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Bc’s provincial gov-ernment seems ready to help tofino secure a new landing pad for emergency helicopters.

tofino general Hospi-tal has been without a helipad since transport canada regulations forced the former heli-pad to close in 2011.

at a press conference in tofino last week in the wake of the tragic leviathan ii disaster, Bc Premier christy clark said a new heli-pad is needed.

“this is the only (Vancouver) island hos-pital that doesn’t have a helipad so we’ve got to do some work there as well. that’s part of the reason i’m here. i want to speak to the emergency responders and members of the community; where they’ve seen gaps, where they need help, because, heaven forbid, if there’s another dis-aster people want to be ready and we want to make sure that we’ve learned everything that we can from what hap-pened on Sunday night here.”

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ANDREW BAILEYWesterly newsa scheduling shakeup is

about to nix one of the West coast’s longest standing traditions.

tofino and ucluelet have traditionally come together on Remembrance day with each town hosting a shared cere-mony every other year but this tradition will end next week as both will be hosting their own ceremonies and both ceremon-ies will start at 10 a.m.

a scouring of this newspaper office’s archives discovered a nov. 2, 1977 edition of the Westcoaster—a Westerly news predecessor—that notes it was ucluelet’s turn to host that year, meaning the two towns have honoured Remembrance day together for at least 37 years.

this year is also ucluelet’s turn to host but the tofino legion’s executive board has

decided to split from tradition and plan their own event.

legion secretary cam Mac-donald said the executive made its decision at a special meeting held last week.

He said the legion’s exec-utive was wary of ucluelet’s army navy airforce Veterans club (anaF) being potentially shut down by Bc anaF head command and the legion could not wait for the anaF’s status to clear up.

“it just got down to the point where we had to start making some preparations and we still hadn’t had any word from ucluelet,” Macdonald said.

“We called a special exec-utive meeting to review the situation and it was finally decided by the executive that we’d go it alone.”

Minutes after the decision was made, Macdonald got a call from ucluelet’s anaF co-interim manager Bronwyn

Kelleher who relayed the good news that head command had decided to keep the anaF open.

“We were still sitting in the meeting when we had a phone call from one of the people in ukee to say that they were going to do it and i said, ‘i’m afraid that we have just made the decision that we have to get on with it,’” Macdonald said.

“We’re going to help them in any way we can and we’ll no doubt be reviewing the situation again next year… as far as i’m concerned there’s no animosity, i just wish there had been a little more com-munication and we might have been able to work something out.”

He acknowledged the legion’s decision could have been reversed at the time of Kelleher’s call but said prepar-ations needed to be made and

suggested tofino and ucluelet are both well equipped to han-dle their own ceremonies.

“this business of alternating started when both commun-ities were 500-800 people and you really couldn’t do a nota-ble ceremony in the two places separately,” he said. “i think each community is big enough to put on a good show on their own.”

tofino’s decision to break the tradition and split up the towns blindsided Kelleher and her fellow anaF co-interim manager Kasia Kromka.

“We’re disappointed that tofino has decided to not sup-port our Remembrance day ceremony, when we all went out to their’s last year, but it is what it is and we’re going for-ward and we’re going to have a really beautiful ceremony,” Kromka said.

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Back in the beginning of October, the Kidney Founda-tion of Canada, BC & Yukon Branch honoured Ucluelet Service BC centre staff with a special Community Leadership Award for their dedication and support of organ donation.

The government workers, stationed at 1636 Peninsula Road just across from the Ukee Post Office, were rec-ognized for all their positive work in helping West Coast residents to register a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ decision regarding organ donation.

“The big discrepancy is the between the number of

people who think they are registered and the number who are actually registered,” notes Area Services Manager Jim Edgar.

He said the main reason for the confusion is due to the fact that the govern-ment recently switched to a new online system of organ donation registration. Previ-ously, people used to register by putting a sticker on their driver license.

“Approximately 90 per cent of British Columbians support the concept of organ donation, but currently less than 20 per cent are actually registered,” he said.

Provincially, the B.C. gov-ernment has received about

20,000 new registrations over the past six months. 24 of those registrations came from Ucluelet.

To register your decision online, visit: www.trans-plant.bc.ca/be-donor. All you need is a valid BC Care Card (personal health) number.

Or, if you’d prefer human connection, swing by the Service BC office and register in person.

“Brigitte will set you up,” said Edgar.

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The long-anticipated arriv-al of fiber optic Internet is just a few months away.

The West Coast will undoubtedly be hesitant to get its hopes up as its been promised faster Internet speed and added online capacity before, just to be burned by budget-based snags, but this time around both companies involved have assured the switch will be flipped in the spring of 2016.

The roughly $12 million project includes BC Hydro replacing about 350 of its poles along a roughly 65 km stretch of Hwy 4 for Telus

to string fibre optic cables through.

Hydro’s shovels officially hit the ground earlier this year and Hydro spokes-person Karla Louwers told the Westerly last week that the work should conclude by the end of November.

She acknowledged the company is coming in about a month behind schedule but said a late addition of 10 unexpected pole replace-ments pushed the project back.

“From the original scope of the project we were on time, it’s those 10 additional poles that were added that were outside of the scope,” Lou-wers said.

“We’re not just replacing

poles, we’re also replacing and upgrading some of the equipment on the poles.”

She said Hydro crews are working with a live 60-thou-sand volt line that could not be turned off without cutting the entire Coast off from power.

“Usually when crews work live-line it does take a little bit longer to complete that work because there’s that extra precaution built into those work methods,” she said.

“That circuit is a critical circuit; it’s the only feed to the West Coast. If we were to have to take it out the whole community would be out so it was essential that we were able to complete that work

using live-line methods.”Telus spokesperson Liz

Sauvé said Telus is ready to start funneling fiber cables through once Hydro’s pole replacement work is finished.

“TELUS will begin string-ing the fiber in the next couple of weeks, and will be working over the coming months to place the fiber across the 65 kilometres,” Sauvé said.

“Barring extreme weather over the winter, we expect the project will be complete in the spring of next year, bringing local residents and businesses access to high-speed Internet and much-needed enhanced capacity.”

Telus, BC Hydro, All Nations Trust Company and the province are expected to pitch in to cover the project’s roughly $12 million price tag.

Hydro’s portion of the bill will be roughly $4.7 million, according to Louwers who noted Telus is handling the lion’s share of the bill.

“We wouldn’t have had to do anywhere near the amount of the work that we’re doing there unless fiber was being attached to those poles so much of these pole replacements were real-ly Telus driven,” she said.

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An Albertan tourist got her-self arrested twice in one day during a visit to Ucluelet last week.

The woman was first intro-duced to local police when she wandered into a local residence uninvited around 2:30 a.m. on Oct. 26, accord-ing to Sgt. Jeff Swann of the Ucluelet RCMP.

“She was no risk to any-body, she was just extremely intoxicated and confused,” Swann said. “We tried to take her to her hotel but she was too drunk to figure out what room she was in.”

With the only other accom-modation-option being her truck, where she couldn’t be trusted to stay, the woman was detained in cells until she sobered up.

She didn’t stay sober for long however as she was arrested again around 5:30 p.m. for being drunk in public.

“She got out of police cus-tody, went to Amphitrite Lighthouse, got drunk and continued that behaviour,” Swann said.

Police had received a report alleging the tourist was drinking with another female and one male near the lighthouse.

“They were driving around the barricades around the lighthouse causing damage to the grass,” Swann said.

On their way to the scene, the vehicle police were look-ing for drove past in the opposite direction so they turned around in pursuit eventually locating the vehicle parked with the three occu-pants outside.

Swann said all three received tickets for being intoxicated in public and one was detained for uttering threats to police but was later released after calming down.

“They were all issued vio-lation tickets, the keys were

seized and the vehicle was towed,” Swann said adding police were unable to lay any impaired driving charges.

“By the time we stopped the vehicle, it was parked and we couldn’t prove who was driving.”

An open box of Lucky Lager was found in the backseat of the vehicle.

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BC premier Christy Clark held a press conference in Tofino last week to speak to Oct. 25’s tragic whale-watching catastrophe that killed six of the 27 passengers onboard the Leviathan II.

The 65-foot vessel capsized near Vargas Island and emergency responders, including volunteer rescue crews from Ahousaht, raced to save as many lives as they could, pulling 21 survivors out of the water.

“I’m here today with this incred-ible community who has stepped

up in a moment of crisis and real-ly demonstrated the true sprit of British Columbia,” Clark said.

“We should be, if I could speak on behalf of everybody in the province, incredibly proud of the people who live here.”

She said she plans to nominate Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne and Ahousaht Chief Greg Louie for cit-izenship awards on behalf of their communities.

“The Ahousaht First Nation, the people of Tofino, the people who know this coast so well, when there was a crisis, when there were lives at risk, people here

stepped up and stepped in and saved lives,” she said.

“We have just established a cit-izenship award in British Colum-bia and it’s not the normal thing but I’m going to be nominating the Chief of the Ahousaht First Nation and the mayor of Tofino to accept some of the first citizen-ship awards that will be awarded and to present to these commun-ities that have done so much and really demonstrated courage and decisiveness and really a sprit of self-sacrifice and caring.”

Clark said she was “horrified,” and “ heartbroken” when she

heard about the devastating disaster but was awed to see the communities’ collective response.

“I felt the tragic heartbreak that I think all of us felt,” she said. “As the story emerged about how British Columbians and the people here stepped up, I have to say I felt really, really, proud to be a British Columbian.”

During the conference’s ques-tion period, Clark was asked if BC’s First Nations are pro-vided with enough emergency response resources.

Clark said the province is ready to provide more and noted BC is the only province in Canada with a minister solely responsible for emergency management.

“I would say, based on what we saw on Sunday night, the Ahousaht First Nation didn’t miss a beat. They were as ready as you can be and we should be so thankful and so proud of the way that they stepped in,” Clark said.

“First Nations on this coast have been fishing it for millennia. Nobody knows this water better than they do…If they need more help, if they want more training, we will be there to help them do that. That’s part of the program that we’ve established with Min-ister (Naomi) Yamamoto.”

Clark said she had spoken with Ahousaht Chief Greg Louie and thanked Ahousaht for its heroic efforts

“More lives would have been lost if not for the Ahousaht First Nation and the people who stepped up, not because they were told to but because they knew it was the right thing to do,” she said. “We are all incredibly grate-ful to them for what they did.”

The Leviathan II was the lar-

gest vessel owned by local whale watching company Jamie’s Whal-ing Station.

The passengers onboard were reportedly not wearing lifejackets when the vessel capsized and the company’s owner Jamie Bray told reporters last week that wearing them is not required on large cov-ered vessels.

Clark acknowledged there have been questions about whether to make lifejackets mandatory on all vessels but said she would wait for a Transportation Safety Board of Canada report of Sun-day’s disaster before making any suggestions.

“I’m not going to recommend that government change that and make it mandatory today. I think we need to understand what happened in this incident and then we can have a rational and a really thoughtful response to it,” she said.

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Tradition lost, cont. from pg. 1Kelleher said the ANAF’s status with

head command was a moot point as she had assured the Tofino Legion executive that Ucluelet’s UAC Hall was booked and ready to go in case the ANAF was shut down.

Both Kromka and Kelleher disputed MacDonald’s claim that the ANAF failed to communicate and said they kept the Legion in the loop at every turn.

“They had their own private closed door meeting at the Legion and they are the ones that didn’t involve Ucluelet,” Kromka said adding the ANAF was not invited to speak at the Legion’s meeting.

“We were shocked that they decided to go ahead with their decision…we’re just going to keep going forward and we’ll see what happens next year.”

She noted the Legion’s decision forced the West Coast’s veterans and organiza-tions like the Canadian Rangers to pick sides.

“It’s making people focus more on choosing a community instead of choos-ing the West Coast,” she said.

“Tofino and Ucluelet are already a little divided and I think we need to do

as much as we can to make sure both communities stay connected and sharing Remembrance Day is a great way.”

She said Ucluelet never considered can-celling their ceremony and letting Tofino take the reins this year.

“That was never a thought,” she said. “We didn’t want to take this oppor-tunity away from Ucluelet. This is Ucluelet’s year.”

Ucluelet RCMP detachment commander Sgt. Jeff Swann was disappointed to hear the two com-munities won’t be sharing Remem-brance Day this year.

This will be Swann’s seventh Remembrance Day ceremony on the West Coast having attended three in each town in the past six years.

“I really want to see that trad-ition continue of both towns coming together to remember our veterans,” he said.

“It’s Ucluelet’s turn to host it this year and if there’s anything I can offer as a police officer with 20 years service to try to mediate, or meet with the parties on both

sides to try to come to some sort of con-clusion, my time is free and I’ll gladly volunteer it.”

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On Tuesday morning, one pas-senger from the capsized Levia-than II remained unaccounted for.

The Leviathan II sank near Plover Reefs on Oct. 25.

The BC Coroners Service has confirmed five of the 27 pas-sengers onboard the 65-foot whale-watching vessel were killed in the tragedy.

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada believes most of the passengers were on the vessel’s top deck, raising its centre of gravity, when a wave hit causing the vessel to broach and then capsize.

Ucluelet detachment command-er Sgt. Jeff Swann said the one passenger still unaccounted for is presumed dead due to survivors’ accounts of the tragedy.

“If there’s a boat accident and nobody saw or heard anything you would think, ‘Man I hope he’s alive, I hope he made it to a beach, I hope he got onto a log,’ but in

this case we know he drowned,” Swann told the Westerly.

“There were family members and crewmembers that were hold-ing him and he was frothing at the mouth unfortunately because he had swallowed too much water and he was unconscious.

“They couldn’t hold onto him. He was down under the water and they were trying to hold him up, two of them transferred hands trying to hold him up and he sunk right then and there…They were on the water for some time and he never surfaced so there’s unfortu-nately zero chance he’s alive.”

Swann was the driver of one of the two vessels transporting the dive team to the search area and said they combed the ocean floor last week before rough weather halted their efforts.

“The aircraft and helicopters can still be out there search-ing and you can still search the shorelines by vessel or on foot, and part of those processes are still continuing, but putting scuba divers in the water has been sus-

pended for right now,” he said. “The conditions were just too

unsafe to put a diver in, you can’t see them when they pop up…The idea is you’re supposed to follow their bubbles around so we know where they are and in that kind of surge you can’t see any of the bubbles so you can’t see where they come up.”

He said the search area’s prox-imity to the rocks at Plover Reefs prevented him from steering his vessel close enough to the divers with its engine off.

“You can’t have props going when there’s drivers nearby,” he said.

“You’ve got to keep your bow into the weather and obviously you can’t be shutting your boat off when you’re in seas like that you have to pull them to a safer spot and in this case there’s nowhere safe to do that.”

The passenger remained missing on Tuesday morning but Swann said the dive team is com-mitted to finding the body.

“As police officers we under-

stand how important it is for people to have that closure,” he said. “It’s for the family. The main thrust behind it to get closure for the family.”

He said the mood onboard his police vessel was somber.

“In a recovery mission that this is, we’ve got a grim task to do,” he said. “Somebody is going to be swimming down there and they’re going to come across a dead body but that’s their job and that’s

what they’re trained to do.”He said the team has recovered

items believed to be from the Leviathan II.

“The divers found an iPhone charger, they found ball caps, they found t-shirts, they found pieces from the missing vessel like a window and a big metal bar, all right where we’ve said it’s sup-posed to be,” he said.

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ANAF back in businessANDREW BAILEYWesterly NewsDon’t call it a comeback, it’s

been here for years, but new energy has breathed new life into Ucluelet’s Army Navy and Air Force Veterans club.

The ANAF is coming off a whirlwind week that had its doors set to close for good on Wednesday just to have that decision reversed on Friday.

The ANAF was nearly shut down last year but a surge of local opposition, steered by a team of young locals, stopped this move in its tracks.

Since then, the club has been run by an interim management committee but this commit-tee was blindsided last week when BC ANAF head command arrived in Ucluelet ready to close the club’s doors.

“They painted a rather dire picture of the situation for Unit 293,” said the committee’s co-interim manager Bronwyn Kelleher. “They stated that they had come here to shut down the unit.”

She said head command’s motives for closing the unit were strictly financial and their minds were changed once the local membership was able to explain how culturally import-ant the venue is.

“They were coming at it from a purely financial position. Their feeling was that the club is not making enough revenue each month to justify staying open…

We were able to present the board with some things that they weren’t aware of that made them review the situation,” Kel-leher said.

Based on this new informa-tion, head command decided to not only let the ANAF’s doors stay open, but also to hand over its management to a locally elected committee.

This means the current inter-im committee will be replaced by an official one and co-inter-im manager Kasia Kromka was stoked on the news.

“What’s really exciting is that we are now going to have con-trol of the ANAF back to Uclue-let and the membership, which is how it’s supposed to be,” Kromka said. “Now the hall is coming back to Ukee ownership and Ukee management.”

The new committee will be elected on Dec. 6.

Kromka said the hall has a vital role to play in Ucluelet.

“It keeps community members invested in their community especially nowadays with every-body sitting inside on the inter-net and on TV, we really need events and venues to get people out of their homes,” she said.

“That way people socialize and we come together as a commun-ity more.”

Kelleher was equally thrilled with head command’s decision to allow the local ANAF to forge ahead under local management.

“I was very relieved that BC Command was able to see things from a small town per-spective and realize that this unit is not going to be a large revenue maker but it is a large supporter of the community and that’s more of what this unit’s about,” she said.

“We’re very pleased with the results that we’ve had over the past year. I think that the club has had a lot of new light shine on it.”

Kelleher, 31, and Kromka, 28, don’t fit the stereotype of a vet-erans clubs’ membership but Kelleher noted the face of the ANAF is changing.

“It’s not just youthful energy but different groups coming together so that you can have a broader spectrum of things happening in one venue because in a small town you have to have your finger in a lot of pies,” she said.

Staying open isn’t the only thing the ANAF is celebrating as its new fundraising calendar landed this week.

“We have 12 local ladies, all ANAF members, dressed up in 1950’s military outfits and we’ve got them in different scenes all around Ukee,” Kromka said.

“It’s amazing. It supports a local cause, it’s got local ladies and it’s got fun facts about Ukee’s military heyday. Basically there is something for everyone in this calendar.”

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Online: www.westerlynews.caLocals pin on poppies to honour vetsWednesday, November 4, 2015

Tofino mayor Josie Osborne received her poppy from Glenna Richards of the Legion Poppy Fund Branch 65. In 2015 the Legion Poppy Fund donated $500 to the Veterans’ Transition Fund and Seaview Seniors Housing. Locals are encouraged to put on a poppy in honour of Canada’s veterans.

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At 10 a.m. the parade will assemble at the Tofino Fire Hall and make its way to St. Columba Church for a non-denominational Service of Remembrance. The parade will then head to the Cenotaph outside the Tofino Legion for the Remembrance Day ceremony. Following the proceedings, the Legion will host an all-ages luncheon provided by the Ladies’ Auxiliary. All are welcome.

At 10 a.m. the parade will assemble at the Ucluelet Fire Hall and make its way to the Catholic Church for a non-denominational Service of Remembrance. The parade will then head to the Cenotaph outside Ucluelet’s ANAF Unit 293 for the Remembrance Day ceremony. An all-ages luncheon will be held at the ANAF after the proceedings and everyone is welcome to attend.

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The Tofino General Hospital Foundation continues to flex its fundraising prowess by bring-ing state-of-the-art equipment into the West Coast’s only local hospital.

The foundation (THF) recently purchased an $18,000 bladder scanner with funding from the Mr. and Mrs. P.A. Woodward’s Foundation.

The Woodward’s Founda-tion was struck 60 years ago to provide funding for B.C. hospitals and THF president Arlene McGinnis said she was “jubilant” when Woodward’s agreed to fund the new bladder scanner.

“We’re such a small commun-ity so if anybody is willing to help us in anyway we’ll gladly accept that help,” she said.

“This is for the communities of the West Coast so anything that we purchase that can improve healthcare in our hospital, or maintain it to the level it is, that’s really important to us as a foundation.”

THF secretary Judy Michaud said Woodward’s offered a refreshingly straightforward application process and responded quickly to the THF’s request.

“It wasn’t the pages of appli-cation and red-tape that we so

often today run into with so many things,” she said.

The new bladder scanner will save patients from catheteriza-tion allowing for non-invasive treatment and is the latest in a myriad of medical equipment the foundation has obtained for the hospital, mostly through local fundraising.

“The mandate of the Tofino Hospital Foundation is to fur-ther the advancement of this local hospital with equipment that would not otherwise be purchased by Island Health,” Michaud said.

“In the last eight years the foundation has fundraised over $350,000 in this community, and I don’t mean just Tofino I mean our West Coast… The support we get from this community is phenomenal.”

McGinnis agreed.“None of this would possible

without the community’s sup-port,” she said.

“The community is 100 per cent behind us. It’s incredible.”

She said equipping the hos-pital with the best and latest equipment is “extremely import-ant” for the West Coast.

“We are two hours away, by road, to the next help that we can get and it could be a matter of life and death,” she said.

“We feel that we have real-ly excellent staffing with the doctors and the nurses that we are getting…It’s so important

to have that excellent one-on-one care that you get when you come to this hospital.”

Michaud added that without state-of-the-art equipment, attracting and retaining the hospital’s high level of staffing would be difficult.

“If staff come to work here and things are not adequate you lose them,” she said. “There is enough demand for healthcare professionals around BC that jobs are plentiful…if it’s not up to snuff they can walk away.”

With the new bladder scanner purchased and installed, the foundation now has its sights set on a $24,000 Lifepak 15 Defibrillator and received a sol-id start to this pursuit thanks to a $10,000 donation from the Tofino Saltwater Classic.

The foundation also hopes to purchase two $5,000 syringe pumps designed to calculate and deliver drug dosages for children.

Anyone interested in donat-ing to the foundation can do so through P.O. Box 190 Tofino and donations are tax deductible.

“If anybody is willing to give us any help or support or donate to us, please do so. It will benefit everybody,” McGin-nis said.

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BRYAN GRIGGLocal Voice

It is officially volleyball sea-son on the West Coast.

The Ucluelet Secondary School Junior Team started their 2015 - 2016 competitive season over the Thanksgiving weekend at the Vancouver Island University High School Open.

The Warriors definitely gained experience and built momentum throughout the tourney.

At the end of pool play, the Warriors found themselves in 4th place, advancing to the playoffs.

In the Quarterfinals, the War-riors played a tightly contested match against Dover Bay, com-ing out victorious in straight sets.

In semifinal action, the War-riors came up against familiar foes in the Claremont Spartans.

After a strongly contested first match, the Warriors fell in straight sets, finishing tied for 4th in the tourney. Two Warriors took home All-Star nods, Isiah David and Diego Corlazolli.

This year’s Junior Team is Jarrod Lucas (Captain), Isaiah David, Diego Corlazzoli, Matteo Ludlow, Mac Costigan, Will For-tune, Maddy May, Carol Curley, Declan Wood, Barkley Ahier, Fred Sanford, Ella Gilbert, Trin-ity Clark, Anthony Louie and Taylah Mesarty

In the second tournament of the season, the Warriors trav-elled to Victoria to participate in the Claremont Spartans Junior

Invitational. Competing in the tourney were

some of the Province’s top AAA and AA teams, competition was stiff.

The Juniors competed in every match, finishing Third in Pool Play.

In the playoffs, the Juniors fell to Reynolds (eventual 2nd place finishers) in a highly contested match.

The Warriors finished out their tourney with a win over GP Vanier, to capture the 7th spot.

The Warriors continue their season Nov 4/5 at the North Island Championships at Carihi Secondary School. Go Warriors.

Bryan Grigg is the coach of USS’ Junior Volleyball Team.

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Tourists and transients torped-oed Tonquin’s tranquility this summer and locals want their municipal government to take action.

Tofino’s district office received several letters about abuse to the Tonquin Park area, and nega-tive tourism impacts in general, throughout the summer and two such letters landed on Oct. 13’s regular council meeting agenda.

After hashing out potential strategies, like pay parking and keeping the park a secret from tourists, council agreed to meet with Tofino’s recreation commis-sion in search of strategies.

Coun. Cathy Thicke kicked off the discussion by suggesting sev-eral hundred people visit Tonquin Park every day during the busy season and the landscape is being degenerated by abuse.

She said a washroom is needed as is better signage prohibiting RV’s and tour buses from clogging up the park’s small parking lot and added that the district should talk to Tourism Tofino about not popularizing the area.

“There’s about 10 parking spots at the park, they’re always full,” she said. “After five years of dis-cussing a washroom in the park just this summer we have a por-ta-potty at the top in the parking lot, that’s it.”

Mayor Josie Osborne said coun-cil has a limited parks budget and does not have enough money to install a full-blown washroom.

“We have to actually step back and ask ourselves what tools do we have that can mitigate some of the problems that we’re starting to see at the park,” she said.

“It’s not a small tiny community anymore and it’s not just a picnic spot for families anymore. There’s no doubt we need to do something about it, the question is what kind of resources are we going to be able to apply to do it.”

She said the park has three

access points and suggested pay parking in the small lot could steer drivers to more spacious parking areas like the nearby Community Hall.

Coun. Greg Blanchette cited two distinct problem-groups.

“One is just overuse of people going down to watch the sunset. They’re not tearing trees down, they’re not breaking branches, there’s just too many of them down there that may be the prob-lem. The other problem is people who are camping, drinking, start-ing fires and breaking bylaws,” he said.

“Those two compartments require very different ways of approaching them and it would be very interesting to know what the balance is between them.”

He said he liked Thicke’s idea of keeping the area under wraps from tourists.

“There are a couple of tools I can think of right off the bat. One is kind of a negative tool, which is to stop publicizing it. Not put it on any of our signs and to in fact even ask Tourism Tofino and other bodies to go easy on it or not even mention it. It gets enough publi-city through the grapevine,” he said.

He added increased bylaw enforcement could help.

“If we’re strategic about it, a few bylaw blitzes where you hit it really hard early in the season and you have a bylaw officer out there all night if necessary, or two of them, then that will start get-ting the word out,” he said.

Coun. Al Anderson wondered whether keeping the park a secret was possible considering the power of Internet chatter and also questioned council’s intent.

“I struggle with it because it is a public park,” he said. “We ask people to come use our trails, look at these great places to go, and now we’re saying, ‘Go away.’”

He also questioned bylaw’s abil-ity to solve the problem.

“I don’t think we’ll ever be able to afford enough bylaw to com-

pletely dissolve all these problems,” he said.

Coun. Duncan McMaster suggested the issue was not unique to Tofino.

“I think every city or com-munity is struggling with how to provide public space and not have it dominat-ed by one group whether it be panhandlers or drug addicts,” he said.

“We’ve talked about this before. We have bylaws but we’re not prepared to enforce them so, to me, we either have to look at the bylaws and see what we can enforce or else we just give up.”

He said boosting bylaw enforcement at Tonquin might just move the problem to other areas.

“If we clamp down on Tonquin they’ll probably move to the Monks property and then from the Monks property they’ll prob-ably move to Chesterman. They’ll just keep moving around,” he said.

“We’ve got to determine what we want and how we’re going to get it.”

Coun. Ray Thorogood said Ton-quin Park was once a haven for Tofino’s young families but has fallen prey to abuse and needs more bylaw attention.

“The abuse that’s going on down there, the cutting down of branch-es and trees and the garbage that’s left behind…enforcement is needed,” he said.

“Other than just telling them, ‘You’re doing something wrong’…stand there and make them clean up their mess while they’re there and dismantle their camping facilities. Don’t just mention it and walk off; stay there until it’s done.”

District CAO Bob Macpherson said bylaw officers spend more time at Tonquin Beach than any other beach in Tofino.

“That is where we get the most calls, that is where we spend more time than anywhere else, so

we are aware of the issues that are occurring there,” he said.

MacPherson suggested if coun-cil wants to keep certain areas pristine than they should stop investing money into trails lead-ing to those areas.

“We seem to have a bit of a split personality as a community at times and this issue really under-lines it, where on the one hand we’re taking hotel tax money, investing it for tourism infra-structure, and then I’m hearing comments that we should stop telling our visitors where we’re investing that money,” he said.

“We’re naming trails Tonquin Trail and Tonquin Connector Trail, and then we’re surprised that people are showing up there…I think we maybe need to rethink some of this a little bit.”

He agreed with McMaster that the riff-raff would migrate rather than dissolve.

“This is going to be a bit of a game of whack-a-mole for a while. If we could wave a wand and solve things at Tonquin, it’s not like they’d leave town. We’ll be displacing them to somewhere else,” he said.

“We have a busy resort (com-munity) that attracts a lot of people in the summer and a lot of different people in the summer and I don’t want council or the

community to have any notion that there’s going to be a quick fix for any of this.”

He said Osborne’s pay parking idea could be effective in pushing parking traffic to Tonquin’s less congested access points.

Council agreed to speak with the rec commission about potential solutions.

Anderson questioned whether the issue was within the commis-sion’s capacity.

“The Rec. Commission really started out to support program-ming and to raise funds for recreation opportunities and it’s sort of growing and growing so it’s almost like a body of staff that we should have,” he said.

Baert said the commission would be a good place to start.

“If this is an issue for the Rec. Commission and they don’t want to go there, we need to be having a different kind of conversation...and also a review of our corporate structure because we don’t have a director of parks.”

Tofino’s district office has not had a director of parks and recreation since a 2012 restruc-turing that axed the position and moved recreation to Community Sustainability Manager Aaron Rodgers’ desk and moved parks to Public Works.

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SUSAN LEELiterary Voice

Last Dance in Shediac - Memoirs of Mum, Molly Lamb BobakAnny Scoones

I’m writing this review on my annual must-get-the-dogs-out-of-town Halloween pilgrimage to the Wya cabins at Ucluth beach. The tide is high, the surge and surf is running spectacular and the sun-set is stunning.

I must be honest, reading the blurb on Anny Scoones’ latest publication “on how it feels to watch her mother’s health decline,

and to finally watch her pass away” didn’t excite me. But now I know better, this book is the per-fect read for a retreat – to return to after the exhilaration of watch-ing humongous waves smashing 20 feet high against the rocks - to read in a comfy chair by the fire.

Far from being a melodramat-ic, psychological soul-searching tome upon her mother’s death, Anny’s book is truly delightful. As I should have expected, having a taste of Anny’s dry wit when she read her “Dominant Sow” story in Tofino last fall.

Anny writes in a direct, under-

stated and honest way. She some-how manages to weave her own, her parent’s, grandparent’s, and animal’s stories, with adventures with her Mum, life on her heritage farm Glamorgan, observations on life and amusing antidotes into a nicely flowing whole that captures the bond between the two women. And this crew cer-tainly led interesting lives and have no shortage of character. For instance, Anny was jailed in Minsk Russia for bringing sup-plies to an orphanage and her Mum thought “Stephen Harper’s lips were too shiny for a prime

minister”. I didn’t know of Molly Lamb

Boback, just that she was a dis-tinguished Canadian painter. A great surprise here is a generous serving of colour prints of Molly’s and Bruno’s (Anny’s father) art-works. The book cover is from her watercolour “Our Long Beach at Dusk”, Cox Bay being a favourite road trip destination.

Indeed, West Coasties will recognize much in this book, the drive to Long Beach, Pacific Sands, life in the Gulf Islands, Saanich and James Bay in Vic-toria. Yes, I know Shediac is in

New Brunswick, but the heart of the book lives here.

For her Ucluelet reading, Anny promised a story about drink-ing vermouth at Long Beach. I thought “how special”, but truth-fully, they drank vermouth every-where they travelled!

Spend an informal evening with Anny Scoones, Sat. Nov. 7 at 7:30pm, Blackberry Cove Market-place, 243 Main Street, Ucluelet. Bring you own vermouth.

Susan Lee is the owner of Black-berry Cove Marketplace in Ucluelet.

Anny Scoone ready for reading in Ukee

Visitors harshed Tonquin’s picturesque vibes this summer. Photo A. Bailey

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28 WEDNESDAYSeniors Social Afternoons, 1:30-4 p.m., Tofino Legion.

29 THURSDAYHealthy Babies Pro-gram/Family Ties, 10:30 a.m., Coastal Family Place, UCC. Ucluelet AA 8 p.m. Holy Family Church, Peninsula Rd.The Edge Youth Room, 3–6p.m., UCC.

30 FRIDAYBingo, Tofino Legion, 7:30 p.m.The Edge Youth Room, 2–6p.m.

31SATURDAYSt. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 5:30 p.m. AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis, Tofino.

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The events of October 25, 2015 will be remembered as a very dark day in the history of Jamie’s Whaling Station.

Since 1982 our sole focus has been to provide a safe, exciting and authentic West Coast experience to visitors from around the world.

Our company, our crew, and our staff are devastated and heartbroken by this tragic accident and the road to healing will be a long one.

However, through this tragedy we have been reminded of the strength, perseverance, and sel� essness of our community.

From the brave men and women of the local First Nations, Coast Guard, � rst responders, and other marine operators who immediately took to the water to help.To our own Captain and crew for performing so sel� essly to assist passengers and save lives. To emergency health personnel, � re� ghters, RCMP, and hospital staff who treated the injured. To To� no residents and local businesses who opened their homes, workplaces, and their hearts to comfort and support everyone in the aftermath.

To all of the community here in To� no, Ahousaht, and along the coast, we say thank you from the bottom of our hearts.

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