The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 5, 2005 - A3 i aad a 3 By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN “MORE than 500 people packed the Terrace Pen- - ‘tecostal Assembly Sept. 23 to celebrate the life of lifelong area resident John “Jack” Smaha. Mourners filled every seat and stood along the walls and into the foyer as family and friends paid tribute.to the the man who spent his life working in the logging industry and later as a farmer. | - Smaha passed away Sept..16 after suffering . injuries in an accident while driving a front end loader down the Kitselas Road in north Terrace. He was 65. oS _. On June 20, 1940 Hilda Smaha - 20: years old — ‘went into labour, boarded a train at Kitselas, arrived in Hazelton and walked to Wrinch Memo- tial Hospital where she gave birth to John'Smaha © Jr. He was later nicknamed “Jackie” to differenti- ate him from his father who bore the same name. His early years were spent in the tiny commu- nity of Copper City where his family ran a farm, before moving to Terrace at the age of nine where his father operated a dry cleaning service. At 16, Smaha left high : school and entered the Jogging. industry as.a.. “whistle, ‘punk; for, Colum- bia Cellulose.’ He continuéd ' to work for there 12 more years in many positions’ including hook tender, rigging slinger and number one machine « ‘ > Be" Vv ~ - THIS photo taken in 1986 shows Jack Smaha with one of his pieces ‘of equipment bearing the. unique Jasak logo.. Smaha died Sept. 16 as: the result of i injuries suffered i in an accident. He retired from logging i in 2000 and took up farming near Kitselas. -Hundreds remember Jack Smaha operator. In 1968 Smaha’ s boss, Hans Muehle, of- fered him a “donkey” éngine that operated with a wooden spar tree and told him he could work off what he owed. Smaha accepted and started his own company along with his wife Sally and their friends, Jim and Karen Slowoniuk. A combina- . tion of all ‘their names resulted in thé name of the young logging outfit called Jasak Logging.- “That kind of sounded like Jackass of course,” - recalls Sally. “So, we, got this logo of a donkey kicking out wood.” The company employed many family members including: Sally, his son Larry, daughter Leah, son-in-law Ross Owens and his brother Ron. ’ Over the years Jasak employed more than 20. ‘people and subcontracted work to fallers and some truckers: ~~ “He loved to work, he didn’ t know how to re- lax, that’s how he enjoyed himself,” says Sally. “He couldn’t sit’still, he was so motivated, gotta do this, gotta do that.” He kept the; business going until 2000 when he retired in the face of a lagging forest industry. Smaha took up farming, growing hay and pro- duce on Schremp Island near Kitselas and raising cattle. 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Smaha called the tiny helicopter a “nopticop: " ter” ~ one of the many made-up words he created © and which his family and friends referred to as “Jackanese.” “He just had his own lingo’ ‘and his own words for every song he knew,” says Sally. “If you didn’t know him sometimes you. didn’ t know what he was talking about.” Other phrases inclided “go get some Lewey for the ich. mein,” win meant “go get some wood for the fire” and “get me.some first’ there was the rubber loves,” - translating into ‘ “get me» some.paper towel.” But above all, Jack Smaha was dedicated to his family, friends and colleagues. : “He was very honest, he wouldn’t cheat any- body,” Sally.says. “He was very.generous.” Smaha is survived by his wife Sally, son Larry, daughter-in-law Liz and grandson Sheldon, son- in-law Ross Owens, sisters: Linda: Bentz. and: Car- -olyn Goss, his brother Ron, his mother Hilda and. numerous other family members: and ‘friends.: He was predeceased by his father, his daughter . & The Zalm’s in Kitimat | A KITIMAT GROUP opposing. any plan by Alcan to sell. major portions of its hydro power outside of. the area is staging a major meeting Oct. 7. . é Guest speakers include former Social Credit premier" Bill Vander Zalm, former ‘NDP cabinet. minister Paul Ramsey, who looked after the Alcan file when the NDP. was in power, Doug McArthur, who was a senior civil . servant during the NDP government days, and B. Cc. Federation of Labour leader Jim Sinclair. Vander Zalm recently sent a letter to Kitimat city council saying he could understand the. sale of surplus power “but never at the expense of Kitimat’s Alcan op- eration or its potential to growth.” - The issue of Kitimat power sales has embroiled —° and divided — the community in recent, years. Kitimat cl has now asked the Supreme C Court to inter . ‘pret two key F pieces of legislation, pertaining to Alcan’ s power generation and use. ~ _ It’s worried about jobs and the local economy should Alcan sell: power elsewhere. The meeting takes place : at the Mount Blizabeth the- - atre. beginning at 7:30 p.m. . Conference held THE NORTHERN Health Authority, hosted its sec~ ond biennial conference on palliative care last week in Prince George to help professionals and others improve _ the quality of life and care for dying people. ing meaning, and enhancing quality of life for whatever. _ amount -of life that remains,” said Judy Lett who is a° _ clinical nurse educator for the authority. ~ “Often this means finding harmony within. relation- 4 ‘ships, finding health within illness, and finding healing vs ' for other troubling non-physical ills.” * * |. .More than 250 people attended the conference, an. | increase over the 230 who were at the, first one held:i in ; 2003. Workshops ona variety of topics including psycho- logical support for people, managing pain relief: medi- cation and its side effects and dealing with emergencies . : were held. 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