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Oyster River elementary schools at the end of last school year, but thanks to the effort put in by district staff, it all came together in time for opening. “There was an extra effort this year because we also had the transition of two school communities, and that was not without herculean effort,” Longridge said, “not only on the part of the facilities workers and staff to get the building ready, but and I’d like to say to the administrators of those schools who worked tirelessly throughout the summer – not just by being present but also by doing everything right down to actually physically moving boxes – to make sure everything was ready by the time the kids walked through the door.” As with every school year, however, this one also had a few transportation issues. “There were some timing issues and some logistical shifts that needed to happen, such as whether a bus was going up one side of the street or coming down the other,” Longridge said. “We just sort of sort those out as we hear about them. “That’s actually why Steve (Hrybko, head bus driver) went out and physically ran some of the routes so he could see exactly what was going on. We even stood outside of bus stops and drop-offs to see when kids were being dropped off.” One thing in particular that they were hearing

was a timing problem to the south, where parents were adjusting to new schedules now that their kids were boarding buses into town now that Oyster River is closed. “Parents from Oyster River were concerned about the start time at Ocean Grove, so we tried to adjust both with the pick-up times coming from the south and the drop off times, coordinating at the school, which has an effect on the start times at the school, so we got that all ironed out.” Longridge says they expect a few transportation glitches at the start of each school year while everyone gets back into their routine, and would like to thank the public for making the district aware of any issues they encounter so they can address them quickly. “We know that transportation is a big thing in people’s day in regard to the kids getting to and from school, so we just want to make sure that any elements that

come up that need to be addressed, we want to make sure we’re on it. We try to plan ahead as much as possible and then quickly catch those things that somehow didn’t get sorted out as you were prepping,” Longridge says. “Sometimes it’s just a matter of new drivers doing the routes and buses back up because there’s two minutes here and an extra minute there and it adds up. It’s really just a logistical tightening of what’s going on and making sure there’s nothing we’re missing in regard to where kids need to be picked up and dropped off.” One pleasant surprise, Longridge told the board Tuesday in discussing schools going back in session, is the fact that it looks like the overall student population in the district may have increased this year. “These are early days, and I’m always very hesitant to give specific numbers (this early) because

you don’t know by the end of the month exactly what you’re looking at – particularly in secondary while kids choose courses and you have FTE as well as headcount to deal with.” It’s not the growth itself that is a surprise – the district projections were that there would be a decrease in secondary students this year with an elementary increase more than offsetting that decrease, leading to an overall increase of about 15 students. But the current headcount, “is up about 85 to 90 students,” Longridge says, “but we’ll have to see how that all settles as we discover that maybe some kids didn’t tell us they weren’t showing up or maybe we get a few more families that are continuing to move into the community.” The board certainly hopes the estimates hold up – or even increase – when the final numbers are in, as the funding they receive from the provincial government is

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Dave Jackson and his crews of volunteers have been visible since school went back in session after Labour Day. Jackson is the president of Citizens on Patrol (COP), a group dedicated to monitoring and encouraging behaviour in our community to make it a safer place to live. When school’s back in session, they’re out there with the orange cones, radar guns, speed signs and clipboards you’ve been seeing all over town, reminding people to slow down and focus on what they’re doing. The program is called “Speed Watch,” and it has the backing and support of the RCMP. Sure, COP can’t pull people over and issue tickets, Jackson says, but they do “kind of give people a wake-up call and get them back into a head space they may have gotten out of over the summer and remind them to slow down, especially in certain areas where there are more kids around or extra pedestrian traffic, that sort of thing.”

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The school board has decided what its top priorities are when it comes to the second phase of its 10-Year Facility Plan. Among the seven recommendations adopted by School District 72 in their recent 10-Year Facility Plan, five were slated for Phase 2, which began this month. These recommendations were the disposal of surplus properties, reviewing rural school facility use, reviewing and addressing the district’s technology needs going forward, changing the district’s elementary school catchment areas and addressing what to do about Cedar Elementary, which consistently has one of the district’s highest enrolments, but is aging significantly. And the Board of Education decided at this week’s public meeting in which order those will occur. From now until June, the board will undertake a review of their technology needs, explore the sale and/or leasing of properties they are not using and redraw their elementary school catchment lines. Rural school use and addressing Cedar School will happen the year after. When the Facility Plan

was completed, there were many inquires and much input from various community stakeholders as to which initiatives would or should happen when, secretary-treasurer Kevin Patrick told the board Tuesday, “so we thought it would be a good idea for the board to support a formal plan as to how we would approach Phase 2.” The recommendation of splitting this phase of the plan into two distinct sections was made by staff and accepted by the board Tuesday night. Because the review of technology has already begun, it is natural for it to continue through this year, Patrick told the board, to which a few questions were raised in regards to whether it was just the physical equipment that was being reviewed and invested in, or also people’s ability and familiarity with that technology. “If we do invest in this technology, we need to also invest in making sure that the children are getting the best use out of it,” said Trustee John Kerr. “Just as there’s a wide variety in terms of how our children learn and their abilities to learn in different ways, the same holds true of teachers in how they implement their instruction … I think we need to address how the teach-

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ers are going to learn to do what the government – and I guess what we, as proxies of the government in this respect – are asking them to do.” Patrick responded to say that he hopes training and investment in the people operating the technology is included in the plan. “One of the discussions was an openness to realize that the importance of people and training as far as the use of technology is just as important as the device itself, so we do hope that’s a component of the review,” Patrick said. The disposal of the district’s surplus property, “was probably the one we got the most phone calls on, asking whether the board would like to keep, lease or dispose of properties, so we’re proposing that we look

at this one immediately,” Patrick said. And because of last year’s Oyster River and Discovery Passage Elementary closures, it’s probably good to address the district catchment areas sooner rather than later, as well, Patrick told the board. The rural school facility use review is being put on the back burner while the government itself conducts their review of rural schools, expected to be complete this spring, “which may have some good policy in it which will help the board make decisions or help support these schools, so I think it’s a good idea to wait for that report to come out before we begin ours. It will actually be very good timing,” Patrick said. And the Cedar Elementary decisions may be impacted by the possible revenue generated by the disposal of excess properties, Patrick said, so it’s best to wait on decisions surrounding that facility, as well.

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The provincial government has made $316,000 available for the school district to improve the transportation of students, but it hasn’t given them very long to figure out how they’ll use that money so they can actually receive it. The government’s $14 million Student Transportation Fund, “to make transportation more affordable and accessible for B.C. families,” was announced Aug. 10. “The purpose of the fund was to eliminate bus fees, but since we don’t have bus fees, they have provided the opportunity for our district to use our share to enhance transportation services or safety for our students,” SD72 secretary-treasurer Kevin Patrick told the board of education Tuesday. The government has allotted the district $316,860 of the $14.7 million fund, but has said they need to specify exactly how it will be used and apply for that funding before the end of September. Patrick made it clear that this funding will not be a one-time

lump sum, but rather ongoing funding to support transportation within the district. “It’s not likely to increase, but they do commit to an ongoing fund,” Patrick said, adding that while the money from this funding needs to be used exclusively for transportation, they can find current expenses within the transportation budget for this funding to replace, freeing up the money that has been budgeted for those expenses to be used on other things. “Our ideas have been focused on new initiatives, but in the press release – which is an official government document – it does say that we can fund existing transportation services and investing the savings in enhanced student learning, and that would indicate to me that we could use some of that funding to pay for existing services, allowing for the funds saved to be used elsewhere.” Patrick said staff will consider the options and prepare the district’s application by the end of the month so they will qualify for the funding and report back to the board once the ministry has assessed the application.

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The Justin Trudeau government has declared a pension crisis, and is imposing its solution. After the Ontario government threatened to press ahead with its own Quebec-style provincial pension plan, the Ottawa head office of the Liberal Party stepped in. Finance Minister Bill Morneau called a meeting of provincial ministers in June, and they lined up to support his intention to expand the Canada Pension Plan starting in 2019. Perhaps still haunted by the leap to the harmonized sales tax, B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong broke from the herd ever so slightly, declaring a consultation period first. Premier Christy Clark hinted that this was a formality, since she is focused on cordial relations with Ottawa. B.C.’s rubber stamp could come any day. Morneau’s CPP expansion plan sounds quite modest. Employer and employee payroll contributions are to go up from the current 4.95 per cent of earnings to 5.95 per cent by 2023. For each employee earning $54,900, the employer contribution goes up $7 to $8 per

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Do the rapid advances in mechanized steep-slope harvesting technology spell the end of the hand faller in the history of forestry in British Columbia? No. Not by a long shot. The machines are coming, make no mistake about it. Although they have yet to demonstrate an ability to offer improvements in terms of productivity, it is in terms of promoting safety that they excel, says Rob Moonen Director, SAFE Companies of the BC Forest Safety Council. He reports that the injury rate for fallers in British Columbia in 2014 was a “staggering” 28.9 per cent—roughly three in 10. By contrast, the injury rate for mechanized falling was less than two per cent. However, despite the ability of the machines to tackle ever steeper slopes, they simply can’t do it all, and the trees

they can’t get to are still going to be brought down by hand fallers. In fact, says Dave Weimer, Chair of the Western Fallers Association, we may even be facing a shortage of fallers in the coming years because the average age of working fallers today is 59. Many of them will retire out over the next few years and because an insufficient number of young

people are currently engaged in faller training to replace them—fewer than 100 a year are coming into the business according to Weimer— those left still standing are going to be in high demand. Here and there, but not everywhere The view that the machines can’t do it all and that there is now and always

will be a place for hand fallers is widely held, up to and including at the academic level. According to Kevin Lyons, an associate professor in Forest Operations at UBC, and a man who worked in the woods and felled trees as a young man and has done extensive research at the academic level on falling, today’s mechanized fallers are 30 to 40-ton

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He says he views with skepticism the claims that machines are certified to operate on 100 per cent slopes. “Anything over 70 tends to get a little bit crazy.” Anchored machines can, of course, work more difficult terrain, “but then you’re only working below the road, and we have a lot of wood that’s above the road.” And finally, BC’s topography is more challenging in many ways than jurisdictions where the machines have had greater success, particularly Oregon. “We have U-shaped valleys with steep sides, whereas Oregon has more gentle ridges and deeply incised valleys, so it’s not as simple saying a machine certified to 100 per cent can go anywhere.” None of this comes as revelation to Ted Beutler of Aggressive Timber Falling, a TLA member based in Nanaimo. A lifelong logger who started out cutting shake blocks at the age of 17 before turning to falling, Beutler now runs a company that employs as many as 40 fallers

at any given time, and work is never hard to find. “As far as I’m concerned the impact of machine harvesting has already happened, and the equipment being developed to attack steep slopes will only be applicable in very specific situations,” he says. “These machines will never be able to harvest old growth. The wood is too big and heavy; the only way to do it is with hand fallers.” Helilogging is another area where fallers will continue to be in high demand, he adds. Rather than fear the rise of the machines, he thinks now is the perfect time for young people to consider falling as a career. “Fallers are going to be in greater demand than ever,” he says. “Numbers are declining due to attrition, mostly as a result of aging, and anyone who comes in can have a bright future. The only reason they’re turning to these machines in the first place is because there aren’t enough fallers to go around anymore. It isn’t a matter of if there is going to be a shortage of fallers, there already is.” Jordan Nicolussi, president of Sibola Mountain Falling, a TLA member based in Prince George is another whose bullish on the future of hand falling. “We absolutely believe that there is going to be a place for us in the future,” he says

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machines whose operational abilities are restricted by both slope and tree size, including diameter and height. “So even with a grapple saw there’s a limitation on what you can do safely, especially when you consider the importance of retaining value in the tree and not just smashing it down,” he says.

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confidently. “Machines won’t ever be able to do it all; I’ve yet to see one that could come into the kind of terrain we’re working in, and I’ve definitely never seen one that can go down a rock bluff.”

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He also says he gets at least a call a week, sometimes from overseas, from men wanting to break into the business. “As far as I’m concerned, the fallers out there now have nothing to worry about when it comes to getting work.” What does concern him though, is that many already in the business are hearing about the new machines and getting increasingly concerned about their own futures, despite evidence that there will always be a place for hand fallers in the logging equation. “If the goal is safety then it’s not a good idea to be putting men who already have a stressful enough job in the position of having to worry about their future, especially when they don’t need to be.”

it is safe to say that hand fallers are going to remain an integral and important component of the business, and that many are going to be working in what is likely to be the most difficult ground— the terrain even the most aggressive

concern. “As this new technology gets deployed we need to ensure that we are ahead of the curve and are able to supply industry with methods to reduce the risk of fallers being pushed into increasingly dangerous terrain,” says Rob Moonen.

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It’s also worth noting that in situations where hand fallers are replaced by machines, good jobs will open up in the cabs for operators. In fact, says UBC Kevin Lyons, the future may hold some combination of both man and machine, a not implausible notion in a world of rapidly advancing technologies. “It’s not inconceivable that technologies will emerge that will allow fallers to do their job more safely. The question, I suppose, is will we call them fallers or machine operators. It’s hard to say.” photo: Graham Schaefer

construction, hydro, anything,” he says, adding that his company is “perfectly situated” to deliver if the much-promised LNG projects move forward.

Rumors that the days of hand falling are numbered can also have the effect of discouraging young people from considering it as a career, an unintended consequence that could lead to an even greater shortage of qualified fallers in the future. No one can see into the future or predict what kind of advances will be made when it comes to falling. However,

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If fallers all became machine operators it would be a sad day for men like Ted Beutler. “There’s a lot of chatter in the industry—particularly from the mechanical manufacturers—about how we have to get fallers out of the bush because the work we do is dangerous. However, as fallers, we know our work is dangerous and we knew it when we signed on, but we don’t want to be told by non-fallers we can’t do our job because of it. We fallers choose to be fallers and often times feel drawn to the career in the first place. “There have been great strides within the industry over the past number of years to improve overall hand faller safety,” said Beutler. “There are improved training standards, certifications for both fallers and managers, as well as a stringent professional auditing process. None of this was in place only a few years ago. The next generation of hand fallers will be better trained and better managed and they’ll have greater support from an improving safety culture within the industry. More than ever before, they’ll perform their daily work as safely as possible.” Built for the job There isn’t much about falling that

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Graham Schaefer doesn’t like. He loves the smell of sawdust as it swirls around him and the exquisite feeling of satisfaction he gets when he drops a tree exactly where he wants it. He loves being a skilled practitioner of an historic BC trade, one that helped build the province. “I hate breaking wood though,” he says. “Some of it is more than 500 years old and I figure the least I can do is maximize its value as much as possible.” A small-town boy from Lumby, BC, Schaefer certified in 2009 and has been a production faller with Sibola Mountain Falling for the past two years. He brings to his job the professionalism of a surgeon. “Our day is full of situations you have to learn how to manage—snags, blowdown, shot rock, fog, rain and a million other things—and managing it gives me great satisfaction,” he says, adding that he finds he works with applied physics every day, including monumental forces and enormous weight. “It’s kind of funny because I failed physics in high school.”

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He says he has no concerns about mechanical fallers putting him out of work. “I’d have to see it to believe it,” he says. “We deal with sensitive areas, large amounts of rainfall, grades of up to 70 per cent, rock and bluffs, all areas where I question a machine’s ability. At this point I’m not too worried.”

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And that’s a good thing, because working as a production faller has been, quite simply, “one of the best experiences of my life, and I plan to keep on doing it until I’m too old to pull a saw.”

A married man of 32 he says the hardest part is being away from his wife of seven years. “But she’s very supportive; I couldn’t imagine life without her.”

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Coming Together: Tourism, FirstNations and Forestry Brenda Martin

At the mouth of Orford River, the brilliant hue of glacier-fed, turquoise coloured fresh water contrasts with darker sea water of Bute Inlet. But the mixing of the fresh and salt waters are not the only contrasting thing at Orford these days. There is also an unlikely triad working together—forestry, First Nations and tourism.

Drew Blaney is one of the Homalco youth cultural tour guides. His grandpa was born at Orford 79 years ago when the Homalco still had a village there.

Now, First Nations working in forestry is not unusual these days. And neither is First Nations working in tourism. But forestry and tourism are still unfamiliar partners. That said there’s a new age dawning in Campbell River and indeed along the coast between BC’s two most famous industries. Back in 2011, the Homalco First Nation, led by then Chief Richard Harry, was in the process

of treaty negotiations and was looking to the future. With tenure negotiations underway, they decided it was a good time to start a forestry program and bought a logging company, now called Homalco Forestry LP, based out of Campbell River. Today Homalco Forestry, a TLA member company, has 20-25 employees and is in its fourth year of harvesting 175,000 m3 per year on Interfor and TimberWest tenure. Originally, the Homalco planned to harvest on their own tenure but treaty negotiations have been slower than planned. “We hadn’t intended to compete with other logging contractors in the Campbell River area but we have managed to stay aﬂoat without having our own Homalco tenure,” said Gordie Atkinson, General Manager for Homalco Forestry. In the long-term, Atkinson says, “We’d like to manage a fair share of the Homalco traditional territory and also harvest timber for Interfor and TimberWest.” One of the few 100 per cent band-owned companies, Homalco Forestry is also working hard to build up its First Nations workforce. Derek Ferguson, Woods Foreman for Homalco Forestry and Metis himself, is proud to say that 50 per cent of the workforce is First Nations. “I usually mentor people I think have promise and then get them to shadow another First Nations or Metis employee,” said Ferguson. “I believe

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Development Officer and General Manager of Orford River Operations. “80 per cent of the business was coming from 20 per cent of the customers so we focused on them.” They also focused on infrastructure— building an presentation centre and two more bear viewing towers—and the professional development of their guides. The business continued to grow. Then, in the summer of 2014, the inevitable happened. The two Homalco businesses overlapped. Homalco Forestry would be harvesting in Orford while Homalco Wildlife Tours ran their bear tours. Were people worried? “Logging and tourism? I embraced it,” said Atkinson. “We like to show off our natural resource planning.”

“It’s not for everybody. Camp life can be isolating and the days are long—up at 4 am and not back until 6 pm.” Another business arm of the Homalco First

In 2008 Homalco Wildlife Tours Inc. reorganized the business and trimmed overhead costs. “We used the 80/20 rule,” said Shawn O’Connor, Economic

The Homalco already attend tourism/ forestry meetings hosted by the provincial government in Campbell River. “The kayakers and the fishing tour people attend as well,” said Atkinson. “These are the other people who use the Discovery Islands and Bute Inlet for their businesses.” The group has worked hard to work together rather than get bogged down in their own needs. “It’s easy to get single-minded about managing for your own resource—be it tourism, fishing or forestry. I think that’s where the Homalco can offer a fresh perspective. They

manage many resources—hydro, forestry, wilderness tours and a fish hatchery and this gives us a broader perspective.” O’Connor also explains that an action plan was created to help things go smoothly. “We developed a protocol for driving on the roads—logging trucks would hang up at at 6 km mark so tour busses could get up the road and the turn at 5.5 km.” They also bought another vehicle so they could shuttle tourists away to a safe viewing point when the log dump was in use. But the key was talking to the tour providers and guides and making sure they knew about the sustainable forestry practices being used. Tour guides also informed tourists that while new cutblocks can be unappealing, they’d point out one year, two year and five-year-old cutblocks on the way up to Orford so tourists would know that it is just a matter of time before a cutblock greens up.. “The key is to deemphasize and explain,” said O’Connor. “We didn’t have one complaint. In fact, some tourists thought it was cool.” “There was discussion with the tourists at Orford River,” said Atkinson. The displays at the new presentation center explained the Homalco’s sustainable resource development and got the conversation started. “Most of the tourists are interested in how we manage our resources—

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Paige Chapdelaine of the Vancouver Island Seals fires one on Kootenay Wild goaltender Catalina Hartland during a game last season. Members of the Seals female hockey team will be on hand to assist at this weekend’s Esso Fun Day, an event aimed at first-time female hockey players.

Girls just wanna have fun – on the ice Campbell River Minor Hockey Association is once again hosting its

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Lexxi Smith of the Vancouver Island Seals carries the puck towards the Fraser Valley Rush goal during a female Midget AAA game last season. CaMpbell river Mirror file photo

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skills at no cost and is aimed at first-time players, coaches, officials and administrators. Esso Fun Day is scheduled for this Saturday, from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Strathcona Gardens and includes one morning and one afternoon on-ice session as well as off-ice team building activities. The Vancouver Island Seals female hockey team will be on hand to assist with on-ice duties as part of its commitment to community service in order to promote female hockey. Those interested in attending are asked to RSVP in order to comply with BC Hockey

Insurance regulations and to arrange equipment which will be provided to anyone who does not have their own. Esso Fun Days are annual events held all across the province, as a way to introduce females to the sport of hockey. “Esso Fun Days is designed to introduce the game of hockey and its basic skills in a fun and supportive learning environment for the first time female hockey player,” according to BC Hockey. For more information or to RSVP, email crhurricaneshockey@ gmail.com or call 250923-2612.

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Anyone who plays this wonderful game knows it’s hard. It’s not only difficult in terms of getting that stupid little ball in that stupid little hole, but it’s also physically hard on a person’s body. It doesn’t look it to those who don’t play, though. I mean, for those not intimately familiar with the sport, it just looks like we’re just hitting a ball with a stick, so we certainly aren’t ATHLETES, right? I’m going to have to disagree. Sports Fitness Advisor, a website dedicated to “scientifically-backed fitness advice for sport and life,” says it beautifully, I think. “Make no mistake,” they write, “golfers, at any level, ARE athletes and the golf swing DOES require a great deal of athleticism. “Strength, power, flexibility, balance, core stability, body awareness, even endurance... they’re all physical traits that every consistent golfer (even the fair-weather players) must possess.” Even NFL football Hall-of-Famer Emmitt Smith, who many think of as the greatest running back of all time, recently told golf journalist David Feherty that he couldn’t golf during the football season because of the physical demands of the sport. Not the demands of football – the demands of golf. So if one of the most fit human beings on the planet says he couldn’t, even back in his prime, play both his sport and golf during the same period of the year, can we get a little recognition for how much physical effort we put in when we’re out there? And for those who don’t play, and don’t think it’s that physically taxing, I would like to issue a challenge: pick up a cheap golf club from a thrift store (or borrow one from a friend, who will gladly lend you one if you tell them what you’re doing with it) and just go outside and swing it 80 times as if you were playing golf – while you walk about 8 km. If you only want to simulate a round with a power cart, maybe only walk 2 or 3 km while making your swings. But keep in mind many of us are usually swinging those clubs as hard as we can, because we’re not smart and take less club than we should because we want to convince ourselves we’re stronger than we actually are. Our egos are complicated. Also keep in mind that the worse you are at this game, the more you effort you exert because you’re taking more swings, and the more mileage you put on when you’re out there – because you’re not just walking up and down fairways but also trudging around in the trees. And most of us aren’t very good.

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mothers to Grandmothers campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. The Foundation uses the funds to provide needed assistance to AIDSaffected African grandmothers who have stepped forward to raise their orphaned grandchildren while grieving the loss of their own children. Eight Island grandmother groups prepare meals and refreshments and cheer the riders along the route. Here in Campbell River, the local chapter of Grandmothers to Grandmothers organized a potluck dinner on Thursday evening before the tour to give the riders a good send-off. The Victoria Grandmothers for Africa organized the tour and Sunday’s welcome event at the Legislature. To make a donation or learn more, visit: slf.akaraisin.com/grandmotherspledges2016/cycletour275 or www. victoriagrandmothersforafrica.ca In Campbell River, the group meets at the United Church on the first Thursday of the month at 7:15 p.m. The website for Grandmothers to Grandmothers in Campbell River is: sites.google.com/site/crg2gdraft/home

RIDE James Durand

I am not a selfish guy (Hopefully at the shop, so time was a bit tight. I Chenoa is not reading this). grabbed her bike and put it in the truck Okay, I have my moments like every- and that’s when it started. one else, but generally, I look out for “Dad I want to ride home.” others as much as myself, and now that I explained that it couldn’t hapI have a couple of kids, that selfish part pen today because we were busy, but is being beaten out of me daily. maybe tomorrow. Now with a tear and Yes, I spend a big portion of my day a slightly louder tone “DAD, I want to looking after other people’s needs. ride home TODAY!” From diaper changes for my son to About this time two thoughts hit me cleaning my daughter’s bike before her hard. ride to school. From working late orgaOne - What kind of Dad, who loves nizing a community event to working to ride and owns a bike shop, discourearly repairing a cusages his five-year-old tomer’s bike so they don’t SPIN MY from riding a bike? Somemiss a ride. It’s just part times I really hate being of my life now, I’ve choan adult! sen this and I truly enjoy Two - As she hit the it. Until I miss a ride! g round cr ying and As you know, I like to refusing to listen while ride. I’d even say it goes screaming at me that she beyond that and I don’t wanted to ride her bike just like to ride, but and that she would “never need to ride. It’s my way ever never ever get in the of staying fit, keeping truck,” I realized that she calm...ish, and it’s just a figured out exactly how to lot of fun, so when I miss express my feelings when a ride, I get a little miffed. I miss a ride. But being an adult, I So if you see me out in can’t do much about it; my front yard completely I just have to suck it up freaking out, kicking my and move on. When I miss out on feet and screaming at no one in particriding, I don’t get mad or frustrated. ular…then I probably just want to go I don’t really know how to describe it, riding instead of cutting the lawn, or but it’s not positive. I definitely don’t washing the car, or doing some other know how to express those feelings, so mundane adult task. I just get on with my day in a slightly By the way, we sorted out a different grumpier mood. schedule and Rhyley gets to ride to and First world problems right? from school now, no more silly errands Last Tuesday, I picked up my daugh- for her, let kids be kids! ter from school. We had a few errands to run and I had to get back to work I’m James Durand and I’m Goin’ Ridin’

A group of grandmothers departed Campbell River early in the morning on Sept. 9 en route to Victoria by bicycle. The women are part of the three-day, 10th annual Victoria Grandmothers for Africa 275 kilometre Cycle Tour which wrapped up Sunday in Victoria. Two Campbell River women, Karen King and Mary Lou Mahoney, are participating in the tour which includes grandmothers from across the Island, the Lower Mainland and even one from Ottawa. Participating women are aged 55 and over with an average age of 65. The ride includes stops in many locations along the scenic route for refreshments, meals and overnights, and finishes at the Legislature on Sunday afternoon in Victoria. It is a pledge ride by Grandmothers to GrandKaren King with the Campbell River chap- m o t h e r s ter of the Grandmothers to Grandmothers to increase group leads the group of cycling grandmoth- awareness ers at the start of their ride to Victoria Fri- and raise day morning. funds for the GrandKRISTEN DOUGLAS/CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR

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Many have pulled out their boats and the fishing season is over. If you compared this summer to last year, the fish numbers are down. Even at the beginning of June, early reports were okay. Fishing then tapered off during July and August. Throughout the summer, many anglers who had little success for salmon leaned more toward going after halibut or bottomfish. Large wild coho are in the area and those who fished at Kelsey Bay in Sayward saw the action. Some side shows were Blondie the sea lion goggling up their catch.

From now until late October, trout fishing can be very good in local lakes and Echo Lake will be restocked in early October with catchable size rainbows. Shore anglers are catching trout on power baits, gulp eggs or worms fished on the bottom. Trollers are catching fish on gang trolls and wedding bands.

Lee Cadwallader and Bob Sallis enjoy another great day of fishing off Winter Harbour July 2016 are various green fly patterns that work on the Campbell River and blue is a popular colour fished on the Eve River.

The number of anglers fishing for pinks on the Campbell River was down as the run was very weak compared to the large run we had last year. The best action on fly was in the fly fishing zone by the dam and lots of fish were caught and released.

The Campbell River Tyee Club has wrapped up the season and on Sept. 13 at 6:55 a.m., Fred Gerl got to the scale weighing in a 31.5 pound Tyee caught on a plug and Paula Davis got a 32.5 and Tim Samuels a 31.5 pound Tyee.

A fishing club from Victoria fished in Port Hardy and south of Campbell River and the action was slow for those casting out fly patterns. There

Discovery Pier anglers had a great summer casting out lures and last week the size of salmon tapered off but throughout the summer, great

On the fly, I changed from leech pattern and woolly bugger patterns to a hare’s ear nymph that proved to be a very hot fly fished on Tuesday. I will be taking registrations at the Roberts Lake Family Fun Trout Derby this Saturday at 6 a.m. The derby is free and will wrap up at 5 in the afternoon. The water temperature should be around 62 degrees and those fishing in the morning usually come back to the cabin to weigh in their fish. Some of the bigger trout are caught between 2 and 4 p.m. and the biggest trout I have seen is 5.1 pounds and lots of trout 1 to 2 pounds will be caught. I will be at weigh in cabin just down from the restaurant and host Lorna Duncan supplies all the prizes that will be awarded. See you at Roberts Lake Saturday.

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