FALL 2018 RISK & REWARD The business of adventure tourism BEYOND IN•FLIGHT REVIEW FRIDAY NIGHT FLIGHTSyBoRur IcLhLo iIcAe N$48T8 proudly crafted in BC with CanBalduiaen dSiaamponpdsh &i rTehe, RFoyaanl Ccanya dYiaen lMloinwt g old Your &passport Colourless Diamo n ds to CwineOLLECTION488 SLEEPING BEAUTIES Our local volcanoes are closer than you think PLEASE TAKE YOUR COMPLIMENTARY COPY FALL 2018 In-Flight Review Magazine IN•FLIGHT REVIEW Publisher/Editor: Garth Eichel Associate Publisher & Managing Editor: Stephanie Cunningham Art Director: Brent Foote Account Manager: Garth Eichel Contributors Stephanie Cunningham, Sue Dunham Garth Eichel, Bob Loblaw, Heath Moffatt, Amy Dove For information on display advertising opportunities, contact Garth Eichel at: [email protected] Contents Published by FALL 2018 • Volume 11 • Number 3 Archipelago Media 1248 Woodway Road Victoria BC V9A 6Y6 Tel 250.380.3961 www.archipelagomedia.com Complimentary Copy ISSN 1916-5080 In-Flight Review FALL 2018 VOL 11 ISSUE 3 In-Flight Review (IFR) is a quarterly magazine published by Archipelago Media Ltd. for Helijet International Inc. 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Advertising in In-Flight Review maga- zine does not indicate an endorsement by Helijet International Inc. or Archipelago Media Ltd. 2O 28 Photo: Mike Crane/Tourism Whistler Photo: Heath Moffatt FEATURES: IN EVERY ISSUE: 06 EDITORIAL 28 EPICURIOUS 16 RISK & REWARD Connecting People to Nature Bear Mountain’s Friday BY AMY DOVE, Night Flights Q&A with Doug Washer, President & CEO, POWER TO BE BY GARTH EICHEL Head-Line Mountain Holidays 08 HELIJET CREW 31 AIR CONCIERGE STORY BY GARTH EICHEL Scott Speakman Introducing Les Clefs d’Or B.C. 10 AGENDA Cover Photo: Conferences and events in 20 VOLCANIC The vibrantly turquoise Vancouver, Victoria and water of Garibaldi Lake, VIEWS Vancouver Island just south of Whistler, is Our local volcanoes are closer surrounded by stratovol- than you think 26 MONEY MATTERS canoes including Mount The Low-Down on Garibaldi, Mount Price STORY BY STEPHANIE Long-Term Care Insurance and The Table. 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Helijet Inflight Review Due: August 10, 2018 Insertion: September 1, 2018 File Helijet_2018-09_WestbayQuay-FP_PRESS.pdf Size Live: 9.0" × 9.7" Trim: 8.25" × 10.75" Bleed: 0.125" (all sides) Design Amy Rutherford [email protected] 250-386-3867 GUEST EDITORIAL BY AMY DOVE, MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR POWER TO BE believe everyone belongs in nature, and that connec- tions to self and community can be fostered there,” says Mike Waters, Senior Manager of Programs. “Our participants often comment on the friendships and memories they form, and the skills they develop – often skills they never thought they could build, share and celebrate.” Of the more than 1,400 participants Power To Be served in 2017, 88 per cent of them reported that the programs made a significant positive impact on their lives. The year-round adventures include hiking, kay- aking, surfing, canoeing, camping and more. Programs are offered to participants age seven and up who live with barriers such as mental, physical, cog- nitive and social considerations. Community support means all programs are subsidized so finances are Photo: Karley Bracey/Bracey Photography Bracey/Bracey Karley Photo: An adaptive surf program in partnership with Spinal Cord never a barrier to inclusion. Injury BC, is supported by Pacific Surf Co. in Tofino. Such support is also why Power To Be now has a permanent location to facilitate and launch programs. In 2016, the organization partnered with the Steele family, Victoria-based operators of a former golf course at Prospect Lake. They were looking to transi- tion their property to a new recreational use and leased it to Power To Be at $1 a year for 25 years. The Connecting 78-acre lakefront property offers a mix of water ac- cess, open fields and forested trails. TO “You feel like you are in a remote place in nature, PEOPLE and yet we are just a stone’s throw away from down- town Victoria,” says Tim Cormode, Executive Director. “This site allows us to increase our capacity NATURE to deliver more for our participants. We are here to OUT THERE, time passes differently. Whether it is the first glimpse of the shoreline through a window do some really good work, and we are here to make a or steps along a trail, something happens to the pace difference in this community.” of life when you transition to experiencing the nat- With a long-standing history of offering award- ural world. Senses heighten, stress levels lower and winning programs and a place to call home, Power conversations flow. To Be is also grateful for the support of Helijet, the It’s a transition the team at Power To Be knows organization’s official air transportation provider. well as they help participants move from the bustle of “Keeping not only our team connected to each the everyday to an adventure with the Victoria- and other and to our two communities is vital to what we Vancouver-based non-profit. The organization was do,” says Dana Hutchings, Director of Advancement founded in 1998, and thanks to ongoing community and Communications. “We focus on strengthening support it’s celebrating 20 years of adventures in na- connections between people, and being able to effi- ture for people living with a barrier or disability. ciently travel between our two cities makes so much “The pace and complexity of our participants’ lives more possible.” makes moments to slow down truly have impact. 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(250) 733-2006 www.cedarscobblehill.com HELIJET CREW HELIJET FLEET Commitment to Community SIKORSKY S76A BELL 206L3 LONGRANGER Photo: HA Photography HA Photo: Scott Speakman, Manager, Sales and Community Relations, Nanaimo & Mid-Island. THE HALLMARK OF a good sales person is SIKORSKY S76C+ someone who tries to figure out what they can do for (BC AMBULANCE SERVICE) their client, rather than what the client can do for them. Scott Speakman, Helijet’s Manager, Sales and Community Relations, Nanaimo and Mid-Island learned that lesson early in the print industry, much of it spent working in advertising sales for the Nanaimo Daily News. When that community newspaper shut down in EUROCOPTER AS350 B2 January 2016, Speakman was at a loss. Both he and his wife, Pam, had been raised in Nanaimo, and they had no desire to move somewhere else with their two children, Jordyn (15) and Lucean (12). Unwilling to uproot family, Speakman began looking for a job with a company committed to the community. Upon seeing Helijet’s career posting for LEARJET 31A a Nanaimo position, he reached out to Jay Minter, Helijet’s Director of Marketing, for more information and quickly became intrigued by the opportunity to raise the awareness of Helijet within the local busi- ness community where he had spent the better part of a decade developing connections. “I recognized a lot of people in the community HAWKER 800A didn’t know about Helijet’s affordable and reliable 8 IN-FLIGHT REVIEW | FALL 2018 scheduled service to Vancouver and I knew I could help the company generate awareness.” Helijet’s senior management team recognized the value in having a homegrown representative in Nanaimo, so Speakman was hired shortly thereafter in September 2016. He quickly started to get the Comprehensive Health word out about Helijet. Assessments “A lot of people are aware of the floatplane carriers serving Nanaimo, and over time that has become the It’s time to invest thought process for getting on and off the Island,” says Speakman.