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Ban on plastics Tofino launches laws to prevent pollution ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

The West Coast’s war on single-use plastics rages on.

Tofino took a significant step towards banning plastic bags and straws last week as the town’s council unanimously supported a draft bylaw that would prohibit all businesses from selling or providing plastic bags or single-use straws and set a minimum retail price of 25 cents for paper bags and $2 for reusable bags.

“We’re trying to avoid the rebound to excessive paper and reusable bags by adding a minimum price,” explained Tofino’s manager of corporate services Elyse Goatcher-Bergmann during a presentation to council on Feb. 26.

“Fees are a disincentive. That is what we’re using them for in this case. We’re using them as a disincentive to over-consuming bags.”

District staff have been working on the draft bylaw since receiving direction from council to look into a single-use plastic ban last year.

Goatcher-Bergmann noted the City of Victoria moved ahead with plastic bag legislation last year, which initially withstood a court challenge but is now under appeal. She said Qualicum Beach and Parksville have also looked into bag bans, but only Victoria has one in place so far on Vancouver Island. She added that no communities currently have a plastic straw ban in place.

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AQUARIUM OPENS: Jax, 6, Weston, 8, Evan, 8, Teegan, 8, Tucker, 8, and Jay, 6 were some of the Ucluelet Aquarium’s first patrons of the year as the unique collect, care for and release facility opened its doors to kick off the 2019 season on Friday. See more photos on page 11 and read about the global impact the aquarium’s model is inspiring on page 6.

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Ocean Legacy Foundation’s Chloé Dubois, left, Surfrider Pacific Rim’s Lilly Woodbury, founder of Barnacle Babes Jodi Mossop, free diver Rose Molina, and ‘She is the Ocean’ director and producer Inna Blokhina led an inspired panel discussion after Friday’s screening at the Tofino Legion.

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‘She is the Ocean’, an award-winning documentary about nine great women who share a strong love for the ocean, screened at Tofino’s Royal Canadian Legion on Friday.

Director and producer Innesse Blokhina was in the house to speak about her movie.

“It’s an honour to be here and to share this film with this community. Your community looks a little bit the same [as mine] because we also get cold water,” said the Russian director.

“We have extreme environment to charge, and to make a difference.”

Blokhina said it took six years for the documentary to come together.

“Every hero in this film has a very beautiful story and a very beautiful soul. I’m sure you can find something special from watching the film,” she said.

The heroines of the movie are big wave surfers Keala Kennelly and Andrea Moller, professional surfer Coco Ho, shark conservationist Ocean Ramsey, cliff diver Anna Bader, Hawaiian surfing icon Jeannie Chesser, explorer and marine biologist Sylvia Earle, young Balinese surfer Chinta Hansel, and free diver Rose Molina.

Molina, who is also a yoga instructor and underwater dancer, attended Friday’s screening in Tofino. She spoke about her passion for the ocean during the Q&A period.

“For me, it’s home. And, that’s why I go deeper and deeper because the more water I have around me it makes me feel, I don’t know, it’s something about the pressure of the water that embraces. It makes me feel, maybe, like I’m in a womb. It makes me feel so safe and allows us to be reborn again. There’s something magical that happens in the ocean to all of us,” said Molina, adding that her secret for holding breath is doing it with joy and love.

“If you go deeper, it’s because of joy, not because of numbers. If you want a bigger wave, it’s because you love it. When I do breath hold, it’s about how do I stay longer with a smile instead of pushing,” said Molina.

“Every hero in this film has a very beautiful story and a very beautiful soul.”

– Innesse Blokhina Film director Blokhina expressed to the audience that protecting nature and the ocean is very important to her.

“I hope this film will inspire people to think about it, even a little bit,” said Blokhina.

Surfrider Pacific Rim chapter manager Lilly Woodbury and Chloé Dubois, co-founder of Ocean Legacy Foundation, joined Molina and Blokhina up front to complete Tofino’s discussion panel.

Canadian Tour dates for ‘She is the Ocean’ include a free screening in Vancouver on International Women’s Day, plus stops in Victoria and Toronto. The film was brought to Canada thanks to the efforts of Barnacle Babes Production Inc. founder and president Jodi Mossop.

Based out of Vancouver, Barnacle Babes is a community media company that produces a magazine and web-series. They also bring women together for retreats and conferences.

“We need to make sure we as women are supporting women and female led projects,” Mossop wrote in an email to the Westerly.

“I hear often, particularly women in sport, that the draw for women (or viewership) isn’t as big as men’s, that’s why the purses are smaller.

Women need to support women. We need to go to these events, we need to hear their struggles, we need to support the companies supporting these athletes. Women tell stories differently and we connect differently to the stories. But it is also important the men are supportive and included in everything we do. We need the balance,” said Mossop. “Through this tour, I think some of the men that have come to our shows have been really surprised about how good this film is and have loved it.”

Anyone interested in learning more about the documentary about great women is encouraged to visit ‘She is the Ocean’ website: www.sheistheocean.com/eng.

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Plastic prohibition coming soon From A1 “The issue that we’ve defined for us is the accumulation of plastic, especially single use plastic, products entering municipal waste streams, or escaping that waste stream and then entering the environment where they break down into small, unrecoverable pieces,” she said.

“Both of these impacts have a risk to the municipality in that they are accumulating in our solid waste systems as well as on our beaches, rivers and streets so there’s an impact either way.”

She said the West Coast landfill is currently estimated to reach its capacity in 2068.

“Plastics are the third largest component of our residential waste on the coast,” she said adding organics and paper are the top two,” she said. “The regulatory approach that we’re taking is not just a ban, but also a minimum price on paper and reusable bags…They’re obviously not very recyclable at the end of life so they just end up in our waste streams as well.”

She said Tofino has been in contact with Ucluelet to take a regional approach on plastics and ensure consistent laws across the peninsula.

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Haida Nation hosted a second oceans forum along with Parks Canada, the provincial government and the Marine Plan Partnership for the North Pacific Coast over Josie Osborne the weekend in Skidegate.

The Gaaysiigang Sding/Sdang Oceans Forum II took place March 1 and 2 at the Haida Heritage Centre. Community leaders

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Chef Ian Riddick posed for this shot in 2016 to passionately pledge his allegiance to Surfrider Pacific Rim’s ‘Straws Suck’ initiative that saw local businesses voluntarily cease serving plastic straws to customers. Tofino is now ready to declare an official ban. ceived resounding support from the community on the proposed ban.

“For many people, a ban on these certain items represents a change that they’re willing and waiting for,” she said.

She said biodegradable and compostable plastic bags would be included in the ban because, “These materials contaminate existing recycling streams and do not adequately decompose in a landfill or the environment.”

There would be exceptions under the proposed bylaw, however, as it stipulates paper or plastic may be used: “to package loose bulk items; contain or wrap fresh or frozen meat, poultry or fish; wrap flowers; protect baked goods and non-packaged foods; contain prescription drugs; or contain large items that cannot easily fit into a reusable bag.”

With council’s unanimous support in hand, district staff will now further consult with businesses

around other potential exceptions from the ban and hear feedback on the suggested retail price for both paper and reusable bags.

Goatcher-Bergman suggested the ban would be preceded by a roughly six-month educational campaign and implementation period with enforcement beginning in 2020.

“This is a big shift. I know that a lot of people are doing this already, but we do have quite a lot of work to do to make sure this is implemented well,” she said.

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from Haida Gwaii, Tofino and New Zealand gathered over the day-and-a-half forum to “make waves” about the future of the waters surrounding Haida Gwaii.

Coastal-dwelling keynote speakers at the event included Maori tourism leader Hone Mihaka on the Friday and Mayor of Tofino Josie Osborne on the Saturday.

Several themes, such as governance, culture and identity, and the environment were discussed.

Osborne told the Observer prior to her presentation that she would focus on the changing economy, from resource-dependence to ecotourism-dependence.

“About 30 years ago Tofino made a very explicit decision to focus on ecotourism,” Osborne said. “That

was a very conscientious decision that was made here, to focus on the ecotourism sector as a way to not log.”

However, Osborne said there were changes they didn’t anticipate and she plans to advise forum participants to be cognizant from the beginning that when they market Haida Gwaii as an ecotourism destination, they are marketing to their future residents.

“I’m really going to weave in the theme of how to maintain a community’s identify and values through that process of economic change,” she said.

“When you put an invitation out to the world to come and visit you … you need to be very mindful of what your community identity

is and what the values are of the people who live there now, so that’s what you’re expressing.

“You never want to lose sight of who you are when you’re marketing your destination because transformation can happen by the different types of people who come.”

Aside from the keynotes, the forum included workshop sessions on actions taken to protect Haida Gwaii and its surrounding waters over the past 10 years, since the first Gaaysiigang oceans forum in 2009. Participants discussed challenges with issues such as ocean acidification, dead zones, fisheries collapse, pollution and aquaculture, celebrate achievements, and write the next chapter of Haida Gwaii’s oceans story.

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Killer whales are the new polar bears of politics in B.C. Premier John Horgan says it over and over.

He keeps staging media events with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee because they share concern about southern resident killer whales, and the threat posed by additional oil tanker traffic in the Salish Sea. That’s why they teamed up to oppose the twinning of a 65-year-old pipeline that carries Alberta crude to southwestern B.C.’s last remaining refinery in Burnaby and to Washington’s much larger refineries. One of those, the Phillips 66 refinery at Cherry Point, was built in 1954 specifically because the Trans Mountain pipeline was completed that year.

By the 1970s, crude from Alaska’s North Slope and the adjacent Arctic Ocean was heading down the B.C. coast in tankers, to refineries at Cherry Point, Anacortes and on to California. Now, more than one Alaska tanker a day sails past Victoria, but it’s not enough to supply Washington’s demand, with Trans Mountain still the only oil

pipeline in the state. Shale oil from A study published last fall in the sciNorth Dakota and additional oilsands entific journal Nature examines the crude from Alberta are coming by threats to southern resident orcas from rail in record amounts, and even the three sources: shipping, abundance occasional Russian tanker has been of salmon and PCB contamination. seen docking in Washington.

Tankers are a tiny fraction of the shipThe Horgan-Inslee show plays to ping that deters orcas from feeding downtown Vancouver and Seattle grounds. Ferries are a much greater Tom Fletcher media, conditioned for years by covproblem on both sides of the border. ering professionally staged protests.

In February, the B.C. government The propaganda message is that one extra tanker quietly announced it is restoring 2,700 B.C. Ferries a day from Burnaby would be it for southern resi- sailings that were eliminated in 2014, making a dent orcas. If you still believe that, I have news for total of about 120,000 per year. you. That one tanker represents about a five per Some of these off-peak sailings ran at less than cent increase in shipping traffic from Vancouver five per cent capacity, the crew outnumbering the harbour, and much less for the whole region. It’s passengers.

Two of the routes serve Quadra Island, home nothing like the “seven-fold increase” that B.C. Environment Minister George Heyman and his of Transportation Minister Claire Trevena. The massive taxpayer subsidy to B.C. Ferries is being former employer the Sierra Club keep claiming.

increased to pay for these nearly empty sailings.

Back to southern resident orcas, among the most studied marine creatures in the world. Since 1972, the population of this tiny sub-group has fluctuated from 70 to 99 animals.

As of 2017 it was 76, which is why the Nature study examined inbreeding as a factor in calf survival. Last summer an orca calf died and its mother carried it for days. Serious biologists described an instinctive effort to help calves breathe on their own, but the media story quickly became that the whale was “grieving.”

It’s similar to fake news stories about disappearing polar bears.

Those have faded away after the world-wide misrepresentation of pictures of a dying bear, and subsequent accurate reports of northern communities overrun by polar bears.

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Ukee aquarium model spreading worldwide ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

A big idea to build a tiny aquarium in Ucluelet has made a very real and meaningful impact worldwide.

The Ucluelet Aquarium opened its doors to hearty fanfare on Friday, officially kicking off its season to the delight of residents and visitors.

The aquarium was the first of its kind when its founder Philip Bruecker filled a small, temporary, shacklike facility off Ucluelet’s harbour with specimens, which were collected from local waters, as part of a 2004 pilot project. The crux of Bruecker’s idea was that the specimens would be cared for at the aquarium while connecting patrons to their oceanic neighbours before then being released back into their natural ecosystems at each season’s end.

The project proved so successful that it led to the construction of its current, permanent facility in 2012, a stone’s throw away from where the mini-aquarium had first opened.

Ucluelet’s former mini-aquarium is still in operation in Campbell River and Bruecker’s vision and its proven success inspired like-minded marine biologists who are opening similar facilities in communities throughout the globe.

The proliferation of catch and release aquariums was represented in force during the Ucluelet Aquarium’s first Mini-Aquarium Conference held the weekend prior to 2019’s season-opener.

Organizations from B.C., Nova Scotia, the State of Washington and Scotland that are operating, or want to operate, their own educational facility based on Ucluelet’s model were represented during the conference, which included presentations on lessons learned through successes and mistakes.

“I love that there’s a lot of education involved in the Ucluelet Aquarium and that’s what this weekend was all about, educating people like myself who do not have an aquarium yet but we’re at the very larval phase of our aquariums to help us learn what we need to know to move forward,” said Kim Ballantyne who hopes to bring the Ucluelet Aquarium model to her community on Salt Spring Island.

Ballantyne said “everyone comes to our Island on the water, in one way or another,” but too few are aware of what’s going on within it.

“They come on the water but most of them don’t know what’s under there and if they don’t know they’re not going to care about it and if they don’t care about it they’re not going to do anything to help protect it. So, if we can bring some of those animals that live under the water to the surface so that people can engage with those animals and build a relationship, start to care, connect, get excited and want to do something

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Philip Bruecker’s revolutionary community aquarium concept grew out of its first mini-facility, left, into its current structure, right, and the idea is spreading throughout the globe.

“ I’ve learned a lot and I’ve met some great people and I’m so stoked.”

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to actually help what’s going on in our oceans.”

She added that inspiring children through unique touch tank experiences creates environmental stewards who bring the lessons they’ve learned home to share with their families.

Ucluelet Aquarium curator Laura Griffith-Cochrane said the conference was a great way to share ideas around creating meaningful connections between the public and ocean environments.

“It’s been fantastic. It’s been really great. I’ve learned a lot and I’ve met some great people and I’m so stoked.

It’s very inspiring and it’s really heartwarming,” she said.

“We’ve been incredibly well supported by our community and by other groups. So, in the spirit of giving back, there’s been so much that we’ve learned over the years and we wanted to be able to provide all of the groups that are interested with an opportunity to learn from some of the successes that we’ve had and some of the mistakes that we’ve made so that they can be great and share all the things that they learn with us down the road.”

Grace Lambert is the assistant manager of the Mull Aquarium off the west coast of Scotland and told the Westerly News the facility was entirely inspired by, and based off of, Ucluelet’s.

“We wouldn’t exist without Ucluelet so we felt like we had to come and it’s been an amazing opportunity to learn about how other aquariums do it…There’s so many ideas that we can share. It’s been really helpful and it’s been really nice networking,” Lambert said. “We’re actually Europe’s first catch and release aquarium, so we don’t have a huge amount of networking to do back home and this has been amazingly useful for us.”

The Mull Aquarium is entering its fifth season this year and Lambert said it’s grown into a popular educational attraction.

“Even if you’ve grown up by the sea, you might not ever have held a starfish that lives just metres from the shore,” she said. “I think it’s really important for people to learn what’s on their doorstep.”

Graham Starsage manages and curates the Nicholas Sonntag Marine Education Centre, which opened in Gibsons in 2017 and is based on Ucluelet’s example of not only collecting and releasing local specimens, but ensuring interpreters are on hand to explain each specimen as well.

“We’re wowing visitors, we’re inspiring people and people are learning a lot so we’re hitting it out of the park,” Starsage told the Westerly.

“Our social and economic sphere is based on the ocean…There’s a whole universe down there that’s most of the earth and we depend on it to support us as human beings. We depend on it for industry and it’s also just so inspiring. It’s a beautiful, mysterious place. We’re hoping to inspire behaviour change and action, pro-environmental behaviours; things that humans need right now in our world, which is threatened by our own actions.”

Hilary Masson and Megan Osmond-Jones hope to launch an ecological centre with an aquarium component in Gabriola Island and attended the conference to hear ideas.

“We’ve heard so much about people’s successes and failures and heard so much of people’s passion and perseverance to make it happen,” said Osmond-Jones.

Masson added that the centre would offer another attraction for visitors to come enjoy providing spin-off benefits for the local tourism industry.

“There’s lots of ways to do environmental education and to get people’s attention and to interact with either the marine environment or just environmental issues. But, there’s something about being able to touch or see or learn in a way that you leave that interaction that you have at the Ucluelet Aquarium with more than if you’d just walked along a beach,” she said. “You can inspire people in a different way.”

Ucluelet councillor Jennifer Hoar attended a beach seine at Little Beach as part of the conference and told the Westerly it was “wonderful” to see so many people from across the world gather to celebrate the Ucluelet Aquarium’s model.

“The aquarium is a fabulous little amenity in our town,” she said. “It does draw people to the community, but it also teaches about our environment. It teaches what’s out there. People see the sea and they maybe catch a fish or two, but they don’t know about the invertebrates, they don’t know about the ecology and how that ecosystem and the whole web works.

The aquarium is just this wonderful opportunity to teach people what’s under that blue-green water.”

The aquarium’s founder Philip Bruecker told the Westerly he was still coming to terms with the conference’s success and said he felt “overwhelmed” hearing presentations from organizations around the world citing his efforts in Ucluelet as the origins of their inspiration.

“I think it was, in some very vague terms, the original intention of this aquarium that it actually becomes a model for other people to do something similar,” he said. “All of these aquariums are deeply rooted and a part of the ecology, you could say, of the community and the community is the lifeblood that keeps them going.”

He added that communities and visitors are falling in love with the model of collecting specimens, caring for them for a season and then returning them to their ecosystem they came from.

“We all treasure our own personal freedom and I don’t think we like seeing other creatures have their freedom restricted. So, maybe, it’s a gut level reaction to that on an empathetic level,” he said.

Jim Shinkewski of the Pacific Salmon Foundation is the vice president of the Ucluelet Aquarium’s board and said the release model is on the leading edge of an industry shift.

“We need to be cognizant of the public opinion of aquariums, zoos and marine science centres and this is the leading edge of where the industry may move to in the future,” he said.

“People seem to be sensitive to the welfare of animals and the balance of education versus the impact on the animals and the natural populations from which they’re derived and this seems to be a very happy compromise that everyone can live with.”

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Pitmasters James Marinoff, left, and Ronnie Lee show off their special wood fire smoker called ‘Johnny Cash’. Lil’ Ronnie’s Beachside BBQ at Mackenzie Beach Resort is now serving patrons for dinner.

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Does the thought of biting into slow cooked beef brisket or smoked ribs make your mouth water? If that’s a ‘heck yes’, you’ll want to mosey on over to Lil’ Ronnie’s Beachside BBQ. Located in the old lobby at Mackenzie Beach Resort, Lil’ Ronnie’s is smokin’ with flavour and eager to please.

Swing by the counter-service barbeque house Wednesday through Sunday from 5 p.m. to midnight for a feed.

“I think this is going to be something the West Coast has never seen before.”

– Marty Kukler Founded as a co-operative venture by Ronnie Lee and a crew of seven, an outside smoker called ‘Johnny Cash’ greets patrons with a sweet, wood fire aroma upon arrival, while the inside of the restaurant is thoughtfully decorated with ranch-inspired furnishings.

Ronnie and his executive chef James Marinoff, both former under-

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studies to Wolf and the Fog’s chef Nicholas Nutting, said all the meat they serve is cooked on the unique smoker Ronnie bought in Ohio.

“There are no short cuts in cooking real wood fire barbeque,” said Ronnie. “You have to have someone standing at the smoker for 16 hours putting a log on the fire.”

Ronnie said his journey to opening a Texas-style barbeque eatery came about during his first semester of culinary school in Toronto.

“I was sitting at a bar called Cherry Street BBQ when I met the owner Lawrence La Pienta,” Ronnie recalls, adding that La Pienta is a world-re-

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From that day forward, Ronnie has blazed a trail of smoky delights, driving across Canada with ‘Johnny Cash’ to establish his first location in a $200 tent at the back of Schooner Restaurant in 2017. The following summer, Lil’ Ronnie’s relocated to the end of Campbell Street.

“Locals kept us alive,” said Ronnie.

Front of house manager Marty Kukler said he returned to Tofino from Nanaimo to help Ronnie make the new Beachside location at Mackenzie work.

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“I lived on Ronnie’s couch for a month to make it happen.”

Ronnie credited his business partners Matt Lynch, Joey Donnelly, Shannon Richenback, Matthew Oakes, and Jason Werner for helping make a longtime dream come to life.

Renovations on a piano bar and sandwich stop project on the Mackenzie Beach Resort property are also underway. The new venture called ‘The General Store, Provisions & Libations’ is scheduled to open later this spring.

“I think this is going to be something the West Coast has never seen before,” said Kukler.

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After three weeks in operation in the Alberni Valley school district, surveillance cameras have captured the plate numbers of 15 drivers — about one a day — who illegally passed school buses with red lights flashing.

The new multi-purpose surveillance system has been installed on the district’s fleet of seven school buses at a cost of $65,000, which includes external cameras to monitor drivers and internal cameras to monitor student behaviour.

Greg Roe, director of operations for School District 70, said the system serves multiple purposes.

“We’re seeing so many benefits, it’s quite impressive,” Roe said. “Probably the primary benefit is identifying the number of people passing our buses when the red lights are flashing.”

Once digital images are captured, licence plates of violators are provided to the RCMP, who can then impose penalties under the Motor Vehicle Act. Three years ago, the fine for passing a school bus with red lights flashing in B.C. was increased to $368 from $147.

As well, violations bring a penalty of three demerit points on their auto insurance.

A second offence results in a $300 increase in ICBC premiums. After a third offence, that amounts to $640 plus the fine for a total penalty of $1,018.

Registered owners are fined whether or not they were driving at the time of the offence.

School districts receive an annual transportation allowance from the provincial government and trustees decided to invest this year’s sum into the surveillance system, Roe said.

Greg Roe, school district director of operations, shows where one of five interior surveillance cameras have been installed on school buses to improve safety.

“We’re just trying to keep everybody safe.”

– Greg Roe While there have been no recent traffic-related accidents involving school buses in the district, safety is a continual concern. Bus drivers tried to monitor vehicle compliance with the no-passing law, but it was always difficult to obtain plate numbers, Roe said.

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face consequences.Five internal cameras are intended to discourage vandalism, bullying, smoking and other unacceptable behavior aboard buses.

They enable the driver to concentrate fully on driving, improving safety for all.

“It basically gives the driver five eyes to watch the bus. If they see something they can push a button to flag the video.”

The same system is equipped with global positioning system technology for fixing location and can be used to track student movement should it become necessary to confirm the location of a student.

Starting in September, students will be able to use a tap pass to board the buses, another feature tied to the system. Deterrence should help to improve compliance and safety, Roe said. The district hopes that drivers will be more mindful of the law once the message gets out.

“We’re just trying to keep everybody safe,” he said.

Cpl. Amelia Hayden of Port Alberni RCMP said the technology provides police with clear evidence.

She restated the law for those who may be unclear: “It’s illegal for motorists to pass any school bus when it’s stopped with stop signs and flash-

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The danger lies with students boarding and disembarking from the bus. A driver could easily miss seeing a student crossing the road or stepping out from in front of the bus, Hayden said.

“Hopefully this will drive the message home to motorists about the importance and safety of our young people. We’re determined to help keep our students safe,” she added.

“So far we have noticed that several of these infractions have occurred on the bus routes that stop on Mission Road at Hwy. 4 and also along the Johnston Road corridor.”

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Tofino urged to address alcohol problem ANDREW BAILEY andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca

The medical community is urging Tofino’s municipal council to tackle what they say is a serious alcohol problem on the West Coast.

“You cannot overstate the impact of alcohol on the West Coast in terms of medical conditions, social issues and accidents,” said Dr. Carrie Marshall during Tofino’s Feb. 26 regular meeting.

She said the Tofino General Hospital is increasingly providing an informal space for residents to detox from alcohol, but the hospital has no formal policy around that service and nowhere to send residents once that detox is completed.

“Often, over Christmas, we get seven to eight people at a time in the hospital that we are detoxing.

I don’t think there’s a lot of other hospitals in [Island Health’s region] that provide that service. And, even if you’re going to detox someone, there is nowhere to go in the community to continue on with care with that,” she said.

“It just feels like it gets more intense every year. There’s very little services here on the West Coast and it’s very disproportionate to the concern around alcohol.”

Marshall raised her concerns as part of a delegation to council headed by Central Vancouver Island’s Medical Health Officer Dr. Paul Hasselback who presented his annual report on Tofino’s most pressing health issues and encouraged council to address the community’s health concerns.

“You cannot overstate the impact of alcohol on the West Coast in terms of medical conditions, social issues and accidents.”

– Dr. Carrie Marshall

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Tofino’s municipal council is being urged to improve their community’s health by addressing the over-consumption of alcohol.

“Local governments have always been a major contributor to the well-being of the citizens that they serve. Far more so than the formal health system itself and we often forget that,” Hasselback said. “So, never underestimate what your contributions may be.”

He said council has an important role to play in improving their community’s physical, mental and social well-being by addressing determinants, like lack of housing or employment struggles, that lead to risks.

“When we talk about those determinants, those are the things over

which the health system has very little control, but for which local government may be able to establish some foundations,” he said.

“Alcohol consumption remains a significant issue here…I don’t think I can understate for this region—all of Alberni-Clayoquot including the West Coast—the importance of alcohol as an over-contributor to poorer health happening and the challenge I’m going to put out to you is what does an alcohol policy plan look like for this community?”

Coun. Andrea McQuade asked Hasselback for examples around

what municipalities can do regarding alcohol policies.

Hasselback pointed council towards online resources available at www.bchealthycommunities.ca and cited a Nanaimo hockey tournament he hopes will change its serving practices as an example of steps local governments can take towards decreasing liquor service at public events.

“The free flow of alcohol during that hockey tournament for the participants, let alone the people attending, has been part of that culture.

That’s one that perhaps needs to change,” he said. “I’m not going to

say that alcohol shouldn’t be served, but perhaps maybe not as free flowing in the same fashion as it has in the past.”

Hasselback added that local governments are obligated under the Public Health Act to report any health hazards or problems in their community and can invite Hasselback to investigate any concerns they have.

“I must monitor the health of the population and report out on that and I also have to be involved in activities of local agencies, not just local government, in terms of keeping you informed about what is occurring, commenting on policies and changes that you may be undertaking that will affect the health of the population,” he said.

He said council has a responsibility under the Community Charter to consider any potential health impacts of the decisions they make and bylaws they adopt.

“It comes down to that concept of good governance,” he said. “Certainly health needs to be brought into that conversation. It should neither be the driver of your policy decisions, but also it should not be excluded from your policy decisions.”

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AQUARIUM’S OPENING DAY ANDREW BAILEY PHOTOS The Ucluelet Aquarium opened its doors and officially launched its new season on Friday. The unique collect, care for and release facility is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day. Admission was free on opening day and West Coasters have until April 1 to purchase a reduced-rate season’s pass.

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Juno dipped her hand in a touch tank thanks to a lift from her dad Josh.

Bronwynn Bradshaw smiled wide next to the Ucluelet Aquarium’s annual fan favourite octopus tank during Friday’s opening day event.

Sebastian Udell wore a huge grin as he excitedly peeked into the aquarium’s large tide pool exhibit filled with awe-inspiring creatures.

A wide-eyed Rocky Hale was fascinated while checking out the aquarium’s roster of specimens alongside Candice Bone.

Longtime aquarium supporter Geoff Lyons learned about local flora while perusing a rainforest exhibit during the season opener.

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Spill response vessels unloaded in Nanaimo

Three coastal spill response boats unloaded in Nanaimo are becalmed by funding delays.

Western Canada Marine Response Corporation received a shipment of three spill response boats Wednesday, but delays in starting the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will keep the boats from entering service.

The three nearly identical 300-tonne craft, christened Strait Sentinel, Coastal Sentinel and Gulf Sentinel, were built and sea-trialled in Singapore by ASL Shipyards and were hoisted from the deck and hold of the MV Happy Dynamic cargo ship at the Port of Nanaimo’s Assembly Wharf this week.

WCMRC refers to the craft as coastal response vessels, a new class of spill response vessel for the company, designed to work in heavier seas by Vancouver-based naval architecture and marine engineering company, Robert Allan Ltd. “These are coastal response vessels and they are purpose-built boats for the West Coast,” said Michael Lowry, WCMSRC spokesman. “We wanted a boat that could handle the rougher weather out there … These aren’t fast boats. They’ll go about 10 knots, but they’ll get there in any kind of weather.”

But the boats won’t enter into service at their bases in Nanaimo, Beecher Bay near Sooke and Ucluelet, but will be laid up in Nanaimo.

Lowry said construction of the craft was started to coincide with construction of Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which was halted in 2018.

“To meet the initial deadline, at the least the initial deadline, we had to begin the builds and those builds continued even after the announcement came out,” Lowry said. “Actually the boats had already been completed when the announcement came out, so we’ve received delivery, but unfortunately we can‘t bring them into service at the moment because there’s no funding. The funding for those vessels was going to come from the Trans Mountain project … so we’re not bringing them into the fleet. There’s no funds to hire a crew for them to operate them.”

Instead, WCMSRC will put them into a “warm layup” state in which the craft will be stored in Nanaimo and their engines and other systems run occasionally to keep them operational. They will also have to be provisioned and outfitted with the equipment needed to perform their tasks.

“There’ll be a lot of work on them in the next little while,” Lowry said. “They need to be recommissioned to be brought back up to an operating state after the voyage. They need to be outfitted with equipment … so there will be activity on those boats for sure.”

– www.vicnews.com Fire engulfs Salmon Point Restaurant and Pub south of Campbell River The early morning solitude of Salmon Point, 20 km south of Campbell River, was rocked by the sound of sirens this morning as fire engulfed the Salmon Point Restaurant and Pub. Fire broke out before 5 a.m. when firefighters from Oyster River and Campbell River fire departments arrived, area resident Warren Janes said.

“I live on Salmon Point and was woken by the sirens and lights,” Janes said. “Our power was turned off in the area and I walked down after seeing the rising smoke.”

The Salmon Point Restaurant and Pub is a popular location on the shore of Georgia Strait in a rural area south of Campbell River that has been in business since 1982.

Bruce Green, chief of Oyster River Volunteer Fire Rescue, said firefighters responded to an alarm from the pub at about 4:45 a.m.

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The structure was fully involved in the blaze by the time firefighters arrived.

The response involved about 25 firefighters, with two trucks from the Campbell River Fire Department and four from Oyster River, Green said. There were no injuries.

Firefighters were still on-site by about 9 a.m., putting out hot spots. The cause of the fire remained unknown, Green said. He said the building was likely a complete write-off.

– www.campbellrivermirror.com Dog terrorizes senior in her home; kills family cat A Campbell River senior endured a terrorizing incident Thursday when a roving pit bull ran into her house, attacked and killed the family cat before being tossed out by a neighbour.

A second neighbour lassoed the dog to restrain it and while under restraint, it succumbed to strangulation.

It all happened just before 2:30 in the afternoon on Feb. 28 at a Georgia Drive home.

Clayton Norris said he got a frantic phone call from his mother “that a dog was in the house attacking the cat.” Norris, as luck would have it, was just down the street and dashed home.

“I went home and I arrived and there was a whole bunch of neighbours out front. I came around the back of the house there was a whole bunch of neighbours out back and one neighbour had the dog with a lasso, kind of leash, around the dog’s neck,” Norris said.

The dog was on the other side of the fence trying to jump over and attack the guy, Norris said.

Norris then went into the downstairs of the house which was a shambles.

“The furniture was knocked over, there was fur everywhere, blood on the walls. My cat was

laying there with a lifeless body,” Norris said.

He quickly grabbed the cat and took it to a local veterinary hospital, Merecroft Veterinary Clinic, and left the animal with them and returned home.

“When I got home, the dog had passed away. I guess the dog was attacking the guy, like I said, and the dog suffocated,” Norris said.

Campbell River’s animal control contractor, Coastal Animal Control Services, sent an employee to the scene who took statements.

As bad as the scene was, Norris is more alarmed by the risk the dog posed to his mother.

“The worst part is that dog could have attacked my mom. That dog could have killed my mom. My mom’s not a big person,” he said.

The dog didn’t have any tags or licence that anybody noticed.

“No leash nothing, just roaming through the neighbourhood,” Norris said. “We’ve never seen the dog before, we don’t know where it’s from.”

“It was a horrific scene,” Norris said. “It was a really traumatic scene and it could have been a lot worse.”

Norris’ mother, who has requested to remain anonymous, was “extremely shaken up, extremely upset.”

It was traumatic situation, Norris reiterated.

“As far as I’m concerned it’s not really much different than having a bear come in the house.

That would scare a lot of people.”

Neighbours from all over couldn’t at first determine where all the screaming was coming from but they eventually tracked it down. A neighbour from next door ran into the house to help.

At first they couldn’t get the dog out of the house and had to grab it and almost literally threw it out of the house. It was then another neighbour secured the dog with a lasso.

Norris’ mother suffered a bite to her finger during the fracas and the family lost Pookie, their 15-year-old cat.

The family also has a vet bill of $1,300. Coastal Animal Control Services has been contacted for comment.

– www.campbellrivermirror.com

Dead Boat Disposal Society seeks owners of boats abandoned near Oak Bay Marina Two boats aground near the Oak Bay Marina could cause as much damage to the ocean as over 1.7 million plastic straws, says a boat removal expert, and the clock is ticking before the damage is done.

John Roe of the Dead Boat Disposal Society said an abandoned sail boat and trimaran have been marooned for over two weeks and will leak hazardous waste and garbage into the water as they break down.

Images of the cerulean trimaran posted to Facebook show splintered wood and chipped paint, with chunks of material and loose garbage and gloves already pulled from the wreckage.

Roe says waste from one 37-foot sail boat is equal to approximately 880,000 plastic straws dumped into the ocean.

“The amount of contaminants in these things are staggering,” Roe said.

“There’s garbage in them, and then all the paints…these old boats have lead in them and mercury, zinc [and] copper.”

It’s all the same kind of materials you would find in a normal house, Roe added, but in some ways worse, because higher-grade chemicals were used for marine vessels.

“It’s like everyone in Victoria going down and throwing out a straw every week,” said Roe. The Dead Boat Disposal Society works with Transport Canada to remove derelict boats off of B.C. coast lines at no cost to owners. Most of the society’s work is around Vancouver Island and in the Capitol Regional District (CRD).

So far, Roe said they’ve removed 36 boats from shorelines in two years.. Now Roe is seeking the owner of the boats, hoping to streamline the removal process.

If they can’t identify the owner of an abandoned boat, Roe said the society has to issue a 30-day notice and go through Transport Canada to make an application for removal.

In total, the process can take up to 100 days, all while the boats continue to break down in the water.

– www.oakbaynews.com

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TAURUS – Apr 21/May 21 Others seem to be feeding you information on a need-to-know basis. This may be frustrating, Taurus. But a little extra patience is required for the time being.

GEMINI – May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, the need to delegate will present itself throughout the week. Don’t take on more than you can handle. Trust that those around you are up to the task.

CANCER – Jun 22/Jul 22 The image that you project can be much more important than the work you actually do, Cancer. Have a good public relations team in your corner.

LEO – Jul 23/Aug 23 The good will you demonstrate will come around in time, Leo. Continue to be generous and help others whenever possible. Karma is on your side.

VIRGO – Aug 24/Sept 22 It is not easy to admit when you are wrong, Virgo. When the need to do so arises, be gracious and offer your apologies in a heartfelt way that will resonate with others.

LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, support is a two-way street. If you boost the confidence of a friend or loved one, in return he or she may help you in big ways. Work as a team to foster communication.

SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22 Take a step back from the rush and pressure that has surrounded you lately, Scorpio. You can use the rest to clear your mind. This break will help you tackle new things.

SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21 Sagittarius, you may be eager to step into a new job right when another is finished.

While this can be good for productivity, make sure you avoid burnout.

CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, sometimes you are acutely aware of details that others readily miss.

This trait comes in handy when you are asked to advise others.

AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18 It is important to be self-aware of the way you communicate with others, Aquarius.

Pushing too hard might shut some people off. Adjust your approach accordingly.

PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20 Psychic feelings are pronounced this week, Pisces. Try to hone in on what these sensations are attempting to tell you.

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Ucluelet. hosted by Wild Pacific Trail Society.

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5:30-7:30pm at the UCC. Thursday, March 7. 5:307:30pm in Hitacu. The Project Team will speak about the status of the project and answer questions.

SURFRIDER MONTHLY MEET UP, Wednesday, March 6. 6:30-830pm at the Tofino Botanical Gardens.

Find out how you can get involved in making positive change on the coast. Snacks and refreshments will be provided, event is free, and everyone is welcome!

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY, Friday, March 8. Free workshops at the UCC from 9am-4pm.

Please join Westcoast Community Resources Society to acknowledge & celebrate International Women’s Day with Professor Leah Shumka. Info and registration: 250-726-5104.

MOVIE NIGHT, Monday, March 11. Doors at 7:15pm, show at 8 in the Clayoquot Theatre.Oscar winning ’Green Book’. A workingclass Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. Tix $8.

VISITING MUSEUM EXHIBITS, Vargas Island ranchers at home and at war & British Columbia’s War of 1914–1918. On until May in the Tofino Clayoquot Heritage Musuem. Hours: Sat & Sun 12:30-4 p.m. By donation.

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KARAOKE AT THE LEGION, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Tofino Legion.

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

DARTS, Fridays, 7pm.

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DROP-IN DARTS / INDUSTRY NIGHT, Mondays, 7:30pm at the ANAF in Ucluelet.

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

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Proposed Temporary Use Permit TUP18019 – 70 SUTTON ROAD, PORT ALBION SCOTT & MICHELLE MACDONALD, PROPERTY OWNERS Public Notice is hereby given that the Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot will consider issuing a Temporary Use Permit at the Board of Directors Meeting to be held on Wednesday, March 13, 2019 starting at 1:30 pm in the Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot office, located at 3008 Fifth Avenue, Port Alberni BC.

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MARCH 8 ArtSplash Opening Black Rock Oceanfront Resort is hosting the largest non-juried Annual Art Show on the West Coast, featuring Pacific Rim Art Society members from the West Coast to Alberta. With so many styles and mediums to choose from, it is harder than you think to pick a favourite.

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ST. COLUMBA CHURCH Sundays, 10:30am.

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

TOFINO BIBLE FELLOWSHIP Sundays, 10:30am. Tofino Legion.

CHRIST COMMUNITY CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL, Sundays, 10:30 am. 1419 Peninsula Rd, Ucluelet.

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

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The proposed permit will allow for the operation of a short-term vacation rental within a portion of the home located at 70 Sutton Road, Port Albion. The subject property is legally described as LOT 3, SECTION 18, CLAYOQUOT DISTRICT, PLAN VIP57050.

A copy of the proposed Temporary Use Permit and supporting documents may be inspected at the Regional District of Alberni-Clayoquot office during normal office hours, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday, from February 28, 2019 to March 12, 2019 inclusive.

Any correspondence submitted should be directed to the undersigned by 4:30 pm on Tuesday, March 12, 2019.

Alternatively, if you wish to present your views to the Board in person, arrangements to do so may be made by contacting Wendy Thomson, Manager of Administrative Services, by 4:30 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2019.

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