tofino-ucluelet westerly news, september 02, 2015

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Science rules at Ukee Aquarium

ANDREW BAILEYWesterly news

it’s been a very good year for the ucluelet aquarium.

Over 20,000 aquatic-animal lovers have enjoyed the aquar-ium experience this season and patronage is up by about 2,500 from this time last year, according to the aquarium’s communications director Jessie Fletcher.

“the season has gone swimmingly,” Fletcher told the Westerly. “We’ve had lots of visitors from all over the place and a lot of really happy people.”

Sunny weather has not traditionally been kind to the aquarium’s summer numbers

as sunshine tends to lure tourists to the West coast’s beaches and outdoor adven-tures but Fletcher said this summer’s sun has not shaded patronage.

“We’ve been really, really, excited and are feeling pretty fortunate that we have been busy because sunny days typically do kill our visitation but our sunny days have been busier than our rainy days last year and our rainy days have been our busiest days of all time,” she said.

She said the aquarium relies on strong word of mouth to succeed and noted local businesses have shown tre-mendous support by pointing

tourists towards the facility and patrons have become advocates after enjoying the hands-on experiences provid-ed by the aquarium’s unique touch-tank exhibits.

She added the aquarium’s eager-to-explain staff provide a change of pace from larger facilities where signage is relied upon to convey infor-mation to patrons.

“We have the most excited and passionate marine nerds on the floor helping them explore our local habitat,” she said. “they’re so incredibly excited and passionate about the ocean, which is great. We couldn’t ask for a better work force.”

Many eyes are on the aquar-ium to prove its catch and release model is sustain-able and Fletcher said the West coast’s support allows the facility to shine in the spotlight.

“We really are successful because of the community we’re based in,” she said.

“i think the model will work elsewhere, but you really need that community engagement to be successful. You need that support, you need that word-of-mouth, you need the kids to be excited every single time they come in, and that really takes you a lot farther than just revenue.”[email protected]

Ucluelet Aquarium celebrating record setting season

ANDREW BAILEYWesterly newsan out of town band

had their gear stolen from inside ucluelet’s army navy and air Force Veterans club early Sun-day morning.

a black and gold gib-son les Paul custom electric guitar with an estimated value of $4,500 was taken along with two pedalboards, an amp, and two soft guitar cases, according to Sgt. Jeff Swann of the ucluelet RcMP.

the theft occurred sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. on aug. 30, according to Swann who said the anaF was locked but a window was left unsecured.

“Somebody broke in through that unlocked window,” he said.

Police believe the thief, or thieves, likely attended the band’s concert at the club on aug. 29.

“they had to have known the guitar was there so quite likely it was somebody that attended the event,” Swann said.

Police had no suspects at press time.

“Somebody knows who did it,” Swann said. “We’re appealing to the public to come forward with any information.”[email protected]

Band robbed at ANAF

INSIDETHIS WEEK:

Ucluelet local Andrew Bailey Jr. gets fascinated by a sea star during a Sunday afternoon visit to the Ucluelet Aquarium. Photo Andrew Bailey

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Tofino’s summer sun is about to set but that doesn’t mean boredom is about to set in.

The district’s recreation team has filled the upcoming fall season with unique opportunities for locals to learn new skills by trying new things.

“We have everything from surf and swim-ming lesson to cheese making classes,” said Tofino’s recreation programmer Laura Lunty.

“We’re definitely trying to offer commun-ity members as many different experiences

outside of work and school as possible to keep people active, engaged, happy and healthy.”

The fall recreation calendar has been released—find one in this week’s Westerly News—and a special discount registration day is scheduled for Sept. 9.

Lunty said Tofino is coming off a solid summer showing that brought 22 week-long camps to local kids, up from 16 last summer.

“Our focus is really on variety and keep-ing kids active,” she said. “We want to appeal to every different type of kid and try to reach as many kids as possible through-out the summer.”

She added her department focuses on experiential learning to help Tofino’s youth develop confidence by taking on new adventures.

“Keeping kids active and engaged over the summer is important for their develop-ment and to make sure that they’re engaged with the com-munity, making new friends, trying new experiences and continuing their learning,” she said.

“Parents know that their kids are engaged and doing some-thing active and challenging rather than sitting at home waiting for summer to be over.”

In order to put together a wide variety of offerings, the rec. team relies on talented locals as well as partnerships

with the Raincoast Education Society and Tofino Nature School.

“We really do rely on community mem-bers who have the passion and the know-ledge and who want to help enrich the lives of kids here,” Lunty said.

“That’s definitely a huge part of our pro-gramming and we’re really lucky to have the people who we have in town.”

As Tofino’s community grows and its rec-reational needs increase, the recreational resources the department has to draw from increase as well.

“Our community is growing and we’re establishing more and more young families and, with that, we’re getting a lot more people who are sticking around and have skill sets they want to share,” Lunty said.

“I’m finding more and more people want-ing to be involved with helping the rec. department and I would so encourage any people who have a talent or a skill and want to offer that experience to community members to contact us.”

Locals willing to lend a hand can reach Lunty at 250-725-3229 or [email protected].

Locals are also encouraged to look into

the Tofino Recreation Commission’s Kids Access Fund that is designed to ensure all locals, including those with financial bar-riers, can access recreational programs.

Applications for the fund can be found on the back of Tofino’s fall recreation guides.

Lunty said Tofino saw a big boost in its French offerings this summer and she expects Tofino’s growing trend of bilingual-ism to continue.

“We have a very strong cohort of families here who are passionate about having French opportunities for their kids,” she said.

She added this strong cohort brought “opportunities for kids to continue their French language development skills throughout the summer in a fun setting.”

Tofino will be kicking off its French Preschool program in October that is run through a partnership between L’AFFUT (Association Francophone et Francophile de Ucluelet et Tofino), the District of Tofino and l’Entente Canada- Colombie-Britannique.

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Ucluelet police are investigating a string of thefts that hit tourists par-ticularly hard last week.

Two vehicles parked on Rainforest Drive were smashed into around 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 25.

The vehicles belonged to two visiting families who were exploring the West Coast together and parked their cars to wander through the Wild Pacific Trail around 6 p.m.

They wandered for about 30 min-utes before returning to find their vehicles had been broken into, according to Sgt. Jeff Swann of the Ucluelet RCMP.

“In those 30 minutes somebody came, smashed the windows, and took some electronics that were left visible,” Swann said.

“It’s just a real reminder that if you’re parking your vehicle make sure there’s no electronics visible, even if it’s just for a short visit.”

Thieves hit tourists again the next day as about 18 vehicles parked

near Secret Beach were broken into between midnight and 8 a.m. on Aug. 26.

Swann said many of the vehicles belonged to a group of visiting kay-akers who had come to the Coast to

explore the Broken Group Islands.

“Some (vehicles) were unlocked and were rum-maged through and some had their windows smashed and stuff stolen,” Swann said.

He said thefts from vehi-cles have been trending up across Vancouver Island this summer and while

Ucluelet’s crime rate remains rela-tively low, thefts affect the town’s reputation.

“Thankfully, we do get very few of these but one is too many,” he said.

“I can just imagine tourists, when they have a wonderful vacation out here with the restaurants and the accommodation providers, and the beaches and the weather that we’ve been having, and at the end of their trip, right before they go home, their electronics and stuff are stolen. When they go home they’re going to remember that.”

He said police will ramp up their

efforts to nip the troubling trend in the bud and he urges motorists to never leave visible valuables in their vehicles, especially during the busy season.

“This summer has been so crazy busy with tour-ists, I think it’s the busiest year on record, and with that comes a small minor-ity of the population that thrives on that,” he said.

“They love when there’s lots of tourists in the area because it gives them more targets of opportun-ity...They’re not contribut-ing to society in any way and they’re just wrecking people’s lives by stealing their stuff.”

Swann urges anyone with any information about last week’s thefts to contact police at 250-726-7773.

“That’s the kind of stuff that we need to work

together as a community to stop,” he said.

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West Coasters still have about two weeks to wait before they can post signs in their front yards touting their favourite federal election candidates.

Both Ucluelet and Tofino have signage bylaws that stipulate campaign signage is only permitted within

30 days of an election. Canada’s 42nd federal

election is scheduled for Oct. 19, which means locals can’t put their signs up until Sept. 19.

“Our sign bylaw says they’re permitted, with-out a permit, within 30 days of an election,” said Tofino’s CAO Bob MacPherson adding this bylaw is enforced on a complaint driven

basis.MacPherson said

campaign signs are never permitted on Tofino’s public land, without a permit, regardless of how close the election is.

Ucluelet’s district staff have already removed more than one campaign sign from public property, according to man-ager of finance Dave Douglas.

“We’ve had a few calls and our staff are aware that this is going on,” Douglas told the West-erly. “As we become aware of the signage on district land, we remove the signs.”

Tofino mayor Josie Osborne told the Westerly she has seen

early signs popping up across Vancouver Island.

“I have also noticed some vandalism of election signs within the Alberni Clayoquot Regional District and the Regional District of Nanaimo, and I think that’s very unfortu-nate,” she said.

“Election signs are a part of our democratic process, and whether or not we like the signs or agree with a par-ticular political party, signs are permitted during a campaign. I hope we won’t see any of that kind of vandal-ism on the West Coast.”

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Check out our website at www.westerlynews.ca to answer this week’s poll question:

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c) I don’t have a favourite candidate to support.

Read The Westerly News next week for the results of the online vote.

Last week we asked, ‘Do you feel the West Coast’s signage needs to be improved to prevent explorers from getting lost?’ 75% said ‘Yes, it is too difficult to navigate our breath-taking sights.’ 25 % said ‘No, the signage is good enough and explorers should plan their route.’

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The Westcoast Native Health Care Society wants to develop a 10-bed residential care facility in Tofino but is struggling to con-vince Island Health to fund the venture.

The society currently runs Rain-bow Gardens, a residential care facility in Port Alberni, with fund-ing from Island Health.

“The Westcoast Native Health Care Society run a wonderful facility in Port Alberni, they’re a great operator,” Island Health spokesperson Suzanne Germain told the Westerly.

“Simply because we have a very good provider who has an interest and have come to us with an ask, doesn’t mean to say: A. that we have the money to fund that ask or B. that if we had the money, that would be our number one priority.”

She said Island Health must focus its limited budget on areas of greatest need.

“We plan where to expand, and where to contract services, based on demographics and right now we have no plans to expand our capacity in Tofino,” she said.

“The area of greatest need is, right now, the Nanaimo-Qualicum area. So, if we have $1 to put towards this, that’s probably the area it would go towards.”

She acknowledged Tofino is iso-lated and traveling to health ser-vices in Port Alberni or Nanaimo is not always feasible.

“There is an additional chal-lenge with that, but it’s also real-ly, really, challenging to operate a 10-bed facility, it’s just not big enough,” she said.

She added Island Health’s goal

is to improve in-home care so that Tofino’s seniors can stay in town and in their own homes.

“Our goal, not only because it’s better but it certainly is less expensive, is to keep folks living in their homes for as long as pos-sible,” she said. “Residential care should not be, and isn’t always, the best option for someone who is aging and might have some challenges...There are many other ways to provide support for ser-vices that allow folks to live at home for longer.”

She added individual care plans should be structured to allow patients to return home as soon as possible.

“The objective is not to have you sit in hospital, or sit in residential care, the objective is to do what we can to get you home,” she said. “It’s better for you and it’s better for the system.”

Tofino mayor Josie Osborne told the Westerly she was disappoint-ed but not surprised by Island Health’s reluctance to fund a facility for Tofitian seniors.

“I wasn’t surprised because to my knowledge, Island Health has been sending a consistent mes-sage over the last years: they have limited resources themselves and cannot justify a small standalone facility,” she said.

“Health care is the biggest expense for British Columbia and the provincial government doesn’t want to increase Island Health’s budget. They would prefer to see reallocation of current spending.”

Osborne noted locals face sev-eral hurdles along the path to retirement in Tofino.

“Healthy aging requires adequate health and community services, appropriate housing, and good transportation options.

It also requires strong family and social networks,” she said.

“Unfortunately, in small rural communities like ours, we simply don’t have access to all of the ser-vices that Island Health offers in larger centres, and we also know that we need better housing and transportation options.”

She said the district is pushing for improvements so that seniors can stay in the community.

“A healthy community is one with all ages and with strong intergenerational relationships. Seniors have so much to offer a community, from wisdom and knowledge to skills and expertise. One only has to look to our First Nations neighbours to under-stand what a critical role elders play in community development, raising children, and providing wisdom. It should be same in Tofino and Ucluelet,” she said.

“The West Coast has been pushing for a care facility because we want to keep our community members here, alongside their friends and family, an active part of the community, and we don’t want to see people have to leave because they can’t have

specialized health care or access-ibility needs met in their homes or in a specialized facility.”

She questioned whether Island Health’s idea of in-home care is adequate.

“It’s been suggested to us that improved at home services could help keep seniors in the commun-ity longer, but that’s been met with skepticism by some of the Tofino seniors I recently spoke with,” she said.

“I think successful home care would require a significant addition to the home care pro-gram currently offered by Island Health. While Island Health is currently in the midst of talks internally about how to better integrate health services and sen-iors care is part of the discussion, it’s going to take time. And I think that is really what frustrates me and other commun-ity members. Some of us feel like we’re on a hamster wheel with Island Health as they rename, rebrand, reorganize.”

Osborne noted that while district offi-cials jump through the lobbying hoops, aging locals are leav-ing the community and younger locals are worrying about

whether they’ll be able to retire in Tofino.

She encourages anyone with any opinions on the subject to bring their ideas forward.

“I would love to hear from local community members, seniors especially, about their thoughts and experiences,” she said.

“The more I know about peoples’ experiences and needs, the bet-ter I can advocate for them, and the better I can help build part-nerships and plan for Tofino’s future.”

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UCLUELET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – 2015-2016 START-UP INFORMATIONSCHOOL OPENINGSchool starts on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at 10:15 am and students will be dismissed at 12:15 pm. Students will return to their last year’s classroom on the first day. Due to possible changes in enrollment, new class lists will not be available until Wednesday morning, Sept. 9th. Please send school supplies on Wednesday September 9th. Lunch program will not start the first week of school please be sure to send a lunch with your child.

SCHOOL REORGANIZATION MAY OCCUR ANYTIME THROUGHOUT SEPTEMBER IN RESPONSE TO ENROLLMENT.

BUSES will leave Hitacu Community Hall at 9:30 am, Sutton Road at 9:35 am, Willowbrae at 9:40 am and Millstream at 9:42 am and return from the school at 12:15 pm on Tuesday September 8th only.

NEW REGISTRATIONSStudents who are new to the area may register at the Ucluelet Elementary School office between 9 am and 2 pm August 24th to September 4th. Please phone the school office at 250 726 7793 asap.

KINDERGARTEN STUDENTSKindergarten students start school on Wednesday September 9th and have been mailed “gradual entry” letters.

BELL SCHEDULE **PLEASE NOTE NEW BELL TIMES AND EARLY DISMISSAL ON FRIDAYS**The regular schedule of classes begins at 8:30 am on Wednesday September 9th with dismissal at 2:45 pm.

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School will soon be back in swing, which means motorists must remember to look out for education-bound backpackers.

Ucluelet recently installed a stretch of delineator bollards—white vertical posts—to increase safety along Matterson Drive.

Municipal councillor Sally Mole said the bol-lards are a good start but the district will likely need to do more to keep Matterson’s users safe.

“There was definitely a need for separation between the pedestrian and bike path and the roadway, and I think the delineators solve this problem temporar-ily” she said.

“I think the ultimate solution would be to physically separate the path and the road with a green strip, and to widen the path.”

She noted the area sees a lot of foot and vehicle traffic from all walks of locals.

“This is a well-trav-eled route that will

only get more vehicle and pedestrian/bike traffic as our town grows,” she said.

“It is also a route that our day care and school kids use often, and safety for these younger community members is really important to me. That being said, I often see this route being used by older people, some-times walking their dogs, or parents out with strollers.”

With a new bike park

and outdoor volley-ball court about to be unveiled on Matterson, and work being done to improve the skate park, Matterson is becoming a key route for recreationers.

“While the delinea-tors don’t provide that physical bor-der, they do create a visual boundary that I think helps with safety issues,” Mole said.

Coun. Marilyn McEwen is thrilled with the new bollards

and hopes they will remind drivers to slow down.

“We’re still working on Peninsula in the school zone to make it safer. The reader board has helped raise awareness of the 30 km/h zone,” she said.

She added coun-cil is also looking at improving the roadway between He-Tin-Kis Park and Coast Guard Road.

“We’re hoping to have a solution to that dan-

gerous stretch of road with no sidewalk or pathway as it currently exists,” she said.

“Some additional stop signs at that corner is hopefully helping to direct traffic right on Coast Guard Road, rather than speed through into a resi-dential neighbourhood with children playing.”

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Ari and Weston Mohr took their bikes out for a spin around Matterson Drive last week. Ucluelet’s municipal council is working to keep local kids safe while they roll through town. Photo Andrew Bailey


A tourist ruined his vacation by driving while impaired in Ucluelet last week.

The tourist was stopped at a road-block at the corner of Peninsula and Forbes Road on Aug. 23 around 2 a.m. and officers smelled booze on his breath, according to Sgt. Jeff Swann.

Swann said the driver blew a

‘warn’ into an approved screening device meaning their blood alcohol concentration was between 0.05 and 0.1 per cent.

A three-day driving prohibition was issued and the tourist’s vehicle was impounded for three days.

Police also found marijuana in the vehicle but no charges were issued.

The driver was visiting Ucluelet from Nanaimo.

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A particularly playful Red Octopus is putting on quite the performance at the Ucluelet Aquarium.

Jeremiah arrived at the aquar-ium in August chock full of moxy and she quickly won the hearts of patrons.

“They think she’s real-ly cute. They really like her,” said aquarium curator Laura Griffith-Cochrane.

“She’s very active during the day and she’s really good at manipulating her environment so she’s creating dens, she’s moving stuff around in the tank and she’s active in altering her environment.”

Griffith-Cochrane said Jeremiah grooved into her new environment faster than any other octopus the aquarium has welcomed this year.

“She’s been hanging out at the front, she’s been eating in front of visitors...she’s been doing really, really, well,” she said

Red Octopuses are small crea-tures that grow to roughly the size of an average person’s palm and reach a maximum weight of about 1 kilogram.

Griffith-Cochrane believes Jere-miah is about 1-year-old and said Red Octopuses only live for about two years.

Their diet consists mostly of crabs, which they eat by first paralyzing and then liquefying them.

“An octopus has two salivary glands. One of them releases that

initial paralyzing chemical and the other one releases the liquefy-ing chemical,” Griffith-Cochrane said.

“They drill through the back of the crab with their tongue, called a radula, liquefy the inside and suck it out like a milkshake.”

A Red Octopus uses its tongue like a slow moving drill to get through the crab’s shell.

“It goes through the very back of the carapace, which is the crab’s shell, and just creates a tiny little pinhole; it’s incredibly small,” Griffith-Cochrane said.

“It uses a chemical that it produ-ces to liquefy everything inside...It’s a waiting game. It’s kind of like when you’re putting every-thing into a blender and you’re making a smoothie; you wait until it’s all done and then you eat it.”

Red Octopuses live in shallow waters and make their homes in enclosed spaces, according to Griffith-Cochrane who said their love of tight spaces is often how they are caught.

“The ancient Greeks and Rom-ans would make these clay pots and drop them in the ocean and octopuses like to be in enclosed small spaces so they would crawl inside and then these pots would be lifted up and they would catch octopuses that way and a lot of places still do catch octopuses that way,” she said.

She added the little animals can occasionally be found in dis-carded bottles.

“When Red Octopuses find beer bottles they have these nice predator free refuges...that’s often, when we’re doing beach

cleanups, a concern we have. We have to have someone who watches any-thing that we bring up to make sure there’s nothing living inside,” she

said noting an aquarium-hosted harbour cleanup a few years ago yielded a handful of the creatures.

“We put all of the beer bottles out on a big tarp and we had a volunteer checking every single one of them for Red Octopuses and we found six.”

While beer bottles are solid homes for this specific species, don’t get the idea that it’s cool to drop bottles in the ocean for them.

“There’s a lot of life that can get stuck in those so, while it works for one species, it can be pretty harmful for others,” Grif-fith-Cochrane said.

Red Octopuses mate in the same style as Giant Pacifics with the male using his hectocotylus arm to pass his sperm to the female.

“The end of the arm has a groove that it uses to give a spermatophore, which is a coiled rod of sperm, to the female and she stores that in her mantle

where she fertilizes her eggs,” Griffith-Cochrane said.

“Once they lay their eggs they stop eating. It takes so much out of them to lay all of these eggs that all they really have energy for at the end is to push water across the eggs, clean them, make sure that they’re free of bacter-ial growths and algae and that they’re getting lots of oxygen and then, after caring for them for a couple of months, their body just breaks down and they die.”

Griffith-Cochrane noted that when Jeremiah first arrived at the aquarium, staff weren’t quite sure what they were looking at.

“The way that you tell the dif-ference between a Giant Pacific Octopus and a Red Octopus are three small folds below the eyes, they look almost like eyelashes,” she said.

“It can be really hard to see those sometimes, espe-

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“Now that this one is coming out and is feeling very comfortable, we can see those three folds so we know it’s a Red Octopus but at the beginning we weren’t sure and we didn’t want to prod it to figure out.”

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Spanky the baby octopus is still feeling out her new surroundings and isn’t quite ready to shine in her spotlight just yet.

The tiny female moved into the Ucluelet Aquarium last month and, at less than 1-year old, she is the youngest Giant Pacific Octo-pus the facility has ever housed.

“She is currently living along with our brittle stars...so she’s surrounded by a whole bunch of brittle stars and, at this point, is eating some small krill, very tiny shore crabs, and some other juvenile species that will come in with water flow,” Aquarium cur-ator Laura Griffith-Cochrane told the Westerly.

“We’ve put in a couple of differ-ent things for her to use as a den. One of them is a moon snail shell and one of them is a scallop shell that she’s buried herself under...She’s mostly active at night, very careful about her dens, and she’s being very conservative in her

behaviour.”Spanky’s wariness

of her surroundings is natural as only a hand-ful of the 68,000 eggs a Giant Pacific Octopus lays will reach adult-hood in the wild.

“Squid and octopus are incredibly nutri-tious things to eat so there are a lot of spe-cies that would really like to benefit from eating them,” Grif-fith-Cochrane said.

“The young have to be very, very, careful. Their world is very dangerous when they’re small.”

Griffith-Cochrane said the aquarium will not push Spanky to put on a show for patrons as this could stress the little baby out.

“Our main purpose as an aquar-ium is for education, so while we hope that we’re able to entertain with a lot of the knowledge that

we share or the beauty of the things that we’re displaying, our main purpose is to create an understanding about our marine environments and a respect for them,” she said.

“Our facility is very concerned about respect and animal welfare. If we were pushing for things to be out all the time then we would be undermining our own principles.”

She said many of the ocean’s creatures cannot handle stress as adeptly as humans.

“Humans are really good at dealing with stress. We stress ourselves out all the time, we create stresses, we take on more stresses than we should, and we’re able to handle that and deal with that,” she said.

“But a lot of invertebrates and fish that we deal with are not good at handling long-term stresses, that can very rapidly shorten their life span...So if we’re going to release things that are healthy and able to go back to their environment and succeed, then we need to release things that are stress free.”

She noted keeping stresses low helps keep the aquarium’s vet bills low.

“A species that has reduced stress has a higher immune sys-tem,” she said. “That also means that we have smaller vet bills and we don’t have to worry about infections or sickness as much.”

Along with benefiting the ani-mals, Griffith-Cochrane said taking their time with each spe-cies also allows aquarium staff to offer unique experiences to visitors.

“You might be here on a day where our wolf eel is out and feeding, or you might be here on a day where our little octopus is out and foraging through the tank, or you might see something else that’s unique to you,” she said.

“We just let our species do what they’re comfortable doing and then each person gets a unique experience and each species gets to go back healthy.”

She noted Spanky is not the aquarium’s only shy creature.

“There are a lot of species that we collect and bring in here that are very good at camouflaging so not everyone will notice them,” she said.

“Unless we’re pointing them out to a lot of visitors there’s a lot of people that would miss them, so she’s like that, she’s really good at hiding. When she’s out and about we point her out and then if she’s snoozing we just let her snooze.”

She added Spanky will likely be comfortable enough to greet guests soon.

“She’s still really, really, small but like other Giant Pacific Octo-puses she doubles in size every four months so she will get larger and she’ll get more active and we’ll move her into another dis-play,” she said.

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While Spanky the baby and Jeremiah the Red have brought new uniqueness to the Ucluelet Aquarium, Sassy Sally is doing her part to ensure the aquarium’s staple-fea-ture remains a fan favourite.

Sassy Sally is a roughly year-and-a-half old Giant Pacific Octopus who was col-lected in Tofino in July to replace Bowie, the aquarium’s former Giant Pacific, who returned to the ocean in phenomenal shape, according to aquarium curator Laura Griffith-Cochrane.

“Bowie was wonderful. Bowie was really successful, he was putting on weight and growing quickly and being active and that was awesome,” she said.

She said Sassy Sally has darker colour-ations, closer to maroon and cream than the traditional red and white, and a more spectator-friendly attitude than her predecessor.

“Bowie was almost a little bit lazy. He liked to pull crabs into his den to eat them, you would see a couple of arms come out and an eye watching the crab as he pulled things into his den,” she said.

“(Sassy Sally) is a little bit more active about hunting and will eat crabs while pressed up against the acrylic, which is really cool because you can see the body of the crab being surrounded by the body of the octopus and that’s pretty exciting for visitors.”

She noted the aquarium tries to have a juvenile 5-10 pound Giant Pacific Octopus like Sassy Sally on display at all times.

“People are really fascinated by them. They’re very intelligent and they have a different kind of intelligence than humans have,” she said.

“They behave and move in an incredibly different way, they’re very charismatic, and they react to people. You can see colour changes, you can see interest and you can see a variation of behaviours depending on

who they’re watching and who’s watching them, so people are really excited about them; they’re something that’s so different from us.”

She added there are many things the aquarium can learn from the animals.

“There’s always more knowledge to gain,” she said.

“We actually don’t know a lot about our oceans, comparatively, so anything we can learn helps with future aspects of animal care, future research projects and helps build our knowledge of how human behaviours create interactions with these species.”

BC is home to the largest Giant Pacific Octopuses in the world with our local species living up to about five years and reaching 70 kilograms, according to Griffith-Cochrane.

“We have the largest octopuses in the world because we have this nice, fresh, cold nutrient rich water,” she said.

She added aquarium staff must keep an extremely close eye on water quality.

“Octopuses need a huge amount of oxygen so we have to be very careful. We have to monitor our water quality. We have to make sure that our flows are very, very, high and that we’re pumping in lots and lots of water,” she said adding the aquarium pumps through about 980 litres of water per minute.

“If water was moving slowly, so that it was using up a lot of that oxygen in the tank, it would be like a person hiking around the top of Mt. Everest; you would be using a lot of energy trying to get oxy-gen through your system.”

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ANDREW BAILEYWesterly NewsUcluelet kids won’t consider the

end of summer to be much of a bum-mer once their eyes hit fall’s recrea-tion calendar.

The fall program guide will run from September-December and is included in this week’s Westerly News.

“We’re really excited about the programs we’re going to be offering in the fall,” said Ucluelet’s recreation programmer KK Hodder.

“We have a lot of new instructors who I’ve been meeting with and creating some really dynamic, inter-esting and unique programs that have not necessarily been offered by parks and rec. before...It’s going to be a full fall and it’s going to be busy.”

Hodder said her team is wrapping up a successful summer season that saw an emphasis on weekly programming to allow kids to par-ticipate in a wide variety of skill building, leisure, and athletic oppor-tunities without committing their entire summer.

“We’ve done really well this sum-mer and we’re really proud of the programs we’ve put together,” she said.

She said the weekly programs also catered to local parents looking for educational opportunities for their kids while school was out.

“There’s definitely an aspect of child care involved, especially in the day camp programs,” she said.

“People need care for their kids in the summer, that doesn’t change for a lot of people during the year and when school is out and parents are both working they need a place for their kid to go.”

One of the summer’s most popular weekly programs came from the Tofino Nature School, which signed on to run weekly Ukee Nature Kids camps.

“They have great facilitators who get great training and we really like the program itself,” Hodder said.

“The kids spend pretty much the entire day outside, they learn a lot of new skills and there’s a lot of nature connection.”

She added summer brings talented out-of-town facilitators to the Coast.

“It’s great to offer something

different for the community and the skill level is really quite high with the people that do come in,” she said.

“It really compli-ments our locally based programs, which we run through the com-munity centre through our dedi-cated instructors and also through our summer pro-gramming staff.”

She said the rec. department’s pri-mary goal is not to boost its participation numbers but rather to make sure locals have access to what they want.

“Our goal is to be offering servi-ces that are needed and that people want in the community...it’s not just about numbers and it’s not just about getting bigger, it’s about becoming more efficient and offer-ing programs that we feel, through feedback from the community, would be a good service for the kids and families in the community,” she said.

“I think we’re achieving that. I’m really happy with how the summer has run, and we have had really good numbers this year and it has been up from last year, but more to the point we’re happy with the needs that are being met within the community.”

She added Ucluelet’s community centre is strengthening its position as a community hub.

“We really feel it’s important for everybody to be able to access recreation programs within the community because we feel they are a huge benefit to health, to develop-ment, to community and bringing people together,” she said.

“We’re becoming more of that com-munity hub, which is really what we are striving for and the more we work with other services and organ-izations in the communities, the more successful we are.”

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The Alberni Clayoquot Regional District presented the Ucluelet and Area Childcare Society with a $2,000 grant to purchase much needed art supplies for the children. The money will also go towards the Mo and Mouse, an early-learning kit for speech and language designed for children ages 3-5. From left, centre manager Heather Thomas, ACRD chair and Tofino mayor Josie Osborne, and board representative Kristi Udell.

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The Carving on the Edge Fes-tival continues at the Shore Pier building in Tofino through Sept. 10.

With the theme “Cultural Roots: Wood and Water,” displays, work-shops, traditional dug-out canoe

tours with T’ashii Paddle School and live events will feature the work of some of the province’s top carvers.

Nuu-chah-nulth artists Gordon Dick and Kelly Robinson are on site carving a 10-foot cedar panel.

On Friday from 7:30–9:30 pm, Marika Swan presents trans-forming traditions and teachings

to contemporary art, and master carver Tim Paul will share the teachings of the Thunderbird through song, dance and four ceremonial pieces.

Saturday from 7:30–9:30 pm, award-winning filmmaker Barb Cranmer of the ‘Namgis First Nation of Alert Bay shows her documentary ‘Potlatch’ and

Kwakiutl artist Kevin Cranmer presents ‘Origin Stories’ linking to family lineage through songs, dances and ceremonial pieces.

Carvers in Action works daily at the Carving Shed at the Wicka-ninnish Inn on North Chesterman Beach.

Workshops include Kestrel Tools, Lino Print Making with

Marika Swan, Carving with Hand-tools with Robinson Cook and Cedar Paddle Carving with Carl Martin.

Visit carvingedgefestival.com for information.

Celebrate Carving on the Edge Festival carves on at the Shore Pier building in Tofino

ERIC PLUMMER Alberni Valley Times

The public needs to play a larger role to prevent conflict with wild-life, says a provincial conserva-tion officer overseeing the Port Alberni area.

Steve Ackles has seen a decline in reports to the Conservation Officer Service this year, a frus-trating trend that makes wildlife management more difficult in the Alberni Valley.

“We haven’t been receiving any reports,” said Ackles. “People seem to be doing that nowadays, they’re not reporting the sightings and there’s nothing we can do about it.”

The issue arose this week after several rumors of a cougar lurk-ing around neighbourhoods in Cherry Creek. Tanya Dudoward was startled to see the full-grown predator as she drove down Kitsuksis Road near Wednesbury Street Friday evening on the way to pick up her young daughter.

“I had my headlights on and it stopped, it was just sitting there,” she said. “It was a really nice looking animal.”

A report was sent to the con-servation hotline on Monday afternoon of a cougar spotted on Beaver Creek Road near Hills, but more information from the public is needed for officers to determine if wildlife are dangerous.

“It’s extremely important that

we get the sightings,” Ackles said. “This year it’s getting quite bad in that we’re not getting the reports until it’s too late for the animal.”

This is what occurred in June when a cougar jumped into a boat on Sproat Lake. The animal had previously attacked a dog and appeared to be starving, said Ackles. “That was a cougar that definitely had to be removed from the population,” he said.

The large cats frequently move through the Alberni Valley’s wooded areas in search of deer, but they can become a threat to humans if they are forced into desperation by another cougar, added Ackles. Unpredictable behaviour, such as stalking dur-ing the day or lurking around

populated areas, brings concerns.“Cougars are territorial, and

if there’s a bigger cougar that’s claimed that territory, a cougar will move out and is kept on the run a lot,” Ackles said.

“It’ll start looking at domestic livestock as a food source or pets – even in very rare cases start stalking people.”

Although the predators are sel-dom seen, almost 1,000 cougars populate Vancouver Island – the highest concentration in Canada – regularly hunting near commun-ities at the edge of the wilderness. While reporting is needed to pre-vent the animals from becoming habituated to populated areas, Alberni residents need to under-stand that cougars have as much

of a right to exist in the surround-ing wildness as people do to live in communities, said Ackles.

“If people decide they want to live on Vancouver Island, well, cougars live on Vancouver Island and there’s nothing we do or will do about that,” he said.

Wildlife management author-ities encourage the public to report sightings of cougars and other animals that could come into conflict with people to the 1-877-952-7277 hotline.

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This year’s Otalith Music Fes-tival lured a large and respectful crowd that kept the fairgrounds full and the police cells empty.

“It was a non-event as far as police calls go,” said detachment commander Sgt. Jeff Swann. “We had some extra members on duty and they weren’t needed... It was just a very well run event.”

About 1,300 music lovers swarmed to the festival’s third annual appearance at Ucluelet’s Seaplane Base Field on Aug. 21-22 and Swann said the large crowd respected their surroundings and kept clear from trouble.

“In the first two years there was a couple little kinks in the plan but as far as this festival goes for Ucluelet, I can’t wait for the next one,” he said.

“If we can put on a festival like that, with that many people in town, at an event where alcohol is served, and have it so well-run and well-organized, the commun-ity needs to be proud of that.”

He suggested Otalith’s success shows Ucluelet could handle more festivals.

“When we’ve got this caliber of people running these organiza-tions and planning these events...it just totally means we can do more,” he said. “It brings a real sense of community, I think, when you can put on these events.”

He acknowledged some festivals in other areas bring expectations of tag-along riff-raff but said this expectation is disappearing on the West Coast.

“It’s such a warm feeling to have a community with engaged citizens that go to these events and bring their children, and

bring their families, and enjoy a nice cold beverage, listen to some fantastic tunes, feel the vibe, and everybody’s happy,” he said.

“On a continual basis the com-munity keeps putting on these events that go off without a hitch and it’s fantastic.”

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Otalith problem-free for policeUcluelet’s top cop “can’t wait for the next one.”

Otalith goers rocked out respectfully and caused zero concerns for local police. Photos Andrew Bailey


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A dirt bike was stolen from a Ucluelet local last week.

The dirt bike is described as a blue and white Yamaha TTR 125.

At the time it was stolen, the bike had risers on the handles, green eye stickers on the front dirt shield, pink hoopla stickers on the right side, a puncture hole in the right side panel, and a broken left hand

clutch lever. Police believe the dirt bike was snatched

from the back of a pick-up truck parked at a Pine Road residence sometime between 11:30 p.m. on Aug 25 and 7 a.m. on Aug. 26, according to Sgt. Jeff Swann.

“Getting a dirt bike out of a pick-up (truck) is not a quiet affair so hopefully somebody heard something or saw some-thing and is just waiting to report it,” he said.

Swann said the bike is valued around $3,000 and noted it is the second dirt bike that has been stolen in Ucluelet this summer.

“It’s really unfortunate that you have to get to that point where you have to lock your stuff up,” he said.

“I can make a projection that, in a month-and-a-half from now, our theft calls are going to drop dramatically (when) the population drops and it’s just back to being

locals.”Swann called the theft “heartbreaking”

and assured local police will leave no stone unturned.

“We live in this community so any crime that happens in our town affects us per-sonally too,” he said. “We have that vested interest in solving it.”

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Dirt bike stolen in UclueletLocals asked to keep eyes peeled for blue and white Yamaha

If you have seen this dirt bike, or have any information regarding its whereabouts, please contact the Ucluelet RCMP detachment at 250-726-7773.

Photo submitted.

tofino-ucluelet westerly news, september 02, 2015

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