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according to representative groups, who say some people have lost both of their parents while others continue to wait for word. The vast majority of memBy TaMara CunninghaM bers in the Vancouver Island ThE NEwS BULLETiN Visayan Association have heard their family survived Nanaimo’s Marissa Millie is the typhoon, but have lost holding onto news her fam- homes and could need access ily survived the Philippines to relief, said Josephine typhoon disaster, but she Revano, association presiis desperate to hear their dent. voices. Members are now co-ordiAn online posting she nating a fundraiser and urging found Saturday said a priest people to donate to the Red checked the area in eastern Cross. Samar where Va n c o u v e r her family Island Univeri s f ro m a n d sity and busireported everynesses, like one survived. the Coastal But communiCommunity cation remains Credit Union, down in the i just want to hear are also helpregion where ing to collect the super storm from my family. dollars. first hit and she “We are a hasn’t been able to reach community and we are close them. Days after the typhoon and we are helping,” Revano struck, Millie also hasn’t said. “It is really devastating. heard from her niece, who Most of our members have was living in Tacloban – a city heard their families are safe, where thousands are believed but they don’t have a place to dead. live. Their houses have been “Until now I have not heard washed away.” from her. No one has heard With communication down, from her,” she said, sobbing. there is also little direct con“I just want to hear from my tact with families overseas family.” and residents are worried Typhoon Haiyan – consid- about whether there is access ered one of the largest on to food and water, she said, record – struck the Philip- adding that 24 of the associapines on Friday, destroying tion’s 30 members are from villages and killing thousands. the area where the typhoon The disaster has rocked struck. the local Filipino community, u See ‘CANADA’ /4
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Vera Timashova, dance instructor with Canada’s National Ballet School, second from left, leads a group of aspiring ballet dancers through a series of movements at Kirkwood Academy Friday. The session was part of the national school’s Dare to Dream Canada-wide audition tour, which includes open classes and auditions for the national school’s full-time professional ballet program.
Biological station earns heritage status By KarL yu ThE NEwS BULLETiN
The Pacific Biological Station has been recognized by the Government of Canada for its 105 years of contributions to fishery and aquatic research. The station on Hammond Bay Road was designated as a site of national historic significance by the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada and Parks Canada Tuesday. One of the first fishery-based research
facilities in Canada, the station has been crucial to the study of commercial fish population and knowledge of salmon stock distribution. Mark Saunders, Pacific Biological Station division manager for salmon and freshwater ecosystems, said he was excited about the recognition. “I started my career here about 32 years ago and just have an appreciation for the sense of history, having been with a couple of generations of scientists that
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have been in the biological station and the contributions that they make both domestically with our fisheries here and internationally,” Saunders said. “The work that’s been done out of this station is pretty phenomenal.” Among notable research at the station was that of the late William E. Ricker, which examined the effects of fishing on fish production and led to a better understanding of fish population. u See ‘RESEARCH’ /5
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