August 12, 2024 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Check podcasts. This is an abbreviated version of check News
Watch full Check newscasts week days at five, six, and ten,
or anytime one Check plus or checknews dot CA.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well, I think it went perfectly. We couldn't have asked
for better.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Many are still flying high.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
One day after the Hawaii Martin Mars said, it's final
goodbye from the skies across Vancouver Island when you can
expect to get a close up look with the historic
water bomber.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
This is quite a surprise. I wondered what little noise
was going on in the back. Come around and look,
Holy mackerel. We gotta hurd of goats.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Forgot heavy machinery Qualaicum.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
He's trying a new, greener and yes, much cuter way
to rid the town of weeds. I'm selling lemonade and
ice cream for the Victoria Hospital Foundation. Four bags of
lemons and a whole lot of sweetness. Meet the Sanwich
boy who's turned tragedy into a mission to raise thousands
for local hospitals. Checking the starts now.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Good evening, Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
A horrific crash in Nanaimo during the weekend has claimed
the life of one person and seriously injured another. The
crash happened Saturday evening on the Nanaimo Parkway when vehicle
crossed the grassy median, smashing into a vehicle traveling in
the opposite direction. Kendall Hanson has our top story.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
This is what Brendan and Brianna Bullock saw following a
deadly crash on the Nanaimo Parkway Saturday night. The brother
and sister were traveling south in the Parkway when they
came across the wreckage.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
It looked like the driver just went across the highway
struck the other vehicle. I don't know if it burst
it into flames right away, but it looked pretty instant
and people were getting out of the cars, hugging each
other running away from the scene. So it was very
recent when we just having to come around the corner.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
It wasn't long before firefighters and police arrived.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
For awn known reasons, a vehicle that's going southbound with
one occupant crossing the median and crashed into a northbound
dark colored suv. The driver of the northbound suv sustained
life threatening injuries, was taken to the hospital and sadly
died as a result. Of those injuries. The driver in
the southbound vehicle was injured taken the hospital with serious
(02:27):
but non life threatening injuries.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
BC Ambulance took the mail driver of the vehicle that
crossed the center line to hospital with serious but non
life threatening injuries. The crash is reminiscent of another deadly
incident and roughly the same location in twenty fifteen, when
a driver crossed the center median of the parkway and
crashed into an oncoming car. In that case, the driver
was found to have crashed on purpose, but the tyrant
(02:52):
police markings in this crash show a sudden crossing potentially
more consistent with a driver losing control.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
It's extremely busy time of the night, eight thirty pm
on a Saturday. A lot of cars stopped, They rendered assistance,
they spoke with police officers. We also know there's a
number of vehicles that left. We need to speak with them.
We're also looking for dashcom video from about eight o'clock
to about eight thirty and these are southbound vehicles as
far as the news bay.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Bullock says witnessing the aftermath of the tragic crash has
been tough emotionally.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
It hit pretty hard for me to where. I did
have a small panic attack when I got home, and
you know all brought tears from you After seeing the
three firefighters with the guy on the ground.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Bullock says his thoughts are with the victims family and
he hopes the police will be able to determine exactly
what happened.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
The Albernie Valley Rescue Squad was called in to help
wand if FUCUS Search and Rescue in the Port run
Through Fire Department rescue an injured hiker Sunday afternoon. The
hiker had fallen into the ocean earlier in the day
on the Wandafuca Marine Trail, sustaining a lower limb injury,
and then swam to the rocks where they waited for help.
The hiker was in a hard area to get to,
(04:06):
so they were lifted out by a helicopter to a
nearby beach to be assessed and treated.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The patient was.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Then flown to Port Renfre to meet a waiting ambulance.
Hundreds of residents of BC's Scotney region are allowed to
return home after two weeks as officials downgrade wildfire evacuation orders.
The village of Slocane issued its order on July twenty
eighth for two hundred and eight properties in the community
and more than three hundred others in the surrounding area.
(04:33):
It all comes as Environment Canada issues a severe thunderstorm
watch spanning much of BC's southern interior. The Weather Office
says conditions are favorable for the development of storms that
may be capable of producing strong winds, hail, and potentially
heavy rain. There are more than four hundred active wildfires
throughout the province, with just under forty percent classified as
(04:56):
burning out of control. Wildfire smoke has prompted smoky skies
bow toons covering much of besi's southern and central interior,
as well as the northeast corner of the province. Residents
of Jasper, Alberta, will be allowed to go home Friday,
three weeks ago a wildfire four thousands out of the
national park and town site.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
This reentry is not to be confused with rehabitation. We
have allowed re entry and some will be able to
go home, but for many re entry will simply be
an opportunity to assess either their business or their home,
or both.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
A third of the structures in Jasper were destroyed in
the fire. Five thousand people live in the town and
essential services have now been restored, but residents are being
told not to count on spending their first night at home.
There are no restrictions on who's allowed end, but the
mayor is asking any visitors to give residence time and
space well as planes take to the skies to help
(05:56):
the wildfire fight across the country. There is one his
historic water bomber that said it's final, goodbye. Yesterday, the
Hawaii Martin Mars has officially retired, touching down in Patricia
Bay one final time before a crowd of supporters last night.
Now work is underway to get the larger than life
plane to the Aviation Museum, where it will continue wowing
(06:17):
crowds in a different way.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Chattis Leo has more.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
It's a touchdown on pat Bay that will no doubt
land in Canada's history books. The final journey of the
Hawaii Martin Mars water Bomber wowed crowds across the island Sunday,
escorted by the snowbirds and made for quite the site
and the skies for the BC Aviation Museum.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
It was perfection.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We're absolutely ecstatic. This was the greatest success you ever
could have imagined, and it all came off perfectly.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Yesterday, the flight took off from its former home of
Sprout Lake mid afternoon and then worked its way back
and forth across the island, including a pass through Forestreet
communities like Campbell River Homewalks, then over to Powell River,
down to Nanaimo, the Golf Islands and many other communities,
(07:20):
before circling around the Victoria Inner Harbor, eventually working its
way up north and finishing off on Patricia Bay for
the museum. A plane of this size, with such incredible
history making its rounds in the air is sure to
draw attention, not just with crowds on land, but even
more so online. So five million hits on your website,
(07:43):
over one hundred and twenty thousand views on the video
so far website is crashing a lot going on. Worry
you guys expecting this.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We were expecting a good response, but it's been more
than ultimately we expected.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Now that the Martin Mars is within a week and
a half of arriving on its new permanent.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Pad, now the hard work starts.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Cruise and volunteers are now widening the museum's service road.
So the massive plane can make it from pat Bay
across Victoria International Airport and into its new home. Then
work gets underway to make the Martin Mars as visitor
friendly as possible, with the museum expecting foot traffic to
double within the next year.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
There are lots of moving parts, but at all.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
And those moving parts are so far coming together smoothly.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
We're hoping we'll be able to allow people to sit
in the pilot's seat and to have photos taken, et cetera.
So it won't it'll be static, but it won't be
It'll be personal still and it will continue. I think
that the longevity of the plane.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
Long term preservation efforts for the water Bomber include a
fundraising campaign to build a new hangar that could house
not just the Mars but other firefighting planes, and a
closer look at bc onelife history. Aviation enthusiasts can expect
to see the Martin Mars up close as soon as
September twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Twenty twenty four, one couple gave.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
The Hawaii Martin Mars a unique send off while giving
themselves a special beginning. Phelan and Will Gortz were able
to board the plane Friday and take some very unique
wedding photos the day before their wedding. The newlyweds say
this was very special to them as they both grew.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Up usprote Lake watching the water Bomber.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Our reporter Chattisleo, was live on the air Sunday during
the events at pat Bands. Since then, we've fielded a
lot of questions from those wondering where he got his
Hawaii Martin Mars T shirt.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
We can tell you they are available for.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Sale at the BC Aviation Museum, as well as a
number of other Mars themed gifts. And on tonight's Checkpoint,
we're asking if you saw the Hawaii Martin Mars's final flight.
You can vote in our poll on our website at
Checknews dot Ca. We'll have your results a little later tonight. Well,
(09:57):
it wasn't just the Hawaii Martin Mars's final flight that
put on a show last night. The sky itself also
lit up with dancing northern lights. Those across the island
could see dancing, green, purple, even pink lights in the
night sky. Like Julie Boyer, who sent us this video
from Lanceville, taken at eleven thirty pm.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
She says she could also see.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
The Perseed's meteor shower, which just added to the excitement
of the evening. According to NASA, the Percied meteor shower
peaks in mid August and is considered the best meteor
shower of the year. Tess, it looks like conditions were
perfect to see the sort of double phenomena that was
taking place last night.
Speaker 12 (10:37):
And perfect conditions last night for the meteor shower as well.
Speaker 13 (10:40):
That was sort of peak viewing Sunday night they thought
would be the best chance to see it.
Speaker 12 (10:44):
Unfortunately, left the cloud cover.
Speaker 13 (10:46):
In our forecaster, we would have had another chance to
see it for tonight as well as maybe another chance
at the Aurora. But finally a change in our weather
as expected, those temperatures dropped down today, so not quite
as warm as the weather we've had so far this
summer with all of our heat waves, and we actually
have a chance of precipitation in the forecast as well,
more than one chance for some parts of the island,
so most areas looking at a small chance of drizzle
(11:08):
overnight tonight into tomorrow, and then in other parts of
the island, including the East Island which has been very dry,
have some actual chances of rain as the week progresses,
so cooler temperatures are sticking around at least for now.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
I'll have much more on that coming up.
Speaker 13 (11:21):
But for today's weather photo, I had to pick a
Martin Mars shot. This is a look at the fly
by along Dallas Road. Thanks to Dave Nicholson for sending
that one in fantastic capture there. And this one is
from Christy Grinton of the Bombers over pat Bay. How
patriarchic is that the snowbirds Canadian flags in the shot.
Such a neat angle that Christy got. And if you're
(11:44):
wondering how to get an awesome Martin Mars shot, this
is what Glenn Halverson was doing. He posted this picture
that another Martin Mars enthusiast took of him sitting in
his kayak on his Honda Van. He said it was
very comfy and created much better visibility for him, and
I guess you could lean back as well and get
those great shots coming up.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
All right, here's we'll look at our satellite radar.
Speaker 13 (12:05):
You can see a little bit of precipitation for parts
of BC and the interior moving into Alberta, as well
as parts of Washington State. So we're not expecting any
heavy precipitation, but definitely a shift in our forecast.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
And I had one of our photographers today say, so.
Speaker 13 (12:18):
The summer Olympics is over, does that mean our summer
weather is over? And this week is probably closer to
normal than what we've seen so far this summer. We've
had a lot of very hot temperatures, but normal for
the South and East Island is really in that sort
of twenty two to twenty four degree range, So that's
the temperatures we can expect to see. North Island, of course,
is going to be quite a bit cooler than that.
But I will have all of those details coming up
(12:40):
a little bit later April.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
After all the hot weather we've had this normal, certainly
it feels like below normal now, so I'll have to
adjust to that, all right, test We'll check back in
a little bit. Well, if you want to break from
reading this Summer and Ocean Side Company is offering just
the pointy hooved prescription ghosts, and a lot of them.
This week. The town of Qualicum Beach is putting the
(13:03):
goat skapers to work for the first time to gobble
up overgrown alleyways, and as sky Ryan reports, the new
hires are hitting the job running.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
What's happening?
Speaker 14 (13:14):
Looking out from their Qualicon Beach fences Monday, Gordy Leverington
and his neighbors couldn't believe what they were seeing in
the alley behind their homes.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
No, no way, this was quite a surprise, I wondered,
one of little noise was going on in the back.
Come around and look, holy mackerel, we gotta hurd of goats.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
But these small town neighbors did what comes naturally. Oh wow,
quickly jumping in to welcome the newcomer's hands on that
beautiful turns out nineteen goats in all. I've been hired
by the town of Qualicum Beach this week to get
to work on a wildly overgrown alley between Garden Road
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and Sixth Street, and within moments of hitting the ground,
they were showing off what they do best.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Look at that going to work already.
Speaker 15 (14:01):
They sure didn't waste any time getting started.
Speaker 14 (14:04):
To work, eating or at least trying to eat. And
you like hair too, everything in reach, let's take that
hair back. This community try something different to tackle its
green spaces by hiring a local Goat Scaping Company Ocean
Side Goat Scaping and Vegetation Control over heavy machinery is
actually it's so noisy, the weed eating all the machinery.
Speaker 12 (14:27):
It's it's enough to drive you batty.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (14:30):
No, last time we cleared this alley, they used heavy
equipment and it was a little bit more invasive to
the subsurface. So this is going to be a lower
impact attempt, and so it's a first try, pilot. We'll
see how it works out.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I love the idea.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I think great idea.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
We'll really make a difference out here, that's for sure.
Speaker 14 (14:51):
These goats will have their work cut out for them though.
Tuesday on they'll be released into these hundreds of meters
of Himalayan blackberries.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Really important to They.
Speaker 15 (15:01):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
They love blackberries.
Speaker 14 (15:03):
Moiver Baron and her husband just started this business in January.
It says, Vancouver Island seems hungry for it.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
We're getting really busy, like I'm I'm I'm trying to
keep up with people's who questions and requests.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Could I get them to come down one day and
move my lawn?
Speaker 14 (15:20):
As this town turns back to the most natural weed
eaters around it grows an even friendlier place to call home.
In the process, love it well.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
When it comes to fundraising, most of us try to
do our part, but for some people in our community
it's in their nature to go above and beyond. In Sanwich,
a nine year old he is taking it upon himself
to raise thousands of dollars for the Victoria Hospital's Foundation.
And as Jordan Cunningham shows us today, he was open
for business.
Speaker 16 (15:55):
If life was perfect, the sun would be shining on
the day of the big lemonade stand hello. And besides,
when life throws you lemons, well wow, thanks Bud. It's
a party in the corner of Shelbourne Street and Kenmore
Avenue and Anders Yee doesn't cut corners when it comes
to lemonade. This is not the powdered variety.
Speaker 17 (16:17):
No.
Speaker 16 (16:18):
Anders spent all last night squeezing lemons. It's hard work
and if we're being honest here, it wasn't all that
easy getting here.
Speaker 17 (16:25):
It's been a hard week because we are coming up
to the anniversary. But he's so much like his father
that I see that in him every single day.
Speaker 16 (16:38):
You see, this is the third time Anders has done
a lemonade stand in honor of his dad, Kevin Yee,
passed away two years ago suddenly from a brain aneurysm.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
What kind of guy was your dad?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
He squeezels a little shy, but he were dead. From tell.
Speaker 16 (16:56):
Anders is all of his dad's best parts, all except shyness.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
I scream harm is gonna get.
Speaker 16 (17:03):
Him, But a little moxie goes a long way in
fund raising. His first time round the block, he raised
forty two bucks, every penny of it going to the
Victoria Hospital's Foundation. Then last year, for the same cause,
he raised about a grand, which is amazing. Then word
trickled out long after he closed up shop.
Speaker 17 (17:21):
Once the story got out, we had many people calling
our office saying they know they missed their chance to
come down and buy lemonade, but they still wanted to
support Ander's lemonade stand.
Speaker 16 (17:32):
Donations started flowing, ice and flowing, and they blew the
lid off the thing, raising more than three thousand dollars
in support of our hospitals. This year, he branched out
to homemade ice cream, freezes, and figs, and he brought
his best hands on deck.
Speaker 14 (17:48):
Can I just help Anders?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
He's the boss?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
He tells me what to do.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
I guess stuff from the cooler and give out the
spoons and straws.
Speaker 16 (17:54):
You know what you are lemonade your management material. Yesss
is his own man all because he's got a great
one to look up to.
Speaker 17 (18:04):
He's smiling down on us right now. He is so
proud of his son.
Speaker 16 (18:11):
And you're welcome to help Anders if you can. At
Victoria HF dot ca A.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What an incredible young man.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Good job Anders, Well still ahead tonight we'll tell you
just how fast. Police in central Sanach caught someone driving
this morning and parking pains.
Speaker 12 (18:30):
Feels like a danger actually because it is a busy
street that nobody here is used to.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
A bike link construction project in Sanwich has local residents
taking their own measures just to try to park their cars.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (18:45):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Well, I think it went perfectly. We couldn't have asked
for better.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Many are still flying high.
Speaker 4 (00:23):
One day after the Hawaii Martin Mars said, it's final
goodbye from the skies across Vancouver Island when you can
expect to get a close up look with the historic
water bomber.
Speaker 5 (00:35):
This is quite a surprise. I wondered what little noise
was going on in the back. Come around and look,
Holy mackerel. We gotta hurd of goats.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
Forgot heavy machinery Qualaicum.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
He's trying a new, greener and yes, much cuter way
to rid the town of weeds. I'm selling lemonade and
ice cream for the Victoria Hospital Foundation. Four bags of
lemons and a whole lot of sweetness. Meet the Sanwich
boy who's turned tragedy into a mission to raise thousands
for local hospitals. Checking the starts now.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Good evening, Thank you for joining us.
Speaker 4 (01:15):
A horrific crash in Nanaimo during the weekend has claimed
the life of one person and seriously injured another. The
crash happened Saturday evening on the Nanaimo Parkway when vehicle
crossed the grassy median, smashing into a vehicle traveling in
the opposite direction. Kendall Hanson has our top story.
Speaker 6 (01:33):
This is what Brendan and Brianna Bullock saw following a
deadly crash on the Nanaimo Parkway Saturday night. The brother
and sister were traveling south in the Parkway when they
came across the wreckage.
Speaker 7 (01:45):
It looked like the driver just went across the highway
struck the other vehicle. I don't know if it burst
it into flames right away, but it looked pretty instant
and people were getting out of the cars, hugging each
other running away from the scene. So it was very
recent when we just having to come around the corner.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
It wasn't long before firefighters and police arrived.
Speaker 8 (02:05):
For awn known reasons, a vehicle that's going southbound with
one occupant crossing the median and crashed into a northbound
dark colored suv. The driver of the northbound suv sustained
life threatening injuries, was taken to the hospital and sadly
died as a result. Of those injuries. The driver in
the southbound vehicle was injured taken the hospital with serious
(02:27):
but non life threatening injuries.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
BC Ambulance took the mail driver of the vehicle that
crossed the center line to hospital with serious but non
life threatening injuries. The crash is reminiscent of another deadly
incident and roughly the same location in twenty fifteen, when
a driver crossed the center median of the parkway and
crashed into an oncoming car. In that case, the driver
was found to have crashed on purpose, but the tyrant
(02:52):
police markings in this crash show a sudden crossing potentially
more consistent with a driver losing control.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
It's extremely busy time of the night, eight thirty pm
on a Saturday. A lot of cars stopped, They rendered assistance,
they spoke with police officers. We also know there's a
number of vehicles that left. We need to speak with them.
We're also looking for dashcom video from about eight o'clock
to about eight thirty and these are southbound vehicles as
far as the news bay.
Speaker 6 (03:20):
Bullock says witnessing the aftermath of the tragic crash has
been tough emotionally.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
It hit pretty hard for me to where. I did
have a small panic attack when I got home, and
you know all brought tears from you After seeing the
three firefighters with the guy on the ground.
Speaker 6 (03:34):
Bullock says his thoughts are with the victims family and
he hopes the police will be able to determine exactly
what happened.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
The Albernie Valley Rescue Squad was called in to help
wand if FUCUS Search and Rescue in the Port run
Through Fire Department rescue an injured hiker Sunday afternoon. The
hiker had fallen into the ocean earlier in the day
on the Wandafuca Marine Trail, sustaining a lower limb injury,
and then swam to the rocks where they waited for help.
The hiker was in a hard area to get to,
(04:06):
so they were lifted out by a helicopter to a
nearby beach to be assessed and treated.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
The patient was.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Then flown to Port Renfre to meet a waiting ambulance.
Hundreds of residents of BC's Scotney region are allowed to
return home after two weeks as officials downgrade wildfire evacuation orders.
The village of Slocane issued its order on July twenty
eighth for two hundred and eight properties in the community
and more than three hundred others in the surrounding area.
(04:33):
It all comes as Environment Canada issues a severe thunderstorm
watch spanning much of BC's southern interior. The Weather Office
says conditions are favorable for the development of storms that
may be capable of producing strong winds, hail, and potentially
heavy rain. There are more than four hundred active wildfires
throughout the province, with just under forty percent classified as
(04:56):
burning out of control. Wildfire smoke has prompted smoky skies
bow toons covering much of besi's southern and central interior,
as well as the northeast corner of the province. Residents
of Jasper, Alberta, will be allowed to go home Friday,
three weeks ago a wildfire four thousands out of the
national park and town site.
Speaker 9 (05:16):
This reentry is not to be confused with rehabitation. We
have allowed re entry and some will be able to
go home, but for many re entry will simply be
an opportunity to assess either their business or their home,
or both.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
A third of the structures in Jasper were destroyed in
the fire. Five thousand people live in the town and
essential services have now been restored, but residents are being
told not to count on spending their first night at home.
There are no restrictions on who's allowed end, but the
mayor is asking any visitors to give residence time and
space well as planes take to the skies to help
(05:56):
the wildfire fight across the country. There is one his
historic water bomber that said it's final, goodbye. Yesterday, the
Hawaii Martin Mars has officially retired, touching down in Patricia
Bay one final time before a crowd of supporters last night.
Now work is underway to get the larger than life
plane to the Aviation Museum, where it will continue wowing
(06:17):
crowds in a different way.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
Chattis Leo has more.
Speaker 10 (06:25):
It's a touchdown on pat Bay that will no doubt
land in Canada's history books. The final journey of the
Hawaii Martin Mars water Bomber wowed crowds across the island Sunday,
escorted by the snowbirds and made for quite the site
and the skies for the BC Aviation Museum.
Speaker 6 (06:49):
It was perfection.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
We're absolutely ecstatic. This was the greatest success you ever
could have imagined, and it all came off perfectly.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Yesterday, the flight took off from its former home of
Sprout Lake mid afternoon and then worked its way back
and forth across the island, including a pass through Forestreet
communities like Campbell River Homewalks, then over to Powell River,
down to Nanaimo, the Golf Islands and many other communities,
(07:20):
before circling around the Victoria Inner Harbor, eventually working its
way up north and finishing off on Patricia Bay for
the museum. A plane of this size, with such incredible
history making its rounds in the air is sure to
draw attention, not just with crowds on land, but even
more so online. So five million hits on your website,
(07:43):
over one hundred and twenty thousand views on the video
so far website is crashing a lot going on. Worry
you guys expecting this.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
We were expecting a good response, but it's been more
than ultimately we expected.
Speaker 10 (07:56):
Now that the Martin Mars is within a week and
a half of arriving on its new permanent.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Pad, now the hard work starts.
Speaker 10 (08:02):
Cruise and volunteers are now widening the museum's service road.
So the massive plane can make it from pat Bay
across Victoria International Airport and into its new home. Then
work gets underway to make the Martin Mars as visitor
friendly as possible, with the museum expecting foot traffic to
double within the next year.
Speaker 11 (08:21):
There are lots of moving parts, but at all.
Speaker 10 (08:25):
And those moving parts are so far coming together smoothly.
Speaker 11 (08:29):
We're hoping we'll be able to allow people to sit
in the pilot's seat and to have photos taken, et cetera.
So it won't it'll be static, but it won't be
It'll be personal still and it will continue. I think
that the longevity of the plane.
Speaker 10 (08:44):
Long term preservation efforts for the water Bomber include a
fundraising campaign to build a new hangar that could house
not just the Mars but other firefighting planes, and a
closer look at bc onelife history. Aviation enthusiasts can expect
to see the Martin Mars up close as soon as
September twenty eighth.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Twenty twenty four, one couple gave.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
The Hawaii Martin Mars a unique send off while giving
themselves a special beginning. Phelan and Will Gortz were able
to board the plane Friday and take some very unique
wedding photos the day before their wedding. The newlyweds say
this was very special to them as they both grew.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Up usprote Lake watching the water Bomber.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
Now.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Our reporter Chattisleo, was live on the air Sunday during
the events at pat Bands. Since then, we've fielded a
lot of questions from those wondering where he got his
Hawaii Martin Mars T shirt.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
We can tell you they are available for.
Speaker 4 (09:37):
Sale at the BC Aviation Museum, as well as a
number of other Mars themed gifts. And on tonight's Checkpoint,
we're asking if you saw the Hawaii Martin Mars's final flight.
You can vote in our poll on our website at
Checknews dot Ca. We'll have your results a little later tonight. Well,
(09:57):
it wasn't just the Hawaii Martin Mars's final flight that
put on a show last night. The sky itself also
lit up with dancing northern lights. Those across the island
could see dancing, green, purple, even pink lights in the
night sky. Like Julie Boyer, who sent us this video
from Lanceville, taken at eleven thirty pm.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
She says she could also see.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
The Perseed's meteor shower, which just added to the excitement
of the evening. According to NASA, the Percied meteor shower
peaks in mid August and is considered the best meteor
shower of the year. Tess, it looks like conditions were
perfect to see the sort of double phenomena that was
taking place last night.
Speaker 12 (10:37):
And perfect conditions last night for the meteor shower as well.
Speaker 13 (10:40):
That was sort of peak viewing Sunday night they thought
would be the best chance to see it.
Speaker 12 (10:44):
Unfortunately, left the cloud cover.
Speaker 13 (10:46):
In our forecaster, we would have had another chance to
see it for tonight as well as maybe another chance
at the Aurora. But finally a change in our weather
as expected, those temperatures dropped down today, so not quite
as warm as the weather we've had so far this
summer with all of our heat waves, and we actually
have a chance of precipitation in the forecast as well,
more than one chance for some parts of the island,
so most areas looking at a small chance of drizzle
(11:08):
overnight tonight into tomorrow, and then in other parts of
the island, including the East Island which has been very dry,
have some actual chances of rain as the week progresses,
so cooler temperatures are sticking around at least for now.
Speaker 12 (11:19):
I'll have much more on that coming up.
Speaker 13 (11:21):
But for today's weather photo, I had to pick a
Martin Mars shot. This is a look at the fly
by along Dallas Road. Thanks to Dave Nicholson for sending
that one in fantastic capture there. And this one is
from Christy Grinton of the Bombers over pat Bay. How
patriarchic is that the snowbirds Canadian flags in the shot.
Such a neat angle that Christy got. And if you're
(11:44):
wondering how to get an awesome Martin Mars shot, this
is what Glenn Halverson was doing. He posted this picture
that another Martin Mars enthusiast took of him sitting in
his kayak on his Honda Van. He said it was
very comfy and created much better visibility for him, and
I guess you could lean back as well and get
those great shots coming up.
Speaker 12 (12:03):
All right, here's we'll look at our satellite radar.
Speaker 13 (12:05):
You can see a little bit of precipitation for parts
of BC and the interior moving into Alberta, as well
as parts of Washington State. So we're not expecting any
heavy precipitation, but definitely a shift in our forecast.
Speaker 12 (12:16):
And I had one of our photographers today say, so.
Speaker 13 (12:18):
The summer Olympics is over, does that mean our summer
weather is over? And this week is probably closer to
normal than what we've seen so far this summer. We've
had a lot of very hot temperatures, but normal for
the South and East Island is really in that sort
of twenty two to twenty four degree range, So that's
the temperatures we can expect to see. North Island, of course,
is going to be quite a bit cooler than that.
But I will have all of those details coming up
(12:40):
a little bit later April.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
After all the hot weather we've had this normal, certainly
it feels like below normal now, so I'll have to
adjust to that, all right, test We'll check back in
a little bit. Well, if you want to break from
reading this Summer and Ocean Side Company is offering just
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This week. The town of Qualicum Beach is putting the
(13:03):
goat skapers to work for the first time to gobble
up overgrown alleyways, and as sky Ryan reports, the new
hires are hitting the job running.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
What's happening?
Speaker 14 (13:14):
Looking out from their Qualicon Beach fences Monday, Gordy Leverington
and his neighbors couldn't believe what they were seeing in
the alley behind their homes.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
No, no way, this was quite a surprise, I wondered,
one of little noise was going on in the back.
Come around and look, holy mackerel, we gotta hurd of goats.
Speaker 14 (13:33):
But these small town neighbors did what comes naturally. Oh wow,
quickly jumping in to welcome the newcomer's hands on that
beautiful turns out nineteen goats in all. I've been hired
by the town of Qualicum Beach this week to get
to work on a wildly overgrown alley between Garden Road
(13:53):
and Sixth Street, and within moments of hitting the ground,
they were showing off what they do best.
Speaker 5 (14:00):
Look at that going to work already.
Speaker 15 (14:01):
They sure didn't waste any time getting started.
Speaker 14 (14:04):
To work, eating or at least trying to eat. And
you like hair too, everything in reach, let's take that
hair back. This community try something different to tackle its
green spaces by hiring a local Goat Scaping Company Ocean
Side Goat Scaping and Vegetation Control over heavy machinery is
actually it's so noisy, the weed eating all the machinery.
Speaker 12 (14:27):
It's it's enough to drive you batty.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah.
Speaker 15 (14:30):
No, last time we cleared this alley, they used heavy
equipment and it was a little bit more invasive to
the subsurface. So this is going to be a lower
impact attempt, and so it's a first try, pilot. We'll
see how it works out.
Speaker 1 (14:44):
And I think it's fantastic.
Speaker 6 (14:46):
I love the idea.
Speaker 7 (14:47):
I think great idea.
Speaker 5 (14:48):
We'll really make a difference out here, that's for sure.
Speaker 14 (14:51):
These goats will have their work cut out for them though.
Tuesday on they'll be released into these hundreds of meters
of Himalayan blackberries.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Really important to They.
Speaker 15 (15:01):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
They love blackberries.
Speaker 14 (15:03):
Moiver Baron and her husband just started this business in January.
It says, Vancouver Island seems hungry for it.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
We're getting really busy, like I'm I'm I'm trying to
keep up with people's who questions and requests.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
Could I get them to come down one day and
move my lawn?
Speaker 14 (15:20):
As this town turns back to the most natural weed
eaters around it grows an even friendlier place to call home.
In the process, love it well.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
When it comes to fundraising, most of us try to
do our part, but for some people in our community
it's in their nature to go above and beyond. In Sanwich,
a nine year old he is taking it upon himself
to raise thousands of dollars for the Victoria Hospital's Foundation.
And as Jordan Cunningham shows us today, he was open
for business.
Speaker 16 (15:55):
If life was perfect, the sun would be shining on
the day of the big lemonade stand hello. And besides,
when life throws you lemons, well wow, thanks Bud. It's
a party in the corner of Shelbourne Street and Kenmore
Avenue and Anders Yee doesn't cut corners when it comes
to lemonade. This is not the powdered variety.
Speaker 17 (16:17):
No.
Speaker 16 (16:18):
Anders spent all last night squeezing lemons. It's hard work
and if we're being honest here, it wasn't all that
easy getting here.
Speaker 17 (16:25):
It's been a hard week because we are coming up
to the anniversary. But he's so much like his father
that I see that in him every single day.
Speaker 16 (16:38):
You see, this is the third time Anders has done
a lemonade stand in honor of his dad, Kevin Yee,
passed away two years ago suddenly from a brain aneurysm.
Speaker 1 (16:47):
What kind of guy was your dad?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
He squeezels a little shy, but he were dead. From tell.
Speaker 16 (16:56):
Anders is all of his dad's best parts, all except shyness.
Speaker 13 (17:00):
I scream harm is gonna get.
Speaker 16 (17:03):
Him, But a little moxie goes a long way in
fund raising. His first time round the block, he raised
forty two bucks, every penny of it going to the
Victoria Hospital's Foundation. Then last year, for the same cause,
he raised about a grand, which is amazing. Then word
trickled out long after he closed up shop.
Speaker 17 (17:21):
Once the story got out, we had many people calling
our office saying they know they missed their chance to
come down and buy lemonade, but they still wanted to
support Ander's lemonade stand.
Speaker 16 (17:32):
Donations started flowing, ice and flowing, and they blew the
lid off the thing, raising more than three thousand dollars
in support of our hospitals. This year, he branched out
to homemade ice cream, freezes, and figs, and he brought
his best hands on deck.
Speaker 14 (17:48):
Can I just help Anders?
Speaker 3 (17:49):
He's the boss?
Speaker 1 (17:50):
He tells me what to do.
Speaker 7 (17:51):
I guess stuff from the cooler and give out the
spoons and straws.
Speaker 16 (17:54):
You know what you are lemonade your management material. Yesss
is his own man all because he's got a great
one to look up to.
Speaker 17 (18:04):
He's smiling down on us right now. He is so
proud of his son.
Speaker 16 (18:11):
And you're welcome to help Anders if you can. At
Victoria HF dot ca A.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
What an incredible young man.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Good job Anders, Well still ahead tonight we'll tell you
just how fast. Police in central Sanach caught someone driving
this morning and parking pains.
Speaker 12 (18:30):
Feels like a danger actually because it is a busy
street that nobody here is used to.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
A bike link construction project in Sanwich has local residents
taking their own measures just to try to park their cars.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
We'll be right back.
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