BC Wildfire crews are hitting the Wesley Ridge blaze near Cameron Lake hard with multiple aircrafts to cool and contain the out-of-control wildfire that was discovered on Thursday morning, July 31.
Wildfire smoke is wafting through Port Alberni as residents in the impacted area on the north side of Cameron Lake have been ordered to evacuate immediately by the Regional District of Nanaimo.
There is an out of control wildfire burning at Cameron Lake along Highway 4, the main road connecting the West Coast and Port Alberni to the east side of the Vancouver Island.
BC Wildfire Service discovered the Wesley Ridge wildfire on Thursday morning, July 31. They say the fire is 20 Hectares and located on the opposite side of Cameron Lake from the highway. Wesley Ridge is located about four kilometres east of Cathedral Grove and the fire is on the north side of the lake.
Highway 4 currently remains open in both directions as Coastal Fire Centre investigates.
On a busy Saturday afternoon in Anacla, Charlie Clappis sits by the entrance to the House of Huu-ay-aht looking up at the massive structure he worked to build a quarter century ago.
“It’s just so grand. So grand,” reflects Clappis, looking at the cedar posts supporting four gargantuan spruce logs that extend across the ceiling of the structure.
Clappis was among a handful of Huu-ay-aht members who were hired as labourers to help in what would become the first longhouse built in the First Nation’s territory in over a century.
Although the sirens didn’t go off and evacuations weren’t made, a massive earthquake that struck the north Pacific Tuesday had Vancouver Island’s coastal communities on alert.
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Job Title: Receptionist
Job Category: Full-time permanent
Department/Group: Administration
Department #: 100
Location: Tofino. BC
Rate of pay: $22-$27/hour
Reports To: HR & Administration Manager
Position Type: H
Tla-o-qui-aht First Nation has received funding to provide a Youth with on-the-job training and work
experience as a Housing Clerk - Youth Intern with our Housing Department. The successful applicant will
set and meet goals to ensure delivery of effective, efficient service within the Housing Program and in
accordance with the Housing Policies and Procedures. The Housing Clerk - Youth Intern will assist with
the timely completion of a wide range of office duties that are associated with the Housing Departments
Elder Qaamina Hunter used to visit Tofino two or three times a week, but those visits have spanned out, he says, due to parking woes.
Hunter lives in the offshore Ahousaht First Nations community of Maaqtusiis on Flores Island, located 30-minutes by boat from Tofino’s First Street Dock.
On July 26 the House of Huu-ay-aht filled with the First Nation’s members and guests, celebrating 25 years since the longhouse was built in Anacla.
After a 7:30 a.m. push off from Long Beach on July 23, three Ahousaht canoes and one Hesquiaht canoe cruised into the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ (Ucluelet First Nation) community of Hitacu around 1 p.m.
On their way to Hitacu Hesquiaht skipper Vince Ambrose said his crew of mostly women hugged the shoreline while the other Ahousaht canoes went offshore.
“It was easy pulling. There was no wind. The ocean was pretty calm,” said Ambrose on day four of a 12-day canoe journey.