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“It’s a very modest house with a lovely bit of land,” said Rose – similar to other older homes that used to make up the neighbourhood.

But in the past two years, as house prices surged, things started changing. “All of a sudden there was a huge uptick” of houses being bought and sold.

“Eighty per cent of our street has been sold,” said Rose. “The last couple of months have really been madness.”

Real estate is the new gold rush on the North Shore, where dramatic increases in property values are creating winners, losers and big changes.

Property assessment notices that came out in January 2016 – showing the value of properties in July 2015 – confirmed what most already knew. Values for typical single-family homes were up 15 to 25 per cent in the past year – on top of dramatic gains the year before.

“You would have to go back to 1980 to find only two or three times that assessments have moved this much, this quickly,” said area assessor Jason Grant of the BC Assessment Authority.

In this white-hot market, owners of an average home in Lynnmour – a neighbourhood of older, modest houses near to an industrial area and the Ironworkers bridge – were now members of the million-dollar club. Assessments in West Vancouver’s Bayridge neighbourhood shot up 29 per cent while Glenmore was up 35 percent. Homes in Pemberton Heights, Delbrook and Edgemont all rocketed up more than 20 per cent.

Since those assessments – which now lag 10 months behind the market – came out, property values have only continued to climb.

A buying frenzy across the Lower Mainland this spring resulted in a record month for sales in greater Vancouver in March. Last month also saw a record number of sales for the month of April.

According to statistics from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, the benchmark price for a single-family home in North Vancouver is now a little less than $1.5 million, up more than 30 per cent in one year and up more than 65 per cent from five years ago.

In West Vancouver, the benchmark price of a detached home is now $2.9 million – up more than 31 per cent since the same time last year and more than 75 per cent in five years.

“It boggles the mind how expensive it is,” said Allan Angell, who has been selling real estate at the top end of the West Vancouver market for more than 40 years.

A decade ago, houses that sold for more than $5 million were still relatively rare on the North Shore. In 2004, for instance, only five of those were sold in West Vancouver, said Angell.

This year, there were already 83 homes sold in

PERCENTAGE CHANGE IN ASSESSED VALUE OF DETACHED HOMES IN WEST VANCOUVER NEIGHBOURHOODS BETWEEN 2015 AND 2016.

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For the past 13 years, freelance writer Alex Rose and his family have lived in a neighbourhood of gentle green hills in West Vancouver, on the corner of St. Denis and Palmerston. Rhododendrons and roses bloom in gardens and there’s a view across Burrard Inlet from the deck.

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A map showing the changes in assessed values of single-family homes between 2015 and 2016 in West Vancouver neighbourhoods, using data provided by Landcor Data Corp. and BC Assessment. GRAPHIC MYRA MCGRATH that category between January and mid-April.

“The land cost in North and West Vancouver has escalated on an exponential basis over the past eight months,” said Jason Soprovich, another West Vancouver real estate agent who specializes in the luxury market.

“We’re seeing parcels of land that a year ago sold for $2.5 million that are now selling for $5 million,” said Soprovich. “I mean a piece of property that has an old-timer on it you can tear down. That is extreme. It’s happening in Edgemont Village. It’s happening in Altamont and throughout the West Vancouver corridor.”

The frenzy among buyers has prompted bidding wars at all levels of the market. At the high end, Soprovich listed two properties in the coveted 2800 block of Bellevue Avenue recently and received multiple offers on both. One of those, listed for $11.5 million, ended up selling for $12.5 million, making it the most expensive piece of real estate sold in the first three months of 2016 in West Vancouver.

A modest house in the 1100 block of Haywood Avenue – which will likely be torn down – was listed for a little less than $3 million and received at least 10 offers, eventually selling for almost $3.7 million.

Conditions that include low interest rates, high demand and an influx of wealthy immigrants have created what Soprovich describes as “a perfect storm” in the real estate market.

A new house on Hillcrest Street, in the Westmount neighbourhood, offers a glimpse of what those at the high end of the market are looking at – a gleaming six-bedroom, sevenbathroom, 6,000-square-foot home in tones of white and grey, listed for sale at slightly less than $7.5 million. There’s a pool, nanny’s quarters, wet bar and projector screen entertainment system, along with marble finishes,

hardwood floors, a separate wok kitchen and expansive views out towards Lions Gate Bridge.

The old house on the property – a well maintained home from the 1950s – was torn down by the builder who bought it to make way for the new one with more market appeal.

The luxury spec house was built in 14 months, said Soprovich, and the builder is hoping for a relatively fast sale.

Next door, an excavator gnaws at the ground as contractors begin work on the neighbours’ new home. Soprovich sold that property to a couple from Whistler three years ago. But the older house on the property “wasn’t quite what they were looking for,” he said. So the construction cycle is starting again.

For the most part, who is buying homes at the top end of the market is not a mystery.

Both Realtors and academics who have studied the issue say international investors make up about 70 per cent of buyers. On the North Shore, most of that money is coming from Mainland China.

“I take it as a given that foreign capital is driving the top end of the market,” said David Ley, a University of British Columbia geography professor who has spent 15 years studying immigration flows between Asia and Canada.

In the case of those Ley calls “millionaire migrants,” there has been a consistent association with property investment.

Until very recently, the province has not kept any statistics – or at least acknowledged doing so – about who buys property. At times, the real estate industry has also disputed the influence of foreign buyers on the market.

Ley said there are reasons for both to downplay the influence of foreign capital in the housing market. “Some members of the development lobby don’t want to harm the goose

that lays the golden egg,” he said. The province has also benefited through collection of property transfer taxes, he said – estimated at more than $1 billion in the last fiscal year.

“The market is on such a tear the development lobby is benefitting immensely and the development lobby is an important funder of politicians in this province,” said Ley. But Ley said three studies that have looked at the issue – two academic and one done by Macdonald Realty – all concluded, “the top end of the market is dominated by buyers from China.”

The effect of that “does trickle down,” he added.

Allan Angell said the change in buyers has been noticeable in the past five years.

Angell keeps track of who’s buying what in the West Vancouver market.

He scrolls down a list of statistics he’s compiled that show the vast majority of sales more than $2 million in West Vancouver have been through real estate agents on the buyers’ side who cater almost exclusively to buyers from Mainland China.

In March, Angell decided to examine land title information on about 350 homes on four streets in the British Properties – a neighbourhood once infamous for a historical covenant that forbid the sale of properties to people of Asian or African descent.

Angell found about 70 per cent of those owners had ethnically Chinese names.

When urban planning researcher Andy Yan did a similar examination of land title records for three high-end Vancouver neighbourhoods it prompted some accusations of racism.

Ley called that “a tactic to limit discussion.”

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Influence of foreign buyers remains a sensitive issue From page 4 Those who are looking at the issue say such crude instruments are all that’s available in the absence of hard data on foreign buyers and the influence of foreign capital.

That’s something both academics and politicians have called for.

“We need some senior government leadership,” said West Vancouver Mayor Mike Smith. “To say you haven’t got evidence of who’s buying is just passing the buck. They don’t want evidence because they don’t know what action they should take.”

Much about the North Shore, and West Vancouver in particular, appeals to foreign investors, particularly buyers from China.

“Predominantly they like larger parcels of land. They like views. They like new. And they like big,” said Soprovich, adding it’s not uncommon for multiple generations of a family to live together in one larger home.

Families are also looking to have their children go to the best schools, he added, and will sometimes buy based on a school’s catchment area.

That’s borne out by statistics from the West Vancouver School District, where the number of English Language Learner students has more than doubled since 2009 to more than 1,000 students – or about one in seven. The dominant first language for those students has also switched from Farsi to Mandarin.

Soprovich acknowledges the growing influx of wealthy immigrant buyers is “a sensitive issue. There’s always a bit of blowback when the market is a hot environment.”

“We all have to understand we’re an evolving city and it’s going to continue to change in the years to come.”

Regardless of who’s buying, Smith worries about the effects of skyrocketing real estate values. “It’s dividing the community,” he said. “If you’re a property owner, you’re pretty happy, particularly if you were planning on selling.”

But younger people who grew up in West Vancouver and have family and friends and even well-paying jobs here are increasingly frustrated at their lack of housing options, he added.

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Realtor Jason Soprovich stands overlooking the pool at a house for sale on Hillcrest Street, with views of Burrard Inlet in the distance. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH “It’s created division between the winners in this thing who are the current homeowners and the people who are not winners.”

Even some of the winners are questioning the rapid pace of change.

Craig Cameron, a West Vancouver councillor, lives in an Ambleside neighbourhood about a block from municipal hall on a street where people still know each other and get together for a block party every year.

When family friends moved in down the street, Cameron said he was happy that his kids would have their friends nearby.

But recently that family – like so many others – put their house on the market.

“What’s going to happen now?” he said. “Are we going to have a situation where we have a house that’s empty?

What if somebody buys it and knocks it down?”

People in Cameron’s neighbourhood – like many on the North Shore – have grown used to door knocking by real estate agents and their property scouts.

Recently his wife opened the door to two young women representing real estate

interests who told her once again about the opportunities to sell, adding, “We’re having a real shortage of inventory.”

Cameron said he’s bothered by that concept of housing: “It’s just a commodity like lumber or gold or a barrel of oil. It’s just a way to make money. Or a place to park money. To me that is not what homes are.”

Cameron said he fears the day when three-quarters of the neighbours no longer show up to the block party “because they’re just here for a short time. Or they’re not even here.”

Cameron disagrees with those who argue the market should be allowed to operate without government intervention.

“We don’t have to be totally passive in the face of change,” he said.

“This market is not being created domestically. It’s being goosed by foreign investment. You have to examine what foreign investments are doing and whether it is good for a community perspective overall.”

Various suggestions have been put forward in the past

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The first 9-1-1 calls came in just before 4 p.m. when residents noticed smoke billowing from a fourth-floor balcony at 145 St. Georges Ave. Dousing the blaze was a co-operative effort by North Vancouver City Fire Department and District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services members.

The suite’s lone resident was not home at the time.

“Pretty much all of the residents had evacuated. Some stayed to shelter in place probably because of mobility issues, which, in a concrete building, is probably a reasonable option,” said assistant fire chief Bob Schreiner. “I would

say the suite is probably a complete write-off. Concrete buildings tend to contain the heat very well within the suite. ... It incinerates everything. It’s like a pizza oven, basically.”

The 800 C temperature began melting the balcony railing, Schreiner said.

Investigators believe the fire started in the kitchen.

Most residents were allowed to return to their homes by nightfall after the building’s alarm system and utilities were inspected.

“North Shore Neighbourhood House folks … were really on the ball and actually came to the scene to offer Neighbourhood House as a gathering point for all the residents even before we officially had emergency social services and the emergency management team on scene,” Schreiner said.

Residents in the eight suites on the fourth floor, however, were out of home due to extensive smoke damage in the hallways. Tests are underway to determine if the 1971 building contains asbestos, which would complicate and slow remediation work if present.

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After a couple years of density dust-ups, city residents are set to get their last word on the future of the neighbourhood at a public hearing scheduled for Monday.

City council is readying to vote on a proposal that would turn Moodyville into a closely packed neighbourhood that would largely bid bon voyage to bungalows in favour of energy efficient townhouses and medium density apartments.

Developer Seacliff Properties discussed plans earlier this year to turn Moodyville East, which is comprised of the land east of St. Davids Avenue and south of East Second Street, into a bicycle and sneaker-friendly neighbourhood with plenty of greenways.

Seacliff plans to create 340 new units in the 8.5-acre area.

The developer has assembled more than 50 of the 60 lots in the area.

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year, Seacliff Properties point man Brent Toderian called the stretch of land a “once in a generation opportunity.”

“As a city planner I’ve referred to this kind of opportunity as a unicorn in the past because it almost doesn’t exist.”

The public hearing is scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m. at city hall.

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he province’s minimum wage is going north this September, up 40 cents to $10.85 per hour with another bump to $11.25 per hour scheduled for 2017.

It means ours is no longer the lowest in the country, which is good because, famously, our cost of living certainly is closer to the top.

We’d argue the minimum wage needs to go even higher, even faster. In B.C., one in five children lives below the poverty line and 45 per cent of North Shore renters are spending more than 30 per cent of their gross household income on rent and utilities alone. Roughly a quarter are spending more than half their income on shelter.

Facing questions from reporters about how this would help our poorest residents, Premier Clark was dismissive, saying most people who make minimum wage are students living at home.

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Take a walk through the food court of most any of our malls during the day and you won’t see cashiers and fry cooks who live with their parents.

Mostly you’ll see grown women, many of whom are immigrants, many of whom are in fact parents themselves.

The opposition is accusing the premier of playing politics with the minimum wage – probably because she just pried up a plank of their 2017 election platform and used it for her own. But they have a strange ally in the B.C. Chamber of Commerce which stress mandatory wage increases should be more predictable (and for that matter, smaller).

The reasons for the top-up, our topup-happy premier said, is so low income earners can share in the dividends of our growing economy. Whatever the Liberals’ motivation, the person at the deep fryer is grateful.

The first May Day celebration was held in West Vancouver on May 24, 1931. Originally the event was to honour the birthday of Queen Victoria, but it soon became more about welcoming spring. In this photo from the 1960s, the May Queen and her maids of honour are escorted by the Seaforth Highlander cadets to the dais where they would have presided over the activities. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WEST VANCOUVER MUSEUM ARCHIVES/SUBMITTED BY THE WEST VANCOUVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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Dear Editor: Re: Pay Parking Debated for Busiest Parks, April 22 news story.

Firstly, I’m an “older guy,” with limited income and admit that I don’t lend myself easily to change at this point in life.

Frankly, though, I’ve become totally exasperated with the goings on in the city and district of North Vancouver council chambers over the last few years along with the accompanying rate and kind of development, especially in the city, not to mention the toxic blue cloud of mixed greens that insists on blowing our way. I really digress now!

That said, I’m at my limit when the key opportunity to escape from the stresses of such things is now being threatened, that is free and easy access to our North Shore trails and parks, which are my only real escape from all the daily stuff that accumulates.

So, I register my vote, as profoundly as I can, against pay parking at the access points

to our parks and trail systems.

Mental, physical health and well-being is what I’m talking about here and the cost to maintain it.

Secondly, I take exception to several points in this news article, but most pointedly with what the DNV, and the CNV too, I’m sure, are claiming about “higher maintenance costs for trails, which are taking a beating.” Yes, they are taking a beating but I seriously question the management, planning and the amount that has been provided by our civic authorities in the past for trail maintenance and say that I believe that it’s been inadequate for years. At least that’s the evidence at trail level and now they want to play “catch up” with parking meters.

I’ve frequented North Shore trail systems every week, often two or three times per week, for as long as I’ve lived on the North Shore and have yet to see good maintenance and certainly no preventive maintenance. To

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clarify, I refer specifically to trails, trailheads and access points in the upper reaches of our community, systems on, off and adjoining Baden Powell trail. Trails in some locations where CNV, DNV and Metro Vancouver share responsibility for maintenance, i.e., Baden Powell between Mosquito Creek and the base of Grouse Grind. Nothing, repeat nothing, has been done on this section for as long as I’ve been here. It’s now a safety hazard, again in my opinion, because of disagreement or a lack of co-operation between these authorities. Walk it sometime.

A local trail bike association, namely the NSMBA – and I have absolutely no connection or bias here – has shown more initiative on their bike trails than our civic authorities have on what you might call our civic trail systems. Local volunteers have contributed the majority of labour and time and therefore costs, that I can see at least. Yes, some new boardwalks and stair

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reasonable budgets and stick to them while building on them each year to cover the cost additional pressures of a growing community and tourism bring with them.

Enough of the band-aid approach.

Personally, I’d be more sympathetic with the need for this cost debate if better fiscal management had been more evident over the years.

Volunteer labour has been carrying a large part of the cost being debated and it will continue to do so. I call for the district and city to be more responsible with and accountable for what they already have been given. I suggest (they) build on a volunteer program as B.C. Parks has in provincial parks.

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Pay parking in parks misguided Dear Editor:

The provincial government introduced paid parking for provincial parks and it was a disaster.

This decision was later reversed because locals felt they were priced out of their own parks. Living in Upper Lynn Valley, I find that on-street parking is becoming scarcer as the level of development escalates.

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systems have been built over the last two or three years in the Seymour and headwaters areas but for the most part by volunteers. Some decommissioning of old trails and new routes constructed around sensitive areas but all that our civic authorities have kicked in is a project supervisor and the cost of materials. All the rest is volunteer labour.

So, manage better, set out

(some legal, others not) to make ends meet. Renters have cars too and it is not uncommon for one house to have six cars or more parking on the streets. Prior to constructing the Fromme Mountain parking lot, the mountain bikers had to park on the district streets. This resulted in areas close to the top of Mountain Highway deemed residents parking only. This resulted in the bikers parking farther away

on the streets that are not so designated. So what is going to happen if paid parking is introduced? Drivers are going to try to find free parking in front of taxpayers’ houses and with that comes conflict.

I find that to have paid parking for our local parks is a misguided and inappropriate suggestion. Let people enjoy the natural beauty of what the North Shore has to offer.

Dennis Attfield North Vancouver

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Dear Editor: I was saddened to read your article WV Owners Chop Trees to Beat Bylaw in the April 22 North Shore News. What a disgusting display of selfishness.

Just because it is legal to do something does not make it right. In no way will I paint all West Vancouverites with the same brush.

Many of you are responsible and environmentally aware. However, there is a sense of selfish entitlement among other West Vancouver residents: perfectly good homes are demolished creating unnecessary waste, Bentleys and Escalades spew obnoxious volumes of carbon into our shared atmosphere and trees that have taken centuries to grow are indiscriminately clearcut.

To these individuals, where is your moral compass?

We all impact our planet in some way – trees had to be removed for my townhouse complex to be built, I drive a car and,

One hour a week is all you really need for a healthy lawn.

Be #waterwise Lawn Sprinkling Regulations May 15 to October 15 RESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES (includes townhomes and apartment buildings) Even addresses: Monday, Wednesday or Saturday 4 am – 9 am

West Van resident Liesa Norman overlooks a neighbour’s backyard with trees felled before the bylaw. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD unfortunately, I too contribute to global warming – but I make an effort!

I really try to minimize my carbon footprint in my day-to-day activities and in the choices I make. I do this because I share this planet with billions of other people, and millions of other species.

It’s time we all think very

carefully about the decisions we make that have an effect on others around us and our shared environment. Humans are the most powerful species on Earth, but with great power comes even greater responsibility. Step up and make an effort!

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ONLINECOMMENT NSN STORY: City Swaps Parking for Patio Space (May 4) Chris Young: Sidewalk dining is long overdue. It is very popular all over Europe, indeed in France and Italy in almost every town it’s almost the preferred location in summer. In a recent trip to London, we discovered a whole block of South Kensington had been turned over to Pedestrian only to allow restaurants to put tables and chairs outside. There’s no better place to give this a try than the foot of Lonsdale Avenue. Good luck I say and let’s see more of this.

Anne: I’m trying to picture servers crossing the busy sidewalk to get to the parking spot tables whilst attempting to avoid the pedestrian traffic. Who gets the right of way – those crossing the flow of traffic with serving trays or the tired, young parents navigating a baby stroller down the hill whilst chasing a three year old on a tricycle? Will the sidewalk sandwich boards be removed from the block during the pilot project? To the restaurant owners, I’m overjoyed to hear business is doing so well, but please keep your signs out of the way of foot traffic.

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MATT CROSSAN CLARK: That is awesome! Just like MTL patios in the summer.

LINDA BOYD: Great, but where will people park? Parking down there is already an issue. Only a fraction of these people will use transit.

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It feels like we shot ourselves in the foot.”

— North Vancouver mom Fabiola Malagoli is forced to find a new school for her daughter entering kindergarten after rising enrolment at West Vancouver’s École Cedardale left kids from outside the school district competing for spots by lottery (from a May 4 news story).

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PUBLIC HEARING FOR 5616 WESTPORT PLACE

Heritage Revitalization Agreement and Heritage Designation

WHAT: Public hearing regarding proposed Heritage Revitalization Agreement Bylaw 4877, 2016 and Heritage Designation Bylaw 4879, 2016 to allow 5616 Westport Place to be subdivided as an incentive for ongoing legal protection (heritage) of the existing heritage house (Sykes Residence) on Lot 1 and new house construction on Lot 2. A public meeting will be held concurrently regarding proposed Development Permit 15-001.

WHEN: Monday, May 16, 2016, 6 p.m. public hearing WHERE: West Vancouver Municipal Hall, Council Chamber 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC

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PUBLIC HEARING FOR PROPOSED ZONING BYLAW 4662, 2010, AMENDMENT BYLAW 4895, 2016 WHAT: Public hearing regarding proposed Zoning Bylaw 4662, 2010, Amendment Bylaw 4895, 2016 to regulate fence height and materials, maximum allowable floor area on consolidated lots and landscaping regarding control of stormwater runoff. The proposed bylaw would apply to all single family dwelling and duplex dwelling zoned lands in West Vancouver.

WHEN: Monday, May 16, 2016, 6 p.m. public hearing WHERE: West Vancouver Municipal Hall, Council Chamber 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC PROPOSED ZONING BYLAW AMENDMENT: the proposed bylaw amendment would regulate: fence height and materials; maximum allowable floor area on consolidated lots; and landscaping regarding control of storm water runoff. The proposed bylaw would apply to all single family dwelling and duplex dwelling zoned lands in West Vancouver. (The provincial Land Title Act allows for consolidation of lots by the Land Title Office without the approval of the District or the District’s Approving Officer.)

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 at the public hearing described above. Prior to the public hearing written submissions addressed to Council may be: emailed to mayorandcouncil@westvancouver.ca; mailed to Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3; or delivered to Legislative Services at Municipal Hall; and must be received no later than 3 p.m. on May 16, 2016 to ensure their availability to Council for the public hearing. Technical issues affecting receipt of electronic submissions may occur so persons relying on this means of transmittal do so at their own risk. Written submissions will be included in the public hearing information package for Council’s consideration.

After the public hearing has closed no further submissions can be considered by Council.

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GET MORE INFORMATION: the proposed bylaw amendment and other relevant documents that Council may consider in deciding whether to adopt the proposed bylaw amendment may be inspected at westvancouver.ca/home-building-property/planning/major-applications and at Municipal Hall, April 29 to May 16, 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, and at the public hearing.

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PROPOSED HERITAGE REVITALIZATION AGREEMENT BYLAW: the proposed bylaw would: allow subdivision of 5616 Westport Place as an incentive for legal protection of the existing heritage house (Sykes Residence) on the northern lot (Lot 1); allow construction of a new single family house on the southern lot (Lot 2); and authorize zoning bylaw variances and increased rock removal to accommodate the new house. PROPOSED HERITAGE DESIGNATION BYLAW: the proposed bylaw would provide for ongoing legal protection of the existing heritage house. PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT PERMIT: the proposed permit would allow for development of the new house on steep terrain with access from Westport Road.

PROVIDE YOUR INPUT: Council welcomes your input. All persons who believe their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaws will be given an opportunity to be heard and present written submissions respecting matters contained in the proposed bylaws at the public hearing described above. Prior to the public hearing written submissions addressed to Council may be: emailed to mayorandcouncil@westvancouver.ca; mailed to Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3; or delivered to Legislative Services at Municipal Hall; and must be received no later than 3 p.m. on May 16, 2016 to ensure their availability to Council for the public hearing. Technical issues affecting receipt of electronic submissions may occur so persons relying on this means of transmittal do so at their own risk. Written submissions will be included in the public hearing information package for Council’s consideration. After the public hearing has closed no further submissions can be considered by Council.

GET MORE INFORMATION: the proposed bylaws and other relevant documents that Council may consider in deciding whether to adopt the proposed bylaws may be inspected at westvancouver.ca/home-building-property/planning/ major-applications and at Municipal Hall, April 29 to May 16, 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, and at the public hearing.

QUESTIONS? Lisa Berg, Senior Community Planner lberg@westvancouver.ca | 604-925-7237 S. Scholes, Manager of Legislative Services April 29, 2016 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: the applicant will hold an information meeting prior to the public hearing to provide an opportunity to learn about the proposed bylaws and ask questions of the applicant.

Development Application Information Meeting Tuesday, May 10, 2016 open house: 6:30 p.m. | presentation: 7:30 p.m.

Gleneagles Community Centre, Living Room 6262 Marine Drive, West Vancouver

QUESTIONS? James Allan, Community Planner jallan@westvancouver.ca | 604-925-7236 S. Scholes, Manager of Legislative Services April 29, 2016

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PUBLIC CONSIDERATION FOR 1327 MARINE DRIVE

Proposed temporary vehicle parking lot

WHAT: Public consideration of proposed temporary parking lot (temporary use permit) WHEN: Monday, May 16, 2016, 6 p.m. regular Council Meeting immediately following the public hearing scheduled for 6 p.m WHERE: West Vancouver Municipal Hall, Council Chamber 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC PROPOSED PERMIT: proposed Temporary Use Permit 16-008 would allow for a temporary vehicle parking lot on a portion of 1327 Marine Drive, for up to three years, with up to 40 parking spaces for trades and contractor parking associated with construction at 1355 Marine Drive. The proposed parking would be on an existing paved portion, adjacent to the lane, of 1327 Marine Drive, and the lot would be accessed off the lane. Prior to permit expiry the site would be restored in accordance with the Temporary Use Permit terms. Council will consider a resolution regarding the proposed permit at the date, time and place described above.

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PROVIDE YOUR INPUT: Council welcomes your input. You may speak or present a written submission at the May 16, 2016 meeting. Prior to the meeting written submissions addressed to Council may be: emailed to mayorandcouncil@westvancouver.ca; mailed to Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3; or delivered to Legislative Services at Municipal Hall; and must be received no later than 3 p.m. on May 16, 2016 to ensure their availability to Council for the meeting. Technical issues affecting receipt of electronic submissions may occur so persons relying on this means of transmittal do so at their own risk. Written submissions will be included in the information package for Council’s consideration.

GET MORE INFORMATION: the proposed permit and other relevant documents may be inspected at westvancouver.ca/home-building-property/planning/major-applications and at Municipal Hall, April 29 to May 16, 2016, Monday to Friday (except for statutory holidays), 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Copies may also be inspected at the Memorial Library at 1950 Marine Drive, or at the meeting.

QUESTIONS? James Allan, Community Planner jallan@westvancouver.ca | 604-925-7236 S. Scholes, Manager of Legislative Services April 29, 2016

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PUBLIC HEARING FOR 1425 GORDON AVENUE

Heritage Revitalization Agreement and Heritage Designation WHAT: Public hearing regarding proposed Heritage Revitalization Agreement Bylaw 4890, 2016 and Heritage Designation Bylaw 4891, 2016 to allow redevelopment of 1425 Gordon Avenue into four strata lots as an incentive for ongoing legal protection (heritage) of the existing municipally-designated heritage house (Vinson Residence), including construction of two detached houses and a garden suite to be added to the lower level of the heritage house.

Children tap out a beat during a 2008 Kodaly Orff music class with instructor and Juno nominee Jodi Proznick. Cap U is ending the program after 35 years. FILE PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

WHEN: Monday, May 16, 2016, 6 p.m. public hearing WHERE: West Vancouver Municipal Hall, Council Chamber 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC

MUSIC EDUCATION: PROGRAM CUTS

University shuts down children’s music school News of fall closure upsets supporters of popular program JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

After 35 years of melodies, Capilano University’s community music program is set to silence its strings at the end of August – much to the chagrin of parents.

Toddlers and young children learned to play ukulele, piano, guitar, and xylophone through the program’s Saturday morning and after-school sessions at the university as well as classes at satellite locations.

“It was a hard decision,” acknowledged university president Kris Bulcroft.

“About a year ago, we decided community music school – although we’re very proud of it – is not really our core mission.”

The university’s decision to cut a profitable program that drew 236 students – including children from New Westminster, Delta, Richmond and Vancouver – for its spring semester, befuddled music instructor Justin O’Donohue, who has taught at the school since 2010.

The program should be a “point of pride” for Cap, according to O’Donohue.

“It’s the best program of its kind.”

The community music school generated a little more than $260,000 last year, putting it $89,000 in the black.

The university cut the program to free up space for Cap’s swelling music program, said Bulcroft.

While program enrolment has grown, “space has not,” Bulcroft noted.

“Some of these students are here, gosh, I would say a good 12 or 15 hours a day,” she said. “If the rooms were available for our jazz students I’m quite certain they would be used.”

As a former jazz studies student at Cap, O’Donohue said the notion the community music school was keeping the university’s students from practice space was unfounded.

“If room space is an issue, which it appears completely not to be … we would be more than willing to work with the music program to try to find other space.”

With the exception of piano courses, the community music school could be taught elsewhere, O’Donohue added.

“I could use any classroom on campus and there’s hundreds of them.”

After four years of watching daughter Katie Rose make music at the school, parent Kim Branch wondered if the university was thinking long term.

“These are the students that could be your future students,” she said.

The assumption the community music school acts as a feeder program for the university is misguided, according to Bulcroft.

“The data doesn’t support that,” Bulcroft said when asked about Branch’s concerns. “A lot of the students who have come to the music school do not go on to Capilano.”

By marrying traditional music instruction to the principles of developmental psychology, the program, particularly its Kodaly Orff classes, created a “laboratory for young minds,” according to parent Nick Boudin.

“They made it fun and safe for kids to explore their creativity,” he said.

After being pleased with his daughter’s experience in the program, Boudin is currently searching for a similar school for his four-year-old son. Given the logistical challenges of moving the entire program off-campus, Boudin said he hopes the school will give the program a one-year extension.

“It’s too much of a treasure to just let it go without any kind of consultation.”

There won’t be a stay of cancellation, according to president Bulcroft.

“The decision’s been made,” she said. “I don’t see the merit, nor do the other members of the executive team, in postponing the decision.”

The courses will run through the summer, allowing “adequate time” for parents to find other music programs, Bulcroft said.

Running the program without Capilano University will be a strain, according to O’Donohue.

“I don’t think we’re going to simulate the program ourselves if we’re not able to keep it at the university.”

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PROPOSED HERITAGE REVITALIZATION AGREEMENT BYLAW: the proposed bylaw would: retain the existing heritage house (Vinson Residence); allow for a garden suite in the basement of the heritage house; and allow construction of two detached houses and garages to be accessed from the lane.

PROPOSED HERITAGE DESIGNATION BYLAW: the proposed bylaw would provide ongoing legal protection (heritage designation) of the existing heritage house.

PROVIDE YOUR INPUT: Council welcomes your input. All persons who believe their interest in property is affected by the proposed bylaws will be given an opportunity to be heard and present written submissions respecting matters contained in the proposed bylaws at the public hearing described above. Prior to the public hearing written submissions addressed to Council may be: emailed to mayorandcouncil@westvancouver.ca; mailed to Municipal Hall, 750 17th Street, West Vancouver BC V7V 3T3; or delivered to Legislative Services at Municipal Hall; and must be received no later than 3 p.m. on May 16, 2016 to ensure their availability to Council for the public hearing. Technical issues affecting receipt of electronic submissions may occur so persons relying on this means of transmittal do so at their own risk. Written submissions will be included in the public hearing information package for Council’s consideration. After the public hearing has closed no further submissions can be considered by Council.

GET MORE INFORMATION: the proposed bylaws and other relevant documents that Council may consider in deciding whether to adopt the proposed bylaws may be inspected at westvancouver.ca/home-building-property/planning/ major-applications and at Municipal Hall, April 29 to May 16, 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, and at the public hearing.

QUESTIONS? Lisa Berg, Senior Community Planner lberg@westvancouver.ca | 604-925-7237 S. Scholes, Manager of Legislative Services April 29, 2016 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: the applicant will hold an information meeting prior to the public hearing to provide an opportunity to learn about the proposed bylaws and ask questions of the applicant.

Development Application Information Meeting Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | 4–7 p.m.

Seniors’ Activity Centre, Marine Room 695 21st Street, West Vancouver

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Paul McGrath Homesick at CityScape The opening night reception for the North Vancouver Community Arts Council’s CityScape Community Art Space’s latest show, Homesick, was held April 21 at the Lower Lonsdale gallery. Many of the 25 exhibiting artists were in attendance and the show features a wide variety of mediums and perspectives on the topic of being homesick, seeking to capture that feeling or mood of having left friends, family or one’s home behind as we move on in the world. The show continues until May 21 at the gallery, located at 335 Lonsdale Ave., in North Vancouver. nvartscouncil.ca

Exhibiting artist Sorour Abdollahi

Exhibiting artist Sonia Sehat Niaki with Zohreh Naeini

Exhibiting artist Effat Mirnia and daughter Sheh Shojaee

Arts council’s Florene Belmore, exhibiting artist Gabriele Maurus and Lynn Green

Exhibiting artist Jennifer Lamb

Volunteer Christina Lisi

Larisa Zadorozhnaya and exhibiting artist Inna Ezhkova

Exhibiting artist Alissa Kim Tjen

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First-timer motivated by other athletes ERIN MCPHEE emcphee@nsnews.com

When asked whether his experiences over the last year, seeing him transform from an absolute beginner runner to a successful London Marathon finisher, have ignited a new passion for racing, Chuck Chamberlain is quick to respond.

“No, no, no,” exclaims the 72-year-old owner of the Tomahawk BBQ, a North Shore institution celebrating 90 years of operation this year.

While Chamberlain says he plans to maintain some of the positive lifestyle improvements he instituted into his routine and occasionally run recreationally, he’s not planning on entering other running events any time soon.

“I had to eat a lot of crow doing what I was doing,” he says.

Chamberlain returned to North Vancouver Tuesday after participating in the 2016 London Marathon April 24, an event that attracted more

Tomahawk BBQ owner Chuck Chamberlain, 72, resumes his restaurant duties after returning home to North Vancouver from a recent adventure that saw him successfully complete the 2016 London Marathon to raise funds for Crimestoppers U.K. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD than 39,000 runners this year.

His decision to participate was the result of an experience he had last year when he found himself in London on the day the 2015 edition of the marathon was

being run. Strolling through Trafalgar Square, his interest was piqued when he noticed barriers were being set up.

Inquiring as to what was going on, he was told the London Marathon was coming.

Never having seen a marathon before, Chamberlain decided to hang around and watch, so went and got a coffee and returned to take in the excitement.

Hearing, “Here they come!”

he watched the participants in the event’s elite wheelchair marathon division speed by. Thinking that was that, Chamberlain started to cross the street and leave, but was quickly stopped by a

marathon volunteer who told him to stay put.

“I turned to my right and holy mackerel, there was something like 32,000 people that went by,” he laughs.

Continuing to watch the racers, he noticed a man in full camouflage gear. As the marathon participant inched closer, Chamberlain realized he was on crutches and had only one leg.

“I don’t know, something just overcame me. I just dropped my coffee and went, ‘whoa.’ He’d put the crutches down and swing the leg, crutches down, swing the leg.

It just completely blew me away,” he says.

Chamberlain continued to watch the man and followed him along to the finish line.

“The look of determination on his face, I can still picture it. When he crossed the finish line I just said to myself, ‘If he can do it on one leg, I can do it on two.’”

When Chamberlain returned to North Vancouver, he started taking steps to gain entry into the 2016 race and after sharing his story and motivation, earned a spot on the 28-member Crimestoppers U.K. team early last summer.

“I then went, ‘Holy crap,’”

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They call it the Hobbit House.

It’s about the right size and certainly seems like something a hobbit would call home.

This unique piece of art sits at the entrance to the Zajac Norgate House building on West 16th Street in North Vancouver. But how did it get there? No, it didn’t arrive special delivery from Middle Earth by Bilbo Baggins.

The Hobbit House was brought to life by resident Peter Hartung, a retired tile layer and mason. After years

of walking past a uniquelooking stump near Mosquito Creek, Hartung decided to ask the municipal parks department if he could cut out the stump and keep it.

“It was always on my mind. I thought, it’s going to be something,” says Hartung.

Because it was on the border between the city and the district, it took some time to figure out who to talk to, but eventually the city’s parks department agreed to help Hartung cut out the stump.

“They said ‘What are you going to do with that?’” recalls Hartung. “I said, ‘I will recycle it. I will bring it to life.’”

With some help from his family, he then loaded the stump onto his truck and used a shopping cart to put it in its new place at the front of his building. He then added the details, including bark shingles for a roof, a stone chimney, and even some mushrooms on the side.

“The work itself is not a big deal,” reports Hartung, adding it only took a day to finish. But gathering the materials took longer.

“It’s almost like treasure hunting,” he notes and says you have to know where to look. “I know my neighbourhood. I know where to find things.”

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With his acceptance letter in hand, Chamberlain immediately went to Level 10 Fitness & Physiotherapy and asked to speak with owner Anthony Findlay.

“I went into the office and I showed him the letter of acceptance and he said, ‘So what’s the problem?’ And I said, ‘Well the problem with all of this Anthony is I’ve never run a day in my life.’

And he went, ‘What?’” recalls Chamberlain.

Explaining to Findlay that while he used to do taekwondo and other martial arts, his fitness background was otherwise limited. He wouldn’t even run after a bus.

Asking Findlay what his course of action should be, the strength and conditioning specialist answered simply, “‘We start tomorrow.’”

Chamberlain’s first training sessions were immensely challenging. Findlay started him off with a five-minute walk followed by a 30-second quicker walk, which were “the longest 30 seconds of my life. I think both my lungs came up, slapped me in the face and said, ‘You’re stupid.’

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Chuck Chamberlain celebrates completing the recent London Marathon with his children, son Chaz who surprised him by flying in to watch the race, and daughter Kaila who lives in London. PHOTO SUPPLIED marathon. I was in London.”

Also assisting Chamberlain in his marathon preparation was Joe McCullum, the head strength and conditioning coach for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.

While Chamberlain had his qualms, he credits his eventual success with the strong support of his trainers as well

as friends and family who believed in him wholeheartedly, and an overall positive mental attitude.

“Once it started it was like nothing. I don’t know how to describe it. There was no sensation of not making it, there was no sensation of making it, it’s just I knew it would get done,” he says.

The marathon website

lists Chamberlain’s finish time as 7:09:09, finishing in 23,830th place in the male category and 145th in his age category. In addition, he raised approximately $6,500 for Crimestoppers U.K. “I’ve never had so much fun in all my life,” he says.

“I’m still revelling in it, it was just an incredible experience,” he adds.

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KidsBiz My summer vacation FALLON O’NEILL Contributing writer

There is nothing more thrilling than the sound of the bell as it echoes through the stuffy room full of bored kids on a Friday afternoon.

FREEDOM! Kids who usually complain about asthma and sprained ankles are all of a sudden pro athletes, leaping over obstacles and running towards the double doors.

Finally, when the mob of dangerously desperate students thins, each individual begins to dream of their summer paradise, which feels as if it is within touching distance – the beach, the library, the desktop, whatever it may be.

Every summer my family visits our grandma’s cabin in the interior of B.C. There we wake up in the early morning (so much for sleeping in) and venture out into the cold lake water, either to wakeboard, paddle board (on our dad’s old windsurfer) or to simply seize the day at its beginning.

And man, is that water cold. My brothers and I play a game where we dare each other to walk deeper into the

Rockridge secondary Grade 8 student Fallon O’Neill tells us what she likes best about summer vacation. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH water, until we are all almost completely submerged. If one of us chickens out then they lose ice cream and swing privileges for the rest of the day, a predicament none of us ever want to be in, let me tell you.

Once midday arrives, we usually head up to the cabin for a delicious lunch of homemade carrot soup and sometimes a few plums fresh from the tree out front, which almost always leave a sticky trail of juice all the way down

to your elbows. When we have all had our fill, a convoy of cousins is sent out to open up the freezer and retrieve the tubs (and, yes, I said tubs) of ice cream.

Summer is the time to celebrate; to celebrate life, to celebrate the sun, the beach, and most importantly, the family.

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Performing a favourite part of dance from page 19 dancers train for 15 years before being good enough to even audition for a company, explains Giorgia.

At this point in her training, she’s focusing on Giorgia Monro practises with her dance teacher Muriel Teague at Ballet Bloch Studio in North Vancouver.

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strengthening technique, and she really likes jumping and turning.

Performing in front of an audience is also a part of dance that Giorgia really enjoys, and she says the pressure of being on stage doesn’t make her nervous, it just makes her want to strive to do her best.

The hardest part of ballet is the physical demand,

notes Giorgia. “The goal is to perfect it but you’re never really perfect.”

Although she has tried other forms of dance in the past, including modern, tap, and musical theatre, none of them compared to ballet.

“I’ve always done it because I love it,” says Giorgia. “Now I just really want to excel and do really well in it.”

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Protect yourself from scams The West Vancouver Police Department is warning community members to protect themselves from scam artists pretending to be with the Canada Revenue Agency.

Income tax time can result in attempts to fraudulently separate community members from their money, according to a press release. Be vigilant if you receive, either by telephone, mail, text message or email, communication that claims to be from the CRA requesting personal information such as a social insurance number, credit card number, bank account number or passport number. Scam artists

may insist this personal information is needed so that the taxpayer can receive a refund or a benefit payment. Cases of fraudulent communication could also involve threatening or coercive language to scare individuals into paying fictitious debt to the CRA. Other communications urge taxpayers to visit a fake CRA website where the taxpayer is then asked to verify their identity by entering personal information. These are scams and taxpayers should never respond to these fraudulent communications or click on any of the links provided.

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Visit the CRA website at cra-arc.gc.ca for more scam prevention information. If you suspect you may be the victim of fraud or have been tricked into giving personal or financial information, contact West Vancouver police at 604-925-7300. You can also report suspected deceptive telemarketing to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre at antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/index-eng.htm or 1-888-495-8501.

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DUNDARAVE DONORS Members of the Dundarave Players rehearse on a recent Friday morning at West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre. In the last 25 years, the group has raised more than $10,000 for the centre through performing in North Shore seniors care homes and residences.

The dozen or so musicians that play with the group range in age from their mid-60s to their 90s.

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Picklemania

WV couple shares love for pickleball In 1965 a trio of golfing buddies on Bainbridge Island came up with a novel way to help their kids beat the boredom of a summer afternoon.

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A badminton court on the property was useless: the shuttlecocks had gone missing. A wiffle ball was substituted, paddles improvised and pickleball, the world’s newest racquet sport, was born.

The story goes that the game was named for a dog named Pickles. According to the wife of one of pickleball’s founders, the name came from, “the Pickle Boat in crew where oarsmen were chosen from the leftovers of other boats. ... Pickles wasn’t on the scene for two more years. The dog was named for the game.”

Imagine badminton, tennis and table tennis rolled into one game, played on a court about the size of a

Memory Lane Laura Anderson doubles badminton court, with the wiffle ball served underhand.

There’s much more to pickleball, of course, with details readily available online via the various national and international pickleball associations or from the players themselves – at Picklemania, for example, the North Shore pickleball tournament coming up Saturday, May 14 at

Ed and Lilly Orlovsky discovered pickleball in Arizona and were instant converts. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN Parkgate Community Centre.

Ed and Lilly Orlovsky discovered pickleball in Arizona and were instant converts. Approximately 10 years ago, they painted lines for a court on the driveway of their West Vancouver home and pickleball was

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Parkgate hosts pickleball tournament next weekend From page 24 200 players on the North Shore and the numbers are increasing.

Ed and Lilly didn’t rest after bringing pickleball to the North Shore. Advocates and ambassadors of the game for players at any age, they have developed an introductory program for schools, which has been received with enthusiasm.

What makes pickleball so popular? It’s fast, fun and develops physical and social skills – hand/eye co-ordination and balance; sportsmanship and sociability – that are advantageous at any age.

“We play in groups,” says Ed, “anywhere from 12 to 30 people at the same time.

Foursomes or doubles play on a rotation. The others visit, talk and kibitz until their turn comes around again.”

“Pickleball is easy to pick up,” says Lilly, “and it takes a lifetime to perfect.”

It’s friendly and inclusive, and allows players to continue to be active – “movement is everything as you age,” as Lilly points out.

Played close to the net, the game is fast, without 25the strain of tennis due to

Lilly and Ed Orlovsky enjoy a game of pickleball at the outdoor courts at Marine Drive at 29th Street in West Vancouver. They’re inviting newcomers to the sport to check out Picklemania, the North Shore pickleball tournament, Saturday, May 14 at Parkgate Community Centre. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN the smaller playing surface and the underhand service.

Tennis players report that playing pickleball improves their game.

A bonus: even if the body slows down, placing the ball accurately replaces the speed factor, allowing players to continue with the game indefinitely.

Though there are no dedicated pickleball courts on the North Shore yet, it is possible to play pickleball every day on indoor courts at community

centres across the North Shore, from Gleneagles and West Vancouver to John Braithwaite and Parkgate in North Vancouver.

Outdoors, pickleball can be played on two North Shore tennis courts: at Marine Drive at 29th Street in West Vancouver, and at Institute Park in North Vancouver.

“Pickleball works well on the existing indoor and outdoor courts,” says Lilly. “Our goal is to play on courts designed

specifically for the game, which is growing so quickly in popularity.”

Until that day comes, families can paint the lines for a court on their driveways, purchase a wiffle ball or two, a set of paddles and a badminton net or travel to a dedicated court.

Pickleball is played in every community across the Lower Mainland, where courts are opening in recreation centres, and into the Interior, where Kelowna has hosted national

pickleball tournaments.

Might pickleball be for you?

Check out Picklemania, the North Shore tournament on Saturday, May 14 at

Parkgate Community Centre.

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Whistler’s Audain Art Museum, built around the art collection of West Vancouver developer Michael Audain, opened March 12 (audainartmuseum.com).

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A life in art on display in Whistler ALISON TAYLOR Pique Newsmagazine “For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.”

– William Wordsworth

Just as the poet William Wordsworth could recall the golden daffodils long after he had actually seen them “fluttering and dancing in the breeze,” so too can Michael Audain remember the brush strokes of his art collection.

Miles away from his Emily Carr paintings, which are hanging in his new museum in Whistler, he sits back in his chair and closes his eyes, and the painting appears, summoned in an instant. There, in his mind’s eye, he sees Carr’s dark and brooding The Crazy Stair, just as though it were hanging before him in his office, just as vivid as Wordsworth’s daffodils.

“I have that memory for things that I’m interested in,” he says, keeping his eyes closed as he lingers just a little longer with his painting.

“I can see them anytime I want. I can’t show it to anyone. But I can enjoy it myself.”

The Crazy Stair and some 200 pieces of art, collected over his lifetime, are now on display for the world to see at the new Audain Art Museum.

Emily Carr’s The Crazy Stair (The Crooked Staircase), painted around 1930, is part of the Audain Art Museum’s extensive collection.

‘A GREAT EXPERIMENT’

In many ways, Whistler is an odd choice for Michael Audain. Before he decided to build his museum there, he had rarely been to visit.

“I’m more of a sea-coast man,” he admits, of a life lived by boats and near the ocean.

The mountains never really held any special allure.

They’re starting to now.

This is the place, after all, that will forever hold his name and his legacy, in a state-of-the art museum tucked into the forest.

After a whirlwind multi-million-dollar build, unforeseen complications, the inevitable delays, the doors of the Audain Art Museum officially opened on Saturday, March 12.

Audain wasn’t nervous as much as curious, wondering if anyone would come to see his collection.

He is no stranger to this feeling. Audain is the chairman of Polygon Homes, a

company that has built more than 26,000 homes in various forms throughout the Lower Mainland. Before he opens a new condo unit, he feels this same anticipation.

“I’m always wondering if anyone is going to show up and buy anything,” he says.

They always do.

The museum is another story.

“We weren’t big on business plans . . . because what are the comparables?” says Audain.

How many people will come? How much money will it raise through admissions?

How will it be received in a town famous for its sports and its mountains? How to determine, even, its success? Will it bring its own unique clientele to Whistler on top of the 2.7 million visitors who already descend here annually?

“There are no Picassos in there,” cautions Audain.

No Picassos, to be sure.

Rather, something arguably

even more unique when taken as a whole – a museum reflecting the heart and soul of British Columbia.

Group of Seven artists, Emily Carr, Rodney Graham, Jeff Wall, Brian Jungen, Takao Tanabe, Bill Reid. And so the list goes on. This is the story of B.C., through the eyes of its esteemed artists.

Canadian art critic Sarah Milroy called it “a great experiment.”

Audain has a simple measure of its success.

“I think if the public takes an interest in it, that would be good. But you know what I’m most interested in would be a form of success that’s hard to measure: what impact does it have on young children? That is the thing that interests me the most.”

Growing up in Victoria, there was no public art gallery for him to visit. He remembers getting dragged to the symphony instead; that led to a lifelong love for

classical music.

It’s so important for children to see real works of art, visual or otherwise, not just in books or on iPads, teaching them an appreciation of a life lived with art.

“If I go there and if I see a group of kids looking not too bored, or with some interest or surprise, that will be of interest,” he says.

“I never had that opportunity as a child.”

This is one of the reasons why there is no charge for children to access the museum.

‘AN EXTRAORDINARY PHILANTHROPIC GESTURE’

The museum is the crowning gesture in Audain’s lifelong patronage to the arts.

Almost 20 years ago, he created The Audain Foundation, a family trust to support the arts. The foundation is financing the construction of the museum,

which was budgeted at $35 million before construction began.

The Audain Foundation has been a critical part of preserving and enhancing the arts for more than two decades – funding an artist-in-residence program at Emily Carr, creating an annual entrance scholarship there too, donating $5 million to create the Audain School of Visual Arts there, to name just a few initiatives.

Audain has donated more than $100 million to galleries, museums and universities in B.C., both personally and through the family foundation.

Senior curator with the Vancouver Art Gallery Ian Thom puts Audain’s patronage in perspective: “Mr. Audain and his foundation are by far and away the most significant philanthropists in the visual arts in this part of the world. By far.

No one else can even come close.”

He donated his art before he began making plans to build a permanent house for it on Blackcomb Way. “There are a few of them that I’d like back. But I’m too polite to ask,” he jokes, of pictures that have been donated to other museums.

It wasn’t always this way.

When he first started collecting in the early 1960s Audain had a budget of $50 per work.

That was about the time when, as a student at the University of British Columbia, he joined the Freedom Riders, a group of civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the southern United

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Gordon Smith’s Arthur Erickson-designed West Vancouver home (above) uses windows to open structural space up to the surrounding environment, an architectural feature also found in the new Audain Art Museum in Whistler. Smith’s Winterscape (1991) is one of the major works by B.C. artists included in the permanent collection. PHOTO SUPPLIED WARREN GOODMAN

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States in 1961 to challenge the non-enforcement of the Supreme Court decision that segregated buses were unconstitutional.

He was arrested for standing up for what he believed in, a sign of just how deep his social conscience ran within at a young age. This was also reflected in his early jobs in social work and housing.

“A deep, deep part of him as a person is that inquiry about: how do we live together and how do we make better environments?” says Milroy. “I think there’s an enormous social conscience to the man that I deeply respect.”

It’s there in his fascination with early First Nations art, in the reflection of B.C.’s dramatic landscape and European settlement here and through the urban photographic lens.

“There’s a fundamentally progressive impulse behind his interest in how these cultures come together,” adds Milroy.

‘IT’S A PERSONAL COLLECTION’

In his personal essay “Some Reflections,” written to go along with his Vancouver Art Gallery exhibition in 2011, Audain said there was never any “grand plan” and he has resisted the title “art collector.”

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“I bought art simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall,” he wrote.

“I buy based on emotion, because I am fascinated with an object that I simply cannot live without.”

It remains to be seen what the Audain Art Museum will do for Whistler and how it will change the cultural landscape here but it will be, without a doubt, a place of inspiration for the next generation of artists.

“Every artist I know spends a lot of time looking at other art,” says Thom. “That’s one of the things that allow them to move on with their own practice.”

Take some of the greatest figures in art history — Picasso and Matisse and Rembrandt.

“They don’t exist in a vacuum,” adds Thom. “They exist in relationship to other art. And that’s one of the things the museum does – it exposes artists to other art and it’s never the same when you actually look at the real thing as opposed to a reproduction.”

For everyone else, Thom imagines that they will be struck with what he calls the “extraordinary range” of objects in the collection and its richness.

Audain knows there will be critics.

“It’s a personal collection; it’s Yoshi’s and mine, our

collection . . . So, you have to take it for what it is.”

Some pieces will inspire, other pieces will baffle. Some things will invoke great feelings, one way or the other.

Some things will puzzle people and make them look twice.

Remember, says Thom, artists are almost always ahead of the public. That’s been true in virtually every period in history.

The beloved impressionists for example, which Emily Carr trained under as part her early career in France, were dismissed in their time.

It was years before the French museums actually bought anything. And yet, no one would look at an impressionist painting now and think it was “an incredibly radical thing.”

“To me, art is something that should make you think and make you feel,” says Thom. “It shouldn’t just be a piece of decoration on the wall.

“The reality is when you put objects in an art exhibition, it’s up to the public to make their own decisions.

Some people will walk away that they loved certain things and they actually can’t understand some other things at all.

“And that’s probably the way it should be.”

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Three years old is a turning point for dogs I realized the other day that it has been awhile since I spoke of my dog Raider and his adolescent antics.

That’s because he’s been a really great dog as of late. He turned three on Feb. 14 and that threeyear age mark tends to be the turning point in a dog’s maturity – physically, mentally and behaviourally.

If a dog owner has done their homework of early and ongoing socialization, plus lifestyle-related obedience applied throughout the day, along with plenty of physical exercise and mental stimulation, then around the age of three a dog matures into an absolutely wonderful companion that’s a joy to have around. But if the owner has not done any of the above, or very little with no consistency, a dog that turns three will be less than a joy. In fact, that dog could be a behavioural nightmare.

Three is a tough age for dogs. It’s sort of like turning 21 for young adults. You think that you know it all because you are no longer a teenager. But the fact is, you

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Dogs who haven’t been properly socialized when it comes to interacting with other dogs, and who haven’t been provided proper leadership and boundaries, will often show fear masked as bravado and find themselves in fights with other dogs and, in worst case scenarios, show aggression towards people.

The owners of these dogs often find themselves scratching their head wondering what’s wrong with their dog, not realizing that they created the problem, and end up giving the dog up to a shelter under the impression that something is wrong with it. Worse, they may unnecessarily euthanize the animal assuming it is a rogue dog.

There is nothing wrong with these dogs other than the fact that the owner failed to provide the necessary leadership and guidance during the puppy and adolescent years. The end result is a disrespectful, fear-based dog that uses intimidation and aggression to get what it wants because it has never been taught patience, self-control, limitations and boundaries.

Fortunately the old saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks” is just a bunch of hooey in this case.

With the help of a qualified professional trainer who understands the dog did not get adequate guidance as a youngster, these adolescent

canine bullies can easily be retrained, resocialized and remain with their owners.

As I said at the beginning of this column, Raider is a joy. Of course, he got the best of training and socialization from me, and as a result he is easily the best dog I have ever had of this age. I also believe that part of his fantastic personality is because he is a rescue.

Raider had two other homes before I got him at 12-weeksold and he came from less than ideal circumstances in the interior of B.C. When people ask me what he is I say he is a Chilcotin cattle dog. As he has matured, I can now see the breeds he is mixed with much more distinctly. He is without a doubt mostly Australian cattle dog, followed strongly by border collie. Australian shepherd is the third mix, and finally a touch of German shepherd just for some added spice. With all those highly intelligent, independent-thinking and high-energy breeds in his genetic makeup, he had the potential to be a nightmare dog in the wrong home with little or no leadership. But due to the years of work I have put in, he now has the mental maturity to be a companion service dog, a working sheep- or cattle-herding dog, an agility superstar, and a kick-butt tracking and nosework dog.

He has the potential to be so much more than a bully and I can’t wait to see where our journey takes us over the next decade. But for now, he is my riding buddy and a brother to my other two senior dogs Zumi and Piper.

Put the time into training young dogs and provide consistency with that training throughout their lives and you will also have an amazing dog that leaves more than just footprints on your heart.

Joan Klucha has been working with dogs for more than 15 years in obedience, tracking and behavioural rehabilitation. Contact her at k9kinship@gmail.com.

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year for ways to cool the housing market and to limit both foreign investment and speculation in it.

Some jurisdictions in other parts of the world don’t allow non-citizens to buy certain types of housing or place limits on that.

Others levy hefty taxes on foreign capital entering the real estate market. Additional taxes on speculators who rapidly flip property and on purchases at the top end of the market have also been suggested.

But so far, “British Columbia has none of these things,” said David Ebey, the NDP critic for housing, who has often lambasted the provincial government about inaction on the topic.

“I’m blown away that B.C. and Canada seem to be the only jurisdictions who are not taking the issue seriously.”

Such measures could have an impact, said Ley. “In my perception, price increases enter the market through the top end and trickle outwards into lower priced areas,” he said. “If you can stop the rapid increase at the top, that’s a helpful thing to do.”

West Vancouver Coun. Craig Cameron with longtime neighour Gary Hiscox talk gardening in the backyard. Cameron argues that houses are more than commodities. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD But not everyone – particularly in government – thinks that is a good idea.

“I don’t think the government’s planning to do anything to pull the rug out from under these prices,” said Ralph Sultan, MLA for West Vancouver - Capilano.

“One’s home is typically the biggest asset anybody has,” he said, adding government interferes with that value at its peril.

“Anything the government

does is probably going to have an adverse financial impact on a lot of people and these people are constituents and they are voters.”

Cameron finds that argument disheartening. “What you’re saying is ‘I won the lottery. Don’t mess with my lottery winnings.’ ” Real estate is also big business, particularly on the North Shore.

According to statistics from the Real Estate Board of

Greater Vancouver, the total dollar value of real estate changing hands tripled in West Vancouver over the past decade, from less than $1.2 billion in 2005 to nearly $3.6 billion in 2015. North Vancouver wasn’t far behind, jumping from less than $1.4 billion in total sales in 2005 to more than $3 billion in 2015.

This year, $1.5 billion worth of property changed hands in real estate transactions between January and March

alone in West Vancouver, with $1 billion in total sales in North Vancouver.

According to the Real Estate Council, a total of 1,381 real estate agents are licensed to brokerages on the North Shore.

All of which makes government reluctant to turn off the tap, said Cameron.

“Why do you think B.C.’s not in a recession? You’ve got Realtors making millions. You’ve got lawyers and accountants and big construction companies making hand-over-fist money,” he said. “They’re making more than neurosurgeons.”

It’s a market where cashing out has become a serious consideration for many homeowners.

Alex Rose is one of them.

He and his wife used to ignore the knocks of Realtors on the door. But as the prices climbed higher “we began to have some fairly serious talks,” he said.

As a freelance writer, “I never got myself a pension,” he said. So when opportunity came knocking recently, he answered it.

Their house sold in 48 hours, without ever going to multiple listing.

Real estate documents show the property, which the

family bought for $870,000 in 2003, sold for $3.75 million – $750,000 over the list price and $1.28 million over the assessed value.

They move out at the end of June.

Rose and his family are putting money away for retirement and moving to Caulfeild, where they bought a house after being outbid on two other properties. In one case, “a man came along one weekend and just wrote out a cheque,” he said.

Rose said he has no illusions about what will likely become of his home on St. Denis and doesn’t feel bad about it.

“A family has to decide what is right for it,” he said.

The recent real estate boom has shown you just never know. “You might think (your neighbours) are the ones who are never going to go. Then one day the sign’s up and a week later it says sold,” he said.

“People do change their minds. Especially in the face of big money.”

Next week: Priced out. The runaway real estate market has left a significant portion of the middle class – particularly young families – on the outside looking in.

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North Vancouver’s Stefanie Dickinson has parlayed her prowess in the pool into a spot on the junior national team headed to the FINA Synchronized Swimming World Championships this July in Kazan, Russia.

She’ll be spending the next two months in Montreal polishing a routine with 10 of the best junior synchronized swimmers in Canada. The only problem with that timeline is that it will take the 17-year-old away from Handsworth secondary for her final two months of high school.

There’s a touch of sadness in her voice as she talks about missing her prom. But is it worth it for a chance to compete for Canada against the world’s best?

“For sure,” she said with a laugh when the North Shore News caught up with her last week, just a few days away from her move across the country to Montreal. “I think it’s a cool way to end my high school/ junior years.”

It’s an important move for her and her teammates as well. They’ve got to get their routine nailed down tight before the big show in July, not just for performance reasons but for their own safety as well. Synchronized swimming is not a sport that can be done on the fly.

“Injuries occur more than you

would think,” Dickinson said, adding that the throws, known as “highlights,” provide the most excitement to their routines but also the most danger. “It takes a lot of co-ordination.

Everybody has to know exactly what they have to do because everyone has a different role. … If they go up and come down in the same place, that’s a concussion right there. There are a lot of concussions. I’ve had a few near misses but nothing serious.”

Moving away from her school friends is tough, but a bright spot for Dickinson – who is the only B.C. swimmer on the junior national team – is that she’s got new friends waiting for her in Montreal.

“You really develop a closer bond than you do with your normal school friends, in my opinion, just because you’re typically doing more difficult tasks and you spend a lot of time together in the pool and out of the pool,” she said. “Having that bond is pretty important for a team, you’ve got to be able to trust your teammates. You get pretty close with each other.”

Dickinson started her swimming career with North Vancouver’s Cruisers Aquatics where she got to try out all types of water sports.

“I wasn’t a huge fan of speed swimming because you’re just swimming up and down the pool,” she said with a laugh. “Synchro was a fun aquatic alternative.” She swam with the

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Cruisers synchro team from age 10 to age 14 at which time she moved over to the Vancouver Pacific Wave club where she soon joined their high-performance team.

Now in her last year of their junior program, she been training approximately 25 hours each week in the pool and out with her VPW teammates. As one of the taller athletes on the team, Dickinson’s normal role is to help form the base for the Stefanie Dickinson big stunts, helping to launch the smaller swimmers into the air. The sport also involves a lot of underwater work. When motionless and relaxed, Dickinson can hold her breath under water for about two and a half minutes. That number goes way down, however, when in the heat of a routine.

“You really feel your endurance when you’re not breathing,” she said. “If you’re moving around and actually exerting a lot of energy – which is what you’re typically doing during a routine – you probably stay under 30 seconds maximum at the beginning of a routine maybe, and less at the end.”

This will be Dickinson’s second stint on the junior national team – she competed last year at an event in Calgary for North and Central American teams. The world championships, however, will be her first big global event.

“To get to watch the best in the world live will be amazing,” she said, adding that competing for your country adds a whole new level to the sport. “It’s really fun because there’s all these Canadian supporters who you don’t know but they’re all wearing red and white and holding Canadian flags and cheering you on. The support is amazing.”

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WEEK OF MAY 8-14, 2016 ARIES

MAR 21 – APR 20 A restless spirit is the catalyst for a new project, Aries. This week you dive right into something that will take up all of your mental energy. Try to avoid slacking off in other areas.

LIBRA

TAURUS

APR 21 – MAY 21 Taurus, thanks to your hectic schedule, achieving lofty goals this week may be a stretch, so aim for something a little more manageable and celebrate the achievement.

SCORPIO

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MAY 22 – JUN 21 Gemini, though you may be content to remain out of the spotlight most of the time, when you engage with others, you really can show just how compelling you are.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 – DEC 21 Sagittarius, positive encounters, including an unexpected meeting with an old friend, could make for an interesting week. Your social life is booming.

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JUN 22 – JUL 22 You may be expected to step up and care for people all of the time, but this week you’re the one who needs some special attention, Cancer. All you have to do is reach out for assistance.

CAPRICORN DEC 22 – JAN 20 Capricorn, you have a measured and methodical approach to your goals. This week, though, your sense of fun may take over and steer you off course.

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JUL 23 – AUG 23 Leo, you have many good reasons to throw caution to the wind this week, but you may have to reign in your adventurous spirit just a little bit. You’re an example to others.

AUG 24 – SEPT 22 Listen carefully to your intuition this week, Virgo. Most of the time you can trust that little voice more than outside influences. Focus on your dreams for a bit.

SEPT 23 – OCT 23 Libra, when things become complicated, you’re the person people often seek to iron out the situation. You have a way of quickly getting to the root of a problem.

OCT 24 – NOV 22 Scorpio, even though you normally think cooly and collectedly, this week you may be at the end of your rope. Book some time for a little R&R to recharge your batteries.

AQUARIUS

JAN 21 – FEB 18 Consider your words before sharing your perspective, Aquarius. You do not want to hurt anyone’s feelings, even if what you have to say is the truth. Word things carefully.

PISCES

FEB 19 – MAR 20 Your self-esteem soars this week when you go out of your way to put others’ needs before your own. Act from your heart, Pisces.

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