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A 24,500 square foot home (including allowable exemptions) under construction on a recently consolidated lot directly across from West Vancouver secondary on Mathers Avenue sparked debate recently about maximum home size. West Vancouver councillor Nora Gambioli, outside her 1938 home, questions whether massive single family homes should be allowed. PHOTOS CINDY GOODMAN

Residents grapple with the rapid pace of change in their communities, fueled by the real estate boom

There goes the neighbourhood Part 3 in a series about real estate in North and West Vancouver.

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When Anita Preiswerck was a growing up in North Vancouver, she used to hike from her Canyon Heights home, carrying skis, up to the old Grouse Mountain chair lift with her friends. There were kids in almost every house then, who would play outdoors in the forest and walk to school together.

Today, Preiswerck has come back to live in the family home her dad built more than 50 years ago at the foot of the mountain. Tall cedars and hemlocks stand sentinel in her back yard.

But the neighbourhood around her is changing fast, fueled by a real estate boom of epic proportions. “In the past year or two it’s something different,” said Preiswerck. “There seems to be no lid on it and no stopping it.”

Telltale blue and yellow construction fencing lines every other corner of the neighbourhood. Real estate signs sprout like horsetails.

A block away, two new houses are going up next door to each other. “All the way up and down Highland it’s sold, sold, sold,” said Preiswerck.

The days of a house taking months to sell are long gone too. Now it’s a week – if that.

Recently, a house across the street from her sold in a matter of days for more than $2 million – $250,000 above the asking price.

“In the old days when somebody sold a house you were kind of anxious to meet your new neighbours and people were wondering if their kids were going to have friends to play with,” she said.

Now when someone buys a house, it generally sits empty for a while. “The next thing you know there are people with plans coming around. Nobody lives one day in that house to see if it’s livable or likeable,” she said.

First the oil tank is removed. Then the insulation. Then the house is torn down.

“Everything just crushes and it’s just a pile of rubble and a few bricks,” she said. “You see the space it used to be in.”

The same thing recently happened on the property next door to Preiswerck. Neighbours watched as dozens of 80- and 100-foot tall cedar and hemlock trees on the lot were taken down, then the contour of the land was changed. On the other side of her neighbours’ property, a wall of dirt that has been cut away about two storeys deep is now reinforced with rebar and sprayed concrete.

Recently, a concrete compacter on the building site left everything in Preiswerck’s house – the dishes, the walls, the toilet tanks – shaking with the heavy vibration that felt like a mild earthquake.

Preiswerck worried about the impact of that on her old house and was left wondering who to call. “You’re just sort of all on your own,” she said. “Do I phone the police, do I phone North Vancouver District, do I phone the project manager? Do I have a say?

“The answer is you have no say.

Everything is permitted. It’s all legal.”

Preiswerck said she let the neighbours take down a few trees on her property when they said the roots interfered with their building envelope. She discovered later that roots of her remaining trees had also been cut where they crossed the property line.

A hawthorn tree in her backyard – given to her parents by her godmother as a gift when they moved in – grows perilously close to the now radically altered building site next door.

“It’s awkward,” she said. “You don’t want to be on bad terms with them. It’s all legal but it doesn’t mean it’s right.”

The changes affecting Preiswerck’s upper Capilano neighbourhood are being felt across the North Shore as skyrocketing property values have driven a real estate gold rush. Many longtime homeowners are cashing out and getting multi-million-dollar cheques for their property. More often than not, those who buy

have no intention of living in the 1950s home sitting on that $2 million, $3 million or $5 million property. Older houses are being torn down at a rapid rate and replaced with much larger new homes. In some neighbourhoods, several houses are under construction on every block.

Historically in the District of North Vancouver, there have been about 100 homes demolished and rebuilt every year, said Dan Milburn, acting general manager of planning and permits for the District of North Vancouver. In the last two years, however, that’s almost doubled. In 2015, there were 180 permits for rebuilds and “we’re anticipating a similar number for 2016,” said Milburn. About 35 per cent of those have been concentrated in upper Capilano neighbourhoods.

In West Vancouver, the trend is the same, with 174 demolitions and 171 permits for rebuilding of single-family homes issued in 2015.

Like most municipalities, both the districts of North Vancouver and West Vancouver have formulas that regulate the maximum size of a house relative to lot size. In North Vancouver, where a typical lot size is 8,200 square feet, homes can generally be constructed to a size of about 3,000 or 3,500 square feet (although there are some areas that allow larger houses – up to 5,000 and 6,000 square feet.)

In most cases, that is still significantly larger than the typical 1,200 square foot postwar bungalow that the new home replaces.

And on some larger lots in areas like West Vancouver’s Altamont neighbourhood, the size of the houses built is much bigger – more than 10,000 square feet.

It’s a trend that’s gone on for a few years now, said West Vancouver Coun. Nora Gambioli. “Everyone is building to the maximum capacity. Every square inch is used.”

Gambioli said she’s even heard stories from real estate agents about builders putting in false walls in the basement that are pulled down to reveal an additional room once the building inspection is complete.

“Everybody just wants more and more space,” she said.

Part of what’s driving the building boom in huge houses is economic. Those buying multimillion-dollar real estate want to maximize their property value for resale, which won’t happen if they leave that 1950s rancher standing. Buyers of those properties expect new multi-million-dollar houses to go with them.

Offshore buyers – who make up a large part of the high-end real estate market on the North Shore – prefer large, new homes with expansive views.

The way the housing market has quickly reached a fever pitch has left local governments gasping to catch up.

“We hear concerns on the street every day,” said Gambioli. “But government is always way behind the eight ball. The market is just out of control. We are just kind of running behind.”

Local government has largely been “puttering along” with the same rules about house size that it’s had for 40 years, said Gambioli.

“No one’s ever pushed it to the limit it’s been pushed to now.”

The most striking example of the trend happened earlier this year when Vancouver businessman Ge Chen consolidated two lots directly across from the high school on Mathers Avenue and subsequently had building permits approved for a 24,500 square foot home (including the garage and basement.)

Neighbours quickly took notice. “I call it the White House North,” said Alex Rose, who lives a couple of blocks away on St. Denis Road. “When people go by their jaws drop.”

Rose said, “some people get irritated” by the house, but adds he doesn’t blame Chen.

“He played by the rules. Whether it offends someone else’s sensibility it’s an entirely different thing.”

Rose said he holds the municipality responsible, for not having tighter regulations.

“It’s just like the Wild West.”

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But debates about restricting house size have proved divisive in West Vancouver.

Council is expected to give final reading soon to a bylaw limiting maximum house size on consolidated lots. Under that bylaw, Chen’s massive house wouldn’t be permitted.

Last year, however, the majority of council voted down a bylaw which would have put the brakes on the massive Mathers house, following a raucous public meeting where builders, developers and others spoke out loudly against limits on the size of homes.

“It was a very intimidating meeting,” said Gambioli.

“I would love to see a cap (on maximum house size),” she added.

Gambioli and her own family recently moved into a home of about 2,500 square feet, built in 1938, that she’s planning to fix up.

“Anything above 3,000 square feet in my personal opinion for a family is unsustainable.”

Jim Bailey, the director of planning for West Vancouver, understands the desire by some people to limit large houses. “In a lot of ways it makes sense you would do that. It’s also very polarizing,” he said.

At public meetings, developers weren’t the only ones concerned. “A lot of people

said my house is my investment. If you reduce my house size you reduce my equity,” he said.

The West Vancouver of yesterday is changing, said Bailey, and that can’t but help impact the community.

“You go from a sense of West Vancouver being a pretty small little village far away from Vancouver nestled in the woods with your 1950s bungalow next to your creek.

Then you have a 25,000 square foot house. That elicits a different response and feeling from people.”

Roberta and Malcolm McLaren are familiar with that.

In 2001, they moved back to the West Bay neighbourhood in West Vancouver Malcolm had grown up in, after buying the family home there from his mother.

Built and designed by his uncles, the house had been home to Malcolm, his parents and two brothers during the 1950s and 1960s.

“It was well built,” he said – not surprising considering the McLaren family’s shipbuilding pedigree.

“We still knew people in the area. It was a sunny lot.”

The couple renovated inside the home, but kept all of the external walls. “I always like to say we kept its integrity,” said Roberta.

The first two years in the neighbourhood were good, said the couple. Then the

trouble started. A house nearby was bulldozed, then “they dynamited for months,” said Roberta.

“Then the next house came down. Same thing. The next, the next, the next. It just kept going after that one.”

Trucks idled in the morning and the road was filled with dirt from the construction sites. The last straw was when new owners tore down the house next door and started on a two-and-half-year construction project.

“They covered the house with granite and each piece of granite they sawed outside our window,” said Roberta.

When the house was finished. “It looked like a fortress,” she said, with fluorescent lighting flooding their home and backyard at night.

It got to the point where “my heart sank, living next to this place,” she said. “I said ‘I can’t be here anymore. It just makes me sad.’”

Almost all the old houses on that block are now gone, replaced with massive new homes and gated driveways.

The couple sold, and moved to an older home in a leafy neighbourhood of Lynn Valley, close to their daughter. “I wouldn’t move to anywhere in West Vancouver again because every neighbourhood is just the same,” said Roberta.

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Woodfibre LNG has announced its first customer, and it is a major player in China.

The company recently announced its Singaporebased affiliate Woodfibre LNG Export Pte has signed an agreement with Guangzhou Gas Group Co. to deliver liquefied natural gas to the Chinese gas company for 25 years starting in 2020.

The deal “contemplated in the Heads of Agreement will provide a long-term stable supply of natural gas to meet the rapidly growing demand for clean energy in Guangzhou

City, People’s Republic of China,” a Woodfibre LNG news release stated. Guangzhou Gas Group Co. is the public gas utility for Guangzhou City, which has a population of more than eight million.

Premier Christy Clark was on hand for the official signing of the agreement.

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Giraud said the announcement is a preliminary agreement but is good news for the project.

“This is a fairly big deal for us,” he said. “It certainly accelerates the project.”

The agreement also states the Chinese company has the option for 10 per cent equity in Woodfibre LNG, Giraud said, “so they would invest in the project as well as be a customer, which is not unusual.”

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originally anticipated being operational in 2017.

“We were a little slower on the environmental assessment (process) than we wanted to be. We still have some permitting to do,” he said. “This is a more realistic date.”

Giraud said a final investment decision is expected this year.

The agreement with Guangzhou Gas Group “shows there is an appetite in Asia for made-in-B.C. LNG,” said Giraud. Woodfibre LNG Export and Guangzhou Gas Group signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining the potential for an agreement in September of 2014.

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North and West Van escape deep program cuts JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

Their surplus may have suffered, but the West Vancouver school board’s $75 million budget for 2016/2017 should allow students to continue enjoying their regularly scheduled programming.

The board approved the $67.9 million operating budget Tuesday, approximately $118,000 lower than last year.

While this spring’s budget process left the Vancouver school board wrestling with a $27 million shortfall, West Vancouver’s approximately 7,000 students can expect September 2016 to look very similar to September 2015, according to superintendent of schools Chris Kennedy.

“Our budget isn’t a big story this year, it’s fairly status quo,” he said.

The vast majority of the West Vancouver school board’s budget is spent on salaries and benefits, including $30 million in teachers’ wages and more than $17 million for principals and support staff, plus more than $12 million in employee benefits.

The school board earmarked approximately $1.1 million of surplus funds to ensure the district can

Chris Kennedy, West Vancouver’s superintendent of schools, says the school district is keeping programs on an even keel next year. PHOTO SUPPLIED keep their elementary band program, librarians, and vice-principals, according to Kennedy.

“As (the community) heard other districts were struggling with whether or not to maintain those services, they were very clear that they wanted us to make sure we’d do whatever we could to keep those services.”

West Vancouver has been insulated from cuts faced by other school districts by an infusion of $8 million in tuition paid by the district’s 550 international students. That figure represents a drop of more than $800,000 from last year. West Vancouver has also maintained “fairly static” enrolment, Kennedy said.

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“We do see on the horizon those challenges that other districts have,” he said.

After cutting an average of $1.8 million per year for the last five years, North Vancouver’s 2017 budget puts the school district back in the black.

The school board approved a $173 million budget Tuesday, which is a boost of $7 million over last year, thanks in part to an accumulated surplus and 100 new students. The increase in enrolment comes with 15 new full-time teachers.

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North Vancouver’s budget is aided by more than $9 million in tuition fees, the vast majority coming from international students as well as $90,000 from summer school fees.

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he North Shore, along with the entire Lower Mainland, is in the midst of a real estate boom of epic proportions. Property is being sold faster and for higher prices than ever before. It’s making some very rich while driving others with roots in our communities away. It’s transforming the neighbourhoods we knew at a rapid rate.

Those who’ve been “priced out” of their communities and those who are seeing their neighbourhood character demolished are telling government they are in a housing crisis. But leaders at all levels have been slow to react. Traditionally, an individual’s home is their castle, as well as their largest investment. Politicians tread warily into that fortress. The real estate market has also provided an economic boon to B.C. that government is loath to slow down.

But the system we have is clearly not working. Real estate is about more than making money. It’s also about where people live and how they integrate into a community.

A number of realistic proposals have been made that could cool the market and promote homes as places to live rather than objects in which to park capital. It’s past time the province paid attention.

Similarly, in our neighbourhoods, government could do more to help those under siege from an onslaught of massivescale construction that is erasing the quality of life they knew.

Is a hollowed-out super-sized enclave of the wealthy, ensconced behind their gated driveways, really what we’re aiming for?

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Schools in B.C. are suffering.

The B.C. Liberal government funds education at a rate of $1,000 less per student than the national average.

Especially alarming are school closures, overcrowded classrooms and the lack of support for children with special needs. The B.C. Liberal government promised to reduce class-size and classcomposition issues quite some time ago; however, students are still waiting for the support they desperately need. Unless we want another generation of children to be deprived of the opportunity

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to reach their full potential there must be action.

The ideal function of education should be to give children the tools to function within our society. This comes from a mutual arrangement in which teachers, parents, students and government treat each other with respect. We must strive for a massive paradigm shift within education to ensure a more just and peaceful society.

Some of the most valuable moments of a child’s education happen in one-on-one conversations with teachers.

For a student, one-on-one time can be what lets them grasp a concept that was just out of reach. For a teacher, it can mean getting the complete picture of a child’s progress, far more than any standardized test can offer.

But with so many school districts forced to cut back on teachers, one-on-one time is getting harder to find. That has to change.

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Firstly, I declare a bias. I own Lionsgate Marina in North Vancouver which is less than three kilometres from the Ambleside boat launch. It has been in operation for over six years. The cost for a public launch is $40 in and out and includes parking for 24 hours.

We have a private boat launch ramp open to the public, specifically designed for recreational boats in a protected bay setting. It has the proper containment

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I am at a loss as to why Mr. Grassi failed to mention the close proximity of our facility?

He has enjoyed our services in the past. Mr. Grassi is also a professional fishing guide.

I have used the Ambleside launch in the past. Quite frankly I was horrified with the mix of pedestrian traffic and boat trailers. On several occasions I have witnessed people out for a stroll step between the trailer and automobile while it was negotiating the ramp. One can only imagine what the liabilities could be in this uncontrolled environment. If the district wishes to provide a boat launch, it will need to have a specific dedicated area solely for these activities.

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BRIGHTLIGHTS! by Cindy Goodman Festival of Plays The annual Theatre B.C. North Shore Zone Festival of Plays kicked off May 2 with an Ice Breaker Party in the Presentation House Theatre lobby. All the local community theatre gang was there gearing up for the big week of shows to come, ranging from Relatively Speaking by Deep Cove Stage Society to Two Rooms presented by North Vancouver Community Players. The festival wrapped up the following Saturday with winners crowned in a variety of categories. The big winner was Art by Yasmina Reza, presented by Squamish’s Between Shifts Theatre. Art will go on to represent the North Shore Zone at Theatre B.C.’s Mainstage drama festival being held in Chilliwack from July 2 to 9. Art will be presented as the provincial festival’s opening night production.

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A century ago, Lynn Valley was a thriving logging community CHRISTINE LYON clyon@nsnews.com

One year, on Valentine’s Day, the bronze statue of early North Vancouver pioneer Walter Draycott that sits at the corner of Lynn Valley Road and Mountain Highway went missing.

The commemorative piece was discovered soon after, sitting next to a bronze statue of an elderly woman on a bench in Coal Harbour near the entrance to Stanley Park.

The Draycott figure was separated from his new lady friend without incident, returned to Pioneer Square, and firmly bolted in place so he wouldn’t wander off again.

The disappearing Draycott case is just one of the amusing anecdotes North Vancouver Museum and Archives curator Karen Dearlove has up her sleeve. Dearlove had the opportunity to share many of these true tales during a recent historical walking tour of Lynn Valley, or “Shaketown” as the neighbourhood was once nicknamed.

“It refers to the fact that this area was known for logging and specifically mills

for making shingles. Shake is another term for a shingle,” Dearlove explains.

Houses across the North Shore and Vancouver were built using cedar shingles made in Lynn Valley and people flocked to the region in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for work. One of the area’s early settlers was the aforementioned Walter Draycott. Born in England, he bought property in Lynn Valley in 1911 and built his house on what is now Draycott Road.

“He died at the ripe age of 102 and he kept incredible diaries and photographs and he actually wrote a book which was published in the late 1970s about growing up here, so he’s just a wonderful source of so much information about the history of this area,” Dearlove says.

A talented artist as well as an author and historian, Draycott served as a sketch artist for the Canadian military during the First World War. He also drew lots of pictures of his community in its early days. Dearlove has one such illustration enlarged and laminated. It depicts a heavily forested landscape, dotted

North Vancouver Museum and Archives curator Karen Dearlove sits with the sculpture of Walter Draycott at Pioneer Square.

Draycott chronicled the early days of Lynn Valley and drew many sketches of the area as it once looked. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH with simple houses and tree stumps, and traversed by Hastings Creek, a tote road and a shingle bolt flume.

Today, traffic whizzes through the intersection of Lynn Valley Road and Mountain Highway. Standing

at the noisy corner, Dearlove holds up black-and-white photographs of the spot as it once looked. A church used

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Ross Road students design trail app Grade 6 team heading to competition semi-finals JEREMY SHEPHERD jshepherd@nsnews.com

They were stranded on Mount Seymour’s Suicide Bluffs, surrounded by cliffs and darkness.

When North Shore Rescue volunteers came to their aid in April 2015 the lost hikers offered a familiar refrain: We ran out of daylight.

Rather than curse the darkness, three Ross Road elementary inventors created an app to let hikers know how much light is left in the day. The Safe Hike app is the brainchild of Grade 6 friends Madeline Williams, Eleni McLaughlin and Saoirse Pontin. The team is in the running to win $10,000 through global girls technology competition Technovation Challenge.

Despite having almost no background in technology, the team seized on the idea.

“It was completely new, but it just seemed like a cool thing to try out for an extracurricular activity,” Williams says.

Over 12 weeks the team researched their idea, established a business plan and learned to code, largely under the watchful eye of mentor Cher Main, a Ross Road parent and software developer.

Main laughs when discussing how far the team came.

She recalls one of the girls parents casually mentioning: “I don’t actually let my daughter on the computer. Is that going to be a problem?”

The first time Main told one of the girls to right-click, she was met with a puzzled stare. Technovation provided weekly modules for the kids, including coding tutorials.

Main helped them along as well, first demonstrating how to cut and paste and how to naviage. Three-anda-half months later the kids were manipulating data and flying through logic gates.

After selecting a trail and a time, app users see colours ranging from green (when it’s safe) to dark red (when it’s time to stay home).

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Ross Road elementary Grade 6 students Madeline Williams, Saoirse Pontin and Eleni McLaughlin designed an app intended to keep North Shore hikers from getting lost in the dark. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Despite having a strong idea the team was overwhelmed by the workload heading into Spring Break.

“We just wanted to get up and go outside and play,” Williams recalls of some of those long coding sessions.

“It was sunny and we were staring out the window, working at the laptop.”

Despite having her own two children to take care of, Main hosted the three girls nearly every evening over the vacation.

The trio would sit at her kitchen table and code, looking to Main for increasingly occasional help.

As a mentor, Main says some of her proudest moments were when parents would pull up at the end of

the night and the kids would walk out the door holding up their phones, shouting: “’Look, it works!’”

McLaughlin said she pushed ahead because she wanted to see the app finished. “What made me say ‘yes’ was the thought of accomplishing something that I never thought I could do in my life. I’m really proud.”

Pontin agrees, comparing learning to code with reading “a very complicated, hard-tounderstand book.”

All three girls are now considering a future in coding.

“I would definitely choose a career in this,” McLaughlin says. “If there was an opportunity for me to do this again I would be so keen.”

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The young coders have also earned praise from North Shore Rescue team leader Mike Danks, who called the app “amazing.”

“These girls are thinking at a higher level than a lot of the people that we rescue,” he said.

Despite being hushed by her friends, Pontin wanted to say that the app should benefit someone close to her who was once spooked by a hiker in a sombrero.

“I’d like my dad to use the app because sometimes he gets scared in the dark,” she said. services hours. Tongs, gloves and garbage bags provided. Register online with shorelinecleanup.ca for the Lynn Valley Creeks site in North Vancouver. nvma.ca.

FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE Andrea Superstein is the guest improviser at Friday Night Live, Lynn Valley’s improv comedy variety show, May 27, 7 p.m. at the Lynn Valley Library

FINE FIDDLES North Shore Celtic Ensemble members Kayla Holloway and Angus Milne invite young violin and viola players to an open house May 31, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Upper Lynn elementary, 1540 Coleman St., North Vancouver. Meet the ensemble’s directors and players, bring along your instrument, and learn a set of tunes to be played at the end of the evening.

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Event raises $800 for Canadian Red cross

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The residents of Kilmarnock Crescent in Lynn Valley banded together last weekend to help those displaced by the massive wildfire that tore through Fort McMurray earlier this month.

Kilmarnock Crescent residents Linda Munro and Kiri Marr, with her daughter Tilly, co-organized a garage sale May 14 to raise money for victims of the Fort McMurray fire. PHOTO PAUL MCGRATH

About eight households on the tight-knit North Vancouver street pooled their efforts to hold a garage sale, bake sale and lemonade stand at the home of Kiri Marr on Saturday, May 14. The end-of-day tally was $800, far exceeding the residents’ initial goal of $500, and all proceeds went to the Canadian Red Cross, which is

providing relief to evacuees.

“We had neighbours from up and down the street contributing time and stuff and cookies for the bake sale and it was a really great event,” says Kilmarnock resident and garage sale co-organizer Linda Munro.

Children’s goods, baby gear and household items were up for sale and organizers spread the word about the event online via local moms’ groups and buy-andsell sites.

“None of us involved had any connection to Fort McMurray, but it was just something we were touched to do after having seen the footage,” Munro explains.

News of the Alberta wildfire took her back to the time

she got trapped in Osoyoos last summer when nearby blazes in the Okanagan Valley shut down the local highway.

“I had this real feeling of connection and fear for these families in Fort Mac,” she says.

The idea to hold a neighbourhood garage sale first came about because Marr had collected some baby and kids’ goods to donate to Fort McMurray victims, but learned those types of items were not being accepted.

Still, she wanted to help somehow.

“Kiri just wanted to put her care into action and decided to run with the garage sale, so we’re really happy with how it all turned out,” Munro says.

Daredevil millworkers would ride down the flume

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Block stood where Petro Canada is; and there was a mill at the corner of what is now Mountain Highway and Harold Road.

“This was really the reason

why there were so many people living in this area because a lot of the employees of the mill would live in these little surrounding bunkhouses and work at the Lynn Valley Lumber Co.,” Dearlove says.

The Fromme Block is the

only original structure that remains at the intersection.

For years it housed a hardware store on the ground floor, but the building has since been restored and TD Canada Trust now occupies the streetlevel space.

Away from the hustle and bustle of the town centre, hikers may come across relics of Lynn Valley’s logging past in the nearby woods. Dearlove says there are still surviving pieces of the old tote road, which was used to transport

heavy loads by horse and wagon, as well as sections of the shingle bolt flume, a raised wooded trough that was flooded with water and carried pieces of wood down to the harbour.

There are unfortunate stories of dogs and cats drinking from the flume and getting swept away. And there are daredevil tales of millworkers who used the contraption as a wet-and-wild form of public transportation.

“Apparently, because it was far easier to travel down the flume than it was to travel down the road, a lot of young men used to try to use that as a way to get down to Moodyville and down to the harbour,” Dearlove notes.

Mill operations in Lynn Valley wound down in the 1920s, marking the end of the Shaketown era, but by that point land had been cleared, roads had been built, residents had settled, and the streetcar connected the community to the rest of North Vancouver, making it an attractive area to live.

Dearlove’s historical stroll around Lynn Valley earlier this month was a Jane’s Walk, which is a free, citizen-led walking tour inspired by the late urbanist Jane Jacobs.

The inaugural event was meant to complement the North Vancouver Museum and Archives’ existing summer theatrical programs: the Shipyard Pals and the Mountaineering Pals entertain visitors at Shipyard Plaza and Lynn Canyon Park, respectively. If there’s enough interest, Dearlove says she’d like to lead more historical Jane’s Walks in Lynn Valley and beyond.

“Understanding more about the history of your community and how it was built and the people who built it gives you a better sense of place and a better sense of the community you live in and I think it connects people better to their community,” she says.

To learn more about upcoming museum programs and events, visit nvma.ca. Visit janeswalk.org to search for Jane’s Walks in your area.

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It’s the little moments that Ashley Wiles is most proud of.

The founder of Sole Girls uses creative running games to empower local tween girls and help them lead healthy lives, and recently expanded her program offerings to serve their male counterparts through Sole 4 Boys.

Over the years she’s come to realize the positive benefits of helping to forge one-toone connections between community members.

“One of our topics, we do talk about anxiety. When somebody says to me, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that other

Ashley Wiles leads a creative game to help empower local girls to love physical activity during a recent program offered at Mulgrave School. PHOTO SUPPLIED people also have anxiety I’m not crazy,’ that’s the best feeling in the world because I know that that’s going to make a huge difference.

Knowing you’re normal and knowing you’re OK and that other people also have that, it’s just about connection and I think that’s kind of the human experience.

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Drawing on her personal

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“Our mission (is) to empower girls through fun, physical activity and positive mental health,” says Wiles.

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HEALTH NOTES SUPPORT, DISCUSSION AND COMMUNITY GROUP LGBT2SQ+ Those with mental health and/or addiction issues are invited to drop in to support each other every Thursday, 2-3:30 p.m. at the Canadian Mental Health Association, 1835 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver. Info: 604-649-1983 or stateofmind@qmunity.ca.

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Wiles chose running as her medium based on its positive impact on her own life.

“Running has just been such a huge piece of my life. … When I am feeling vulnerable or stressed or I don’t really know what to do, running has always been there for me. It’s been a community creator, so a space where people can come together and just run and just be themselves and do whatever they have to do and find their happy pace,” she says.

In addition, she likes that running is a non-competitive activity.

“Kids, ages eight to 12, they’re kind of getting into this phase where things do start to get very competitive if you look at most sports.

What we see is kids, and particularly girls, are dropping out because they either don’t want to be competitive or they aren’t excelling in that sport. Instead of continuing on at a level where they feel comfortable with, they completely drop out and feel discouraged. So running is a space where it’s not just about running, it’s about connection and community,” she says.

In addition to Wiles’ ongoing Sole Girls community and school-based programs offered in a variety of Lower Mainland locations in addition to North and West Vancouver, she’s currently inviting families to

register for next weekend’s Sole Awesome five-kilometre fun run.

“It’s a different kind of fun run so it’s not just about running because our program is not just about running either, it’s also about the social and emotional connection. And sometimes running just isn’t that fun, so we’ve created a fun run that is actually really fun,” she says.

The course will include different activities at every kilometre, including highfive and three-legged race stations. Sole Awesome will be held Sunday, May 29 at Burnaby’s Deer Lake Park and Wiles is anticipating 400 participants to attend, including the members of approximately 60 families from the North Shore.

Proceeds from the Sole Awesome fun run will support Sole Girls and Sole 4 Boys scholarships so more children can participate.

While her programs are feefor-service, Wiles describes her organizations as social enterprises and offers scholarships to those who couldn’t otherwise afford the cost of participation.

“Our goal is really to create a more inclusive, awesome community and one of those things is really understanding that there is financial need out there,” she says.

Wiles is continuing to expand her offerings and is pleased to now serve boys ages eight to 11 through Sole 4 Boys.

She’s currently gearing up for summer camp season and hopes to have one boys

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Training coaches to become involved in the organizations is another strong focus at present and Wiles has an upcoming session for interested community members coming up in June.

She’s also excited about a new Junior Leadership program for girls, ages 11-15, that incorporates hiking into the mix.

For her efforts, Wiles has recently earned two new feathers in her cap. One saw her receive an Outstanding Supporter of Youth Award as part of the City of North Vancouver annual Youth Awards program earlier this month.

In addition, she was chosen as one of 13 people from more than 1,000 nominations from across North America, and is the only Canadian in the running for a Brooks Inspiring Coach Award, according to Sole Girls.

Finalists will be officially announced in early June and community members will be encouraged to vote for their favourite coach. The winner of the 2016 Brooks Inspiring Coach will be announced June 24.

“I’m really, really excited and honoured to be recognized as an inspiring coach because there are so many inspiring people out there and to be one of 13 out of thousands of nominations is pretty amazing,” says Wiles.

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Painter, tutor, writer, storyteller and educator writes her own script Ann Mitchell’s life can be described as novelistic or possibly “movieistic,” should such a word exist.

Her Yorkshire childhood could be drawn from a book

by Catherine Cookson. The marriage, motherhood and work years are a portrait of a lady with a twist of the movies Shirley Valentine and Enchanted April to the tale.

Now in her golden years, Ann is writing her own script according to the motto she lives by: We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust our sails.

She was born Ann Helliwell two years before the Second World War in Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax in West Yorkshire. On the Helliwell’s street, Monday was laundry day, the front step was scoured every week (sometimes this was Ann’s job) and the weekly bath was taken in a tin tub before a coal fire. Home at the back of the family shop

was the gathering place for family and friends. An only child, Ann never lacked for companions, growing up surrounded by aunts, uncles and many cousins.

Ann became engaged to her childhood sweetheart on her 19th birthday, on Ilkley Moor. A popular location for courtship, the moor inspired the folksong, and unofficial Yorkshire anthem, “On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘at” (On Ilkley Moor Without a Hat) the story of a doomed romance involving worms and ducks.

The newlyweds set up in “a charming cottage in a village just outside Oxford,” as Ann remembers. With the addition of a daughter and a son, life was complete.

The Mitchell family’s move to Canada came in 1967.

Though “it was hard to leave friends, family and home, that’s what you did in those days.”

Life resumed its even keel as the family put down roots in West Vancouver.

Memory Lane Laura Anderson Ann co-ordinated the school district’s special education program and served on the West Vancouver Community Arts Council in the days when Harmony Arts Festival was getting started.

All stories come to an end and another begins. For Ann, a chapter of her life closed when her marriage ended.

“I took myself on a voyage back to my childhood, staying with aunts and cousins and old school friends in Yorkshire. Visiting art galleries and art shows with them reminded me that I used to be an artist.”

As Ann’s new life took shape, she began to ask herself, “What would mum say?”

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Ann Mitchell will host an art in the garden sale June 4 and 5, from 1 to 5 pm, at 642 East Fifth St., in North Vancouver. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN said, “Yes, go!” And off went Ann to France to travel, look at art and to make some art of her own with Paul and Babette Deggan at their artists’ retreat in the Auvergne.

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Art in the garden sale set for June 4-5 From page 19 continued with the school district as artist in residence in West Vancouver’s elementary schools. She developed a thriving tutoring business to the point where young teachers were recruited to help, and best of all, Ann was painting and selling her work.

This new life includes a home in North Vancouver, purpose-built, thanks to her daughter and son-in-law who operate a contracting company, with

the plan that Ann can age in place in her new neighbourhood.

“I’ve learned to stand alone. I’ve learned to love my women friends who are always there for me through thick and thin. I spend as much time as possible with my children and grandchildren.”

These words from an artist, educator and storyteller with a talent for making and keeping friends, represent a life fulfilled.

Ann continues to work as a tutor,

enjoys her regular writing and painting groups, and finds time to create paintings for her biannual sale. Working in oil, acrylic and watercolour, she particularly enjoys painting landscapes and bold florals.

Ann Mitchell’s art in the garden sale is on June 4 and 5, from 1 to 5 p.m., at 642 East Fifth St., North Vancouver.

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ST. PIUS CELEBRATIONS Georgia Kasdorf, Josh Heuchert, Kevin Cho and Alexis Riedel are among the members of the St. Pius X elementary community gearing up for two weekends of fun. On Saturday, May 28, the school is presenting its Spring Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., featuring food, games, a petting zoo, a bake sale and more. The following weekend, St. Pius will be marking its 20th anniversary with a special event June 4 from 1 to 4 p.m. Those interested in experiencing a trip down memory lane are asked to email spx20th@gmail.com or phone 604-929-0345. PHOTO MIKE WAKEFIELD

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Yearly membership: $20. seniorstennis.ca ns.seniortennis@gmail.com EXERCISE FOR MOBILE SENIORS The Keep Well Society offers free classes at seven venues across the North Shore. The programs include one hour of fitness followed by blood pressure checks, health coaching, massage, speakers and social times. 604-988-7115 x27 keepwellsociety.ca SINGALONG MONDAYS Drop in for free and sing along with pianist Donna Crook Mondays, 10-11 a.m. at Parkgate

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RETAIL CONNECTIONSIMMIGRANT YOUTH EMPLOYMENT TRAINING PROGRAM The North Shore Multicultural Society is offering free employment and skills training until May 27, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., YWCA WorkBC Employment Services Centre, 109-980 West First St., North Vancouver. 778-927-2931 or nsms.ca

KILBY MEMORIAL TEEN ART CONTEST An awards gala takes place Saturday, May 28, 1-3 p.m. at North Vancouver City Library, 120 West 14th St. Short-listed entries will be displayed and the winners will be announced by the mayor.

Volunteer options The following is a selection of volunteer opportunities from community organizations, available through Volunteer North Shore, a service of North Shore Community Resources Society.

OUTDOOR PROGRAM ASSISTANT Fresh Air Learning is seeking a program aide. The aide works oneon-one with children who require additional support with social integration. The outdoor learning program runs in local parks. This is a great opportunity to learn more about working with children outdoors while facilitating the participation of a student in the program.

DEEP COVE DAZE FESTIVAL ASSISTANT Deep Cove Daze is a one-day festival that takes place every summer in Panorama Park in Deep Cove. This is a community event dedicated to breathing life into the community and getting everybody out and supporting the bands and artists in the area. Musart has a mandate of giving up-andcoming bands and artists the stage to showcase their

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SAGACITY-OPEN MIC BOOK TALK In co-operation with the District of North Vancouver, kids and teens empowerment group Sagacity invites youth ages eight and older to a special talk followed by a Q&A with author Bayan Azizi (Me, Myself, and My Brain Stem Tumour: Memoirs of a Pediatric Brain Cancer Survivor) Thursday, May 26, 6-8 p.m. at Capilano library, 3045 Highland Blvd., North Vancouver.

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In one Caulfeild neighbourhood, acrimony between one set of owners – who are building a 12,000 square foot home – and their next-door neighbours has ended up in legal suits.

David and Amber Trent are no longer talking about their situation, on the advice of their lawyer.

But court documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court indicate the Trents were shocked to find the property next door “stripped to the bare rock” while they were out of the country in the summer of 2014. When they got back, the Trents said in court documents, they soon had other concerns, about the safety of large equipment working very close to their property line, lack of adequate safety fencing and rocks that were falling down in their yard, close to their young children’s toys. On some occasions the family “vacated their home entirely,” according to court documents, “because they felt it was unsafe to be in the house.”

Eventually the Trents filed a lawsuit for damages.

Their neighbours – Catherine Zhao and Dong Biao Huang of West Vancouver – fired back with a counterclaim, denying those allegations and suing the Trents for defamation, alleging the Trents had strategically placed rocks on their own property for the benefit of the media and caused unnecessary delays to their project. In court documents, Zhao and Huang denied

West Vancouver architects Gordon Hlynsky, Katie Hlynsky and Cedric Burgers talk about the importance of home design that considers the landscape and is respectful of neighbouring properties. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN they are building a “monster house” and wrote they had been subject to media commentary “with derogatory remarks implying that being Chinese, (they) have little grasp of Vancouver sensibilities and by building a bloated house will not be welcomed by the community.”

Attempts to reach Zhao and Huang through their lawyer’s office were unsuccessful. The case is still currently before the courts.

Two years after it started, the house on Kensington

Crescent is still under construction.

Beth Boxall, who lives a street away, has watched that from a distance, along with construction of several other large homes in the neighbourhood.

She said her modest 1950s Lewis post-and-beam home has been subject to a barrage of shaking over recent years, as each project blasts rock to make way for a large basement.

“We had a big sliding glass door in our basement

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blow out in the middle of the night,” she said, adding the edge of her deck has dropped and there are new cracks in her walls.

In one case, “the blasting company told me if I didn’t like it go hire a lawyer,” she said. “Basically the guy told me to go pound dirt.”

When she did call a lawyer he told her, “‘This stuff goes on all the time. People like you can’t afford a lawyer like me.’”

Another home has recently been sold on her street and she’s not optimistic about what’s going to happen. “They’re going to go in there and take all the trees out,” she said. “There will be building permits and more blasting.”

“As Canadians we do have a sense of trying to work things out and be neighbourly,” she said.

Faced with constant construction of massive homes, that can be difficult. It’s a scene that is being repeated all over the North Shore.

But District of North Vancouver Mayor Richard Walton said the large homes being built now are no more out of place than the original houses were when they went in 50 years ago.

Back then, “They came in and they took out every single tree. Most of the creeks were bulldozed over. They absolutely savaged the lands” to create a subdivision, he said.

“There were no environmental controls. It was ugly.

Twenty years ago Edgemont Village was a wasteland.”

The size of the houses

being built and the disruption to the landscape aren’t the only issues up for debate.

Building aesthetics are another controversial topic.

Sometimes it’s the style as much as the size of the house next door that people object to. “I call them bunkers,” said Gambioli of many new houses. “The design is very different from what we’re used to.”

Gambioli said she’d love to have greater regulation of house designs.

Others don’t share Gambioli’s enthusiasm for telling people what they should build on their property.

“We live in a world where people do not want government in their face,” said Walton. “They say, ‘It’s my lot, it’s my land, it’s my tree.

Get out of my face.’ We don’t have bylaws that have what colour you paint your house.

Where does it end?”

For a group of West Vancouver architects who have been discussing the issue, however, it’s one that warrants consideration.

“It’s not really a square footage issue,” said Katie Hlynsky, who talked about the issue with her father Gordon Hlynsky and Cedric Burgers, all architects practicing in West Vancouver.

In other jurisdictions, like some communities in California, there are much bigger incentives to build homes in keeping with the neighbourhood, she said.

“Here there’s no incentive for good design.”

In fact, for single-family homes, “You can have

anybody come in off the street and design it” – as long as it meets the building code and municipal rules, said Burgers. “It’s a completely unregulated thing.”

But the size of new houses being built – which in some cases rivals that of a medical clinic or a small rec centre – complicates that free-for-all approach.

“To me there’s a tipping point between a large and small house,” said Burgers.

“It’s somewhere around 6,000 feet that’s large.

“I really think what when houses get up to that scale they become commercial projects. They’re not homes anymore. I’m not saying no to them but they need to have some oversight.”

All three support dialing down the existing house-tolot ratio to keep most homes smaller. Larger homes would still be allowed, they said – but would be subject to some kind of design panel review first, which would look at issues like the impact on the neighbours.

That could be more complicated than it seems at first glance. The province determines what kind of bylaws municipalities can put in place and those regulations can be very restrictive.

But the architects argue it’s worth finding solutions in the long run.

In the past, West Vancouver architecture made famous by people like Arthur Erickson, Fred Hollingsworth and Ron Thom was all about blending in to the landscape, rather than blasting it to bits.

Katie Hlynsky grew up in the 3,500 square feet of the 1950s Altamont home that her father carefully renovated, set back into a lush garden with a creek nearby.

“I thought I grew up in a palace,” she said.

“When you look at these houses that are knocked down, probably half of them could have been saved rather than nuking the whole site,” said Gordon Hlynsky. “It used to be house and garden. Now it’s house and house.”

He’s had the issue brought close to home recently, as new owners prepare to build a massive 12,000 square foot home next door to him, with plans for a wall of windows overlooking his back yard.

He admits he’s worried about what the future holds – both for his own home and for those who live on the North Shore.

“A monster is not a big house,” said Katie Hlynsky.

“A monster is something that overtakes something else.”

For parts one and two in our series on North Shore real estate, visit nsnews.com.

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WEST COAST GETAWAY: TAKING IN THE ‘WEIRD’ AND THE WONDERFUL WITH KIDS

Portland carves out its own cultural niche NIKI HOPE Contributing Writer

A trip to the city known for the slogan “Keep Portland Weird” is bound to be a different kind of experience for the kids.

Portland as a family vacay is a grittier, more urbaninspired getaway than a pristinely and commercially cultivated visit to a crowded theme park.

The city delivers on the promise of edible offerings that will stretch their culinary limits – in the most delicious way. Include a must-do visit to local gastronomic favourite Tasty n Sons for either brunch or dinner. The young ones will appreciate inventive comfort dishes like Mary’s Fried Chicken and Tynan’s “Craft” Mac & Cheese, which has a creamy depth of flavour unlike any boxed mac their little taste buds have ever known.

Stroll down the street for a dish of ice cream at What’s the Scoop?, where my oldest son (he’s 10) was utterly delighted by the cloud-like toasted marshmallow topping on his rich chocolate sundae.

Sadly, we never managed to hit up the famous Voodoo Doughnuts, because there were simply too many other stops to enjoy, including Lardo. At the inventive downtown Portland sandwich joint, my oldest stuffed himself on a crunchy fried chicken sandwich (yep, more fried chicken).

At five, my youngest wasn’t quite so adventurous in the culinary department, choosing instead a burger at almost every meal stop we made.

Even at our beautiful gourmet dinner at Three Degrees restaurant in the stunning Kimpton RiverPlace Hotel, where we stayed, my youngest feasted on a classic burger and fries, while the rest of us enjoyed the North West-sourced raw oysters, a beautifully tart beet salad and a hearty dry-aged rib eye with gratin and steamed chard. We took in the flavours from a table with a picturesque view of the Willamette River, which flows through downtown Portland, acting as a centrepiece to the city. In the last decade, Portland has carved itself out as a tourist destination, not just for us West Coasters north of the border, but for those throughout the United States. Visitors are drawn to the city for its authentic craft beer culture, world-class food (please visit Pok Pok for one of the best meals you’ll ever have), taxfree shopping (which makes

Visitors are drawn to Portland for its authentic craft beer culture, world-class food, tax-free shopping (which makes the U.S. dollar pinch not quite so painful), and general laid-back vibe, which is a staple of Oregonians. PHOTOS SUPPLIED the U.S. dollar pinch not quite so painful), and general laidback vibe, which is a staple of Oregonians.

This relaxed energy came through in the way the kids were treated everywhere we ate: colouring books were placed down without us having to ask, they were talked to with kindness and patience.

The lovely Kimpton RiverPlace Hotel was also a kid’s dream. Our room included a small tipi-style tent with bear-themed sleep-

Brunch at John Gorham’s Tasty n Alder in downtown Portland is not to be missed. ing bags, a camp-fire night light and two beaver stuffies, which my youngest adored.

There was also an evening Bedtime Butler service, where staff stroll around with a table that includes classic books, kid-friendly nightcaps (there’s also a well-stocked bar for the grown-ups) and other goodies. My youngest was delighted with the scene and ended up sleeping in the charming tent every night of our three-day stay. In the summer, there is even a space on the hotel grounds to make S’mores.

We did a bit of shopping,

scooping up a pair of sneaks from the Nike store. The mega brand was founded

by University of Oregon track athlete Phil Knight and his coach Bill Bowerman.

We hit the Oregon Zoo, which recently upgraded its elephant sanctuary.

The Portland Children’s Museum in Washington Park is adjacent to the zoo.

We visited the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), where, much to the delight of both my boys, there was a handson exhibit chronicling the history of video games, from inception to modern day.

We managed just a handful of fun events in our short stay. The reality is there are copious amounts of fun activities to do: bike riding in a cycle-friendly city that rivals the best of Europe; craft beer rooms where the kids can play while you sip on refreshing ale; local literary institution Powell’s Books – the largest independent chain of bookstores in the world; and even more culinary adventures to be had.

One of the best things about Portland is its close proximity to Metro Vancouver allows for a quick getaway without the hassle of flying off to a theme park with the kids. Instead, they get an authentic cultural experience, while you get delicious food and drinks, and discover that Portland is just “weird” enough for the whole family.

IF YOU GO: Stay: Kimpton RiverPlace Hotel (approx. US$225 a night), a river-front four-star hotel that offers some of the most beautiful river views.

Known for exceptional,

friendly and down-to-earth service, this charming hotel is perfect for couples and families.

Eat: Please don’t miss a visit to Tasty n Sons, or its downtown sister eatery Tasty n Alder. Whether it’s brunch, lunch, or dinner (or all three), this comfort-food culinary

family is not to be missed.

Seriously.

Visit: Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI), where kids are both inspired and entertained. Plus, as an added bonus, the food in the cafeteria is actually good. It’s a day-long outing, so plan to stay and get the most out of

the experience.

Shop: Nike Portland, downtown, 638 SW Fifth Ave., (or any of the locations in the city limits, really). Being within the reaches of the brand’s headquarters means you have access to a ton of styles and options, in every age group, including kids.

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Ensure your dog is ready for off-leash time Transitioning to off-leash freedom can be a very challenging experience for many dog owners and I feel that the current dog culture encourages dogs to be off leash far too soon in their training process and far too often.

Dog owners can sometimes feel pressured to let their dogs off leash on the well-intentioned but confused advice of other dog owners.

I am not one of those advocates. I firmly believe, practise and teach that dog owners should always carry a leash and poop bags with them on a walk. Allowing a dog off leash (even along offleash trails or parks) should only be allowed when there is no concern that the dog might disrupt the enjoyment of other trail or park users.

There is nothing wrong with leashing a dog when you know you have no control

Canine Connections Joan Klucha over it and are trying to prevent it from impacting another person’s life negatively. What it says is, “I am a responsible dog owner and realize that my dog requires more training.” It is admirable, not shameable. Yet there is an empathetic line that is crossed in an off-leash (or onleash) area with an off-leash dog when the owner refuses to control the dog and creates a situation that impacts

another life in a negative way. Frankly, you people who continue to do this are really pissing me off! You are intentionally ruining a wonderful outdoor experience for other people and their dogs when you let your dog harass them due to your own immense ego and arrogance. Grow up and stop it!

Now, on to training and more positive experiences with our pooches.

So when is the right age to begin to let a dog off leash?

Well, there is no “right age.”

It has far less to do with age than it does with a dog showing reliable behaviour. For example, my German shepherd Zumi began to show reliable behaviour when she was five months old. This means that when she was on leash, she would automatically want to stay close to me. She never strained on the leash to get ahead of me and her obedience was

spot on. She could sit for 10 minutes if I asked her to in the midst of absolute chaos without taking her eyes off of me. That is exceptional behaviour and for a fivemonth-old dog, it’s highly unusual. But genetically she was created with personal protection, loyalty and fearlessness in mind. Genetically, she had the capacity to be reliable beyond reasonable expectation. She was allowed off leash very early and has rarely been on leash her entire life because she is so ridiculously reliable.

Now let’s take my German shorthaired pointer as an example. He was not allowed off leash for any great length of time until he was almost two. Why? Well, genetically he was created to follow his nose until he located the scent and stay at that spot and point until someone found him. Given that description of his genetic

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It took more than two years of leash training and short off-leash sessions with low distractions along our walks before he became reliable. Even to this day, when I see his nose pointing skyward and his nostrils flicking at a scent, I immediately leash him.

The biggest problem with allowing a dog off leash too soon is that it encourages unwanted behaviours that are really difficult to

fix once they have been self-rewarded.

A reliable recall in puppy school is wrecked when the dog does not come when off leash and instead plays with another dog.

Dogs jump on people and will continue to do so because it gets attention, even if it is negative attention. Basically all the really icky behaviours that people don’t like about dogs are reinforced when a dog is allowed off leash too soon.

In my next column, I will discuss the steps to off-leash training, focusing on meeting people along trails.

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

Province, SPCA launch awareness campaign Leaving pets in hot cars is not cool.

That’s the message the provincial government and the BC SPCA had for dog owners on Animal Protection Day May 12, which was proclaimed this year to raise awareness about treating animals with care and respect.

The joint public awareness campaign between the province and the SPCA is designed to help pet owners remember that, on hot days, temperatures in vehicles can rapidly reach a level that will

seriously harm or even kill an animal.

Owners who expose pets to excessive heat can be charged under the government’s Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, with maximum penalties of $75,000 fines and two-year imprisonment.

With that in mind, not every dog in every car needs to be rescued. People are encouraged to learn to spot the signs of a dog in distress before acting.

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Tennis legend aims to go out on a high ANDY PREST aprest@nsnews.com

It’s fitting that Collingwood coach Al Rose has owned the provincial tennis championships for the past decade. He did, after all, literally create the tournament some 41 years ago.

Rose will retire at the end of this school year but first he’ll attempt to win his ninth straight provincial AA tennis title, and 10th of the last 11 years, with the Cavaliers at the B.C. championships running this week in Vancouver.

“Needless to say, I’m pretty happy about it.

It’s been impressive,” Collingwood athletic director David Speirs said of Rose’s unprecedented winning streak. “I would doubt that anybody’s come close to eight in a row. … It’s pretty uncommon to say the least.”

Rose grew up playing tennis and as a young man turned to coaching, even guiding the Canadian junior national team in 1975. That same year he took a swing at administrative work, pushing forward an application for the first ever B.C. high school tennis championships while working as a teacher at Britannia secondary in East Vancouver.

“I spent many months putting all the paperwork together and doing all the grunt work,” he said. “I can’t remember everything that entailed, just that it was a fair amount.”

It didn’t matter one bit to Rose that none of the students at Britannia were any good at tennis.

“We were an east side school where the kids didn’t even play tennis,” he said.

“I had about 50 kids on the team and we got a ball machine and I practised with those kids day after day after day. And the first year I don’t

Amy Young of the Collingwood Cavaliers senior tennis team takes a swing during a recent high school match. The Cavaliers will look to win their ninth straight provincial AA title this week under the tutelage of retiring coach Al Rose, the man who founded the B.C. championships 41 years ago. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN think we won a match.”

The team never won a championship either, but Rose left an impression on several kids who were far removed from the country club set often associated with youth tennis.

“We just kept trying,” he said. “The kids had a lot of fun. I see a lot of the kids at reunions and a lot of them are still playing tennis, which is kind of neat. It’s one of the sports you can continue playing regardless of how old you are.”

The wins started adding up once Rose moved to North Vancouver’s Sutherland secondary where he built a strong tennis program while teaching math.

He retired from Sutherland, but that was just the beginning. West Vancouver private school Collingwood hired the

retiree to teach math parttime. Tennis was a welcome addition.

“The school brought him in because he had a reputation of being an excellent math teacher so it’s been a complete bonus to have someone who is great in the classroom and obviously great coaching the tennis team as well,” said Speirs.

In 2006 the Cavaliers won the provincial AA title during Rose’s first year as coach, but it wasn’t easy.

They lost their opening match 7-4 against Shawnigan Lake and then squeaked by a Kamloops team to stay on the top side of the draw – one more loss would have relegated them to fighting for ninth spot.

Instead Collingwood fought

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Collingwood tennis coach Al Rose offers some advice to players Morgan McCord and Dina Rahimian. PHOTO SUPPLIED RODGER WRIGHT/COLLINGWOOD SCHOOL

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Rose created tennis provincials in 1975 From page 25 through the playoffs to earn a rematch against Shawnigan Lake and beat them 6-5 in the final. Recalling the tournament, Rose rattles off the scores from memory with ease. That’s the math teacher in him.

“I’m good with numbers,” he said with a laugh.

The following year Collingwood lost in the final

to Abbotsford’s Mennonite Educational Institute. They haven’t lost a final since.

“After that the team just kept getting stronger and stronger,” said Rose.

There’s a pipeline of talented players that come to Collingwood with vast tennis experience, many from the Hollyburn Country Club. One of Rose’s greatest strengths is identifying those players and bringing them into the

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program, said Speirs.

“He seems to have his pulse on who is good and who is coming up. He’s tapping in right away to any Grade 8 phenom who comes through the school. … If the kid is good enough, he’s right up onto the senior team.”

But Rose’s contributions to the championship run go way beyond identifying good players and then rolling out the balls for them to hit, said Speirs. “He’s a very astute tennis guy.”

There are some players that don’t need much help but many others who come to Rose as relatively raw players.

“At Collingwood I’ve been blessed with having some club players who are very strong. A lot of those players I can just watch and give them some tips. Whereas some of the weaker players on the team that don’t play a lot of tournaments, those are the ones you can really coach a bit, take them out and work on things,” said Rose.

The best part of high school tennis is bringing all the players – who are used to being lone wolfs in the isolated world of singles tennis – into a team concept. Rose

said he’s resurrected more than a few tennis careers for players who quit because they were burnt out by the pressure of elite competition.

Rose always asked those players to come out and give team tennis a try for just one year.

“Every one of those kids came out and all of them enjoyed it,” he said. “Some of them have gone on to play college tennis in the States. … Having kids around the court cheering you on and knowing that it’s not just you, it’s a whole team concept – it’s really important.”

Rose has kept the program rolling through eight straight provincial AA championships, but they haven’t all been blowouts. The last couple of years the Cavaliers have been pushed hard by a strong Carson Graham team, and before that there was an epic 6-5 final against Vancouver Island’s Brentwood College.

“It was nip-and-tuck,” said Rose. “We happened to win with a Grade 8 and a Grade 12 playing doubles to pull it out.”

Their record over the last decade would indicate that the Cavaliers should be heavy favourites to win

Mikayla Fan of the Sentinel Spartans senior tennis team blasts a shot in the North Shore final against Collingwood.

Sentinel defeated Collingwood 7-4. PHOTO CINDY GOODMAN a ninth straight title this season and send Rose out on top, but the old coach isn’t taking anything for granted heading into this year’s tournament.

“If we happen to win it, that’s great. If we don’t, then obviously somebody is better than us. That’s the way it is,” he said.

“We’ve won eight, we’ll try to make it nine. We’ll do our best and see what happens.” !!!

The Cavaliers have been pushed throughout Rose’s

tenure by their West Vancouver neighbours from Sentinel secondary. While Collingwood has owned the AA ranks, Sentinel has been almost as dominant at the AAA level, winning six straight provincial titles from 2009-2014 before finishing third last season.

The Spartans knocked off Collingwood 7-4 May 9 to win the North Shore title, establishing themselves once again as one of the top teams in the province heading into the B.C. AAA championships.

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LIKE A BROKEN RECORD Brendan Artley of the Collingwood Cavaliers track and field team rips a new record javelin throw at the North Shore championships held Tuesday at Swangard Stadium. Artley’s throw of 64.66 metres broke the old senior boys North Shore record of 61.02 m set by Hillside secondary’s Mike Parker in 1981. Other record setters included Chatelech’s Theo Kontekakis breaking his own record in senior boys shot put; Argyle’s Kristen Schulz breaking a record set in 1999 in junior girls triple jump; Sentinel’s Rhian Paterson topping the junior girls 3,000-m mark set in 1999 and the junior girls 1,500-m steeplechase mark from 2015; Windsor’s Kristie Elliott in junior girls 300-m hurdles (2014); Sentinel’s Michelle Zhou in junior girls racewalk (2015); and Jessica Clarke of St. Thomas Aquinas in bantam girls shot put (1990). The provincial championships will be held June 2-4 in Nanaimo. PHOTO SUPPLIED RYAN TOBIN/COLLINGWOOD SCHOOL

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TIMEOUT!

Solutions can be found in next Sunday's issue.

CLUES ACROSS 1. Groan 5. Engine additive 8. Atomic mass unit (abbr.)

11. One-time emperor 13. Martial art __ chi 14. Extinct algae 15. The leading performer 16. Autonomic nervous system 17. Pirate who went by “Chico” 18. Encourages 20. Small tactical munition 21. One-time Tribe closer 22. North, Central and South 25. Repossession 30. Conveys air to and from the lungs 31. A renowned museum 32. One hundred (Italian) 33. Synchronizes solar and lunar time 38. Calendar month (abbr.)

41. They bite 43. The Mets played here 45. About opera 47. Wings 49. I (German) 50. Sportscaster Brett 55. Wild mango

CROSSWORD

CRYPTO FUN DETERMINE THE CODE TO REVEAL THE ANSWER

B. C. D.

4

26

23

6

6

12

20

15

6

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17

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Clue: Cooking device Clue: Compressed carbon Clue: Glowing body

8

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Clue: Particles in the air

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CLUES DOWN 1. Helps you get there 2. Plant 3. Apron 4. Everybody has one 5. Conditions of balance 6. Fit 7. Island in Lake Michigan 8. True firs 9. Operates 10. Approves food 12. Tell on 14. __ mater, one’s school 19. Low prices 23. Brazilian river 24. Et-__ 25. Supervises interstate commerce 26. Occurs naturally 27. Sprinted 28. Shock therapy 29. Decide 34. Lodging

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WORD SCRAMBLE

LIBRA

SEPT 23 – OCT 23 Take some time out of your schedule for some muchneeded pampering. Whether your idea of special treatment is a massage or simply sleeping in, make it a priority.

TAURUS

APR 21 – MAY 21 Taurus, financial questions keep popping up and you just keep pushing them aside for later. If need be, work with a professional to establish your goals.

SCORPIO

OCT 24 – NOV 22 Delegation will be your favorite word of the week, Scorpio. When the going gets tough, start delegating the tasks that have you stumped.

This will ensure everyone stays productive.

GEMINI

MAY 22 – JUN 21 Do something out of your comfort zone this week, Gemini. When you do so, you may find out you have a wider array of interests than you first believed.

SAGITTARIUS NOV 23 – DEC 21 Sagittarius, you may be called upon to lend your special skills to a situation this week. While it may not be a job you relish, you know ultimately it has to get done.

CANCER

JUN 22 – JUL 22 Cancer, just when you think you’ve figured out how to play the game, they go and change all of the rules on you.

Adaptability is one of your biggest strengths.

CAPRICORN DEC 22 – JAN 20 Capricorn, speak your mind because if you don’t do it others are not going to advocate for your needs.

That’s why it’s so important for you to fight for every cause, no matter how small.

LEO

JUL 23 – AUG 23 It’s time to make your love life a priority, Leo. If you’re in a relationship, you may find it needs a little nurturing to get it back to the level it was a few months ago.

AQUARIUS

JAN 21 – FEB 18 Aquarius, work may be getting on your nerves, but you have to maintain a professional demeanor at all times. It can be challenging, but you will handle it.

VIRGO

AUG 24 – SEPT 22 Virgo, if you come up against things you don’t understand this week, ask people whose opinions you trust for their points of view. Educating yourself will help you move ahead.

PISCES

FEB 19 – MAR 20 Pisces, a few days away from the daily grind will help you recharge your batteries. Turn off your phone and enjoy the well-deserved respite.

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ARIES

Rearrange the letters to spell something pertaining to grilling.

Dr. Leslie and Dr. Tamara Gallon

47.Automatic data processing system 48. Exchange 51. Swiss river 52. Prejudice 53. Napolean came here 54. Big guys grab these (abbr.)

58. Mickey’s pet

WEEK OF MAY 22-28, 2016

LAST SUNDAY’S ANSWERS: A. library B. catalog C. collection D. pages

We welcome all members of the family, from toddlers to great grandparents.

35. Singer DiFranco 36. Kazakhstan river 37. 1920’s woman’s hat 39. Corpus __, Texas city 40. Helps kids 41. Tires have this 42. Physical attraction 44. Goddess of wisdom 45. Made of wood 46. The top

YOUR WEEKLY HOROSCOPE

Solve the code to discover words related to barbecues. Each number corresponds to a letter. (Hint: 6 = l)

A.

56. The woman 57. Afflicted 59. Look furtively 60. Large integer 61. Spiritual leader 62. Keeps us warm 63. Type of account 64. Cheek

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