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Longboarders dodge police SUV Confrontation caught on video, officer’s actions under review
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TheWestVancouver Police Department is looking into an incident in which one of their officers allegedly
drove into an oncoming traffic lane to stop a group longboarders coming downhill. A group of longboarders captured the incident on Finch Hill Road on
Wednesday afternoon with a helmet-mounted camera. The video has racked up more than 350,000 views since it was posted Sunday night. The video depicts a group of riders heading down the hill, which is illegal in West Vancouver, when a officer in an unmarked police SUV turns his lights on, pulls
into the centre of the road and slams on the brakes. In the video, the riders swerve off the road to avoid the vehicle and tumble into the surrounding bus stop and yards. The video then cuts to the officer and longboarders confronting each other. “You swerved in front of our lane and made all these
guys crash,” one of the riders says. But the officer cuts him off. “‘Our lane?’ It’s illegal to ride a longboard here. I’m sick and tired of dealing with you guys. Do you understand?” he retorts. The two continue to argue before the video ends with the longboarder saying: “You should be doing better
things with your time instead of running kids off the road with your vehicle.” In the video’s description, YouTube user Danny Carlson describes the incident in his own words: “A West Vancouver police officer in an unmarked SUV abruptly swerves in front See Riders page 3
Harbourside gets council approval BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
The largest single commercial/residential development to come before the city in recent years won its approval at City of NorthVancouver council Monday night, years after it was first pitched. Concert Properties’ Harbourside development, which will place roughly 800 strata and rental units and 300,000 square feet of commercial space on the waterfront property along Harbourside Drive at the foot of Fell Avenue over the next 10 to 15 years, passed 5-2 in a late-night session of council. The city previously held a public hearing to rezone the property on April 1 but chose to defer the vote. The motion passed 5-2, with Couns. Pam Bookham and Rod Clark voting against — the same split on council for each step of the project over the last two years. See Private page 5
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Ambleside youth worker axed At-risk teens, concerned parents question abrupt departure
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Some parents and teens inWestVancouver are questioning why a longtime youth outreach worker who developed a good rapport with at-risk boys was let go from the municipality’s Ambleside Youth Centre recently — with only a few days notice. Tennyson Wong worked as part of the youth outreach team at the centre for the past five years. As an outreach worker, Wong said he spent a lot of time establishing rapport with many of the at-risk boys in the community and developed programs like “Gig Nights” to connect with teens. Many meetings with families of troubled boys took place discreetly after hours. Wong said he loved his work and always had outstanding reviews.Wong said he worked on renewable one-year contracts for five years and was led to believe he would be hired when the option of a permanent position came available. Instead, at the end of February,Wong said he was abruptly told his position would be ending in two days because the district had hired another person for the permanent youth worker job. Essentially “they fired me,” he said. “It all happened really quickly.” Besides being angry about losing his job,Wong said he’s also concerned about the at-risk kids he spent so much time developing a bond with. “None of them got any warning their youth worker is gone,” he said.Wong added the outreach team has now been left with only
The City of North Vancouver’s historic Pacific Great Eastern railway building has, ironically, left the station. The city contracted a firm to lift the 1913station from its home at the foot of Lonsdale and move the historic structure to a temporary location on a vacant city-owned lot at 449 Alder St. The foot of Lonsdale is about to be torn up for structural work to the subsurface. The area is pegged to be the site of a new Presentation House Gallery, a public plaza and an upgraded Spirit Trail. Exactly what happens next with the building, which used to be where PGE Railway passengers would purchase tickets and wait for their train, will be up to council. “There will be a couple of options for council,” said Barb Pierce, the city’s director of special projects. “One is to keep it on the site, not in the exact same location because that location is going to be right in the middle of the pathway for the Spirit Trail, . . . or finding another location within the city for it to be used.” Council will begin its debate on the future of the foot of Lonsdale, including the century-old station’s fate, in May, according to Pierce. In the last few years it was used as storage for the North Vancouver Museum of Archives and as a launching point for historical walking tours of the shipyards. It also spent some years in Mahon Park as a satellite location for the museum. A study by Colliers International commissioned by the city suggested the PGE station could be converted into an ice cream shop, a coffee joint or a bicycle rental business as part of a redeveloped waterfront. Any of those options would be fine with the North Shore Heritage Preservation Society, as long as the building comes home to its original (or close to it) location,
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She said parents she knows are all “baffled” by the decision. The mother added she feels youth programs don’t always get the backing they should in a community demographically dominated by an older population. Wong also wonders if the municipality has the same appetite it once did for outreach programs. “I don’t know if they want to take on the responsibility,” he said. Much of the work he did was hidden from the public, he said, and families feel a social stigma that serves to keep their problems private. “There’s a huge perception that people (in West Vancouver) don’t have problems like kids that have oppositional defiant disorder, kids who run away or who go and deal drugs,” he said. But he added that’s not the case. “I’m working within that hidden community,” he said. “What the hell’s going
to happen with these kids now?” Preston Carter, a young adult who was supported by Wong when he was bullied at school, said he’s also been sad to see Wong go. He first met Wong when he was in Grade 10, he said. “Me and him clicked right away.”Wong encouraged him to pursue his musical talents, and helped get him a job, said Carter. “He’s helped my family through situations over the years,” he said — including a period of time when Carter was living in the youth safe house. “Every day he kept me positive,” he said. “He’s the only person I confided in.” Carter added Wong was also the only youth worker he’d met who was a visible minority — making it easier for kids who were minorities themselves to talk to him. “I do miss him,” he said. Jeff McDonald,
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spokesman for the District of West Vancouver, said there was little the municipality would say about the decision not to hire Wong after five years on the job. “That’s not something we’d comment on,” he said. “The only thing I would say is we’re confident the hiring process was fair and reasonable.” McDonald added the district is comfortable with the resources it dedicates to youth programs. McDonald said in 2012, the district spent about $540,000 on youth services and earned about $74,000 in revenue back, for net expenses of roughly $466,000. That figure includes support for youth programs at the Ambleside Youth Centre, Gleneagles Community Centre and the West Vancouver Community Centre as well as the Youth Outreach Program.
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of a group of longboarders to enforce a $35 bylaw violation. Luckily, everyone managed to avoid the reckless manoeuvre, and this footage doesn’t have to be used in court. Skate safe, and avoid the cops!” he wrote. West Vancouver police put out a press release Monday morning acknowledging the incident
and the social media frenzy it has resulted in. Though none of the riders in the video have come forward to complain directly to police, the department has been looking into the incident since before the video was posted, according to Const. Jeff Palmer,WVPD spokesman. “Regardless of that, we would be undertaking a review of (whether) the
actions (were) compliant with policies and procedures,” he said. Officers responded to the area only after someone called in to complain about the longboarders.The riders did get ticketed, Palmer said. “Whatever the result of the reviews is, we’ll be notifying the public,” Palmer added. “It’s an issue of public concern.
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For the two dissenters, the issues were poor access, a loss of land that could be commercial or industrial and the project’s isolation from the rest of the city and its services. The only ways into the area are via Fell Avenue and Bewicke Avenue, which is home to an at-grade rail crossing.TransLink has no plans to run transit to the area and so the developer has promised to run a private shuttle linking the neighbourhood with the SeaBus terminal. “It flies in the face of every planning principle
that has guided where we put density.That is in Lower Lonsdale, Central Lonsdale and along the Marine Drive corridor because of that close connection between where people live and how they move about,” Bookham said, adding that the private shuttle plan is “no solution at all.” “I find it hard to call it a neighbourhood because it is so far removed.There is no connection with other residential parts of the city. There’s no connection to any services.There’s no connection to any commercial area and I doubt very much the kind of commercial that will come
in with the mixed use will be more than a place where you can maybe buy a quart of milk and a newspaper.” However, Coun. Guy Heywood chose to champion the proposal at the late hour.With the project having been before council for both an official community plan ammendment and rezoning, it had, despite its challenges, had more vetting by the city than most projects that come forward, he said. And the commercial space at the site coupled with the housing will make it a community where residents can live and work in the same place, which is the best
council could hope for he added. “It’s never going to be classic industrial. It was never industrial before. It will never qualify as a truck terminal site because it’s not close to a highway,” he said. “There’s no way it’s going to be destination-commercial. It’s going to have to generate its own activity through the efforts of development that will have to promote a livework style of development.” Heywood added he was confident the area will eventually be served by transit. Council must still pass one final reading of the bylaw.
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So why did the B.C. Liberal government set up its recycling stewardship program and Multi Material B.C. outside the jurisdiction of the office of the auditor general and the province’s Financial Administration Act? Back in the ’80s and ’90s, the game of choice for a dishonest federal or provincial government was to set up a governmentfunded program with broad motherhood objectives, then flow massive amounts of taxpayer dollars to one or more key advertising agencies that were supposed to produce the necessary information, marketing materials and ad campaigns. But the real game
was corruption involving misdirection and misuse of taxpayer dollars. In the case of the federal government’s sponsorship program in Quebec, the federal auditor general figured it out with the help of Ernst & Young and a whistleblower. The AG reported on the “appalling and unacceptable” situation, then called in the RCMP. The AG reported in 2004 that as much as $100 million out of $250 million in contracts was awarded to Liberal-friendly ad agencies with little or no work done. There was a lot of fallout. The presidents of the Business Development Bank, Via Rail and Canada Post were all canned. The ensuing Gomery Commission reported that firms were winning contracts based
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been set for next month, May 2014. You think something like this couldn’t happen in British Columbia? Well it already did. In 1983, British Columbia’s auditor general Erma Morrison uncovered inappropriate payments and missing expenditure controls in the Ministry of Tourism in British Columbia. McKim Advertising had been appointed the “agency of record” for the Ministry of Tourism. All ad monies of the ministry were funneled through that agency. Ultimately, Morrison reported in a Special Report to the Legislative Assembly that weaknesses in internal control and poorly documented payments to McKim Advertising were so numerous as to suggest
dishonesty on the part of the ministry. The commercial crime section was called in. Dennis Cocke, MLA for New Westminster, brought the matter to the Legislative Assembly citing secret bank accounts, double billing and a million-dollar cost overrun. The deputy Minister of Tourism took the fall. Once again it was the province’s auditor general who saved the day back in 1984. That’s long enough ago that people don’t remember. But I do, I might have been on the team of external auditors hired by the Ministry of Tourism to assist with the mop up after the auditor general and the commercial crime squad finished their investigations. Now back to my original question: Why did the B.C. Liberal government set
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“We want the transition to the new rules to be as smooth as possible for local elections participants and those considering running for local government, so they understand their campaign finance responsibilities and obligations…” - news release dated Sept. 9, 2013 Last September’s news release by Community, Sport and Cultural Development Minister Coralee Oakes made no mention of the other critical change she had up her sleeve. British Columbians had to wait until Feb. 25 to learn about the province’s plan to move from threeyear to four-year terms for municipal councils and school districts — effective as of this year’s November elections. Remember how Premier Christy Clark said there wouldn’t be a fall sitting of the legislature because government could get more work done out of our sight and behind closed doors? No, she did not put it quite that way but she might well have done so. The opening salvo from IntegrityBC noted that a politically disillusioned public has a right to have their say on such changes. “To have this done in the dark of night with a stroke of the pen stripped them of that right,” said executive director Dermod Travis.” What’s new, Dermod? It’s known as the HST syndrome. Symptoms are obfuscations or outright
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council, or from labour unions that represent City employees.” Will Oakes’ Local Elections Campaign Financing Act (Bill 20) recognize the full intent of that motion — which only passed four to three? Hard to say but I’m not holding my breath.That’s because Suzanne Anton, who sat on Vancouver City council until 2011, now sits as the Liberals’ up-front and seen-everywhere attorney general in Victoria. North Vancouver motions and future provincial plans for campaign limits notwithstanding, developers and Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson are not allowing the green to grow under their feet. As you may already know,
Vancouver developer Bob Rennie — otherwise known as the “condo king” who has been helping Vancouver council out of its Olympic Village embarrassment — recently threw a $25,000 a plate luncheon fundraiser for Vision Vancouver. Yup; this is where taxpayers who barely earn that much in a year get to upchuck their KD-macaroni. In an article he wrote for The Georgia Straight, Vancouver urbanist Ned Jacobs quoted a guideline for community planning: form should not follow finance.Then he went on to warn, “When this axiom is discarded, the result is substandard urban design and loss of livability — frequently with deleterious social and
financial consequences.” Although Jacobs did not appear to be zeroing in on campaign financing per se, a healthy dose of watchful caution would not go amiss. Four-year terms on council Our backs are against the wall on this one. Bearing in mind what you’ve just read, do you believe the motive for four-year terms is to allow “local governments more time to consult, plan and achieve community goals” or to “help manage election costs” as they claim in the Feb. 25 news release? Or do you think there might be a few ulterior motives at play? If we have no option but to put up and shut up this November then I want to see two things: term limits and a massive turnout at the
polling booths. How many terms? No more than two. I used to worry that, if term limits were implemented, we would risk having to throw out the good with the bad. Now, it seems that without those limits, if voters unwittingly land themselves with developer go-alongs or Rob Ford wannabes, they are powerless to take corrective action — not for the three years they have endured to date but for an endless rotation of four. Six months away from the election campaign, it would be worthwhile for us all to do a lot more digging of to bolster our decision-making when time comes to evaluate the candidates on offer. rimco@shaw.ca
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The sun seems to be making its way back into our gardens and the temperatures are warming up. Spring is finally here and that means Easter is just around the corner. It’s always nice to gather the family together at this time of year before everyone makes plans for the summer. If you’re planning to host a dinner party to celebrate Easter, then this simple, elegant table setting may be for you. I decided to go with a cream theme this year and, believe it or not, there are loads of cream tulips everywhere in stores. Look for a 30centimetre tall white chocolate bunny at Purdy’s or your local chocolate supplier. Be aware that the bunny will not be edible after placing it in the water with the tulips.
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content podium and are back to the inconsistent, and aggravating, approach by our TV networks to distribute their shows online. All the major Canadian networks have apps on some or most of the device platforms out there. And most of these apps work for some people some of the time if they have patience and a dash of sadomachism. Don’t expect a Netflix-like experience with any of them. Let’s look at Canada’s four major English-language broadcasters and the apps they provide.
The recent Sochi Winter Olympic Games saw remarkable online availability of event coverage in Canada by the CBC. The Mother Corp. provided not only its live broadcasts online but also raw feeds of multiple events and on demand coverage of taped competitions, all through apps available on just about every computing platform out there: Windows and Mac PCs, Android phones and tablets, iPhones and iPads, and even Windows Phone and Blackberry devices. The apps had flaws, but the CBC’s effort was unprecedented and generated record online viewership. It was a great example of what unfettered online access to network broadcast content can be like. Too bad it lasted only a few weeks. Post-Sochi, Canadian online viewers have been booted off the
CBC: Apps available on: Windows 8, iOS, Android. Video available through: the CBC website. Good:You can watch Heartland on your Surface at Starbucks.The Windows 8 and iOS apps seem to include all CBC TV shows, including The National, with
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back catalogues of previous seasons and cancelled shows.Video quality is good. Bad: The apps are buggy. User reviews on all the platform app stores complain about stoppages in play and ads interrupting shows at the wrong time.The ads are mind numbingly repetitive and loud and can’t be skipped. Users on the iOS App Store are hammering the app for recently breaking Airplay, which allows users to stream video to an Apple TV.The similar Play To feature streaming video from Windows 8 to Xbox has never worked — I’ve tried. Offerings across
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CTV: Apps available on: iOS, Android. Videos available through: the CTV website. Good:You can watch The Big Bang Theory in bed. Live broadcast stream available (but see below). Bad: Episodes are available for only seven days after they air on TV. Only cable subscribers who log in to the app with customer credentials have access to previous episodes. Live streams are similarly restricted to cable customers. Users on app stores complain of crashes and login problems, including apparently locking out non-Bell customers (Bell owns CTV). Features like Airplay on iOS may or may not work, according to
user reviews.The ads are loud, repetitive and dumb and can’t be skipped.
CityTV: Apps available on: iOS, Android. Videos available through: the CityTV website. Good:You can watch The Mindy Project curled up in bed. Live broadcast stream available of morning and evening news shows, such as they are. Bad: Episodes are available for only a limited period of time. Airplay on iOS disabled by app. Users complain about the app on app stores. My test on the Android app with the How I MetYour Mother finale gave me smooth video but the same dumb, loud ads played repeatedly and could not be skipped. It then crashed half way through the episode. Did Ted finally marry Robin? I’ll never know. Barry Link is editor of the Vancouver Courier newspaper and a geek enthusiast. Email him at blink@vancourier.com or follow him on Twitter @trueblinkit.
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European chafer makes its mark Pesky beetle dines on lush local lawns
Every lawn has its day, to borrow a phrase, and the lawns of the North Shore are in for a rude awakening with the arrival of the European chafer. First found in New Westminster in 2001 and later in Vancouver, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Richmond and Delta, the European chafer is becoming a strong pest of lawns. In eastern North America, Chafer larvae are serious pests that feed on corn, potatoes, strawberries, conifers and nursery plants, as well as lawn, but here on the West Coast, the chafer has found that dinner is served on the thousands of hectares of lush green lawns across the Lower Mainland.The reports of chafer damage near 13th and Keith are only the start. All insects move and they move to where food is plentiful and there are plenty of lawns around. Before we panic, a few facts to consider. Firstly, insects respond to the environment and eat what is easily digestible according to their life cycle. Secondly all infestations are cyclical, meaning there will be high and lows of infestation according to breeding rates and food availability and not all
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lawns will be eaten.Thirdly, chafers cannot be effectively controlled with insecticides. The European chafer (Rhizotrogus majalis) is a small tan or pale brown beetle no longer than a Canadian dime. Chafer beetles fly to find mating partners in late May or early June and each mated female lays 30-50 eggs in lawn grass. The eggs hatch in July and dig into the lawn to feed on roots, causing brown and dead patches. The cool moist conditions of fall enable chafer grubs to feed and our mild coastal winters allow feeding in the lawn until spring when the grubs pupate into the adult beetle that flies off to mate.The few mild freezes we get here are not severe enough to kill many of the grubs, which burrow deeper into the turf during freezing temperatures but return to the surface to feed when the weather warms. Control of the European chafer in lawns on the West
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they only work if they are co-ordinated with the insect’s life cycle. And the most effective control for chafers is not an option that many people will consider.The most widely recommended control for chafers is to maintain a healthy lawn, which is a broad interpretation to say
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Notice of Road Closure and Property Disposition 1300 Block West 1st Street
What:
Public input opportunity on the closure of a 270 m2 portion of road allowance in the 1300 block of West 1st Street.
When:
7 pm, Monday, April 28, 2014
Where:
Council Chambers, North Vancouver District Hall, 355 W. Queens Road
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Bylaw 8059 proposes to close two unused portions of road allowance. If the bylaw is adopted, the District intends to dispose of the land to Metro Vancouver for consolidation with their adjacent lots. In exchange the District will receive $137,750 and acquire a 14 m2 parcel of land that is necessary for the Philip Avenue Overpass Project.
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If you are affected by this proposed closure, please join us Monday, April 28, 2014 at 7 pm.
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Longer grass blades restrict access to the lawn’s surface, preventing the beetle from laying eggs. Longer grass also prevents weed growth. Lawn grass should be grown six to eight centimetres or two-and-a-half to three
inches long to help prevent chafer egg laying. Restricting the use of chemical fertilizer (which makes plant tissue grow soft and predisposed to pest and disease attack) will also help lessen infestation. Proper core-aeration, followed immediately by
topdressing, combined with dethatching can also improve lawn health but too much of a good thing can also damage a healthy lawn. The favoured, but perhaps not the best method, for chafer control is application of parasitic nematodes.The problem with this method is timing. The nematodes will only kill the grubs during a short window of opportunity in
late July and early August. In addition, factors such as elevation, soil temperature, rainfall and soil type can impact the efficacy of the nematodes. When applying nematodes, the lawn must be watered before application and watered lightly for two or three days after application to allow the nematodes to swim into the soil to find the chafer grubs.
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Applying the nematodes on a cloudy day or in the evening helps because UV light can kill or injure the nematodes. Ultimately, there is only one control for the chafer grub that will prevent future infestations — replacement of the lawn with some other landscape feature that chafer grubs do not like to eat. Much depends on the location
of infestation, but mixed shrub and perennial beds or groundcover plantings are good alternatives for many locations. If you must have a lawn, then artificial turf may be the only option for some locations. Todd Major is a journeyman horticulturist, garden designer and builder, teacher and organic advocate. stmajor@shaw.ca
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Notice of Road Closure and Property Disposition 1200 Block Marine Drive
What:
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When:
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Where:
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Bylaw 8056 proposes to close a surplus portion of road allowance. If the bylaw is adopted, the District intends to dispose of the land to First Capital (Pemberton Plaza) Corporation for consolidation with their adjacent lots. In exchange the District will receive the appraised value of $465,000.
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If you are affected by this proposed closure, please join us Monday, April 28, 2014 at 7 pm.
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Due to a production error, the contest piece for The Great Easter Egg Hunt was missed in our Sunday, April 13th issue. The North Shore News sincerely apologies to our readers and regrets any inconvenience this may have caused. Contest entries will not require the name of an advertiser for April 13. Please note this correction notice is not the contest piece for the Wednesday, April 16th issue. Happy Hunting!
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The day I became a Grandma is one that I will never forget. We got the word from our son-in-law when he phoned and said, “Hi Grandma.” Our daughter Chelsea had delivered twins, and so a little boy and a little girl entered our lives. We met the children at the hospital. I walked into the room and was still just Mom. My eyes went directly to my daughter.Was she OK? She was glowing. Then I walked over to the bassinette that contained two swaddled bundles. I looked down in awe and my daughter said, “It’s OK Mom, you can pick her up.” And I did and that is the moment I truly became Grandma. And then, 16 days later, our daughter-in-law delivered a little boy to complete what we were calling the “grandparent hat trick.” The babies are now almost two years old and it has been a time of magic and of learning. No matter how many people tell you how magical it is to become a grandparent and how very different it is from being a parent, it’s one of those “you have to experience it” realities. The biggest difference is
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START WITH ART An annual exhibition of art for children by established Vancouver artists until April 27 at Seymour Art Gallery, 4360 Gallant Ave., North Vancouver.The art can only be bought by those under 16 and is priced very moderately. 604-924-1378 seymourartgallery.com RED CEDAR BOOK CLUB Children in grades four to seven are invited to join twice a month to discuss the nominated fiction and non-fiction titles and then vote for their favourite in the spring Thursdays until May 1, 3:45-4:30 p.m. at Parkgate library, 3675 Banff Court, North Vancouver. Registration required. 604-929-3727 x8166 nvdpl.ca/children RED CEDAR BOOK CLUB Children in grades four to seven are invited to join twice a month to discuss the nominated fiction and non-fiction titles and then vote for their favourite in the spring Thursdays, until May 1, 3:454:30 p.m. at Capilano library, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver. 604-987-4471 nvdpl.ca/children KILBY MEMORIAL TEEN PHOTO CONTEST North Shore teens in Grades 6 and up are invited to email a single photo in which they have captured this year’s theme, “Elemental: Fire,Water, Air, Earth” until May 9. Prizes will be awarded. 604-998-3450 nvcl.ca/using-the-library/teen
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Keep track of kids’ schedules From page 27 that isn’t the role I want to play. Fortunately both families shared that feeling. But we are thrilled to look after the kids when their parents want a date night. When the kids were newborns, we not only showed up to help with the babies, we brought food for the freezer and I am assured that this was extremely helpful. The trick is to make concrete offers: “Would you
Kids Stuff From page 28 2-3 and 3:15-4:15 p.m. and April 18, 12:30-1:30, 2-3 and 3:30-4:30 p.m. shoplynnvalley.com EASTER PUPPET SHOW Ages three-five are invited to hop on over to the library for an eggciting puppet show featuring the Easter Bunny Thursday,
like to go out for dinner this coming Saturday because we are free and would love to look after the babies?” Be honest with your kids. If they know that you will say no to a request if it just doesn’t fit your schedule, they are more likely to ask. When you are with the grandchildren, make sure you are up to date on their schedules. Last time you were with the kids they needed to be fed, but this time they are ready to feed themselves. Nothing changes faster than babies
April 17, 10:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. at West Vancouver Memorial Library, 1950 Marine Dr. Registration required. westvanlibrary.ca TEEN ADVISORY GROUP Grades 8-12 interested in getting involved with the library, looking for volunteer hours and wanting to help plan events for teens are invited to a meeting Thursday, April 17, 5:306:30 p.m. at Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. 604-
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984-0286 x8141 TAG@ nvdpl.ca EASTER EGG EVENT The North Shore Hospice will host this annual event Saturday, April 19, 1 p.m. 319 East 14th St., North Vancouver. Activities include Easter basket decorating, Easter egg hunt, refreshments, live music from the Celtic Ensemble. Space is limited. $5. 604984-3743 See more page 31
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Kids Stuff From page 30 EASTER EGG HUNT The North Vancouver Lions Club will host this annual event Saturday, April 19, 10:30 a.m. sharp (while supplies last) at Heywood Park, North Vancouver.This fun-filled morning will also include a bouncy castle, juggler, balloon lady, crafts and face painting. Free.
FANCIFUL FLOWERS Learn how to create a beautiful paper flower bouquet for yourself or a loved one on Saturday, April 19, 10-11 a.m., Lynn Valley library, 1277 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver. Registration required. 604984-0286 EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA Maplewood Farm will host an Easter fun day Sunday,
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April 20, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at 405 Seymour River Pl., North Vancouver.The event will include face painting, arts and crafts, pony rides and an egg hunt. $8.70/$5.70. 604-985-3276 maplewoodfarm.bc.ca EASTER EGG HUNT Lonsdale Quay Market will hide hundreds of eggs in the market Sunday, April 20, 10 a.m. sharp (while supplies last) at 123 Carrie Cates Ct., North Vancouver. Other activities include face painting, balloon art, an Easter craft and a special visit from the Easter Bunny.
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ROMANCING THE STOVE Angela Shellard presents recipes for both sweet and savoury scones. page 34
What would Scooby Do? The question, emblazoned on a sticker posted near the bar of Raglan’s Bistro, proved surprisingly useful as I surveyed the enormous burger presented to me on a recent Friday evening visit. The burger, called The Republican, towered unapologetically some six inches above the plate, its various stuffings and garnishes precariously held in place by a bamboo skewer driven through its centre. The Republican is a triumph of a dish, a defiant challenger of big appetites and a monumental achievement in applied indulgence. A thick beef patty provides the foundation for a layer of blue brie cheese, wedges of coarsely chopped sautéed mushrooms, lettuce, tomato, pickle and approximately two inches of stacked, crispy onion rings.The onion rings are ingeniously realized here: they are sliced into exceptionally thin ribbons, dredged in flour and deep fried until they are crispy, golden and light as air. I imagine their success lies in the thinness of the rings; thicker onion rings tend to absorb oil and can be heavy and greasy, whereas Raglan’s rings remain delicate, the onion equivalent of matchstick potatoes.
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Savoury or sweet, scones are a treat and bake as the recipe directs (they will need additional baking time if frozen). Orange Glazed Strawberry Scones
Angela Shellard
Romancing the Stove Whether you pronounce it “scawn” or “scohne” these easy-to-make baked treats are a family favourite. Savoury scones are a nice addition to a simple soup and salad supper, and sweet ones are the perfect accompaniment to a hot cup of tea. The basic technique for making scones doesn’t vary much from recipe to recipe, but here are a couple of tips: make sure the butter and cream in the recipe are ice cold, and use a light touch when handling the dough. You don’t want the butter to melt from contact with warm hands. If the dough looks too dry after you’ve mixed it, add a tiny bit more cream until it just comes together. The dough should look “shaggy.” You can freeze unbaked scones to bake later by placing the uncooked wedges on a baking sheet and freezing them. Then store them in plastic food bags in the freezer. When you want to bake them, place the frozen scones on a parchmentlined baking sheet, brush with cream or an egg wash
2 cups all-purpose flour ½ cup granulated sugar 1 Tbsp baking powder ½ tsp kosher salt 1 Tbsp finely grated orange zest ½ cup cold butter, cut into small pieces 1 large egg, lightly beaten ½ cup whipping cream 1 cup diced fresh strawberries 1 egg beaten with 2 Tbsp milk (for glazing tops of scones) ½ cup icing sugar 4 tsp freshly squeezed orange juice Preheat oven to 400° F. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, granulated sugar, baking powder, salt and orange zest. Cut the cold butter into the flour mixture with a pastry blender until butter is the size of small peas. In a measuring cup, stir together the egg and whipping cream slowly pour the egg-cream into the flour mixture, and stirring until just combined. Add the strawberries and gently stir until they’re evenly mixed in. Turn the dough onto a floured surface and knead it gently into a ball, then pat it out into a circle three-quarters of an inch thick. Cut into eight wedges and place them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush the tops of the scones with the egg-
milk wash, and bake for 20 to 25 minutes until tops are golden and scones are firm to the touch. Transfer to a wire rack to cool for 10 minutes. Whisk the icing sugar and orange juice together and drizzle over the warm scones. Makes eight scones. Bacon Cheddar & Chive Scones 2 cups all-purpose flour ½ tsp salt 1 Tbsp baking powder 1 tsp sugar ¼ cup cold butter, cut into small pieces 1 cup coarsely grated sharp cheddar cheese 1 ⁄3 cup snipped fresh chives or finely diced green onions (green part only) 1 cup crumbled crispcooked bacon ¾ cup plus 2 Tbsp whipping cream, plus a bit more for brushing tops of scones Preheat oven to 425° F. Whisk together the flour, salt, baking powder and sugar. Cut the butter into the flour mixture with a pastry blender until pieces are the size of small peas. Mix in the cheese, chives and bacon until evenly distributed. Add three-quarters of a cup of whipping cream and mix to combine. If the dough doesn’t come together, slowly add more of the remaining cream until it does. Transfer the dough to a floured surface, form it into a ball, then flatten it out with your hands into a circle three-quarters of an inch thick. Cut into eight wedges, transfer them to a
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½ cup golden raisins (optional) 3 Tbsp light cream (plus extra if needed) 1 large egg Icing: 1 cup icing sugar 2 Tbsp milk ¼ tsp vanilla Heat oven to 425° F. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and spices. Cut in the butter with a pastry blender until pieces are the size of small peas; stir in raisins. In a measuring cup, whisk together the pumpkin, cream and egg. Stir the mixture into the dry ingredients until just combined, adding additional drizzles of cream if necessary to make
dough come together. Turn dough onto a floured surface and knead gently to form into a ball. Flatten the dough into a circle about one-inch thick and cut into eight wedges. Place the wedges on a parchment-lined baking sheet and brush with a little additional cream. Bake until golden brown, about 15 to 20 minutes. Remove to a wire rack and let cool for 10 minutes. Mix together icing ingredients until smooth and drizzle over warm scones. Makes eight scones. Angela Shellard is a selfdescribed foodie. She has done informal catering for various functions. Contact: ashellard@hotmail.ca.
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destinations when we clearly have the ability to execute them so well right here. Despite its prowess as a casual dinner venue, Raglan’s has also earned a loyal following for its brunch service, perhaps the ideal antidote to tropical indulgences absorbed the evening before.The room is different in the daytime, revealing some battle scars in the form of the well-worn path from the dining room to the kitchen and some knicks and scrapes on the
furniture, but it is every bit as welcoming and relaxed, and features a moderately quieter soundtrack. So, barely 12 hours after finishing my dinner there, I returned to try one of the restaurant’s signature brunch items, a pulled pork hash, recommended to me without hesitation by my server who championed it as the star of the menu. It was indeed an enjoyable dish with heaps of skin-on fried potatoes, red peppers, sliced onion, easily four ounces of tender pulled pork slathered in a thankfully not-too-smoky barbecue
sauce, and two perfectly poached eggs. I chose the Veg Head Caesar (a cocktail, not a salad) to accompany my brunch. In keeping with Raglan’s commitment to large potions, the Caesar was piled high with spicy beans, pickled asparagus, celery and lime. Raglan’s is located at 15 Lonsdale Ave. in North Vancouver. raglans.ca Chris Dagenais served as a manager for several restaurants downtown and on the North Shore. Contact: hungryontheshore@gmail.com.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - North Shore News - A35
DNV honours residents The District of North Vancouver has recognized four residents for making significant contributions to the community. Mary-Sue Atkinson, Janice Harris, ZoAnn Morten and Peter Thompson all received an Award of Honour at the district’s April 7 council meeting.The award is presented to individuals or organizations that have made an “outstanding contribution to the community,” according to a press release.That may include achievements in sports, science and culture, either within the district,
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Thirteen local police officers from North Vancouver and West Vancouver were recently recognized as members of Alexa’s Team, a designation that acknowledges officers in B.C. for keeping drunk drivers off the road. The program honours the memory of Alexa Middelaer, a four-yearold girl who was struck and killed by an impaired driver in 2008. She was at the roadside in Delta with her aunt feeding a horse at the time of the accident. This year, nine North Vancouver RCMP officers were recognized, including Cpl. Mike Arbulic and Consts. Marc Belliveau, Tom Cichon, Jas Dosanjh, Brett Hakonson, Lorianne New, Rob Pearson, Paula Penney and Evo Sokerov. For the second year in a row, Dosanjh was also given special recognition as the “Top Cop” of the year for apprehending more than 104 impaired
drivers in 2013. The award goes to the officer with the province’s highest impaired driving enforcement productivity. Alexa’s Team members from the West Vancouver Police Department include Consts. David Noon, Brock Harrington, Arman Sardari and Chris Colgan. West Vancouver police officers took a total of 295 drivers off the road in 2013. To be eligible for Alexa’s Team, officers must have taken at least 12 impaired drivers off the road during the previous calendar year through a criminal charge investigation or a 90day immediate roadside prohibition. The 313 RCMP and municipal police officers in B.C. who form Alexa’s Team 2013 were honoured by ICBC, the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the Middelaer family at four separate events last week held in Surrey, Victoria, Kelowna and Prince George.
She served as mayor from 2004 to 2005, and returned to the role of councillor following the 2005 municipal election before retiring in 2008. Morten has been involved in a number of volunteer organizations for decades. Her current volunteer efforts include work with the Morten Creek Salmon Enhancement Project, North Shore Streamkeepers, North Shore Emergency Management Office, Hillside Church, Salmon Advisory Board and, until recently, the North Shore Osteoporosis Club. Thompson, a retired
professional engineer, serves on the executive committee of the Edgemont and Upper Capilano Community Association, and also represents his community on the Edgemont Planning Working Group. He is currently a member of the Community Advisory Committee for the Lions Gate Secondary Wastewater Treatment Plant. The Award of Honour is one of the highest awards the district can present to an individual for community service. It has only been presented on nine other occasions. — Christine Lyon
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Holy Week & Easter at the North Van Anglican Churches
BAKEYOUR OWN COMMUNION BREAD The Holy Eucharist is at the heart of Christian mass. The sharing of the Eucharist is reminiscent of the words and actions of Jesus Christ during the Last Supper on the eve of his crucifixion. Christ instructed his disciples to break bread and enjoy wine, which would represent his own body and blood, shed for all so sins would be forgiven. Centuries later, Christians still gather to share in the miracle and ultimate sacrifice that is the taking of bread and wine. Communion bread varies depending on the parish and the sect of Christianity. In many cases, the Eucharist is unleavened bread, similar to a cracker or a matzo. Although, leavened bread has been known to be used at certain services. Communion recipients may be given individual wafers of bread or be asked to break slivers from a communal piece. Wine can be poured into individual cups, but is most often sipped from a group chalice. Roman Catholics do not believe that the bread and wine offered at mass is symbolic of Jesus Christ. They firmly believe that it turns into His very own body and blood during the transubstantiation. Churches receive the Eucharistic bread and wine from church-approved sources to be used in their masses. However, celebrants who would like to create their own variations of unblessed Communion bread at home can explore a variety of recipes. The following is a simple bread recipe, which can also be used for Communion parties, Easter and other religious celebrations. Communion Bread 11/2 cups flour 1/2 cup whole wheat flour 3/4 tablespoons baking soda 3 tablespoons shortening 3 tablespoons honey 3/4 cup water Mix dry ingredients. Cut in shortening. Add honey, then water. Mix by hand. Knead for a bit. Divide and roll into 4 balls and flatten. Cut a shallow cross through the top. Bake for 10 minutes at 350 degrees F on a cookie sheet. Allow to cool and enjoy.
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Mount Olivet Lutheran Church
1700 Mountain Highway, North Vancouver, V7J 3S2
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1058 Ridgewood Dr., North Vancouver, V7R 1H8 Wed
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Gloria Dei Lutheran Church
1110 Gladwin Drive, North Vancouver, V7R 1A2 (604) 988-5838
Wednesday of Holy Week: the sanctuary will be open from 7:00 to 9:00pm for those who wish time for contemplation or meditation. There will be music playing. April 17th - Maundy Thursday - Starts with soup and bread followed by foot washing, communion and stripping of the altar. April 18th – Good Friday Service will be held at Gloria Dei at 10:00am and St. Catherine’s at 7:30pm. Our joint choirs will sing at the evening service. April 19th – Easter Vigil starts at 9:00pm. A reception will follow the service. April 20th – Easter Sunday – 10:00am
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Soccer stars on display for Mountain United ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com
NORTH SHORE SCORES Soccer Senior girls AAA April 14 Sentinel - 6 Handsworth - 1 Argyle - 2 WestVan - 3 Senior girls AA April 14 Seycove - 5 Carson Graham - 0 Rockridge - 1 (OT) Howe Sound - 2 STA - 0 Sutherland - 1 (OT)
The fact that North Shore/Burnaby-based Mountain United Football Club has trouble fielding a full team in one of their age groups is actually a testament to how strong the soccer program has become in its short three years of existence. Mountain United began play in 2011 as one of the eight founding members of the EA Sports B.C. Soccer Premier League, a circuit created to bring all of the province’s best youth players together in a kind of showcase super league. The problem arose for Mountain’s “96” girls team, a squad made up of players born in 1996 or later, after the team put together a run of exceptional victories. As it turns out, there were so many stars on the team — they won the U-16 division in the inaugural BCSPL season and went on to play in the national championships — that more than half of the players were scooped up by the Whitecaps Elite Girls program, basically the only level of club soccer that is higher than the BCSPL in the province. “We don’t actually have a full 1996 girls team any longer because 10 of them last year were promoted into the Whitecaps elite program,” said club technical director Frank Ciaccia. “I doubt if we’ll ever see 10 girls selected from one group to go into a program like that again.” Pushing players to the brink of the professional game is one positive outcome of the new league, but that wasn’t the main goal when some of the provincial leaders in the sport got together to get the Premier League rolling. “It was intended to compress the more advanced and high-level
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the sport. “Any time you introduce what some people would call ‘elite’ programming, unfortunately that term sometimes takes on negative connotations,” Ciaccia said. “I think what we’ve had to do here is be quite (unapologetic) of the fact that we are paying attention to the advanced soccer player. Frankly, from a personal perspective, I feel that we’ve neglected or even ignored that player. We’ve done a really good
job of running soccer in this province — don’t get me wrong — and we’ve produced some great soccer players, but in comparison to years gone by, British Columbia has not been producing the same numbers of advanced players that we have in the past. At the same time, we just felt there was more to offer.” Part of the concern around the start of the elite league was simply fear of change in a soccer system
that had been entrenched for decades. “Any time you move the goalposts as significantly as we have, it’s going to get people’s attention,” said Ciaccia. “Generally speaking, humans are somewhat reticent to change and there has been some resistance. There have been some people who cast a bit of a jaundiced eye until they see the proof in the pudding. See Elite page 42
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That’s all understandable. When you make changes as dramatic as we have here and introduce essentially a new league and a whole new level, I think you should expect growing pains, I think you should expect some resistance even. But three years in now, what I think we’re seeing is a lot more cooperation.” Mountain United, in fact, has great relationships with the local soccer associations it deals with on a regular basis, including North Van FC, North Shore Girls Soccer Club, West Vancouver Soccer Club, and similar associations in Burnaby, said Ciaccia. Those relationships have helped the club thrive. “I can’t say enough about the support we’ve been receiving from the partner clubs. In essence they’re the ones that will populate and create the teams that we are fielding. I’m completely dependent on their programming so I have a vested interest in what they’re doing and how they’re doing it.” It seems to be working well. The league’s clubs typically throw a big festival each time they host games with boys and girls teams from the U-13 to U-18 level playing games all day on the same field. Mountain splits its home games between Burnaby
Lake Sports Complex and West Vancouver’s Ambleside Park. The setup is a lot of fun for the kids while also providing other practical benefits, said Ciaccia. “It provides an exceptional opportunity for university and college scouts to be out on weekends and watch the best players in the province at a singular venue instead of having to travel around to numerous parks over a given weekend,” he said, adding that the club just hosted a very successful weekend of games against one of its biggest rivals, Surrey United. “The sidelines were full of B.C. Soccer staff scouting for the provincial program and university and college head coaches scouting for potential recruits. That’s really what the league is all about: to turn every weekend into an event. It’s providing wonderful exposure for these kids.” The system also provides elite players with high-level coaches and extra practice time that they wouldn’t be able to access in other programs. The teams train three times a week and get extra benefits like strength training, physio, and focused positional instruction. The tradeoff for the players is that they’re expected to commit fully to the program. “We’ve got both feet on the ground here, we
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—if you’re going to be signing up for three or four times a week, there’s an expectation that you will attend for the majority of that.” It’s still early days for the club and the league but Ciaccia and the rest of the Mountain United staff are quite encouraged by several success stories. Two
of those ‘96ers,’ including North Vancouver’s Rachel Jones, played for Team Canada at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup held March 15-April 4 in Costa Rica. Several other players have found their way onto Whitecaps teams as well. The main goal, however, is something that is within reach for every player who
suits up for the team, said Ciaccia. “For the overwhelming majority of the kids, what we’re seeking for them is to stay in soccer for life,” he said. “We want to set the table for the kids to enjoy the game so much that they will be adult athletes. See Most page 43
Relay For Life is about friends, family and community. Please join this year’s event and make it a success! Learn how you can get involved April 29, 2014, 7pm – 10pm Black Bear Pub, 1177 Lynn Valley Rd., North Vancouver Please RSVP to bsherwood@bc.cancer.ca or visit relayforlife.ca. Relay For Life brings family and friends together to celebrate survivors, remember and honour loved ones, and fight back against cancer. North Shore Relay For Life 2014 June 7th 10am-10pm • Mahon Park, North Vancouver
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Most players get scholarship offers From page 42 In the more immediate term, though, the majority of these kids are wanting to move onto some postsecondary environment where they can carry on with their soccer. We’ve had tremendous success in that regard, with essentially every graduating player out of our program the last couple of years having received interest or scholarship dollars from a university or college. It appears we’re going to be around the 100 per cent mark again this year.” ••• Ambleside Park will play host to four of Mountain United’s teams this weekend with the younger squads in town to host Vancouver/Richmondbased Fusion FC. The U-13 and U-14 boys teams will both be on the field Saturday at 12:15 p.m. while the U-13 girls will play Sunday at 10:15 a.m. followed by the U-14s at noon. The club’s older teams will be participating in the Whitecaps FC Showcase, a tournament being held Friday through Sunday at Surrey’s Newton Athletic Park. The showcase will
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2014 GMC SIERRA 4X4 DOUBLE CAB
2014 CHEVY SILVERADO LT 4X4 CREW CAB
4.3 LITRE V6 ENGINE, 6 SPEED AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION, POWER WINDOWS, POWER LOCKS, TILT WHEEL, AIR CONDITION, TRAILERING PACKAGE, LOCKING REAR DIFFERENTIAL, BLUETOOTH & MUCH MORE.
5.3 LITRE V6 ENGINE, HEATED LEATHER SEATS, AIR CONDITION, POWER DRIVER SEAT, REAR VISION CAMERA, H.D. TRAILERING PACKAGE, 18” ALUMINIUM WHEELS, MYLINK 8” AUDIO SYSTEM, REAR SLIDING WINDOW, LOCKING REAR DIFFERENTIAL, BLUETOOTH, 6.6 FOOT BOX & MUCH MORE.
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37,900 $ 6,905
$
2,000
$
carter
28,995
$
NORTHSHORE PRICE
coMPlete care
James Carter
Sunil Desai
2
Chris Cummings
YEARS/40,000 KM COMPLIMENTARY OIL CHANGES
Darcy Strachan
*All payments & prices net of all rebates plus taxes & documentation fee of $598. Loyalty bonus of $1500 on discounted GM models. Loyalty bonus of $750 for current car owners. Pick up owners $2000 loyalty on cash purchase and $1000 loyalty on finance or lease. Vehicles not exactly as shown.
chevrolet • Buick • GMc • cadillac
Kerry Renaud
5
Denzil Owen
49,110
$
9,310
$
2,000
$
carter
NORTHSHORE PRICE
5
YEARS/160,000 KM POWERTRAIN WARRANTY
Louie Liu
John Proctor
37,800
$
YEARS/160,000 KM ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE
Derrick Bergman
Nino Decottis
604-987-5231
Northshore Auto Mall, 800 Automall Dr. North Van www.carternorthshore.com
DL# 10743
Prakash Panchal
A48 - North Shore News - Wednesday, April 16, 2014
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†The Civic, Fit and Accord were the #1 selling retail compact, subcompact and intermediate cars respectively in BC in 2013 based on Polk 2013 Dec YTD report. ‡In order to achieve $0 down payment, dealer will cover the cost of tire/battery tax, air conditioning tax (where applicable), environmental fees and levies on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only on behalf of the customer. #Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX. *1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $84.63 based on applying $600.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $11,001.90. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. £Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX. €0.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $67.49 based on applying $1,100.00 lease dollars and $4 dealer contribution (which are deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes); and $1,000.00 consumer incentive dollars (which are deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes) Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $8,773.70. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. Ω Limited time bi-weekly lease offer based on a new 2014 Accord model CR2E3EE. ¥1.99% lease APR on a 60 month term with 130 bi-weekly payments O.A.C. Bi-weekly payment, including freight and PDI, is $123.56 based on applying $1,050.00 lease dollars (which is deducted from the negotiated selling price before taxes). Down payment of $0.00, first bi-weekly payment and $0 security deposit due at lease inception. Total lease obligation is $16,062.80. Taxes, license, insurance and registration are extra. 120,000 kilometre allowance; charge of $0.12/km for excess kilometers. **MSRP is $17,185 / $16,130 / $25,685 including freight and PDI of $1,495 / $1,495 / $1,695 based on a new 2014 Civic DX model FB2E2EEX / 2014 Fit DX model GE8G2EEX / 2014 Accord LX model CR2E3EE. License, insurance, registration and taxes are extra and may be required at the time of purchase. ¥/£/€/Ω/#/* Prices and/or payments shown do not include a PPSA lien registration fee of $30.31 and lien registering agent's fee of $5.25, which are both due at time of delivery and covered by the dealer on behalf of the customer on the 2014 CR-V LX, Accord LX, Civic DX and Fit DX only. ‡/#/*/Ω/€/¥/£/** Offers valid from April 1st through 30th, 2014 at participating Honda retailers. Dealer may sell/lease for less. Dealer trade may be necessary on certain vehicles. 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 Honda retailer for full details.