The Westerly News | Page 15
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Big fish! Ukee Salmon Ladder Derby wraps it up for the year Special to the Westerly News Thousands of dollars of prizes, hundreds of tourism hotel nights and many smiles later, the Ukee Salmon Ladder Derby is done for 2013. On Saturday, Brett Thomas, right, and his 33lb 07oz salmon, fishing with Big Bear Charters, took home almost $10,000 in prizes, including $6,000 in cash and goodies from Graham Myhers Sportfishing, Mark Penney Gallery, Orca Air, Water’s Edge and Budget Rent a Car. Second and third place winners got cash plus goodies from Barry’s and Gray Whale Deli. Hidden Weight contenders Jason Corlazzoli and Pete Ashbee got gift certificates from The Place. Contributors Saturday included Columbia Fuel.
Clayoquot Biosphere Trust seeks new ways to engage youth a meeting held at the UclueWesterly News let community centre last The Clayoquot Biosphere month. Trust is meeting with The trust receives applicavarious youth tions for youth throughout the programs during region to deterits annual grantmine the kinds ing but with no of opportunities youth sitting local kids want to on the CBT’s get involved in. committees or “The Clayoquot boards, it’s hard Biosphere Trust to know whether has an interest in these programs looking at ways are having an LIAM EADY where they can impact, accordsupport the youth ing to DeWitt. programming that’s hap“We’ve been looking at pening in the area better,” different ways to engage Marcie DeWitt told youth at youth to determine the best ANDREW BAILEY
options for engaging them,” she said. “To find out what they want and how to support that.” The Trust’s summer interpreter Liam Eady facilitated the conversation. “One of the goals for tonight is to basically make sure the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust is doing its best to engage the youth,” he said. He said the trust has talked to experts and attended conferences like the Community Foundations of Canada’s national conference in Winnipeg this past July, but the one thing
Local company victim of bold daylight theft in Tofino Westerly News Public assistance is being sought to find the thief or thieves who packed four cedar garbage enclosures onto a truck and drove off around 4 p.m. on August 27. The enclosures belonged to Tofino Vacation Rentals (TVR) and were crafted by a local contractor who dropped them off outside the company’s Campbell Street office just a few days prior to the theft. Two larger enclosures cost about $107 each and the other two cost about $87 each leaving the company $434 down, according to TVR president Leah McDiarmid. Because of their size, McDiarmid believes the enclosures had to have been loaded onto a truck and is hoping someone saw who took them or where they landed. Cpl. Andrew Waddell of the Tofino RCMP detachment says an investigation into the theft is ongoing and he encourages anyone with information to call 250-725-3242.
missing is direct input from local youth. The meeting’s participants identified outdoor adventures as something they would like to see more of. It was suggested that West Coast youth often overlook their natural surroundings and providing outdoor-education opportunities could bring these surroundings back into their sightlines. Mentoring programs between older and younger youth and workshops where local trades people could offer youth hands on learning opportunities were identified as programs that
could be successful. In terms of spreading word about a program or event, putting up posters around town was slammed as being an ineffective strategy because youth rarely pay attention to these posters. Social media outlets were identified as solid promotional tools. Publishing a youth column in the Westerly News was suggested as was hosting a radio show on Long Beach Radio. The youth gave serious interest to developing a youth committee comprised of representatives from all
eight West Coast communities. This was seen as an effective method to connect the communities and keep them connected. It was suggested that the reps could meet once a month with the location of the meetings cycling through each community. This was seen as way to connect the communities and keep them connected and DeWitt said the CBT could look into covering transportation costs. reporter@westerlynews.ca
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