Coho Festival 2009 by North Shore News

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Sunday, September 13th AMBLESIDE PARK

Bringing Wild Salmon back to North Shore Rivers and Streams

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Coho Festival Marks 30th Anniversary When the Coho Festival opens September 13th, it will be celebrating 30 years of leadership in business, education, the environment and other community organizations which further the salmonid enhancement on the North Shore for which it has raised more than $400,000. The festival features a huge salmon barbecue with celebrity chefs at Ambleside Park, a 14 km Coho Run, the Coho Walk down Capilano River, the Squamish Nation blessing of the salmon ceremony, lots of family entertainment, children’s rides, educational displays and Coho Kids collecting funds for restoration of streams on the North Shore.

board. It garnered the support of the West Van Council and staff; the District and City of North Vancouver, and corporate partners. In 1986, the festival was becoming labour intensive for the Chamber of Commerce, so a separate society was incorporated to continue the environmental mandate. Nicell, Chapman, Wright and Dave Bakewell were among the founding signators. Since then, the North and West Vancouver school districts have joined the ranks of supporters, together with Metro Vancouver and the Squamish Nations, and numerous corporate sponsors.

Jim MacCarthy, who has fondly been called, “Mr. Coho,” has been with the society for 22 years and was chair for 12 years. He recalls that 30 years ago, a small group of West Van business people wanted to revitalize the community’s Chamber of Commerce, which had approximately 10 members at the time.

Partners in bringing wild salmon back to North Shore rivers and streams.

The group spawned the idea of the festival because of concerns about the effects of pollution and urban development on the salmon habitat in North Shore streams.

Only until this Sunday, September 13.

The festival, which was created by a small, but dedicated group of people, was an immediate success. The components which more than 6,000 people enjoy today, have been enhanced and expanded upon through the years, but the essence of the event remains the same. Today, it is the major environmental happening on the North Shore. MacCarthy pays tribute to organizers Mike Nicell, the former manager of Eatons at Park Royal; Noel Wright, former editor of the North Shore News, Per Danielson of British Pacific Properties Ltd. and Bill Chapman of Chapman Land Surveying, Ltd., for their vision and commitment in making the festival a great success. MacCarthy explains that while the festival caught on very quickly in popularity, it was still a local initiative and as it grew a number of new partners came on

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Coho 14 km Run (For secure online registration for the run, go to www.runthenorthshore.com)

Sunday, September 13 Bust Pick-up: 7:45 a.m. (Runners leave Ambleside for Kits) Start: 9 a.m. Kitsilano Beach Park End: Ambleside Park, West Vancouver

runner and Coho need to fight off fears and fatigue. Make sure they are prepared physically and mentally and on top of all that, many runners who enter the Coho race have never been that distance before!” The 14K distance provides a great challenge for the 10K runner and a fabulous training run for the ½ marathon trainer. It’s not to late to sign up! And all net proceeds of this event help to support salmonid enhancement projects including stream stewardship. Still interested? Go to www.runthenorthshore. com for more information and registration.

RUNNER’S BREAKFAST

THE DETAILED ROUTE:

North Shore’s Best Kept Secret!

A 9 am start at Kitsilano Beach, takes you along the Kits seawall, past the Maritime When you finish your run, Museum and the Pacific Space Centre a delicious breakfast will around to the historic Burrard Street be waiting for you at the This is, without doubt, the Bridge. The gentle slope up to the peak finish line at the Coho of the bridge deck is the first of three most scenic race of the Festival grounds near hills on an otherwise absolutely flat Vancouver Lower Mainland. the Beach Bar. course. After crossing the bridge, the Join us on this one of a kind run takes you down to the English Bay

‘beach to bridge to beach to bridge to beach’ run.

History of the 14 km Run

seawall and into Stanley Park, reaching the halfway point at Second Beach. From Third Beach the route encounters the short but rough ascent up the Merilees Trail to Prospect Point and then a gentle slope up again to Lions Gate Bridge. From the Centre of the bridge, you will be greeted with a breathtaking view of the North Shore Mountains as you head downhill to cross the mouth of the Capilano River and finally, head into Ambleside Park and the Coho Festival.

Stanley Park seawall and the Kits seawall are part of the most scenic race experience in the Lower Mainland. Now in its 23rd year this incredible “point to point” 14 km journey starts from Kitsilano Beach, takes you through Vanier Park along the seawall, then over the Burrard Street Bridge along the English Bay seawall to Second Beach in Stanley Park, and finally, over the Lion’s Gate Bridge and into Ambleside Beach Park to the birthplace of the North Shore Coho Salmon Festival.

At the finish line you will enter into the Coho Festival site where you will not only receive a pancake breakfast but have the opportunity to participate in this annual festival celebrating the return of the Coho Salmon to the North Shore. Festival activities include environmental displays, visual arts exhibitions, entertainment by local and visiting performers and, of course, the famous Salmon Barbeque.

The route was conceptualized to help runners appreciate part of the amazing journey that the Coho salmon returning to spawn in the mighty Capilano River take getting back to their birth place. A Coho’s experience in getting back home to spawn is similar to the challenge of running a 14km race. Both

14k Run Start

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1. Info Tent 2. Ticket Sales 3. Celebrity Chefs 4. Salmon BBQ 5. West Van Rotary Coffee Tent 6. Entertainment Main Stage 7. Festival Food Tent 8. Girl Guides Face Painting 9. Living River Mural (for kids & adults to paint) 10. Balloon Man 11. Kids Train 12. Coho Walk Tent 13. Metro Vancouver 14. West Van. Police 15. Flowriders Daredevil Bike Act 16. Karate for Kids 17. Coho Run Tent 18. Tiddly Cove Lions Pancake Breakfast 19. Antique Fire Truck 20. Police & Fire Vehicles 21. Shore 104FM 22. Coho Kids 23. North Shore Credit Union 24. St. Johns Ambulance & First Aid Station 25. Easywash 26. Dancing Bear inflatable Whale 27. 2 Lane Bungee 28. Jurassic Adventures 29. Euro Bungee 30. Coho Beer & Wine Beach Bar & Brown’s Social House BBQ 31. North Van Fire Boat 32. Salmon Blessing 33. Coho Run Finish Line 34. Volunteer Area 35. Corn Huskers 36. Sustainability Zone • North Shore Streamkeepers • Seymour Salmonid Society • WV Streamkeepers • Fisheries & Oceans Canada • Port Metro Vancouver • Neptune Terminals • Western Stevedoring • Park Royal • Bear Aware • NV Outdoor School • British Pacific Properties ... and more!!!

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Watch for “Sand” the Wandering One Woman Circus

Restrooms Alcohol and refreshments

Site Plan courtesy of Bill Chapman Chapman Land Surveying Ltd.

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Come and celebrate of nature’s annual miracle of salmon returning to the North Shore Sunday, September 13 (all times are approximate) MAIN STAGE 6

ELSEWHERE ON SITE

11:45am-12:20pm

Freddie Fuddpucker

12:20-12:45pm

Sand Northrup, Children’s Entertainment

11:30 onward Environmental Exhibits; fish culture displays, live fish displays, interactive activities, salmon marble game

12:45-1:40pm

Red Boot Quartet (Hot New Gypsy Jazz Band)

12:30-1:00pm Karate for Kids Martial Arts Display

12:45-1:40pm

Official Opening

1:00-1:30pm

Blessing of the Salmon and Traditional Dances by Squamish Nation Members

Flowriders - Dare Devil Mountain Bike Display

2:00-2:30pm

Dancing Bear (Children’s tales in the whale)

2:00-2:30pm

Karate for Kids Martial Arts Display

2:30-2:50pm

Flowriders - Dare Devil Bike Act

3:00-3:30pm

Dancing Bear (Children’s tales in the whale)

Also in the Beach Bar: Brown’s Social House BBQ

3:00-3:20pm

SALMON BARBECUE 4

Karate for Kids Martial Arts Display

3:30-3:50pm

Flowriders - Dare Devil Bike Art

Deep Cove Swing Band

3:30-4:30pm

Bitterly Divine Squamish Nation R&B Band

BEACH BAR 30 11:00AM-6:00PM Noon to 1:30pm Rosco – Adam Woodall’s Root Band 2:30-6:00pm

Dark Horse – Top 40 Classic Rock Band

To promote a community spirit, children 9 and under may accompany their parents into the Coho Beach Bar.

11:00AM-5:00PM

Come and enjoy our famous Salmon Barbeque meal, cooked to perfection by our Celebrity Chefs. Salmon Dinner - includes bun, corn, salad $1400 Child’s Portion - Salmon and Bun $1000 Other tasty treats include: Deluxe Hot Dog, Salad, Pop, Juice, Potato Chips

Sand Northrup, the one-woman circus will be roaming the site all afternoon. Fun for Kids of all ages

The Coho Society’s annual Adopt-a-Fish Program attracts hundreds of kids to join in the fun and get involved in this unique North Shore salmon release activity. Organized by the Coho Society, West Vancouver Streamkeepers, North Shore Fish and Game and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the kids receive an adoption certificate and a bucket with their adopted baby cohos. Next they follow a path to a nearby creek and release the salmon into the water. “By releasing the fish into the water themselves, the message that stream habitats are important stays with them for a lifetime.” said Coho Society director.Tom Boppart. For more information about the Adopt-a-Fish Program, contact the Coho Society of the North Shore at 604-926-6956.

Circle of Life – More Fun for Kids

Dancing Bear (Children’s tales in the whale)

1:15-1:40pm

2:30-3:30pm

Giving Children a Reason to Care

Play the giant interactive “Circle of Life” wheel and reveal the entire life cycle of salmon and all the hundreds of species that depend on them from the rivers to the estuary and the ocean and back again!! Try “The Great Canadian Climate Change Marble Game” designed by local North Shore children and made completely from recycled wood from the banks of the Fraser River. Drop a marble and learn what you can do to help salmon and ourselves survive the impacts of climate change. And a huge satellite map of our watersheds is your chance to show where wild coho live. Get creative on the “Feeling the Heat” Living Mural and paint the life cycle of salmon and what actions you will take to help wild salmon and their ecosystems survive climate change.

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Coho Walk Sunday, September 13 10:00 am - 2:00pm Journey into a world that integrates salmon,

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Both walks start at the Cleveland Dam. Walkers doing the 8.5 km walk will finish at Ambleside Beach Park. Walkers doing the 4.5 km walk will finish at the Capilano Suspension Bridge. You will have to cross the Bridge to finish and exit through the turnstile gates to Capilano Road where a shuttle bus will take you back to the starting point at Park Royal. Give yourself 1.5 hours to complete the 4.5 km walk and 2.5 hours to complete the 8.5 km walk.

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SCHOOLING YOUNG ENVIRONMENTALISTS St. Anthony’s School welcomes Salmonids in the classroom St. Anthony’s School in West Vancouver made a commitment to the Salmonids in the Classroom project for the first time in the Spring of 2008. Coho Society helped to make this possible by funding the chiller which maintains the tank temperature at a constant six degrees Celsius. The grade two class jumped in with great enthusiasm by making the Salmonids in the Classroom project one of the major focal points of the spring curriculum. Bev Bowler from the Department of Fisheries and Oceans delivered the salmon eggs in late January. There was a tremendous buzz throughout the school as the babies arrived. The children waited anxiously for the eggs to hatch. After five weeks, the alevin emerged and began their lives as recognizable salmon. Six weeks later, the grade two class prepared to release their salmon fry. A field trip was organized to Brothers Creek near the mouth of the Capilano River. Each child r4eleased one or two salmon fry into the creek. In all, 54 out of 55 salmon eggs survived to be released into Brothers Creek. There was a great sense of excitement as the children watched their salmon swim away into their new environment. But there was also a sense of sadness that the program had come to an end and that their salmon were gone. The children shared their optimism that some of these fish would return again to Brothers Creek to spawn in a few years. There is no question that the experiences that this program brought to the grade two class of St. Anthony ‘s will remain with them for a lifetime. The next grade two class will enthusiastically follow in their footsteps!

Gently Down The Seymour In its 13th season, the Gently Down the Seymour Program, once again sparked tremendous curiosity among the 1157 students between grades one and seven, who experienced the program’s full day of interactive learning at the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. “An excellent program, and free!” states Patty Stewart, a grade three teacher at Dorothy Lynas Elementary in North Vancouver. “Thank you to all. I look forward to returning with a class or just for a visit to this beautiful place.” The participating 50 classes, accompanied by 259 teachers, parents and other adult helpers, represented 41 schools in 11 school districts. According to Cheryl Rutherford, a grade five teacher at M.B. Elementary, the program is “the best! Great information, keeping the kids active and totally engaged.”

COHO KIDS West Vancouver students will be at the Festival this year from noon to 4:00pm encouraging your support and raising money for the environment and for salmonid enhancement programs. They will also be selling Coho T-Shirts. Come by and join them in a collaborative painting.

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