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Capilano water main project hits delay Concrete mass, gas line among surprises

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Metro Vancouver’s massive water main construction project underway on Capilano Road since September has hit a snag, pushing the completion date into next year.

Vancouver RCMP’s non-emergency number but the couple were left wondering who the Peeping Tom was.

“It’s probably some kid goofing off but on the other hand, how do you know they’re not checking out to see whether there’s anybody home?” Margaret asked.

Max suspects it was someone professional based on the look of the drone.

Work crews were scheduled to install a new valve chamber at Edgemont Boulevard and Capilano Road starting in February, but “unforeseen obstacles” with the larger water main project mean the valve work, which should take four months to finish, won’t go ahead until at least November.

“Basically what happened was the schedule got delayed by a few underground conditions that weren’t expected.

I mean, it’s a huge pipe,” said Tegan Smith, who is managing the District of North Vancouver’s interests in the project.

A new two-metrediameter regional water main, replacing 80-year-old infrastructure, has been constructed under Capilano Road.

The arterial route has been closed in 200-metre sections between Cleveland Dam and Edgemont Boulevard since late last summer, with detours in place.

Along the way crews ran into some obstacles including a large concrete mass

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Upper Capilano Road businesses have taken a huge hit during the water main project, said Michael Jang, who stands in front of his convenience store obscured by construction fencing. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

Snooping drone’s attention irks North Vancouver couple

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A Deep Cove couple is warning their neighbours after they got some unwanted attention from drone-enabled looky-loos.

Margaret Taylor was in her lounge on Tuesday evening when she noticed the drone hovering outside her Panorama Drive home.

“I just happened to look out and there was this drone looking in the window at me. I was just sort

of shocked at first. It’s like a camera pointed in your face almost, just a few feet off our veranda,” she said.

“I thought ‘What the hell are you doing?’ It just made me feel uncomfortable.”

The drone then hovered upward to the upper level of the home where her husband Max Taylor saw it.

“I looked at it and it shot up at a very high speed up high and then zoomed back towards (Panorama) Park,” he said.

Margaret reported the drone incident to the North

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When Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool character is diagnosed with cancer, it’s the District of North Vancouver’s chief administrator’s office he’s sitting in.

When agent Scully says a heartfelt goodbye to her son in The X-Files revival, it’s on the steps of Queen Mary elementary.

And when you see Dakota Johnson doing . . . whatever it is that happens in the Fifty Shades of Grey sequel, at least some of it will be on West Vancouver’s Stearman Beach.

It’s all part of the new golden age of Hollywood North as local jurisdictions report record filming activity, thanks in large part to the Canadian dollar hovering around 70 cents.

The District of North Vancouver hosted 87 movie, TV, and commercial productions in 2015 encompassing 212 filming permits and bringing $550,000 in revenue for the district (down from 2014 since the demolition of the old Lynn Valley library, which had been rented out for film production).

The City of North Vancouver enjoyed one of the highest bumps in filming activity in the Lower Mainland with 121 permits, up from 79 in 2014. Filming revenues put $190,000 in the city’s coffers last year, compared to $178,000 in 2014. With an eye to the future, the city reduced its fees for low-budget indie films this year so that they won’t be priced out of filming locally.

West Vancouver only recently hired a dedicated filming co-ordinator, but it too enjoyed in the boom, with 32 permits, and $58,000 in revenue.

Among the movies shot locally in 2015: Army of One, The Shack, Deadpool, We Are Besties and Midnight Sun, Star Trek Beyond, Birth of a Dragon and Shut In. Perhaps most notable among TV shoots was the

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Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny, reprising their roles as agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder in The X-Files reboot, sit on a log in North Vancouver’s Cates Park.

The X-Files was one of dozens of TV shows shot locally that made 2015 one of the busiest years ever for the film industry. PHOTO SUPPLIED revival of The X-Files, but the North Shore saw many days of shooting for regulars Once Upon a Time, Man in the High Castle, Supernatural (now filming its 11th season locally), iZombie, The Flash, Arrow and Motive.

There was also one season of Mistresses.

“But they’ve gone back to Los Angeles. They tried one season here. The weather just messed up the actresses’ hair too much,” Alice To, the district’s film liaison said with a laugh.

The two main payroll companies that work in the film business track which postal codes cast and crew paycheques are mailed to. For the two North Vancouvers, that totalled $78 million in wages last year. That doesn’t include wages for non-unionized staff, or other expenses paid locally like catering, rentals, construction materials or other services.

Maybe not always to the liking of location managers and A-listers, film shoots tend to draw in fans hoping to catch a glimpse of their favourite stars, To said.

Despite an unseasonably warm October, the City of North Vancouver hosted a blizzard of fake snow to accommodate a film shoot. PHOTO SUPPLIED “We had one lady who brought her dog and her dog was called Mulder. She wanted Mulder to meet Mulder,” she said. “That’s the great interaction between the community and the film industry.”

North Shore residents don’t always appreciate their

neighbourhoods being home to so much lights-cameraaction. The most frequent complaint the city’s film liaison Clare Husk said she gets is about the parking “circuses” – the industry slang for film production vehicle convoys. Unlike most jurisdictions, the city requires

72-hours’ notice for neighbours when a circus is coming to town, Husk said, and the city deliberately discourages filming in certain “hot spots.”

All three jurisdictions are expecting 2016 to be even bigger with Stephen Speilberg’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl classic The BFG and the latest

Pirates of the Caribbean shooting in local studios.

But the marquee years may not last. The industry is notoriously feast and famine and the province has signalled it is looking to rein in the tax credit regime that B.C. has used to woo so many productions.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong told the Globe and Mail this week that the province can no longer afford the almost $500 million in foregone revenues it currently subsidizes the local film industry with. Under the production services tax credit, 33 per cent of a production company’s B.C. labour costs can be claimed to reduce the overall taxes owing. By comparison, B.C.’s biggest competitor for film dollars is Ontario, which offers 35 per cent.

North Shore Studios president Peter Leitch said he hopes the province will consider its return on investment and consult with leaders in the local industry before making any decisions.

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A “circus” comes to town in the Harbourside neighbourhood for the filming of an episode of iZombie. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD make sense for the province and the industry.”

Outside the tax credits, the province has supported local film by setting up an office in L.A. as a “direct link” to established and new producers like Google and Netflix.

“That additional marketing is very helpful in terms of making sure we stay current and engaged with all the changes that are going on in Los Angeles,” Leitch said.

Since the Lower Mainland started to gain a reputation as “Hollywood North” in recent decades, the region has developed in its own right and made itself more attractive to U.S. producers, regardless of the Canadian dollar or tax credit regime. And it doesn’t hurt that we’re in the same time zone as L.A., Leitch added.

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the same right across Canada.

It certainly is a big help but we’ve built the infrastructure and the crew base here for the last 30 years. Also, we’ve been engaged with Los Angeles for that period of time. Those are important factors,” he said.

Like guests in a hotel, productions can’t be counted on to stay long term, so there’s a constant need to win more productions. At least in the short-term, that’s looking good, Leitch said.

“The good news is the phone is ringing all the time so there’s demand there. It’s just a matter of how it works out in terms of fitting the pieces together,” he said. “It’s good times right now. The good thing about the industry is we’ve been through this cycle before so we don’t take them for granted.”

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“If there’s any issue they’ve got with the credits, we want to talk with them because obviously there’s a lot of benefits that come out of creating these jobs,” he said. “When you’re dumping a lot of money into the economy, as this industry does, it benefits a broad range of different small businesses. If you look at North Vancouver, there are hundreds of businesses that benefit from this industry.”

An economic impact analysis commissioned by the Motion Picture Association of Canada found Once Upon a Time’s production spent $55 million in its third season on everything from film crews to cleaners. The study concluded the show resulted in $8.44 in economic output for every dollar in tax incentives offered by the province.

That one season of the show supported 1,117 full-time equivalent positions, about the same number of construction jobs as 467 new home starts would bring.

Leitch expressed optimism that an arrangement can be found that will work for British Columbians and his industry.

“We recognize it’s going to fluctuate. We’ve seen it go up and down in the past,” he said. “We want to see what their concerns are. We want to look at the numbers together and make sure they

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and a FortisBC gas line that was installed on top of the old water main.

“And that was significant gas infrastructure that needed be relocated before installing our main,” said Goran Oljaca, Metro Vancouver water services director of engineering and construction.

The old water main was more than 40 metres (131 feet) long and about six feet high with reinforced concrete, making it difficult for crews to remove.

Outdated Metro utilities maps were missing a 170-metre section of the gas line, said Oljaca, and the old water main was installed

before Capilano Road was even built.

Crews only discovered just how far those utility lines stretched once they excavated.

Metro contract crews took on the task of lifting the gas line that sat on top of the water main and supporting it with concrete blocks, which slowed down work on the project by two weeks.

The good news is the water main installation is over and Capilano Road is scheduled to fully reopen to traffic March 11, according to Metro Vancouver.

It’s been a long winter for North Vancouver resident Victor Tilton who travels up Capilano Road three times a week to ski at Grouse

Mountain.

Tilton has been waiting for a window where Capilano Road would be open from top to bottom, based on Metro Vancouver project updates he read online.

“But it’s always marked closed no matter what,” said Tilton.

Reader boards on Capilano Road provide information about traffic detours in the area, said Oljaca.

On Dec. 18 the road did reopen to two-lane traffic, but traffic was restricted again after the Christmas break as crews completed the water main installation.

At least one Capilano Road business has been financially impacted by the construction.

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Michael Jang said business is down 40 per cent over the same period last year at his store Henry’s Grocery at the corner of Montroyal and Capilano Road.

“It’s very slow,” he said.

All the businesses in his complex are suffering, added Jang, explaining that traffic that would normally pass in front of his store is being detoured a block above that point.

Between now and June work crews will repair some sewage infrastructure and begin final paving of Capilano Road which will take approximately four weeks starting

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Oljaca is anticipating four houses at the west end of Edgemont Boulevard at Capilano Road will be impacted by Metro’s fourmonth-long project as crews construct a valve chamber the size of a double car garage under the road.

“We’ll make sure that we provide access to their driveways,” said Oljaca.

A temporary three-way stop sign on Montroyal at Highland Boulevard, used as a means of traffic calming while Capilano Road was closed, will stay put after the project wraps and be monitored for its effectiveness, according to the district.

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The local movie industry is going gangbusters. That’s good news, as B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong recently acknowledged.

But as movie spending has increased, so has the provincial tax credit to the film industry.

Now the province is considering scaling back or capping its filming industry tax credits – expected to hit about $500 million this year. While we understand the concern, we’d urge caution before B.C. makes quick changes to a tax regime that’s helped build the local film industry.

The motion picture and animation industries employ tens of thousands of well-paid people. That’s a huge

contribution to the economy.

Because most film projects come from the U.S., our currency will likely be a key driver for the local movie business. But reliability is also key. We’d hate to see the province tinker with the film tax credits with every up or downward motion in the dollar.

Unlike setting up a massive assembly plant or digging a new mine, film productions are transient and short lived by nature. They tend to go where their financial backers feel they’ll get their best return on investment.

We’d urge the government to talk to those in the film business before making changes and find a solution that benefits both the film business and the province over the long term.

That way, we can expect to see the bright lights of Hollywood North shining long into the future.

B.C. budget fails first-time home buyers An open letter to Premier Christy Clark and B.C. Finance Minister Mike de Jong: The Property Transfer Tax (PTT) exemption for first-time buyers of new and existing homes has been in place for more than a decade and the maximum home value to qualify has gradually increased to its pre-budget level of $475,000.

In metropolitan areas of the province, home prices have been rising and continue to rise by several thousand dollars per month. The current $475,000 maximum value that qualifies for this exemption is far below what it should be to truly reflect real change in home costs in the these high density areas. Your government has been reaping the tax revenue benefits resulting from these increases in property value, while at the same time excluding more and more first-time buyers from the program.

In 2015, the government’s property transfer tax windfall was 40 per cent greater than budgeted as a result of the increase in cost and sales volumes for homes in the province.

The tax is expected to bring in $1.5 billion in the current fiscal year, 40 per cent of which is from price and volume increases in real estate in the province. That 40 per cent increase amounts to a whopping $600 million in unexpected windfall revenues for the province. Based on our progressive redistributive tax system, the $600 million plus the $900 million balance should all be redistributed to the people of B.C. on a need basis.

So let’s see what you have done for the people of B.C. with these funds in your recent budget.

You have retained the existing tax exemption level at $475,000 for first-time home buyers of existing homes, while making buyers of new homes exempt from the tax on homes sold for less than $750,000.

While buyers of new homes benefit from this program, tax costs to buy a home are still exceedingly high. New

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There are few new homes available for under the current tax exemption maximum of $750,000 - and, there are virtually no quality existing homes available under the current maximum of $475,000. homes have 5 per cent GST due on their purchase price, while the GST has already been paid on all existing homes.

Consequently, a buyer of a new home at $750,000 now pays $37,500 tax, rather than $50,500. Yes, this lesser amount of tax will spur a limited number of new home sales, especially in rural areas of the province with small populations where new home prices are less than $750,000.

However in high density urban areas, there are few new homes available for under $750,000 and there are virtually no quality existing homes available under $475,000.

Consequently, the proposed tax exemption program on new homes does little to solve the first-time home buyer’s affordability problem.

Very few first-time home buyers will find this proposed new home tax exemption program an attractive purchase option, because the alternative of buying an existing home at $750,000 where the GST has already been paid, means in that case only property transfer tax of $13,000 would be due. This represents a whopping $24,500 saving for first-time buyers.

Most first-time buyers are from the Lower Mainland of Vancouver or the Greater Victoria area, where new and used home prices have risen by up to 30 per cent in 2015 and about

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10 per cent in the preceding year. This makes their home purchase exceedingly difficult and expensive to begin with, and paying an extra $24,500 in GST is simply not a realistic option for these buyers.

Why hasn’t there been a change in the maximum exemption level for the property transfer tax on existing homes to reflect actual changes in the real-estate market, especially in major metropolitan areas where prices have been rising and continue to rise at alarming rates? Currently, in metropolitan areas of the province, the price increase of new and existing homes far exceeds a new buyer’s ability to save to purchase either alternative. Increasing the exemption for the tax on existing homes, to match the $750,000 upper limit for new home buyers, could easily be financed from the windfall revenues generated by increased revenues from the property transfer tax and the one per cent commercial property transfer tax increase proposed on properties over $3 million.

Where does this leave the finance minister’s argument that he implemented this property tax change to spur new housing demand? To avoid the GST cost, economics will force nearly all of these first time buyers into purchasing an existing, rather than a new home, and paying only the property purchase tax. Consequently, this new tax provision will have a very limited effect on total new home supply and this change will only benefit small population areas with very limited sales volumes.

Therefore, market demand for new houses will continue to come mainly from existing home owners based in urban areas trading up in the market, rather than from first-time home buyers. Unfortunately, in these same urban areas, market demand will not be significantly spurred from this new tax exemption proposal because the selling price of most of these

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new homes exceeds the $750,000 maximum exemption limit. Consequently, the minister’s argument that this new tax exemption will significantly spur demand is poorly thought out and exceedingly weak at best.

More likely, over time, his argument will end up as simply an afterthought in the actual dynamics of today’s real estate market.

From a tax perspective, the foregoing leaves first-time home buyers in these same urban areas out in the cold and they are the buyers who are most in need of tax relief.

How can your government disregard the plight of these first-time buyers, the people most affected by the current extensive rise in home prices? What has become of your sense of personal fairness and equitable taxation?

Can you name a group more in need of property tax relief than our own hard working potential first-time home buyers?

In a recent television appearance, Minister de Jong argued the reason for not increasing the first-time buyers tax exemption is that he governs for the whole of B.C. not just for people in major metropolitan areas. The minister should be reminded that British Columbians are supposed to have representation by population, not by geography. Since the

majority of the population live and work in the major metropolitan areas of the province, he should look there first for his governing guidance, not to areas where the population is sparse and the geography large. It’s in these metropolitan areas where first-time buyers want to live and raise their families, as this is where most of the jobs are located.

Lastly, as we chase these first-time buyers further away from their work in order to find affordable housing, we increase the number of cars on the road, the congestion and the wear and tear on our bridges and other infrastructure, while increasing our population’s carbon footprint by burning more fossil fuels. Surely this is a situation that absolutely deserves reconsideration by your government.

The premier and the minister were both young once and probably struggled to buy their first home. When they were first-time buyers, house prices probably represented somewhere between two and three times their annual income.

In today’s metropolitan house market, the cost of a house is in the range of six to seven times a person’s annual income. Consider what this means for a working family’s budget, including the mortgage payment. How much money will be left in the budget to buy food and

the other necessities of life for the family? Have you both forgotten the financial constraints of your own youth?

Young first-time buyers are the future leaders and voters in our province. We must give them all the help we can so they and their children are afforded the same opportunities we, as elder statesmen and women, had at their age. Today’s young, first-time buyers deserve the opportunity to own a home and raise a family where there’s room for them and their children to play outside.

I urge you to reconsider your position and raise the first-time buyer’s exemption limit to $750,000 on existing homes, to equal the new home exemption proposed in the recent provincial budget.

This change will not significantly alter the number of new homes built in the coming years, as the current problems with new home availability in urban areas are land supply, development costs and property purchase taxes, not demand. The budget and the province can well afford this proposed revision as the money is already being earned to support this tax change. The province will not lose by implementing this change. Quite frankly, this change would be a big win for British Columbians on all fronts.

Dennis Roberge West Vancouver

Tall trees hazards to WV homes

Dear Editor: Re: West Van to Consider Tree Cutting Rules, Feb. 21 front-page story.

Having lived on the North Shore since 1921, I am older than many of the “mature” trees being considered for cutting rules. To leave these

shallow-rooted, top-heavy rapidly growing cedars and hemlocks in the midst of $2million to $5-million homes is sheer folly. It would make a lot more sense to have a bylaw requiring a tree to be cut down when it reaches a specified height – say 30 metres.

Hurricane Frieda blew through here in October 1962, devastating large areas of Greater Vancouver. It was classified as a 50-year event. The mathematical possibilities are very interesting.

JR Thomson West Vancouver

QUOTES OF THE WEEK: You would be surprised at the many weird animals people decide to keep but it’s the first peacock that I’ve seen in West Vancouver .”

— West Vancouver SPCA branch manager Dragana Hajdukovic talking about the eye-catching wayward bird found wandering through Dundarave last weekend (from a Feb. 24 news story).

It certainly affects you vision, your sinuses, you cannot see.”

—North Vancouver RCMP spokesman Cpl. Richard De Jong on the effects of pepper spray (from a Feb. 24 news story).

I think a lot of the time funny people are the most sensitive ones.”

— Famed Canadian singer Jann Arden speaking to the North Shore News before an upcoming show at Centennial Theatre (from a Feb. 26 Pulse story).

NOTICE

PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING BACKYARD CHICKENS WHAT: Public hearing regarding proposed Zoning Bylaw 4662, 2010, Amendment Bylaw 4866, 2016 to allow the keeping of backyard chickens in all single family zones.

WHEN: Monday, March 7, 2016, 6 p.m.

WHERE: West Vancouver Municipal Hall, Council Chamber 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC PROPOSED ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT: The proposed bylaw amendment would regulate and allow for the keeping of backyard chickens in all single family zones.

PROVIDE YOUR INPUT: Council welcomes your input. All persons who believe their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaw amendment will be given an opportunity to be heard and present written submissions respecting matters contained in the proposed bylaw amendment at the public hearing described above. Prior to the public hearing written submissions may be: emailed to Council at mayorandcouncil@ westvancouver.ca; mailed to Council at Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3; or delivered to Legislative Services at Municipal Hall. Written submissions must be received by 3 p.m. March 7, 2016 to ensure availability to Council for the public hearing, and will be included in the public hearing information package for Council’s consideration. Technical issues may affect receipt of electronic submissions; persons relying on this means of transmittal do so at their own risk. After the public hearing has closed no further submissions can be considered by Council.

GET MORE INFORMATION: The proposed bylaw and other relevant documents that Council may consider in deciding whether to adopt the proposed bylaw amendment may be inspected at Municipal Hall, February 25, 2016 to March 7, 2016, Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (except for statutory holidays). Copies may also be inspected at the Memorial Library or at the public hearing.

QUESTIONS? Sarah Almas, Manager of Bylaw & Licensing Services salmas@westvancouver.ca | 604-925-7153 S. Scholes, Manager of Legislative Services February 25, 2016

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NOTICE Call for Community Volunteers Arts & Culture Grants Review Committee The North Vancouver Recreation & Culture Commission is currently seeking volunteers from the local community to serve on the Arts & Culture Grants Review Committee. This Committee will provide input on Arts & Culture Grant requests and make recommendations to NVRC on the disbursement of grant monies.

Five community members will be selected by NVRC based on their experience and expertise in any of the following areas: visual and performing arts, community celebrations, events, community public art projects, and the local not-for-proďŹ t sector. Committee Members will be appointed for a two-year term and can be appointed for a maximum of two consecutive terms. It is expected that the Committee will meet approximately 4 to 8 times per year to review grant applications. Committee members must be residents of North Vancouver.

DISPOSITION OF MUNICIPAL LAND In accordance with Section 26 of the Community Charter, the District of West Vancouver (the District) gives notice of its intention to sell in fee simple a parcel of municipal land legally described as Lot 6 Block 10 Capilano Estates Plan 8872, PID: 009-903-780 (the Parcel). The Parcel is shown in black and labeled Subject Site on the sketch below. The District intends to sell the land to Jeffrey and Nancy Palffy (sometimes spelled Palfy) for the purposes of consolidation with their adjacent land located at 385 Hidhurst Place, legally described as PID: 009-903-844, Lot 7 Block 10 Capilano Estates Plan 8872.

The Parcel is unimproved and has an area of approximately 740 square feet (68.53 m2), more or less, with dimensions of approximately 4 feet (1.22 m) in width by 184 feet (56.1 m) in depth. Consideration for the disposition will be $76,000 plus GST. The Parcel will be consolidated with the adjacent private land at 385 Hidhurst Place as part of the conditions of sale.

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Increasing use of drones like this one for both recreational and commercial purposes is prompting Transport Canada to consider more regulations. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

More rules for drones under consideration

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“This was not some toy. This was a very fancy machine,” he said.

The Taylors describe the drone as being white with flashing lights and at least one foot in height.

Cpl. Richard De Jong, North Vancouver RCMP spokesman, acknowledged the flying visitor might be disquieting but said it doesn’t sound as though any criminal laws were broken. “It’s a grey area,” he said.

Drones could potentially be used for criminal mischief, harassment, voyeurism or putting other aircraft at risk, De Jong said, but getting the Crown to lay charges would be difficult. “It would have to be documented. Somebody

would have to take pictures.

We’d have to identify who the operator is. ... Chances are, the person who complained didn’t even see the operator,” he said. “It would be pretty hard to prove.”

Right now, there is no way to intercept and track where a drone is being controlled from but that’s something various police agencies across Canada are looking into, according to Sara Johnston, Transport Canada spokeswoman.

In the meantime, De Jong said anyone who is bothered by a drone outside their home should report it to the RCMP’s non-emergency number so police can look into it.

Transport Canada is also looking to bring in updated legislation to deal with the growing popularity of the

unmanned aerial vehicles.

Among the proposed amendments being considered are mandatory drone registration and marking, licensing with knowledge testing and minimum age requirements.

Under current guidelines, operators are advised keep their drones at least nine kilometres away from any airport, aerodrome or heliport and fly only during the day and only in good weather. They should also keep their drones 150 metres away from people, vehicles, animals and buildings. Flying over crowds is not recommended. Anyone using a drone for non-recreational purposes must hold a special flight operations certificate from Transport Canada, which are granted on case-by-case evaluations.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Cindy Goodman Variations on a Landscape Representatives of the Ferry Building Gallery held an opening reception Tuesday for their latest show, Variations on a Landscape, featuring mixed media by Bob Araki, Colette Chilcott, Anne Griffiths, Fred Peter and Mong Yen. The gallery is offering an opportunity to meet the featured artists in the space Saturday from 2 to 3 p.m., as well, Griffiths will paint in the gallery on Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. The show will remain on display until March 13. ferrybuildinggallery.com

Exhibiting artist Colette Chilcott, a Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists board member

Ferry Building visual arts co-ordinator Ruth Payne and Alfonso Tejada

Featured artist Anne Griffiths displays her bright landscapes.

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A cause for celebration: It’s Leap Day! ROSALIND DUANE rduane@nsnews.com

“I like Yo-Kai Watch and Pokemon pretty much the same. Can I tell you why?”

A large circle medallion dangles on a chain around sevenyear-old Perry Lumbao’s neck as he leans forward in his chair to explain why he slightly prefers Yo-Kai Watch (a TV show and video game) over Pokemon because it has ghosts.

The necklace features an Angry Birds version of the Star Wars character Yoda, and when asked about it Perry acknowledges he used to like Star Wars. A long time ago.

“When I was little I did. I liked many things when I was little,” he explains.

“Little” or younger is a relative term for Perry. The Grade 2 student will be celebrating his eighth birthday tomorrow: Leap Day. Although eight years have passed since he was born in 2008 at Lions Gate Hospital, this is only the second time Perry’s actual birthday has been on the calendar.

Leap Day is an extra day added to the calendar to correct for the fact that the Earth doesn’t orbit around the sun in exactly 365 days. There are some decimal places involved in the actual number used to determine a calendar year, and in order to compensate for that, February (which usually has 28 days) gains an extra day every four years.

So while people born on Feb. 29 celebrate being one year older each time 365 days pass, their actual birthdate isn’t on the calendar most of the time.

“It’s just a funny accident I guess that he was born on Feb. 29,” says Perry’s mom Angela Gonzalez. She explains that when Perry was born, she had started to feel contractions on Feb. 27.

At the time, her dad joked about her son being born on a Leap Day, and then it happened. The family thought it was pretty funny, and still sometimes joke with Perry that he’s only turning two this year.

“He hates that,” says Angela, noting it certainly wasn’t planned for him to be born on a Leap Day, it wasn’t like she had a choice. “He (once) said to me, ‘Why did you have to give birth to me on Leap Day? And I told him, ‘It’s not easy giving birth you know.’”

His mom explains that Perry first realized his birthday was

Seven-year-old Perry Lumbao will be celebrating his eighth birthday tomorrow: Leap Day. It is only the second time his actual birthdate will appear on the calendar. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD different in kindergarten when he noticed it wasn’t on the class calendar. Perry says he got “super angry” because “I thought everyone else had a birthday except me.”

These days, though, Perry takes it in stride and doesn’t mind if friends joke about it. Usually he celebrates his birthday on the weekend closest to Feb. 29, and shares a party with his younger

sister, whose birthday is on March 4. But this year Perry will get two parties, one with friends and one with family, all to himself because his official birthdate is on the calendar. Now that he’s older and understands why he has a unique birthday, Perry

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VIRTUAL GASTRIC BAND Hypnotherapist Caroline Sutherland will give a free introductory lecture on hypnotherapy for weight loss Wednesday, March 2, 7:30 p.m. at Churchill House, 150 West 29th St., North Vancouver.

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Teen talks about reading ROSALIND DUANE rduane@nsnews.com

Katniss Everdeen, the arrow-wielding hero of the Hunger Games series, may be a popular role model for some teens these days, but don’t forget about Jane Eyre.

Fifteen-year-old Gabi Landim Araujo lists the classic Charlotte Bronte novel of the same name as one of her current top three reading picks thanks to its inspiring main character.

“I think it’s a really empowering book for women particularly,” says Landim Araujo.

The coming-of-age story sees the titular Jane Eyre persevere through a

lifetime of hardship and it’s that inner strength Landim Araujo finds inspiring.

“The current books kind of envision women like super heroes (but) Jane Eyre is kind of like a common girl,” she explains.

Reading is one of Landim Araujo’s many hobbies.

Although she also enjoys TV and movies, books are different.

“I feel like (with) books you have more room for imagination,” she says.

Landim Araujo moved to Canada two years ago from Brazil and although she could speak English well she struggled a bit with the written word. Her teachers encouraged her to read more to help her writing

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as the two skills go hand in hand. The plan worked, says Landim Araujo, and as her writing improved her love of reading grew.

Now a member of the Teen Advisory Group at West Vancouver Memorial Library, Landim Araujo attends monthly meetings and helps plan events for other teens.

She has read most of the recent popular young adult novel series and says fiction is her favourite genre especially historical fiction.

“I really like books set in the past or a dystopian future novel,” she notes.

The library has a great teen section, she says, and adds: “I feel like people my age don’t always appreciate what the library has to offer.”

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KidsBiz Librarians ready to lend a hand From page 17 ask at your local public library. Librarians function like a reading concierge! ! YA is not just for teens: There are some fantastic cross-over novels out this year for fans of titles like The Book Thief. New ones like Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit and Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys are perfect for parents and grandparents to read along with the young people in their lives. ! YA audiobooks are ideal listening selections. They can be shorter than adult novels and some of the best narrators in the business

are featured in the productions. Try anything narrated by Kirby Heyborne (like the fantastical Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children or the terrifying Scowler). He’s the Meryl Streep of the audiobook world. ! Many popular adult authors also write YA. The list is long and includes big names like Sophie Kinsella, James Patterson and Gregory Maguire.

Having trouble getting the teen in your life reading? Bring them to the library (or go get a stack of books on their behalf). Librarians can find a book for anyone with any interest, and they love a challenge.

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Online comments highlight the problem

Over the last few weeks I have been following the Langley puppy mill story through what I consider a reliable source, our local news, as well as on a notso-reliable source, social media.

Social media is an interesting medium in the sense that people are unashamed to share their personal lives with the world. So when a discussion was posted about new B.C. regulations that would require animal breeders to be licensed by the province, I wasn’t surprised to read people’s comments defending how they acquired their dog, yet pointing fingers at the SPCA for not acting fast enough.

A comment regarding the definition of a puppy mill was especially interesting: “I found the breeder of my dog on Kijiji.

I drove five hours to get my dog and upon meeting the breeder, found the dogs well cared for. She is a reputable breeder and assured me that she only bred her female dog twice a year. She can hardly be considered a puppy mill if she is only putting out two litters of puppies a year!”

Ahem, dear one … female dogs come into heat, which is a term used to describe their menstrual cycle, twice a year.

Canine Connections Joan Klucha This means that a female dog can only produce two litters of puppies in a year. If a breeder is breeding her female every heat cycle (twice a year), she is a backyard breeder. Another term for this is a single breed puppy mill. A reputable breeder will not breed a female dog every heat cycle regardless of whether there is a waiting list for puppies.

Another post read: “We had tried to adopt a dog from local rescues but had been denied repeatedly. They made it so hard for us to adopt one of their dogs and we were made to feel like unfit dog owners, so we had no choice but to go online to find a puppy. We knew the moment we walked in the door by the smell and the barking that something wasn’t right, but we didn’t even think about reporting it

because the breeders were so nice and we knew we would be giving this puppy a better life.

Besides, we couldn’t just leave it there!”

Unfortunately, this is not the first time I have heard this.

In defence of rescues, they kind of have a sixth sense for people who lack ethics when it comes to the well-being of dogs. It’s unfortunate that some people fail to see the personal changes that need to take place before getting a dog and instead seek out an alternative source.

Finally, this one is closer to home: “We bought our puppy from the puppy mill in Langley.

We had been looking for a long time for a particular breed. We knew it was a puppy mill; the smell was horrid and the dogs were barking. We didn’t report it because we got the dog we wanted.”

This person turned a blind eye, a deaf ear and a stale nose to the fact that dogs were in distress because they got what they wanted.

And that kind of sums it up, doesn’t it? All of these people’s excuses are that they got what they wanted.

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So many fingers have been pointed at the SPCA for not acting fast enough and letting the dogs suffer for seven years, when in fact, the demand from the public is what kept the door open. I

have no doubt that there were many more puppy purchasers who noticed the sorry conditions and also turned a blind eye because they got what they wanted.

Fortunately there was one person who made the right

choice and gave enough evidence to the SPCA so that they could do their job. Would you?

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Poverty rates among seniors on the rise

NV woman’s story symptomatic of problems faced by growing number of local seniors By now most of my readers will be familiar with Fran Flann’s story.

Flann is an 82-year-old North Vancouver senior who was hospitalized and then found herself in a homeless shelter after temporary funding from Vancouver Coastal Health to stay at the Grouse Inn ran out. While in

hospital she lost her job and her landlord began to treat her apartment for a bedbug infestation. That’s the story.

Here’s my question: What would the cost have been to keep her at the motel until the renovations to her suite were complete?

A few strokes on my keyboard reveal that a room

can be had at the Grouse Inn for as little as $69 a night.

Sixty nine bucks. Including breakfast. That amount of funding was nowhere to be found. Not by the local community agency that was working with Flann, not by the nurse practitioner or the home care support worker or the social worker, or any of the other staff that Flann came into contact with at VCH, not by BC Housing or most tellingly not by Flann herself.

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Thanks to the kindness of strangers and the work done by her support team the worst days for Flann are likely behind her. The concern here is that Flann’s story is symptomatic of the problems faced by a growing number of seniors in the region. We call them seniors on the margin.

The majority of them are women. They are most likely widowed, separated or divorced, tenants, recent immigrants, without private pension coverage, and current or former low-wage earners with a modest education.

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Older And Wiser Tom Carney cent of all senior-led households in Canada rent their homes. In Metro Vancouver approximately 60 per cent of unattached senior renters spend 30 per cent or more

of their income on housing while 26 per cent spend 50 per cent or more. Those in that latter group are considered to be at extreme risk of homelessness. We want to keep seniors in their homes, reduce the growing number of seniors on social housing wait lists and in shelters, and make housing more affordable.

We’ve got policies, programs, big picture planning and forward-thinking galore to help us achieve those goals. What we don’t have is a buy-in from all three levels of government.

If there really are 600,000

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March 1-April 6, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Amica at West Vancouver, 659 Clyde Ave. Learn how to live a healthy life with chronic pain. Limited space. 604-9401273 selfmanagementbc.ca FABULOUS FIRST FRIDAYS Live music and socializing Fridays, March 4, April 1, May 6 and June 3, 7-9 p.m. at Parkgate Community Centre, 3625 Banff Court, North Vancouver. $9/$7. Info: 604929-3642. Registration: 604-983-6350.

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Poor seniors need more money in their pockets From page 20 seniors living in poverty in Canada – a newly revised figure that comes to us from Statistics Canada – we need to address that as well.

In Canada poverty rates among seniors have been on the rise after 30 years of steady decline.

Maybe it’s time to think outside the box here. How could we best help the poor? We could give them more money. With no strings attached.

France and Austria both do that and they have had more success in reducing poverty than Canada has. We could start by adjusting the B.C. Seniors Supplement for low-income individuals; it hasn’t been increased for the past 25 years.

Federally, there’s the idea of a guaranteed living wage.

Putting cash into the pockets of the poor wouldn’t work for everyone. We would still need to tailor our resources to an individual’s circumstances, especially in cases involving mental health and addiction. But if the poorest of the poor seniors had more money in their wallets it’s likely that fewer of them would be showing up at our emergency departments, shelters and foodbanks and more of them could live with the dignity that they deserve.

Tom Carney is the former executive director of the Lionsview Seniors’ Planning Society. Ideas for future columns are welcome. tomcarney@telus.net

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Custom Homes: a great return on investment BOB DE WIT CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Eric Lee, Principle Designer/Owner of VictorEric Design and Greater Vancouver Home Builder Association Member, recently shared a great success story, reminding me of the benefits of working with professional design/build teams vs the do-it-yourself approach.

With a second child on the way, the homeowners knew if they were going to build a house before the arrival of their baby, they needed to enlist professional help. Their previous experience selfmanaging the build of a custom home in Richmond had left stressful memories.

“Managing timelines and budgets, and all the details that come with building a custom home is over-whelming,” confirmed the homeowners, and we couldn’t find all the features we wanted in pre-built houses.”

Wanting to move to Vancouver but unable to find a desirable lot, the family reached out to VictorEric Design, on the recommendation of extended family members.

Eric advised, “We assign a project coordinator right from the beginning of the design stage, to follow clients through the design/build process, which enables us to better execute the design intention and client throughout the construction phase.”

For this project the VictorEric team helped the homeowner find the lot, then designed, built and landscaped it too.

Highlights of the home include the roof-deck, planned to capture city and mountain-view, and maximization of the corner-lot situation with floor to ceiling corner windows. “The exterior design was challenging because we wanted to push the house up as high as possible for the view, but still contain 4 stories within the zoning allowable building height. To achieve this, the stairway was strategically placed in the middle of the home to service four levels,” advised Eric.

Features include whole home automation/ integration of sound, lighting, temperature and window-coverings, plus state-of-theart theatre room “man-cave” for family enjoyment of sports and movies. A dressing area separates the sleeping area so the couple’s professional schedules do not disturb one another. Open living/play areas allow parents to have full view of children’s activities, while the home office is sequestered from the otherwise open floorplan, to facilitate concentration and privacy of visiting clients.

“The daughter is so precious to the father,” Eric said, “he had us triple reinforce the roof under the hot tub situated above her bedroom, and he created a wonderful playroom in basement and colourful playstructure in the back-yard in full-view of the kitchen to maximize enjoyment of her new home.”

The homeowners confirmed, “VictorEric delivered all our expectations, and moved

heaven and earth to get the project completed on time and on budget without compromise.”

Eric went on to advise, “Most people think custom homes are out of their reach, but we have data to prove that custom homes actually cost less and provide a much greater return on investment than prebuilt homes.”

It is important to hire a trusted builder from the start and involve them in your planning.

Builders will discuss your ideas in detail and offer technical advice, design concepts, and product suggestions. Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association members are licensed, have agreed to abide by a strict code of ethics, are committed to written agreements, and always warranty their work.

I would recommend attending the GVHBA’s 22nd annual Home Buyer Seminar on March 2nd at SFU’s Harbour Centre Campus from 6-8pm, to anyone considering a purchase or custom build. Offering advice on all stages of the home buying process, this free seminar offers insight on BC Housing’s New Home Warranty Program, Vancouver’s market outlook, mortgage options, legal advice and so much more.

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A mid-century modern renovation BOB DE WIT CONTRIBUTING WRITER

February is an exciting time of year as home buying, building and renovations start to ramp up. Each year, many of our builders, designers and renovators enter projects in the Ovation Awards, a metro-wide, industry juried competition, showcasing the best in custom homes, renovations and design across Metro Vancouver. As the CEO of GVHBA, I have the opportunity to connect with our builders and renovators and share their knowledge and background on these amazing projects.

Recently I spoke with Mila Duras, Principal of Intermind Design, about a renovation on a very unique mid-century home.

Originally featured in Western Homes and Living in 1963, this original New Westminster house was designed in the early 60s by G. Douglas Wylie for a widow down-sizing, who wanted the size and functionality of an apartment with lots of glass areas, with a small yet functional and livable backyard. Since then, the house passed through several owners before interior designer Sherri Summers and her partner Terry Koziel bought it in 2013.

The owners, both lovers of mid-century modern design, spent time exploring different geographically defined versions of this style from Florida to Vancouver before contacting Intermind Design Inc. Mila said “I really like giving character to each home we work on. Every project is as different as each client. I always try to find what the client wants and then push the comfort zone further into a truly personal aesthetic home,

without being banal, repetitive or influenced by a culture defined by our all too often “Jones” inspired neighbourhoods.”

The renovation includes an 800 square foot addition to the front of the house, the only available area to build out from the existing footprint. Mila commented “it’s never easy to do additions on the front of a house, and in this case even more so because the addition included the master bedroom and ensuite, requiring a higher level of privacy.” The need for privacy eliminated using open spaces and glass areas, typical facades found in mid-century houses. The solution? The use of multiple materials: utilizing the existing stone wall, the addition of Hardie Panels, organic wavy vertical siding in accent color plus steps with imitation creek, semi-open cedar fence, and accent coloured front door – creating a layered look, all brought together with a retro walkway.

All renovation challenges worked well with Intermind Design’s design-built approach.

“Working with the client from the design and architectural stages, through to building permits, and construction, the design/ build team was aware and prepared for the challenges to be faced working within the existing footprint of the home. New electrical and lighting posed challenges with open 1 inch ceilings, insulation and the building envelop.

Solutions included cable lighting throughout all open social areas, seamlessly doubling the posts, and raising the ceiling in the master bedroom to 14 feet to allow for mid-century style front windows.

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The $300,000 budget includes the renovation of the entire house (1600sq.ft.), plus the 800 square foot addition, and the garage/workshop. Entered into the 2016 Ovation Awards for Best Renovation, visit www.ovationawards.ca to view past Ovation Award winning homes for more inspiration and the Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association at www.gvhba.org for a list of professional renovators in your neighbourhood. The 2016 Ovation Award winners will be announced April 23.

The Greater Vancouver Home Builders’ Association, a not-for-profit society representing the residential construction industry in the Greater Vancouver Area is dedicated to helping consumers buy, build or renovate homes. Celebrating 40 years in 2014, GVHBA has more than 890 members and is proudly affiliated with the provincial and national Canadian Home Builders’ Associations. Bob can be contacted at bob@gvhba.org !

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MUSIC FESTIVAL Cindy Liang, Austin Liu and Daniel Ko will be taking part in the upcoming North Shore Registered Music Teachers 45th Annual North Shore Music Festival and workshops taking place Feb. 28-March 11 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church 1110 Gladwin Dr., North Vancouver. Three final concerts take place March 9-11 at 7 p.m. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

agrees it’s pretty neat. “It’s good because it’s a special day,” he says.

This year will also feel more special to Elizabeth Pratt, whose son Michael was also born on Feb. 29. He is turning 16 this year, and also four.

“It’s kind of weird because they don’t have a birthday essentially,” says Elizabeth.

“Sometimes I think he wishes he had a real birthdate every year.”

Because Michael was breech in the womb, Elizabeth’s labour had to be induced. When her

obstetrician explained this to her at the time, she noted that her next on-call day was Feb. 29, and asked Elizabeth if she would mind the baby being born on a Leap Day. Elizabeth said no. “I thought it was kind of cool,” she notes.

Michael was born at Lions Gate Hospital just before 10:30 p.m. He was 10 pounds and four ounces. Now in Grade 10, Michael says he doesn’t much think about his Leap Day birthday, and usually celebrates on Feb. 28, but admits it’s kind of unique.

“I’ve been technically three for the past three years. I guess I’ll be four for the next four years, so that’s different,”

he says. “It’s a good ice breaker that’s for sure.”

He says he’ll probably appreciate it more when he’s 64 turning 16.

“It does feel more real,” says Elizabeth of celebrating her son’s birthday on the actual date of his birth.

This year Michael will celebrate his Leap Day birthday by going for his learner’s permit. His two older siblings had to wait until they were 17 to get their learner’s permit, but Elizabeth wanted to do something special for her son’s official 16th birthday.

“I just think it’s nice for them to be remembered,” she says.

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London museum inspired by ‘grand tour’ JOHN KEYES Meridian Writers’ Group

LONDON – Sir John Soane’s Museum in the Holborn district wrapped up a 20-year facelift in the spring of 2015. The goal of the monumental (more than C$11 million) restoration project was not to drag the illustrious Regency Era architect’s private residence into the 21st century but instead to take it back to the way it looked in 1837, the year Soane died.

This isn’t a museum director’s marketing gimmick. In fact, the restoration fulfills legislation that Soane helped get enacted in his declining years. Soane bequeathed his house to his country, and the 1833 Act of Parliament requires that it be kept “as nearly as possible” in the condition in which he left it.

Until recently, parts of the house have been needed for administrative uses, but now those functions have been

Sir John Soane’s Museum exhibitions curator Dr. Jerzy Kierkuc-Bielinski explains a Canaletto painting during one of his guided tours of the galleries.

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moved next door, allowing, finally, the fulfilment of Soane’s terms.

Visitors are welcome to stroll around on their own to view his astonishing collection of paintings and sculpture, but I strongly recommend you catch one of the scheduled guided tours

by the likes of exhibitions curator Dr. Jerzy KierkucBielinski, who rotates with several museum colleagues in this role on Saturdays.

John Soan was born in 1753, the son of a bricklayer.

He showed a precocious talent for art and architecture, says Kierkuc-Bielinski, and

it helped that he married well, soon prospering from his wife’s inheritance, adding the “e” to his surname to distance himself from his humble beginnings and quickly establishing himself as one of Britain’s foremost architects.

Soane’s creative epiphany

occurred early when, on a scholarship, he spent two years on the Grand Tour of Italy. He returned to England a changed young man, and the collections in the museum reflect the trip’s impact on him. Even the yellow glass skylights, says Kierkuc-Bielinski, were installed “to bathe the collection in the glow of a beautiful summer’s afternoon in the Eternal City.” Once the Napoleonic Wars impeded travel to the Continent, Soane made it his mission to collect and display artefacts that would constitute a miniGrand Tour without ever having to leave London.

While running his thriving architecture practice from a large room on the first floor, Soane also taught at the Royal Academy and encouraged his students to peruse his home collection. Indeed, even the public at large was welcome to drop in for a look-see. (The museum today charges no admission fee, but please consider dropping a fiver into the collection box

as you exit the gift shop.)

Until the top floor is opened there are four levels to investigate. (Don’t miss the alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I in the basement.) You could easily spend an hour just in the Painting Room alone. With a footprint of barely 25 square metres, its walls are absolutely chocka-block with canvases by then-contemporary artists like Canaletto, which you can scrutinize from inches away. One wall turns out to be two ingeniously fitted doors that, periodically, a custodian opens to reveal the original eight paintings

by William Hogarth known as “The Rake’s Progress.” It is a remarkable legacy.

If you go: For more information on Sir John Soane’s Museum, visit its website at soane.org.

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Bodwell: basketball without borders Multilingual team gets their points across ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

Getting instructions to players in the heat of a basketball game is a tricky proposition for any coach at the best of times, but what if those key words need to be repeated in four different languages?

That’s the task faced by Johnson Chiu, head coach of North Vancouver’s Bodwell Bruins senior boys team. Bodwell is a private boarding school that caters to international students.

This season their basketball team has no Canadian-born players on it, instead boasting a roster that includes players from such far-flung countries as Turkey, Japan, Nigeria, and China.

When Chiu has a vital message that needs to sink in, he uses student translators so that there are no mistakes.

“Sometimes when I need to say something I know that a kid won’t understand I’ll get a manager to say it in their first language,” he said, adding that calling out plays and giving tips in multiple languages has had some unique benefits for the players. “Some of our Turkish kids now understand Mandarin or Cantonese just because we yell it across the court and they pick it up. It’s a really unique team in that sense.”

The messages sure seem to be sinking in this year as the Bruins just won the Howe Sound AAA title for the first time in school history. Bodwell has claimed several titles at the lower “A” tier but this was their first time playing in the AAA league for larger schools and they capped off an undefeated regular season with a thrilling, back-and-forth 60-57 win over the Sutherland Sabres Wednesday to claim the banner.

Star Grade 12 wing player Edward Ahanmisi made a big step-back three pointer with about two minutes to play to give the Bruins a lead that they never relinquished.

“It’s a relief,” Chiu said of claiming the Howe Sound title. “Because we were undefeated so I think that’s what the expectations were for us.”

Bodwell’s Takeshi Iso and Can Berk Gungor follow the play along with Sutherland’s Jacob Chalifoux during the Howe Sound AAA championship final Wednesday at Windsor. Bodwell claimed the title with a 60-57 win. More photos: nsnews.com. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH Ahanmisi put up a monster stat line in the game, scoring 29 points with 10 rebounds, eight steals and two assists. Forward Arda Coban racked up 15 points with eight rebounds while point guard Takeshi Iso did a bit of everything with seven points, five assists, five steals and

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possessions late in those games, couldn’t hit that one big shot or handle their defensive pressure enough that would have put us over the hump.”

After receiving their hardware the Bodwell squad was joined on the floor by more than 50 fellow students who bussed over to Windsor secondary for the game.

“It’s big,” Chiu said of what the win means to the school. “We’re one of those schools that needs moments like this because we’re an international school. It’s kind of hard to keep traditions going and such, but to have the boys do well consistently over the years is something that we can latch on to as a school community.”

Bodwell’s ever-shifting student base sometimes makes fielding a basketball team a tough go, said Chiu, who has been coaching at the school for more than a decade.

“We more or less have a new team every year,” he said. “We’ve got a few months to bring everybody together and we just work really hard at it. … At first it’s frustrating. But it’s really good now because you get better as a coach, you get better as a communicator. You start to listen, both verbally and non-verbally.

It’s a challenge but it’s a great challenge.”

The players not only come from different backgrounds off the court but on the court as well, bringing wildly different styles to the team.

“Our point guard (Iso), because he’s Japanese, is a little bit more controlled,” said Chiu. “He’s great in that way – he has a very good understanding of what he needs to do and he’ll stick to it. Whereas Eddy, because he’s from Nigeria … he’s a lot more street, in the sense that he depends a lot more on his athleticism. And then we have the Turkish boys who are very well schooled in fundamentals and mechanics and basics so they’re good that way. It makes for an interesting group of boys to coach because they have a different skill set, every single one of them. They’re all specialists in some areas. It’s very different, very unique.”

Ahanmisi is a co-captain and team leader who has his sights set on playing college ball in the United States.

“He’s a great on-ball, off-ball defender. Super athletic, really fast,” said Chiu. “He doesn’t score volumes but he makes big baskets. He’s kind of like the heart and soul of the team. He gets them going. He’s very confident. Some say he’s overconfident, I just think he’s very confident.”

Iso is the other co-captain. Joining the captains as a team leader is Grade 12 guard

Jason Wu. “He, in my opinion, is probably the most annoying player on the North Shore to play against,” Chiu said of Wu. “He just wants to play defence. Most teams don’t like that. … He gets up on people, he gets underneath people – he does a lot of dumb things but he’s definitely a kid you want on your side.”

The Bruins will now head to the provincial championships running March 9-12 at Langley Events Centre. Bodwell may be new to the AAA level but that doesn’t mean they’re just happy to be here.

“Our goal would be top four. Some people would scoff at that,” said Chiu, whose Bruins are currently outside the top-10 in the province but listed as honourable mentions. “I think we’ll surprise some people.” !!!

The AA Howe Sound Championships also wrapped up Wednesday with powerhouse Collingwood completing an undefeated season on the North Shore with a dominant 96-60 win over St. Thomas Aquinas. ”We had very good ball movement in our sets, and we put together a full 40 minutes,” said Cavaliers assistant coach Siamak Salehi.

Collingwood was led by back-to-back Howe Sound AA championship MVP Jaden Narwal who posted 27 points, 11 rebounds and eight assists in the win. Three more Cavaliers racked up double-doubles with Carter Armstrong recording 24 points and 10 rebounds; Dillon Cooper 12 points, 11 rebounds and three blocks; and Brendan Artley 12 points, 13 rebounds and six assists.

STA was led by the duo of Michael Kelly and Andrew Beronio who picked up 15 points apiece.

“Collingwood showed why they are going to be one of the strong favourites to win the AA B.C. title this year,” said STA head coach Jim Kelly.

The Fighting Saints, however, will have a shot at provincial glory as well, heading to the AA championships as a wild card team.

Collingwood is currently No. 3 in the provincial AA rankings while STA is right behind at No. 5.

The Saints clinched their berth Tuesday with a thrilling 92-89 win over Seycove led by 25 points from Kelly and a game-winning three-pointer from Chad Steverding with two seconds left in the game.

The Howe Sound AAAA championships wrapped up Friday night after North Shore News press deadline. Heavy favourites West Vancouver were pushed to a final game in the double-knockout tournament after third-place Handsworth scored a 62-48 upset on Thursday.

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Try to keep those closest to you abreast of your activities in the week ahead.

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Offer includes Federal Air Conditioner Fee ($100), Tire Duty ($25) and PPSA ($21.50 // $26.50). License, insurance, registration, options and other applicable fees, duties and taxes (including PST/GST) are extra. †$2,500 // $1,500 Customer Cash Rebate available on select new 2016 Acura RDX models (TB4H3GJNX // TB4H5GKNX / TB4H7GKN). Total 2016 RDX incentives consist of: $1,500 Customer Cash Rebate available on all 2016 RDX models that cannot be combined with sub-vented lease/finance offers; and $1,000 Customer Incentive Dollars that can be combined with lease/finance offers. Customer Incentive Dollars ($1,000) are available on the 2016 RDX (Model TB4H3GJNX). ††$5,000 // $2,000 Customer Cash Rebate available on select new 2016 Acura MDX models (YD4H6GKNX / YD4H8GKN // YD4H4GKNX). All incentives will be deducted from the negotiated selling price after taxes. Some terms/conditions apply. Models shown for illustration purposes only. Offers end February 29, 2016 but are subject to change or cancellation without notice and are only valid for BC residents at BC Acura retailers. Retailer may sell/lease for less. Retailer order/trade may be necessary. While quantities last. See your Acura retailer for full details.

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