Burns Lake Lakes District News, January 29, 2014

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Nominations for Citi-zen of the Year 2013 are now open in the Lakes District. This presti-gious award is presented annually to residents of the Lakes District who have dedicated them-selves to volunteerism in their community.

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WALTER STRONG

It’s budget time in Burns Lake again. The provisional budget is out, but it will see some fine-tuning be-fore being finalized.

The preliminary 2014 budget is a balanced one with no municipal tax increases, but with only marginal ad-ditions to village reserve funds for eventual infrastructure upgrades.

But the zero per cent increase does not mean that municipal tax payers won’t be paying a slightly larger tax bill. The recent 2014 property as-sessment shows increased property values, which translates into slightly

higher tax bills for property owners, despite the zero per cent increase. In total, the Village of Burns Lake proj-ects a higher tax revenue to the tune of $41,000, thanks to the increased property assessments.

The extra tax revenue is welcome in the face of increases the village will face in 2014 for substantial rises in electricity, fuel, and water treat-ment chemical costs.

Those increased costs are supply-side increases, and not related to in-creased usage. They are essentially outside of VBL control.

But they come at the same time as marginally decreased revenues in as-sociated areas. Water and sewer rate revenue will drop by $15,925 follow-ing the 2013 decision to reclassify low-volume business users at resi-dential water and sewer usage rates.

This reclassification was done to

give a break to small business owners who don’t use anymore water than a residential household, and often less.

Other increased costs the village will face are a 1.5 per cent increase to unionized staff wages as per labour agreements. The 1.5 per cent increase will be extended to non-unionized village employees as well. The total cost for VBL staff raises amounts to approximately $10,000 in total.

Village councillors and mayor are expected to take a planned raise that had been postponed for two years. The total cost of that raise, for all councillors and mayor combined, is $1900 for the year.

Wages will be looked at next week after department heads have laid out their portfolios in the next council budget meeting.

Major public works projects being

considered for inclusion in the 2014 budget include, the possible replace-ment of the small Government St. bridge, continued downtown revi-talization work to the former Shell property, and required upgrades to the village sewage lagoon.

On Jan. 27, 2013, VBL council was scheduled to consider depart-mental budgets in detail, as well as possible water and sewer frontage rate increases to allow for increased capital reserves.

What to do with the $960,000 the village received from the Burns Lake Community Forest (BLComfor) is yet to be decided. None of it has so far been allocated for anything in the budget.

On Feb. 4, 2014 the village will a hold a public town hall to discuss the budget, as well as BLComfor money, with area residents.

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After waiting five months for a response to a written request for consultation over natu-ral gas pipeline propos-als with Premier Christy Clark, Wet’suwet’en First Nation (WFN) Chief Karen Ogen took to social media to get her message out.

Premier Christy Clark was in Prince George for a resource forum last week. At the same time, Ogen released statements calling on the premier to pull up a chair for meaningful

First Nation consulta-tion on issues surround-ing natural gas propos-als involving pipelines through her peoples tra-ditional territories.

“First Nations should be involved right from the get-go and not as an afterthought,” Ogen said. “We had been waiting for five months for a response. So we stood up to say, you have to address our re-

quest.”Ogen wants to see ex-

tended to First Nations the same kind of ac-commodation extended to energy proponents.

“While Wet’suwet’en has been forced to wait for Crown consultation to begin, government and industry have been meeting behind closed doors to finalize high level decisions, fiscal arrangements and stra-

tegic plans for the new liquid natural gas export industry,” Ogen said.

Media picked up on the WFN press releases, asking Clark to explain the seeming contradic-tion between her assur-ances of First Nation consultation on natural gas and Ogen’s com-plaint that consultation hadn’t been forthcom-ing.

Burns Lake area chief calls on premier for consultationStep in the right direction, says First Nation chief, but more slated

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Nominations for Citizen of the Year 2013 are now open in the Lakes Dis-trict. This prestigious award is pre-sented annually to residents of the Lakes District who have dedicated themselves to volunteerism in their community.

The award is named for the late William Konkin, long time school principal in Burns Lake, who, togeth-er with his elementary school service club, started the award in 1973. So don’t miss this opportunity to honour someone you believe has served the

Lakes District well over the past year or several years, by nominating them for this award. Nomination forms are available all over Burns Lake at local schools, banks, and businesses. Fill one out and send it to: Citizen of the Year Committee, Box 961, Burns Lake, B.C., V0J 1E0

If you can’t find a nomination form, a hand written signed letter will be accepted. Nominations close March 1st, 2014. For more informa-tion, please phone chairperson, Doug Campbell at 250-692-7300.

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Adrian Dix, provincial NDP lead-er of the official opposition, was in Burns Lake on Jan. 21, 2014 at the invitation of Lake Babine Nation (LBN) for a specially convened LBN community meeting, including LBN chief and council.

The closed door meeting was to give Dix an opportunity to meet with members of the LBN community not satisfied with Crown Counsel’s deci-sion not to proceed with any charges, regulatory or criminal, against Babine Forest Products (BFP) in the wake of the January 2012 BFP mill explosion that left one of their band members dead and many injured.

Lake Babine Nation is calling for a formal inquiry - independent of both WorkSafe BC and the province - into the circumstances leading up the mill’s explosion, and into the decision not to lay charges in the case.

“I heard very strongly from some family members, the community and Lake Babine Nation that what

happened here was unacceptable,” Dix said. “Two provincial agencies, WorkSafe BC and the Crown, are pointing fingers at each other, blam-ing each other for what is an unac-ceptable result.”

Dix said he and the NDP support LBN’s call for an independent in-quiry.

“People rightly think there should be an independent inquiry. Only an inquiry independent of WorkSafe BC and the government - they can’t investigate themselves - will respond credibly to these problems.”

On Jan. 16, 2014, B.C. Premier Christy Clarke instructed deputy minister John Dyble to begin an ur-gent fact-finding mission into the cir-cumstances surrounding the Crown’s decision not to proceed with charges.

“What he [Dyble] is doing is estab-lishing the fact pattern,” Clark said. “We can't make a decision about how to proceed until we're clear about what the facts were, so I have asked him to establish those facts… When I have the facts, I'll be in a position to make a decision about what happens next.”

On the same day as Dix’s visit to Burns Lake, the BC Coroners Service announced a public inquest into the deaths of Robert Luggi Jr. and Carl Charlie, who lost their lives in the mill explosion.

Lake Babine Nation hosts NDP leader

Adrian Dix calls for independent inquiry into two govt. agencies

Tyler Stevenson and Travis Matson measure up the Porcupine caribou rack Stevenson brought back from the Northern Yukon, where he spent five months guiding this past fall. It was scoring day at the Tweedsmuir Rod and Gun club on Jan. 25, 2014. More on the club next week.

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Premier Christy Clark has set off a storm of pro-test by imposing a ref-erendum on new Lower Mainland transportation improvements, timed with the province-wide munici-pal elections on Nov. 15.

Even if you don’t live in Metro Vancouver, you’re not immune from this long-running saga. Pro-vincial and federal govern-ments use your tax dollars

for the big stuff, including the SkyTrain Canada Line to Vancouver airport and the South Fraser Perimeter Road, a new truck route to port facilities at Tsawwas-sen.

Clark has promised a bridge replacement for the George Massey tunnel under the Fraser River, which may or may not be tolled like the Port Mann bridge. The patchwork of Lower Mainland tolls is a growing political liability for the B.C. Liberal government, and

if further tolls are avoided, major works elsewhere in the province may be delayed as the budget is eaten up by the big cities.

Clark announced the Massey tunnel replacement in a September 2012 speech to the Union of B.C. Municipalities. In the same speech, she also pledged to complete the four-laning of the last 240 km of the Trans-Canada Highway from Kamloops to the Alberta border. That’s one of the most mountainous stretches of highway in Canada, and the province’s cost was estimated at the time to be $650 million over 10 years. Time will tell if that promise is kept.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone inherited the mess left behind by former minister Kevin Falcon, who took transit authority away from Metro Vancouver politicians. He appointed a board of experts and set up a toothless “mayors’ council” to rubber-stamp their decisions, after forcing through the Canada Line ahead of a long-promised transit extension to the east.

Local politicians wrangled for years over that eastern extension. They finally settled on surface light rail, only to be overruled by the province, which wanted the vastly more expensive SkyTrain.

The latest rebuke to the mayors’ council was when they decided not to proceed with a costly new electronic fare card system. Falcon reversed that one after taking a junket to London and falling in love with their “Oyster card” subway system. All the glitches from TransLink’s new “Compass card” program will be encountered this summer, just before those mayors go to the polls to face voter wrath.

Speaking of reversals, Stone is now demanding the mayors come up with their list of priorities for new projects. They are expected to believe their choices won’t be overruled again.

Stone correctly notes that Vancouver wants SkyTrain on Broadway, Surrey wants new surface light rail, and other Lower Mainland communities want new road and bridge works. Local govern-ments have a long history of parochial squabbling, getting their pet projects done and then suddenly developing the urge to rein in spending once it’s time to dig deep for their neighbours.

Lower Mainland taxpayers are weary and confused by all this reorganizing and in-fighting. Many likely believe that it is their regional government that has imposed the Port Mann bridge tolls, when in fact that is a provincial highway project over which they had no say.

Clark has made it clear there is no going back from a November referendum on new regional transportation financing tools, a promise explicit in the B.C. Liberal election platform. She hopes it will increase the dismal voter turnout for local votes.

If it does that, it may be worth it. Right now, civic elections are dismal affairs, with voter turnout and awareness of local issues drifting from bad to worse.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc Email: [email protected]

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B.C.’s natural gas indus-try is a real head scratcher, isn’t it?

The development of the industry is torn between opportunity and fear, hold-ing Northern prosperity in the balance. The degree of opportunity available, and level of caution required, depends entirely on who you ask and who you trust.

The natural gas extrac-tion, liquefaction, and ex-

port industry in BC - the liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry - seems to provide little anyone can agree on.

On the economic merits of getting behind LNG, there’s competing opinion. The Globe and Mail, cer-tainly a reliable source of news, published two ar-ticles recently almost back-to-back. One elaborating on the industry’s potential to economically transform Northern B.C. into a powerhouse, the other throwing water on the province’s expectations for what the in-dustry might provide.

These are experts, on both sides, with very different appraisals of the situation at hand. Is it a matter of picking your expert? The problem with that is coming up with a principle for selecting the opinion you go with. Without a principle beyond your own preference, you’re being - literally - unsound in your selection.

For the sake of argument let’s say LNG has great economic potential. The experts with that opinion have one thing on their side; a lot of real money is being invested in LNG. Call it skin in the game.

I’ll take the economic opinion of someone with skin in the game over the opinion of sideline commentators most days, at least until I have some good reason to do otherwise.

But even if the industry is economically sound, we’re left with environmental concerns. While natural gas pipelines don’t cause the gut-level reaction oil pipelines do, the extraction end of the industry provokes tremendous consternation.

Along with the LNG industry, we have another highly-resourced industry: the LNG protest industry. Trading on fear, and funded in part by U.S. sources with ties to their own oil and gas industries (if you trust the accounting of B.C.’s own Vivian Krause, whose name you can google if you’re at all interested), it leverages the honest concerns of citizens against their own elected government.

If you don’t trust her accounting, or think it doesn’t matter, you’re still left with sets of experts disagreeing with one another over the degree of risk inherent in the industry.

If you turn to First Nations for some insight into the situation, things get even more confusing. Some First Nations, whose traditional territories natural gas pipelines are proposed to go through, are onboard provided the industry can pass certain financial and environmental tests.

But some other First Nation organizations, whose traditional territories natural gas pipelines are slated to go through, are dead-set against any pipeline proposal whatsoever.

The thing is, the traditional territories referred to are, in many cases, the same territories in either case. You have the Wet’suwet’en First Nation (WFN), to take an example close to home, and the Office of the Wet’suwet’en. Both share claims, to some degree, over the same traditional territories. But both disagree on the direction LNG should take.

No matter where you turn, the LNG commentary industry is complicated. Every voice is laden with a particular interest, whether it’s economic, environmental, or political. It feels like a game of pick your expert, take your side, and settle in to your position.

At some point we have to move past this Gordian Knot of conflicting, even if heartfelt, voices. The premier won the last election without being shy about the province’s plan for LNG. What

more social license does she need to move forward?

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As part of ongoing restructuring, the Burns Lake Community Forest (BLCom-for) has released its new and revised dona-tion policy.

Starting this year, grant money for re-quests larger than $2500 will be available annually, on March 31 and Sept. 30 of every year. Eligible grant applicants will

make their applications during intake pe-riods prior to those dates.

Funding requests for amounts less than $2500 will be considered on an ongoing basis.

“I am very pleased to see this policy come out in time for the spring donation intake,” said BLComfor President Wes Sam. “There are many groups in the com-munity that could benefit from these funds and we look forward to receiving their ap-plications.”

Under the new donation policy ap-proved on Dec. 12, 2013, applications will be considered by a donation committee made up of the operations manager and two directors from the board. The direc-

tors will serve a six month term on the do-nation committee before being rotated out and replaced by two different directors.

As previous to the new policy, funding will be available for local service clubs, outdoor recreation groups and facilities, sport teams and related events, as well as for local high school students proceeding on to a recognized post-secondary institution

in resource management or environ-mental science or to a trades program.

Small amounts of funding, up to $2500, will be considered by the donations com-mittee on an ‘ad hoc first come, first

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With a slew of fatal acci-dents on Hwy. 16 this winter and expected increased indus-trial traffic, the province is changing the highway’s desig-nation.

Transportation Minister Todd Stone announced Tues-day morning that the high-way, from Prince Rupert to the B.C./Alberta border and Hwy. 97 north from Prince George, will be moved from a Class B designation to Class A, chang-ing how snow removal and maintenance is conducted.

“A Class A highway has more patrols,” Stone said dur-ing a press conference at the CN Intermodal facility in Prince George. “Patrols will take place every four hours as opposed to every eight hours. The maximum amount of snow accumulation that is permitted on the highway before it has to be removed is quite a bit less … four centimetres, as op-posed to six centimetres. There will be more snow removal, more plowing, there will also be more salt and sand applica-tions. All tolled, it represents a heightened level of winter road

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“Those dollars I have found within our ministries,” he said.

He said the province has looked at the number of acci-dents and fatalities along Hwy. 16, in addition to traffic vol-umes in making the decision to reclassify the highways.

“It is absolutely the right time to reclassify Hwy. 16 and Highway 97,” he said. “It will immediately improve safety in those corridors.”

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All of us in the Lakes District were saddened to hear of the passing of Daphne Moser.

She was our minister of St. Luke’s Church Francois Lake for many years. She was loved and respected by all who had the pleasure of knowing her. She spent many years as minister of the Smithers parish. They also will miss her very much. She was such a special person.

School daysEvery once in a while

my school days pop up in my memory. They were of course on the prairie. Evesham had a big three room school but when hard times hit they closed down the

one room. So there were twelve grades and two teachers.

The old song keeps coming up “School days, school days, dear old golden rule days. Reading and writing and arithmetic, taught to the tune of a hickory stick.”

We had a strap and not the stick. One teacher had a pointer about two and a half feet long and he would sneak up be-hind you if you were not paying attention and lay it across your shoulders and what a wap that was.

As there were no lights in the school and first graders, which included me, had to sit on the floor so we could see the board. There were seven of us and for fun I undid Bill Henry’s boots and got my first strapping and a good one. This was my first week. Mrs. Webb was my teacher, she was a good one. Af-ter my strapping she said and I quote “You are here to learn no fool around.” I was sent to the cloak room until I stopped

crying. I was just six years old. My first day of school Dad put me on one of his horses Dolly and I rode her for years.

Dad got one of the big boys to take me off the horse in the morning and put me on to go home. In a day or so I could get on by myself as there was a big bank at the school. There were seven of us kids starting Grade 1 and we stayed together until Grade 10. I got hurt with a bad horse and had to stop half through grade 10. I never went back. I broke up our class of seven. I wished for many years I had gone back but I had been hurt and laid up too long.

The school barn is gone, no more horses and like here at the lake school busses have taken over. Going to school with horses was fun but could not last. A little story that hap-pened to me while going to school. It was icy and Dolly came down and trapped me, a neighbor was right there got me

up and took me home. I spent a week in the Macklin hospital, my first time ever away from home.

I was just eight years old in a ward with seven guys and the only kid. My knee still hurts some times. The hospital had one big ward for men and one for women and kids had to share what-ever. This was a Catholic hospital and the nurses were sisters, they are kind but strict, no fool-ing around, boy did I miss my mother. Dad was very angry at me for bringing down Dolly and made me walk to school right after my accident. And that’s why I ended up in hospital. He was very sorry afterwards.

Memories of a friendThe late Hoyt Burt

was a great friend of mine and we used to visit a lot. Had a wonderful memory of his life and was so interesting to vis-it. He remembered Fran-cois Lake staying open twice. He used to say if the lake didn’t freeze we

would have a dry sum-mer and by all reports he was right. He also told me they had some very bad forest fires.

I also remember the lake staying open one winter and we had a dry summer. Hoyt told me he saw the lake freeze over in March but the ice was very poor and went out very fast. Hoyt used to tell me of the huge fires they used to have in the park and they used to last all summer. They used to get 25 cents an hour for wages in those old days.

Big fireIn about 1943 there

was big fire started on the east end of Tchesin-kut Lake. It was in the fall and some First Na-tions had been smoking fish and the fire got away on them. The fire went as far as Tintagel and al-most to Jeffrey Buttes on Francois Lake. Lots of us locals were called on to fight fire and I was one.

Harvey Campbell was the ranger. Mr. Lord Sr. had a large boat and he took us down the east end

and set up a big camp but the lake blew up rough and the boat with the food could not make it so we were landed with no groceries and a bunch of angry guys.

During the night the lake calmed and a boat came with food. Mr. Weldon from Southbank was the cook. We were there about two weeks and there was a crew that stayed until the snow came. There was one big cat lost and one life as well.

While making trench-es to slow down the fire, the fire got into the green timber and got behind us and that was scary. There was not a lick of rain and it was a very dry fall so it was a big fire and lots of dam-age.

The names of some on the fire; John Belt, Bob Peebles, Pete and Hans Hamre, Earl Deeder, Slim Connor, Ken Olson and myself. Earl Deeder did not stay long as he was on the Vancouver freight

run for Fred Beach. There were more men

but they were from town and the names have slipped my mind. Mr. Lord ran his boat steady that fall hauling men and supplies. Mr. Weldon’s special was rice and rai-sins for desert Sunday, Monday and always. Harvey Campbell was a good ranger and we all like him. I always re-member his collie dog he called Haywire, he was like Harvey’s shadow. These are good memo-ries for me, now over 70 years, almost a lifetime.

I have to stop now as I am short of room.

A few words of ad-vice.

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it and put it in your pocket. Some people try to turn back their odom-eters, not me. I want peo-ple to know why I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

Always remember God loves you and so do I.

Memories of school and the good ole’ days


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hugh neave

The Village of Burns lake is excited to announce the

2014 Town Hall MeetingCome out and provide your input on the

Village’s 2014 projects and budget.Last year’s Town Hall was a huge success, providing council with insight into what residents want for their community.

Come give your feedback on

Tuesday, february 4th, 2014 7:00pm at

The Burns lake Vineyard Church, 457 hwy 16.

ROAD TALKSLakes District Maintenance encourages parents of young inexperienced drivers to spend time reviewing winter driving skills with them. Make them aware of the increased dangers during winter driving such as: 1) Blowing snow conditions that can impair vision 2) Invisible black ice that can catch you off guard 3) Slush and snow on roads that can make you lose control 4) Moose and deer that feed on the road salt 5) Keep a minimum of 2 telephone pole lengths between vehicles. Teach inexperienced drivers preventative measures such as: 1) Good winter tires2) Reduced driving speeds 3) Limit driving in storms 4) Avoid using cruise control. Your child has many years of travel ahead of them, ensure they have the skills and knowledge to bring them home safely.

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editor: Regarding my letter regarding Pinnacle’s proposal to build a pellet manufacturing plant here in Chase:

The response from your citizens was greater than I had anticipated, and as late as this morning (Jan. 27), I received yet another message.

The correspondence has been very fair and totally candid in its content. We are very pleased with what has come in, and will still welcome anything in the future.

I am totally amazed that your citizens would take the time and effort they have to assist virtual strang-ers in another small community such as ours. This is a great example of the generosity of the human spirit, and in particular of the people of the Bulkley Valley.

Len McLeanChase, B.C.

editor:Re: Alternative Approval Process Bylaw #1682Many of you have received information on this process in the

mail lately, particularly if you live in region B and region E of the Regional District of Bulkley Nechako.

Many electors (voters) may have thought this process to be un-important and not worth the time and did not read or think about this issue. Maybe some simply threw their letters in the garbage.

Like I said at the public hearing that I attended on Jan. 22/14 I am not opposed to victim services however I am opposed to the process known as "Alternative approval process" which is an end run around you the taxpayer. I believe that the alternative approval process is an outright undemocratic process and should be scrapped.

It is a disgraceful, phony negative billing process that is out-lawed for companies yet it is embraced by politicians, the very ones who make law.

The whole thing leaves citizen volunteers to gather signatures of 10 per cent of the eligible voters at least in a referendum both sides have to get out to vote.

The response form forces the electors to oppose the bylaw which limits the amount of people who will sign it and excludes the people who may support it. This alternative approval process is wrong now and will be wrong in the future.

I think we should take the risk of democracy and have a ref-erendum.

What do you think?Jack Kortmeyer

Regional district voting unfair?

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The restrictions will limit vehicles to 100 per cent, 70 per cent or 50 per cent legal axle loading. Overweight permits will not be granted and all term overweight permits are invalid for the duration of the restrictions.

Trucking and transportation companies, as well as the general public, should govern themselves accordingly. If you normally receive bulk deliveries of water, fuel, livestock feed or other produce, please plan ahead so interruption to your deliveries will be minimized.

Your cooperation in adhering to the above regulations is appreciated.

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“First Nations have waited far too long to be a part of our economy, and we want to make sure they are included and benefitting from economic develop-ment,” Clark said. “So, that’s part of what we are trying to do in the engagement across the north, but we still have more to do.”

Nechako Lakes MLA and Minister of Aborig-inal Relations and Rec-onciliation, John Rustad met with Ogen on Jan. 23, 2014. While Ogen acknowledged it was a step in the right direc-tion, she still hasn’t personally heard from Clark.

“We’re hoping to ne-gotiate, not litigate,” Ogen said. “She’s ac-knowledged our mes-sage and had minister Rustad meet with us…We’re going to have on-going dialogue and dis-cussion.”

While WFN, locat-ed just west of Burns Lake, is ready to discuss economic partnership with the province over natural gas ‘royalty, taxation and regula-tory legislation,’ not all Wet’suwet’en share her willingness to negotiate.

The Office of the Wet’suwet’en (OW), which represents clans of the traditional Wet’suwet’en heredi-tary structure and whose

traditional territories encompass WFN re-serve lands, does not share Ogen’s willing-ness to discuss pipeline proposals.

The OW has ada-mantly denied the pos-

sibility of approval for any pipeline proposal, whether natural gas or oil, through their tra-ditional territories - all 22,000 square kilome-tres of them.

“I respect their de-

cision and what they choose for their mem-bers,” Ogen said. “But I oversee the 241 Wet’suwet’en here. I’m responsible for our members and our na-tion, so I work on our

Negotiate, not litigate LNG plansbehalf.”

Wet’suwet’en First Nation is just west of Burns Lake.

Wes Sam, Burns Lake Subway proprietor, presents a $1100 cheque to Carolyn Buhler, Jean Goodwin, and Betty Johnson of the Burns Lake District Hospital Ladies Auxiliary on Jan. 24, 2014. The money was raised at the local Subway during its first annual Christmas cookie campaign.

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The Bulkley Stikine District of the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is creating its list of registered Equipment for Hire for the 2014/2015 fiscal year, which begins April 1, 2014.

All individuals or companies registered this past year through the District Office in Smithers will receive invitations to re-register their equipment for the coming fiscal year by mail.

Any individuals who were not registered in 2013, but wish to have to their equipment listed, are hereby invited to contact the District Office to obtain the appropriate registration forms.

Note that while you do not need to have Commercial (Comprehensive) General Liability Insurance or up to date WorkSafeBC coverage to register, you will have to meet these requirements prior to working on any ministry projects.

Only owned or lease-to-own equipment is eligible for registration. Equipment can only be registered in one area in any given year. Seniority is not transferable from area to area.

Full details of equipment, including serial number and proof of ownership, are required for registration.

The deadline for new registrations is 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 28, 2014. Late registrations will be accepted, but will be put at the bottom of the open list. Note that there is no charge for registering new equipment or for changing or removing equipment information already listed.

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You can also register online at www.bcbid.ca.

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Lakes District Recreation Map Cover Photo Contest

As some of you may know, Burns Lake Community Forest Ltd. is helping to update the Lakes District Rec. Map, and we’re taking this opportunity to have a photo contest!

The winning photo will become the cover for the new Rec Map, and will feature the photographers name at the bottom of the photo on all 2,500 maps, as well as exclusive bragging rights to friends and family.

All entered photos must be taken within the Lakes District, and the contest is open to everybody. This contest closes Feb 14, 2014.

To submit an entry, either email your photo to [email protected] or drop off a hard copy at the Burns Lake Community Forest Office. Have no fear, all hardcopy photos can be returned upon request, once we have a chance to scan them.

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Although a coroners inquest is welcomed, it will not satisfy the con-cerns Dix heard while in Burns Lake.

“There’s a coroners inquest, but the in-quest doesn’t address any issues concerning the investigation,” Dix said. “It will address issues leading up to and including the ex-plosion and make rec-ommendations, but it won’t address issues of accountability or the investigation of other Crown agencies.”

It is too early to say what the complete man-date of the called-for in-dependent investigation would be. But it would include an investiga-tion of why WorkSafe BC and the ministry of justice apparently don’t share the same stan-dards of evidence col-lection for an investiga-tion as serious as this. It would also address the question of why WorkSafe BC request-ed charges against the company only, and not against any individuals.

Another question Dix wants answer is why charges outside of the regulatory scope of the Workers Compensation Act were not consid-ered. Criminal Code charges were not rec-ommended, and Dix wants the inquiry to be uncover why that deci-

sion was made. “Given the serious-

ness of what happened, that should have been on the table from the be-ginning,” Dix said. “All sides should have acted consistently with that. In any investigation you follow the evidence, but in this case much of the evidence they gathered, they’re not able to use.”

“People here want an inquiry and they should get one… The premier can and should act be-cause it’s the right thing to do.”

On Jan. 10, 2014, the Ministry of Jus-tice released its deci-sion not to proceed with charges under the Workers Compensation Act against BFP as a re-sult of its review of the WorkSafe BC investiga-tion into the incident, as well as its review of a third-party investigation of the causes.

The WorkSafe BC report was released less than a week later.

Although both re-ports cited violations under the Workers Compensation Act, the BC ministry of justice decided not to proceed with charges under the act because of what the ministry described as deficiencies with WorkSafe BC evidence collection, as well as because of the availabil-ity of a defence of due diligence on the part of Babine Forest Products.

Premier Christy can

act, says Dix

Sullivan Motors Products (SMP) celebrated 40 years in business this year and part of their celebration was a $40,000 give-away. In December the last $20,000 was given away. (L-R) Murray Sullivan presents a cheque for $20,000 to Danielle Gnoyke along with sale representative Ryan Stumborg. (Bottom) As their Movember fundraiser SMP in November donated $50 from every purchase of a vehicle to the Kordyban Lodge in Prince George. Louise and Bill Sullivan presented a cheque in the amount of $4050 to Marjo Vanhelvoirt-Koop from the Cancer Society.

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in resource management or envi-ronmental science or to a trades program.

Small amounts of funding, up to $2500, will be considered by the donations committee on an ‘ad hoc first come, first served basis’ based on the donation criteria.

The funding available for dona-tions less than $2500 will be deter-mined annually by the board based on operating budgets.

Larger grant request will be fi-nanced through interest earned on BLComfor investments, at up to one per cent of the value of those

funds annually. These grant re-quests larger than $2500 will be awarded twice annually on March 31, and Sept. 30.

Grant proposals for those re-quests will be received on an on-going basis as well.

The decision last year to pay the Village of Burns Lake a divi-dend of close to $1 million was a one-time departure from previous BLComfor practise of distribut-ing funds directly to community groups.

“At this point it was a one-time payment,” said BLComfor general manager Kerry Martin. “There is no dividend policy planned at this

time.”Requests for a grant under

$2500 can begin immediately, Kerry said.

The Village of Burns Lake has yet to determine how it will use the BLComfor money it received just before Christmas last year. The upcoming Feb. 4, 2014 public town hall will give VBL council-lors and staff an opportunity to consider direction from the com-munity regarding the best way to use the money.

The date for next public meet-ing, which will also be the annual general meeting, is set for this spring but with no specific date.

New policy in effect nowSandy Doré of Bulkley Valley Credit Union delivered boxes of meat to the Lakes District Food Bank. The meat was pork that was purchased at the Lakes District Fall Fair's 4H Auction.

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Beautiful Babies of 2013...Presenting the

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Joseph WiebeBorn: April 26, 2013

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with an average temper-ature, as of Jan. 24, of just minus 4.8 degrees. Eleven days in January, up until Jan. 24, have been above zero, with Jan. 14 warming up to a balmy 7.8 degrees. The

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this January stacks up to Januaries past.

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WALTER STRONG

How ‘bout the weath-er, eh?

That quintessen-tially Canadian ques-tion seems to be get-ting asked a lot around Burns Lake this winter.

Locals are fish-ing from the shores of Francois Lake - not ice-fishing but casting a line. Bikers are still rid-ing the trails up at Boer Mountain, and it’s been not unusual to have nighttime temperatures hover around zero de-grees.

This past December seemed pretty warm.

According to Envi-ronment Canada, 13 days this past December were above zero, with a high on Dec. 14 of 6.5 degrees Celsius.

The coldest day was Dec. 6, 2013 when we hit a night-time low of minus 28.9 degrees Cel-sius.

But January, so far, has been a warm one,

Warm January; go fishingMaybe the warmest in 61 years

Burns Lake’s Harold Wulf took advantage this year’s mild winter weather to cast a line from the shores of Francois Lake. This year’s January has been one for the record books.

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Interest in the Burns Lake and area army ca-dets has been on the up-swing over the past four years.

From as few as three local cadets just four years ago, the Burns Lake army cadet corps - army ground engineers to be exact − has grown to 20 young men and women, from 12 to 18 years old.

Captain Margaret Mur-phy of Houston has been involved with the cadets for more than 15 years. She divides her time be-tween Burns Lake and a smaller cadre in Houston.

“We emphasize lead-ership and physical fit-ness,” Murphy said. “We do promote an interest in the armed forces, but we don’t see the cadets as a channel into the armed forces. We’re a separate entity.”

Meeting every Wednes-day at 6 p.m. in Burns Lake at the Rod and Gun club, the cadets practise rifle marksmanship, play sports, learn map read-ing and orienteering, take hiking and camping trips, learn first aid and wilder-ness survival skills.

“There’s lots of op-portunity to go further,” Murphy said. “For the se-niors, there are exchanges where they get to travel if they are willing to put in the work. We’ve had kids go to England, Scotland,

Holland, Italy, and even Belize for an interna-tional scuba diving cer-tificate. There’s also an international shooting competition in Bisley, England that some have qualified for.”

Although the Depart-ment of National Defence pays for most of the as-sociated costs with the annual exchanges and ex-peditions, the Burns Lake cadets take on the respon-sibility of funding local activities, hall and office rental at the Rod and Gun club, and insurance.

Area businesses sup-port the cadets in their hands-on approach to fundraising. Lakes Dis-trict Maintenance donates sand to the cadets, who then pack sandbags for sale at local gas stations. LMR Enterprises donates logs, which the cadets and parents cut, spilt, de-liver and stack for area residents. The Lake Dis-trict Fall Fair Committee hires the cadets to handle parking at the annual weekend-long fall fair.

The cadets are most visible in the public eye during the annual poppy drive leading up to Re-membrance Day, when they distribute poppies on behalf of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 50, and participate in the Remembrance Day cere-mony in Burns Lake . The money raised during the poppy drive is strictly for veteran-related services.

Burns Lake’s Brennan Noth was a local cadet from 2001 to 2008. An outstanding cadet, he qualified, to train with the regular armed forces even before going on to join the forces in 2010.

Noth spent three years with Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, stationed near Brandon Manitoba. While with the armed forces he helped with flood relief dur-ing the major flooding of 2009, and spent six weeks with the U.S. ma-rines in Hawaii.

“It was a great experi-ence, but it’s good to be back in Burns Lake,” Noth said. “I missed the outdoors here.”

He’s been volunteer-ing with the local cadets, bringing back real-life experience of having stood to serve his country.

“The cadets form a strong bond, and it’s not unusual for them to re-turn as volunteers once they’ve aged-out of the cadets,” Murphy said.

“We’re always look-ing for more youth to join, and parents as well,” Murphy said.

Parents who want to volunteer with the corps can join the parents com-mittee, or if they’re keen, they can get training with the Albert Head B.C. Ca-det Instructors Cadre at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt.

Burns Lake army engineer cadets a growing force

Brennan Noth teaches a group of Burns Lake combat engineer cadets to use a multi-fuel cook stove. Twenty young men and women in the Burns Lake area form local cadet ranks. They meet every Wednesday at the Tweedsmuir Rod and Gun Club at 6 p.m.

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Omineca Ski Club is hosting Teck Northern Cup #4 and Omineca Open Race on February 2. Start time: 11:00 a.m. Visit ominecaskiclub.com for updated notices.

2014 Cold Smoke Drags - Saturday, February 1 - racing starts at 9:30 a.m. Also Dinner & Dance. For more info contact: Krys Mouw at [email protected].

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For high-octane entertainment in the middle of a Burns Lake winter, nothing beats the annual Cold Smoke snowmobile drag racing event held at the Burns Lake Snowmobile Club (BLSC) racing grounds just north of the Rod and Gun Club on Babine Rd.

Once a year, sledders from across the province meet in Burns Lake to test their machines - and their nerve - as they launch super-charged machines down a 500 foot track in front of enthusiastic fans.

Last year, racers broke speeds of over 160 km/hr over a two day event.

This year, the racing will start and finish

on the same day.“We’re doing a different format this

year,” Lana Miller, BLSC treasurer. “There won’t be as many heats, so it will be more like a ball tournament where you don’t necessarily race every other racer.”

The ladies and gentlemen categories may be removed as well to save time.

“Women can and do compete in the reg-ular heats,” Miller said. “We were trying to promote more local and first-timers to come out, but we were only getting one or two entries in those categories.”

The club decided to go to a one day for-mat to make it easier on the many out of

town racers who travel from as far as Kiti-mat for the event. It’s also a little easier on the club volunteers.

The new one-day format should give an exciting edge to the day, with all placings being determined before the day is out. Crowds will still enjoy a warming tent and a fantastic BBQ provided by the Burns Lake Rotary Club, with proceeds going to local charitable projects.

Although Burns Lake hasn’t had the heavy snowfall it had last year, Miller is confident there will be enough snow on hand for racers, even if it doesn’t snow between

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The Burns Lake Bruins Midget A2s hosted Houston and Hazelton for a tournament last week in Burns Lake. Houston came out on top by the end of the one day tournament, but no one was disappointed with the great play all around. Bruins pee wees will host a tournament this weekend at the Tom Forsyth Memorial Arena in Burns Lake. Come out and support the players, the pee wees are on a roll this season.


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Lake covering from 1953 to the present, but each packet was col-lected at a different lo-cation. Each packet is assigned a different cli-mate station ID number indicating, according to Environment Canada, the data shouldn’t be combined.

But there are a few things we can still say, staying within the con-fines of available data sets.

This January has been the warmest January in 23 years. Not only in terms of the average daily temperature of just minus 4.8 degrees, but in terms of the cold-est night time low of minus 17.8 degrees.

Since 1991, 2006 was the only year besides this one where extreme lows didn’t break minus 20 degrees. The aver-age extreme low, since 1991, has been minus 31 degrees. The average daily temperature since 1991 has been minus 10.2 degrees.

There were three Jan-uaries warmer than this; January 1983 measured minus 4.2, January 1958 averaged minus 4.3 de-grees, and January 1986 measured an average of minus 4.4 degrees. But this data was collected at a different location, so you really can’t pick a winner for the warm-est January on record.

But here’s an inter-esting thing. Although there are two data sets

covering 1953 to 1990, there are four years where the data overlaps. So we can compare the consistency of the two data sets, at least to some degree.

Over those four over-lapping years, the dif-ference in average daily temperatures as mea-sured at the two differ-ent locations differ by less than one degree Celsius. The data col-lection locations given by Environment Canada show the two locations to be only 2.8 kilome-tres apart, at virtually the same elevation.

Assuming then - and

it may be quite an as-sumption - that those two data sets can be combined to generate some interesting statis-tical average, what do we have?

For Januaries from 1953 to 1990, the av-erage daily tempera-ture was minus 11.9 degrees. The average maximum low was mi-nus 33.7 degrees.

Around Burns Lake, people will tell you the current Burns Lake/Decker Lake Environ-ment Canada weather station located at the Baker Airport about 20 kilometres west of

town, gives a colder reading than Burns Lake weather in town.

If that’s so, we’ve probably had one of the warmest Januaries on record, going back to 1953. If that’s not true, then we’ve at least had the warmest January since 1991.

But don’t get your hopes up.

Whatever you want to make of these dispa-rate weather data sets, one fact stands out; a warm January one year doesn’t necessarily mean a warm one the next year.

The record warm

January of 1981(aver-age just minus 4.2 de-grees) was followed by a chilly 1982 January where temperatures av-eraged minus 16.8 de-grees, the eighth coldest January recorded in 61 years of data collection.

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confident there will be enough snow on hand for racers, even if it doesn’t snow between now and race day on Feb. 1.

“We were up there on the weekend shovelling bleachers, and there’s lots of snow,” Miller said. “If it doesn’t snow, we’ll just haul snow over from other areas. We’ve done it before.”

The BLSC is a small, volunteer-run group with big plans for expanded trail networks and many opportunities for winter fun. They organize at least three long trail rides every year, like the annual Telk-wa Pass run.

“The Telkwa Pass ride is

a fun, family ride,” Miller said. “We don’t do anything up there you need to be a good rider to do. It’s a great oppor-tunity to learn sledding skills.”

The Cold Smoke drag races start at 9:30 a.m. sharp, Feb. 1, 2014. For more information and a schedule of events, see page 12 & 13 of this issue.

Get ready for an exciting day at Cold Smoke


Lakes District Fall Fair meeting on February 6, 2014. Starting at 7:00 p.m. at the Cancer Society Office in Burns Lake.

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Providing a ‘Lifeline’ Imagine you were alone in your own home and you slipped and you fell. In most cases, you can pick yourself up with not a single injury or bruise in sight. However, for seniors, this is not always the case. A simple fall can have devastating consequences. And that’s why the Burns Lake Rotary Club is working together with Northern Health and Bulkley Valley Credit Union, Lakes District branch to give peace of mind for seniors or those living at risk while living independently in their own homes.Lifeline is a service which provides immediate assistance to seniors in emergencies, with just one touch of a button, seniors are connected to emergency personnel instantly. In order to obtain this service, seniors are referred to either by a home support worker, their doctor, or word of mouth. Local resident Jim Everett on behalf of the Burns Lake Rotary club, installs the unit. Currently, 82 seniors use this valuable service in the Burns Lake and Houston area. While seniors are responsible for the cost of the unit and service, veterans receive a discount. “Seniors can connect with Lifeline anywhere in their home or in their yard,” explains Anna Marie Racicot of Northern Health. “With a push of a button….help is on the way.”For more information about this valuable service, contact Northern Health at 1-800-851-0184 or call Rotarian president Sandy Dore at 250-692-7761.

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Improved snow re-moval and sanding standards may mean increased demands on personnel and equip-ment levels for local highway contractors. Maintenance contracts already contain clauses to address the possi-bility of classification changes and associ-ated costs, the ministry spokesperson said.

According to B.C. Ministry of Transporta-tion maintenance speci-fications for highway maintenance contracts, specific changes in the reclassification include: highway snow removal must begin within 90 minutes of an accumu-lation of four centime-tres of snow (previous standard was two hours after six centimetres of snow); application of winter abrasive and chemical snow and ice control must be-gin within five hours after snowfall (previ-ous standard was eight hours after snowfall).

Loose snow and slush must be removed from highway travel lanes within two days of the conclusion of the last snowfall and related snow removal operations. The previ-ous standard was three days. In this case, the ministry standards ac-knowledge that tem-peratures may not al-low for the complete removal of compacted snow and ice.

The schedule for the application of abrasive or chemical traction control to icy surfaces as the result of freezing rain or black ice is also increased under the re-classification. Sanding must occur within two hours of when deficien-cies are noted by, or re-

ported to, the highway contractor. Previously, the standard was three hours.

“I am aware of the classification change and have been in meet-ings with the Minister in regard to this change,” said Lakes District Maintenance Ltd. chief executive officer Wen-dy Benyk. “This will certainly present some challenges for Lakes District Maintenance which we are currently working on.”

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PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20: Pisces, you are torn between being creative and following convention at work. Ask a colleague for some input.

ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20: Thanks to the chilly weather, a beach vacation beckons you, Aries. Start planning an excursion to a warm locale that allows you to escape the daily grind.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21: A sporting event or something that draws a large crowd is just where you need to be this week, Taurus. Surround yourself with people who share your interests.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21: Give an issue in your relationship the consideration it merits, Gemini. Though it might not seem like it now, taking time to work this out will ultimately strengthen your relationship.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22: Cancer, the final stages of a project you have been work-ing on are ready begin. Don’t be afraid to take credit when all of your hard work pays off in a big way.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23: Obligations to work and family leave you short on personal time, Leo. Though your schedule is hectic, make time to unwind and you will be glad for having done so.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22: It may take a while to convince someone to go along with your idea, Virgo. Yet once you have this person’s support, they will be fully on board.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23: You may have been bouncing around aimlessly for some time, Libra. But now is the week to get all of your affairs together and put your plan for the future in motion.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22: Restlessness can sometimes be a dangerous thing for you, Scorpio. Channel any restlessness into a worthy project that makes good use of your boundless energy.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21: Sagittarius, make the best of a situation that needs changing. You might not be able to affect change, but that does not mean you can’t improve the situation with a positive attitude.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20: Perceptions vary, Capricorn. Just because you feel strongly about something doesn’t mean another will view it the same way. Accept that your passion will not always be reciprocated.

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Sunday Morning Services:Sunday School: 9:30 a.m.

Worship Services: 10:30 a.m.Pastors - Ken Dyck 250-698-7629David S. Burkholder 250-692-7057

Everyone Welcome Hwy 16, Decker Lake

Seventh Day Adventist Church GroupMeets Saturdays at

10:00 a.m. at the United Church on Centre Street.

250-695-6586

Burns LakeCommunity Church

Pastor John Neufeld250-692-7949

OLD LANDMARKSCHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP

At Muriel Mould Primary School

SUNDAY, 10:30 AMContact: Roland & Lisa Cataford

250-692-9196 ~Everyone Welcome ~

Burns LakePENTECOSTAL CHURCH

724 Babine Lake Road

Sunday Services: 10:30 amCelebrating the Love of GodPastor Henry Washington

250-692-7464

ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Branch #50

Island GospelFellowship

Gerow Island, Highway 35

Sunday Morning Worship Service begins @ 10:30 am

Pastor Ed Peters Phone: 250-692-7551

CROSSWORD

If you loveyour freedom,

thank a Veteran.Support yourlocal Legion.

Highway 16, Burns Lake • 250-692-3020

$249

Open 7 Days a Week 11:00am - 9:00pm

Colonel’s Snacker

“Members and bona � de guests welcome” Hours: Tuesday to Saturday: 4:00-8:00 pm email: [email protected] Phone: 250-692-3232

24 Hour Service

Competitive Prices and Contract Rates available

Call Branislav 250-692-1812

Complete Commercial/Residential/Industrial Janitorial ServiceAll Floors, Carpets, Windows,

Upholstery, made like new

The newly renovated

Omineca Ski Club Day LodgeIS AVAILABLE FOR RENTAL

for meetings, conferences and events.With a brand new kitchen featuring two stoves as well as dishes

and utensils for up to 120 guests, the lodge is a great spot to host your next event or get together.

To book a rental: please contactJoan & Jeff Ragsdale 250-692-0093website: www.ominecaskiclub.com

▼ COFFEE CORNER

Lakes Learning Centre 10:30 amThe Lakes District Of� ce of the Canadian Cancer Society is open the

following hours: Tues., Thurs. & Fri. from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. We are located at 332 Hwy. 16 (Main Street). Check out our craft table and garage sale items. New volunteers are welcome. Ph: (250) 692-7203. For Cancer Information Service and Cancerconnection, the toll free number is 1-888-939-3333.

Southside Health & Wellness Centre: Feburary 2014. Chair yoga every Tues. & Fri. 10-11am. Feb. 3, 17, 24 “Eat for Life” weight loss program sup-port group 2:30pm. Feb. 12 Good Food box pick up at Grassy Store. Feb. 27 Dental varnishing all day for children 6 yrs old and under. Feb. 28 Re-minder last day to pay for you Good Food box.More info: (250) 694-3270.

Lakes District Fall Fair meeting on Feb. 6/14, 7pm at the Cancer Society Of� ce.

2014 Lakes District Festival of the Performing Arts. April 8 - 17. Entry syllabus now available at: Burns Lake Public Library, Artisan Centre, Western Financial Group, Burns Lake and Smithers or phone Jacqui Graham, (250) 692-3971. Entry deadline: Feb. 14, 2014

W.O.W. Bus Schedule ~ January 2014. 29 StrongStart Outreach SEDA Centre, 12:15 to 3:15p.m. This is a free service for all ages.

Omineca Ski Club will be hosting the following events in the near future. Feb. 2 Teck Northern Cup #4 and Omineca Open Race start time: 11am. Feb. 22 Racing Rocks start time: 10 am. Feb. 23 Lakes Loppet (various distance events for all levels of skiers) start time: 10 am. Visit ominecaskiclub.com for updated notices.

OUR TOWN

ST. PAUL’SUNITED CHURCH

136 - 4th Avenue, Burns Lake

Worship Service at10 am Sunday mornings

Ministry led by lay leadersPhone 250-692-7202

Dinner at the Legion 5:30-7:30pm...Friday, January 31st

Steak Night - $15.00

Karaoke Night...Friday, January 31st

7:30pm - $5.00

New ExecutiveAs of Jan 1, 2014 - Stop by & meet

them!

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CALL TODAY 250-692-7526

Royal Canadian Legion Branch 50 is not participating in approaching the community for Donations, by telephone or door-to-door and we wish to warn or advise the community. If required call the Legion 250-692-3232.

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Announcements

In Memoriam Gifts

ALL FUNDS DONATEDto the

Burns Lake Health Care Auxiliary

are used to provide fi nancial support, equipment plus

comfort and care for patients in our hospital, the

Pines and all other community healthcare

services.Mail a donation on behalf of yourself or a loved one to:

B.L. Health Care Aux.Box 812

Burns Lake, BCV0J 1E0

A tax deductible receipt will be issued

Coming EventsQUALITY ASSURANCE course for Health Canada’s Commercial Marijuana Pro-gram. February 22 & 23 Best Western Hotel, Kelowna, BC. Tickets: www.greenlineacade-my.com or 1-855-860-8611 or 250-870-1882.

Information

ADVERTISE in the LARGEST OUTDOOR PUBLICATION IN BC

The 2014-2016 BC Hunting Regulations

SynopsisThe most effective way to

reach an incredible number of BC Sportsmen & women.

Two year edition- terrifi c presence for your business.Please call Annemarie

1.800.661.6335 email:

fi [email protected]

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUSIf you want to keep drinking that’s your business - if you want to quit drinking that’s our business. Burns Lake Meet-ings: Tuesday 7:30 pm Catho-lic Church, Saturday 7:30 pm - Catholic Church. For informa-tion or transportation call (250) 692-9104 / (250) 695-8363

Only requirement for AA is a desire to stop drinking.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUSSouthside Meetings: Mondays and Thursdays 6:30pm - 7:30pm at Grassy Plains Gos-pel Church. For more informa-tion: (250) 694-3682

Anyone needing information on Alzheimer’s please call 1-866-564-7533

BURNS LAKE RCMP Vic-tim/Witness Assistance Pro-gram. 201 Hwy. 35, Box 759 Burns Lake. Open Monday to Thursday 9am to 4pm (250) 692-3010

CRISIS PREVENTION. You are not alone. Support is just a phone call away. 1.800.SUI-CIDE (1.800.784.2433) is a confi dential, toll-free service that is available to anyone, anywhere, any time in B.C. The youth support line is 1.888.564.8336 (TEEN). The 24 hour crisis line for northern BC is 250.563.1214 and 1.888.562.1214. In addition, several crisis lines also pro-vide support through online chat services so young people have a web-based way to reach out. These services can be reached through www.nor thernyouthonline.ca (4:00 to 11:00 pm daily) or www.youthinbc.ca.

PLANNING a wedding or an-niversary party? Looking for plastic fl owers for decorations. Call OPTIONS at Nourse House 9am- 3pm Mon. to Fri. Francois Lake Drive. Operated by residents of 8th Avenue Group Home. (250) 692-7845

Announcements

InformationFOOD BANK INFORMATION Distribution days will be the fi rst and the third Tuesday of each month, clients should come at 11 a.m. Sign up is at BLNDC at 10:45 a.m. The Lakes District Food bank con-tinues to operate due to the outstanding generosity of the community. If you would like to make a donation and receive a tax deductible receipt, please mail your donation to: Lakes District Food Bank, P.O. Box 777, Burns Lake, BC. V0J 1E0

The Arthritis Society B.C. and Yukon division is your pri-mary source and resource of the latest print and electronic information, programs and ser-vices about arthritis. No matter where you live, you can ac-cess us at the touch of a but-ton. Toll free 1-800-321-1433 or visit www.arthritis.ca/bc

Announcements

InformationLOCAL HOSPICE Services are available by contacting the Hospice Coordinator at (250) 692-2448. The Hospice offi ce, located in the Lakes District Hospital, is open every Thurs. from 10am - 4pm. A lending library of videos, books and information on be-reavement is available. Please make donations to the local hospice and palliative care program payable to the Burns Lake Hospice Program, Box 7500, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1EOThe Chronic Disease Educa-tion Clinic at the Lakes Dis-trict Hospital is open Tuesday & Wednesday from 8:30am-4pm. The clinic provides infor-mation and teaching on vari-ous chronic illnesses such as Diabetes & Heart Disease. A doctors referral is not needed. To speak with the nurse call (250) 692-2440

Announcements

InformationNECHAKO RESERVOIR

UPDATE22 January 2014

Reservoir Elevation: 850.81 m (2791.37 ft.)SLS Discharge: 33.04 m3/s

Visit website www.wateroffi ce.ec.gc.ca for up to date real-time fl ow information for the Nechako River.

Contact Rio Tinto Alcan at 250-567-5105 for more information. A re-cording of this notice is available 24-hours in Vanderhoof at 250- 567-5812

Lost & FoundBLUE ONE person kayak lost last summer near Nadina Riv-er (250) 846-5667.

Announcements

Lost & FoundLOST HUB cap from a small car between Burns Lake and Rose Lake sometime in Janu-ary. (250) 692-7243

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Your community. Your classifi eds.

250.692.7526

fax 250.692.3685 email [email protected]

TO REACH THE MARKETFirst advertise in the Lakes District News! ALL WORD ADS go on the Internet for the whole world to see! www.bcclassified.com

REACHING USCall 250-692-7526 or come by our office. Hours are 9:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M., Monday thru Friday. Fax in your ad to 250-692-3685 or email: [email protected]

HOW TO PAYCome to our office at 23 - 3rd Avenue, or you may pay with Visa or Mastercard over the phone. All ads must be prepaid.

CLASSIFIED AD RATESREGULAR WORD ADS 1 issue, 3 lines $8.50 per week

FREE ADSFor anything under $50.00 value. 15 words or less. Ad must contain one item and price. Misc. for Sale category only. Private party ads only (no commercial). Ads cannot be accepted over the phone.

$5 ADSFor anything worth $50 - $500. 15 words or less. Ad must contain one item and price. Misc. for Sale category only. Runs for 4 weeks. Ads must be prepaid - cash only.

LEGAL ADS $16.07 per col. inch

HWY 16 REGIONAL ADS3 lines - No changes - ad runs in: Burns Lake, Vanderhoof, Stewart/Nechako, Ft. St. James, Houston, Smithers, Prince Rupert, Terrace, Kitimat, Northern Connector(1 week) .......................................$78.88

BC BEST BUY ADS25 words- No changes - ad runs one week, all papers covering: Lower Mainland .......... $102.28 BC’s Interior ............... $124.95 Vancouver Island ........ $119.00 All of the Above .......... $299.00 Extra cost for additional words

RUN IT ’TIL SOLD ADS1x1 classified ad. For $31.50 we will run your ad UNTIL IT SELLS, any category, max. 30 words No Real Estate or commercial ads

Please call if you need more information on any of our

classified packages.

HAPPY ADS To announce birthdays, weddings, births etc. 2 col. x 2” - $22.25 2 col. x 3” - $32.25 2 col. x 4” - $42.25

ALL ABOVE PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE GST

DEADLINESClassified Word & Display: Friday @ 3:00 P.M.

OUR POLICYLakes District News reserves the right to edit, revise, classify or reject any classified ad not meeting our standards.

No refunds on Classified Ads.

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WhereCAREERS Come True!

SALES PERSONSullivan Motor Products & Sullivan Motor Products RV are currently looking for a Sales Person to work in Houston. Our dealership is the largest volume dealer in the Northwest and we just added a RV dealership for the upcoming spring. If you need a change, want a rewarding career and have a passion about vehicles and RV’s consider the benefits:• aggressive pay plan • training and product knowledge provided • team focused • excellent benefitsIf you want to be part of a winning team and create your own destiny, drop your resume in person to:

Sullivan Motor Products Highway 16 West in Houston Attention J.C. Brown or email: [email protected]

www.arrow.ca

HIRING DRIVERS Burns Lake Wood Fibre Haul

Seeking quali ed drivers for immediate openings for Wood Fibre hauling in Houston and Burns Lake.

We o er:Full Time, Year Round Work• Home Every Day• Compe ve Wage, Bene ts & Pension•

You possess:Super B driving experience• A clean drivers abstract• References•

We are an equal opportunity Employer and we are strongly encouraging Aboriginal peoples to apply.

Email:[email protected],Fax:250-314-1750Phone: 1-877-700-4445

Pinnacle is hiring!In operation for over twenty years, Pinnacle is the longest established pellet producer in Canada. Located in the heart of the lumber industry in central BC, Pinnacle has access to excellent and abundant sources of raw materials. Pinnacle produces a variety of products including softwood pellet fuel, animal bedding and natural sorbent. Today, the company operates six pellets plants across BC producing millions of tonnes annually.As a rapidly expanding company, we are always on the lookout for skilled labourers particularly electricians, millwrights and heavy duty mechanics. We offer regular shifts, competitive wages (at $40/hr plus a tool allowance), benefits and group pension plans. We are also currently hiring utility/general labourers as well.

Check out our website www.pinnaclepellet.comfor more information.

Resumes can be sent to [email protected].

MAINTENANCE SUPERVISOR / PLANNERDunkley Lumber Ltd. operates a modern and efficient SPF dimension Sawmill and Planermill facility at Strathnaver, 75 km south of Prince George, BC. Our quality lumber products are sold across North America and in overseas markets. To find out more about us, please visit our website at www.dunkleylumber.com.

We currently have an opening for a Sawmill Maintenance Supervisor/Planner.

Key responsibilities include contingency planning, working closely with the Purchaser to maintain operational and mechanical supplies and spare parts, establishing and maintaining corrective, reparative and preventative maintenance programs, as well as supervising maintenance employees. Weekend work will be required.

The successful candidate will possess the following technical skills and experience:• Journeyman certification as a Millwright or relevant experience• substantial supervisory and/or maintenance planning

experience• effective leadership skills with the ability to manage a team• exceptional inter-personal and communication skills• outstanding problem solving and root cause analysis skills• strong planning and organizational skills with the ability to work

on projects concurrently and under time constraints• a strong commitment to safety.

This position offers a highly competitive wage and benefits program.

If you possess the noted qualifications and are interested in joining Dunkley Lumber, please submit your resume via fax or email to the attention of:

Personnel Coordinator

Fax: (250) 998-4513

Email: [email protected]

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

SAWMILL PRODUCTION SUPERVISORDunkley Lumber Ltd. operates a modern and efficient SPF dimension Sawmill and Planermill facility at Strathnaver, 75 km south of Prince George, BC. Our quality lumber products are sold across North America and in overseas markets. To find out more about us, please visit our website at www.dunkleylumber.com.

We currently have an opening for a Sawmill Production Supervisor. We are looking for someone who is motivated, takes pride helping others achieve their best and is very safety conscious. The ideal applicant will have supervisory experience in a sawmill environment, outstanding leadership and problem-solving skills, exceptional communication abilities and strong mechanical and technical capabilities.

This position offers a highly competitive wage and benefits program.

If you possess the noted qualifications and are interested in joining Dunkley Lumber, please submit your resume via fax or email to the attention of:

Personnel CoordinatorFax: (250) 998-4513Email: [email protected]

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Employment Employment

50 ton crane for sale, “where is, as is”

Call: 250-847-7928 or 250-877-2434

obo$22,500

100% Financing available O.A.C.

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Business Opportunities

ANTI-AGING BUSINESS Goldmine! #1 Baby Boomer Market in US. Prime Turn-key locations available. $12K(min. Invest)=$50K+ Yearly! Call to-day: 1-888-900-8276. 24/7.

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LEARN FROM home. Earn from home. Huge is a demand for Medical Transcriptionists. Start your online learning to-day with CanScribe Career College. www.canscribe.com Call 1.800.466.1535 or email: [email protected]

THERE IS a critical need for Medical Transcriptionists across Canada. Work from home. CanScribe graduates welcome and encouraged to apply. Apply through MTR at www.hds-mt.com/jobs

Help WantedNorm’s Auto Refi nishing, Terrace, BC. High production, ICBC Accredited body shop requires a LICENSED AUTO-MOTIVE PAINTER. Competi-tive wages, excellent benefi ts. fax: 250-635-3081 or email: [email protected] Attn: Mel Rundell, Manager

North Enderby Timber is looking to hire for various sawmill positions including Heavy Duty Mechanic (Journeyman or Apprentice). Millwright and Fabricator. We offer competitive wages along with a comprehensive benefi t package. Please fax resume to 250-838-9637.

Heavy Duty Machinery

Employment

Trades, TechnicalGPRC, Fairview Campus, Al-berta needs Power Engineer-ing Instructors. No teaching experience, no problem. Please contact Brian Carreau at 780-835-6631 and/or visit our website at www.gprc.ab.ca

JOURNEYMAN HEAVY DUTY MECHANICS

Fort McMurray & Leduc AlbertaGladiator Equipment Ltd. has immediate positions for Journeyman Heavy Duty, off road Certifi ed Mechanics for work in Fort McMurray and Le-duc, Alberta. Excellent wages and benefi ts.

www.gladiatorequipment.comfax 1-780-986-7051.

[email protected]

Marine TechnicianPrimary duties include maint. troubleshooting & repair of diesel & gas marine engines. Knowledgeable in vessel electrical systems. Must have own tools and a valid drivers license.

Compensation BasedOn Experience.

Please forward resume to vancouveroutboard@

telus.net

NOW HIRING Class 1 Drivers to transport dangerous goods for oilfi eld service company in northern Alberta. Competitive wages, benefi ts and lodging. Experience hauling fl uids pre-ferred. Send an email to: [email protected].

Work WantedR.J.’S RENOVATIONS & Handyman Service. Give me a call - small jobs preferred. Call Bob Fowler at (250) 695-6385 leave a message.

Services

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IF YOU own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits can lend you money: It’s That Simple. Your Credit / Age / Income is not an issue. 1.800.587.2161.

Legal ServicesCRIMINAL RECORD? Don’tlet it block employment, travel, education, professional, certifi -cation, adoption property ren-tal opportunities. For peace of mind & a free consultation call 1-800-347-2540.

Telephone ServicesDISCONNECTED PHONE? National Teleconnect home phone service. No one re-fused! Low monthly rate! Call-ing features and unlimited long distance available. Call Na-tional Teleconnect today! 1-866-443-4408. or visit online: www.nationalteleconnect.com

Merchandise for Sale

Misc. for SaleHOT TUB (SPA) COVERS. Best price. Best quality. All shapes & colours available. 1-866-652-6837 www.thecoverguy.com/newspaper?ROUND HAY bales for sale for horses & cattle. 5x5 bales, hard core, no rain. $30 per bale. (250) 759-4590STEEL BUILDINGS/metalbuildings 60% OFF! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100 sell for bal-ance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206 or visit us online at: www.crownsteelbuildings.caSTEEL BUILDING. “The bigyear end clear out!” 20x22 $4,259. 25x24 $4,684. 30x34 $6,895. 35x36 $9,190. 40x48 $12,526. 47x70 $17,200. One end wall included. Pioneer Steel 1-800-668-5422. www.pioneersteel.ca

Misc. WantedPrivate Coin Collector BuyingCollections, Estates, OlympicGold & Silver Coins, Bills etc. Confi dential 778-281-0030

Rentals

Suites, LowerLARGE BRIGHT 2 bedroomsuites in a safe and secure building. Close to school and hospital. Large patio, in-suite storage and storage lockers available. On site manage-ment. Heat, hot water and cable included for $700 per month. Call (250) 692-3959 and leave message.

By shopping localyou support local people.

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PACIFIC NORTHERN GAS LTD.APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF 2014 REVENUE REQUIREMENTS

FOR THE PNG-WEST SERVICE AREA PLEASE NOTE: The information contained below was initially scheduled to be published on December 18, 2013. Due to a publication error it is being printed today, Wednesday, January 29, 2014.

NOTICE OF REVENUE REQUIREMENTS APPLICATION

THE APPLICATIONOn November 29, 2013, Pacific Northern Gas Ltd. (PNG) filed its 2014 Revenue Requirements Application with the British Columbia Utilities Commission (Commission), pursuant to sections 58 to 61, 89 and 90 of the Utilities Commission Act (Act), seeking Commission approval to, among other things, increase delivery rates as a result of increases in cost of service and decreased deliveries to some customer classes (Application). The Application also seeks interim relief to allow PNG to amend its rates on an interim and refundable basis, effective January 1, 2014, pending the hearing of the Application and orders subsequent to that hearing.

The delivery rate increase is estimated to be approximately $0.348 per GJ for a residential customer. This represents an increase of 3.0 percent compared to the 2013 delivery rate. The delivery rate increase for a small commercial customer is estimated to be $0.270 per GJ corresponding to an increase of 2.7 percent compared to the 2013 delivery rate. The Granisle propane delivery rate increase for a residential customer is estimated to be $0.247 per GJ corresponding to an increase of 3.8 percent compared to the 2013 delivery rate.

Based on the gas cost recovery and Gas Cost Variance Account rate riders effective October 1, 2013 thru December 31, 2013, the overall average bundled rate increase for a typical residential customer consuming 68.7 GJ per year is 3.8 percent, an increase of $48 per year. Similarly, for a small commercial customer consuming 302.4 GJ per year, the increase is 4.0 percent or $189 per year and for Granisle propane customers consuming 53.5 GJ per year the overall average bundled rate increase is 1.0 percent, an increase of $13 per year.

THE REGULATORY PROCESSES The Commission wishes to hear from affected parties before determining the public process necessary for the disposition of the Application.

Commission Order G-208-13 establishes a Preliminary Regulatory Timetable for the review of the Application. The detailed Preliminary Regulatory Timetable can be reviewed on the Commission’s website at www.bcuc.com under Current Applications.

PUBLIC INSPECTION OF THE APPLICATION The Application and supporting material will be made available for inspection at public libraries in Prince Rupert, Terrace, Kitimat, Houston, Smithers, Burns Lake, Vanderhoof and Fort St. James, and at the Head Office of PNG at Suite 950, 1185 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC V6E 4E6, and at the British Columbia Utilities Commission, Sixth Floor, 900 Howe Street, Vancouver, BC V6Z 2N3.

The Application will also be available for viewing on the PNG website at www.png.ca, (www.png.ca/ir_utilities.cfm) and on the Commission’s website at www.bcuc.com, which also contains detailed materials related to the Application including Commission Orders and Intervener materials.

REGISTERING TO PARTICIPATE Persons who expect to actively participate in the review process should register as Interveners. Interveners will receive copies of the Application, all correspondence and filed documents. Persons not expecting to actively participate should register with the Commission as Interested Parties and will receive the Commission’s Decision.

Interveners and Interested Parties must inform the Commission Secretary, in writing or by online web registration, by Tuesday, December 31, 2013 of their intention to become Interveners or Interested Parties with respect to the Application.

All submissions and/or correspondence received from active participants or the general public relating to the Application will be placed on the public record and posted to the Commission’s website.

FURTHER INFORMATION For further information, please contact Erica Hamilton, Commission Secretary, or Philip Nakoneshny, Director, Rates, as follows:

Telephone: (604) 660-4700 or (BC Toll Free) 1-800-663-1385Facsimile: (604) 660-1102 E-mail: [email protected]

MINING LEASE APPLICATION

Take notice that Thompson Creek Mining Ltd., Bag 4001, Fraser Lake, British Columbia, V0J 1S0, free miner certificate client number 140102, has applied to the Chief Gold Commissioner for the Province of British Columbia, for a mining lease of minerals identified by the mineral claims listed below. The mineral claims will be surveyed and approved by the Surveyor General.

The following mineral claims are subject to the mining lease application:

Tenure Numbers 243774-243775, 243832, 244930-244931, 245329, 307068, 307089, 507168-507170, 507227, 507230, 507232, 507252, 532729, 1017548, 1017550, 1017552, 1017559, 1017561, 1017563 and 1017566-1017567

Mineral Titles Map Number 093K005

Posted at the Chief Gold Commissioner’s office in Victoria, British Columbia, this 17th Day of January, 2014.

LAND ACTNotice of Application for a Disposition of Crown Land

MINES ACTNotice of Application fora New Permit Approving

the Mine Plan andReclamation Program for

REDDOG Aggregate.Take notice that RED-DOG Logging Ltd. has fi led with the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Opera-tions (MFLNRO) Smith-ers and the Chief Inspec-tor of Mines, pursuant to Part 10.2.1 of the Health and Safety Reclamation Code for Mines in British Columbia, a proposed mine plan together with a program for the protec-tion and reclamation of the land and water courses related to the proposed REDDOG Ag-gregate located 1 km on Wrights Bay FSR (THAT PART OF DIS-TRICT LOT 5007, RANGE 5 COAST DIS-TRICT, CONTAINING 1.504 HECTARES, MORE OR LESS).The Lands File for this application is 6408639 and the Mines File is 1650804. Written com-ments concerning this application should be di-rected to the Inspector of Mines, Ministry of Energy and Mines, at PO Box 5000 - 3726 Alfred Ave, Smithers BC V0J 2N0 Comments will be re-ceived by MEM up to March 1, 2014. MEM may not be able to con-sider comments received after this date. Please visit the website at http://www.arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicationPosting/in-dex.jsp for more informa-tion. Be advised that any response to this adver-tisement will be consid-ered part of the public record. For information, contact the Freedom of Information Advisor at Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Re-source Operations’ Of-fi ce in Smithers.

Suites, LowerONE BEDROOM basement suite. Includes hydro, gas, sat-ellite. No pets. $900 month / $1200 fully furnished. Available March 1, 2014. (250) 692-6453

Puzzle Answers

Transportation

Trucks & Vans1992 F250 XLT diesel with snow plow. Runs good. $4500 call (250) 251-5020.

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Valentine’s Day

Featuring a Special Menu:

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Located on Francois Lake Drive, Burns LakePub: 250-692-0068

Liquor store: 250-692-0067

WINTER PUB HOURS: Mon. to Sat. 11am-10pm (Kitchen closes at 9pm) • Sun 4-9pm

Liquor Store open until 11pm Mon - Sat, 10pm on Sundays

PASTA NIGHT: TuesdaysWING NIGHT: WednesdaysPRAWN NIGHT (45¢/each) is back: Thursdays* starting February 6PRIME RIB NIGHT: FridaysSTEAK NIGHT: Saturdays*Mexican Night Thursdays will be cancelled as of February 1.

Prime Rib, Yorkshire pudding, roasted potatoes, vegetable & dessert: $25.95

Chicken Breast with Sauteed Prawns, rice and vegetables & dessert: $16.95

orChicken Breast in a Light Mushroom

Sauce, rice, vegetables & dessert: $16.95

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Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0

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email: [email protected]

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My name is Janet Holder and I am the leader of the Northern Gateway Project. This past December, my team came one step closer towards our goal of building a better pipeline.

After weighing the evidence in the most comprehensive, scientifi c review in Canadian pipeline history, the Joint Review Panel of the National Energy Board and the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency provided its recommendation.

The Panel concluded that Canada and Canadians would be better off with the Northern Gateway Project than without it. They also provided 209 conditions we must meet before we build the project or before we start operations.

From the beginning, Northern Gateway has committed to building a safer and better pipeline. The Panel’s conditions are an important step towards that goal. They refl ect the input of thousands of British Columbians and Canadians, and include many of the commitments we made in our submission. But our work is far from done. As a proud British Columbian, I assure you that my team will continue to work hard towards meeting all of the fi nal conditions set out by the Joint Review Panel, just as we’re working hard to meet the Province’s tough conditions.

Building a better pipeline isn’t easy. It takes hard work and completededication to meeting the highest standards possible. The JointReview Panel’s recommendation is an important step toward buildinga better pipeline.

Sincerely,

Janet HolderLeader of Northern Gateway

© 2014 Northern Gateway Pipelines Inc.

Working in partnership with B.C. and AlbertaFirst Nations and Métis Communities, andleading energy companies in Canada

Find out more at gatewayfacts.ca

The Joint Review Panel’s recommendation is an important step toward building a better pipeline.”

Sincerely,

Janet HolderLeader of Northern Gateway

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Burns Lake Lakes District News, January 29, 2014