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District of Tofino’s lowball bid fails to interest indebted Land Conservancy Land Conservancy (TLC) was denied. Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne acknowledged the district’s offer was a far cry from the land’s roughly $1 million market value but suggested it was a fair price and questioned whether Tofino should have to pay anything at all.
ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News Tofino has swung and missed in its first crack at purchasing and preserving Monks Point. Last week, the district announced its $250,000 offer to purchase Monks Point from The
“It’s simply appalling that TLC should seek close to market price for a property they received at no cost so they could then turn and use that money to pay off bad debt as well as administration fees that are only increasing as they continue to try to stay alive,” she said. See BID FAILS, page 6
INSIDE THIS WEEK INSIDETHIS WEEK:
Historic Monks Point may soon fall into private hands. ANDREW BAILEY PHOTO
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Kids get into ball hockey with former NHL hockey player and Tofino resident Brendan Morrison. ANDREW BAILEY PHOTOS
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Hockey dreams: NHL players a hit with area youth ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News Scores of excited local youth cheered into the Wickaninnish Community School’s street hockey rink last week to play alongside two NHL stars. Former NHL great Brendan
Morrison is a summertime Tofitian and has held an annual street hockey event for local kids for the past five years. “It’s really crucial to connect with the grassroots of the community: the children,” he said. “Getting involved in the community is really important to
me...I’m not here year-round full-time but I really respect and appreciate a tiny community like Tofino. “They’ve got a lot of great initiatives going on here, a lot of involvement from the families that live here year-round, and it really helps sustain and make
this a successful community so to be able to be a part of it in the summer and give back a fraction of what the locals do year-round is a cool thing.” Morrison holds the event in conjunction with the Tofino Saltwater Classic, a fishing derby See HOCKEY, Page 5
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Saturday, July 19, 2014 - 8:00pm to 9:30pm. Venue: Green Point Campground Theatre. Cost: $12 Festival Closing Reception in the Gardens, Sunday, July 20, 2014 - 2:00pm to 5:00pm, Tofino Botanical Gardens. Cost: By donation to the Gardens, Live music at Darwin’s Cafe (2pm), Poi demonstration, “Botanical Beats: Closing Drum Circle with Terese Bourchard at 4 p.m., Wayne Vliet & Myles Morrison on guitars.
French Cabaret Fri. 7:30-10 p.m. at TBG Coming this weekend, it’s French Cabaret Night Friday, July 11 from 7:30pm to 10:00pm at Tofino Botanical Gardens, a black-andwhite soirée of francofun. “An occasion to speak a little French, or just enjoy the atmosphere, with live music from ‘The Good Ships’ and a short theatrical debut of ‘The Lady of Larkspur Lotion,’ and hors d’oeuvres served by Darwin’s Catering,” Kidd said.
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“Flamenco de la Costa” Friday, July 18, 2014 - 8:00pm to 9:30pm. Venue: Marina West Motel -- Harbour Lounge. Cost: $10
Saturday brings “Transporteur de Reves” Circus Workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Ucluelet Community Centre. Cost: $50, lunch included. “This is a one-day circus camp for kids. Children aged 3 - 18 welcome. Learn classic circus tricks, including juggling, stilts, acrobatics and much more,” Kidd said.
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Last weekend’s events The festival kicked off last weekend with a handful of locals turning up for Friday’s opening community surf event at Wickaninnish Beach, which was followed by an at-capacity writer’s presentation on Friday evening in Ucluelet’s Blackberry Cove Marketplace. Saturday brought live music to the Black Rock Oceanfront Resort and on Sunday festivalers toured through Ucluelet’s Wild Pacific Trail. Top: Oyster Jim Martin leads a fascinating art walk on the Wild Pacific Kidd said she was thrilled with Trail as part of the Pacific Rim Summer Festival. Above, writers Dave the opening weekend’s turnout Floody and Lorna Watson take part in a joint reading from local writers, as during an art tour through the festival coordinator Jennifer Kidd introduces the event. Wild Pacific Trail led by the trail’s ADVENTURE SHOPPING “Lucky Trunk” Transporteur de Among the acts, George Leach innovator ‘Oysat Reves Circus Performance on from ter’ Jim Martin. (2014 Juno award-winning per3-5 p.m. at Ucluelet Community former), Brave New Waves, Dustin One of the fesCentre. Cost: $5 Kids, $10 Adults. Bentall, The Sweet Lowdown, tivalers to take “Come and see this cavalcade of Closing with the ‘Fire Cats’ fire on the trail was circus acts and multidisciplinary spinners at dusk. Cathy McDougQuality used performances starring ‘Ben la Bar- all of Errington, “Bring a chair and meet us at housewares, ouette,’” Kidd said. “This is a fun the Tofino Village Green for an who won a weekclothes, books amazing evening of live music and event for the whole family.” Ticklong all-expense & music ets at the door, cash only. entertainment,” said Kidd. paid West Coast OPEN 11-5 vacation in a Lucky Trunk Circus Still to come July 18contest held by MON-SAT Tourism Ucluelet Sun. 3-5 p.m. UCC 20: MAIN ST. UCLUELET in December. (across from CIBC) On Sunday, July 13, the Lucky Dance Camp Community PerSee EVENTS, Supporting local charities Trunk Circus comes to town. formance, Friday, July 18, 6:30pm Page 18 Donation items welcome
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Teachers grateful for community support Dear Editor, The teachers of Ucluelet Elementary, Ucluelet Secondary and Wickanninish Community Schools would like to thank the community for their support during our job action. In particular we would like to thank our CUPE collegues for joining us on the picket/lock-out lines, Christ Community Church for giving us access to their kitchen and washrooms, the children who baked for us, parents who brought treats, and community members & international tourists who all supported our cause with great enthusiasm. Many local businesses have supported us such as: Big Daddy’s Fish Fry, Common Loaf Bakery, Co-op, Far West, Grey Whale Deli, Rhino, Sobo, Solidarity Snacks, Thay Tea, The Whale Centre, Tuff Beans, Ukee Dogs, Vincente Café, Wild Side Grill and Zoe’s Bakery. The teachers of the West Coast are committed to a fully-funded public education system; which includes contract language addressing class size and composition. Mrs. Christine Brice Ucluelet Elementary School teachers Ucluelet Secondary School teachers Wickanninish Community School teachers
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Peckford: Northern Gateway Pipeline will benefit all Canada EDITOR’S NOTE: Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford, now residing in Qualicum Beach, offers his perspective on the Enbridge Northern Gateway Project. In May, 2010 the Northern Gateway Pipelines Limited Partnership filed an BRIAN application to the National PECKFORD /REGIONAL Energy Board to build a pipeVOICE line to carry bitumen to the coast of British Columbia for export to markets overseas. From January to July 2012, the NEB heard oral evidence from 393 participants in 17 communities. After all of that, the Joint Expert panel ruled in favour of the project, subject to 209 conditions. On June 17 the government of Canada approved the project as proposed by the NEB. In other words, the project is approved subject to the 209 conditions imposed by the NEB. There is substantial opposition in British Columbia given that most of the pipeline is in B.C., plus the terminal at Kitimat. There seems to be little recogni-
tion that this is a national project involving directly two provinces and many other provinces in its construction and its value to assist the nation in its substantial trade that benefits the whole nation. History seems lost to many in B.C. as to the way the national railways provide great benefit to the province in that those railways bring to port many resources from other parts of Canada and make Vancouver the largest port in the country. Here are some facts: Including indirect and induced effects, in round numbers, the total impacts of ongoing operations at businesses related to Port Metro Vancouver across Canada are: • 98,800 jobs • $9.7 billion in Gross Domestic Product • $20.3 billion in economic output • $6.1 billion in wages • $67,000 average wage for direct job, vs. $44,000 average wage in Canada Although all of this is not due to the rest of Canada, a large part is as a result of the delivery of products from other parts of the nation
and it is the railways that makes it possible and in which all Canadians invested historically. This is valuable to producers in the rest of Canada and to Vancouver and B.C. in providing the port. Everyone benefits. It often seems to me that in the Lower Mainland of B.C. such large resource development in our province is somehow viewed as new and is just not green enough to pass muster. They forget that the province’s largest export is coal, producing 20 to 30 million tons each year (10 producing mines). No other province produces this much coal. The Roberts Bank Superport facility near Delta has both a container terminal and a coal terminal. Its coal terminal is the busiest single coal export facility in North America. Where are the protests to both producing and transporting coal, and sending it to China? Besides coal, B.C. produces natural gas, another hydro carbon, and lots of it. With new shale and tight gas discoveries of the Horn River Basin and the Montney Basin, natural gas is abundant and is carried by pipeline around the province, even by pipeline under ecologically sensitive Geor-
gia Strait to Vancouver Island. When one hears people talk of Northern Gateway you would think that we are new to the game of pipelines carrying hydrocarbons. The BC Oil and Gas Commission regulates 39,000 kilometres of oil and gas pipelines in this province. There are over 100,000 kilometers of oil and gas pipelines across Canada. Canada’s first gas pipeline was in 1853! Under our constitution, pipelines that travel across provincial boundaries are federal. There is a substantial number of B.C. residents who feel that somehow this project is different. However, very few ever make reference to the gas pipeline from Aiken, B.C. that travels through Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the states of North Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa and into Illinois, bringing B.C. gas to the US.
Bitumen One often hears statements of how more dangerous bitumen is to transmit through pipeline than regular oil. I have never heard hard evidence of this. First, bitumen has been traveling through pipelines for 30 years
from Alberta to the U.S. I have not heard of any particular problems over those 30 years. Secondly, and more to the point, however, is the fact that last year a special study was done on the transport of bitumen. It was conducted by the National Academy of Sciences in the USA. It was entitled: TRB Special Report 311: Effects of Diluted Bitumen on Crude Oil Transmission Pipelines. It found: “The committee that produced the report did not find any pipeline failures unique to the transportation of diluted bitumen or evidence of physical or chemical properties of diluted bitumen shipments that are outside the range of those of other crude oil shipments. The committee’s comprehensive review did not find evidence of any specific aspect of the transportation of diluted bitumen that would make it more likely than other crude oils to cause pipeline releases.”
Aboriginal Issues These are very important and must be addressed in an honourable, respectful, and comprehensive way. See PIPELINE Page 18
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Above and left, NHL LA Kings player Willie Mitchell plays ball hockey with West Coast kids. Mitchell is moving to Tofino.
Hockey, continued from Page 1 he hosts in Tofino each year that raises money for local groups like the Wickaninnish School, the Tofino Hospital and the Tofino Salmon Enhancement Society.
NHL Kings’ Willie Mitchell moving to Tofino Current NHL star and budding Tofino local Willie Mitchell joined Morrison at this year’s event and was excited to hop aboard the community commitment train. Mitchell, who recently signed with the Florida Panthers, is a Vancouver Island raised frequent visitor to Tofino and is building a West Coast home to make his vacations more permanent. “We’re slowly trying to build a place here and you won’t be getting rid of us anytime soon,” he laughed. “Me and my wife got engaged here and it’s a therapeutic place for us. It’s a zennish spot; we’re kind of gypsies with professional sports, we travel all around North America but when we get here we can just check out, relax, and be ourselves...(Tofino) has a real raw nature which we really like and connect with.” Mitchell has participated in the event before and with his eyes on cementing himself into the community, he was stoked on the opportunity to get involved and put smiles on the faces of local youth. “When you’re local you want to give back and my great friend
Brendan has done such a good job of that here in the community raising money for a bunch of different initiatives and giving back so I’m here to support him and his family and to get out with the kids,” he said. “It’s a raw real deal thing where kids are excited and we do this fun little gig...We do it to put smile on some faces and get them out doing something they don’t get a chance to do everyday.” Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne was thrilled to watch the community’s kids having a blast. “Nothing is better than seeing kids inspired by some of their heroes so the time that both Willie
and Brendan give to the community is so fantastic and so appreciated,” she said. The grassroots hockey event is organized by community members with Tourism Tofino helping with promotion and the district’s Parks and Recreation team providing a water station. “It’s really exciting to see all the kids get to play with two of their hockey heroes,” said. Tofino’s recreation programmer Laura Lunty. Ucluelet municipal councillor Sally Mole attended the event with her son Cole and carpooled in about six other Ucluelet kids. Sally Mole touted the event as a
solid boost to outdoor activity and pick-up games. “They see these guys on TV and to actually get to play with them is really exciting for them,” she said. “It’s huge and it’s definitely bragging rights with their cousins and their friends who don’t live in the area; they get a huge boost of confidence out of it.” Mole’s son Cole has participated in the event since its inception. “It’s great to get out and play hockey and meet new people,” he said adding playing alongside NHL stars is an unreal experience. “They’re one of a kind and you don’t get to see people like that very often.”
It was the event’s 5th year and Morrison assured next year will bring a 6th. He said connecting with local youth is important and shows them anything is possible. “We started where these kids were at one point and you never know what can come of it,” he said. He said the “super fun” event brought many familiar faces and a slew of new ones and he noted exciting changes to the demographic. “Having a quick glance here now it looks like we’ve got a lot of younger kids this year and a lot of girls which is phenomenal,” he said. “It’s always a good event, there’s always some kids that are pretty competitive out there they want to test themselves against the other players and put on a good show but we’re all here to have a good time and have fun.” Carol Curley, 12, said she loves playing road hockey in front of her home in Opitsaht and jumped at the chance to meet other local players. “It was fun playing with the NHL stars that used to play with the Canucks and playing with kids I’ve never played with before,” she said. After the hockey was over both Morrison and Mitchell stuck around to sign autographs and mingle with their young fans. “They’re superstars, you don’t just see them everyday,” Curley said, beaming.
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Monks Point, continued from Page 1 “We felt it was utterly inappropriate to pay market-value for a property that had been donated and in good faith. In this respect, there should be no cash purchase—the land should simply be transferred to another trust or appropriate body that can accomplish what Harold wanted in the first place.” Harold Monks bequeathed the property to TLC in 2008 but TLC has filed for creditor protection and is looking at selling some of its properties to pay off about $8 million worth of debt. With Monks Point potentially on the sales block, Tofino had hoped to jump in and snatch it up before it falls into the hands of a buyer who may not be keen on preserv-
ing it or in tune with Monks’ wishes. Osborne noted the district’s offer included an agreement to honour Harold Monks’ wishes to conserve the property and said Tofino was prepared to seek out partnerships with land trusts, heritage organizations, and the Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation. She said the district’s main intention with the land is to preserve it and make it a publicly accessible space for the community’s enjoyment though details had not been cemented. “These kinds of details need to be carefully thought out and discussed, and Council has not presumed to make any decisions on this yet,” she said. “Right now,
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Hotly contested ground: the property Harold Monks bequeathed to The Land Conservancy is at risk of falling into private hands to pay off the organization’s bad debt. ANDREW BAILEY PHOTO
we’re focused on ensuring the property remains in the public realm in some way, shape or form.” Council’s conversation preceding the $250,000 offer was done in camera—closed to the public—but Osborne said council was united in its desire towards the property’s long-term preservation. She suggested the results of a public survey distributed after an open house at Monks Point in February strengthened council’s appetite to pursue a purchase. The survey’s results showed 92 per cent of responders supported the preservation of Monks Point and 74 per cent were in favour of Tofino acquiring the property. “With strong public support for the long-term preservation of the property, things began roll quite quickly after that,” Osborne said. She said Tofino is not “cash-rich” and does not have a land acquisition fund or policy but had the $250,000 offer been accepted, the money would have come from several sources. “We reviewed the District’s existing cash reserves and discussed various funding options, taking into account very seriously what
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the District’s other funding commitments will be over the next years,” she said. She said nothing was ever set in stone but the most likely scenario would have seen the district dipping into its $203,900 Parkland Reserve and $334,000 General Surplus Revenue. “It’s important to note that Parkland Reserve can only be used for the purpose of acquiring park land—it cannot be used for other purposes like water infrastructure,” she said. Council was not surprised when its offer was rejected because the TLC has publicly stated its intent to sell off assets to pay back creditors, according to Osborne. “They appear to want to get as much cash as possible out of Monks Point because they view it as expendable,” she said. “Obviously it’s not expendable to us, but we’re a small town with limited resources. Even if we exhausted all our reserves, we wouldn’t have their asking price.” She assured the district is not considering exhausting its reserves to meet the TLC’s asking price because of Tofino’s current infrastructure priorities. The district believes the TLC plans to break up the property and sell it off in sections with one section being gifted to Dave Christensen the district but
Tofino’s council would oppose any such rezoning request, according to Osborne. “The District cannot prevent TLC from applying to rezone and subdivide, but if TLC knows there is no appetite amongst Council, I assume they wouldn’t bother attempting to,” she said. “By rejecting their proposal, we are in essence telling them that the land must remain intact and any sale or transfer would be of the entire property.” With its $250,000 offer a no-go, the district has stepped back and is reassessing. “Tofino has not walked away from the bargaining table, but we have pressed ‘pause’ while we consider all of our options,” Osborne said. She noted that since the TLC is under creditor protection, all land sales and transfers must be approved by the court and if a buyer wishes to rezone Monks Point they must receive council’s approval to do so. The property’s current zoning means any buyer would need council’s approval before building a hotel or condominium, according to Osborne. “TLC could list the property on the open market at any time, so time is still of the essence,” she said. “There is definitely an appetite amongst Council and within the community to fight for the preservation of Monks Point.” reporter@westerlynews.ca
Notice of a Public Open House Regarding a Proposed Finfish Aquaculture Sites Located in Clayoquot Sound near Tofino. You are cordially invited to attend an open house hosted by Cermaq Canada Ltd at The Marina West Motel (formerly the Weigh West Resort) from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on July 24th, 2014. Also in attendance will be representatives from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations, (and/or any other agency attending). The purpose of the open house is to seek public comments on activities that may occur at or in the vicinity of the proposed finfish aquaculture facilities located at Millar Channel “Yaakswiis Facility” & Herbert Inlet “Herbert Facility”. Cermaq Canada has submitted applications to occupy Crown foreshore for the purpose of finfish aquaculture and the related works associated with that purpose. This open house will be an opportunity for the public, interest groups and agencies to provide comments on other uses or activities that occur at the proposed application site. It is also an important opportunity to share information regarding the geographical placement of the site and details of the proposed operation. We look forward to meeting with you on July 24th.
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District of Tofino’s new 4-way stops dotting Campbell drive motorists to complaint, cyclists to weigh crossing options ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News Tofino’s summer traffic has been slowed by two new 4-way stops along Campbell Street. Two Campbell Street intersections between Fourth and First Street recently evolved from 2-way stops to 4-way stops. Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne said the decision to halt traffic more frequently along the freshly upgraded Campbell Street was in the hands of the Province. “Campbell Street is under provincial jurisdiction and as such it’s their decision to change the posted speed or traffic control measures like stop signs,” Osborne said. “As part of the Campbell Street upgrade, the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure approved the installation of 4-way stops at the two intersections between Fourth and First.” A statement at press time from the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure seemed to lay the signs at the District’s feet. “The District of Tofino’s replaced these signs with new stop signs as part of their recent upgrades on Highway 4,” the statement said. “Tofino’s upgrades also included converting the two-way intersections at Campbell and 2nd and Campbell and 3rd to four-way stops to improve safety and consistency for drivers,” the statement said. “These upgrades were approved by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure and supported by the RCMP. “
Tuff City Rocks set for Saturday, 5-11 p.m. The Tuff City Rocks Open Air Concert is also set for Saturday, July 12 from 5-11 p.m. on Tofino Village Green, Suggested $20 donation Kids with parents enter free. It’s all part of the Pacific Rim Summer Festival, sponsored by the Pacific Rim Arts Society. Among the acts, George Leach (2014 Juno award-winning performer), Brave New Waves, Dustin Bentall, The Sweet Lowdown, Closing with the ‘Fire Cats’ fire spinners at dusk. “Bring a chair and meet us at the Tofino Village Green for an amazing evening of live music and entertainment,” said event organizer Jennifer Kidd.
New four-way stops along Campbell in Tofino are attracting frustration from some Tofino drivers. JACKIE CARMICHAEL PHOTO
While some locals have taken to social media to express disdain for the additional traffic halts Osborne said positive feedback has also been heard. “I’ve received a lot of positive feedback from pedestrians who feel safer to bus drivers who tell me it’s much easier to enter the
traffic flow,” she said. they are a vehicle on the road,” It’s not just drivers who will be said local RCMP staffer Lindsay hitting the brakes more often as Barlow. cyclists are reminded that the stop Barlow said cyclists can choose reporter@westerlynews.ca signs apply to them as well. “(Bicyclists) have to come to Tofino Parks & Recreation and the Tofino Recreation Commission would like to extend a complete stop;
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a tremendous thank you to all of the volunteers and local businesses that helped to make this year’s Canada Day Celebrations a success. A special thanks to G&N Towing for donating the use of their barge for the fireworks every year!
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Thanks to everyone who came out to support our Canada event!
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Tech-illiterate West Coasters in line to get online ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News Municipal councillor Sally Mole is hoping to help her community embrace the modern era of digital communication by linking tech-savvy youth with their technewbie elders. Mole is launching a new youth mentorship program and recruiting local youth to guide techilliterate locals through everything from downloading apps to setting up social media profiles and email accounts.
“I think it’s great to involve youth with other generations,” Mole said adding the program will increase the confidence of youth who witness their knowledge helping others. “I think it would be valuable and I would probably go myself because I’m not as tech savvy as some of these kids are.” The idea for the course came to Mole during a recent visit from her father who had received a new IPad but was becoming frustrated by his inability to use the device to its full potential until Mole’s old-
est son walked him through it. Having seen her family’s online capacity boosted through this generational linkage, Mole set out to create more links between youth and tech-newbies to boost the online capacity of her community. She said an initial call-out for interested youth yielded five willing tutors but plans to launch the course are on hold until the West Coast’s summer schedule begins to wane. The program will be free to participants and Mole hopes the relationships that are created will be
tapped into repeatedly in the everchanging world of technology. “My idea is that the kids would establish a relationship with the people that need help and they could be independently following up with those people,” she said. “I’m hoping it will become a selfsustaining kind of thing.” Mole, who is the only Ucluelet councillor with a Facebook page specifically set up to dish out municipal happenings to her constituents, believes understanding new technologies is becoming essential.
“Technology is growing and it’s become part of lives now and I would hate to think of anyone being disenfranchised or disengaged because they don’t have that knowledge,” she said. Anyone interested in being a tutor or a participant in the program can contact Mole at sallymole@live.ca. The program will be funded through the West Coast Dual Literacy Program of the Coastal Family Resource Coalition. reporter@westerlynews.ca
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The Salmon-to-Sea fundraiser held at Black Rock Oceanfront Resort was a great success, organizers say. (submitted photo)
THE PACIFIC RIM FISH AND GAME ASSOCIATION Would like to thank all the businesses and individuals who donated prizes, food, or their time to make our 2014 fundraiser and potluck banquet a success. These include (and we are sorry for any we have missed here) the following: Ucluelet Aquarium, Barryʼs Drug, Peoples Drug Mart, Remax Judy Gray, Blue Room Bistro, Bottle Depot, CIBC, Cobella Hair, Ucluelet Co-op and Gas Bar; Crowʼs Nest; Dolanʼs Concrete, Far West Foods, Foggy Bean Coffee, Gray Whale Deli, Subtidal Adventures, Image West, Harbour Pizza Factory, Little Beach Resort, Majestic Ocean Kayaking, Murrayʼs Grocery, Nurture Day Spa, Ocean Pet Supplies, Eagle Marine, PetroCan, Pina Boutique, Place TV, Pioneer Boat Works, Ukee Dogs, Romanʼs Pizza, Windsor Plywood, Sonbird, Ucluelet Liquor Store, Ucluelet Rent-It Centre, Victorian Epicure/Caroline Corlazzoli, West Coast Motel, Scarves by Tanja, Albion Charters, Playground of the Senses, Jiggers, Tight Lines Charters, Creative Ocean Design, Thay Tea, Rubio, Cutting Edge/Alison Timmermans, Albion Electric. Mark Hobson, Eagle Aerie, Covet Boutqiue, Jamieʼs Whaling Station, Tony’s Pizza, Schooner Restaurant, LA Grocery, Driftwood Gifts, Tofino Co-op, RPM, Method Marine, Big Daddy Fish Fry, SOBO, OCN, Beach Petals, Ocean Outfitters, Gail Botting, Scandals, Jim Striegel, Carlo Schulz, Tofino Pharmacy, G&N Towing, Tofino Brewing Company, Gibson Brothers. The year-after-year generosity of the businesses and individuals of our communities have made it possible for the Pacific Rim Fish and Game Association to continue to hold their fundraiser and support conservation and outdoor education.
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Above left, sandy treasure for Jonah and Keale at Little Beach during a Ucluelet children’s centre day trip last week. (ANDREW BAILEY PHOTO)
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Coastal-themed handmade quilt on raffle block for WISAR There is an exciting raffle going on in our communities right now. Westcoast Inland Search and Rescue is selling raffle tickets to raise funds for training for its members and equipment replacement from the damagCRYSTAL ing fire experienced in BOLDUC August of 2013. The Pacific Rim Quilt/LOCAL ers have created an VOICE amazing “West Coast” quilt over the winter and have donated it to WISAR as the Grand Prize for their Wrap Up for Winter Raffle. This queen sized quilt, expertly stitched by local quilters, Darlene Rouleau, Judy Heuvelman, Heather Griffin, Lisa Dunsmore, Mary Rimmington, Anja Braiden and Lenore Gibson, features wolves, sea lions, salmon, bears, and whales and is sure to wrap the winner up in the warmth and community spirit that is the west coast. Seven other prizes have been generously donated by the community including a 2-night winter stay at the Wickaninnish Inn, a 2 night winter stay at Black Rock Resort, a hand woven cedar hat by Molly Haipee, a hand carved paddle from Raymond Haipee, $150 gift certificate for Jeni Mack Clothing, a family set of four Ukee Toukees, and a collection of West Coast books from
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Adrienne Mason and Shirley Martin. Tickets are $5b each and will be sold at various events around Tofino and Ucluelet including the Ukee Friday Night Market, Tofino Market, Ucluelet and Tofino Coop. Tickets are also available at Windsor Plywood and Blackberry Cove in Ucluelet and Tofino Sea Kayaking and Storm Light Outfitters in Tofino. The draw for prizes will be held on September 9th, 2014 at 7pm at the WISAR Hall in T ofino. WISAR is based in the communities of Tofino and Ucluelet and provides Ground and Inland Water Search and Rescue services to local police authorities (RCMP and National Park) for Clayoquot Sound, and parts of Barkley Sound. In addition, the Society responds to mutual aid requests from other parts of the Province of British Columbia. WISAR is a completely volunteer based organization and is funded through donations and grants from local and provincial governments, local individuals, and businesses. The WISAR Team currently has 26 active volunteer members from the Tofino, Ucluelet, Tlao-qui-aht, and Yuu-thlu-ilth-aht communities and last year alone were sent out on over 20 call-outs in the Clayoquot region.
Quilters and WISAR supporters with the unique coastal-themed quilt they are raffling to support WISAR. (PHOTO COURTESY LOUIS ROULEAU )
TOGETHER WE RAISED OVER $10,000!
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O Canada! Top, young artists practice their skills at Ucluelet’s Canada Day Celebration.
Above, friends enjoy a West Coast Canada Day.
Canada Day crowds gather at Tofino’s skateboard park as skateboarders show their skills. BEVERLY MURDOCK PHOTOGRAPHY
Left, Marilyn McEwen, chair of the Ucluelet Recreation Commission, Coun. Sally Mole, Parks & Rec director Abby Fortune and Ucluelet Mayor Bill Irving cut a cake adorned with candy maple leaves, created this year by Zoe’s Bakery. Below, Wayne Vliet and Myles Morrison entertain on the Village Green in Ucluelet. (ANDREW BAILEY PHOTOS)
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When the going gets wet, the tough vendors – and shoppers - still go to the market, as seen Saturday when a horseshoe of tents, from tea to tamales, braved the rain and were rewarded with browsers. Such cheery determination is new to the Tofino Public Market, said artist and potter Marny Saunders. “They’re getting braver. Four years ago, we wouldn’t have seen two vendors out here, nevermind 20,” said Saunders, who like the beautiful clay art she creates is weather hardy. Her pieces tend to be utilitarian – vases, graceful plant baskets, homes for Mason bees, all fired on her own electric kiln at 2,000 degrees and so tough enough to be outdoors yearround – even in cold spots like Edmonton. The Ucluelet resident has done acrylic painting, oil pastels, charcoals – and gardening, which she considers a sort of green creative activity. “Right now, pottery is my passion … I have a great deal of fun making these pieces,” Saunders said. From a tiny fairy home fit for rainforest magic to a big-bellied planter adorned with Pacific ocean creatures and dragonflies and rainforest dwellers, Marny Saunders’ work brings wit and whimsy to the Tofino Public Market. But then there are the tiny residences, charming and fit for faerie folk. “I call it a faerie cottage,” she said. If a piece turns out with some small defect
that makes it unfit for retail, Saunders gets them out where wee ones might enjoy them. “I give them to Pieter Timmermans, who hides them on the Wild Pacific Trail,” she said with a smile. Saunders’ clay is the natural color of terracotta with speckles of mica. Before firing, the images are painted with iron oxide to show the detailed work. After firing, each piece receives two coats of acrylic sealant that helps with regular maintenance. Saunders grew up around ocean and forest – Nanaimo mostly. Her mother, Sally Shelly of Shelly’s 4X Pottery, was a diver and an artist, and her son is a marine biologist. She spent time “misplaced” in London, Ont., before making her way back to the Island where she belonged, she said. Her work is on display in a few select spots like Ukee Scoops and Tours and the Black Rock Oceanfront Resort, but TH Saunders said she loves the market and a chance to connect with other vendors. with “It’s just a really great community www.605collective.com feeling,” she said. “You’ll see vendors helping each other – and there’s Contemporary Urban Dance Class, a good variety of vendors. There are Good Music, Inspiring Natural Surroundings really creative people here.” at TOFINO BOTANICAL GARDENS She enjoys connecting at market 1084 PACIFIC RIM HIGHWAY with the customers who love her CLASS DETAILS work. AGES 10-13; AGES 14-17; ADULTS; “I love visiting with people and 3-4 PM 4-5 PM 6-7:30 PM finding out where everyone is $ $ $ 10 10 15 from,” she said. CALL: 604-803-2967 • EMAIL: INFO@AERIOSA.COM editor@westerlynews.ca.
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Westerly News Two distinct kinds of First Nations weaving get a showcase at the Tofino Public Market, thanks to the Wilson family. Rose Wilson and son Brian Wilson demonstrate and sell grass weaving and cedar weaving. The intricate weave in tiny grass baskets comes from pale fine grasses used for the spokes and weavers of the pieces. “We use grasses that Above right, Rose Wilson with baskets she made. To her left, her son Brian works on grow in the forest – green bear grass – and cedar weaving. JACKIE CARMICHAEL PHOTOS grass that grows at the high water line,” Rose said in a Saturday session at the put them on the regalia, long ago,” cedar work a decade ago, she said. Tofino Public Market. Rose said. “We had to learn it by trial and Rose comes from the Joe family, Other elements of her booth error, there was nobody to teach us Ucluelet First Nation, originally include jewelry, some of it traded to strip the tree. Me and my sister, from Long Beach – and basketfrom other artists, and a miniature Molly Haipee, we stumbled into it,” weaving is in her roots. cedar chuputs (traditional First Rose said. “It’s been handed down from Nations canoe) created from cedar Her son Brian Wilson of Port generation to generation, from by her grandson. Alberni creates cedar work hats, my mother’s side of the family And then there’s the cedar work. bottle holders, baskets, typically and from my father’s side of A familiar sight on the West Coast, worked around a mold to shape the family,” Rose said. “Some of the bell shaped hats, headbands the pliant cedar. the designs I learned from my and small baskets and other acces“I do whatever comes to me,” he grandmother.” sories are formed using strips said. Historically, the little baskets from the inner cedar bark. were used to cache items, she said. The Wilson family started doing editor@westerlynews.ca “Some of them were put on the side of the whalers’ canoe, with 2011 Chrysler 300 LTD their sunscreen V6 auto, great touring car in there,” she said. Another comStock# BCD3384A mon component BRENT LANGE for her designs is seashells. “We used to
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Vancouver Island Scoundrels, Eccentrics and Originals is a cutely-sized volume comprising 20 stories of the aforementioned types. I say types rather than people because it includes Caddy the Cadborosaurus, Miss Wilson’s parrot, the Pig War and the Darcy Island leper SUSAN LEE colony (more on /LITERARY this in my next column). VOICE An easy read, a light introduction to the original (sorry Hitchhike Mike, you were born too late) Vancouver Island characters. And there were many - Victoria’s classy madam, Amor de Cosmos, Jimmy Chicken, Brother XII and Madame X among them. Reading about these folks and the environment that fostered them is more revealing of colonial life than any history textbook. I have to be honest, the real reason I picked up Ruttan’s book was to see if the “Great Ecclesias-
tical Divide” was included. Sure enough, the Battle of the Bishops is there. In 1874 Bishop Edward Cridge broke away from the imposing hill-top Anglican Church in a dispute with Bishop Hill. Hill favoured the high “Popish” style of the Church of England. Cridge formed a new congregation with less formal ceremony and more common appeal. Half the town followed him. Sir James Douglas donated the land for the modest church (now a National Historic
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Site) at Blanshard and Humbolt Street. Pioneers, Edward and Mary Cridge did much more for young Victoria than squabble over Christian doctrine. They were two of Victoria’s first social reformers. He was the original superintendent of education, together they founded the first hospital (to become Jubilee Hospital) and Mary created the first orphanage (now the Cridge Centre for the Family). And, unlike many colonists, they were decent and supportive to non-white immigrants and First Nation peoples of the area. This good work and their personal history, in the political and social context of developing Victoria, is thoroughly documented in Quiet Reformers – the Legacy of Early Victoria’s Bishop Edward and Mary Cridge, by Ian MacDonald and Betty O’Keefe (Ronsdale Press, 2010), a book of interest to anyone interested in the life and times of the second half of the 19th century as Victoria evolved from a rudimentary camp inside the bastion to an important colonial centre. Oh and, by the way, I am the great, grand-daughter of Edward and Mary Cridge. Susan Lee is a Ucluelet bookseller and reviews books for the Westerly News.
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Locals helping RCMP crack down on illegal camping ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News Ucluelet is not a campground and police are reminding tourists not to use it as one. Sgt. Jeff Swann said he responded to, and fined, two groups of tourists who had turned empty lots on Odyssey Lane into an illegal campsite on July 4. “People come to town and the campgrounds are full or they don’t plan well enough or they don’t want to pay for camping and they just camp anywhere,” Swann said. “A lot of people are respectful, they pick up after themselves and you would never know they were there however it’s that 10 per cent factor of people that are not respectful and do leave a mess and that’s why there’s zero camping in town.” He said Ucluelet will always be prone to incoming illegal campers but police are becoming more able to take the issue on thanks to
reports coming in from community members. “The public thankfully is calling it in more,” he said. “We’ve gotten to a point in this community where people are really starting to feel comfortable calling the police and we want that trend to continue.”
Police work to cut down summer traffic jams The West Coast’s tourism economy relies on a steady diet of incoming traffic but slow drivers are clogging the arteries that connect our communities. Campers and RV’s strain through the West Coast’s highways like molasses through cheesecloth and this puts a strain on local temperaments. Drivers caught behind slow moving vehicles are susceptible to road rage and may become too frustrated to wait for a safe
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spot to pass before attempting to blow by the RV in front of them, according to Sgt. Jeff Swann of the Ucluelet RCMP. “Driving too fast is obviously always a concern but driving too slow is also a concern because people in behind get impatient and when they’re impatient they’re not thinking clearly and they make silly decisions,” he said. “If there’s five or more vehicles behind you, you must pullover.” New messaging on both sides of Highway 4 between Port Alberni and the West Coast junction remind drivers to pull over if they’re impeding traffic and Swann said drivers who fail to pull over on their own will be pulled over by police. “If you’re driving too slow and you’re obstructing traffic you need to pullover,” he said adding drivers caught traveling too slowly face a $109 fine. He noted both Highway 4 and the Pacific Rim Highway provide
little passing room for drivers stuck behind slow vehicles and said his detachment has received three complaints regarding slow vehicles in the past week. Along with slowed traffic, the West Coast is often hit with stopped traffic when tourists hit the brakes to check out a bear or other wildlife near the roadway and Swann urges drivers to pull over before taking in the sights or snapping nature shots. He said police are working on educating drivers about the dangers of causing a bear related traffic jam.
Public asked to limit false alarms Ucluelet police are exhausting themselves rushing to false alarms and businesses are being asked to limit the amount of false alarms police are responding to. “As long as people are doing their best that’s all that we ask,” said
Sgt. Jeff Swann. The Ucluelet detachment was hit with four false alarms within 24 hours on July 1-2, according to Swann. “They do take some of our resources up,” he said. “Members have to put everything else on hold and go to these calls.” He said false alarms can be prevented by business owners making sure their doors are locked at closing and employees know the alarm code. Unlocked doors are a key source of false alarms in Ucluelet as people are walking into unlocked businesses before discovering the business is closed. “They’ll notice no one is there and they’ll close the door but the alarm is already going off,” Swann said. reporter@westerlynews.ca
POLICING
RCMP: Tofino revelers leave mess in wake of Canada Day celebrations ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News Tofino woke to a mess on July 2 as many Canada Day revelers failed to pick up after themselves and left evidence of their partying throughout town. “On July 1 police couldn’t keep up with the amount of liquor being consumed on the streets of Tofino,” said Sgt. James Anderson of the Tofino RCMP. “Unfortunately the aftermath was hundreds of cans and liquor bottles strewn around the parks and the streets.” The Tofino detachment’s cells wound up filled to capacity with intoxicated guests who were allowed to leave when sober, according to Anderson.
He said one party drew significant police attention after complaints were received regarding a loud party being held at a sandbar between Opitsaht and Tofino and police arrived to find loud music blaring. He suggested that despite cells being full and a mess being left, Canada Day was a relative success in Tofino with no major crimes reported. “On a celebratory note, there were no calls of a serious nature to the RCMP in Tofino or Ahousaht and those out and about appeared to be having a great time,” he said. reporter@westerlynews.ca with RES Marine Biologist Ariane Batic
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CALENDAR/WHAT’S ON/EVENTS
9 WEDNESDAY 2pm – Wild Pacific Trail Guided Shipwrecks and Forests Walk with RES Marine Biologist Ariane Batic. Meet at the Lighthouse Loop Lot Recycling Day in Tofino Preschool Play Group, 10am–noon, Tofino Community Hall. Seniors Social Afternoons, 1:30-4pm, Tofino Legion. Free admission & refreshments. Dominos, crib, board games, pool, snooker & darts. Strong Start, Ucluelet Elementary School, 8:35-11:35. Holy Family Church, 9:30am, 1664 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet. Ucluelet library, open 1–6pm
10 THURSDAY Healthy Babies Program/Family Ties, 10:30am. Drop-in for expectant, new parents, Coastal Family Place, Free community lunch, noon–2pm, Coastal Community Services Hub, Ucluelet. Info 250-726-2343. Ucluelet AA weekly Monday and Thursday at 8pm. The location is
Canada Day ceremony at Ucluelet’s Village Green. Holy Family Church at 1663 peninsula rd. 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, meet every Thursday at 7:30 - 9:00 at the UCC, room 2. Guests always welcome. Call 250-726-2766 for info.
11 FRIDAY Friday Ukee Night Market, 3-7 p.m. Village Green. Lance Lapounte entertains. See Market Pages (page 12 and 13) for more market news. French Cabaret Fri. 7:30-10 p.m. at Tofino Botanical Gardens, a black-and-white soirée of francofun. (Pacific Rim Summer Fest)
7pm to 9:30pm Blackberry Cove Coffeehouse presents Lance
T.R.E.K. 2014!! Totally Radical Extraordinary Kids
July 15 -18 9:30am-12:30pm 9:30am-12:30pm Incoming 1st - 5th Grade students (Age 6-11) get a fun morning with Bible lessons, music, & games. We will learn about being uniquely created in God’s love and about His unique love for us! Campers can sign up for daily sports, music and other games activities. Each camper gets a T-Shirt, daily snacks, game choices along with some exciting Bible stories, drama and music events!
Christ Community Church, 1419 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet Ph:
250.726.7305 www.cccucluelet.org
Lapointe Big Beach Theatre, UCC, Ucluelet The Edge Youth Room, 2–6pm, Ucluelet community centre
12 SATURDAY Sat. Tofino Public Market 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Village Green . See Market Pages (page 12 and 13) for more market news. Circus Workshop for Kids Sat. 10-4 at UCC “Transporteur de Reves” Circus Workshop from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Ucluelet Community Centre. one-day circus camp for kids. Children aged 3 - 18 welcome. Learn classic circus tricks, including juggling, stilts, acrobatics and much more. Cost: $50, lunch included. (Pacific Rim Summer Fest) Tuff City Rocks Sat. 5-11 p.m. Village Green Open Air Concert, Suggested $20 donation - Kids with parents enter free. George Leach (2014 Juno award-winning performer), Brave New Waves, Dustin Bentall, The Sweet Lowdown, Closing with the ‘Fire Cats’ fire spinners at dusk. Bring a chair! (Pacific Rim Summer Fest)Sat, June 21 at 10am – Kids
The George Fraser Committee sends SPECIAL THANKS to all the Donors, Volunteers & Musicians who made the June 21st Garden Party a fun success! Adley Show Alex Marshall Barry’s Pharmacy Bill Morrison Black Rock Resort Caro Mead Miller The Crow’s Nest Denise Stys-Norman District of Ucluelet Gary Gerbrandt Giovi Corlazzoli Jackie Carmichael Jean Duckmantion Jim Fraser/Brillo John Millar Katrina Rice Louanne Ralston Margaret Morrison Mike Smith Nurture Day Spa Pam McIntosh People’s Drug Mart Rina Vigneault Roger Gudbranson Ruby Ahluwalia Schramm Design
Shirley Martin Slacktide Stringband Tourism Ucluelet Ucluelet Chamber of Commerce Ucluelet Co-Op Ucluelet Parks & Rec Ucluelet Rent-It Centre Ucluelet Video Services UES Windsor Plywood Zoe’s Bakery Raffle Winners 1st-Maureen Callaway 2nd-Patsy Tyne 3rd-Richard Smith Colour Contest Winners Gr K-6 Lauren Ennis Mavric Cortes Hume Henry Jack Carson Orion LeFevre Rheanna Garcia Anevay Fraser
Thanks to ALL who joined us at the garden party in support of the George Fraser Project. Cheers from The George Fraser Committee GF Committee-Wanda McAvoy, Barb Millar, Anne Gudbranson, Dave McIntosh, Mike Mead Miller.
Scavenger Hunt at Big Beach Park. Big Beach Theatre, UCC, Ucluelet 2 p.m. 4 p.m. Wild Things Scavenger Hunt for kids at Big Beach Children’s Interpretive Trail section 10 am. on Wild Pacific Trail in Ucluelet. Tofino Public Market, Village Green, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. 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.
13 SUNDAY Lucky Trunk Circus Sun. 3-5 p.m. UCC Transporteur de Reves Circus Performance. Cost: $5 Kids, $10 Adults.. cavalcade of circus acts and multidisciplinary performances starring ‘Ben la Barouette.’ Tickets at door, cash only. (Pacific Rim Summer Fest) Christ Community Church, 10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet. Grace Bible Church, 10:30am, Ucluelet Community Ctr., 500 Matterson Dr. Holy Family Church, 10 am, 1664 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet. St. Columba Church, 10:30am, 110 Second St. Tofino. Tofino Bible Fellowship at Tofino Legion at 10:30.
14 MONDAY Ucluelet AA weekly Monday and Thursday at 8pm. The location is Holy Family Church at 1663 peninsula rd.
Monday Movie Night at Clayoquot Community Theatre Floor hockey, 7–9pm, Ucluelet Seaplane Base Rec Hall. $2 drop-in. Indoor Soccer, 8–10pm, Ucluelet Secondary School gym, $2. Competitive & drop-in darts, doors 7pm, play 8pm, Tofino Legion. Monday night at the Movies, Clayouot Community Theatre,
15 TUESDAY TREK Summer Camp begins at Christ Community Church, Ucluelet, for incoming grades 1-5. 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Tuesday—Clayoquot Sound of Freedom, 8pm, Clayoquot Sound Community Theatre. Join master digital storytellers Dan Lewis and Bonny Glambeck. Free Admission Fish and Loaves free community lunch 11:30 a.m-1:00 p.m at the St Francis church hall (just for July and August.) Healthy Babies Program/Family Ties, 10:30am. Ucluelet library. Ucluelet Community Centre, open 1–6pm. The Edge Youth Room, 3–6pm, Ucluelet Community Centre Youth night, 7-9pm, Tofino Legion. St. Francis of Assisi Church, mass 5pm, 441 Main St. Tofino. Food Bank on the Edge, pick up 1–3pm, Seaplane Base Rd. AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis Church, 441 Main, Tofino.
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REGIONAL NEWS
Huu-ay-aht First Nation, Steelhead LNG ink agreement VICTORIA - A Vancouver-based company and a Port Alberni-area First Nation have signed an agreement to build a liquefied natural gas export facility. Steelhead LNG Corp., and the Huu-ay aht have announced plans to develop an LNG plant on land owned by the First Nation on the southern end of Alberni Inlet near Port Alberni. Steelhead LNG Corp., says in a statement the project could represent an investment of about $30 billion. Steelhead says it is working with pipeline companies to explore options to bring natural gas from
northern British Columbia to Vancouver Island. Steelhead’s chief executive officer Nigel Kuzemko says the Port Alberni site is a significant distance from northeast B.C.’s natural gas production fields, but the proposed export terminal offers numerous advantages, including direct access to the Pacific Ocean. The Huu-ay aht First Nation signed a land-claims treaty with the federal and B.C. governments in April 2011.
Nurses score in OT Overtime figures released under the Freedom of Information Act
reveal Vancouver Coastal Health paid nearly $600,000 to three nurses over a 27-month period to April this year. The top overtime-earning nurse, Jinu Joseph, netted $210,594 in overtime between January 2012, and April 2014 for 2,565 hours of work. That’s an average 95 hours a month, on top of a required workload of 150 hours a month. Joseph earned $190,395 in total income for the financial year ending March 2013. That puts Joseph’s earnings on par with those of some doctors. The second and third big overtime earners in VCH for the same
period were Rose Avisa Wamunga at $195,517 and Irene Queh at $182,981. B.C. Nurses Union president Debra McPherson said the overtime load highlights the shortage of specialty nurses in the province. Examples of specialty nurses are those who work in intensive-care units, operating rooms and trauma and cardiac wards. “Right now we have a shortage of specialty nurses,” McPherson said. “Staffing levels are low so they have to go to overtime.” She said specialty nurses are often called once or twice a day on their days off, and sometimes
when they are at work, to fill shifts. “It’s not something we encourage. Fatigue builds up, which can lead to error,” McPherson said. The health authority’s director of public affairs, Gavin Wilson, said overtime comprises straight time, followed by a premium that is time and a half or double time. Wilson said the most senior nurses are offered overtime first and emphasized that overtime cannot be avoided.
- Victoria Times Colonist
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COMMENT
CBT seeks to celebrate rich linguistic diversity As co-chairs of the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust, Tammy Dorward and I had the honour of representing our biosphere CATHY reserve at the THICKE Can/LOCAL adian VOICE Biosphere Reserve Association and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO meetings in Victoria, June 5 to 7. After the meetings, we hosted 24 delegates from across Canada for a week-
end in the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Reserve (CSBR). The meeting focused on the question, How can UNESCO and indigenous people work together to reconstruct, recover, and vitalize indigenous languages, wisdom, and stories? This was very pertinent to the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust (CBT). Our board has a joint governance model, which is unique in Canada, and includes representation from the regions five First Nations as well as the Dis-
tricts of Tofino and Ucluelet and Area C of the AlberniClayoquot Regional District. Through its granting program, the CBT has supported various Nuu-chahnulth language projects. Recent examples include the Tla-o-qui-aht language app and the Roots of our Ancestors digital storytelling project. Our local efforts ultimately support provincial efforts to celebrate the rich diversity of First Nations languages. While in Victoria, Tammy and I were privileged to
attend a pre-opening of “Our Living Languages,” an exhibit at the Royal BC Museum that examines the fragility of the province’s 34 unique First Nation languages and what can be done to keep them alive. It allowed me to glimpse the CBT’s small efforts in terms of a larger mandate. I learned that by preserving language, we encourage the possession of thousands of years of rich traditional knowledge and intangible cultural heritage. There is an intertwining of the language, culture, stor-
ies, and knowledge that is so rich! On a Canadian scale, the local language initiatives fit in well with the UNESCO mandate. The “C” in UNESCO stands for culture, and our First Nations culture needs more local advocacy. We are proud to be partners in the linguistic work in the CSBR region. I was inspired by the BC Museum exhibition and the work that has been done, both provincially and locally, but we have so much more to do!
Thank you to Levi Martin, Joe Martin, Eli Enns, Jim Darling, Terry Dorward and Tammy Dorward for sharing your knowledge, language, and your stories this past weekend. You are beginning to answer the question well for me. I hope others will join in the dialogue!
Cathy Thicke is a co-chair of the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust, and a District of Tofino councillor.
Pipeline, continued from Page 4 When the company made application to the NEB it was revealed that 29 of 40 aboriginal groups had accepted the company’s offer of a 10 per cent equity stake. In the 209 conditions of the NEB’s decision, numbers 76, 77, 93, 94 and 135 136 specifically address aboriginal matters.
a rough arithmetical calculation, it turns out that we are really looking at approximately 350 undertakings. So the approval by the NEB is anything but a slam dunk, and much work is yet to be done to meet these important undertakings.
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These are often glossed over and I have yet to see an detailed examination of them. These are real and substantial and legally binding on the company. Those who complain about a rush decision or this being pushed down their throats would do well to read these conditions. In doing
This is a national project and all parties: First Nations, industry, provinces and the federal government, need to co-operate. There are risks, of course, and historically if today’s environmental rules applied to the building of the railways I suspect they may not have been built.
But we are a mature democracy that can use technology and common sense to advance our economic, financial and cultural interests. That means mitigating the real concerns of new resource developments. To objectively determine if the benefits out weigh the risks. In this present project, due diligence and objective measures have been applied. To sustain our present standard of living, to say nothing of making it even better, we must develop our natural resources. That’s how we achieved our present prosperity. It is interesting to note that the four provinces who are ‘have’ provinces today are all oil and gas producers. Who then will pay
the equalization payments for the other ‘have not’ provinces? Renewable energy remains very expensive compared to coal, oil and gas and nuclear generation. And when the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine, what then? Germany is using more coal today than it did three years ago, according to the Institute of Energy Research. In closing down their nuclear plants they were unable to replace it with reliable base power through renewables. And Germany leads the world in renewable energy. Is it just coincidence that Spain, California, and Ontario have very serious financial difficulties and
these are three of the most active renewable energy developers? The latest BP Energy Review for 2013 shows global energy consumption by source: Oil 33 per cent, coal 30 per cent, gas 24 per cent, hydro seven per cent, nuclear four per cent and non hydro renewals three per cent. And coal grew more than oil or gas, globally. That is the reality and Canada is posed to respond to this demand. On balance, then, as the NEB has said, this is a project in the national interest and should proceed if all the conditions have been met.
Former Newfoundland Premier Brian Peckford now resides in Qualicum Beach.
Events, continued from Page 3 McDougall was delighted to share her love of Ucluelet with her Ontario based sister and brother-in-law who had never visited the West Coast before. “It’s got that small town feel to it and I like this rugged
coast that you have access to,” she said. “I’ve been on the trail before and got some fabulous photos and we thought it would be interesting to meet the actual founder of the trail and listen to his talk,” she said. The trail experience was held on a wet and windy Sunday morning but McDougall said the weather caused no pause in her plans. “We were a bit daunted by it but we know that’s the West Coast; you can’t let the rain stop you or you’re not going to do anything,” she Gillies Bay Vancouver Mainland said. Island We’re continuing to offer year round flights to Tofino! Kidd is hoping to see the Port Vancouver sun during this upcoming KD Air is your ticket to Vancouver. Our friendly staff & Alberni Tofino flight crew are here to provide you with world class service! weekend’s events and said Qualicum the society is particularly KD Air has an impeccable safety record with over 64 000 flights Beach keen on this weekend’s outlogged so far. Book your weekend getaway today with our fantastic door concert in Tofino and Victoria Circus Camp in Ucluelet. “We’re really excited to be Based on two fares on Fri and Sun flights only. trying something new this year with our outdoor con-
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Pat Leslie Memorial Boat Launch June 28, 2014
The community gathered to honour the memory of longtime Ucluelet local Pat Leslie on June 28. Ucluelet’s public boat launch has been posthumously renamed the Pat Leslie Memorial Boat Launch and locals joined the Leslie family to celebrate the unveiling of a new sign that dedicates the launch to one of its staunchest supporters. ANDREW BAILEY PHOTO
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The Ucluelet Community Centre’s first summer day camp wrapped up on Friday as kids took in their final day of a three-day surf camp at Wickaninnish Beach.
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