Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News, January 24, 2018

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APOCALYPSE

WINDSURFERS RIDE THE STORM

HEAVY DAMAGE TO UKEE TRAIL

Locals hit high speeds in Ucluelet’s harbour.

Donations needed as WPT takes a beating

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Writing utensils added to single-use plastic fight ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

Straws and plastic bags have some new company in the crosshairs of local ocean lovers as pens, highlighters, markers and all their caps are now also being targeted by the Surfrider Foundation’s Pacific Rim Chapter. Vancouver-based recycling company Terracycle has launched a new program aimed at recycling plastic writing utensils that are often simply discarded when they run out of ink. Surfrider has brought the initiative to the West Coast thanks to partnerships with Tofino’s Ultramarine Art Supply and Ucluelet’s Blackberry Cove Marketplace, which will serve as dropoff locations for locals to bring their writing utensils to. Surfrider’s local chapter manager Lilly Woodbury said that, while writing utensils are not as pervasive as other more commonly found beach-debris items like coffee cups or takeout containers, they are a single-use plastic worth tackling. “Many of these utensils, mostly markers and highlighters, cannot be refilled. Once their content has been used up, they are fated for landfill or waterways,” she said. “This is yet another step on the path to divert more waste from landfill, and to eliminate the need to extract raw resources for plastic production.” Continued on A8

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TSUNAMI SCARE: Ucluelet Mayor Dianne St. Jacques reviews Tsunami Warning reports alongside the district’s emergency and environmental services manager Karla Robison and local police chief Sgt. Steve Mancini inside Ucluelet Secondary School’s gym early Tuesday morning. West Coast locals were evacuated from their homes around 3 a.m. following a 7.9 earthquake in Alaska that prompted a Tsunami Warning in Tofino and Ucluelet. Read about it on page 3.

Colossal waves pound Pacific Rim NORA O’MALLEY nora.omalley@westerlynews.ca

Some locals say it’s been almost a decade since they’ve witnessed waves of such grandeur. For the majority, Thursday’s “black swell” that closed public access to Ucluelet and Tofino beaches and had surf forecast sites projecting over 30-feet waves, was a first time in a lifetime. Jim and Jill Wilkin, visitors from Sherwood Park, Alberta, said in the 20 years they’ve been coming to the Coast, they’ve

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never seen a storm like that. “I don’ think you can describe it adequately,” Jim told the Westerly News from the safe viewing area established at Amphitrite Point. “Even in pictures you show the kids and that, unless you’re witnessing it live, it’s like no other,” said Jill. “Unless you come out and experience it, the sounds, even lying in bed when it first started, the sounds are something we’ve never experienced. The force of nature is beyond your comprehension unless you actually come here and see it,” she said. Continued on A9

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