Susie Quinn

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Aaron Colyn, right, of Twin City Brewing picks up a bag of pilsner malt from Cumberland Brewing Company owner Darren Adam, left, and brewer Anders Petersson during an exchange at the Alberni Valley Regional Airport on June 14, 2023. (PHOTO COURTESY AARON COLYN)

Twin City Brewing able to continue making beer despite Highway 4 closure

Cumberland Brewing’s owner flies in much-needed materials for Alberni brewery

Aaron Colyn, right, of Twin City Brewing picks up a bag of pilsner malt from Cumberland Brewing Company owner Darren Adam, left, and brewer Anders Petersson during an exchange at the Alberni Valley Regional Airport on June 14, 2023. (PHOTO COURTESY AARON COLYN)
Brynn Waisman, left, and Bruce Patterson are ready with information for travellers who have inundated the Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Visitors’ Centre since Highway 4 closed due to wildfire. (JOLLEEN DICK PHOTO)

Alberni Valley visitors’ centre handles hundreds of requests from stranded travellers

First full day of Highway 4 closure due to wildfire saw 300 people stop at centre

Brynn Waisman, left, and Bruce Patterson are ready with information for travellers who have inundated the Alberni Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Visitors’ Centre since Highway 4 closed due to wildfire. (JOLLEEN DICK PHOTO)
A Columbia Fuels truck winds its way along the detour route between Lake Cowichan and the Bamfield Main logging road as Highway 4 is closed due to a wildfire at Cameron Bluffs. Bringing fuel trucks into Port Alberni and the West Coast remains a challenge, according to the ACRD’s Emergency Operations Centre. (B.C. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION PHOTO)

Pilot cars to escort convoys of food, fuel trucks around Highway 4 detour

Drivers are asked to limit use of detour from Port Alberni to allow movement of essential goods

A Columbia Fuels truck winds its way along the detour route between Lake Cowichan and the Bamfield Main logging road as Highway 4 is closed due to a wildfire at Cameron Bluffs. Bringing fuel trucks into Port Alberni and the West Coast remains a challenge, according to the ACRD’s Emergency Operations Centre. (B.C. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION PHOTO)
A food truck belonging to Quality Foods drives ailong the detour route between Lake Cowichan and Port Alberni to deliver goods on Friday, June 9, 2023. (B.C. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION PHOTO)

Cameron Bluffs fire near Port Alberni grows to 208 hectares; Highway 4 remains closed

B.C. Premier Eby faces criticism over not opening Horne Lake connector as second route

A food truck belonging to Quality Foods drives ailong the detour route between Lake Cowichan and Port Alberni to deliver goods on Friday, June 9, 2023. (B.C. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION PHOTO)
An aerial photo shows the forest fire burning on Cameron Bluffs along Highway 4 by Cameron Lake. The fire was first discovered late Saturday night, June 3, 2023. (COASTAL FIRE CENTRE PHOTO)

Helicopters, initial attack crews tackle wildfire east of Port Alberni

Cameron Bluffs fire near Cameron Lake on Highway 4 estimated at 20 hectares

An aerial photo shows the forest fire burning on Cameron Bluffs along Highway 4 by Cameron Lake. The fire was first discovered late Saturday night, June 3, 2023. (COASTAL FIRE CENTRE PHOTO)
A firefighter with Port Alberni Fire Dept. shines a light from the aerial ladder onto the roof of the Wintergreen Apartment building on Fourth Avenue after one of the upper units caught fire late Thursday, May 18, 2023. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

One dead after fire in small Port Alberni low-income apartment building

Trailers in adjacent lot also evacuated; unknown number of people displaced

A firefighter with Port Alberni Fire Dept. shines a light from the aerial ladder onto the roof of the Wintergreen Apartment building on Fourth Avenue after one of the upper units caught fire late Thursday, May 18, 2023. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)
Wahmeesh Ken Watts, left, elected Chief Councillor with Tseshaht First Nation, and Evan Cook, Huu-ay-aht First Nations councillor, on May 11, 2023 announce a partnership between the nations to build a new hotel in the Alberni Valley. (MELISSA BIGMORE PHOTO)

First Nations agree to build first new hotel in Port Alberni since 1980

Huu-ay-aht, Tseshaht Nations partnering with MasterBUILT Hotels to build Microtel hotel

Wahmeesh Ken Watts, left, elected Chief Councillor with Tseshaht First Nation, and Evan Cook, Huu-ay-aht First Nations councillor, on May 11, 2023 announce a partnership between the nations to build a new hotel in the Alberni Valley. (MELISSA BIGMORE PHOTO)
Colleen Peters (with umbrella) and her granddaughters, Alannah and Tatianna Peters, walk along Victoria Quay in the MMIWG2+ Walk of Remembrance, May 5, 2023 in Port Alberni. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

Walkers remember missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people

Tla-o-qui-aht invited to lead walk in Nuu-chah-nulth territory, in Port Alberni

Colleen Peters (with umbrella) and her granddaughters, Alannah and Tatianna Peters, walk along Victoria Quay in the MMIWG2+ Walk of Remembrance, May 5, 2023 in Port Alberni. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)
A car ended up in Rogers Creek in Port Alberni on Monday, May 1 after the driver had a medical emergency. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Driver rescued after car ends up in Rogers Creek in Port Alberni

RCMP praise passersby who jumped into water to help unconscious woman

A car ended up in Rogers Creek in Port Alberni on Monday, May 1 after the driver had a medical emergency. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
A fire in the bottom floor of a two-storey home on First Avenue in Port Alberni got into the roof and caused heavy damage, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. (ELENA RARDON/ Alberni Valley News)

House fire in central Vancouver Island sends two to hospital

Port Alberni Fire Dept. answers call to two structure fires in one night

A fire in the bottom floor of a two-storey home on First Avenue in Port Alberni got into the roof and caused heavy damage, Tuesday, April 25, 2023. (ELENA RARDON/ Alberni Valley News)
Brad DeClercq, owner of Starboard Grill at Harbour Quay, is frustrated at the lack of commercial recycling in Port Alberni. (April 21, 2023) (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

Restaurateur laments lack of commercial Port Alberni recycling service

Alberni-Clayoquot Regional District says Recycling BC doesn’t offer collection stream for businesses

Brad DeClercq, owner of Starboard Grill at Harbour Quay, is frustrated at the lack of commercial recycling in Port Alberni. (April 21, 2023) (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)
Alberni Valley Bulldogs Chase Klassen, left, and Brady McIsaac dig for the puck deep in the Surrey Eagles zone late in the third period of Game 6 of the BC Hockey League Coastal Conference semifinal, Sunday, April 23, 2023. The Bulldogs won 7-1 to force Game 7. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

BCHL: Alberni Valley Bulldogs force Game 7 in semifinal with 7-1 win over Surrey Eagles

Winner of Game 7 will face Chilliwack Chiefs in Coastal Conference championship

Alberni Valley Bulldogs Chase Klassen, left, and Brady McIsaac dig for the puck deep in the Surrey Eagles zone late in the third period of Game 6 of the BC Hockey League Coastal Conference semifinal, Sunday, April 23, 2023. The Bulldogs won 7-1 to force Game 7. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)
Theresa Szymanis shows a garbage pile near Devli’s Den Lake to another member of the AV Nature Club. Volunteers spent a couple of hours on Thursday, April 6, 2023 cleaning up most of the pile and hauling it to the Alberni Valley Landfill. (MIKE YOUDS PHOTO)

Alberni Valley Nature Club hauls 140 Kg of trash out of ecologically sensitive area

Devil’s Den Bluffs under threat from multi-modal overuse, says outdoorsman

Theresa Szymanis shows a garbage pile near Devli’s Den Lake to another member of the AV Nature Club. Volunteers spent a couple of hours on Thursday, April 6, 2023 cleaning up most of the pile and hauling it to the Alberni Valley Landfill. (MIKE YOUDS PHOTO)
Pope Francis says vespers in the Roman Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on the solemnity of the conversion of St. Paul, in Rome on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. An Indigenous delegation is to meet with the Pope at the Vatican in early spring to discuss reconciliation and healing after a visit was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Andrew Medichini

Papal repudiation only the first step, says Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council

NTC president Judith Sayers asks Canada to acknowledge repudiation

Pope Francis says vespers in the Roman Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls on the solemnity of the conversion of St. Paul, in Rome on Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022. An Indigenous delegation is to meet with the Pope at the Vatican in early spring to discuss reconciliation and healing after a visit was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Andrew Medichini
Firefighters from multiple departments quickly extinguish a fire in a bedroom of a small home on Mann Road in north Port Alberni on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

Resident saved, pet missing after Port Alberni house fire

Crews weren’t able to save contents of home despite knocking flames down quickly: chief

Firefighters from multiple departments quickly extinguish a fire in a bedroom of a small home on Mann Road in north Port Alberni on Tuesday, March 28, 2023. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
In 2015, young volunteers Casey Greggain, left, and Rod Gledhill attach the refurbished bell onto its place of pride on the Two Spot locomotive. (DAVID HOOPER PHOTO)

Iconic brass bell stolen from heritage Two Spot locomotive in Port Alberni

Two Spot was the first steam locomotive to work in the forests of the Alberni Valley

In 2015, young volunteers Casey Greggain, left, and Rod Gledhill attach the refurbished bell onto its place of pride on the Two Spot locomotive. (DAVID HOOPER PHOTO)
BC Housing won’t be renewing the Port Alberni Shelter Society’s contract to operate Our Home on Eighth shelter. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

Port Alberni Friendship Center takes over operation of city shelter

New operators takes over Our Home on Eighth from Port Alberni Shelter Society

BC Housing won’t be renewing the Port Alberni Shelter Society’s contract to operate Our Home on Eighth shelter. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)
BC Housing won’t be renewing the Port Alberni Shelter Society’s contract to operate Our Home on Eighth shelter. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

Shelter residents worry as BC Housing seeks new operator in Port Alberni

Select tender issued for new service provider at Our Home on Eighth

BC Housing won’t be renewing the Port Alberni Shelter Society’s contract to operate Our Home on Eighth shelter. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)
Workers direct a crane operator from Coastal Bridge and Construction Ltd. on where to lower a pipe during a watermain repair, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

City will begin review after truck crash cuts off main water supply to Port Alberni

Watermain was repaired and restrictions lifted within 30 hours of incident

Workers direct a crane operator from Coastal Bridge and Construction Ltd. on where to lower a pipe during a watermain repair, Thursday, March 9, 2023. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)
Raylene Watts, left, and Alex Tuele, both from Fanny Bay, visit the Port Alberni waterfront looking for treasure on Wednesday, March 9, 2023. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)

Treasure seekers scour Port Alberni waterfront for pot of ‘gold’

B.C.-based scavenger hunt offered $1,000 if someone could solve five riddles

Raylene Watts, left, and Alex Tuele, both from Fanny Bay, visit the Port Alberni waterfront looking for treasure on Wednesday, March 9, 2023. (SUSAN QUINN/ Alberni Valley News)