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Federal funding helping to rehabilitate local fish habitats MICHAELA GARSTIN S tA F F R E p o R t E R

West Vancouver Board of Education Chair Cindy Dekker and District PAC Chair Sheelah Donahue visit with Irwin Park students prior to their Caribou Math Club presentation to the board.

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The old adage, “the whole is greater than the sum of its parts”, rings especially true for me when reflecting on the West Vancouver School District. Because while we can count the thousands of individuals learning and working in our schools and facilities, the synergy they create together is immeasurable. That synergy has a ripple effect that continues long after graduation day, as almost all of our students attend higher educational institutions and pursue fulfilling careers. Their high rates of success speak volumes about the outstanding educational foundation they receive in the West Vancouver School District. As trustees, we are privileged to lead and participate in this dynamic learning environment. We see first-hand the amazing academic, athletic and artistic talents and accomplishments of our students and staff, and we’re pleased to share that with the broader community.

he West Vancouver Streamkeepers had the chance to show off their new rearing pond at Memorial Park last week when Gail Shea, minister of fisheries and oceans, stopped by to see the project that could serve as a model for other B.C. communities. The Centennial Rearing Pond opened in April and is now home to around 200 coho fry and three dozen cut throat trout, as well as aquatic insects that serve as food for the young fish. The pond was paid for in part by funds through the federal government to the Pacific Salmon Foundation. Small fish travelling through urban areas like West Van can have a difficult time making it to the ocean because of changes to their habitat, said John Barker, president of the West Van Streamkeepers. “The rearing pond is taking water out of the creek through an intake pipe, flowing it through a tranquil area and then water flows back into the creek. “The water flows exactly the same in the summer and the winter — there is a constant flow, large woody debris which give the fish protection and they get a fresh source of water year round.” Accompanied by John Weston, MP for West Van-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, at Centennial Rearing Pond, Minister Shea announced federal funding of $142,000 to rehabilitate two recreational fish habitats in the Squamish area. The Evans Creek Re-Watering Project, initiated by the Pacific Salmon Foundation, includes construction of a new river intake system that will provide sustained flow to four kilometres of the channel and improve spawning and rearing opportunities in the channel. The Tiampo Coho Restoration Project led by the Squamish River Watershed Society includes the creation of a cool-water refuge pond for summer coho rearing habitat. It will result in improved spawning habitat for coho and other salmon and trout species and, over the long-term, an improved forest canopy adjacent the channel. Funding was made available through the newly established Recreational Fisheries Conservation Partnership Program. Like Centennial Rearing Pond, these two projects will increase the number of fish in the Straight of Georgia. The pond creates a side channel for McDonald Creek, the fourth largest watershed in West Vancouver, which starts in Cypress Provincial Park and spills into Burrard Inlet near 19th Street and the Seawall. It is classified as endangered by Fisheries and Oceans Canada because of concrete dams and culverts along its route and other effects of urbanization. “Coho salmon live three years and the first year they come out of the gravel is spent in fresh water,” said Barker. After time spent in the rearing pond, they will travel out to sea as smolt and come back as adults two years later.

Parents and members of the public can keep up with these accomplishments by subscribing to our monthly e-newsletter, Learning Curve, which launched this September. If you haven’t already received the newsletter, please visit our website at www.sd45.bc.ca to subscribe. We also have a healthy following on Twitter and Facebook, and invite you to keep up with district news more frequently by connecting on our social media channels. We look forward to connecting with you to create a promising future for all of our students.

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overall Official Community Plan. Establishing better connections between the district’s core centres is a top priority under the 2012 Bicycle Master Plan. Antje Wahl, chair of the North Shore committee of HUB: Your Cycling Connection, is encouraged by recent cycling improvements done in North Van — including the bike lanes on Capilano Road and the separated bike path along Lillooet Road. “But bike-friendly and safe streets form still a very small share of the overall road network in the district,” added Wahl. “It is quite difficult, and often impossible, to get to destinations without having to ride on roads with lots of traffic — not something most people would consider doing.” Wahl commutes daily by electric bike to UBC, using either the Second Narrows or Lions Gate bridge. “The unpleasant and sometimes dangerous parts of my commute are going up Keith [Road] hill from Brooksbank Avenue and Third Street between Forbes [Avenue] and Second Street,” said Wahl. “Both spots have no bike lanes and no feasible alternate routes.” The HUB North Shore Committee has provided district council with recommendations on how to make planned new centres in Lower Lynn, Lynn Valley and Lower Capilano more bike friendly. As part of the Bicycle Master Plan process, cyclists were surveyed to help staff from both municipalities determine priority areas. The results showed that cycling infrastructure that provides physical separation from vehicular traffic is the favoured option. “We have been thinking about whether or not it makes sense to do something like that,” said Ono, referencing the city’s first separated bike lane on Larson Road.

“That piece of Larson, it’s a wide piece of pavement. There is only so many spaces [in the district] to put all these changes in. We are trying to superimpose biking infrastructure overtop of a car-centered community.” The district is currently working on a design plan to add bike lanes on Welch Street between Garden Avenue and West Vancouver, as a continuation of the West First Street bike route. Another cycling project proposed for 2014 is at Mountain Highway at Arborlynn, where district staff are looking at permitting cycling on the sidewalks. Ideally, HUB would like North Vancouver to have a bike network for people of all ages and abilities (AAA), where cyclists are separated from vehicle traffic. It’s an option currently being floated by city staff. In a report to council two weeks ago, council was advised of the trade-offs involved in implementing AAA bicycle facilities in an urban setting such as the city. According to the report: “For most of the City’s arterial roads the existing road space is not wide enough to accommodate separated bike lanes, on-street parking, and vehicles travel lanes for both directions.” Staff have been directed to investigate the cost of creating an AAA bicycle backbone in the city, along with identify key north/south and east/west corridors. In the meantime, the city has added colourful bike storage pods in the civic plaza by the entrance to city hall. Called BikeLids, the innovative storage system holds two full-sized bicycles and provides protection from the elements and theft. mspitale@northshoreoutlook.com

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Lower Lonsdale Legacy Fund APPLICATION DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15 The City is accepting applications for the Lower Lonsdale Legacy Fund. The Fund provides grants for community development projects, programs or services that contribute to the quality of life for residents in Lower Lonsdale. Eligible applicants include non-profit organizations that provide services in the areas of health, welfare, social or cultural development, education or recreation. Learn more at www.cnv.org/LowerLonsdaleLegacyFund

Finance Committee Meeting 2013 - 2022 FINANCIAL PLAN REVISIONS Monday, October 7 at 7:00pm, City Hall Council Chamber It’s budget time at the City. On October 7, the Finance Committee will consider a report regarding proposed 2013 - 2022 Financial Plan revisions. The community is invited to attend and provide comments. Copies of the report will be available on Friday, October 4 after 4:00pm at City Hall. More information at www.cnv.org

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Working behind the scenes to help keep B.C.’s film industry rolling Re: Hollywood Ending, North Shore Outlook, Sept. 19 Editor, Recently, I helped organize a tour of several film studios across the Lower Mainland (North Shore Studios, Sharpe Sound, Bridge Studios and PIXAR Canada) for 16 of my fellow MLAs. These facilities have played host to some of the biggest Hollywood blockbusters, and are vital to the livelihood of more than 25,000 British Columbians. From location scouts and carpenters, to camera operators and colourists, the industry employs an abundance of people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. It even helps spur employment indirectly as well. When the North Shore’s own Lions Gate Studios is booming with productions, another local company, Universal Printing and Bindery, is working overtime. That means more ink, more printing and more people working. The tour gave MLAs an opportunity to learn about the industry from people on the inside, and discover the many benefits it provides to the provincial economy. For example: a large production, like the recently released Man of Steel, can spend in excess of $100 million in B.C. in wages, goods and services. This can represent upwards of 1,000 jobs and payments to more than 2000 vendors and local companies. While the first half of 2013 was tough for BC Film, things are picking up. Several large “greenlit” projects are either here or making their way to B.C. to take advantage of our natural beauty and skilled workers. In addi-

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SIGHTSEEING - Mahsa Ramezani, a doctor who immigrated to North Van six months ago, takes in the North Shore’s landscape at the Capilano Suspension Bridge. Submitted photo

ulture shock can happen at the most unexpected times. Standing at a corner near Lonsdale Avenue, Mahsa Ramezani and her husband were deciding whether to cross the street. “Let’s go, the car is waiting for us,” her husband said, glancing at a driver who had politely stopped a few feet away, even though there wasn’t a crosswalk. “I couldn’t believe he was waiting for us. He was waiting for us to decide whether we wanted to cross the street,” recalls Ramezani with a laugh. The contrast was so sharp with the “chaotic” bustling streets in Ramezani’s home city, Tehran, Iran, that the experience remains etched in her memory. Drivers in Tehran, she says, definitely wouldn’t wait for dawdling pedestrians. This stereotypical Canadian politeness is one of countless examples that have caught Ramezani off guard during her six months in Canada. Before joining her husband in North Van, he sent photos of North Shore scenery to encourage her to make the transcontinental move. “The mountains look similar to my home town,” says Ramezani, speaking of the city where she grew up, Gorgan in northern Iran. She was a doctor in Iran and is now studying for Canadian medical exams to match her degree, which will take another year. Before Ramezani left, her mother packed Persian spices in her luggage that she thought wouldn’t be available in the Lower Mainland. It turns out, however, there is an abundant supply of traditional ingredients within a few blocks of her new home in Upper Lonsdale. “Here I was, 30,000 kilometres away, and it was like I was in a little Tehran,” says Ramezani. “I didn’t have a chance to speak English anywhere.”

On her mother’s insistence, Ramezani began taking private English classes when she was a child and she was eager to start conversing with Canadians. But wherever she goes — grocery shopping, the bank, a restaurant — someone is always available to speak in Farsi. Not needing English in North Van isn’t unexpected since nearly 11,000, or six per cent, of people living on the North Shore speak Farsi. Making the transition easier, many kinds of traditional food are made within walking distance. “I didn’t use to like a kind of ice cream [traditionally found in Iran], but when I saw it here, it made me happy and now I serve it to all my guests,” says Ramezani. Even though there are many aspects of North Van that ward off homesickness, she still has to get accustomed to a much different way of life and is making a deliberate attempt to make friends with long-term Canadian residents. “I’d never been to a Chinese market, so I went in one on Lonsdale. Now I’ll go there more. “And it’s very safe here. I don’t think people from here are aware of how safe it is.” Chemical engineer to live-in caregiver Like Ramezani and her husband, who is also a doctor, many new immigrants are highly educated and most come to Canada in skilled worker or business class categories. From 2006 to 2011, the North Shore saw a 23 per cent jump in immigration compared to the years 2001 to 2005. For the decade from 2001 to 2011, nearly 19,000 immigrants arrived on the North Shore, according to the North Shore Multicultural Society. Iranian immigrants account for 22 per cent, making

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ell, it looks like summer’s over and rather than lament its passing, I’m always keen to plunge into the rainy season head-first, embracing all that comes with it. One of the big kick-offs to this side of the calendar is the Cornucopia Food and Wine Festival in Whistler, and this year it promises to be bigger and better than ever.

That’s not an empty promise, as they’ve expanded the festival this year to encompass two weekends and the stretch in-between for an all-out jamboree of food, wine and cocktail culture running Nov. 7-17. Make your plans now, as it’ll come quicker than you think. You can bet I’ll be bouncing around the village making the most of it, presenting seminars, attending tastings, spreading cheer and nursing hangovers. When you do make it up into the mountains, here are the events you won’t want to miss. All of them take place at the Whistler Conference Centre unless otherwise noted. Head on over to WhistlerCornucopia.com for more info and a boatload of other tastings, dinners and events.

BC’s Past, Present & Future |Saturday, November 9 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM | $40 This is a pretty rare opportunity, so I’m glad I’ve nabbed myself a seat by being one of the presenters! The other presenter is winemaker David Enns of Narmata’s famed Laughing Stock Vineyards, who

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We had an amazing response to our pre-Pumpkin Fest workshops this year! Not only was it fun and creative, the results were amazing! Don’t miss our signature community fundraiser Pumpkin Fest is a popular community event and is also the signature fundraiser for the West Vancouver Community Centre Services Society. In our first two years, we raised over $50,000 supporting services, programs and equipment purchases. Our success is due in large part to the generous support of our sponsors. We also owe a big debt of gratitude to our volunteers, who make this event possible.

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Learn about bear-proofing your garden at the Garden Tips Workshop on Sunday, October 6 at 11am at the Seniors Activity Centre AV room. Also check out the North Shore Black Bear Society’s efforts on reducing human-bear encounters. Northshorebears.com

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WHO WE ARE & WHAT WE DO The West Vancouver Fire Fighters’ Charitable Society was formed in February of 2005 and operates under the mandate of providing charitable community services and volunteer community involvement. Directed by an eight member board of our fire fighters, our Society does not have any paid staff and operates solely on the volunteer time donated by all West Vancouver Fire Fighters. We are proud to be able to donate approximately 98% of all annual monies raised to our various charitable programs and services. West Vancouver Fire Fighters have a long and proud history of involvement in community events and fundraisers. Our service to the Community doesn’t stop at responding to calls; our members regularly volunteer their free time, “off-duty”, for a variety of causes. The Society’s board members meet on a monthly basis, or more often, to discuss various issues including fundraising ideas and funding allocation. We are a registered charity in the Province of BC (S-48637), and with Canada Revenue Agency (# 862230695 RC0001). As described in our Constitution, the purpose of our Society is to operate as a Charitable Organization, and: Promote education by providing scholarships, bursaries, or other forms of financial assistance; Promote the welfare of persons in financial need or distress; Provide funds for the purchase of medical equipment for persons who are sick.

MISSION STATEMENT To provide charitable programs and raise funds to benefit the citizens in and around our community; and to assist other charities that have similar goals and objectives.

CHARITIES AND LOCAL PROGRAMS WE SUPPORT BC Professional Firefighters Burn Fund BC Children’s Hospital Canadian Cancer Society Cypress Mountain Ski Patrol Dundarave Festival of Lights (Lookout Society North Shore Shelter) Family Services of North Shore Christmas Bureau Muscular Dystrophy Association MS Society of BC Movember (Fundraiser for Prostate Cancer) Make A Wish Foundation North Shore Volunteers for Seniors PumpkinFest (West Vancouver Community Centre Society) Royal Canadian Legion Poppy Fund (Branch 60 - West Vancouver) Terry Fox Foundation West Vancouver Youth Centre Youth Outreach program West Vancouver Police and Fire Victim’s Services Crisis Relief West Vancouver Fire Fighters Gary Hunter Memorial Bursaries Program

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Home & Harvest Great Garden Contest Sponsored by The Great Canadian Landscaping Company

Do you have the BEST garden, vegetable patch, flower border or planter? The Great Canadian Landscaping Company is offering a $500 Fall Clean-up Prize to the winner of our Great Garden Contest! WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT PUMPKIN FEST ON OCTOBER 6, 2013. For full details, visit our website: www.westvanpumpkinfest.ca and click on Home&Harvest, or simply email a photo of your garden to: info@westvanpumpkinfest.ca with the subject ‘Great Garden Contest’.

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at Canyon Springs, with its contemporary West Coast architecture that fits perfectly with the surrounding natural beauty of the neighbourhood. The one-, two- and three-bedroom apartment residences are spacious and inviting, ranging from about 630 to 1,100 square feet. “These are really efficient floorplans,” Cavanagh says. “There’s no wasted space at all.” Elegant laminate flooring throughout (with plush carpeting in the bedrooms) sets a modern tone for your new space, complemented by the nine-foot ceilings in the living and dining rooms. Buyers can choose between two colour schemes, Dark and White. The kitchens are particularly beautiful, with stainless-steel appliances and premium rift-cut, flatpanel cabinetry in oak or glossy white. The cabinets are complemented by engineered stone countertops, a handset tile backsplash and con-

temporary halogen track and undercabinet lighting. The bathrooms are relaxing and luxurious, with imported porcelain tile flooring, flat-panel laminate cabinetry and a modern tub with a ceramic tile tub and shower surround. Your morning routine will be easy with the modern vanity mirror and lighting. The ensuite also includes engineered stone countertops and Grohe polished chrome tub and shower faucets that lend a touch of elegance to the space. The outdoors is all around you at Canyon Springs, and residents will easily be able to take advantage of this on their large deck or patio. Most ground-level homes will even have a private yard. Homeowners at Canyon Springs will have access to a fully equipped fitness studio overlooking an outdoor terrace, an on-site resident manager, a dog wash station and bike cleaning area and a spacious lounge

with a fireplace. The landmark corner will also showcase a dramatic water feature and cast bronze art piece designed by local artist Marie Khouri. Venturing off the property, you’ll find shopping, dining and schools all nearby, as well as the North Shore mountains and easy transit or car access to downtown Vancouver and the rest of the Lower Mainland. The close-knit community of Lynn Valley is like very few others in Metro Vancouver, where everyone from shoppers to yogis and freeriders to dog walkers enjoys an ideal balance between wild spaces and urban convenience. Homes start at $359,900. For more information on the homes or the special financing package, visit www. polyhomes.com, call 604-973-0298 or drop by the presentation centre at 2517 Mountain Highway, open daily except Fridays between noon and 6 p.m.

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ou have likely never heard of the sport of speed skiing. Yet for half a dozen years spanning the late 1970s and early 1980s, the North Shore boasted four of the top-eight ranked speed skiers in the entire world. Their names were Mark Rowan, Bob Miller, Terry Watts and Kent Wills. Those aren’t household names even here in North and West Vancouver, but they should be. You see, the so-called Crazy Canucks of downhill skiing (Dave Irwin, Dave Murray, Steve Podborski, Jim Hunter and Ken Read) – folks you surely have heard of – had nothing on our Fearsome Foursome speed skiers who made the North Shore their home, plus others named lencorben@yahoo.ca Phil Graves, Leif Nelson and Tom Prochazka who followed shortly afterwards. In the words of Mark Rowan, “The North Shore was the unsung centre of world speed skiing power.” Except that we just didn’t know about the sport or about the skier they called “Straight-Ahead Fred.” But Rowan, who skied for Grouse Mountain and wrestled and played football at Handsworth before graduating early from Carson Graham in 1975 at the end of the first semester (so he could ski the rest of the winter) knows what he’s talking about. Rowan held the world record for speed skiing in 1978 – albeit unofficially and for just a few short minutes before his time was unceremoniously usurped in a subsequent run the same day by the giant of the sport, Steve McKinney, who became the first to go faster than 200 kilometres per hour which was speed skiing’s equivalent to breaking track and field’s four-minute mile. Rowan’s time was 198.700 km/h. McKinney’s was 200.222. Their clockings were achieved on Oct. 4, 1978 – exactly 35 years ago tomorrow – in Portillo, Chile.

Bob Miller, a 1971 Delbrook grad, Grouse Mountain skier and member of the noteworthy Miller wrestling family who now lives in Miami, was fourth at 197.477 km/h. Kent Wills, a mid-1970s Hillside grad who raced for Whistler where he now resides, was seventh in 190.074. In 1985 he won speed skiing’s World Cup title. Terry Watts, originally from Vernon who skied for Red Mountain in Rossland, had placed second and achieved the identical time as Miller in an earlier speed skiing race that year in Cervinia, Italy. In 1996, he was found murdered in Vancouver over the B.C. Day long weekend. But we’re getting way ahead of ourselves. What exactly is speed skiing? Who was “Straight-Ahead Fred”? And how did these local lads get involved in this niche sport? Simply stated, speed skiing is a dramatic gravity-induced free fall – under control and in as straight a line as possible – down an icy slope. The beginning of the run, on a decline of some 50 degrees, sends the skier off. The speed is clocked during the middle portion of the run which concludes with a run-out area much like a truck runaway lane you see on a highway. “Speed skiing,” quips Rowan, who became known as ‘Straight-Ahead Fred,’ “is kind of like standing on a rock in the middle of Hell’s Gate and trying to hold your position. That’s what it feels like. The force of the wind, that’s the big difference [between downhill and speed skiing].” Rowan explains how it all began for him and his buddies. “The story,” he recalls, “started in 1964. Dick Dorworth, an American ski racer, set the world speed record in 1963 [at 171.428 km/h]. My parents bought me the Guinness Book

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of World Records for Christmas 1964 and I said, ‘I’m going to be the world speed skiing champion.’ Of course everyone laughed. “Then in 1975 I won a scholarship to go to a ski camp in Bariloche, Argentina . The coach of the downhill program was Dick Dorworth. I asked him if he thought I could be a speed skier and he said, ‘The only guy I know that’s faster in a straight line than you is Steve McKinney.’ I said, ‘He’s the world champion’ and he said, ‘Yeah, you should do it.’ But I was only 18 years old at the time so I said I’ll go race downhill for a few more years. “In early 1978, when I told Bob, Terry and Kent that I was going to Cervinia [for a world speed skiing race in July], they said, ‘Let’s all go.’ Bob got over on his own. Terry and I flew to London on a cheap fare. Kent probably went first class because his father was the senior pilot of Air Canada at the time. We took the ferry from Dover to Calais and a train to Italy. We all met in Cervinia. We didn’t have anything lined up, no skis, no helmets, no suits, nothing. But we were there more than a month before the competition driving around, going to ski factories, trying to hustle equipment. We got nothing. “A couple of weeks before training started, there was a sporting goods guy named Renzo Rica. He sent this woman named Mami Chiavassa to our hotel room. She said, ‘Mr. Rica would like you gentlemen to come to lunch tomorrow.’ So we went to the fanciest restaurant in Cervinia for an amazing spread and he signed us all up. He got us helmets, poles, suits, everything but skis. And he said, ‘Don’t worry, you guys will get skis.’ Within a couple of days of the start of training, Atomic sponsored us [for skis]. We had been skiing with the Americans and I guess they were talking about us. I don’t know what they were saying, but it was enough to get us sponsored. So we had looked for sponsors, but ultimately the sponsors came to us.” Watts finished second in the event, Miller placed sixth, Rowan seventh and Wills 12th. After Italy, they went on to Portillo and, as already noted, did astonishingly well there too. Rowan, who now lives in West Van and is a partner with the law firm of Affleck Hira Burgoyne in downtown Vancouver, retired from the sport in 1980. Miller, Watts and Wills carried on for a few more years, each of them breaking the 200 km/h barrier at least once. So what about the nickname “Straight-Ahead Fred”? “My name is actually Frederick Mark

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FaST FriENdS - California’s Steve McKinney (left) and Mark Rowan of North Vancouver display their awards after finishing first and second in the world speed skiing championships in Portillo, Chile, on Oct. 4, 1978, exactly 35 years ago. Mark Rowan collection

Rowan,” he explains. “I was named after my grandfather. I was Mark until I was in Grade 8, but in my French class in Grade 8 at Handsworth there were five Marks and my best friend, Rick Spittle, said, ‘Well his name is really Fred.’ So that stuck. Most people who met me between 1969 and 1986 still call me Fred.” So he eventually became “Straight-Ahead Fred,” a very cool nickname for one hot speed skier.

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Chris O’Donohue, of The Great Canadian Landscaping Company, has some helpful suggestions. “People should start looking at hostas and daisies that need to be pruned down for the winter months,” says Chris. “Leaf cleanup is also very important this time of year, especially on lawns.” October Checklist: •Clean up leaves to avoid rotting of the turf below. •Layer leaves in the garden beds, as they will compost naturally. •Cover your garden with mulch to protect it against the colder weather. •Add fresh soil and grass seed to bare patches on your lawn for a thicker lawn next spring. •Wrap tender trees, shrubs and perennials in burlap and secure them with twine to shelter them from cold weather. Check out the Home & Harvest section of the Pumpkin Fest on Oct. 6 at the West Vancouver

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Budding star West Vancouver’s Morgan Rielly prepares for this NHL debut with the Toronto Maple Leafs

e didn’t grow up a diehard Maple Leafs fan, but this year Andy Rielly’s got Toronto’s earlyseason schedule memorized. The Leafs opened on the road in Montreal on Tuesday, play another road game in Philly on Wednesday and then start the season at home with a Hockey Night in Canada tilt against provincial rival Ottawa on Saturday night. And in any one of those games, Andy’s son Morgan may suit up for his first-ever regular season NHL game. On Monday when the Maple Leafs submitted their final 23-man roster to start the NHL season Morgan Rielly’s name was on the list. “We were very hopeful that things would go the way they did,” Andy said on Tuesday. But Andy and his wife Shirley both understand “it’s just a step along the way” for their son, who was the fifth overall pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Morgan is only 19 and Toronto has several veteran blueliners on the team, so the question becomes: What’s the best environment for him to develop? The NHL, where he may see less ice time or back in junior hockey, where he’ll

BIG LEAGUE DREAMS Morgan Rielly was the fifth overall pick in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft. Photo courtesy of the Toronto Maple Leafs

get monster minutes? Because he’s still eligible to play junior, Morgan can play up to nine games with the Leafs and still be returned to his WHL team without affecting the first year of his entry level pro contract. For now, Andy’s just hoping to get a chance to see his son’s

first NHL game. That’s why he’s got a “go bag” — some travel stuff — stashed in his vehicle right now that will allow him to go directly to the airport and hop a flight if he gets the word his son is in the lineup. Even if he or his wife can’t make it to their son’s first game, there will be lots of support inside Toronto’s Air Canada Centre for Morgan, who has a large family contingent living in southern Ontario. Since news broke that Morgan had made the team on Monday, Andy’s phone hasn’t stopped ringing. “[The family living in Ontario] are so excited to have somebody they know play for the Leafs,” he says. Amazingly, Morgan may not be the only 19-year-old rookie defenceman from West Vancouver making his NHL debut this week. Longtime family friend and minor hockey teammate Griffin Reinhart, who was selected fourth overall in the 2012 by the New York Islanders, also made his club’s 23-man roster on Monday and may play his first game soon too. Both players played minor hockey together at Hollyburn and also attended the Sentinel hockey academy. Diane Nelson, district principal for West Vancouver School District’s sports academies, isn’t surprised by the success of either player. “Morgan has been the ultimate role model for our young athletes, consistently displaying an outstanding work ethic and a quiet determination to stay focused on his goals. As a young hockey player, it was evident Morgan was highly skilled, but what really stood out was his tremendous understanding of the game,” she wrote in an email. “We are all extremely proud of him...and who knows, some of us might even become Leaf fans! As for Reinhart, she added: “It is without a doubt that we knew early on that Griffin was destined toward an extraordinary path in hockey displaying such outstanding hockey skills. We are all tremendously proud and excited to watch Griffin’s ongoing success as he moves to the level of the NHL.” -Justin Beddall

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North Shore Credit Union rebrands The credit union that planted its roots on the North Shore almost 70 years ago will now be known as BlueShore Financial and many branches have been transformed to reflect a spa-like setting MARIA SPITALE-LEISK S tA f f R e p o Rt e R

orth Shore Credit Union may have outgrown its name, but it won’t forget its roots. The financial institution first opened its doors in 1941 at Third Street and Lonsdale Avenue — a stone’s throw away from the bustling shipyards, whose workers served as the credit union’s first clients. In more recent years, North Shore Credit Union, recognizing that its client base has become more diverse, has evolved with the community. Wealth management services were brought on board to help navigate clients through major financial decisions such as new home purchases and retirement planning. The name change to BlueShore Financial was an integral part of the rebranding process. In using the “North Shore” namesake the credit union found it created confusion for clients outside of the community. BlueShore Financial has locations stretching from Whistler to West Broadway in Vancouver. In fact, 70 per cent of BlueShore’s business comes from outside the North Shore. “We have been on a decade-long plan to build our brand,” said BlueShore Financial chief executive officer Chris Catliff. “Our name [change] has been the final bow on the present. It just made sense to

BlueShore Financial has transformed its branches to reflect a spa-like setting featuring art glass walls and a concierge offering hot towels and cappuccinos. Right: The North Shore Credit Union headquarters in 1977. Submitted photos tweak our name to match our actual market.” The BlueShore brand still embodies the North Shore lifestyle and the mountains and ocean that surround it. Meanwhile, the company’s new tagline — “Be richly valued” — was designed to inspire both the employees and clients of BlueShore Financial. And many BlueShore branches have been trans-

formed into “financial spas” featuring art glass walls, teller pods and a concierge offering hot towels and cappuccinos. “If you think about the typical bank with columns and tellers that are blocked off, it shows the bank is imposing and how safe it is,” said Catliff of BlueShore creating a comfortable setting for clients to discuss their financial affairs. While the company grows as a regional player on the financial scene, BlueShore is also expanding its North Vancouver operations. Ten months from now the credit union’s new headquarters will open at the corner of 13th Street and Lonsdale Avenue. “We have been slowly moving up Lonsdale for the last 72 years,” said Catliff. And within the year, a brand new building in Edgemont Village will house the North Shore’s next BlueShore Financial branch. Monday marked the official launch of the BlueShore brand. For more information visit blueshorefinancial.com.

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The new facility and the evolution of the plant design Approximate cost and funding options for the new plant Resource recovery strategies Community integration strategies.

Please take this opportunity to provide your comments and ask questions. Project information including past meeting summaries, presentations, and frequently asked questions can be found online: www.metrovancouver.org/lionsgate. If you are not able to attend the public meeting, please provide your comments by October 17, 2013 via the following methods: ONLINE: EMAIL: TELEPHONE:

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