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Queen of the Peak event hits the beach in Tofino PAGE 19, 20

Fire Prevention Week: Tofino Volunteer Fire Department & Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade Page 7-14

October 7 2015

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JACKIE CARMICHAELWesterly News

An angel, a postal box and a school bus watch over a family grave in tranquil Ucluelet cemetery.

If only they could talk, perhaps they could say who robbed the gravesides of Maddie, Annette and Guy Paterson.

“It’s kind of shocking. They’ve always been here,” said Darlene

Paterson Nelson. She and husband Andy came to town for the annual Ucluelet reunion this weekend, and they were dis-mayed to see the nameplates had been stolen, along with a few other headposts and plates from neigh-boring graves.

Darlene’s father, the late Mad-die Paterson of Ucluelet, landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in World War II with the 1st Hussars, the tank corps and helped liberate Holland.

After a career in the woods, he had a second career as a school bus driver on the West Coast,

and Maddie was named British Columbia’s old-est school driver before he retired at 81.

His beloved wife’s interred there also. Annette was a familiar face in town, as she worked at the Ucluelet Post Office.

They are joined by their son, Guy, who died, too early, in a log-

ging accident. Const. Chris Squire of Ucluelet

RCMP said about seven head-stones have been taken from the cemetery recently.

He guessed the thieves were after metal to sell, perhaps the same sort of people that rob con-struction sites for metal.

“There are a lot of desperate people,” he said.

Follow-up efforts will be made at area foundries, Squire said.

It’s hard to imagine someone so desperate they’d rob the dead, Darlene Paterson Nelson said.

“I don’t know who would do that,” she said. “They have to live with themselves.”

Above, left, Darlene Paterson Nelson at the Ucluelet Cemetery gravesite of her father, mother and brother - whose metal name-plates have been stolen by thieves most likely looking to make a quick buck from hocking head-stone plates. (Carmichael photo)

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Pilot fails to report rough landing at YAZ JACKIE CARMICHAELWesterly NewsA bumpy landing –

and lack of reporting – has one West Coast visitor upset.

Denis McMullen was on his way from Vancouver to Uclue-let when the Orca Air Beechcraft he was a passenger in had trouble with the landing.

“It was completely clouded over – the beach and the air-port were completely socked in,” said Denis McMullen, recalling the pilot’s initial land-ing effort.

“On the first attempt, he should have seen there wasn’t sufficient visuals.”

After the failed attempt to land, McMullen expected the pilot to go with the continency plan he told them about in Vancou-ver – they might have to divert to Port Alberni and get a shuttle, he said.

McMullen flies to Ucluelet from Van-couver to work on the District’s health and safety program twice yearly. There were five other passengers and the first officer aboard as well as the pilot.

Instead of rerouting to Port, the plane con-tinued, enshrouded in low cloud.

“He flew blind for a number of minutes, then he must have seen a patch of runway beneath him because he twisted the air-

craft quite suddenly,” McMullen recalled.

“He turned the plane very suddenly in mid-air, I think he was try-ing to find the runway … when he saw what he saw … he turned it really quickly and we started the final des-cent,” he said.

“The aircraft was not aligned properly and corrective air work had to be carried out to align the plane with the runway,” reads the report McMullen later filed.

The plane landed hard on the paved por-tion of the runway and rolled for what seemed

like two seconds before it ran off the end of the runway into the grass, he wrote.

Trenches in the grass at the far end of the runway show where the plane actually came to a halt.

Safely on terra firma, McMullen expected a report. He came in to talk with airport man-ager Mark Fortune and discovered the pilot hadn’t filed a report on the incident.

“I contacted Mike Betchel at the Nanaimo Flight Service Station to review the Aircraft Occurrence Reports but there were no reports for the Long Beach Airport, Fortune noted in a Sept. 10 report.

McMullen said the company’s owner called to update him on Friday.

The pilot involved no longer works for the company.

The experience had a negative effect on his wife, who had cos-metic items broken in the rough landing. On their subsequent vacation trip to Aus-tin, Texas – she was a bundle of nerves all the way there and back, McMullen said.

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OpinionFire Prevention Week runs from

Sunday, October 4th through to Saturday, October 10th. The

theme for this year is – Keep your family safe with a working smoke alarm in every bed-room. The Ucluelet

Volunteer Fire Bridge and the District of Ucluelet would like to remind people to practice fire and accident prevention. This week is about ensuring a smoke alarm is in every bedroom, outside each separate sleeping area, and on every level of your home, includ-ing the basement. Larger homes

may need more alarms. Please also test your alarms! In addition to obtaining and testing your smoke alarms in each level of your home, smoke alarms should be installed and maintained as outlined below.

· For smoke alarms that include a 10-year non-replaceable battery, replace the entire smoke alarm if it begins to “chirp”, indicating that the battery is running low. For smoke alarms that use regular batteries, replacing the batteries once a year is recommended, or before then if the battery begins to chirp.

· All smoke alarms should be

replaced every 10 years or sooner if they don’t respond properly when tested.

· For the best protection, smoke alarms should be interconnected, so that when one alarm sounds, they all do.

Some additional tips the Uclue-let Volunteer Fire Bridge and the District of Ucluelet would like to offer for protecting your home and family from fires are outlined below.

· Stay in the kitchen while you are cooking. Turn off the stove even if you leave the kitchen for a short time.

· Keep anything that can burn

at least 3 feet away from heating equipment, such as the furnace, fireplace, wood stove or portable space heater.

· Have a 3-foot “child-free zone” around open fires and space heaters.

· Replace or repair damaged or loose electrical cords.

· If you smoke, smoke outside and use a deep, wide ashtray on a sturdy table.

· Blow out all candles when you leave the room or go to bed. Avoid the use of candles in the bedroom and other areas where people may fall asleep.

In the spirit of Fire Prevention

Week, the Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Bridge will be hosting an Open House on Saturday October 10th from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm at the Fire Hall on Peninsula Rd. There will be free hot dogs, juice and snacks available, as well as, a youth Fire Prevention Week activ-ity workbook and Fire Safety book.

Please remember - SMOKING ALARMS SAVE LIVES: Keep your family safe with a working smoke alarm in every bedroom.

Karla Robison is Manager of Environmental & Emergency Ser-vices for the District of Ucluelet.

They say it takes a village to raise a child and Ucluelet has more than met that goal. So many kind and generous people helped us fill in for Jeff andNaomie

Swann while Naomie was in the hospital. Marcel Midlane, the Galloways, Lindsey Barlow and others helped with the dinner for 80 Tour de Rock team members.

Adele and crew from the Black Rock were also there to help out. The Canons, Heather Thomas, Jennifer Rhodes, Mike Bray and Bev the dog walker just did so

much more than asked. The kind folks from the Co-op and the Gray Whale and all the others who offered to help anytime needed, all deserve a huge thank you. We

don’t think this is typical of most small towns, it is just the wonder-ful character of Ucluelet.

With sincere thanks, Bob and Maggie Swann

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Thank you, Ucluelet: It does take a village

Friday September 18th was not the nicest day weather wise. In fact it was downright ugly. But that didn’t stop a determined

crowd of golfers from slogging it out at the annual Wickaninnish Inn – Long Beach Golf Course Pro-am. It was

the same spirit that kept them putting through driving rain and puddles that continues to fuel this remarkable event and provide

the young athletes of our com-munities with countless oppor-tunities during their high school careers. I noted several comments throughout that evening from golfers, sponsors and pretty much everyone involved with the event that they were happy to be supporting our local youth. That generous support turned out to be a phenomenal $17,000 that will get gratefully used through-out this year to help our young athletes train, travel and compete around the province.The past

year saw the event help send both boys and girls to over 20 tour-naments across the province in volleyball, basketball, wrestling and badminton. This included five provincial championship show-ings, highlighted by a second place trophy for the girls wrest-ling team. This success doesn’t come without cost however as a typical tournament may include fees, hotels, travel and equipment costs well over $1000. Our ath-letes contribute what they can but costs are higher for USS than

many other schools as we have much farther to travel and need to spend more nights in hotels in order to compete. It is these experiences that not only build lasting memories but also healthy lifestyles, character, leadership and many other positive qualities within our hard working athletes. The Wickaninnish Inn and Long Beach Golf Course have con-sistently been the vanguard that has recognized and promoted the value in providing these positive opportunities for our kids and

they have been joined by many other businesses and individ-uals who have stepped up year after year to keep our program as vibrant and successful as it is. It almost seems insubstantial to simply say thank you once again but that is what we can offer as we head in to another exciting year full of potential; thanks, along with the promise to work hard, have fun and show the rest of the province what West Coast-ers are made of.

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Black Press Group Ltd. has announced the decision to close the Alberni Valley Times within the next sixty days.

“Despite the considerable efforts of its staff, the Times has been experiencing declining circulation and advertising rev-enues over the past few years,” said Randy Blair, president of Black Press’ Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island divisions. “With a paid circulation base of less than 25 percent of the total households in the market area it unfortunately is no longer a sustainable business model.”

Black Press will continue to invest in the Alberni Valley News which, has proven to be a successful free distribution, twice weekly community newspaper serving the Valley.

When the announcement was made in the Times’ newsroom Wednesday afternoon representatives from Black Press thanked the employees of the Times for their efforts and pledged to support them in their endeavours to find new employment.

The company also thanks the readers and advertisers who have given their support to the Alberni Valley Times over the years.

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NORA O’MALLEYSpecial to Westerly News

Twenty-five red dresses were hung from the trees in Tofino’s Village Green on Sunday to hon-

our Canada’s missing or mur-dered aboriginal women.

The nation-wide art initiative called The REDress Project was conceived five years ago as an

art installation project by Win-nipeg-based Metis artist Jaime Black “as a visual reminder of the staggering number of women who are no longer with us … I hope

to draw attention to the gen-dered and racialized nature of violent crimes against Aboriginal women and to evoke a presence through the marking of absence,” Black said.

In Tofino, the event was organized by poet Joanna Streetly.

“Those dresses should have people in them,” she said.

“It’s very moving to see them in the trees like that. It’s haunting. And I think that we should be haunted by what is happening to women,” she said.

Once the red dresses were placed in the trees, a moment of silent reflection was held by a small group of Tofino locals. One participant remarked that he could see a red dress gently swaying on a branch, perhaps a sign that the commem-orative gesture had been noticed.

“Someone here today

made a red dress out of red tape. That’s the red tape dress (seen on the cover of this edition of the Westerly.) It symbolizes all the red tape that appears to be stand-ing in the way of action,” said Streetly.

With more than 1,100 reported cases of missing or murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, vio-lence against Aboriginal women is a hot-button issue in the 2015 federal election.

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Tofino Volunteer Fire Department 2015JACKIE CARMICHAEL

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It’s been a busy year for Tofino Volunteer Fire Department, which serves not only the District of Tofino but also its million visitors annually.

“Last year we had 88 calls .. we’re just shy of 150 right now,” said Fire Chief John Gilmour.

“All our calls are actually up – car accidents, fires, and our newest one, first responder,” said Gilmour.

There were two investigated fires; neither was deemed to be of a criminal nature.

On the first responder calls, the TVFD handles the more seriously rated alpha-delta-echo calls.

“There are times when both ambulances in town are tied up, or even a third ambulance is tied up … (First responders) gives more hands on the scene, a few more people responding. Having somebody that’s in motion right away might gain that few minutes that’s important for making it or not making it,” he said.

Many of the firefighters have their spinal endorsement, so they

know how to “package” people who could have a spinal injury.

Some of their most serious calls are beach rescues, from near

drownings to surfing acci-dents. They have also dealt with falls from heights, and have needed the big-wheeled stretchers to get people out of the bush.

The current roster at TVFD sits at 24, just down from an all-time high of 26 – but a spring recruitment drive is planned to boost the ranks to around 30, he said.

“We are able to make all our calls, we have more than enough people to oper-ate with,” he said, adding that new first responder responsibilities are keeping members busy.

When the department recruits volunteers, they have a few basic qualifications in mind, he said.

“The biggest one for us, because Tofino’s so transient, you have to have lived there for a year,” he said.

Other than that, physical fit-ness and an eagerness to learn are also important. For the first six months of training, a flexible schedule to attend to 100% of the practices and weekend training is also essential, he said.

It will be six months before trainees get onto a fire truck, and another 18 months before they can go into a burning building.

“The rest of the stuff we teach on the job,” Gilmour said.

After serving as a volunteer fire-

fighter for the Tofino Volunteer Fire Department for about five years, John Gilmour became its chief this year, realizing a career goal.

“If you want to be a career fire-fighter in Tofino, that’s the only job for it,” the 10-year Tofino resi-dent said.

See ad this section for a com-plete list of TVFD activities for this week, National Fire Preven-tion Week.

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Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade has had a relatively quiet year so far, but new responsibilities to keep members busy.

“It’s been a really good year, with hardly any fires,” said UVFB Chief Ted Eeftink.

“Our new first responders pro-gram is taking off, and that’s been keeping us really busy since April,” he said.

There have been more than 45 calls since April of this year for the first responders program, which has trained responders helping with first response to medical calls when ambulance personnel are covering other calls.

A fire on Amphitrite Point this dry summer was a problem, and the firefighters spent about five hours fighting the stubborn fire apparently started by careless campers that went a couple feet down into the mossy ground, he said.

“We had to work it from the bot-tom … It could have been a pretty serious fire there, if it got away and the wind came up,” he said.

Recruitment drives have added several members to the ranks, Eeftink said.

“It gives us a little more support with the fire situation and the first responder situation – it takes some weight off my shoulders and the other firefighters’ shoulders,” he said.

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The Vancouver Foundation has partnered up with the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust to bring some power-packed pint-sized grants to the West Coast.

The Vancouver Foundation recently announced the expan-sion of the Neighbourhood Small Grants program into Clayoquot Sound and Victoria (Hillside-Quadra, in collabora-tion with the Victoria Founda-tion), where residents can now apply for a small grant of up to $500 to bring people together and build community in their neighbourhood.

Small grants as small as a couple $20s to $500 are available for projects by local residents, and the grants are administered through program

partner organizations and resident advisory committee members — all local community volunteers.

Applications opened on Sep-tember 1, and the deadline for applications is Thursday Oct.15.

“For a very small amount of money – often only a few dollars - these small projects help bring people together,” says Vancouver Foundation President & CEO Kevin McCort. “And by entering into co-funding partnerships with other community foun-dations, we are making these grants available to even more people across the Province.”

The Neighbourhood Small Grants program was created by the Vancouver Foundation in 1999. The program is based

on a simple but powerful idea: when people feel a sense of con-nection and belonging to their neighbourhood, they are more likely to be engaged in activities that make it a better place to live, said a statement from the foundation.

“We are very excited to start working with our new partners in Clayoquot Sound and Victoria, and can’t wait to see what ideas local residents come up with,” adds McCort.

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She’s excited about the program.

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“We have over 10 so far,” Wood said last week. “I am pretty confident that we’ll be getting them pouring in last minute, I feel there’ll be lots more coming in.”

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The Board of Directors of the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust (CBT) is pleased to announce the Pacif-ic Wildlife Foundation as the recipient of the 2015 CBT $20,000 Research Award for their research proposal on Gray Whale Society.

Dr. Jim Darling, the principle investigator for the project, will use the research funds to ana-lyze over 40 years of local gray whale sightings and 20 years of

DNA samples to further develop his theory on gray whale social structure.

“There is virtually nothing known about the social organ-ization of gray whales- or for that matter any baleen whale”, explains Darling. “This may sound like an exaggeration – it’s not. If this subject is mentioned at all in books or papers, the gist is there is no social organization beyond

the short connection between mother and calf prior to weaning. This is one of those cases where – because we do not know anything about it – we presume it does not exist”.

The CBT’s Research Coordinator, Dr. Laura Loucks, said that 8 very high quality grant applications were submitted from a wide range of researchers, representing several University faculties and

local conservation organ-izations. This is the first time the CBT has offered this award and would like to acknowledge the import-ant contribution of the CBT Research and Environment Committee who developed the criteria for this year’s award. “Supporting scientific research is a key objective of the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve program,” said Reb-

ecca Hurwitz, CBT’s executive director. “We hope to make this new award a regular part of our granting program.”

Applications were reviewed by a local Technical Review Commit-tee, a subset of the CBT Research and Environment Committee. After reaching consensus, their recommendation was made to the CBT Board of Directors and approved at the Sept. 10 Board meeting in Ahousaht.

“We were very impressed by the number of high quality proposals submit-ted and especially proud of the caliber of research conducted by our local sci-entists and researchers,” said Loucks. “There is so much we can learn from the long term observa-tions and analysis of local wildlife populations and behaviour”.

“The CBT would like to thank the members of the Technical Review Committee for their hard work in reviewing the appli-cations,” said Loucks. “While it was difficult to choose only one research grant application, this team was well prepared and very thoughtful in their deliberations”.

Inset: Gray whales feeding in kelp beds in Clayoquot Sound (Photo: Jim Darling)

Pacific Wildlife Foundation nets $20K CBT awardCLAYOQUOT BIOSPHERE TRUST Page 16 | The Westerly News Wednesday, October 7, 2015

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School District 70 is hoping to see if focusing on one small strat-egy throughout the day will help students improve their well-being and academic success.

The district was chosen as one of six in the province to take part in a pilot project that will imple-ment everyday strategies focused on increasing student connected-ness and well-being.

SD 70 Superintendent Greg Smyth and team applied for the WellAhead initiative through the J.W. McConnell Family Founda-tion late last spring. Of the 60 school districts in the province, 42 others competed in the selec-tion process.

Laurie Morphet, principal of Alberni Elementary School and district coordinator of the pro-ject, said the WellAhead process

is an opportunity to involve all stakeholders to delve deeply into what small actions really can make a positive difference on how students feel at school. The idea is to brainstorm a number of ways actions can improve student wellbeing and narrow them down to one that will be tested in class-rooms, on school grounds and in the community.

Through an accelerated pro-cess designed by the WellAhead Planning and Research Team, parents, students, teachers, EA’s, NEWS, administrators and agen-cies who support children and youth will partake in two brain-storming sessions. The goal is to pinpoint specific everyday actions that positively support student well-being.

Preliminary ideas, which Morphet said many staff already

practice, include staff pleasantly greeting students, knowing their names, opening doors for each other, giving students high-fives, holding meaningful conversations or installing friendship benches. Now they are looking for input from others on what really makes a positive difference to how stu-dents feel at school.

An invitation to school and community stakeholders for two round table sessions is the first phase. The co-design phase is scheduled for Oct. 13 and Oct. 15. After that, the ideas will be narrowed down through a Design Jam before the end of the month. The final phase involves testing further afield, to see if the chosen strategy can work in the remain-ing school districts in B.C. and those in other provinces.

“The WellAhead process has

scheduled evaluation and feed-back loops to allow for frequent shifts in action along a tight time-line,” Morphet said.

“A three week timeline is short so it will be interesting to see if it will promote change.”

“We aren’t doing this because there is a problem,” Smyth said. “It is important to note that it is not born out of necessity, but instead we are continuing to work in the area of wellbeing. This is another way of improving the out-comes for our kids.”

Last year, the school district was involved in workshops on self-regulation and anxiety.

“We see a lot of families who live in poverty which often increas-es the level of worry among kids,”Morphet said. “This, in

turn, can affect student wellbeing which can also pose challenges to their learning.”

Ultimately, the two hope the WellAHead initiative helps stu-dents in school and agree it takes a community effort to make a real difference.

“This WellAhead opportunity promotes a cultural approach that has to have participation and buy-in across our community,” Smyth said.

For more information on how to become involved, Morphet can be reached at Alberni Elemen-tary School at 250-724-0623 or [email protected].

Kristi.Dobson@avtimes.

School district works to improve well-being

Community Calendar of EventsFire Prevention Week in Ucluelet and Tofino

7 WEDNESDAY

Ucluelet Chamber All-Candi-dates Forum, 7-9 p.m. Ucluelet Community Centre

Tofino Volunteer Fire Depart-ment delivering pizza after 5 for Tony’s Pizza

Social, pool, snooker, ping pong, foosball, Tofino Legion, 7-11St. Columba Church, 7 p.m.

8 THURSDAY

Tofino Chamber All-Candi-dates Forum, 7-9 p.m. Tofino Community Hall

Healthy Babies Program/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 & Youth Nite at the Edge, 6–8p.m. Anglican/United ChurchBible study, 10:30 a.m., UCCSocial, pool, snooker, ping pong, foosball, Tofino Legion, 7-11 Bingo, Tofino Legion 7-10 p.m.

9 FRIDAY

Social, pool, snooker, ping pong, foosball, Tofino Legion, 4-9Bingo, Tofino Legion, 7:30 p.m.The Edge Youth Room, 2–6p.m.

10 SATURDAY

Artist Mark Hobson will be painting in his Tofino gallery 1-5 p.m..

Fire Prevention Week Open House, Ucluelet Fire Hall, Ucluelet 11-1 p.m. Refresh-

ments, hot dogs, information, activities books for kids.

Tofino Volunteer Fire Depart-ment hands out batteries and smoke detectors at Tofino Co-Op 4-6 p.m

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 5:30 p.m. AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Fran-cis, Tofino.

11 SUNDAY

Tofino Volunteer Fire Depart-ment Shelter Brunch 9-1p.m., 25% of food sales to Tofino Hospital Foundation. Artist Mark Hobson will be painting in his Tofino gallery 1-5 p.m..

Co-Op Week is Oct. 11-17!

Christ Community Church,10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd.Ucluelet.

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

12 MONDAYThanksgiving! Artist Mark Hobson will be painting in his Tofino gallery 11 a.m. -2 p.m..

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

8-11 pm, Tofino Legion.

13 TUESDAY

Healthy Babies Program/Family Ties, 10:30am. Coastal Family Place, UCC.

Food Bank on the Edge Distribu-tion 1-3 pm

The Edge Youth Room, 3–6pm, UCC.Youth night, 7-9pm, Tofino Legion.Youth night ANAF Ucluelet. AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis Church, 441 Main, Tofino.St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 5 p.m.

Coming next Wednesday and Thursday: District of Ucluelet celebrates the Great BC Shake-out! See ad this paper.

Send calendar items to [email protected] .

A new playground at Gyro Park, surfaced with recycled rub-ber from tires, is now open for residents to enjoy.

The City of Port Alberni’s department of Parks, Recreation and Heritage was pre-approved for a $30,000 grant from Tire Stewardship BC to complete the new playground. Tire Stewardship BC is a non-profit society that formed to take over the provin-cial scrap tire recycling program from the government in 2007. An average of 80 to 90 per cent of collected tires are recycled into

products such as athletic tracks, turf fields, playground surfacing, recreational flooring, landscap-ing and mats for agricultural or industrial use.

The $30,000 grant would be used to pay down the city’s $107,000 cost for the playground upgrade, said parks operations supervisor Jacob Colyn. The old playground, primarily con-structed from wood, was at the end of its 30-year lifecycle and no longer considered safe, Colyn noted. The new design should last at least another 30 years, he

added.

Rubber surfacing on the play-ground was installed according to the latest safety standards, Colyn said. It’s cushioned enough to mitigate the risk of injury in case a child falls while using the playground equipment, which includes slides, monkey bars, a climbing frame and a state-of-the-art tire swing. A second section of the playground is for smaller children, from about age 2 to 6, with smaller sized swings.

Colyn said on most days when

he stops by the park there are two or three families enjoying the space. It was important to replace the old playground in its central location, he said.

Vancouver-based Marathon Sur-faces designed and installed the recycled rubber surface, Colyn. Colour was added to the rubber to give it a pleasing aesthetic, with a green sheen for a landscape look and blue streak with coloured fish to represent Port Alberni’s waterways.

Signs will be permanently installed on site to recognize Tire

Stewardship BC’s community grant program. A spray pool next to the playground is slated for a future upgradel, said Colyn.

The Port Alberni Toy Run and Gyro Club of the Albernis have been major supporters of the playground update, with the Toy Run donating equipment for the site, Colyn said.

According to Tire Stewardship BC, the tire recycling program has recycled 50 million tires since it first started in 1991.

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The Westerly News | Wednesday, October 7, 2015 The Westerly News | Page 19Wednesday, October 7, 2015

SURFING

Queen of the Peak brings out the bestNORA O’MALLEY Special to Westerly News

The surfers couldn’t have asked for better conditions over the weekend as sunshine and a nice 3-4 foot swell lit up Cox Bay for the 6th Annual Queen of The Peak Women’s Surf Championships.

Defending champion Hanna Scott (Tofino) masterfully surfed her way to the shortboard finals, and landed an astonish-ing backhand straight air on her final wave of the day to nab the Queen of the Peak crown.

“I try to do that sometimes. I was just going along and I just had a lot of speed so I just went for it,” Scott told the Westerly News.

“All the girls were surfing so well lately so you just never know. I’m super stoked with the waves I caught and just the whole day was super fun.”

Scott plans on using her com-petition prize money – a cheque for $2,000 – to help pay for rent. For a change, the sponsored surfer will be chasing waves around Vancouver Island this winter.

“I usually travel a lot and dis-appear into warmer lands, but I’m really excited to stay home for the winter. I hope it’s going to be a really good winter for swell up here in the north,” said the 2015 (and 2014) Queen of the

Peak champ. Young gun Mathea Olin

(Tofino) also sparked much attention over the weekend, claiming the title of Princess of the Peak for an amazing third time in a row, and making the finals in both the women’s shortboard and longboard division.

RESULTSOct. 2-4, 2015 at Cox Bay –

Queen of the Peak Women’s Surf Championships

SHORTBOARD1. Hanna Scott 2. Leah Oke3. Tamarah Stephens4. Mathea Olin

LONGBOARD1. Mele Saili2. Mathea Olin3. Steph Wightman4. Lauren Aikens

See QUEEN Page 20


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PRINCESS OF THE PEAK

1. Mathea Olin 2. Sanoa Olin3. Jasmine Porter4. Keana HaszPhotos by Nora O’Malley

Queen of the Peak, continued from 19

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