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August 5, 2015 Wednesday

INSIDETHIS WEEK:

ALBERNI BOUND?Sgt. Jeff Swann is still fighting to keep his family in Ucluelet. PAGE 3

LIGHT IT UP:The Tofino Lantern Festival is right around the corner. PAGE 10

TRAVEL NOT REQUIRED:

It turns out local mail can stay local after all.

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ANDREW BAILEYWesterly News

An artistic twist is being spun into a Ucluetian land-mark already rich in local lore.

Wood panels inside the archways of a concrete wall next to Image West have become canvasses for a mural that will showcase an intrigu-ing piece of Ucluelet’s history.

The wall was built by Uclue-let local Walter McBrine around 1979 and the arch-ways were designed for locals and tourists to walk through on their way to shops that the

land’s owner Dave Manuel planned to have operating behind it.

A zoning dispute with the district office put a kibosh on Manuel’s plan so he cov-ered the wall with a wooden facade that made the struc-ture look like an old building.

Behind the facade was a venerable treasure trove of vintage vehicles, gardens, and walkways that combined to form what Manuel dubbed the ‘Metal Lawn Rust Home.’

Manuel passed away about 15 years ago and the Rust Home has since been cleared and grown-over but when the

facade blew down, in a 2013 storm, the concrete archways were exposed reigniting the curiosities of locals and visitors.

“People come into Image West quite often and ask about the wall next door. It’s always a curiosity and sometimes there are quite the assumptions about it,” Court-ney Johnson of Image West told the Westerly.

With so much buzz around the wall, Johnson hatched an idea to beautify it with a mural and she reached out to the Pacific Rim Arts Soci-ety (PRAS) who immediately

jumped on board. “PRAS helped out incred-

ibly. I’m very, very, grateful to them...They’ve bent over backwards for me. All of the support that they’ve given me and all of the help they pro-vided, I’m incredibly grateful for,” Johnson said

“Local art can visually express Ucluelet’s heart and soul for everyone to see and enjoy. I’m a performing artist, but I’m not very good with paint. If I did this myself, it would’ve been a bunch of smiley faces and hand prints.”

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Marla Thirsk is one of several local artists collaborating on a mural that will honour Ucluelet’s former ‘Metal Lawn Rust Home.’ Photo Andrew Bailey

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Four tourists found themselves in trouble while paddling around Ucluelet on Saturday.

The tourists were exploring Ucluelet’s coastline on Aug. 1, in two kayaks and two inflatable rafts, when waves began to over-power them, according to Joint Rescue Coordin-ation Centre (JRCC) Marine Controller Dylan Carter.

Carter told the West-erly News that several 911 calls came in from locals who had spotted the paddlers in dis-tress before the JRCC received a call from a local mariner who had rescued the tourists around 7:30 p.m.

The local advised he had spotted the tourists in trouble and brought them safely to shore on the Chrow Islands, according to Carter.

Anyone who sees any mariners in distress, or has been involved in a rescue, is encouraged to let the JRCC know at 1-800-567-5111.

“It’s always helpful when people call in,” Carter said.

“The more information, the better for us.”

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PRAS assembled a team of local artists including Marla Thirsk, Laura Timmermans, Joy-Lynn Eyford and Isla Helmus and the painting kicked off on Canada Day as part of the society’s Sum-mer Festival.

Johnson said the budding scene includes an homage to Manuel and illustrates the strength of Ucluelet’s local art scene.

“Ucluelet is beautiful and we have a lot of talented artists...It’s incredibly important to bring out everything that’s good in this community and showcase it as much as we can,” Johnson said.

“We’re a beautiful town, we should be proud of it.”

She hopes the new mural will inspire other public art projects.

“We live in a very, very, beautiful town but what is the world if you can’t make it more beautiful every chance that you get,” she said.

“You create positive things in the world when you make it more beautiful, and the world can never have too much positivity in it. Local art is a wonderful way to achieve that.”

Johnson was stoked to receive such tremendous support from local artists and the commun-ity and she was thrilled to meet Dave’s daughter, Laura Manuel, who now owns the wall and the land behind it.

“It’s been wonderful getting to know Laura,” Johnson said. “I’ve learned a lot from her about the property and her family.”

Laura told the Westerly she was delighted when Johnson called her about the project.

“It’s fantastic. It’s a great sense of community and it’s a represen-tation of the very talented people on the West Coast and their visions and what the West Coast represents. It’s a community and it’s a really large family,” Laura said.

“It was part of my family when I was raised there and I feel that pull back again. It’s great.”

She said seeing her father and the Rust Home incorporated into the vision was special.

“To have him really repre-sented is amazing because he was a part of that com-munity for more than 40 years and he was a part of it in all different ways,” she said.

She said the Rust Home was a wide-ly photographed West Coast fea-ture and tourists brought photos of Manuel and his treasures to their homes around the globe and she is thrilled that her father’s image will soon be traveling again.

“I feel like this is another full-circle movement where people are going to take pictures of this artwork and he’s still going to be all over the world and that’s just a great thing,” she said.

“The Rust Home was a tourist attraction and,

although there’s not rusty cars on the property anymore and there’s not his charac-ter telling people about the West Coast and interacting with them, there’s this beautiful artwork from the next generation and it’s great.”

Laura now lives in Port Alberni and she brought her kids—David, 5, named after his grandfather, and Samantha, 3—to the mural’s kick off event on Canada Day.

“It was great because as I drove in (Thirsk) had just painted my dad’s face and it was dynamite,” she said.

“It was really special. I’m just really grateful and excited about it all...It’s awesome; it’s a community thing, and it’s a family thing, and that’s fantastic.”

She expressed huge gratitude to Johnson and PRAS for organiz-ing the work.

“This is amazing, I can’t even believe it’s happening, so just a giant thank you to them for all of their work and support,” she said. “Ucluelet is awesome.”

Pacific Rim Art Society president Mark Penney told the Westerly in an email that PRAS was happy to support the public art project.

“Public Art has a wide reaching impact. Murals in particular are effective in influencing the feel of a public space,” he said.

“Murals can also be used to lead a dialogue, form narratives, or inform viewers.

In recent years a new genre of sophisticated street art has evolved on exterior walls in com-munities of all sizes, worldwide.”

He said public art is an already present tradition on the West Coast.

“The First Nations of the area traditionally decorated their long-

houses with murals and inside these spaces they hung curtains with crests and large scale paint-ings,” he said.

“Ucluelet has a number of murals made by Marla Thirsk, Jeff King as well as publicly placed Totem Poles, Sculptures and Historical Artifacts.”

He added public art boosts the value of Ucluelet’s sightlines.

“By enhancing the area with artwork, we are enriching the experience of locals and visitors,” he said.

“Murals have become part of the landscape here, they speak to who we are as a culture and they con-vey that message to our visitors. A splash of color can have a lot of impact on a rainy winter day. We simply wouldn’t be the same without Art in our everyday lives.”

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Ucluelet’s municipal council was recently surprised to discover a loophole that allows local mail to stay local.

In an attempt to streamline its sorting processes in 2013, Canada Post began shipping all Vancouver Island’s mail to a processing cen-tre in Richmond to be sorted.

This meant any letters mailed from Ucluelet to Ucluelet trav-eled to the mainland before being shipped back.

Ucluelet’s council recently received a letter from Susan Margles of Canada Post who explained letters submitted dir-ectly to the local post office would be sorted locally.

“With respect to Ucluelet, I am advised that mail specifically

deposited in the post office and intended for local delivery con-tinues to be sorted at the office,” Margles wrote.

Coun. Sally Mole questioned whether this was accurate but suggested, if it was true, the dis-trict should get the word out.

“When I read that, it seems to me like if you go in there and actually hand your letter to the person (at the post office) they’ll

put it into the local (P.O.) box,” Mole said.

“Whether or not that’s true, we don’t know about it. I’ve never done that...but maybe we should check and see if that is in fact the case and then put it out there that your local mail can be sorted locally.”

After the meeting, Mole investi-gated the issue and was delighted to tell the Westerly News that

local mail can in fact stay local. “I went to the post office to see

if the dropping of the mail with the staff inside would get sorted locally, and the answer was ‘yes,’” she said.

Any local letters dropped into mailboxes will continue traveling to the mainland to be sorted.

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Ukee’s top cop headed to Port Alberni?Coun. Sally Mole “fl abbergasted” by RCMP’s lack of communication


Sgt. Jeff Swann is down, but not out, in the fight for his right to stay in Ucluelet and both he and his com-munity plan to keep punching.

Swann recently received a transfer order to Port Alberni.

“Port Alberni is a fantastic choice but Ucluelet is still my preferred choice,” Swann told the Westerly News.

“Slowly the nails are going into the coffin, so to speak, but I’m on the inside trying to hammer a couple nails out.”

Swann has commanded the Uclue-let RCMP detachment since 2009 and has requested a two-year exten-sion on his posting to conclude the substantial community-policing projects he has spearheaded.

“Even though I’ve been told I have to transfer, I’m hopeful that the RCMP will still consider to recon-sider. I’ve still got a few options I’m pursuing with that,” he said.

“I’m still thinking that there’s got to be some hope somewhere.”

He added that, wherever he ends up, he will remain committed to the RCMP.

“I love the organization I work for, I like going to work, and I’m going to put my best product forward in whatever capacity or town that may be,” he said.

He said that if he absolutely has to move, Port Alberni is a solid destination.

“My first choice is Ucluelet and if it can’t be Ucluelet I’m excited that it’s somewhere that I’m very comfort-able and familiar with,” he said.

He said the Ucluelet and Port Alberni detachments work closely together and he has enjoyed posi-tive relationships with Port Alberni’s police.

“I know the majority of the members in Port Alberni and I’m looking forward to working with them whenever that opportunity does arise,” he said.

“For now, and for the foreseeable future until these irons in the fire get sorted out or our house sells, I will continue to be a Ucluelet resident.”

Coun. Sally Mole told the Westerly News she felt “flabbergasted, angry, sad, (and) dismissed,” when she heard Swann had received his trans-fer papers despite Ucluelet’s collect-ive and clear desire to keep him.

“I feel we’ve been largely ignored,” she said. “There was no consultation done with the communities served by our local RCMP.”

Mole noted Swann has overseen a 60 per cent reduction in Ucluelet’s crime rate since his arrival in 2009 and has brought a consistently posi-tive community presence to Ucluelet.

“He’s done a good job; it’s a good news story,” she said.

“But also the community involve-ment is huge...He and his family have really become leaders in this community.”

She said the RCMP have not made a compelling case for Swann’s forced departure and assured that she will continue lobbying for Swann to stay.

“During my term, ongoing efforts have been made to keep a valued service in our area. We have had dialogue with every level of govern-ment we can, including Ottawa,” she said adding Swann, who was recent-ly named Ucluelet’s Citizen of the Year, is an appreciated and valuable member of the community.

“The relation-ships that have been built with so many different

factions of our community have far reaching, long term effects, and take a lot of time to build. The trust and respect I see between our commun-ity members and our local RCMP have made our community stronger and more resilient.”

Mole is also the executive director of Ucluelet’s chamber of commerce and launched a letter writing cam-paign earlier this year to allow the local business community to voice its opinion on the issue.

“When we heard the news that Sgt. Swann was likely to be transferred a number of businesses expressed concern,” Mole said.

“They were wanting to keep some-thing that’s been in place and has worked. Our crime stats have been dropping steadily, and the business community felt like we’re in a good spot right now; we don’t need to change it, it’s not broken.”

Mole received over 50 letters sup-porting Swann’s request to stay as well as a surprising amount of cor-respondence from out-of-towners.

“The ones that I got from outside our area we’re a great surprise to have, mostly other RCMP officers who can’t understand why this pro-cess is going the way it is going, so that was a nice and different per-spective,” she said.

Mole was disappointed and surprised to receive no direct response from the RCMP.

“Nothing has come back across my desk in response to that,” she said.

“I thought I would have had some-thing back just even saying, ‘Thank you, we received your package,’ but nothing.”

Mole is currently leading another letter writing campaign and any-one wishing to add their voice is encouraged to email her at [email protected].

“We’re not giving up, absolutely not,” she said adding she hopes to convince the RCMP to reexamine their decision.

“I think they really want to think this through and make sure that they’re making the right decision because the community has spoken and spoken quite loudly.”

Mole assured the fight continues and said Ucluelet’s council will meet with the RCMP in September along with leadership from the Toquaht and Ucluelet First Nations.

“There’s always optimism,” she said.

“It’s a challenge for sure, but this community is not unfamiliar with facing challenges and together we’ve got a good strong voice.”

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6 THURSDAYHighway of Tears program and salmon dinner for citizens of Ucluelet First Nation, Hitacu, 5p.m., film & Q&A at 7Healthy Babies Program/Family Ties, 10:30 a.m. Drop-in for expectant, new parents, Coastal Family Place, UCC. Ucluelet AA 8 p.m. Holy FamilyChurch, Peninsula Rd.The Edge Youth Room, 3–6p.m., UCC & Youth Nite at the Edge, 6–8p.m. Anglican/United ChurchBible study, 10:30 a.m., UCC.

7 FRIDAYUkee Night Market, Ucluelet Vil-lage Green, 3-7 p.m.Bingo, Tofino Legion, 7:30 p.m.Tofino Library Storytime: 11:30-noon. 331 Main St. Songs, stories,rhymes and more! Ages 3-5 withcaregiver.The Edge Youth Room, 2–6p.m.,

UCC.8 SATURDAYTofino Public Market, Tofino Vil-lage Green, 10 a.m.-2p.m. Paul Ellis as Elvis at Officials Sports Lounge in Ukee, 9pm, $10 in advance, $15 at the DoorHighway of Tears program 5 pm welcome reception with Ucluelet

First Nation with snacks, 7 pm film & Q&A, all at UCCSt. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 5:30 p.m. Tofino library, 331 Main , 10am–noon & 1–5pm.AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis, Tofino.‘Survival on the Edge’ Guided Walk, 10 a.m. Wild Pacific Trail, Lighthouse Loop.

9 SUNDAYHighway of Tears program 5 pm welcome reception by Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation at Village Green with snacks, 7 pm film & Q&A at Clayoquot TheatreChrist Community Church,10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd.Ucluelet.

Grace Bible Church, 10:30am, UCCHoly Family Church–10:00 a.m. –Ucluelet; St. Lawrence Church, 11:00 a.m. Ahousaht.St. Columba Church, 10:30 a.m United/Anglican Service, 4 p.m. UCC. Tofino Bible Fellowship, 10:30 a.m. Tofino Legion.

10 MONDAYAcoustic jam night, Every Mon-day. 9-12 p.m. at Officials. Ucluelet AA, 8pm. Holy Family.Floor hockey, 7–9pm, Uclue-let Seaplane Base Rec Hall. $2 drop-in.Indoor Soccer, 8–10pm, Ucluelet Secondary School gym, $2.

Competitive & drop-in darts, doors 7pm, play 8pm, Tofino Legion.

11 TUESDAYHealthy Babies Program/FamilyTies, 10:30am. Coastal Family Place, UCC. The Edge Youth Room, 3–6pm, UCC.Youth night, 7-9pm, Tofino Legion.Youth night ANAF Ucluelet. AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. FrancisChurch, 441 Main, Tofino.St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 5 p.m. Clayoquot Sound of Freedom, 8pm, Clayo-quot Sound Community Theatre. Join master digital storytellers Dan Lewis and Bonny Glambeck for a lively multimedia journey. Free Admission. [email protected].

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IMPORTANT NOTICE STAGE 2 - WATER RESTRICTIONS

Due to continuing record low precipitation, all residents and businesses of the District of Tofino are advised that effective July 9, 2015, Stage 2 water restrictions are in effect until further notice.

During Stage 2 Water Restrictions, all outdoor water use is prohibited:

No outdoor watering (except by hand, for food gardens) No use of potable water for outdoor washing of any article or vehicle No filling of hot tubs or pools

Watering of food gardens by hand (i.e. by watering can or hose by hand) will be permitted only as follows:

Odd numbered civic addresses may water on Monday and Thursday between the hours of 6:00 am to 9:00 am and 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm; and Even numbered civic addresses may water on Tuesday and Friday between the hours of 6:00 am and 9:00 am and 7:00 pm and 10:00 pm;

Take the 20% challenge and do your part to reduce Tofino’s water consumption by 20% compared to last summer.

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Nora O’MalleySpecial to the Westerly

Montreal-born, L.A.-based producer and director Matt Smiley will be screening his docu-mentary called Highway of Tears this weekend on the West Coast.

Set on the lonely stretch of highway in Northern B.C. that con-nects Prince George and Prince Rupert, the film investigates the dis-appearance or murder of 18 women along the 724 km road. Ten of those women are First Nations.

“First and foremost, we can’t be afraid to talk about this issue. It seems like for a lot of people the topic is tough. Even in the gen-eral media, they have an easier time talking about animal abuse and domestic abuse. It’s kind of something that’s been kept behind closed doors,” Matt Smiley told the Westerly News from his home in L.A.

“What I’ve found with these screenings is that it’s helped a lot of people speak out and demystify this issue,” he said.

Since premiering at the TIFF Human Rights Watch Film Festival in March 2014, Highway of Tears has earned back-to-back awards, includ-ing Best Documentary at the Malibu Film Festival, Best of Festival at the Zonta Film Festival in Ontario, and the Pacific Backlot Award for Best Doc at Women in Film & Television Vancouver.

The film, which sup-ports a national inquiry into Canada’s missing and murdered First Nations women and girls, has been screened in over 60 theatres over the last 6 months.

“I’ve gone throughout B.C., trying to push for safe and affordable public transportation. It does require a consider-able investment as far as preventative measures, but there needs to be pressure on the federal and provincial govern-ment, which is some-thing the film tries to point out,” said Smiley.

Award-winning documentary Highway of Tears showing this weekend on the West Coast

Producer and director Matt Smiley, far right, is bringing his Highway of Tears documentary to the West Coast this weekend. Over the last six months, the film has been screened in over 60 theatres. Photo submitted.

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Wild Pacific Trail receives $20,000 boostANDREW BAILEYWesterly News

One of the West Coast’s most popular attractions is about to become even more alluring.

The district of Ucluelet has partnered with the Wild Pacific Trail Society to infuse $20,000 of improvements into the Wild Pacific Trail.

The district and the society will each invest $10,000 into the project, which will focus on par-ticularly tricky-to-reach sections of the Lighthouse Loop to bring stunning views to currently view-less areas.

“These viewpoints will provide additional private ocean viewing areas for trail users, alleviating some of the traffic on the main trail during the busy months,” wrote Ucluelet’s parks and recrea-tion director Abby Fortune in a report submitted to council on July 14.

The work will establish new viewpoints in unique locations and will include the installa-tion of a new observation deck, according to the trail’s innovator and manager “Oyster” Jim Martin.

“There will be up to 10 new

viewpoints: six quite significant and then four trailside,” Martin told the Westerly.

“These are in areas where there’s no value, viewing or otherwise, where now there will be a signifi-cant increase in the value of the attraction simply by the addition of these quality viewpoints.”

He suggested improving the trail’s viewpoints will significant-ly improve its value.

“These add substantial and out-standing new viewpoints...Each one is an addition of a small per-

centage in their own right to the overall quality of the attraction,” he said.

“We’re not building a trail, we’re building an attraction and one of the things that attracts people most, and the most com-ments I get, are the number of lovely viewpoints. I refer to it as ‘streaming postcards.’”

He said the district’s support has been consistently solid since the trail’s inception in 1999 and this support illustrates an under-standing of the trail’s value to the

community. “The district of Ucluelet has

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The work will kick off this fall and is expected to take roughly two months to complete.

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High fives and a huge congrats are in order for West Coast youth Everett Watson and Barkley Ahier who earned their black belts in Purple Dragon Don Jitsu at the 2015 Karate World Champion-ships on July 24 to 26 in Trinidad and Tobago.

The students endured three days of intense physical performance and testing after which a panel of masters and grand masters convened and awarded them their black belts. The students were graded on their katas, sparring, self-defense, general fitness, and break falling.

“The whole black belt grading brought us a lot closer. It was

a great bonding experience for everyone. Not just for me and Barkley, but also we made friends with a lot of the people from Trinidad and Tobago, from Flor-ida, New York, and from the dojo in Vancouver,” said 17-year-old Everett Watson.

Their coach, Senpai Ian Shu, also returned to Ucluelet with accolades as he was inducted into the Caribbean martial arts hall of fame as Senpai of the Year at Trinidad’s Hyatt Regency Hotel ballroom on July 19.

“It’s a good recognition award,” said Senpai Ian Shu who was honoured for his 19 years of dedi-cation to the Purple Dragon Don Jitsu Ryu System.

“I’m just really happy to be back with 2 black belts. They often say that having a colour belt is much like being in the womb and then when you reach the black belt it’s like your birth. So now, the real work begins!” he said.

Having never trav-elled to Trinidad and Tabogo before, Watson and Ahier experienced a bit of culture shocked and were completely blown away by the caliber of world-class martial arts they got to witness.

“There were people there that could use extreme weapons. They could spin a staff around their neck and then change directions without using their hands and do back

flips with double nun chucks. That was probably the most amazing part of it,” Watson can-didly told the Westerly News.

In addition to hosting the black belt testing, Purple Dragon International welcomed about 500 competitors from the Carib-bean Islands, the U.S., Canada, Venezuela, Eng-land, and Spain to take part in their 45th anni-versary World Championships.

Watson placed 4th in the weapons kata aged 13-17 advanced boys, while Barkley placed 5th.

They also both competed in cre-ative katas and point sparring.

“Coming from a small town in Canada so far away from the heart of our martial arts system, I felt I did really well,”

said Watson. “I’m just getting started though.

There’s another 10 degrees of black belt to go through,” he said.

Local youth return home from Trinidad with black belts in Purple Dragon Don Jitsu

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Tofino’s August sky will soon be aglow with a colourful collection of light flowing from hundreds, if not thousands, of creatively hand-crafted local creations.

The 15th annual Tofino Lantern Festival will land at the Tofino Botanical Gardens on Sunday, August 16.

The event is a consistent favour-ite amongst the West Coast’s locals and visitors and is the Raincoast Education Society’s lar-gest annual fundraiser.

The society’s executive director Dan Harrison told the Westerly that the event has grown substan-tially over the years.

“That really is a reflection of how much support we have. Visitors and locals come out every year and support it knowing that it’s a great event,” he said.

“The event itself is incredibly enjoyable and reaches so many families...and all the proceeds go right back to all the educa-tion programs we provide in the community.”

As they get set to ring in the

festival’s 15th appearance, the society is also celebrating its 15th birthday, as the event has been an annual staple on the society’s calendar.

“From the get go, we were a small organization and the lan-tern festival was a small event. Now the organization has grown substantially and this event con-tinues to grow with us and allows us to grow,” Harrison said.

“The funds that we receive from this event allow us to grow into the organization we’ve become...It’s been incredibly substan-tial and the support has really allowed us to push through some tighter times.”

The event now brings in about $10,000 each year for the society to put towards its local program-ming, according to Harrison.

“I see our role as key educators for people towards understand-ing and appreciating the natural world; to connecting with it and being active stewards of this incredible landscape,” he said.

“Through our education pro-grams, through our research, (and)

through our public events, we’re able to reach a broad demo-graphic of the com-munity and spark an interest and lifelong appreciation for the natural world.”

Harrison added the event would not be possible without the support of the Tofino Botanical Gardens that has provided the setting for every festival to date.

“It’s an ideal part-nership where we have this incredible showcasing of the coastal temperate rainforest environ-ment that we really try to educate people about and we’re able to have an informal educational experi-ence where people can come out and celebrate in a festi-val manner but also be immersed in an old growth rainforest,” Har-rison said.

“There’s no better setting than the Tofino Botanical Gardens.”

Anyone looking to boost their festival experience beyond specta-torship is encouraged to become part of the festivities by putting their own lantern together at one of the Lantern Making Workshops leading up to the event.

Festival organizer Cindy Hutchi-son said daily workshops will run in Tofino from August 10-14, from 1–6 p.m. each day and in Ucluelet on August 10 and August 11 from 6-8 p.m.

“You get to build your own lan-tern, which is pretty cool, and you get to take that home with you,” Hutchison told the Westerly. “It’s a little keepsake and you get to be part of the festival.”

Pre-made lantern kits are avail-able as well as supplies for any-one wanting to get more creative with their creation.

Supplies and pre-constructed lanterns are available from $10 to $15.

Hutchison said crafting a lan-tern to floss during the festivities adds to the experience and boosts the event’s significantly family friendly vibe.

“I always love when kids come the night of lantern fest. and they’re carrying their lanterns around and they’re so proud of it and they get to show it off,” she said.

“It’s a fun time too with par-ents and kids, they get to make it together and it’s just a really, real-ly, fun activity...You get to bond and build something.”

The volunteer driven festival needs plenty of volunteer hands to thrive and anyone interested in helping out, with either the workshops or the event itself, is encouraged to get in touch with Hutchison at 250 266 4138 or [email protected].

Parking will not be allowed at the event but shuttles will be on hand to carry festivalers from Tofino’s Village Green to the Botanical Gardens every half-hour starting at 7 p.m.

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Lantern Festival to light Tofitian night

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ERIC PLUMMER Alberni Valley Times

Dog Mountain is no longer con-sidered a “wildfire of note” by the province.

But parts of the forest continue to burn, leaving lasting damage to the area’s slopes.

On Wednesday, the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District extended its state of emergency for the mountain near Sproat Lake, continuing with an evacua-tion order affecting eight of the area’s 21 cabins.

This notice is based on prelimin-ary results of a geohazard assess-ment commissioned by B.C.’s Wildfire Management Branch on

July 22 and 23. A report on this investigation has not yet been completed, but early signs show the wildfire has left behind dan-gerously unstable slopes.

“Properties within the evacua-tion area are those subject to moderate to high rockfall hazard as identified by this assessment,” stated the ACRD’s latest notice on the Dog Mountain wildfire.

Although flames continue to lick parts of Dog Mountain, the prov-ince reports the wildfire has con-siderably subsided since it spread to 450 hectares by mid-July. The fire was first discovered July 4, destroying at least one cabin dur-ing its week of expanding across the mountain. Firefighters are no

longer permanently on the site, but routinely check the area to ensure burning does not leave the wildfire’s perimeter. Plans call for sprinklers set up to protect the cabins to be removed by the weekend.

“Now what they’re going to do is allow the fire to continue to con-sume the forest fuels within that perimeter,” said Marg Drysdale, a fire information officer with the province’s Coastal Fire Centre.

“We expect that people will see open flame, we expect people will see smoke. In some cases they will see trees go up. So definitely it is an active fire.”

The Ministry of Forests approach to the Dog Mountain

fire has left several Sproat Lake residents frustrated, as an air tanker was used for only one day on July 4 when the blaze was dis-covered. Bob Cole questions why parts of the forest are still permit-ted to burn.

“Can you tell me why we have to suffer day after day of smoke and flames around the shoreline of Dog Mountain when so little effort would be required to snuff these dozen or two hot spots out?” he wrote in a letter to the province. “It is bad enough that we will have to look at this sad testimonial blight around the shores of our lake for years to come, but to have to watch it con-tinue to gobble up bits and pieces

of shoreline unattended is salt in raw wounds.”

Meanwhile the Alberni Valley remains under an “extreme” fire danger rating after months of scarce rainfall and a weak snow-pack that collected in the moun-tains over the winter.

An Island-wide campfire ban was lifted this week for north-ern areas and the fog zone along the Island’s west coast, but a prohibition remains in place for the Alberni Valley over this long weekend.

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The average adult in Nanaimo drinks an average of 125 litres of alcohol each year, say statistics provided by Island Health. That’s well above the provincial average of 103 litres of liquor per person, but close to the average on Van-couver Island of 124 litres.

But Nanaimo’s drinking statis-tics pale in comparison to Lake Cowichan, where statistics indi-cate the average person drinks a whopping 320 litres of alco-hol each year. The statistics are included in Island Health’s local health profiles for communities

on Vancouver Island. The stats don’t distinguish between the types of alcohol that are being consumed. They are determined by sales in each community’s private and public liquor stores. Lake Cowichan mayor Ross For-rest said there are several reasons why his community’s alcohol consumption appears to be higher than others on the Island. He said the main one is that Lake Cowi-chan’s population of approxi-mately 3,100 people more than doubles with tourists during the summer season.

“All of our campgrounds are full all summer long with visitors and

tourists on vacation and I’m sure they are keeping the local liquor stores pretty busy,” Forrest said.

“I’m not saying that the local residents don’t drink, but liquor sales in this area are driven a lot by the huge amount of people that vacation here.

“There is also the fact that our local pub closed two years ago and almost all local liquor sales around here are now made at the liquor stores.”

With just 82 litres of liquor consumed per person each year, according to Island Health, the residents of Ladysmith drink less than any other Island community.

Paul Hasselback, medical health officer for central Vancouver Island, said liquor consumption on the Island decreased shortly after the province introduced more stringent drinking and driv-ing laws a few years ago.

But he said the numbers have been “creeping back up.”

“I don’t think there has been enough concerted attention given to the downsides of alcohol abuse on the general population,” Has-selback said. “There has been a lot of work in recent years informing pregnant women of the dangers of alcohol, but the same level of warnings are not there in which

the correlations between alcohol-related illnesses and alcohol sales in each community are assessed and compared.”

He said recommendations from the province’s recently completed liquor review would actually see an increase in accessibility to alcohol. He said health authoritieswould like to see higher prices for liquor with high alcohol content, and minimum prices put in place.

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Port Alberni’s reliance on raw log shipments is a reality the local forestry industry has to accept in order to stay afloat, says Mayor Mike Ruttan.

Members of city council met with Forest Minister Steve Thom-son and other provincial officials in June and on July 17 to discuss the growing trend of unmanu-factured wood heading from Port Alberni’s shore to Asian markets.

While local sawmills are employing a fraction of the work-force they had a generation ago, the number of logs shipped to

overseas mills has surged from 82,272 tonnes in 2006 to 783,381 tonnes last year, according to the Port Alberni Port Authority’s records.

Meanwhile the volume of manu-factured wood has fluctuated under 90,000 tonnes during the past decade. Lumber exported from the port authority’s berths totalled of 76,854 tonnes in 2014.

Ruttan’s meetings left him with the message the raw log trend is needed to allow forestry compan-ies to keep jobs in the Valley. “It makes it possible for them to con-tinue to do business,” he said.

So far this year, 32 ships have

docked at the port authority’s berths to receive raw logs, while six vessels were loaded with manufactured lumber.

The trend was similar in 2014, with 53 raw log shipments and 13 lumber vessels. Sixty three per cent of raw logs were exported to China last year, with the remain-der going to Japan and South Korea; all of the lumber is cut from a Western Forest Products mill bound for Japan.

Western’s Alberni Pacific Div-ision mill also cuts wood for China, but not enough to fill a ship, said port authority terminal manager Mike Carter this spring.

“It’s not that we’re not produ-cing wood - we are producing a lot of wood - it’s just we’re not producing enough at any one time to justify a ship coming in,” Rut-tan said. “A lot of our wood that we manufacture in Port Alberni actually goes over the hump and gets assembled in Nanaimo or Cowichan Bay and then shipped out of there.”

Vancouver Island’s largest for-estry company, WFP, is taking steps to improve sawmill capacity but the majority is going into facilities on the east side of the Island.

In 2013 the company announced

a $125-million capital plan including $6.7 million allotted for the Alberni Pacific Division saw-mill. Another $38 million project is underway to improve Lady-smith’s Saltair mill, and $28 mil-lion in upgrades are slated for the Duke Point facility in Nanaimo.

Ruttan said Thomson has opted to step back and let the compan-ies decide which communities are worth investing in. “He didn’t seem to feel to feel that the prov-incial government was in a pos-ition to really influence it that directly.”

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Nanaimo Daily NewsSix people were sent to hospital

following a single-vehicle acci-dent on Quennell Road, south of Nanaimo, on Saturday afternoon.

Nanaimo RCMP received the call

just after 2 p.m., with six people reported injured and one appar-ently trapped under the vehicle.

When RCMP officers arrived several people who came across the accident were performing

first aid on the injured. One male was unresponsive and was under the vehicle. Cedar Fire Depart-ment personnel arrived on scene and the man was removed from under the vehicle. Numerous

ambulances were required to transport the injured to hospital in Nanaim. Two air ambulances were required to transport two of the injured to Victoria General Hospital.

All six occupants are reported to be in serious but stable condition. The extent of their injuries is not known at this time.

The Nanaimo RCMP traffic unit is investigating the accident.

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Tofino’s summer has been taint-ed by a troubling trend.

Thieves have been hitting Tofino particularly hard this summer and, last week, long-time local Warren Rudd became a victim of the growing concern.

Rudd parked his black and gold Norco Bushpilot in the bike rack behind his apartment building on Arnet Road late at night on July 27 and arrived the next morning to discover it had vanished.

He immediately reported the theft to the RCMP.

Rudd told the Westerly News

that he usually locks his bike but he had neglected to do so that night and thought little of it.

“It’s not normally a risky area to leave one’s bike,” he said. “Theft hasn’t been a problem from there.”

Rudd has lived in Tofino for the past 23 years and has never had a bicycle stolen.

The Norco Bushpilot has been his primary mode of transporta-tion for the past six years and los-ing it led to significantly slower commutes.

“It was a real drag. I had to walk around and it took a lot longer to get stuff done,” he said.

A friend has since lent Rudd a

loaner bicycle. Rudd has searched all around

town for his Norco but has so far come up empty-handed.

“If someone ‘borrowed’ it to get home, there’s a good chance that it’s either still at their place or they’ve tossed it in the bushes, or anywhere, and it’s not visible,” he said.

“A lot of people have said they will keep an eye out for it...I’ve received lots of sympathy and support but have had no luck yet.”

He hopes whoever snatched it will return it.

“Please bring it back because it’s how I get around,” he said. “Or let someone know where it is.”

He said his bike is one of several that have been stolen in Tofino this summer.

“It’s a shame that it’s gotten to the point where we have to lock our doors and our bikes all the time now,” he said.

“It makes you feel less comfort-able in your own community.”

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Warren Rudd sent the Westerly this photo of a bicycle that’s similar to the one that was stolen from him last week. Unlike this bicycle, Rudd’s may still have its black fenders and a black rear rack.

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score of original music, and you’ll have Whistling Fish Production’s utterly unique show, A Northern Tapestry. Coming to the Clayo-quot Community Theatre in Tofino on Aug. 15 at 7:30 p.m., the show is the brainchild of musician and songwriter Geoff Noble and actor

and writer Susan Shillingford.The show boasts 402 images

from Canadian artists past and present, including renowned art-ists Emily Carr, Robert Bateman, Tofino’s Mark Hobson and Roy Henry Vickers.

The idea grew to include reading

prose passages from Canadian authors and poets, and soon the whole thing took on a life of its own. From fishing boats in the maritimes, to the stark land-scapes of the North and across to the coastal shoals of B.C., every province and territory is in the

spotlight.Noble has written 11 original

songs, each to celebrate a differ-ent aspect of Canada. “The mar-riage of what’s being said with the images and the music is just amazing,” says Arthur Black, who lends his voice to the show.

Tofino’s Hobson, Vickers showcased in Aug. 15 ‘Tapestry’

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