By Mina Kerr-Lazenby Local Journalism Initiative Reporter It’s not uncommon to find abandoned items on the trail. An escaped cereal bar wrapper. A discarded tool. A lost left glove, perhaps. An axed totem pole, however, comes in as quite the unlikely find. Connie Flett was wandering the gravel paths of Whey-ah-Wichen/Cates Park when she stumbled across an old, weathered totem pole, split into segments. She was travelling with Chix With Stix, a walking group of women between the ages of 60 and 80 who spend most mornings trekking the seaside trails of North Vancouver. “We were really surprised to see the partial remains of a freshly cut totem,” said Flett. The pieces had been stumbled upon like segments of an oversized puzzle. The first was found in the bushes past…
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