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Stlatlimx-village, about 300 miles up-
stream of the Pacific Ocean. We dry

MM salmon’ there each: and every: year.
‘My father" s people are Blackfeet, from the state, of
“Montana.”

“The. only reason I mention that j is the fact that
when the buffalo were strong, my father’s people
_ were strong. With the demise of the buffalo, so went
- their strength as well. It’s something I never want —
to see happen here ~ the demise’ of wild salmon.
Everything connects us to.the wild salmon..

. “My grandson is six years old, and he comes to
the river with us. I thought. about how I never want

him to-say, ‘My grandfather used to do that.’ I al-

“ways .want him to be able to. say, ‘I do what my

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grandfather taught me how to do.
‘So said Arnie Narcisse, chairman.and speaker
for the BC Aboriginal Fisheries Commission, °
Speaking to over 400 people who had gathered. at
“the Wild Salmon Summit on May 7 to demonstrate .
» their opposition to the salmon farms planned for the
mouth of the Skeena. ;
“I'll tell you what we have seen in our own eyes,

_ in our territory-in the Broughten. Archipeligo,” said

’ said Bill Cranmer of the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk

» First Nation.

“As we speak, the sea lice are killing the salmon
farm. We cannot over-emphasize the danger of the
__Open-net fish farm op

~ that swims in the ocean.

“We have been opposing the fish farms in our

territory right from the-start. You hear the Premier
and ail the other ministers saying, ‘We have the
strictest regulations in the world.’ But they won’t
enforce them. If they enforced the regulations, these
fish farms wouldn’t be in our territories.”

“It is overwhelming to see what the science
panel has presented,” said Stan Dennis of the Lax
Kw’ alaams First Nation, * ‘and still, we’ re not being
heard. -_

“Look at all the people here. We have the com-
mercial sector sitting down with the recreational

_ sector, river fishermen sitting down with First Na-

tions. We’ re all in this together. We ask the political
parties that are running in the provincial election to

listen to our message. We want a moratorium, we
_ will get a moratorium.” “

John Lewis of the Gitxaala Treaty Society spoke’
these words on behalf of his elders: “We are here
to.support the premise of wild salmon. We believe
there are better ways to create economic develop-

-ment for our people, than to choose a development

that has high, high risk for the resources in our ter-
‘ritories.”

“Tt is our hope and ¢ our prayer that this forum, and.
the information that is passed on here, will open the
eyes of all British Columbians. For we’re all here
with one common purpose. None of us want to take
our children or our grandchildren to a museum to
see what sockeye salmon looks like.

“Fish farming is a serious issue on this coast.

. When you can’t even touch that fish with your bare

hands, there's something wrong with that.
“It's imperative that we do our homework on
this issue. If we look at the results from Alaska, pri-

orto offshore oil and gas development, there were

no baseline studies done.

“Now that there are issues arising from offshore
oil and gas, the industry is saying ‘We don’t accept
your recommendations, because you didn’t make
these baseline studies before our industry arrived.’

“So one of the i issues that we raise here, is that
we need support to do these baseline studies, before
fish farms come in. The bottom line in our view is
that fish farms are dangerous — on or off the land.”

Dave Porter of the First Nations Summit said, “I
see before me the people of this region; people of

many walks of life, of various interests, of various -

ethnicities.”

“Many of us in public life work for this kind of
development, to forge consensus and commonal-
ity of view on the important issues that affect.us.
You've done a tremendous job in showing to us,
and to the rest of the province, a degree of unity that
has not been seen in this province for a long, long
time.”

In his summative address, Roy Henry Vickers of
theTsimshian First Nation had this to say:

“Tomorrow or the next day, or the day after, I

ask you to do something that the elder Cecil Paul

taught me,’
“Go down to the river, take some water, put in
on your eyes. Take some water, put it on your ears.

_ Take some water, put it over your heart. So that you.

can see, what needs to be done to protect that river.
So that you can hear, the truth spoken by those that
love that river. So that you can continue to feel that
love, and pass it on to your children, and grandchil-
dren, and friends.”

"y. mother’ Ss people come from .a .

erations,-not.only to, the ‘salm- .
“on, but to the clams, the herring, and « everything

RUNNERS, start stretching.

] Ready, set, go

- GRADE 3 girls start their race at-the Terrace Elementary School Sports Association’ 'S cross country run at Christie Park on May 26.

Enthusiastic young athletes from Grades 1 through 6 participated under a sunny, blue sky and very warm temperatures.
MARGARET SPEIRS PHOTO.

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Skeena River Relay not just"

for competitive, elite runners

By MARGARET SPEIRS

of all levels.
“Everyone thinks it’s élite runners but we have

“I have talked to all the team captains on email
and phone. They kind of kid around ‘are we going

The first long-distance race of the summer, r, the
fourth annual Skeena River Relay, a 142 km trek,

runs on June 4 from the Performing Arts Centre in

Prince Rupert to Canadian Tire in Terrace.

Race coordinator, Charlene Hamilton, of the
Rupert Runners Club, says the race registration
maxed out for the second year in a row with 25
teams of 10 runners each from as far away as Cal-
gary, Nanaimo, Fort St. James and Juneau, Alas-
ka, to name a few places.

She believes previous winners may be de-
throned but hesitated to make any specific predic-
tions.
~ Hamilton’s favourite part isn’t even the race
itself.

“Tt’s great to have all the teams all together,”
she said about the pre-race meal the night before.

“Having all the teams in one room is cool.”

one extreme to another,” she says. .
There’s the competitive athletes all the way to
those who run “for the hell of it.”

For everyone, sportsmanship plays a major

role in the race, Hamilton says.

“It is shown throughout the relay. Bach team

gives the support to their own team but they also
encourage, cheer on the other runners,” she says.
Each of the 10 stages of the race includes a

different distance, from 10 km to 21 km, and the

weather can be unpredictable.
“We predict rain and we have sun,” Hamilton

‘says, adding headwinds do blow along the river

and the heat can slow runners during the day-long

“trek.

Last year, fog clouded the.race up to Snow-

bound Creek, 73 km out of Rupert, and then lifted -

for the afternoon, but didn’ t impede any racers.
“I’m predicting rain,” she says. an

to have sun this year?’ I said ‘prepare for rain.

Support vehicles are strongly recommended
to keep participants safe by watching for wildlife
and assisting any injured runners. ;

“They:do run. into moose and bears every so
often,” Hamilton says.

“One of the guys was asking ‘what happens
when you run into a bear?’ I said ‘ you run fast-
er.”

This year’s start time of 6 a.m., an hour ear-
lier than previous races, is set to allow all runners
enough time to finish and attend the awards cer-
emony after.

Hamilton began preparations for this year’s re-
lay last September.

“It’s all coming together and everybody is so
excited,” she says. ‘

“The more excited they get, the more excited

Manitoba Moose watched from the bench in

Hamilton stresses the event: includes athjetes

Gymnasts grab the golds.

REILLY KLUSS gave an outstanding uneven bars rou-
tine at the Kitimat Snowflake Invitational on May 7.

Moose swept in semis.

By DUSTIN QUEZADA
IT TOOK seven playoff series and two years,
but Wade. Flaherty’s team finally came out
on the losing side in the American Hockey
League playoffs.
The Terrace-born goaltender with the

Games 3 and 4 as his team was swept in the
third round of playoffs.

Flaherty played the first two games in
Chicago, before being pulled in favour of
Alex Auld.

' The Moose almost rallied for a third-pe-
riod win in Game 1, but fell short 4-3.

That’s as close as they would get for the

rest of the short series.

TERRACE PEAKS gymnasts
brought home a sack full
of medals fromthe. Kitimat

_ Snowflake Invitational. ,
In Level 4, Kayla Brinkac

won four golds and scored a
gold medal overall. ©
Britt Anderson snagged four

silvers and silver overall in Lev-_

el 3.
In Level 2 Novice, Jenny
Goddard won golds on, floor and

vault, a silver medal on bars and

gold overall,
Melissa Mailloux, a Level |

Tyro, took golds in floor and
bars, a bronze on vault and

bronze overall.

In Level | Argo, Brooklyn

Goddard scored golds in. floor
and vault, bronzes on bars and
beam and bronze overall.

Reilly Kluss won bronzes for
floor and vault, a gold on bars,

a silver on beam and gold over-

all.’
Shauna Lovell
on floor and bars.
Provincial beginner Tyro

won silvers

Michaela Netzel won golds on—

floor and beam, a silver on bars
and silver overall.

The Wolves shut out: Flaherty and’ the
Moose 3-0 in Game 2 before the series shift-
ed to Winnipeg.

Manitoba hadn’t lost on home ice all
playoffs, but Chicago’s best player — goalie
Kari Lehtonen —~ fed off his Game 2 shutout
and shone on enemy ice.

Manitoba outshot Chicago 40- 193 in Game
3, but could only solve the young Finn twice,
losing 4-2.

The sweep was completed a week ago, as

. Chicago won 4-1 in the fourth game.

Flaherty had started 12 straight games
before head coach Randy Carlyle opted for
Auld, who started a majority of games in the
regular season.

I get.” °

Sports Scope

Track stars shine
in the Rupert rain

- THORNHILL Junior Secondary track competed in|

Prince Rupert and brought home several top three
placings in windy, rainy weather on May 14.

In the senior boys division, Sovin Sihota.won the
100m race.

Corey George took firsts in high j jump, shot put and
javelin and scored a second in long j jump.

Shane Parker outlasted his opponents ts to take first
in the 3,000m race.»

The senior boys 4x100m relay team of Sovin Si-
hota, Corey George, Bert Fawdrey and Mark Harlow
ran to a first place win in 48.95 secs.

Grade 8 girl Jessica Ames won firsts in 100m,
200m and long jump and second in the 400m.

Ainsleigh Mensah finished second in the 200m..

Junior boys winners included Alastair Beddie with
a first in shot put and second in javelin. _

Cody Anderson came second j in the 200m and third
in long jump.

Jason Ruchotzke finished third in the 400m.

Nathan McLean took third in the 200m.

Bert Fawdrey took firsts in triple j jump and 400m

anda third in high jump.

Junior girls athlete Lori Hales won the 1 500m.

. Marlee Cater took seconds in the 400m and 800m.

Amy Peltier finished third in shot put. Britt Bing-

- ham won third in long jump. Kate Boswell won firsts

in shot put and javelin.

The junior girls 4x100m relay team of Britt Bing-

ham, Marlee Cater, Mona Hervotic and Janet Lewis
finished in. second place. ’

Close games in bantam

and midget lacrosse

BANTAM and midget lacrosse ran to two close games
at the Terrace Arena on May 20. °

In bantam action, Coca-Cola and All Seasons bat-
tled to a 5-5 finish.

Cory Hubbard and David Low Brady scored four
goals and one assist each.

In midget play, Save on Foods squeaked by with
an 8-7 win over Hawkair.

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