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Main Street intersection punishing cyclists ICBC stats reveal high collision rate Mike Howell Staff writer
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Cyclists were more likely to collide with a vehicle at or near East Second Avenue and Main Street than any other location in the city over a five-year period, according to statistics from the Insurance Corporation of B.C. A total of 22 collisions involving cyclists were reported to ICBC between 2005 and 2009 at or near the intersection, which is not on a designated bike route. ICBC didn’t release the cause of the collisions, type of injuries or who was at fault. “I’m surprised about that one,” said Arno Schortinghuis, president of the Vancouver Area Cycling Coali-
tion. “I sometimes use that but typically you wouldn’t have to because East First and Main is a bike route and Ontario is a bike route. So why would somebody go down Main? I don’t know.” The ICBC data identified the top 10 locations in the city where cyclists were involved in collisions with vehicles. Of the 10, six were along the Burrard Street corridor, including Burrard and Davie, which ranked second on the list with 18 crashes. In July 2009, the city implemented separated bike lanes on the Burrard Bridge, which led to a huge boost in ridership, according to the city’s engineering department. See BURRARD on page 4
Team skips high school hoops tourney amid transfer hullabaloo Tournament organizers question motivation of John Oliver Jokers head coach Megan Stewart Staff writer
A senior girls high school basketball team won’t be playing at an elite city tournament featuring private and public schools this week after their head coach rebuffed the invitation.
The John Oliver Jokers will sit out because their head coach is believed to feel “slighted” after a former player transferred to York House and was allowed to compete without forfeiting a year of eligibility. The York House Tigers senior girls team is entering the fourth
annual Telus Vancouver Girls Basketball Challenge as three-time defending champions. In Thursday’s opening round, the Tigers were slated to meet the Jokers, and the team’s absence is interpreted by one event organizer as a form of protest. “J.O. was supposed to be in this tournament
but they dropped out,” said Ana Lalic, a board member with the Vancouver Girls Basketball Association. “They made a statement and dropped out.” Lalic said she didn’t know the specific reasons Pat Lee, the head coach of the Jokers, refused the invitation to play in one of the rare
city tournaments that sees competition between Vancouver’s top four public and private schools, but she believed it amounted to hurt feelings and a sense of betrayal. Lee did not respond to the Courier’s repeated requests for an interview. See PRINCIPAL on page 4
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Principal defends decision, points to scheduling conflict Continued from page 1 Gino Bondi, the principal at John Oliver said: “Pat is not entering the team because he feels that one of his girls has transferred out of school and gone to York House.” “She is a fairly good player, and I guess he feels that he’s been slighted,” said Bondi. “I think that he’s misunderstood the situation. He seems to think it’s a recruitment issue. I don’t think it was.” Bondi said the head coach didn’t know all the details of the student’s personal situation and the reasons for her decision, which extended beyond the scope of the school and basketball team. “He invested a lot of time in the girl and he may have viewed it personally at first but I don’t think that is the issue now.” Bondi did not characterize the invitation refusal as a boycott or protest. He said the timing of the tournament presented a scheduling conflict.
“SHE IS A FAIRLY GOOD PLAYER, AND I GUESS HE FEELS THAT HE’S BEEN SLIGHTED.” Gino Bondi
David Prissinotti, the athletic director at York House and a board member of the Vancouver Girls Basketball Association, said the John Oliver administration was in support of the transfer student maintaining her eligibility and play for the Tigers. Russel Black, another board member and the director of a popular city club program, said the situation was fraught but that student transfers aren’t uncommon. “Kids switch schools for the reason of basketball all the time.” The student in question is a
six-foot-one forward whom the Courier won’t name because of her amateur status, age and the school’s appeal for sensitivity. The student didn’t receive a scholarship to attend York House, an independent university preparation school, and the school argued her case for athletic eligibility so she could dress as a Tiger. Unlike the majority of cases, York House’s initial request to B.C. School Sports was denied. When the school appealed with additional information about the student’s circumstances, the request was granted. The head coach of the Tigers, Winston Brown, said he understand why former Joker teammates might be upset about the student’s switch. “Let’s be real,” he said. “She’s an impact player. When a player like that decides to leave one program for another, there will definitely be questions.” mstewart@vancourier.com Twitter: @MHStewart
The York House Tigers practised Monday in preparation for the Vancouver Girls Basketball Challenge, which begins Thursday. photo Rebecca Blissett
Burrard Street features high-crash intersections, off-ramps Continued from page 1 The ICBC list, however, doesn’t provide specific dates of collisions, making it difficult to determine whether crashes along the corridor happened before or after the lanes opened. The other crash locations on Burrard Street included the on-ramps and off-ramps at Pacific Street (15), the off-ramp at Cornwall Street (10) and the intersections at Robson Street (10), Smithe
Street (nine) and Fourth Avenue (nine). Schortinghuis said the statistics support city council’s move last October to implement a separated bike lane on Hornby Street. The Hornby lane, which opened last month, links with the separated lanes on Dunsmuir Street and the Burrard Bridge. Schortinghuis said he believed the Hornby link would attract riders who normally
use the Burrard corridor, which he described as busy and dangerous, particularly with the volume of cars, buses and taxis. He also pointed out the ICBC data doesn’t include the number of cycling trips made, for example, at Clark Drive and 10th Avenue, which is a busy bike route. Schortinghuis suggested the 15 crashes at that intersection over five years are essentially meaningless when compared to the large
number of cyclists using the crossing. Jerry Dobrovolny, the city’s director of transportation, said countdown timers will be or already have been installed at the high-crash locations involving cyclists and pedestrians. The engineering department has also restructured to have a branch devoted strictly to cyclists and pedestrians. “We need all the users of corridors to pay more atten-
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riding a bike for more trips, but who remain concerned or apprehensive to do so, and to educate motorists on safely sharing the road with cyclists,” the report said. Schortinghuis encourages cyclists to ride in a predictable manner, use lights and follow the rules of the road. Two pedestrians have already died this year after being struck by vehicles. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter:@Howellings
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If you own a piece of property in the city, you likely received your assessment notice in the past couple of weeks. That means developer Concord Pacific learned how much its nine-acre chunk of asphalt between Carrall Street and the Telus World of Science parking lot is worth. As faithful readers will recall, I wrote about this property in a series of articles in April and May of 2010. What prompted me to write the stories was the seemingly low assessed value of the land, which was $400,000 last year. This year, it’s valued at $400,000 again. Previously, the property was assessed at $192,000—a value that dates back to 2001 and included an additional three acres of land until Concord subdivided its properties in the neighbourhood in 2009, according to assessment office records. The value has translated to several years of low tax bills on the land, including a $4,347.43 tab in
Concord Pacific’s nine-acre chunk of asphalt between Carrall Street and the Telus World of Scifile photo Dan Toulgoet ence parking lot is valued at $400,000. 2009. Twenty years ago, Concord struck a deal with the provincial government and the city to build a park on the property. The deal was part of Concord’s plans to develop the former Expo lands from the north end of the Granville Bridge to the Telus World of Science. The park site has remained idle, except for a variety of events hosted on the prop-
erty, including the Molson Indy, the Cirque du Soleil and Olympic pavilions, including the Maison du Quebec, which paid Concord $1.3 million to use the site. Citing privacy concerns with Concord, the assessment office has declined to fully explain the reason for setting the value of the property at $400,000. But, as a deputy assessor told me when I
wrote my stories, it has nothing to do with the contaminated soil on the site. Last year, I asked city officials, including Mayor Gregor Robertson, whether the city would appeal the assessment. After all, the future Trillium park site on Malkin Avenue was assessed at $18.5 million last year. The reply then was, no.
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This year’s reply? “The city’s position has not changed; there are no plans to appeal the assessment,” said city spokesperson Wendy Stewart in an email to the Courier. Stewart didn’t elaborate, so I can only guess it’s because the city trusts the assessment office to properly assess values in the city. That’s basically what I heard from politicians and some officials last year. But what about the park? When will it be built? Here’s Stewart, again. “In the spring of last year, a neighbourhood and stakeholder process began to look at options for the park site. That work continues. In the coming weeks and months, a broader public process will begin. In the meantime, an update on the park project will be provided to council in the coming weeks as part of a larger report on northeast False Creek.” Concord wants to reconfigure the park site so it can build three highrises that would back up against the Georgia viaduct. If approved by city council, Concord would give up some of its waterfront property to accommodate a longer, narrower park. Park board commissioners are on record opposing the idea, preferring a wider, deeper park site. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter:@Howellings
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Police critic disputes sex crime stats Mike Howell Staff writer
The Vancouver Police Department investigated 626 reports of sexual assault in the Downtown Eastside between 2001 and 2010, said a detective with the sexual offence squad. Det. Const. Shelley Horne revealed the statistics at a forum at the Carnegie Community Centre Friday, where the VPD held its third public meeting in recent months to address concerns about violence against women in the neighbourhood. Horne said police recommended charges to Crown counsel in 124 of the 626 cases. In the cases that went to court, 62 per cent resulted in a conviction, 25 per cent were found not guilty or acquitted and 13 per cent dismissed. Deputy Chief Doug LePard, who moderated the meeting, said the statistics show “a good success rate” when police investigate sexual assaults in the Downtown Eastside, which has the worst violent crime in the city. “We want to bring that to you as a good news story because the success rate is quite high,” said LePard, who spoke to a crowd of about 100 people, including a dozen uniformed and plainclothes officers. Police didn’t provide the audience with data on sexual assaults for other neighbourhoods, but LePard assured the crowd that an investigation has nothing to do with where a person lives but everything to do with evidence. Of the cases approved for charges, Crown later decided to stay charges in 37 per cent of them. LePard said reasons could include not enough evidence or a complainant not wanting to proceed with the case. Louisa Russell of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter challenged LePard, saying it was “a myth” that some women don’t want to proceed with charges. Russell said charges end up getting stayed because of the VPD’s approach to an investiga-
Louisa Russell (centre), of Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter, says it’s “a myth” that women don’t want to proceed with charges. photo Dan Toulgoet tion. “We know, from the women that call us, it’s because the initial police officers who come [to investigate], don’t do an adequate investigation— they wait and talk to him before they even believe her,” Russell told the Courier after the meeting. “So they don’t collect the evidence, they don’t take photographs of the damage to the apartment, they don’t get her medical attention, they don’t take a written report, they don’t get a translator. And when it comes to court, they’re utterly dependent only on her witness statement.” LePard refuted Russell’s accusations, saying Russell’s experience is based on response from one group of women and she “can’t possibly know whether those are the cases where we’ve said that they don’t want to proceed.” LePard said police are accountable for each investigation. And although there have been cases where the investigation “wasn’t good enough,” he said it’s not the norm when it comes
to what he described as challenging cases that must meet a high threshold of factors to recommend charges. “If it doesn’t meet our expectations, then we will deal with it,” LePard told the Courier. “In any case that Louisa or anybody else brings to our attention, and they believe it was inadequately investigated—as long as the person whose privacy we must respect gives permission for us to discuss it with them—then we will answer every question, we will be accountable and if there’s errors made, we will fix them.” Many of the same audience members who attended the Carnegie meeting are expected to attend a forum Wednesday at the Japanese Language School on Alexander Street. The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry organized the forum to hear from residents affected by the tragedy of the missing and murdered women. The forums begins at 4 p.m. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter: @Howellings
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High school students will view controversial portraits Cheryl Rossi Staff writer
Her 69 eight-by-10-foot portraits of Vancouver’s missing and murdered women won’t be shown as planned at the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) next month, but high school students will see some of them, says artist Pamela Masik. Masik says secondary school curriculum was to be built around The Forgotten exhibit and teachers have written her to say they want to expose their students to the works. She plans to welcome tours to her West Second Avenue studio and use the paintings as a catalyst for discussing the status of marginalized women in our society and the role of art. The museum at the University of B.C. issued a press release Jan. 12 informing the public that The Forgotten exhibit had been cancelled. It was to be used as a springboard for discussion by academics and community groups, but the museum realized that “productive dialogue” led by a coalition of representatives from the community and
The Forgotten art exhibit features 69 portraits of missing and murdered women, including Mona Wilson (above). submitted photo academia wasn’t going to occur. Kate Gibson, executive director of WISH, which serves street-level sex trade workers, and a committee member of the Women’s Memorial March, says the MOA isn’t the place for exhibits on sensitive subjects, such as Vancouver’s missing and murdered women.
Gibson says the museum didn’t consult frontline agencies that help women in the Downtown Eastside before announcing the exhibit. She said committee members of the Women’s Memorial March, which marks its 20th year of honouring Vancouver’s missing and murdered women, Feb. 14,
met with museum representatives to argue the exhibit was exploitative. “Some of them, she’s taken an already disturbing mug shot… and slashed them and stapled them back together and added blood to lips,” Gibson said. Masik was living and working in the Downtown Eastside when stories about dozens of disregarded missing and murdered women emerged. “I saw my role as an artist to bear witness to these women,” she said. Masik believes society, not a serial killer, is ultimately responsible for the deaths of so many poor, First Nations and drug-addicted women. “So for me this collection was about talking about things like not having a voice, disposability,” she said. “Of course, I do touch on the violence. Not all of them are painted that way, but I’m trying to convey what happened and if I sanitized it and made these paintings all beautiful, I’m not really telling the truth.” Masik said she was once a member of the Women’s Memorial March committee. She told family members of missing and
murdered women she was painting their mothers, daughters and sisters. Some family members have expressed disappointment that the exhibit has been cancelled, she said. Masik, who funded the project herself, said she won’t make money from the paintings because they belong to a foundation, the details of which she expects to announce within a year, hopefully alongside news of a national exhibition. Masik may have consulted family members of some of the missing and murdered women, Gibson said, but they may not have been those closest to the “hardly forgotten” women. She noted the women had extended families of peers and support workers. The museum cancelled the exhibit at the end of November. MOA director Anthony Shelton said the exhibit was in the works for a year, which obviously wasn’t long enough. He hopes to host a discussion about the exhibit that includes representatives of community groups and Masik at the museum next month. crossi@vancourier.com
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I’m pro-Beaver Lake, the four-hectare two-metre deep wetland in Stanley Park, our city’s evergreen chunk of seaside woods. On Monday, thanks largely to park board commissioner Loretta Woodcock, the board approved an environmental assessment of Beaver Lake (price tag: $100,000) to determine how best to save it from extinction. And why wouldn’t they? One hundred grand is a small price to pay for being green, the mandatory colour of Vancouver politicians. Of course, post-assessment costs are yet to be determined. But they will surely soar like Stanley Park’s majestic blue herons. Nevertheless, according to Woodcock and friends, Beaver Lake is disappearing before our very eyes. The culprits: water lilies introduced to Beaver Lake in the 1930s, and two-legged mammals who jog or waddle around park trails carelessly pushing dirt and other debris into the lake. It’s a natural process called succession. And apparently, it must be stopped. “If we lose Beaver Lake,” says Robyn Worcester, spokesperson for the Stanley Park Ecology Society, “we would lose all of the species that are associated with that natural wetland. Everything from amphibians like frogs and salamanders, invertebrates like rare dragonflies, and birds—lots of birds.” Well, not quite. We’ll lose them on four hectares in Stanley Park. Despite flowery rhetoric about nature and dragonflies, the history of Beaver Lake is de-
markhasiuk cidedly unnatural, crafted not by providence but the cold brutal hand of 20th-century man. Originally a marshy pond, the lake was created in 1929 after 100,000 cubic metres of mud was removed from the pond floor. Beaver Lake was beaver-free for decades. Until three years ago, when two web-footed rodents—buckteeth in front, broad tail in back—magically surfaced in the swampy water. Nobody knows where they came from or why they choose Beaver Lake as their home. (Rumours involving David Suzuki and a midnight beaver dump are unsubstantiated.) After settling in, the beavers sought to dam Beaver Lake’s outflow. Fearing floods, park board workers installed an underground pipe to foil the dam plan. According to the aforementioned Stanley Park Ecology Society, a group of advocates and public relations folk, Beaver Lake will disappear in “10 or 20 years” unless we act now. The lake floor, they say, must be dredged by
heavy equipment to raise water levels. Similar predictions were made in the 1990s. Dire prophecies are nothing new for environmentalists. In fact, the green industry relies on doomsday scenarios. Organizations such as England’s disgraced eco-think tank at the University of East Anglia causally mix research with advocacy to stoke public fears. The mainstream media, in prescient form, parrots interplanetary apocalyptic predictions—in 20 years, 50 years, 100 years—while meteorologists regularly fail to accurately predict weekend weather forecasts on the nightly news. But like I said, I’m pro-Beaver Lake. I hope the two resident beavers make many little beavers who slap their tails among the dragonflies and butterflies forevermore. However, a costly intervention featuring heavy equipment and untold man-hours seems preposterous for a cash-strapped park board, which last month threatened to close public washrooms due to budget woes. Hopefully, after the November 2011 civic election, the park board regains a semblance of sanity and scuttles the Beaver Lake plan before more money is dumped into its muddy depth. And if, as Woodcock predicts, the lake fades into the weeds and the invertebrates move elsewhere, take comfort. In the great history of planet Earth, with its genocides, wars and famines, the natural succession of a four-hectare wetland barely makes a ripple. mhasiuk@vancourier.com Twitter: @MarkHasiuk
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Dead and buried dinosaurs still stimulate and distract In the past couple of weeks, all the news around here seems to have been about assassinations, politics, violent crime, more politics, and housing construction statistics. Normally I would grab one of those topics and tease out some strange thread or historical fact, then build a column around that. Right now, though, it just all seems too grim. So to heck with the news, let’s talk about dinosaurs! One of the great joys of life is reading a paleontologist’s word-portrait of life in bygone ages. The Mesozoic era, in which the dinosaurs dominated, was quite different from our own. Prairies were covered in ferns instead of grass, flowering plants only evolved towards the tail end. The continents were in different places, the seas were warmer and full of giant swimming reptiles with big gnashy teeth. Even the days were shorter. It’s true: the Earth spun faster in the past. The moon’s slow tug-of-war with our planet is gradually slowing down its rotation. Across this landscape walked, ran, and flew not just an ever-changing cast of dinosaurs, but of insects and mammals, pterosaurs, crocodiles, turtles and lizards. The miracle is that this picture of a vanished world was assembled piece by painstaking piece. Watch a movie like Jurassic Park and you get the theme-park version of paleontology: scientists casually brush a layer of sand off a perfectly articulated fossilized skeleton, complete from teeth to tailbone. In reality, fossils are often broken, almost invariably incomplete, sometimes squashed and deformed in weird ways by geological forces, and found in harsh, unforgiving terrain. It’s as if you took the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, smashed it into fingernail-sized fragments, and buried them in a garbage dump. Paleontologists painstakingly dig up piece after piece, and have managed to learn about bits of the painting—a cherub here, an arm there. But most of the marvelous masterpiece of time and evolution remains to be discovered. Just in the past year, there have been several new species
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matthewclaxton named, including the distantlyrelated-to-Triceratops dino called Kosmoceratops, which had 10 horns sprouting from the frill around its face. It looks like a floral bouquet formed from bone and horn. Then there was Tianyulong, a plant-eating dinosaur that may have had feathers. Well, proto-feathers. Or maybe just “integumentary structures,” i.e. bits of skin. Or possibly just plants that were fossilized next to the bones. But hey, we’ll be arguing about it for years. Oh yeah, the arguments. It’s not a matter of just digging up a bone, giving it the onceover, and deciding it’s a new species. There are all kinds of fun fights about which fossils belong to new dinos, and which ones don’t. If a million years from now, aliens dig up fossil skeletons of, say, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Wallace Shawn, will they recognize them as members of the same species? Hence papers that say there are actually a dozen different species lumped under the name Iguanodon, or that three kinds of dome-headed dinos are actually just adults, teens, and kids of the same breed. I know that very little of this matters, in the larger sense. Discovering new dinos won’t cure cancer, it won’t erase the federal deficit and it won’t prevent another season of American Idol. But it gives me a comforting sense that our world is vast, and that it not only contains wonders, it has been making them for ages beyond our comprehension. Certainly, that’s something that news about shootings, political scandals, drugs, gangs and poverty has yet to do. mclaxton@langleyadvance.com
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At least 24 of the 252 units in the Olympic Village will allow smoking. photo Dan Toulgoet To the editor: Re: “Tenants trickling into Olympic Village rentals,” Jan. 5 What with the demand for smoke-free affordable housing, I was stunned to learn that people who are in desperate need of smoke-free housing are going to be shut out of the Olympic Village because smoking is going to be permitted in these buildings. I find it hugely ironic that providing sustainable housing means making sure smokers will get an opportunity to stink up these brand new buildings. With all this talk about “greening” Vancouver, I hoped
Mayor Gregor Robertson would make sure that at least one of these brand new buildings would be designated for non-smokers. Maybe those on a low income should do their part to earn the right to a nice new home and quit smoking before being allowed to move in. As it is generally known that smoking and second-hand smoke are harmful to health, please explain why taxpayers are supposed to subsidize rents for smokers before subsidizing rents for non-smokers. Margaret Reynolds, Vancouver
Transit turnstiles not worth the bother To the editor: Re: “Fare enforcement won’t catch TransLink’s problems,” Letters, Jan. 12. To support Courier letter writer Gudrun Langolf’s assertion that SkyTrain needs more attendants: anyone who would say turnstiles will solve everything apparently hasn’t even been in a station, ridden SkyTrain or doesn’t understand the basics of return on expenditures. Consider the issue of accessibility. A wheelchair, stroller, walker, or passengers with large luggage won’t fit through a turnstile. For them, there must be special gates to bypass the turnstiles. On any system I have ridden, those special gates do not require any proof of payment to open. They are an honour system—open the gate and close it behind you. So what stops the fare evader from doing the same thing? Some systems I have ridden have an attendant to open the gate for passengers who can’t use the turnstiles.
If you must have an attendant at every station, why do you need the turnstiles? Turnstiles hinder the flow of passengers and therefor require more space in the station area. Most of the SkyTrain stations are too small and would have to be enlarged. Even if there is room to enlarge the stations, how much will that cost? Have the people who advocate turnstiles considered a business plan for installing turnstiles? If you do the calculations of the cost of buying, installing and maintaining the turnstiles, the service life of the turnstiles before they must be replaced, versus the current amount of fare evasion, you will find it will cost $2 or more to collect every $1 of fare evasion. While installing turnstiles would make the turnstile advocates feel warm and fuzzy inside, the TransLink budget would be even further in the red. Turnstiles are counter-productive. Dale Laird, Vancouver
Cambie Village plan represents ‘urban blight’ To the editor: Re: “Tower developments threaten Vancouver way of life,” Letters, Jan. 7. I live in the Cambie Village/Queen Elizabeth Park area. The city’s proposed “ecodensification” plan to encircle this neighbourhood with four to eight-storey condos and restrict or alter view corridors deviates significantly from the 2005 RPSC Community Visions plan many of us originally approved. This enclave of traditional
single-family homes is in no way suited to such development. The concept that light rapid transit hubs necessarily equal fertile ground for density increase is essentially flawed, parochial and skewed towards the developer, an unfortunate legacy of successive civic governments essentially run by developers. I’m not opposed to redevelopment but I am opposed to the kind of urban blight represented by this “new” plan. Similarly, the notion held
by some that view corridors (think Heritage Boulevard and Queen Elizabeth Park) can be significantly altered or downright “moved” is myopic to say the least. I’m left wondering (somewhat rhetorically) what is the true motivation behind this “more is better” philosophy of urban densification? And whom will this ultimately benefit? Certainly not those of us living here, raising our families and paying taxes here. Todd Pittson, Vancouver
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Courier editorial staff were finalizing our Friday issue last Thursday, which in an unfortunate coincidence featured a cover story on pedestrian deaths by reporter Mike Howell, when word came that a pedestrian was killed at Hastings and Nanaimo. The bad news seemed worse shortly afterwards when the victim turned out to be a 17-yearold Templeton student. The teenager, Quang Minh Tieu, known to friends and family as Reno, was hit by a gravel truck while crossing the busy intersection earlier that morning. “The investigation is ongoing and our collision investigation investigators are still examining all the data and speaking with witnesses,” VPD spokesman Lindsey Houghton told the Courier Monday. As is typical in such cases, a memorial has emerged at the corner of Hastings and Nanaimo, featuring flower bouquets, teddy bears, white pipe cleaners shaped into hearts, candles and even some food offerings, which I assume is part of a religious ritual. Someone posted a photo of a smiling Tieu. Tieu, an international student from Vietnam, attended the school for two and a half years, according to Templeton principal Ellen Roberts. “So he had many friends and many teachers knew him. For each of these people, and even for those who didn’t know him, dealing with his tragic death has been a unique process, so in planning what we do at the school, we have taken
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The Vancouver Police Department issued a warning to drug users Monday after two women died of possible heroin overdoses and a man almost died after he injected what is believed to be “potentially fatal heroin.” All three cases occurred in the last five days, with the deaths centred around Nanaimo and Kingsway. A 19-year-old woman died behind a gas station in the 2200block of Kingsway and a 26-yearold woman died in The 2400 Motel at 2400 Kingsway. Police learned of the incident involving the man after an officer heard through a source that he was taken to hospital after overdosing from heroin. Location of the man’s overdose wasn’t known at press time. The three people didn’t know each other, said Const. Lindsey Houghton, a VPD media relations
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officer, who noted seized drugs are being analyzed and toxicology tests are being conducted to determine the makeup of the heroin. “We believe it’s been cut or diluted with some unknown substance, based on speaking with the gentleman [who almost died] and what we found at the two death scenes,” Houghton said. “It’s something that we feel is more than a coincidence, it’s something that we need to get out to the public. We need to let drug users know that we’re aware of this and we’re sharing the information.”
Police have shared the news with local health agencies, the Insite drug injection site in the Downtown Eastside, the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and neighbouring police departments. People die of drug overdoses every year in Vancouver, but Houghton said the warning was issued because police fear the type of heroin that caused the deaths could lead to more. “It does us no good to hold on to this information and wait until we have 15 or 20 [overdose deaths], when we could be telling people now and potentially saving some lives,” he said. In August 2005, police issued a similar warning when three people died of drug overdoses within 48 hours. The death toll mounted to 10 people by Sept. 1 of that year. A few weeks before the warning was issued, narcotics were stolen from a pharmacy in the Downtown Eastside. At the time, police were trying to determine whether there
was any connection to the burglary and the overdose deaths. The B.C. Coroners Service investigated the deaths but was unable to provide information on their findings before the Courier’s deadline. As police did in 2005, Houghton urged drug users to use Insite, where the facility on East Hastings is staffed with nurses. Staff at Insite are testing a nasal spray version of the drug naxolone, commonly known as Narcan, at the site. The drug has proven to revive users from an overdose. Mark Townsend of the PHS Community Services Society, which operates Insite in conjunction with Vancouver Coastal Health, said the spray has been used effectively 10 times on drug users. The PHS is considering having the spray made available at needle exchanges and the singleroom occupancy hotels that it operates in the Downtown Eastside. mhowell@vancourier.com Twitter:@Howellings
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The Main host Anthony Sedlak (l) with reigning champ Mike Callaghan at the 2009 Zantac Chili Challenge. photo submitted picks this year numbered more than 300,” said Sedlak. “Followed by hundreds of thousands of votes. It’s completely blown up.” Sedlak, host of The Main on Food Network Canada, worked as a busboy at age 13 on Grouse Mountain in exchange for a snowboard pass. Two years later, he was the youngest cook on the mountain. In 2007, Sedlak competed in, and won, the Food Network’s Superstar Chef Challenge and be-
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HEAR NO EVIL Central Hearing Loss
This least common form of hearing impairment occurs as a result of a problem in the central auditory system. Although the outer, middle and inner ear parts deliver sound signals, they are not processed by the brain. Sound amplification does not address this type of dysfunction.
Conductive Hearing Loss
Conductive hearing loss results from malfunction of the outer and/ or middle ear. Causes can be as simple as impacted earwax, or as serious as middle ear infection, eardrum perforation or dislocation of the middle ear bones. Most of these symptoms can be medically or surgically treated. When treated in time, some conductive hearing losses may not require artificial amplification. Untreatable cases often result in the need for a hearing aid or other hearing assistive devices.
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
By far the most common type of hearing impairment, sensorineural loss is usually the result of cochlear hair cell damage. Sound may be conducted normally to the inner
ear, but the damaged hair cells are unable to ‘trigger’ and therefore cannot send signals to the central auditory system. In most cases those that do ‘trigger’ are damaged and as a result send a distorted message to the brain. Because the cochlea is tiny and the hair cells are microscopic, no medical procedure and ‘reverse’ sensorineural hearing loss. The loss can be aided with amplification, essentially allowing remaining hair cells to respond to the best of their abilities. Common causes of sensorineural hearing loss are: • Age. The most prevalent cause of hearing loss and impairment, age-induced hearing loss, known as presbycusis, occurs as part of the body’s natural wear and tear over time • Prolonged exposure to excessive noise • Hereditary predisposition • Disease • Chemotherapy • Ototoxic medication • Prenatal, perinatal or congenital factors
Mixed Hearing Loss
This is a condition in which both the conductive and sensorineural hearing loss is present. Both the middle and inner ear are affected.
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individuals usually become accustomed to reduced sound information. The end result of listening with impaired hearing becomes the norm, when it is not! The following signs are common amongst hearing loss sufferers: • Frequent requests for repetition • Difficulty understanding speech in the presence of background noise • Complaints about others ‘mumbling’ • Listening to TV or radio at very high volume • Difficulty with the telephone • Frequent inappropriate conversational responses • Denial of hearing loss and unwillingness to be medically tested • Social withdrawal If you suspect you or a loved one may have impaired hearing, call your neighbourhood hearing clinic.
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THE MANY FACETS OF ARTHRITIS by Helen Peterson
The Arthritis Society states that arthritis (‘arth’ meaning joint, ‘itis’ meaning inflammation) isn’t a onenote story or even a few variations on a single theme; it actually consists of more than 100 different conditions. Many of us are familiar with con-
ditions like Osteoarthritis (OA), also known as ‘wear and tear’ arthritis – i.e. the wearing down of cartilage causing pain and stiffness – that a good many people think is the only form of the disease. I’ll admit, I was one of those people. I’d seen the gnarled hands of older folks, or heard people complain of stiffness, or saw them walking with a cane
or stooped over due to sore hips. But it wasn’t until I joined in the recent Joints in Motion event for the Arthritis Society of Canada (www.arthritis.ca) that I really got to know how far-reaching, and complex, this family of diseases really is. Speaking first-hand with individuals who either have an arthritic condition themselves, or were representing family members or friends afflicted – their “heroes” – I was able to learn a great deal, and I want to share their all-toocommon, or at times unique, stories with readers. The common denominator for all these conditions is joint and musculoskeletal pain. Often, that pain is a result of inflammation of the joint lining. But is goes much further than that. Our keynote speaker at the wrap-up dinner, Denni from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, has dealt with a number of issues, the most painful being Psoriatic Arthritis (PsA), which is a type of inflammatory arthritis and an auto-
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immune disease. In PsA, the joints are the target of the immune attack causing swelling, pain and warmth (inflammation) in the joints, resulting in inflammatory arthritis. In most people psoriatic arthritis starts after psoriasis. This wife and mom has endured a lot, but ran the half-marathon in support of fundraising for the Society. (Read more of her story at www.arthritis.ca, news releases). Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is a type of inflammatory arthritis and an autoimmune disease. An autoimmune disease is one where the body’s immune system becomes confused and begins to “attack” the body. In RA, the joints are also the target of the immune attack. Several people on the Joints in Motion team have forms of RA, or are supporting those with more severe cases. One of our coordinators, Tanya, has watched both her mom and sister endure a lot of pain, and medication / therapy options to try to get relief. Tanya’s mom was an avid health nut and aerobics instructor back in the day, but Renaud’s Syndrome, involving the joints of the hands, caused a poor quality of life, until she got some relief through Arthri-
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tis Society programs and by taking pain medication. Teresa, a spunky 50-something from Kelowna, BC, who power-walked the five-kilometre distance, has what I’d call “A Mixed Bag.” It’s taken several years for her to get proper diagnosis for AS, RA, OA and Fibromyalgia. Teresa says there’s a lack of rheumatologists available, for physicians to refer arthritic patients to for various treatments. She’s had to give up sports, but with her cocktail of treatments, she is able to attend Joints in Motion for her fifth sojourn. Way to go! Two participants on the trip, Henry and Betty, are parents of a child with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, or now simply JA (dropping the ‘rheumatoid’,) which is quite different from adult rheumatoid arthritis. JA is defined as continuous inflammation of one or more joints lasting at least six weeks for which no other cause can be found. Arthritis is one of the most common chronic illnesses affecting children. It affects one in 1,000 Canadian children under the age of 16. Dad walked the marathon in six-and-a-half hours for the cause. Kudos.
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And I think a trip through airport scanners must be an adventure for my friend with Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS). In AS, the joints in the spine are the target of the immune attack, resulting in pain and stiffness (inflammation) in the back. The first symptoms of AS typically start in late adolescence, and it usually starts at the base of the spine, where the spine attaches to the pelvis (sacroiliac (SI) joints). This inflammation can spread upwards to involve other parts of the spine, and in most cases it is a genetically inherited condition. As a man in his 40s, he required surgery, and now has titanium rods, pins
and screws up his entire spine, and frequent joint pain all over. It’s life-limiting at times, and he requires infusions of medication to keep him pain-free. This is arthritis? Apparently, it is. So you see, the diagnosis, medication, physical therapy, counselling and other resources required to help the millions of people with arthritis live their lives fully comes at a price. So next time you hear someone has arthritis, realize that the spectrum is vast, and your compassion (and financial contribution) means the world to them. Because at some point, it could be your turn…
The Arthritis Self-management Program is held Tuesdays: Feb. 1 through Mar. 8, geared for people in their 20’s, 30’s and 40’s. Located at The Arthritis Society Learning Centre, 895 W. 10th Ave., Vancouver, main floor, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Cost is $25.00; (includes Arthritis help-book, family member/friend can attend for $10.00). To register, call 604714-5550. Managing your Rheumatoid Arthritis Workshop is on Saturday, Feb. 5. It features a panel of experts and you will learn about rheumatoid arthritis and current treatments, find out how to cope with chronic pain and manage fatigue and discover the value and benefits of physical activity. Call 604-714-5550 for location and time.
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In literature, it’s been said that comedies end with weddings and tragedies with funerals. Since we are all mortal, does that make life ultimately tragic? In the face of death, much of what has consumed our attention and energy over a lifetime seems futile and worthless. Who on their deathbed wishes that he had spent more time at work, more nights drinking or more weekends cross-border shopping? Who after losing someone they loved wishes they had won every argument? The tragedy in life is that we rarely devote our attention to what matters most and that people die not knowing how much they were loved. The comedy in life is that we squander so much time and anxiety over a house of cards, arguing about matters that won’t make a difference at the end of life, and collecting and hoarding things we can’t take with us. Life is limited, and it can be precarious and unpredictable. We are tossed from extremes of hot and cold, wet and dry, hunger and satisfaction. Life at times can be unfair. We and our relationships are imperfect. But all of this makes each day, your life and everyone in it all the more precious. This day will never come again. You will never be this young. You will never have all the people that you have in your life today. Live today. Live fully and live mindfully. But don’t squander the limited hours of this day fret-
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THE COMEDY IN LIFE IS THAT WE SQUANDER SO MUCH TIME AND ANXIETY OVER A HOUSE OF CARDS, ARGUING ABOUT MATTERS THAT WON’T MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT THE END OF LIFE. I remember the kind, loving words of my mother and father, and their wise advice about friends, relationships and life that I still remember word for word. I remember every Christmas Day and all that my parents did to make each one wonderful. I remember my mother’s great cooking, the flavour of roast beef, and texture of roasted potatoes. I remember my mom taking me to doctor’s appointments, and spending hours at my bedside when I was in hospital. I remember my dad suturing a bad laceration on my leg. He taught me how to use every tool in the workshop, how to change a tire and how to polish shoes. I remember the stories and the laughter around the ta-
Pundit and community organizer David Berner begins a talk show on Shaw Cable interviewing local journalists about politics. The show debuts Jan. 21 at 2:30 p.m. and features Globe and Mail columnist Gary Mason who’ll discuss the men and women who wish to lead the B.C. Liberals and New Democrats into the next election. Is there a winner at the gate? The second show’s guest will be journalist Bill Tieleman in studio reviewing the Basi-Virk case. All shows will air Tuesdays at 10:30 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:30 p.m., Fridays at 2:30 p.m. and Mondays at 4:30 a.m.
ble at dinner time. My journal continues with the joys of being a dad when my children were small and the whole world was full of newness and adventure. It continues with the joys of today with each of my children’s unique personalities and their emerging talents.
Buy a hardcover journal from the dollar store, and begin writing today. What are your happiest memories of childhood? What were your favourite meals? What did your mom and dad do for you? What did they teach you? Who taught you how to ride a bike and tie your shoes?
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that make you smile. These are the moments that make this life worthwhile. Dr. Davidicus Wong is a physician at PrimeCare Medical. His column appears regularly in this paper and his internet radio show, Positive Potential Medicine can be heard on pwrnradio.com.
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Megan Follows and Karen Holness’s opening night performance of This at the Vancouver Playhouse received a standing ovation.
Sweaterlodge Unlatched design partners Stephanie Robb and Bill Pechet unfold their oversized fleece sweater at MOV, which is on display until May 1.
Fred Bryan Saddleford and Frankie Harrington carve up tasty sandwiches at Gastown’s newest hot spot Meat & Bread.
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Tourism Vancouver’s Amber Session and executive chef Chris Whittaker fronted the official kickoff of Dine Out Vancouver at O’Doul’s.
Warm and fuzzy: Showing that architecture can be big fuzzy fun, Museum of Vancouver (MOV) was recently outfitted with a mammoth four-storey orange polar fleece sweater for an exhibition that is uniquely West Coast. Design partners Stephanie Robb and Bill Pechet unfolded their acclaimed SweaterLodge. Part art, part architecture and all commentary on Vancouver, the giant sweater made from 3,200 recycled plastic pop bottles spans 26.5 metres cuff to cuff. Packing meat: You certainly won’t mind this kind of meat on your bones. Made with only the finest local produce and ingredients, delicious man-made sandwiches can be enjoyed at Vanhattan’s newest sandwich hot spot Meat & Bread. Cord Jarvie and Frankie Harrington’s hot meats are cooked on site in their Gastown space, carved in front of you and served with their signature homemade mustard. If it’s not already sold out, their mainstay porchetta sandwich is a must. All grown up: Best known as Anne Shirley on the television series Anne of Green Gables, actress Megan Follows made her Vancouver Playhouse debut in the Canadian premiere of This, the off-Broadway hit penned by Vancouverite Melissa James Gibson. Twenty five years later and all grown up, the stage and television star plays Jane, a widow tackling a midlife crisis in this smartly written urban dramedy. Hear Fred Monday morning on CBC Radio One’s The Early Edition AM690 and 88.1FM; email Fred at yvrflee@hotmail.com; follow Fred on Twitter: @FredAboutTown.
Spanning 26.5 metres from cuff to cuff and made from 3,200 recycled plastic bottles, a four-storey orange sweater hangs from the Museum of Vancouver.
Mountain biker Chris Winter of Big Mountain Adventures attended sales manager Chris Ongkiko’s launch of the 2011 four-door MINI Countryman.
A cappella group The X Guys’ Alvin Duong, Cliff Wong, Aaron Chan and Riyandi Tan performed at UBC’s Got Talent United Way fundraiser.
At UBC’s Got Talent showcase, president Stephen Toope and AMS president Bijan Ahmadian’s version of Eurythmics “Sweet Dreams” raised the Chan Centre roof.
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1. Albuquerque, New Mexico husband and wife musical duo Brett and Rennie Sparks, a.k.a. The Handsome Family, bring their dark, funny and enjoyably twisted blend of country and folk to the Biltmore Jan. 19 in support of their latest album Scattered: A Further Collection of Lost Demos, Orphaned Songs and Odd Covers. Sean Rowe opens. Tickets at Zulu, Red Cat, Highlife or online at ticketweb.ca.
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2. The Arts Club Theatre Company and PuSh International Performing Arts Festival presents the surreal adventure Floating, about a Welsh island that breaks free from Britain, literally, and takes residents on a journey all the way to the Arctic Circle. From the inventive minds of Britain’s Hoipolloi theatre company, Floating runs Jan. 20 to Feb. 5 at Granville Island’s Revue Stage. For tickets and info, go to artsclub.com.
3. The PuSh festival isn’t the only game in town as Theatre UBC alumnus Chris McGregor directs Sarah Ruhl’s satirical comedy about a woman who carries a dead man’s ringing cellphone to hell and back. What do you know, it’s called Dead Man’s Cell Phone, and it runs Jan. 19 to 29 at Telus Studio Theatre at UBC’s Chan Centre for Performing Arts. For tickets and info, call 604-822-2678 or go to theatre.ubc.ca.
4. Pacific Cinematheque gets chuffed for Charlie Chaplin as it presents a major retrospective of the comic genius’s feature films and shorts, all in brand-new 35mm prints struck from recent French restorations, Jan. 20 to Feb. 11. Highlights include The Gold Rush, Payday, The Kid, The Great Dictator and Courier employee favourite Modern Times. For more information and show times, call 604-688-FILM or go to cinematheque.bc.ca.
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Recent news that the city plans to expand its army of street food vendors from 80 to 140 over the next four years has K&K’s kabob connoisseurs and taco tasters—what?— feeling “stoked.” And we rarely use the word “stoked,” unless we’re carving some tasty waves—which we never do. What we’re not particularly stoked about, however, is the additional news that the city plans to apply “minimum nutritional standards” to the food carts it licenses. According to an article in the Vancouver Sun, the city wants a variety of street food choices besides sodium-rich hot dogs and deep-fried bacon satchels stuffed with bacon, which was K&K’s rejected street vendor proposal. Seriously, how cool would it be to have an allbacon food cart called Bacon Care of Business? “Our goal is to provide more diverse, healthier food options on the street. It’s not just about providing healthy foods, it’s about diversity, improved food access and affordability,” said deputy city manager Sadhu Johnston who may or may not have been using Quotey, the city’s automated bureaucratic talking point generator. Sadly, even normally no-nonsense Vision
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Coun. Andrea Reimer doesn’t have a problem with the city acting as nutrition police. “If somebody wants to sell a deep-fried Mars bar or whatever, that’s their prerogative. But when you are using public streets or public space or land to sell food on, I think you should be using it to promote the goals of the public body and one of our goals is around nutritional outcome,” she told the Sun. But setting goals around “nutritional outcome” can also be a slippery slope. First it’s hot dogs and deep-fried bacon satchels stuffed with bacon, then it’s pulled pork that wasn’t pulled lovingly enough or mini doughnuts that weren’t raised on organic, free-range mini doughnut farms and dusted in fairtrade icing sugar. And before you know it, we’re all living in heavily secured yoga camps getting our chakras realigned while being force-fed wheatgrass shakes and goji berries. Just the thought of it is making our sodium levels and hypoglycemic index plummet. Not to mention the blurred vision and all encompassing feeling of dread. Quick… someone hand us a KFC Double Down… we can’t feel our legs, anymore… why is it so cold all of a sudden? … what’s that white light in the distance? … Granny, is that you?... those cookies smell so delicious…
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Megan Follows and Karen Holness appear in Melissa James Gibson’s play This.
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A line mid-play and thrown away by an underdeveloped character in This grabbed me: “This,” indicating a file that contains, presumably, details of yet another Third World country in peril, “is upsetting,” snarls Jean-Pierre. “This,” scornfully indicating his shallow, self-absorbed friends, “is dinky.” But This goes on well after JeanPierre (Fabrice Grover), a physician with Doctors Without Borders, delivers that stinger and walks out on his friends. It’s only one idea—and not the central one—playwright Melissa James Gibson is working on. Had that been her focus, I would credit her with sucking us all in with crisp, funny dialogue, crackling wordplay, jazzy music and then forcing us to re-examine what’s really important: characters Merrell and Tom’s baby who only sleeps 15 minutes at a time or babies dying of AIDS in faraway places? Jane and Tom’s infidelity or the epidemic of rapes in Rwanda? But the play goes on to make anoth-
er, different point about surviving the death of a husband and getting on with serving the needs of the living—in this case, a child. And that’s a worthy—if less earth shattering—theme, too. The play opens with Tom (Todd Thomson) insisting on playing a parlour game. Friend and dinner guest Jane (Megan Follows) reluctantly agrees to leave the room while the rest of them—Tom, Merrell (Karen Holness), Jean-Pierre and another friend Alan (Dmitry Chepovetsky)—make up a story. However, they only pretend to make up a story. Asking questions that can only be answered with “yes” or “no,” Jane is supposed to figure it out. Of course, she ends up revealing her own, inner drama and when she catches on, she leaves angrily. It feels like a contrived opener, but the playwright cleverly repeats the game later—only the second time it’s for real. Gibson doesn’t make it easy to invest in these characters. Merrell dithers over the condition of the water filter in the kitchen, Tom is a lout and Jane is decent but distant. Follows eventually breaks through her character’s carefully built shell when Jane confronts the irrevocability of death; I was deeply moved by Follows’ performance at that point, but it comes late. While we don’t especially relate to Alan, he’s a clever dramatic device: he has a neurological condition that gives
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him perfect recall of every conversation he’s ever heard. So when Tom and Merrell replay an argument they had in Alan’s presence, he corrects them on exactly what was said. Chepovetsky takes the role, does a Woody Allen on it and makes this urban drama extremely funny. Directed by Amiel Gladstone, these are all strong performances. Grover might have brought more depth—or at least the suggestion of depth—to Jean-Pierre, but to be fair, the playwright doesn’t give him much to work with. Holness, as new mother/lounge singer Merrell, really is a jazz singer so it’s a treat to see her move over to the grand piano stage left and sing the playwright’s lyrics to music written for this production by Peter Eldridge. Alison Green’s set is awkward with Jane’s apartment set like a box above Merrell and Tom’s living room. In the play’s final moments when our hearts should be going out to Jane, Follows is too far away for the moment to be intimate. This multitude of reservations aside, I liked—and admired—This a lot. I laughed, Chepovetsky is terrific and seeing Follows—after years of seeing her as Anne of Green Gables—is informative and satisfying. She’s a mature, consummate actor. And if Gibson didn’t write the play I really wanted, that’s my problem. joled@telus.net
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Adrienne Wong travels through the city immersed in her own iPod “soundscapes,” picking up and projecting stories around her. Her daily experiences are part of the inspiration for PodPlays—The Quartet, running Jan. 21 to Feb. 6 as part of the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. The site-specific radio plays will take participants on aural, physical and imaginative journeys through Gastown, along the Burrard Inlet waterfront and downtown with four plays created by different artists. Audience members will experience the same four plays in the same order, departing every five minutes in pairs with walking cues in PodPlays and a map of the routes. “Part of our vision for this project is that it’s an intimate experience,” Wong said. “You’re not out there with 50 people tromping around and obviously identifiable... We’re asking our audiences to be brave and to walk in someone else’s shoes for a little while and look at the city through their eyes.” Look Up, written by Wong, with music by Joelysa Pankanea, starts at the top of the spiral stairs in SFU Woodward’s atrium and traces the unravelling of a relationship between two people,
conjuring different landmarks in a relationship that correspond to physical landmarks. Five Meditations on the Future City, by Proximity Arts, takes walkers across the bridge at the foot of Main Street and into Crab or Portside Park. It explores notions of time. “Where does the past start, where does the future begin and what does it mean to be in this thing we call the present,” Wong said. David McIntosh’s Portside Walk starts at West Waterfront Road and muses on our relationship to the land and notions of regret. It ends at the Olympic Plaza. Participants become voyeurs during Martin Kinch’s G…Cordova, which follows a son who’s walking down the street with his elderly mother, trying to convince her to see a doctor about her failing memory. It ends at the fountains on the north side of the Vancouver Art Gallery. Wong, co-artistic producer of Neworld Theatre with Marcus Youssef, and Kinch, executive director and literary manager of Vancouver’s Playwrights Theatre Centre, conceived the PodPlays project. “What I hope for people who are familiar with the territory is that they are able to see it in a different way, with a new perspective, through the filter of this artist’s visioning or their imagining,” Wong said. “Because for me, the loftiest philosophical point of this work is that it’s a way of cultivating empathy or the ability to see through another
person’s eyes, which I think is really important for a society to function peacefully.” She notes PodPlay audience members can’t be passive. “When I take people out on the walk, because they don’t know where they’re going, they have to listen really carefully, the audience is really in the present,” Wong said. “They’re not thinking about what they’re going to make for dinner because they know that they’re going to get a cue and they’re going to have to act on it... They’re not just sitting in chairs in the dark.” Writer and poet Hari Alluri has created another PodPlay that will be presented to celebrate the city’s 125th anniversary in July. Wong says Neworld and PTC will commission “7.5” more PodPlays to bring the total number to 12.5, one PodPlay for each decade of the city’s official existence. Neworld and PTC hope to see 125 PodPlays produced to celebrate the city’s 125th anniversary, and workshops for Vancouver residents are planned in the coming months. Those who want to attend the PodPlays must book with Neworld Theatre at 604-602-0007 or email podplays@neworldtheatre. com. They’ll be given an exact departure time and instructions on how to download the MP3 files or where they can borrow a listening device. The walk takes up to 70 minutes. For more information, see pushfestival.ca. crossi@vancourier.com
Adrienne Wong created one of the four PodPlays participants will hear as they walk through Gastown, along the Burrard Inlet photo Dan Toulgoet waterfront and downtown.
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A flexible 34-year-old Joseph Goodhead, shown here practising the scorpion pose, says this week’s yoga competition isn’t about beating photos Rebecca Blissett the other person but improving yourself.
Yoga competition shaping up to be a downward dog fight Megan Stewart Staff writer
A hatha competition coming to Vancouver this week begs the question: can you win at yoga? Competitive yoga is on the rise but still doubted and even scorned by many in Vancouver where the practice is largely associated with meditation, well-being and personal growth rather than the competitive rivalries of sport. But for Vancouverite Brad Colwell, president of the Canadian Federation of Yoga and the director of the Western Canadian Hatha Yoga Championships, the spirit of competition is aimed at self-betterment above bettering everyone else. “The purpose of the hatha yoga championship is not to beat your opponent, but to improve yourself,” he said. Colwell is the owner of a Bikram yoga studio at Metrotown and says the exercise, known also as hot yoga because the practice space is heated to more than 40 C, has close ties to competitive yoga. The regional yoga qualifier begins at noon on Saturday at Vancouver’s South Hall (8273 Ross St.) and competitors will advance to the national finals for a chance to represent Canada at
the eighth annual world championships in L.A. this summer. Established by the World Yoga Federation, a non-profit organization run by the founders of Bikram yoga, and supported by a growing number of national federations, those like Colwell who promote competitive yoga also want it included as an Olympic sport. In a November interview with the New York Times, Rajashree Choudhury, the spouse of the man named for the copy-written series of 26 Bikram postures, said the inclusion of yoga in future Summer Games “is our dream.” For the co-owner of Semperviva Yoga, a West Broadway studio and teacher training centre, the concept of Olympic yoga is “weird.” “It’s a bit unfortunate because I think it scares people away,” said Gloria Latham. The most fit may stand to benefit, she said, but added that an emphasis on physicality alone can be intimidating and detracts from the primary benefit of yoga, which she said is breath work. “If I can’t put my foot behind my head, then I don’t belong here,” is one self-conscious doubt Latham does not want to see gain traction as competition drives a sense of
contest and panders to ego. “It makes you completely physically focused,” she said. “I don’t think you can benefit from yoga by focusing on only one aspect of the practice.” Another Vancouver yoga studio owner and teacher trainer dismissed competition altogether. When shakti mhi was invited to participate in the Western Canadian Hatha Yoga Championships, she put the letter on her blog—along with a scathing reply. “How can ‘hatha yogis’ and ‘championship’ be beside each other in one sentence, let alone in one room? I guess the biggest winner will be the biggest fool that believes the discipline of hatha yoga is for the purpose of showing off,” wrote the founder of the Prana Yoga Teacher College. Colwell understands the skeptics. He says he used to be one. “Yoga is a very tranquil, peaceful way to connect with yourself through, we’ll say, an exercise or spiritual regime. I agree. “Now we simply use [competition] as a demonstration or as an exhibition of the best of yoga.” Competition is popular in India, where it was formalized in the late 1980s. The Yoga Federation of India has categories that distinguish
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Enthusiastic predictions of a pajama-clad workforce linked electronically and commute times reduced to the distance between the bed and the dining room table have yet to materialize, a new Statistics Canada report suggests. The ranks of Canadians working from home over the last decade have grown only slightly, increasing from 1.4 million people in 2000 – or 10.2 per cent of the workforce – to 1.8 million in 2008, or 11. 2 per cent of all workers. However, those who work from home
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Notice to Creditors and others having claims against the estate of ALICE AUDREY KENNEDY, deceased October 27, 2010, that the particulars of the claims should be sent to the Administrator at 3875 West 4th Ave. Vancouver, BC, V6R 4H8 on or before February 18, 2011, after which date the Administrator will distribute the estate among the parties entiltled to it, having regard to the claims of which the Administrator then has notice NOTICE TO CREDITORS AND OTHERS Re the Estate of LINDA MARY GERTRUDE STEFANSON otherwise known as LINDA MARY G. STEFANSON, LINDA M. STEFANSON and LINDA STEFANSON, Deceased, who died on on June 23, 2010 at Vancouver, British Columbia Creditors and others having claims against the Estate of LINDA MARY GERTRUDE STEFANSON, otherwise known as LINDA MARY G. STEFANSON, LINDA M. STEFANSON and LINDA STEFANSON, late of late of 5024101 Yew Street, Vancouver, BC, V6L3B4, are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be send to the Executor, c/o 2900- 550 Burrard Street, Vancouver, V6C 0A3, (Attention: ANNA LAING) on or before February 15, 2011, after which date the Executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to to the claims of which the Executor then have notice.
NO. NEW-S-S-127854 NEW WESTMINSTER REGISTRY IN THE SUPREME COURT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA BETWEEN: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA PLAINTIFF AND: BRAD DAVIS a.k.a. BRAD CRAIG DAVIS DEFENDANT TO: THE DEFENDANT, BRAD DAVIS a.k.a. BRAD CRAIG DAVIS
TAKE NOTICE THAT on December 7, 2010 an order was made for service on you of a Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim issued from the New Westminster Registry of the Supreme Court of British Columbia in proceeding number NEW-S-S-127854 by way of this advertisement. In the proceeding, the plaintiff claim(s) the following relief against you judgment for $28,328.81 plus interest and costs. You must file a responding pleading within the period required under the Supreme Court Civil Rules failing which further proceedings, including judgment, may be taken against you without notice to you. You may obtain, from the New Westminster Registry, at 651 Carnarvon Street, New Westminster, British Columbia, a copy of the Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim and the order providing for service by this advertisement. This advertisement is placed by Hamilton Duncan Armstrong & Stewart, Barristers & Solicitors whose place of business and address for service is 1450 Station Tower Gateway, 13401 – 108 Avenue, Surrey, B.C. V3T 5T3. [File no. 10-14024].
RENTALS 6505
Apartments & Condos
QUIET BUILDING, large 1 & 2 bdrm apt w/balc, ht, hw, cable, prkg, locker, coin laund, elev, steps to all transit & shops, NO SMOKING, NO PETS frm $940. Rmd 604-241-3772
6508
Apt/Condos
MOVE-IN BONUS
GEORGIAN TOWERS
6508
Apt/Condos
204- 5725 Agronomy Rd. UBC 2 br corner, 2 bath, 900sf, granite, balc. lease, ns, np, $2300, now, Eric 604-723-7368 Prop Mngt BEAUTIFUL SUITES Marpole area. Bach, 1 & 2 BRs. Newer kitchens & baths. H/W flrs, balcony/patio. $800 & up. Incl heat, h/water, 2 appl. 604-327-9419.
1450 WEST GEORGIA ST.
1 & 2 bedrooms
starting from $1150 Heart of Downtown, easy transit access. Large gym, laundry on every floor, dishwashers in all suites, in/outdoor parking.
RENTALS 604-669-4185 rentals@capreit.net www.caprent.com
1 BR, Kerrisdale, newly reno’d, 750sf, 5 appls incld wd, large patio, ug prkg, heat incld, ns, avail now $1200, 604-732-3989
To advertise call 604-630-3300
5505
1105-1146 Harwood St 1Br, 1 bath, shared wd, 500sf, leave, np, ns, avail now, $1100. Eric 604-723-7368 RP Prop Mngt
5505
LAWYER REFERRAL Service matches people with legal concerns to a lawyer in their area. Participating lawyers offer a 30 minute consultation for $25 plus tax. Regular fees follow once both parties agree to proceed with services. 604-687-3221 (Lower Mainland) or 1.800.663.1919 (Outside LM).
Spacious 1, 2 & 3 BR Rental Apartments & Townhouses. Heat, hot water & lrg storage locker included. Many units have spacious patios & balconies with gorgeous views. Tasteful gardens, swimming pools, hot tub, gym, laundry, gated parking, plus shops & services. Near Oakridge Centre, Canada Line stations, Langara College, Churchill High School & more. Sorry no pets. www.langaragardens.com
Call 604-327-1178
info@langaragardens.com Managed by Dodwell Strata Management Ltd.
HOME SERVICES 8055
Cleaning
7005
Body Work
ABSOLUTELY the ultimate full body massage. Female avail 8am - late. in/out. 604-771-4210 Chinese Full bodywork, gentle or deep tissue 15 yr exp’d Mon-Sat Call 604-329-8218. SE Burnaby DEEP TISSUE Massage. Shoulder/feet/body. By Japanese College masseuse. 7 days/ week. Morning discount. 778-588-0946
**RELIEVE ROAD RAGE**
604-739-3998
7010
Personals
GENTLEMEN! Attractive discreet, European lady is available for company 604-451-0175
Clean Sweep?
QUALITY CLEANING. Exc refs. Res/com. Move in/out. Carpets + pressure wash’g. 778-895-3522
Specializing in drywall & textured ceiling repairs, drywall finishing, stucco repairs, painting. Fully insured.
Computer Services
COMPUTER SOLUTIONS 604-721-8434.. 15 yrs experience Cert. Prof. aplusconnectivity.ca
8060
Concrete
Coastal Concrete
PLACING & Finishing • Forming • Site Prep • Old Concrete Removal • Excavation & Reinforcing • Re-Re Specialists 30 Years Exp. • Free Estimates
Rick: 604-202-5184
A. FOUNDATIONS, Retaining walls, Stairs, Driveways, Sidewalks. Any concrete project. Free ests. Call Basile 604-617-5813 CONCRETE & MASONRY Stairs, foundation, sidewalks & driveway + blocks, bricks & stonework. Tom 604-690-3316 CONCRETE SPECIALIST, patio sidewalk, driveway, exposed aggregate reas rate 604-764-2726 L & L CONCRETE. All types: Stamped, Repairs, Pressure Wash, Seal Larry 778-882-0098
Drainage
Crown Roofing & Drainage Residental Div. Roofing installations & repairs. 604-327-3086 DRAINAGE, SEWER & WATER Underground Video Inspection Call Tobias 604 782-4322
604
630.3300
Drywall
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
8073
Sell it in the Classifieds!
8075
H.C. Office / House Cleaning Quality & Experience. Bonded & Insured. 604-725-0856
8058
Introducing the
NEW
Buying or Renting, find a great place to call home.
J.A. CONSTRUCTION
604-916-7729 JEFF
★ COMPLETE DRYWALL ★ By certified tradesman. Small jobs pref. 604-762-4024 *Drywall * Taping * Texture * Stucco*Painting * Steel stud framing Quality Home 604-725-8925 PATCHING, TEXTURE / smooth ceilings, plaster walls. Small jobs. 25 years exp. Call 604-671-9901
8080
Electrical
#1 A-CERTIFIED Lic. Electrician. New or old wiring. Reasonable rates. Lic #11967. 604-879-9394
#1167 LIC Bonded. BBB, lrg & sm jobs, expert trouble shooter, WCB, low rates, 24/7. 617-1774. A. LIC. ELECTRICIAN #19807 Semi-retired wants small jobs only. 604-689-1747, pgr 604-686-2319 A Lic’d. Electrician #30582. Rewiring & Reno, Appliance/Plumbing. Rotor Rooter & Hydro Pressure Jetting Service, 604-255-9026 - 778-998-9026 Free Estimates / 24 Hr Service ABACUS ELECTRIC.ca Lic Elect Contr 97222. 40 years exp. 1 stop! Reas. rates! BBB. 778-988-9493.
Electrician Lic#95323, Bonded, Affordable Com/Res. No Job too small. 25 yrs exp. 604 727-2306 LIC. ELECTRICIAN #37309 Commercial & residential renos & small jobs. 778-322-0934. YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 service call. Insured. Lic # 89402. Fast same day service guaranteed. We love small jobs! 604-568-1899
8087
Excavating
# 1 BACKHOE, EXCAVATOR & BOBCAT
MINIMUM AD SIZE IS 1 COL X 1” — UNTIL MARCH 31, 2011
604-630-3300
6515
Duplexes - Rent
3 BR SXS 2 lvl, 2.5 bath,l/room, kitchen, rec rm, ldry, storage, 5 appl, gas fp, dbl garage, deck mtn view, no subleasing. $2,000 +utils 1st Feb. np, ns. 604-329-0699
6522
Furnished Accommodation
12TH & Quebec, Clean, Quiet, furn’d room, lady only, n/s, n/p, $425 incls utls. 604-576-1746 HOMAWAY INNS Specializing in furn accom in the Westend Vancouver at reas rates. call 604-684-7811 or visit www.homawayinns.com
6540 LANGARA GARDENS 601 West 57th Ave, Van
Legal/Public Notices
Houses - Rent
3 Bdrm Homes! Rent TO OWN! Poor Credit Ok, Low Down. Call Karyn 604-857-3597 STOP RENTING-RENT TO OWN ● No Qualification - Low Down ● COQUITLAM - 218 Allard St. 2 bdrm HANDY MAN SPECIAL!!! HOUSE, bsmt/2 sheds....$888/M NEW WEST- 1722-6th Av 2 bdrm HOUSE w/1 suite 2 f/p,Long term finance, new roof, RT-1..$1,288/M SURREY- 6297 134 St. Solid 5 bdrm HOUSE w/2 bdrm suite on 1/4 acre lot with views... $1,688/M CHILLIWACK - 9557 Williams, 3 bdrm, 1 bath, cozy HOUSE on 49x171’ lot, excellent investment property in heart of town..... $888/M Call Kristen today (604)786-4663 www.HomeBuyingCenter.ca
6545
Housesitting
TAKE CARE of your home as you would or better housesitting, care of pets, plants Mature, reliable, ref’s 778-554-6091
6595
Shared Accommodation
6595-15
South Burnaby
BBY, S. Friendly female seeks a roommate to share ½ duplex near Metrotown. Accomodations include furnished room, hydro/ cable/’net. Sh’d laundry. NS/NP. $550/mo. Immed. 604-722-6701
6595-20
Coq./Poco/ Port Moody
ROOMMATE NEEDED to share 1800 sqft Townhouse in Port Moody, w/d, laminate floors, $585 incls utils, cable & internet, parking, indoor pool, nr SFU & Lougheed Mall. Suits professional working person or student. References Required. Avail Now. Call 778-846-5275
6595-75
Vancouver West Side
1 BR lrg bright in 2 br grd lvl ste, full bath, w/d, $465 & shar’d utils. Priv ent, patio/garden ns. 33rd& Fraser. Feb 1st 604-875-8882
one mini, drainage, landscaping, stump / rock / cement / oil tank removal. Water / sewer line, 24 hours Call 341-4446 or 254-6865
6602
Suites/Partial Houses
2 BDRM main flr ste, $850, Renfrew & Charles, priv entry, laundry, big kitc,no pets/smokers, Brand New. 604-908-9726 2 BR bsmt ste, renovated bright, own wd, new appl, nr bus, shops/ schools, ns np $900 avail now. PNE area 604-737-0164
2 BR upper main flr. 57 & Knight area, large storage & garage, washer only, ns, np, $1100+utils, avail now, 604-763-2672 3 BDRM g/l bsmt ste, bright, clean, spacious, $1300 inc hyd, cbl, w/d, nr amens, Fraser/30th, n/s, cat ok, Feb 1, 604-879-9244 KERRISDALE, MODERN 1 br garden ste, 48th & Yew. all appl, incl w/d, alarm, nr bus, shops, UBC, suit quiet person, N/S N/P, avail Feb 1 $975. 604-250-1522
6605
Townhouses Rent
KERRISDALE, 5773 Yew St. 2 BR, 1.5 bath t/home, carpets, fp, laundry, secure ug prkg, 5 appls, avail now, np, ns, 1 yr lease, $1575, 604-220-5333
Find your perfect home at
househunting.ca
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011 THE VANCOUVER COURIER
HOME SERVICES 8105
Flooring/ Refinishing
THE ART OF HARDWOOD FLOORS Installations Refinishing & Repairs Dust Free. Affordable Rates! Free Estimates.
Call: 604-240-3344
8150
Kitchens/Baths
Counter Tops, Custom Cabinets & Refacing • In business 50 years 604-879-9191
Superior Cove Tops & Cabinets
#3 - 8652 Joffre Ave, Burnaby
ALLNEWFLOORS.COM Hardwood, Laminate. Professional Install/Refinish.. 604-715-8455
8155
ANYTHING IN WOOD Hardwood flrs, install, refinishing. Non-toxic finishes. 604-782-8275
FULL SERVICE Landscaping www.sterlinglandscaping.ca Free estimates! 604-985-2545
Landscaping
★ Greenwave Landscapes★ Complete Garden Maintance & Edible Solutions 604-317-3037
Artistry of Hardwood Floors
Refinish, sanding, install, dustless Prof & Quality work 604-219-6944 Century Hardwood Floors ★Hardwood flr refinishing ★Repairs ★ Staining ★ Free Estimate. Contact 604-376-7224 INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices. Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508
8120
Glass Mirrors
ANGEL GLASS, Comm/Residential, store fronts, windows & doors, custom shower & tub enclosures, patio doors, mirrors etc. 2837 Kingsway, Vancouver. 604-603-9655
greenwavelandscapes.ca
8160
Lawn & Garden
Winter Services Same Day Service, Fully Insured
8193
Oil Tank Removal
• 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
• Xmas Lights • Hedges • Rubbish Removal • Odd Jobs
2 PAINTERS available. Honest, Reliable & Prof. 778-877-7045 www.pastandpresent.webs.com
TREE SPECIALIST - 25 yrs exp. Oriental landscaper, remove trees, pruning, etc. 604-328-9487
MILANO Painting 604-551-6510 Int/Ext. Good Prices. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured.
Vancouver Division Since 1985
WILDWOOD LANDSCAPING Tree & Hedge Pruning. Hedge removal. 604-893-5745
WINTER SPECIALS • Gutter Installation Cleaning & Repairs • Roofing & Roof Repairs • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention 25 year Warranteed Leaf & Needle Guard
CALL NOW for 25% OFF WCB – Fully Insured 100% Money Back Guarantee
604-340-7189 DYNAMIC GUTTERS & Exteriors. Full seamless gutters. Installation repairs & soffits. All jobs guaranteed. Fully insured, bonded, WCB. Will beat any competitors price. 604-439-9417 Edgemont Gutters. Sales & Install 5’’ continuous gutter, minor repairs, cleaning. 604-420-4800 Professional Powerwash Gutters cleaned & repaired Since 1984, 604-339-0949
8130
Handyperson
AaronR CONST Repairs & Renos, small repairs welcome. Insured, WCB, Licensed. 604-318-4390 aaronrconstruction.com
8240
Renovations & Home Improvement
www.jimsmowing.ca
8175
Masonry
NORTHLAND MASONRY. Rock, slate, brick, granite, pavers. 20 yrs exp on the N. Shore. No job to small.. Will 604-805-1582
8185
8205
Paving/Seal Coating
ALLEN Asphalt, concrete, brick, drains, foundations, walls, membranes 604-618-2304/ 820-2187
8220
Plumbing
Moving & Storage
AFFORDABLE MOVING 1 to 3 Men
1, 3, 5, 7 or 10 Ton $ From
45
We accept Visa, Mastercard & Interac Licenced & Insured Local & Long Distance
• • • •
Licensed, Insured & Bonded Lic. Plumbers & Gas Fitters Over 20 years Experience Custom Renovations to Small Repairs
604-312-6311
FREE ESTIMATES Seniors Discount
604-537-4140 www.affordablemoversbc.com
AJK MOVING LTD.
Moving. Storage. Deliveries Local & Long Distance MOVERS.... Residential. Commercial. Industrial. Truck for Clean-ups
8250
604-580-2171
Additions ★ Renovations Concrete Forming ★ Decks Garages ★ Bathrooms Ceramic Tile ★ Drywall Hardwood Flooring
Georgie Award for Best Renovation & Design Complete Renovations / Additions Kitchens / Bathrooms
604-728-3009
www.jkbconstruction.com ★ BATHROOM SPECIALIST★ Tiles, tub, vanity, plumbing, paint framing. From start to finish. Over 20 yrs exp. Peter 604-715-0030 BEARING WALLS removed, floors leveled, cathedral ceilings, garage leveled, door and window openings. 604-787-7484 GET OUT YOUR LIST! We do all the fussy little jobs no one else wants to do. Complete home repairs. Workmanship and your Satisfaction Guaranteed. Est 1983. Ralph 682-8256
CALL NOW for 25% OFF
RENOS • REPAIRS
BEST PRICE! Bath, kitchen, plumbing, flooring, painting, etc. Call Mic, 604-725-3127
8140
Heating
Lorenzo & Son Plumbing & Heating (604) 312-6311 Local Licensed Plumbers & Gas Fitters
20% OFF All Moving
Services until Feb 28th 604-377-2503 www.popeyesmovingbc.com AAA ADVANCE MOVING Experts in all kinds of Moving, Storage & Packing. Different from the Rest. 604-861-8885 AMIGO'S MOVING. Delivery. Storage. No Job too Small or Big. Clean up, Garage, Basement. Call 604-782-9511 TwoGuysWithATruck.ca Moving, Storage, Free EST 604-628-7136. Visa, OK
section, call
604-379-2641 www.pointgreyroofing.com
#1 Roofing Company in BC All types of Roofing Over 35 Years in Business Call now & we pay ½ the HST
604-588-0833
SALES@ PATTARGROUP.COM
JKB CONSTRUCTION LTD. COMPLETE RENOVATIONS
McNabb Roofing
• TAR & GRAVEL •TORCH-ON MEMBRANE •FIBREGLASS / ASPHALT SHINGLES, RESIDENTIAL, and COMMERCIAL 35 years experience ★NO HST★
9105
Auto Miscellaneous
$0 DOWN & we make your 1st payment at auto credit fast. Need a vehicle? Good or Bad credit call Stephanie 1-877-792-0599. www.autocreditfast.ca. DLN 30309. WANT A VEHICLE BUT STRESSED ABOUT YOUR CREDIT? Last week 12 out of 15 applications approved! We fund your future not your past. Any Credit. $500 christmas cash extended. www.coastlineautocredit.com or 1-888-208-3205.
9125
Domestic
1998 EAGLE TALON ESI, 170k, 2.0 L, excellent condition, 5 spd, no accidents, silver exterior, grey interior. $3500. 604-763-3223
‘Old Home Specialist’
Steve ✔
604-324-3351
Trade Your Kitchen Bath, Kitchen, Suites & More www.renorite.com 604-434-0070
★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com
2002 OLDS Alero V6 146kms sedan, Auto, White grey int, exc cond, s/r, p/l, p/w, ABS, fold down back seats. $4,500 604-329-7946
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
Treeworks 15 yrs exp. Tree/ Stump Removal, Prun’in & Trim’in & View Work 291-7778, 787-5915 www.treeworksonline.ca Wildwood Tree Services, Exp Hedge Trimming and Removal & Tree Pruning. Free Est. 604-893-5745
8335
JJ ROOFING, Repair specialist, Reroof, New Roof. Seniors disc. WCB, fully ins. 604-726-6345
ROOF LEAKS!
Waters Home Maintenance 604-738-6606 Topside Roofing 604-290-1650 Quality Workmanship. Prompt, Prof Service. Insured. Call Phillip
Window Cleaning
White Rose Window Cleaning
604-274-0285
9145
Scrap Car Removal
#1 FREE Scrap Vehicle Removal Ask about $500 Credit!!! $$ PAID for Some 604.683.2200
*FREE SCRAP CAR PICK UP* Pay $ for some complete cars. No wheels no problem. 209-2026 JACK−X ★ FREE Scrap Car Removal Top $$ for scrap cars. ★ Flat Rate Towing Service avail. Call ★ 604-720-0067
THE SCRAPPER SCRAP CAR & TRUCK REMOVAL
9155
E
Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks
Luxury Cars
Advantage Building Maintenance: •Roof •Chimney •Skylight Repairs •FREE Estimate 604-802-1918 CHOICE Roofing 604-807-7312 Specializing in New, Re-roofing & Repairs. Quality assured.
Tree Services
604-790-3900 OUR SERVIC
9129 10% Off with this Ad! For all your plumbing, heating & reno needs. Lic Gas Fitter, Aman. 778-895-2005
8315
2H
A North West Roofing Specialist in Re-Roofing & Repair, Free Est payment plan avail, WCB, Liability Insured Jag 778-892-1530
Tiling
CASH FOR ALL VEHICLES
Plumbing & Renovations Full Kitchen & Bath Reno’s • Plumbing Service - all types • H/W tanks • Plugged drains No job too small!
8309
AUTOMOTIVE
Cell: 604-839-7881
YOUR WAY
STUCCO ● STUCCO Seamless, matching any texture comm/res. Call 604-730-8277
CLASSI FI ED
Established 1946
★ NO HST ★
Quality Home Improvement ★ Stucco ★ All Kinds. No Job Too Big or Small. 604-725-8925
Windows Cleaned Inside & Outside Gutters Cleared & Cleaned FREE ESTIMATES
POINT GREY ROOFING LTD.
WWW.PATTARGROUP.COM
Mozaik Handyman Services Ltd Reno painting, electrical, plumb tiling, 604-739-8786..716-8687
REAL ESTATE 604-630-3300
604-340-7189
BATH/KITCHEN Renos, decks, fencing, home repairs. Home Improvment Centre. 604-240-9081
604-728-3009 jkbconstruction.com
To advertise in the Vancouver Courier Classified
WCB – Fully Insured
• Cedar Shakes • Flat Roofing • Asphalt Shingles • Roof Maintenance
Stucco/Siding/ Exterior
TILE-RIFIC TILING & PAINTING Slate, Glass, Ceramic Specialist. Quality Work. 604-831-4013
A.J.K. MOVING Ltd. Special truck for clean-ups. Any size job Lic#32839 604-875-9072
• Roofing & Roof Repairs • Duroid, Cedar, Torch-on • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs
8300
A to Z CERAMIC TILES Installation, Repairs, Fair Prices Free Est. 444-4715 cel 805-4319
WINTER SPECIALS
Vancouver Division Since 1985
www.ezgomovers.com Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020
604-537-8523
YOUR HOME ROOFING SERVICES
garage, basement, backyard.
Quick & Reliable Movers from$48 per hour
Yes, we Remove & Recycle Anything
Abe Moving & Delivery & Rubbish Removal. Available 24 hours. Call Abe at: 604-999-6020
(604) 875-9072 873-5292
EZ GO MOVERS
Residential & Commercial Free Estimates Large or small jobs Nobody beats our prices $ 15 OFF with this ad
Roofing
@
NORM, 604-466-9733 Cell: 604-841-1855
310-JIMS (5467)
Rubbish Removal
www.crownresidentialroofing.com
''Satisfaction Guaranteed''
@
YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES
• BBB • RCABC • GAF/ELK Master Elite Contractor • Residential Roofing • Liability Coverage and WCB • Designated Project Managers • Homes & Strata • Third Party Inspection Installations & Repairs Call 604-327-3086 for a free estimate •• 24 Hr Emergency Service Quote code 2010 for a 5% discount
FERREIRA HOME IMPROVEMENTS
BOOK A JOB AT
Gutters
Tried & True Since 1902
Painting/ Wallpaper
CONFIDENT PAINTING LTD Int/Ext Specialist 20 yr exp. Reas rates, quality. Licensed, Ins, WCB Jean-Guy 604-626-1975
8125
RESIDENTIAL DIVISION LTD.
604-724-3670
8195
8255
Roofing
ALL JUNK?
FLECK CONTRACTING LTD.
SNOW REMOVAL
• Yard Clean-Ups • Pruning • Gutters • Landscaping
8250
EW31
1994 CHEV 3/4Ton with dump box, auto, exc working cond. 320K, $6200, 604-270-3933 1995 ROLLS Royce, SP3, top model, as new, royal blue, 65K, local, $35,900, 604-271-1969
9135
Sports & Imports
Parts & Accessories
4 AUDI RIMS. Spec size is 235/45R17. Will fit 225/45R17 or 255/45R17. FIT FOLLOWING VEHICLES: All A3, A5, A6, A8 or TT models. All S4 models to 2008. S6 models 2007-2009. S8 models 2007-2009. A4 - ONLY 2WD. 4 Alloy Rims & 20 Stainless Lug Nuts = $2867 retail. Mint condition $795 OBO 604-220-2269
9145
9160
Scrap Car Removal
Cash for junk cars! $100 to $1000 Ask about our $500 Credit!
Visit our website @ www.surreyscrap.com Free tow, no wheels, no papers no problem! Hassle free friendly service. 2 hr service in most areas.
604 628 9044
2001 JAGUAR S-Type 3.0 V6, Auto, Black on white, 139km, $6998 obo. Tel: 778-322-3598 2005 LEXUS ES330, 4 dr Sedan, grey, auto, fully loaded, 6cyl. 44K, $22,500 obo, 604-616-3296
9173
Vans
97 GRAND Voyager LE 3.8L AWD Leather n/s Alloy 221K $3999 obo 604-939-3316
9522
RV’s/Trailers
WANT to trade 1988 Chevy Elite
23’ motor home for smaller motorhome. 604-946-0864 Lve mess
EW32
Natural
THE VANCOUVER COURIER WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 2011
Your Original
eef Natural Raised B
Certified Organic
Roast
Oranges
Inside Round
4
Natural Raised
Extra Lean
Valencia
$ 52
Ground Beef
Product of Mexico
99
4
$ 97
¢
/lb. $9.98kg.
Food Store
/lb. $2.18kg.
/lb. $10.98kg.
We carry a Huge Selection of Organic Products Family Pack Canadian Beef Steaks
Boneless Non-Medicated
Bone-in Non Medicated
Non Medicated
Family Pack Wild • Previously Frozen
Eye of Round & Chicken Turkey Legs Turkey Breast Sockeye Salmon Previously Frozen Outside Round Combo Pack Previously Frozen Fillets
2
4
2
4
$ 99 $ 97 $ 71 /lb. $6.59kg.
/lb. $10.98kg.
From the Deli Maple Lodge
Certified Organic
Fajita Style
Product of Mexico
100gr.
per bunch
Chicken Breast
1
$ 29
Carrots
1
$ 89 Clif
California
Bars Cauliflower Energy Assorted
99
¢
/lb. $2.18kg.
1
/lb. $5.99kg.
Certified Organic
Ataulfo Mangoes
79
$ 70
Earthbound Farms Organic
Imported Large
/lb. $10.98kg.
Baby Salads Assorted
4
Product of Ecuador ea.
1lb. pkg.
R.W. Knudsen Organic
Concord Grape Vanilla Extract & Grapefruit Juice Gaya • 100% Pure Mexican
$ 19 $8 -$26 $699 99
99
+ Dep.& Eco fee 1.82Lt.
68gr.
Certified Organic
8-Grain Flaked
Cereal
4
$ 49 BULK FOOD &
BAKING SUPPLIES
Hothouse Tomatoes
1
1Kg.
8 am-9 pm
Sale Dates: Wednesday, January 19, 2011 – Tuesday, January 25, 2011
/lb. $3.29kg.
Earth’s Best Organic
Baby Food Assorted
99
¢
128ml.
Certified Organic
Quinoa $ 99 White Only
4
1595 Kingsway 604-872-3019 OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK
/lb. $16.98kg.
$ 99 $ 49
¢
120ml-500ml
7
$ 97
www.famousfoods.ca
455g.