The
Squamidian Report – Sept. 28 / 13
Issue #592
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The Ontarion
Hi All,
How do the words from that song go?... “It’s snowin’ up on Brohm” ?. Well, it did. And on Garibaldi and Alfa as well all the high country. Actually Brohm is part of Garibaldi. Brohm Ridge sits at about 5000 ft. A mile high ridge over looking the Squamish area. We had several cold wet days and then the sky cleared and give us a good look at the surrounding mountains. They are sporting a nice clean white coat of snow. I guess its that time of year again already.
The fact that there is new snow up in the high country means it is much colder there than it had been in the summer, obviously. When it was warm up there the existing ice and snow had been melting, giving our local rivers a glacial blue-green colour and making the water translucent. That was why we could not see the salmon running when Carlo and Al were here. The fish were there but the water was not clear. Well, now that the ice and snow are no longer melting, the rivers have cleared up and the Pink salmon are running big-time, have been all along. We cross the Mamquam River bridge pretty well every time we go anywhere and we can see the fish splashing as we drive by. So, I stopped down by the river to get a better look. The river is full of fish, live and dead. The stench is almost overpowering. The river banks are lined with dead fish, they are all over the river bottom as well. The live fish are massed in huge schools working their way up stream, and splashing around on the shallow gravel bars.
We had a situation last week where thousands of salmon died before they could spawn. They had come into the Mamquam Blind Channel, heading for the small spawning streams that flow into it. However, the tide went out before they got into the streams and they all ended up high and dry on the mud flats. Very unfortunate. The Blind Channel used to be deeper but years of silting have left it with a shallow muddy bottom that is exposed at low tide. Incidentally, the Mamquam Blind Channel used to be the mouth of the Mamquam River but has not been for about a hundred years. At one time, the river, which drains from the mountains to the east, turned south where it entered the lowlands at the top of Howe Sound (Squamish) and ran along the base of the granite rock walls and out to the east side of the Sound. Then, during a very major flood event, it blasted straight across the valley and into the Squamish River. That has been its course ever since. The old river mouth is now a ‘blind channel’. Anyway, there are still some small streams that flow into the old channel and some of the Pinks still spawn in them but they can and do end up in trouble if they wander out of the main channel.
Ok, here is something kind of neat… have any of you noticed what issue number this is?? The issue number is printed at the top of each issue, under the web link. This is number 592. So, here’s the heads-up, we are just 8 issues away from #600. I never thought it would go this far, or for that matter intended for it to go this far but it has. Sometimes it’s been easy, sometimes not so much. Without Greg’s dedication I would have packed it in long ago. A little encouragement goes a long way and one way to do that is to simply participate a bit, submit an article once in a while, including for the 600th addition which will fall on November 23rd. So, how about some participation leading up to the 600th, and then lots of participation for that issue and then keep it coming. All I’m looking for is personal stories of real life. I write about my perspective on living on the west coast. Each reader’s life adventure is different and therefore unique. So, share it. I don’t edit this thing and end up changing anything anyone writes, I just assemble it.
doug
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THE ONTARION REPORT
Hello everyone!
What a beautiful day
here in KW! We’ve had a good run of lovely fall type weather over the past week
and by the sounds of it, we’re in for another week or more of sunshine and warm
temps. I can’t get enough of it so I hope it hangs in for another month or
more!
Lately KW area has
had a run of murders and serious crimes and I’m hoping this run stops now! Just
the other day there was a young woman who approached a fellow sitting enjoying
the sunshine in his yard in Waterloo and she was covered in blood. She told him
that she’d been attacked in the bush near his home and that her assailant was
lying and bleeding in the bush and would he call for help. He phoned 911 for
help and then proceeded into the bush to help the male victim. As it turns out,
the male victim was the original assailant who had come to Waterloo from
Scarborough with the intent to murder his ex girlfriend. She had managed to
turn the tables on him and he got the worst of the knifing! He’s in intensive
care in Kitchener but will recover. She was treated for her wounds and
released. The young male has been charged with attempted murder!
Now I ask you “What
the heck is this world coming to if you have to settle domestic differences
with weapons?” I have no idea what the ethnic or moral background of the young
couple is but it sounds to me from what I’ve read that this attempted killing
may be what the media is calling an “Honor Killing”! The young male apparently
felt slighted and ashamed of the fact that his girlfriend dumped him and to
“save face” he decided to avenge his “dishonor” by ending her life.
Fortunately, he didn’t succeed! I’m horrified to think that this barbaric and
totally foreign act of violence may be becoming an all too common happening
here in Canada. Just where the hell do these traditions come from and if they
are arriving here in Canada via immigration processing, I wish that our
government would filter the people they allow into Canada a lot more carefully!
The last thing we need to import is other country’s nasty barbaric traditions
and beliefs. If you can’t live and act in a civilized manner, then you’ll have
to stay in your ass backwards country and live or die by your uncivilized
beliefs!
We don’t want that
sort of “justice” brought to our beautiful and peaceful Canada. If this is the
way things are done wherever you came from, either leave these traditions
behind or don’t bother applying to come to Canada!
That’s about it for
this week folks!
Thanks for tuning in
and I’ll look forward to talking to you all again next week in The Ontarion Report!
Bye for now … Greg
PS: Something To
Think About>
“He said/She said”: He said: “Why are married women heavier than single women?” She said: “Single women come home, see what’s in the fridge and go to bed! Married women come home, see what’s in the bed and go to the fridge!”
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Have a good one..
the doug
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