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DEA joins Ucluelet homicide probe American administration looking into deaths of Daley and Archbald ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

America’s Drug Enforcement Administration is assisting the RCMP’s investigation into the homicide of Ryan Daley and Dan Archbald, according to DEA Special Agent Jodie Underwood.

In an email to the Westerly News on Monday, Underwood confirmed that the DEA is assisting the investigation, but said she could not speak to the capacity of the DEA’s involvement.

Daley and Archbald’s remains were discovered near Ucluelet in June.

They were last seen leaving Ucluelet’s inner boat basin on-foot on May 16.

Police say they arrived in Ucluelet on May 13 after a roughly eightweek sailing trip from Panama.

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Rescue at Lovekin Rock ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

An already audible, local call to return lifeguards to Long Beach got louder last week when a Ucluetian paddle boarder helped pull two stranded tourists off Lovekin Rock. Mario Chartrand told the Westerly News he was enjoying a paddle in the area on June 30 when he caught an ominous scene out of the corner of his eye.

“I looked out to [Lovekin] Rock and I saw a board up on the ledge and I thought, ‘Hmm that doesn’t look good,’” he said.

He alerted his paddling partner Liz Thechen, a first responder from Richmond, and the pair made their way over to Lovekin.

“I know that you just can’t wait for things to evolve in terms of rescue.

If you can do something to get somebody out of harm’s way, that’s the way to go. I’d feel really bad if I heard later on that day that there was a death and I could have done something,” he said.

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UPCOMING UCLUELET EVENTS

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CLASSIC CLASS: Al Cloke, left, and Allan Chase of the Hooked on Miracles Team reeled in the second largest chinook during the weekend’s Tofino Saltwater Classic. The team donated their $3,000 prize back to the derby. Read about the event on page 3.

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Lisa Marie Young’s family and friends gather in Nanaimo on Canada Day long weekend for a vigil in her memory and to raise awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada. While a 2014 RCMP report concluded there were 1,181 incidents of missing or murdered aboriginal women between 1980 and 2012, some say the real number could be as high as 4,000.

Sweet 16 and still missing Lisa Marie Young’s disappearance unresolved

“It brought comfort to our family knowing they are still following leads.”

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The pain from losing a family member is weighted, heavy, like a ship anchor. Local Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation member Carol Frank knows all too uncomfortably well what it means to carry that weight.

On Canada Day long weekend of 2002, her 21-year-old niece Lisa Marie Young went out with friends to a Nanaimo bar and was never seen again. Sixteen years later, her disappearance remains a mystery.

“The case will never be closed,” said Frank.

Constable Gary O’Brien of the Nanaimo RCMP re-iterated.

“This is not collecting dust. It will always be an open investigation,” he said. “We believe that there is somebody out there that has information that can assist with the investigation and we need to hear from them. They can go to any police detachment in Canada or anywhere in the world and talk to a police officer. If they want to remain anonymous, they can call the generic Crime Stoppers line [1-800-222-8477].”

Frank told the Westerly she met with two major crime unit investigators and a senior family support worker on June 18 to discuss Lisa Marie’s file.

“It brought comfort to our family knowing they are still following leads,” she said. “We’d like to finally find her. It would bring peace.”

O’Brien said a substantial amount of tips have come in regarding Lisa Marie’s case.

“Every one of those tips has been investigated and it’s essential that we do so. It’s been 16 years.

– Carol Frank There has been a lot of investigators. There’s always a fresh set of eyes. We are always looking at ways to move forward with it. That file will never be closed until we find out who is responsible for her disappearance and hold them accountable,” said Cst. O’Brien.

A vigil for Lisa Marie takes place each year in Nanaimo on the day of her disappearance, June 30. Frank journeyed from the West Coast with a few family members for the day.

“We walked from the police station with our signs, went downtown over the bridge, walked by the bar, and then along the waterfront. We walked on the bridge and stood there for half an hour. That bridge was her favourite place to sit,” said Frank.

Cst. O’Brien, who knew Lisa Marie when she was teenager, represented the Nanaimo RCMP at the vigil.

“I remember the call from her good friend the night she went missing. ‘Hey, Gary, I can’t get a hold of Lisa Marie, we’re really, really worried for her.’ And unbeknownst to me, the investigation had already started,” he remembers.

The pain that Frank bares for Lisa Marie is heavier still this summer as her sister and Lisa’s mom, Marlene Joe-Anne Young, passed away a year ago.

“Marlene never gave up,” said Frank. “She always wanted Lisa’s name to be out there and remembered.”

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Saltwater Classic nets big smiles ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

The Tofino Resort and Marina was full of big smiles, big fish and big prizes on Sunday as the ninth annual Tofino Saltwater Classic fishing derby came to a close.

“Everybody who came out, took time out of your busy lives to be a part of it and contribute to this small community, it means a lot to everybody here,” said the Classic’s creator, and former National Hockey League star, Brendan Morrison before handing out the awards.

Tofino’s Ryan Erickson reeled in a 26.92 lb. chinook earning the $6,000 crown.

Nine-time derby participant Dan Warsack celebrated his first leader-board appearance with a 20.98 lb chinook and third place, $1,500, finish.

Fishing for the Hooked on Miracles Team, Allan Chase and Al Cloke brought in the second largest chinook at 24.78 lbs and donated their $3,000 prize back to the derby. Hooked on Miracles is another annual fishing derby in Tofino that raises money for B.C. Children’s Hospital and Cloke said he enjoyed returning to support the community at the Saltwater Classic.

“It’s a fun thing to give back,” said the 73 year-old Surrey resident. “When you get older and you’ve been happy and had a good life, it’s time to give back. It’s simple.”

Derby volunteer Sarah Stoski said Hooked on Miracles has been a longstanding supporter of the event.

“It helps us know that we’re doing a good thing and, if we’re being supported, then we can support others too,” she said.

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Tofino Saltwater Classic winner Ryan Erickson, left, cheers loudly after receiving his $6,000 prize from the event’s creator Brendan Morrison.

“This event doesn’t happen without the help of everybody in this community.”

– Brendan Morrison Tackle Team took home $1,500 for snagging the largest coho at 14.84 lbs.

“I thought I had a patch of weed but, all of a sudden, ‘Bam, big coho on,’” Austin said. Austin, an Okanagan resident, was fishing in his first Tofino Saltwater Classic experience and said he “absolutely, 100 per cent,” plans to fish in Tofino again.

“It’s a great, great, great, event. Great people. Great food. Great comradery,” he said.

The $1,500 crown for largest halibut went to Port Alberni’s Aaron Brevick, who

reeled in a 48.48 lb., trophy.

Prior to landing the prize-winner, Brevick said he had just reeled in a 42 lb. halibut.

“We thought, ‘Boom, we’ve got this,’ and we started to move and pulling up our gear and, ‘Bam,’ we caught this thing,” he said. “It started peeling line like there was no tomorrow…It was a head-shaker. It was taking line back and forth on me and that’s really what I wanted. I wanted something that was going to put up a fight.”

Outside of catching the largest fish he’s ever landed, Brevick was ecstatic with his derby experience.

“It was awesome. I’m absolutely thrilled. It was my first time in this derby and I’ll probably be in this derby every year for the rest of my

life,” he said. “I’ve met some unbelievable people here. It was just an absolutely great event…I’m so thrilled with the way everybody worked together to put on such a nice, clean event. Nothing but smiles.”

Brendan Morrison began the Classic as a way to showcase the incredible fishing experiences that abound in Clayoquot Sound while also pumping money into important community initiatives.

Last year’s event raised over $80,000, with proceeds going to 12 beneficiaries including Wickaninnish Community School, the Tofino Hospital Foundation and the Tofino Community Food Initiative.

“This derby is one of the best things that’s ever happened to Tofino,” the Tofino General Hospital Foundation’s Arlene McGinnis told the Westerly News at Sunday’s award ceremony.

“Brendan Morrison and his wife [Erin] are extremely generous…There’s a lot of things that they donate to and they are amazing people. We’re proud to have them in our community.”

After handing out the prizes, Morrison told the Westerly that, while his name is behind it, the Classic belongs to Tofino.

“This event doesn’t happen without the help of everybody in this community.

From volunteers who put their time in, to sponsors who donate product that get auctioned off, it really is a collaborative effort from everybody and it’s really nice to see that everybody’s gotten behind it,” he said. “We’re here to participate in a fishing derby, but the end game is we’re all out here to help the community out and support youth initiatives.”

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RCMP spokesperson Sgt. Janelle Shoihet declined to comment on the DEA’s involvement in the investigation, but said it is “not uncommon” for police to engage or consult with domestic and international partners in order to move an investigation forward.

“At this point, we are not prepared to provide specifics with respect the homicide investigation of Ryan Daley and Daniel Archbald, however I can assure you the investigation is a priority for the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit and re-

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RCMP are investigating the homicide of Ryan Daley and Dan Archibald. mains active and ongoing,” she said.

DEA spokesperson Wade Sparks also declined to provide specifics, but said the DEA has offices in Canada

and often works with RCMP. “We work with RCMP everyday. That doesn’t necessarily mean that we’re working on this particular case,” he said. “DEA working

with counterparts in a foreign country, where we have an office, is very common and it’s the reason we’re there.”

He added that the DEA would not be involved in a homicide investigation.

“Just to be clear, DEA does not investigate murders,” he said.

“We stay in our lane, which is drug crimes. That’s where we stay. We don’t investigate homicides. We’re never going to be an agency that’s going to solve a murder…That’s not something that we would be even attempting to do. It’s not our lane.”

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Another layer of green government oversight?

The B.C. NDP government is getting set to deliver on another key promise to its minority government partner, the B.C. Green Party, with an overhaul of environmental assessment.

This is not to be confused with the federal government’s overhaul of environmental assessment, which layers more rules on new pipelines and brings back navigable waters legislation created for the age of paddlewheelers.

At the provincial level, the B.C. government is looking to set up a new bureaucracy to oversee professional organizations, such as foresters, engineers and biologists, who have been deemed unable to adequately discipline their members for misconduct.

Environment Minister George Heyman has quietly released a report on “professional reliance” that he commissioned to meet the terms of the governing agreement with the Greens. In NDP style, he stresses that more consultation will be carried out before legislation to change the system this fall.

“Professional reliance” is the term used by Sierra Club, whose B.C. branch was run by the Gordon Campbell government in 2003 Heyman before he went into politics. As when it entrusted professionals with the noted by resource industry analyst Stewart technical details of projects such as logging Muir, Haddock published a paper in 2015 roads and mines. It was part of Campbell’s that essentially gave his recommendations in “core review” of government the 2018 report, before all the designed to streamline systems consultation he was paid to do. and remove duplication.

He concluded three years ago Heyman hired University of that what’s needed is “plugging loopholes, addressing conflicts Victoria environmental law professor Mark Haddock to survey of interest, incorporating better the results. His instructions were checks and balances, improving to “review and address failures environmental performance, rein the professional reliance storing government approvals model in B.C. so that British where needed and thereby inTom Fletcher Columbians’ faith in resource creasing public confidence.” development can be restored.”

Two major incidents are tied to this alleged Haddock has a history of activism, working loss of public faith. with EcoJustice, suing in an effort to stop Critics of professional reliance point to the projects including the Northern Gateway Mount Polley mine dam failure that spilled pipeline and Trans Mountain expansion. millions of litres of ground rock and water EcoJustice changed its name from the Si- into Quesnel Lake in 2014. Of course that erra Legal Defence Fund, a spinoff of the mine received its permits and was built in the

1990s, years before the Campbell government introduced the professional reliance model.

The other project was a contaminated soil facility in an old quarry near Shawnigan Lake.

Protest and legal action led by then-regional district director Sonia Fursteneau led to its permit being cancelled, not due to contamination (there was none) but because the paperwork and security deposit fell behind.

Heyman and now-Green MLA Fursteneau share their disgust at a revelation during a court challenge that a geologist who examined the quarry had a profit-sharing deal with the developer.

Apparently this may mean all geologists, foresters, engineers and so forth are shady characters who need an additional bureaucracy to police them.

We’ll see this fall if the B.C. NDP government is going to tweak a system that has generally served the province well, or if the Ministry of Environment has become the political wing of the Sierra Club.

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TRENDING ONLINE TOFINO COUNCIL WORKING ON BYLAW TO RESTRICT SINGLE-USE PLASTICS: I don’t support the ban.

Mike McPherson It doesn’t make any sense to me why you wouldn’t support it! Our convenience is not more important then the health of the ocean and all that lives within it.

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TRENDING ONLINE POPULAR UCLUELET EDUCATOR RETIRES: Diane Artensen spent over 30 years nurturing young local minds.

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I have seen first hand the damage done from Airbnb . I know of several people displaced due to the cash grab that Airbnb presents.

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She’s been the best teacher for myself and my daughter Jordyn. Thank you Diane for teaching my daughters and I. You’ll be greatly missed at the elementary school.

I’m not sure issuing fines is the right approach when the owner can make far more $ than the fine amount in the course of a month. How about property tax breaks for home owners that provide long term rentals? Encouragement can often get better results than punishment.

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Hi Jay, for the most part, I agree with your statement and would like to add that the municipality has been actively using an educate, empower and then enforce model since we began this process back in 2015-16. The goal has always been to establish protocol for addressing bylaw related concerns and working proactively with property owners to achieve compliance with District Bylaws. The process is intended to be progressive in nature with an initial focus on gaining voluntary compliance, The District has initiated several actions over the last few years and has been actively communicating with all of the property owners. We are seeing some real success and most property owners have complied and now have a business licence. or working towards that goal. We are now asking staff to have a closer look at the unlicensed properties with a residential and long term rental focus.

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Longtime Ukee Elementary teacher retires Diane Arentsen put over 30 years into classroom career ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

A popular West Coast educator is waving goodbye to the whiteboard after over 30 years.

“I want to say thank you to all the parents that have supported in the classroom. Parents really play a huge role in their children’s education and so many parents have come forward to support us,” Diane Arentsen told the Westerly News while signing her final report cards at Ucluelet Elementary School.

“The staff has been most supportive and it’s been a great crew. When you work in a small school, you need to work together and we do. We do a good job, we may not all believe in the same thing all the time, but we band together and we all have one common goal: the kids. We all strive to do our best to provide the best education for our little guys that come through here.”

From the pulpit of her Grades 1, 2 and 3 classrooms, Arentsen has been encouraging Ucluelet’s youngest minds since moving to the community from Port Alberni in 1985.

“I wasn’t considering it to be long term. I thought it would be a couple of years and then we would move on but we both loved it so much that we decided to stay,” she said.

Born and raised in Port Alberni, Arentsen said she was initially reluctant about moving to a smaller community, but the welcome she received when she arrived in Ucluelet erased her hesitance.

She added her two kids, Alana and Brent, were both born on the West Coast and grew to love the community as well, a point proven when they were both high school students and she asked themif they wanted to move to a bigger city to enjoy more amenities.

“They both looked at me as if I was crazy and said, “Why? We love it here,” she said.

She said the closeness of the tight-knit community led to a fuller understanding of her students.

“You know the families. You get to know them really well and you know why ‘Johnny’ is having a bad day or why ‘Susie’ is really happy today,” she said. “You just have a

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Newly retired teacher Diane Arentsen smiles as she signs off on her last report cards at Ucluelet Elementary School.

“We’re not just doing reading, writing and arithmetic anymore.”

– Diane Arentsen better perspective of what’s going on in their life, rather than just their school life, so you’re more prepared to teach them.”

She said UES had roughly 300 students when she arrived and its enrolment has fluctuated over the years.

“We had far more support for our students in those days. We had far more teacher’s aides in our classroom,” she said. “Physically our building has changed as well. I’ve seen portables come and go and classrooms change into computer labs and kitchens and then change back into a classroom.”

The school now has about 230 students and Arentsen said the needs of those students are evolving along with the community, where the cost of living means most guardians are often working and that’sbrought a change in teachers’ responsibilities.

“Children are not in the typical family situation all the time. They spend more time in daycare and more time in school then they do with their parents,” she said.

“We’re not just doing reading, writing and arithmetic anymore. A lot of the kids are coming in and just needing somebody to talk to. The role has changed and it’s just broadened in the fact that we’re there as a surrogate parent sometimes…They know we’re here and they can rely on us for virtually anything whether they be hungry or they need a hug or they just need somebody to boost them up a bit.”

Looking back on her career, she said she’ll most fondly remember the “delightful moments” that primary classrooms are chockfull of.

“Often they come from unplanned lessons; spur of the moment discussions that happen or when a child who struggled and struggled and struggled and finally gets it and you see that, “Aha!” look on their face,” she said.

“They are little sponges and they are learning all the time. They are picking up new

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things all the time and, at the beginning, everything is new, so you get so many of those moments and that really boosts your spirits.”

She added she has felt the rewards of her work watching her former pupils walk across the stage at Ucluelet Secondary School’s graduation ceremony.

“Just to have been a part of that is what makes it all worth it,” she said. “There have been many sacrifices certainly, but to watch these people grow into young adults and the amazing things that they are doing—there are so many of them that have proceeded on to some amazing careers and have come back to talk to me—absolutely, the sacrifice is worth it.”

She said she is “nervously excited” about her next chapter as she heads into retirement.

“I like structure and I like routine and I know it’ll be a big change for me, but I think it’ll be a good one,” she said adding she plans to stay in Ucluelet. “I love Ucluelet. It’s my home…I have lots of friends and lots of fond memories and lots of things I’d like to do here still.”

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Aeriosa’s artist director Julia Taffe, left, forms a heart shape with James Koshiba from Hawaii. The aerial dance company hosted a three-day tree dancing workshop last week around North Chesterman Beach in Tofino.

Aeriosa Vertical Dance soars with nature NORA O’MALLEY nora.omalley@westerlynews.ca

“It’s not every day you get to go work in a tree,” said Julia Taffe as she tied herself into a rigging device destined to haul her 15-feet up a majestic, middle-aged Sitka spruce.

Last week, the artistic director and founder of Aeriosa Vertical Dance Society taught Hawaiian visitor James Koshiba how to dance with, and in, trees.

Their dancing partners were a pair of Tofino trees or “Sitka Sisters” as Taffe called them, located at an intermediary spot just to the left of the pathway that leads to North Chesterman Beach.

The Sitkas were equipped with rope

by Aeriosa riggers Colin Zacharias and Stephanie Hughes.

The rope ran up one tree and across to the other with two pulleys at the top, which linked the system together. For tree dancing, Aeriosa uses similar gear to rock

“The trees sway and they have to make these subtle little adaptations.”

– Colin Zacharias

climbing: GriGris—belay devices—carabiners, slings, harnesses, and climbing ropes.

“You have to trust the system; know the system is secure,” said Zacharias, a certified mountain and ski guide.

They look for trees with clean, vertical lines, he notes. “And, ones that don’t have a lot of moss or dangerous branches poking out.”

Unlike climbing a rock face, tree dancing is a tango with live creatures, Zacharias pointed out.

“The trees sway and they have to make these subtle little adaptations. However well [the dancers] are practiced and choreographed, every single day is different.

Every day is a different temperature, a different humidity, the trees are closer together, they are a little further apart, sometimes they move independently.”

Koshiba said never in his life had he tried anything like tree dancing.

Yet, he managed to execute the beginner aerial movements with fluidity and composure.

“It seems like the ideal way to get over fear and attachment,” said Koshiba. “I’ve been thinking a lot about fear and attachment and how a lot of the stuff we are afraid of is because of the things we are attached to. This being up in the air is kind of confronting both at once.”

Taffe instructed him to use the physics of the pulley system to his advantage.

“Dance with the pull of the rope,” she said. “It’s all about cause and effect. Be really honest with the movement.”

She gently pushed off the tree trunk with the tips of her toes.

“Find the tempo; one, two, three, four,”

she counted before her feet re-connected with the bark.

Over the course of three days, Taffe taught Koshiba and about 10 other students basic tree dancing body positions, like a spider-man sit, and introduced them to partner formations, small jumps, and movement sequences.

The Tofino Tree Dancing workshop was supported by the District of Tofino, the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust, and the Tofino Arts Council.

Aeriosa is open to booking private lessons and collaborating with communities for aerial dance performances. The aerial dance company can often be seen flying in the forest of Stanley Park in Vancouver and Saxe Point Park near Victoria. Recently, Taffe soared from an 800-year-old castle in Limerick, Ireland.

There are typically six dancers in a choreographed dance.

“We’ve been looking at big palms in Hawaii to dance on,” said Taffe.

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Paddle boarder calls for lifeguards at Long Beach From A1 “It took us about 10 minutes to get there and, as I got really close to the rock, I was in dismay.

I really couldn’t believe what I saw.”

He said two men were laid out on a ledge on the rock, too scared to get off.

“They were right in that zone where the rip goes in two directions and it splits off the rock…I don’t think they even had a clue what they were getting into,” he said. “I think they managed to scramble up the mussels and claw themselves up onto the rock, or they had maybe a wave surge that brought them up, and they were able to just flop themselves onto that ledge. And then, once they were on that ledge, they weren’t moving.”

He said he and Thechen approached the men, and took roughly 15 minutes to tow them to safety.

“I don’t think they were Mario Chartrand going to be on that ledge for much longer because the tide was coming up quite fast,” he said. “[One of the men] said that he was tired and scared and cold and I said, ‘No, no, no; you have you get in the water’…He just didn’t have the body language to be comfortable in the water, so I just told him to drape his arms over the board. It was quite the arduous tow because, every time I took a stroke, it was like a really hard tug. I wasn’t sure if I was moving forward, but I was. I was getting the odd bump here and there.”

Two visitors have died near Lovekin Rock in 2018, prompting locals to lobby for the return of the Surf Guard program, which involved lifeguards looking over ocean activity from a tower near Lovekin Rock, but the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve is sticking with its current educational approach to safety.

“The Surf Guard program, which ran during summer months in one section of Long Beach, concluded in 2012 as it was no longer in step with evolving surf and water recreation practices in the area,” said Parks Canada spokesperson Laura Judson.

She said surfing is no longer centralized at Long Beach as the sport has stretched throughout the peninsula between Tofino and Ucluelet.

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“Through CoastSmart, we educate people on the dangers of tides, unexpected waves, the power of rip currents, and the debilitating effects of cold water.”

She said about 1 million visitors come to the National Park Reserve each year and the CoastSmart program offers a multifaceted approach to communicate safety information to each visitor through signage at the beach, a website, a water safety app and social media.

“Safety is everyone’s responsibility. We urge visitors to make use of these tools and, in keeping with CoastSmart, know before they go near the water,” she said. “Parks Canada staff also share safety information directly with visitors on and off the beaches. In addition to this, we collaborate with local business and surf schools to help visitors know before they go near the water.”

She added there is a sign in place warning beachgoers of the dangers around Lovekin Rock and said new safety signage was recently installed in the area.

Chartrand, though, does not believe signage is enough and that a heavier staff presence is needed to warn visitors of ocean dangers faceto-face.

“There is a sign there that explains [Lovekin Rock’s] rip factors and what potentials are there but, if they miss that sign, then they don’t know,” Chartrand said. “You can put up all the signs in the world, but people don’t read signs…This is not going to be the last time that somebody goes pitching onto that rock. It’s going to keep happening.”

Judson said Pacific Rim National Park Reserve staff were unaware of the June 30 rescue and that Parks Canada is collaborating with local surf instructors to learn more about unreported incidents in an effort to shape outreach efforts on ocean safety. Anyone who spots an incident, is encouraged to report it to 1-877-852-3100.

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Tofino’s First Street Dock was the scene of a historic agreement on Monday as Ahousaht and Tofino’s councils signed a commitment to working together collaboratively.

The agreement states both communities agree “to pursue a lasting relationship based upon mutual respect, honour and in the spirit of cooperation,” and commits both councils to meeting together at least twice a year to discuss communal interests, including health, infrastructure, emergency planning and economic development.

“Today is about Ahousaht and Tofino coming together, acknowledging each other’s work and the togetherness that we’ve been doing…The bottom line is about just us working together,” said Ahousaht Chief Greg Louie at the dock. “It does state in the protocol that anytime we mutually agree that we want to separate, or no longer have this protocol, we can do this respectfully. But, I believe, it will be ongoing for a long, long time because we come together so often.”

Tofino mayor Josie Osborne said the agreement was a product of the two communities meeting together regularly over the past five years.

“After our last meeting, when we left Ahousaht and travelled back down to Tofino together, we were sitting on the boat

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Tofino mayor Josie Osborne and Ahousaht Chief Greg Louie signed a historic agreement on Monday surrounded by members of their councils and MP Gord Johns. and we were remarking to each other, ‘Isn’t this incredible. We just sat down and had a conversation about some easy things and some very difficult things, but there was laughter, there was respect and, at all points, we felt like friends that could actually have that conversation,” she said. “That’s the culmination of a lot of work.”

Courtenay-Alberni MP Gord Johns attended the signing ceremony and said it

was an honour to witness the agreement becoming official.

Johns spoke to his time on Tofino’s municipal council where, in 2009, the two communities brought their children together to play baseball, which they have continued to do ever since.

“Our kids are playing ball together, but now it’s time for the adults to play ball together and it’s been long overdue. Today,

you’re on your way. You’re on first base.

This is a great start. It’s a start towards the future and I really want to commend you,” he said. “It hasn’t been easy and I know that there’s a lot of opportunity here to reconcile some of the injustices of the past. I congratulate you for listening to each other, for understanding and recognizing each other, and for using common sense and vision to move us forward.”

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Fresh off a tour in Germany, members of the Le-La-La Dancers, Charles Taylor, George Taylor, Ethan Taylor and Melissa Taylor were delighted to bring their incredible showcase of First Nations’ culture to Ucluelet.

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Ahousaht First Nation artist Jason Titian performed a traditional song to kick off the music portion of Saturday’s Culture Crawl.

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The Pacific Rim Arts Society hosted an Indigenous Culture Crawl on Saturday welcoming the West Coast to Ucluelet’s Seaplane Base field where a rich assortment of Nuu-chah-nulth culture was on display. The event was part of the Society’s Summer festival and offered workshops, demonstrations and performances, including the LeLa-La Dancers of the Kwakwaka’wakw Nations.

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RESIDENT ARTISTS: Members of the freshly formed Ucluelet Artist Collective Melissa Hardy, left, Kat Wallace, Carly Butler and Nelly Heyduck, (Karla Strickland is absent from group photo) welcomed guests to their very first West Coast art show in Pacific Rim Arts Society art space on Thursday. A treasure chest of work from ceramics and print-making to letter press and sculpture was on display and for sale.

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Notice of Disposition of Land Pursuant to Sections 285 and 286 of the Local Government Act, Notice is hereby given that the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District (ACRD) intends to renew a Lease Agreement with Long Beach Enterprises Inc. at the Fuel Facility at the Long Beach Airport 190 Airport Road, Tofino, BC, located on land as described on Schedule “E� of the lease commencing August 1, 2018 for a 3 year term. The purpose of the lease is solely an aviation fuel and refueling facility and purposes incidental thereto. The Lessee shall pay to the ACRD rent at a rate of $2,459.44 per year plus GST and CPI increases. For further information visit the ACRD website at www.acrd.bc.ca

ALBERNIE-CLAYOQUAT REGIONAL DISTRICT

Notice of Disposition of Land Pursuant to Sections 285 and 286 of the Local Government Act, Notice is hereby given that the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District (ACRD) intends to renew a Lease Agreement with Terrance Salman DW ³/RW % ´DW WKH /RQJ %HDFK $LUSRUW $LUSRUW 5RDG 7R¿ QR %& located on land as described on Schedule B of the lease commencing August 1, 2018 for a 3 year term. The purpose of the lease is for an Aircraft Hangar and purposes incidental therto. The Lessee shall pay to the ACRD rent at a rate of $6,977.95 per year plus GST and CPI increases. For further information visit the ACRD website at www.acrd.bc.ca

Cermaq Canada is currently looking to ďŹ ll the full time position of a Shipping & Receiving Assistant. The S&R Assistant works within our shipping and receiving department based out of our ToďŹ no Operations. This position is responsible for carrying out the daily tasks associated with the yard operations including forklift operations and assisting in the daily organization of incoming and outgoing inventory.

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Cermaq Canada is an equal opportunities employer who provides a workplace that is free of discrimination.

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LOCALS PADDLE CLUB, Thursday, July 12. 7-9pm, Meet at Mackenzie Beach

by Tin Wis Resort. Grab your friends and come out for sunsets on the water! Locals Only. $10 for board and paddle.

MUSHROOMS CAN EAT CIGARETTES, Friday, July 13. 4-5:30pm in the Tofino Botanical Garden EcoLodge Classroom. Free event!

DIY Fungi and the Tofino Botanical Gardens funded by the Vancouver Foundation have been working since 2017 to see if mushrooms can be used to detoxify used cigarette butts. Come find out the results of our study and give feedback

ongoing RAINCOAST ECOLOGY WALKS, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.

1 - 2:30pm. Meet at Cox Bay, on the beach, in front of Long Beach Lodge Resort.

WILD PACIFIC TRAIL WALKS, Tuesday-Sunday.

10am at the Whale Lot, Fridays meet at Big Beach.

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PLANKTON TUESDAYS, Tuesdays, 2-3pm. Discover the microscopic world of plankton. Tofino Botanical Gardens.

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CHI GONG, Wednesdays, 10:30-11:30am, UCC Main Hall. $2 drop-in.

BADMINTON, Sundays, 7-9pm. USS Gym. $2 drop-in.

DARTS, Mondays, 7pm.

Tofino Legion.

FOOD BANK, Tuesdays, 1-3pm. 160 Seaplane Base, Ucluelet.

TOFINO MARKET Saturdays, 10am-2pm at the Tofino Village Green.

CLAYOQUOT 2.0, Tuesdays, 8-9p.m. Clayoquot Sound Theatre. Free event.

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Join Surfrider on an annual clean up of Florencia Bay, a beach that gets heavily inundated with marine debris. Bring your surfboard for a session, and walk down this beautiful beach and help us to restore it FROM 1-8 p.m.! Snacks and refreshments will be provided, remember to bring your own mug!

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ST. COLUMBA CHURCH Sundays, 10:30am.

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

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ST. AIDAN’S WITHOUT WALLS, Service: Sunday at 4 p.m. at Ucluelet Community Centre. Except for first Sunday of each month when service is at St. Columba. Bible Study: Thursdays, 10:15-11:45 a.m. at Ucluelet Community Centre.

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A special brand of West Coast love ERIN LINN MCMULLAN Special to the Westerly

Mark Hobson proves what science suggests—that the making and viewing of art raises our endorphins and creates happiness.

“I’m happier than I’ve ever been,” says Hobson, who is living his dream as a full-time artist and whose gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary in Tofino on July 26th. “The biggest difference is the time it gives me to paint.”

The internationally acclaimed artist has doubled his production thanks to manager Rino del Zoppo, a “magician in arts administration” and the staff he considers his “little family”.

Hobson’s passion for the West Coast not only attracts hundreds of visitors each month, but was recently recognized with Artists for Conservation’s Simon Combes Award in November and with International Artist Magazine’s Grand Prize for Seascapes, Rivers & Lakes in December, for his painting, ‘View from Black Rock: The Survivor.’ Pull up a comfy leather chair to contemplate this masterwork, showcased alongside other originals in the gallery’s expanded space—a milestone in its first five years. Fortitude is the theme linking lone Sitka Spruce in ‘The Survivor’, its rocky islet refuge battered by translucent light-infused green waves, with the seabird colony perched atop limestone bluffs in ‘Tufted Puffins: Arrivals Lounge, Coronation Island, Alaska.’

For Hobson, who often paints at his remote floathouse studio amidst “super-inspirational” Clayoquot Sound, the gallery remains a “lovely way to connect with people.”

During Canada Day weekend, he chatted over his easel with visitors from Malaysia, South Africa, Australia, Ukraine, and Belfast.

“The truth is this is a rare place.

Nothing comes together as it does here in one beautiful package,” says Hobson. “The more you appreciate its beauty, the more likely it is to be saved.”

“He captures the wonder of the environment magically. It’s as if you’ve encountered a special window to an illuminated moment in the marine environment,” says Hon. Naomi Ya-

PHOTO COURTESY OF MARK HOBSON GALLERY

Artist Mark Hobson entertains Hon. Naomi Yamamoto, BC Legislative Assembly, Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne, and Lori Henderson, provincial staff member.

“I spent my whole life trying to get here.”

– Mark Hobson mamoto, a frequent visitor here since childhood, who felt privileged to meet the artist. “I admire his passion for making the rugged West Coast more accessible to so many of us.”

“Mark has joyously shared his passion for all that is apparent and hidden in nature,” says Councillor Dorothy Baert. “His paintings have opened a way of seeing the coast that has been one of the gifts of his work and it is fortunate that visitors and locals can experience this readily in the gallery.”

When the gallery launched in 2013, nearly 30 years after his arrival in 1984, it leveraged Hobson’s infectious enthusiasm shared over decades of traveling to art shows across North America and internationally.

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“Once I decided to become an artist, I never had to go back,” says Hobson, recalling one close call earlier in his career. All set for an 11 a.m. appointment with Don Travis to take him up on an offer to drive boats and offset $16,000 in start-up costs, Hobson sold $14,000 worth of paintings – in the nick of time.

Local artist Norma Dryden credits his “amazing legacy in our community with his style and vision of the coast, and by generously sharing his lifetime’s work and skills,” including “in support of countless local functions.”

“Hobson’s work has been an inspiration to painters across the country” and his sought-after workshops “also launched a number of local painters and helped to create a community of artists that thrive here today.”

“I spent my whole life trying to get here,” Hobson says, still challenging himself and approaching each new piece with excitement.

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