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Bull-O-Rama is cancelled Cécile Favron The fourth-annual Bull-O-Rama, Kitimat’s bull-riding competition, has been cancelled due to the District of Kitimat workers’ strike. The strike has jeopardized access to the Tamatik arena which was set to hold the event on June 13. The competition was called off early to ensure that preparation for the event wouldn’t further drain the Snowflake Community Fairground Society’s resources if the event didn’t happen. “At this point, we cannot be assured that Tamatik arena will be available for the event and without that assurance we cannot risk the total loss of any more the of society’s cash,” organizer Jack Oviatt said in a press release last Wednesday. The cowboys and bulls come from C+ Rodeo in 150 Mile and there are huge expenses associated with bringing them to Kitimat. Without assurance that the event would go forward, the Society cancelled the event to allow the cowboys to attend other rodeos that weekend. The society had no other option, but to cancel the event because Kitimat does not have the capacity to hold the event outdoors, explained Oviatt. “It is a big disappointment for us,” he said. Those that have bought tickets or sponsors who have sent cheques to the Snowflake Community Fairgrounds Society will be reimbursed. This marks the second year in a row that the Bull-O-Rama has been cancelled in Kitimat. In 2014, the society decided to hold-over the event to 2015 because of a volunteer shortage. This cancellation marks a great loss to the Kitimat community. Continued page 3
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Union rejects binding arbitration Cécile Favron There is still no end in sight for the three-month District of Kitimat workers’ strike that has left Kitimat at a standstill. Unifor 2300 has rejected binding arbitration as the third round of mediation between the union and the District failed to reach a deal by the afternoon of May 23. Negotiations had to be wrappedup by that time because the mediator was scheduled to fly out of town. In a subsequent press release on May 25, the District of Kitimat proposed binding arbitration – a process that would see a mediator draw-up a deal after listening to both parties. If binding arbitration was agreed to, employees would have returned to work
while the process occurred. The union refused to comment on the District’s proposal until three days later when they informed the District of their decision to reject the proposal. Their announcement was relayed to the public through the District’s press release on May 28. Unifor 2300 could not be reached for comment on their decision to reject binding arbitration. As for reaching a deal, the latest three-day round of mediation was the last instalment of nine days of mediated discussion between the union and the District that have only aggravated tensions between them. In the last minutes of the May 23 meeting, the union’s Bargaining Committee out-
lined their “Bedrock Position.” They stated that this final Offer to Settle was “the bare minimum that will improve our working lives.” The District was unable to respond to the proposal slated just five minutes before the mediator’s departure. That is when the District decided to propose binding arbitration. “Enough is enough, we are willing to put everything on the table,” said Mayor Phil Germuth of the proposal. The union then rejected the proposal, but maintained in a press release on May 26 that they are getting close to a deal. Both sides claim to have made significant compromises over the mediation process and blame the other party for
the stalemate. Mayor Phil Germuth maintains that the District’s offer is fair and, in a press release on May 25, states that “this dispute is ultimately about who is going to run the District of Kitimat.” The union maintains issues around safety and harassment and the extent of contracted-out work are not being properly addressed by the District’s proposals. They also have concerns about signing an agreement that does not guarantee a minimum number of full-time jobs nor assigns wage increases based on the level of new industry in Kitimat. Meanwhile, the District maintains that their proposed 2.5 per cent wage increase in each of the next three years Continued on page 2
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Kitimat RCMP report downtown bank left unlocked May 18 Kitimat RCMP received a third party report of a suicidal male. The male was apprehended under the mental health act and transported to Kitimat General Hospital. The police received a report that a bank at City Centre was unlocked and no one was inside at 1:10pm. The bank was closed (Victoria Day holiday) and the front door was unlocked. Police contacted the
bank manager who attended to lock the door. May 19 An officer conducting traffic enforcement on Quatsino Blvd. stopped a vehicle as the passenger was not wearing a seatbelt. While speaking to the passenger an open beer can was observed in the passengers’ possession. The passenger was issued a violation ticket for open liquor in a motor vehicle.
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May 20 A complainant requested the assistance of the Kitimat RCMP in locating her adult daughter who she hadn’t seen in two days. Within a few hours the complainant updated police that she had located her daughter and that her daughter was fine. May 21 Police attended to a report of a missing child on Okanagan St at 9:03pm. The complainant reported her
efforts of a third-party negotiator to handle the city’s side after the District felt that bargaining sessions were becoming too abusive to staff. Details of the last two months’ negotiations cannot be released as they are bound by a confidentiality agreement. The strike has greatly affected Kitimat recreational
Continued from page 1 and new full-time jobs in leisure services are generous. They also feel that their current policy on safety and harassment is adequate. The heated negotiations have devolved into shouting in some cases and strikers have picketed Kitimat Council meetings. The District called in the
parents’ residence. May 23 RCMP attended to the KMP camp at 1:33am following a complaint from security of two intoxicated camp workers. Two camp workers were being difficult with security staff. Police attended and kept the peace while the two males returned to their rooms. May 24 Police responded to a complaint of an assault in the parking lot of the Chilly and Danc-
8 year old child was missing. Police attended and made patrols and at 9:20pm located the child with some friends. May 22 Kitimat RCMP attended to a complaint of youth drinking on the grounds of Kildala elementary school at 9:06 pm. Police attended and located a 14 year old female and a 15 year old female who were intoxicated. Police escorted the youth to one of their
to the citizens of Kitimat, but [they] can’t do that if the negotiators are going in circles.” Similarly, the mayor said that “[he] feels the concerns for the people of the community.” As the strike enters its fourth month, there is no word yet on when talks will resume.
services with no access to the pool, the arena, or the Senior’s Centre. Both sides emphasize that they are committed to returning the services to the community as soon as possible. The union’s Business Agent Martin Mcllwrath said “[they’re] as eager as anyone to resume services
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Airport Passenger traffic at the Northwest Regional Airport continues to dip but it’s not unexpected, reports airport manager Carman Hendry of April’s statistics. April’s regular passenger traffic stood at 17,282, down from 20,219 the month before. When charter passengers are factored in, the April to April decline is approximately 1,000, says Hendry. “It’s what we had anticipated,” said Hendry in noting that a drop comes as Rio Tinto Alcan’s Kitimat aluminum smelter rebuild begins to wind down. Virtually all of the charter traffic has come from shift changes at the Rio Tinto Alcan project, he added. Passenger traffic has surged in the past years thanks to Rio Tinto and the Northwest Transmission Line.
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KMP Unions donate to striking workers Cécile Favron A GROUP of unions has made a sizable donation in support of the District of Kitimat workers who have been on strike since February 28. The building trades union workers, stationed in Kitimat to work on the Kitimat Modernization Project, donated $12,000 to the relief fund. The workers that donated out-of-pocket for the cause were from the BC Millwrights, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, The United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry, and the Ironworkers' Union. Sam Adams, Union Representative for the BC Millwrights, noted that it was the “working men on the ground” that really felt motivated to give to the striking Unifor 2300. “As craftsmen that travel, they have seen what happens to the living wage in communities when union workers come into the area,” he said. The presence of the unionized workers, Adams claims, drives up the cost of living in the area and displaces some people. This is why he asked his coworkers to donate to the workers that are locked in a three-month stalemate with the District of Kitimat. “It is just unions helping unions,” he explained. This money will go towards holding over
The buildings trades unions presented Unifor 2300 with a $12,000 cheque to go towards a relief fund for the striking District of Kitimat workers on May 22. Left to right are Sam Adams of the BC Millwrights on the microphone, Charlie Simmons, Ken Charbonneau, Brandon Wedgewood, and Rod Burrows. District workers, who are only receiving minimal strike pay from their union, until a deal can be reached. Adams is pleased that his idea to ask his colleges to start a fund was so well received and hopes that other unions in the area will do the same. Unifor 2300 workers have been striking over issues of wages, job security, safety and harassment. The destructive negotiations have furthered
the bitter dispute as the last of three mediation sessions ended a week ago. Both the District of Kitimat and the union claim that the other side is refusing to make reasonable compromises with their proposals. Last week, the District proposed binding arbitration, but the union rejected the offer. The strike has halted Kitimat's recreational services closing the pool, the arena, and the Senior's Centre causing many events to be cancelled.
New board saves recycling depot Cécile Favron A new executive board has stepped up to save the Kitimat Understanding the Environment (KUTE) recycling depot. This development comes as the parting KUTE executive team posted on their website last month that the depot would close unless a new team of volunteers came out to their Annual General Meeting (AGM). The AGM on May 26 saw at least twenty-five new people in attendance and went “very, very well” according to outgoing president Barb Hall. The current three-member board was not only replaced by new volunteers, but nine people stepped up to be on the incoming executive board. The three positions that the board hoped to fill at this AGM was Hall's position as president and Ken Maitland and Doug Hughan's positions as directors. The new board holds nine positions with president Peter King, vice-president Michelle Martins, treasurer Elizabeth Cloakey, secre-
tary David Brown, and five directors at large David Sivyer, Nicole Goffinet, Melissa Thomas, Cory Haupt, and Brian Andrews. All of these board members are completely new to KUTE and the outgoing team is trying to take the transition as smooth as possible. “We are very pleased and grateful to all the people that showed up and will work closely with this new board,” said Hall of the transition. Concerns had been raised that a new board would not step up because “over the last several years there have been no new people at the AGMs,” explained Hall. “The whole thing with KUTE has become more complex and, with just three of us running it, we really started to run out of steam,” she said. All three executives felt that they must step down for personal reasons and were alarmed that there might be no one to take over the project. KUTE is the only recycling depot in Kitimat and has been run by a volunteer executive board for 24 years.
In April, the board made a post challenge. They soon realized there titled “The KUTE Crisis” on their was not only a need for a depot in website stating that “without a new Kitimat, but the project was too executive KUTE will fold and the large for them to handle. That was when they passed the Kitimat Recycling Depot will be idea over to the adults which grew closed.” This spurred Kitimat residents the society from 1991 onwards. into action as they came out to offer They have been at their current locatheir support for KUTE. tion on Railway Ave. since 1995. Other attendees at the AGM KUTE holds AGMs usually in expressed interest in becoming in- October to get the public involved volved in KUTE on a smaller scale. and also runs environmental awareThe Kitimat recycling depot em- ness programs in the community. ploys three to four full time employees at their facility open six days a week. The depot recycles 316 Railway Ave., Kitimat • Ph. 250 632-6633 www.kitimatrecycle.org/home electronics, small apKITIMAT UNDERSTANDING THE ENVIRONMENT pliances, power tools, cell phones, batteries, A Boating We Will Go ~ But Keep Our Marine light bulbs, and smoke and Wildlife Safe alarms in addition to Careless disposal of plastic debris are serious hazards that pollute lakes, rivers and oceans. cans and paper. KUTE began in • Plastic bags - Secure plastic bags on board so they don’t accidentally blow away or wash overboard. 1990 when students • Six-pack rings - Cut the loops of plastic six-pack rings before disposing to avoid marine life from becoming entangled in the loops. from Mount Elizabeth line - Lost line can be lethal to fish and other marine animals. Secondary School took • Fishing Dispose of old fishing line properly. on an environmental • Food wrappings - Stow plastic trash and old fishing gear on board and
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Bull-O-Rama Continued from page 1 The event brings in approximately 2,200 people from the around the northwest region each year and is a major fundraiser for the community. Mayor Phil Germuth expressed his concern that the community would lose up
to $40,000 generated for charity from the event. This years’ event was set to raise $10,000 for the Kitimat General Hospital Foundation to purchase infusion pumps. Furthermore, the Kitimat Karate Club had signed up to be
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Enchanté, Kitimat That two-weeks of guaranteed vacation time, which some of you might be enjoying right now, is the reason why I am here. I am the student that you might see fumbling her way through her summer job, part of which is filling in for your editor Cameron Orr for the two-weeks he is spending at a tropical destination. So let me introduce myself. Hi, I’m Cécile, enchanté Kitimat, it is a pleasure to meet you. I have spent almost all of my 20 years living in Rosswood, and for those of you who don’t know, it is that little bump-in-the-road towards the Nass Valley. We still don’t have high-speed internet, and even I can remember the days before Hydro power. So Terrace has really become my home-base, but this summer I am getting the chance to learn more about my neighbours in the north. How I got here is a bit of a story, but I’ll give you a quick explanation. I really like learning. I like learning so much that I joyously packed my bags and headed to one of a couple hundred schools that I looked at over the five-years prior: Simon Fraser University. I chose SFU because, after I finally gave-up on the idea that I could be happy in the fashion design industry, it was the only school I found that offered the wonderfully broad degree of International Studies. International Studies (which, ironically, I can’t abbreviate without being linked to a certain extremist group in the Middle East) covers nearly every discipline in the social sciences from economics to sociology. It is the study of world issues through these varying lenses – and let me tell you, there are no easy answers. With this topic of study, I have felt cynical to the point that I am often resigned, so I needed a little boost to get me back into action. I started a side project that would give me a good dose of humanity with a pinch of creativity; I started writing for the student newspaper. One thing lead to another (small towns are actually wonderful for opportunity) and I ended up as an intern for the Terrace Standard. And here I am, covering Kitimat for Cameron’s vacation time. This is really my first small-town experience outside of Terrace. Small towns have a really special place in my heart, for it is not what they have that makes them special, but who they have. This little area here has got to be one of the finest in Canada. As they say, “west coast, best coast!” I look forward to working with many of you over the next while, feel free to drop me a line. Thank you for having me! Cécile Favron
From the Torstar high rise at 1 Yonge Street, Toronto In and around 1974-75, I worked for a prominent public relations comany, Public and Industrial Relations in Toronto. It was perhaps one of the higherpressure jobs I ever worked at. From day to day, you never quite knew when you’d be diverted from what you set out to accomplish that day, to help another staffer with a special event. PIP was a prestigeous company with a world wide clientele including many of Toronto’s top corporations, but it still worked with a minimum of professional staff. So, it goes without saying, there wasn’t a lot of time to look out the window at the spectacular views surrounding the Torstar Building, although I did spend a lot of time doing that -- mainly because of the business address, the Toronto Star Building was a 25 storey structure, opened in 1970 and located at #1 Yonge Street, at Queen’s Quay, which also marked the start of what was Highway 11, known informally as “the longest street in the world”.
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PIR had a whole floor in the building in these days, but the principle presence was the newspaper, the Toronto Star, then (and now) one of the city’s most influential newspapers, The Torstar Building as it was known, gave some of the most fascinating and diverse views of the big city waterfront. The Island Airport, Toronto Island, busy Queen’s Quay itself, the gargartuan two level Queen Elizabeth Way throughway curled westward and south en route to Oakville and evenually St. Catharines and Niagara. From a personal perspective, my office had a west-north-west facing window view. Much of my time there, about a year, was pretty well high-
lighted by the five-week long conclusion of construction of the CN Tower, front and centre about a mile or two away from my window, including the dramatic addition of the communications tower placed atop Canada’s tallest construction, cranes and a giant Sikorsky helicopter, named Olga which became the toast of the town. I watched the tower creep higher for months -- but the antenna tower going on was the most exciting part of the experience. I guess a few million people watched in fascination, either live or on TV, in the winter of 1974, as skilful pilots and daring high rise steel works burned off bolts to connect the sections of the huge 330ft. antenna tower, that took the edifice to its full height of 1815 feet above the city. The tower today is a communications facility that broadcasts over 30 Toronto television and FM radio signals across Southern Ontario in addition to wireless paging and cellular telephone signals. Continued on page 7
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Former KMP workers get Bravery Medal Cécile Favron The Governor General Metal for Bravery was presented to three former KMP ironworkers for pulling two people involved in a head-on car crash to safety near Kitimat in December 2012. The four-decade old award was presented to Jack Tyler, his son Jacob Tyler, and Dale Hession to recognize their exceptional bravery for pulling Bobby Weir from his burning car. The Tylers and Hession, all from Alberta, were working on the Kitimat Modernization Project at the time. The accident on December 5, 2012 was caused by danger-
ous winter road conditions on the highway between Terrace and Kitimat. The Tylers and Hession saw the accident and risked their own lives to cut Weir, a Kitimat resident, out of the burning car. “This sense came to me that it's now or never. This car is going to blow up. We either get him out or it's going to be too late. So I grabbed him with everything I had,” said Jack Tyler in a CBC interview. Just after they pulled Weir to safety, the men said that the car exploded. Jack Tyler then turned his attention to freeing another man
from the other vehicle involved in the collision. The accident sent three people to hospital with one, Bobby Weir, medevacted to the Vancouver General Hospital burn unit. Weir was treated in Vancouver for severe burns as well as leg and facial fractures. Knowing that Weir had a long road to recovery, the Tylers and Hession collected donations from other workers at the KMP site. Within a week, they had raised $5,000 which they sent to Weir to help cover his medical expenses.
Three former KMP workers, Dale Hession, Jack Tyler and Jacob Tyler get a picture with the Governor General after receiving a medal for bravery. Sgt Ronald Duchesne, Rideau Hall, OSGG
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ITA plans Aboriginal trades program Cameron Orr The Industry Training Authority (ITA) is embarking on a plan to develop a skills training program for Aboriginal people. ITA announced the program earlier this month, a development spun from the B.C. government’s Skills for Jobs Blueprint document released in 2014. The program would provide Red Seal Construction Craft Worker (CCW) training. Gary McDermott, Director of Aboriginal Initiatives, said the Blueprint document shows a projection of 15,000 Aboriginal workers required for construction in BC over the next 10 years. “In terms of aboriginal participation in the apprenticeship system about 10 percent of our apprentices are Aboriginal,” said McDermott. “The percentage of aboriginal in BC is about five per cent, but when you go in to northwestern BC we know particularly Terrace and Prince Rupert have a higher concentration of aboriginal people, we’re simply interested in ensuring that aboriginal people have skills…to work on those construction sites. Industry has an an opportunity to have a diverse workforce which includes Aboriginal people.” He says ITA plans to begin the training
program in the fall this year, after selecting a provider in July and then a location a short time later. A steering committee, composed of a number of aboriginal community members, industry people and training providers, is set to develop this program.
In particular there are members on the committee from Northwest Community College and Kitimat LNG. “There’s an engagement phase underway for the project and so we’re engaging the First Nations including in the north,” said McDermott about where in the process this pro-
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Anderson, Moore and Xatzy Creeks. Within just a few years the Andersons had guest cabins, more barns, fencing and a summer church camp retreat for the girls home at Kitamaat Mission. There were various warehouses including one for the company Foley, Welsh and Stewart and a Royal Mail depot for the Canadian Postal Service because the ranch was the starting point for people attempting the government road to the cable car river crossing and the road on to the Hazeltons. At the ranch, but in the waterways,
Continued from page 4 Also, as a matter of interest, by peering slightly sideways, I could see another iconic Toronto location, Captain John’s Floating Restaurant, one of the better known floating restaurants of the day. I bring this up because Captain John’s, which experienced, to say the least, some unfortunate times in the past two or three years, was finally towed - defunct and de-com-
were the operations for Mitchell and Hallet’s logging camp. They had a large floating scow-house, a bunkhouse for additional loggers and their various boats. Reading the accounts of those years by Elizabeth Anderson Varley in her book Kitimat My Valley, it is clear the Andersons just had to be around people. They enjoyed company and were superb hosts. They were forever putting up visitors from government surveyors to pioneer travellers poised for a journey overland to the Interior. Almost all the prospective valley pioneers spent time in residence
missioned - to a scrap yard in Port Colborne, last week ... a sad end to a near-30 year history on the Toronto waterfront. The ship, now known as M.V. Jadran, has a colourful history, including its sinking in 1981 after it was struck by a Toronto ferry. It first filed for bankruptcy protection in 2002. John Letnik, who owned the old cruise ship turned floating restaurant, fell behind on rent and taxes in
2012, and it finally shot down, reportedly owing a million in taxes to Toronto. I visited Captain John’s frequently when I lived in Toronto and worked downtown. To tell the truth, I don’t recall the quality of the food -- but Captain John’s receipe menu was severely hacked, trashed and slashed by commentors in the story about the demise of the floating restaurant, on the CBC website.
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A look back at the Lakelse Hotsprings Kelsey Wiebe Today, the mineral pools at Mount Layton Hotsprings Resort are not open to the public. The waterslides sag further each year, and half the buildings on the property have sat vacant since a regional economic decline in the 1990s, plastic tacked along the framed windows in the illusion that the halting of construction was momentary. Their present state belies the central role the hot springs played in the history and identity of the northwest region of British Columbia. Located to the east of Lakelse Lake, the cluster of hot springs has been the subject of a series of commercial developments since 1910, beginning with a log-cabin bathhouse built by Bruce Johnstone. But before that, the pools were long frequented by the Tsimshian people, the clay and warm mineral waters at the hot springs
traditionally used for healing. Addie Turner, of Kitsumkalum, recalled in a 2004 interview that the hot springs were considered a kind of ‘native hospital.’ In fact, the word ‘Lakelse’ itself is an anglicization of Lax Gyels, the Sm’algyax word for the site of freshwater mussels. Reports from the turn of the century show that mail carriers broke up their two- to three-week dog-sled routes from Kitimat to Hazelton by warming up by the hot springs pools. That’s how Hank Boss, the Dominion Government Telegraph operator at Kitselas in the early 1900s, learned about the Lakelse hot springs – from the mail mushers stopped at Kitselas. Sensing potential, Boss purchased half of Bruce Johnstone’s pre-emption of the hot springs property and remained a silent partner until he died in 1925. Johnstone was
similarly familiar with the hot springs land from working as a government surveyor and at the nearby Lakelse fish hatcheries before he pre-empted the land in 1906. The two men began clearing land with the expectation that Kitimat would be chosen as the western railway terminus, going so far as to build a roadhouse next to the hot springs in 1910 to house the anticipated rail traffic. When the railway was routed to Prince Rupert, instead, Johnstone was undeterred – if disappointed. The lodge at the hot springs served as the first post office on the mail route from Kitimat to Hazelton. On mail day, trappers, settlers, hatchery men, and miners gathered at the lodge to await their letters and to hear news from the outside. The original lodge was located about 1,200 feet from the main hot spring, so water was transported
to wooden tubs in an open, gravity-fed ‘V’ trough made of two boards nailed together. This first hotel was a two-storey log cabin with 14 bedrooms, a dining room, and a living room, with an adjacent bathhouse and guest cabins. It measured approximately 40 by 60 feet. “You had the tub right there and the water was going by it so when you wanted water to come into the tub you’d just take out a board on the side and push it across there and the water would just come right into the tub,” David BowenColthurst recalled in a 1970’s oral interview. In 1912, Johnstone met Beatrice May Bradley during a winter furlough in Victoria shortly after constructing his first hotel. Bradley’s brother-inlaw was the head of the British Columbia Fisheries Department. They were married in the fall of 1913. At that point, John-
The Mount Layton Hot Springs in happier days. Heritage Park Museum, Terrace stone arranged to sell the hot springs property, and bought a home in Victoria. But the sale of the hot springs fell through, so the newlyweds returned to Lakelse Lake in 1915. Johnstone sold Lakelse Hot Springs, as the business was then called, for a second time in 1921, and again tried to relocate to Victoria. Lloyd, the couple’s only child, attended school in Victo-
ria from 1921 to 1928. In 1928, the sale once again defaulted, and the family resumed operating the lodge during the tourist season. “It must have been a very lonely life for my mother,” Lloyd mused, much later. Beatrice was welleducated, and hailed from a large lumber family in Ottawa. As a newlywed, she moved to Lakelse Lake with Bruce, and was quickly
immersed in rural pioneer life. During the summer seasons, she would wake up at 4 a.m. to bake pies, wash clothes by hand, and cook for between 12 and 20 guests. She occasionally had a part-time cook and waitress to assist her, but it nonetheless must have been an extreme adjustment from city life in Eastern Canada. Continued on page 9
Farm Continued from page 7 George and Martha were operating an early version of Kitimat’s Community Centre. Kitamaat Village folk came to witness and enjoy farm life and valley folk came for their Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter celebrations where the food was legendary. Additionally, the evenings included table games and lively music - George had the first valley gramophone and he encouraged neighbours to bring along their talents to ensure a good time for all. Charlie Carlson usually arrived with his violin and some in the group had cred-
ible baritone voices which were effectively left. It was like the heart of the valley had used in the usual popular hits and tunes. been removed. Yes, life had been a struggle, what with Some of the more popular ones were actuWorld War I and the loss of several valley ally hymns like Rock of Ages. Elizabeth confessed that despite her youths, including Bert Anderson, the disapparents having served the Lord, they were pointments of the railroad going elsewhere not above playing a fun card game like gin and that constant battle with the capricious rummy. river freshets. The Andersons were compassionate, The river was continually eroding paskind folk, always taking in the singletons, mostly men, who Elizabeth described as “lonely men in a weary land.” It was a severe loss to the Kitimat valley pioneers when in 1921 the Andersons finally WINNERLF at GO TWO ROUNDS OF
ture lands and tearing out structures and fencing and Elizabeth well remembered the loss of the original Ranch House to a rampaging November torrent. The early 1900s were memorable years in the life of Kitimat and Kouthpega was the heart of it all. Far more than just a pioneer farm, it was a real community.
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Top honours for Kitimat student Cameron Orr Kitimat can safely check “book smarts” on its list of community exports. Kitimat’s Linda Horianopolous is capping off her undergraduate program at the University of Northern British Columbia not only with a path towards her Masters at UBC, but has been named one of UNBC’s two valedictorians. “It was exciting,” she said about learning she was chosen, after a comprehensive nomination and interview process. “It’s actually a more involved process than I thought it was.” Horianopolous will be leaving UNBC
with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She said she’s looking forward to continuing to do research at UBC, which had been a big part of her life at UNBC in Prince George too. But she’s not alone in the fact she needed some time at the start to find the right path for her. “When I started university I didn’t really know what I wanted to do,” she said. Certainly it was always going to be science. Her interests lay in that field, and she said she had that foundation nurtured by
what she calls phenomenal teachers at Mount Elizabeth Middle Secondary. “I thought I was going to go with biology but then I just really liked biology and chemistry, and I was like ‘well, I’ll do biochemistry then.’” Her chosen program offered flexibility, she said, in terms of how heavy her courseload could be in either the biochemistry or molecular biology side. Through the course of her studies she spent time researching owls and the mountain pine beetle. At UBC she said her focus will shift to the pathogenic
fungus cryptococcus. She said she arrived at UNBC on the fact that it had a number of benefits, including its geographical proximity to home. The school also offers good scholarships for northern residents, she said. On May 29 she fulfilled her duties as valedictorian by giving speech to her fellow undergrads. So what life lessons will Horianopolous be imparting to her peers? Namely, it’s the people who you surround yourself with which can make the biggest different. “It just shows the
Hot springs Continued from page 8 The Johnstone family kept around 15 cows as well as a vegetable garden to feed themselves and the guests at the lodge. Apparently, their garden was much more productive than Terrace settlers due to the minerals in the hot springs water. Today, current owner Bert Orleans pipes the hot springs water into greenhouses, continuing to use the mineral water to grow enormous organic vegetables. Promoted as a health spa in newspapers across the United States and Canada, the lodge had a full register for most of the season, which ran May through October. Johnstone catered mostly to people with rheumatism and arthritis and the spot was also frequented by commercial fishermen from Prince Rupert. In 1991, Lloyd discussed the miraculous cures he witnessed during his tenure at the Lakelse Hot Springs. “I remember one young fellow who had arthritis really bad. They packed him in on a stretcher. Dad didn’t think we could help him, but the fellow said we were his last hope. He came in August; two months later he walked out on snowshoes. In those days they didn’t have drugs, so people used the spa to get relief,” he said. Visitors would come to the area by rail, then taxi from Terrace to the north end of Lakelse Lake. The first car in Terrace in 1916 was a Stanley Steamer, bought by Ernie Large and his brother to ferry guests to and from the Lakelse Hot Springs
– although, it was quickly returned because it was unable to maintain the proper level of steam on the steep hills out to the lake. For communication, there was a single-wire phone system. When visitors were dropped off at the lake, they notified the lodge on crank telephone. A boat would then be dispatched to pick up the guests, who would then carry their luggage or push it in a wheelbarrow along a split cedar plank walk that spanned the half-mile between Lakelse Lake and the hot springs. In the spring of 1929, Bruce Johnstone constructed a second hotel of vertical log construction on the lake shore. It measured about 70 by 40 feet, and featured 12 upstairs bedrooms. Downstairs, there was a large fireplace, dining room, living room, and a few extra bedrooms. Newspaper ads indicate that the hotel fee of $4.25 a night included three meals and “fringe benefits.” The lake shore bathhouse was about the same size as the lodge, but was constructed of horizontal logs. It featured a large fireplace and four to six seven-foot enamel bathtubs. Frank Poe, a wealthy Illinois contractor who retired to Lakelse Lake, financed the construction of a wooden pipeline carrying hot springs water to the lake shore bathhouse between 1930 and 1931. As a result, an uninsulated wire-bound wooden pipeline carried hot springs water approximately 5,000 feet from the main hot spring pool to the lake shore bathhouse. For
the first 1,000 feet, the pipe was eight inches in diameter. For the final 4,000 feet, the pipe was six inches in diameter. It was entirely gravity-fed. By the time the water arrived at the bathhouse, it had cooled to a perfect temperature for soaking. (Sections of this pipe were recently transferred to Heritage Park Museum by the Kitimat Museum & Archives.) In 1936, the Skeena River flooded, halting passenger trains from the end of May through late August. This destroyed Johnstone’s entire tourist season. Incidentally, Frank Poe had died the year before, and his estranged wife and daughter arrived that fall to settle his estate. Lloyd estimated Poe’s investment in the pipeline at between $6,000 and $8,000. In 1936, at the height of the Depression, Johnstone was unable to settle the outstanding debt, especially because he had no income coming in for much of the 1936 season. Mrs. and Miss Poe were apparently uninterested in extending Frank’s goodwill. As such, Johnstone was forced into foreclosure and lost the Lakelse Hot Springs property. At that time, Lloyd recalled, “he was a very bitter man.” This is part one of a three part series, originally published in our sister paper The Terrace Standard. More on the hot springs next week. Kelsey Wiebe is the curator of Heritage Park Museum.
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importance of who you’re surrounded with,” she said, referring to the fact that valedictorian is a nominated process, meaning she had to have been highlighted by a friend or peer. She remarks that imparting her gained knowledge from university is important to her because her younger brother will be starting university himself at UNBC in the fall. As for the school work itself, she said there’s no “one crazy trick” to doing it right. “The biggest piece of advice is your work ethic is hugely important, and time management. They go hand in hand. It’s really hard to find a balance when you’re in university. For me I was lucky that I really enjoyed my studies so doing things like research and papers was enjoyable for me,” she said, adding, “It wasn’t always,
don’t get me wrong, but it’s not like it was a drag.” Ultimately, find enjoyment with what you’ll be doing. “[Be] social with your work. Get forming study groups to help you. When you’re helping others it helps you more than it helps others a lot of the time.” She continued, “There’s no way to get around it. There’s no little trick, ‘you don’t have to study if you do this,’ you’ve got to work hard.” For any students out there reading this it’s probably best to take her advice, she is valedictorian after all. Horianopolous is originally from Kitimat. She will be graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She chose to attend UNBC because of the scholarship opportunities and because of its
location in Northern BC. Like many UNBC undergraduate students she had the opportunity to conduct research early in her degree. For the past two and a half years she’s been working in Dr. Brent Murray’s lab and she recently presented her undergraduate thesis on the mountain pine beetle. In addition Horianopolous was able to teach as a supplemental instructor and lab teaching assistant. This summer she will present her research at an international conference. Horianopolous will speak at the College of Science and Management Convocation at 2:30 p.m. Valedictorians are selected by a committee consisting of two undergraduate student representatives, two graduate student representatives, and one alumni representative.
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Thorne wins second national title Cécile Favron Former Kitimat resident Ben Thorne race-walked his way to his second national title at the NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama in May. Thorne won the men's 5000 meter race walk for his team the UBC Thunderbirds. When Thorne won his title on the second day of
competition, the UBC men's team was third in the standings at 20 points – half of which came from Thorne's win. Thorne's time was 21:37, 15 seconds ahead of his competitor Anthony Peters from Iowa and over a minute ahead of the third place competitor Alejandro Chavez from Missouri. The NAIA competition does not qualify athletes
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to compete at international events, but Thorne will most likely be on the Canada’s World University Games team. This is Thorne's second national title after he came in third at the 2013 Canadian Track and Field Championships, earning him a trip to Moscow. He has been on the UBC Thunderbirds team since 2011 and is 22 years old.
Kitimat defenceman drafted to Prince George Cougars Cécile Favron Defenceman Zach Minaker, 15, was drafted to the Prince George Cougars last month in their ninthround selection. This puts Minaker 183rd overall. Minaker grew up in Kitimat, but has spent the last season playing for the Okanagan Hockey Academy Bantam Prep team. “It's an honour to become a part of the @PGCougars organization. Thank you to all my friends and family who have supported me along the way,” Minaker posted on Twitter when he heard that he had been drafted. Over the past season Minaker has played 18 games and totalled three assists and fourteen penalty minutes. In an interview on the PG Cougars’ website, General Manager Todd Harkins described Minaker as “a good, smooth skating defenceman [who] makes very smart decisions and is very reliable on the back-end.” Minaker was the fifth B.C. born player to be drafted in the Bantam
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We missed out on the result of one of Kitimat’s gymnasts in our May 6 edition. Sorry to Melissa Yeoh, 15, who competed in level 7 and earned gold overall with 32.10 points.
“In an interview on the PG Cougars’ website, General Manager Todd Harkins described Minaker as ‘a smooth skating defenceman.’” draft this year. He is also the second from Kitimat to be drafted to the Cougars in as many years with Kitimat's Justin Almeida being drafted in the first round last year. The draft was a part of the Western Hockey League Bantam Draft 2015 which included players from the western provinces of Canada and the western half of the United States. The WHL Bantam Draft has a long history of drafting players who went on to play in the National Hockey League. Notably, this includes players such as Dan Hamhuis, drafted to the PG Cougars in 1998, who went on to play for the Vancouver Canucks.
Also note an associated photo of raffle winners which was printed in the following Northern Connector noted a raffle prize incorrectly at $200, which should have been $2000.
Gymnastics Kitimat’s Camryn Oliveira won gold in the vault event in Provincials which were held in North Vancouver on April 11. Submitted
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