Alberni Valley News, March 27, 2014

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◆ MARCH 27 Oceans Network Canada, operators of NEPTUNE, which originates at the ONC shore station in Port Alberni, will host a private workshop on tsunamis with scientists from around the world.

◆ MARCH 27, 7 P.M. in the ADSS Auditorium, ACRD Emergency Program and Emergency Management BC host a public presentation on the science of tsunamis; a museum photo display; skits on tsunami responses in 1964 and 2014.

◆ MARCH 28 (MORNING) City and ACRD staff responsible for managing a disaster will participate in an emergency exercise.

◆ MARCH 28, 1–4 P.M. there will be an open house at the Maritime Discovery Centre’s Hutcheson Gallery, where the tsunami exhibit is presently located. Survivors from the 1964 tsunami will be on hand to share their experiences. The high water mark will be indicated on the clock tower at Harbour Quay. A permanent monument for the tsunami will also be announced.

QUICKfacts 50 years later

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JAN JANSMA/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

Cars and cabins are pushed above the high water mark at the Riverside Auto Court on River Road the day after a tsunami came roaring up the Alberni Inlet on Good Friday, March 27, 1964.

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Tsunami!Disaster strikes in the middle of the night on March 27, 1964

Alberni Tsunami50 years later

SHAYNE MORROWSPECIAL TO THE NEWS

For residents and workers in the low-lying areas of the twin cities of Alberni and Port Alberni, the Good Friday 1964

Tsunami began quietly with logs piling up in the Somass Estuary.

Alberni city manager Jim Sawyer was at home when he received a phone call late in the evening from work superintendent Bob Waugh.

“He said he’d been called in to clear up some of the debris that was flooding up onto River Road. He didn’t know what it was, but we thought it might be a tidal wave,” Sawyer said.

With a potential emergency situation developing, he went to Alberni City Hall, at the foot of Johnston Road, and lit up the city’s two-way radio system.

Simon and Yvette Gaetz lived close by on Margaret Street, virtually on the banks of the Somass. At the time, Yvette was nine months pregnant with her son, Wayne.

“My sister had been visiting, and she was just leaving at around midnight, and the water came up to the first step,” Yvette said.

When Simon saw the initial flooding, he realized it was somehow connected to the Anchorage quake.

“I was just coming home from work. I was on maintenance at Somass [Division], and I got off at 12,” Simon said.

“He came home and said, ‘There’s a tidal wave,’” Yvette said. “But we didn’t know what a tidal wave was.”

George Smith was working on the second floor of the nearby

paper mill. He and his coworkers had noticed logs floating upriver earlier, but hadn’t been alarmed to that point. That all changed when the second surge struck at about 1 a.m.

“I was in the washroom and tried to flush the toilet. That was just when the waterline broke,” he said.

A mass of logs and debris

had ripped out the Sproat Lake waterline and tore out the walls of the Port Alberni sewage lagoons just across the river, releasing a mass of sewage into the floodwaters.

“I ran out of the washroom and the whole place was in a panic. At the time, the mill had seven boilers: four generators and three recovery boilers, and

they all got their water from that waterline. They had to do an emergency shutdown.”

At city hall, Sawyer heard the rush of water and went outside to look.

“I just stepped out the front door when I heard all the boilers shutting down. Then everything went dark.”

After the shrieking of the boilers died down, the only sound was of logs crashing together in the darkness.

At the same time, Yvette found herself waist-deep in sludge, with her three children floating on a mattress. Simon and Yvette’s younger brother were unable to open the front door, so the only escape was up. They popped the ceiling hatch into the attic and lifted first the children, then the very-pregnant Yvette to safety.

“We just stayed up there and prayed that the house wouldn’t get swept away,” Yvette said.

At the paper mill, the employees were not allowed to leave until daylight. They stumbled into an apocalyptic landscape of broken buildings, logs, lumber and especially, crushed and upended automobiles.

Jan Jansma, who had also been working at Somass Division, captured many of those enduring images, in living colour. When the first major surge knocked out the power, he and his co-workers on the No. 5 drop-sort simply went home. Had they remained 20 minutes longer, they likely would have been swept to their deaths in the second surge.

“I was at home in Beaver Creek, listening to the radio reports [on CJAV], when the station went off the air. The next morning, I turned on CKNW in Vancouver and found out what had happened.”

Continued / A4

‘He came home and said, ‘There’s a tidal wave.’ But we didn’t know what a tidal

wave was.’– Yvette Gaetz

JAN JANSMA/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

The powerful wave forced homes off their foundations, and deposited cars in strange places, above. The harbour in front of Alberni Plywood, left, was littered with logs escaped from numerous booms up and down the Alberni Inlet. Jan Jansma spent two days after the tsunami documenting much of the destruction; his photos have become icons of the wave.

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From / A3Knowing there had been

major damage all over the Valley, Jansma grabbed his camera and four rolls of Ektachrome colour slide film. Over the next two days, he captured a series of images that have become synonymous with the Good Friday Tsunami: the house that appears to have pulled up to the gas pumps at the Beaver Creek and River Road B/A station; the demolished Auto

Court; stacks of lumber strewn like toothpicks in the Somass Division yard; thousands of loose logs floating in the harbour, seen from above the Plywood mill.

The slide film had to be mailed out to Kodak for processing, so it took a few days before anybody got a look at them. But in the 50 years since the tsunami, they have become the most-recognizable images of the disaster.

Jansma doesn’t know how many news organizations used his pictures and he never received a dime for his work, but says he has no regrets.

“That’s history,” he shrugged. “I eventually gave the whole works to the [Alberni Valley] Museum, and told them ‘You can do what you want with them.’ They put them all on a disk.”

What does bother him is when they run without

a photo credit, which sometimes happens, he added.

Smith said there were so many cars damaged in the flooding, many owners took unusual measures to get them running again, such as dunking them in Sproat Lake to rinse out the salt water.

“There was a stigma for a number of years about buying a car from Port Alberni. I got mine running, but two weeks later, it blew

up,” Smith said.It was also two weeks

later that Yvette and Simon’s son Wayne was born. Even after an extensive cleanup, it took two years to sell the Margaret Street home. The couple moved to higher elevation on Grandview Road, where they lived for 22 years before moving to Golden Street.

“We were going to go far enough that the water wasn’t going to get us.”

Alberni Tsunami50 years later

Jansma’s historic photographs endure 50 years

Family unaware tsunami hit town

The tsunami that hit Port Alberni on Good Friday in March 1964 came as a real surprise to the Drinkwater family.

Daughter Sonja Drinkwater, now a sales associate with the Alberni Valley News, recalls that night:

“I remember that the night the tsunami hit my parents and I were at my uncle’s house out in Beaver Creek. We always had music at family gatherings and all of a sudden the wall in the house moved and the record skipped.

“That was that.”“Then on the

way home we took Compton Road and my mom said ‘that’s funny, the road is wet but it didn’t rain.’

“It wasn’t until the next day that we found out about the tsunami.”

The Drinkwaters’ trek into Beaver Creek would turn out to be a stroke of luck for the owner of Chatwin Motors, located at the bottom of Johnston Road. The family had borrowed a car earlier that day to test it out, and had driven to Beaver Creek in the vehicle.

“It was the only vehicle at the dealership that survived the tsunami,”Sonja Drinkwater said.

City acts on lessons learnedSHAYNE MORROWSPECIAL TO THE NEWS

In the summer of 1964, the Provincial Emergency Program published an extensive report on the Port Alberni Tsunami in its Civil Defence Circular.

The circular provided a chronology of the events leading up to the tsunami, the destruction it caused and the remarkably effective response by a disparate and uncoordinated team of emergency personnel, civil authorities, social services, citizens, local businesses and government agencies. The report made a series of recommendations to improve emergency response and to beef up building codes. Notably, the report also recommended the creation of a “loud and distinctive” Civil Disaster warning system.

“Since then, everybody has done something,” city engineer Guy Cicon said. “The regional district has built an Emergency Operations Centre, there have been improvements to emergency social services, the fire department and at the radio station.”

Former Alberni city manager Jim Sawyer said the catastrophic damage to homes and buildings along the south side of River Road led the province to prohibit any further development there. The now-demolished Clutesi Haven Marina building, originally a machine shop, did survive. Everything else was either washed away or demolished by Canadian Army engineers.

“That meant the city had to acquire the properties and we had to raise the road bed on River Road,” Sawyer said.

Much of the work was needed for flood control in any case. Over the years, the dike system was extended to protect Kitsuksis and Lugrin Creeks, and the Margaret Street pumping station was installed to pump storm and floodwater across the river to the repaired sewage lagoons.

“The province also began to go through historic records

of tides and tsunamis, and they discovered that the 1960 earthquake in Chile had also caused a tidal surge in Alberni Inlet,” Sawyer said. That led the province to call for stiffer building codes in inundation zones.

But that program shifted when computer modeling revealed that a major earthquake right offshore could cause a tsunami far greater than in 1964, according to city manager Ken Watson.

“The potential height was so high there was no way we could build strong enough

to withstand it,” Watson said. “Now the focus is to get the people out rather than worrying about their houses.”

Watson said he was horrified when, shortly after he arrived in Port Alberni to take over as city engineer in 1986, there was a tsunami alert for the Alberni Inlet.

“There were people going down to the waterfront to watch it come in,” he said. “A tsunami is something to go away from, not go to watch it.”

Working with then-fire chief Pete Geddes, the city finally installed the now familiar tsunami warning system in the early 1990s.

In recent years, the city has enacted a Flood Plain Bylaw to regulate development in the inundation zone, as well as posting visible signage of flood zones and evacuation routes.

Recently, the city undertook a public education campaign, with city staff visiting homes to deliver information packages on what to do in the event of an impending tsunami.

They found an enthusiastic audience in survivors Simon and Yvette Gaetz, who now live on Golden Street. “We each have a survival kit right by the front door,” Yvette said, flashing the ‘HELP’ and ‘OK’ signs from the city package. “We live well above the high water mark, but this is a dead-end street, so if there’s a tsunami on the way, we’re getting out of here.”

SHAYNE MORROW/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS

Yvette and Simon Gaetz and their son Wayne, right, who was born two weeks after the 1964 tsunami, take tsunami preparedness seriously.

WAWMEESH G. HAMILTON/ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

Port Alberni fire Chief Tim Pley displays a piece of the tsunami warning system.

Sirens usedfor real

For Port Alberni residents, the most noticeable reminder of the 1964 disaster takes place at 1 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month. The message blares from speakers poised high above the ground at a series of strategic locations:

“This is a test… only a test… of the tsunami warning system.”

In theory, the system is meant to broadcast a series of levels of alert, from Tsunami Advisory to evacuation order, as information comes in to the Emergency Operations Centre at Fourth Avenue and Angus Street.

But on the evening of June 14, 2005, when a Magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck off the coast of California, less than an hour away as the tsunami travels, fire chief Larry McGifford was forced to make a snap decision.

At 9:01 p.m., the tsunami warning system blared out its pre-programmed message: “Tsunami warning! Tsunami warning! Evacuate to higher ground!”

The alert caused a brief panic, especially in the low-lying areas of the city as people fled their homes and followed evacuation routes to higher ground. CJAV news man Rob Diotte left a school board meeting in progress and took over manual control of the radio station. With an update from the EOC, he broadcast the stand-down order at 9:20 and the warning system broadcast the All Clear.

It was a false alarm. But the system worked as intended.

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City plans fine increaseWAWMEESH

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Port Alberni drivers could be paying more for parking fines if all goes according to plan.

Councillors voted to amend the city’s Traffic Regulation bylaw to increase parking fines at their March 24 meeting. They also voted to begin a public process to inform citizens about the plan.

Councillors voted to recommend that parking fines be increased to $10 if paid within 48 hours; $20 if paid after 48 hours; and $50 if paid

after 10 days.For other parking

infractions, the fine will be $15 if paid within 48 hours; $25 if paid after 48 hours; and $60 if paid after 10 days.

A report from city planner Scott Smith noted that Port Alberni’s traffic fines are the lowest of any on the Island. Fines are $5 if ticket is paid within 48 hours. Other traffic fines are $10 if paid within 48 hours.

The average traffic fine from a sampling of other communities is $26, Smith said.

In comparison, based on fines paid within 30 days Comox levies the

heftiest fines at $50; Parksville’s are next at $37.50; Qualicum Beach is $25 and Nanaimo’s is $22.50.

Port Alberni’s parking fine structure doesn’t exactly dissuade violators, Smith noted. “A $5 parking ticket for parking over the time limit is not a significant deterrent.”

The matter was suggested to councillors by members of the public during the budget as a source of revenue, Coun. Hira Chopra said. “If we want it higher then do it now,” he [email protected]

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An apology from Mayor John Douglas wasn’t enough to persuade his council to reconsider letting him go to Ottawa.

Councillors had already turned down Douglas’s motion two weeks ago to allow him to go spend an extra $1,000 to go to Ottawa and lobby federal ministers while attending the Federation of Canadian Municipalities meeting in June.

On Monday, Douglas brought forward another motion asking council to reconsider. The second vote ended in a tie and therefore was defeated. Councillor Jack McLeman was absent.

“Do I feel affronted? I don’t know that I’d say that,” Douglas said after the meeting.

“The council has made a judgment call in what they feel is in the best interest of the community and we’ve moved on.”

Earlier, Douglas apologized for his part in a confrontation that occurred between him and councillors on March 10 when he first made the request.

“There can be occasions when personal feelings get in the way of what is best for the community,” Douglas said. “This can come about because of our own strong passions for Port Alberni...”

Douglas fleshed out his most recent request in a bid to clarify his proposed visit to Ottawa.

He said in meetings with senior officials he wanted to discuss such issues as the Roger Creek second crossing, city infrastructure upgrades, the waterfront industrial

road and a new aquatic centre.

The list is too broad and it tries to do too many things at once, Coun. Cindy Solda said after the meeting. “We need a specific agenda, a specific list of doable projects and a very specific plan.”

As well, instead of going it alone the right approach is to leverage the influence larger lobbying bodies such as the Union of BC Municipalities and Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities, Solda said.

“There’s strength in numbers and working through them might produce better results.”

Councillor’s aren’t against sending Douglas anywhere, Solda said. Earlier, they voted in favour of sending Douglas to Vancouver for a civic governance conference in April.

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School board changes mind over closuresWAWMEESH


School District 70 trustees have hit the re-set button and started the school closure and reconfiguration process again.

Trustees voted unanimously on Tuesday to rescind the motion that was made on March 11 that would have seen Gill Elementary close, Eighth Avenue repurposed (to house VAST), Wood Elementary remain open and all other schools retain their current configurations.

Instead, school board chair Larry Ransom clarified, no schools will be closed

or re-configured in 2014.

“Staff failed to provide us with timely information that we required. And the board failed to ask the right questions,” Ransom said. “The public bears the brunt of it.”

Staff will work on a new process. As well, they will be looking at enrolment numbers in the fall. And they will be updating the district’s school closure policy.

The district’s goal was to minimize disruption, “and everyone knows where their kids will be going to school,”

in September, SD70 superintendent Cam Pinkerton said.

Trustees consulted with a lawyer who pointed out that there were problems with the March 11 motion.

After the meeting, Ransom

clarified that one of the problems was procedural.

A closure and reconfiguration requires a bylaw and the board was operating on the premise of a motion. As well, the board was operating according to SD70 closure procedures from 2002, when it last closed schools. The

Ministry of Education updated its closure procedure in 2008; the old district policy was incongruent with the new provincial policy and therefore invalid.

And there was also a problem with closure scenarios that were fronted during the public process last February, Ransom said. “The public wasn’t offered enough scenarios in advance. There should have been more scenarios

presented.”The district’s budget

process must be concluded by May 31, and the district must present a balanced budget—school boards in B.C. are not permitted to run with deficit budgets.

Pinkerton has said repeatedly that the district must cut $800,000 this year in order to balance the budget. He said as well that services and staffing levels couldn’t

be cut any further than they have been.

Pinkerton has also said the district has a funding protection cushion from the provincial government due to its declining enrolment, but not for much longer.

“Staff has assured me that the budget will be balanced this year,” Ransom said. “We can’t say yet how that will impact services and staffing.”[email protected]

WAWMEESHG. HAMILTON

ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

Port Alberni homeowners will be paying approximately two per cent more in residential tax this year.

City councillors passed three readings to the 2014-2018 five-year financial plan bylaw at their March 24 meeting. After the dust settles, residential taxpayers will see a two per cent increase to their municipal taxes this year—$37 on an average priced home of $187,000.

The budget has previously been referred to as an election year budget, and several projects were moved to 2015.

Homeowners are projected to see a 15 per cent, or $2.5 million increase in taxes in 2015 resulting from off-loading projects to next year. Among the deferred projects are $4 million for a waterfront road; $250,000 upgrade to the Harbour Quay clock tower; $150,000 for a telephone upgrade; and $500,000 for the development of Canal Beach.

“Don’t have a heart attack when you see the other figures,” Coun. Cindy Solda said. “We revisit this every year.”

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Council must all get along: ColeWAWMEESH


Port Alberni city councillor Rob Cole has broken the silence about the acrimony between council and Mayor John Douglas.

In a written notice circulated to local media, Coun. Rob Cole said leadership and team work—or lack of it—underpin the acrimony between Douglas and council.

“I have not seen any effort to correct or show a willingness to cooperate with council,” noted Cole, who added that the accusation applies to council conversations

about ideas or project directions. “This at times has included meetings and public discussion with direct action controversial to the direction approved by council.”

After the meeting, Cole used the issue of council voting down $500,000 in Canal Beach improvements without a plan. “We made a decision as a council and he didn’t honour it,” Cole said. “Instead, he went to the media afterward and slammed our decision.”

Each councillor

has had issues that they didn’t get support for. “But when council makes a decision then that is the decision and we respect it and move forward,” Cole said.

“The mayor is the face and voice of the community yet he is the first not to follow that.”

Cole doesn’t dispute that council members have their own opinions about matters. But support for council direction must be unanimous once it is given. “This is fundamental to

having a functional, operating city and greater community,” Cole said.

Cole said that he wasn’t prepared to get into specifics when asked about it at a previous council meeting. “But I feel it’s is important to now clarify what the issue is here.”

Cole didn’t spare fellow councillors in his rebuke of Douglas, saying that they need to put aside self interest for the greater good of the community. “Look at some of the comments in the media and they’re calculated; their election campaign started

already.”Douglas was

ambivalent about Cole’s reproach of him. “I don’t want to get into the bickering back and forth between council,” Douglas said.

Douglas said he’s tried to get council to work as a team and accept decisions, like the one about him being mayor.

Regarding Canal Beach: “The media came to me and asked my opinion and I gave it,” he said. “I don’t know why councillor Cole is bringing this up because it’s a done issue.”

Douglas said Cole ran his written

submission by him at the last minute, and that he hasn’t had a chance to study it in depth. “But I’m puzzled why he chose to write a scripted submission instead

of coming to me in person and telling me what was on his mind.”

There’s nothing to be accomplished by discussing the matter further, Douglas said.

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Trip to Ottawa still off table for mayorFrom / A6

The cost of the trip will be reimbursed by CUPE BC.

The $1,000 isn’t a good investment, said Coun. Hira Chopra, who also voted no. “For me it’s business – what are we getting back in return for that $1,000?” he said. “I don’t think he’d accomplish much on his own so I don’t think it’s a wise spending decision.”

Coun. Wendy Kerr disagreed with Chopra, saying that Port Alberni can get lost in the shuffle of larger bodies. “I supported the motion because I think he should be given the opportunity to go to Ottawa and speak for the people of Port Alberni,” she said. “A thousand dollars isn’t much when you think about it.”

Audience member

Neil Anderson spoke during the public input period and asked councillors

to support Douglas’ bid to go to Ottawa. Three letters in council’s agenda also

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V ICTORIA – The B.C. NDP leadership contest is officially

underway, with the entry of Vancouver Island veteran John Horgan in a reluctant reprise of his 2011 run against Port Coquitlam MLA Mike Farnworth.

Unfortunately for them, weekend campaign events were overshadowed by revelations of flagrant abuse of taxpayers’ money by the executive and board of the Portland Hotel Society. A pair of audits finally released last week on this network of Downtown Eastside social agencies revealed systematic looting of the $28 million a year in taxpayers’ money that has kept this supposed charity running.

Alas for the NDP, local MLA Jenny Kwan not only failed to keep an eye on it, her recently separated husband was one of the

executives who took part for years, and she benefited to the tune of $35,000 in luxury travel. That’s what we know about, since much of the evidence wasn’t produced for the auditors.

When this Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous scheme finally came to light, Kwan hastily paid back the $35,000 and announced she’s taking an unpaid leave of absence. Her tearful claim that she believed nothing was wrong is simply not credible. She not only must have known of her husband Dan Small’s jet-set ways, she participated in at least two trips, one to Vienna and Bristol, England to do “research” and attend a poverty conference from high-end hotels.

If it wants to retain any shred of credibility as it spouts misleading poverty statistics and simplistic

solutions, the party must get rid of Kwan, who has two years left to max out her MLA pension.

MLA pensions were a factor in the 2010 ouster of Carol James, who infuriated the old guard by trying to defuse a public backlash against a generous pay and benefits package worked out

in private between the NDP and the B.C. Liberals. Kwan would later take a leading role in the caucus revolt that forced James out as leader.

Long-time political watchers

will see the PHS abuse as a bigger, uglier version of the Nanaimo Commonwealth Holdings Society scandal. There the siphoning off of bingo funds from charities cost Mike Harcourt his job as premier. In that case, NDP MLAs sat on the board, took their monthly cut and kept quiet.

There’s more. Horgan

became enraged last year at the reporter who took a tip from the B.C. Liberals to reveal the NDP was skimming constituency office budgets to pay for its own “ethnic outreach” operation in Vancouver. Horgan had rubber-stamped the plan with a since-dismissed legislature accountant, and thought he had kept it secret after the Auditor-General blew the whistle. His willingness to assess its ethics remains in question to this day.

Then there is Craig Keating, who took over as party president from Moe Sihota last year. Did he inherit the $72,000 salary negotiated by Sihota with the B.C. Federation of Labour and two of its largest unions? If so, do Horgan and Farnworth think this is appropriate?

Will the party’s joined-at-the-hip relationship with unions even be discussed in the carefully staged leadership contest that’s about to begin?

Then there’s the policy shipwreck left behind by Adrian Dix.

Continued / A9

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BC NDP party’s survival is on the line

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EDITORIAL

Wave of future from tsunami

This week marks 50 years since the great tsunami surged up the Alberni Inlet and left behind damaged homes and cars, a mess of logs in the harbour and a new awareness and respect for the power of the sea.

Fifty years ago, people were taken aback by the devastation along the

waterfront when they woke up on Good Friday, March 1964. Since then, municipal governments have worked hard to ensure that word will get out as fast as possible in the event of a tsunami. The tsunami warning system, which blares its

test the first Wednesday afternoon of each month, is the most visible change in the past 50 years.

So much more has gone on.As with the development of

earthquake awareness on the West Coast, so too has awareness for tsunami safety increased.

But there is room for improvement. It is too easy to become complacent with numerous tsunami advisories or warnings, but no immediate danger. Education and awareness of what to do in the event of a tsunami must continue.

Now, if only we can convince people that when the sirens go for real, they are supposed to head for higher ground—not down to Harbour Quay to ‘watch the water come in’.

Perhaps seeing the high water mark affixed indelibly on the Clock Tower will be a good reminder of what sort of folly that would be.

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Port Alberni’s No. 1 to us

To the Editor,We had a recent

shock here in Port Alberni, quite unlike the one that occurred 50 years ago when the great tsunami entered our inlet, destroying many homes and businesses, yet sparing all lives.

The shock this time didn’t originate off the coast of Alaska; instead, a different sort of jolt came from an article in MoneySense magazine.

The article used statistics — housing prices, income levels, unemployment ranks, inaccurate population numbers, etc. — to rank us as 201st for liveability in a list of 201 cities. The statistics included communities outside of Port Alberni, some as far as three hours away, hence the population inaccuracies.

Since the article was published, many members of our community have been hit with countless e-mails, phone calls and conversations wondering how anyone could conjure up such nonsense.

The report is inaccurate. Yes, some of the statistics are

valid; for example, we do have some of the most affordable housing in western Canada. And yes, our average property taxes are less than $1,250 per year, yet we have a new $60-million high school that ranks as one of the best, not only in B.C., but in Canada.

We have a modern, full-facility hospital, along with several care homes and a well-respected hospice. We have live music and theatre, and numerous sporting facilities.

Port Alberni, through an incredible volunteer base, has hosted the B.C. Summer Games, B.C. Winter Games, B.C. Special Olympics and B.C. Senior Games. Not long ago, we invited the world by hosting the U17 hockey challenge. We host many tournaments and other events

We invite the writer from MoneySense, or anyone else, to come see what we offer.

They can meet long-time residents who love this valley and who have never left, or those who have left, but have returned to their paradise.

We welcome the opportunity to share Port Alberni.

To those of us who

live here, Port Alberni is at the top of the list for the culture, lifestyle, affordability, environment and opportunities.

Bill Collette,executive director,

Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce

Negativity shortsighted

To the Editor,Re: LNG nothing but

pipe dream, Letters, Mar. 13.

I see that it is getting closer to spring. Mr. Berg is informing everyone of how dumb the people are trying to bring work into the Alberni Valley. It must be nice to be so smart that one is an expert on every subject.

Me, I am not so smart. For years now I have written to this paper about many of the businesses that I believe would have a long-term effect on the Valley in regards for jobs for our youth. As a Christian, I believe that everyone should be allow to express their views.

Sometimes I come across with strong opinions. But I am not a man to sit back from a safe place and dictate who should do what. Since moving here from Ontario

eight years ago I have noticed how business is treated in this province.

I myself have invented a new battery that is in patent protection and I have been informed that I can expect a possible patent, but that it could take two years. Since then I applied for a second patent and it is now protected, but the same timeline applies.

What does this mean for me? I could sell the patents and live a very nice life, if I was built that way. But I am not.

I am so tired of our youth leaving home to find work elsewhere. I may be “new” to this valley but if we allow this to continue, in less then 10 years this valley will be dead as a place to make any kind of a life.

For the past year I have been meeting with and trying to meet with people who have the means to change things; some with success, others from whom I received a “nice of you to ask, but get lost.”

If Mr. Berg is happy with how things are going, he can keep the blinders on. But he is not going to stop people like me because we are made of iron where I come

from—not trees.It will not be for lack

of trying that I will not succeed in producing jobs that have a future for our youth.

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Beach or no beach?

To the Editor,I was shocked and

dismayed to read about the Canal Beach controversy. It was such a positive step to establish a green space down the canal, where we could swim, and launch small boats —the first such effort in 50 years, according to some statistics I heard.

I proudly took all my out-of-town visitors there. Some called it “pathetic”, but I pointed out that it was a project in progress.

I’m afraid that the mayor has a point: If the work is not completed now, the beach might go away.

I belong to a group of those undesirable “newcomers”, who settled here for the natural beauty. Wonderful things have happened in the seven years I have lived here, especially in the art scene. That can’t be said about the waterfront.

Rayana Erland,Port Alberni

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The NDP is accusing the provincial government of handing over control of B.C.’s blue box recycling system to Toronto-based multinational executives who will be unaccountable while B.C. businesses and households pay higher costs.

Opposition small business critic Lana Popham raised the issue of Multi Material BC in the Legislature Monday, calling on the province to change course before the agency’s new system for recycling packaging and printed paper takes effect May 19.

“If government doesn’t take a step back, B.C.’s recycling system is going to end up in a giant dumpster,” Popham said.

“The control of recycling should never have been outsourced to the large corporate interests based in Ontario and abroad. This is a profound failure. This program needs to be paused and the entire concept reconsidered.”

Popham’s comments follow the launch earlier this month of a campaign against MMBC by a coalition of business groups, including the

newspaper industry, who say they can’t afford to pay high fees imposed under the new system.

“The Liberal government loves to claim they’re getting rid of red tape,” she said in an interview Monday. “So it’s quite ironic because MMBC is a Godzilla-sized red tape monster.”

Although MMBC is registered as a society, Popham called it a “dummy corporation”

because two of its three directors are Toronto-based senior executives with Loblaws and Unilever, while the third is MMBC managing director Allan Langdon.

The Saanich South NDP MLA said the province should force MMBC to give B.C. stakeholders majority control.

Popham said the MMBC system will be “dangerously close to monopoly” resulting in less competititon and innovation in recycling.

She also said

municipalities have been pressured into signing contracts with inadequate compensation for their costs, the threat of penalties for contamination and a gag clause.

MMBC’s new recycling fees on businesses will be passed along to consumers through higher prices, Popham said, calling it a “hidden tax” that won’t be transparent to consumers. Cities are unlikely to rebate property taxes that households already pay for recycling.

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Driveway readers are in the mood to splash out an astonishing $3.6 billion-plus of their hard-earned cash to buy new vehicles this year.This is not some wild, optimistic pre-diction but a solid

forecast based on what our readers revealed in a comprehensive survey conducted on behalf of Black Press by Pulse Research, a company with 30 years of experience in asking the right questions of consumers. In a series of wide-ranging interviews, Black Press newspaper readers from all over the province gave Pulse a comprehensive account of their spending plans. Their intention to spend $53.1 million on fish and chips, $45.8 million on tooth whitening, $13.1 million on tattoos or piercing, $9.1 million on pet toys and $1.9 million on tuxedos, raised some smiles.But the auto spending intent grabbed our seri-ous attention. A massive 123,275 households will take vehicles for a spin and sign on the dotted line. A massive 51,895 will park a new car on their driveway, 32,312 will house a sport ute in their garage, while another 28,395 will opt for a truck out front. Most people surveyed knew what kind of wheels they would be look-ing for and what they were prepared to pay.

The sticker price range for most folks is $25-$30,000. However, premium car sellers will be pleased that 13,708 plan to spend an average of $45,000 on one of their products. Another 7,883 will shell out an average of $64,413 for refined vehicles in the $50-$75,000 price range. In addition, 2,937 more will spend an average of $82,448 on luxury marques. An eco-conscious 11,750 house-holds will fork out more than $30 grand for a hybrid or electric vehicle. Utilitarian minivans top the shopping list at 9,791 homes, with budgets a shade under $30,000.We even discovered that readers would spend another $2 billion on car servicing, preventive maintenance, oil changes and after-market products. Good news for used car sales: 105,750 households are prepared to spend $1.69 billion on pre-owned, nearly new, or whatever the cur-rent parlance is for second-hand vehicles as they used to be called!Last week, Blair Qualey, the president of the New Car Dealers Association of BC, talked about the importance of his industry to this province in his column here about the Van-couver International Auto Show, which runs until Sunday,

Reacting to the Black Press/Pulse report he said: “Customers today are clearly taking advantage of one of the most exciting times in automotive history. Dealers across BC are focusing like never before on creating a better buying expe-rience – a more enjoyable, more informed and

entertaining experience on-site and online. It’s almost as if dealers are putting on mini Auto Shows every day of the week!”He continued: “There are more than 350 new car dealerships across the province, and new ones popping up all the time, making this industry one of BC’s most important. Not only because they generate more than $10 bil-lion annually in economic activity, but also because they employ directly and indirectly, more than 34,000 full-time people in the more than 50 communities that they serve. The buying intent of Black Press readers is terrific news for our members and the BC economy.

“I can hardly wait for the next few years. Buckle up; it’s going to be an exciting ride.”Count on the Driveway team to supply you the best and most current information each week, and on the drivewaycanada site, to help you make the right decision in your car purchase.

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like the Ford Fusion, Honda Accord, Mazda6 and Toyota Camry, in an ever-aggres-sive segment.Using the baseball analogy with the 200 seemed ap-ropos since the drive event took place in Louisville, Kentucky, the home of the Louisville slugger. Nevertheless, here are the meat and potatoes for the all-new vehicle.There are four trims of 200 available. First is the LX and that has a starting MSRP of $22,995. Then there’s the Limited, the S and the top-of-the-line C model.Regardless of trim, each comes with an industry first, also known as a 9-speed automatic transmission.My day started behind the wheel of the Limited trim with the 2.4L, 4-cylinder MultiAir engine (MSRP $24,995). This powerplant produces 184 horsepower and 173 lb-ft of torque. The interior reflects that of thoughtful craftsmanship and design. Soft touch ma-terials are used throughout and the layout is easy on the eyes. Not to mention

the abundance of cubby-holes in which to place personal items.On a side note, the interior colour combinations drew inspiration from various American cities. For exam-ple, the all black interior pays homage to New York City, the Linen and Black is Sausalito, California and the Blue and Black on the S model to Detroit.The centre stack can be adorned with either a 5-inch touch screen or the optional 8.4-inch. To me, the 5-inch screen seemed a little small, so I’d invest in the larger version. That said, it was still highly functional and easy to use.On the road, the 2.4L Lim-ited shines brightest when on the highway and on long stretches of pavement. It has ability in the twists and turns, but to really get a dynamic feel, you’d need to opt for the S or C trim to put it in the Sport mode. In that case, you get a differ-ent suspension setup and steering feel to really allow you to have more fun in the captain’s chair.

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I can remember buying my first truck in 1986 like it was yesterday. It had to be a specific make and model: I was looking for. A Toyota 4x4 pick-up, black in color and it had to be in good shape. I wanted it to be bone stock with as little mileage as possible.I found one in the paper that was on the lot at a dealership in Surrey. Quickly I called them to inquire and they said they had a couple of people with deals

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GERRY FAGANSPECIAL TO THE NEWS

Welcome back gentlemen; get ready to start another season of Men’s Club action at the Alberni Golf Club. Everything is in place for what promises to be a great golfing season.

We have 10 special events. Thanks to the generosity of our many sponsors it should translate into more fun with bigger and better prizes. There will also be some extra draws for those of us who aren’t good enough or lucky enough to win a golf prize. The cost for membership into the Men’s Club is $20 for the year.

The Alberni Auto Works Club

Championship will be medal play this year, with Club Captain Steve Acland running the show. The championship will be held on one weekend, Saturday, July 26 and Sunday, July 27. There will also be a net competition that weekend. Make your plans now to play both days.

Sunday, March 30 starts off with the R.J. Duncan Accountant four man best ball. Count the best net and the best gross on each hole. Please make up your own group or enter as a single and head pro Bruce MacDonald or Brian Rands will place you on a team.

Please register by noon on the Saturday before each event. As

it is fairly early in the season, the shotgun start will be at 9 a.m. with a short meeting prior. Try to be there at least by 8:30 a.m. The usual fee of $10 applies, as it does for all Men’s Club events.

Every Sunday without fail there will be money pots up for grabs, along with four closest to the pins, with one of them being the Charity Closest to the pin.

Your Men’s Club players committee for this season are Club Captain Steve Acland, Assistant Captain Craig Acland, Handi-Cap Chairman Keith Gauthier. Money pot and pari-mutuels Doug Richmond, Draws Bruce MacDonald and Brian Rands and Sponsors Gerry Fagan.

Alberni Golf Club kicks off with men’s club play

SUSAN QUINN/ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

Abashiri memories

Yusuke Hanzawa, right, head coach of the Okhotsk Sports Club in Abashiri, Japan, smiles during a visit to the Port Alberni Gymnastics Academy (PAGA) last week. Twenty-five years ago, Hanzawa was a 12-year-old athlete attending an international gymnastics competition in Port Alberni, where he met fellow gymnast and now PAGA head coach Karen Moss. Last week Hanzawa brought 10 gymnasts from Japan so they could meet their Port Alberni counterparts, above, and share in some friendly sporting competition and some home culture.

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The Royal Canadian Legion Branch # 293 give their sup-port to the 2308 Canadian Scottish Regiment last week Wednesday, presenting is Legion President Monty Ellis-ton, left to Captain Derkson and Cpl. Brayden Arsenault.

Cpt. John Cloke of the Sea Cadets, left, is a representa-tive of the Sea Cadets receiving a donation from Monty Elliston, president of Legion Branch # 293, and cadets Master Seaman Taylar Czeczei and Master Seaman Ocean Barkhouse.

Legion president Monty Elliston presents a cheque to navy League Sub Lieutenant Robin Allen for the Navy League.

Lazy Mike and the Rocking Recliners had the Capitol Theatre really rocking on Saturday night at their CD release. Band members from left to right are Bob Berry, Mike Mallon, Ryan Connell and Mark “Westcoast” Comerford. If you missed out you can still purchase a CD at Triangle Music.

The Kiwanis club raised $7,743.13 at four locations of kettles on Dec. 14, 2013 and matched $3,000 of that for the Salvation Army. Scene here from left to right are Tony Joyce president of the Kiwanis and John Cloke with Major Bruce Mac Kenzie of the Salvation Army.


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Shirley and Archie Cardinal, from left, daughter Tina and her kids Cydney and Cooper (missing is older sister Demi) all cel-ebrate the pending opening of the family’s newest business, Slammers Gym, in the former RCMP station on Sixth Avenue. The Cardinals purchased the building three years ago and have renovated the interior and created a large fi tness and community space due to open in early April.

The Evitt Electric team—from left, Sean Frazer, Mike Barker, Jeanette Barker, Ron Barker and Tyler Caldwell—had to replace all the electrical systems in the building.

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Born May 14, 1932 in Earlton, Ontario, Toots passed away peacefully in

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A celebration of her life will be held March 29, 2014 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm

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Celebration of Life Toots Alwood

The Emblem Family would like to thank their friends for the cards, food, fl owers and donations made in Reg’s memory.

Your thoughtfulness is appreciated more than words can say.

Marge, Jerry, Linda, Ron, Sandi, Marie & Corry

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SCRAP METAL; Fridges, freezers, washers, dryers, electric/wood stoves, lawn mowers & other recyclable metal, free pick up. Call Rich-ard 250-723-0855.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

WANTED TO buy; Violin made by Hector Trombley, in Port Alberni, 1950’s. Please call (250)701-2035.

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NANAIMO WATERFRONT 2nd fl oor condo. 1500 sq.ft. LR/DR/2bdrms with view, den, gas FP, secure bldg. 2 under-ground parking spaces. Main-tenance fee includes hot wa-ter/gas/landscaping. 1 pet OK. View anytime. $339,900 Re-duced to $329,000. (250)753-9123

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HERITAGE HOTEL 30 rooms mixed commercial for sale. Asking $399,000. Call (250)735-0649.

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Exhibit hits the roadMUSEUM: | Virtual exhibit of the 1964 tsunami becomes travelling show for museum.

SHAYNE MORROWSPECIAL TO THE NEWS

The Alberni Valley Museum has expanded its focus on the Good Friday Tsunami of 1964, to keep the memories alive for future generations.

Recently, the museum partnered with the Virtual Museum of Canada to create a permanent online exhibit, The Great Tsunami of 1964.

The exhibit begins with the catastrophic earthquake that struck Anchorage Alaska. A series of photographs, with text attachments, depict the destruction and dislocation that took place.

Shifting to Port Alberni, there are video and voice interviews with survivors, along with a host of photographs, from the iconic colour scenes recorded by Jan Jansma, to the less familiar shots from survivors, rescue personnel and government officials.

Again, there are text attachments providing further details on the disaster and the response. The exhibit also includes interviews with current city officials

describing the steps taken to protect the public safety and to limit the damage should another tsunami strike.

Alberni Valley Museum education curator Shelley Harding said public education is all part of the program, because knowledge is perishable.

“I was in Hawaii in 2004, in Hilo, where they have the Pacific Tsunami Museum,” she said.

The village suffered a double tragedy, beginning in 1946, when a 14-metre high tsunami washed away 160 villagers.

“They established the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre and installed a warning siren, but in 1960,

there was a major earthquake in Chile, and when the warning siren went off, the villagers went down to the beach to watch it come in. All but one (61 in total) were swept away.”

The Hilo visit sparked a new emphasis on the Port Alberni tsunami, Harding said.

“We had a tsunami exhibit here for many years, and changed it up for the 40th anniversary,” she said. “We decided it would be appropriate to have it at the Maritime Heritage Centre, so we made it a permanent exhibit and installed it down there.”

But the permanent

tsunami exhibit is going to hit the road this summer, moving to the Port Alberni Train Station in June.

“This year, we have a major whaling exhibit coming to the Maritime Centre, in partnership with Tseshaht First Nation. The tsunami exhibit moves to the train station for the summer, then it’s going to be travelling to different locations on the Island.”

The road show will include all the familiar displays and artifacts, plus a number of accompanying videos, including Run to High Ground.

“It’s an educational video for children made by Nuu-chah-nulth people from Washington State.”

Loosely based on the Nuu-chah-nulth oral histories of the devastating 1700 Cascadia earthquake and tsunami, Run to High Ground is yet another reminder that the next tsunami could strike at any time.

“So far, the exhibit is booked for Campbell River and Nanaimo, and tentatively in Parksville,” Harding said.

SUSAN QUINN/ALBERNI VALLEY NEWS

High school students work on a virtual exhibit of the 1964 tsunami with videographer Nancy Wilmot in October 2011 at the Hutcheson Gallery.

Arts heat up in April

The next Art exhibit at the Rollin Art Centre will be something different, titled, Past, Present & Future, The Various Works of Shayne Lloyd.

Lloyd will showcase his wide range of talents, including drawings, paintings and wood burning on furniture. Don’t miss this exciting exhibit which starts April 11 and runs until May 8 at the Rollin Art Centre Gallery.

Book sale needs help

Book donations for the Community Arts Council’s annual spring sale are down from prior years, and volunteers are asking members of the public to please donate books.

Our bin is low and we need your help in making this year’s annual fundraiser a success. The Rollin Art Centre is accepting gently used books, DVDs, CDs, and puzzles for their annual book sale,

which takes place on May 10.

Rollin calls for 2015 artists

The Rollin Art centre is accepting applications from visual artists to

exhibit their work during the 2015 calendar year.

Application forms are available at the Rollin Art Centre or you can download an application at www.portalberniarts.com. Deadline is April 30.

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Arts Administrator for the Community Arts Council.

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