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Tonquin remains free but charges likely at district lot Andrew bAiley

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Pay parking is charging ahead.

Tofino last experienced pay parking in 2007 but the council of the day took it away after local complaints.

Last week’s regular meeting was council’s first crack at discussing whether to bring pay parking back after hearing the district’s CAO Bob MacPherson pitch the idea during a Committee of the Whole in January.

MacPherson laid out a plan to put user-pay parking in at Tonquin Park Road and the two lots outside Tofino’s municipal hall in an effort to ease congestion by creating higher vehicle turnover in those two areas.

The rates he suggested were: $1 for two hours, $3 to park until 10 p.m. and a flat rate of $8 for Recreational Vehicles.

Last week, council nixed Tonquin from the plan but forged ahead with the two municipal lots and Coun.

Duncan McMaster suggested more areas should be looked at.

“Anywhere that is congested is a candidate for pay parking,” he said. “There’s other areas that have parking problems; I think we need to look at those.”

He argued pay parking should not just be seen as a way to ease congestion but as a revenue generator as well.

“I am a big supporter of trying to come up with other sources of revenue other than just taxpayers’ money,” he said.

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PINK DAY: Ucluelet Secondary School students proudly donned their pinkest duds last week to show a united front against bullying. Pink Day is celebrated across Canada on Feb. 24 and was started by two high school students from Nova Scotia in 2007.

Ucluelet police officer assaulted Local youth facing serious charges after violent attack on cop

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A Ucluelet police officer is recovering after being attacked by a local youth last week.

The officer was taken to the Tofino hospital immediately after the incident to receive treatment, including stitches. They remained off work, due to their injuries, at press time.

The events leading up to the attack began as a routine report of an intoxicated male youth in Ucluelet’s downtown on Feb. 22

around 6 p.m.

The officer arrived at the scene, confirmed the youth was intoxicated and, after attempts to reach the youth’s parents went unanswered, transported the youth to the police detachment’s cells to sober up, according to Sgt. Jeff Swann of the Ucluelet RCMP. “While booking the individual into the cell block, the youth attacked the police officer in a very violent and dangerous fashion,” Swann said.

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One of these signs is not like the others and council believes it doesn’t belong so the Tonquin Beach sign pointing right will be taken down to stop attracting drivers to an overused parking lot.

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Tonquin stays meter free Andrew bAiley

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Parking at the end of Tonquin Park Road will remain free, for now.

Tofino’s municipal council kicked around the idea of charging for parking in the 12-vehicle lot, in an effort to push Tonquin Park goers to the significantly larger lot at Tofino’s community hall, but has decided instead to adjust the area’s signage.

During last week’s regular meeting, Coun. Greg Blanchette doubted whether pay parking would alleviate Tonquin’s concerns but said he was willing to try it out.

“I’m not convinced that it will work to relieve congestion down there but I wouldn’t mind doing the experiment to see if it in fact does work,” he said.

Coun. Cathy Thicke disagreed and spoke against experimentation.

“I don’t think it’s a wise idea,” Thicke said. “I’m personally not interested in an experiment here; there has been way too much upset with that park over the last 50 years.”

She said pay parking would not be effective in the area and worried it would cause more drivers to park along the road leading up to the lot to avoid charges.

She also suggested Tonquin would be a dangerous place for a parking meter to be.

“As we’ve heard many, many, times over, there’s a lot of drinking that goes on there so the possibility for vandalism is very high at that particular spot,” she said.

She said council needed better solutions for Tonquin and laid out a five-step plan to combat the current congestion woes.

This plan included removing a Tonquin Beach directional sign at 1st Street and Arnett Road, adjusting how the area is advertised on tourist maps, installing a ‘No Parking’ sign along Tonquin Park Road as well as a ‘No RVs or Buses’ sign at its entrance and maintaining steady enforcement of this signage.

She said these steps were “very low-cost” and suggested all five didn’t need to come online at once.

“If you don’t like the five steps take three steps, I don’t care, take one step but let’s do something,” she urged.

“We have to do something. Not doing anything is not acceptable to the public, nor to any of the residents, nor really to the visitors; it’s a no-win.”

She noted the lot was full on a recent rainy Wednesday morning in February, which she took as an ominous sign of what lies ahead with Tofino’s tourist season revving its engine.

“It’s just the tip of the iceberg of what’s to come there so I think we really need to face this one headon,” she said. “It’s going to be absolute pandemonium and the bylaw and the RCMP, I can tell you, are going to be called off the beat if we don’t and that’s not fair to them.”

Mayor Josie Osborne agreed that experimentation was not the right call and cautioned a failure at Tonquin could hinder pay parking’s chances elsewhere.

“After thinking about this for a long time and talking to a lot of people, I don’t really favour the idea of experimenting at Tonquin,” she said. “I’m not really interested in losing credibility as a district of Tofino if we’re going to embark on pay parking and one area is, I’ll call it ‘not awesome.’”

Blanchette said the steps Thicke laid out seemed easy enough to implement and agreed something must be done.

“Thinking is not going to solve the problem,” he said. “We need to try a few things, even just one thing, and see what effect that has.”

He suggested starting with the removal of the Arnett Road directional sign and putting up the ‘No Parking’ and ‘No RVs or Buses’ signs.

“Those are very easy to do,” he said. “Those three steps will give us some indication of whether it will go any ways towards controlling parking down there and if it doesn’t work they’re extremely easy to reverse.”

Osborne was hesitant to put such specific direction to staff.

“I appreciate all the work that you put into this Coun. Thicke and you live there so you drive there everyday and you see it but I’m a little loathe to provide very specific direction on [what] signs and where to our staff,” she said.

Council agreed to have staff look into signage and educational tools to ease Tonquin Park Road’s congestion.

Thicke also suggested promoting the nearby community hall’s Tonquin Park access as an alternative.

“Everybody can use it, no problem, fill your boots, go down the trail, hike all you want, go to the beach and spend as long as you want at the community hall, it’s not a problem,” she said.

She reemphasized the Tonquin Park Road lot should not be featured on future tourist maps but acknowledged such a move would have to wait a year as 2016’s maps have already been printed.

“On all those maps that go out to thousands of people this is the great space to park,” she lamented.

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ucluelet to demolish building Project’s price tag more than double the anticipated budget

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Andrew bAiley

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Ucluelet is looking to spend money to make money.

The district has agreed to pay $26,875 to demolish a former home at 1301 Pine Rd. in order to sell the land the structure is on for an estimated $80,000.

The property, which has been vacant since a 2013 fire, became district property after its taxes went unpaid for three straight years. It was put up for a tax-sale auction but fell into the hands of the district when no bids were received.

In a report, reviewed by council last week, the district’s manager of finance David Douglas recommended clearing the land and cleaning it up before hammering a ‘For-Sale’ sign in the front yard.

Douglas explained the district had budgeted $12,500 for the demolition and sought bids from demolition companies but received only one response, which asked for over twice that amount.

“The district received one bid for $26,875 plus GST, which includes demolition, disposal, and an environmental assessment on the materials being removed and being disposed,” according to Douglas’ report. “The quote does not include any special handling or disposal of hazardous materials.”

He acknowledged the cost was significantly higher than the project’s budget.

“If council would like to continue with this project additional funds will be required,” he wrote. “The extra needed for demolition of the building could be funded from sale proceeds of the land.”

He cautioned against trying to sell the property with the building intact.

“The District intended to demolish the building and clean up the land prior to placing the property for sale,” he said. “Staff is hesitant to recommend selling the property as is due to liability issues that may arise from that type of sale.”

Coun. Mayco Noel said $26,875 was too much to pay and suggested postponing the project until more companies had time to take on, and compete for, new projects.

“I struggle with the quote. I struggle with the fact that we only

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Ucluelet will pay $26,875 to tear down this Pine Road house. had one person bid,” he said.

“There’s a lot of contractors really busy right now. I think if this was perhaps pushed off to the fall, my opinion is this might look a little bit different and it would be savings to the district and at the end of the day it would be nice to have some of the winnings out of the property sale go back to the community.”

Mayor Dianne St. Jacques asked what the implications of waiting on the project might be.

“It will require us keeping an eye on it and keeping it boarded up and what not but it’s not a very clean sight, we have had neighbour problems with it,” responded district CAO Andrew Yeates.

Yeates speculated that the lot, once cleared, could fetch around $80,000.

Coun. Randy Oliwa wasn’t sure selling the land with the building intact would be a bad move but expressed trust in staff’s judgment.

“I don’t know if I’d be as hesitant,” he said. “We have a crackerjack legal team there, a sale of ‘as is’ with the proper releases and stuff like that, I’m sure you’ve explored that option as well.”

Yeates confirmed the option had been investigated.

Council decided to accept the $26,875 bid with Noel the only vote in opposition.

scam costs ukee man $3,000 Andrew bAiley

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A long-running and widespread phone scam has once again hit the Coast.

The scam involves telephone callers claiming to be from the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) and making false threats designed to scare people into sending money to pay off non-existent tax-debts.

Const. Marcel Midlane of the Ucluelet RCMP said police have received several recent reports of this scam and one local man was taken for roughly $3,000 last week.

He said it is unlikely this money will be returned.

“Tracking down people in these cases is often quite difficult… they could be anywhere. As soon as you get behind a computer screen you’re invisible. Sometimes we can track them, sometimes we can’t, it depends how sophisticated the fraud network is,” Midlane said.

“These people are pretty crafty, that’s how they make their money, and the public loses millions and millions of dollars every year to these sorts of fraudulent scams.”

In 2014, 14,472 Canadians fell victim to scams compared to 15,056 in 2013, according to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre’s most recent annual statistical report. While this decline in numbers may be encouraging, victims are being taken for higher amounts as scammers stole over $74 million in 2014, up from $59 million in 2013.

That works out to about $5,000 per victim in 2014 and Midlane said falling prey to a scam could have financially devastating results, especially for seniors.

“That might be their life savings,” he said.

He urges locals to read up on potential scams and never send money to anyone without being absolutely sure of where it’s going.

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“If there’s something fishy about it, then there’s probably something wrong,” he said. “Educate yourself; there’s lots of information online about fraud and about some of the scams that are going on.”

He added locals should protect their personal information as diligently as their dollars and he encourages anyone who thinks they have been targeted by a scammer to call the RCMP detachment at 250-726-7773.

Calling the police helped save Ucluelet local Bob Gagnon from becoming a victim to the scam last week.

Gagnon told the Westerly he received three threatening voicemails from a CRA scammer.

“They actually threatened me that if I didn’t pay, or didn’t call this number that they gave me, that they were going to press charges against me,” he said.

“It really bothered me. I was having a panic attack after the first call and I figured, ‘Now what did I do?’ It upset me and it took me a long time, the whole day, just to settle down. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and when they threatened me I figured this can’t be right.”

Gagnon was wary of the caller’s claims because he’s never had a problem with his taxes so he called the cops.

“I was told by the RCMP that it was a scam so that really brought my blood pressure back down again,” he said.

Locals are reminded that the CRA will never call to request a prepaid credit card, information about your passport, health card or drivers license, leave personal information on your answering machine or request that you leave any personal information on another answering machine.

Anyone who receives a suspicious call from a person claiming to be from the CRA is urged to hang up and dial 1-800-9598281 to speak with the CRA directly.

Locals can read up on scams at www.antifraudcentre.ca.

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How much change is needed?

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They had me up until a week ago.

Back in January, Bob MacPherson made a strong case for bringing pay parking back to Tofino; he might have made too strong a case.

It’s unclear whether MacPherson knew what he was unleashing when he suggested charging for parking at Tonquin Park Road and Tofino’s two municipal hall lots but, at the time, what he was saying made sense.

Parking at the municipal hall would cost downtown shoppers $1 for two hours; throw in an extra $1 to have time for lunch and you’re looking at a very reasonable price to pay to avoid emptying your fuel tank while driving yourself nuts searching for a vacant spot.

Those of us who have experienced Tofino in July would gladly fork over that amount for the feeling of ecstasy that comes when one eases into the perfect space.

He made a strong case for this endgame. By charging just $1 for parking he prophesized vacant spots would appear.

This claim was fueled by his belief that the cars clogging up the municipal hall’s lots aren’t downtown shoppers but long-term parkers using those lots as their personal garage.

Revenue was not the goal. He stressed that several times. The idea was to free up parking for people wanting to park for two hours by getting rid of the people wanting to park for days.

Despite the sense in his plan, Macpherson presented it cautiously. When he was asked if the two lots he was proposing were merely stepping-stones towards more pay-lots he assured they were not.

His intent, he promised, was not to spread pay parking through town.

His tone was assuring and it was designed to be. Treading lightly and expecting pushback he enhanced his calm to what I presume is its limit and gently volleyed council’s questions over a preassembled reassurance-twined net.

In hindsight though to council’s ears his response must have come off as not so much reassuring as it was disappointing.

Last week, Coun. Duncan McMaster, who refers to himself as McNasty on occasion, lived up to that self-imposed nickname by throwing a wicked curveball that would have whiffed Rod Carew.

McMaster, who had missed MacPherson’s January presentation, said the district should absolutely use pay parking as a source of revenue and he wanted to draft more lots into the pay game.

It’s easy to see what McMaster is charging towards. He’s trying to find revenue without looking in local wallets. He wants to tax tourists to fund local needs.

The additional hotel room tax we charge them does wonders for funding improvement projects and festivals so dipping into their pockets again when they park seems sensible.

But does Tofino really need more change?

Tofino’s quaintness and charm lures a bevy of pockets to pick but the charm business is fickle. All markets fluctuate but when your market relies on people finding your small town vibe adorable then bringing in big city features is akin to drinking hemlock.

It’s one thing to squeeze change out of tourists parking in the centre of town but if I need to scramble through my pockets for quarters while juggling two babies and a toddler on the side of the road to get to the Village Green then all of a sudden downtown becomes about as charming and simple as a rubix cube.

That McMaster would bring this idea forward is surprising but not jaw dropping, he’s been consistent in his pursuit of new revenue sources. What is shocking though is the lack of opposition he received. Where MacPherson tiptoed McMaster stomped and he did so freely with no retorts raised, not even when he suggested higher rates than MacPherson had proposed.

Tourists, the ones who drive here at least, have more money than us. They’ll likely fill the lot at $5 a spot whereas I can go in for $1 but push it to $3 and there goes my coffee or tea.

A Tofino where the tourists can park but the rest of us can’t is terrifying.

Council has locked the ‘times have changed’ refrain on repeat but with pay parking once again in the air and with that air once again thick with unclear intentions, how much has changed? And how much change is needed?

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Missoula a big success Pacific Rim Arts Society thanks locals for support SUZANNE RYLES

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The Pacific Rim Arts Society would like to thank everyone who played a part in helping us bring for the first time the theatre production of Aladdin to Tofino this past week, this was the 24th Missoula Children’s Theatre Production that our local children have been able to participate in.

We are very happy to say that all 24 children who came out to the auditions on Monday all got a part in the play and have been practicing very hard every night under the guidance of Missoula directors Laine from Rhode Island and Melissa from Chicago We would like to send a big Thank you to The Wickaninnish Community School for hosting the show again this year and to Black Rock Resort

for hosting Laine and Melissa. Thank you also to our sponsors the BC Gaming Commission, District of Tofino, District of Ucluelet, The Westerly News, Chocolate Tofino and Crabapple Floral. We would also like to thank Erin Kostashuk, who generously donated her time as the Accompanist for this productions in Tofino.

We would like to thank the Audience (about 200 of you) who came out to both shows, especially on such a busy weekend. With all of your amazing support the Pacific Rim Arts Society will continue to work at showcasing different mediums of Arts & Culture to the West Coast including the yearly Art Show filled with works from the young to the not so young, ArtSplash! ; which is only a month away.

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Opera comes to Ukee

Historical society brings Stickboy to UCC March 10 and 11 ELLEN KIMOTO Local Voice

The crowd files into the hall, everyone takes their seats, the lights dim, the curtains opens, and the music fills the room. The opera is beginning.

This has happened in Ucluelet for l0 years. We started in the bandroom with Noami’s Road. It was 2005. Joy Kogawa was in the building and her presence added great anticipation and dignity to the proceedings. With the umbrella organization, Vancouver Opera and the sponsorship of many generous donors, this programme has visited British Columbia school children and their families yearly on an annual provincial tour. We have been treated to a wide diversity of stories. 2006 brought Mozart’s Magic Flute with stylized first nation culture as the set and costumes. Next was the Barber of Barkerville stolen from the Barber of Seville.

Vada Hille’s project was given an environmental staging in Jack Pine.

Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel followed in the

stories of the Brothers Grimm.

We then were treated to an encore performance of Kogawa ‘s children version of Obasan and now we present Shane Koyczan adaption of Stickboy.

In 2016 the theme of ‘there is bully in all of us’ challenges us to confront the realities of human relationships. The adaption of human behavior woven into music and drama affords us a view of ourselves in a cultural mosaic, this community and our neighbours in Tofino need to be congratulated for their generous donations which make this tour possible.

This annual event is sponsored by the Ucluelet and Area Historical Society.

We have been lead by many community leaders notably Lisa Brisco and Mary Kimoto. Please come and enjoy an hour of professional opera voices, young people at the beginning of a career long passion about opera.

The opera Stickboy will be presented at the UCC at 10:30 a.m. on March 10 and at 7:30 p.m. on March 11.

Young male local attacks officer continued from page 1 “It was very disturbing and very disheartening to see something happen to this magnitude. The officer acted with complete professionalism throughout the encounter and ultimately they were the only one that suffered any injuries,” Swann said.

He said the fight lasted several minutes before the officer was able to place the youth in handcuffs.

He said the youth did not sustain any significant injuries and was transported to Port Alberni the following day where he remained in custody at press time.

Swann said the detachment’s surveillance cameras recorded the attack and the youth is facing “extremely serious” charges.

“This was a police officer doing their job very politely, very respectfully; looking after all the needs of this youth and when the officer turned their back to him, they were attacked and choked violently and viciously,” Swann said.

“It was sickening to see and I was so glad that it was all caught on the videotape because then there’s no questions; there’s no issues.”

Swann said he has never seen anything like this happen in his six years in Ucluelet and suggested it’s all the more disappointing due to the solid track record of local youth who rarely cause problems for police.

“This is a very significant file, it’s very serious, and for a youth from our community it’s disheartening to have that happen,” he said.

“We’re also feeling for this youth. We’re all one big community here and, yes we’re looking out for the police officer, but we’re also looking out for this youth’s needs and making sure that they get some treatment.”

He said there is no timeline for the officer’s return to work.

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Wick Road reopening still months away Hope is to have Wick Beach access open by end of May Andrew bAiley

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Wick Road will remain closed until at least the end of May as crews work on fixing a roughly five-metre-deep, two-metre-wide, sinkhole that opened up in January.

The Park has been unable to put its finger on exactly what caused the hole to open up, according to Pacific Rim National Park’s asset manager Jackie Godfrey.

“Engineers have examined the sinkhole and are unable to pinpoint a cause, but sinkholes are not uncommon in the region because of the combination of marine clay and large amounts of water underlying the area,” she said.

“Investigation into the sink hole included consultations with geo-technical engineers, environmental monitors, consultants and contractors. The hole has been filled with filter cloth and 6” rock material.”

She noted construction crews were already in the area as the Park has a number of improvement projects on the go.

“The repair cost for the sinkhole has been included in the overall project of removing the culvert where Sandhill Creek crosses Wick Road and the installation of a bridge,” she said.

“These investments in visitor infrastructure will ensure the quality and reliability of visitor facilities and continue to allow Canadians to connect with nature.”

Wick Road’s closure has nixed access to Wickaninnish Beach, the Kwisitis Visitor Centre and Feast House as well as the Shorepine Bog Trail, according to Godfrey.

She said visitors can still access South Florencia Bay and Half Moon Bay by trekking along a roughly 1.8 kilometre stretch of Willowbrae Trail.

“While Wick Road is closed, Long Beach at North Beach parking lot, Incinerator Rock, the Rainforest Trail, and Schooner Cove Trail are excellent alternatives,” she said.

Wick Road is closed while work crews fix a five-metre-deep sinkhole that opened up in January.

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Laura graduated from Carleton University’s journalism program in 2007. She worked in various newsrooms, including the Peace Arch News, the Province, the Canadian Press, and most recently, CKNW Radio. She spent four and a half years there, as a reporter and anchor, and was sent to Tofino to cover the whalewatching boat capsizing in 2015.

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National team surfers Kevin Cortez, left, and Jackson Obando send shaka love from one of their local breaks in Gigante, Nicaragua. The boys are headed here to film the surf doc Frio.

Nicaraguan surfers en route to Coast Surf documentary crew kicks into action and gets set to start shooting in Canadian waters Nora o’malley

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There will be a couple fresh faces in the lineup and around Tofino-Ucluelet this month as the crew from the surf documentary Frio begins shooting in Canadian waters.

Starring two young Nicaraguan surfers, Kevin Cortez,19, and Jackson Obando,18, Frio is a coming-to-cold water story boasting the highest quality surfing action.

“These guys rip. They live in overhead waves back home so there’s nothing that these guys can’t handle,” director and producer JP Veillet told the Westerly News from his home in Montreal.

“March is always pretty decent for waves, so we’re just praying to the surf Gods that we’re gonna get the right conditions.”

Cortez and Obando are on the Nicaraguan National Surf Team, and have already done some international travel in the name of surfing. Obando, who Veillet says is the straightlaced of the pair, was twice crowned the Junior Central American champ.

The boys live in Gigante, Nicaragua, and the small town’s world class waves, which the boys grew up surfing, suit its otherwise ironic name.

Much like Tofino and Ucluelet, the tiny town thrives on the fishing and surf tourism industries.

Frio was dreamt up as one can only imagine. Two years ago on a past surf trip to Nicaragua, Veillet found himself swaying in hammocks with new found friends, Cortez and Obando.

“I asked them, What’s the coldest thing you’ve ever felt,” said Veillet.

“I don’t know, this glass of water I have in my hand I guess,” answered Cortez.

“Then we started laughing about them coming to Canada; seeing them in a full wetsuit with their little brown face,” said Veillet.

“There are good waves in Canada,” asked Cortez, which quickly led to an Internet search of Vancouver Island surf spots.

And the rest, as they say, is history: Wetsuits have been sponsored, travel funds have been raised, work visas and filming permits have been acquired, and the Frio team is due to touch down in Vancouver on March 8.

“We will spend a couple days in Vancouver so the boys can see the city and then we will take the ferry over. A friend from Relic will pick us up in Nanaimo,” Veillet said.

“I don’t know to what extent they understand fully what’s coming. They are trusting us so much where I’ve never had a question with, ‘Are we gonna be cool with jackets, Are we gonna have a place to crash.. It’s just cool, let’s do it.’”

Veillet has garnered tremendous support from the surf community here on the West Coast. Relic Surf Shop hooked the team up with an oversized van and Aftanas gifted the rising surf stars two custom boards for their inaugural submersion into aqua frio.

Cortez and Obando will spend the better part of March surfing the breaks about Pacific Rim National Park. They’ll be residing in Ucluelet for the most part, but will undoubtedly drive to Tofino to surf Cox Bay and Chesterman Beach as Wick Rd still remains closed.

If time and conditions open up, the Frio crew may even venture south Island to explore the breaks around Jordan River.

“It’s gonna be an interesting story that’s unfolding,” Veillet said. “We’re looking forward to meeting anyone that wants to come and say hi. They are part of the story.”

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A distressed California sea lion hauled out in Tofino on Saturday but vanished before rescuers could get to it.

Local marine mammal expert Wendy Szaniszlo said Vancouver Aquarium staffers ran out of daylight before they were able to retrieve the sub adult male, which was reported around 4 p.m. on Feb. 27.

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Seals and sea lions are common on the Coast but if you see one on a sandy beach stay clear and report it immediately.

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“It was decided based on the time of day that someone would go out first thing in the morning and alert the aquarium if the animal was still there,” Szaniszlo told the Westerly.

She said the sea lion was gone when officials returned at 6 a.m. and its chances for survival aren’t strong.

“I can’t say what was wrong with the animal but based on the behaviour and where it was stranded something was wrong,” she WendY SZaniSZLo said.

She said sea lions should not be seen on local beaches as they prefer rocky areas and anyone who spots one should immediately report their sighting.

“It’s more common to see harbour seal pups, which usually well intentioned people think have been abandoned when their mums go out to feed,” she said.

“It’s very rare for a healthy sea lion to haul out on the beach so right away it’s a red flag that this animal is in distress, something is wrong with it, we may not know what it is but calling it in alerts the professionals to help figure out what that problem might be.”

Sightings can be reported to BC’s Marine Mammal Hotline at 1-800-465-4336.

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Szaniszlo added early reporting can help get professionals to the scene in time to save humans and pets from dangerous interactions.

“A big concern is that this animal that is potentially in distress might get harassed and disturbed more if people and dogs are on the beach,” she said.

“If it’s an area where there is a lot of visitors and dogs running off leash then at that time it definitely is helpful to have someone stationed there to help inform people what is going on and request them to keep a safe distance and why.”

She said locals and visitors must keep a safe distance from marine wildlife and she was disappointed to hear about the amount of onlookers who reportedly gathered around the sea lion on Saturday.

“There were a lot of people and dogs around so one of the concerns is that, for the safety of the animal, having people or dogs approach it can cause a lot of stress and that’s not good for any animal that is already sick or injured,” she said.

“It also poses a real big safety concern for people and their dogs as well. These sea lions are wild animals, they’ve got incredibly powerful teeth and even if they appear to not be doing well they can, without warning, lunge and bite and cause a lot of damage and they do carry a lot of diseases…

They have diseases that can be transferred to dogs and humans.”

She said the Coast is a popular spot for male California sea lions to visit this time of year and that sightings of the species have been on the rise over the past decade.

“We only have males here, the females and juveniles stay down in Mexico and California,” she said. “They come up here and it’s kind of like an extended fishing trip, and a vacation for the ladies and the young ones, and then in May they start heading back south for the breeding season.”

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Tofino is moving towards making parking in its two muncipal lots a pay to play privilege.

Parking fees coming continued from page 1 “I’m looking at pay parking to raise revenue and I think we can sell it to the public by saying, as we go along, that the revenue from this is going to build a rec. centre or it’s going to liquid waste management,” McMaster said.

He said pay parking should be part of a broader parking management plan that would include improving access to alternative transportation methods and ensuring adequate enforcement.

Coun. Ray Thorogood wasn’t convinced that pay parking should be seen as a revenue generator but he liked the idea of putting it in at the municipal hall’s lots as long as enforcement was part of the plan.

“We have to be able to enforce it,” he said. “If you don’t enforce it then it’s all for naught.”

Coun. Al Anderson questioned whether the district could take on McMaster’s idea of more user-pay lots.

“I’d have to get some more feedback on that.

I’m not sure if we’re in a position right now to really assess that and get on with that in a fulsome way with what we have on our plates right now,” he said.

“If we did expand parking outside of those lots in the downtown core, or any of the beach sites, there would be a lot of education that needed to happen and an understanding about that.”

He said any revenue raised from potential parking meters should be put towards Tofino’s parking reserve fund.

“There’s very little funds there to do anything with to improve parking anywhere so whatever revenue is generated from these two lots should go into improving situations for parking,” he said.

He agreed with McMaster that locals would have an easier time accepting parking meters if they knew where the revenue was going.

MacPherson assured that clear messaging about where the money was going would be part of the district’s pay parking strategy.

“What I’ve heard pretty consistently around the table is we really want to make sure that the parking revenue isn’t just money that falls into a hole in the floor,” he said.

Coun. Greg Blanchette said putting pay parking in at the municipal lots would help ease locals into the idea.

“If we start just with these two lots, which not a lot of locals will feel threatened by, then we can start moving it out but I do agree with Coun. McMaster that if we’re going to pursue this beyond just these lots then we need an overall plan,” he said.

“I don’t see it as much of a revenue generator but I would be happy to be convinced otherwise.”

He suggested investing the parking profits into Tofino’s Multiple Use Path (MUP).

“A small amount of revenue could make some significant improvements along a small section of the MUP and you could put up a big sign saying, ‘these improvements come from parking fees,’” he said. “It also meshes nicely with reducing the requirement for parking.”

Baert agreed but strongly urged council to ensure locals receive a legitimate heads up before a parking meter pops up and spoke to the district’s failed attempt to bring in pay-parking 10 years ago.

“I was at the table that did the last, kind of, disastrous entrance of that idea and certainly from my point of view the caveat was always the educational piece especially linked to benefit to the community…and none of that happened,” she said.

“I wasn’t a supporter of pay parking the way it unfolded but if it had to go ahead, which it did because we’d actually hired staff to administrate it before we actually approved the parking—I wasn’t actually on council then, I was just on the committee.”

She also urged council not to see parking as the long-term use of the gravel municipal lot.

“At this point in time that lot is still property intended for development,” she said while acknowledging the district doesn’t have many other downtown parking options.

“We haven’t been proactive necessarily in securing other places that are reasonably within the proximity of downtown…to kind of give us alternatives.”

Both municipal lots are expected to be served by one electronic parking meter operated by Robbins Parking but McMaster wondered whether the district could instead hire someone to collect parking fees.

MacPherson advised a machine was the best route to take.

“I cannot recommend having someone sitting in a booth out there taking money. In the parking industry that’s known as ‘thief in a box,’” MacPherson said. “It creates a very challenging system for us to audit.”

He added Robbins would be responsible for any vandalism done to the meter.

Osborne suggested vandalism would not be a concern.

“With the right education and the amount of general public acceptability I feel is out there for these two lots I would hope that vandalism wouldn’t be an issue,” she said.

Council agreed to direct staff to bring forward the necessary bylaw amendments to put user pay parking in at the municipal hall’s two lots.

The current timeline is to have pay parking in place by May and have it run through to October.

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Remember the height of the AIDS scare, when people were basically bombarded with the message of “wear a condom or die?�

Today’s young adults don’t.

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by Island Health. “For me, the emphasis is to promote it for our youth populations, and for people to start thinking about (testing) as part of their regular health care,� Vancouver Island medical health officer Dee Hoyano said.

Between 2005 and 2014, chlamydia — the most common of the diseases being tested for — has risen from 216 cases per 100,000 people to 288 per 100,000. Cases in the south and central Island roughly mirror those numbers, while on the north Island they are a little higher.

Other sexually transmitted infections are less common, but also seem to be on the upswing. Hoyano points to two factors. “Our tests have gotten better, so when we do test, we pick up more; and changes in sexual behaviour, particularly around safer sex practices like using a condom,� she said.

As part of its emphasis on increased testing, the health authority has launched getcheckedonline. com a new service that allows you to get tested for chlamydia, hepatitis C, syphilis, gonorrhoea and HIV without

ever having to visit a doctor’s office.

Island residents can create an account through the website, take a quiz on their sexual history, print a laboratory requisition form, then get tested at a participating LifeLabs outlet.

Negative results will lead to an online notification. Positive or inconclusive results will lead to a call from a nurse to arrange treatment.

Health officials hope the increased privacy the program offers will combine with youth culture’s comfort online to result in more people getting tested.

The program is primarily being offered to residents of Victoria, Langford and Duncan because that is where the participating labs are.

However, Hoyano said residents of communities further up-Island are also welcome to participate if they don’t mind making the drive.

She is hopeful the service can be expanded fully into other Island communities, if the numbers of this initial program seem to warrant it.

Public health officials recommend B.C. residents get tested for HIV once every five years, regardless of their behaviour. People are told to consider testing for the other diseases based on factors like new sexual partners, or signs and symptoms. “It’s kind of what makes sense of the individual,� Hoyano said. “Some who are potentially at higher risk might want to do more.�

A similar pilot program was launched in Vancouver focused on men who have sex with men. Visit getcheckedonline.com for more info.

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WED. MARCH 2

Featured Event for the Week

WEST COAST JOB EXPO

MARCH 5 BLACK ROCK AND ROLL

11 a.m.-3p.m. Tin Wis Resort.

TUFF CITY IDOL

A concert fundraiser for the USS Band Program set in the Black Rock Ballroom. It will feature music by Left at the Junction, The Barkley Sounds, Geoff Johnson, Open to Interpretation, and an open mic. It is an event for the whole family, with free snacks and a cash bar. Tickets are $12 for adults, $5 for youth, and $20 for families, and are available at USS. Doors will open at 6pm. Contact Dave mcPherson at dmcpherson@sd70.bc.ca for more information.

PICKLEBALL

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Sun. MARCH 6

MOn. MARCH 7

5-7 pm, WCS, all ages welcome.

DROP-IN SOCCER

DROP-IN BADmINTON

7-9 p.m. WCS gym. $3.

7-9 p.m. USS gym. $2.

TOFINO EXPRESSIVE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR WOmEN

YOUTH BASKETBALL

CHRIST COmmUNITY CHURCH

Jack’s Pub, 9:30 p.m.

POOL NIGHT 7-11 p.m. Tofino Legion

DROP-IN BASKETBALL

5-7 pm, WCS.

7- 9 p.m. WCS gym

FRI. MARCH 4

SENIORS SOCIAL AFTERNOONS

DROP-IN BADmINTON

1:30-4 p.m., Tofino Legion.

ST. COLUmBA CHURCH 7 p.m. 110 2nd St.

ARTS GROUP

7-10 p.m. Tofino Legion.

DROP-IN VOLLEYBALL 7-9 p.m. USS. $2.

tHu. MARCH 3

7-9 p.m. USS gym. $2.

YOUTH GAmES NIGHT 7-9 pm. Ages 10+, WCS.

10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd.

AA mEETING 7:30pm, St. Francis.

SAt. MARCH 5

10:30 am, UCC.

ST. COLUmBA CHURCH 10:30 a.m. 110 2nd St.

UNITED/ANGLICAN SERVICE 4 p.m. UCC.

COPS FOR CANCER EVENT

ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH 11:00 a.m. Ahousaht.

TOFINO BIBLE FELLOWSHIP 10:30 a.m. Tofino Legion.

HOLY FAmILY CHURCH 10 a.m. , 1663 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet

7:30 p.m. Tofino Botanical Gardens.

10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Fundraiser at UAC Hall, 1510 Peninsula Rd.

BINGO

ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

DROP-IN SOCCER

RAINCOAST SPEAKER SERIES

7-10 p.m. Tofino Legion.

5:30 p.m.

FAmILY TIES

USS BAND FUNDRAISER

10:30 a.m, UCC

7 p.m. Black Rock Resort. $12 adults, $5 youth, $20 family.

DARTS AT THE LEGION 8-10 p.m. Tofino Legion.

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH

KARAOKE 10 p.m., Officials Sports Lounge

6:30-8:30 p.m. , 250-726-2343

MOn. MARCH 7 7-9 p.m. USS. $2.

UCLUELET AA 8pm. Holy Family.

mONDAY NIGHT mOVIE 8 p.m. Clayoquot Theatre.

tuE. MARCH 8 INT. WOmEN’S DAY

11 a.m. -2 p.m. Friends of Clayoquot Sound community Space. 100-120 4th St. Tofino.

FOOD BANK ON THE EDGE Distribution day, 1-3 p.m.

YOUTH BADmINTON 6-7 P.m. WCS.

UCLUELET EXPRESSIVE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR WOmEN

6:30-8:30 p.m. 250-726-2343

TOFINO LEGION YOUTH NIGHT 7-9 p.m., Tofino Legion.

YOUTH NIGHT AT THE ANAF 6-8p.m., ANAF Ucluelet

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West Coast families took a break from events to nosh on healthy snacks at the Tofino Botanical Gardens.

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Festival goers mingled over delicious canapés.

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