However, a promised gust of prosperity from the LNG Canada project is now blowing into town, one that gave Highton and business partner Nick Markowsky confidence to start a new venture. Now in his 30s, Kitimat-born Brandon Highton remembers those grim years. Featuring good news stories happening in and around Kitimat BC. Welcome to the good news section of the Northern Sentinel. In 2010, the community was devastated when the closure of West Fraser Timber's Eurocan pulp and paper mill caused 500 jobs to disappear. Kitimat Northern Sentinel and Black Press Group Ltd. News About LNG 101 Environmental & Compliance Reporting Technical Reports. New Westminster Daily News, 21 November 1906. On March 14, Nakusp RCMP responded to a report of a break-in in the Burton Area on Arrow Lake where they learned several items had been stolen, including a White Ford F350. Sentinel, 16 and 23 October 1906 New Westminster Daily News, 15 October. In the decades since Alcan arrived, Kitimat's population has fluctuated with the booms and busts of the natural resources industry. News A prolific Nakusp offender is in police custody following a break and enter last week, which uncovered an ‘underground bunker’ full of stolen property. The factory, and the jobs that building and running it required, established the District of Kitimat as a commercial hub. (Benoît Ferradini/Radio Canada)īut that changed in the early 1950s, as company men from aluminum manufacturer Alcan began to arrive in the region, scoping it out to build a factory and then a port that could bring their products from the end of the fjord to the world. His lawyer indicated he intends to appeal the verdict.Haisla Nation Elder Sammy Robinson has had a front row seat to Kitimat's transformation since he was a boy. A hearing in June will determine when he will be eligible for parole. The Kitimat Valley is part of the most populous urban district in northwest British Columbia, which includes Terrace to the north along the Skeena River Valley. The 48-year-old Atwal faces an automatic life sentence. Kitimat is a district municipality in the North Coast region of British Columbia, Canada.It is a member municipality of the Regional District of KitimatStikine regional government. Get this The Northern Sentinel page for free from Friday, OctoKITIMAT NORTHERN SENTINEL FRIDAY, OCTOPack a KITIMAT NORTHERN SENTINEL PLASTERING STUCCO. He then looked at his wife in the gallery and cried briefly. Rajinder Atwal did not testify in his own behalf, and his lawyer called no witnesses in his brief defence.Ītwal remained composed during the final stages of his trial – until the guilty verdict. The defence had argued there was reasonable doubt of guilt because there there were no witnesses, and that much of the evidence was circumstantial. The bus was carrying foreign tourists, including Ukrainians. But a pathologist who testified during the trial said some of the stab wounds were 'inflicted after death.' At least 21 people were killed and 18 injured in a fiery bus crash in Mestre, Italy, just across the Venetian Lagoon from old Venice, where firefighters and other emergency responders worked into the night trying to extract bodies and squelch the flames. He told the staff she had committed suicide. Rustad, whose Conservatives gained official party status last month after former. Her father delivered her bloody body to Langley Memorial Hospital. John Rustad’s first question in British Columbia’s legislature as the leader of the provincial Conservative Party prompted a stern rebuke from Premier David Eby, who accused him of picking on children and families. Person receives suspicious call June 15 A person reported to the RCMP that she had received a strange call from someone saying they were. It was somewhere during that trip that Amandeep was stabbed 11 times. 2 Northern Sentinel, Wednesday, July 1, 2015. Her father offered to drive her back to Prince George. Then she went on one last holiday with her family to Vancouver. In the summer of 2003, Amandeep moved to Prince George to live with Todd. The couple had become involved while attending high school together in Kitimat, and had managed to keep their relationship secret from her parents.īut her parents found out after the pair were involved in a car accident. The Crown said she was murdered because her father was angry about her relationship with her boyfriend, Todd McIsaac. 21, 2005: Dad on trial for daughter's death Seventeen-year-old Amandeep Atwal was stabbed to death in July 2003. Supreme Court jury has found Rajinder Singh Atwal guilty of second-degree murder. After deliberating for five hours, a B.C. A Kitimat man has been convicted of killing his teenage daughter in a fit of rage.

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