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F o u r t e e n firefighters rushed on duty at 5:15 a.m. last Friday morning, where they spent the morning fighting a blazing house fire. Houston Fire Chief Jim Daigneault says a young male was sleeping in the house at the time the fire started, woke up to the smell of smoke, and ran to the neighbours to call 911. Daigneault says the house fire was well on it’s way when firefighters arrived. “There was heavy, heavy smoke coming out the front, and then flames coming out the back window,” said Daigneault. F o u r t e e n firefighters used two engines as they fought the flames, and Daigneault says they soaked the home for close to four hours, arriving back at the station at 10 a.m. “The home owners, Vince and Shannon
Clarke, were renting the house out to Kelby Trottier, who was out of town with her baby at the time of the fire,” said Daigneault. Daigneault says the home owners did have insurance on the house and property, located on 13th Street West in Houston, but he did not know yet whether the renters had insurance or not. Asked where the fire started, Daigneault said he’d rather not say. “It’s really speculating at this point, I think it was at the back somewhere,” he said, adding that the cause of the fire is still under investigation. Daigneault says they had no problems with water supply this time around. For more photos of the house remains see page 14.
Fourteen fire fighters fought a house fire early last Friday morning. No one was injured in the fire but there was nothing but charred remains left when the fire department pulled out four and a half hours later. Photos submitted by Houston Fire Department
Logging truck cab stolen from Industrial Park By Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
A logging truck cab was stolen from the Houston Industrial Park last Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning, said RCMP Sgt. Rose. Sgt. Rose says the truck was disconnected from the trail-
er during the night and then stolen, and Houston RCMP got a call about the theft at 7 a.m. Wednesday. At 2:30 a.m. that same night, Feb. 13, a commercial truck was reported to the Prince George RCMP because it was driving dangerously and weaving in and out of traf-
fic, said Prince George media liaison officer Cpl. Craig Douglas. Cpl. Douglas says the truck was going at such a high rate of speed that they didn’t want to risk public safety by chasing it. “A truck can be replaced, a human life can’t be,” said Cpl. Douglas.
“Public safety is the foremost. Getting a stolen vehicle is not as important to us as protecting the public,” he said, adding that at the time the truck was spotted, they were unaware of the stolen truck from Houston. Cpl. Douglas says it was dark and the truck went past RCMP so
quickly that they were unable to get a license plate number, so they are not sure whether it was the stolen truck from Houston. The truck is a 2006 Grey Kenworth with “NEA Trucking” on the door and a grill guard on the front, said Sgt. Rose. He says the truck
was last seen between Quesnel and Williams Lake around 5 a.m. and the case is still under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call Houston RCMP at 250-845-2204 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. *** A pickup truck was
stopped by RCMP on Feb. 12 at 12:30 p.m. after being called in by an off-duty Burns Lake RCMP officer for erratic driving, speeding and passing on a double solid line near Palling B.C. between Topley and Burns Lake, Sgt. Rose said. See POLICE on Page 2
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Local GEMS club girls Cora, Maryn, Sydney and Lia make a snowman together at the recent GEMS club retreat at Rough Acres Bible Camp. Girls from Smithers, Telkwa and Houston clubs all got together for the weekend event, which ran from early Friday afternoon until early afternoon on Sunday. GEMS girls and leaders slept in cabins and in the Rough Acres lodge and enjoyed making new friends from other clubs, playing outside in the snow and singing songs and learning lessons together in the lodge. Submitted photo
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From Boobtube to YouTube Watching television was an extremely restricted activity in my house growing up, and for that reason, I couldn’t get enough of it. My little brother and I weren’t allowed to watch it all the time like our lucky-duck friends were. And, as a double whammy on the meter of unfairness in our lives, our mom and dad were much younger than the parents of our pals, yet they were stricter than all of them. In grade five I started babysitting my sevenyear-old brother in the afternoons when our folks were still at work. Our mom instructed us to do homework after school, and once we finished we could read a book or play a board game. Under no circumstances were we to turn on the “boob tube” that would rot
our brains. But reruns of groovy shows like The Brady Bunch and Bewitched were on at that time, so there was no possible way we could adhere to such an unreasonable rule when left alone like that. With 12 glorious channels to choose from, there was always something exciting to see on our old black and white, and every day we’d watch it for as long as we could. An hour or so later, when we heard a car pull into the driveway, we’d quickly run up to the telly, turn the knob to the dreaded “off” position, run back to the couch and crack open our books before our mom or dad even opened the front door. If our father was the first to arrive home he would sometimes touch the top of the TV as he walked by it.
Jeremie and I would hold our breath and look at each other nervously, praying he wouldn’t notice its warmth. He never did. Years later we found out that he knew exactly what we were up to, he just didn’t mind. I now have that same attitude about the television with my own kids, and I allow them to watch it. Within reason. Sam and Daisy are like my brother and I were. If they had their choice, they’d start their day with the TV on, and that thing wouldn’t be turned off until they fell asleep in front of it, well past midnight. “We cancelled cable the day we became parents,” an acquaintance told me last week. “Children who grow up ‘watchers’ do not become ‘doers’.” I wonder if there’s
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On a brighter note Lori Welbourne subtitles - that show me in a matter of minutes. “I would never have cablevision,” a young friend told me last week. Oh boy, I thought, bracing myself for more judgment. “Why would I?” he then asked. “I can get anything I want from Netflix and YouTube.” Good idea. I should look up The Brady Bunch and Bewitched to show my luckyduck kids. Now that really would be groovy.
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“Plan ahead, be well prepared, and make sure somebody knows where you are going. And make sure your fitness level matches your activity.”
“Let somebody know where you are going. And if you are thinking of going into the woods, consider practicing or taking a training course or learning a bit about it first.”
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Let my grandkids eat fish such data, prior to this potential retention closure, reveals that the regulatory system is subject to undue pressure from what amounts to well organized lobby groups within the population of fishers. I grew up in Terrace and as a child I and
my pals spent all our summers on the banks of the Skeena fishing for trout and Jack Spring etc. As young boys we stayed out of trouble and these fishing experiences were the memories of a lifetime. To restrict posses-
In defense of the fish Welcome to the world of fish politics. Nothing stirs emotions more than a change to a fishing regulation. A firestorm has ensued as a result of the plan by the Skeena Region 6, Fisheries Section of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations to ban the killing of trout, dolly varden and bull trout in all streams of the region. It is disappointing that Bruce Hill and others have not taken the time to understand or learn about the background and what has taken place before taking Rob Brown and I to task. We have had no influence over the Fisheries Section decision. We are both members of the
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Editor: I am against the blanket closure of trout/char in Skeena Area streams. Before such a sweeping closure is implemented there needs to be demonstrated scientific data behind such a move. Failure to provide
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Northern Branch of the Steelhead Society of BC (NBSS) and together along with our other members decide on various policies and positions. Neither he nor I pushed for a ban on the kill fishery or knew it was in the works. Yet we are somehow being implicated as the instigators and the NBSS as the catalyst in bringing about this regulation change. Rob represents the NBSS on the Provincial Skeena Fisheries Advisory Committee (SFAC) and I am his alternate. There are 17 members in total which provides advice to the Fisheries Section; the Steelhead Society, BC Federation of Fly Fishers, Skeena
Angling Guides Association, BC Federation of Drift Fishers, local chapter of the BC Wildlife Federation, North Coast Steelhead
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sion to young children like this seems incongruent with the B.C. wide initiatives to encourage young boys and girls to be more active and take up fishing. At this point in my life I am a grandparent to seven young children who would love to go fishing with grandpa. To have these young children be denied
the opportunity to take home their river caught ‘12 inch Cutthroat Trout’ because certain sectors of the fishing community are motivated to outlaw retention of fish seems over the top. I also find it quite disturbing that the formal time window to give feedback to such a potentially significant change
was largely over the Christmas Holiday Season. S i g n i f i c a n t potential changes within a healthy democracy demands that those affected by the potential changes be given ample time to hear and respond. Most of the people I know who are quite concerned about this potential change did not hear about it until
after the formal time for comment was already exhausted. Please do not adopt this proposed change. Put the money and science into a thorough evaluation first, and even then use a graduated retention system only if it is actually demonstrated to be absolutely necessary. Charles Claus Terrace, BC
make decisions. Rarely has the group achieved a consensus over any of its regulation proposals since inception of the Committee because of the difficulty to achieve total committee agreement. To
day in all streams of Region 6 or at a minimum in the Nass, Skeena, and Kitimat Watersheds. – Bull trout and dolly varden catch and release Aug. 15 to Oct. 31 in all streams of Skeena Region 6 to protect
– Lastly an annual bait ban in the Skeena River from Aug. 7 to July 1 to protect steelhead, trout and char. Skeena Angling Guides proposed regulation changes for trout and char in 2011. My support for the NBSS proposals has not changed, they should be adopted by the Fisheries Section. I was quoted in the Standard on Feb. 6, supporting the Fisheries Section and their daunting task of managing fish in the region after severe cutbacks in budget and staff following the 2000 election. Extensive and meaningful scientific studies being demanded by the BC Wildlife Federation and its rod and gun clubs before they will agree to any regulation changes are not possible. The question is, should the Fisheries
Section do nothing, adopt the NB and Guiding Association proposals or continue with their precautionary ban on killing trout and char? Conservation of the resource is the priority and we can argue and debate which species, races and populations are declining and while doing so witness a further loss in numbers of stream trout and char in the rivers we have identified. This discussion is positive but at the end of the day we need to find a responsible resolution to a complex issue. If you care, you need to say to the provincial government that more money and more people are needed to properly manage our provincial freshwater fish. Jim Culp Terrace, BC
“Conservation of the resource is the priority.”
Alliance, regional tackle vendors, 6 rod and gun clubs and four independent anglers. They all have one representative and one alternate. This is a fair and wide representation of the angling community. The Fisheries Section left no stone unturned in its search for representatives. The committee process uses consensus to
clear up any m i s c o n c e p t i o n s, at the 2010 SFAC meeting, the NBSS proposed a number of regulation changes focused on the decline of trout and char in the Skeena Region. They are: – Trout and char catch and release all year Zymoetz River and tributaries. – The bull trout and dolly varden limit reduced to 1 /
these fish during their spawning period. – Catch and release only for all wild coastal cutthroat trout March 1 to May 31 in all streams in the Skeena Region 6 to protect spawning fish(flexibility in dates). – Catch and release for bull trout, dolly varden, rainbow and cutthroat all year long in the Kitimat River.
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New councillor wants to improve Houston’s appearance Jackie Lieuwen Houston Today
Kyle Thomson, installed as Houston Councillor on Tuesday, says there is a lot going on in town and new things starting up, but people tend to focus on the negative. “I want to see the negativity from people about the town stop,” said Thomson. “There’s positives here that people just have to concentrate on,” he said. “We’re our own town, and I think we can definitely be an appealing town to anybody,” he added. Thomson says he is working toward that end. Thomson has been a member of the Houston Chamber of Commerce for two years, and became a director on the board in May 2012. Chamber of Commerce Vice President Troy Reitsma says Thomson has been a welcome addition to the board. “He is definitely bringing his ideas to the table and he’s not afraid of fighting for what he thinks is right,” Reitmsa said, adding that Thomson has been on the board only nine months. Kyle Thomson was installed Tuesday as Houston Councillor Thomson has also invest- general municipal election will be held. ed into Houston business. Thomson started situations and take advantage of them in Monster Industries, an industrial services the right way. and construction company in Houston, in In the 2008 recession when he expand2004, incorporated 2008, and he says part ed, Thomson says people thought he was of the reason he did it was to show people crazy, but he was able to see and gain adthat investments in Houston pay back. vantages because of the recession, going “I think people don’t realize that,” he in cheaper and getting contracts with big said. companies. And with business from Houston Now he brings that positive perspective sawmills and mines, as well as multi-mil- from his business to Houston council, and lion dollar projects across the province, he says he wants to get local people to see Monster Industries has certainly proven the good things about the town. to be a successful Houston investment. “I can see so many positives here that Thomson says part of the reason for I think so many people just can’t see,” he his success is his ability to see positives in said.
They opened the bowling alley Nov. 2011, and are renovating the movie theatre which Thomson says they plan to open in March. Asked about his hopes for being on council, Thomson says he wants to make Houston more appealing, whether through tourism or physical appearance, or by bringing more business to town. He thinks there are lots of small things that would be cost-effective to bring change, such as building sidewalks the whole way through town. “If you drive through small towns and you see it without power lines inside them, and you just have sidewalks going down the highway, it makes it a lot more appealing driving through… you feel like you are driving down a street instead of down a highway through town. It makes a big difference,” Thomson said. Thomson says he thinks they need to be concentrating on secondary industry and public amenities like restaurants. “The industry is here. Jackie Lieuwen/Houston Today You have just got to be able for a two-year term that will end Dec. 2014 when the next to find a way to get people to siphon their money back into Houston,” said Thomson. People say Houston is shrinking and “We don’t need another mine, we have there’s nothing to do around here, but in the last few years we’ve gotten a pool, a a mine and two sawmills,” he said, adding sports store, a bowling alley and a new ho- that secondary industry would also give tel, and soon we’ll have a movie theatre, economic stability to the town, and enable it to be self-contained. he said. Thomson says with Houston just over “Houston is picking up steam…. There’s a lot of stuff that we’ve gotten in 50 years old, we’re in the third generathe past two to three years - a lot!” he said. tion in terms of economics: first generaThomson himself has been behind sev- tion brought settlement, second, primary eral of the new businesses, including the industry, and as the third generation, our role is to bring in secondary industry. bowling alley and movie theatre. “The business is there you just need to Thomson and Eric Bishop are partners in the bowling alley building, which they find the people with the drive to do it,” said Thomson. “That’s the trick.” bought three years ago.
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“There are no words,” said Jamie Beck, describing what it was like to play in the women’s provincial U18 sevens rugby championship Feb. 7 to 10. “Everything was just fantastic, like the games were amazing and it was so cool to play all those different teams… I smile and look like an idiot every time I think about it but there’s no words to describe it,” Jamie said. Jamie’s B.C. sevens team got third in the championship out of ten teams from across U.S. and Canada and Jamie says the top three teams were pretty evenly matched. The semi-final was a good, evenlymatched and hardfought game against a B.C. club team, where Jamie’s team lost 10 5 when the club team scored a try in the last play of the game, she said. Jamie says the consolation final was good way to end the tournament, because they played Montreal and blew them away.
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Eye on the prize, Jamie Beck takes the ball and races toward the try lane during the recent Las Vegas Invitational Sevens Tournament with teams from across Canada and the U.S. Jamie is one of 12 girls who were selected to be part of the first B.C. women’s U18 rugby team. Asked how she felt about her performance, Jamie says she felt she played well throughout the tournament. It was pretty nerve wracking, but she tried to block out those feelings and focus on having fun, she said. “That was kind of my main goal. Like I
know you want to go there, compete and win, but I feel like for me if I go out there wanting to have fun, then the competing and the passion and stuff just comes along,” she said. When she was playing, Jamie says she worked to keep improving and she
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performed extremely well at the tournament. “She was the fastest member of our team and our top try scorer,” said Donaldson, adding that Jamie’s humble and kind personality were a great match with her athletic abilities. “I believe if she truly enjoys the sport and puts in the effort, she has a very bright future in rugby,” said Donaldson. Jamie says that looking back at the tournament reassures her that rugby is one of the things she wants to pursue, adding that she plans to try out for the provincial U18 women’s 15s rugby team in the spring. Jamie says she is eager for the HSS rugby season to start in March, and for the HSS trips to Rugbyfest in Kamloops April 19 and 20 and high school rugby sevens provincials in Vancouver April 26 and 27. “I really just want to be out there passing the ball and practicing,” said Jamie. “It will be good to get back playing.”
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Speeding up Search and Rescue response By Jackie Lieuwen
Do you want access to healthy, local food and products? Do you try to practice the 3 R’s in your daily life? You are not alone! Healthy Options for People and the Earth Society (HOPE) is a grassroots non-profit working towards a healthy, sustainable community. We operate and maintain the Pleasant Valley Community Market in Houston for the sale and purchase of locally grown produce and locally made products and encourage the practice of “reduce, re-use and recycle” through partnerships with businesses, agencies and government for recycling opportunities and education. If this sounds like something you would like to be involved in:
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Credit Union Manager Tanya Amonson and staff member Laury Williams presented a $2,000 donation to Search and Rescue President Frank McDonald for new SAR equipment. iPhones and other devices that people are already familiar with. SAR Director Robert Onderwater says iPads also have much more up-to-date and detailed maps, so they will be able to see obstacles that paper
maps don’t show. Besides four iPads, SAR also bought harnesses, several avalanche beacons, an avalanche probe and a shovel, said President Frank McDonald, adding that equipment is all paid for through
The course teachetypes of searches, how searches start, progress and end, how to use maps, radios, ropes and compasses, and some basic survival skills and preparation, McDonald said. It is broken into four sections, each with a test, and once someone passes the tests they are GSAR certified, and then they can take more courses like rope rescue, avalanche rescue or swift water rescue, put on and paid for by the Justice Institute. SAR gets called out by RCMP, contacts the provincial manage-
ment program (PEP) and gets a tracking number, which gives them insurance if equipment is broken or people are hurt in the search, Ewald said. Then SAR gives a call out to needed members, and McDonald, search manager, organizes a search, different depending on the situation, said Ewald. Ewald says usually they have three man groups search specific areas, but sometimes they do grid searches, where everybody lines up 10 metres apart, and they cover a whole area.
RCMP initiate co-op training with SAR RCMP Sgt. Rose talked to local Search and Rescue group about training together so that their work can run more smoothly during emergencies. “I will be the first one to say the police rarely can operate when it comes to missing persons or evidence searches without search and rescue,” sad Sgt. Rose. Sgt. Rose says he
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Houston SAR started up 1978 after a search for two boys on Buck Flats Road ended with the death of one of them, and then SAR restructured in 2000. SAR has 20 volunteer members aged 16 and 75, and meets the second Wednesday of every month for training, McDonald said. Wendall Ewald, SAR instructor with McDonald, says at meetings they do basic ground search and rescue training, working through an Emergency Management B.C. and Justice Institute of B.C. manual.
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Houston search and rescue (SAR) will speed up and improve services thanks to new equipment. At the monthly SAR meeting last week Wednesday, Director Andy Muma showed off one of the four iPad’s the group is buying and explained how it will benefit the group. “These devices will do everything,” said Muma, adding that they cost $530 compared to the $400 GPS’s they had originally planned to buy. They can eliminate paper forms and maps, do better tracking, and speed up the initial search response, said Muma. “I think we can cut the search response time from hours down to minutes,” he said, adding that it will also be better for untrained volunteers who help with a search, because it is simple to use and compatible with
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wants RCMP to train with SAR so that they know each other’s roles and responsibilities, and can help each other as they progress through a search. It will also be good so RCMP knows SAR’s capabilities and when it would be helpful to use their services, said Sgt. Rose. “I think that is a great idea,” said SAR Director Andy Muma,
adding that it will be helpful when they start training with the iPad’s to compare notes and make sure SAR and RCMP records match up. “It’s important for police and SAR to work together. You guys are a support service to us and ultimately we need to know what it is you have to offer,” Sgt. Rose said.
grants and donations. At the meeting, McDonald thanked local Credit Union staff Tanya Amonson and Laury Williams, and Regional District Director Rob Newell, who donated funds toward the equipment.
“It’s you guys who do the real work,” said Amonson, adding that their service to the community is much appreciated. SAR services add so much to the safety of the community, she said.
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This will be an evening to look back on what HOPE has done over the past year and a look forward to 2013. Board members will be elected at this time. Positions include President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and several Directors. If you know of anyone who might like to be involved in this way please send nominations to healthyoptions4houston@ gmail.com or post on facebook at www.facebook.com/ healthyoptions4houston $2 memberships will be available at the door or at any time at Bizz’s Pet Grooming in Houston.
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Chief Water Sewer Operator from the District of Houston, Bruce Moroz, oversees the backhoe dig to the water main of the home that burned last Friday morning. The normal water supply of the house was running from broken or melted valves, so the District of Houston crew brought out a backhoe, bobcat and dump truck to dig out the water main to turn the water off.
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Thanks to all our kettle volunteers and to everyone who gave so generously during the holidays. We appreciate the continued support from area churches and businesses as well. We saw the generosity first hand during last year’s apartment fire in Houston when the community in Houston and Smithers gave clothing, furniture, household goods and cash to help the victims in their recovery process.
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HOPE forToday Psalm 23, is one of those psalms of the Bible, that many love to read at funerals and the like. It’s a psalm that talks about great comfort if the LORD is your Shepherd. It talks about fearing no evil, for the great Shepherd is near. A Shepherd who knows His sheep and His sheep listen to His voice for He wants to keep them safe. Wanting no sheep to get lost, yet many test His love. He goes after His sheep when they go astray. What an amazing Shepherd. Is He also your Shepherd, for He wants to keep you safe as well. We as sheep in this day and age can wander far and wide, and may taste all kinds of pleasures of this life. But, there’s no offer of ultimate hope and lasting pleasure and peace then what’s offered by the great Shepherd. God loves you, and as a sign of His love He sent His Son, as a ransom for sin and as a Shepherd. So, don’t harden your heart listen to the great Shepherd. He will turn and draw you, and as a result you will find rest and peace, even though you go through the valley of death, you have nothing to fear, for the great Shepherd is near.
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Youthful members of the Tla’amin First Nation fought back tears Thursday as they joined elders and provincial officials to celebrate the end of a long road to a treaty with B.C. and Canada. The Tla’amin treaty was introduced in B.C. legislature for consideration Thursday after getting narrow approval last summer by Tla’amin members north of Powell River. The Tla’amin (formerly Sliammon) treaty is the eighth modern-day agreement reached in B.C., most of which was left from unresolved treaties when agreements covering Canada east of the Rocky Mountains were signed in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tla’amin Chief Clint Williams was part of the 1994 treaty society that began negotiations under the new B.C. Treaty Commission process. The band’s name will formally change from Sliammon to Tla’amin, dispensing with the historical
name given by federal officials long ago. “The Sliammon people will be allowed to prosper now, will not be held down by the shackles of the dreaded Indian Act,” Williams said. “The only way is up from here for the Tla’amin people.” The final agreement calls for a capital transfer from the federal government of $29.7 million, economic development funding totalling $6.9 million and more than 8,000 hectares of treaty land transferred in fee simple title. The land includes 1,900 hectares of former Tla’amin reserve land and 6,405 hectares of provincial Crown land. Since the Nisga’a treaty was established in 2000 outside the B.C. process, the B.C. Treaty Commission has produced treaties with five communities negotiating jointly as the MaaNulth First Nations on Vancouver Island, the Tsawwassen First Nation in the Lower Mainland and the Yale First Nation in the Fraser Canyon.
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Maintenance Worker Reporting to the Site Services Supervisor, the successful candidate will be part of the Site Services Team which is responsible for the repair and upkeep of a 250 and 100 person camps and mine site buildings and infrastructure. Duties include carpentry, plumbing, gas appliance repairs, and industrial piping including HDPE process lines. Applicants must have experience in camp maintenance and repair and have a minimum of a Class B gas Àtter¡s ticket with electrical endorsement. A copy of the gas Àtter¡s ticket must accompany the resume.
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Take notice that Robert and Joan Delege from Houston, BC, have applied to the Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO), Smithers, for a Licence of Occupation for a Roadway situated on Provincial Crown land located in the Range 5 Coast District in the vicinity of Barrett Lake.
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IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM ERNEST EGAN, Deceased Formerly of Houston, British Columbia All parties having claims against the said Estate are required to forward particulars of same to the law firm of WINGHAM LAW CORPORATION, Solicitor for the Personal Representative, at P.O. Box 1489, Vanderhoof, British Columbia, V0J 3A0, on or before the 15th day of March, 2013 after which date the claims filed may be paid without reference to any claims of which the Personal Representative then has no knowledge. Personal Representative, by: CHRISTOPHER K. WINGHAM, Solicitor
The Lands File for this application is 6408451. Written comments concerning this application should be directed to the Nadina District Land Officer, MFLNRO, at PO Box 6000 - 3333 Tatlow Rd., Smithers BC V0J 2N0. Comments will be received by condition. MFLNRO up SL 2 dr convert, average to Thursday, April 4, 2013. MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ ApplicationPosting/index.isp for more information.
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Please keep your announcements as brief as possible. Deadline (faxed or mailed or delivered) is 4 p.m. Thursday. Items are printed or alternated as space permits. Items will be accepted via fax, email or dropped at the office. No phone calls please. More calendar items are listed online and can be submitted or viewed at www.houston-today.com
Houston Snowmobile Club Events: Poker Ride: Feb. 23: Dungate Meadows. All snowmobilers welcome. International Women’s Day evening in Houston Fri., Mar. 8. Looking for speakers; entertainment and door prizes. If you can help out call Naomi Himech at 250845-7537 and to register to attend this dinner meeting please call Northwest Community College at : 250-8457266. The Houston & District Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a PST Seminar presented by the Ministry of Finance on Wed., March 20 from 10am – 12pm. You must pre-register for this seminar. For more info or to register, please contact the Houston & District Chamber of Commerce at 250-845-7640. Houston Dart League is Sat. evenings at 7:30 pm. upstairs at the Houston Curling Club. Blind doubles games. Seniors Bingo is every Tues. at 7pm at Cottonwood Manor. Entry is $1. Come out & enjoy a fun prize filled evening. Lots of prizes! The Houston Legion Branch 249: Meeting: 2nd Mon. of the month is Executive, 4th Mon. is General Meeting.
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HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY... Annual General Meeting - Mon., Feb. 25 at 7 p.m. All members of the library are welcome to attend. Elections will be held for two 1-year and two 2-year Trustee terms. To have your name added to the list for nomination, please contact Toni McKilligan at 250-845-2256 or director@ houstonlibrary.ca. Please be advised that the Houston Public Library is closed for unforeseen maintenance and will remain closed until repairs are completed. All scheduled programming has been cancelled for the next 2 weeks. Programs that have been cancelled are Story Time, Tween Movie Night, NID Matinee and Afterschool Games. The library will also be closed to all patrons. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Houston Curling Club’s Closing Mixed Bonspiel March 15 & 16, Houston Curling Rink. $200 entry fee per team, three events, two men, two ladies per team. Cash prizes & door prizes. Dress in your finest Blarney style! Saturday’s dinner included in the entry fee. Register before March 14/13. Contact Arnold at 250845-2132 or email houstoncurlingclub@yahoo.ca. Houston Community Services is open Mon. thru Fri. from 9am to 4pm We have clothing to give away. Baby clothing; women’s and mens as well as children of all ages. Come and check it out!
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Topley Victory Church services: 10:30 a.m. Structural Firefighting/Hwy Rescue. Interested? Topley Volunteer Fire Dept. is accepting applications. No experience necessary please contact Byron - F/C 250696-3348 or come to a fire practice: Thurs. @ 1930 hrs (7:30 pm) Topley Volunteer Fire Dept. meetings every 2nd Tues. of the month at 7:30 pm. Fire practices every Thurs. at 7:30 pm.
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Granisle and District Seniors meetings are the 2nd and 4th Thurs. of each month at 1pm in the Seniors Centre. Granisle Volunteer Fire Department meetings & fire practices every Tues., 7 p.m. at the Fire Hall. Granisle Church of the Way services are Sun., Houston Secondary School webpage: http://hssweb. 11 a.m. Bible study is Thurs. at 7 p.m. sd54.bc.ca
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HSS Rugby Fund Raiser Above: Kathy Barendregt drives the sleigh full of families around the Buck Flats field where the rugby fund raiser was held. Left: Tanya Margerm, organizer of the fund raising event, enjoys the warm conversation around the campfire along with Taylor Beck and Erin Malkinson. Rugby supporters enjoyed warm chilli, hot dogs and hot chocolate at the fund raiser last Friday evening. Bottom left: Ryder, 7, cooks himself a hot dog over the toasty warm campfire. Below: HSS rugby players Dylana, Delainey, Taylor, Shanell and Kaylyn visit the Percheron horses that did all the work for the groups of sleigh riders. The sleigh rides and fund raiser event collected money to support the HSS women’s rugby sevens team, flying down to provincials in Vancouver April 26 and 27. Jackie Lieuwen photos/Houston Today
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