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‘Unauthorized’ cell antennas placed atop Ambleside high-rise: WV planning dept.

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n eagle-eyed Ambleside senior is being credited with alerting the District of West Vancouver to the “unauthorized” construction of cell phone antennas on top of a high-rise on Bellevue Avenue. Brian Merth lives in an apartment building adjacent to the West Van Library on Marine Drive that overlooks the surrounding Ambleside area. Over the years, he has noticed construction workers adding components to an existing bundle of cell antennas on the penthouse elevator shaft at Hollyburn Plaza at 1775 Bellevue Ave. “It’s looking rather busy at the moment,” said Merth, in an interview last Friday (Oct. 7). When contacted by The Outlook, Bob Sokol, West Van director of planning, said the district was unaware that a set of cellular antennas was being added to Hollyburn Plaza as no work permit was obtained from city hall. “We can’t be everywhere all the time,” said Sokol. “Thank you to whoever brought this to our attention.” A stop work order has now been issued to the wireless company. Hollyburn communications director Peter Louwe confirmed Hollyburn Plaza has Rogers Communications cell antennas on it.

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“With high-rises, it is quite common for [wireless communications companies] to approach us,” said Louwe. Early last week, Merth noticed a construction crane blocking traffic on Bellevue Avenue for a good part of the day and says he believes that it was being used to add component parts to the cellular antenna structure. “So somebody must have been aware of it,” said Merth. Sokol believes the crane was most likely unrelated to the Hollyburn Plaza construction. He said at a minimum there would need to be a building permit in place for this type of cellular antenna installation. “Our current policy is [the company] would need to come to us and depending on the type of antenna there would need to be a public consultation process,” said Sokol. When asked how the original antennas were placed on the high-rise, Sokol said they had probably gone in years ago. He also suggested that a number of cellular antennas may have been placed on taller buildings in West Van under the district’s radar. Rogers Communications

TOWER TROUBLES - West Van resident Brian Merth noticed construction workers adding to cell antennas on the roof of Hollyburn Plaza in Ambleside. Rob Newell photo

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A decade of cancer, without remission In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a North Shore woman details her story of survival

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orth Van resident Yumi White has been living with stage four breast cancer for a decade. She has never had chemotherapy; her oncologist opted to treat her cancer with hormone therapy instead. White didn’t question him. She’d been given a year to live and living with the debilitating effects of chemotherapy was not an option. “[Hormone therapy] was the right decision for me because I’m still here,” says the graphic designer. It was her husband Greg who found the lumps in her breasts. There was no other indication that she was battling an internal disease. White promptly went to her family doctor who ordered a biopsy. In the radiologist’s office, where her cancer diagnosis was confirmed, she says she was killed mentally. “That was the day I didn’t know where I was or who I was,” recalls White of that ominous, cold day in May. Cancer aside, physically she was not shaken. White had always considered herself a couch potato but post-diagnosis she started running, dragon boating and doing the Grouse Grind, which is challenging enough for people in optimal health. Two years later, she learned the cancer had metastasized into her lungs. In the same breath, White’s oncologist diagnosed with her with unrelated cervical cancer. The cancer has continued to spread over the years, most recently to her bones, but it’s manageable with radiation and hormone therapy. “So it is still kind of happening, but maybe [the cancer] grows very slowly in my case or the [hormone therapy] helps slow down the progression,” figures White. An annual participant in The Weekend to End Breast Cancer, White’s team, Livestrong, has raised $250,000 over six years for breast cancer research. The money supports ground-breaking research at the BC Cancer Agency where scientists recently found a significant connection between a natural enzyme — CA9 — and the life-threatening spread of breast cancer. These scientists have collaborated with a medicinal chemistry group in Florence, Italy, where they developed two drugs that block the function of CA9. Preparing the drugs for clinic-based testing will requires 18-24 months of toxicology testing before they could potentially be introduced in a phaseone clinical trial. White was 38 years old when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She has lost two close friends who succumbed to the disease but she remains positive. “Doctors were treating women [with breast cancer] in the same way, with the same medication 10 years ago,” says White. “I’m always interested in hearing about new [research] discoveries.” October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Canadian Cancer Society estimates 23,000 women in Canada will be diagnosed with breast cancer and 5,000 women will die from the disease in 2011. For more info, visit www.cancer.ca/british columbia-yukon.aspx. reporter@northshoreoutlook.com

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n a high-priced game of “catch-up� with the west side of Vancouver where real estate figures rose dramatically last spring, home prices have increased 25 per cent in West Vancouver representing the largest increase in the region, according to Royal LePage’s third-quarter House Price Survey. A detached bungalow in West Van rose to $1.2 million, up from $900,000, while two-storey homes rose to $1.3 million, up from $988,000. Prices for both types of homes are triple the national averages. Bill Binnie, broker and owner of Royal LePage North Shore, told The Outlook one reason for the jump in prices was a “shift in consumer demand� from Asian buyers from Richmond to West Van, in particular the Ambleside and Dundarave neighbourhoods. Jason Soprovich While the Royal LePage survey focuses solely on sales figures from March-June, statistics from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver indicate the upswing has continued. From September-January 2010, there were 969 detached home sales in West Van, with a median price of $1,780,000. Over the same period last year, there were 537 homes sold, at a median price of $1,488,000. West Vancouver realtor Jason Soprovich told The Outlook this spring marked “one of the most feverish pitches in purchasing power� he’d seen in nearly 20 years, although the pace has since somewhat slowed down. Soprovich also echoed Binnie’s findings, saying buyers from Mainland China represented 80-85 per cent of his sales in 2011, and have for the past few years. “I think people have realized the values here versus areas like the west side of Vancouver. Here you get a 12,000-foot lot versus 5,000-square-foot lots there. Here you have dedicated police and fire

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— LET TER OF T HE W EEK— Argyle Avenue wrong spot for art gallery Editor, I appreciate the article by Todd Coyne on the work of John Seddon opposing the development of a large art gallery on Argyle Avenue. I agree whole-heartedly with John, not only because it is the wrong place for such a development, i.e. humidity control costs to protect any permanent collection, parking requirements for visitors, staff and docents and view blockage as John mentioned. I spoke with John about the reasons the property acquisitions were commenced by council in 1975 which I, as municipal manager at the time, recommended to them. The primary reason was to acquire park land to replace the 25 acres comprising the doggy park, par-3 golf course and the lagoon which we feared

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is being renovated for such use in the 1700-block of Argyle. How many more do we need? It was suggested to me that if there is a true need for a large arts facility, then perhaps council should be urged to find someone who would establish a commercial gallery. Obviously if the need is there then a commercial operation would be successful. Thank you for the opportunity of reminding our council, senior staff and new residents as to the reasons for acquiring the foreshore. Terry Lester, West Van

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Andrew (at left) and Teresa (left inset) are both residents at the Lookout Shelter (below). Rob Newell photos (left)/ File (below)

*** Around that time, Teresa was also finding her way to the North Shore Shelter from a "home" which boasted a roof and four doors. She'd been sleeping in a car after fleeing what she described as an abusive relationship for the last time. And while in early adulthood, poverty and poor mental health conspired to keep the wolf hungry at her door, it took years before Teresa realized she'd long since invited the real animal of her undoing into her home. She says women often stay in relationships because they have no place else to go. She added that once her family found out she had been intermittently homeless, they avoided her as if she were "contagious." On finally leaving the relationship she describes as "toxic," Teresa lived in and out of her car while on the waiting list for North Vancouver’s Sage Transition House for women escaping violence. It was her first introduction to the North Shore, a place she now proudly calls “home” from her suite in the North Shore Shelter. “Coming up here has given me a real community,” she says. “The roof over my head was the main thing I needed. Now I work with church groups, I volunteer at the shelter and at the Harvest [Project]. They supported me and now I can give back.” *** According to North Shore housing advocates, women — especially the young — are a growing demographic among the North Shore’s homeless population, but often they are the least visible demographic; more likely to sleep in cars or on couches than in shelters or on the streets. While youth homelessness is on the rise among both boys and girls since the last regional homeless count in 2008, advocacy groups also want to draw attention to another emerging trend on the North Shore: homeless seniors. Advocates say adequate housing is becoming unaffordable for many North Shore seniors as older buildings are being torn down to make way for higher value properties and seniors are left to choose between paying for medications, food or housing. “As every older rental housing project comes down and is replaced,” Don Peters of North Shore Community Resources told North Van district council this month, “costs are higher and all kinds of people are displaced and just go away. They just go away.” Last spring, the North Shore’s Lionsview Seniors Planning Society took a summary snapshot of homelessness among North Shore seniors which found that annually there are an average of 60 people older than 55 who are known among outreach workers to be homeless. Of those, 10 to 20 are classified as chronically homeless while the others are thought to be periodically without a place to live. More worrying is that seniors are thought to be underrepresented on such “snapshot” counts because of higher instances of mental illness and higher mortality rates, the Lionsview study found. More worrying still is that of the 26,930 seniors over 65 who call the North Shore home, 1,675 — or 6 per cent — have incomes below the low-income line of $15,344 for singles or $18,676 for a two-person household. Of these, 1,215 North Shore seniors are thought to be in urgent housing need, spending more than half of their income on housing. This group, the study determined, are at immediate risk of becoming homeless. And still, it’s one of the North Shore’s fastest growing demographics. In the next five years, the over-65 population is expected to grow by at least 24 per cent, according to the Lionsview study. Over the next 10 years, Lionsview staff projected the seniors population to grow by 48 per cent, jumping to 73 per cent more than the current population by 2031. *** This Saturday (Oct. 15), North Shore housing services groups are hosting Lower Mainland Street Soccer exhibition games from 1 to 4 p.m. at North Vancouver’s Norseman Park as part of North Shore Connect Days. After the games, Mt. Seymour United Church at 1200 Parkgate Ave. will show two documentary films about homelessness accompanied by a discussion with Vancouver housing advocate Judy Graves. Admission is free with donations of socks for the North Shore Shelter graciously accepted. tcoyne@northshoreoutlook.com twitter.com/toddcoyne

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started this project, from the iconic white lettering that spells out Canada on a cylindrical train car resting adjacent to the Low Level Road to messages of hope scrawled on a boarded-up windows at The Bay downtown after this June’s Stanley Cup riot. Singer’s intention behind melding distorted scenes of the past 10 years overtop of one another is to show fragmentary images can trigger memories and emotion that blur and fade as time passes. “Life is not a straight line or a series of perfect photographs through the years, there are constantly curves being thrown at you; illness, unemployment,” figures Singer. He used a 35 mm film camera at the beginning, but when he picked up the project again this summer he switched to the Cadillac of digital cameras: the Canon EOS 1D Mark III, 10.1 megapixel, yet the desired effect was grainy images. “If anything I downgraded the stuff I shot this summer,” he says. The way in which he captures his muses begs the question: how does Singer maintain control of his van while snapping away? “That’s a very good question,” he laughs. “We shouldn’t talk about that. And my car is not an automatic. I would shift gears, look and photograph.” At one point he took a safer approach to his art, allowing his brother to drive him around. That experiment did not yield an artist’s innovation. “It’s a totally different outcome,” says Singer. “When you have that kind of control the image become studied.” The mural he created for this exhibit, which stretches 70 feet long and three feet high and wraps around the inside of the Seymour Art Galley, appropriately ends with a snapshot of Deep Cove. It was originally to be called DriveBy Shooting, but Singer was told that might scare away people from the exhibition, so he dropped the word “shooting.” He says visitors to the gallery will experience exactly what he did in the car and decide what to focus on. “I’m not sure if you will remember it at the end, but if you do it will just be a snapshot,” says Singer. Drive-By runs from Tuesday, Oct. 18 until Nov. 27 at the Seymour Art Gallery, 4360 Gallant Ave. For more information visit seymourartgallery. com.

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fill-up in Metro Vancouver will cost motorists an extra two cents a litre in TransLink tax starting next April. Sixteen mayors approved TransLink’s supplemental plan last Friday by an 81-34 population-weighted vote – a 70-per-cent majority. It ensures the long-stalled Evergreen Line to Coquitlam is finally built and delivers a variety of other transit upgrades across the region, partly funded through the gas tax increase. But more new fees targeting drivers could be on the way, such as an annual vehicle levy or road pricing, as a result of the vote. At least that’s what most mayors hope happens. The Metro cities and the province are now committed to try to negotiate various new sources for TransLink to cover nearly half of the extra $70 million per year required to fund the transit expansion plan. It’s a big leap of faith for the mayors, who are trusting that Victoria will deliver and not leave them in the lurch once again. If the province gets cold feet or otherwise refuses to sign off on new sources, a $23 average property tax increase takes effect instead. “This is not the end of the road – this is the beginning of the road to the solution,” Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender said. Surrey mayor Dianne Watts said a “fair tolling policy” must be part of the debate, to end the inequity of some Metro residents paying more in tolls than others. “We have a year,” Watts said. “If we can’t do this in a year, I think we should all just walk away from the table. If for whatever reason it fails I will not be sitting at this table.” Approval was assured because Surrey and Vancouver had enough weighted votes to pass the plan with only a few other cities on board. Six mayors opposed the plan: Burnaby’s Derek Corrigan, Richmond’s Malcolm Brodie, Delta’s Lois Jackson, Langley Township’s Rick Green, Pitt Meadows’ Don MacLean and New Westminster Mayor Wayne Wright. Green said South of Fraser residents are underserved by transit and tapped out on what they can pay. “I’m hearing it loud and clear,” he said. “People have

just had enough.” MacLean warned the fall-back property tax increase, if used, will not be temporary but will stay in place forever because rescinding it would trigger drastic transit service cuts. Several mayors predicted Victoria will back out and refuse to grant new sources – especially ones sure to be contentious as the next provincial election nears – leaving them stuck with the unwanted property tax. “Can you imagine how difficult a road pricing debate is going to be and how divisive that is going to be in our region?” Brodie asked. “I’m afraid I don’t have that kind of faith,” Delta Mayor Lois Jackson added. TransLink has tried to get on sustainable financial footing before. It had the green light to impose a $75 per vehicle levy in 2000 but the Opposition Liberals fought it and the NDP government scrapped it in a bid to shore up votes. More recently, TransLink adopted a parking stall tax, but the Liberal government decided it was unacceptable and killed it, amid a governance overhaul that took control away from the elected reps. Some mayors, such as Brodie, wanted to approve just the two-cent gas tax for the $1.4-billion Evergreen Line, chop the other spending in the plan and avoid the risk of a property tax hike. But others said they couldn’t support an Evergreen Line only solution – nor was it possible because mayors had no power to amend the plan crafted by TransLink’s unelected board. Changes to the governance structure giving cities more control of the spending priorities is a key demand of the mayors. Corrigan said the province will only grant real reform if the mayors take a stand and freeze the flow of new cash to TransLink. “You cannot go on being treated like sheep,” he told other Metro mayors. “We have to have our own Boston tea party.” The provincial government still has to pass legislation this month enabling the TransLink gas tax increase from a current 15 cents a litre to 17 cents next spring. As soon as the increase is legislated, the province is expected to move quickly to issue a request for proposals for the Evergreen Line – likely before the end of the year – setting the stage for a construction start next year. A jubilant Mayor Joe Trasolini of Port Moody said his city will reverse a development freeze as soon as the project advances. NDP transportation critic Harry Bains said the

Opposition will support the two-cent gas tax hike when it goes to a vote in Victoria to ensure the Evergreen Line proceeds. He would not spell out the NDP position on future funding sources. The upgrades promised in the plan include RapidBus service from Langley over the new Port Mann Bridge to Lougheed Station, White Rock-Langley bus route and a B-Line express bus route in Surrey running on 104 Avenue to Guildford and down King George Boulevard to White Rock. Also promised are more frequent SeaBus runs, SkyTrain station upgrades and a general increase in bus service of more than 420,000 hours a year, along with restored funding for road work and bike routes. The approval of TransLink’s $400-million share of Evergreen Line costs also secures more than $1-billion in federal and provincial contributions. The plan does not include longer-term priorities, such as new rapid transit lines in Surrey to Langley and White Rock, a Broadway corridor line to UBC or increased West Coast Express service. Those projects all depend on much more money coming to TransLink in future years via new sources.

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