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The sawmill at Lakeland Mills will be rebuilt. Sinclar Group president Greg Stewart made the announcement March 20, accompanied by local United Steelworkers Union president and city councillor Frank Everitt and acting mayor Cameron Stolz. “April 23 was the worst day in Lakeland Mills history,” Stewart said. Stewart said he recognizes the incredible strength and humanity shown by the community as well as the families of Alan Little and Glenn Roche who lost their lives in the explosion and fire that destroyed the mill April 23, 2012. Twenty-two others were injured. “We believe in the community and the three generations of owners and workers from Lakeland,” Stewart said. The design of the new mill is not yet written in stone, however Stewart said he was able to share some information. It will continue its legacy of producing stud lumber, but now it will produce both metric length and American standard. The change will open new markets for the mill. Though they’ve accessed the Japanese market for some time, inroads are being made into the growing Chinese market. Stewart added the mill will be integrated with the existing planer mill, which feeds the downtown energy system. The new mill will incorporate the latest safety measures and will employ 100 people in two s hifts.

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Greg Stewart, president of Lakeland Mills, flanked on the left by Steelworkers Union president Frank Everitt and acting mayor Coun. Cameron Stolz on the right, announced the company will rebuild the sawmill. The new mill will employ 100 people and is expected to be completed in 2014. Standing in rear, with the Lakeland board, are Bill Stewart, Keith Andersen, Carter Anderson and Dr. Charles Jago. The old mill employed 160 people. A news release said the anticipated design and potential equipment to be installed suggests fewer people will be required. The company will decide who gets hired back by working with the United Steelworkers to make sure hiring practices meet the

terms of the collective agreement. Fibre supply is unlikely to be an issue. “Lakeland is in a very fortunate situation as a mill itself,” Stewart said. He noted the mill has access to 250,000 cubic metres of fibre and the Sinclar Group can access

another 500,000 in volume-based tenure available following the shutdown of Winton Global. Fibre was one of many factors used to evaluate the viability of another mill. Stewart said the price of lumber, though it fluctuates, plays a part as does the employee base, local ownership and the good

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The Kordyban Lodge was filled March 1 during the grand opening with dignitaries exploring the serene rooms, many with a practical purpose, most bearing the name of a family or local business that donated to the cause. “Welcome to the house that love - and northern generosity build,” MLA and Attorney General Shirley Bond said. “It is a spectacular place.” Premier Christy Clark said she couldn’t think of many things harder to bear than having someone in your family diagnosed with cancer. She added, even with such a life-changing diagnosis, there is always hope, and more reason to hope in B.C. than elsewhere, since it has the best cancer survival rates. Her mother survived cancer twice, then finally succumbed to brain cancer after hospitalization. “I had the privilege of living in the Lower Mainland and was able to access many of the services,” she said, adding the hospital was closer to her. So she would stop by at 6 a.m. to shower her mom, then stop again after picking her son up from daycare to feed her dinner and brush her teeth. When the medication she was on drover her to the edge of anxiety, Clark was able to crawl in bed with her and wrap her arms around her to provide comfort. This, she said, was a wonderful gift. “The greatest gift I had in my life was the chance to give back to my mom,” she said. Then the premier looked at Mary Kordyban, who donated $2 million towards the lodge that bears her family’s name. “This gift, Mary, is going to make that possible for others.” The provincial government matched the Kordyban’s gift with many other locals giving generously to make the lodge a reality. “Today is a special day for all of us,” Kordyban said. “We are filled with pride and joy for what has been accomplished for cancer care in the north.”

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Premier Christy Clark and Mary Kordyban were front-and-centre at the ribboncutting for the Kordyban Lodge, flanked by Mayor Shari Green, left, Henry Novak and MLAs Shirley Bond and Pat Bell. She spoke of how grateful she is to the Canadian Cancer Society and all they have done to support building the Lodge. The Kordyban Lodge is the final piece of the puzzle in the B.C Cancer Agency of the North strategy. Previous to the opening of the cancer centre in the city, patients had to go out of town to get treatment. MLA Pat Bell said when Mary and Bill (who has since passed away) Kordyban approached him to pledge their support for the cancer strategy, he was told

that it was dependent on radiation therapy being included in the planned clinic. Bell, Bond, the Kordybans and many others believed northern patients undergoing treatment for cancer deserved to be treated as close to home as possible. The Kordyban Lodge will provide a home-away-fromhome for those coming into the city from the region for treatment. It is a 25,000 square foot building with 36 beds. Meals are provided as are many services to soothe guests like the massage therapy

room, a famiy room, library, activity room, and wig and prosthetics room. Volunteers have supported the Lodge and will continue to do so in a number of areas and ways. “We are so grateful to all our donors, supporters and volunteers who brought this vision for compassionate care and accommodation in Northern B.C. to life,” Cathy Adair, vice-president cancer control, Canadian Cancer Society, B.C. and Yukon. Lorraine Grant, board chair of the Canadian Cancer Soci-

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Glendene Grant talked about her daughter’s disappearance at the hands of what she believes is human traffickers seven years ago. traffickers got the chance to ask questions following her presentation at YAP (Youth Around Prince) last month. “There is not a person in this room who can hurt me with a question,” she said, encouraging everyone present to ask whatever they wanted. The questions revealed more pieces of the story, from the fact Grant is no longer able to cross the border to some of the bits of information about Jessie’s life in Las Vegas she’s picked up over the years. “I’m not allowed to go anymore,” she said in answer to a question asking if she’s ever searched for Jessie in Las Vegas. Her expression saying it all, she added, “They finally found a record that in 1987 I had a roommate who was arrested for drugs.” Her story also encouraged other people to share theirs. One woman stood and talked about how human trafficking isn’t always about sexual exploitation, but sometimes about gaining free, or nearly free, labour. Grant agreed there are many reasons human traffickers take people, from labour to sexual exploitation. She added Sweden has instituted an interesting law that may curb most of the problems. There they have decided it’s perfectly legal for a woman to sell her body if she wishes, however it is illegal for a man to purchase sex. This means women are not prosecuted in prostitution cases, only the men are. They are disgraced, charged, have their faces plastered all over the place and are forever branded

for the act. “It drove prostitution out of Sweden,” she said, adding if there is no demand for prostitutes, then there is no market for supplying them. “Now it’s the Nordic Rule,” she said, adding many countries in the area adopted the law, first because it works and second because though prostitution was driven out of Sweden, it migrated to nearby countries. “Canada needs to step up and stop victimizing the victims.” Another mother stepped forward to talk about her daughter who is prostituting herself now, completely addicted to drugs, No matter what she does, she can’t seem to get her daughter off the street. It’s become so bad, she said, that now her daughter is working a corner she knows her mother regularly drives by. Grant agreed sometimes it is drugs, rather than a person, that keeps a woman imprisoned in that life. The drug addiction, the mom said, goes hand-in-hand with longstanding and documented mental health issues. “She is going to wind up dead someday,” she said, voice unsteady. Diane Nakamura, coordinator for Communities Against Sexual Exploitation of Youth, and event organizer, asked to speak to the woman following the meeting with the intents of following up on the story. Those stories were added to the long list Grant has already heard. Following the presentation she joined the women present for lunch, speaking freely about their issues and her own, sharing the pain that permeates those with a lost child.

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the Northwest Territories and Hawaii. “Our course,” Eyles says, “is the only one in Canada being offered online.” While some of the people taking the course are already working in areas such as homelessness or the Aboriginal court system, FASD training co-ordinator Anne Guarasci says the composition of the classes can vary. “I have 20 students in one of my classes right now, and only one of them is working in the field. Most of them are students. Some of them find it handy to get able to go online and pick up a course which will give them a secondor -third-year credit at their other school; others are encouraged to take the FASD training because of the field they’re training for.” Eyles says the online program works well for almost anyone. “There is no physical class or set class times for the courses, so you can work through the material at your own pace and when you’ve got time.” That makes it easy for students from regions as far away as Hawaii and New Jersey to take a course originating in Burns Lake. There are eight

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Prince George sports venues will be in full use during the 2015 Canada Winter Games. It’s up to the Games team to ensure competitions run smoothly during the three-week multi-sport event. With a priority on organization, staff and volunteers have started running CWG test events to prepare. By holding particular activities in the same venues they’ll be held in during the Games, test events offer organizers the chance to see how compatible the athletes and sports are with the facilities. They can test the set-up and work out any kinks that may arise. The test events will also go beyond the competition. “We probably won’t test every single event because we have 19 sports, but probably around a dozen events that’ll happen that will have some form of activity, official activity for us,” Canada Winter Games CEO Stu Ballantyne says. “Sometimes we’re testing odd things, like food services or timing and scoring systems or interaction. It’s not always about the actual sport and field of play.” The first official CWG test event was the Wheelchair Basketball Canada Junior West Regional Championships from March 22 to 24 at Duchess Park Secondary. Another test event comes this month with the Artistic Gymnastics BC Championships scheduled for April 5 to 7 at the Northern Sport Centre. Before the wheelchair basketball competition, unofficial test events had already been held. They included cross-country skiing and biathlon at the Otway Nordic Centre, and

snowboard cross at Tabor Mountain. With venues still undergoing upgrades to meet Canada Games standards, more test events will take place next winter. The biggest confirmed

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test event is the 2014 Canadian Age Class Short Track Championships, scheduled for March 14 to 16, 2014 at the new Kin 1 arena. The $16.5-million Kin Centre Enhancement Project is the largest CWG-related facility upgrade and the national meet offers the first opportunity for the venue to be competition-tested for short-track speed skating. The 2015 Canada Winter Games is receiving slightly more than $19 million in government funding for facility upgrades. The next largest project after the Kin Centre is the remodelling of the Civic Plaza. Other sports projects include upgrades to the Otway Nordic Centre with a new biathlon range, and trail modifications at

Tabor Mountain and Purden Ski Village, where snowboarding and alpine skiing events will unfold. “Once the upgrades at Tabor and Purden are finished, we’re going to want to host an alpine ski event, a snowboard event, freestyle skiing events to make sure that those facilities are up to Canada Games standard, and hopefully exceeding them and to make sure that we have thought about everything from the venue perspective from a Games perspective,” Ballantyne said. “It’s OK to host an event at Otway, but part of of the testing we have to do is transportation plan, spectator plans because we will have that greater amount of spectators at Games time than we’ve ever had there.”

Ballantyne noted that they expect to treat the 2014 Scotties BC women’s curling provincial championships as a CWG test event. The competition is scheduled for next January at the Prince George Golf and Curling Club, the same venue that’ll hold curling draws during the Games. Organizers also need contingency plans in place should their schedule change as a result of natural causes or emergencies. Mother Nature will play a significant role. “There’s a massive amount of stuff that can challenge any event so our job is to sort of pre-identify what those challenges could be, and then analyze them over the years,” Ballantyne says. “Last year we did a full tracking, what

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we call Games time tracking and following weather patterns, and in particular snowfall, all of these things so that we have data that we can rely on.” Test events offer volunteers the opportunity to advance their skills, and athletes get the chance to try it out. Organizers know a strong Prince George presence would contribute to the Games’ success, and hope northern athletes take advantage of the test events and facility upgrades. “The ability to have kids from northern British Columbia not have to make the big drive every weekend, to be able to train and compete in their own backyard, gives them a bit of an advantage,” Ballantyne says. “If they’re lucky enough to make Team BC, then they have a bit of a homefield advantage because they would know the venue so we want to be able to do that as best we can.” The 2015 Canada Winter Games are scheduled for Feb. 13 to March 1, 2015. Prince George and the region is expected to play host to 2,350 athletes, 950 coaches and officials, up to 4,500 volunteers, hundreds of media and medical professionals and thousands of visitors. The event will be the largest sports and cultural event ever held in Prince George and northern B.C., expected to generate an economic impact of between $70 and $90 million.

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NDIT looks to develop across the north Online publication provides look at number and variety of projects DELYNDA PILON newsroom@pgfreepress.com

Northern Development Initiatives Trust (NDIT) is a non-profit organization that provides funding for projects that stimulate economic growth and job creation in central and northern B.C. The online publication from NDIT offers an ‘at a glance’ column that gives people a chance to quickly check out the funding and projects NDIT has been involved with. Since it was legislated into existence, it has committed $111 million to 1,051 projects, created 5,154 jobs, and teamed up with 1,853 partners, attracting more than $1 billion in new funding to the area. An $11,000,000 loan from NDIT was instrumental in providing

funding to expand the Prince George airport, creating the third-longest commercial runway in the country at 11,500 feet. Both the wide-bodied 767 and the 747 that trans-Pacific cargo and logistics carriers operate can now utilize it. According to the NDIT website at w w w. n o r t h e r n d e velopment.bc.ca, the expansion increases the city’s marketability to Asia. It is also likely to be a favourable asset for CN’s Intermodal facility. Boundary Road, which is set to be complete in October of this year, connects two major highways, 97 and 16, via the airport, further enhancing the logistic capabilities of the city. With several partners, including Initia-

tives Prince George, ing and development NDIT funded a study centre at the Charles looking at container Jago Northern Sport opportunities, one Centre at the Univerthat helped sity of Northprovide necern British essary inforC o l u m b i a ,” mation to CN he said in an regarding e-mail. “The the growing new sport importance and developof container- From the ment centre ized trans- Prince includes the portation. development George The inter- Airport to of a strength modal facil- cycling trails, and condiity at CN the trust tioning room was devel- works with with equipoped and local groups. ment in a expanded. safe environJoel McKay, director ment for athletes. It of communications also includes a statefor NDIT, provided of-the-art multi-use an update on projects learning centre with the organization has advanced IT caparecently approved. bilities to serve the “PacificSport North- community and the ern BC with its part- region.” ners, including NorthCreating the room ern Development means renovating Initiative Trust, has about 1,200 square collaborated to create feet in the lower level a new athlete train- of the centre.

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Installing IT capabilities in the learning centre will enable it to service communities through northern B.C. NDIT is also helping the cycling club with a trail expansion. The organization provided a $30,000 grant towards the project. “The Prince George Cycling Club is working on a trail expansion at its Pidherny Recreation Site, which is a 650 hectare area with 25 existing mountain biking trails. The Cycling Club has developed a plan to include a greater number of beginner and intermediate trails to provide a greater experience and more access to the site for local riders. “The completion of

the new trails appealing to younger and more inexperienced riders will provide a safer, more enjoyable learning experience prior to riders venturing onto more difficult trails. “The trails are intended to be completed in the spring and summer of 2013, with the 800m beginner trail being completed prior to May 15 so it can be utilized for the Sproc-

kids Learn to Ride Program through the cycling club. “Northern Development has committed a $25,725 grant toward the project, which includes new trail construction, trail head signs, maps, markets, technical features and wooden bridges.” McKay added it is the passion of the project proponents that make the projects happen.

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