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Loggers aid seal pup rescue Gazette staff A newborn seal pup discovered by loggers at Western Forest Products’ Jeune Landing sort is recovering at Vancouver’s Marine Mammal Rescue Centre after a rescue operation involving numer-
ous volunteers June 28-29. “He seems to have settled in quite well,” Lindsaye Akhurst said Tuesday from MMRC. “He’s gaining strength, gaining weight and spends most of his day sleeping, as most seal pups do.
“And he’s quite active when he is awake.” That was not the case when WFP’s boom crew discovered the pup laying on a log boom the morning of June 28. “They figured it was less than 24
around,” saidMike MackenzieAndre Leine, WFP communications coordinaof Port Hardy tor. “We curtailed operations and
releases a juvenile blueSee heron pageat3 Beaver Harbour ‘Many hands aid rescue’ Park Friday. The bird was discovered as an injured chick by Andre’s wife last month and spent four weeks at the Mountain Avian Rescue Society in Comox before returning to Storey’s Beach last week. See A O’Toole story, page 12.
Canoe crew calls on bands
• RECORD SETTING
Port Hardy singer crowd-sources funding for debut CD. Page 10
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Fourth annual Logger Sports games draws crowd in Port McNeill. Page 14
81-year-old woman runs bear from home J.R. Rardon Gazette editor PORT HARDY—An 81-year-old • IN MIDWEEK Port Hardy woman appears to have Porta Hardy Museum created bear spray made entirely of shares water. history of Holberg in new summer exhibit. Early afternoon, the spray successMidweek, inside fully completed its first field test — in her living room. Jessie Roland, an artist and bedand-breakfast proprietor who first came to Port Hardy in 1937, had just emerged from her bath and sat down at a small table to brush her hair when she heard a noise in the room.
Gazette staff PORT HARDY—The Gwa’sala’Nakwaxda’xw NationsJ.R.held a traRardon ditional welcome this week for a delegation from Bella Bella. Members of the Helitsuk paddled into the bay in their 37’ Glwa (canoe) on the first of a month-long series of stops as the crew and support personnel bring an invitation to the 2014 Tribal Journeys to coastal First Nations. The Tribal Canoe Journeys is an onecultural roof, and vide $100,000 in funding for Gazette staff annual eventthe in LWG which also parbelieves these types of facilities The Vancouver Island Health the LWG to move forward with ticipants travel to a host nation using will be more attractive to mediAuthority has responded posi- its recommendations. The fund the traditional method of travel, gaincal professionals considering tively to the report from the Mt. is to allow the LWG to form an ing insights into their culture’s tradiin theteamwork. area. Waddington Local Working implementation plan for what tions working and learning VIHAbegan envisages having Group aimed at stabilizing it describes as mission criticalThe event in 1989 with the celebratory to Seattle to mark mobilePaddle integrated health care the health care issues in the recommendations in its report. the recognition tribalprior sovereignty teams in of place to the One recommendation menregion. there.opening The Helitsuk particiof theseinvited new facilities The LWG, made up of rep- tioned specifically in VIHA’s pantstothere to seamless join themtransition. in Bella provide resentatives from the medical response is the development Bella for canoe gathering, Qatuwas In a an accompanying stateprofession, VIHA, First Nations of two new integrated Primary in ment VIHA thanked the LWG and government, delivered its Health Care sites, one ‘93. event began the annual gathand acknowledged the work report and recommendations to Port Hardy, the other in PortThat erings, with the protocol being for done by its members, and VIHA in May. VIHA respond- McNeill. the host nation to visit each other “Big Boy” Cookwith Jr. of Bay performs the Peace The ultimate goal of these stressed again its commitment ed last week, theAlert LWG nation the year prior to the event, during the grand opening of Sea Wolf Adventures
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Turning, she saw a yearling black bear that had strolled in through her back door, which was left open to cool the house on a warm, sunny day. “I jumped up and bellowed; I’m sure the neighbours heard,” said Roland, “And I grabbed the water bottle which was right handy.” A spray-top water bottle was right handy? Shane “Well, we’ve got a very ugly cat Dance meeting Thursday to discuss integrated sites is to provide cultural tours at Telegraph Cove Saturday. story patientsSee withfull access to a range See page 9 the response. J.R. Rardon on page 11. VIHA has promised to pro- of health care services under ‘Bear encounter not the first’
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