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Union letter blasts District Cécile Favron

Unifor 2300, the union representing the striking District of Kitimat workers, released an Open Letter to the Public last Wednesday accusing the district of a “negative media campaign.” The union said that they have been unable to re-spond to the district’s false statements due to con� dentiality restrictions set out by the Labour Relations Board.

This open letter comes as the union and the district returned to the bargain-ing table last Sunday and Monday for re-sumed negotiations with their mediator.

Unifor described in the open let-ter that only the bargaining committees, including the Mayor and Council, were privy to the information discussed in the mediation. When the union proposed an offer to settle in the � nal minutes of the last bargaining session on May 23, the letter says they expected that the dis-trict’s bargaining team “would confer with Mayor and Council and respond to [them].”

However, the union states in the let-ter that “[they] were very shocked when

the district didn’t confer with the Mayor and Council and went on a negative me-dia campaign.”

The union wrote that they � nd it dif-� cult to address the claims the district has made in their releases to the press because of the con� dentiality agreement in place. Through the letter, the union did attempt to correct some factual inaccura-cies in the district’s press releases.

The union clari� ed the district’s comments on the debate over the harass-ment policy saying that they only want to change the protection of the harassment policy in the deal so that it can not be unilaterally changed.

The district has also attacked the union for demanding a 5 cent per hour wage increase even if the district does not see revenue from the project, but the union said that they are only demanding that increase if the District sees the rev-enue.

Also noted was the scuf� e between the two parties over security of employ-ment. Both sides say the other side de-manded a clause that dictates a set num-

ber of employees under the district. The union � nished the letter by ex-

plaining why they chose to reject bind-ing arbitration. “Our union refused bind-ing arbitration because we believe that the best Collective Agreements are bar-gained at the table,” the letter reads.

The union’s letter came just before the two sides returned to the table for an-other round of bargaining last weekend. The talks were only scheduled for two more days because these were the only two days that the district, the union, and the mediator were all available to meet.

Going into the mediation, Unifor agent Martin McIlwrath was optimistic that the talks could bring an end to the strike. “This is the best opportunity to get a fair collective agreement for our mem-bers,” he said last week.

Also, the district’s Chief Adminis-trations Of� cer Warren Waycheshen said last week that “we are always willing to do whatever is reasonable to get a col-lective agreement” and stated that the district always goes into the talks with a sense of optimism.

Adorable monster-crafter, Teanna Dewalt, age 5, visited the Kitimat Public Library on her day off of school, on May 29th for Monster Crafting. Kitimat Public Library

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SO2 hearings resume Cécile Favron

Environmental Appeal Board hearings into Rio Tinto Alcan's permit to increase sulphur diox-ide (SO

2) emissions from their aluminum smelter

resumed at the Kitimat Rod and Gun Club last week. The hearings, taking place June 1-5 and June 8-12, mark the second half of the 20-day ap-peal that was previously held in Victoria.

Kitimat residents Emily Toews and Lis Stan-nus are appealing RTA's permit, granted by the Ministry of Environment (MOE), to increase SO

2

emissions from 27 tonnes per day to 42 tonnes per day – a 55 per cent increase – after the Kiti-mat Modernization Project is completed.

The appellants, Toews and Stannus, maintain that they are in favour of the modernization proj-ect, but are concerned about health and environ-mental damage that could be caused by releasing a high magnitude of SO

2 without any emission

reduction technologies, mainly scrubbers, being employed.

RTA maintains that the proper research pro-cedures were followed when the permit was is-sued and that there is no present reason to use precautionary measures to reduce emissions.

The Kitimat hearings saw Toews testify as to the adverse health effects she believe she will ex-perience if RTA raises their SO

2 emissions.

Toews suffers from asthma and left the lower mainland because the pollution levels were ag-gravating her condition, something that she be-lieves will happen again if 42 tonnes of SO

2 emis-

sions are released from the RTA smelter each day. After Toews took the stand, Ian Sharpe, the

Delegate of the Director under the Environmen-tal Management Act, testi� ed as to why he ap-proved the application to increase the SO

2 emis-

sions limit. Sharpe emphasized that science has yet to determine if there is a link between SO

2

emissions and adverse health effects.

For what remains of the last two weeks of the hearings, six Rio Tinto Alcan experts will be testifying as to how they came to their scienti� c conclusions on the environmental and human health effects that played a role in the ministry's decision to approve the permit.

The appeal began in 2013, shortly after the permit to increase SO

2 emissions was approved

by the Ministry of the Environment. Toews and Stannus, both elementary school teachers in Kiti-mat, sought counsel after they became concerned for their own health and the health of their stu-dents.

Lawyers Richard Overstall, counsel for Em-ily Toews, and Chris Tollefson, counsel for Lis Stannus, are advancing a multi-faceted case against the decision to approve the permit.

“The Ministry of Environment has failed in its duty to independently assess this project,” Tollefson was quoted as saying in a press release by the Northwest Institute of Biological Research at the beginning of the appeal.

“[The MOE] seems to be more committed to meeting RTA's needs, and this reveals a systemic problem.”

On the scienti� c front, experts from across Canada provided testimony to the appeal board in Victoria as to the evidence that SO

2 emissions

can be harmful to the environment.There is evidence to suggest that SO

2 emis-

sions can cause acid rain which effects the soil and can be harmful to vegetation, according to Richard Overstall.

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At 8:30 pm, police attended to a residence on a report of a distur-bance. The complainant stated his son was asked to leave their house and was trying to get back inside. Police located his son nearby and the son agreed to stay at a friend’s house for the evening.

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dence following a report of a broken window to a vehicle. The vehicle had a broken front passen-ger window. Nothing was stolen. Police suspect that a rock from someone cutting the grass nearby may have broken the window.

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Library holding logo contestCécile Favron

The Kitimat Public Library is asking local artists to submit designs for a new library logo. The artist who’s design is chosen will win $250.

“We are on the market for a new, fresh logo,” said executive director Virgina Charron of the contest.

“Whoever wins gets a $250 prize and their name ‘up in lights’,” she said.

The library asks that logo submissions are no

more than 4 inches because it will need to fit on a letterhead and it is favourable if the design in-cludes the name “Kitimat Public Library.”

Artists looking to submit their works can drop off hard copies at the library.

The current library logo was designed by Hazelton artist Leah Pipe over a decade ago. The library does not change their logo often, Charron explained, but felt like the right time to change their design.

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Cécile FavronKitimat veterinar-

ian Howard Thwaites has vowed to donate 25% of the bill for any dental procedure booked at the Kitimat Veterinary Hospital in the month of June to help relief efforts in Nepal after a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the region in April.

Thwaites has coined the catch-phrase “helping your pets help the people of Nepal” to describe his project.

He hopes to raise at least $6,000 for the country by the end of the month.

“I thought it would be a win-win situation,” Thwaites explained. “It raises awareness about dogs in need of teeth clean-ing and also raises money for Nepal.”

Thwaites hopes to give people a hu-manitarian reason to learn more about the health of their pets and he expects to be very busy over the next few months as the dental appointments come in.

“I explained to my staff that we might miss some lunches with so much more dental work to be done, but my staff was be-hind me and they said

that they were okay with that,” Thwaites said of his staff’s dedi-cation to the cause.

The money raised will go to rebuilding over 150 houses in Marpak Village in cen-tral Nepal – a village that Thwaites has vis-

ited twice while trek-king over the past few years.

Marpak is located 80 kilometres from the capital Kathmandu and then 27 kilometres up a rough dirt road, a trip that takes over six hours by bus.

The region is suf-fering and aid has been very slow to reach this region of the country according to Thwaites.

Thwaites’ friend Ram Adhikari runs a trekking company in the region and told Thwaites that most of the houses in Marpak

were damaged and many people were homeless. According to Thwaites, Adhikari has been organizing efforts to bring relief packages to all the houses in the village. So far he has visited 158 houses in Marpak that are in need of help.

Adhikari is put-ting together bundles of wood, bamboo, and zinc sheets to repair houses or make tempo-rary shelter.

He is also provid-ing staple foods and mosquito nets for the families in the village.

Thwaites estimates that it would take more than $4,000 to buy zinc sheets and nets for all the families in Marpak.

He also estimates that it will cost anoth-er $1,500 to rebuild a friend’s shop, also in Marpak, that was de-stroyed in the quake.

Any extra money raised will go to a women’s coopera-tive in Nepal, which Thwaites’ friend vol-unteered in last year, to help them cope in the aftermath of the quake.

Thwaites also said he will accept direct donations to the cause.

He chose to do-nate to his friends in Nepal instead of going through an organiza-

tion like the Red Cross because he says he knows his money will be put to good use.

“It is a personal connection and I know here I can make a dif-ference,” he explained, citing that his contacts are already on the ground and have local knowledge about what is needed to rebuild.

Thwaites notes that, in a country where the average annual in-come is estimated to be $730 US according

to the World Bank, any money that is donated could go a long way in helping Nepal rebuild.

Also threatening Nepal’s future is the impact the earthquake will have on tourism in the region. Thwaites is worried that the media portrayal of the situa-tion after the disaster as desperate and dan-gerous will discourage tourists from visiting. But Thwaites is not dissuaded from visit-ing Nepal again.

“Nepal is such a beautiful country with so many different sects living in harmony, I am planning to go back there in Novem-ber for more trekking,” he added.

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Vet fundraises for Nepal

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Haisla election resultsCécile FavronOn June 1, Haisla First Nation voted in five new councillors to the board in Kitamaat Vil-lage.There were seven can-didates running for the five open counsellor positions. The new counsel-lors are Willard Grant (re-elected), Ramond Green, Trevor Martin, Freddy Ringham, and Kevin Stewart.Former counsellors Joanne Ross and Rus-sell Ross were also running, but werenot re-elected. The ten counsellors are elected for four-year terms, but elections are held every two years.The elections for

counsellor positions are usually staggered with five new counsel-lors elected every two years.However, the last elec-tion held on June 6, 2013 elected ten coun-sellors for a four year term. Chief elections offi-cer Lawrence Lewis explained that the last Haisla election “was the first election under the new code, a one time event.”The five counsellors who garnered the low-est votes in the 2013 election thus had their terms cut short at two years. The five coun-sellors, Russell Ross, Henry Amos Senior, Godfrey Grant, Joanne

Ross, and Willard Grant, ended their terms on May 31. Joanne Ross, Rus-sell Ross, and Wil-lard Grant all ran for re-election, but only Grant was re-elected again for another four year term. Elections for the Chief Councillor are held separately from the elections for the ten councillors. With the results of this years election in, the ten counsellors are Crystal Smith, Lu-cille Harms, Margaret Grant, Taylor Cross, Brenda Duncan, Wil-lard Grant, Ramond Green, Trevor Martin, Freddy Ringham, and Kevin Stewart.

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The North-ern Adventure will make unexpected sailings between Prince Rupert and Skidegate on Mon-day, June 8 and Monday, June 15 in order to address a backlog of custom-ers wishing to ac-cess Haida Gwaii.

“We’ve been monitoring the situ-ation and talking to our customers and in order to reduce waits for custom-ers who couldn’t secure a reservation on a sailing of their choice we are add-ing extra capacity between now and the start of our sum-mer schedule which ramps up on June 19,” explained BC Ferries spokesper-son Deborah Mar-shall.

If you thought last month’s weather was one for the record books, you’d be right.

“Quite a bit higher than normal and quite a bit drier than normal and that’s something we’ve seen throughout the coast last month,” said Environment Canada meteorologist Andre Besson, who noted that the southern coast of the province broke records for lack of precipitation – as did Prince Rupert.

“It was very inter-esting weather-wise,” he said. “Obviously it’s been warmer than nor-mal … and that’s more so the story for most of the province.”

The reason for this, according to Besson, is that there was an up-per ridge of high pres-sure anchored over the eastern Pacific for most of last month which deflected the moisture further north.

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There’s a giant iceberg, with a craggy tip and its gigantic hidden 9/10th mass under water - drifting from the frozen north, against the current, into the St. Lawrence River and the Seaway – headed for Ottawa, where it threatens to create a reasonable politi-cal facsimile of the Titanic disaster. It has a name – the Senate expenses scan-dal.

For the Senate itself, there’s been a bit of a hiatus on this complicated is-sue with the recent break in the Mike Duffy trial. But, just as the 2015 elec-tion campaign is getting underway, there’s a sudden glut of enmbarrassing happenings -- and it could not come at a worse time for the already beleguered Conservative government. The Duffy trial now will likely carry on into the midst of the direct election campaign period.

So look out for cross-party rocket � re on this and the dozen or so major issues boiling over.

Of course, with no appointed sena-tors, the NDP, which favors abolish-ment of the Senate, can only be chuck-

ling with glee.To get back to last weekend, the

three most powerful � gures in the Sen-ate were reported (by CBC) as among those � agged by the auditor general to repay inappropriate expenses.

New Senate Speaker, Leo Housakos,(PC) Claude Carignan, (PC) the government leader in the Senate, and Opposition Leader James Cowan — who all sit on the subcommittee overseeing the audits — were among 21 senators found to have � led ineli-gible expenses, sources reported to the CBC on Thursday. The cases of nine senators will be referred to the RCMP for further investigation. CBC Power and Politics host, Evan Solomon says the details in eight of these cases “will

stun us.” I can’t wait.James Cowan, by the way, stepped

before TV cameras in Ottawa that af-ternoon and acknowledged there was a dispute between himself and the audi-tor general over some $10,000 of travel expenses, incurred four years ago...

Here’s an interesting wrinkle...a director of Via Rail Canada, Leo Hou-sakos (Que.) was appointed as one of 18 senators named by Prime Minister Stephen Harper in December, 2008 -- along with some others, perhaps bet-ter known for their activities since the appointments, including Mike Duffy (PEI), Pamela Wallin (Saskatchewan) and the former National chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples, Pat-rick Brazeau (Que.).

Currently, as we all know, Duffy is on trial on a variety of charges laid by the RCMP, associ-ated with his Senate expenses, Pamela Wallin, who has not to date been charged, also has issues with her expenses, as well as

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Senate debacle to ice Harper’s bid

Nepal effortsIn a world where the Canadian government

matches your donations to the Red Cross, Howard Thwaites’ fundraising efforts for his contacts in Ne-pal (details on page 3) are unique. “It is a personal connection and I know here I can make a difference,” Thwaites explained of his choices, a rationale that is in tune with the new opportunities that modern tech-nology has brought to fundraising.

Many people want to “donate smart” when they give money to humanitarian causes. One of the most commonly cited concerns is that administrative costs will eat up their donation money. A valid concern, but just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to hu-manitarian aid’s host of problems.

Firstly, aid rarely reaches the people who need it most, despite everyone’s best intentions. This was illustrated by reporter Yalda Hakim’s coverage of the Nepal quake for the BBC show Impact when she meets a woman of a lower caste living in a temporary camp. The woman told the BBC that she “was not able to access aid as easily as the others seemed too” because of her position in society.

Local social problems are often compounded by foreign relief personnel who lack local knowledge, a combination that allows aid to be hijacked from its intended purpose. It really boils down to aid organi-zations not knowing where to � nd the neediest peo-ple or how to get to them – a very human problem.

A possible solution is asking locals on the ground to work on aid efforts as well. All too often we reiterate an imperialist narrative and try to keep the helpers and the helped separate. However, aid organizations need to work together with the locals because neither side has all the answers.

Secondly, there is considerable evidence that hu-manitarian aid is largely ineffective. The most tan-gible reason is that donations often go towards the � ashy campaign not the complex issue, so aid orga-nizations have to engineer the type of program that will get the public interested. People are not scram-bling to donate to an anti-corruption program that will make slow progress over the next twenty years.

Commitment to the region also affects the effec-tiveness of aid. Long-term projects often yield more results and often focus on empowerment rather than charity. Organizations such as the Red Cross provide immediate disaster relief, but they also work with the local branches in the effected country for years after the disaster. It takes more than a month to rebuild lives.

There is no quick � x for the problems in deliv-ering aid, but contacting aid organizations and ask-ing about what they feel is the most effective way to make change that might give them the con� dence to be experimental in their campaigns. These are very simple solutions to very complex problems, but hopefully one step at a time might lead us in the right direction.

Cécile Favron

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faces breach of trust charges as well as sep-arate civil charges for assault, and have all been expelled from the Conservative caucus, and the Senate.

Tempting as it is with such juicy news, I’ll not go further, be-cause the auditor gen-eral’s report was to be released yesterday, Tuesday, June 9...so a lot of what I’m watch-ing unfold on CBC could change radically before this column’s publication day.

But Parliament Hill is a hive of other fascinating activity.

Former Defence Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and current Justice Min-ister, Peter MacKay

announced last week he won’t run in the up-coming election, wish-ing, like many others to “spend more time with his family.” He’ll stay on as Justice Min-ister until Parliament is dissolved for the elec-tion.

MacKay, who is 49, has been earning $240,000 as a cabi-net minister, and six years from now, at 55, he’ll be eligible for his government pen-sion of something like $128,000.

Age 55 – that’s right.

The gold-plated government pension plan doesn’t oper-ate the way yours and mine does -- where you can get it (reduced) at age 60.

MacKay of course

will get that too when he is 60, or 65, likely, when he’ll activate it (at maximum). Tax advisors normally suggest this for the wealthy.

Wonderful, isn’t it?

Maximum Canada Pension (notwith-standing any private plans Canadians may have) is approximate-ly $1,065 a month or $12,780 a year.

Your government representative, wheth-er or not you voted for him or her, is going to do a bit better than you and me – and likely at a much earlier age. Meanwhile the govern-ment wants Canadians to work until 67 to be eligible for full Canada pension.

Senate scandal

Dear Sir,As the former

Chief Medical Health Officer with Northern Health and a resident within the air shed RTA is planning to use as a repository for the waste Sulphur Dioxide (SO

2)

in its updated smelter in Kitimat will pro-duce, I have watched the company’s man-agement of this issue with great interest.

RTA has been given a permit to emit up to 42 metric tonnes of SO

2 into the air

shed on a daily basis, up from the current permitted level of 27 metric tonnes per day. That’s a lot of sulphur dioxide. SO

2 is toxic to

humans at high doses but the jury is out as to the harm it does at lower ambient levels. Everyone agrees that SO

2 air pollution can

cause airway spasm, induce asthma attacks, worsen chronic bron-chitis among people with pre-existing re-spiratory problems, and lower the threshold

for exercise induced asthma. But it may be significantly more seri-ous than that.

Although the Per-mit is currently the subject of an appeal, RTA was able to con-vince the BC Minis-try of Environment that simply raising the height of its stacks would ensure that cur-rent permissible levels are seldom exceeded using a computer model of air dispersion based on data gathered mostly in 2008. Using the model, RTA con-sultants have created scenarios predicting likely peak exposure levels on the ground at a variety of sites in and

around Kitimat and ex-tending down the val-ley to Terrace. They have even attempted to predict the expected number of episodes of airway spasm based on crude population data in each of these sites of interest.

As part of the per-mitting process, RTA was required to consult with the public and in doing so they painted a reassuring picture sug-gesting that any human health effects from the increased SO

2 emis-

sions would be mini-mal and transient at worst.

I believe I under-stand the epidemiology of the health effects of

SO2 at least as well as

the RTA consultants but I am far from reas-sured.

I also understand that an air dispersion model is just a model: every conclusion based on the model, includ-ing projected SO

2 lev-

els and health effects no matter how many charts and graphs are created, is speculative and only as good as the model itself.

Here are some of my concerns:

1. The air disper-sion model does not factor in or consider the possible and proba-ble impacts of Climate Change which is an ongoing scientifically

established reality in 2015. Will the fore-seeable future include hotter dryer summers with more frequent inversions and less wind dispersion than in 2008? Will there be more forest fires in the Northwest with ambi-ent smoke pollution interacting with and changing the charac-teristics and behaviour of emitted SO

2 with

respect to humans and the environment? At the very least, consid-eration of these pos-sibilities could have expanded the range of predicted effects and improved the quality of the data by being more realistic about

its uncertainty. 2. The RTA consul-

tants have summarized the evolving science of SO

2 toxicity according

to the principle that “the absence of proof of an effect constitutes proof of no effect” and have confined the dis-cussion to monitoring the relatively minor ef-fects where causation is certain. However the US EPA Advisory Committee which is extensively referred to in the Sulphur Dioxide Technical Assessment Report (STAR) pre-pared by the RTA con-sultants (p50, vol.2) states clearly that the evidence is insufficient

Continued on page 9

An Open Letter to Rio Tinto Alcan Shareholders

District-Union rift is a community embarrasmentDear Sir,

Well is everyone happy? It’s a beautiful summer in our community and there is so much we can do without. Now I’ll list a few things we obviously don’t need...so taxes should go down.

1) pool closed, 2) Riverlodge closed, 3) seniors cen-tre closed, 4) no Bull-O-Rama, 5) no grass cut in parks and hillsides (those who don’t cut their grass anyway will be happy), 6) won’t need to buy grass seed for the next 50 years..so money saved, 7) no flowers to make you feel happy and brighten your day, 8) no craft fairs, 9) no pretty place to take great graduation pictures or hold dry grad party, 10) probably no July 1st celebrations.

After coming home from spending weeks in Victoria for family medical reasons, I am absolutely disgusted. What a complete disaster. The whole community should

be embarrassed. If any tourists or investors do appear what is this saying to them? Obviously this community doesn’t care...you know what is said about first impressions. How a handful of people (on both sides) can hold a whole com-munity hostage is beyond me and many others. How do we know who is telling the truth?

I have lived here since 1956 and never, never have seen anything so childish or appalling. The name calling, bully-ing, harassment on facebook, at council meetings and ap-parently now starting between neighbours and friends is, in my opinion, the most disgusting thing going.

What a fine example the so called “adults” of this com-munity have set for the young people. Remember the prob-lems between families, neighbors and friends during the wildcat strike at Alcan years ago? Some of those people never spoke to each other again.

Life is too short to waste it on this kind of behaviour. At least the dump is open and the crosswalks finally paint-ed for safety. Maybe more municipal functions should be contracted out. Obviously there are people who want to work and I don’t know if it is for less money or not.

What’s wrong with binding arbitration? If other ways can’t make things happen then, in my opinion, it should be the next step. Unions and management have their place and need to be there and I have no idea who’s right and who’s wrong and at this point I really don’t care. I’m not on either side. Let’s just get this community back to something we can all be proud of. This “Kingdom” building and “Ego” building has to stop....no matter what side you are on.

Keep smiling,I’m watching and listening,

Roma Burnett

Readers Write

Dr. David Bowering


Rio Tinto Alcan is proposing to construct an extension to its existing Terminal A in Kitimat, BC, so that Terminal B, formerly owned by Eurocan, can be used for other industry in the future.Rio Tinto Alcan recently submitted its Application for an Environmental Assessment Certificate to the BC Environmental Assessment Office (EAO). The Application Review phase includes a 38-day public comment period from June 15 to July 23 hosted by the EAO to seek comments on the Application. This public comment period will also be used to concurrently invite comments on other permits for the proposed project, including Rio Tinto Alcan’s Application to the Ministry of Environment (MOE) for an Amendment to its existing Waste Discharge Permit: Multi-Media Permit P2-00001.

What is the Application for an Environmental Assessment Certificate?The proposed project is subject to review under British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act, which requires proponents to undertake extensive studies to assess potential effects – environmental, economic, social, heritage and health – that might result from the proposed project. The Application provides details about these studies, potential effects and proposed mitigations.

Why is Rio Tinto Alcan seeking an Amendment to its Waste Discharge Permit?To build this project, we will need to undertake dredging to prepare the area for construction and ensure the seabed is deep enough to safely accommodate vessels. We are applying for an amendment to our existing Waste Discharge Permit to dispose of dredgeate on our site.

Learn more: Community participation and input received to date is much appreciated. If you would like to learn more about these applications and opportunities to provide comments, please visit our website at www.riotintoalcaninbc.com. If you have questions for us, you can email us at [email protected] or call us at 250 632 4712.

Application for a Permit Amendment under the Provisions of the Environmental Management Act

We, Rio Tinto Alcan, #1 Smeltersite Rd, PO Box 1800, Kitimat, BC V8C 2H2, intend to submit this amendment application to the Director to amend the P2-00001 Multimedia Waste Discharge Permit, issued December 7, 1999 and last amended August 12, 2014 which authorizes the discharge of air emissions, effluents and refuse from a primary aluminum smelter. The land upon which the facility is comprised of District lots 90, 91, 92, 93, 96, 102A, 186, 7596 and 5469, Ranges 4 and 5, Coast District, Kitimat, British Columbia, located at 1 Smeltersite Road, within the District of Kitimat. The amendment requests that the following conditions be changed:

Before:• Section 5.5 Concrete Disposal• B-Lagoon effluent discharge conditions authorized in Section 3.1.2 consisting of a

maximum effluent discharge from B-Lagoon of 210,000m3/day, typical discharge of 32,000m3/day and Total Suspended Solids limit of 50 mg/L.

• Monthly Reporting of B-Lagoon Maximum Flow in Sections 8.3.2.1 and 8.3.2.2

After:• Section 5.5 Concrete and Dredgeate Disposal.• Disposal of contaminated dredged sediments that exceeds the Industrial Lands standard

(IL+, under the Contaminated Sites Regulation) within a dedicated uplands IL+ waste cell to a maximum volume of 161,000 m3.

• Disposal of contaminated dredged sediments that are below the Industrial Lands standards (IL) in the uplands Dredge Disposal Site to a maximum volume of 219,000m3 in addition to an indeterminate amount of coarse woody debris from dredging.

• Disposal of contaminated soils from the Laydown Area to a maximum volume of 29,000m3.Disposal of contaminated soils from the Laydown Area to a maximum volume of 29,000m3.

• Disposal of contaminated soils from the former Concrete Management Area to a maximum volume of 6,500m3.

• Disposal of small but indeterminate quantities of asbestos-containing materials located within the existing Concrete Management Area.

• B-Lagoon effluent discharge conditions authorized in Section 3.1.2 consisting of:• Indeterminate maximum effluent discharge under extreme precipitation events.• Typical discharge of 64,000 m3/day during dredging operations for 6 months per year

over 2 years during the construction phase of the Terminal A Extension project. The average discharge during non-dredging periods will remain at 32,000m3/day.

• Total suspended solids limit of 75mg/L during dredging operations for the Terminal A Extension Project.

• Monthly reporting (in Sections 8.3.2.1 and 8.3.2.2) of B-Lagoon Flow up to 130,000 m3/day, greater than which the discharge will be monitored by its level as measured by pressure transducer.

• Addition of appurtenant properties to Section 3.4.1

In summary, the purposes of this application are for: (1) inclusion in the permit of the uplands disposal of materials generated by the Terminal A Extension project and (2) reflect in the permit the naturally occurring extreme precipitation events that affect the flow of the effluent treatment system. Any person who may be adversely affected by the proposed amendment and wishes to provide relevant information may, within 30 days after the last date of posting, publishing, service or display, send written comments to the applicant, with a copy to the Director, Environmental Protection at Bag 5000, 3726 Alfred Avenue, Smithers, British Columbia, V0J 2N0. The identity of any respondents and the contents of anything submitted in relation to this application will become part of the public record.

Dated this day of June 3, 2015.

Contact Person: Shawn ZettlerTelephone: 250 639 8329Email: [email protected]

_______________________Gaby Poirier

General Manager, BC Operations

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION NOTICE

Proposed Terminal A Extension Project - Environmental AssessmentPublic comment period:

Environmental Assessment of the ProposedTerminal A Extension Project

Open House and Invitation to Comment

Rio Tinto Alcan (Proponent) is proposing to construct and operate a replacement infrastructure project including anextension to an existing marine terminal, a barge berth, tug dock and laydown facility. The proposed Terminal A Extension Project (proposed Project) is to be located at the Port of Kitimat and within proximity to the District of Kitimat and the Haisla Nation Kitamaat Village and includes marine dredging and disposal of dredge material.

The proposed Project is subject to review under British Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act.

The Proponent has now submitted its application to obtain anenvironmental assessment certificate, which is required before any work can be undertaken on the proposed Project.

In order to provide information to the public about the Application, and to receive comments from the public, Environmental Assessment Office of British Columbia (EAO) invites the public to attend an Open House to be held:

at: Kitimat Valley Institute1352 Alexander AvenueKitimat, BC

on: June 23, 2015from: 4:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

There are 38 days for the submission of comments by the public in relation to the Application. The comment period will begin on June 15, 2015 and end on July 23, 2015. Allcomments received during this comment period will be considered.

The intention of seeking public comments is to ensure all potential effects – environmental, economic, social, heritage and health – that might result from the proposed Project are identified for consideration, and the effectiveness of proposed mitigations, as part of the assessment process.

EAO accepts public comments in the following ways:• By Online Form athttp://www.eao.gov.bc.ca/pcp/index.html• By Mail:

Teresa MorrisProject Assessment ManagerEnvironmental Assessment OfficePO Box 9426 Stn Prov GovtVictoria BC V8W 9V1

• By Fax:Fax: 250-387-2208

An electronic copy of the Application and information regarding the environmental assessment process are available at www.eao.gov.bc.ca. Copies of the Applicationare also available for viewing at these locations:

Rio Tinto Alcan’s Community Office254 City Centre MallKitimat, BC

andKitimat Community Library940 Wakashan Ave.Kitimat, BC

The Proponent has submitted an application for an amendment to the Multi Media Waste Discharge Permit P2-00001 (otherwise known as AMS#100138) for the disposal and storage of dredge material and has requested the permit application be reviewed concurrently underBritish Columbia’s Environmental Assessment Act,Concurrent Approval Regulation.

This permit application is also available on the EAO’s website at www.eao.gov.bc.ca and at the abovelocations. Comments on the permit application may alsobe submitted to the EAO during the comment period asdescribed above.

NOTE: All submissions received by EAO during the comment period in relation to the proposed Project are considered public and will be posted to EAO website.


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After 22-and-a-half years as a mem-ber of the RCMP, and three as the detach-ment commander for Kitimat, S/Sgt. Phil Harrison is hanging up his breeches as he heads in to retirement.

The local RCMP head said he’ll be heading back to Agas-siz, the same place his career in the RCMP began two decades ago. Harrison came to Kitimat at a unique time in the town’s his-tory.

His arrival was November 2012, just as the modernization project at Rio Tinto Alcan was getting un-derway.

He said it wasn’t long until he was intro-duced to one of Kiti-mat’s truly large indus-

tries: rumours.“I’ve never actu-

ally been in a town that had rumours flare up so fast and spread so fast than I have in Kiti-mat,” he said.

At one point early in his time here he even wrote a public let-ter saying the commu-nity still remains safe, which was met with some incredulousness by the community.

Yet despite all the concern and worry about rising crime from the suddenly very transient population from KMP, he said no catastrophic rise in crime took place.

While there may have been some spike in files relating to things like drugs, gen-erated by the dealers who may follow large

developments like work camps, it was never this large prob-lem for the detachment like people thought.

Even so, the events in the community over the past four years did do something quite dramatic to Kitimat: shook the facade of the idyllic world of the 1950s and brought Kit-imat in to the 21st cen-tury, which boils down to residents’ need to simply lock their doors and secure their prop-erty.

“It struck me...when I first got here I thought a lot of people were still stuck in the 1950s mode. Doors were left unlocked. Vehicle doors were left unlocked. People did not secure their prop-erty,” he said, which is

now changing. “I think people are now start-ing to smarten up and realize that’s just an opportunity for some-one to take your stuff away.”

Harrison’s place at the start of KMP and ahead of potentially large mega projects with LNG meant his role was planning as much as it was day-to-day crime fighting.

“I never had to deal with work camps before. Fortunately...the modernization camp, KMP, is pretty good. We didn’t have a lot of problems there.”

He knows Kiti-mat’s in a slow-down phase at the moment but KMP was what he calls a “small slice” of what could come, and he’s tried to prepare as

much as he can, or at least get the ball roll-ing through the bu-reaucracy.

That means pre-paring the detachment for more people and gathering extra equip-ment, even with ATV’s and snowmobiles.

“I’ve never been through a snow storm like here,” he said, re-ferring to February’s madness.

Budget allowance for new members was also recently granted by the municipality meaning if new proj-ects add pressure to the town the detach-ment can be stronger

to deal with it.Harrison looks

back at his decision to relocate to Kitimat as a good one, and says Kitimat is a great

town, especially when the sun shines.

From here he’s just planning to enjoy the quieter life with fam-ily.

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Continued from page 1The appellants are also arguing that the sci-

entific uncertainty on adverse health effects caused by SO

2 emissions merits a precautionary

approach. Overstall says that they are putting for-ward an argument that emissions can exacerbate diseases such as asthma and can also cause people to develop such diseases.

More controversially, they are also claiming that there is evidence to support the possibility that SO

2 emissions may lead to premature death.

RTA and the ministry experts argue that sci-ence has not established that there is a link be-tween SO

2 emissions and health risks and that

they have taken the appropriate, “adaptive” ap-proach to mitigating any potential effects of the emissions.

“We are advancing an argument that Ian Sharpe [and the MOE] didn't consider all of the scientific evidence when he approved the permit,” explained Overstall, stating that if all the evidence had been considered, it would have merited the use of emission reduction technologies.

Overstall continued that they are also advanc-ing two legal arguments. The first is regarding a MOE employee Fraser Mackenzie.

The appellants are alleging that there was an apprehension of bias inclining Mackenzie to make a decision in favour of RTA because RTA was paying his salary at the time.

Counsel also alleges that the Memorandum of Understanding between RTA and Ian Sharpe “illegally confined the director's [Sharpe's] deci-sion,” according to Overstall.

Counsel for the appellants claim that there was an understanding between the two parties that they would find a way to make the increase in SO

2 emissions work.

Over the last week of the appeal, RTA will then have the opportunity to make their case.

Six RTA employees who wrote the SO2

Technical Assessment Repot (STAR) that the MOE utilized in their decision-making pro-cess will take the stand to defend their process and their science. Finally, general manager of the BC Operations of Rio Tinto Alcan Gaby Poirier will testify for RTA's part in having the

permit approved. Poireir stands by the permit and said that all

plans are in place to increase production levels by February 2016. As for the elevated levels of SO

2 Poirier says that the company only plans to

be releasing 33 to 35 tonnes of SO2 per day when

production increases and that they don't plan to reach the 42 tonnes per day limit.

“The modernization will reduce emissions overall by 50 per cent and this will make a world of difference,” he added.

Poireir also outlined why the company chose to go with the air dispersal method of dealing with SO

2 emissions. He said that dry scrubbing would

generate two tonnes of waste for every tonne of SO

2 it scrubs.Similarly, wet scrubbing would use tens of

thousands of tonnes of water to scrub the SO2.

“Air dispersal is still the best option,” Poireir explained. “This is why we are confident we have made the right choice.” He declined to comment on the possibility of installing scrubbers, only saying that it could take years.

SO2 hearings

S/Sgt. of the Kitimat RCMP retires

Edna Partington celebrated her 90th birthday on May 27 with friends at The Chalet Restaurant. Edna has been a Kitimat resident for 51 years. Cécile Favron

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Second phase in hot spring developmentKelsey WiebeContinued from June 3 Northern Sentinel

Plagued by flood, fire, and economic de-pression, the Lakelse hot springs property lay dormant from the mid-1930s until 1958, when it was purchased by local logging entre-preneur Ray Skoglund, who immediately be-gan implementing a visionary, multi-phase development.

Skoglund, who was widely accepted as a local man working to better the area, took over the 320 acres com-prising the Lakelse hot springs property from Lloyd Johnstone in the late 1950s, and operat-ed the resort from 1958 into the 1970s.

Johnstone had pur-chased back the hot springs property after his father had lost it in the 1930s, but, busy as Terrace’s mayor and also as a business own-er, he had allowed the property to stagnate.

Skoglund immedi-ately began an ambi-

tious tiered develop-ment for the Lakelse Hotsprings Resort, which were later re-christened Skoglund Hotsprings Resort.

Skoglund, who along with partner Sandy Sandover-Sly, simultaneously operat-ed a successful Terrace logging company from the mid-1950s through the early 1980s, envi-sioned a family-ori-ented, local operation with global appeal. He was renowned for his enthusiasm and vision, and implemented the first two major phases of his plan within eight years.

“His formula is ba-sic,” reported The Ter-race Omineca Herald in 1966. “[T]ake a lib-eral amount of enthusi-asm, add an even more liberal amount of hard work and determina-tion and you come up with a job well done.”

Kitimat’s Northern Sentinel praised Sk-oglund’s resort as not being “owned outside” in a 1959 editorial.

“When a country has treated you well, then you must return the favour,” Skoglund said. At the same time as he employed his children in the resort, Skoglund marketed it worldwide, sending ar-ticles and promotional material as far afield as Buckingham Palace.

“Ray had the cour-age, vision, enthusi-asm, equipment, credit and know-how to work a miracle,” Stan Rough said in the Northern Sentinel in the spring of 1961.

Purchased in June of 1958, by the middle of August, Skoglund had constructed a large gravity-fed concrete pool complete with change rooms. It mea-sured 23 by 5.5 metres, and sported hot springs water cooled to about 32 degrees Celsius. Fourteen duplex cabins with private baths were under construction, as was a snack bar.

Over the first win-ter, the original pool was covered when the

snow failed to discour-age visitors from the surrounding region.

“I used to shiver just watching them,” Skoglund wrote of the intrepid swimmers. “We decided to cover the small pool to make things more comfort-able for those who pre-ferred life a little less rugged but to leave the large pool uncovered for the hardy types.”

A Gothic-style arch frame of laminat-ed spruce was covered with plastic, which kept the pool warm and the snow out.

In 1959, Skoglund

continued to expand the hot springs into a resort. With much fanfare, he opened a $125,000 extension in the autumn of 1959.

A second, slightly cooler outdoor pool measuring 30.5 by 15 metres featured under-water lighting, two div-ing boards, and a wind-break. Change rooms with a capacity of 400 guests were flanked by a steam room and Ro-man baths for guests with health issues.

Ten deluxe fur-nished housekeeping suites were located on a second storey, and 24 cosy tents complete with a stove, tables, and chairs in a clearing west of the buildings provided lower-budget accommodations. Ren-ovations converted an earlier building into a lounge and coffee bar. A 731-metre manmade canal allowed for lake access to and from the hot springs.

By 1962, a new

fine dining room and state-of-the-art kitchen were opened.

The Northland Dining Room boasted an impressively large stone fireplace, in keeping with the rus-tic setting. There were 26 guest suites in total, including the 10 deluxe housekeeping suites.

More than 125,000 people had visited the resort in the first three years of operation.

Continued in June 17 Northern Sentinel

A postcard from 1963-1978 featuring a boy diving into the outdoor swimming pool at Skoglund’s Lakelse Hotsprings Resort. Heritage Park Museum, Terrace

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aid in the Nepalese earthquake relief.

Rio Tinto AlcanContinued from page 5to infer the presence or absence of a causal relationship between short term exposure to ambient SO

2 and cardiovascular mortal-

ity as well as between long term exposure and respiratory dis-ease mortality, non respiratory morbidity, and overall mortality. To proceed as if these very wor-risome associations had been disproven simply because the complex and difficult studies needed to either rule them in or out have not yet been done flies in the face of what I have come to see as prudent public health practice, particularly in the presence of technology (scrub-bers) which would substantially reduce these potential risks to people who live in the air shed. It occurs to me that a corpora-tion wishing to promote tobacco use in the late 1940s would have likely produced a very similar scientific assessment acknowl-edging the relatively minor ef-fects of throat irritation and cough while pointing to the lack of hard evidence in relation to the scourges of heart disease and lung cancer that took de-cades of research to confirm; even for a straightforward and

easily documented exposure like tobacco smoke.

3. The consultants have ne-glected to consider the variabil-ity among the human receptors (people) who will be exposed to the SO

2 emissions. It is well

known that populations with different demographics, social and economic status, and pre-existing health status respond differently to the same levels of stress whether the stress is a tox-in, a pollutant or a virus. While the STAR report acknowledges this there is no consideration of these important variables in their final analysis or in their health impact projections.

The technology exists to re-duce SO

2 emissions from your

company’s smelter to well be-low what they are currently. Installing scrubbers may be a cost the company would rather avoid, but if it wishes to retain a reputation as a good corporate citizen based on prudence and genuine concern for its neigh-bours that is what it should do. There is much uncertainty in the current understanding of the health effects of long term exposure to ambient SO

2 and

there are good reasons to think

that they may be more severe than the RTA consultants have predicted. It will be virtually impossible to adequately docu-ment or respond to these more serious and/or long term im-pacts given the small size of the population at risk. The effects are likely to be cumulative and the damage done long before it can be detected in a conclusive way.

I am writing this based on many years of experience in Public Health in Northern BC, and with a profound sense of the importance of clean air as a fundamental underpinning of good population health. While scrupulous attention to the bot-tom line is an understandable corporate priority, human health is, or should be, an even more fundamental priority for all of us. I urge you to ensure that the company you own takes this into consideration by installing the scrubbers that are needed to reliably protect the public’s health in relation to SO

2 gener-

ated by the RTA smelter opera-tion in Kitimat.

Respectfully,David Bowering MD

MHSc.

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um and Archives voted to change their consti-tution to re� ect visual arts in May at their an-nual general meeting.

The amendment would add the objec-tive “to operate a vi-sual arts exhibition centre and collect vi-sual arts for Kitimat” to the Kitimat Museum Society's constitution, which already man-dates that the society preserve artifacts and archives for Kitimat.

Curator Louise Avery said that the constitution change was only meant to re-� ect what the museum has already been doing for decades.

“When the mu-seum opened in 1969, the � rst show was a visual arts show, and after that it was the go-to collection in the upstairs gallery, but the constitution just did not re� ect that,” Avery explained.

The BC Arts Council, Avery said, is a signi� cant funder of the museum and they want the museum's

activities to re� ect their constitution.

“We hold lots of visual arts shows, but there is [almost] no mention of visual arts in the constitution,” she said.

When the muse-um opened, it did not even have a collection to display, and it was through the early work of Gisela Mendel that the museum came to hold the artifacts that they do today.

The focus, from the beginning, was on visual arts in the re-gion.

Furthermore, Av-ery explained that the Kitimat museum is the only public space to hold an art show in town.

“In a small com-munity, you have all these things in one place,” she said. “We are the only space in town that provides cul-tural heritage services and there is no other public space in town to show art.”

“After so many years if � elding ques-tions from the BC Arts Council on why

we [hosted art shows] when it was not re� ect-ed in our constitution, we decided to make the changes,” Avery said.

However, out of over 200 society mem-bers, only 15 turned out to vote in favour of the amendment.

Avery is still not sure if the low voter turnout is enough to make the changes stick. A review of the by-laws around the museum's decision making will yield the answer.

A new board was also elected at the AGM. Now the board includes Doug Thom-

son, Cyndi McIntosh, Cam Marleau, Con-nie Craig, Carol Dale, Allan Colton, Gaetan Pozsgay, and Marc Bouliane.

Mario Feldhoff is the appointed District of Kitimat representa-tive.

The appointment by the Kitamaat Vil-lage Council is cur-rently vacant.

The Kitimat Mu-seum and Archives was originally called the Kitimat Centen-nial Museum as it was opened in commemo-ration of Canada’s Centennial Birthday in 1967. The museum ac-tually held no artifact

collections when it � rst opened, that is why art was originally shown in the museum.

It was through the work of Gisela Men-del, the � rst curator, that the museum came to hold the artifacts that it does today.

Mendel set out to showcase and preserve the Haisla First Nation history in the region.

On top of collect-ing artifacts, she re-corded the Haisla tra-ditions and ceremonies and even learned how to speak some Haida.

The museum has also documented non-� rst nation’s history in Kitimat.

Kitimat museum changes constitution to reflect arts

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Gitxsan Child & Family Services Society

Gitxsan Child & Family Services Society is a delegated agency based in beautiful Hazelton, BC. It is a rural agency serving the 5 Gitxsan communities. The five communities that our Agency serves within the Gitxsan Nation are: Kispiox, Glen Vowell, Gitseguekla, Gitwangak and Gitanyow. We are surrounded by beautiful scenery, clean rivers and a thriving culture. We are seeking a qualified experienced social worker to join our dynamic team.

The Social Worker is expected to carry a regular caseload, using clinical and interpersonal skills as well as good case management systems, to provide a variety of services. Social Workers primary responsibility is to ensure the delivery of family support services to families and children who require them, guardianship services and the development and maintenance of caregiver homes.

Qualifications: BSW, plus two year related experience

ReQuiRements•We are looking for individuals who are delegated or are eligible to be delegated under the

current Provincial (BC) Legislation.•Willingness to travel •Have a valid BC driver’s license•Must successfully pass a Criminal Records Check

the Generalist social Worker will: •Cooperate and work with Ministry of Children and Family Development workers in ensuring

all Plans of Care are completed before the file is transferred to GCFS. •Participate in case pre-transfer meetings with the MCFD Guardianship Worker, Foster

Parents and the Child in Care

With respect to case management, the Generalist social Worker will:•Complete Comprehensive Plans of Care in accordance with AOPSI Standards•Review Plans of care through formal meetings whenever possible and within specified

timeframes •Set priorities for service delivery in consultation with the Supervisor •Conduct Case Management Meetings at regular intervals to ensure that services to the

child are coordinated and appropriate •Include the child in decision making as appropriate to the child’s developmental abilities•Where possible, ensure the child signs his summary recordings so he understands what is

in his file•Record the Service Plan and Goals for the child•Maintain up to date recordings in the format required by the agency •Ensure that the child’s medical, emotional and educational needs are met through referrals

to appropriate professionals •Inform the child about behavioural expectations and consequences•Consult the resource worker, child’s family the community and the child where this is age

appropriate when moving or placing a child •Ensure that appropriate action is taken when a child is missing, lost or has run away•Ensure that the GCFS Executive Director and the Director for Child Protection are notified of

reportable circumstances and grievous incidents •Ensure consultation with the supervisor at all key decision points (see the AOPSI) •Ensure that children in care receive the support skills and guidance required to achieve

independence upon leaving care at the age of 19

Please submit your resume and cover letter to the attention of:[email protected]

team leader, Gitxsan child & family services societyP.o. Box 333 4215 Government street, HaZelton, Bc V0J 1Y0

DEADLINE: (until position is filled)No phone calls please, only those who have made the shortlist will be contacted.

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Tinto Alcan (RTA) presented a cheque for $2,000 to the local BC Seniors Games Society to assist participants with costs for the 55+ BC Games to be held August 25-29 in North Vancouver.

The 55+ Games is an annual sporting event for British Co-lumbians age 55 and over. The competitors are placed in � ve-year age bracket categories and compete in over twenty different sports.

Seniors are re-sponsible for their own travel to and from the games and this is why Rio Tinto Alcan made the donation to the society for this year's games held in the low-er mainland.

“We don't want anyone to not be able to attend the games for � nancial reasons,” explained zone direc-tor Bill Whitty of the decision to team up with RTA to make the games happen for se-niors in northwestern BC.

The local BC Se-niors Games Society is called Zone 10 and en-compasses the Kitimat, Terrace, Prince Rupert and Haida Gwaii area.

Over 100 seniors from the northwest area are planning to at-tend this year’s games and the club usually tallies more than 150 members across the region.

“We feel that the Seniors' Games is the second best health care program the province has to offer,” Whitty said, citing that their oldest member, 93, is going on her 28th consecutive year in the games. “That means that the age range we have is from 55 to 93,” he said.

At last year’s games, the north-west team took home 41 metals in total of which 15 were gold, 13 were silver, and 13 were bronze.

And the games do more than just promote physical health and award metals at the games, says Whitty. “For the most part in our zone, we look at the games as a place to have friendly partici-

pation and comradery, winning a metal is just a bonus,” he added.

To become part of the BC Seniors Games Society, par-ticipants only need to satisfy the requirement that they are 55 years

or older. The major-ity of the sports don’t even require qualify-ing rounds, the only exception is if too many seniors want to participate in a certain sport at the games — in which case there is

a play-off. Whitty says that it is very rare that anyone is excluded from the games. Com-petitors need only to be part of the BC Seniors Games Society and at-tend some of the soci-ety’s meetings to attend

the games. Whitty encourages

all seniors to come out and see what the games are about at the society’s next meeting in Kitimat on June 27. “It is too late for these games, but it is certain-

ly not too early to con-sider the 2016 games to be held in Port Co-quitlum,” Whitty ex-plained.

Any seniors who want to join can visit www.bcseniorsgames.org/zones/.

Rio Tinto Alcan helps seniors’ games

Kitimat Northern Sentinel, June 10, 2015

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