revealed its emergency plan in case of a spill, which is the same issue Premier Clark has with Kinder Morgan, which is the same issue numerous cities and towns in Ontario have with En-ergyEast. A common thread indeed, which becomes more interest-ing considering an un-released 2013 federal report on bitumen re-vealed:

“Very little informa-tion is available on the physical and chemi-cal characteristics of oilsands-related prod-ucts following a spill into water...Research regarding how bitu-men products will fur-ther biodegrade in the environment is insuffi-cient...”

The study added there is little informa-tion on the combined effects of bitumen and dispersants (used to clean up spills) nor the effects of condensate (the thinner in bitu-men) on aquatic life. A mix of bitumen/water was found to be 300 times more toxic to fish than heavy oil. It fur-ther comments on how bitumen weathers and interacts with sediment

in a water column is still inconclusive.

Locally, popular Prince George musician Raghu Lokanathan pulled out from per-forming at the Canada Winter Games in PG when he found out that Enbridge was a spon-sor. Hundreds of musi-cians and artists around B.C. have been banding together performing to stop Northern Gate-way and the Kinder Morgan Expansion, many may remember the 4,000 Reasons Fes-tival to stop Northern Gateway right here in Smithers. They are the eyes, mouths and ears of our culture, expos-ing the pride and shame of our doings, the beat-ing yet bloodied hearts of our society’s joyous but sometimes jagged follies. The College of New Caledonia has ac-cepted $250,000 from Enbridge, in stark contrast to our local Northwest Community College’s position not to accept funding from Enbridge. The faculties at UBC have voted to divest their stock hold-ings in pipeline and fos-sil fuel corporations.

Along with the new anti-terrorist Bill C-51, which until further clarification may po-tentially threaten any person’s right to pub-lic dissent, including veterans, pensioners, First Nations and any-one who is dissatisfied with a government’s action or lack of ac-tion, comes Bill C-639, a private members bill introduced by MP Wai Young, which makes it a Criminal Code of-fence to “obstruct, in-terrupt or interfere” with a critical infra-structure, two to ten years in jail. Interest-ingly, Conservative MP Wai Young represents the community next to Burnaby Mountain.

Keith CummingsTelkwa

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B.C. balances budget LNG tax breaksBy Chris Gareau and Tom FletcherSmithers/Interior News

Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Thursday that the fed-eral government would be offering tax breaks for liquefied natural gas pro-duction infrastructure.

LNG producers will be granted capital cost allowances of 30 per cent on equipment and 10 per cent on buildings, reducing income tax to off-set construction costs. The standard rate for is eight per cent for equipment and six per cent for buildings

B.C. took a similar approach with its LNG income tax, offering credits on corporate income tax until initial plant investments are paid off.

Skeena-Bulkley Valley MP and Opposition finance critic Nathan Cul-len said he wants to take a closer look at the idea before supporting it.

“I don’t necessarily believe the costs the prime minister said, that seems very low... The other thing he said is these projects wouldn’t go ahead with-out this proposal. I don’t think that’s true, and if that is true boy this indus-try’s hanging by a thread already.

“In all my conversations with just about every company up here, that has never been their argument: that they need this in order to be viable. That’s just not true,” said Cullen, adding that Canada also recently signed a G20 agreement to not subsidize the oil and gas industry.

Stikine MLA Doug Donaldson said more jobs can be created by sup-porting clean energy, calling out Pre-mier Christy Clark’s promise to have an LNG plant running by 2015.

“If you’re going to believe in gov-ernment incentives and subsidies, then I think a broader picture has to take place,” said Donaldson.

By Chris Gareau and Tom FletcherSmithers/Interior News

The B.C. government expects budget surpluses for the next three years, and ended the de-duction of spousal child support from social assistance payments and provided modest benefits for low-income earners.

The “clawback” of child sup-port payments ending Sept. 1 is expected to leave $32 million more over the next three years in pockets of parents receiving child support along with income assis-tance and disability payments.

A two-year increase of 2.1 per cent tax on income over $150,000 a year ends, returning the rate to 14.7 per cent.

At the low end of the income scale, exemption from paying per-sonal income tax goes to the first $19,000 earned, up from $18,000.

An early childhood tax benefit begins Apr. 1, with up to $660 a year for each child up to the age of six for child care costs. This year B.C.’s training and educa-tion savings grant begins to be paid out for children who reach six years old. It is a one-time pay-ment of $1,200 to be placed in a registered education savings plan.

This fiscal year is expected to have a surplus of almost $900 million, due mainly to better than expected personal and corporate income tax revenues, strong retail sales and a one-time federal tax payment adjustment.

After an additional $3 billion to health care and $576 million

for education, mostly to teachers, over the next three years, the sur-plus for 2015-16 is projected to be $284 million.

“It’s a telling sign where this government’s priorities are,” said Stikine MLA Doug Donaldson.

He pointed out that $5 million is going to low income earners, compared to $230 million for the higher income tax reduction.

The MLA said some of the surplus should be reinvested in keeping rates low for Hydro, among others like ICBC and medical premiums seen going up. He added school districts took a $29 million shock.

“Responsible school districts are trying to reduce costs so they can put that money that they saved directly into the classroom, and now that’s been taken away.”


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Mining industry experts converge on Smithers to help the Rocks TalkBy Chris GareauSmithers/Interior News

Geologists and other mining stakeholders in ski pants were at Hudson Bay Mountain Friday to talk rocks.

Dubbed Ski Day and Core Shack, it was the last event of a three-day mining industry get-together in Smithers last week.

About 90 people from mining-related organizations from across B.C. attended the 26th annual Rock Talk put on by the volunteer Smithers Exploration Group (SEG).

Wednesday was an education day focusing on safety, followed by Thursday’s technical talks and a reception at the Smithers Curling Centre, and Friday’s mix of rocks and skis.

SEG president and UTM Exploration Services operations manager Rob Maurer said about half of the 90 attendees were from outside the region.

In 2014, there were 137 mining projects in B.C. that spent $338.4 million.

“Smithers definitely punches above its weight class,” said Maurer.

The province is divided into six mining regions, with the Northwest under the name Skeena. The northwest region accounted for 54 of those projects, with investment of $161 million.

“A wonderful thing about the exploration industry is you have to go out there and spend money looking around.

“So there are jobs created and economic opportunity going out and looking for something with complete understanding that you might get out there and find nothing.

“You might spend a couple million dollars and find something, it’s just not enough to really keep looking for it now.

“How many industries operate successfully by going out, spending a ton of money, hiring a bunch of people, and then leaving and cleaning up their little mess and going away?

“There’s going to be hundreds of those happening

for every time you get a mine. I think that’s great. I think a lot of people in the Northwest embrace that,” said Maurer.

Mining representatives also apparently embrace skiing, as evidenced by the number taking to the hill Friday.

That part of the event was sponsored by Bureau Veritas (BV) Minerals, formerly Acme Labs, which has had a Smithers branch since 2008.

“Each individual brings up their own rocks,” said BV Minerals lab supervisor Dan Graves.

“Any company that has rocks wants to show them off. That’s kind of their baby.”

Dolly Varden mapping consultant Chris Sebert was showing his “babies” off Friday during his first visit to Smithers. He had a collection of minerals from the Kitsault Valley that included what he called indicator rocks.

“This is what we find close to the mineralization, especially the veining. It’s called potassic alteration,” explained Sebert as he held a sample stained bright yellow.

“It’s an associated alteration with the mineralization. So when you go and you prospect and map, you look for this type of thing happening and you say ‘aha, I’m coming close to something’.”

Telkwa’s Hans Smit is one of those prospectors who embraces the search. He was on the mountain with a table of core samples he hauled in from a site about 30 kilometres southwest of Prince George.

Building on the work of long-time prospector Rupert Seel, Smit has been working on the project for about three years.

Smit insisted the potential for successful mining operations in the Prince George area was high, but the search for gold would be more difficult in some

ways.He explained that what had

been tested in the past is not necessarily what is actually in the ground due to the lack of exposed rock in the area.

“It’s quite inexpensive [in other areas] because you just walk and smack apart rocks. In that whole Prince George area there is very low rock outcrop. What you have there is glacial till,” said Smit.

“It’s got the right big scale geology to have big scale deposits. The challenge is to find them.”

Smit said it would take time, pointing out that the recently approved KSM gold and copper mine north of Stewart has been worked on since the 1970s.

“That’s the fun of it: you get a little bit of evidence and you do some more work,” said Smit.

Chris Sebert shows samples of indicator rocks.

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This lovely person is a serial hugger. She does it because she cares. I have seen people ask her for a special hug.

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Microbes are not usually at the top of most people’s clean-ing supply lists, but it is microbes that Dr. Sue Baldwin believes can help make the environments around mines pristine.

“Basically all the technolo-gies we’re looking at are in-volved with treatment of mine-influenced water. Those that are based on the biological process, they don’t always work properly; and it’s kind of a disaster when they don’t work properly.

“That’s why we’re really do-ing this, because it gives us access to information we weren’t really able to get at before,” said the University of British Columbia professor from the Department of Chemical and Biological En-gineering.

Baldwin was at North-west Community College last Wednesday to explain her work with Genome British Columbia. The non-profit research organi-zation works on research proj-ects in human health, forestry, fisheries and aquaculture, energy

and mining and agri-food.Genome BC’s major fund-

ing partners include the provin-cial and federal governments. It also receives funds from other public and private sources, in-cluding Imperial Metals, which has Genome BC testing ways at its mine sites to stop pollutants from spreading into the ecosys-tem using metal eating micro

organisms. Genome BC has also just started research on tailings ponds.

Genome BC sector develop-ment manager Aniko Takacs-Cox also attended last week’s mining event Rock Talk.

“[Genome BC] is moving more in that end, where we’re re-ally trying to solve problems for industry,” said Takacs-Cox.


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• Stage a costume switch. Let’s face it, dancing all night in a long gown takes some stamina. As the bride, have a more comfortable cocktail dress available to switch into for the latter part of the reception. It will also add some variety to your wedding photos.

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Braving the winter in search of summer wineThrough rain, fog, snow and ice, we drove in search of Syrah in the Okanagan Valley.The 1,000-kilometre journey was a good winter test of the all-wheel-drive 2015 Acura MDX elite edition. But it was also a quest to collect exam-ples of the fermented homegrown Syrah grape to be poured by Okana-gan winemakers at next week’s Vancouver Interna-tional Wine Festival.Drinking and driving don’t mix but for this Okanagan wine fan, the reward came at day’s end or when somebody else took the wheel at midday!The idea for the jaunt came when I learned Honda’s premium brand was a festival sponsor. My focus sharpened when Syrah was named the feature grape and it was revealed that 55 wineries from Australia would show off their version of the French grape – the big and often fruity Shiraz. Past tastings told me B.C. could hold its own in this duel. Indeed 16 of our best winemakers will uncork Syrah. The Driveway car pulled into eight of those vineyards but it was not an easy drive. Though the forecast snow did not materialize in the Fraser Valley, gusts did test surefootedness. The true winter test was found along the twisty Hope-Princ-eton highway. In the summer, it’s a fun roller coaster ride but hidden black ice and patches around every corner made it a steering wheel gripper.

The long straights in Manning Park tempt-ed me to open up the 3.5-litre SOHC, V6 and let all 290 horses roar. A sudden slip towards the ditch and a rear sway put paid to that notion and I was grateful for traction control. Rain swept us through the Similkameen Valley but cleared as we dropped down into Osoyoos. First stop would be Black Hills Estate Winery, on Black Sage Road, in Oliver. It has magnificent views of the Okanagan valley. Its

interpretation of Syrah is mouth-filling and much closer to its Rhone Valley origins than that Oz style. The same can be said of that served by TIME Estate Winery across the road, which opens to the public this summer.Minutes later, we had swept across the valley to the castle-like structure that is Road 13, where owners Mick and Pam Luckhurst entertained and sent us packing with a variety of blends. The overnight stop was neighbouring Tinhorn Cellars, where its generous co-owner and winemaker Sandra Oldfield extracted a delicious Syrah from her private cellar.The next day, a yellow orb appeared above while passing by the beautiful Vaseaux Lake and into Okanagan Falls. We spun onto Eastside Road and skirted Skaha Lake to Penticton. It’s a quiet, fast road and it enabled me to play with paddle shifters.

The view from Poplar Grove over Okana-gan Lake is spectacular as is the Syrah, which, like the best of the winery’s reds, benefits from the extra aging afforded by cellaring it for a couple of years longer than the norm. A three-kilometre side trip to Red Rooster netted a Reserve Syrah, which exuded yummy plum and cherry from its neck, once opened! One more stop before a relaxing evening spent staring over the lake while sipping on a suite balcony at the Summerland Waterfront Resort. The snowy and very icy single track to the new Sage Hills Vineyard in Summerland required careful navigation. The reward was a barrel tasting with winemaker Andrea Lee and vineyard manager Keenan Thrussell. The new vintage had yet to be bottled but a rosé version hit the spot later!Time to return to the coast via Sandhill Wines in Kelowna. Howard Soon, a B.C. born industry pioneer, makes Syrah from vineyards in the south of the valley and a special ‘small lots’ version from a

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Of the 27 BC wineries featured at the upcoming Vancouver International Wine Festival (February 20 until March 1), 16 Okanagan Valley vineyards will pour wine made from this year’s featured grape – Syrah. Our Search for Syrah in an Acura MDX took us to eight of those wineries.

▸ Black Hills Estate Winery: 4318 Black Sage Road, Oliver (blackhillswinery.com)▸ Road 13 Vineyards: 799 Ponderosa Road, Road 13, Oliver (road13vineyards.com)▸ Tinhorn Creek Vineyards: 537 Tinhorn Creek Road, Oliver (tinhorn.com)▸ TIME Estate Winery: 30861 Black Sage Road, Oliver (timewinery.com)▸ Sage Hills Vineyard: 18555 Matsu Drive, Summerland (sagehillswine.com)▸ Poplar Grove Winery: 425 Middle Bench Road North, Penticton (poplargrove.ca)▸ Red Rooster Winery: 891 Naramata Road, Penticton (redroosterwinery.com) ▸ Sandhill Wines: 1125 Richter St, Kelowna, (sandhillwines.ca)

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Bulkley Valley Museum curator Kira Westby (above) with a negative of a portrait of Sir Alfred Smithers donated by his family, and with Kerry Guenter (below) and the original portrait.

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By Alicia BridgesSmithers/Interior News

Sir Alfred Smithers never laid eyes on the town that now bears his name.

The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway board director was based in his homeland of Eng-land and, although he did visit Canada, he never made it to the company’s “division-al headquarters” of Smithers.

But last month, more than 100 years after Smithers adopted his name, a local man came face-to-face with the town’s namesake when he received a surprising parcel from Farnham, England.

The package was addressed to Kerry Guenter, a Bulkley Val-ley Museum volunteer who had been emailing Smithers’ descendants to try to locate a por-trait that could be dis-played prominently in the town.

He was inspired to look for an image of the Englishman be-cause there was no lo-cal tribute to him and the museum only had a blurred copy of a pho-tograph.

“When Smithers had its centennial last year I thought, since Smith-ers didn’t have a statue of Sir Alfred Smith-ers, that an idea might be to see if his family still had an oil paint-ing portrait of [him],” he said.

“That’s what gave me the idea of contact-

ing the descendants of Sir Alfred Smith-ers.”

After some proac-tive digging with the help of another lo-cal volunteer, Lorne Wasylishen, he struck gold with Smithers’ great-granddaughter Liz Webster.

She replied by email to say she had some old photo-graphs of Sir Alfred and promised to send scans of the images to Guenter.

But when the enve-lope arrived, Guenter was surprised by what he found inside.

“In January she emailed to say that the photographs were on their way,” Guent-er said.

“When I opened up the package, lo and behold she had sent the original por-trait.”

Guenter suspects the photograph, taken by the famous Montre-al photographers Not-man & Son, was taken circa 1914.

Also included in Webster’s parcel was a copy of a Smith-ers family photo and a negative of the por-trait.

She has donated all of the items to the Bulkley Valley Mu-seum.

Curator Kira West-by said the photo-graphs were a great ad-dition to the museum archives.

“It’s just a great treasure,” she said.

“We never would have imagined it ex-

isted until our faith-ful treasure hunter and history detective (Guenter) went and found it for us.”

The portrait will be exhibited at the muse-um and Smithers May-or Taylor Bachrach hopes to display a copy of it at the town office.

“I’m almost positive we can find a spot for it somewhere, it’s a really high quality photo,” Bachrach said.

“It’s the best photo of him that I’ve seen ... I think it would look good in our council chambers or some-where in our town hall.”

Last week was B.C.

Heritage Week, which had the theme of “Main Street: At the Heart of the Commu-nity” in 2015.

To celebrate, the museum held a free presentation by local historians Harry Kruis-selbrink, Joan Warmer-dam, Jackie Hoskins and Redge Colling-wood last Wednesday at the Old Church.

Kruisselbank dis-cussed the history of Main Street and Warmerdam spoke about the history of the library, while Hoskins and Collingwood talked about Tommy Walker and the Spatsizi area.

Every now and then, as the snow agonizingly slowly melts, I get the feeling that spring is coming. With that, I start to think of seeds, plant-ing, green growth. There is a new farmer survey at rumi-nationsongerminations.com developed by The National New Farmer Coalition and the University of Manitoba. You can go directly to the survey: www.surveymonkey.com/s/newfarmersurvey. The survey is to assess the needs of new farmers with the re-sults used to develop a policy platform to share with all lev-els of government. I am not a real farmer as I only grow enough plain food for a few meals. For me it is the sat-isfaction of planting a seed and like magic, something healthy grows that I can eat.

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Horseshoes, supposed to be lucky, comes from an idea that it was protection against witches and evil. The legend is that Mars (iron) is the en-emy of Saturn (God of the witches). Horseshoes need to be nailed to the house with two ends uppermost so that the luck does not run out.

Saturday, Feb. 28, 7:30 p.m. in the high school round room. Listen to the eight-voice a cappella group The Ringtones, lead by Gail Jenne with the Smithers Communi-ty String Orchestra, directed by Laura Hols-Wimbush. Warm your heart, admis-sion by donation. Questions: Laura 250-847-2677

Round Lake Coffee House, Mar. 7, open at 6 p.m. for an East Indian dinner by Quick Eats with music starting at 7:30 p.m. featuring Mark Fisher, a tribute to Guy Clark (various artists) and Jon Bj-organ and friends.

Brown Bag Lunch at the Healthy Living Centre, Thursday, Mar. 5 at noon. Jean Christian will talk about meditation, discussion and practice. No charge.

Saturday, Mar. 21, 7:30 p.m., Della Herman The-atre. Divas & Friends Vari-ety Show. This year’s theme “Songs from the Silver Screen.” Variety at its best with local performers of all ages, plus Tom Young and Mayor Taylor Bachrach back for another year of banter-ing MCs. Tickets: adults $15,

youth $10 at Mountain Eagle Books and Speedee Interior Stationery. This is a fund-raiser for the art gallery who send out a huge thanks to the event sponsors, Hy-Tech Drilling and All-West Glass.

Closing with: There is no medicine like hope, no incen-tive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

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The Coast Moun-tains School District board has buckled to community pressure and delayed indefi-nitely a plan to move elementary grade stu-dents to the Hazelton Secondary School.

Responding to backlash from par-ents and teachers, the school board last week voted to ab-solve the Hazelton/Kitwanga Grade Re-configuration Com-mittee mandated to “reconfigure” grades at schools in the area.

The committee of teachers and parents had been created by the school district to help implement a plan to move some elementary school students to the high school.

The decision to ab-solve the committee was made after it pre-sented its progress in a report at the Feb. 18 school board meet-ing.

In the report, chairperson Janet Meyer put forward a motion that the dis-trict office carry out more consultation before establishing a

middle school model but it was defeated.

Instead, the board adopted a new mo-tion put forward by Hazelton school board trustee Shar McCrory, who was also acting board chair at the meeting.

The new mandate absolves the recon-figuration commit-tee and makes no mention of changing grade configuration at Hazeltons schools.

“Coast Mountains School District 82 strives for improved graduation rates for all learners, including those in the Hazelton/Kitwanga region,” it reads.

“In an attempt to address the gradu-ation rates in the Hazelton/Kitwanga area, public commu-nity consultation will be explored for pos-sible interventions.”

McCrory said she put forward a new motion because she wanted the phrasing to be more specific.

“I wanted it to be very clear ... where we are going from here, that it was to commu-nity consultation and I didn’t feel that was quite reflected in the original motion,” she said.

McCrory said she could not comment on why there was a perceived lack of consultation in the first instance because she was not a trustee when the reconfigura-tion plan was made.

She said a recon-figuration would still take place but any changes would be in-formed by more com-munity consultation.

“The [gist] of it is that we’re striving to improve graduation rates and that the Ha-zelton/Kitwanga area needs to look at pub-lic community con-sultation in order to improve those gradu-ates rates,” she said.

“The community has spoken and what I’ve heard from com-munity groups, mem-bers and various organizations and in-dividuals is that they were not consulted for this reconfigura-tion scenario that was put forward by the board.

“I think there was just different per-ception. The board thought that they were consulted and the communities didn’t feel that they were.”

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Melba Shanoss didn’t let the cold get in the way of a pony ride at the Winter Fun Day at Kispiox on Feb. 6.

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Making memories at KispioxBy Alicia BridgesHazeltons/Interior News

Pony rides, a chilli cook-off and a lip-syn-ching competition were among the activities at an event aimed at connecting Kispiox families earlier this month.

More than 90 people braved sub-zero tem-peratures to take part in the festivities on Feb. 6.

Arranged by the Gitxsan Health Society, the event also included cupcake decorating ac-tivities and a scavenger hunt.

Sik-e-dakh Health Centre worker Stephanie Morrison, who helped organize the event, said the Double D-Lux Trail Ride and Petting Zoo

was a hit with the children. “Some of them didn’t even care that it was

cold out, they just wanted to sit there and en-joy and love the animals,” she said.

Ramona Blackwater won the chilli cook-off, while Alex Harris impressed the judges of the lip-synching competition with his rendition of Shoop by Salt-N-Pepa.

Morrison said the activities were aimed at bringing people together.

“It was more of a family event to reconnect families and have an event where they can have something memorable,” she said.

“I see it as always being something that brings families together and they can say ‘hey, I remember you’ and develop strong relation-ships.”


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BV Museum AGM Wednesday, Feb. 25, 7 p.m. at The Old Church. Only active memberships vote. Memberships available at the BV Museum, or at the event.Movie Bella Friday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m., at the Seniors Activity Hall by Pioneer Place. A powerful and inspiring story. Donations to the Smithers Prolife Society. Ages 13+.Free Computer Tutoring at Smithers Public Library. Lost on the Information Highway? Book a free one-on-one apt ongoing to March 2015: Wednesdays to Fridays 1-5 p.m., Saturdays 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. 250-847-3043.Smithers Film Series Two Days, One Night Sunday, March 1, 7:30 p.m. at the Roi Theatre. A timely message of honesty and clear-eyed compassion. Tim Neufeld & The Glory Boys Concert Wednesday, March 4, 7-9 p.m. at Della Herman Theatre. Joyride Tour, Bluegrass-infused modern worship music.Brown Bag Lunch Health Talk Thursday, March 5,

noon, at Smithers Healthy Living Centre features Jean Christian talking about Meditation, discussion and practice. 250-877-4424.Northern Saddle Club Bingo, 7 p.m. at The Old Church. Thursdays, March 5 & 19, April 2. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Prizes up to $1,400.Round Lake Coffee House Saturday, March 7, doors open at 6 p.m. Featuring Mark Fisher, a tribute to Guy Clark with various artists. East Indian dinner by Quick Eats.CLICK—Student Art in Focus Until March 8 view and bid at these locations: Boston Pizza, Interior Stationery, Off My Griddle, The Aspen, Chatters, Blue Fin Sushi Bar, Smithers Town Hall, Steakhouse on Main, Smithers Public Library. Gala and Final Bidding Monday, March 9, 7-9 p.m.Sherry Nielsen & Dawn Remington, and David Mio Feb. 3 to March 14 at Smithers Art Gallery. The show features northern landscapes and “expressiveness.” 250-847-3898.

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Storytellers’ Foundation executive director Anne Docherty, who won the Premier’s Award for her literacy work in the Hazeltons last year, has dedicated her career to helping the community thrive.

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Literacy is the key to Docherty’s storyBy Alicia BridgesHazeltons/Interior News

In 1981, Anne Docherty arrived in the Hazeltons from Northern Ireland, fresh out of university and eager to travel the world.

More than 30 years later, she not only remains in the com-munity, but she has dedicated her career to helping its people thrive amid the chal-lenges presented by poverty and the resid-ual impacts of coloni-zation.

Late last year Do-cherty, who is the ex-ecutive director of the Storytellers’ Founda-tion, received a Pre-mier’s Award for her work promoting liter-acy in the Hazeltons.

Although she is quick to point out the foundation’s work is a team effort, she talks passionately about the foundation’s unique approach to promot-ing learning.

Storytellers’ inter-prets literacy less as reading and writing than helping people to fulfill their potential.

Its workshops and programs tackle lit-eracy from a broader perspective.

“Sometimes read-ing and writing might not be the most im-portant (thing),” she said.

“Especially here, working on Gitxsan

territories with Gitx-san people, to know how to harvest and hunt and do tradition-al acts of reciproc-ity requires more rela-tionship building and a cultural knowledge of an oral culture.”

For members of the Gitxsan First Na-tion, for whom the Hazeltons area is their traditional territory, Docherty said literacy was closely tied to cul-ture.

Until the relatively recent introduction of a cash-based economy to the Upper Skeena, she said there was a “sustenance econo-my” of skills and arti-sanship.

Docherty said giv-ing people the skills to build a sustenance economy was one of the foundation’s main goals.

“Sustenance econ-omy is people living with the land,” she said.

“A sustenance economy in Hazelton, until probably 150 years ago, didn’t in-volve cash at all.

“The whole econo-my really wasn’t here.”

Storytellers focuses on community devel-opment and citizen-ship.

One of its pro-grams help youth vol-unteer in a way that earns them credit at school or recognition from community lead-ers.

Another, the week-

ly community kitch-en, aims to empower people to become en-gaged citizens.

“It’s those non-cash economy skills of artisanship and craftsmanship and food and the unpaid work,” said Docherty.

“That’s what keeps people alive here.”

The flow-on effects from helping people to thrive in this way, she said, were both lo-cal and global.

She said the finan-cial impact on social services such as health care, education and social supports would be reduced when peo-ple were able to thrive in their communities.

The $300 Docherty won from the award will be set aside to help people overcome “real life” issues that could be a barrier to accessing literacy pro-grams.

The money will cover problems like replacing a person’s winter coat, contrib-uting to their dental care or putting food on their table.

Docherty said it would help replace funding it used to re-ceive from a small government grant that is no longer available.

She said govern-ment support was more difficult to come by now than ever be-fore.

“It’s a very politi-cal statement but I do think that ... we’ve

never lived in a time when our provincial and federal govern-ments seem to be so intent on destroying the world-view of how to be economically sound here, in the Ha-zeltons,” she said.

“They seem to be unfriendly to us and not willing to enter-tain a different way of economic well-being.”

However, she said the resilience of the Hazeltons communi-ties was mind-blow-ing.

“The depth of re-lationships and the capacity for people to have hope and take care of each other, even though we see statistics in the out-side world saying that

we’re the poorest com-munity in B.C., the vi-olence, the suicide.

“There’s no doubt our youth are hurt-ing and yet there’s no doubt the caring and the love and passion that people have for this place, that’s not changed.”


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By Alicia BridgesHazeltons/Interior News

Projects combat-ing violence against aboriginal women in the Hazeltons have received a $15,000 funding boost from the provincial govern-ment’s Giving Voice Initiative.

The Storytellers’ Foundation was one of 37 community-based organizations to receive a share in about $350,000 in grants from the ini-tiative, which aims to stop violence by changing behaviours and attitudes and mo-bilizing communities.

In the Hazeltons, the funding will go towards the deliv-ery of activities un-der the foundation’s

K’yuuskxw: Waking Up to Change proj-ect.

Projects which will benefit from the grant include co-ordinating monthly inter-agency meetings and events, designing and deliv-ering cultural com-petency training for front-line provid-ers, and supporting a men’s campaign to end violence.

The Founda-tion will also use the funding to help ad-vise a holistic pro-gram that supports youth and families recovering from vio-lence and trauma, and implementing an Intra-Agency Case Assessment Team to facilitate sharing of information.

Although the funding is distributed

via Storytellers’, the projects will be deliv-ered by the Violence and Relations Com-mittee of social work-ers from relevant lo-cal agencies.

Storytellers’ ex-ecutive director Anne Docherty said the grant would help the committee achieve its goals of ending vio-lence and promoting family well-being.

“It’s pretty exciting to actually have a bit of money that can be specifically put to re-ally seeing the work of a grassroots com-mittee come out into the community and I think it really will make a difference in education around vi-olence,” she said.

“That’s the reality of community devel-opment organiza-

tions, that’s a good chunk, we’ll do a lot with that bit of mon-ey.”

Giving Voice is an initiative of the Minister’s Advisory Council for Aborigi-nal Women (MA-CAW).

MACAW mem-ber Paulette Fla-mond said the coun-cil breaks the silence around violence and abuse by supporting innovative, cultural-ly-based programs.

“Nothing changes when it is not talked about,” Flamond said.

“Silence and lack of outrage enables violence and abuse against aboriginal women and girls to continue as if it were normal.

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By Alicia BridgesKispiox/Interior News

The First Nations Health Authority has assured Kispiox village residents that white, milky water coming from the town’s drinking wa-ter supply earlier this month was safe to drink.

Kispiox residents turned to social me-dia to voice their con-cerns about opaque water coming from their household taps this month.

Comments on a community Face-book page described the water as being “creamy white with suds on top and fizz-ing” and looking like milk.

Although no pub-lic health warning was issued, some concerned residents had been boiling their tap water or buying bottled water.

Kispiox resident Bill Blackwater Jr. was among those who chose not to consume the water.

“For a whole month there the wa-ter was milky white,”

he said. “The crud in there

was sticking to the dishes when you rinsed your dishes, you could see it stick-ing to your dishes, some sort of film.”

He said the com-munity did not re-ceive any advice from the health author-ity or the Kispiox

Band Council about whether the water was safe.

Blackwater said he would continue to buy bottled water until he received ad-vice that the water was safe.

Water quality monitoring at Kispi-ox village is carried out by the Kispiox Band Council with guidance and sup-port from the First Nations Health Au-thority (FNHA) and Aboriginal Affairs

and Northern De-velopment Canada (AANDC).

FNHA spokes-person Trevor Kehoe said the authority had determined there was no public health risk from the village drinking water after it was contacted by the band council for information.

“A review of the water qual-ity data that FNHA has for this system indicate(s) that the results comply with the Canadian Drink-ing Water Guidelines and therefore the wa-ter quality does not pose a public health threat,” Kehoe said.

“The bacterio-logical results do not indicate pathogen contamination and therefore no boil wa-ter advisory was is-sued.”

Kehoe said the drinking water was routinely tested to ensure that there was no contamination.

FNHA said on Friday it had been in-formed the problems, which were attrib-uted to a leaky water main, appeared to be resolved.

But Virginia Fowler said the wa-ter coming from her tap was still white.

Her husband, who has Lupus, had been boiling their water to ensure it was safe.

“We’re not sure how good it is, I don’t know, we haven’t heard,” she said.

“My husband has an illness that, he has to be in good health ... he can’t be in di-rect contact with anything that’s not healthy.”

AANDC has pro-tocols and standards for drinking water management but there are no regula-tions in place to en-force them on First Nations lands.

Kispiox Band Council did not re-turn this newspaper’s calls.

“The water quality does not pose a public health threat,”

-Trevor KehoeFirst Nations Health Authority


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Resources a draw at careers fairBy Alicia BridgesHazeltons/Interior News

The resources industry is expected to have a strong presence at a careers fair in the Hazeltons on Friday.

Organized by the Gitan-maax Band, the third annual event is expected to attract about 400 people to the Gi-tanmaax Hall during the opening hours of 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

The fair will be arranged into groups of potential em-ployers, educational insti-tutes and funding sources to help pay for tuition or train-

ing. Gitanmaax Band director

of corporate affairs Monica Simms said the event has at-tracted groups from neigh-bouring communities as far as Burns Lake.

She said it was an oppor-tunity for people to access in-formation and opportunities that were not readily avail-able in the community.

“A lot of our students don’t have transportation,” she said.

“They can’t go to Prince George and visit College of New Caledonia or the Uni-versity of Northern B.C.

“[At the fair] they get an

opportunity to get all of that information in one place, a one-stop-shop type of deal.”

TransCanada, Seabridge Gold and Smithers Explora-tion Group will be among the groups with booths at the fair.

Simms said the resources industry would be well-repre-sented at the event.

“Right now that is one of the larger employers that is looking for skilled labour so there is a fairly big focus [on that].”

After the fair there will be a performance by Edmonton dance group Much Video Dance.

Board decision welcomed McCrory said

the board was still working towards a solution to low graduation numbers in the Hazeltons but it would not neces-sarily involve chang-es to grades.

“I can say that there will be some sort of transition,” she said.

“When that hap-pens I don’t know what that looks like I don’t know be-cause we have to consult with com-munities.

“Will it be the Grade 7s moving to the high school? I

don’t know. Will it be a middle school concept? I don’t know.”

Andrea Vickers represented the Ma-jagaleehl Gali Aks Elementary School Parent Advisory Council on the dis-banded committee.

Her daughter would also have been among the first cohort of Grade 7s to attend HSS.

She was among those who aired frustrations over a lack of consultation from the district so she was pleased with last week’s decision.

Vickers said Mc-Crory’s motion im-

proved on what the committee had rec-ommended.

“This way it al-lows everyone to get together and discuss what the real issue is ... I’m not saying that a middle school and a high school is absolutely wrong, I’m saying it’s great that we can all get together and discuss the possibilities, what is the problem and brainstorm oth-er ideas of possible solutions,” she said.

“I’m happy and I’m thankful that the board listened to our community and our committee.”

Terrace District

Teachers’ Union president Cathy Lambright said the board’s decision was the best possible outcome.

“I think what they are going to do is go back and look at what strategies are going to ensure the students in the Hazeltons achieve better success and better graduation rates,” she said.

“I think that I heard quite clearly from most of the trustees at the table that they are will-ing to listen to the communities and I think that’s wonder-ful too.”

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HUGE TURNOUT TO FAMILY DANCE A huge crowd of more than 180 people turned out to see Joel West & Company (pic-tured) and other bands perform at the Family Dance, organized by the Gitxsan Health Society, in the Hazeltons last weekend.

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Feb. 13 — At 11:30 p.m., RCMP received several calls concerning a distressed male on Highway 62 near the Royal Bank between New Hazelton and Hazelton.

The male had al-legedly been block-ing traffic and may have struck several passing vehicles.

He was arrested without incident by police.

If any motorists witnessed this inci-dent and received damage to their vehicle as a result, please make a report to the New Hazelton RCMP.

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Feb. 15 — At 2:03 a.m., RCMP responded to a two- vehicle collision at Barcalow Road on Highway 37 in Kit-wanga.

A blue Ford F150 had been travelling northbound and was attempting to ne-gotiate a turn from Highway 37 onto Barcalow Rd.

A second vehicle, a grey Honda Pilot, was also travelling northbound and failed to stop in time resulting in a rear-end collision.

Nobody was in-jured however both vehicles sustained substantial damages. The crash is still un-der investigation.

Feb. 18 — At 10:30 a.m., police responded to a two-vehicle collision on Highway 16 approx-imately 500 metres west of New Hazel-ton.

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Four local dancers are getting a once-in-a-lifetime opportuni-ty to perform along-side some of the best professional dancers in the country.

Olivia Nixon, Han-nah Kluss, Alyssa Margerm and Katie Larson were selected to perform in Can-ada’s Ballet Jörgen performance of Cin-derella in Smithers on March 1.

“I’m excited and nervous. It’s a great opportunity,” said Alyssa, 17.

“It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,” added Nixon, 13.

Ballet Jörgen’s ver-sion of Cinderella is a different take on the classic fairy tale and begins when Cinder-

ella encounters an old lady, a magic seed and enchanting fairies.

With each perfor-mance in the com-pany’s all-province tour, two to four local student dancers are asked to participate.

Amanda Dorscht, owner of Creative Roots, chose the four girls because of their dedication to dance.

“[I chose them] based on their in-class focus, dedica-tion and attendance,” said Dorscht.

“Just based on their ballet experience and some of them are graduating so I wanted them to have a really neat opportu-nity here at Creative Roots.

“I’m so excited for them, they’re going to do awesome.”

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Alyssa believes the performance will give her more experience dancing on a larger-stage since she hopes to continue her pas-sion in university.

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Praised bluegrass coming to SmithersBy Chris GareauSmithers/Interior News

Juno Award-winning band Tim Neufeld and The Glory Boys is bringing their brand of pop-infused bluegrass gospel to Smithers Mar. 4 as part its na-tional Joy-Ride Tour.

It is the first visit to Smithers for Neufeld, who made a name for himself playing big city arenas with his other Winnipeg-based band Starfield.

“This new band is really more

about getting to the smaller plac-es, with that comes the goal of playing everywhere in Canada to sustain a show. We’ve been doing that for the last two years,” said Neufeld, who described the gen-esis of the new band as an experi-ment.

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It was a clean sweep for the Smithers Sec-ondary boys’ curling team after they went undefeated to win the provincial champion-ships for the first time in two decades in Cres-ton over the weekend.

It was an impressive weekend for the team, which included skip Glyn Doyle, Adam Hartnett at third, sec-ond Sean Turney, lead Matthew Steventon and Evan Doyle as fifth.

They were the only team to go 7-0 at the Creston Curling Cen-tre during the tourna-ment.

“It was a team performance, that’s what the biggest part was,” said head coach

Laurence Turney. “They just knew they had to play as well as they could and when one person faltered a bit, the rest of the team picked it up and continued on.”

For seniors Doyle and Hartnett, who made their fifth and final appearance at provincials this year, the win was years in the making.

“For me, it’s been five years that we’ve been trying to win this so it’s very excit-ing for us,” said Doyle. “My team played amazing.”

Hartnett echoed Doyle’s excitement.

“It’s kind of a surreal feeling,” he said. “It’s our last year in high school, so it’s a nice feeling to win. It still hasn’t really kicked in yet that we

won.”Nerves ran high at

the start of the tour-nament on Saturday, as the Gryphons took

on Centennial Sec-ondary School from the Lower Mainland in the first draw.

Centenntial was up

3-1 at the beginning of the fifth end, but Smithers responded with a triple to take the advantage.

“We changed strat-egies halfway through the first game,” said Doyle. “We came in getting the rocks in the rings and then putting up guards. We switched to putting up guards and then putting rocks in the rings.”

That change in strategy helped them pull off the win 7-4.

“We knew [Centen-nial] was going to be tough. That was the one they were the most worried about,” said Turney. “Once they got into a rhythm, it was smooth sailing. We had a few hiccups, but it didn’t seem to bother us much.”

And smooth sailing it was.

The team went on to defeat Kwali-kum Secondary 6-3, Lord Tweedsmuir 9-2,

Kelowna Secondary 8-1, David Thompson 10-2, Grand Forks Secondary 9-7 and Fraser Lake Second-ary 13-4.

“Our front end was pretty much better than any other team there,” said Hartnett.

The team has been to provincials for five consecutive years (they finished third last year), but had not won since 1995.

According to Turney, the team was more mentally and physically prepared this year.

“We didn’t think we were overconfi-dent. We didn’t even talk about winning until the seventh game when we were saying ‘I think we can do it now’,” said Turney.

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Royals capture zone banner for fourth year in a rowBy Kendra WongSmithers/Interior News

The Bulkley Valley Christian School’s senior boys’ basketball team defeated GM Dawson 76-45 to capture the zone A banner for the fourth year in a row over the weekend.

“We played well tonight for sure. We kind of had a strategy in mind and the boys bought in,” said head coach Chris Steenhof.

The Royals entered the zone championships ranked first and met the Houston Christian School in the first game.

After defeating Houston, the

Royals moved on to a more chal-lenging opponent, GM Dawson Secondary school from Haida Gwaii.

It was a high-energy match up between the two teams.

The Royals set the tone early with several fast-break layups from Aaron Steenhof and a three-pointer from shooting guard Ca-leb Groot that got the crowd roar-ing.

“We knew they had a couple real strong weapons and we just had a team defensive strategy that shut those two guys down,” said Steenhof.

The Royals got the rebounds and continued aggressively on of-

fence to finish the first half with a commanding 38-22 lead.

In the last two quarters, the Thunder tried to claw their way back with several players netting three-pointers.

But their defence was still un-able to shut down the Royals, who closed out the game strong.

They defeated the Thunder 76-45.

Aaron Steenhof led the team in scoring with 46 points.

“We kept it together. Our key to the game was just pushing the ball and fast-break it,” said the tournament MVP. The Royals defeated GM Dawson from Haida Gwaii 76-45

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Special O athletes compete By Kendra WongSmithers/Interior News

Two local Special Olympic athletes performed well dur-ing the 2015 Special Olym-pics B.C. Winter Games in Sun Peaks last weekend.

Luke Smith and Torben Schuffert travelled to Kam-loops to race in three timed alpine skiing events: super giant slalom, giant slalom and slalom.

“The races went great, the boys did really well, but they did not get any medals,” said head coach Eric Person.

“The boys had a lot of fun. I watched them ski all year and they skied as good

or better than they have been. It’s excellent.”

Smith said he was not nervous to compete on a larger stage, and enjoyed the Super G race the most.

“No, I wasn’t nervous . . . It went well. I was happy with how well I did,” said Smith.

“It was fast, there’s less turning, and less gates.”

Despite the fact that the races were much longer than the courses they had been training on, Schuffert said he did a good job with the turns.

“I had fun, but the races were long,” he said.

This year was the largest group of alpine skiers the Games have ever seen with 59 competitiors from eight

regions. Though neither athlete

found the podium, they were happy with their perfor-mance and the experience in-teracting with athletes from all over the province.

During the opening ceremonies, some 700 ath-letes were paraded into the Tournament Capital Centre.

“I was really happy about that and I liked it very much,” said Torben.

His mother Sandra also travelled with them to the Games.

“As a parent of a spe-cial needs child, you’re always told what they cannot do, and you see how hard they have to work to achieve

something and to finally have a moment where it’s all about them, it’s just so rare,” she said.

“There were quite a few parents sitting there and you could see it was quite emo-tional for them to see their children walking in there like important people.”

The athletes also received a warm welcome home at the Smithers Airport on Sun-day night, as people from the community came out to celebrate their success.

“A lot of people came to the airport when I came home last night,” said Torben. “I was really happy when I saw those people outside.”

Moricetown hockey team fundraising

By Kendra WongMoricetown/Interior News

A hockey team in Moricetown is ramping up fundraising efforts to send players to the annual all-native hockey championships in Prince George.

The Moricetown Junior Bears have set up an online Facebook auction to help raise roughly $850, which will help pay for entry fees for the Aboriginal Youth Hockey Championships in Prince George in April.

Tamara Williams, the team manager, said she got the idea for the online auction from her sister.

“My sister did an online auction last year for her son’s team and I noticed how well it did for fundraising, so I decided to try it this year and it’s working out really well,” she said.

Since the group was set up on Feb. 13, it has 388 new members where people can bid on anything from clothing and gift certificates, to cameras and oil changes.

For the past five years, the players, who play separately with Smithers Minor Hockey, have teamed up to play at the all-native hockey championships.

“They look forward to this tournament every year. They have a lot of fun there,” said Williams.

“It’s lots of work to get them there, but once they get there, they have a blast.”

Last year the team placed third against roughly eight other teams in the atom division.

“I’m pretty overwhelmed with the amount of support that we’ve been getting,” said Williams. “It’s really good to see.”

The Facebook auction called Moricetown Jr. Bears Online Auction closes on Mar. 2 at 4 p.m.

For more information or to donate, email Williams at [email protected].

SWEEPING UP

Lance Sterling (left) and Tanner Olson pound the brushes during the men’s bonspiel at the Smithers Curling Arena on Saturday. More than 50 people participated in this year’s men and women’s bonspiel.

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In January of 2007 friends called to see if the girls would be interested in a little Speckle Park orphan heifer “Freckles” to bottle feed for a 4H project. This was the beginning of their admiration for this Saskatchewan developed truly Canadian breed of cattle. Since there were not many in BC, this meant many trips to Al-berta and Saskatchewan to purchase the initial breeding stock to start their herd. Known for their easy calving, quiet nature and grass finishing ability, they were an ideal breed for the family operation.

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Boarders � nd podium in provincial competitionBy Kendra WongSmithers/Interior News

Snowboarders with the Smithers Ski and Snowboard Club returned with a handful of medals after a strong performance at a provincial competi-tion at Big White.

Eight members competed in the Like Me Snowboard Series competi-tion in Kelowna from Feb. 14-15.

“Every one of those kids did 100 per cent of what they were capable of,” said Warren Pali, head snowboard coach.

“I was extremely proud of every single one of them. It was our first big road trip for the snowboard side of the club, so it was amazing to see the effort they put out.”

Local snowboarders swept the po-

dium in the U10 boys category, with Tosh and Toan Krauskopf finish-ing first and second, while Luke Pali placed third.

Pali said the trio remained focused on memorizing the course and getting a feel for the terrain.

“They spent a bunch of time on Friday going over their rides for the courses and knowing exactly what banks were coming at them; they were very focused for their age,” he said.

Jack Moran and Jasper Rysavy were also semi-finalists in the U10 boys and Cole Pali was a semi-finalist in the U13/14 category. Jason Belisle took home silver in the 19+ men’s category.

According to Pali, it was the girls’ races that surprised him the most, with Megan Fraser finishing second on Saturday’s race and Brianna Belisle

capturing bronze during Sunday’s race in the U13 category.

“It’s [Brianna’s] first year in the club, I thought it was going to be a learning experience for her, a great first step to be on a new mountain,” said Pali. “She went there and per-formed beyond everybody’s expecta-tions and managed to pull a medal out of the weekend, which is pretty unheard of for someone’s first year in the club.”

Belisle admitted she was nervous before the race.

“It was my first race, I was really nervous at first, but there wasn’t really much to be worried about,” said the 11-year-old.

“When I first got there I thought I was going to crash a lot of times, but I did way better than I thought.”

Members of the Smithers Ski and Snowboard Club at Big White earlier this month.

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“I got to the basket a lot and found my teammates for some good shots and they hit them,” said Steen-hof.

“I figured out where the defenders were and where my teammates were on the floor and kept pushing the ball.”

Caleb Groot said they did not allow the Thunder to get under their skin.

“I think we played a really solid game all around. We didn’t let them get under our skin and every time they got a basket, we went right back at it,” he said.

“We never stopped pushing.”

After an impressive win, the team will set their sights on pro-vincials in Langley in

May. Coach Steenhof

said they will try and get in a few more

games and work on getting a decent rank-ing.

“A lot of teams

haven’t seen our team, so they don’t know what we’re like,” he said.

“Our hope is to win our first game down there to get to the win-ning side of the tour-nament.”

This is their fourth appearance at provin-cials in as many years. Last year, they finished 12th.

“There’s some very good teams,” said Steenhof. “Winning probably isn’t our goal, but a top 10 fin-ish would be phenom-enal for us.”

Groot added they hope to tighten up on defence.

“I think defensive intensity is something that we have to work on a lot, but I think we’re right in there with the other teams at provincials,” he said.

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Aaron Steenhof goes for a layup during Saturday’s championship game.

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Smithers Secondary’s senior girls’ basketball team finished third in their AA zone competi-tion after defeating Kitimat in a nail-biting game last weekend.

The Gryphons started off the tournament against a strong team from Caledonia Senior Secondary on Friday night.

The team battled through it, but were no match for Cale-donia’s strong offence. They dropped the game 75-21.

“We were a little nervous playing Caledonia because they have such a good program there and they have a lot of good play-ers,” said Kristen Johnson, who plays post. “We pulled through it and had a couple really good shifts.”

On Saturday, in the push to place third in zones, the Gry-phons tipped off against Mount Elizabeth Secondary School.

It was a tight game all the way through as the Gryphons finished the first half up by a

mere four points at 25-21 with the help of several three-point-ers from point guard Margher-ita Rossi and fast-break layups from junior Chantal Gammie.

In the third, the Eagles start-ed to slowly close the gap, even-tually bringing it within four again.

But the Gryphons remained tight on defence and held on to the lead to finish the game 58-42.

“They were a lot less ner-vous,” said coach Chris van der Mark.

“They were in it all the way along, they worked harder and finished better.”

Rossi said they played with more confidence in the second game.

“We played as a team today,” she said.

It was a tough season for the girls without a regular coach, but the girls believe their play has improved.

“It was a great improvement from the beginning of the sea-son,” said Johnson.

“That game was totally how we wanted to end it.”

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Say ‘No’ to Bullyingbigger or stronger than the people they pick on. Ask the bully to repeat what he or she has just said – again, this will surprise them and they might feel silly repeating the remark.

Try to avoid being alone in the places where you know the bully is likely to pick on you. bully wants you to react and, if you don’t, he/she may get fed up and leave you alone. Look the bully in the eye and say, “No, this isn’t funny”, and then move away. Practise saying this in the mirror so that you can look confident when you say it. Don’t try to fight back – most bullies are bigger or stronger than the people they pick on. Ask the bully to repeat what he or she has just said – again, this will surprise them and they might feel silly repeating the remark. Try to avoid being alone in the places where you know the bully is likely to pick on you.

REMEMBER – Everyone has the right to be treated with respect and kindness and to feel safe. This, of course, includes YOU.

Help protect children by using the following 10 important tips:

Be an advocate. Kids need to know that adults can and will provide positive, active and predict-able support. And they should never, under any circumstance, bully someone. Make consequenc-es clear.

Talk about it. Ask kids what they’re doing online and encourage them to report bullying to you or

another trusted adult. Promise to take action and explain what you will do. Reassure them that computer, phone or other privileges won’t be curtailed.

Keep the family computer in a central loca-tion. If kids play video games, keep Internetcon-nected game consoles in a family room. How-ever, teenagers have so many ways to access the Internet that putting the computer in a central spot isn’t always effective. With older kids, it’s especially important to have frank discussions.

Look for signs of online bullying. For example, take note if kids get upset when they’re online or they show a reluctance to go to school.

Encourage your children to make friends. Urge friends to look out for one another. Cyber-bullies are less likely to target those they perceive as being well-supported. If a victim has friends who rally around him or her, the bullying usually stops.

Don’t respond. Tell kids not to respond to the cyberbully or retaliate; bullies are looking for a reaction. Tell kids not to answer phone calls or re-ply to (or even read) text messages or comments.

Act immediately. Don’t wait to see if the abuse will stop. A child needs to know that you can and will help. If you feel a child is in physical danger, contact local authorities.

Accountability. Every effort should be made to

find cyberbullies and hold them accountable. If the bully is a fellow student, consider reporting the incident to the school. Report incidents to the online service — social networking site, IM ser-vice or cellphone provider — where the bullying is happening. Many have moderators and places to report abuse (e.g., [email protected]).

Block the bully. Most Web services offer the ability to block anyone whose behavior is inap-propriate or threatening in any way. Check with the service to find out how. You can also turn on the safety features available in most Microsoft programs and services, such as those in Windows 7, Windows Vista, Xbox LIVE and the Zune digi-tal media player.

Save the evidence. Save text messages, emails and other evidence of cyberbullying in case theauthorities need it. There are laws against cyber-bullying.

For more information, visit www.microsoft.com/news or www.microsoft.com/security

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Curlers end near-perfect season

“Every game was we’re going to work hard and play as best [we] can and that’s what they did.”

For the seniors on the team, the win was a fairy tale end to a near-perfect season, and for the juniors, it was a learning experience.

“It’ll be interesting to see what it’s like with two newer players next year on the team, but it will help us a lot to know what it’s like to be in these larger tournaments and to be able to focus on seven or eight consecutive games,” said Steventon.

Turney noted that even

teams from down south were impressed with their performance.

“The fact that we went seven straight was pretty impressive to some of the coaches,” he said. “We had a lot of comments from coaches saying we definitely had a good skill set and were definitely prepared.”

Evan Doyle, Matthew Steventon, Sean Turney, Adam Hartnett, Glyn Doyle and head coach Laurence Turney at provincials in Creston.

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The suspension bridge ensures the smallest possible marine footprint.

Protecting Flora Bank and our marine environment

Listening to your feedback hashelpedustodesignaone-of-a-kindmarineinfrastructuretoprotectfishandfishhabitatintheSkeenaEstuary.

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