Deep Cove Crier July 2016 by North Shore News Features

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Trail exhibition

A new art installation on Mt. Seymour pays homage to hardworking trail builders.

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Group rallies to save part of Dollarton history by MARIA SPITALE-LEISK As B.C. Day approaches, a group of artists and history enthusiasts are rallying to save a colourful, last remaining vestige from Dollarton’s storied squatter era. The Blue Cabin, beloved home to artist couple Al Neil and Carole Itter for 50 years, languishes in storage at a chemical plant in the nearby industrial area. Rotted remnants of an old timber dock remain attached to the diminutive blue cabin after it was uprooted from the banks of the Burrard Inlet near Cates Park last summer. Until last year, Neil, 90, and Itter, 75, surviving stalwarts of the squatter era, continued to live in their blue cabin furnished with a Farrand upright piano for Neil, a freestyle jazz musician. But they were forced to leave to make way for a new Polygon condo development on the old McKenzie Barge site. Polygon put up the money to have the frail 80-year-old cabin trucked away. The rectangular cabin with distinctive red shutters now sits six feet in the air, on skids, inside the Canexus chemical plant – a stone’s throw from Maplewood mudflats and a stretch of the Dollarton waterfront richly steeped in North Vancouver history. A squatter community settled on the Dollarton shoreline in the 1930s, counting English poet Malcolm Lowry among its inhabitants. By the 1970s the area became a haven and counterculture hotbed for artists and hippies who lived in shacks that lined the inlet’s banks. “It’s important to be able to have something tangible that you can look back on and remember what life used to be like,” said District of North Vancouver Coun. Lisa Muri, who is championing efforts to save the blue cabin, along with a group of artists and heritage experts. Plans to restore the relic as an artists’ residency are now underway, bolstered by a $10,000 grant DNV council awarded the Blue Cabin Committee on April 11. At that meeting, Coun. Doug MacKay-

Dunn said the blue cabin has the potential to be a monument to Dollarton’s history. “We’re living through a period of rapid change and even more rapid development,” said MacKay-Dunn. “You know, we risk forgetting our past.” The Blue Cabin Committee envisions putting the historic cabin on a barge, with a small house alongside it to serve as a floating, unique artists’ residence outfitted with digital screens to show the history of squatting, the foreshore and First Nations in the Dollarton area. While their intention is to have the cabin mobile so it can be on display in different waterfront communities, the group is “committed to have it connected to the North Shore,” Blue Cabin Committee member Glenn Alteen, a director of the Vancouver-based Grunt Gallery, told council. Alteen has a

“We risk forgetting our past.” – Coun. Doug MacKay-Dunn personal connection to the project, having worked as a curator for the artists that own the cabin. Coun. Robin Hicks, calling the project “a tremendous waste of money, could not be convinced of its heritage value when it came to voting on the funding application. “How much do we as a society spend on a dilapidated hut?” said Hicks. “I think $10,000 is not an insignificant amount and it could be used to help the homeless or more charitable endeavours within the district.” Coun. Roger Bassam suggested the heritage value of the cabin is in its esthetic, which he said could probably be recreated.

Until last year artist Carole Itter (pictured here) and Al Neil lived in their little blue cabin by the sea for nearly 50 years. FILE PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Tree talk: Understanding the DNV’s tree bylaw

Issues relating to trees are seldom off council’s agenda for very long. Whether the discussion centres on sustaining them or removing them, trees inspire passionate debate amongst residents. Our identity clearly flows from our forested slopes, our coat of arms is backdropped with the trees we love; yet the reason our community developed was largely due to the economic wealth gained a century ago from cutting them down – the bigger (and older), the better. But 125 years later we view our trees quite differently. In fact, living near or under the dominant evergreen canopy is one of the reasons many choose to call the district home. We know now the benefits of preserving our trees. Our foresters tell us that evergreens absorb massive amounts of CO2 in a world experiencing elevated greenhouse gas levels and corresponding warming temperatures. Our 2011 official community plan understands this and makes protecting and enhancing the health of our urban forest a principal objective. The trees that surround us are very much working trees and, though much of their work is invisible,

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it is critical to the health and well-being of our environment. Their local presence help ensure we have clean air, and critical wildlife habitat for a healthy, functioning ecosystem. They also play a key role in stabilizing slopes and managing storm water runoff. But to many of our residents trees can also be an immediate nuisance. They obscure views, their debris clogs our eavestroughs and blocks storm drains. Their shade can be a challenge for even the most seasoned home gardener battling slugs, and when they are in poor condition they can pose a risk of failure during windstorms and heavy rain. Because they are not only a critical part of our ecosystem, but also at times a hazard, managing our biomass is not always simple. Four years ago we developed our tree protection bylaw, which tried to create a balance between regulating, protecting and preserving our urban forest and ecosystem and recognizing our responsibility to minimize risk to people and property. The bylaw defines which trees in the DNV are protected and may not be removed. Those protected trees include all trees on district land regardless of size, and trees on private property that are over 75 centimetres in diameter. Protected trees also include any trees that are within a streamside protection area, on a steep slope, waterfront or wetland area, are classified as replacement or restricted by covenant, heritage or wildlife trees, or are any of the following species: arbutus, Garry oak, oregon ash, Pacific yew, western white pine and yellow cedar. On private property a permit is also required for the removal or pruning of trees that are over 75 centimetres in diameter and not otherwise protected. To prune or remove a tree that fits any of the descriptions above, you must get a permit costing $74.50 per tree removed or pruned, and in the case of

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Seymour Salmonid Society Blueridge rallies to support new neighbours makes community contributions Blueridge has always had a reputation as a tight-knit neighbourhood. The community has your back, even if you just moved here. The family of Syrian refugees who recently fled their own wartorn neighbourhood and moved into the bucolic North Vancouver neighbourhood just found that out. Things didn’t start so well. In June burglars hit their home and stole the few possessions the family owned. The thieves stole, among other things, medicine, a laptop, cellphone chargers and the donated PlayStation that the kids used to play games and learn English, among other things. They ransacked the place. As news about the robbery spread, the community was outraged. B&Es are rare here. And of all the homes to hit. This family had already endured so much. Angela Duso of the Blueridge Community Association felt horribly for the family. She immediately took money over to the family and heard from other neighbours who also wanted to help. She later started a GoFundMe campaign to raise money so the family could replace their possessions. It didn’t take long for the online campaign to raise $3,000, with nearly 60 area residents contributing. Others donated money and other items to the family through the school. “I was amazed it happened so quickly,” Duso said, noting that the campaign spread quickly on social media. “People want to see that family succeed and felt horrible that should happen to them. It’s a good community and word spread quickly.” The community didn’t just share money. They also sent messages expressing sadness over the break-in

and encouraged the family to feel safe in the community and in their home. One couple even offered to donate money for an alarm. Duso was among the group that recently delivered a cheque to the family. She said the family was so grateful that “all these people in the community would help them.” The family invited them for dinner to return the hospitality. “It’s a very tight-knit community and that’s a bonus about living there. People know each other,” she said, adding that community members are more than willing to “donate time to make it a better place.” Eric Anderson, who has lived in Blueridge for nearly 30 years and is president of the Blueridge Community Association isn’t surprised by the swift response by his neighbours to help the family from Syria. Part of the glue that binds the community is the Blueridge Community Association, which publishes a newsletter that’s sent to 1,500 homes. The association also has a Good Neighbour Greeting Team, which helps newcomers get used to the community, hosts Blueridge Good Neighbour Day and most recently, along with Cultivate Projects and the District of North Vancouver, created a Sharing Garden at Carnation and Lytton streets, across from Seymour Heights school, a place designed for “neighbours to come together to learn, grow and share with the community east of the Seymour River.” “It’s a beautiful place and there are lots of wonderful people. I walk down the street and there’s always people you know. People are so involved. People that move here tend to stay a long time. It’s a great community.”i

JANE THORNTHWAITE MLA for North Vancouver Seymour

We’re fortunate on the North Shore that we have an amazing community dedicated to volunteerism and service. Since 1987, the Seymour Salmonid Society has released thousands of coho, steelhead, pink and chum salmon into the Seymour River each year to enhance local fish stocks. In addition to running the Seymour hatchery, the society has been instrumental in providing educational programs to elementary students across the Lower Mainland. I’m really proud that the provincial government supports them with an annual grant of $20,000. These initiatives provide a unique hands-on learning experience for students, teaching them the importance of habitat, ecology and conservation. The Seymour Salmonid Society and its more than 300 members and volunteers make an invaluable contribution to our community and continue to promote education and conservation. In December 2014, a massive rock slide caused 50,000 cubic metres of granite to block part of the Seymour canyon, cutting salmon off from an important spawning estuary. Over the past year, the society and its volunteers have been busy rescuing the salmon that have been cut off, capturing and ferrying them upstream, one by one, so they could make it to the estuary to spawn. Despite these ongoing efforts, the

lasting impact of the rock slide is threatening the Seymour’s ability to remain a salmonid-bearing body of water, which is why the society is partnering with the Squamish Nation to build an aluminum fence to trap and move fish upstream and developing a plan to use explosives to slowly chip away at the blockage. The society’s president (and constituent of mine), Shaun Hollingsworth, asked for help. So I arranged for the Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resources, Steve Thomson, to join MLA Naomi Yamamoto and I as we hiked to the site to see it firsthand. The society needs significant funds to help blast through the blockade, and there was no hesitation from the North Vancouver MLAs to fight for these dollars. We were excited to be able to hand the society a cheque for $50,000 this past April. While the society as a whole needs to be recognized for the work, Hollingsworth’s dedication, hard work and constant lobbying have led to direct action. It’s no surprise this past February he was awarded with the Tim Jones Community Achievement Award as a recognition of his relentless support of community efforts on the North Shore. On behalf of the community, I want to thank the society and its volunteers for continuing to promote education and conservation, and for protecting a precious resource that belongs to all British Columbians. Learn more about what is happening in our riding by subscribing to my monthly MLA report at janethornthwaitemla. bc.ca/subscribe. Contact me by e-mail at jane.thornthwaite.mla@leg.bc.ca, or by phone at 604-983-9852, on Facebook or stop by my constituency office.i

Art in the woods: Photography exhibit showcases work of trailbuilders by JUSTIN BEDDALL

There’s a very cool – and very original – new art installation in the Seymour area. But you will need hiking boots or a mountain bike to find it. Evidence of Trial Fairies is a photo exhibit in the woods created by the appropriately named Euan Forrester, a local photographer-slashmountain biker. On his website, euanforresterphotography.com, Forrester explains the background of his project, saying that for nine months he photographed two trail builders as they made a brand new trail. Once he chose the photographs he wanted to display he didn’t hunt for a gallery space.

Evidence of Trail Fairies is an exhibit along the Penny Lane and Good Sir Martin trails on Mt. Seymour until September. PHOTOS JUSTIN BEDDALL

He wanted to hang the extra-large prints along the trails, so they’ve been UV and weather-proofed to keep them in pristine shape for the entire length of the outdoor exhibit, which is scheduled to run until September.

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I stumbled upon the exhibit while hiking and it was an unexpected and whimsical surprise that turned into an art treasure hunt. The photos are hung on the Penny Lane and Good Sir Martin trails on Mt.

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Seymour. At the trailheads, he’s posted large display boards that provide a map of where the prints are located and further explanation about the project, which he explains is dedicated to Martin Newman and Penny Deck, for creating the aforementioned trails. “In these photos I want to show the experience I observed of being a trail builder: appreciating the beauty of nature, caring for it, and being dwarfed by it. I want to show the feelings of friendship, of pride, of adventure of teamwork, of mentorship, of exhaustion and loneliness that I saw,” he writes. It’s definitely an exhibit worth checking out. Even if it’s a little hard to find.i

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The Seymour Art Gallery is a great place to discover art. And it’s also a great place to take a free, drop-in meditation session. On Tuesday, July 5, stop by for Meditation in the Gallery with Farhad Khan at 12:30 p.m. No registration is required. The 60-minute class is on medication and breathing (pranayama) and is ideal for beginners. The Seymour Art Gallery is located at 4360 Gallant Ave. Call 604-924-1378 or email info@seymourartgallery.com.

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The Raven Pub and Restaurant has lots of entertainment on tap in July, from B.C. Lions games to live music. Here’s the July entertainment lineup (music starts at 8 p.m.): Friday, July 8, Stephanie Pedraza; Saturday, July 9, Jim Rhodes; Friday, July 15, Flanagans; Saturday, July 16, Sami Ghawi & Eleven 09; Friday, July 22, Mike Bertini; Saturday, July 23, Stephanie Pedraza; Friday, July 29, Mike Bertini; Saturday, July 30, Northern Ignition. The Raven is located at 1052 Deep Cove Rd. Call 604-929-3834 or visit the ravenpub.com.

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Deep Cove Brewers and Distillers is known locally and across the bridge for its award-winning craft brews and spirits. But you can also enjoy some spirited live entertainment inside their tasting lounge while enjoying some locally sourced food and drink. The July lineup includes: Tobacco Brown, Friday, July 1, 7-9 p.m.;

Farhad Khan will be leading Meditation in the Gallery on July 5 at the Seymour Art Gallery. The class is free and no meditation experience is required. PHOTO SUPPLIED

Dave Martone, Saturday, July 2, 7-9 p.m.; DJ Sheps, Sunday, July 3, 3:30-6:30 p.m.; Ryan Mcallister, Friday, July 8, 7-9 p.m.; Dino Dinicolo, Saturday, July 9, 7-9 p.m.; Zaac Pick, Friday, July 15, 7-9 p.m. Musos Artist, Saturday, July 16, 7-9 p.m.; DJ Sheps, Sunday, July 17, 3:30-6:30 p.m.; Just A Season, Friday, July 22, 7-9 p.m.; Jesse Waldman, Saturday, July 23, 7-9 p.m.; Chris Witoski, Saturday, July 29, 7-9 p.m. For more info, go to deepcovecraft.com. Deep Cove Brewers and Distillers is located at Unit 170 - 2270 Dollarton Hwy. Call 604-770-1136 or email info@deepcovecraft.com.

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The popular outdoor concert series kicks off Saturday, July 16, 4-7 p.m. at Cates Park. The free concerts, which feature local bands

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! Seniors Connection by SHELLEY HARRISON RAE It’s July. When things start heating up outside head to the seniors centre and “play it cool.” For registration and information for programs and drop-in games call the Parkgate front desk at 604-983-6350 and quote the barcode number (#), or visit myparkgate.com. Parkgate Seniors Centre Membership: $30 annual membership offers discounts on all seniors programming, special events, and lunches at Parkgate Community Centre. Membership fees go directly to seniors programming. To volunteer at the centre call Alison Caldwell Johnson, volunteer co-ordinator, at 604-983-6385 or email ajohnson@myparkgate. com. Mountain Stories Along the Trails: Presented by Elder Council for Parks on Saturday, July 16 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Commemorate North Vancouver’s 125th birthday and travel through time with historical characters for a unique outdoor storytelling experience. Interact with costumed storytellers to weave together historical tales of the Seymour Valley. Bus transportation available. For info and RSVP,

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Members of the Burrard Yacht Club take part in the 84th annual Sailpast Ceremony off Waterfront Park in North Vancouver on May 14 to kick off the 2016 boating season. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

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Coffee with former NHLer Garry Valk by MARIA

SPITALE-LEISK Garry Valk strides up to Arms Reach Bistro on an overcast late-spring morning. The former Canuck is dressed sharply in a fitted black suit and sporting matching rimmed specs. “Nice to meet you,” he says affably. As we grab a seat at the window, a young waiter, who most likely wasn’t alive when the Canucks first wore the flying skate jerseys, approaches the table. “Hey, Mr. Valk,” he says, excitedly greeting the Arms Reach regular. Valk is a local celebrity, by all accounts, and a driving force fuelling ’90s NHL nostalgia in Deep Cove – a retirement community for a handful of hockey stars. Dave Babych, Valk’s one-time Canucks teammate, and former Flames player Todd Harkins – who also call the Cove home – sold Valk

on the idea of moving to the idyllic waterfront community. “They talked me into it and I love it. Wouldn’t move away,” says Valk, who settled close to Cates Park a decade ago. The trio of NHL vets tries to catch up regularly for some fishing and crabbing, or boating up Indian Arm. Being on the water is a welcome respite for Valk, as he navigates a post-hockey life that includes raising kids following in his athletic footsteps and a bustling real-estate career. “You have a bond,” says Valk, of connecting with former players. “You’re all feeling the aches and pains. We’re all around 50 years old.” Valk grew up in Edmonton, one of four siblings, and credits his simple Prairie upbringing for keeping him focused on hockey. After attending the University of North Dakota on a hockey scholarship, Valk was

After a successful NHL career Garry Valk has shifted his focus to selling real estate. PHOTO MARIA SPITALE-LEISK

drafted by the Canucks and played his first game in 1990. Trevor Linden was his first roommate. “He’s (Linden) the guy who taught me to nap from 2 to 4 (p.m.) and to have oatmeal in the morning to recharge my body,” says Valk. While Valk rattles off some of his old teammates names – Bure, Odjick, Ronning and McLean – another wave of early ’90s Canucks nostalgia hits. A season prior to the Canucks ‘94 cup run, Valk was picked up by Anaheim in the expansion draft. It was a surreal experience for Valk, who recalls being paraded around with his new teammates through Disneyland on a duck float and how unfamiliar with hockey the city was. Valk came back to Vancouver to get married just four days after the Canucks lost to the Rangers in the Stanley Cup Final. “These guys just went through a war and they made sure and got to my wedding,” says Valk. He laughs as he recalls his brother-in-law, who looks like Kirk McLean, signing autographs at the wedding on behalf of the Canucks goalie. It was actually the Canucks barber that set up Valk and his wife, Tanya. “So all the Canucks guys, we’d go see Aldo Mauro and we’d go to Nick’s Spaghetti House and have some lunch. So he (Aldo) kept telling me about this Italian girl that he knew. And then finally we met,” says Valk. “Every game day she made Italian breaded chicken with penne pasta with homemade pesto,” says Valk, sipping a cappuccino. The couple has three kids. Alli, their oldest, is a competitive tennis player who is headed to San Diego State University on

a full-ride scholarship this August. The Valk’s middle child, Garrett, plays Bantam AAA hockey with the North Shore Winter Club and has NHL aspirations, while their youngest, Tyson, also takes to the ice and is coached by dad. Valk dabbled in highend car sales for a while, before becoming a realestate agent last year. Putting his phone number and face on open house signs was nerve-racking at

first for Valk. “Fans from hockey can just call me up and heckle me,” he says, laughing. But the name recognition does help, concedes Valk. A Rogers Sportsnet hockey analyst, Valk also weighs in on when the Canucks will win the Stanley Cup. It will happen in 2020, he says. “I think they can get it done because (Canucks general manager) Jim Benning is a good hockey guy,” says Valk.

Valk became Toronto’s adopted son during the 1999 NHL playoffs, when he scored a key overtime goal against Pittsburg that advanced the Leafs to the third round. A local high school elected Valk as their president, while many residents voted for “Garry Valk Plaza” in an online poll to name a new Toronto condo project. Closer to home, Valk walks a couple steps outside Arms Reach and is immediately recognized. “Hey, Valkie – looking good, buddy,” shouts a twenty-something from his SUV stopped at the east end of Gallant.i

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Does prayer still have a future in Canada? At the 50th BC Leadership Prayer Breakfast, Angus Reid the keynote speaker gave us the latest Angus Reid Institute results from polling 1,500 Canadians on prayer. Held at the Vancouver Hyatt Regency, dignitaries like Premier Christie Clark and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson brought greetings to over 1,000 B.C. leaders. Reid, a well-known Canadian pollster, informed us that while weekly church attendance has dropped from 56 per cent in 1966 to 15 per cent, 85 per cent of Canadians still pray, at least occasionally. Reid found that weekly prayer by 40 per cent of Canadians (12 million people) has remained relatively constant over the past century. Reid said 70 per cent of Canadians who pray frequently say that their prayers are answered always or often, in contrast to just 25 per cent of Canadians who pray infrequently. Those who pray frequently focus more on thanksgiving than in just asking for help, said Reid. Contrary to some stereotypes, he also found that university educated Canadians (33 per cent) are more likely to pray daily than high school dropouts (26 per cent). Reid’s data showed that new immigrants are twice as likely to be frequent prayers as native-born Canadians. This confirms my experience that new immigrants are much more open to the gospel and attending church. It is no wonder that, according to Jonathan Bird of the Vancouver

Consultation, one third of Vancouver churches conduct their worship in languages other than English. Of particular interest was Reid’s discovery that childhood prayer greatly shapes one’s likeliness for praying as an adult: If you prayed frequently as a child, the chance that you would be a non-prayer today is seven per cent. If you didn’t pray as a child, the odds that you would be a frequent prayer today is six percent. This reminds me as to how faith survived in Russia during the 70 years of atheistic communism. The key was grandparents who taught their grandchildren how to pray even when their children were officially forbidden to attend Sunday School. Many Canadian parents have bought into the tragic idea that it is better to not expose children to religion or church until they are adults, when they can “make up their own mind.” Even though I did not meet Jesus until age 17, I was blessed to be taught to pray as a child by my mom, as well as in Sunday School. Prayer was something that I linked with remembering one’s family before going to sleep, and in saying grace at the dining room table when my nana came to visit. Imagine how we might shape the future of Canada if we invested in helping the new generation learn how to pray. If we will prayerfully strengthen the new generation, then prayer will have a Canadian future. Lord, teach us to pray.i Rev. Dr. Ed Hird, Rector, St. Simon’s Church North Vancouver, Anglican Mission in Canada

Co-owners Bob Putnam and Erian Baxter with founding member Ingrid Baxter recently celebrated 35 years of recreational boating at Deep Cove Canoe and Kayak. The group held a barbecue, displayed historical memorabilia and rented boats, and stand-up paddle boards on June 6. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN

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Mayor Richard Walton briefly reminisced about taking students from Carson Graham secondary down to the Dollarton area in the 1970s to sit at the side of Lowry’s cabin and study his work. “This cabin does have greater value I think than just in North Vancouver district,” said Walton, adding he is hoping the cabin comes back home to reside in the district. Previously the DNV mulled restoring the cabin and keeping it in Cates Park, but Muri said that raised liability concerns. The Blue Cabin committee has already received in-kind labour and professional expertise for the estimated $350,000 remediation project, and recently applied for funding grants from the City of Vancouver, Metro Vancouver, Heritage B.C, and the B.C. Arts Council. At the end of June, the group was finishing the cabin’s structural assessment and outline for the restoration work, which has been put to three contractors for estimates. They are now waiting on an early feasibility study, to be completed in the next two weeks, that looks at locations

District of North Vancouver Coun. Lisa Muri, Esther Rausenberg, Glenn Alteen and Barbara Cole at the Malcom Lowry plaque at the trail named after the famous writer. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

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