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ERIC PLUMMER Alberni Valley Times A man accused of elk poaching pleaded

guilty last week. Wilson Timothy Jack (a.k.a. Timothy Wil-

son Jack), 49, pleaded guilty to hunting wildlife out of season under the B.C. Wild-life Act. He appeared in court without a lawyer. His sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 14 at 9:30 a.m. in the Port Alberni provin-cial court.

The poaching offences occurred between Nov. 1, 2013 and Dec. 31, 2013. The dead elk were found south of Port Alberni on Nuu-chah-nulth territory.

Jack’s arrest came as a result of an inves-tigation into a wave of elk poaching on the West Coast in recent years.

Ken Watts, vice-president of the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, said there has been a number of elk poaching incidents

in the region with at least 23 Roosevelt elk illegally killed since 2013.

When eight elk carcasses were discovered in late 2013, the NTC offered a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction for poaching. B.C. Coastal Outfitters (now the Wildlife Stewardship Council) added $5,000 to the award amount with the B.C. Wildlife Federation offering an additional $2,000, CUPE 118 pledging $1,000 and Pearson Kal Tire adding $1,000 for a total reward of $34,000.

Jack was arrested and first appeared in Port Alberni court on Aug. 5, requesting more time to consult a defence lawyer.

Jack is a member of the Ucluelet First

Nation, one of the 14 communities served by the Nuuchah-nulth Tribal Council. The NTC hopes the court proceedings will shed some light on the elk poaching problem.

Roosevelt elk are on the Provincial Blue List, meaning that harvesting is limited to 300 hunting permits a year from the typ-ical volume of 15,000 applications. While Roosevelt populations on Vancouver Island and the B.C. mainland’s south coast have grown from 2,550 in 1986 to over 6,900, elk distribution south of Port Alberni remains as low as one animal per 10 square kilo-metres or less, according to a provincial management plan for the animals drafted in July 2014.

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Jan. 11 trial for Van Nguyen on charge of criminal negligence causing death

JACKIE CARMICHAELWesterly News

Trial is set for January 11-19 in the case surrounding the death of Lor-raine Ennis of Ucluelet.

Van Nguyen, 57, of Vancouver stands charged with criminal negli-gence causing death.

Cpl. Mike Elston of the RCMP’s island traffic services division recounted the particulars

On Jan. 30, 2014, at about 8 a.m., Ennis was walking on the trail sep-arated from the highway by a grassy divider and ditch, towards Ucluelet when a GMC Suburban towing a

large boat lost control.“The boat ended up fish-tailing

down the road – it ended up strik-ing Ms. Lorraine Ennis while she walked, killing her,” said Elston.

The vehicle, driven by Nguyen and containing a passenger, was followed by another vehicle. They stopped at the scene and were cooperative, Elston said.

Investigation into the death was conducted by an collision recon-structionist and other methods, tak-ing over a year.

That’s “no longer than usual,” said Elston.

“Most investigations that deal with somebody dying take a long time,” he said.

The investigation’s complexity was compounded by language bar-riers; Nguyen is a native Vietnamese speaker.

“There was a definite language barrier, for the driver English was not his first language,” he said.

Ennis, a longtime Ucluelet resident, was well known for her community involvement and her long walks

on the trail from the junction into Ucluelet.

Charges were sworn in the case on March 31, 2015, Elston said.

Todd Patola, Crown Counsel in Port Alberni, said the case will go to pre-liminary inquiry on January 11 and 12, to determine if it goes to trial.

Currently, Nguyen has elected for a jury trial.

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Westerly News Why did the tourists cross the road? To get to

the Rainforest Trail, and now you have to stop for them.

There’s a new crosswalk and reduced speed zone to help keep pedestrians and drivers safe in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

Drivers should be aware of the new 60 km/hr speed zone at the Rainforest Trail pedestrian crosswalk on Highway 4, the Pacific Rim Highway.

The parking lot on one side of the highway and the trail on the other has been a recipe for traffic issues, particularly during the summer as visitors have had to wait or risk dashing out in traffic.

Signs, road markings, and advance-warning strips have been added to the highway. Under BC traffic laws,drivers must yield to pedestrians in a marked crosswalk. Pedestrians should continue to exercise care and attention when crossing the highway and ensure drivers are stopped or stop-ping before stepping into the crosswalk.

“Visitors of all ages and abilities cross the high-way to experience the Rainforest Trail. The new reduced speed zone and marked crosswalk will help alert drivers and reduce the risk of incidents,” said a press release from Parks Canada.

The Rainforest Trail is located 9 kilometres north of the Pacific Rim Visitor Centre, and 7 kilometres south of the main entrance to Long Beach.

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More than 3,000 earthquakes occur in B.C. each year. Most earthquakes are too small to be felt, but the risk of one big enough to cause major damage is real. On October 15th, the official ShakeOut BC Day will take place at 10:15 am. During this event millions of people worldwide will practice how to Drop, Cover and Hold On. The District of Ucluelet is asking residents, businesses and visitors to participate in the drill by practicing the three simple steps

“Drop, Cover, Hold On” for one minute starting at 10:15 am. Practicing these important steps is a great way for your family or organization to be prepared to survive and recover quickly from

a large earthquake - wherever you live, work or travel. These three simple steps have been proven to reduce injury and death during earthquakes worldwide. To register your family or organization, please visit www.shakeoutbc.ca.

ShakeOut BC is a great platform to get your family and organization thinking about your general state of emergency preparedness. Do you have an emer-gency plan? Do you have enough food, water and supplies to last a minimum of three days? Have you secured your homes and offices to prevent furniture, cabinets and appliances from toppling? Utilize this day and drill as an oppor-tunity to speak to your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues about ways to be prepared for emergency events.

Ucluelet ShakeOut Events:WEDNESDAY, OCT. 14 - A personal

preparedness display at the Ucluelet Community Centre foyer in the after-noon and evening, and the Emergency Social Services team will be available to answer questions from 6-8 pm. Refresh-ments! *The Ucluelet Community Centre, Municipal Hall and Chamber of Commerce Office will have emergency preparedness displays up from October 13 to 16.

THURSDAY, OCT. 15 - The community is invited to observe a mock Earthquake Drill with a controlled release of stu-dents at the Ucluelet Elementary and Secondary School grounds from 10:15 to 11:00 am. Join teachers, first respond-ers and Ucluelet’s emergency team with this simulated emergency exercise.

For more info, visit www..ucluelet.ca. Karla Robison is the District of Uclue-

let Emergency Services manager.


OpinionBC ShakeOut Thurs. at 10:15 a.m., events on Wed. and Thurs. in Ukee

COMMENT

KARLAROBISON/LOCAL VOICE

To the editor: There have been great chan-

ges to Canada’s environmental regulations in the last ten years. A list of the negatives is long. Most obvious are the cut backs at the Coast Guard and Parks Canada. Other more subtle changes, like the Species

at Risk Act and the Nav-igable Waters Protection Act, appear to havebeen altered

to facilitate regulations for gas and oil production and trans-portation. For example, when the Kinder Morgan pipeline gets the go ahead, most of the tar/oil will be transported past our doorstep. Imagine the con-sequences of an oil spill for the Species at Risk, the physical environment and our economy.

The state of Coast Guard preparedness for an oil spill in Vancouver, was obvious earli-er this year and undoubtedly related to the closure the coast guard station as here in Uclue-let. It seems the Ottawa gov-ernment is preparing to be not prepared for the eventuality of major oil spills, whether water or land based. The vulnerabil-ity for the West coast environ-ment and it’s inhabitants is blatantly obvious, when we consider that oil exploration in the Arctic and deep water exploration in the Atlantic have been given the go ahead by the Feds. It’s no stretch to imagine to see oil rigs off the W.C. of Vancouver Island as there was one doing exploratory work off Long Beach just prior to the creation of the Park.

We need change in Ottawa that respects the Species at Risk and reverses the Navig-able Waters Protection Act that protected our oceans, lakes, rivers and streams. Anything less is dangerous folly. We need to vigorously support the real economy, not what is Harped on and on about, but rather that which we walk on, what we breathe and what we drink, our planet, our home.

Jim WhitworthUcluelet

The Wild Life/Karine Gordon-Beaumier

Dear Editor,I am writing to express our

great thanks and appreciation for Paul and the other mem-bers of the Ucluelet Volunteer Fire Brigade who rescued our dog Molly when she went over a cliff on the Wild Pacific Trail on Thursday morning. The dis-patcher at the non-emergency police number called the vol-unteer fire department for us and they responded quickly and professionally, climbing down to our Molly and helping her back up to us. Molly is a not-quite-two-year-old yellow lab, with more energy than brains. She is generally very leery of strangers, but Paul and the crew were able to win her trust even though she was very frightened. Their prompt and compassion-ate response left us with such a positive impression of Ucluelet, and we can’t thank them enough for their help.

Sincerely,Susan and Mary Blockberger

(and Molly)Secret Cove, BC.

Family fun at Strong Start in Tofino and Ukee

Dear Editor, School is back in session, and

Fall is in definitely here. Did you know that children 0-5 can go to school in our towns too? I would like to take this opportunity to invite all families of children under school age to visit one of the StrongStart programs in our towns.

StrongStart is a free drop in early learning program funded by the government of British Col-umbia and administered locally through our two elementary schools. Wickaninnish Strong-Start operates Monday to Friday 8:38-11:38. Ucluelet StrongStart is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday 8:30-11:30, Tuesday 4-7pm, and Thursday afternoon 11:45-2:45.

It is a place to engage pre-schoolers (including babies) in play. It is a place to connect with your own child and with other parents. If your child is entering Kindergarten in the next school

year, they and you will also have relationships with the children and adults who can help with the transition into school life.

It is a free drop in program, so come for as little or as long as you like. There is no on-time or late, just drop by! Stop in at the office to find our room. Each day includes opportunities for gym time, snack, art and craft and story and song circles. Coffee and tea are always on, and you can find other types of parenting support there too!

Coming up October 21st our school district is hosting a Ready Set Learn event especially for three year olds from 9:30 – 10:30 in Ucluelet, and 10:30-11:30 in Tofino. Look for ads in this paper for more information. Families can call the school to register their 3 year olds for this event at each elementary by Friday October 16th. No need to pre register to visit a StrongStart though, just drop in for a visit.

Hope to see you soon.Shannon Duffy

Environment top election concern for West Coast

JIMWHITWORTH/LOCAL VOICE

LETTERS

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SAVE THIS CARTOON! Have your youngster (up through age 12) colour this and bring it to either InStyle Snuggle Bunnies in Ucluelet or Treehouse Gifts in Tofino to enter in the West-erly Halloween Colouring Contest. 3 winners will be drawn in each town, and everyone gets a treat!

Thanks to UVFB for Molly’s rescue


NORA O’MALLEY Special to Westerly News

It was a standing-room only affair at the All-Candidates meet-up on Wed., Oct. 7 at the Ucluelet Com-munity Centre as can-didates for Member of Parliament in the Courtenay-Alberni riding sounded off on issues surrounding the Oct. 19 federal election.

Questions were read aloud by moderator Lance Blackwell, and over the course of two hours, attendees listened to Conservative John Duncan, NDP Gord Johns, Liberal Carrie Pow-ell-Davidson, and Green Glenn Sollitt parley key issues effecting the community.

The most lively topics at the event sponsored by the Ucluelet Chamber of Commerce included: the closure of the Coast Guard station, concerns about the environment, and staff cuts to Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.

On the issue of Coast Guard closures, Liberal, NDP, and Green Party candidates were all vehe-mently committed to re-opening the Ucluelet station and increas-ing protection to our coastline. Sollitt even suggested the Coast Guard could do more:

“I would like to see it fund-ed such that it takes on more

responsibility on the coast. I think more patrol and protection, I think they should handle dere-lict vessels and increased role in

research,” said Sollitt who grew up as a commercial fisherman.

Conserva-tive MP John Duncan said the decision on behalf of the federal government to close three

B.C. Coast Guard centres and con-solidate the monitoring personnel to Victoria and Prince Rupert was the result of technology improvements.

At a later point in the night, Duncan announced that the entire lifeboat fleet on the B.C. Coast has been replaced and that they are also in the midst of building replacements for the mid-shore and off-shore fleet, which will be used for research and monitoring.

“We are going to have a first-class, well-equipped Coast Guard to look after our interests going forward,” Duncan said.

Johns, a long-time Tofino resi-dent, was quick to refute the Con-servative MP.

“When I hear the Conserva-

tive candidate tell me about their investments in Coast Guard, it makes me right away think about the bunker spill in English Bay. We

all remem-ber what happened without Kits Coast Guard being there because they closed it. It took forever for them to get there and act on that,” said Johns.

“We don’t have a world-class spill response plan in place as much as they want to tell you that,” he said.

Carrie Powell-Davidson said her party is committed to diversifying the economy by investing in sci-ences and technology.

“We will be reinstating $40 mil-lion back into the ocean sciences and monitoring programs that were taken out by the current government. We will get back to a data driven evidence based research way of making decisions, and we will be unmuzzling our scientists,” said Powell-Davidson who will celebrate 25 years of marriage on election day, Oct.19.

In terms of restoring federal jobs

on the West Coast, all four candi-dates spoke about creating jobs around the local tourism industry. Both Green and NDP candidates

discussed reinvest-ing in the Department of Fisheries and Oceans.

“I want to see us restore DFO and our role in DFO. DFO has been gutted, you know? $100 million cuts

to DFO. We need to restore DFO’s role and that will create jobs here in our community,” said Johns.

Towards the end of the even-ing, the interesting topic of strategic voting was called into question. The NDP, Liberal, and Green candidates were all in favour of reforming the electoral system to include proportional representation.

“I hate having to ask people to lend me their votes so that we can defeat the Conservatives in this federal election. But I am. I am asking people to do that. Because in this riding it’s going to be a very close race and we know that,”

said Johns.Sollitt was eager to address the

topic:“We need to throw that darn

strategic voting idea out the window. Tell every-body. Educate yourself. Pick what you want. Vote for what you want. And if everybody does that, they’ll get what they want,” Sollitt said.

Powell-Davidson urged voters to look at the candidate that’s going to give them the best government going forward.

“The Liberals are committed to making this the last first-past-the-post election that we have,” she said.

Duncan, who was first elected to the House of Commons in 1993, said the British Parliamentary system that Canada has operated under since confederation has served the country very well.

“Nobody talked about strategic voting when the Liberals were getting 39 per cent majorities. They’re only talking about when the Conservatives get 39 per cent and get majorities. It went on for a long time. I was in opposition for 13 years, I can tell you about it,” he said.


Candidates sound off in Ukee as election day nears

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JOHN DUNCAN

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NORA O’MALLEY Special to Westerly News

EDITOR’S NOTE: Election Day is Monday, Oct. 19. Polls will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Ucluelet Community Centre and

Tofino Community Hsll. Bring a legal form of ID. By law, employ-ers must allow employees time to vote.

The Tofino Chamber of Com-

merce hosted the 2015 Courte-nay-Alberni federal election candidates on Thursday, Oct.

8, with the exception of the Marx-ist-Leninist Barbara Biley who was unable to attend.

Coming fresh from the Ucluelet meet-up the night prior, the elector-al candidates appeared more relaxed and re-energized to share their political views to an audience of about 100 West Coast voters gathered at the Tofino Community Hall.

No big surprises were revealed in regards to central issues, such as: transport, healthcare, and small busi-ness. NDP Gord Johns, Lib-eral Carrie Powell-Davidson, Conservative John Duncan, and Green Glenn Sollitt were all committed to funding new transport initiatives, investing in healthcare, and reducing the small business tax rate to 9 per cent.

However, the candidates had differing views when it came to more localized issues like mining in Clayoquot Sound.

“I would certainly not rule out mining in Clayoquot Sound. Of course, it would have to pass the hurdles of environmental assessment and permitting and First Nations participation would invariably be required,” said Duncan.

Powell-Davidson sug-

gested a complete overhaul of the environmental assessment project as her initial response to mining in Clayoquot Sound.

“I’m concerned that we have a company that wants to do a pro-ject here that could jeopardize two very solid industries that you already have in tourism and fish-eries for the introduction of one,” she said.

Johns eloquently communicated the need to create a better econ-omy in Clayoquot Sound:

“These communities wouldn’t consider that type of economic development if they had a choice. It’s bigger picture,” he said.

“We’ve got to create a real econ-omy in Clayoquot Sound that’s sustainable. That’s what these communities want. We want to make sure we create a community that we can grow the economy and protect the environment. So that we’re not talking about ideas like mining that can effect all of our salmon and fish,” said Johns.

On the issue of increasing fin-fish aquaculture on the West Coast, both the Liberal and NDP candidates expressed the need to reinvest in research.

Sollitt who personally fished wild salmon from back in the ear-ly seventies, was not in favour of opening any new open can salmon fishing farms.

“I think our focus should be on returning wild stocks up and down the coast. And if we do that, there will be enough fish,” said Sollitt.

Conservative MP Duncan had an opposing view from his counter-parts, advocating that there is room for responsible growth in the finfish industry.

“I don’t think we can afford to pass up and say no to every opportunity for our rural, coast-al communities to generate an employment base. We can’t say no to everything,” he said.

One of the last questions of the evening pertained to funding the construction of the proposed West Coast Multiplex within Tofino-Ucluelet airport lands. All four candidates were onboard to invest federal dollars in the rec-reational building, which would include an ice rink.

Johns, a former member of the West Coast Multiplex board of directors, was especially passion-

ate about making the community facility cometo fruition.

“It’s the first thing in our region where we all signed on to do some-thing together,” Johns said.

Monday is election night.

Polls are open at Ucluelet Community Centre and Tofino Com-munity Hall from 7 a.m to 7 p.m.

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One on One Interview: One Man’s Will to Survive & Thrive

A Legacy of Tears

Westerly News publisher Jackie Carmi-chael interviewed residential school surviv-or Stephen Charleson via written responses on Oct. 2, 2015. Here is that interview:

Stephen: In 1957, September I went to Christie Indian Residential School on Mear-es Island for Grade One. In June, 1964, I finished Grade Eight and graduated. In 1964, September, I went to St. Mary’s Indian Resi-dential School in Mission City, BC. In 1966, I completed Grade Ten. The school at that time went to Grade Ten.

Jackie: Had other family members gone to residential school?Stephen: Yes – my two oldest brothers and

one sister went to Christie before I did and went to high school in Kamloops. All the rest

of us went to Christie School.

Jackie: How did you come to be taken to residential school?Stephen: At the time I became six years

old, it was Canadian law that I attend resi-dential school. Christie School was three hours by troller from Hot Springs Cove. St.

Mary’s was three and a half hours to Tofino, five hours by bus to Nanaimo, one and a half hours by ferry, and two hours by bus to Mis-sion City. The travel ended with a two mile walk to the school.

Jackie: What was your residential school experience like?Stephen: It was terrible at Christie and no

better at St. Mary’s. It was similar to moving to another country or planet where it was normal to take me and change me so I didn’t know who I was anymore. Everyone had per-mission to treat me like I wasn’t human or good enough to be who I really was. It was a very lonely experience. Every year from

See INTERVIEW Page 8, 9 and 10

An ancient sepia photo of Chris-tie Residential School on Meares Island shows deceptively little: canoes pulled up at the shore, a cross on the building’s bell tower, fi gures on a porch.

What it doesn’t show is the thousands of First Nations chil-dren who were, over a century, kept at the school and others around Canada under typically grim conditions, far from their families.

Westerly News publisher Jackie Carmichael interviewed resi-dential school survivor Stephen Charleson of Hesquiat Harbour. The interview started with a conversation with Charleson’s daughter, Mariah, who got out the orangest clothing she had to wear for Orange Shirt Day.

The day has garnered nation-wide attention. It’s a story with-in a story, the orange garments representing what was taken from children (and their fami-

lies) when they were removed to residential school – and harm done to their self-esteem and well-being. A residential school survivor, Phyllis (Jack) Web-stad recounted her fi rst day at St. Joseph Mission Residential School at age 6, when the lovely new orange shirt bought for her by her grandmother that was taken from her and replaced by a uniform.

Set during the season children were taken off to school, the

Sept. 30 event was designed to spark conversation about anti-bullying and a spirit of rec-onciliation and hope for gener-ations of children to come, said a Facebook page devoted to the day. “Every Child Matters.”

Mariah Charleson would agree.

“I want to show my support for residential school survivors and bring awareness - I think it’s a great way of educating the gen-eral public,” she said.

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Interview with Stephen Charleson, continued from Page 7the time I was six until I completed Grade Ten

at St. Mary’s, I was at home only in the summer

– ten months of the year, I was in school far away

from home.

Jackie: What was the worst thing about

residential school? Can you share incidents/

experiences?

Stephen: Religious peoples’ meanness and hyp-

ocrisy. They told us to treat others as we would

like to be treated. With them it was one way

only. We were never allowed to treat them like

they treated us. Lies – a lot of lies were told to

us. They claimed that we were savages, ignorant,

uncivilized, godless, etc. etc. The way to become

good was to forget being Indian and become

religious and forget what our parents told us

and we would become as good as a white man.

That turned out to be a huge lie. The reality, I

have found out the hard way, is that I will never

be accepted as equal in Canada. All they wanted

from us was our land, ocean, trees, fish and any-

thing worth money.

The first day in school in Christie I will never

forget. We were told to go the blackboard and

write the number 1 over and over. I picked up the

chalk and started to copy what the others were

doing. I thought I was doing a good job when I

was suddenly hit on the side on my head with a

chalk eraser. The nun was yelling at me because

I was using my left hand to write the numbers.

She yelled that I must use only my right hand,

she grabbed the chalk and put it in my right hand

and instructed me to continue. I did, but found

that I couldn’t use my right hand like I could my

left. That kind of abuse was normal for the teach-

ers and continued for seven years at Christie.

The supervisors were meaner. They would

strap us, punch us, slap us, yell at us, upset our

beds when we were still sleeping, spy on us, ver-

bally abuse us, sexually assault some of us, on

and on and on. We were six years old.

I remember always missing my

parents and my home. We would

watch for a certain plant (Indian Paint

Brush) to grow. We knew that when it

sprouted and grew bigger that it was

just about time to go home.

St. Mary’s wasn’t much better. We

were older but still far away from our

parents and home. There is no ocean

at Mission City. I always missed the

ocean while I was there. The land

itself is different than I was used to.

It was flat and I could smell the cattle

crap in the air all the time. The Fraser

River looked huge and I couldn’t see

the bottom of the river to see if there

was fish there.

Jackie: Did the residential school

experience have any lasting effects on

you?

Stephen Charleson and his wife Karen, right, and son Joshua and nephew Stephen Dennis, far right, in front of their family mural in the long-house at Charleson’s Hooksum Outdoors School.


Stephen: Yes – mostly bad lasting

effects on me. Any person in a capacity

of authority, I view with great suspicion

when they claim how they will help

First Nations people. We watched a lot

of Western movies in Christie School

and the part that makes the most sense

to me is the part about people and their

forked tongues. They always lie about

the goodness that will come if we allow

them to do what they wish to make

themselves richer.

The flip side of that is my realization

that I was the continuation of thou-

sands of years of living here in my

homeland. The parts the schools tried

to rip from me are worth keeping or

reviving. My ancestors worked very

hard to take care of themselves and

everything around them and I decided

it was better for me to follow or redis-

cover their good ways.

Jackie: Did you observe others who

experienced even worse lasting effects

from residential school?

Stephen: Yes – At Christie School I

saw a supervisor throw a sugar con-

tainer at someone’s head. He has the

scar on top of his head today. I think

the infraction was talking during meal

time.

Some of my contemporaries are still

alcoholics or drug addicts. The experts

call it self-medicating. Self-medication,

fifty years later, that’s how bad some

boys had it in Christie School.

Lots of my friends have died from

alcohol abuse or drug use even today.

Jackie: How were you able to deal

with the residential school experience –

at the time and later on?

Stephen: We were held basically

against our will on an island. Our

parents were prevented by Canadian

law from keeping us at home. Police-

men, priests, brothers, nuns made sure

we were kept at Christie School. We

were afraid something terrible would

happen if we complained – like getting

strapped or punished for complaining

about the treatment. A lot of us basic-

ally suffered in silence. That’s just the

way things were.

Later on, when I was older and in

Grades Eleven and Twelve in Nanaimo,

I joined a Youth Group that went from

community to community on the east

side of Vancouver Island urging former

students and current students to speak

up about their experiences in these

schools. We didn’t get too far. The

religious people heard about it and

told us to stop it. But all these years

these years I have never forgotten my

parents, after I graduated from high

school and how they taught me about

my homeland, how I could survive here,

how good it is and how lousy I had

been treated by the Catholics and other

Canadians as I was growing up.

I vowed that my children would never

have to go through what I did and

worked hard so that wouldn’t happen.

Jackie: We know painful experiences

can be cyclical. How were you able to

protect yourself and others from the

painful past?

Stephen : I told all my children what

I went through and told them it was a

terrible experience. Some of the behav-

iours I learned from the school were

very hard not to continue. I tried very

hard not be violent, angry, mean, or dis-

respectful to my wife and children.

For the most part I think I have suc-

ceeded. I will continue to act that way

with my grand-children. My wife and

I have made it a priority to ground our

children in Hesquiaht ways and history.

We have encouraged them to high-

er education so they can continue to

repair and uplift our Hesquiaht ways,

philosophy and love of our land and

seas and to do the same for

their children.

Jackie: Why is it important

for residential school history

to be shared with students in

public schools?

Interview with Stephen Charleson, continued from Page 8

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Stephen: Children should be told

the true history of what transpired in

these government sanctioned insti-

tutions. They should learn about the

consequences of such ill-advised,

racist, genocidal policies. They are very

destructive to a whole race of people

right across Canada.

Native people should be the ones

to tell the stories. There are a lot of

Survivors with firsthand experience in

what transpired.

Jackie: How do you feel about news

that Canadian school children will

soon learn about the residential school

experience?

Stephen: I have mixed feelings about

it. I applaud the decision to teach

the history of the Indian Residential

Schools, but I know firsthand how it

can be interpreted the wrong way by

people who did not experience the

horrors. It is very painful to think of

those nine years I was in those schools.

There are many memories I have that

make me feel quite sad. There are

times when I see others talk about their

bad experiences at these schools that

overwhelming emotions well up and I

start to cry. I am sixty-four years old

now and it still is just as sad as when I

was six years old and on my first day of

school. This tragic chapter in Canada’s

history should be common knowledge

to every person in Canada.

I hate feeling sad. I didn’t want to

answer these questions at first because

re-living these memories tears my heart

out. I feel hollow and not here. But I

realize that others in this world need to

know what destruction has been done

to generations of First Nations people.

I know it is absurd to say so – but

I actually feel ashamed that I let this

happen to me, I don’t want anyone to

see my shame. But then I realize that

I was only six years old when this all

began to happen. I have nothing to be

ashamed of. I am absolutely proud

I have survived the ordeal. I have a

beautiful wife, six children, grand-

children, and I live at home where

my ancestors have lived since time

immemorial. The upswing has taken a

long time and has mostly been accom-

plished without too many others help-

ing. It would only accelerate if a nation

were helping us get over the trauma.

EPILOG: Stephen Charleson’s daugh-

ter Mariah is the first generation of her

family removed from the residential

school system. A terrible lingering

legacy of the residential schools that

separated tens of thousands of First

Nations young from their parents

has been continued cycles of abuse

that have impacted other generations,

Mariah said.

“It has intergenerational effects, from

social issues to family issues – like

people just not understanding how

to love their children properly, and

thing like that, for example … I’ve been

extremely fortunate, because my father

has made a direct effort to stop the

cycle of abuse,” she said, adding that

the Canadian government’s commit-

ment to including residential schools in

Canadian history school curriculum is

“amazing” – and important.

“It’s a crucial part of hist-

ory, so I’m thrilled about it.

Even though it’s a dark part

of history, we can’t lie – and

even though it’s a sad part

of history, it’s just as import-

ant. People learn about the

Holocaust and all that – we

should learn about what

happened in our own back

yard,” Mariah said.

“The truth is just really

important.”

Interview with Stephen Charleson, continued from Page 9


It’s been a long while since I’ve written a book column. Just coping with this record-break-ing summer season took all the energy I had.

However, this new book written by the partner of the Assist-ant Lightkeep-er of Lennard Island Light-house and member of

the Clayoquot Writer’s Group, has given me the motivation to take up the pen again.

Because that is the driving theme of ‘Light Years: Memoir of a Modern Lighthouse Keeper’ (Har-bour Publishing 2015) – a writer just gotta write. And a writer has to find the place and the lifestyle that lets her do that. Many of us can relate to that sense of one’s

life dream slipping away on us as our time passes, and for Caroline, mod-ern “life on the lights” became the way and means to refocus on her true vocation.

Though alluded to, this is not a book about the heroic deeds, hardships and employer abuse that many Lighthouse books document.

It’s all in the mundane, the accurate and detailed accounting of lightkeeper duties, including the Christmas bake-a-thon that I personally sampled as an ex-MC-TSO (read the book to find out!).

She even explains the coded meaning of the daily weather report that is radioed to Coast Guard.

But the beauty of her book is that she can turn a phrase to

make the mowing of a lawn into an enter-taining exploit.

I particularly enjoyed her poems, digressions, hum-ourous bits, personal and political view-points unabashedly expressed through-

out. And for us locals, the fun of catching the inside references.

In short, a personable book, describing equally the life of a writer and the life of lightkeeper; and in no small part a touching love story.

In my previous CG job I have

heard Caroline’s voice many times on the VHF radio receiving those aforementioned weather reports, so I’m truly looking forward to meeting her in person. I’m sure she’s as vibrant in life as in words. She is in our area for three special events:

• Slide show and book signing at the Clayoquot Sound Commun-ity Theatre (380 Campbell Street, Tofino) on Friday, October 23rd at 7:30 pm. Enjoy complimentary beverages and snacks, and book sales courtesy of Mermaid Tales Bookshop.

• Slide show and book signing at the Community Centre in the

George Fraser Room (500 Matter-son Drive, Ucluelet) on Saturday, October 24th at 7:30 pm. Enjoy complimentary beverages and snacks, and book sales courtesy of Blackberry Cove Marketplace.

• Writers workshop—Writing Your Own Memoir: the Light & Dark Years—at Main Street Gal-lery & Espresso Bar at the Kayak Shop (320 Main Street, Tofino) on Sunday, October 25thfrom 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. Cost: $40.

See www.carolinewoodward.ca for more information.

Susan Lee is a Ucluelet book-seller and reviewer.

Toastmasters welcoming new members COMMENT

Pacific Rim Toastmasters is hosting an Open House on Wed-

nesday October 28th at the Uclue-let Community Centre, room 2 from 7:00-8:30 pm. If you’ve ever won-dered what we do at our meetings, or

how we can help you achieve your leadership goals, please join us that evening – you might be pleas-antly surprised!

How can Toastmasters can help

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The world needs leaders. Lead-ers head families, coach teams, run businesses and mentor others. These leaders must not only accomplish, they must com-municate. By regularly giving speeches, gaining feedback, lead-ing teams and guiding others to

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The Toastmasters International Mission is to empower individ-uals to become more effective communicators and leaders.

Our Club Mission is to provide a supportive and positive learning experience in which members are empowered to develop com-munication and leadership skills, resulting in greater self-confi-dence and personal growth.

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Lennard Island lighthouse memoir sparks events

MARILYNMcEWEN/LOCAL VOICE

SUSAN LEE/LITERARYVOICE

A hot new hashtag is out there on Instagram after actor Victor Gar-ber (Jack Bristow in Alias, Thomas Andrews in Titanic, and Jesus in

Godspell) shared his newly official domestic bliss.

Garber’s newly-wedded partner artist/

model Rainer Andreesen used all caps - the universally accepted font model for shouting - to announce it to the world, presumably from Tofino, where the couple tied the knot. “YES WE DID! #justgotmarried #elopedintofino #canada #ther-ealvictorgarber #after16years.”

Congratulations to the Gar-ber-Andreesens. The West Coast’s wedding industry is alive and well!

+++No official word yet on what movie

has been in filming in Ukee. A cer-tain vacant subdivision has been cordoned off for the duration. More filming in progress at Long Beach as well. Call us Hollywood far west.

+++West Coast favourite Geoff John-

son is battening down the musical

hatches for winter. In addition to his regu-lar gigs at Jack’s, Jamie’s and Black Rock’s

Fetch, he has weddings, lessons and some Island tour dates coming up - some original material in there, as well as some of his Jef Zeppelin material and the 60s and 70s stuff we’re also a fan of. Sales on his CD, Women and Losin, (he’s a little bit country, and a little bit rock n roll - with some jazzy notes) are clicking along nicely. Listen up for his wife Tara’s awesome voice in there.

+++ The Seattle/Gabriola Island band

NoRey did a show at Jamie’s Rain-forest Inn and used a drone to shoot some spectacular footage of Long Beach for their new music video. Check it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF7jj3JvzYA ... we’re a fan of both the beach and the song.

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My thanks to youCOMMENT

This is the last Westerly News I will publish. I have stepped

down as of today. Today I become a West Coast reader of this newspaper.

I would like to thank everyone who has gra-ciously taught me about life on the West Coast. A big thanks to everyone who entrusted me with a story idea, a calendar item, a Local Voice, an ad. I am hum-bled by your patience and kindness, and your generosity in sharing what’s best and most important about the West Coast.

I wish my colleagues at the Westerly News

and Black Press all the very best and thank them for all their support, patience, enthusiasm, skill and interest in this import-ant endeavour.

The Westerly News is an essential part of the commun-ities of the West Coast, and it’s important for it to thrive and grow along with Tofino and Ucluelet.

After a quarter-century in the

business of news and communi-cations, I will continue to look for ways to be an active part of telling the stories of this really wonderful place.

I am also hoping for more time to be involved in the community and look forward to seeing you all soon on the beach, down-town or on the trails of this beautiful West Coast.

Kind regards, Jackie

JACKIE CARMICHAEL/LOCAL VOICE

The Westerly News | Wednesday, October 14, 2015 Wed, Oct 14, 2015 Ucluelet Western News A13

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The District of Tofino is seeking a temporary Recreation Programmer 1 to cover a maternity leave in the Community Sustainability Department. The Recreation Programmer 1 coordinates, promotes and implements recreational programs and special events for a diverse variety of programs in sport, outdoor, social, arts and cultural areas. The preferred candidate will have post secondary education in a related field and previous work experience in a recreation position. Preference will be given to those with a valid class 4 BC Drivers License and current first aid training. Please contact the undersigned for a full job description.

This is a unionized position (CUPE Local 118) based on a 37.5 hour work week with an hourly wage, after probation, of $24.00 plus 14.8% in lieu of benefits and statutory holidays. The position is a temporary position starting in December of 2015 until September, 2016. Qualified candidates are invited to apply in writing providing a detailed resume, with employment related references no later than 4:00 pm on Friday October 23 to:

Aaron RodgersManager of Community Sustainabilityhand: 121 Third Street, Tofino, BCmail: PO Box 9 Tofino, BC V0R 2Z0Phone: 250-725-3229 (22)e-mail: [email protected]

DISTRICT OF TOFINOBox 9, 121 Third StreetTofino BC V0R 2Z0

Help Wanted: Recreation Support Worker (Regular, Full-time)

Hitacu, British Columbia Posted on: Monday, September 14, 2015

The Recreation Facilities Worker is responsible for the planning and administration of

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| The Westerly News Wednesday, October 14, 2015Page 14 | The Westerly News Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Chris Christianson (Local Voice, Westerly News, September 23, 2015) is right. With respect to affordable housing, “Tofino

residents and council need to start thinking about their long term goals as a community.” Although afford-able housing has

been on our collective mind for decades, and despite some con-certed efforts over the past years, we haven’t made enough progress. That has to change, but it’s not going to be simple and easy.

Let’s review what we know.

Employing workers who live in tents or vans is not a sustainable business practice, and lack of employee housing is forcing some businesses to scale back their operations. Moving every eight months as part of the “West Coast Shuffle” is not a safe and secure environment to raise children, and despite good jobs, families are taking their skills, volunteer-ism, and passion to other com-munities where they can actually unpack their suitcases and boxes.

Paying 50% of your income for housing means sacrifices on transportation and healthy food, which can lead to anxiety and poor physical health.

None of this is acceptable if Tofino is to remain a true com-munity: a meaningful place to live and thrive with strong social net-works, good jobs, and a healthy environment.

Now let’s review what we don’t know, or what perhaps we might not entirely agree on.

Whose needs are greatest? Com-munity members living under the poverty line, perhaps with mental health and/or addiction issues? Year-round resident employees doing the West Coast Shuffle? Seasonal employees essential to business success? Folks looking to rent? Folks looking to buy?

How do we encourage the

development of rental housing when land prices are high and development cost charges of some amount are necessary lest we fall even further behind our infra-structure deficit?

Which Tofino neighbourhoods are prepared to see increased density? How many homeowners might build a second or third suite, were it legal?

If the minimum size of a house was removed or lowered, would it be more affordable to build? Would a regulatory review of Short Term Rentals help curb what is a needed mortgage helper for some, but a loss of long-term tenancy for others?

There are more questions than answers, but Tofino won’t make progress on affordable housing until we take these questions head on.

I’m ready. Will you join me in the tough conversations ahead? Over the coming months, the Dis-trict of Tofino will be engaging in public and private conversa-tions with tenants, homeowners, landlords, housing developers, lenders, social service providers, and more.

I hope you will join me.

Josie Osborne is the mayor of Tofino.

Tofino mayor agrees with letter writerCOMMENT

When the housing going gets tough, Tuff needs to get going

JOSIE OSBORNE LOCAL VOICE

JACKIE CARMICHAEL

Westerly News

‘Grass roots gourmet’ is an approach that’s paying off for Tofino restaurateur and ‘The SOBO Cookbook’ author Lisa Ahier.

The book took the gold medal at the Taste Canada Awards in the Regional/Cultural Cookbook cat-egory – and the SOBO Cookbook is a little of both.

The book also won the Best Female Canadian Cookbook at Gourmand International’s June awards in China – but the Taste Canada win is particularly sweet for Ahier.

“The cookbook’s as much about the landscape and the people (of the West Coast) as it is about SOBO’s food,” she said.

The book soared to Canadian best-selling status within 6 weeks of publication, and made a num-ber of best-seller lists.

So far, more than 20,000 books have been sold, and a fifth print-ing is in the works.

The SOBO Cookbook is generous with Ahier’s “secrets.” “I’m some-one who wants to share when I see people cooking,” she said.

Getting into print was some-thing of a challenge – once she said she would write it, she had to get it done, Ahier said.

“I felt like I gave my word – I completed it although it was com-pletely out of my comfort zone,” she said.

A self-identifying “old school” chef, Ahier goes into the kitchen every day, writes recipes by hand in a note book – so the digital nature of publishing was not her first nature.

“I did lose it four times while I was writing it – it was certain-

ly challenging, it would have been a lot easier to give up,” she admitted.

After seven years – including walking away from the project for over a year - eventually she got comfortable with the process. A good thing, because popular demand is up and she’s writing a second cookbook.

But first and foremost, Lisa Ahi-er’s a chef.

“I’m a hands-on chef, not an office chef … I work the line, pull the tickets,” she said.

Her restaurant perched on the corner with its sidewalk view of the dock and Clayoquot Sound beyond keeps her busy; at the height of the 2015 summer – the West Coast’s busiest ever – she had 44 staffers whirring from line to table, appetizer to dessert.

“I do a lot of talking and a lot of

teaching every day, over and over,” Ahier said, citing patience and stamina as the big take-aways for that kind of busy.

“I really enjoy the people I do this for,” she said. “Sixty percent of our business is local – and I like seeing our community, I real-ly enjoy seeing them.

“I think it’s important for people to see their chefs in the restaurant – I call it ‘grass roots gourmet,’”

she said. Ahier said she prefers farm-to-

table – “but I use local products with global influences and global intention.”

That translates into everything from polenta fries to chowder – and reflects, at the most basic level, her Fort Worth, Texas roots, (where the graduate of the Culin-ary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY cooked at the upscale Cibolo Creek Ranch for names like Mick Jagger and Larry Hag-man, and did Vogue spreads.)

“I find Texas food is quite bold … mine is very forward in spice,” she said. “I love chilies.”

That means pickling up100 pounds of jalopenos in a day, and snagging 40 pounds of poblanos from her favourite pepper farmer.

“I blend traditional Canadian food with my Texas heritage,” she said.

Ahier started in nearby Ucluelet, and she sees the two communities as very connected, of a piece.

She introduced fish tacos to the West Coast, eventually leaving her gig as chef at Long Beach Lodge Resort for a schedule that accom-modated a mother’s multi-tasking schedule (she walks a hot SOBO lunch to son Barkley at his nearby school daily).

Her popular food truck start up eventually led to the glass-drift-wood-steel SOBO.

To turn a Texas phrase on its ear - she’s not from the West Coast, but she got here as quick as she could.

“Now that’ I’ve discovered Brit-ish Columbia, nothing against my native Texas, but I hope to never leave here,” Ahier said. “I hope that translated well in the book, how much I love my neighbourhood.”

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