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Making safety a cycling priority in TofinoPAGE 11

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PAGE 3CYCLIST DIES AFTER LOSING CONTROL NEAR HYDRO HILL

4 CANDIDATES4 PARTIES10 ISSUES

30 WORDS

September 23, 2015 Wednesday

The Westerly News asked four Alberni-Courtenay candidates for MP their (brief) say on 10 hot-button issues ...

HERE’S WHAT THEY SAID. PAGE 4

Ucluelet black bear destroyed

NORA O’MALLEY Special to Westerly NewsTagged for his appetite for garbage and

fearless of human proximity, a young male bear was shot and killed on Norah Street last week by Ucluelet RCMP.

It happened on Tuesday morning, Sept. 22 - or Garbage Day.

“It’s the only bear that was destroyed in our area this summer. We’ve had years were it’s been six or seven. One is too many. It

was a sad day. I never like doing that,” said Sgt. Jeff Swann.

“It was not neces-sarily a problem bear to begin with. They tried displace-ment, putting it in a trap and driving it way out of town, with the hope it would go to a nat-ural food source and stay away from the urban areas.

“Unfortunately, it came back… And you can’t sit down and have a heart-to-heart with a bear, you know?” he said.

The medium-sized black bear was trapped, tagged, and relocated by conservation offi-cers a week prior to being destroyed.

“It basically spent the last five days com-ing back to the source of easy food, which was garbage,” Swann said.

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Tofino cinematographer and editor Adam Chilton screened three of his surf movies at the Kwisitis Visitor Centre this week-end as part of Surfing the West Coast Cultural Heritage Festival presented by the Pacific Rim Arts Society.

The intimate audience of about

25 was treated to a salacious action reel starring Canada’s best surfers Pete Devries and Noah Cohen.

“These guys are dedicated. They are surfing consistently day-in, day-out. And they work with you too. They take off on waves that they know might just be for photo or video. If you’re shooting with them in the water, they’re not going on the left when you’re swimming

on the right,” Chilton said about working with his cast of profes-sional surfers.

Originally from Roberts Creek on the Sunshine Coast, Chilton moved to Tofino in 2004 and coolly dropped in on a budding surf scene. Pete Devries was one of the first surfers he met.

“With Pete, he’s generally the one to be getting up early and checking the surf. I’m lucky in

that sense. He’ll let me know if it’s worth filming or not.”

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Cinematographer and editor Adam Chilton in action

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Cyclist dies after losing control on Hydro Hill curve in rain

KRISTI DOBSONAlberni Valley Times

Heavy rain and limited visibil-ity contributed to a fatal accident involving a pick-up truck and cyclist last week near Hydro Hill on the Pacific Rim Highway.

The Ucluelet RCMP, BC Ambulance Service Paramedics and the Uclue-let Fire Department responded to the crash just after 11:30 a.m. on Thursday.

A cyclist was riding to Ucluelet near the east end of Kennedy Lake when he lost control of his bike and veered into oncoming traffic. He was struck by the pick-up heading east. Sgt. Jeff Swann, Commander of the Ucluelet RCMP, said despite best efforts, the cyclist could not be saved.

“He received fantastic medical care immediately from the Alp-ine Employee First Aid crew who were nearby,” Swann said. “The paramedics were on scene almost immediately. He had a lot of qualified people working on him, but despite their best efforts, he couldn’t be saved.”

The cyclist was brought to Port Alberni by ambulance where he was pronounced dead.

Police confirmed the cyclist was 61-year old Ralf Jarchow of Bramp-ton, Ontario. Jarchow,

a lawyer and avid cyclist, was on a charity cross-Canada tour raising money for Peel Memorial Centre for Integrated Health and Wellness. His wife, Valerie, was driving the support vehicle and keeping a blog along the journey. In her last post on Wednesday, she wrote about entering and leaving Port Alberni.

“We will be staying at [her broth-er’s] cabin [tonight] on Sprout Lake which is halfway to Tofino. Tofino ... Ralf can see the light at the end of the tunnel!!!!!” she wrote. “Started off for Port Alberni at 7:15. Temp 4C, head winds, raining...Fortunately Ralf goes the other direction tomor-row to Tofino. Very steep – every truck is pulling over to check their brakes before heading down on either side.

“The road to Tofino is 99k; windy and narrow.”

The driver of the pick-up, a female from Ucluelet, was uninjured and no charges are currently pending. An investigation was undertaken at the scene to determine the cause of the crash.

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NORA O’MALLEYSpecial to Westerly News

On Sept. 18, Port Alberni RCMP arrested and charged a 27-year-old male Port Alberni resident for possession of $5,000 worth of tools that were stolen from inside a com-mercial vehicle that was parked at a construction site in Ucluelet.

The suspect appeared in court on Sept. 21 and has another court date in Port Alberni in October.

Police also believe that same male is responsible for the theft of a Giant Talon mountain bike that happened in the same area of town on the same night.

“It’s mostly black, it’s got an 18-inch frame, one wheel is red, one wheel is black,” said Sgt. Swann of the stolen bike.

“Unfortunately, what’s he’s done is he got rid of the bike ahead of time so we are still trying to figure out what he did once he got to Port

Alberni.”Anyone with any information is

encouraged to contact Ukee RCMP detachment at 250-726-7773.

Truck slips off road at Kerr Creek

On Sept. 22 at around 6:38 p.m., police were

dispatched to a collision 30-kilo-metres east of the Ucluelet/Tofino junction.

A black Dodge Ram with BC plates was found in the east bound ditch facing west.

“The truck had been travelling east and it appeared the truck lost con-trol on the wet road surface into the sharp corner at Kerr Creek,” said Sgt. Swann.

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10 ISSUES

1. Education

2. Natural resources

3. Jobs

4. Pensions

5. Taxes

6. Crime

7. Child care

8. Coast Guard closures

9. Truth and Reconciliation

10. Violence against Aboriginal Women

1. A re-elected Conservative Govern-

ment will continue to focus on educa-

tion that prepares people for actual

jobs that exist. We have invested in the

Red Seal trades and in innovation and

commercialization.

2. The Conservative Government

believes in responsible resource

development. We will continue to seek

harmonized standards with the Prov-

inces. We will continue to pursue inter-

national trade agreements to market

our resources.

3. A re-elected Conservative govern-

ment will reduce employer and employ-

ee paid payroll taxes and cut the small

business tax to 9% to create jobs.

4. Seniors have benefitted from pen-

sion income splitting and elimination of

tax for 400, 000 lower income seniors. A

re-elected Conservative government will

implement a $2000 single or widowed

seniors tax credit.

5. Canada is the only country in the

G20 to balance its budget and has done

it while cutting taxes. We will continue

to put money back into the pockets of

Canadians.

6. The Conservative Government has

enacted 60 different tough on crime

measures. We now have the lowest

crime rate since the 1960’s. A re-elected

Conservative government will prioritize

“life means life legislation”.

7. The Conservative Government

believes that parents know best. This

year we increased the child care benefit

to $120/month to age 6 and $60/month

age 6-17.

8. The Tofino Lifeboat Station is well

equipped and located. The Ucluelet

MCTS Station is a victim of technology.

I promote a sensible solution for the

housing and the MCTS building.

9. The TRC was commissioned by

the Conservative Government. TRC

developed recommendations over

the course of the multi-year process,

which were tabled this year. Analysis is

required to respond.

10. Violence against women is

unacceptable. I have supported provid-

ing matrimonial real property rights on

reserve and giving the police the tools

and resources they need to solve these

awful crimes.

1. The NDP will restore the federal

role in post-secondary education and,

in particular, will invest in First Nations

education after decades of underfund-

ing and neglect.

2. An NDP government will re-estab-

lish Canada’s environmental assess-

ment processes to ensure sustainability

in resource extraction; and make key

investments in the forestry sector to

create jobs and support innovation..

3.The NDP will immediately reduce

the small business tax from 11% to 9%

to support their capacity to create local

jobs, increase support to municipalities

to build new infrastructure.

4. We will increase CPP benefits,

enhance the Guaranteed Income Sup-

plement, return the retirement age to

65 and protect pension splitting for

seniors.

5. The NDP won’t raise taxes for

working families. We will lower small

business taxes. We will increase cor-

porate taxes and increase taxes on

stock-option benefits for Canada’s

wealthiest CEO’s.

6. An NDP government will work with

the province, municipalities and First

Nations to provide ongoing stable fund-

ing to put new police officers on the

streets and keep them there.

7. The NDP will create a $15/day

child-care program that will give chil-

dren the best start in life and support

parents who wish to participate in the

labour market.

8. Tom Mulcair and the NDP will

restore the cuts to the Coast Guard and

re-open the marine traffic and safety

centre at Ucluelet.

9. An NDP government will create a

cabinet committee to work with Aborig-

inal leaders to address community

issues, including addressing the recom-

mendations of the Truth and Reconcili-

ation Commission.

10. The NDP will initiate a public

inquiry into the murder and disappear-

ance of Aboriginal women and children;

and address the recommendations of

the Truth and Reconciliation Commis-

sion as a priority.

1. Post-secondary education and

training is one of our top priorities. Our

plan includes funding for education and

related infrastructure to improve edu-

cation for all Canadian children.

2. While we must get our products

to market, we must not compromise

our environment. We must work with

all stakeholders to improve the public

consultation process and the evaluation

assessment.

3.Our plans include investing in infra-

structure which will create thousands

of jobs immediately. Additionally, we

will invest $1.3 billion over three years

to create jobs for young Canadians.

4. We will NOT cancel Pension Income

Splitting. We will lower the age from 67

to 65 for OAP and GIS and we will raise

GIS by 10% for the most vulnerable

seniors.

5. We will ask the wealthiest 1% of

Canadians to pay a little more so we

can lower the taxes on middle-class

Canadians and those working hard to

join them.

6. Our plan for crime includes the

decriminalization and legalization of

marijuana and we will bring in a regu-

lation process similar to alcohol and

cigarettes.

7. Our plan includes working with

provinces, territories and Indigenous

People to create a new National Early

Learning and Child Care Framework.

8) Liberals will reinstate the Coast

Guard stations closed down by the

Harper Government.

9. Liberals are committed to enacting

the recommendations of the Truth and

Reconciliation Commission, starting

with the implementation of the United

Nations Declaration on the Rights of

Indigenous Peoples.

10. I will advocate for increased ser-

vices including safe havens and transi-

tional support. A Liberal government

will launch a national public inquiry

into missing and murdered Indigenous

women and girls in Canada.

1. The Green Party sees education as

instrumental in developing creativity

and equality as the foundation of safe

and healthy communities. Education is

not an expense, it’s an investment.

2. Our resources are the source of

our wealth and our health and fuel

our economy. However, if we treat our

environment like a business in liquida-

tion, those resources and our economy

will suffer.

3. We need to build up the sectors of

Canada’s economy, including manu-

facturing, tourism, value-added forest

products, and cultural industries to cre-

ate a long-term sustainable future for

our children and grandchildren.

4. Pension reforms must use the

system that will best create decent

pensions and keep the elderly out of

poverty, require minimum additional

contributions, and have low administra-

tive and investment costs.

5. We believe in reforming our tax sys-

tem to make it fairer and more in tune

with Canadians’ desire for a healthy

environment, a sustainable economy,

and a vibrant, caring society.

6. Violent offenders must face serious

consequences, however, we have con-

sistently highlighted the high social

and financial costs of incarceration,

opposed fixed minimum sentences, and

supported opportunities for restorative

justice.

7. The Greens are committed to a

high-quality federally-funded child care

program in Canada, accessible to any

family that wants to place children into

early childhood education.

8. We have fought the closures since

they were first announced in 2012, and

we will continue to support policies

that defend the health and safety of

coastal communities.

9. We fully support the report, which

for the first time describes the residen-

tial school program as cultural geno-

cide. We call on all levels of government

to implement the report’s ninety-four

recommendations.

10. The violence faced by Aboriginal

women and girls in this country is

our shared national disgrace. That is

why our party has been calling for an

inquiry since October 2013.

Candidates for Alberni-Courtenay Member of Parliament

20 15 CANADA VOTES!

JOHN DUNCANConservative

GORD JOHNSNDP

CARRIE POWELL-DAVIDSON

LiberalGLENN SOLLITT

Green

4 CANDIDATES4 PARTIES10 ISSUES30 WORDS

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Candidates will be at West Coast meet-upsELECTION

JACKIE CARMICHAEL Westerly News

Candidates for Member of Par-liament in the newly redrawn Alberni-Courtenay riding at the West Coast’s two All-Candidates meetings will include the Con-servative, NDP, Liberal and Green Party candidates.

The event is co-sponsored by the Westerly News. The hosts are Ucluelet Chamber of Commerce

(Wed., Oct. 7, 7-9 p.m., at Uclue-let Community Centre) and the Tofino-Long Beach Chamber of Commerce (Thurs., Oct. 8, 7-9 p.m. at Tofino Community Hall).

Ucluelet Chamber executive dir-ector Sally Mole said each candi-date will have time for an intro-duction and closing statements.

“We are soliciting questions ahead of time with a committee deciding on which questions are put to the candidates. These

questions will be offered to the candidates ahead of time. Ques-tions can be emailed to [email protected],” said Mole.

“We will take written questions from the floor which will be vet-ted by the committee and posed to the candidates via the moder-ator. This format has worked well in the past,” she said.

“Having a great moderator will be key to keeping the dialogue flowing,” Mole said.

The chamber has been instru-mental in conducting municipal, provincial and federal all-can-didates meetings, and having a meeting in each town is import-ant, she said.

“We feel that people are unlikely to travel to such a forum, and by hosting the event here, we are helping residents be informed and involved. We also feel that it is important for the candidates to be in our area to understand

our unique needs and services,” she said. “Exercising your right to vote is important, but the best vote is an informed vote.”

Mole said she is hoping advance work will help gauge voter interest.

“Once we start receiving ques-tions, it will give us a better feel on how engaged our citizens are on the federal level,” she said.

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20 15CANADAVOTES!

KATYA SLEPIANAlberni Valley News

Election day might not be until Monday, Oct. 19 but it’s already time for voters to get their own affairs in order—namely, to make sure you can vote in the 42nd fed-eral election.

First and foremost it’s important to make sure you’re registered, according to Elections Canada spokesperson Dorothy Sitek.

“You must be registered to vote,” Sitek said.

“There are a variety of ways that you might be registered already.”

If you filed your income taxes this year, there was an opt-in box to be added to the national list of electors, Sitek said.

If you’re not sure however, the Elections Canada website has a tool to make sure you are.

“For the first time on www.elec-tions.ca there is a tool where you can input all of your information and you can check whether you’re registered and if you’re registered under your current address and correct information,” Sitek said. If the information there is incorrect, you can change it on the site.

If you’d rather not update your information online, you can go to your local elections office - the closest is 4805 Mar St. in Port Alberni.

“Voters should be looking out for their voter information cards in the mail,” said Sitek.

“So it’s a really great time to make sure your information is correct.”

You can do so by visiting your elections office.

It’s important to make sure that the information on the voter information card matches the I.D. you use to vote, said Sitek.

The voter information cards contain a variety of essential information, said Sitek, including information on where and when to vote.

“On election day, Oct. 19, you’re assigned a specific polling location.”

Unlike in provincial elections, you cannot go to any polling station on election day or during advance voting days—you may only go to the station that you have been assigned to.

Your polling station location will likely be different for election day than it is for advanced voting, Sitek added.

“Advanced polling for this fed-eral election is over Thanksgiving weekend (Friday, Oct. 9 to Monday, Oct. 12, 12 noon to 8 p.m.,” said Sitek.

In Tofino, advanced polling is at Tofino Community Hall, and in Ucluelet, at Ucluelet Community Centre.

Whether you vote early or on Oct. 19, you must make sure you have the correct identification. Three options exist: you can bring a piece of government I.D. with your name, photo and current address; this includes a driver’s licence or a provincial services card.

If you don’t have one of those, you need two pieces; one with your name and another with both your name and address.

To prove your name, the I.D. can be anything from your passport to social insur-ance number card to a library card. To prove your current address, you can bring a credit card or utility bill, a personal

cheque with your address on it or a variety of other options.

If you have nothing with a cur-rent address on it, you must bring two pieces of I.D. with your name on both of them as well as some-one who knows you and lives in your polling area. That individual may then vouch for your address.

For those without a fixed address, another option exists.

“There is a form called a ‘letter of confirmation of residence,’” said Sitek.

It’s downloadable from the Elec-tions Canada site and provides a way to register to vote for those living without a specific address (for example, in a group home) or the homeless.

“You can go to your facility administrator and you can request that they fill out and sign the form,” she said.

“If you’re homeless but you frequent a soup kitchen or a specific shelter you can request that administrator download and fill out the form for you.”

Regardless of how you prove your identity, a voter information card with your current address will make voting faster.

“If you have the voter information card and the right I.D., you can be fast tracked and your experience will be more efficient.”

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Voters need to get ducks in row to be heard


Opinion

Community School Policy 1175 states, “school will provide a variety of support opportunities for all segments of the population and the extended use of the

school facility…includ-ing recreabtional use of facility and grounds.”

With all the concern for tourists and emphasis on tourism our town must not forsake the locals. The lack of an indoor space

for “off-season” recreation is particu-larly concerning to a large number of Tofinons.

During our storied and collective past as a community we have always made time for and found place to allow cit-izens to comingle, play, compete, learn and exercise. It has always been so. In the eighties during the era of local basketball, the legendary Blue Magic was inclusive of large and varied seg-ments of First Nations from Opitsaht, Ahousaht, and Hesquiaht, resident Tofinons, and even Ucluetians as team-mates and rivals, all acting as agents of integration and connection between communities and people (as sport so often does).

But it wasn’t only ballers who bene-fited; there were enthusiastic groups for badminton, volleyball, and floor hockey. These activities were always organized and conducted through the Recreation Commission (in those days an all-vol-unteer effort). The various user groups were responsible for cleanup of the gym, hall, and showers (yes, there were showers!) Things went swimmingly; the league and team fees were eventually used to pay for any damages incurred, and in some cases, a friendly after game beverage. The rains of fall, winter, and spring lost every time and the men, women and children of Tofino won!

We know that just down the road the gym at USS is open to such community user groups at no cost to the town. It just makes sense for the various powers and parties come to an agreement about this so taxpayers are not burdened with another capital expenditure to build another gym. Open the doors.

The intent of Canada’s Jumpstart and Participaction programs is incontro-vertible. Open the doors. No reasonable argument can be made to keep these doors closed to the community. We urge all those who can make this decision to act quickly and joyfully..

Blue Magic: Dave Francis, John Shaw, Jack Greig, Lewis George, Tom Greig, Jack Gillie, Gary Marks, John Fraser, Harvey Henderson, Peter Greig

Open gym in Tofino

COMMENT

BLUE MAGIC/LOCAL VOICE

The West Coast Multiplex Society would like to invite all readers to join us October 3rd at the Long Beach Golf Course for the West Coast Multiplex

Scramble. Everyone is welcome to come out and support the future west

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The Wild Life/Karine Gordon-Beaumier

The Commission of Resources and Environment (CORE) Vancouver Island land use planning process that took place in the early 1990s was a comprehen-sive, multi stakeholder planning process. It resulted in the govern-ment enacting the 2000 Vancouver

Island Higher Level Plan Order that achieved a hard won balance between environment, economic and social outcomes for land use in the region.

Back in those days, I was one of the many stakeholders who sat at the planning table working towards a plan that would specify a new way of managing Vancouver Island lands and forests. I person-ally led the negotiations on behalf of small forestry-re-lated business. My fellow stakeholders included others such as Bill Routley, MLA for the riding that includes the Walbran Valley, and Saul Arbess who represented the ENGO’s. We were at it for

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TWO SIDES NOW: WALBRAN

COMMENT

CORE Land Use Plan balanced, collaborative Environmental activists with the Wilderness

Committee and Sierra Club BC have found a remarkable old-growth forest grove in the Central Walbran Valley, an area threatened by planned

logging.The Black Diamond Grove

is located inside logging company Teal Jones’ cut-block 4424, which was approved for logging by the

BC government on September 18th despite wide-spread public opposition.

We knew there were impres-sive old-growth trees in this area, but we were really blown away once we got in and explored. This type of old-growth is far too rare. There is absolutely no way the Black Diamond Grove should be logged.

The grove, named for the steep slope it sits on, is unique because of its diversity of tree species. In addition to the monumental cedars that the Walbran Val-ley is famous for, the grove also contains massive Sitka spruce, hemlock, amabalis fir and even Douglas-fir trees.

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Special grove reason not to log Walbran

Photo courtesy Ancient Forest Alliance

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Tour de Rock team members observe a moment of silence for fellow officers fallen in the line of duty. Sunday was National Police Memorial Day. Below left, “Bicycle” Marc Vezina accepts an award from Sgt. Blaine Mumford of the Tofino RCMP for his contributions to the event and the community. Lower right, the Co-Op gets a certificate of appreciation for their contributions to the event.

JACKIE CARMICHAEL Westerly News Brittany Garland had beautiful

long dark hair last week.This week, she’s bald – but it’s

for a great cause. She got her head shaved at the

Tour de Rock pancake breakfast Sunday at the Tofino Legion.

“I did this for my Grammie and Aunty,” said Garland, who has close friends and family who have struggled with cancer.

“And I’ll be shipping my hair off to make a wig for a cancer patient who wants one, that was my main goal,” she said.

A good crowd showed up to meet the riders and present awards – and eat pancakes, with work by the Legion auxiliary and food and cash donations from the Co-Op.

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On a sun-soaked Saturday afternoon, the Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock peloton veered into the Ucluelet Co-op parking lot only 10-minutes shy of the listed 14:05 arrival time.

The hilly 102-kilometre ride from Port Alberni to Ucluelet was one route amongst many on the teams’ two-week bicycle journey from the north end of Vancouver Island to the south to raise money to fight childhood cancer.

“I would say this is the most physically challenging day for us, and thankfully, the weather co-operated. We were hit by a lot of rain a couple days ago. The weather was really nice today. It was a terrific ride,” said Tour de Rock team member Const. Paul Egli of the Saanich Police Department.

“There was one hill in particular, I don’t know if it had a name or not. It was very challenging. When we got to the top, there was a bit of a surprise for the team…”

And while the Saanich constable was tight-lipped about revealing exactly what that surprise was as he didn’t want to ruin it for future riders, but he did mention something about the team taking a “little dip.”

Training started for the 2015 Tour de Rock team from back in March. Tuesday nights were set

aside for hills, Thursday nights for sprints, and Sundays were for long distance rides.

Egli’s motivation for joining the Tour de Rock this year was to honour the memory of his co-worker and friend, Saanich Sgt. Mike Lawless, who died suddenly of cancer last January.

“Every one of these riders has their own motivation,” said Egli gesturing to his team.

Heads were also shaved in the Co-op parking lot and about $3,500 was raised for child-hood cancer research by Ucluelet chil-dren: Jayden Taron, Marcus Magnussen, Hudson Swann, Aidan Swann, Carter Swann, Blake Swann, Caleb Midlane, Mason Midlane, Noah Crist, Jace Duncan, and Rylan Duncan.

“It feels pok-ey!” said 7-year-old Jayden Taron of his new sharp new hairdo.

Cyclists ride into Ucluelet on West Coast leg TOUR DE ROCK

Above: Tour de Rock riders get a warm reception at the Co-Op in Ucluelet.

On Left: Ucluelet RCMP Sgt Jeff Swann with fellow Tour de Rock supporters.

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Marc Vezina, a.k.a. Bicycle Marc, the owner and operator of TOF Cycles co. in Tofino has initiated a bicycle light and bell program in collaboration with the RCMP.

Throughout the summer, Bicycle Marc approached business, resort owners, and community groups to contribute funds to purchase lights and bells to giveaway to local cyclists. The goods from his philanthropic efforts were dis-tributed last week to deserving riders around town.

With the days getting shorter,

and so many people using bikes as a primary means of transpor-tation around Tofino, the RCMP will continue their efforts to dis-tribute the lights and bells.

“Ultimately, our objective is to keep everyone as safe as possible,” said Cpl. Cochlin from the Tofino Detachment.

“While it is an offense under the Motor Vehicle Act to ride your bike on the roadway without a front and back light, it is far more satisfying to install a light for the offender, rather than issue a ticket,” she told the Westerly News.

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The surfer / videographer team has had a productive run, creating sever-al widely viewed surf shorts, includ-ing: Bitter Cold (2015), Unchartered (2014), and Outside The Box (2013). They are currently working on another surf film, which will be released in 2016.

“It’s going to be more about the story of the area, the environment, and what we have to endure to get really good waves on the West Coast.”

And while this latest project remains nameless and still very much in the development stages, Chilton told the Westerly News that his lineup of usual surfers will be in the water and in front of his Red Scarlet lens: Pete Devries, Sepp and Raph Bruhwiler, Noah Cohen, and Shannon Brown.

To watch Chilton’s surf flicks, visit his Vimeo channel at: https://vimeo.com/adamchilton.

Cinematographer and editor Adam Chilton in action(Photo, Adam Koreski)

three intense years of inter-est-based negotiations.

The Vancouver Island Land Use Plan increased the area of Vancou-ver Island’s parks and conservation areas to over 18% and far beyond the Bruntland Report’s recommended 12%.

This included the expansion of the Carmanah Pacific Park to include the lower Walbran to form the new Car-manah Walbran Provincial Park.

In total, this amounted to the addition of 12,843 hectares of undis-turbed natural forest in the Walbran. Other critical areas were protected by the government to complete a rep-resentative system of parks across Vancouver Island as an integral part of the land use plan.

There was no mistake here but reasoned and ecologically based decisions.

Importantly, the VILUP Higher Level Plan Order designated that 2,600 hectares along the east side of the Walbran Valley as a Special Management Zone which meant it was to be sensitively managed.

This included the area known as “the bite.” Specifically, this area was designated as available for harvesting but was prescribed to be managed as a focal area for old seral forest retention with emphasis on riparian areas and recreational access management. Factors such as

biodiversity, wildlife, fish, recreation, water, timber, cultural heritage and more were all listed as key consider-ations on how the forests in this area would be harvested.

In this manner the important val-ues in the Upper Walbran can be managed while providing economic value and jobs.

Twenty years later, I work as a CEO representing B.C.’s coastal forest industry, B.C. is known worldwide as a leader in sustainable forest management.

Over 3.5 million hectares of B.C.’s coastal public forests are held in parks and conservancies.

Undisturbed, parks such as the Carmanah-Walbran are not avail-able for harvest.A robust integrated planning framework is in place that addresses the many different values found across the landscape.

The framework accommodates new and better information and public review requirements. First Nations are required to be consulted and accommodated.

Meantime, we have a coastal forest industry that is sustainable and is characterized by a mosaic of natural and managed forests distributed across the ecoregions of coastal B.C. Investments have been made, and jobs created, in forestry and manu-facturing, because of the unpreced-ented pact that secured a balance of

social, environmental and economic values on Vancouver Island.

Now I see that there’s been calls by some of my colleagues in the CORE process to revisit the policies that were put in place to protect areas including the Walbran.

The forest management plans that Teal Jones is moving forward with today are exactly as provided for by the VILUP and contemplated in the CORE process.

Furthermore, Teal Jones will be manufacturing the wood from the Walbran in their B.C. mill facilities while providing livelihoods to over 1,000 men and women.

New developments will always arise, and the Vancouver Island Land Use Plan has provided a good, solid balance for sustainable forest management in our province that’s been celebrated around the world ever since.

It has provided the balance envisioned. This is something we, here at home, should recognize - and it is in this context that one needs to view the expansion of the Wal-bran and current calls to boycott harvesting.

Rick Jeffery is president and CEO of Coast Forest Products Associ-ation. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of Alberta.

The crown jewel of the Black Diamond Grove is the Lean-ing Tower Cedar, a western redcedar tree approximately three metres wide at its base. The Leaning Tower Cedar could be as old as 1,000 years – hundreds of years older than Italy’s Leaning Tower of Pisa, a protected landmark.

Among countless other benefits, old-growth forests store more climate-changing carbon than younger forests. BC’s coastal old-growth stores more carbon than any forest on the planet.

“Old-growth forests are our best ally in the fight against climate change, but we lose that benefit as companies like Teal Jones liquidate the last of it,” said Mark Worthing, Biodiversity Outreach Coordinator at Sierra Club BC. “If the government’s new Climate Leadership Team is serious about addressing climate change, protecting old-growth forests like the Black Diamond Grove is one of the sim-plest, easiest things it can do.”

Teal Jones’ plans to move into the Central Walbran have highlighted the plight of the last relatively intact unprotected old-growth forests on Vancouver Island, and have galvanized environmental groups and citizens who believe these ancient forests must be protected.

Many grassroots activists are considering blockades to stop the new logging, while the local group Friends of Carmanah-Walbran announced plans this week to estab-lish a new Witness Camp in the Valley.

Sierra Club BC and the Wilderness Committee do not participate in civil disobedience but will continue to maintain a presence in the Walbran to monitor the situa-tion and report back to the public. The organizations have been active on the issue throughout the summer, holding public meetings, rallies and building public support for the protection of the Walbran.

Thousands of citizens have written to BC Forest Min-ister Steve Thomson, calling on the government to put a hold on logging in the Central Walbran. The Minister has rejected multiple requests for meetings with the Wilder-ness Committee.

The Walbran is located in unceded Nuu-chah-nulth territory.

Torrance Coste is a Vancouver Island campaigner for the Wilderness Committee.

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A juvenile male salmon shark was found washed ashore just north of Green Point campground on Monday, Sept. 14.

Initially discovered by an off-duty Parks Canada warden, the 1.5-metre-long shark is the first of its kind to be reported in the Long Beach unit this year.

A second salmon shark was also sighted along the West Coast Trail unit in early August.

Tissue and vertebrae samples were collected by Pacific Rim National Park Reserve officers and sent to Fisheries and Oceans Canada for DNA analysis.

“These creatures, they’re not like whales. You don’t see them com-ing to the surface a lot. They’re usually under water. They’re very elusive, even though they may be

abundant, we don’t see them, so the opportunity to collect DNA on these animals is really import-ant to help feed into what we do know about sharks on our coast,” PRNPR marine biologist Jennifer Yakimishyn told the Westerly News.

While the salmon shark is not listed as a species at risk, Yakimishyn says that its close cousins, the tope shark and the six-gill shark are both listed as special concern, and the basking shark is recognized as an endan-gered species.

“Reporting these findings is really important. Sometimes they do end up being species at risk or they add to information to just understand the populations of species that aren’t at risk like the salmon shark,” she said.

To date, there has been no

recorded attack by a salmon shark on a human in Canadian waters. This alpha predator pre-fers to feed on northwest Pacific

salmon (hence the name) and is known to travel and hunt in sex-ual segregation.

To report any shark sight-

ing alive or dead, people are encouraged to call Fisheries and Oceans Canada hotline at 1-877-50-SHARK (1-877-507-4275).

Salmon shark lands at Long BeachMARINE LIFE

Washed up in PRNPR, elusive predator provides opportunity for learning

Rarely-seen salmon shark found on Long Beach PHOTO by Tanya Dowdall

tofino-ucluelet westerly news, september 30, 2015

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