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Robyn Budd C O M M U N I C A T I O N D E S I G N
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Designing a brochure that stands out in a sea of brochures is a fine challenge. Here I used an almost-full-frame professional photo for
the cover shot, supported by a gridded collage of location shots taken point-and-shoot style. Rumour has it the combination is working!
1We need to Work
together to develop a
vision for our North
Island communities
which embraces
environmental,
economic and
social health. It’s
for our future and
our communities’
future.
CLAIRE TREVENA
campbell river office
908 Island Highway
Campbell River, BC V9W 2C3
hours
Monday through Thursday
10 am – 12:30 pm
1:30 pm – 3 pm
phone 250-287-5100
toll free 1-866-387-5100
fax 250-287-5105
email [email protected]
Web www.clairetrevena.ca
ClaireTrevena
MLAcontact
north Island
Making sure the
concerns and issues
of the North Island
are heard in the
BC Legislature
ClaireTrevena MLA
north Island
as your mla it is a privileGe to take
your concerns to Victoria; I am committed
to ensuring that all residents of the North
Island are heard and are represented in
our Legislature. And when I’m in Victoria I
have a great staff team in the constituency
ready to help you with your questions.PRINTed By RH PRINTINg oN 100% ReCyCLed PAPeR desIgNed By FLyINgdogz CReATIVe
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We need to Work
together to develop a
vision for our North
Island communities
which embraces
environmental,
economic and
social health. It’s
for our future and
our communities’
future.
CLAIRE TREVENA
campbell river office908 Island HighwayCampbell River, BC V9W 2C3
hoursMonday through Thursday10 am – 12:30 pm1:30 pm – 3 pm
phone 250-287-5100toll free 1-866-387-5100fax 250-287-5105
email [email protected] www.clairetrevena.ca
ClaireTrevena MLA
contact
north Island
Making sure the
concerns and issues
of the North Island
are heard in the
BC Legislature
ClaireTrevena MLAnorth Island
as your mla it is a privileGe to takeyour concerns to Victoria; I am committed to ensuring that all residents of the North Island are heard and are represented in our Legislature. And when I’m in Victoria I have a great staff team in the constituency ready to help you with your questions.
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A good educ Ation system provides opportunity and keeps our communities vibrant. It attracts fami-lies and encourages them to stay – and that is vital for
economic regeneration.But School Boards 72, 84 and
85 have to deal with the govern-ment funding formula that’s based on the number of students in a district. So rural schools inevitably get less because they have fewer students. In addition, the government has downloaded a variety of costs on school boards meaning even less money goes into the classroom.
We must change the funding formula to make sure students who live in the North Island get equal-ity of opportunity from the day they start school until the day they graduate.
Educationclosed emergency rooms, cancelled surgeries and the continuing debate about building our new re-gional hospital in Campbell River increase the vul-
nerability of North Islanders. That’s why I continue to fight for our new hospital – and call
for it to be a publicly funded building. It’s why I’m insisting the government make keeping emergency rooms open a top priority. It’s why we have to look at different ways of providing care in rural communi-ties, such as home support and nurse practitioners.
Health care
It’s a pleasure to work for everyone in the North Island to build communities in which wewant to live, work and raise our families. Young or old, unemployed or working, everyone has
a contribution to make to our society;and I’m always willing to listen.
our forests Are the bAckbone of the North Is-land. Our communities depend on them: we hike, camp and hunt in them; we kayak through their
magnificence; and, we harvest them. They are our environmental core and a central economic resource.
This is why we need to have a comprehensive plan for our forest land base that accommodates these different needs. We must ensure we use and develop these largely crown lands in the best inter-
est of our communities.This means examining
tenure to bring local control to communities, not just cor-porations. It means ensuring harvesting and manufacturing are linked. It means realizing that sometimes more value can be earned by leaving trees standing than logging them.
We need to embrace a vision which will allow our forests to sustain us and the many genera-tions that follow us.
thousAnds of people l ive and work in ferry de-pendent communities. Like people living elsewhere
in BC, they should be able to travel without having to pay massive tolls.
Ferries are part of our highway system. They are vital for the health, welfare and economic well-being of many North Island com-munities. It’s past time that BC Ferries – and the government – recognize that fact; and instead of gouging ferry users, concentrate on ensuring our Island communities stay viable.
Forests
Ferries
Robyn Budd C O M M U N I C A T I O N D E S I G N
Print media 2
E very so often it’s smart to
switch formats, even if things are working! Here the classic three panel brochure gets a makeover to a friendlier double sided newsletter, folding downfrom the topaccordion style.
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It Is unfortunate when ne-gotiations do not work or are
abandoned, resulting in a strike
or lockout. I visited with the 14
members of CEP1123 at their
picket line outside the Island Generation plant. They were
locked out during negotiations.Workers have rights and em-
ployers have obligations; both
should be respected.
CLAIRE TREVENA MLA Report from North Island
I’ve been talking with forest companies, with workers and
with communities about how
we can get and maintain a balance: we need people out
harvesting, but we also need manufacturing. And we need
to come to a common under-standing about what we are
talking about when we cite sustainable logging.
BC roads and ferries essential for
North Islanders’ prosperity
“I’m looking forward togetting back to the Legis-
lature in February so I can represent the interests of
people across the North Island. Your voice has been
silenced since the govern-ment snubbed democracy
and refused to reconvene since May; it will be heard
strongly again in the spring session.”
I was honoured to be able to
present four of the Queen’s Di-
amond Jubilee Medals to North
Islanders at the end of the year.
I asked an independent panel
to nominate the four recipients
and was pleased to celebrate
the day with them at both Campbell River Museum and at
U’Mista in Alert Bay.
Celebrating theQueen’s DiamondJubilee
On the front lines
top right Locked out workers Gerry
Cummings and Steve Harrington speak
with Claire at the Island Generation plant
top centre Claire speaking at the
Quadra Island Ferry Consultation meeting
(picture courtesy of Brian Kieran of the
Campbell River Mirror) centre LeFt Claire at Rose Harbour with
Shelly Kernovich, Robin Geary, Ellen Latta,
Bonnie McGill, Valery Puetz, Travis Brown,
Pat Grono, Melanie Towle, and Jodi Grundle
LoWer LeFt Claire with Cst. Tae Kim and
medalists Chief Robert Joseph and Jacquie
Gordon at the Campbell River Museum
highways – be they marine, gravel or paved – keep our North
Island communities connected. I have been talking with people
across the constituency about that crumbling infrastructure. Meet-
ings to discuss the future of ferries
were overflowing and the echoing
comment I heard was that the sys-
tem should be integrated into our
public highways. And at meetings in
Tahsis and Zeballos it was continu-
ally repeated that their economic
development depends on improved
roads. Safety on Highways 19, 28
and 30 is essential – that’s why I’m
regularly talking with the Ministry
about upgrades and work needed.
Forests: the mainstay of BC’seconomy
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designed by Flyingdogz Creative
Rose Harbour plansfor a spring opening
I went to the Celebration at Rose Har-
bour, the new second stage housing
project for women in Campbell River.
When this opens in the spring it will be
an invaluable addition to the com-
munity, providing safe and supportive
accommodation.
sReport from
CLAIRE Trevena MLA North Island
One Of the real pleasures Of being the Mla for the North
Island is the opportunity to
get out into the constituency
to meet with individuals and
organizations. It’s a chance
to talk about what’s working
and what is needed, to work
together to find solutions.
North Islanders say ‘No’ tooil tankers on our coast
above Claire with Lesley Mathews (left) and Lynn and Joanne Conall in Campbell River left At the Vancouver Island North
Teachers’ Association office in Port Hardy with AmandaKiatipis, Sean Barfoot, Claire, Tiffany Baur, and Lani Siminoff
the MOMentuM against the nOrthern gateway pipeline and maintaining the moratorium on tanker traffic off our coast is continuing. I was very pleased to attend the rally outside the Legislature in the autumn and saw many people who made the trip down from the North Island. And it was great to
have such a big turnout to the rally just two days later at my office in Campbell River. Our environment critic Rob Fleming also came here to talk about the problems with the Enbridge project. We need to protect our environment, to respect First Nations and have the courage to stand up to the federal government on issues that significantly impact our province.
i have been talking educatiOn with teachers, supervisors, parents and educators. I’ve been visiting both elementary and high schools around the North Island and have had the pleasure of talking with students in class. Ensuring equality of access to education is paramount for the health of our society now and in the future. That means we should be investing in our kids before they go to school through high quality public early care and learning programmes and, where needed, early intervention. It means enabling teachers to focus on teaching by providing real classroom support to ensure real integration of all our kids in the classroom. It means improving ways to get young people to move into training and post second-ary so they can learn the skills they want and we need.
Access to education at all levels
a cOntinued cOncern is the public private partnership model un-der which VIHA is de-termined to construct the new hospital. This means a private consor-tium will design it, build it, and then maintain it for 30 years. The province will get the maintenance respon-sibility just when the building starts to age significantly.
healthcare is part of our social infrastructure. That’s why the stakeholders’ group I convene
Healthcare in BC: public or private?
caMpbell river Office908 Island Highway
Campbell River, BC V9W 2C3phOne 250-287-5100
tOll free 1-866-387-5100fax 250-287-5105
pOrt hardy OfficeRoom 7, Robert Scott School
6855 Market StreetPort Hardy, BC V0N 2P0
phOne 250-949-9473fax 250-949-9403
www.clairetrevena.ca
has also been raising concerns about being short changed on the number of beds planned for the new hospital. Port Hardy Hospital is a serious concern; I keep questioning the Health Minister about the continued closure of its emergency ward.
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Creating print promotion for artists is high on mydesigner bucket list. Here’s a fold-out rack card (the
postcard tear-off was requested by the artist) forVancouver Island painter Leanne Hodges.
Echolocation© Leanne Hodges / West Coast Wildwww.leannehodges.com
You’re invited to use this image as a postcard,a bookmark, or just to keep on your fridge.Come and explore Quadra Island!
WEST COAST WILD is the studio of artist LEANNE HODGES.
A painter and naturalist living on Quadra Island in the Salish
Sea, Leanne’s passion for the BC coast is the common thread
running through two decades of artmaking and advocacy.
Interweaving narratives of wildlife, indigenous cultures,
and our ecological footprint, Leanne’s art celebrates both the
creative experience and the abundant diversity of life on the
inner south coast.
To help protect this natural environment, Leanne dedicates
10% of selected art sales to stewardship initiatives.
WEST COAST WILD STUDIO & GALLERY • DRAWINGS • PAINTINGS •
MIXED MEDIA • CARDS • PRINTS • MURALS • COMMISSIONS
WEST COAST WILD • 741 West Road, Quadra Island • 250-285-3152
Echolocation© Leanne Hodges / West Coast Wildwww.leannehodges.com
You’re invited to use this image as a postcard,a bookmark, or just to keep on your fridge.Come and explore Quadra Island!
WEST COAST WILD is the studio of artist LEANNE HODGES.
A painter and naturalist living on Quadra Island in the Salish
Sea, Leanne’s passion for the BC coast is the common thread
running through two decades of artmaking and advocacy.
Interweaving narratives of wildlife, indigenous cultures,
and our ecological footprint, Leanne’s art celebrates both the
creative experience and the abundant diversity of life on the
inner south coast.
To help protect this natural environment, Leanne dedicates
10% of selected art sales to stewardship initiatives.
WEST COAST WILD STUDIO & GALLERY • DRAWINGS • PAINTINGS •
MIXED MEDIA • CARDS • PRINTS • MURALS • COMMISSIONS
WEST COAST WILD • 741 West Road, Quadra Island • 250-285-3152
Studio & Gallery741 West Road, Quadra Island Tuesdays through Sundays 250.285.3152 www.leannehodges.com
leanne hodges
westcoastwild
Echolocation Deep within the sea exist places we rarely
witness, swathed in an energy dance of watery blues
and greens. Echolocation is about the use of sonar and
how its energy flows around orca and salmon alike.
leanne hodges
westcoastwild
address
stamp
fold
fold
Echolocation© Leanne Hodges / West Coast Wildwww.leannehodges.com
You’re invited to use this image as a postcard,a bookmark, or just to keep on your fridge.Come and explore Quadra Island!
WEST COAST WILD is the studio of artist LEANNE HODGES.
A painter and naturalist living on Quadra Island in the Salish
Sea, Leanne’s passion for the BC coast is the common thread
running through two decades of artmaking and advocacy.
Interweaving narratives of wildlife, indigenous cultures,
and our ecological footprint, Leanne’s art celebrates both the
creative experience and the abundant diversity of life on the
inner south coast.
To help protect this natural environment, Leanne dedicates
10% of selected art sales to stewardship initiatives.
WEST COAST WILD STUDIO & GALLERY • DRAWINGS • PAINTINGS •
MIXED MEDIA • CARDS • PRINTS • MURALS • COMMISSIONS
WEST COAST WILD • 741 West Road, Quadra Island • 250-285-3152
Studio & Gallery741 West Road, Quadra Island Tuesdays through Sundays
250.285.3152 www.leannehodges.com
leanne hodges
westcoastwild
Echolocation Deep within the sea exist places we rarely witness, swathed in an energy dance of watery blues and greens. Echolocation is about the use of sonar and how its energy flows around orca and salmon alike.
leanne hodges
westcoastwild
address
stamp
fold
fold
Muse-ical Rooster (private commission)© Leanne Hodges / West Coast Wildwww.leannehodges.com
You’re invited to use this image as a postcard,a bookmark, or just to keep on your fridge.Come and explore Quadra Island!
WEST COAST WILD is the studio of artist LEANNE HODGES.
A painter and naturalist living on Quadra Island in the Salish
Sea, Leanne’s passion for the BC coast is the common thread
running through two decades of artmaking and advocacy.
Interweaving narratives of wildlife, indigenous cultures,
and our ecological footprint, Leanne’s art celebrates both the
creative experience and the abundant diversity of life on the
inner south coast.
To help protect this natural environment, Leanne dedicates
10% of selected art sales to stewardship initiatives.
WEST COAST WILD STUDIO & GALLERY • DRAWINGS • PAINTINGS
• MIXED MEDIA • CARDS • PRINTS • MURALS • COMMISSIONS
WEST COAST WILD • 741 West Road, Quadra Island • 250-285-3152
Summer Chum (private collection)© Leanne Hodges / West Coast Wildwww.leannehodges.com
You’re invited to use this image as a postcard,a bookmark, or just to keep on your fridge.Come and explore Quadra Island!
WEST COAST WILD is the studio of artist LEANNE HODGES.
A painter and naturalist living on Quadra Island in the Salish
Sea, Leanne’s passion for the BC coast is the common thread
running through two decades of artmaking and advocacy.
Interweaving narratives of wildlife, indigenous cultures,
and our ecological footprint, Leanne’s art celebrates both the
creative experience and the abundant diversity of life on the
inner south coast.
To help protect this natural environment, Leanne dedicates
10% of selected art sales to stewardship initiatives.
WEST COAST WILD STUDIO & GALLERY • DRAWINGS • PAINTINGS •
MIXED MEDIA • CARDS • PRINTS • MURALS • COMMISSIONS
WEST COAST WILD • 741 West Road, Quadra Island • 250-285-3152
Robyn Budd C O M M U N I C A T I O N D E S I G N
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Summer 2011: I teamed up with Denis Thievin
and published ten issues of The Gumboot Press, a twice-monthly pilot newspaper on the creative culture of Quadra Island. I developed the project’s content, visuals, ads, and promotion. Right: A few covers I especially like.... Next panel: Some inside stories.
4the pressgumbootvolume 1 issue 4
15 july 2011
‘Littlecamels’
thrive on the heights
of Quadra
Bringing what’s new on Q to you! distriButed free wherever people gather on Quadra and Beyond
alpacas were cherished
in incan culture, providing
food, fuel, clothing – and
were no doubt the go-to
guides for living well at
high altitudes
Quito (left) and Cuzco look as regal as chessmen as they perch atop their rocky bluff. Tucking themselves into a tidy package, they like to periscope 360° over their terrain. When you’re low on the food chain, everything depends on a good vantage point!
volume 1 issue 4 the gumboot press • page 115 july 2011
LittLe cameLs – that's how the span-ish explorer Cortez described the
highland animals he encountered when he trekked about in Peru. He wasn’t far wrong: alpacas and llamas are indeed members of the Fam-ily Camelid, even though they’re too small to land a job as human-bearing porters like their cousins who cruise the deserts. Skilled in the art of liv-ing at altitude, alpacas and their kind have proven themselves adaptable to a variety of habitats very different and far removed from their native South American domain.
Take Quadra Island, for instance. Our highest point of land tops out significantly shy of four digits if you measure topography in metres. What we lack in vertical height, however, we more than make up for in geog-raphy. Our rocky coastal bluff ecosys-tem boasts some pretty desirable real estate from an alpaca’s point of view.
Which works out well for two island residents of the four-legged ungulate variety. Cuzco and Quito,
five-year old alpacas who hail from a breeder on Vancouver Island, have been living in the company of Tom-my and Vibeke Pedersen most of their lives, and like many Quadra im-ports consider the island a rare find indeed.
Most days you’ll find them doing what their globe-trotting counter-parts do the world over: they graze, cavort, hum because they’re happy, neck wrestle each other for fun, and screech down any would-be predators perceived as threatening their domes-
tic wellbeing. Dogs, wolves, and bears may all be treated to an authoritative display of braying, kicking, and oc-casional spitting, although the latter seems more reserved for mano-a-ma-no disputes in the camelid zeitgeist.
A footnote on this penchant for spitting: while alpaca spit is tradition-ally a mix of a little saliva atomized by a lot of hot air, the settling of more serious matters brings up (yes, truly) stomach acids and processed food,
creating a noxious green projectile that garners results. Fast.
Although spitting is a well-aimed show stopper, it’s really not the thing for which alpacas want to be, or should be, renowned. Originally bred for their fibre (and for their meat – shhhh), alpacas have a lus-trous and silky fleece that bears some resemblance to sheep’s wool. But its differences are what makes it valu-able: it’s warmer than wool, it’s not prickly, and because it has no lanolin it’s hypoallergenic. It also comes in
a variety of colours from cream and white to many shades of brown, and of course black.
What’s under the fleece, however, is what makes Quito and Cuzco most valuable to their human friends. They’re sweet-tempered, inquisitive animals, responsive to people, patient with children, and they have a playful sense of humour.
Vibeke tells a story of the alpacas’ early days on Quadra: She put water in a five gallon bucket for the pair, and saw Cuzco wander over to inves-tigate. He sniffed, dunked his muz-zle, than inserted a foot and tipped the bucket. Vibeke refilled it. Out of the corner of her eye she watched him approach the refilled bucket and spill the contents again. She filled the bucket a third time. Cuzco knocked it over in short order and jumped around in the resulting muddy pool.
Vibeke got it. Thirst wasn’t the is-sue. Play was the issue. So she set up a lawn sprinkler and immediately Cuzco and Quito did what kids ev-erywhere do on a summer day. They ran through the jets of water over and over, splashing and playing. No doubt there was a happy hum in the air.
When Vibeke and Tommy first brought Cuzco and Quito to their small island farm, they envisioned the alpacas mingling with the exist-
ing flock of sheep. But the newcom-ers couldn’t relate. They were quite dismayed at the sight of these fellow wool-bearers, and it quickly became apparent that parallel lives would have to be led.
So Cuzco and Quito have their own fenced meadows and bluffs adja-cent to the sheep pasture, where they keep watch over the farmstead. Says Vibeke, “We don’t really ‘do’ much with them. We just love them and enjoy them.”
It looks mutual. Cuzco and Quito exude what looks like deep content-ment and affection, if one reads the depths of those liquid eyes (with the enviably long lashes) the way Vibeke and Tommy do.
The alpacas have clearly made a mark on their human friends – and on the farm itself. Last year Vibeke saw them digging away at a patch of field grass below their bluff, and con-jectured they were relocating the loo. When the excavation was complete, an area a few metres side to side was devoid of ground cover.
A higher purpose soon became clear as Vibeke saw both alpacas in turn throw themselves into the pit and roll on their backs, hoofs in the air, and kick up a storm of dust. It was bathing, alpaca style: dirt in the summer, mud when the rains came.
And for the humans in the group, it was one more chapter in living with alpacas in the new world on Quadra.
Cuzco &Quito: field notes
Haircuts Their body hair grows faster than their neck and leg hair, so C & Q are shorn in two stages a year apart. Shearing is done in July to leave time for their winter coats to grow in.NeigHbours Cowbirds like to catch a ride on sheep, but they steer clear of the alpacas. skip to tHe loo The alpacas are fastidious in their personal hygiene, creating a small communal poo zone in a corner of their field.aNd speakiNg of poo Alpaca pellets reduce quickly to coffee ground con-sistency and are great for the roses!makiNg babies Alpacas know how. Females ovulate in the presence of an interested suitor, and the baby ‘kria’ (translated as ‘a living being’) is born some 345 days after mom and dad hook up. C & Q aren’t des-tined for daddyhood, however.
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gear – at Discovery Islands Lodge in Surge Narrows.
volume 1 issue 8
the gumboot press • page 1
9 september 2011
story continues on page 2
National Geographic goes to Bute
There’s no saying no when an epic mountain calls
revered Base jumper, free climber and slack-
liner Dean potter summit-ed the northwest face of
Bute – then jumped off
story continues on page 6
Brent Swain: Origami boat manWhere the metal meets the math
9 sep 2011vol 1 issue 8
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Bringing what’s new on Q to you! DistriButeD free wherever people gather on QuaDra anD BeyonD
O n august 19 a team Of fOur climbers
and five videographers made
Quadra Island’s Discovery Islands
Lodge their stage for a major expe-
dition to Bute Inlet. One of the ad-
venturers was the legendary Ameri-
can climber and BASE jumper Dean
Potter. The group’s objective was to film
the first free ascent of the 7000 foot
west face of Mt Bute which towers
9200 feet over the head of the inlet.
The film will be produced by National
Geographic and aired on NGTV in
December of this year.The team chartered the Cortes
Island vessel Misty Isles and skip-
per Michael Moore to take them on
the 10-hour voyage up Bute Inlet to
Homathko Camp. A mountain of
gear was piled on the Lodge’s dock and float, to be shipped to camp that day by wa-ter taxi – along with additional crew, some Coast Mountain Expe-ditions staff, and Frances Stoakley, a young climber from England who was staying at the lodge. “We thought she was just going up for the day,” said owner/operator Ralph
Keller, “but she was gone for a week!
She was so captivated by the beauty of
Bute and energy of the group that she
found a way to stay on and help out!”
Pouring rains at Bute delayed the
expedition start, and wet rock pre-
vented them climbing the lower wall
of the face. But when the weather
cleared four climbers embarked on a
fast, free, and technically difficult first
ascent: a 2400 foot new route of very
high quality on the upper part of the
face. After reaching the summit, Pot-
ter – clad in a wing suit – jumped off
the top of the mountain and glided
like a flying squirrel, landing three
minutes later in a meadow valley
7000 feet below.The film crew captured every detail
of the climb and Potter’s flight, in all
its physical, psychological, and emo-
tional intensity. The setting supplied
its own drama: the deep wilderness of
Bute Inlet, the Homathko Valley, and
Mt Waddington’s massif are the very
heart of BC’s Coast Mountain Range.
Dean Potter, who is one of the
world’s best climbers, lays claim to
numerous fast, free, and solo first
ascents in Yosemite and abroad – in-
cluding a climb and jump off the Ei-
ger north face in Switzerland. He said
the Bute climb was one of the finest
he had ever done – possibly one of the
best alpine rock climbs in the world –
thanks to the daredevil photography
of climbing partner Beat Kammerlander
(and a 5lb parachute), Dean Potter’s ex-
ploits on the world’s craziest verticals
have become visual legends. above Potter leaps from the summit of
the Eiger in Switzerland (3960m) in a test
of his ‘freeBasing’ technique – a combi-
nation of free climbing and BASE jump-
ing. BASE jumping is an acronym for the
fixed objects from which jumps are made:
buildings, antennas, spans (bridges), and
earth (cliffs).
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Y ou needn’t look far to find a local
boy with a global reputation.
Google his name or the ideas that
have made him iconic in the world of
boat design, and you’ll get hundreds
of hits for Brent Swain.I first met Swain nearly 30 years
ago when I was studying in Vancouver
and very interested in building a steel
sailboat. His frameless designs were
already popular for the audacious ap-
proach they brought to the world of
yachting for builders concerned with
strength and maintenance problems
infamously attached to wood and fi-
breglass as materials.
Located at the south end of the Homathko Icefield, Mt Bute boasts a mighty west
face of sheer granite. An easier route climbs the lower angled east side.
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Much as I would have liked, I never
had the chance to start on my own
sailboat in those years. I should also
mention that even though I’d bought
a set of his plans, Swain’s principles
were so unique that I may have been
a little uncomfortable trusting they
would stand the test of time. Now
zoom forward three decades.Today it’s obvious that any hesita-
tion was silly. Today you’ll find Brent
Swain’s vessels in many corners of the
globe. His designs, and often his la-
bour, have been the basis for so many
boats that he’s lost count – more than Brent Swain stands amidships – in a manner of speaking. His frameless ‘origami’
boats put a different spin on building yachts out of sheets of steel.
PHOT
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ent Sw
ain
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F ine takeaway from The Gumboot newspaper: Working with text and design in tandem is a great skills blend – one stop shopping meets streamlined budgets! Here are some inside pages from The ‘Boot.
Q uadra islanders are fond, I’ve no-ticed, of attaching numbers to
meaningful island events. The 14th Annual Beach Clean-Up. The 20th Quilt and Garden Tour. The three hundredth May Day Parade at the Spit.... (What, only 114? I stand corrected.)
So here we are on the eve of the Ninth Annual Studio Tour, a mile-stone indeed for the intrepid art afi-cionados who dreamed up the idea back in 2002. It began with Susan Wilson and the Discovery Island Chamber of Commerce – which, being savvy and living large as Chambers of Commerce are wont to do – approached local artists with a proposal of hosting an island-wide studio tour.
Apparently they were just waiting to be asked. Susan Westren, Barb Wager, Chris Rose, Dwayne Sime-
on, and Martha and Gordon James jumped onboard in a heartbeat.
They must’ve mobilized fast. The first official Studio Tour saw 30 artists participating, about half of them showing at the Com-munity Centre, the others opening their studio doors to visitors. Over the years more and more artists chose the open-studio approach, but the Community Centre exhibi-
tors remained a focal draw.It seems there was buzz in the
air from day one. Posters and fly-ers were made – we’re talking art-ists, remember – and Chris Rose took on the herculean task of cre-ating quadraislandarts.com that gave each one a vignette and
thumbnails of their work. By June 2002 Quadra Island art-ists were on the map – literally – as potter Barb Wager trotted out latent cartography skills and gave everyone a
name, a place, and a number. Nine years later, the Studio Art
Tour is an event around which many people on the island plan their lives. (Well, okay, if you’re an island artist, that is.) But come June
4 and 5, ferry line-ups will attest to the interest of many who think this event should not be missed.
This year there are 35 artists par-ticipating, and the work on display covers some far-reaching territory. Island potters are well represented, with everything from functional
ware to whimsy and all stops in be-tween. Visual artists cover a range of media from printmaking and graphite to acrylics, oils, and pho-tography. For art in three dimen-sions you can take in blown glass and stained glass, fabric art and jew-ellery. Northwest coast native carv-ing, and works in bronze, stone, and metal are displayed in several studio locations. And you’re not done till you’ve seen Naked bicycles and Rich guitars, and sampled a cool glass of Ortega at Quadra’s very own vine-yard... all in the name of art.
There was buzz in
the air from day one.
Nine years in, new
artists have joined
the tour, and the
crowds are loving it.
2011 Studio Tour
Long John SIlver’s Glass Studio
SouthEnd Farm and Vineyards
James Pottery
Windswept Studio
Gypsy Mama Studio 6
Earthlight Pottery
West Coast Wild
Firesign Art and Design
Classic Elegance Interior Design
Discovery Metal Creations
Spirit Bowls and Boxes
Naked Bicycles and Design
Rich Guitars and Design
Open Bay Farm and Fibre
I Blew It Studio
Lake Haven Atelier
Rainy Island Silver Works
Fusion Flux
Hands On Design
Angela Burnett Studio 1471
Snapperhouse
Bilz Rock Fish
Eagle Eye Studio
Lee Gass Gallery
Melissa Abram Jewellery
Frank Boas Paintings
Earth Empress
Quadra Fibres
Perry Johnston Studio
Elena Mason Stained Glass
Outer Island Photography
Tickets $5 (kids 12 + under, free)
Available on Quadra
at Hummingbird Office and Art Supply
and Quadra Island Tourist Info Centre
PHOTOS Top: Kevin, Discovery Metal
Creations. Left to right, images from:
James Pottery, Rich Guitars, Naked
Bicycles and Design, Lee Gass Gallery
Creatingoutside the box: Island
artists get set to wow the
crowdsby Robyn Budd
volume 1 issue 1 the gumboot press • page 5june 2011volume 1 issue 6 the gumboot press • page 512 august 2011
The storyin the cedar:
Carver George Gilkin ‘washes his heart and says all of who he is’
W hen you think ‘storyteller’, you imagine someone for whom
words embody the truths they live by, or at least the ones they want to share. For such folk words are a me-dium of distillation – of experience, personal mythology, history, events.
George Gilkin has been called a storyteller in wood, and the descrip-tion fits.
Heading up island in the mid ‘90s, George came to Quadra to spend time with his longtime friend and fel-low carver Mike Belatti. The two had met at ‘art school’, George’s moniker for the prison where their friendship began. He credits Mike with teach-ing him how to carve. Mike has al-ways shrugged off the role of mentor, claiming that “I never taught him anything – I just put the knife in his hands. He did all the rest.”
Quadra became home for George and his son, and soon he began a second family on the island. Al-though he and his partner are no longer together, they and their chil-dren maintain a close family bond. George says the relationship taught him about what he calls ‘the givers of life’ – friendship and care, and the
George acknowledges
many teachers on his
path, Joe Pitt and Tommy
Bruce amongst them
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way one flows and cross-dissolves and reconfigures into the other.
When he speaks of this time, he chooses his words carefully. Allowing a more feminine principle to weave into his life, he saw a parallel move-ment unfold in his art. When he first
Eagle in flight: Carved from yellow cedar with abalone inlay for the eagle’s eye, George says this 29” piece was a test of his skills leading to a larger project.
he was leaving behind.As in many life passages, new foot-
ing is scarcely established when its soundness sometimes gets tested. At this turning point in George’s life, his mother fell victim to a brutal home invasion in Campbell River at the hands of a young addict. As she lay in hospital with a broken back and multiple injuries, George recalls her fixing him with her gaze and urging him not to fall back into rage, but
Top righT Third in a series of fouryellow cedar plaques, telling George’s recovery story Lower LefT Red cedar bowl celebrating the birth of a daughter
learned to carve, he depicted humans and animals alike with bold, mas-sive strokes. As he gained an under-standing of the concept of flow, his lines softened and what he calls the S-shaped curve emerged in his work.
Over the next years, he teased the concept into higher definition, gen-
to recognize the vulnerability of her young assailant. He struggled with her words, and in the weeks ahead as he searched fot the boy, he thought about what his actions would be when he found him.
The day came. George strode into a crack house knowing he’d find the
boy there, but still not knowing what he’d do when he saw him. The boy knew who George was, and who he was looking for. He was terrified.
George towered over him, and could have crushed him in a mo-ment. But instead of attacking him he brought him to a meeting.
George’s battle was over. He got the boy into recovery, and won his own fight to let the gentle man inside himself gain traction in the outside world. The carving he made that tells the story shows a huge and powerful bear simply licking its paw.
by Robyn Budd
You can see George Gilkin’s magnificent work
at his new website, www.georgegilkin.com.
For information on exhibits and commissions
contact George at [email protected].
tling the angularity and bringing an exquisite tension to his forms. At the same time he started paying closer at-tention to spoken language, noticing the impact that words could have on his psyche and his artmaking.
Good, bad, right, and wrong were four words in particular that chal-lenged his emotional balance. Bad evoked feelings of fatigue, whereas good sometimes took the edge off his desire to carve.
Through his evolving relation-ships with mentors and recovery partners, he came to see that language offered him unimagined freedom for right action. New words created a new mindset; taking the word
hate out of his vocabulary went a long way towards healing the generational fallout from resi-dential schools. Says George, “You can feed off the juice of grief as much as you can off any substance.”
T he current chapter in GeorGe’s art owes much to a milestone he
reached six years ago. He remem-bers coming to the realization that he didn’t want to spend the rest of his career interpreting trauma; it was time to take the story into what he was learning anew rather than what
Quadra trailblazers 3
A notebook of treks chalked up by islanders who like to get their shoes muddy in the service of outdoor adventure.
Name Michael Hechter. Mode of transport On foot with lots of dogs. Duration 3 to 4 hours. Destination Up the south peak of China Mountain and down the south side. Getting there Take Hya-cinthe Bay Road past Walcan Road, and look for the China Mountain
trailhead and parking on the left.
Details After the bridge near the beginning of the trail, look for a big climb that’ll really turn your dog’s crank! Dogs like
to work hard on the hills - it gets the feel-good chemicals,
like seratonin and adrenalin, rushing around in their brains.
There’s a sense of accomplishment and pack bravado. Meeker dogs
will often come out of their shells....
Just off the summit you come to a steep drop down the south
side of the mountain. The trail is rough and rugged here, and
anytime there’s water around it becomes a cascading stream. The
dogs level off this descent into an oxygen-laden forest, which
gets them all jacked up and happy - a real canine high!
Best thing It’s a great walk for dogs because most of their day-to-day jaunts tend to be on flat ground where they just
don’t get the same juice. Because there aren’t many people
on the south side trail, the dogs have a chance to really be
themselves. Grunt factor 1 small sweat; 2 big sweat; 3 epic About 1.5, up to a 2 if you’re full-on running. Good to bring Water, snack, big pack o’ dogs!
Broom, inglorious broomDon’t look now, but we’re surrounded
volume 1 issue 3 the gumboot press • page 51 july 2011
Quadra trailblazers 1
A notebook of off-road adventures documented byislanders who like to get their feet dirty and tell the tale to others of their kind.
Name Erika Kellerhals. Mode of transport Cycling and running.
Duration 3 to 8 hours, depending on how much of each you do.
Destination Over Beeches Mountain through the old growth forest
on Nugedzi Lake trail system to Granite Bay Road.
Route First stash your bike at the Mount Seymour trailhead on
Granite Bay Road. Then get yourself to the China Mountain trail-
head and follow the signs to South China Mountain. Just before
the summit take the trail to Beeches. Look for the route that
drops off the back of Beeches, keeping an eye out for flag-
ging tape. The route’s quite tricky (crux move). Once you’re
off Beeches, get into the old logging road network. Look for a
beaten path with flagging tape and cairns. Then keep your eyes
open for signage indicating the Nugedzi Lake trail system. When
you’re on the trail system follow the trail signs to Granite Bay
Road. Hop on your bike and go home.
Best thing It’s a great traverse: no houses, fab views, old
growth forest. A great endorphin rush, plus you can swim in
Nugedzi Lake.
Worst thing You can’t really run down Beeches, and there’s a
reasonable risk of getting lost.
Grunt factor 1 small sweat; 2 big sweat; 3 epic Keep it at 2!
Good to know Bring water and energy bars. You need to be
pretty fit to do this route. It’s a good idea to bring a map
and compass, and make sure you know how to use them!
Why the ponderous look? Could be the sentinel by the cemetery is having a hard time seeing the forest for the broom. Many broom species depend on stand-regulating forest fires to activate growth of their roots and seeds.
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gets delivered to over 50 locations on Quadra and beyond. Our rates for both display and classified ads are the best, bar none, on the island. And from what we hear, our paper is turning heads. Contact us for our rate sheet, and we’ll get you up and running in the pages of the Gumboot Press.
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T housands of yellow blooming bushes that adorn Quadra’s road-
side scenery at this time of year might be seen by a stranger as a nat-ural blessing. Alas, to most who live here they’re nothing of the sort.
For about two months, Cytisus scoparius, or Scotch broom, really is quite beautiful. Then ugliness rears
hated plant in coastal British Co-lumbia. By comparison, dandeli-ons and salmonberries seem at least manageable.
Ten years ago Heriot Bay Road
was mildly dotted with broom. Today the plant has engulfed huge tracts, choking out the natural flora
in most of Quadra’s open spaces and creat-ing an enormous fire hazard. Residents need to understand this. For as much as we all fear the threat of an island-wide fire, we likewise need a strategy to re-move the abundant for-est-fire fuel that broom
creates in all the corridors. And it’s stockpiling right under our noses.
Strangely enough, broom has only been with us for a short time. It was brought from Hawaii by Captain Walter Grant in 1850 and planted on his farm near Sooke. But because it’s so pervasive, it has now
spread over the west coast of the en-tire North American continent.
Many of us have heard the dis-tinctive crackle of broom’s ripened pods when they explode and dis-perse their seeds far and wide. The key to eradication, says Natural Re-sources Canada and the Canadian Forest Service, is to cut the plant at the base – no lower – and do it be-fore the pods pop.
Scotch broom is not all bad.
Here’s a list of plusses, albeit a short list:
1. As most of us can attest, broom has a tenacious root system that’s great for preventing soil erosion. It’s actually in the legume family
and brings nitrogen into the soil. In the right situation, broom has land-scaping benefits. (Note: If you can believe it, Art Knapp and a few other nurseries actually sell broom.)
2. The seeds of Scotch broom have a short-lived narcotic effect and are known to have been roasted and used as a coffee substitute simi-lar to chicory.
3. Broom tops have been used in numerous unproven folk remedies for liver ailments and gout.
4. Flowers can be preserved and used as a garnish in salads.
5. Sprigs of broom can be as-sembled to make ... well, a broom for sweeping your house, preferably with dirt floor. And now you know how the name came about.
Many Quadra Island residents collectively spend thousands of des-perate hours each year in the quest to rid us of broom. It’s a battle we may never completely win, but we can make a real difference. Accord-ing to Riki Vogt, who organizes the broom-bash for Rebecca Spit, plant populations have clearly decreased since her teams first staged their war on broom six years ago. If you would like to join the Rebecca Spit group or start a broom-busting group of your own, contact Riki at 285-2640 for more information. There are also dozens of websites dedicated to the topic of Scotch broom, but a visit to www.broombusters.org might be the best, most localized source.
by Denis Thievin
Broom has surpassed
dandelions and salmon-
berry as the vegetation
we most love to hate
its head. When blossoms have fin-ished enticing insects for pollina-tion, the plant turns dark brown. Stocks harden and thicken. Almost overnight our countrysides go from lovely to grotesque. But the dark side of broom isn’t just the sudden loss of its beauty or that it might be the real cause of an allergic reaction you’ve been blaming on the lawns.
Broom is prolific and highly inva-sive – as if you didn’t already know. In just a few summers, a single, unchecked broom plant becomes a dry, impenetrable, and highly flam-mable thicket consist-ing of thousands of off-spring. Wildlife suffers as the growth becomes too dense for nesting birds and dominates the spaces usually for-aged by deer. Natural reforestation is deeply affected because broom is an aggressive com-petitor for the soil that would have otherwise been occupied by conifer seedlings. The cost of maintaining roads, ditches, and power lines is increased dramatically by broom in-festations since the areas they claim are labour intensive to manage.
Broom might now be the most
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m o t h e r s h i p specia l ty tours 2011
Art Tour withMark HobsonJune 26 to July 1, 2011 • $1800 Cdn
Join renowned West Coast artist and naturalist Mark Hobson for a 5-day traveling art workshop as we explore the magnifi-
cent, wildlife rich Brough-ton Archipelago.
Mark’s instruction in-cludes daily technique ex-ercises, demonstrations and excursions ashore. The one on one guidance makes these five days a unique and valuable ex-perience for those wishing to expand their artistic ho-
rizons. Both beginner and experienced painters are welcome. Group size is limited to seven participants.
Mark is best known for his passionate portrayals of the BC coast. Self-taught as an artist and trained as a biologist, Mark has been painting professionally for twenty years. His work has won many awards in the US, Canada and Europe.
This tour departs and returns to Port McNeill.
Photography Tourwith Boomer JerrittJune 21 to 25, 2011 • $1650 Cdn
Develop your digital photographic abilities while experi-encing the stunning beauty and abundant marine life of
the Broughton Archipelago. In a relaxed, informal atmosphere, Boomer will discuss all as-
pects of photographic technique from the composition of the photo to the manipulation of the data and enhancement tech-niques after the image is captured. All skill levels are welcome.
A multifaceted visual artist, Boomer studied at the Western Academy of Photography and has been involved in the pho-tographic industry since 1990. As well as teaching at the college level he services regional, national and inter-national clientele and is a contributing photographer
to All Canada Images and British Columbia Photos. This tour departs and returns to Port McNeill.
Broughton Archipelagodestination:
First Nations Cultural Tourwith Lillian HuntJuly 2 to 6, 2011 • $1995 Cdn
Experience the remarkable culture of the Kwakwaka’wakw people and their beautiful coastal rainforest home. Guided by Lillian Hunt of the Namgis First
Nation, we’ll tour the world renowned U’mista Cultural Centre, sway in the fire-light to the drumming of the traditional dances, and travel to ancient village sites where these cultural traditions first took root.
Lillian, born and raised in Alert Bay, possesses an extensive knowledge of her nation’s history, and brings to life the rich cultural heritage of the Kwakwaka’wakw people both ancient and modern.
This tour departs from and returns to Port McNeill.
m o t h e r s h i p l ist of tours for 2011
Cruise • Photography Workshop B. Jerritt
Cruise • Artist Workshop M. Hobson
Cruise • First Nations Culture L. Hunt
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June 21–25
June 26–July 1
July 2–6
July 7–11
July 12–16
July 17–23
July 24–30
July 31–Aug 6
Aug 7–13
Aug 14–20
Aug 21–24
4 nights
5 nights
4 nights
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4 nights
6 nights
6 nights
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6 nights
3 nights
$1600
$1800
$1995
$1995
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$2995
$2995
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$1495
Broughton Archipelago / Johnstone Strait
Cruise • Artist Workshop R. Genn
Cruise • Coastal History J. Taylor
Cruise • Artist Workshop A. Watt
Kayak • Kayaking Skills Workshop
May 29–June 2
June 3–7
June 8–13
June 15–19
4 nights
4 nights
5 nights
4 nights
$2340
$1500
$1800
$1600
Desolation Sound
Kayak
Kayak
Kayak
Kayak
Aug 28–Sep 3
Sep 4–10
Sep 11–17
Sep 20–29
6 nights
6 nights
6 nights
9 nights
$3095
$3095
$3095
$4595
Great Bear Rainforest
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Bute Inletdestination:
Coastal History Adventure
with Jeanette Taylor
June 3 to 7, 2011 • $1500 Cdn
Quadra Island historian and author Jeanette Taylor will take
you back in time as she shares a wealth of tales, bringing
to life the hauntingly beautiful places we’ll visit, from ancient First
Nations sites to traces of homesteads and settlements.
We will visit the spectacular and history rich Bute Inlet, a re-
mote forty mile long fiord carved into the Coast Mountains, and
the tidal passages of the
Discovery Islands.
Kayaking will also be an
option on three occasions
for those interested - no ex-
perience necessary!
Jeanette has worked as
a historian for over 20 years
in the BC Archives and the
Campbell River Museum.
She is the author of River
City: A History of Campbell River (1999); Tidal Passages: A History
of the Discovery Islands (2008); and The Quadra Story: A History
of Quadra Island (2009).
This tour departs and returns to Campbell River.
Desolation Sounddestination:
Illustrated Journal Workshop
with Alison Watt
June 8 to 13, 2011 • $1800 Cdn
Cruise stunning Desolation Sound with well known artist,
author and naturalist Alison Watt. An illustrated journal is a
wonderful way to keep a record of day-to-day life and document
your travels. During the five days aboard Columbia III we will go
over materials and techniques (basic watercolour and pen and
ink) and explore creative ideas to get you started on your own il-
lustrated journal. Using demonstrations and exercises, we’ll learn
how to simplify a scene to make a quick sketch using some basic
rules of composition and discuss the special challenges and re-
view techniques of coastal landscape painting.
Alison Watt, illustrator/author of The Last Island, has been lead-
ing natural history tours and painting workshops in North, Central
and South America for many years. She studied biology at Simon
Fraser University and botany at the University of British Columbia,
and currently maintains a studio on Protection Island, BC.
This tour departs from and returns to Campbell River.
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Welcome aboard the beautiful prize winning 68’ Columbia III! After fifty years as an integral par-
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Built in 1956 for the Columbia Coast Mission in Van-couver BC, she operated tirelessly as a hospital ship serving the isolated communities on Canada’s Pacific coast. Now luxuriously refurbished, she displays an immaculate elegance not seen in more modern ves-sels. The gleaming exterior, polished brass, and bright roomy salon invite you aboard, while her modern amenities and variety of single and double berths in five lovely staterooms entice you to stay. Three toilets, two showers, and plenty of hot water ensure your comfort.
Viewing the magnificent landscape and abundant wildlife is always comfortable from the spacious cov-ered back deck, through the large salon windows, and from the captain’s bench in the wheelhouse. The Co-lumbia III is the perfect size for an intimate group of ten guests and four crew. Equally important, she is an-nually inspected and approved by Transport Canada. Complete with the latest in navigational and safety equipment, she carries a 25 person life raft, an 18’ skiff, and a full complement of emergency supplies. Your safety is our first priority.
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coastal wilderness
aboard the elegant Columbia III • BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA
SEA KAYAKING • SPECIALTY CRUISES • WILDLIFE VIEWINGCOVE
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B R I T I SHCOL UMBIA
C AN ADA
Bella Bella
Hartley Bay
Prince Rupert
A L ASKA US A
Port Hardy
Victoria
Port Angeles
Port McNeillCampbell
RiverVancouver
WASH ING T ON US A
HA IDA G WA I I
PAC I F I C OCEAN
VANCOUVER I S L AND Comox
BACK
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