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NORA O’MALLEY Westerly news

Hypothetically speaking, 1,000-litres of hydraulic oil spilled into the ucluelet harbour last week tuesday morning (nov. 10) from a ruptured bulk tank at the fuel dock.

this annual mock marine spill scenario provided vital training time to Eagle Marine – columbia Fuels staff Jeff lee and cavin donald and operations manager Mike Marriott, who would ultim-ately be the first responders in the event of an actual real oil spill.

although Eagle Marine con-tracts Western canada Mar-ine Response corporation (WcMRc) to mitigate spills, it takes the corporation 5-hours to arrive on scene from nanaimo and initiate clean-up.

“Me and cav did the initial containment in the bulk with spill pads and spill booms. and then we took the boat out and made a secondary barricade in the water to con-tain it, down stream from the tide,” said local surfer and fuel dock attendant Jeff lee.

“Everything was set-up really well. We just had to tie

them together and get them in the water. it was pretty simple, actually,” he said of the training exercise.

“i’ve never done anything like this in my life as far as containment for any kind of spill. there are days when i’m going to be down here alone, so it’s good to know that you’re not going to screw up somewhere you love, like the harbour.”

While lee and donald con-tained the spill, Marriott called WcMRc for emergency assistance and contacted Emergency Management B.c.

(EMBc) and the coast guard to alert them of the mock spill.

the notification process proved to be problematic as it took Marriott six attempts before getting a definitive response from the coast guard.

later on in the debriefing portion of the emergency training exercise, the ques-tion arose as to whether or not it was even the respons-ibility of columbia Fuels to alert the coast guard or the responsibility of EMBc.

See MOCK OIL SPILL, pg. 14

Mock oil spill at Ucluelet fuel dock

ANDREW BAILEYWesterly newsndP leader tom Mulcair

has appointed local MP gord Johns to the ndP’s shadow cabinet as the critic for Small Business and tourism.

“it’s absolutely an honour to officially serve as your elected Member of Parlia-ment for courtenay-alber-ni,” Johns said through a recent media release.

“as the ndP critic for Small Business and tourism, i want to bring courtenay-alberni’s innov-ative and entrepreneurial spirit to Ottawa. i’ll push hard to find new ways to attract tourists to canada and give our small busi-nesses a break.”

Johns said he will be constantly reminding can-ada’s liberal government about the promises they made during the campaign.

“the liberal government made a lot of commitments this campaign and the ndP is going to keep them accountable,” he said.

Johns is currently assem-bling political teams for his parliamentary and con-stituency offices and can be reached at [email protected].

Starting nov. 23, locals will be able to reach him in Ottawa at [email protected]

Johns added to shadow cabinet

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Eagle Marine staff Jeff Lee and Cavin Donald deployed booms for a mock marine oil spill last week. Photo Nora O’Malley.

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A very lucky man won’t be forgetting his visit to Ucluelet anytime soon after discovering he had struck oil at a second-hand store.

The man recently brought a painting he had purchased for $10 into Ucluelet’s Mark Penney Gallery where Penney confirmed it was a very rare Ken Kirkby oil painting titled ‘Winter Field’ worth over $3,000.

Penney told the Westerly News the out of town man first con-tacted him about six months ago to enquire about the paint-ing after noticing Ken Kirkby’s signature on it.

“This guy’s in a second hand store with his girlfriend and his girlfriend is trying on clothes and looking at things and he said there were two paintings there that caught his attention: a portrait and this one,” Penney said.

“This black and white painting is literally not colourful; it’s a very plain, simple painting but it draws you in to some of the brush techniques because there’s not a lot of colour impact.”

The man liked the painting and paid its $10 asking price without knowing how shrewd an investment he had just made.

When he brought it home his girlfriend noticed Kirkby’s signature and an online investi-gation led them to understand who Ken Kirkby is.

The man remained skeptical of the painting’s authenticity however so he emailed Penney to enquire about it.

“I recognized Ken’s signature, I recognized Ken’s work, what was unusual about the painting though was that it was mono-chromatic, or black and white,” Penney said.

“I had heard Ken mention once that upon returning from his epic saga up North for six-plus years in the arctic he had come back to Vancouver and taken his paint kit out of storage and the paints had been ruined because they were frozen…the paints had separated and were unusable with the exception of some black and some white.”

Penney said Kirkby used the paints to create about 10 oil paintings during a hunting trip in Iona Beach in 1968.

“He pulls out his paint kit and all of the paints are wrecked and most of the brushes too, he said, so there was only a couple of brushes and he ended up whittling one with a pocket knife to a stick-point and using it as a palette knife,” Penney said.

“He just sort of lightheartedly made, he said at least seven but no more than 10, of these little paintings and they were all done on various leftover canvas wrap boards…They’re all stan-dard sizes but they’re not all consistent in size.”

The oil paintings were sold for $200 each.

Penney has one of the rare paintings in his gallery, titled Snowfall (Northern Lights).

“They all look very much like this one does…kind of crude very monochromatic but they have evidence of some of his (Kirkby’s) best techniques,” he said.

“This particular piece that were looking at now shows the Northern Lights but because it’s in black and white there’s none of the usual distinct green of a Northern Lights depiction but what’s neat about it is there’s a lot of sheen to the painting so you’ve got some luminosity by other methods.”

Penney said he assured the

man the $10 painting was an original Kirkby but the man remained skeptical and traveled to Ucluelet to find out for sure at Penney’s gallery last week.

“He brought the painting in and he was still quite skeptical as to its authenticity and also its value,” Penney said.

When it came time to put a price on the painting, the man was shocked by Penney’s response.

“I said ‘I think you’d be silly to let go of it for less than three’ and he said $300? And I said, ‘No $3,000,’ so he was quite sur-prised,” Penney said.

“The price was set at $200 in 1968. This gentlemen acquired it, a very savvy buyer I would say, by chance but either way he acquired it for $10 and was looking to figure out what it was he had to find out it really is worth above $3,000.”

He said the man has decided not to sell the painting at this time and purchased an auto-graphed first edition Kirkby biography from the gallery.

“In the art world occasionally paintings by famous artists show up in weird places, estate sales and the like,” Penney said noting a Lauren Harris was purchased in New Zealand for about $5 and turned out to be worth over $50,000.

“In Ken’s case, this is a living artist but still a very high pro-file painter and what makes these more valuable is that they’re very rare. There real-ly was less than 10 paintings made in this particular style and always the story behind a painting can add value, or at least a lot of interest, and in this case it makes for a fascinating story and anybody whose got a painting like that is surely proud of it.”[email protected]

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This Ken Kirkby oil painting titled ‘Winter Field’ is worth over $3,000 but a very lucky second hand shopper only paid $10 to take it home. Photo submitted.

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ANDREW BAiLEYWesterly News

Ucluelet Coun. Sally Mole recently attended a Coastal Family Resource Coalition meeting and was shocked to discover the impacts drugs and alcohol are having on the West Coast.

“With alcohol and mari-juana (use) up, ambulance visits for possible suicide attempts being up—we’ve had one fentanyl death, that blew me away—we really need to come together as a West Coast region to iden-tify what we’re doing wrong and what we can do right,” she urged during last week’s council meeting.

Fentanyl is unfortunately

an oft-used narcotic that, according to the Canadian Centre of Substance Abuse, caused at least 655 deaths in Canada between 2009-2014.

Mole told the Westerly after the meeting that the Coastal Family Resource Coalition meets monthly and is comprised of service providers across the West Coast.

“It’s a really dynamic very intense group looking at children, youth, families and how we should better serve them,” she said.

“At this particular meeting, we had a presenter from Vancouver Island Health Authority (VIHA) whose mandate is looking at harm

reduction…He mentioned, in looking briefly at the stats out here on the Coast, that there was an increase in drug and alcohol related accidents or impacts that they’re seeing on the VIHA front and what kinds of things we can do to help prevent that.”

She said a focus group is coming together to investi-gate what can be done local-ly to nip the rising problem in the bud.

“It’s baby steps right now, we’re just in the beginning of forming a group and organizing a meeting to get together and get an action plan together,” she said.

She suggested the district

has an important role to play in community health.

“I absolutely, positively, believe 100 per cent yes…there’s definitely a role for local government,” she said. “If we don’t have a healthy community, we don’t have a community.”

She said the West Coast must address the concern

together. “If people are dying from

overdoses absolutely…There’s things that we can do better, prevention-wise and also treatment-wise, and it takes the whole com-munity. It’s not just up to VIHA, we’ve got to stop put-ting ourselves in these silos and work together,” she said.

“We have this issue that I don’t see firsthand and it’s great that it’s been brought to our attention so that we can deal with it.”

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ANDREW BAiLEYWesterly News

Ucluelet wants to keep tobacco smokers out of sight and second-hand smoke out of lungs.

The district is drafting a new bylaw to restrict where smokers can smoke.

“Many BC municipalities have opt-ed to impose anti-smoking policies,” read a report submitted to council last week by Ucluelet’s lead plan-ner John Towgood and Parks and Recreation Director Abby Fortune.

“These municipalities have gone above and beyond the provincial legislation and enacted municipal smoking bylaws.”

Under BC’s Tobacco Control Act, it is against the law to smoke within 3 metres of doorways or inside public spaces like restaurants and bars.

Ucluelet’s new Smoking Control Bylaw, if adopted, would ban smok-ing in public areas like playgrounds, fields, trails and parks and within 8 metres of doorways.

The report states smokers found disobeying the bylaw would face fines though it does not specify an amount or who would issue them.

“In total, more than three-quar-ters (76.7 per cent) of the province’s population lives, works, and plays

in Municipalities with some restric-tions on smoking in public,” accord-ing to the report.

“The main purpose for creating Smoking Control Bylaws in pub-lic areas is to protect people from the health hazards of second-hand tobacco smoke. Other negative impacts of public smoking is lit-tering associated with cigarette butts and the fire hazard that ciga-rettes could cause in our parks and trail systems.”

The report suggests cutting down on public smoking would bring the community more in line with its reputation.

“Public smoking poses a number of risks to health, safety and to our natural environment,” it states.

“Ucluelet is becoming known for its exceptional natural environment. Public smoking and the associated litter and fire danger would seem counterproductive towards this image.”

Council approved the reports rec-ommendations without discussion and staff will now get to work on drafting the bylaw.

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OpinionJason Sam Local Voice

Breakfast matters, and will make a difference, plain and sim-ple. This is true for every person who shares this earth. Ucluelet Elementary School has been lucky enough to be able to make a dif-ference in many students’ lives. Whether it is waking up late and not having enough time to eat, having parents work early or not being able to make it to our only grocery store before it closes, breakfast can sometimes be over-looked. UES is there to help in the nutrition department.

It all starts with community. As the old, tested and true, saying goes ‘it takes a community to raise a child’. Two people, visiting our community, brought togeth-er many to celebrate and smile together. They decided to make a difference, to set in motion an action which affects many. What I can only describe as the butter-fly effect, their united action has brought smiles, full tummies, and many brains happy and ready to learn. Mr. and Mrs. G. Morris, from Saskatchewan, although sep-arated by distance (approximately 2,100 km) but connected by good thoughts and actions, joined

themselves to our community. They donated their wedding ‘kiss-ing money’ to the Breakfast Club. They have provided over 240 stu-dent meals with their act of kind-ness. This reminds me of a local belief, Hisukish Ts’awalk, ‘every-thing is one’, an idea that crosses cultures and millennium. With these words, I, and many children thank Mr. and Mrs. G. Morris.

To many of us, the most valu-able resource in the world is time. It is something that can be given, but never be taken back. To volunteer time is to give tre-mendously. With these words, I, and many children thank Robin Myck. Without her absolute devo-tion to the Breakfast Program, things would not be where they are now. Thank you Robin, for all the smoothie mustaches, the clean tables and dishes, and the full tummies.

What I have been lucky enough to witness, is great children start-ing their day off right. Food with peer to peer conversation. Up to 26 kids crowd into the Break-fast Program daily, all following rules, all eating and conversing with each other. A quote from Jen Adamson, UES Principal, ‘recent research on breakfast

nutrition proves what we are seeing in our school as intended and unintended outcomes; more smiles, more attention to work demands in the morning, less sep-aration anxiety, calmer routines for parents in the mornings, and building connections with others in the school.’

With current numbers attending, we will be on sched-

ule to serve over 3500 student meals in the 2015/2016 school year. This number is well above the approximately 2300 student meals served last year. Any and all help is appreciated to help get our community students off to a great start for learning.

With special thanks to: SD70, Breakfast for Learning, UES and Jen, Mrs. Brice and Explorations

2015, Robin and Kim, Coastal Community Credit Union, Break-fast Program Helpers (Leigha, Bel-la, Kate, Chantal, Sam, and Xavier) and Community and Parent Dona-tors for making this all happen.

Jason Sam is the Breakfast Program Coordinator at Ucluelet Elementary School.

Community support + volunteers = Smiling kids ready for learning

Ucluelet Elementary School students start their day off right thanks to the school’s breakfast program. Photo submitted.

Volunteers put heart into hearty student breakfasts

Dear editor, We all care about the state of

wild salmon in Clayoquot Sound. There are many people in this

region actively working to restore salmon habitat and enhance salmon runs. Cermaq Canada is proud to have been able to fund some of this work, including the recent Atleo River restoration pro-ject, monitoring projects, and fish counts.

Because we care about wild salmon, it’s concerning that Clay-oquot Action’s executive director Dan Lewis is misrepresenting the facts about the state of farmed and wild salmon in the region while fundraising for a trip to Norway (“Clayoquot Action head-ing to Norway,” Westerly News, Nov. 11, 2015).

Lewis suggests that wild salmon runs in Clayoquot Sound are in

decline because of salmon farms. The truth is, declines in commer-cially valuable stocks began when the road to Tofino was built, the harbour was built to service up to 400 vessels, when fishing fleets started using more efficient fish-ing methods, and when salmon habitat in the region was dam-aged by logging activities. This was all before 1970.

Since then, thanks to conserv-ation measures, enhancement efforts and habitat restoration, we actually have seen improvements in many runs. Coho returns in the past decade have been almost as good as they were in the 1950s. Chinook returns have improved drastically since the 1980s and early 1990s. Chum salmon, which were never significantly commer-cially fished, remain the dominant species with a consistent pattern

of returns over the past 60 years.However, in alignment with

coastwide trends, there are many runs which have not seen their abundance rebound to historical levels. To link these examples with salmon farms ignores all the other trends and data collected about other species. It’s mislead-ing, and isn’t telling the whole truth about wild salmon in Clayo-quot Sound.

Cermaq Canada has a protocol agreement with the Ahousaht First Nation that guides us to farm salmon in their territory in a way that is mutually beneficial and environmentally responsible. We are also committed to working respectfully with Ahousaht chiefs and council to resolve the con-cerns raised about the Yaakswiis site, despite the fictional version of events Lewis describes.

Finally, we are committed to being transparent about our farming operations and publish site-specific information on our website, along with other infor-mation about medicine use, feed ingredients, fish health and more.

We care about wild salmon, and want to make sure they are here forever. We also care about

the health of our fish, and are committed to growing a healthy, top-quality product. The only way we can do this is by using the best farming practices and keeping our environmental impacts low.

Grant Warkentin Cermaq Canada Communications Officer

LettersCermaq responds to Clayoquot Action’s Dan Lewis

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Cermaq Canada helped fund an Atleo River restoration project. Photo courtesy of Cermaq Canada.


JULIUS SMOLDERSLocal Voice

I was in attendance at this year’s Remembrance Day cere-mony in Ucluelet. The ceremony was well represented and well attended, the sunshine aiding warm and heartfelt emotions all around. I stood in quiet reverence and gratitude as the wreaths were being laid, one by one, at the base of the cenotaph. If not for the bravery and sacri-fice of so many, I may not have the freedoms that I so deeply enjoy in this great country of ours: Freedom of assembly; freedom of speech; the right to vote; and a life of peace, hope and relative prosperity. And I was reminded of a story I had heard so many times before as a boy.

It was January 31st, 1941. The Belgian registered freighter SS OLYMPIER was enroute from Durban, South Africa to Inning-ham, England. Her fore and aft ‘tween decks were loaded to capacity with iron ore and cal-cium carbide, 5035 GRT in all, to feed the British war effort. The single screw, steam driven ves-sel with a crew of 33 was pass-ing 120 nautical miles WNW of Tory Island, Ireland. She was favoring the longer but safer route past the Orkney’s into the North Sea, rather than the peril-ous English Channel.

All was quiet, though all were alert, on that cold winter night in the North Atlantic. A young sailor of 26 years took the opportunity after watch to shower and shave; a luxury fre-quently not available. Dressed in only slippers, pants and a ‘gabardine’ cloaked around his body he made his way back to his cabin. Suddenly, and with-out warning, the ship heaved and shuddered right down to her very keel – a deafening Boom! Boom! Boom! rever-berating throughout the ship. Three direct hits from the air raid party that passed over-head as quickly as the bombs exploded.

In an instant, the deckhouse was torn and twisted, the ship’s masts and rigging lay tangled upon the deck, the decks them-selves awash in flames, the engine room and cargo holds flooding with seawater. The young sailor ran the few short steps to his cabin, grabbing a canvas pouch containing docu-mentation papers, a few British Pounds and a letter addressed to his mother, to be posted on arrival in Inningham. As he made his way aft, he met the engineer emerging from the engine room, bloodied, dazed and confused. “Pete! Pete!” the

young sailor shouted. “Come with me. We have to get

to the life raft.” He helped guide his injured shipmate to the WWI style life rafts on the after deck; their only hope of safety and refuge. With her heavy load of ore, the SS OLYMPIER went down quickly, with a loss of eight soles in all.

For three days and three nights, the over-crowded lift raft drifted on the North Atlantic, in the dead of winter. Several of those who were clinging to the sides of the raft suc-cumbed to the frigid waters and drifted away, lifeless, into the abyss. Those who remained sat slumped, exhausted by the cold and constant tossing of the seas. Hour after hour after perilous hour, night became day and day turned to night.

On the third night adrift, one of the surviving sailors called out to his shipmates “Look! A light!” They all looked into the darkness but no light was to be seen. A moment later, he once more proclaimed seeing a light. Again he called out to his shipmates, and again no light was to be seen. But he insisted; all should look off the starboard side. And then, as the small life raft crested the wave, there it was – the faint glow of a cigarette from a British sailor stealing a smoke over the rail, despite the curfew of blackout conditions. The men in the life raft shouted, calling out into the darkness, pleading for help. It took quite some time for the British warship to circle the area, assess the risks and finally

move into position to make good the rescue.

This is a true story; that young sailor was my father.

After a brief period of conva-lescence in Glasgow, Scotland, having suffered from exposure and minor frostbite, he returned to serve in the Belgian Mer-chant Marine aboard the SS LEOPOLDVILLE.

Chartered to the British Admiralty, the SS LEOPOLD-VILLE was sent to the Halifax Naval Shipyards to be con-verted to a troop transporter. While in Halifax, he attended the gunnery school at HMCS STATICONA. He also met my mother, a pretty young woman of 22, who had emigrated from Holland in 1933 along with her family. ‘Opa’ had bought a farm, sight unseen, in the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia.

My father was one of the lucky ones who made it back home after the war. They settled down in Halifax, Nova Scotia, enjoying the freedoms they had fought for, as Canadians. This great country of ours provided refuge, freedom and opportunity to my immigrant parents. My father passed away peacefully at the age of 80 years. The rest, as they say, is history. Lest we forget.

Note: The Troopship SS LEO-POLDVILLE was torpedoed and sank off the coast of France, on the evening of Dec 24th, 1944, with the loss of life counting 763 American soldiers and 45 crew members, 808 in all.

Julius Smolders is a Ucluelet local.

Lest We Forget

Ucluelet local Julius Smolders reads through his father’s war experiences in his father’s old log book. Photo Andrew Bailey.

Albertus Emilius Julius Smolders circa 1937 and 1995.



The West Coast Multiplex Soci-ety is making strides in its quest to bring an ice rink to locals.

The society’s chair Samantha Hackett told the Westerly the geotechnical assessment process is complete and a location adja-cent to Airport Road has been finalized.

She said a site at the Long Beach Golf Course was considered but would have required additional spending.

“Previous locations that we’ve looked at could be built on but they would need substantial extra costs into the foundation because the land wasn’t as stable,” she said adding regional invest-ment at the airport would create synergies.

Hackett hopes to see construc-tion start by 2017 but noted a lot of ducks would need to line up in a particularly immaculate row for that to happen.

“The best-case scenario, my wishful thinking date, is breaking

ground in 2017,” she said. “If everything goes perfectly in

the next little while, we’re break-ing ground in 2017.”

She said the society is currently revamping its business plan with help from Hamilton and Associ-ates—a company which helped secure funding for Ucluelet’s new aquarium building—that will focus solely on the ice rink and associated amenities.

The society’s original business plan for the multiplex contained future phases like a swimming pool and fitness centre which will be considered at a later date.

“The initial phase of the pro-ject will include the sheet of ice, Zamboni, storage rooms, skate shop rentals, offices, public wash-rooms and to be designed for those future things,” she said add-ing a removable floor might be included in the initial phase.

“We will also be looking at a removable floor in order to pro-vide the community services, entertainment and events without removing the ice surface…We don’t want to promise it but we

are prioritizing it into the initial phase.”

Once the business plan is com-plete, the society will put out a request for proposals (RFP) in search of a company willing to design and build the facility for under $6 million.

“That is what we’d like to cap it at,” Hackett said. “When we go through the RFP process we’ll be letting them know that’s what our max. is.”

The society is waiting on a let-ter from the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District, which owns the land, to state the land has been reserved for the multiplex so the society can take this letter to potential funders.

Hackett acknowledged raising $6 million seems daunting but said the society will start its fundraising campaign at federal and provincial government tables and will exhaust any available grant opportunities.

“There’s also lots of people invested in the West Coast com-munities that might want to invest in the building to give

back to the community,” she said adding major funders might be interested in the facility’s naming rights.

“We will be going out to all of those big sponsors and players, really any company that has ever associated with the West Coast in any of the eight communities, and we’ll be talking to them to see if they’d like their name on the building,” she said.

Once the $6 million facility is built, local taxpayers will cover its operational costs.

Locals were asked in a Nov. 24, 2012, referendum whether they would be willing to support an annual operating cost deficit of up to $450,000 through taxation and 679 of the 1,074 voters said, ‘Yes.’

During last week’s Ucluelet council meeting, Coun. Randy Oliwa asked if the 2012 refer-endum result had a timeline attached and district CAO Andrew Yeates responded it has been renewed twice.

Oliwa wondered if the question should be put back to the public.

“It was quite an ordeal to hold a referendum to increase people’s taxes and business taxes and I think it was pretty close at the time,” he said.

“From what you’re saying, it seems like a pretty easy extension process…Who would we enquire to about that process and why it doesn’t become a public process again?”

Yeates said the regional district is working with the society and noted tax dollars will only be covering operational costs, not capital costs.

“It’s only when we borrow that we have to go through the approv-al process,” he said.

Oliwa suggested council follow up with the regional district.

“Things change overtime, so if it has to become public than it should,” he said.

The multiplex society’s next board meeting will be held on Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. at the Long Beach Golf Course and all are welcome to attend.

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Ucluelet’s municipal council hasn’t stopped pulling in the tug-of-war it’s having with the RCMP over its local police chief.

Ucluelet’s RCMP detachment is a four-year limited duration posting but council is urging the RCMP to nix this label and allow Sgt. Jeff Swann to continue his command.

Sgt. Swann has received two one-year extensions since arriving in Ucluelet in 2009 but his bosses seem unwilling to extend his stay any further.

In August, Swann was told he would be transferring to Port Alberni later this year.

Swann has been vocal about his desire to stay in Ucluelet and council, along with the commun-ity, have made it clear that they

share this desire.Council met with BC’s Minister

of Justice and Attorney General Suzanne Anton during the Union of BC Municipalities convention in September and reviewed a let-ter from Anton during Nov. 10’s council meeting.

“I appreciate that the existing Ucluelet Detachment commander had a very positive impact on the community and that the District

did not want him to be trans-ferred out at the end of his limited duration posting,” Anton wrote.

She explained the RCMP’s lim-ited duration posting policy is controlled at the federal level and that she had asked BC’s Assistant Deputy Minister and Director of Police Services Clayton Pecknold to forward Ucluelet’s concerns to Ottawa.

“Through a continued partner-

ship, I am confident that we can work together to increase the safety and security of the District of Ucluelet,” she wrote.

Council assured they would fol-low up with Pecknold to ensure their voice is heard.

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While winter’s dark clouds lull locals into the West Coast’s traditionally quiet off-season, Ucluelet’s Wild Pacific Trail is still bustling with tourists.

The trail topped Trip Advisor’s list of Vancouver Island attractions this year and was infused with new viewpoints and edu-cational features thanks to the Wild Pacific Trail Society.

Trail manager ‘Oyster’ Jim Martin said the trail has brought “huge economic bene-fit” to Ucluelet’s economy since its incep-tion in 1998, especially during the slow winter months.

“The other day when it was stormy, the trail was packed with people taking pic-tures so hang onto your hats because it’s going to be busy now,” he said.

“There are people who are waiting to come here from the other side of the Island, or other places, and when there’s a storm they’re going to travel here to witness the spectacle on the ocean.”

He said 2015 was a “great year” for the society as significant upgrades were made to the trail thanks to district support and local donations.

“We completed nine new viewing points and a viewing deck on the Lighthouse Loop and that was especially significant because that was made possible through the society by several local donors.”

He said the society received an anonym-ous $20,000 donation along with support

from locals and businesses like Allison Tremain, Ukee Cable and the Raven Lady Oyster Forte.

“They all have programs that auto-matically send funds to the Wild Pacific Trail Society and those funds were used to help upgrade the Lighthouse Loop to its current standing,” he said.

Raven Lady owner Bruce Schmaltz said he supports the trail because it is a peren-nial tourist draw that keeps local business-es humming.

“I look at the trail as a real game changer for the town of Ucluelet… It’s been done in such a way that the average person can do the hikes and see the beauty of the West Coast,” he said.

“It’s something that just keeps on giving. It’s going to go on for years and years to come and it’s made Ucluelet a destination. Supporting the trail supports the town and supports the community.”

Along with the Lighthouse Loop upgrades, the society also celebrated the completion of the trail’s Artists Loops sec-tion, which was moved “as far out on the coast as we possibly can get it,” according to Martin.

He said the section—located on Weyer-haeuser-owned land between Uclue-let-proper and the Wyndansea develop-ment—was built in 2002 with an under-standing that it would eventually be moved closer to the shoreline.

“We finished up the rest of the Artists Loops and effectively moved the trail to its final position on the Coast; that includes

three viewing decks that are quite out-standing,” he said.

He noted that under the trail’s master development agreement, nothing can be built between the trail and the ocean.

“The landowners are giving up that por-tion of not only the land underneath the trail but also in front of the trail so it’s incumbent on the trail not to take anymore than absolutely necessary of the private land owner’s land,” he said.

“By moving the trail out we returned huge amounts of real estate back to the private landowners.”

He said the society plans to invest about $20,000 into the trail in 2016.

“The trail is unique in the world,’ he said. “It’s a total experience for the travelers who come here and the locals who use it. It pro-vides them with unique outstanding vistas at every turn and places to sit and rest and have a private experience.”

He suggested the trail’s construction will eventually be complete but its features will continue to evolve.

“It will just change focus,” he said. “It’s already beginning a switch to edu-

cational and interpretation programs and guided tours…That is coming on and that will be more prominent as construction declines.”

He believes adding to the trail’s edu-cational value is a key way to add to its appeal.

“That’s what the tourists want…They thrive on that, they eat that stuff up, they have questions all the time and people are there to answer their questions,” he said.

“Every subject associated with the ocean and wildlife and the whole environ-ment here is interesting to these people because very few places have this type of environment.”

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The Central Westcoast Forest Society turned 20 this year and busted out of its teens with a bang by fundraising over twice its annual average.

“November 2015 marks our 20th anni-versary which is a great cause for cele-bration here at Central Westcoast but we’re also celebrating because we raised over $1 million this year to put towards habitat restoration here in Clayoquot and Barkley Sound,” said the society’s execu-tive director Jessica Hutchinson.

This is the first year the society (CWFS) has reached the $1 million mark, which crushes its annual average of $300,000-$500,000.

With more money coming in, the soci-ety was able to dish more out to restore wildlife habitats including a roughly $800,000 culvert replacement project that saw long-lost rearing and spawning grounds returned.

“We successfully installed three cul-verts on Highway 4 and the Pacific Rim Highway that will now restore fish access so the fish can return to their upstream habitat that hasn’t been accessible for over 30 years,” Hutchinson said adding the new access will allow salmon and trout species to thrive.

“It will help rebuild the populations to historic levels.”

Hutchinson said CWFS also partnered with the Hesquiaht and Ahousaht First Nations to complete habitat assess-ments, rehabilitated a degraded water-shed with the Toquaht First Nation, heli-coptered spawning gravel into a creek within the Pacific Rim National Park, spearheaded various volunteer riparian and stream restoration efforts, and mon-itored salmon populations at Lost Shoe Creek.

She said the community’s support has played a vital role in the society’s success.

“The community has been a great sup-porter over the last 20 years and really we couldn’t have done any of this work without them. Everyone from the district councils to the schools to individual vol-unteers coming out and lending a hand,” she said.

“We’re a volunteer led organization and it’s taken everyone’s help and assistance to raise all this money and do all this great work.”

She hopes to see the society’s success continue and is stoked to get started on

2016’s efforts. “We have a lot more projects planned

for the year ahead…We’re hoping that we can bring even more money to the table next year,” Hutchinson said.

“We’re hoping that with the support of the district of Tofino and Ministry of Transportation we’re going to achieve twice as many culvert replacements on Hwy. 4 and Pacific Rim Highway next year and that this is only a sign of the times to come.”

She said one of the society’s major projects in 2016 is the restoration of a Tofitian creek.

“One project in particular we’re very excited about is the Centennial Creek Project in the district of Tofino,” she said.

“People were dumping all their garbage there during the early development of Tofino. They used it to dump stumps and logs and building debris and gar-den waste and we hope to restore the instream habitat and restore cutthroat trout to this stream that used to sup-port cutthroat trout but hasn’t for many years.”

She said the society has lasted 20 years on the Coast because of the value of its work and the dedication of its supporters.

“We’re a very action oriented organiza-tion and we get a lot of great work done so we’ve got a great track record and the society has really evolved with the community over the years; we’re always taking on new members and our staff, as it grows and changes, brings new energy to the organization with great ideas,” she

said.“The organization was conceived and

formed with the support of the local Nuu-Chah-Nulth First Nations and their longstanding role in the organization has really helped ensure our longevity.”

She suggested West Coasters are quick to help with habitat restoration.

“People move here and stay here and live here because they love it here and they love the environment and people are really keen to come out and lend a hand to help restore the environment and to help rebuild wildlife populations in this area,” she said.

“Really it comes down to people real-ly valuing the local environment here and therefore valuing the importance of restoration.”

CWFS is offering a slew of ongoing volunteer opportunities throughout the winter and anyone interested in getting involved is encouraged to check out Cen-tral Westcoast’s Facebook page or con-tact [email protected].

The society will be celebrating 2015’s success at a ‘Winter Wine and Dine’ fundraising event at Tofino’s Wickaninn-ish Inn on Dec. 12.

“It’s part fundraiser, part good old fashioned celebration,” Hutchinson said.

“This is an opportunity to put on your party dress and put on a smile and come out for a good cause for a good organiza-tion and for a good time.”

Tickets to the event can be purchased at the society’s Ucluelet office, 1920 Lyche Road, or the Wickaninnish Inn.

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The Central Westcoast Forest Society raised over $1 million this year to put towards local habitat restoration projects and brought hands on educational experiences to West Coast youth. Photos Melody Charlie.

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When the Ucluelet Aquarium closes for the season later this month, it will bring an end to its best season ever.

“This has been our busiest sea-son yet,” said aquarium curator Laura Griffith-Cochrane. “We saw what would be an average num-ber for a total year by the begin-ning of September.”

She said she was particu-larly stoked on the number of returning visitors the aquarium welcomed this season.

“More people coming back means we are providing a service to people that they enjoy,” she said

“We’ve had a lot of people come back to stay in the com-munity and explore for a few days which has been great…That means they’re becoming very excited about this area and it means they’re really passionate about learning about our local ecosystems.”

Learning about local ecosystems through the aquarium’s hands-on interpretative experiences helps tourists and locals appreciate and nurture their surroundings, according to Griffith-Cochrane.

“Having basic knowledge about the ecosystem can influence a lot of our behaviours,” she said. “It’s important for people to have a little bit of knowledge about how our ecosystems work so that we’re more functional moving within that environment.”

Along with providing an indoor space for tourists to find shel-ter during rainy weather, Grif-fith-Cochrane said the aquarium adds a uniquely educational twist to the West Coast experience.

“It puts us on the map as not your typical vacation destination but a place you can go to learn

and be active within the commun-ity,” she said.

“We’re one of many groups out here that provide really great edu-cational opportunities and work experience opportunities and that’s valuable to people who are trying to plan their summers and maybe want their kids to learn something valuable at the same time.”

She suggested tourists “are real-ly craving a lot of knowledge right now,” and have bought into the West Coast’s budding educational vibe.

“A lot of people are really excited to expand their knowledge,” she said. “We’re seeing a lot of people that are really excited about learning and I think that’s a really great thing.”

The aquarium also brings edu-cational value to locals through school programs and volunteer opportunities.

“If they’re really interested in biology they can learn a lot about local ecosystems and about species biology but it’s also an important opportunity for people to learn job skills,” Griffith-Coch-rane said.

“Because we’re a small commun-ity there aren’t a lot of resour-ces and we would like to be a resource wherever we can.”

The aquarium catered to this year’s banner crop of patrons thanks to three University stu-dents hired through the federal government’s Canada Sum-mer Jobs grant, according to Griffith-Cochrane.

“Our summer students are a major bonus to us, there’s just no way we could operate without them,” she said adding the aquar-ium caters to roughly 250 patrons everyday during the summer com-pared to roughly 50 in the winter.

The aquarium will close for the season on Nov. 29 but will start collecting new specimens in Feb-ruary to have new exhibits in place when it reopens in March.

“We have a couple of pretty exciting things that we might be unveiling which I might tell you more about in the spring,” Griffith-Cochrane hinted.

One exciting project she would let out of the bag is a new ‘Be a Better Beachgoer’ program the aquar-ium will launch in 2016 to help tour-ists evolve into environmental stewards.

“We are seeing this great increase in visitorship and that’s wonderful but we also want to make sure that that great increase is happening in a really positive way so we’re going to start a pro-gram to help people protect our beaches when they come out this way,” she said.

She said the program would include how human behaviours can impact marine mammals.

“There’s a lot of seals and sea lions in our area and there’s also a lot of seal and sea lion entangle-ments in our area,” she said.

“Because it’s so expensive for a single disentanglement to free one of those guys we think that awareness and changing behav-iours are the best way to protect those species.”

The Ucluelet Aquarium began as a small temporary structure dubbed the ‘Mini-Aquarium’ in

2004 and moved its touch-tank exhibits, interpretive ideas, and catch-and-release model to its current and much larger digs in 2012.

Anyone interested in learning more about the aquarium and the society that runs it is encouraged to attend a Nov. 28 Annual Gen-

eral Meeting at the Aquarium at 3 p.m.

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Ukee Aquarium scores best year yet

Above, aquarium staffer Andrew McCurdy, middle, gives patrons a hand at one of the aquarium’s unique touch tank exhibits. Below, curator Laura Griffith-Cochrane helps youth get stoked on a sea star. Westerly file photos.


ANDREW BAILEYWesterly NewsThe Christmas season is a giv-

ing season. Locals are urged to help the

Food Bank on the Edge Society ensure all West Coasters enjoy a happy holiday season by donating to this year’s Christmas Hamper program.

Ucluelet Coun. Sally Mole said the need for Christmas Hampers is ample.

“You always hope that it’s going to decrease but somehow we haven’t quite got that far,” she said.

She said the Food Bank is focused on monetary donations this time of year as the society purchases specific and fresh items for each Christmas Hamper.

“Right now we’re all about cold hard cash because our Christmas hampers are pretty special,” she said. “Cash is really what we’re looking for, I know it sounds a bit harsh but the reality is that’s what we need.”

The Food Bank on the Edge Society’s executive director Cris Martin agreed.

“Unlike the rest of the year, at

Christmastime we buy all of the food for the hampers so that the recipients have a lovely holiday breakfast and dinner,” she said.

“We really go all out to make sure our clients have a festive and delicious assortment of food and gifts.”

The society is hoping to dish out 95 hampers—filled with every-thing from turkeys, hams and vegetables, to bacon, eggs, and pancake mix—on Dec. 22 and will start earmarking donations this month to ensure costs are cov-ered, according to Martin.

“The Ucluelet Campground graciously lets us use their sign on Peninsula Road to post the progress of the hamper program,” Martin said.

“We will begin the countdown tally at the beginning of Decem-ber so that our community knows just how far along we are. This will be the third year we have used the sign and I think it is a very concrete message that keeps people aware of our progress.”

She is confident the community will keep the tally humming.

“I have been participating in

the Christmas Hamper program for five years and it never ceases to amaze me how generous and thoughtful our community is,” she said.

“The citizens of Ucluelet always step up to the challenge to help out the folks who need a little extra help.”

Registration for those needing a hamper begins on Nov. 24 and Martin added the Food Bank also receives referrals from the West-coast Community Resources Soci-ety (WCRS) and the Ucluelet First Nation, according to Martin.

She said the WCRS collects information about youth whose families will be receiving a ham-per to ensure gifts and toys are included and the local RE/MAX office helps collect and distribute these toys through its Angel Tree program.

Martin added the BC Liquor Store donates teddy bears to the hamper program each year.

“As you can see, the Christmas Hamper program is a collective effort from many aspects of the community,” she said. “It draws our community together in the

spirit of giving.” She added hampers are picked

up or delivered on Dec. 22 with help from Far West Foods, local RCMP, and volunteers.

The RCMP is also planning the return of its ‘Stuff the Cruiser’ event in the Ucluelet Co-op’s park-ing lot on Dec. 12.

“The amount of food, toys and money collected last year was unprecedented,” Martin said add-ing she is consistently proud of her community during the Christ-mas Hamper season.

“The giving spirit is alive and well in Ukee and the feeling that it generates is infectious and heart-warming,” she said. “Every-body has lots of fun and I just can’t tell you how much it means to us at the Food Bank to know that we are making a difference in the lives of our clients.”

While monetary donations top the Food Bank’s needs-list, Mole suggested socks, bedding and mens’ clothing are also key prior-ity items.

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The BC Liquor Store helps spread joy across the Coast by donating teddy bears to the Food Bank on the Edge’s Christmas Hamper Program each year. Westerly file photo.

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Tofitians and Uclutians who attended The Future is HERE com-munity event over the weekend were treated to a free screening of the award-winning documentary The Future of Energy: Lateral Power to the People, followed by scintillating conversation about how West Coast-ers can slow climate change.

Eating locally grown food, gather-ing rainwater in the winter months for summer, and sealing up cracks to cut home heating costs, were some green solutions brought forward by locals to help reduce the carbon footprint of the Coast.

“We need to shift our expecta-tions of what a good life looks like. Happiness doesn’t need to involve a three-car garage in the suburbs,” said event host Larissa Stendie of the Sierra Club B.C.

Tofino-Ucluelet Transition Town member Robert Zurowski expressed the imminent need for the West Coast to switch from a high-carbon globalized economy to a low-carbon localized economy.

“The first step is to get the message out and mobilizing all these people who are doing all these alternative

things in food and energy and hous-ing; they need to be brought togeth-er,” Zurowski told the Westerly News.

Former mayor of Ucluelet Bill Irving stood up and spoke to the audience at the Ucluelet Community Centre on the probability of wave energy being deployed as an alter-nate option.

“Unless these companies are sub-sidized extensively, they are very reluctant to experiment. They have gone to Scotland and Australia and built their pilots there, not on the west coast. We have a better wave pattern here, but they chose to do it somewhere else,” Irving said.

“That doesn’t mean that it’s not an important issue to maintain. We have council member Geoff Lyons dedicated to keep on that issue. He sees it as a tremendous opportunity, but it also requires the community to say this is what we want. Not what industry or government or PR wants. What do we want this place to look like?”

Anyone interested in connecting with Transition Town Tofino-Uclue-let is encouraged to email Robert Zurowski at [email protected].

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Grand Master Professor Don Jacob, founder of Purple Dragon Don Jitsu Ryu, was on the West Coast last week to conduct a belt grading exam and workshop with students from Ucluelet and Tofino. All the students were successful in moving up to the next belt level. Many thanks to the Blackrock Oceanfront Resort and Sobo for hosting the group. New ses-sions of martial arts classes are starting now in Ucluelet and in Tofino. Photo submitted by Senpai Ian Shu.

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The Clayoquot Biosphere Trust is pleased to announce the recipi-ents of the Neighbourhood Small Grants Program. This is the first year of the program, and the CBT partnered with the Vancouver Foundation and Westcoast Com-munity Resource Society to bring it to the west coast.

Neighbourhood Small Grants help engage local residents in their community by encouraging them to come up with their own ideas for strengthening and con-

necting their neighbourhood. Small grants of up to $500 were available, and were decided by resident advisory committee members — all local commun-ity volunteers. The CBT plans to run the program next year so keep coming up with ideas. For more program information contact Brooke Wood, NSG pro-gram coordinator at the CBT 250-725-2219.

Congratulations to this year’s program leaders and keep an eye out when these projects take place in your community.

Shawna Roberts and Erin McGillivray- Pumpkin Path in Tofino on Halloween.

Sheenagh Walker and Carmen Larsen-Harris- Open Art in Tofino late 2015.

Cindy Hutchison and Eileen Floody- Tofino Community Gar-den - Community Potluck and Putting your Garden to Bed Work-shop in late November 2015.

Katie Garner and Grace Liba-tique- Filipino-Canadian Pasko Gathering in Tofino December 12.

Gale Johnsen and Bernice Touchie- Total Physical Response

Language program starting in November 2015.

Deborah Mundy and Suzanne Williams- Rites of Passage Com-munity Gathering in Hitacu in late 2015.

Gina Skippen and Kelvin Rob-erts- Salmon Beach New Year’s Eve Beach cleanup and commun-ity celebration.

Samantha Fyleris and Anne Weeks- Lone Cone Block Party in Tofino early 2016.

Jennifer Price-Francis and Dede Monette- Water Catchment Sem-inar in Tofino early 2016.

Cathy Thicke and Joe Martin- Tonquin Trail Cleanup early 2016.

Craig Devine and Naomi Seitch-er- Ty-Histanis Community Gar-den Equipment and gathering Spring 2016.

Alice Pradel and Nathaniel Landry- Native Plant Apprecia-tion Day in Tofino April 2016.

Brooke Wood is the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust’s office manager.

Neighbourhood Grant recipients named

Parkland Fuel Corporation health, safety, and environment field man-ager Lance Amos was quick to point out that had they decided to use the radio, communications with Coast Guard would have been more fluid.

“For the purpose of the mock, we chose to use landlines instead of the radio system. That’s were we found there was an inconsistency talking to them versus if we contacted them by radio that would have all gone through. We just didn’t want to use the radio system because everyone could hear it and there would have been some confusion,” said Amos.

Aside from the miscommunication with the Coast Guard, Marriot was pleased with how the mock marine spill response was conducted.

“Having done it for a second time around, it definitely went smoother. I would say it was twice as better as last year; coordination wise, understanding what to do, working

together as a team, and understand-ing how to work with other groups in the community,” he said.

Amos agreed, adding he thought the initial containment of the spill went very well.

“If there had been a real spill, we got the booms out within a couple minutes and then after that it was kind of a hurry-up-and-wait when we were doing all the phoning and notification, but the initial get-the-booms-out went very well,” said Amos.

In terms of improving procedures for next years’ mock spill drill, the idea of pre-connecting the booms and storing them in a different loca-tion was suggested as was wearing better safety gear and purchasing skimmer equipment.

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A mock marine oil spill was successfully contained in Ucluelet last week. Photo N. O’Malley.

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The West Coast showcased its cultural diversity over the week-end at the first annual Folklore Festival.

The festival was held at the Ucluelet Community Centre on Nov. 14 and its coordinator Lyvi Rivera told the Westerly she was “overjoyed” with the turnout.

“Everyone’s really into it,” she said.

“It’s a constant flow of high energy. People are dancing, people are playing music, we even had some spontaneous musicians show up adding to the energy and it’s been great.”

One of the musicians was Kevin Barnhorst of The Reprieve who said he had read about the event and thought it would be a solid busking opportunity and was stoked to be welcomed into the festival.

“It’s really great to celebrate multicultural heritages,” Barn-

horst said. “It’s cool to see people bring for-

ward the parts of their family his-tory that you don’t come across in everyday life. You meet all sorts of people without ever really finding out where they’re from, or what their heritage is, so it’s really neat so see that come out of people.”

Event volunteer Silva Johansson was delighted to see the festival celebrate a solid debut.

“Like many people who have come to this area and made it their home, I’m really curious about finding out about other cultures and the other people that make up the communities on the West Coast,” she said.

“We’ve got such great diversity in this community, it’s great to see it come out. We all know it’s there but we don’t get an opportunity to share it and this is an opportunity to share it.”

Local dad Jonny Ferguson was thrilled with the event’s family-friendly vibe.

“It was fantastic,” he said.

“Hopefully we’ll see more of this in the coming years. I think it will get bigger and we’ll see more different people expressing them-selves and where they came from; the more different food, clothing and variety we can experience the better.”

One of the food providers was Kasia Kromka, the owner of Ucluelet’s reigning business of the year Solidarity Snacks.

“We’ve had tons of people come through here, everybody’s really excited, we should do it again and make it bigger next year,” Kromka said.

Rivera assured the festival would return.

“I’ve heard a lot of people say-ing let’s do this bigger next year so I think that’s a good and posi-tive sign,” she said.

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The Ucluelet Aquarium will soon release this season’s slew of specimens and the community is invited to celebrate the sendoff.

The aquarium’s annual release day event will be held on Dec. 5.

“It’s a really, really, fun day,” said aquarium curator Laura Grif-fith-Cochrane. “It’s always been a very community-centered day and we’re really excited about it.”

Locals are encouraged to bring their own buckets to the event where they can carry critters from the aquarium and release them into the ocean surrounding Uclue-

let’s Whiskey Dock from noon-2 p.m.

“The unique thing about our aquarium is that we always release more than we collect,” Griffith-Cochrane said.

“Because we pump in raw sea-water, we have a lot of species that begin in their planktonic stage in our aquarium, settle, and then begin to grow so we’ll be releasing hundreds and hundreds of individuals back into the wild.”

Only the animals that were collected from around Ucluelet’s harbour will be released at the event as some species must be returned to tricky-to-reach areas

by professionals, according to Griffith-Cochrane.

She said release day is spiced with a pinch of sadness as aquarium staff say goodbye to the animals they’ve nurtured and inter-preted over the past season.

“It can be kind of an emo-tional day for us because you can’t help but fall in love a little bit with some of these things every season and it’s bittersweet to be releasing them so that they can go do their thing in the wild,” she said.

She said the aquarium’s unique catch-and-release model is an important part of its educational value.

“We believe that by releasing our species it helps us to connect back to the environments that we’re talk-ing about and that we’re help-ing to protect,” she said.

“It helps to create that con-nection that these things that are so wonderful and import-ant to us live in places that are very close and accessible to us and so those ecosystems that are close and accessible are important and it’s important for us to protect them.”

She said the aquarium has always believed the creatures brought in to delight fans must then be able to fulfill their

biological destinies. “One of the things we always

talked about—this was a phrase from back in the day—was ful-filling their biological destiny,” she said.

“It’s important to us that these species that are in here and that we get to talk about for a season get to go back to the wild and fulfill that destiny. They get to eat things or get eaten or reproduce or hunt for mates or migrate to their areas where they’re import-ant for those little ecosystems.”

She added catching and releas-ing allows the aquarium to offer new exhibits each year.

“Because we’re a small facility, it means that when we go collect new things in the spring we get to collect things that weren’t repre-sented the year before,” she said.

“We strive to have new things every year so that our locals get to see something different, so it’s new and exciting whenever you come back and so that we’re attracting new people out to the area every year.”

Following the family-friendly release day event, a fundraising afterparty will be held for aquar-ium fans 19-and-over at 8 p.m. with live music starting at 9 p.m.

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The Ukee Aquarium’s annual release day celebration will be held on Dec. 5. Westerly file photo.

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