Alberni Valley News, January 07, 2016

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Scheduled seaplanes to land in Alberni KATYA SLEPIAN

Scheduled flights will be flying in and out of the Alberni Valley daily before the month is up, thanks to a deal between the Port Alberni Port Authority and Pacific Seaplanes.

“This agreement is an integral step towards Pacific Seaplanes’ goal of providing expanded seaplane services to the west coast of Vancouver Island,” said Pacific Seaplanes CEO Randy Hanna.

Having had success with flights from Bamfield to Vancouver, Hanna wondered if Port Alberni flights could be similarly successful.

“We started services in 2015 from Vancouver to Bamfield and during the summer we constantly flew over the Alberni Valley,” said Hanna.

“I began to wonder why there was no service there.”

It wasn’t his first time flying in the region; Hanna had flown as a pilot with the Port Albernibased Pacific Rim Airlines decades prior.

“There was an active air service at the time—scheduled flights to Kildonan, Bamfield, Barkley Sound to Alberni,” he said.

Seeing an opportunity, Hanna met with the port authority to discuss possibilities.

“We discovered that we had some great common interests.”

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A twin-engine ‘Beechcraft’ seaplane is docked at the float fingers at Centennial Pier.

Negotiations began in September 2015 and a deal was reached just before Christmas—much to both Hanna and PAPA’s excitement.

“Attracting seaplane scheduled service here has been a priority of the port and certainly on my desk,” said PAPA director of public relations and business development Dave McCormick.

“Those finger floats off of Centennial Pier were specifically designed to accommodate seaplanes.”

The finger floats off the north side of Centennial Pier are ready to go without any further work, he added.

“They’re good to go.

They’ve proven that they work before.”

Getting seaplanes to utilise Centennial Pier on a scheduled basis has been a project years in the making, said City of Port Alberni economic development manager Pat Deakin.

“We began seriously chasing after seaplanes in 2013,” said Deakin.

Although the pier’s main purpose was to act as a breakwater for the ships at Fisherman’s Harbour, Deakin said that it was built with hopes that it would be a multi-use structure.

“Once the the pier and the fingers were in place, we knew we had something that

would work.”

However, years of pounding the pavement and sending out requests for proposal didn’t immediately garner results.

Bit by bit the planks for a stronger economy are being put into place.

– Pat Deakin “I’m very happy the port authority was able to secure Pacific Seaplanes,” he said.

To McCormick, it’s yet another way to fullfil the port authority’s main

purpose.

“Being a port, our fundamental mandate is to facilitate the movement of goods and people.”

Regular seaplane service fills a gap in Port Alberni, he added.

“It simply brings more visibility and more opportunity to fulfill our mandate and bring a service that’s been lacking in the community for a long time.”

Port Alberni has long had only one route in and out of the Valley and that route can be both long and treacherous in poor conditions.

McCormick said that having another route was key for economic development.

“Accessibility is key for any opportunities and for any investment attraction—as well as attracting new residents to the community,” he said.

“It doesn’t just serve business purposes but also a number of social purposes as well.”

While poor weather will affect seaplanes service, Hanna said that a year of flying to Bamfield gives him confidence that the scheduled flights will remain mostly uninterrupted.

The new development will bring not only people but much needed jobs to Port Alberni, according to Hanna.

“We’ll begin looking

for customer service agents as we develop the service. That’s the whole point of the development— to create jobs as well as to support the community in whatever ways we can with both air service and tourism.”

Deakin sees the seaplanes boosting economic development in more than one sector.

“It’s huge for many sectors of the economy,” he said.

“Tourism operators, for people going fishing, kaying out in the Broken Group.

Someone can walk off the float plane and jump aboard a chartered fishing boat.”

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Love Elvis? An Elvis Presley extravaganza featuring tribute act Steve Elliot comes to the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 293 on Jan. 9 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20.

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The Young Professionals of the Alberni Valley are hosting Alberni Connect; an evening of inspirational speakers and networking at 6 p.m. on Jan, 13 at Char’s Landing.

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Come on out and cheer on your Alberni boys and girls senior basketball teams at the 61st annual Totem Tournament hosted by Alberni District Secondary. It runs from Jan. 7-9 at ADSS and the Athletic Hall. For more information visit https://www. facebook.com/totemtournament.

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Since then, it’s grown to 16 teams—eight boys and eight girls.

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people to come out and support the basketball teams in Totem because yes, it’s ADSS but it’s also our Port Alberni teams as well,” said Davidson.

“I don’t want to say it’s stressful but it is stressful. We all have our teams helping us but there’s multiple posters that we had to make, we had to make a poster board with all that we’ve been doing, we had to get the community involved, your school,” said Vissia.

Davidson agrees.

“It’s a lot of time, effort and money,” she said.

“It’s good though, it’s all worth it in the end—hopefully!”

The candidates all have different reasons for taking on the task.

“We’ve come out to the games [in prior years],” said Davidson. “I’m on the dance team so I’ve danced for all four years.”

Many of the girls are in the leadership class, which is taught by athletic director Mike Roberts, and are involved even without Totem Spirit.

“We’re setting up a lot of things, planning things, we have a pep rally on Wednesday and the leadership class play a big role in that.”

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SUSAN QUINN Editor

BE PREPARED FOR THE BIG ONE

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ome of us were shaken awake by the earthquake last week.

For all of us, it should be a wake-up call. The earthquake near Saanich last Tuesday, estimated somewhere between 4.3 and 4.8 magnitude, wasn’t the big one that we’ve been warned about, but it was the biggest one many of us have ever experienced, and about the biggest one we’d want to experience. The Richter scale goes from ‘interesting’ to ‘problematic’ to ‘devastating’ pretty quickly.

This time, we didn’t have to dive Since we underneath sturdy can’t predict furniture and hold on tightly. Next time, what the might. Many of new year will we us who live along bring, then the Pacific Ocean’s Ring of Fire faultlines we might as know that we should well try to have an earthquake preparedness kit be ready for ready and waiting anything. in case of an emergency. Yet many of us just figure we’ll get around to it at some point in the future, long before an earthquake actually happens, and somehow fail to see the flaw in our reasoning.

So we hope that last week’s actual, tangible, physical shaking sensation was enough to motivate people toward earthquake preparedness.

We probably have most of the necessities we need in a survival kit already, in our homes – items like flashlights, medicine, first-aid supplies and warm clothing. So really, putting together an earthquake survival kit mostly just means setting aside lots of water, plenty of non-perishable food (including pet food) and some cash. Living on an Island, a week’s worth of rations are recommended.

It’s a new year, and since we can’t predict what the new year will bring, then we might as well try to be ready for anything.

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The celebration continues over Justin Trudeau’s victory, with the first met Stephen Harper supposedly non-partisan federal when he was running for bureaucracy cheering along with the Canadian Alliance much of the national media. leadership in 2002.

Harper’s assessment of Speaking to a group of major newspaper ownership is Fraser Valley members no longer accurate, except for concerned that the party had the Toronto Star. But the dying split over the leadership of tradition of owners looking up Stockwell Day, Harper didn’t from their accounting ledgers mince words because a local to endorse a political party reporter had showed up on a continued, with the Postmedia Saturday morning. He explained chain and the Globe and Mail his prediction that no matter pointing out that Trudeau’s rash who leads the conservative promises didn’t add up. movement started by Preston Endorsements were a brief Manning, the national media interruption in the media would work against it. assault on Harper’s record. His “The press is owned by big-L government’s plan to welcome liberals and staffed by small-L 10,000 refugees, unveiled way liberals,” Harper said. “Preston was too cerebral; Stock was not back in January 2015, was portrayed as heartless and cerebral enough. I’m not sure feeble, while Trudeau’s 25,000 where I will be, but the media will always be on the other side.” by Christmas represented the Harper’s cold war with national generous character of the true

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City council jumps the gun on weed

Will you be paying attention to the City of Port Alberni’s budget process in 2016?

To the Editor,

The whole issue of medical marijuana is nothing more than a huge array of lies and deceit.

Anyone can walk into one of these dispensaries, show a receipt from a pharmacy and if it falls under their long list of medical issue, you sign a paper and purchase a product.

These dispensaries may deny this, however, I did it.

I simply brought in a receipt from a pharmacy and without even looking they said that yes, that will do and I made my purchase.

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This was all of course part of my investigation into this contentious issue.

Medical marijuana is presently regulated by the federal government.

City council maintains that the motion they passed to have city staff write guidelines to regulate medical marijuana does not mean that they are condoning them.

I believe this motion clearly does extend an air of legitimacy to these dispensaries.

When council passed this motion, we had one store.

Now, I believe we have three and growing.

Council chose the easy way under the disguise of

being proactive and preparing for the expected changes in federal regulations expected from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

I would expect that when they laws change they will include very strict guidelines.

Council has the power to determine what is in the best interest of this community.

They have the power to influence and pressure and the appropriate authority to take action consistent with what is acknowledged as a violation of federal law.

Instead, council has chose not to be leaders but follow the example of Vancouver.

editor@albernivalleynews.com Vancouver has lost control and are unable to police the increasing number of dispensaries.

Dispensaries only sell medical and not recreational? Rubbish.

Where do they buy their product? Seems we don’t care.

We want to change and improve the image of Port Alberni and yet in the ;ast couple of years we have increased the visibility of liquor stores and pot dispensaries in prime locations in the community.

That coupled with one of the highest crime rates per capital in the country is not conducive to improving this community’s image and detracts from the

efforts made by so many.

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Image needs to change To the Editor,

Very nice and interesting article about the fact that “Alberni needs change”. I am new here since July 2015 and came because my common-law partner was transfered to work at the hospital. All our friends are laughing at us because we agreed to move here from Victoria. I am without a job and there is nothing for me here at the moment. Yes, the image has to change.

Chris Francey Port Alberni

Media was not always fair to Stephen Harper From / A8 That was a Harper innovation, along with scheduled elections.

Trudeau’s star turn in Paris, where he

pronounced that “Canada is back” in the battle to control the world’s weather?

The official submission from his bloated delegation

to the UN climate meetings was actually the existing Conservative plan, which includes phasing out coalfired electricity generation.

Harper generally represented a preference for the individual over the state, a concept that at one time was known as “liberalism.”

This was illustrated by his preference for parents rather than a nanny state to administer child care.

He advocated

free trade, small government and low taxes.

We’ll see how that legacy survives the new government and its media cheering section.

Tom Fletcher is legislature reporter and columnist for Black Press.

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“Float plane service would make it a lot easier for developers and investors to get here and get back to Vancouver,” Deakin said. There’s also an added convenience for companies already here like Catalyst Paper, he added, who will be able to fly between their Vancouver offices and their Port Alberni paper mill in 35-40 minutes.

Connecting Port Alberni to the Lower Mainland is key, McCormick said.

“As a region, all of Vancouver Island and certainly Port Alberni is becoming that much more connected to the Lower Mainland and the rest of British Columbia. The more options and the easier it is to make those connections, the better chance our opportunities will have to reach their potential.”

Scheduled seaplane services could also give momentum to other scheduled air service.

“Some [commercial air travel] providers have questions the willingness of the market to pay for a flight from here to Vancouver,” said Deakin. If Pacific Seaplanes does well here, that could encourage other commercial operators to come to the Alberni Valley Regional Airport.

While Deakin was quick to point out that the main reason for extending the runway was to get investment from aerospace companies, he’d be happy to see commercial air travel come to the Alberni Valley too.

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Deakin thinks that direct flight to Port Alberni could stop people headed to the Comox Valley or Nanaimo for flights.

“There’s a huge number of people who drive to Nanaimo and take Sea Air or Harbour Air or fly out of the Nanaimo airport,” Deakin said.

“Add all of those up and you’ll see that the numbers are here and willing to pay.”

“Success brings more success. People want to line up behind winners and we’re taking charge of our opportunities and taking charge of our future at every level,” McCormick said.

It’s now up to Port Alberni to keep the service, he added.

“At this stage we’ve attracted the company and it’s going to be up to the market to justify those investments here and make this successful.”

Daily scheduled flights will begin by the end of January and if all goes well, more will come in the spring.

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“People take an interest in the city’s economics so this is a good way to start our first Alberni Connect,” said Jolleen Dick, YPAV president.

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“Young professionals groups have quarterly connects and we wanted to start them, but we wanted to try something different,” she said.

“We have it open to everyone in Port Alberni to shorten the gap between young professionals and more experienced professionals. It will be an opportunity to let people connect.”

Since its inception in 2012, YPAV has completed several community projects, including the Dry Creek Community Garden on Fourth Avenue. The group has partnered with Innovation Island, the City of Port Alberni, the Chamber of Commerce and Community Futures Alberni-Clayoquot to offer a series of Lunch and Learn events, and with artist Shayne Lloyd and the Rotary Arts District for an art project to be installed near the train station this month. Dick said 2016 expects to be another busy year with more opportunities to enhance the community.

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Holiday donations not enough to feed the hungry $48,000 that was raised last year,” Penny said. “The community supported us well.”

Before the Salvation

Army Kettle Campaign kicked off on Nov. 27, Penny’s main priority was recruiting volunteers to fill all of the bell-ringing time slots. He was able to sign up about the same number as last year and recruited about 80 new faces, but still some locations were left without a kettle.

“We get more donations when the kettle is out there, but some people were sick, and in the end, needed to cancel shifts,” Penny said.

He said younger volunteers, including parents with their children helped this year, and for the first time had a group of school teachers.

“We give hampers to the high school so they thought it would be a good way to give back to us,” Penny said.

He said many of the organization’s long time volunteers are aging and a number have health issues, so he is hoping to tap into the next generation.

“It will be something to build on for next year after seeing the numbers decrease over the past five years,” Penny said.

Donations of food will sustain the food bank for the next couple months, but Penny expects the Salvation Army will be using the newly acquired funds to buy more shortly into the New Year.

Similarly, the Bread of Life received an influx of nonperishable items from several community drives and individual donations over the holiday season.

Still, it is cash that is desperately needed, said Pamela Day, the Bread of Life’s treasurer.

Although a final count was not complete by the end of December, Day said she expects to remain in need of $10,000.

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SPORTS Candidates excited for Totem Spirit From / A7 “I’ve had prior friends in it and they had a really good experience with it,” said Davidson.

“You really get to control your school and show how much school pride you have. It’s a great way to make memories in Grade 12—you don’t really get this much excitement in your high school experience.”

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“It’s just a lot of fun. Every year I look forward to Totem.

There’s so much stuff going on that you want to be a part of it,” said Vissia.

“Everyone gets together and it just feels like a big family,” said Davidson “The whole gym’s filled every night. The feature games are unreal.”

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“It’s a tradition thing too,” said Vissia.

“Every year the previous winner comes back and does the crowning of the new winner. As the Totem Spirit winner you’re involved in Totem for basically forever. You’ll always be called back to be involved in Totem.”

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Karen was born July 5, 1957 in Coronation Alberta to Norman and Theresa Wangsness and was raised and spent her life in the valley that she loved "Port Alberni."

Karen raised two wonderful children, Adrian and Jason.

She relished in her 4 grandchildren, Braedyn, Ashton, Caris and Danae. All will miss the joy and love that she brought to them. She is survived by her sister Gail, and her brothers Glenn, Bruce and Brian. She will continue to live on through her friends and family and in our thoughts and our memories. We will all miss you Karen.

I would like to thank our friends and family for all the support that they gave her during this difficult time, and a special thank you to the people at Ty Watson House for making Karen’s last days pleasant and enjoyable.

As per Karen’s request there will be no service.

Family and friends will be notified on the things that she requested to be done.

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June Susan Charlton (Little)

It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of Jakab Schafer on December 22, 2015 with his family by his side at West Coast General Hospital in Port Alberni.

He is survived by: Maria his loving wife of 65 years; two sons: Gabor (Patti), Zoltan and one daughter Carol ( John) all of Port Alberni and eight grandchildren: Trevor, Natalie, Stefi, Isaac, Malika, Kyla, Tyren and Damon and one great granddaughter: Keeley.

Jakab was born in Hoguesz, Hungary in 1929 and immigrated to Canada along with his wife Maria and Son Gabor in December 1956 during the revolution. They settled in Port Alberni in early 1957 after landing in St John New Brunswick by boat and raised their family in Port Alberni. Jakab was employed in various positions working in the Somass for five years for West Coast Freight, Tom Bros. and other trucking jobs before settling in the Alberni Pulp Mill for 25 years until his retirement. Jakab was a kind and loving person a devoted family person and made a lasting impression on everyone that knew him. His passion was playing the accordion and soccer.

Jakab played, coached and was a referee for many years in the Valley for the men’s and minor soccer leagues. He was also a volunteer driver for Fir Park Village and enjoyed driving the bus for Jack Tire Men’s Soccer Club’s A Celebration of Life for Jakab will be held on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 1:00 pm at the Port Alberni Black Sheep Rugby Club, 3460 Argyle Street, Port Alberni.

In lieu of flowers, donations in Jakab’s memory can be made to the Canadian Diabetes Assoc. of BC, #360 - 1385 W. 8th Ave. Vancouver, BC, V6H 3V9 or West Coast General Hospital, 3949 Port Alberni Hwy, Port Alberni, BC, V9Y 4S1.

Arrangements (cremation) in care of Chapel of Memories Funeral Directors, Port Alberni.

ALLAN GREEN Sept. 27, 1942 - Dec. 9, 2015

June 1,1951-December 28,2015

With a heavy heart I have to announce the passing of my mother, mom passed away peacefully where she wanted to be, at home in my arms in the early morning hours of December 28th. June was born and raised in Port Alberni, after graduation she moved to Vancouver to attend UBC, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture, she resided in Vancouver until returning home to Port Alberni in 1990 to raise me on her own. She loved gardening, reading, her computer games, going out for morning coffee, but most of all her grandchildren were the center of her universe.

She was predeceased by her parents David and Mary Little, brother Doug Little, sister Ginny Little, and grandson Adam David Cowley. She is survived by her daughter Amanda Charlton (Doug Cowley), grandchildren Amber and Owen Cowley, her brother Roy (Sherri) Little, numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and extended family.

Mom's strength and courage is an inspiration to us all, we will forever hold her in our hearts

Rest in Paradise Mom

No service by request I would like to thank the homecare nurses (Marnie, Diane, Colleen) and Dr Wendy Johnson for all your help, the staff at Quality Foods for making mom's last Christmas beautiful your kindness is beyond words, and to my family and friends for all the love and support.

For those who love, time is not.

Missing you today and always.

It is with great sorrow that we post the notice of Allan’s passing.

Allan fought a short and feisty battle with cancer but passed away in West Coast General Hospital with his loving family at his side.

He leaves to mourn the love of his life, wife Dee and their children, Alana, Gina and David; grandchildren, Angel-Blue, Shay, Odin and Ty. He also leaves his brother Ron (Lois) and their son Chet, his Sisters Shannon (Gerry) Coutu, their daughters Bev and Jo-Anne (Raymond), Shona (Gord) Rowe, their son Raymond, Brother and Sister-in-Law Vern and Fran Pluym. Nephews Ed (Yvonne), Barry (Jenny), Tyler (Veronica) and their mother Vera Lucas and great nephews Rory, Aubrey, Derek and great nieces Rianna and Crystal and the many friends that became part of his extended family, we cannot possibly list all of you. We all will miss his quiet good nature.

Allan was born in Port Alberni and lived most of this life here or in logging camps up and down the coast. The last 10 years were spent travelling with Dee seeing places they only dreamed of. Since his retirement he volunteered with I.H.S. and ran the steam donkey for J.J. Logging at McLean’s Mill. Allan enjoyed fishing and was famous for sharing his trout with many, also hunting with Bob and Ed, which resulted in many great stories.

If he had any time left he loved his garden and lending a hand to friends. For the past five years we have held season’s tickets to the Bulldogs games; he was a great supporter of the team.

We will miss the most loving husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, great uncle and friend forever. A memorial tea was held for family and friends on Dec. 15, 2015 at McLean’s Mill.

A celebration of life will be held Saturday January 9th 2016. It will be held at Hansen Hall between the hours of 1pm to 4 pm.We look forward to seeing you there.

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Elsie Winnifred (nee Rogers) On December 25, 2015 Elsie went to spend Christmas with her Lord and Savior. Elsie was born on June 18, 1924 in England and came to Alberta, Canada as a child. It was in Alberta that she grew-up, married, raised her sons and retired. She moved to Port Alberni 2007 to be closer to her family. She was preceded by her son Richard in 1966 and husband Robert in 1991.

Survived by son Bill (Moira), granddaughters Caroline (Paul) Sorensen and Heather (Jamie) Skipper and one great-granddaughter Aline Sorensen. Also survived by her two sisters Helen Miles and Lettie (Butch) Higgins and many nieces nephews and friends. Memorial Tea will be held at a later date.

Lois Anne Morrison

Lois passed at home January 3, 2016 surrounded by her loved ones after a courageous battle with cancer.

Lois was born in Port Alberni, BC on August 4, 1945 and remained a life long resident of Port Alberni.

Lois was predeceased by first husband Bill Morrison; parents Bud and Margaret Carter; sister Joan Gertken; in-laws Bill and Irene Morrison.

Lois is survived by her loving husband Ron Green, married 8 days shy of 31 years; sons, Bill (Cathy), Bob (Joanne), Clinton (Stacy), Chet Green and her loving daughter Lori (Don) Hamelin; 10 Grand-children, 3 great grand-children; her best friend Lorraine and many other family and friends.

Lois was an owner/operator and dispatcher for many years for Fairway Taxi. Lois loved serving the public and came home with many stories and laughs.

Thanks to Dr. Lund for many years of care and the home nurses and care aides for their great care. Donations made be made to Canucks Place in Lois memory. Flowers gratefully declined.

On Friday, January 8th the family is holding a memorial tea for Lois at the Somass Legion, 4680 Victoria Quay from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m. Please come and share your memories with us.

If anyone would like to share stories or pictures, please go to www.YatesFuneral.ca

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Louise Mary Colquhoun was born in Trois Rivieres, Quebec on May 29, 1931. Louise trained as a registered nurse and graduated from the Montreal General Hospital in 1952.

While working on the ward, she met her husband, Harry, while he was a medical intern.

They were married in 1955 in Trois Rivieres, Quebec. They moved to Vancouver for one year prior to moving to Port Alberni in 1956 where they raised their four children and enjoyed 34 active years there. Louise enjoyed spending time with her family and friends.

She was involved with the Kinsmen Club and she enjoyed volunteering at the West Coast General Hospital Auxilary. Louise and Harry moved to Nanoose Bay in 1991, where she enjoyed gardening, travelling and spending time at their beloved cottage.

Louise’s number one priority was her family.

She will be greatly missed by her four children.

Patti Butler (Len), Lynn Donn (Maurice), John Webster (Susan), Margie Radigan (Greg). Predeceased by her loving husband, Harry on December 24, 2010, Louise also leaves behind nine grandchildren, Sarah Fitton (Will), Jamie Mogerman (Ian), Jessica McLaren (Shea), Graeme Donn, Cameron Donn, Maxwell Webster, Riley Webster, Laura Bickerton (Gerry), Megan Clarke (Spencer).

Louise also leaves behind two beautiful great grandchildren, Olivia Fitton and Rylan Bickerton, who adored their GG. Our mother was well loved for her generous and social nature. She will be forever missed.

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Happy New Year everyone! I thought long and hard about what would be a good book to start the year off on, and I think that this one has just the right message for this New Year.

Life isn’t always kind to us. There will be problems and trials to overcome. And we can chose to either give up, or to take it in stride and find a way to make our life better. This struggle was perfectly demonstrated in Wonder by R. J. Palacio. A truly heartwarming tale, Wonder is about a year in the life of August Pullman, a young boy born with extreme facial deformities. Unable to go to school for most of his life, Auggie finally starts grade 5 at a mainstream school for the first time.

Now starting middle school would be hard for any kid, but for Auggie, it’s a real struggle. Inside, he’s just a normal boy, but it is hard for people to see that. Both he and the people he meets will have to find acceptance and courage to face life.

Wonder was, ahem, a wonderful breath of fresh air to read. It was such an uplifting story that I couldn’t put it down, not even for lunch! Auggie and his family were so different from every other group of characters that I’ve read about. Their optimistic outlook on life was a welcome change from the doom and gloom of many other books these days. I hope that if life ever presents the kind of obstacles that Auggie deals with, we can all face it with the same cheerfulness that he does.

So while things may seem grim sometimes, just remember that we are all wonders in our selves. Because as Auggie shows us, nothing should ever be taken at face value.

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Rollin book donation drive starts Jan. 12 The Rollin Art Centre will begin collecting all your book donations, for our annual May fundraiser beginning Jan. 12 at the Rollin Art Centre.

Please drop off all your gently used books in the large book bin under the stairs at the Rollin Art Centre.

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The next art exhibit will be something special from local Tseshaht First Nation Chief Hugh Braker.

This exiting exhibit showcases a chosen part of his personal collection of items from his world travels to Sri Lanka, Philippines, Indonesia, Costa Rica and Brazil.

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Stop by the gallery Saturday, Jan. 23 from 1-3 p.m. to meet Hugh and talk about his adventures.

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This is a reminder to all current Community Arts Council members, and everyone else who would like to help support the Community Arts Council, that all memberships will now be renewed in January 2016. This annual membership date will be for everyone.

If you have not yet renewed your membership for the 2016, pop by the Rollin Art Centre today. The cost is only $17 for adults, $12 for seniors and $22 for a

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As we are a nonprofit organization we rely on the generous support of art patrons like you.

So please, help support the Community Arts Council today so we can help support local artists tomorrow.

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Show is on Jan. 9 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $20 per person.

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Community: • Friday, Jan. 8, 8-11 p.m., Disco Dance Social Fridays – TGIFLGBT-PIPA hosted by Don Tecson • Sunday, Jan 10 , 7-8:30 p.m., Motown Dance Social Sundays - Great Escape - classic rock, country & Motown • Wednesday, Jan. 13, 6-8 p.m., Alberni Connect – an evening of inspirational speakers and networking hosted by the Young Professionals of the Alberni Valley. Find them on Facebook for more information • Thursday, Jan 14, 7-9 p.m., Meeting – Cycle Alberni – future event planning for

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A total of 27 community organizations have received a combined $38,448 from the city of Port Alberni’s community investment program.

According to a report by director of community development Theresa Kingston, 35 requests were made for a total of $72,874—$34,074 for in-kind services and $38,800 for funding.

Out of the $38,448 approved, $26,998 was for in-kind services and $11,450 was for funding.

New requests for funding included $320 in-kind to the Alberni Valley Transition Town Society for facility rentals for its food security round table program, $1,500 in-kind to Literacy Alberni for a meet and greet workshop and a re-branding consultation and a request from the Port Alberni Association for Community Living to improve

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We take pride in our home cooked products.

Lunch & Dinner

Opening Soon

Suite 9B - 3753 10th Avenue in the 10th Avenue Plaza (250)

723-8119

A Local Tradition Since 1969

IN THE PUB:

DINING FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY Every Wednesday & Saturday From 4pm •

Breakfast

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Lunch

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Dinner

BLUE MARLIN INN

5022 Johnston Road 250-723-5663

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Harbour Quay (Next to SugarShak)

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We Deliver for FREE in City $5 for Rural Debit at the door

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778.421.0705

TAX INCLUDED

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• Specialty Coffees • Decadent Desserts • Sticky Buns & Cinnamon Buns • Soups, Salads & Sandwiches

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Coffee ......................... SMALL $2.00...........LARGE $3.00 Tea .............................. SMALL $2.00...........LARGE $3.00 Smoothies ................ SMALL $5.00...........LARGE $6.00 Pop................................. CAN $1.00......... BOTTLE $3.00 Latte ............................ SMALL $3.00...........LARGE $4.00 Espresso ............................. $2.50 Mocha ......................... SMALL $3.00...........LARGE $4.00

Daily Drink Specials

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Plywood

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4740 Tebo Ave Port Alberni V9Y 8B1

250-724-5751 Fax: 250 724-3325

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March 31st, 2014

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Windsor

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