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Compassion, tolerance needed for Deep Bay Letters to the Editor
Mountain Trike ready to be checked out
The Dancehall Years
Union Steamship era comes to life in new novel
Trail-friendly wheelchair now available
Burnaby man nearly drowns after 12-metre fall from bluff MARIA SPITALE-LEISK EDITOR
considerations, that some of the lots in Deep Bay, for example, might not be able to accommodate a secondary suite regardless. Council then debated whether or not the current size restriction of 90 square metres maximum floor area for a secondary suite is sufficient. There was a fulsome discussion about either putting a cap on
A Burnaby man says he is going to buy a lottery ticket after he fell 12 metres from a cliff and nearly drowned early Saturday in waters off of Apodaca Provincial Park. “I just remember trying not to drown and then knowing that if I didn’t find a way out I’d be dead,” Graham Cross told the Undercurrent Tuesday morning from Lions Gate Hospital where he is recovering from serious injuries. Cross was camping on private property adjacent to Apodaca, on the north-west side of the park with some friends Friday night. “We just had a quiet night and set up camp randomly and we were going to carry on to Apodaca the next day,” recalled Cross, groggily by telephone from his hospital bed. The 34-year-old, who is now recovering from a brain injury, is still trying to piece together what happened after he went to sleep in his tent, which was placed 15 to 20 feet from the edge of a bluff in a mossy area. “I’m thinking what I did is I just kind of got up half asleep and went to go pee or something and just fell (off a cliff),” said Cross. The next thing he knew, Cross was fighting to keep his head above water through the excruciating pain of fractured vertebrae and a foot that was “snapped in half.” He figures he hit some rocks at the bottom of the water upon impact. “There were waves crashing. I don’t know if a boat had gone by or if there was a tidal change, but I was fighting waves in the water, fully submerged,” said Cross. “Then I was drawn out (to the ocean) and had to scramble and climb up the cliff. I just knew I was going to die if I didn’t do it. My right lung filled with water and I very nearly drowned.” Cross managed to crawl up onto a ledge above the water line where he laid for six hours in the middle of the night hoping that someone would hear his cries for help. “I couldn’t move,” said Cross. “I was trying to signal boats going by, like wave them over, and I was yelling ‘help’ and stuff.” His friends were asleep at the top of the bluff and oblivious to the fact Cross was missing until around 9:30 a.m. when one of them spotted him down below and called 9-1-1.
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A heron takes flight as beachgoers enjoy a lazy Sunday afternoon in Deep Bay. MARIA SPITALE-LEISK photo
Council closer to secondary suite regulation MARIA SPITALE-LEISK EDITOR
Bowen Island council is allowing for some breathing room when it comes to the size of detached secondary suites residents can build on their property. On Monday council debated bylaws designed to regulate detached secondary suites, thereby adding diversity to Bowen’s housing stock.
Previously, detached secondary suites were only allowed on properties .4 hectares or larger, whereas now council has decided to get rid of the minimum size requirement as long as the new suite fits within the setback and lot coverage requirements. Coun. Sue Ellen Fast, saying she wanted to keep the status quo for lot size restrictions, voted against the motion.
“I think it would really change the neighbourhood in places like Deep Bay,” said Fast. “You’d lose the trees, you’d lose the sense of backyards for children to play in. I think it would change the rural quality and the nature of neighbourhoods.” Many on council were quick to point out that there are other restrictions on properties when it comes to development, including septic and parking
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Congratulations to Mike Shannon of Bowen Land and Sea Taxi (BLAST). Mr. Shannon’s application for two land taxi licences was approved by the provincial Passenger Transportation Board in late May 2016. Council is pleased to have written in support of this application and looks forward to the introduction of taxi service on island.
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Mountain Trike available for checkout at Bowen library MARIA SPITALE-LEISK EDITOR
Sally Fitz-Gibbon’s dream for Islanders with disabilities to be able to enjoy Bowen’s trails has come to fruition. An all-terrain Mountain Trike, designed for people with mobility issues, rolled into the Bowen Island library last month. It was around this time last year, while Fitz-Gibbon was volunteering at the library, that she met a couple that wanted to enjoy a summer stroll in the local trails. Fitz-Gibbon took one look at the man’s “flimsy” wheelchair and her heart sank. She just knew the couple wouldn’t be able to explore very far. “They wanted to go up Dorman Point and I talked them out of it because it was not accessible at all for them,” said Fitz-Gibbon. She then tried to figure somewhere else scenic on Bowen for the couple to go, a path the wheelchair could handle, but she came up short. The couple left the library feeling dejected. “And I think they were crying. I was almost crying. I was so upset about this couple that couldn’t really do anything on Bowen,” said Fitz-Gibbon. That encounter touched
Fitz-Gibbon so much that she jumped into action and approached the Bowen Island Public Library Foundation about her idea for a Mountain Trike. Librarian Tina Nielsen said because the Bowen library already lends out medical equipment through the Med Shed, adding the Mountain Trike to its inventory was no problem. All Fitz-Gibbon needed now was the funding for the $7,600 tricked-out Mountain Trike, which boasts suspension and three wheels instead of four, making it much easier for the person pushing to maneuver around the trails. So Fitz-Gibbon applied, on behalf of the library foundation, for a grant from the Bowen Island Community Foundation. “When the idea was introduced to the Foundation, we quickly realized that the Mountain Trike is a wonderful tool to provide increased accessibility to many of our wonderful trails, especially given the terrain here on Bowen,” said Bowen Island Community Foundation director Kim Stephens. The Foundation paid for the all-terrain trike by drawing on grant monies from two of their funding sources: the Community Impact Fund and the
Sally Fitz-Gibbon with Andrea Verwey from the Bowen Island Community Foundation and librarian Tina Nielsen at a BICF event last fall announcing FitzGibbon’s grant for the Mountain Trike. photo supplied
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Librarian Tina Nielsen gives Kami Kanetsuka a spin in the new Mountain Trike, a trail-friendly wheelchair ready to be loaned out from the Bowen Island Public Library. photo Maria Spitale-Leisk Maggie Cumming Legacy Endowment Fund. Stephens said the Foundation’s Community Impact Fund supports “good ideas” that respond to the spirit of one or more key themes developed by community members at the Vital Conversations event in May 2014. “The Mountain Trike blends several aspects of Vital Conservations themes: the environment, the needs of seniors and the needs of others who are marginalized by physical disabilities,” said Stephens. “We view the Mountain Trike as a way of promoting the beauty of our natural environment, giving those with some physical limitations the means to access and enjoy Bowen’s trail system.” It was important to the Foundation, added Stephens, that the Mountain Trike be available on loan from the library at no cost. The library will make the wheelchair trike available by appointment to anyone with a
Bowen library card to borrow for the day. There is a short orientation, explains Nielsen, to ensure the adventurers are comfortable with the trike. But there is one big caveat: the Mountain Trike can’t be put in a car and taken to another part of the island. There are designated routes the library has set out for liability reasons. Most of the Crippen Park trails check out, said Nielsen. So far there have been no takers for the trike, but only because it hasn’t been advertised yet. Anyone with mobility issues, as long as they can hold themselves upright, is encouraged to give the trike a try. “It doesn’t have to be somebody completely disabled, it could be someone’s elderly relative,” said Nielsen. Fitz-Gibbon, who has seen the Mountain Trike, said it’s absolutely beautiful. “I think it’s wonderful everyone can now experience a bit of nature on Bowen,” she said.
the size of a secondary suite or introducing a graduated system, thereby allowing units greater than 90 square metres on larger parcels of land. Coun. Melanie Mason made an impassioned plea to have the suites be approximately 1,200 square feet so that larger families on the island can be accommodated in the housing market and not have to endure the stress of moving from cramped accommodations every couple of years. She said Vancouver officials are changing their policies to encourage more three-bedroom units, and Bowen should follow suit. Coun. Alison Morse echoed Mason’s sentiments when it comes to bringing in more three-bedroom suites to the island. “I’ve been absolutely amazed at the number of families that have two or three kids that are finding themselves out of their rental accommodation,” said Morse. “So we need to have the flexibility to allow for more.” Coun. Gary Ander couldn’t be convinced that bigger is better for Bowen. “I find 1,000 square feet more than adequate for a family of four,” said Ander. “These are accessory buildings, in-law suites, small accommodations.” Ander added increasing the size of the suites is changing the whole dynamic of the detached secondary suite exercise from small in-law suites to total densification of lots on the island. Mason disagreed, saying 1,200 square feet is “not building monster houses.” Fast implored council to not use this “pressure time” to open it up to all kinds of housing where the island might lose diversity of housing. Her concern is Bowen will end up with more big houses, “because that’s the only thing that’s worth building,” said Fast. Calling a development permit for detached secondary suites “overkill,” Morse was intent on having it removed from the bylaw. “If you are going to have DP for an accessory building that’s a secondary suite detached, then they need to have it for a B&B, you need to have it for a secondary suite that’s in an attached garage, and you need to have it for the workshop right on the property line,” said Morse. “It’s very subjective, and a lot of red tape that is very unfair to a particular use versus not being consistent for all the others.” Mayor Murray Skeels disagreed with Morse, saying, “I like the idea of a development permit as to how it affects the neighbouring property. I personally feel it would give a lot of feeling of comfort to people living in the neighbourhood to know that the guy living next door can’t bang up a two-storey building and put a glass wall along the side that looks straight down into their backyard and hot tub.” Coun. Michael Kaile said the wording around prohibitive uses of the secondary suites needs to be tightened up so there are no loopholes. “We cannot become a massive Airbnb centre, totally negating the very reasons that we are going through this hard work,” said Kaile. In the end council voted to bump up the detached secondary suite size from 90 square metres to 115 square metres. The guidelines for form and character of the suite, meanwhile, should reflect generally what the existing house looks like and not necessarily the surrounding neighbourhood. Council gave first reading to the detached secondary suite bylaws Monday. A public open house is being planned for early fall to discuss the subject of detached secondary suites.
Co-ordinated rescue effort helps save visiting camper’s life from PAGE 1 B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics on Bowen were able to reach Cross and package him up, but getting him out of the area – located along Bowen’s central eastern shoreline – proved to be tricky. That’s when North Shore Rescue got the call, at around 10 a.m. “They contemplated trying to get a boat in there, but moving the patient like that – it’s quite challenging in that terrain,” said North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks. An NSR flight team was sent over to Bowen, and after a quick assessment from the air they decided to go with the longline rescue to get Cross out, said Danks. One NSR member, sent down from a Talon helicopter, helped hoist Cross up from the ground in a specialized stretcher for moving people with spinal and head injuries. Then the two flew via longline over to Crippen Park where an ambulance was waiting to take Cross onto the ferry and over to Lions Gate Hospital. “Yeah, that was pretty cool,” said Cross of flying in the open air over Howe Sound. He also wants to thank all the emergency officials on Bowen
and North Shore Rescue for coming to his aid. “They saved my life,” said Cross. Cross, who works as a carpenter, now faces at least six months of rehabilitation as he recovers from his extensive injuries including a broken right foot, which required surgery. He also fractured three vertebrae in the accident, and lacerated his skull and left knee while being thrashed against the cliff by waves. While he is currently in full neck and back braces, Cross said he is thankful he isn’t paralyzed and confident about the future. “If I can get out of that (accident), I think I should be able to make a full recovery,” he said. Danks hailed the rescue a co-ordinated effort between B.C. Ambulance Service, the Bowen Island Fire Department, Bowen Island RCMP, North Shore Rescue and Talon Helicopters. Saturday’s incident marked the first time in a while that North Shore Rescue has been called out to Bowen. “It’s not super common, but we’re happy to come over and it’s a very quick response for us,” said Danks. The last time NSR spent a considerable amount of time on Bowen was in 2009 when the team aided in the search for missing teenager Jodi Henrickson, said Danks.
A Talon Helicopter lands at Crippen Park Saturday morning with North Shore Rescue members who longlined an injured man from the base of a cliff near Apodaca Provincial Park. photo NORTH SHORE RESCUE
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Farewell friends Well, Bowen Island, it’s been a slice. My six weeks here may have flown by, but are not to be forgotten. Thank you to the residents who welcomed me so graciously, some of whom took the time to show me around the island. I’ve learned you are all quite a talented bunch, from your culinary creations (I’m looking at you Lime and Moon and Shika Provisions) to your musical abilities (I was entranced by a fiddler serenading passengers in the sunshine on the top deck of the ferry on Saturday). It inspires me that Bowen residents take the time to write to the newspaper, especially when they are thanking their fellow citizens for giving back to the community. It’s nice to feel appreciated by your neighbours. Bowen reminds me of a lot of Deep Cove, where I live, in that it has the same small-town, close-knit feel. We have our own small community theatre and an unofficial mayor who is the caretaker of the cove. Deep Cove even has an unofficial cheeky slogan devised by a local shop owner and aimed at tourists: “Welcome to Deep Cove, now get lost.” I invite you to come by and have a Honey’s Doughnut, and, of course, I’ll be back to visit your “awful island” and be sure to tell all my friends about it. Maria Spitale-Leisk
Snug Cove House barbecue fundraiser a smashing success Dear editor: Thanks to all of you who came to Norma’s dock on Saturday and consumed vast quantities of burgers and in return gave generously to the host, the Snug Cove House Society. The society’s third annual burger-and-bun fest was once again a smashing success, thanks to extra help from John Hoover, Tina Nielsen and Sue Ritchie in prepping and flipping, and of course to Maggie Davidson, Paul
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Norma’s dock was the scene of a barbecue fundraiser Saturday, benefitting the Snug Cove House Society.
Hoosen, Irene Wanless and Marc Gawthrop of the World Famous Cove House Ukulele Band. Many thanks to Brian and the General Store for the donation of all the buns, and to Alderwood Farm for providing their tasty burgers at cost. The popular event also gave Snug Cove House the opportunity to thank their supporters and update them on the society’s plans for selling 12 building lots on its land near the village. All the money from the affordable lot sales will go towards creating Snug Cove House, a 19-unit supportive residence for seniors. Graham Ritchie, chairman, Snug Cove House Society
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Compassion and tolerance needed for Deep Bay Dear editor: Regarding last week’s Undercurrent story on the new “Use of Public Beach and Water Areas” bylaw, I was encouraged by the explanation offered by the municipality’s senior bylaw services officer. She said that the new bylaw is not designed to evict people, and that the municipality will ensure that people living on boats will have options. If that is true then I suppose there is hope for a thoughtful and balanced approach that gives priority
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to two of the most important virtues of a good community; tolerance and compassion. In a good community, everyone should feel like they are valued and cared for – even if they don’t share your particular values. I was less encouraged by Bruce Russell’s letter. Surely he overstates the issue when he claims that he “must endure this situation” every minute of every day. It is also worrying that he doesn’t seem to be able to bring himself to relate to the people living on boats as people.
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He calls it “the boat problem,” he wants a return to “respectability,” and he thinks that the only way to do this is to “fortify and reinforce” the ability of “the authorities” to “deal with” those whose conduct does not meet with his approval. I’m concerned that kind of talk runs contrary to the basic democratic and humanist values that hold Canadian society together. The municipality should be careful to take a more enlightened approach, one that emphasizes the importance of diversity and recognizes the human dignity of all mem-
bers of this community, because parochial intolerance is corrosive and it will only create more problems than it solves. One way forward would be for the municipality to provide assistance and services to the people living on boats in Deep Bay so that they can comply with the bylaw, including assistance to obtain the required permits and other necessities. That seems to be what the senior bylaw services officer was hinting at, and good for her for saying so. James Hickling
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Help Bowen Conservancy hunt for forage fish Dear editor, The Bowen Island Conservancy is looking for some volunteers to help us with a forage fish sampling blitz on Aug. 6, to determine whether Pacific sand lance, capelin and surf smelt spawn on our beaches. Forage fish are the cornerstone of marine food webs and are essential food for seabirds, marine mammals, and fish. They form schools, which are often measured in metric tons, since they are so large. As we all know, a number of fish, seabird, and marine mammal populations are in steep decline in B.C., and scientists have now started to look at the link between forage fish biomass reduction and these declining populations. For example, 35 per cent of juvenile salmon diet is made up of Pacific sand lance, so these fish are critical elements of the food chain that leads to our tables. In 2014, Conservancy members formed an island team that conducts periodic surveys of certain Bowen Island beaches to test for the presence of forage fish eggs. To date we have not found any evidence of forage fish eggs on Bowen Island. We know that other Howe Sound communities have found eggs, and that they are also present on Sunshine Coast and West Vancouver beaches,
but nothing has shown up here. And we don’t know why. Possibly there’s something about our beaches that makes them unsuitable for spawning (could be the length of the beach, or the mix of sand and pebbles, or something else). But we want to sample as many beaches as possible in one day in August, which is peak surf smelt spawning season, to see whether we are able to obtain a positive result. We are going to work from 1 to 4 p.m. on Aug. 6. We’ll divide into two teams, and sample as many beaches as we can. We’ll try to include Pebbly (Cape Roger Curtis), Tunstall South, Tunstall North, Sealeigh Park, Bowen Bay, Bluewater, Galbraith Bay, Smuggler, Cates Bay, Eaglecliff, Pebbly (Deep Bay), Sandy, Snug Cove, Seymour Landing, September Morn, and Alder Cove beaches. We welcome everybody’s help. We’ll supply everything else that’s needed for sampling, so you just need to show up. Later we’ll be sending our samples to Vancouver Island to be analyzed. If you’re interested in helping us, please send us a quick email message at info@ bowenislandconservancy.org, or call 604-6126572. Owen Plowman Bowen Island Conservancy
The Bowen Island Conservancy invites residents to find forage fish on Aug. 6. photo supplied
Calendar Our Sea to Sky exhibit until Aug. 14 at The Gallery at Artisan Square. Bowen Island Seaside Marketplace runs every weekend all summer long on the Union Steamship lawn by Paradise Grill. Farmers’ Market, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-noon, Bowen Island
Yeehaw! Bowfest 2016 parade marshal Rob Wynen and his son, Evan, are putting the call out to all community members to join in the Aug. 27 event. The annual parade, which is taking on a wild west theme this year, kicks off a day of exciting Bowfest activities, including the Rotary Run for Rwanda, community potluck, live entertainment, loggers show, beer garden, dunk tank, mini golf and pony rides. Anyone interested in being part of the parade can email bowfestonbowen@ gmail.com for more information.
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Bowen Island Fire Department’s annual Dock Dance, featuring headliner Chilliwack, Saturday, July 30.
Rio 2, sponsored by First Credit Union, will be the feature presentation for Movie Under the Stars, Monday, Aug. 8 after dark at Crippen Park.
Canadian singer-songwriter Coco Love Alcorn will perform music from her new album Wonderland at Tirna-nog Theatre on Thursday,
Bowfest, Saturday, Aug. 27. For more information, visit bowfest.org.
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First there was silence. Not the murmur of a library or the hush that overtakes a pub when the song cuts off and every conversation simultaneously halts. This was Joan Haggerty’s silence, as noiseless as anything beneath that 100-kilometre threshold where the atmosphere thins into outer space. Silence. And then, music. Haggerty is the author of The Dancehall Years, a generational drama beginning in 1939 that swirls around Bowen Island, always returning to the dancehall of the title. The book often feels as though the experiences have been lived rather than imagined. As the story begins we meet Gwen, a girl setting off for a summer on Bowen Island with her idealized aunt. The descriptions of turquoise water and the shadows of thimbleberry leaves and Neapolitan ice cream all feel like they’ve been transcribed from childhood photos. “Yes, I did spend summers as a child there and we still have our cottage, but it’s still a novel,” Haggerty clarifies. “There’s a lot of me in Gwen, there’s a lot of me in all the characters, but …” It’s a novel. While Gwen is the protagonist, the book’s main character is the dancehall. “Our family cottage was below the dancehall, and it was like a giant music box to me on the top of the hill,” Haggerty says. The image stayed with her
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Author Joan Haggerty launches her new book, The Dancehall Years, Aug. 13 at The Gallery at Artisan Square. CINDY GOODMAN/NORTH SHORE NEWS photo until Haggerty decided it would be a “wonderful locus to let the story spin off ” from the hall. “If you read it carefully, you’ll see that you’re constantly having do-si-dos and various attempts at ironic balancing situations between the various couples,” she says. “There’s dance steps throughout the entire book.” During the interview, I mention just having started the novel and Haggerty immediately warns me that it “gets pretty rough.”
After we see Bowen at its most idyllic, we see the cruel aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In one moment we’re told Japanese people are being put into camps with scarcely more feeling than is used to discuss clam chowder with celery. There were no Japanese residents on Bowen in the memories of Haggerty’s youth, the characters just sort of showed up while she was writing. “I had to find out who they
were,” she explains. “It’s as if I’m following these characters, in the sense that we do on Facebook.” While the book has a historical basis for much of the action, Haggerty opted to part with reality in one crucial detail: while some of her characters come to harm, the dancehall survives. The author is celebrating the launch of her book with a gathering at The Gallery at Artisan Square on Bowen Island at 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 13.
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Bowen artist carves out tradition in new show
Jesse Toso is an award-winning chainsaw carver. He created the octopus sculpture (pictured at right) with his chainsaw. photo supplied
In true West Coast style, artists Shane Tweten and Jesse Toso demonstrate the beauty and tradition of wood carving in their upcoming show Rooted. Bowen Island resident and local arborist, Tweten blends traditional First Nations carving techniques with legends and mythology of his Nordic heritage. Toso creates one-of-a-kind solid wood furniture from his Vancouver workspace and is an award-winning chainsaw carver. Both artists share a passion for woodworking and honouring the trees. An exhibition of Toso and Tweten works will be on display at the Sugar Cube Gallery, 461 Bowen Trunk Rd., from Aug. 1-7, featuring live chainsaw carving demonstrations daily at 3 p.m. Article submitted by Toso Wood Works
Ulrich invites Alcorn and her distinct sound to Bowen MARIA SPITALE-LEISK EDITOR
Canadian singer-songwriter Coco Love Alcorn will perform music from her new album Wonderland at Tir-na-nog Theatre on Thursday, Aug. 4. Fellow Canadian chanteuse Shari Ulrich invited Alcorn to play Bowen as part of Ulrich’s Trust Me concert series. “I can honestly say, Coco Love Alcorn, simply said, is one of my all-time favourite singers,” says Ulrich. “She has the vocal ability to sing pretty much anything, but is all about serving the music, not impressing the listener with her vocal prowess. To me, that is the mark of a great singer. And she is the bravest and most in-the-moment performer I know.” Daughter of jazz singer John Alcorn, Coco released her debut album in 1995 and subsequently
toured as an opening act for Burton Cummings, Chantal Kreviazuk, Jesse Cook and Ani DiFranco, and performed at Lilith Fair. As a songwriter and vocalist, Alcorn effortlessly embraces her diverse musical influences – jazz, pop, R&B and folk – melding them seamlessly into her own distinctive and compelling sound, explains Ulrich. “I have no doubt that, like me, anyone who has seen her before will jump at the chance to hear her again,” adds Ulrich. “And if you haven’t heard her, trust me, you are in for a rare treat.” Coco Love Alcorn’s show at the Tir-na-nog Theatre, 585 Rivendell Dr., is on Aug. 4 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20 at Phoenix on Bowen or online at Brown Paper Tickets at cocolovealcorn@bpt.me, or $25 at the door.
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