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City council chamber unveiled $600K reno intended to welcome the public BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

Mayor Darrell Mussatto beams as he shows off the City of North Vancouver’s newly renovated council chamber. While council was on its usual August break, work crews were dismantling the 1975-era bunker made up of yellow, brown and more brown, and replacing it with a much lighter and more modern design. “We really want to make it more friendly for the public.That’s the major driver on this,” Mussatto said on a tour of the chamber. “We wanted to make sure it ﬁt in with the renovations of city hall.You can see it’s much brighter.” The chamber will get its public debut at the ﬁrst council meeting of the new season on Monday night, when the city’s elected members are expected to debate funding a memorial to residential school survivors, and designs for public spaces in Lower Lonsdale. After receiving years of complaints, both from the council table and the gallery, about the old technology, bad visibility and worse acoustics, council resolved in the spring to go ahead with the $600,000 reno. Gone are the dark wooden walls, carpets and seat upholstery.The city has pushed back the rear glass

North Vancouver Mayor Darrell Mussatto is off his previously elevated perch in the city’s newly redesigned council chambers. The $600,000 renovation is intended to bring the hall out of the 1970s with new microphones, ﬂat screen TVs and a lighter colour scheme. Scan with Layar to compare before and after photos of the decor. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN wall and put in another row of seating and a convenient aisle down the centre.The lights, cameras, mics and speakers have also received a sorely needed update.The south wall behind the new semi-circular council table is now adorned with two 90inch, ﬂat screen TVs — a big step up from the overhead projector on white canvas system council had before. “The technology also allows for better broadcast quality for television,

Internet and our mobile accessibility for iPads and iPhones. It meets all those standards now when we were stuck in the ’80s for a long time,’ said Connie Rabold, city spokeswoman. The hope, beyond allowing everyone to hear and see council much better, is to make the council experience more inviting, and increase engagement with the city. See Tech page 5

DNV hosts pipeline debate The District of North Vancouver is placing itself in the centre of the debate over whether Kinder Morgan should be able to twin its Trans Mountain oil pipeline to Burnaby. Mayor Richard Walton will moderate a panel discussion at district hall on Sept. 12 between representatives from Kinder

Morgan, Port Metro Vancouver as well as the Tsleil-Waututh First Nation and the Georgia Strait Alliance, both of which are opposing the project. Walton said the district decided to host the meeting after being lobbied by various groups to take a position. “Our council is not one to do a lot of extraneous

motions on provincial and federal and world kinds of issues,” he said. Instead, the district chose the route of public education, which may inform a council position in the future,Walton said. To register for the forum, call 604-990-2421 or email chesterp@dnv.org. — Brent Richter

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Savannah Jularbal milks Lima the Jersey cow in front of a rapt audience at Maplewood Farm. Scan with Layar for more photos and a video. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN

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At five acres, Maplewood Farm is not particularly large, but on this late summer morning its heart beats loudly with life. The weather helps of course.The sun is out but not yet hot, and dew coats grass and trees, highlighting cobwebs and the imminent arrival of fall. The animals are out of the barn where they have spent the night and — depending on your point of view — are either enjoying an hour of peace and quiet or waiting for the first visitors at 10 a.m. Pot bellied pigs Peggy and Petunia seem to be snoozing in their pen, Mini the Shetland pony, possibly the oldest inhabitant of the farm at the age of 40, stands unmoving, as does Lima the five-year-old Jersey cow, ruminating quietly as she chews her cud. The unmistakable smell of a farm and its sounds — the scream of a peacock, the honking of geese and the muffled footsteps of penned livestock — are

Tom, a Belgian draft horse, may be the most popular animal at Maplewood Farm. more striking because of the incongruity of finding them within a few hundred metres of the rush hour traffic on Mount Seymour Parkway. Residents of the new townhomes planned in the immediate neighbourhood will need to adapt to roosters at dawn. As I sit with farm manager Derek Palmer at a picnic table, we are slowly surrounded by a mixed flock of mallards and chickens. Geese and Indian runner ducks are part of the farm’s stock, but a flock of mallards arrive at dawn

every day to share the pond — and the bird feed from visitors.They look fat to me. Suddenly, in an instant and at once, they hightail it to the pond. Palmer looks up and says, “There must be a bird of prey around.The crows are acting up too.” Palmer has been here for 30 years. He was hired straight out of high school by the manager he has replaced for the last two. “At the time, it was a part-time job while I waited to get into vocational school to study mechanics. But it was a two-year wait, and in

Ava De Sousa, 6, rides the farm on a pedal tractor, one of several available for use by young visitors. the meantime I discovered I just really enjoyed this.You hear people describe it as an oasis in the city. It’s a nice place to come to work.” Plans are underway to make it nicer. Last year, the federal government gave the District of North Vancouver — which owns and operates the farm — a Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund grant to help rehabilitate Maplewood Farm.The district has matched that grant, and will use the funds to make upgrades to the farm,

including: ■ the construction of an enclosed multi-purpose area added to the existing visitor’s centre building; ■ the construction of six new shelters by the animal viewing pens; ■ replacement of existing washroom facilities; ■ improvements to the goat playground area; and ■ creation of interpretive signage. But the federal money for the upgrades is conditional on the farm raising $25,000 itself — though it does not

necessarily have to be all cash; construction material donations will count too. The process of raising that money has only just begun.While the grant was conﬁrmed in 2012, it has taken the majority of this year for the planning and building permit process (part of the municipal contribution) to work its way through district hall. The intent is to increase attendance and revenue and eliminate the municipal subsidy that Palmer says is running around $180,000 annually.The farm generates $420,000 in annual revenue but costs $600,000 to run. The farm is open seven days a week much of the year, only closing on Mondays from November through March.Typically there are two attendants working out on the farm and a cashier. But there are only two full-time employees, Palmer and one other, the rest are part-time or occasional workers. And Palmer is quick to thank his many volunteers who contribute in many ways to See Farm page 9

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From page 1 However, the revamp, is more than esthetic and technological; there’s also a shift of philosophy present in the new design.The mayor’s chair will no longer be elevated above the rest of council. “I’m off my pedestal. I’m back down with everybody. No more grand poobah,” Mussatto said. “It reﬂected the council of the day. In the new council, I’m one member of seven. I think it’s more appropriate that I sit down there.” There is also now a desk for members of the public to sit at while making a presentation, which is meant to be less intimidating than the lectern they would stand at before. The photos of the old mayors that once decorated the council walls will be re-hung on the second ﬂoor overlooking the hallway leading to the chamber. Council funded the project out of its IT and facilities budgets. In order to protect the investment, council watchers can expect one new rule to be enforced, Mussatto said: No food or drink on the dazzling new upholstery.

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layton Stoner has yet to make his mark in the National Hockey League as a premium player with the Minnesota Wild, but he’s secured a big reputation off the ice this summer with the killing of a grizzly bear. We should thank him. In a move that was the exact opposite of Brigitte Bardot kissing a baby seal, Stoner has drawn attention to the issue of our provincial government auctioning off this province’s wildlife like nobody else could. The only possible increase in media exposure would have been if he had clubbed the grizzly to death with a hockey stick. It must be emphasized that Stoner did nothing wrong in the legal sense. He won the right to kill in a macabre annual lottery, paid for his licence like any other “game” hunter and was

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Kids are cheap? That’s rich

I’ve decided there’s a ﬁne line between an Institute and an Institution. An institute can be many things, such as the Fraser Institute, a Canadian “think tank” that produces reports like the one released Aug. 22 titled The Cost of Raising Children. That report, ﬁled under the general heading “Poverty & Welfare,” argued that contrary to most estimates that peg the cost of raising a child at between $10,000 and $15,000 per year, it actually only costs in the neighbourhood of $3,000 to $4,500 per year to provide all of the essentials for a healthy child. An institution, on the other hand, is a place where they put crazy people. I’ve never really spent much time thinking about the Fraser Institute, knowing it only as the thing that makes all of the news reporters here furious every time it sends out its rankings of the best and worst elementary schools in the province. It was a bit strange, then, to realize that the folks at the Fraser

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in the much anticipated sequel report (working title: I Own Vases Worth More ThanYour Kids!). The report’s author, however, made a few interesting choices when deciding what costs to include in his calculations. Neither the cost of childcare nor the loss of income due to having one parent stay at home were included in the total ﬁgure. Also excluded were any increases in transportation or housing costs. I shared the report with a few of my parent friends and they had some interesting responses. The replies ranged from the practical: “We had to upgrade from a hatchback to a stationwagon;” to the inquisitive: “I suspect a great deal hangs on their deﬁnition of ‘raise’ and ‘children;’” to the incisive: “Unless you’re pretty relaxed about taking advantage of your parents or in-laws, I don’t see how childcare is ‘free’ or ‘cheap;’” to the slightly angry: “I could have not had a kid and lived in

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Car hits student on Parkway crosswalk

Police beg for motorist caution near schools BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com

A NorthVancouver student suffered only minor injuries, despite

being hit by a car while crossing the street on his ﬁrst day of schoolTuesday. The 15-year-old Windsor secondary student had activated the ﬂashing

crosswalk lights on Mount Seymour Parkway and Broadview Drive and stepped into the intersection just after 2:30 p.m. when the collision happened. “Other vehicles stopped or were slowing down and a 79-year-old female driver from North Vancouver drove through the intersection,

striking the 15-year-old in the crosswalk,” said Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman. B.C. Ambulance Service paramedics rushed the boy to Lions Gate Hospital where he was treated for “an extensive amount” of cuts and abrasions and slight whiplash, De Jong

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to be extra cautious near schools and crosswalks, De Jong noted. “It’s another timely reminder for all motorists to pay attention to ﬂashing lights at crosswalks, be alert for kids on the sidewalks.They do have the right-of-way once they step off the curb when the light’s activated,” he said.

Benefit of the doubt proves short-lived From page 7 Reading between the lines, the report’s author seems to be giving the stink eye to any of those shady left-liberals lobbying the state for more resources for families with children. Here’s where my beneﬁt of the doubt ends. Now you’re just trying to mess with my cash. Does the Fraser Institute think that a nation of young parents is going to nod in agreement while being accused of going after more than their

fair share of the state’s money? Fracking operations are chugging our fresh water like camels at a drinking fountain, pipelines full of oil bound for China are being run through our backyards, banks are making billion dollar proﬁts and we’re supposed to believe that it’s families and parents that need to be carefully scrutinized? Forget the Institute — someone better call up the institution. I think I’m about to lose it. aprest@nsnews.com

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keep costs down. The farm had approximately 103,000 visitors in 2012 and, according to a district staff report, was 16th on the list of Metro Vancouver tourism attractions.The report says the goal is to position the farm in the top 10. That appears challenging on the farm’s paltry $10,000 marketing budget — approximately the same as it spends on veterinary services. (Langley Animal Clinic and another horse specialist provide veterinary assistance. All the animals have a six-monthly health check.) A tight budget shows in other ways.Tom the Belgian draft horse is possibly the most popular animal at Maplewood. Palmer would like to see him “working,” but the farm does not have the budget at present to buy equipment such as harness and a cart. However, Palmer remains optimistic. “I’ve found over the years that variety in our animals is important because everybody has a different favourite.There are horse people and cow people and people who like parrots.The federal grant will allow us to diversify a little and present more interpretive and educational programs.” He hopes the covered interpretive areas will encourage more visitors in the quieter winter months when weather is a factor. Palmer sees Maplewood’s animals as his extended family and doesn’t keep

Much needed new washrooms are just some of the improvement plans for Maplewood Farm. loves. He hates the thought of Mini the Shetland pony or Roberto the donkey dying.They were farm residents before he began working here. He ruefully repeats the advice of a vet that used to work with the farm: “If you don’t want to deal with dead stock, don’t deal with livestock.” According to district records, Maplewood Farm

pets at his North Vancouver home. “I get my ﬁll when I’m here.” He says he does not have an overall favourite, but admits to favourites within each group of animals. Sickness or quality of life issues, not old age, determine when a farm animal must be euthanized and Palmer says that is the toughest part of the job he

has existed on the present site since at least 1914 and has been owned by three different families, the last of whom — the Smyths — purchased the dairy farm in 1944. Milk from the 25 head of dairy cattle was bottled and delivered to homes in Deep Cove, Seymour and Lynn Valley. The district obtained the farm in a land swap in 1970 and rented it out, but in 1974 parks superintendent Dirk Oostindie proposed using the farm for children. His vision: “A farm that could compensate for the loss of the rural feeling and the increasing urbanization by showing some old things, and exposing children to basic things . . . the farm will provide a rudimentary education and provide experience for children they wouldn’t normally have.” A visitor has only to watch young children at Maplewood Farm to know that Oostindie’s vision was both correct and splendid. Find out more about the farm at maplewoodfarm. bc.ca, including the $125 family membership option that allows unlimited visits in a year for mom, dad, all the kids, grandparents and a nanny.

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Capilano University is renewing its stock of pianos. Through an agreement with Kawai Music Canada and Loewen Piano House, the University is hosting a sale of pianos on campus. Loewen Piano House is a proud partner in the Kawai Piano Institutional Program at Capilano, now in its 19th year at the University. More than 100 pianos, several used at the University, will be available including: Grands, Uprights, and Digitals. Many are new, some are less than one year old, and others have been professionally refurbished. Brand names include: Kawai, Yamaha, Heintzman, Boesendorfer, Bluethner and Steinway. Speciﬁc brands will be allocated at 3 different locations including: North Vancouver, Vancouver and Richmond. To schedule an appointment call: 604-801-5393 www.loewenpianohouse.com Friday, September 13th • 10 am to 9 pm Saturday, September 14th • 10 am to 6 pm Sunday, September 15th • 10 am to 5 pm Capilano University Multipurpose Room - Sportsplex building 2055 Purcell Way North Vancouver, BC Visa, MasterCard, Interac, and Warranty and Delivery, arranged through Loewen Piano House.

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Karen Beacom competes Aug. 11

Volunteers Alison Rakis and Megan Frederick with tournament sponsor Steve Jennings The North Shore Winter Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 15th Annual Summer Smash Tennis Tournament took place Aug. 11-17 with more than 220 players taking part in the annual club event. On the evening of Aug. 16, participants enjoyed an end of tournament dinner featuring live music by Johnny and the Walkers, rafďŹ&#x201A;es and door prizes.

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TERRY FOX RUNS The North Shore is playing host to two walk/run events next weekend. page 13 North Shore recognized practitioner and teacher Lynda Harvey practises therapeutic touch, an energy-based relaxation method that’s performed world-wide and believed to create better circulation, and reduce anxiety and tension. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

DON’T SWEAT IT Columnist Shaun Karp helps you stay on track during the ﬁnal busy days of summer. page 14

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Therapeutic touch practitioners reaching out to community ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

Energy is universal. At least that’s the basis behind therapeutic touch and for Lynda Harvey,

drawing from that energy can have many positive effects. “It’s an energy-based relaxation method that is practised all around the world,” says Harvey,

a recognized therapeutic touch practitioner and teacher on the North Shore. “It mainly relaxes people because they have individual attention for a good 20 minutes and often just that relaxation response opens up the blood vessels.” She says it can help to create better circulation and reduce anxiety

or tension. Harvey, now a retired nurse, started therapeutic touch 30 years ago. “I was at UBC taking my degree in nursing and I tend to be a perfectionist person and I was all keyed up about my assignments and exams,” she says. “So somebody said, ‘just go and sit down there for a minute and I’ll do some

therapeutic touch.’ Within 20 minutes I was asleep upstairs and couldn’t have cared less about assignments or exams or the world.” She says once she felt the beneﬁts of it, she not only wanted to learn more and receive it regularly, but also wanted to share it See Free page 17

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Recovery being celebrated today Organized by local recovery advocates, Vancouver is scheduled to host the second annual Rally for Recovery at the Vancouver Art Gallery today from noon to 3 p.m. According to a press release, the event, accompanied by a proclamation from Mayor Gregor Robertson recognizing Sept. 8 as Recovery Day, celebrates Canadians in recovery from addiction. Expected ofﬁcials in attendance and speakers include: John Weston,

MP for West VancouverSunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country, and Vancouver Coun. Raymond Louie.The event will include a march, personal stories of recovery, a mass group Serenity Prayer circle enclosing the gallery courtyard and a performance from the VOC Soul Gospel Choir. The United States Government has recognized the entire month of September as Recovery Month for more than 20 years, said AnnMarie McCullough, director

of communications and community relations for the Orchard Recovery Center, in the statement. Realizing Canada had no equivalent they decided to plan a public celebration of recovery in Vancouver last September. This year, the event has grown across Canada with Recovery Day celebrations expected in 10 cities.With Recovery Day, organizers are excited to be able to shift the focus from the problem of addiction to the solution: recovery, she says. recoveryday.ca

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LIVE Health Notes Notices NORTH VAN HEARING VOICES GROUP A drop-in support group for people who hear voices and would like to talk about their experiences in a supportive, non-judgemental environment meets every Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at theYWCA, 318-260 West Esplanade, North Vancouver. Andrea, 604-983-6018 CHELSEA’S CHALLENGE A ﬁvekilometre walk/run in memory of Chelsea Steyns, a North Shore mother of two sets of twins who lost her battle to a rare form of brain cancer will be held Sunday, Sept. 8 at 9 a.m. in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve. Funds raised will go to the family trust fund. sites.google.com/site/ chelseasw01 COHO RUN A 14kilometre journey from Kitsilano Beach over to Ambleside Park Sunday, Sept. 8.Walkers start at 8 a.m. and runners at 9 a.m. Registration required. cohosociety.com

COHO SWIM Choose from 1.5- or three-kilometre options starting and ﬁnishing close to the welcoming pole at Ambleside beach Sunday, Sept. 8 at 9 a.m. Swimmers must wear wetsuits. Registration required. cohosociety.com BACKCOUNTRY 101 A free clinic dedicated to packing for an overnight hiking trip Mondays, Sept. 9, 16 or 23, 6-7:30 p.m. at Mountain Equipment Co-op, 212 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver. Registration required. events. mec.ca CREATING A POSITIVE HOMECARE EXPERIENCE A presentation and informative discussion that will focus on common caregiver issues Monday, Sept. 9, 3-5 p.m. at West Vancouver Community Health Centre, 2121 Marine Dr. 604-982-3320 UNDERSTANDING ME RESPECTING YOU A free group for men who are abusive in their relationships Mondays, Sept. 9-Dec. 16, 5:30-8 p.m. at Family Services of the North Shore, 101255 West First St., North Vancouver. Registration:

TERRY FOX RUNS Ralph and Katie Boyd, Elaine Schretlen and Carol Beattie invite community members to participate in one of the North Shore’s two upcoming Terry Fox Runs, being held Sunday, Sept. 15 at Ambleside Park at 8 a.m., and Inter River Park at 9 a.m. terryfox.org PHOTO KEVIN HILL 604-988-5281 x202 COUPLES GROUP THERAPY A free group for couples

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Don’t sweat it if you have to skip a workout SHAUN KARP Contributing writer

Every summer, regimented exercise programs take a backseat to lawn maintenance, daylong barbecuing, and outdoor fun. But here’s the good news: the heat of summer naturally boosts metabolism and the longer days enable you to ﬁt in more activity. So, there’s a chance you’ll burn even more calories simply having fun than you would in the gym! Consider that a 150pound person’s typical one-hour workout burns between 400 and 700 calories. That’s tough to replace, but if you start the day with an hour of yard work or leisure walking, you will burn about 200 calories. Washing your car or painting a fence, instead, burns approximately 300 calories. Of course, these activities are much more

commonly done during the summer months. If you hike or hit the lake after that, you’ll likely burn 350 calories per hour. When you consider that most people will spend multiple hours in the mountains or on the water, it’s obvious those numbers can add up fast. Rent a paddle board and you can burn 50 calories in just 10 minutes. Summer games, like bocce and croquet, are perfect for warm evenings and burn about 175 calories per hour, while standing up to barbecue burns nearly the same. Even a short 15 minute bike ride can see you easily burn 100 calories. That’s a massive boost compared to the roughly 60 calories burned while playing video games or watching TV with food in the oven, which are common post-workout activities. The real key is avoiding summer’s frozen treats and processed meats. Here are

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ROAD HOCKEY TO CONQUER CANCER North Vancouver’s Anoop Desai (right), shown in this family photo with his son Kainen and late wife Neeta, is among the North Shore residents planning to participate in next weekend’s Road Hockey to Conquer Cancer event. The daylong family-friendly road hockey tournament is being held Sept. 14 at Vancouver’s Concord Paciﬁc Place in support of the B.C. Cancer Foundation. Anoop and Kainen, 4, will be participating in memory of Neeta, who passed away last year at the age of 36 from colon cancer. teamuptoconquercancer.ca PHOTO SUPPLIED

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LIVE Health Notes From page 13 foot risk assessment and understanding of complications Tuesday, Sept. 10, 7-9 p.m. at Lions Gate Hospital Gym, 231 East 15th St., North Vancouver. Free admission with a pair of new socks for North Shore Homelessness Action Week. Registration: infobc@diabetes. ca or 604-732-1331 x272.

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PADDLE SPORT RACE SERIES Competitive and non-competitive, novice to experienced paddlers are invited to paddle any type of craft Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in Deep Cove, North Vancouver. Check-in begins at 6 p.m. with a warmup at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 10, Deep Cove 5 Knot Can Race. $5. Registration required: 604-929-2268 or tuesdaynightracing.com ARTHRITIS SELFMANAGEMENT PROGRAM Learn techniques that will provide knowledge and skills to better manage arthritis Wednesdays, Sept. 11-Oct. 16 from noon to 2 p.m. at Parkgate Community Centre, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancouver. $25, which includes The Arthritis Helpbook. MUSIC THERAPY RIDE A charity motorcycle ride designed to raise funds for community-based music therapy services in B.C. will go from Vancouver to See more page 17

GLOWING: A REPRODUCTION PRODUCTION Deep Cove resident Mary-Jo Dionne, shown here with her nine-month-old daughter Majella (Jella) Bentley, is currently presenting her debut, one-woman show Glowing: A Reproduction Production as part of the 2013 Vancouver Fringe Festival line-up. The show was inspired by Dionne’s months of allday morning sickness, which was topped off with a diagnosis of melanoma when she was seven months pregnant. She will perform the work today (2:45 p.m.), Monday (6:45 p.m.), Thursday, (8:25 p.m.) and Saturday (9 p.m.), at The Revue Stage on Granville Island. Audience members are invited to bring a donation of baby food to each Glowing performance to be donated to local food banks. vancouverfringe.com PHOTO TANYA KING

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Free sessions offered on North Shore with others. “I sleep really well after I’ve had a session,” says Harvey. “It has many beneﬁts as do many other energy-based techniques.” Unlike chakra that has seven major centres, Harvey says therapeutic touch works on the body’s energy collectively. “We’re bringing people back into wholeness in their body, their mind and their spirit,” she says. According to the B.C. Therapeutic Touch Network Society, the method was ﬁrst introduced by Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz in the 1970s and is a process of energy exchange where the practitioner moves their hands a few inches away from the body. Harvey says most of the people she learned it with in the early ’70s were nurses and they would take the therapy into hospital wards, cancer institutes and the community, as well as use it on palliative patients and people who were HIV positive. “We don’t do it as a business, there’s a few people that do,” she says. “My 30 years has all been volunteering except when I teach the class.” Teaching therapeutic touch involves three levels and each level is 12 hours that the instructor can fashion however they want. Harvey says she prefers teaching her sessions twice a week. The society sets the curriculum and the standards for teaching the therapy. “It’s sort of the governing body for when

you want to call yourself a recognized therapeutic touch practitioner or a recognized therapeutic touch teacher,” says Harvey. “You need to be receiving treatments on yourself regularly as well as offering them to, ideally, your family and friends first so you get your confidence up, and then offer it to the community whether they’re well or ill.” Harvey says it can even help your pets and plants. “All living things can benefit by this energy exchange,” she says. “What you’re learning to do is turn off your mind.” Harvey says the process is called centring, similar to meditation or prayer, and describes it as getting out of one’s ego. “You go into your heart centre and then you ask the universal energy to come from nature, the air, whatever, through you,” says Harvey. “I’m just a conduit and then that energy moves through me, it makes me feel better and then it goes out back into the earth. So it’s a whole different paradigm, whole different model of health.” Once a student has completed their levels, they receive a certificate of attendance. “It’s not a certificate of proficiency,” Harvey says. “They’re encouraged to come to the practice groups again to receive for themselves and to offer to others if they’re really serious.” Students must get around 72 sessions, some of which are supervised and others where they receive therapy for themselves, and document each in their practitioner’s

workbook. As they document, they also evaluate. “It’s a very big process,” says Harvey. “Then it gets sent to teachers who go through that person’s journey from when they started offering sessions to when they become pretty proﬁcient at it, and they judge according to criteria that’s all set up if that person should receive their recognized therapeutic touch practitioner status.” Therapeutic touch sessions can vary in length, but Harvey says the rule is no more than 20 minutes. “In that 20 minutes, our mind is totally focused on the other person and feeling their energy with our hands,” says Harvey, adding that energy can also be felt through the various senses. “We all have different ways of picking up energy and balances.” She says in many instances, people cannot sit still or stay silent for longer than 20 minutes, so generally sessions do not exceed that. Harvey is also involved in free therapeutic sessions on the North Shore as a practice group coordinator. The sessions are offered through Lions Gate Hospital, West Vancouver United Church and out of Harvey’s own home. “That’s a community offering, anybody that hears about it can come and receive a free session with us and just watch what others do and be part of the centring meditation,” she says. “Then at the end we get back together in our circle and people describe what

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it felt like, if they have questions, they hear other people’s stories.” Harvey says anybody can learn therapeutic touch. “It’s not that practitioners have a certain skill,” she says. “Everybody can calm their mind and offer this peace, compassion to others.” Though there is skepticism about energy work, Harvey says once people experience it for themselves, the skepticism fades. “You can’t read about it or talk about it, you have to feel it for yourself,” she says. “That’s really important, to feel the value of it.” bctherapeutictouch.com

Whistler Saturday, Sept. 14. musictherapyride.org. WALK TO REMEMBER The SaveYour Skin Foundation will host a nationwide ﬁve-kilometre walk in memory of those lost to melanoma and other skin cancers Saturday, Sept. 14 at 5 p.m.The Vancouver walk will take place at Kitsilano Beach. saveyourskin.ca GROUSE GRIND CHALLENGE Registration is now open for the 2013 ClearlyContacts. ca event taking place Sunday, Sept. 15 at 10 a.m.There will be two race categories. Athletes who can complete the Grind in under 45 minutes are

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New support group helps waiting parents

Resources available for those planning to adopt SAM SMITH Contributing writer

Being a parent is hard. You’re raising another human being, trying your best to pass on your morals, values and way of life all the while trying to let them discover and learn on their own. As with all characterbuilding explorations and experiences, mistakes are made.Tempers can ﬂare and arguments are an inevitable part of being human. But you put up with it all because you love them.They’re your children. Your blood.Your parental instincts will not tell you otherwise. But if they weren’t your kid, hoo-ee, you would have shown them the door long ago . . . right? But what if they weren’t? What if you didn’t give birth to them? What if you did what so few capable families choose to do?

What if you adopted? Adoptive and adopting parents alike in North Vancouver now have a support group they can access in September called the North Vancouver Waiting Parents Group. Robin and Roberta Woolmer have organized the group, as they are two parents waiting on their next child. But this time it’s not about waiting for Roberta to give birth, it’s about waiting for the government to approve them as suitable to adopt a teenager stuck in the system. “Not too many people want to adopt a teenager,” Robin Woolmer said. “And when those kids turn 19 I think the ministry gives them $1,000 and cuts them loose. A lot of those kids end up on the street or up in jail. If they’re female, a lot of them end up single moms.”

This is why they felt obligated to do something — because they could. “We just felt that we had the capacity to make a difference with at least one of them,” he said. So just a few months ago they decided as a family they would adopt and soon found they were going to be in a long and arduous process. But being one of the few people who are choosing to adopt, and one of even fewer who are looking to adopt a teenager, the Woolmers have been facing all sorts of problems: doubts, fears, stress of the process. “Unless you’re involved in the process nobody really knows what you’re going through,” he said. “I would talk to my friends and they’re like, ‘What the hell do you want to do that for?’ That was not the feedback I was looking for.” So they went looking for people just like them and discovered the Vancouver Waiting Parents Group. They meet about once

a month, according to BC Adoption’s support coordinator Randy Simpson, and offer everything from an ear to listen to mentorship. “I’m an adoptive parent myself and I can tell you eight years ago my husband and myself found (the group) really helpful,” Simpson said. “Sometimes it’s for people who got exciting things to report or the struggles they’ve faced. There’s people who have completed everything and are just waiting. And when you’re a year in and waiting it can be frustrating, or sad, and people want to offer support. “It can be gruelling,” he added. “I can speak from experience.” The Woolmers attended the Vancouver group meetings, but after awhile they thought if there are these many families waiting to adopt in Vancouver, surely there are those in the North Shore too. As a trial run they decided to put on a meeting in July where two other

families attended. It was small, but it showed Woolmer that there was a need in the community for this kind of support, and just by attending a few meetings he has already had a good deal of help. “What I’m learning is that there are resources available to help people once they’ve decided to adopt,” he said. “And those resources can be in terms of social workers or

psychologists, and also just other people who are going through the process.” The North Vancouver Waiting Parents Group will host their ﬁrst ofﬁcial meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 17 at the Lynn Valley Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m. For more information or to register email Robin and Roberta Woolmer at rgwoolmer@gmail.com, or Randy Simpson at rsimpson@bcadoption.com or call 604-320-7330 x105.

Public Information Opportunity Kinder Morgan’s proposed Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion What does it mean for our community?

Public Information Opportunity hosted by North Vancouver District Thursday, September 12, 2013 (7:00 p.m.) District of North Vancouver (Council Chambers), 355 West Queens Road Kinder Morgan has proposed to expand their existing pipeline from Edmonton to the Westridge Marine Terminal in Burnaby. The new pipeline will provide transport for a range of oil products and will increase the capacity of the system from 300,000 barrels per day to 890,000 barrels per day. This is expected to have a notable increase in tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet. North Vancouver District would like to provide the opportunity for residents to learn more about the proposed Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion and assess the potential risks that increasing tanker traffic in the harbour would bring, and how the broader potential benefits for our economy and country measure up against these risks. The District has invited panelists to provide background and a range of perspectives on the project through brief presentations, followed by questions to be taken from the audience.

Speakers include: Michael Davies, Senior Director, Marine Development, Kinder Morgan Reuben George, Sundance Chief, Tsleil-Waututh Nation Duncan Wilson, Vice President Corporate Responsibility, Port Metro Vancouver Alexandra Woodsworth, Energy and Shipping Campaigner, Georgia Strait Alliance (GSA) Following the presentations questions will be taken from the audience

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Roberta and Robin Woolmer are parents of grown children who plan to adopt a teenager. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

Options for volunteers The following is a selection of volunteer opportunities from various community organizations, made available through Volunteer North Shore, a service of North Shore Community Resources Society. FOOD DRIVE COLLECTOR: BC Thanksgiving Food Drive is looking for volunteers from Sept. 16 to 18 to deliver instructions on how to donate to the food drive. Volunteers will work in a group of three to ﬁve to cover a geographic area. Volunteers will also help with the donation collection scheduled for Sept. 21. HOUSE VOLUNTEER: Volunteers are needed to assist staff with the day to day operations of SAGE House. Duties may include child minding, accompanying women to

appointments, assisting with meal preparations, some light ofﬁce work, organizing storage areas, etc. Duties are distributed according to the personal strengths and requests of volunteers. Volunteers must be able to work in a stressful environment with volunteer duties changing week to week. TEA TIME VOLUNTEERS: Volunteers are needed at Lynn Valley Care Centre to set up tables, get supplies from the main kitchen and make tea and coffee. Volunteers also help to serve the seniors and visit/chat with them. On holidays, volunteers are needed from 9:45 to 11 a.m. or 2:45 to 4 p.m. If you are interested in these or other possible volunteer opportunities, call 604-9857138.The society is a partner agency of the UnitedWay.

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The North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club is winding up its biggest season with a celebration. The Presidents’Tea will take place today, exactly 90 years from the day the club was established in 1923. Members Dora Caruso, 88, and Isobelle Houston, 78, recently took some time away from party planning to talk about the club’s history. They begin in the present and rightly so. If ever a lawn bowling club had an event-packed season, it was 2013. In August, the North and West Vancouver clubs hosted the Canadian National Lawn Bowling championships, the ﬁrst time since 1980 for this prestigious sporting event on the North Shore. Planning for the nationals included the deployment of 250 volunteers from North and West Vancouver, and from other Lower Mainland clubs. Volunteers looked after every aspect of the competition, from transportation and catering to greens grooming and game co-ordination. With the nationals over, the club moved on to the 90th anniversary. The celebration will bring the See Club page 21

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1-3 p.m. at the Heritage Centre, 1620 Mount Seymour Rd., North Vancouver. Grandparents and grandchildren are invited for a nature walk followed by a dream catcher workshop. Registration required. info@ync.ca elderscouncilforparks.org SENIORS HEALTH FORUM — BECOMING YOUNGER NEXT YEAR Fanny Kiefer will moderate a forum with seniors experts Lillian Zimmerman, Barrie Chapman and Ellen MacKay Tuesday, Sept. 17, 7-9 p.m. at Kay Meek Centre, 1700 Mathers Ave., West Vancouver. Admission by donation to the West Vancouver Community Foundation. 604-925-8153 MEMORY AND AGING WORKSHOP The Council of Senior Citizens Organizations of British Columbia will lead a workshop that explains how memory functions and how it changes with aging Thursday, Sept. 19, 2-3:30 p.m. at Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Tips will be given for maintaining and improving memory and advice about when and how to seek professional help. Registration required. See more page 21

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Club plays big role in members’ lives From page 19 North Vancouver club’s regular season to an end . . . almost. On Sept. 12, the annual friendly rivalry with the West Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club will culminate with the Rose Bowl, the women’s competition, which began in 1942. The Leyland Cup, the men’s prize, held since 1938, will reside with West Vancouver until the trophy’s home is decided again next year. The Battle of the Sexes, the North Vancouver club’s season closer, will be played on Sept. 15. The North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club was established in 1923, though bowling had been popular on the North Shore well before the First World War. The founders were progressive, supporting the formation of a ladies auxiliary in 1924 to assist men in inter-club games and social events. In 1926, the auxiliary became the North Vancouver Ladies’ Lawn Bowling Club. In

1988, 62 years later, the two clubs amalgamated. Isobelle Houston joined the club in 1978, 10 years before amalgamation, though she had been a spectator since 1960. Isobelle and her husband, Robert, new Canadians recently emmigrated from Scotland, would wheel their baby son up the Lonsdale hill from their apartment at 12th and St. George’s to watch the night bowling, the greens illuminated by lights donated and installed by volunteers. Isobelle’s sponsors, Rose Woodward and Muriel Holness, were also her coaches. Isobelle recalls others from that group of mentors — Duncan and Peggy Mitchell, Ida Meldrum and Nellie Hunter — adding a pithy, affectionate description of each one. Mary Milligan, for example, was, “a great little singles player, tough as they come.” It took Isobelle until 1990 to persuade Robert to become a bowler. “I’m not wearing white clothes with a bunch of old fogies,” he’d say.

“You don’t know what you’re missing,” Isobelle would reply. Robert ﬁnally gave in and was an active member and volunteer until he passed away in 2006. Over the years he coached countless new members including Nannely Lawson, the club’s current president and fellow southpaw, when she joined in 2000. Dora Caruso was born in 1925 in Vancouver’s Cedar Cottage neighbourhood where, on summer evenings, she watched the Cedar Cottage club at play and dreamed of becoming a lawn bowler. Dora married artist and teacher Gordon Caruso, raised four children and worked for 32 years at The Bay before she joined the North Vancouver club in 1989 and realized her dream. In 1994, Dora helped organize the club’s history, rescuing papers and photographs from the boxes where they had rested for more than 70 years. With the bulk of the material sorted into binders, the archives are

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relatively easy to maintain. Not that there’s much time available. Even in winter, the club is active. By mid-September, the Rose Bowl’s winter home and the Battle of the Sexes will have been decided and the season archived with the 90th anniversary records. The bowls will be put away and the greens will be at rest. Over the winter, club members will plan tournaments and lead coaching clinics for members new and old. Members will devise strategies to prevail over the West Vancouver club. Darts, crib and bridge tournaments will keep the social and competitive ﬂames alight until it’s time to break out the bowls again and the tradition of sportsmanship and camaraderie, played outdoors on deep green lawns, will resume for another season.

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North Van’s Bluedog Guitars named top instrument store Bluedog Guitars in North Vancouver was designated one of the top 100 music instrument and product retailers in the world by the National Association of Music Merchants. The award was presented at NAMM’s annual summer music event, Summer NAMM, held in Nashville, Tenn. in July. In addition to being named a top 100 dealer of the year, Bluedog was also named one of the top three best emerging dealers in the Rookie of theYear category. Bluedog owner Jenn Ladd said customers call the store “a candy shop for

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Okanagan embraces Cabernet Franc

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Notable Potables One of the many challenges faced by a new wine region such as the Okanagan is identifying which varieties of grapes do well, and on which sites. There’s been a fair bit of excitement recently about Cabernet Franc and with good reason, as my ﬁrst two suggestions this week prove. While used in Bordeaux more as a blending grape, as a single variety “Cab Franc” is a pillar of the Loire Valley. In Canada, where we’ve embraced it as much as

anything for its ability to ripen earlier than Cabernet Sauvignon, it has also been used for blending, although in recent years its popularity as a stand-alone has also been steadily on the rise, especially in the Okanagan. Owen 2011 is a unique project from the inventive folks at Okanagan Crush Pad, who produced it with West sommelier Owen Knowlton. Proceeds from its sale go towards the British Columbia Hospitality Foundation scholarship fund, and the winery collaborates with a different “star” sommelier every year. This is a pure expression of the variety, with berries and dark chocolate on top, followed by a juicy palate with boysenberry and blueberry notes, a touch of minerality and approachable, easy tannins. Think pasta with tomatobased sauce.There were only 100 cases made but you can still track it down from the winery and from some

private stores ($25.90 at the winery, 90 points). ■ Culmina Hypothesis 2010 Here’s a wine I ﬁgured would be worth waiting for, and I wasn’t disappointed. This is the inaugural release from just-opened Culmina Family Estate, the project undertaken by Don Triggs, his wife Elaine and their daughter Sara. If you recognize the name, you’re right.That’s Triggs, as in Jackson-Triggs, and it was Don Triggs who piloted Canada’s Vincor to be one of the world’s most successful wine companies before it was swallowed up by Constellation.The Triggs family landed in the Okanagan Valley. I tasted this wine over a couple of days and was truly impressed with the way it developed and retained its structure.The blend of Cabernet Franc (40 per cent), Merlot (36 per cent) and Cabernet Sauvignon (24 per cent) was made

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Community Bulletin Board LYNN VALLEY’S GOT TALENT Submit an application and video to lynnvalley.com/ lynnvalleysgottalent by Sept. 15 for a chance to participate in an upcoming talent show on Oct. 5 at Lynn Valley Village, North Vancouver. PACIFIC SPIRIT CHOIR is looking for new members. This year’s season will include the Fauré Requiem, Handel’s Messiah and The St. John Passion by J.S. Bach, all accompanied by a professional orchestra. Rehearsals take place Wednesdays, 7:45-9:45 p.m. starting Sept. 11 at the West Vancouver United Church, 2062 Esquimalt Ave. 604-8085231 gvanwyck@shaw.ca paciﬁcspiritchoir.com

POLISH CULTURAL FESTIVAL Enjoy an afternoon of music, dance, traditional Polish food and a special performance by Polonez Polish Folk Arts Ensemble from Edmonton Sunday, Sept. 8, 1:30-6:30 p.m. at Lynn Valley Village, 1255 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. LIFELONG LEARNING FOR ADULTS AND SENIORS Discover the secrets to lifelong learning Monday, Sept. 9, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca

HARVEST MARKETPLACE In conjunction with its Art in the Atrium exhibition, Holy Trinity Catholic Women’s League will host a small sale with baked goods, garden produce, ﬂowers, jams, jellies and more Sunday, Sept. 8, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. at Holy Trinity elementary, 128 West 27th St., North Vancouver.

NEW LIBRARY WEBSITE AND DISCOVERY CATALOGUE INFORMATION SESSION Discover the new digital experience of westvanlibrary.ca Sept. 9 and 16, 3-4 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. 604-925-7400 westvanlibrary.ca A DAY IN COURT WORKSHOP A unique opportunity to walk through the justice system and learn about the role of police, crown and courts

KAYAK FOR A CAUSE From left, Rupert Jasper, Mike Gill, Caroline Wisheart and Mike Darbyshire invite the public to attend the next, and last, Club Night at Deep Cove Kayak & Canoe Centre on Monday, Sept. 9 from 6 to 8 p.m. Practise kayak skills, strokes and rescues during this guided session with qualiﬁed instructors for a minimum donation of $5 to the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation. Bring your own kayak or rent one for a reduced rate. Call 604-929-2268 to reserve a spot. PHOTO LISA KING in dealing with domestic violence cases Sept. 10 and 12, 9-10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the RCMP Building, 147 East 14th St. for the 9 a.m. session and the North Vancouver Courthouse, 200 East 23rd St. for the 11 a.m. session. Register at 604-710-3345

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of practice Tuesday, Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. at Cloverly elementary, 440 Hendry Ave., North Vancouver. The choir performs a spring concert for friends, family and the community as well as several outreach concerts at seniors’ residences in late fall and

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RBC staff from the North Shore helped beautify the Lions Gate Hospital grounds in May. The six volunteers scrubbed and planted ﬂower pots around the hospital and weeded the North Shore Hospice Garden as an RBC Day of Caring project. Plants, soil and gardening expertise were provided by Leanne Johnson of GardenWorks.

Fresh Street Market in West Vancouver raised $5,473 for Cops for Cancer through coffee donations and the market’s recent Halibut Festival. Pictured are West Vancouver Police Chief Peter Lepine, Fresh Street Market manager Justin Grant, Const. Nicole Hartwig and Const. Grifﬁn Gillan. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

At a recent P.E.O. Sisterhood dinner, Chapter AQ North Vancouver congratulated West Vancouver secondary grad Erica Mason, who was awarded the P.E.O. STAR Scholarship in the amount of $2,500. The scholarship will go towards Mason’s post-secondary education starting September, 2013.

On July 1, the North Vancouver Lawn Bowling Club bowled for better health care at the Lions Gate Hospital Cup event and raised $10,000, which will go towards the purchase of new orthopedic surgery equipment. Pictured (left to right) are Nannely Lawson, club president; Herman Penner, club member; Judy Savage; president, LGH Foundation and Bob Gandy, tournament organizer.

The Seymour Golf and Country Club’s Charity Invitation Golf Tournament on July 11 raised $47,500 to beneﬁt The Family Support Centre operated by the North Shore Schizophrenia Society. NSSS president Cheryl Zipper and executive director Cheryl Archer accept the cheque from tournament chair Lynda Derkach and women’s captain Jeanne Douglas.

Bruce Sanderson, president & CEO, Uniserve Communications Corporation (right), presents $10,000 to Michelle Tice and Julia Staub-French of Family Services of the North Shore as part of the $10,000 Uniserve Challenge campaign which took place in June.

Maive Gale, Jessica Gostling and Deanne Jonckheere display a cheque for $3,886. Whole Foods in West Vancouver raised the money for Dogwood Rescue Society through its Community Chest Program.

School in the Philippines started in June and these children are now going to class and receiving proper daily nutrition thanks to the Kids of Hope charity founded by North Shore couple John and Suzanne Seale.

Michelle Dodds (left), executive director of the North Shore Women’s Centre accepts a $700 donation from Dana J. Smithers, president of SWAN Network. The money was raised at the SWAN July Golf Tournament Fundraiser. The NSWC plans to put the funds towards the Girls’ Empowerment Camp program, which empowers teenage girls to increase their personal safety and that of other girls.

Persian and Canadian Walk for Cancer organizer Katy Roohani (right) presents a $10,000 cheque to Dr. Sasha Smiljanic for Lions Gate Hospital’s chemotherapy/oncology program.

Rick Ryan, president of the Kiwanis Club of West Vancouver, presents Gina Yang with a scholarship in the amount of $1,000 from the Kiwanis Foundation of Canada and Kiwanis Club of West Vancouver.

Kudos to those who volunteer their time, money and effort to beneﬁt the many service and charitable organizations on the North

Shore. In this space we celebrate the generosity of North Shore residents. If you have a cheque presentation photo or information for Kudos, please contact Neetu Shokar at nshokar@nsnews.com.

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PETS

Heed the warnings to prevent bites

Joan Klucha

Canine Connection Dogs were given an incredible tool for selfpreservation called biting. Nature gave them this tool as part of their ﬁghtfor-survival instinct and it has gotten them pretty far up the evolutionary chain within their own species. But we humans don’t like it so much. We tend to see biting as a bad thing when it is misunderstood — and many dogs are needlessly

euthanized due to this natural canine behaviour. We humans view biting as being bad because we misunderstand it and assume the dog must be bad because it bit a human or another dog. The truth of the matter is that biting is neither good nor bad — it just is. It is a natural expression of a dog’s behaviour when it is placed in an uncomfortable situation and its other means of displaying its discomfort have gone ignored by either the human or the other dog. In other words, someone was not paying attention to what the dog was saying! This is not to say that we should allow our dogs to bite. Rather, we should understand that the human’s inability to read a dog’s behaviour and to teach proper bite inhibition is the cause of a dog biting.

The bite itself is the end result of a series of behaviors a dog expresses to communicate its discomfort or displeasure in a situation. In a situation where a dog is uncomfortable, its ﬁrst means of communication is quite passive and resembles a tense stiff body, hard eyes, a freeze of motion and a pulling forward of the corners of the lips. When these pleas are ignored, behaviours escalate to include a growl and showing of teeth. The dog may air-snap its jaws with a sharp bark and ﬁnally, when the offender does not pay heed to its request, the dog may bite. Up until the bite, the dog was actually saying, “I can hurt you but I don’t want to!” As dog trainers we then begin to assess the bite. Was there contact with skin

and where? Was there a puncture? How many? And so on. What we are doing at this point is assessing the dog’s bite inhibition. Bite inhibition is a term used to deﬁne a dog’s ability to control the pressure of his mouth when biting. A dog with good bite inhibition will cause little or no damage when it bites. No dog is a saint and given the wrong circumstances all dogs have the potential to bite. The degree of provocation is related to many things: age, stress, pain and human interaction and misunderstanding. Generally this misunderstanding starts with puppies and humans punishing their puppies for their initial display of displeasure — usually the growl. They have ignored, or more realistically were unaware of, the preceding

warning behaviours and at the expression of a growl the puppy is punished. The end result is a puppy that has been taught to suppress its natural warning behaviours out of fear of punishment so it then bypasses the warning behaviours and goes straight for the bite. It is easier to teach bite inhibition to a puppy or adult dog than to micromanage a dog that has weak or no bite inhibition. With proper patience and guidance a dog of any age can be taught to use its mouth appropriately. When working with puppies, the owner’s homework for the ﬁrst week is nothing more than teaching the sit command and bite inhibition. I do this by ﬁrmly clasping a tasty treat in my hand and allowing the puppy to investigate. The puppy’s

natural curiosity will lead it to begin gnawing on my hand gently until it gets frustrated. It then removes its mouth from my hand of its own accord and at that point I use the word “gentle” then open my hand allowing the puppy to scoop up the treat with its lips and tongue. Repeated enough, the puppy quickly develops a gentle mouth. Regardless of how gentle your dog’s mouth is, a responsible dog owner will always recognize when their dog is showing signs of being uncomfortable and will begin to manage the dog’s behaviour, depending on the circumstances and environment, to prevent a bite. Joan has been working with dogs for over 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. Contact her at k9kinship.com.

Pet Pause Human’s name: Dawn Boddington, a volunteer puppy raiser for BC Guide Dog Services Pet: Golden retriever puppy Sunny (Sundance), a BC Guide Dog in training Favourite treat: Sunny isn’t allowed treats Favourite activity: “Jacket off” time with the kids Pet tale: Sunny arrived at the Boddington household when she was seven weeks old and will stay with the family until she is between 14 and 18 months old. When she leaves the family, she will have professional training for four months, after which she will graduate to become a guide dog for the visually impaired, or a support dog for children with autism. “We will be very sad to see Sunny go at the end of our time with her, but know that she is going to change someone’s life beyond measure, and love them unconditionally,” Boddington said. To learn more about becoming a volunteer puppy raiser, or to make a donation, visit bcguidedog. com.

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What’s On Sundays NORTH SHORE CRIC CRAC STORYTELLING EVENINGS presented by the Vancouver Society of Storytelling take place the ﬁrst Sunday of every month, 7-9 p.m. at the Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. Each month features a different theme. Fee: $7/$5. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca POLYNESIAN DANCE CLASSES Beginner classes for adults and children, Sundays and Mondays at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145 West First St., North Vancouver. 604982-8311

Mondays ALATEEN MEETING A group for ages 10-18 where alcohol is a problem in the family meets every Monday at 7:15 p.m. at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145 West First St., North Vancouver. 604-688-1716 BINGO Every Monday at 6:15 p.m., North Vancouver Legion, 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. 604-988-3712

CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN — WEST VANCOUVER BRANCH The CFUW is an organization committed to promoting education, improving women’s status and human rights as well as offering fellowship and professional contacts. Meetings are every third Monday, 7 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Anglican Church, 885 22nd St., West Vancouver. New members welcome. 604-925-8445 cfuwnvwv.vcn.bc.ca CONTRACT BRIDGE Every Monday and Thursday, 12:30-3 p.m. in the Cedarview Room at Delbrook Community Centre, 600 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Drop-in fee: $1. 604-9877529 DROP-IN CRIB Play crib every Monday (unless it’s a statutory holiday), 7:30 p.m. at the Royal Canadian Legion #118, 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. Fee: $5. 604-985-1115

DRUMMER BOY Three-year-old Leo Bomben bangs the drums at the City of North Vancouver’s Shaw Children’s Festival held Aug. 24 at Shipbuilder’s Square. The event featured local vendors, family-friendly activities and children’s entertainers. Scan with Layar for more photos. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

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YOUR NORTH SHORE GUIDE to THE GAMES PEOPLE PLAY

North Van Wolf Pack players grind out some end-of-practice laps during a training camp session Thursday at Harry Jerome Arena. The Wolf Pack will begin PJHL regular season play on Wednesday in Aldergrove before hosting Ridge Meadows in their home opener Sept. 14 at 7 p.m. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

THREE TO SEE THIS WEEK PJHL hockey Ridge Meadows @ NVWolf Pack Sept. 14, 7 p.m., Harry Jerome Arena Exhibition football Carson Graham @ WestVan Sept. 13, 3:45 p.m. PacWest soccer Quest @ Capilano Sept. 14, women noon, men 2 p.m. Langara @ Capilano Sept. 15, women 1 p.m., men 3 p.m.

Wolf Pack back on attack League leaders Quon and Houck return to lineup

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It could be a Wild West shootout of a season for the North Vancouver Wolf Pack as they begin their third year on the North Shore with a doublebarreled shotgun on their front line and an inexperienced crew on defence. Both Spencer Quon and Marcus Houck will be back as first-line stars when the Pack begins regular season play in the Pacific Junior Hockey League Wednesday night in Aldergrove against the Kodiaks. The home opener for the junior B club will be against the Ridge Meadows Flames next Saturday, Sept. 14, starting at 7 p.m. at Harry Jerome arena. Quon set the franchise record for points last season, tallying 13 goals and 52 assists for 65 points in 43 games to finish second in the league in points. Wolf Pack head

coach and general manager Matt Samson is expecting the lanky 19-year-old centre with the calm and cool game to come close to or surpass those big numbers this year. “It’s obviously really big for us to have him back, he’s a guy who can play at the next level whether that’s the B.C. hockey league or college hockey,” said Samson. “He’s going to be a huge part of our team.” With last year’s top goal scorer Quin Buckellew now off to Concordia College in his home state of Minnesota, the Pack will be looking to Quon to sprinkle a few more shots into his pass-happy game. “He’s a great passer but we’re looking for him to score a little bit more this year,” said Samson. “I think we’re going to get him to shoot the puck a little bit more this year now that we don’t have a guy like Buck.”

Spencer Quon surveys the ice during a Wolf Pack game last season. The Windsor secondary grad will be back in the lineup for the Pack this year following a 2012-13 campaign that saw him ﬁnish second in the PJHL in points while setting a new franchise record. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH Shooting or passing, Quon will have a talented counterpoint beside him in Houck, who tallied 25 goals and 32 assists for 57 points in 40 games last season, placing him sixth in the league in points.

“Their chemistry is great, you can just see the conﬁdence,” Samson said about his 1-2 punch. “As long as they stay healthy then there’s no reason they shouldn’t both be top-ﬁve scorers in the league. We’re

excited to have them back.” Returning captain Jamie Creamore is penciled in as the other winger on the ﬁrst line with a mix of newcomers and returning See Steep page 30

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Steep learning curve for totally revamped defence From page 29 players set to step into important roles in the supporting lines. The story on defence is a lot different. The Pack is losing three of last year’s top four, including standout Ben McWilliams who will be joining Buckellew at the NCAA Div. 3 school in Moorehead, Minn. Spencer’s twin brother Dyllan Quon is the only returning top-four blueliner and could be the only returning D-man period depending on how Jivan Sidhu fares at a junior A tryout in Saskatchewan. Newcomers Troy Ring from North Vancouver

Minor, Reecer Bartel who was a Wolf Pack affiliate last season and Connor Pasco who played for the powerhouse Vancouver Northwest Giants of the B.C. Major Midget League last season are some of the players who are expected to play big minutes in the team’s revamped backline. “There’s definitely some good players there, it’s just the new faces and getting everybody together and figuring out D partners and systems,” said Samson. “We’re not scrambling, we’re just going to have a lot of new faces. Some good, young new faces.” In goal the Pack will either have one or two proven PJHL starters this

season. Last year Braden Krogfoss and Anders Ten Vaanholt were 1A and 1B on the depth chart, splitting the work almost equally during the regular season with Krogfoss getting the call during the team’s opening round playoff loss to the Delta Ice Hawks. Krogfoss is off on a junior A tryout with the Coquitlam Express right now. If he ends up back in North Van, Samson will likely go with split duties again this year. If Krogfoss doesn’t come back then Samson said he’ll happily give the bulk of the work to Ten Vaanholt. “If Krogger doesn’t come back, we know

Anders is capable and we’re very confident to start the year with Anders as our No. 1,” he said. “If Krogger comes back then it’ll be a combination, who’s hot, because they’re both legitimate starters.” The Pack is coming off a season that saw them finish third in the tough Tom Shaw Conference and set a franchise record for points, but also saw them bounced in the first round of the playoffs for the second straight year. Two perennial powerhouses — the Ice Hawks and the Richmond Sockeyes — have set up

permanent residence at the top of the conference standings and Samson is hoping this is the year the Pack will muscle past at least one of them. “We’re going to have to look at taking over one of those two teams,” he said. “It’s not going to be easy, we’ve got to come to work every day.You’ve got to try to improve every year and so in order to do that, that’s the challenge that we face — getting ahead of those guys.” Samson is happy that the team has improved its win total each year since

moving to North Vancouver from Squamish before the 2011-12 season but he admitted that at some point that improvement needs to translate into bigger things. “At some point I hope we get to the point where we can’t improve because we’ve won the league and we’ve won B.C. and we’ve won the Westerns,” he said. “You know, it’s one step at a time but this year I’m really excited about the group that we have. If everyone buys in and we keep working and we keep improving, this could be the year for us.”

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NICE PICK NIK North Vancouver’s Nik Termansen snares an interception for the UBC Thunderbirds in a loss to the Calgary Dinos. The second-year Carson Graham grad has two picks in two games to start the season. UBC will try to get into the win column at home against the University of Manitoba next Saturday at 2 p.m. PHOTO RICHARD LAM, UBC THUNDERBIRDS

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