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ormer pubic safety minister and ex-West Vancouver police chief Kash Heed went over the election spending limit in his 2009 campaign in Vancouver-Fraserview, according to court documents produced Tuesday by the NDP opposition. After an Elections BC audit discovered expenses over the limit by $4,135.70, acting Chief Electoral Officer Craig James made several demands for updated financial information on the campaign, the documents show. In a letter to Heed Dec. 2, James granted a final extension and warned Heed his next step is to recommend the seat be vacated if he doesn’t comply, or get court permission not to. A special prosecutor is still reviewing the case, after charges of Election Act violations were laid against two of Heed’s campaign officials related to unauthorized campaign pamphlets distributed to voters in VancouverFraserview. On Christmas Eve, Heed’s lawyer applied to the B.C. Supreme Court asking for relief from a demand he file updated financial information. In an affidavit, Heed says he depended on his official agent Barinder Singh Sall and financial agent Satpal Johl to handle campaign funds and comply with the rules. Sall, Johl and Dinesh Khanna, whose print shop produced the anonymous brochures, were charged in May 2010 with violating the Election Act. Sall and Khanna also face Criminal Code charges for obstruction of justice and creating a false document, while Johl is charged with a single count of making a false election finance report. Interim NDP leader Dawn Black released the documents at the legislature Tuesday. She called on Heed and the B.C. Liberal Party to follow the same election rules, and file the new information demanded by Elections BC. Heed should “show some respect for the people of his community” and either comply with the rules or resign his seat, Black said. Heed has not commented publicly since RCMP search warrant applications were made public this month, alleging that Heed didn’t tell investigators the whole story when he was interviewed about the campaign brochures and how they were paid for. The documents do not indicate if the excess expenses are related to the brochures, or some other expenditure of the campaign. newsroom@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/northshoreoutlook

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DWV warns Rogers it needs more info on its tower Coun. Evison questions current proposed location of tower. REBECCA ALDOUS S TA F F R E P O RT E R

ogers Inc.’s proposed Taylor Way communication tower may not be on district land, but West Vancouver isn’t letting it go ahead without a fight. In December, the municipality learned the company applied to the Ministry of Transportation to place a 29.5-metre tower in the grassy median between Highway 1 and its westbound off ramp — a plot outside the municipality’s jurisdiction. At Monday night’s council meeting, councillors voted to advise Rogers that it expects the company to hold a public information session and complete a visual impact analysis on the project. “We feel we need to have greater knowledge of what is going on,” said Geri Boyle, district manager of community planning. With the details provided, Boyle said staff feel

the structure will change the scenic quality of West Vancouver. More analysis will help the district understand how the tower will effect the neighbourhood, she said. Coun. Michael Evison asked whether the structure could be placed at a different site. “Of all the offending sites [Rogers] couldn’t have done a better job,” he said. “It is unreal.” Gary Reeve, west region network implementation director for Rogers, replied communication towers must be clear of obstructions in order to work. The planned installation of a Rogers tower close to “Cellular is a line of site technology,” West Vancouver lands has raised the ire of district Reeve said. staff who say they deserve more info on such plans. But, he added, Rogers is committed to Greg Hoekstra photo working with the district’s recommendations and the community. On Feb. 7, district staff will update its own polAlthough there is little the district can do icy on communication towers. about the project’s location, West Van Mayor raldous@northshoreoutlook.com Pamela Goldsmith-Jones said the district’s role is twitter.com/rebeccaaldous with regard to public consultation and notification.

West Vancouver close to claiming the lowest tax increase in Lower Mainland Some councillors say more needs to be done. REBECCA ALDOUS S TA F F R E P O RT E R

fter much ado, West Vancouver council is set to adopt one of the lowest tax rate increases in the Lower Mainland. Over the last two months, the district whittled its 2011 budget’s tax rate increase down from 2.35 per cent to 1.1 per cent, a figure below the district’s chief administrative officer Grant MacRadu’s recommendation of 1.5 per cent. The slight hike represents an approximate $33 jump in taxes for residents. The original 2.35 per cent hike was requested to cover a projected $1.2-million shortfall, despite last Michael Evison year’s approximate $500,000 surplus. Labour and wages make up 80 per cent of the budget’s increase and were the target of much discussion. At the Jan. 10 council meeting, council directed staff to prepare a report on what operating costs could be cut to meet a zero per cent tax rate increase. On Monday, Coun. Michael Lewis asked MacRadu to clarify what came of the request. MacRadu stated the conversation was in-camera

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because it dealt with labour details. To that, Lewis replied that since 2008, West Van has sought ways to cut operating costs and hadn’t made enough progress. “We are not there,” Lewis stated. Coun. Michael Evison said council should look at the significant strides the current administration has made. With the municipality having faced fixed payroll increases of more than four per cent over the last three years, the district’s tax rate increases have hovered around 1.5 per cent. Deducting those figures, West Van pulled back somewhere between $5 to $6 million during that time period, he said. “I don’t think the right approach to achieve a zero, again for the sake of it, is to cut some of these people down at the knees,” Evison said. “You don’t do that and then turn around the following day and expect them to provide extraordinary services.” Coun. Shannon Walker said the district needs to look inward. Savings could be found by taking the municipality’s benefits package to market, she suggested. Walker added that municipal employees should be rewarded with wage increases rather than the hikes being approved across the board. “I don’t think it will kill the morale of our staff either,” Walker said. Third reading of the budget passed with Lewis and Walker voting against the motion. Coun. Bill Soprovich was absent. The 2011 budget will be back before council for approval on Monday, Feb. 7. raldous@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/rebeccaaldous

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Stuck in the middle with you West Vancouver Sea-to-Sky Liberal candidate Dan Veniez talks hockey, business and what pushed him to pursue federal politics.

n the blue collar suburb of Pointe-AuxTrembles, on the eastern tip of the Island of Montreal, you grew up wanting to play hockey. At least, Dan Veniez did. He slept with his hockey stick. He stood outside the Montreal Forum waiting to get a glimpse of his hero, Guy Lafleur. Veniez says he was a good player — pretty good, in fact — but not good enough. In the era of Philadelphia’s Broad Street Bullies, you had to be big and you had to be fast. But, if the paycheques weren’t going to come from the game, they had to come from somewhere. Veniez remembers his father, a truck and taxi driver at various points COFFEE in his life, going through WITH prolonged periods of Sean Kolenko unemployment. He always skolenko@northshore worked when he could. outlook.com Veniez remembers having to wait to open gifts on Christmas morning because dad was working the night shift, but times were tough. Making money became the focus. He majored in economics at McGill University, with a minor in political science — politics, he says, was always an interest, but not a profession. Not yet. Like many young grads, Veniez emerged from McGill a little indecisive. So, he travelled. “It was a tough time,” he recalls. “But as I went through Europe and Asia I gained a lot of confidence and strength.” A chance meeting in 1985 with Frank Oberle, a Member of Parliament and minister of science and technology in the Mulroney government, thrust Veniez into the political sphere. He moved to Ottawa and worked with other Progressive Conservative ministers as a press secretary and an executive assistant before the corporate world came knocking. He took a job with a pulp and paper company, Repap Enterprises, and became obsessed with creating something of his own. “It was an inspirational experience. I had to become an entrepreneur after that. I wanted to be just like the company’s owner, George Petty, when I grew up,” he says, with a laugh. “And I was 30 years old.” After a string of successful business purchases, Veniez bought mid-level firms whose owners had no succession in place, he found himself wrapped up in what he calls “the entrepreneurial nightmare.” Veniez had purchased Skeena Cellulose in Prince Rupert — a pulp mill, saw mill and lots of trees, he says. The company had been

in bankruptcy protection and didn’t fare much better under Veniez’s control. Like it was yesterday, Veniez recalls a phone call from the company’s CEO one afternoon, alerting him to the fact that there wasn’t enough cash to make payroll. So, he went over to RBC, drained his bank account and paid his employees. “We needed money that week,” he says. “Afterwards, the hardest thing was the walk to the courts in Vancouver to pull the plug on my company. It was a killer.” Luckily, he had made a few friends along the way. Jim Pattison took him out to dinner and shared a few of his financial missteps. The Toronto-based Thomson family, owners of Thomson-Reuters and CTVglobemedia, asked him to be the CEO of its real estate division. He also headed up the bulk commodities depot Ridley Terminals, a Crown Corporation based in Prince Rupert, a position appointed by Stephen Harper. That gig didn’t take, however, as Veniez was quickly fired for trying to ensure market prices for all customers using the terminals. That move quickly caught the ire of multinational companies that, he claims, were taking advantage of subsidies. “As a taxpayer, I got mad. People expect things to run properly and fairly. I made it tough for them politically, I didn’t want to step aside,” he says. “I forced them to fire me and they did on the Friday evening before the July 1 holiday. And that was it for me, that was the inflection point. I had to say something.” And, he has. Veniez has been part of wellattended Liberal party events with leader Michael Ignatieff, and written extensively in various publications about everything from the environment to the sponsorship scandal. He’s not shy about addressing issues that affect Canadians, whether they supports the Grits, Tories or any other federal party. “I was a member of the Progressive Conservatives in the ‘80s. I felt Mulroney had some good ideas,” he says. “But I have no stomach for this Conservative incarnation. I have a deep distaste for rigid ideology and a profound impatience for cynicism in politics. I’m a Paul Martin Liberal and a Joe Clark Conservative like the rest of the country I believe. Right smack in the middle.” skolenko@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/seankolenko

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hen Marshall McLuhan first identified in the 1960s the possibility of a post-literate society in which a visual, individualistic print culture would be usurped by the aural and oral culture of electronic media, the Internet, high definition television and XBox weren’t even a gleam in futurists’ eyes. Now, some observers say that possibility is a reality. Kids spend countless hours honing their reflexes on video games. Watching HDTV is almost as good as being there. And we all spend way too much time surfing the web. Meantime, newspapers and magazines are struggling for readers. Books gather dust on shelves. But even this so-called post-literate society requires a great deal of literacy. There are labels, instructions and guides to be read. And all those little symbols on your computer screen? They’re called words. Even websites like YouTube are choc-a-bloc with them. Not to mention email and text messages. That’s why Thursday’s Family Literacy Day is so important. If anything, our wired-up, plugged-in multimedia world has made literacy essential. Yet according to Statistics Canada approximately nine million Canadian adults struggle with poor literacy skills. Imagine being unable to read the instructions on the screen at the bank machine or gas pump. Imagine not understanding what’s printed on a cereal box, bottle of medicine, DVD case, shop sign or restaurant menu. In fact, we do so much reading in our daily lives, it’s easy to take literacy for granted. But none of us were born literate. We had to work at it. Ideally, we started that work early, when it seemed more like play, or sharing quality time with parents or siblings as they read stories to us, maybe even taught us some of the words so we could read along. Literacy is a gift that needs to be shared. Be sure to pass it on. –Black Press

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— LET TERS TO THE EDITOR — Library issues ‘symptoms of deeper problems with DWV’s finances’ re: “Deciphering information,” Outlook, Jan. 20. Editor, First, some corrections: ■ I did not say “not a penny went to the library” from the Library Foundation. The foundation has investments enabling a grant to the library. My point was that in 2009 they spent more on overhead and expenses than they raised in dona-

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tions. ■ I did not claim that GoldsmithJones was on the library board in 2001. I said “around the time” the library purchased the custom furniture and featured it in its annual report. The purchase was approved in 2001. We do not know when it was manufactured and installed; it appeared in the 2004 report. Ms Goldsmith-Jones was on the board in 2003. Secondly, it’s surprising foundation chair Nicole Brown doesn’t know where my numbers came from since I said (and the report repeats) that they came from the Canada Revenue Agency. Also on the CRA website are the

figures for the other 15 active library foundations in Canada. They show that in 2009, the WVML Foundation’s fundraising efficiency was dead last: 16th of 16 (15th using an alternate analysis). This concern about the foundation’s expenses is not new. The library board minutes in 2000 stated: “There were concerns expressed on growing cost of expenses of the foundation operations.” Most importantly, however, the library furniture and the library foundation aren’t the issue (nor for that matter are the other examples I raised in December totalling millions); they’re merely symptoms of deeper problems with DWV’s

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roundup of January events means there was no time for the winter blues. Instead, there was wining and dining and lots of new ideas, some of them tempting enough to consider giving up a few of those New Year’s resolutions. Cheers. B Toasting the evening at the Blue Mountain and Friends / BC Hospitality Foundation “Feast for the Senses” event are West Vancouverites Mark Bishop, left, Patti Cross-Bishop, Robyn Pickering and Glenn Dorey. C North Vancouver’s Oliver Beckert, Executive Chef at the Four Seasons Vancouver, is a popular guy at the “Feast for the Senses” tasting event thanks to his fabulous lobster mac and cheese dish. Yum! D It’s another job well done by veteran PR / North Shore gal Dana Lee Harris. Seen here with her hubby Dean at the “Feast for the Senses” event, she graciously volunteers her time to work with the BC Hospitality Foundation. E Blue Mountain Vineyard’s winemaker Matt Mavety has been in the biz since he was 14 years-old. Seen here at “Feast for the Senses,” he certainly “nose” his wines. FKicking off this week’s special Dine Out Vancouver 2011 event are Tourism Vancouver’s CAT’S Lucas Pavan, left, and Walt Judas EYE who then escorted media throughout Cat Barr the city on a mini food-tour. Dine cbarr@westvancouver.com Out runs from January 24 – February 6 and many North Shore restaurants are featured.G The Ambleside Business Association is getting ready for the future and the redevelopment plans for the 1500 block look exciting. West Van Chamber executive director Leagh Gabriel and Saltaire restaurant GM Todd Whiting welcome invited guests on this night. H West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce’s Andrew Pottinger reveals the new plans for Ambleside to the crowd, which included fellow West Van Chamber director Maggie Papas. I Call it a “growing opportunity” if you will. Local inventors Tarren Wolfe, left, and Myles Omand took some time to showcase their new “Urban Cultivator” indoor herb greenhouse last week at a fabulous five-star dinner at C Restaurant put on by sommelier Adam Rennick, middle left, and chef Lee Humphries.

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eorge Abbott figures he’s clocked nearly 5,000 kilometres canvassing the province in the last couple of months in his bid to assume leadership of the B.C. Liberal Party. On Monday, the campaign highway led him back to North Vancouver for a whirlwind visit with community organizations, university students and regulars at a local pub. Flanked by Jane Thornthwaite, MLA for North Vancouver-Seymour, Abbott made appearances at the North Vancouver Chamber of Commerce, Capilano University and Lynn Valley Library. He also met with School District 44 representatives and about 20 supporters at Deep Cove’s Raven Pub. In an interview with The Outlook, Abbott said he was pleased to return to the North Shore, a place where he said he’s “always hit it off well with folks.” Abbott, a 16-year MLA in Shuswap and former health minister, touted “grassroots politics” and the return of the voice of British Columbians to Victoria as the keys to successful leadership of the province. A renewed focus on the economy, in particular what he called the province’s “foundation industries” — mining, lumber and tourism amongst others — are also of paramount importance, he said. Abbott, a strong supporter of the divisive harmonized sales tax, said he stands behind the tax and said he will work hard to inform voters of its potential for raising much needed

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money for B.C. “We did a pathetically poor job introducing that tax, but it has been amazing seeing the hunger people have about being part of politics again. Over the last few years we [B.C. Liberals] have not been good at including the public in public policy,” he said. “But, I believe there’s more optimism today than there was three months ago. We lost trust and we’re going to need all two-and-a-half years until the next election to get it back.” Along with Thornthwaite, West VancouverCapilano Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan is supporting Abbott. Joan McIntyre, Liberal MLA for West Vancouver Sea-to-Sky is backing Kevin Falcon. Naomi Yamamoto, Liberal MLA for North Vancouver-Lonsdale, remains undecided. The B.C. Liberal leadership vote is scheduled for Feb. 26. skolenko@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/seankolenko

few weeks before Christmas, Heather Sadler, deputy manger of the city’s waterfront project, presented council with four basic land use options for the properties at the foot of Lonsdale Avenue. Residents got their first peek at the possible options, now down to three potential scenarios, at an open house at the John Braithwaite Community Centre on Jan. 20. The first option boasts a stand-alone media arts gallery — currently operating out of the Presentation House — a restaurant facility, an open plaza east of the arts building and an area for seasonal merchant kiosks. In this option, the Washington Marine Group would continue to operate out of the Cates Tugs property. The second design option proposes moving the media arts gallery into a renovated Cates building along with a pedestrian bridge with water access. A new retail building would sit east of the Cates structure. The heritage buildings on the site would house more tourist-focused merchants. A zip-line, a favourite of the respondents who participated in a visioning session in October, would traverse the site. The third alternative would also feature a gallery in the Cates building, but offers a “viewing portal” – similar in design to the open space in a mall that allows one to look down on the first floor from the second level – to the water instead of bridge access. Both the second and third scenarios also allot for an outdoor movie projector. All three would feature some form of children’s play area, a connection from Lonsdale Quay to the shipyards and marina use for boats docking in the area. “Things are very positive and we’re a very active part of the discussion,” said Reid Shier, director of the Presentation House gallery. Larry Orr, the city’s waterfront project director, said there have been offers of tenancy for the site initially planned for the maritime museum. Orr said the vision for the plot is still a “cultural attraction” but will need approval from council before any options from to the public. Staff expects to return to council with a preferred option for the Foot of Lonsdale by the spring. skolenko@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/seankolenko

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he plump, white cat pushes itself against Scott Akin’s shin. and Rescue in a new public safety building beside municipal hall, on what is currently He leans over to give the cat a quick scratch. The used book store’s lights the parkade. cast a yellowish tint on the feline’s fur and make the room feel warm and cozy. The facility would become the first district-owned building constructed to post-disasIt’s the prefect pulpy environment for treasure hunters and bargain seekers. Yet some- ter standards, making it able to withstand an earthquake. That’s critical, Lepine says. thing’s missing — customers. “We would be in big trouble if we ended up with a moderate size earthquake,” he says “There are a lot of empty shops and too many banks,” Akin says of West Vancouver’s of the current 57-year-old building. Ambleside strip. The new facility also marks the first Canadian station to place fire and police under Having previously owned a store on the same roof, a strategy which may save Vancouver’s Commercial Drive, he bought money and time, Lepine says. Besides the The Ambleside Bookbarn eight months ago. obvious savings in constructing one larger The area is beautiful, he says. It’s right next structure rather than two separate buildings, to the ocean, a prefect weekend outing for on an executive level some of the units’ sershoppers, but so far it’s disappointed. vices cross over, he says, using community “If we are going to attract Vancouverites events and emergency operations as examples. over to shop, we have to create something to Being in the same building could make plandraw them here,” Akin says. ning easier, he continues. And that’s exactly what the District of West Like the police station, West Van fire chief Vancouver intends to do. With its centennial Jim Cook can’t guarantee Fire Hall No. 1 West Van seeks citizens’ help in shaping around the corner in 2012, council plans to would remain standing after an earthquake. pump life back into the historical heart of His fear is that a shake up would not only Ambleside’s next hundred years. the community. To aid it, the municipality damage the hall, but would also ruin imporhas head-hunted the man behind Whistler tant equipment within the post. By Rebecca Aldous Olympic Village, Joe Redmond. He will “Our community expects that these emersupervise the new Ambleside Revitalization gency services will be available whenever they Commission and, after 30 years of district are most needed,” Cook warns. studies, help assemble a plan for municipal land. Both parties are anxious to see this project move forward, the sooner the better, “We are looking at this as the beginning of the next 100 years,” West Van Mayor Lepine says. Pamela Goldsmith-Jones says. “I have my fingers crossed,” he says.

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Although the project, dubbed AmblesideNow, has no fixed timeline, Goldsmith-Jones says the district hopes to move the West Vancouver Police Department into a new building within five years. “The police station has really passed its functional life,” she says. In fact, last year, police were almost forced to abandon the building when a major leak burst through the roof and flooded the department’s communications and dispatch rooms, West Van police chief Peter Lepine says. “We had to relocate our communications to the North Vancouver RCMP,” he says, noting it took six weeks before the department could reoccupy some of the offices. Beside the structural difficulties and mold from water damage, the police department’s detention facilities don’t meet provincial standards, Lepine adds. The AmblesideNow plan proposes to place the cop shop and West Vancouver Fire

To pay for the new public safety building, West Van proposes to use cash from the sale or lease of the current police and fire lots, as well as additional property in the 1500-block of Fulton Avenue and the Gertrude Lawson site — the current home of the West Vancouver Museum. “Ideally we can pay for the [new building] outright and put surplus money in the Endowment Fund,” Goldsmith-Jones says, noting how much money the district receives for the land depends on what the public decides should be placed on the property. Public input will also decide the fate of the Gertrude Lawson house, says Bob Sokol, West Van’s director of planning, lands and permits. Originally built in 1939 for Gertrude Lawson, daughter of pioneer John Lawson, the district-owned building was restored by the West Vancouver Historical Society and opened as a museum in 1994. While the stone house’s future is in question, the museum’s collection and services

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The now Ferry Building Gallery at the foot of 14th Street in preparation for its move to its current location. Archives West Vancouver photos are not. Since 1975, the municipality has purchased waterfront lots in Ambleside, meaning the project could theoretically consolidate arts services within the area to create a one-stop arts bonanza. A consolidation of arts services would increase its presence, access and opportunities for partnerships, says Jennifer Marshall, owner of Urban Arts Architecture, the company West Van hired to lead the arts and cultural component of AmblesideNow. “New arts facilities will be located in Ambleside as the focal point of the Ambleside waterfront cultural zone,” Marshall adds.

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DOWN THE ROAD While plans for Ambleside’s gateway heat up, farther down Marine Drive, the 1600block is booked for an overhaul. H.Y. Louie Group, which owns the property currently occupied by Safeway, has drafted two site options, both of which include 57,800-square feet for a grocery store, retail space, restaurants, offices plus 150 residential condominium units. One concept concentrates the dwellings in a 15-storey building above a stepped podium, while the other proposes a 10-storey building on a larger podium, the company states in a press release. As part of the project’s community amenity contribution, the development could include up to 208 underground parking spaces. More than $1.5 million would be paid to the district through its development charges and the municipality can anticipate the development’s annual general property taxes to exceed $336,000. The district expects H.Y. Louie will apply for the needed re-zoning in early February. The project will require public consultation and a public hearing. “If approved later this year, the development could be completed by 2015,” the press release notes.

With the demolition of the police station, West Van has the opportunity to enhance Ambleside’s gateway, Goldsmith-Jones says. AmblesideNow hones in on the 1300-block of Marine Drive as a significant component in creating vibrancy in the area. With international development company Grosvenor at the helm, the project suggests the police lot be redeveloped with commercial stores and restaurants at the ground level and residential units on upper floors. But as with all elements of AmblesideNow, what gets built depends on what citizens want, Goldsmith-Jones adds. “Everybody who lives here now has a big responsibility to [aid] the planning,” she says. Grosvenor, who is currently developing The RISE in Downtown Vancouver, is drafting ideas CREATING COMMUNITY for the entire block. The company owns the former Imperial Oil site, on the southern corner of AmblesideNow is really about creating comMarine Drive and 14th Street, and two other lots munity. A place where people go to meet along the strip, says James Patillo, senior vice friends, neighbours and family. A place that president of Grosvenor Americas. doesn’t shut down after 7 p.m., GoldsmithThe company has hired world-renowned archiJones says. It’s a project backed by at least 10 tect James Cheng to aid in design. One of the municipal studies and for the remaining 10 ideas Cheng’s exploring is a mid-block atrium, months of this council’s term, it will be top where people could gather on an outdoor patio priority, she says. or wander through to the beach. “In a way it is how we plan to celebrate our “Our firm [James K.M. Cheng Architects Inc.] is very much interested in the spaces 100 birthday,” she adds. between buildings,” says Cheng, who designed the waterfront along Coal Harbour and the Councils members may change, but Goldsmith-Jones says she’s confident the project Concord Pacific False Creek development. will continue. There’s simply too many years’ worth of policies highlighting the need for “To us it is more important to have the public realm and the human spaces done well change in Ambleside to be ignored, she says. rather than the buildings themselves.” “We want to begin and of course it becomes work of future councils.” The district holds its first AmblesideNow public meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 15 at the West Van community centre starting at 6:30 p.m., with a presentation at 7:30 p.m. To learn about the meeting and AmblesideNow visit www.AmblesideNow.ca.

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or 11 days, Clint Colebourn will billet with five-time Stanley Cup winner Mario Tremblay. Standing in the lobby of the North Shore Winter Club before practice, the pee-wee A1 hockey player pauses before admitting he originally didn’t know who the former Montreal Canadiens player was. Fair enough. Tremblay retired 13 years before the 12-year-old was born. “I know now,” he says reassuringly. “I added him on Facebook.” Colebourn is one of 16 Winterhawks players headed east to suit up in the 52nd Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. It’s a big deal, the team agrees, as many of hockey’s greats — Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and Eric Lindros, to name a few — have played in the international tourney. And there are going to be lots of fans, Desi Burgart pipes in. The world pee-wee championships is expected to draw 200,000 spectators, as approximately 2,300 young players from 16 different countries battle it out in the rink. But perhaps the biggest point of all is they get to play in the 15,750-seat Colisée, Justin Lee says, which sparks a nod of consensus among the group. Not knowing if they had made the cut, the team started fundraising for the trip in November, fundraiser organizer Linda Wilson says. “You have to be the top team in the club and at the top tier in the league,” she says, adding they got the thumbs up in September. Currently ranked second in their league, the

GO TEAM - (from left) Winterhawks players Justin Lee, Ross Ledding, Justin Wilson, Tak Anholt, Desi Burgart and Jesse San Severino are headed to Quebec to play in the pee-wee world championships. Rebecca Aldous photo Winterhawks are one of two B.C. teams participating in the tournament. The players will pair up and stay with Quebec families, some of whom aren’t hockey households, Wilson says. The teenagers will visit the Winter Carnival and the famous St. Anne’s Cathedral. They will also play one outdoor exhibition game, something most Vancouverites don’t readily experience, she notes. “They will get a really good feeling of the Quebec life,” Wilson says. Poutine aside, Colebourn says he can’t wait to meet the Russians. His teammates start talking

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Best thing about wrestling? “I like the independence. You don’t have to rely on others [like team sports]. But also togetherness with the team.” What’s on your wall? “A Bob Marley photo and an Ireland flag. My grandparents were from there. I’ve never been there but I want to go.” Favourite thing to do with your brother and sister? “Going to our cottage in northern Ontario, near Sudbury, in the summer. We have a boat and a lake to ourselves for swimming, fishing, water-skiing and tubing. We hang out, hike and explore the outdoors.” What’s your dream car? “A 1995 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. Cars were cooler back then. I’ve never seen one except in pictures or the movies. Craigslist has one for $8,000 but it probably doesn’t work.” What’s on the birthday wish list? “[Laughing] A Cadillac Coupe DeVille because I didn’t get one for Christmas.”

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L L IONEL L ORENCE L It’s the experience! Beauty Beyond Your Dreams

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little puppy love, a snowy evening and a scary car accident on a dark logging road at midnight – all wrapped inside a tradition-laden high school basketball tournament – has been on my mind this week. It’s something I think about whenever there’s mention of the annual Totem Tournament held in Port Alberni every January. You see, it’s now exactly 50 years to the day since Dan Dempsey Jr. and I lived to tell the tale of a shared moment in time as teenagers that is now about to be revealed to the whole world. We haven’t wanted to divulge it before. Not back in 1961 anyway. Actually, the life-threatening part of the car accident is an unmitigated exaggeration. But I wanted to capture your attention. Oh we were definitely in a car accident. And it could have been very serious, not solely because of potential injury, but because of the situation, which I think you will soon agree has to be pretty unusual. Hard to believe actually. We’ll get to all that shortly. Outside of the annual B.C. boys’ championship, IT WAS A DARK AND the Totem Tournament in Port Alberni is the lonSNOWY NIGHT - 1961 North gest-running high school basketball tournament in Van High basketball players, Dan the province, having been held continuously since Dempsey (#6 above) and Len way back in 1955. Corben (#11), had a harrowing Port Alberni was a hot bed of basketball then. experience on a lonely road 50 The Alberni Athletics were Canadian senior men’s years ago. Others, back row l-r: champions in 1955. Jim Robson got his start Drew Leathem (manager), Ian broadcasting their games. Alberni District High Dixon, Keith Hart, Lou Metzner, finished second in the B.C. boys’ tourney that Arnie Dunham, Al Yarr (coach). same season and placed in the top eight 11 times Front: Duke Fairbrother, Bob in the 16 years between 1951-66. So going to Crawford, Colin Dobson, Bill Alberni for the Totem Tournament was special. Hobbis. Until this year, it was a boys’ tournament, at Above: Lee Helmer photo. times attracting the province’s elite. A four-team Left: Len Corben photo. girls’ section, added this time, was held Jan. 7-8. In fact, St. Thomas Aquinas played Alberni in the tournament’s first-ever girls’ game. North Van High was invited to the Totem Tournament in 1961. Heading into the first day was incorrect. Rather, it was a puppy love situation that origiof play on Jan. 27, 1961, NVHS had won nine straight against nated the previous summer. high school opposition en route to a 23-14 season record “I can remember quite vividly planning to see her before in which six of the losses came in exhibitions versus Junior going to Alberni,” Dan acknowledges. “I was very nervous Men’s teams. It included a 1-2 record against Magee, the about thinking of her as a girl friend. Yet that was what was in eventual B.C. champs, and a 7-3 record against other schools my mind. Having you along took the pressure off being there that made it to the provincials. by myself.” But in our first game in Alberni, we came up against the Dan did the driving. He was 17, so he’d had his driver’s hot hand of one Roy Picketti who canned 30+ points to licence only a very short time. I didn’t have a licence yet. give Courtenay a 62-59 victory. Ian Dixon and Lou Metzner “I remember driving,” Dan recalls, though neither of us scored 28 and 17 for us. Dixon potted another 28 and Keith could offer you much about the dinner or visit. Hart contributed 16 in the next day’s 66-61 consolation win “I remember the road being dirt. It wasn’t snowing when we over the hosts. left, but coming back it was snowing. It was very dark. It was Enough about the tournament. You want to know about the a mountainous road – not like going up Grouse Mountain, but car accident, right? it was hilly terrain and heavily forested. And really spooky. Okay, nowadays high school teams almost always stay in “I had no experience driving in snow. I must have been hotels when travelling. However, players were always billeted going a little too fast. I think there was a curve and we slid off then. The Totem Tournament was a big deal, so it wasn’t just the road.” the host team’s families who provided accommodation, the The car, embedded deep in a snowbank, couldn’t be whole community got involved. budged. There was absolutely no traffic on the road. No one Dempsey (the son of Dan Dempsey Sr. who was North to lend a hand. It was now midnight. So I stayed at the car Van’s vice-principal) and I were billeted with a nice family in and Dan started walking back to his friend’s house for help. town. Nice would be an understatement. Unbelievably gener“I would guess it took me under an hour,” he says. “I probous would be a better description. ably ran too. I tapped on the window You see, Dan had met a girl during vacations or banged on the door. My recollecat Bowser on the Island. Her family lived beyond INSTANT tion is that they weren’t asleep yet. Port Alberni, somewhere way out on the edge of REPLAY They didn’t take it badly at all. But I Sproat Lake on the road to Tofino. Dan was anxremember the embarrassment of getLen Corben ious to connect with her. He must have called her ting stuck. He [the girl’s father] had a lencorben@yahoo.ca because her family invited him (and me as well) truck and pulled us out.” for dinner. But their place was a good 45 minutes Thankfully the car was not damaged or so out of town. and we arrived at our billet’s place When our billeting family learned of the invitawithout further incident. tion, they offered to give us their car to get there. And what about Dan and the girl? “It was a romance,” he Yes, you read that correctly. They offered to let us have their admits, “that didn’t go anywhere.” family car for the evening. We were teenagers. They had never Well, of course, puppy love still happens today. even met us before. But this was Port Alberni. We needed But someone giving two teenagers – strangers with unprovtransportation. They had a car. So here are the keys plus a key en driving records – the keys to the family car for the night to the house. You’ll be back late, so we’ll see you in the mornto travel on a dark logging road with snow a possibility after ing. having just met them? No, I can’t imagine that happening Dan and his wife, Mary, have lived in Dover, Massachusetts, today. on the coattails of Boston for something like 40 years. Don’t know how much Mary knows about this story but for two This is episode 407 from Len Corben’s treasure chest of stohours over two days last week, Dan and I reminisced on the ries and photos – from the great events and the quirky – that phone about that time in Alberni, piecing together our memobring to life the North Shore’s rich sports history. ries. My recollection that it was a cousin Dan wanted to visit

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hanks to all who wrote, emailed and visited my office in response to last monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s column on Tiffany lamps and collecting posters. This month Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to explore both the trash and treasures of the 1980s collectible market. The Antiques Roadshow started educating new collectors in 1979 and the show quickly gained an audience of baby boomers TRASH or looking for investments TREASURE? they could enjoy while Sean Mara recapturing part of their newsroom@northshore outlook.com childhood. This created a demand of readily available collectibles. Enter the â&#x20AC;&#x153;limited editionâ&#x20AC;? craze of the 1980s. As an appraiser, I often get calls from clients excitedly proclaiming they have binders full of â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s sports cards, Franklin Mint collectibles, Norman Rockwell plates, Precious Moments and Hummel figurines, Beanie Babies, comic books â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the list goes on. Hoping to cash in on the collecting craze in the 1980s, many companies started marketing â&#x20AC;&#x153;limited editionâ&#x20AC;? collectibles. The pitch was that collectables from the 1930s were getting top dollar, so it stood to reason if you bought these items and kept them in mint condition, they would be a great investment for your retirement. Does anyone remember BCRIC shares? These limited edition products proved to be excellent in only one respect: Great marketing and instant profits for struggling manufacturers and retailers. Nowadays, most are not worth the cardboard box they came in.

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MOVING & STORAGE

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YOUR ELECTRICIAN $29 Service Call Lic #89402 Same day guarn’td We love small jobs! 604-568-1899

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GARDENING

WEED FREE MUSHROOM Manure 13 yds - $150 or Well Rotted 10 yds -$170 604-856-8877

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS

AAA HANDYMAN SERVICES Repair, Replace, Remodel. Room Additions. Kitchen, Bath Remodels. Drywall, Paint, Texture. Finishing, Floors & more. 30 yr. exp. Dan 778-837-0771 ALL RENOVATIONS suites, kitchens, bathrooms, decks, call Gil 604-220-8058, www.makmooreventures.com

SPARTAN Moving Ltd. Fast & Reliable. Insured Competitive rates. Wknd Specials. Call Frank: (604) 435-8240

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PAINT SPECIAL 3 rooms for $269, 2 coats (Ceiling & Trim extra) Price incls Cloverdale Premium quality paint. NO PAYMENT until Job is completed. Ask us about our Laminate Flooring & Maid Services. www.paintspecial.com MILANO PAINTING. Int./Ext. Prof. Painters. Free Est. Written Guar. Bonded & Insured. 604-551-6510

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ALLAN Const. & Asphalt. Brick, conc, drainage, found. & membrane repair. 604-618-2304; 820-2187.

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PLUMBING

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RUBBISH REMOVAL

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE 560

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AUTO FINANCING

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REAL ESTATE 477

PETS

BERNESE Mountain Dog Puppies. Vet checked & ready for good homes.$850.Langley.778-241-5504 BERNESE Mountain Dog Pups. Unique blood lines. 99% house trained. Call 604-740-0832 or 604-740-2986.

www.bernerbay.weebly.com BERNESE Mountain X Great Pyrenees pups, gorgeous, excellent markings, parents to view, health guar’d, $850. Call (604) 607- 5051 Blue Nose Pitbulls, Razor’s Edge/ Gotti bloodlines, Seal blue coats with blue eyes, 1st shots & dewormed. $1000 Call 778-877-5210 CATS GALORE, TLC has for adoption spayed & neutered adult cats. 604-309-5388 / 856-4866

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ACREAGE

Own 20 Acres $129/mo. $13,900 Near Growing El Paso, Texas (safest city in America!) Low down, no credit checks, owner ﬁnancing. Free Map/Pictures. 866-254-7755 www.sunsetranches.com.

615 COMMERCIAL PROPERTY BUILDING SALE... “ROCK BOTTOM PRICES!” 25x30 $6200. 30x40 $9850. 32x60 $15,600. 32x80 $19,600. 35x60 $17,500. 40x70 $18,890. 40x100 $26,800. 46x140 $46,800. OTHERS. Doors optional. Pioneer MANUFACTURERS DIRECT 1-800-668-5422.

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ACROSS 1. Restaurant bills 5. Stroke 11. Steel body Pokemon 12. Ventilation shaft 14. Shares a reign 16. Sir _____ Newton 18. Japanese socks 19. A jaunty tune 21. A measure of music 23. A citizen of Nairobi 25. Eu__ - monetary unit 26. Wearily 27. Begin 29. An ice hockey fake 30. Garret 31. Floor cleaning tools 35. Aquatic bloodsucker 36. Player at 1st, 2nd or 3rd 38. Opponent - f__ 39. Covered in folds of cloth 40. Explosive 42. Narrow incision 43. Greek prophetess 47. Alfred Thayer __, US naval historian 50. Bichrome 52. Biblical son of David 54. 1930’s design style 55. Expose while ridiculing 56. Utter sounds

DOWN 1. Game with Tic & Toe 2. T____ - fortuneteller cards 3. French Polynesian island X2 4. Rebuff 5. Salad made with a raw egg 6. What we breathe 7. Railroad 8. ___t - review and correct 9. Wild boar genus 10. Rockface climber 13. Ob______ - got possession of 15. Women’s movement 17. Bonnie and _____, criminals 20. Speak

22. Unsound from decay 23. Dishwashing area 24. Bill, The Science Guy 26. Type of knit fabric 28. Consumed 31. Million barrels per day (abbr.) 32. Paddles 33. Biblical song 34. Reddish browns 37. Manner of procedure 41. Habitual facial twitch 44. Indicate by signs 45. Big bang theory original matter 46. Venues 48. Brew 49. Hill in San Francisco 50. Good (Gaelic) 51. Decay 53. The 12th Greek letter

CHINESE SHAR PEI pups. House raised. Well socialized. Vet chek’d., shots. Avail. now. 604-814-0038 CKC Reg. soft coated Wheaton terrier pups, hypo-allergenic. Guarntd. Vet ✓ $1,000+. Call 604-533-8992 CKC Reg. soft coated Wheaton terrier pups, hypo-allergenic. Guarntd. Vet ✓ $1,000+. Call 604-533-8992 GERMAN SHEPHERD Reg’d pups, quality German & Czech bloodlines. Guaranteed. Call 604-856-8161. MALTESE PUPS: 3 males, Incl 1st shots, vet checked, dewormed, dep will hold. $800. ﬁrm 604-464-5077. NEED A GOOD HOME for a good dog or a good dog for a good home? We adopt dogs! Call 604856-3647 or www.856-dogs.com ROTTWEILER X PITT BULL puppies, 8 weeks, $450 604-857-0413 YELLOW LAB, 7mo M., very loving & beautiful family dog, all shots microchipped. $550. (604)272-1516 YELLOW LAB PUPS $450, ready to go. No papers. Exc stock, can view both parents. (604)820-3451 Yellow Labs, p/b, 3 male, $600, dewormed, vet chkd. Chwk. (604)7947633 (604)997-3040 No Sun. calls.

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CARS - DOMESTIC

1965 MUSTANG 289. Lots of work done on it. Auto. $4800. Call Dave 778-889-3079. 2000 CHRYSLER NEON, 4dr, sedan, 118kks, auto, 46kks on new trans. $3,000 obo. 604-575-8003 2001 FORD CROWN VICTORIA, white, 75 Km, nat gas, good cond., $3,500 obo. Phone 778-709-6462

HOMES WANTED

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821 CARS - SPORTS & IMPORTS 1992 HONDA ACCORD, white, 240,000 kms. Auto, 4 door, sunroof, cruise, a/c, Aircared to Sept. 2011. $1900. obo. 604-556-7574 2010 HONDA ACCORD, black, 4 dr sedan, auto, loaded, 18” whls, 6 km, $22,600 obo. 604-836-5931. 2011 TOYOTA Camry LE, 7000 kms. auto, factory warranty. No accidents. $22,500. 778-708-4078

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VEHICLES WANTED

633 MOBILE HOMES & PARKS 2011 CANADIAN Dream Home 3 bed/2 bath, 1512 sqft, CSA-Z240 $109,950 includes delivery and set up in lower BC, 877-976-3737 or 509-481-9830 http://www.hbmodu lar.com/images/email_jan2.jpg

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MORTGAGES

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BUILDING SUPPLIES

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RECREATIONAL/SALE

1985 CAVEMAN Truck Camper, F/S, furnace, washroom. $2000 obo. Call (604)860-3148

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SCRAP CAR REMOVAL

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MEDICAL SUPPLIES

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Homelife Benchmark Realty Corp. Langley

709 COMMERCIAL/INDUSTRIAL OFFICE SPACE in North Vancouver post ofﬁce for rent. Suitable for accountants, tax preparer, etc. If interested please call 778-999- 5499.

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HOMES FOR RENT

BOWEN ISLAND Home for Rent. Beautiful, Furnished 3+BDR Country Home. Ocean view in Sealeigh Pk with covered porch & lg private deck. 2 1/2 BA, new W/D. Hardwood ﬂoors & stainless appliances. 5 min walk to Adams Beach. N/S. 604-228-9601 WHITE ROCK Avail. Immed. Fully Reno’d 3 Br/2 Ba split lg priv S facing lot. Walk to schools, transit, park Ideal loctn incl appl NS NP ref. reqd. $1950+util. Call 604-538-7228

LEGAL PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to the Legal Public Notice Jurat-Affidavit of Publishing and Notarial Certificate of Non-Response dated July 29, 2010. BE IT WITNESSED AND VERIFIED: For the tah-sun-quay-ton and for the klatle-bhi, as well as: tla kwa-gillaogua,: tla-kwa-gilla,: gig-a-mi,: ga-use-dis,: men-ta-le-adus,: ts’elxweltxw,: hi-mi-ka-las and: tla-tla-tlo-num of the skomesh and: ley-la-wa-gilla people, and the sovran-alliances, that we are with the acceptance for value of the claim of right of the BRITISH COLUMBIA PERSONNAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT BASE REGISTRATION LIEN NUMBER: 659362F and 898104F, WASHINGTON DC UNIFORM COMMERCIAL CODE DOCUMENT LIEN NUMBER: 2010061093, 2010108008 and 2010108018. Further be it verified and notice that, we are further with the claim of right of the acceptance for value and return for value of Canada’s Office Consolidation [may be cited as the Indian Act] and its attached “WARNING NOTE-Users of this Office Consolidation are reminded that it is prepared for convenience of reference only and that, as such, has no official sanctions.” Therefore, we are with the acceptance for value and return for value that the Squamish Indian Band and it’s lawyer(s) are agents for Canada and do not represent the best interest of the skomesh-people. We, Her Majesty’s Royal Allies will deploy the Provost Marshal and Her Majesty’s Royal Rifle for any continued trespass against us on our sacred skomesh-lands. Submit any and all alleged claims in the form of Notarized Jurat Affidavit c/o (nondomestic) IR #9 PO Box 97 Keremeos, Keremeos (V0X 1NO). We reserve all rights with prejudice. As long as the Sun shines, the green grass grows, the wind blows, the rivers flow and our people still occupy our sacred lands, then we are still Royal Allies of Her Majesty in Council of Great Britain et al, by the authority of the tah-sun-quay-ton and the klatle-bhi. Whereas Amina Ahmad Wenn is indebted to Mitchell’s Towing Ltd. for storage & towing on a 2005 Chrysler 300 Vin: 2C3JA53G55H605386 A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing of $2,373.84 plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale. Notice is hereby given that on the 17th day of February, 2011 or thereafter, the said vehicle will be sold. The Vehicle is currently stored at Elite Bailiff Services, 20473 Logan Avenue, Langley B.C V3A 4L8. The Vehicle was placed in storage on December 27th, 2010. For more info. call Elite Bailiff Services at 604-539-9900 www.repobc.com

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HOMES FOR SALE-SUPER BUYS

RENTALS

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MERCHANDISE FOR SALE 518

UTILITY TRAILERS

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PETS

TRUCKS & VANS

19’ FLATBED TRAILER plywood deck, 6’ 2x4” railsides, folds down to 3’. Dual axle, 4 Michelin steel belted radial tires, elec brakes, emergency brake-away, lights to present day code, raised 6” for clearance. $750/obo. 604-309-7302

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HOME/BUSINESS SERVICES

847 SPORT UTILITY VEHICLES 2002 HONDA CRV. Fully loaded, 66K, garage parked, AirCared, good condition! Moving - Must Sell. $11,900. Call 778-552-1462.

Whereas Gregory John Couch is indebted to Mitchell’s Towing Ltd. for storage & towing on a 2003 Pontiac Sunﬁre Vin: 3G2JB52F83S168077 A lien is claimed under the Act. There is presently an amount due and owing of $4,031.44 plus any additional costs of storage, seizure and sale. Notice is hereby given that on the 17th day of February, 2011 or thereafter, the said vehicle will be sold. The Vehicle is currently stored at Elite Bailiff Services, 20473 Logan Avenue, Langley B.C V3A 4L8. The Vehicle was placed in storage on December 27th, 2010. For more info. call Elite Bailiff Services at 604-539-9900 www.repobc.com

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