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Westerly News EDITOR’S NOTE: The Westerly News salutes our small business community as Small Business Week kicks off. More articles, see pages 14-16. While British Columbia has the highest per capita number of small businesses of any Canadian
Family of 9 experiences real coast living PAGE 8 Oyster Jim Martin, below, and the trail he founded. On Sunday, the Trail marked a new milestone, and opened the new 1.5KM Ancient Cedars Trail extension.
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province, with 84 small businesses per 1,000 residents and 18% selfemployment, those numbers are even more dramatic on the West Coast. As of 2013, Tofino had about 450 business licenses for 1,900 residents. For a strong local economy, all boats rise with the tide of small business that is locally supported, said Tofino Chamber of Commerce executive director Gord Johns, who has built chamber member-
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Westerly News “Oyster” Jim Martin’s good idea turned out well for hiking enthusiasts. Martin is known as the founder of the Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet. His brainchild of decades ago has become Vancouver Island’s top attraction, according to TripAdvisor. Its popularity doesn’t surprise the long-time Ucluetian, who was on hand for Sunday’s ribbon-cutting of the new Ancient Cedars Trail extension of the WPT. “The point of view from the trail was so different from any other
perspective – you couldn’t see it from the water, you couldn’t see it from the air,” Martin said. “I like having it presented as a work of art, as opposed to just a trail. I like people’s reaction and appreciation
of that.” Sunday’s event attendees saw for themselves the massive cedars, the guardians of the trail; Martin joked he was hoping they would be renamed for the Ucluelet mayor and municipal council. Hand-hewn through old-growth thickets of wind-gnarled trees, the trail harbours a lush and verdant meandering path with untouched sys-
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Community Events 23 WEDNESDAY Recycling Day in Tofino. Wednesday 11:15 a.m-11:45 a.m. Story time for preschool children ages 3-5 . Ucluelet library at the Ucluelet Community Centre Strong Start, Ucluelet Elementary School, 8:35-11:35 a.m. Holy Family Church, 9:30am, 1664 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet. Adults/Seniors Chi Gong, 10:30– 11:30am, UCC fitness studio. Preschool Play Group, 10am–noon, Tofino Community Hall. Youth Health Clinic Ucluelet, 10–11:30am, youth room, Ucluelet Community Centre (library entrance). Access to the health nurse 250-720-5471. Youth Health Clinic Tofino, 1–2:30pm, Coastal Family Place, 265 First St. Access to the health nurse 250-720-5471. Ucluelet Sunshine Club, 1pm, Forest Glen. All seniors welcome. Seniors Social Afternoons, 1:30-4pm, Tofino Legion. Free admission & refreshments. Dominos, crib, board games, pool, snooker & darts. Ucluelet library, Ucluelet Community Centre, open 1–6pm.
24 THURSDAY Healthy Babies Program/Family Ties, 10:30am. Drop-in for expectant, new parents, Coastal Family Place, Tofino. Wickaninnish Community School’s StrongStart program. Monday and Fridays 8:45-11:45 Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday 10:30-1:30 Free community lunch, noon–2pm, Coastal Community Services Hub, Ucluelet. Info 250-726-2343. The Edge Youth Room, 3–6pm, Ucluelet Community Centre & Youth Nite at the Edge (cooking, movies, art projects & more), 6–8pm, $2. Tofino library, 331 Main St., 3–7pm. Pacific Rim Toastmasters, 7:30pm, Rm 1, UCC. Info: 250-726-2766. Drop-in Bingo, doors 7pm, early-bird 7:30–8pm, full games 8–10pm, Tofino Legion. Badminton, 8–10pm, USS gym. $2 AA meeting, 8pm, Holy Family Ch., 1663 Peninsula Rd., Ucluelet. 250-726-2712/4220.
25 FRIDAY Big Beach Theatre, Ucluelet Community Centre, 6 & 8 p.m., Turbo & The Wolverine. For details, see What’s On on the Westerly News Eat/ Play/Live Dining & Entertainment Guide, Page 17. Strong Start, Ucluelet Elementary School, 8:35-11:35 a.m. Tofino Library Storytime 11:30 a.m.-12 noon. 331 Main St. Preschool children with adult welcome. The Edge Youth Room, 2–6pm, Ucluelet Community Centre & Youth Sports Day, 3–5pm. Free. Holy Family Church, 7pm, 1664 Pen-
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26 SATURDAY Black Rock Music Series presents BBQ Blues Sat., Oct. 26, music by Ross Neilsen Band and Left at the Junction. 10pm Halloween Howl party at Officials Sports Lounge in Ucluelet Grant Lawrence book signing, event, “The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie” Slideshow, film, signing at Clayoquot Community Theatre on 7pm. Ucluelet library, Ucluelet Community Centre, open 10am–2pm. Tofino library, 331 Main St., open 10am–noon & 1–5pm. St. Francis of Assisi Church, mass 5:30pm, 441 Main St. Tofino. AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis Church, 441 Main, Tofino. Open. Call 250-725-3446.
27 SUNDAY Letter Writing to oppose mining in Clayoquot Sound, with Friends of Clayoquot Sound.. Upstairs of Common Loaf Bakery in Tofino, 3-6pm. “We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân” film screening and panel 3 p.m. Ucluelet Community Centre Theatre.” “We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân”tells the amazing story of the return of the Wampanoag language after being silenced for more than a century. Follow the journey of an indomitable woman, Jessie Little Doe Baird as her community, against all odds, brings their language and culture back to life. A panel of local language champions will follow the film. Light refreshments served. This event is brought to you by The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust, The Coastal Family Resource Coalition and Inkwis Arts and Culture. Christ Community Church, 10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet. Grace Bible Church, 10:30am, Ucluelet Community Ctr., 500 Matterson Dr. Holy Family Church, 9:30am, 1664 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet. St. Columba Church, 10:30am, 110 Second St. Tofino. Tofino Bible Fellowship, 10:30am. Meets in different locations; call 250-726-5017 and 250-725-2447.
28 MONDAY Strong Start, Ucluelet Elementary School, 8:35-11:35 a.m. Floor hockey, 7–9pm, Ucluelet Seaplane Base Rec Hall. $2 drop-in. Indoor Soccer, 8–10pm, USS gym, $2 Competitive & drop-in darts, doors 7pm, play 8pm, Tofino Legion.
29 TUESDAY Strong Start, Ucluelet Elementary School, 5-8pm Healthy Babies Program/Family Ties,
Irene Seitcher of Ucluelet displays knitted items her mother Mary Ann created, at Sunday’s flea market at the Ucluelet Community Centre. The Port Alberni woman will probably just buy more wool with the proceeds, she said with a smile.
10:30am. Drop-in for expectant parents & new parents, Coastal Community Services Hub, Ucluelet Community Centre. 250-726-2224. Ucluelet library, Ucluelet Community Centre, open 1–6pm. The Edge Youth Room, 3–6pm, Ucluelet Community Centre & Girl’s Roller Derby, ages 13–18, 3pm, Seaplane Base Rec Hall. Youth night, 7-9pm, Tofino Legion. Free admission, snacks & drinks. Pool, snooker, foosball, hockey table, darts & board games. Super-
vision provided, parents welcome. St. Francis of Assisi Church, mass 5pm, 441 Main St. Tofino. Food Bank on the Edge, pick up 1–3pm, across from Ucluelet Rec. Hall, Seaplane Base Rd. AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis Church, 441 Main, Tofino. Roller Derby Practice, 7-9pm, Seaplane Base Rec Hall. Basketball, 7–10pm, USS gym.
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More than a meal: Tofino lunch program a chance to get started interaction and the food is good,” he said adding there is a donation jar on hand to collect good will from lunchers. The lunch is supported by local businesses like the Tofino Co-op, the Common Loaf Bakery and the Wickaninnish Inn. Fish and Loaves is a registered charity and donations are appreciated but Enns said donations of time are where the true value is and the lunch’s volunteer crew loves what they do. “We love the atmosphere and the people and the work is very rewarding,” he said. Ruth Sadler is the kitchen’s head chef and Enns said her work ethic and dedication to the cause makes her an “irreplaceable” member of the team. “She’s an amazing woman,” he said. Anyone interested in volunteer-
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Westerly News After a brief break, the Fish and Loaves lunch program is set to serve up nourishment to hungry Tofitians again. The weekly lunches were kicked off by the Tofino Bible Fellowship about five years ago, according to Fish and Loaves president John Enns. “It was a few people from our church that decided that they wanted to do this,” he said. “There was a need and they felt that that was what they were supposed to do.” Volunteers feed an average crowd of about 15 during the winter months but as many as 50 during summer’s peak, according to Enns. “Some people have full time jobs come because they like it they like the people they like the social
ing can contact him at 250-7252412 or jcenns2b@yahoo.ca. While the lunch is open to everyone, it is keenly aimed towards assisting locals trying to get on their feet in an expensive community. “There are people that the general public does not want to see and certainly the powers that be don’t want people to see,” Enns said. He said people in need are often hidden living in the bush and this population spikes in, but is not limited to, the summertime. “People come and they get a job here and then they look for a place to live and they find that either they can’t find one or it’s way too expensive so they end up camping in the bush for the summer,” he said. “Some of them don’t have enough money to pay rent, eat, and save up for school…We find quite a few people like that coming into
our kitchen and getting a meal.” He said food and clothing is often handed out along with lunch to those who need extra support because newcomers are “often not prepared for the degree of wind and rain that we have here.” He has success stories to tell, like one man who came in for lunch about two years ago and received the support he needed to move out of the bush and into the community. “There are quite a few stories like that actually of people coming in and they just need a start,” Enns said. “Often they make it and that’s one of the really rewarding things that we find very encouraging.” He said Tofino is a difficult place for a young person to get a start because of high cost of living and he faced this difficulty first hand when he drove to Tofino from
Manitoba at 17 years old. He lived in his van and looked for work but ultimately wound up temporarily cutting short his dream to make it on the West Coast. Though his initial attempt failed, it gave him valuable perspective and showed him the difference between people helping and people not helping. This experience is infused with his personal beliefs. “I know that Jesus loves me and he loves all these people and often they don’t know that and they don’t see it so we want to share that with them,” he said. The lunch program also helps people find work and places to live and the West Coast Community Resources Society sends an outreach worker to the lunch each week to bring people up to speed on the services available to them. reporter@westerlynews.ca
BC, Canada, timber industry to help with post-tsunami Special to Westerly News
IWAKI CITY, JAPAN – Canada and B.C. will help build a support centre for children with disabilities in Japan as part of Canada’s and British Columbia’s effort to aid reconstruction following the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The Jericho Support Centre for the Disabled will provide rehabilitation and training services for children with physical and mental disabilities in the Tohoku region. Following the tsunami and ensuing Fukushima nuclear crisis more than 1,000 patients with physical and mental disabilities were evacuated from the nuclear exclusion zone and tsunami-hit communities. “Canada is proud to contribute to the reconstruction of important community buildings that were damaged or lost following the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami,” said Joe Oliver, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources. “The new support centre will
benefit the lives of many and serve as an enduring symbol of friendship between Canada and Japan.” The centre will provide welcome relief, support and rehabilitation for children and their families, said Steve Thomson, B.C.’s Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. “I am amazed at the resiliency of the Japanese people and proud we are able to play a small part in helping the Tohoku region recover from the tragic events of 2011,” he said. The estimated $1.725-million centre will feature a rehabilitation room, doctors’ offices and examination rooms, family-visitation quarters and a meeting hall. It will be built with British Columbia’s wood products - known for their seismic performance and environmental sustainability. The design for the building is currently being finalized, with construction expected to begin in spring 2014
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and be complete in fall 2014. The Jericho Support Centre is part of the $4.8-million CanadaTohoku Reconstruction Project to help rebuild public facilities using Canadian wood products and advanced wood technologies. The federal government contributed $2.2 million and B.C. government contributed $2 million to the Canada-Tohoku Reconstruction Project, Canadian forest companies contributed $460,000, and the Alberta government contributed $150,000. Thomson announced the project while leading 25 senior forestry executives on a trade mission to Japan and China. The Jericho Centre will be a 500-square-metre, single-storey, hybrid post and beam structure. It will use B.C. certified Canadian Hem-Fir (N) (Canada Tsuga) timbers,sprucepine-fir (SPF) dimension lumber, oriented strand board sheeting, western cedar decking, hardwood
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Opinion
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
What do YOU think? Go online to www.westerlynews.ca to answer this week’s poll question: What do you think about the collapse of this year’s sardine fishery (see Page 20)? a) Worried about how it will affect fishing families. b) Worried about environmental implications, like the humpback who feed on them. c) Worried about both commercial fishing and the environment and humpback whales. d) Sardines have a history of disappearing and coming back. It will be okay.
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OUR VIEW
Small Business rocks the West Coast What I love most about the West Coast – more than the scenic wonder, more than the mild (if rainy) weather – is the passion and commitment I see around me. From officials working hard to make small towns work well to people who organize letter writing campaigns for things they feel strongly about, it’s evident that West Coasters have their own ideas about what’s important and why. It’s the opposite of apathy. So when it’s Small Business Week, I’m happy to throw my two cents in. The entrepreneurial spirit Jackie Carmichael is widely in evidence on Editor the West Coast, where the equivalent of one in four or five residents holds a business license. Those numbers are off the charts – that statistic counts retirees and children! From self-employment and providing a product or service to operations that provide jobs for dozens of others, the small business owner is the backbone of this community. editor@westerlynews.ca LETTERS POLICY: The Westerly News welcomes letters to the editor. We reserve the right to edit letters for clarity, taste, legality and length. We require your hometown and a daytime phone number for verification purposes. Letters must include your first name (or two initials) and last name. Unsigned letters and letters of more than 300 words will not be accepted.
COMMENT
Guns: America’s blind spot Far be it from me to restrict people with physical disabilities, but when it comes to folks with badly impaired vision there are probably one or two activities we can all agree should be frowned on. It goes without saying that blind people should be discouraged from driving Formula One cars, directing air traffic, judging art exhibitions or carrying loaded weapons in public, correct? Not correct – at least not on the last point, and not in the great state of Iowa. Legislators there have just ruled on who has and who has not the right to carry lethal firepower on their hip or under their jacket at all times. You can’t do it if you’re under eighteen, a convicted alcoholic or a felon, but if you’re none of the above and happen to be stone blind, fill your boots -- or holster, as it were. “It seems a little strange,” says a spokesman for the Iowa Sheriff’s Office, “but we can’t deny them (a permit) just based on that one
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thing.” Being blind, the sergeant means. And no sergeant, it doesn’t really seem all that strange. Not when it comes to guns in America. The rest of the world has become pretty much inured to the eye-bulging, droolmouthed insanity that burbles to the surface when Americans talk about their guns. You folks stopped making sense on the subject about the time that JFK... or was it his brother? Or was it Martin Luther King? Heck, it might have been Abraham Lincoln – was shot and killed by some deranged lunatic who had no business carrying a lethal weapon in public. Those were the A-list murders of course. They rather pale when you consider the thousands upon thousands upon thousands of U.S. school kids, teach-
ers, policemen, firefighters, office workers and innocent American bystanders who have been gunned down, year in year out, since anybody started keeping score. Remember the shootings in Newtown, Connecticut – the one where 20 first-graders and adults were slaughtered? That happened last December – not even a year ago. Since then, Slate.com has calculated that more than 25,000 Americans have died from gunshots in the U.S. That’s more than ten times the number of people who died in the Twin Towers attacks. America started two wars over the Twin Towers; she’s mute about the monster in her own back yard. Other countries have had to deal with lunatics bearing arms in public. Canada changed the entire nation’s gun laws after a maniac in Montreal went on a lethal rampage. Great Britain and Australia endured mass shootings; they overhauled their gun laws in response and shooting deaths shrivelled. What happens when
mass murders occur in the U.S.? Government officials blather; gun sales go through the roof. When it comes to guns, America is sick. Crazy sick. The rest of the world looks on the way you’d look on at a dog having a rabid fit in the middle of the street. Americans’ continuous kowtow to the profoundly evil National Rifle Association coupled with their inability to stop shooting themselves has led to flat out scorn from abroad. Alexei Pushkov, a Russian politician, recently snorted “Nobody’s even surprised anymore. A clear case of American exceptionalism.” You know you’re on the wrong trail when a spokesman for one of the most blood-bathed nations in the world is laughing in your face. My advice to Mister Pushkov? Point made, but you’d best be quiet. You’re dealing with a rabid dog here. And he’s got a gun.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Opinion II
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LOCAL VOICE
Tsunami readiness: make a plan, practice It was not only important to participate in the DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON ShakeOut drill on Oct 17 at 10:17, but to also practice the next steps…! If a M 9.0 earthquake occurs along the West Coast of BC, shaking would occur for approximately 5 minutes. We would then have approximately 15 minutes to get to high ground before the first tsunami wave hits our coastline. Please remember, when the shaking stopped after 5 minutes we would all be LOCAL in a very frazzled state. This is why your VOICE family’s “grab and go bag” with all of KARLA your essential items for up to 72 hours is crucial. ROBISON Please have these kits ready to go in your car or by the door of your home. Ucluelet’s Emergency Coordinating Committee is trying to get the following message out: 20 Meters in 20 Minutes! That’s right… the clock would be ticking and after waking up from a shaken daze, you would have no time to gather any personal items. Once you and your family made it out the door with your bags in hand, what would your next steps be? Ucluelet’s Emergency Coordinating Committee encourages you to practice the DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON ShakeOut drill (and hold on for a whole 5 minutes!) more than once a year. Following the drill, the Emergency Committee would like you get outside and walk to the closest community safe zone with your grab and go bag. We are asking you to walk to the community safe zone because in a large scale earthquake event there will be rubble, and down trees and power lines. It is very important to learn and practice the fastest route to your community safe zone. Where is the community safe zone you and your family need to get to? Hopefully, as you read this you are shouting out the location you will take yourself and your loved ones. If not, please ensure that you and your family are familiar with the following community safe zones in Ucluelet: · Ucluelet Secondary School · High ground at Reef Point · High ground along Coast Guard road · The upper section of Sutton road · Tugwell fields · High ground at Hyphocus Island · High ground at Millstream · The information centre at the Junction For those of you that practice this drill, please email emergency@ucluleet.ca with the time it took you and your loved ones, colleagues and/or friends to walk from the location you practice the DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON drill to the nearest community safe zone. Ucluelet’s Emergency Coordinating Committee is attempting to build up a data base for future emergency planning. For more information on grab and go bags, Ucluelet’s Emergency Evacuation brochure, and other information about emergency preparedness and response, please come by Ucluelet’s District office. We also have some ShakeOut fridge magnets available. Karla Robison is Environmental and Emergency Service Manager for the District of Ucluelet
LETTERS
Grateful for community, friends after fire Mike, Patsy and family would like to thank all our friends and neighbors for the help given to us during and after the fire that took our home on Oct. 5/13. A big thanks to the Ucluelet and Tofino Volunteer Fire Departments, their hard work and compassion was very much appreciated. Thank you to the following people who were there with food, clothing, phone calls and offers of accomodations: Randy and Cathy Ahluwalia, Judy Gray, Betty Winpenny, Alex (Beba) Marshall, Lucia Lyons, Lila Sertic, Rent-it Center, Sue and Bill Payne, Relic Surf Shop, Kim, Lorry PHOTO COURTESY STEVE BIRD and Don Foster, Ann Kim, Dorothy McKee, and Tim at Ucluelet Harbour Seafoods Harvey Gudbranson, Matt and Eileen and Pacific Seafood Group. Hope I Mooney, Ann and Wally Branscombe, didn’t miss anyone. A very special Maureen and Brian Callaway, Jen and Thank you to Adele and her staff at Sandy at Matterson, Pam and Dave Black Rock resort, their show of kindMcIntosh, Rolle Smith, Jan Smith, ness at such a devastating time was Carol Sedgewick, Dinah Dickie, Brenda beyond belief. Katie and Bailey would
like to give out a big lick of gratitude to Carla at Ocean Pets. Lastly, I would like to thank the good Lord above that there was no loss of life or limb and for allowing us to live in such a warm and caring community. The Tyne Family
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GOVERNMENT
Signs of the times: Tofino mulls bylaw particulars, beachfront signs WESTERLY NEWS
A new report shows all the signs of progress on signage in the District of Tofino. The Committee of the Whole heard Monday the latest feedback from staff on updating the sign bylaw. “Comments [from the public] generally called for less
prescriptive design regulations and balance between sign regulation and creativity,” the report said. Respondents highlighed keeping signs in good repair, keeping administrative costs down, keeping costs down for business owners and creativity in sign
design. “Respondents were split on whether the “cohesive look and feel” of signs was important or not. Most respondents described themselves to be in the middle of the sign-line – with slight leanings towards “less regulation … [S]igns
in Tofino should have an ‘eclectic’ and ‘creative’ look and feel rather than a prescribed aesthetic for signs,” the report said. “The sign-amnesty [public consultation] event identified two ‘hot’ topics: signs visible from the beach and movable signs such as sand-
wich boards. Enforcement was another reoccurring discussion ... more consistent enforcement of sign bylaw violations,” the report said. The process is at the public feedback level, with a final draft and adoption still to come. “I’d estimate we’re about
half-way through the process of updating the sign bylaw, so there is still opportunity for public feedback as we go into the bylaw drafting and reviewing stages but don’t dilly-dally if you’ve got something to say,” said Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne.
Health Canada programs for BC First Nations go to new First Nations Health Authority WESTERLY NEWS
VANCOUVER - COAST SALISH TERRITORY - Grand Chief Doug Kelly, Chair of the First Nations Health Council, heralded on Monday the historic transfer of all health programs and services for B.C. First Nations previously administered by Health Canada to the new First Nations Health Authority (FNHA). The program will cost just under $5 billion over a decade, with most of that coming from the federal government. The Canada Funding Agreement authorizes the transfer of roughly
$380 million per annum for a total of $4.7 billion through March, 2023. The amount is based on federal expenditures for First Nations programs and services in British Columbia with an escalator for expected population and cost increases. As of the end of fiscal year 2012-13, the B.C. government has provided $27 million in funding to support the framework agreement. This funding is part of the overall $100-million commitment that will be provided to the First Nations Health Authority up to 2020.
“The support of our Chiefs and leadership has been essential to moving forward with this historic decision to transform our health care - the First Nations Health Authority was built by B.C. First Nations for B.C. First Nations. Now is the time for B.C. First Nations to take our rightful place, determining our own health outcomes and what wellness means to us,” said Kelly. “I would like to commend our federal, provincial, health authority, and other partners on the collaborative work to date and we look forward to our service delivery role, bringing
to life our vision of healthy, selfdetermining and vibrant B.C. First Nations children, families and communities.” The 2011 British Columbia Tripartite Framework Agreement on First Nation Health Governance paved the way for the new approach, which supporters say enables the FNHA to incorporate First Nations’ cultural knowledge, beliefs, values, and models of healing into the design and delivery of health programs that better meet the needs of First Nations communities. BC Health Minister Terry Lake
called the change “a milestone.” “We are empowering First Nations all across the province with the goal of improving the health status of all British Columbians. This is a first in Canada and a made-in-B.C. program of which we can all be proud,” he said. The FNHA doesn’t replace or duplicate the role or services of the B.C. Ministry of Health and Regional Health Authorities but addresses service gaps and collaborates, co-ordinates and integrates respective health programs to achieve better health outcomes for B.C. First Nations, the release said.
Nuu-chah-nulth take fishing rights issues, Mulcair letter to UN rep James Anaya Special to the Westerly News
VANCOUVER—Five Nuuchah-nulth Nations frustrated by Canada’s lack of action regarding a landmark court decision took their concerns to UN representative James Anaya on Oct. 10. The UN’s special rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples was in Canada eight days to examine the situation of indigen-
ous peoples in the country. The Nuu-chah-nulth presentation was delivered at the Musqueam Cultural Centre by Debra Foxcroft, president of the Nuu-chahnulth Tribal Council; Keith Atleo, who sits as a principal chief of Ahousaht First Nation in place of Shawn Atleo (National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations); and Dr. Simon Lucas, Hesquiaht elder and long-time
advocate of Nuu-chah-nulth rights. Foxcroft cited the November 2009 BC Supreme Court decision in Ahousaht et al vs. Canada. “We are here because, even though we have a declared constitutional right, we have not had success in having Canada accommodate our right,” she said. Despite court-mandated negotiations between the
nations and Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, there has been little progress in implementing the nations’ constitutional right, presenters said. “We have struggled to maintain fishing as the foundation of our culture and economy. Our participation in the commercial fisheries has dwindled to a miniscule level,” said Atleo. Nuu-chah-nulth Nations
received a copy of a letter from NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper to give officials in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans the mandate to implement the Nuu-chah-nulth court decision and “respect the constitutional rights of the Nuu-chah-nulth Nations.” Mulcair questioned the government’s move to seek leave to appeal the court
decision to the Supreme Court of Canada a second time. “Recognizing and accommodating the rights of Nuu-chah-nulth Nations is the path forward toward reconciliation and prosperity for all,” he wrote. Anaya is expected to make public a report on the visit’s findings, to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in September 2014.
Ucluelet RCMP report: Restorative justice lets smaller matters stay out of court JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News Two domestic disturbance call for the Ucluelet RCMP from the weekend will be dealt with
through Restorative Justice or “peace circles.” Const. James Van Camp said the incident has been referred to the local chapter of Restorative Jus-
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fusing the Playground Zone sign of a child chasing a ball with School Zones, he said. “365 days a year, a Playground Zone never changes – 30km an hour,” he said, adding that the Playground Zone on Matterson by the skate park is “pretty consistently ignored.” +++ The subject of a recent petition to allow him and his family to stay in Ucluelet contrary to RCMP policies that rotate members out of town after four years, Van Camp was grateful for the gesture. “I certainly appreciate everything (Hitchhike Mike Gitelman) has done and everyone that has signed it. I love Ucluelet and my family loves Ucluelet,” he said. “But I know that I signed on the dotted line, and if they see fit to move me, I can’t kick and scream.”
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BC provincial court: Man found guilty of assault ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News Kenneth George Hinde was found guilty of assault during provincial court hearings in Ucluelet on Oct. 8. Hinde was charged with assaulting his then-girlfriend on August 29. The victim told the court she had gone to a party while Hinde had gone to work. She said Hinde had arrived at the party after his shift and was angry with her. She said the two left the party and began walking home but Hinde continued to yell at her and he pushed her to the ground. She said she bumped her head when she hit the ground and was knocked unconscious. She awoke some time later and went home but when she arrived Hinde was there and “kick-
ing, pushing and shoving,” ensued until Hinde knocked her onto the kitchen floor and left the residence. Crown prosecutor Todd Patola asked the victim if she had done anything to cause Hinde to assault her. She responded that she had not. She suffered bruises on her arms and legs. Patola showed the court photos of the victim’s injuries that had been taken after police arrived. Hinde’s defence counsel Charles Beckingham doubted the victim’s memory because of the amount of alcohol she had drank that night and he suggested that it was actually the victim who had been abusive towards Hinde. “Do you remember striking Mr. Hinde and him grabbing you by the arms to stop
you from striking him,” he asked. She responded that she had not hit Hinde. Beckingham retorted that she could not remember what had happened because she had been intoxicated. “I can remember him beating me up,” she said. “Yes I was intoxicated, yes I was, but he beat me up. I did not hit him first.” Beckingham then suggested the bruising to the victim’s arms had been caused by Hinde trying to stop her from stumbling on their walk home. “That’s not true,” she said. Taking the stand in his own defence, Hinde’s testimony was in complete contrast to the victim’s. He said he had arrived home after work around 4:30 a.m. and was surprised that his girlfriend was not
home. He said he was worried about her so went to look for her and found her at the party asleep on a bed with another man lying next to her. “I was very upset, I wasn’t thinking right, I was stressed from working my 12 hour shift, I was not mentally OK with the situation that was in front of me,” he said. “I reacted by pushing them both out of bed.” After flipping the two out of bed he said he was “mad, upset and hurt,” and went back home to “cool down.” He said he returned to the party about an hour later and found the two back on the bed so he pushed them off again. He said the victim began yelling at him to leave so he left. He said when he returned
a third time about 45 minutes later he asked the victim to leave with him but she wanted to stay. He said the two left the party around 9:30 a.m. “(She) was fully intoxicated and staggering all over the place,” he said adding he was sober at the time. “The bruises under her arm come from me trying to hold her up and walk with her.” He said she tripped on the way home and fell bumping her head. “I didn’t want to leave her in the rain but I did,” he said. He said he waited for her at their residence but when she arrived she began hitting him. “I didn’t kick her or punch her I held her arms from hitting me,” he said. He said he “put her down” on the kitchen floor to stop
her from hitting him and then left. Patola noted that Hinde had taken the victim from the party despite her desire to stay and he questioned why Beckingham had not asked the victim about the situation Hinde testified to finding her in to give her a chance to defend herself. Upon ruling, the Honourable Judge B. Klaver noted the differences between the two testimonies but said pushing the victim out of bed was enough to charge Hinde with assault. Klaver noted Hinde’s decision to leave the victim outside, whether she had fallen or was pushed, was inconsistent with Hinde’s testimony that he had been worried about her and wanted to take her home. A sentencing hearing was scheduled for a later date.
Allergies prompt strict rules, but conflicting advice is still offered JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News While a local elementary school, Wickaninnish in Tofino, is officially nut-free, a well-meaning back-to-school press release from a regional health organization suggested peanut butter is a good breakfast food for elementary school students. However, a bit of peanut protein smeared on a monkey bar can be life-threatening for a child with severe peanut allergy. Prior to this year’s return to school, Wickaninnish sent out a reminder to parents that the school is nut-free. “Please keep in mind that we have several students who are allergic to nuts. It is very important that you do not pack any nut products in your child’s lunch or snack items,” the note said. A child with a deadly peanut allergy can die after eating a bologna sandwich prepared with a knife that had been wiped clean after being used for a peanut butter sandwich. The most dangerous nut isn’t even a nut. The peanut is a legume, and an allergy to it can spell death by anaphylaxis, a sudden, severe, potentially fatal, systemic allergic reaction that can involve the skin, the respiratory tract, the gastrointestinal tract and the heart. Meanwhile, if you’re sending getwell wishes to someone at West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni, don’t say it with flowers.
Flowers and plants were banned this week after a staffer had “several severe, life-threatening allergic reactions to flowers while working in the hospital.
is a safe environment for everyone, effective immediately and until further notice, no fresh cut flowers or potted plants will be permitted in patient care areas at WCGH,” the release said. The release acknowledged the therapeutic value of flowers. “They can also aggravate health problems for some patients and staff, espe-
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Redefining remote: West Coast family (really) roughs it JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News Part Mother Earth, part Swiss Family Robinson, Nitanis Desjarlais and her husband John Rampanen know what a literal coastal lifestyle is all about. Last year, the pair and their seven children moved to Herbert Inlet. That’s 10 minutes by boat from Ahousaht, on the other side of Catface Mountain, but it’s absolutely removed from the trappings – and conveniences – of a “modern” lifestyle. “We thought it would be good medicine to reconnect with the land, to learn how to harvest,” Desjarlais said. She left behind her work doing video production, he his community development career. “That just became our reality. We both quit our jobs to live our lifestyle,” Desjarlais said. The groundwork had been laid. They had already demonstrated an ability to live on indigenous foods, a diet chosen as an answer to the modern ills of diabetes and heart disease that a Western diet is frequently blamed for. Over a decade, they had rehabbed the property on Ahousaht traditional territory (Rampanen is Ahousaht). Once overgrown and wild from eight decades of neglect, it was ready with the addition of a 20x20 frame cabin, a generator, a propane stove, a dock, a boat. In 2012 they took the plunge and moved their family to the site. (An older child attended York University, and lives in Toronto and works in the film industry.) Their only electricity was from their generator. They had a propane stove. The woodstove burns driftwood, which must be gathered in the summer to be properly dried for winter. No fridge, no freezer. An outdoor
Above, the kids help with gathering firewood.
Above left, Nitanis Desjarlais and her husband, John Rampanen, prior to their seventh child’s birth. The family gathers food from the wild at their Herbert Inlet home.
pantry for use when it gets cool, but everything to be preserved has to be dried or canned. Clams, mussels, oysters, all different colours of cod; prawns and crabs. Seaweed, sea asparagus they gather. Ducks and deer they hunt. Berries are a big part of the indigenous diet – 30 varieties of huckleberries, salal berries, salmonberries, thimbleberries, cranberries.
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“I found a love of picking berries and harvesting foods was nurturing my spirit and it was medicine for me,” she aid. “I felt it had more of an impact than me going and working and buying organic food – it’s something that’s already been there. We’re connected to this land through berries and fish,” she said. It’s not about planting and cultivating and farming, but about harvesting what’s there now, Desjarlais said. “We as humans think we need to colonize – that’s Western culture. But this is how our families used to be, how we used to live on this land as one – we used to be like this. I’m not saying our culture was perfect, but by taking the good from it, and taking the good of modern society,” she said. Their income was heavily supplemented by their Family Allowance cheques, Desjarlais said. Not entirely off the grid, Desjarlais is no Luddite. She appreciates the best tools modern technology offers. “We do take our iPads and our computers, and we use the technology we have to connect with the world and to get instant access to its knowledge base. But it’s about using technology responsibily and trying to learn; as a
family we challenge ourselves – is there another way of doing this? Can we do this?” Daughter Kalila is 13, and then there are sons Qwyatseek, 11; Nikosis, 9; Tseeqwatin,7; daughters Chyyah, 5; and Ha’liszox, 2; the baby, son Kimowanihtow, is 4 months old. The pair home-school the chidren with the help of a community school in Victoria that provides “bio-regional” curriculum. “When it’s cold and wet, we just pull out some books and do math. By finding what interests them, learning just happens – it’s all hands-on, nature-based stuff,” she said. “We are nature schooling our kids – it is literally their second nature to be these children who are knowledgable about weather, the tides, the world around them. We’re learning with them – it’s quite awesome,” she said. There were a few breaks here and there, like the time the family journeyed to Northern Alberta, Desjarlais’s home territory, the Fort McMurray First Nation. “I gave birth to my son up there in a tipi, and my husband delivered him,” she said. “Through the wild and stormy winter, there were many lessons learned,” she said. “We were quite
remote, there were no others families around us.” In the spring, a game-changing loss when their boat capsized. “We now have to charter in boats. The cost has doubled because we don’t have our boat,” she said. The family’s plans to return to their Herbert Inlet paradise this fall were derailed by the capsizing of their boat. The $300 return trip for their family – and this summer’s inability to gather driftwood for firewood – means the family will likely have to rent on the West Coast or in Port Alberni for the winter. “We can’t live out there without a boat – with all these children, they’re our first responsibility,” Desjarlais said. That said, “it feels weird to just go to the store,” she said. Now it’s time to apply the model, where possible, to life in town. “Everything becomes convenient, so the question is how to transition, how to apply it to an urban setting. And then it’s a challenge to share with others – you CAN live simply in a city without having a place to go to on the land. Finding that space within nature and connecting can be done – we’re just looking at it a different way,” Desjarlais said. editor@westerlynews.ca
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Trust checks out their West Coast investments JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News The Island Coastal Economic Trust got to see where their money went this weekend. Duncan Mayor Phil Kent, chair of the Trust, and ICET CEO Line Robert took a walkabout of Tofino’s “new block” and UclueLeft, Mayor Josie Osborne joins ICET Chair Phil Kent and CEO Line Robert, on a walkabout of the street project they helped fund. Above, aided by Mayor Bill Irving, Coun. let’s new Ancient Cedars Trail exten- Geoff Lyons and Barbara Schramm of the Wild Pacific Trail Society, Duncan Mayor Phil Kent, center, helps shear away red tape at the ribbon-cutting of the new Ancient Cedars Trail extension. At their left, Oyster Jim Martin’s a man of action and already done with his cut. sion of the Wild Pacific Trail. So what’s so ecowhen a community develops to be here too.’ With them attraction with its hands-on economic development project was estimated at nomic about a trail lined something that’s good for coming, they make a contridisplay of regional oceanic readiness projects since $528,000, part of the comwith magnificent ancient them, it becomes good for bution as well,” he said. wonders “a brilliant asset.” implementing its grant promunity planning process for cedars? others, and when others “We see things that may The $50 million Island gram in 2007. ICET investan improved visitor experiGood question, Kent said come, they recognize that,” appear to be purely recreaCoastal Economic Trust was ments have leveraged over ence that culminated in the – and he had a good answer Kent said. tional or purely municipal created by the provincial $260 million in incremental Tofino Downtown Vitalizaat the ribbon-cutting for He pointed to Alberta infrastructure but they have government in 2006 under funding into the region, its tion Plan. the new trail extension on imports now on the trail’s an economic benefit,” he the North Island-Coast website says. Tofino Mayor Josie Sunday, where he saw the Society board of directors. said, thanking trail founder Development Initiative ICET’s $132,007 contribuOsborne posted her town’s fruit of ICET’s contribution “People often claim they’ve Oyster Jim Martin and Soci- Trust Act. Its mission: to tion towards the Fourth gratitude. of $55,500 to develop the 1.5 come here on vacation ety volunteers. help grow and diversify the and Campbell Streetscape “ICET funded a good porkm trail extension north of or come here to see this “It always takes a tremeneconomies of central and Improvement Project was a tion of the project as an the existing trail. absolute gem of the West dous amount of vision to northern Vancouver Island great investment, Kent said. investment into Tofino’s “Why would an economic Coast which we call the begin anything,” Kent said. and the Sunshine Coast. “It serves citizens first, economy. Thank you once trust involve themselves in Wild Pacific Trail. It plays The Trust contributed to ICET has approved $47 it also serves economic again, ICET,” Osborne said. projects like this? Really on their consciousness and the Ucluelet Aquarium, and million for over 100 ecodevelopment,” he said. what it comes down to is says ‘You know what, I’d like Kent called the Oceanside nomic infrastructure and The total cost of the editor@westerlynews.ca
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Trail now top Island attraction, continued from Page 1 - tems of flora and fauna – all part of a system that skirts the rugged cliffs overlooking Barkley Sound and the Broken Group Islands to the east and the open Pacific Ocean to the south and west. Hikers get an up-closeand-personal look at ocean majesty while viewing from the protection of the trail itself. “It’s more than just a trail – but it’s something that kind of fits in a very nice way, with the log ditches and all the curved wood out there, and the way we try to preserve nature as much as possible. The views have to be kept cut, but everything else we let go, within natural limits,” Martin said. The trail can be walked in two main sections, the Lighthouse Loop and Artist Loops to Ancient Cedars Grove. Martin said of all the Wild Pacific Trail views, his favourite is the spot where the bench on the way to the Artists’ Loops. “As you walk along, it’s like streaming post cards. Every few steps, there’s another peek that opens up and gives you a good look. Those little postcards are great,” he said. The trail is a very popular attraction during the winter storm season, giving visitors a viewing platform 20-30 metres above surge channels and outer reefs pounded by ocean swells. “Every spot on the coast has its own peculiarities as far as how the waves hit and how they display. There’s a vertical wall where waves spray water vertically hundreds of feet when there’s a storm going off,” Martin said.
Left, courtesy of the Wild Pacific Trail Society, the trail’s surf side. All others taken at the ribbon-cutting of the Wild Pacific Trail’s Ancient Cedars Trail extension Sunday.
“I believe the Wild Pacific Trail will become known as a winter-time destination for storm watching,” he said. Ucluelet Mayor Bill Irving hailed the teamwork the WPT project has called for. “These trails are beautiful – I love them, I think our guests love them and our residents love them,” Irving said. “But the group behind me over the years has struggled with huge issues … They’ve consistently approached them with an attitude of ‘How do we fix this and move ahead?’ That’s a tremendous legacy for a community to have,” Irving said. For more information, go to www.wildpacifictrail. com - written with contributing files from the West
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EAT / PLAY / LIVE: DINING & ENTERTAINMENT
What’s On! +++ Black Rock Music Series presents BBQ Blues Sat., Oct. 26, music by Ross Neilsen Band and Left at the Junction. $49 includes taxes, grats. +++ Grant Lawrence will plug his new book, The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie (Douglas & McIntyre, $26.95), a combo of hockey lore, Canadian music history and personal anecdotes. The author of “Adventures in Solitude,” Lawrence spent part of a planeride on Bobby Orr’s lapon the way to Game 3 of the famous Summit Series between the Soviet Union and Canada in 1972.He will show a slideshow and film at Tofino Community Theatre on Sat., Oct. 26 at 7pm. +++ Halloween Howl coming up Thursday, Oct. 31 at Seaplane Base Rec Hall. 7:30 p.m., fireworks at 9. +++ Clayoquot Oyster Festival is on its way. Nov. 13-16. They’re loaded with vitamins? Ya. Vitamin C, D, B1, B2 AND B3 as well as Vitamin S. For slippery .... +++ Annual Pacific Rim Gala & Auction coming up SOON. Friday November 22nd, 7pm Ucluelet Community Centre Featuring; WUNDERBREAD! This years theme is MAD HATTER’S BALL. Top Hats, Stripes and Polka Dots - Costumes encouraged ... get out your best Cheshire Cat grin... +++ What’s On at office@westerlynews. ca
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EAT / PLAY / LIVE: REVIEW Big Beach Cinema 500 Matterson Drive Ucluelet *****5 out of 6 asterisks Found a gem. I’d been looking at the movie listings for months, patiently waiting for family to move to the West Coast to enjoy a show with me. The Big Beach Theatre at the Ucluelet Community Centre delivered enough of the movie experience with Friday’s screening of “The Wolverine” with Hugh Jackman to keep our attention. My son, 30 and the family movie critic, thought it was great. He’s waiting for another action-adventure. My bid for a Jane Austen movie night could be a long wait – the action adventures offer something for the whole family – even us dyed in the wool Pride & Prejudice fans. As a silver screen goes, it’s pretty doggone decent. For $6 (or $4 for kids) you get comfortable – even cushy - theatre-style seating in an uncrowded setting, and there’s room to wheel in a wheelchair. Currently offers shows two Fridays a month, frequently a family feature at 6 p.m. and something for the older crowd at 8 p.m. Also, usually a Saturday matinee. For snacks, licorice Nibs or Canadian chocolate bars and San Pellegrino. ***** of 6 because we wish it was weekly. District of Ucluelet recreation assistant Lyvi Rivera offers up the snacks at Big Beach Cinema on Friday.
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Cold War. “It was at this tender age that Grant’s lifelong entanglement with hockey began,” reads a press release from Douglas & McIntyre, the Canadian publishers who are promoting his new book, The Lonely End of the Rink: Confessions of a Reluctant Goalie. Lawrence will be in Tofino on Saturday to do that as well. Pitched as an ingenious combination of hockey lore, Canadian music history and hilarious personal anecdotes and “sidesplitting account of how hockey has played into various periods of Lawrence’s life, first as a knee-
brace-wearing bully-magnet, then a rock star, and finally, a CBC broadcaster … this book is the quintessential Canadian story about our cultural lives, told through the grill of a goalie mask.” The book dishes on Canadian celebs—comedians, musicians and actors—whose lives have been affected by the game. Lawrence is also the goalie of the Vancouver arts-based beer league hockey team, the Vancouver Flying Vees. He will bring his books, a film and slideshow to the Clayoquot Community Theatre this Saturday, October 26 at 7p.m.
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West Coast restaurateur vows to help equip her struggling Guyanese alma mater Left, Ucluelet restaurateur Shamie Adeken, who is raising funds to help the Guyanese school.
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Small business busy in Ucluelet: 45 new business licenses last year JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News Small business is central in Ucluelet. Ucluelet Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Sue Payne said there are about 422 businesses in town. Last year there were 45 new applications for business licenses, a growth of over 10%. “That’s quite substantial for people coming in and starting a business, especially with a population of 1,600,” Payne said. “People are coming into the chamber and asking about starting a new business. We help them with startups and business plans and registration,” she said. There are a large number of seasonal businesses, she said. The numbers are up on accommodations and bedand-breakfasts, and on fishing charters, she said.
“In this community, just about every business is privately owned. The owners are the managers/proprietors and they’re working the business - small business is huge on the West Coast,” Payne said. With the exception of a few large employers such as the fish plants, Pacific Rim Park Preserve, the school district and the municipal district, it’s all small business. “It’s all locally-run momand-pop operations, which is why local shopping is important,” Payne said. A look at growth in sectors where computer and internet access are likely to be key provides some telling numbers. According to the B.C provincial government, professional, scientific and technical services added almost 750 net new small busi-
Celebrating West Coast Small Business Week nesses to the province of BC between 2007 and 2011, and the high technology sector added 173 jobs during the same period. The business services industry was the largest provider of new jobs in BC, creating nearly 5,600 net new jobs. On the West Coast, lagging internet speeds because of limited band width have created havoc for business recruitment, Payne said. “People are coming in with really cool ideas and they want to find niches – many of them home-based . Some
are trying to compete in world markets and they can’t because of slow speed internet. A couple recently came in – he’s a designer, an architect, who does his entire business over the internet, but he can’t send large files without a decent amount of speed. I did give them some alternatives, so hopefully that won’t deter them,” she said. Telus and BCHydro and Network recently recommitted to finding the money for a 2014 date for updating the West Coast’s internet access
with new fiber optic cable and poles. Mayor Bill Irving said lobbying for upgrades to federal and provincial infrastructure that is vital to the future health of business and community remains a priority. The council’s efforts to bring all parties together to ensure fiber optics are available on the West Coast next year and presenting a plan to upgrade Highway 4 for safe and reliable access are all supportive to business, he said. Irving said the needs of small businesses are at the forefront in Ukee. “The District council and staff have spent many hours discussing needs of our business community particularly the small business sector,” Irving said “Small business is a fundamental part of the
economic fabric of our community,” he said. Maintaining business-supportive infrastructure at the highest standard is critical for small business, he said. “Business needs to know that the fundamentals are taken care of in terms of water, sewer, drainage, roads, civic tidiness and timely upgrades,” he said. “We are proactive in the construction of assets that support and grow the attractiveness of our community for businesses,” he said, citing the new community centre, boat launch and signage programs. “We also invest in planning for long term economic flexibility,” he said, noting the community forest, the Wild Pacific Trail and Aquarium, and creating a family-supportive community. editor@westerlynews.ca
Tyne: Freak chain-reaction accident started fire that destroyed home JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News After a fire destroyed the Tyne family home in Ucluelet on Oct. 5, there are several morals to the story for Patsy Tyne. The freak accident that
started the blaze at 1190 Rupert around 11:50 a.m. sounds more like a very unfortunate game of Mousetrap, fire officials learned. “The garage door door slammed and jarred the brick and it fell down and
hit the button on the stove in the garage and turned it on,” Tyne said. Unfortunately, the canning stove wasn’t in use at the time – but it was plugged in, and the plastic garbage bags stacked on it ignited.
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The Tynes were preparing an early Thanksgiving for visiting friends when lights went out suddenly. Her husband Mike walked
to the front of the house and saw what he thought was dryer steam coming out of the garage – but the dryer was on the other side of the house. “He opened the garage door and thick black rolling smoke came out. He yelled ‘Get out! There’s fire!’” Patsy recalled. They got their neighbour’s family out from next door as well, and rallied the family pets. They didn’t have cell phones, but flagged down Coun. Randy
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Start business based on opportunity and love of coffee? Grimshires have bean there, done that JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News When it was time to brew up a business, Heather Grimshire and husband Jeff couldn’t think of a better place to do that than Vancouver Island’s scenic West Coast. The pair were drawn by the proximity to the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, Heather said. “My husband and I moved here to do something and we didn’t know what it was,” she said. “We wanted to start a family, and we knew we wanted to do some business that could grow and that we could export (a product) out of Ucluelet. We settled on coffee after several years,” she said. “An opportunity arose – the equipment was on the West Coast already. It was an opportunity combined with a love of coffee.” The Grimshires live on Ucluelet’s live-work zoned street, with craggy ancient cedars in their expansive backyard. They import green coffee beans, then they roast and blend them into five blends and one decaf blend. Currently, they market their coffee in stores in Ucluelet and Tofino, and they sell directly at the summer markets. A number of area restaurants also serve their coffee. They add a barista in the summer, who also helps package coffee. They envision a market to tourists who want to take a taste of the West Coast home. “People come here and have a special experience. We’ve heard people say they wish they could feel like they on the West Coast for the rest of their lives. It’s a culinary mmmento that would remind them of their trip – that was one of our goals, we wanted them to take a little bit of the West Coast home. It was culinary tourism, something they could drink while they were here, take it home and it would remind them of their trip,” she said. “For the locals, hot coffee works year-round here because of the cooler climate – even in July, people are cool and they want something to warm up with. The pair may be typical of the next generation of West Coast businesses. Young, willing to give up big-city convenience for the lifestyle of their choosing. They started the business in May 2012, purchasing the roaster. By July 1, they sold their first coffee. Local businesses were eager to work with them, Heather said. “They knew who we were, a young family – they knew we were in the community, and that we
wanted to build something that would eventually employ more people. “Some didn’t even taste the coffee and wanted us – but some tasted the coffee, and they wanted us too,” she said. “There’s so many small businesses in this community – it’s fascinating to see all the new ventures that are happening,” she said, citing little spots like Ukee Dogs and Ukee Juice Bar, Thay Tea, Blackberry Cove and Solidarity Snacks. “Ucluelet is building the foodie aspect – Tofino did that long ago,” she said. They’re planning a website with an easy ordering system, but already the Grimshires have sent their coffee to NunaJeff and Heather Grimshire and their daughter Shanti, at vut and Ontario. their roaster. editor@westerlynews.ca
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Ticket says nobody’s above the law in Tofino (not even the mayor) No one is above the law in Tofino. That’s the message from a chastised Mayor Josie Osborne after she got a warning ticket. Osborne posted the ticket and a picture of herself at the stop sign where she was nabbed by the RCMP. “I’ll confess I have to find my helmet and NOT blow the 4-way stop (bicycles are vehicles too). My bad,” she said. By the end of the week, the lesson had some function. “Although earlier this week I showed that I cannot read a stop sign when on a bicycle, I did want to let you know that the Ministry of Highways will be installing a ‘stop ahead’ sign in the approach to 4th and Campbell and wrapping the poles of the existing stop sign and the new ‘stop ahead’ sign with reflective tape,” Osborne said. “If we still get cars and bicycle-riding mayors blowing the stop sign, we may have to resort to a flashing red light. “ Osborne also got an email from the Ministry of HighAbove, a repentant Mayor Josie Osborne, stopping AND wearing a helmet. Middle, a picture sent to her by Mayor Richard Stewart of ways saying they are replacing the stop sign with a Coquitlam. Right, the ticket. bright, shiny, more reflective new one.
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leading up to the school that will keep students out of the mud they currently walk through. The children’s commitment to school and education moves this ex-pat. “That brought tears to my eyes when they said they want an education” she said. “Here in Canada, there’s so much these kids have - they need to know that what we have here, other kids have not had the opportunity to have.” Shamie raised about $1,500 over the summer from 4 Spice’s ‘Cook your catch’ promotion where all proceeds went towards the school. She hopes to have $4,000 to present to the school when she arrives in December. She said her Ucluetian community has Photos show disrepair and student devotion at Shamie Adeken’s alma mater. Adeken is raising funds to help the Guyanese school.
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“We probably have more business licenses and chamber members than anywhere in North America,” said Johns. “We have a unique, diverse culture that supports small business. We don’t have a ton of money leaving the community – the money stays in our community,” he said. “The basic needs of a community, you can get here, and you can operate here. There’s a really strong mindset to support locallyowned businesses,” he said. Some retailers are expanding into manufacturing, and exporting their products beyond the West Coast, he said, adding that the business climate in Tofino is unique. Province-wide, over 80% of British Columbians are employed by small business, and the West Coast those numbers may be even higher. Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne said small business drives Tofino
– almost every single business has 100 employees or fewer. “Clearly, the heart and soul of the Tofino business community is small business,” Osborne said. When business expert Nicole Vaugeois was in Tofino recently, her take on the strength of the Tofino business community showed its small-business backbone, Osborne said. “I loved what she had to say. One of the things she aid was a lot of locally-owned businesses create family (atmosphere) with their staff. You don’t think you’re ‘working for the man.’ People want to keep good employees, so they work really hard to build a family-like atmosphere and they really support their employees. I don’t think you find that so much in a big corporation,” the mayor said. That said, a municipality doesn’t have the power to say a flat-out
nomic Advisory Committee meeting will be held Thursday at 4 p.m. The council struck the committee partly at the request of the chamber and partly because council is particularly interested in supporting local business and wants to hear back from the community about what council can do to support the success of small business and local entrepreneurs, Osborne said. Possible discussion points include everything from the District’s Higher Learning Initiative for studies and research. “One of our big concerns is that we don’t have a lot of information to work with – we haven’t talked to business owners about successes and challenges of working in Tofino,” Osborne said. Port Alberni recently did a business retention survey, Osborne said.
Celebrating West Coast Small Business Week “no” to a McDonalds or some other chain, Osborne said. “In the last council’s term, one of the councilors put forward a motion to prevent franchises or chain stores from opening up. A municipality doesn’t have the authority to say no to certain types of business,” she said. “We didn’t actually ban chain stores, but the fact the council is interested in banning chain stores shows how important local business is and how much people value that,” she said. The District of Tofino’s first Eco-
Hospital fundraiser monitors area’s heart JACKIE CARMICHAEL It’s making it safer for patients, and easier – Westerly News given our physical layout – to monitor those West Coast residents can breathe a little patients who are having cardiac difficuleasier with a new bedside heart monitor. ties,” she said. The $20,000 machine was paid for cour“We are very fortunate to have the voluntesy of the Tofino General Hospital Foundateers of the foundation and our community tion’s recent rally event, said board chair members who are incredibly generous,” she Arlene McGinnis. said. “We have a great, great bunch of people The fact that they were able to raise that on the foundation – we all work together. amount of money in a single day was very Everything just seemed to fall in place very impressive,” Kilpatrick said. easily with the group, and we’ve been very successful in everything we’ve done so far,” she said. editor@westerlynews.ca The event actually raised an additional $8,000, which will go towards a second monitor, she said. In the future, the foundation will look at fundraising for a new $48,000 incubator. “We don’t deliver babies here, but babies happen whether you’re ready for them or not,” McGinnis said. A portable ultrasound the organization bought has been used extensively. REPAIRS • REROOFING • NEW CONSTRUCTION “Our hospital is so important to everyone for the whole of the West • RESIDENTIAL ONLY Coast. We want to make people aware • UCLUELET•TOFINO•SALMON BEACH Kris Wieteska • ASPHALT/FIBERGLASS LAM. SHINGLES of just what the hospital has to offer 30 years experience • METAL CLADDING variety of colours & shapes - they give great care, we need great 250-726-5107 • CEMENT AND CLAY ROOF TILES Free estimates equipment for that,” McGinnis said. Ucluelet, BC • SKYLIGHTS & SUNTUBES “One of the biggest reasons that we do this fundraising is that anything the foundation purchases for the To advertise in this hospital is new and it’s kept here ... directory... It’s ours, we keep it,” McGinnis said. The new equipment has made a call: 250-726-7029 or huge difference, said Kathryn Kilpatemail: rick, director of rural health for the West Coast. office@westerlynews.ca “We were really desperate for an upgrade of our bedside monitoring.
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“We need to learn about what goes well and doesn’t go well,” she said. “There are ways a municipality can create conditions for success and we don’t know what the answers are until we go ask the questions,” Osborne said. There’s one small business detail that goes without questioning, Osborne said. The fantastic West Coast lifestyle leads to satisfaction in the workplace, she said. “I think we have a pretty young and dynamic business community out there – one of the things I love about small business in Tofino is that people are passionate about what they’re doing. “They’re doing it as part of their lifestyle. You don’t meet many people who say, ‘I’ve got to go to work today.’ People love going to work when they own their own business,” she said.
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Though saddened the family of Albert Peter Larsen wishes to announce his peaceful passing Oct 19th at home with Dorothy. The home that he built on Helen Street in Ucluelet was where at his end, he wanted to be. Albert was born in Alberni BC in 1920 to parents Peter and Minnie Larsen. Albert grew up learning fishing at an early age. He purchased and outfitted his first boat at age 13. Kildonan and Barkley Sound were his fishing zone. He served with the Rocky Mountain Rangers Home Defense Battalion of the Canadian Army in World War II. Albert’s unit participated in retaking Kiska Island off the Alaska Coast. Though a better than average Stook card player, Albert recalls never being able to win much in the competitive US Army gambling tents on Kiska. Albert married Dorothy McIntosh and they moved from Kildonan to Ucluelet in May of 1951, and he was the proud father of five children, Minnie, Daryl (lost at sea 1992), Fern, Bill and Bob. Albert is survived by one niece Ann Mckay and 4 Grand Nieces and Nephew - 8 -Grand Children – Kevin, Nathan, and Trina Hornidge, Justin and Graham Holmes, Stuart Larsen, Niki Hurst and Desiree Larsen - 6 Great Grand Children Sydney and Hayley Hornidge, Jaxon and Ryder Hornidge, Callie Hurst and Ashton Holmes. Albert was predeceased by his sister Chrissy Johnson. Albert was well known in the fishing community captaining the Trollers Knob Point, Lone Ranger and Argo. He participated in numerous Advisory Boards for the west coast fishing industry and was a long-time member of the Prince Rupert Fisherman’s Co-op. He reluctantly retired at age 84, in June 2004, after 71 Years fishing the West Coast of Vancouver Island. Forever Blessing upon you Albert for a sound Boat deck and a Wheelhouse full of gear and the smell of fresh coffee. A Funeral Service will be held on October 27th, 2pm, at Christ Community Church on Peninsula Road Ucluelet, Reverend Minnie Hornidge officiating. Interment of Ashes Oct. 28th at 11 am, Ucluelet Cemetery. In lieu of flowers please donate to the Ucluelet Historical Society – PO Box 397, Ucluelet, BC V0R 3A0.
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EDUCATION
Student numbers down at Ucluelet Secondary School - for now JACKIE CARMICHAEL and SCOTT McKENZIE
Westerly News Numbers dropped suddenly at Ucluelet Secondary School this year, going from 202 students on Sept. 30, 2012 to 160 students on Sept. 30, 2013. The numbers surprised Principal Carol Sedgwick, even though she knew there was a “bubble� of large eighth grade classes that had moved up through the schools. “We used to have 50 and 60 Grade 8’s coming in – the last few years it dropped down to around 30,� Sedgwick said. There’s not a single factor the drop points to, Sedgwick said. “Some (families) were leaving for employment
opportunities, some were more transient. And for one of the families that moved, there’s three students in one family,� Sedgwick said. “For a school with small numbers to begin with, that affects us a lot,� she said. The interesting thing to Sedgwick is that she’s not seeing the number of families opting for private education that she used to. “People in our community are sending kids to our school,� she said. The swing doesn’t seem to be a trend yet, as Sedgwick notes the addition of a class at Wickaninnish Elementary and stronger elementary numbers. “When I look down at our numbers in our elementary schools, I see we will have bigger classes,� she said.
So far, SD70 is keeping staffing steady, allowing for good student/teacher ratios, she said. The Alberni Valley Times reported that the final date passed for school districts to submit their enrolment numbers to the Ministry of Education, and the Alberni School District officially has less students than originally projected. School districts had to submit numbers as of Oct. 1 to the ministry, which funds each district based on the number of students they have. The Alberni School District, then, can be thankful it is still under funding protection from the ministry because if not, it would have received less money than projected.
According to district superintendent Cam Pinkerton, the district is down 121 students, a 3.2 per cent decline. “Under funding protection we have some flexibility,� Pinkerton said. The most glaring downturn in students happened at Ucluelet Secondary School, Pinkerton said, with the biggest drop being in Grade 11. “The principal there is tracking where those students went,� Pinkerton said. “Eight to 10 of them we can track back to Port Alberni.� Pinkerton said something similar happened about four years ago when A.W. Neill Middle School saw a decline of 45 students over one summer. Alberni
District Secondary School saw a rise of 37 students, with the biggest impact being in Grade 9. “We have anecdotally heard that there have been some parents that have moved their children to Port Alberni to go to [ADSS], which is good news,� Pinkerton said, later adding that means more ministry funds for the district. As well, Eighth Avenue Elementary School gained 16 students. ADSS and Eighth Avenue were the only schools in Port Alberni to gain students, however. The final numbers see the entire district educating 3,918 students for the 201314 school year, compared to 4,159 in 2012-13. That number does not include adult education, which Pinkerton said will
remain unknown for about another two months. Pinkerton, though, is combatting the loss of local students by continuing to recruit international students. Not only is it a moneymaker for the district, it also provides cultural diversification in local schools. The district recruits from three main areas - China, Korea and Europe. Pinkerton expects more students to come from Germany to Ucluelet because they have shown an interest in experiencing the West Coast lifestyle. There is a cost to running the international education program, but Pinkerton said the money one student brings to the district pays for the whole thing.
$5 million study seeks answers to ďŹ sheries, mortality rates SCOTT McKENZIE
Alberni Valley Times A $5 million study of the Salish Sea is underway. The Pacific Commission and the Salmon Fund Committee announced Thursday they will provide that funding
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The Salish Sea, according to Area 23 Salmon Harvest Committee member Bob Cole, is where the biggest declines in chinook and coho have occurred. “Saying that, anything that identifies threats and losses of salmon stocks is valuable
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Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Roy Henry Vickers: Local artist’s work to adorn airline’s planes JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News First Nations artist and storyteller Roy Henry Vickers has a new claim to artistic fame. His original artwork now adorns the tail of Orca Airways’ newly refurbished Roy Henry Vickers (left) and Navajo ChiefOrca Airways president tan PA-21-350 and CEO Andrew Naysmith aircraft. The airline provides daily throughout North America scheduled flights between – and that tail looked like a Vancouver and Vancouver canvas to Vickers. Island, and charter services “Recently, I began to
think of doing a design for the planes. The ocean, the orca dorsal fin and people were all components of the
thought process that led to the design and artwork that I am honoured to have Orca incorporating into their new
look,” he said. The company will standardize the Roy Henry Vickers design as part of
a complete refurbishment program for its fleet of more than 20 aircraft. Vickers, who has a cedar longhouse gallery in Tofino, the Eagle Aerie, is one of Canada’s most celebrated artists. Best known for his painting and prints, he has been recognized through awards and honours including induction to the Order of Canada (2006), receipt of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal (2003), the Order Of British Columbia (1998), and Queens Diamond Jubilee (2012) and as the first ever (and only) artist to rank in Maclean’s Magazine’s ‘Annual List of Extraordinary Canadian Achievers’ (1994).
Accident Monday Evening traffic was held up at the Pacific Rim National Park border Monday due to a large boat having come off the back of an Alberni Towing truck. According to PRNP officials at the scene, the back of the towing apparatus on the truck had come off, throwing the boat into the ditch, still attached to its trailer. PHOTO COURTESY PAULA MASON.