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tRaInIng daY: Local First Nations took part in a marine search and rescue excercise conducted last week around Vargas Island. Over 30 people participated in the training, which was hosted by the Canadian Coast Guard. Read about it on page 8.

Municipal lot and Tonquin could soon be user-pay

Clayoquot Biosphere Trust calculates “bare bones” living wage

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Parking in the gravel lot behind Tofino’s municipal office might soon be a pay-to-play privilege.

Tofino’s municipal council is thinking about putting in user-pay parking, effective May-October, at the municipal lot off Main Street as well as the small lot at the end of Tonquin Park Road.

The idea was presented to council by district CAO Bob Macpherson during last week’s Committee of the Whole meeting.

MacPherson suggested free parking is a myth, as the district must pay to create and maintain parking spaces.

He said parking is a significant consumer of land and Tofino should look to manage what it has more effectively rather than create more spaces to address the community’s annual 100-day summertime park-ing war.

“There are a few hours in each of those 100 days where we seem to have a demand that exceeds sup-ply,” he said.

“Although there are always empty parking spaces, there seems to be a demand for easy to access public spaces so we end up with drivers circling, pollution created from idling and cars that stay in the same space for a very, very, long period of time in down-town Tofino.”

He said the municipal lot is often full by 10 a.m. and gets clogged with long-term parkers, including tourists going on wildlife watching trips and locals who work offshore.

“Calling it parking may be generous, it ends up functioning as vehicle storage as much as parking,” he said.


This might be a good time to ask your boss for a raise. The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust (CBT) has calculated a living

wage for the Clayoquot Sound Biosphere Region and the figure is $19.27 an hour.

The wage was calculated based on an average family with two employed parents working 35 hours per week and two chil-dren, one 4-year-old and one 7-year-old. The $19.27 hourly

wage represents a roughly $65,000 annual household income for this family.

During a presentation to Tofino’s council last week, the CBT’s alternate at-large youth director German Ocampo explained the living wage is the “bare-bones” income a family needs to avoid financial hardship.

“The living wage gets families out of severe financial stress by lifting them out of poverty and providing the basic level for economic security…It is also a conservative bare bones budget without the extras many Canadians take for granted,” he said.

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Ucluelet’s municipal council is backing a local restaurant’s bid to extend its liquor service and al-low patrons to dance and sing karaoke.

Howler’s Family Restaurant has submitted an application to BC’s Liquor Control and Licensing Branch (LCB) to push its food primary liquor license from midnight to 2 a.m. seven days a week.

The restaurant has also applied for a patron par-ticipation license, which would allow for dancing and karaoke.

These two applications are separate and council had the option of supporting one and not the other but agreed to support both during last week’s reg-ular meeting.

The final decision will be made by the LCB but council’s support carries solid weight.

A report submitted by Ucluelet’s lead planner John Towgood explained that the district collected feedback from the restaurant’s neighbours and re-ceived no negative views of the changes.

“For this application all property owners/occu-pants within 100 metres of the subject property were notified by mail. The public notice was also available for viewing at the Ucluelet Municipal Hall,” Towgood wrote.

“No letters or concerns have been submitted at the time of writing this report.”

Towgood added that the district’s bylaw enforce-ment team has received no complaints about the restaurant since it opened last year but Ucluelet’s police are wary of the later liquor service.

“The Ucluelet RCMP detachment states it does not have any complaints of any kind on record in re-gards to Howler’s Restaurant and the business has been operating in a respectful manner,” he wrote.

“The RCMP further note that the extension of liquor service hours may result in more noise and

nuisance related calls and they would be hesitant to support the service of liquor till 2 a.m. proposed in this application.”

Restaurants with food primary liquor licenses are able to apply for licenses that allow liquor to be served as late as 4 a.m. as long as eating remains the main activity inside, according to Towgood.

“For alcohol to be served with a food primary li-quor license there needs to be an intent to eat, the kitchen needs to be open and a full menu needs to be available,” he wrote.

“The LCB reviews the amount of alcohol served compared to amount of food served to ensure that a food primary liquor license is in fact food primary.”

Towgood noted Howler’s does not sit within a residential area and suggested later hours could boost Ucluelet’s nightlife.

“The request to provide service liquor till 2 a.m. and for patron participation with dining and dancing has both a benefit to the community by adding to the night life options and a drawback by the addi-tional noise and nuisance issues,” he wrote.

Howler’s co-owner Amie Shimizu spoke at the meeting and assured late-night noise would not be an issue.

“We actually soundproofed this building when we were doing the renovations,” she said adding the restaurant’s music does not reach neighbours.

“To turn it all the way up to the fullest level, which would be very uncomfortable inside the restaurant but I have done it in the evenings, when there’s no-body around, to test it and I would just simply walk outside and there’s very, very, little you can hear; almost nothing.”

She noted the restaurant also houses the com-munity’s only bowling alley and the noise of bowling cannot be heard outside.

She said dancing would not be a seven-day-a-week activity but rather an option for special events.

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A former Tofino police officer is facing public criticism after a video surfaced showing him restraining a youth in Cumberland last week.

Cpl. Andrew Waddell, who was colloquially known as ‘Tofino’s Bike Cop’ during his four-year tenure with the local detachment before being transferred to Comox in 2014, reportedly stopped a 14-year-old bicyclist for cycling on the sidewalk and without a helmet on Jan 23.

A video posted to YouTube, that appears to be a mash-up of footage taken by several bystanders with cellphones, shows the officer pinning the youth to the ground while onlookers shout at the officer to ease up.

The video had over 2,500 views at press time. The Comox Valley RCMP released a statement supporting the

officer’s actions and noting the video does not show the begin-ning of the altercation.

“While the video shows a portion of the event, it does not show

the officer conduct a legal stop for violations of the Motor Vehicle Act. Nor does it show the male allegedly refuse to identify himself and become verbally abusive with the officer,” the release states.

“In accordance with the Criminal Code, the male was arrested for obstruction. When attempts were made by the lone officer to restrain the male, he allegedly continued to struggle.”

The detachment’s commander Inspector Tim Walton com-mended the officer for remaining calm while being pelted with vocal complaints from bystanders.

“While a few people in the video are very vocal, an indepen-dent witness contacted our detachment afterwards to comment on our officer’s patience throughout,” Walton said.

“These situations can be very challenging for an officer who is alone among a group of arguably volatile people…I’m very pleased that nobody was hurt.”

The youth was released with a promise to appear in court and a bystander who was arrested at the scene for obstruction also received a notice to appear in court.

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Local volunteers are stepping up to as-sist their local RCMP.

Training for the West Coast’s Auxiliary Constable program kicked off last week.

Auxiliaries are volunteers who wear similar uniforms to RCMP members and help increase police visibility at commu-nity events and on the beat. They have many of the same powers as regular po-lice though they do not carry firearms.

The nation-wide program is designed to help incorporate citizens into commu-nity policing efforts and to help police de-tachments build relationships within their communities.

Const. Jarett Duncan of the Ucluelet RCMP coordinates the local auxiliary pro-gram and said longtime locals are valu-able assets to police.

“They can give us that local knowledge which helps us, especially in a limited du-ration post where members just start un-derstanding the area after four years and then they’re all of a sudden on their way out,” Duncan said.

“They’re there to complement us, help us integrate into the community and help us to become more involved in the com-munity.”

He noted the volunteer opportunity serves as a stepping-stone for some aux-iliaries to join the RCMP and said he was an auxiliary for two years before deciding to start a career with the RCMP.

“Their commitment is strictly volun-tary, there’s no monetary compensation or anything like that but the experience that I think they learn from it benefits them as a person as well,” he said adding former Ucluelet auxiliary Peter Larkin recently be-came an official member of the RCMP.

“He got a good taste of what it was like, not from just TV shows, and could relate his experiences once he decided to apply

for a regular member position and I think it definitely helped him, and it helped me too, to understand what an RCMP mem-ber would do on a daily basis.”

A handful of local auxiliary applicants started their training last week and those who pass the roughly three-month train-ing program will be shared between the Tofino and Ucluelet detachments.

Duncan was thrilled with the amount of applicants the program received.

“That just shows you how giving and caring this community is,” he said.

“They’re willing to give their time, their personal life, their family life and change how they’re going to do things for the next three-and-a-half months because it’s go-ing to be a lot for them to take in.”

The RCMP announced last week that auxiliaries are no longer allowed to go on ride-alongs with police.

This change was made through the RCMP’s ongoing review of its auxiliary program, which will include a national training standard, national policy update, and a uniform review.

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Wick Road remained closed on Monday as crews worked to repair a sinkhole that opened up on Friday afternoon.

The roughly five-metre-deep, two-metre-wide, hole is located about half a kilometre from Highway 4.

There were no visitors in the area when the collapse occurred. “Parks Canada has closed Wick Road until further notice to

ensure visitor safety,” said the Park’s asset manager Jackie God-frey.

“We are working with engineers to assess the impact and making every effort to repair the road as soon as possible. As the nearby culvert supports a fish bearing stream, the repairs will be designed to minimise any environmental impact.”

She added that locals can find updates on the roadwork at the Park’s website—pc.gc.ca/pacificrim— and through social media channels.

The Park is still investigating the cause of the collapse. “Parks Canada apologises for this inconvenience and appre-

ciates the public’s cooperation,” Godfrey said adding anyone who spots a potential emergency situation within the park should re-

port it to 250-726-3604. Wick Road’s collapse has halted all traffic to the Kwisitis Vis-

itors Centre and forced the cancellation of a special renaming ceremony scheduled for Jan. 30.

The Park’s theatre will be named after the late Barbara Touch-ie, a beloved long-time West Coast local, Ucluelet First nation El-der and Parks Canada member.

“While we were still gathering information about the condition of the road at that point in time, the decision was made to post-pone the theatre renaming event to a later date to ensure visitor safety,” Godfrey said.

The Park has also closed Grice Bay Road for repairs, which are expected to be complete by May 30.

“This much needed work includes the replacement of two fail-ing culverts, slope stabilization, re-paving along the roadway and rehabilitation of the parking lot and boat ramp,” according to a recent media release.

“Current conditions at Grice Bay, including drainage issues, unstable sections of the roadway and large potholes in the park-ing lot area have made it challenging for park visitors to access the boat ramp.”

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“That just shows you how giving and caring this community is.”

- Const. Jarett Duncan


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Ucluelet’s council supported a local restaurant’s application to extend its liquor service hours last week and the thud you just heard was the jaws of every restaurant manager in Tofino hitting the floor.

To understand their amazement is to under-stand that such requests are dead on arrival in Tofi-no’s council chambers.

Tofino seems adamant on building a graveyard of unsupported liquor license amendments so let’s take a short walk amongst the tombstones before they become too crowded to explore. Today’s tour will feature: Shelter, The Wolf in the Fog and Jamie’s Rainforest Inn.

Shelter still calls last call at midnight, three years after applying to push their liquor service to 1 a.m.

The restaurant’s owner Jay Gildenhuys spoke eloquently at a June, 2013, council meeting where he pleaded with council to let him cater to the dining needs of tourists arriving to town late at night.

Unfortunately, council had already received 13 letters from businesses and residents within 75 meters of Shelter who opposed the later service so Gildenhuys application was dead before he spoke a word. Coun. Dorothy Baert suggested the social needs of tourists didn’t outweigh the sleeping rights of locals.

The Wolf in the Fog had similar success last year when it asked to push its midnight service to 1:30 a.m. The restaurant’s manager Andre McGil-livray presented an interesting case for his request suggesting that allowing the restaurant to be open later would actually cut down on noise by allowing patrons to leave over a staggered period rather than a mad all-at-once dash at closing time.

McGillivray added that locals and visitors were

in need of a late-night option to eat and socialize. Coun. Greg Blanchette seemed close to being

swayed by this sentiment and suggested locals who get off work after restaurants have closed tend to head to the beach to unwind with, he assumed “a stack of Lucky.”

Ultimately though Blanchette sided with the 14 letters council received from locals opposing the application. During this conversation, Coun. Cathy Thicke suggested Tofino has no room for a late-night crowd.

“What’s really emerging is people in this town are standing up and saying, ‘We want to have the kind of people who are coming here because they want to be up at 7 a.m. going hiking and kayaking and surfing,’” she said. “This is the kind of people we want to encourage to come here and that’s the kind of people I think we are.”

Located within the wilderness outside Tofino’s downtown core, Jamie’s Rainforest Inn appeared to have a solid shot at ending the streak last year when it asked council to support its application to push service from midnight to 1 a.m. In a savvy move, and probably also an honest one, Jamie’s general manager Ryan Orr focused his presentation on locals.

Jamie’s, Orr said, was getting hit with a rush of customers at midnight as staff from surrounding re-sorts got off work. He reminded council that Jamie’s primary business is a hotel and the first people to complain about noise would be its own customers but his words were moot before they were spoken as council had received five letters from residents opposing the later service.

“I’m always concerned with what the neigh-bourhood thinks and to get one complaint is enough for me,” concluded Coun. Duncan McMaster.

To be clear, council cannot directly amend a restaurant’s liquor licence, that authority belongs to the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch but coun-cil’s word is either gold or napalm when it comes to an application being approved.

While council gets blamed and stamped with the ‘No Fun Tuff’ label, they act as they are instruct-ed to act by those who elected them.

In each of these three cases, council referred to letters from the public before denying the request.

In every case, some letters inevitably come from competing businesses with a financial stake in the application being denied, but council often ignores these. The voices they listen to are the voices of residents. We have all chosen to live in the most beautiful corner of the world and we have all strug-gled to get here. Opportunity is not in abundance on the West Coast; we fought our way in because we wanted to live within these surroundings. The fight to live in this paradise should not include sacrificing a healthy social nightlife.

Towns need young families to buy houses, pay taxes, and increase school enrollments. These fam-ilies cannot be expected to arrive pre-assembled.

They are much more likely to show up like an Ikea malm dresser; two young single people arrive and, given the right tools and conditions, several years later a family has been assembled.

A healthy nightlife helps locals meet locals and that’s important. equally important is the fact that locals working weird hours to cater to tourists, who have thrown their daily routines out the window, need a place to eat and unwind after work.

A lights out by midnight routine might make sense in a community of nine-to-fivers, but that’s not what Tofino is. Council won’t stop refusing to al-low restaurants to stay open later until you let them.


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TREMENDOUS GRATITUDEAs Sharon’s husband I have

been responsible for keeping her friends family, and support-ers up to date on her progress for the past six months through the use of her Facebook account. I am aware, however, that not everyone uses Facebook and that I haven’t reached out to all of the people who deserve our thanks. An article was written in this paper a few months ago telling Sharon’s story, about how she became very sick in July of this past year and after weeks in hospital in both Tofino and Victo-ria she was flown to Vancouver where we were told that she only had a couple of weeks left to live. The article also told of a strang-er’s selflessness and the dona-tion of a heart that would give hope back to both of us. Since that story appeared in the paper Sharon has come a long way and with the blessings of her nurses and doctors has been allowed to return home.

As you can probably imagine, it is very hard to convey the grat-itude that we both feel toward those who have supported us for these long months .All across this country there were those who or-ganized and participated in fund-raisers, those who gave all they could afford to give, and those who could afford nothing but still gave us their thoughts and prayers. These people, some who barely even knew us, allowed us to be beside each other for, what might have been the end of lives

together. Instead, I sit here today and try to come up with the words to thank those who gave us ev-erything. I truly believe that all of you, whether you are in Kings Point or in Ucluelet or anywhere in between, helped to bring us to where we are today. All that I can really say is that each morning that we wake up and get to see each other once again, we know what you have done for us and I can promise you that we will nev-er forget.

You all have our deepest and most sincere gratitude,

MARTIN AND SHARON

SANFORD Ucluelet

STATUE FINALLY AT RESTIt has taken many years, but

finally “Weeping Cedar Woman” is standing proudly in her final resting place.

For those of you that don’t know her history this is a brief bit of her story. As written by Gurdeep Stephens (niece of God-frey Stephens and creator of the book “Wood Storms / Wild Can-vas.The art of Godfrey Stephens)

Weeping Cedar Woman was carved on Strawberry Island near Tofino by Godfrey Stephens for the first wave of logging protests to save Meares Island’s ancient trees. Her breasts are worried frogs, her tears spill in columns to the ground.

Her right hand is raised with the palm up to signify stop. The

left hand is pointing down to the earth as she silently pleads “stop raping the earth”

Weeping Cedar Woman start-ed off as a red cedar on Meares Island that was blown over during a storm. Joe Martin and Godfrey Stephens hauled the log over to Strawberry Island where she was carved in haste to stand in time for the protests.

Eighteen feet tall, she re-mained on Strawberry Island for 17 years. She was restored in 2001 and again in 2014. She has been displayed in several sites on Vancouver Island but has at last returned to Tofino to stand in her final resting place. Thanks to the many Tofino businesses and the town council.

I was so happy to see her there gazing towards Meares Island, and standing high above the Village Green with a look of serenity and satisfaction, final-ly knowing her work has been done. If you stand below her and look up, you can’t help but feel her still powerful spirit.

ROBERT EDY Ucluelet

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MacPherson asked council to consider charging for parking at the municipal lot, “so it’s not full of people who could make other choices,” and said this would free up spaces for downtown customers.

He suggested rates of: $1 for two hours, $3 to park until 10 p.m. and a flat $8 charge for Recre-ational Vehicles.

“We’re not looking to really price anybody out of the market other than people who would want to use it every single day,” he said.

He added the rates would be reviewed after the first year.

“You ideally want there to be 10 per cent va-cancy so that someone coming into an area can find somewhere to park,” he said. “If there’s too much vacancy you lower the rates and if there’s no vacancy you raise the rates.”

He said Robbins Parking could be contracted to set up and maintain user-pay parking machines and that one machine would do the trick at each of the two sites, though Tonquin Park Road’s machine would need to be durable and credit-card only.

“We’re looking at a simpler but more durable machine there because of potential for vandalism at that location,” he said.

“Tonquin is actually not expected to be revenue positive. In talking with Robbins, we think that this would actually move backwards by about $3,000 a year but, again, using this as a mechanism to con-trol demand.”

He said the gross revenue collected from us-er-pay parking fees at both lots would be roughly $25,000 in the first year with expenses totaling about $17,206.

“The net revenue is not going to put us on easy street by any means at just over $7,000,” he said.

“The revenue side of this would be modest, but it would provide an opportunity for us to reinvest in parking or, if council chose, it could go into a down-town improvement fund.”

Coun. Greg Blanchette asked whom the district was targeting with the user-pay system.

Macpherson responded it’s not aimed at any-body in particular.

“It’s actually aimed at trying to make invento-ry available to people who are coming into town, whether it’s a visitor or a resident,” he said.

Mayor Josie Osborne wondered if user-pay parking at the Tonquin Park lot would lead to peo-ple parking along the narrow road to avoid charges.

MacPherson suggested something has to be done to convince Tonquin Park users to park at the nearby community hall, where parking would remain free.

“There are two options and the status quo isn’t one of them,” he said adding the district could ei-ther charge for parking at Tonquin Park Road or nix parking there entirely.

Coun. Ray Thorogood supported user-pay park-ing at the municipal lot but wondered if it was need-ed at Tonquin.

“I disagree with the status quo on Tonquin. I might be wrong but I don’t see a big problem with Tonquin,” he said.

MacPherson responded that drivers must travel to the end of Tonquin Park Road before they know if there are any available parking spots and this cre-ates congestion.

“What we’re hoping to do is have people kind of educate themselves that it’s better to go park at the

community hall,” he said. Blanchette noted this would not be the first ap-

pearance of pay parking in Tofino and asked if the district had a public education plan in place to avoid the outcry and hullaballoo that caused Tofino to kill pay parking roughly 10 years ago.

“When we tried it years and years ago I was watching from Ucluelet, I lived there then, and I must say it was very entertaining and I did make the prediction: ‘I wonder how long it’s going to be before somebody rips out one of these parking meters,’ and sure enough on the front page of the Westerly was a parking meter torn out of the ground by irate locals who have an expectation, realistically or not, to be able to park for free in their own [darn] town,” Blanchette said.

MacPherson said public outreach would be best practice.

Osborne doubted the public would push back against user-pay parking in the municipal lot.

“Last time the district attempted this it was at some pretty prime places,” she said.

MacPherson agreed and suggested the district did not effectively inform the public of what was going on the last time pay parking was brought in.

“I wasn’t here ten years ago of course, but going back and looking at some of the media, as well as some staff reports, it seemed like user-pay parking was put in place at a lot of locations at once, without a lot of warning and no signs to kind of guide people through what was happening,” he said.

Coun. Cathy Thicke said she could support bringing a user-pay system to the municipal lot but urged council to consider discussing a long-term plan for the site.

“It feels, to me, almost like a travesty of our space,” she said. “This is one of the most beautiful spots in all of our downtown core and we’re giving it over to parking and it makes my heart feel sick.”

She also expressed disdain for people parking there long-term while they head offshore.

“With all due respect, I just do not understand why we as the district should provide parking for people who work on fish farms,” she said.

She asked if a local parking pass could be made available but MacPherson said this would defeat the purpose of the plan.

“If we accept that we have 100 days, and four or five hours in each of those days, where we have more demand than we have supply…my view is the people that can most easily change their behaviour are those of us that live here,” MacPherson said.

“It’s nice to think that we could accommodate and that people would behave in the best interest of the community, but that’s not what’s happening right now.”

Thicke doubted user-pay parking would help Tonquin’s congestion and liked the idea of prevent-ing parking there altogether.

“It should be foot traffic only,” she said. Blanchette asked if the two user-pay lots would

be the start of more to come. MacPherson doubted user-pay parking would

stretch through town. “I appreciate that one of the neat small-towney

things about Tofino is that we don’t have meters on the street at this point, so I don’t have any plan or desire to have a success here and use that as a springboard for expanding user-pay parking,” he said.

Baert made a motion to bring MacPherson’s recommendations to a regular council meeting and said she hoped to hear public feedback throughout the process.

The district also plans to have signs in place out-lining time limits on street parking within the next month.

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Members of Ahousaht First Nation and Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation participated in two days of search and rescue (SAR) training led by the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) at the Tofino CCG Lifeboat Station last week.

Representatives from Tofino RCMP, Parks Canada, West-coast Inland SAR, and Royal Canadian Marine-SAR Long Beach also attended the training, which involved classroom theory and on-water exercises.

The overarching purpose of the training was to work on interagency communication and to develop a team approach to maritime SAR or “pod mentality,” CCG superintendent Clay Evans told the Westerly News.

“It’s really important to know that we can work together in that spirit,” said Ahousaht emergency response coordinator Alec Dick, who was one of the mariners to respond to the Leviathan II disaster in October.

“It was a really good working experience all the way around…Especially for some of our younger ones that are getting familiar with our operations.”

On the second day of training, which was done in re-lentless rain and slightly choppy sea conditions, the organ-izations joined forces for a mock marine search and rescue conducted around Vargas Island.

The mock scenario involved two blue tandem kayaks with

a total of four persons reported missing. “They did really well. It wasn’t a complex scenario, but

that’s the whole idea. We’re not about complexity, it’s all about the communications piece; without that it’s utter chaos,” Evans said.

“As long as everybody is on the same page and com-municating effectively internally and externally to the best of their ability then you’ll have a successful outcome.”

Generally speaking, each organization operates on unique radio channels. RCMP have their own channel, CCG have their own channel, and First Nations have their own frequencies.

“To be able to communicate collectively to one person has always been a challenge because we’re all so individ-uals in our agencies and groups,” said CCG member Jeff Macdonald.

“Normally, when an Ahousaht emergency response team goes out, we can have as much as 23 boats involved and we all go to the channel that we designate, which is 71. That’s how we communicated with our crew,” Dick said.

“But today, we have 82 Alpha,” explained Macdonald. “So whoever is going to do the communicating for each of the groups has got to do it through VHF 82 Alpha. That’s what we’re using today.”

For the purpose of the training exercise, Ahousaht only had two boats in play, which is why they were able to oper-

ate on the same frequency. “We didn’t have the best of radios on board,” said Dick,

who borrowed his brothers’ boat for the mock search and rescue.

“That was one of our downfalls and we recognize that. There’s some upgrading on our part that we have to work with.”

Evans said the role of First Nations in the federal SAR system is the same as all other mariners.

“Whether it’s a First Nations or a fish boat that happens to be going by, we call that a vessel of opportunity because that’s basically the common mantra of the sea. People help other people in difficult situations at sea,” he said.

RCM-SAR has established units with boats within a couple First Nations communities on the north coast and Evans said there is good opportunity to expand the RCM-SAR resources and training to First Nations in Clayoquot Sound.

“There is funding, you’re insured, you’re paid per metre, per hour, to go out on a SAR call, there’s training and so forth so that might the route to go,” he said of the RCM-SAR initiative.

“What we’re going to look at program-wise is making sure we can do these exercises at least once a year and also offer up some sort of training for the boat drivers.”

The Ahousaht First Nation recommended that the organ-izations meet at least three times a year.

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A quiver of vividly detailed surfboards is set to take shape on the Coast as the Tofino Arts Council (TAC) dives into cam-paigning for its Tofino Boardwalk Project.

The initiative, originally dreamed up by Tofino councillor Duncan McMaster as a way to raise funds for the arts, con-nects local artists and businesses through one awesome me-dium—the surfboard.

Project coordinator Cindy Hutchison is actively calling for artists’ submissions and business sponsorships.

“We are aiming to get 16 boards done for this round. We hope to have all our sponsors and artists lined up in the springtime,” Hutchison said.

“It costs $1200 to sponsor a board and you get it for three months. It will be up at your location for surf season, which is August, September, and October…We’re also going to pro-duce a Boardwalk map, so people can pick up a map and go visit all the boards.”

For last years’ pilot project, TAC commissioned six local artists—Mark Hobson, Jeremy Koreski, Roy Henry Vickers, Cory Diamond, Pete Clarkson, and Christy Feaver—to trans-form surfboards into works of art.

The collection of boards travelled to various surf events as an art exhibit, and they now rest in the hands of the business-es that sponsored them. Koreskis’ board is upstairs at Shelter while the Mark Hobson board can be found at Driftwood Cafe.

Tofino surfboard shaper Stefan Aftanas primed five out the six boards and has signed on to help with the creation of future boards.

“We want to do two boards, one for the elementary school and one for the high school,” Hutchison said adding one wild card board of an up-and-coming artist under 25 will be se-

lected by the TAC.Creators of all experience levels and walks of life are en-

couraged to submit applications. TAC is looking to attract painters, photographers, sculptures, wood carvers, and more.

“The sky’s the limit,” Hutchison said. Once selected, artists will receive a $200 honourarium

for their work and will get a 10 per cent commission off the sale of their board once it goes to auction at the end of the surf season. “With the range of talent within the project, we felt like a $200 honourarium would cover the middle ground and some of the supplies needed,” Hutchison said. “It doesn’t

cover everything obviously. If you have Mark Hobson doing one versus somebody that’s just starting out, the values are much different in art. While this surfboard art parade is large-ly Tofino based, Hutchison isn’t opposed to letting it soar out-side the community. “We’ve kind of just started it as a Tofino project, but if there’s interest in going elsewhere with it, we’re willing to make it work,” she said.

“The thought is that this might not be the only year that we do this. Maybe it rolls out to be a Pacific Rim, kind of, encompassing project. Or further out maybe it’s a Vancouver Island project.”

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A Guadalupe fur seal found stranded and emaciated near Tofino died at the Vancouver Aquarium last week.

The adult male seal was rescued on Long Beach and transported to the aquarium on Jan. 21. He died on Jan. 27.

“He was looking better on Saturday [Jan. 23], but last night he had a very quick gastrointestinal bleed,” said the Vancouver Aquarium’s head veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena in a Jan. 28 media release.

“Unfortunately, it’s a common complication for marine mammals that strand while experiencing near starvation.”

Guadalupe fur seals are usually found off the coast of Baja, California and are listed as threatened in the United States however the species is not listed on Canada’s Species At Risk Act because it’s not common to the country, accord-ing to the release.

Haulena said the rescue effort was valuable despite the outcome.

“Even if the odds of survival are slim, we’re always go-ing to do our best to try and save an animal’s life,” he said. “We’re a rescue centre…that’s what we do.”

He said treating the rare creature brought a valuable learning experience and could lead to improved conservation efforts and future rescue efforts.

“This species is the subject of an ongoing Unusual Mor-tality Event in the U.S. and Mexico,” he said. “We’ve received sample requests and protocols from the United States and Mexico which will be invaluable in understanding the un-expectedly high numbers of this species that have recently died.”

Local marine mammal expert Wendy Szaniszlo, who as-sisted in the seal’s Long Beach rescue, was saddened to hear the news.

“It’s definitely sad to hear that he passed away,” she said. “I know that he had the best care possible.”

She said a necropsy done on the animal would hopefully provide insight into its death.

“There is what’s called an unusual mortality event going on right now in the range of this animal and I think it will provide more information to understand perhaps why that mortality event is going on,” she said.

An unusual mortality event occurs when many animals are found stranded, according to Szaniszlo who said California sea lions were put through one last year when hundreds of them washed up on California beaches.

“A lot of them had stranded and they were starving to death. The pups were about a year old and they were about the size and weight of a newborn pup,” she said.

“Mothers that were trying to nurse the pups couldn’t find any food because the water was too warm, there weren’t fish, primarily sardines for them. They were traveling further offshore looking for food and as a result they abandoned their pups, which were not able to survive on their own yet.

“It goes to show that warming water temperatures really has a huge widespread effect on marine wildlife and hope-fully humans can kind of change their behaviour and mitigate that.”

She commended Ucluelet local Doug Kimoto for reporting his sighting and said the collaboration between the Vancou-ver Aquarium, DFO and Parks Canada as well as the scientific knowledge learned from the rescued animal was valuable.

“Everything from collaboratively working together for a marine mammal rescue to understanding a species that

is not supposed to be here…and looking at diseases and things going on in the ecosystem, there’s a lot of things we can learn from this individual stranding for sure,” she said.

Anyone who spots a marine mammal in distress should report their sighting immediately and never approach the an-imal.

“They can be incredibly vicious. They’re large carnivores with really big teeth,” Szaniszlo said.

Locals can report sightings to the Vancouver Aquarium at 1-866-472-9663, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada at 1-800-465-4336, and Parks Canada at 250-726-3604.

“If there happens to be some sort of disease outbreak that is affecting a large number of a population… reports will trig-ger authorities to something going on,” Szaniszlo said.

“If it’s not reported, that animal and that incident isn’t on the radar so we’re not able to mobilize any help for it or see if it even needs help.”

She added reporting is also important to bring the public up to speed on potential dangerous situations. Locals are en-couraged to be persistent with their reporting.

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This Guadalupe fur seal died at the Vancouver Aquarium last week after being rescued on Long Beach.


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“The living wage is calculated as the hourly rate at which a household can meet its basic needs once gov-ernment transfers have been added and deductions have been subtract-ed,” Ocampo said.

The CBT’s managing director Re-becca Hurwitz said about 20 per cent of West Coasters fit into the two-par-ents-two-children model.

She said the figure did not take into account credit card payments, retirement saving, or care for elderly parents.

“When we say bare-bones, we re-ally mean bare-bones,” she said.

Monthly rent and transportation costs were factored into the wage but both varied greatly within the West Coast’s communities.

The CBT’s report suggested round-trip costs to Tofino from Opitsaht run $10, Macoah $33, Ahousaht $40, and Hot Springs Cove $164.

“We think it’s important to remind people about the costs of traveling from community to community,” Hur-witz said.

Rental costs for a 3-bedroom unit varies from $450 to $1,537, including utilities, across the region, according to the report.

Childcare costs come to about $1,154 a month for full-time care for a 4-year-old and afterschool and summer care for a 7-year-old.

The report says the living wage

calculation does not capture the West Coast’s high food costs.

“Food costs are up to 21 per cent higher than nearby Port Alberni and only two of our eight communities have adequate grocery stores, so they must pay to travel to buy healthy food,” according to the CBT’s most recent vital signs report.

Hurwitz suggested the living wage calculation could help Tofino’s coun-cil in discussions around affordable housing, public transportation and employer policies.

“The living wage is really meant to be a policy tool,” she said. “We really wanted to open this up for discussion with you about how the living wage can support decision making at your table.”

Mayor Josie Osborne asked how business owners should interpret the information.

“How would you explain how an employer in Tofino can use this in-formation, given that 20 per cent of people living in Tofino are actually in

that bracket but employers in Tofino employ a lot of single, younger people for example? What is the living wage for a single younger person,” Osborne asked.

Hurwitz responded that the differ-ence between demographics is sur-prisingly small.

“The difference is quite negligible,” she said adding families can take ad-vantage of government programs that single people don’t have access to.

“Some things are an advantage, some things are a disadvantage but overall it turns out there’s not really a significant difference.”

Coun. Dorothy Baert suggested the living wage calculation might not capture enough Tofitians to be useful.

“If 20 per cent are in that catego-ry 80 per cent aren’t so that’s huge,” she said.

Baert noted the $19.27 figure represented calculations from across the West Coast’s eight communi-ties, which have significantly differ-ent cost-of-living factors including monthly rental costs.

“I’m not comfortable that this isn’t completely skewed. I don’t know that I have the information about Tofino that would be useful,” she said.

Osborne said the West Coast’s median monthly rent for a three-bed-room unit came to about $1,250 and suggested this wasn’t way off Tofino’s $1,537 level.

“You didn’t calculate living wage for each of the eight communities, you calculated it for the region, so we have to read into that a little bit but it’s not that far off,” she said to Hurwitz.

Baert remained unconvinced. “The difference makes a difference

that’s the problem,” she said adding the roughly $280-a-month difference in rent would have a significant im-pact on hourly wages.

“I know there are other things at play, but it’s a difference and if peo-ple are employers in this town and they’re trying to do the right thing, and so forth, the information has to be something that they can trust and work with.”

Coun. Greg Blanchette noted the living wage was calculated based on full-time year-round employment.

“This assumes steady annual em-ployment, so that has to be factored in as well if we’re thinking of how this applies to Tofino,” he said.

Coun. Cathy Thicke acknowledged imperfections in the calculation but said the CBT’s report offered a valu-able reality check for what should be perceived as a good wage.

“What this does for me is $20-$25 is just a living wage…Instead of thinking about that as a good wage, it’s just an on-par wage,” she said.

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Andrew Bailey Jr. got his literacy love on in the kids reading corner with The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Timmy Wenstob picked out a book on Northwest Coast art.

Frida Towgood got stoked on a book about butterflies.

Local kids were excited to check out the wide assortment of books available at the community book swap.

Ucluelet’s parks and recreation team hosted a Literacy Fair on Jan. 30 to celebrate BC’s Family Liter-acy Week. The fair’s festivities included a community book swap, kids reading corner, storytelling with spe-cial guest Joe Martin, and a Bingo for Books event.

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Tofino local Bob Purdy, right, was thrilled to pick up a new read from event host KK Hodder.

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THE EDGE YOUTH ROOm3–6p.m., UCC.

YOUTH BASKETBALL 5-7 pm, WCS.

DROP-IN SOCCER 7-9 p.m. WCS gym. $3.

BINGO7-10 p.m. Tofino Legion.

thu. fEb 4RAINCOAST SPEAKER SERIES: OCEANOGRAPHY OF THE CONTINENTAL SHELF 7:30 p.m. Ecolodge Classroom at Tofino Botanical Gardens. $5.

HEALTHY BABIES PROGRAm/FAmILY TIES 10:30 a.m, UCC

fRI. fEb 5AGE FRIENDLY PLAN PUBLIC INPUT SESSION 1-3:00 p.m., UCC.

DROP-IN BADmINTON 7-9 p.m. USS gym. $2.

YOUTH GAmES NIGHT7-9 pm. Ages 10+, WCS.

KARAOKE10 p.m., Officials Sports Lounge

THE EDGE YOUTH ROOm2–6p.m. UCC.

AA mEETING 7:30pm, St. Francis.

SAt. fEb 6 ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

5:30 p.m.

Sun. fEb 7

DROP-IN BADmINTON7-9 p.m. USS gym.

CHRIST COmmUNITY CHURCH10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd.

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH 10:30 am, UCC.

ST. COLUmBA CHURCH10:30 a.m. 110 2nd St.

UNITED/ANGLICAN SERvICE4 p.m. UCC.

ST. LAWRENCE CHURCH11:00 a.m. Ahousaht.

TOFINO BIBLE FELLOWSHIP10:30 a.m. Tofino Legion.

HOLY FAmILY CHURCH10 a.m. , 1663 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet

MOn. fEb 8TOFINO ExPRESSIvE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR WOmEN6:30-8:30 p.m. , 250-726-2343

UCLUELET AA8pm. Holy Family.

DARTS AT THE LEGION 8-10 p.m. Tofino Legion.

tuE. fEb 9YOUTH BADmINTON 6-7 P.m. WCS.

UCLUELET ExPRESSIvE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR WOmEN6:30-8:30 p.m. 250-726-2343

THE EDGE YOUTH ROOm2–6p.m. UCC.

TOFINO LEGION YOUTH NIGHT7-9 p.m., Tofino Legion.

YOUTH NIGHT AT THE ANAF6-8p.m., ANAF Ucluelet

AA mEETING 7:30pm, St. Francis Church.

featured Event for the Week

feb. 4 raincoast speaker series: oceanography of the continental shelfLed by Dr. Ian Perry research scientist with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, this talk delves into what we currently know of the oceanography and marine ecosystem west of vancouver Island, and how it changed in 2015. Starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Ecolodge Classroom at the Tofino Botanical Gardens. Cost is $5.


Cell: 250-726-3888 Fax: 888-885-0005 250-726-2228

Mieke Dusseldorp

www.miekedusseldorp.com

Happily serving T & Ucluelet

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hELP A BUNNY oUT: Ucluelet’s Black Rock Resort is putting the wheels in motion for the annual Community Easter Egg Hunt at Big Beach. Last year’s event supplemented the Easter Bunny’s offerings to the tune of roughly 12,000 chocolate eggs, which were hidden around the beach for local kids to hunt for. Donations to the event are encouraged and any locals interested in boosting the local candy score can drop donations off at the Black Rock Resort before March 11.

E: [email protected] P: 1 800 668 2208W: markhobson.com F: 1 250 725 3120

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Tofino-Ucluelet Westerly News, February 03, 2016

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