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NV woman not guilty of kidnapping

Fireﬁghters douse blaze in train tunnel Brent Richter

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FIREFIGHTERS had to head into a train tunnel to put out the ﬂames of a burning homeless camp Wednesday afternoon.

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Multiple 9-1-1 calls came in around 3:30 p.m., reporting thick black smoke coming from the train tunnel at the foot of Chesterfield Avenue. “Multiple units, both from North Van city and North Van district attended. We had a crew go in and they located a fire approximately 100 metres into the tunnel,” said city fire chief Dan Pistilli. “It was a mattress and some discarded rubbish, some sleeping bags. It was a bit of a camp they had set up.” Firefighters searched the area but the bed’s owner was nowhere around and there were no reported injuries. First responders had to evacuate the nearby ICBC office building and 171 West Esplanade and shut down the road for about two hours while crews mopped up. “It was a bit of mayhem for a bit,” Pistilli said. While not every person sleeping on the streets wants to stay in a shelter, outreach workers would have liked to have given the option to whoever was calling the CN Rail tunnel home, according to Linda Fox, manager of the Lookout homeless shelter. “Our shelter is always full. We run at about 104 per cent capacity,” Fox said, “But if a person is willing to come . . . we will make a way for it to happen. We’re not going to leave someone outside. We’re going to figure something out.” Getting off the streets and into a shelter is often the first step to getting connected with a range of services and finding permanent housing, Fox said.

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Judge says no evidence ties Nazfar Mirhadi to extortion plot Jane Seyd jseyd@nsnews.com

A former North Vancouver real estate agent has been found not guilty of involvement in a high-proﬁle kidnapping case.

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Nazfar Victoria Mirhadi was acquitted in B.C. Supreme Court Wednesday of all charges against her. One other woman, Veronica Moncur was also acquitted while the five men charged in the case were found guilty of unlawful confinement. In her ruling, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Catherine Bruce said the evidence showed Mirhadi acted as the go-between in a moneylaundering deal involving kidnap victim Sulaiman Safi. But she said there was nothing that proved Mirhadi was involved in or knew about a plot to kidnap Safi and extort money from him. Bruce wrote that while Mirhadi was aware Safi would have “serious problems” if he failed to return her clients’ money that had gone missing “there is little evidence to suggest Mirhadi knew of a plan to kidnap him or was willfully blind to such a plan.” Bruce wrote it was just as likely that another woman — Mirhadi’s original contact in the money laundering scheme — had tipped off the kidnappers to Safi’s whereabouts on the day he was hustled out of a restaurant in Vancouver’s West End and into a waiting vehicle. During the trial, Crown prosecutors said Mirhadi first met Safi to discuss financing of real estate properties. But soon they were discussing a plan to launder $400,000 for one of Mirhadi’s associates. After most of that cash was seized by police while being transported in a taxicab, Mirhadi demanded her money back and arranged to meet Safi at a restaurant. There, a man approached their table and asked Safi to speak with him privately in his “office.” But instead, the man led Safi outside, where he was shoved into an SUV, handcuffed and driven to another location. Testifying by video link during the trial, Safi — who is serving an 81-month jail sentence for drug trafficking in California — described being taken to a small windowless room and threatened with torture and death as his captors demanded that he repay hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of his captors brought out a Glock handgun and pressed it to his head at one point, telling him, “These guys want the money now or you’re going to die today.” After eventually convincing his captors that he had a plan to get the money back, Safi was released from the industrial area of Richmond where he had been held. By that time, police — who had been tipped to a possible kidnapping — had already set up surveillance on the alleged kidnappers. Six people — not including Mirhadi — were arrested soon after, in vehicles leaving the scene. Following the verdict this week, Matthew Nathanson, Mirhadi’s See 5 page 3

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NV quilter takes love to Boston

‘Kooky’ dream becomes exhibit at Boston’s Museum of Fine Art Jeremy Shepherd jshepherd@nsnews.com

BERENE Campbell had a dream about a quilt. It was the night of April 15, just after the Boston Marathon bombings that left three dead and injured more than 250. “It just kind of gets you in the gut,” said Campbell, a North Vancouver seamstress and graphic designer. She sat tethered to her TV watching the aftermath of the bombings, eventually seeing a photo of Richard Martin, the eightyear-old boy who died in the blast. The news broadcast showed a photo of Martin holding a sign with the words No More Hurting People. The image and the family tragedy left Campbell feeling shattered. A lifelong seamstress and a quilter for the past six years, Campbell had a lucid dream about bringing a quilt to Boston that night. “It sounds like a really kooky, hippie story, but this is what happened,” she said. “I had made these love banners in my dream and I had sent them to Boston . . . and they were hanging in this park with these trees and people were coming in and just being there and feeling uplifted by the love and the energy of it.” One month later, her dream became a reality as Campbell helped display 1,756 quilting flags throughout Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. By her own admission, Campbell seemed like an odd choice to undertake such a project. “I had no connection to Boston. I’d never been to Boston, I didn’t know anyone in Boston,” she said. Campbell reached out to Newbury, Mass., resident Amy Friend, a woman with whom she had only a vague, online relationship. “I don’t think she had any idea what she was getting herself in for. I don’t think either of us had any idea,” she said. Campbell came up with dimensions for the flags, requesting quilters avoid religious and political messages. The bi-coastal duo utilized blogs, Facebook, Flickr and Instagram to spread their message. “Within a very short space of time, it went viral,” Campbell said. One month later they had received flags from all over the world. “Quilters are an amazing group of people. As soon as there’s any kind of tragedy, they step up and make quilts,” Campbell said. Quilting groups and family members took part, but some of

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NORTH Vancouver seamstress and graphic designer Berene Campbell hangs quilted flags from around the world in the Boston Museum of Fine Art after her idea for flags of love went viral. the most moving bunting flags were stitched by people Campbell had never met. Two Guelph, Ont., sisters designed a flag for their brother, a marathoner who failed to keep the pace he’d set for himself in Boston. “He was hurting a little bit and he had to slow down,” Campbell explained. “The finish time when the bomb went off was very close to his goal time. “It’s not specifically the flags, but the reasons that people reacted to it,” she said. But while flags were pouring in, there was still no place to put them. Despite describing herself as “completely unqualified,” Campbell said she was possessed with a calm certainty everything would fall into place. As it turned out, Friend learned that Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts was planning something big for Memorial Day weekend. “I went online and I googled pictures of the MFA ’cause I’d never heard of it,” Campbell said. The museum took a risk and agreed to display the quilting flags, flying Campbell out to help with the installation. After two days, each flag was hung in the museum. “The whole point of it was that your average Bostonian who may not normally come to the museum because it’s not really their thing — I wanted them all there to see that the world really felt for them.” On that end-of-May long weekend, Campbell said the lineup to get into the museum wrapped around the block.

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Sanctions aimed at regime’s pursuit of nuclear program Brent Richter brichter@nsnews.com

IRANIAN Canadians on the North Shore are expressing mixed views as the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has announced it will ban all imports and exports between Canada and Iran. Foreign Minister John Baird made the announcement Thursday, citing Iran’s rogue pursuit of a nuclear program in deﬁance of the United Nations. “The absence of progress with both the P5+1 and the (International Atomic Energy Agency) leads Canada to ban, effective immediately, all imports to and exports from Iran,” he said in a press release. “Canada, like many of our closest allies, is making every possible effort to halt Iran’s reckless pursuit of their nuclearweapons capabilities. . . . We will continue to look for ways to reduce the negative impacts on the people of Iran, including humanitarian exemptions.” Iran has faced several bouts of sanctions from Canada over the years, but this latest round will ﬁnish

off what remained of trade between the two countries, said Davood Ghavami, president of the IranianCanadian Congress of Canada. While there was more than $680 million exports by Canadian businesses to Iran in 2008, that number was down to $98 million last year, Ghavami said. “It means the economic relations have already declined between the two countries. (I don’t know) how much this announcement is going to have an impact,” he said. Much of the Iranian diaspora in Canada are opponents of the regime, so there is support among local Iranian-Canadians, Ghavami said. “I think as long as the Canadian government is putting pressure on the Iranian regime, it’s a good idea because the outcome is promoting human rights in Iran and staying on the people’s side — the opposition side, which is good,” he said. “But if it goes beyond that and puts pressure on the people of Iran, it’s not a good idea.” However, small business owners who rely on selling imported Iranian products will certainly feel the pinch. Sam Garman, owner of Persian grocery store Mitra in West Vancouver, said he is going to have to check with his suppliers who keep his store’s shelves stocked with about 50 different products made in Iran. Despite the loss it represents for his and other businesses as well as to Iranian immigrants, Garman maintains an optimistic outlook for his business.

“Life goes on,” he said. “You don’t have to have that brand of pickle.” More important to Garman is how the latest sanctions are going to affect that average Iranian citizen. “Sanctions always hurt the people. I come from that culture and nothing hurts the government,” he said. “They don’t care.” Business owners who want to continue doing business with Iranian counterparts can apply to DFAIT for an exemption, but it will require ministerial approval. When confronted with how stopping the sale of Iranian goods is meant to dissuade Iran’s Islamic theocracy government from acquiring an atom bomb, West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country MP John Weston, acknowledged the local inconvenience and wider implications. “I am very empathetic and concerned about that perspective,” said Weston, who is also the government’s liaison to the Iranian-Canadian community. “However we are reaching a crescendo of concern over continued violations of (Iran’s) nuclear obligations. Sanctions are a bad consequence but the other consequences are worse and so we’re having to choose among dislikable options in trying peacefully to bring about a resolution.” Iran’s regime has been cracking down on human rights groups in the run-up to the country’s presidential election, which is scheduled for June 24, Weston said.

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defence lawyer, said Mirhadi has been looking forward to clearing her name ever since the allegations surfaced about the kidnapping. “To be accused of a crime that you are not guilty of is always a very troubling and difﬁcult thing.” Mirhadi, a former real estate agent, has not had a licence to practise real estate since November 2011, shortly after she was charged in the case. Jessica Gossen, a lawyer for the Real Estate Council of B.C., said if Mirhadi applied for a licence, the real estate body would likely conduct its own review of the situation. Thomas Roy Crawford, Robert Ryan Carr, David Russel Tarrant, Demple Manjit Brar and Edmond Joseph Gammel were all found guilty in the kidnapping plot.

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Rubber baby buggy bumpers save child on crosswalk

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A North Vancouver toddler was left frightened but uninjured after his stroller was hit by a vehicle Wednesday morning. The boy and his mother were crossing at a pedestrian crosswalk on West Third Street, just south of Capilano Mall around 10:20 a.m. when the near miss happened. “A vehicle was making a right-hand turn onto Third and failed to yield to them in the crosswalk and subsequently, the 60-year-old West Van female driver struck the one wheel of the stroller. It actually caught the edge of the stroller and dragged it a few feet, much to the shock of the mother, who held onto the stroller, of course,” said Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman. B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics took the boy to Lions Gate Hospital as a precaution but, luckily, he showed no injuries. Police handed the driver, who was distracted at the time, a ticket for failure to yield to a pedestrian. “We’re just thankful there were no serious injuries” De Jong said.

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But it’s very possible there is value in such a watchdog. It would, for instance, be far better to have an impartial analysis of municipal spending habits — backed by evidence — than read repeated reports by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business generated by their dubious methodology. In the municipal world — unlike the provincial one — there is no ofﬁcial opposition. An additional check and balance could be welcome. Finally accountability isn’t always about money. Sometimes it’s about the way decisions are reached and how the public is involved. That’s also worth considering. There are many eyes watching to see if the new municipal AG is all that the critics ﬁrst feared. Now it’s time for her to go ahead and prove them wrong.

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Dad’s ‘mantrum’ sours game

Dear Editor: This Sunday I attended a lacrosse game of a close friend whose nine-year-old son plays for Burnaby. It was at Harry Jerome and having never been to a game, I took my nine-year-old son with me. Burnaby was playing a North Vancouver team and we hadn’t been there for more than 20 minutes before a father (of the North Van team) sitting near us absolutely exploded in rage. He started yelling “just once!” repeatedly at the top of his lungs and then took himself down to the players’ bench and started yelling at the coach. The reason for his fury appeared to be that his son had not been played enough, or had only been on the ﬂoor once. The dad returned to his seat and began to continue to yell and scream. At that point, I

told him to “relax and calm down.” He didn’t take too kindly to that and I reminded him that I had a nine-year-old sitting beside me who didn’t need to hear his tirade. Eventually his son, whom I believe was benched by the coach, came and joined his dad in the stands. As they were leaving his dad continued his “mantrum” creating a scene the whole way to anyone who would listen. He started yelling out the name of one child in particular whom he felt had been given too much playing time. Maybe the coaching wasn’t fair, I don’t know, but what I do know is that a little boy had to hear his dad go off like that and suffer the consequences of his dad’s poor behaviour. What I cannot get over however, is the level of rage this man possessed. I was instantly

reminded of the hockey coach who tripped a player, breaking his wrist some months back, or the dad in Massachusetts who punched another dad after a hockey game, which ultimately resulted in the man’s death. I mean these are nine- and 10-year-old kids we’re talking about. It is a game, right? Are there millions in endorsement deals I don’t know about? As a North Vancouverite my whole life, I felt embarrassed by this behaviour and what the Burnaby parents must have thought of the sportsmanship in North Vancouver. North Van ended up losing the game, but I can’t help thinking it’s those little boys who lost the most today. The right to go out, have fun, play fairly and most of all feel safe. Amy Millar, North Vancouver

Let’s keep the Grouse Grind garbage free Dear Editor: This letter is directed to the people who hike up the Grouse Grind (ﬁrst timers and regulars). Now that the Grind is open for another season here are some things to mull over. There are no garbage cans on the trail. So please don’t throw your empty water bottles, tissues, coffee cups and other trash on the trail. Hiding a water bottle under a rock or in a tree

stump does not make it magically disappear. I am amazed at how many bottles I routinely pick up from the trail. The halfway point on the trail seems to be a magnet for banana skins and orange peels and other food related items. Although these are biodegradable, it takes a very long time for them to disappear — and they do attract wildlife. So, please let’s not turn this part or any other part of

the trail into a dumping ground for such items. Tissues on the trail look like a trail of white bread crumbs. Again, please don’t leave them. Heed the fact that the trail is not a stroll around Stanley Park. Flip-ﬂops, sandals, high heels and other similar footwear are not the best things to wear on your feet when doing the Grind. Bob Plummer, North Vancouver

Dress correctly and play in the rain

Dear Editor: Regarding your front page story on May 24, Open Playgrounds Anger NV Parents: As a retired teacher and a parent of three children brought up on the North Shore, I feel I must comment on the current concerns of many 21st-century parents. We are inundated in the media about childhood obesity, lack of activity in our children, their obsession with computer games and other sedentary pursuits which result in a reluctance to get out into the community and fresh air to play. Growing up in England in an extremely damp climate and immigrating to B.C. in the early ’70s, I can never understand the fear of rain. Yes, it is wet. Yes, children do get wet playing outside. But believe me, most young children would rather be out there in the rain and “storms” than huddling under cover because mommy has told them to keep dry and supervised indoors in the classroom through recess and lunch. In England we have a saying, “There is no bad weather, only poor clothing.” Dress your children according to the season and the weather forecast. Send them outside to endure and enjoy the elements, splash through the puddles and get beyond this irrational fear of the B.C. weather. Please! Alison Precious North Vancouver

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B.C. Liberals face testing time with teachers

AS Premier Christy Clark prepares her B.C. Liberal government for its fourth term in power, she may be thinking she’ll be facing a political opposition that is spent, demoralized and likely about to be consumed by internal strife. But while that may describe the shattered New Democratic Party, Clark would be wise to realize opposition to her government can take the form of other entities. That’s where a couple of public sector unions come in. Both the B.C. Teachers Federation and the unionized support staff in the K-12 education system (made up primarily of CUPE locals) may be in a position to take job action — up to and including an all-out strike — in the fall. Clark has reissued her idea of a 10-year contract with B.C.’s teachers, and has gone a further step by formally making it her government’s position at the negotiating table. The 10year plan was largely dismissed when Clark ﬁrst ﬂoated it some months ago, but that’s because it seemed part of her ongoing election campaign and not representative of actual government policy. But now that she has won a mandate from the voters, the 10-year contract proposal has to be taken more seriously. Of course, that doesn’t make

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it any easier to achieve at the bargaining table. Details haven’t been made public, but I suspect the government’s proposal will include some kind of wage indexing to ensure teachers get at least the average of public sector union wage increases every year of the contract, plus some kind of guaranteed funding increase to address class size and composition issues.

As well, look for the government wanting more “flexibility” to be incorporated in the system, with the argument that flexibility will allow for savings to be realized, with those savings passed on to teachers and the issues they deem most important. It will be an interesting set of negotiations, but I have a hard time believing the B.C. Teachers Federation leadership will sign such a long-term deal. The length of that contract could sap the union leadership’s power and influence. This brings us to an interesting question: Will the B.C. Liberal government impose a 10 year deal if one can’t be freely negotiated? As much as some members of the government caucus might want to do just that, I doubt the courts would allow such a long deal to be imposed on a collective bargaining process — but a five-year contract may be a different story.

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Still, it’s clear the B.C. Liberals are intent on trying a radically different approach in this round of talks with the BCTF. Just days after the election, they bailed on the current set of negotiations, even though the union said progress was being made, in favour of shifting talks towards the 10year plan. As for the unionized support staff, they’re looking for a wage increase in the neighbourhood of two per cent a year. Most of their locals have already taken strike votes, and Vancouver Sun education reporter Janet Steffenhagen reports the rest should do so by the end of next month. This sets the stage for a possible confrontation between

the unions and the B.C. Liberal government in the fall. Of course, it’s quite likely the government will simply impose a contract on both unions if they can’t be freely negotiated and if job action becomes problematic in schools. Nevertheless, this situation could be Clark’s ﬁrst real test as an elected premier with a mandate. It is imperative that her government delivers its budget with its projected surplus if it wants to establish credibility when it comes to budget-making. This means there is very little money for wage increases in the education sector; school boards say there are no more savings to be found to fund wage hikes for employees.

So to get to that magic land of a balanced budget, Clark will have to hold ﬁrm against two public sector unions with their hands stretched out. Both unions no doubt expected to be dealing with a newly elected NDP government in contract talks, and therefore probably assumed they were in for an easier ride. But the upset win by the B.C. Liberals changed many things, not the least of which has to be the expectations of the public sector unions. They are about to discover the new sheriff in town is actually still the old one, but her hold on the job is much stronger now. Keith.Baldrey@globalnews.ca Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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THE District of North Vancouver is scheduled to get its ﬁrst women-only alcohol recovery centre following an emotional and unanimous vote by council Monday.

Earmarked for the wooded area at the north end of Lloyd Avenue, the two-storey, nine-bed North Shore Recovery House will help women dealing with alcoholism who are committed to changing their lives, according to Coun. Lisa Muri. “Whenever park is mentioned in the District of North Vancouver . . . it brings the community out and it brings the community together to discuss any changes because we hold those parks so dear to us. But people we hold dear, too,” she said. Muri spoke in a trembling voice about a friend who died in her mid-40s due to alcoholism after several trips to detox facilities in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. “When she got out of those places there was nowhere for her to go and there was nowhere for her to learn how to live without alcohol,” she said. The treatment centre was initially greeted with opposition from neighbours who argued against rezoning parkland. Nestled alongside Murdo Frazer Park, the picturesque site was home to a rental property for nearly 40 years until the house was demolished in 2010. “As much as I love those parks, I loved my girlfriend, too,” Muri said. “I’m glad that we’re taking this risk.” While the site will not be a park, it will serve a similar function, according to Coun. Alan Nixon. “Parks serve a number of purposes, but I think

we generally all agree that a park’s primary service is as a place of healing for the mind and the body,” he said. “This relatively small dedication of one park . . . for this particular healing process, I think is totally appropriate.” As a former Vancouver Police Department officer who observed the ravages of drug addiction amid the cluster of recovery centres in the Downtown Eastside, Coun. Doug MacKayDunn championed bringing a treatment centre to North Vancouver. “When I quit the police I resolved that what we needed is treatment and recovery,” he said. “We spend too much money on enforcement and not enough money on treatment, and not enough money on recovery, and not a tenth of what we should be spending on prevention.” Many addicts in Vancouver are women of First Nations descent women who came to the Downtown Eastside after fleeing bleak conditions on reservations, according to MacKay-Dunn. “These individuals were the forgotten ones,” he said. MacKay-Dunn called on other municipalities to support local recovery centres in the aim of reducing the burden shouldered by overcrowded facilities in Vancouver. Acting mayor Mike Little told the story of a childhood friend who became addicted to heroin, later being shuffled between treatment centres. “There was nothing anywhere near his family, his support circle,” Little said, discussing his friend’s loneliness. The North Shore Recovery House is slated to offer abstinence-based treatment with an emphasis on employment and education training, as well as offering a program dealing with the links between domestic violence and substance abuse. Mayor Richard Walton did not attend the meeting.

Friday, May 31, 2013 - North Shore News - A9

Hang on, that’s not how I remember it

YOU know you’ve had a hard day when a woman literally dressed as a Tootsie Roll starts feeling sorry for you.

We’ll get back to that. First, are you familiar with that brilliant Japanese ﬁlm Rashomon that beautifully illustrates the subjectivity of perception on recollection, demonstrating how multiple people can witness the exact same occurrence yet later recall it in drastically different ways? Me neither. But there was a joke about it on an episode of The Simpsons that I watched about 47 times, so I’m pretty much an expert on that whole perception subjectivity thingy. Probably. Maybe. Anyhoo, let’s give it a try. The good folks at Eat Vancouver recently invited me, foolishly you might argue, to their annual food extravaganza at BC Place to drink beer in their tasting pavilion. Being the all-around good guy that I am I offered my second ticket to my wife. Here’s where things get a little strange — she accepted. And it wasn’t just her, now I was sharing my beertravaganza with my wife, my toddler son and my baby son. By the end of the day, one of us would really need that Tootsie Roll’s pity. See if you can guess who. My day: My toddler son loves boats so he’s absolutely beaming as we board the SeaBus, sail past an anchored cargo ship and pull into dock beside a giant cruise ship. Sometimes it takes seeing the world through the eyes of a child to remember how blessed we are to live in such an interesting place. My wife’s day (in her own

Laugh All You Want Andy Prest

paraphrased words, as told to me later that night): Glad you’re having good times on the boatride, fun boys. Meanwhile I’m breastfeeding the little suckling while we race-walk up and down the dirty hallways of two train stations as well as the grungy Expo Line SkyTrain. Thanks for all the help, dad. Baby’s not the only one who sucks. My day: We arrive at BC Place and I strike off in search of the tickets that will feed us our delicious feast. On a quick spin by the beer pavilion I’m surprised to see that it’s not yet open. Despite the jovial atmosphere inside the stadium, this is a working trip for me so it’s time to start the Twitter quips. “Beer garden doesn’t open for 10 more minutes. Time for another riot?” I tweet out. LOL indeed. I guess I’ll ﬁnd the family and grab some grub. My wife’s day: As soon as we get into BC Place my husband mumbles something about tickets and goes running off in one direction while my toddler — whom dad is supposed to be watching — sprints off in the other direction. The boy then starts playing

one of his favourite games: Touch Everything. And with chocolates, coffee, nuts (which he’s allergic to), pop, cheese, crock pots and knives all ﬂoating there head-height to a toddler, this is the World Series of Touch Everything. When I ﬁnally catch him it dawns on me that he hasn’t eaten since breakfast and it’s way past snack time. Surrounded by food, mine is the only kid maniacally repeating “I’m hungry I’m hungry I’m hungry I’m hungry.” How are those tickets coming, dad? My day: All the food in the world is available at the festival and what are we chowing down on? A grilled cheese sandwich. Kids. By the way, would it kill them to put a change table in this men’s washroom. Wait, what am I saying? It’s a football stadium — son, it’s time to learn how to pee in a sink. My wife’s day: Speaking of pee, the baby is leaking all over this stadium. No change table in this women’s washroom either. Looks like I’ll be changing the baby on the disgusting counter. Can’t go lengthwise though because the soap dispenser would drip goo all over his face. Oops, forgot the diaper

bag — guess I’m carrying this pee-soaked cloth diaper back across the stadium. Lunchers look on with interest. “Hey lady, what’s your secret sauce.” You don’t want to know. Oh boy, time to let my husband go — he’s so distracted by the beer pavilion next door that he just obliviously popped a jalapeno pepper into our toddler’s mouth. Go. Shoo. My day: Phew, finally finished my daddy duties and it’s time to taste some beer. A bitter? Yes please. Raspberry? Why not? Pepper lime lager? Surprisingly delish. IPA? Oh heavens yes. Security? No sir, nobody is bothering me. Oh, it’s me? Yes, I’ll try to walk straighter. Tee hee, that girl is dressed like a Tootsie Roll. How embarrassing. Wow, a meatball! What a day. My wife’s day: The baby is strapped to me in a carrier and I’m “feeding” the toddler a meatball. He insists on doing it himself, so now the “feeding” is actually more like a “smearing.” On everything. We find daddy and he says he’s almost finished and he’d love to share another meatball with the toddler, who insists he’s still starving. Five minutes later I’m back

at the rendezvous point with a suddenly awake and furious baby and a toddler screaming at me for the rest of this halfeaten meatball that I’m saving for daddy, who is nowhere in sight. Two minutes, meatball still in hand. Five minutes. Did I mention I don’t eat beef? “Meatball meatball meatball meatball” my kid screams. 10 minutes. 15

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minutes. About. To. Snap. “Looks like you have your hands full,” says a beautiful angel who appears out of nowhere. “Here, have a Tootsie Roll.” What a day. My day: Hey, there’s my wife. She looks like she’s having fun. Guess I’ll have one more beer. Domo arigato, baby. aprest@nsnews.com

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things to do this week 1. Holly Cole at Kay Meek Centre: Canadian jazz icon performs at West Vancouver fundraiser tonight. kaymeekcentre.com/on_ stage/1616 2. HSBC City of Bhangra 2013 kicks off this weekend and runs through June 8 with daily events in Vancouver and Surrey. For a complete schedule visit vibc.org 3. AAA Girls Soccer Championships North Shore teams from Argyle and Handsworth vie for provincial title at Inter River Park this weekend. argyle2013.ca 4. Nava Arts Centre celebrates 10th anniversary with June 1 celebration. navaart.ca 5. Terminal City Rollergirls host U.K. team in ﬁrst international bout at Richmond’s Minoru Arena tomorrow night. terminalcityrollergirls.com — John Goodman More online at nsnews.com/ entertainment twitter.com/NSNPulse

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“THERE’S something wrong with your daughters.” The call came from the principal’s office. They were only children, but the North Vancouver twins had been disrupting their elementary school, filling up note paper with horrific literature and using up their red crayons drawing murder victims. “Are they not getting straight A’s?” their mother replied. “I don’t see a problem.” Seated behind matching drinks in a café on Lonsdale Avenue, Jen and Sylvia Soska are positively chipper as they reflect on American Mary, their sophomore film about a medical student’s journey through the world of body modification. Resembling the cheerful nieces of Elvira: Mistress of the Dark, the Soskas trade quips on censorship and the void of dynamic women in modern horror films while finding time to opine on whether or not Wolverine would be a suitable boyfriend for Jean Grey

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(“Absolutely”) and the brilliance of Who Framed Roger Rabbit? Before they were allowed to watch scary movies, their mother made them read the books. As luck would have it, the twisted twins stumbled upon their mother’s cache of Stephen King novels. “There were some really foul things in Stephen King books and my mom was always like, ‘If you don’t understand something, come and ask me.’ So, at 10 I was having conversations about pedophiles and murders and my mom would be very eloquently explaining it to me,” Sylvia recalls. “It caused us to not only have a real love of horror and comedic horror, but it also had us writing and reading at a really high level at a super young age,” Jen agrees. Their love of horror was crystallized at the age of 10 when the twins begged their mother to let them watch Poltergeist. “You can’t think of a horror movie more designed to just scare the shit out of kids,” Jen says, recalling the terror of going to bed nestled alongside her suddenly demonic-seeming clown doll that night.

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After feigning courage for nearly two hours the Soskas had a life-changing conversation with their mother. “She did something that would forever change the way we looked at horror movies,” Sylvia says. “She sat us down and she explained what we had actually seen. She explained the director, the script, the sets, and the prosthetic artists.” A singular realization dawned on the twins: scaring people was a job. Like any artisan, the twins set about learning their craft, sometimes by scaring each other. After reading 1408, a twisted Stephen King short story about a hotel room with a blood-spattered history, Sylvia decided she needed to share it. “It was pitch black,” Jen remembers. “I moved to turn the light on and she says, ‘Don’t turn the light on, I want to read you a story.” “I didn’t want her to read it the wrong way,” Sylvia explains, her voice taut with just a dash of apology. Growing up in the early 1990s, the twisted twins

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GALLERIES Artemis Gallery: 104C-4390 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Hours: Tuesday-Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Info: 778-233-9805 or artemisgallery.ca. Lotus Land — Architecture and Infrastructure: A collection of urban and suburban landscapes by graphite pencil specialist Charles Keillor will be displayed until June 2. Artist will be in attendance on the weekends. Reclamation — A Renewed Perspective:: Photographs by Mike Wakeﬁeld, sculptures by Susan and Eric MacDonald, with soundscape by J. Knutson inspired by the sights, sounds and textures of North Vancouver’s working waterfront will run from June 14 to July 1. Live and interactive opening: Friday, June 14, 7-9 p.m. Summer solstice show: Friday, June 21. 7-9 p.m. Arthur Erickson’s Waterfall Building: 1540 West Second Ave., Vancouver. Hours: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. daily or by appointment. Crossing Paths: Mariam Aroeste’s works of acrylic on canvas will be on display from June 7 to 14. Opening reception: Friday, June 7, 6-10 p.m. RSVP: emily@carmenrl.ca. Info: miriamaroeste.com. Bellevue Gallery: 2475 Bellevue Ave., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. and outside gallery See more page 15

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CALENDAR From page 14 hours by appointment. Info: bellevuegallery.ca. Reflections of Typography: Nicholas Purcell, designer and maker of handmade furniture will have his work on display until June 30. Buckland Southerst Gallery: 2460 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-922-1915 or bucklandsoutherst.com. Café for Contemporary Art: 138-140 East Esplanade, North Vancouver. Hours: MondayFriday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Info: 778-340-3379 or cafeforcontemporaryart@gmail. com. Caroun Art Gallery: 1403 Bewicke Ave., North Vancouver. Info: caroun.net, 778-372-0765 or artgallery@ caroun.com. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, noon to 8 p.m. Centennial Theatre: 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: centennialtheatre.com. Exhibit: Work by artists from 195 Studios will have their work on display until June 15. CityScape Community Art Space: 335 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604NEWS photo Mike Wakefield 988-6844 or nvartscouncil. ca. Gallery hours: MondaySaturday, noon to 5 p.m. Call for Artists: The North FOUNDER Hossein Behroozinia will showcase many Vancouver Community Arts of the musicians and artists involved in the Nava Arts Council is seeking First Nations Centre during the organization’s 10th anniversary artists for an upcoming themed celebrations on Saturday, June 1 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. exhibition called “Pushing Classical piano, Iranian folklore music and Sufi dance Boundaries 2013.” Deadline will all be part of the live show at the centre which for submissions: Saturday, June features more than a dozen instructors, a recording 1, 4 p.m. studio, as well as an instrument and book store. For Capilano University more information visit navaart.ca. Textile Arts Grad Show: 1-5:30 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604-983Student works with a focus on items that are 2896. transformative or tell personal stories will be on Gordon Smith Gallery of Canadian Art: 2121 display until June 8. Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Sanctuary — Re-examining the Nest: An exhibition featuring three North Vancouver artists Wednesday-Friday, from noon to 5 p.m. and Saturday, 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Adult admission by utilizing images of the nest in contemporary donation/children free. Info: 604-903-3798. paintings, sculpture and textile art will run from June 14 to July 20. Opening reception: Thursday, Tours will be offered on Thursdays at 12:30 p.m. and Saturdays at 1:30 p.m. Registration required: June 13, 7-9 p.m. Artist talk: Saturday, June 15, info@smithfoundation.ca. 1-3 p.m. Graffiti Co. Art Studio: 171 East First St., Art Rental Salon: An ongoing art rental North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday, programme with a variety of original artwork 1:30-6:30 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604available ranging from $10 to $40 per month. 980-1699 or gcartstudio@shaw.ca. Coastal Patterns Gallery: 582 Artisan Lane, Holy Trinity School: 128 West 27th St., North Bowen Island. Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, noonVancouver. 5 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604-762-4623, Call for Artists: Holy Trinity Parish Catholic 778-997-9408 or coastalpatternsgallery.com. Women’s League invites artists to submit work District Foyer Gallery: 355 West Queens Rd., for its upcoming exhibition “Art in the Atrium.” North Vancouver. Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, Deadline for submissions: Friday, May 31. Info: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Info: 604-988-6844 or holytrinityparish.ca. nvartscouncil.ca. The North Vancouver Community Arts Council Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West will present an exhibition of watercolour paintings Vancouver. Info: kaymeekcentre.com or 604-9816335. by Tamara Phillips and artistic wood pieces by On Our Walls: View Anne Marie Calder’s David Wagner until July 2. District Library Gallery: 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., paintings until June 21. Lions Bay Art Gallery: 350 Centre Rd., Lions North Vancouver. Info: nvartscouncil.ca. The North Vancouver Community Arts Council Bay. Gallery hours: Monday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Info: lionsbayartgallery.com or 604-921will present an exhibition of paintings by Anne 7865. Gudrun until July 16. Featuring established and upcoming artists. Ferry Building Gallery: 1414 Argyle Ave., Lynnmour Art Studio and Gallery: 301-1467 West Vancouver. Admission to all shows is free. Crown St., North Vancouver. Info: nsartists. Info: 604-925-7290 or ferrybuildinggallery.com. ca/garyeder or 604-929-4001. Gallery hours: Gallery hours: Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. or by Closed Mondays. appointment. Contemporary and abstract Perfectly Still: Acrylic on canvas works by Tansy paintings by Gordon Oliver, Robert Botlak and Sverre will be on display until June 9. Meet the Gary W. Eder. artist: Saturday, June 1, 2-3 p.m. Lynn Valley United Church: 3201 Mountain Grad Show 2013: Art from graduating students Hwy., North Vancouver. 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PERFORMING ARTS

Bright future in store for BPA graduates First crop of students ﬁnish new program Erin McPhee emcphee@nsnews.com

EARLIER this year, when program head Stuart Aikins addressed a group of people interested in enrolling in the new bachelor of performing arts program hosted by Capilano University, he outlined the opportunity at hand.

“I said to them, ‘This is your opportunity to tell stories in the way that you want to tell them and to tell your stories,’” he recalls. With the second cohort having started their coursework May 7, it seems his message was received. Reviewing video of some of their initial project presentations, Aikins is impressed. “When you give people the equipment and the tools and the right to express themselves, how remarkable their thinking is and how clever and delightful it is,” he says. Aikins’ realization speaks photo supplied to the value of the bachelor of performing arts program, a cross- BACHELOR of Performing Arts graduating class — Top Row: Reg Tupper, Linzi Voth, Sean Hewlett, Glenn Crossley, Lisa Goebel, Corwin disciplinary fourth-year degree Ferguson. Upper Middle Row: Ria Manansala, Brahm Taylor, Sigourney McAuley, Javia Selina, Chris Lam, Leala Selina. Bottom Middle completion program launched Row: Heather Cornick, Sam Bis-Calihoo, Chris Fader, Sarah Szloboda, Natalia Pardalis, Aouda Yen. Bottom Row: Damon Jang, Ryan last year. The program is unique Scramstad, Tiffany Anderson, Jeff McMahan, Manuel Cuevas, Corey Haas. in that it’s offered jointly by four It was agreed that a capstone fourth-year program would work co-ordinator for the theatre department. In addition, he runs local institutions, Capilano University, Douglas College, Langara very well with all involved as the participating institutions had Vancouver-based Aikins/Cossey Casting and has worked as a and Vancouver Community College. many existing two- and three-year diplomas that could feed into casting director for more than 35 years. Examples of his extensive While it’s currently hosted by Capilano, graduates will have all film credits include the Academy Award-winning Unforgiven, Best it nicely. four school’s names stamped on their diplomas, the first of which The resulting nine-month full time program runs from May to in Show, Elf and The Twilight Saga. will be awarded to members of the inaugural cohort, Monday, January and the inaugural cohort, launched in May 2012, had 24 According to Aikins, the idea for the new bachelor of June 3 at 6 p.m. at the Capilano University Sportsplex. students enrolled. The second cohort is comprised of 22 students. performing arts program had its roots at a provincial ministry With the second cohort having just begun their studies, all “What’s remarkable about it is that it’s not a bachelor of fine of advanced education event where presidents from the four involved are anticipating a bright future for both graduates and arts. This is real world experience and training in collaborative, participating institutions happened to be standing next to one the program at large. interdisciplinary entrepreneurship,” says Aikins. another. “By creating this freedom for them and the support, they’re The program has been designed to help prepare students “The minister came over and said, ‘You guys should really going to blossom and that’s been incredibly rejuvenating,” says for careers as professional performing artists, arts managers, get together on a program, literally’ and so they figured that Aikins, who serves as the program’s special appointee. wasn’t a bad idea and so 10 years ago they began discussing the Aikins wears a number of hats at Capilano University as he possibilities,” he says. also serves as chairman of the school of performing arts and See Students page 22

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CALENDAR Friday, June 7, 6 p.m. Info: 604-365-0477. Ron Andrews Community Space: 931 Lytton St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-987-8873 or 604-347-8922. Delicate Matters: Lorena Pelly’s compositions of seaweed on paper and Joseph Chiang’s porcelain pottery will be on display until June 9. Just Imagine: Acrylic paintings with themes of landscapes, ﬂowers and abstracts by Catherine Janusz and metal jewelry by Helen Sperry will be on display from June 9 to July 21. Seymour Art Gallery: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily. Info: 604-924-1378 or seymourartgallery.com. Forms of Nature: Sculptures by Pavel Barta and oil paintings by Mary-Jean Butler will be on

display from June 4 to July 1. Artist talks: Sunday, June 9, 2 p.m. Reception: Sunday, June 9, 3-5 p.m. Shelton Art /Studios Gallery: 3540 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Studio visits by appointment. Info: 604-922-5356 or sheltonart.com. Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Sunday, noon-4 p.m. Info: 604-925-7292 or silkpurse.ca. The Art of Photography: An exhibition of Karen Evans, Rita Hernandez and Elaine Hunter’s work will run until June 2. Skylight and Cloud Shadows: A showcase of Ximeng Guo’s series of paintings featuring a combination of motifs will be displayed from June 4 to 23. Opening reception: Tuesday, June 4, 6-8 p.m. Silent Poetry Art Studio: 1079B Roosevelt

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around Watson’s philosophy and his actions. Watson describes experiences that shaped his attitude and activities, such as a chance encounter and a swim with a massive number of leatherback turtles. If Watson hadn’t found those turtles, the illegal whaling ship, the Sierra, might not have been found and eventually destroyed. He has witnessed horrible slaughters of whales and other marine life, including Canada’s own seal pup massacre, but manages to convey this without resorting to overly graphic descriptions. Throughout the interviews Watson points out that the Sea Shepherd has never been found guilty of breaking any laws and no member has sustained any significant injury. He also states that there are already sufficient laws and agreements in place to protect the oceans, but what is missing is the will to enforce them. Watson makes it very clear that the status quo cannot continue and the over-fishing of the oceans will bring catastrophic results to the planet. In very simple terms he states, “If the oceans die, we die”. While other organizations and politicians stay on the sidelines as illegal whaling and fishing still goes on, Watson leads his Sea Shepherd Society into direct conflict with these ships and in the process stands between them and the marine life he has sworn to protect.

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a pack so heavy she could barely carry it and ended up naming it Monster, Cheryl Strayed stepped onto the trail near the town of Mojave, California and began an 1100-mile hike. Seeking a fresh start for a life that was stumbling out of control, she set off alone and began a journey of self-discovery that allowed her to ﬁnally come to terms with much of what was leading her to despair. Her experiences on the trail are a fascinating look at what it means to take on such a physical challenge but her personal story makes this far more than an outdoor adventure book. We are allowed to slip inside a troubled soul and witness the healing power of nature and time as the transformation gradually guides her to a better understanding of herself. — Terry Peters

Cres., North Vancouver. Gallery hours: MondayFriday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. or by appointment. Info: 604-312-1184, 604-781-4606 or silentpoetryartstudio.wordpress.com. Original Art, mentoring and classes with Sharka Leigh and Sandrine Pelissier. Space Emmarts Studio: 1432 Rupert St., North Vancouver. Hours: Wednesday and Friday, 2-5 p.m. and by appointment. Info: 604-7702545 or originals@emmarts.ca. Starﬁre Studio: 6607 Royal Ave., West Vancouver. Info: 604-922-5510 or starﬁreattheferries.com. Studio Art Gallery at Capilano University: 2055 Purcell Way, North Vancouver. Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Info: 604986-1911, local 2053. Tartooful: 3183 Edgemont Blvd., North

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CALENDAR From page 19 life and ﬂoral paintings in oil on canvas by Margaret Thoma will be on display until July 5.

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West Vancouver Museum: 680 17th St., West Vancouver. Museum hours: TuesdaySaturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Info: 604-925-7295 or westvancouvermuseum.ca. Melding Architecture with Landscape — A Collaboration in Design: An exhibition that illustrates architect Barry Downs work will run until June 15. Admission by donation. Yeats Studio & Gallery: 2402 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Gallery hours: WednesdaySunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Info: 778-279-8777. CONCERTS Capilano Mall: 935 Marine

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Dr., North Vancouver. Senior Star: Local seniors, 65 years and older, will participate in a singing and musical instrument talent competition Thursday, June 20, 1-3 p.m. for the opportunity to participate as a top 10 ﬁnalist in Niagara Falls. Info: 604-904-1199 or chartwell.com. Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Tickets: kaymeekcentre.com or 604-981-6335. An Evening with Holly Cole: Kay Meek Centre’s annual fundraising gala featuring jazz singer Holly Cole will take place Friday, May 31 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: Party and show $129 or party, show and meet the artist $159. Finale Concert: Lions Gate Youth Orchestra will perform a program of favourites, folk melodies and music from the movies Saturday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20/$15/$10. The Pro Nova Ensemble will perform Wednesday, June 5 at 7:30 p.m. Admission by donation. Beneﬁt Concert: Five-year-old piano virtuoso Ryan Wang will team up with six-year old Ray Zhang to perform a concert Sunday, June 9 at 3 p.m. All proceeds will go to the Sarah McLachlan School of Music which provides music education to at risk youth at no cost. Admission: $15. Lynn Valley Library: 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9840286, ext. 8144 or nvdpl.ca. Music at the Library: The Dunbar String Quartet will perform the music of Mozart, Beethoven and Dvorak Friday, June 14, 7-8:40 p.m. Free. Registration required. Lynn Valley United Church: 3201 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. Info: lynnvalleychurch.com. Friday Night Live: A weekly series with improv actors AddLibretto playing hosts to musical guests Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Schedule: May 31, actor Gary Jones. Admission by suggested donation of $10. The third Friday of each month, youth are invited for dinner and the show for $15 with tickets purchased by 5 p.m. Mount Seymour United Church: 1200 Parkgate Ave., North Vancouver. Graduation and Alumni Recital: A jazz recital featuring graduating Seycove musicians and returning Seycove music

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TERMINAL City blocker Lisa Suggitt (in red) takes on a jammer from Sacramento’s Sacred City Derby Girls during a match on May 19. The Terminal City Rollergirls host Western Canada’s first intercontinental bout tomorrow night at Richmond’s Minoru Arena when they take on the U.K.’s London Rollergirls. The British team represent the highest level of U.K. roller derby and are ranked 23rd in WFTDA (Women’s Flat Track Derby Association) international rankings. Adult tickets are $15 in advance (online at terminalcitytickets.com) or $20 at the door. Children’s tickets are $10, and kids 5 and under are free. Gametime 8 p.m. London Rollergirls are kicking off their Pacific Northwest tour here and will then continue south to play the Jet City Rollergirls (Everett, WA), Rose City Rollers (Portland, OR), Rat City Rollergirls (Seattle, WA) and the Oly Rollers (Olympia, WA). For more information go to terminalcityrollergirls.com. alumni Friday, June 21 at 7 p.m. Complimentary wine and cheese to follow. Tickets available at the door: $20/ students $5 (concert only). Info: seycovemusic.ca. Nava Art Centre: 1355 Main St., North Vancouver. Anniversary Gala: Nava Art Centre will celebrate 10 years of operation with a free showcase of many musicians and artists who are involved in the organization Saturday, June 1, 7-9:30 p.m. Shipbuilders’ Square: 15 Wallace Mews, North Vancouver. Call for Artists: The City of North Vancouver has opportunities for local performers and fine artists to participate in the Concerts in the Square series on Saturdays in August. Info: info@donnellyevents. com or facebook.com/ concertsinthesquare. Silk Purse Arts Centre: 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Info and reservations: 604-925-

7292 or silkpurse.ca. Intro to Latin Jazz: Pianist Fran Jare and members of Latin jazz quintet Bem Bem Beo will present a program designed to familiarize the audience with Latin rhythm structures, instruments and composers Thursday, June 6 at 10:30 a.m. Tickets: $15/$12. St. Andrew’s United Church: 1044 St. Georges St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-985-0408 or st-andrews-united.ca. Farewell Concert: Capilano University Singers will perform a last concert before leaving on their European tour Friday, May 31 at 8 p.m. Admission: $10 at the door. Info: lkaario@ capilanou.ca or 604-980-9917. Going Green: A Capella Chorus will present a fundraising concert of eco-songs for the David Suzuki Foundation Saturday, June 1 at 6:30 p.m. Admission by donation. West Vancouver Memorial Library: 1950 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-9257446 or westvanlibrary.ca.

From Bach to the Beatles: A celebration of the Ambleside Orchestra’s inaugural awards with a special concert by the young winners Friday, May 31 at 7:30 p.m. West Vancouver United Church: 2062 Esquimalt Ave., West Vancouver. Songﬁre Festival — Antiphons: Vocal groups Stellaria and EnChor and actress Joy Coghill will join The Vancouver International Song Institute’s artists to celebrate a millennium of song Sunday, June 9 at 8 p.m. Admission: $20/$15/$5. Tickets and info: songﬁre.ca. THEATRE Deep Cove Shaw Theatre: 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver. Info and tickets: deepcovestage.com or 604929-3200. Shady Business: A madcap British comedy with romantic mix-ups Wednesdays to Saturdays, June 14-29 at 8 p.m. See more page 23

Students collaborated on piece at PuSh fest From page 18

administrators or cultural entrepreneurs, as well as to serve those interested in pursuing performing arts graduate studies. Students accepted into the program have diverse backgrounds in terms of both their academic and professional experience. “We try to reach out for the widest range of disciplines so that it is truly inter-disciplinary,” says Aikins. Examples of disciplines the ﬁrst two cohorts represent include acting, theatre, music, dance, lighting and production design. Through coursework, students learn how to create their own companies, where and how to source funding, how to create pieces and how to market them. They complete their nine months with a capstone project, a performance at the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival of a piece that they’ve worked together to develop, create, build and produce. The inaugural cohort presented Qualia in January, taking Vancouver venue Progress Lab 1422, and utilizing the entire

space to create a research facility that dealt with the disconnect between emotion and feelings, says Aikins. “It was very successful,” he says. In addition, the cohort was involved in a series of performance art pieces at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Fuse in November 2012. The new cohort has been given an opportunity to participate in the upcoming Culture Days Arts Club Stroll, Sept. 27-29. Aikins is pleased to see members of the inaugural cohort faring well following completion of their studies with some doing ﬁlmwork and others working on shows for the Vancouver International Fringe Festival. One grad is currently working to develop a big piece in St. John’s, Nﬂd. “The interesting thing about it is that the network that they created, they continue to maintain and they are all working on projects with each other,” he says. For more information on the Bachelor of Performing Arts program and admission requirements, visit capilanou.ca/bpa.

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CALENDAR Dance Vancouver: The Landing Dance Centre will perform contemporary, ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop and more Saturday, June 15 at 2 and 6:30 p.m. Tickets: $25/$21/$16. CLUBS AND PUBS Beans on Lonsdale: 1804 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9852326. Live music every Thursday, 8 p.m. Brewster’s Coffee: 2436 Marine Dr., West Vancouver. Info: 604-925-9820. The Eagles Club Starlight Room: 170 West Third St., North Vancouver. East Side Marios: Lonsdale Quay, 123 Carrie Cates Court, North Vancouver. Electric Owl: 928 Main St., Vancouver. Info: 604-5580928. A Concert Series that brings together Steve Dawson’s Black Hen House Band with special guest artists each

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DJ Anjali and the Incredible Kid, best known for incinerating dance ﬂoors with the South Asian sounds of Bhangra and Bollywood in their hometown of Portland, Oregon, journey north to perform at the HSBC City of Bhangra Festival on June 8 in an all-day free event at the Vancouver Art Gallery’s north plaza. The festival, featuring international and local artists, kicked off last night with an opening reception at the Fei and Milton Wong Experimental Theatre and runs through June 8. For more information and a full schedule of events go to vibc.org. From page 22 Tickets: $18/$16. North Shore Neighbourhood House: 225 East Second St., North Vancouver. Centre of Attention: North Shore Neighbourhood House theatre and drama students will perform a collection of plays, monologues and sketch comedy Friday, June 14 at 6:30 p.m. Admission by donation. Presentation House Theatre: 333 Chesterﬁeld Ave., North Vancouver. Tickets: phtheatre. org or 604-990-3474. Pirates of Penzance: The North Shore Light Opera Society will present this story of a man who was born on Feb. 29 and can’t leave a band of tender-hearted pirates until he turns 21 (another 63 years) Thursdays-Saturdays at 8 p.m.

with Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. until June 1. Tickets: $10-$30. Pyatt Hall: 843 Seymour St., Vancouver. The Frogs, In Concert: A musical that follows the Greek god Dionysus as he sets out on a journey through Hades June 13-15 at 7 p.m. Admission: $15-$20. Tickets: brownpapertickets.com. Theatre at Hendry Hall: 815 East 11th St., North Vancouver. Reservations: 604-983-2633 or northvanplayers.ca. The Amorous Prawn: A comedy about army staff running a manor as a ﬁshing lodge May 31, June 1 and 5-8 at 8 p.m. Tickets: $18/$16. DANCE Centennial Theatre: 2300 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info:

centennialtheatre.com. Box ofﬁce: 604-984-4484. Solstice 2013: Students from Paciﬁc DanceArts as well as special guests Coastal City Ballet will perform Saturday, June 1 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $20/$18/$16. Once Upon a Dreamy Night: Vickye Allard’s Dance Company students ages three to nine will perform Sunday, June 2 at 11:30 a.m. Tickets: $20/$15. I Can Dance: Children will express themselves through dance Saturday, June 8 at 2 p.m. Tickets: $15/$10. Snow White: Seymour Dance students will present a youth ballet production followed by a dance showcase Sunday, June 9 at 11 a.m., 2 and 6 p.m. Tickets: $20/$18/$15. Spring Ballet Gala: Vancouver Junior Professional Division

students and guests will perform June 11 and 12 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $55/$47.50/$40. Info: vjpd.ca. In Motion: Students from North Shore Academy of Dancing will perform a wide range of dance styles Friday, June 14 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, June 15 at 1 and 7 p.m. Tickets: $22/$18/$16. Tap Stars: The Vancouver Tap Dance Society will present the academy’s student showcase Friday, June 21 at 7 p.m. Tickets: $22. Kay Meek Centre: 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Tickets: kaymeekcentre.com or 604-981-6335. Summer Concert of Dance: Anna Wyman School of Dance Arts students will perform Sunday, June 2 at 2:30 and 7 p.m. Tickets: $25/$18/$14/$5.

month. Tickets: capilanou. ca/nscucentre or at the door. Jack Lonsdale’s Pub: 1433 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-9867333. Live music every Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. La Zuppa: 1544 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-986-6556. See more page 29

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Paddling ﬁnds a new wave For years, paddleboarding consisted of kneeling on a surfboard with a paddle in hand. But as an old sport gains new popularity, dozens of athletes can be seen standing on the surface of English Bay, False Creek, and Indian Arm whenever the weather allows it. Karly Cox, the manager of Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak Centre, has had a front-row seat to the rise of stand-up paddleboarding, also sometimes called SUP. As recently as 2009, the rental shop stocked

only four SUP boards, and even that seemed like it may have been excessive, according to Cox. “These things are pretty big, they’re hard to store, and they’re fragile and expensive, so what are we doing?”she recalls thinking at the time. Today, the store stocks 40 boards, and on some days that still isn’t enough.

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“They’re booked out every sunny day,” she says. “It’s a trend that’s not going to go away.” Stand-up paddleboarding has turned into a phenomenon on the water with fitness serving as a major selling point. “Your whole body is engaged and all of your body is being used to manoeuvre the standup paddleboard,” says Cox. Because the water is an unstable surface, a paddleboarder

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is constantly using core muscles to maintain balance. “It’s a full body workout,” says Cox, explaining that core strength and balance are generally more important than upper-body strength. Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak Centre also offers courses where boarders do pushups and squats on the board, and another where they do yoga. “It’s just another way of using your whole body and having it engaged while doing yoga on the board,” she says. The centre holds two-hour introductory sessions for newcomers to the sport several times a week.

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the sport doesn’t require much gear. “All you need is your stand-up paddleboard, your leash, and your PFD (personal flotation device) and you’re good to go,” says Cox. However, she recommends taking a look at the weather forecast before heading onto the water. “If you’re a beginner you’re going to hate the sport if you get out on a windy day on a stand-up paddleboard in Kitsilano because it’s just going to blow you around,” she says. “The weather is huge. It really does play a part because (with) stand-up paddleboarding you’re sitting on the direct surface of the water and your body acts as a sail, so if the wind picks up you need to be prepared for that, you need to have the physical strength to be able to take yourself to a safe place,” she says. Asked about the best places to paddleboard, Cox recommends Indian Arm. “When the harsh winds come out through the Howe Sound and up through the Strait, we are the last people to get it, so we have pretty calm waters,” she says. – JEREMY SHEPHERD, jshepherd@nsnews.com

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Mountain Madness Writer and runner Christopher McDougall once penned the phrase: The reason we race isn’t so much to beat each other, but to be with each other. On the North Shore, that philosophy is exemplified by Mountain Madness. For the last 10 years the organization has promoted trail races and conducted numerous clinics for runners hoping to escape the confines of the gym and athletes figuring out how to run 25 kilometres. Founded in 2004, Mountain Madness was the brainchild of trail runner Heather Macdonald, who was hoping to help a few joggers get in shape for races. “We started out with smaller groups for sure, and we would go pretty far afield, and the groups just kept growing,” she says. Mountain Madness still puts on clinics to help runners navigate the trail networks of the North Shore, but now they typically attract between 45 and 50 runners. “It is a lot of fun to go out with other people. It’s kind of an organized approach to training for a goal so you can meet your commitment,” she says. Besides information and support, the clinics also supply motivation on those days when enthusiasm tends to flag, according to Macdonald. “It’s a good reason to get out the door. Half the time people are saying, ‘Well, if I don’t have a goal I’m not even going to get out. But if I know I’m going to go out and meet those other people I’ll go and have a good time.”

Part of the purpose of the clinics is also to see that runners become self-sufficient, learning the names of trails and how to read trail maps. Clinic leaders tend to stay in the back and let the trail runners decide the routes.

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CALENDAR From page 23 Legion #118: 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. Info: 604985-1115 or info@legion118.com. Jazz at the Legion: The Accidentals, a jazz band that repertoire includes standards, big band favourites, show tunes, blues and swing, will perform Friday, May 31 at 8 p.m. Free admission, but donations welcomed. Mist Ultra Bar: 105-100 Park Royal, West Vancouver. Info: 604926-2326. DJs spin classic dance music from the 80s, 90s and today. Queens Cross Pub: 2989 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: queenscross.com. Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every Sunday, 7:30-11:30 p.m. The Raven Pub: 1052 Deep Cove Rd., North Vancouver. Info: theravenpub.com. Adam Woodall performs acoustic music every Thursday, 7:3011:30 p.m. Red Lion Bar & Grill: 2427 Marine Drive, West Vancouver. Info: 604-926-8838. Jazz Pianist Randy Doherty will perform every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 8 to 11 p.m. Rusty Gull: 175 East First St., North Vancouver. Live music every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; Mostly Marley performs every Sunday, 7 p.m. Sailor Hagar’s Brew Pub: 235 West First St., North Vancouver. Info: 604-984-3087. Live music every Friday and Saturday, 9 p.m.1 a.m. Waves Coffee House: 3050 Mountain Hwy., North Vancouver. The Celtic Medley Song and String Player’s Showcase comes to Waves the ﬁrst Saturday of every month, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Free. Anyone interested in performing can phone Doug Medley at 604985-5646.

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FILM

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CANADIAN tourists love to tour Scotland’s “malt whisky trail,” a line of distilleries that runs through Speyside. My spouse even claims to be laird of a square foot of the island of Islay, thanks to Laphroig Distillery’s clever marketing gimmick. But it isn’t unusual for a young man from the wrong end of Glasgow to never have seen the highlands, and not know when his kilt is on back to front. Robbie (Paul Brannigan), from a long line of no-users, can’t get a break because of a boyhood spent in and out of juvie and the telltale thug scar that runs through most of his cheek. Robbie’s latest violent scrape has earned him 300 hours of community service, and it’s only impending fatherhood that’s kept him

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Passion for the North inspires luxe designs Samantha McCabe Contributing writer

LOCAL designer Catherine Regehr has been injecting the fashion scenes both in many exotic cities abroad — Tokyo, New York, Paris, among others — and in her Canadian homeland with her timeless pieces.

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Although these two venues are polar opposites, both prove to be prominent faces in Regehr’s designs, cultivating glamour, longevity, and practicality. “You can wear (her pieces) over and over in different ways for years,” her website notes, pointing out the obvious timelessness she has always strived to create in every design. Her upbringing in Canada’s northern wilderness can be seen in the clean architectural lines and repeating textures of her couture. She has a home in the remote community of Atlin, two hours south of Whitehorse, Yukon, and often adventures out on canoeing trips and other activities. The unique scenery, such as the water, the rocks, and even sea kelp, triggers her creative juices. Her goal is to bring these textures to life. Another major source of inspiration is her twin daughters, who bring in youthful points of view from their 25 year old age group. Each is very different: one is edgy, while the other is classic in taste. These personality contradictions are as clear as the

ones that Regehr displays, and makes tasteful, in her designs. She effortlessly combines the two into a medley that comes only with practice and skill. After attending Emily Carr University for sculpture, Regehr went to study fashion in Paris, and since then has traversed many places around the world, garnering inspiration from Morocco and India. The multicultural aspect in her designs can especially be spotted in her signature caftans, alight with glamour and glitter with their luxurious fabrics and jewel detailing. Although extremely busy with her dedication to her work, Regehr found a pleasant outlet in contributing to the Artists for Kids Fashion Photography Career Program (see student photos previous page). “It is always important to give back to any community,” she says. Her designs were a huge factor in the success and professionalism of this year’s crop of young talent. She immensely enjoyed loaning her spring/summer 2013 gowns to the photo shoots, she says. Overall, this most recent collection is two distinct sets that work together as a capsule. The ﬁrst is the classic shapes with the use of texture. Retro couture is the latter, and can be found mostly with her Asian clientele. “In-between colours,” neutrals mixed with varying intensities of grey, form a bridge of continuity between collections and even pieces in the same collection. About the designs that span generations, Regehr simply comments, “I notice trends but am not attached to them.”

These techniques have proved very successful for the down-to-earth (both literally and ﬁguratively) designer. Her designs are still sewn in Vancouver,butsoldworldwide, in upscale boutiques and major department stores throughout Canada, the United States, Japan, the Middle East, Germany, and Singapore, to name a few. The subdued glamour and very wearable silhouettes Regehr is known for lend a sexy and classy vibe to her favourite piece in particular. The simple black V-neck sheath with laser cut hem summarizes much of her style, and also correlates her fashion and home collections and how they inﬂuence each other. She has also designed a cushion with the same laser cut shapes. The Catherine Regehr home decor collection is available locally at Provide, 529 Beatty St. in Vancouver. The clothing collection is available by appointment at the Catherine Regehr Studio in Vancouver’s South Granville neighbourhood. Evening separates retail for $500 to $1,100, cocktail attire from $1,000 to $2,200, and gowns from $1,800 to $4,400. Regehr plans to continue to design, her pieces telling the story of the heartfelt contest of strength between Canada’s North that she holds close to her heart and the cities that she will continue to explore. Samantha McCabe is a Grade 11 student at Handsworth secondary. After graduation, she plans to study journalism and other forms of prose as well as photojournalism.

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FILM

Sisters fascinated by horror genre

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educated themselves at the horror section of their local video store, piecing together storylines of forbidden movies by examining the stills on the back of VHS boxes. “When we saw something really graphic that looked real, we were obsessed with ‘how did they do it?’” Jen says. “Is that what it actually looks like when you cut somebody open? And that might sound a little bit morbid, but it’s just curiosity.” That curiosity eventually led to a fascination with body modification. “My mom taught us, ‘If something scares you it’s a lack of education so learn as much as you can about it and then you won’t be scared anymore,’” Sylvia says. Their fear of body modification ultimately evolved into a film that views sweeping changes of the physical form as a form of self-expression The movie made me squirm, cringe, and struggle to keep my eyes on the screen, but it also offered a surprising amount of tact when dealing with its subject. God shouldn’t be able to decide what everyone looks like, according to one of the film’s characters. It’s a film that almost didn’t

happen as the sisters became mired in an ultimately successful struggle to sell their debut film, Dead Hooker in a Trunk. The twins had been visiting a loved one and were seated in the hospital’s critical ward. Out of money and ideas, they spoke with horror maestro and Hostel director Eli Roth. “We were struggling so hard to sell this movie,” Sylvia says. “And I was talking to Eli one day and we were broke, we couldn’t afford food, let alone rent.” Roth encouraged the duo to concentrate on their next movie, which at the time was nonexistent. Not wanting to disappoint a hero director, Sylvia lied. “I turned to Jen and I was like, ‘I just lied to Eli Roth that we had a movie about body modification.’” They pumped out a script in two weeks, but investors were scarce. “The only reason Mary went forward is because my parents, and we’ve never been rich, they bought their home and on our 20th birthday they saw us struggling to get this movie sold and so they re-mortgaged their house and put six figures into the film as the first investors and then people started coming on board. And thank god, knock on wood, mom and dad aren’t

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KATHARINE Isabelle, “the thinking person’s scream queen,” stars as Mary, a surgeon who does her best work in an ebony apron and sleek black gloves. minutes younger than me that she still sees hope in the world,” Sylvia chimes. Twinless people are ‘normies,’ for the duo, a species to be pitied. American Mary is not for everyone, but everyone with the desire to see it and enough cleverness to get away with watching it has Sylvia’s blessing. “I tried to download my movie this morning, lots of people are seeing it, I’m sure most of them are kids. Doesn’t matter,” she says. “When I was a little girl we snuck into the theatre to see movies,” Jen says. “That’s how you did it, that’s how mom did it, that’s how grandma did it, and that’s how kids will continue to do it.” The movie is scary, but it aspires to be more. “As weird as it is to say about our horror ﬁlms, we want to give people more than just a horror ﬁlm, we want to leave you thinking,” Jen says. The DVD is slated to hit shelves June 18.

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from being locked up. He forms friendships with a busload of petty convicts supervised by Harry (John Henshaw). Harry proves a benevolent force, especially after witnessing Robbie get beat up outside the hospital delivery room by his girlfriend’s family. It’s Harry who gives Robbie his ﬁrst taste of whisky, when the two men wet the baby’s head, a traditional toast to a newborn. After coming face to face with the victim of one of his more serious crimes, Robbie vows over his new son never to hurt anyone again. But a clean start is impossible when trouble follows Robbie all over the city. On his day off, Harry takes his ragtag group to a distillery, where Robbie proves to have a canny nose for whisky grace notes. During another day trip Robbie meets Thaddeus (British stage actor Roger Allam), a whisky collector who will prove invaluable. There’s this cask of booze — “the holy grail of whiskies” — that is about to go on the auction block, virtually unguarded overnight. Who can blame Robbie and company from skimming a little off the top, the angel’s share of the title, that two per cent per year that magically disappears from a cask of whisky.

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Authentic dialogue (“clatty” is ﬁlthy; “minging” is even worse) is admirable but necessitates subtitles, always a nuisance and best avoided. What needs no subtitles is the barrage of foul language: Local Hero this ’aint. Authentic? Probably, in a culture where George Carlin’s Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television are common vernacular. But necessary? No. It’s distracting, more than anything else. Just don’t take your granny. Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes The Barley) excels at tales featuring the downtrodden in his own continent, and it’s admirable that he’s never been lured over to ours. The distillation process serves as a nice metaphor for Robbie’s own maturation process, and Loach quite accurately points out that a lad from Carntyne has slim chance against the establishment and the English. But he has also crafted the worst tourism ad for Glasgow since Trainspotting. The morality may be murky (criminal relapse justiﬁed because the only people hurt are whisky snob millionaires), the language somewhat shocking, but Loach’s underdogs win us over nonetheless, and just might win over new whisky lovers, to boot.

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CARSON Graham Grade 12 students Jasmine Price and Leah Newson (left photo) wrote a new musical, Oh My Heart, using some of their favourite tunes from Mother Mother’s albums. Scan with Layar app to view video of Ryan Guldemond visiting Carson Graham secondary during a rehearsal of the play.

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VANCOUVER-BASED indie rockers Mother Mother make more than just music, they also make memories. “We have quite a lot of younger fans,” says frontman Ryan Guldemond. “They really get into it and are devoted in a different way than us. I mean, adults make lovely fans too, but there’s just something about being 12, 13, 14, in that area, and really into a band. It means a lot.” Making their live music accessible to their under-19 fan base is “paramount” for the quintet. “If we had our way we’d just only do all-ages shows,” Guldemond says. “What it does is builds a lot of groundwork for nostalgia that will last

the rest of your life.” Guldemond, who grew up on Quadra Island, fondly remembers making the trip to Vancouver in the mid-‘90s for the Lollapalooza music festival. There, the pre-teen was awed by Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill, and other musicians in their heyday. “It was all a lot to take in and very exciting,” he recalls. “It was at the time around when I discovered guitar playing, so it deﬁnitely fuelled that ﬁre.” A tiny spot in a sea of spectators, Guldemond dreamed of being the one onstage. It was a lofty fantasy at the time, he admits. “So it’s pretty cool that it kind of turned out that way.” Mother Mother consists of Guldemond (vocals/guitar), his sister Molly Guldemond (vocals/synth), Jasmin Parkin (vocals/ keys), Jeremy Page (bass/horns) and Ali Siadat (percussion/electronics). The Juno Award-nominated band, known for their tri-harmony vocal arrangements and dynamic instrumentation, released their fourth studio album last fall under the Last Gang Records

label. Their radio hits include “Oh My Heart,” “Bit by Bit” and “The Stand.” Fans young and old can see the five-piece band play June 15 at the Malkin Bowl at Stanley Park, along with guest, North Vancouver’s psychedelic country rocker Dustin Bentall and his band The Smokes. It was after a similar all-ages concert at the Commodore Ballroom that Carson Graham secondary students Leah Newson and Jasmine Price first got the idea to write a musical based on the songs of Mother Mother. Months ago, the students reached out to the band on Facebook and asked permission to go ahead with the musical. “Yeah, go for it,” Guldemond replied. “And keep us posted, we’d love to see it.” He visited the school in February to help the drama students rehearse the production, Oh My Heart, which centres on high schooler Ana, confronted with a new love while she tries to reconcile her difficult past. Newson and Price adapted Mother Mother’s lyrics to suit the storyline. Guldemond caught one of the performances

Tricky ﬁnds himself among False Idols ■ Tricky — False Idols (False Idols Records) Rating: 9 (out of 10)

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BRILLIANT return to form from the Bristolborn trip-hop ﬂaneur. Like Baudelaire was to 19th century Paris, Tricky is to his 21st century arrondissement/neighbourhood — the quintessential modern urban observer of things going down. He has rarely seemed comfortable in his own skin and the celebrity that followed the success of his 1995 debut Maxinquaye was not worn well. Since that masterful stroke of controlled chaos Tricky has languished with the ups and downs of acting and music careers going nowhere fast. Accompanying the release of False Idols this week he issued a statement which puts the new work in context: “I was lost for ages,”

he says. “I was trying to prove something to people, trying to do something to please other people and also myself at the same time, which is never going to work. To be honest with you, I’ve been floating around since Chris Blackwell and Island. This album is about me finding myself again.” Even the name of the album, False Idols, addresses his feelings about the lost years in a show biz wilderness with little to show for it. Putting his name on things that had little to do with him. The tracks on the menacing street noir of Maxinquaye (named after Tricky’s late mother Maxin Quaye who died when he was four) were centred around the vocals of 15-year-old “find” Martina Topley-Bird and the new sessions have gone back to that formula in a sense using guest vocals from 24-year-old Londoner Francesca Belmonte and Fifi Rong throughout the work. Both singers record for the False Idols imprint — Tricky’s new label. Nigeria’s Nneka Egbuna and Peter Silberman (of The Antlers) also appear on the See Valentine page 38

last week and assures he isn’t being biased when he says it was great. “I thought it was funny and clever. I thought the writing was good and the kids were very endearing.” As for his upcoming gig at the Malkin Bowl, Guldemond says Mother Mother will perform tracks from their 2012 release The Sticks, the most conceptual album in their discography, themed around escape from modernity and retreat to a simple, more natural way of living. The lyrics can be taken quite literally, but Guldemond says, “I see it kind of more as a metaphor for enlightenment, or shedding the ego, the city being the ego and the forest being the true self.” The band will also play a “cocktail” of music from their entire repertoire. “We kind of like honouring those old songs anyway,” Guldemond says. “It is popularly believed that bands sort of spite their hits from days past and I think, you know, those hits or those songs that helped you gain more exposure are your good friends and they should be at the party too.”

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Jessica Lee turns a contest into a career Marianas Trench concert winner releases debut Nicholas M. Pescod Contributing Writer

IT all started with a simple dare from her roommate at the University of Ottawa urging her to enter in a contest put on by Marianas Trench.

“I am a Trencher as they say. I’ve always been following Marianas Trench and I love their music. I love the melodies and I would always sing along to Josh Ramsay and try and improve my singing,” Jessica Lee says. She was only 18 years old at the time and debated about even entering the contest. “I had an exam the next day and I thought I am too busy I don’t think I can do this,” Lee says. “But I laid down the vocals in one track and then one thing led to photo supplied another.” Lee received a phone call JESSICA Lee was “discovered” by Marianas Trench’s from Ramsay informing her Josh Ramsay after winning a contest to sing a song that she was selected out of with his band at Toronto’s Massey Hall. hundreds of hopeful constants to perform alongside the he pushes you to be better or be on the same Vancouver-based band at Massey Hall in level,” Lee says. “I had such an amazing time Toronto. that afterwards I wanted to keep doing it.” “I was absolutely shocked,” she says. “I Lee’s performance at Massey Hall was a life guess adrenaline kicked in and from then until changing moment for her. “After Massey Hall I the time I performed I didn’t have a chance to went back home and wrote an exam. Life went get nervous.” on and I started studying. I entered a bit of a On May 28, Lee, now 22, will be releasing depression because I realized I didn’t want to her first album titled Carried Away. The be doing what I was doing anymore. Ottawa native says listeners can expect to hear “Everything just went so much slower. I her original sound. wasn’t into anything I was doing in school “It’s light and fun pop. It’s music that I anymore. I wanted to be anywhere but there,” hope you can sing in your bedroom with your she says. girlfriends and a hairbrush,” Lee says. Eventually, Ramsay called Lee and asked her Although Lee has no formal musical to come out and sing the song they performed training, her musical roots go back to together at Massey Hall “Good to You” and be childhood. Lee used to sing in front of her part of the music video for it. father as he played the guitar. She also sang as a “It was an honour. I knew the song existed Disney princess at birthday parties. and had been pre-recorded by someone else. “My dad is a musician, he still actually plays So for them to say that they wanted to record gigs at local bars. He would always come home it with me for radio and do the music video when I was a little girl and he would bring his was the highest honour,” Lee says. “It was guitar out and start playing.” better than any A plus I’d ever been given. Lee is also a trained dancer of 14 years Flying out there and doing the video and being specializing in tap dance and hip-hop. She integrated into the music industry so quickly incorporates some of the techniques she was exhilarating. It was the best feeling.” learned in dance into her on-stage routines. For the next two years Lee travelled When it comes to songwriting Lee says that between Ottawa and Vancouver working on she tries to write relatable songs that people music projects while working towards a science can enjoy. degree. She often missed exams and eventually “I think that is the best way to get decided to relocate to Vancouver last August. inspiration for your songs is to take from things “It was always stressful because I was living you’ve actually experienced firsthand,” she in Ottawa yet I was living out of a suitcase. I says. “I would also say it’s 50 per cent fact, 50 never really felt like I had a permanent home,” per cent fiction, just to try and make it more she says. “That’s why I made the decision to relatable.” just move out to Vancouver and finish the She’s mainly influenced by singers such album.” as Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis, Kelly Although Lee began her studies at the Clarkson and Katy Perry. University of Ottawa she has since switched “I would pause Christina Aguilera’s songs over to online classes at the University of and try to do the same runs as her,” Lee says. Athabasca. Lee admits it is difficult balancing a “That music sounds challenging so I want to music career with her education. be on that level.” “Finding time to be a student and a She says performing with Ramsay and musician is challenging but it can be done. I Marianas Trench is a great experience. just want to get it done at this point. I am so “Performing with him is the best thing for you because he is such a talented vocalist and See Album page 38

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Album released on 604 Records Valentine made for Bjork

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close to having the degree I might as well just get it done,” she says. “I’ve always had really good time management and that is what helped me succeed in school in the ﬁrst place. It’s almost a switch you have to turn on.” Not long after ﬁlming the music video for “Good to You,” Lee was signed to 604 Records. “It was an incredible feeling. It was one of those things where you can genuinely take a moment to be proud of yourself . . . I’ve done well in school and sure I am proud when I do well on a test but it got boring and old hat,” she says. “This was something where I went on a limb and tried something different. I am really proud of where I am in my life.” Lee has had plenty of opportunities to work alongside Ramsay since being signed to 604 Records. “He is awesome. He literally is a musical genius. Everything he does, from when we are working or hanging out is something musical,” she says.

“He’s very encouraging but also the thing I like most about working with him is he pushes me to be a better singer because he has so much vocal experience,” she says. Lee is managed by Jonathan Simkin’s artist management company, SAM. The company also manages artists such as Carly Rae Jepsen, Fighting For Ithaca and Marianas Trench. She says having Simkin’s support and management team help her navigate through the industry has been huge. “He’s awesome. He’s always been very supportive right from the get-go. Even before they mentioned having a contract on the table, he’s always been super encouraging,” Lee says. “Even now he’s got an amazing team of people working for me,” she adds. The former birthday party singer says her favourite Disney movie growing up was The Little Mermaid. “Arial is my favourite and that was my favourite to dress up as,” Lee says. “She had the best songs so that obviously made her the best princess to me.” For more on Jessica Lee and Carried Away go to jessicaleemusic.com/tag/604-records.

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album while other familiar names brought into the mix through their music include Van Morrison (via Patti Smith’s reading of “Gloria” / “Somebody’s Sins”), David Sylvain (“Hey Love”) and Rodgers and Hart (“Valentine”). The latter track is an “apology” to Bjork Tricky told Fact Magazine in an excellent interview (factmag. com/2013/04/25/false-idols-tricky-on-upsetting-jordanthatchers-legacy-and-that-glastonbury-appearance-with-beyonce/) that came out just prior to the album’s release. Other than that personal note he has nothing to apologize for on False Idols.

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Call 604-657-1421 HAWLEY William “Bill” “G”, Nov. 6, 1923 - May 27, 2013

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Sally passed away peacefully in Phoenix, Arizona on May 11, 2013. She spent her childhood and adult years in Vancouver, but loved to travel the world and thrived in the dry, sunny winters of Arizona. Sally was predeceased by mother, Joan Palmer, father, Donald Palmer, and sister, Gretchen Palmer. She is survived by brother, Don Palmer, husband, Demetrios (Tyke) Babalos, daughters, Krystie Babalos and Karen Best, son-in-law, Martin Best, and grand-children Devin, Keegan and Aidan. We all miss her greatly!! Sally was her family’s guiding light, facilitator, thoughtful advisor and confidante! She was determined to make her family better people! She attended high school in West Vancouver and completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of British Columbia. She thereafter was a teacher in Comox, Prince George and North Vancouver. Sally loved her family and friends and exploring the world with loved ones. She loved immersing herself in the outdoors and cross-country skiing, hiking, biking and sailing. She loved reading great novels, participating in book clubs and enjoying the arts. She lived a healthy life; spending time outdoors, eating fresh food from the garden and spending time with family and friends. In lieu of sending flowers, please send donations to BC Children’s Hospital Foundation. A celebration of Sally’s life and going away party will be held in the latter half of June. Date, time, and location to be announced shortly. Please email tykealt@gmail.com to join.

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Passed away peacefully on May 29, 2013 at the age of 84. Predeceased by his wife, Margarita Schwedhelm. Dr Walter will be lovingly remembered by his children Alejandro (Gabriella), Ricardo (Denise), Alice (Mario), Karin (Carlos), his twelve grandchildren, two great grandchildren and his sister Alma (in Mexico); as well as his wife Hilary, her children Elizabeth and David (Melissa) and her four grandchildren. Walter will be remembered as an avid and enthusiastic hiker with the West Vancouver Seniors. Condolences will be received at the Pinnacle Hotel in North Vancouver on Saturday, June 1, 2013 from 4:00pm to 6:00 pm. If friends so desire; memorial donations may be made to the charity of one’s choice.

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Bill was born in Manchester, England and emigrated with his family to Canada in 1957. Before leaving Ashton UnderLyne where he grew up, he served in the Merchant Navy from 1942 to 1951. While in the Navy he travelled to many ports, his favourite being New York City. It was during a leave back in Ashton where he met Mary McCaul, his loving wife of 56 years. After leaving the Navy, Bill worked as an electrician until his retirement. Bill was a devoted son, brother, husband, father, granddad and great granddad. He raised his family in East Vancouver and later moved to the North Shore. For the past 14 years Bill devoted countless hours to the Kiwanis Care Home, bringing happiness to all the residents by running the store and calling bingo. An active naval vet, Bill never missed a Battle of the Atlantic ceremony at Waterfront Park. Bill was a wonderful storyteller, he could always draw the listeners in for hours; and they would often leave legless. Over the years Bill has kept himself busy pursuing his hobbies and spending time with friends and family. He loved taking his grandson to the shooting range, cooking a roast beef dinner, watching hockey, participating in choir, eating at the White Spot and the Keg, reading mysteries and singing Karaoke, but most of all he loved a good game of crib; he taught all his family members how to play and no one could count a hand faster. In recent years he travelled back to England to spend his summers with his sister, Gladys. Bill was predeceased by his wife Mary, their son, Keith, and his sister Mary. He will be lovingly remembered by his sister Gladys, brother Frances, daughters Cathy and Pam, sons-in-law Jurgen and Rob, grandchildren Erin, Graham, Brett, Jen, Dylan, Bryn, Landon and Cameron, greatgrandchildren Christian, Oscar, Jack and countless other friends. Special thanks to Lorna for being such a good companion and getting him back on his feet. Here’s to the girl that lived on the hill… Goodbye G A service will be held at Boal Chapel, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver on Monday, June 3, 2013 at 2:00 pm.

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Sadly, on Saturday May 25, 2013, Gloria passed away peacefully. Loving wife of 53 years to Rod; dear mother to sons, Greg (Vanessa) of New Westminster and Ross (Rina) of Australia; sister to Joan Michael; and proud grandmother of 6 wonderful grandchildren. Gloria also leaves to mourn her passing many extended family and friends. She enjoyed life and was always lending a helping hand and sharing her smile with others. Those who knew Gloria will remember her for her vibrant personality. The family extends their gratitude to the care providers at Origin at Longwood and Astoria for the special care they were able to provide. A Funeral Mass will be held at the Catholic Church of the Ascension, 887 Wembley Road in Parksville, BC on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 11:00 am. There will be a reception to follow. An informal memorial service will also be held in North Vancouver at a later date. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Gloria’s memory to the Alzheimer Society of BC, # 200 - 1585 Bowen Rd., Nanaimo BC V9S 1G4. To send a condolence to the family please visit www.yatesfuneral.ca YATES FUNERAL SERVICE & CREMATORIUM (1.877.264.3848) in care of arrangements.

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BIG orange CAT found Friendly and medium to long hair. Found at 1st & Lonsdale on 5/24, No collar, & taken by bylaws to Northwest Animal Shelter. FOUND Ragdoll CAT, female, in Lower Lonsdale area. email: janaraewiebe@gmail.com

LOST YELLOW Bicycle Jacket MEC Gore-Tex Yellow and black bicycle jacket, lost mid-May Edgemont Village area. Call: (604) 328-0955 ROCHE POINT Area Lost Cat Neutered male black DSH cat, about 1 year old, answers to Pudge. Lost May 23rd (778) 898 -6878 or dumguy65@gmail.com KEY FOUND at Edgemont Vlg. Call to describe. (604) 990-8904

LOST DOG, 'Mitzi' - Mon. May 13, Lynn Valley Rd. Small Female Shi-tzu/Poodle X. Call if seen, 604-219-9321 * REWARD*

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Ron & Doris Davies

will be celebrating their 60th Wedding Anniversary on Sunday June 2nd.

After being high school sweethearts, they were married on June 2, 1953 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Ron and Doris lived in North Vancouver for 40 years, where they raised their 3 children and are now the proud grandparents of 9 Grandchildren. Ron spent 18 years as CEO of North Shore Credit Union and once he retired served as a Board Member for another 12 years, giving him 30 years of service with the North Shore Credit Union. Ron and Doris are now enjoying their retirement in Langley.

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Domestics

NANNY - West Vancouver Live-in/Live-out Full-time Nanny required for West Vancouver family. 3 children: 1 yr old girl, 2 boys (4 & 6 yrs old). Must have recent nanny or childcare experience. Ability to travel with family. Live in 4 days ideal. $50,000 per year. Call Abby Rubin (604) 836-2672 and email resume to abbyrubin@shaw.ca Website: www.abbyrubin.com WANTED: HOUSEKEEPER Seeking a housekeeper for a private home in West Vancouver. 2 adults and 1 dog. Minimum of 2.5 days per week. Must be very reliable and honest. This is a long term opportunity. Refs required. Please reply to box N22 C/O North Shore News #100-126 E 15th Street., North Vancouver, BC V7L 2P9

To advertise call

604-630-3300

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Drivers

DRIVERS WANTED AZ, DZ, 3 or 1 with airbrakes: Terrific career opportunity with outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects using nondestructive testing. Plus extensive paid travel, meal allowance, 4 weeks vacation and benefits pkg. Skills Needed Ability to travel 6 months at a time, Apply online at www.sperryrail.com under careers. Click here to apply, keyword: Driver. DO NOT FILL IN CITY OR STATE. EOE

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General Employment

P/T Experienced Tree Climber, certified Arborist Required Immediately, call 604-986-4091

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General Employment

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Earn extra cash to supplement your current income or pay off your bills. Now hiring delivery contractors for the Sun, Province & National Post in the West Vancouver area. Must have reliable vehicle and be available from 2am to 6am daily. Earn up to $900/mo. Call to find the route closest to you.

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TRUTH IN ''EMPLOYMENT'' ADVERTISING Glacier Media Group makes every effort to ensure you are responding to a reputable and legitimate job opportunity. If you suspect that an ad to which you have responded is misleading, here are some hints to remember. Legitimate employers do not ask for money as part of the application process; do not send money; do not give any credit card information; or call a 900 number in order to respond to an employment ad. Job opportunity ads are salary based and do not require an investment. If you have responded to an ad which you believe to be misleading please call the Better Business Bureau at 604-682-2711, Monday to Friday, 9am - 3pm or email inquiries@bbbvan.org and they will investigate.

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Insurance

2 NEW POSITIONS OPEN 1. Personal Lines CSR - energetic sales oriented with a level 1 or 2 license. Min. 1 - 2 years’ exp. 2. Junior CSR - sales oriented. Level 1 license preferred but will train right person. We offer top wages and benefits. Email: ibiresume@shawbiz.ca

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Medical/Dental

WEST VAN CDA with ortho module, for busy office. F/T Mon Thurs, call Sandi 604-922-0111

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Office Personnel

RECEPTIONIST Very busy, multi-company business located in North Vancouver has an immediate opening for a Full-Time Receptionist. The successful applicant will be energetic, outgoing, able to work well in a team environment, punctual, courteous as well as being able to maintain a balance between professionalism & enthusiasm. Valid drivers license required. Apply via email to: bridges@surespan.com

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H & V Infinity Design in North Van requires a F/T Residential Home Builder & Renovator, with 1-2 years exp. $17.50 hr. Email: hamid_hvinfinitydesign @yahoo.ca

Ad#: CONTRACTOR/LABOURER for Reno team. Wide range of skills/tasks.School or industry exp. 5+ yrs. info@designden.ca PARTS PERSON. Join BC’s Largest Volume Outdoor Power Equipment Sales and Service Center with over 20 employees serving BC since 1986. We require immediately, one FullTime(Year-round) experienced Parts Person to join our Parts Department. Duties include Counter Sales, Telephone inquiries and Sales, Parts Lookup(Both Computer and Manual), Inventory stocking and merchandising. This F/T position requires applicant to have knowledge f the outdoor power equipment industry, superior customer service skills, and excellent communicative and organizational skills. Medical and Dental plan. Salary is commensurate with experience. Mail resume to: Fraser Valley Equipment Ltd., 13399 72nd Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3W-2N5, Fax: 604-599-8840, Email:

terry@fraservalleyequipment.com

Social Services

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. Training, support and remuneration are provided. Funding is available for modifications to better equip your home. A child at risk is waiting for an open door. Make it yours. Call 604-708-2628 www.plea.ca caregiving@plea.bc.ca

SMALL ENGINE TECHNICIAN. Join BC’s Largest Volume Outdoor Power Equipment Sales and Service Center with over 20 employees serving BC since 1986. We require immediately, one FullTime(Year-round) experienced Service Technician to join our extremely busy service centre. This F/T position requires the applicant to have extensive knowledge of 2cycle and 4cycle engines, all lawn and garden equipment and related power equipment. Industry certification is definitely an asset. Medical and Dental plan. Salary is commensurate with experience. Mail resume to: Fraser Valley Equipment Ltd., 13399 72nd Avenue, Surrey, BC, V3W-2N5, Fax: 604-599-8840, Email: terry@fraservalleyequipment.com

GARAGE SALES WEST VAN SPRING SALE Sun 9am - NOON 3521 Creery Ave. off 3500 Block of Marine Dr. Cabin Collectibles, decor, household items, art supplies, a good variety!

WEST VANCOUVER Moving Sale, 860-870-880 Taylorwood Place Neighbourhood Sale!: Saturday June 1, 10 AM - 2 PM, Books, Office/Household Stuff, Kids Stuff, Board Games...etc.

BRITISH PROPERTIES 97 Deep Dene Place Sat. June 1, 10 AM - 6 PM, Sun. June 2, 10 AM - 6 PM. The neighbours of Deep Dene Place in the British Properties are gathering to collaborate on a MASSIVE garage sale. We look forward to seeing you there! Rain or Shine. NORTH VAN

Huge Multi Family Garage Sale

Sat June 1, 9am-2pm WENTWORTH AVE (off Highland Blvd) Household items, furn, kids stuff, dinner setting, some thing for everyone! etc etc.

NORTH VANCOUVER, Garage Sale, 5417 Ranger Ave. Saturday June 1, 9 AM - 1 PM, Huge garage sale! Lots of baby & kids’ items (cribs, books, toys) plus lots more. Rain or Shine.

NORTH VANCOUVER, Garage Sale, 211 East 18th Street (in (in Alley), Alley) Sat. June 1, 10 AM - 1 AM PM Antiques from Grandma’s storage, side tables, Toys, house hold items, Mountain Buggy Double stroller, Dining table, bar stools and more. Please No no Early Birds

SHOPAHOLIC PURGE! Garage Sale, 1040 BEAUMONT DRIVE Saturday June 1, 9 AM - 12 PM, Antique furniture, china, kitchen and decor items, clothes, jewelry, designer shoes and more!! We got it all!! No earlies! Rain or Shine. ************************** UPPER LYNN, GARAGE SALE 4586 Underwood Avenue Saturday June 1, 8 AM - 12 PM Rain or Shine. **************************

NORTH VAN, Garage Sale, 1361 Dovercourt Road Sat. June 1, 9 AM - 1 PM HUGE CLEAROUT Household items/decor, camping gear, books, toboggan, huge mega blocks dragons set. Bargains galore; everything must go!! NORTH VAN

MULTI FAMILY GARAGE SALE Sun, June 2, 10am - 2pm 428 E 17th St (lane) Curios, Bric abrac, furniture, linens, ladies clothes med-xl, etc.

NORTH VAN

Garage Sale

Sat June 1st, 9-2

801 Regal Cres

Household items, furniture, home decor, kids/baby clothes, toys, etc. North Vancouver

Multi Family Moving Sale

Sat June 1st, 9-Noon 2499 Hayseed Close (The Whole Cul-D-Sac) Blue Ridge Area

Household, furniture, toys, books and More!

FEATURED EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRIAL ELECTRICIAN/ INSTRUMENT MECHANIC ERCO Worldwide is the world’s leading supplier of chlorine dioxide technology, and the second largest producer of sodium chlorate in North America. Our business headquarters are in Toronto, with six manufacturing sites in Canada, two in the US, and one in South America. ERCO Worldwide’s North Vancouver facility has immediate employment opportunity for a key position within our organization. This person reports to the Maintenance Manager, and must have the following qualifications. • A Grade 12 diploma, and dual TQ ticket as an Industrial Electrician / Instrument Mechanic, with a minimum of 5 years experience in a chemical or industrial manufacturing environment is preferable. • An Industrial Electrician with Industrial Instrument experience in a chemical or industrial manufacturing environment will also be considered. An industrial instrument mechanic apprenticeship would be available to the appropriate candidate. • Experience with general Industrial electrical systems including high voltage automated controls, DCS and PLC systems. • Computer systems including networking, addressing and associated equipment. • Experience with technical Electrical testing equipment. • Experience with industrial instrumentation equipment and systems. • Superior troubleshooting skills. Successful candidates will be well-organized, adaptable self-starters with strong communication skills and proven safety and environmental track records. Wages and benefits are competitive within the industry, including a four-day work week. The working environment encourages the achievement of personal best within an overall framework of effective teamwork. Submit your resume in confidence no later than June 10, 2013 to: Helene Holt, Administration Manager hholt@ercoworldwide.com Fax: (604) 929 8277

North Van

HUGE MOVING SALE 662 East Osborne Rd Sunday, June 2nd 10am - 3pm Power tools, garden tools, household items North Van

GARAGE SALE

Saturday, June 1st, 9:00am-2:00pm 4577 Ramsay Road Household items, small furniture, tools and books. NORTH VAN HUGE 3 FAMILY SALE

Sat & Sun June 1st & 2nd 8am - 3pm 633 Fir off Larsen & Westview Something for everyone!!

NORTH VAN MULTI FAMILY GARAGE SALE Sat, June 1st, 8am - 1pm 4048 Delbrook Ave Something for everyone! All proceeds to Terry Fox Foundation. North Van MOVING SALE Sat, June 1st, 9am-1pm 978 Sonora Place Upper Capilano Oak dining set, queen & double bed, leather chairs, electrical saws, patio set, 22 ft ladder & more

North Van ESTATE SALE Sat, June 1st, 9am-4pm 1054 West 22nd St Pemberton Heights China, glassware, antiques, collectibles, gardening tools, sports equipment, work bench, small kitchen appliances, bric-a-brac & furniture North Van Huge Garage Sale! Sat. June 1st, 9am - 2 pm 1514 MacGowan Ave. Fabric, yarn, cone thread, knitting machine with ribber, sewing machine, heat sealing machine, antique dresser with mirror, stroller, books, shoes & much more! Lots of great stuff. All must go priced to sell! NORTH VANCOUVER ST. TIMOTHY’S GARAGE SALE Sat June 1st, 9am - 2pm 130 Kensington Cres. Upper Lonsdale Big variety !! Large and small items. Books, households, jewelry & more.. West Van MOVING SALE Sat, June 1st, 9am - 1pm 4702 Caulfeild Dr Patio furniture, life jackets, wet suits, sporting equipment, kitchenwares, cds, dvds, garden supplies, furniture & lots more! NORTH VAN

North Van

MOVING SALE Sat. June 1st, 10am-2pm 698 Seymour Blvd.

Assorted household items, massage table, china cups, antique sewing machine, ’78 records, car chains & ski rack, 3 burner camp stove, Robo Coupe chopper, bread machine, dishes, coffee & end tables, wood dining room table & 4 chairs, books, toys, games & more. No early Birds please.

308 East 10th St MULTI FAMILY GARAGE SALE Sat, June 1st, 9am-3pm

Furniture, sports equipment, plants, clothing (child/women, young mens popular labels), hockey card collection, speakers, bedding, John Daly Staff golf bag (new), ping pong table & misc. To preview young mens popular labels Phone 604-986-4673

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Tutoring Services

CERTIFIED MATH TEACHER. Senior math, calculus, IB, AP, SAT programs. K-12. 604-929-6262

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Cats

Dogs

2 MALE PRESA Canario Dewormed twice. 2nd shot complete, CCC Reg. 604-807-2813 PB STD Apricot poodle avail for stud $400. 4lb pb fawn chihuahua for stud $500. 604-607-5003

MINI Dachshund Puppies CKC Reg’d Vet check 1st shots health guarantee $1200 778-388-1057

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Homecare Available

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Metaphysical

TRUE PSYCHICS For Answers CALL NOW 24/7 Toll FREE 1-877-342-3032

Mobile: #4486 www.truepsychics.ca

Dogs

GOLDEN RETRIEVER pups CKC reg, vet ck’d, ch parents, health tested. Ph 604-794-3786

The North Shore News has partnered with the BC SPCA to encourage responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals. Before purchasing a new puppy, ensure the seller has provided excellent care and treatment of the animal and the breeding parents. For a complete guide to ﬁnding a reputable breeder and other considerations when acquiring a new pet, visit spca.bc.ca.

MARKETPLACE Appliances

ILAC APPLIANCE & VACUUMS

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604-987-7330

2015

Art & Collectibles

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Furniture

5 PC solid cherry wood BR ste, $1020, was $6000. 3 PC sold alder wood entertain unit, $1500, was $14,000. 604-926-9688

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Burial Plots

FOREST LAWN CEMETERY PLOT, Ascension section $7900 obo. Call 604-987-2948

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For Sale Miscellaneous

WHEEL CHAIR 'BREEZY 600' $1,500 OBO, foor to ceiling pole $100. 604-754-7621

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Furniture

MURPHY BED single w/built in end drawers& storage $300, 3 piece teak ent unit $400, pedestal glass bistro table & 2 chairs $100. All obo 604-987-3484

FURNITURE oak dining suite 6 chairs, upper & lower hutch $1500; chair $150, tables $100 each; love seat $200; desk $75, maple chest $100, queen size bed set (2 end tables & lowboy) $650; fine china for 8-300 lamps $150. CALL after 4pm 604-926-5260

6008-01 Money to Loan

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No Credit Checks! Cash same day, local ofﬁce

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Legal/Public Notices

Notice to Creditors and Others. MARILYN FERNE BROWN aka MARILYN FERN BROWN deceased, formerly of #801 - 2190 Bellevue Avenue, West Vancouver, B.C., V7V 1C4 (the 'Deceased'). Creditors and others having claims against the estate of the Deceased are hereby notified under section 38 of the Trustee Act that particulars of their claims should be sent to the executor c/o Cobbett & Cotton Law Corp. #300 - 410 Carleton Avenue, Burnaby, B.C. V5C 6P6, on or before June 24, 2013, after which date the executor will distribute the estate among the parties entitled to it, having regard to the claims of which the executrix then has notice. TREVOR HASSALL Executor

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Body Work

$395,000 / 2br - approx 900ft Lions Bay Ocean, Mtn View Property for Sale by Owner This 2nd story strata unit in res/comm bldg Updated h/wood & tile, SS appl, inste ldry. Great investment property. Please Contact 604.892.3823 or 604.892.4019 G. Smillie Holdings Ltd.

6008-02

Abbotsford

IMMACULATE TOP fl 963sf 2 br condo, insuite laundry, +55 building, $121,500 604-309-3947 see uSELLaHOME.com id5565

TOP FLR 762sf 1br condo, in-ste laundry, 45+ building Mt. Baker view $85,000. 778-822-7387 see uSELLaHOME.com id5553

6008-14

Maple Ridge/ Pitt Mead.

IMMACULATE 2446SF 4br 4ba t/h. Incredible view, huge master br $405,000, 604-466-3175 see uSELLaHOME.com id5226

New Westminster

3 DRAWER metal desk, good cond, must pickup, biege color, call 604-984-7420 CIRCA 1980 basic tent trailer, sleeps four, good condition, 604-837-5439 FREE FILL - Delivered for free. North & West Van. Minimum 5 yards. 604-985-4211 KITCHEN TABLE WHITE & 4 upholstered chairs in good condition. U Pick Up. 604-925-1393

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Wanted to Buy

PHOENIX MASSAGE CTR. Now Open - New Girls Chinese,

Japenese, Korean, Punjabi, Thai, Caucasian. Great Massage Now Hiring. 10am-Midnight every day.

2263 Kingsway at Nanaimo St. Van., 604.294.8038

The Art of Asian Bodycare 7days, 10am-8pm, 604-980-8809 101-1075 Marine Dr, North Van

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Lions Gate Hospital Thrift Shop 128 West 15th St. North Van. Mon.-Sat. 10:00 to 4:00 (604) 987-5938

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Richmond

STEVESTON VERY large 1284 sf 2br 2ba top fl condo amazing mtn views, $455K 604-275-7986 see uSELLaHOME.com id5376

The Fox Den @ Metro Town 100 Vancouver Escorts online

OIL Painting Signed:LUINI $80

TOP FLOOR quiet side of bldg 650sf 1br+den condo nr Hosp, & Sky train $244K 778-241-4101 see uSELLaHOME.com id5580

Escort Services

CASH PAID! TEAK FURN. + All RETRO & ANTIQUE items & collectibles Derek 604-442-2099 Thanks!

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S. Surrey/ White Rock

PARTIAL OCEAN view, 920sf 2br+den 2ba quiet condo, kids, pets ok. $309,000 778-294-2275 see uSELLaHOME.com id5575

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Surrey

NEWTON 723SF 1br ground level w/private entry, insuite laundry $139,900 604-984-8891 see uSELLaHOME.com id5546

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Houses - Sale

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Chilliwack

AGASSIZ NEW 2350sf 3br 2.5 Bath, high end finishing, huge master $349,000 604-729-0186 see uSELLaHOME.com id5603

For Sale by Owner

6015

SMALL PEACEFUL farm set up for horses right beside South Langley riding trail. Bright & comfortable older 2 bd home, f/p, barn, riding rings, pastures. $849,900. Call 604-323-4788 See Propertyguys.com ID: 76788

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Recycler

Condos/ Townhouses

Real Estate

Lumber/Building Supplies

STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS - UP TO 60% OFF! 30x40, 40x60, 50x80, 60x100, 80x100 sell for balance owed! Call: 1-800-457-2206 www.crownsteelbuildings.ca 999% SILVER Spoon & Fork $200 Lions Gate Hospital Thrift Shop 128 West 15th Street North Van. Mon. to Sat. 10:00 - 4:00 (604) 987-5938

Condos/ Townhouses

Borrow Up To $25,000

Cares!

PB KANE Corso ready, m/f, dew claws/tails, 1st/2nd shots, deworm, $1500, 604-802-8480

2010

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LUXURY PET HOTEL @ YVR New customer special $27/ night restriction apply www.jetpetresort.com

Real Estate Services

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CAREGIVER/COMPANION European lady with tremendous care experience, seeking client(s) as caregiver/companion. I am also accredited massage therapist. Income negotiable depending on responsibilities. Amazing references. email: inhomecare7@gmail.com

BENGAL KITTENS, vet ✔ 1st shots dewormed, sweet natured, $500. Mission 1-604-814-1235

604-724-7652

REAL ESTATE 6020

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Langley/ Aldergrove

FORT LANGLEY 2300sf 5br w/suite above 3 additional rental units $965K 604-882-6788 see uSELLaHOME.com id5533

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Surrey

CULTUS LK gardener’s dream 1160 sf 2 br 1.5 ba rancher, a/c 55+ complex $63K 604-858-9301 see uSELLaHOME.com id5400

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Langley/ Aldergrove

FLEETWOOD RENO’D 2140sf 4br 3ba, large 7100sf lot, bsmt suite $539,000. 604-727-9240 see uSELLaHOME.com id5617

Houses - Sale

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Real Estate

At WE BUY HOMES We CASH YOU OUT FAST! We Also Take Over Your Payments Until Your Home is Sold. No Fees! No Risk! Call us First! (604)- 626-9647 www.webuyhomesbc.com

ALDERGROVE SXS DUPLEX 80K below assessment. $3K/mo rent $529,900 firm 604-807-6565 see uSELLaHOME.com id3428

GUILDFORD 1900SF 3br 2ba w/basement suite on huge 8640 sf lot, $479,000 604-613-1553 see uSELLaHOME.com id5608

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North Van Apt. Rentals

INTERNATIONAL PLAZA CRANBROOK 2060SF 4br 3ba reno’d home w/side suite on 2 lots $239,900 778-887-4530 see uSELLaHOME.com id5304 GUILDFORD MAGNIFICENT 4952sf 10br 6.5ba back on creek, main floor master br, $729K 604-581-5541 see: uSELLaHOME.com id5506

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S. Surrey/ White Rock LANGLEY RENOD sxs duplex +1/2ac lot, rental income $2,200 /month $489,900 604-807-6565 see uSELLaHOME.com id3186

COMPLETELY UPDATED approx 2000 sf, 4 BR, 3 full bth, central loc, RV prkg, nr schools,

shops & bus. $795,000. 778-233-5500

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Recreation Property

Other Areas BC

WEST SECHELT, custom built home, 3000 sq ft, 3-6 bdrm, 3 full baths, gas f/p, gourmet kitchen, vaulted ceilings, skylights, partial ocean view, close to school & shops, Reduced $509,000 to $487,500. 604-885-7088

Lots & Acreage

Bachelors! 1 Bedrooms! 2 Bedrooms! City & Mtn. Views. Includes heat & hot water. Pool, Jacuzzi, sauna & tennis courts on site. Security & video monitoring. On major bus route.

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★ CENTRAL LONSDALE ★June 1 Spacious 1 BR. Features large kitchen, lots of storage, heat/hot water incl. N/s, n/p. $960 June 15 604-983-0634 1 & 2 BR’s, view, avail Now, 1 year lse, 125 West 19th, N/S, No Pets, coin w/d, 778-554-0537

1 Br, $880, 1st flr, June 1 Heat & h/w incl. quiet. gated, free outside prkg, no pets 1 yr lease. 310 E. 2nd. 604-700-7572

1 BR, ChesterfIeld & 15th, mnt view, balc. $880 & up, incl ht, hw, cbl, NP, 1 yr lse, 604-330-4555 1 BR + DEN, 188 E. Esplanade, 735 sf + balc, $1500 incl hw/ht, a/c, f/p, ss appl, ns, pets ok, walk to Seabus, July 1. 604-985-8689

HATZIC LAKE 1 hr drive from Vanc, 2 vacant lots 1 is lakefront $65K is for both 604-302-3527 see uSELLaHOME.com id5588

1 BR+ den garden apt, E. 2nd St ns, pet ok, hydro/heat storage/ prkg incl. $1,275 604-813-1985 1 BR, Fab View, all new bath/ kitch/appls, 800sf, top corner, avail now, $1600, 604-986-4927 1 BR large, 10th flr, Vista E. bldg, view, prkg, locker, ss appls, July 1st, $1250 ref req 604-617-0905

LANGLEY NR town fully reno’d 2474sf home on 5ac ppty, bsmt suite $1,150,000 604-825-3966 see uSELLaHOME.com id5582

Okanagan/ Interior

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MERRITT HERITAGE style 3070 sf 4br 5ba on 9.9ac lot detached shop, view $895K 250-378-8857 see uSELLaHOME.com id5592

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HATZIC LAKE Swans Point, 1 hr from Vanc incl lot & 5th wheel ski, fish, $134,500. 604-209-8650 see uSELLaHOME.com id5491

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Recreation Property

OCEAN FRONT boat access only 2 yr old 1600sf 3br 2.5ba 30min from W Van $799K 778-998-9141 see uSELLaHOME.com id5424

Industrial/Commercial

BY OWNER!

★ Strata Warehouse for Sale!★ Near Capilano Mall, Renovated Offices, Partially rented to long term tenants. Ground floor 2500sf, first floor 1200sf with 2 offices & storage area. Excellent Investment Property available June or July. For more info please call

★604-862-0949 ★

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604.630.3300

Apartments & Condos

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North Van Apt. Rentals

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Apartments & Condos

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West Van Apt. Rentals

Delbrook Gardens 777 W. Queens, 2 br $1595, 3 br $2100 604-990-2971, Wkends 778-227-5042

LE CHATEAU

Bright clean apts - Lynn Valley Spacious 1 BR $1050 + hydro, extra $35 for u/g prkg, bike & locker room avail, coin operated laundry in bsmt. Call Michele 604-980-9219 lechateau1110@gmail.com

151 W. 2nd St. 604-908-7368, 1 BR on 11th flr., balc, pkg, no pets, lease, $1400. 1BR, ste, $925, Avail June 1 Gated prkg, quiet, drapes, heat incl. no pets, 1 yr lease, 321 East 2nd. 604-987-5802

1BR W. 20th & Lonsdale, heat, hw & prkg, no pet, ns, June 1st. Refs req’d. 604-960-0452 1 BDRM, Central Lonsdale, 2nd floor, newer reno’s incl’d new appliances, faces north, heat & h/water incl, no pets, $1150 June 1, 604-838-5020, 604-699-5264

DODWELL STRATA MGT

2 BDRM, Central Lonsdale, 3rd floor, very lrg suite, newer reno’s incl’d new appliances, faces south, heat & h/water incl, no pets, $1750 June 1st, 604-838-5020, 604-699-5264

DODWELL STRATA MGT

2 BR $1130 July 1, cntrl Lonsdale, carpets, incls heat & h/w, no pets, 604-986-6418 2 BR 2 bath, bright, brand new building, high ceiling, ss appls, gym, nr Cap Mall, bus. Furnished $1850, unfurnished $1650, avail June 1st, np 604-356-2639 2 BR, corner, Lonsdale & 6, hardwood, storage, new paint, cat ok $1275, Now, 604-986-4927 2 BR large, $1200, July 1st, heat, hot water, hardwood flrs, storage, ns, np, 604-971-2456 3 BR- Branches Complex Lynn Valley, nearby schools, mall, transit. $1825, available July 1st. 604-351-9777 www.lougheedproperties.com BACH $850/mo New Reno’s, June 15th, heat, hotwater, h/w floors, ns, np, 604-971-2456 BACHELOR: UPDATED Basement unit in a quiet building. Available June 1st $725/month includes heat, H/W & hydro. Ph 604-726-4884.

MOUNTAIN VILLAGE APTS 2 BR & 3 BR Apt, June 1st Call 604-988-3828 www.mountainvillage.ca

MOVE-IN BONUS Vista Del Mar

145 West Keith Road. Studios (Avail Now & June 1) 1 BR’s (Avail June 1) 2 BR’s (Avail June 1) Beautiful views. Indoor pool. Heat & Hot Water included. Small pet ok. 604-986-3356

PARKRIDGE TERRACE 110 E. Keith Rd. Great location, park like setting, sauna, indoor pool, parking available. ★ Bachelor $850 No pets, 604-988-7379 www.glassmanpm.com

RAVENWOODS 2 br,2 bath, 4th flr, lrg deck, ns /np, w/d, 2 prkg, storage, bike rm, bus rte July 1st $1,800 incl. Refs 604-690-9100 Woodcroft 1 BR apt, Seymour bldg, balcony, prkg, storage, $1100 incl utils. 604-318-4778 WOODCROFT CAPILANO Bldg, lrge 2 bdrm, patio, updated,i/door pool, jacuzzi, gym, n/s, n/p July 1st $1,550/mth. 604-982-4017

6505-12

West Van Apt. Rentals

Westwind Apts 2025 Bellevue Ave, 2 bdrm mnt view & bach. Cat OK Senior discount 604-913-0734

1 & 2 BDRM

Recently reno’d, available in quiet waterfront building, spectacular ocean view, No pets, non-smoking. 2180 Argyle Ave. West Vanc. 604-913-1849 for viewing appointment 2 BR, Marine/19th, view, 7th flr, 3 appls, $1675 incls heat, hw & cable, np ns. 604-925-8851

AMBLESIDE TOWER

Studios (Avail June 1), 1 BR’s (Avail Now & June 1), 2 BR’s (Avail June 1). Mnt/Ocean views, incl. heat & h/w. Tennis courts, indoor pool, saunas, exercise & games rooms. Walk to beach & shops. Small pet ok.

604-922-8443

Luxury Over The Seawall! BACHELOR, 1 BR, pool, rec. room, pet ok, 2190 Bellevue Ave 604-926-6287

Park Royal Towers

Completely Renovated All Utilities Included

1 BR (700-770 sq.ft.) 2 BR (1070 sq.ft.) 3 BR (1370 sq.ft.) Penthouse (1650 sq.ft.) Spectacular City & Ocean Views’ Huge Balconies Walk to Shops & Transit Hardwood Floors Gym, Swimming Pool

604-922-3246 935 Marine Drive

www.parkroyaltowersapt.com

6515

Duplexes - Rent

6595

Shared Accommodation

6595-45 1800sf, 3 Bdrm, master, ensuite w/double jetted tub, walk-in closet, back yard with huge deck & huge mature trees, $2900/mth. Refs req’d. 406 E. 4th St. By Appt only. 604-984-2030. Pics avail

North Vancouver

Bright Furn room, tv, w/d, shd kitch, in lovely quiet home for NS healthy female $495 inclusive or less for small help 604-987-3726 SHARE 3 BR furnished house, near bus stop, shops, professional or student, internet, avail Now, $490/mo, 604-929-9667

STUNNING OCEANFRONT LOCATION Shorewood Manor 2020 Bellevue Avenue Large 2 BR from $3000 Unobstructed Water Views Professionally Managed Indoor pool, No Pets, Incl Heat & Hot Water Call 604.926.2713 www.austeville.com

GRANDMANOR GUESTHOUSE Furnished Accom, Day/Wk/Mo grandmanor.ca 604-988-6082

1 BR garden lvl ste, Lynn Valley, nr bus/trails/shops, $875 + utils, ns, w/d, July 1, 778-872-0971

WATERFRONT LUXURY

HOMAWAY INNS Specializing in furn accom at reas rates. call 604-723-7820 or visit www.homawayinns.com

1 BR, priv sep waterfront cottage. nr Cap U/bus, ns, own wd July 1 $1200 incl cbl/net 778-998-1921

RENTALS 604-980-3606

1 BDRM, reno’d, large corner $900, balc, heat/hw inc, h/w fl, np/ ns Adult bldg, ref’s. 604-904-9507

BEST LAKE FRONT FROM VAN only 1 hr, nr Bellingham, 2,900 sft, 5 br, 4.5 bath, 19 yr old home. Beautiful low bank waterfront, $679,000. Call 604-734-1300

6030

1989 Marine Drive NORTH VANCOUVER

6505

The Pink Palace on the Seawall

6522

Furnished Accommodation

6602

3 Bdrm

Indoor/outdoor pools. Fitness centre & billiard room, no smoking 2222 Bellevue Ave. To view: 604-926-0627

6505-13

Other Areas Apt. Rentals

Seniors’ Assisted Living A brand-new place to live, available July 1 <226 % ,+78! % -3?>;>?>+! % 07=4/#5 -!!>!?743+ % :23>78 >4?+#73?>24 % -332662/7?+! !>4"8+! 74/ 32=$8+! Call today for more information and to view

Dale Manor

.1'& )78+ -;+4=+* (29+88 <>;+# 604.414.9460 dlbloomquist@shaw.ca

PACIFIC WEST APTS. INC. Beautiful 1 br furn apts, in hi-rise Max 2 prof, np/ns. 604-715-9184 ★VICTORIA PARK SHORT STAY ★1 & 2 BR Apts, Ideal for 1-6/mo stay, Renos, families, pets ok, Execs. Call 604-329-3272 www.vicparkshortstay.ca

6525

GARAGE 600 sqft lane accessQueensbury $675 Monthly. 604-985-5333; 604-218-7964

6540

Houses - Rent

4 BR, 4 bth, Excellent View $3500-$5500. Available NOW www.rentYVR.ca 778.888.8888 WEST VAN, Dundarave, 4 bdrm, walk to shops/seawall, $3600/m, no pets, Details @ 604-319-7674

6565 Call 604-630-3300 to place your ad

Garages

Office/Retail Rent

150sf - 600sf Prime Office Space Avail for Lease. Excellent Rates! Call Jeff or Ross 604-980-3003

Suites/Partial Houses

2 BEDROOM Luxury Basement Suite $2000. Available NOW www.rentYVR.ca 778.888.8888 2 BR 1100 sq ft, renovated, Central Lonsdale, shared w/d, np $1250 incls utils. 604-805-6505 2 BR above grnd ste, reno’d, f/p, no pet, ns, nr Edgemont, $1,025 incl utils 778-879-3842 lv mess. 2 BR main flr. East 1st St, North Van. Lrg south facing deck, n/s, n/p, refs, newly reno’d bath, new carpet/paint, 1 yr min lse, $1350 incl utils, shrd w/d, June/July 1, 604-683-6109 2 BR, West Van, 5 appl, nr bus, $1200 incl utils, N/S, N/P, Avail July 1. 604-926-4653 BACH glvl, inste wd, nr Caulfield Village/bus, hw flrs, $750 incl utils, ns/np, Jun 1, 604-897-7155

6605

Townhouses Rent

2 BR, quiet, near Edgemont Village, 4 appl, patio, $1350/mth, no pets. July 1st. 604-980-2885

6615

Wanted To Rent

WANTED - 1 furnished bedroom, North Van. Mature single male. Bill 604-988-7101, Rm 137. Now

HOME SERVICES 8015

Appliance Repairs

8068

Demolition

DEMOLITION

Excavating - Drain Tile SERVICE & PARTS. Licenced & Insured. Washers, Dryers, Stove, Fridge, Dishwashers. 604-346-8925

Old garage, carport, house, pool, repair main waterline, break concrete & removal. Licensed • Insured • WCB

604-716-8528

8025

Cabinet Making

FINISH Carpentry and Cabinetry Great design, exceptional value and seamless execution Call: (778) 855-1814

8030

Carpentry

Home & Yard Carpentry. Small jobs. Bsmt, floors, concrete form, tiles. Francisco 604-710-9837 www.chulavistalandscaping.ca

8050

Chimney Services

ALL TYPES stone and brickwork Fully cert. mason. 778-378-3548 billingtonmasonry.com

8055

Cleaning

$20/HR. Quality House cleaning. 604-983-3477 www.qualityhc.com

ANNA CLEANING SERVICES

Reasonable rates, exc refs. For free est. Anna Cell 778-868-7714

8060

Concrete

N.C.B. CONCRETE LTD. Specializing in residential concrete. Repair, removal and new installation. Patio specialists. 604-988-9523, 604-988-9495

8073

Drainage

RNC DRAINAGE

−Augering −Water & Sewer line repair & replacement −Sumps −Drain Tile −Concrete Work −Foundation, −Excavation −Retaing Walls −Site restored Call Ron 778-227-7316 or 604-568-3791

DELBROOK

DRAINAGE & PLUMBING Specialize in Waterlines 604-729-6695

TROY TEATHER DRAINAGE & SEWER 15% OFF - 604-925-8711 WEST VAN DRAINAGE Sewer, drain tile, new water line installation. 604-340-8989

8075

Drywall

AFFORDABLE, Reliable, Quality Guaranteed. Boarding, Taping, Spraytex. Dave 604-984-7476 Boarding & Taping, Small Jobs Welcome! Free Est.Reliable! Call Gurprit ★ 604-710-7769 Mmmm... Drywall Repair ★ Ooooo... Texture Spray ★ Good old George! 604-710-6069

8075

Drywall

VINCE’S MAGIC Drywalling & textured ceiling repairs. Complete drywall & taping. 604-307-2295

8080

Electrical

#18405 Electrician Best Rates, Local, Reliable, 24-7, All jobs 100% satisfaction. 604-765-8439 Adam A LICENSED electrician #19807 semi-retired, small jobs only. 604-689-1747 pgr 604-686-2319 ALL YOUR electrical & reno needs. Lic’d electrician #37940. Bonded & insured 604-842-5276 DNE ELECTRIC Lic #89267 ALL Your Electrical Needs. Panel Upgrading. Reasonable Free Estimate 604-999-2332 LOOKING FOR A NORTH SHORE Electrician? Call Positron 778-859-4154

8087

Excavating

# 1 YARD DRAINAGE, STONE WORK & HOUSE DEMOLITION

By hand, Paving, landscaping, stump / rock / cement / oil tank & dirt removal, paver stones, Jackhammer, Water / sewer line / sumps. Slinger avail. 24 hrs Call 341-4446 or 254-6865 Excavating - Drain Tile Demolitions. Fully insured • WCB 604-716-8528

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HOME SERVICES 8090

Fencing/Gates

8155

Landscaping

★ Beautiful Cedar Fence ★ Best Price, European Craftmanship, ERWIN 778-835-5015 BEAUTIFUL North Shore Gates, Fences, Arbors. 778-322-8645 johngormleycarpentry.com CEDAR FENCES - best price 604-862-5545 Flyingfence.com

NORTH SHORE FENCES

Quality work by professionals Repairs and construction 604-230-3559

8105

Flooring/ Refinishing

Golden Hardwood & Laminate & Tiles. Prof install, refinishing, sanding & repairs. 778-858-7263

CUSTOM STONEWORK & LANDSCAPES FOR OVER 50 YEARS! Give us a call for a free, professional estimate Fully Insured - Work Safe

Aldo 604.834.8643 Anthony 778.321.2536

INSTALLATION REFINISHING, Sanding. Free est, great prices. Satisfaction guar. 604-518-7508 LOVE − Installing Great Floors for nice people. Good old George! ★Call 604-710-6069★

8125

Gutters

AT YOUR HOME GUTTER SERVICES

No More HST! BOOK NOW! • Gutter Installation, Cleaning & Repairs • Rooﬁng & Roof Repairs • Moss Control, Removal & Prevention 25 year Warranteed Leaf & Needle Guard

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604-876-4604 TROY TEATHER GUTTERS 15% OFF - 604-925-8711 NORTH SHORE GUTTER DIVISION Call 604-987-7663

8130

Handyperson

flooring, tile, drywall, paint, deck, fence, siding, electrical, plumbing. 25 yrs exp.

ABBA RENOVATION carpentry, plumbing, wiring, painting, tiling. Work guar, Refs. (604)805-8463/ 986-4026 ABLE RENOVATIONS All home repairs & renos, large & small, North Shore only 604 319-2677

8140

Heating

Actual Plumbing & Heating, Boilers, Furnaces, Tankless, Hotwater tanks, 24/7, Seniors Disc, Lic., BBB, 604-874-4808

8150

BATHROOMS & much more. 30 yrs on the North Shore. Working within your budget. 778-387-3626

★CNN Landscaping★ ★WEEDING, Yardwork, Pruning, Free Est. Nick 778-840-6573 Serafina Garden Services Maintenance, Design, Organic References Avail , 604-984-4433 GREAT LOOKING Landscapes Full service landscape & garden maint. Call Dave: 604-764-7220 JB GARDEN'S Hedges, trimming & cleanups, pruning, weeding. Call Terry 604-354-6649 LIONS GATE Landscaping Ltd. Your Maintenance & Landscape Specialist 604-788-9687

GREEN GUARD LANDSCAPING

TOP SOIL, sand, gravel, etc. Pick-up or Delivery. Headwater Management, 175 Harbour Ave, North Van 604-985-6667

Excavating New Lawn, Flowerbeds Rock Garden Pavers, Retaining Wall

Great Design * Great Price

604-340-5715 CONSTRUCTIVE LANDSCAPING

★ Cedar fencing/decks ★ Stonework paving stones ★ Pergola’s ★ 30 Yrs Exp Call Danny 604-250-7824 www.constructivelandscaping.com

Greenworx Redevelopment Inc. Hedges, pavers, ponds & walls, returfing, demos, drainage, jackhammering. Old pools filled in, decks, concrete 604.782.4322

8160

Lawn & Garden

A.A.BEST PRO GARDEN SERVICES LTD. Lawn Maintenance, Power Raking, Moss Control, Aerating, Trim, Top, Prune, etc. 604.726.9152 604.984.1988

A.All Area Gardening Service Lawn Maintenance • Aerating Moss Control • Power Raking Trim • Prune • Top • Gen. Clean-up

604-726-9153 604-926-1526

Garden Services

Certified Horticulturists Design • Planting • Maintenance Spring Clean-ups. Call Scott. www.KatsuraLandscaping.ca

604-518-5661

Performance Garden Service

LAWNCUTS Free Estimates

Kitchens/Baths

Capilano Landscaping Beds, Hedges & Beyond! Call 604-878-1300 for a free estimate.

PACIFIC WEST LANDSCAPE SUPPLY. Soil, sand, gravel. We accept green waste. 1990 W 1st, North Van. 604-980-8334

HANDYMAN - framing, decks, tiles, re-roof. Total additions & basements. Ken 604-500-2426 SUNRISE PAINTING Drywall repair, textured ceiling & mouldings. Cell 604-657-6465

All West Garden Services Lawn maint, p/raking, moss control, aerating, trim, prune top, general cleanups... CALL SUKH 604-716-8479 or 604-984-1988

LOVE YOUR GARDEN Designs start from $75. Visit: stonesparrowgardens.com

Call Sukh

604-761-7745 ARMS & Minds Renos Carpentry cabinets, doors, finishing,

Lawn & Garden

Ny Ton Gardening Trimming, Shrubs, Pruning, Yard Cleanup, 604-782-5288

Design - Consultation- Installation 604-518-5661 KatsuraLandscaping.ca

Installed • Cleaned • Repaired

8160

Graig 604-986-3463 2013 Special Aeration, moss control $95. Lawn maintenance 604-726-9153 & 604-926-1526

ENGLISH LAWNS, new lawn installs, replace old, drainage, landscaping, pavers, etc. Any size job. Nick, 604-929-7732

8175

Masonry

8185

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Moving & Storage

Local & long distance Call 604-720-0931 brothersmovingservice.com

8200

Patios/Decks/ Railings

THUNDERBIRD GLASS

· Quality Custom Glass Canopies · Interior/Exterior Glass Rails · Frameless Showers & Skylights

Low Budget Moving.com

★ 604-652-1660 ★

8195

Painting/ Wallpaper

AAA

PRECISION PAINTING • Exterior/Interior Projects • Written Warranty • Years of Experience • Fully Insured • WCB Covered Residential Specialists

CALL RICK/WAYNE:

604-980-7511

www.thunderbirdglass.com

Central Decking Co.

• Build & Rebuild – waterproof decks • Specialize in seamless polyurethane membrane deck coatings • Sundecks – Balconies – Patios

604-618-0631

centraldecking@gmail.com www.centraldecking.ca

Call Peter: 778.858.5793

ALLQUEST PAINTING

8205

Quality Work You Can Trust!

604-618-2949

Aldo

Insured/WCB

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

Fully Insured - Work Safe

604.834.8643

778-997-9582

778.321.2536

PROFESSIONAL PAINTERS

Anthony

North Shore’s Trusted Mason 15 years experience

778.378.3548

www.billingtonmasonry.com Constructive Landscaping Stonework.paving stones, Cedar decks/fences, Pergola’s. 30 yrs exp. Call Danny 604-250-7824 www.constructivelandscaping.com

LANDROCK: CUSTOM Stonework & Landscapes for over 50 yrs! All jobs, big or small. Fully ins, Work Safe. Call for free prof est. Aldo, 604-834-8643, Anthony, 778-321-2536 STONE VALLEY, for walls, walk ways, patios, fireplaces, 20+ yrs exp. Call Duane 604-910-2121

8180

Home Services

CAPILANO HANDYMAN

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Renovations Demolition Plumbing Drywall Carpentry Cabinetry Painting ● Electrical Kitchens & Bath Flooring ● Paving Fences & Decks

Interior – Exterior High Quality, Clean, Reliable

604-338-1321 Free Estimate

SUNRISE PAINTING & DECORATING since 1975

SPRING SPECIAL

Cell 604-657-6465 or 604-987-6560 A CLEAN PAINT JOB. Quality 1 room from $137. Int-ext, WCB 22 yrs exp. Cell: 604-727-2700 ALL HOME PAINTING & RESTORATION Comm/Residential 604-290-7176 David James & Assoc. Painting & Decorating. Int/ExtPainting homes on the North Shore since 1987. 604.988.7898 Excellent Pro Painting Service 20 yrs exp, refs, warranty. Reas, res/comm Richard 604-618-0205 EXTERIOR & INTERIOR PAINT & WOOD STAINING Call 604-281-0807

METRO BLACKTOP CO. LTD Custom work for Driveways & new lane Aprons. Repairs/resurfacing. Call Gino 604-657-9936 TERRY’S DRIVEWAY SEALING Anniversay Special • Free ests North Shore Co. 604-980-7507

8220

Plumbing

WESTMOR

Plumbing Ltd

Res - Com Professional Service FLAT RATE 7 DAYS/WK

604-551-8531 Honest Service Lic - Ins - Bonded

★ 3 Licensed Plumbers ★ 66 years of exp. 604-830-6617 www.oceansidemechanical.com Actual Plumbing & Heating, Boilers, Furnaces, Tankless, Hotwater tanks, 24/7, Seniors Disc. Lic. BBB, 604-874-4808 SAVE ON PLUMBING Licensed Plumber/Gas fitter, $68/HR. Same day service. Insured, BBB member Call 604-987-7473 Samy

THUNDERBIRD GLASS Glass canopies, ext/int glass rails, frameless glass shower enclosures. Rick/Wayne 604-980-7511

8185

Moving & Storage

MOVING & STORAGE

MILANO PAINTING & RENOS Int/Ext. Free Est. Written Guar. Prof & Insured. 604 551-6510 Complete Painting Package delivered on time & budget. Call: (604) 836-9675 PAINTER -Interior & Exterior Professional & Reliable ANDREW 604-765-1676

1175 W.15 St. North Van

Garbage Removal • Deliveries

MOVING

Licensed & Insured

Give us an estimate and we will beat it!

Call 778.994.5403 ABBA MOVERS bsmt clean 1-4 ton Lic, ins’d from $35/hr, 2 men $45/hr, 24/7, 26 yrs 604-506-7576

OSZVALD’S PAINTING (1974) Int & ext painting, pressure washing, papering, taping, texturing. Res & comm 604-980-4249 RONALDO PAINTING (1981) Master in Quality , fully insured, Free estimate, 778-881-6478

Bill 604-298-1222

ALL HOME RENOVATIONS LTD.

Need a Fresh Look in or outside your Home? We specialize in custom renos, kitchen, bathroom & all interior & exterior renos

604 -290 -7176 Working Within Your Budget

Total Renos - Res & Comm 25 yrs exp. North Shore refs, Excellent Workmanship,

RENOVATE & REPAIR Carpentry, Flooring, Bathrooms, Kitchens, Exteriors, Home Repairs, Odd Jobs & More!

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We are pleased to offer High Quality Home Improvements • New construction • Renovations - Basements • Additions - Decks • Kitchens - Bathrooms • Laneway Houses - Drainage

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NORTH SHORE ROOFING LTD. Est. 1968

• Cedar Shakes • Flat Rooﬁng • Asphalt Shingles • Roof Maintenance

604-987-ROOF (7663)

10% DISCOUNT. MG Roofing & Siding. WCB. Re-Roofing, New Roof, Gutters. 604-812-9721

Precision Craftsmanship Professional Service

778.233.0559

2 OLD GUYS 2 YOUNG TO RETIRE WE DO IT ALL!

A-1 Contracting & Roofing ReRoofing & Repair. WCB. 25% Discount. Jag, 778-892-1530

ALLQUEST PAINTING Quality Work You Can Trust! 778 997-9582

AFFORDABLE QUALITY ROOFING All types. BBB, insured, references. www.affordablequalityroofing.com 604-984-6560

BAMFORD CONSTRUCTION Ltd. Quality Renovations. 604-986-2871 www.bamford.ca

All types - Reroofs & Repairs Insured/WCB 778-288-8357

BUILD PROS CONSTRUCTIONAll types of construction & renos www.buildpros.ca 604-780-8118

Samra Bros. Roofing Ltd. 40 yrs+ Cedar / Fiberglass / Torch On Free Estimates. 604-946-4333

H 604-986-3986 C 604-537-9452

Moon Construction Building Services Additons, Renovations, New Construction, Specializing in Concrete Forming, Framing & Siding. 604-218-3064 Qualified Carpenter, 25 yrs exp, renovations, repairs, insured. WCB, good rates, references. Call James 604-788-8863 PAINTING, LAMINATE flrs, baseboards, tiling, blinds. Clean, reliable. Free est. 604-338-1321

AMBLESIDE ROOFING

8255

Rubbish Removal

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Student Works

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Disposal & Recycling Trips start at

$49

B i n s f ro m 5 - 3 0 y a rd s a v a i l .

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Renovations & Home Improvement

AT YOUR HOME SERVICES GROUP

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8240

Roofing

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ASPHALT PAVING

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8250

FROM DESIGN TO FINISH

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8240

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8300

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Stucco/Siding/ Exterior

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Sport Utilities/ 4x4’s/Trucks

9155

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE ROAD

Grinding Gears

Brendan McAleer

Wood still good for classic British Morgans NEWS photo Mike Wakeﬁeld

THE Ford Explorer’s Sport model takes the SUV’s customary on- and off-road performance and adds stylish upgrades to push it into luxury territory. It is available at Cam Clark Ford in the Northshore Auto Mall.

2013 Ford Explorer Sport

Explorer ﬁnds luxury land IN 2011, Ford introduced an all-new Explorer.

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This new SUV was truly all-new as it didn’t just feature new bodywork or an updated powertrain. Instead, Ford based the new vehicle on the Taurus’ unit body platform and created a much more sophisticated vehicle — something that was not possible with the predecessor with its design based on a body-on-frame platform. Now with a more rigid body, the squeaks and rattles commonly found in truckbased SUVs are gone. As a result, the Explorer offers a more reﬁned on-road ride without losing any of its offroad capabilities.

Behind The Wheel David Chao

For 2013, Ford brings a Sport model for the Explorer range to add a “zest” to the lineup. In keeping with Ford’s radical redesign philosophy, the Sport badge adds more than just cosmetic changes. Design

Bill Gubing, chief engineer for Ford’s Taurus and Police Interceptor lineup, is also the lead engineer for the Explorer line. This is fitting, since these vehicles share the same structure — lessons learned with one are easily shared with the group. When Ford released the redesigned Explorer, the choice of a 290 horsepower V-6 or a fuel efficient turbocharged 2.0-litre I4 was sufficient for most of its current customers. However, thanks to the improved build and design quality, they piqued the interest of buyers of more prestigious brands such as Lexus and Land Rover. To please more of these customers, the Explorer Sport offers an upgraded interior and

a higher level of performance; the exterior too, was re-styled to give this SUV a different flavour. Above the cool blackedout front grill, the Explorer shows off darkened headlight and taillight assemblies which complement the exclusive glossy black finishes. Rounding out the package are unique 20-inch wheels that screams “look at me,” flanked by the Sport logo cast into the side of the wheels. Performance The 2013 Explorer Sport borrows the 3.5-litre, highoutput, twin-turbocharged EcoBoost V-6 from the Taurus SHO sport sedan. This bumps horsepower to 365 and torque

Now, even if you’re not a car enthusiast you probably already know that there’s something a bit weird about Morgans — they’re made of wood. If you haven’t come across this little factoid yet, then yes, it’s true. While your daily driver probably has a skeleton composed of steel or aluminium alloyed with steel or, if you happen to be driving a 1970s VW Bus, steel alloyed with rust, a Morgan is traditionally backboned by ash. Thus, rather than some robot spot-welding the whole thing together, you have English craftsmen hand-sanding and carefully assembling, perhaps as their forefathers once built the mighty oaken vessels of the British Navy. Presumably there’s less ﬂog-

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Frames no longer ash but there’s still wood in there From page 45

ging and cannibalism in the Morgan factory, but as I’ve never been there, your guess is as good as mine. Anyway, this method of building a car is bloody archaic and totally out of date. Or, to put it another way, completely excellent. It might not seem sensible to continue making vehicles in a distinctly old-world style, but Morgans are all a bit special, and to change them overmuch would be like trying to set Edward Elgar’s music to dubstep. If you don’t know what “dubstep” is, you are a lucky, lucky, lucky, lucky person. Henry Frederick Stanley Morgan founded the company in 1909, sort of. H.F.S., as he was known (unless his mother was yelling at him to clean up his room) came up with his own design of a three-wheeled, single-seater machine. It probably terriﬁed the hell out of the local horses. Flinging his motorcycle-engined contraption about the lush Western Midlands countryside, H.F.S. soon attracted a great deal of attention. Convinced he could actually start selling the things, he exhibited both single-seat and two-seater versions in 1911, and then subsequently founded a private company with money from his dad. I know what you’re thinking — bored English Lord sets up company as a lark in an effort to spend some of the bothersome money that’s starting to overﬂow the closets. Not at all: Morgan has staunchly middleclass roots with H.F.S.’s father a local clergyman.

The appeal of the early threewheelers was not just in their somewhat-sporty design, but as a taxdodge. Small three-wheelers like the Morgan were dubbed cyclecars, and paid only the same taxes as motorcycles (i.e. not much). There were a number of these companies around from 1910-1920, but the introduction of cheap, “proper” cars like the Austin 7 and Citroën 2CV pretty much knocked them out. In 1913, a Morgan took first place at the Cyclecar Grand Prix in Amiens France, and while you might set the starting date of the company’s centenary in 1906, when H.F.S. opened his garage, or 1909, when he built his first prototype, or even 1912, when the private company was founded, I’d like to set it here, when Morgans started winning. This first machine paved the way for what all modern Morgans would be — proper British sportscars with a dab of idiosyncrasy but a surprising amount of zip. You can spot them a mile away (and hear them five miles away) with their air-cooled V-twin engines hanging out the front, skinny motorcycle tires providing only the suggestion of grip and their driver doubtless feeling a bit like Biggles dicing with the Red Baron. The mid-1930s saw the arrival of Morgan’s first “proper” car which had a four-cylinder engine and four wheels and was named, in a fit of obviousness, the Morgan 4-4. Later would come the Morgan Plus 4 which was — you guessed it — slightly better, and then the Morgan 4/4 which was slightly better again, and possibly named by

someone who simply had difﬁculty drawing a horizontal line. The recipe remained the same, from the ’30s right through to the late-’60s: ash-frame, larger and larger four-cylinder engines, long bonnet, two seats and an open cockpit. Yes, the bulging light-pods did become integrated into the front mudguards, and yes, the grille did begin to slope backwards in a concession to aerodynamics, but the ancestral roots were clearly visible. Morgans continued to win races too. As they were so light, with ﬁbreglass bodies now mounted to that ash frame, 100 h.p. Triumph-sourced engines were good enough to take Plus 4s to production-class victory again and again. A factory-prepped special won its class at the 1962 24 Hours of Le Mans, covering 3,600 km at an average speed of 155 kilometres per hour; the drivers then drove the car directly home on public roads, no bother. With modern manufacturers building smaller four-bangers in the late-’60s and early-’70s, Morgans turned to the venerable and compact Rover V-8 engine. As anyone will tell you, this eight-cylinder is actually a Buick design, a small-displacement, lightweight engine that produces anywhere from 145 h.p. and up, depending on compression and tuning and whether or not the damned thing can be persuaded to run. The Morgan +8, as it was known, paved the way for more modern Moggies of the current Millennium in that it was really quite fast, especially by the standards of the day. Cars with power

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CLASSIC British car company Morgan is still around and they still build a three-wheeled roadster known simply as 3 Wheeler. hovering around the 200 h.p. range are so light they can run dead even with a Ferrari Testarossa up to 100 km/h. Good show, old bean. And then, the modern Morgans, the Aero and the Aero Supersport, with their bulbous, kinda-crosseyed faces like a 1930s sketch of what the future might hold. These no longer have frames of ash, but beneath the aluminium skin, there’s still woodframed bodywork. And they’re ridiculously fast, with BMW-sourced V-8 power. Morgans are still built in their traditional birthplace of Malvern, located in the Midlands county of Worcestershire which is pronounced: incorrectly. Here among the winding roads you can still see wire-wheeled 4/4s and Plus 4s on their shake-down runs — perhaps you’ll even be lucky

Explorer sport surprisingly agile for an SUV From page 45

to 350 foot-pounds — not bad for an SUV. The issue that arose from having 75 more horsepower over the base Explorer was how to adequately deliver that power to the road. To that end, the sport model is only available with Ford’s Terrain Management four-wheel drive system. As well, the system has been calibrated to optimize the use of power in all driving

conditions. This intelligent system continuously monitors wheel slip and will dynamically shift power to the wheels that need it most. Using the consol-mounted control knob, the driver can manually adjust the power and torque settings if they encounter deep snow, sand or mud. To further differentiate the Sport model, 50 per cent of the torque can be sent to the rear wheels, whereas the maximum in other Explorer models is 40 per cent.

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enough to catch a glimpse of the deliciously anachronistic Plus 8 with its 1950s bodywork and street-racer style alloy wheels. But Morgan will still sell you another car, a three-wheeler they dub simply “3 Wheeler.” It’s a blast from the past, a V-twin-powered machine that’s like parking a Sopwith Camel in the driveway. The Porsche 911 is slowly becoming a grand tourer. The BMW M-cars are hugely fast, but at a great remove from the road. Pick a manufacturer and you’ll ﬁnd the cars they make to be faster, more efﬁcient, better-handling, and perhaps a bit less interesting. But Morgan? They’re still in the business of building proper Morgans. And thank goodness for that. mcaleeronwheels@gmail.com

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Ford challenges Lexus, Land Rover From page 46

ensure a comfortable journey. The standard heated and cooled front bucket seats are available in a stylish two-tone colour scheme which is very appealing. The leather-wrapped steering wheel continues the premium feel, which also boasts a standard power tilt and telescoping. Shorter drivers will appreciate the adjustable pedals with memory feature. With the Explorer Sport, Ford designers were attempting to move the model more up-market. They successfully accomplished that. However, this shift is also reflected in the price as the Sport is almost $20,000 more than a base Explorer. The room is plentiful front and back, and the seating is comfortable even when loaded full with passengers. Features The starting price for the new Explorer Sport is $47,299. Standard equipment includes perforated leatherwrapped heated front seats, dual zone front climate control, rear auxiliary climate control, Sony audio, Ford SYNC with MyFord Touch, reverse sensing system, rearview camera, Blind Spot Information System with cross-traffic alert, and a power liftgate. Additional optional features include dual-panel moonroof, adaptive cruise control and collision warning, dualheadrest DVD system, and a voice activated navigation system. Fuel economy numbers are 13.2 litres/100 kilometres city, 8.8 l/100 km highway and 11.2 l/100 km combined. Thumbs up The Explorer Sport has the room and versatility of being a full-size SUV. It also handles better and is more fuel efficient than its rivals. The sophisticated 4WD system and classy interior will certainly catch the eye of Land Rover and Lexus buyers. Thumbs down Not a lot of downside, but the car still looks too much like a standard Explorer to truly compete in the upper market. The price gets high when fully loaded. The bottom line The 2013 Explorer Sport is the first in a new philosophy for Ford’s Sport models; and we like it. Competitors Land Rover LR4 Land Rover has a history of blending serious off-road capability with comfortable on-road performance. The LR4 continues that trend. Known as a premium brand, the LR4’s $59,490 price tag

the Mercedes M-Class giving it a solid ride and the interior is stunning. The Grand Cherokee does only seat ﬁve though and prices climb quickly as you

km combined fuel economy. Jeep Grand Cherokee Like the Explorer, the 2013 Jeep Grand Cherokee has received a major overhaul. It borrows the platform from

is considerably more than the Explorer’s. While LR4’s unbeatable rough terrain prowess is admirable, many competitors better its meagre 14.6 l/100

move up the model range. Lexus GX Whereas most other Lexus automobiles offer the utmost comfort on the motorway, the GX is most at home on rough terrain. It still features all the luxury appointments inside the cabin that people have come to expect from Lexus,

but the high ride height and full-time 4WD mean you can reach even the most remote locations in style. Given that the GX utilizes a traditional boxed ladder frame, ride quality and ambient noise levels aren’t as good as in the Explorer. editor@automotivepress.com

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Cahill Club Chair

Sale $419

Soma Sofa Grey Leather

Brown or Black Price Includes Ottoman

Concord Sale Side Chair $99

Black, Grey or White

Lucia Sofa Bed

Sale $1,295

Shantou Sale Side Chair $99

Sale $299

Sale Robyn Dining Table $499

Marquis Sale Side Chair $149

Sale Ativo Dining Chair $99

North Vancouver

Vancouver Terminal

#125 - 1305 Welch St. ( Off Pemberton )

1728 Glen Drive ( Across from Home Depot )

Phone 778.340.6392

Phone 6 04.687.5599

1.800.990.MOES

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