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Face to face with Bart the Bear RENÉE ANDOR CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
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magine looking directly into the open mouth of a 2,500 pound growling grizzly bear and not being scared in the least. Well, it’s a possibility without being a daredevil since a new life-size carving of a famous grizzly bear is all growl and no bite. Owner of Knight Inlet Resort Dean Wyatt commissioned local chainsaw carver Glenn Greensides to create Bart the Bear in the likeness of famous bear actor, Bart, who passed away in 2000. “When I met Glenn I was blown away at his level of detail and I’ve always wanted to do a ‘Bart,’” explained Wyatt, whose resort features grizzly bear tours at Knight Inlet. At just under 11 feet tall and weighing about 2,500 pounds, the wooden bear is a bit bigger than the real Bart was, as he was about nine and a half feet tall and weighed about 1,500 pounds. Greensides said the carving took him 16 days in total. Starting with a 4300 pound chunk of red cedar, he carved the bear using a chainsaw, including the fur, then used smaller tools like die grinders to complete the smaller details like the teeth. He said the head was the hardest part, and took about three and a half days to complete. He built Bart the Bear while staying at the resort and said at first he was a little worried
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Glenn Greensides is all smiles alongside his lifelike carving of animal actor Bart the Bear which welcomes visitors to Knight Inlet Resort.
about bothering resort guests with the noise of his chainsaw, but it all worked out in the end. “The last thing (guests are) going to want to hear is a chainsaw, but it’s amazing how it coordinated so that when they went on their excursions, their two hour excursions, it allowed
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me enough time to do my work,” said Greensides. “Then I would run quieter tools and that when they would come so they could at least see something happening.” Although Wyatt said Bart the Bear certainly looks great at the resort, he doesn’t expect him to
stay there, as he hopes an organization close to his heart will use the bear as an auction item to raise money to protect grizzly bears. Wyatt is friends with the famous bear actor’s trainer, Doug Sous, who founded a Continued on A6
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Council candidates had the opportunity to share their vision of Campbellton at the latest allcandidates forum. Campbellton First, a group looking for improvements to the northern end of the city, hosted the candidates last Thursday evening for a one-hour meeting at the Eagles Hall. All candidates were asked the same question – what are your priorities for Campbell River and how does Campbellton fit in? – and had two minutes to answer. The 15 councillor candidates (councillors Claire Moglove and Andy Adams were absent from the meeting due to prior commitments) went first. Unfortunately due to space constraints, we can’t fit everything all the candidates said but inside this edition of the Mirror you can find information on every candidate. Brian Le Pas, the first to speak, said if elected he will create a portfolio titled ‘Campbellton’ and the councillor assigned to that portfolio would spend 50 per cent of his or her time on council working to improve the area. Coun. Mary Storry said if elected she would lobby the Minister of Transportation for improvements to the CampbellContinued on A5
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