Ocean Falls : Organizations
Ocean Falls TV Society
Mike Crocker is the President. There are 5 members and 12 subscribers. The service costs $20 per month and provides 10 channels including the Cancom package, the Knowledge Network, and Discovery Channel.
Subscriptions have been waning because of the increasing use of personal satellite dishes, to the end that the Society is reviewing continuation of the service.
Ocean Falls Historical Society
The Ocean Falls Historical Society was founded in 1986 and occupies the Heritage House, a museum and collection place for archives. Work is underway to restore the building to its original condition. It was built in 1926 and added to in 1932 as a guest house for the mill managers. The society has 25 members, some of whom are not local. Norman Brown is the President of the society and the building's caretaker; Phyllis Hooker is the secretary.
The building is home to a flock of bats, which are reputed to be Yuma bats, a rare species found only in a few North American locations.
Ocean Falls Library Association
The Association consists of the board which is Gunter Hogrefe, Evelyn Bolton & Jim Owen. They operate a public lending library in the Courthouse which consists of several thousands of books taken on as other organizations shut down or left Ocean Falls after the mill closed.
Ocean Falls Forest Alliance
The Ocean Falls Forest Alliance is a loose association of individuals who have an interest in logging, sawing and producing value-added wood products. The Alliance began in the fall of 1997 and has been trying to obtain Timber Licences in the immediate area to serve as a community forest. Members include Russ Jackson, Roy & Audrie Burk, Mike Crocker and David Wilson.
Ocean Falls Citizen Committee
The Ocean Falls Citizen Committee was formed in 1997 by John & Sonia Clarke. The current President/Chairman is Olly Dailey. There are 39 members, membership charges are $10 per year, and membership is open to anyone who wants to change the current trustees of the Ocean Falls Improvement District. In particular, the committee wants to see open public meetings with a posted agenda, and they want the OFID to work to the letter of the Letters Patent.
Ocean Falls Yacht Club
For many years the Ocean Falls Yacht Club has been close to the centre of Ocean Falls social life. In 1989 it was reorganized as the Ocean Falls Yacht Club Society. The current Commodore is Rick Andrews. Until this year the Yacht Club used the inside float of the Small Boat Wharf for its members. At the present time the club no longer offers any moorage. The club does operate the small marine ways mentioned above.
The Yacht Club organizes the annual Ocean Falls Fishing Derby on the Labour Day Weekend to which people come from near and far.
Provincial Emergency Program (PEP)
Mike Crocker is the PEP Area coordinator. There are 6 members. Space is donated by the OFID upstairs in the Courthouse for storage of PEP equipment including first aid kits, mountain rescue equipment, radios, and the like. PEP is responsible for incidents above the high tide mark. Tsunami warnings come to the community through PEP. There has been one incident in the past three years; being a lost person in the woods around Link Lake.
Coast Guard Auxiliary (CGA)
Mike Crocker is the CGA Unit Leader. There are 13 members. One of the members, Bill Kirchoff, is a First Aid Instructor. The CGA is responsible for search and rescue on salt water. There have been no calls in the last year, however there have been a number of calls in past years. The Central Coast Power Company crew boat, the Scrambler One (a converted 28 foot aluminum wide beam gillnetter powered by twin gas engines), is available to the CGA for use in life threatening situations. A first aid training program is currently being organized for CGA members.
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