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Vincent King, 8, said he has wanted to be a vet his whole life. Vincent was an active volunteer during the four-day clinic, where people were encouraged to take part and help with many aspects of care. (Caitlin Thompson photo)
Huge response to volunteer vet clinic By Caitlin Thompson
Over two hundred cats and dogs from Bella Coola were spayed and neutered over a fourday period by volunteers from the Canadian Animal Assistance Team (CAAT) this past week. With headquarters in Vancouver and in Ontario, CAAT members live and work across Canada. Their primary focus is on running Animal Health Care Projects in low-income
communities with limited or no access to veterinary services for their animals. This trip saw 23 CAAT volunteers in the community - four vets with their support staff of veterinary and surgery technicians - working 13 to 16 hour days to get all of the animals taken care of. “The response has blown my mind,” said community organizer Rita Svisdahl. “This clinic has been eight years in the making and I’m just amazed.”
The temporary clinic was set up in the maintenance building at Acwsalcta School and checkin’s for animals, which began early, were often maxed out by 10:30am. “We call these trips our “spaycations,” said volunteer and vet tech Trina Legg. “Everyone here is a volunteer and some come from across the country on their own time to make these clinics happen.” Approximately 35 percent of Canadian
households have a dog, while 38 percent have a cat. While there are no solid numbers for the community of Bella Coola, local organizers believe the local figure is higher. Unfortunately, Bella Coola has been without regular veterinary services for the past several years and, by the sheer numbers of people turning up with their pets, its absence has been keenly felt. Continued on A3
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Hagensborg TV Society shutting down after almost 50 years The Hagensborg TV Society (HTV) advised its members earlier this month that after nearly four decades of providing low-cost “over the air” TV signals to the Hagensborg area, the society would be winding up its activity. Members did not receive any billing for dues in 2018. HTV was advised last year that the TV signals that it purchases from Shaw would require new decoder and transmission equipment some time in 2019. It appeared unlikely that the society could afford these
changes, so a decision was made to carry on as long as possible by spending cash reserves and not soliciting any new payments. It is now anticipated that the capacity for CBC, CTV, Global, and PBS will end around the end of June or early July. The contract with TSN also expires at the end of June, and it also will be unaffordable. The Knowledge Network is part of a different system and should continue to be available for the time being. These developments may not immediately impact radio.
All available technology options were explored but none were within the scope of a small volunteer society such as this. However, HTV directors had several meetings with the CCCS, and the CCCS has agreed to assume responsibility for finding a financial and technological solution that may keep the four basic channels on the air (or restore them after a hiatus while setting up an alternate system). That said, the transition may not be seamless, and there may be an interruption of service.
In the longer term, the CCCS may have a more extensive plan to offer these and additional channels through their Internet capability, at modest cost. The first TV signals received in the Valley were 50 years ago come July (just in time for the moon-landing), by way of a torturous network of relays from CFTK in Terrace via Aristazabel Island, Sawmill Mountain (Ocean Falls), King Island, and Four-Mile – all built by volunteers. The next significant step was delivered in 1981 by a couple of
local businessmen who established the Nusatsum site as a broadcast base at their own expense and then turned the system over to more local volunteers. The current society was formed in 1993 in response to the need for proper licensing, better quality, and community input. As personal dishes became smaller and more prevalent and satellite services more readily accessible, the volume of users of the society’s services diminished, but many residents continued their financial sup-
port so that “free” signals continued to be available for others. Many volunteers, too numerous to name, managed to keep things operational both on the Nusatsum site, and with individual connections in the Valley. In recent years, maintaining obsolete equipment has been a serious challenge, and one which now exceeds the ability of volunteers to deliver. The outgoing board expressed appreciation to community members for years of support.
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Canadiens jersey and invited him to come to the next NHL All Stars game. Price first met Anderson in February after he was invited to watch him during a morning skate. Anderson’s mother’s dying wish was for him to meet Price, but she passed away before that could happen. A video of the two meeting showed the grief-stricken Anderson being comforted
by Price. The two have clearly spent time together since that first emotional meeting, with Price posting a picture of Anderson on his Instagram in May. Price was raised in the remote First Nations community of Anahim Lake, west of Williams Lake, and continues to be a huge source of pride for everyone in the entire region.
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Branch President: Denis Tippie 250-982-2495 Meeting Times: Priesthood and Relief Society10:00 am Sunday School and Primary 11:00 am Sacrament 12:00 pm Carey Price hugs young fan Anderson Whitehead at the NHL Awards. (Facebook photo)
Montreal netminder Carey Price melted the hearts of fans during the NHL Awards Wednesday evening. Price surprised young fan Anderson Whitehead, who was on stage at the awards. The moment brought the crowd to their feet, and Anderson to tears. Price presented Anderson with a
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Over 200 local cats and dogs treated Continued from A1 “From the moment the Canadian Animal Assistance Team arrived, they brought a positive energy, dedication, and high level of teamwork. I hold my hands up to
every member of this 100 percent volunteer team. They are literally an answer to prayers,” said organizer Desiree Danielson. “It has been incredible to see the community response. So many pet
parents have come in and waited patiently all day; the waited to register, then for their initial exam, then stood by and witnessed the surgery, and then cuddled their animals like babies in
recovery.” CAAT volunteers were also very welcoming to the community, hosting school visits and taking on young volunteers who showed interest. “I so appreciate
CAAT’s transparency. The team encourages you to watch and ask questions throughout the process. I think the CAAT clinic visit has been a whole education in itself, and I’m so thankful that
children and families could have this experience together,” said Danielson. One of these young volunteers, eight-year old Vincent King, spent the majority of two days at the clinic
in a hands-on experience. “I’ve always wanted to be a vet,” he shared. “I’m here studying how to do surgeries.” CAAT volunteers also enjoyed their experience.
“I love it here, the people have been so welcoming,” said volunteer Debra Kosituk. “This is my eleventh trip with the organization and by far my favourite so far.”
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Gary attended elementary school in Utah where he excelled in track, mathematics and science. He learned to hunt and fish at an early age. During his teen years he lived on a 4,000-acre ranch in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. There, he learned to trap for predators, ride horses, learned to play guitar, prospect for gold, tan hides and shoot guns. By the time he was sixteen, he was working for the US Forest Service doing fire suppression duty in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Later, he became a volunteer fireman and search and rescue co-ordinator. By the age of 19, Gary was a surveyor and had learned many building skills. In 1963, at age 19, he married the love of his life, Sandy Guzman Hicks, a young woman he’d known since 8th Grade; they were married for 56 years. In 1965, Gary and Sandy began the adventure of a lifetime when they relocated to Bella Coola, BC, Canada, where he became a highly experienced woodsman. They were looking for a remote community that wouldn’t change much in their lifetime. For them, it was like stepping back 50 years in time. Gary and Sandy raised four children in the wilderness: Debra, Clinton, Tyler and Julie. Gary had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, and was a walking encyclopedia. He spent most mornings (before work) doing research, studying and planning. Gary loved archaeology, paleontology, philosophy, geology and ethology, and demonstrated mastery of these subjects in interactions with PhD’s in their related fields. He read hundreds of books on a multitude of subjects. Science and math came very naturally to Gary. During his life he worked as a logger, surveyor, was a master builder/general contractor, who designed and built many homes and buildings in Bella Coola, and specialized in cabinet making. He had his own milling operation, a registered trap line for over 50 years, a guiding business, and worked for the Ministry of Highways. He became a bear expert and wrote three best seller books on the subject. He developed a bear safety program, including firearms training, to teach provincial agencies working in dense bear populations how to survive a bear attack and educate them about bears; this training proved to save many lives. If you ever had the opportunity to hear Gary speak, you quickly experienced his ability to captivate his audience. He was integral in establishing and maintaining the local Rod and Gun Club. During his retirement years, Gary enjoyed exploring southern Utah, Nevada, Oregon, and Alaska. Gary influenced everyone he met and garnered widespread respect as is apparent from the overwhelming messages received from peers, colleagues, students, friends, and family alike. A common theme in messages received after his death was,“Gary was bigger than life”. He truly was our hero. In 2017, Gary and Sandy moved to Armstrong, BC, to be closer to their daughters; a community where they felt right at home. Gary is survived by his wife Sandy of Armstrong; his daughters Debra Hicks (Dave Smith) of Kelowna; Julie McVarnock (Steve) of Armstrong. He is predeceased by his sons Clinton Hicks and Tyler Shelton. Surviving siblings are Phyllis Thomas of Blaine, WA; Bob Shelton (Shirley) of Sonora, CA; Cynthia Williams (George) of Bellingham, WA; Carolyn Foltz (Dave) of Eagle, ID; and survived by four grandchildren (Briana Hicks, Erik Pogany, Chelsea Maynez, Ashley Shelton) and four great-grandchildren.
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Ulkatcho First Nation has a new chief and council after community members voted Saturday, June 22 in a regular election. Lynda Price was elected chief, garnering 132 votes. The mother of Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price, Price lives at Anahim Lake and was previously chief from 2005 to 2009. Joining her on coun-
cil are Mabelene Leon with 101 votes, Allan Louie, 89 votes, Laurie Vaughan, 137 votes, Stella West, 104 votes and Nelson P. William, 109 votes. During a meet and greet with the new chief and council at the Ramada Inn in Williams Lake Monday, June 24, Price told the Tribune she is looking forward to working with the rest of council on issues that are pressing in the community. “I believe one of
the important issues is health and health issues that have arisen so I’m hoping we will be able to work together to establish a healing centre in our community.” There are other issues in regards to economic opportunities, Price added. “The prior chief and council were working on an economic development plan so we’d like to continue to work toward implementing that plan as well.”
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will open some doors for me. I don’t know where, but I put it out there already and we’ll see where he brings me.” In the immediate future, however, she hopes to go mushroom picking up North on the July long weekend, Cahoose said. Tyler Sill was on council for two years and also chose not to run again. “I got in two years ago and a lot of people wanted me to run,” Sill said. “They wanted me to run again this year, but I have a family and it’s time to address that issue. I hope to see this chief and council move forward and keep working.”
There are approximately 1,100 members in the nation and more than 600 live in the community. “We are the opposite of the regular people where 70 per cent live off reserve,” said councillor Laurie Vaughan. “We have more living on reserve.” Similar to other First Nations communities in Canada, Vaughan said housing and water are also issues. “But we have a lot of good things in our back pocket too,” she added. Sill agreed, adding the Blackwater Gold Project getting the green light was pos- Lynda Price is Ulkatcho (Anahim) First Nation’s new itive for the commu- chief after winning a regular band election held Saturday, June 22. (Monica Lamb-Yorski photo) nity.
School District 49 gathered on May 23rd, 2019 to honour the years of service of many of its staff to the students of the District. The event was catered by Carol Clarke from “My Lunch Stop”, beautifully decorated by Paige Wheatley with help from Gwen Siwallace and Chelsey Hilland and students Cela Jones and Ruby Ratcliff acting as directors of ceremonies. The evening began by honouring those staff with five to nine years of service. Blaise Chartrand with five years working in Wuikinuxv Elementary, Catherine Wright five years as custodian both at SAMS and now BCE, Ben Fernandez with five years teaching math and science at SAMS, Lori George who in her five years as been both an educational
assistant and Nuxalk teacher, Spuxta Nelson also with five years teaching Nuxalk Language at both BCE and SAMS, Lisa Nelson with five years as an educational assistant, Tanya Durocher with five years as an educational assistant at BCE, Joel Abergel who’s been with the District for five years as an educational assistant and Rhonda Coles with five years mostly as the Youth Care Worker at BCE. Current board office administrative assistant Tanya Moren has been with the district for seven years, Charlotte Brown with seven years split between teaching in Shearwater and now BCE, Gloria Abergel who for seven years has managed the District Strong Start Program, Gwen Siwallace with eight
years as a custodian at both BCE and SAMS, Lorna Dishkin who in her eight years has taught both at SAMS and now at BCE as the learning assistance teacher, Robert Rose also at 8 years having been an educational assistant at BCE and SAMS, and finally Kevin Gianakos, who in his 8 years previously taught at Shearwater Elementary and is now the principal of NES. Next, those with ten to fourteen years of service were presented with keepsakes from the District starting with Fran Gascoyne, the current First Nations Home School Coordinator/Youth Care worker at NES with ten years in the District, Roxanne Burnett, with eleven years as the pre-school educator, Sharon Beloin the principal of
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Outgoing Chief Betty Cahoose, who received a gift from chief and council, said she was thankful for the opportunity to be Chief the last four years. “I was faced with many challenges, but overcame the majority of the issues because of leadership and staff at Ulkatcho,” Cahoose said. “I enjoyed my time and it was worthwhile.” She said she decided not to run again, but plans to support the new chief and council through their two-year term. “The doors are open,” she said of what she will do next. “I’m a believer in God and believe God
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as the band teacher at SAMS was honoured for his eighteen years of service to the District followed by Meredith McIlwain, Learning Assistance program at NES, also at eighteen years along with SAMS principal Jeremy Baillie at nineteen years with the District. Those individuals with twenty to twenty-four years of service were honoured next, including Melanie Kloss with twenty-one as secretary and then data management, George Pootlass with twenty-two in transportation and Marc Hedges with twenty four. In the twenty-five to twenty-nine year range honoured were BCE teacher, Coleen Fraser with twenty-five years, lead hand of transportaContinued on A6
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Decades of service recognized at District Continued from A4
two current longest serving members of the school district staff, Dan Watts with 30 years and Sheila Wilson with 34 years and. Ms. Wilson was unable to attend. Mr. Watts was presented with his keepsake and received a standing ovation from staff and guests as he retires after 30 years of service to the district.
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Blackwater Gold Project granted an environmental assessment certificate An environmental assessment certificate for the Blackwater Gold Project has been issued to
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of ore per day with a net annual production of 22 million tonnes per year during the mine’s 17year operational life. Having considered the Environmental Assessment Office’s (EAO) assessment report, submissions from Indigenous Nations and the recommendation of the EAO’s executive director to issue a certificate, the ministers are confident that Blackwater will be built, operated and closed in a way that ensures that no significant adverse effects are likely to occur. In addition to the 43 conditions that are part of the Blackwater environmental assessment certificate, design requirements are specified in the certified project description, which are legally binding requirements that New Gold must meet to maintain compliance with the certificate. The conditions were developed in consideration of the issues raised by communities, the public, Indigenous groups and government agencies, and were collaboratively developed with Lhoosk’uz Dené Nation (LDN), Ulkatcho First Nation (UFN), and the Carrier Sekani First Nations (Nadleh Whut’en First Nation, Saik’uz First Nation and Stellat’en First Nation) (CSFNs). To proceed with construction of the project, New Gold is also required to obtain other federal and provincial permits. Key conditions for Blackwater include: country foods monitoring plan; community liaison committee and community effects monitoring and management
plan; air quality and dust management plan; noise and vibration monitoring and mitigation plan;caribou mitigation and monitoring plan; wildlife management plan; nine conditions related to reducing impacts on water through implementing mitigation measures, water quality analysis, treatment, monitoring and adaptive management and reporting; tailings dam safety transparency plan; and Aboriginal group engagement plan, outlining the engagement that New Gold will be required to undertake in implementing the requirements of the certificate. The EAO collaborated with UFN, LDN and CSFNs, who actively participated in the working group and technical discussions, frequently discussed issues and concerns, provided assessments on the potential impacts from Blackwater on their Aboriginal interests, and worked iteratively with the EAO on the proposed conditions. The EAO also consulted deeply with Nazko First Nation and worked to ensure Nazko First Nation’s concerns were reflected in the proposed conditions. The EAO provided funding to facilitate these groups’ participation in the environmental assessment process. New Gold estimates construction of the new mine would create 2,436 person years of direct employment in B.C. during the two-year construction period, with $1.29 billion in project expenditures in B.C., contributing $312 million to B.C.’s gross domes-
tic product. During operations, New Gold predicts that Blackwater would directly support 396 full-time equivalent jobs per year, with annual expenditures (excluding labour) of $161 million per year in B.C., directly contributing $258 million to B.C.’s GDP annually. The EAO and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency worked together to conduct co-ordinated assessments, which included co-chairing working group meetings, co-ordinating consultation activities with Indigenous groups and the public, including hosting a joint public comment period, and jointly identifying and addressing technical issues during the review of technical information provided by New Gold. This co-ordination resulted in the development of a provincial assessment report and a federal environmental assessment report to support separate provincial and federal decisions, respectively. A federal decision statement was issued on April 15, 2019, for Blackwater, allowing the project to proceed pending additional permits and authorizations. British Columbia’s environmental assessment process offers significant opportunities for Indigenous groups, government agencies and the public to influence the outcome of environmental assessments by providing input on the potential for environmental, economic, social, heritage and health effects from a proposed project.
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By eVanGeline hanUse to as Qatuwas, or ‘People Gathering Together,’ On the morning Bella Bella and hosted the 1993 is planning 2014, four canoes of July 9, to return to Bella Qatuwas Festival. journeys, was cautious Bella this year, began their when journey from Bella 21 years after its speaking of facing Members of the first gathering take in the annual Coola to parwas held in 1993. Nation and their Squamish ous Mesachie Nose,the notoriThe Heiltsuk fellow paddlers Journeys. Hosted Tribal Canoe have played a key from Hawaii towed its swirling currents famous for this the Heiltsuk Nation year by resurgence of the role in the from Vancouver, two canoes winds. “If the winds and strong ocean going BC and were pick up Bella, it is estimated of Bella canoe culture along welcomed into we may have to Bella be towed,” said will be 100 canoes that there North West Coast the Pacific the Nuxalk Nation Coola by Mack. when they attending the Qatuwas Festival first carved a canoe luck at the Bella with a pot To many, this canoe Coola and paddled and 5,000 journey visitors going to from Bella Bella Campground. Together,Motel is seen as a healing Bella Bella for to they seven days of celebrating, for Expo 86, in 1986Vancouver journeyed for three nity for all involved.opportuand in 1989 days with the feastCultural ing, and dancing. participated in help of support traditions and knowledge the vessels, arriving are to Seattle”, and at “Paddle Tribal Journeys, in Bella Bella last being revived as this also referred weekend. traditionally invited other tribes event Nuxalkmc were Luke Mack, a skipper, to travel to skilled navigawho has been on several tors on the water, canoe using the ocean as a highway for trade and
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