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Local hero rescues distressed paddlers Four tourists found themselves in trouble while paddling around Ucluelet on Saturday.

The tourists were exploring Ucluelet’s coastline on Aug. 1, in two kayaks and two inflatable rafts, when waves began to overpower them, according to Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) Marine Controller Dylan Carter.

Carter told the Westerly News that several 911 calls came in from locals who had spotted the paddlers in distress before the JRCC received a call from a local mariner who had rescued the tourists around 7:30 p.m.

The local advised he had spotted the tourists in trouble and brought them safely to shore on the Chrow Islands, according to Carter.

Anyone who sees any mariners in distress, or has been involved in a rescue, is encouraged to let the JRCC know at 1-800-567-5111.

“It’s always helpful when people call in,” Carter said.

“The more information, the better for us.”

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Marla Thirsk is one of several local artists collaborating on a mural that will honour Ucluelet’s former ‘Metal Lawn Rust Home.’

Photo Andrew Bailey

TRAVEL NOT REQUIRED: It turns out local mail can stay local after all.

Public art piece honours local legend ANDREW BAILEY

Westerly News An artistic twist is being spun into a Ucluetian landmark already rich in local lore.

Wood panels inside the archways of a concrete wall next to Image West have become canvasses for a mural that will showcase an intriguing piece of Ucluelet’s history.

The wall was built by Ucluelet local Walter McBrine around 1979 and the archways were designed for locals and tourists to walk through on their way to shops that the

land’s owner Dave Manuel planned to have operating behind it.

A zoning dispute with the district office put a kibosh on Manuel’s plan so he covered the wall with a wooden facade that made the structure look like an old building.

Behind the facade was a venerable treasure trove of vintage vehicles, gardens, and walkways that combined to form what Manuel dubbed the ‘Metal Lawn Rust Home.’

Manuel passed away about 15 years ago and the Rust Home has since been cleared and grown-over but when the

facade blew down, in a 2013 storm, the concrete archways were exposed reigniting the curiosities of locals and visitors.

“People come into Image West quite often and ask about the wall next door.

It’s always a curiosity and sometimes there are quite the assumptions about it,” Courtney Johnson of Image West told the Westerly.

With so much buzz around the wall, Johnson hatched an idea to beautify it with a mural and she reached out to the Pacific Rim Arts Society (PRAS) who immediately

jumped on board.

“PRAS helped out incredibly. I’m very, very, grateful to them...They’ve bent over backwards for me. All of the support that they’ve given me and all of the help they provided, I’m incredibly grateful for,” Johnson said “Local art can visually express Ucluelet’s heart and soul for everyone to see and enjoy. I’m a performing artist, but I’m not very good with paint. If I did this myself, it would’ve been a bunch of smiley faces and hand prints.”

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Local letters can stay local Ucluelet’s municipal council was recently surprised to discover a loophole that allows local mail to stay local.

In an attempt to streamline its sorting processes in 2013, Canada Post began shipping all Vancouver Island’s mail to a processing centre in Richmond to be sorted.

This meant any letters mailed from Ucluelet to Ucluelet traveled to the mainland before being shipped back.

Ucluelet’s council recently received a letter from Susan Margles of Canada Post who explained letters submitted directly to the local post office would be sorted locally.

“With respect to Ucluelet, I am advised that mail specifically

deposited in the post office and intended for local delivery continues to be sorted at the office,” Margles wrote.

Coun. Sally Mole questioned whether this was accurate but suggested, if it was true, the district should get the word out.

“When I read that, it seems to me like if you go in there and actually hand your letter to the person (at the post office) they’ll

put it into the local (P.O.) box,” Mole said.

“Whether or not that’s true, we don’t know about it. I’ve never done that...but maybe we should check and see if that is in fact the case and then put it out there that your local mail can be sorted locally.”

After the meeting, Mole investigated the issue and was delighted to tell the Westerly News that

PRAS assembled a team of local artists including Marla Thirsk, Laura Timmermans, Joy-Lynn Eyford and Isla Helmus and the painting kicked off on Canada Day as part of the society’s Summer Festival.

Johnson said the budding scene includes an homage to Manuel and illustrates the strength of Ucluelet’s local art scene.

“Ucluelet is beautiful and we have a lot of talented artists...

It’s incredibly important to bring out everything that’s good in this community and showcase it as much as we can,” Johnson said.

“We’re a beautiful town, we should be proud of it.”

She hopes the new mural will inspire other public art projects.

“We live in a very, very, beautiful town but what is the world if you can’t make it more beautiful every chance that you get,” she said.

“You create positive things in the world when you make it more beautiful, and the world can never have too much positivity in it.

Local art is a wonderful way to achieve that.”

Johnson was stoked to receive such tremendous support from local artists and the community and she was thrilled to meet Dave’s daughter, Laura Manuel, who now owns the wall and the land behind it.

“It’s been wonderful getting to know Laura,” Johnson said. “I’ve learned a lot from her about the property and her family.”

Laura told the Westerly she was delighted when Johnson called her about the project.

“It’s fantastic. It’s a great sense of community and it’s a representation of the very talented people on the West Coast and their visions and what the West Coast represents. It’s a community and it’s a really large family,” Laura said.

“It was part of my family when I was raised there and I feel that pull back again. It’s great.”

She said seeing her father and the Rust Home incorporated into the vision was special.

“To have him really represented is amazing because he was a part of that community for more than 40 years and he was a part of it in all different ways,” she said.

She said the Rust Home was a widely photographed West Coast feature and tourists brought photos of Manuel and his treasures to their homes around the globe and she is thrilled that her father’s image will soon be traveling again.

“I feel like this is another full-circle movement where people are going to take pictures of this artwork and he’s still going to be all over the world and that’s just a great thing,” she said.

“The Rust Home was a tourist attraction and,

although there’s not rusty cars on the property anymore and there’s not his character telling people about the West Coast and interacting with them, there’s this beautiful artwork from the next generation and it’s great.”

Laura now lives in Port Alberni and she brought her kids— David, 5, named after his grandfather, and Samantha, 3—to the mural’s kick off event on Canada Day. “It was great because as I drove in (Thirsk) had just painted my dad’s face and it was dynamite,” she said.

“It was really special.

I’m just really grateful and excited about it all...It’s awesome; it’s a community thing, and it’s a family thing, and that’s fantastic.”

She expressed huge gratitude to Johnson and PRAS for organizing the work.

“This is amazing, I can’t even believe it’s happening, so just a giant thank you to them for all of their work and support,” she said. “Ucluelet is awesome.”

Pacific Rim Art Society president Mark Penney told the Westerly in an email that PRAS was happy to support the public art project.

“Public Art has a wide reaching impact. Murals in particular are effective in influencing the feel of a public space,” he said.

“Murals can also be used to lead a dialogue, form narratives, or inform viewers.

In recent years a new genre of sophisticated street art has evolved on exterior walls in communities of all sizes, worldwide.”

He said public art is an already present tradition on the West Coast.

“The First Nations of the area traditionally decorated their long-

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local mail can in fact stay local.

“I went to the post office to see if the dropping of the mail with the staff inside would get sorted locally, and the answer was ‘yes,’” she said.

Any local letters dropped into mailboxes will continue traveling to the mainland to be sorted. andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

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houses with murals and inside these spaces they hung curtains with crests and large scale paintings,” he said.

“Ucluelet has a number of murals made by Marla Thirsk, Jeff King as well as publicly placed Totem Poles, Sculptures and Historical Artifacts.”

He added public art boosts the value of Ucluelet’s sightlines.

“By enhancing the area with artwork, we are enriching the experience of locals and visitors,” he said.

“Murals have become part of the landscape here, they speak to who we are as a culture and they convey that message to our visitors.

A splash of color can have a lot of impact on a rainy winter day.

We simply wouldn’t be the same without Art in our everyday lives.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

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Ukee’s top cop headed to Port Alberni?

Coun. Sally Mole “flabbergasted” by RCMP’s lack of communication “For now, and for the foreseeable factions of our community have far future until these irons in the fire reaching, long term effects, and take get sorted out or our house sells, a lot of time to build. The trust and I will continue to be a Ucluelet respect I see between our communresident.” ity members and our local RCMP Coun. Sally Mole told the Westerly have made our community stronger News she felt “flabbergasted, angry, and more resilient.” sad, (and) dismissed,” when she Mole is also the executive director heard Swann had received his trans- of Ucluelet’s chamber of commerce fer papers despite Ucluelet’s collectand launched a letter writing camive and clear desire to keep him. paign earlier this year to allow the “I feel we’ve been largely ignored,” local business community to voice she said. “There was no consultation its opinion on the issue. done with the communities served “When we heard the news that Sgt. by our local RCMP.” Swann was likely to be transferred Mole noted Swann has overseen a a number of businesses expressed 60 per cent reduction in Ucluelet’s concern,” Mole said. crime rate since his arrival in 2009 “They were wanting to keep someand has brought a consistently posi- thing that’s been in place and has tive community presence to Ucluelet. worked. Our crime stats have been “He’s done a good job; it’s a good dropping steadily, and the business news story,” she said. community felt like we’re in a good “But also the community involvespot right now; we don’t need to ment is huge...He and his family change it, it’s not broken.” have really become leaders in this Mole received over 50 letters supcommunity.” porting Swann’s request to stay as She said the RCMP have not made well as a surprising amount of cora compelling case for Swann’s forced respondence from out-of-towners. departure and assured that she will “The ones that I got from outside continue lobbying for Swann to stay. our area we’re a great surprise to “During my term, ongoing efforts have, mostly other RCMP officers have been made to keep a valued who can’t understand why this proservice in our area. We have had cess is going the way it is going, so dialogue with every level of governthat was a nice and different perment we can, including Ottawa,” she spective,” she said. said adding Swann, who was recentMole was disappointed ly named Ucluelet’s Citizen of the and surprised to receive Year, is an appreciated and valuable no direct response from member of the community. the RCMP. “The relationships that Park emergencies: have been En cas d’urgence : 250-726-3604 built with All other inquiries: Pour plus d’information : 250-726-3500 so many FINE different

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Westerly News Sgt. Jeff Swann is down, but not out, in the fight for his right to stay in Ucluelet and both he and his community plan to keep punching.

Swann recently received a transfer order to Port Alberni.

“Port Alberni is a fantastic choice but Ucluelet is still my preferred choice,” Swann told the Westerly News.

“Slowly the nails are going into the coffin, so to speak, but I’m on the inside trying to hammer a couple nails out.”

Swann has commanded the Ucluelet RCMP detachment since 2009 and has requested a two-year extension on his posting to conclude the substantial community-policing projects he has spearheaded.

“Even though I’ve been told I have to transfer, I’m hopeful that the RCMP will still consider to reconsider. I’ve still got a few options I’m pursuing with that,” he said.

“I’m still thinking that there’s got to be some hope somewhere.”

He added that, wherever he ends up, he will remain committed to the RCMP. “I love the organization I work for, I like going to work, and I’m going to put my best product forward in whatever capacity or town that may be,” he said.

He said that if he absolutely has to move, Port Alberni is a solid destination.

“My first choice is Ucluelet and if it can’t be Ucluelet I’m excited that it’s somewhere that I’m very comfortable and familiar with,” he said.

He said the Ucluelet and Port Alberni detachments work closely together and he has enjoyed positive relationships with Port Alberni’s police.

“I know the majority of the members in Port Alberni and I’m looking forward to working with them whenever that opportunity does arise,” Tofino he said.

“Nothing has come back across my desk in response to that,” she said.

“I thought I would have had something back just even saying, ‘Thank you, we received your package,’ but nothing.”

Mole is currently leading another letter writing campaign and anyone wishing to add their voice is encouraged to email her at smole@ uclueletinfo.com.

“We’re not giving up, absolutely not,” she said adding she hopes to convince the RCMP to reexamine their decision.

“I think they really want to think this through and make sure that they’re making the right decision because the community has spoken and spoken quite loudly.”

Mole assured the fight continues and said Ucluelet’s council will meet with the RCMP in September along with leadership from the Toquaht and Ucluelet First Nations.

“There’s always optimism,” she said.

“It’s a challenge for sure, but this community is not unfamiliar with facing challenges and together we’ve got a good strong voice.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

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Community Calendar

To get an event in the Community Calendar, email office@westerlynews.ca or call 250-726-7029.

5 WEDNESDAY Seniors Social Afternoons, 1:304 p.m., Tofino Legion. Free admission & refreshments.

St. Columba Church, 7 p.m.

Tofino.

Tidepool exploration, Wild Pacific Trai Interpretive Walk. 10

a.m. Big Beach, Ucluelet.

6 THURSDAY Highway of Tears program and salmon dinner for citizens of Ucluelet First Nation, Hitacu, 5p.m., film & Q&A at 7 Healthy Babies Program/Family Ties, 10:30 a.m. Drop-in for expectant, new parents, Coastal Family Place, UCC. Ucluelet AA 8 p.m. Holy Family Church, Peninsula Rd. The Edge Youth Room, 3–6p.m., UCC & Youth Nite at the Edge, 6–8p.m.

Anglican/United Church Bible study, 10:30 a.m., UCC.

The Wild Pacific Trail Society’s Interpretive Walk program is swinging, see a full schedule of August’s events on page 11. Photos submitted.

7 FRIDAY Ukee Night Market, Ucluelet Village Green, 3-7 p.m.

Bingo, Tofino Legion, 7:30 p.m.

Tofino Library Storytime: 11:30noon. 331 Main St. Songs, stories, rhymes and more! Ages 3-5 with caregiver.

The Edge Youth Room, 2–6p.m.,

UCC. 8 SATURDAY Tofino Public Market, Tofino Village Green, 10 a.m.-2p.m.

Paul Ellis as Elvis at Officials Sports Lounge in Ukee, 9pm, $10 in advance, $15 at the Door Highway of Tears program 5 pm welcome reception with Ucluelet

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First Nation with snacks, 7 pm film & Q&A, all at UCC St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 5:30 p.m.

Tofino library, 331 Main , 10am– noon & 1–5pm.

AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis, Tofino.

‘Survival on the Edge’ Guided Walk, 10 a.m. Wild Pacific Trail, Lighthouse Loop.

Grace Bible Church, 10:30am, UCC Holy Family Church–10:00 a.m.

–Ucluelet; St. Lawrence Church, 11:00 a.m.

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St. Columba Church, 10:30 a.m United/Anglican Service, 4 p.m.

UCC. Tofino Bible Fellowship, 10:30 a.m. Tofino Legion.

9 SUNDAY Highway of Tears program 5 pm welcome reception by Tla-o-quiaht First Nation at Village Green with snacks, 7 pm film & Q&A at Clayoquot Theatre Christ Community Church, 10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet.

10 MONDAY Acoustic jam night, Every Monday. 9-12 p.m. at Officials.

Ucluelet AA, 8pm. Holy Family.

Floor hockey, 7–9pm, Ucluelet Seaplane Base Rec Hall. $2 drop-in.

Indoor Soccer, 8–10pm, Ucluelet Secondary School gym, $2.

Competitive & drop-in darts, doors 7pm, play 8pm, Tofino Legion.

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The Lands File Number that has been established for this applicaƟon is 1414388.

WriƩen comments concerning this applicaƟon should be directed to the SecƟon Head, Ministry of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource OperaƟons at 142-2080 Labieux Rd, Nanaimo, BC, V9T 6J9, or emailed to: AuthorizingAgency.Nanaimo@gov. bc.ca . Comments will be received by MFLNRO unƟl September 2, 2015. MFLNRO may not be able to consider comments received aŌer this date. Please visit our website: hƩp://arfd.gov.bc.ca/ApplicaƟonPosƟng/index.jsp for more informaƟon.

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Due to continuing record low precipitation, all residents and businesses of the District of Tofino are advised that effective July 9, 2015, Stage 2 water restrictions are in effect until further notice.

During Stage 2 Water Restrictions, all outdoor water use is prohibited: x No outdoor watering (except by hand, for food gardens) x No use of potable water for outdoor washing of any article or vehicle x No filling of hot tubs or pools Watering of food gardens by hand (i.e. by watering can or hose by hand) will be permitted only as follows: x Odd numbered civic addresses may water on Monday and Thursday between the hours of 6:00 am to 9:00 am and 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm; and x Even numbered civic addresses may water on Tuesday and Friday between the hours of 6:00 am and 9:00 am and 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm; Take the 20% challenge and do your part to reduce Tofino’s water consumption by 20% compared to last summer.

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11 TUESDAY Healthy Babies Program/Family Ties, 10:30am. Coastal Family Place, UCC. The Edge Youth Room, 3–6pm, UCC. Youth night, 7-9pm, Tofino Legion.

Youth night ANAF Ucluelet.

AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis Church, 441 Main, Tofino.

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 5 p.m.

Clayoquot Sound of Freedom, 8pm, Clayoquot Sound Community Theatre. Join master digital storytellers Dan Lewis and Bonny Glambeck for a lively multimedia journey.

Free Admission. info@ ClayoquotAction.org.

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Award-winning documentary Highway of Tears showing this weekend on the West Coast Producer and director Matt Smiley, far right, is bringing his Highway of Tears documentary to the West Coast this weekend. Over the last six months, the film has been screened in over 60 theatres.

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Special to the Westerly Montreal-born, L.A.based producer and director Matt Smiley will be screening his documentary called Highway of Tears this weekend on the West Coast.

Set on the lonely stretch of highway in Northern B.C. that connects Prince George and Prince Rupert, the film investigates the disappearance or murder of 18 women along the 724 km road. Ten of those women are First Nations.

“First and foremost, we can’t be afraid to talk about this issue.

It seems like for a lot of people the topic is tough. Even in the general media, they have an easier time talking about animal abuse and domestic abuse. It’s kind of something that’s been kept behind closed doors,” Matt Smiley told the Westerly News from his home in L.A. “What I’ve found with these screenings is that it’s helped a lot of people speak out and demystify this issue,” he said.

Since premiering at the TIFF Human Rights Watch Film Festival in March 2014, Highway of Tears has earned backto-back awards, including Best Documentary at the Malibu Film Festival, Best of Festival at the Zonta Film Festival in Ontario, and the Pacific Backlot Award for Best Doc at Women in Film & Television Vancouver.

The film, which supports a national inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered First Nations women and girls, has been screened in over 60 theatres over the last 6 months.

“I’ve gone throughout B.C., trying to push for safe and affordable public transportation. It does require a considerable investment as far as preventative measures, but there needs to be pressure on the federal and provincial government, which is something the film tries to point out,” said Smiley.

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Wild Pacific Trail receives $20,000 boost ANDREW BAILEY

Westerly News One of the West Coast’s most popular attractions is about to become even more alluring.

The district of Ucluelet has partnered with the Wild Pacific Trail Society to infuse $20,000 of improvements into the Wild Pacific Trail.

The district and the society will each invest $10,000 into the project, which will focus on particularly tricky-to-reach sections of the Lighthouse Loop to bring stunning views to currently viewless areas.

“These viewpoints will provide additional private ocean viewing areas for trail users, alleviating some of the traffic on the main trail during the busy months,” wrote Ucluelet’s parks and recreation director Abby Fortune in a report submitted to council on July 14.

The work will establish new viewpoints in unique locations and will include the installation of a new observation deck, according to the trail’s innovator and manager “Oyster” Jim Martin.

“There will be up to 10 new

viewpoints: six quite significant and then four trailside,” Martin told the Westerly.

“These are in areas where there’s no value, viewing or otherwise, where now there will be a significant increase in the value of the attraction simply by the addition of these quality viewpoints.”

He suggested improving the trail’s viewpoints will significantly improve its value.

“These add substantial and outstanding new viewpoints...Each one is an addition of a small per-

centage in their own right to the overall quality of the attraction,” he said.

“We’re not building a trail, we’re building an attraction and one of the things that attracts people most, and the most comments I get, are the number of lovely viewpoints. I refer to it as ‘streaming postcards.’”

He said the district’s support has been consistently solid since the trail’s inception in 1999 and this support illustrates an understanding of the trail’s value to the

community.

“The district of Ucluelet has been absolutely wonderful in their enthusiastic support for our project all along,” he said.

“Everyone is very supportive and this is just an example of the cooperation that we have between the society and the district to make improvements like this.”

The work will kick off this fall and is expected to take roughly two months to complete. andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

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Local youth return home from Trinidad with black belts in Purple Dragon Don Jitsu Nora O’Malley

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High fives and a huge congrats are in order for West Coast youth Everett Watson and Barkley Ahier who earned their black belts in Purple Dragon Don Jitsu at the 2015 Karate World Championships on July 24 to 26 in Trinidad and Tobago.

The students endured three days of intense physical performance and testing after which a panel of masters and grand masters convened and awarded them their black belts. The students were graded on their katas, sparring, self-defense, general fitness, and break falling. “The whole black belt grading brought us a lot closer. It was

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a great bonding experience for everyone. Not just for me and Barkley, but also we made friends with a lot of the people from Trinidad and Tobago, from Florida, New York, and from the dojo in Vancouver,� said 17-year-old Everett Watson.

Their coach, Senpai Ian Shu, also returned to Ucluelet with accolades as he was inducted into the Caribbean martial arts hall of fame as Senpai of the Year at Trinidad’s Hyatt Regency Hotel ballroom on July 19. “It’s a good recognition award,� said Senpai Ian Shu who was honoured for his 19 years of dedication to the Purple Dragon Don Jitsu Ryu System. “I’m just really happy to be back with 2 black belts.

They often say that having a colour belt is much like being in the womb and then when you reach the black belt it’s like your birth. So now, the real work begins!� he said.

Having never travelled to Trinidad and Tabogo before, Watson and Ahier experienced a bit of culture shocked and were completely blown away by the caliber of worldclass martial arts they got to witness. “There were people there that could use extreme weapons.

They could spin a staff around their neck and then change directions without using their hands and do back

flips with double nun chucks.

That was probably the most amazing part of it,� Watson candidly told the Westerly News.

In addition to hosting the black belt testing, Purple Dragon International welcomed about 500 competitors from the Caribbean Islands, the U.S., Canada, Venezuela, England, and Spain to take part in their 45th anniversary World Championships.

Watson placed 4th in the weapons kata aged 13-17 advanced boys, while Barkley placed 5th.

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They also both competed in creative katas and point sparring. “Coming from a small town in Canada so far away from the heart of our martial arts system, I felt I did really well,�

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There’s another 10 degrees of black belt to go through,� he said.

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Lantern Festival to light Tofitian night ANDREW BAILEY

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Tofino’s August sky will soon be aglow with a colourful collection of light flowing from hundreds, if not thousands, of creatively handcrafted local creations.

The 15th annual Tofino Lantern Festival will land at the Tofino Botanical Gardens on Sunday, August 16.

The event is a consistent favourite amongst the West Coast’s locals and visitors and is the Raincoast Education Society’s largest annual fundraiser.

The society’s executive director Dan Harrison told the Westerly that the event has grown substantially over the years.

“That really is a reflection of how much support we have.

Visitors and locals come out every year and support it knowing that it’s a great event,” he said.

“The event itself is incredibly enjoyable and reaches so many families...and all the proceeds go right back to all the education programs we provide in the community.”

As they get set to ring in the

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festival’s 15th appearance, the society is also celebrating its 15th birthday, as the event has been an annual staple on the society’s calendar.

“From the get go, we were a small organization and the lantern festival was a small event.

Now the organization has grown substantially and this event continues to grow with us and allows us to grow,” Harrison said.

“The funds that we receive from this event allow us to grow into the organization we’ve become...

It’s been incredibly substantial and the support has really allowed us to push through some tighter times.”

The event now brings in about $10,000 each year for the society to put towards its local programming, according to Harrison.

“I see our role as key educators for people towards understanding and appreciating the natural world; to connecting with it and being active stewards of this incredible landscape,” he said.

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Harrison added the event would not be possible without the support of the Tofino Botanical Gardens that has provided the setting for every festival to date.

“It’s an ideal partnership where we have this incredible showcasing of the coastal temperate rainforest environment that we really try to educate people about and we’re able to have an informal educational experience where people can come out and celebrate in a festival manner but also be immersed in an old growth rainforest,” Harrison said.

“There’s no better setting than the Tofino Botanical Gardens.”

Anyone looking to boost their festival experience beyond spectatorship is encouraged to become part of the festivities by putting their own lantern together at one of the Lantern Making Workshops leading up to the event.

Festival organizer Cindy Hutchison said daily workshops will run in Tofino from August 10-14, from 1–6 p.m. each day and in Ucluelet on August 10 and August 11 from 6-8 p.m.

“You get to build your own lantern, which is pretty cool, and you get to take that home with you,” Hutchison told the Westerly. “It’s a little keepsake and you get to be part of the festival.”

Pre-made lantern kits are available as well as supplies for anyone wanting to get more creative with their creation.

Supplies and pre-constructed lanterns are available from $10 to $15.

Hutchison said crafting a lantern to floss during the festivities adds to the experience and boosts the event’s significantly family friendly vibe.

“I always love when kids come the night of lantern fest. and they’re carrying their lanterns around and they’re so proud of it and they get to show it off,” she said.

“It’s a fun time too with parents and kids, they get to make it together and it’s just a really, really, fun activity...You get to bond and build something.”

The volunteer driven festival needs plenty of volunteer hands to thrive and anyone interested in helping out, with either the workshops or the event itself, is encouraged to get in touch with Hutchison at 250 266 4138 or cinds.h@gmail.com.

Parking will not be allowed at the event but shuttles will be on hand to carry festivalers from Tofino’s Village Green to the Botanical Gardens every halfhour starting at 7 p.m. andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

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Full Time Building Inspector/Building Bylaw Enforcement Officer The Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District is looking for a Full Time Building Inspector/Building Bylaw Enforcement Officer. The successful candidate must have a thorough knowledge of the BC Building Code, a solid understanding of construction methods and materials, and will be required to have or obtain, as a minimum, a Level 1 certification from the Building Officials Association of BC. Excellent communication skills, computer literacy, and a valid BC Driver’s Licence are required for this position. In general terms, the candidate would provide the public with building inspection services, inspection of wood burning appliances, and deals with building bylaw infractions.

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Dog Mountain cabins unsafe Blaze considered under control but slope instability continues state of emergency ERIC PLUMMER

Alberni Valley Times Dog Mountain is no longer considered a “wildfire of note” by the province.

But parts of the forest continue to burn, leaving lasting damage to the area’s slopes.

On Wednesday, the AlberniClayoquot Regional District extended its state of emergency for the mountain near Sproat Lake, continuing with an evacuation order affecting eight of the area’s 21 cabins.

This notice is based on preliminary results of a geohazard assessment commissioned by B.C.’s Wildfire Management Branch on

July 22 and 23. A report on this investigation has not yet been completed, but early signs show the wildfire has left behind dangerously unstable slopes.

“Properties within the evacuation area are those subject to moderate to high rockfall hazard as identified by this assessment,” stated the ACRD’s latest notice on the Dog Mountain wildfire.

Although flames continue to lick parts of Dog Mountain, the province reports the wildfire has considerably subsided since it spread to 450 hectares by mid-July. The fire was first discovered July 4, destroying at least one cabin during its week of expanding across the mountain. Firefighters are no

longer permanently on the site, but routinely check the area to ensure burning does not leave the wildfire’s perimeter. Plans call for sprinklers set up to protect the cabins to be removed by the weekend.

“Now what they’re going to do is allow the fire to continue to consume the forest fuels within that perimeter,” said Marg Drysdale, a fire information officer with the province’s Coastal Fire Centre.

“We expect that people will see open flame, we expect people will see smoke. In some cases they will see trees go up. So definitely it is an active fire.”

The Ministry of Forests approach to the Dog Mountain

fire has left several Sproat Lake residents frustrated, as an air tanker was used for only one day on July 4 when the blaze was discovered. Bob Cole questions why parts of the forest are still permitted to burn.

“Can you tell me why we have to suffer day after day of smoke and flames around the shoreline of Dog Mountain when so little effort would be required to snuff these dozen or two hot spots out?” he wrote in a letter to the province. “It is bad enough that we will have to look at this sad testimonial blight around the shores of our lake for years to come, but to have to watch it continue to gobble up bits and pieces

of shoreline unattended is salt in raw wounds.”

Meanwhile the Alberni Valley remains under an “extreme” fire danger rating after months of scarce rainfall and a weak snowpack that collected in the mountains over the winter.

An Island-wide campfire ban was lifted this week for northern areas and the fog zone along the Island’s west coast, but a prohibition remains in place for the Alberni Valley over this long weekend.

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Raw log export? Better get used to it ERIC PLUMMER

Alberni Valley Times Port Alberni’s reliance on raw log shipments is a reality the local forestry industry has to accept in order to stay afloat, says Mayor Mike Ruttan.

Members of city council met with Forest Minister Steve Thomson and other provincial officials in June and on July 17 to discuss the growing trend of unmanufactured wood heading from Port Alberni’s shore to Asian markets.

While local sawmills are employing a fraction of the workforce they had a generation ago, the number of logs shipped to

overseas mills has surged from 82,272 tonnes in 2006 to 783,381 tonnes last year, according to the Port Alberni Port Authority’s records.

Meanwhile the volume of manufactured wood has fluctuated under 90,000 tonnes during the past decade. Lumber exported from the port authority’s berths totalled of 76,854 tonnes in 2014.

Ruttan’s meetings left him with the message the raw log trend is needed to allow forestry companies to keep jobs in the Valley. “It makes it possible for them to continue to do business,” he said.

So far this year, 32 ships have

docked at the port authority’s berths to receive raw logs, while six vessels were loaded with manufactured lumber.

The trend was similar in 2014, with 53 raw log shipments and 13 lumber vessels. Sixty three per cent of raw logs were exported to China last year, with the remainder going to Japan and South Korea; all of the lumber is cut from a Western Forest Products mill bound for Japan.

Western’s Alberni Pacific Division mill also cuts wood for China, but not enough to fill a ship, said port authority terminal manager Mike Carter this spring.

“It’s not that we’re not producing wood - we are producing a lot of wood - it’s just we’re not producing enough at any one time to justify a ship coming in,” Ruttan said. “A lot of our wood that we manufacture in Port Alberni actually goes over the hump and gets assembled in Nanaimo or Cowichan Bay and then shipped out of there.”

Vancouver Island’s largest forestry company, WFP, is taking steps to improve sawmill capacity but the majority is going into facilities on the east side of the Island.

In 2013 the company announced

a $125-million capital plan including $6.7 million allotted for the Alberni Pacific Division sawmill. Another $38 million project is underway to improve Ladysmith’s Saltair mill, and $28 million in upgrades are slated for the Duke Point facility in Nanaimo.

Ruttan said Thomson has opted to step back and let the companies decide which communities are worth investing in. “He didn’t seem to feel to feel that the provincial government was in a position to really influence it that directly.”

Eric.Plummer@avtimes.net

Single-vehicle accident sends six people to hospital Nanaimo Daily News Six people were sent to hospital following a single-vehicle accident on Quennell Road, south of Nanaimo, on Saturday afternoon.

Nanaimo RCMP received the call

just after 2 p.m., with six people reported injured and one apparently trapped under the vehicle.

When RCMP officers arrived several people who came across the accident were performing

first aid on the injured. One male was unresponsive and was under the vehicle. Cedar Fire Department personnel arrived on scene and the man was removed from under the vehicle. Numerous

ambulances were required to transport the injured to hospital in Nanaim. Two air ambulances were required to transport two of the injured to Victoria General Hospital.

All six occupants are reported to be in serious but stable condition.

The extent of their injuries is not known at this time.

The Nanaimo RCMP traffic unit is investigating the accident.

Nanaimo adults toss back 125 litres of booze per year ROBERT BARRON

Nanaimo Daily News The average adult in Nanaimo drinks an average of 125 litres of alcohol each year, say statistics provided by Island Health. That’s well above the provincial average of 103 litres of liquor per person, but close to the average on Vancouver Island of 124 litres.

But Nanaimo’s drinking statistics pale in comparison to Lake Cowichan, where statistics indicate the average person drinks a whopping 320 litres of alcohol each year. The statistics are included in Island Health’s local health profiles for communities

on Vancouver Island. The stats don’t distinguish between the types of alcohol that are being consumed. They are determined by sales in each community’s private and public liquor stores.

Lake Cowichan mayor Ross Forrest said there are several reasons why his community’s alcohol consumption appears to be higher than others on the Island. He said the main one is that Lake Cowichan’s population of approximately 3,100 people more than doubles with tourists during the summer season.

“All of our campgrounds are full all summer long with visitors and

tourists on vacation and I’m sure they are keeping the local liquor stores pretty busy,” Forrest said.

“I’m not saying that the local residents don’t drink, but liquor sales in this area are driven a lot by the huge amount of people that vacation here.

“There is also the fact that our local pub closed two years ago and almost all local liquor sales around here are now made at the liquor stores.”

With just 82 litres of liquor consumed per person each year, according to Island Health, the residents of Ladysmith drink less than any other Island community.

Paul Hasselback, medical health officer for central Vancouver Island, said liquor consumption on the Island decreased shortly after the province introduced more stringent drinking and driving laws a few years ago.

But he said the numbers have been “creeping back up.”

“I don’t think there has been enough concerted attention given to the downsides of alcohol abuse on the general population,” Hasselback said. “There has been a lot of work in recent years informing pregnant women of the dangers of alcohol, but the same level of warnings are not there in which

the correlations between alcoholrelated illnesses and alcohol sales in each community are assessed and compared.”

He said recommendations from the province’s recently completed liquor review would actually see an increase in accessibility to alcohol. He said health authorities would like to see higher prices for liquor with high alcohol content, and minimum prices put in place.

Robert.Barron@nanaimodailynews.com

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Tofino local searching for stolen bike ANDREW BAILEY

Westerly News Tofino’s summer has been tainted by a troubling trend.

Thieves have been hitting Tofino particularly hard this summer and, last week, long-time local Warren Rudd became a victim of the growing concern.

Rudd parked his black and gold Norco Bushpilot in the bike rack behind his apartment building on Arnet Road late at night on July 27 and arrived the next morning to discover it had vanished.

He immediately reported the theft to the RCMP. Rudd told the Westerly News

that he usually locks his bike but he had neglected to do so that night and thought little of it.

“It’s not normally a risky area to leave one’s bike,” he said. “Theft hasn’t been a problem from there.”

Rudd has lived in Tofino for the past 23 years and has never had a bicycle stolen.

The Norco Bushpilot has been his primary mode of transportation for the past six years and losing it led to significantly slower commutes.

“It was a real drag. I had to walk around and it took a lot longer to get stuff done,” he said.

A friend has since lent Rudd a

loaner bicycle.

Rudd has searched all around town for his Norco but has so far come up empty-handed.

“If someone ‘borrowed’ it to get home, there’s a good chance that it’s either still at their place or they’ve tossed it in the bushes, or anywhere, and it’s not visible,” he said.

“A lot of people have said they will keep an eye out for it...I’ve received lots of sympathy and support but have had no luck yet.”

He hopes whoever snatched it will return it.

“Please bring it back because it’s how I get around,” he said. “Or let someone know where it is.”

He said his bike is one of several

that have been stolen in Tofino this summer.

“It’s a shame that it’s gotten to the point where we have to lock our doors and our bikes all the time now,” he said.

“It makes you feel less comfortable in your own Warren Rudd sent the Westerly this photo of a bicycle community.” that’s similar to the one that was stolen from him

andrew.bailey@ last week. Unlike this bicycle, Rudd’s may still have its westerlynews.ca black fenders and a black rear rack.

Saturday Fun at Tofino Public Market On the Tofino Village Green, the Tofino Public Market brings dozens of vendors to the people under clear or cloudy skies, from May Long Weekend until the end Of September, on Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

With the slogan “Make it! Bake it! Grow it! Gather it!” the market offers everything from artisan wares and crafts to upcycled creations, fresh food and drinks and live entertainment and art fun for kids.

To name a few: vendors include Tofino DNA Clothing, the Foggy Bean Coffee Company, Tofino Soap Co., Chocolate Tofino, Christy Feaver Modern Metalworks, Joleen Sohier Jewelry, Allison Tremain, Rainwater Soap & Candle Co., Six Hundred Degrees, Rosa’s Jewellery, The Beadcombers, Lisa Fletcher Jewellery, Postelsia Press, Tofino Photography, Ahoy! Bags, Nature’s Elements Jewellery, Kate Koreski Jewellery, artists Catherine Craig, Claire Watson, Marney Saunders Pottery, Loden Clothing, Tofino Cake Studio, St. Columba Church, photographer David Crombie, Clayoquot Action.

Music on the Green puts a melody to the market.

Shown here, Krista Tremellow entertains at the Tofino Public Market. Tremellow is the host of Jam Night at Officials in Ucluelet.

Coming up on Aug. 8, from 12-2 p.m., look for Andrew Giesbrecht on the gazebo stage, playing mostly show tunes from the 40’s-60’s, blues and jazz, Andrew can rock out on the guitar, piano, bass and tambourine.

Then, on Aug. 15 from 10-11:45 look for Adam Bay, who brings deep West Coast roots and a life-long passion for global sounds. His first instrument was the Didgeridoo, but he can play everything from the weissenborn to ukulele as a multi talented one-man show.

Coordinator Erika Greenland is always on the lookout for regional talent, get in touch with her on the market’s Facebook page.

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Tofino’s Hobson, Vickers showcased in Aug. 15 ‘Tapestry’ ANGELA COWAN Peninsula News Review

Gather a wealth of prose, paintings and photographs from Canadian artists, weave them together into a series of story lines celebrating the country and its landscapes, set it all to a

score of original music, and you’ll have Whistling Fish Production’s utterly unique show, A Northern Tapestry. Coming to the Clayoquot Community Theatre in Tofino on Aug. 15 at 7:30 p.m., the show is the brainchild of musician and songwriter Geoff Noble and actor

and writer Susan Shillingford.

The show boasts 402 images from Canadian artists past and present, including renowned artists Emily Carr, Robert Bateman, Tofino’s Mark Hobson and Roy Henry Vickers.

The idea grew to include reading

prose passages from Canadian authors and poets, and soon the whole thing took on a life of its own. From fishing boats in the maritimes, to the stark landscapes of the North and across to the coastal shoals of B.C., every province and territory is in the

spotlight.

Noble has written 11 original songs, each to celebrate a different aspect of Canada. “The marriage of what’s being said with the images and the music is just amazing,” says Arthur Black, who lends his voice to the show.

Huckleberry’s Coffee Shop & Bakery and West Coast Roasters Up Forbes Road, just up from Co-Op Gas Bar, there’s a sweet little family-owned bakery and coffee roaster with fresh beans and tasty treats.

Huckleberry’s Coffee Shop & Bakery is operated by Ken and Ghonda Waite and their family. They also operate West Coast Roasters, and sell the blends for brewing at home, as well as the coffee, which can be enjoyed iced as well.

Their fruit smoothie selection has a good selection of fruit to choose from, as well as popular healthy ingredients like flax seed and hemp seed as well as yogurt, coconut milk and other faves.

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Salt Caramel Car Waites also stock some fresh produce from Naesgaard’s and Huckleberry’s own greenhouse.

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