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Road Runner Editor Cele unner brating 50 years of the Road Ru RoadRunner Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Employee Newsletter May 2013 Queen’s Medals Mark Employee Contributions Submitted by: Nancy McLeod, Road Runner Editor Minister Mary Polak, Dirk Nyland, Sharlie Huffman, Grant Lachmuth and Deputy Minister Grant Main, in February. Long-time employees Dirk Nyland, Sharlie the ministry. Further, he has led a number of effort. Thanks to all of you, current and retired, Huffman and Grant Lachmuth were awarded efforts to improve and streamline engineering who I have worked with over the years, for Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medals for their services and support succession planning in allowing me to achieve this honour.” significant achievements and distinguished our ministry. Dirk sits on a number of provincial public service, by Minister of Transportation and and national committees and has been with the Senior Bridge Engineer Sharlie Huffman has Infrastructure Mary Polak, on Feb. 25. ministry for more than 30 years. been an advocate in the field of seismic bridge design and structural health monitoring Chief Engineer Dirk Nyland was recognized “It was a great surprise and very special provincially, nationally and internationally. for leading staffing development while he honour to have received the Queen She has also been a professional and technical was regional director in the North, and for Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for my mentor of numerous engineers in training. instituting project management practices in service and achievements,” says Dirk. “My Sharlie sits on a number of provincial and the northwest, that became standard across accomplishments are really the result of a team Continued on Page 3… RoadRunner May 2013 1 RoadRunner CONTENTS May 2013 Queen’s Medals Mark You’re a Winner! Employee Contributions Page 1 Editor’s Note TELP Graduation Event Held in Nelson Page 26 Lardeau Bluffs Webcam – View to Avalanche Control Page 3 Pink Shirt Day Shows Many Hues Page 27 An Unexpected Internship Page 4 IMISWG: Has the European Fire Ant Finally Met Its Match? Page 28 PHCC to Move, Expand Services and Become RTMC Page 5 Quick Action Saves B.C. from Invasive Species Infestation Page 29 Oh, How We’ve Changed Over the Years (...and Stayed the Same) Page 6 You Never Know What You’ll See New Quiz Clues for Five Decades of Transit Branch Still Recovering from Driving Tunes Page 7 Monday Wardrobe Shocker Page 30 Telling the MoT Story: How Road Runner Rainbow Reaches to Port Mann Bridge Page 30 Brings Us Together Page 8 Leaping into Leopard Print Thursday Page 31 EAF Community Events What’s Flat and Has Pieces for Everyone? No, Not a Pizza – A Board Game! Page 9 Bowling for Kids Brings Provincial Employees Together Page 32 Colouring Contest Winners Depict Ministry Goals Page 10 Be Counted at the Public Service Sharon Cowden, Tracy Houser and Stacy Scriver set Blood Challenge Page 33 Did You Know? – Acupuncture Benefits Page 10 up Health and Well-Being Fair. CVSE Honours Veterans at Career Development Profile It’s spring – and it shows. Remembrance Day Ceremony Page 33 – Mary-Ethel Audley Page 11 In this issue, you’ll see an explosion of More EAF Colouring Contest Entries Page 12 Onto New Vistas multi-coloured clothing – green dresses, Popular Seven Summits Trail Anchors Aweigh, Captain Cohiba! Page 34 blue tops and pink shirts. There are exotic Gets More Parking Page 12 Hard-working Joanne Harder Retires Page 35 animals roaming the North Region office The Spicy Life of a TELP Page 13 – leopards – or at least people dressed in leopard print. Things get kind of creepy- Field Services Celebrates crawly when reading about our ministry’s 50 Years of Road Runner role in battling invasive alien insects What a Difference a Half Century Makes – ravaging fire ants and brown fir long- – 1963 Map Page 14 horned beetles. HQ Health and Well-Being Fair Page 16 We continue our 50th Biometrics Numbers a Start to The RoadRunner is an employee newsletter, published Year celebrations of Your Good Health Page 19 four times a year, on the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure Internet. Road Runner, with a North Region Holds Biometric Clinic Page 19 story about how Road We welcome your story submissions. Email your article as a Kamloops Employees Test Well Word document (approx. 500 words maximum) and your high- Runner has changed at Biometrics Clinic Page 20 resolution photographs as JPEGs to: [email protected]. with the times, a look In the email for your story, please attach the Word document at the newsletter’s TRAN Who’s Who and graphics (photos, charts, etc.) separately. Please DO role, plus an article NOT embed graphics in the article — this compromises James Ferguson – Changes Career, reproduction quality and the images may not be useable by our about how the province’s highway system Pinpoints Progress Page 21 graphic artist. Photos supplied should be one megabyte. looked back in 1963. Crystal Chenier – Road Runner For contributor guidelines and upcoming deadline, see Road Runner on TRANnet. There’s also coverage of how employees Contributor Extraordinaire Page 22 are taking action toward better health, Skeena District’s Usk Reaction Ferry Check out the Employee Advisory Forum website for regular updates: gww.th.gov.bc.ca/EAF/home_intra.asp. and resources to help you boost your Turns the Big 1-0-0 Page 23 For @Work – the Public Service Community Website, visit: Dressing Green on St. Patrick’s Day Page 24 physical, mental and emotional well- gww.gov.bc.ca/ being. Spring is the ideal time to shape a Emergency One-Stop Shop – the New Graphic design for Road Runner is provided by healthier, happier you! IRM Website Page 25 Kathy Macovichuk. Nancy McLeod, Editor RoadRunner 2 May 2013 Queen’s Medals Mark Employee Contributions … Continued from Page 1 national engineering associations and committees and has received awards for her contributions to the engineering profession. “It felt wonderful to receive the medal and to know that my colleagues had nominated me and felt me worthy of it,” says Sharlie. Former employee Grant Lachmuth worked for the ministry for more than 35 years, providing skills and expertise in a number of different program areas. He initiated changes to infrastructure to accommodate people with special mobility needs, and managed major projects including the construction of the W.R. Bennett Bridge and the Sea-to-Sky Highway Improvement Project. Grant also represented B.C. on assignment with the Israeli National Roads Company, and was a member of the Conference Board of Canada Council for Leadership Insights from 2005 to 2008. He retired from the ministry Minister Mary Polak pins a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal onto Dirk Nyland’s lapel. earlier this year (see Page 34). “These three recipients of the Queen’s brings credit to Canada. The medal was “Receiving the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medals are well deserving created to mark the 2012 celebrations of the II Diamond Jubilee Medal was of this honour,” Minister Mary Polak said 60th anniversary of the Queen’s accession to one of the most special and in a news release. “They represent the best the throne. humbling events in my career, of B.C.’s public service and have all made and one that will always remind significant contributions to their profession, B.C. Public Service deputy ministers and me of the wonderful people the ministry, and to the citizens of agency and organization executives nominated in the ministry that I was so British Columbia.” employees for the honour, and 13 provincial privileged to work with over the government employees were awarded medals years,” says Grant. Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medals through this process. In addition, organizational are awarded to people who have made and community leaders outside of government The diamond shape and background a significant contribution to a province, nominated individuals, including some who pattern on the medal commemorates territory, region or community in Canada, or were provincial employees who also received the Queen’s 60 years as monarch. an achievement abroad that the award. ★ Lardeau Bluffs Webcam – View to Avalanche Control Submitted by Kevin Maloney, Avalanche Technician One of the challenges of managing a regional avalanche program is the The use of webcams is nothing new, but in this case the type of camera scale of the operating area. In the case of the Kootenay program, based is. The Mobotix© M12 camera can be accessed at any time and has in Nelson, 20 distinct avalanche areas are spread over four mountain remote control features that allow the user to manipulate the image with ranges in the southeast corner of the province. When winter storms affect pan, tilt and zoom options. There are zoom and wide angle lenses that all avalanche areas at the same time, the challenge is compounded. provide clear views of specific terrain and an overview of the entire area. Last fall, the Kootenay avalanche program, with assistance from the There are several benefits to this avalanche cam. The Mobotix camera Provincial Weather Program and the West Kootenay District, undertook has sufficient resolution to observe start zone conditions and avalanche a project to reduce the travel required to manage one of the more activity at the upper elevations of the slope, which is not possible volatile avalanche areas. Lardeau Bluffs is an extremely steep piece of from the highway. It allows for daily observations of freezing levels, terrain high above Highway 31, north of Kaslo. Every year, the highway is precipitation type, wind and sky condition. The ability to observe sky affected by avalanche activity. A new webcam was installed adjacent to conditions helps with scheduling helicopter access, for either snowpack the bluffs, providing avalanche techs with real-time views of the site.
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