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In a year like 2015, full of upheaval and political drama, it’s hard for any one news story to stand out.

Government decisions often fly under the radar, with few people paying attention until something goes wrong.

But the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District’s decision to borrow $6 million to extend the runway at the Alberni Valley Regional Airport was on everyone’s radar from mere suggestion till final approval.

This year was certainly not the first year that the idea of expanding the airport was brought up but it was this year when the ACRD went to the voters to ask for their permission to borrow up to $6 million.

Opinions on the expansion went in and came from every direction. On one hand, extending the currently 3,952 by 75 foot runway to 5,000 by 100 feet would allow for bigger

planes to land.It would change the

runway classification from 2B to 3C—in layman’s terms, that increases the size of permissable passenger planes from nine to 40-seaters.

“That would include anything from a Dash 8 to a Shorts 360 to high-speed jet traffic,” said ACRD airport superintendent Mark Fortune at the time.

“It would also allow it to accommodate the

Coulson’s C-130.”It was the C-130s

that got the Alberni Valley riled up and the proposed expansion dubbed “Coulson’s expansion.”

“Why do the taxpayers, who are already overtaxed, have to pay for this? Where’s Wayne Coulson’s contribution?

“He’s the only one who’s going to benefit,” Dyan Lover said as the alternate approval process got underway this summer.

Wayne Coulson has certainly benefitted from this explansion.

Coulson Aviation signed a deal with Airbus allowing Coulson to retrofit their C295s with water and retardant tanks for aerial firefighting.

The C130s that

Coulson had signed a deal with Lockheed Martin for earlier could also now land here when full, rather than only one empty.

Despite the volume of protests and the debates on social media, the airport expansion passed the test. Only 303 of the necessary 2,500 voters registered their opposition to allowing the ACRD to borow up to $6 million.

Many of those in favour said that an expanded airport would allow for all sorts of new, commercial and passenger traffic from shipping to industry.

Currently, the airport expansion process is waiting on grant funding. In a worst case scenario, if the ACRD does not receive a single

grant the average homeowner will have to pay $23 more in taxes over the next 30 years. The expansion is due to be tendered out in January 2016 and work to be completed by the end of August.

But while everyone in the Valley hopes that extending the runway will lead to an economic boom for the region, there is always a downside.

The ACRD terminated its contract with the Alberni Valley Drag Racers Association in December due to a conflicting constructions schedule. Instead, the City of Port Alberni has picked up the slack and Thunder in the Valley will roar down Stamp Avenue in 2016.

TOP 5: 2015 IN THE NEWS1. Airport expansion

Alberni-Clayquot Regional District airport superintendent Mark Fortune stands by the soon-to-be expanded southeast end of the airport runway in June.

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2. Hawaii MarsIt’s not often that

the Alberni Valley makes provincial news but when your region is home to the biggest float plane in the world, it tends to make headlines.

It was an often confusing story. First there was no deal between Wayne Coulson and the province. Then there was a deal.

Then wait, no deal. And again, a deal.

The saga seemed endless and the

feeling was only intensified by the blaze burning on Dog Mountain, mere kilometres from the bomber base on Sproat Lake.

Weeks of back-and-forth bickering between the province and Coulson ensued.

The province called the Mars clunky, old and limited in what it could do. Coulson reminded everyone of the massive 27,000 litre drops that the Mars was capable of.

And all the while, Dog Mountain burned in the background.

Finally, a one-month contract was signed and the famous waterbomber slid onto the placid Sproat Lake waters on July 7.

But none of it seemed real until on July 10, for the first time since the end of the 2013 firefighting season, the Hawaii Mars dropped a load of water on Sproat Lake.

Continued / A7The Hawaii Mars was lowered onto the calm waters of Sproat Lake on July 7.


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he death of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett on Dec. 4 prompted the traditional round of polite tributes.

He was the man from Kelowna who remade

Vancouver, with SkyTrain, BC Place stadium and Expo 86 to put the city on the world map. He won three majority governments before handing over the steering wheel of a smoothly running Social Credit Party to Bill Vander Zalm.

Outside B.C., the wire service obituaries ran to a few paragraphs, defining Bennett first as the “architect of financial restraint in the province.”

It seems an ordinary notion today, but when Bennett unleashed his “restraint program” on the B.C. government in 1983, it was

presented as a right-wing coup on a socialist utopia.

A bit of background: the B.C. economy was in the grip of an international recession, hitting resource industries and government revenues hard.

Bennett had ousted the Dave Barrett NDP government in 1975, but the legacy lived on. During its three-year reign, for example, education spending increased 13 per cent in the first year. The blitz of restraint legislation reasserted government’s control the size and wages of provincial staff and increased the sales tax to seven per cent. Another Bill Bennett legacy was dismantling the monopoly chokehold of big international unions on public construction.

A couple of friends discovered the inside track to securing labouring jobs on a provincially-funded highway project. After joining the union, those in the know could visit a business agent and hand over $500 cash. Within days, the lucky winner

would be “name requested” to join the crew, vaulting over those who thought working their way up would be enough.

This struggle over public construction continues today, with BC Hydro’s decision to make the Site C dam an open shop. After graduating, I landed my first job as a reporter for the Kelowna Capital News, shortly before Bennett announced his retirement from the premier’s office. Bennett and I would sometimes arrive for work together, parking our rusty 1976 Chevrolets on Bernard Avenue, where he kept an office above the family furniture store.

I found out later that Bennett’s modest old sedan was the government-issue car he had used during his entire 10 years as premier. The party bought it for him as a humourous retirement gift, and he continued to drive it to work. No frills.

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Looking ahead to 2016 shows us that the provincial government has seen fit to give raises. Raises in fees, that is. Sorry folks. Your BC Hydro fees, ICBC and MSP fees are all heading up as

we head into the new year. According to Black Press’s Tom Fletcher MSP premiums will rise from $144 to $150 for a family of three earning more than $30,000 a year, and a single person will pay $75, up from $72.Interesting fact to take note of: B.C. is the only province in Canada with a health care fee, and it has risen about 40 per cent since 2010.That’s appalling. And our health care coverage in this province isn’t even the best to be had in this country. Many of us were already preparing for Hydro rates to continue to climb, and climb they will. And then there’s the increasing expense of driving. Basic insurance went up 5.5 per cent on Nov. 1. ICBC says it’s all about the increasingly costs of personal injury claims. What makes the increases in these three charges on our ledgers so tough is that we have no choice. We don’t get to choose whether or not we’re going to get health care. We are not arguing that people should be able to opt out, universal care is not only near and dear to our hearts, it is vital to our country’s continued collective well being. But we should not be paying individual fees. The other provinces seem to be able to make such a thing work. What we don’t want to see is people taking food off the table to pay their MSP premiums. Then there’s Hydro, which, it can be argued, is an essential service, not a choice for most people. Keeping the lights and heat running, and the refrigerator working are not things to be taken lightly, nor are they really luxuries. Forcing people to cut deeper and deeper into their incomeis just plain wrong.It’s death to many people’s budgets — and their lives — by a thousand cuts. — COWICHAN VALLEY CITIZEN

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waterbomber ready to go, it didn’t take long for it to be sent to aid in the effort to fight fires all around the province.

It was dispatched to fires around the province but never did come to the 400-plus acre blaze on Dog Mountain.

The closest it got was Great Central Lake.

According to the

B.C. Wildfire Service, the Mars flew for 24 total hours. That added up to five missions split between four fires.

The plane also trained Chinese government pilots from the International Test Pilot School at the end of July, extending its provincial firefighting contract until the second half of August to make up the time spent training.

But the contract was never renewed and the Hawaii Mars was pulled back up onto land in September where its future remains uncertain.

Speaking in December, Coulson said that while he would talk to the province regarding the 2016 firefighting season, “it’s really hard to sell anything to anyone who doesn’t want to buy it.”The Hawaii Mars was airborne and doing test drops for the first time in almost two years on July 10.

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Mars airborne at last

2. Dog Mountain fireWhile the Alberni

Valley didn’t have the biggest forest fire in the province nor the most dangerous, it certainly made its mark on the province.

From the first plme of smoke seen in the early afternoon hours of July 4, to the raging 425 hectare fire it became, it seemed like nothing stayed the same for long.

It spread from 1.5 hectares to 5 hectares within a couple hours and then to 35 ha by the next morning, blanketting the Alberni Valley in a thick, yellow smoke.

With that smoke came renewed criticism that the province had abandoned the Valley and that the response was too slow and too small when it finally

did come.It hit 125 ha by the

afternoon of July 7, when the Coastal Fire Centre announced that it would battle the blaze via controlled burns. By noon of July 8 it had jumped to 245 acres and by that night, social media based rumours that the fire had jumped from the Dog Mountain peninsula to the mainland Sproat Lake shores by Fossli Park had far exceeded the blaze itself.

B.C. Coastal Fire Centre fire information officer Marg Drysdale told the News that they had received an unprecedented number of calls about the Dog Mountain fire, even compared to larger fires elsewhere

in the Coastal FIre Centre.

““We are getting a far greater volume of calls,” Drysdale said at the time. “We don’t mind people calling if they have legitimate concerns. But the ‘friend of a friend of a friend’ calls are concerning because it means people aren’t getting their information from the proper sources.”

In the end, the fire never jumped and was instead contained on the Dog Mountain peninsula thanks to the hard work of forestry firefighters.

It smouldered on throughout the warmer months and plans to reforest the area are currently still in their beginning stages.

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A thick, yellow smoke blankered Sproat Lake during the Dog Mountain forest fire in July.


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4. Hugginz by Angel

5. Water

It may not have had a satisfying ending, but Curtis Hargroves’ 2,440 kilometre run from Port Alberni to California was undoubtedly the good news story of the year.

But how did it all start?

It started with Angel Magnussen, an Alberni Valley teen who sews blankets for sick kids at her Hugginz by Angel studio.

She calls it wrapping sick kids in a hug.

She loves Ellen Degeneres and in fact shares a hobby— dancing.

Last year, Angel’s mother Cheryl sent a special cat lovers blanket to Ellen but never received a response.

That’s when Hargove stepped in.

Hargrove met Angel in 2012 at the Canadian Football League Grey Cup in Toronto.

He is renowned in Alberta for running for charity and after he heard about Angel’s desire to send a blanket to Ellen, he decided to make it his personal quest.

That’s how he ran 58 marathons in 48 days and although

Ellen wasn’t there to receive the blanket, he inspired a Valley and many beyond.

Curtis Hargrove crosses the Golden Gate Bridge in San Franciso on his way to Ellen’s studio.

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“Water defines our city. It’s our history and our future. It’s essential, it’s powerful, it’s precious and it’s something we can’t take for granted.”

With those words from Mayor Mike Ruttan, the city of Port Alberni unveiled its new $4 million UV water treatment facility on Ship Creek Road this December.

But while the Bainbridge water treatment plant—so full of ‘green’ features as to almost make you forget about the water inside—wasn’t nearly the only news story that water inspired this year.

That’s because with water, as a city worker once quipped, you seem to either have too much or too little and either way, people aren’t happy.

Too little came

this summer, when the city of Port Alberni imposed water restrictions at the beginning of June—earlier than city engineer Guy Cicon could ever recall happening in his 23-year long career with the city.

Then in mid-July, Cicon did something else he had never done; he imposed stage two water restrictions as levels in the city’s two lake reservoirs continued to fall.

It wouldn’t be until the end of September till the city lifted the restrictions.

The summer drought hit more than just drinking water; the Hupacasath First Nation’s Upnit hydroelectric dam shut down in May and rising water temperatures hurt fish thoughout the Valley.

Then when the rains started, they didn’t stop.

In 2014, floods devasted lower Third Avenue and the Tseshaht reserve.

In 2015, lower tides, slightly less rain, more preparation

and a $2.5 million Dry Creek flood mitigation project stopped the worst of the flooding.

Logging the city’s privately-owned watershed also made headlines—but seemingly little progress in protecting

the ecologically sensitive drinking water supply.

And all the while, Port Alberni’s residents and mayor and council remained divided over just what to do with their waterfront.

The city of Port Alberni unveiled its new $4 million Bainbridge water treatment plant in December.

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• The Kinsmen and their children annually go to Westhaven to sing carols for the residents and present them with gifts. This year they gave numerous gift cards for local restaurants who would deliver meals.

This gives residents an extra special treat.

Charlie Ehlers a resident at Westhaven with Blaire Payne a rehab assistant who dressed up as an elf for Christmas day at the facility.

Mckenna Roberts, 12, with her new onezie and longboard, both she got for Christmas.

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Jan Norman recently returned from her third trip to Cuba and her second one as a yoga instructor.

Last year she took a group of yoga students from Port Alberni to a retreat in the country while it was under the Communist regime.

Despite the lifted embargo, she saw little change as an outsider.

Immersed in the culture of yoga herself, Norman considers the government’s decision to include yoga in the country’s health care system a benefit, both mentally and physically.

Three years ago, Norman went to Cuba as a student and practiced under the country’s first yoga instructor, Eduardo Pimentel. He travels all over the country to train other instructors but initially was put in prison for his work.

“The government was afraid of it at first, but now they endorse it,” Norman said.

Yoga has become and important part of the lifestyle in Cuba because of the unrest. Locals are used to “going without” because it is a part of life.

If a grocery staple or piece of machinery

for farming is not available, there is no easy access so it is a matter of waiting for items to be shipped across the border.

The Cuban government has embraced the practice so much that yoga instructors are one of the few American professions that are allowed to travel on their own in the country.

“Once the embargo was lifted, I thought maybe more people from the U.S. would want to come on my retreat,” Norman said. “I looked into it and the rules had not changed. It is still illegal for Americans to travel to Cuba and only journalists and yoga teachers can travel freely.”

After her training in Cuba, Norman offered to teach the first retreat.

Now there is one run each week by different instructors and locals often attend.

“It has really grown and has brought a lot of economy to Cuba,” Norman said.

The group, which included 13 participants from Port Alberni and three from Lethbridge, Edmonton and Gold River, arrived with suitcases full of supplies to leave behind, including yoga mats and donations

for children. “They can’t buy

anything from the U.S. so many people use cardboard boxes for yoga mats,” Norman said. “Eduardo goes all over by bus to bring mats to other provinces.”

When they returned home in mid-November, Norman received a gift from a member of the group.

“I wondered why she would give me a gift

when she paid for this retreat, but I realized what she was saying,” Norman said.

“She was saying ‘Thank you for making this available.’. I knew it was life changing for her. When I see people coming out of a private lesson with a look of ‘I can’t believe what I just learned.’, that is why I do all of this work. It is really cool to see people’s lives changed.”

Alberni resident teaches yoga in Cuba

Yoga participants from Port Alberni took part in classes in Cuba with instructor Jan Norman in mid-November.


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The next art exhibit will be something special from local Tseshaht First Nations Chief Hugh Braker.

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The exhibit opens to the public on Jan. 20 and will run until Feb. 5. Stop by the gallery Saturday, Jan. 23 from 1-3 p.m. to meet Hugh and talk about his adventures.

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What’s on at Char’s:

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A mask from Tseshaht Chief Councillor Hugh Braker’s personal collection will be among the pieces on display at the Rollin Art Centre from Jan. 20 - Feb. 5.


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