Locals are picking up the pieces of the community’s beloved and colourful fishing stageThe Spotted Island stage. While growing up, Shawn Holwell remembers his grandfather Christopher walking across the Spotted Island community stage with pride. “It’s gonna be missed.”A photo taken after the Spotted Island stage was destroyed in an early January storm. According to historical records, Inuit and settlers have seasonally or permanently occupied Spotted Island since at least the 18th century. And in the 1950s Spotted Island was home to a U.S. military aircraft control and warning station during the Cold War.