July 31, 2025 • 15 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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or anytime one Check Plus or checknews dot CA.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
How are you feeling about it?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, I'm not feeling that great. I tell you know,
to have this happen again. He's not great. No, Yeah,
I'm gonna get ready to evacuate.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
A raging, out of control wildfire prompts a state of
emergency and evacuation orders at Cameron Lake.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
I usually just find garbage, but this time I found
a pipe, So I'm happy that I'm able to help
the Gorge.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
A sewage sleuth takes to his rowboat and solves an
effluent mystery on the Gorge Waterway.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
The food costs of food for the cost of vets
is extraordinarily high these days.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's really out of hand.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
With pet ownership becoming a financial burden for more and
more people. One group is calling on the provincial government
to help. Jack News starts now, Hi there, thanks for
joining us. Tonight, we begin with an aggressive wildfire burning
(01:20):
near Cameron Lake that's forced people to flee from dozens
of homes and put nearly three hundred other properties on alert,
told to be prepared at any moment to leave detected
just after midnight, the Wesley Ridge fire, burning between Parksville
and port Alberni, has grown to sixty hectares already. It's
across the lake from Highway four, and while officials say
(01:41):
there's no imminent threat to structures right now, a state
of local emergency has been declared and some have been
told to leave immediately. Kendall Hanson has the latest well.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
Right from the start, this wildfire had a different feeling
from other wildfires on Vancouver Island so far this year.
This one just across the world from the Cameron Bluss
fire location of two years ago, and also far too
close to some homes in a campsite, some saying this
feels a little deja vous.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Four helicopters and five fixed wing aircraft are dropping water
on what officials are calling the Wesley Ridge Fire. Trees
suddenly kindling and the smoke can be seen for kilometers away,
including from the Inland Island Highway.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The fire was called in by my neighbor at midnight
last night. She messaged me to say, esther, have you
seen the fire?
Speaker 8 (02:30):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
At seven point thirty phone calls that yes, there's a fire.
Woke up to smoke.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's quickly grown despite the efforts of firefighters. As of
Thursday afternoon, the out of control fire is sixty hectares,
reaching from the edge of Cameron Lake to the crest
of Wesley Ridge. It's suspected to be human caused. How
are you feeling about it?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, I'm not feeling that great. I tell you to
have this happen again.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
It's not great.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, sorry, maybe this is.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And then the Regional District of Nanaimo calls ordered, okay,
it's ordering those on the north side of Cameron Lake
to evacuate immediately, have to go. Search and rescue volunteers
are among those going door to door telling those in
the area to leave.
Speaker 10 (03:20):
The vibe is kinda I don't know. We're trying to
be calm, cool, collected, but it's a little numbing and
close close to home, so we're not really sure where
this is going to go. But they've got all the
right people on it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
People are taking videos of their possessions for insurance purposes
and packing up and leaving.
Speaker 10 (03:39):
Batten down the hatches and packing up the truck. I've
got the boat ready to go home, and yeah, leave
the rest of it behind. Can all be replaced.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The RDN has also issued an evacuation alert for twenty
additional roads outlined in orange in what's known as the
Little Qualicum River Village. And while daytime highs the fire
are near thirty degrees, another weather element is cooperating.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
The weather forecast is not seeing a significant increase in
wind activity or a change in direction, and so we're
not expecting the wind to be a factor at this time.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Meanwhile, the Little Qualicumb Provincial Park on the lake is
shut down and authorities are asking drivers traveling on Highway
four to proceed with caution, stay focused on the road,
and to not stop the flow of traffic. Now.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
It should be noted that while the evacuation order impacts
Little Qualicumb Falls Provincial Park at Cameron Lake at this point,
it does not impact the Little Qualicum Falls Provincial campsite
that is some distance down highway. For when I stopped
in on campers earlier today, they were relaxing and enjoying
clean air. Despite some noise from the aircraft that we're
(04:50):
coming to and from the fire.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
And out of control. Wildfire is edging toward Litton. Officials
say the fire has become a threat to life and safe.
Litton First Nation has issued an evacuation order for two
sparsely populated reserves. The fire is estimated to be more
than a thousand hectares and is burning out of control
ten kilometers south of the village of Lytton. The community
(05:13):
and Litton First Nation were devastated by a wildfire four
years ago. Meanwhile, in the Okanagan region, an evacuation order
has been issued for four hundred properties near peach Land.
The Drought Hill fire has grown to fifty seven hectares
in forty eight hours. While traffic is being allowed through
at the junction of Highway ninety seven Sea and ninety seven,
it is single lane alternating. Ladysmith RCMP say a driver
(05:38):
was killed last night in a single vehicle crash on
Chimenez Road. It happened near Porter around six thirty last night.
Police say no other vehicles or people were involved. They
aren't providing any further details, including the identity of the victim,
but are continuing to work to determine the cause of
the crash. A swimming advisory remains in place at Victoria's
a Banfield Park dock. A sewage spill near the popular
(06:01):
swimming spot prompted the warning from Island Health. The suspect
is a century old city pipe discovered by a rowboating detective.
Mary Griffin reports.
Speaker 11 (06:12):
On a hot summer day, Banfield Park doc should be packed,
but the crowd is sparse. On Wednesday, signs went up
advising against swimming do to a sewage spill. Adam o'manson
is out on the Gorge daily in his rowboat. On
Monday he could smell sewage and started investigating.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
It took a couple of days, so at first I
smelt it just a bit, and I kept coming back
and investigating.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
What attracted his attention is a construction site across from
Bamfield Park dot. So we rowed to the beach directly
underneath and found the sores.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You can see it here, just starage area here. So
this would usually be dripping because it's a as I said,
a storm water outflow. It's very hidden. The pipe, you
can just see it.
Speaker 11 (07:00):
It's about a twelve inch pipe and the culprit that.
Speaker 12 (07:03):
Was observed in the Gorge waterway. We quickly connected with
our partners at CRD, who are currently completing some construction
rehabilitation of both CRD and city infrastructure.
Speaker 11 (07:14):
It didn't take long to figure out that a bypass
pump operating intermittently at the construction site over two days
was responsible, leaving a century old pipe to pump out
an unknown amount of sewage into the Gorge waterway.
Speaker 12 (07:29):
Sometimes unique circumstances such as this one did lead to
a likelihood that we do have something wrong underneath there.
And you know, it might have been a number of
years ago that this was installed, and so at this
time we're not necessarily looking elsewhere but ourselves.
Speaker 11 (07:45):
Island Health is waiting for results from samples of water
take in July twenty ninth and thirtieth. If the results
warrant it, the swimming advisory will be lifted.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I usually just find garbage, but this time I found
a pipe. So I'm happy that I'm able to help
the Gorge.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
This rowe boating detective is happy to have helped.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
In a surprising announcement, the University of Victoria's president, Kevin Hall,
says he is stepping down tomorrow. Yu Vick quietly posted
the announcement on its website this morning, one day before
his resignation. Yuvick says Hall is taking on the role
of president and CEO of an unidentified international university. This
comes after he was reappointed for a five year term
(08:31):
that was set to begin this November. Haul joined YUVIC
five years ago, the school noting he helped navigate international
enrollment and spearheaded a renewed strategic plan, but he also
faced challenges with the death of a student on campus,
in part due to missteps by campus security, months long
student encampments, and the closing of the McKinnon Pool. Vice president,
(08:51):
doctor Robina Thomas, will serve as president for a three
month term starting August the second, a Coomok's based gaming
company is celebrating its egg splattering online game after recently
reaching a major milestone. Shell Shockers was released in twenty seventeen,
(09:13):
developed by a Blue Wizard Digital and indie video game
development and publishing studio in Comos founded by jasonalk Sorry,
let me get that Rightalka Jason Kapalka. In twenty fourteen,
shell Schockers recently hit two hundred million lifetime players, and
Blue Wizard Digital says the milestone makes it the biggest
(09:34):
web game in Canada and one of the biggest in
the world. And congratulations to Nanaimo's Dane Ansen. The fifteen
year old and his horse Celestino have made history, Dane
becoming the youngest and first ever Canadian rider to win
the prestigious Gladstone Cup Equitation Classic. The event held in Delmar, California,
(09:54):
this past weekend. Dane and Celestino currently train in Los Angeles. Congratulations.
All right, it's upside time and it is going to
be a fun one again this year. It's SunFest weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Jeff is in the thick of it all.
Speaker 11 (10:10):
Take it away, Jeff.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Yeah, and the couch and valley. It's baking in here, Stace.
Speaker 13 (10:15):
I'm missing my little buddy Yed, who's not here tonight.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
But we're having a lot of fun getting.
Speaker 13 (10:19):
Ready for Sawyer Brown, Bailey, Zimmerman Brothers, Osborne Timmicks is
tonight and a lot of people camping and having fun,
including my new friends.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
From the Naimo What are your names? I Glory, Lori
and Karen, Laurie and Karen. But you said that, can
not that Karen? That's right, all right.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
My buddy Bret DOBIE's here with Molson Coors Canada, and
we're gonna play what song is wrong?
Speaker 8 (10:41):
You're ready for this?
Speaker 13 (10:42):
I'm gonna give you the Two of these are actual
country songs.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
One is not, so you have to guess the wrong one.
She got the.
Speaker 13 (10:49):
Gold mine, I got the shaft, she got the ring
and I got the finger?
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Are you leaving us?
Speaker 13 (10:56):
Or is it just easier to clean an empty house?
Which is the long song?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I go the last one?
Speaker 8 (11:05):
What do you think hard to leave a clean house? Yeah?
You're right, You're right, You're completely right.
Speaker 13 (11:12):
Brent's gonna set you up here with some Coors hats
so you can replace the hats that you have right now?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Who are you here to see this weekend? Who are
you excited to see? I like Zimmerman? Zimmerman? How about yourself?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
Who you?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
It ain't my fault, It ain't my fault. Ladies have
fun and the pride and joy port of Bernie. How
are we lady? What are your names?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Shelby Rachel?
Speaker 8 (11:36):
And who are you here to see this weekend?
Speaker 9 (11:38):
Bailey Zimmerman, Bailey zimmer Honestly everyone, honestly.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
See I'm old some I'm more of a sawyer brown
guy myself? All right?
Speaker 13 (11:45):
What song is wrong, ladies for some swag from Cores.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
All right.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
Number one, I'm a bug on the windshield of life.
Number two four by four by you, and number three
You've had too many?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
You better jump the cab of my truck. What's the
wrong song?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
First one?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
The first one?
Speaker 13 (12:10):
No, No, I'm a bug on the windshiel of the
life is a country song. You've had too many? You
better jump in the cab of my truck. That's the
fake one. Brent, Dovie's gonna set you up with some
swig from Coors. The fun is on stage later on,
we're heading into campsite to do some campsite karaoke. It
is hot here, but we're having a lot of fun
(12:31):
in the couch and valley just outside of a couch
and at SunFest.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Get out and join us this weekend.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Oh wow, weather, it's gonna be perfect, and I know
the music will be great too. Thanks Jeff, we'll see
in a little bit.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
All right.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Test is in the studio with us tonight for a
look at our weather forecast tests. It was a warm,
one out day today and looking at all that red
behind you in our temperature map, that's just crazy.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
Right now, warm day tomorrow as well. Stacy Larius, like
Worth SunFest Is will be hot so high twenty is
feeling like it's more than thirty degrees felty parts of
the East Island will feel like thirty one tomorrow when
we factor in the humidity. So quick look at our
temperature map. You can see this is today, so that's
how much things heated up today, and then we're back
at it again tomorrow. But we do have a cool
down on the way, so enjoy these warmer than normal
(13:12):
temperature as well. We still have them. Unfortunately, no rain
in the forecast for at least another week for the
South Island, despite cooler and cloudy conditions ahead. And it
was a very dry July, so it's actually going to
be the eighth driest July on record at the Victoria
Gonzali's weather station. Now records there go back more than
one hundred and twenty five years, so that just shows
you how dry it's been. Zero point two millimeters of precipitation.
(13:34):
That's one point five percent of normal normals thirteen millimeters.
And the only Julyes that have been drier were the
seven where we had no measurable rain at all, So
you can see those years, twenty twenty one being the
most recent one, so incredibly dry conditions that zero point
two is basically nothing. So hopefully we do have a
little bit of rain ahead in the extended forecast. At
least there is a chance of that after the next
(13:55):
seven days, at least for Greater Victoria, but other parts
of the island might see a little precipitation. And as
we see, say goodbye to July. Today's weather photo is
this beautiful shot from Dan Noble of a colorful sunrise
at the beach in Parksville earlier this month. Now, I've
been carrying Great Viewer wildlife encounters all month, so I
(14:16):
thought i'd end the month with an eagle encounter I
had Tuesday evening. This is my resident eagle. I've named
him Jeremy in the eagle tree at our house. Now.
He just caught a fish and he has it in
his talons. You can see it there hanging from his talents.
At the top of the tree is a juvenile ball
to eagle that followed Jeremy to the tree. Jeremy was
not impressed. They had a bit of a standoff in
(14:36):
the tree and after a whole lot of squawking. Jeremy
flew off with his dinner with the other eagle in
hot pursuit there, Stacy, So I have to come up
with a name for the other eagle in place. We
see that one again. But Jeremy's wife is Jojo and
they have babies every year, although that one was quite large,
so definitely not from this year.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Wow, amazing, that's so cool. I wonder if Jeremy eventually
ended up sharing with that youngster.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
At least unlikely. Yeah, it's probably with Jojo.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I got to take care of the of the wife first.
I think that's only fair.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Tests We'll see you with the full forecast in a
couple of minutes. Also still to come, some lawmakers want
to see an end to tariffs on Canada. They want
American liquor back on our shelves. Meantime, it is wracking.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Just I hope everything eventually will sort itself out.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Donald Trump signs an executive order just minutes ago hiking
tariffs on Canadian goods from twenty five to thirty five percent.
More on that next
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Watch Full Check newscasts weekdays at five, six, and ten,
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
How are you feeling about it?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Yeah, I'm not feeling that great. I tell you know,
to have this happen again. He's not great. No, Yeah,
I'm gonna get ready to evacuate.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Now.
Speaker 4 (00:29):
A raging, out of control wildfire prompts a state of
emergency and evacuation orders at Cameron Lake.
Speaker 5 (00:36):
I usually just find garbage, but this time I found
a pipe, So I'm happy that I'm able to help
the Gorge.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
A sewage sleuth takes to his rowboat and solves an
effluent mystery on the Gorge Waterway.
Speaker 6 (00:52):
The food costs of food for the cost of vets
is extraordinarily high these days.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
It's really out of hand.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
With pet ownership becoming a financial burden for more and
more people. One group is calling on the provincial government
to help. Jack News starts now, Hi there, thanks for
joining us. Tonight, we begin with an aggressive wildfire burning
(01:20):
near Cameron Lake that's forced people to flee from dozens
of homes and put nearly three hundred other properties on alert,
told to be prepared at any moment to leave detected
just after midnight, the Wesley Ridge fire, burning between Parksville
and port Alberni, has grown to sixty hectares already. It's
across the lake from Highway four, and while officials say
(01:41):
there's no imminent threat to structures right now, a state
of local emergency has been declared and some have been
told to leave immediately. Kendall Hanson has the latest well.
Speaker 7 (01:52):
Right from the start, this wildfire had a different feeling
from other wildfires on Vancouver Island so far this year.
This one just across the world from the Cameron Bluss
fire location of two years ago, and also far too
close to some homes in a campsite, some saying this
feels a little deja vous.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Four helicopters and five fixed wing aircraft are dropping water
on what officials are calling the Wesley Ridge Fire. Trees
suddenly kindling and the smoke can be seen for kilometers away,
including from the Inland Island Highway.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
The fire was called in by my neighbor at midnight
last night. She messaged me to say, esther, have you
seen the fire?
Speaker 8 (02:30):
I did not.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
At seven point thirty phone calls that yes, there's a fire.
Woke up to smoke.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's quickly grown despite the efforts of firefighters. As of
Thursday afternoon, the out of control fire is sixty hectares,
reaching from the edge of Cameron Lake to the crest
of Wesley Ridge. It's suspected to be human caused. How
are you feeling about it?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, I'm not feeling that great. I tell you to
have this happen again.
Speaker 9 (02:57):
It's not great.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
No, sorry, maybe this is.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And then the Regional District of Nanaimo calls ordered, okay,
it's ordering those on the north side of Cameron Lake
to evacuate immediately, have to go. Search and rescue volunteers
are among those going door to door telling those in
the area to leave.
Speaker 10 (03:20):
The vibe is kinda I don't know. We're trying to
be calm, cool, collected, but it's a little numbing and
close close to home, so we're not really sure where
this is going to go. But they've got all the
right people on it.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
People are taking videos of their possessions for insurance purposes
and packing up and leaving.
Speaker 10 (03:39):
Batten down the hatches and packing up the truck. I've
got the boat ready to go home, and yeah, leave
the rest of it behind. Can all be replaced.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
The RDN has also issued an evacuation alert for twenty
additional roads outlined in orange in what's known as the
Little Qualicum River Village. And while daytime highs the fire
are near thirty degrees, another weather element is cooperating.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
The weather forecast is not seeing a significant increase in
wind activity or a change in direction, and so we're
not expecting the wind to be a factor at this time.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Meanwhile, the Little Qualicumb Provincial Park on the lake is
shut down and authorities are asking drivers traveling on Highway
four to proceed with caution, stay focused on the road,
and to not stop the flow of traffic. Now.
Speaker 7 (04:29):
It should be noted that while the evacuation order impacts
Little Qualicumb Falls Provincial Park at Cameron Lake at this point,
it does not impact the Little Qualicum Falls Provincial campsite
that is some distance down highway. For when I stopped
in on campers earlier today, they were relaxing and enjoying
clean air. Despite some noise from the aircraft that we're
(04:50):
coming to and from the fire.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
And out of control. Wildfire is edging toward Litton. Officials
say the fire has become a threat to life and safe.
Litton First Nation has issued an evacuation order for two
sparsely populated reserves. The fire is estimated to be more
than a thousand hectares and is burning out of control
ten kilometers south of the village of Lytton. The community
(05:13):
and Litton First Nation were devastated by a wildfire four
years ago. Meanwhile, in the Okanagan region, an evacuation order
has been issued for four hundred properties near peach Land.
The Drought Hill fire has grown to fifty seven hectares
in forty eight hours. While traffic is being allowed through
at the junction of Highway ninety seven Sea and ninety seven,
it is single lane alternating. Ladysmith RCMP say a driver
(05:38):
was killed last night in a single vehicle crash on
Chimenez Road. It happened near Porter around six thirty last night.
Police say no other vehicles or people were involved. They
aren't providing any further details, including the identity of the victim,
but are continuing to work to determine the cause of
the crash. A swimming advisory remains in place at Victoria's
a Banfield Park dock. A sewage spill near the popular
(06:01):
swimming spot prompted the warning from Island Health. The suspect
is a century old city pipe discovered by a rowboating detective.
Mary Griffin reports.
Speaker 11 (06:12):
On a hot summer day, Banfield Park doc should be packed,
but the crowd is sparse. On Wednesday, signs went up
advising against swimming do to a sewage spill. Adam o'manson
is out on the Gorge daily in his rowboat. On
Monday he could smell sewage and started investigating.
Speaker 5 (06:32):
It took a couple of days, so at first I
smelt it just a bit, and I kept coming back
and investigating.
Speaker 11 (06:39):
What attracted his attention is a construction site across from
Bamfield Park dot. So we rowed to the beach directly
underneath and found the sores.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
You can see it here, just starage area here. So
this would usually be dripping because it's a as I said,
a storm water outflow. It's very hidden. The pipe, you
can just see it.
Speaker 11 (07:00):
It's about a twelve inch pipe and the culprit that.
Speaker 12 (07:03):
Was observed in the Gorge waterway. We quickly connected with
our partners at CRD, who are currently completing some construction
rehabilitation of both CRD and city infrastructure.
Speaker 11 (07:14):
It didn't take long to figure out that a bypass
pump operating intermittently at the construction site over two days
was responsible, leaving a century old pipe to pump out
an unknown amount of sewage into the Gorge waterway.
Speaker 12 (07:29):
Sometimes unique circumstances such as this one did lead to
a likelihood that we do have something wrong underneath there.
And you know, it might have been a number of
years ago that this was installed, and so at this
time we're not necessarily looking elsewhere but ourselves.
Speaker 11 (07:45):
Island Health is waiting for results from samples of water
take in July twenty ninth and thirtieth. If the results
warrant it, the swimming advisory will be lifted.
Speaker 5 (07:55):
I usually just find garbage, but this time I found
a pipe. So I'm happy that I'm able to help
the Gorge.
Speaker 11 (08:04):
This rowe boating detective is happy to have helped.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
In a surprising announcement, the University of Victoria's president, Kevin Hall,
says he is stepping down tomorrow. Yu Vick quietly posted
the announcement on its website this morning, one day before
his resignation. Yuvick says Hall is taking on the role
of president and CEO of an unidentified international university. This
comes after he was reappointed for a five year term
(08:31):
that was set to begin this November. Haul joined YUVIC
five years ago, the school noting he helped navigate international
enrollment and spearheaded a renewed strategic plan, but he also
faced challenges with the death of a student on campus,
in part due to missteps by campus security, months long
student encampments, and the closing of the McKinnon Pool. Vice president,
(08:51):
doctor Robina Thomas, will serve as president for a three
month term starting August the second, a Coomok's based gaming
company is celebrating its egg splattering online game after recently
reaching a major milestone. Shell Shockers was released in twenty seventeen,
(09:13):
developed by a Blue Wizard Digital and indie video game
development and publishing studio in Comos founded by jasonalk Sorry,
let me get that Rightalka Jason Kapalka. In twenty fourteen,
shell Schockers recently hit two hundred million lifetime players, and
Blue Wizard Digital says the milestone makes it the biggest
(09:34):
web game in Canada and one of the biggest in
the world. And congratulations to Nanaimo's Dane Ansen. The fifteen
year old and his horse Celestino have made history, Dane
becoming the youngest and first ever Canadian rider to win
the prestigious Gladstone Cup Equitation Classic. The event held in Delmar, California,
(09:54):
this past weekend. Dane and Celestino currently train in Los Angeles. Congratulations.
All right, it's upside time and it is going to
be a fun one again this year. It's SunFest weekend.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Jeff is in the thick of it all.
Speaker 11 (10:10):
Take it away, Jeff.
Speaker 8 (10:12):
Yeah, and the couch and valley. It's baking in here, Stace.
Speaker 13 (10:15):
I'm missing my little buddy Yed, who's not here tonight.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
But we're having a lot of fun getting.
Speaker 13 (10:19):
Ready for Sawyer Brown, Bailey, Zimmerman Brothers, Osborne Timmicks is
tonight and a lot of people camping and having fun,
including my new friends.
Speaker 8 (10:28):
From the Naimo What are your names? I Glory, Lori
and Karen, Laurie and Karen. But you said that, can
not that Karen? That's right, all right.
Speaker 13 (10:36):
My buddy Bret DOBIE's here with Molson Coors Canada, and
we're gonna play what song is wrong?
Speaker 8 (10:41):
You're ready for this?
Speaker 13 (10:42):
I'm gonna give you the Two of these are actual
country songs.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
One is not, so you have to guess the wrong one.
She got the.
Speaker 13 (10:49):
Gold mine, I got the shaft, she got the ring
and I got the finger?
Speaker 8 (10:55):
Are you leaving us?
Speaker 13 (10:56):
Or is it just easier to clean an empty house?
Which is the long song?
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I go the last one?
Speaker 8 (11:05):
What do you think hard to leave a clean house? Yeah?
You're right, You're right, You're completely right.
Speaker 13 (11:12):
Brent's gonna set you up here with some Coors hats
so you can replace the hats that you have right now?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
Who are you here to see this weekend? Who are
you excited to see? I like Zimmerman? Zimmerman? How about yourself?
Speaker 10 (11:25):
Who you?
Speaker 8 (11:26):
It ain't my fault, It ain't my fault. Ladies have
fun and the pride and joy port of Bernie. How
are we lady? What are your names?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Shelby Rachel?
Speaker 8 (11:36):
And who are you here to see this weekend?
Speaker 9 (11:38):
Bailey Zimmerman, Bailey zimmer Honestly everyone, honestly.
Speaker 8 (11:42):
See I'm old some I'm more of a sawyer brown
guy myself? All right?
Speaker 13 (11:45):
What song is wrong, ladies for some swag from Cores.
Speaker 8 (11:48):
All right.
Speaker 13 (11:49):
Number one, I'm a bug on the windshield of life.
Number two four by four by you, and number three
You've had too many?
Speaker 8 (11:59):
You better jump the cab of my truck. What's the
wrong song?
Speaker 3 (12:09):
First one?
Speaker 8 (12:09):
The first one?
Speaker 13 (12:10):
No, No, I'm a bug on the windshiel of the
life is a country song. You've had too many? You
better jump in the cab of my truck. That's the
fake one. Brent, Dovie's gonna set you up with some
swig from Coors. The fun is on stage later on,
we're heading into campsite to do some campsite karaoke. It
is hot here, but we're having a lot of fun
(12:31):
in the couch and valley just outside of a couch
and at SunFest.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
Get out and join us this weekend.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Oh wow, weather, it's gonna be perfect, and I know
the music will be great too. Thanks Jeff, we'll see
in a little bit.
Speaker 10 (12:41):
All right.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Test is in the studio with us tonight for a
look at our weather forecast tests. It was a warm,
one out day today and looking at all that red
behind you in our temperature map, that's just crazy.
Speaker 9 (12:52):
Right now, warm day tomorrow as well. Stacy Larius, like
Worth SunFest Is will be hot so high twenty is
feeling like it's more than thirty degrees felty parts of
the East Island will feel like thirty one tomorrow when
we factor in the humidity. So quick look at our
temperature map. You can see this is today, so that's
how much things heated up today, and then we're back
at it again tomorrow. But we do have a cool
down on the way, so enjoy these warmer than normal
(13:12):
temperature as well. We still have them. Unfortunately, no rain
in the forecast for at least another week for the
South Island, despite cooler and cloudy conditions ahead. And it
was a very dry July, so it's actually going to
be the eighth driest July on record at the Victoria
Gonzali's weather station. Now records there go back more than
one hundred and twenty five years, so that just shows
you how dry it's been. Zero point two millimeters of precipitation.
(13:34):
That's one point five percent of normal normals thirteen millimeters.
And the only Julyes that have been drier were the
seven where we had no measurable rain at all, So
you can see those years, twenty twenty one being the
most recent one, so incredibly dry conditions that zero point
two is basically nothing. So hopefully we do have a
little bit of rain ahead in the extended forecast. At
least there is a chance of that after the next
(13:55):
seven days, at least for Greater Victoria, but other parts
of the island might see a little precipitation. And as
we see, say goodbye to July. Today's weather photo is
this beautiful shot from Dan Noble of a colorful sunrise
at the beach in Parksville earlier this month. Now, I've
been carrying Great Viewer wildlife encounters all month, so I
(14:16):
thought i'd end the month with an eagle encounter I
had Tuesday evening. This is my resident eagle. I've named
him Jeremy in the eagle tree at our house. Now.
He just caught a fish and he has it in
his talons. You can see it there hanging from his talents.
At the top of the tree is a juvenile ball
to eagle that followed Jeremy to the tree. Jeremy was
not impressed. They had a bit of a standoff in
(14:36):
the tree and after a whole lot of squawking. Jeremy
flew off with his dinner with the other eagle in
hot pursuit there, Stacy, So I have to come up
with a name for the other eagle in place. We
see that one again. But Jeremy's wife is Jojo and
they have babies every year, although that one was quite large,
so definitely not from this year.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Wow, amazing, that's so cool. I wonder if Jeremy eventually
ended up sharing with that youngster.
Speaker 9 (15:00):
At least unlikely. Yeah, it's probably with Jojo.
Speaker 8 (15:03):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
I got to take care of the of the wife first.
I think that's only fair.
Speaker 9 (15:07):
Thanks.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Tests We'll see you with the full forecast in a
couple of minutes. Also still to come, some lawmakers want
to see an end to tariffs on Canada. They want
American liquor back on our shelves. Meantime, it is wracking.
Speaker 9 (15:20):
Just I hope everything eventually will sort itself out.
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Donald Trump signs an executive order just minutes ago hiking
tariffs on Canadian goods from twenty five to thirty five percent.
More on that next
Speaker 1 (15:34):
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