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Citing fire and environmental concerns, a local chief is calling on the provincial government to clean up an abandoned recycling plant outside Port Alberni where tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of rubber tires have been dumped over the past two decades.

The four-hectare swath of Crown land, zoned heavy industrial by the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, is located behind the Alberni landfill, three kilometres from the Tseshaht’s main reserve lands.

Hugh Braker, Tseshaht’s chief councillor, said the facility ceased operations sometime in the mid 1990s and is now a fire and environmental hazard.

“If our First Nation did this on provincial Crown land we’d be arrested, fined and thrown in jail,” said Braker, who has written the Minister of Forests and Lands to discuss a cleanup. “But the province allows it, and thinks it can get away with it, and that’s not acceptable.”

However, a spokesman for the Ministry of Forests and Lands disputes Braker’s concerns, saying testing done within the last five years found no evidence of groundwater contamination from this site.

Access to the site is uninhibited,

except for stacks of industrial-size tires that line each side of the entrance.

Inside the facility, masses of black tires are stacked eight to ten feet high amidst trees and new vegetation.

Throughout the facility, culverts run like arteries. Flowing from one culvert, observed the News recently, was a brown fluid with a light multi-coloured film on top.

According to an official at the regional district, the facility was formerly leased to Future Generations Products Ltd.

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obtained by the News show that it was also leased to Target Recycling Inc. The News was unable to contact officials from either company by publication.

“We estimate that there are tens of thousands of tires and possibly hundreds of thousands of tires. We don’t know for sure,” Braker said.

He said water from the site flows into creeks and makes its way into the Alberni harbour and Shoemaker Bay, where the Tseshaht, Hupacasath and commercial operators fish. “This threatens the entire community.

The whole Valley should be concerned,” Braker said, adding reserve lands are also too close for comfort in the event of a fire.

“We’ve got a school, elders, families and disabled people who would have to be evacuated and some may not make it out in time,” he said.

Complicating the matter is that the area isn’t covered by Sproat Lake Volunteer Fire Department, and instead would rely on protection from the provincial fire service, who would take time to get there, Braker said.

Port Alberni Fire Chief Tim Pley said a

match couldn’t start a tire fire, but a forest fire could, adding tires are composed of solid petroleum and therefore burn both hot and long.

“Tire fires are very dangerous and very difficult to extinguish,” Pley said. “You basically need a machine to tear the piles apart and then fight it.”

Smoke from such a fire would be toxic and on an inversion day would likely envelop the Valley, Pley said. “At the very least there would be dioxins in it,” he added.

A Ministry of Lands and Forests spokesperson said

the government of the day allowed the facility to be created sometime in the 1990s but couldn’t determine a specific date. The property is the responsibility of the Ministry of Forest and Lands but cleanup was the responsibility of former lease holder, the spokesperson said.

Ministry officials tried unsuccessfully to contact the former owner in 1999 when the business closed and there was no cleanup, said the spokesperson.

Subsequently, the owner forfeited his security deposit, which “was far from sufficient to cover the

cleanup costs,” the spokesperson said.

“Now that the lease holder has abandoned that responsibility, cleanup and removal of abandoned debris is at the discretion of the ministry,” the spokesperson said.

The province hasn’t initiated cleaned up of the site since it closed because “the cost of cleanup of the four hectare site would far exceed the current value of the land,” the spokesperson said.

The Ministry of Environment responds to pollution concerns “but the site poses no immediate environmental threat,” the spokesperson said.

Glenn Wong, regional district chair, said board members have been aware of the issue for more than a decade and even turned down an offer to purchase the site from the provincial government for financial reasons.

“We don’t feel our taxpayers should be burdened with the cost of cleaning it up and we will not pay for it,” said Wong.

“The tires would have to be removed and there would have to be soil remediation as well. We estimate it would be in the millions.” Wong said the ACRD never brought any tires there from its equipment to the facility.

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Left, Tseshaht Chief Councillor Hugh Braker stands beside one of several eight foot high tire piles spread throughout the facility.Above, Tseshaht Coun. Ken Watts displays a tire burm that is likely used as a den by bears that roam the surrounding area.

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of tires...’– Hugh braker


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They may pursue action under both federal and provincial legislation.

“But that’s not what we want. We just want

this to be cleaned up,” Braker said.

“The province touted it as an eco-friendly industry. And they leased that land to the company long enough that they should have attended to this by now.”

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Domenico Lannidinardo of Timberwest appeared to update city council regarding work the company is doing around the city’s watershed.

Coun. Jack McLeman asked Lannidinardo if the company would be willing to discuss trading it’s land in the watershed to the city in return for a tax receipt or other benefit.

Lannidinardo said the company has a willingness to discuss these options.

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City council approved plans to apply for a $250,000 federal grant to assist with the replacement of the athletic track surface at Bob Dailey Stadium.

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all over North America. Family van pulls up to the corner store to stock up on a few camping essentials: pop, chips, hot dogs, a case of beer and a bottle of vodka.

Not in B.C. you say? It happens every day at rural agency liquor stores around the province. As with many other issues, there is one reality for urban B.C. and another for the rest of us. Selling booze in grocery stores would presumably create anarchy in B.C cities and towns, but villagers and their visitors somehow manage it, just as everyone does across the line in Washington or Alaska.

These rural agency stores are “flyspeck operators,” sniffs an acquaintance who spent his career as a union

activist in government liquor stores. Picture dusty old bottles on a rickety shelf, greedy owners and poorly trained clerks more likely to sell to under-age drinkers.

Similar generalizations can be heard about the hundreds of private liquor stores that have popped up around B.C. since they were legalized. And in fact there have been more violations in private stores, revealed in sting operations run by liquor inspectors. In the year ended March 31, 54 private stores were caught selling to a minor, for an 84 per cent compliance rate. Only four government stores were caught, a pass rate of 96 per cent. Five rural agency stores were tested, and one flunked.

But here is the telling statistic. In 2010, the government allowed liquor inspectors to

employ actual minors to test stores. Previously, they hired people who looked young but were old enough to buy alcohol, As late as 2009, two out of three stores (government or otherwise) sold to them. Problem is, that’s not an actual offence.

Now liquor inspectors send in undercover teens, and relieve them of the evidence when they are allowed to buy booze. The watchdog now has teeth, and compliance has jumped.

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glossed over the poorer performance of private stores. But in fairness, three times as many private stores as government ones were targeted in the new inspections, and the gap is narrow. Government stores also have a huge built-in financial advantage in their

wholesale rate, and are generally overstaffed by private sector standards.

The B.C. Liberals also moved this spring to make rural agency stores easier to establish. Regulation changes brought the minimum population served from 300 down to 200, and eliminated a vague requirement for a “bona fide community” to exist around the store.

Meanwhile, the big booze story this year is cabinet minister Rich Coleman’s plan to sell B.C.’s warehouse and distribution monopoly to a private contractor. The B.C. Government Employees’ Union has protested, despite assurances that their jobs will continue. B.C.’s burgeoning craft beer industry has looked to Alberta’s all-private model and predicts higher costs.

The B.C. Liberal government has been on the defensive from the start, with the NDP pointing to the paper trail of lobbyists with an apparent inside track.

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We like to think of political ridings as tight little pockets of community where people share values and ideas, and elect a representative who will carry those values and ideals to Ottawa.

Reality, of course, is something far different. And you should think about that before you get too excited about a proposed federal electoral boundary that will lop the ‘Cowichan’ off the bottom of Nanaimo-Cowichan, and take all but a tiny sliver of the Nanaimo out of what is now Nanaimo-Alberni.

Federal electoral boundaries may attempt to take into account such things as geography and culture.

But in reality they are purely political constructs built with the overriding factor of fair representation by population.

For Nanaimo voters, it seems to make good sense to have city voters casting ballots together, rather than split down the middle by an arbitrary line that has neighbours represented by different members in Ottawa.

But most of the noise you will hear will be political posturing. The fact of the matter is we are all Canadians and Vancouver Islanders, and we will all get one vote. That vote will influence what political party gets control of our country and what person will be your conduit to those corridors of powers.

And, ultimately, that comes down to the candidates themselves. Whether your neighbours to the north or the south share in your selection ultimately won’t matter much at all.

Certainly the ridings won’t become so sprawling the change will suddenly make your MP inaccessible. If the boundary shuffle results in a more equitable Parliamentary breakdown and fair representation, it gets our full support.

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Where is our Ultimate Allegiance?At a clergy conference, our presenters spoke of the need to consider where our priorities and allegiances lay. They used the example of the pledge of allegiance recited daily by American school children since the time of the Second World War. A few year ago, an alternative ‘pledge of allegiance’ that could be said by young Christians was proposed. It goes this way: “I pledge allegiance to Jesus Christ, and to God’s kingdom for which he died, one Spirit-led people the world over, indivisible, with love and jus-tice for all.*” Where do our ultimate loyalties lie? (*June Yoder & J. Nelson Kraybill, 2003)

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Mailbag: Feedback on indigenous peoples, the port and next president

Does society even care?

To the Editor,Newfoundland and

Cuba were purged of their original inhabitants.

The US killed off buffalo, declared bounty on Indian scalps and gave them infected blankets.

South Africa taught villagers in their tribal tongue to keep them divided. Sadham Hussein gassed Kurds to silence their oil land claims.

Before USSR invasion of Afghanistan, elderly goat herders were left behind if they couldn’t keep up with the tribe. A Hawaiian tour guide lectured “Only those with ability to store fat, survived island hopping to settle Hawaii. She said Hawaiians accepted missionaries’ unseen entity over their own because the Christian god came with the power of the gun, which their tribe’s king required to subjugate other islands.

Tribal warfare exterminated neighbouring villages or surviving meek were pushed on to ice floes and desert. Might was right too,

in Japan’s rape of Nanking. Are we a vicious species that created a vain, cruel god in our image? Is it vanity to judge others’ creation stories myth?

Will second coming be theocracy dictatorship — ie. no freedom of worship democracy. Does today’s society care for the least of our citizens?

Did Canada’s rulers err, gifting aboriginals a common language of communication, enabling them to use Canadian laws to initiate land claims? Would Haida conquerors have been kinder? If abuse exists in families, police force, and schools, was assimilation a church-state conspiracy?

British gentry paid to send their children to private schools Is Canada the first to compensate First Nations for having attended residential schools?

R. Frankow,Port Alberni

PAPA needs to up its game

To the Editor,I attended the recent

Port Alberni Port Authority (PAPA) AGM recently to listen to any comments they

might have on the proposed coal port designated for Port Alberni.

Much to my surprise, not one word was mentioned about the proposed project during the presentation.

During the question period, I asked if any PAPA staff members had reviewed the now finalized AIR/EIS Guidelines Document for the Raven Coal Mine Project to analyze if the 73 comments/concerns they submitted as part of the drafting had been adequately addressed in the final version.

New PAPA CEO Zoran Knezevic answered, “ I’ll get back to the community on that”.

It’s hard to imagine they could hire a consultant to review the numerous revisions of the draft AIR/EIS document, and submit comments and then, once it’s finalized, not have the foresight to have a consultant or staff review the document and report to the PAPA on the adequacy of the document and whether or not their concerns had been addressed.

In fairness, Mr. Knezevic has only

been on the job for a short time. But with the proposed coal port being such a high profile issue in the community, more attention needs to be focused on the role of the PAPA in the environmental assessment process.

The PAPA involvement needs to be more transpatent, and any PAPA concerns about the project should be made public.

John Snyder , Fanny Bay, B.C.

Chomp at bit about Mitt

To the Editor,The Republican US

presidential candidate hoped that some glitter from the 30th summer olympiad would rub off onto him in London.

He was praised for helping to rescue the Salt Lake Winter Games from age-old olympic-sized corruption a decade ago, but things didn’t quite go the way he had envisioned in UK.

In fact, a series of verbal gaffes resulted in the British Press labeling him “Mitt The Twit”. With only luke-warm support at home, last weekend was chosen to re-ignite his campaign

by announcing his pick for vice president at a Tea Party aboard the moth-balled USS Wisconsin -- named after the home state of the chosen running mate, US Congressman Paul Ryan.

Tea Party favourite Ryan is acknowledged to be further to the right than both Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater, but even he must have been caught off-guard when Mitt Romney introduced him as “The next President of the United States”. Maybe Democratic Party supporters Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks will answer the question : Can Private Ryan save a potential commander-in-chief from shooting himself in his foot more often than toeless George W. Bush ?

Bernie Smith , Parksville, B.C.

Not all in the racing family

To the Editor,With regards to your

story of Dyan Lover (Aug. 9, 2012). John West is not married to or affilliated with Dyan Lover racing in anyway.

John West, Port Alberni, B.C.


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From/ 09Another new

regulation took effect this summer, creating a $525 fine for adults serving minors, on the job, at home or as a bootlegger.

Parents who provide booze for their own under-age children are exempted. Previously, penalties applied only to licensed establishments.

If the issue really is public safety and teen binge drinking, the key job for government is to regulate sales effectively. Once that is done, no justification remains for government liquor sales.

Tom Fletcher is legislative reporter and columnist for Black Press and BCLocalnews.com

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Council approved the lease at Monday evening’s regular meeting, setting the rent at $1,800 per month.

Starboard Grill owner Brad DeClercq may be a chef by trade, but he is currently applying his construction skills as he works feverishly to complete renovations to the site of the former Water’s Edge Bistro.

His initial target opening date was Sept. 1.

But that has now been pushed back to mid-September, to allow him time to obtain a liquor license and complete all of the necessary renovations to the building.

The opening will be too late to catch the bulk of the summer tourist traffic, but DeClercq believes his recipe for success will

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“But with the support and the buzz we are getting, I’m pretty confident.”

DeClercq will be the executive chef of the restaurant and handle many of the administrative duties.

Owning his own restaurant is his dream, and the quay his dream location.

“I’ve had my eye of this building for a long time,” he said, adding the potential of the site has never been fully realized.

He knows previous owners have struggled at the location, but believes in his ability to turn things around.

“I’m not thinking I am going to get rich,” he said.

“I’m in it because this is what I love to do, and I know I can do it well.”

DeClercq has just begun the process of hiring staff for the new restaurant.

He said the business will create 12 to 15 jobs, including cooks and wait staff.

He is planning a soft opening around Sept. 15 for friends and “people who have helped us out along the way.”

Following that will be a staff night to familiarize the crew with the menu and

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He is remodeling the interior of the building to create more dining space, and a modern, open feel.

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Chef Brad DeClercq is working feverishly to get his new restaurant, The Starboard Grill, open by next month. City council approved the lease agreement for the new restaurant at the Harbour Quay on Monday night.

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The city of Port Alberni has reached a $5.75 million agreement-in-principle that will expand its wastewater treatment capacity by three times and secure a key road that will advance plans for a waterfront

industrial truck route.The agreement

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When the deal becomes final, the

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He explained the city will borrow $5.75 million from the Municipal Finance Authority to fund the purchases.

Watson said negotiations to close this extremely important deal have been going on for more than a year, but the city has had its eye on Catalyst’s treatment facility (no longer used by the company) for much longer.

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“This initiative allows the city to address a vital infrastructure requirement and it enables our business to focus on core operations as we exit creditor protection in the near term,” said Catalyst president and CEO Kevin J. Clarke.

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Temperatures of 37 C thinned the crowds at this years Thunder in the Valley but the event had another successful year, Alberni Valley Drag Racing Association President Bill Surry said.

The numbers are still being crunched but the crowds topped out at approximately 4,500 this year, which is down from the 6,500 that attended last year.

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(Formerly Grants-in-Aid)Orientation Workshop

The City of Port Alberni invites local non-profit groups and organizations to attend an Orientation Workshop on the 2013 Community Investment Program. This program replaces the former Grants-in-Aid program. The CIP includes in-kind services and community development grants. The workshop will outline the criteria for applying and program priorities and guidelines. Application forms will be made available at the workshop. The deadline for applying for the CIP is Wednesday, October 5, 2012.

Applications are reviewed by the Community Investment Grant Review Committee. They will make recommendations to City Council for their approval. Decisions for grants to be distributed in 2013 will be made in December 2012.

Please note: that any requests for in kind use of City facilities, equipment or services or for financial contributions to community organizations or events for 2013 are directed through the Community Investment Program.

In order to be eligible to apply for support under the CIP, the organization must have a member attend an Orientation Workshop.

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OUTSIDE SALES REPRESENTATIVE

Cullen Diesel Power Ltd’s Nanaimo branch requires an Outside Salesman for Vancouver Island. Respon-sibilities include planning & making sales calls on existing & new customers, preparing & presenting quotations for parts, service & products. Applicant must have exceptional interper-sonal, communication & planning skills. A good understanding of engines & transmissions is important. Preference will be given to graduates of a post secon-dary sales & marketing program.

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CERTIFIED MILLWRIGHTS needed for growing northern company. Competitive wages and benefi ts. Safety tickets necessary. Fax resume to 250-775-6227 or email: info@torqueindustr ia l .com. Online: www.torqueindustrial.com.

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Tlu-piich Games

Above, a female athlete competes in the freestyle swim heat on Friday at Echo Pool.Left, competitors race for the finish line in the old-timers 100 metre sprint on Thursday at Bob Dailey Stadium.

WAWMEESH G. HAMILTON/ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

Society owns BulldogsWAWMEESH

G. HAMILTONALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

The Alberni Valley Bulldogs are now the property of the Valley-based Port Alberni Junior Hockey Society.

Society officials made the announcement to a crowd of more than 50 at a press conference at the Alberni Valley Multiplex on Friday afternoon.

The non-profit society purchased the

team for $600,000 from the Okanagan Hockey School, the See Group of Companies and Dr. David Ness: $260,000 in cash was put down and $300,000 was financed.

A further $40,000 has yet to be raised. “We’re there but we’re not there yet. We have a ways to go,” society spokesperson Bob Cole said.

The society began its drive to buy the team in April.

At the press conference, director

Darren DeLuca displayed a freshly minted certificate from the BC Hockey League decreeing the sale at the conference.

The Bulldogs join the Trail Smoke Eaters, Powell River Kings, Merrit Centennials and Prince George Spruce Kings as the only teams to be run as locally-owned societies in the 16-team league.

The society designation gives the team tools that

it never had before. “We’ll be able to have different fundraising projects and maybe look at getting one-time grants,” Cole later said.

“The society won’t just benefit the team. We can apply for other big tournaments and it could benefit things like Valley minor hockey.”

Former owners Dennis See and Andy Oakes will remain as advisors to the new [email protected]


Alberni’s Kyle Gardner, above, gets big air during his turn on Saturday. Gardner and others were competing in the 2012 Wakeboard/Wakeskate championships, which were held at Sproat Lake last weekend.


Alberni’s Carter Elder, above, performs a jump at the 2012 Wakeboard/Wakeskate Championship. Below, local Jaimey Put goes through her paces.


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Cross is thedivision champ

The 18-hole ladies division championship was finalized this week by their third game total.

Pat Nicklin’s stellar game just wasn’t quite enough to beat out Janice Cross’s consistant good play so Cross takes it with a three game total of 264.

Second low gross goes to Carol Bouchard with Patsy Gauthier taking third spot with her score of 281.

Nicklin is the low net winner with a score of 200. Sandra Simpson takes second place in the low net with 215 while Carol Hastings with her score of 223 places third low net.

In the senior division, we find Bouchard (276 strokes) in first low gross position. Anna Marie Krikke (281 strokes) in second and Gayle Rhodes (211) in third.

Low net seniors are Sandra Simpson (215) in first place, Marie Randal (222) in second and Hastings (223) in third. It was a tight very competative competition.

Nicklin’s score of 87 was the score to beat today giving her the low gross honours. Low net went to Linda Christian.

The fun part of the game was the ball sweep which gave a new ball to the member who sunk the longest putt. On hole No. 6 for the under 26 handicappers it was Patsy Gauthier who’s steady hand and good eye took the prize. Shannon Haggard had it for the high handicappers sinking hers on hole No. 17.

Everything seems to happen at once on the course. It was also the day to determine the qualifiers for the handicap cup. The final round for this competition must be played by Sept. 16. The line-up will be posted in the ladies lounge for those that qualified.

The “B” Team will be having a home game on the Sept. 23 and needs more players. Contact Carol Bouchard if you can come out and play.

The “C” Team will be playing at Arrowsmith on Sept. 24.

Solheim Cup players will be on deck this Friday (17th) here at home. Format will be a Stableford with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun start.

Any questions? Call Shirley Goodman.

The Zone 6 - four ball net was held at Morningstar over the weekend.

The Alberni team of Sandra Simpson and Olga Kanigan placed third low net. Kudos to them.

JOAN THOMPSON

Pitch n’ Putt

Shining the light on night golf

Putting together a successful night golf event is about as difficult as it is for the golfer’s to pull each shot off in the dark of night.

Night golf is an event played in darkness with spaced lights illuminating each fairway and on the green to help guide the players golfing during the evening.

A real transparent golf ball is used, one with an empty chamber which houses a tube emitting a flourescent light which makes the ball visible clearly in the dark when hit.

To begin, local personal physical trainer and member, Neil Shipley and I

put stakes in each fairway which would later support the lights. We aligned them in straight lines to offer visual runway appearances in the darkest part of night.

Later, before dark, Alex of Port Boat House and I hastily took the plastic tubes with the chemical lights and attached them to the stakes as well as the flagsticks and bridges. These provide the directional lighting needed.

Once we moved all the sponsorship signs and waste bins in place, it was time for the golfers to feel their way out onto the golf course and begin play. To see the golfer’s decked out in their colorful lights and their golf ball’s blazing the night skyline is an experience in itself. You know it is night

golf just by hearing the regular and traditional vocal yells and whoops from all the golfers throughout the evening.

In the early morning, the golf and when the participants are snoozing away, Ralph Bouwman and I spend nearly two hours to return all the equipment and clean up the numerous beverage containers, sunglasses, and miscellaneous items left littering the golf course.

Night golf is a brand of the game that should not be missed if you are a true golfer.

Yes, the ball does not go as far and the hand-eye coordination required to strike a ball are challenges, but it is too much fun and should be tried.

While it wasn’t Night golf, Ken Moore claimed men’s night

as his time and his alone, several nights previously. Not only did Moore take the Home Hardware low gross with a two over par 32, but he took the $225.00 jackpot for his deuce on hole No. 8 as well as the blindfolded putting competition later in the evening. Moore was one better than Big “O” Tires Denis Debolt, while the Hollies’ Larry Gavelin took the

Port Alberni Pizza Factory’s low net of the night, one better than Richard Allen.

Joining Moore were: Jason Pley, Warren Longeuay, Trevor Cripps, Larry Gavelin, Robin Woodward, Richard Hewitt, and Scott Fuller for the K.P. prizes.

The Ty Watson House has nearly $1,700 in their fund, while Hole No. 3 will be worth $195.

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Mary Primeau with her family at the Annual Family Fun Day in the Park. She will be celebrat-ing her 90th birthday in November.

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LEFT: Brenden Lambert, 7, and his brother Austin, 11, had a lot of fun when Jake Heid took them for a spin in this heritage fire truck last Friday night at the train station.

Brent Murray of Parksville brought “Damn Yankee” to Boston Pizza on Friday night. He regularly races in Washington in the funny car devision. He ran it in the Thunder in the Valley race this past week-end. Top speed is 203 mph.

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“Thoughts of Light and Shade”, is the title of the Rollin Art Centre’s art exhibit featuring local photographer, Jim Swift.

This is a great show, very unique in its hanging. With all proceeds from the sale of Jim’s black & white prints will be donated to Doctors without Borders (MSF).

And all proceeds from the sale of the Pot Luck Impressions prints will be going to Pot Luck Ceramics.

Jim’s Meet and Greet will be Saturday Aug. 18 from 1-3 p.m. This photographic exhibit starts August 17 and runs until September 17.

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This program is geared especially for children ages 5 to 8 years old.

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The market runs until Aug. 25 our last one. If you are interest in renting a table please call Melissa for more info at 250-724-3412.

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Friday Aug. 17 at 8 p.m., at Char’s landing. Tix: adults $15, seniors $12 and kids 12 and under are free.

The Rollin Art Centre is located at the corner of Eighth Avenue and Argyle Street. The gallery is wheelchair accessible and admission is by donation.

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Our Town Kites on the Quay

Above, A game of pick-up hockey was played on the new breakwater by Harbour Quay as part of the Our Town celebrations.Right: a youngster puts her special touch on a kite before flying it at Harbour Quay.Kites on the Quay was the final installment of Our Town for the season.


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3716 17th Ave $212,000Great Family Home

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(SOLD)3876 10th Ave $209,900

Updated Rancher• Wheelchair friendly• Extensively renovated• 2 bedroom & 1 bathroom• Garage off lane

2551 9th Ave. $179,900Starter Rancher?

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4227 Arrowsmith St. $94,900Tremendous Value

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5213 Gertrude St. $147,500Move In Ready

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4930 Glenside Rd $224,900Perfect For Retirement

• North Port rancher• 24 years new• 2 bedroom & 2 bathroom• Attached garage/workshop

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4817 Margaret St $109,900• $518/ month mortgage• 5% down payment• 5 year term at 3.24%• 25 year amortization

2457 Hilton Ave $139,900• $646/ month mortgage• 5% down payment• 5 year term at 3.24%• 25 year amortization

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$176,900

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19130 Pacific Rim Hwy $424,900Sproat Lake Waterfront

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298 Binnacle Rd $189,900Perfect Package

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Alberni Valley News, August 16, 2012

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