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The City of Port Alberni can now add “Bear Smart status” to its many designations. Provincial environment minister Mary Pollock announced that the city received the Bear Smart designation on Sept. 7. “Since engaging in the Bear Smart program Port Alberni, a city with historically high levels of conflict with bears, has seen a consistent reduction in the level of conflict and number of bears destroyed,” Pollock said. The award is the culmination of a lot of work by a lot of people, the public awareness campaign of which won’t stop now, Bear Smart BC Consulting spokesperson Crystal McMillan said. “It takes an entire community to achieve something like this, and to continue to
improve it.” Bear Smart is a volunteer program encourages communities to brainstorm solutions that address the causes of human-bear
conflicts. Port Alberni is the first community on Vancouver Island to receive the designation and joins the Village of Lions Bay, Whistler, Squamish and Kamloops as Bear Smart communities. “Achievement of Bear Smart
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status highlights the considerable efforts made by our community to reduce human-bear conflict, as well as our ongoing commitment to provide education and raise public awareness with regards to bear hazards,” Douglas said.
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n behalf of BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, Alberni Valley Rescue Squad, KidSport, Wholesome Meals on Wheels and NeighourLink Read and Feed Program, a HUGE THANK YOU to our sponsors and to the generous merchants and individuals who provided prizes, silent and live auction items and food and beverage for the 20th Annual Charity Golf Classic. With your support, we raised $34,000.00 this year bringing our 20 year total to$565,800.
Aines and Tyler Alberni Colour Corner Alberni District Co-Op Alberni Fitness Centre Alberni Glass and Mirror Alberni Power and Marine AV Times Alberni Valley Bulldogs Alberni Valley Drag Racing Association Alberni Valley Minor Softball Alberni Valley News Arrowsmith Tile Arbutus RV Bank of Montreal Bare Bones Fish & Chips Barlow’s Home Entertainment Centre Limited JW Berry Trucking Best Western Barclay Hotel Breaker’s Marine Bostrom’s B & B Bowerman Excavating Buy-Low Foods Canadian Tire Carmoor’s Cookery The Card Corner Cecilia’s Deli and Café Cedar Grove Church Chase and Warren Estate Wineries Circle Dairy Clam Bucket Clock Tower Gallery
Colyn’s Nursery and Garden Centre Coombs Country Candy Coulson Group of Companies Creative Evidence (Walt Collins) Cypress Restaurant, Chances RimRock Dave’s Catering Dave Porter Sportsfish Diana’s Barefoot Books Dolan’s Concrete Dolan’s Gas Fitting & Heating Dorothy Clarkstone, Notary Public D’Sign Guy Double R Meats Evitt Electric Co. Ltd. Fairway Market Flandangles Flooring Depot Franklin Forest Products Funk Trunk Gary Gray, Realtor Gayle’s Fashions G & Z Pools and Hot Tubs Gone Fishin’ Healthy Habits Hertel Meats Hospitality Inn Houle Printing Howard Johnson Hotel Jal Design & Graphics Jacks Excel Tire Jenny’s Fine Foods
Jericho Road Church Jiffy Lube Jowsey’s Furniture and Appliances Just Brew It Kismet Quilts K-See Creations LA Marine Lady Rose Marine Services Ladybird Engraving LB Woodchoppers Little Bavaria Restaurant Little Valley Deli Lordco Auto Magic Moments MacDermott’s Insurance MAC Five Golf Mark’s Workwear Michelob Ultra Beer Multi-Max The Movie Store Merit Furniture & Appliances Mollon Tyler-Mollon CAs Mountain View Bakery Naesgaard’s Farm Market Napa Auto Parts NeighbourLink Nexcar Sales Nichele Portrait Studios No Frills Dr. Roland Nystrom Off Tangent Art Pacific Rim Veterinary Hospital Partylite Gifts
The Peak Radio 93.3 Pete’s Mountain Meats Pescadores Pincushion Port Boat House Port Alberni Salmon Festival Society Port Alberni Safeway Port Alberni Port Authority Pot Luck Ceramics Quality Foods Quay West Automotive Ltd Ramsay Lampman Rhodes (Lawyers) Rod’s Power & Marine RBC Dominion Securities Riverside Motel R & R Boats Salmonberries Scotia Bank Scentsy Serious Coffee Southside Auto Supply Ltd. Starbuck’s Coffee Steampunk Cafe Stepping Stones Childcare Surf Sister Sushi Alberni Tim Horton’s Terry Rai, Best Western Barclay Totally Board Surfing Toyota Treasure Chest
Trends Hair Design Team Urgel’s Auto Collision Ukrainian Food Van Isle Ford – Pacific Chevrolet Valley Wines and Water Valley Vision WalMart Waterfront Studio Gallery Watson Paint Centre Wynans Furniture Alberni Golf Club Arbutus Ridge Golf Cottonwood Golf Course Fairwinds Golf Club Golden Eagle Golf Club Glacier Greens, Comox Hollies Executive Golf Course Long Beach Golf Club Qualicum Beach Memorial Golf Course Stoney Creek Golf Uplands Golf Course Audrey Barron Marty Bowerman Clare Caduro Bob Cole Walter Collins Crystal Crossman Juanita Currie Dave Cusson Gilbert Dore Walter Fenske
Yolanda Fournier Bev & Ron Frolic Patsy Gauthier Albert Guertsen Judy Gray Babe Gunn Rita Grant Val Inwards Dean Johnson Steve & Barb Kalugin Joey Kenward Fran & Don Kimura Jim Lawson Irene Loewen J&D Maher Fred Mather Maggie Marshall Sheila Mullen Gerry Pavan Gisela Pope Diana Patterson Ben Potter Peter Schroeder Karl Scott Rob Shick Dave Swain Wendy Telford Pam Turner E Torfs Carol Ryding W. Walker Jane Whitticase
We would also like to thank the Board of Directors and staff at the Alberni Golf Club, our special guests, the volunteers and the golfers for their generosity and support of our organizations. Our apologies if we have inadvertently omitted a business or individual from this list.