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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 particularly 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 uncommon 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 meetings 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 address the issue. “From our meeting in 2014, we’re trying to continue to improve with water quality within the community,” 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. See WAtEr page 2
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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.
Stolen tsunami statue returned Anonymous thief gets cold feet after social media outcry Andrew bAiley
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A small wooden statue is living the good fortune it symbolizes. The 20-centimetre-tall statue, which depicts Shinto God Daikoku 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. See thIEF page 16
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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 website on Jan. 13 suggests the work would be completed 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 media as the website bulletin was the extent of the district’s information sharing and many locals, including 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 notified 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 progress 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 issues 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 priority so long ago” Cannon said his department welcomes feedback. “We always welcome public input and discussions on water,” he said.
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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.
West Coast celebrates literacy Ucluelet Community Centre to host Literacy Fair this weekend Andrew bAiley
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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 importance 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 everything 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.”
“It’s important to have a strong start to enjoying books and celebrating literacy,” KK Hodder.
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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 encourages 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 spontaneous…We welcome anybody to come by and spend some time with us.” She added the success of last year’s event illustrated the community’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 wellread 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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What’s the deal with the church? Andrew bAiley
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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 application 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 approved. 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 transformed into a venue for community events. In October, 2011, the building was used as a key backdrop for the Superman Man of Steel movie 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 party for local band Left at the Junction to release their new album ‘Dark stormy night.’Then January 2012 hit and everything crashed when a Valentine’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-venue 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 variance permit as well.” Hagar was optimistic heading into the hearing. “The public hearing is probably the only potential 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, roughly 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 Gudbranson, 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 refused 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 district had “crippled” the project. Irving told the Westerly that hands were tied. “If we put our stamp on a building that is defective 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 promoting Dianne St. Jacques mayoral bid was posted on the church. Considering she bested incumbent 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.
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Activists en route to Norway Nora o’malley
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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 throughout 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 believe 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 exposed 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 certification 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 northern 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 salmon 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 salmon economy. They said the fish farm industry could develop a transition strategy much like the one created for the logging industry 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 colonial 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 salmon 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.”
Amendment #6/Extension Amendment #6 “Arrowsmith” Forest Stewardship Plan “Arrowsmith” Forest Stewardship Plan South Island Natural Resource District
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ments on Corporation Amendment #6/Extension to theand “Arrowsmith” Stewardship Interfor gives notice invites Forest comments on Plan (FSP) effective June 28, 2006 to June 27, 2016. The amendment Amendment #6 to the “Arrowsmith” Forest Stewardship Plan covers (FSP) portions ofJune the following areas2016. in the The Arrowsmith Timber covers Supply effective 28, 2006geographic to June 27, amendment Area within the South Island Natural Resource District. portions of the following geographic areas in the Arrowsmith Timber Supply Area within the South Island Natural Resource District.
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Collective action is needed JeH CUSTerra Local Voice
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. Concluding 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 carbon-neutral world around 2050. Countries will now have to prepare, maintain and publish their own greenhouse gas reduction targets, striving to reduce carbon output with the “highest possible 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 introducing 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 economy as oil prices plummet. Resistance to carbon intensive projects begins at the community 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 Government 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 existing 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 Municipality of Burnaby and the Government of British Columbia are opposed 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 Mountain, 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.
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 Specifically, FSP amendment adds two areas into the the and proposesthisadjustments to the Visual, Riparian andFSP; theT0295 Non and Spatial Rosewall landscape and proposes to the Visual strategy. The Old Growth Order unit strategies. The adjustments FSP amendment is available for holdersby of the FSP are agencies also seekingand a 5 year to the term of the plan. review resource the extension public before the Delegated The FSP amendment is available for reviewofbyForests, resource agencies and the pubDecision Maker from the Ministry Lands and Natural lic beforeOperations the Delegated Decisionapproval, Maker from Ministry of Forests, Lands Resource considers andthemay be revised as a result Natural Resource Operations considers approval, and may be revised as a ofand written comments received during the public review and comment result of written comments received during the public review and comment period. The public review and comment period runs from January period. The public review and comment period runs from January 21st, 2016 28th, 2016 to March 28th, 2016. to March 20th, 2016. This be available availableforforreview review at the following locations and Thisplan plan will will be at the following locations and dates. dates. in advance an appointment. PleasePlease phone phone in advance to arrangetoanarrange appointment. Location Location
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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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Rare fur seal rescued on Long Beach A rare Guadalupe fur seal is clinging to life at the Vancouver 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 survived. The adult male seal was first spotted on Jan. 19 by Ucluelet local Doug Kimoto on a peninsula near Francis Island 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 California 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 different 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 unusual 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 addition 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.” See RARE page 10
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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, according 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 temperature,” 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. Everything 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 Reserve 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 Nielsen, 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 calling 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-yearold 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 Community Centre on Saturday evening had a hoot of a time. The topic of the night was wildlife rescue and rehabilitation 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 Report 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
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“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 manager 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.”
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continued from page 7 Vancouver Aquarium staff agreed to try rescuing and rehabilitating the animal 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 disappointment 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 Szaniszlo 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 following 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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Thief returns statue to Vancouver Aquarium COnTInUED FROm PagE 1
“We cannot definitely prove that because it does not have a serial number or a registration number and there’s no way of tracing it back to somebody from Japan that could say, ‘Hey that’s my item,’” Ucluelet’s emergency 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 underneath thick layers of pelagic barnacles. The markings were hard to identify but at least two Mediterranean mussels were growing on the vessel, which presented a strong case that the vessel had traveled from Japan. The statue was displayed at various tsunami related events and demonstrations throughout Ucluelet before being loaned to the Vancouver Aquarium’s ‘Not Just Garbage’ marine debris exhibit, which opened on June 1, 2015. In December, Aquarium officials were perplexed 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 measures would keep the statue safe for the duration of the exhibit. “Our team will be attaching the plastic bubble around the statue with additional fortification that would be very difficult to remove,” 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 statue 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 displayed locally as well as at the Maritime Museum in Victoria and the Vancouver Aquarium, 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 articles out of respect for their former owners, DISTRICT OF UCLUELET PhOTO serve as important reminders of the March This symbolic Shinto statue was returned about two weeks after being stolen. 11 2011 tragedy. “Driftage articles may act as a stimulus to discussions regarding marine debris pre- bring peace, fond memories and inspiration vention and removal, the international con- to the people of Japan and all those affected nections that have been formed through the by the tragic event. Perhaps future displays return of personal belongings, and the shar- of driftage articles will act as a memorial ing of information from this unprecedented to remind each country of our strong bond event,” she said. “It is also hoped that that across the ocean, the many lives affected by the display of driftage articles and return of the tsunami, and to be prepared for emerthese materials back to Japan may help to gencies.”
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