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Band robbed at ANAF ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly news an out of town band had their gear stolen from inside ucluelet’s army navy and air Force Veterans club early Sunday morning. a black and gold gibson 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.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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Ucluelet Aquarium celebrating record setting season ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly news it’s been a very good year for the ucluelet aquarium. Over 20,000 aquatic-animal lovers have enjoyed the aquarium 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 adventures 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 tremendous support by pointing
tourists towards the facility and patrons have become advocates after enjoying the hands-on experiences provided 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 information 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 aquarium to prove its catch and release model is sustainable 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.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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Tofino Rec. shines with a little help from its locals 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 swimming lesson to cheese making classes,” said Tofino’s recreation programmer Laura Lunty. “We’re definitely trying to offer community 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 weeklong camps to local kids, up from 16 last summer. “Our focus is really on variety and keeping kids active,” she said. “We want to appeal to every different type of kid and try to reach as many kids as possible throughout 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 development and to make sure that they’re engaged with the community, making new friends, trying new experiences and continuing their learning,” she said. “Parents know that their kids are engaged and doing something 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 members who have the passion and the knowledge and who want to help enrich the lives of kids here,” Lunty said. “That’s definitely a huge part of our programming and we’re really lucky to have the people who we have in town.” As Tofino’s community grows and its recreational 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 wanting 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 recreation@ tofino.ca. 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 barriers, 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 bilingualism 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. andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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Ucluelet police are investigating a string of thefts that hit tourists particularly 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 sgt. Jeff the Wild Pacific Trail around 6 p.m. They wandered for about 30 minutes 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 kayakers who had come to the Coast to explore the Broken Group Islands. “Some (vehicles) were unlocked and were rummaged through and some had their windows smashed and stuff stolen,” Swann said. He said thefts from vehicles have been trending up Vancouver Island swann across this summer and while Ucluelet’s crime rate remains relatively 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
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Hold your horses on the campaign signage Westerly News
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, without a permit, within 30 days of an election,” said Tofino’s CAO Bob MacPherson adding this bylaw is enforced on a complaint driven
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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 manager of finance Dave Douglas. “We’ve had a few calls and our staff are aware that this is going on,” Douglas told the Westerly. “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 unfortunate,” she said. “Election signs are a part of our democratic process, and whether or not we like the signs or agree with a particular political party, signs are permitted during a campaign. I hope we won’t see any of that kind of vandalism on the West Coast.”
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Island Health unwilling to fund care facility in Tofino ANDREW BAILEY
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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 convince Island Health to fund the venture. The society currently runs Rainbow Gardens, a residential care facility in Port Alberni, with funding 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 isolated and traveling to health services in Port Alberni or Nanaimo is not always feasible. “There is an additional challenge with that, but it’s also really, 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 possible,” 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 services 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 disappointed 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 message 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 several hurdles along the path to retirement in Tofino. “Healthy aging requires adequate health and community services, appropriate housing, and good transportation options.
Mayor Josie Osborne 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 services 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 understand 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
SCHOOL DISTRICT 70 ALBERNI UCLUELET ELEMENTARY SCHOOL – 2015-2016 START-UP INFORMATION SCHOOL OPENING School 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 REGISTRATIONS Students 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 STUDENTS Kindergarten 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. 8:30 am First Bell/Class starts 10:05 - 10:20 am Recess 10:20 – 11:55 am Classes 11:55 – 12:50 pm Lunch 12:50 – 2:45 pm Classes Monday to Thursday only 12:50 – 1:40 pm Classes Friday only BUS SCHEDULE FOR SEPTEMBER 9th ONWARD Morning buses leave as follows: Hitacu Community Hall at 7:45 am Sutton Road at 7:50 am Willowbrae Road at 7:55 am Millstream at 7:57 am Afternoon buses leave UES at 2:50 pm Monday to Thursday Friday buses leave UES at 1:50 pm Due to extreme allergies, our school is a NUT and SCENT FREE school. Please do not send any nut products in snacks and or lunches. Our school is also a dog free zone, no dogs on the property please.
specialized health care or accessibility 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 community 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 program currently offered by Island Health. While Island Health is currently in the midst of talks internally about how to better integrate health services and seniors care is part of the discussion, it’s going to take time. And I think that is really what frustrates me and other community 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 officials jump through the lobbying hoops, aging locals are leaving 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 better I can advocate for them, and the better I can help build partnerships and plan for Tofino’s future.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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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 bollards 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 temporarily” 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-traveled route that will
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
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, sometimes walking their dogs, or parents out with strollers.” With a new bike park
and outdoor volleyball 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 delineators don’t provide that physical border, 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 council 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 residential neighbourhood with children playing.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
Tourist nabbed for impaired driving ANDREW BAILEY
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A tourist ruined his vacation by driving while impaired in Ucluelet last week. The tourist was stopped at a roadblock 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. andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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Red Octopus drawing crowds ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News A particularly playful Red Octopus is putting on quite the performance at the Ucluelet Aquarium. Jeremiah arrived at the aquarium in August chock full of moxy and she quickly won the hearts of patrons. “They think she’s really 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 creatures that grow to roughly the size of an average person’s palm and reach a maximum weight of about 1 kilogram. Griffith-Cochrane believes Jeremiah 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 liquefying 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 produces to liquefy everything inside... It’s a waiting game. It’s kind of like when you’re putting everything 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 Romans 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 discarded 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 anything 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,” Griffith-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 bacterial 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 difference 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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behaviour.” Spanky’s wariness of her surroundings is natural as only a handSpanky the baby octopus is still ful of the 68,000 eggs a feeling out her new surroundings Giant Pacific Octopus and isn’t quite ready to shine in lays will reach adulther spotlight just yet. hood in the wild. The tiny female moved into the “Squid and octopus Ucluelet Aquarium last month are incredibly nutriand, at less than 1-year old, she is tious things to eat so the youngest Giant Pacific Octothere are a lot of spepus the facility has ever housed. cies that would really “She is currently living along like to benefit from with our brittle stars...so she’s eating them,” Grifsurrounded by a whole bunch of fith-Cochrane said. brittle stars and, at this point, “The young have to is eating some small krill, very be very, very, careful. tiny shore crabs, and some other Their world is very juvenile species that will come in dangerous when with water flow,” Aquarium curthey’re small.” ator Laura Griffith-Cochrane told Griffith-Cochrane the Westerly. said the aquarium will This tiny baby octopus is keeping to herself as she feels out her new home at the Ucluelet Aquarium. Photo Andrew McCurdy “We’ve put in a couple of differnot push Spanky to ent things for her to use as a den. “A species that has reduced put on a show for patrons as this “Our facility is very concerned we share or the beauty of the One of them is a moon snail shell could stress the little baby out. about respect and animal welfare. stress has a higher immune systhings that we’re displaying, and one of them is a scallop shell “Our main purpose as an aquar- our main purpose is to create an If we were pushing for things tem,” she said. “That also means that she’s buried herself under... to be out all the time then we understanding about our marine ium is for education, so while we that we have smaller vet bills She’s mostly active at night, very would be undermining our own environments and a respect for hope that we’re able to entertain and we don’t have to worry about careful about her dens, and she’s principles.” them,” she said. with a lot of the knowledge that infections or sickness as much.” being very conservative in her She said many of the ocean’s Along with benefiting the anicreatures cannot handle stress as mals, Griffith-Cochrane said adeptly as humans. taking their time with each spe“Humans are really good at cies also allows aquarium staff dealing with stress. We stress to offer unique experiences to ourselves out all the time, we visitors. create stresses, we take on more “You might be here on a day stresses than we should, and where our wolf eel is out and we’re able to handle that and deal feeding, or you might be here on a with that,” she said. day where our little octopus is out “But a lot of invertebrates and foraging through the tank, and fish that we deal with are or you might see something else not good at handling long-term that’s unique to you,” she said. stresses, that can very rapidly “We just let our species do what shorten their life span...So if we’re they’re comfortable doing and going to release things that are then each person gets a unique healthy and able to go back to experience and each species gets their environment and succeed, to go back healthy.” then we need to release things She noted Spanky is not the that are stress free.” aquarium’s only shy creature. She noted keeping stresses low “There are a lot of species that helps keep the aquarium’s vet we collect and bring in here that bills low. are very good at camouflaging so not everyone will notice them,” The Westerly News introduced readers to Spanky the baby octopus on the front page of our July 22 issue. 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 Dr Gordon Costigan we point her out and then if she’s Tofino and Ucluelet’s Local Optometrist snoozing we just let her snooze.” 381 Main Street Tofino • Granite She added Spanky will likely • Marble be comfortable enough to greet Make An Appointment Today Alberni/West Coast • Laminate guests soon. 250 266 3937 • Fabrication “She’s still really, really, small 250-731-7530 Gordon.Costigan@gmail.com • Installation George Arbanas but like other Giant Pacific Octopuses 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 display,” she said. ANDREW BAILEY
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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-feature remains a fan favourite. Sassy Sally is a roughly year-and-a-half old Giant Pacific Octopus who was collected 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 colourations, 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
“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 oxygen through your system.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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.
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Westerly News Ucluelet kids won’t consider the end of summer to be much of a bummer once their eyes hit fall’s recreation 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, interesting 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 participate in a wide variety of skill building, leisure, and athletic opportunities without committing their entire summer. “We’ve done really well this summer 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
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different for the community and the skill level is really quite high with the people that do come in,” she said. “It really compliments our locally based programs, which we run through the community centre through our dedicated instructors and also through our summer programming staff.” She said the rec. department’s primary 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 services 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 offering 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 development, to community and bringing people together,” she said. “We’re becoming more of that community hub, which is really what we are striving for and the more we work with other services and organizations in the communities, the more successful we are.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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Community Calendar 2 WEDNESDAY Seniors Social Afternoons, 1:30-4 p.m., Tofino Legion.
St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, 5:30 p.m. AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis, Tofino.
St. Columba Church, 7 p.m. 6 SUNDAY
Wednesday, Wednesday, September September 2, 2, 2015 2015
To get an event in the Community Calendar, email office@westerlynews.ca or call 250-726-7029.
Floor hockey, 7–9pm, Ucluelet Seaplane Base Rec Hall. $2 drop-in. Indoor Soccer, 8–10pm, Ucluelet Secondary School gym, $2.
3 THURSDAY Healthy Babies Program/ Family Ties, 10:30 a.m., Coastal Family Place, UCC. Ucluelet AA 8 p.m. Holy Family Church, Peninsula Rd. The Edge Youth Room, 3–6p.m., UCC & Youth Nite at the Edge, 6–8p.m. Anglican/United Church Bible study, 10:30 a.m., UCC.
Christ Community Church, 10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet.
Competitive & drop-in darts, 7 pm, Tofino Legion. 8 TUESDAY
Grace Bible Church, 10:30am, UCC. Holy Family Church–10:00 a.m. –Ucluelet. St. Lawrence Church, 11:00 a.m. Ahousaht.
Healthy Babies Program/ Family Ties, 10:30am. Coastal Family Place, UCC. The Edge Youth Room, 3–6pm, UCC. Youth night, 7-9pm, Tofino Legion.
4 FRIDAY
St. Columba Church, 10:30 a.m United/Anglican Service, 4 p.m. UCC.
Ukee Night Market, Ucluelet Village Green, 3-7 p.m.
Tofino Bible Fellowship, 10:30 a.m. Tofino Legion.
Bingo, Tofino Legion, 7:30 p.m. The Edge Youth Room, 2–6p.m.
7 MONDAY
AA meeting, 7:30pm, St. Francis Church, 441 Main, Tofino. The Alberni Clayoquot Regional District presented the Ucluelet and Area
Acoustic jam night, Every Monday. 9-12 p.m. at Officials.
St. Francis of Assisi Cath- for the children. The money will also go towards the Mo and Mouse, an earlylearning kit for speech and language designed for children ages 3-5. From left, olic Church, 5 p.m.
5 SATURDAY Tofino Public Market, Tofino Village Green, 10 a.m.-2p.m.
Youth night ANAF Ucluelet.
Childcare Society with a $2,000 grant to purchase much needed art supplies
Ucluelet AA, 8pm. Holy Family.
centre manager Heather Thomas, ACRD chair and Tofino mayor Josie Osborne, and board representative Kristi Udell.
Celebrate Carving on the Edge
Festival carves on at the Shore Pier building in Tofino JACKIE CARMICHAEL
Westerly News
The Carving on the Edge Festival continues at the Shore Pier building in Tofino through Sept. 10. With the theme “Cultural Roots: Wood and Water,” displays, workshops, 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 transforming 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 Wickaninnish Inn on North Chesterman Beach. Workshops include Kestrel Tools, Lino Print Making with
Marika Swan, Carving with Handtools with Robinson Cook and Cedar Paddle Carving with Carl Martin. Visit carvingedgefestival.com for information.
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More reporting needed to avoid conflict with wildlife ERIC PLUMMER
Alberni Valley Times The public needs to play a larger role to prevent conflict with wildlife, says a provincial conservation officer overseeing the Port Alberni area. Steve Ackles has seen a decline in reports to the Conservation Officer Service this year, a frustrating 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 lurking 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 conservation 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 during 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 seldom seen, almost 1,000 cougars populate Vancouver Island – the highest concentration in Canada – regularly hunting near communities at the edge of the wilderness. While reporting is needed to prevent the animals from becoming habituated to populated areas, Alberni residents need to understand that cougars have as much
of a right to exist in the surrounding 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 authorities 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. Eric.Plummer@avtimes.net
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Wednesday, Wednesday, September September 2, 2, 2015 2015
Otalith problem-free for police
Ucluelet’s top cop “can’t wait for the next one.” ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News
This year’s Otalith Music Festival 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 community 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 organizations 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 community keeps putting on these events that go off without a hitch and it’s fantastic.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
Otalith goers rocked out respectfully and caused zero concerns for local police. Photos Andrew Bailey
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Dirt bike stolen in Ucluelet
Locals asked to keep eyes peeled for blue and white Yamaha ANDREW BAILEY
Westerly News
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 something 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 monthand-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 personally too,” he said. “We have that vested interest in solving it.” andrew.bailey@westerlynews.ca
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