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DESPITE what the Joker would have you believe, a bus is not always the best choice for a getaway vehicle. Staff at a Park Royal store called police after noticing a 31year-old man stuffing electronics into his backpack Wednesday, according to West Vancouver Police Department spokesman Const. Jeff Palmer. The man left the store and ran around the mall to Marine Drive where a police officer caught sight of him. The man hopped onto a bus, apparently hoping to blend in with the transit passengers as the bus disappeared in traffic, according to police. Perhaps unbeknownst to the alleged thief, urgent repairs on the Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Bridge had halted traffic and created bottlenecks across the North Shore at the time. Officers boarded the stationary bus and arrested the suspect without incident. WVPD is recommending charges of theft under $5,000. The man was wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant related to a Vancouver Police Department theft investigation and is due in court Sept. 25. — Jeremy Shepherd
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LOCAL politicians planning to run in next year’s municipal elections will have to play by a new rulebook. The province announced on Wednesday it is developing new laws around campaign finances that should be in place before the November 2014 elections. Details on the new rules are minimal, but the province is hinting it will ban anonymous campaign donations — which are
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currently allowed if the amount of money is small — demand disclosure and registration by third-party advertisers and require sponsorship information on all election advertising. Campaign finance disclosure documents will also have to be filed within 90 days of the election, as opposed to the current 120. If followed through on, the legislation will also give Elections BC the teeth to enforce the law.
“We are committed to ensuring that election participants are fully aware of any changes well in advance of the Nov. 15, 2014, local elections. These changes are about enhancing transparency and accountability,” said Coralee Oakes, minister of community, sport and cultural development. The province is promising to issue a white paper that details the policy changes in early September and then accept public comment on the proposed changes until late October before introducing legislation next spring. The legislation stops short of putting limits on how much a See Transparency page 5
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TWO beehives in bear-proof containers are this year’s additions to Loutet Farm, part of North Vancouver’s Edible Garden Project managed by Heather Johnstone, pictured checking the pumpkin patch at right. Scan the photo at right with the Layar app to see more photos or go to nsnews.com.
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Back to the garden
INSIDE one of the large “hoop houses” at Loutet Farm, under the plastic sheeting that traps the warm summer air, a heady scent rises up from a bright green sea of basil plants, thick and pungent. Overhead, a bee lands on a delicate yellow flower of a vine, the cucumbers hanging below in long pendulous curves. Outside in the garden rows, the peas are finished but there are still forests of kale with bubbly grey leaves. Sunflowers nod toward the light, heavy with seeds. Scarlet runner beans have climbed to the top of their trellises. “Beans are just going wild right now,” said Heather Johnstone, manager of North Vancouver’s Edible Garden Project. Twice a week, the farm sells the vegetables ready for harvest — everything from carrots to beets to salad mix — directly from the gate. “It goes quickly,” said Johnstone. “There’s more demand than we can possibly meet — except for cucumbers.” Selling directly from the farm where the food is grown is part of the point of Loutet Farm, operated by the Edible Garden Project on land owned by the City of North Vancouver at the corner of Rufus Avenue and East 14th Street. The Edible Garden Project, run out of North Shore Neighbourhood House, works to promote urban agriculture, knowledge about local food and the sharing of locally grown produce with food banks and community kitchen programs. At Loutet Farm, “We work to bring the community into this space as much as possible,” said Johnstone. The rows of carrots, onions and waving yellow arugula flowers are a relatively recent development. In the 1950s and ’60s, the half-acre site actually operated as a landfill, said Johnstone — later capped with five metres of subsoil. For a long time after, the land sat vacant, parkland that was mostly scrubby gravel and mud puddles, used primarily as a dog walking area. That changed about five years ago, when the property caught the attention of the Greenskins Lab at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, a group that was looking to launch an experiment in urban food production. After the city gave the project its blessing, Edible Garden Project staff and volunteers took over the practical business of horticulture
PLUMP berries are ripening at Queen Mary Community Garden, 230 West Keith Rd., North Vancouver. on the site. “We brought in a whole lot of soil,” said Johnstone — about 14 dump truck loads from the Fraser Valley. “The first year we struggled with soil quality,” she said. Some seeds didn’t germinate. Other plants grew spindly. Volunteers spent time building compost piles and adding horse manure from a nearby stable. Gradually and steadily, the garden improved. Fortunately, soil is “one of those things you can build,” said Johnstone. “You can start from nothing. But you always have to be
putting energy into it. It’s hard to have an instant fix.” Loutet Farm itself represents much that is the opposite of the instant fix society. Its underlying purpose — and that of the Edible Garden Project — is to reconnect us to our food and where it comes from. Earlier generations understood that through necessity. Growing food was what everybody did. But decades of social change and cheap processed food altered our habits, said Johnstone. A lot of people don’t cook anymore. It takes too much time. Fewer people have gardens. Many kids don’t really understand how food grows — or even what vegetables look like in the ground, before they get to the grocery store. Collectively, we turned away from the soil. Loutet Farm and other projects like it on the North Shore aim to change that. “Food is a big deal,” said Johnstone. “Having an understanding of where our food is coming from is incredibly important. “The farther we are from the food that’s being produced, the harder it is to understand what’s in the food.” Seeing how food is grown changes people’s relationship with it, she said. They start to think about whether that lettuce was grown in the Fraser Valley or California, whether it was sprayed with chemical pesticides or not, whether it was put on a plane before it landed in the produce aisle. “If you go to a farmers market and you’re walking through and you see someone’s beautiful carrots, you can understand how much time and effort, energy, care and love went into those carrots. . . . That someone planted those carrots, they weeded them, they thinned them, they washed them. “It’s so easy to not even know.” Johnstone isn’t a purist when it comes to local food. She said it’s not realistic to imagine food for an area like North Vancouver can all be grown here. But even getting people to think about where and how their food is produced is an important step. That’s why Loutet Farm was deliberately sprouted in an urban area, right next to an elementary school. “This is where the people are and this is where the people will see it,” said Johnstone. “If you don’t see it, you don’t think about it.” Two beehives — behind steel bear-proof cages — are the most recent addition to the farm this year, along with a small garden See Growing page 4
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of bee-friendly flowers like catmint and montbretia. Bees will add honey to the mix of homegrown produce available at the farm, as well as reminding people about their essential role in food production. “Pollinators are in real trouble around the world,” said Johnstone. Pesticides are one possible culprit, along with disappearing habitat in the path of urbanization. “Their food sources are disappearing,” said Johnstone. “It’s hard to eat concrete.” Food, she said, is “absolutely essential to the whole environmental discussion.” Growing food is a small, tangible way to make change — a simple act against the larger often-overwhelming issues. “Being able to grow food like this without any kind of chemicals at all is exciting and inspiring and reassuring.” In another part of the city, next to a busy construction site and close to a traffic thoroughfare, Scott Meadows is also cultivating his garden, pulling potatoes out of his plot at Queen Mary Community Garden. Meadows — who lives a few blocks away — has been growing vegetables on this plot for three years now. “We planted potatoes at the end of March,” he said. “We’ll be done pulling stuff out at Christmas.” Typically he and his family grow carrots and beets for juicing, plus fancy varieties difficult to find in the stores. “We’re trying to grow as much food as we can,” said Meadows. “Things that will make a dent in how much we buy from the grocery store that’s imported.” Meadows’ garden is one of 56 plots at Queen Mary Community Garden—thefirstoffivecommunitygardensrunbytheNorthShore Community Garden Society (northshorecommunitygardensociety. ca). Like Loutet Farm, this community garden — opened in 2008 — sits on municipal land. The first garden not on municipal land opened with eight garden plots at St. Andrew’s United Church this year. “The demand is so great,” said Maja Regehr, president of the community garden society. “Over the long haul we won’t always be able to count on the municipalities.” Community gardens have grown in popularity in the last decade. In North Vancouver, where there are already 270 families on the waiting list, the society has used a lottery system to award 177 garden plots to interested residents, who pay between $20 and $50 a year. Once people start a garden plot, they usually stick with it, said Regehr. “People like to grow their food,” she said. “They feel a satisfaction knowing they’ve produced this.” In the Queen Mary plots, there are stargazer lilies next to See Sharing page 9
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Back to school – and contract talks
Trustees no longer at the bargaining table Jane Seyd jseyd@nsnews.com
STUDENTS won’t be the only ones hitting the books once the school year starts in September.
Negotiators for the teachers union and the provincial government will also be sitting down next month to begin talks for the first time since Victoria opted to replace school trustee representatives with direct government appointments at the bargaining table. The move, made at the end of June, is tied to the province’s desire to reach a 10-year deal with the teachers union — something teachers have opposed so far. Two trustee representatives will remain
in an advisory capacity as talks get underway in September. Jane Thornthwaite, MLA for North Vancouver Seymour who is a former school trustee herself, said her understanding is the decision was tied to the need for a 10-year deal. So far trustees have done a good job bargaining specific issues, she said. But she added “We need to have a longer-term solution for stability in the classroom.” Rob Millard, president of the West Vancouver Teachers Association, said teachers’ representatives had yet to discuss the latest developments. Teachersaren’ttheonlyschoolemployees who are heading to crunch time as students get ready to head back to school. CUPE, the union representing school supporter workers including clerical and maintenance staff, classroom assistance and janitors, issued a statement earlier this month saying their talks with the province
had broken off. The union also hinted that a strike may not be out of the question. “That would be a worse case scenario,” said Cindy McQueen, president of the North Vancouver CUPE local that represents approximately 1,100 school support workers. “Hopefully they’re going to get back to the table prior to school starting.” The main issue in the talks appears to be wages. The government has said public sector wage increases will only be allowed if savings representing the same amount of money can be found elsewhere in the system. The union issued a statement this week saying its members have not had a wage increase in four years. Franci Stratton, chairwoman of the North Vancouver Board of Education, said the school board is taking a wait and see approach to the latest developments.
Transparency needed: Urban Forum From page 1 candidate can raise and spend in a campaign, though the province will consult with local governments in the meantime and consider that issue for the 2017 elections. The announcement is being cautiously welcomed by members of North Van Urban Forum, a citizens’ group that encourages participation in local government and lobbies for increased transparency and accountability. Group member Amanda Nichol said the province’s
announcement needs a lot of clarification but it is a good start. “It’s a move in the right direction, talking about it and bringing it up in any way, shape or form, I think is good,” she said. But more laws don’t necessarily mean more accountability, Nichol cautioned. She would like to see the loopholes closed that allow big companies to funnel money to candidates through numbered holdings companies and subsidiaries. “When you look at the campaign financials, because
of the way that companies are registered, they sometimes have two or three different names they’re registered under. Where the problem lies is having to do the research on who the campaign contributors are,” she said. “It’s great to have these rules but I’m reluctant to say we need new rules. People then perceive that it’s more transparent than it really is.” Former premier Gordon Campbell created a local government elections task force in 2009 but its 31 recommendations were never legislated.
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ARENTS across the North Shore could be forgiven for spitting into their self-indulgent lattes this week after learning that it costs next to nothing to raise a child — if you budget properly. Contrary to the experience of 99 per cent of local families, a report from the right-wing Fraser Institute pegs the cost of raising a child at between $3,000 and $4,500 a year. That’s in stark contrast to most other estimates that start at between $10,000 and $15,000. Those higher figures, the think tank argues, are a reflection of bourgeois choices and don’t reflect the reality that a little belt-tightening could accomplish. Among the luxuries families could do away with, apparently, are expensive housing costs, because social housing is
You said it “We enjoy the North Shore, it’s a fantastic place but you know you get those scumbags.” North Vancouver veterinarian Pawel Cichon blasts midnight garbage dumpers for leaving construction waste behind his Lonsdale veterinary clinic (from an Aug. 23 news story). ••• “When we’re responding from Deep Cove all the way to the British Properties you can imagine that’s going to be a 20- to 25-minute response time.” North Vancouver paramedic and provincial union executive Cameron Eby stresses the need for a second ambulance in West Vancouver (from an Aug. 21 news story). ••• “I don’t think the (City of North Vancouver) will come to play on this one, although they’ll be major beneficiaries, but that’s the nature of the city.” District of North Vancouver Coun. Roger Bassam takes a jab at the city during a conversation about a pending redesign of Highway 1 access in the Lower Lynn and Seymour areas (from an Aug. 21 news story).
plentiful and cheap. In Narnia, where the report’s writer obviously lives, the $10,000 per child many families spend on daycare is also a needless frill. One parent can simply decide to stay home — without impacting the ability to pay for items like food and shelter. “In other cases, parents may have free daycare at their place of employment. . . .” And if you believe that, we also have a bridge we’d like to sell you. Not surprisingly, the report has generated blowback, some of it highly amusing. It would be funnier though if the topic weren’t so serious. As the report’s author notes — while pooh-poohing those who “(lobby) the state for more resources for families and children” — measuring the costs of children is politically laden.
Lessons from a late summer road trip
“Just when you think you’ve seen the best the world has to offer, there’ll always be Canada.” — travel writer Chuck Thompson
BACK from a long holiday journey around B.C.
Truly, is there anywhere like this province of ours with its Okanagan orchard and wine-growing country, the rugged Interior’s bonedry atmosphere, or those passionate mountainscapes, big trees, and ferry crossings along the Salish Sea coast? Abundant wildlife every day. Star-watching, night after night. Emily Carr had it right — the glory out there in the wilderness. Supernatural, that’s for sure. Revisions to our “Best Of” list? Vernon, Courtenay and Powell River are the towns we’ll head back to soonest. All have great welcoming vibes. Vernon has kept its architectural character and a cohesive downtown that keeps getting better with collector books and record
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Trevor Carolan shops, good restaurants. Surely it has lower rents and effective civic planning. Courtenay’s old-timey main street is a pleasure to stroll and makes you want to spend a little money there. It’s quietly become a cultural hub too, with a great museum, good civic theatre, and a serious music festival. Powell River has its Willingdon Beach campsite adjacent to the main oceanfront park. What a discovery — with a breakwater for strolling, and a big float for fishing and crabbing that’s kid-friendly
— like Deep Cove used to be. No doubt they all have their own challenges. What town doesn’t? But these three rate attention. Having taken eight ferries, I’d argue the Saltery Bay to Earl’s Cove run south of Powell River offers the most magnificent natural beauty of the lot. Unforgettable, although fish farms springing around here are not an encouraging sign. When are we going to get these harmful operations out of the saltchuck and into large, dry-land container facilities? That’d be a solution we can all live with, and our American neighbours can keep on buying the 85 per cent of that mushy, third-rate product no B.C.er I know will eat. At Davis Bay outside Sechelt, we called in to see Artie George, the fine native-carver from the Tsleil-Waututh Nation who relocated his studio here. Check it out directly across the road from the beach. His work is always worth seeing. You can learn a lot from
road trips. Are there lessons for the North Shore? You bet. Veteran travellers will tell you that the cognates among healthy, creative communities are heritage preservation and maintaining ecological integrity. Protecting vintage architecture and common green space is fundamental to retaining civic cohesion. So it was sad to return and hear that another unique local heritage home has bit the dust Keep it up and North Vancouver will soon be fit for wandering ghosts among the highrise clusters. Any blockhead can plan that — see the pathetic old Soviet empire in Eastern Europe as reference. Next they’ll be talking about re-routing existing traffic patterns to benefit big redevelopment projects. Oh, I forgot. Aren’t they talking in district hall about possibly closing the direct Dollarton Highway access to the Ironworkers Bridge at Second Narrows? From the macro to micro; a dead young harbour seal washed ashore in Deep Cove
the other evening. Whacked by a power boat or jet ski? The latter have been showing up throughout the summer in front of Panorama Park beach, so far without incident to swimmers, but no thanks to the district. Why weren’t the lines of safety floats set up this year to demarcate a specific swimming area, from shore out to the raft? Kids need this. Without them, people have roamed and used the entire beachfront. That’s healthy. Without the safety floats, however, you’ve had kayakers, boats of various kinds and jet skis cruising anywhere they’ve liked, including the main swimming beach. Two evenings ago, my wife and I swam out to the raft after work, then had to stay there as the sun dropped behind Indian River ridge and the air cooled. Why? A jet ski with a pair of riders tooled around in the water nearby and we couldn’t head back for fear of being rammed head-on like one poor swimmer in English Bay
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I’ll never be alone again with Netflix Oh sure, I’ve had those parenting moments where you’re driving down some beautiful mountain pass with two screaming kids in the back seat and for a couple of milliseconds you consider driving straight off a beautiful mountain cliff. That’s normal. But of course that wouldn’t take you back to the way things were because you’d be dead too — all that would happen then is you’d get to listen to your kids in the lineup outside heaven’s gates whining about how long St. Peter is taking to check everyone in. “Daaaddyyy, how much longer? Why can’t we watch Barney? This harp music sucks.” And if you pull a stunt like that you probably won’t make it past the gates yourself, yanked from your family down into the fiery pits where ironically it’ll be you watching Barney — 4,000 shows a day. Normally, though, parents are so busy cleaning up spit and secretly judging other parents — I see you, sideways-hat dad, letting your kid skateboard without a helmet — that they don’t have time to reminisce about
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those pre-baby days. This week I’ve gotten the chance to do just that. The rest of the family packed up for a spur-of-the-moment trip to Alberta to visit the in-laws, leaving me home alone. It’s been . . . peaceful. The first few days were spent dropping all of the house rules that I’ve been brainwashed to follow. Adios, vegetables. So long, pants. Welcome back, televised sports on all day. Great to see you, farts at the table. It feels liberating to drop the baby-proof hysteria for a while, to be able to leave all my favourite whiskeys and crossbows just lying around. The brainwashing is strong though. I realize that right now, as I type this, the toilet seat is down. I put it there. What have I become? After un-baby proofing
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He was cling-wrapped to a cold table and chopped into pieces by a mild-byday, wild-by-night crime lab analyst named Dexter. He was dissolved in a Tupperware bin full of acid by a mild-byday, wild-by night chemistry teacher named Walter White. He went for drinks with a mild-by-day, wild-by-night 1960s ad man named Donald Draper and, well, I’m sure they’ll be home from the bar sometime soon. I did manage to pry myself away from Netflix long enough to join all my friends I never see anymore at a party that was held at a Hastings Street venue that seemed
to contain a lot of Hastings Street pharmaceuticals. Listening to my single friends describe, in quite a bit of detail, what girls from the various dating websites will and will not do on a first date was, I must admit, pretty interesting for a married man such as myself. I would never have guessed that this town was so full of young Russian gymnasts. Frequent readers of my column will guess that we’re getting to the part where I get all sappy and say that my short visit to bachelor town was nice, but I learned along the way what I want most in the world is to have my loving
family by my side. It is true — on the night of the big party I wished my wife was there with me. When everyone else has someone to squeeze at the end of the show it’s a drag to be left with nothing to hold on to but a few last drops of warm beer. And the next morning I missed the cute singing of my little boy that normally wakes me up every day. Actually, the next morning was a little fuzzy, but I certainly missed the singing by lunchtime. Or maybe mid-afternoon. Evening at the latest. OK, tomorrow.
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HIKERS keep straying from the trail and North Shore Rescue keeps bringing them back. A lone hiker in his 30s veered from BCMC trail and ended up stranded in a gully near the Grouse Grind after dusk on Aug. 18, according North Shore Rescue team leader Tim Jones. “If you’ve got your head down, you’ll do it. If you’re not watching the trail you can actually veer off and do what’s called the Bluff,” he said. Facing nightfall without a flashlight at an elevation of approximately 900 metres, the trapped hiker yelled for help. North Shore Rescue volunteers were in the process of their nightly sweep of the Grouse Grind when they heard the hiker’s call. With darkness falling on the mountain, an eight-hour rescue operation commenced. “A very long night, very tiring night for everyone,” Jones said. NSR members did their best to keep the hiker calm while a rescue squad climbed into position and rappelled into the gully. “They were talking to the subject . . . calming him down and guiding him through the night, making sure he wasn’t going to panic,” Jones said. The operation wrapped at 5 a.m., according to Jones. The hiker was not injured, but his predicament could likely have been avoided if he had taken a few precautions, Jones said. “People have to be really cognizant of carrying lights with them if they’re going for a hike after dinner now because the light window is starting to go down, the sun sets earlier now. People are underestimating darkness in the trees,” Jones said. “Poor terrain knowledge, no light, and you get lost. That’s exactly what happened.”
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Yes, I miss them. But these few days have really been nice and relaxing, so here’s what I propose: maybe I can have one weekend all to myself every month, just to recharge the batteries. Will that work? Anyone? Hello? Ah hell, it’s not happening. Maybe in 18 years. My family is due back this weekend, so I’ve got precious few hours left and I need to make the most of them. Hey Netflix, have you heard of these Trailer Park fellows? aprest@nsnews.com
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they’re a good tenant. They’ve learned the valuable life skills, like how to rent an apartment, how to stay in an apartment, and also how to have a good reference, which is important when you get an apartment,” says Sander. The Toronto expansion started in early July and will include a total of four Hollyburn units dedicated to the Covenant House program. Sander says the idea for the program came from a discussion, more than 10 years ago, amongst staff and managers about homeless youth seen around the various apartment buildings. “Kids were seen sleeping in parkades and around the back of the building,” he says. “People naturally became compassionate about it.” Sander had heard of Covenant House and the work they did. He called them and said he wanted to do something to help. “Our tenants have kids, our building managers have kids, we’re a family business,” says Sander. “So the plight of kids on the streets of Vancouver is important to us.” Covenant House was founded in September 1997 and provides services including street outreach/daily drop-in, a crisis shelter that includes 54 beds, counselling services and treatment for substance misuse, and transitional living. The agency takes in more than 1,500 atrisk youth each year. Michelle Clausius, associate director of development and communications at Covenant House, says affordable housing in Vancouver is rare. “It’s also sometimes very difficult for our young people to find an apartment, even if they can afford one because sometimes landlords
are hesitant to rent to young people who may have been through a difficult time,” she says. “It gives them the opportunity to live independently in a very supportive fashion, so not only are they having the subsidized rent but also they continue to be supported by Covenant House youth workers who will keep checking in with them over that year to make sure that everything is going okay.” Clausius says the Hollyburn Youth Housing program has been very successful. “Most of the youth have gone on to either stay in their Hollyburn apartment or have found market housing elsewhere,” she says, adding that each participant gets at least a year in the apartment. “Sometimes they’ve even extended it to two years depending on the youth. That year in a well run, well managed building, so they feel safe, they feel supported, it’s just amazing.” Hollyburn Properties also supports Covenant Housethroughvariousotherprograms,including its monthly clothing donation pickups as well as the annual Christmas Backpack program. “Covenant House puts lots of kids out into apartments, a big part of their budget goes to furnishing those apartments, so we collect furniture, we collect stuff that kids need in the suites, as well as clothes, etcetera,” says Sander. “We have an ongoing relationship with them and as they need things we work with them and it changes from time to time.” Clausius says Hollyburn is extremely generous to the agency. “The support that Covenant House receives from corporations like Hollyburn is so vital. We’re privately funded and we just pass along this goodwill to our youth,” she says. “On one hand, yes they are receiving the benefit of this wonderful apartment but they’re also receiving a
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Laura Anderson THE story of the Minions family parallels that of West Vancouver. There are other families like theirs, families that survived the Depression and the Second World War, whose hard work built our community. For some families, their stories are still within living memory. For others, their history has been recorded and preserved for future generations. The value of these stories is not confined to individual families. They represent the cultural and social history of a community. Everett and Edna Minions and their six-month-old son Ross arrived in West Vancouver in 1920 from Brandon, Man. Daughter Norma was born in 1923 and son Mack in 1924. These were early days in the history of our community, yet they are still within the living memory of Ross and Norma. Mack took his memories with him when he died earlier this year.
As West Vancouver changed over the years, the homes, occupations and fortunes of the Minions family changed with it. Everett and Edna started with a dairy farm on a piece of land bounded by Inglewood and Lawson avenues between 15th and 17th streets, formerly the Mather Holly Farm. Land to the west cleared by Everett for a cow pasture would become the site of West Vancouver secondary, established in 1927. By then, the dairy was gone and the family was living in a house Everett built on Clyde Avenue. He later traded that house for two trucks and started up West Vancouver Supply, installing business and family on Marine Drive. He also drove a truck and later went into real estate with C.J. Archer. Edna was a seamstress at Woodward’s. She caught the early ferry every morning, returning home for dinner prepared by Norma. Norma remembers that her mother also helped out at The Pantry, their grandmother’s restaurant at 14th Street and Marine Drive, just up from the ferry terminal and the pier where she and Mack (supervised by Ross), would fish, delivering the catch of the day to the restaurant. Young but enterprising, Ross created West Vancouver’s first, and only, miniature golf course in the backyard of the house on 17th Street. The course was illuminated with strings of Christmas lights so neighbours could golf at
night, at 25 cents a round. The Minions family continually found its way into West Vancouver’s story: Norma, the family historian, was West Vancouver’s sixth May Queen in 1936. Mack was an usher at the Hollyburn Theatre. Ross, choir soloist and member of Arthur Delamont’s West Vancouver band, was class president and voted Best Dancer. Ross worked as a carpenter after high school graduation. In 1942, he married his high school sweetheart, Sheila Edwards, and joined the army, assigned to work on military installations in Tofino and on the Queen Charlotte Islands, as they were known then. After the war, Ross contributed his skills as a finishing carpenter to the expansion of West Vancouver. He worked with the Tearoe family company and with his brother Mack’s MG Builders, building houses all over the North Shore. Ross worked on the Safeway store on Marine Drive, the Grouse Mountain Chalet and eventually on buildings throughout the province. Ross and Sheila raised son Chris and daughters Sue and Terry, first in a house on Argyle Avenue and later on an acreage near Capilano View Cemetery. See Collaboration page 15
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Collaboration helps tell story From page 14 The story of the Minions family continues. This part of their story is a collaboration of family, friends and neighbours, one of whom suggested a profile of Ross on the occasion of his 94th birthday on Aug. 10. The West Vancouver Historical Society named its annual summer barbecue “Minions Day” in recognition of the family’s contribution.
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squashed sandwiches. Lesson learned: take a chance because you never know what you might miss. Rather than choosing an all-inclusive trip, pay just for the transportation and the hotel. When you reach your destination, then look — and shop — around for the tours that interest you the most. And take advantage of local knowledge to help choose worthwhile excursions at the best price. Cruises are another example. They typically offer shore excursions for an additional fee, which most people pay because they don’t know how to organize a tour. However, either on your own or with a few other adventurous passengers you
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WITH fall at the door, the busiest time on the wine tasting calendar is right around the corner, with a steady stream of winemakers coming to Vancouver.
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I’D have called him the bartender, but J.F. Harrison’s official title is “learning co-ordinator.” Well, OK, but he’ll still pour you a drink. Harrison’s domain is the Park Car, the last unit on The Ocean and a marvel of early-1950s stainless-steel design and endurance. It has a lounge and a step-up bar and “it’ll be here long after I’m gone,” says Harrison. As will, with luck, The Ocean, the oldest continuously running “named” passenger train in North America, in business since 1904. It follows a route laid down in 1876 built to connect the Maritimes to the rest of Canada. Like The Canadian, the transcontinental train to Vancouver, it helped cement Canadian confederation. That achievement is noted on the wall of the Park Car, where six clocks tell the hour in each of Canada’s time zones. The travel time between Halifax and Montreal hasn’t changed much over the years — officially, 21 hours — but in 2012 service was reduced from six times a week to three, raising concerns that the historic train may be on its last legs, despite the fact that, while admittedly popular with tourists, it’s also still used by locals. Nine of the 17 places it stops en route are flag stops, meaning that the would-be passenger waves the train down. On today’s run, Harrison estimates, about 150 of the 190 passengers are locals, including all 100 in the coach seats. Harrison provides those of us who begin our trip in the Park Car—which is highly recommended—with a glass of champagne and, later, with a framed photo showing us relaxing in the car’s mid-century leather chairs. Later, he’ll
host a tasting of two Nova Scotia wines, one red, one white, paired with cheeses from the province, demonstrate how a lobster trap works and point out various scenic highlights along the 1,346kilometre route — thus earning his title “learning co-ordinator.” We in the sleeping-cars section (the only ones with access to the Park Car), besides having private compartments whose seats transform into bunk beds at night, get a second, mid-train lounge car (today with entertainment by a Nova Scotia folk duo, Acres & Acres) and a dining carriage with linen-topped tables. The Ocean’s countryside isn’t as awesome as is the Rocky Mountains’ portion of The Canadian route, but there are a variety of vistas — wellordered farms, untamed wildernesses, dramatic seascapes and distinctively Maritime and Quebec towns — to keep the eyes occupied. There’s also a booklet Via Rail produces that goes into more depth about the passing places and terrain. Shortly before midnight, for instance, we stop at Matapédia (pop. 700). The booklet explains that we are near the site of the 1760 Battle of Restigouche. I’d never heard of it, but it is, I read, significant: the defeat of the French fleet here by the English “marked the end of France’s military interventions in Canada.” With this knowledge I drift off, awakening to porridge, cereal, fruit and yogurt and our 9:50 a.m. arrival in downtown Montreal — just 45 minutes late.
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I knew there would be a time when my little cattle dogborder collie cross’s energy would begin to surpass my ability to find a reasonable and convenient outlet.
At nine months old, the daily one-hour hike he participates in with my other two dogs just is not enough and when Piper and Zumi crash on their beds, Raider looks at me and says, “Now what?” Eventually Raider will accompany me when I ride my horse at which point his energy needs — both physical and mental — will be satisfied. But maturitywise he isn’t quite there yet. So this weekend we learned how to ride a bike. The commands I use for Raider while I ride a bike will be exactly the same as when I ride my horse. Raider picked up the concept of riding alongside a bike rather quickly and even though his heel command was never his strongest — because at a walk I am simply not fast enough — on a bike his heeling was perfect. The biggest hurdle was just getting him used to being beside a bike. The first step in this training is to begin teaching your dog how to heel. Heeling means to stay at my side — I choose the left side — and when I stop moving the dog must sit without being asked. Next is introducing your dog to the bike. Decide which side you want your dog to remain on while you ride the bike. Then, for training purposes, you will be on the opposite side holding
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the handlebars and the dog’s leash. I chose not to use treats and train Raider’s heel command separate from this exercise, but you can most definitely incorporate treats to lure your dog through this training process. Also, I suggest training in a large empty parking lot away from all traffic instead of practising this on a sidewalk with a lot of pedestrian traffic. I began walking with Raider in heel on my left with the bike between him and me. Speaking from experience, you may want to temporarily remove the pedals from the bike while you work through this phase. It will prevent your shins and calf muscles from impalements while walking and guiding your dog. After Raider was comfortable walking beside the bike, I then sat on the bike while using my feet on the ground to move the bike along at a slow speed. Every once in a while I would coast with my feet up and allow Raider to get used to the feeling of the unsteadiness of the bike beside him while on leash. If Raider got too enthusiastic and attempted to rush forward in front of the bike I gave a verbal
correction — “Ah-AA” (which is his command to back away) — and when he adjusted himself to be in heel position I gave verbal praise: “Atta boy!” If you do not have a verbal correction command for your dog, but have a strong heel command, you can reissue the heel command if you see your dog beginning to rush past the bike and out of position. The next step is to teach your dog to slow down. It is important to teach a slow down command because hitting the brakes on a bike with your dog running alongside can result in injury to both you and your dog. This is the tricky part because if you go too slowly on the bike you get wobbly and risk falling into your dog, so just go for short distances with lots of stops. I began to pedal at a slow yet steady pace then applied the rear breaks and allowed the bike to coast to a stop while telling Raider to “whoa.” After a few repetitions he soon learned that “whoa” means to slow his pace down and get ready to stop. Now it was time to put all of the pieces of the puzzle together. I found a quiet area that allowed Raider to be on mostly soft surface and off we went taking lots of breaks and monitoring Raider’s level of exercise tolerance the whole way. If you are planning on teaching your dog to run alongside your bike while leashed remember that every dog learns at its own pace. Be patient, kind and have fun! Joan has been working with dogs for over 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. Contact her at k9kinship.com.
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WEST Vancouver’s Emily Overholt shows her skill during a recent competition. The 15-year-old is on a major roll this summer, picking up a senior national title as well as four medals at the Canada Summer Games. This week she’s in Dubai for the FINA World Juniors.
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Gold rolling in for West Van swimmer Andy Prest aprest@nsnews.com
WEST Vancouver’s 15-year-old Emily Overholt is taking this whole summer vacation thing pretty seriously.
Last month she zipped over to Quebec to visit Pointe-Claire before returning to la Belle Province this month for a stop in Sherbrooke. When the North Shore News caught up with her last week she was all the way over in spicy Barcelona, preparing to go even farther afield to the desert jewel of Dubai. She’s not stopping by all these places for the poutine and beaches though — she’s got other prizes on her mind. At the Pointe-Claire Aquatic Centre she
won the women’s 200-metre butterfly at Swimming Canada’s 2013 Summer National Championships. That’s a senior national title — for a 15-year-old. When she returned to Quebec she upped the stakes even more, claiming three gold medals and a silver at the Canada Summer Games in Sherbrooke. She would have added a bronze as well but the result was wiped out when her B.C. relay team was disqualified following the final. Overholt then packed her swimsuits up once more and headed to Barcelona for a staging camp to prepare for the FINA World Juniors starting tomorrow in Dubai. Now that’s a pretty interesting summer. “Swimming has given me so many great opportunities to travel and meet new people and it’s always very exciting to be able to see new places around the world while doing the sport you love,” Overholt wrote in an email to the North Shore News during some downtime at the Barcelona camp. “I feel very lucky to have had these opportunities at my age.”
Overholt, entering her Grade 11 year at Collingwood School this fall, began swimming with the West Van Otters when she was nine years old. When she was 12 she started working with the club’s head coach, Janusz Kaczmarek, and proceeded to shock him with her improvement in the sport. Kaczmarek remembers taking 12-year-old Overholt to a December competition that was lower than provincial level. By July her times had picked up so much that he was entering her in the age-group national championships. She went and she won, claiming the 100-m butterfly title. “That is incredible improvement through seven months time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that before.” Since then her talent has only grown. Her body has too, and this summer she’s demonstrating how fast she can be with the oncoming strength of adulthood combined with her technique which has always been strong.
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Senior national title already for 15-year-old From page 21 “She’s technically very advanced,” said Kaczmarek, adding that she’s also very adept at coming up with a race strategy and executing it in the water. He listed a few other attributes that are the forces pushing her to become a champion. “It is her commitment to the sport, it is her work ethic — which is of the highest level — and a great amount of talent. Put all three together, put her in the right situation and she’s capable of doing truly outstanding things.” In January Overholt attended the Australian Youth Olympic Festival where she finished fourth in the 400-m individual medley and 200-m butterfly. “My favourite moment in my swimming career so far,” she said of the festival. “It was my first multi sport games and it was a great experience and so much fun.” Overholt’s races might not be so much fun, however, for the swimmers who are three, four, maybe even 10 years older than her. “Competing against 18 and 19 year olds is actually pretty common in swimming,” said Overholt, calling it “normal” for her to be racing against adults. Normal or not, Overholt was still quite surprised at the massive haul she took in during the Canada Games, a competition open to athletes up to 19 years of age. “I was definitely surprised to win four medals at the Games and I’m very happy with these results,” she said. She won the 200-metre individual medley, 400-m freestyle and 400-m individual medley while earning silver in the 200-m freestyle. She’ll try to make the same splash this week in Dubai where she’ll be racing in the 400-m individual medley, 200-m individual medley, 200-m butterfly and 4x100-m relay against swimmers up to 18 years of age. With the world waiting for her, Overholt is all pumped up. “It’s an exciting time for me because it’s the highest level of competition I’ve ever been to,” she said. “We’re getting closer and closer to the meet and I’m really excited to start racing.” Whatever happens, Overholt will certainly have no trouble filling a few pages in the “What I did on my summer vacation” essay the first week of school. With shiny hardware in tow, it might be best just to make it a show and tell.
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United squad wins soccer gold at World Masters Games Andy Prest aprest@nsnews.com
THEY’D gone all the way to Turin, Italy for this and now they were leading in the 35-plus women’s soccer championship final at the World Masters Games and North Vancouver’s Terri Newell was not interested in giving up the gold. “Once you go up 1-0 you try not to go on your heels but it gets a little sketchy then,” she said, back on the North Shore and rehashing the final. “As a defender then I’m just concentrating on not making a mistake.” The team was Meralomas United, a group of masters players from around the Lower Mainland who set their sights on winning gold at the Games. The roster included North Shore players Newell, Liz Palmer, Laura Acutt, Kimberly Hobbs and Gretchen McLenen, as well as Richmond’s Maleena Pardhan, owner of North Vancouver’s Macey’s Sports. Newell, at 48, was the second oldest player on the team, pipped by a couple of years by her Lynn Valley neighbour Hobbs. “She was the old-timer, I’ve got to throw her under the bus,” said Newell with a laugh. “I was young, comparatively speaking.” Newell certainly looked like a spry youngster on the goal that gave the team a 1-0 lead over the Canadian All Reds, an Ontario team, in the final. Moving up from her position on defence, Newell took a short pass on a corner quick and sent in a cross that was headed home by Burnaby’s Jemma Scoble. Then it was time to defend for several nervous moments in the amped-up intensity of a 60-minute game. “A mistake can cost you going the other
way pretty quickly. Being up 1-0 is sometimes difficult to hang on to,” said Newell, a player who has hit the pitch for every season since taking up the sport at the age of seven, making stops at provincial teams and a year with the UBC Thunderbirds along the way. Back in Italy the whistle finally blew and the World Games gold was theirs. For Newell it was actually her second such title, the first coming 12 years ago in Melbourne with the same club. For many of her teammates, however, it was a glorious first. “They were really fixated on it and in tears when they got their medals,” she said. “I’m a little bit older and a little mellower but it was a very satisfying feeling. It felt really good.” Newell admitted that the World Masters Games is not, in fact, a best-of-the-best-of-thebest tournament. A lot of the teams were from Canada, a country that has really embraced the globetrotting masters sport lifestyle. There are masters teams in the local Vancouver league that can top Meralomas on the right day too. That all didn’t matter, however, to the women who made the effort to get themselves to Italy and challenge for the crown. “Just playing soccer in Italy was really awesome,” said Newell. “I’ve been playing soccer since I was seven and we didn’t always have a soccer culture in Canada so it was pretty cool playing soccer in Italy.” And she did come home with a shiny piece of gold hanging around her neck. “I’ve been showing it off at work, showing my neighbours, generally just feeling pretty good about myself,” she said. “People ask about the trip and I say, ‘Oh, I just happen to have this in my pocket.’ I have some friends who are on holidays right now so I’ve got to accidentally keep it in my pocket for a couple of days longer.”
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