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By Hannah Griffin Reporter A July 8 shooting in Port Hardy by an RCMP officer has left a 24-yearold man dead.

Port Hardy RCMP responded on Wednesday morning just after 11 a.m. to a complaint of a man making threats towards security staff at Port Hardy Secondary School, where a staging area for the Tsulquate River wildfire was set up. The man was allegedly wielding a knife.

Police located the suspect down the street from the school near a four-way stop at the intersection of Highway 19 and Granville Street. He was shot multiple times and did not survive his injuries. No other civilians or police were injured. Members of the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. (IIO) have taken jurisdiction over the investigation and the RCMP are not commenting on the shooting.

The IIO arrived on scene early in the evening on July 8, and they are currently seeking additional witnesses as they proceed with the rest of their process.

The man’s identity was confirmed by the B.C. Coroner’s Service on July 10 as James Reginald Butters, also known as James Hayward, a 24-yearold resident of Port McNeill.

In a July 9 media release, the IIO said that one officer directly involved in the shooting has been identified.

Two other witness officers present at the scene have also been identified and interviewed.

The IIO believes there may have been additional people who observed the incident at the Highway 19 and Granville Street intersection.

The intersection is beside Seawind Estates, a community of townhouses. Jennifer Taylor, who can see the shooting scene from the window of her townhouse, says that the sound of gun shots echoing off the fence in front of the street sounded like fireworks.

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Hannah Griffin Photo A memorial near the intersection of Highway 19 and Granville Street in Port Hardy, where 24-yearold Port McNeill resident James Hayward was fatally shot by an RCMP officer July 8.

CO’s union files grievance

By Kathy O’Reilly-Taylor Editor “We can’t forget, in all the hooplah, that a man [Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant] has been suspended,” said BC Government and Service Employees Union [BCGSEU] President Stephanie Smith.

“Currently we are pushing the government to get the investigation done as soon as possible and we’ll be supporting our member throughout that entire process,” said Smith.

“We have already filed a grievance on his behalf and we are calling for full reinstatement. We call it ‘being made whole’ which is basically a full exoneration,” said Smith, who has been president of the BCGSEU

since May 31, 2014 and involved in the union since 1996.

Smith said she has never seen anything like this case before. “Certainly not the public outpouring of support and the fact that it (the story) has gone national and international.”

While the story has gone global, Smith said the man at the heart of the incident and what he is going through right now should not be forgotten.

“I have spoken with Bryce and I know that he is very concerned about this situation.”

“He is a professional and he takes his job very seriously and this has been very stressful for him and his family.”

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RCMP shooting Continued From Page 1 Taylor says that shortly after the shots were fired, a yellow tarp was placed over the body.

She says that those living beside the shooting scene are “wishing that we really knew what transpired.”

An eyewitness who arrived at the scene after the shooting occurred says that the body lay out in the sun for more than eight hours. The IIO responded to questions about this duration by saying that the body cannot be moved until the coroner gives authorization and has gathered all evidence needed. Matt Brown, the regional coroner for the Island Region, said that “when these cases occur outside of urban centres, there usually is a delay in agencies attending, so you have to balance the time it takes to get there versus the need for evidence.”

The IIO reports that significant physical evidence has been seized, including a knife, and said Thursday that investigators were focusing on interviewing witnesses and examining any available cell phone video.

Ralph Krenz, spokesperson for the IIO, said as of Friday investigators from the IIO are still in Port Hardy, and the investigation is ongoing. Krenz said that after the investigation is complete, a determination will be made if there was an offence in the actions of the officer in question. If the officer is found to have not committed an offence, a public report will be issued. If the officer is unable to be cleared, a report will be issued to the Crown Council.

Krenz was not able to comment on whether or not the officer directly involved has been suspended from duty.

In the days following the incident there were some questions raised online by North Island residents wondering why shots were fired at Hayward instead of a Taser being used. Dr. Rick Parent, associate director of the Police

Studies Centre at Simon Fraser University, says that Tasers are not always carried by police officers.

Dr. Parent says that officers must be trained and qualified before they use one.

They are also expensive and in limited supply, meaning that even if an officer wants to use one for a shift, it may have already been signed out.

He adds that it is typically left for officers to decide if they want to sign one out for shift, and that even those who are qualified and trained may not wish to use one.

Leo Knight, a former police officer and security expert, says that after the inquiry following Robert Dziekanski’s death after being Tasered at Vancouver International Airport in 2007, the RCMP essentially rewrote their stance on Tasers. He says that if one is used directly it can drop a person to the ground, but that involves getting extremely close, a clear risk to officer safety if approaching someone wielding a weapon.

“You consider the threat to your safety, and then you respond appropriately,” Knight says.

Kathy O’Reilly-Taylor Photo Port Alice RCMP Const. E. Parrish, left, and Port McNeill Const. E. Chenard talk with officials from the Independent Investigations Office of BC at the scene of a fatal shooting July 8.

LOI TERRITORIALE : Avis d’intention de présenter une demande concernant l’aliénation d’une terre publique provinciale

LAND ACT: Notice of Intention to Apply for the Disposition of Provincial Crown Land

Veuillez noter que le gouvernement du Canada va présenter une demande au ministère des Forêts, des Terres et de l’Exploitation des ressources naturelles – Région de la côte Ouest, pour une « parcelle de réserve sur carte » aux fins de construction d’une infrastructure de quai pour la station de recherche et sauvetage de la Garde côtière canadienne située au 8540, rue Shipley, à Port Hardy (Colombie-Britannique). La station se trouve sur le plan d’eau adjacent à une terre publique provinciale. Cette terre publique est décrite officiellement comme la Parcelle B (DD672481-I) du lot 23, section 36, canton 9, district de Rupert, plan 3128. La parcelle de réserve sur carte temporaire deviendra une réserve par décret une fois qu’elle sera approuvée par le Cabinet pour usage institutionnel. Cette parcelle de terrain a une superficie d’environ 1,03 hectare dans la baie Hardy.

Take notice that the Government of Canada is applying to the West Coast Region of the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations (MFLNRO) for a temporary Map Reserve in order to build Wharf infrastructure for the Canadian Coast Guard Search and Rescue Station at 8540 Shipley Street in Port Hardy, British Columbia. The station is located adjacent to the Provincial Crown Land water lot. This crown land is legally described as Parcel B (DD672481-I) of Lot 23, Section 36, Township 9, Rupert District, Plan 3128. The Temporary Map Reserve will become an Order-In Council-Reserve once Cabinet grants approval to use the land for institutional purposes. This parcel of land covers approximately 1.03 hectares in Hardy Bay.

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Le numéro du dossier foncier établi pour cette demande est le suivant : 1414270 | Front Counter British Columbia (FCBC) : 10100‑30/139789.

Les commentaires écrits concernant la présente demande peuvent être envoyés par la poste au ministère des Forêts, des Terres et de l’Exploitation des ressources naturelles au : 2080, chemin Labieux, pièce 142 Nanaimo (Colombie-Britannique) V9T 6J9

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Bear cub case an opportunity The District of Port Hardy has achieved worldwide attention for the heroic actions of Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant who put his job on the line to save twin bear cubs - promptly named Jordan and Athena by the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre.

The local, national and international outcry that ensued after the North Island Gazette broke the story has been incredible.

Hopefully, this story will end by up having a positive impact.

Kathy The case has certainly shed O’Reilly-Taylor a bright light on the Province of British Columbia’s approach to wildlife management, and cuts to the number of individuals actually being out in the field ‘conserving’ wildlife. There also seems to be a debate over a “new” policy which appears to call for the culling of all bear cubs alluded to in leaked email messages from Casavant to a superior officer.

Hopefully, because of the exposure, Conservation Officer Byrce Casavant is reinstated.

Hopefully, not-for-profit facilities like the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre and others in the province will receive the funding they need to continue their important work. It costs $40 a day to keep one cub, and the centre has seven right now. Over the course of the 18 months they housed at the centre, their care costs $21,900 per cub.

And, hopefully the District of Port Hardy and the Town of Port McNeill re-examine their policies of picking up garbage every second week instead of weekly.

Robin Campbell, from the centre says that bears can pick up a smell from miles away which is likely why the sow that was destroyed went after fish and game inside a trailer inside a freezer.

There is no doubt that having the scent of rotting garbage sticking around Port McNeill, Port Hardy and Storey’s Beach for two weeks can only entice bears to visit and potentially create human/wildlife conflicts.

We as citizens are a huge part of the problem, so we need to become a huge part of the solution.

We need to do what we can to prevent conflicts with wild animals such as cougars and bears by keeping our garbage locked up, picking up fruit that drops to the ground, etc.

The communities should also look at partnering on a Bear Smart Community Program through the Ministry of Environment, Conservation Officer Service, and Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations.

Bear Smart BC consultants develop professional bear safety education programs tailored to meet the unique needs of municipalities.

Taking proactive steps to prevent conflict with bears is our best defense whether in an urban, agricultural, or wilderness setting. Working together, we can cut down not only on the number of animals having to be put down, but the number of offspring having to go through stressful experiences.

Together we can make a difference.

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Is B.C. LNG industry real? Yes VICTORIA – The B.C. legislature is back in session this week, a rare summer sitting to approve a 25-year project agreement for the first large-scale liquefied natural gas project in northern B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong released the lengthy legal agreement prior to the debate, saying this step should remove any doubt that an international investment group led by Petronas of Malaysia intends to go ahead.

With billions invested in upstream resources and buyers waiting at home, the Pacific Northwest LNG group includes Chinese state corporation Sinopec, Indian Oil Corp., Japan Petroleum Exploration Corp. and Petroleum Brunei.

The most contentious issue is the government’s intention to protect the investors from “discriminatory” tax and regulations for the life of the project. The government insists these sorts of long-term cost certainty agreements are commonplace, and don’t affect provincial and federal taxes or environmental regulations unless they single out LNG operations.

Future governments can raise corporate tax rates, carbon tax or enter into a cap and trade system. Ottawa can scrap capital cost allowances that were recently extended to LNG producers, which is significant because Liberal leader Justin Trudeau has indicated he would get rid of what he calls subsidies to fossil fuels. Both the province and Ottawa allow capital cost write-offs against corporate tax, to attract investment.

B.C. attracted a lot of gas drilling rigs from Alberta with tax breaks for deep drilling. The B.C. government invited comparisons with Western Australia LNG producers, and NDP researchers did just that. They noted that Australia’s Gorgon and North West Shelf LNG projects have written provisions that local employment and local suppliers will get preference.

Those are absent in B.C., along with apprenticeship guarantees for LNG. “There was hard bargaining by the companies, and certainly the premier went into this negotiation in a very weak The North Island Gazette is published Thursdays at 7305 Market Street in Port Hardy, B.C. by Black Press Ltd. Canadian Publications Mail Agreement #391275. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Periodical Fund of the Department of Canadian Heritage.

position, having to deliver on her extravagant and grandiose promises from the election,” NDP critic Bruce Ralston said.

“The companies did well. Whether the citizens of British Columbia did well is certainly an open question.”

Green Party MLA Andrew Weaver painted himself into a corner, having spent the last two years dismissing the B.C. LNG industry as a fantasy that will never come to pass, strictly on economic grounds. He has since branded the Petronas deal, a template for any future projects, a “generational sellout.” Another big player with gas well investments in northeast B.C. is Shell, with a proposal for Kitimat. Its prospects have improved since it took over British Gas Group, which had its own LNG intentions here. Another group led

by Altagas remains on track to ship LNG from its Douglas Channel site before the end of the decade.

It’s important to remember that without LNG exports, B.C.’s natural gas industry will shrink rapidly after 50 years of increasingly significant revenues from sales to the U.S. Leaving aside all the political positioning around the province’s largest private investment to date, if this doesn’t go ahead we will all feel the effects.

De Jong had a blunt response when asked what the province gets in return for all its guarantees of low tax environment: “Their money.” At peak construction, Pacific Northwest LNG will need as many as 4,500 workers, with 500 or more operations jobs depending on how far it expands.

The finance ministry forecasts that once Pacific Northwest LNG is up and running, it represents $9 billion in revenues to the province over 10 years, including gas royalties and taxes.

That’s more than taxpayers can expect from the entire forest industry.

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Provincial wildlife practices are shameful Dear Editor, Open letter to B.C. Environment Minister Mary Polak: We are writing with regard to the issue of Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant being suspended without pay for saving the lives of two bear cubs in Port Hardy, BC. We are ashamed at how wildlife issues are “managed” in this province. We have witnessed too many deaths of wildlife animals at the hands of conservation officers who are acting in accordance with the policies set out by our provincial government. We want you to know that this on-going slaughter is not missed or ignored by us or many other residents of this province.

It is entirely anthropocentric,

inhumane and short-sighted to believe that we have the right to exterminate other animals in the name of convenience and economy. Every year hundreds of healthy bears, bear cubs, coyotes, coyote pups, cougars, wolves and so on are killed in our province by this government.

We have spoken personally and at length with many conservation officers and have heard all of the justifications and rationales. We are tired of hearing how these animals are a threat to human safety. It is we humans that are the biggest threat. In fact, here in Kamloops a few years ago two rescued bear cubs were taken to our Wildlife Park and were slaughtered upon their arrival due to government pol-

Actions appalling Dear Editor, As an ex Olympic athlete for Canada born and raised in B.C. I am just appalled by the pour judgement and actions of the Ministry of Environment and the Conservation Service on this issue. In my opinion Bryce Casavant did the right thing.

The Ministry of both departments buggled this and should reinstate Mr. Casavant with pay and apologize to him and the public. This would minimize the PR and image damage they have now created for BC world-wide.

They should be ashamed of themselves. A policy should be imple-

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two citizens of this province who your consultant and advisor on the are outraged at your policies and humane, sane and compassionate practices. We are disappointed that treatment and stewardship of our you would condone the slaughter wildlife brethren.

Sandi Mikuse, of these two cubs and the castigaClaudette Laffey tion of CO Casavant. You should Advocates for Urban Wildlife, be commending Casavant for his Kamloops forward-thinking, progressive, compassionate refusal to carry out your anthropocentric policies.

We salute CO Casavant for his Dear Editor, courage to stand up for what is Regarding the story of the two right and we believe he should not only be immediately reinstated to baby bears whom were not put his job (with back pay), but that down by the BC officer. I conyou should promote him to be gratulate him for sticking up for what he believes in. Would you be able to kill two baby bears, I couldn’t and nor would I want to.

Wildlife is being pushed out of the wild due to we, society, people who Dear Editor, continue to knock down the forests A big thank you to all who have been fighting our forest fire to for strip malls and bulls**t that keep us safe and sound. People may not realize how much work no one needs. It’s a damn shame goes into coordinating not only the fire fighters on the ground, that society has been so selfish and but the pilots and navigators in the helicopters and water bombgreedy that we are now having to ers as well. I worked in air search and rescue with the Provincial kill innocent babies in the wild for Emergency Program a number of years ago, and I know the our own selfishness. I applaud the fatigue that comes with flying, and can only imagine how beat BC officer for refusing to kill those the firefighters are when they can finally end their shifts and get babies and I hope they find their some shut eye before their next one. Many different people and way to a sanctuary or wild preserve. organizations are involved, those relaying information to keep us We need more people like him to informed, those providing beds and meals to the evacuees, those stand up and do the right thing. God at the Civic Centre providing the needs and medical to those who created these lands for the wildlife need it. Those who open up a hot dog stand to try to make money and we have taken it away. I only to donate to the fire fighters. Each and every one of these people hope that God can forgive us for and any I may not have remember deserve a big high 5 for joining what we have done and give the together and keeping our homes and people safe during this “too man his job back...he’s the only one close for comfort” fire. with any balls.... Sincerely, Anita Harvie Brenda Gagne Port Hardy Warwick, RI

icy. Minutes after their extermination, the Northern Lights Wildlife Shelter called to say they had heard of the bear cub rescue and were ready and willing to send someone down to pick up the cubs and transport them to the wildlife shelter.

The shelter was informed that the bear cubs had already been killed.

We also know, having spoken to operators of the wildlife shelters in B.C., that many of them receive government funding and that even they are therefore obligated to tow your unethical line.

We want you to know that we are

mented so this never happens again.

Elaine Tanner White Rock, BC PS I am travelling in southern Ontario at the Pan Am Games. Just saw this story on CBC news.

Editor’s Note: Elaine Tanner, nicknamed Mighty Mouse, is a former competition swimmer. Olympic medallist, and former world record-holder in two events. During the 1966 Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica, Tanner won four gold medals and three silvers, becoming the first woman to ever win four golds at a Commonwealth Games.

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Anton flew up to Port Hardy to see how the community had fared during the Tsulquate Fire and State of Emergency. “The coordination in Port Hardy is remarkable,� said Anton.

Part of the Minister’s visit included a helicopter tour of the

Hannah Griffin Photo Minister of Justice for British Columbia Suzanne Anton, right, and District of Port Hardy Mayor Hank Bood, left, met with Richard and Norma Hemphill, the co-directors of Port Hardy’s Emergency Support Services, July 7. The Hemphills were tasked with helping those evacuated due to the Tsulquate fire.

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Fire now 95 per cent contained Hannah Griffin Reporter Firefighters and helicopters continued to fight the Tsulquate River fire during the week of July 6. The fire, discovered July 3 just outside of Port Hardy, caused residents on Upper Carnarvon and Mayor’s

Way to be placed under an evacuation order that lasted from the evening of July 3 to the evening of July 5. Heavy helicopter and ground crews worked relentlessly on both the initial fire and a one-hectare spot fire caused by blowing embers through the first

weekend of the fire. The consistently hot, dry and windy weather were a significant impediment for crews.

An Emergency Response Centre was set up at the Port Hardy Civic Centre, and some evacuated residents stayed in local accom-

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modation while the evacuation order was in effect.

Throughout the week of July 6 firefighters and helicopters worked to contain the two fires, challenged by the oldgrowth coastal timber.

By July 9 the main fire was 50 per cent contained and the spot fire 100 per cent contained.

Crews were observing the area to watch for hot spots, with more than 40 firefighters still present. Mike McCulley, fire information officer with the B.C. Wildfire Service, said July 9 that a key message to the public was to stay far away from the fire, as compromised trees, burnt root systems and dangerous limbs posed serious hazards.

By the evening of July 10, the main fire was 75 per cent contained and 16 hectares, while the spot fire remained 100 per cent contained.

Crews were focusing much of their resources on the south and east

flanks of the fire, and dangerous tree assessors and fallers were working on the west side of the power line. Crews were also using infrared scanners to identify hotspots.

Throughout the weekend the first rain in weeks fell, and the cooler temperatures, calm winds and increased humidity helped firefighting efforts. By Sunday morning the fire was still 16 hectares in size, but 95 per cent contained, and 16 firefighters were present, working on the hotspots identified Saturday. The plan for Monday, July 13 was to use a helicopter to conduct another infrared scan to identify any hotspots deep in the ground, and re-assess each day going forward.

A team of fire cause investigators are in the Port Hardy area investigating what started the wildfire.

McCulley says that although they do not know the exact source of the fire, it clear that is

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was definitely humancaused. “Anytime it is not lightning it is human-caused,” he says, although he added that an investigation does not necessarily mean that answers will necessarily be forthcoming.

“Sometimes we never

get an answer.”

As of July 10 there were 208 active fires burning throughout the province, and 951 wildfires have scorched 268,148 hectares over the season. There is a province-wide fire ban in place.

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Come to the Primary Health Care Centre for all non-emergency health concerns.

The Port Primary Health Care locatedatat9140 Granville Street TheHardy Port Hardy Primary Health CareCentre Centre is is located 9140 Granville Hardy, BC, and ison accessible transit Port Hardy,Street, BC, andPort is accessible by transit routes 1, 11byand 12.

Visits to the Port Hardy Hospital Emergency on routes 1, 11 andRoom 12. should be reserved for urgent

medical conditions such as signsCome of a heart attack or stroke, severe health concer to the Primary Health Care extreme Centre for pain, all non-emergency Come to the Primary Health Care Centre for all non-emergency bleeding, broken bones or shortness of breath or respiratory distress. If you aren’t sure health concerns. if you have an urgent medical condition youPort may call Hospital Healthlink BC at 811 talk to a Visits to the Hardy Emergency Roomto should be reserved for urg registered nurse and determine whether you should to the emergency medical conditions suchgo as signs of anearest heart attack or stroke, extreme pain, sev Kathy O’Reilly-Taylor Photo Visits to the Port Hardy Hospital Emergency Room should be bleeding, broken bones or shortness of breath or respiratory distress. If you a department for treatment.

reserved forhave urgent medical conditions as signs of a heart if you an urgent medical conditionsuch you may call Healthlink BC attack at 811 to t or stroke, extreme pain, severe bleeding, broken bones of registered nurse and determine whether you should go to or theshortness nearest emerge breath or respiratory distress.

If you aren’t sure if you have an urgent department for treatment.

If you or someone in your care is experiencing a health crisis or has an urgent medical medical condition you may call Healthlink BC at 811 to talk to a regcondition do not hesitate to visit the emergency department or call 911. isteredIf nurse and determine whether you should go tocrisis the nearest you or someone in your care is experiencing a health or has an urgen emergency department for treatment. condition do not hesitate to visit the emergency department or call 911.

Fire Chief supporters attend council meeting

Hannah Griffin Reporter A decision by the Town of Port McNeill to terminate the volunteer fire chief June 29 over an alleged “personal relationship with a female member” of the fire department resulted in some of his supporters attending a July 6 council meeting.

The council meeting did not include discussion of the issue.

Walker says that he attempted to appear on the agenda for the July 6 meeting, but missed the deadline.

At the end of the meeting, at which Walker sat in the centre of the front row, Mayor Shirley Ackland opened the room to questions

from the public and media. A resident asked if the councillors could go around and say when they became aware of the decision to terminate Walker.

“You’re out of line,” Mayor Ackland told the resident, before saying that the issue is covered under the Community Charter.

No questions followed, and the meeting was adjourned.

Walker’s termination from his volunteer position has created some significant controversy in Port McNeill, including an online petition to reinstate him currently having 328 supporters.

Walker said in a July 3 interview he is most concerned about a lack

of process and investi- Sue Harvey responded gation surrounding his in an email that council met as the “personnel termination.

According to Section committee” which she 92 of the Community says sometimes happens Charter, for a meeting when “issues arise that need immediate attento be closed to the pubwww.viha.ca lic, council must state tion in between reguby resolution in a public larly-scheduled council meeting that the meet- meetings.”

The date this occurred ing will be closed, and the criteria it satisfies was not specified.

She added that minunder Section 90.

When contacted by the utes from personnel Gazette to see at which committee meetings are meeting this was done, not made public due to Town Administrator their sensitive nature.

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Gazette staff Water restrictions in Port Hardy were upgraded to stage 3 on July 7.

Stage three restricts residents from watering a lawn or street, filling pools, tubs or ponds, washing a vehicle or boat, or washing any other surfaces. Residents are allow to water trees, shrubs, flowers and vegetables on any day between the hours of 4 .a.m. to 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. if done by a hand-held container or a hose with a shut-off nozzle Micro and dripirrigation systems are permitted between the above hours on any day. Nurseries, farms, turf farms and tree farms are exempt fro this restriction, as are wading pools.

The town of Port McNeill is still on stage 1 water restrictions, as is Port Alice.

If you or someone in your care is experiencing a health crisis or has an urgent medical condition do not hesitate to visit the emergency department or call 911.

Joye worked for 30 years in the fishing industry. An injury forced her to take time off, so she decided to go back to school. She will graduate with a Bachelor of Education degree and a new career teaching Indigenous languages to local children.

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Alexa’s Bus - a mobile impaired driving processing unit - was parked outside of Port Hardy’s Thunderbird Mall on July 3 to bring awareness and education to the public. The bus is named for Alexa Middelaer, who was killed by an impaired driver in 2008 at the age four.

Alexa’s Bus: educational and operational Hannah Griffin Reporter Alexa Renee Middelaer was killed by an impaired driver as she was feeding a horse on a roadside in 2008. Her parents have channeled their grief into making significant efforts to reduce impaired driving. In 2011 the Middelaers fundraised to buy a mobile impaired driving testing unit, also known as Alexa’s Bus. Alexa’s bus - painted purple for Alexa’s favourite colour - serves the dual role of educating communities about the effects of drunk driving, and is also an operational impaired driving testing unit.

On July 3, Alexa’s Bus was parked in the Thunderbird Mall parking lot in Port Hardy, allowing people to come aboard and learn about the function of Alexa’s Bus and the impaired driving investigation process.

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Commander for North Island Traffic Services, and Constable David Fee, the Alexa’s Bus Commander, say that the main point of this mobile unit is that it consolidates the process of handling impaired drivers.

Instead of dealing with an impaired driver at the roadside and then back at the police office, everything can be handled inside the bus. Alexa’s Bus includes an intoximeter, the same unit used in a police office, and police workstations where they can complete the significant amount of paperwork these situations involve.

Fee and Whitworth say that their stops that allow the public to come onboard enhance their efforts and give a greater awareness to the public. Alexa’s Bus was parked on highway 19 on the evening of July 3 outside of Port Hardy as RCMP stopped drivers.

North Island 911 makes presentation to RDMW

By Kathy O’Reilly-Taylor Editor The Regional District of Mount Waddington board learned a lot about the North Island 9-1-1 Corporation at a recent meeting.

Area “B” (Winter Harbour/Holberg) representative Phil Wainwright sits on the board of directors for the corporation.

Chris Vrabel, deputy fire chief-administration, informed council that the organization covers six districts, 50 fire departments, and 56,000 square kilometres.

The initial answering point for public safety 911 calls is E-Comm in Vancouver.

“They do call answer for the majority of the province now,” Vrabel said.

E-Comm then determines the type of call and transfers it to RCMP, fire or ambulance. The dispatch centre for the RCMP is located in Courtenay, fire

dispatch is located at the #1 fire hall in Campbell River and ambulance dispatch is located in Victoria.

“The new technology permits this because it’s expandable. We’re basically using a quarter of its capacity.

“It’s a good system. It’s very robust, it’s very mature and we’re proud of it,” he said.

In 2014, Vrobel said, about 5,000 calls were abandoned due to things like hangups, unintentional dialling, etc.

This is a huge issue, he said, because “police have to investigate these things.

It’s problematic.”

There are a lot of unserviced areas in the North Island, Vrobel said, which fall under the umbrella of the Coastal Fire Centre, one of six regional wildland fire centres operated by the B.C. Forest Service’s Wildfire Management Branch.

“It’s very helpful for all our rural fire departments to have your expertise at hand,” said Wainwright.

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Firefighter scales tree to save cubs

By Hannah Griffin Reporter “We get the odd call to rescue a cat out of a tree or something like that, but not usually baby bears,” says Port Hardy volunteer firefighter Justin Reusch.

Reusch, who works for the Town of Port Hardy, was one of the firefighters who assisted Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant on July 5 in removing two twin bear cubs from trees above a mobile home, kicking off a now infamous controversy over Casavant’s subsequent suspension.

Reusch says that himself and other firefighters were assisting Casavant in accessing the tree so he could get a clear shot to the bears to tranquilize them, with Reusch donning gear and climbing a tree next to the bears. He was warned by Casavant to be careful because even though the bears mouths are only filled with gums at this point in their lives, their large claws are extremely sharp.

Casavant expressed that it would be ideal to get the bears down from the tree without tranquilizing them as the tranquilizer is very hard on a bear of that small. The team set up a ladder, but the bears just kept moving further and further up the tree.

One bear was eventually pushed out of the side of a tree onto the roof of the mobile home and then scurried off the roof and onto the walkway where he was caught. The other bear still in the tree was also caught using a pole with a loop and brought down and placed in a blanket held above the ground.

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Reusch says that even though it looks like an intense way of getting the bears out of the trees, that the bears are resilient and were not hurt in the process.

“It’s pretty phenomenal to see the amount of support,” says Reusch, adding that the issue of Casavant’s ongoing paid suspension is something he is concerned about and following very closely.

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Cubs doing well

By Kathy O’Reilly-Taylor Editor Port Hardy bear cubs Jordan and Athena are settling in nicely at the North Island Wildlife Recovery Centre (NIWRC). The cubs should be at the facility, located in Errington (near Coombs), for the next 18 months, before being released back into the wild, unless the province steps in.

“From what we’ve read, they [government officials] still haven’t decided [the cubs’ fate].

I wonder who they are talking to,” NIWRC Wildlife Manager Robin Campbell said.

“We are permitted through the Ministry of Environment. Could they come and take them? Yes. It’s kind of comical in a way, it would be a real slap in the face to them to do that,” said Campbell.

Athena and Jordan are not the only babies currently calling the facility home. “We have seven right now.”

Campbell said cubs are born in January or February and estimates Jordan and Athena are about four to five months old.

“They’re [black bears] born squirrel size, blind and hairless,” said Campbell.

In order to keep cubs wild, staff “has very little contact with them.”

Everything the cubs need to survive is put into the enclosure with them. This includes wood and branches and the cubs will instinctually build a den for themselves. That task “keeps them busy. They are very intelligent animals.”

Food is another necessity that is provided.

“Diet is very important,” Campbell said.

“In berry season we feed a lot of berries,” said Campbell. The cubs are also fed grass and green vegetables such as lettuce, and leaves off branches, and lots of salmon and herring.

As they get ready for winter, the cubs build up their fat stores and as the temperature drops, they will go into their den for their dormancy, or hibernation period.

Black bears are one of the miracles of this earth, he explained, due to the fact that the type of hibernation they go into allows them to take on fat and store it. That fat gives their body enough nutrition to make it through the winter. “They can even go down for six months,” he said.

When it is time for the cubs to be put back in the wild, “it’s a conservation officer that takes them out. They are our lifelines. We can’t have some guy sitting behind a desk come out and help us,” he said.

“I’ve been doing rehab for 30 years and we’ve always relied on the Conservation Officer for bringing them to us and they are a major part on the release.

They’re the ones that know where there is

good bear habitat,” he said adding Jordan and Athena “will go back to the North Island.”

Campbell said the support for the centre and the money being raised through the North Island Gazette Bear Cub Fund is incredible “I’m pretty emotional actually.” What means the most to Campbell is that “it’s not like big people coming to the plate. It’s people that give $10 dollars, $20, $50” whatever they can afford, he said.

“It’s not like we have some big corporate sponsor out there or the government is giving us money, because they are not.” The touching messages that have been written, and the reaffirmation of the work the centre is doing, “keeps us going and helps us to stay the course.”

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The members of Port Hardy Fire Rescue would like to acknowledge the overwhelming support and appreciation shown to us over the past week. The immediate response from businesses and members of our community was truly awe inspiring. From all the monetary donations to all the home made, hand-delivered food, each and every one of us is grateful. Every heartfelt word of thanks and appreciation given in person or via social media, has been cherished by our members. We thank you all.

We would also like to acknowledge all the other emergency personnel that responded to our community in this time of need. Ongoing thanks to all the professionals from the Ministry of Forests, the Coastal Fire Centre, all the Wild Land Fire Fighters, pilots and administrators. A special thank you goes out to our Mutual Aid partners; Port McNeill Fire Department, Port Alice Fire Department and Coal Harbour Fire Department. You’ve once again shown us all what it means to live on the North Island. We thank you all.

This event has shown our entire community that we can all be affected By the unforseen, but our community will always step up to face any challenge it faces together. If you feel that you would like to help your community directly, your North Island Fire Department are always accepting new volunteers. Contact your local municipality or Fire Chief, or attend a weekly training session. Port Hardy Fire Rescue meets every Thursday at 7:00 pm. We thank you all.

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Campbell was speaking of the suspension of Conservation Officer Bryce Casavant after he refused orders to kill to black bear cubs since named Jordan and Athena.

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“It’s a really hard job being a conservation officer and having to make those kinds of decisions all the time,” said Premier Christy Clark at a media scrum in Pemberton last week.

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said.

“But the decision about how this is managed will be made by the conservation officer corps, not politicians,” she said.

“This is a very unfortunate situation,” said Acting Deputy Chief Chris Doyle for provincial operations for the BC Conservation Officer Service.

“It is at times necessary for Conservation Officers to protect public safety and look after animal welfare to destroy problem animals such as bears and cougars.

“Obviously the preference is to keep the bears alive and wild,” Doyle said.

“They acted way too fast, even the suspension. You’ve just really got to wonder what is behind this. It doesn’t

make sense to us who are in the experts in the field,” said Campbell.

This is the first time Campbell has seen something like this in the 30 years he has been involved in wildlife rehabilitation.

“For them to attack their man on the front line and go against his recommendations” is concerning particularly when there are policies in place regarding rehabilitation of bear cubs.

The decision to put those bears down “shows how bad the system really is and for them to do what they did to him?

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“He was probably under the gun, because it’s the easiest thing to do.”

However if Casavant had followed through on the order to kill the cubs, “then that would have been an illegal culling or a cruelty case, because those animals could have been helped,” he said.

“They put him in a difficult position, this is a family man.”

Campbell said that for one Conservation Officer to be responsible for the entire North Island is “ridiculous” and “beyond belief.”

“It’s unimaginable.

Here we are in the heart of the island with more wildlife and wildlife issues than anywhere else and they put one guy up there, and it’s because of money.

“We’ve allowed politicians to keep cutting back on the money and then they put this load on them.”

That load includes dealing with armed individuals involved in poaching and black market trading in bear paws and gall bladders.

Conservation Officers are also called upon to educate the public and when they are forced to destroy an animal, like the sow in this case, “then the public calls them killers.”

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“They play a huge part in this beauty around us, wild animals play a big part in everything.”

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Tall ship docks in Hardy

By Hannah Griffith Reporter A Sea and Life Training Society (SALTS) tall ship docked in Port Hardy July 5 at the end of a 10-day journey.

28 program participants were onboard for the trip which began on June 26 in Victoria and covered 350 nautical miles aboard the Pacific Grace.

The route went north through the Strait of Georgia, through Desolation Sound, and included a lot of exploration and enjoyment of the abundant coastal wildlife. The crew was five professionals and four additional staff.

Port Hardy resident Bethany Martineau, 16, received a bursary to be part of the program. Standing in the sun beside the Pacific Grace, the Port Hardy Secondary School student said that her favourite part of the program was making

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Save our Dudley Do-Rights from bear-killing bureaucrats What a world we live in when a man does the right thing and is punished by a suspension without pay. Spending time in the military and with The Ministry of Natural Resources, I understand the chain of command and what it entails, but it takes a man like CO Bryce

Casavant with big boots to break that chain by saving the lives of two bear cubs, both which are displaying normal cub behaviour down at the North Island Wildlife Recovery facility in Errington and are deemed good candidates for reintroduction to the wilds.

Bryce’s suspension is a microcosm of a bigger picture of control, manipulation, and lip service to the environment by bureaucrats, politicians, and desktop biologists. BC, the greenest province in Canada is an illusion, coal mining operations devastating mountain

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The Grade 5 and 6 students from Sunset Elementary School at the Port McNeill council meeting on June 15.

goat populations, Mount Polly like disasters in which bureaucrats attempt to down play its impact, ski lodges being built in prime Mountain Caribou habitat, one of the most endangered species in the world, and the devastation of the Conservation Officer ranks which is the front line in the war against the erosion of our environment. The COs are there to protect the environment not kill it. Someone in head office didn’t get that memo I guess.

Between 1995 to the early 2000s the CO ranks were slashed by more than 50 per cent and during that same period their responsibilities were increased, and that number has dropped even further since to 148 CO positions of which 16 are management and the last count had 12 vacancies, meaning 120 functioning COs for the province of BC, a land mass of 944,735 square

Our Backyard with Lawrence Woodall kilometres. That’s 7,873 square kilometres for each officer. Of course the bureaucrats will tell you that each region is supported by a network of other regions, in other words through no fault of their own they are more of a reactionary force than a proaction force. Bryce was reacting to the sow, but was proactive by saving future heathy adult bears, I can’t speak on his behalf, but I’m sure it felt good, seeing something positive. It’s good for morale, why can’t his desk top masters see that.

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The District of Port Hardy Emergency Support Services (ESS) team wishes to acknowledge the following people: Norm Hemphill, Lynn Davey, Steve Rose, and Delaine Laviolette for stepping up and pitching in wherever and whenever they were needed and able during the evacuation last weekend. Our profound appreciation to Christine Hinton and Linda Romuld of Port McNeill ESS for responding so willingly to our call for help.

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donations of food, soda, water and snacks. The Port Hardy Inn and the Quarterdeck Inn for above and beyond service for our evacuees and, as well, the generous offer of homes from private citizens to stay in from here to Campbell River!

We are grateful to the wonderful citizens of the North Island and we humbly thank you all!

Richard Hemphill, ESSD Norma Hemphill, ESSD Karla Broadfoot, Team Member Alice Myers, Team Member All unopened snacks, soda & water were donated to the Port Hardy Volunteer Fire Department when the Reception Centre was stood down.

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Former North Island Conservation Officer Tim Schumacher rescued two cubs a few years ago.

working with bears, I’ve only been involved in the killing of one sow and luckily we had a superintendent who trusted the boots on the ground.

Herb and I were given free rein on how to deal with her two cubs who were healthy and active, and the following spring they were two happy siblings, almost a year older, and we didn’t have a recovery centre back then, where these days there is a number of wildlife rehab centers which should in theory make it easier for Conservation Officers to make decisions pertaining to the welfare of cubs. Bryce’s desk-top

masters should trust the boots on the ground and their firsthand knowledge to determine the correct course of action when it concerns wildlife.

Thankfully Bryce is getting massive support around the globe. We as a society have to be constantly vigilant if we are to protect the world we live in, and if we support the Bryces of the world, there will come a day when we will see an end to bureaucrats and desk-top biologists paying homage to their political masters by paying lip service to the environment while killing it slowly including healthy bear cubs.

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SPORTS & RECREATION Submit results to 250-949-6225 Fax 250-949-7655 or email us at sports@northislandgazette.com • Deadline 10 am Monday

on deck Tell us about items of interest to the sports community.

July 1 to July 23 Chilton Regional Arena, Port McNeill, public skating Saturdays and Sundays 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Drop-in hockey Saturdays and Sundays 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.

July 17-19 Filomi Days Fishing Derby Friday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Port Hardy.

Prizes awarded Sunday in Carrot Park.

July 18-19 Rumble at Runway drag ing event will place at the Hardy Airport.

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August 2 Donny MacLeod M e m o r i a l Tournament Aug. 1 and/or Aug. 2 email m-mfarrell@ hotmail.com to register.

August 15 Street Hockey Tournament Port McNeill during OrcaFest. Place and equipment is provided. You may bring your own stick. Please supply your own safety gear. Team – 4 players plus a goalie. Ages: 6-9/10-13/14-18/ Adults. Contact: Jaylene Lancaster on Facebook or email: jaylenelancaster@hotmail. com or phone 250 956-3500.

August 27 Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC Learn to Fish program at Roselle Register Lake. at 250-886-1488 or viprograms@ gofishbc.com.

Local sweep top spots in motocross event

By J.R. Rardon Black Press Kale Hunt, Mason Northey and Maxtin Northey of Port Hardy swept the top three spots in the 65cc B division to highlight the Tri-Port Motocross & ATV Club showing in the Vancouver Island Motocross spring series race at Campbell River track June 28.

Michael MacDonald, another Port Hardy rider, powered to a runner-up finish in a competitive Super Mini field.

The riders were part of a small delegation of five North Island riders on a hot, dry day that kept overall turnout at the track low.

Hunt finished first in both motos, or heats, in the 65cc-B class, with Mason Northey second each time. Mason’s younger brother, Maxtin, raced up a class to finish third in both motos.

Earlier, he placed third in the 50cc class among riders 7-8 years old.

Ryler Smith added a sixth-place overall showing in the 50cc division, finishing fifth in the first moto and sixth in the second.

MacDonald raced to second-place finishes in both his motos, behind

division winner Joey Parkes of Nanaimo.

The Campbell River races wrapped up the VIMX Spring Series.

The Island Club Series will kick off Aug. 28-30 with Round 1 and 2 racing at Tri-Port Track. The facility is located off Highway 19, across from Seven Mile Landfill between Port Hardy and Port McNeill.

Meanwhile, Campbell River will host Round 2 of the BC Championship series Aug. 1-2. More info is available at vancouverislandmx.com.

The Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC is expanding the summer Learn to Fish programs for Vancouver Island and the Gulf Islands. Seven new events have increased the number of Learn to Fish sessions to 40 at 19 locations in regional parks and urban lakes for local and visiting youth and their families.

New this year, in Port McNeill Learn to Fish will be held at Roselle Lake on Aug. 27 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Register at 250-8861488 or viprograms@ gofishbc.com.

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Spring Series Round 10. At Campbell River Motocross Track 50cc (4-6 years) 1. Layne Donaldson, Nanaimo (2,1); 2. Parker Cutler, Nanaimo (1,3); 3.

Mason Couture, Campbell River (4,2); 4. Jakoby Giannakos, Nanaimo (3,0); 5. Cash Halkyard, Courtenay (0,4).

50cc (7-8 years) 1. Evan Donaldson, Nanaimo (1,1); 2. Ashton McCay, Campbell River (2,2); 3. Maxtin Northey, Port Hardy (3,3); 4.

Raymond Williams, Nanaimo (4,4); 5. Jaden Moria, Nanaimo (6,5); 6.

Ryler Smith, Port Hardy (5,6); 7. Kayla Welsh, Victoria (7,7).

65cc Peewee B 1. Kale Hunt, Port Hardy (1,1); 2. Mason Northey (2,2); 3. Maxtin Northey

(3,3); 4. Marcus Drake, Campbell River (4,4); 5.

Madi Brett, Campbell River (5,5).

65cc Peewee 1. Jeff Trumble, Victoria (1,1); 2. Mathew Dobler, Black Creek (2,2); 3. Ryan Brett, Campbell River (3,3); 4. Charley Roberts, Port Alberni (4,4); 5. Hayden Peck, Nanaimo (5,5); 6.

Mason Peck, Nanaimo (6,6); 7. Tally Gavel, Campbell River (8,7); 8.

Ashton McCay, Campbell River (7,0).

85cc (7-11 years) 1. Drake Richmond, Port Alberni (1,1); 2. Cameron Bradley, Salt Spring (2,2); 3. Damien McLaughlin, Nanaimo (3,3); 4. Ryan Fawbert, Gold River (4,4); Mathew Dobler, Black Creek (5,5).

85 cc (12-16) 1.

Kolten Pieters, Nanaimo (1,1); 2. Garrett Horsman, Gibsons (2,2); 3. Wyatt Soderstrom, Lantzville (3,3); 4. Brandon Loyst, Black Creek (5,4); 5. Brody Laderoute, Black Creek (4,6); 6. Hunter McLellan-Taylor, Campbell River (6,5); 7. Oriana Fraser, Ladysmith (7,0).

Intermediate MX-2 1. Daniel Vanderbasch, Victoria (2,1); 2. Dylan Hansen, Port Alberni (1,2); 3. Tyler Neil, Campbell River (3,3).

Junior GP 1. Brody Schmidt, Port Alberni (2,1); 2. Brandon Johnson, Salt Spring (1,3); 3. Dillon Harris, Campbell River (3,2); 4. Tanner Meyland, Crofton (4,4); 5. Eric Albertson, Fort McMurray, AB (7,6); 6.

David Bradley, Salt Spring (9,5); 7. Elias Young, Courtenay (5,0); 8. Wyatt Youland (Duncan) (6,0); 9.

Chris Kulhawy, Ladysmith (8,0); 10. Ryan Cornbill, Sooke (10,0); 11. Dave Mouat, Kamloops (11,0).

Junior MX-1 1. Brandon Johnson, Salt Spring (2,1); 2. Brody Schmidt, Port Alberni (1,2); 3. Tanner Meyland, Crofton (3,4); 4. Dillon Harris, Campbell River (5,3); 5. Joey Parks, Nanaimo (4,5); 6. Eric Albertson, Fort McMurray, AB (6,7); 7. Elias Young, Courtenay (0,6).

Junior MX-2 1. David Bradley, Salt Spring (1,1); 2. Ryan Cornbill, Sooke (2,2); 3.

Darren Jenkins, Parksville (4,3); 4. Chris Kulhawy, Ladysmith (3,4); 5. Levi Reimer, Campbell River (0,5).

Junior MX-3 1. Levi Reimer, Campbell River (1).

Ladies 1.

Oriana Fraser, Ladysmith (1,1); 2. Melanie Mihoc, Nanoose Bay (2,2).

Plus 40 1. Paul Hansen, Port Alberni (1,1); 2. David Maloney, Nanaimo (2,2); 3. Dion Klassen, Nanaimo (3,3); 4. Grant Blair, Courtenay (4,4); 5. Mike Voysey, Port Alberni (5,5).

Super Mini 1.

Joey Parkes, Nanaimo (1,1); 2. Michael MacDonald, Port Hardy (2,2); 3. Cameron Bradley, Salt Spring (4,3); 4. Damien McLaughlin, Nanaimo (6,4); 5. Wyatt Soderstrom, Lantzville (7,5); 6. Drake

ing interest in freshwater fishing across the region, and the best way to facilitate that interest is to make fishing more readily accessible and available. By bringing the programs closer, and providing equipment, there are fewer barriers for people interested in trying the sport,” says Tanya Laird, provincial outreach coordinator.

“Access to programs in their own community will make it easier for youth and their families to experience the sport together.”

Learn to Fish events are hosted on a dropin basis for youngsters

aged five to 15, and their families at provincial park locations.

Participants are asked to arrive on time for the sessions as fishing techniques and ethics are taught in advance of the hands-on portion.

Pre-registration is required for most urban programs in regional parks.

Children under 16 do not require a freshwater fishing licence to participate.

Learn to Fish events teach fish identification and biology; habitat and conservation; proper fish handling; ethics, safety, and fishing regulations.

Instructors explain fishing tackle (rods, reels, lines, and lures) and knot-tying.

Participants get handson experience while learning about casting and retrieving and tips and techniques for catching fish. All equipment is provided and two hour programs run rain or shine.

There is no cost to participate, thanks to generous support from the Habitat Conservation Trust Foundation, Columbia Basin Trust, Rapala, Ram Trucks Canada, and Teck, but donations are gratefully accepted.

J.R. Rardon Photo Kale Hunt finished first in both heats of the 65cc-B class.

Richmond, Port Alberni (3,0); 7. Kolten Pieters, Nanaimo (5,0).

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David Maloney (3,2); 4.

Dustin Whiteside (5,4); 5.

Mike Voysey, Port Alberni

(4,0).

Vet Master 1. Jeff Banks, Campbell River (1,1).

Youth 1. Dylan Hansen, Port Alberni (2,1); 2. Daniel Vanderbasch, Victoria (1,2); 3. Tyler Neil, Campbell River (3,3)

Learn to Fish program comes to McNeill

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The Freshwater Fisheries Society of BC Learn to Fish program is coming to Port McNeill in August.

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Locals earn black belts Gazette staff Three Port Hardy residents have qualified as third-degree black belts.

Bettina Knopp, Robert Wright and Ken Knopp travelled to Vancouver to participate in a karate seminar from July 2-5.

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Three Port Hardy residents including Bettina Knopp, left, and Robert Wright, centre, tested in front of Master Yugachi in Vancouver from July 2-5 and achieved third-degree black belts.

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Sensei Ivan DeToro of Bushido Shotokan Karate-do says that “it’s a great achievement” and that Port Hardy is lucky to have these three highly qualified individuals.

DeToro also says that the three-all more than 50 years of age-were training consistently leading up the challenging exam.

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Alcoholics Anonymous Port McNeill Rick 250-230-4555 Cody 250-230-4218 Mondays and Fridays at 8:00 pm Room 3 at the Old School

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PERSONALS ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Port Hardy meets every Wednesday & Saturday at the Upper Island Public Health Unit on Gray Street at 8pm.

Sundays at the Salvation Army Lighthouse, 8635 Granville St., at 7pm. Contact Ed at 250902-0310 or 250-949-9655.

FULL TIME body man needed.

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George Huddleston February 12, 1938 - June 21, 2015 George passed away peacefully.

He was a faithful companion to his dear wife Pat, steadfastly supporting her in her time of need, while quietly and bravely battling his own illness.

George gratefully celebrated his life with family and friends during his stay in hospital. He will be dearly missed.

No service will be held.

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North Island Church Services PORT HARDY BAPTIST CHURCH Corner of Trustee & Highland Morning Service 11:00am Plus regular family activities Office: 250-949-6844 www.porthardybaptistchurch.ca Pastor: Kevin Martineau 11/14

NORTH ISLAND CATHOLIC CHURCHES Sunday Masses St. Mary’s 430 Chapel St., Port McNeill: 9:00am St. Bonaventure 4750 Byng Rd., Port Hardy: 11:00am St. Theresa’s corner of Nigei St. and Marine Dr., Port Alice: Saturdays 5:00pm Alert Bay: 65 Hemlock St., 2nd & 4th: Saturdays 10:00am

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August 2, 1946–July 10, 2015

It is with deep sadness that the family of Calvin Pazarena announce his passing on Friday, July 10, 2015. Calvin was a character who loved sharing a good joke. He will be missed by all who knew him, especially his beloved wife Patricia. The family would like to assure everyone that a service will take place at a later date once arrangements have been Ànalized.

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ST. COLUMBA ANGLICAN UNITED Reverend Wade Allen 9190 Granville St. Port Hardy Phone 250-949-6247 10:30am Sunday School and Service Tuesday 1:00pm Bible Study Healing service, last Tuesday of the month, 7:00pm Everyone welcome Meeting rooms available columbac@uniserve.com

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FULL GOSPEL CHURCH 2540 Catala Place Port McNeill (across from Firehall) Sunday 10:30am - Morning Worship Church Office 250-956-4741 Pastor Stan Rukin Cell: 250-527-0144 Visitors always welcome www.ptmcfullgospel.org 11/14

CHRIST CHURCH ANGLICAN Alert Bay Sunday Services - 10:00am Reverend Lincoln Mckoen 1-250-974-5844 Warden Flora Cook 250-974-5945 Warden Joan Stone 250-974-2234 11/14

SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 4680 Byng Rd. Port Hardy Pastor Okumu Lomudak 250-949-8925 or 250-949-8826 “Everyone Welcome�

Saturday Services 9:30am - Bible Study groups 10:45am - Worship/Praise service Wednesday @ 7:00pm - Prayer meeting Avalon Adventist Jr. Academy Offering Christian Education 250-949-8243

PORT HARDY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP at Providence Place, 7050 Rupert St. Sunday Worship 10:30am & 7:00pm Tuesday Prayer 7:30pm Midweek Biblestudies Call the church for time and place 250-949-6466 Pastor George & Karen Ewald (home) 250-949-9674 E-Mail: pastorgeorge@providenceplace.ca 11/14

PORT ALICE ANGLICAN- UNITED FELLOWSHIP Sunday Services - 4:00pm 1-250-949-6247 Box 159, Port Alice You are extended a special invitation to share in our Services 11/14

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PORT MCNEILL BAPTIST CHURCH 2501 Mine Road Sunday 9:45am (Sept-June) - Sunday School 11:00am - Worship Service 7:00pm - Evening Fellowship Youth Group Wed - 7:00pm Children’s Programs & Adult Bible Studies are scheduled throughout the year.

For information contact Pastor Dave Purdy • 250-956-4737 11/14

LIGHTHOUSE RESOURCE CENTRE • Chaplain Services • Bible Studies • Spiritual Counselling • Weekly AA Groups (8635 Granville St. Port Hardy) 250-949-8125 11/14

ST. JOHN GUALBERT UNITED ANGLICAN CHURCH 250-956-3533 Email: gualbert@uniserve.com Please call for worship times All Welcome 175 Cedar Street Port McNeill 11/14

GWA’SALA-’NAKWAXDA’XW SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH at entrance to Tsulquate Village (8898 Park Dr) Saturday/Sabbath 10:00am-Sabbath School 11:15am-Worship Service Pastor Randy Elliott 250-230-1885 cell 11/14

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.95 ACRE UNIQUE 4 bd 2300 sq ft split level home. Peaceful and private. 35 fruit trees and grapevines. Walking distance to town, school, golf and trails. Ocean, mountain and city view.

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PORT HARDY: Well maintained 6-plex. Great investment $385,000. Call Noreen 250-949-6319 or email to: imagine.it@cablerocket.com

HOUSES FOR SALE PORT HARDY - 1850 sq ft, 3 bdrm, 1.5 bathroom house for sale. 7685 Duval St. Excellent value at $185,000.

Features incl. a view, garage, newer roof and continuous gutters, wood stove, heat pump/electric furnace includes air conditioning, deck, thermal windows, laminate and lino on main ďƒ&#x;oor, carpet in natural light basement and family room, fenced back yard. Close to schools and arena, within walking distance to mall.

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RECREATIONAL PROPERTY WELL PRICED oceanfront acreages in Quatsino Sound.

Beautiful Acreages. www.quatsinosoundland.com or email sitkaforests@shaw.ca

RENTALS

NEWLY RENOVATED Bach, 1 or 2 bedrooms.

Newly furnished available.

Free sat tv, over 300 channels.

Phone Ron and Linda 250-956-3365 Port Hardy, BC West Park Manor & Lindsay Manor Large one & two bedroom suites, some with a great view, all clean and in excellent condition.

Also elegantly furnished executive suites available.

Well maintained secure & quiet buildings.

Close to shopping.

Friendly onsite resident managers.

Call Renee toll free 1-877-227-7888 or email:

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PORT MCNEILL APARTMENTS Well managed 1 & 2 Bdrm suites Gym & sauna on site Call for availability

Phone Rick 250-956-4555 PORT MCNEILL MCCLURE APT’S.

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom apartments. Competitive prices.

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Call 250-956-3526.

HADDINGTON COURT APARTMENTS PORT MCNEILL Newly renovated apartments for rent.

Clean & quiet building.

Free satellite.

Furnished suites available.

Call Ron & Linda 250-956-3365

SEAWIND ESTATES; 2 bdrms, 1 bath in great cond.

W/D, Deck. Ref. req. Available now. $700/mth. Call 250949-7079 before 7pm.

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PORT MCNEILL - 1 bdrm, ocean front, furnished, full private bath, shared kitchen, living rm and dinning rm, cable incl. Private entery. $450/m + dd. 403-650-6794.

DUPLEXES/4PLEXES PORT MCNEILL: Large 3 bdrm,2 bathroom tri-plex suite. No loud music/parties, good view, close to town and schools. $750/mo. Avail. immediately. Call Oley at 250956-2682 or John at 604581-0574.

MOBILE HOMES & PADS PORT MCNEILL-For rent 3 bdrm trailer, fully fenced yard, 2 shops, full covered deck and fruit trees. $800/m, Avail Aug 1, 2015. Ref reqd.

250-230-4786.

PORT MCNEILL Mobile Home Park Pads for rent.

Short walk to shopping, school & ocean. $300/ month Call 250-758-4454

PORT HARDY-For Rent $850/mo. 3 bdrm. 1.5 bath.

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Notice of a Public Open House Regarding a Proposed Finfish Aquaculture Site Located near Klemtu, B.C. You are cordially invited to participate in an online open house hosted by Kitasoo Aqua Farms and Marine Harvest Canada from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on August 6, 2015. Also in attendance will be representatives from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

The purpose of the open house is to seek public comment on other uses or activities that may occur at or in the vicinity of the proposed finfish aquaculture facilities located in Tolmie Channel.

Kitasoo Aqua Farms and Marine Harvest Canada have submitted an application to occupy Crown foreshore for the purpose of finfish aquaculture and the related works associated with that purpose.

It is also an important opportunity to share information regarding the geographical placement of the site and details of the proposed operation.

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Port Alice - BC’s First Instant Municipality Gazette files When B.C.’s first “instant municipality’ celebrated its first birthday, it was struggling with the problems of change from a company-owned pulp mill town to an open municipality.

The festivities on June 25, 1966 included the ribbon-cutting on six miles of new blacktop linking the Rayonier pulp mill operation, Rumble Beach, and Jeune Landing, as well as barbecues and an open-air dance.

The new pavement was considered an important factor in the success of the new townsite, because it replaced a very rough road.

Only shortly before it, there had been no road access from the pulp mill to the logging operation of Jeune Landing, creating a distinct sense of isolation.

Municipal officials hoped the road would add encouragement for the folks from the “old town’ and Jeune Landing to move to Rumble Beach with its spanking new $430,000 shopping plaza, paved streets, sewer, underground wiring, modern homes, apartments and townhouses.

People in the ‘old town’ were living beside the pulp mill with its noise and fumes, but they paid

only $40 a month rent, including hydro. At Rumble Beach rents were closer to $70 and the onus was on buying property through NHA mortgages and generous financing offered by Rayonier.

“Let’s face it,” said resident mill manager Ralph James at the time, “the modern conveniences that the new homes will provide. The present homes have no basements and many were built in the 1920s.

“We’re counting on the women folk to find the new area a big attraction.”

But the company’s motives weren’t altogether altruistic.

Alex MacLeod remembers.

MacLeod served the municipality in a variety of elected offices during the time of the relocation.

Rayonier saw the need to attract more married men to the operation to stabilize the workforce, which suffered an employee turnover rate in excess of six per cent.

The company built 62 twostorey townhouses and 48 private homes. The townhouses featured three bedrooms, bathroom, washroom, living room and dining area.

The master plan for the Rumble Beach development

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was created by Vancouver architects Thompson, Merwick, Pratt and Partners, and called for the entire project to be constructed of indigenous woods.

Underground wiring allowed for extensive street landscaping on the contoured streets offering views of the inlet.

MacLeod recalls that not everyone wanted to take advantage of the new location when it was finally constructed.

“People were always saying that discrimination was practised by the large company, that living in a company town denied people their rights.

“Then when they did have the choice, they didn’t want to make it. Living in the company town was very cheap, even if they paid for it with a loss of personal freedom. “In the new town, they had to pay for freedom in the coin of the realm.”

Ed Forsch was one of the first to take advantage of Rayonier’s offer of low-priced building lots at the new townsite.

“They offered that the first 10 privately-built houses would get 50 per cent off their lot. I actually only paid $350 for my lot.

“But a lot of people actually had to be given a deadline to

move. There were houses here but they didn’t want to move.

“Some of the people close to their retirement didn’t want to buy another house at that stage.

“People had made provisions to retire down island, and that’s where it came in handy that they built apartments and stratas for them to rent.

“The moment a family moved out of their house in the old town, the company would come in and bulldoze it.”

The closely-knit community at the old town-site included a theatre, bowling alley, school community hall, morgue, 20-bed hospital, and a nine-hole golf course that climbs 200 feet up the mountainside.

“But as the homes in Port Alice emptied, Rumble Beach became more attractive,” MacLeod said.

And to the council of the day, an attractive community meant a new community.

“There in town, we decided there would be no old houses period. It would be an all brandnew townsite,” then Alderman Forsch says.

“To this day we haven’t allowed anything old in here.

Everything is built new.”

Council soon broke their

own rule, however, when they brought in an old tin-sided shed to house the new town’s fire equipment.

Forsch recalls that once Council saw the fire hall, they realized their mistake. “Now we said to ourselves, here we make a rule nothing old in the new town, and what did we do, we brought in something so horrible we had to pay a contractor to take it away.”

Since incorporation, Port Alice has been busy building an instant ‘mini-metro’ into a mature, wellrounded community.

The 1970’s were spent establishing new facilities, such as the hospital, arena and community center, and a spanking-new fire hall. Port Alice has overcome the struggle, having grown from a small company community to an cozy, independent municipality.

“I think that what happened in Port Alice was the direct result of the ability of the mayor and aldermen,” MacLeod says.

“We knew what we wanted and we had our homework done. I was told at one point that I knew more about the municipal act than the municipal affairs office did.”

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Namesake descendant popular forest industry cartoonist

By Trish Weatherall Although Mike Whalen only lived in the original Port Alice until he was seven, he has a special connection to the village. Mike’s great grandmother was Alice Whalen, the namesake of Port Alice and Alice Lake. The Whalen family has been a part of the forestry industry since 1917 and descendants are still involved in a creative way.

Born Alice Broad in 1850 in Addington, Kent, England, she married Joseph Whalen, and raised 11 children in Port Arthur, Ont., (now Thunder Bay). The eldest, James, was an entrepreneur who formed several Canadian companies, including Whalen Pulp and Paper in B.C. Younger brother William (known as BillBill) moved to what was then called New Caledonia, B.C., in 1917, to complete the pulp mill and head operations. The brothers renamed the company town to Port Alice, after their mother. She died in 1922.

Bill and his wife Mary had five daughters and two sons, including Mike’s father, Leonard. Len Whalen worked for his father as a float camp logger and tugboat swamper and deckhand, which inspired his later career as a noted forestry artist and cartoonist.

During WWll Sergeant Major Len Whalen met his wife Helen Hanshaw who, remarkably, was also from Port Alice. While serving in England Len sent home cartoons that were published as

Humourist forestry artist H i and d cartoonist Len Whalen in 1985.

‘From the Front’ in MacLean’s magazine and the Vancouver Sun. Len returned to Port Alice to work at the mill from 19461949 (then owned by BC Pulp & Paper). Mike remembers his artistic dad helping him build floats for the Port Alice First of July and Labour Day parades. “I won first prize almost every year,” he said.

“That was pretty cool.”

The family left Port Alice, but Mike returned for a few summers to visit his maternal grandparents Hanna and William Hanshaw - a Scottish immigrant who worked at the mill for 35 years until the midfifties and was a lifetime Port Alice Golf Club member.

In 1954 the family moved to Ocean Falls where his father was hired as a mill artist, producing humourous safety

Len Whalen

Hockey Night: He shoots, he scores! Once radio was common to camp life, hockey night in Canada was a must on Saturday night. ent processes of the mill and 1920s and 30s. Over the years, posters.

“Back then, Ocean Falls had illustrating what you should his work was published in the worst lost-time accident do and shouldn’t do...and Maclean’s, Saturday Night record of all the 20 mills in three years later they won the and other North American BC,” says Mike. “Dad would #1 safest mill in Canada.” publications, and was used in After Mike finished school, industry advertising for over produce signs illustrated by his cartoons following differ- he spent a few years in the 40 years.

Navy, then was a sales and “In his final days, my dad marketing rep for various asked me if I would take heavy equipment component charge of the paintings - his manufacturers. He visited legacy,” says Mike. “To do Port Alice for business in the something to promote the mid-sixties, after the town Rangitangs.” had been moved to its present He promotes the Rangitang location at Rumble Beach. painting series with greeting “I was sad. It had been my cards available at museums first impression of life when and visitor’s centres from you’re a little kid. It was a Port McNeill to Sooke, and on good time in my life, it was the Sunshine Coast. He disstable,” he said. “The new plays 10 original Len Whalen town was ... an instant town. Rangitang paintings in the I didn’t feel any attachment Gibson’s artist co-op Trading at all.”

Post. Full size prints, cards By the 1990s Mike also and calendars can be ordered took a creative direction. He online at www.rangitangs.com became a marketing director Len’s influence lives on in for a magazine, and eventual- two of Mike’s children: Patrick ly published three magazines a historical illustrator, and of his own, doing all the writ- Ariel a writer and artist. A ing, photography and layout. granddaughter is also showing Now living in Gibsons, at 71, artistic promise.

Mike is reviving his father’s “My Dad’s mantra, and paintings of a bygone era in mine also, was ‘whatever you forestry. do in your life, make sure you During the 1970s Len’s have fun with it,” said Mike. cartoon series titled “B.C. Mike is also in the process Rangitangs” (a reference to of writing a coffee table book. the ‘rangy’ and wild loggers “The book primarily is my when they went to Vancouver), dad’s life and his art, but interappeared in the Vancouver twined is the history of our Sun and many coastal BC family and the forest industry, newspapers, depicting the and how we impacted it,” said Photo Courtesy Whalen Family F il humorous side of logging Mike, “so that my grandkids Mike Whalen and friend Joanne at 1940s Port Alice Parade with his ‘Sqat-Seeno’ tugboat float created by camp life in the coastal BC and great grandkids can say artist father Len. forest industry during the this is my heritage.”

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Port Alice: What’s in a Name?

Gazette files There’s a little bit of history in the names of the streets and places in every town, and Port Alice is no exception.

But the story behind the street names in the new municipality at Rumble Beach is a strange one.

It seems the streets had been designated letters of the alphabet by the developers, and the new council set out to give them real names.

The mayor suggested Rupert for ‘K’ street, and that was immediately agreed on by all. Ed Forsch suggested Centennial for another and Jack Lemmer wanted Dan Campbell Avenue for a third.

Apparently, the process came to a standstill as council cast around for other ideas. In the end, they came up with seven names for the remaining three streets, and couldn’t reach a decision.

Resorting to the ancient democratic process, council threw names into a hat, and the first three drawn are the names the streets bear today.

But not all place names are chosen in such an arbitrary manner. The land-

marks around Port Alice reflect a history that dates back to its earliest days.

Do you know the origin of these familiar names: 1. Port Alice?

2. Lake Victoria?

3. Rumble Beach?

4. Jeune Landing?

5. Neroutsos Inlet?

6. Drake Island?

7. Rupert Arm? 8. Frigon Island?

9. Holberg?

10. the Princess Maquinna?

Answers: 1. Port Alice was named after Alice Whelan, mother of the owner of the Whelan Pulp and Paper Co., who established the first mill in 1918.

2. Victoria was one of Alice’s daughters.

3. Mr. & Mrs. Mike Rumble spent their summers camping in the wilderness west of the original Port Alice townsite, and the area became known as Rumble’s Beach.

The Port Alice Orchid The orchid hybrid “Port Alice” is listed in the Royal Horticultural Society’s “Book of Registered Orchid Hybrids”.

This slipper-type flower is the result of crossing a complex hybrid Paphiopedilum “Western Sky” with a

species Paphiopedilum appletonianum.

This new genetic line is completely unique and its development in Port Alice puts the town’s name into ‘Orchid History’. Pat Diamond was responsible for this Orchid.

4. The landing was named for the Jeune copper claims on Alice Lake 5. Not named after a state or mental imbalance the Inlet was originally called Alice Arm, but this conflicted with a previously named river in northern B.C. The inlet was renamed for C.D. Neurotsons, manager on a CPR coast steamship.

6. After the Honourable Montague W. Tyrwhitt Drake, who served as a justice on the Supreme Court of B.C. from 1890 to 1904.

7. Quite logically, the arm of water through which everyone on the west coast had to go if travelling to the Hudson’s Bay trading post at Fort Rupert.

8. Probably the North Island’s most colourful character, Ned Frigon was a French Canadian who established a trading post here in the 1880s. He later opened a hotel whose saloon boasted the longest bar north of Frisco.

9. Danish settlers who came to the area in 1884 named the town after Baron Ludwig Holberg, a famous Danish historian and dramatist.

10. This CPR coast steamship, beloved visitor to Port Alice’s harbour was named for the daughter of Nottka Indian chief Maquinna.

1982 Jeune Landing Logger’s Sports Rick Sutton is top man in the greased pole climbing team. Sutton is supported by Don MacLeod and Jim Duberville as he attempts to reach a bottle of spirits at the top of the 20-foot greased pole.

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How the streets were named in Rumble Beach Not all the names listed in the Rumble Beach plan were officially approved by council. These are the names used by the Town Engineer and those who have to do with the work done in the town development.

Mr. Zingel, the Town Engineer, didn’t want the unnamed sections to be labeled “the street behind the shed” or some haphazard nomenclature.

June Forrester, writing in one of our issues, brought to public attention the manner in which our town streets were named. At a council meeting, the all male members had presented various names and these were all dutifully written on a piece of separate paper. These chits were then placed in a hat, jiggled about and one hand was appointed to pick at random from the hat.

This caused June to remark “it is a good thing the naming of babies is not left to the men as likely a group of names would be placed in a hat and the first draw might bring out something like 7 3/4 – the hat size.”

Actually in most instances there is a story behind the street names, and not all of them are appropriate to this area: Taylor Way – is an unimaginative harkening back to the city of Vancouver and smacks of the sycophant.

Marine Drive – is an extension of the

the old Marine Drive in the old town of Port Alice.

Marine Terrace – is an unofficial name and is used because the particular area has been built up and forms a terrace on Marine Drive.

Maquinna Avenue – was originally the name of an First Nations princess, daughter of a famed West Coast Indian, Chief Maquinna of the Nootkas, who met with Capt. Cook at Friendly Cove.

The name was likely a title and not a family name. However, the name as applied to our town actually stems from the vessel S.S. Princess Maquinna which was part of the Canadian Pacific Steamship Line. For 40 years (until 1957) the S.S. Princess Maquinna made the weekly run to Port Alice without interruption. In those days of no roads and few airplanes the S.S. Princess Maquinna was the life line of the West Coast. Her holds were loaded with groceries for the scattered settlements of this area.

With anywhere from 50 to 100 passengers she also carried the largely awaited mail which was the sole contact with the outside world since there was not radio or T.V. The men would line up on the quay anxiously awaiting the arrival of the “Rum Boat” as they called the S.S. Princess Maquinna for along with supplies and

mail she also brought in the liquor cargo.

When the ship docked at Port Alice the crew considered this a bit of a holiday and while the ship was being loaded with pulp, for the return trip, the crew would go fishing, dancing, and generally enjoy themselves. When sailing time came instead of street farewells, friends were allowed on board until five minutes before sailing.

Haida Avenue – is named after the First Nations who inhabited Haida Gwaii. Their connection with the Port Alice area was in the fearsome role of raiding marauders. Somewhat like the Vikings, for every tale of Haida wonder, there was one for the victims, stories of atrocities, rape and plunder.

Nigei – which is misspelled on our street sign, stems from the Nigei Island north of Port Hardy.

Elst Street – is named after the first Mayor of the District of Port Alice, John Van-Der Elst of Rumble Beach.

Fraser St. - comes from the name of the former manager of Rayonier Canada, Port Alice division, who left here in 1956.

Quatsino – is the name of a Federation who lived here when the early settlers came.

The name was Kosimo, but the pronunciation of the early settlers changed this to Quatsino.

Island Highway – is an unofficial name bestowed by Dick Zingel who anticipated a paved highway from Nanaimo to Port Alice.

Belvedere Rd. Belvedere as listed in the dictionary is an elevated point of vantage affording a view - this is exactly what this road offers.

Panorama Rd. is derived from the former Ski Club which was called the Panorama Ski Club because of the clear view extending as for as Port Hardy.

Tank Rd. - runs in front of the water tank.

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Radio Rd. - goes to the CBC Radio installation.

The Balcony – a paved area which juts out form Belvedere Rd; this area was tacked on to the road as a hiding place for water and sewer materials before the 1967 installation.

Totem Way – totems pertain to this province.

El Mercado – our shopping area and translates in Spanish to “The Merchant”.

Canyon Creek – got its appellation from one night in December 1955 when the heavy rain cut a canyon through

the old Port Alice top road. The canyon was 50 feet on the downhill side and three feet on the other side, leaving the road perched at a precarious angle in front of a waterfall.

Valentine Creek – got its name from the fact it was completed Feb. 14 (in 1906).

Juliette Creek – is the female counterpart to Valentine Creek, (oh Romeo where art thou?).

Shelter Bay – is the only water front area within walking distance that affords a certain amount of shelter. An ideal spot for a future Marina.

It was unfortunate that when these streets and avenues were named some attention wasn’t given to using the name of families who have lived in the area for several generations.

The War Heroes of Port Alice were given some consideration also.

Several young boys, among them Clark and McKay, whose deaths were commemorated by a plaque in the St. Paul’s Church and streets were named in their memory.

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Anglican church located on 7th hole of golf club

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St. Paul’s Church in original Port Alice made Ripley’s Believe it or Not in for being the only church built in the middle of a golf course. The church was removed, but the cemetery (in the foreground of photo at right) is still intact with graves, from the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Gazette files For some golfers, Sunday mornings are sacred. And church goers often feel the same way.

In old Port Alice, where the Anglican church was located on the seventh hole, this could sometimes pose a bit of a problem.

“You weren’t allowed to play golf when church was in service,” grounds keeper Roger Moult remembers.

“The didn’t want golf balls going through the windows.

Later they put wire mesh over them, but you still couldn’t play until after 11 or 12 a.m. when church was over.”

St. Paul’s Anglican Church earned the Port Alice golf course a place in Ripley’s Believe it or Not. It was the only golf course in the world with a church on the fairway.

But no one seems to remember which came first, the course or the church.

Apparently early Scottish settlers had cleared the land to provide a fire break between the mill and the forest behind it.

Early pictures of the area show golfers playing on a

three-hole course surrounding the church building with sheep grazing nearby.

The first golf club was formed in May 1928. It had a maximum membership of 51. A 1931 edition of Port Alice’s original newsletter, the Barker says, “the maximum membership of 51 (17 ladies and 34 gentlemen) has been maintained throughout the years with a substantial waiting list of both sexes.

Moult said that membership reached about 150 people, although the majority were still men.

“You have to be part goat to play on this course,” Moult says about the very obvious hills that for the course. “It helps to have one leg longer than the other one.”

Until a new course was built in Prince Rupert, Port Alice also boasted “the most westerly course in the British Empire.”

When Moult joined the club in 1959, the clubhouse was still the centre of the old town.

“It used to be the Japanese community centre until they were interned during

the war,” Moult recalls.

“There was always a party going on. People went out of their way to make things fun.

“Every second Wednesday a couple was assigned to organize a fun tournament.

Sometimes they would put tires on the course and you had to shoot through them or sometimes pipes.

Sometimes you could only use a putter all the way around.

Just prior to 1974, part of the old school was moved up to the course and became the new clubhouse.

In the fall of 1976 a gas leak started in the basement of the building.

“It was Monday about 7:30 p.m. I remember because I was at a Lions Club meeting when it happened. It just blew up,” Moult said.

“The clubhouse that is used today was rebuilt on the foundation of the old school.

“But it’s not the same, Mount says.

“People have changed. All the old-timers have moved away. Today’s new breed doesn’t seem to want to get involved in anything.”

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The Port Alice Fire Department is a Volunteer Hall and currently consists of 17 Members

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Port Alice – Station 172 BCEHS Unit Chiefs Chandra Hovde Robert MacMillan Jeena (idle) Daviedson Bob Raycraft Sue Shaw Owen Giesbrecht Kim DeCrane Deb Sutton

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Above, 1985 Canada Day Parade: Northern Lights Ultralight took first prize in the theme float division. The theme across the nation was “a salute to the International Year of the Youth.’ Below, Mike Rumble (far right), with coworkers in the late 1920’s

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Walls of water swept through Port Alice in 1927 Gazette files “It was a little irresponsible to build the town-site at the bottom of a mountain that had just been logged off.”

Nestled at the base of a 2,600-foot mountain, Port Alice finds itself in one of the prettiest settings on the North Island. But this picture-postcard location has its price, as the community has learned over the years.

The first major slide to strike Port Alice came in 1927, when four days of torrential rain burst the creek dam above the old town-site. A wall of water swept down past the original hospital, killing a man named Clark.

Another smaller slide and flood in 1935 threatened the community store, and cut a path through the golf course.

And after the community moved to its present location in 1965, nature struck again.

At 1:15 p.m. on Dec. 15, 1973, a major slide cut a 50-foot swath through the heart of the community, causing more than $500,000 damage.

Elena Travanut, who came to Port Alice in 1956, recalls the slide that came to Port Alice in 1956 came down two houses away from hers.

“I had just opened the window and I heard such an awful noise. I screamed, ‘what’s going on?’. I put my head out the window and what I see is still in my mind. A huge trunk of tree crashing down with water all over the place.

I started screaming, ‘Get the kids and let’s get out of here!’

“By the time I got to the car, that house had already turned. It looked like it was on a barge completely turned around.

“We jumped in the car and didn’t know which way to go. The bridge was washed out and everybody was going to the community hall at Jeune Landing. “ I was so scared I didn’t want to look back. It was awful.”

The slide took less than two minutes, causing more than $500,000 damage.

It destroyed the 100-foot bridge between the pulp mill and town, damaged 15 houses and cut off utilities to the community.

One house was washed 200 feet from its foundations, its lone occupant,

13-year-old Timmy Lacey, riding all the way in his family’s living room.

Many other homes were filled with mud and debris, and cars, boats and trailers were overturned and smashed.

Travanut remembers going two weeks without water and spending a month in the middle of winter without heat in her home.

Men at the pulp mill were unable to get to their homes because the bridge washed out, and the mill was shut down by flooding.

Almost five inches of rain had fallen overnight, equaling a record set in 1965, which had caused the same bridge to wash out.

Ed Forsch was an alderman at the time. Looking back, he says “It was, I think, a little bit irresponsible to build the townsite below a mountain that had just been logged off. With the heavy rains that you get up here, it was bound to come down. But who thinks of those things when you build a town?”

The whole community, along with help from the North Island Civil Defense Organization, the provincial government, and the RCMP, pitched in to aid the victims and repair the damage.

The next year was spent in efforts aimed at preventing further slides with Port Alice council and the department of highways working to alleviate the threat.

Engineers hired by the logging company managing the landslide reported the danger of another slide as very low, but residents and council members remained skeptical.

As the rainy winter season approached, aldermen Frank Hieroaymi and George Lacey, whose home was demolished in the 1973 slide, fought for prevention measures to be taken.

By March 1975, 4,500 feet of cable had been strung above the town to secure log jams and other debris that could potentially start another slide.

Jack Rupert, foreman of the crew that laid the cable, said at the time: “When the root systems of the stumps decay in a logged-off area, the heavy rains soon start to wash away all the loose materials. Once this starts to loosen up, you

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Nestled at the base of a 2,600-foot mountain, Port Alice has been the victime of mudslides over the years. have a potential slide.”

The cables were meant to be a temporary solution until the logs and debris could be removed during the next year, but before that could be done, nature took its own course.

On Nov. 12, after six inches of rain fell over 24 hours, a creek above the town burst its banks, sending down a torrent of water, mud and debris.

Almost every street in the community was turned into a shallow river, and police using loudspeakers ordered people out of their homes.

Almost half the 2,000 townsfolk were evacuated to Port Hardy, leaving behind only those able to assist in diverting the flood.

“The damage isn’t as spectacular as

in 1973, but probably more extensive,” municipal foreman Nelson Ackerley said at the time.

Damage exceeded $500,000 as homes were washed by the floodwaters, which also smashed cars and boats.

In the aftermath of the second major slide in two years, Port Alice council was allowed jurisdiction in slide control measures by the provincial government.

Twelve years later, Ed Fersch was confident that there will never be another big slide.

“It had just been logged off,” he said, “and that was what caused the slides.

Everything has grown over now, and the rain doesn’t run off so fast.

“It won’t happen again.”

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The early days of the Village of Port Alice

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The original company town of Port Alice was located at the pulp mill site between 1917 and 1965. In the mid-sixties, the Provincial Government required the mill to install pollution control infrastructure. To make room for the new infrastructure, the buildings were torn down or removed from the mill site and the town relocated five kilometres north to Rumble Beach. The location was named after Mike Rumble. The Rumbles were one of Port Alice’s first families who spent their holidays in a tent on the beach approximately where the picnic shelter is located at present-day Lion’s Park.

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Port Alice is situated on Neroutsos Inlet in Quatsino Sound. It is withing the traditional territory of the Quatsino First Nation. In pre-history times it is believed the Nuu-chahnulth also inhabited this area.

Pre-1750 the Hoyalas tribe lived in the area around Port Alice, and in the late 1800s the Koskimo also lived in this area. During the Indian Reserve Commission allocation the First Nations claimed a piece of land in the area of Port Alice for firewood gathering, which they called “Tsokumstala.”

In 1904 a wood pulp lease was granted for Quatsino Sound, and the Quatsino Power and Pulp Co. began to look for a site for a pulp mill.

The company was sold a couple of times over the next few years, and construction of a mill began in 1916.

The impetus for the mill was the demand during World War I for cellulose products.

In 1917 Whalen Pulp and Paper Mills took over the mill working the wood pulp lease.

Sixty acres was cleared adjacent to the mill site, upon which a small community was built. Local homesteaders from around Quatsino Sound worked on the construction of the townsite.

The town included 50 houses as well as a hotel and boarding house.

The community was initially called New Caledonia.

By 1918 the mill was in production, producing 75 tons of lumber per day.

The same year saw the grand opening of Whalen Pulp and Paper, and the production of the first pulp from the mill.

The name of the community was changed to Port Alice, after a daughter of one of the mill owners. The first load of lumber left Port Alice

for San Francisco in 1919.

In the 1920s the town began to develop.

The three-storey Jones Hotel was moved to the town from Drake Island in 1920. A company store opened in 1921. In 1925 the BC Pulp and Paper Company took over Whalen Pulp and Paper and the community of Port Alice.

A floating hospital was completed in 1927.

In this year an impressive four-storey community centre was also constructed. There were badminton and basketball courts, a recreation room for games of billiards and cards, a library, and a performance stage.

The golf course (which still sits beside the mill today) was completed on company land in 1928 and initially boasted 51 members. Cattle roamed the fairways at will and kept the grass trimmed.

A three-room school was completed in 1928, and two churches were also built. Ripley’s Believe it or Not apparently listed St. Paul’s Anglican Church as the only church located on a golf course. St. Teresa’s was the other church.

In 1930 the bank of Nova Scotia opened the community’s first bank.

For many years this bank was the only one available for most of the North Island.

From the beginning, the Port Alice mill seemed plagued with long periods of shut-down. Those who enjoyed the community and the hunting and fishing it offered, were usually the workers who braved mill employment and stayed in the community.

During this period the only transportation in and out of the community was by boat, and later float plane.

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1978 Official Opening of the new Port Alice Fire Hall. Fire Chief Fred Lind (left) shakes hands will founding Fire Chief Bill Lemke.

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Port Alice townsite in 1967. The town moved from the mill site to the “Rumble Beach” location in 1965.

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Easter bonnet parade at Golf Club Peggy Taylor with live hen and blown coloured eggs.

Built in 1927, the Port Alice Community Hall was designed by pipe-fitter Percy Stoddard, who won the mill employee design competition. At the time, it was the largest of its kind on Vancouver Island, with four floors, a card room, badminton and basketball courts, stage, cobbler’s shop, restaurant, pool room and library. In 1929, the main expense was the 43, 365 pounds of coal for heating, totaling $244.02 plus the $49 annual pay to Janitor J. Joyce for shoveling all that coal. One of the last events at the Community Hall was the Easter Social in April 1965. It included a buffet supper and dancing to live music for $1.50 admission price.

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Two famous athletes hail from Village of Port Alice The Village of Port Alice is the birthplace of two famous athletes, boxer Dale Walters and pro hockey player Jason Bowen.

Born Sept. 27, 1963 Walters is a Canadian former boxer who won a bantamweight bronze medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Following in the footsteps of father Len, Walters began boxing at the age of six winning numerous Emerald, Silver, and Golden Gloves Championships that included nearly 50 straight victories as a Junior in the 1970s.

Through his teens, Walters also pursued an aspiring acting career often competing against Michael J. Fox for roles and landing the starring role in Ritter’s Cove, a spin-off of Beachcombers.

With a stinging left jab and lightning hand and foot speed, Walters won three straight senior BC Golden Gloves championships in the early 1980s. He began making waves nationally winning the 54kg bantamweight Canadian championship from 1982-84, earning the Outstanding Boxer in Canada distinction each of those years.

In his first international fight at the 1982 World Championships, Walters surprised everyone when he defeated the reigning world champion Slavimir Zabart of Poland, before finishing 11th.

Oscar Hickes tradition The longest-running hockey tournament on Vancouver Island is the Oscar Hickes first held in 1978. Oscar was born Oscar Tootoo in 1952 in Churchill, Manitoba. Eventually, with Ray in the lead, all three came to settle in Port Alice and Oscar began work as a carpenter at the Port Alice Pulp mill in 1972. Oscar’s first priority upon his arrival was to join a hockey team. For someone with such good balance and control, he could get conveniently clumsy. Often taking down two men by simply flopping on them and conveniently crawling over them to retrieve a glove and back over them to get his stick! He did it all with a wide-mouthed grin and the best manners. Oscar could give and take the toughest punishment always with a smile on his face. In August 1978, Oscar went to see a specialist in Vancouver to correct a knee problem so that he could play hockey that winter. The doctor told Oscar that his playing days were over. Minutes later, while stopped at a red light, Oscar slumped over the steering wheel of the car and passed away shortly after of a heart attack. He was only 27 years old.

His rise was not without adversity though.At the 1982 Commonwealth Games, where he was favoured to medal, a controversial judging decision eliminated him from the tournament.

Another controversial decision knocked him out of the Pan American Games in 1983.

Going into the 1984 Olympics, Walters was ranked ninth in the world. At the Stockholm Open, an eight-nation tournament, Walters won gold in the 57kg featherweight division and was voted the tournament’s Outstanding Boxer.

He followed up with a decisive victory over Todd Hickman, the world’s number two-ranked bantamweight, in a pre-Olympic Canada vs. USA meet. The highlight of Walters’ career came at the Los Angeles Olympics where he captured a bronze medal in the 54kg bantamweight division‚ Canada’s first Olympic boxing medal in 52 years.

Walters capped his amateur career with a victory over US national champion Lyndon Walker, ending with an amateur record of 165 wins and 12 losses. A broken hand affected the rest of his career.

As a professional, Walters had seven victories and a single loss to Tony Pep. After retiring from competition, Walters used his boxing experience serving as a broadcaster.

He established a boxing and fitness facility in Vancouver known as Ringside Fitness.

He also made the Guinness Book of World Records by completing over 500 straight ‘doubles’ with a skipping rope.

He was inducted into the Canadian Boxing Hall of Fame in 1996 Bowen, born Nov. 9, 1973, is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He was a defenceman and left winger who played in 77 National Hockey League games with the Philadelphia Flyers and Edmonton Oilers over parts of six seasons.

After serving a four-year apprenticeship in the Western Hockey League with the Tri-City Americans, he was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1st round of the 1992 NHL Entry Draft, 15th overall, where he began his six season NHL career, alternating with the Flyers’ American Hockey League affiliate, the Philadelphia Phantoms.

Bowen then moved to the Edmonton Oilers, where he played four games and then played for the Hamilton Bulldogs, the Hershey Bears and Saint John Flames, all in the AHL. Moving to Belfast in 2000, he has played for the Scottish Eagles in Glasgow and then the Guildford Flames in the BNL before returning to the Giants.

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A Brief Bri rief ri ief History Hiistory ry of the th he Port Port Alice Alli lice Golf lf Clu Club..... lub..... excerpts taken from letter written by Sid Winchester (Life Member) – October 10, 1979. ...What happens when Scots get together? The talk gets around to golf. In 1927 hardy pioneers backed up their words with action. They cleared a strip of ground up from the general store so that they would hit a ball back and forth. By May of 1928 the devoted addict to the ancient game had completed a five-hole layout. They were determined and devoted. The labour was volunteer, the names were many....W.L. Ketchen, Frank Rogers, Pete McGhee, Harold V. Smyth, Jim Gilmour, Len Bickell, Jim MacRae. The Killam family of B.C. Pulp and Paper were very benevolent towards the Club. They knew that a happy employee was an asset to their mill operation. This set a pattern of Company support towards the Club. The initial founding spirit of volunteer input has always been one of the most admirable characteristics of the Club. These early members added two more holes by 1930. It was not until 1935 that the club could boast a nine-hole layout.

The layout of the course changed through the years. Several unique features of the club were notable. At one time a barge was anchored at the shoreline and used as No. 8 tee-off. Across the creek and in the area of No. 7 and No. 8 greens, the Japanese community had their graveyard. Etiquette demanded that your ball should be picked off the fenced burial area. St. Paul’s Anglican Church was built in 1927 when the initial golf course clearing took place. Eventually the course surrounded St. Paul’s. So there was an unusual hazard for a golf course – a church in the middle of the fairway.....one strength of the Club has been loyalty of the members. It has been their input that has made golf one of the most enjoyable pastimes in Port Alice.

The PA Golf Club was mentioned twice in “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” as well as in the MacLean’s Magazine, back in April of 1934.

As the years passed, changes were made to the course along with a new clubhouse that was built in 1977, Membership numbers have changed but the one thing that remains the same is the dedication of the volunteers that keep this club going. If you are every in Port Alice, stop by the Golf Course for a refreshment and maybe try your hand at a round of golf.

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The hospital in old Port Alice was built in 1920. It originally consisted of a kitchen, a nurses sitting room, a 3-4 bed maternity ward, a four-bed men’s ward and one private room. Four bedrooms on the second floor was home to the nurses. In 1948, thirty-one babies were born at the Port Alice Hospital.

A stay in the hospital cost $4 for mill employees. “Outsiders” were charged $5.50!

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Gail Lind, one of the few original Port Alicians

By Trish Weatherall With her feet firmly planted in Port Alice, Gail Lind has always been moving upwards.

From Girl Friday to CAO; from the village hills to a mountain top, she commits to her goals, and puts in the work to make them happen.

Gail is one of the few original Port Alicians, who for 50 years has journeyed the ups and downs of the village and has helped hold it together during tough times.

Born in ‘old’ Port Alice, the original community started in 1918 at the pulp mill site, she was the oldest daughter of Arlen Johnson, a logging camp cook, and Fred Lind (known as Skipper), captain of the Mahatta II tugboat – both also born in Port Alice.

Gail was eight when the town was relocated in 1965 to ‘new’ Port Alice, 5 km North at Rumble Beach. She remembers the excite-

ment of a brand new town and a new house across the street from present-day Lion’s Park. She called the uncleared woods there her playground, where she and her friends explored, picked berries and built forts.

“I feel very fortunate to have grown up here when I did,” she says. “I had a great childhood.”

In the 70s she says Port Alice was booming (the population was around 1,800 compared to less than 800 today). It had a drug store, a clothing store, sporting goods store, laundromat, hair salon, North Island College, a dentist, three RCMP officers; and Sea View Elementary and Junior Secondary School had about 200 students (compared to about 45 in 2015).

She went to work in 1976 at the Port Alice municipal office as ‘Girl Friday’ under Clerk Pat Gustafson.

“Pat was tough,” said Gail. “Back then I

had to re-type many letters over and over.

No mistakes. Zero.”

She learned to be very detail-oriented.

In addition to her municipal responsibilities, other assigned duties included selling insurance for ICBC, processing driver’s licences for the motor vehicle branch and serving as the secretary for the recreation commission.

She took accounting and municipal government courses, and was promoted to secretary and then to administrative assistant. All while raising two children. Her ability to balance it all helped prepare her for the challenge of her life.

When the Port Alice mill closed down in 2004, taking the main tax base with it and more than 400 jobs (including her husband Trent’s), municipal workers were laid off in the office, public works, community centre and arena.

The Chief

Administrative Officer (CAO) recommended appointing Gail as combined CAO and Treasurer, leaving her and one administrative employee to run all the village business.

“I felt like I had to do it,” she says, “for the town and for my family.”

For the next few years, Gail often worked 10-12-hour days, six or seven days a week.

“It was really tough,” she says. “There were days I was sitting at my desk and I’d think - I’m forgetting to breathe.”

But she loved her hometown, she loved her job and was committed.

“I really enjoyed the work and I had really great support of council and remaining staff,” she said. “We were all in it together to save the Village. “It was do or die.”

She successfully navigated those lean years, and in 2007, she hired a CAO and transitioned to Treasurer as

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Gail Lind has been a Village of Port Alice staple for 50 years. she prepared for her retirement.

As another mill shutdown affects the town this year, she worries for the village’s future.

“I hope that the town stabilizes and thrives once again,” she says.

“It feels a little broken right now. “ Still, she loves that it’s safe and quiet and

so accessible to the outdoor recreation she enjoys. “It’s just easy living,” she says.

For 37 years Gail walked to work, and since retiring in 2013, has increased her physical activity to include bicycling, running, and training for the Kusam Klimb - the 23km round-

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trip intense hike up Mount H’Kusam near Sayward, with the slogan ‘Are you tough enough?’.

She and Trent completed it on June 20th, with a time of five hours 53 minutes, and are already planning to reduce their climb time next year. Gail is tough enough.

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• 4:00 pm: Fishing Derby Weigh in at the Bait Shack • 5:00 pm: Presentation by Mayor Bood to Emergency Responders on Centre Stage • 9:00 pm - 2:00 am: NI Eagles Adult Dance ~ Admission $20 Band: Time Machine

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• 8:00 am: 12 Noon ~ Masons’ Kids Fishing Derby • 10:00 am: 5K Race starts down at Carrot Park ~ $5.00 Fee • 10:00 am: Soap Box Derby at C&N Hill - Admission FREE • 10:00 am: Community Church Service in the park • 12:00 - 5:00 pm: Kids Fest in the park • Bouncerama Events • Face Painting, Tattoos • Food and Refreshments in the Park • Vendors in the Park • Lions Club Refreshment Garden • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Tug A War ~ on Dragonboat ~ Weather Permitting Pacific Coastal Goose Plane Rides at the Seagate Wharf • 12:00 pm: Rotary Club Duck Race • 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Home Hardware Boat Building Contest ~ Admission FREE ~ Prizes ~ Race at 4:00 pm • 2:00 pm: Final Fishing Derby Weigh In • 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Filomi Days Idol Contest Round 1 ~ Admission FREE ~ Prizes Stage in the Park • 5:00 pm: Duck Race Winners Announced Fishing Derby Awards on Centre Stage in the Park • 9:00-9:30 pm: Final Sing Off of Filomi Days Idol • 9:30 til Dark: Live Music in the Park / Crash Palace Cowboys • 10:30 pm or So: Events to be anounced

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• 10:00 am: Street Hockey ~ $60 Team Fee - Prizes • 12:00 pm: PARADE • 12:00 - 5:00 pm: KIDS FEST IN THE PARK

• Bouncerama Events • Purple Pirate • Face Painting and Tattoos

Refreshments in the park

Lions Club Refreshments Garden

Vendors in the park

Live Entertainment in the park

Gratitude board of Emergency Responders

• 4:00 pm: Fishing Derby Weigh in at the Bait Shack • 5:00 pm: Presentation by Mayor Bood to Emergency Responders on Centre Stage • 9:00 pm - 2:00 am: NI Eagles Adult Dance ~ Admission $20 Band: Time Machine

Sunday, July 19

• 8:00 am: 12 Noon ~ Masons’ Kids Fishing Derby • 10:00 am: 5K Race starts down at Carrot Park ~ $5.00 Fee • 10:00 am: Soap Box Derby at C&N Hill - Admission FREE • 10:00 am: Community Church Service in the park • 12:00 - 5:00 pm: Kids Fest in the park • Bouncerama Events • Face Painting, Tattoos • Food and Refreshments in the Park • Vendors in the Park • Lions Club Refreshment Garden • 11:00 am - 1:00 pm: Tug A War ~ on Dragonboat ~ Weather Permitting Pacific Coastal Goose Plane Rides at the Seagate Wharf • 12:00 pm: Rotary Club Duck Race • 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Home Hardware Boat Building Contest ~ Admission FREE ~ Prizes ~ Race at 4:00 pm • 2:00 pm: Final Fishing Derby Weigh In • 4:00 - 5:00 pm: Filomi Days Idol Contest Round 1 ~ Admission FREE ~ Prizes Stage in the Park • 5:00 pm: Duck Race Winners Announced Fishing Derby Awards on Centre Stage in the Park • 9:00-9:30 pm: Final Sing Off of Filomi Days Idol • 9:30 til Dark: Live Music in the Park / Crash Palace Cowboys • 10:30 pm or So: Events to be anounced

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nEW VEHiClE SPECialS aT

20% Discount

all 2015 nEW GM VEHiClES CoME WiTH 3 MonTHS onSTar, 2 YEar no CHarGE oil CHanGES, 4lTE Wi-Fi built in, roadSidE aSSiSTanCE and PoWErTrain WarranTY For 5YrS/160,000 KMS!

2015 CHEVY 1500

Crew Cab 4x4 ,fully loaded special edition HIGH COUNTRY

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$ MSRP $64,730

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2015 CHEVY EQUINOX LT AWD, includes power group, 4cyl, remote keyless and more

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SALE PRIC

$ MSRP $35,315

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25,582!

Discount $6,773

manual, lots of standard features!

Klassens 7x14 process

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2015 CHEVY SONIC LS

Automatic, great option content and functionality!

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MSRP $17,595

Discount $3,215

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2015 GMC 1500 CREw CAB

Special Edition- All Terrain SLT Package, all the bells and whistles!

$ MSRP $21,690

MSRP $59,070

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2015 CHEVY SPARK LS

MSRP $50,300

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SALE PRIC

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13,606

Discount $3,039

Discount $9,701

AWD, Power group, 8 passenger seating, V6 with power group

SALE PRIC MSRP $16,645

40,999

2015 CHEVY TRAVERSE LS

Automatic

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SALE PRIC

47,595!

Discount $11,475

Discount $4,067

4X4 Special Edition Carbon 20 & Kodiak Packages!

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17,623!

2015 GMC 1500 DOUBLE CAB

SALE PRIC

15,756

Discount $3,539

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14,380!

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MSRP $19,295

Manual transmission, power group, Chevy mylink entertainment and more!

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2015 CHEVY CRUZE LT TURBO

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52,043!

Discount $12,687

2015 CHEVY CRUZE LS

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MSRP $40,450

32,630

Discount $7,820

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Due to the success of this event we have a HUGE amount of pre owned inventory - 2013 GMC TErrain- 35KMS, SLE AWD .............................................. $24,900 bi1376 - 2012 Chevy Cruze- 87KMS, LT TURBO. ................................................... $13,900 m5505A - 2009 GMC Acadia-96KMS, SLE FWD ..................................................... $18,900 bi1360A - 2007 FORD Focus-175KMS, ZXE SE WAGON ........................................ $4900 bi1371 - 2012 CHEVY Orlando-78KMS, LT PACKAGE............................................ $16,900 ct6844A - 2008 CHEVY Aveo-79KMS, LS, AUTO. .................................................. $6599 bi1364 - 2014 CHEVY 3500 Crew cab-29kms, LT................................................... $54900 bi1372 - 2010 CHEVY 1500 Crew cab-92kms, LT 5.3L Z71 .................................... $27,900 ct3576A - 2008 GMC 1500 Ext Cab-58kms, SLE 5.3L Z71...................................... $23,900 bi1357A - 2004 CHEVY 2500 Ext Cab-144kms, SLT LOAD ..................................... $16,900 gt5819A - 2013 GMC 1500 Crew cab, Brown-13KMS, SLE 5.3L............................. $34,900 bi1363 - 2014 CHEVY 1500 Crew cab, White-29KMS LT 1SB ................................ $35,900 bi1377

- 2011 CHEVY 1500 Crew cab, White-41KMS 4.8L V8........................... $26,900 bi1373 - 2014 CHEVY 1500 Crew cab, Black-29KMS, LOADED LTZ .................. $49,900 bi1378 - 2010 CHEVY 2500 Crew cab, Silver-104KMS, W/T .............................. $24,900 bi1380 - 2011 GMC 1500 Ext cab,Silver-133KMS, 5.3L V8 ................................ $22,900 bi1379 - 2013 GMC 1500 Ext cab,White-83kms, SL, 4.8L .................................. $26,900 ct0636A - 2008 CHEVY Colorado Crew cab-105KMS, 5CYL ......................... $17,900 ct1406A - 2010 CHEVY Colorado Ext cab 2wd-95KMS, LT ........................... $14,900 ct0576b - 2006 CHEVY Colorado Crew cab-104KMS, LT 5CYL .................... $14,900 ct6159A - 2011 GMC 2500 Ext cab - Blue ......................................................... SOLD gt0687A - 2009 CHEVY 2500 Crew cab, Blue-73kms, LT..............................New Arrival gt9437A - 1998 CHEVY 2500 Ext cab- Diesel......................................................OFFERS! bi1381 - 2013 GMC 3500 Crew cab- White- 85KMS, GAS LONG BOX ........... $36,900 bi1374

THESE UNITS ARE IN STOCK AND AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW. THERE ARE A LIMITED AMOUNT OF VEHICLES AVAILABLE ACROSS BC, SO IF WE DON’T HAVE YOURS HERE, ASK US... WE WILL TRY TO FIND ONE!