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If Viki Lyne II does go down who owns her? Look to Zeballos for an answer Craig Spence the chronicle
What will happen if the Viki Lyne II ever does sink in Ladysmith Harbour? You can look north to Zeballos Inlet if you want a likely preview of the outcome, and perhaps an idea as to why the Coast Guard is taking the steps announced in an Aug. 11 email to the Chronicle. A story in the online edition of the Campbell River Mirror (Aug. 4, Sunken logging camp spoils Zeballos Inlet) could foreshadow things to come in Ladysmith. There, a derelict floating barge camp broke loose from its moorage last fall and ‘drifted around the inlet’ before coming to rest on the shoreline near Zeballos Resolution Park. Transport Canada’s Regional Communications Advisor Jillian Glover is quoted: “At this time, the vessel is not an obstruction to navigation and the fuel tanks have been removed by the Canadian Coast Guard. As a result, Transport Canada will not be taking further action.” In other words, if a boat sinks in Ladysmith harbour or anywhere else, as long as it’s not an environmental or navigational hazard, it’s not a responsibility of either the Coast Guard or DFO to remove it. The Viki Lyne II is still afloat, but just barely, according to a survey commissioned by the Coast Guard. The report said the hull of the vessel is so corroded it may already be rusted through, the vessel being kept afloat by encrusting scale and marine growth. See Viki Lyne II, Page 3
The Viki Lyne II, let’s pray she doesn’t sink
Ladysmith potter Mary Fox plans to leave future artists a legacy: her Third Ave. studio for two year residencies
Craig Spence
Potter Mary Fox living her legacy now Craig Spence the chronicle
As a potter, Mary Fox doesn’t have to calculate a vanishing point in her works; as an inspired human being, she has a vanishing point clearly in mind, and wants to build a legacy beyond the here-and-now. Fox plans to bequeath her studio at 321 Third Avenue in Ladysmith to be used as a place where young potters will be able to get a start. “When I pass, there will be a residency here – an artists’ residency,” she said. “The idea is that an artist under the age of 30 can apply to become a resident artist at Mary Fox Studio for two years.” She is working with the Potters’ Guild of British Columbia and Vancouver Island University to get what has turned out to be a major project set up. A board of directors has to be in place; documentation about how the residency program and legacy will work; and an accumulation of assets that will sustain the project in perpetuity. “Everything is in the formation stage right now,” Fox said. But her vision is clear: “A place for young artists to start honing their craft. “Whatever I accumulate in my lifetime will go to support the legacy project.” Fox is taking steps to leverage her al-
ready global stature to ensure the projParticipants in the program include ect will benefit artists and her commu- information about their art or craft nity for a long time to come. on their premises. Fox will set aside Central to that objective is Mary Fox space for a video and other informaStudio’s status as a ‘destination point,’ tion about her studio and about potboth on the Island and internationally. tery as an art form. Keeping it that way will help ensure “Becoming part of Economusée beher legacy project is supported and comes a natural link,” Fox said. funded. At 55 she is also working with author To build on its reputation Fox has Leah Fowler on an autobiographical cofapplied for and been granted status as fee table book to be titled: Unearthing one of Vancouver Island’s Economu- Beauty – the Life and Work of Mary Fox. sée sites. The legacy project has prompted Economusée, a concept launched in Fox to publish the book earlier than Quebec and France, puts ‘local artisan planned, and to add a chapter that will sites’ on maps that are increasingly talk about the residency, and encourused by international arts and cultural age readers to support it. enthusiasts to explore what regions A potter since the age of 13, Fox is have to offer. self-taught. She has never made her An Economusée brochure for Van- living any other way. Despite her succouver Island includes Merridale Ci- cess, she says she would have bendery, in Cobble Hill; Tugwell Creek efited tremendously from the type of Farm & Meadery, in Sooke; and Ha- residency she is setting up. zelwood Herb Farm, right here in “I would have given my eye-teeth to Ladysmith. take a residency in a place like I’m Now Mary Fox Studio will be part planning,” she said. of the Island tour; and that’s part of Asked if she’s living her legacy now, Mary Fox’s legacy, too. Economusée Fox lit up. “I am! Lucky me, and it’s not describes its participants’ venues as just for two years. ‘living museums.’ “If I had been told when I was 20 “Each destination is unique – yet all years-old that this is what I’d be doing recognize the importance of conserv- and where, I wouldn’t have believed it. ing the heritage of traditional skills, I didn’t know I had it in me.” producing authentic handcrafted That’s a feeling she hopes her future products and contributing innovative beneficiaries will get to experience ideas to their trade.” too.