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District of North Vancouver Coun. Mathew Bond says we have to think differently about how we build communities to accommodate young families. Sarah Bannister and her 10-year-old daughter Lene Pindur (left, with friend Faye Donahue) worry about finding a home to rent since their complex was sold to a developer. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD/PAUL MCGRATH

As property values skyrocket, young families are being pushed out of the North Shore.

The second in a three-part series about real estate in North and WestVancouver.

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Michaela Garstin grew up in a house in North Vancouver’s Pemberton Heights that her parents inherited from her great-grandmother.

“I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was idyllic,” she said. “We would always be out in the forests and riding our bikes and running to our friends’ houses.

“It’s going to be totally different for my kids.”

Garstin, 31, has lived on and off the North Shore since those childhood days, “but I always considered North Van home,” she said.

She married her husband, a high school teacher who also grew up in North Vancouver, and started a family.

Now the couple and their 18-month-old daughter are looking to put down roots on the North Shore. But Garstin said the kind of childhood she had won’t be possible for her daughter.

“We’ll never be able to afford a house in North Van,” she said. “That’s never going to happen.”

Garstin and her husband aren’t alone. As property values rocket upwards across the North Shore, baby boomers are among the winners in the real estate gold rush. Young families are the losers.

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“We call them the missing generation,” said District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton – the segment of the population between their 20s and their 40s who are quickly vanishing from the North Shore. They’re being pushed out of their communities, as even those with good jobs find they can’t afford to buy or rent housing suitable for families.

Large amounts of foreign investment means “there’s a lot of capital in the real estate market that has no connection to the local economy,” said David Eby, the NDP housing critic, who has been outspoken on the issue. “The wages that you earn in Vancouver now have little or no connection to the price of a place to live.”

For local politicians, it’s a troubling trend.

“I guess I can say my house has gone up in value and that’s great,” said West Vancouver Mayor Michael Smith. “But if my friends and my kids can’t afford to live in my community and the police officers and firefighters and the teachers and municipal workers and the workers at all the other businesses in West Van can’t afford to live here, how is that helping my community?”

Prices for detached homes in North Vancouver now hover between $1.5 million and $1.7 million according to April statistics from the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, up more than 65 per cent from five years ago. The median selling price of a townhouse is $875,000, while apartments are selling for $467,000.

Those with two or three bedrooms are often more.

“It makes it difficult for people to raise their families in the communities their jobs are in,” said Walton, who adds he’s seen statistics indicating the overall population of the North Shore is falling – even as a buying frenzy fuels a run on multimillion-dollar homes.

During walks in his upper Capilano neighbourhood, Walton said he sees homes that don’t appear to be lived in. “There’s a home I know that I walk by every night that sold for a very high price,” he said. “I haven’t seen any evidence of human activity.”

That’s frustrating for Joanne MacKinnon, 33, who grew up in a home in the Canyon Heights neighbourhood of North Vancouver.

MacKinnon, a registered nurse, worked for Lions Gate Hospital after nursing school, then moved to Kelowna for her husband’s employment. The couple came back to North Vancouver recently when they had a child, planning to live near family.

They’d like to buy, said MacKinnon, but their prospects in the housing market aren’t looking good. “Ideally, everyone dreams of their own home,” she said. “We were OK with a townhouse. But now we can’t afford it.”

MacKinnon said when she checks the real estate listings for anything with three bedrooms for less than $800,000 only a handful of listings come up. “I hear everyone’s overbidding.”

“My husband is a lawyer and I am an RN and we have good paying jobs. You’d think we’d be able to have a family and be able to manage a mortgage,” she said.

Her search has left her “very confused about where everyone is going to live,” she said.

“Even renting is hard if we want to stay.”

For Paul Kershaw – a University of British Columbia public policy professor who founded Generation Squeeze to highlight challenges faced by those in their 20s, 30s and 40s – the current housing crisis exemplifies the generational divide between the “haves” and the “have nots.”

“The lottery about when you were born is really driving a lot of this,” he said.

Kershaw was born in the Caulfeild neighbourhood of West Vancouver and spent his early childhood there.

He said he can’t imagine being able to live there now “even though I’m a professor with a good stable job.”

Generation Squeeze researched what young families new to the housing market can buy for less than half a million dollars.

“The reality is on the North Shore only two to three per cent of homes under half a million dollars had three bedrooms,” he said.

That’s already twice the price of an entire single-family home a generation ago (adjusted for inflation and expressed in today’s dollars), he added. “It’s a fundamental deterioration in our standard of living.”

The same trend is playing out across the Lower Mainland, said Kershaw. “Where the vast majority of British Columbians live, housing

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Young families the losers in today’s real estate gold rush From page 4 is becoming out of reach for anyone trying to come into the market for the first time, while simultaneously making incredibly rich those who have had homes for decades.”

In some cases, boomer parents are helping their millennial kids with down payments. But not all boomer parents had homes in the Lower Mainland that allowed them to tap into the real estate rise, said Kershaw. Even among those who do, not all can offer the kind of financial help needed by their kids in today’s housing market.

According to Generation Squeeze research, in 1976 it typically took five or six years to save a 20 per cent down payment on an average home.

But now in Metro Vancouver, it takes 23 years. “So you need to be saving for your down payment while you’re still in child care,” said Kershaw.

Mathew Bond, 32, a District of North Vancouver councillor, is another person troubled by the current housing crisis.

“It seems strange to me that owning a single-family home is no longer an option for at least three-quarters of the people in North Van yet two-thirds of our homes are still single family,” he said. “It doesn’t add up to me.”

The situation is partly the result of “decades and decades of decision making that really excluded certain types of housing in our community,” said Bond, who lives in a Lynn Valley basement suite with his wife and 14-month-old daughter.

“We have to look at the way our community is built,” he said. “We have to make sure families have a fair chance at getting a home that suits their needs. It shouldn’t be them outbidding each other in a frantic attempt to get what’s left on the market.”

For those who grew up in detached homes on the North Shore, it’s a mental adjustment. “I think there’s a reckoning between expectations and reality for sure,” he said.

But if millennials are being told to change their expectations, “there needs to be something for us to change our expectations to,” said Bond. “That opportunity isn’t available right now.”

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Michaela Garstin (right) and her cousins enjoyed an idyllic childhood in North Vancouver. She worries her daughter won’t have the same opportunities. PHOTO SUPPLIED Often there’s a push-back from those in single-family neighbourhoods opposed to greater density.

Greater density can also be a tough sell, said Eby, when it doesn’t seem to help make housing affordable. “It’s almost impossible to sell additional density to communities who believe that the only people who are going to be moving in are investors,” he said.

Many of the same forces that have driven the price of land through the roof have also made rentals increasingly scarce. Many older rental buildings were built under government incentive programs decades ago and are now deteriorating. In the absence of those incentives, few rental buildings have been constructed since. Now older complexes are being torn down to make way for more lucrative market housing projects by developers.

Sarah Bannister knows all about that. The young single mom of two daughters, ages 13 and 10, has lived in Emery Village, a 65-unit rental complex that caters to families, for the past 12 years.

Bannister grew up in an Upper Lonsdale neighbourhood, and works as a hairdresser in North Vancouver.

“Our complex is just like me growing up,” she said. “It’s just like an oasis. (The kids) ride their bikes with all their friends.” There’s a basketball court and a strong sense of connection between neighbours. Her daughters go to school just two blocks away.

But soon all that could be changing. At the end of March, residents got a letter telling them the complex had been sold to Mosaic, a Vancouver development company. “I knew they were going to sell eventually,” said Bannister.

“I didn’t think it would be so quick.”

She doesn’t know how long her family will have before they have to move. “But then there’s nothing to rent. There’s nothing affordable,” she said.

Bannister said she currently pays $1,950 for a three-bedroom unit. But that will likely only buy a two-bedroom unit if she has to move.

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District of North Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services members are crediting a cat with alerting its owners to a fire that dealt heavy damage to their home in Norgate Friday morning.

The first 9-1-1 calls reporting smoke and flames from the home on Maplewood Crescent came in just after 7 a.m. When the first fire crews arrived shortly after, the inside of the home was already fully engulfed

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There’s room for improvement in Lower Lonsdale, according to a contingent of entrepreneurs intent on resuming their beleaguered campaign to bring a Business Improvement Area to the waterfront business district.

City of North Vancouver council voted 5-2 Monday to have staff investigate establishing a BIA based on counter-petition, a system that counts non-respondents as Yes votes.

The Lower Lonsdale Business Association’s threeyear campaign to harness the area’s 600 shops into a cohesive voice of support has so far failed to impress, according to Coun. Pam Bookham.

“I don’t consider 19 testimonials out of 600 to be a strong argument to take the next step,” she said, blasting the association for not producing more evidence

of support after receiving a $120,000 grant from council.

A 2014 drive to form a BIA was shelved when supporters opted to wait for the city’s waterfront plan to crystallize. However, BIA advocate Terry Shein said Monday the previous campaign was also a “little bit derailed” by a rival petition.

Former mayoralty candidate Kerry Morris collected 142 signatures from Lower Lonsdale businesses opposed to the BIA, setting the BIA drive back drastically, according to Shein.

“For about a year, we had people completely confused about what a BIA is,” he said, explaining a lot of time was needed to correct misinformation.

Payments to the BIA would be based on property value.

For Shein’s 1,500-squarefoot frozen yogurt shop, he said he would expect to pay about $85 a month. The BIA has a budget plan slightly

under $500,000.

Landlords generally pass on levies to their tenants due to the proliferation of triple-net leases in the neighbourhood, noted Stephen Mikicich, West Vancouver’s manager of community planning.

The money could go to parking, street beautification, marketing or festivals – much to the delight of restaurateur and 2014 council candidate Iani Makris.

With one restaurant in Lower Lonsdale and another in Yaletown, Makris said he’s benefited from a BIA. “The first festival that the BIA put on in Yaletown: we made our levy back in the first hour and a half,” he said.

The counter-petition – which would tally support from landlords, not tenants – is an “extremely flawed” process, according to Coun.

Rod Clark, who voted against pushing the BIA forward.

“If you don’t say no, you are in favour. Well you know what? Rogers tried to get away with that … if you don’t vote against taking all these cable channels, you’re going to get ’em,” he said, pounding his desk for emphasis. “Show

me that there’s a difference here.”

Clark ended his remarks with a request: “I say to the BIA people: Give me a simple majority. This is a democracy.”

While Mayor Darrell Mussatto split with Clark on the BIA, the oft-rivals concurred on the “awful counter-petition process,” which Mussatto stressed was prescribed by the province.

“Don’t get mad at council, don’t get mad at the BIA, get mad at the province,” he said.

Virtually every BIA in B.C. has been established through counter-petition, largely due to apathy and the “inherent difficulty” of getting signatures from absentee landlords, Mikicich said.

Business owners have to be responsible for knowing what’s afoot in the community, said Coun. Holly Back, a salon proprietor.

“If I got something like this and I ignored it, I shouldn’t be in business,” she said.

Back touted the BIA as an opportunity to brand Lower Lonsdale.

“I just don’t know how we could fail at this.”

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2014, martial arts studio owner Joel Posluns dubbed the BIA: “a boondoggle and a waste of their money.”

However, former Vancouver BIA president Karen Peterson was adamant all businesses would benefit, including those on the second floor or higher.

“You’re creating a beautiful place to live and to work and to be entertained so it’s more attractive to employees,” she said Monday.

With plans on the drawing board for a concert stage and seasonal skating rink/splash pool on the waterfront, the “time has come” for a BIA to benefit the small business community, according to Coun. Linda Buchanan.

“If we want to go far, we go together,” she said.

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es means yes. Silence – in the case of the Lower Lonsdale Business Improvement Area – also means yes.

The City of North Vancouver will likely use a counter-petition for a proposed Lower Lonsdale BIA later this year, a process that has been the province’s system for establishing more than 70 BIAs around B.C. BIAs charge all the businesses in their area a levy and an elected board decides how the cash will be spent in the interests of the business community.

What is particularly unjust about using a counter-petition is that it barely affords the “no” side a fighting chance.

Unless a majority of business owners vote against the BIA, the city may set one up. And it’s the landlord who is asked to vote on the counter-petition, not the tenant businesses. Landlords can happily

pass the bill to their tenants through triple-net leases.

But while the methodology is counterdemocratic, the BIA itself could still be a boon to Lower Lonsdale, particularly as the waterfront community readies for a sea change.

The Shipyards may soon boast a plaza alongside a skating rink/splash pool.

Neighbouring Moodyville’s population is set to quadruple.

Capitalists often attribute their success to outworking their opponents, but this may be an instance when LoLo’s shopkeepers could benefit more from collaboration than competition.

However, when it comes to those second-storey white collar offices, for whom street beautification and marketing isn’t particularly helpful, and another monthly levy is nothing but a burden, silence isn’t golden – it’s time to be heard.

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Psychological warfare triumphs in no-fly zone Sometimes nature proves its place in the world hierarchy with an act of simple dominance, even from the smallest of creatures.

Skunks end a wedding reception early by hosing down the cake. Ants ruin a picnic by crawling up your shorts and tickling your bits. My latest brush with nature’s simple power is a group of house flies that seems to have built some sort of teleportation device that allows them to appear out of thin air right in the middle of my kitchen.

At least that’s my best explanation for what’s happening at my house right now.

For more than a month my family’s Leave-It-to-Beaver-like tranquility has been interrupted several times each day by giant flies that appear out of nowhere and proceed to waft around the house at the same lazy pace as an old man going down the aisles of a drugstore looking for socks.

I find it weird, and a little unsettling. My wife, on the other hand, finds it more than

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Laugh All You Want Andy Prest unsettling. In fact, what she finds is the closest shoe and slams into every inch of wall space and every piece of furniture until either the fly is dead or the police arrive.

“Yeah honey, it’s me. The warden said I only get one phone call so I want you to listen because this is very important: Kill the fly.”

Suffice it to say that my wife is upset by the flies, which by default means that I am upset by the flies. We complained enough to our landlords that they decided to lick the problem by calling in a

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My weapon of choice is a twisted up receiving blanket that I use to whip the flies out of the air like a Dad Ninja. It’s elegant like a light sabre, deadly like a loaf of bread... “detective.”

The gumshoe arrived and poked around the house, took some DNA samples, looked through our trash and then rounded up a bunch of flies for questioning.

“Listen up fly boys, I don’t know where you came from but you better buzz off, see.

Stunts like this don’t fly in my town.”

Then he went back to his two-bit office and poured himself a stiff drink. There was a knock on the door and a leggy brunette walked in, making a slight buzzing sound.

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no-fly zone.” Then she tried to land on the detective’s head for the next five minutes before he finally shooed her out the window.

That last part may or may not have happened, but the detective nonetheless closed the book on our case by declaring he had no idea where the flies were coming from. I’m assuming he then handed our landlords a bill for $8,000.

My hope is that the detective is pulling a Lt. Columbo on these flies. He’ll pop by next week wearing a trench coat and chomping on a cigar, ask the flies what time they dropped off their dry cleaning

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on Sunday. On the way out he’ll say “Uhhhhh, one more thing: The dry cleaner is closed on Sundays. How do you explain that?”

Then the flies will break down, show him their elaborate tunnel system or teleportation device or whatever and then they’ll surrender themselves to be executed by electric swatter.

Sadly, I don’t have high hopes for an ending like that.

More likely we’ll never find their teleportation device and they’ll just keep popping up in our kitchen until the weather turns cold. That leave us to do what all good citizens are doing these days: take the law into our own hands. Of course, through the process of evolution, natural selection and Oprah’s Book Club, it has fallen to me, the man of the household, to act as the primary fly assassin.

My weapon of choice is a twisted up receiving blanket that I use to whip the flies out of the air like a Dad Ninja.

It’s elegant like a light sabre, deadly like a loaf of bread.

When the whip fails, hand-tofly combat commences with whatever smashy weapon is nearby (except, of course, a hand. Gross.).

We’ve also unwittingly stumbled into a bit of psychological warfare with some super-sticky strips we’ve put on the windows. They aren’t very effective at attracting flies but when one lands on them by random chance, they’re stuck there for good. What that means is that the free flies must watch their stuck brothers twist and turn and slowly lose hope.

I don’t believe in torture – I’m no terrorist or Donald Trump – so I do my best to dispose of them before they suffer too much. But that sticky stuff is really, um, sticky, so legs, wings, heads sometimes get left behind.

So now the flies are still appearing out of nowhere and making themselves at home, but we’ve got windows adorned with dead fly body part art. Nature – let’s call it a draw. aprest@nsnews.com

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Dear Editor: My wife, and friends (three tables of 10), looked forward to the Lynn Valley Gala every year. It was a fantastic community event where you get to party with good friends and catch up with other Lynn Valley acquaintances in a social setting. What a great outdoor event with the backdrop of the local mountains, dinner and dancing.

Pricing was $80 per person. Last year, $90 per person. This year a whopping

$150 per person. I’m pretty sure the increase can’t be because of the band, or the venue, as that hasn’t changed.

A few years ago, a buffet-style dinner was offered. Two years ago, the service improved and table service was offered. Will lobster and crab be offered and an open bar? Really, what could merit an increase of $120 per couple, which works out to an extra $60,000 with 500 attending?

Lynn Valley Days is a fun-filled family event that celebrates the history and

progression of our great community.

The event was fantastic last year at $90.

Emails have been sent advising the committee that the price increase is unacceptable and so far we have not received a response that justifies or explains this whopping increase.

It is disappointing that the residents that have supported the event from Day 1 are not being heard.

Jim Cordina North Vancouver

One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, but at times it’s just junk Dear Editor: It was with disappointment and anger that my wife and I read your article about the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre Flea Market in your April 29 issue. We expect better reporting from the North Shore News.

Flea markets like those held by West Vancouver United Church, Highlands United Church and the West Vancouver Seniors’ Activity Centre are the ultimate in recycling. They help people dispose of unwanted items, make usable items available to others at a bargain price, provide donations to various charities and reduce the amount going to the landfill.

We, along with more than 300 other volunteers, average age over 75, worked more than 7,000 hours in two weeks collecting, sorting, grading and preparing for our flea market.

It is said that one man’s junk is another man’s treasure. Sometimes this is true but other times it is just junk. The flea market has many values. It provides a social setting for people to work together for a common cause. It helps people get rid of things they no longer need without sending them to the landfill. The proceeds help pay for programs and equipment at the seniors centre.

At the end of the sale, as much as possible is donated to various charities, but even they will not take items that are broken, worn out or unserviceable. They have to go to the landfill.

Our recycling efforts are getting better. This year we recycled all remaining fabrics, clothing (including shoes and purses), books, electrical items, cardboard and metal. Each year the amount we send to landfill is less.

Perhaps Mr. Wall would like to volunteer at next year’s sale. We start collections on April 10, 2017.

Bob Clark West Vancouver

New Audain museum impresses Dear Editor: Thank you for printing the two well-written articles on the new Whistler museum.

I recently attended the Audain Museum on a group outing of the Welcome Spring Festival organized by the

Chateau Whistler for seniors.

Your two articles renewed my memory of this visit.

I especially enjoyed comparing the Emily Carr works painted over a long period of time, but there are many more paintings I admired.

The building itself is worth a visit.

My thanks goes to Mr. Audain and his wife for making this private collection available to the general public.

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know the answer or saying no school teacher once to peer pressure. asked North Shore Taekwondo’s Master “We try and teach them Tony Kook how how to speak up,” says Kook. martial arts schools teach “Confidence teaches you there’s important life skills differently never a wrong time to do the than other sports. She wanted right thing.” to know what kids would learn in Monthly themes “Confidence taekwondo that are the focus of teaches you might be different the character there’s never a than what they’d development wrong time to do learn in soccer, portion of the the right thing.” baseball or hockey. curriculum.

The difference, he said, is in the approach, “There are only so many ways to kick and punch, but a great martial arts school is going to use those as tools, use those as means to develop life skills,” he says. “In other sports they’re going to learn respect in indirect ways. We do it in a very, very direct way.”

Kook says that teaching life skills is at the core of his school’s martial arts curriculum.

Rather than using mat chats to talk about confidence in the abstract, the school discusses concrete examples of how students can integrate the theme into their daily lives, such as putting their hand up in school when they

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“The classes are tremendously fun, they’re very safe and they’re age appropriate,” says Kook.

The school has an average ratio of 10 students per one instructor, allowing for one-onone interaction and support.

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North Shore Waterfront Gala Raising Funds for North Shore Neighbourhood House For more than 75 years, the North Shore Neighbourhood House (NSNH) has met the changing needs of individuals and our community with a wide range of services. Its programs and support include everything from child care and parenting programs to teen counselling and outreach, to seniors’ health, wellness and recreation.

NSNH is helping to enhance quality of life for those of all ages, abilities and cultures, especially for the North Shore’s most vulnerable residents.

For more information, visit www.nsnh.bc.ca.

The sponsors of the North Shore Waterfront Gala are proud to once again be raising funds for NSNH. Tickets to this year’s Gala are already sold out, but donations are still being accepted for the event’s silent auction.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Cindy Goodman WV Chamber President’s Dinner Representatives of the West Vancouver Chamber of Commerce celebrated the local business community at their annual President’s Dinner and Business Excellence Awards held at Hollyburn Country Club April 26. There were an array of presentations made, including Citizen of the Year, awarded to Harry Greenwood, Business Person of the Year to Bowen Island Community Transit’s Peter King, and Young Entrepreneur of the Year to Dr. Pavan Avinashi of Hollyburn Eye Clinic. Best New Business of the Year went to Fisherman’s Market’s Katie Budd, Best Small Business of the Year to Positively Fit’s Mary Letson, Best Medium Business of the Year to Rachael Des Lauriers of Gleneagles Clubhouse and the Appleback Grill, and Best Big Business of the Year was awarded to British Pacific Properties’ Geoff Croll.

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Green Leaf Brewing owner Martin Ebadi didn’t get into the beer business for the fame and popularity that inevitably comes along with owning a brewery in a prime location.

The location in question is an anchor spot in North Vancouver’s bustling Lonsdale Quay Market, an iconic meeting place for locals and the gateway to the North Shore for tourists who arrive by SeaBus. On a recent weekday afternoon Ebadi sat chatting with a reporter and photographer on Green Leaf’s patio, a drinking spot that is clearly the envy of the Lower Mainland’s booming craft brewing industry. The quiet-spoken Ebadi seemed genuinely surprised that a local newspaper wanted to take his picture to go along with a feature about his business which has popped a whole new flavour into the 30-year-old Quay.

“You want a picture of me? I don’t look that good in the pictures,” he said rather shyly, laughing when asked if he was enjoying the local fame that has come his way since the brewery opened in late 2013. “I’m running away from that. That’s not for me. … I’m not the most social guy. I found out in this business you definitely are getting very popular and people want to get to know you.”

The reluctance to step into the spotlight makes more sense when considering that Ebadi, a native of Iran who moved to Canada in 1997, spent 12 years working as an anonymous

mechanic in his father’s small auto shop in Burnaby. Tired of fiddling with BMW circuit boards, Ebadi found a new path by following his passion for beer into the craft brewing industry. In doing so he’s unlocked his social side as well.

“I meet a lot of unique people – I like that part of the job,” he said. “You can’t socialize with everybody, but you do have the chance to talk to someone for five minutes, and then next time you talk to them for another five minutes and eventually you get to know them, get comfortable with them and you know each other, you have a new friend.”

One of those friendships helped guide Ebadi to a pivotal moment in Green Leaf’s young history. A New Zealand native named Lloyd has been frequenting Green Leaf since it opened and he made a suggestion which has worked out great for the business: brew a lager.

Ebadi, whose current favourite beer is a unique and complex aged IPA, hated the idea.

“We were like, ‘we’re a craft brewery – we don’t want to brew lager. You can get a lager anywhere,’” he said with a laugh. Lloyd, who kept coming back even though he wasn’t a big fan of the hoppy creations available at the brewery, persisted. Finally Ebadi relented and brewed a small batch of lager.

“I’ll never forget this: we brewed that tank of lager and within the first two or three weeks, it was 40 per cent of our sales,” Ebadi said, his smile growing wide. “Within the first two months it was 60 per cent of our sales. So then we kind of had to keep it.”

Today the beer is as popular as ever, still accounting for about 60 per cent of their sales.

Its name? Lloyd’s Lager.

“He was the guy that turned that lager light on for us,” Ebadi said.

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Much like the Quay welcomes people to the North Shore, Ebadi has found that Lloyd’s Lager welcomes people to the world of craft beer. The logic makes sense – Green Leaf isn’t a hip brewery tucked away in an industrial park that connoisseurs seek out for the latest Imperial Double Hopped Barrel Aged Something-or-Other.

“We come across a lot of people that just have stopped by for a beer, they weren’t aiming to go anywhere for craft beer, they just wanted a beer. A lot of those people don’t even know what craft beer is,” Ebadi said. “(Lloyd’s) is a very good gateway beer for them. They try the lager and then there’s a chance of them trying a flight, or trying the pale ale because they see a lot of people buying it, and then they get into craft beer. It’s amazing how many people we have turned to craft beer. They constantly come and tell me ‘I don’t drink any other beer now. Only craft beer.’”

Though he’s happy to introduce people to the world of craft brewing now, Ebadi started dreaming about joining the beer revolution himself nearly a decade ago. He moved from Vancouver to the Lower Lonsdale area in 2009, not knowing that he was living just a few blocks away from the spot where his sudsy dreams would come true. It wasn’t easy, however, shoehorning a brewery into an already bustling transportation, shopping, dining and sightseeing hub. Green Leaf now occupies a space that was formerly taken up by four different entities: the Quay Market office, a travel agency, a

seafood vendor and a muffin shop. The brewery has made significant changes to the landscape, most notably installing a drainage system in the market’s basement in a room beside the Quay’s parking garage. Once they crammed all their equipment in and started brewing, some folks made a stink about the brewery smell that wafted through the market. Green Leaf has since made changes to the ventilation to send more smell out and up into the sea breeze, and as a small brewery they only brew for about an hour, three or four times a month.

The logistics of it all rang up the cost of the setup and operation of the brewery, but the location is paying off now, particularly in the year since Green Leaf opened their patio. Ebadi remembers that moment very clearly.

“I was able to open up on May 1 (2015). It was a Friday. It made a big difference for the business,” he said.

Sitting on the patio, it’s hard to imagine many other places in the world where you can sip craft beer right out of the brewery tanks while watching cruise ships set sail, helicopters buzz about and float planes land, not to mention the most fascinating specimens of all: the humans.

“It’s definitely a good place for people watching,” said Ebadi. “You see all kinds of people coming off the SeaBus. … You see a lot of interesting things, interesting people come and go. It’s nice. You see a lot of families and kids and tourists.”

Ebadi may not have set out to find popularity, but with a patio like that, there’s no need to go searching: popularity has found him.

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2016 marks a year of important milestones for North Vancouver’s Kathy Barnard.

The president of the Save Your Skin Foundation, which she founded in May 2006, is celebrating 10 years of success in the fight against melanoma. “It’s a big year for us,” she says.

This year Barnard is also marking a decade of being considered cancer-free.

After being diagnosed with malignant melanoma in May 2003, in May 2005, she was told she had six months to live as her cancer had spread and tumours were found in her left lung, kidney, liver and adrenal gland. Barnard and her family refused to accept that reality

and searched internationally for alternative options and eventually she went on to receive treatment through a clinical trial that she credits with saving her life.

In the wake of her own melanoma journey, Barnard banded together with willing family, friends and colleagues, who were happy to lend their support, and launched the foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to skin cancer and skin disease with a focus on education and awareness, supporting research and ensuring access to treatment for all Canadians.

According to the foundation, skin cancer is the most common type of cancer and one of the most preventable, caused by overexposure of the skin to UV radiation, commonly the sun and artificial tanning beds. In Canada, more than 80,000 cases of skin cancer are diagnosed annually, more than 5,000 of which are melanomas, the mostly deadly form.

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When Barnard started the foundation she was the “lone survivor.”

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Barnard receives B.C. achievement award From page 14 called I’m Living Proof because every day there was more and more of us surviving.

It was a great way for me as a patient to connect everybody,” she says.

The Save Your Skin Foundation has continued to grow and Barnard’s efforts have not gone unnoticed. Last month, she was awarded a B.C. Community Achievement Award, announced April 26 by Premier Christy Clark and Keith Mitchell, chairman of the B.C. Achievement Foundation. “I was thrilled and it was a complete surprise because I didn’t even know I had been nominated,” she says.

“It’s a huge honour,” she adds.

She’ll receive the award May 24 at a ceremony in Victoria.

May marks Melanoma Awareness Month and the foundation, interested in marking that as well as doing something to celebrate its 10-year anniversary, is presenting an inaugural event, entitled the unBeach Party, to raise funds for skin disease and skin cancers Wednesday at the Vancouver Aquarium.

“We just did a survey for another campaign that we were doing called It’s Not Just Skin Cancer. We were so appalled that so many people now know that melanoma is deadly but they still think they need to be out in the sun tanning.

They still haven’t correlated the danger of melanoma and the UV rays. We thought

OK, let’s do an unBeach Party. We want to tell people that lying on the beach is just not safe, you need to be protected, your skin is the largest organ in your body.

We thought ‘unBeach’ – perfect,” says Barnard.

The event, which hopes to attract 300 guests, will be hosted by three-time melanoma survivor Mary-Jo Dionne and Dinotrux star Matt Hill, and will include themed cocktails and canapés, a silent auction, beach volleyball and entertainment.

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“All the buildings they’re putting up in Lynn Valley, they’re for sale,” she said. “I can’t afford to buy. There’s no rental.”

She expects the situation will only get worse: “They’re tearing down the complexes around us.”

Bannister said she always thought of the North Shore as a perfect place to raise children. But now? “How can you start a family here?” she said.

“No one can afford it.”

Increasingly, young families are being pushed further away from their jobs and community roots on the North Shore.

“You can see the tide of money rolling from the west side (of Metro Vancouver) to the east,” said Eby. “The million-dollar line has now moved to Maple Ridge.”

That creates its own set of problems.

Heather Birch, 45, grew up in North Vancouver and has worked in Horseshoe Bay for the past two decades.

She bought her first apartment at 27th and Lonsdale.

But when she and her husband decided to start a family a few years ago, buying a twobedroom unit on the North Shore wasn’t an option.

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mother, who still lives in North Vancouver. Then there’s the hellish commute.

After dropping her son off at daycare in Coquitlam at 7 a.m. Birch normally drives a stress-filled 45-minute traffic gauntlet to her job.

Coming home is worse – she often spends more than an hour in the daily traffic jam snaking east along Highway 1 and out through Burnaby.

“There’s no time of day that’s good,” she said. “You can’t move. You’re trapped.”

Walton sees the growing number of North Shore workers who can’t afford to live here as a very real part of what’s causing the continuing traffic nightmare on the highway.

Birch said she’d love to get back to the North Shore – if only she could afford it. “We’re on waitlists for co-ops,” she said. “They have three to five year waits.”

“I’m a North Van girl,” she said. “I’ve always wanted to raise my son where I was raised.”

Both politicians and academics have suggested solutions to “cool the market.”

Taking a look at the capital gains tax exemption on principal residences is one that Walton and Smith support.

Originally brought in to support home ownership, the tax exemption has allowed serial speculators to make a killing in the hot market, without being taxed on the profit.

“I certainly support both levels of government taking a good look at how to curb principal residence speculation,” said Walton. “For the average citizen in Canada, it’s really squeezing the middle class. I think that’s wrong.”

Smith also favours being

able to charge higher property taxes on homes that aren’t the owner’s principal home – something the province currently doesn’t allow.

Australia and Denmark have tackled similar problems by either banning foreign investment in housing or placing limits on the type or amount of housing stock that foreigners can purchase.

That’s something Smith agrees with. “If you are not a permanent resident of a community, there should be some control on how many houses you’re allowed to own,” he said. “This business of people picking up six or eight houses as a place to park money, that’s not the intent of our housing stock. That is happening in West Van.” In Singapore, high taxes on foreign housing investment are used to help build affordable housing.

A group of Lower Mainland academics also recently suggested a property tax surcharge tied to income tax (with the exception of retirees) designed to target people who own high-end property yet don’t work and pay income tax in B.C. “There’s an overwhelming support for it,” said Eby. Except, notably, from the provincial government, which raked in $1.15 billion in property transfer tax to provincial coffers in the last fiscal year ($98 million of that from property sales on the North Shore). The economic boom in real estate has cushioned slides in other sectors.

Eby finds that confounding. “It’s a huge discussion and there’s an overwhelming consensus that the government needs to do something.

The devil’s always in the

details about what that something is.”

In the meantime, even some of the “winners” in the housing sweepstakes have been left wondering what they’ve won.

“It’s one thing to sell but if you can’t find anything to buy in the community, they’re having to leave,” said Smith.

Count Heather Hirst of Moodyville as one of them.

Hirst lives in the 500-block of East First Street in North Vancouver, an area of modest 1950s bungalows just up from the waterfront port terminals.

She bought her house 12 years ago for around half a million dollars.

“A lot of the neighbours knew each other. A lot of them had been there for years,” she said.

When the port approved plans allowing a bank of large new grain terminals to be built immediately in front of their homes in 2013, “we were devastated,” said Hirst.

So when a developer offered to buy out the property owners in a land assembly, many of them took the offer, including Hirst.

“I got a lot of money for my house,” she acknowledged – $1.35 million.

Since January, she has continued to rent her old house back from the developer.

“I was thinking I could just move up the block,” she said.

“I figured I could get a house similar to mine. Mine wasn’t in great shape. I wasn’t looking to get a mansion.”

Turns out she was wrong.

Hirst started looking at houses in the range of $1 million to $1.5 million in January. She put offers on four rundown homes in North Vancouver, which all attracted multiple offers and sold for between $100,000 and $300,000 above the list price.

In some cases, “I offered over $200,000 above list and didn’t get them,” she said.

She didn’t want to downsize to a townhouse or condo and instead started looking in Port Coquitlam. “I found out they were doing the same,” she said. “I started getting worried I’d be out of that market too. I panicked.”

She bought a house in Port Coquitlam recently for $950,000 over the Internet without ever seeing it in person. “It was above list with no subjects,” she said.

“I don’t think I’ll ever get back to North Van,” she said.

“I don’t think I’ll ever have that opportunity.”

Next week:There goes the neighbourhood. North Shore residents grapple with rapid changes to their neighbourhoods being driven by an influx of new money and sharply rising land values.

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Kate Armstrong of the Sentinel Spartans senior girls soccer team holds off Handsworth’s Chelsy Fang during zone playoff action Wednesday at Ambleside Park. Handsworth claimed the must-win match 2-1. Visit nsnews.com for a photo gallery. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

Provincial soccer playoffs take shape It’s win-to-get-in time in high school senior girls soccer as North Shore teams are battling for provincial berths in zone playoffs this week.

At the AAA level the Handsworth Royals scored a 2-1 win over the Sentinel Spartans Wednesday in an elimination playoff game at Ambleside Park. The Royals will now play Burnaby Central in another must-win playoff game at Burnaby Lakes Sports Complex Monday starting at 3 p.m.

The Argyle Pipers, the North Shore’s No. 1-ranked team, will take on New West at Queen’s Park Turf on Monday at 3 p.m. with

the winner advancing to provincials and the loser taking on the winner of Handsworth vs.

Burnaby Central for the zone’s final provincial berth.

At the AA level Collingwood claimed the No. 1 spot on the North Shore and they’ll face Burnaby’s St. Thomas More Monday at 3 p.m. at Ambleside E with a berth in the provincial championships on the line.

Seycove and Sutherland battled for the North Shore No. 2 designation Friday after North Shore News press deadline. The winner will play Burnaby’s Alpha secondary in an elimination matchup Monday, location TBD.

Field notes

Thorp throwing heat in California college league North Vancouver’s Dylan Thorp was named pitcher of the week in the California Community College Baseball Coaches Association for the week ending April 17.

The sophomore at Monterey Peninsula College

pitched a complete game 2-1 win on April 12 against Canada College, allowing two hits and one run while striking out seven. Thorp also picked up a save in an 11th inning 6-4 win against Hartnell College on April 16, striking out all three batters he faced.

The Sentinel secondary grad helped the North Shore Twins win silver in the 2014 B.C. Premier Baseball League championship tournament.

Field notes are compiled by Andy Prest. Email your sports info to aprest@nsnews.com.

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WEEK OF MAY 15-21, 2016 ARIES

MAR 21 – APR 20 Aries, your tendency this week is to escape into your mind and imagination. While that’s fine for a little while, pretty soon you have to come back down to earth.

LIBRA

TAURUS

APR 21 – MAY 21 Taurus, people are pulling you in all sorts of directions this week. They each want you to share in their good times, but there’s only so much of you that can go around.

SCORPIO

GEMINI

MAY 22 – JUN 21 Gemini, even though you generally like to keep your feet on the ground, this week you are looking to be a little adventurous. Let someone entice you into a whimsical journey.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 – DEC 21 Sagittarius, live creative fantasies this week because you might not have another chance to indulge for a while.

This is the break you have been seeking for some time.

CANCER

JUN 22 – JUL 22 Cancer, a desire to bring more calm into your life could have you seeking out a vacation or just a respite from daily life.

Take the time to unwind and you’ll come back recharged.

CAPRICORN DEC 22 – JAN 20 Honesty is always the best policy, Capricorn. This will become obvious when a past untruth you shared comes back to haunt you. Confess now to save face.

LEO

JUL 23 – AUG 23 Leo, this week may prove to be a little intense, but you’ll muster the energy and strength to push on through.

Balancing fun and some workrelated responsibilities is key.

AQUARIUS

JAN 21 – FEB 18 You have the physical stamina to accomplish many things, Aquarius. This week is bound to be one with a lot of progress. Make a list now of what you want to accomplish.

VIRGO

AUG 24 – SEPT 22 Practicality seems to disappear when you have your mind on enjoyable activities, Virgo. Find a way to be both fun and practical and you will be set.

PISCES

FEB 19 – MAR 20 Pisces, be patient with the people around you. You may be fast to grasp a concept, but it could take others a little while longer.

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SEPT 23 – OCT 23 Well-laid plans are the cornerstone of a successful week, Libra. Everything will go smoothly, but most days should pass without a hitch.

Enjoy the brief respite.

OCT 24 – NOV 22 Scorpio, expect a lot of action this week. There’s no slowing down as you check off each item on your to-do list. Others may have difficulty keeping up with you.

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