Fingers all across Kitimat were poised at the ready over household thermostats as tense residents monitored the weather situation. “It’s currently hovering around 13 degrees,” said Mary Smith, never moving far from the controls of her furnace. “This is total madness.” The damp chill has put
The world can be a harsh place for anyone, especially young minds fresh into the world from Kitimat. See below a handy guide for our young graduates to help them integrate into the world beyond ours.
A Kitimat man living on Finch Street who has to be at City Centre Medical in about three minutes is increasingly unsure he’ll get to his appointment on time. Philip Thomas, who’s in the process of getting his shoes on, has his fingers crossed that
Your poor child is looking so hungry and under fed, says your vovo. At your child’s last visit to grandmother’s, she was quick to report the child clearly seemed malnourished. “Pobre coisa,” said vovo. “That child is all skin and bone. I better get him some soup.”
An electronic speed sign at the peak of the cemetery hill on Highway 37S in Kitimat is just so sure it’s better than everyone. The sign will display your travelling speed and will rapidly blink a bright light if you are exceeding the speed limit,
In an amazing display of higher intellectual power, an area man knows all of Kitimat’s streets by name. Lucas Kendle dazzled his friends when he was able to accurately give directions in town by using the streets’ legal names. “Yeah, the post office is just off
A major Kitimat industry experienced a shock as the local rumour mill has closed, said a guy I know. If true – which it totally has to be – it means that hundreds in town could be out of work. “I’m not saying where I heard it,”
The Douglas Channel has come out insisting that everyone just start calling it Doug. “Oh please, Douglas Channel was my father’s name,” said the iconic fjord. “Just call me Doug.” The Channel said that its relationship with everyone in the region has long passed the
Following a hard hitting morning news interview on the Snow Valley Guardian by CBC Daybreak North, new visitors to this site have reportedly been “OK” with the content. “I guess it’s funny,” says many seeing the site for the first time. Eighty per cent of those
A seal whose permanent residency is well beyond the municipal boundary, is believed to be breaking at least six fishing violations. “Just swimming in the river and grabbing them in his mouth seems entirely unfair and very unsportsmanlike,” says Robert Diggs, who’s been having a