Alberni Valley

Thursday, they're in Cowichan Valley.

Saturday, Alberni Valley.

And then Sunday in Victoria.

And then they finally get to come home.

Officials are asking drivers to plan their trips ahead of time, watch for signs, and follow directions from traffic control staff on site.

Helen Zinett is running for a second term as a school trustee in the Alberni Valley.

Zinett says that during her first term, the board built stronger relationships with the Indigenous nations the district serves.

It also launched the Learning on the Land program at ADSS and Yuułułiʔat Secondary, which she credits with improving student engagement and graduation rates.

If reelected, she says she'll push the ministry for support, focus on fiscal responsibility and student achievement, and consult closely with the teachers' union.

CUPE seven hundred twenty-seven, parents and First Nations.

Residents of the Alberni Valley, Bamfield, and First Nations communities can vote.

Advance voting days are October seventh and fourteenth, and general voting day is Saturday, October seventeenth.

As one example, Hotel Zed Tofino was recognized as the first non-Tla-o-qui-aht owned resort to participate in the Tribal Park Allies Program, an initiative supporting environmental stewardship.

Around Vancouver Island, an election is coming up for residents in several parts of the Alberni Valley and Pacific Rim.

People living in electoral areas A, D, E, and F of the Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District will vote to elect a director representing their area.

Also on the ballot are positions on School District 70 Pacific Rim, where residents, including those from Maa-nulth First Nations communities, will choose trustees.

Looking ahead to tomorrow, periods of rain ending near noon, then cloudy with sixty percent chance of drizzle with a high near sixteen.

Around Vancouver Island, we begin up island in the Alberni Valley.

The Alberni Valley News reports that when Family Farm Day was held on September twentieth, eleven farms opened their gates free of charge across Downtown, Franklin River, Beaver Creek, and Coleman Road, so people could see what gets grown and eaten in the valley.

At Morningstar Woolen under the Beaufort Range, Star Hoeraug raises Blue-Faced Leicester sheep and turns the fleece into skeins and knitted toques.

Her motto, soil to stitch to stem.

The seven-and-a-half-year term was a joint submission from Crown and Defense.

Across to the Alberni Valley, where a hereditary chief has told a salmon-farming company to shut down.

Howie Stocking of Hashilth Say reports that Tsutsi'in Elton Watt's Taiyi Hawilth of Hupa Shessak First Nation publicly demanded last week that Surmukh close its Boot Lagoon Hatchery by the end of the year.

The hatchery sits on Hupa Shessak traditional territory by Great Central Lake, about an hour from Port Alberni, and it raises young Atlantic salmon, which are then moved to the company's 14 open-net pens in Aarhaus' territorial waters.