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Ucluelet’s Sgt. Jeff Swann took off for Fort McMurray on Tuesday to offer support in any way he can.

Roughly 80,000 people have been forced to evacuate the Albertan community due to a devastating wildfire that began on May 1 and has grown to roughly 2,000 sq. kilometres.

Swann is en route as a member of the RCMP’s Peer-to-Peer program.

“It’s RCMP officers helping other RCMP officers through any

kind of tragedy,” he told the Westerly News on Monday. “There are a number of RCMP employees, staff and members, and emergency responders who have lost their homes and busi-nesses and items in this fire.”

The Vancouver Island RCMP reached out to all its Peer-to-Peer members and Swann instantly put his name forward.

“They said, ‘We need some people to go help the people in K Division, which is Alberta, and lend a hand and support them.’ I looked at that opportunity and immediately reached out to my boss,” he said.

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The West Coast’s reputation as a solid arts and cultural destination is helping local artists find new markets and collectors while also helping the tourism industry thrive.

Arts BC and Heritage BC have announced their an-nual joint-conference will be held on the West Coast next year and Arts BC president Kathy Ramsey penned a letter to both Ucluelet and Tofino’s municipal councils last week to spread the good news.

“We have chosen the Pacific Rim in part because of the natural beauty and the rich arts and cultural heri-tage of the area but also because we are very aware that the communities on the Pacific Rim are keenly and passionately aware of how vital a dynamic arts and cultural scene are for a community’s social wellbeing,” Ramsey wrote.

Ramsey facilitated a roundtable discussion in Ucluelet last year centred around a Cultural Policy Framework for the provincial government and was awed by the depth of local conversations.

“I was so struck by the deep knowledge of the par-ticipants on arts and cultural issues and feel strongly that your communities would be excellent role models for communities across the province,” she wrote.

Pacific Rim Art Society (PRAS) president Mark Pen-ney told the Westerly the West Coast has developed a solid reputation throughout BC’s art community and he believes valuable knowledge can be mined from the local art scene.

Local art scene riding high as cultural reputation soars

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NORA O’MALLEY PhOTORIDE THE RIM: Last week a crew of dedicated cyclists rode from Port Alberni to Ucluelet to raise money for type 2 diabetes. The Judy Gray Remax team dished out a $500 donation. From left: Pascale Houde, Laurie Skene, Bryce Blake, Roberta Wilson, Lee Blais, Mike Parcher, Malcolm Murphy, Sid Schmidt, Allan Sarkany, Rick Player.Front row: Judy Gray and Robin Nadig.

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Two Ukee locals have been crowned community champions.

BC’s provincial government recently announced this year’s crop of Community Achievement Award winners, which includes Wild Pacific Trail Soci-ety members ‘Oyster’ Jim Martin and Barbara Schramm.

“The Wild Pacific Trail on Vancouver Island ex-ists because of the passionate work of ‘Oyster’ Jim Martin and Barbara Schramm,” the province’s an-nouncement states.

“The trail along the Island’s West Coast has made a significant contribution to the community of Ucluelet, Vancouver Island and British Colum-bia. ‘Oyster’ Jim envisioned the trail located at the ocean’s edge, bushwhacking much of it himself. Barbara is dedicated to furthering the trail society’s educational goals along with administering its fund-raising and management.”

Martin told the Westerly News he has been de-lighted to see the trail become a popular and suc-cessful community asset.

“My response to all who congratulate me as I work on the trail is to say, ‘It is my pleasure.’ Anyone who spends half their life in pursuit of such an asset would also be as pleased,” he said.

He added the award would bring increased expo-sure to the trail and create “more good recognition, more presence, more activity and more prosperity for this community and the West Coast of Vancouver Island in general.”

Schramm told the Westerly she was surprised by the announcement and thrilled with what it means for the trail.

“I was stunned when I received a phone call an-nouncing this award for Jim and myself,” she said. “I thank those who worked on this nomination and the trail society who makes it all work. This award brings wonderful attention to Ucluelet, the trail and our ambitious goals. “

She suggested the trail is well equipped to shine in the spotlight and the additional attention could attract additional funding sources.

“The trail deserves attention as a community success story, we really can build the impossible if we all work together. It is my hope that publicity like this will help the trail society attract funding for our next big dream, which is education,” she said.

“People already sit in viewpoints with tears in their eyes, we want to help them to see more than the view. We want to teach everyone about this re-markable ecosystem and the human history of this coastline. Put a slug in someone’s hand and they will always remember that interaction.”

Martin and Schramm’s recognition is not the only good news the trail society is celebrating this month as they recently received funding for a new trail am-bassador.

“The trail society is delighted to announce that after two seasons of guest interpretive walks, we

are hiring a Wild Pacific Trail Ambassador summer intern,” Schramm said.

“From May long weekend to the end of August, Suzy Christoffel—an energetic Marine Biology student—will be leading daily interpretive walks and setting up a ‘discovery tent’ at the lighthouse. We will still have walks from Silva Johansson, the Ucluelet Aquarium and other guest guides too.”

Schramm said the trail’s fans have a lot to look forward to.

“We want to keep building the impossible, not only making the trail reach more places, but we want to enrich people’s connection to nature in this special place,” she said. “Our long term goal is to build an education centre on the trail which would open a door for the next big economic boost for the region. No dream is too large.”

“We want to teach everyone about this remarkable ecosystem and the

human history of this coastline.” - Barbara Schramm

Martin and Schramm will be among the 30 Brit-ish Columbians to be honoured at this year’s Com-munity Achievement Awards ceremony in Victoria on May 25.

“All British Columbians are inspired by those who lead by example, lending their time and talents in their community…Thank you to the 2016 recipi-ents; your commitment and generosity make a real difference in people’s lives,” said BC premier Christy Clark through a recent media release.

“We are privileged to showcase and celebrate the achievements of these exceptional British Co-lumbians.”

The awards have recognized over 300 com-munity champions since being launched in 2003. The West Coast’s past recipients are Brenda Re-id-Kuecks in 2008, Joe Martin in 2012 and Keith Gibson in 2014.

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Wild pacific trail society photoBarbara schramm and ‘oyster’ Jim martin have both earned Bc community achievement awards.

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A derelict fishing vessel recently crashed onto Florencia Beach leaving a sizeable mess for the Pacific Rim National Park to sort out.

The Park’s resource conservation manager Renee Wissink told the Westerly News the cleanup effort would be tricky because Florencia is isolated and offers no access for heavy machinery.

“It’s kind of the worst beach for this to happen,” he said. “[The vessel] theoretically has to be dismantled and the best we could do would be to sling out the metals and other things.”

The Park has been trying to contact the vessel’s owner to work out a solution but has been unable to so far and Wissink is con-cerned about the amount of debris the tide has already pulled into the ocean.

“We are trying to get some help in removing what’s left from this boat,” he said.

“Unfortunately the tide is doing its relentless work as we speak and the boat is quickly breaking up. There is still a considerable amount of metal on the boat so we’re hoping we can, before it all disappears into the sea, at least salvage the metals and so on and figure out some way to get them off Florencia Beach.”

The vessel had previously sank near Effingham and was towed to Port Alberni in preparation for disposal but it wound up being sold to a West Coast local who attempted to tow it home on April 20, according to Wissink.

“The original plan was that the boat was declared a write off and it was supposed to have been removed from the water and junked but then, I guess, what happened instead was the boat was sold for $1 to a resident of Ahousaht,” he said.

“This resident of Ahousaht was towing it back to Ahousaht when the boat started to take on considerable amounts of water and the pumps couldn’t keep up so it started to go down. It was full of water and they couldn’t tow it anymore.”

He said efforts to retrieve the vessel proved futile. “My understanding is the Auxiliary Coast Guard from Ucluelet

were able to attend the scene but were unable to drag the boat because it was half sunk and they thought it was going to go down the rest of the way. But, it didn’t and ended up on our beach the next day so we’ve been trying to deal with it and the owner since,” Wissink said.

“The good news, I guess, is as part of the previous salvage effort…all the hydrocarbons and oil and hydraulic fluids were cleaned out so there was no dangerous goods or contamination as a result of it ending up on our beach. But, there still is consider-able amounts of metal and electronics and other things that we’d like to deal with.”

The vessel crashed onto Florencia Beach on April 21.

“We’re still working on a plan about exactly what we’re going to do. We’re still trying to get the owner to take some responsibility for the boat but, considering he bought it for $1 for parts, we’re not too sure what we’re going to get in terms of help from the owner,” Wissink said.

“There’s lots of parts of old boats that wash up on our various beaches but we would like to deal with some of the metals and electronics and other items that we’d rather not see go out to sea.”

He acknowledged locals have voiced concerns about the ves-sel and subsequent debris covering Florencia Beach and said the Park shares those concerns.

“We’re doing what we can. It’s a frustrating problem for us too. It’s one of these things we inherit, we don’t budget for and it, kind of, crosses a number of jurisdictional lines,” he said.

“There’s a process we’re required to follow but, at the same time, the twice-daily tides are doing their thing so we understand people’s frustrations and we’re frustrated as well with the problem of derelict vessels and ocean garbage. We’re certainly doing what we can to keep our beaches as clean as we possibly can but so much of it initiates from outside our jurisdiction that it’s an ongo-ing and frustrating problem for us.”

“We’re still trying to get the owner to take some responsibility for the boat but, consider-ing he bought it for $1 for parts, we’re not too sure what we’re going to get in terms of help.”

- Renee Wissink

He suggested the incident sheds an ominous spotlight on Can-ada’s derelict vessel issue.

“Not just derelict vessels, but the ongoing problem of garbage in the ocean that’s constantly coming ashore. There’s all kinds of sources from: tsunami related debris to dumping garbage at sea to poor management of waste on ships to, in this case, a derelict ship arriving on our Coast,” he said.

“It’s a huge problem, garbage and derelict ships on our Coast, and, I think, in partnership with Transport Canada and others we need to find a larger solution.”

Wissink hopes to see collaborative and multi-jurisdictional ef-forts find ways to fix the problem.

“I don’t know that there is an easy fix…Transport Canada reg-ulates the boating industry so they have to be part of the solution and I know they’re more than well aware of the issue of derelict vessels and they’re working on that,” he said.

“The fact that [the vessel] ended up on a piece of federal land, in this case a National Park, doesn’t mean that we’re the only part of the solution…The derelict issue is one that is a coastal problem right across this country and all three coasts.”

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Andrew bAiley PhotoNational Park staff are trying to figure out how to remove the remains of a fishing vessel that crashed onto Florencia Beach.


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Ucluelet celebrated Spring Cleaning Day on Saturday. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Boundless treasures are laid out for the taking in every driveway and you can celebrate Christmas in May when all the presents are free and you get to choose them all yourself. In turn, smil-ing neighbours happily come to your house and instead of eating all your food, or drink-ing all your beer, they take everything you don’t want anymore away. you end the day having either furnished your home without spending a dime or inching ever closer to that magically far-fetched fantasy of actu-ally being able to fit a car in your garage.

Spring Cleaning eve was perfect at my place but Spring Cleaning Day was nearly a nightmare as I woke up to discover some-one had placed a fridge amongst my pile of unwanted clutter. I immediately panicked. I wasn’t sure if fridges were among the list of acceptable items. I knew electronics weren’t and fridges have cords so I figured I was hooped. If that fridge wasn’t picked up, I knew my neighbours wouldn’t take kindly to me leaving it in my driveway and who else’s responsibility would it be but my own to get rid of it?

The Pacific rim National Park finds it-self in a similar, albeit disproportionate, position. Someone has left a totaled fish-ing vessel in the middle of one of its most stunning beaches and beachgoers aren’t taking kindly to it sitting there. While the spring-cleaning crew graciously took away the discarded fridge that temporarily ruined

my Sunday morning, there is no such mag-ical service for the Park to look forward to.

Attempts to reach the vessel’s owner have come up snake eyes and locals and tourists are starting to throw rocks at the Park for not sorting the mess out as if it’s the Park’s fault for being located exactly where the tides decided to carry an aban-doned ship.

While the mess the vessel has created is absolutely unsightly—she carried gar-bage and debris with her onshore that the wind has since deposited throughout the sand—landing on the beach isn’t a bad result as many abandoned vessels wind up on the ocean’s floor. Sunken vessels are not as romantic as The Little Mermaid would have you believe. The same thingamabobs, whozits and whatzits that fascinated Ariel can be fatal to non-fictional sea life.

No one knows who’s responsible for disposing of derelict vessels and there’s no stampede for the bill. In 2012, Transport Canada released a 23-page study on aban-doned vessels that recommended forming an inter-jurisdictional working group to find solutions to Canada’s derelict vessel prob-lem. It said the working group should be tasked with providing recommendations on “relevant legislative and regulatory tools and gap analysis to identify all responsible federal, provincial, and municipal authori-ties.” It also called for recommendations around potential funding sources for re-moving derelict vessels. These recom-mendations have fallen into some sort of abyss and neither Christy Clark nor Justin Trudeau seems keen to retrieve them.

The Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities has made nine separate motions since 2004 begging the provincial and federal governments to give an iota of attention to derelict vessels and, according to the AVICC’s April convention minutes, the Union of BC Municipalities has been on board with them. “The UBCM membership has consistently endorsed resolutions calling on the provincial and federal governments to develop a solution to the issue of abandoned and derelict ves-sels,” they read.

Trudeau made media waves by proving he knew what year it was in 2015, may-be someone should advise him what year Transport Canada identified derelict ves-sels as an issue. Trudeau’s still somewhat new so it’s hard to be hard on him here, but Clark’s been our premier since 2011. Maybe it will be a sexier election issue next time around. Before we start shaking our fists at the bigwigs though, let’s do better at home. As I wheezed along Willowbrae on my way to snap a photo of Florencia’s dere-lict vessel, I passed one of the Park’s many garbage collection sites where good Sa-maritans compile the messes left behind by others. The usual suspects were all there: single-use coffee cups and water bottles, blobs of styrofoam that seem to pop up everywhere and cardbox boxes emptied of their treasures by beer drinking beachgo-ers. The latter is the most heartbreaking to me because we’ll never convince Johnny Law to let us drink on the beach if we can’t prove we’re responsible enough to pick up after ourselves.

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Welcome rvs to uclueletRe: RVs bring congestion and angst, Westerly

News May 4.Why do so many dislike RVs so much. We own and operate a small resort but RVs are im-

portant to us. RV travelers buy food helping keep local stores open and busy. As resort operators, we need the restaurants, the stores, the gift shop, etc., plus the guides, kayak rentals, fishing guides, tour companies to all be successful.

Ask all of these operators how many of their clients are European? Then how did they get here? My next question is this—do you dislike rental cars too? The latest info I can find is that every RV in Ucluelet or Tofino leave $200 to $400 per day in town. The same hap-pens in Cranbrook, Fernie, Creston, Oysoyoos, Hope, Golden, Revelstoke, Kamloops, etc.

Thousands of RVs are rented in Calgary and Ed-monton each year. Most head for Vancouver Island. They buy gas, food, drinks, in every town they pass. Much better for BC than the Americans, who drive their own vehicles from White Rock to Horseshoe Bay or Tsawassen only. Learn to love RVs. They help our town survive. They are a significant part of the tourism industry. Welcome RVs to Ucluelet!

lorNe D. PrIestleYTerrace Beach Resort

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FossIl Fuel DIvestmeNt Is GooD

Re: Fossil Divestment, Westerly News April 20,I was very interested to read that our local mu-

nicipalities are considering the environmental and social impacts of their investments in Municipal Fi-nance Authority Fund.

The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust (CBT) has im-plemented a socially-responsible investment man-date since our beginning in 2000. Working with Vancouver-based Genus Capital Management, we have taken the next step to divest from fossil fuels over the past four years through a customized in-vestment fund. Our endowment has grown to over $16 million with returns not only comparable, but often better than conventional funds with less vola-tility. I encourage anyone interested in learning more about our fossil-fuel-free investment process to join us for a presentation from our investment manager at our AGM on May 26th in Tofino (9:30 a.m. at the TinWis Resort).

As a community foundation, CBT’s impacts are focused on the local level. But as a biosphere re-serve, it is important that we also meet our mandate as global citizens. Thanks to our community leaders for thinking like a biosphere reserve as well!

reBeccA HurWItZExecutive Director

Clayoquot Biosphere Trust

seA lIoN DeAtHs Are Not oK

In his April 26 letter to the Westerly (Sea lion deaths not okay), Jeremy Dunn of the BC Salmon Farmers Association makes a surprisingly strong case for shifting BC’s salmon farms to closed con-tainment. In that letter he acknowledges that sea lion deaths are not an acceptable by-product of open-net pen salmon farming. This consensus is shared by Cermaq’s Grant Warkentin, who wrote in the March 30th Westerly “Our goal is always to have zero marine mammal deaths, even one is just not acceptable”.

I would hope we could all agree that switching to land-based closed containment would result in zero deaths to sea lions.

It is clear the number of sea lion deaths cannot be brought to zero using open-net pen technology. The industry has been trying to do this for decades now—unsuccessfully. The successes they have achieved due to pressure from environmentalists are to be applauded, however if this industry truly means it when they say “even one is too many”, then it is time for them to show some leadership and begin the transition to closed containment on land.

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tHANKs For suPPortING uKee teAOn Sunday May 1st, we held a fundraising tea for

4 of our youth to travel to PEI this summer for CLAY 2016, which is a national youth conference held ev-ery two years. This years Canadian Lutheran Anglican Youth gathering is focused on the theme Not for Sale, which explores what elements we share as humans that are not negotiable to us-individually and collective-ly. We had a hugely successful turnout with over 100 guests at our tea. We had fabulous entertainment from the dancers to the cake walk, games and a silent auc-tion. We exceeded our goal and raised just over $2000 for the trip. The list of thank you’s is extensive:

ICON developments, Long Beach Lodge (Chef Ian Riddick supplied the sandwiches) Compass Wedding Cafe, Solidarity Snacks, Joleen Sohier Jewellry, Rain-water Soap & Candle, Howlers, Wick Inn, Sobo, Choc-olate Tofino, Windsor Plywood, Image West, Tofino Fishing & Trading, Norwex (Marnie Wynans), Stormlight Outfitters, Red Can Gourmet, Method Marine, Tofino Coffee Company, and District of Ucluelet. A shout out to the tireless volunteers, Judy Gibson, Karyn Bernard, Whitey Bernard, Dan & Mollie Law, Pam McIntosh, Pat Seiber, Sandra Hinder, Sarah Hogan, Katherine Loiselle, Jennifer Hoar, Reverend Will Ferrey, and the lovely Barb Gudbrandson, and Alana Janisse.

Of course we want to recognize our waitstaff/servers during the event the 4 youth themselves; Kaida Evans, Ava Law, Teagan Griffin and Riley Banks. If I’ve missed anyone it’s only because it truly was a monumental community effort and please trust we appreciate all effort made towards this worthy cause. The youngsters will be running a garage sale out of the Tofino Firehall Father’s day weekend, hope to see you there!

cINDI levINe

CLAY, Vancouver IslandUcluelet

FIND uNIQue WAYs to rAIse FuNDs

The Windermere Valley Men’s Club recently held its weekly competition. Our thoughts were not on golf, but rather on the families displaced by the fires raging in northern Alberta. At the conclusion of the event, our membership decided to donate the prize money that would normally have gone to the after-noon’s winners to the disaster relief efforts currently being undertaken.

The Windermere Valley Men’s Club is challeng-ing men’s and women’s golf clubs across B.C. and Alberta to do the same. Take the prize money from one afternoon of golf to assist our friends and neigh-bours in the Fort McMurray area.

DeAN mIDYetteWindermere, BC

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“Attending the [Art BC] conference last year, we learned that we are leaders in the province in terms of integrating First Nations content into arts programming, so that’s one of the things that we want to seed and propagate into other areas of the province,” he said.

He said hosting 2017’s Arts BC and Heritage BC joint-con-ference could be an “economic boom” for the West Coast because it will bring roughly 400 key “art influencers” from across BC to attend.

“It’s an opportunity to show the rest of the province what we have to offer and to really highlight and reinforce how strong we are as an arts and cultural destination,” he said.

“We just want to show the real West Coast to the rest of the province and let them know that this is a destination for artists and for collectors. It is a place to experience rare beau-ty and remoteness and to get down to uninfluenced nature. Part of the reason people come here is that sentiment and, when they see it reflected in the artwork, it’s nearly irresist-ible.”

He added the conference would showcase the Coast’s ar-tistic uniqueness and could expand the marketplace for local artists.

“It’s about recognizing the needs of local artists and get-ting those needs heard by the people who are the influencers and the shapers of how our arts, as a business, happen in British Columbia,” he said. “There needs to be a healthy inter-action, from the education system in schools to communities having available markets and art galleries and opportunities to put your artwork where people are when they’re receptive to seeing your work.”

He said putting local artwork in front of potential buyers is one of PRAS’ top priorities.

“It’s beautiful if your family understands and accepts your artwork, and if they appreciate it that’s even better. But, if two people walk into a room and both of them love your artwork and one of them is prepared to write you a cheque, you’re

feeling just a little bit more supported and validated in that you can actually pursue your craft,” he said.

“It’s nice to think of art in all these abstract and well mean-ing things in our society; those are all very true and real ar-guments, but there’s a fundamental practicality to surviving in a profession as an artist and PRAS’ outlook is to advocate for our membership.”

“We’ve grown our budgets, we’ve ex-panded our area of operation, we’ve diversi-fied the nature of activities that we’ve done

and we’re specifically very, very, proud of our First Nations partnerships and integrations.”

- Mark Penney

He said PRAS’ membership runs the gamut from casu-al artists who create in their free time to career artists who make their living with their craft and all these artists need opportunities to showcase their work.

“They need a market. They need venues. Marketing has changed radically in the last handful of years and our artists are trying to find meaningful ways of connecting with their audience. Ultimately that leads to sales and to the money that comes thereafter,” he said.

He said PRAS works closely with both Tourism Ucluelet and Tourism Tofino to market the Coast as an arts and cultur-al destination and suggested a strong art scene has a posi-tive and symbiotic relationship with a strong tourism industry.

“Coming from a fishing family, I recognize the value in tempting someone with something beautiful. So, if you’re vis-iting here and you’ve just had an incredible experience on the [Wild Pacific] Trail and you see somebody who’s really captured that in a piece of artwork, it’s really compelling,” he said. “We find there’s usually a direct correlation between tourism and art sales.”

He added the West Coast’s rich history with art is worth touting.

“This is the area where Emily Carr got her nickname and this is the area where Arthur Lismer painted so much we named a beach for him. Jack Biggin-Pound painted here and participated with our society and First Nations artists from the highest level of credentials are here just casually making some of the country’s finest art,” he said.

“Like most things on the West Coast we maybe don’t brag about it much…It’s not something that we tend to fist pump about, but it is significant and I believe it does deserve rec-ognition, so we’re trying to find the language and approach that would benefit our communities and allow us to properly access these markets and introduce our artwork to the rest of the world.”

Penney has been thrilled with PRAS’ direction and growth over the past few years.

“By doing strategic planning and attending conferences we’ve been slowly accumulating and developing the skillsets that have allowed PRAS to grow,” he said.

“We’ve grown our budgets, we’ve expanded our area of operation, we’ve diversified the nature of activities that we’ve done and we’re specifically very, very, proud of our First Na-tions partnerships and integrations.”

He added government funding is available to the arts but local stakeholders must ensure it’s spent wisely.

“Our government recognizes arts as an important and in-tegral part of a healthy community,” he said.

“They’ve made a serious effort to get art out to the people. I just feel that it’s our job to make sure that that happens and that it happens in a way that makes sense to our artists here. Many times the genres that our locals artists work in, or the mediums they work in, aren’t the standard materials-list that you see in art galleries.”

Penney and PRAS’ executive director Jacqueline Cham-berland were both reelected to the Arts BC board last week-end.

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Leanne Hodges is hoping her freshly painted mural at Tofino’s hostel helps transform visitors into freshly inspired environmental stewards.

The Cowichan Valley artist has strong ties with the West Coast. She collaborates regularly with local conservation or-ganization Clayoquot Action and was selected as the poster artist for 2017’s Pacific Rim Whale Festival.

Her work with Clayoqout Action caught the attention of To-fino’s Whaler’s on the Point Guesthouse and she was asked to create a mural for the guesthouse’s common area, which overlooks Tofino’s harbour.

Hodges told the Westerly the mural took about three weeks to come together and she expected to wrap up this week.

“Conceptually, it’s a lot of labour just to lay it all down and it takes a while before it starts to pop,” she said. “It’s really starting to show its form and its narrative so it’s just a matter of cleaning it up and finishing it off.”

She hopes the piece, which portrays sea otters sustaining

the West Coast’s oceanic vibrancy, helps visitors connect with the nature they’re admiring.

“This is a celebration of the sea otter as a keystone spe-cies in the kelp forest environment,” she said.

“What I’m designing here in this space is the kelp forest and the biodiversity it brings to the coast and how we suf-fered greatly from the loss of the sea otter over the years and that diminished biodiversity because the urchins came in and starting eating the kelp.”

She noted sea otters, which eat sea urchins, are making a comeback on the Coast but not everyone is stoked to see them return, particularly those who make their living harvest-ing urchins.

“Now the rub is, the sea otter is controversial because they’ve become so prolific they are in competition with the human hunter…they now are wanting to cull the sea otters,” she said. “But we’re not getting that we’re in this huge global crisis. The oceans are suffering and if we start removing the beautiful interconnectedness of nature’s web we are going to

suffer more because kelp is barely hanging on with the acid-ification in the oceans and we can’t mess with it anymore.”

She cautioned that if human attitudes towards the envi-ronment and their connection to it don’t change, her work could end up portraying the past. “I am just so worried that I’m going to end up starting to paint paintings and put those little murder outlines where there were starfish, where there were Cassin’s auklets, where there were sardines and whales and everything, because they’re just crashing,” she said.

“I hope it’s an early warning that we start to value what we have and we do whatever we can to save it.”

Hodges said she enjoyed putting the hostel’s mural to-gether and hopes to see more large scale projects pop up on her horizon.

“I’m attracted to things that are large scale, that are instal-lations, that are murals, because I’m looking at doing work that’s impactful…When I go back into the studio and scale down to 2 foot by 3 foot canvasses I’m feeling cramped,” she said.

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“What I feel I’m not doing at this moment but want to do is larger installations, environmental pieces…It really aligns itself with the expressive-ness and the impactfulness that I’m trying to create; to evoke awareness in people’s minds about the beauty of these wilderness areas and the wildlife that are inextricably linked.”

Hodges found her love of art at a young age when she happened upon her mother’s painting class.

“The earliest memory I have of being impacted by art and wanting to get at an easel I was prob-ably just about 4 years old,” she said. “I have this vivid memory of walking into where she was doing a painting class and it was like I walked into a cathe-dral…I was like, ‘That’s where I want to be.’”

She suggested her early work was very na-ture-inspired but she was knocked off this artistical-ly creative path when her passions were not as well nurtured as they could have been.

“What artists are doing today to use nature to create art forms and messages, narratives about minimizing our impact on our environment, I was doing that when I was a young girl,” she said.

“Sadly, I didn’t have the guidance to say, ‘Look at what you’re doing; it is a creation’ and to expand on that. I ended up going through the elementary school standards of art, and what that means in that context, and I found myself working inside the lines when I wanted to work outside of them. I never real-ly got my head around that until I was much older.”

She said she has enjoyed witnessing a new gen-eration of artists expressing conservation through “artivism” and inspiring environmental change.

“I love what the youth are doing. They’re using their creative energy now to really speak about their angst and especially what it’s doing to the environ-ment because that is their future,” she said.

“What I don’t see is artists painting a lot about fish farms, mining and forestry; what we’re paint-ing about is nature and its importance to us spiri-tually…I definitely believe the artist, the musician, spoken word poet, videographer; we’ve all got huge tools to reconnect society back to nature.”

She said this reconnection is important because she fears humans are on a dangerous path.

“We are suffering as a culture under nature deficit disorder. We are diseased as a result of our constructions we have made that separate us from nature,” she said. “Innately, there’s this desire I’ve had since I landed on this planet; my spirit wants to reconnect people to nature.”

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She hopes to see the art world create a collec-tive push to communicate the environment’s impor-tance.

“I had this lucid dream the other day…technol-ogy crashed and the artist became the important communicator again. All of a sudden, we were col-laborative and communal through art and having this dialogue and narrative that we’ve lost due to technology,” she said.

“You see everybody sitting around texting like mad and they only glance up to take a picture and then they put it back on Facebook. They’ve lost their connection and it’s through this false construct that they try and convey what they need in order to be whole in this world.”

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Tofino is luring local dads into the swing of spring by offering free activities for them to enjoy with their kids.

Dad’s Night Out events will be held on Tuesdays kicking off with a May 17 cooking course led by Jesse Blake of Tofino’s Wildside Grill and wrapping up with a June 14 wildlife tracking experience with the Pacific Rim National Park.

The district’s recreation programmer Tracy Vandermolen hopes the free events will help local dads connect with each other while bonding with their kids.

“It’s fun and it’s free and I think we’re in an age where we are getting a little bit apathetic maybe about our participation and things like getting out and meeting new people,” Vandermolen told the Westerly.

“We’re doing a lot of online stuff and maybe we’re not get-ting outside as much as we can, or trying anything new, and you should go to these events to broaden your horizons, expose your kids to new things and do it together and build that bond.”

Dad’s Night Outs are open to all West Coasters and Vander-molen said transportation could be provided for local First Nations communities. A full list of events can be found in the Tofino Rec-reation Guides distributed last week as well as at www.tofino.ca.

Registration can be done through the district office at 725-3229.

“Everyone is welcome but please give us a call to let us know you’re coming just so our wonderful volunteers aren’t over-whelmed by people,” Vandermolen said.

The events are all volunteer-led and Vandermolen was not sur-prised to see an impressive roster of locals step up to support the initiative.

“Every time I’ve reached out and asked for something, I’ve been overwhelmed by the response so I wasn’t surprised; it’s par for the course and part of my really good first impression of Tofi-no,” she said adding volunteers are a key cog in the community’s recreation and social wheel. “We’re a small community but we’re a mighty community and if people don’t keep volunteering their time I feel like Tofino might be overrun by people who are just coming here to visit. You have to reach out and offer these things for locals, even if it means a little bit extra time, because it’s going to make it so much more worthwhile in the long run.”

She suggested Tofino’s recreation department is going through a time of “reflection and transition” and is looking to diversify its offerings through community collaboration.

“We feel like we’re maybe not as connected as we could be…so we’d like to connect with everybody if we can and try to make it meaningful and make parks and rec. still relevant in Tofino,” she said.

She hopes to see a large contingent of dads participate in the free experiences, particularly single dads.

“We learned this year that the West Coast of Vancouver Island has 80 per cent more single dads than the average and we were blown away…We want to bring them out give them some support and give them something fun to do that’s free with their kids,” she

said. “In our parks and recreation department, the single dads maybe aren’t on our radar as much and maybe they’re not com-ing into our programs. There might be financial difficulties or time constraints so we want to offer programs that give us a chance to get to know them and vice versa.”

She said it is important for the department to stay tuned in to the community’s needs. “The more we can pay attention to how our community is changing and what our community wants, the better programs we can offer and then we know that what we’re delivering is something the community actually needs or wants,” she said. “We’re also in a position to make something happen. Instead of just talking about it, we can make something happen and plan something. That’s what we’re good at; we’re good at programming. We’re really responsive and we can quickly make something happen in town, like Dad’s Night Out.”

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Gusty onshore winds might have made Chester-man Beach more apt for kiteboarding last weekend, but the show still went on and man, oh, man did the contestants ever perform.

Spectators at the Vans Joel Tudor Duct Tape In-vitational were treated to a live action-reel of surf-ing that included nose riding, fin first takeoffs, ultra smooth footwork and party waves galore.

“Whether the waves are there or not, the beau-tiful thing about a longboard is it’s built to ride [bad] waves,” said world champion longboarder and con-test founder Joel Tudor. “You don’t have much room to complain.”

Originally, Tudor was hoping to hold the Duct Tape on the East Coast of Canada.

“We were trying for Nova Scotia, but we had some crazy run-ins with the locals,” he said.

“They were threatening us and all sorts of stuff. People are very selfish. For some reason they think they own the ocean. They were saying that we were going to bring a big plastic conglomerate surfboard contest to town and expose all the waves and leave trash, but as you can see, we’re a tent.”

After feeling an unwelcoming vibe from Nova Scotian waters, Vans Canada reached out to Tudor with the Tofino option.

“The board of tourism welcomed us. I haven’t had one negative email. I’ve actually had nothing but positive,” Tudor said.

“You guys are famous for being friendly. I’ve had a really great reception. Everyone’s been really nice.”

Tudor, who has been a Vans sponsored surfer for the last 20 years, launched the Duct Tape Invita-tional with the intent of sharing longboarding surf culture and style with the world.

“My career is still going, but you have to eventu-

ally pass the torch to the next generation,” he said. “Vans understands the importance of heritage. If

you don’t have a story, it’s hard to sell your brand.”The West Coast’s local wildcard pick Asia Dryden

received the V.I.P. treatment throughout the contest, which included free skateboards and hoodies from the title sponsor.

“Everyone’s been super stoked and giving me lots of love,” said Dryden.

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The Invitational’s defending champion Justin Quintal turned in a three-peat by claiming the com-petition’s top cash prize of $8,000.

“That’s going to cover half the trip here then probably I’ll take my girlfriend on a trip,” Quintal said.

The Jacksonville, Florida, native said he thor-oughly enjoyed his days on the Vancouver Island.

In true surfer style, he cruised around the South Island in an RV before making his way north to Tofi-no for the contest.

“It’s awesome. It’s literally one of the coolest places I’ve been. Hanging out here and meeting the community has really been the best part,” said Quintal.

“Thanks for the hospitality. No bad vibes at all.”Now that they’ve came, saw, and surfed, will the

Duct Tape ever return?“Maybe one day we’ll come back,” Tudor said. “I’m sure Nova Scotia is still within our scope.

We’re not really big on people telling us we can’t go to places. If we do another Canada event, it will probably be on that side.”

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whole, I’ll do it.” He said the details of his trip

had not been fully hashed out and all he knew was that he would be setting up in a camp offering whatever help he can provide.

“I don’t know where I’m going or what I’m doing yet,” he said. “There’s nothing official. They’re saying, ‘Be prepared for every-thing. Bring all your equipment

and tools. You might be manning a line, you might be pro-viding relief, you might be doing counseling; we don’t know.”

Swann has lived through a community evacuation before and hopes to tap into this experience to provide support.

“I think back to the Barriere forest fires in 2003 and my wife and I were evacuated for over a month. I had to stay and work,” he said.

“We lived in some terrible conditions. There were many houses that were lost and I met with many, many, people who lost their homes and so, I feel, I’ve got a little bit of experience and guidance and compassion that I can share with whoever needs it.”

Prior to Swann’s departure, his wife Naomie reached out to the West Coast through social media asking for donations for him to take with him to Fort McMurray and Swann arrived at the Ucluelet detachment on Monday morning to an im-pressive haul of goodwill.

“Anybody who’s worked in this town for more than a year knows how caring and giving this town is and how willing they are to open up their arms and help anybody in need,” he said. “Am I surprised by the support? No I’m not; but it’s always comforting knowing that I can reach out and people

will respond and donate and help others in need…I know the people of the West Coast. Paycheques are not easy to come by, you have to work and you’re consistently doing different jobs and recreating and reinventing yourself but people are always willing to give.”

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He added his family is supportive of his trip. “It’s my sons birthday tomorrow and I went and told him, ‘Listen, I’m not going to be there. I’m going to say goodbye to you in the morning and that’s it,’ and he just said ‘Yes, go. You’re going to help people,” Swann said. “I’ve got a supporting family and supporting friends that will look after things here for me while I’m doing what I’m paid to do out there.”

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Neighbours who care for each other prepare with each other.

South Ucluelet locals held an emergency preparedness themed block party on Kimoto Drive last Saturday to get to know each other and discuss how they would look after each other if disaster strikes.

The event was organized by area resident Jeanne Keith-Ferris and information was dished out to bring the neighbourhood up to speed on grab and go emergency kits, evacuation strategies and general preparedness.

“We’ve seen what happens with big tsunami events or wildfire events; you need to have your neighbourhood get its head around the fact that when first responders are over-whelmed, we have to be able to help ourselves,” Keith-Ferris told the Westerly.

“We thought it would be really valuable for our neighbour-hood to each meet and greet everyone…Where we live in this sector of our municipality, with the narrow shaft of the road, we could easily be inundated and cut off for a period of time.”

She said it is important for neighbourhoods to understand which of its members might need extra assistance.

“By taking the time to get to know our neighbours, we’re going to know that kind of important information for if and when something were to happen. It’s just a good way for us to make those connections now ahead of time and be ready,” she said.

She said the area has set up a “circle-wise neighbour-hood” with ten circle-coordinators responsible for about 5-10 homes in an emergency.

Coordinators meet about three times a year but this was the first time residents gathered for a emergency prepared-ness block party.

“This would be the first one and we’ll continue to build upon it,” Keith-Ferris said.

She hopes to see other local neighbourhoods pick up on the idea and hold similar events.

“We all live here in this community and everyone’s always busy working and going to their jobs and people need to stop and take the chance to really get to know the needs of your community and your neighbours,” she said. The district’s manager of emergency and environmental services Karla Robison attended the event and was thrilled to see the neigh-bourhood’s initiative.

“The current situation in Fort McMurray and other past disasters have demonstrated that the most immediate help following a disaster comes from those directly around you; your family and neighbours,” Robison told the Westerly.

“It is exciting to see more residents get onboard with emergency preparedness. The District of Ucluelet thanks Jeanne Keith-Ferris for her job well done with initiating the program and bringing her neighbours together to learn how to be prepared, to create a plan and assign responsibilities, and to learn how to support each other during and after an emergency event.”

Ukee neighbours host preparedness party

ANdrEW BAiLEY photoUcluelet locals held a block party on Saturday to get to know their neighbours and talk about emergency preparedness.


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LIBRA – Sept 23/Oct 23Libra, when things become complicated, you’re the person people often seek to iron out the situation. You have a way of quickly getting to the root of a problem. SCORPIO – Oct 24/Nov 22Scorpio, even though you normally think cooly and collectedly, this week you may be at the end of your rope. Book some time for a little R&R to recharge your batteries. SAGITTARIUS – Nov 23/Dec 21Sagittarius, positive encounters, including an unexpected meeting with an old friend, could make for an interesting week. Your social life is booming.CAPRICORN – Dec 22/Jan 20Capricorn, you have a measured and methodical approach to your goals. This week, though, your sense of fun may take over and steer you off course.AQUARIUS – Jan 21/Feb 18Consider your words before sharing your perspective, Aquarius. You do not want to hurt anyone’s feelings, even if what you have to say is the truth. Word things carefully.PISCES – Feb 19/Mar 20Your self-esteem soars this week when you go out of your way to put others’ needs before your own. Act from your heart, Pisces.

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PositionsApplicants MUST have been at school full time and be returning to school full time in the fall of 2016

SUMMER DAY CAMP LEADERTerm: June 27th – August 26th, 37.5 hours/week Wage: $11.60/hour

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Heuvelman, Judith Anne June 2, 1952 – March 21, 2016

It is with sadness that we announce the death of Judy, who passed away at home surrounded by family and friends. She was born in Westlock, Alberta to Fred and Irene Saffin. Soon after her birth her family moved to the Vancouver area. She graduated

from Rehab medicine at UBC in 1974 and worked in Nanaimo and Mission for

4 years. She then worked for the CRA in Surrey until 1987 when she married Henk in Ucluelet.

Judy was very active with home schooling her 3 boys, teaching piano, her scrap booking business and in her church. She was a very accomplished quilter and enjoyed most activities that involved needles and thread. The most precious things in her life were her family and friends.

Judy is survived by her husband of 29 years, Henk, her three sons, Joe, Geoff, Sam and her five brothers, Bill, Ed, Norm, Brian and Bruce.

A Celebration of Life will be held on May 14, 2016 at the

Ucluelet Community Centre at 1:00 pm.Many thanks to Dr. Marshal, the nurses at the Ucluelet

Medical Centre, the staff at Tofino Hospital and the many family and friends for your loving care and generosity.

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Friday, Nov. 13, 1970: the deadliest tropical cyclone in history, the Bhola cyclone, peters out after devastating Ban-gladesh, killing an estimated 300,000 people.

Friday, Nov. 13, 1985: more than 20,000 die as the Ne-vada del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, burying the nearby towns of Chinchilla, and Amerno.

Friday, March 13, 1996: Thomas Hamilton opens fire at Dunblane Primary school near Stirling, Scotland, killing 16 children and one teacher before turning the gun on himself.

A quick look at those headlines may confirm for you rela-tively quickly why people fear Friday the 13th.

Of course what they don’t tell you is that with 365 days and billions of human beings to choose from you can pull out a similar handful of tragic headlines for pretty much any Monday the 9th, or Saturday the 25th, too.

The Titanic went down on a Sunday the 14th. Hitler invad-ed Poland on a Friday the 1st. The Bruins ended Vancouver’s Stanley Cup dreams on a Wednesday the 15th.

Any rational examination of history shows us that the personal assistants for Mr. Bad Luck and Ms. Fortune don’t schedule their appearances based on the calendar.

But you can bet your lucky rabbit’s foot that somewhere you will encounter a reference to it being a day when you should tread carefully.

“Superstition is a belief that there is a relation between an action or event when there is none,” Vancouver Island Univer-sity professor Robert Pepper-Smith said. “The psychological mechanism is we want control.”

Friday the 13th comes around with great regularity. Every year has at least one and some years (like last year) have three.

Why friggatriskaidekaphobia — yes there is a word for fear of Friday the 13th — has managed to embed its clutch-es on our collective consciousness is a matter of debate and conjecture.

Phillips Stevens, Jr., an associate professor of anthropol-ogy at the University at Buffalo, studies the origins of cults, superstitions and cultural identities. In a 2004 media release from the university, he said that Western culture’s fear of Friday the 13th likely started in the Middle Ages, based on Christian teachings.

“There were 13 people at the table (at the Last Supper) and the 13th was Jesus,” Stevens said. “The Last Supper was on a Thursday, and the next day was Friday, the day of

crucifixion. When ‘13’ and Friday come together, it is a double whammy for people who have these kind of magical beliefs.”

National Geographic echoed that finding in another 2004 article that also pointed to the Norse myth of the uninvited 13th dinner guest sending the world into darkness. That same article said 13 suffers from being after one of numerol-ogy’s favourite sons, the number 12 — 12 months in a year, 12 signs of the zodiac, 12 gods of Olympus, 12 labours of Hercules, 12 tribes of Israel, and 12 apostles of Jesus.

That factors into Western culture’s lack of thirteenth floors, room 13s, row 13 on airplanes, and dinner parties with 13 guests. Or at least some Western cultures. It’s Tuesday the 13th that is considered unlucky in Spain, and Friday the 17th in Italy. In Asia, it is the number four that makes people squeamish.

The 1907 Thomas Lawson novel Friday the Thirteenth is sometimes credited for cementing the date into popular culture, something that was reinforced by the long-running Friday the 13th horror movie franchise.

While there is some statistical evidence that people will change their behaviour on that day, experts agree on one thing: there is no correlation between Friday the 13th and bad luck.

The date has certainly has been kind to Mega Millions Lottery players in the state of Michigan. Kelsey Zachow of Port Huron won $66 million on a lottery drawn June 13, 2014 and Kendall Warren of Kalamazoo won $27 million on May 13, 2011.

So why do people continue to believe?It’s a question for the philosophers like Pepper-Smith, who

teaches critical reasoning. He said the cultural prevalence of Friday the 13th has people hard-wired to pay attention to bad luck on that day. When it happens, it overshadows everything else.

“Generally what happens is that event is so memorable all the other Friday that 13ths are forgotten.”

However, for all the lip service the day gets it doesn’t seem to get in the way of many activities one typically would think as potentially tied to some superstition.

Carol Baird-Krul is a member of the Nanaimo-Ladysmith Retired Teachers Association, which is hosting a grand open-ing for their archive of unique heritage educational material today. They chose the date deliberately, as did the Sanctuary Gabriola group, which is hosting a beer and burger fundraiser tonight to help refugee families.

“It’s a date people are going to remember,” she said. “We’ll treat it as a lucky day.”

A quick call-around to a handful of Vancouver Island lot-tery kiosks revealed local players certainly aren’t changing their lottery-buying habits due to the draw date. Ticket sales seem steady and on par with typical Fridays. In fact, people may be less likely to skip a ticket feeling that would be the day their lucky number actually would come up.

“You hear a lot of joking,” Justin (who declined to give his last name) at the Bay Centre in Victoria said, adding that some customers seem to be working the reverse psychology angle.

Black Press also talked to two marriage commissioners who each said they will be officiating wedding ceremonies planned for this Friday 13. Neither could comment publicly in order to protect the privacy of their clients, but said the superstition apparently doesn’t matter.

“They just wanted to get married and it was a good day to get married on,” one commissioner said.

That’s the type of thinking that appeals to Pepper-Smith, even as he sees the charm in letting superstition lead the way from time to time, despite the evidence to the contrary.

“People are free to say I reject that, but then they are rejecting rational response,” he said. “We conduct our lives according to the quality of our thinking, but at the same time it’s human, so we’ve got to smile about it.”

This year’s sole Friday the 13th is coming up

John Mckinley Photo2016’s calendar features just one Friday the 13th after the world experienced three last year.

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David Sutherland knows what he’d do if he received a chilling legal letter like the one three social media website hosts received on behalf of the City of Nanaimo last month.

He’d be mailing them a copy of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and pointedly asking what part of it supports a government seeking to restrict political speech.

Saying several personal attacks had been made about the competency and character of identifiable city staff, lawyer Adrienne Atherton asked website moderators to delete such posts and take steps to ensure they do not appear in the future.

The letter cited a desire to protect staff from workplace harassment and bullying, pointing out that is also required of employers under WorksafeBC regulations.

But Sutherland, a prominent Vancouver-based free speech and media lawyer, suggested the letter might be better de-scribed as an attempt to dress up the wolf of censorship in the sheep’s clothing of protecting employees. He said the Charter right to freedom of expression clearly supersedes any WorksafeBC policy, adding the government cannot be taking steps to stop people from criticizing it, no matter what Work-safeBC regulations might say.

“Civil servants are not immune from criticism. In many cases, calling them out by name may be the only way to inhibit misbehaviour,” he said.

“This terrible scourge of criticism of civil servants warrants the muzzling of citizens? We can’t have it and we can’t dress it up, this wolf in sheep’s clothing.”

When asked to provide specific examples of the attacks in question, Nanaimo director of human resources John Van Horne was unable to do so. He described the action as a response to an issue that is out there and has been for some time.

“It’s not any particular one,” he said.WorksafeBC said it had no opinion on the letter itself, but

confirmed it accurately describes Nanaimo’s responsibilities under WorksafeBC policy. Worksafe representatives were unaware of any complaints of this nature from Nanaimo or elsewhere, but said the employer is in the best position to determine whether action is necessary.

Nine Vancouver Island local government jurisdictions con-tacted by Black Press said they have not had an issue with social media commenting and have not considered action like Nanaimo’s. A tenth, Campbell River, said it has had prob-lems, but is not considering action.

“Yes, this has been an unfortunate issue for both staff and elected officials and is of concern to us,” Campbell Riv-

er Mayor Andy Adams said. “While it may be a ‘freedom of speech’ issue, nobody deserves to be subjected to some to malicious and defamatory comments that are becoming far too common, especially when it impacts people’s family members, particularly children.”

“Civil servants are not immune from criticism. In many cases, call-ing them out by name may be the only way to inhibit misbehaviour.”

- David Sutherland

North Cowichan Mayor Jon Lefebure said people who step over the line eventually get exposed for who they are.

“It is my belief (or is it hope) that those who abuse social media inevitably discredit themselves and have no influence beyond their small circle of disciples,” he said.

The websites Nanaimo Political Talk, Gord Fuller Munici-pally (A)Musing, and A Better Nanaimo Facebook pages re-ceived the letter.

Don Bonner of A Better Nanaimo said it did have a “bit of a chilling effect.”

— with files from Tamara Cunningham

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karaOke10 pm. Jack’s pub, tofino.

piCkLeBaLL 5-7 p.m. WCS. All ages welcome.

SeniOrS SOCiaL 1:30-4 p.m., tofino Legion.

St. COLumBa ChurCh 7 p.m. 110 2nd St.

artS grOup 7-10 p.m. tofino Legion.

DrOp-in VOLLeYBaLL 7-9 p.m. USS. $2.

hOuSing meeting 2-4 p.m. Ucluelet Community Centre. Come talk about the impacts short term rentals and Airbnb are having on Ucluelet’s hous-ing situation. Guest speaker Karen Sawatzky, who is going through her Masters degree at Simon Fraser University, will present. All residents are invited and encouraged to participate and weigh in on this timely topic.

ThU. mAy 12BingO7-10 p.m. tofino Legion.

DrOp-in BaDmintOn 7-9 p.m. uSS gym. $2.

FRI. mAy 13karaOke10 p.m., Officials Sports Lounge. ucluelet.

LegiOn rOCk ShOw8: 30 p.m., tofino Legion. Steve Bick, Salt & rust, the reprieve and more. get there early so you can get in. members and up to 6 guests per member. no minors. members free. guests $10.00.

nO SChOOL at ueSthere will be no school on Friday at ucluelet elementary school.

SAT. mAy 14St. FranCiS OF aSSiSi5:30 p.m.

Open Skate4-5:30 pm Seaplane Base. $5

SAT. mAy 14Sweep ukee’S BrOOm 10 a.m. Come help eradicate invasive scotch broom from ucluelet. meet at ucluelet anaF parking lot, 1708 peninsula road. Bring your cutters, pruners, snippers, saws and muscles! Let’s cut BrOOm in BLOOm!!!

SUN. mAy 15DrOp-in BaDmintOn 7-9 p.m. uSS gym. $2.

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uniteD/angLiCanSerViCe4 p.m. uCC.

tOFinO FeLLOwShip10:30 a.m. tofino Legion.

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ChriSt COmmunitY10:30a.m., 1419 peninsula rd.

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mON. mAy 16mOnDaY mOVie 8 p.m. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, Clayoquot Theatre, Tofino.

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LegiOn YOuth night7-9 p.m., tofino Legion.

tOFinO COunCiL 10 a.m. tofino council chambers. 121 third Street.

MAY 17 DAD’s night out in tofino tofino launches Dad’s nights Out. events will run every tuesday through may and the first half of June. Come out and explore places in your community and learn something new. Open to all dads and their kids. all events are free. register through the district office at 250-725-3229. First event will be held on tuesday may 17. Bring your kids to a cooking course with the wildside grill’s Jesse Blake at the tofino Community hall and meet other local dads.

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Tofino Arts Council

ANNUALGENERAL MEETING

Tuesday, May 17th ~ 7 pmDarwin's Cafe

in the Tofino Botanical Gardens

If you're interested in the arts, please join us for food and refreshments and an engaging discussion.

"Creating a vibrant Arts community:Is Tofino's Arts and Culture Master

Plan working?"

air pollution:

• Pollutants and their sources• Health effects• Airshed management• Port Alberni initiatives

PUBLIC HEALTH FORUMAdmission Is Free. Light Refreshments Served.

PANEL OF EXPERTSDr. Michael Brauer, UBC Population &Public Health

Dr. Sarah Henderson, BC Centre Disease Control

Mr. Earle Plain, BC Ministry of Environment

Dr. Paul Hasselback, Island Health Authority

If you have air quality concerns you would like our panel of experts to address, contact:

1.800.665.5864(LUNG) info @bc.lung.ca

Alberni Valley Multiplex 3737 Roger Street, Port Alberni, BC

THURSDAY • 6-8 pm • May 26, 2016

what are the risks?

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LONG BEACHLONG BEACHLONG BEACHLONG BEACH

MEN’S & LADIES’ NIGHTSEVERY Wednesday for the GuysEVERY Thursday for the Ladies

Tee off @ 5:00pm - 250-725-3332 to register.

MAY HOURS: Open Every Day 10 a.m. to 12 MidnightNew sunset patio opens May Long Weekend!

Daily Specials! • Delivery After 5!1992 Peninsula Rd. Call 250.726.2211

BOWLING + BILLIARDS + LICENSEDFAMILY RESTAURANT

7598

497 Monday Night Movie

Clayoquot Sound Theatre380 Campbell, Tofi no

Monday, May 16, at 8pm

Whiskey Tango FoxtrotTina Fey stars as a journalist recounting her

wartime coverage in Afghanistan

7600187

Comedy112 min 14A

OPEN 7DAYS A WEEK

11 to 11

FREE DELIVERY After 5pm on orders over $21

250-725-2121TOFINO

TOFINO LEGION

MEMBERS & GUESTSAll Canadian Citizens and Many Others are

Welcome to Join – No Military History NeededFor Information Call 250-725-3323

ROCK SHOW - STEVE BICK, SALT & RUST, THE REPRIEVE, AND MORE May 13. Doors 8:30pm Get there early so you can get in! Members & up to 6 guests per member. No minors. Members free. Guests $10.STEAK NIGHT May 21 Serving from 6-8pm Legion members & kids, and up to 6 adult guests per member. Tickets at the door. Get there early for a steak. Full steak dinner $18. Everything but the steak $12. Free chicken nugget dinner for youngsters.3RD ANNUAL LEGION GALA FUNDRAISER May 28, 6:30pm $60. Show only 8pm $25.Prime Rib dinner, Auction, Burlesque Show.Only 100 dinner tickets available. Get yours early. No minors. Contact Duncan McMaster 250-725-3177 or Arlene McGinnis 250-725-3310 for tickets or auction donations.DROP-IN JUDO Mondays & Wednesdays 7 to 8:30 pm – A District of To� no Recreation Program – Contact Don Travers 250-725-2145DARTS Mondays, 8 to 11 pm • Competitive and Social • Bar, Pool Tables, Snooker Table, and Ping Pong Tables All OpenYOUTH PROGRAM Tuesdays, 7 to 9 pm, Drop In • Youth Ages 10 to 18 • Free • Social • Pool, Snooker, Foosball • Ping Pong • Dancing • Youth-Inspired ActivitiesBEAVERS & CUBS Wednesdays, 2:45 - 4:15 pm • Contact Freda Hubert 250-725-3997GAMES & SOCIAL Weds, 7-11pm & Fridays, 4-11pm • Bar, Pool, Snooker, Ping Pong, Foosball, DartsGIRL GUIDES OF CANADA Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:45 pm• Contact Samantha Hackett 250-534-9777BINGO Thursdays, 7 to 10 pm • Bar Open • Come early. and get your cards and refreshments and play BINGO!

The Little Prince PG108 min | FantasyFriday, May 20 6:00PMWhiskey Tango Foxtrot R112 min | Comedy/DramaFriday, May 20 8:00PM

The Little Prince PG108 min | FantasySaturday, May 21 1:00PMWhiskey Tango Foxtrot R112 min | Comedy/DramaSaturday, May 21 3:00PM

www.ucluelet.ca | 500 Matterson Drive | 250-726-7772 7600171

Robin Myck Local Voice

The First Ucluelet Beavers, Cubs, Scouts, Scout-ers and family members participated in the Annual Jamboree On The Trail on Wednesday May 4, 2016.

Jamboree On The Trail is an annual day for the World Scout Movement to hike together.

All Scouts, whatever their age and wherever they may be in the world, are invited to participate in whatever way they can.

Approximately 30 kids and 15 parents walked the 20 minute Willowbrae trail to Florencia Bay Beach.

Enjoying the sun and the company of each oth-er the group also took park in The Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup initiative by Vancouver aquarium and WWF, World Wildlife Fund.

The group collected approx. 10 bags of garbage, items ranging from tiny plastics, broken toys, foam, and lots of plastic bottles. All mostly found washed up in the driftwood.

Mr. Dams from Parks Canada met with the group prior to their journey and explained safety protocol on the beach when encountering wild life, water safety, and why it is important to help keep our beaches clean.

Shoreline litter threatens wildlife, who may mis-take waste items for food, or become entangled in it. Cleanups contribute to healthy freshwater and marine ecosystems and can take place anywhere land meets water. Cleanups also help you and your team think about how you can reduce the amount of everyday litter that you produce.

Mr. Dams also showed the kids a glass ball that one of his co -workers found a few weeks prior on Long Beach- one of the cool perks when helping clean beaches!

The Jamboree on the Trail and the Shoreline Cleanup was a great way to spend an evening with friends and do something good for the community.

This is one of the many great evenings Beavers, Cubs and Scouts participate in.

Scouts host trail cleanup andrew bailey Photo

Discarded debris unfortunately frequents the West Coast’s trails and the First Ucluelet Beavers, Cubs Scouts and Scouters helped clear some away while celebrating a jamboree last week.

tofino-ucluelet westerly news, may 11, 2016

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