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Chesterman vacation rental decision upheld ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

Tofino’s fight against illegal vacation rentals received a confidence boost over the holidays as the district’s decision to refuse business licences to a group of Chesterman Beach townhouse owners was upheld by the B.C. Supreme Court.

“The District is pleased to receive confirmation that short-term rentals are not permitted at South Chesterman Beach Homes, as we have asserted this for several years,” said Tofino mayor Josie Osborne through a statement released by Tofino’s district office last week. “Short-term rentals have come to play a large role in Tofino’s tourism accomJosie Osborne modation offerings and provide many local homeowners with valuable income. The District of Tofino will continue to proactively enforce its short-term rental regulations and work with property owners to ensure they understand and meet these regulations.”

The decision marks the first major victory for the district since Tofino’s council made the decision to proactively enforce its bylaws around vacation rentals, which had up to then been enforced on a complaint-driven basis, in 2016.

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OFFICIALS LAST CALL: Dale and Jacqueline Holliday and Simon Fraser officially shut down Ucluelet’s only sports bar on Saturday night. A spirited crowd of locals showed up to savour one last Lucky at an establishment that has been serving the community as a watering hole for the last 40 years. Prior to being Officials Sports Lounge, it was known as The Lodge.

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Wildpod Tofino owners Ashleigh and Pete Clarke with newborn Philo soak up the peaceful atmosphere of the Sand pod last week. The unique couples resort boasts six themed pods all with stunning views of the Tofino harbour.

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Pete and Ashleigh Clarke welcomed their first guests to their new luxury glamping site ‘Wildpod Tofino’ this weekend.

Located at the tip of Grice Point on the edge of Tofino’s townsite, the waterfront resort features six themed domes, each equipped with an ensuite bathroom, kitchenette and propane fire. All the decking is cedar, said Pete, and they tried to go local for amenities too, filling the fern green pods with products from Tofino Soap Co., Tofino Towel Co., and local coffee.

“Every bed, every light fitting, every lamp, every side table is different in each dome.

We made them all different based on words around Tofino,” said Pete, noting that his favourite one is ‘Sand’ while Ashleigh, on the other hand, is fond of the ‘Rock’ themed pod.

“We’ve been quite literal with the themes,” he said. “Rock is all grey and cave-like, and then Wave is all blues and the bed is like a driftwood.”

The vision for opening a glamping site on their family-owned Tofino property first came to the Clarkes while they were living in the United Kingdom.

“We went on holiday in the English countryside in a horrible, damp, dilapidated yurt that was cold and wet and we actually had such a fun time. It was really memorable,” recalls Pete.

“We just thought if we could do this, but instead of a damp yurt, something beautiful with amazing views and really went for it how amazing would that be?” he said.

“Every bed, every light-fitting, every lamp, every side table is different in each dome.”

– Pete Clarke

For safety reasons, due to the resorts’ close proximity to the water, Wildpod is strictly an adults-only and pet-free accommodation.

“It lends itself to a couples’ resort,” said Ashleigh. “We want to give guests the maximum zen, quiet, peaceful experience.”

“We do laugh that we couldn’t stay here ourselves,” said Pete, a father of newborn boy Philo and three-year-old girl Ellamaia.

“Unless we got a babysitter,” Ashleigh notes.

“Which, to be honest, coming to a place like this I wouldn’t mind to come down and have little baby moon.”

The pods are made from PVC and were sourced from Europe, according to Pete.

“They are built to be hurricane proof. Obviously we had that huge test before Christmas and they stood up absolutely no problem at all. We had no damage at all,” he said, adding that Wildpod will be open year-round.

Both Pete and Ashleigh said the experience of seeing their first business come to fruition has been surreal.

“The first time I opened the door to [Sand] my stomach just dropped a bit. It was like, wow. When the water is a little bit higher it’s like you’re floating on water. This is even better than we imagined,” said Pete.

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Tla-o-qui-aht pushing for rink Tofino’s council still ‘reticent’ ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation is pushing hard to bring the proposed West Coast Multiplex into reality, but Tofino’s support for the project remains on thin ice.

A 2012 referendum gave the Alberni Clayoquot Regional District permission to fund up to $450,000 of a potential multiplex facility’s annual operating costs through West Coast property taxes. The project’s current plan is for an icerink to be built first and a swimming pool to follow.

The capital costs to build the facility, estimated at around $15 million, are not expected to be covered by local taxpayers as the West Coast Multiplex Society has long assured that the multiplex would be built using funds from donations, grants and potential sponsorships.

The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation recently announced that it plans to ask the federal government to cover 90 per cent of the capital costs through a Recreation Infrastructure Grant.

“The Nation is very much in support of this initiative, clearly.

The fact that you have a variety of First Nations and non First Nations communities working together around a shared interest around youth and health, I think, hits all of the high points for funding applications and for the kind of reconciliation in action that the Nation wants to move forward with our neighbours,” Tla-o-quiaht representative Eli Enns told Tofino’s municipal council during their Jan. 9 regular meeting.

This graph, published by the ACRD in 2018, shows each West Coast community’s support for covering a potential multiplex facility’s annual operating costs.

“The Nation is very much in support of this initiative, clearly.”

– Eli Enns “We also are always thinking long-term and we see the development at the airport lands as something that could potentially be a key to moving other developments forward in that part of our territory.”

The Regional District’s West Coast Committee—comprised of Tofino, Ucluelet, Electoral Area C and the Ucluelet First Nation— agreed to write a letter of support for Tla-o-qui-aht’s grant application during the committee’s Jan. 17 meeting, though Tofino mayor Josie Osborne was the least enthusiastic at the table.

Ucluelet Mayor Mayco Noel expressed excitement about the potential multiplex and noted that the proposed site near Long Beach Airport could open up the airport lands for further development.

“The other positive for this is the simple fact that it’s Tla-o-quiaht stepping up and really endorsing this. As much as it’s going to benefit both of our communities [Tofino and Ucluelet], I think it’s going to benefit them the best with accessibility and stuff,” he said.

He added the West Coast Multiplex Society has been working towards the project for at least 20 years and should be commended for their efforts to date.

“This is the closest they’ve been, so it would be wonderful if this could actually step forward and it would give the airport lands a new start. I’m very supportive of it,” he said.

Electoral Area C Director Kel Roberts said he agreed “100 per cent” with Noel and Alan McCarthy of the Ucluelet First Nation said his government has fully supported the project “since the beginning.”

“It has been a long time and, on the West Coast, we need things like this,” McCarthy said adding his government is “very supportive” of the Tla-o-qui-aht’s efforts.

Mayor Osborne however, noted her community has been clear that it wants a swimming pool instead of an ice rink and that, while the Multiplex Society has suggested a swimming pool would be built immediately after the rink, she disagreed that the rink should be built first.

“I think everybody knows that Tofino council has been a bit more reticent about the project, especially as a stand-alone ice-rink project, than maybe some of the other jurisdictions have,” she said.

She added though that she would vote in favour of writing a letter of support to the Tla-oqui-aht.

“Tofino council is supportive of Tla-o-qui-aht’s desire and rights to self-determination to say, ‘This is a project we want to spearhead and take on,’” she said.

“The question of ownership and operation is still very much, I think, in everybody’s mind and I think it’s fair to say that, generally speaking, Tofino council hasn’t supported the regional district as a local government taking on this project and doesn’t feel that it’s the right project to invest taxpayers’ money, and community effort, into as it’s proposed with the ice-rink.”

She also suggested that the project’s future weighs on the Tla-oqui-aht’s grant application.

“What’s most important is that we continue to work together,” she said.

If the application is successful, how do we best set Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation up for success. And, if the application is not successful, then I think, especially from the Tofino council perspective, we really just have to ask ourselves where do we go from here and how much time and effort do we continue to put into it.”

Rally held to support Wet’suwet’en ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation hosted a rally in Tofino last week in support of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs.

“The Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs and their sovereign right to defend their people and the environment from the proposed Coastal GasLink pipeline,” said Tla-o-qui-aht Councillor Terry Dorward through a media release. “Reconciliation with Indigenous Nations will not be achieved down the barrel of a gun.”

“Reconciliation with Indigenous Nations will not be achieved down the barrel of a gun.”

– Terry Dorward Wet’suwet’en First Nation members have been demonstrating their opposition to natural gas company Coastal GasLink’s pipeline project through their territory in Northern B.C. Through a statement, the Tlao-qui-aht First Nation expressed concern over the impact the pipeline could have and suggested the

Wet’suwet’en Nation has the right to control access to their territory.

The Tla-o-qui-aht were joined in the Jan. 16 protest by West Coast residents, as well as members of local environmental organizations Clayoquot Action and The Friends of Clayoquot Sound.

“We’re calling on the Canadian government to respect First Nations rights and title,” said Clayoquot Action co-founder Bonny Glambeck. “The Wet’suwet’en First Nations are protecting the water and climate and all Canadians will benefit from their foresight.”

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campaigner Jeh Custerra said he has been angered by the actions taken by both the provincial and federal governments as well as the RCMP during the conflict.

“We stand in solidarity with the Wet’suwet’en as the federal and provincial governments are not following the Supreme Court of Canada ruling, stated responsibilities of reconciliation or the united nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples by forcibly removing Indigenous peoples from their own territories who have no given free, prior, and informed consent to a fracked gas pipeline,” he said.

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Feet 11.2 3.9 11.8 1.3

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Feet 4.9 10.8 3.6 8.5

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Fact-checking the NDP’s speculation tax on empty homes When the B.C. NDP government quietly announced its registration system for the new “speculation and vacancy tax” last week, it took a minute for me to realize that every homeowner in affected urban areas is required to register, every year.

If they don’t, they will be billed on their property taxes, not at the lower rate for Canadians, but at the full two per cent of 2018 assessed value.

That’s the rate reserved for foreign buyers and “satellite families,” those Asian high rollers who are supposed to be driving our housing prices through the roof with their dirty money.

I called it “negative-option billing,” a term that jogged memories. Readers started asking me, isn’t that illegal? It is indeed, but only for businesses. A federal law was passed in 1999 after an outcry over a cable company’s move to charge customers for a new service unless they

contacted the company to decline it. objections from the B.C. Greens as In this case, 1.6 million residential well as the B.C. Liberals, never happroperty owners in designated B.C. pened? How about Finance Minister urban areas are to receive a letter, Carole James’ two humiliating retreats starting this week, instructing them to on this tax, the first on its overreach fill out a form declaring they are not into rural vacation properties, and real estate speculators. If you have a the second on applying the foreigner house or suite that isn’t occupied by rate to Albertans and Ontarians? Did a relative or rented out at least six those un-happen too?

Tom Fletcher months of the year, you get dinged, “The biggest challenge for B.C. annually. Premier John Horgan shrugged off the Liberals is we’re trying to do something about complicated form and negative-option billing, speculation in the housing market, and they did comparing it to the homeowner grant introduced nothing,” Horgan said. It was Aug. 1, 2016 when

by W.A.C. Bennett in 1957. the former government revealed its foreign buyer Horgan made a couple of obviously false state- tax, applying only to non-Canadian purchasers ments. The B.C. Liberals didn’t raise concerns in in Metro Vancouver’s then-soaring real estate the legislature, he said. Okay, so the tax revolt led market. At 15 per cent of value, it actually worked. by mayors of Kelowna and Horgan’s home town Foreign purchases went from 10 per cent of the of Langford, and the fall legislature session with Metro market to less than two per cent in two

months. The foreign buyer tax is still in effect, and the statistics B.C. began to collect showed how few foreign-buyers there were. In Greater Victoria, it was about 3.5 per cent.

Now the NDP version extends beyond Metro Vancouver to Victoria, Kelowna, West Kelowna, Nanaimo, Lantzville, Chilliwack, Abbotsford and Mission. A fact-challenged government ad started running last week too. The speculation tax “makes sure everyone who uses services like hospitals, schools and transit pays their fair share,” the ad states. So, how many empty apartments go to hospital and school, or ride transit?

James merely stretches the truth. After caving in to B.C. Green Party leader’s final demand last fall to charge all Canadian owners the same rate, James lowered her estimate of what the tax will bring in to about $185 million a year.

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Tofino Natural Heritage (THN) would like to express our appreciation of Mandy Farmer, CEO of Hotel Zed. The take-over of Jaimie’s Rainforest Inn is promised to be an exemplary development.

The forest will be allowed to continue standing in its natural glory. Guests will experience educational components about migratory shorebirds. Windows will be altered to prevent birds hitting them.

Materials from demolished staff housing will be re-used in the new one and/or offered to local salvagers.

TNH thanks Ms. Farmer and her team for their openness and “green” consciousness regarding Tofino’s natural heritage.

I had to write this after the experience we had with the Ucluelet Petro Canada service station while we are here on vacation. We had a fantastic day out at the beach only to get in our vehicle and our warning light coming on telling us we had a low tire. We weren’t too worried since they are run-flat tires so we thought we’d just go back to Ucluelet and put some air in. Not that easy. We find out the air is coming out as quick as it’s going in. The tire had a huge hole in it! We drove over to the Petro Canada a half-hour before closing and had the best costumer service ever. Being run flats and an odd size these tires aren’t easy to find. They called around to different places only to find we had to get them from the car dealer in Vancouver. They could ship them and hopefully have them by Friday. This happened on a Monday. On Wednesday, we got a call saying the tires were in and to bring it over. Within 45 min the tires were on and we were ready to roll!

I can’t thank them enough for their hospitality.

They went beyond the ordinary to help us, were more than fair with the price, and did it all with a smile. Part of the reason we love Ukee and keep coming back.

Jill and Jim Wilkin Alberta

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fISHING cLOSURE qUESTIONED The Department of Fisheries is thinking about closing local fishing banks. Are they looking at fish farms in Clayoquot waters?

Do they question the practices of Draggers that drag the ocean bottom and take and sometimes throw away fish?

What are they saying about sewage being pumped into the ocean in Tofino and Victoria?

Mary Christmas Ucluelet

Off-LEASH TRAIL NEEDED

I am a large breed dog, known as a German Short Hair Pointer. I was bred originally to hunt birds, but my owners don’t hunt (and if they did, I could imagine how much fun it would be retrieving

birds on the Tofino mudflats these days). They try to satisfy my instinctual cravings that were bred into me (by humans) by taking me for long walks and Frisbee throws (which I am an expert at catching).

I wouldn’t bite a fly (well, that is not exactly true. I do in fact bite flies, but I draw the line there). The recent debate about to run free or not is making a liar out of Bob Dylan, obviously, the world has changed since he penned his song, ‘If dogs run free, why can’t we’. My owner is afraid of wolves and cougars catching me in the wild so he tries to compromise by taking me on some local beaches and trails with a tone collar so I won’t stray too far, but I have to get off the leash once in a while and roam free in the beautiful rainforests in this part of the world. Despite the fact that I am very friendly (except when I am on leash and then I get quite protective of my owner and I can’t help barking at other dogs), there is almost nowhere around this town now where I can just run free without running into someone who is afraid of me.

Fair enough, I do have big teeth, but is it possible that, maybe, just one of our local trails could be designated as a trail where you might run into a dog off-leash? Maybe one of the smaller beaches in the Park Reserve could be designated as long as there are no migratory birds that frequent it, or maybe time closures? I realize I don’t have the same rights as humans do (and often ignore), but you as a species are working on making sure I don’t get abused and I and my fellow dogs appreciate that. Maybe a little compromise here would go a long way.

Dan Edwards on behalf of ‘Murphy’ Ucluelet

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Tla-o-qui-aht artist Hjalmer Wenstob is celebrating his first solo show in Victoria.

The Victoria Arts Council recently opened up a new gallery in the province’s capital and selected Wenstob as the first artist to showcase.

Wenstob told the Westerly News that the council reached out to him in December to see if he could put a show together to start off the New Year.

“With the quick turnaround, they knew that we could work fast and that we could set a high standard for the new showing space,” he said.

The show opened on Jan. 11 and will run until Feb. 16.

“Through humour and irony, Hjalmer tackles immediate social and environmental issues, combined with his cutting-edge contemporary artistic expressions,” the Victoria Arts Council said through a media release. “For Ground; Background hosts works of question, concern and education, in regards to environment, urban relationships to the land, and treaties.”

Wenstob said the work he’s included is “mostly installations that are political and contemporary in nature,” and he worked with the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations to create a visual representation of what Victoria is believed to have been traded for.

“The Victoria area was ‘acquired’ for the cost of 371 blankets and one wool cap,” he said. “The work was just to put a visual to understand what the acquisition of Victoria and how it came about through a small trade of blankets and one wool cap, which I think is a satirical kind of humour that falls in there, just based on that one wool cap that is on top, you wonder who that went to.”

He said his key goal with the show is to educate, generate interest and raise questions.

“When we look at gallery spaces and especially contemporary art gallery spaces, we have a certain demographic who is able to come through the space. We have usually middle class or high class people who come through these spaces,” he said. “A lot of my work is meant to put questions and a little bit of knowledge in people’s minds or a thought for someone to go do the research themselves.”

“One of the pieces in there is a totem pole made out of stacked oil barrels that have been

“As much as I say I hate being a politician, I think that comes into my role in contemporary art right now.”

– Hjalmer Wenstob carved through and that piece spoke really clear and concise to viewers during the opening because we were just a day or two outside of the Unist’ot’en and Wet’suwet’en camp raids, so people had that in their mind right away and the work kind of fell on people who were really aware at the time, which was really wonderful to hear.”

Wenstob added that his favourite art form is carving, but he has found installation pieces to be more effective at promoting discourse and pushing conversation.

“As much as I say I hate being a politician, I think that comes into my role in contemporary art right now. I think, first off, you become a historian and then you become an educator and you become someone with empathy who has the time to give that empathy to those who need to see a little bit more,” he said. “You take on this whole new role, an art historian, a historian, a politician, as much as I cringe at the word. But, at the end, you can hide behind the word ‘artist’…I find that my role is just to maybe disrupt everyone’s comfort a little bit but without being in opposition of anyone or trying to be in any way belligerent. It’s just to merely open people’s eyes a little bit.”

Wenstob has had shows in Victoria before, including an eye-catching installation of four long houses to recreate an Esquimalt First Nation village site on the lawn of the Victoria Legislature.

“It was to make a space where people had to think about what was there before. It wasn’t in opposition of anything it was just to make people know what was there before and have that opportunity to engage with it one on one, as an audience member or viewer of art,” he said.

“I’m not one who likes to stand with a picket sign on the grass of the Legislature or Parliament. I’m not one who enjoys the large crowd of frustration, though maybe I feel the same frustration. I find my role more is to engage the audience in a different way and art was just a gift I was lucky to be given.”

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Vacation rental crackdown gets vindication from court From A1 Osborne told the Westerly News via email that council’s decision was a result of discussions around the community and cases of residents being evicted from their homes as landlords opted to turn their properties into short-term rental accommodations.

“While we were never under the illusion that proactively enforcing shortterm rental regulations would result in a large number of STRs being converted back to long-term rentals, we felt strongly that the residential primary use of properties needed to be protected and that the playing field needed to be levelled in the accommodation sector,” Osborne said.

The South Chesterman Beach Homes case began in 2017, when the district refused to issue business licences that would have allowed the townhouse owners to operate short term rentals.

Tofino’s municipal council upheld that decision in February, 2018, resulting in the owners petitioning the B.C. Supreme Court on April 12, 2018.

In her ruling, published on Dec. 24, the Honourable Madam Justice Loo wrote that the petitioners sought “declarations of law and legal entitlements, and only incidentally or secondarily, judicial review of District Council’s reconsideration decision.”

She noted that the petitioners did not dispute that they were renting out their townhouses to visitors, nor did they dispute that their townhouses’ zoning did not allow for short term rentals under the district’s current bylaws.

“Rather, they argue that the District Council erred in finding that they had

not established that a short-term rental was a lawful non-conforming use of the lands on the basis that a short-term rental use was a permitted use of their dwellings under 1997 Zoning Bylaw, as it existed at the time the South Chesterman Beach Homes townhouse development was constructed,” she wrote.

She rejected this argument and suggested that the bylaw provided clear regulations around tourist accommodations. She also rejected the petitioners’ claim that they did not require business licences for their short term rentals because their property management companies, and not themselves, were operating the business.

“However, the petitioners pay a fee to a property management company to advertise their units for short-term rentals, take reservations and payment, provide check-in and check-out services, and provide amenities including bathroom amenities,” she wrote. “The short-term rentals generate rental income. In my view, it was not unreasonable for the District Council to find on reconsideration that each of the petitioners is operating a tourist, traveller, or transient accommodation business on RM2 zoned lands that are not zoned for that purpose.”

She also dismissed the petitioners’ argument that only one-night stays were prohibited.

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overnight, but they can rent their units for a minimum of two nights. I do not need to decide the issue of the s. 209 covenant, but find the petitioners’ argument to be akin to grasping at straws,” she wrote.

She concluded that short-term rentals were not a lawful non-conforming use of the townhouses, dismissed the owners’ petition and awarded costs to the district.

Osborne said “The court decision provides assurance to Council and staff that the Zoning Bylaw can be applied fairly and effectively.”

She noted that the majority of the roughly 24 petitioners were not Tofino residents, but cautioned against locals using the court’s ruling to “vilify” those with secondary homes in Tofino.

“Many second-home owners are wonderful part-time members of our community who contribute greatly with time, expertise, and money. At the same time, the decision does send an important message to people who choose to live part-time or buy a vacation home in Tofino beyond the fact that they need to fully understand the rules and regulations before buying a property,” she said.

“That message is that our little town is first and foremost a community of neighbours and friends, and we welcome those who want to do more than just vacation or invest here, but also want to be a part of our ‘social fabric.’ If you can’t support or respect the STR regulations, then please visit us and enjoy this beautiful place by renting one of the many legal STRs or hotel rooms we offer.”

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Rachel Sutton, Torin Meikle, Megan Burns, Takaya Fuller, Clara Epp, Hugh Clouthier and Rayne Sked participated in a drop-in rollerskating party at Ucluelet’s Seaplane Base Rec. Hall on Sunday.

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The good times rolled inside Ucluelet’s Seaplane Base Rec. Hall on Sunday as community members spent the afternoon enjoying a drop-in rollerskating event.

Lyvi Rivera hosts a rollerskating party at the hall every Sunday from 12-3 p.m. and all are welcome to join the fun. Equipment is provided and donations are encouraged.

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Kira Cameron, 11, and Kailea Sked, 10, enjoyed the open drop-in event while working on their rollerskating skills.

Six year olds Gareth Roberts and Percy Udell shared smiles as they skated around the Seaplane Base Rec. Hall together.

Event organizer Lyvi Rivera took a break from rollerskating to pose for a photo alongside fellow Ukee local Stephanie Deering.

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The staff at Long Beach Lodge Resort celebrated a Vancouver Island Business Award nomination.

Vancouver Island Business Award nominations Tofino’s Long Beach Lodge Resort and Ucluelet’s Norwood’s Restaurant were among 88 finalists for the 18th annual Vancouver Island Business awards.

Long Beach Lodge’s Director of Sales and Marketing Megan Hall told the Westerly News she and her team were delighted to be recognized.

“We definitely make sure we have a great staff culture and we take pride in supporting various community organizations and participate in sustainability initiatives around the community as well,” she said.

“We have a huge commitment to our staff, the guests and the community and also the environment and we continue to update, add and maintain the resort to ensure a top quality experience for our guests.”

This building at 551 Campbell St., Tofino won the Vancouver Island Real Estate Board’s Top Award of Excellence at the VIREB awards on April 19.

New Business of the Year winners Kyler Vos, Julie Boocock, and Lisa Fletcher of The Factory shared the title with Tofino Food Tours.

New Cypre Corner building wins award What might have been a bus station has instead become an award-winning retail building in Tofino’s gateway area.

Located at 551 Campbell St., the building, designed by Tofino’s Flo Design, now houses a pizzeria and three-artist studio/ gallery.

But the plan for the site had been quite different, said Cypre Corner’s owner, Dylan Green.

Also the owner of the Tofino Bus Company, Green said he’d had the land since 2005 and had hoped it could be a bus station for the bus company.

“We were running smaller equipment (and) we were hoping this would become the bus station, because my original bus station was across the street,” said Green.

The site ended up being too small, but Green went ahead with rezoning the site for general retail, “and this is the result,” he said.

“It was exciting to have been nominated, and it was even more surprising to win the award,” Green said.

2018 Tofino Business Excellence Awards On May 10, Tofino-Long Beach Chamber of Commerce beautiful glass starfish trophies to eight outstanding businesses.

The 2018 winners are as follows: Non-Profit of the Year: CARE Network, Green Business of the Year: Common Loaf Bake Shop, New Business Award: A Tie! The Factory Tofino/ Tofino Food Tours, Small Business of the Year Award: Tofino Sea Kayaking Company, Employee of the Year Award: Andy Murray, Tofino Sea Kayaking Company, Customer Service Award: Pacific Sands Beach Resort , Business Leader of the Year Award: Krissy Montgomery, Surf Sister Surf School and Business of the Year Award: Crystal Cove Beach Resort .

This event was a fundraiser for the Tofino Ambassador Program. The judging panel was made up of Mayor Josie Osborne, Clayoquot Biosphere Trust executive director Rebecca Hurwitz, Chris Nicholls (Gibsons Chamber), Lara Kemps (Ucluelet Chamber) and Patty Vadnais (Fernie Chamber).

The starfish awards themselves were designed and made by Sol Maya of Spirit of the Fire.

Tofino General Hospital Foundation chair Arlene McGinnis, middle, Mike Jacobsen, left, and Shelter owner Jay Gildenhuys celebrate a bountiful evening for the local hospital.

Annual Tofino Hospital fundraiser nets $60K A relentlessly rainy day didn’t halt Tofino’s charitable spirit from shining through on April 20 as Shelter Restaurant opened its doors for the fourth annual Tofino General Hospital Foundation fundraiser. The event garnered over $60,000 for new hospital equipment, including: three new stretchers, a vital signs monitor, a sara stedy, a bariatric wheelchair, and a PanOptic ophthalmoscope.

“You always have to be updating this equipment. The older stretchers are hard to manoeuver. These ones are modern and up-to-date,” said Hospital Foundation chair Arlene McGinnis.

Long Beach Lodge made a generous contribution of $10,000.

Shelter staff volunteered their time and the restaurant itself donated the three-course meal and the bar revenue.

“I don’t know how Shelter can do any better. They are friendly, they are courteous, they love what they are doing,” praised McGinnis.

Shelter owner Jay Gildenhuys said the event brings the community together.

Staff Sergeant Jeff Swann received a B.C. Community Achievement Award for fostering positive relationships between police and their communities.

Former top cop receives B.C. Community Achievement Award Ucluelet’s beloved former top cop has another accolade to add to his collection. Staff Sergeant Jeff Swann, a member of Canada’s prestigious Order of Merit, has received a B.C. Community Achievers Award for his groundbreaking efforts to reduce Ucluelet’s crime rate while creating and fostering a positive relationship between local police and their communities.

“There are so many wonderful police officers and people doing amazing things in communities across the province and I was just shocked to be, first off, nominated by people in Ucluelet for it and then to receive the award,” he said. “I was just completely shocked that my little achievement as part of the team at the Ucluelet detachment at the time made such an impact.”

Swann served as Ucluelet’s police chief from 2009-2016, overseeing an unprecedented 60 per cent reduction in the community’s crime rate during his tenure.

A 26.92 lb. chinook earned Ryan Erickson the Tofino Saltwater Classic’s $6,000 top prize. The Tofino local was all smiles as he received his award from the Classic’s creator Brendan Morrison.

Morrison’s Tofino Saltwater Classic passes $500,000 raised The ninth annual Tofino Saltwater Classic fishing derby raised a whopping $80,000, bringing the total amount the event has netted for local community initiatives since its inception to $500,000. A full list of the community initiatives 2018’s funds went to can be found at www.TofinoSaltwaterClassic.com.

“Even after nine years, I am touched and inspired by the enthusiasm of our derby’s participants and the generosity of our volunteers and supporters,” said the derby’s creator, and former National Hockey League star Brendan Morrison through the announcement. “Surpassing the half-million-dollar total funds raised goal is a significant achievement and is a rewarding milestone for everyone who has helped to make the Saltwater Classic a great success. We look forward to continuing what has become an enjoyable and impactful tradition next year.”

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Ucluelet’s manager of Parks and Recreation Abby Fortune smiles alongside Volunteer of the Year recipient Jennifer Hoar and Sean Jakubowsky who accepted the Business of the year award on behalf of Officials Sports Lounge. Missing from photo are Citizen of the Year Alan Anderson and Youth Citizen of the Year Timmy Masso.

Susan MacDonald of Comox, left, reeled in a 7.9-lb prize-winner to score third place in Willie Mitchell’s Fish for the Future derby in Tofino on Sept.

23. MacDonald’s catch earned her a Yeti Coolers prize package and she celebrated alongside derby organizer Peter Dick and Yeti representative Jackie Antonio.

Ucluelet hands out local accolades Ucluelet announced its Volunteer, Business and Citizen of the year awards as well as a brand-new Youth Citizen of the Year award during the Ukee Days closing ceremonies.

Jennifer Hoar received the Volunteer of the Year award and was announced by her nominator Courtney Johnson.

“I cannot say enough about the wonderful and giving nature of my friend Jennifer Hoar,” Johnson beamed to a large audience from the Ukee Days main stage.

The Citizen of the Year Award went to Alan Anderson.

Ucluelet mayor Dianne St. Jacques heralded Anderson’s devotion to the community, particularly his work with the Volunteer Fire Brigade and Westcoast Community Resources Society.

The Business of the Year Award was announced by Ucluelet Chamber of Commerce’s Office Manager Lara Kemps, who was delighted to announce Officials Sports Lounge as this year’s recipient.

“This business goes way beyond,” Kemps said adding Officials is always quick to fundraise for local causes, including the Junior Canadian Rangers and the Food Bank on the Edge.

Mitchell’s Fish for the Future derby nets $14K Willie Mitchell’s second annual Fish for the Future derby netted approximately $14,000 for salmon restoration efforts.

“It was amazing,” Mitchell told the Westerly News at the event’s closing ceremonies. “It was really a successful event and we’re looking forward to another year to help out those good people at the hatchery.”

Mitchell launched the event last year and all proceeds raised are invested into Clayoquot Sound with 80 per cent going to the Tofino Hatchery and 20 per cent going to the Clayoquot Salmon Roundtable.

He suggested the hatchery does not receive enough annual support from the federal government and he hopes his catch and release Fish for the Future derby raises awareness, as well as dollars, for the cause. “[The hatchery] only gets $8,000 from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans so we think we at least got two years of funding out of a small group of people here who really believe in what we’re doing, and that is trying to bring fish back to the watershed,” Mitchell said. “There’s systems in the watershed that are endangered and what we’re trying to do is play a small part to bring them back.”

With helping hands from Maia Steffens, left, Surfrider Pacific Rim chapter manager Lilly Woodbury cuts a kelp ribbon to officially open the environmental non-profits’ permanent office at the Ecolodge.

Surfrider Pacific Rim sets up shop at Ecolodge After years of working nomadically out of living rooms and coffee shops, Surfrider Pacific Rim put down roots in the Ecolodge at the Tofino Botanical Gardens.

“You’re all a part of this,” said chapter manager Lilly Woodybury at a gathering held on Aug. 10 to celebrate the occasion.

“Thank you for helping us come this far and reach this milestone. It’s really exciting. We are just going to continue to grow and make Clayoquot Sound, Barkley Sound, and the entire Pacific Rim a leader in environmentalism,” she said before snipping a kelp ribbon to officially open the new office space.

The environmental non-profit is sharing the space with the Raincoast Education Society and Strawberry Isle Marine Research Society.

Crystal Cove Beach Resort’s GM J.J. Belanger and Ocean Outfitters GM Ocean Simone Shine proudly display their EcoStar Awards. The trophies were made from recycled chopsticks.

Vancouver Island EcoStar Awards Crystal Cove Beach Resort and Ocean Outfitters are Vancouver Island 2018 EcoStar Award winners.

Crystal Cove earned a nod for their Water Conservation efforts and Ocean Outfitters for Ecological Stewardship. Presented by Synergy Sustainability Institute, the EcoStar Awards feature 19 categories that recognize outstanding environmental achievements and leadership by businesses, organizations and individuals.

General manager of Crystal Cove J.J. Belanger said their journey towards water conservation all started in 2014 when the District of Tofino realized the water flow meters at several of the resorts and businesses were not calculating the flows properly.

“We went from paying $7,000 a year for water to $70,000,” recalls Belanger. “Long story short, we realized we had a massive consumption problem so we started looking into ways to conserve water and with all the gardens we had at Crystal Cove that was the number one issue.”

Ocean Outfitters general manager Ocean Simone Shine said they are very proud to be recognized alongside other incredible and inspiring businesses making positive impacts.

“Our model of restorative tourism moves far beyond the bottom-line profit motive and is based on community responsibility, education, research, environmental stewardship and carbon action,” said Shine of the carbon-neutral adventure tour operator.

Hjalmer Wenstob’s daughter Huumiis was on hand at her dad’s Grand Opening event at Ucluelet’s Cedar House Gallery in March.

Hjalmer Wenstob opens Cedar House Gallery Tla-o-qui-aht artist Hjalmer Wenstob returned to Ucluelet after completing his Masters of Fine Arts degree at the University of Victoria and got to work creating connections across West Coast communities. The popular local artist held a Grand Opening event for his Cedar House Art Gallery at Whiskey Landing in March with the intention of transforming the space into a hub for community connections and shared learning experiences.

“We have so many indigenous and non-indigenous people living in one space and we want to share a bit of our culture and share a bit of our language to understand each other and understand the space we call home and share together,” he said.

Monte Clarke, Amanda Pozzobon, Erin Cooke, Aaron Pearson and Bryce McLean of Storm Surf Shop were excited to welcome the West Coast into Tofino’s Jingle into Christmas shopping extravaganza on Nov. 30.

Holiday shopping extravaganzas collide West Coast merchants filled their stores with holiday cheer and offered sweet holiday deals during Tofino’s Jingle into Christmas event and Ucluelet’s Midnight Madness. Both events were held on Nov. 30 prompting some residents to call for better coordination to seperate the two events in future years.

Ucluelet Chamber of Commerce Office Manager Lara Kemps said she plans to host a meeting with local businesses in the near-future to discuss the Midnight Madness date.

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CLUES DOWN 46. Throbbed rhythmically 1. Bullfighting maneuver 51. English rockers 2. Egyptian Sun god 54. Disaster relief operation 3. Predatory semiaquatic 55. American model and TV reptile personality Katherine 4. Register formally 56. Potable 5. Eating houses 57. Tough outer layer 6. Japanese port 58. __ Spumante (Italian 7. Genus of rodents wine) 8. Nigerian city 59. Troubles 9. Milliwatt 60. Negative 10. Mistake!

62. Camper 11. Women’s __ movement 12. Greeting 13. Songbirds 14. An arrangement scheme 17. Heartbeat test 22. Push back 23. Intended for the audience only 24. Cycles per second 25. Impartiality 26. Polio vaccine THIS WEEKS ANSWER developer 28. Bowel movements 29. South American Indian 32. Queen of Sparta 36. Confederate soldier 38. Emerged 40. Death 43. __ and flowed 44. Folk singer DiFranco 45. Email folder

ARIES – Mar 21/Apr 20 You can’t predict how people will react, Aries. What you find humorous may bend someone else out of shape. If you suspect a joke won’t go over wll, keep it to yourself.

TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Keep your eyes open and you just may stumble onto something new and fascinating this week, Taurus. Now is a good time to explore new ideas and integrate them.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 You are not one to walk away from a challenge, Gemini. This week you may be confronted with a challenging obstacle. Devote all of your attention to the task at hand.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 Something will bring a smile to your face early in the week, Cancer. There is pretty much nothing that will wipe this smile off of your face.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, try not to push yourself too much this week. Maintain a low profile and go through with your normal routine; otherwise, you might ruffle the wrong feathers.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 Do not panic when a glitch occurs in your best-laid plans, Virgo. With a few easy modifications, you can work through it quickly. Look at the situation from a different angle.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, sometimes it can be easy for you to fixate on a particular way of doing things.

Consider if others have a better way to tackle the same task.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Expect to reach a big milestone in your life in the next few days, Scorpio. This likely has something to do with your family or career. The praise is warranted.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 You need to focus and get back to work this week, Sagittarius. If things have slipped through your fingers, it could take a little time to regain your momentum. You can do it.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Shop around for the best deals before making a large purchase, Capricorn. Take inventory of your finances so your next move does not prove a setback.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 You may be ready for something or someone new, Aquarius. Right now is a good time to connect with a new passion that can bring you even more success than you had imagined.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Try to focus your energies in a positive way, Pisces. You can accomplish what you set your mind to with the right attitude and perseverance.

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WCRSdoCS FRee CommUNiTy SCReeNiNg, Thursday, Jan. 24. Doors at 7pm at the UCC. This award winning documentary follows Crystal, a 10 year old transgender girl growing up in rural Canada, as she navigates the complicated world that surrounds her.

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The RAdiCAlS Film - PACiFiC Rim ToUR, Thursday, Jan. 24. Ucluelet ANAF. Saturday, Jan. 26.

Tofino Clayoquot Theatre.

Beyond Boarding’s highly anticipated film, The Radicals. A feature documentary that wraps the viewer in a unique meeting of extreme sports and frontline activism.

Doors at 7pm. Live music & QA with film.makers & land defenders will follow the film. Tix $10.

FoRAge FiSh: The oCeAN’S SNACk Food, With ECCC research scientists Dr. Mark Hipfner.

Thursday, Jan. 24. 7-9pm in the Ecolodge at Tofino Botanical Gardens.

RooTS & gRooVeS, Sunday, January 27, 7:30 pm. Clayoquot Sound Theatre. Doors at 6:45 pm. Tix $25 at Mermaid Tales Bookshop or at the door. With Rick Scott, dulcimer and vocals, and Nico Rhodes, keyboard, vocals and more.

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Come in and hang out with your tiny artists for some designated creative time in the Ultramarine Art Studio.

Each craft will be inspired by a different children’s story. Parents are asked to attend with their children. $15, includes materials.

UClUeleT AlANoN gRoUP, Wednesdays, 7:30pm. 1663 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet. kARAoke AT The legioN, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tofino Legion.

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.

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Head down to the Ucluelet Community Centre on Saturday to celebrate reading. A book swap will be held from 1-4 p.m. where you can fill your arms with wonderful stories and educational books. Enjoy a 2 p.m. screening of ‘The Book Thief’ at 2 p.m. All are encouraged to drop off their gently used books at the Community Centre from Jan 21-25. No magazines, textbooks ord DVD’s will be accepted. For more information contact 250-726-7772.

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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.

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MISSOULA RETURNS: The West Coast will welcome its 27th annual Missoula Children’s Theatre production next month. Local youth from 5-18 are invited to audition for roles in this year’s show, Robin Hood. Auditions will be held at the Tofino Community Hall from 4-6 p.m. on Jan. 28. All youth should arrive by 3:45 p.m. About 60 roles are available for local thespians. Performances are scheduled for Saturday, February 2, at the Tofino Community Hall in Tofino at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. For more information call Suzanne Ryles 250-266-2094.

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Victoria joins global Women’s March for equality

Hundreds met on the steps and lawn of the B.C. legislature Saturday to stand up and fight for equality as part of the global Women’s March movement.

Organizers of Victoria’s rally said the theme for 2019 is “End Violence Against Women,” citing statistics that one in three women and girls experience violence in their lifetime.

“The issue of violence against women remains a very serious threat,” said Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada, who attended the event. “We have still not addressed the situation of murdered and missing Indigenous women, women who are living in poverty, a lot of intersectional issues for women across Canada. What we are doing here is marching in solidarity.”

Racelle Kooy led the group in singing the Women’s Warrior Song, a song that came to Martina Pierre from the Lil’ wat Nation during a sweat lodge ceremony.

“It is an honour song. My ancestors are just happy for you to sing it because it connects us all. It makes us family. So as family marching together for love, let’s sing this song,” said Kooy.

The group gathered at the B.C. legislature before marching to Centennial Square where organizers and Indigenous leaders from the community had information tables set up, including the Moose Hide Campaign, a grassroots movement of Indigenous and non-Indigenous men and boys standing up against violence towards women and children.

“To really achieve equality, it means equality of security,” said May. Protests and rallies really help, said May, but they aren’t enough by themselves.

“Movements at the local level, provincial level, federal level, electing people who care about the same issues you care about – all those things together make change,” May said.

People marched around the globe for the 3rd annual Women’s March, marking the anniversary of the first protest spurred by the inauguration of U.S. President Donald Trump in 2017.

– www.oakbaynews.com Island in awe of Sunday’s ‘super blood wolf moon’ A “super blood wolf moon” shined an otherworldly glow onto skies above the northern hemisphere Sunday night and hundreds took the opportunity to view the phenomenon through University of Victoria (UVic) telescopes.

The “super” comes from the moon’s proximity to Earth, the “blood” from the orange-red hue cast by the scattering of the sun’s particles, and the “wolf” from it’s timing, in January.

The lunar eclipse started around 6:30 p.m., with the total eclipse washing the moon in red by 8:40 p.m.

More than 300 people came to the UVic open house for a spectacular view of the effects of the rare Earth-moon-sun alignment..

– www.vicnews.com Island’s first publicly funded dementia village Vancouver Island’s first publicly funded dementia village — and just the second in BC — is coming to Comox.

The Providence Residential & Community Care (PRCC) Services Society has unveiled a vision for a dementia village at the former St. Joseph’s Hospital.

The concept follows a Dutch model for seniors care, based on the dementia village in De Hogeweyk, Netherlands. The village will support a group of people faced with moderate to severe dementia. The idea, through involvement in everyday things, is to improve a person’s quality of life.

Victoria joined cities around the world Jan. 19 for the third Annual Women’s March on Saturday.

ISLAND IN BRIEF “It’s normal life,” said Jo-Ann Tait, Providence corporate director, seniors care and palliative services. “It has small households of people living together, helping prepare meals, based on their capacity and capability. It has access and freedom to get outside fairly easily, and it brings the community into the care campus.”

PRCC is an entity of Providence Health Care, which takes ownership of St. Joseph’s on April 1.

Providence has an agreement to work with Island Health on a campus of care redevelopment plan.

The initial focus will be vulnerable seniors, particularly those challenged by dementia and Alzheimer’s.

Dementia is an overall term for a set of symptoms caused by disorders affecting the brain.

Symptoms may include memory loss and difficulties with thinking, problem-solving or language, severe enough to reduce a person’s ability to perform everyday activities. A person with dementia may also experience changes in mood or behaviour. The number of Canadians living with dementia is expected to nearly double in the next 15 years.

“Often we think, because a person has dementia, that’s it. And we now need to do everything, and that isn’t the case. There’s a lot of ability still left,” Tait said.

“Someone who may not be able to cook their entire dinner may still have that distant memory of peeling a potato. And another person can help prepare the meal with help of staff.”

Under the dementia village concept, staff members and volunteers will be focused on the emotional connection with each resident.

“Even if a person loses the ability to speak, the focus of the staff is how to connect with them,” Tait said.

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“That’s the change. It’s the shift in going from a task-focused, hospital-based structure to one that you and I would be interested in living in if we couldn’t live at home any longer.”

The village model contains a secure outer perimeter whereby residents can leave their homes.

The front door gives access to the outdoors.

“The model’s based on giving people the freedom of movement,” Tait said.

Providence will initiate a community consultation process following the April 1 transfer of ownership. The dementia village is one component of the master site plans on the entire 17 acres at St. Joseph’s. At this point, the company is not sure where the village will be constructed. PRCC hopes to house about 150 residents — about the same number as De Hogeweyk.

“For me, it’s about being able to get to know people and the risk that they would want to take, and being able to help them live the life they want to live,” Tait said..”

– www.campbellrivermirror.com Support pours in for Bowser couple A Bowser couple whose home was destroyed by a fire last week are grateful for an outpouring of community support during a devastating time.

Jordan Pisani and his wife Kirstyn Brown-Mcfadyen, who’s 38-weeks pregnant, lived in the Bowser home with Pisani’s mother, Marlene. A friend had also been recently living in a trailer on the property with his dog.

On Sunday, Jan. 13, at approximately 6:45 p.m., Pisani was sitting upstairs in the home with his wife when he heard his mother scream his name from downstairs.

“I could tell by the way she called my name in a screech that something was seriously wrong,” Pisani said.

Pisani said his mother, who was in the basement, noticed the fire first when she saw a flickering light in the reflection of a window.

“She went outside and saw that there were multiple little fires on the ground between the trailer and the house,” Pisani said.

“I got up as fast as I could and ran downstairs… I saw the reflection of a fire and I ran

outside and when I looked at the trailer… right underneath the propane tanks there was big flames.”

After seeing the fire, Pisani said he quickly got his friend and his dog out of the trailer and then ran back into the house to get his wife and their two dogs.

“We had no time to grab anything. Obviously nobody was thinking the house would be gone,” Pisani said.

After getting everyone out safely, Pisani said the trailer was fully engulfed in flames.

“I made my first phone call to the police at 6:43 p.m. and by 6:50 p.m. my security cameras went offline so that means the whole trailer was engulfed and the house’s electrical was gone within seven minutes,” he said. “The whole trailer was gone, the propane tanks had exploded and the [tenant’s] car was right beside the trailer and that was completely gone.”

The fire quickly spread to the side of the house and Pisani said as soon as the flames reached the attic it was “pretty much game over.”

The destruction included extensive water damage to the basement and the upstairs of the house was a complete loss.

Pisani said the expecting couple were just about done renovating an upstairs bedroom into a nursery and they had just had a baby shower.

Everything was pretty much lost.

Something that was recovered from the debris was Kirstyn’s engagement ring, left on a counter in the kitchen.

Although this time is devastating for the couple, they also feel grateful.

“Everyone has answered the call of duty, everyone has been so amazing,” Pisani said. “We are so appreciative of the community.”

The couple has a large list of people and organizations who have helped them in some way.

Pisani said donations range from dog food to clothes to accommodation.

“A couple donated their Airbnb cabins to us,” Pisani said. “We believe we are here for a couple months so we can have the baby and then we will find something more permanent.”

Donations have also come in a big way through a GoFundMe page started by an aunt of Kirstyn’s. In the first day, the fundraising page reached $10,000, and jumped to $14,700 by day five.

“That has been unbelievable,” Pisani said of the GoFundMe page.

The fire remains under investigation and Pisani said the couple will wait to make any construction plans until it’s done.e.”

– www.pqbnews.com Alberni Valley Bulldogs best Salmon Arm Keaton Mastrodonato scored his second goal of the game with less than five minutes to go in the third period to give the Alberni Valley Bulldogs a 6–3 win over Salmon Arm on Friday.

The Bulldogs ended the second period with a crucial goal by Ryan Miotto in the waning seconds of the period that put them up 3–2. Salmon Arm tied it up at 9:12 of the third, but Mastrodonato potted the winner at 15:11. Evan Googins scored an insurance goal for the Bulldogs at 16:47.

The Bulldogs’ final goal came at 19:52 after Stephen Castagna was hauled down on a breakaway.

Because the Silverbacks’ net was empty, Castagna was automatically awarded a goal.

The win snapped a three-game losing streak for the Bulldogs.

The Bulldogs face Powell River Kings at 2 p.m. today (Jan. 20) at the AV Multiplex. Tickets are available at the Bulldogs’ office outside the main entrance to the Multiplex.

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