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◆ MARCH 27, 7 P.M. in the ADSS Auditorium, ACRD Emergency Program and Emergency Management BC host a public presentation on the science of tsunamis; a museum photo display; skits on tsunami responses in 1964 and 2014. ◆ MARCH 28 (MORNING) City and ACRD staff responsible for managing a disaster will participate in an emergency exercise. ◆ MARCH 28, 1–4 P.M. there will be an open house at the Maritime Discovery Centre’s Hutcheson Gallery, where the tsunami exhibit is presently located. Survivors from the 1964 tsunami will be on hand to share their experiences. The high water mark will be indicated on the clock tower at Harbour Quay. A permanent monument for the tsunami will also be announced.

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Cars and cabins are pushed above the high water mark at the Riverside Auto Court on River Road the day after a tsunami came roaring up the Alberni Inlet on Good Friday, March 27, 1964.

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Alberni Tsunami

50 years later

Tsunami!

Disaster strikes in the middle of the night on March 27, 1964 ‘He came home and said, ‘There’s a tidal wave.’ But we didn’t know what a tidal wave was.’

SHAYNE MORROW SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

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or residents and workers in the lowlying areas of the twin cities of Alberni and Port Alberni, the Good Friday 1964 Tsunami began quietly with logs piling up in the Somass Estuary.

Alberni city manager Jim Sawyer was at home when he received a phone call late in the evening from work superintendent Bob Waugh.

“He said he’d been called in to clear up some of the debris that was flooding up onto River Road. He didn’t know what it was, but we thought it might be a tidal wave,” Sawyer said.

With a potential emergency situation developing, he went to Alberni City Hall, at the foot of Johnston Road, and lit up the city’s two-way radio system.

Simon and Yvette Gaetz lived close by on Margaret Street, virtually on the banks of the Somass. At the time, Yvette was nine months pregnant with her son, Wayne.

“My sister had been visiting, and she was just leaving at around midnight, and the water came up to the first step,” Yvette said.

When Simon saw the initial flooding, he realized it was somehow connected to the Anchorage quake.

“I was just coming home from work. I was on maintenance at Somass [Division], and I got off at 12,” Simon said.

“He came home and said, ‘There’s a tidal wave,’” Yvette said. “But we didn’t know what a tidal wave was.”

George Smith was working on the second floor of the nearby

– Yvette Gaetz

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The powerful wave forced homes off their foundations, and deposited cars in strange places, above. The harbour in front of Alberni Plywood, left, was littered with logs escaped from numerous booms up and down the Alberni Inlet. Jan Jansma spent two days after the tsunami documenting much of the destruction; his photos have become icons of the wave.

paper mill. He and his coworkers had noticed logs floating upriver earlier, but hadn’t been alarmed to that point. That all changed when the second surge struck at about 1 a.m.

“I was in the washroom and tried to flush the toilet. That was just when the waterline broke,” he said.

A mass of logs and debris

had ripped out the Sproat Lake waterline and tore out the walls of the Port Alberni sewage lagoons just across the river, releasing a mass of sewage into the floodwaters.

“I ran out of the washroom and the whole place was in a panic. At the time, the mill had seven boilers: four generators and three recovery boilers, and

they all got their water from that waterline. They had to do an emergency shutdown.”

At city hall, Sawyer heard the rush of water and went outside to look.

“I just stepped out the front door when I heard all the boilers shutting down. Then everything went dark.”

After the shrieking of the boilers died down, the only sound was of logs crashing together in the darkness.

At the same time, Yvette found herself waist-deep in sludge, with her three children floating on a mattress. Simon and Yvette’s younger brother were unable to open the front door, so the only escape was up.

They popped the ceiling hatch into the attic and lifted first the children, then the very-pregnant Yvette to safety.

“We just stayed up there and prayed that the house wouldn’t get swept away,” Yvette said.

At the paper mill, the employees were not allowed to leave until daylight. They stumbled into an apocalyptic landscape of broken buildings, logs, lumber and especially, crushed and upended automobiles.

Jan Jansma, who had also been working at Somass Division, captured many of those enduring images, in living colour. When the first major surge knocked out the power, he and his co-workers on the No. 5 drop-sort simply went home.

Had they remained 20 minutes longer, they likely would have been swept to their deaths in the second surge.

“I was at home in Beaver Creek, listening to the radio reports [on CJAV], when the station went off the air. The next morning, I turned on CKNW in Vancouver and found out what had happened.”

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Sirens used for real For Port Alberni residents, the most noticeable reminder of the 1964 disaster takes place at 1 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month. The message blares from speakers poised high above the ground at a series of strategic locations: “This is a test… only a test… of the tsunami warning system.”

In theory, the system is meant to broadcast a series of levels of alert, from Tsunami Advisory to evacuation order, as information comes in to the Emergency Operations Centre at Fourth Avenue and Angus Street.

But on the evening of June 14, 2005, when a Magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of California, less than an hour away as the tsunami travels, fire chief Larry McGifford was forced to make a snap decision.

At 9:01 p.m., the tsunami warning system blared out its pre-programmed message: “Tsunami warning! Tsunami warning! Evacuate to higher ground!”

The alert caused a brief panic, especially in the low-lying areas of the city as people fled their homes and followed evacuation routes to higher ground. CJAV news man Rob Diotte left a school board meeting in progress and took over manual control of the radio station.

With an update from the EOC, he broadcast the standdown order at 9:20 and the warning system broadcast the All Clear.

It was a false alarm.

But the system worked as intended.

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Alberni Tsunami

50 years later

City acts on lessons learned SHAYNE MORROW

of tides and tsunamis, and they discovered that the 1960 In the summer of earthquake in Chile 1964, the Provincial had also caused a tidal Emergency Program surge in Alberni Inlet,” published an extensive Sawyer said. That led report on the Port the province to call for Alberni Tsunami in its stiffer building codes Civil Defence Circular. in inundation zones.

The circular But that program provided a chronology shifted when computer of the events leading modeling revealed that up to the tsunami, the a major earthquake destruction it caused right offshore could and the remarkably cause a tsunami far effective response greater than in 1964, by a disparate and according to city uncoordinated team of manager Ken Watson. emergency personnel, “The potential height SHAYNE MORROW/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS civil authorities, social was so high there Yvette and Simon Gaetz and their son Wayne, right, who was born two weeks services, citizens, was no way we could after the 1964 tsunami, take tsunami preparedness seriously. local businesses and build strong enough government agencies. The report made to withstand it,” Watson said. “Now the a series of recommendations to improve focus is to get the people out rather than emergency response and to beef up worrying about their houses.” building codes. Notably, the report also Watson said he was horrified when, recommended the creation of a “loud and shortly after he arrived in Port Alberni to distinctive” Civil Disaster warning system. take over as city engineer in 1986, there “Since then, everybody has done was a tsunami alert for the Alberni Inlet. something,” city engineer Guy Cicon “There were people going down to the said. “The regional district has built an waterfront to watch it come in,” he said. “A Emergency Operations Centre, there have tsunami is something to go away from, not been improvements to emergency social go to watch it.” services, the fire department and at the Working with then-fire chief Pete Geddes, radio station.” the city finally installed the now familiar Former Alberni city manager Jim Sawyer tsunami warning system in the early 1990s. said the catastrophic damage to homes In recent years, the city has enacted a and buildings along the south side of Flood Plain Bylaw to regulate development WAWMEESH G. HAMILTON/ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS River Road led the province to prohibit in the inundation zone, as well as posting Port Alberni fire Chief Tim Pley any further development there. The nowvisible signage of flood zones and demolished Clutesi Haven Marina building, displays a piece of the tsunami evacuation routes. warning system. originally a machine shop, did survive.

Recently, the city undertook a public Everything else was either washed away or demolished by education campaign, with city staff visiting homes to deliver Canadian Army engineers. information packages on what to do in the event of an “That meant the city had to acquire the properties and we impending tsunami. had to raise the road bed on River Road,” Sawyer said.

They found an enthusiastic audience in survivors Simon Much of the work was needed for flood control in any and Yvette Gaetz, who now live on Golden Street. “We each case. Over the years, the dike system was extended to have a survival kit right by the front door,” Yvette said, protect Kitsuksis and Lugrin Creeks, and the Margaret flashing the ‘HELP’ and ‘OK’ signs from the city package. “We Street pumping station was installed to pump storm and live well above the high water mark, but this is a dead-end floodwater across the river to the repaired sewage lagoons. street, so if there’s a tsunami on the way, we’re getting out of “The province also began to go through historic records here.”

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Family unaware tsunami hit town The tsunami that hit Port Alberni on Good Friday in March 1964 came as a real surprise to the Drinkwater family.

Daughter Sonja Drinkwater, now a sales associate with the Alberni Valley News, recalls that night: “I remember that the night the tsunami hit my parents and I were at my uncle’s house out in Beaver Creek.

We always had music at family gatherings and all of a sudden the wall in the house moved and the record skipped.

“That was that.”

“Then on the way home we took Compton Road and my mom said ‘that’s funny, the road is wet but it didn’t rain.’

“It wasn’t until the next day that we found out about the tsunami.”

The Drinkwaters’ trek into Beaver Creek would turn out to be a stroke of luck for the owner of Chatwin Motors, located at the bottom of Johnston Road. The family had borrowed a car earlier that day to test it out, and had driven to Beaver Creek in the vehicle.

“It was the only vehicle at the dealership that survived the tsunami,” Sonja Drinkwater said.

Jansma’s historic photographs endure 50 years From / A3 Knowing there had been major damage all over the Valley, Jansma grabbed his camera and four rolls of Ektachrome colour slide film. Over the next two days, he captured a series of images that have become synonymous with the Good Friday Tsunami: the house that appears to have pulled up to the gas pumps at the Beaver Creek and River Road B/A station; the demolished Auto

Court; stacks of lumber strewn like toothpicks in the Somass Division yard; thousands of loose logs floating in the harbour, seen from above the Plywood mill.

The slide film had to be mailed out to Kodak for processing, so it took a few days before anybody got a look at them. But in the 50 years since the tsunami, they have become the most-recognizable images of the disaster.

Jansma doesn’t know how many news organizations used his pictures and he never received a dime for his work, but says he has no regrets.

“That’s history,” he shrugged. “I eventually gave the whole works to the [Alberni Valley] Museum, and told them ‘You can do what you want with them.’ They put them all on a disk.”

What does bother him is when they run without

a photo credit, which sometimes happens, he added.

Smith said there were so many cars damaged in the flooding, many owners took unusual measures to get them running again, such as dunking them in Sproat Lake to rinse out the salt water.

“There was a stigma for a number of years about buying a car from Port Alberni. I got mine running, but two weeks later, it blew

up,” Smith said.

It was also two weeks later that Yvette and Simon’s son Wayne was born. Even after an extensive cleanup, it took two years to sell the Margaret Street home. The couple moved to higher elevation on Grandview Road, where they lived for 22 years before moving to Golden Street.

“We were going to go far enough that the water wasn’t going to get us.”

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A report from city planner Scott Smith noted that Port Alberni’s traffic fines are the lowest of any on the Island. Fines are $5 if ticket is paid within 48 hours. Other traffic fines are $10 if paid within 48 hours.

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Port Alberni’s parking fine structure doesn’t exactly dissuade violators, Smith noted. “A $5 parking ticket for parking over the time limit is not a significant deterrent.”

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School board changes mind over closures or re-configured in in September, SD70 2014. superintendent Cam “Staff failed to Pinkerton said. provide us Trustees with timely consulted information with a lawyer that we who pointed required. And out that the board there were failed to ask problems with the right the March 11 questions,” motion.

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After the LARRY “The public meeting, RANSOM bears the Ransom brunt of it.” clarified that one of Staff will work on a the problems was new process. As well, procedural. they will be looking at A closure and enrolment numbers reconfiguration in the fall. And they requires a bylaw will be updating the and the board was district’s school operating on the closure policy. premise of a motion.

The district’s goal As well, the board was was to minimize operating according disruption, “and to SD70 closure everyone knows procedures from where their kids will 2002, when it last be going to school,” closed schools. The

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School District 70 trustees have hit the re-set button and started the school closure and reconfiguration process again.

Trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to rescind the motion that was made on March 11 that would have seen Gill Elementary close, Eighth Avenue repurposed (to house VAST), Wood Elementary remain open and all other schools retain their current configurations.

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An apology from Mayor John Douglas wasn’t enough to persuade his council to reconsider letting him go to Ottawa.

Councillors had already turned down Douglas’s motion two weeks ago to allow him to go spend an extra $1,000 to go to Ottawa and lobby federal ministers while attending the Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting in June.

On Monday, Douglas brought forward another motion asking council to reconsider.

The second vote ended in a tie and therefore was defeated. Councillor Jack McLeman was absent.

“Do I feel affronted?

I don’t know that I’d say that,” Douglas said after the meeting.

“The council has made a judgment call in what they feel is in the best interest of the community and we’ve moved on.”

Earlier, Douglas apologized for his part in a confrontation that occurred between him and councillors on March 10 when he first made the request.

“There can be occasions when personal feelings get in the way of what is best for the community,” Douglas said. “This can come about because of our own strong passions for Port Alberni...”

Douglas fleshed out his most recent request in a bid to clarify his proposed visit to Ottawa.

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Port Alberni homeowners will be paying approximately two per cent more in residential tax this year.

City councillors passed three readings to the 2014-2018 five-year financial plan bylaw at their March 24 meeting.

After the dust settles, residential taxpayers will see a two per cent increase to their municipal taxes this year—$37 on an average priced home of $187,000.

The budget has previously been referred to as an election year budget, and several projects were moved to 2015.

Homeowners are projected to see a 15 per cent, or $2.5 million increase in taxes in 2015 resulting from off-loading projects to next year.

Among the deferred projects are $4 million for a waterfront road; $250,000 upgrade to the Harbour Quay clock tower; $150,000 for a telephone upgrade; and $500,000 for the development of Canal Beach.

“Don’t have a heart attack when you see the other figures,” Coun. Cindy Solda said. “We revisit this every year.”

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road and a new aquatic centre.

The list is too broad and it tries to do too many things at once, Coun. Cindy Solda said after the meeting.

“We need a specific agenda, a specific list of doable projects and a very specific plan.”

As well, instead of going it alone the right approach is to leverage the influence larger lobbying bodies such as the Union of BC Municipalities and Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities, Solda said.

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Councillor’s aren’t against sending Douglas anywhere, Solda said. Earlier, they voted in favour of sending Douglas to Vancouver for a civic governance conference in April.

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Pinkerton has also said the district has a funding protection cushion from the provincial government due to its declining enrolment, but not for much longer.

“Staff has assured me that the budget will be balanced this year,” Ransom said.

“We can’t say yet how that will impact services and staffing.”

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Ministry of Education updated its closure procedure in 2008; the old district policy was incongruent with the new provincial policy and therefore invalid.

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Council must all get along: Cole WAWMEESH G. HAMILTON ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

Port Alberni city councillor Rob Cole has broken the silence about the acrimony between council and Mayor John Douglas.

In a written notice circulated to local media, Coun. Rob Cole said leadership and team work—or lack of it—underpin the acrimony between Douglas and council.

“I have not seen any effort to correct or show a willingness to cooperate with council,” noted Cole, who added that the accusation applies to council conversations

about ideas or project has had issues that directions. they didn’t “This at times get support has included for. “But when meetings council makes and public a decision discussion with then that is direct action the decision controversial and we respect to the direction it and move ROB COLE approved by forward,” ...councillor council.”

Cole said.

After the meeting, “The mayor is the Cole used the issue of face and voice of the council voting down community yet he is $500,000 in Canal the first not to follow Beach improvements that.” without a plan. “We Cole doesn’t made a decision as a dispute that council council and he didn’t members have their honour it,” Cole said. own opinions about “Instead, he went to matters. But support the media afterward for council direction and slammed our must be unanimous decision.” once it is given. “This Each councillor is fundamental to

having a functional, operating city and greater community,” Cole said.

Cole said that he wasn’t prepared to get into specifics when asked about it at a previous council meeting. “But I feel it’s is important to now clarify what the issue is here.”

Cole didn’t spare fellow councillors in his rebuke of Douglas, saying that they need to put aside self interest for the greater good of the community. “Look at some of the comments in the media and they’re calculated; their election campaign started

already.”

Douglas was ambivalent about Cole’s reproach of him. “I don’t want to get into the bickering back and forth between council,” Douglas said.

Douglas said he’s tried to get council to work as a team and accept decisions, like the one about him being mayor.

Regarding Canal Beach: “The media came to me and asked my opinion and I gave it,” he said. “I don’t know why councillor Cole is bringing this up because it’s a done issue.”

Douglas said Cole ran his written

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The cost of the trip will be reimbursed by CUPE BC. The $1,000 isn’t a good investment, said Coun. Hira Chopra, who also voted no.

“For me it’s business – what are we getting back in return for that $1,000?” he said.

“I don’t think he’d accomplish much on his own so I don’t think it’s a wise spending decision.”

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Coun. Wendy Kerr disagreed with Chopra, saying that Port Alberni can get lost in the shuffle of larger bodies. “I supported the motion because I think he should be given the opportunity to go to Ottawa and speak for the people of Port Alberni,” she said. “A thousand dollars isn’t much when you think about it.”

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Wave of future from tsunami BC NDP party’s survival is on the line This week marks 50 years since the great tsunami surged up the Alberni Inlet and left behind damaged homes and cars, a mess of logs in the harbour and a new awareness and respect for the power of the sea.

Fifty years ago, people were taken aback by the devastation along the waterfront when they woke up on Good Friday, March 1964.

Since then, municipal governments have worked hard to ensure that word will get out as fast as possible in the event of a tsunami.

The tsunami warning system, which blares its test the first Wednesday afternoon of each month, is the most visible change in the past 50 years.

So much more has gone on.

As with the development of earthquake awareness on the West Coast, so too has awareness for tsunami safety increased.

But there is room for improvement.

It is too easy to become complacent with numerous tsunami advisories or warnings, but no immediate danger.

Education and awareness of what to do in the event of a tsunami must continue.

Now, if only we can convince people that when the sirens go for real, they are supposed to head for higher ground—not down to Harbour Quay to ‘watch the water come in’.

Perhaps seeing the high water mark affixed indelibly on the Clock Tower will be a good reminder of what sort of folly that would be.

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TOM FLETCHER B.C. Views

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ICTORIA – The B.C. NDP leadership contest is officially underway, with the entry of Vancouver Island veteran John Horgan in a reluctant reprise of his 2011 run against Port Coquitlam MLA Mike Farnworth.

Unfortunately for them, weekend campaign events were overshadowed by revelations of flagrant abuse of taxpayers’ money by the executive and board of the Portland Hotel Society. A pair of audits finally released last week on this network of Downtown Eastside social agencies revealed systematic looting of the $28 million a year in taxpayers’ money that has kept this supposed charity running.

Alas for the NDP, local MLA Jenny Kwan not only failed to keep an eye on it, her recently separated husband was one of the

executives who took part for years, and she benefited to the tune of $35,000 in luxury travel.

That’s what we know about, since much of the evidence wasn’t produced for the auditors.

When this Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous scheme finally came to light, Kwan hastily paid back the $35,000 and announced she’s taking an unpaid leave of absence.

Her tearful claim that she believed nothing was wrong is simply not credible.

She not only must have known of her husband Dan Small’s jetset ways, she participated in at least two trips, one to Vienna and Bristol, England to do “research” and attend a poverty conference from high-end hotels.

If it wants to retain any shred of credibility as it spouts misleading poverty statistics and simplistic

solutions, the party must get rid of Kwan, who has two years left to max out her MLA pension.

MLA pensions were a factor in the 2010 ouster of Carol James, who infuriated the old guard by trying to defuse a public backlash against a generous pay and benefits package worked out in private between the NDP and the B.C. Liberals.

Kwan would later take a leading role in the caucus revolt that forced James out as leader.

Long-time political watchers will see the PHS abuse as a bigger, uglier version of the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holdings Society scandal. There the siphoning off of bingo funds from charities cost Mike Harcourt his job as premier. In that case, NDP MLAs sat on the board, took their monthly cut and kept quiet.

There’s more. Horgan

‘Her tearful claim that she believed nothing was wrong is simply not credible.’

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became enraged last year at the reporter who took a tip from the B.C. Liberals to reveal the NDP was skimming constituency office budgets to pay for its own “ethnic outreach” operation in Vancouver.

Horgan had rubberstamped the plan with a since-dismissed legislature accountant, and thought he had kept it secret after the Auditor-General blew the whistle. His willingness to assess its ethics remains in question to this day.

Then there is Craig Keating, who took over as party president from Moe Sihota last year. Did he inherit the $72,000 salary negotiated by Sihota with the B.C. Federation of Labour and two of its largest unions? If so, do Horgan and Farnworth think this is appropriate?

Will the party’s joined-atthe-hip relationship with unions even be discussed in the carefully staged leadership contest that’s about to begin?

Then there’s the policy shipwreck left behind by Adrian Dix.

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His plan to use environmental assessment as a weapon to torpedo industrial projects remains popular with the party’s urban base.

Farnworth and Horgan have paid lip service to the notion that projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion should be properly assessed.

Meanwhile the federal NDP fights to keep stacking public hearings with preselected protesters.

The party may wish to consider what would give its next B.C. leader any hope of governing.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press newspapers across the province.

Mailbag: Feedback on disses, lists and hits Port Alberni’s No. 1 to us To the Editor,

We had a recent shock here in Port Alberni, quite unlike the one that occurred 50 years ago when the great tsunami entered our inlet, destroying many homes and businesses, yet sparing all lives.

The shock this time didn’t originate off the coast of Alaska; instead, a different sort of jolt came from an article in MoneySense magazine.

The article used statistics — housing prices, income levels, unemployment ranks, inaccurate population numbers, etc. — to rank us as 201st for liveability in a list of 201 cities. The statistics included communities outside of Port Alberni, some as far as three hours away, hence the population inaccuracies.

Since the article was published, many members of our community have been hit with countless e-mails, phone calls and conversations wondering how anyone could conjure up such nonsense.

The report is inaccurate. Yes, some of the statistics are

valid; for example, we do have some of the most affordable housing in western Canada. And yes, our average property taxes are less than $1,250 per year, yet we have a new $60-million high school that ranks as one of the best, not only in B.C., but in Canada.

We have a modern, full-facility hospital, along with several care homes and a wellrespected hospice. We have live music and theatre, and numerous sporting facilities.

Port Alberni, through an incredible volunteer base, has hosted the B.C. Summer Games, B.C. Winter Games, B.C. Special Olympics and B.C. Senior Games.

Not long ago, we invited the world by hosting the U17 hockey challenge.

We host many tournaments and other events We invite the writer from MoneySense, or anyone else, to come see what we offer.

They can meet longtime residents who love this valley and who have never left, or those who have left, but have returned to their paradise.

We welcome the opportunity to share Port Alberni.

To those of us who

live here, Port Alberni is at the top of the list for the culture, lifestyle, affordability, environment and opportunities.

Bill Collette, executive director, Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce

Negativity shortsighted To the Editor,

Re: LNG nothing but pipe dream, Letters, Mar. 13.

I see that it is getting closer to spring. Mr. Berg is informing everyone of how dumb the people are trying to bring work into the Alberni Valley. It must be nice to be so smart that one is an expert on every subject.

Me, I am not so smart. For years now I have written to this paper about many of the businesses that I believe would have a long-term effect on the Valley in regards for jobs for our youth. As a Christian, I believe that everyone should be allow to express their views.

Sometimes I come across with strong opinions. But I am not a man to sit back from a safe place and dictate who should do what. Since moving here from Ontario

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eight years ago I have noticed how business is treated in this province.

I myself have invented a new battery that is in patent protection and I have been informed that I can expect a possible patent, but that it could take two years. Since then I applied for a second patent and it is now protected, but the same timeline applies.

What does this mean for me? I could sell the patents and live a very nice life, if I was built that way. But I am not.

I am so tired of our youth leaving home to find work elsewhere. I may be “new” to this valley but if we allow this to continue, in less then 10 years this valley will be dead as a place to make any kind of a life.

For the past year I have been meeting with and trying to meet with people who have the means to change things; some with success, others from whom I received a “nice of you to ask, but get lost.”

If Mr. Berg is happy with how things are going, he can keep the blinders on. But he is not going to stop people like me because we are made of iron where I come

from—not trees.

It will not be for lack of trying that I will not succeed in producing jobs that have a future for our youth.

Terry Short, Port Alberni

Beach or no beach?

To the Editor,

I was shocked and dismayed to read about the Canal Beach controversy. It was such a positive step to establish a green space down the canal, where we could swim, and launch small boats—the first such effort in 50 years, according to some statistics I heard.

I proudly took all my out-of-town visitors there. Some called it “pathetic”, but I pointed out that it was a project in progress.

I’m afraid that the mayor has a point: If the work is not completed now, the beach might go away.

I belong to a group of those undesirable “newcomers”, who settled here for the natural beauty.

Wonderful things have happened in the seven years I have lived here, especially in the art scene. That can’t be said about the waterfront.

Rayana Erland, Port Alberni

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There are so many known benefits to physical activity and an active lifestyle. Among them are a reduced risk of heart disease, premature death and stroke. Being active has also been proven to help improve self-esteem and confidence, help you sleep better, increase your energy and reduce depression, among many other things. Furthermore, it helps maintain functional independence, mobility, and bone health.

For many of us, it can be quite daunting to take that first step towards an active lifestyle. And it can be more challenging to start something new without any help. The good news is residents of BC have access to a free physical activity counselling service called the Physical Activity Line (PAL). Through a phone call or online, qualified exercise professionals are available to provide exercise and physical activity advice and help you develop a customized physical activity plan for every member of the family, from children to older adults.

When it comes to physical activity, more is better. To achieve the health benefits, it is important to try and progress towards the Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines, which recommend at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day for children and youth and 150 minutes of moderate-to-vigorous intensity activity each week for adults. Adults and older adults should also add muscle- and bone-

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The BC Government is now off-loading our recycling decisions to Toronto.

Under its new regulations, the BC Government has set up an association led by big corporations to take over the local Blue Box recycling program throughout BC. If you look closely, you’ll see that of seven board members, six are executives of Toronto-based multi-national corporations, with the seventh weighing in from Montreal.

How do you like that, British Columbia?

This means, unlike the current program run locally by BC municipalities, this new program will be managed not by people whose first responsibility is our local environment, but rather, their Bay St. profits.

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The NDP is accusing the provincial government of handing over control of B.C.’s blue box recycling system to Toronto-based multinational executives who will be unaccountable while B.C. businesses and households pay higher costs.

Opposition small business critic Lana Popham raised the issue of Multi Material BC in the Legislature Monday, calling on the province to change course before the agency’s new system for recycling packaging and printed paper takes effect May 19.

“If government doesn’t take a step back, B.C.’s recycling system is going to end up in a giant dumpster,” Popham said.

“The control of recycling should never have been outsourced to the large corporate interests based in Ontario and abroad.

This is a profound failure. This program needs to be paused and the entire concept reconsidered.”

Popham’s comments follow the launch earlier this month of a campaign against MMBC by a coalition of business groups, including the

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“The Liberal government loves to claim they’re getting rid of red tape,” she said in an interview Monday. “So it’s quite ironic because MMBC is a Godzilla-sized red tape monster.”

Although MMBC is registered as a society, Popham called it a “dummy corporation”

because two of its three directors are Toronto-based senior executives with Loblaws and Unilever, while the third is MMBC managing director Allan Langdon.

The Saanich South NDP MLA said the province should force MMBC to give B.C. stakeholders majority control.

Popham said the MMBC system will be “dangerously close to monopoly” resulting in less competititon and innovation in recycling.

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Regardless of trim, each comes with an industry first, also known as a 9-speed automatic transmission.

My day started behind the wheel of the Limited trim with the 2.4L, 4-cylinder MultiAir engine (MSRP $24,995). This powerplant produces 184 horsepower and 173 lb-ft of torque.

The interior reflects that of thoughtful craftsmanship and design. Soft touch materials are used throughout and the layout is easy on the eyes. Not to mention

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On a side note, the interior colour combinations drew inspiration from various American cities. For example, the all black interior pays homage to New York City, the Linen and Black is Sausalito, California and the Blue and Black on the S model to Detroit.

The centre stack can be adorned with either a 5-inch touch screen or the optional 8.4-inch. To me, the 5-inch screen seemed a little small, so I’d invest in the larger version. That said, it was still highly functional and easy to use.

On the road, the 2.4L Limited shines brightest when on the highway and on long stretches of pavement.

It has ability in the twists and turns, but to really get a dynamic feel, you’d need to opt for the S or C trim to put it in the Sport mode. In that case, you get a different suspension setup and steering feel to really allow you to have more fun in the captain’s chair.

Meet the new face of Chrysler : The Chrysler 200, with its signature grille and logo. Don’t forget the rear LED lamps.

Back to the 2.4L though.

In the city, I felt I didn’t need much more power.

Steering feel is light and allows to car the move with ease at slow speeds and gingerly into parking spots.

Overall, a pleasant drive.

The second half of my day was consumed with the V6.

The award winning 3.6L, Pentastar V6 packs 295 horsepower underneath its sparkling new hood. For a driver’s car, this is the one I’d pick.

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I can remember buying my first truck in 1986 like it was yesterday.

It had to be a specific make and model: I was looking for. A Toyota 4x4 pick-up, black in color and it had to be in good shape. I wanted it to be bone stock with as little mileage as possible.

I found one in the paper that was on the lot at a dealership in Surrey. Quickly I called them to inquire and they said they had a couple of people with deals

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One evening, I was in line at the superstore.

An elderly gentleman saw my shopping cart.

I had a new digital tire gauge that I was going to give to my next buyer.

Turns out he was looking for a used car as he’d recently given his car to his grandson.

He just needed something basic.

“This is your lucky day!” I told him.

The old fellow was around my father-in-law’s age – close to 80. He walked with a cane and had two ear pieces. I was practically shouting to him. What an easy sale.

I decided to give him a ride and show him the car. He went on to tell me about his young granddaughter, too.

At any rate, we got to the car – it was a base model with an automatic transmission. “It’s perfect for you, sir!” I exclaimed.

He got in and sat at the wheel. His face lit up right away. I could tell that he’d been a car enthusiast in his younger days. “Where’d you get this car, son?” he asked me.

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“Somewhere along the line, the rebuilt status was dropped.”

just can’t keep it anymore,” I lied.

In reality, I imported the car from Washington.

It came with documents that mentioned New York State. The title was clean, so I assumed it was in good condition.

I priced the vehicle quite high – well over its value. But he didn’t know, and he didn’t ask any more questions. I told him I had another buyer interested (another lie), and that he had to make a decision right away.

With no hesitation, he got a bank draft and I gave him the keys. Like I promised, I threw in the new tire gauge. Marty gave me a wink and slowly drove off.

Another foolish customer, I thought. No history report to keep me on my toes. And worse, he needs to get it inspected, registered and insured within 30 days - I didn’t bother. I just got my buddy in Bellingham to help me get it across.

That evening, I took out the papers I’d received with the car. I decided to go over them more thoroughly. I guess I was a bit bored.

Turns out, the vehicle had been registered in four U.S. states. Somewhere along the line, the rebuild* status was dropped. Probably intentionally. The inspection and ICBC will catch that. And who knows if the odometer is right? At least it’s no longer mine.

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I had to get a ride from a friend and I remember it was snowing so it was slow getting there. When I arrived it was running and they were anxious for me to drive it. I took it around the block and parked it in a vacant lot, hopped out and started to inspect it. I immediately noticed rust and some body damage.

Clearing the snow off inside the truck box, I could see more damage. I could smell antifreeze and noticed some oil leaks.

I headed back to the dealership disappointed.

The salesman was there to greet me. He asked if I had any concerns and I started to point out the obvious. He quickly dismissed them as cosmetic and said do you want to write a deal on it because he has people in the showroom wanting to buy it. I told him I was not interested.

The next day I picked up the latest copy of Truck Trader and spotted the exact make and model I was looking for. I bought the 1983 edition for $9,000 from a family that only used it once a week to drive to Abbotsford and back to Coquitlam for supplies.

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I washed it so many times I thought the paint was going to come off. A year had past and I purchased many more items for the truck. A major car show was coming up soon and I decided I would put it in the back of the shop and work on it so I could enter it into the show.

Giving up my truck for a month was tough.

My first car show was a hit.

I came in second place and I was determined the following year I would be back with something they have never seen before. I poured most of my paychecks into my truck and took it off the road for two months to prepare for its transformation.

I called up the owner of Interco Tire and asked about some Supper Swamper tires. He said he had a set of 44x18.5x15 tires in his office that nobody has seen before. At that time the largest they made were 42”. I told him to send them to me I would figure out what I had to do to fit them under the truck. When they came in they looked big. So big I was getting worried. The custom leaf springs came back from the spring shop and I knew my calculations were correct.

With all the multiple shocks in place, chassis freshly painted, motor work done, a lower gears installed it was ready for the tires. I cleared away the debris pile that accumulated around my truck. Placed the floor jack under the rear axle and started to jack it up.

With the rear tires on and clearing the fenders it was time to move to the front.

When I started to lift the front I noticed how high the hood was getting, at that point I knew I had built a monster.

With all the tires in place I slowly drove it out of the shop. The sun gleaming down on the freshly polished paint and the smell of paint burning off the exhaust system still sticks in my mind. Outside it looked like a beast; people were slowing down to take a look. The show was a week later and I came home with first place. It was worth every penny of the $12,000 I put into it.

Then I sold it for $15,500 in 1990 so that I could afford to get married .

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Welcome back gentlemen; get ready to start another season of Men’s Club action at the Alberni Golf Club. Everything is in place for what promises to be a great golfing season.

We have 10 special events. Thanks to the generosity of our many sponsors it should translate into more fun with bigger and better prizes.

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Yusuke Hanzawa, right, head coach of the Okhotsk Sports Club in Abashiri, Japan, smiles during a visit to the Port Alberni Gymnastics Academy (PAGA) last week.

Twenty-five years ago, Hanzawa was a 12-year-old athlete attending an international gymnastics competition in Port Alberni, where he met fellow gymnast and now PAGA head coach Karen Moss.

Last week Hanzawa brought 10 gymnasts from Japan so they could meet their Port Alberni counterparts, above, and share in some friendly sporting competition and some home culture.

Championship will be medal play this year, with Club Captain Steve Acland running the show. The championship will be held on one weekend, Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27.

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Exhibit hits the road Arts heat up in April MUSEUM: | Virtual exhibit of the 1964 tsunami becomes travelling show for museum.

SHAYNE MORROW SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

SUSAN QUINN/ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

High school students work on a virtual exhibit of the 1964 tsunami with videographer Nancy Wilmot in October 2011 at the Hutcheson Gallery.

describing the steps taken to protect the public safety and to limit the damage should another tsunami strike.

Alberni Valley Museum education curator Shelley Harding said public education is all part of the program, because knowledge is perishable.

“I was in Hawaii in 2004, in Hilo, where they have the Pacific Tsunami Museum,” she said.

The village suffered a double tragedy, beginning in 1946, when a 14-metre high tsunami washed away 160 villagers.

“They established the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre and installed a warning siren, but in 1960,

there was a major earthquake in Chile, and when the warning siren went off, the villagers went down to the beach to watch it come in. All but one (61 in total) were swept away.”

The Hilo visit sparked a new emphasis on the Port Alberni tsunami, Harding said.

“We had a tsunami exhibit here for many years, and changed it up for the 40th anniversary,” she said.

“We decided it would be appropriate to have it at the Maritime Heritage Centre, so we made it a permanent exhibit and installed it down there.”

But the permanent

CITY OF PORT ALBERNI

The next Art exhibit at the Rollin Art Centre will be something different, titled, Past, Present & Future, The Various Works of Shayne Lloyd.

Lloyd will showcase his wide range of talents, including drawings, paintings and wood burning on furniture. Don’t miss this exciting exhibit which starts April 11 and runs until May 8 at the Rollin Art Centre Gallery.

Book donations for the Community Arts Council’s annual spring sale are down from prior years, and volunteers are asking members of the public to please donate books.

Our bin is low and we need your help in making this year’s annual fundraiser a success. The Rollin Art Centre is accepting gently used books, DVDs, CDs, and puzzles for their annual book sale,

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exhibit their work during the 2015 calendar year.

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Deadline is April 30.

The Rollin Art centre is accepting applications from visual artists to

Melissa Martin is Arts Administrator for the Community Arts Council.

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which takes place on May 10.

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The Alberni Valley Museum has expanded its focus on the Good Friday Tsunami of 1964, to keep the memories alive for future generations.

Recently, the museum partnered with the Virtual Museum of Canada to create a permanent online exhibit, The Great Tsunami of 1964.

The exhibit begins with the catastrophic earthquake that struck Anchorage Alaska. A series of photographs, with text attachments, depict the destruction and dislocation that took place.

Shifting to Port Alberni, there are video and voice interviews with survivors, along with a host of photographs, from the iconic colour scenes recorded by Jan Jansma, to the less familiar shots from survivors, rescue personnel and government officials.

Again, there are text attachments providing further details on the disaster and the response. The exhibit also includes interviews with current city officials

tsunami exhibit is going to hit the road this summer, moving to the Port Alberni Train Station in June.

“This year, we have a major whaling exhibit coming to the Maritime Centre, in partnership with Tseshaht First Nation. The tsunami exhibit moves to the train station for the summer, then it’s going to be travelling to different locations on the Island.”

The road show will include all the familiar displays and artifacts, plus a number of accompanying videos, including Run to High Ground.

“It’s an educational video for children made by Nuu-chahnulth people from Washington State.”

Loosely based on the Nuu-chah-nulth oral histories of the devastating 1700 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami, Run to High Ground is yet another reminder that the next tsunami could strike at any time.

“So far, the exhibit is booked for Campbell River and Nanaimo, and tentatively in Parksville,” Harding said.

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