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Transport Canada suspended the air operator certificate of Orca Airways for “repeated non-compliance with aviation safety regulations,” on March 15.

But, the company’s chief operating officer says the suspension is primarily the result of mis-timing of the company’s recent merger with Calgary-based Integra Air Group, and at least some flights resumed over the weekend.

“For financial reasons, the two companies merged together, and the Orca management team was phased out,” said Andrew Naysmith, former president of Orca Airways and now COO of Integra Air Group’s Orca Airways division.

“You can’t operate on a certificate if you don’t have a management team. We didn’t quite time it the way we wanted to time it.”

In an emailed statement, an Integra spokesperson said the suspended flights will not affect Tofino as the company continues to fly their Jet Stream 31 to and from Long Beach Airport daily and Orca Airways flights resumed at Qualicum Beach Airport Saturday flying under Integra Air’s operating certificate.

“We actually implemented this merger seven or eight weeks ago with Integra,” Naysmith said.

“We’ve been flying to Tofino for two months on (Integra’s) certificate.”

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CHOWDER CHAMPS: Black Rock Oceanfront Resort’s Executive Chef Dan Pietrzak and Sous Chef Andreanne Muller were ecstatic to hoist the Pacific Rim Whale Festival’s Chowder Chow Down trophy for best overall chowder on behalf of their culinary team on Sunday. Ucluelet’s Floathouse Patio and Grill won the People’s Choice Award. Read about it on page 3, see our photo feature on page 11 and watch a video at www.WesterlyNews.ca.

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The Tofino RCMP are asking the public for help in solving the following crimes: On Friday, March 16 police responded to a Break and Enter that occurred sometime overnight in the 600 block of Campbell Street.

The following items were stolen: a yellow Timble G07X

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On Friday, March 16, police also responded to a Break and Enter that occurred in the 300 Block of Fourth Street, Tofino.

The following items were stolen; a Ruger 338 rifle, a savage 1.7 HMR rifle, a Rhino Cross Bow and a Ruger 270 HMR women rifle.

If you have any information regarding the thefts, please call the Tofino RCMP at 250-725-3242 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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Pacific Rim National Park Reserve Warden Jonathan Hopkins puts a leash on 10-year-old Ucluetian Boxer Ira so that she can enjoy Wickaninnish Beach safely without disturbing beach goers or shorebirds

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A warming West Coast sun has visitation beginning its annual bloom and the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is reminding anyone headed to its sandy shores that all dogs must be leashed at all times.

“As we get into the time of year when wolves are going to be more active and the bears are going to be waking up and the shorebirds are going to be returning, it just becomes more important,” Park Warden Jonathan Hopkins told the Westerly News, adding that leashes have been mandatory within the Park Reserve since the early 2000’s.

A wolf was euthanized in the Park Reserve last May after it attacked a dog near Long Beach, and while the dog was leashed at the time of the attack, Parks Canada staff suggested the wolf had attacked because it had become habituated to seeing dogs off leash. It was the first time a wolf had been destroyed within the Park Reserve since 2008. Another wolf was killed in Ucluelet in June.

In light of the attack, the Park Reserve increased its efforts to ensure dogs were leashed last summer by launching a Park Ambassador program that saw summer staffers patrolling beaches making sure visitors were in compliance.

Hopkins said the program worked well and will return this summer.

“They’re boots on the ground to help remind people and guide visitors throughout their visit to the Park Reserve,” he said.

He added off leash dogs can disrupt shorebird migration.

“This is a very important feeding area and it’s been proven that dogs disturbing and flushing those shorebirds does have an impact on their ability to feed during their migration process,” he said.

“In the past, we have had dogs attack seals.”

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“Any time that they’re disturbed by people or, more so, dogs they flush and have to move and they’re not as efficiently able to feed and maintain those energy levels needed to migrate.”

He said dogs can also disturb visitors seeking peaceful experiences that don’t include dogs running up to them.

“When those negative encounters happen, we hear those complaints quite often,” he said.

The fine for allowing a domestic animal to run off leash in the Park Reserve is $58 for the first offence, but that amount escalates for repeat offences or incidents where a dog disrupts wildlife, like shorebirds or moulting seals.

“In the past, we have had dogs attack seals.

In that instance it would more likely be a court appearance,” Hopkins said.

The Park Reserve’s neighbouring communities of Tofino and Ucluelet both have animal control bylaws in place. Like the Park Reserve, leashes are mandatory in Tofino while Ucluelet does not enforce leashes, but does require animals to be under a guardian’s control.

Hopkins said the Park Reserve is working with Tofino and Ucluelet “to try to come up with a better strategy across the peninsula as opposed to everyone siloing and doing their own thing.”

“If we can come together and work on a better people management strategy then, maybe, we can combat not only issues with dogs, but issues with garbage and wildlife attractants and everything that we have to manage to better coexist with the wildlife in this area.”

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The Toquaht First Nation and District of Ucluelet each received $500,000 during a March 14 open house event for their Barkley Community Forest .

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The Toquaht Government Office looked like the scene of a lottery win last Thursday as the First Nation split a $1 million fortune with the District of Ucluelet.

The two West Coast communities each received $500,000 cheques cut from the 2017 profits of their Barkley Community Forest Corporation partnership. The corporation’s chair, Terry Smith, dished out the funds at the March 14 event and suggested more is coming.

Ucluelet mayor Dianne St. Jacques was thrilled to see the community forest begin to bear fruit.

“We’re excited to think about, along with our community, the many ways we can invest it and spend it and we really want to thank our partners and the board for all the great work that you’ve

“It’s great to work with neighbours.”

– Dianne St. Jacques. done for your region and for your community,” she said.

St. Jacques told the Westerly News that Ucluelet’s community forest pursuit began in the aftermath of the West Coast’s logging protests over 20 years ago.

“Our community had a history of forestry for many, many, years. We underwent a lot of change in the 1990’s, which lost a lot of our economy for us. So, we started chasing after it then and here we are, 25 years later, and we’ve ended up with terrific partners in the Toquaht Nation,” she said. “We are providing jobs and opportunities for community members and for people in our region and now both of our communities are receiving profits of

the harvesting that’s gone on with more economic activity to come.”

She said working with the Toquaht has been “terrific” and added the two partners are discussing potential tourism and educational activities at their community forest site, located near Maggie Lake.

“It’s great to work with neighbours,” she said. It’s a terrific opportunity.”

She said Ucluelet would reach out to the community for ideas on where to invest the profits.

“It’s an open book right now and a great place to be,” she said.

Toquaht Chief Anne Mack said the process to launch the forest was arduous, but well worth it.

“I’m ecstatic about it happening, coming to good terms with everybody and being able to move forward together,” she said adding the

funds would help the First Nation build its community in Macoah. “The Toquaht are just developing in our territory. That means, from the ground up.”

She said that with the growing pains of striking a new corporation behind them, she hopes the two partners can focus on strengthening their communication.

“A community forest is not just the forest and the trees, there are so many opportunities that can come out of it that we’re really wanting to look at,” she said.

“The first part of it was so much just getting it started. It was roadblock after roadblock, but it’s now come to fruition and we can talk about the really good things and what else we can do under this venture of a community forest.”

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Crowns for best chowder dished out ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

The West Coast handed out its prized Chowder Chow Down accolades on Sunday with Black Rock Resort and Floathouse Patio and Grill taking the culinary competition’s coveted crowns.

Black Rock was named the Chow Down’s overall winner by an official judges panel of blind taste-testers and the Floathouse was named People’s Champion by the event’s large crowd of chowder enthusiasts.

“I’m super proud. It was

a great competition,” said Black Rock’s executive chef Dan Pietrzak. “This was a great community event, we were super happy to be there.

Thank you to everybody.”

Floathouse owner Chef Udo Lerch was thrilled to see his team take home the People’s Choice Award.

“I tasted all the chowders today and they were all amazing and just to know that we got the People’s Choice puts me over the top.”

Seven restaurant’s competed in this year’s event, three from Ucluelet and

four from Tofino, serving unique and carefully crafted chowder creations to an expected attendance of over 500 happy eaters. Andrew and Natasha Newberry of Maple Ridge B.C. were delighted to check out the event while visiting the West Coast.

“Everyone is so friendly and we absolutely love chowder,” Natasha said.

Ucluelet local Alishia Fox said she attends the Chow Down every year and it’s a consistent annual highlight.

“You just can’t go wrong

with an event like this. It’s delicious. I always leave full every year,” she said.

The Pacific Rim Whale Festival event is one of the Food Bank on the Edge’s largest annual fundraisers.

“The chefs work really hard to bring their best product to us,” said Food Bank director Cris Martin.

“They’re invested in it and we’re excited because it generates a lot of money for the Food Bank on the Edge.”

Read more and watch a video of the competition at www.WesterlyNews.ca.

TIDES & WEATHER

THURSDAY MAR. 22, 2018 TIDE

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6°/3° Mostly cloudy, a little rain

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SUNDAY MAR. 25, 2018 TIDE

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Province’s speculation tax, cabin tax or asset tax?

Taking ideas from Metro Vancouver and trying to apply them around the province is a risky business, as B.C.’s urban-focused NDP government is finding out.

They’re trying to live up to their election rhetoric about solving the urban housing shortage by managing supply and demand. Step one is deploying modular housing, mostly in an effort to get a growing population of urban drug addicts out of tent camps.

Their grand election promise to get more than 100,000 new residential units constructed remains far off. It is apparently based on a long-held NDP myth that the government builds housing. It doesn’t, except perhaps for the glorified shelter spaces that proliferated under the previous B.C. government and continue to be rolled out today.

In general, property developers and the construction industry build housing, if

they can ever get approval from local gov- Asian investors parking their capital in ernments to do so. And in those urban downtown condos. This is the model for areas with the highest housing costs and the B.C. NDP’s “speculation tax,” anlowest rental vacancy rates, the construc- nounced in February by Finance Minister tion industry and skilled trades are al- Carole James and set to take effect by ready flat out building more next year. to meet the demand.

The idea is to force owners of vacant residences to In 2016, the B.C. Liberal government brought in a put them on the long-term 15-per-cent additional proprental market, based on the erty transfer tax for foreign assumption that they are real buyers of real estate. It was estate speculators. It will be restricted to Metro Vancouextended to high-demand ver, where mostly in Vancouurban areas, Metro Vancouver and Richmond, Asian ver, the regional districts of Tom Fletcher buyers were snapping up new Fraser Valley, Greater Victocondos and high-end houses, pushing real ria and Nanaimo, plus the municipalities estate beyond the reach of B.C. residents of Kelowna and West Kelowna. working middle-class jobs. That tax led to James has been dealing with the fallout a short-term slowdown of prices. ever since. Opposition critics have taken to Vancouver city council added their own calling it the “cabin tax,” landing on own“empty homes tax,” primarily to target ers of vacation homes who don’t know

how often they have to occupy them to avoid the tax.

Nanaimo regional district and West Kelowna were first to demand to get out of this scheme. They argue that new construction investment will simply move down the road across the arbitrary borders to avoid the tax.

Both B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson and B.C. Green leader Andrew Weaver are livid. Weaver’s wealthy constituents with Gulf Islands getaways are not amused. Others want to know why Whistler was exempted, but not Parksville.

James has put off clarifying the status of vacation homes until later this spring.

If anyone gets protected, it will be B.C. taxpayers with second homes.

Once you get beyond the glass towers of Yaletown, this idea that governments can increase housing supply by force starts to look shakier by the day.

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TRENDING ONLINE VIDEO: PARK RESERVE REMINDS VISITORS ALL DOGS MUST BE LEASHED: Do you get frustrated when you see dogs running off leash?

No. I get pissed off having to leash my dog at the beach where there suppose to run around and have fun. its that why most people bring the pets to the beach!

Carey Mclauchlin No, as long as the owner doesn’t mind their dog getting a quick shot to the head if it tries anything with mine. I don’t like seeing a roaming animal on a leash. The animals deserve to enjoy the beach as much as we do.

Mike McPherson I’m pretty live-and-let-live. However. Once, I was 50% of my way through my second pregnancy and was enjoying the sunshine on Flo, and a dog stepped on my face. The owner didn’t notice. The second time it stepped on my face, she noticed, but pretended not to. I can pretty much guarantee that if I’d let me child run amok and step on pregnant ladies’ faces, there’d be some unkind words said about my parenting.

If that were an isolated incident, I would probably be a little more indifferent to it. But this kind of behaviour is common, and since people don’t have the sense to consider the enjoyment of others (not to mention the disruption to wildlife), dogs should be leashed on beaches.

Jen McLeod It’s not that I dislike dogs off leash. It’s that I dislike when predatory animals have to be shot by the CO because they’re following their instincts in hunting roaming dogs... not to mention when dogs off leash attack other dogs.

Jay Eskayeedee Depends on the dog, depends on the owner...

If everyone is respectful and the dog has good recall and is trained not to chase birds then fine buuuuut hard to regulate that.

That being said I’ve seen more incidents of kids chasing birds than dogs...

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TRENDING ONLINE POLICY PREVENTS ADVANCED PARAMEDIC CARE IN RURAL AREAS: Do you think this affects your community?

About time that someone has written an article about the inequality in accessability to proper pre hospital care in British Columbia - there are many Adanced Care Paramedics practicing across Canada who would enjoy working & living in BC. If only BCAS would allow them to practice they mass population would benefit.

Further to this the recent community paramedic program which is an absolute joke. By utilizing primary care paramedics British Columbia residents are being cheated from the high level of community paramedicine offered in other provinces and countries around the globe.

Don’t get me wrong, primary care paramedics are vital. However they are only able to properly care for the basic needs of the community. Pre hospital care is a team approach requiring basic care and advanced care something that sadly is missing in BC. Another misleading fact is that rural advanced care paramedics have limited exposure. It’s easy to incorporate these individuals into emergency room practice & critical care transport to maintain these skills which not only assists the hospitals, but the patients to whom these reaponders reach beyond the brick and mortar confines of the hospital.

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ArtSplash! is underway in the lobby of Ucluelet’s Black Rock Oceanfront Resort.

Over 60 established and emerging artists have their work on display and on select days, participating artists are scheduled to demonstrate their talent live.

Visitors to the annual art show arranged by the Pacific Rim Arts Society are invited to vote for their favourite work of art by filling out a ballot after they’ve had a gander.

Last year, Mark Hobson won the people’s choice award for his painting ‘Bald Eagles Waiting for Salmon in the Kynoch Inlet’.

“Almost every piece in this show is not only well executed, it shows talent and skill, but it also shows their connection to the area. The work is relevant. It’s potent. It really speaks to our sense of community,” said PRAS president Mark Penney at the opening reception on Friday evening, March 16.

Publisher of Island Arts Magazine, Susan Schaefer, travelled from Parksville to attend Friday’s reception.

“The caliber of art here is amazing. It’s a beautiful venue. I just applaud all the artists that entered their art in this show,” said Schaefer.

Ucluelet artist Marla Thirsk said the work she has featured in ArtSplash! was influenced

by Canada’s legendary painter and writer of the Pacific Northwest Coast, Emily Carr.

“I was looking at the swirling trees she did,” Thirsk said.

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“It really speaks to our sense of community.”

– Mark Penney “I wanted to capture that feeling. And that’s were that style came about. That swirly stuff.”

This was the first ArtSplash! showing for Nanaimo artist Sarah Boileau. She contributed a painting of the path going down to Schooner Cove Beach in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

“It was an evening walk in maybe March a few years ago,” Boileau recalls. “Just walking down the boardwalk and you come around the corner and the sun is coming through the trees.

It’s so beautiful. I took a whole bunch of pictures and then this ended up being one that I made sure I really captured that memory of the light coming through.”

Young Ucluelet artist Kaida Evans has two paintings in the youth exhibit, which is on display in Black Rock’s upper lobby. She said she is embracing ArtSplash! as a means to connect with other artists.

“Being able to have them all in one place, there’s a really great chance to just talk to them and meet them because otherwise it’s hard to get a hold of them. You can see their art, but you don’t have an actual opportunity to talk,” she said.

ArtSplash! is a free event held in conjunction with the Pacific Rim Whale Festival. For more information visit www.PacificRimArts.ca.

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Meet Canada’s first Surfrider Youth Club Ucluelet Secondary School students raise awareness about protecting the environment NORA O’MALLEY nora.omalley@westerlynews.ca

“There are no closed doors.”

– Toby Theriault

Sporting their new Surfrider Pacific Rim hoodies, 12 Ucluelet Secondary School students huddled around teachers Jason Sam and Kevin Nixon after an inaugural beach clean and surfing field trip last week.

On March 14, the crew cleaned Wya Beach and then paddled out at North Chesterman Beach as a group. In only a couple hours, the eager bunch collected 57 plastic bottles and 538 pieces of marine debris.

This team-building expedition marks the first of many for the young crew of environmental advocates. Come May, they will journey as a group to clean the Wild Side Trail on Flores Island.

“I am extremely excited for the future of the Surfrider Youth Club and for the

future of all our communities on the West Coast,” said Surfrider Youth Club cochair Emmett Wellman who helped secure funding for the Flores trip by applying for the Stewards of the Future Grant from the Lieutenant Governor of B.C. “I sincerely believe that we are moving towards a brighter and better future thanks to all the hard work of people like Jason Sam, Lilly Woodbury, Michelle Hall and all the rest of the people that are part of the Surfrider Pacific Rim Chapter,” he said.

The Surfrider Youth Club was established back at the beginning of the school year, in September 2017. They are a certified member of the Surfrider Foundation, and operate like a mini Surfrider board

with their own executive committee in place.

Grade 8 student Toby Theriault is cochair alongside Wellman.

“We are the first Surfrider Youth Club in Canada. We are hoping to pave the way for more in Victoria and on the Island,” she said.

Mackenzie Hale is responsible for social media. She runs the clubs’ Instagram and Facebook: @SurfriderfoundationUSSClub.

“A lot of what Surfrider does is raising awareness of what’s happening. Some people don’t live on the ocean like this.

Even if you don’t live on the ocean in Ucluelet and Tofino, [pollution] will find its way,” said Hale.

They all expressed the fact that even though they have official roles on the executive committee, it’s what one does that makes the difference.

“If you’re not part of the board, you can still do as much as you can,” said Theriault. “Anyone can come. We always need help. Everyone is welcome to join.

There are no closed doors.”

Wellman reiterates.

“There would be nothing without the countless dedicated volunteers in our communities and their devotion to the protection of our local wildlife and ecosystems,” he said.

Since forming, the Surfrider Youth Club has created a waste free lunch program at USS. “We’ve done several waste free lunches where you bring in your own Tupperware and stuff. It’s like a challenge for the school,” said Theriault, noting that the movement is catching on.

“We had at least 20 people come to our table every day and check-in with a waste free lunch.”

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Ucluelet extinguishes Tofino at Spout Ball Firefighters delight at Whale Fest event ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

The West Coast’s volunteer firefighters put on a spectacular show on Sunday afternoon at the Pacific Rim Whale Festival’s annual Spout Ball Challenge.

The popular annual event matches the Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade up against the Tofino Volunteer Fire Department with teams of two battling on a basketball court using their firehoses to push a strung buoy towards the opposing team’s backboard.

Ucluelet won this year’s best-of-seven showdown 4-2, earning the competition’s crown for the second straight year.

“This is an awesome event,” Ucluelet Fire Chief Ted Eeftink told the Westerly News after the win. “We’re pretty excited about keeping this beautiful trophy that we have down here. It keeps the morale up with the guys and it’s really great to have the two communities working together…

It brings the community out and these volunteers are really committed to having a great event during Whale Fest.”

Ucluelet local Faye Missar was delighted

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The Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade bested the Tofino Volunteer Fire Department at Sunday’s Pacific Rim Whale Festival Spoutball Challenge. to watch the event alongside her son Jude.

“We wanted to see some firemen on firemen action, some big hoses spraying water everywhere and support my husband and Jude’s daddy [Jonathan Clayton]

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a volunteer firefighter on the Ucluelet Fire Brigade,” she said. “We had a great time.”

Travis Allen, a former Ucluelet local who now lives in Courtenay, was happy to be back to the West Coast for Whale Fest.

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“I had an awesome time at the Spout Ball,” he said. “It’s a great, fun, local event that you don’t get to see anywhere else.”

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Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, known for his title role as Thor in the Marvel movie universe since 2011, has been in Vancouver shooting the movie ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’, and spent the weekend catching some waves near Tofino.

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In a written news release, Integra Air CEO John Macek confirmed the merger of the companies, and said, “Integra Air is currently in the process of negotiating aircraft, crews and management to support Orca Airways and prevent any further interruption to Orca passengers and customers.”

The airline, which operates daily flights from Vancouver, Victoria, Parksville, Tofino, Ucluelet, and Qualicum Beach, is frequently used by major resorts and lodges in Tofino and Ucluelet.

In a statement, Transport Canada said they found several areas of non-compliance, “including maintenance, operational control, documentation, and quality assurance.” Flights are suspended until the airline comes into compliance.

“Orca’s Air Operator’s Certificate was always planned to be phased out as operations moved to Integra Air,” Macek stated in the company’s release. “The suspension of their AOC by Transport Canada-Pacific Region, although untimely, should have only a short-term, minor impact on our ability to provide Orca’s existing customers and passengers the level of safety, reliability and outstanding customer service they deserve.”

Contacted by Black Press with a request for details of the reasons for the suspension of Orca Airways’ operating certificate, Transport Canada spokesperson Marie-Anyk Côté said in an email reply, “Transport Canada is not in a position to release details of the contraventions due to privacy reasons.”

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Chef Udo Lerch and his FloatHouse Patio and Grill team celebrated a big win at Sunday’s Chowder Chow Down competition in Ucluelet where their culinary creation earned them the People’s Choice Award.

Chowder Chow Down

A succulent culinary Super Bowl was celebrated on Sunday as seven restaurants from Tofino and Ucluelet competed for the Pacific Rim Whale Festival’s Chowder Chow Down crown. Ucluelet’s Black Rock Resort took home the event’s top prize and the FloatHouse Patio and Grill was named the People’s Choice winner. The event, which serves as a key annual fundraiser for the Food Bank on the Edge, saw an estimated 500 chowder enthusiasts cycling through the best West Coast chefs have to offer.

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Marieta Struthers of Port Alberni was all smiles after tasting a scrumptios contest entry from Tofino’s Long Beach Lodge Resort.

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CLUES DOWN 1. Loose-fitting undergarment 2. Western Romanian city 3. Unit of length 4. Type of electricity 5. Article 6. Mothers

HOROSCOPE ARIES A few bumps along the way do cannot derail you when you are motivated. Just keep chugging forward and you can plow through any obstacles that spring up.

TAURUS Find a way to work a vacation into your schedule. You can probably use a respite from the daily grind, and a change of scenery is just what the doctor ordered GEMINI If you slow down and listen to others, you may learn something new about yourself. Sometimes you have to view yourself through another’s eyes.

CANCER You may have to trust a friend to handle something you would much prefer to handle yourself. Trust that this friend will do a good job and express your gratitude.

LEO Open your eyes to the bigger picture. Only focusing on the smallest details will prevent you from seeing the grand scheme of things.

VIRGO An unexpected situation momentarily takes you off guard. Take a step back and reassess the situation. Some careful reflection will help you find a solution.

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UKEE BIRTHDAY: Jesse Jared Cohen surprised his grandpa, Ucluelet artist Didymus Bernadotte, with a special 88th birthday cake after a talk he gave at Reflecting Spirit Gallery last week. Bernadotte, a former architect, calls his work “ORTHOPHIGRAPHIC”, meaning the discipline of drawing using phi (the Greek letter for Golden Mean or .618).

LIBRA When someone calls on you for advice, offer it without reading too much into why it is needed. You are there to lend support and a different viewpoint.

SCORPIO Take inventory of your weaknesses. By recognizing your shortcomings, you can become a stronger person and both your personal and professional lives will benefit.

SAGITTARIUS You cannot always remain under the radar. Sometimes your actions will be out in full view, and you need to accept any praise and criticism as it comes.

CAPRICORN It’s time to prepare for an adventure of sorts. The excitement may be mounting this week as you get all of the details in order. Start packing for travel.

AQUARIUS Lend support to a spouse or romantic interest because he or she will need it this week. You can’t fix all problems, but you can show your support.

PISCES There’s little time to waste this week. Be sure you have all of your details set and ready to go. Efficiency is key.

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Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must fill each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can figure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!

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The oldest of eleven children, George wore many hats throughout his life. He was a son, husband, father, brother, grandfather, great grandfather, and great-great grandfather, farmer, miner, serviceman, mason, businessman, wood worker and volunteer. Ĺ˝ĆŒĹś ŽŜ &ÄžÄ?ĆŒĆľÄ‚ĆŒÇ‡ Ď­ĎŹÍ• ϭϾϭϴ Ĺ?Ĺś ĆŒĹ˝ĆŠĆľĹľÍ• EĹ˝ĆŒÇ Ä‚Ç‡Í• ŚĞ Ä‚ĆŒĆŒĹ?ǀĞĚ Ĺ?Ĺś ĂŜĂĚĂ Ä?LJ Ć?ƚĞĂžĆ?ĹšĹ?Ɖ ŽŜ ĆľĹ?ĆľĆ?Ćš Ď­Ď°Í• ϭϾϭϾ Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ ĹšĹ?Ć? Ć‰Ä‚ĆŒÄžĹśĆšĆ?͘ dŚĞ 'ƾĚÄ?ĆŒÄ‚ĹśĆ?ŽŜ ĨĂžĹ?ůLJ Ć?ĆšÄ‚ĆŒĆšÄžÄš Ä¨Ä‚ĆŒĹľĹ?ĹśĹ? Ĺ?Ĺś ^ƉĂůĚĹ?ĹśĹ?Í• ^Ä‚Ć?ĹŹÄ‚ĆšÄ?ĹšÄžÇ Ä‚ĹśÍ• Ç ĹšÄžĆŒÄž 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž Ä‚ĹŻĆ?Ĺ˝ Ć?ĆšÄ‚ĆŒĆšÄžÄš ĹšĹ?Ć? žƾĆ?Ĺ?Ä? Ä?Ä‚ĆŒÄžÄžĆŒ ŽŜ Ä‚ ŚŽžĞ žĂĚĞ ĎĚĚůĞ ĨĂĆ?ĹšĹ?ŽŜĞĚ Žƾƚ ŽĨ Ä‚ Ä?Ĺ?Ĺ?Ä‚ĆŒ Ä?Ždž Ä?LJ ĹšĹ?Ć? Ä¨Ä‚ĆšĹšÄžĆŒÍ˜ ,Ĺ?Ć? Ä‚Ä?Ĺ?ĹŻĹ?ƚLJ ƚŽ ĞdžÄ?Ğů Ä‚Ćš Ä?Ä‚Ć?ÄžÄ?Ä‚ĹŻĹŻ ĂŜĚ ŚŽÄ?ŏĞLJ ŚĞůƉĞĚ George secure a mining job in Bourlamac, Quebec in 1938 where he moved to work in the Ĺ?ŽůĚ ĹľĹ?ŜĞĆ?͘ /Ĺś ϭϾϯϾ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž ĹľÄ‚ĆŒĆŒĹ?ĞĚ ĹšĹ?Ć? ŚŽžĞ ĆšĹ˝Ç Ĺś Ć?Ç ÄžÄžĆš ĹšÄžÄ‚ĆŒĆšÍ• ZĆľÄ?LJ ^ĞůĹ?Ŝ͕ ĂŜĚ ƚŽĹ?ÄžĆšĹšÄžĆŒ they raised three sons and a daughter. 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž ĹŠĹ˝Ĺ?ŜĞĚ ƚŚĞ ZŽLJĂů ĂŜĂĚĹ?Ä‚Ĺś Ĺ?ĆŒÄ¨Ĺ˝ĆŒÄ?Äž Ĺ?Ĺś ϭϾϰϯ Ä‚Ć? Ä‚ >ĞĂĚĹ?ĹśĹ? Ĺ?ĆŒÄ?ĆŒÄ‚ĹŒĹľÄ‚Ĺś ĂŜĚ Ç Ä‚Ć? ÄŽĆŒĆ?Ćš Ć?ƚĂĆ&#x;ŽŜĞĚ Ä‚Ćš ^ĞĂ /Ć?ůĂŜĚ͕ sÄ‚ĹśÄ?Ĺ˝ĆľÇ€ÄžĆŒÍ• ͘ /Ĺś ϭϾϰϰ ŚĞ ĆšĆŒÄ‚ĹśĆ?Ä¨ÄžĆŒĆŒÄžÄš ƚŽ žƉŚĹ?ĆšĆŒĹ?ƚĞ WĹ˝Ĺ?Ŝƚ͕ hÄ?ůƾĞůĞƚ ͘ ÄžĹ?ĹśĹ? ĆŒÄžĹŻÄžÄ‚Ć?ĞĚ Ä¨ĆŒĹ˝Ĺľ ƚŚĞ Ĺ?ĆŒÄ¨Ĺ˝ĆŒÄ?Äž Ĺ?Ĺś ϭϾϰϲ͕ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž Ä?ÄžÄ?ĂžĞ ƚŚĞ ŽžžĹ?Ć?Ć?Ĺ?ŽŜ Ĺ?ĞŜƚ Ä¨Ĺ˝ĆŒ ƚŚĞ /ĹľĆ‰ÄžĆŒĹ?Ä‚ĹŻ KĹ?ĹŻ ƾůŏ ^ƚĂĆ&#x;ŽŜ Ĺ?Ĺś hÄ?ůƾĞůĞƚ͕ Ć?ĞůůĹ?ĹśĹ? ĨƾĞů ƚŽ ŚŽžĞĆ?Í• Ä?ĆľĆ?Ĺ?ŜĞĆ?Ć?ÄžĆ? ĂŜĚ ÄŽĆ?ĹšĹ?ĹśĹ? ǀĞĆ?Ć?ĞůĆ?͘ /Ĺś ϭϾϹϲ Ĺ?Ćš Ç Ä‚Ć? Ć&#x;žĞ Ä¨Ĺ˝ĆŒ Ä‚ Ä?ŚĂŜĹ?Ğ͕ Ć?Ĺ˝ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Ğ͕ ĂůŽŜĹ? Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ Ä‚ Ć‰Ä‚ĆŒĆšĹśÄžĆŒÍ• Ä?ĆľĹ?ĹŻĆš Ä‚ Ć?ÄžĆŒÇ€Ĺ?Ä?Äž Ć?ƚĂĆ&#x;ŽŜ͏Ĺ?Ä‚ĆŒÄ‚Ĺ?Äž Ä?ĂůůĞĚ WÄ‚Ä?Ĺ?ÄŽÄ? Ć?Ć?Ĺ˝ ^ÄžĆŒÇ€Ĺ?Ä?Äž ĂŜĚ ĹŻÄ‚ĆšÄžĆŒ ĂĚĚĞĚ Ä‚ žĂÄ?ĹšĹ?ŜĞ ĂŜĚ ĂƾƚŽ Ä?ŽĚLJ Ć?ĹšĹ˝Ć‰Í˜ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž Ç Ä‚Ć? ŽŜĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ÄŽĆŒĆ?Ćš ĹŻÄšÄžĆŒĹľÄžĹś ŽŜ hÄ?ůƾĞůĞƚ͛Ć? ĆšĹ˝Ç Ĺś Ä?ŽƾŜÄ?Ĺ?ĹŻ ĂŜĚ ƚŚĞ ÄŽĆŒĆ?Ćš ÄŽĆŒÄž Ä?ĹšĹ?ĞĨ ĂŜĚ Ä‚ĹľÄ?ƾůĂŜÄ?Äž Ä‚ĆŠÄžĹśÄšÄ‚ĹśĆšÍ˜ DĂŜLJ Ä‚ Ć?ĆšĹ˝ĆŒÇ‡ Ä?ŽƾůĚ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž ÄžĹśĆšÄžĆŒĆšÄ‚Ĺ?Ĺś LJŽƾ Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ Ä‚Ä?Žƾƚ ƚŚĞ ĹŻĹ?ĨĞ ŽŜ ƚŚĞ tÄžĆ?Ćš ŽĂĆ?ĆšÍ˜ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž ĂŜĚ ZĆľÄ?LJ Ä‚ĹŻĆ?Ĺ˝ Ä¨Ĺ˝ĆŒĹľÄžÄš Ä‚ žƾĆ?Ĺ?Ä? Ä?ĂŜĚ Ĺ?Ĺś hÄ?ůƾĞůĞƚ ĂŜĚ ƉůĂLJĞĚ ŽŜÄ?Äž Ä‚ žŽŜƚŚ Ä¨Ĺ˝ĆŒ ƚŚĞ ĆŒĹľÇ‡ÍŹEĂǀLJ Ĺ?ĆŒ &Ĺ˝ĆŒÄ?Äž Ć?Ĺ˝Ä?Ĺ?Ä‚ĹŻĆ?Í• ĂůŽŜĹ? Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ Ć?ƉĞÄ?Ĺ?Ä‚ĹŻ Ĺ?Ä‚ĆšĹšÄžĆŒĹ?ĹśĹ?Ć? Ä‚Ćš ƚŚĞ h ,Ä‚ĹŻĹŻÍ˜ /Ĺś ϭϾϳϯ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž ĚĞÄ?Ĺ?ĚĞĚ ƚŽ ĆŒÄžĆ&#x;ĆŒÄžÍ˜ ,Äž Ć?ŽůĚ ƚŚĞ Ĺ?Ä‚ĆŒÄ‚Ĺ?Äž ĂŜĚ ĆŒÄžĹŻĹ˝Ä?ĂƚĞĚ ƚŽ WÄ‚ĆŒĹŹĆ?Ç€Ĺ?ĹŻĹŻÄž Ĺ?Ĺś Ď­ĎľĎłĎąÍ˜ EÄžÇ€ÄžĆŒ ŽŜĞ ƚŽ Ä?Äž Ĺ?ĚŽů͕ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Äž ƚŽŽŏ Ä‚ ƉŽĆ?Ĺ?Ć&#x;ŽŜ Ç Ĺ?ƚŚ ZÄ‚ĆšĹšĆšĆŒÄžÇ€Ĺ˝ĆŒ WĆŒĹ˝Ç€Ĺ?ĹśÄ?Ĺ?Ä‚ĹŻ WÄ‚ĆŒĹŹ Ĺ?Ĺś ƚŚĞ žĂĹ?ŜƚĞŜĂŜÄ?Äž ÄšÄžĆ‰Ä‚ĆŒĆšĹľÄžĹśĆšÍ˜ ,Äž Ç Ä‚Ć? Ä‚ĹŻĆ?Ĺ˝ ŚĞĂǀĹ?ůLJ Ĺ?ŜǀŽůǀĞĚ Ĺ?Ĺś ÄžĆ?ƚĂÄ?ĹŻĹ?Ć?ĹšĹ?ĹśĹ? ƚŚĞ WÄ‚ĆŒĹŹĆ?Ç€Ĺ?ĹŻĹŻÄž ĆľĆŒĹŻĹ?ĹśĹ? ĹŻĆľÄ?͘ 'Ĺ?ǀĞŜ ƚŚĞ ĹšĹ˝ĹśĹ˝ĆľĆŒ ŽĨ ĆšĹšĆŒĹ˝Ç Ĺ?ĹśĹ? ƚŚĞ ÄŽĆŒĆ?Ćš ĆŒĹ˝Ä?ĹŹ Ä‚Ćš ƚŚĞ ŽƉĞŜĹ?ĹśĹ? Ä?ÄžĆŒÄžĹľĹ˝ĹśĹ?ÄžĆ? ŽĨ ƚŚĞ Ä?ĹŻĆľÄ?Í• ŚĞ žĂĚĞ Ä‚ Ć‰ÄžĆŒÄ¨ÄžÄ?Ćš Ä?ƾůů͛Ć? ĞLJĞ Ç Ĺ?ƚŚŽƾƚ Ä‚ Ć?Ç ÄžÄžĆ‰ÄžĆŒÍ˜ ĹśĹ˝ĆšĹšÄžĆŒ Ĺ?ĆŒÄžÄ‚Ćš ƉĂĆ?Ć?Ĺ?ŽŜ ŽĨ 'ÄžĹ˝ĆŒĹ?Ğ͛Ć? Ç Ä‚Ć? ƚŽ ĨĂĆ?ĹšĹ?ŽŜ Ç Ĺ˝Ĺ˝Äš Ä?Ĺ˝Ç ĹŻĆ? ĂŜĚ ƉůĂƚĞĆ? ŽŜ ĹšĹ?Ć? ůĂƚŚĞ ƚŚĂƚ ŚĞ ĚŽŜĂƚĞĚ Ĺ˝ĆŒ Ĺ?Ĺ?ĹŒÄžÄš to many.

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Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News

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Are Vancouver Islanders ready for wildfire season?

Are Vancouver Island residents taking the threat of wildfires seriously enough, in the face of seemingly ever-more destructive wildfire seasons in the province?

Fire season in British Columbia officially starts on April 1 and there are calls for a radically-different approach to managing wildfires.

“It’s a topic that far too few of us take seriously, but each year, it seems, our fire seasons here in B.C. are more dramatic and more destructive,” says Steve Lackey, a member of the Campbell River Forestry Task Force.

Journalist Ed Struzik, author of Firestorm: How Wildfires Shape our Future, will be in Campbell River later this month, revisiting scorched earth across the continent and introducing scientists, firefighters and resource managers who make the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfires.

“Ed has been watching climate trends in the world’s headlines, and what he sees has him very concerned about how our lives will be affected by wildfires,” Lackey says. “Warmer temperatures, increased winds and decreased rainfalls in spring and summer are all risk factors for the kinds of wildfires like we saw in 2017 in B.C.’s Interior and these conditions are becoming more and more common.”

With hotter, drier weather over the last decade, more lightning, more diseased trees and dry forest fuel and more people living, working and using the forest for recreation – and people causing more wildland fires than lightning strikes do – Struzik continues, “it all adds up to fires burning bigger, faster and more often, even on the soggy west coast.”

– www.campbellrivermirror.com

Gas station owner uses bat to chase off thief Nanaimo RCMP are looking for the suspect of an attempted robbery who was allegedly chased off by the business owner wielding a baseball bat.

Police were called Saturday at about 4 p.m. to the Super Save gas station at 450 Wakesiah Ave., when a passerby reported seeing a man being chased by another man who was holding a baseball bat.

When police arrived they were they were met by the owner of the Super Save, who said he chased the armed suspect out of his store after he tried to steal a display case of Zippo lighters.

The owner opted to grab baseball a bat and when suspect saw it he bolted for the door with the gas station owner in pursuit.

“We do not condone the actions taken by the owner as it could have led to him being seriously injured,” said Const.

Treatment Project.

The RD used the alternative approval process (AAP) to seek voter support for the project.

Under the rules of the AAP, those who did not support borrowing public funds for the Water Treatment Project could submit an elector response form indicating their opposition. The number of eligible electors for this AAP was determined to be 47,845, meaning it would take 4,785 forms in order to send the issue to a referendum.

Less than one-tenth of one per cent of the eligible electors responded.

The CVRD board can now consider the loan authorization bylaw for adoption at its March 27 meeting.

– www.comoxvalleyrecord.com

B.C. was hit with a host of destuctive wildfires in 2017.

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Gary O’Brien, Nanaimo RCMP spokesman, in a press release.

“The best course of action is to comply and call 911.”

Police are looking for the robbery suspect whose face was covered by a scarf and who was last seen running northbound on Wakesiah Avenue. He is described as about six-feet tall with dark skin and was wearing a dark coat, sunglasses, hat, blue shirt, blue jeans and gloves.

Anyone with information about the identity of the suspect or the incident is asked to call the Nanaimo RCMP at 250-7542345.

— www.nanaimobulletin.com

Saanich teen helps save three people from Gorge A man was rescued from a near-drowning, thanks in no small part to a clutch decision by a 17-year-old Saanichite.

A series of events led to the rescue of a 53-year-old Victoria man who was resuscitated by B.C. Ambulance Services and is reportedly making a recovery in hospital.

Saanich teen Shauna Pearson was enjoying the sunny Wednesday afternoon with her mom Tasha Caissie. The two were sitting on the rocks at the Gorge Narrows, close to the Gorge Bridge, when they heard a commotion.

“At the time we both thought people were swimming in the water,” Caissie said. “[Pearson]

started filming a video thinking, ‘Oh wow there’s actually people swimming,’ but we realized within a minute they were in trouble.”

At first Caissie wasn’t exactly sure what was happening but saw someone jump into the water to save one person. That’s when she called 911.

“A man jumped in from the dock and a woman came out of nowhere from the forest to save him.” Caissie recalled. “No sooner did I look up from my phone, there’s my daughter. She’s like 90 pounds soaking wet, fivefoot-three, and she jumped in the water and pulled [a group of three people hanging onto each other] against the tide to the dock.”

Pearson, confident from her skills as a surfer, was able to swim the trio to the dock. All three rescuers were then treated for hypothermia while paramedics worked to revitalize the 53-yearold.

– www.saanichnews.com

Drugstore staff prevent women from being scammed A Nanaimo Shoppers Drug Mart employee’s eyebrows went up recently when an elderly woman asked to buy $4,000 in gaming cards.

According to a Nanaimo RCMP press release, the incident happened March 8 when the woman in her 80s entered the Shoppers Drug Mart on Mary Ellen Drive in north Nanaimo and told the employee she’d just received a phone call from her son who told her he was in financial trouble and the only way he could get out of his mess was for her to purchase $4,000 worth of Steam cards. She was told to then

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send them to her son’s lawyer’s office on the Lower Mainland.

The woman told the employee she’d spoken with her son’s lawyer and also an RCMP officer who’d repeated the same story.

The woman said if they wouldn’t sell her the cards, she’d get them from Walmart.

While she was driving to Walmart, the Shoppers employees called the police, the dispatch operator who took the call alerted Walmart and when she arrived at the store, the woman was once again thwarted in her attempt to buy the Steam cards.

The woman was finally convinced it was a scam when the dispatch operator and a Nanaimo RCMP officer followed up to explain the situation over the phone.

– www.nanaimobulletin.com

Comox Valley lottery ticket worth a cool $2 million Someone who purchased a lottery ticket in the Comox Valley was chanelling the luck of the Irish on Saint Patrick’s Day Saturday, as they are now a millionaire twice over.

That’s because there was one winner in Saturday’s BC49 draw, with the six numbers matching a ticket purchased from the Valley.

The matching numbers – 6, 8, 13, 22, 36, 42 is worth a cool $2 million.

– www.vifreedaily.com

Water treatment project now has voter approval With only 31 dissenting forms received, the Comox Valley Regional District now has voter approval to proceed with the $110 million Comox Valley Water

Trucker rescues woman found along highway Gord Price has been through tornadoes, hurricanes and flash floods, driven the famed ice road and rescued a man from a vehicle following a head-on crash, but coming to the aid of a Chemainus woman who he found unconscious on the side of the Trans-Canada Highway has changed his life, and now hers too, forever.

A seasoned truck driver for three decades, Price was the third big rig to leave the DCT Chambers Trucking yard in Chemainus shortly after 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning when he spotted something in the periphery of his headlights.

“I thought it was a blanket or a quilt. It just threw me right off and when I seen a hand and side of a face I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me,” Price told the Chronicle. “There’s that intuition where do you stop or don’t you because you’re kind of freaked out a little bit.”

The trucker, whose been quick to jump to the aid of others in the past, immediately pulled over to the side of the highway just north of River Road and got out his cellphone to dial 9-1-1.

As he started quickly making his way back up the dark section of highway, Price was also able to flag down a pickup truck who spun around and put its headlights onto an unconscious Patricia Galloway laying directly beside the cement barricade in only her white housecoat and a pair of shoes.

All that Galloway remembers from earlier that night is opening the door of her home at Chemainus Gardens sometime after 10:30 p.m. to try and find her cat.

The 69-year-old great-grandmother was found two kilometres up the road and only a few steps away from a major tragedy.

– www.ladysmithchronicle.com

Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News

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Wednesday, March 21, 2018 A15

C O M M U N I T Y

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MARITIME KIDS’ DAY: Wednesday, March 21.

1-4pm at the Tin Wis in Tofino. Thursday, March 22. 1-4pm at the UCC in Ucluelet.

UCLUELET ALANON GROUP Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Catholic Church (use side entrance below), 1663 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet.

PUBLIC BEACH SEINE, Thursday, March 22.

10:30am at Terrace Beach in Ucluelet. Join Ucluelet Aquarium for an interactive specimen collection!

PILATES Mondays and Wednesdays, 6-7pm. Tofino Community Hall. $10 drop-in.

THE NATURAL HISTORY OF HUMAN PREDATORS Thursday, March 22, 7:30 pm. Ecolodge Classroom at the Tofino Botanical Gardens $5 at the door.

ARTIST IN ACTION: ESTHER SAMPLE, Friday, March 23. 1-4pm at Black Rock Resort.

SPRING BREAK DANCE PARTY, Saturday, March 24.

Doors at 9:30; $10 at door/$8 for ANAF members. 19+, Cash Bar. ANAF in Ucluelet.

INFINITUS Saturday, March 24, 7:30 pm. Clayoquot Sound Theatre. West Coast Winter Music presents Infinitus, a beatboxing classical string trio. Tickets $25 at Mermaid Tales and at door.

WHALE FEST CLOSING CEREMONIES, Sunday, March 25. 1-4pm at Wickaninnish Beach.

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CHI GONG Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30am, UCC Main Hall. $2 drop SOUP LUNCH Thursdays, Noon-1:30pm. the Hub, UCC. All welcome!

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BADMINTON Sundays, 7-9pm. USS Gym. $2 drop-in DARTS Mondays, 7pm. Tofino Legion FOOD BANK Tuesdays, 1-3pm. 160 Seaplane Base, Ucluelet.

to all Mascon customers Mascon Cable will shut down as of March 28, 2018 and will no longer provide TV or internet service in Tofino.

Please contact TELUS to switch your services before that date.

LIVE MUSIC Wednesdays, 3-6pm The Great Room at Long Beach Lodge.

PICKLEBALL Mon., Wed., Sat., 8am-12pm, Tofino Community Hall. Free.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

March 25 10AM-2PM HIGH GROUND HIKE IN TOFINO

Hike starts at 10am sharp at Tofino’s 1st Street Dock, Community Debrief to follow after the hike at the Tofino Community Hall (Drop In). FREE lunch, face painting, balloon making & scavenger hunt. Door prizes available. Join Keith Orchiston, and the District of Tofino on a High Ground Hike to learn your quickest route to safety and then join in the Tsunami Evacuation Community Debrief to provide your feedback on recent events and gain useful information to prepare yourself, family & neighbourhood better. All are welcome to attend this family friendly event.

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ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI CATHOLIC CHURCH Saturday, 5pm.

TOFINO BIBLE FELLOWSHIP Sundays, 10:30am.

ST. COLUMBA CHURCH Sundays, 10:30am.

HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH, Sunday Mass 10 am. Weekday Mass: Wed 9:30 am and Fri 7 pm. Ucluelet.

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH, Sundays at 10:30am at UCC.

Call 1-855-502-2332 Email pfconnect@telus.com or visit Tom Harris Cellular 4006 Johnston Rd, Unit B, Port Alberni, BC V9Y 5N3

mascon.ca/tofinoFAQ Also, don’t forget to contact Mascon at 1-866-832-6020 to settle and close your cable account.

To submit your activities, e-mail: office@westerlynews.ca, fax: 250-726-4248 or drop by: #102-1801 Bay St, Ucluelet. We accept your Arts & Entertainment, Service Group, Non-Profit Organization, Church, Library, Fundraiser, Open to the Public Notices on a first come, first served basis. © 2018 TELUS. 18_00183

Tofino Consumers Co-operative nd 62 Annual General Meeting Wednesday May 23rd, 2018, 7:00 pm Wickaninnish School • 2 Director Positions for Election (Nomination Papers must be filed by 5:00 pm May 9th 2018) • Door Prizes • Refreshments Following Meeting

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BOG TRAIL BECKONS: Ucluelet Mayor Dianne St. Jacques cut a St. Patrick’s Day green ribbon on Saturday alongside Wild Pacific Trail founder Oyster Jim Martin and representatives from the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust and the District of Ucluelet to celebrate the official opening of the new Bog Trail section on the Lighthouse Loop. The floating trail was built like a raft and created entirely by hand to preserve the area.

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Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News

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