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By Jackie LieuwenHouston Today
The District of Houston renewed their lease agreement for their sign west of Smithers.
At council last week Tuesday, the District agreed to a five year lease agree-
ment for $500, nearly double what they’ve paid for the last ten years.
Deputy Mayor Rick Lundrigan op-posed the move, ask-ing if the barn would even stay stand-ing for the next five years.
Mayor Bill
Holmberg said that part of the agree-ment is that if the barn fell down or had to be removed, the agreement would terminate immedi-ately.
But Lundrigan’s concern about the condition of the building was more
about the image of the Houston District.
“My concern here is, you got a sign on a derelict building, what kind of image does that portray?” he said.
“I think it goes into that antique look actually,” joked Mayor Holmberg.
Director of Engineering & D e v e l o p m e n t Services Michael Glavin says he looked at the sign three weeks ago and it seemed to be in okay condition.
Council decided to move ahead with the lease.
Speed reader gathering data
District billboard fee nearly doubles
By Jackie LieuwenHouston Today
Houston’s speed reader board is being used for research, to show the effectiveness of the boards.
The speed reader board is powered up and has been recording vehicle speed for the past two weeks, how-ever the board display is being turned on and off at different times, so that data can be collected to show the difference of having
the board there, said Carl Lutz, Ministry of Transportation district manager for Bulkley-Stikine.
The Ministry of Transportation is working with ICBC and the RCMP to get solid data to prove that the boards are ef-fective, said Lutz.
The data collection will continue for the rest of December and the speed reader board will be turned on full time for the new year, said Lutz.
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happy
holidays
We wish you a joyous Holiday Season &
a Happy New Year!
On behalf of Canfor and Canfor Pulp,
I would like to take this opportunity to wish you
a Happy and Safe Holiday.This Holiday Season,
like all others, we will be making a donation
to your local food bank.
Don KaynePresident and CEO Canfor
CEO Canfor Pulp
Salvation Army crew and volunteers packed 116 Christmas hampers last Thursday, Friday, 15 more than last year. Given out last Saturday, hampers were packed with Christmas dinner supplies, extra food for the holidays and angel gifts for children and youth. Top: Volunteer Hanna Apperson, Salvation Army Director Rick Apperson, Christmas hamper coordinator Rachel Chapman, and volunteer Geanne Kehler put together a Christmas hamper a needy Houston family. Middle: Volunteer Joanne Lecomte adds a box of cereal to her basket of items for a Christmas hamper. Bottom: Volunteer Colton Darling grabs a can of soup for the Christmas hamper he is putting together.
Photos by Jackie Lieuwen/Houston Today
Volunteers pack up Christmas
Hampers
In our opinion:
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Celebrate responsiblyHere it is. We are in the very bowels of the
Christmas season. Like it or not, the next two weeks will have their expectations of your.
The season is unique in the sense that most of us will be doing things we don’t normally do throughout the year.
We will get less sleep, so of us who were trav-eling or entertaining house guests, we will be eat-ing more than we normally do and some of us will be indulging in more ‘holiday cheer’ then at other times throughout the year.
It is indeed, a holiday that has some lofty ex-pectations placed upon all of us. Please, don’t misunderstand me, I’m not humbug or by any means as I truly love this season.
But year after year, I see many of my patients come back after the holidays bloated, exhausted, lethargic and in need of another holiday. I have done it too.
Here’s a brief survival guide to get you through this holiday season, one that’ll bring you and your family back in one piece and with few regrets.
First and foremost, we are what we eat. Garbage in garbage out.
For the of� ce Christmas party and through-out the season, exercise moderation and pace yourself.
It’s a long road with Christmas and New Year’s eve so close together.
If you drink, don’t drive. Period. That kind of thing that ruins lives.
If your hosting or attending a Christmas par-ty, take my advice, choose the small plate when up to the trough of Christmas delights.
I recommend people eat something healthy before going to a Christmas party so they don’t overindulge in butter tarts, Christmas cookies and a horrid thing we call Christmas cake.
We have all been in a situation where we’ve been invited to an event that we really don’t want to attend for various reasons.
Here’s what you say: “I am sorry, I would love to go, but I had a previous commitment I made to keep.”
This decline out their invitation makes you sound very Ghandi-esque as you are declining because you are keeping your word.
If you like your family and friends, spend as much time with them as possible and make them your priority. I say this very tongue-in-cheek be-cause spending time with people is important but choose wisely how you decide to spend your time.
Let’s face it, there is always one person in your family or circle of friends that spending time with them is very much like passing a stone.
Obligation is important but remember, as Polonius said in Shakespeare’s Hamlet: “This above all: to thine own self be true.”
- Markus Thiel
Keep it simple SantaFor the last several
weeks people have been asking me if I’m ready for Christmas. Usually I answer with a simple yes. The truth is, I don’t start getting ready for it until the day before.
I know - I sound like a guy. But it works for me.
Many years ago I wasn’t like this at all. I used to gear up for the holiday season early, making and buying cards and gifts for almost everyone I knew. I also spent a fair amount of time and money decorating the house. I did that for decades and each year I’d feel pressured to outdo myself.
Eventually I realized how stressed I was over the self-imposed work I was in� icting and I stopped. Now I don’t
send cards at all, and I only buy presents for my kids. Everyone else gets a gift card, if anything. As far as decorating the house goes, my nine year old daughter now loves to do that and surprise us with the results. Her and her 12 year old brother’s homemade decorations from years past are by far my favourite.
Even Christmas dinner is a piece of cake for me. If we stay home my husband likes to cook, but more often than not we travel to his parents where the whole family meets, and all I do is the dishes.
If it sounds like I’m bragging about being lazy, I’m sorry, but I just can’t help myself. I feel excited
about not being anxious and frazzled during the holiday season like I used to be. Over the last few Decembers I’ve been able to enjoy my time with friends and family in a way I couldn’t before, and I don’t feel guilty about it.
Why? Because I’m not burdening others with anything they don’t want to do, and that includes myself.
Fortunately for me, I lucked out in the mother-in-law department. I love all my in-laws, but my husband’s mother is really special and she’s also everything I’m not. At this time of year she cooks, bakes, decorates and goes all out with the presents. She seems to love every minute of it, and she makes
Christmas day a lot of fun for our family. The topper for me is how she doesn’t care that I’m so lame at what she does so exceptionally well, and she accepts me exactly as I am.
“You don’t need to do everything,” she told me many years ago when I expressed concern that I wasn’t cooking nearly as much as her son. “You have enough to do. If someone else likes to cook and you don’t, let them do it.”
Always busy with a long list of things to accomplish, I loved the idea of not adding to it, and needed no further convincing.
I like to think that even if I didn’t have help, I’d still do my best to keep things at this time of year simple. After all, a
Charlie Brown tree, something yummy to eat and the wonderful company of people I love is all I could ever want or hope for.
A stressful holiday season is de� nitely no longer on my list for Santa. It might have taken me awhile to understand what I really wanted for Christmas, but now that I � nally get it, there’s no turning back.
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Joy StephensStay-at-home Mom
“Yeah, we’re giving to Christian School and to “Gospel for Asia,” where
you send animals and things to needy families
overseas.”
Hannelore WesemeierRetired
“Yes, lots! Heart and Stroke Foundation, Children’s Hospital, Lions Eastern
Seale House and theKnowledge Network.”
Tanya MargermKindergarten teacher
“Yes, we contribute to the Salvation Army and help local families. I saw the
angel tree in the mall and 15 more children still need gifts, so I’d love for other families
to join in.”
Ann HarnessGrade 7 teacher
“Oh yes, we’re giving to Salvation Army and we
also sponsor twochildren overseas.”
Website Poll results
Do you have any new yearsresolutions this year?
Yes - 40% No - 60%
This week’s Website Poll atwww.houston-today.comAre you shopping during the holiday
sales this year?
Premier ponders black ink and oil Premier Christy
Clark has completed the
traditional round of year-end interviews with legislative press gallery reporters. Here are excerpts from my discussion with her, dealing with the Enbridge oil pipeline proposal and the balanced budget her government has promised to present in February.
TF: On the Enbridge project, are you getting the answers you want on safety?
PCC: No, we’re not. We’ve set out our position. The � ve conditions need to be met, period.
[B.C.’s conditions
are “world-class” land and marine spill prevention and response, meeting legal obligations for aboriginal consultation, passing f edera l -prov inc ia l e n v i r o n m e n t a l assessment and a “fair share” of � nancial bene� ts.]
PCC: We need the oilpatch producers, the Alberta government and the federal government to come to the table.
We’ve been cross-examining Enbridge. We have not been getting any of the answers that we hoped to get. We haven’t gained a lot of comfort from that process. And none of
the other conditions are even close to being met.
We are doing our own study of marine traf� c. We want to understand the total number of ships that are out there plying our coast right now. Because all of them have fuel in them, and some are cargo ships that are big enough to have enough [bunker] fuel as a mini-tanker would.
Part of this is trying to understand where our level of Coast Guard protection needs to be today, in order to protect us should there be a spill from the existing traf� c.
TF: Balancing the
budget: the � nance ministry’s current projections call for an upturn in natural gas royalties in the coming year. With the current glut of gas, isn’t that kind of far-fetched?
PCC: It is going to be dif� cult to present a balanced budget, but I think, because we’re going to build in some [forecast] allowance, as we always do, and because we’re going to be completely transparent about the assumptions that have led us there, and because we aren’t going to � ddle with any of the assumptions that we receive from the experts in the Ministry of Finance, it’s going to be quite
clear that we have done it. We have come by a balanced budget honestly.
So when it comes to natural gas, you know that the assumption we use in the budget is based on a fairly complex formula that the Ministry of Finance has relied on for probably a decade now. We don’t � ddle with that.
There are those who would say we should arti� cially lower the [revenue projection] number that we use. But if you arti� cially lower it, what’s to stand in the way of arti� cially raising it? You either accept the advice of your experts or you don’t. And
they’re the experts, not the politicians.
TF: Right now we have a de� cit gap of more than a billion dollars. Can that be closed without signi� cant spending cuts, or tax increases, or both?
PCC: You will see when we get to the budget. And it will be absolutely transparent how we got there. [Laughs] Nice try.
TF: If the B.C. Liberals form a government in May, will the election date be changed so we don’t have to have this discussion about questionable spring election budgets?
PCC: It’s not part of the plan today, but I’m
sure it’s a discussion we’ll have in the next four years. I know that people have talked about it. I’m open to it. I’m not wedded to this particular date.
Next week I’ll have highlights from my year-end interview with NDP leader Adrian Dix.
Editor:The fiscal
i n c o m p e t e n c e and complete mismanagement of Canada’s largest military procurement since World War II has now been
fully exposed. The Conservative Party needs to be held accountable for their total mishandling of the F-35.
Two years ago they told Canadians that the government would
replace our aging fleet of CF-18s with a sole-sourced contract for F-35s for only $9 billion—now thanks to an audit from KPMG we know the true cost of the F-35s will exceed $46 billion. The government said the F-35 was the only plane that could meet our needs—now they admit that other planes could. They always maintained
that considering other options was irresponsible and they sole-sourced the contract—now they are looking at other planes. They said there was a contract—now they don’t.
This is how
an incompetent government turns a $13 billion Liberal surplus in 2006 into a $142 billion accumulated Conservative deficit by 2012.
The government lied, stonewalled,
broke all the rules of procurement, evaded every safeguard, and attacked the credibility and patriotism of all those who dared challenge it. It asked voters to re-elect it using fraudulent numbers.
The Conservatives need to stop the cheerleading and start asking serious questions about how the government is spending your hard-earned tax dollars. They can’t serve Canadians with blinders on.
John McKay, MPLiberal Party of Canada Defence
Critic
Conservatives blind to F-35 fiasco
B.C. Views
Tom Fletcher
Are you contributing to
any charities this Christmas?
On The Street
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that considering ““They promised to replace our fleet for $9 billion, but cost will exceed $46 billion.”
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COMMUNITY6 www.houston-today.com Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Houston Today
Pacific Northern Gas (N.E.) Ltd.Application for Approval of 2013 Revenue Requirements
for the PNG-West Service Area
NOTICE OF REVENUE REQUIREMENTS APPLICATION
THE APPLICATIONOn November 30, 2012, Pacific Northern Gas Ltd. (PNG) filed its 2013 Revenue Requirements Ap-plication 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, 2013, pending the hearing of the Ap-plication and orders subsequent to that hearing.
The delivery rate increase is estimated to be approximately $0.256 per GJ for a residential customer. This represents an increase of 2.2 percent compared to the 2012 delivery rate. The delivery rate increase for a small commercial customer is estimated to be $0.203 per GJ corresponding to an increase of 2.1 percent compared to the 2012 delivery rate. The Granisle propane delivery rate increase for a residential customer is estimated to be $0.167 per GJ corresponding to an increase of 2.6 percent compared to the 2012 delivery rate.
Based on the gas cost recovery and GCVA rate riders effective November 1, 2012 thru December 31, 2012 the overall average bundled rate increase for a typical residential customer consuming 68.2 GJ per year, is 4.4 percent, an increase of $54 per year. Similarly, for a small commercial cus-tomer consuming 314.0 GJ per year, the increase is 4.8 percent or $230 per year, and for Granisle propane customers consuming 56.0 GJ per year the overall average bundled rate increase is 0.7 percent, an increase of $9 per year.
THE REGULATORY PROCESSThe Commission wishes to hear from affected parties before determining the public process necessary for the disposition of the Application.
Commission Order G-192-12 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 APPLICATIONThe 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 (http://www.png.ca/regulatory-applications), and on the Commission’s website at www.bcuc.com. The Commis-sion’s website also contains detailed materials related to the Application including Commission Or-ders and Intervener materials (http://www.bcuc.com/Proceeding.aspx?ApplicationType=Current).
REGISTERING TO PARTICIPATEPersons who expect to actively participate in the review process should register as Interveners. Inter-veners 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 a copy of the Application’s Executive Summary, all Orders issued, as well as the Commis-sion’s Decision.
Interveners and Interested Parties must inform the Commission Secretary, in writing or by online web registration, by Friday, January 18, 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 relat-ing to the Application will be placed on the public record and posted to the Commission’s web site.
FURTHER INFORMATIONFor further information, please contact Erica Hamilton, Commission Secretary, or Philip Nakoneshny, Director, Rates, as follows: Telephone: (604) 660-4700 or (B.C. Toll Free) 1-800-663-1385 Facsimile: (604) 660-1102 E-mail: [email protected]
Canadian Forest Products Ltd. (Canfor)
would like to advise the public that active logging and log hauling activities are occurring in the vicinity of
Foxy Creek, Hanna Lake Trailand the Equity Mine Road.
If you are using this area we encourage you to do so safely. The logging and hauling activities in thisarea are estimated to take place until the end
of January 2013.
If you have any comments please call Jill Macaulay at 250-845-5281 or Andrew Leffers at 250-845-5239.
Houston Community serviCes AssoCiAtion
is having their
annual general meeting
on January 15th, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. at the Main Office of HCSA
#202 - 3429 10th Street (upstairs) Anyone is welcome!
Return all your empty drink containers to aReturn-It Depot and
they’ll be recycled into other important products.
Find locations atencorp.ca/locations
Twain Sullivan students Maurisa, 11, and Paige, 7, enjoy some cross country skiing at the seventh annual Twain Sullivan Winter Carnival.
LITTLe Skiers Jackie Lieuwen/ Houston Today
Council applies for economic development grant
By Jackie LieuwenHouston Today
The District of Houston is applying for $35,000 grant to pay for the economic development officer.
Received last year, the grant from the Northern D e v e l o p m e n t
Initiative Trust under the Economic D e v e l o p m e n t Capacity Building Funding Program, covers half of the a n n u a l $ 6 0 , 0 0 0 the District pays for the economic development officer.
The economic development officer,
Maureen Czirfusz, gives economic development services, giving information to potential investors, lobbying to protect Houston business and promoting Houston business such as mining, said District CAO Linda Poznikoff.
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Invasive fish fines will bite walletBy Tom Fletcher
Black Press
Releasing a snakehead fish into B.C. waters could cost you up to $250,000.
The B.C. government has amended its controlled alien species regulation to impose steep fines for releasing invasive fish such as the snakehead, a Chinese import with a voracious appetite and the ability to wiggle across land to get to new waterways.
A snakehead fish discovered in a pond in Burnaby Central Park in June forced environment ministry biologists to pump the lake level down so it could be captured. The toothy beasts were being imported and sold alive in Asian specialty food stores.
The new regulations also aim to stop the spread of zebra or quagga mussels that can attach themselves to boats and equipment and infest lakes. Failure to remove those mussels, alive or dead, can trigger a fine of up to $100,000.
“The impact of the snakehead and zebra mussel in other jurisdictions has been devastating to those local ecosystems,” Environment Minister Terry Lake said Thursday, announcing the latest changes.
The regulations also prohibit possession and breeding of identified high-risk aquatic species. They expand
the reach of legislation passed in 2009 that restricted ownership and breeding of tigers, snakes, crocodiles and a long list of other exotic animals. Added to the list are species of monitor lizard that grow to more than two metres long or otherwise represent a threat to public safety.
B.C.’s restrictions for private zoos were passed after a woman was killed by a Bengal tiger kept in a cage at an exotic animal attraction on a farm near 100 Mile House in 2007.
The new regulations add definitions for “accredited zoo or aquarium” as well as schools and research facilities that are permitted to possess exotic animals for study purposes.
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mussel have been devastating.” - Environment Minister Terry Lake
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Twain Sullivan Winter Carnival
8 www.houston-today.com Wednesday, December 26, 2012 Houston Today
Top: Brian Semeschuk gives a group of Twain Sullivan students a sleigh ride around the duck pond near the school. A sleigh ride was one of the many activities students enjoyed before Christmas holidays.Above: Students Alley, 7, Ryder, 7, and Laney, 8, whip down the hill together on a saucer sled. Left: Teacher Linda Kusleika races Matthew, 12, Erin, 7, and Charles and Brandon down the hill on their cross country skis. Bottom left: Julia, 8, Jennifer, 8, and Brooke-Lynn, 8, shake up a bag of milk and sugar inside a bag of snow and salt to make home-made ice cream.Bottom right: Kade asks Mr. Rode about what he’s using to make the igloo, which students helped build behind the Twain Sullivan school. Jackie Lieuwen photos/
Houston Today
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Jackie Lieuwen
Houston Today
Natural honey and beeswax products could develop a new medical branch to help with skin prob-lems and allergies.
Certified beemas-ter and local beekeep-er, Harold Ludditt has owned bees for 23 or 24 years and has har-vested and sold honey, made candles and just recently started mak-ing hand cream with beeswax and honey, he said.
Having gotten into beekeeping through a friend who raised bees as a boy, Ludditt gained his expertise through books, ex-perience, a six-week bees-master certifica-tion course at Simon Fraser University and talking with experi-enced beekeepers, he says.
Through his course and attendance at the 1999 Vancouver Apimondia, the world council of beekeepers, Ludditt met ex-perienced beekeepers that he has kept in contact with, he said.
For the first few years he lost 40 per cent of his bees each winter, said Ludditt, which is on the higher end of the average expected loss, 25 to 40 per cent.
But now he has brought it down to only five per cent lost each winter, because he stopped buying bees and instead raised new colonies from the bees that had sur-vived the winter, he said.
Ludditt has not bought bees for 15
years and he doesn’t use any antibiotics, he says, which is one of the reasons he believes his honey helps with allergies.
He believes the honey has medical value for those with allergies to airborne pollen and the like.
“About a tablespoon a day will reduce your allergic reactions,” he says.
And though years ago at the world council of beekeepers, his honey was re-quested by the ton, Ludditt himself says he doesn’t eat the stuff.
“I’d rather have peanut butter and jam,” he says.
Last October, Ludditt also started
making and selling his own hand creams at $3 per container, he said.
He makes the lotions with beeswax, honey, natural oils, glycerine, water and a little Borax, sometimes adding bath oil to give a scent, he says.
Ludditt reports that people have found his creams help with skin rashes such as eczema, said Ludditt, adding that he is sending six containers to family friends on Vancouver Island who asked for more after seeing the affect on their grandson’s eczema.
Ludditt also makes a lotion with lano-lin that helps heal cracked and dry feet or
hands, he said, adding that several people reported to him that the beeswax cream worked wonders, and all the prescription ointments they’d tried didn’t do much good.
“I think part of the reason is that the bees-wax has no chemicals, nothing is in there that doesn’t belong there,” said Ludditt.
Ludditt hopes to make a cream with wintergreen, because wintergreen causes the skin to warm up which could be good for arthritis, he said.
Besides hand cream and honey, Ludditt has also sold bees-wax candles, made by melting down honey combs and pouring the wax into moulds, he said.
Ludditt has never turned a profit for his products, but makes the candles and lo-tions for his own en-joyment, he says.
But Ludditt has sold his bees this spring because of medical reasons, plan-ning to be a consultant for Dana Gies-brecht and Michael Rourke, the two ama-teur Houston beekeepers who bought his bees, he said.
Giesbrecht and Rourke will carry on the Houston beekeeping along with John Siebenga and Devon McKilligan, two other local beekeepers, said Ludditt.
“I’ll be here as sort of a consultant, and they’ll be carrying on the beekeep-ing,” he said.
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Dana Giesbrecht and Harold Ludditt check the bees on Sept 13, to make sure that there is enough room on the honey combs so the bees keep producing and don’t swarm. Giesbrecht bought the bees from Ludditt and came with him several times over the summer to visit the bees and learn all she could about beekeeping.
Jackie Lieuwen
Houston Today
Natural honey and beeswax products could develop a new medical branch to help with skin prob-lems and allergies.
Certified beemas-ter and local beekeep-er, Harold Ludditt has owned bees for 23 or 24 years and has har-vested and sold honey, made candles and just recently started mak-ing hand cream with beeswax and honey, he said.
Having gotten into beekeeping through a friend who raised bees as a boy, Ludditt gained his expertise through books, ex-perience, a six-week bees-master certifica-tion course at Simon Fraser University and talking with experi-enced beekeepers, he says.
Through his course and attendance at the 1999 Vancouver Apimondia, the world council of beekeepers, Ludditt met ex-perienced beekeepers that he has kept in contact with, he said.
For the first few years he lost 40 per cent of his bees each winter, said Ludditt, which is on the higher end of the average expected loss, 25 to 40 per cent.
But now he has brought it down to only five per cent lost each winter, because he stopped buying bees and instead raised new colonies from the bees that had sur-vived the winter, he said.
Ludditt has not bought bees for 15
years and he doesn’t use any antibiotics, he says, which is one of the reasons he believes his honey helps with allergies.
He believes the honey has medical value for those with allergies to airborne pollen and the like.
“About a tablespoon a day will reduce your allergic reactions,” he says.
And though years ago at the world council of beekeepers, his honey was re-quested by the ton, Ludditt himself says he doesn’t eat the stuff.
“I’d rather have peanut butter and jam,” he says.
Last October, Ludditt also started
making and selling his own hand creams at $3 per container, he said.
He makes the lotions with beeswax, honey, natural oils, glycerine, water and a little Borax, sometimes adding bath oil to give a scent, he says.
Ludditt reports that people have found his creams help with skin rashes such as eczema, said Ludditt, adding that he is sending six containers to family friends on Vancouver Island who asked for more after seeing the affect on their grandson’s eczema.
Ludditt also makes a lotion with lano-lin that helps heal cracked and dry feet or
hands, he said, adding that several people reported to him that the beeswax cream worked wonders, and all the prescription ointments they’d tried didn’t do much good.
“I think part of the reason is that the bees-wax has no chemicals, nothing is in there that doesn’t belong there,” said Ludditt.
Ludditt hopes to make a cream with wintergreen, because wintergreen causes the skin to warm up which could be good for arthritis, he said.
Besides hand cream and honey, Ludditt has also sold bees-wax candles, made by melting down honey combs and pouring the wax into moulds, he said.
Ludditt has never turned a profit for his products, but makes the candles and lo-tions for his own en-joyment, he says.
But Ludditt has sold his bees this spring because of medical reasons, plan-ning to be a consultant for Dana Gies-brecht and Michael Rourke, the two ama-teur Houston beekeepers who bought his bees, he said.
Giesbrecht and Rourke will carry on the Houston beekeeping along with John Siebenga and Devon McKilligan, two other local beekeepers, said Ludditt.
“I’ll be here as sort of a consultant, and they’ll be carrying on the beekeep-ing,” he said.
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Dana Giesbrecht and Harold Ludditt check the bees on Sept 13, to make sure that there is enough room on the honey combs so the bees keep producing and don’t swarm. Giesbrecht bought the bees from Ludditt and came with him several times over the summer to visit the bees and learn all she could about beekeeping.
Jackie LieuwenHouston Today
As people focus on gift giving for the Christmas season, Bart Plugboer has his mind on anoth-er, more global kind of giving.
As volunteers for the Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Plugboer and his wife Shirley have raised over a quarter of a million dollars over the past ten years for world hunger.
The Canadian Foodgrains Bank, according to the website, is a partnership of 15 Canadian churches and church-based agencies working together to end global hunger.
The Foodgrains Bank, run 80 per cent by volunteers, in-cludes Salvation Army, Red Cross, and Pentecostal, Baptist and Reformed church organiza-tions, said Plugboer, and they do all kinds of things from drilling water wells, to disaster relief, to supplying seed and farm equip-ment to needy places, mostly Africa, South America and Asia.
Only seven per cent of the Foodgrains Bank money goes to administration and all the mon-ey that goes to food projects is matched by the government four times, said Plugboer.
Plugboer says that until ten years ago the only B.C. Foodgrains fund-raising came from an auction in Abbotsford, but when Plugboer and his friend Gerrit Keegstra heard about it, they and their wives agreed to start fund-raising in the Bulkley Valley - collecting livestock do-nations in Houston, Smithers and Burns Lake and auctioning
the items in Vanderhoof.They started with just live-
stock and animal donations - from cows and horses, to sheep and lamas, to ducks and billy goats - until one year at the Burns Lake fair, Tracy Hushard donated a $100 gift basket, Plugboer said.
“That goofy basket went for $600 - like everybody wanted
that basket!” Plugboer said, add-ing that since then they’ve been buying baskets every year and getting all kinds of donations such as saddles, chaps, a mir-ror from All West Glass, a tire change from Kal Tire, an oil change from Western Pacific, etc.
The whole process is fed with donations: one guy trucks the donations to Vanderhoof
for free, another feeds the ani-mals for a week before the truck comes, another does the auction-eering for free, and the auction mart feed and storage is given for free, Plugboer said.
“It’s been a real blessing, to see the willingness of people in the valley… to share with the needy of the world,” said Plugboer.
And now they have expanded beyond the Bulkley Valley and Vanderhoof auction, to organize auctions in Williams Lake and Kitimat as well, but the Bulkley Valley supported Vanderhoof auction brings in the most mon-ey by far, said Plugboer, add-ing that of the $18,000 raised this year through the three auc-tions, $12,000 of that was from Vanderhoof.
When asked why Vanderhoof does so well, Plugboer says it’s because of the generous Mennonites there.
Plugboer says that the Foodgrains Bank was started by Alberta Mennonites almost 30 years ago, so the Mennonites know what the Foodgrains Bank is about and support it generous-ly - with baskets that sell for $15 to $35 in Williams Lake, going for $150 to $200 in Vanderhoof.
Plugboer says he and Shirley organize all three auctions - he does the leg work, running around collecting donations, and Shirley does the paperwork - and they also have a few people in other communities who help out and collect donations.
Asked why he does what he does, Plugboer said he feels blessed to help somebody he has
never met. “We don’t know what hunger
is… we’ve never been hungry,” Plugboer said, adding that we don’t know what it’s like for a mother to send her children out to get water, knowing that they’ll likely be molested along the way, but sending them anyways be-cause they need water.
“We can’t grasp that,” said Plugboer.
“If I turn on the tap and there’s no water, somebody’s go-ing to hear about it - that’s North America… We are so spoiled in our own little country. We throw away more than what those peo-ple have… that’s what keeps me going,” Plugboer said.
When the earthquake hit Haiti, a news reporter was talk-ing to a Haiti local, and behind them there was a truck being unloaded with food and sup-plies with big stickers that said “Foodgrains Bank,” Plugboer said with a smile.
“And I said, ‘Shirley, it’s work-ing! It’s working!’ The reporter never even noticed it… but they were in the background, handing out food and water bottles to the people,” Plugboer said.
That is what keeps him go-ing, he said, adding that with only seven per cent of the money raised going to the organization administration, and all the mon-ey for food projects is matched by the government four times - it makes a huge difference.
“We are so blessed here. We have way more than we could ever need… God has blessed me with so much for so long, that I think I have to share,” he said.
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Above, Coach Randy Chapman and HSS and club wrestlers competed in another tournament Dec. 8 in Smithers.
From that tournament, club wrestler Dustin Darling returned with gold and Shelby Stewart with bronze.
HSS wrestlers Kyle Proctor, Bryan Bradley and Jobie Legge came back with silver from their divisions, and Orion Moyles, Trent Siemens and Jody Siemens had bronze.
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Houston Secondary school staff push hard to the net during the grad verses staff hockey game at the arena last Thursday. Staff won the game 9 - 5 against the graduating students, but the fun and friendly game was a great way to transition into the Christmas break.
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LOCAL BY-ELECTIONS NOTICE OF NOMINATION
Public Notice is given to the electors of the Village of Granisle that nominations for the offices of:
Councillor - two (2) to be elected
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Candidates shall be nominated in writing by two qual-ified electors of the Village of Granisle. Nomination documents are available at the Village of Granisle of-fice from 8:30 am to 12:00 (noon) and 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm, Monday to Friday located at #1 Village Square, Granisle, B.C.
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• Canadian citizen; • 18 years of age or older; • resident of British Columbia for at least 6 months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed; OptiOnal: • a person or the commander of an armed forces unit who has been granted freedom of the municipality, if that person is a Canadian citizen; and • not disqualified by the local Government act or any other enactment from voting in an election in British Columbia or from being nominated for, being elected to, or holding office.
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New Burns hospitalBy Walter Strong
Black Press
Northern Health and Partnerships British Columbia where in Burns Lake on Dec. 4, 2012 and held a public commu-nity meeting to discuss where the new hospital project was in its life-cycle.
The $55 million Burns Lake hospital project has moved into the procurement stage of construction. Eleven construction and design teams had submitted propos-als to build the new hospital according to guidelines developed by Northern Health in public consultation with residents and of-ficials in the Lakes District, and three teams have been short-listed.
Three teams have been shortlisted, Bird DB Construction, PCL Constructors Westcoast and Stuart
Olson Dominion. Each construction company is partnered with their own design firm. Each team will bring a unique ‘design-build’ project to the table and Northern Health will select the winning bid according to the best price. Each project proposal must meet minimum design guidelines.
The replacement hospital will house up to 16 beds, provide acute care and emer-gency services, diag-nostic imaging, a labo-ratory and pharmacy.
“This should be very good for your community, it should be very beneficial,” said Rick Steele, Assistant Vice President with Partnership BC, re-garding the anticipat-ed influx of construc-tion activity. “There’ll be lots of business op-portunities.”
The Village of Burns Lake will be taking contact infor-
mation for local con-tractors that want to be involved in the bid process.
A member of the public in attendance at the meeting raised concern that the talk of three individual and distinct design plans could mean that the work done by lo-cal planning groups might be left on the drawing room floor.
Steele explained that the results of that community input formed part of the design guidelines that
Northern Health pre-sented to interested builders.
“We took the ex-isting work and floor plans and said that these are the minimum requirements,” said Steele. “We listed all the rooms, room uses and area [square foot-age] that were on the plans and they formed the base specifica-tions.”
“What we’re look-ing for them [the de-signers] to do is to make the plans more efficient,” Steele said.
“Before any work starts, we’ll still have a full user consultation process.”
Paul Rudecki, Northern Health Project Manager, elaborated on how the design process will work. Each bid must meet the detailed requirements and design guidelines already described by Northern Health in their initial call for proposals.
“Each of the three proposals must meet the design guidelines at
a minimum,” Rudecki said. “And any changes will represent an improvement on current designs, not a subtraction.”
“Whatever you see as a finished product will be better than what [designs] we already have in hand,” he said.
“The majority of the decisions to be made are technical in nature,” he said. “Ninety per cent is not changeable.”
Regional District of Bulkely Nechako
financial administrator Hans Berndorff asked how local contractors could get connected with the potential builders. Mayor Luke Strimbold recommended that contractors contact the village office to get put on a list and that the village would eventually have a link online to register in a contractor database.
Construction is expected to begin late in the spring of 2013 and should be completed in 2015.
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General ManagerBurns Lake Native Development Corporation is a First Nations owned and driven organization. With a strong working relationship with its Board of Directors the organization is committed to promoting entrepreneurship and economic growth development within its six member first nations.
Reporting to the Board of Directors, the ideal candidate for this half-time position (moving to full time pending resources) will demonstrate - financial management skills - good written and oral skills - strong management skills and project management experience - experience working with a board of directors - hands-on HR management skills - familiarity with lending principles - experience in community economic development - experience in a non- profit organization - must have experience in proposal writing, forestry, logging and value added operations - good understanding of dealing with first nation communities
Responsibilities: - co-ordinating meetings of, and reporting to, Board and its committees - assisting Board formulate policies and programs - overseeing administration - planning, developing and monitoring budgets and performance targets - developing and maintaining HR policies; recruiting, training, supervising staff - leading economic development initiatives
Applicants ideally will have several years management experience, post secondary education in a business related field, familiarity with log harvesting, small business lending and an ability to work with diverse client and partnership groups. Aboriginal ancestry is an asset.
Please submit resumes by January 7, 2013 to:
Chair Burns Lake Native Development Corp PO Box 1030, Burns Lake, BC V0J 1E0 Fax: (250) 692-7483 Email: [email protected]
JOB POSTING – Plant AccountantPinnacle Pellet is seeking an experienced Accountant to fi ll a full-time accounting position at its Burns Lake, BC Plant location.
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Duties include: providing direct support services to crime and trauma victims, including witnesses.
The successful candidate must meet the following requirements: • A Diploma in a Social Services Program is preferred. • Victim Services Training an asset • Experience in crisis intervention and follow up support • Knowledge of Court & Police procedures, and Community Resources • Valid BC Driver’s License • Up-to-date Computer Skills • Experience in Program Volunteer Management • Able to function well in high stress and emotional situations • Able to respond to 24-hour emergency call outs • Able to work flexible hours, including weekends • Must successfully pass the RCMP Enhanced Security Clearance.
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Where toWorship
Anglican Church of
St. Clement2324 Butler Ave., Box 599,Houston 250-845-4940
Services are:10:30 a.m. Sundays
First United Church
2106 Butler Ave., Houston
Services at 11 a.m.Contact: (Marianne
Dekker) 250-845-2282 or 778-816-0039
HOUSTONPENTECOSTAL CHURCH2024 Riverbank Drive, Box 597, Houston Phone: 845-2678 • Pastor: Mike McIntyre
Sunday Worship Service: 11:00 amSunday Prayer Meeting: 6:30 pm
Sunday School: 9:45 amEveryone Welcome
Guru Nanak SikhTemple Association
P.O. Box 1784,Houston, BC V0J 1Z0Phone: 250-845-2705
Houston FellowshipBaptist Church
3790 C.R. Matthews Rd.Pastor: Larry Ballantyne
Sunday School 9:45AMChurch Service 11:00AM
Everyone Welcome!Phone: 250-845-7810
Houston ChristianReformed Church1959 Goold St., Box 6, Houston
250-845-7578
~ Everyone Welcome! ~
Services:10:00 am & 3:00 pm
Santokh Singh Manhas250-845-2217
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Structural Firefighting/Hwy Rescue. Interested? Topley Volunteer Fire Dept. is accepting applica-tions. No experience necessary please contact Byron - F/C 250-696-3348 or come to a fire practice: Thurs. @ 1930 hrs (7:30 pm)
Topley Volunteer Fire Dept. meetings every 2nd Tues. of the month at 7:30 pm. Fire practices ev-ery Thurs. at 7:30 pm.
Topley Victory Church services: 10:30 a.m.
GranisleGranisle and District Seniors meetings are the 2nd and 4th Thurs. of each month at 1pm in the Seniors Centre.
Granisle Volunteer Fire Department meetings & fire practices every Tues., 7 p.m. at the Fire Hall.
Granisle Church of the Way services are Sun., 11 a.m. Bible study is Thurs. at 7 p.m.
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Houston Bowling Leagues are starting up their second half on Sun., Jan. 6, 2013. Need more teams and call the bowling alley at 845-2298 for information. Also, just a reminder that Tuesday and Wednesdays are half price public bowling.
Houston Dart League is Saturday evenings at 7:30 pm. upstairs at the Houston Curling Club. Blind doubles games.
The Morice Mountain Nordic Ski Club Membership Pick up your registration package from Countrywide Sports or download from www.xcskimoricemtn.com.
Houston Secondary School webpage: http://hssweb.sd54.bc.ca
The Houston Legion Branch 249: Meeting: 2nd Mon. of the month is Executive, 4th Mon. is General Meeting (we have not been able to get a quorum in months, members please attend).
HOUSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENTS... Fri. Jan. 4, 2013 – Morice Mt. Nordic Ski Club presents…Introduction to Community Coaching, Level 1 (NCCP) Cross-Country Coaching Certificate Training. 6-10pm and Sat., Jan. 5, 2013 from 8am to 4pm at the Houston Public Library. $85.00 for non-members, Free to members of the Morice Mountain Nordic Ski club, Free Season membership for Morice Mountain Nordic Ski Club Coaches. For more information and to register, contact Kelly Favron at: 250-845-0097 or [email protected]
Seniors Bingo is every Tues. at 7pm at Cottonwood Manor. Entry is $1. Come out & enjoy a fun prize filled evening. Lots of prizes!
Houston Community Services is open Mon. thru Fri. from 9am to 4pm We have clothing to give away. Baby clothing; women’s and mens as well as children of all ages. Come and check it out!
The Houston Retirement Housing Society is asking interested parties to provide their names for future vacancies at our Pleasant Valley Village apartments. Please call Roberta@250-845-2257.
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For many years as a registered guide, I took
hunters, � shermen and persons who wanted to holiday and take pictures in real wilderness areas.
Two young married couples from USA I had come to know phoned me. “Eddy” they said “We want to come for ten days to � sh and take pictures where we might see bear, moose and mountain goat.”
I knew the perfect place for this would be at the western end of Morice Lake. Hardly anyone went there at that time, but here was the bite - the couples wanted to come in � ve days and I would need a small cabin to accommodate them.
I needed help. Who would come help build a cabin?
I had a sawmill and all the necessary tools to hurry and prefabricate a structure, but who would come with me to the western end of Morice Lake to assemble it, make an outside toilet, a rock circle for evening � re place and so forth?
Just who could I get? Suddenly it came to me, from every angle of my speculation, I knew the perfect choice of my consideration was one of my best young friends, Jack Sullivan. I had hunted big game with Jack
we had prospected for mineral, gone on � shing trips, holidayed and done business deals.
In every respect of pleasure and business you couldn’t � nd a better person.
With high hopes, I went to see Jack and told him my story. He thought for a few minutes then said “Ed, I’ll come and help you.”
We put the whole prefab cabin in my 21 foot crew cab, wide bottomed boat with a � ll barrel of gas on top. The lake got rough and we both agreed if it got only a little worse, we would dump the full gas barrel out. We never did that and were both glad when we got to the beach at Atna Bay.
Now let me tell you why Jack Sullivan and I were able to
assemble the cabin so fast, it was because my wonderful wife Edna came with us and dragged most of the structure up the beach as we nailed it together. Before dark it was up, two beds, a table, some shelves. We lit the propane lantern, ate our prepared lunch, drank coffee, cooked on a campers gas propane stove, and slept where we felt happy and safe from the Grizzly bears that were common in that area.
My young couples from USA came and stayed in the cabin for ten days, � shed, saw a grizzly bear, many mountain goat and had a beautiful holiday, thanks to Jack Sullivan who was such a good friend.
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Inglis 18 cuft Fridge, Reg. $869 - SALE .............................$569Inglis 30” Stove, Reg. $499 - SALE ...$398Inglis Dishwasher, Reg. $399 - SALE .$269Inglis Top Load Pair Washer/Dryer, Reg. $899 - SALE ......$699White Westinghouse 18 cuft Fridge, Reg. $599 - SALE .............................$449Matching Stove, Reg. $499 - SALE ...$349Matching Dishwasher, Reg. $399 - SALE .............................$298Frigidaire Front Load Washer/Dryer, Reg. $1699 - SALE ........................ $1349
REBATE $150& NO PST On Washer Bottom Price $1249Large 4.5 cuft capacity Steam Washer/Dryer Pair, Reg. $3699 - SALE ....... $2599Whirlpool Duet Sport Front Load Washer/Dryer Pair, Reg. $1799 - SALE ....... $1399
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$1599Blu Ray Player, Reg. $369 - SALE .........................
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$699Queen Hewitt Mattress/Box, Reg. $1499 - SALE .......................
$849Queen City Diamond Unit, Reg. $1799 - SALE .......................
$998Restwell Mattress Queen Unit, Reg. $799 - SALE .........................
$499Restwell Mattress Twin Mattress Only, Reg. $349 - SALE .........................
$198
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Simmons Queen 1008 Pocket Coil Beautyrest mattress setreg $1699.............SALE $798
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