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Development Cost Charge Bylaw Review The District is updating its Development Cost Charge program. Development Cost Charges are fees collected on new developments to pay for the expansion and upgrading of transportation, waterworks, sanitary sewers, drainage, and parks infrastructure to meet the growth needs of the community. The District invites interested residents, property owners, and stakeholders to review the proposed changes before the required bylaw is presented to Council for consideration. A public information meeting is being held on: The District is pleased to announce the launching of its Adopt a Street Program. Community members are invited to adopt a street, which commits them to picking up litter at least once a month, or as needed. The District will provide Litter Collection Kits that include: garbage tongs, kitchen tongs for children, high visibility vests, disposable gloves, and garbage bags. This program is open to all District residents, community groups, and businesses. For more information visit www.dnv.org/beautification.
District News Get weather ready! Winter weather in the District can be unpredictable - make sure you’re prepared! For information on how we at the District prepare, and for tips on how to prepare yourself and your family, visit www.dnv.org/snow. For regular updates on winter weather and road conditions follow our Snow Command Twitter feed @dnv_snow.
2013 Collection Calendar The 2013 solid waste and recycling collected calendar is now available POMJOF BU XXX EOW PSH *OUFSFTUFE in receiving collection reminders via your mobile device? The North Shore Recycling Program’s MyWaste App gives you instant access to your garbage, recycling, and yard trimmings collection schedule. Set up reminders so that you’ll never miss another collection day! Visit www.dnv.org for details.
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Q N UP QN Æ 1SFTFOUBUJPO BU QN Municipal Hall, Committee Room 355 West Queens Road For more information on the Development Cost Charge Bylaw Review please visit www.dnv.org.
Residents of Lower Cap lit up this cross during a ceremony to honour a woman whose body was discovered in their quiet neighbourhood. Doug Curran photo
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Community honours victim, cleanses site where body found Homicide investigators still in the dark about identity of the woman whose remains were found in August TODD COYNE S Ta f f R e p O RT e R
The District’s Animal Welfare Shelter would like to remind dog owners they must have a valid licence for each dog over three months old. Licences may be obtained from District Hall, 355 West Queens Road (open Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to 4:30 pm), or the District Animal Welfare Shelter, 299 Mansfield Place (open daily 9:00 am to 5:00 pm), except holidays. Licences must be obtained no later than January 31 of each year, or owners could receive a fine for an unlicensed dog. Licences purchased before January 31 will receive a discount. There are different licence fees for spayed/neutered dogs and non-spayed/non-neutered dogs. First-time licence applications require veterinary proof of spay/neuter to receive the discount. Existing licence holders may renew online at www.dnv.org/dog_tag. For more information please call 604-990-2311.
Following is a list of North Vancouver District Council meetings for the upcoming month. Please note that this list is subject to change and new agenda items/meetings may be added or revised during the month. Council Meetings: Monday, January 21, 7:00 pm Council Workshops: Monday, January 14, É 8BUFS 4UFXBSETIJQ Monday, January 28, É 1BSLT *OGSBTUSVDUVSF .FUSP 7BODPVWFS "GGPSEBCMF )PVTJOH *OJUJBUJWFT Public Hearing: Tuesday, January 22, 7:00 pm É #ZMBX Æ 3F[POJOH PG Æ Mountain Highway
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their North Vancouver neighbourhood for the kind of place one could dump a body with indifference. The grisly discovery on Aug. 18 of what homicide investigators say is the remains of a young woman, poorly concealed near a well-used walking path, left many Lower Capilano residents afraid to leave their homes or venture down that path at night. “It made me sad because as a community we’d never really dealt with it in a public way,� Lower Cap resident Doug Curran told The Outlook. With that in mind, Curran enlisted the help of Squamish Nation spiritual leader Eugene Harry and, together with a dozen neighbours, they held a vigil to “take back the neighbourhood,� and lift the pall of guilt many residents still reported feeling. It was Curran who discovered the body that August evening, after the smell of decay had already plagued the neighbourhood for days. Armed with a shovel and the intention to “bury whatever I found,� Curran walked down the path linking Belle Isle Place and Curling Road, following his nose into the bush. But what he found there, partially burned on a bed of scorched leaves, made him turn tail and call the police. The RCMP’s Integrated Homicide Investigation Team took over the scene the following day, telling reporters the apparent concealment of the body indicated foul play. A month passed before details of the victim’s gender, approximate age — mid-twenties to early-forties — and appearance, were known. In the time since the discovery, police say they have received a few leads in the case, but no major breaks have been announced and no arrests made. And so it was amid all that unknowing that, on Dec. 23, Curran and his neighbours congregated at the spot where the body was found to place candles along the path and light up a large LED cross four metres above the approximate spot where the woman was discovered. There were songs and prayers, hot chocolate and mulled wine. There was a tent for shelter, though the night was clear. “We did the candlelight service to bring her into the light and make sure she wasn’t lost,� Harry, the Squamish elder and minister told The Outlook. “My part was just to make sure that she was okay and to comfort the people living there.� It’s a ceremony he’s been called to perform in hospitals across Metro Vancouver with some frequency, Harry said, particularly after someone has died without any friends or family nearby. “They feel the spirit is lost, still wandering around, and needs to be set free,� he said. But perhaps it’s really the survivors who need to be set free. “It’s given people a lot of comfort and reassurance walking through there,� Curran said of the lighted cross that will illuminate the footpath until the end of the month. “It was important to the community to have a form of closure — a recognition of what had happened and what it means now to the community.� tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/toddcoyne
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man wanted in a string of brazen armed robberies across Metro Vancouver, including the gunpoint heist of a busy North Vancouver ToysR-Us store filled with holiday shoppers, is now in police custody in the United States.
The 68-year-old American was living in Squamish under an assumed name when he was arrested on Dec. 15 while trying to cross the border into the U.S., the Vancouver Police Department said Friday. Thomas John Schwartz, 68, who also went by ‘Tom Stone,’ was arrested at the border on a 1972 warrant relating to allegations of desertion from the U.S. Air Force. On Dec. 21, U.S. authorities and Canada’s Integrated National Security Enforcement Team identified the man in custody on the 40-year-old warrant as the same man wanted by multiple Metro Vancouver police agencies for several armed robberies. The latest hold-up was on Dec. 1, when the grey-haired man robbed the Toys-R-Us store on Brooksbank Avenue, wielding what appeared to be a handgun. Days later, the VPD joined police in North Vancouver, West Vancouver and Burnaby in issuing a public appeal for informa-
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A suspect in a string of brazen grocery store robberies pictured on surveillance video. VPD handout tion following the eight robberies police believed were all carried out by the same man since March. “We were looking specifically for him prior to his being apprehended at the border,” North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Doug Trousdell told The Outlook. “We’ve had a number of tips, but the most promising at the time, and the one that has turned out to be accurate, was identifying this man who was living under the name ‘Tom Stone’ in Squamish.” Schwartz stands charged with robbery and weapons related offences, while more charges are pending, according to the VPD. Schwartz remains in custody in the U.S. pending an extradition hearing scheduled for March 11.
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Towering concerns touch Lynn Valley centre Once again, development talk has sparked protest in North Vancouver, this time at the Lynn Valley town centre TODD COYNE S Ta f f R e p O RT e R
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couple hundred people packed a District of North Vancouver council meeting Monday, as vocal resistance to high-density neighbourhoods in North Vancouver continues.
Most were there to protest the Lynn Valley Town Centre Implementation Plan, a rigorous public consultation process on the future of new development in Lynn Valley. Attendees told council they felt the consultation plan would merely pay lip-service to residents’ concerns while high-rise development plans for Lynn Valley would go ahead regardless of the public’s wishes. In actual fact, the implementation plan is just the next step in the district’s Official Community Plan (OCP), a long-term growth management strategy ratified in 2011 after two years of public consultations. That next step, approved unanimously by council Monday, merely directs staff “to undertake an intensive and focused community engagement initiative in early 2013 to seek further feedback to shape and refine the Lynn Valley Town Centre Implementation Plan.” Still, outside the meeting residents circled peti-
tions and passed out leaflets decrying a supposed 24-storey commercial-condo development plan for the Lynn Valley town centre. Council took pains to clarify that any such development could only occur if the majority of residents called for it during the consultations, which will begin in the coming months. However, mayor and council agreed that change is coming to Lynn Valley, regardless, and it will include higher Richard Walton density development and more market housing, as laid out in the OCP. Mayor Richard Walton expressed regret that high housing costs have prevented young people from staying on the North Shore and said the OCP was partially designed to fill that affordability gap with other forms of housing besides single-family homes. “I’ve got four adult children and one lives in a house with six others, two are rentDoug MacKay-Dunn ing apartments and one is renting a townhouse,” Walton said. “None have lived in this community; they can’t afford to.” Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn agreed, saying the dis-
trict must allow new housing modes, “otherwise, this community will quite frankly die on the vine.” While all on council voted in favour of directing staff to start the Lynn Valley engagement process, Coun. Lisa Muri was the most empathetic to those opposed to any change in the valley. “We talk about a 20-year plan but it seems in a lot of areas everything’s happening in like six months,” Muri said. “And it’s freaking people out and I’m one of them. We have to slow down, we have to step back.” The meeting came less than a month after district council drew opposition for granting preliminary approval to a condo tower development at Seylynn Village. Meanwhile, tempers continue to simmer in the City of North Vancouver over Onni’s high-rise proposal for the Safeway site at 13th Street and Lonsdale Avenue. That project is due for a second public hearing later this month. tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/toddcoyne
Walton back as chair for what will be an uncertain year at T-Link ball to navigate all the what-if’s coming his way in 2013.
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hile Richard Walton’s acclamation for a third year as chair of the TransLink mayors’ council will bring stability and continuity to transit’s citizen governance, the North Vancouver District mayor may well need a crystal
Amid foreseeable funding trouble for the short- and long-term; the Jan. 1 fare hikes, the Compass Card and SkyTrain fare gates could be major game-changers for transit’s fortunes in 2013. But the biggest variable today remains the May provincial election, and whether a new government in Victoria would reorganize TransLink’s baffling governance structure. “We think there’s better ways of making decisions and planning in the region,” Walton told The Outlook, casting doubt on the future of the mayors’ council model as we know it; a model Walton deemed “very difficult to work under” and “very confusing for the public.” Under the current rubric built by the B.C. Liberals some years ago, the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation represents the interests of the citizens of the 21 Metro municipalities served by TransLink. Meanwhile, a separate board of directors and commissioner appointed by the province hold the purse strings and retain most of the decision-making power, Walton said. In December, the mayors’ council went as far as hiring a consulting firm
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to review TransLink’s governance structure and to compare it with similar operations around the world. Walton said the idea came out of the mayors’ frustrations with being accused by the public of complaining about the governance structure without offering any alternate solutions. Due for release in mid-March, the best-practices report will be as specific to Vancouver’s unique geography and population makeup as possible, Walton said. “The challenge we have is the province controls the legislation, all the funding sources, et cetera, [while] the mayors’ council is expected to do the heavy lifting and initiate the changes.” Walton said he envisions for the future a kind of “hybrid board” made up of transit experts, provincial government appointees and elected municipal politicians with either business or transit expertise, or both. While any change in TransLink’s structure is unlikely before May, Walton said he’s confident the recommendations of the independent report will be taken to heart by whichever government is in power after the election. “What we’d like to do is have a serious discussion on this with, hopefully, the provincial government not only participating but leading it,” Walton said. “And to try to find a response to the regional needs a little better than what we have now, which is 100 per cent appointed.” tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com
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This holiday season B.C. Mounties report that the number of impaired drivers in this province is down compared to previous years. During this year’s holiday blitz, from Dec. 2, 2012 to Jan. 2, 2013, there were 961 impaired-related charges, compared with 1,434 the previous year, according preliminary police stats. “There’s been very good media coverage of the new impaired driving legislation and penalties and I think that’s helped people make better choices,” said Cpl. Robert McDonald in a release. And while it’s comforting to know the streets are safer with fewer drinking drivers on the road, there’s another disturbing trend that can be just as dangerous and even more pervasive: Distracted driving.
During this year’s holiday roadside checks 1,419 drivers were ticketed for using electronic devices while driving. Despite recent awareness campaigns and distracted driving dragnets, it seems that drivers aren’t getting the message about texting and talking behind the wheel and the danger that it poses to fellow drivers, bike riders and pedestrians. So what will it take to get drivers focused on the road instead of their smartphones? Much like the campaign against drunk drivers, which has been years in the making, the fight to keep drivers focused on the road, not on incoming texts or calls, will require ongoing public education and escalating enforcement and penalties until this message finally gets through to drivers: If you text, don’t drive. —The Outlook
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The first District of North Vancouver council meeting of the new year is generally a drab affair with the usual two or three council watchers sitting in the gallery wishing they were elsewhere, as business from the past is rehashed like a bad hangover. But not so this year when on Jan. 7 a massive and vibrant crowd from Lynn Valley flooded the council chamber and late comers had to be ushered into a separate room where they watched the proceedings on closed circuit television. Thanks to everyone who attended, the mad rush to fast track the Lynn Valley Town Centre plan has come to an end. DNV council got the message loud and clear that the people from Lynn Valley do
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1 Vancouver Canucks hockey heroes Roberto Luongo, left, and Trevor Linden are both members already, but who will be inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame next? Find out at the Banquet of Champions gala dinner on Sept. 19, 2013. 2 CTV news anchor Keri Adams, left, and Whistler Film Festival executive producer Shauna Hardy Mishaw both take turns behind the mic hosting the summer gala fundraiser. Look to attend the gala sometime this June, or mark your calendar for the film fest itself on Dec. 4-8, 2013. 3 Ferrari, Porsche, Jaguar, Lamborghini, Mercedes, BMW and more. If you’re a car guy, like North Van auto writer Andrew McCredie,
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left, or BMW dealership owner Brian Jessel, then you’ll want to book March 26-31 off for the Vancouver International Auto Show which returns this year to the Vancouver Convention Centre. 4 North Van’s Daroshin family always knows how to rock the red carpet as part of the famous Leo Awards gala. Known as the Golden Globes of BC, producers Walter Daroshin and business partner Sonny Wong will bring this year’s biggest celebrity party to town once again for their 15th anniversary celebration during late spring 2013. 5 Last year, Heart and Stroke Foundation BC & Yukon CEO Diego Marchese and gala chair
Carey Smith did a wonderful job of putting together the Heart of Gold gala. Mark May 24th on your calendar for this year’s 9th annual event as this one always sells out quickly. 6 Face the World socialite and Army and Navy heiress Jacqui Cohen, left, is one proud lady now that daughter Kasondra Cohen-Herrendorf has followed in her footsteps with her own charity empire. Face of Today will hold their 4th annual gala on Feb. 22, 2013 and, judging from years past, it will again be one of Vancouver’s most glittery affairs.
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’Sala Salon is a first for the Squamish Nation. Nestled on the bottom floor of a house on the Capilano Reserve, the full-service spa offers haircuts, styling, colour, extensions, mani-pedis, massages and facials. Almost always busy, T’Sala (the T is silent) was opened last year by Santana Walker, a 26-year-old Squamish Nation entrepreneur. T’Sala is known for making clients feel relaxed and at home, says Walker, sitting at the salon’s “kitchen table.” Behind her, a hairstylist spritzes a client’s hair with volume booster before starting to blow-dry. On the other side of the one-room salon, a woman leans back at the pedicure station, her toes freshly painted pink. First Nation artwork hangs on the walls. “People sometimes come in just to hang out,” says Walker, a nail technician, adding T’Sala’s client return-rate is 90 per cent, a very high number in the salon industry. With the help of a Squamish Nation grant for small business, she was able to open the
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T’Sala Salon owner salon on the first floor of her mother-in-law’s house. Six people now work there, including Walker, an esthetician and skin therapist; four hairstylists and a director of guest services. “I ultimately wanted to own my own salon, but having funds to do it is tough for anyone,” says Walker, who previously worked at a salon in West Van. She wrote a letter of request to apply for Squamish Nation funding, which included a business plan, her goals and predicted margins. The money for the small business grants was compensation by the federal government for a series of claims by the Nation dating
back to 1977. The trust started at $66 million to be used for programs, services and small businesses, including a DJ company and a fashion business owned by under-30 entrepreneurs. While around 60 per cent of clients live off the reserve, T’Sala, which means soft flowing current, is still a mystery to most people. “It’s important for people to come to the salon, come on the reserve, to see for themselves that most of the stereotypes aren’t true,” says Walker. “I’m surprised these stereotypes are still out there.” People usually find out through word of mouth or social media, says the salon’s lead hair-artist Matthew J. Schubert, who previously oversaw education in all Redken salons in B.C., the exact hair products T’Sala now offers. After working with Walker in West Van, he decided to jump onboard with the on-reserve salon, where service is tax free for clients with aboriginal status. “We want to expand this year. There are 600 unused square feet behind that wall,” says Schubert, pointing behind the pedicure chair. He hopes to add six more hair stations at the front, while creating a more spa-like feel at the back. “I always wanted a salon intertwined with our culture, and this is it. People have really liked the native artwork, and ask a lot of questions about it,” says Walker as a client walks in for mani-pedi.
Passion for high fashion
A mannequin in Tyler Jacobs’ downtown apartment is wearing a dress inspired by Vancouver’s cloudy, rainy weather. The grey sleeves end just before the elbow and the flowing bottom reaches past the knee. Gold chains drape down the front, symbolizing a lightning storm (last model on the right in the photo).
www.northshoreoutlook.com www.northshoreoutlook.com There is something different around the neck that many designers nowadays steer clear of. The soft, pale orange Arctic fox fur is real. Up in the Northwest Territories, Jacobs’ brother caught the fox for a neighbour who was fed up with it killing his chickens. “People question me for using it, but it’s part of our culture. The first man wore fir,” says Jacobs, a 27-year-old Squamish Nation entrepreneur, who owns TAJ House of Talents. VANCOUVER COUTURE - Tyler Jacobs, He’s celebrating owner of TAJ House of Talents, kneels below his seventh show at three of his models. Vancouver Fashion TAJ House of Talents/Facebook Week this March, a big deal for all local Indigenous Events owner Marissa Nahanee. fashionistas. Michaela Garstin photo High fashion is Jacobs’ passion, even though the couture industry can be more difficult to break into than mainstream clothing. “With my clothing I want to say I’m First Nations and proud. I’ve always strived to break stereotypes,” he says. Even while going to elementary school in North Van, Jacobs had a keen eye for style. He submitted his first piece, a beaded denim vest, to a show when he was only eight years old. knew for sure event planning “I was always trendy and wore was for her. nice clothing. People were inter“Some people thought I had ested, they always asked what I big dreams,” Nahanee tells The was wearing.” Outlook at her home-based office. Many of his relatives are She opened Indigenous Events artistic, he says, holding up an shortly after the Olympics, provetched metal bracelet made by ing she could make those dreams his uncle. a reality. Jacobs picks up another deLike Walker, she was awarded sign, a short clubbing skirt with a grant from the Squamish Natwo red feathers. He plans to tion after submitting a business get this design mass produced proposal. in China so he can sell more in “It’s an exciting game to me,” Vancouver. she says, referring to how she “Some people thought I could has to manage events under never make it, that I wouldn’t strict budgets. succeed. But I worked hard and Most of Nahanee’s part-time here I am,” he says proudly. business is spent creating Now that he’s lived in Mongraphic designs for clients. treal — the “fashion capital “There are a lot of rules in abof Canada” — Jacobs’ goal is original art,” she says, bringing to open his own boutique in up a computer replication of an Vancouver. artist’s print. “I want to become someone “When you know the history famous,” he says, “but for nothof the art — like which parts ing in particular, just style in should be perfect circles — it’s general.” good because things have to be precise.” Right now, Nahanee, who also Indigenous events has a full-time job, runs about Event managing books are four events a year, from wedstacked on Marissa Nahanee’s dings to annual general meetdesk beside her new Mac comings to Aboriginal Day events. puter, the lifeline for her North “We can still keep core tradiVan-based business. She books venues, caterers and tional aboriginal values at the forefront while having a modern entertainment for First Nation day event.” events in the Lower Mainland, while designing pamphlets, busiVisit T’Sala Salon at tsalaness cards and flyers as a side salonspa.com. To find out more business. about Tyler Jacobs, go to his After graduating from the Facebook page facebook.com/ Art Institute of Vancouver, the TAJhouseoftalents or follow 27-year-old Squamish Nation him in Twitter @fashionstarlite. entrepreneur had her sights on Marissa Nahanee’s business can opening her own business. But it be found by searching Indigenous wasn’t until after a stint at the Events on Facbook. 2010 Winter Olympics that she
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In the Matter of Part 3.1 (Administrative Forfeiture) of the Civil Forfeiture Act [SBC 2005, C. 29] the CFA NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT: On February 7, 2007, at 3rd Street West and Mission Road, North Vancouver, B.C., Peace Officer(s) of the North Vancouver RCMP seized, at the time indicated, the subject property, described as: $1,717.60 CAD, on or about 22:51 Hours. The subject property was seized because there was evidence that the subject property had been obtained by the commission of an offence (or offences) under section 5(2) (Possession for purpose of trafficking) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act of Canada. Notice is hereby given that the subject property, CFO file Number: 2012-1336, is subject to forfeiture under Part 3.1 of the CFA and will be forfeited to the Government for disposal by the Director of Civil Forfeiture
unless a notice of dispute is filed with the Director within the time period set out in this notice. A notice of dispute may be filed by a person who claims to have an interest in all or part of the subject property. The notice of dispute must be filed within 60 days of the date upon which this notice is first published. You may obtain the form of a notice of dispute, which must meet the requirements of Section 14.07 of the CFA, from the Director’s website, accessible online at www. pssg.gov.bc.ca/civilforfeiture. The notice must be in writing, signed in the presence of a lawyer or notary public, and mailed to the Civil Forfeiture Office, PO Box 9234 Station Provincial Government, Victoria, B.C. V8W 9J1.
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