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because there are not enough homes here,” Simister said. Simister said being a foster parent takes compassion and is often a thankless, emotional job, making it difficult to recruit more willing families. “The media portrays foster homes as evil and hurtful,” she said. “It is not at all what the TV portrays. We are self-sacrificing who bend over backwards for people and deal with grief and loss daily. Who would want that job?” Simister said the end result is more youth heading to the streets and turning to drugs and alcohol. She said it is time for a change and is taking initiative. Her goal is to launch a new service based on an Australian model of care where the children remain at home under qualified supervision and the parents leave for necessary services and treatments. “Ask any foster parent after a few years and they will tell you that discouraging is the main feeling,” Simister said. “You watch lives go downhill. A lot of people are working hard to do good things but the system is failing and it is time for a change.”
Canada’s environmental legislation has been “gutted” by the Conservative Party, according to a questioner at the Courtenay-Alberni All Candidates Meeting on Tuesday evening. Environmental issues were brought up multiple times during the meeting, hosted at the Italian Hall by the Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce with the Port Alberni and District Labour Council. Nearly 300 people filled the hall with five candidates present from the federal Conservative, Liberal, NDP, Green and Marxist-Leninist parties. After opening remarks the candidates fielded questions in an open mic format. They were given about a minute to answer before their microphones were shut off. Questions ranged from poverty issues, to health care budgets, free trade agreements, concerns over legislation and the behaviour of MPs in the House of Commons. Much of the evening focused on attacks on the Conservative Party’s record over the past nine years, with John Duncan defending jabs at his party from the other four candidates and the audience. “Environmental legislation has not been ‘gutted’,” Duncan said in response to one of the questions. “Environmental legislation has been updated to reflect the modern reality that we do have a resource sector. The resource sector was hampered in every way at every turn by antiquated legislation. Have you noticed how easy it is to build a pipeline these days under the current rules?” Canada leads the G7 nations in research and development money from the federal government, he added. Over 90 per cent of requests to the department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) for interviews were approved last year, Duncan said, defending the government from accusations that it lacks transparency. “The protocol hasn’t changed.”
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he province’s Ministry of Children and Family Development says more supports are available for children in care, but an Alberni foster parent of 30 years believes the system is failing B.C.’s most vulnerable residents. Question period of the first fall session of the legislature on Monday opened with opposition against Stephanie Cadieux, cabinet minister for children and family development. New Democrat leader John Horgan raised the issue of children under ministry care following the death of 18-year-old Alex Gervais. The youth, in foster care, was placed in an Abbotsford motel and fell from the fourth floor last week. Despite statistics that back the ministry’s actions, opposition is calling for the premier to step down. “Today we have on the ground 110 more child protection workers than we did this time last year,” Cadieux said. “The number of children in care is at its lowest level in over 19 years – over 3,000 children lower than in 2001.” “I question those numbers and it is an irrelevant statement,”
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said Scott Fraser, MLA for Alberni-Pacific Rim. “The government did measurable cuts in 2002 and never replaced that. They have been behind the eight ball ever since. The government has been underfunded and under resourced for over a decade.” Fraser said there are more children with complex needs requiring care, something local advocate and foster parent, Theresa Simister agrees with. Gervais’ death is an extreme example of the ministry’s failings, said Horgan, but Simister has witnessed children receiving inadequate care on a local level. As a foster parent for 30 years, Simister has cared for more than 50 children in her home and says
the system is failing. “I started out because I wanted to help, but what I see mainly is that it is not working,” she said. “Kids are not getting any longterm benefits from foster care.” She said foster parents like herself can provide short-term support, including immediate safety, food and clothing, but she has witnessed teens returning to similar situations from which they were taken, including drug and alcohol abuse. Often children are bounced back and forth within months between different foster homes and their own homes, while the their biological parents undergo addiction treatment. Simister said that creates a lack of continuity in young lives and little chance to develop through socialization and extracurricular activities. “Every home in this Valley is full, and some have extensions where they can take extra children,” Simister said. Between the Ministry of Children and Family Development and USMA Nuu-chah-nulth Family and Child Services, there are 77 children in foster care in Port Alberni. “Kids are sent to Nanaimo
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Wayne Coulson, President and CEO of Coulson Aircrane, was recognized by the B.C. Aviation Council in September with an entrepreneur of the year award. He is pictured with the company’s Hawaii Mars water bomber on Sproat Lake. [FILE PHOTO]
Alberni entrepreneur wins BC Aviation Council award Coulson says airport expansion will benefit Valley economy ERIC PLUMMER ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES
Wayne Coulson’s interest in aircraft was sparked in 1984 when his family’s company bought its first helicopter. The Coulson Group of Companies has a logging history dating back to the 1930s, but 31 years after acquiring that forestry helicopter, aviation has grown to encompass a large part of the corporation’s activities. “We then purchased our first Sikorsky S-61 in 1986,” wrote Coulson in an email to the AV Times. “We excelled there in helicopter logging, fire fighting, offshore oil and gas, [as well as] transport of U.S. Troops in Afghanistan working worldwide.” As president and CEO of Coulson Aircrane, the Alberni-bred businessman was recognized by his peers in the aircraft industry with an entrepreneur of the year award from the B.C. Aviation Council in September. Coulson Aircrane employs 30 people at the Alberni Valley Regional Airport, where the company is currently focusing on manufacturing eight sets of Sikorsky helicopter sand filters for a customer operating with the U.S. Military in South Africa. The company also converts Hercules C-130 airplanes with water and retardant tanks for firefighting contracts. Mainten-
“There is no doubt in our minds that the airport will grow the Port Alberni economy. While everyone loves certainty in business we live with very little, and it is up to us to create opportunities to prosper.” Wayne Coulson, CEO of Coulson Group
ance on these planes is being done in San Bernardino, California and Singapore, while Coulson plans to equip a C-130 with a 16,600-litre tank in Edmonton later this month in time for a forest firefighting contract in Australia that begins in late November. “At the present time minimal work can be done to the C-130 in Port, so we will be moving teams to Edmonton in October,” Coulson said. “Our long-term plan is to install a structure at the airport that the C-130 will fit in and do maintenance at home.” With the absence of a global positioning system and a shorter runway than most commercial airports, the Alberni aviation company is limited with what’s currently available at the airport near Sproat Lake. Large government grants have yet to
support the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District’s $7.5-million plan to upgrade the airport, but Coulson is confident the expansion project will benefit the Valley’s economy. This summer the ACRD passed a bylaw that allows the airport project to be funded by loans and property taxes. “There is no doubt in our minds that the airport will grow the Port Alberni economy,” said Coulson. “While everyone loves certainty in business we live with very little, and it is up to us to create opportunities to prosper.” Eric.Plummer@avtimes.net » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@avtimes.net. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
He suggested that his political opponents are propagating a false “narrative” and misleading the public. Of course, the other candidates disagreed. “We’re going to repeal the bills that have gutted Canada’s environmental laws,” promised NDP candidate Gord Johns. “We’re also going to restore funding to the DFO, we’re going to unmuzzle scientists.” Johns noted the NDP’s support for the United Nations’ climate change summit, promising to “set targets” and “reduce emissions.” He pointed out his party’s efforts to pass climate change legislation through Parliament, which passed the House of Commons but was defeated in the Senate. “We will continue to pursue our Environmental Bill of Rights,” Johns said. Liberal Party candidate Carrie Powell-Davidson said her party would be “reinstating” $40 million to the DFO that had been cut by the Conservatives. “We will be empowering the DFO to make more scientific studies and exercise their scientific rights,” she said. “We will be working with fisheries to have co-management and utilize the expertise of the local people who have been [fishing] for years.” The Liberals would work “very closely with communities and with our provincial partners to make sure our oceans and our freshwater habitats are preserved.” The “reasonable starting point” for the Marxist-Leninist Party is to “repeal every single piece of legislation that has touched any environmental regulation,” said candidate Barbara Biley. “Regroup the scientists, bring them back and take away all the restrictions, and establish whatever we need going forward on the basis of that science,” she said. “Also on the basis of what has been brought to the attention of the government by environmental organizations and First Nations across the country. That’s the voice that has to be listened to.” Green Party candidate Glenn Sollitt echoed the NDP’s prom-
ise to repeal the Conservative Party’s changes to environmental laws. They would do this through an omnibus bill, which packages together several pieces of legislation for a single vote in Parliament to limit debate and scrutiny. “Second, we’re going to make omnibus bills illegal,” Sollitt said, critiquing the current government’s use of them. “The third thing we have to do is more difficult and that has to do with our free trade agreements,” Sollitt said, naming the North American Free Trade Agreement, the Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreements and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “That’s where we’re really in danger of losing our sovereignty, where we lose the protection of our environment.” Environmental groups and opposing parties accuse the federal government of weakening the Canadian Environment Assessment Act by reducing the number of environmental reviews, removing protection for some fish species, and lifting legal protection of most of the country’s lakes and rivers with the Navigation Protection Act. Martin.Wissmath@avtimes.net » We want to hear from you. Send comments on this story to letters@avtimes.net. Letters must include daytime phone number and hometown.
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Heeding the Pope’s climate message
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ope Francis covered a lot of moral ground in his speech to the United Nations on Friday, as the world body marks its 70th anniversary. He spoke of war and peace, nuclear arms control, dignity, social justice, poverty, girls’ education, religious freedom, drug trafficking and more. He also touched on an overarching theme — the future of the Earth itself — threatened as it is by climate change driven by “a selfish and boundless thirst” for power and money, as he put it. In Francis’s view, God’s very creation is imperiled by the relentless ravaging of the planet’s natural resources for profit, heedless of the consequences. Humankind “is not authorized to abuse it (creation), much less to destroy it,” he told the UN General Assembly. There’s “a
certain sacredness” to created nature, he said. That concern resonates strongly here in Canada, and not just among members of Francis’s Roman Catholic flock. Early in his tenure Conservative leader Stephen Harper pronounced Canada an “emerging energy superpower,” and he has made this country an international pariah in environmental circles by spending the past decade encouraging aggressive exploitation of the western oilsands and dodging any responsibility for curbing the greenhouse gas emissions that are warming the planet to a dangerous level. That abdication of responsibility doesn’t sit well with a large majority of Canadians, four in five in one recent poll, who have come to share the Pope’s view that we need to do better. They want whomever
they elect on Oct. 19 – and that includes another Conservative government, if the party wins a rare fourth consecutive term – to show more leadership than Harper has to date in tackling climate change. It has become an issue of trust on the stump. In his years in office Harper has consistently decried carbon taxes as “job killers.” While his government promises to cut greenhouse emissions by 30 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030, it has no credible plan to curb oilsands output, our fastest-growing source of emissions, nor has it come up with regulations to meet its target. New Democrat Leader Thomas Mulcair, in contrast, favours a practical Quebec/Ontariostyle cap-and-trade system to price carbon, currently about $16 a metric tonne. He also vows to end fossil fuel subsidies and make polluters pay. Ambi-
tiously, the NDP aims to cut emissions by 34 per cent below 1990 levels by 2025. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals also propose to “put a price on carbon pollution” by working with the provinces. As well, he would invest heavily in clean technologies and phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Elizabeth May’s Green Party would also tax carbon, and rebate dividends to the public. She’d leave most of the oilsands in the ground and eliminate fossil fuel subsidies. The Greens aim to cut emissions by 40 per cent below 1990 levels by 2025. All three opposition parties come closer to subscribing to the Pope’s view that political leaders have an obligation to put forward “concrete steps and immediate measures for preserving and improving the natural environment” from
further despoilment. Of course, Francis couched his concern for the environment in religious language, invoking the Creator as a loving architect of the universe, the notion of humankind as stewards of creation, and the intrinsic value of life. But there was no mistaking his hard-headed, practical “ask” of political leaders in Canada and other energy-rich countries. At the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 11, he challenged them to come up with “fundamental and effective agreements” to curb carbon use, and halt a damaging warming trend. It would be good to see Canada play a constructive, leading role at those talks after playing the spoiler for so long.
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Truck traffic concerns from Anderson Avenue As an Anderson Avenue resident I am responding to a motion from the last council meeting. I am requesting that council reduce truck traffic on Anderson Avenue, not increase it and I ask council to establish an alternate route that diverts truck traffic away from our residential area on Anderson. I’m not convinced there is a problem with trucks passing through Third Avenue, which, from Mar to Redford, is a commercial and industrial corridor. It is wide, with four lanes and good sightlines. I note there was a complaint voiced about the traffic noise experienced when sitting outside drinking coffee on the Steam Punk café patio. That patio is literally on the road — it is built on former parking spaces, so of course there will be traffic noise. Fortunately, all traffic stops at Third and Angus and Argyle intersections and is not proceeding through that area at a high rate of speed, as they do on Anderson. The dump truck traffic from the Dry Creek
project is, of course, temporary. The nine blocks of Anderson Avenue is entirely residential; there is not a single commercial property on our street. However, the truck traffic and noise begins as early as 4 a.m. and continues all day long. In addition to the industrial truck traffic, there are RVs and pickups hauling boats and campers, going to and from China Creek Marina and Bamfield. Traffic is non-stop on summer weekends. The council ’s direction to staff to speak with trucking companies is one approach to the problem, but I ask that you also direct staff members to canvas the residents of Anderson Avenue. There is a need for balance – to consider the need of a local business versus the needs of hundreds of local residents, the values of their properties, and their right to enjoy those properties in peace. Clearly, an alternate truck route is needed along the industrial waterfront or another route that circumvents residential areas. Roz Chapman Port Alberni
There’s so much formal focus on full disclosure of donors to all politicians running in an election campaign, all the while what counts at least equally as much as political donations is who’s hiring and signing the paycheques of the journalists and editors within the mainstream news-media – in other words, what large portion of the news-media ownership has significant interests (e.g. massive quantities of natural resource extraction) in an election’s outcome? What I have clearly noticed over the last couple decades is that (notwithstanding the rare exception of a significantly polarizing election-campaign pop-up issue) a large majority of working people feel they’ve not the required time nor energy to become sufficiently informed about all that’s at stake with an election outcome; therefore, to bother voting at all the said working people feel compelled to rely on the mainstream new-media to accurate-
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Irene Towell, manager of the Alberni-Clayoquot branch of the SPCA enjoys walking her dog and ensuring the care of all of the animals at work each day. [KRISTI DOBSON, TIMES]
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rene Towell is a familiar face among animal lovers and rightfully so. She has been an employee of the Alberni-Clayoquot branch of the BCSPCA for thirty years. Irene has not always lived in Port Alberni, but knew it felt like home the moment she stepped foot on her country acreage more than three decades ago. Born and raised in Birkenhead in the United Kingdom, Irene was always surrounded by many people and animals. Her family includes her sister and two brothers, as well as her late mother, father and sister. While her mother spent the majority of time as a stay-at-home mom, Irene’s father worked as a heavy equipment operator. She was also close to her paternal grandmother and the two shared their love of animals. “I have been interested in animals ever since I can remember,” she said. “I was fortunate growing up. I always had a lot of pets and spent time with my sister riding horses.” The family always had at least one cat and two dogs and she gained a naturally-instilled work ethic by helping with animal care. She was also involved in the Pony Club and participated in some showing events. “It taught me about compassion and responsibility,” Irene said. “We looked after the horses ourselves before and after school everyday. It was a labour of love.” After graduating from high school, Irene attended a technical college for bookkeeping to gain practical business skills. Near the same time, she met her future husband, Phil. Both animal lovers, she kept riding horses and Phil enjoyed soccer. Phil’s family lived in British Columbia, so the two spent time in the region on visits. They realized the west coast suited their lifestyle and decided to make the move when Irene was 22 years old. “It was a hard decision to leave my family, but before my parents passed away, they would come visit once or twice a year and my brothers still do every year,” she said. “We are still able to maintain a close family.” The two first moved to Richmond for a short time before relocating to Vancouver Island. They spent two years in Victoria and made Port Alberni their permanent home two years later. Phil acquired a job at Somass Mill as a steam fitter. He then opened his own business in the trade and now works on projects around B.C. They knew Port Alberni was home and proved to be the best place to raise a family, where they instilled the same values, love of animals and provided a lot of fresh air in which to play. In 1985, Irene was hired with the SPCA and began caring for the animals. The branch was located on nearby property until the current building was constructed in 1999. In 1990, she became the special provin-
cial constable and conducted cruelty to animal investigations. It was a hard job, emotionally, she said. “You get attached as caregivers,” Irene said. “It can be an emotionally draining job. In 2003, we were involved in a couple of prosecutions for puppy mill breeders. That was a very busy year.” She said that although cruelty to animals is an issue everywhere, Port Alberni is a compassionate community. “A lot of people take really good care of their animals, but there are always a few cases where animals are in need of help,” she said. “A lot of times it is not deliberate, but the animals are in neglect.” In 1995, Irene was promoted to manager of the local branch, a position she holds with much respect. She knew then that the organization would have to rely on donations and fundraising to meet its program goals. The branch launched its own walk, Hike the Dike, before a province-wide initiative was born around 2005. Paws for a Cause takes place in communities all over B.C. at different times, and in Port Alberni, pet owners will be lacing up their running shoes for a dog walk this Sunday, Oct. 4. Registration beings at 11 a.m. at Blair Park, followed by the walk around the dike, barbecue lunch and prizes. The event raises funds for and awareness of cruelty to animals.
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NON-CONTACT HOCKEY An even final score is a rare occurrence in rugby, but the Black Sheep settled for their second tie game in six months on Saturday in Duncan. Port Alberni’s men’s rugby union club were in Duncan to face Cowichan RFC for a Times Cup match, finishing with a 25–25 tie. Cowichan is tough competition but the Black Sheep’s team effort has seen “considerable improvement,” said head coach Jas Purewal. Some disciplinary infractions near the end of the match may have cost Port Alberni the lead. Matt Kelly opened up the scoring for the Sheep. Cowichan came back to score two uncoverted tries to go ahead 10–5. Jordan Kurucz hit a penalty goal before Cowichan scored again to make it 15–8. Port Alberni’s Ty Shannon picked off a pass near the centre to run it in for a try,
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— one on an empty net — Clippers winger Sheldon Rempal kept himself atop the B.C. Hockey League scoring race with 14 points in seven games. But the real show was put on by his linemate, centre Matt Hoover, who scored two goals and an assist en route to being named as the game’s first star. His first goal of the night was a highlight, as he knocked a puck out of the air, chipped it around a defender and knocked it into the goal. It was the Clippers’ third of the goal and gave them
a lead they would never give up. Hoover explained the goal after the game. “I was thinking to myself, ‘well I’m not going to get to this puck,’ but their guy came across a little too quick so I thought if I could get around this guy I could chip it over,” Hoover said. “I did a nice little hop and the goalie just missed it on the poke check and I was fortunate enough to just chip it over his pad, so it was a tough one to get but I’m glad I got it and we could start crawling back from there.”
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EAST DIVISION
:HGQHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV New Jersey 4 Philadelphia 2 Detroit 7 Pittsburgh 2 Washington at Carolina Boston at N.Y. Rangers 7XHVGD\¡V UHVXOWV Buffalo 4 Toronto 0 San Jose 2 Vancouver 1 Winnipeg 4 Ottawa 3 (OT) Edmonton 4 Arizona 0 Calgary 2 Colorado 0 Pittsburgh 4 Tampa Bay 2 Columbus 5 Nashville 2 St. Louis 4 Dallas 1 Anaheim 2 Los Angeles 1 (OT) 7KXUVGD\¡V JDPHV Ottawa at Montreal, 7:30 p.m. Dallas at Tampa Bay, 7:30 p.m. Buffalo at Minnesota, 8 p.m. Chicago at St. Louis, 8 p.m. Calgary at Winnipeg, 8 p.m. Vancouver at Edmonton, 9 p.m. Colorado at Anaheim, 10 p.m. )ULGD\¡V JDPHV Columbus at Buffalo, 7 p.m. Pittsburgh at Carolina, 7 p.m. Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m. Boston at Washington, 7 p.m. Toronto at Detroit, 7:30 p.m. San Jose at Arizona, 10 p.m.
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T—2:12. A—13,860 (49,586).
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NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE New England Buffalo N.Y. Jets Miami
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DeSclafani pitched to 2 batters in the 6th. WP—Ne.Ramirez, DeSclafani 2. T—3:00. A—21,397 (42,319).
Green Bay Minnesota Detroit Chicago
WEST Arizona St. Louis San Francisco Seattle
ATP
SHENZHEN OPEN At Shenzhen, China 6LQJOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG Tomas Berdych (1), Czech Rep., def. Austin Krajicek, U.S., 7-5, 6-3. Tommy Robredo (3), Spain, def. Hiroki Moriya, Japan, 7-5, 6-3. Jiri Vesely (6), Czech Rep., def. Zhang Zhizhen, China, 6-2, 6-3. Simone Bolelli, Italy, def. Victor E. Burgos (8), Dominican Rep., 6-0, 4-0, retired.
MALAYSIAN OPEN $W .XDOD /XPSXU 0DOD\VLD 6LQJOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Mischa Zverev, Germany, def. Rajeev Ram, U.S., 7-6 (2), 3-6, 6-3. Joao Sousa, Portugal, def. Michal Przysiezny, Poland, 6-2, 6-2. 6LQJOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG Ivo Karlovic (3), Croatia, def. Nikoloz Basilashvili, Georgia, 7-5, 4-6, 6-3. Benjamin Becker, Germany, def. Jeremy Chardy (6), France, 5-7, 6-1, 7-5. Nick Kyrgios (7), Australia, def. Tatsuma Ito, Japan, 6-3, 6-2. 'RXEOHV Âł )LUVW 5RXQG Philipp Oswald, Austria, & $GLO 6KDPDVGLQ 3LFNHULQJ 2QW , def. Marcos Baghdatis, Cyprus, & Viktor Troicki, Serbia, 7-6 (4), 6-2.
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EAST
E—Jos.Reyes (3). LOB—Colorado 8, Arizona 11. 2B—Arenado (40), Brito (2), Goldschmidt (37), D.Peralta (26). 3B—Morneau (3), Gosselin (1). SF— LeMahieu, Gosselin, D.Peralta.
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TENNIS
NHL PRE-SEASON
CFL
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FOOTBALL
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WTA
INTERIOR DIVISION GP Penticton 6 Salmon Arm 6 West Kelowna 6 Vernon 7 Merritt 7 Trail 6
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MOVES BASEBALL $0(5,&$1 /($*8( L.A. ANGELS — Selected contract of LHP Jo-Jo Reyes from Salt Lake (PCL). Designated INF Grant Green for assignment.
FOOTBALL
TASHKENT OPEN $W 7DVKNHQW 8]EHNLVWDQ 6LQJOHV Âł 6HFRQG 5RXQG Annika Beck (1), Germany, def. Jana Cepelova, Slovakia, 6-4, 6-4. Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Carina Witthoeft (2), Germany, 4-6, 6-2, 6-2. Johanna Larsson (4), Sweden, def. Nigina Abduraimova, Uzbekistan, 6-2, 6-2. Kateryna Kozlova, Ukr., def. Katerina Siniakova (5), Czech Rep., 7-6 (4), 6-3. Anna-Lena Friedsam, Ger., def. Margarita Gasparyan (6), Russia, 6-3, 6-4. Bojana Jovanovski, Serbia, def. Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, 6-4, 6-3. Evgeniya Rodina, Russia, def. Yaroslava Shvedova, Kazak., 6-4, 7-6 (4). Nao Hibino, Japan, def. Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarus, walkover.
'21*)(1* 02725 :8+$1 OPEN At Wuhan, China 6LQJOHV Âł 7KLUG 5RXQG Johanna Konta, Britain, def. Simona Halep (1), Romania, 6-3, 3-6, 7-5. Roberta Vinci (15), Italy, def. Petra Kvitova (3), Czech Rep., 7-6 (3), 6-2. Garbine Muguruza (5), Spain, def. Ana Ivanovic (9), Serbia, 4-6, 6-1, 6-0. Angelique Kerber (6), Germany, def. Camila Giorgi, Italy, 6-2, 6-4. Venus Williams, U.S., def. Carla Suarez Navarro (7), Spain, 6-3, 6-4. Karolina Pliskova (8), Czech Rep., def. Elina Svitolina (12), Ukr., 2-6, 6-4, 6-4. Anna Karolina Schmiedlova, Slovakia, def. Kristina Mladenovic, Fra., 6-4, 6-2. CoCo Vandeweghe, U.S., def. Barbora Strycova, Czech Rep., 3-6, 6-2, 7-6 (3).
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HOCKEY NHL CALGARY — Recalled D Kenney Morrison & D Patrick Sieloff from Stockton (AHL).
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Blue Jays clinch AL East title with win in Baltimore STEPHEN WHYNO THE CANADIAN PRESS
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uckets of champagne were ready, just sitting in the visiting clubhouse at Camden Yards. The Toronto Blue Jays celebrated clinching the American League East on the field but had to wait to complete a doubleheader before popping bottles. The franchise waited 22 years for this. What were another few hours? Two months of spectacular baseball culminated in a 15-2 rout of the Baltimore Orioles on Wednesday afternoon, ending decades of frustration for fans and rewarding the Blue Jays’ organization for a remarkable turnaround. “I wake up every day with a huge grin on my face. I wake up every day and it doesn’t feel real,� pitcher Marcus Stroman said. “Taking the field every day with Josh Donaldson, Troy Tulowitzki, David Price, Mark Buehrle, it’s nuts to me.� The Blue Jays were nuts to watch for much of the season but more specifically since July 29, when Tulowitzki joined the lineup amid a flurry of bountiful deadline trades. They’re 42-15 since, surging past the New York Yankees before finally wrapping up the division in the first game of a doubleheader against the Orioles. “It’s the ultimate right now,� manager John Gibbons said. “It was a big hurdle to get over. It had been so damn long.� The pennant is Toronto’s first since 1993, when it won its second of back-to-back World Series titles. It assures the Blue Jays a spot in the five-game AL Division Series rather than the uncertainty of a one-game wild-card playoff, which they had already clinched last weekend. “I feel like I can really share with the fans how it feels,� Montreal native Russell Martin said. “I remember ’92, ’93 and if we can just bring that back, that’d be awesome.
Toronto Blue Jay Kevin Pillar reacts as a teammate sprays him with champagne after Toronto clinched the American League East championship on Wednesday. [AP PHOTO]
“That would be a dream come true for me.� Winning the division seemed inevitable in recent days as the Yankees struggled and the Blue Jays kept rolling. The final victory of that accomplishment came Wednesday with young stud Marcus Stroman on the mound in just his fourth start of the season following a torn ACL in spring training. Stroman (4-0) was masterful yet again, striking out eight and allowing just one run on five hits in eight innings. In typical Blue Jays fashion,
the most productive lineup in baseball led the way by tormenting opposing pitching. Jose Bautista, Edwin Encarnacion and Justin Smoak each hit home runs, and every player in the lineup registered a hit, including Ryan Goins, who registered a career-high five. It was the 41st time in 157 games Toronto scored eight or more runs. Bautista’s blast also got the Blue Jays two hitters with 40-plus home runs (MVP front-runner Josh Donaldson has 41) for the third time in franchise history and first time since 2000.
This monstrous offensive outburst made the clinching game feel like a coronation, in front of Blue Jays fans who chanted “MVP� for Donaldson’s at-bats and serenaded Anthopoulos with a chorus of “Thank you, Alex.� After Hawkins got the final out, players celebrated on the same field they watched Baltimore clinch the AL East a year ago. Their 8-1 loss in the second half of their doubleheader, with no regulars playing, was forgotten almost immediately. The joy in the champagne-soaked clubhouse and on
the field was overflowing amid chants of “Bush Party.� “This is something else,� Dickey said. “I don’t know how other people celebrate, but to celebrate like a family like this is something special.� This division title also came with the guarantee of home-field advantage in the ALDS. The Blue Jays will either play host to the AL West champions — the Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim or Houston Astros — or the wild-card team at Rogers Centre for Game 1 on Oct. 8.
WESTCOAST
8A | ALBERNI VALLEY TIMES | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2015
AROUND THE ISLAND Black Press
FILM
◆ UCLUELET
Male bear shot after repeat visit to town
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 — which was 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 would go to a natural food source and stay away from the urban areas.” The medium-sized black bear was trapped, tagged, and relocated by conservation officers a week prior to being destroyed.
Cinematographer and editor Adam Chilton in action. [HAMISH HAMILTON]
Surf documentarian screens films
◆ KERR CREEK
25 was treated to a salacious action reel starring Canada’s best surfers Pete Devries and Noah Cohen. “These guys are dedicated. They are surfing consistently day-in, day-out. And they work with you too. They take off on waves that they know might just be for photo or video. “If you’re shooting with them
NORA O’MALLEY WESTERLY NEWS
Truck found in ditch on road to Long Beach
Tofino cinematographer and editor Adam Chilton screened three of his surf movies at the Kwisitis Visitor Centre this weekend as part of Surfing the West Coast Cultural Heritage Festival presented by the Pacific Rim Arts Society. The intimate audience of about
On Sept. 22 at around 6:38 p.m., police were dispatched to a motor vehicle crash 30-kilometres east of the Ucluelet/Tofino junction. A black Dodge Ram with B.C. plates was found in the east bound ditch facing west.
in the water, they’re not going on the left when you’re swimming on the right,” Chilton said about working with his cast of professional surfers. Originally from Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, Chilton moved to Tofino in 2004 and coolly dropped in on a budding surf scene. Pete Devries was one of the first surfers he met.
“With Pete, he’s generally the one to be getting up early and checking the surf. I’m lucky in that sense. He’ll let me know if it’s worth filming or not.” The surfer / videographer team has had a productive run, creating several widely viewed surf shorts, including: Bitter Cold (2015), Unchartered (2014), and Outside The Box (2013).
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Sometimes they do end up being species at risk or they add to information to just understand the populations of species that aren’t at risk like the salmon shark,” she said. To date, there has been no recorded attack by a salmon shark on a human in Canadian waters. This alpha predator prefers to feed on northwest Pacific salmon (hence the name) and is known to travel and hunt in sexual segregation. To report any shark sighting alive or dead, people are encouraged to call Fisheries and Oceans Canada hotline at 1-877-50-SHARK (1-877-507-4275).
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A juvenile male salmon shark was found washed ashore just north of Green Point campground on Monday, Sept. 14. Initially discovered by an off-duty Parks Canada warden, the 1.5-metre-long shark is the first of its kind to be reported in the Long Beach unit this year. A second salmon shark was also sighted along the West Coast Trail unit in early August. Tissue and vertebrae samples were collected by Pacific Rim National Park Reserve officers and sent to Fisheries and Oceans Canada for DNA analysis. “These creatures, they’re not like whales. You don’t see them coming to the surface a lot. They’re usually under water. They’re very elusive, even though they may be abundant, we don’t see them, so the opportunity to collect DNA on these animals is really important to help feed into what we do know about sharks on our coast,” PRNPR marine biologist Jennifer Yakimishyn told the Westerly News. While the salmon shark is not listed as a species at risk, Yakimishyn says that its close cousins, the tope shark and the sixgill shark are both listed as special concern, and the basking shark is recognized as an endangered species. “Reporting these findings is really important.
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Toyota betting big on the fuel cell World’s most profitable automaker taking long-range view on the potential of hydrogen technology GREG GARDNER DETROIT FREE PRESS
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oyota will be launching its Mirai fuel cell car soon in California in the teeth of falling gas prices, a paltry network of hydrogen fueling stations and media infatuation with Tesla that is finally expected to build salable version of its much-delayed Model X SUV. There are only a handful of hydrogen stations up and running in the Golden State, but the California Fuel Cell Partnership has plans for 40 stations to operate by the end of 2016 and 100 by 2020. The state of California is spending about $20 million a year on the project. “We like fuel cells because it is the lightest solution,” said Chris Hostetter, Toyota group vice president of strategic planning. “It has cost advantages over electric vehicles because we are making the electricity on board rather than pulling it from the grid.” Toyota is not the first to bring a hydrogen fuel cell car to market. Honda sold a handful of its FCX Clarity fuel cell cars between 2008 and this year, but it ended production with the 2015 model year. It is expected to launch another fuel cell model sometime in the next two years. Hyundai recently launched a fuel cell version of its Tucson in 2013 it has sold only about 300 so far. But Toyota is making a very aggressive bet that fuel cell vehicles could over time equal or surpass plug-in electric hybrids in consumer acceptance. The Mirai was conceived about the same time as the Prius gas-electric hybrid, in the early 1990s. The sales goals in the U.S. are modest. With only 200 to 300 being shipped by the end of this year, with a goal of selling 3,000 in this country by the end of 2017. At a sticker price of $58,250 before tax credits, Mirai won’t be inexpensive, but most early customers are expected to lease it for about $500 a month. And Toyota is kicking in three years or $15,000 worth of hydrogen which has recently sold in the range of $7 to $13 per kilogram. The only emission is water. Next year there will be another set of fueling stations funded by Toyota and partner Air Liquide that will stretch from New Jersey through New York, Connecticut,
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Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Range of Mirai at one fill is 312 miles, while an optional power take off feature that can deliver up to 9 kilowatts of power (60 kWh total), enough for emergency situations. CARBON FOOTPRINT UP FOR DEBATE? At first glimpse the car looks distinctive, and some will say, strange. The front hood is wrapping with a belt-like edge that elevates it from the grille which is highlighted by two trapezoids sitting beneath the narrow head lamp slits. From the rear Mirai appears more mainstream. For the first-adopter eco-conscious consumer, there is debate about whether the Mirai is actually casting a smaller carbon foot print than most plug-in electric vehicles.
“The challenge for hydrogen vehicles is that in terms carbon footprint they are much cleaner than gasoline cars, but they are nowhere near as clean as plug-in cars,” said John Voelcker, senior editor of Green Car Reports. One kilowatt hour of electricity can be used to recharge a battery that, in turn, powers a car. Or you can create one kilowatt hour of electricity by refining hydrogen from a feed stock, most commonly natural gas, which is extracted from a well or through hydraulic fracturing. That hydrogen then is compressed and fed into a fuel cell to create electricity, but losing about 40 percent of the hydrogen in the process, Voelcker said. “For the same kilowatt-hour of electricity you’re getting about a third as many miles from the fuel car vehicle,” he said. But hydrogen wins from a con-
venience perspective. If you’re near a fueling station it’s just as quick as filling up with gasoline or diesel. The carbon footprint equation also can change if the hydrogen is created from renewable energy sources such as solar panels or wind turbines. As with the Prius, Mirai is not driven by a short-term business case. It won’t be sexy. Silicon Valley media star and Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has dismissed the technology as “fool” cells. Because Toyota has such a broad product portfolio and is currently the most profitable mainstream automaker, it has the patience to see whether hydrogen mobility works in the long run. “Toyota really doesn’t have high financial expectations for Mirai. It is not positioned as a
Tesla killer,” said Mike Millikin, editor of the Green Car Congress. “It’s a significant step in a long-term strategy.” To underscore how incremental the marketing of Mirai is, Toyota is interviewing prospective owners to make sure they live within a feasible distance from a fueling station. Driving along I-5 from the Mexican border to Oregon probably won’t work, at least until there are more than a few stations along that route. Then again, this is about yet another option in our growing menu of mobility options. “Germany sees it. Most of the Scandanavian countries see it,” Hostetter said. “In Japan the government is very strongly behind it, partly because of the backlash against nuclear power after Fukushima,” referring to the nuclear plant that was destroyed by the tsunami of March 2011.
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Mustang and Camaro face off in muscle car brouhaha MARK PHELAN DETROIT FREE PRESS
Chevrolet revealed this month some key performance statistics for the all-new 2016 Camaro. The numbers look good, but let’s face it, what really matters is how they compare to the Camaro’s nemesis, the Ford Mustang. Here’s a look at the tale of the tape. Lower figures are better for pounds per horsepower. BASE MODEL: 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo Camaro vs base 3.7-litre V-6 Mustang Camaro: 275 horsepower, 295 pound-feet of torque, 3,339 pounds curb weight (automatic transmission); 12.1 pounds per horsepower Mustang: 300 horsepower, 280 pound-feet; 3,520 pounds (auto); 11.7 pounds/horsepower Advantage: Mustang MID-RANGE: 3.6-litre V-6 Camaro versus 2.3-litre turbo four-cylinder Mustang Camaro: 335 horsepower 284
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The Fox stops in Port Alberni Saturday Ryan McMahon, a member of the trio The Lion The Bear The Fox, performs at Char’s Landing on Argyle Carole Pope to Nickelback and Mother Mother. He’s had the honor of participating in JunoFest, the Western Canadian Music Awards, Canadian Music Week, Music West, and various other notable Canadian Music Festivals, including three wins (Male Vocalist, Record & Artist of the Year) out of five nominations at the Vancouver Island Music Awards in 2012.
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This year has been full of new, musical adventures for Ryan McMahon, as the Ladysmith-based singer-songwriter released a solo album, titled Put Me Back Together, and kept busy touring with his band, The Lion The Bear The Fox with Christopher Arruda and Cory Woodward. “2013 and 2014 were the first years that I went to work for my music and gave the business end of things the attention it deserved; it was a time of preparation,” says McMahon, a multiple Vancouver Island Music Award winner who has been performing and recording for the past 15 years. “The Lion The Bear The Fox released an EP as an introduction to the world, and I began writing more frequently than in the past. 2015 has been a time to put all of those preliminary steps into action.”
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year ago, McMahon asked Christopher Arruda – the Lion in The Lion The Bear The Fox – to produce his next solo album with him, and between LBF touring breaks, they worked hard to finish the album. McMahon says they didn’t have the budget for any conventional studios, and that suits him just fine. Instead, they recorded the album at Arruda’s parents’ home in Nanaimo and at their friends’ place on the beaches of Oyster Harbour, in Ladysmith, Ryan’s hometown. Ryan McMahon was born in 1979 in Chemainus. The only child of a longshoreman and a future educator, Ryan began entertaining early. The circles of aunts, uncles and grandparents were tickled by his early renditions of the theme song from Davy Crocket: King of the Wild Frontier. The same relatives were not so thrilled by his discov-
Ryan McMahon is scheduled to take the microphone at Char’s Landing on Argyle Street at 7 p.m. Saturday. [SUBMITTED PHOTO]
eries and emulations of the early stage stylings of Eddie Murphy and Richard Pryor. Whether the attention he received was positive or negative, it was during these early days that hooked Ryan into evoking emotion from those around him. Now 34 years old, Ryan has carved out a 15-year career as an independent artist in Canada’s vibrant music scene. He’s always been a genre fence sitter, hanging out on the
edges of country just enough to say he isn’t; Ryan is both a whisper and a scream. “Ryan sings to anyone and everyone who has ever got drunk, smoked, cried, loved or been loved,” says producer Andre Wahl (Hawksley Workman, Luke Doucet). Ryan’s life goal has always been to craft songs that speak to the human condition. “I didn’t know who I was until I found music. I found that the person I was becom-
ing in my songs was far more confident and self-assured than I was myself. Writing songs was my way of relating to people on a broader scale than I could otherwise.” Over the course of his career, Ryan has toured Canada over 25 times, released three fulllength albums, and seen his music licensed nationally and abroad. He has shared the stage with an extremely wide-variety of artists, ranging from Lisa Loeb and
cMahon has played some of the best venues the country has to offer, including the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto, the Ironwood Stage in Calgary, The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver and Nanaimo’s Port Theatre. In 2012, Ryan co-founded The Lion The Bear The Fox with song- writing colleagues Cory Woodward and Christopher Arruda, and the band was immediately named as one of the Top 20 Finalists for the 2013 Peak Performance Project in Vancouver. The opportunity gave Ryan and his band mates the chance to shine light towards their charity, the BandWagon Project (mobile recording studios that visit various lower mainland care facilities), which was inspired by Megan McNeil and The Will To Survive Campaign that Ryan was deeply involved in helping take shape. In April of 2014, Showtime’s original series, Californication featured the single “I’ll Be Damned,” from Ryan’s upcoming EP, which will again see the 35-year-old father of three on the highways, playing clubs, theatres, cafes and houses. Legendary Canadian TV/ Radio personality Terry David Mulligan may have summed up Ryan best: “The complete package. Singer. Songwriter. Performer. Troublemaker. Passionate human being. For me . . . priceless.”
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2015 N.A.C. Night (Nights Alive Chill) at Gyro 5:00 – 8:00 pm Youth ages 12 – 17. Dad’s Night Out 6:30 – 8:00 pm Dads and Kids, enjoy a free swim At the Echo Pool 4255 Wallace Street Echo Aquatic Centre (250-720-2514 for info) 6:00 – 9:00 am Adult Lane Swim 11:30 – 1:00 pm Adult Lane Swim 1:00 – 3:00 pm Adult Lanes/Everyone Welcome 5:30 – 6:30 pm Adult Lanes 6:30 – 8:00 pm Everyone Welcome 8:00 – 9:00 pm Adult Aqua Fit Alberni Valley Multiplex (250-720-2518 for info) 10:15 – 11:45 am Tiny Tots Skate 11:45 – 1:00 pm Adult Skate 6:15 – 7:45 pm Everyone Welcome Glenwood Sport Centre (250-720-2181 for info) Book your private rentals call Echo Centre Alberni Valley Museum (250-720-2863 for info) 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Everyone Welcome Come see the Pirates Exhibit until March 5, 2016
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015 Echo Aquatic Centre (250-720-2514 for info) 6:00 – 9:00 am Adult Lane Swim 11:30 – 1:00 pm Adult Lane Swim 1:00 – 3:00 pm Adult Lanes/Everyone Welcome 7:30 – 8:15 pm Adult 2 Lanes/Adult Aqua Fit (16+) 8:15 – 9:00 pm Adult Lane Swim Alberni Valley Multiplex (250-720-2518 for info) 12:00 – 1:30 pm Noon Shinny Hockey Glenwood Sport Centre (250-720-2181 for info) Book your private rentals call Echo Centre Alberni Valley Museum (250-720-2863 for info) 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Everyone Welcome
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2015 Echo Aquatic Centre (250-720-2514 for info) 6:00 – 9:00 am Adult Lane Swim 11:30 – 1:00 pm Adult Lane Swim 1:00 – 3:00 pm Adult Lanes/Everyone Welcome 3:45– 6:30 pm Adult Lanes 6:00 – 7:30 pm Everyone Welcome 7:30 – 9:00 pm Teens(12+) Swim Alberni Valley Multiplex (250-720-2518 for info) 10:15 – 11:45 am 50+ Shinny 1:00 – 2:30 pm Stick and Puck Parents & Beginners resumes next week Glenwood Sport Centre (250-720-2181 for info) 5:30 – 8:00 pm 13 & Under Rollerblading Admission $2 Book your private rentals call Echo Centre Alberni Valley Museum (250-720-2863 for info) 10:00 am – 5:00 pm Everyone Welcome
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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2015 Echo Aquatic Centre (250-720-2514 for info) 8:00 – 10:00 am Adult Lane Swim 10:00 – 12:00 pm Everyone Welcome 12:00 – 1:30 pm Adult Lane Swim (3)
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Sean Burns and Kristopher Ulrich bring their roots and country music to Port Alberni Sunday with an 8 p.m. show at Char’s Landing. “If you need me, I’ll be in Wisconsin,” sings Sean Burns, but he’s just as likely to be found in Calgary or Ottawa or out to Tofino. Touring relentlessly from one end of Canada to the other,
Winnipeg-based singer/songwriter Sean Burns taps into the bittersweet spirit of the road and then spins it his way with a blend of electric and acoustic guitars and a soulful harmonica. With songs that will resonate with fans of Canadiana, Americana, Folk, Country and Blues alike, Sean captures the grittiness of the road in the stark, down-to-earth style of an authentic storyteller.
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ORTfolio aims to focus on our community’s diversifying economy by highlighting local entrepreneurs, innovators, and telecommuters. 1. Name and Age: Laura Olsen, 31 2. Where did you grow up? Where have you lived? What brought you to Port Alberni? Born and raised in Port Alberni. My family moved here and bought a farm in 1980. 3. What do you do? What makes your work unique? My parents Ann and Bob Collins and brother Donny Collins and I operate a campground and small farm in Port Alberni. We started out as a Dairy farm and grew crops for local grocers.
Kama Money PORTfolio As farming and agriculture in Canada changed so did we. That led us to open Arrowvale campground in 92 on a non agricultural part of the property. Today we continue to grow veggies and grass-fed beef on a small scale. The business we have built makes for a unique experience bringing tourism and vacation to the farm. 4. Describe the challenges you’ve faced with your business, as well as the
opportunities. In days gone by nearly everyone had memories of spending time in the summer on a relative’s farm. Now that is a reality for few kids these days. We are working toward creating more opportunities for people to experience farming through tours petting farm exhibits and other events. We have encountered different challenges in the camping and farm businesses but one of the toughest obstacles to overcome annually is the fact that tourist season is also the busiest time of year for farmers. This means we have to rely on some pretty stellar employees to get us through. This makes for some excep-
tionally long days particularly for Bob and Ann who are there dawn to dark and then some through the busy months. Our business is under continual creative change with the family gathering together often to discuss our dreams and ideas for how to further incorporate the farm in to the accommodation side of the business by creating unique events aimed at serving local customers like our annual Pumpkin Patch Hayrides every October. 5. If you could wave a magic wand, what would you change about Port Alberni and why? If I could magically transform anything about Port Alberni I would want to see our image
changed in a way that would attract people to visit and live here so they could take advantage of the tremendous wealth of outdoor adventure to be had in the Valley. I would like to see businesses catering to kayakers, hikers, bikers and travellers thriving. 6. Complete the sentence: My Alberni: My Alberni is a destination! » Kama Money is a teacher and owns Orange Bridge Communications, which works with Great Central Social Media Company to rebrand Port Alberni from ‘The Worst Place To Live’ to the ‘Heart of Vancouver Island’. In her down time, she alternates between watching trashy TV and pushing a 55 lb stroller up Argyle hill.
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Balance your diet with healthy root veggies Potatoes, parsnips, rutabagas, carrots and beets offer a healthy alternative to processed foods scale of human development. It’s frequently observed that an epidemic of obesity includes many of the men women and children in today’s North American society. An alternative, healthy source for carbs comes from simple whole foods such as potatoes and root vegetables, including parsnips, rutabagas, carrots and beets.
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love poutine as much as any Canadian. I savour the fat, the salt, the carbs. But I have to pat myself on the back somewhat, because though I have many dietary faults, poutine is a delicacy which I only sample very, very occasionally. Actually I think, as with any food, the problem is not that we eat poutine, but it’s how much we eat and what else we eat. It’s a question of whether we consume poutine as a small portion of a healthy balanced diet or whether we enthusiastically indulge on a regular basis. This somehow brings me to potatoes and root vegetables. First a baked russet potato, (about a cup), without any additions, only contains about 129 calories. If we assume a 2,000 daily recommended caloric intake for an average woman and 2,500 for a man, we could consume a diet of between 16 and 19 potatoes per day without gaining weight, though 10 potatoes would give us all of the daily recommended carbs. Additionally potatoes also contribute significant protein, potassium, dietary fibre, vitamin C, calcium and iron. Irish peasants survived on a largely potato diet for decades prior to their tragic famine and I doubt many of them were overweight.
hile parsnips compare W closely to potatoes in caloric content, the other vegetables,
Eating root vegetables, such as the variety of potatoes available in local markets, is one way to avoid preservatives and unhealthy additives in processed food, says an Alberni grocer. [WIKIMEDIA COMMONS PHOTO]
realize that one gram of carbs and protein each contain four calories, while fat contains nine calories. Additional differences are accounted for by the respective water content. Incidentally alcohol contains seven calories while most salad vegetables and brassicas (members of the cabbage family) contain insignificant calories. For example a gram of broccoli contains less than one third of a calorie.
ncidentally only three small Ipoutine servings (approx three cups) of would complete the daily
caloric quota for an average person while providing 150 per cent of the recommended saturated fat and 123 per cent of recommended sodium. To understand the caloric difference between poutine and simple potatoes we have to
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While it seems commonsensical that we shouldn’t live on poutine, our world is filled to the brim with diet concepts. Some recommend low carbs or no carbs. Though I did, many years ago, complete a course dealing with food chemistry, I’m certainly not qualified to comment on all these diets. However many trained nutritionists do recommend a balanced diet that does include carbs, proteins and healthy
fats, but not too much alcohol or salt. My contention is that when we source carbs from processed foods such as bread or poutine, we ingest a variety of chemical preservatives, excessive sodium and refined products such as sugars and flour. A question arises as to how our bodies deal with diets dominated by these processed foods which have only recently arrived on the historical
relative to potatoes contain even fewer carbs and calories. They also have lower glycemic indexes which is better for diabetic diets. When compared to potatoes rutabagas contain about 58 per cent of the carbs and about four times as much calcium. Carrots contain about 47 per cent of the carbs and about 2.5 times as much fibre. Beets contain about 31 per cent of the carbs and unique beneficial phytonutrients. In conclusion my research convinces me that carbohydrates should be included in a balanced diet. A variety of simple root vegetables are an excellent source of these carbs and provide an assortment of tasty cuisine and a complex of healthy nutritional substances. On the Naesgaard Farm we continue to harvest strawberries a variety of squash, pumpkins and corn. Many folks like to put a couple of bags of our carrots into storage so this is, like, the last call, as we pull our last carrots. Also we continue to sell local Rages cucumbers, a fine selection of Okanagan apples and BC potatoes, parsnips and beets. Bring children and a camera along to enjoy our Halloween pumpkin house. » Helgie Naesgaard owns and operates a family-run business in the Alberni Valley. Naesgaard’s Farm Market has been serving the Valley for more than 40 years.
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WASHINGTON — Most people will experience at least one wrong or delayed diagnosis at some point in their lives, a blind spot in modern medicine that can have devastating consequences, says a new report that calls for urgent changes across health care. Getting the right diagnosis, at the right time, is crucial, but Tuesday’s Institute of Medicine report found diagnostic errors get too little attention. The biggest needed change: “Patients are central to a solution,” said Dr. John Ball of the American College of Physicians, who chaired the IOM committee. That means better teamwork between health providers – doctors, nurses, lab workers – and making the patient be part of the team, too. Providers must take patients’ complaints more
seriously, get them quick copies of test results and other records, and encourage them to ask, “Could it be something else?” Another culture shift: When the patient’s third doctor finally gets the right diagnosis, it should become the norm, not an embarrassment, for that physician to call the others and say, “It turned out this patient had X and not Y,” added committee member Dr. Christine Cassel, president of the National Quality Forum. “That’s the only way we can really learn.” Possibly the most well-known diagnostic error in recent memory occurred last year when a Liberian man sick with Ebola initially was misdiagnosed in a Dallas emergency room as having sinusitis. Thomas Eric Duncan returned two days later, sicker, and eventually died. Diagnosis problems seldom make such dramatic headlines.
Consider the woman who told the IOM of going to the emergency room with heart attack symptoms only to be misdiagnosed with acid reflux and was fussed at for questioning the doctor. She’d suffered serious heart damage by the time she returned. Other times, patients may not even realize they experienced an error, such as the cancer diagnosis delayed because the doctor never called with the results of a pathology report. Tuesday’s report found there’s no good count of diagnostic errors, or of how often they lead to serious consequences. But it cited one conservative estimate that 5 per cent of adults who seek outpatient care each year experience a diagnostic error, a number that adds up over time. Diagnostic errors make up the leading type of paid malpractice claims and are almost twice as likely as other claims to have resulted in a patient’s death. Even among the IOM committee’s medical specialists, “many of us had experienced what we would define as a diagnostic error,” Ball said. The prestigious Institute of Medicine kicked off a revolution in health quality improvement back in 1999 when it estimated between 44,000 and 98,000 people a year die of preventable medical mistakes in hospitals. In the years since, the focus was more on hospital infections and medication errors rather than diagnostic errors. Peggy Zuckerman was told a dangerous case of anemia was due to a stomach ulcer, but treatment didn’t help and the hospital specialist discounted other symptoms. After eight months, testing showed she had advanced kidney cancer. The Long Beach, California, woman was lucky: Treatment worked. Only later did she see health records showing a pathology report had all but ruled out an ulcer during her first visit. “I had never been sick before. I didn’t know how you handle things,” recalled Zuckerman.
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A Nanaimo-area man has received a five-year sentence in federal prison, minus time served, for two violent assaults on two separate women. Timothy James Wyslouzil, 45, will spend the next 35 months in jail, after receiving 25 months credit for time he spent in custody prior to his sentencing in provincial court Tuesday. A small group of protesters held signs outside of the Nanaimo court house before the sentencing, which proceeded with following a joint submission from Wyslouzil’s lawyer Stephen Taylor and Crown prosecutor Ken Paziuk. Wyslouzil entered guilty pleas
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Conservation officers hope to catch deer poachers using radio tracking technology in Nanaimo. Wildlife officials are now attaching tiny electronic devices to deer when the animals are routinely examined and tagged in the fall. They hope the devices will lead them straight to a poacher. “What we do, we drug the deer, then hook them up with collars and other implantable monitoring devices,” said Stuart Bates, Nanaimo conservation officer. “We want to catch people shooting deer in Nanaimo.” The tagging begins in late summer. A conservation officer will immobilize deer with a tranquilizer dart, then provincial wildlife biologists and veterinarians will check it over, then the animal is tagged and released. Hunters can remove “old-fashioned” ear tags and neck collars, but this changes the game. “We thought, nobody’s going to poach a deer and take the ear tag, so we came up with an implantable electronic device you can’t see — they’re invisible.”
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It allows wildlife officials to not only track the animals’ range and habitat, but the wildlife violators who illegally hunt them for meat or trophies. “Now with technology, there’s a better means to monitor these things, especially in areas with full cellphone coverage,” Bates said. Already, several animals have been tranquilized, checked over and tagged — some with the new devices. It’s been a frustrating cat-andmouse game to catch Nanaimo poachers. Wildlife officers often find only the partial remains of a deer carcass, and sometimes a few stray bolts where the hunter’s crossbow missed its target. Not only is it illegal to hunt anywhere inside Nanaimo limits at any time, it’s dangerous. Hunters once used bullets to poach deer but now they’re more likely stalk them on city streets with crossbows, to avoid the noise that can alert neighbours. Bates hopes invisible, radio tracking devices will make it easier. “If they go 80 kilometres (per hour) down the highway, I’m going to see it,” Bates said.
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HOROSCOPE by Jacqueline Bigar ARIES (March 21-April 19) You might feel as if you are stuck in a holding pattern. By the midafternoon, a call will energize you. Suddenly, you might be completing errands with great speed. You’ll feel much more like yourself than you did in the morning. Tonight: Speak your mind. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Claim your power, and ask for what you want. Don’t be surprised if you have to repeat a conversation you have had already. Make sure your budget is right-on as you eye a financial change. Understand what you can and can’t do. Tonight: Make dinner your treat. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You could feel a little out of it for a good part of the day. Take some time off if you can. You will come back feeling revitalized as a result. Give yourself what your body craves. You need a break from the hectic pace every once in a while. Tonight: Tell it like it is. CANCER (June 21-July 22) You could be in a position where you would prefer to handle a personal matter directly.
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Conversations occur more easily in the morning, especially in a meeting. You might decide to withdraw by late afternoon. Take some downtime. Tonight: Make it a night just for you! LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Take charge of a personal matter that could be bothering you. You might have to handle another situation first in order to get the results you would like. Schedule a meeting in the evening, when you can unwind enough to be receptive to what is going on. Tonight: Out late. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might want to get a second opinion before making a decision that involves education, travel or your in-laws. Pressure builds, as you’ll have a lot to do. Be more direct with an associate; he or she needs to know where you are coming from. Tonight: At a favorite place. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You might want to understand what all the hype is about. Walk in someone else’s shoes to understand his or her attitude. You could be surprised by what you discover as a result. Make calls to someone from whom
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SPROAT LAKE “CLEAN BEACHES, CLEAN WATERâ€? Beach Clean-Up, Sunday ,October 4th, 2015. Sproat Lake Community Association is calling for VOLUNTEERS to help clean up targeted Crown land shoreline and beaches along Stirling Arm, Two Rivers Arm and Taylor Arm. âœąPlease remember to bring your work/rubber gloves, shovels or rakes, appropriate clothing and shoes/boots. SLCA will provide garbage bags, maps, water and lunch. Start time is at 9am. We’ll meet up with the Pile Driver on the lake who will be heading down Two Rivers Arm to assist and transfer the garbage to trucks for transport to the AV LandďŹ ll and Recycling Depot. Please call: 250-724-5040 or 250-724-0784 for more info or if you want to volunteer but need to arrange for boat transportation. Thank you to all the volunteers that are lake stewards cleaning up the shores all year and the pile driver for once again donation for the day.
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The City of Port Alberni is currently accepting applications for the following positions: Recreation Receptionist Assistant (Casual) – Parks and Recreation Department Cashier (Casual) – Finance Department PC Support/LAN Technician (Casual) – Information Technology Department For information on required qualifications and how to apply go to the City of Port Alberni website: http://www.portalberni.ca/employment-opportunities
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Ida Elizabeth VanEgmond (Grieve) February 9, 1939 – September 26, 2015 Many people say there is nothing like a mother’s love, and they are right. Our mother and grandmother was a wonderful person who showed love to everyone she came in contact with. Mom has gone to join her husband Walter in the presence of our lord Jesus Christ. Ida is survived and will be missed by her daughters Marjory-Ann (Ross) Barber; Ida (Ted) Shaw; Pam (Rick) Cultess. Ida will be further missed by her grandchildren Daniel, Amy, Katie, Jonathan, Kimberly, Shyan and Quincey Sharing our loss is Ida’s brother Norm Grieve, sisters Barb Wilcox, Elleanor Jamayoff and many nephews and nieces and extended family both in Canada and in the Netherlands. Mom is blessed with and has cherished her many friends with whom she found support and comfort in her last days, we wish to thank you and the doctors, nurses and staff at the West Coast General and Royal Jubilee Hospitals for your care. A celebration of life for Ida VanEgmond will take place at the Christian Reform Church located at 5033 Roger Street, Saturday October 3rd at 1:30pm tea to follow.
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City of Port Alberni For Sale by Bid #026-15 – Used Rubber Railway Mats Offer Closes: Thursday, October 22, 2015 prior to 3:00PM Local Time Submit bid in a sealed envelope clearly marked “026-15 – Used Rubber Railway Mats� and deliver to the Purchasing Department at the City of Port Alberni, 4850 Argyle Street, Port Alberni, B.C. V9Y 1V8. Submission forms available at City Hall, Purchasing Department. For photos and information, please visit the City of Port Alberni website: www.portalberni.ca under the Bulletin Board, “Request for Proposals/Tenders/Bids�.
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Too many health authority employees inappropriately snoop in patient records and some deliberately disclose sensitive information via social media or cellphones. That’s one of the most serious types of breaches flagged by B.C. Information and Privacy Commissioner Elizabeth Denham in a new report on how the province’s health authorities guard against privacy breaches. The report cites “cases of snooping where staff members access records of VIP or other patients out of curiousity or for malicious intent.�
It uncovered four cases in 2013 of staff posting photos of patients to Facebook or Instagram, and three cases of doctors or nurses taking photos. Another nurse commented on a patient’s health information on Facebook. “The OIPC has serious concern regarding health authority staff deliberately disclosing the sensitive personal information of patients through their own mobile devices and on social media,� the report said. The report doesn’t break down the number or frequency of incidents between B.C.’s health regions. Denham’s office has received
200 privacy breach complaints over 10 years from health authorities but suspects that’s just one per cent of the actual number of incidents. Misdirected faxes were the single most common type of privacy breach identified. Lost or stolen records or mobile devices were most common among home health and community care programs. Half of health authorities reported problems with home care workers leaving patient records unsecured in their cars against policy. Denham issued 13 recommendations for action to reduce the risk of future privacy breaches.
Island vintners back a move by the industry to put the brakes on sales of their product on supermarket store shelves. More than 100 small and medium-sized B.C. wine producers represented by the umbrella group Terroir want government to delay grocery store sales of their product. Small liquor stores, represented by the B.C. Alliance of Smart Liquor Retail Choices, support the call for a moratorium on issuing liquor licences to big grocers. The all fear the competition could put them out of business. “We’re asking for a six-month pause and some meaningful dialogue,� said Kim Pullen, owner of Church & State Winery. Pullen, whose members produce in the order of 5,000 cases a year each, said there is “plenty of evidence� from such jurisdictions as New Zealand, Washington and California that grocery store wine sales mean cut pricing from low-cost producers that make 200,000-plus cases annually.
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Russia escalates war in Syria with airstrike NATALIYA VASILYEVA AND JIM HEINTZ THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — Russia launched airstrikes Wednesday in Syria, sharply escalating Moscow’s role in the conflict but also raising questions about whether its intent is fighting Islamic State militants or protecting longtime ally, President Bashar Assad. President Vladimir Putin called it a pre-emptive strike against the militants, and the Russian Defence Ministry said its warplanes targeted and destroyed eight positions belonging to extremists from the IS group, also known as ISIL or ISIS. It did not give specific locations. But French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told lawmakers in Paris: “Curiously, they didn’t hit Islamic State. I will let you draw a certain number of conclusions yourselves.” U.S. Defence Secretary Ash Carter also said the Russians appeared to have targeted areas that did not include IS militants and complained Moscow did not use formal channels to give advance notice of its airstrikes to Washington, which is conducting its own airstrikes in Syria against the Islamic State group. He said the Russians should not be supporting the Assad government and their military moves are “doomed to fail.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Washington was prepared to welcome Russian military action in Syria as long as it is directed against IS and other al-Qaida affiliates, but would have “grave concerns” if it conducted strikes against other groups. The U.S. and Russia both agree on the need to fight the Islamic State but not about what to do with Assad. The Syrian civil war, which grew out of an uprising against Assad, has killed more than 250,000 people since March 2011
and sent millions of refugees fleeing to other countries in the Middle East and Europe. Russia’s first airstrikes in Syria came after Putin met Monday with President Barack Obama on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, where they discussed Moscow’s military buildup in the country. Obama had said the U.S. and Russia could work together on a political transition, but only if the result was Assad’s departure. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the Russians’ new action “calls into question their strategy, because when President Putin and President Obama had the opportunity to meet at the U.N. earlier this week, much of their discussion was focused on the need for a political transition inside Syria.” Putin, who is Assad’s most powerful backer, justified the airstrikes as a move to not only stabilize Syria, but also help stifle global terrorism. “If they (militants) succeed in Syria, they will return to their home country, and they will come to Russia, too,” Putin said at a government session. According to a statement from Assad’s office, the Syrian leader had asked Putin for the support. Kerry said Russian operations must not support Assad or interfere with those of the U.S.led coalition that is already attacking Islamic State targets. He called for an urgent start to military-to-military talks to prevent any kind of conflict between Russia and the coalition. “If Russia’s recent actions and those now ongoing reflect a genuine commitment to defeat (the Islamic State) then we are prepared to welcome those efforts and to find a way to de-conflict our operations and thereby multiply military pressure on ISIL and affiliated groups,” Kerry said.
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Dr. Stuart Turvey in the lab in Vancouver. Turvey is co-author of a new study that suggests not having enough of certain ‘good’ intestinal germs early in life may increase babies’ risk of developing asthma. [THE CANADIAN PRESS]
Asthma tied to gut bacteria UBC researchers say low levels causes lungs to overreact SHERYL UBELACKER THE CANADIAN PRESS
TORONTO — Canadian researchers have discovered that babies at high risk of developing asthma may have low levels of four types of bacteria in their gastrointestinal tracts — and replacing those microbes might prevent the disease. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory disease that clogs the airways with mucous, causing an affected person to cough, wheeze and have difficulty breathing. The disease kills roughly 250 Canadians each year, about 20 of them children. The condition arises when
the immune system — which develops early in life through interactions with bacteria and other microbes in the gut — goes awry and attacks lung and airway tissues, causing them to overreact to allergens like pet dander and other environmental triggers. A research team led by University of British Columbia scientists identified four bacteria that appear to be involved with the development of asthma when deficient in numbers. Dubbed FLVR — for Faecalibacterium, Lachnospira, Veillonella and Rothia — these bacteria are typically acquired by babies from the environment.
They are among trillions of bugs that make up the human “microbiome” and are critical for keeping us healthy. But factors such as being born via a C-section versus vaginal birth, having formula over breastfeeding, and taking bacteria-destroying antibiotics early in life can alter the makeup of so-called good bacteria in the digestive system. “This research supports the hygiene hypothesis that we’re making our environment too clean,” said co-lead investigator Brett Finlay, a microbiologist at the University of British Columbia.
Trade deal enters election debate THE CANADIAN PRESS
OTTAWA — The Conservatives are conducting negotiations toward a massive 12-country trade deal — that could well prove to be their campaign centrepiece — in secret in the middle of an election, the Liberals and NDP charged Wednesday. As Justin Trudeau unveiled the Liberal health-care policy plank, one of the last remaining pieces of his party’s platform, and NDP Leader Tom Mulcair promised to establish a parliamentary science officer to advise his would-be government, the Conservatives were answering awkward questions about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which could be announced, in some form, as early as Friday.
Joe Oliver, in a rare national campaign appearance, defended the government’s right to conduct official business during the election period. The finance minister rejected suggestions that the government’s continued pursuit of the TPP is a violation of the so-called “caretaker convention,” which is supposed to limit government activity during an election period. “There is a protocol in place and we of course consult with the Privy Council on these issues,” Oliver said. “When there’s a matter of importance or urgency for the government to deal with in the national interest then it’s appropriate for us to do that. And this is certainly one of those cases.”
The convention also stipulates that governing parties are expected to consult opposition parties on matters that could end up tying the hands of future governments. Trudeau flat out said he had “not been approached by anyone in government on the Trans-Pacific Partnership.” “One of the things that we’ve seen over the past years with this government is an approach that has been secretive, non-transparent, that hasn’t let Canadians know what it is negotiating and how it is negotiating, what is on the table,” he said in Surrey, B.C. “It would be unrealistic for us to expect that the whole world will stop and wait with bated breath for the outcome of Canada’s election.”
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Culture of deceit leads to jail term THE CANADIAN PRESS
QUEBEC — Calling her behaviour “highly reprehensible” and part of a “culture of deceit,” a judge sentenced former Quebec lieutenant-governor Lise Thibault to 18 months in prison on Wednesday. The sentence was handed down six years after Thibault, now 76, was charged with fraud and breach of trust. The Queen’s former representative left the courtroom in handcuffs in her wheelchair and was then incarcerated. How long that lasts remains to be seen because Thibault’s lawyer, Marc Labelle, immediately signalled he would seek leave to appeal the sentence and try to have her released from jail pending those proceedings. Thibault was charged two years after a 2007 report by the federal and provincial auditors general revealed she claimed more than $700,000 in improper expenses when she held the vice-regal post between 1997 and 2007. Her trial heard the money was spent on gifts, trips, parties, meals and skiing and golf lessons. Quebec court Judge Carol St-Cyr also ordered Thibault to reimburse $200,000 to Ottawa and $100,000 to Quebec. He highlighted Thibault’s “culture of deceit” and her mitigated remorse as he handed down the sentence in a jam-packed courtroom. “It is important that the public know this behaviour was highly reprehensible,” he said. “A sentence in the community would not satisfy the legal requirements...to maintain the confidence of citizens with regard to public institutions.” Labelle, who had been seeking a sentence to be served in the community, called St-Cyr’s ruling “severe.”