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StrANDED SEAL: Local marine mammal researcher Wendy Szaniszlo helped rescue this rare and endangered Guadalupe fur seal last week. The animal is being treated at the Vancouver Aquarium but he’s in rough shape. Read about it on page 7.

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If it’s brown you probably don’t want to chug it down, and if it’s black you might want to send it back, but the district says it’s still safe to drink the water.

Ucluelet local Sherri McIntyre suffered a particular-ly disgusting shock last week when she attempted to draw a bath and wound up filling her tub with sludge.

“The water was almost black; it was really bad. I was beyond disgusted,” McIntyre told the Westerly News adding dark water is unfortunately not an un-common sight in her Whispering Pines home.

“This has happened every couple weeks for the last four years that we’ve lived in this house.”

Ucluelet’s water woes were brought to the forefront in 2014 when local concerns, raised at council meet-ings and in this newspaper, motivated the district to issue a public information bulletin stating the water was safe to drink and a community forum was held to address concerns.

To combat what it believed, and still believes, to be a purely aesthetic problem, the district began flushing its pipes more intensely and put plans in place to ad-dress the issue.

“From our meeting in 2014, we’re trying to con-tinue to improve with water quality within the com-munity,” the district’s manager of public works Warren Cannon told the Westerly News last week. “The focal point was to look at the reservoirs this year.”

Ucluelet has two water reservoirs, Mercantile Creek and Lost Shoe Aquifer, and both are currently being drained so they can each be cleaned.


A small wooden statue is living the good fortune it symbol-izes.

The 20-centimetre-tall statue, which depicts Shinto God Dai-koku holding a magic hammer to represent good fortune and a

bag of treasure to symbolize wealth, keeps finding its way to safety.

It was discovered on Long Beach in 2013 by Ucluelet’s then-mayor Bill Irving and is believed to have floated to the West Coast from Japan after the devastating March 2011 tsunami.

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Cannon said this work, along with a recent water main repair on Hemlock Road, is causing dark water to flow into local homes but he added that locals can still drink the water while the work is ongoing.

“There is discolouration and sediment but test results show that we don’t have any issues…It’s just discoloured,” he said.

A community notice posted to the district’s web-site on Jan. 13 suggests the work would be com-pleted by Jan. 29 but Cannon cautioned it might take longer depending on workflow.

“So far the project has been going okay,” he said. “There’s a possibility that these dates may extend.”

Local frustration kicked up through social me-dia as the website bulletin was the extent of the district’s information sharing and many locals, in-cluding McIntyre, missed the memo, which allowed unexpected dark water to stain laundry.

“The part that really gets me is that there’s not enough notification when things are going on…It should be very well announced; we need to be noti-fied beforehand,” she said.

“More communication needs to happen. They need to make it more widely announced when they’re doing work like this.”

She acknowledged the district has been working on the water problem but wondered what progress has been made and said she is tired of being told not to expect solutions overnight.

“There’s discussing it and there’s actually see-

ing some progress and, for the amount of sediment that’s coming through, there needs to be more prog-ress than what’s happened obviously,” she said.

“The first time I moved to Ucluelet was in 2002, I lived on Holly Crescent, and we had the same is-sues with water back then so 14 years, to me, is not overnight…We need to have clean drinking water.”

McIntyre, who has a two-year-old daughter, said she is “absolutely” worried about letting her family consume Ucluelet’s tap water.

“We don’t believe that it’s drinkable, not with that much sediment in it,” she said. “You can’t boil that stuff out…We would boil a pot of water and we would see the sludge inside.”

She said she plans to purchase a water testing kit to get a second opinion on the district’s claims.

“When this happens again, and it will, we can test the water and send it to VIHA [the Vancouver Island Health Authority] and have them say, ‘Yes this is safe to drink,’ or, ‘No this is not safe to drink,” she said.

She hopes others in the community raise their concerns to the district.

“We can’t sit here and be quiet forever, it’s not helping,” she said. “This should have been a top pri-ority so long ago”

Cannon said his department welcomes feed-back.

“We always welcome public input and discus-sions on water,” he said.

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A literary celebration is coming to the Coast. Ucluelet’s parks and recreation team will host a Literacy Fair

on Jan. 30 from 1-4 p.m. at the Ucluelet Community Centre. Festivities will include a community book swap, storytelling

and a Bingo for Books event. “It’s a new thing to talk about literacy and celebrate literacy

and have all of these kinds of resources going towards literacy but I do think it’s important and people are recognizing the im-portance of promoting it outside of schools,” Ucluelet’s recreation programmer KK Hodder told the Westerly News.

“Schools do a great job of promoting literacy and we’re just trying to help continue that and help promote it within families and within the community. It really is a huge component of having a healthy community and, for kids, it’s a huge factor in learning and growth and development and in forming opinions.”

Locals are encouraged to donate books to the book swap by Jan. 29.

“We’re asking for books for all ages and any donations are greatly appreciated,” Hodder said.

The district launched its inaugural Literacy Fair last year and Hodder is stoked to see the event return for a second showing and blossom into an annual feature.

“We thought it would be a good idea to do something for the community that engages people with reading and writing and ev-erything that has to do with literacy,” she said.

“The idea is to promote literacy within the family environment, within the home environment and within the community.”

She said reading has played an important role in her life and her passion for it was fostered by strong encouragement from a young age.

“There were many reasons why I was a big reader and there were many people who contributed to that,” she said.

“For a lot of people, your history when it comes to reading is really formed by role models, people and institutions in your life…It’s really important to read with your family and to allow books in your life.”

She added reading is a vital activity that all locals should take part in.

“Reading is important for every aspect of our lives and for the rest of our entire lives. It will never not be important even with all the technology that we deal with today,” she said.

“Literacy is important for everyone and it’s important to have a strong start to enjoying books and to celebrating literacy.”

She said this year’s event aims to reach beyond last year’s family focus.

“The idea is to include everyone, as many people from the community as possible from as large a cross-section as possible,” she said.

“It really isn’t about necessarily just families and reading, it’s about literacy in everybody’s everyday life.”

She hopes to see strong participation at the event and encour-ages locals to be part of the fair’s fun.

“We totally would appreciate and would invite people to do pop-up storytelling in the community centre,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be something that’s organized, it can be totally sponta-neous…We welcome anybody to come by and spend some time with us.”

She added the success of last year’s event illustrated the com-munity’s love of books.

“This is a pretty introspective place…We don’t have a ton of nightlife and I think a lot of people read,” she said.

“I know that books are well loved in this community and it was a pretty popular event last year so I would say this is a pretty well-read community.”

The Jan. 30 festivities are free to participate in. Volunteer opportunities are available and anyone willing to a

hand is encouraged to contact Hodder at the community centre: 250-726-7772.

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Ucluelet recreation staffer Chantalle Wilson, left, supervised a Kids’ Corner during last year’s inaugural Literacy Fair. The district is bringing the event back to the Ucluelet Community Centre this weekend.

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Treading water might keep you afloat but it doesn’t move you forward.

In a move that some might have mistook for progress, Ucluelet’s council agreed to renew a development permit application for the building formerly known as St. Aidan’s on the Hill church earlier this month. It had expired in November.

Attached to the development permit applica-tion is a Memorandum of Understanding, signed in 2013, that lays out the amenities the building’s developer Leif Hagar must agree to provide before his rezoning application is approved.

Amenities are fascinating fixtures in rezoning applications where districts ask developers to throw in some love before an application is ap-proved. Think of it as a, “Nice application you’ve got here, would be a shame if anything happened to it,” kind of conversation.

Hagar has paid $250 for a historical plaque and $8,000 in parking-in-lieu fees but is still tasked with the installation of four bike racks and four benches, as well as providing maintenance, in perpetuity, of the nearby community garden and pedestrian right of way.

He recently presented photos of the benches he’s working on and designs for the bike racks he plans to build. everything seems to be moving smoothly but we’ve been here before and, frankly, we’ve been here for far too long.

Lets take a walk down memory lane together to remember what brought us here: the four-year anniversary of Ucluelet’s iconic church entering a

zoning purgatory it hasn’t yet managed to escape. Community members built the church in 1952.

It was deconsecrated in 2010 and sold to Hagar in 2011. Things looked great out of the gate. Hagar was praised when he announced the building wouldn’t be torn down and would instead be trans-formed into a venue for community events.

In October, 2011, the building was used as a key backdrop for the Superman Man of Steel mov-ie and the shot proved so effective that it became a staple in the movie’s trailers. In December, the building hosted its first major event: a launch par-ty for local band Left at the Junction to release their new album ‘Dark stormy night.’Then January 2012 hit and everything crashed when a Valen-tine’s Day fundraiser was abruptly cancelled after Hagar was told by district planner Patricia Abdullah that the building didn’t have the proper zoning to host events. Hagar penned a letter to the editor published by the Westerly News in June that called for Abdullah to be fired and a year’s worth of verbal barbs were traded back and forth. The relationship seemed to rekindle and council received a report from Abdullah in July 2013 that supported Hagar’s plans by suggesting a centrally located event-ven-ue was needed in Ucluelet.

A public hearing was scheduled and Mayor Bill Irving told the Westerly that Hagar and the district “worked collectively to not only do the rezoning but the development permit and the development vari-ance permit as well.”

Hagar was optimistic heading into the hearing. “The public hearing is probably the only po-

tential obstacle at this point and I think the whole

community wants to see it move forward,” he told the Westerly.

The hearing was held on July 16, 2013, rough-ly 10 locals showed up. Hagar presented a petition with 166 signatures in favour of his application and two people spoke in favour of it at the hearing.

The Co-op grocery store and local Roger Gud-branson, submitted letters opposing the church’s development due to its lack of parking.

While the parking issue became the key public concern, a much greater issue developed behind the scenes as the district’s building inspector re-fused to sign off on Hagar’s plans for the church.

These concerns came to light in a July 2014 Westerly News story where Hagar claimed the dis-trict had “crippled” the project.

Irving told the Westerly that hands were tied. “If we put our stamp on a building that is de-

fective and somebody’s injured then the district, the taxpayers, the residents, pay the price,” he said. The church was a key talking point leading up to 2014’s municipal election in November and many eyebrows were raised when a sign promot-ing Dianne St. Jacques mayoral bid was posted on the church. Considering she bested incum-bent candidate Irving by just 8 votes, it isn’t a stretch to assume St. Jacques’ name on the side of Ucluelet’s most centralized and talked-about building secured her victory.

This council has been in place for over a year now and the church’s only reportable progress in that time is an application being renewed two months after it expired.

It’s time to stop treading water.

International Forest Products Limited (Interfor) gives notice and invites com-ments on Amendment #6/Extension to the “Arrowsmith” Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) effective June 28, 2006 to June 27, 2016. The amendment covers portions of the following geographic areas in the Arrowsmith Timber Supply Area within the South Island Natural Resource District.

Specifically, this FSP amendment adds two areas into the FSP; T0295 and the Rosewall landscape unit and proposes adjustments to the Visual strategy. The holders of the FSP are also seeking a 5 year extension to the term of the plan. The FSP amendment is available for review by resource agencies and the pub-lic before the Delegated Decision Maker from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations considers approval, and may be revised as a result of written comments received during the public review and comment period. The public review and comment period runs from January 21st, 2016 to March 20th, 2016.

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Interfor Corporation gives notice and invites comments on Amendment #6 to the “Arrowsmith” Forest Stewardship Plan (FSP) effective June 28, 2006 to June 27, 2016. The amendment covers portions of the following geographic areas in the Arrowsmith Timber Supply Area within the South Island Natural Resource District.

The FSP shows the location of Forest Development Units and provides the results and strategies that the FSP holder will follow for objectives that the government has set for forest and resource values.

Specifically, this FSP amendment adds one area into the FSP; T0295 and proposes adjustments to the Visual, Riparian and the Non Spatial Old Growth Order strategies. The FSP amendment is available for review by resource agencies and the public before the Delegated Decision Maker from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations considers approval, and may be revised as a result of written comments received during the public review and comment period. The public review and comment period runs from January 28th, 2016 to March 28th, 2016.

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Clayoquot Action’s co-founder Dan Lewis’ big aha moment came with the realization that salmon are carnivorous creatures. “There’s no place in our history where we’ve ever tried to grow carnivores for food. It would be like growing sheep or lambs and throwing them over the fence to feed tigers and when the tigers were ready to harvest, eating tiger meat. Why not just eat the sheep?” said Lewis, who embarked on Jan. 25 alongside Bonny Glambeck and John Rampanen for a two week crusade through-out Norway to put pressure on salmon farming company Cermaq.

Clayoquot Action wants to get fish farms out of the ocean and they want to begin rebuilding the wild salmon economy they be-lieve has been depleted by fish farm sites.

“As the wild salmon are coming back into the rivers to spawn, they are passing these farms which the animals in these farms are shedding bacterial and viral particles at a tremendous rate and those all get flushed into the tide and as the fish swim by they’re breathing the water through their gills and they are ex-posed to these viruses and bacteria. That causes disease in them,” Glambeck said.

Cermaq, a Norwegian-based fish farming company and subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corporation, currently operates 14 fish farms in the Clayoquot Sound Region and has protocols with the Ahousaht First Nation.

All Cermaq sites are best aquaculture practice certified and they are also undergoing Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) certification led by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

“Cermaq, in particular in the Clayoquot area, has the highest third-party certified in the world,” said Cermaq’s Communications and Corporate Sustainability Manager Laurie Jensen.

“We have the only aboriginal aquaculture association certifica-tion for our protocol with Ahousaht. Any new siting they [Ahousaht First Nation] determine where the farming would go. And then we look at the environmental factors to see if they actually meet the criteria.”

While in Norway, the Clayoquot Action delegation will attend the Wild Salmon Conference and have scheduled meetings with the leader of the Green Party and the President of the Sami north-ern indigenous people.

“We want to learn as much as we can about how the industry is going in Norway because it is a bellwether. They’ve been doing

it longer than us so they’re further down the road and will likely see where we’re likely going to be headed,” Lewis said.

“There are places in Norway that are designated as wild sal-mon fjords. There are places in Norway where they wouldn’t allow a fish farm and I have no doubt that if Clayoquot Sound was in Norway, they wouldn’t allow fish farms there. But in Canada, they get away with it. We’re like the third world to Norway.”

Cermaq Canada employs about 84 people at their West Coast farm sites and Tofino office and Jensen, who has been working in the farm fish industry for the last 27 years, said Cermaq is a good company to work for and she is proud of the growth and improvements she’s witnessed over the last decade.

Lewis and Glambeck both have friends working in the industry and said the last thing they want to do is put them out of work.

“That’s not at all my goal,” said Lewis. “But you can’t trade off jobs versus the environment. We need both.”

Clayoquot Action suggested that the people who work on the fish farms would be the very people to help rebuild the wild sal-mon economy. They said the fish farm industry could develop a transition strategy much like the one created for the logging in-dustry by the conservation sector.

“The current environmental and ecological challenges that we are facing within our territories have been introduced through the over-exploitation, mismanagement and misappropriation of col-onial authorities,” said John Rampanen who is a citizen of the Ahousaht and Keltsmaht First Nations.

“The solution to these issues rests within the ancestral values and practices of our people that have successfully cared for these territories since our time of creation.”

Jensen believes the world will be looking to aquaculture more and more as wild fisheries have reached their maximum capacity and there is little room left for land agriculture.

“People are looking to the oceans to help feed the world and aquaculture is a crucial part of that. It’s pretty exciting for us West Coasters to be part of the healthy and reliable food supply,” she said.

Clayoquot Action co-founder Glambeck disagreed, arguing that salmon is a luxury food.

“The idea that salmon farming is feeding the world is actually a falsehood,” she said. “First of all, in order to get one pound of sal-mon it takes three pounds of feed fish. So that is called a net loss of protein. They are depleting the ocean to create the salmon.”

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2015 is officially in the books as “the hottest year on record.” According to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Earth’s average surface temperature has risen about 1 degree Celsius in the last 135 years.

The scientific community agrees that the warming is being driven by human-made emissions into the atmosphere. Conclud-ing that the warming must stay within a threshold of 2 degree C to limit the worst impacts of climate destabilization including rising seas, hurricanes, heat waves, and droughts.

In December, at the 21st United Nations’ Climate Summit in Paris, world leaders from 195 countries came together to address this unprecedented challenge. After two weeks of negotiations, the world’s first comprehensive climate agreement was reached, aiming to keep global temperatures from rising 2 C compared to pre-industrial times, while striving for a 1.5 degree limit.

To achieve this, the Paris Agreement sets the goal of a car-bon-neutral world around 2050. Countries will now have to pre-pare, maintain and publish their own greenhouse gas reduction targets, striving to reduce carbon output with the “highest possi-ble ambition.”

The funding needed to pay for this great transformation to carbon-neutrality is available. For example, ending fossil fuel subsidies and cutting military spending, in addition to introduc-ing financial transaction taxes and increasing income taxes on corporations would enable much greater investments in energy conservation, efficiency, and renewables.

The Paris Agreement also calls on developed nations, including Canada, to contribute $100 billion annually to developing coun-

tries by 2020 to help foster carbon-neutral economies. But after a decade of subsidizing oil and gas extraction, the Government of Canada is coming to grips with the reality of a petrodollar econo-my as oil prices plummet.

Resistance to carbon intensive projects begins at the commu-nity level but must also be felt in the corridors of power where there is institutional inertia to change. For example, the National Energy Board (NEB) is supposed to be a legal body of the Govern-ment of Canada that considers evidence on proposed oil and gas pipelines and then decide if the project in the “public interest.” Yet, the NEB approves almost every project.

During the recent assessment process for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline, which proposes to triple ex-isting capacity to transport tar sands oil from the Alberta to the BC coast, the NEB decided that it would not review any evidence about global climate change. Then in a serious conflict of interest, Steven Kelly, who had submitted the proposal on behalf of Kinder Morgan was appointed full-time to the NEB just prior to the federal election.

First Nations along the pipeline route, as well as the Munici-pality of Burnaby and the Government of British Columbia are op-posed to Kinder Morgan’s pipeline proposal. Protests in Burnaby are growing outside the National Energy Board hearings. Over a year ago, 100 people were arrested protesting on Burnaby Moun-tain, and now thousands more are prepared to take action if the pipeline expansion is approved.

Considering the significant threats that climate change poses, building new infrastructure projects that lock us into increased fossil fuel extraction decades into the future can no longer be approved.

Jeh Custera is a campaigner for Friends of Clayoquot Sound.

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A rare Guadalupe fur seal is clinging to life at the Vancou-ver Aquarium after being rescued on Long Beach last week.

“There has not been much improvement in his condition,” said the aquarium’s marine science centre head veterinarian Dr. Martin Haulena on Monday.

“He’s lethargic, emaciated; he’s still not interested in food. Historically, this species has a poor prognosis once stranded.”

He added only about 30 per cent of the stranded fur seals that have been rescued, most often in California, have sur-vived.

The adult male seal was first spotted on Jan. 19 by Ucluelet local Doug Kimoto on a peninsula near Francis Is-land and he reported his sighting to local marine mammal expert Wendy Szaniszlo.

Szaniszlo told the Westerly News that after receiving Kimoto’s call she headed to the site expecting to find a Cal-ifornia sea lion and was “shocked and bewildered” to find a rare and endangered fur seal.

“I was fully expecting that it would just be a California sea lion because their numbers are really increasing and it’s quite common for us to see them here,” she said.

“I noticed right away that the colouration was a fair bit darker that I would have expected for a California sea lion…The first distinguishing feature that I noticed was that it had really big ears and that’s something that the sea lions we have here do not have; that’s definitely a fur seal feature.

“It turned its head and vocalized and it was a very differ-ent vocalization from the seals and sea lions here and also I noticed it had a very long pointy noise so I knew it was a fur seal.”

Szaniszlo had never seen an adult fur seal before and immediately sent photos of the animal to the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and the Vancouver Aquarium to let them know what was going on.

She said the seal had no business being near the West Coast.

“It is very rare,” she said. “During El Nino years they are significantly affected by the water temperature change and how that affects their food so there have been a few unusu-al strandings along Washington and Oregon’s coast but in terms of range they should be down in Guadalupe Mexico and southern California.”

She added fur seals spend the vast majority of their lives far out at sea.

“They usually come ashore in the summertime during the

breeding season to breed and have their pups and other than that they are way offshore,” she said.

Guadalupe fur seal are endangered but do not appear on Canada’s Species at Risk Act.

“Historically, they were hunted down to about 200 to 500 individuals and their numbers right now are up to about 20,000,” Szaniszlo said.

“They’re considered endangered in the [United] States and they’re also protected in Mexico but they are not listed in Canada because they should not be here.”

She said the animal was in rough shape. “It did look quite emaciated, it was very lethargic so in ad-

dition to it being way out of its range, from an animal health perspective, the first thing that caught my attention was this did not look like a healthy animal,” she said.

“They should be quite plump and fat and this individual looked skinny and depending on his position you could see his ribs.”

She also noticed “brownish red ooze” coming from the seal’s mouth.

“I was able to get quite close and it really didn’t react,” she said. “It lifted its head and that was about it, so I knew that it wasn’t doing too well. It wasn’t wanting to put up a fight or even flee.”

Rare fur seal rescued on Long Beach

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This Guadalupe fur seal is being treated at the Vancouver Aquarium after being rescued on Long Beach last week but his chances for survival are slim.

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Vancouver Aquarium staff are helping this hypothermic Green sea turtle fight for its life. The tropical turtle was discovered on Long Beach on Saturday.

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A Green sea turtle is being treated for hypothermia after being discovered way out of its element.

Green sea turtles are tropical animals that spend their time in warm climates like Mexico and Hawaii but one was found washed up on Wickaninnish Beach on Jan. 23.

The tropical turtle weighs about 35 kilograms and was taken to the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre for treatment. It arrived with a body temperature of 11.2 C, ac-cording to a Vancouver Aquarium media release.

Centre staff have been slowly warming the animal by 2 C per day with the hopes of bringing its body temperature up to at least 20 C.

“Reptiles are cold-blooded and they completely depend on their external environment to control their body tempera-ture,” said Dr. Martin Haulena, the Marine Science Centre’s head veterinarian. “When they get into water that’s too cold they get hypothermia, also known as cold-stunning. Every-thing slows down: heart, respiration rates, they can’t swim,

they can’t forage—they get weaker and weaker.”He added the turtle has received antibiotics, fluids, and

treatment for several wounds. Pacific Rim National Park resource management officer

Jennifer Yakimishyn said sea turtles are rare sights within the Park and the few that have been found do not offer an encouraging precedent.

“In 2011, three sea turtles—two Green and one Olive Ridley—were discovered in Pacific Rim National Park Re-serve and treated by the Vancouver Aquarium, but did not survive,” she said.

“But in 2005, a cold-stunned Green turtle was treated successfully by the aquarium and remains there today.”

She expressed hopeful optimism for this turtle’s chances. “It is still too early to determine if the turtle will survive but

the animal is quite responsive given the cold waters it was found in, is not emaciated, and has been lifting its head,” she said.

She added the quick actions of Ucluelet local Liisa Niel-sen, who reported her sighting immediately to the Park, gave

the animal a stronger shot at survival“All wildlife sightings in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve

should be reported to a Parks Canada staff member by call-ing 250-726-3604 as quickly as possible once an animal has been sighted,” Yakimishyn said.

Nielsen was walking her retired sled dog Pearl, a 17-year-old Husky, along the beach around 10 a.m. and came upon a crowd of people gathered around the turtle.

She immediately dialed the Park’s reporting line. “I have the number in my phone for reasons exactly like

this. I had to get a hold of them so they could come save the turtle,” she said.

“Everybody should be encouraged to put that number into their phone so if anything like this happens they have it with them.”

Nielsen has lived on the West Coast for about 10 years and had never seen a sea turtle before.

“It was sad because I knew he wasn’t supposed to be where he was,” she said. “He was where he shouldn’t be and he was probably dying.”

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Families and friends who ventured out to the Central Westcoast Forest Society speaker series at the Ucluelet Com-munity Centre on Saturday evening had a hoot of a time.

The topic of the night was wildlife rescue and rehabilita-tion and the stars were two rescued screech owls named Odis Jr. and Sawyer.

Biologist and president of the Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society (MARS) Warren Warttig entertained the audience with stories of his work in wildlife rescue on Vancouver Island.

“The most terrifying moment of my life was tube feeding a baby hummingbird,” Warttig said.

At the end of his talk, children were allowed to have their photo taken with Odis and Sawyer.

In addition to getting up close and personal with the live owls, Warttig also brought along a preserved pigmy owl, great horned owl, and snowy owl from MARS headquarters in Courtenay to show the audience.

Since opening its doors in 1995, the wildlife rehabilitation centre has released over 1926 animals back into the wild including 56 bald eagles, according to their 2014 Annual Re-port which can be found by visiting www.wingtips.org.

“Every time I see a bald eagle, I can’t help but wonder if it was one of the eagles, or offspring of one of the eagles we rehabilitated,” Warttig wrote in the report.

With massive fundraising efforts and support from the Province of B.C., MARS was able to purchase 4.4 hectares in the Port Hardy / Port Campbell region with plans to build a larger wildlife hospital and flight pen by May 2017.

“Eagles need a 125-feet by 50-feet wide flight pen for proper conditioning before release,” Warttig said.

As it stands, eagles brought in and rehabilitated at the MARS centre need to be transferred to other centres with

bigger flight pens.The new flight cage involves a concrete foundation filled

with gravel and a post and beam structure with an open net roof, which allows the rain to pass through so that the birds are weathered.

The next speaker series the Central Westcoast Forest So-ciety (CWFS) has booked will take place in March and will feature a group of individuals that have been working to pro-tect Carmanah Walbran Provincial Park from logging.

“Locals should go to the speaker series to learn about science and to learn about where they live and what’s going on,” said CWFS environmental technician and project man-ager Tom Balfour.

“The best thing to do is follow Instagram or Facebook….We do events, like tree planting. Keep an eye out there. The office is in the Moorage building and people are welcome to come by and say, ‘Hi,’ anytime.”

nora o’malley PhotoBiologist and president of the Mountainaire Avian Rescue Society Warren Warttig introduces Sawyer, a rehabilitated screech owl, to a young crowd at the UCC. The free event was hosted by the Central Westcoast Forest Society.

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Vancouver Aquarium staff agreed to try rescuing and rehabilitating the ani-mal and headed to Ucluelet the following morning but they arrived just minutes too late.

“By about 10 a.m. he [the seal] was already sitting upright on the log and by about 10:25 a.m. he decided to make his way into the water to my disap-pointment and frustration for sure,” Szaniszlo said.

“This was about 20 minutes out from the aquarium staff arriving.”Rescue teams split up to find the animal, which was swimming slowly

towards Ucluelet’s harbour, and crews were set up at Ucluelet’s Fuel Dock, the Whiskey Dock and the Pat Leslie Memorial Boat Launch.

Brian Congdon of Subtidal Adventures lent his vessel to the effort and Sza-niszlo combed the waters but the search was suspended after about three hours of no sightings.

“We were hoping we would see him haul out again and then try to capture him from that spot already knowing what his condition was, which wasn’t very good,” Szaniszlo said.

Sure enough, the seal was spotted hauled out on Long Beach the fol-lowing day and this time rescue efforts proved successful and the seal was transported to the Vancouver Aquarium arriving around 1:30 a.m. on Jan, 22, according to Szaniszlo.

She hopes the finding motivates locals to report their sightings to DFO’s marine mammal response line at 1-800-465-4336.

This whole incident really showed the importance of reporting stranded animals,” Szaniszlo said.

“In most cases, it’s going to be just a sick or old sea lion and we’ll let nature take its course but it’s only through reporting that we’re able to investigate and follow up and identify individuals and in this case it turned out to be a very, very, rare individual.”

She cautions locals to never approach a marine mammal in distress. “Fur seals in particular have quite a reputation of being very, very, vicious,”

she said.

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NORA O’MALLEY PhOtOWESt COASt WEDDING FAIR: Rhonda Graham from Studio One Tofino, left, dusts Norma with a little bridal blush at the first-ever Tofino Wedding Fair held at The Shore on Jan. 23. The event was a loving success with 94 couples making the journey from the lower mainland and cross-Island.


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West Coast wrestlers are fixing their game-faces for the sea-son’s final push.

Ucluelet Secondary School’s wrestling season follows a fast and furious format with roughly 10 tournaments squeezed be-tween November and the provincial finals in March.

An Alberni Invitational tournament on Feb. 5 will serve as the final tune-up before the Island Championships on Salt Spring Island Feb. 12.

The Islands will determine placing at the Provincials being held in Abbotsford.

Wrestling coach Mike Rhodes believes his USS Girls team will make it to the Provincials and be successful at them but he’s cur-rently focused on reclaiming the Island title lost to Alberni District Secondary School (ADSS) last year.

He said the second-place Island finish was disappointing but his girls shot back up to place second at the provincials, the best BC-wide finish in USS history.

“The girls finished really well last year and so far they’ve picked up where they left off, we’ve had some very strong plac-ings,” he said.

He expects ADSS to again be worthy Island adversaries but is optimistic about his team’s chances.

“Given the crew that we have, they’ve got a pretty good shot at the Islands. Provincials are up in the air,” he said adding he expects a top five finish from the USS girls in Abbotsford.

“I’m hoping that we’re going to compete well individually and that should hopefully put us in good standing for another strong finish.”

He said the USS Boys team has produced solid individual wrestlers but does not have the numbers to effectively compete Island-wide.

“It’s more a mainstream sport still for boys in a lot of other communities, whereas here in Ucluelet I think the success of the girls has led to more success,” he said.

“For whatever reason it’s been very popular with the girls out here and success breeds success. They’re very tough. Even the ones who are new to the sport are doing well and it’s a good solid team atmosphere. They have each other to train with and train against and that really helps.”

He said USS offers a solid roster of alumni for aspiring wres-tlers to look up to and once students get into the sport they stay.

“It tends to be one of these sports that once you get bit by the bug, so to speak, it sticks with you,” he said adding many young locals follow older siblings onto the wrestling mat.

“Once they get into it they find they really enjoy it.”He added the sport is a key character-builder that helps devel-

op physical and emotional strength. “There’s a lot more to it then just the wins or the losses, it’s a

real character-building experience. You learn discipline, you learn that hard work pays off, you learn sportsmanship and leadership,” he said.

“Our senior athletes are fantastic leaders they work well with the younger members on the team and when they’re competing around the province and they’re wrestling against newer or less competitive athletes they display fantastic sportsmanship and will even help guide or coach other wrestlers.”

He added USS’ wrestling success has been well-earned. “It’s not a fluke. They work hard, they’re at practice and they’re

pushing each other and they’re working hard and they’re sweat-ing but they’re loving it. They’re enjoying that hard work and pushing each other,” he said.

“That leads to success and it’s not necessarily the end results, it’s the whole process of the season that I think really sticks with these kids and is a really positive thing to have in our school and in our community.”

Local kids don’t need to wait for high school to get into the game as the West Coast’s wrestling program starts in Grade 1.

“We get out and roll around, we play games we have a good time, they learn a few skills and then we finish off with a couple little mini tournaments,” Rhodes said of the younger wrestlers.

“It’s a really positive activity for kids, especially those that have been around the sport for a few years, they’ve made fantastic connections with other teams and students and athletes around the province; they’ve gotten to travel and see other things.”

He added students who stick with the sport gain tremendous benefits.

“It’s a fun sport and it’s a great foundational sport. You learn body awareness, you learn balance, you learn strength you learn the ability to tumble and to roll and to feel comfortable within yourself and you notice it more and more the older the kids get,” he said.

“The young kids love to do that stuff anyhow, they tumble around, but the physical confidence that wrestlers have is very noticeable as they get older.”

USS wrestlers eye Island title USS Photo

USS wrestler Heather Morrison, left, manages to turn her opponent during the recent Campbell River Invitational wrestling tournament. Morrison is gearing up to play a key role in USS’ bid for an Island title.


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WED. Jan 27TUFF CITY IDOL Jack’s Pub, 9:30 p.m.

PICKLEBALL

5-7 pm, WCS, all ages welcome.

POOL NIGHT7-11 p.m. Tofino Legion

DROP-IN BASKETBALL 7- 9 p.m. WCS gym

SENIORS SOCIAL AFTERNOONS 1:30-4 p.m., Tofino Legion.

ST. COLUmBA CHURCH 7 p.m. 110 2nd St.

ARTS GROUP 7-10 p.m. Tofino Legion.

thu. Jan 28 DROP-IN SOCCER 7-9 p.m. WCS gym. $3.

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

YOUTH BASKETBALL 5-7 pm, WCS.

THE EDGE YOUTH ROOm3–6p.m., UCC.

BINGO7-10 p.m. Tofino Legion.

FRI. Jan 29BIG BEACH CINEmAPan, 6 p.m. Freeheld, 8 p.m., UCC.

KARAOKE10 p.m., Officials Sports Lounge

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

YOUTH GAmES NIGHT7-9 pm. Ages 10+

BINGO AT THE LEGION 7:30 p.m. Tofino Legion.

THE EDGE YOUTH ROOm2–6p.m. UCC.

Sat. Jan 30 ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

5:30 p.m.

AA mEETING 7:30pm, St. Francis.

Sun. Jan 31

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

Sun. Jan 31CHRIST COmmUNITY CHURCH10:30am, 1419 Peninsula Rd.

GRACE BIBLE CHURCH 10:30 am, UCC.

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

UNITED/ANGLICAN SERvICE4 p.m. UCC.

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

HOLY FAmILY CHURCH

10 a.m. , 1663 Peninsula Rd. Ucluelet

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

MOn. FEb 1TOFINO ExPRESSIvE WRITING WORKSHOP FOR WOmEN6:30-8:30 p.m. , 250-726-2343

UCLUELET AA8pm. Holy Family.

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

MOn. FEb 1mONDAY NIGHT mOvIE

8 p.m., Straight Outta Compton, Clayoquot Community Theatre.

tuE. FEb 2YOUTH BADmINTON 6-7 P.m. WCS.

HEALTHY BABIES PROGRAm/FAmILY TIES

10:30 a.m, UCC

THE EDGE YOUTH ROOm2–6p.m. UCC.

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

YOUTH NIGHT AT THE ANAF6p.m.-8p.m., ANAF Ucluelet

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

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

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“We cannot definitely prove that because it does not have a serial number or a regis-tration number and there’s no way of tracing it back to somebody from Japan that could say, ‘Hey that’s my item,’” Ucluelet’s emer-gency and environmental services manager Karla Robison told the Westerly News.

“If you look at all the factors, all signs are pointed that it’s pretty likely that item came from Japan.”

She noted the statue was discovered on the same day, and about 50 metres away from, a 20-foot skiff that had washed ashore, which featured Japanese markings under-neath thick layers of pelagic barnacles.

The markings were hard to identify but at least two Mediterranean mussels were grow-ing on the vessel, which presented a strong case that the vessel had traveled from Japan.

The statue was displayed at various tsu-nami related events and demonstrations throughout Ucluelet before being loaned to the Vancouver Aquarium’s ‘Not Just Gar-bage’ marine debris exhibit, which opened on June 1, 2015.

In December, Aquarium officials were per-plexed to discover that a thief had managed

to unscrew a protective plastic casing and steal the statue, which is not believed to have any monetary value.

About two weeks after the theft, the statue returned to the aquarium as mysteriously as it had vanished and Ucluelet’s district office received a letter from aquarium staffer Kate Le Souef on Jan. 18 to relay the good news.

“When the Shinto statue was stolen, we posted a plea for help on the Vancouver Aquarium Facebook page. We had a lot of messages of sympathy and many people shared the post on our behalf,” Le Souef wrote. “Last Sunday [Jan. 10], a member of our security team walked past the exhibit and noticed a child playing with the statue in front of the exhibit. The statue must have been anonymously returned earlier that morning.”

Le Souef assured added security mea-sures would keep the statue safe for the du-ration of the exhibit.

“Our team will be attaching the plastic bubble around the statue with additional fortification that would be very difficult to re-move,” she wrote.

“After the incredible story of travelling from Japan to Ucluelet, and being stolen and

now returned, it has huge significance for our team…We are excited to place the stat-ue back on display to share the story of the Japanese tsunami with our visitors.”

Ucluelet has collected a wide array of tsunami debris artifacts that have been dis-played locally as well as at the Maritime Mu-seum in Victoria and the Vancouver Aquari-um, according to Robison.

“We have those in safe keeping and we hope to donate those to the Ucluelet and Area Historical Society in the future for display so the public could benefit from observing these types of materials,” she said.

The items, which she calls driftage arti-cles out of respect for their former owners, serve as important reminders of the March 11 2011 tragedy.

“Driftage articles may act as a stimulus to discussions regarding marine debris pre-vention and removal, the international con-nections that have been formed through the return of personal belongings, and the shar-ing of information from this unprecedented event,” she said. “It is also hoped that that the display of driftage articles and return of these materials back to Japan may help to

bring peace, fond memories and inspiration to the people of Japan and all those affected by the tragic event. Perhaps future displays of driftage articles will act as a memorial to remind each country of our strong bond across the ocean, the many lives affected by the tsunami, and to be prepared for emer-gencies.”

DISTRICT OF UCLUELET PhOTOThis symbolic Shinto statue was returned about two weeks after being stolen.

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Thief returns statue to Vancouver Aquarium

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