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MAIN: Emily Albertson looks at one of the nativity scenes at Faces of the Nativity organized by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There are over 600 nativity scenes from around the world on display. The display opens to the public today and runs until Saturday. Today and Thursday the display will be open from 3 p.m. to 8 p.m. while on Friday and Saturday it will be open to the public from noon until 8 p.m. The church is located at 4180 Fifth Ave. and admission is free.
INSET: A light-hearted moose nativity scene was on display at Faces of the Nativity.
UNBC standing behind Moore Tyner gets lights
Samantha WRIGHT ALLEN
Citizen staff sallen@pgcitizen.ca
University of Northern B.C.’s alumni association is standing by its decision to nominate former federal cabinet minister James Moore as its next chancellor.
“We are very excited about James’ ability to advance the university going into the next 25 years,” said Andrew Seabrook, alumni board president.
“It’s such a great opportunity to showcase the successes of one of our own alumni and with him being a grad, he’s very motivated and excited himself about that advancement of UNBC.”
Seabrook said he was surprised by the backlash but echoed Board of Governors chair Ryan Mathe-son’s comment that discussion is a healthy part of the institution.
“Nobody would have expected it to get to this extent. It definitely wasn’t anticipated but it’s good,
I guess. That’s all part of the university world, is having that dialogue and sharing of opinions. We recognize that it’s not all a bad thing to be having these different conversations.”
An online petition to reverse the three-year appointment had almost 1,300 signatures by Tuesday afternoon to oust Moore, now a senior business advisor at the international law firm Den-tons who would start his term as UNBC’s first alumni chancellor in May 2016.
The University’s Act’s guidelines say the chancellor “is to be appointed by the board on nomination by the alumni association after consultation with the senate.”
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Former federal minister James Moore speaks at luncheon in Prince George in January 2013.
While some have questioned whether the timing is appropriate - Moore said he wouldn’t seek re-election in a June 19 Facebook post - Seabrook and Matheson said that’s not the case.
“We followed the process as we should have,” Seabrook said. “We definitely didn’t have any conversations that we weren’t supposed to have at different points in time. There’s no concern there for me.” Matheson said a task force started meeting long before the call for nominations officially opened in December and the alumni association recommended Moore to the senate and board. Seabrook said it considered many names.
“This past summer it started to work its way through all the dif-
ferent university bodies for final approval last month,” Seabrook said.
Matheson doesn’t see a conflict with the board’s bylaws, which say the chancellor can’t be an MP, among other guidelines.
“From what we understand - and we’ve looked into this as well - he cannot be a member of parliament and a chancellor simultaneously. Through the process of nomination he was no longer there,” Matheson said. “He’s a very fair and honest person and he would have to clear it through the government at that time. We wouldn’t have done anything had he been running again, had he been a member of parliament.”
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Charelle EVELYN Citizen staff cevelyn@pgcitizen.ca
They won’t be up to normal city standards but the city is moving ahead with getting temporary illumination on Tyner Boulevard.
During Monday night’s meeting, city council approved a plan to tag on to a BC Hydro pole replacement project and rent street lights on the new infrastructure.
The utility is replacing the existing concrete poles with wooden ones, introducing an opportunity for installing streetlights that could be leased to the city.
It’s an interim solution, said engineering and public works general manager Dave Dyer, but it does get some lighting where there is currently none along a dark street and trail.
There won’t be permanent street lights in place until Tyner Boulevard is turned into a four-lane thoroughfare.
“This is an interim solution that will last a few years and we would probably defer a permanent project for a few more years than what we show in the capital plan today,” said Dyer.
A $75,000 capital project was identified for next year to start designing permanent Tyner lighting.
But since the city is going with the lease option, it will get 33 interim lights along the road, but on the opposite side of the street from the trail.
A similar set up is also in place along Foothills Boulevard between First and 15th Avenues,
mThis is an interim solution that will last a few years...
— Dave Dyer, city public works
said Dyer, where there are median lights on wooden poles.
“There’s definitely lots of community requests for the lighting there and it certainly will improve the situation. But as I said, not to the standards that we would normally design to because the trail is a little bit farther over. You’ll be able to see but it won’t be as clear as it would if it was to the standard we would normally design to,” Dyer said.
Going the BC Hydro route would have an immediate capital cost estimated at $55,138, plus GST.
Operating the lights would cost an additional $9,021 per year.
These lights would be substantially more expensive than the cost for BC Hydro to energize city-owned lights - $22.78 per light, per month versus $6.77 per light, per month.
Dyer said staff are asking BC Hydro about power rates for LED lights.
Discussions with BC Hydro about a timeline for the installation won’t take place until council approves the project as part of its 2016 capital plan, which is scheduled for Wednesday night.
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