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September 23, 2015
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Making safety a cycling priority in Tofino PAGE 11
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Tofino film maker features at PRAS event PAGE 2
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The Westerly News asked four AlberniCourtenay candidates for MP their (brief) say on 10 hot-button issues ... HERE’S WHAT THEY SAID.
Salmon shark washes ashore to teach about elusive species PAGE 16
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Ucluelet black bear destroyed NORA O’MALLEY
Special to Westerly News Tagged for his appetite for garbage and fearless of human proximity, a young male bear was shot and killed on Norah Street last week by Ucluelet RCMP. It happened on Tuesday morning, Sept. 22 - or Garbage Day. “It’s the only bear that was destroyed in our area this summer. We’ve had years were it’s been six or seven. One is too many. It was a sad day. I never like doing that,” said Sgt. Jeff Swann. “It was not necessarily a problem bear to begin with. They tried displacement, putting it in a trap and driving it way out of town, with the hope it File photo of an ear- would go to a nattagged bear grazing. ural food source and stay away from the urban areas. “Unfortunately, it came back… And you can’t sit down and have a heart-to-heart with a bear, you know?” he said. The medium-sized black bear was trapped, tagged, and relocated by conservation officers a week prior to being destroyed. “It basically spent the last five days coming back to the source of easy food, which was garbage,” Swann said.
CYCLIST DIES AFTER LOSING CONTROL NEAR HYDRO HILL
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