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City, district still dispute police bill

Neighbouring municipality owes city over $1M, Bookham says BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnew.scom

The spat that saw the City of North Vancouver accuse the surrounding

District of North Vancouver of stifﬁng city taxpayers on policing costs is still simmering at city hall.

A city staff report in June stated the district had fallen $1.2 million behind on its share of paying the RCMP since 2012. District chief administrative ofﬁcer David Stuart told the North Shore News in June that the dispute was

over an old agreement to share the cost of civilian support staff and building operations based on each municipality’s population. But with more policing activity required in the city, the district pushed to re-evaluate the agreement and payment formula.

The city and district paid for an independent consultant to review the policing needs in both municipalities and recommend a new sharing agreement over the summer. City staff got their ﬁrst look at the consultant’s report this

week and it seems to vindicate the district. “It appears at ﬁrst light that the amounts that both parties are paying for this year appears to be almost equal with what the consultant is coming back See Mayor page 9

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The Germans captured the bridge. Having overwhelmed French ground troops, Nazi soldiers and munitions were pouring into France’s countryside, advancing to the English Channel. On May 14, 1940, the Royal Air Force sent every available plane into combat to stem the invasion. Edward White, 20, was a navigator on one of those planes. He was killed in action. A little more than 74 years later,White was posthumously awarded the Bomber Command Clasp from Rupert Potter, United Kingdom Consul General in British Columbia. White’s little sister, 87year-old Estelle White of West Vancouver, recently accepted the award. “My brother was very important to me,” Estelle See Heartbreak page 5

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Following Franklin When Prime Minister Stephen Harper took to the airwaves Tuesday morning and announced the discovery of a shipwreck from the storied Franklin Expedition, the news resonated particularly strongly with two North Shore residents. Phil Nuytten, an undersea explorer and inventor of submersible dive suits and vehicles, spent years searching for the Franklin wrecks. And Kevin Vallely has been on two Arctic expeditions following Franklin — one to traverse the Northwest Passage via rowboat and one to trace the footsteps of Franklin’s crew as they made a desperate run for safety from their ice-beset ship. In 1845, Sir John Franklin and 128 men set out from England aboard the HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in hopes of ﬁnding a lucrative shortcut to Asia through the North. The ships became trapped

in ice off King William Island in September 1846 and Franklin died the following June. In a bid to save themselves, the crew began a long march south in hopes of making it to a Hudson Bay trading post but none survived the trek. Only a handful of graves, relics and notes leave clues about what happened. After it was clear Franklin wasn’t returning, his wife pressed officials to launch a search effort and petitioned the Royal Navy to put up a reward for any crew that could find the fate of her husband’s expedition. The reward drew the largest ever sea-borne manhunt at that time. That manhunt continued into the modern day, drawing in Nuytten in 1977. “We spent a couple of years up there doing side scan sonar, very much the same method they used to find the latest wreck,” Nuytten said. In their years of hunting, Nuytten’s team came upon another prize

— the wreck of the HMS Breadalbane, one of the ships tasked with helping the search for Franklin’s expedition. It’s also the northernmost shipwreck ever found. The Breadalbane was crushed by winter ice when the winds shifted in 1853 and sank within minutes. The crew scrambled to get off in time and were saved by a nearby ship on the same mission. Nuytten had to wait three years before the ice would co-operate with his team, making it down to the well-preserved ship in a precursor to the atmospheric-proof dive suit he invented, the Nuytsuit. “We cut through about eight feet of ice and opened up a hole,” he said. “Down I went and it was an incredible thrill to look back up, because the ice was covered with snow, it was pitch black except for this blinding little square of light.” Nuytten descended into the dark accompanied

by a candelabra of lights developed by a National Geographic photographer who was on the expedition. There was little to see until he reached about 100 metres and caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye. “I thought ‘What the hell was that?’ I thought maybe it was a ﬁsh and I looked again it was the mast of the Breadalbane,” he said. “I could see the whole wreck under the light of this big candelabra and it was absolutely incredible. It was covered with orange and saffron growth like anemones and the hull, because it was copper sheathed, it had this incredible turquoise patina. It was just beautiful sitting down there.” Nuytten stayed on the bottom for more than ﬁve hours and only came back up when he realized the condensation from his body was freezing to the inside of the suit. The temperature was -5 C. Important and dazzling as the Breadalbane was,

it wasn’t the wreck that launched 150 years of search missions and Nuytten carried on. He just returned from his most recent trip to the Arctic last week. “Coincidentally, I happened to be up there at the same time they were but I was looking on the wrong side of King William Island,” he said. Now that one of the ships has been found, Nuytten said he expects the search for the other ship will ramp up. But because the wreck sites are declared national heritage treasures, it’s not as though he can start planning his next trip anytime soon. “No one can go explore them without six inches worth of paper work from Parks Canada and the various other government ofﬁces so it’s not likely anyone’s going to be up diving on them,” he said. “They’ll undoubtedly do a very detailed examination and exploration of the wreck using remotely operated vehicles and

if we ever get a chance to go there, either with the suits or the manned submersibles, we’d certainly do that.” Vallely described his reaction to the news this week as equal parts elation and bafﬂement. “I was stunned, actually. I was super psyched and thrilled to hear it,” he said. Knowing the region and environment as few people do, Vallely believed the expedition would never be found. “Anything caught in (the ice) would be pulverized, so I was surprised. I really thought the ships were long gone,” he said. In 2007, he joined CBC’s Evan Solomon in making a documentary about the archeological puzzle left in the steps Franklin’s crew took to their eventual deaths — makeshift graves and human bones unlikely to be from the Inuit. See Inuit page 8

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est Vancouver environmentalists won a victory Monday when their council opposed a liqueﬁed natural gas plant proposed for Howe Sound. Even Mayor Michael Smith, who once suggested district residents would be commuting by canoe and lighting lamps with whale blubber if not for oil, came down against the facility. Smith used to work for Exxon Mobil, the Texas energy giant that once painted a thousand miles of Alaskan coastline with 10 million gallons of oil. The assurances of an impossibly small chance of a mishap must have sounded eerily familiar to Smith, who vowed not to put Howe Sound at risk. We applaud the mayor and council, but now for the real problem:West Vancouver doesn’t have the power to stop an LNG plant.

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That decision will largely reside with the federal government, which has consistently downgraded environmental protection and muzzled scientists. West Vancouver’s call for the banning of LNG tankers in Howe Sound elicited an unprecedented rebuke from Conservative MP John Weston, perhaps because a $1.6 billion LNG plant isn’t about stirring the economy in Squamish — it’s about massive trade between Canada and Asia. Council chambers were raucous on Monday, even by West Van standards. Coun. Nora Gambioli’s comments that senior governments need to let go of their “Neanderthal economy visions,” was met with vigorous applause. If we were to judge from that crowd, we’d guess the district is dominated by staunch environmentalists. If that’s the case, why do they keep voting for Conservatives?

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Ignoring children’s needs is neglect Dear Editor: Every child is unique and has special needs. A classroom teacher is expected to know and to understand each child’s intellectual, social, emotional and physical development. It takes time to talk to, to observe and to evaluate the progress of each child.

Current educational practice is to develop individual programs designed to promote growth in all areas for each child. It takes time to find the special talents that need to be encouraged. It takes time to comfort a child when he/she is having a difficult day. How can a teacher find

time for each pupil when, for example, there is a class of 24 with two teacher aides and 26 people to supervise? If the teacher does not do large or small group instruction that leaves about two minutes per pupil in an hour. The loss of specialist teachers compounds the issue.

The specialist teachers evaluate children who exhibit signs of learning and emotional problems and work with the child’s teacher to develop an appropriate program. No diagnosis delays meaningful intervention. Research tells us it is crucial to attempt to remedy learning disabilities

when the student is young and the brain is developing. In my opinion, it is child neglect to fail to address the issues in our schools. Children depend on adults to care for them and to provide an appropriate education. Pat Kotush Retired primary teacher North Vancouver

Thank you, stranger, for literally saving my life Dear Editor: In this life there are angels that walk among us. They aren’t afraid to see the sick and dying. They show mercy through random acts of kindness. Last night, my niece, Marguerite and I had just

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“It had a big sign slapped on it but obviously they’re illiterate thieves.” NorthVancouver man Glen Lancaster is reunited with a stolen safe filled with heirlooms thanks to an altruistic homeless man (from a Sept. 7 news story). “We don’t trust you or anybody.” WestVancouver Coun. Bill Soprovich blasts plans for a liquefied natural gas plant on Howe Sound (from a Sept. 10 news story). “I’m not sure if logs float by the same patterns as fecal matter.” North Shore medical health officer Dr. Mark Lysyshyn discusses the unsolved E. coli outbreak that closedWestVan beaches this summer (from a Sept. 12 news story).

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It’s time to rein in canines Dear Editor: In reference to the letter that was written by Michael McQuarrie “Our parks are for all to enjoy, not just pooches.” I am a regular walker on the boulevard with my dog. Over the last few months I have observed an increase in the number of dog owners who do not

have their furry friends on a leash. This is not fair to us who are responsible dog owners and abide the bylaw #1003 that is posted at the beginning of each block on Grand Boulevard stating that all dogs in the park must be on a leash. If you want your dog to spend time free running;

enjoying snifﬁng and playing with other dogs, there is Bridgman Park located at the bottom of Keith Road. If you are unable to get there, the next best thing is to purchase a ﬂexi extendo leash so your dog can have the freedom of about 20 feet while enjoying a walk and still be attached to its

owner. This would prevent dogs from uncontrollably running after other dogs and/or people. Maybe an undercover bylaw enforcement ofﬁcer should take a stroll on the boulevard every so often with a dog on a leash and catch the culprits. JM Billesberger North Vancouver

Show respect for disabled parking spaces Dear Editor: I’m appealing to those few people who think it’s OK to park in a disabled parking space even though they are able-bodied and don’t have a disability permit. In most shopping centres, malls etc., there are very few disabled spaces. As our population ages, plans are afoot to request that this be changed and the ratio of disabled spaces to the total parking spaces be increased. However I would like people to keep in mind

that we are not disabled by choice. For the majority of us, every trip out involves a lot of pain and all our strength to get through it. Also unfortunate but sadly true, the disability permit system is being abused by a small minority in the following ways: Expired permits are still being used — each permit has a clear expiry date shown. Another rule of these permits is that the disabled person must be present with the vehicle. Family or friends are

not allowed to use the permit when the disabled person is not with them. Each permit has a registration number clearly printed on it, so identification of any offenders is easy and unfortunately at this time, is the only solution to these problems. The company that regulates this program is aware of these issues and changes to the program are expected to be made. Just consider: One day you may find yourself, or a loved one, in the position we find ourselves in and

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Local Government Election D I S T R I C T O F W E S T VA N C O U V E R & W E ST VA N CO U V E R S C H O O L D I ST R I C T (S C H O O L D I ST R I C T 4 5 ) November 15, 2014 is general voting day for local governments in British Columbia. Eligible electors will vote to elect a Mayor and Councillors for the District of West Vancouver, and School Trustees for the West Vancouver Board of Education, School District 45.

Public Notice: Notice of Nomination Public Notice is hereby given to the electors of the District of West Vancouver and of the West Vancouver School District (School District 45) that nominations for the offices of: • Mayor one to be elected • Councillor six to be elected • School Trustee five to be elected for a four-year term will be received by the Chief Election Officer or designate as follows: WHEN 9 a.m. September 30, 2014 to 4 p.m. October 10, 2014

(excluding statutory holidays and weekends)

WHERE Legislative Services Department

District of West Vancouver 750 17th Street West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3

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HOW Nomination documents may be delivered by hand, by mail or by other

delivery service, or by fax or email, with originals to follow. The deadline for receiving originals of nomination documents is 4:30 p.m., October 17, 2014. Nomination documents are available at the District of West Vancouver Legislative Services Department during regular ofﬁce hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays) throughout the nomination period (September 30 at 9 a.m. to October 10, 2014 at 4 p.m.) and are also posted on westvancouver.ca/election.

West Vancouver School District (SD 45) includes: West Vancouver, Bowen Island Municipality, Village of Lions Bay, and part of Greater Vancouver Regional District Electoral Area A.

Q UA L I F I CAT IONS FO R O F F I C E

A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria: • 18 years of age or older on general voting day November 15, 2014 • Canadian Citizen • resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed • not disqualified under the Local Government Act, the School Act, or any other enactment from being nominated for, being elected to or holding office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

E L ECT ION INFORMATION MEETING

An election information meeting will be held regarding the election process and information for voters and prospective candidates as follows: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 at 6 p.m. West Vancouver Municipal Hall Council Chamber 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC

F U RT H E R I N FO R M AT I O N

For further information on these matters, visit westvancouver.ca/election or contact: Sheila Scholes, Chief Election Ofﬁcer: 604-925-7045 Mark Panneton, Deputy Chief Election Ofﬁcer: 604-925-7049

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“It’s fascinating to me. It was just palpable. My God, just seeing this 160 years of history like it was nothing. There it was in front of you,” he said. Vallely credits this week’s historic find to the work of Louie Kamookak, an Inuit historian and expedition mate who lives in Gjoa Haven, a small settlement about 80 kilometres away from the wreck site. Kamookak spent two weeks each year looking for the ship himself in a 15-foot aluminum boat. His search has been based on the oral history passed down from his ancestors, some of whom may have had contact with Franklin’s crew. “What the island was called by the Inuit of the region was Island Where Big Ship Sank — it’s like, go figure. Maybe we should start looking there,” Vallely said. Shorty after the documentary aired, the federal government began funding the search for the Erebus and the Terror. The find represents more to Canadian history than closure to an unsolved mystery, Valleley said. “It was really the loss of his ship and his disappearance that stimulated 30-odd expeditions from east to west across the Arctic and they mapped it for what it is today. Really, it was kind of no man’s land and all of these expeditions opened it up,” he said. Franklin’s story is now arguably an icon of Canadian culture. As anyone tuned to CBC this week could tell you, it was the inspiration for Stan Rogers’ Canadiana folk classic Northwest Passage.

“It could be our national anthem for God’s sakes. It really is an important part of Canada,” Vallely said. But the significance of Franklin and the Arctic isn’t just for new editions of history textbooks, Vallely acknowledged. His 2013 trip saw him travel 1,900 kilometres through the Northwest Passage by rowboat. The trip was meant to raise awareness that carbon-driven climate change was beating back kilometres of ice and making the once impassible Arctic into the viable shipping route Franklin sought. The first commercial ship to cross the Arctic Ocean in a single season came in the 1980s and in 2013, the MS Nordic Orion became the first bulk carrier to use the Northwest Passage. Sadly appropriate — considering the impact of climate change on the Arctic — it was carrying a load of metallurgical coal destined for Finland it picked had up at Neptune Terminals in North Vancouver. While the Arctic may seem as Canadian as a Timmy’s and awful hockey teams in our own minds, the rest of the world considers the Northwest Passage international waters, giving the discovery geopolitical implications. “We’ve got to be up there. We’ve got to be showing interest in our land in order for people to recognize it to be ours,” Vallely said. “You can just go right on through and Canada has nothing to say about it. . . . The Russians know more about our sea floor up there than we do because of their subs.” See Arctic page 10

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Provincial ridings reviewed Electoral boundaries commission to consider changes to borders

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Where should North Vancouver-Seymour end and North VancouverLonsdale begin? Is West Vancouver-Sea to Sky a good name, or do you pine for the days when it was good old West VancouverGaribaldi? The British Columbia Electoral Boundaries Commission wants to hear

from you. The commission will hear from the public in 29 meetings throughout the province this fall, including eight sessions in the Lower Mainland between Oct. 20 to 24. “Now is the time to have your say and shape your province,” stated commission chair Tom Melnick in a press release. The non-partisan commission generally

focuses on the way population changes have impacted different communities and can recommend substantial changes to the legislative assembly. “They can add two extra seats,” said Don Main, communications manager for the commission. Any changes to B.C.’s electoral boundaries would come into effect for the 2017 provincial general election. The commission’s report is due May 9, 2015. The 18-month project, including the ﬁnal report, is slated to cost about $4.5

million, according to Main. Those who want to voice their views online can do so at bc-ebc.ca/speak. The boundaries commission is generally appointed after every second general election. Besides population ﬂuctuations, the commission takes suggestions for changing the names of different districts and where to draw borderlines that don’t slice single communities in two. There will be another opportunity for public input after the report is submitted, according to Main.

Mayor favours continuing diplomacy From page 1 with,” said city CAO Ken Tolstam. But Tolstam said staff have only begun looking at the numbers and it will likely take months before all the parties involved can hammer out an agreement. Likely, it will be based on a range of different measures like area covered, calls for service, population and criminal code offences. But any update to the formula should wait

until after the district has settled up the amount it owes based on the already existing agreement, Coun. Pam Bookham argued. “I would like to know what effort has been made to get the over $1 million that’s owed. That’s a signiﬁcant amount of money and I don’t see how that can be just ignored or left sitting there for some future discussion,” she said. “It’s very easy to use that as leverage. That’s a

pretty clear-cut situation. Let’s get the money, put it in our bank account and then carry on and start talking about some of these other outstanding matters.” Mayor Darrell Mussatto spoke up in favour of diplomacy as the budgetary snafu is sorted. “I think, out of respect for working with the district, we’ll continue to have these discussions because they are our neighbours. They work

with us in many different areas and I think it’s important we have a positive relationship with them,” he said. Council is expected to receive monthly updates on the status of all of the shared services it has with the district, including recycling, the North Shore Emergency Management Ofﬁce, some ﬁre services, the North Vancouver Recreation Commission, and North Vancouver Museum and Archives.

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Local Government Election DISTRICT OF WEST VANCOUVER & WEST VANCOUVER SCHOOL DISTRICT (SCHOOL DISTRICT 45) November 15, 2014 is general voting day for local governments in British Columbia. Eligible electors will vote to elect a Mayor and Councillors for the District of West Vancouver, and School Trustees for the West Vancouver Board of Education, School District 45.

Public Notice: List of Registered Electors

Beginning September 30, 2014 until the close of general voting for the election on November 15, 2014, a copy of the list of registered electors will be available for public inspection in the Legislative Services Department at the District of West Vancouver municipal hall during regular ofﬁce hours (8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays). Before inspecting the list a person must sign a statement that they will not inspect the list or use the information included in the list except for the purposes of Part 3 – Electors and Elections of the Local Government Act.

R EQ U E ST TO O M I T P E R SO N A L I N FO R M AT I O N

Under section 63 of the Local Government Act an elector may request that his or her address or other information about them be omitted from or obscured on the list of electors in order to protect their privacy or security. Written requests must be received by 4:30 p.m. September 23, 2014 by the Chief Election Ofﬁcer at the District of West Vancouver, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3.

O B J ECT ION TO R EG I ST R AT I O N O F A N E L ECTO R

An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of electors may be made in accordance with the Local Government Act until 4 p.m. on October 10, 2014. An objection must be made in writing and may only be made by a person entitled to be registered as an elector of the jurisdiction and can only be made on the basis that a person whose name appears on the list of electors has died or that a person whose name appears on the list of electors is not qualiﬁed to be registered as an elector of the jurisdiction.

R EG I ST E R I N G TO VOTE

The District’s list of electors is from the Provincial List of Voters. If you were listed on the Provincial List of Voters you should be on the District’s list of electors. An eligible elector whose name does not appear on the list of electors will have the opportunity to register at the time and place of voting by completing an “Application for Registration” form and providing two pieces of appropriate identiﬁcation.

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Non-Resident Property Electors:

Resident Electors:

• 18 years of age or older; • a Canadian citizen; • a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of registration; • a resident of the municipality or electoral area for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and • not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election and not otherwise disqualiﬁed by law.

• 18 years of age or older; • a Canadian citizen; • a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of registration; • a registered owner of real property in the municipality or electoral area for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; • not entitled to register as a resident elector; • not disqualified under the Local Government Act or any other enactment from voting in an election and not otherwise disqualified by law; • if there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector.

West Vancouver School District electors in Bowen Island Municipality, Village of Lions Bay, and Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) Electoral Area A • Bowen Island Municipality and Village of Lions Bay

Bowen Island Municipality and the Village of Lions Bay are included within the boundaries of West Vancouver School District (School District 45). Bowen Island Municipality and the Village of Lions Bay have adopted the Provincial List of Voters as their list of electors. Objections to the list should be made to the Chief Election Ofﬁcers of each municipality. Registration for eligible West Vancouver School District electors who reside or own property on Bowen Island and in Lions Bay and who may not be on the list will be possible at the voting opportunities in each municipality. The list will, upon signature, be available for public inspection at each municipality’s municipal halls. For more information contact Bowen Island Municipality at 604-947-4255, and Village of Lions Bay at 604-921-9333.

• Greater Vancouver Regional District (GVRD) Electoral Area A

Part of GVRD Electoral Area A is included within the boundaries of the West Vancouver School District (School District 45, WVSD). Metro Vancouver is the local government for GVRD Electoral Area A. GVRD Electoral Area A includes those areas of Howe Sound in the GVRD that are not within a municipal corporation: lands along Howe Sound located between the District of West Vancouver and Squamish-Lillooet Regional District including the communities of Montizambert Wynd, Ocean Point and Strachan Point; Bowyer and Passage Islands and Grebe Islets. Bowyer and Passage Islands and Grebe Islets are also part of the Gambier Island Local Trust Area. Electors who reside or own property within GVRD Electoral Area A areas that are within WVSD will be required to register in accordance with the GVRD procedures on voting day. For more information contact the Chief Election Ofﬁcer for GVRD Electoral Area A at 604-432-6338, and the Chief Election Ofﬁcer for Gambier Island Local Trust Area at 604-885-6825.

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For further information on these matters, visit westvancouver.ca/election or contact: Sheila Scholes, Chief Election Ofﬁcer: 604-925-7045 Mark Panneton, Deputy Chief Election Ofﬁcer: 604-925-7049

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Arctic saga draws in modern politics From page 8 The political significance of the wreck isn’t lost on Nuytten either. “You can’t overlook the importance of both the search and the find in terms of Canada’s sovereignty in the Arctic,” he said. “I think Parks Canada, and Mr. Harper to the extent he had anything to do with it, are to be congratulated. It’s a hell of a feat and I wish them all the luck in the world.” As for whether this proves the Arctic is ours for the rest of the world to see, Capilano University political science professor Tim Schouls isn’t so sure. “Franklin was on his way from somewhere to somewhere else and wasn’t in any way, shape or form interested in establishing a claim for Britain in the North in the first place,” he said. “If there is any stake to a claim in the area, it belongs to the Inuit before it belongs to Canada. Those issues of competing sovereignty need to be worked out.” That may also be a hint at the government’s motivations, Schouls said — “Trying to pacify the populations of the North, indicating the Canadian government is interested in investment in infrastructure of all kinds.” In any case, had the Arctic not been disputed, Harper wouldn’t be spending his summers there, Schouls added. But Harper’s strategy for the North is more than staking our claim to its shipping lanes and whatever resources may lie underneath the sea floor, Schouls added. The government also seems to be trying to change the way we think and feel about Canada. The Tories hold an “ideological predisposition toward trying to resuscitate historical narratives that draw Canadian identity more sharply into focus,” Schouls said, noting we’ve already seen it happen with the massive public relations exercise See Franklin’s page 11

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Franklin’s tale reflects Canada’s psyche From page 10

commemorating the War of 1812. “An attempt to nurture a connection with the past that binds us to romantic and important episodes in our history as Canadians is part of what (Harper) is interested in doing,” Schouls said. “It’s an exercise in constructing patriotism.”

While that may not quite meet the deﬁnition of propaganda, Schouls said we can expect to see footage and images from the Franklin saga in Conservative campaign ads in the run up to next fall’s election. “I do think this particular story will be exploited for political gain in ways that have very little to do with the story itself.

The story is full of romance. It’s full of intrigue. It’s full of tragedy. It’s in many ways a reﬂection of the Canadian psyche itself. Trying to survive in a harsh environment and succumbing to the forces and us as a Canadian people having in many respects to adapt and learn to do the same, often with the help of Aboriginal peoples.”

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Local cops riding for cancer North Shore ofﬁcers join 900 km Tour de Coast ride ANNE WATSON awatson@nsnews.com

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More than 100 law enforcement and emergency services personnel will put foot to pedal for a good cause this fall. The Cops for Cancer bike ride, a gruelling 900-kilometre tour from the Lower Mainland to Vancouver Island and back, is an annual event to raise funds and awareness about pediatric cancer as well as support for Camp Goodtimes. West Vancouver police Const. Jeff Palmer and North Vancouver RCMP Const. Carlos Rockhill are two members of the more than 30-person team cycling for the Tour de Coast. Both have been training for the ride since earlier in the year, Palmer since January and Rockhill since April. Palmer is dedicating his ride to his Aunt Lauraine who is successfully battling cancer in Calgary. He says there is no shortage of motivation to do the ride, after having lost a number of relatives to cancer.

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presented by Gina Cook intended to create awareness of the healing beneﬁts of reiki as well as raise funds for the Lions Gate Hospital staff education fund,Thursday Sept. 18, 7-9 p.m. at West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre. eventbrite.ca LOCAL VOLKSSPORT CLUB will host a noncompetitive ﬁve/10-kilometre walk in the British Properties area of West Vancouver

Saturday, Sept. 20 at 10 a.m. Free for new participants. 604-682-8390 STEPTEMBER CHALLENGE A fourweek health and wellness initiative to raise funds for cerebral palsy will run until Sept. 30.Teams across the world pledge to take 10,000 steps a day. Once registered, each participant will receive a kit with a pedometer. $25/$10. steptember.ca

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to a collecting station at 941 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. For more information contact Corrinna Cheyne corrinna@ telus.net, 604-929-7989, bctfooddrive.org CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN — WEST VANCOUVER All women are invited to join a social-information meeting to outline the club’s purpose and interest groups Monday, Sept. 15, 7 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Church, 885 22nd St.,West Vancouver. 604-729-4043 FAMILY MOVIES AT THE LIBRARY The Nut Job will be screened Monday, Sept. 15, 6:30-8:10 at Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Registration required. 604-984-0286 x8141. nvdpl.ca SOUP TENT INITIATIVE Members of the Sacred Circle of the Great Mystery Shamanic Society will distribute hot soup and coffee for those in need Monday, Sept. 15 from noon to 2 p.m. at Waterfront Park (north side), North Vancouver. EASE INTO E-BOOKS Learn the basics about library e-books Tuesday, See more page 18

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Public Notice is given to the electors of the District of North Vancouver that nominations for the offices of: Mayor Councillor School Trustee

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for a four-year term, December 2014 to October 2018, will be received by the Chief Election Officer or a designated person, as follows: When: 9am on September 30, 2014 to 4pm on October 10, 2014 (Excluding statutory holidays and weekends) Where: Clerk’s Office District of North Vancouver 355 West Queens Road North Vancouver, BC V7N 4N5 Nomination documents are available at the District of North Vancouver Clerk’s Office during regular office hours (8am – 4:30pm).

Qualifications for Office

A person is qualified to be nominated, elected, and to hold office as a member of local government if they meet the following criteria: • age 18 or older on general voting day; • a Canadian citizen; • resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day nomination papers are filed; and, • not disqualified by the Local Government Act or any other enactment from being nominated for, being elected to, holding office, or be otherwise disqualified by law.

List of Registered Electors Beginning September 30, 2014 until the close of general voting for the election on November 15, 2014, a copy of the list of registered electors will, upon signature, be available for public inspection at the District of North Vancouver Clerk’s Office during regular office hours Monday to Friday, excluding statutory holidays.

Request to Omit Personal Information An elector may request that their address or other information about them be omitted from, or obscured on, the list of electors. Upon request, the Chief Election Officer will amend the list, which is available to the public and candidates, by omitting or obscuring the elector’s information.

Objection to Registration of an Elector

An objection to the registration of a person whose name appears on the list of registered electors may be made in accordance with the Local Government Act until 4pm on October 10, 2014. An objection must be in writing and may

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Are you eligible to vote at the November elections for Mayor, Councillors and School Trustees? Is your name on the current list of electors? If you are not sure, you can find out by calling 604-990-2311 or visiting the District of North Vancouver Municipal Hall, 355 West Queens Road, North Vancouver, BC. The office is open from 8am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday (excluding holidays). Advance elector registrations will be accepted at the District of North Vancouver Clerk’s Office until September 23, 2014. With the exception of registrations on voting days, elector registrations will not be accepted during the period September 24, 2014 to November 14, 2014.

Elector Qualifications

Resident Electors: • age 18 or older on general voting day; • a Canadian citizen; • a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of registration; • a resident of the District of North Vancouver for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; and, • not disqualified by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law. Non-resident Property Electors: • age 18 or older on general voting day; • a Canadian citizen; • a resident of British Columbia for at least six months immediately before the day of registration; • a registered owner of real property in the District of North Vancouver for at least 30 days immediately before the day of registration; • not entitled to register as a resident elector; • not disqualified by any enactment from voting in an election or otherwise disqualified by law; and, • if there is more than one registered owner of the property, only one of those individuals may, with the written consent of the majority of the owners, register as a non-resident property elector.

Mail Ballot Voting Mail ballot voting will be available to voters with disabilities who cannot travel to a voting place and to voters who will be absent from the District on the General Voting Day (November 15) and all three Advance Voting Days (November 5, 8, and 10). In order to receive a mail ballot package you must first complete a Mail Ballot Application available online at dnv.org/vote2014 or in person at the District Hall.If you are not able to pick up a mail-in ballot package, please have your application to the Chief Election Officer by October 24, 2014 to allow sufficient time for a package to be mailed.

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AUTHOR TALK AT YOUR LIBRARY Roxanne Davies and Michele Carter will talk about the book Olga:The O.K.Way to a Healthy, Happy Life Wednesday, Sept. 17, 7-8:30 p.m. at Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Registration required. 604-984-0286 x8144 nvdpl.ca

Sept. 16, 2-3 p.m. at Capilano library, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. Learn the differences between various file formats, which devices will work with the library’s collection and how to find, checkout and download content. Registration required. 604-987-4471 x8175 nvdpl.ca HIRING FAIR North Vancouver City Library will host its first-ever hiring fair on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 12-4 p.m., 120 West 14th St. Exhibiting employers

FALL ART CLASSES Life drawing (noninstructional) for adults. Hone ﬁgure drawing skills in this creative environment with a different live model each week,Wednesdays,

Sept. 17-Oct. 22 and Nov. 5-Dec. 10 at Maplewood House, 399 Seymour River Pl., North Vancouver. Six sessions, $75 or $15 for drop-ins. Please bring drawing materials. Register online nvartscouncil.ca or by phone 604-988-6844. HOP INTO HOOPLA TRAINING SESSIONS Learn how to stream or download movies, television shows, music albums and audiobooks from Hoopla Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2-3 p.m. at Parkgate library, 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver. Registration required. 604-929-3727 x8166 nvdpl.ca WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY will hold a

general meeting Wednesday, Sept. 17, 7 p.m. at the West Vancouver Seniors’ Centre, 695 21st St. North Shore author Adrienne Brown will discuss her book The Life and Art of Harry and Jessie Webb. wvhs.ca EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND YOU Learn about safe food and water supplies, what to put in your home emergency kit and more Wednesday, Sept. 17, 7-9:30 p.m. at the North Shore Emergency Management Ofﬁce, 147 East 14th St., North Vancouver. 604-9697000, nsemo@cnv.org Compiled by Debbie Caldwell Email information for your event to listings@nsnews.com.

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What’s On Sundays FOLKTALES AND LAUGHTER Storytelling series with humorous folktales from around the world the second Sunday of every month, 7-9 p.m. at the Silk Purse Arts Centre, 1570 Argyle Ave., West Vancouver. After the tales, a yoga therapist will guide participants through exercises while laughing. $10. 604-925-7292 silkpurse.ca

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Mondays ALATEEN MEETING A group for kids ages 1018 who are experiencing

alcohol problems in their family meets every Monday at 7 p.m. at St. David’s United Church, 1525 Taylor Way, West Vancouver. 604-688-1716 BINGO Every Monday at 6 p.m., North Vancouver Legion, 123 West 15th St., North Vancouver. 604-9883712 CANADIAN FEDERATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN — WEST VANCOUVER BRANCH is an organization that promotes education, improving women’s status and human rights. It also offers 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. cfuw.westvan@ gmail.com cfuwnvwv.vcn. bc.ca CHESS CLUB All levels are welcome to play chess Mondays and Wednesdays, 1-4 p.m. at Parkgate Community Centre, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancouver. 604-983-6350 myparkgate.com 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. $1. 604-987-7529 See more page 19

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What’s On From page 18 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. $5. 604-985-1115 ENGLISH CONVERSATION CORNER Drop in to the Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver and practise your English language skills Mondays, 7:30-8:45 p.m. 604-984-0286, x8144 604644-9621 nvdpl.ca ESPIRITU VOCAL ENSEMBLE This high proﬁle community choir that performs a wide variety of music is looking for motivated singers. Rehearsals take place Mondays, 7-9 p.m. at West Vancouver United Church, 2062 Esquimalt Ave. Singers should have basic music reading skills. Call 604-922-2513 to set up an audition time. FRIENDSHIP TOASTMASTERS CLUB meets to improve communication and leadership skills every Monday, 7:15-9:15 p.m. at Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East 22nd St., North Vancouver. friendshiptoastmasters.com

audition required. 604-9806896. info@blackbearband.ca blackbearband.ca MEALS ON WHEELS needs volunteers Monday, Wednesday or Friday mornings. 604-922-3414 northshoremealsonwheels.org MOUNT SEYMOUR LIONS CLUB meets on

the ﬁrst and third Monday of every month, 6:30 p.m. at 936 Bowron Court, North Vancouver. New members are welcome. 604929-4135 NORTH SHORE PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY focuses on skill development the ﬁrst and third Mondays

of the month, 7:30 p.m. at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church, 2347 Inglewood Ave.,West Vancouver.The club also has ﬁeld trips and workshops. All levels welcome. nsps.ca NORTH SHORE STAMP CLUB meets every other Monday, 7-9 p.m. at The Summerhill,

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Learning new skills can be a lifelong pursuit. But whether you’re a kid or an adult, it isn’t easy to perfect a jump shot or a karate kata. And while specialized, competitive sports are a popular choice of extra-curricular activity for kids these days, a growing body of research suggests that perfection and competition are not what kids should be striving for.

“But actually research has proven exactly the opposite of that,” says Hood.

“Really what kids need to be exposed to particularly from (ages) zero-six, but arguably even later than that, is just a really broad gross motor-development curriculum that exposes them to all sports and all sport elements in a very non-competitive environment,” explains Jennifer Hood, a certiﬁed coach and owner of Jump Gymnastics in North Vancouver. This different approach involves building physical literacy, and Hood, a former elementary school teacher, says the idea behind it is similar to basic literacy and numeracy skills kids learn at school. Physical literacy seeks to build a child’s conﬁdence in moving in a variety of sports environments, and also to give that child the tools and the skills needed to explore playing a whole variety of different sports.

She explains that the core elements of many sports share similarities, so if kids are exposed to a variety of those elements at a young age, they will develop transferable skills. “Once they have this really broad base then they can explore something that might truly interest them, and then later around puberty years is the ideal time to introduce kids to competitive sports,” says Hood. “Research has found that kids that come out of a system like this that’s a really broad-spectrum introduction to sports end up becoming more competitive on a world and international stage and generally more active for the rest of their lives.” The ﬁrst step to teaching physical literacy is for parents and kids to embrace the concept of effort and not ﬁnal results, says Hood. She says parents should praise a child’s effort rather than telling kids they are good at something or they are smart.

The current sport system in Canada is built on picking a sport at a young age and

“There’s a really great research study

released that talks about when you tell kids they’re smart they actually end up performing poorer on tests because they feel that it’s not something in their control. They’re either good at it or they’re not, and there’s nothing they can do about that.” She says she talks a lot to parents about letting go of preconceived notions of what they or their kids may or may not be good at, and understanding that they don’t know where their journey of learning is going to take them. It’s also important for parents and kids to stop caring about trying to be perfect at something, especially when it comes to movement and sport. “There really isn’t a perfect way to move your body,” says Hood. “There are efﬁcient ways to do it, there are esthetically pleasing ways to do. There are motor-coordinated ways to do it, but there isn’t a perfect way to do it.” Look for a longer version of this story and practical tips for learning new skills in the Parenting section of the North Shore News website at nsnews.com.

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Glowing skin and strong nails are outward signs of good health. Nutrient deficiencies, oxidative stress, environmental toxins, smoking and neglect can all damage your hair, skin and nails. Cathy Marlatt and her team from Cove Health Vitamins talk to customers everyday about important issues as hair loss, hair elasticity, cartilage strength and flexibility, bone density and flexibility. There are some natural supplements and some food choices that have shown some promise in these areas. In her consultation with Patti Morrison, Image Strategist, Cathy suggested the following for Patti’s clients.

SKIN HEALTHY PLAN Lemon in hot water first thing in the morning ■ Eat 5 cups of vegetables each day(cooked and raw in a rainbow of colours) ■ Eat nuts and seeds 2-4 times per week(choose raw and roast them freshly yourself if desired) ■

Eat protein 3 times per day(eggs, chicken, beef, legumes, protein powders) ■ Drink 8 glasses of water or herbal tea per day ■ Supplement with ingredients such as vitamin C, biotin, silica or silicon, hyaluronic acid, vitamin d, gla-rich borage, blackcurrant or primrose seed oils.

writes in her latest book, Beautiful Skin Begins Within,“the body needs the trace mineral silicon to make collagen. Silicon is converted into silicic acid in the digestive tract which the body then uses to manufacture collagen and elastin.” Lorna also likes the addition of biotin for healthy skin, hair and nails. Collagen Plus has both these fortifying ingredients.

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Boost breakfast with oatmeal Some people see September as the start of a new year. Maybe it’s a life-long student mentality, or it could be getting back to the grind after the laidback nature of summer. Whatever the case may be, why not start the “year” off right by having the ﬁrst meal of the day be your best meal of the day? Oatmeal is a great way to start your day. Homemade quick rolled oats with melted brown

sugar and a tad of cream makes a delicious meal. However, you might find yourself hungry again soon after. How can this be? Doesn’t oatmeal have tons of fibre? Oatmeal does have fibre but probably not as much as you think. Any breakfast cereal (hot or cold) should ideally contain at least four grams of fibre and less than 10 grams of sugar per serving. But oatmeal (quick rolled oats) only contains three grams of fibre per serving, which is equivalent to one piece of whole wheat bread. It’s no wonder you are hungry again a couple of hours later. So, how can you make oatmeal more filling?

Try adding nuts, such as almonds, and fresh fruit, or frozen berries. You can also add flax seeds, or make the switch to steel-cut oats. Rolled and steel-cut oats are both toasted, but rolled oats are pulverized into flakes when they’re run through rollers (hence the name), which reduces their nutritional value as a lot of the fibre is lost during processing. Steel-cut oats are only chopped, which means they maintain more of their nutritional content. Steel-cut oats contain five grams of fibre and seven grams of protein, which should keep your tummy happy longer. The one downside about steel-cut oats is they take a bit longer to cook Here’s a tip: Try eating breakfast within about two hours after waking up. Don’t wait any longer as you could inadvertently change your metabolism for the rest of the day.

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And for those breakfast-haters out there, you don’t actually have to eat breakfast food. You can eat left-over pizza or even a sandwich for breakfast. The important thing is to get something in your body so you have enough energy for the day. Also try incorporating three food groups into your morning meal. For example: cereal (grain) with milk (dairy) and a banana (fruit), or toast (grain) with peanut butter (meat alternative) and a glass of juice (fruit).

Jess Pirnak is a registered dietitian who lives on the North Shore. Her personal food blog is at foodyourself.com.

spice of life Flavour foods with herbs and spices instead of salt. It can be healthier and your taste buds will adjust to less salt in your food. Here is a spice primer to help get you started: BASIL Tastes great with tomatoes and pasta. CUMIN Adds ﬂavour to soup, stews and sauces. CURRY POWDER Good with meat, poultry, soup and stews. DILL Pairs well with ﬁsh, potatoes, and eggs. OREGANO Perfect in pasta, soup and salads. PAPRIKA Good with seafood, vegetables, chicken and eggs. ROSEMARY Delicious with chicken, lamb and pork. THYME Goes well with beef and chicken. Source: Health Canada

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It stands to reason then that good vision is essential to learning. Yet studies show only 31 per cent of children between the ages of six and 16 have an annual eye exam, according to Dr. Pavan Avinashi of Hollyburn Eye Clinic.

But what about “vision screenings” performed by a school nurse or a pediatrician? Won’t they detect vision problems? Only partially, according to Avinashi.

He notes in a press release that about 70 per cent of children younger than six years (the age at which most vision problems can be treated before permanent damage occurs) have never had an eye exam. Twenty million children will go back to school this year with a vision problem that may interfere

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Annual quiz elicits reader response Every year, in July, I put together a quiz for my readers. And every year readers complain the quiz is too easy. So, this year I ﬁxed that. Were people happy? No! How bad was it? Never mind that half the people I heard from failed the quiz. My wife failed the quiz. Trust me, it doesn’t get much worse than that. A few readers accused me of deliberately providing the wrong answers for the quiz. I did make a few errors but not on purpose. More on that later. Today I’ll show you how I put the quiz together and I’ll provide commentary around some of the questions. The question on the percentage that seniors add to public health-care spending in Canada each year tripped up a lot of my readers. It’s approximately one per cent. How do we arrive at that ﬁgure? We spend approximately $200 billion a year (that’s billion with a b) on health care in Canada.We spend a couple

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Older andWiser of billion a year on seniors’ health care.That’s not chump change. But it’s one per cent, not 20 or 30 or 50 per cent, as some would have you believe. Including a question on longevity was a no-brainer. Saskatchewan’s proportion of 100-year-olds in the country is almost double the national average and nearly as high as worldleading Japan. Achieving centenarian status remains a bit of a medical mystery. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, who was not a resident of Saskatchewan, was estimated to have consumed ﬁve times the recommended weekly

amount of alcohol for a woman and lived to 101. I’m not recommending readers follow her example. How did a question on celery make it into the quiz? It’s not easy to find good news on the health-care front so my rule of thumb is to include only one healthcare question and to keep it light.The celery question — it combats hypertension — fit the bill nicely. I thought about not including a question on fire safety in the quiz.Then I thought about the fire at a seniors’ residence in Quebec last year that killed 35 residents.The national building code requires any new or renovated care facility to have sprinklers. The problem? Provinces and territories can choose whether to adopt those standards or not and can modify them as they like. Quebec decided to develop their own standard without a requirement for mandatory sprinklers in their regulations. It’s hard to design a seniors quiz and not include a question on senior

Notice of Nomination

Greater Vancouver Regional District Electoral Area A 2014 General Local Election Public Notice is given to the electors of Electoral Area A that nominations for the office of Director of Electoral Area A, Greater Vancouver Regional District (known as Metro Vancouver), will be received at the office of the Chief Election Officer, Metro Vancouver, 3rd Floor, 4330 Kingsway, Burnaby, BC, V5H 4G8, from September 30 to October 10, 2014 during regular working hours 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. excluding weekends and holidays. Electoral Area A refers to that part of the Greater Vancouver Regional District not within the boundaries of a City, District, Island, Town, or Village municipality, or any land, foreshore, or land covered by water that may be hereafter incorporated within the boundaries of a municipality. This includes the University Endowment Lands, University of British Columbia lands, Bowyer Island, Grebe Islets, Passage Island, Barnston Island, and those areas of Howe Sound, Indian Arm and West Pitt Lake in the Greater Vancouver Regional District not within a municipal corporation.

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drivers. So I threw one in. Advocates for senior drivers have a lot on their minds these days.There’s

that propensity for some seniors to drive their cars through the front door of fast food restaurants — I’m

kidding.There’s a recent B.C. survey that revealed See Quizmaster page 28

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that approximately onethird of the respondents who have a mature driver in their lives feel anxious whenever their loved one gets behind the wheel and feel powerless about how to keep their aging driver safe on the road. And many jurisdictions in Canada continue to focus on the driver’s age rather than their ability. Now it’s time to fess up.Two of the answers given in the quiz were, um, wrong. Diane Gradley, a family lawyer practising in Burnaby, advises me that under the new Family Law Act 2013 there is no longer a provision for imposing parental support obligations in B.C. And reader Christa notes

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NORWEST MEN’S CURLING CLUB is looking for new recruits. They curl from October to March on Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:45-3:15 p.m. at the North Shore Winter Club, 1325 East Keith Rd., North Vancouver. No experience is required and instruction is provided where necessary.There will be early practice sessions Sept. 23-25, 1-3 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. 604-218-9424 norwesters@shaw.ca SENIORS ACTING UP NEEDS NEW MEMBERS A cabaret group that performs at seniors facilities twice a month rehearses Thursdays from 10 a.m. to noon at Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East 22nd St., North Vancouver. $18 per season. Joan, 604-325-1857 thegypsy@telus.net NORTH SHORE KEEP WELL SOCIETY In honour of North Shore Keep Well Society Week, Sept. 15-19, celebrations will be held at each of the society’s seven sites. In addition, a public demonstration class open to all will be held Sept. 17 at 1 p.m. inside Capilano Mall, by Walmart. keepwellsociety.ca A TASTE OF AMICA Amica Mature Lifestyles invites all seniors to ﬁnd out why food is Amica’s speciality with an afternoon of free samples Wednesday,

that the late Olga Kotelko holds 37, not 47 world records. Maybe you should rename the column “Older But Not As Smart As My Readers,” said a colleague. There is some good news here. Given those errors some readers who took the quiz may have done better than they thought. I sure hope my wife is one of them. You can ﬁnd the quiz on the North Shore News website, nsnews.com. Follow the links: Opinion/ Columnists/Tom Carney/ Popular Seniors Quiz Back for 2014. Tom Carney is the former executive director of the Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society. Ideas for future columns are welcome.

Sept. 17, 1-4 p.m. at 659 Clyde Ave.,West Vancouver. amica.ca BRAIN-BODYBALANCE CONNECTION A unique program designed to strengthen the brain, body and balance Thursday, Sept. 18-Dec. 4, 1-3 p.m. at John Braithwaite Community Centre, 145 West First St., North Vancouver.The first half of the class will be physical exercises, which will include cardio, balance, core strengthening and flexibility. The second part of the class will include discussion and games on how to sharpen memory and boost brain power as you age.This program is suitable for the active senior. $72 for the session or $7 drop-in. CONTRACT BRIDGE Modified Chicago-style bridge for experienced players, MondaysThursdays, 12:30-3 p.m. at Delbrook Community Centre, 600 West Queens Rd., North Vancouver. Drop-in fee: $2. kshubert@myparkgate.com CRIBBAGE All abilities are welcome to drop in Tuesdays, 1:15-3:15 p.m. at the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre, 695 21st St. $2.25. 604-925-7280 CRIBBAGE Play for prizes Tuesdays, 1-3:30 p.m. at Silver Harbour Centre, 144 East 22nd St., North Vancouver. Dropin fee: $3. 604-980-2474 silverharbourcentre.com

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Money Matters

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. NATURE SCHOOL INTERN Support instructors with group management of children ages six-12, or teens, in a forest environment

are needed. Interns will be outside all day and must provide their own lunch. Classes take place in the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve and other Metro Vancouver parks. FOOD DRIVE VOLUNTEER BC Thanksgiving Food Drive is looking for volunteers from Sept. 15 to 20 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. 20.

cash isn’t necessarily a bad thing — even though these days you are earning little or no interest: (1) You can take advantage of investment opportunities. (2) If you suddenly need money, you don’t have to liquidate investments when values are down. Mike Grenby is a columnist and independent personal ﬁnancial advisor; he’ll answer questions in this column as space allows but cannot reply personally. Email mike@grenby.com.

PROGRAM MENTOR Junior Achievement of B.C. is currently accepting applications for program mentors for the upcoming 2014-2015 school year. As a program mentor, you will encourage students in Grades 9 and 10 to explore job and career choices by focusing on the direct link between further education and personal goals. Topics include: goalsetting, budgeting and job interviews. 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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A development is being proposed at the southwest corner of Pemberton Avenue and West 1st Street to construct the Lions Gate Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plant. You are invited to a meeting* to discuss the project. Thursday, September 18, 2014 Grouse Inn, 1633 Capilano Rd, North Vancouver, BC 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. Presentation: 7:00 p.m. Information packages are being distributed to the owners and occupants within a 100 metre radius of the site. If you would like to receive a copy or if you would like more information, contact Paul Dufault of Metro Vancouver at 604-432-6407 or Doug Allan of the District of North Vancouver Community Planning Department at 604-990-2357 or bring your questions and comments to the meeting. *This is not a Public Hearing. DNV Council will receive a report from staff on issues raised at the meeting and will formally consider the proposal at a later date.

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New varieties are not so new after all

This week I got my nose into a whole bunch of new varieties although, as it turned out, most of them weren’t that new. Just east of Toulouse is one of seven regional ofﬁces of l’Institut Français de la Vigne.This particular outpost concerns itself with “le Sud-Ouest,” home to France’s largest production by volume, the Languedoc. The biologists, viticulturists, scientists and many others who work here are very much wired in to the realities of wine past, present and future. However, what makes this corner of the country so interesting is that the region is the indigenous home to 130 of France’s 388 “known” varieties and mutants. Not to mention a whole lot more, including a few survivors of what used to be a considerable number of wild vine forest species. The 12 principal indigenous southwest grapes range from better-known Cabernet Franc, Malbec, Tannat and Colombard (and their forebears), to the lesser-known Fer Servadou, Duras, Negrette and Gros Manseng, to the nearly vanished Prunelard. The latter (traced from Greco-Roman times) is a beautiful plummy and peppery drop that lives up to its name. There may be only 40 hectares under vine but

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PETS

Why can’t we be more like our dogs? I had a reader write to me and tell me I should write about more serious dog issues like abuse, neglect and such. She said, “Enough of the feel-good, I-lovemy-dog stuff . . . there is so much animal abuse, neglect and abandonment, you should be writing about that all the time to bring awareness to it!” I wrote back a oneword reply . . . “No.” I choose not to write about the bad stuff because we get enough of it in our daily lives. The news is ﬁlled with negative information and images. It is an hour’s worth (or more) of pessimism. The constant bombardment of deleterious images and information is changing the hardwiring of our brains in a harmful way and we, as human beings, are actively seeking out negative experiences. Sometimes it is a conscious act, but most often an unconscious one. I don’t think that we are here on this earth to live a life of hostility and strife. But to put a positive spin on things, those negative images do serve a purpose. For me, it helps me draw a clear line in the sand of

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researchers compared the dogs’ reaction to affectionate touch versus verbal praise. They found that the dogs showed more interest in people who were petting them than those verbally praising them. But what they found even more interesting is that the dogs were no more interested in verbal praise than in having no interaction from people at all. This means that they were as indifferent to verbal praise as they were to someone who showed no interaction with them at all. They preferred the sensation of touch as it brought about more positive internal feelings than having someone stand in front of them saying, “good dog!” Study co-author Dr. Erica Feuerbacher, assistant professor of

at the expense of others. So why on earth would I write about the negative things about dogs and dog ownership when negativity is such a small part of their existence? My dogs — in fact all dogs — can go an entire day, an entire week, heck, an entire month without expressing anything but joy. In a recent study, scientists compared verbal praise to affectionate touching to see which action dogs responded to. Well, guess what those smarty-pants scientists ﬁgured out. After some intense research, they discovered that dogs prefer physical touch over verbal praise. To get the details on the research you can follow this link: sciencedirect. com/science/article/pii/ S0376635714001879. In the experiment,

anthrozoology at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, said she “was surprised that when only one alternative was available, dogs still did not engage with the human for vocal praise.” Feuerbacher continued by stating that “the reason for this was discovered in previous studies which showed that a dog’s heart rate and blood pressure were lowered by human petting.” This means it made them feel good on the inside to be pet on the outside, so they actively sought out people who pet them over people who only verbally praised them. You see, even science has proven that dogs are all about feeling good and that’s what I want people to feel when they read this column. On the rare occasion, I

do write about bad stuff, but when I do, I always place a positive spin on it so the reader feels relief in their hearts, not resistance. I want to help people by writing about the joys of dog ownership. Even though there may be hard times here and there, I want an owner to look at their dog and feel emotions of happiness, not contempt. Finally, there is a fun viral YouTube video going around titled “Be More Dog.” Google it, watch it and, well, Be More Dog! Joan has been working with dogs for more than 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. Contact her via her website: k9kinship.com. Scan this page with the Layar app to watch O2’s Be More Dog commercial.

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The Handsworth Royals senior football team was supposed to be getting a lesson in the sport at its best today, watching the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks battle the San Diego Chargers at

Qualcomm Stadium. Instead they’re stuck at home getting a lesson in reality, their trip cancelled due to the ongoing dispute between the B.C.Teachers’ Federation and the provincial government.The Royals had been planning the trip since December and had come up with an itinerary that would have

also included college campus tours, a visit to the USS Midway — an aircraft carrier turned ﬂoating museum — and a game against a local high school team, among other fun things. “Right now we would have been on the way to Disneyland,” said longtime Royals head coach Jay Prepchuk Friday morning,

adding that with the teachers’ strike in full effect there was no way the trip could happen. “We just felt that the timing of it, with everything, was just so bad that we just decided to cancel it.” Prepchuk said the team was able to recover much of the money already spent on the trip, but that’s little solace for the players. “They’re pretty disappointed,” he said. “It’s just such a great bonding experience for the kids.”

The Royals also missed out on the Buchanan Bowl, the annual grudge match against Carson Graham that was supposed to be played Sept. 6 but was postponed. “(San Diego) and the Buchanan Bowl was a real double whammy,” said Prepchuk. “Every year that’s one of the big highlight games of the year, to play the Buchanan Bowl.The kids talk about it all year long and look forward to the See North page 34

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game all year long. It’s just so disappointing for them to miss that game. Hopefully we’ll be able to still play it.” Handsworth’s heartbreaks are just a small snippet of the missed opportunities piling up throughout the school system as the dispute stretches into the fall sports season. Last week BC School Sports, the organization that oversees interschool competition and provincial championships, released a statement saying it will proceed with the planned fall championship schedule for football, volleyball, boys soccer, ﬁeld hockey, aquatics and cross country for teams and athletes that have received permission from their schools and districts to participate. Here on the North Shore, however, there will not likely be any ofﬁcial high school leagues in action as long as the strike is on, said Gerry Karvelis, coordinator of the North Shore Secondary Schools’ Athletics Association. “The NSSSAA’s leagues

are co-ordinated, chaired, supervised, coached, and governed primarily by teachers,” he told the North Shore News, adding that associations around the Lower Mainland are in similar situations. “Because teachers play such a vital role in the operations of the NSSSAA, it is not possible to run our leagues at this time.” If there is a resolution to the dispute the NSSSAA would hope to get the leagues up and running as quickly as possible to at least get in a compressed schedule before the provincial championships start. “The plan is that we’ll do whatever we can in a short season to complete leagues, prioritizing the seniors ﬁrst since they have deadlines for provincials,” said Karvelis, who is himself on strike as a member of the BCTF. The dispute isn’t only affecting public schools. The halls of St.Thomas Aquinas, an independent Catholic school, are bustling and sports tryouts for the fall season are almost

wrapped up, but the teams are worried they won’t have anybody to play against. “Our boys are kind of chomping at the bit here,” said Loui Salituro, coach of the STA senior boys soccer team that is ready to defend the AA provincial title they won last season. “We have a core of the team back from last year and there’s a lot of motivation to kind of get back at it and have teams gunning for us and trying to defend that title. . . .They’ve been asking me about the season and that kind of thing.There’s a lot of excitement in terms of anticipation — they want to get this ball rolling.” Salituro, who is STA’s athletic director, said the school’s teams will do what they can to get in exhibition games while also battling as usual in the Catholic school provincial championships that are held every year before the BCSS championships.There is also an independent league on the Lower Mainland, but Salituro said they have no intention of joining. “We’re loyal to our North

Shore association so we’re just going to stick it out here and when they get things resolved then we’ll resume from there.” If things drag on through championship season, however, it could be a bit of a lost year even for teams that are on the ﬁeld. “We may qualify (for provincials) with limited competition, which would be kind of sad in a way,” said Salituro. “It’s kind of an odd start to the school year for us here. . . . It’s a lot better when we have all the schools involved. It just makes it much more exciting. It’s kind of dull, in a way.” The season may be dull yet less complicated for independents like STA, Bodwell, Collingwood and Mulgrave, but the situation in the public schools is much

murkier. Some teams are practising with community coaches at the helm while others are shut down completely. North Shore football teams are governed by BC High School Football, not the NSSSAA, and there are games being scheduled for teams that are up and running. On the North Shore Handsworth, Argyle, Sentinel and West Van are running with community coaches while the Windsor and Carson programs are shut down. Prepchuk, who is a BCTF member and has taken his turns on the picket lines, said he’s been around the Handsworth football team at times but non-teachers have taken full control of the coaching. “I’m in full support of the BCTF and where we’re at,”

he said. “I’ve been fortunate enough to have people that can run the program without me being involved. I’m a teacher ﬁrst and it’s important that I support the BCTF.” It’s still tough, however, for all of the coaches who are watching football season begin knowing that they’ll be on the outside looking in until the dispute is over, said Prepchuk. “It’s a disappointing situation for everybody involved,” he said. “It’s so tough. It’s such a big part of our lives.We love it, we have a passion for it. For so many of us it’s just a huge, huge part of our lives coaching football. . . . It’s a 12-month out of the year thing with all our fundraising and dealing with off-season training, all that stuff. It’s just difﬁcult.”

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A40 - North Shore News - Sunday, September 14, 2014

Save BIG on our 2014s before they’re gone for good. Model: Accord Touring CR3F9EKN

Model: Pilot Touring YF4H9EKN

Starting from MSRP $25,685** includes freight and PDI

* UP TO CASH PURCHASE INCENTIVE ON SELECT 2014 MODELS

Starting from MSRP $36,685** includes freight and PDI

$3,000

CASH PURCHASE INCENTIVE ON EVERY 2014 MODEL

5 000

2014 ACCORD

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2014 PILOT

Model: CR-V Touring RM4H9EKNS

Model: Civic Si FB6E5EKV

Starting from MSRP $27,685** includes freight and PDI

Starting from MSRP $19,990** includes freight and PDI

* UP TO CASH C ASH PU PURCHASE INCENTIVE ON SELECT 2014 MODELS

CASH PURCHASE INCENTI CHASE INCENTIVE ON SELECT 2014 MODELS

3 000

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2014 CR-V

2014 CIVIC

0.99% ON EVERY NEW 2014 HONDA. LEASE OR FINANCE

$ 5 , 000 OR

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CASH PURCHASE INCENTIVE ON SELECT 2014 MODELS

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Savings you’ll ﬂip over bchonda.com

Take the Honda test drive. It costs nothing. It proves everything.

816 Automall Drive, North Vancouver 604-984-0331

www.pacifichonda.ca

*$2,000/Up to $3,000/Up to $3,000/$5,000 Honda cash purchase incentive is available select 2014 Civic models (2D LX, 2D EX, 2D EX-L NAVI, 2D Si, 4D LX, 4D EX, 4D Touring and 4D Si), every 2014 CR-V model, select 2014 Accord models (2D EX, 2D EX-L Navi, 4D LX, 4D Sport, 4D EX-L and 4D Touring) and every 2014 Pilot model. Honda cash purchase incentive will be deducted from the negotiated price after taxes and cannot be combined with special lease or finance offers. #Limited time lease offer based on select new 2014 Honda models through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C. Lease example based on a new 2014 Civic 4D DX 5MT model FB2E2EEX and a 48 month lease term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C.: 0.99% lease APR for 48 months O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $99.33. Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $10,330.32. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 96,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometres.†Limited time 0.99% finance offer based on select new 2014 Honda models only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C. Finance example based on a new 2014 Civic 4D DX 5MT model FB2E2EEX and a 48 month finance term available only through Honda Canada Finance Inc. O.A.C.: $17,185 at 0.99% per annum equals $410.46 monthly for 48 months. Freight and PDI of $1,495 included. Cost of borrowing is $393.01, for a total obligation of $19,702.08. Down payment of $0.00, first monthly payment, environmental fees and $0 security deposit due at finance inception. Taxes are extra. Finance on approved credit for qualified customers only.**MSRP is $19,990 / $27,685 / $25,685 / $36,685 based on a new 2014 Civic 4D DX 5MT FB2E4EEX / CR-V LX 2WD RM3H3EES / Accord 4D L4 LX 6MT CR2E3EE / Pilot LX 2WD YF3H2EE including $1,495 / $1,695 / $1,695 / $1,695 freight and PDI. */** Prices and/or payments shown do not include PPSA lien registration and lien registering agent’s fees, which are due at time of delivery. Dealer may sell for less. Dealer trade may be required. For all offers levies (air conditioning tax of $100 and tire/battery tax of $25), license, insurance, applicable taxes and registration are extra. Offers valid from September 3rd through September 30th, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Offers valid only for British Columbia residents at BC Honda Dealers locations. Offers subject to change or cancellation without notice. Terms and conditions apply. Visit www.bchonda.com or see your BC Honda retailer for full details.