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Jerami Sam, left, receives his certificate of completion at the North Island College graduation on June 17.
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Retired Canadian Army General Herb Pitts, above, presents the Lord Strathcona outstanding recognition award to 2308 C. Scott Regiment Sergeant Adam Wiatr.
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City councillors voted to solicit the province to support the establishment of a community para medicine pilot program. Mayor John Douglas outlined the program in a letter to BC Minister of Health Terry Lake, BC Emergency Health Services Jodi Jensen and to Island Health CEO Brendan Carr. The program would serve as an intervention by having paramedics treat patients’ medical conditions before they require advanced medical care, Douglas’ report to council noted. Douglas is a former paramedic. Douglas used the example of an insulindependent diabetic who could be monitored and treated at home instead of at the hospital, adding that it would free up resources in the emergency ward. “It would help people stay independent and stay at home longer,” he said. The service will require little to no capital costs. The BC Ambulance Service has the infrastructure and equipment as well as paramedics not on-call that could be utilized. Douglas said he has had cursory discussions with the Port Alberni Fire Department and BC Ambulance Service, as well as West Coast General Hospital and the Vancouver Island Health Authority. “I would like to request that the Ministry of Health, BC Emergency Health Services and Island Health work cooperatively together and with willing stakeholders initiate
a pilot program of community para medicine here in Port Alberni,” he wrote. Para medicine programs are already employed in Calgary, Winnipeg and Saskatchewan, he said. According to a news release from Alberta Health, The Community Paramedic Program employs 10 paramedics who provide additional support to health care teams in the city’s supportive living facilities. BC doesn’t operate a community para medicine program but one could soon be on the way. In May, the Facilities Bargaining Association representing 47,000 health care workers in hospitals, residential care facilities, emergency health services and other services reached a tentative deal with B.C.’s health employers. The agreement includes a provision that enhances paramedics ability to work within a community para medicine model. Speaking to the matter in the BC Legislature, Minister of Health Terry Lake pointed to other para medicine models in the country. “There may be a role for paramedics in long-term residential care settings to assist with the health care team in those settings as well,” Lake noted in the May 27 Hansard Report. “This will require some flexibility of stakeholders on the health care team — in terms of doctors, nurse practitioners, nurses, administrators — to incorporate paramedics in the community health care setting.”
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The historic—and some might say notorious—Somass Hotel, which has graced the corner of Kingsway frame Avenue and Argyle Street for more than a century, will be torn down to make way for a new administration
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has anchored the corner at Argyle and Kingsway Avenue for more than a century. The original hotel, built of wood, was erected in 1908. It burned in 1947, and was rebuilt shortly afterward. In the mid- to late-2000s it offered low-income rooms with various restaurants and bars on the ground floor. Ten Nuu-chah-nulth people were trained to remove asbestos from the Somass Hotel, which the band bought a year ago, Uchucklesaht CAO and finance director Scott Coulson said earlier this month. During this sixmonth process, deficiencies were discovered in the building’s concrete and steel, he revealed. After determining the cost to bring the building up to
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standard would be the same needed to build anew, the decision has been made to create a new building, Coulson said. Plans for a new seismically stable building are being finalized this month. “It’s probably cost us three or four months,” added Coulson, who estimated construction will begin in two months after the current structure is deconstructed. Coulson said the new administrative home for the Uchucklesaht should open in the autumn of 2015. “This is a multifunctional building,” Coulson stated. “We have a cultural centre, which is going to have all kinds of different aspects to it—rooms for carvers, different breakout rooms, actually a large room for carving canoes and totems. “It’s going to be a home for our administration, which will be inside the cultural centre. “We’re also going to have numerous shortstay rental apartments … for people who in town for medical stays. “We’ve identified that need for the Nuuchah-nulth people.”
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The Alberni Valley Regional Airport is not living up to its potential, says Chris Duncan, president of the Alberni Flying Club. So the club is inviting the public to come out and check out the airport during its annual open house this Sunday, June 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Activities at the open house include scenic flights for $20 per seat (“the early bird catches the flight,” says Duncan), glider flights with the Vancouver Island
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Club president Chris Duncan welcomes pilot Brad Engbrecht of Victoria, who brought his vintage Nanchang aircraft to the 2013 open house.
Soaring Centre, a static display at Coulson Aircrane next to the clubhouse and a concession. Spectators can expect to see other aircraft flying in from airports around
Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland as well. The Alberni Flying Club’s facility is located at the far end of the fence line past the airport building.
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Teachers picket in front of AW Neill Middle School on Tuesday, June 17 with support from CUPE members, in the first day of full strike action by BCTF union members. Both the teachers’ union and employers’ union were still at the bargaining table as the News went to press. There has been no official word whether the strike will last until the school year is finished. High school graduation ceremonies are to continue as normal in Port Alberni on Friday, June 27.
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Plywood lots on table since ’07 WAWMEESH G. HAMILTON ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS
A constant criticism in the city’s leasing Lots A and B to the Port Alberni Port Authority is the lack of public consultation over the issue. Three of 10 speakers at council’s June 9 meeting raised the issue of lack of public consultation. Mayor John Douglas, who voted against the city’s decision to sign the lease, says more public buy-in is required. “My chief concern was getting more public engagement on this so that people’s voices could be heard on the issue,” Douglas said. “But it was the will of council to proceed.” According to city clerk Davina Hartwell, the issue has been in the public eye. The city advertised a request for proposals last year to solicit interest in the properties. Only two expressions of interest were submitted, neither of which sparked the interest of the city. In the spring, PAPA officials broached the idea of a Canadian Alberni Engineering expansion with the city. Council then directed staff to enter into lease discussions with PAPA. The discussions had to do with land so the negotiations took place in-camera. On May 22 PAPA’s Twitter account announced that “... PAPA responded RFP for #PlywoodLotsAB issued by @CPAecdev last fall. Direction from @cityportalberni was 2 return w/ better biz opp 1/2.” Discussions concluded in May and council went public with the plan at their May 26 meeting. But
the issue was already circulating publicly and rumours were rampant on social media. Discussions with the Port Authority were held in-camera therefore there was no opportunity to call for more public discussion, Douglas said. “I wasn’t at the May 26 meeting where the plan was discussed. I was travelling,” he said about not raising the issue of public consultation then. He referred the News to city manager Ken Watson to discuss specific requirements. But Douglas pointed to the homeless shelter and new high school as issues where consultation measures have been used over and above being legally required.
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Oil slick source a mystery WAWMEESH G. HAMILTON
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An oil slick that appeared in the water along Kitsuksis Dike on Saturday appears to have come from a storm drain on Adelaide Street. However, no one knows who is responsible for dumping oil into the drain. Jake Leyenaar of the Alberni Valley Enhancement Association said he and a friend noticed the slick last weekend. “I said that it looks like there’s a big slick in the boat basin,” he said. An oily residue that ran parallel to the walkway at Victoria Quay, through the edge of the boat basin at Clutesi Haven Marina and up Kitsuksis Dike to the Gertrude Street Bridge.
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Oil colours the water near the boat basin at Clutesi Haven Marina after seeping out of a storm drain on Elizabeth Street, Saturday morning.
The slick was located next to Clutesi Haven Marina which is managed by the Port Alberni Port Authority. Clutesi Haven Marina staff were alerted to the issue on Saturday and immediately looked
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marina and boat basin and didn’t find anything that would have caused it on our end,” Carter said. The tide was extremely low that day so staff walked onto the mud flats underneath the bridge behind the Legion. “A lot of storm drains lead to there and we saw that it may have been coming from one of them,” Carter said. Marina staff have seen oil slicks appear several times in the five years Carter has been there, he said. “We’ve reported this to the city before. You can trace where but it’s nearly impossible to trace who is responsible.” City works crews traced the incident
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SAVINGS! ✓ Co-op’s competitive pricing ✓ Co-op’s 2% discount for paying early ✓ Co-op’s patronage returned 5.36¢ per litre of purchase amounts back to member in 2013 ✓ Co-op’s patronage in Port Alberni will return $963,644 in 2013 to members ✓ Co-op’s membership is only $10 for a lifetime of benefits ✓ Co-op’s gift cards can be used for $10 lifetime memberships or purchases ✓ Co-op’s self-serve 24/7 petroleum cardlock with fleet rates serves large companies ✓ Co-op’s certified employees serve your propane exchange/fill needs ✓ Co-op’s tight charge account policy ensures our members enjoy business integrity
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NEWS The Alberni Valley News is published every Thursday by Black Press Ltd., 4656 Margaret St., Port Alberni, B.C. V9Y 6H2. Phone: (250) 723-6399. Fax: (250) 723-6395. Classifieds: 1-855-310-3535. The Alberni Valley News is distributed free to 9,500 households in Port Alberni, Cherry Creek, Sproat Lake and Beaver Creek. The Alberni Valley News is Vancouver Island owned and operated. 2012 CCNA
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Essentially inconvenient Ontario election lessons for B.C. Hospital emergency departments are essential, no doubt. Ditto police, fire, rescue and ambulance services. Anything concerned with health and safety, including access to food and clean water could be understood to be essential to our society. But can any part of the education process be deemed an essential service, as the Labour Relations Board determined last week in the provincial government’s so-far failed negotiations with teachers? Make no mistake, having schools behind picket lines is a huge and undeniable inconvenience—for students, for parents, for teachers and, it’s assumed, for government. So is any delay in receiving marks and transcripts, particularly when deadlines loom for entry to the next level of education. Given the inherent imperfections of the system, and the possibility of human error, any impediment to education is likely to have multiple ramifications. All this is granted. But as essential as education may be in the long term, in the short term it’s doubtful the temporary absence of any part of the educational chain poses a threat to life and limb. And there’s a certain irony, surely, to a government terming provincial exams for Grades 10-12 and finals marks for grads as an essential service, when the crux of the argument for striking workers is that for years education has been treated as anything but. If the service is essential, one might argue it is essential to maintain it and pay for it. Historians have often observed that peacetime problems of shortage of food and lodging and social services are always magically eradicated once war is declared. While the conservative mantra of “one can’t spend what one doesn’t have” sounds reasonable, it’s harder to maintain when, at a moment’s notice, the goal posts can be moved by government fiat. — Peace Arch News
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ICTORIA – “Liberal” is becoming one of the most illdefined words in Canadian politics. Here in B.C., a Liberal is a Conservative, or at least a fiscal conservative, bent on balancing budgets and battling big unions to force them to recognize today’s world of low growth and low inflation. In Ottawa, a Liberal is currently whatever Justin Trudeau wakes up and decides. One day he’s a libertarian who wants to legalize marijuana, and the next he’s in touch with his inner Taliban, issuing a moral edict on abortion. In Ontario, Premier Kathleen Wynne saved her gut-shot Liberal government by limping to the left of the NDP, promising to spend lots more borrowed money and build lots of transit. This is in a have-not province with an operating
deficit that is currently running north of $12 billion. For comparison purposes, B.C.’s deficit swelled briefly beyond $3 billion in the wake of the Great Recession of 2009, and the books stayed in the red until last year as the B.C. Liberals unwound the Harmonized Sales Tax and repaid a $1.6 billion HST transfer allowance to Ottawa. You think B.C.’s energy policy is a disaster? Check out Ontario, where the cops are still investigating the $1 billion cancellation of plans to construct two natural gas-fired power plants before the 2011 election. The gas plants were to stabilize erratic output from wind and solar power, a European-style climate change gesture that involved Ontario ratepayers giving a huge subsidy to Korean tech giant Samsung.
The Ontario Liberals clung to power in part by promising a provincial pension scheme on the same scale as the Canada Pension Plan. B.C. has a similar pension program in the works, to be offered to the two thirds of small business and selfemployed people who don’t have a group plan with their employer. Ours would, of course, be voluntary. Not so in Ontario, where large and small businesses will be required to cough up half of the required pension payments. The Ontario model is dumb on several levels. It is to be imposed just as the baby boom retirement wave breaks across Canada’s most populous province, increasing risk that the pension pool may run dry. And it sticks small
‘...Wynne saved her gutshot Liberal government by limping to the left of the NDP.’
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business with a new payroll tax in a province that has lost much of its traditional manufacturing base and needs to innovate. Here’s the funny part, if you don’t live in Ontario. Wynne tabled her spending-spree, deficitbe-damned budget in an effort to convince the NDP to keep propping up the Liberal minority government and avoid an election. Instead, she won a majority and now has to implement her pie-in-thesky promises. Ontario is bracing for a downgrade in its credit rating based on the election result, and is about to go into provincewide bargaining with public service unions who want their share from the Liberal money tree. Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Tim Hudak ran on a plan that sounded similar to the one presented by Christy Clark in 2013: hold the line on spending, balance the budget, reduce the size of government, stimulate job creation. Continued / A11
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RCMP family says thank you To the Editor,
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Hudak was rejected for a second time, and resigned the leadership on election night. British Columbia’s voters now have three years to see how the Ontario version of Liberal government plays out, compared to the B.C. Liberal version. For us, much depends on resource development,
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including forest products, natural gas and other trade with Asia. If all goes well here, B.C. can continue to send transfer payments to the fantasyland of Ontario. Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press. Twitter: @tomfletcherbc E-mail: tfletcher@blackpress.ca
Re: RCMP march for the Moncton fallen, June 12. I wanted to thank the Alberni Valley News for attending the local RCMP march on Tuesday morning [June 10], in memory of three officers tragically killed in Moncton the previous week. Your presence there, moving photographs, and immediate coverage both on your website and on social media, was greatly appreciated. Other local news outlets didn’t seem to feel that this event warranted any publicity and that both saddens and disappoints me. As the wife of an RCMP officer, this past week has been both numbing and devastating. To see the sorrow and pain in the eyes of so many strong officers as they grieve the loss of not just three coworkers, but three members of their extended family, has been heartbreaking. Seeing your own worst fears playing out in another family’s life is just too painful to watch. The officers grieving
are hard-working men and women who serve our communities, keep us safe, and often witness the things of which nightmares are made. They also invest in their cities, raise their families, and coach their child’s team. As is the unique nature of the RCMP, they won’t stay here long. They will uproot their family to another town, while passing on their love of the Alberni Valley to another RCMP family, eager to call it home. Thank you for showing that they are a part of your community however long they are here and that they matter. Jennifer Carroll, Port Alberni
Politics don’t belong here To the Editor,
It’s time the B.C. Premier and the leader of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) quit talking about the importance of children and put our money where their mouths are. Christy ‘FamilyValues’ Clark should place an amount of money on the bargaining table equivalent to the average other provinces
are spending on education. (If the BCTF website is correct, BC’s funding for education on a per capita student basis is a disquieting $1000 below the national average.) The teachers’ bargaining team, with the help of a nonpartisan facilitator, can then participate in deciding how to distribute these additional funds. Teachers, who like to say how committed they are to their students, will then have to decide how much should go toward wage increases and how much should go toward reducing class size, i.e., hiring more teachers and support staff. In other words, teachers will have to become part of the solution instead of part of the problem. The educational system will inevitably soak up all the money thrown into it, therefore, elected officials must set responsible limits by finding the correct balance between the short-term interests of taxpayers and the long-term interests of progressively developing our province. In short, partisan politics should be taken out of
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education. Lloyd Atkins, Vernon
A great day in Port Alberni To the Editor,
Each year we try to go somewhere different for my birthday, you know, ‘get outta Dodge’ for the day. I chose Port Alberni and we are happy for that. Yes, it’s been a while (1990s) and yes, we used to go right but going left was the best thing to do. The shopkeepers we met were all very polite, helpful and competent. The town looks clean and the banners had that special, festive summer look even though there are visible signs of metamorphic effort as some buildings succumb to the wrecker’s ball. Stopping at the Info Centre on the way in, we inquired where the trendy area was and received no reply, to which I commented “I figured”. But the staffer there and myself were wrong. The Harbour Quay is totally awesome. Majestic views were enjoyed during a great lunch at the Starboard
Grill. I have seen many areas in Canada go from naught to grandeur and I forecast this for Port Alberni. But please rehabilitate some of the older character buildings to maintain that connection to the past that visitors and the community itself will appreciate. Thank you for a great day in Port! Gord and Nelly Byers, Parksville
Finally, a good Clark decision To the Editor,
Pleasantly surprising news from Victoria that Premier Clark has recused herself from discussions concerning the latest refinery proposal in Prince Rupert; in an uncharacteristically ethical move, she seems to have listened to good advice. Her ex-husband is a vice president in Pacific Future Energy Corp. that wants to build a $10-billion refinery in order to ship lighter fuel products to Asia, rather than diluted bitumen. Bernie Smith, Parksville
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A Letter From The Bulldogs Coaches A letter from Kevin Willison & Adam Hayduk to the Alberni Valley community: The coaching staff would like to take the time to thank all the Alberni Valley Bulldogs supporters over the last three season: all the fans, billets, volunteers, season ticket holders, corporate sponsors, and even local residents that have donated goods and services just to be a part of the Bulldogs while giving back to their community-owned team. Approximately 7,000 volunteer hours were poured into growing our community-owned team each season. We would also like to acknowledge the City of Port Alberni and the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District for becoming big supporters at a very special time. The local support that we have received, including that from the majority of the community, is amazing. Over the last three seasons, we have worked hard to bring character and hard-work back to the on-ice product. The players that are selected to compete and battle night in and night out for you have to be special. They need character, a strong work ethic, and an understanding of what it takes to strive towards becoming a successful student athlete. A big part of developing as a hockey player is understanding the importance of “community” and being active members in giving back during their short time with us. You often hear that the coaching staff believes in our players giving back to the community. However, it’s not until we ourselves put all of our activities down on paper from the 2013/14 season that we were also surprised and even more proud of the work we do. Here is a summary of our 2013/14 community involvement: • Players participated in the Canada Day Parade; • Hosted annual Bulldogs summer hockey school for local minor hockey players; • Players participated at the “Our Town at Harbour Quay” event by setting up a street hockey game on the breakwater; • Players took part in the Raise-A-Reader ball hockey challenge at the Multiplex parking lot; • Players delivered food donations to Break of Life from the Bulldogs games; • Bulldogs players and coaches participated as an official delegation at the city council meeting; • Bulldogs players participated in the Raise-A-Reader events throughout Port Alberni; • October through February saw the start of the popular “Bulldogs In School” program where 8-12 Bulldogs players are matched up with 5 local elementary and middle schools. Each player visits their school twice per week to assist teachers and to help the kids. Each visit ranges from 2 to 3 hours and we continue to get amazing feedback and hear some very special stories each year. We estimate a total of 150 player visits throughout the 2013/14 season; • Bulldogs players participated in the Dad’s Night Out ball hockey event; • Players and staff attended the Remembrance Day ceremony; • Bulldogs players and Parks & Rec staff administered two, 90-minute Professional Day hockey camps at the Multiplex for local minor hockey players; • Bulldogs players made a surprise visit to the Pathways clubhouse, operated by the Port Alberni Association for Community Living (PAACL); • Due to popular demand, the Bulldogs players attended three Christmas Winter Wonderland evening skates, signing autographs and interacting with kids, fans, and the community; • Bulldogs players volunteered at the Port Alberni Association for Community Living’s Guns ‘N Hoses Fundraiser hockey game; • Bulldogs players and coaching staff delivered over 800 teddy bears collected from Teddy Bear Toss Night to local care centers, the West Coast General Hospital, the Westhaven Multilevel Care facility, and to several other community groups; • Bulldogs players served Christmas lunch at Neill Middle School and at EJ Dunn; • Bulldogs trainer James McDonald mentored local ADSS students whose future interests are in therapy and medicine; • 11 players participated in Bulldogs/ACRD Recycling training and presented the “Waste Free Lunch Challenge” concept to 21 local elementary school classrooms. The program was recognized by the NHL Green Program and by the BCHL; • Bulldogs players volunteers at the 2nd annual Port Alberni Junior Hockey Society Dinner and Auction fundraiser; • Bulldogs players surprised the young Tim Bits participants during their final on-ice session on 2013/14 – spent time on the ice and posed for photos with the kids; • Bulldogs players walked dogs for the SPCA shelter; • Bulldogs coaching staff assisted AVMHA by becoming involved in the coach selection process, assisting in rep tryouts, conducting on-ice and off-ice coach development sessions, and providing goalie instruction/development for the minor hockey level goaltenders; • Bulldogs goalie coach Alex Evin helped instruct at the ADSS Skills Academy. This is just a small snapshot of what our players do in the community. This is on top of their on-ice commitments, academic responsibilities, off-ice strength and conditioning sessions, weekly SAT prep sessions, and media responsibilities. We look forward to having each and every one of our supporters back for what is building to be an exciting 2014/15 season. Every hour volunteered, every ticket purchased, and every corporate sponsor that comes on board not only helps bring BCHL hockey to the Alberni Valley but also endorses and supports our involvement in the community. A lot of great things are happening to ensure this team is the strongest in the BCHL and one that is here to stay. So on behalf of the Port Alberni Junior Hockey Society and the Alberni Valley Bulldogs organization, thank you for your continued support and we look forward to everyone joining us for what’s shaping up to be a special 2014/15 season.
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NICELY UPDATED 3 bdrm family home with detached double garage/shop. Located in a quiet neighborhood in South Alberni. Price just reduced... $208,000. Call (250)724-9765 or view online: www.arrowsmithlistings.com
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GARAGE SALE Fundraiser; 4322 Virginia Rd., June 21st, 9am-1pm. No Earlies! All proceeds go to The Easter Seals Camp Shawnigan. Most items sold by donation. LARGE MULTI-FAMILY garage sale. Sat. June 21 & Sun. June 22, 9am-2pm. No early birds please. Furniture, antiques, children & baby items, dust collector, mitre saw; too many items to list - something for everyone! 6765 Cherry Creek Road.
MULTI-FAMILY- (in parking lot) 3131 5th Ave, Sat, June 21, 8-2pm PORT ALBERNI- 2428 7th Ave, Sat, June 21, 8-11am. Moving Sale! Furniture, good quality clothing, household, tools and garden, sport equipment, kid’s stuff, and toys... PORT ALBERNI- 5867 Falls St (corner of Falls & Malabar), Sat, June 21, 9-1pm . THE FIR Park Village/Echo Village Foundation is having a gigantic garage sale fundraiser, Sat, June 21 & Sun, Jun 22, 8-1pm. 4778 Johnston Rd (former Bargain Store bldg in the Adelaide Shopping Centre). Proceeds will go towards the re-furbishing of resident rooms at both homes.
1994 FORD F250 HD 4x2 super cab, 5.8 EFI V8 engine 78,000 km, A/C, tow pkg, ltd slip axle, camper special. Northern Lite 9’6� camper w/toilet & shower. Both garage kept. Offers to $12,000. 250723-6846 TJ JEEP, bought new 1998, garage kept, no rust/accidents, low miles, no off road. $7,700 obo. George 250-723-1234.
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33’ CONVERTED Trawler with 6 cylinder Isuzu diesel engine with 2100 hours. Ready to fish or cruise. Good electronics, Survey valued at $25,000. Sell for $7,500, obo. Call Jim at (778)421-1310 or Ted at (250)723-8089, Pt. Alberni. For more info or viewing.
40’ LONG RANGE Cruise/Charter Boat. Transport Canada Compliant. $98,000. 250-339-7502.
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Palmer wins at home Evan Tironese returns
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It was close, but Greg Palmer from Port Alberni won the West Coast Amateur by three strokes over Steve Watson, last Sunday at Alberni Golf Course. Palmer shot a total of 141 over the weekend to win low gross. Steve Acland won low net with a combined 135. “I did better this year,” said Palmer, who finished second to Courtenay’s Greg Koster in 2013.
BULLDOGS: | Goalie Lacouvee heads to Boston. SUSAN QUINN ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS
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Greg Palmer of Port Alberni, left, receives accolades from Alberni Golf Course head pro Bruce MacDonald following the West Coast Amateur.
Ties abound for AGC ladies KATHY WHITE SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
The nine and 18-hole ladies of the Alberni Golf Course had a “bring a guest” scramble together this week. Good company, great weather and
lots of laughs. We played nine holes of scramble format: no consecutive shots till you were on the green, everyone putts. There was a tie for the winning team with a score of 36, Janice Cross, Marg
Toms, Marie Swain and Linda Nicklin on one team and Suzanne Jones, Pat Dahlquist, Marj Dufour, Lauralee Edgell and Marilyn Merwin on the other. They won a ball each. Doreen Grant won the KP challenge.
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Evan Tironese will play his final year of junior hockey in Port Alberni.
any 16-year-old since Kyle Turris, who is currently playing with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League. His sophomore year he picked up 58 points and another 13 in 14 playoff games. Tironese headed to the Green Bay Gamblers in the U.S. Hockey League for the 2013-14 season, where he scored 10 goals and 28 assists and doubled his penalty minutes to 125. Now, he’d like to play out his final year of junior hockey with the Bulldogs.
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else would.” LaCouvee joins fellow BCHL alum Sean Maguire, a Powell River Kings’ grad, between the pipes, Rick Sacks noted on his Terrier Hockey Fan Blog. The Bulldogs have not named a replacement for LaCouvee yet. The netminder was a crucial part of the Bulldogs’ defence last year, coming up with big saves on a regular basis. Willison is not expecting to find a goaltender of his calibre for the 2014-15 season, but “we’ll put a quality goaltender in his place,” he said. ICE CHIPS...Former Bulldogs’ team captain Tryg Strand, who aged out of the BCHL this year, has committed to the University of Guelph Gryphons in the CIS. Strand joins former Bulldogs forward Teal Burns at the University of Guelph, where Burns just completed his rookie season. editor@albernivalleynews.com
McClary on rugby roster for Canada
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Evan Tironese is coming back to the Alberni Valley Bulldogs. And the coaching staff couldn’t be happier. “He’ll certainly be one of the top players in the league,” Bulldogs head coach Kevin Willison said. “He’s an exciting player to watch, very creative...he’ll bring the tempo of the game up for us.” “Any coaching staff would be excited to have a player of that skill level on their roster,” assistant coach Adam Hayduk said. “He’ll be one of the best players in the league this year.” The firecracker forward lit up the scoreboard when he first joined the B.C. Hockey League team’s roster as a 16-yearold, putting up the most points (42) of
“I’m really looking forward to coming back to Port Alberni,” Tironese said in a statement provided by the team. “I missed it too much and I’m really excited to finish my junior career for the Bulldogs.” Tironese has committed to play with the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) Engineers. He approached head coach Seth Appert for permission to defer his commitment and play one final year in the BCHL. While the Bulldogs are excited to see Tironese return to their lineup, they are having to say goodbye to goaltender Connor LaCouvee, who has committed to play with the Boston University Terriers next season. “I can’t thank the Bulldogs’ organization enough for giving me the opportunity to prove myself in the BCHL,” LaCouvee said in a provided statement. “They gave me a chance when no one
Port Alberni Black Sheep rugby player Cody McClary has been named to the BC Bears long list for the Canadian national rugby championships in August and September. The senior men’s provincial program selected a number of players to participate in several competitions this year.
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THE ARTS
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JUNE 19–22: | From The Hatter to Zelda: The Last Flapper, out-of-towners to local performers, Fringe Festival offers it all. MARK ALLAN SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
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ndrew Wade invites you to tumble down a rabbit hole with him. A one-man performance during the second annual Alberni Valley Fringe Theatre Festival this month, The Hatter is the story of a man desperately trying to get home. As written and performed by Wade, the title character is no ordinary man. He’s The Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. “He’s in a room with a bunch of people in Port Alberni, and he has to find a way to try to get back,” Wade explains in a phone interview. The play comes complete with free tea (it is a tea party, after all), a Jabberwocky, songs, storytelling, and serious emotional problems, Wade elaborates. In Wade’s post-Alice Wonderland, The Hatter is beginning to remember the man he once was. Now he needs your help. In addition to free tea, you will even have a chance to be the Jabberwocky if you wish. As you might expect with such a complex, unpredictable character as The Hatter, you should expect the unexpected. Calling it a “variety show,” Wade said the
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Rosie Bitts is back with two Fringe performances, including Stories of Love and Passion, a solo show mixing her loves of cabaret, burlesque and storytelling. Rosie mixes old jazz and blues numbers with the sensuality of her burlesque show, weaving her stories throughout. Listen to Stories on Friday, June 20 at the Capitol Theatre, or catch Rosie’s New Bitts of Tease Cabaret on Saturday, June 21 at 10:15 p.m. at the Capitol.
subject changes every few minutes. “It switches from a piece of poetry to making some tea for the audience to fighting the Jabberwock to improvising a song on the spot based on something given by the audience. “It’s tragic in some places, funny in some places and just weird in other places.” Wade said he finds the character fascinating. “There’s that sense of
searching for madness, searching for a way to make sense of the world so you can avoid the world. “The Hatter is trying to avoid the way things really are. It has sort of a romantic appeal to me.” The show by the Richmond playwright and performer has received good reviews. “Clever and funny, with a polished, lyrical style.” - Susannah Joyce, Beat
Magazine. “Wade’s performance as the jaded, lonely Hatter is a delight, convincing and poignant, not quite what one would expect, which is perfect for a Fringe festival.” - Joe Belanger, London Free Press. “A clear mastery of style and text... The effect is phenomenal.” - Mike Anderson, Mooney on Theatre “You would be mad to miss this play. 4.5
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/ 5 stars!” - Saskatoon StarPhoenix The University of Victoria grad earned first prize in the 2011 Vancouver Young Playwrights Competition, and his acting got him nominated him for a 2013 Ovation Award. He performs the onehour Hatter in Port Alberni on June 21 and 22 as part of the Fringe Festival. Tickets at Main Artery or the Capitol Theatre.
By Randy Nelson Combine a thirst for adventure with a dedication to conservation and a gift for innovative scheming, and you will have Randy Nelson: the most decorated Fisheries Officer in the history of B.C. Poachers, Polluters & Politics is a collection of some of the most memorable moments of his career. Randy Nelson devoted his life to protecting B.C.’s fish population, and there were few things he loved more than catching the poachers whose disregard for the law put this population at risk. In this book, Nelson regales readers with stories of outwitting poachers with his wily mind, outrunning them in long-distance chases (he’s a marathon runner) and out-dressing them when he had to check out the smelt fishermen on Wreck Beach. A fast-moving and entertaining read.
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NANAIMO – Kids aren’t the only ones having all of the fun this summer at the library. Vancouver Island Regional Library is introducing a summer reading club for adults. Beginning July 2 through to Aug. 20, the Port Alberni branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library will be hosting the Adult Summer Reading Club.
The new Adult Summer Reading Club (SRC) program is designed to remind adults of the joy of leisure reading and to encourage them to model this behaviour for children in the community; especially those participating in the kids’ summer reading club. Registration for this free summer reading program for adults starts in mid-
June at participating branches. The program officially kicks off July 2. Visit your library branch to register and pick up your reading record. Keep track of your reading each week of the program for your chance to enter a draw for a prize. For more information visit the library online at www. virl.bc.ca.
Words catch fire at Char’s June 25 local writers of all genres in an open mike scenario. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the event starts at 7 p.m. Welcome new
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Colleen Clancy of Port Alberni admires a wall display of paddles created by the late Nelson Joseph, a Hupacasath First Nation carver. An exhibit of Joseph’s work opened earlier this month at the Alberni Valley Museum, and Joseph’s family was on hand last Thursday for the official opening ceremony. The exhibit was curated by Rod Sayers and includes artwork on loan from several local residents.
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Guests are: Tournament founder Rob Shick, Joey Kenward Vancouver Canucks, Mira Laurence CTV Vancouver Island, Jason Pires CTV Vancouver. General public is welcome to take part in the silent auction and all the festivities! The charity recipients are: Literacy Alberni, Read and Feed Program, Community Arts Council, Alberni Valley Rescue Squad, and Children’s Hospital.
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Centre will offer a new creative writing workshop, The Write Mindset, this summer to youths and teens, ages 10-12 & 13+. Mornings, 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. are for 10-12 year olds and afternoons, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. for ages 13-plus, every Monday beginning June 30. This program aims to educate and excite youth and teens in the art of creative writing. For more info and to register, call the Rollin Art Centre today, 250724-3412. Seating is
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Claughton’s work on display The Rollin Art Centre’s current art exhibit, which is now on at the gallery until July 5, features local artist Murray Claughton. He is showcasing a selection of his oil paintings of both local landscapes and his beloved winter home, Mexico. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday.
Our next exhibit will be a colourful showcase of photographs by Cara Baldwin and Kristi Dobson. This joint exhibit will capture Port Alberni’s natural and man-made beauty which comes to life in this eclectic display of images of the valley’s surroundings. Baldwin and Dobson have spent the last few years taking an in-depth look at what encircled them throughout their childhood in the hopes of inspiring others to re-examine the potential that lies within us all. This exhibit starts July 8 and runs to Aug. 2.
their work with the public as the murals will be permanent. All materials will be supplied. If interested please drop by the Rollin Art Centre or call for more details at 250-724-
3412. Deadline for all applications is July 15. Melissa Martin is the Arts Administrator for the Community Arts Council, at the Rollin Art Centre.
Pool mural deadline looms The Community Arts Council of the Alberni Valley, in collaboration with the City of Port Alberni is looking for artists to design original permanent
Dance for a good cause “I wanted to Jennifer Walsh’s re-introduce myself to very first job as a the community and dance instructor was this will go to a good in 1995, at the Pat cause,” she said. “I Cummings School of Dance in Port Alberni. like the Read and Feed program.” She had No signup is moved to Vancouver necessary for Island from the fundraiser; Toronto. “This wear clothing is the very first you can move place I ever in, and clean JENNIFER taught,” says running shoes. WALSH Walsh, who Participation taught for two years is by donation, with before leaving for 100 per cent of the England. proceeds going to Now, she’s back in the Read and Feed Port Alberni, again program. Donations working at the dance of gently used books school, and putting are also appreciated. on a fundraiser Summer camp signup Wednesday, June 25 is from 3:30–6 p.m. from 6:15–8:30 p.m. Call 250-618-4003 for for dancers of all ages info. (youngest dance first). editor@albernivalleynews.com
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Hot laps with F1 World Champ Sebastian Vettel BOWMANVILLE, Ontario. commentator David Four-time Formula One Coulthard on an auto world champion Secross track, laid out in the bastian Vettel has been shape of the Infiniti logo. driving since 1991 – 20 As I finished my turn at years less than yours the wheel of the Infiniti truly. Q50, the Scot sent me off The Infiniti-Red Bull to Seb with the words: Racing Team lead man “No cones were hurt in was only three-and-half this filming . . . ”I’ll take Seb’s seat time years old when he took that as a compliment for with us clearly the wheel on a kart in my error-free drive. his native Germany. He Buckled up in anothpaid off as he began racing four years er Q50S ($47,450), I went on to take later at the ripe old age wondered if Seb would his fourth straight of eight. He has a few demonstrate an improved years under his safety cornering technique as championship. harness but he’s always we did a hot lap together Keith Morgan up to learn from his around the reputedly fast elders. 3.95-kilometre track. He Last year, the 26-year-old wunderkind greeted me warmly, I thanked him for a showed off his driving skills to me and hat he had kindly autographed, which I buddy Brian Makse – a man also with recently auctioned off. He was pleased racing pedigree – in an Infiniti FX50 to hear it had raised hundreds of dolVettel Edition FX on the Paul Ricard lars to help send local leukemia-strickCircuit in the south of France. We both en teen Ryan Fagnan and his family on figured his cornering needed work. a last vacation, shortly before he died. Seb’s seat time with us clearly paid off We roared out of the pit lane through as thereafter he won his fourth straight the first turn and continued to accelF1 championship. erate downhill – close to 170 km/h It came as no surprise then that he – towards the second turn. Locals told would jump at the opportunity to take me the stretch to the turn features a the wheel again alongside me. Brian number of camber changes down to wasn’t available but I headed here to the second turn, scene of most of the the Canadian Tire Motorsport in Ontartrack’s fatal crashes. Gulp. Obviously, nobody had cautioned io to work the magic again. The affable him as he whipped the family sedan young guy has had a tough start to the effortlessly round, talking about how F1 season, battling with the new hybrid he relaxed as we drove. Movies with technology. happy endings apparently. Ah, the same I put in some time first with retired conclusions he likes to F1 races. F1 driver and now ace BBC TV F1
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“There haven’t been too many of those lately,” he joked, pressing harder on the metal, perhaps to make a point. As Infiniti Director of Performance, Vettel is truly playing a role in the development of future road products, rather than merely offering his name as a celebrity endorsement. He talked enthusiastically about the new compact, performance-oriented Q30, which should see the light late next year in Europe and a little later in Canada. The 328-horsepower 3.7-litre V6 Q50S we were riding in also benefitted from a little of his input. He’s clearly looking forward to Infiniti giving the go-ahead to the Q50 Eau Rouge concept, which features the Nissan GT-R’s growling 560-horsepower twin-turbo V6. Another corner loomed and I leaned into the door, as he barely slowed from the rapid pace we had zipped along the straight. “Your cornering has improved since last year,” I offered cheekily.
“Thank you, I think I’ve got the apexes about right,” he grinned. Hours earlier, it’s doubtful he had even heard of the tricky track, nevermind driven it. Harkening back to his references to happy endings, I reminded him that after driving with me last year he had enjoyed nothing but success. “That’s right . . . it’s all down to you,” he said with what I believed was a thoroughly genuine smile of appreciation. The end was nigh. Time flies when you are having fun: our hot lap and friendly chat took less than four minutes. Last Sunday, he enjoyed only his second podium finish of the year taking third place at the Montreal Grand Prix. You’re welcome, Seb. Same time next year, in the Eau Rouge? Videos of my day with Sebastian Vettel and David Coulthard can be viewed at: http://bit.ly/1ujR58W keith.morgan@drivewaybc.ca
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he sun is shining, the birds are singing, there is a promise of another fine Port Alberni summer day, what else could a human body want? The front lawn, the patio swing, and the Vespa Virgin are all calling me but I have decided to write his article instead. I would like to tell you about the Pro Photo Lighting for Portraits seminar at the library that happened on May 13. Dana and I set up a mini-studio complete with studio flashes, umbrellas, softbox, and background. Library manager Michael deLeur put up black cardboard to
stop the fluorescent lights from interfering with our studio lights. One hour later we were ready to go. DeLeur introduced me and I introduced Dana; I mentioned Dana’s special way of photographing children. We started off the seminar with Dana seated on the stool, me operating the trusty Nikon that was plugged into a projector so that everyone could see what I saw. Using a single studio flash with a reflector Dana was photographed in the following lighting poses. Split lighting was the first, followed by loop lighting, then Rembrandt lighting, butterfly lighting, broad lighting, and finally short lighting. Then I shot using the softbox with an umbrella fill to show
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‘Nobody likes to have all their eggs in one basket, so we’ve been diversifying into a number of sectors...’
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Port Alberni’s economy is doing better than people might think, according to the Port Alberni economic development manager. “I really think we’re in a strong position,” Deakin said recently. “We’re a very resilient community. The city takes its challenges in stride.” Port Alberni, Deakin noted, has fared better than other B.C. coastal communities. Forestry still employs about one-fifth of the valley’s workforce. With good-paying jobs, forestry swells the city’s tax base and “is a significant contributor to the economy.” Still, a variety of jobs is critical, he stated. “Nobody likes to have all their eggs in one basket, so we’ve been diversifying into a number of sectors, agriculture being one of them.” Acting on a 2010 farm plan, the city is working
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to strengthen the sector. Another area of interest is postsecondary education.
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Education partners include North Island College and the Justice Institute of B.C., which has offered paramedic training for several years. “We’ve been talking to them about getting into some of the other programs they offer,” Deakin noted. On city-provided land, the private Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences built a small campus in Port Alberni. The city is also promoting tourism. “We have about a million people a year
going through the community (between Parksville-Qualicum and Tofino-Ucluelet),” Deakin noted. “Our challenge is to get them to stop (in Port Alberni).” The strategy includes publicizing the waterfront and heritage attractions that include the steam train, steam mill, Maritime Discovery Centre and the museum. Deakin said sport tourism is the strongest component of the sector, a surprising statistic. Attracting hockey, baseball and softball, figure skating and other sports competitions brings visitors. “Our hotels and motels were full … and (there were) people in restaurants and shops all over the community,” Deakin said of the recent provincial AAA girls’ rugby championship. “The city has invested heavily in facilities, so we’ve got terrific ball diamonds, soccer fields, a multiplex with two ice
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Besides belonging to the Nuu-chah-nulth Economic Development Corporation, each First Nation in the Alberni Valley region has its own projects to generate prosperity. That prosperity can stretch outside band members. The Tseshaht actively participate in fishing, forestry and a retail market located on Highway 4 west of Port Alberni, Dennis Bill confirmed. “We figure it’s over a million dollars we bring into the Alberni Valley with our fishing,” said Bill, an elected Tseshaht councillor who sits on the economic development committee and is one of two people with the business portfolio. “All of the people in our community who are participating in the fishery do a lot of their equipment purchases and supply purchases locally, so we feel we really participate in the local economy as strongly as we can.” Each sector has a different thrust, he explained. “Our forestry operation is really just a money generator for
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Members of the Tseshaht First Nation participate in a community fishing day at Papermill Dam in 2012.
our community,” Bill said. “It does hire some people, not as many as we’d like.” The Tseshaht First Nation owns and manages five forest companies and three limited liability partnerships. All of the businesses are managed through the Tseshaht Forestry Corporation. “With the fisheries program, it’s more community-based, so it would be individual members who go out fishing,” Bill continued. “We sign an agreement where we are able to sell our fish commercially, and that benefits our individual members who fish.
“The First Nation actually organizes it, but really our members benefit directly from it quite well.” The Tseshaht fisheries department manages and develops commercial and community fishing for salmon in Port Alberni. The fisheries department works with the federal Department of Fisheries and staff also co-ordinate and manage staff for community fish days at Papermill Dam. Tseshaht fisheries works with the Robertson Creek hatchery to harvest excess salmon once they reach their required escapement
and egg-take. A partnership fisheries corporation has been developed with the Hupacasath First Nation. The Tseshaht Market is the last full-service gas station between Port Alberni and the West Coast communities of Ucluelet and Tofino. Including the Tseshaht First Nation Totem Pole Garden and a branch of the Bank of Montreal, it’s a mix of employment and revenue-generation, Bill stated. “We do employ a high number of people there, but it also generates money for our community as well.” Overall, he said,
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the band puts money generated by these initiatives to good use. “A lot of the money we generate from our economic development goes right back into our community programs to help support social services and other ventures we may go into.” In March, the Tseshaht announced a major sewer and water upgrade project on its reserve that will bring services out to the market. The federal government has invested $1.46 million in the project while the Tseshaht has added another $756,000. “This infrastructure development will allow Tseshaht to develop our reserve and create jobs,
not just for our own people but for others as well,” chief councillor Hugh Braker said. “This project is good for the entire region. Tseshaht has a long history of creating opportunity and growth and this infrastructure development in partnership with AANDC [Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada] and the Nuu-ChahNulth Tribal Council will allow us to continue that into the future.” With just over 1,000 members, the Tseshaht First Nation is not actively participating in the B.C. Treaty Commission process. “Right now we are on hold with treaty negotiations,” Bill said, noting band members rejected a treaty a few years ago. “We’re just in kind of a waiting process right now to see what’s going to happen with the other First Nations.” The Hupacasath has two main economic development initiatives, according to its website.
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Aboriginal economy grows too The Nuu-chah-nulth Economic Development Corporation also plays an important role in the economy of the Alberni Valley. NEDC was incorporated in 1984 to assist the Nuuchah-nulth to achieve economic and social independence through financial aid and advice. In 1997, eligibility was expanded to include all aboriginal people on Vancouver Island. The NEDC promotes and assists new and existing aboriginalowned businesses on the Island. The NEDC represents 14 First Nations and tribes on Vancouver Island, including the Hupacasath, Tseshaht and Uchucklesaht. In its 2012 financial statement, the NEDC reported assets of more than $25 million and liabilities of less than $2.9 million. For more information on First Nations, see the NEDC website at www. nedc.info.
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a reasonable truck haul to our port that shipped two-thirds the amount of lumber … to be consolidated in the Lower Mainland than we shipped off our docks last year,” he revealed. PAPA is discussing with that mill and another nearby the possibility of shipping their product out of Port Alberni instead, he said. McCormick noted that doing so would save time and money for the mills, whose lumber currently is sent to the Lower Mainland before being sent on ships that sail past Barclay Sound. More business for the port authority would increase its revenue. “The revenue we generate above cost gets reinvested in the community in a number of different ways,” said McCormick, citing Centennial Pier and
‘PATH is envisioned to move in excess of 6,000 containers per 24 hours...’ – Dave McCormick more jobs. Assuming the role of Lower Mainland lumber brokers “would be a new business venture for the port authority,” said McCormick, adding that things are still in the discussion stage. Shippers, noted McCormick, are keenly interested in the possibility of a Port Alberni trans-shipment hub (PATH) closer to the mouth of the Alberni Inlet. “Trans-shipment happens in Asia; it
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happens in Europe; it’s novel to North America. “The basic premise is to capture a significant portion of container shipments that are going past Barclay Sound on their way to Vancouver, Seattle, Tacoma and … L.A., Long Beach (California).” According to a concept overview in a pre-feasibility study, PATH would become the largest container terminal in Canada at about 300 acres, approximately twice the size of Deltaport on the Lower Mainland. PATH could accommodate the largest current container ships as well as muchlarger ones anticipated in the near future. McCormick said PATH would complement Lower Mainland port facilities and diversify Canada’s West Coast shipping capability. The study indicates, “PATH is envisioned to move in excess of 6,000
containers per 24 hours by deploying at least seven dual hoist cranes for large container ships.” That would be more than double the present capacity of container ports in the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. and Canada. The trans-shipment hub would receive container ships directly from Asia, offload and load back cargo and send ships back to sea. Once the cargo is on the dock, it would be sorted and delivered to the end user, mostly by barge, to the closest and most efficient point for the final leg of the trip. Job estimates during the construction phase are conservatively estimated to require “low to mid four-figures of skilled tradespeople,” the study shows. “Once operational, it is currently estimated that PATH will require a steady workforce of at least 300 full-time staff.”
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A 2013 trial project to increase the ocean survival rate of Robertson Creek Hatchery chinook was so successful that it was 10 times larger this year. “We had 100,000 chinook in net pens,” said Sheena Falconer, a member of the Barkley Salmon Working Group, a sub-committee of West Coast Aquatic. “Next year, we’re going to aim for 200,000.” At monthly BSWG meetings,
representatives from First Nations, local governments and sport fishermen, commercial fishermen and recreational fishermen talk about projects to increase salmon returns from the ocean. Falconer said they have discussed different release strategies for chinook from Robertson Creek Hatchery, run by the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. “In our system, there are some wild chinook and there are a lot of hatchery chinook,” explained Falconer. “So hatchery chinook
come back almost directly to Robertson Creek Hatchery. “They take the eggs from the females, the milk from the males, they mix them and incubate the eggs and hold them until the spring, when the eggs start hatching. Then they put the fry into tanks out at the hatchery … and then they generally release them straight out into the (Somass) river.” Other communities, she said, have experimented with trucking fry to net pens when they reach
about four grams. The pens are located where saltwater and freshwater mingle, allowing the fry to prepare for ocean conditions ahead. What happens when you bypass the fry swimming down the river is “you avoid a lot of predation and a lot of stress when the fish are going through the river system,” she said. In the pens, fry start schooling behaviour and they start predatorawareness behaviour. “All these things prepare them better for ocean life, and they
double in size,” Falconer said. “Our last net-pen project, the fish doubled in size.” Fry were released in late May. The hope is that, larger and better prepared, more fish will return from the ocean to spawn years after they’re released into Alberni Inlet. “When the fish come back, they mill around the inlet, so they provide a local fishing opportunity,” added Falconer, a Barkley Salmon Group facilitator and West Coast Aquatic special projects co-ordinator.
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“Given the cost and the significance of the development, it’s going to require significant public-
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We’re getting regular phone calls from families (which have moved away) asking when are we going to build this?”
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Forestry industry weathers recession Industry that built Port Alberni still dominates, although with a different look
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While forestry is not the titan it once was in the B.C. economy, it still plays a big role in the Alberni Valley. “We’ve been able to keep the paper mill operating,” said Pat Deakin, City of Port Alberni economic development manager. “There are two sawmills within the city’s boundaries … and there are four sawmills within the Alberni Valley. “There were challenges when the economy tanked in 2008 and those companies met the challenge to diversify.” The forest industry directly employs about 20 per cent of the Alberni Valley’s workforce, he said. Catalyst’s paper mill produces directory and lightweight coated paper. Its specialty papers are used in telephone directories, catalogues, magazines, brochures, inserts and
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Western Forest Products operates two sawmills on Port Alberni’s waterfront: Alberni Pacific Division, above, and Somass Sawmill. They enjoy a symbiotic relationship with Catalyst Paper, which uses wood waste as hog fuel for its plant.
flyers. “We’re operating two world-class paper machines and we have about 335 employees,” Harold Norlund, vice-
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‘There were challenges when the economy tanked in 2008 and those companies met the challenge to diversify.’ – Pat Deakin you can go with where the market is. “The old saying is, you want to go where the puck is going to be,” Norlund said in a hockey analogy. That flexibility helps to give employees confidence and attract workers to Port Alberni, Norlund added. The current mill still benefits from more than $200 million spent in the mid-1990s by then-owner MacMillan
Bloedel to convert its No. 5 paper machine to move away from newsprint. Catalyst still employs some people who worked for MacBlo. “These are the manufacturing jobs … these mills raise families … very good lifestyle, good money, unionized jobs, good benefits.” Catalyst employs some people who worked in the now-closed Elks Falls mill in Campbell
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Norlund takes over helm at Catalyst Paper MARK ALLAN SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
General manager of the Catalyst Paper mill in Port Alberni since April, Harold Norlund grew up in northwestern Ontario, but feels at home in B.C. The University of Manitoba mechanical engineering graduate first came to this province in 1981 and the Port Alberni mill is the sixth in which he’s worked. With more than 20 years of operations management experience, his stops have included NPIUSA in Port Angeles, Wash.; the Abitibi paper mill in Mackenzie and 15 years at the Crofton paper operation. His three daughters were born in Duncan during this period. “One lives in Duncan, one’s in Vancouver and the other’s at UVic. The tug to come back to Canada (from Port Angeles) was always there. My wife always wanted to come back to Canada because that’s where the kids are from, so this is home.” When the opportunity arose to come to Port Alberni, it made a lot of Harold Norlund shows off a key piece of equipment at Catalyst’s paper mill in Port Alberni. sense, Norlund said.
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“I like the people. The one thing about Port Alberni is I can walk to work. I’ve never been able to walk to work before.” Including his daughters, nothing he wants is far away. “Tofino, I can be there in an hour and a half. If I want to go skiing, Mount Washington is an hour and a half. Rathtrevor Beach (in Parksville) is 35 minutes.” Port Alberni has a lot of what he likes, including world-class fishing, which is important for an outdoors lover like Norlund. “It’s a really pretty area.” He and wife Susan are still waiting for their house to sell in Port Angeles. “My wife was just here this past weekend, and she’s looking forward to when the house sells.” Norlund loves the Island’s climate. “Here’s a guy who grew up in northwestern Ontario with five feet of snow, went to Mackenzie with 11 feet of snow and came to Vancouver Island. The first skiff of snow, I’m out cleaning off the driveway.” He quickly learned he can wait for the snow to melt.
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ervices nterests Wolfgang Zimmerman knows only too well how difficult it can be to return to the workplace after a serious injury. That’s why he’s the inspiration—and the president— of the Pacific Coast University for Workplace Health Sciences (PCU-WHS), a non-profit private university in Port Alberni. “Back in ’77 … working as a tree-faller on a crew, training was virtually non-existent,” recalled Zimmerman. “It was like, ‘Here’s a power saw; go on; go for it.’ ” His life changed forever when a 50-foot alder fell on him, breaking his back and confining him to a wheelchair. Recovering physically as much as he could, Zimmerman has devoted his life since to improving worker safety and injury rehabilitation. Years of advocacy have resulted in the world’s first degree-granting institution dedicated to workplace safety and injured-worker
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rehabilitation—right here in Port Alberni. Zimmerman knows there’s a lot of work ahead. “As we’ve seen with those two sawmills blowing up in B.C., we’ve got a long way to go. Canada … does not have a great track record relative to other OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries. “In Canada, on average,
of workplace fatalities tied for the worst. Canada’s record for reducing workplace fatalities over the previous 20 years stood alone as the worst. “Our fatality rate is damn near twice that of other comparable industrial countries,” said Zimmerman, who is also executive director of the National Institute of Disability Management and Research (NIDMAR).
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He founded NIDMAR in 1994 to minimize the human, social and economic costs of disability. With recent approval from the B.C. minister of advanced education for a bachelor of disability management degree (BDM), PCU-WHS will begin instructing students in September. The BDM should interest students embarking on a workplace health sciences career and those currently working in related jobs who want an academic qualification. Courses will use a combination of online and on-site delivery, and will join an advanced certificate in return to work (ACRTW) offered by PCU-WHS. Admissions for the initial fall 2014 trimester close June 30 for flexible admissions and July 31 for standard admissions. Planning for a postgraduate diploma in disability management and a bachelor of occupational health and safety degree is underway. Staff continues to grow. Dr. Donal McAnaney, who holds a PhD in educational psychology, will arrive in early July as academic vicepresident. He will split the year between Port Alberni and Ireland, Zimmerman said.
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After watching its stores close one by one in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Alberni Mall has been transformed into a thriving open-concept mall with room to expand.
Mall’s resurrection a boost to retail economy MARK ALLAN SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
After slowly dying over a period of years, the Alberni Mall is alive and well these days. “Our business is up considerably over the old location that was on Third Avenue,” said The Brick owner Garth Hamilton, who moved his store to the mall slightly more than year ago. As well as fellow Alberni Mall tenants that include Canadian Tire, Mark’s (formerly Mark’s Work Wearhouse), Home Hardware, Dollar Tree and Boston Pizza, Hamilton feels the nearby Pacific Rim Shopping Centre helps to provide a magnet for shoppers. “We look at it as sort of a power centre now,” Hamilton stated. “We’ve
got a really good crosssection of different retailers and services and we complement each other.” Business is up since the move to the mall. “We track our traffic and it’s up substantially over where we were at this point in the old store. We complement each other and help to draw customers to each of our locations.” Hamilton confirmed that, in addition to retaining some Port Alberni customers, his store at the new location is even luring some outof-town shoppers. “We’ve seen some of our clients from the Qualicum area,” Hamilton responded. “We tend to get a few more of those folks. We also see some from the West Coast through Ucluelet.” Hamilton moved to
‘We look at it as sort of a power centre now.’
– Garth Hamilton Port Alberni three years ago. “I just saw this market as something that was under-serviced and I think, as time goes by, we can go nowhere but up from where we were a few years back. “It’s been a tough economy, but I think there’s nowhere to go but up.” Home Hardware owner Jan Lavertu is also experiencing success at the Alberni Mall since he moved his store there from Third Avenue and re-branded it as a Home Hardware Building Centre, opening Nov. 29, 2012.
A believer in shopping local and selling local products, he sells live-edge wood from McLean Mill and other wood products from Alberni Valley producers. Last month, Home Hardware sold more than 11,000 pieces of fence boards from Nagaard Sawmill on Hector Road in just seven days. In another facet of the Alberni Mall’s rebirth, Canadian Tire, which opened Nov. 1, 1998, recently held its grand reopening. With 20 extra people working on the project, Canadian Tire upgraded “to the latest and greatest smart store format,” said ownermanager Kevin Smith. “I recognized it could use the new concept,” added Smith, who bought the store in August 2013.
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A syndicate of investors fronted by an Ontario realty company bought the Alberni Mall last year for $22.8 million from Shape Properties. Shape had resurrected the mall, which originally opened in 1979, after its stores
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Hospital expects $4.3M upgrade to ER dept. MARK ALLAN SPECIAL TO THE NEWS
West Coast General Hospital, already an important component of the Alberni Valley, is poised to get even better. “It’s a great thing for the community on many levels,” stated site director Ellen Brown.
“It provides a really good service to the community. As well as that, it provides more than 400 jobs.” A proposal for a $4.3-million upgrade to the emergency room awaits funding approval from Island Health (formerly Vancouver Island Health Authority).
“It’s quite needed in the community,” Brown said. “We have 23,000 unscheduled visits a year, so that’s quite a few. “We have a relatively small Emerg, so we just need to expand the size.” The proposal has garnered local support. “We’re thrilled that the Alberni-Clayoquot
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‘We have 23,000 unscheduled visits a year... we just need to expand.’ – Ellen Brown by a nurse first. “One of our plans in renovating the Emerg is to have the admitting clerk and the triage nurse working together in the same office,” Brown outlined. “They would together greet the patient, and the admitting clerk would get the demographic information and the nurse would provide the first assessment.” The objective, Brown explained, would be to
provide quicker and more thorough initial assessments. The 52-bed acute-care hospital includes 38 general medical-surgical beds, four labour and delivery beds, three intensive-care beds and seven psychiatric beds. Through Island Health, WCGH also provides home and community care. The catchment area includes about 32,000 people in an area bordered by Cathedral Grove, Bamfield, the Dididaht First Nation near Lake Cowichan and Ahousaht on the west coast. Brown said she appreciates support from the community. Island Health is the largest single employer in the valley, noted Pat Deakin, City of Port Alberni economic development manager.
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