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The treed streets of Dunbar, UBC and Musqueam reserve are part of Vancouver Quadra.

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The Courier continues its weekly profiles of the five federal electoral districts in Vancouver. This week we dissect Vancouver Quadra.

Riding name and location: Vancouver Quadra is the city’s most westerly riding, taking in the leafy streets of Dunbar, the University of B.C., the Musqueam Indian Band’s reserve, the city’s only nude

beach (Wreck Beach) and some of the most expensive waterfront neighbourhoods in the country. The riding is bounded on the east by Arbutus Street, West 16th Avenue, Oak Street, West 41st Avenue and Granville Street and moves west to cover the rest of the land between Burrard Inlet and the Strait of Georgia to the tip of Point Grey.

What’s it like: It is predominantly residential, with one of the biggest and nicest green spaces in the city in Pacific Spirit Park.

The desirable neighbourhoods come with a hefty price, with old dilapidated houses fetching more than $1 million. More than 55 per cent of residents over 25 have a university certificate or degree.

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Paragon Gaming offers to reduce number of slot machines Casino company’s last-minute move angers Vancouver, Not Vegas! coalition Mike Howell Staff writer

The Las Vegas company proposing to build a mega casino adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium made a lastminute offer to city council to reduce the number of slot machines in its plan from 1,500 to 1,200.

The offer came Sunday night at the end of five rounds of public hearings on Paragon Gaming Inc.’s plan to build what would be the biggest casino in Western Canada.

Council heard from 145 people over three nights and two days, with 58 in favour of Paragon’s proposal, 83 against and four

with no opinion.

Scott Menke, president of Paragon, said he decided to make the offer after hearing from several speakers at the hearings worried about the large number of slots.

The offer does not include reducing the proposal for 150 games tables.

“We wanted to make it clear

that we were very concerned with all those comments,” Menke told reporters after the hearing. “If we have to move into gaming a little slower than I would like, it’s only respectful to go back out there and try to work with everybody.”

The offer, however, stipulates that council could review the

number of slots at the casino two years after the facility opens and potentially add more machines.

Paragon made a similar offer in Enoch, Alta. when it built its River Cree Casino, adding 100 slots every year and now has 1,050 of the machines. It was approved for 1,200.

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Continued from page 4 Menke wouldn’t say how much revenue would be lost by Paragon wiping 300 slots from its Vancouver proposal, or what effect it would have on the company’s business plan, which includes paying $17 million annually to the city.

Council is still not legally allowed to comment to media about Paragon’s proposal. Council will likely decide whether to

approve the proposal—in its original or amended form—at a regular council meeting April 19 at 2 p.m.

The offer from Paragon has incensed the Vancouver, Not Vegas! coalition, which launched a highprofile campaign against the company’s proposal.

Because Paragon’s offer came after the hearing was shut down to speakers, no one from the coalition was allowed to

“I THINK THEY KNOW THAT THEY’RE IN SERIOUS TROUBLE WITH THIS AND THEY’RE LOOKING FOR ANYTHING—THEY’RE REALLY GRASPING AT STRAWS HERE.” Sandy Garossino

address council on what coalition member Sandy Garossino sees as a disrespectful and desperate move from Paragon.

“It seems to be sort of a Hail Mary pass,” she told the Courier. “I think they know that they’re in serious trouble with this

and they’re looking for anything—they’re really grasping at straws here.”

Brent Toderian, the city’s director of planning, said the city does not consider Paragon’s offer to reduce the number of slots a new application.

“Council has the ability to approve an application in full or at a reduced scale,” Toderian said. “If the proposed change is in keeping with the direction of the public hearing, then that

just shows that the process potentially is working. It happens not infrequently.”

Paragon operates Edgewater Casino at the Plaza of Nations, where it has 75 games tables and 520 slots. It wants to relocate to the land west of B.C. Place Stadium because its lease at the Plaza of Nations expires in 2013.

See related stories on page 5 and 19. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

Riding of 120,000 a Liberal stronghold since 1984 Continued from page 4 The average family income is $145,241 with the professional, scientific and technical service sector being the biggest employer. It is the sixth wealthiest riding in Canada. The population is about 120,000. The 2006 Census found that 37 per cent of residents are immigrants, with Chinese-Canadians forming the largest community.

Who’s running: Liberal Joyce Murray, a former provincial Liberal environment minister, is the

incumbent. The longtime New Westminster resident moved into the riding to seek a federal seat.

The Conservative candidate is Deborah Meredith, a lecturer in commercial law at UBC’s Sauder School of Business. Laura-Leah Shaw, a realtor with RE/MAX who has lived in the riding for 22 years, is the Green Party’s candidate. The NDP is going with Victor Elkins, the vice-president of the B.C. Hospital Employees’ Union.

Who won last time: Murray

was elected MP after winning a narrow victory in a March 17, 2008 byelection; she beat Conservative challenger Meredith by 151 votes. Murray distanced that margin eight months later in the Oct. 14, 2008 federal election by defeating Meredith again, this time by more than 5,000 votes. The riding has been a Liberal stronghold since former prime minister John Turner was elected in 1984.

Murray’s predecessor, Stephen Owen, was the MP from 2000 until he resigned in 2007 to force a

byelection. The Green Party finished third in the last race, with 423 more votes than the NDP. What matters to voters: The economy—watching spending (the federal debt is $566 billion) while investing in green business and exploiting the bright minds employed and studying on a tech savvy university campus. Voters are also worried the depressed U.S. economy, with its spending and debt problems, will drag down the Canadian economy.

Health care—access to family

doctors and timely access to specialists and treatment is an issue for many residents, particularly seniors. Other concerns include adequate childcare spaces, lower tuition for students and affordable housing for young families who can’t afford to live in the neighbourhood in which they grew up.

Tougher sentences for criminals, particularly for child predators, is another topic being debated in the riding. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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news director, Ian Baillie, who pointed out the importance of council’s vote April 19. “There is a lot of misinformation floating around about what the language in that report means, and we at Vision want to make our position clear,” Baillie wrote. “Protests and free speech are part of the culture of our city.

They are part of the culture of our party. We will not accept changes to the law that restrict these critical social expressions.”

So show up at council April 19 and see just how free people will be allowed to express themselves in a city that may also be home one day to the biggest casino in Western Canada.

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It’s shaping up to be one of the biggest decisions this council will make since being elected in November 2008. Place your bets.

On the same day, council will be talking Falun Gong.

As you’ve probably heard/read/ seen, city staff has written a report that asks council to approve amendments to the street and traffic bylaw “in order to regulate the placement of structures on city streets for the purpose of non-

commercial public expression.”

The report is in response to two court decisions related to the city’s removal of the Falun Gong’s onetime hut and billboards outside the Chinese Consulate on Granville Street at West 16th Avenue.

Falun Gong practitioner Sue Zhang appealed a January 2009 B.C. Supreme Court decision that said the structures had to be removed and that by doing so was not a violation of freedom of political expression.

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The B.C. Court of Appeal’s decision Oct. 19, 2010 disagreed with the B.C. Supreme Court ruling, saying the removal violated freedom of political expression.

Now the city wants to look at “an innovative program that will facilitate free political expression on city streets,” according to staff’s report.

And what’s the ruling Vision Vancouver party think about this?

I just happened to receive an email from the party’s executive

Just a follow-up to an entry I made last week about council’s travel expenses.

If you were left with the impression that Vision Coun. Tim Stevenson was spending taxpayers’ dollars on a recent trip to New Zealand, you would be wrong.

He was there for personal and compassionate reasons involving a family member. Also, Mayor Gregor Robertson did not go to Iqaluit with Stevenson on Federation of Canadian Municipalities’ business.

That was Vision Coun. Raymond Louie, who spent $3,826.48 on his trip north between Aug. 28 and Sept. 3, 2010. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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OK, city hall watchers, mark April 19 on your calendar.

That’s when council is expected to make two big decisions that will have many people talking and could increase/decrease the politicians’ chances of being reelected in November.

The issues?

A mega casino and free speech.

As I found out Sunday night, after spending my weekend at rounds four and five of the casino public hearings, council deferred its decision on Paragon Gaming Inc.’s proposal until its regular council meeting April 19.

The meeting begins at 2 p.m.

City staff has yet to post an agenda on the city’s website to indicate whether the vote on the mega casino will occur at the beginning, middle or end of the meeting.

Paragon wants to relocate its existing casino licence at Edgewater Casino at the Plaza of Nations to land west of B.C. Place Stadium.

The $500 million plan calls for 150 games tables, 1,200 to 1,500 slot machines, two hotels and several restaurants. Paragon has promised the city up to $17 mil-

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The Vancouver school district saved more than $1.2 million by shortening the school year, and a district committee is recommending the schedule continue for another year.

Ten days were cut from the 2010/11 calendar by adding an extra week to spring break and sprinkling five additional days off throughout the year— Oct. 8 to lengthen the Thanksgiving Day weekend, Nov. 12 to create a four-day week around Remembrance Day, Feb. 11 and 15, which coincide with Valentine’s Day, and May 20 to lengthen the Victoria Day weekend. A few extra minutes were added to each to day—16 minutes for elementary, 17 minutes for secondary school—to compensate for the lost days.

A calendar committee, chaired by superintendent Steve Cardwell, has been studying the effect of the changes.

In an April 11 report to the management coordinating committee, the sub-committee advised the district to maintain the schedule for another year, while seeking further feedback about the placement of closure days within the calendar, and the impact of closure days on employees, families and community agencies.

A survey revealed 35 per cent of respondents want to continue with the new calendar.

The district also accepted email input—of the 80 emailed comments from parents, staff and others, 51 per cent opposed the calendar, 30 per cent had mixed reaction and 19 per cent were positive.

Some like the new schedule, but don’t want days off spread throughout the year. They would prefer having an extra week added to the summer break.

The Vancouver Elementary Teachers’ Association supports keeping the new calendar for another year.

Mike Lombardi, a Vision Vancouver trustee and chair of the management committee, said the board must pick from two undesirable options.

“It’s one of those decisions—do you free up more money in the budget to focus on teaching and learning [while] the offset is of course potentially more hardship on some parents. It’s going to be a tough decision,” he said.

Lombardi said he wanted to hear more discussion about the recommendation, including comment from various education groups. He noted more than half of the school districts in B.C. have adopted two-week long spring breaks. “And they’ve all gone to that because of financial pressures,” he said.

Most trustees, including Lombardi, blame “chronic underfunding by the provincial government.”

“There’s not really any educational value to it. It’s strictly a cost-savings

“THERE’S NOT REALLY ANY EDUCATIONAL VALUE TO IT. IT’S STRICTLY A COST-SAVINGS MEASURE.” Trustee Mike Lombardi

measure,” Lombardi said.

“I’m sure [the impact on families is] considerable. There’s no doubt about that. That’s part of the challenge. We understand that and we recognize that. It’s one of the things we’re going to have to weigh—to what extent is it seen as an offloading caused by the district… There’s no good answer for anybody on this. When I ask parents would you rather lay off 20 more teachers, they say of course we don’t but we don’t want to have to pay the childcare costs either. I fully understand that so it’s a tough one.”

The calendar committee is also continuing to look into the possibility of implementing a balanced calendar also known as a year-round calendar.

The board cut $17 million from the 2010/11 budget and faces an $8.3 million shortfall for 2011/2012 year. It anticipates another $8 million shortfall in 2012/13.

The board must make a decision about its school calendar by May 31. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Meals and memories

Last Friday, I had the pleasure of attending a celebration at Sunset Community Centre for the launch of a new community cookbook.

I arrived at the centre just as a group of South Asian women dressed in brightly coloured saris began their dance routine. What was fun about their performance was they were soon joined by members of the Filipino dance troupe in attendance, in full costume, as well as members of the audience in street clothes.

The multicultural performance was fitting since The Mixing Bowl: Meals and Memories cookbook is broken into sections by ethnicity, including Chinese, Filipino, Indian, First Nations, “Canadian eh” and Italian. Besides traditional recipes, the cookbook includes personal stories told by the contributors.

Following the speeches and entertainment, refreshments were served, including tiramisu made

by Rosaria Cassano who supplied the same recipe for the Italian section of the cookbook. In the name of research, I tried a piece of the creamy Italian dessert and can confirm it was delicious.

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The redevelopment at Mount Pleasant Park is under way and includes space for a new pool, should money become available. photo Dan Toulgoet east Vancouver Seniors Arts and Cultural Centre Society, says for each section of the book, a group of volunteers organized a meal highlighting the recipes included in their section, and everyone involved with the project was invited to the meal.

Gibbs noted that since many of the seniors don’t drive they used transit to travel to the dinners, carrying their precious cargo of home-

cooked food to each shared meal.

Federal candidates in the upcoming federal election in Vancouver South may want to take note—the residents I spoke to at the event made it clear a seniors centre, or lack thereof, in the area is still a key issue for them.

The cookbook costs $25 and is available through the society. Call 604-325-0163 or email svsacs@ gmail.com. The project was fund-

ed by the federal New Horizons for Seniors initiative.

Outdoor pool push

The small army of volunteers who worked tirelessly for years, unsuccessfully, to save the outdoor pool in Mount Pleasant Park has expanded its focus to all of Vancouver.

Mount Pleasant resident Margery Duda says the new non-profit

group, Vancouver Society for the Promotion of Outdoor Pools, became a registered non-profit last January with a goal to highlight and support the city’s dwindling number of outdoor pools Duda says the purpose of the society is to promote outdoor swimming pools and aquatics in the city, while at the same time supporting the efforts of the Mount Pleasant Pool Committee, the Mount Pleasant Community Centre Association, Friends of Mount Pleasant Pool and other community organizations dedicated to replacing the popular attraction.

The new society is looking for members and is holding its first annual general meeting May 7 at the new Mount Pleasant Community Centre at 1 Kingsway, from 2 to 4 p.m. The meeting is open to society members only, but memberships will be for sale at the door prior to the meeting at a cost of $5 for an individual, $10 for a family and $25 per organization.

A board of directors will be voted in at the meeting.

The society wants to continue pressuring the park board to include funds for a new outdoor pool in its next capital plan. The redevelopment design of Mount Pleasant Park includes space for a new pool, should money become available. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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A month after a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, Vancouverites are still doing their part to raise money for relief efforts there.

But I was beginning to feel Japan earthquake burnout this past weekend after being asked to donate at the grocery store, liquor store and a major department store, all within two hours. It’s become a daily ritual. Buy a coffee—donate to Japan. Pick up milk at the grocery store—donate to Japan. Donating to Japan while buying a bottle of wine is a given, but then I also have to ensure I have enough change left to give to the wheelchair-bound panhandler with the Canucks flag who regularly sits outside the liquor store on Cambie Street. Between relief efforts and panhandlers, every trip I make to a store is costing me an extra $2 to $5, but I can’t not give because that would make me a horrible person—bad karma I’m trying to avoid.

I’ve also been overwhelmed at work with emails regarding fundraising events for Japan.

I recently started a new Community Calendar column with a promise to fit in as many special events, celebrations and fundraisers as possible, but I’ve received so many emails regarding benefits for Japan, I can’t possibly get them all in. The past few Fridays I’ve left the office feeling guilty that some organization’s or individual’s hard work and efforts weren’t mentioned in the Courier for a lack of time or space.

So when I came into work Monday morn-

sandrathomas ing and saw an email with the subject heading “Japan Activity,” I didn’t rush to open it or the other half-dozen, earthquake-related emails I received over the weekend. But eventually I was compelled to check out that first email and was delighted I had.

Someone at Collingwood Neighbourhood House discovered that, according to an ancient Japanese legend, anyone who folds 1,000 origami cranes will be granted a wish.

Collingwood, according to executive director Jennifer Gray-Grant, purchased red and white paper, the colours in both the Japanese and Canadian flags, with an ambitious plan to create 1,000 cranes. But then coincidently, just as the project launched, a Collingwood board member who is also a professor in Japanese studies at the University of B.C., dropped by the neighbourhood house with a group of vis-

iting Japanese students. And as if straight out of a Disney movie, the students happened to be proficient in origami and spent 45 minutes teaching a core group of staff and volunteers, who in turn shared their new-found, paperfolding talent with others.

Gray-Grant says after that first session when only 100 cranes were completed after several hours, she realized a monumental task was ahead of them. For the next several weeks a table was set up in Collingwood’s lobby staffed by volunteers willing to teach anyone interested how to make a paper crane. Visitors of every age and ethnicity folded the origami birds, and with the help of the community the task was completed. And now a set of 1,000 origami cranes, called a senbazuru, hangs in Collingwood’s lobby. The plan is to send a photograph of the senbazuru to the Japanese consulate in Vancouver and Canadian embassy in Japan, along with a story about its creation. The neighbourhood house also raised more than $600, which will go to the Fukushima International Association. GrayGrant says Fukushima was chosen because a Collingwood board member’s son and family, including a young baby, live there.

“That brings it close to home,” says GrayGrant.

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“We wish for recovery for the whole country.” sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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opinion ANTI-CASINO MOVEMENT A SILLY CIRCUS

Self-righteous moralists dominate casino debate

In less enlightened times, long before global warming and Twitter, the morality of the self-righteous ruled the New World. Public policy often sprang from the pulpit, crafted by legalistic interpretations of the Bible. It was all Old Testament, little grace.

During and after the First World War, cultural architects on both sides of the 49th parallel eyed the evils of alcohol. Groups such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League pressured legislators into Prohibition, creating underground speakeasies and Al Capone. After years of “illegal” drinking, Prohibition was repealed among a hail of popped corks and derby hats.

This weekend in Vancouver, we went back in time. The derby hats are gone but the furrowed brows remain. During two public hearings at city hall, anti-gambling advocates lined up behind the lectern. In an age of moral relevance, their message is refreshingly clear.

Gambling’s a scourge that must be stamped out. And a proposed downtown casino near B.C. Place, with 1,200 slot machines and 150 games tables, will ruin our city. “Half the money in casinos is spent by people who think they’re entertaining themselves,” said speaker Fred Bass, former city councillor and seasoned demagogue, who compared the casino industry to Big Tobacco and gamblers to mindless drones.

Rev. Andrew Cheung, leader of Harvest City Church on Victoria Drive, appeared in jeans and untucked dress shirt, and while stone-faced councillors looked on, talked about tragedies he witnessed as a pastor. A boarded up restaurant sunk by gambling debt.

An addicted mother who chose slot machines over her children.

And a “young man who is no longer alive because of gambling debt.”

The anti-gambling movement mobilized last year after Paragon Gaming, a Las Vegas-based company, announced its Vancouver casino plan. The movement corrals all types—the religious and the secular, the political and the polemic—who’ve spoke at city hall during a series of public hearings.

As a council vote looms, a vocal and well-organized group titled Vancouver, Not Vegas! keeps the anti-casino message in the news, stoking public fear and misunderstanding.

For example: Retired VPD Sgt. Bob Cooper, a former homicide investigator, posted a statement on the group’s website, detailing a grisly scene from his days on the job. “A man lost hundreds of thousands of dollars over 24 hours in a Burnaby casino. He went home, murdered his wife and two small children, spread gasoline around his East Vancouver house then

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markhasiuk struck a match blowing the house off its foundations and killing himself in the process.” To summarize Cooper’s position: gambling equals addiction, which inevitably leads to triple homicide.

The group’s website is rife with specious argument. The proposed casino, it proclaims, will “normalize and legitimate the idea of gambling.”

What cave do these folks live in? What century is this? Aside from porn and YouTube, gambling is the most popular online pastime. Poker has replaced conversation in basement gatherings far and wide. There are 11 casinos in the Lower Mainland including the Edgewater in northeast False Creek—site of the proposed casino in question.

More from the group’s website.

It claims the proposal’s 1,200 slot machines will serve as a “massive and convenient temptation” to residents of the impoverished Downtown Eastside. But anyone vaguely familiar with the neighbourhood knows that most residents—for a variety of reasons—would sooner shop at Whole Foods than drop $20 on a roulette table.

Finally, the website notes “all the associated traffic that will constantly flow in and out of the mega-casino complex—300 cars per hour, and a significant portion of it related to organized crime.”

Ah yes. The green angle. What Vancouver protest is complete without apocalyptic predictions of environmental danger. Let’s see.

Three hundred cars multiplied by 24 hours, plus a “significant portion” of gangsters, equals one million gangsters entering northeast False Creek every week. Nobody wants that.

Whatever its genesis, the anticasino movement has degenerated into a silly circus of demonization unworthy of serious public debate. Build this casino now, complete with a 100-foot bell tower symbolizing free market principles and personal responsibility. Casinos are legal businesses. Gambling, like eating or drinking, is a personal choice made by adults with their own money.

Human frailty never justifies an expanded Nanny State. We don’t need self-righteous moralists to save us from ourselves. mhasiuk@vancourier.com Twitter: @MarkHasiuk

One reader questions how Vancouver can be a “green city” when sound, old houses are demolished and their architectural heritage is sent to the landfill every day. photo Jason Lang To the editor: Re: “Happy Birthday Vancouver,” April 6.

The latest upsurge in housing prices should come as no surprise to any of us. Many Vancouverites gave up on their neighbourhoods a long time ago. It has become a developers playground and City of Vancouver is all for it.

Vancouverites no longer care what their neighbours think about the place they live.

They listen to the realtors and developers.

There is no perceived value which is more dear to us than price. We want to build “home” equity, not neighbourhoods. Our liveable city has

been dumped in favour of the saleable city.

Vancouver is now celebrating its 125th birthday. But how much of those 125 years is there left to celebrate when we have so few historical buildings remaining? The days of modest renovations have given way to new huge, ugly boxes that push older houses and bungalows into the shadows. How did we get voted as the “green city” when we demolish sound houses and send our architectural heritage off to the landfill every day?

Jenny Wright, Vancouver

Olson imagines Stephen Harper perfectly To the editor: Re: Cartoon, April 6.

Geoff Olson’s cartoon regarding Stephen Harper’s latest pop rendition was spot on, as usual.

Some of the songs from the Imagine album itself seem rather appropriate to the current political scene, especially our prime minister. Besides “How Do You Sleep?” there is “Gimme Some Truth,” with its powerful lyrics: “I’m sick

and tired of hearing things/ From uptight, short-sighted, narrow-minded hypocritics/ All I want is the truth/Just gimme some truth/I’ve had enough of reading things/By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians ... All I want is the truth now/Just gimme some truth now...”

Carl Rosenberg, Vancouver

••• It is indeed ironic that

Harper sang “Imagine,” a song of peace and love.

Harper is a man of religion who defunded the humanitarian activities of churchbacked Kairos, froze our foreign aid, and wants to spend tens of billions on fighter jets armed to the teeth with cannons, missiles and bombs.

John Lennon would be appalled, and so would Jesus.

Larry Kazdan, Vancouver

Teachers, staff get kudos for hard work, dedication To the editor: Re: “Letter of the week,” March 18.

After reading the letter of the week that suggested our public schools fall short of some people’s expectations, I was confused. I’ve had the privilege of working in Vancouver’s public school environment this year. I was amazed with the dedication, hard work, patience, sensitivity and genuine passion that was exhibited in the teachers’ concerted efforts to provide a safe, creative and innovative environment for their students. The real evidence is with the students. In my 60 years on this planet, I have never seen such a level of openness, trust, and

respect that those students had for their teachers, the principal, and the nursing staff. Yes, I used the word respect, and that respect was hard earned, as I witnessed the heartfelt concern demonstrated in the classroom and out of the classroom. I saw no incompetence, no inefficiency, and absolutely no waste that was referred to in the article. I commend the selfless and unconditional commitment these teachers and staff gave at Cunningham elementary, not because anyone will notice, but because they are teachers, and that’s what teachers do.

Jim Hallows, Vancouver

Young letter writer applauded for casino stance

To the editor: Re: “Parents shouldn’t blow college fund at casino,” Letters, March 25.

Kudos to letter writer Jennifer Lui for speaking up from a youth perspective about the impact of gambling on family finances: “If the mega casino were to be built, my parents would probably go there almost every week.”

Gambling is an unhealthy and crime-ridden industry. There is a heavy whiff of too

much pressure from insider friends who stand to profit in the proposed casino expansion.

And remember that profit would come from the financial losses of families like Jennifer’s.

Surely our mayor and council have a better vision of how to build a healthy, safe and prosperous local economy and community than helping people lose their money.

Adrienne Montani, Vancouver

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Last year’s school closure consultation cost the Vancouver School Board $162,000— well above the original estimate of $100,000. The district considered shutting down five East Side elementary schools to save a projected $1.4 million. After 10 public consultation meetings, trustees voted in favour of several staff recommendations, including a moratorium on school closures until 2012 and sectoral reviews of the district, slated to start next month.

The school closure consultation final tally was $162,429, which includes $96,872 for meeting facilitation, recording and reporting; $29,974 for a polling survey; $11,670 for translation services; $10,695 for advertising for meetings; $10,635 for audio/visual services; $2,042 for internal printing charges; and $539 for legal services.

The VSB cut $17 million from its last budget and faces an $8.3 million shortfall for the 2011/12 school year. Preliminary budget proposals will be released April 12.

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“It’s a lot of money—there’s no question.

It’s very difficult to do this scale of public consultation that involves such a large number of people and that has a potential impact,” said Bacchus, a Vision Vancouver trustee. “In this case, we really wanted some citywide input, which was the polling piece, so we weren’t just getting [input from] these particular neighbourhoods.

These decisions have an impact on everyone. It was a difficult process, it was an expensive process, but it was an incredibly valuable one. Would I do it again for that cost? I don’t know.”

Bacchus said the district might have been able to collect information another way, but useful ideas were gathered such as a proposal for a multicultural fine arts school and offers of working together from groups such as aboriginal organizations. noconnor@vancourier.com

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Staff cuts expected due to VSB budget deficit Naoibh O’Connor Staff writer

The Vancouver School Board will consider cutting 55 full-time equivalent staff positions, which includes 19 teaching positions, three administrator positions, clerical positions and some management positions, as part of its 2011/12 budget deliberations.

Staff budget proposals to deal with an $8.4 million shortfall were unveiled Tuesday morning. The board may revise the document after weighing public input in the next few weeks. A vote on the final budget is set for May 5. Last week, eight managers at the district’s head office were laid off.

“It’s going to be tough. There really weren’t many places left to go.

This [staff proposal] digs out some corners. We’re already feeling the reductions from last week. Staff is scrambling to figure out work plans and who’s going to cover off what,” board chair Patti Bacchus said Tuesday. “I know the schools are going to feel any reduction. When I go out to schools all I hear is they’re already overworked—everyone from the office staff to custodians, teachers and support staff. They are all stretched and this will stretch them a little bit more. There’s no one big whump in one particular area, but it will keep rippling right through.”

Bacchus, a Vision Vancouver trustee, said the budget proposals have been designed to minimize the impact at the classroom level and to vulnerable students as much as possible. She noted the budget’s complexity, which makes

“I KNOW THE SCHOOLS ARE GOING TO FEEL ANY REDUCTION. WHEN I GO OUT TO SCHOOLS ALL I HEAR IS THEY’RE ALREADY OVERWORKED— EVERYONE FROM THE OFFICE STAFF TO CUSTODIANS, TEACHERS AND SUPPORT STAFF.” Board chair Patti Bacchus

it difficult to pin-point what area might be hit the hardest.

“It depends on how you look at it.

If you looked at it by percentage of area, [the hardest hit] would be district administration, but district administration is a much smaller piece of the pie,” she said.

Last year, the board considered eliminating the popular elementary band and strings program, which operates in 37 schools but is essentially an extra-curricular program. But so much opposition arose that it was saved in the end. The 2011/12 preliminary budget proposal suggests introducing a $25 per-student fee for the program.

“It’s not something we’re thrilled about, but [the fee] does bring in about $90,000 and helps offset some of the costs that program—not all,”

Bacchus said.

Elementary schools with populations of less than 400 students won’t get vice principals any longer. That rule had existed, but wasn’t always strictly enforced.

Some reductions in school-based clerical time are also included in the document.

Despite the cuts, some money may be injected into certain areas. The district suspended school painting last year, but the budget proposal suggests painting in this year to deal with safety and maintenance concerns. “[But] there’s no shock. There’s no big news. I’d say the user fee is one where parents will go, ‘Oh it’s the first time we’ve had a user fee for strings,’” Bacchus said.

She noted there are proposals for minor reductions to wring savings out of several VSB expenses—parking rates at the board office may be raised and fewer parking passes doled out to people attending meetings. The board will also consider full cost recovery in its printing shop to encourage users to print less and use electronic versions instead.

“If they want printing done, it will be paid for by department, so it’s not just sending things off for printing,” Bacchus said. “[Senior staff] have done some really fine-point squeezing out of areas.”

The budget proposal, meanwhile, doesn’t reflect the $1.2 million in savings if the board votes to continue following the revised calendar that shortens the school year by 10 days. noconnor@vancourier.com Twitter: @Naoibh

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Nelson Park residents flush with relief Sandra Thomas Staff writer

If all goes well, Nelson Park will soon have its long-awaited washroom.

Vision Vancouver park board chair Aaron Jasper said he’s been working on getting a washroom at the West End park since 2006 when a redevelopment design was unveiled but didn’t include a washroom. At the time, Jasper was a director with the West End Residents Association, or WERA. “I feel like I’ve been working on this forever,” said Jasper, adding that a chance meeting with the city’s general manager of engineering, Peter Judd, got the ball rolling.

“I was half-joking, but I said to him, do you have any extra self-cleaning, wheelchair-accessible toilets we could use in Nelson Park?” Jasper told the Courier.

Judd got back to him and said the city could supply the park with a washroom.

Parks staff drafted a report on the proposal, which will be decided by the park board April 18. Staff will also host an open house this spring to provide residents with details about the project and how it relates to the redevelopment.

Jasper said a proposal to install a washroom at Nelson Park didn’t make the last capital plan, but now there’ll be no need for capital funds because the washrooms are installed at little cost by the international company CBS/JCDecaux, which supplies them

Aaron Jasper: “I feel like I’ve been working on this forever.” photo Jason Lang in exchange for the advertising on the side of the toilet’s housing. Because the location of the toilet will have little foot traffic, a deal is being worked out to place the advertising in a different spot.

“This is a win-win situation,” said Jasper. “I’m thrilled.”

According to a parks staff report, the automated public toilet will be installed by the city’s engineering department’s street furniture program under a contract with CBS/JCDecaux.

The company owns washrooms across

the city, including in Pigeon Park and at the intersection of Davie and Richards streets.

Like Jasper, WERA president Brent Granby has been working to ensure a washroom would be included in Nelson Park.

“This is the last piece of the park,” said Granby. “WERA did a lot of hard work to make this happen, but so did this park board.”

The Courier first interviewed Granby in 2006 regarding a lack of washrooms included in the park’s redevelopment design. The fieldhouse and its washrooms were torn down in 2007 as part of the redevelopment, which today includes a community garden, off-leash dog area and children’s playground.

In a 2008 interview with the Courier, Granby said having a children’s playground with no washroom made no sense. To drive that point home, last summer Granby and other WERA members organized an event called Potty Power during which they distributed potties to parents with toddlers visiting the park.

“Our message was ‘When you have to go, you have to go,’” said Granby.

The event coincided with one of the farmers markets held weekly in the park during the summer.

If approved Monday night, the washroom should be installed by the fall. sthomas@vancourier.com Twitter: @sthomas10

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Folk for youth

Local indie folk-rock musician Dan Mangan will host a fundraiser Saturday, April 16 at St. Andrew’s-Wesley United Church to help homeless youth. The event includes music, spoken word and “multi-medium artistry.” Mangan will be joined by Veda Hille, Aidan Knight, The Crackling, Mike McGee and Charles Demers. Special guest Mayor Gregor Robertson will present this year’s Local Hero Awards to recognize individuals and organizations that demonstrate leadership and commitment to ending youth homelessness in Vancouver.

Rumours persist that Robertson will show up with his tuba and join Mangan on stage.

Tickets are $20 in advance through eventbrite.com. Studies show there are more than 900 homeless youth in Metro Vancouver. More information is available at endhomelessnessnow.ca.

Birthday thoughts

Our fair city, at 125 years old, is nearly out of its infancy in comparison to other metropolises of the world. From here, Vancouver, where do we go? The Simon Fraser University Philosophers’ Café is asking

how our past informs our present and how today will shape tomorrow. Join the discussion from 7 to 9 p.m. April 14 at the Creekside Community recreation centre (1 Athletes Way). Admission is free.

Writing answers

Betsy Warland, a local creative nonfiction writer, poet, essayist, teacher, manuscript consultant and editor, will appear in a question and answer session with writers April 17. She’ll read from her book Breathing the Page: Reading the Act of Writing and discuss writing ideas and questions. Warland will appear from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the People’s Co-op Bookstore, 1391 Commercial Dr. Free admission. For more information, see peoplescoopbookstore.com.

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The book proposes that the large number of factors relevant to traffic safety fall under two broad categories: ‘engineering’ which includes traffic and roadway engineering, and automotive engineering, and ‘road user’ which encompasses driver behaviour, and driver performance. The relative importance of these factors is described in a deliberately roughly sketched pie-chart in which driver behaviour is the largest ‘piece’ followed by, in decreasing size: traffic and roadway engineering, driver performance, and automotive engineering.

The challenge of attributing strictly quantifiable measures to the various road safety factors has prompted simultaneous interventions with respect to all of the factors.

And the good news is that this approach is producing positive results. In early April 2011, the US Transportation Department released projections that the rate of deaths per 100 million miles traveled in 2010 will hit 1.09, the lowest since 1949 and down from the 2009 rate of 1.13 deaths per 100 million miles. This brings the absolute number of fatalities to 32,788, down 3% from 2009. Final data on deaths and injuries, including specific state-by-state totals will be released later in 2011.

It’s no wonder the government wants both to trumpet these results early and to explain them, which, not surprisingly, it

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Closer to home, intervention on the ‘traffic and roadway engineering’ front—the $600 million upgrade to BC’s Sea-to-Sky highway—has, by itself, produced dramatically positive results. BC Ministry of Transportation statistics record a 66% drop in the number of crashes along the Sea-toSky in the first year since it was widened and improved.

From 2001 to 2009, the average number of crashes per year on the Sea-to-Sky highway was 215; in 2010 there were 73 crashes.

Head-on collisions have reportedly dropped about 80%. From 1998 to 2007, the various crashes resulted in 63 fatalities, 14 of which occurred in 2004. Since completion of the upgrade, two deaths have occurred: one when a driver swerved into oncoming traffic just south of Squamish, and the other when a man lying on the highway at around 4: 25 a.m. was hit by a transit bus. This drop has occurred despite traffic increases since 2005 of 8.6% between Horseshoe Bay and Squamish to about 14,000 vehicles per day, and 18.2% between Squamish and Whistler to about 9,000 vehicles per day.

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Among the most flamboyant are tuberous begonias.

Most varieties have huge double camellia or rose-type blooms in reds, yellows, oranges, whites and pinks.

Some have petals edged in different colours (picotees), others are gently shaded. One can choose plants with serrated-edge blooms or ruffled ones and upright or pendula growth habits.

For early flowers, it’s best to start the tubers inside during late February or March in containers or flats and cover them shallowly with potting mix. The indentation that produces shoots should be on top. The rounded side where the roots will emerge should face down. You can start them later (unsold tubers often go on sale in April). Begonias can’t be put outside until frost season is over anyway.

They can be fussy to grow.

Begonias hate heavy soil. They need good drainage, rich feeding, and the kind of sunless shade that has lots of light.

Constantly moist conditions please them but moisture on their leaves can cause disease.

Some gardeners can keep the same tubers (and enlarging) for years with a flower display that gets bigger and better each summer. When they die back following cool fall nights, they can be lifted and dried off a little. Then the stems can be cut back and the tubers stored in dry peat or vermiculite.

Gardeners who love bringing cut flowers into the house often plant gladioli corms each year, though the flower garden isn’t always the best place for them. Large-flowered varieties tend to lean unless staked, they need full sun and space and once cut leave an unsightly stump behind.

The vegetable garden is often a better spot because after being cut, the leaves can die back without causing esthetic problems. Gladioli do well in most soils and in the vegetable garden they can easily share in the good drainage, rich nutrition and weekly watering that some food crops get.

There’s a huge variety of colours and forms: red, orange, yellow, white, purple, bicoloureds, serrated edges as well as dwarfs—and all make long-lasting and gorgeous cut flowers. Corms can be lifted when leaves yellow. After drying, the leaves are removed and the corms stored in mesh bags in a cool, dry, airy spot.

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City staff made the announcement April 8.

Despite having 32 properties of Millennium Water, now called SEFC Properties Ltd., transferred to the city’s control, registering a $5 million mortgage on the developer’s Bidwell and Davie site and new condo sales and apartment rentals at the Olympic Village, the city anticipates coming up $40 million to $50 million short after covering costs for construction.

“This council, and I don’t think any future council, would try to put a tax increase on to deal with these issues,” said Vision Vancouver Coun. Geoff Meggs.

“We’re resolving it through the managing of the sales and through the property endowment fund.”

Meggs said councillors received an update on how negotiations between the city and Millennium were progressing Friday morning. He said Mayor Gregor Robertson was at an all-day Metro Vancouver meeting and asked him to speak.

Meggs said the Visiondominated council had previously anticipated the city could be on the hook for hundreds of millions of dollars. But he also said the city didn’t expect to earn anything off the sale of the Olympic Village land, whereas earning millions was expected when deals about the

The City of Vancouver has about $750 million in outstanding loans on the photo Dan Toulgoet Olympic Village project. village were first made.

The city expects to recover $56 million to $70 million from Millennium and its guarantors. With the help of Ernst and Young, the receiver for the Olympic Village appointed in November, the city seized 32 properties owned by Millennium in Vancouver, North and West Vancouver, Burnaby and Toronto. One more property is still in discussion.

The city has also secured a mortgage on the former Maxine’s Hideaway site on Bidwell for $5 million.

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Bob Rennie of Rennie Marketing Systems announced April 5 that 118 of the 230 reduced-priced condos that were relaunched for sale in February had unconditional sales with the seven-day rescission period passed and deposits down.

Ernst and Young had rented all but four of Millennium’s 119 rentals in the project as of March 31.

It has also rented 22 of the condos, but Rennie plans to sell the rest.

City staff will provide more hard numbers on the project in a council report to be discussed at city hall April 21.

City staff reported saving $93 million on the Olympic Village by taking on the Fortress loan to the project in February 2009.

The city plans to fight the lawsuit that represents at least one quarter of the presale condo buyers at The Village on False Creek.

Ernst and Young has five crews working full-time at the village to fix the problems and aims to have resolved reported problems

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Casino workers, residents, pastor speak at final casino hearing Mike Howell Staff writer

The public hearings into a proposal from a Las Vegas company to build a mega casino adjacent to B.C. Place Stadium wrapped up Sunday.

Council heard from 145 speakers over three nights in March and two days this past weekend. Only four offered no opinion, with 83 against the proposal and 58 in favour.

Now it’s up to council to decide April 19 whether Paragon Gaming Inc.’s bid for what would be the biggest casino in Western Canada will be approved. The Courier attended all five rounds of hearings.

Here’s some of what people said on the weekend: • Montana Parnont is a dealer at Edgewater and came to Vancouver from Thailand to work as a nanny. “The casino gave me this opportunity to work, even though I did not have very good English at all, just like the other 75 per cent of casino now. Being a single mom has not been easy at all.

But the casino has provided me with a stable source of income and provided me with opportunity that I otherwise

would not have.”

• Pastor David Bornman led the charge against slot machines at Hastings Racecourse.

He is also an instructor at B.C. Teen Challenge Addiction Centre. “It’s true that a small part of our population is addicted, but it’s also true that 30 to 50 per cent of the revenues from gambling come from those who are addicted. There’s lots of nice people who work in these places but I’d like to ask them if they want their children to be gamblers.”

• Teresa Reimer joined Edgewater two years ago. “I have actually sat and listened to these hearings and listened to the opponents and the media reports that our jobs are not good jobs, and that Paragon is not a good employer. And that just irks me. As an employee myself, let me tell you I would not be travelling five hours a day for a job that did not pay a competitive wage and have excellent benefits.”

• Liz Watson is a resident and business owner. Although council has heard from more than 140 speakers, Watson said she feared many are keeping quiet.

“I do think that there’s a

lot of people in the business community and in the social services community that run social services agencies that are reluctant to come forward and speak out against the casino aspect of this application because they fear that either their [gambling grants] will be cut off or their business contacts or work will dry up.”

• Wanisa Acupan is the corporate media buyer for Edgewater. She immigrated to Vancouver when she was five years old from the Philippines.

“We are assembled here in solidarity, day in and day out, for a common purpose—and that is to show that the casino won’t subtract from this city, but rather add in ways that

people aren’t aware of, or simply ignore.”

• Brendan Boylen, president of Britannia Community Services Centre, said he is concerned a new casino would attract marginalized people from Grandview-Woodland, Strathcona and the Downtown Eastside. “Casinos are an informal tax on the poor—

a tax that does not go directly to social service programming that can help people. Rather, this money will be taken from our communities by an international Las Vegas monopoly which will attempt to make maximum profit at the public’s expense.” mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings

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Last month, we celebrated my dad’s birthday, but I’m not writing this article just because I didn’t buy him a present. My dad has taught me the most about the art of living, and even though I think I’m grown up, he continues to teach me how to be a better father and how to be happy.

My dad never lectured me.

In fact, every time he tried to tell us a story, we couldn’t resist asking him to get on with it. So he didn’t bother giving me the talk about the birds and the bees. Instead, mom and dad left adequate reading material in the house, and I didn’t have any questions left to ask.

Dad did teach me the manly arts of changing tires, putting on chains, replacing engine oil, using every tool in the workshop and doing the yard work, but he taught me the most important things through example.

My dad only made me feel guilty by being the better man.

When my son put a dent in my car, I couldn’t allow myself to get mad, because when I rolled and totaled my first car, all my dad cared about was that my girlfriend and I were alright. When my kids need my help at an inconvenient time, I never complain because Dad never did.

Be present for your wife and family—Growing up, I

always knew where my dad was. He was either at his office or at home. He was never out with the boys. He didn’t drink, smoke, gamble or do anything he wouldn’t want us to do. He did everything with us. He was always available to talk or to help. He would drop everything to give us a ride.

Live according to your values—My dad always said what he meant. He would ask us to return things he didn’t need. This made him the hardest person for whom to buy a present, but we’d always know the truth. My parents didn’t tell me to what to do for a living. They just wanted us to do honest work.

Enjoy the simple pleasures in life—My dad continued to enjoy fireworks, parades and the PNE long after we became teenagers and lost interest. He still loves those simple pleasures.

He continues to enjoy a good meal. He still shares the details of his best meals —from 60 years ago to yesterday. He still enjoys every bite.

Don’t act your age—My dad never profiled or pigeon-holed other people.

He doesn’t judge others by their age, education or appearance, and he never used age as a reason to be any different or act any different from who he is.

He told me that we should keep on working as long as we’re having fun. He still hasn’t retired.

Remember the positive—My grandfather died when my dad was a toddler.

Dad grew up during the depression in the poverty of Cumberland’s Chinatown in an age of racism, but whenever he speaks of the past, there is never bitterness.

He remembers happiness: the joys of his childhood, good times with old friends, the kindness of others and his love with my mom.

Work hard but be generous—My dad worked hard.

He worked to support his mom and family, to pay for his mechanics courses, and to pay for his university education. He taught us to work hard and to do our best by example.

With my mom, dad gave me a gift that he wasn’t given: a home full of music, humour, literature and love.

It’s a legacy that I strive to pass on to my children.

Dr. Davidicus Wong is a physician at PrimeCare Medical Centre. His column appears regularly in this paper.

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The work of volunteers is essential to maintaining resilient communities at home and around the world, and National Volunteer Week (NVW) pays tribute to the millions of Canadian volunteers who graciously donate their time and energy. This year’s 68th annual NVW takes place this week — April 10 to 16. It is Canada’s largest celebration of volunteers, volunteerism, and civic participation.

National Volunteer Week was first proclaimed in 1943 as an initiative to draw the public’s attention to the vital contribution of women to the war effort on the home front. In the late 1960s, the focus was revived and broadened to include all community volunteers.

Volunteers: Passion. Action. Impact. is the theme of this year’s campaign. It is based on the individual volunteer superheroes across Canada who dedicate themselves to making their communities better, and Canada a great place to live.

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Spotlight On: The Vancouver Aquarium Volunteers The Vancouver Aquarium has 1,043 active volunteers, and perhaps you’ve had the chance to speak with some of them.

Perhaps they told you a story about your favourite animal, answered one of your burning questions or helped you to find your way to the next 4D show.

Proudly wearing their blue shirts, volunteers are everywhere, even when you can’t see them! This year, Aquarium volunteers are making waves. Help recognize and celebrate them.

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2010 was a record year for volunteer involvement at the Aquarium. The final stats for 2010 are out and the key highlights of volunteer involvement are as follows: • 1,043 — total active volunteers, interns, work experience students, member volunteers, and corporate and board members involved • 80,994 — total hours donated by all volunteer types • 77.6 hours — the average total hours/volunteer • 17 — the percentage of hours our interns contributed to the total hours

SEALING THE DEAL! VOLUNTEER PAT C. LOOKS AFTER A SEAL AT THE VANCOUVER AQUARIUM.

• 53 — the number of members who volunteered in 2010, mostly at the Marine Mammal Rescue Centre!

Volunteering at the Aquarium offers an amazing opportunity to contribute to the Aquarium’s mission to effect conservation of aquatic life. As a volunteer, you will meet new people making both animal and human friends! Recruitment opened on April 1.

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Chris feels inspired by the teamwork he consistently witnesses at the House. Contributing his time and talent to MPNH has also increased his understanding and respect for other cultures as he has learned from both the differences and similarities of the people who come to the House.

Chris has huge appreciation for the staff who keep the organization alive and vibrant. He has particularly enjoyed chairing the organization’s popular Christmas dinners and participating in the Harvest Festival each year.

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Dr. Ken Haycock emceed and Sybil Harrison organized the B.C. Librarian Association’s Centennial Gala held at the Empress Hotel in Victoria.

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Positive Living Society of B.C. chair Glyn Townson and Global News anchor Sophie Lui fronted the Silver Gala held at the Terminal City Club.

French kiss: The Cultch, Vancouver’s East Side cultural jewel, hosted Paris In Love, a gala fundraiser that featured an evening of French food, music and memories of mid-20th-century Paris and all its decadence. Along with the fine wine, hors d’oeuvres, patisseries and petit fours, gala-goers enjoyed the musical styling of Jessie Award winner Joëlle Rabu. The gala, which raised $25,000, will support the Cultch’s community education and outreach projects for youth and their families.

A la cart: From wrestlers to celebrity impersonators, local photographer Brian Howell casts his lens on scavengers in his latest exhibition. Finding beauty in a binner’s shopping cart, Howell spent a year photographing 45 carts, two dozen of which make up his new show at the Winsor Gallery. The collection of life-size photos portrays the realities of Vanhattan’s feisty entrepreneurs who push shopping carts not along the aisles of grocery stores but in downtown alleys.

New attitude: Marking 25 years of history helping people live with HIV/AIDS, B.C. Persons With AIDS Society presented its Silver Gala at the Terminal City Club. Global News’ Sophie Lui hosted, yours truly played auctioneer and spoken word artist Shane Koyczan headlined the sparkling occasion that saw $100,000 generated for the Seymour Street non-profit organization.

Hear Fred Mondays 8:20 a.m. on CBC Radio’s The Early Edition; email Fred at yvrflee@hotmail.com; follow Fred on Twitter: @FredAboutTown or fredabouttown.blogspot.com.

Aritzia online editor Rebecca Tay and B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS director Dr. Julio Montaner attended the BCPWA’s 25th anniversary.

Finding beauty in a binner’s shopping cart, Brian Howell spent a year photographing 45 carts for his new show at the Winsor Gallery

Measha Brueggergosman headlined James Wright (r) and Jeff Sodowsky’s Vancouver Opera Passionata gala at Bob Rennie’s Wing Sang Building.

Executive director Heather Redfern welcomed community development consultant Jim Green (l) and Richard Prokopenko to the Cultch soiree.

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1. In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the limber dudes and dudettes of Ballet B.C. are teaming up with the Turning Point Ensemble for a program of four new dance creations April 14 to 16 at Queen Elizabeth Theatre. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca. For more info, go to balletbc.com.

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2. Expect to see a lot of pasty audience members who rarely leave the sweet spot of their basement “entertainment lair” when Video Games Live rocks the Centre for Performing Arts April 13 and 14. The multimedia event features orchestras, choirs and rock bands performing music from popular video games such as Pong and Space Invaders synchronized to some nerd-friendly visual effects. Tickets at ticketmaster.ca.

3. Now in its 16th edition, Brief Encounters pairs up 12 artists from a wide variety of genres and gives them two weeks to create their multidisciplinary mash-ups. For instance, garment sculpture artist Benjamin Larose will team up with musician and graphic artist Hank Pine. Intrigued? It all goes down April 14 to 16 at Performance Works on Granville Island. For tickets, go to tomorrowcollective.com.

4. If you scored high on Chunklet magazine’s indie cred checklist, chances are you’ll be at the Rickshaw April 14 when legendary post-punk band Wire comes to town to flog its latest album Red Barked Tree even though you really came to hear songs like “Ex Lion Tamer” from the U.K. band’s bitchin’ 1977 debut Pink Flag cuz that’s the way you roll. Tickets at Red Cat, Scratch, Zulu, Highlife and Dandelion records.

kudos & kvetches The return of K&K’s Canucks playoff haiku The wordsmiths at K&K continue the annual springtime tradition of paying tribute to the city’s cherry blossoms and the Vancouver Canucks’ playoff run with its series of Basho-inspired haiku.

Kesler’s washboard abs reveal a dark treasure trail leading to the Cup

Fed up: the tweet relief edition

With the federal election unenthusiastically slated for May 2 and levels of apathy reaching lows one would normally associate with a Bootsauce reunion tour announcement, it’s no surprise that federal leaders are desperately trying to connect with the uninterested electorate. But a new platform announcement, cheesy photo-op and promise of a new pony every day on the campaign trail doesn’t cut it anymore. Which is why all the leaders, whether they know it or not, are resorting to “engaging” potential voters via social media— most notably, Twitter. Ironically, if you’ve ever wanted to get a sense of just how out of touch the federal party leaders are, just take a look at their Twitter profiles. We did.

• Tory leader Stephen Harper @pmharper Committing the cardinal Facebook/Twitter sin of having family members and/or significant others in your profile pic, Harper’s Twitter pic features him and his family sitting in a pile of maple leaves.

At least they’re not wearing matching white dress shirts and blue jeans. No surprise, Harper’s tweets are as rigid and robotic as the man himself. “We will continue to defend the supply management policy that farmers throughout rural Canada count on.” “I will bundle outstanding criminal justice bills into comprehensive legislation and pass within 100 days.” “The choice is clear: my low-tax plan for families or Ignatieff’s high-tax agenda that will set you & your family back.” Man, it’s like he’s totally speaking—sorry, “rapping”—with the kids. Note to self: never invite Harper to a kegger.

• Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff @M_Ignatieff Thankfully Ignatieff’s profile pic is just a close-up of his sultry, intellectual self. But we just can’t get behind his use of shadow font. By the way, Shadow Font is still available to indie rock bands looking for a name. Unlike Harper, Iggy’s tweets sound like he, or some other carbon-based life form, might have actually written them. Plus he namedrops celebs.

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“We had some surprise guests at this morning’s event in Kingston: Speaker Peter Milliken & Rob Baker from The Hip. Great to see you both.”

“As Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.

Incredible rally in Ottawa with candidates ready to serve.” In your face, John Lennon.

• NDP leader Jack Layton @jacklayton 877 tweets, 11,392 following, 77,244 followers, zero chance of becoming PM. But hey, nice use of orange type.

• Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe @GillesDuceppe It’s times like these when we wish we’d paid more attention in Monsieur Gravelle’s Grade 12 French class. How do you spell WTF in French?

• Green party leader Elizabeth May @ ElizabethMay, not to be confused with foxy Scottish photographer @_ElizabethMay. May’s tweets are casual and mercifully brief, with just a hint of conspiracy theory. “Remember tweet about Manbridge & edits? Yup. Interview was cut. Climate crisis answer removed.”

• Natural Law Party We couldn’t find a Twitter handle for the yogic flyers of Canadian politics. Maybe we need to get our computer’s chakras realigned.

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Jake’s Gift, created and performed by Julia Mackey, has been seen by thousands of school children across the country. I took a pass when it was performed at the Cultch in 2008 (after touring B.C. and other parts of Canada).

I missed it again at the Firehall and the Shadbolt Centre.

I don’t know what took me so long to see this remarkable 60-minute jewel, but it had something to do with the subject: the meetings over a few days in Normandy between a 10-year-old French girl and a Canadian Second World War veteran returning for the first time to Juno Beach where his older brother was killed.

I think I wanted to put that war behind me.

Amazingly, when Mackey went to the cemetery in the town of Bény-sur-Mer for the 60th anniversary of DDay in 2004, she discovered that French schoolchildren were still assigned to “look after” soldiers, to “clean their rooms” and “water their gardens.” Translation: each child took care of several of the 2,048 burial plots—mostly fallen Canadians. The Second World

Julia Mackey plays a Canadian Second World War veteran and 10-year-old French girl in Jake’s Gift.

War and the Canadian contribution to the liberation of France from the Nazi occupiers lives on in the hearts and minds of the French— even if Canadian kids know little, or nothing, about it.

If they’ve had the privilege of seeing Jake’s Gift, they know now.

The play grew out of an intensive three-week Pacific Theatre mask workshop that resulted in a masked production, Mercy Wild in 2002.

Back then, Mackey created Jake, a grumpy, gravel-voiced bookie who had not served in the military but whose brothers had. After Mercy Wild, Mackey realized that Jake was beginning to take on a life of his own and thus began her research. She decided to make Jake a veteran and to attend the D-Day anniver-

sary in Normandy where her next breakthrough happened when she created 10-year-old Isabelle, a composite, Mackey says, of several kids she encountered there.

And what a creation she is: a precocious, talkative, sparky little girl who, under the watchful eye of her “grandmamma,” drags conversation out of curmudgeonly Jake, hardly leaving him alone for a minute. Not put off by Jake’s “goddam” this and “goddam” that, she cheerfully keeps the questions coming. (He didn’t sign up out of patriotism, for example—it was wanting “the goddam boots” that led to him landing on “this goddam beach.”) Eventually, Jake begins to warm to persistent, effervescent Isabelle.

Mackey plays all the roles shifting from throat-clearing,

shuffling Jake to irrepressible Isabelle, rocking back and forth on her toes, as well as Isabelle’s solemn grandmother. In one scene, Jake and Isabelle share a bench and simply by sliding back and forth on the bench, Mackey transforms herself into the two characters. It’s a charming performance and a riveting production directed by Dirk Van Stralen and lit by Gerald King on a very simple stage.

Special guest on talkback night was Anthony Holland, a Second World War veteran, founder of Studio 58 and described by Mackey as “the oldest working actor in the country” (recently turned 91), which led to Holland’s quick but good-natured correction, “the oldest working lead actor in the country.” Holland’s perspective on the war, where he saw action in North Africa, including Libya, was enlightening, and his early support of Jake’s Gift was critical in setting Mackey on this journey that has culminated in Mackey and Van Stralen recently winning the B.C. Touring Council’s 2011 Touring Artist of the Year Award.

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with Cheryl Rossi Theatre Replacement’s latest co-production is all about the clothes.

For Dress Me Up in Your Love, which premieres at the Cultch April 19 to 23, the local theatre company and its co-producer, Oldenburgisches Staatstheater’s PAZZ Performing Arts Festival in Germany, has collected meaningful outfits from contributors from around the world and woven their stories into a performance that explores life, death, celebration, desire and shame.

Performers will dress and undress, using garments, text, movement, animation and song to tell the stories behind the clothes and the closets they came from.

Local drummer Geoff Hicks, who performs with Jim Byrnes, Barney and Dustin Bentall and Colin James, supplied a suit and shoes worn by American actor Stanley Tucci (The Lovely Bones, Big Night)

that Hicks bought from a film set.

Maiko Bae Yamamoto, who dreamt up, co-directs and performs in Dress Me Up, says Hicks wore the suit to all of his gigs in the early days of his career, including those at bah mitzvahs, boat cruises, corporate events and bars. He wore the suit until it became threadbare, using duct tape to hold up the hems.

“At first, it gave him this kind of confidence because it was a suit that Stanley Tucci wore,” Yamamoto said. “Even Stanley Tucci’s sides [lines from a scene] were in the pocket.”

Dress Me Up also includes the lucky salwaz kameer or red and green sari seven married women gave a woman from Bombay in the seventh month of her pregnancy that was marred by dire warnings from her doctor that because of a bisected uterus, she was likely to miscarry or bear a malformed baby.

The show also includes the ratty jeans and T-shirt Ivan Coyote was wearing when she discovered her home had burned down, a dress sent from a wealthier older sister in Japan to Yamamoto’s mother, who

Canadians. The theatre was a box worn on the actor’s shoulders and performances were given for an audience of one who could chose to hear the performance delivered in languages that included English, Cantonese and French.

Yamamoto, who is co-artistic director of Theatre Replacement with James Long, says she can’t resist focusing on biographical material.

“It’s so much easier than sitting down and looking at your computer and trying to make something up.

That’s so boring to me, sometimes,” she said. “I just find that people are so compelling and real stories are so moving because they are real and because they actually happened…

Fake life never seems to be able to live up to real life in a lot of ways.”

Dress Me Up in Your Love includes musical compositions and performances by Theatre Replacement sound designer Veda Hille. It runs at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts in Burnaby after its premiere at the Cultch. It will tour to Europe in 2012 with a presentation at the PAZZ festival. For more information, see theatrereplacement.org. crossi@vancourier.com Twitter: @Cheryl_Rossi

In Dress Me Up In Your Love, Maiko Bae Yamamoto wears her mother’s dress, which she wore to important events in the 1970s. photo Jason Lang wore the dress to every significant event in the 1970s, and a McDonald’s uniform from Expo 86.

“It’s beautiful,” Yamamoto said about the fast food outfit. “We have his little nametag and everything.”

Theatre Replacement often builds performances with biographical material. The Greatest Cities in the World, presented at

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Relationship with women’s team bolstered by controversy

Foodie Stowe(s) her money with ski jumpers Megan Stewart Staff writer

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Before she signed up to sponsor Canada’s national ski jumpers, Vancouver entrepreneur and Paris-trained chef Lesley Stowe had never seen the soaring sport in action. “I’m not a ski jumper, never was, never tried it,” she said.

At a World Cup event she attended in the Callaghan Valley near Whistler on the eve of the 2010 Olympics, Stowe was taken by the demands of competition.

“Not just physically, but the nerve of actually throwing themselves off of this structure. I was absolutely amazed.”

Her relationship with the team formed as the women on the national team were on the cusp of controversy—and history.

The specialty foods retailer and creator of Raincoast Crisps became the team’s financial backer even though the sport was the final hold-out of an Olympic gender bias that didn’t allow women equal right to participate. Indeed, these were athletes who needed all the help they could get to level the playing field.

The young, multinational female athletes mounted a Charter rights challenge in Canadian courts—to eventually lose and fall short of their goal to jump in the Vancouver Games—and yet Stowe had every reason to be pleased with her affiliation with the team. She wasn’t concerned the legal challenge would bring her brand negative attention. She sensed the opposite was true.

“Anything that is cause for equal rights, people [understand] and appreciate that,” she said, lauding the ski jumpers’ diligence, determination and professionalism in their attempt to gain equality on the Olympic stage. “I really have to admire this group of young women. It wasn’t something that they just decided at the 10th hour that they should be included.”

She now stands to discover even greater financial return and brand recognition since the International Olympic Committee announced women’s ski jump will be included at the 2014 Sochi Games.

Although she supports the men’s and women’s national programs, Stowe believes the Canadian women can expect a stronger podium finish, should appeal to sponsors and draw

Hoops all-stars

Kitsilano’s full-court threat Adrienne Parkin played her last game in a Blue Devils jersey Saturday night at the provincial all-star basketball game at UBC’s War Memorial Gym. From the roster of top B.C. talent, she was named her team’s

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Food retailer and chef Lesley Stowe has never ski jumped, but that hasn’t stopped her from sponsoring the Canadian women’s ski jumping team. photo Jason Lang fervent attention from fans.

The sport is feverishly followed in Europe, where male jumpers are routinely compared to NHL stars in terms of popularity, eminence and even dollar-value. “If you’re good at it, you can make a career of it and make good money,” said Stowe.

The men’s circuit is well-developed, and events at hundreds of European jumps continue through four seasons, meaning athletes start young and don’t have to travel great distances to train and compete. In Canada, most of the team hails from Calgary, a legacy of the 1988 Winter Games and that city’s Olympic Park. In comparison to the 2010 Vancouver Games, the ski jump infrastructure in B.C. hasn’t been used since the closing ceremony.

“That’s the problem with the Callaghan Valley,” said Stowe. “It’s sit-

most valuable player.

It may have been the Grade 12 student’s final high school game, but she was playing in her new, post-secondary home. Parkin, pictured on the cover of today’s Courier, will play for the Thunderbirds next season.

She was the lone Vancouver

ting there, it’s an amazing facility but because the team is in Calgary, they didn’t even come out once this year,” said Stowe, who said there’s desire but little cash to build an all-season jump in Squamish. “If you got some people out here doing it, then you’d be able to develop another base.”

With Olympic exposure on the horizon and a world-class training facility a few hours outside the city, Stowe believes Vancouver is poised to draw female competitors to the sport. She’d also like to see more sponsors help finance the team.

“They’ll hopefully be able to attract more young women to this sport and if there are more, there is greater competition and greater chances of doing well,” she said. mstewart@vancourier.com Twitter: @MHStewart

player invited to the girls allstar game, which features only graduating students.

On the boys’ side, two Vancouver basketball players dressed for the senior all-star game Saturday also at the War Memorial Gym. The Tupper Tigers’ Warren Liang, named the city’s MVP

in February, and Vincent Tolentino of the Vancouver College Fighting Irish were selected and played on opposing teams.

The Vancouver junior and senior boys all-star games tip off April 16 at 6 and 7:30 p.m. at Tupper secondary.

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He’d done it before. The tall Frenchman and Whitecaps designated player Eric Hassli had previously stripped his kit and tossed it into the stands following a goal. At home against the New England Revolution April 6, he did it again.

It was his gesture to the Whitecaps faithful and, fittingly, he converted a penalty shot at the south end of Empire Field where the Southsiders congregate, drink, chant and generally revel in the beautiful game and its professional return to Vancouver. Hassli’s action was premeditated, deliberate and rehearsed: he took off his long-sleeved jersey to reveal a short-sleeved one underneath.

For the celebration, he drew a caution.

The yellow card might have been worth it (reckless as that may be in Hassli’s case since his aggression appears unpredictable and unbridled) except it was his second of the match. Already down one man, Hassli put his side short two players. The merriment quickly turned sour. Fans excited by the go-ahead goal and bolstered by the jersey-toss, immediately knew the consequences. League rules prevent footballers from removing clothing or leaving the field of play. Terry Dunfield drew a yellow card in the season opener when he dove in to the stands.

Hassli is accused of being ignorant of the rules, shortsighted of the demands of the close match and simply, somewhat stupid. Now, some Southsiders are paying Hassli’s fine, money that may eventually go to charity.

Disrobing was “a mistake,” in the words of head coach Teitur Thordarson because it ultimately cost the team, and Hassli has apologized. But fans should be elated. He was celebrating them. In French he said he wanted to pay homage to Whitecaps supporters and show his mutual respect. He now has to find other ways to fete the fans, even if he limits his affection to putting the ball in the back of the net.

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Technical Marketing Engineer B.C.’s most innovative pre-cast concrete products manufacturer requires a highly motivated individual to expand our success and provide an elevated level of engineering support to our customers and the engineering community throughout our market.

With over 60 years history in pre-cast concrete products, The Langley Concrete Group, a family owned enterprise, prides itself in being customer orientated and quality driven.

The successful applicant must have the ability to understand the technical aspects of pre-cast concrete products and with confidence present innovative and proven applications to engineers, and other product specifiers.

Working with our staff that has over 200 years of experience in this industry, the Technical Marketing Engineer will help develop and present effective marketing strategies to further the use of pre-cast concrete products in all aspects of underground civil infrastructure construction.

The position entails working with established industry associations and public organizations with the goal of expounding our success in providing practical, long term solutions at the overall least cost for the construction of roads, storm and sanitary sewers, culverts and storm water treatment.

You must enjoy working in a casual environment where teamwork is mandatory and support is provided at every opportunity to make you the best you can be at this position.

Our team welcomes new ideas, fresh input and works by consultation, involvement and feedback giving you the opportunity to learn and grow bringing projects to completion.

Minimum Requirements; 1) Registered P.Eng in British Columbia for minimum three years.

2) Experience in technical marketing to engineers, municipalities and governmental agencies.

3) Training or certification in AutoCad applications.

4) Experience in structural engineering of civil construction products or projects.

5) Excellent written and verbal skills with ability to effectively communicate to individuals or groups.

6) Positive attitude with outgoing personality and willingness to learn and grow.

Our progressive Company offers; 1) Attractive salary and benefits including extended health, life insurance, critical illness insurance, employee assistance program, etc.

2) Future personal growth and development program.

3) Ability to travel, network with other professionals and attend industry training events.

4) Supportive, engaged atmosphere with change minded management group.

Please send cover letter and resume to our Human Resources mikejr@langleyconcretegroup.com

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Must speak fluent English and Korean. Training provided.

Medical benefits available.

Fax resume: 604-421-6918 Email: info@goldentrim.com

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General Employment

Become a Registered Personal Trainer. See our ad under Education. Hilltop 604-930-8377 CITI TRENDS INC is looking to work alongside individuals who have: Brilliant Customer service and interpersonal skills. No experience as we will offer full informative workshops for †applicants. No matter what your career goal, you have to start somewhere. Enjoy the dealing with people but not able to advance or progress in your career? No Worries! We are looking for professional applicants who are available for immediate starts.Do you have good communication skills? Looking for an immediate start? Send resume to hr@cititrendinc.com or cititrendinc@gmail.com.

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General Employment

HOMEWORKERS GET paid daily! Now Accepting: Simple Full/ Part Time Data Entry & Online Computer Related Work is available. No fees or charges to participate. Start Today, www.BCWOC.com

Kingsway Auto Detailing

requires one F/T Supervisor.

Must have experience in anti rust under-coating protection, cut polishing, use of paint, leather and fabric protection detailing and install pin strips and body side mouldings on new and used cars and trucks.

Supervise and assist specialized detailers. $17.50/hr. Apply in person at 290 East 5 th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5T 1H3.

Fax: 604-543 - 8143 or by mail.

Some great kids aged 12 to 18 who need a stable, caring home for a few months.

Are you looking for the opportunity to do meaningful, fulfilling work? PLEA Community Services is looking for qualified applicants who can provide care for youth in their home on a full-time basis or on weekends for respite.

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• Must have reliable vehicle • Must be certified & experienced • Union Wages & Benefits Apply in person 19689 Telegraph Trail, Langley fax resume to 604-513-3661 or email: darlene@valleytraffic.ca

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Hiring honest, competitive, and energetic individuals to fill our various 2011 positions.

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GARAGE SALES

Hotel Restaurant

SUSHIGO in Vancouver seeks a F/T Sushi Cook.

Completion of High School 3 years or more experience in cooking required. $17−19/hr, 40 hrs/wk. Fluency in Korean and read English.

Email: sushigo.ca@gmail.com Fax: 604-677-5943 Zabu Chicken Restaurant in Vancouver seeks a F/T Fusion Style Cook in Korean Cuisine Completion of Secondary School.

3 yrs or more exp. in cooking required. $17−19/hr, 40hrs/wk, Fluency in Korean and basic English E-mail: zabu87@gmail.com Tel: 604-602-0021

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Medical/Dental

MEDICAL OFFICE trainees needed! Hospitals & doctors need medical office & medical admin staff! No experience? Need training? Career training & job placement available.

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Office Personnel

MARKETING & ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Congregation Har El in West Vancouver is seeking a selfstarting, detail-oriented, experienced Marketing & Administrative Assistant for its busy front office.

Responsibilities include: reception and member services, office administration, data entry, website update and preparation of marketing materials. The ideal candidate has 3 years experience in a similar position, advanced computer skills with MS Office programs and social media applications. Marketing experience is desirable. Knowledge of the organized Jewish community is an asset.

Join our small but dynamic team in this full time position. Please send your resume to: Email: ed@harel.org Only candidates selected for interview will be contacted.

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FALAFEL TOWN hiring F/T Ethnic cook. Applicant must have sev. yrs of exp. in Arab Cuisine & high school dipl. $17/hr.

E-resume: falafeltown@yahoo.ca

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Management

PRODUCE MANAGER. Jasper Super A is currently recruiting for a Produce Manager. Reporting directly to the Store Manager, the Produce Manager is responsible for all aspects of operating a successful produce department including, scheduling, ordering, receiving, merchandising, gross margins, sales ratios, expense controls, and supervising the produce department. Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills are essential. Previous produce experience will be considered an asset. TGP offers a competitive compensation and benefit package as well as the opportunity for personal and professional development. If you have the skills and abilities to meet our expectations and want to progress with a dynamic organization, please forward your resume: Jasper Super A, P.O. Box 818, 601 Patricia Street, Jasper, AB, T0E 1E0. Fax 780-447-5781.

Email: humanresources@tgp.ca.

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Retail Sales

F/T COSMETIC SALES APC Global Inc is hiring Salespeople for Sears Canada at: • Pacific Centre • Richmond Square Centre • Metrotown • Brentwood Mall.

F/T, permanent shifts includes weekends. $13/hour. Apply at: arzepa@shaw.ca

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MARKETING REPRESENTATIVE. Our “World Class Acreage Development” is seeking a highly motivated individual to represent our company. The successful candidate must be self-motivated and very resourceful.

Please send resume to: kyle@regalridge.com; www.regalridge.com

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CONCRETE FINISHERS. Edmonton-based company seeks experienced concrete finishers for work in Edmonton and Northern Alberta. Subsistence and accommodations provided for out of town work; John@RaidersConcrete.com.

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Consideration will be given to existing apprentices. We offer a competitive wage and benefit package. Fax: 780-723-7883 or email: fottyd@cil.ab.ca.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

LEGALS

SUDOKU SUDOKU

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS RE: Estate of Nancy May Richardson, deceased.

Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Nancy May Richardson, formerly of Vancouver, B.C., are required to send them to the undersigned at 19327 Davison, Pitt Meadows, B.C., V3Y1A2 on or before May 30, 2011 after which the Estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received. Linda Cumming, Administrator.

NOTICE IS hereby given to Mr. Herb Hoffmann, that the agreement to rent the garage at 10 West 11th Ave. in Vancouver, B.C. is now terminated and you are hereby required to remove your property on or before April 20th, 2011 after which date the garage owners will sell, donate or dispose of the whole content of the garage.

Elizabeth Berezowska and Wojciech Grzybowicz, 10 West 11th Ave. Vancouver, B.C. V5Y 1S5, 604-876-6487

NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS

Re: Estate of Lucinda Harriet Gledhill otherwise known as Lucinda H. Gledhill, deceased, formerly of 2125 Eddington Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, V6L 3A9 Notice is hereby given to Creditors and others having claims against the estate of Lucinda Harriet Gledhill otherwise known as Lucinda H Gledhill and Lucinda Gledhill, deceased, under Section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the Executrix, Lois Arlyne Ledingham, c/o Pryke Lambert Leathley Russell LLP, Barristers & Solicitors, at Suite 500 - North Tower, 5811 Cooney Road, Richmond, British Columbia, V6X 3M1, on or before May 23, 2011, after which date the Executrix will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard only to the claims that have been received. Dated at Richmond, British Columbia this 11th day of April 2011 J. Karen Dylla, PRYKE LAMBERT LEATHLEY RUSSELL LLP Solicitor for the Executrix

NOTICE OF INTENT RE: LIQUOR CONTROL AND LICENSING ACT HOURS OF SALE FOR LIQUOR PRIMARY LICENSE An application has been received by the Liquor Control and Licensing Branch, Victoria, B.C., from 0847569 B.C. Ltd., operating the Palace Hotel at 37 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, B.C., to change the hours of the sale of the currently approved hours between 10:00am and 12:00am Monday to Thursday; 11:00am and 1:00am Friday and Saturday, 11:00am and 12:00am Sunday, to 11:00am and 1:00am Sunday to Thursday, 11:00am and 2:00am Friday and Saturday.

Residents and owners of businesses located within a .8 kilometre (1/2 mile) radius of the proposed site may comment on this proposal by writing to:

THE GENERAL MANAGER LIQUOR CONTROL AND LICENSING BRANCH P.O. Box 9292 Stn Prov Govt Victoria, British Columbia V8W 9J8 PETITIONS AND FORM LETTERS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. To ensure the consideration of your views, your letter must be received on or before May 15, 2011. Your name(s) and address must be included.

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REAL ESTATE 6007

BUSINESSES FOR SALE

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Abbotsford

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Surrey

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6008

Condos/ Townhouses

6008-34

Vancouver East Side

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RE: ESTATE OF HEATHER LOUISE GRAY late of 1109C Lamey’s Mill Road, Vancouver, British Columbia V6H 3P5 (the 'Estate') NOTICE is given that creditors and others having claims against the Estate are required to send them to the administratrix, Jennifer Mauri Gray, at P.O. Box 11130, #3000 -1055 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6E 3R3, on or before May 20, 2011, after which date the Estate assets will be distributed having regard only to claims that have been received.

ADMINISTRATOR: JENNIFER MAURI GRAY SOLICITOR: Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP NOTICE is hereby given that creditors and others having claims against the Estate of BONNIE JEAN SMITH, Deceased, late of 304 - 5750 Larch Street, in the City of Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, V6M 4E2, who died on the 13th day of December, 2010, are required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned Executors Diane Eleanor Brown at 3 - 5260 Ferry Road, Delta, BC, V4K 4Y4, Gillian Heather Wilson at 6527 Maple Street, Vancouver, BC, V6P 5P1 and BMO Trust Company at 595 Burrard Street, 9th Floor, P.O. Box 49500, Vancouver, B.C., V7X 1L7 on or before the 30th day of May, 2011, after which date the estate’s assets will be distributed, having regard only to the claims that have been received.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS Chester Allison Johnson otherwise known as Chester A. Johnson and Chester Johnson, deceased, formerly of 980 Lynn Valley Road, North Vancouver, BC, are required to send full particulars of such claims to the undersigned Executors c/o Owen Bird Law Corporation, P.O. Box 49130, 29th Fl, 595 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V7X 1J5, on or before the 6th day of May, 2011, after which date the Estate’s assets will be distributed having regard only to the claims that have been received.

Doreen Violet Johnson, Garfield Chester Johnson and Robin C. Macfarlane, Executors.

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RENTALS 6505

Apartments & Condos

6505-11

6522

Apt/Condos

Apt/Condos

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6510

6540

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6595

Office/Retail Rent

Shared Accommodation Vancouver East Side

6595-70

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9110

Collectibles & Classics

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9125

Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes

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9145

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Blinds & Draperies

8060

Suites/Partial Houses

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Motorcycles/ Dirt Bikes

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Domestic

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6595-75

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Houses - Rent

6565

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6508

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HOME SERVICES

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Free estimates. 604-736-5791

LAWNS CUT Mowing, trimming & small pruning jobs. Call Andrew 604-708-1152 Ny Ton Gardening yard & lawn maint. trimming, shrubs, hedging, power raking etc. 604-782-5288 ★ SD ENTERPRISES ★ Gardening, power raking, lawncare, pruning, cedar fencing. Free est. Call Terry at 604-726-1931 WILDHORSEGARDENS.CA ✫Eco Garden Care✫ Free Consultation & Estimates.

Call Today! 604-328-4498 YAMATO LANDSCAPING Garden maintenance, Comm & Res. Free Est. 604-761-7109 www.yamatolandscaping.com

Moving & Storage

8220

8240

Plumbing

Oil Tank Removal • • • •

FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.

• Oil Tank Removal • Work complies with city bylaws BC Mainland • Always fair & reasonable rates • Excellent references

For Free Estimates Call

Off: 604-266-2120 Cell: 604-290-8592

Serving West Side since 1987

STORMWORKS

● Oil Tank Removal ● Recommended ● Insured ● Reasonable Rates

604-724-3670

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

Seniors Discount

Licensed, Insured & Bonded Lic. Plumbers & Gas Fitters Over 20 years Experience Custom Renovations to Small Repairs

604-312-6311

ADVANCE MOVING LTD MOVING & DELIVERY EXPERTS!!

Licensed, Bonded & Insured Single item to full house moves We Guarantee the Cost of Every Move Flat Rates always available A+ (604) 861-8885 BBB www.advancemovingltd.com Rating

AJK MOVING LTD.

Moving. Storage. Deliveries Local & Long Distance MOVERS.... Residential.

Commercial. Industrial.

Truck for Clean-ups

garage, basement, backyard.

Vancouver’s West Side Painting Company

Interior and Exterior Painting For Free Estimate Please Call:

604-730-1566

ENTERPRISE Mechanical Systems • PLUMBING • HEATING • GAS FITTING • RESTORATION

Tel: 604-931-7575

Cell: 604-612-4347

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PLUMBERS

Water Lines (without digging) Sewer Lines (without digging) Install. Drain tiles. 604-739-2000

Lorenzo & Son Plumbing & Heating (604) 312-6311 Local Licensed Plumbers & Gas Fitters

BARWICK PAINTING Professional Painters with Guaranteed Results – in partnership with –

B&Y MOVING • Includes all Taxes • Licenced & Insured • Professional Piano Movers

604-708-8850

EZ GO MOVERS

www.ezgomovers.com

MOVERS.CA 604.682.2232

604-263-2530

3 ROOMS FOR $299. walls, w/2 coats of top Cloverdale Paint.

20 yrs exp. Larry 604-961-4391 AAA Professional int/ext painter & wall paperer. Guar work. Free est. John 604-318-2059 (Kits) Barwick Painting Prof. painters, exp. painters, in partnership with Benjamin Moore. 604-263-2530

CONFIDENT PAINTING LTD Int/Ext Specialist 20 yr exp. Reas rates, quality. Licensed, Ins, WCB Jean-Guy 604-626-1975 DJ PAINTING •Int/Ext •Com/Resid •Top Quality 604-258-7300 cell: 604-417-5917

$35/HOUR PER PERSON • 24/7 Abe Moving & Delivery and Rubbish Removal. 604-999-6020 ABBA MOVERS bsmt clean 1-4 ton Lic, ins’d from $35/hr, 2 men $45 hr honest 26 yrs est 506-7576.

AMIGO'S MOVING. Delivery. Storage. No Job too Small or Big. Clean up, Garage, Basement.

Call 604-782-9511

= MASTER MOVERS =

Insured, from $35/hour, 3 ton 604-319-4204

DVK PAINTING LTD. Call Dave Int/Ext. Res/Comm. Quality work.

Great rates. WCB. 604-354-2930 MILANO Painting 604-551-6510 Int/Ext. Good Prices. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured.

Paving/Seal Coating

ALLEN Asphalt, concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187

SOUTH VAN. Mini Public Storage, bus/res. vehicle, motorcyle, furn. Eco Friendly, 604-321-0213

METRO BLACKTOP CO. LTD Custom work for Driveways & new lane Aprons. Repairs/resurfacing. Call Gino 604-657-9936

8220 TWO BROTHERS MOVING Local & Long Distance 604-720-0931 • bc.moving@gmail.com •

drytech.ca RENOVATIONS 22-BUILD (222-8453)

Showroom: 1230 West 75th Ave.

■ Carpentry ■ Flooring ■ Painting ■Plumbing We Do it All. Small jobs welcome, Free est.

Call Robert 778-870-EURO (3876) www.eurostyledesigning.com

Plumbing

★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com

ALMA Building & Renovation New construction, expansion & reno., 604-228-4272

A Eastcan Roofing & Siding Ltd Re-Roof, Repair. Ins. WCB. BBB. 604-562-0957 or 604-961-0324

★ BATHROOM SPECIALIST★ Tiles, tub, vanity, plumbing, paint framing. From start to finish. Over 20 yrs exp. Peter 604-715-0030

A Eastwest Roofing & Siding Re-roofing, Gutter, Free Est, BBB Member, 10% disc, Seniors Disc, 604-812-9721, 604-783-6437

GET OUT YOUR LIST! We do all the fussy little jobs no one else wants to do. Workmanship & Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Est 1983. Ralph 682-8256

HANDYMAN; Reasonable rates.

You name it - we DO it!

Call Peder • 604-339-2419 BATH/KITCHEN Renos, decks, fencing, home repairs. Home Improvment Centre. 604-240-9081 KITCHEN & BATHS Home renovations, 30+ years experience. Call 604-731-7709 Mozaik Handyman Services Ltd Reno painting, electrical, plumb tiling, 604-739-8786..716-8687

A Save on Roofing - specialize in ★reroof ★ repair★ Fully Ins. Free est. 10% discount 778-892-1266 Crown Roofing & Drainage Residental Div. Roofing installations & repairs. 604-327-3086

8255

Rubbish Removal

MOVES BC.COM • No Travel Time Charges • No Minimum Charges • No Job Too Small FLAT RATES ALWAYS AVAILABLE

Licensed & Insured • A+BBB Rating

604-209-6663

WWW.RENORITE.COM Bath, Kitchen, Suites & More Save Your Dollars 778-317-1256

RENOVATIONS General Contracting

Additions ★ Renovations Concrete Forming ★ Decks Garages ★ Bathrooms Ceramic Tile ★ Drywall Hardwood Flooring ''Satisfaction Guaranteed''

NORM, 604-466-9733 Cell: 604-841-1855

604.662.8150

www.jasonsmithbuild.com

Fence & Gates Stainless Steel Door Window & Door Replacement Patio Covers & Sunrooms Andy: 604-719-8689 #158-11782 River Rd., RMD

ROOFING/ FRAMING/ Flooring/ Renos or new construction. Acom Construction. Call: 604-240-1850 Acombc@gmail.com SMALL JOBS WELCOME RENO Kitchen/Bath, Crown Mouldings, Drywall, Painting, Flooring, 604-771-2201, 771-5197 www.dpdconstruction.com Renos, repairs, character home specialty. Dean @ 604-908-4813

8250

Roofing

604-880-6407 Serving Vancouver for over 25 years

All types of Roofing Over 35 Years in Business Call now for Free Estimates

604-588-0833

SALES@ PATTARGROUP.COM

WWW.PATTARGROUP.COM

Tried & True Since 1902

1.877.602.7346

www.crownroofgutters.ca Since 1989

ACE OF TRADES:

Complete Renovations Plumbing, Electrical Master Carpenter, Painting Wallpapering Kitchen/ Bathroom designer & installer. floors Ceramic Tiles Drywall, 25 yrs. exp. $35/hr Mark Local Cell: 778-889-9918 Affordable, Experienced! Bath, Kitchen, Flooring, Finishing, etc. www.toplinereno.ca 604-230-6278

$49

B i n s f ro m 7 - 2 0 y a rd s a v a i l .

John 778-288-8009

10% OFF with this ad www.studentworksdisposal.com

$35/HOUR PER PERSON • 24/7 Abe Moving & Delivery and Rubbish Removal. 604-999-6020 A.J.K. MOVING Ltd. Special truck for clean-ups. Any size job Lic#32839 604-875-9072 DISPOSAL BINS: Starting at $99 + dump fees. Call 604-306-8599 www.disposalking.com

RUBBISH REMOVAL Reasonable rates - Free Est. Pat 604-224-2112, anytime

THE FAMILY MAN Big or Small we do it all.

604-754-8559 or 604-515-0440 WESTSIDE JUNK REMOVAL ✫Best Price Guaranteed✫ We Recycle! 604-266-4444

8300

Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

Quality Home Improvement ★ Stucco ★ All Kinds. No Job Too Big or Small.

604-725-8925

8309

Tiling

A to Z CERAMIC TILES Installation, Repairs, Fair Prices Free Est. 444-4715 cel 805-4319

Visit us online to receive a special discount:

732-8453

Trips start at

JACK’S RUBBISH Removal Friendly, Fast & Cheap 604-266-4444

Call for a free estimate:

RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.

Disposal & Recycling

604-738-7280

#1 Roofing Company in BC Additions. Kitchens Bathrooms. Landscape Const.

Design & Build Renovations

Student Works

KELLY CONSTRUCTION

FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS

★ STAFFORD & SON ★ Interior/Exterior. Top quality work.

Reasonable rates. 604-221-4900

See website for details 604-377-2503

www.VancityMovers.com

Lic. Insured & WCB

LUCKY METAL WORKS

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COUNTRY STYLE General Contractor Complete home & commercial renovations painting kitchen & bath bsmt - decks, fences..Guaranteed:prompt, Call Tom 604-307-5998

EURO STYLE DESIGNING Reliable & Professional

Experienced Movers ~ 2 Men $50 ~

Roofing

Renovations & Home Improvement

www.carefulpainting.ca derek@carefulpainting.ca

8250

Complete Bathroom Reno’s Suites, Kitchens,Tiling, Skylights, Windows, Doors, 604 521-1567

A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A+A

8240

604-537-4140

Renovations & Home Improvement

EW35

All Residential Renovations, Call Rae 604-323-3922 www.rgfinehomes.com

FREE ESTIMATES

604-580-2171

604-723-2468; T. TRAN, New lawns, grass cuts, p/raking, aerating, hedging, pruning. Reliable

8193

Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance

604-261-9697 Est 28 yrs

kawagarden@shaw.ca Res/comm. Organic lawn care & quality compost. 604-831-0140

ALL EXT REPAIRS/REPLACE Fencing, stairs, decks, porches, siding. Call 604-325-4674

MASONRY and REPAIRS •Stone Walls •Bricks •Chimneys •Slate Patio/Sidewalk •Fireplaces & more. George • 604-365-7672

Quick & Reliable Movers from$48 per hour

www.mrhandyman.com

Since 1989

Masonry

● Lawn Care ● Garden Maintenance ● Landscaping

Gardening Services 21 yrs exp.

Tree topping, West & Eastside & Rmd. Michael 604-240-2881

RENOS • REPAIRS 9129 Shaughnessy St., Van.

8175

(604) 875-9072 873-5292

AVANTI GARDEN SERVICES Spring cleanup, new design, planting, etc. Laura 604-264-0775

000-000-0000 604-283-2416

YARD CLEAN-UP, lawns cut, hedges pruned, trees trimmed, power raking, aerating, rubbish removal, gutters. 604-773-0075

www.affordablemoversbc.com

LAWNS • GARDENS • TREES • SHRUBS EST.1994

8185

TwoGuysWithATruck.ca Moving, Storage, Free EST 604-628-7136. Visa, OK

45 We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac

Akasha Turf Grass Mngt complete lawn restoration, aeration & fert. Res/Comm. $79. 526-6305

BONDED & INSURED EXPERIENCED EMPLOYEES PROFESSIONAL, SAFE AND RELIABLE

Lawn & Garden

Lorenzo & Son Plumbing & Heating (604) 312-6311 Local Licensed Plumbers & Gas Fitters

Artistry of Hardwood Floors

Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944

8160

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S&S LANDSCAPING & FENCING

8140

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8087

SMALL

HOME SERVICES

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011 THE VANCOUVER COURIER

drytech.ca ROOFING/ RE-ROOFING Leak Repairs & Chimney Repairs

SAVE $ 604-228-ROOF (7663)

Showroom: 1230 West 75th Ave.

McNabb Roofing • TAR & GRAVEL •TORCH-ON MEMBRANE •FIBREGLASS / ASPHALT SHINGLES, RESIDENTIAL, and COMMERCIAL 35 years experience

Cell: 604-839-7881

PTV HOME RENOVATIONS All types of reno’s, big or small.

20% off Tile. Call 778-235-1772 TAL TILE Kitchen, Bath, Floors Install & Repairs Int/Ext. Free Est. Guaranteed David 604-862-7537

8335

Window Cleaning

White Rose Window Cleaning Windows Cleaned Inside & Outside Gutters Cleared & Cleaned FREE ESTIMATES

604-274-0285

Waters Home Maintenance Window Cleaning, also gutters.

Free est. 604-738-6606

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THE VANCOUVER COURIER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011

this Colour g t e r s n i C r o u l o a E Easter

Bunny

and you could win a really neat prize!

Contest

ENTRY DEADLINE: April 21 at 10:30am 1st & 2nd PRIZE: • Gift Basket from Mall Merchants

THREE AGE CATEGORIES:

Ages 3 - 5 years Ages 6 - 8 years Ages 9 - 12 years

WINNERS

will be notified by phone

PICK-UP & DROP OFF ENTRIES AT:

Sussex Insurance - Kingsgate Mall

Saturday, April 23rd

KID'S ENTERTAINMENT • 1:00 – 3:00 pm The JEPG's Interactive Musical • Centre Court KID’S ARTS & CRAFTS • 1:00 – 3:00 pm Kid's can make some neat crafts to take home!

EASTER BUNNY • 1:00 – 3:00 pm The EASTER BUNNY will be roaming throughout the mall handing out Easter Eggs! Bring your camera and get a picture with the Easter Bunny.

Name: _________________________ Age: ________ Phone: _______________ Postal Code: ___________

Hop into

Corner of Kingsway @ Broadway 30 Shops & Services www.kingsgatemall.com

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